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The Midwest Region includes Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio and Wisconsin. Find a location near you
Endangered Species Program
Conserving and restoring threatened and endangered species and their ecosystems
Ozark Hellbender (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis bishopi)
Fact Sheet
The Ozark hellbender is an endangered species. Endangered species are animals and plants that are in danger of becoming extinct. Threatened species are those that are likely to become endangered in the foreseeable future. Identifying, protecting, and restoring endangered and threatened species are primary objectives of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's endangered species program.
What is the Ozark Hellbender?
Appearance: The Ozark hellbender is a large, strictly aquatic salamander found only in southern Missouri and northern Arkansas. Adults may grow up to 2 feet long. Its flattened body shape enables it to move in fast flowing streams. Hellbenders also have a large, keeled tail and tiny eyes. Numerous fleshy folds along the sides of their bodies provide surface area for respiration.
Reproduction:Ozark hellbenders are long-lived, becoming sexually mature at 5 to 8 years of age and surviving up to 30 years in the wild. They generally breed between September and November. Mating is by external fertilization, and males guard the fertilized eggs from predators and other hellbenders. Clutches vary in size with 140 to 450 eggs that hatch after 80 days.
Feeding Habits: Adults are nocturnal, remaining beneath cover (usually large, flat rocks) during the
Habitat:These salamanders need cool, clear streams and rivers with many large rocks. Cool, clear water is important because hellbenders breathe entirely through their skin. They have lungs, but rely on thousands of capillaries found in the fleshy folds of their skin to get oxygen from the water. Larvae and small hellbenders hide beneath large rocks and also small stones in gravel beds. Adults spend most of their life under large, flat rocks that shelter them.
Range: The White River watershed in Arkansas and Missouri is home to Ozark hellbenders. Within this watershed, they are found primarily in the North Fork of the White River, Bryant Creek, Spring River, Eleven Point River, and the Current River. Ozark hellbenders have declined throughout their range and no populations are stable.
Why are Ozark hellbender populations declining?
Habitat Loss:Impoundments, ore and gravel mining, sedimentation, and nutrient and toxic runoff have degraded hellbender habitat. Hellbenders are habitat specialists that depend on constant levels of dissolved oxygen, temperature, and water flow. Even minor alterations to stream habitat can be detrimental.
Cover and Nest Disruption:Compounding habitat degradation is the fact that rocks used by hellbenders for cover and nesting are disturbed by people using the rivers for recreation and by people specifically trying to capture hellbenders.
Disease: Recently, a highly infectious disease has been found in the Missouri populations. The "chytrid fungus" is proving fatal to an ever-increasing number of amphibians throughout the world and has been found in all remaining Ozark hellbender populations in Missouri.
Abnormalities: Abnormalities (e.g., lesions, digit and appendage loss, epidermal sloughing) in Ozark hellbenders are becoming increasingly more severe, often to a level that individuals are near death. Although these abnormalities have not been linked conclusively with the presence of chytrid, the disease may make hellbenders more susceptible to bacterial or fungal infections thought to be responsible for these abnormalities.
What is being done to conserve and restore hellbenders?
Listing: In October, 2011, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service listed the Ozark hellbender as an endangered species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The ESA prohibits killing or harming listed species, requires recovery planning and prioritizing conservation actions, and provides opportunities for funding research and conservation.
International Trade: Collection within the United States and international trade of hellbenders is of growing concern, particularly as they become rarer and, consequently, more valuable. To curb unauthorized international trade, in 2012 the Service will list all hellbenders in Appendix III of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).
Ozark Hellbender Working Group: This group formed shortly after the species was made a candidate in 2001. It is a professional association that collaborates on field work, initiates research projects, and works to uncover primary threats to the hellbender's survival. The Working Group prepared a comprehensive conservation strategy that includes a captive propagation protocol, an outreach strategy, and a watershed protection plan.
Research:Several ongoing research projects are directed at learning how to decrease threats and increase survival of hellbenders in the wild and in captivity. University of Missouri-Rolla researchers are evaluating overall health conditions,
Outreach: Outreach has been considerable in Missouri and Arkansas to protect hellbenders from recreationists. There are now signs throughout the range of the hellbender alerting recreationists to their presence and informing them that hellbenders are harmless and should be left alone or released unharmed if they are caught by anglers.
What can you do?
If you catch a hellbender while fishing, simply cut the line near the head and release it back into the river. The hook will rust away in a matter of weeks.
Protect hellbenders from disturbance. They depend on large flat rocks for shelter; those rocks need to be left in place.
Help keep local rivers and streams clean and natural. Join a local Stream Team, a volunteer organization that brings people together to clean, care for, and monitor rivers.
If you canoe or fish, keep your rivers and lakes clean by leaving no waste behind.
Keep pollutants out of watersheds by minimizing use of pesticides and properly disposing of household toxic waste. Avoid hosing spills, dirt, and debris down storm drains.
Return to Ozark Hellbender Home
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Last updated: October 10, 2018


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Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc. will release its fiscal first-quarter 2013 results after the close Wednesday.
As usual, the report will be closely scrutinized. Green Mountain is locked in battle with Starbucks , the coffee industry's 800-pound gorilla, where the ultimate prize is dominance of the lucrative single-brew market. Its weapon? The Keurig K-Cup.
Despite missteps, setbacks and fierce competition through much of last year, Green Mountain has since November bolstered its operations and rebuilt its battered share price. Ahead of the report, Green Mountain shares are trading at $48.52, up 175% from its $17.11 low in July.
The recovery's main catalysts have been growing sales of Green Mountain's upgraded Keurig single-cup coffee brewer — in both its Rivo and Vue versions — and improved fiscal transparency after putting earlier accounting questions behind it. The progress has earned Green Mountain a string of recent analyst upgrades. According to FactSet, since January 71% of the analysts following the stock have overweight ratings on the company, 21% call it a hold, and 7% recommend underweighting it. Their average price target: $86 a share.
Analysts surveyed by FactSet are looking for Green Mountain to report first-quarter earnings of 65 cents a share, up from 6 cents a year ago, and a 15% rise in revenue to $1.33 billion. They will be looking for evidence the company can maintain the upward momentum built during the previous quarter. Right now, Wall Street is looking for guidance that would confirm their consensus 73-cent per-share second quarter profit and $2.69 full-year forecast.
Other stocks worth keeping an eye on following Green Mountain's results include single-brew rival Mondelez International and, of course, Starbucks.
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CHICAGO (AP) _ A federal appeals court has taken on the issue of pay-to-play corruption in Illinois under disgraced ex-Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
The U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated a lawsuit by riverboat casinos in a late Friday ruling. The suit alleges that racetrack owners bribed Blagojevich to push through legislation that transferred 3 percent of casino revenue to the racetracks.
The Chicago-based court says the case required it to "once again to decide whether some shenanigans" in the Legislature "and governor's office crossed the line from the merely unseemly to the unlawful."
The same court is still considering Blagojevich's appeal of his corruption convictions. Jurors convicted him on 18 counts. Three related to his bid to extort a racetrack executive for a donation.
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We've offered extensibility points in Our DevForce product since the beginning of the century.
Our customers wrote classes that implemented certain of our interfaces. We discovered those classes by examining assemblies named in a configuration file (app.config or web.config). We had our own probing and injection logic because market forces precluded use of a 3rd party IoC.
In DevForce 2010 we've switched to the Microsoft Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) which is baked into the .NET 4 platform.
How hard was that? It wasn't a big deal. Mostly we had to figure out how it worked and find the best approach for us. Which is the point of this post.
Because we almost made a mistake. We didn't know about MEF's InheritedExportAttribute.
DevForce Extensibility
Let me set the stage.
Suppose you want to alter DevForce default behavior by supplying your own way of doing something. Maybe you want to supply a custom "LoginManager" to authenticate users. Maybe you want to supply a class that intercepts all attempts to save data to the database … so you can confirm the user's right to save or impose some extra server-side validation or add audit records … whatever.
Heretofore, you wrote a MyLoginManager that inherited from IEntityLoginManager and stuffed it in a server-deployed assembly; call it "MyServerStuff". You next identified "MyServerStuff.dll" as a probe assembly in your web.config. We'd look there for a class implementing IEntityLoginManager and, upon finding yours, would instantiate and use your class instead of our default class. Similarly, you wrote a MyEntityServerSaving class that inherited from IEntityServerSaving and we'd find it too.
In MEF, MyLoginManager and MyEntityServerSaving are "parts". They are parts that you "export" for DevForce to "import".
The DevForce 2010 difference: we let MEF do the finding and creation of your types instead of doing that ourselves.
Our Initial Mistake
In a beautiful world, you – the developer of MyLoginManager and MyEntityServerSaving – don't change a thing. Your classes just work.
Actually, it's better than that. You can throw away the <probeAssembly> tags in the web.config and the app.config. That kruft was a repeated source of confusion and heartache for our customers. It's gone. No <probeAssembly> needed if you drop your assembly on the server in the \bin directory.
We should have done that long ago. MEF made it obvious.
BUT … it looked like it wouldn't be quite this easy. How would MEF know to import your MyLoginManager and MyEntityServerSaving?
We couldn't figure that out. In vanilla MEF, you attach an Export attribute to a component that you want others to import. It seemed you'd have to decorate your custom classes with these attributes like this.
public class MyLoginManager : IEntityLoginManager { // your code }
Ugh. Why impose this burden on the poor developer? How many support calls would we field that ran something like this?
"Sir? DevForce didn't find your class? Please open Visual Studio … now look at the class definition. Does it have an Export attribute? Yes an "Export" attribute. What? Oh yeah you'll need an assembly reference and a using clause too. Sure, I'll hold why you build, redeploy and run it …"
Fortunately, I know how to complain. I wrote a "WTF" email to Glenn who graciously replied as follows:
You might want to look into InheritedExports. If you are not using metadata you can put an [InheritedExport] on an interface which will automatically apply to the exporter.
In other words….
public interface IFoo {}
public class Foo : IFoo { ...}
Foo above automatically exports IFoo since the decoration is on the interface. There are some issues if you are doing this combined with metadata.
How about that!
We added "[InheritedExport]" to all of our extensibility interfaces. Now our customer's existing custom classes are discovered and work as they did before without modification. No attribute needed.
What if the extensibility point is a base class instead of an interface? That works too. Check this out. In DevForce, we have an EntityServerSaveInterceptor class that intercepts server side saves. It does some work by default … work that you can extend.
Here's its new MEF'ed signature in DevForce 2010:
[InheritedExport( typeof(EntityServerSaveInterceptor) )]
[DefaultExport( typeof(EntityServerSaveInterceptor) )]
public class EntityServerSaveInterceptor {
Note the "DefaultExport". That tells MEF to import an instance of this class if you don't supply your own.
Customers can subclass our default version just as they did before:
public class MyEntityServerSaveInterceptor : EntityServerSaveInterceptor {
protected override bool ClientCanSave(Type type) { … }
They can't MEF up.
Is MEF Legal?
You don't know about MEF? Where have you been? How could you have missed Glenn "Mr. MEF" Block; the man is everywhere – print, stage, and screen – talking up the MEF magic.
You can read about MEF here and here and here and all over the place. Mike Taulty, who is excellent on any subject, produced some superb MEF screen casts. The once-obscure Dependency Injection technique has gone mainstream with MEF and will be arriving soon in a code base near you. You've probably been doing something like it for years and didn't know it.


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Doctor Who TARDIS Night Light
About the crack in your wall...
- Timey-wimey light for bedroom or hallway
- Let the Doctor lead you to the bathroom
- Discourages nocturnal Dalek attacks
We're glad that we're watching Doctor Who as adults. Why? Because the whole storyline about Amy Pond and the weirdness that is her house would have scared the pants off of us as younglings. We believed in monsters under the bed, monsters in the closet, and now we have to think about cracks in the wall and a hidden room containing... well, you know the rest if you're caught up.
If you're a little afraid of the crack in your bedroom wall, why don't you shed a little of the Doctor's friendly light on it? The TARDIS Night Light plugs into any standard outlet and shines from both the windows and top providing adequate illumination for late night bathroom trips or for discouraging midnight Dalek attacks.
Product Specifications
- Let the Doctor help scare away the closet monsters
- Plug it into your outlet, switch on for timey-wimey light
- Uses a 7 watt bulb (one included, easily replaceable)
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Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) hates injustice.
Can't stand it, really.
The only thing Canada's hairiest hero seems to dislike more than seeing the powerful take advantage of the weak?
So as much as he'd prefer to cut himself off from humanity, camping out in the wilderness and punishing himself for the death of his beloved Jean Grey (Famke Janssen), he soon finds himself entangled in familial jealousy, corporate intrigue and ninjas — lots and lotsa ninjas — in "The Wolverine."
It's the second solo outing for the mutant known as Logan to his colleagues, following 2009's lousy "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" that's mostly remembered for wasting fan favorite Gambit and making a mess of Deadpool.
(But, then, what do you expect from a movie that cares so little about accuracy, it put the "Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas" sign in the mountains outside of town?)
And while it's a vast improvement on that creative misfire, there's nothing in "The Wolverine" that matches the spark of Jackman's three-word, profanity-laced cameo in 2011's "X-Men: First Class."
Logan is lured to Japan to say goodbye to an old friend, Lord Yashida (Haruhiko Yamanouchi), who's dying of cancer decades after Logan shielded him from the blast and radiation during the bombing of Nagasaki.
Yashida offers to repay his debt by making Logan ordinary, allowing him to finally grow old and die so he can be reunited with Grey, whose nightgown-clad presence still haunts his dreams.
(For those of you in need of a refresher, Logan killed Grey, who was spiraling out of control as her dark alter-ego, Phoenix, at the end of 2006's "X-Men: The Last Stand." And while Logan was shown in Japan in the teaser at the end of "Origins," this one picks up after "The Last Stand.")
Yashida's offer isn't what you'd call selfless, however. Now a wealthy businessman, he's hoping to take control of Logan's healing power to cheat death again. But before Logan can fully weigh his options, the choice is made for him, leaving him vulnerable for the first time.
He's no longer able to expel bullets. He finally needs stitches to close his growing number of wounds.
Although it's never explained why, when those adamantium claws burst forth from his skin, his hands aren't reduced to horrible, bloody pulps.
Anyway, Logan ends up on the run, protecting Yashida's granddaughter, Mariko (Tao Okamoto), from Yakuza gangsters, several of whom are dispatched during an absurd fight atop a speeding bullet train.
Rila Fukushima makes a strong impression as Yukio, Logan's sword-wielding "bodyguard" who can foresee people's deaths.
Unlike previous "X-Men" entries, which have burned through mutants like a Cyclops optic blast through butter, she's the only newbie with powers aside from a villainess named Viper (Svetlana Khodchenkova, struggling mightily with her accent), a snake-tongued mutant specializing in toxins.
The ultimate villain, obvious from the start, is revealed with the laughable line, "Don't look so shocked." It's not so much of a "shock" as a "well, yeah."
Directed by James Mangold ("3:10 to Yuma"), from a script by Mark Bomback (the "Total Recall" remake) and Scott Frank ("Marley & Me"), "The Wolverine" is based on a legendary 1980s story arc by Chris Claremont and Frank Miller. But it's so far outside the realm of the other "X-Men" movies, it feels more like a separate script onto which Wolverine was grafted.
Still, it's refreshing in this summer of supersized, city-destroying mayhem to see a smaller, personal superhero story.
The gruff, laconic Logan gets in a few one-liners — "Hip replacement," he deadpans when his adamantium skeleton sets off a metal detector — but he's thankfully much more somber than in the jokier "Origins."
It's yet another stop on the "X-Men" atonement tour, as the series rebounds from the near franchise-killing disappointment of "The Last Stand."
But while it's an interesting departure, there's still something lacking in "The Wolverine." It's hard to put a finger on just what that is, though, until the postcredits scene.
Those brief moments are better, not to mention more exciting, than anything that came before them.
They bode very well for the future.
And for next summer's "Days of Future Past."
Christopher Lawrence is the movie reviewer for the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Contact him at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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throbinrobin needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 96 designs submitted by 29 freelance designers.
I am starting a new business in Mexico. I will be selling sports equipment and surfwear to hotels in and around the baja coast.
In the beginning Sacred Surfwear will be sold to the hotel employees who work in the activities department. Their ages range between 20 -30 years old. But...hopefully within a few months Sacred Surfwear will be available also to all hotel guests. The target audience is male between 16 - 30 but females also in this age range will be targeted.
I want a clean and simple logo that is edgey. I envision the colors red and black but I am open to just about anything. I also envision the S in the Logo to feel romantic and kinda gothicy. I know that the word Sacred is usually very religious but I would like to downplay that. I would prefer no crosses or Jesus in any of the designs. If a surfboard could be integrated somehow, great...but if not...that is okay...I want the S to be the part of the Logo that stands out the most. I really am open to anything...be creative and just let it flow!!!
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qwertylpc wrote:shody first fremium game
What made it so bad?
As for the announcement…eh, I'm glad there's a second, but it wasn't worth the first thread and hype. Let's get some real site updates; not just the "sometime in the next 4 years lack will start to look into doing something" so often heard from the powers-who-be. Sorry.


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migya wrote:ChicagoTom wrote:While on the Celtics, it was nice to Gerald Green fill it up with 21 points last night. I have no clue why a cruddy team like the Celtics continue to sit a player like Green who when given a chance I think will be a very good player.
Doc Rivers has to be the one to blame because with Wally injured, Green should be getting alot of court time! He would be great to steal from the Celts
I don't think Green is ready to play big minutes. He's only good to score... and Boston needs other things before that. He needs to improve other sides of his game if he wants to play more.


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If you are looking for a very memorable family entertainment event, consider taking them to see a spectacular show at Medieval Times in Buena Park. My kids were spellbound and are still talking about it.
I wanted to start by commenting on the atmosphere when we arrived at the castle. They do an amazing job of making you feel like you just stepped into a 5th-century castle. This is achieved by the dress and demeanor of their employees/cast members and the beautifully designed displays.
After being checked in we were assigned to a knight that we were to cheer for. This allegiance is established by the issuance of crowns that match the colors of our knight. We were given black and white, which made my sons day because his favorite "color" is black. Then we were seated in that knights cheering section.
Soon after being seated the show starts with the introduction of the king and the princess who preside over the show. First,the king has his horse trainer display the amazing skill of the horses he has trained and we are given a brief education about their upbringing.
Then the knights come out to compete in one exciting battle after another. All start with the joust followed by hand to hand combat with weapons including; swords, spears, maces, and axes. One by one, the knights are eliminated until a champion is awarded.
We learned that all Knights begin their training as Squires - just as they did in the Middle Ages - learning horse care, sword fighting, and weaponry. It takes a minimum of six months of training to become a Knight. They perform with real metal weapons and wear authentic armor. During battle scenes, real titanium swords create sparks and every shield must be repainted after every show.
When jousting, the Knights charge at speeds of approximately 15 to 20 miles per hour and reach an impact velocity speed of about 30 to 40 miles per hour. Each year, 25 foals are born at Chapel Creek Ranch, where they spend two years training and then the horses enjoy retirement at the ranch after 15 to 20 years of performing. Medieval Times is the #1 breeder of pure Spanish horses in North America. You can get more information about the Medieval Times horses here.
At Medieval Times, 125,000 gallons of soup are served each year and 400,000 gallons of Pepsi are consumed.
At this point in the show, a menacing rider from a neighboring kingdom interrupts with a challenge that must be resolved. The only way that is fitting for such a venue is knight against knight. I won't tell you what happens because I don't want to spoil it for you but it is all very exciting.
During the show, the standard fare is served including tomato bisque, bread, chicken, corn, and a beverage of your choice. The food was great and well received by both of my kids. My daughter couldn't get enough of the half chicken that she got to devour with her hands! Desert is a tasty pound cake and if you want you can have a cup of coffee.
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Murad Foundation Sponsors New Science Program
The Murad Family Foundation, a charitable organization dedicated to promoting Inclusive Health in education and action to help young people to lead healthier, happier and more connected lives, has partnered with the El Segundo (CA) Education Foundation to be the founding sponsor of Project Lead the Way: Biomedical Sciences Pathway at El Segundo High School (ESHS) in El Segundo, CA.
The Biomedical Sciences Pathway was created to give students the opportunity to become engaged in science by investigating, examining and solving medical challenges and is designed to prepare students to be productive leaders in science, technology and medicine, and to make meaningful, pioneering contributions to our world. Students will be introduced to the medical pathway in 9th grade and will continue the program through the 12th grade, preparing them to successfully complete baccalaureate and advanced medical programs. Approximately 250 students will be enrolled in the program. Throughout the course of the four-year sponsorship, Murad Family Foundation will donate up to $180,000 to the El Segundo Education Foundation earmarked to support the Biomedical Sciences Pathway program.
"The Murad Family Foundation is extremely excited about this partnership and also thrilled to support such an important program," said Hilarie Murad, Foundation President. "Biomedical Sciences Pathway is a great complement to the current curricula that is normally offered in High School and we are excited to see how this program will help inspire, shape and mold the students of today to become the leaders of our future."
Biomedical Sciences Pathway, which will launch during the 2012-2013 school year, is a sequence of four courses to be taken in the 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th grades with the curriculum increasing in rigor and intensity each year, building upon the previous knowledge and skills acquired. Students will learn the concepts of human medicine and bioinformatics through hands-on, real-world problem solving activities such as dissecting. The curriculum also challenges students to explore prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease.
"With the funding from the Murad Family Foundation, students at ESHS will now be able to embark on medical sciences studies before they get to college," said Carol Pirsztuk, CEO of the El Segundo Education Foundation. "We are very excited to have created this partnership which will offer our students the opportunity to gain the necessary skills to succeed in an industry that benefits society as a whole."
For more information on the Project Lead the Way: Biomedical Sciences Pathway program, visit www.pltw.org. For more information on the El Segundo Education Foundation, visit ESEdF.org or call 310-615-2650 ext. 229. For more information on the Murad Family Foundation, visit www.muradfamilyfoundation.org.


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I ran the de-meth for 6 hours and got an even gallon out of my 120L batch. That just a little more than I expected (water?) The methanol looks like it has some bio in it as it is tainted just a little, so I was reluctant to put a hydrometer in it. The picture is a sample off the top that has been settling for a day and a half. It's not very clear. So are you saying I need to run it longer?
I'm in the process of designing a GL based system right now with some additions, hopefully people can comment on whether they really make sense or not. I'm a mechanical engineer, so it's in my nature to take something simple and complicate it for marginal efficiency gains…
Fine fileter pre-treat:
Basically do a really good pre-filter down to a micron or two. Just seems like the less crap that goes in, the better the product that should come out. One of the SVO guys has an inverted standpipe design that I'm going to steal for this (puts the new oil in the bottom of the barrel, pushes the settled oil out the top) that produces dry oil given enough standing time. Should reduce the drying cycle IMO.
External heat source:
The end goal is to combust a glycerin/sawdust log/brickette for heat via steam generation, near term a propane burner. Boil water, duct the steam to the vertical pipe between the pump and the top of the reactor (pipe in a pipe, basically). Collect the condensate for distilled H2O purposes.
I'll probably vent the exhaust gases separately, and have a shield between the burner and the reactor so as not to make a flame thrower if it springs a leak.
My guess is it will be safer, just because the accidental uncovered heating element problem goes away, but never underestimate the power of determined stupidity.
Separate settling/pre-treat tank:
Thinking of a cone bottom 30-50gal plastic guy with a standpipe just so it's easy to see and measure how much oil I've got in there.
Purpose is to use it for a by-product pre-treat as has been discussed in other threads.
Pump reacted oil to it, settle, draw off the biodiesel for meth recovery from standpipe into the main reactor.
Dump my next batch of WVO in and mix with the hot byproduct.
I'll need 2 pumps for this setup and have the vertical pipe for the settling tank get some steam too to keep it around 50C.
If I understand it correctly this should 'recover' the methanol/NaOH from the byproduct and lower the titration level leading to less over-all usage of meth/NaOH?
Lastly a settling tank with a standpipe 1/3 of the way off the bottom for easy drain. I'll probably throw a 1 micron filter at the outlet just for grins.
I'm going to model this, because I can (I have access to 3D CAD), once done there is a free viewer that people can use if someone can host the file somewhere, assuming anyone is both interested and patient enough to wait around for me to finish it…
Hi Rick
Are you using KOH?
Can you try this please ....
Divide the contents of that jar in 2.
In one jar, leave the lid on
In the other jar leave the lid off.
I'd bet there's methanol left in there, and you'll see settling in the jar without the lid.
Your airspace of 80 litres is enormous. That will alow around 1000ml of methanol to remain lurking, which will drop back into your biodiesel when things cool down.
Aim for minimum airspace, for maximum extraction.
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I'm using NaOH. OK I'll try that, Yes I need to look at a smaller drum to do this in.
Is minimum airspace so important if the recovery system is based on your "GL" design?
I understand why minimum airspace is critical if you are just depending on heat, vapor expansion, and some convection currents to "coax" the methanol vapors out of the reactor and into the condenser.
However, doesn't the "GL" venturi driven, methanol vapor transport system minimize the problems of the above type methanol recovery system? This means keeping the airspace to a minimum is not so important in the "GL" system.
Yes/no? Comments?
Maybe. My pump (similar to the HF) is rated at 33 litres per minute. The air flow rate through the venturi suction port is not that great. The GL method relies on evaporation rather than pure distillation, therefore the greater the circulated airflow, the faster and more complete the methanol removal will be. I'm hoping for greatly improved methanol extraction with my pitbull type pump (90 litres per minute). When we tested the pump with one of Jim's venturis, the vacuum was so strong, it collapsed the suction pipe! So, if you're shifting enough vapour, the larger headspace should matter less than if you're using a smaller pump or less efficient venturi. You're basically giving the vapour less chance to condense in the tank itself rather than sweeping it out to the condenser. I still find that a bubbler in the settling tank helps remove that all-important last trace of methanol.
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Well, I found that I couldn't get much out at all until I heavily insulated everything. Maybe I could have gotten by will less insulation if I had less head space. I ended up with four layers of foil/bubble/foil on the side and about a dozen layers on the top before it would flow methanol.
Thanks for the response, Twenty4Seven. I find it very informative.
I have a "GL" type set up with a slight variation. There is no venturi in the system. Vapor recirculation is achieved with a small air operated diaphragm pump. The pump draws from the vent line, after the condenser, just like GL's. The vapors are reinjected through a separate port in the top of the processor.
I can vary the recirculation rate by adjusting the air feed rate to the pump. My pump moves so much vapor early in the cycle that my condenser is flooded and methanol vapors can be lost to the atmosphere. Near the end of the cycle I can't move enough vapor to tax the condenser.
My question, then, is can you quantify how much air you add through the bubbler to drive out the last small amount of methanol? How do you know when to start air bubbling? At about what temperature is your BD when you start your bubbler?
Yup, that ties in with what Graham said. With no insulation and a large head space, you've got yourself a huge reflux condenser. You also need to lag well any pipework from the top of the tank to the top of the condenser. The length of the condenser and temperature of the cooling water are important factors too.
I use the very scientific "trail and error" method Three hours methanol removal and three hours bubbling work well for me. Everyone's rig is different and there are really so many variables that it's dificult to provide a definitive answer. After heating to 75-80*C and circulating for three hours, the temperature of the bio drops to 55-60*C at which point, into the settling tank it goes for the three hours bubbling.
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Just a followup,
My sample above only needed another day of settling. I can see all the way to the bottom of my big batch as well.
When removing methanol, using the GL Eco process; how low of a methanol content must be achieved before you start seeing the soap and glycerin fall out of solution? The current US standard is now similar to the EU std. at 0.2% vs. in the past 0.08%.
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I see recurring reference to heating the fluid up to temperature and then running a process of settling for some number of hours. But I don't see any references made to how long to hold the target temperature. Does all of this heating consists of only heating to a target temperature and then cutting off the heat? I'm new at this, still absorbing the basics.
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Unwashed bio contains about 3% methanol. so for a 100 Liter batch, you would keep the heat going until you recovered about 3 liters, or until the methanol stopped flowing out the condenser.
Thanks, Rick. That clears the fog quite a bit.
To All,
I'm working through the elements of a successful system design based upon Grahams approach with an eye toward using single tank instead of two. I think a single tank can act as reactor/processor tank and settling tank if I set up the plumbing correctly. Any obvious issues I may be overlooking in my ignorance?
I'm nearly done building mine thanks to Graham for his plans, just tested venturi and pump and piping just need to test safety tube heater and build condensor before applying insulation will post results when done.
I have a venturi placement question. I am buidling an Apple Turnover style + GL1 Eco-system. See the picture below:
The problem I'm having is that I am trying to use the drain as the location where I'd like to run the venturi pipe. The pipe would hit the bottom of the concave bottom (now the top) of the water heater.
Graham says that it should be approximately 30cm in length. That's a shade under 12".
So I am wondering if its the length of the pipe that matters most or that the pipe needs to be inside of the water heater. If its the former, then I imagine I can have it as shown in the picture above. If its the later, I'll need to move it down to the bottom element (now the top element) or weld in a new fitting somewhere between the drain and the bottom element (now the top element).
Venturi experts please chime in!
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You could get a similar effect by screwing a 3/4"x2" nipple into the drain, then a 45 deg elbow onto the nipple and the venturi into the elbow. It worked for me anyway.
Thanks for your reply. So I gather that:
1) it does not necessarily need to be a one straight run of 30cm pipe after the venturi
2) it does not necessarily need to be 30cm of pipe after the venturi in order to work
If you say it worked for you, I will try it but I hesitate just a bit given Graham's writeup says it needs around 30cm of pipe. I'm definitely not discounting your suggeestion, Rick! I just want to do it by the book within limits. So keeping with what Graham says, how about something like this? See attachment.
alternate_venturi_setup.jpg (32 Kb, 50 downloads) using a 90 deg elbow with 6" nipples
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You need the equivalent resistance to 30cm of pipe. A 45 deg elbow will get you there, a 90 would be too much.
What we are trying to prevent is air pockets in the venturi mixing zone. if the pipe is too short then the oil will fall down from the top of the pipe and only flow in the bottom half with an air gap taking up the top half. Such an air gap would kill suction.
Of course by moving the venturi off the horizontal, you achieve the same end. In this case gravity keeps the oil packed fully in the venturi mixing zone.
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(Reuters) - John Isner and Sam Querrey used their big serves to blast the United States into a commanding 2-0 lead over Brazil in their Davis Cup World group first round tie on Friday.
Isner sat out the Australian Open with a knee injury but the world number 16 reported fit for duty and recorded a routine 6-3 7-6 6-3 victory over Thiago Alves after Querrey began the day by brushing past Brazilian number one Thomaz Bellucci 6-3 6-4 6-4.
Using his booming serve to full advantage on the lightning quick Jacksonville hardcourts, Isner pounded 32 aces past his overwhelmed Brazilian opponent to leave the U.S. one win away from advancing to the last eight.
The United States, who have won the competition a record 32 times, were back on home turf in Florida after playing all their ties away last year.
The 20th ranked Querrey provided the early fireworks and, firing down 15 aces at Brazilian lefty Bellucci, was in full control throughout his match.
"I thought I served great today the whole day," Querrey, who never faced a break point, said. "This is my first home tie. These Davis Cup weeks are so much fun."
The spotlight now shifts to Saturday for a showdown between Australian Open champions Bob and Mike Bryan and Brazil's Marcelo Melo and Bruno Soares.
The top-ranked Americans, however, can expect a tough test from the Brazilians who hold a 2-1 edge in head-to-head meetings.
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Completely redesigned for the 2004 model year, the Sienna features gets some upgrades for 2006. The styling has been freshened in the form of new headlamps and fog lamps, a revised grille, and redesigned tail lamps. A new power folding third-row seat for the Sienna Limited model makes switching from carrying people to cargo easier. The available rear-seat entertainment system features a larger, nine-inch LCD screen, while a universal mini-jack port now comes on all audio systems for connectivity to portable music players. New, power folding mirrors on 2006 Limited models feature puddle lamps and turn signals. New Optitron gauges, similar to those used by Lexus, come on 2006 LE, XLE and Limited grades.
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The second row of seats is roomy. There's good space for legs, and an airy feel with welcome room next to the passenger's head. That's impressive, particularly with the Sienna's standard curtain-style airbags; they do not intrude into rear headroom as much as other designs. When not needed, the second-row seatbacks flip down and the seat bottoms tumble forward, presenting a friendly surface for cargo or pets. The second-row seats are mechanically easy to remove and reinstall, though the 49-pound captain's chairs may require two people to wrestle in and out.
Seven-passenger models use captain's chairs for the second row. The right-hand seat can be repositioned laterally (side to side), offering either a small bench seat or a pair of bucket seats with space between them. Moving them close together makes getting into the back row easier. Moving them apart makes them more comforable for adults. The seat has to be removed and reinstalled in one of two locations, however; it does not slide on tracks, which is a more costly design. Toyota says most people normally don't move the second-row seats once they've decided on the favored position. Unfortunately, this setup leaves the attachment points exposed. A neat.
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The Toyota Sienna boasts a smooth ride and responsive handling, striking a good balance between the two. Smooth and responsive describes the powertrain as well. It all adds up to a vehicle that's enjoyable to drive, whether on long trips or for quick errands, loaded with people or by yourself.
On curving mountain roads in Southern California, we found the Sienna drove more like a car than a minivan or sport-utility. Its steering is responsive and there's little body roll, or lean, when cornering. Transient response is good, meaning the Sienna can quickly change directions without losing composure. It feels stable at high speeds. The steering is nice and light at low speeds, and with a turning radius of less than 37 feet the Sienna is easy to maneuver in tight parking lots and in U-turns. This compares with more than 39 feet for a Dodge Grand Caravan and 40 feet for a Nissan Quest.
The Sienna accelerates relatively quickly, 0 to 60 mph in 8.3 seconds, according to Toyota, performance that's more than adequate for most traffic conditions. Toyota's 3.3-liter V6 features a two-stage variable-valve setup, called VVT-i or Variable Valve Timing with intelligence, for good torque at both low rpm and high rpm, and significantly improved fuel economy (by 3 mpg over pre-2004 models).
A smooth-shifting five-speed automatic transmission adds to the Sienna's responsiveness around town and on the highway. The five-speed automatic helps with fuel efficiency, achieving an EPA-estimated 27 mpg on the highway test. Sienna runs clean, too, clean enough for Ultra Low Emissions (ULEV II) certification. Toyota recommends premium fuel, but the Sienna will run on regular.
Braking is smooth and powerful. Making big 16-inch wheels standard equipment allowed Toyota to design bigger brakes. Four-wheel anti-lock brakes (ABS) with Electronic Brake-force Distribution (EBD) and Brake Assist come standard. ABS helps to prevent the brakes from locking during severe braking conditions. EBD distributes the braking force to the tires with the most weight on them for quicker, more stable stops. Brake Assist adds brake pressure during emergency stopping situations when the driver mistakenly reduces pedal pressure.
Vehicle Stability Control (VSC) with Traction Control (TRAC) is optional. Vehicle Stability Control utilizes the braking system to help the driver maintain control in adverse driving conditions. Traction control helps reduce tire slippage during acceleration.
All-wheel drive adds greatly to all-weather capability and recommend it for anyone who drives in wintry conditions or heavy rain. In normal driving on dry pavement, we could not discern much difference in ride quality between front- and all-wheel drive models. That's in spite of the fact that AWD models come with 17-inch run-flat tires. Run-flat tires are equipped with reinforced sidewalls with a special bead shape to permit driving for up to 100 miles at speeds up to 55 MPH even when all the air pressure is lost. We associate run-flat tires with a rougher ride quality but they're improving all the time. Run-flat tires can significantly improve safety by eliminating the need to stop to change a tire in an unsafe location. A spare tire is available for all-wheel-drive models.
The Toyota Sienna is among the best of the minivans available today. It's powerful yet frugal, and attractively designed. It handles well yet rides smoothly. This is a big van with a roomy, comfortable interior that offers versatile seating configurations and a generous cargo bay. It's equipped with the latest safety features, including curtain-style airbags. And it's backed by Toyota's reputation for quality, durability and reliability.
Model Lineup
Toyota Sienna CE ($23,625); CE 8-passenger ($23,775); LE FWD 7-passenger ($25,130); LE FWD 8-passenger ($25,280); LE AWD ($28,745); XLE FWD ($29,425); XLE AWD ($32,630); XLE Limited FWD ($35,880): XLE Limited AWD ($38,080).
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Dialysis is a treatment used when the kidneys do not work well. It removes harmful substances from the blood when the kidneys cannot.
There are different types of kidney dialysis. This article focuses on hemodialysis.
Alternative Names
Artificial kidneys; Hemodialysis; Renal replacement therapy
Hemodialysis removes blood from the body and sends it across a special filter with solutions. The filter helps remove harmful substances. The blood is then returned to the body.
If you have hemodialysis, your health care team will need a way to get to the blood in your blood vessels. This is called access. You may need this for a little while (temporary) or for a long time (permanent).
Temporary access involves putting a hollow tube (called a catheter) into a large vein, usually in your neck, chest, or leg near the groin. This is most often done in emergency situations for short periods of time. However, some catheters can be used for weeks or even months.
Permanent access is created by surgically joining an artery to a vein, usually in the arm. There are two ways to do this:
- An artery and a vein are directly connected to each other. After a few months, they form a connection called a fistula (an arteriovenous fistula, or AVF). This type has a lower risk of infections and lasts longer.
- A human-made bridge (arteriovenous graft, or AVG) can also be used to connect the artery and vein. An AVG can be used for dialysis within several weeks.
- When you have dialysis, one or two needles are placed into the access area.
Hemodialysis is most often done in a special dialysis center. Patients usually have three treatments a week. It takes about 3 – 4 hours each time. Many people feel tired for several hours after the dialysis.
Sometimes, dialysis can be done at home. Home dialysis is usually done using one of two schedules:
- Shorter (2 – 3 hour) treatments done at least 5 – 7 days per week
- Longer, nightly treatments done 3 – 6 nights per week while you are sleeping
Home hemodialysis treatments help keep blood pressure lower. Many patients no longer need blood pressure medicines. Nightly treatments do a better job of removing waste products. It is done more slowly, so it's easier on the heart and access site.
A dialysis nurse can train patients to do home dialysis. Patients do not have to buy a machine. Supplies can be delivered. Both the patient and any caregivers must learn to:
- Handle the equipment
- Place the needle into the access site
- Monitor the machine and blood pressure during treatment
- Keep records
- Clean the machine
- Order supplies
Avoid all pressure on the access site. If the graft or fistula clots, you may need a new one.
- Do not allow anyone to take a blood pressure reading on the same arm with the access.
- Do not wear tight clothing around the access site or on the arm.
- Avoid placing pressure on the arm with the access while you sleep.
- Avoid placing pressure on the arm when you are lifting heavy items.
- Do not allow any blood to be drawn from the arm.
- Do not use creams or lotions over the access site.
Learn how to feel the access site for the "thrill." This is a sign that the site is still functioning. If the thrill disappears, call your health care provider immediately.
Do not miss or skip any dialysis sessions. Make sure you arrive on time. Many centers have busy schedules. You may not be able to make up the time if you are late.
Watch the access site for swelling, bleeding, or signs of infection. Call your health care provider immediately if you have a
It is important to follow a strict
Why the Procedure Is Performed
The kidneys' main job is to remove toxins from the blood. A buildup of waste products can lead to death.
The kidneys also help:
- Manage how much water is in the body
- Maintain the balance of sodium, potassium, phosphorous, and other minerals and vitamins in the body
- Make sure the blood-acid balance is normal
Dialysis is used to treat patients with chronic kidney disease. Your doctor and nurse will begin discussing dialysis with you before you need it.
Dialysis also may be used when the kidneys suddenly stop working (also called
Sometimes, hemodialysis can be used to quickly remove drugs or poisons from the body.
Risks of dialysis include:
- A small bubble of air in the blood that travels to a blood vessel in another part of the body (air embolism)
- Bleeding from the access site
- Cramps
- Infection
Irregular heartbeat
- Low blood pressure
- Nausea and vomiting
This list is not all-inclusive.
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The Museum of Design in Plastics (MoDiP) was set up in 1988 as a collection of objects for learning and teaching entitled the 'Design Collection'. It became a registered museum in 2001. Following a decision to focus on plastics, it changed its name to the Museum of Design in Plastics in 2007. The following year it obtained full accreditation under the Museums, Libraries, and Archives Council's scheme. MoDiP is now acknowledged as the UK's leading resource for the study and interpretation of design in plastics.
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However, all is not lost! The marvellous way-back machine was able to find it again for me. I don't know how long such archives are kept, so I suggest you don't delay if you are interested in reading this wonderful story.
Begin here: The Discovery of Insulin
Use the site as you would any other, clicking on icons as appropriate. The way-back bar at the top is not too intrusive. I suggest you start by clicking "Enter" then click on "Introduction" before reading the rest. Click on the "Home" button at the top or your "back" button if "Home" is missing to return to the index page after you finish each section.
The dLife web-site also has a three-part video series on the discovery of insulin. I was unable to find the code to show them directly here so you will need to click on the links. The "non-intrusive" ads for Novo-Nordisk are worth wading through for the story.
The Story Of Insulin, Part 1
The Story Of Insulin, Part 2
The Story Of Insulin, Part 3
For those in the Tampa area tomorrow or in the Tyler, Tx, region next month, this exhibition may also be worth attending: Breakthrough: The Dramatic Story of the Discovery of Insulin
After reading and watching all of that information I was reminded again how remarkable this achievement was and how close it came to not occurring. There are millions of diabetics alive today as a direct consequence of the discovery; the story of Dr Lois Jovanovic's grandmother gives the perspective of those living under a death sentence back in the 1920s. As a lateral thought, one has to wonder whether it would have ever been discovered if there had been the same strict rules for using animals like dogs in lab experiments then as there are now.
At the moment I do not need insulin, but I am very grateful that it is available for that possible day in the future when I may need to.
Cheers, Alan, T2, Australia
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Dear Gossips,
Prince William and Princess Catherine will attend the Tusk Trust gala tonight. It'll be Kate's first time in a ball gown since giving birth to Little G. Those photos will be posted as soon as they're available. It was also officially announced today that William is leaving the Royal Air Force after over 7 years of service. So what's he doing next? They don't know. They're calling it a "transitional year" and that he still has to figure out his new job description. In other words, he's taking a year off. Must be nice. Here's the official statement from the Palace:
"His Royal Highness The Duke of Cambridge is to leave operational service in the Armed Forces. He completes his Tour with the Royal Air Force Search and Rescue Force at RAF Valley, Anglesey, after more than seven-and-a-half years of full-time military service.
He will continue to support the work of the Queen and the Royal Family through a programme of official engagements, both at home and overseas, with The Duchess of Cambridge.
The Duke will work closely over the next 12 months with the Royal Foundation of The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry. He will expand his work in the field of conservation, particularly in respect of endangered species.
The Duke will continue to work with his charities on issues relating to children and young people, veterans and serving members of the Armed Forces.
The Duke is currently considering a number of options for public service, a further announcement on which will follow in due course.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince George are expected to move into their official residence at Kensington Palace within the next few weeks."
I see what you did there, ending the statement with a reference to Little G to distract everyone from the real message – that even though he'll no longer be in Wales flying helicopters, his royal duties schedule will not increase. What's he going to do with all that free time? Make another baby!
Did you note the use of the capital "T" before Duke and Duchess? When I worked at The University of British Columbia, editing fund development correspondence for then University president Martha Piper, it was an error I was always correcting – changing the lower case "t" to an upper case "T" whenever the university was listed out in full. It's not consistent across institutions. For example, the University of Toronto – to my knowledge – does not capitalise the "t". Since then, I've been hyper-aware of "T" stylisation. The royals, as you can see, take the upper case, naturally. If I had a title, I would too. Like, The Dean of the Faculty of Celebrity Studies looks way better than the Dean of the Faculty of Celebrity Studies. Pretentious? Hell yes. That's the whole point.
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During the coming season, anglers will be required to release any wild spring chinook salmon they hook in three tributaries to the Columbia River, as well as at Drano Lake.
In addition, fishing on one of those tributaries-the Klickitat River-will be limited to three days per week through May 31, with a bag limit of one hatchery chinook or steelhead per day.
The changes, according to Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife personnel, are designed to conserve wild chinook salmon in the Columbia River basin.
"This year, for the first time, all age classes of hatchery chinook salmon returning to tributaries of the Bonneville Pool have been marked for identification," said Craig Burley, regional fish manager for the state fish and wildlife agency. "That will allow us to have a selective fishery that maximizes fishing opportunities for hatchery chinook, while protecting wild stocks."
Waters affected by the new requirement to release wild chinook include the Klickitat, White Salmon and lower Wind rivers, as well as Drano Lake below the Little White Salmon National Fish Hatchery. Wild chinook have an intact adipose fin, which is clipped from hatchery fish for purposes of identification.
Burley said the need for new fishing rules was especially apparent on the Klickitat River, where this year's expected return of 1,300 adult spring chinook salmon is not high enough to support a full fishing season and also meet hatchery production goals.
"At a recent meeting in Goldendale, most anglers said they would rather have a lower daily catch limit on the Klickitat than a major reduction in fishing days," said Burley. "So that's the way we structured this year's season."
Starting April 1, the spring chinook fishing season on the Klickitat will be open Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays from the mouth to the Fisher Hill Bridge, with a bag limit of one hatchery chinook or steelhead per day. As of June 1, the river will be open seven days per week and the bag limit will increase to six hatchery salmon, no more than two of which can be adults.
Wind River will be open to anglers March 16 through June 30 from the mouth to 400 feet below Shipherd Falls. From May 1 through June 30, anglers may retain any chinook salmon from 100 feet above Shipherd Falls to 400 feet below the coffer dam and from 100 feet above the coffer dam to markers 800 yards downstream of Carson National Fish Hatchery.
Drano Lake opens March 16 downstream of the markers across from Little White Salmon National Fish Hatchery and upstream of the Highway 14 bridge. The season runs through June 30, but will be closed every Wednesday from April 12 through May 31.
The lower section of White Salmon River will be open April 1 through June 30 from the markers on the east and west shores to the powerhouse. The upper section will be open April 1 through June 15 from the powerhouse to 400 feet downstream from Northwestern Dam.
The daily catch limit on the Wind River, the White Salmon River and Drano Lake is a total of two fin-clipped salmon or steelhead, or one of each. On the Klickitat River, the daily limit is one marked salmon or hatchery steelhead. Anglers must release all unmarked salmon and steelhead, except on the Wind River starting May 1.
For hatchery fish, the minimum retention size for salmon is 12 inches. For steelhead, the minimum retention size is 20 inches.
Night closure and non-buoyant lure restrictions will be in effect in May on the Klickitat River, and from March 16 through June 30 on the Wind River and Drano Lake.
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Acclaimed filmmaker Trinh T. Minh-ha ventures into the digital realm with her stunning new feature, THE FOURTH DIMENSION, an incisive and insightful examination of Japan through its art, culture, and social rituals. As is the case with Trinh's previous films, her new video is a multi-layered work addressing issues around its central theme: the experience of time, the impossibility of truly "seeing," and the impact of video on image-making.
THE FOURTH DIMENSION is an elegant meditation on time, travel, and ceremony in the form of a journey. In her first foray into digital video, Minh-ha deconstructs the role of ritual in mediating between the past and the present. She explains, "Shown in their widespread functions and manifestations, including more evident loci such as festivals, religious rite and theatrical performance, 'rituals' involve not only the regularity in the structure of everyday life, but also the dynamic agents in the world of meaning." With its lush imagery, Minh-ha's Japan is viewed through mobile frames, with doors and windows sliding shut, revealing new vistas as it blocks out the old light.
�Trinh T. Minh-ha�s newest essayistic work and her first videotape, cuts an intricate key for unlocking this elusive culture. Her tack finds great visual pleasure in the everyday, composing and decomposing the social landscape, while constructing a poetic grid of temporalities, symbolic meaning, and ritual. In THE FOURTH DIMENSION, Trinh�s lyrical narration guides us through �Japan�s likeness,� the perfected framing of the sacramental familiar.� - Steve Seid
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Nickelback roars back to the New Zealand stage with the 'Here and Now' 2012 tour.
Nickelback, one of the biggest rock bands in the world, known for their powerful and spectacular live performances, have announced their first New Zealand concert in three years on Friday, November 30 at Auckland's Vector Arena.
Having recently completed a fifty-four city trek throughout North America, and as they prepare to embark on a string of European dates next month, Nickelback will head down-under for a national Australian tour starting in Perth on November 17, with stops in Adelaide, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne before reaching their final destination, Auckland, on November 30.
The band will be performing hits and chart-topping singles drawing from their seven-album arsenal.
Nickelback last toured Australia and New Zealand in 2009, with the extremely successful 'Dark Horse Tour'. In total, the 'Dark Horse Tour' saw Nickelback performing before nearly two million fans with more than 120 shows around the world including stops here, Australia, Japan, Dubai, the United Kingdom, Germany and North America.
Released in November of last year, the band's current album 'Here And Now' - the biggest international release in Nickelback's history - debuted Top 10 in the RIANZ album chart and is now certified Gold. The album is home to singles 'Bottoms Up', 'When We Stand Together,' and current single 'Lullaby'.
Their new single 'Trying Not To Love You' will be serviced to radio next week. Nickelback has achieved a prestigious place in music history having sold nearly 50 million worldwide - 150k in New Zealand alone - staking a claim for one of the biggest and most enduringly successful rock acts in history. Since their 2001 breakthrough hit song 'How You Remind Me', Nickelback has sent more than 20 singles rocketing onto New Zealand radio and various Billboard charts, including 'When We Stand Together' and 'Bottoms Up'. In 2009, Billboard Magazine also named Nickelback "Top Group of the Decade."
Their now classic album 'All the Right Reasons' insured Nickelback an indelible place in rock history, having spent a staggering 112 consecutive weeks in the Top 30 of the Billboard Top 200, certified eight-times platinum in the U.S. and having sold more than eleven million copies worldwide.
Tickets for the show will go on-sale on Friday, August 17 at 9.00am.
Fan Club members will be able to purchase tickets beginning on Monday, August 13 at 2.00pm. Fan Club details can be found at www.Nickelback.com. My Live Nation members can access pre-sale tickets from Wednesday, August 15 at 12noon and My Ticketmaster members will also have access to pre-sale tickets beginning Thursday, August 16 at 1.00pm.