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Greenheads galore in the Bootheel
Waterfowl hunters migrate to East Prairie for expanded hunting opportunities
Jason Jenkins
Jason Jenkins
Jason Jenkins
With tail fiercely wagging, Dolly could hardly contain herself. The 8-year-old chocolate Labrador retriever's entire body quivered with excitement as her owner, James Faught of Cape Girardeau, slid a camouflage neoprene vest around her upper body to keep the dog warm.
It was time to go duck hunting.
Truth be told, the men who piled into the ATV with Dolly were just as excited, even if their exuberance wasn't as visibly obvious.
They traveled to a well-masked hunting blind as a cold, steady rain fell. Dawn would arrive in less than an hour. When the veil of darkness finally lifted, the group found itself gazing out over a spread of duck decoys floating in a flooded field with strips of standing corn.
Soon, a cacophony of waterfowl, both geese and ducks, steadily rose from the nearby refuge. As the birds took flight, the hunters' calls came to life, feverishly attempting to attract the groups of mallards passing overhead. They hoped for a brace of greenheads to come backpedaling into their decoy set — wings cupped, feet extended — committing to what would be their final pass.
"When you hear the wings coming over the top of you and they start fluttering down, you can't really describe what it's like," says Faught, who guides hunts for Pinhook Hunting Club outside East Prairie. "It's a rush."
By no means is waterfowl hunting new to Missouri's Bootheel. Located along the Mississippi Flyway, a migratory route millions of North American ducks and geese have followed for eons, hunting opportunities have always abounded here.
But in the area surrounding East Prairie, farmers and other landowners are acutely aware that this traditional pastime also has business potential. As the number of hunters has exceeded the availability of hunting spots on nearby public lands, many have stepped in to fill the void.
Where men toiled generations ago to drain the swampy landscape to raise corn, soybeans and cotton, some are now purposely flooding their fields in winter. Their goal is to not only attract ducks but also the waterfowl hunters who will pay to pursue them. This new cash crop is yielding dividends.
"It's really all just happened in the past three years or so," says Silvey Barker, tourism director for the city of East Prairie. "We recognized that we had the potential, and we've worked hard to develop it."
As hunters have flocked to the new opportunities that surround this town of about 3,200, they've spurred economic development.
"We have some new lodging here in town, as well as a taxidermist and a sporting goods store that's become a pretty good business," Barker says. "All of these are offshoots of what the clubs are doing."
One of the clubs attracting both in-state and out-of-state hunters is Pinhook Hunting Club, which was started by friends and hunting partners Rick Schuerenberg, Jamie Pollock, David Crader and Mark Dugan. Originally, the club was intended to be a private hunting retreat for the four men. They secured a hunting lease for one field adjacent to Ten Mile Pond Conservation Area, a nearly 3,800-acre wetland complex that has attracted waterfowl hunters since the Missouri Department of Conservation began managing it in the early 1980s.
"Like a lot of other people, we were just looking for a place to hunt ducks," says Schuerenberg, an agricultural chemical dealer from Sikeston. "We leased it just for ourselves, and it kind of grew from there."
Over time, the men leased other acreage in the vicinity, and eventually they bought the land outright. That's when Schuerenberg says the group started looking for ways to maximize the return on their investment.
Today, Pinhook, which is served by SEMO Electric Cooperative, comprises about 650 acres and offers guided day hunts for both ducks and geese. For a current rate of $350 per day per hunter, the club offers lodging, three meals, a local hunting guide and everything needed for a successful hunt. All hunters need to bring is their shotguns and shells, warm clothing, waders and a camera to capture the memories.
"The unique thing about what we have here at Pinhook is the variety of hunting situations," Schuerenberg says. "We have about 250 acres of green timber and the rest is flooded fields and flooded willow brakes. So, if you want to hunt the timber, we can do that. Or if you want to stand in the willow brakes or get in a blind and hunt over the corn, we can do that, too."
This past year, Pinhook completed a new cabin where hunters can warm up, have a meal and visit after the hunt. "We try to make everyone feel at home and welcome and a part of what we're doing here," Schuerenberg says. "And, we certainly try to kill some ducks, too, but if we're not killing ducks, we want to still make sure the guys have a good time."
"Pinhook has some of the best managed flooded food plots I've seen," says duck hunter Charlie Southworth of Gaffney, S.C., who hunted three days early in the season. "They certainly know what they're doing, and even though we didn't kill many ducks, I had a great time."
Southworth has hunted waterfowl from Alaska to Texas, but this was his first Missouri Bootheel duck hunt. He says he plans to return again next year and bring a group of friends.
For hunters seeking a more permanent solution for their duck-hunting desires, leasing is a growing option around East Prairie. Among those offering leases are Steve and Angie Jones, who operate Second Chance Outfitters on their farm south of town.
As avid waterfowl hunters, the couple had developed acreage for family hunting outings, but as Steve and Angie's three sons grew up and became involved in other activities, they recognized the potential to earn a little extra income. Though they initially offered day hunting, the couple now strictly leases their pit blinds by the season. Eight pits were available for the 2009-2010 waterfowl season.
"We actually have a waiting list," notes Angie. "We had a couple guys from Georgia who gave up their leases and then changed their minds, but it was too late. We had booked their pits already."
While leases vary from landowner to landowner, at Second Chance Outfitters, a yearly lease includes both duck and goose season.
"We guarantee them water and a pit on an 80-acre field, and they can hunt it any way they want to," Steve explains. "They can camouflage the pit any way they want. If they want to hunt mornings only, they can do that. It's their field for the season."
Thanks to their leasing operation's success, the couple felt confident enough this past year to build a 12-bed lodge behind their home. The accommodations are booked on a first-come, first-served basis. Steve says they plan to sink two more pit blinds next year and offer a total of 10 leases. "We're just starting out, and we're learning as we go," he says.
According to Andy Raedeke, a waterfowl biologist with the conservation department, wetland restoration efforts across Missouri in the past 10 to 20 years have tremendously increased the numbers of ducks and geese that visit Missouri during the fall and winter migration. In the Bootheel, these efforts include areas such as 10 Mile Pond outside of East Prairie.
"Those public areas have high-quality refuge, and they serve as an anchoring point," he says. "Then you have the private ground, whether it's flooded rice fields or restored wetlands, and that public and private land together provides great habitat."
Raedeke says he believes the prospects for growth in hunting opportunities abound in the Bootheel. "It's always going to depend on the year and the weather and the habitat, but I think the area has tremendous potential."
It's an assessment that outfitters including Schuerenberg echo. "I think the business of duck hunting in this area is in its infancy right now and just waiting to be developed," he says. "We have a hidden jewel down here in the Bootheel."
Duck season in the Bootheel ends Jan. 24. For more information about booking day hunts at Pinhook Hunting Club, contact Rick Schuerenberg at 573-380-0249 or go online to www.phchuntingclub.com. To inquire about leasing options at Second Chance Outfitters, call Steve Jones at 573-380-6651.
For information on lodging and other accommodations in East Prairie, contact Silvey Barker at 573-649-3057, ext. 6, or visit www.eastprairiemo.net.


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Before we return to our regularly scheduled program tracking the protean components of badge system design, just a quick post about the simple beauty and unexpected delight found in a child's approach to games and reward systems. Recently an email went round Mozilla about http://diy.org. The site is fascinating from a variety of standpoints, e.g., it's nicely designed; their privacy policy is clearly written and straightforward; their login process appears to be COPPA-compliant; they celebrate a certain type of maker culture, etc. Check it out, it's worth a look.
However, I'm writing this post because of the gem found in an email about the diy.org site that came through from the lovely and talented Jess Klein (she of the Open Badges website design, amongst other things). The excerpt she provided below:
According to this article: http://www.betabeat.com/2012/04/27/zach-klein-new-startup-diy-diy-org-app-kids-who-make-04272012/
DIY lets kids create portfolios of the stuff they make through a public web page. Friends and family members can encourage their work through stickers and parents can monitor their activity from a dashboard. "We've all seen how kids can be like little MacGyvers," the company writes in an introductory blogpost. "They're able to take anything apart, recycle what you've thrown away – or if they're Caine, build their own cardboard arcade. This is play, but it's also creativity and it's a valuable skill.
The part that caught my eye was about Caine: you'll find a video in the last link in the paragraph above. You should watch it. I spent 10 minutes of my time on it and I admit it made me happy I did so. (And let's face it 10 minutes is a loooong time on the Internet.)
Caine is an inventive 9 year old who made himself an arcade. An arcade made out of taped together cardboard boxes. A functioning arcade with tokens, tickets, and prizes for winners (he reuses his old toys). Well, functioning in that he devised ways to make things work with a little help from him, as opposed to purely mechanical means. But the real beauty of his work is found in his systems thinking. Caine wanted someone to play at his arcade; he even went so far as to develop a cost structure. Very MBA of him. But seriously? Smarter.
Here's the cost breakdown: $1 for 4 turns. Or for $2 you can get a Fun Pass. How many turns do you get with a Fun Pass? 500. That's right $2 gets you 500 turns. Now that is a good pricing strategy, and it's a pretty stellar participation strategy, too. Oh, and he's also figured out a way to reduce gaming of his Fun Pass system by using old calculators and the square roots of pin numbers. Amazing. It's mostly all sunk costs for Caine—who by the way, is using primarily found materials—but money is not the motivating factor for Caine. He just wants you in the game.
What if we approached badging like that? What if we asked ourselves, what's the real goal we're aiming for here? How can we transmit the magic we feel to others? How can we create a system that works to keep people in the game? And what are ways we can do it so that our participants feel rewarded in both mind and spirit?
Caine accomplished this—most likely without being fully cognizant of it. Sure, on some level it's silly. But so what? Because on another level, it's lovely and transcendent. Caine revealed to us what's possible when you forge ahead to create something out of joy and then work to share it with the world. For that I admire and respect him.
I share this small but inspirational story with you because I dream (and I think it's a big dream) that Mozilla Open Badges may prove to be someone's arcade. The tool that allows them to beam out to the public the excitement and joy they feel when they share what they've created. I'm hoping Open Badges helps more people get in the game.
More soon.

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Prison yard with guard at Phelps Correctional Center in DeQuincy, La - currently closed
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Update: the photographer posted this comment on his Facebook page:
"This has gone so far. I'm just joking among friends. I didn't write anything about it, just posted the photo, no description. But you have to wait for the news at the end of this month. There's a new model, not sure if it's this name (D400). Someone already tested it while I just had a look. Sorry for the panic. Let's talk again at the end of July"
This screenshot was published on the facebook account of Waran Suwanno (pictures; websites: pixpros, pixproshouse) - a well respected photographer from Thailand. The rumor is that he did test Nikon equipment in the past. The screenshot is a Capture NX2 window showing Nikon D400 listed in the camera info window.


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we major forms of pulmonary emphysema are generally recognized. Alveolar emphysema is abnormal permanent enlargement of air spaces distal to the terminal bronchiole and destruction of alveolar septal walls without apparent fibrosis.
Interstitial emphysema is the presence of air within the supporting connective tissue stroma of the lung (interlobular, subpleural, mediastinal, subcutaneous).
Emphysema affects ~10% of people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; the main risk factors are tobacco smoke exposure and α1-antitrypsin deficiency. In animals, it typically occurs secondary to a primary obstructive pulmonary disease process.
While the pathogenesis of pulmonary emphysema is not fully understood, at least three mechanisms have been suggested:
1) An imbalance between protease secreted by neutrophils and macrophages, and antiprotease activity results in destruction of alveolar walls and interstitial matrix.
2) Inappropriate maintenance of lung structure and repair follows injury.
3)The condition develops secondary to obstruction of airways on expiration due to chronic bronchitis/bronchiolitis or congenital abnormality of the airway wall.
This creates a "check valve" lesion, in which air is able to enter alveoli on inspiration or through collateral ventilation but is unable to leave freely and causes air trapping.
Recurrent airway obstruction, or "heaves" in horses, is associated with chronic bronchitis and bronchiolitis, resulting in alveolar hyperinflation by air trapping.
The condition is partially reversible with bronchodilators; however, a small subset of horses develop alveolar emphysema presumably from chronic overdistension of alveolar walls and protease/antiprotease imbalance associated with pulmonary inflammation.
Congenital lobar emphysema of dogs (as seen in the Pekingese breed) occurs secondary to aplasia or hypoplasia of bronchiolar cartilage that collapses during expiration, leading to air trapping.
Because of well-developed interlobular septa and lack of collateral ventilation, cattle are particularly susceptible to interstitial emphysema.
Pulmonary diseases associated with airway obstruction and dyspnea, such as bovine respiratory syncytial virus infection, acute respiratory disease syndromes, such as acute pulmonary edema and emphysema, and moldy sweet potato toxicityare commonly associated with intestitial emphysema.
Severe interstitial emphysema can cause large gas bullae in all parts of the lung and subcutaneous emphysema as air dissects along fascial planes from the lungs through the mediastinum and thoracic inlet to the subcutis of the back.
Clinical signs depend on the primary disease process.
Often, affected animals present with labored breathing, and auscultation reveals abnormal breath sounds such as wheezes and crackles due to airway disease.
The area of thoracic auscultation is typically enlarged due to lung hyperinflation. At necropsy, the lungs do not collapse and stay overinflated.
Histology is the only method to differentiate lung overinflation secondary to pulmonary emphysema from air trapping due to airway obstruction from chronic bronchiolitis or bronchitis.
Air bubbles (bullae) of various sizes may be seen in the subpleural space and interstitium, as well as around the kidneys and pericardial sac in cattle with emphysema.
Pulmonary emphysema affects a small percentage of horses with recurrent airway obstruction (~12%). Lesions may develop as subpleural bullae or emphysema localized to a lobe or diffused lesions.
Minor degrees of emphysema may precede death if there was a prolonged struggle or exaggerated respiration.
These agonal changes should be differentiated from antemortem lesions.
Emphysema is an irreversible lung lesion; however, therapy directed toward the primary disease process may result in significant improvement of clinical signs, especially by targeting airway obstruction with administration of bronchodilator and anti-inflammatory drugs.


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There's one nice thing about books.
They're very, very smart and very, very talented.
You see, books can order themselves from the publishers. Books can unpack themselves and jump straight up on the storage shelves. When it comes time for a conference, books can select themselves, put themselves neatly into boxes, magically cause those boxes to load themselves in to the vehicle and then magically drive themselves to the conference venue, all while Mrs. Bookseller and I snooze in the front seat.
Then, once we're there, those darling little books unload themselves, find their way to the right room inside, set up the tables and arrange themselves.
The best part?
The books can write their own receipts, and jump into the customers' bags, all while we booksellers go off and party elsewhere. When the conference is over, the books dutifully repack themselves, load themselves into the vehicle, get themselves home and climb back on the shelves, like so many good little children.
Next, my trusty book gnomes take over.
The gnomes call in the credit card slips, prepare the bank deposits, remove the "sold" items from the electronic inventory & website and do all the necessary accounting and book-keeping, including the preparation of state sales tax reports, etc.
That's the great thing about the genealogy book biz – once you train your books to order, pack and sell themselves – kinda like Disney's Sorcerer's Apprentice – and once you get the book gnomes to do the rest of the work for free, it's all gravy.
Yup. Running a book biz is a piece of cake.
Of course, if the book gnomes get sick or go out on strike and if the books forget everything you've taught them, you're back to the Square One – a place that's better known as "Reality".
Now you'll need to do all that packing and lugging stuff by yourself. Now you're a bookseller in search of "billable hours."
Unless, of course, you believe that your time has no value whatsoever. More often than not, that seems to be the case.
Last time, I discussed the basic profit/loss of bookselling by simply using the simple hard "cash" numbers from the event we did last Saturday, just as though the actual work was all done by unpaid gnomes, by the books themselves or by smoke and mirrors. In other words, I wrote about the financial "bottom line" of bookselling as though everybody worked for free.
Today, I welcome you to another reality.
Observation: It takes a whole lot of time to sell a $9.95 book and make what appears (on the surface) to be a $3.50 profit.
Here's the analysis of the "time/labor cost factor", using last Saturday's event as the example:
In order to exhibit last Saturday, I had to have the books on hand in the first place and then I had to select the lucky ones that got to go on a road trip to Massachusetts. And then I had to pack them. And then, Pat had to pack the display stuff, table covers and 'basic business" stuff, like receipt books, credit card slips and bags. And then, it all had to go in the vehicle, get to Waltham, get unpacked, set up, repacked and unloaded and re-shelved.
Time involved in all that? About 9 person-hours combined. Not a huge amount – but wait…
Next – the travel: two of us spent a combined total of 14 person hours driving back and forth from NYS to Waltham, then back to NYS. While not very strenuous, time is time.
Then there's the event itself. Two of us were there from 7:30 AM till 4:30 PM. That's a combined total of 18 person hours of "floor" time in the vending area.
The "post-event" book-keeping took about 3 hours.
Bottom Line: about 44 person-hours were spent by two people preparing for, traveling to, staffing and accounting for the event at Waltham last Saturday.
So, now the question arises: how much is a bookseller's time worth to do all of the above? Say, for the sake of argument, that it requires virtually no skill or experience – just a strong back. Let's peg it at about $10.00 an hour; if you could hire a couple of high school kids to do all of the above, the "labor cost" of exhibiting would be about $440.00.
If, however, somewhat more skill was involved, and if $20.00 per hour was a reasonable rate, then $880.00 would be about right.
But who actually pays the bookseller's salary? Answer: the bookseller pays himself or herself, out of whatever is left over after expenses are subtracted from gross sales. Remember, the bookseller's salary has to be covered by the net profit generated from sales, if exhibiting at the event is going to make any economic sense at all. "Economic sense" is the same thing as "salary and maybe even a little profit."
So, now, if we factor in the actual net loss of MINUS $6.88 (see previous post) from book sales and my speaker's honorarium combined at the Waltham event with the cost of "labor", using either the arbitrary $440 or $880 amount above, it becomes abundantly clear that this was not a moneymaking event for us.
No salary for either one of us, or any business profit, at least not this weekend. In effect, we worked for free. Sometimes we do. Sometimes we don't.
Was that the plan in the beginning? Well, no.
But then, that's the nature of this kind of business; it's all about taking calculated risks, and investing both time and money in the expectation of (a.) covering expenses, (b.) paying yourself for your time and (c.) maybe even making a small profit.
How much actual "working capital" is at risk, in addition to the expenses I wrote about yesterday?
That depends on how many books a bookseller like me has on display at any given event. Last Saturday, for example, I started the day with about $5,000 of "bought and paid for" books. I own 'em. I paid for them when I bought them from the publishers. They're not returnable. No cash comes back to me until I sell them.
If I had calculated that a larger crowd was likely, I would have packed proportionally more books, thus increasing the "at risk" capital to about $7,500 worth of already-paid-for books.
At large conferences, like NGS, FGS and NERGC, we often have as much as $30,000 - $50,000 worth of books on display. Since they're all bought and paid for, they represent rather a lot of our working capital at risk. (By the by, if I sold two books every day of the year for the rest of my natural life, I'd need to live to be well over 100 before the books in our current inventory would be gone…even if I never bought another book for re-sale. Ain't gonna happen!)
As you can see, everything about the book biz is unpredictable and highly risky.
- Will enough people show up to the event?
- Will there be enough time so that attendees can actually browse the stuff on the tables?
- Will there be too many vendors for the number of attendees?
- Did I bring the right stuff?
- Will I get a "bad" check or "bad" credit card and thus have to absorb a significant loss on that purchase?
- Will someone pick up a book and "forget" to pay for it?
- Will someone browsing inadvertently spill their coffee all over a stack of books, thereby ruining them?
But, if it's so risky and unpredictable, why do it? Why not take that working capital and invest it in something safe, like, say, Afghani government bonds?
Because, like most booksellers, I suffer from what is often described as the "gentle madness." I love everything about books, from the look of a well-composed printed page to the feel of the paper to the content of the author's thoughts and words. Plus, I like to teach and expose people to new ideas and the wonders that can be found between the covers of a printed book.
More to the point, I believe people should own actual books, not simply electrons dancing on a plasma screen. (I still own the very first out-of-print book that I ever bought: a leather-bound and Paris-printed early edition of Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal, that I bought when I was 14.)
I don't believe that you can Google everything, and even if you could, I don't think you should. And Wikipedia is not a replacement for the 11th edition of the Encyclopaedia Brittanica, not even close. (And, if you don't know why I singled out the 11th edition of the EB, it's time to chat up your friendly neighborhood reference librarian - preferably one over 55 - and learn about it.)
Plus, I also think that there's a huge difference between selling books like so many potatoes (that's what Amazon does) and being a bookseller. In a way, it's much like the difference between downloading stuff with abandon from World Family Tree and being a genealogist.
Okay, so I didn't make a killing at the MGC Conference last Saturday. No big deal. It was my choice to attend and my choice of risk. I had fun. I got to teach. I met friends and had some great conversations. I'd do it again in a heartbeat.
Besides, in the end, life is short. And there's always a "next time" to try and make up for the last time.
At least, that's what booksellers tell themselves in their dreams...


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QC Lab: What is the strongest rappel knot?Wednesday, September 7, 2016
I was climbing in Yosemite last summer and, while at a belay, was talking to a party from Bozeman, Montana. They noticed all the proto gear on my rack and deduced that I was from Black Diamond. My partner and I bailed (typical) and they were watching me like a hawk. I asked what they were looking at, and they said, "We want to see how the QA guy from BD raps." In particular, they were eyeing my rap knot.
There are advantages and disadvantages to each type of rap knot, but is there one that is superior in strength to the others? I put all three knots (with three different rope diameter scenarios) through a quick-and-dirty series of pull tests and have provided below some basic strength testing data based on my limited testing of the three most common rappel knots. (Note: only two data points per configuration.)
- The Double Fisherman's and Ring Bend had similar strength results
- The Euro Death Knot was the weakest: ~20-30% less than the Double Fisherman's and Ring Bend.
- The Euro Death Knot slipped a bit before failure at ~4000 lbf with the 10.2 and ~2000 lbf with the 8.1 in the system.
The reality is that all three of the methods for joining two ropes for rappelling that I tested were PLENTY strong for the forces seen during a typical rappel (i.e., bodyweight-plus, taking into account some shock loading when bouncing around, jiggering with tangled lines, not smooth rappelling technique, etc).
For what it's worth, when I started climbing I always used the Double Fisherman's, but now I've fully converted to the Euro Death Knot—it's fast to tie, plenty strong, less likely to get hung up when pulling and easy to untie. And finally, no matter what rap knot I tie, I always leave long tails (like at least 12 inches).
Climb safe,
Kolin Powick
Kolin Powick (KP) is a Mechanical Engineer hailing from Calgary, Canada. He has nearly 20 years of experience in the engineering field and has been Black Diamond's Director of Global Quality since 2002. Kolin oversees the testing of all of Black Diamond's gear from the prototype phase through continual final production random sample testing. If you have a technical question for KP, please email him at firstname.lastname@example.com and he will TRY to respond.


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Baldwin High School sophomore Monica Howard runs the 200-meter dash finals Friday. Howard finished in the top five in all four of her events at the opening meet.
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Morgan Lober and Brian Wright helped the Baldwin High School track and field teams close out Friday night's home meet in style. The BHS freshman and junior anchored the 1,600-meter relay teams to victory in the final races of the night.
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Civilian Response to Active Shooter Events C.R.A.S.E.
Do you know how to AVOID being a victim of an active
shooter? How can you DENY an active shooter access to hurt you? If all else
fails, can you DEFEND yourself?
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The materials in the course come from years of study of
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***Participant discretion is advised. This presentation
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