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"The Pop Object: The Still Life Tradition in Pop Art," curated by renowned art historian John Wilmerding, is a survey of Pop art that includes more than 75 important works by Robert Arneson, Vija Celmins, Jim Dine, Robert Indiana, Jasper Johns, Alex Katz, Edward Kienholz, Jeff Koons, Roy Lichtenstein, Marisol, Claes Oldenburg, Ed Ruscha, Robert Rauschenberg, Larry Rivers, James Rosenquist, George Segal, Marjorie Strider, Wayne Thiebaud, Andy Warhol, John Wesley, Tom Wesselmann, and H.C. Westermann.
In addition to significant loans from prestigious private collections and institutions such as the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, The Museum of Modern Art in New York and The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the exhibition includes seminal work from several of the artists' personal collections.
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Percutaneous Transluminal Venous Angioplasty (PTVA) is Ineffective in Correcting Chronic Cerebrospinal Venous Insufficiency (CCSVI) and May Increase Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Disease Activity in the Short Term: Safety and Efficacy Results of the 6-Month, Double-Blinded, Sham-Controlled, Prospective, Randomized Endovascular Therapy in MS (PREMiSe) trial
Adnan H. Siddiqui1, Robert Zivadinov2,3, Ralph HB. Benedict3, Yuval Karmon1, Yu Jihnhee4, Karen Marr2, Vesela Valnarov2, Cheryl Kennedy2, Murali Ramanathan5, Deepa P. Ramasamy2, Kresimir Dolic2, David Hojnacki3, Ellen Carl2, Michael G. Dwyer2, Niels Bergsland2, Elad I. Levy1, Nelson L. Hopkins1, Bianca Weinstock-Guttman3 1Departments of Neurosurgery and Radiology, University at Buffalo, State University of New York; Buffalo, NY, USA; 2Buffalo Neuroimaging Analysis Center and 3The Jacobs Neurological Institute, Department of Neurology, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, USA; 4Department of Statistics, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, USA; 5Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, USA
• Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a disease of uncertain etiology characterized by demyelinating lesions affecting the central nervous system.
• In 2009, Zamboni et al. described an association between MS and extracranial venous outflow restrictive lesions detected by extracranial and intracranial venous duplex studies.1
• They named this venous outflow restriction chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency (CCSVI). In addition, they introduced endovascular treatment for CCSVI in an open-label study that included 65 MS patients with postprocedure followup of over 18 months.2
• Several subsequent prospective open-label, non-randomized studies investigated safety and efficacy of venous angioplasty in MS. 3-9 Findings from these studies have generated considerable controversy but remain unproven.
• To investigate the safety and efficacy of percutaneous transluminal venous angioplasty (PTVA) for correcting CCSVI in MS in the setting of a prospective, double-blind, sham-controlled, randomized pilot trial.
Study Design and Patient Selection
• The study, Prospective Randomized Endovascular Therapy in Multiple Sclerosis (PREMiSe; ClinicalTrials.gov. NCT01450072), was planned in two phases. Phase 1 was an open-label safety study of endovascular venous angioplasty with an intended enrollment of 10 MS patients with CCSVI, whereas phase 2 was sham-controlled, randomized, double-blind, including up to 20 CCSVI-MS patients undergoing either angioplasty or sham procedure. Both phases were of 6 months' duration.
• The study was approved by the University at Buffalo Institutional Review Board and overseen by an independent datasafety monitoring committee. Written informed consent was obtained from all subjects.
• All screening, diagnostic, interventional, and follow-up procedures and visits were performed at no cost to the patients. Data were collected by the investigators and analyzed by an independent statistician.
• Inclusion criteria were as follows: age 18-65 years, Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS) score11 of 0-8.5 (0-5.5 for phase 2), active-relapsing MS (only for phase 2) or secondary progressive and/or progressive-relapsing MS,12 and fulfilling, at the time of screening, ≥2 CCSVI venous hemodynamic (VH) duplex criteria in phase 1 and ≥2 VH extracranial criteria in phase 2.13 Active-relapsing disease was defined as one relapse within the past 12 months or presence of contrast-enhancing (CE) lesion(s) on postcontrast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) within the previous 3 months (only for phase 2) and concomitant treatment with disease-modifying treatments excluding natalizumab (only for phase 2).
• Patients were also required to fulfill screening criteria on catheter venography (CV) defined as azygous vein or internal jugular vein (IJV) luminal diameter reduction ≥50%. CV findings were confirmed by intravascular ultrasound (IVUS), and both studies were performed under conscious sedation with local anesthesia, preceding the endovascular venous angioplasty treatment or sham procedure.
• Randomization in phase 2 was performed by an independent statistician in 1:1 fashion, using sealed and numbered envelopes with predetermined treatments (10 angioplasty, 10 sham angioplasty). No preplanned replacement for subjects not fulfilling invasive screening criteria was included in the protocol. In phase 2, all study personnel, with the exception of the interventional neurosurgeons, were blind to the assigned procedure as were the patients.
Sham and Venous Angioplasty
• All endovascular procedures were performed under conscious sedation with local anesthesia. The goal of angioplasty was to restore venous outflow of the stenotic IJVs and azygous vein to <50% of normal proximal venous diameter at the time of intervention. Angioplasty was performed only in the treated, not in the sham arm.
Endpoints and Follow-up Assessment
• Primary endpoints of the study were safety at 24 hours and 1 month, venous outflow restoration of >75% at 1 month compared to baseline, as measured by changes in venous hemodynamic insufficiency severity score (VHISS), and effect of angioplasty on new lesion activity and relapse rate over 6 months. Secondary endpoints included changes in EDSS, brain volume, cognitive tests, and quality of life (QoL), including MS Functional Composite (MSFC) scores.
Screening, randomization, and blinding:
• In total, 15 patients signed informed consent in phase 1 and 30 in phase 2 after prescreening qualification procedures were completed. Of those, 5 in phase 1 and 10 in phase 2 did not fulfill noninvasive screening procedure requirements on duplex examination.
• As preplanned, 10 patients were enrolled in open-label phase 1 and 20 in sham-controlled, randomized, double-blind phase 2. Of those, 1 patient in phase 2 did not fulfill invasive screening criteria for endovascular intervention. Hence, 10 patients in the sham-treatment arm and 9 in the angioplasty-treated arm were randomized to phase 2.
Demographic, hemodynamic, MRI, and clinical characteristics at baseline:
• The sham and angioplasty treatment arms in phase 2 were well matched for various demographic, clinical, and duplex characteristics with no statistically significant between-group differences (Table 1).
Safety and tolerability of treatment procedures:
• All patients in phases 1 and 2 tolerated the endovascular procedure well, and no operative or postoperative complications (vessel rupture, thrombosis, or side effects to contrast media) were identified. No serious adverse events (AEs) weredetected at any time point in phase 1 (Table 2). Half of the patients in phase 1 reported a non-serious AE, but none were related to the treatment procedure (Table 2).
Venous outflow restoration outcomes:
• Venous angioplasty restored venous outflow to at least 50% of normal proximal venous diameter in all phase 1 and 2 patients at the time of intervention.
• In phase 1 (Figure 1), there was significant improvement of VHISS (p<0.0001) over 6-months that resulted in >75% restoration of the venous outflow compared to baseline.
• In phase 2, improvement was observed also in treatment (p=0.02) and sham (p=0.04) arms at month 1 but did not reach >75% restoration of the venous outflow compared to baseline. No differences in VHISS improvement were detected between phase 2 treated and sham groups (p=0.894).
Changes in clinical outcomes:
• No relapses occurred in phase 1. In phase 2, there were 4 relapses in the treated arm (among 3 patients) and 1 in the sham arm (p=0.389). The relapses occurred at 1, 3 (2 relapses), and 6 months in the treated arm and at 5 months in the sham arm.
• In phase 2, no significant within- or between-group changes in EDSS, MSFC, or 6-minute walked distance were detected.
• No significant between-group changes in cognitive and QoL outcomes were detected in phase 2 patients.
Changes in MRI outcomes:
• Table 3 and Figure 2 show changes in MRI measures in the PREMiSe study over 6 months.
• This is the first double-blind, sham-controlled, randomized trial evaluating PTVA to address CCSVI in patients with MS.
• We found that the procedure was not associated with any serious AEs.
• However, it failed to provide any sustained improvement in venous outflow as measured through duplex and/or clinical and MRI outcomes.
• To the contrary, more sizable change in venous outflow was associated with increased disease activity primarily noted on MRI.
• This study was a limited pilot trial, the results of which caution against widespread adoption of venous angioplasty in the management of patients with MS outside of rigorous clinical trials.
• It also provides validation for conduct of sham-controlled, double-blind trials in the evaluation of novel interventions in complex diseases.
1. Zamboni P, Galeotti R, Menegatti E, et al. Chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency in patients with multiple sclerosis. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2009;80:392-9.
2. Zamboni P, Galeotti R, Menegatti E, et al. A prospective open-label study of endovascular treatment of chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency. J Vasc Surg 2009;50:1348-58 e1-3.
3. Ludyga T, Kazibudzki M, Simka M, et al. Endovascular treatment for chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency: is the procedure safe? Phlebology 2010;25:286-95.
4. Mandato KD, Hegener PF, Siskin GP, et al. Safety of endovascular treatment of chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency: a report of 240 patients with multiple sclerosis. J Vasc Interv Radiol 2012;23:55-9.
5. Hubbard D, Ponec D, Gooding J, Saxon R, Sauder H, Haacke M. Clinical improvement after extracranial venoplasty in multiple sclerosis. J Vasc Interv Radiol 2012;23:1302-8.
6. Petrov I, Grozdinski L, Kaninski G, Iliev N, Iloska M, Radev A. Safety profile of endovascular treatment for chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency in patients with multiple sclerosis. J Endovasc Ther 2011;18:314-23.
7. Salvi F, Bartolomei I, Buccellato E, Galeotti R, Zamboni P. Venous angioplasty in multiple sclerosis: neurological outcome at two years in a cohort of relapsing-remitting patients. Funct Neurol 2012;27:55-9.
8. Zamboni P, Galeotti R, Weinstock-Guttman B, Kennedy C, Salvi F, Zivadinov R. Venous angioplasty in patients with multiple sclerosis: results of a pilot study. Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg 2012;43:116-22.
9. Alroughani R, Lamdhade S, Thussu A. Endovascular Treatment of Chronic Cerebro-Spinal Venous Insufficiency in Multiple Sclerosis: A retrospective study. Int J Neurosci 2013 (DOI 10.3109/00207454.2012.759569).
Study disclosure:
• The authors declare that their study was funded with internal resources of the Buffalo Neuroimaging Analysis Center, Jacobs MS Comprehensive and Research Center, University at Buffalo.
In addition, they received support from the Direct MS Foundation, Kaleida-Health, Volcano, ev3, Codman, the Jacquemin Foundation, and from minor donors.
Potential Conflict of Interest:
• Yuval Karmon, Yu Jinhee, Karen Marr, Vesela Valnarov, Cheryl Kennedy, Deepa P. Ramasamy, Kresimir Dolic, Ellen Carl, Michael G. Dwyer and Niels Bergsland have nothing to disclose.
• Adnan H. Siddiqui has received research grants from the National Institutes of Health and the University at Buffalo (Research Development Award); holds financial interests in Hotspur, Intratech Medical, StimSox, and Valor Medical; serves as a consultant to Codman & Shurtleff, Inc., Concentric Medical, ev3/Covidien Vascular Therapies, GuidePoint Global Consulting, and Penumbra; belongs to the speakers' bureaus of Codman & Shurtleff, Inc. and Genentech. He serves on an advisory board for Codman & Shurtleff; and has received honoraria from Abbott Vascular, American Association of Neurological Surgeons' courses, an emergency medicine conference, Genentech, Neocure Group LLC.
• Robert Zivadinov received personal compensation from Teva Pharmacuticals, Biogen Idec, EMD Serono, Bayer, Genzyme-Sanofi, Novartis, Bracco and Questcor Pharmaceuticals for speaking and consultant fees. He received financial support for research activities from Biogen Idec, Teva Pharmaceuticals, Genzyme-Sanofi, Novartis, Bracco, Questcor Pharmaceuticals and EMD Serono.
• Ralph RHB Benedict received research support from Biogen Idec and Shire Inc, and serves on advisory panels for Bayer, Biogen, Novartis, and Actelion.
• Murali Ramanathan received research funding or consulting fees from EMD Serono, Biogen Idec, Allergan, Netezza, Pfizer, Novartis, the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, the Department of Defense, Jog for the Jake Foundation, the National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation. He received compensation for serving as an Editor from the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists. These are unrelated to the research presented in this report.
• David Hojnacki has received speaker honoraria and consultant fees from Biogen Idec, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., EMD Serono, Pfizer Inc, and Novartis.
• L. Nelson Hopkins received grant/research support from St. Jude Medical and Toshiba; serves as a consultant to Abbott, Boston Scientific,* Cordis, Micrus, and W. L. Gore; holds a financial interest in AccessClosure, Augmenix, Boston Scientific,* Claret Medical Inc., Micrus, and Valor Medical; has a board/trustee/officer position with AccessClosure and Claret Medical Inc.; belongs to the Abbott Vascular speakers' bureau; and receives honoraria from Boston Scientific,* Cleveland Clinic, Complete Conference Management, Cordis, SCAI, University of Southern California, and VIVA Physicians. (*Boston Scientific's neurovascular business has been acquired by Stryker)
• Elad I. Levy received research grant support (principal investigator: Stent-assisted Recanalization in acute Ischemic Stroke, SARIS), other research support (devices), and honoraria from Boston Scientific* and research support from Codman & Shurtleff, Inc. and ev3/Covidien Vascular Therapies; has ownership interests in Intratech Medical Ltd. and Mynx/Access Closure; serves as a consultant on the board of Scientific Advisors to Codman & Shurtleff, Inc.; serves as a consultant per project and/or per hour for Codman & Shurtleff, Inc., ev3/Covidien Vascular Therapies, and TheraSyn Sensors, Inc.; and receives fees for carotid stent training from Abbott Vascular and ev3/Covidien Vascular Therapies. Dr. Levy receives no consulting salary arrangements. All consulting is per project and/or per hour. (*Boston Scientific's neurovascular business has been acquired by Stryker.)
• Bianca Weinstock-Guttman received personal compensation for consulting, speaking and serving on a scientific advisory board for Biogen Idec, Teva Neuroscience and EMD Serono, Pfizer, Genzyme& Sanofi, Acorda, Questcor. She also received financial support for research activities from NMSS, NIH, ITN, Teva Neuroscience, Biogen Idec, EMD Serono, Aspreva, Novartis, Acorda.
Table 1 Legend:
Abbreviations: PREMiSe=Prospective Randomized Endovascular therapy in Multiple Sclerosis; SD=standard deviation; RR=relapsing-remitting; RP=relapsing-progressive.
SP=secondary-progressive; PR=progressive relapsing; DMT=disease-modifying therapy, EDSS=Expanded Disability Status Scale; MSFC=Multiple Sclerosis Functional Composite; CCSVI=chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency; VH=venous hemodynamic; VHISS=venous hemodynamic insufficiency severity score
*p value represents statistical analysis between sham and treated arms of phase 2. Analysis between these groups was performed by using chi-square test, Student's t-test, and Mann-Whitney rank sum test, as appropriate.
Table 2 Legend:
Abbreviations: PREMiSe=Prospective Randomized Endovascular therapy in Multiple Sclerosis; AE=adverse events, UTI=urinary tract infection
AEs are listed in chronological order with individual AEs assigned an increasing number.
Legend Table 3
· Abbreviations: MRI=magnetic resonance imaging, PREMiSe=Prospective Randomized Endovascular therapy in Multiple Sclerosis; SD=standard deviation; LV=lesion volume; CE=contrast-enhancing; sum=total number, PBVC=percentage brain volume change; GMVC=gray matter volume change; WMVC=white matter volume change
· *p value represents statistical analysis between sham and treated arms of phase 2. The analysis between these groups was performed by using Student's t-test.
· Statistical analyses between phase 2 sham and treated arms were also adjusted for age, sex, disease duration, relapse rate in the year prior to study entry, and number of CE lesions at baseline. No significant differences were found between these arms, except for T2-LV % change (p=0.05).
· Of the 5 patients with active MS assigned to the treated arm in phase 2, cumulative numbers of CE lesions per patient over 6 months were as follows: 9, 5, 3, 1, and 1 (respectively. In the sham arm, one patient had 2 CE lesions and one had 1.
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Siddiqui A, Zivadinov R, Benedict R, Karmon Y et al. Percutaneous transluminal venous angioplasty (PTVA) is ineffective in correcting chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency (CCSVI) and may increase multiple sclerosis (MS) disease activity in the short term: safety and efficacy results of the 6-month, double-blinded, shame-controlled, prospective, randomized endovascular therapy in MS (PREMiSe) trial. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology, March, 2013.
As the first trial of venoplasty in MS that was randomized and double-blinded including sham treatment, it is important to analyze whether the method and analysis justify the conclusions. Several questions arise that hopefully will be clarified when Dr. Siddiqui submits the study for journal publication:
1) How was the sham procedure done? Presumably a catheter was inserted, but how far was it advanced, through the internal jugular valves, into the azygos vein? How long was it left in place?
2) The inclusion criteria for pre-venoplasty diameter measured by IVUS was a reduction of ≥50%. Post-venoplasty diameter restored to at least 50% of normal proximal venous diameter. . A table should provide the actual diameters and an analysis of whether the restorations were significant, e.g. is a change from 49% to 51 % meaningful?
3) A venous hemodynamic insufficiency severity score was calculated to determine flow change over time and between groups. How was this calculated? A table presenting this data would be helpful. A statistically significant (p<0.0001) improvement from baseline to 1,3, and 6 months (combined) was found for the open-label group, but not for the treatment and sham groups (p=0.894). It would be interesting to know whether the change in vein diameter measured by IVUS correlated with the change in flow measured by the flow change score. Why was flow restoration in the open-label group successful but not in the treatment and sham groups? Were the operators and venoplasty method the same?
4) There were no statistically significant differences between the treatment and sham groups in MS relapses (p=0.389) and MRI lesion counts (p=0.81,0.5 and 0.079, Fig. 2). These results do not justify the conclusion the venoplasty "may increase MS disease activity in the short term." No data is presented to support the conclusion that "more sizable change in venous outflow was associated with increased disease activity primarily noted on MRI."
5) The poster concluded that venoplasty "failed to provide any sustained improvement in venous outflow as measured through duplex and/or clinical and MRI outcomes." Since the study's objective hypothesized that correction of venous flow would improve MS, why would MS improvements be expected if venous flow was not?
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Aviointeriors of Litina, Italy, garnered scads of attention and incredulous crowds at this week's Aircraft Interiors Expo in Long Beach, Calif. Few attendees could walk by the company's booth without doing a double take, then gingerly planting his or her posterior on the SkyRider ultra-high-density seat. See the Skyrider seat on YouTube.
The General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) has opened its membership to include non-U.S. manufacturers. Although the announcement is not altogether surprising, it represents a major change for the association and its future influence in the worldwide business aviation community.
General aviation manufacturers continue to show steady growth in deliveries and backlogs. According to the General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA), airframe builders delivered 2,842 piston and turbine airplanes in the first nine months of this year-nearly 19 percent more than the 2,391 shipments made in the same period last year.


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NuStar Energy L.PDividend Yield: 10.60% NuStar Energy L.P (NYSE: NS) shares currently have a dividend yield of 10.60%. NuStar Energy L.P. engages in the terminalling, storage, and transportation of petroleum products primarily in the United States and the Netherlands. The company operates in three segments: Storage, Transportation, and Asphalt and Fuels Marketing. The company has a P/E ratio of 79.35. The average volume for NuStar Energy L.P has been 329,800 shares per day over the past 30 days. NuStar Energy L.P has a market cap of $3.2 billion and is part of the energy industry. Shares are down 2.9% year to date as of the close of trading on Thursday. TheStreet Ratings rates NuStar Energy L.P as a hold. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its compelling growth in net income and impressive record of earnings per share growth. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including a generally disappointing performance in the stock itself and poor profit margins. Highlights from the ratings report include:
- The net income growth from the same quarter one year ago has significantly exceeded that of the S&P 500 and the Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels industry. The net income increased by 113.4% when compared to the same quarter one year prior, rising from -$246.74 million to $32.97 million.
- NUSTAR ENERGY LP reported significant earnings per share improvement in the most recent quarter compared to the same quarter a year ago. This company has reported somewhat volatile earnings recently. But, we feel it is poised for EPS growth in the coming year. During the past fiscal year, NUSTAR ENERGY LP swung to a loss, reporting -$2.79 versus $2.79 in the prior year. This year, the market expects an improvement in earnings ($1.11 versus -$2.79).
- NS, with its very weak revenue results, has greatly underperformed against the industry average of 10.1%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues plummeted by 52.5%. The declining revenue has not hurt the company's bottom line, with increasing earnings per share.
- The gross profit margin for NUSTAR ENERGY LP is rather low; currently it is at 15.52%. Regardless of NS's low profit margin, it has managed to increase from the same period last year. Despite the mixed results of the gross profit margin, the net profit margin of 3.64% trails the industry average.
- NS has underperformed the S&P 500 Index, declining 20.82% from its price level of one year ago. Looking ahead, other than the push or pull of the broad market, we do not see anything in the company's numbers that may help reverse the decline experienced over the past 12 months. Despite the past decline, the stock is still selling for more than most others in its industry.
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Our Vision: To attract, gather, and inspire a tribe of like-minded chiropractors, providing them with the necessary resources to build practices and lives that are truly successful, rewarding, and personally fulfilling.
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Our goal is to attract a tribe of like-minded chiropractors who have already achieved some success, and are now looking to play a bigger role in positively influencing the lives of others.
We come together to learn, share, grow, shed, experience, emote, change, evolve, blend, adapt, laugh, and express –until we become agents of change for ourselves and others as well.
Our current members are committed to the concepts and visions described on this website.
Please go to the Membership Services page and see an amazing list of the services we offer our members.
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Dr. Rick Markson
Dr. Rick Markson is a second generation chiropractor with eighteen years of experience in chiropractic practice and consulting. He is the founder of Markson Chiropractic, Inc., a high volume, multi-doctor practice in Plantation, Florida. Markson Chiropractic is known throughout Broward County as a leader in the technology of health care, offering the community various techniques and procedures to assist in the care of patients of all ages.
Throughout his tenure in Plantation, Dr. Markson has spoken to hundreds of audiences on chiropractic, natural healing, back safety, injury prevention, children's health, stress, peak performance, and motivation. He was the first chiropractic speaker for the Arthritis Foundation in South Florida on alternative healthcare and has spoken and written for various support groups. He continues to assist patients with living a healthier and more fulfilled life.
Dr. Markson is a past president of the Broward County Chiropractic Society and is a recipient of The Master Circle's most prestigious International Chiropractor of the Year award in 2003. In 2001, he was the Chiropractor of the Month for the Chiropractic Leadership Alliance. He has been published in various local magazines as well as the largest chiropractic publications in the nation.
Within the past decade, Dr. Markson expanded to three practices and has since sold the two newer practices in order to focus on the founding partnership in The Markson Connection, a chiropractic coaching and seminar company with members throughout the U.S., Canada and Europe.
Dr. Markson's vision continues to help patients and chiropractors to live their dream lives.
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Dr. Brett Axelrod is founder and director of Elmsford Chiropractic Health & Wellness Center, a family practice in Elmsford, N.Y. During his twenty years in practice, he has remained active in the community. He is the past president of the Elmsford Rotary Club, and has lectured extensively to companies such as Ciba Chemical, Hitachi, Avon, Akzo Chemical, Texaco, Crown Plaza Management, and many others.
His lectures have been on topics as diverse as peak performance and Wellness, improvement of ergonomic workstations, stress reduction, injury prevention and improving job productivity. In addition, he is a certified chiropractic sports physician and has worked extensively with professional athletes, including a position as former team physician for the Westchester Stallions of the United States Basketball League.
Dr. Axelrod also coaches and consults other chiropractors, and is a partner and speaker for the Markson Connection. Prior to founding his own consulting company, he was a past consultant and speaker for The Masters Circle. Dr. Axelrod earned the prestigious Professional Certified Coach designation from Coach University.
He built a high volume multi-doctor practice that runs like a Swiss watch, earning him recognition as Chiropractor of the Year in 1999. A popular and entertaining speaker, his colorful application of sports metaphors and principles make him an outstanding and productive coach. Dr. Axelrod knows the value of hard work and high standards, and brings passion and exuberance to everything he does, both in his practice and in his interaction with our members.
Dr. Larry MarksonDr. Larry Markson, Personal Empowerment, Practice & Business Success and Prosperity Coach to countless thousands of people has devoted his professional life to helping others transform their thoughts, actions and feelings so they are able to experience the fulfillment of their life's goals.
Larry graduated Valedictorian of the BJ Palmer Memorial Class in 1961 and received the first Palmer COLLEGE of Chiropractic diploma ever issued by Palmer.
In 1965, along with chiropractic icons, Drs. Reggie Gold and Fred Barge he received the last Ph.C. degree ever issued by Palmer.
For the first 19 years of his career Larry was a practicing Doctor of Chiropractic who owned a high volume, extremely successful, multi-doctor facility – the Queens Chiropractic Center in Flushing, New York.
In 1980, after a career ending injury he founded Markson Management Services, a "strategy-based" practice management and coaching firm for Chiropractors. MMS gained national recognition for the results they achieved in helping thousands of DC's to build better practices.
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The iPhone 5 We Wish Was Coming Later This Year
Dakota Adney's concept of the next iPhone 5 proposes the idea of a completely transparent screen, an "iClear Retina display". The Instagram snapshot moment is especially convincing for framing photos. It's not real...but I sure wish it was after watching his concept video...
Clearly amazing. The quad-core A5 chip delivers even more power. The laser projection keyboard liberates your thumbs. The new iClear Retina display presents sharp graphics and stunning images. iOS 6 will take your iPhone experience in an entirely new direction. And if there's anything else you need, just ask Siri.
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That would be cool for about five minutes, and from then on incredibly annoying.
I don't see it. Case makers would revolt...
That, and I'm not sure how having my hand and other things in the background makes reading a book a good experience...
I'm not really getting the camera thing, either. Obviously, the whole back of the phone is not a camera, so there must be some other camera lens in there, in which case, it can just display what the lens is seeing on the front screen of the phone anyhow...
It would be an interesting product but would have to go undergo serious real world testing. The iPhones are not that fragile but they are still glass. You have to be careful. I've always used a case for mine because I know it just takes a bad bounce on a hard surface to chip a corner.
I have to agree with the previous commenters - this would not improve usability, especially if you use your phone to read things that are longer than a text message. If my phone had this feature I'd use it once or twice and then be done with it, like most novelty apps. Nice video production though - if the filmmaker is putting this out with the hope that Apple will see it and hire him, I wish him the best of luck :)
I hope if iPhone 5 is going to look transparent, the engineers should be smart enough to create some sort of back drop to make reading emails easier. It's pretty cool!! Now, I wonder what 5S would be like...
That is really silly, where would all the hardware be?
Yeeeeeah, NO.
Cool to glance at, sucky to actually use. I often read and write business emails on my iPhone; for that, and a lot of other uses, opacity is our friend.
So where does the battery, memory, processor etc go?
"The iPhone We Wish Were Coming This Year." The verb "wish" requires the subjunctive case. "I wish I were in her shoes." "If I were you..." "It is required that we be on time." These are all examples of the subjunctive case.
Proper use of the subjunctive case is one of those small distinctions that make a large difference, in the same way that sterling silver has an effect that silverplate cannot replicate.
*Sorry, in rewriting that last sentence several times to get it right, I missed changing "make" to "makes." Boy, I wish we could edit our posts for at least three minutes after we make them.


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Sometime in the next couple of months, in a yet-to-be disclosed courthouse somewhere in the United States, the Nonhuman Rights Project is planning to file a writ of habeas corpus on behalf of a chimpanzee. In what will be the first of a series of similar legal actions, the project will be asking the court to rule that the chimp has the legal right to bodily liberty and to order her released from her cage and moved to a cage-less sanctuary.
In this episode of the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we talk with pioneering animal rights lawyer Steven M. Wise, president of the Nonhuman Rights Project, author of four books about animal rights, and lecturer at several law schools. Wise talks about the forthcoming habeas case, about why he believes the law should treat sentient animals as persons rather than things, and about his project's long-term plans for battling for animal rights.
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The Metropolitan Grill
- Address:
1190 Auraria Pkwy
Suite B
Denver, CO 80204Neighborhood:
Downtown / LoDo
- Cuisine:
AmericanPrice: $30 and under
The Metropolitan Grill
- Dining Style: Casual Dining
- Website: http://www.msudenver.edu/hospitality/themetropolitangrill/
- Phone: 3035566824
- Hours of Operation:
Lunch: Monday - Thursday: 11:00am - 12:30pm
- Payment Options: Discover,MasterCard,Visa
- Cuisine: European, American
- Dress Code: Casual Dress
- Accepts Walk-Ins: Yes
- Additional Details: Banquet/Private Rooms, Cafe, Chef's Table, Counter Seating, Patio/Outdoor Dining
Getting there
- Cross Street: Speer
- Public Transit: The Metropolitan is located at the southern corner of Auraria and Speer. Bus stops include: Blake & 14th Market & 14th Larimer & 12th Auraria & 9th Lightrail stops include: Pepsi Center/Elitch Gardens Station Colfax at Auraria Station
- Parking: Valet
- Parking Details: MSU Denver Students and Faculty can park with the SpringHill Suites by Marriott Valet for $8. There is also parking to the west in the Tivoli parking garage at 9th and Auraria.
A word from The Metropolitan Grill
The Metropolitan is a restaurant run by students of the Hospitality Tourism and Events Department at Metropolitan State University. This restaurant resides in MSU Denver's new Hospitality Learning Center and is a learning environment providing a real world experience for aspiring hospitality majors. The restaurant is managed and operated during class hours and during traditional semesters. Consequently we may be open for 12 consecutive weeks and closed for a period of time between semesters. We are excited to provide our students with an opportunity to show the public what they have learned and what they can do. We welcome you to come join us and be a part of the learning experience of future hospitality leaders.Continued
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- Great lunchMoreThanSustenanceDined on 5/1/2014This was an outstanding dining experience. The student chefs created wonderful mains. Everyone in my party of five was excited about the meals they got. The desserts were scrumptious. We all left wishing the grill was open more often.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Lunch with the girls!KLLKDined on 4/8/2014We had a very nice lunch, large portions! The location was a little difficult to find parking, we used the valet for $8 at the Marriott next door, there are two menus based on the day of the week. Next time I will pick the day based on the menu.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Fantastic!OpenTable Diner Since 2009Dined on 3/13/2014Everything about lunch at the Metropolitan Grill was wonderful! Great menu! Try the house made sparkling flavored sodas. Great service!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- EXCELLENT Business Lunchwgallag1Dined on 2/27/2014Our dept. had an out-of-town visitor, and recent lunches @ Cimarron café (Tivoli) were truly awful, & Brooklyn's was just average, so I thought I'd take a chance. Open Table res. was very easy. The M.G. is SO much nicer than I expected, food was amazing & veeeery inexpensive. (It was Thursday - the higher-end menu) My guest claimed it was "the BEST lunch he'd EVER had on the road". We ordered 3 first courses instead of main course: veg. chowder, wilted greens w/ bacon, grilled trout, dessert & coffee. (Service slowed down a bit at the end, I think because we took too long chatting and the class was ending so the student chefs & servers were eating at the bar and packing up.) I will be back soon -- hopefully it's as good the 2nd time!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Great valueNateDined on 2/27/2014The Metropolitan grill is such a great find! They are open for lunch and it is good! Really great food prepared by great students.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.


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98 Great Finds
See why Pittsburgh is such a fantastic shopping destination as 98 great finds for spring are uncovered.
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Navigating the city's retail spots is a wonderfully endless journey of discovery. From the oh-so-fabulous jeans to a funkier-than-thou fedora, fashion and style editor Reese Randall uncovered the finds of the season.
In creating this list of 98 great finds for spring, she confirmed that, indeed, Pittsburgh is a shopper's destination. There are new boutiques, classic galleries and shopping meccas, all brimming with the latest consumer goods.
Reese shares her shopping-spree experience, driving from neighborhood to neighborhood, unearthing treasures you might not have thought existed.
Reese's shopping excursion started at Best Made Shoes on Liberty Avenue in Bloomfield and ended at Anthropologie at Galleria in Mount Lebanon. In between, she visited Original Cin and Torque Denim on East Carson Street in the South Side and headed west to Joseph-Beth Booksellers.And that was just day one. There would be three more days.
Finally, a shop-happy Reese prevailed. Following is her fabulous list of the best 98 things for your home, wardrobe and lifestyle this spring.
1) ...is how one adoring customer described the "Orb of Power" necklace ($350) by designer Robert Hallett of Robert Hallett Goldsmiths. Made of fine silver with a never-tarnishing matte finish, the ball hangs from a silver coil.
Make Them Melt
2) Slip into a butter brocade cocktail dress ($1,815) by Kevan Hall for a night on the town. Available at Linda Bucci.
The Little Blue Dress
3) Although always in style, the little black dress makes way this spring for the blue slip-dress ($820) with skinny straps by Lida Baday. Available at Victoria.
Juicy Find
4) A major score is a denim jacket ($14.50) by Juicy Jeans, found at Avalon Exchange (recycle, trade, sell or buy clothing), where this jean jewel was a steal.
Jean Therapy
5) Slip into a versatile pair of Japanese denim jeans ($250) by Fortune Denim with Swarovski-crystal trimmed buttons; available at Torque Denim.
6) Mainline jeans with a ribboned back pocket ($198) by Lily Pulitzer; available at Gals on and off the Green.
7) Stretch jeans with sand-washing technique ($139) by Christopher Blue; available at Capriccio.
Goody-Goody Gumdrop
8) With hand-embellished Swarovski crystal detailing, bottle-cap closure and rubber handle, the Super Flair gumdrop purse ($210) by Littlearth is a sweet indulgence. Available at Roberta Weissburg Leathers.
Specs of Chocolate
9) Chocolate-brown sunglasses ($48) by A.J. Morgan are made for looking deliciously cool in the sun. Available at Anthropologie.
Fit to Be Tied
10) Lace up a pair of red-and-orange walkabouts ($78) by Marimekko and let the energy fuel your sole. Available at Anthropologie.
Hail, Caesar
11) An oval smoky-quartz ring set in rose gold ($1,775) from the Butter Collection by Caesar Azzam of Caesar's Designs Jewelry Creations has us calling for him by his first name.
Purrfect Print
12) Animal instincts prevail with a cheetah-print wallet ($30) by Marc Chantal; available at Lucy.
13) Leopard print ballet flats ($59.90) by Steve Madden; available at Ten Toes.
14) Animal-print watches ($55/curved, $85/medium, $65/large) by Jimmy Crystal; available at Debwal.
Sleep-over Essential
15) A must-have for weekend getaways is the Holdall ($89) made of jute and cotton. Available at United Colors of Benetton.
Clean Linen
16) What's not to love about a pair of green linen roll-up pants ($198) and khaki button-down shirt ($156) both by James Perse. 17) Comfortable with a clean silhouette, the seashell medallion necklace ($90) by Maren & Ruby and natural bangle bracelets ($45/ea) make for an easy, natural look. Available at Ona.
Green Piece
18) If there is one piece of green jewelry you should wear for spring—or any season for that matter—make it a pair of 18k noble green-tourmaline dangle earrings ($7,200) by H. Stern. Available at Orr's Jewelers.
Slip of the Wrist
19) Buckle on a smooth leather and silver-braided bracelet ($395) by Elf Craft. Available at Charles Spiegel.
20) Hip design label DSquared2 brings funky fedoras to the scene with a head-turning number with cherry- red leather trim ($295). Available at Moda.


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You remember our pal Rubbers, don't you? Well, in case your memory is becoming a bit Swiss cheese-like, or you are new to Little Rhody, let us fill you in on the travails of this noble servant of the people. In 1990, state senator Ruggerio was arrested in a Cranston CVS store for shoplifting. It seems an employee saw Rubbers stuffing condoms into his socks. Unfortunately, he was not prosecuted, which deprived P+J and a breathless public of what might have been the most entertaining trial in the state's sordid history. Even under this cloud, Rubbers was of course reelected by his loyal constituents in the North End of La Prov.
P+J's only annoyance with "Political Scene" is that the reporters didn't bring up this laughable and lewd story in their piece about him potentially rising to the leadership. Shame on you, Kathy and Randy.
Sleep tight, Roger Williams. And alone, please.
A sad day at Casa Diablo as we learn of the death of Solomon Burke. The big man from West Philly, where P.'s father grew up, sang such classics as "Cry to Me," "If You Need Me" and "Got to Get You Off My Mind." The best way to judge the man's talent is by listening to what his peers in the music industry have had to say about him over the years. They all sung his praises whenever his name came up, calling him one of the best R&B singers in the land — if not the best. He just never achieved the public fame of the singers he inspired, like James Brown and Al Green. The "king of rock and soul" was 70 and the father of 21 children. And we never gave up on you, Solomon.
From the sporting world, a couple of items for your amusement and edification.
First, is Bill Belichick's credibility approaching that of Pentagon p.r. flack? In the wake of the Randy Moss trade, Silent Bill has issued some stock lines about how Moss was no problem and got along fine with each and every one of his Patriot teammates. And when it was reported that Moss actually got into it with Tom Brady in a locker room argument that descended into junior high-level insults, Belichick said he knew nothing about that incident.
Please. You can bet your Gino Capelletti-autographed pigskin that a gold-plated control freak like the Pats head coach knew all about the incident between the two future Hall of Famers and that he also considered Moss a "distraction," which means "loudmouthed pain-in-the-ass diva" in English. Former Pats Tedy Bruschi and Troy Brown have said as much publicly.
Second, although it is now long over, a hard word for Corey Pavin, captain of the US Ryder Cup golf team that lost to Europe awhile back in that showcase event in Wales. Pavin put his wife Lisa in charge of the team's playing and practice apparel. This bit of nepotism resulted in the embarrassing sight of America's finest linksters swanning around Celtic Manor in do-or-die competition wearing totally out-of-place and "Glamour don't" lavender sweaters and striped pants that you wouldn't be caught dead in — even at the Reading Room in Newport.
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NO I am not going to be running a marathon but hopefully I shall be walking 26 miles.
A girlfriend suggested we did another long distance walk together as we enjoyed the Oxfam walk in 2012.
After having a look around I thought we should do The Daffodil Dawdle organised by the LDWA, its starts at Kirtling Village Hall, near Newmarket and the description of the walk is… Through rolling countryside with studs, woodland, arable & pasture on Suffolk/Cambs border.
I have actually done this walk before many many years ago before I met Geoff but I did the shorter route then
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The walk is on March 24th and I hope to have a few 20 mile walks before then


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Here's what you missed on Phil's liveshow (ps. the notes are in order with the pictures)
- Phil said weenie
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- Dinosaurs mating on snapchap (sorry I didn't get a pic)
- He (we) drew Gerald. He's beautiful no?
- He wore that adorable hat and was adorable.
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Chapter 9:
COMMERCIAL FISH AND SHELLFISH HARVESTING (continued)
General Postwar Trends
During the decade following World War II, the number of canneries in lower Cook Inlet remained stable. As they had for the previous two decades, canneries active west of the park were located at Portlock, Port Graham, and Seldovia. East of the park boundaries, the "small, one-line cannery" in Seward changed its name in 1946 (from Hagen and Company to the Resurrection Bay Company), and it changed its ownership in 1950 (from Nils Hagen to Marvin Viale). The cannery, however, continued to operate much as it had since 1937, when the plant had become fully mechanized.
Major changes took place in the area's salmon industry during the postwar period. One discouraging trend was that fishermen, particularly in Resurrection Bay, were overharvesting reds and other salmon species. (In 1947, a Seward entrepreneur backed away from a fisheries venture because he considered "the runs in Resurrection Bay to be too nearly depleted;" the area fisheries agent that year agreed, declaring that the bay's chum run was "used up." [38]) The Seward cannery, desperate to obtain enough fish to sustain operations, began purchasing Copper River salmon, even though (in the government agent's opinion) "some of these fish were, no doubt, taken illegally in [Prince William] Sound...." This practice was already underway by 1944 and continued for several years thereafter. [39]
A second postwar trend that affected canneries was the statehood movement. Prior to World War II, few Alaskans pushed for statehood. The war, however, brought thousands of new residents, an enhanced defense capability, and less dependence on resource-based industries. The canneries were one of the primary interests fighting statehood, but statehood advocates fought back and cited the widely used fish trap as a primary instrument preventing locally-based resource development. The territorial legislature, and Alaska's delegates to Congress, put increasing pressure on the canneries to eliminate fish traps. The canneries stubbornly hung on; they did not abandon fish traps until 1958, the year Congress passed the statehood bill. The continuing pressure, however, resulted in a reduction in the number of fish traps during the 1940s and early 1950s. This de-emphasis on fish traps took place in Lower Cook Inlet, as elsewhere; in order to keep harvest levels at previous levels, more fishing boats were deployed and boats searched ever farther for salmon stocks.
The overharvesting of the red salmon resource (on a territory-wide basis) and the increasing acceptance of pink salmon as a food fish resulted in higher pink and chum salmon prices. That price structure made Port Dick (which during some years was the Cook Inlet district's most highly-productive pink salmon harvest area) and nearby bays increasingly attractive fishing venues. The new price structure, combined with the increasing scarcity of red salmon, also encouraged independent fishers to seek out previously untapped areas. The windswept, stormy stretch of coastline between Gore Point and Resurrection Bay had, as noted above, been only lightly utilized prior to the mid-1940s. During the next decade, however, an increasing number of fishers explored the area for the first time.
Fishing in Park Waters: The Laissez Faire Period, 1946-1954
The first postwar harvesting of park waters took place in 1946 in Statistical Area 44 (see Table 9-1). This stretch of coastline runs between Gore Point and the Pye Islands; it encompasses both Nuka Bay and Nuka Island. Fish and Wildlife Service records indicate that 2,513 pinks and 75 chums were caught there that year; the number of pinks was some 0.3 percent of the Cook Inlet total, while the chum harvest was less than 0.1 percent of the total number caught in the Cook Inlet district. Records do not indicate specifically who caught these fish. It appears, however, that Pete Sather, who worked that year as an independent purse seiner for the Resurrection Bay Company, harvested a majority of the pink salmon and almost all of the chums in that area. (Sather also worked elsewhere, most probably in the Port Dick-Windy Bay area.) [40]
Table 9-1. Harvest Data for Statistical Area 44, 1944-1950
In 1944, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service divided the Cook Inlet Management District into statistical harvest areas. Six statistical areas comprised the waters of present-day Kenai Fjords National Park. Area 44 included the inner waters from Point Gore to the Pye Islands; Area 45 included the outer waters in that area. Area 46 included the inner waters from the Pye Islands to the east side of Two Arm Bay, Area 47 the outer islands. Area 48 included the inner waters from the east side of Two Arm Bay to Aialik Cape, Area 49 the outer waters.
For Area 44, which included the waters surrounding Nuka Island and the waters of Nuka Bay, the harvests in the following table were recorded from 1944 through 1950. For areas 45 through 49, the Fish and Wildlife Service tabulated no harvest during this seven-year period. The agency did not provide data for these areas after 1950.
NOTE: "% of CIH" is the percentage of the total Cook Inlet harvest (for that species) that was caught in Statistical Area 44.
* - The 1949 total includes 151 reds. The harvest total includes 6,891 pinks reported in the Cook Inlet report; the remaining harvest, which came from "Nuka Bay," was processed by the Resurrection Bay (Seward) cannery and was reported in the Central District (Prince William Sound) report.
Source: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Cook Inlet Annual Management Report, various issues.
In 1947 no commercial harvests were recorded in park waters, perhaps because even-year runs in adjacent areas had proven to be far stronger than odd-year runs. The following year, however, commercial fishermen returned to Area 44 and harvested 7,918 pinks, 109 chums, and 52 cohos. Although Pete Sather may have harvested a portion of the area's catch, the only known fisher there that year was Alfred A. Anahonak, a 30-year-old "private operator" (that is, an independent fisherman) from Port Graham. Anahonak's possession of a fishing boat represented a new trend among area residents. Subsistence expert Ronald Stanek has noted that before World War II, residents were "limited to set netting, working for the canneries, and utilizing wild resources for subsistence purposes. Since then, Port Graham fishermen have acquired their own drift and seine boats...." [41]
In 1949, fishers again ventured out to Area 44 and gathered far more fish than they had in previous years. Fish and Wildlife Service figures indicate a total harvest of 36,761 pinks, 5,200 chums, 151 reds, and 37 cohos. The Area 44 pink harvest that year was a surprising 8.5 percent of the Cook Inlet total; the chum haul was large too, totaling 2.2 percent of the Cook Inlet catch. The harvest was notable for another reason; it was the first year that a red salmon harvest had been recorded in the area. In 1950, fishers returned to Area 44 and harvested 1,857 chum salmon (5.2% of the Cook Inlet chum catch) along with 1,760 pink salmon. Commercial fishers, it appeared, had "discovered" the park's waters. The only park area in which fishers had shown an interest, however, was Area 44 (west of the Pye Islands), along with the Bear Glacier area. [42] The long stretch of coastline between McArthur Pass and Aialik Cape was still untouched.
During this period, "Herring Pete" Sather (according to admittedly inexact records) spent much of the fishing season working in the Port Dick area or in other areas outside park waters. Others, therefore, fished the Nuka Bay area to an increasing degree. Alfred Anahonak, noted above, was one early harvester. Others may have been a quartet of Seward fishers named Bill Bern, Glen Hammersly, Freddy Blosso, and Charles Peterson. According to Seward Shea, a longtime Seward resident, the four men worked on the purse seiner Marathon. One day, "Herring Pete" told them that the fish were jumping in Nuka Bay. The bay at that time, however, was a hazardous place to reach; McArthur Pass was often impassable because floating ice was dangerous to the wooden boats then in use. Because the McCarty Glacier face was not far north of James Lagoon, additional ice lay in the southern reaches of Nuka Bay. Despite those dangers, the four successfully fished the bay, and their success brought others in their wake. [43]
As noted above, 137 red salmon were harvested in Area 44 in 1949. This harvest, small though it was, was significant inasmuch as these were the first red salmon caught in park waters by commercial fishers. The existence of a red salmon population in the bay indicated that the glaciers had retreated enough to support a biologically active lake-and-river system where reds could spawn and migrate. The McCarty Glacier face, during the early years of the century, had connected James Lagoon on the west with McCarty Lagoon on the east; and to the north, the upland areas on both sides of the glacier were glaciated as well. Between 1920 and 1925, however, the glacier's eastern side had melted to the point that Delight Lake was formed, and between 1935 and 1940 a new water body, Desire Lake, emerged to the north. If it is assumed that the red salmon harvested in 1949 came from the Delight Lake system (the most logical location for them), then the time lapse between the lake's emergence from the ice and its ability to support a red salmon run was less than thirty years. This is a remarkably quick recovery, considering the biological complexities involved. [44]
Another sockeye run that began during this period took place in Aialik Bay. Longtime resident Seward Shea recalls that the run, which spawns in Addison Lake above Pederson Lagoon, was discovered by Seward resident Henry Larson, known locally as "Henry the Bear." In either the late 1940s or early 1950s, Larson entered the bay in search of platinum float. He built a small prospecting shack and used it as a base camp. His prospecting venture failed but he found salmon by the hundreds. Using a gill net, which he stretched between an island (perhaps Slate Island) and the mainland, he harvested $6500 worth of sockeyes. Soon after Larson returned to the dock, news of the find spread to Shea and other Seward fishermen. Many of the other fishers made their own investigation and returned there in later years. Government fisheries agents, however, did not learn about the Aialik red run until the late 1950s. [45]
Pete Sather, a Nuka Island resident since the mid-1920s, not only fished Nuka Bay's salmon, but as an incident during the early 1950s shows, he claimed to have single-handedly started a run of his own. As part of his fox farming operation, he consistently cleaned the pink salmon he harvested in a stream that previously, in Sather's opinion, had had no salmon in it. (This stream was probably adjacent to his cookhouse, which was not far from his residence.) By the early 1950s, the stream supported a significant pink salmon population. Other fishers discovered the run and attempted to harvest the resource. Pete, however, resisted; he reasoned that he had single-handedly created the run and should therefore have proprietary rights over the salmon. He took his case to the courthouse in Anchorage; the court, however, ruled against him. [46]
As noted above, management of park waters during the late 1940s was ostensibly under the purview of the Cook Inlet District. The small harvest level, however, incited no interest from federal fisheries authorities; they may have ignored the area because, to some degree, the park's waters were being fished out of Seward, which was in the Central (Prince William Sound) District, headquartered in Cordova. In early 1951, management of the Resurrection Bay fishery shifted from the Central District to the Cook Inlet District. For the next several years after that boundary change, annual reports continued to overlook fishing activity in park waters. (Jim Branson, who worked as a Fish and Wildlife Service stream guard at Port Dick in 1952, perhaps summed up the agency's attitude toward the area when he mentioned, in a recent interview, that the agency ignored the coast east of Gore Point because there was "not much of a resource out there.") In all probability, a small number of commercial fishermen continued to venture to Nuka Bay, [47] but as one old-timer noted, "population levels [of fish were] hammered there because there was no enforcement." Fisheries managers continued to ignore the area until 1953, when "numerous air and foot surveys were conducted in the lower inlet...." That effort, which included "all important pink and chum streams south of Kachemak Bay," included a cursory survey of Nuka Island streams. Fisheries personnel probably ignored other Nuka Bay sites. [48]
As noted earlier, one of the two major reasons that Nuka Bay and other pink- and chum-producing areas became popular between the late 1940s and the mid-1950s was because of increasing price levels. Before 1940, prices for the two species were so low that they were incidental fish; that is, they were caught by fishers who were searching for other, more highly valued species. By 1942, the price of the two species had risen to 6-1/2-8-1/2 cents apiece; five years later, pinks sold for 11 cents while chums sold for 15-1/2 cents. Based on those prices, Cook Inlet canneries typically processed 40,000 cases of pinks and 30,000 cases of chums each year. But after 1950, prices on both species rose substantially; in 1952, for example, pinks sold for 30 to 40 cents apiece while chums were worth 40 to 50 cents. As a result, fishing boats sought to catch an increasing number of pinks and chums during the 1950s. [49]
Rising price factors, however, do not fully explain why interest in the Nuka Bay area skyrocketed in the mid-1950s. The other causative factor was availability. Statistics from Cook Inlet show that during the 1946-1951 period, both total catch levels (expressed in number of fish) and fishing effort (expressed in gear-unit days) rose steadily. From 1951 to 1957, however, both of these figures declined. It became increasingly clear that the streams that had traditionally provided large pink salmon returnsthe Talachulitna River (a tributary of the Susitna), the Kenai River and other streams flowing into the northern and central portions of Cook Inletwere being overharvested. As a result, canneries eagerly sought out alternative locations. The Outer District, which stretched from Point Adam (near Portlock) to Aialik Cape (see Map 9-3), contained many productive pink and chum runs; not surprisingly, therefore, the park waters and other Outer District streams became increasingly important during this period (see Tables 9-2 and 9-3). Based on the contributions of Outer District streams and those in other newly-harvested locations, the volume of fish caught in the Cook Inlet administrative district rose again by the late 1950s and continued to rise for years thereafter. [50]
Table 9-2. Outer District (of Cook Inlet) Salmon Harvest, 1954-1995
Figures given are number of fish, while percentages are those of the entire Lower Cook Inlet catch. The Outer District goes from Point Adam (south of Port Graham, on Kenai Peninsula's southwestern tip) to Bear Glacier (at the southwestern end of Resurrection Bay). Source: ADF&G, Cook Inlet Finfish Report, 1976-1977, Table 16; and ADF&G, Lower Cook Inlet Finfish, Annual Management Report, 1995, Appendix Table 8.
An asterisk (*) signifies a percentage less than 0.1%. In regards to king salmon, a number sign (#) is used because no attempt was made to compute percentages. The number of kings harvested is relatively small; the number harvested in all of Lower Cook Inlet has never exceeded 2,000 per year, and in most years commercial fishers harvested fewer than 500.
Table 9-3. Eastern District (of Cook Inlet) Salmon Harvest, 1954-1995
Figures given are number of fish, while percentages are those of the entire LOWER Cook Inlet catch. An asterisk (*) signifies a percentage less than 0.1%. The Eastern District extends from Bear Glacier (at the southwestern end of Resurrection Bay) east to Cape Fairfield (between Whidbey and Johnstone bays). Source: ADF&G, Cook Inlet Finfish Report, 1976-1977, Table 18; and ADF&G, Lower Cook Inlet Finfish, Annual Management Report, 1995, Appendix Table 9.
An asterisk (*) signifies a percentage less than 0.1%. In regards to king salmon, no attempt was made to compute percentages. A number sign (#) is used because the number of kings harvested is relatively small: the Lower Cook Inlet harvest has never exceeded 2,000 per year, and in most years is fewer than 500.
The Onset of Regulation, 1955-1959
The Fish and Wildlife Service continued to ignore the park coastline through the 1954 season. Most of the fish harvested in the area, as before, were probably pink salmon that were caught near Nuka Island. In 1955, however, the agency instituted active management when it dispatched its first enforcement specialist to Nuka Island. Fishery aid F. Douglas Swanson was assigned to Nuka Bay for six days in mid-August. One of 273 agency enforcement personnel who worked Alaskan streams that summer, Swanson performed the typical duties that his predecessors had been undertaking since the 1920s. Those duties included enforcing closure regulations (particularly around stream mouths) and conducting spawning-ground observations. As part of his work, Swanson was the first governmental representative to learn of the existence of the Delight and Desire Lake sockeye run. John Skerry, the Fish and Wildlife Service's agent for Cook Inlet, concluded that because the run was unregulated, local fishers were therefore abusing the resource. Those fishers, moreover, had no interest in helping government agents. Skerry noted that "there is still a great deal to be learned of the various fish runs in [park waters]. Much of this has to be uncovered by personal observation due to the unco-operative attitude taken by the Seward fishermen." [51]
By 1956, the park coastline was becoming an increasingly popular fishing venue. Nuka Bay was now home to boats owned by Port Graham canneries; the Libby, McNeill and Libby company, which had a cannery on Kodiak Island; and one or more of the Seattle-based processing ships. These fishing boats, in turn, were supported by tenders that waited nearby. Aialik Bay, on the other hand, was fished primarily by Seward-based boats. During this period the Resurrection Bay harvests, which had been anemic since the 1930s, fell to the point that Seward's only cannery closed after the 1955 season. Despite the lack of a nearby cannery, Seward fishers continued to harvest the small if valuable Aialik Bay sockeye run. [52]
As a result of the stepped-up activity, federal fisheries personnel in 1956 increased their presence in park waters and moved to ensure the protection of the sockeye run that had been revealed to them the previous year. William Miller, who had been working as a Fish and Wildlife Service stream guard since 1953, was stationed at the mouth of Delight Creek from mid-June to late July; he then moved to Nuka Island, where he stayed until mid-August. He also served a stint at the head of Beauty Bay in Nuka Bay's West Arm. Another stream guard dispatched to the area that summer was John Frye, who arrived at the mouth of Delight Creek before Miller left. A Fish and Wildlife Service floatplane, which patrolled the Outer District for the first time, augmented Miller and Frye's observations and enforcement capabilities. [53] During the same general periodprobably in the mid-1950s, according to one old-time fishermanthe Fish and Wildlife Service stationed a stream guard in a tent at the edge of Pederson Lagoon, in Aialik Bay. Here, as in Nuka Bay, the guard remained until fishermen left the area. [54]
Miller's experiences as a stream guard, like Swanson's, were more or less typical of those who served in that capacity elsewhere in Alaska during territorial days. It was Miller's job to monitor activity surrounding the buoys that had been placed 500 yards from the mouth of salmon streams. Because pink and chum salmon commonly school at stream mouths, regulations prohibited fishing boats from passing beyond the buoys, which were marked with plywood, three-foot-square stream markers. Fishing boats, however, often lurked just beyond the markers, particularly at high tide. In an intricate game of cat-and-mouse, many boats triedin various, devious waysto fish inside the buoy perimeter without being detected. Miller, equipped with a small, motorized skiff, was asked to establish a presence and prevent fisheries violations; during his stay on Nuka Island, he was responsible for monitoring the fishing activities at several island streams simultaneously. Miller led a rugged life that summer; on Nuka Island, he stayed in one of Pete Sather's abandoned fox shacks, while at Delight Creek, he camped in a tent. [55]
Miller and the other stream guards recognized that the Nuka Bay pink runs for 1956 were "not as great" as in 1955, even though the even-year pink fishery was traditionally dominant. Worried that the pink population could not be sustained under the current system, fisheries agent John Skerry recommended that the season end on August 18. The suggestion was quickly implemented. The stream guards also made a number of baseline stream surveys. Streams surveyed for the first time included Nuka Island Creek, Home Cove, South Creek, Mike Bay, and Duck Bayall of which were located on Nuka Islandalong with Desire and Delight creeks, which flowed into McCarty Fjord. Stream mouths marked that summer were located at Delight and Desire creeks, Home Cove, the unnamed cove south of Home Cove, and Nuka Bay Creek. [56]
From 1957 to 1959, the park fishery continued to be managed in much the same way as in 1956. At least one fisheries enforcement person was dispatched to Nuka Bay each summer; stream guard work continued to take place at Delight Creek and several Nuka Island locations. [57] On a more occasional basis, personnel tallied escapement levels, surveyed streams, and measured stream temperatures. One summer, the agency patrolled the area with its Grumman Goose; a year later the agency's patrol vessel, the Kittiwake, checked Nuka Bay's closure markers. [58]
Specific changes during this period were few. The various stream guards welcomed one of those changes; in 1957, the shelters at both Nuka Island Creek and Delight Creek were upgraded from tents to an 8' x 10' tent frame, with walls and roof made of corrugated aluminum. A second change involved enforcement methods. The existing system of stream mouth protection was apparently less than effective, so agency managers adopted a stakeout system in which the stream guards hid in the undergrowth and watched for stream robbers. This practice was more cost-effective than the previous system had been and it resulted in more fisheries violations, but local fishers became angrier than ever at federal fishing policies. [59]
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