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Post by FWS on Apr 20, 2014 17:34:42 GMT -6
Become a Fried Seafood Believer at South Beach MarketThe Daily Beast 04.20.14 Like Forrest Gump, South Beach Market prepares their fresh seafood in just about every way possible. But most importantly, eating there will change your mind about fried seafood forever. If you are dubious about fried seafood—and who isn’t?—we recommend a visit to South Beach Market on the Oregon coast where the Yaquina river flows into Yaquina Bay. Here is irrefutable evidence that fresh seafood, fried right, can be among earth's most scrumptious foodstuffs. Jumbo wild prawns, which really are jumbo, are nothing short of magnificent, offering two levels of crunch: first, the crackle of the garlic-infused tempura-batter crust that surrounds them, and then the dense snap of the pink meat itself. The same great crust can be tasted enveloping cod, salmon, tuna, oysters, calamari, halibut, little baby popcorn shrimp, and clam strips. As for the chips half of the “fish and chips” dish, the French fries are perfectly decent crinkle-cuts, but we highly recommend paying extra for onion rings. They come as a variegated tangle that includes perfect, evenly battered hoops, frail squiggles of batter that are slightly onion-flavored, and little lengths of limp onion to which only a dab of batter clings. Poking through this crunchy-sweet vegetable mound is edible ecstasy. Still not sold on fried seafood? The menu, posted on the wall above the order counter, offers countless alternatives, including eye-opening oyster shooters dabbed with roaring-hot cocktail sauce and some of the most delicious Dungeness crab you'll ever eat. The crabs are delivered straight from the boat and are cooked in cauldrons by the highway out front, their salty-sweet aroma perfuming the parking lot. You can buy them whole to take home and crack yourself or order an impeccable Pacific seafood cocktail that is simplicity itself: chunks of cooled meat piled into a cup with no adornment other than a wedge of lemon (and, if you wish, horseradish-hot sauce). When it comes to Dungeness crab, plain is perfect, but culinary adventurers should also try a house-made Dungeness crab burger. It is a good-sized quarter pounder of pearly meat spiced and rolled in Japanese breadcrumbs, then pan-fried to a crisp. Pass the tartar sauce, please! (Salmon burgers and shrimp burgers are available, too, but they are no match for the crab.) One generally would not think of coming to a fresh seafood market on the ocean's coast to eat a tuna salad sandwich, but South Beach is a notable exception to that rule. The tuna salad is made with albacore tuna that is cooked in the can without any added oil or water, a process that supersaturates the meat with its own flavor, exponentially increasing its creamy luxury. The sandwich is made with thick tiles of quality bread and adorned with lettuce and tomato. Another essential category on the South Beach menu is smoked seafood. Salmon, tuna, sturgeon, mussels, oysters, and sable are marinated and smoked using hickory and alder wood. Wild Chinook king salmon, hook-and-line-caught by boats out of Newport, just across the bay, is made into "candy" by glazing nuggets of smoked pink meat with pepper and brown sugar. Each firm, moist piece packs a provocative sweet and savory punch. If you catch your own fish, bring them to the South Beach Market and, for a few dollars, have them custom-smoked. The place itself is an experience, as honky tonk as can be, surrounded by blaring signs selling lottery tickets, fifty different microbrews, steamers with garlic butter, "LIVE! crab," and "FRESH! fish and chips." The building is festooned with cartoon-like images of fish, including dorsal fins that poke out of the roof. The restaurant part of the operation, which locals refer to as The Crab Shack, is extremely casual – tote your meal from counter to bare table (indoors or out), and bus your place when you are finished. The restaurant may be no-frills, but the seafood market boasts a four-star inventory that includes beautiful pieces of locally caught ling cod, sea bass, yellowtail rockfish, petrale sole, halibut, salmon, and more (much of which is available by mail order, shipped overnight). As road trippers always in search of cultural gout de terroir, we love that the South Beach Market, formerly named the Lighthouse Deli, also serves as a 24/7 convenience store. Here you will find an inventory of such problematic foods as cheese dogs made using weenies that are kept warm on rolling dowels for who-knows-how-long, sports-stadium nacho trays, viscous chili from a crock pot, and an immense inventory of energy drinks. You also can purchase bait for fishing, jerky sticks of every stripe, and a souvenir t-shirt that lets the world know, "The 2nd Amendment is my Gun Permit." Incongruously, the sound system in the restaurant serenades diners with classical music. While the convenience store is open around-the-clock, the restaurant is not. It serves fish and chips and Dungeness crab only twelve hours a day, from eight to eight.
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Post by FWS on Apr 20, 2014 17:29:46 GMT -6
Remember to look above and type in the security code given.
I posted the relevant info, 'Dismissal with prejudice'.
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Post by FWS on Apr 20, 2014 14:43:57 GMT -6
Case No. 62-CV-12-6319Judgment (Judicial Officer: Ostby, Elena L.) Party( ) Per Order on Dfds' Motions to Dismiss on Cross-Motions for Partial Summary Judgment and on Defendants' Motion for Partial Summary Judgment, Judge Elena L. Ostby 11/13/13; State of Minnesota's Motion to drop the State of MN as a party is granted; State of MN is dismiss and all claims against it are dismissed with prejudice; dfd's motion to drop Pln Sawatzky as a party is denied; dfds' motion to dismiss pln Sawatzky's privileges and immunities challenge is granting and that claims is dismissed with prejudice; memorandum is incorporated. 04/04/2014 Dismissal with prejudice (Judicial Officer: Ostby, Elena L.) Party( ) Per Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law, Order for Judgment and Judgment Following Court Trial and Amended Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law, Order for Judgment and Judgment Following Court Trial, Judge Elena Ostby 3/3/14; judgment in favor of dfds; case is dismissed with prejudice, Memorandum incorporated.
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Post by FWS on Apr 20, 2014 10:34:42 GMT -6
The judge sided with the MN DNR and ruled that trapping was a recreational activity.
Probably 6 weeks ago.
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Post by FWS on Apr 19, 2014 19:51:11 GMT -6
Professor among late learners of huntingUW professor Steve Dembski poses with a wild turkey he shot during a “Learn To Hunt” program.By Paul A. Smith of the Journal Sentinel April 19, 2014 Steve Dembski lives in Madison, close enough to work to walk. The 64-year-old is a professor of music at the University of Wisconsin. Specialties: jazz and classical composition. He was born into a non-hunting family on the East Coast. He drives a hybrid car and is fond of wearing berets. And thanks to a program offered last year at Madison College, he's a hunter. "I've always enjoyed eating wild game and felt that hunting was important," Dembski said. "But it wasn't part of my life until I found the right opportunity." Dembski doesn't fit the traditional profile of the American hunter. Which makes him a perfect recruit, according to many hunting experts. "The conventional ways are proven to reach a portion of the population," said Mike Watt, assistant coordinator of the hunting and shooting sports program at the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. "Programs that reach non-traditional recruits have a lot of upside." Dembski is part of a group termed "adult onset hunters." The demographic is of interest to hunting recruiters because adults typically have more money, access to transportation and decision-making abilities than teenagers. "We're working to broaden the scope," said Keith Warnke, coordinator of the DNR's hunting and shooting sports program. "The ability to tap into the adult population is important in our efforts to increase hunter numbers." Drawing off another recent trend — a growing interest in locally produced food, including wild game — Warnke initiated a course called "Hunting for Sustainability" at Madison College. The class, which combined lectures and the opportunity to participate in a hunt, was just what Dembski needed to make his first steps along the hunting path. Dembski moved to Madison 30 years ago to begin work for the university. When some of his colleagues learned he enjoyed eating wild game, he was given gifts of fresh venison. One offered Dembski the chance to join a hunting party. But Dembski hadn't held a firearm since target shooting in his youth. And he had never received any instruction in hunting. "I didn't feel I had enough experience and I was concerned I would be a burden to the hunters," Dembski said. Three decades passed before his wife noticed a listing of the Madison College class. Dembski immediately enrolled. The class was held last fall. In addition to several classroom sessions, the students met at a property in Sauk County for a deer hunt. Dembski didn't shoot a deer, but other students did. The class butchered the animals and shared the meat. This spring, Dembski enrolled in a DNR Learn To Turkey Hunt program in Merrimac. The event was hosted by the Glacier Valley Gobblers chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation and the Merrimac Sportsmen's Club. On his second day of hunting with mentor Jim Wipperfurth of Sauk City, Dembski shot a jake (a 1-year-old male turkey). Dembski and his family have enjoyed several meals from the bird. The experience confirmed some of his long-held positions. "I've always felt that hunting the right animals for food at the right time was really the best way to eat," Dembski said. "And if I was going to eat meat I should be prepared to kill the animal myself." Hunting has also revealed new insights. "Many of the people I've met on hunts, such as the landowners and the club members, I wouldn't have met otherwise," Dembski said. "They are some of the most welcoming and generous people I've ever known. It's just been a terrific experience for me." Read more from Journal Sentinel: www.jsonline.com/sports/outdoors/professor-among-late-learners-of-hunting-b99250751z1-255884751.html#ixzz2zO3qOSJFFollow us: @journalsentinel on Twitter
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Post by FWS on Apr 19, 2014 19:31:09 GMT -6
oligarchy 1. government by a small group of people 2. a state or organization so governed 3. a small body of individuals ruling such a state 4. chiefly ( US ) a small clique of private citizens who exert a strong influence on government The new study about oligarchy that's blowing up the Internet, explainedby Andrew Prokop Vox.com April 18, 2014 Who really matters in our democracy — the general public, or wealthy elites? That's the topic of a new study by political scientists Martin Gilens of Princeton and Benjamin Page of Northwestern. The study's been getting lots of attention, because the authors conclude, basically, that the US is a corrupt oligarchy where ordinary voters barely matter. Or as they put it, "economic elites and organized interest groups play a substantial part in affecting public policy, but the general public has little or no independent influence." But can that be right? Let's walk through the study and explain what it shows. What does their study measure, exactly? Gilens and "a small army of research assistants" compiled nearly 2,000 polls and surveys that asked for opinions about a proposed policy change. Since he wanted to separate out the preferences of economic elites and average citizens, he only used surveys that asked about respondents' income. He found 1,779 poll results that fit that description, spanning from 1981 to 2002. Then he took the answers of median-income voters to represent what average voters think, and the answers of respondents at the 90th income percentile to represent what economic elites think. "Basically, average citizens only get what they want if economic elites or interest groups also want it" Next, the authors had to measure what interest groups thought about all of those issues. They decided to use Fortune magazine's yearly "Power 25" lists of the most influential lobbying groups, but since it "seemed to neglect certain major business interests," they added the ten industries that had reported the most spending on lobbying. Their final list includes 29 business groups, several major unions, and other well-known interest groups like the AARP, the Christian Coalition, the NRA, the American Legion, and AIPAC. Each interest group's position on those 1,779 policy change proposals were coded, along with how strongly each group felt about each proposal. The results were combined to assess how interest groups in general, felt. Finally, they wanted to measure which of those 1,779 proposed policy changes actually happened. To do so, "Gilens and his research assistants spent many hours poring over news accounts, government data, Congressional Quarterly publications, academic papers, and the like." So, which groups actually impact policy change? When the authors look only at the preferences of average citizens, it appears that they do have a pretty big effect on policy change. But when they add the preferences of economic elites and interest groups to the analysis, the impact of average citizens vanishes entirely. Basically, average citizens only get what they want if economic elites or interest groups also want it. In contrast, the preferences of economic elites and interest groups — especially economic elites — are each quite influential, when the preferences of the other two groups are held constant. Are there charts that can help explain this? Yes, check out these charts from Gilens and Page below, edited slightly for clarity. This first one shows that as more and more average citizens support an issue, they're not any more likely to get what they want. That's a shocking finding in a democracy: Gilens1 In contrast, the next charts show that as more and more more economic elites and interest groups want a certain policy change, they do become more likely to get what they want: Specifically, if fewer than 20 percent of wealthy Americans supported a policy change, it only happened about 18 percent of the time. But when 80 percent of them were in support, the change ended up happening 45 percent of the time. There's no similar effect for average Americans. Why does the study look at what the top 10 percent wealthiest Americans want, rather than what billionaires want? There isn't sufficient survey data on the preferences of the ultrawealthy, so Gilens and Page settle for using respondents from the 90th income percentile — people who made $146,000 a year in 2012 dollars. But the authors argue that, if anything, using such an "imperfect measure" strengthens their arguments. Since they found such strong effects even here, they write, "it will be reasonable to infer that the impact upon policy of truly wealthy citizens is still greater." What are some criticisms of the study? Gilens uses survey responses to represent voters' preferences on issues, and he was criticized for this when his last book came out, in 2012. "Is it meaningful when public opinion is split between budget proposals no one understands?" wrote Harvard professor Nancy Rosenblum. UCLA professor Barbara Sinclair added, "Cutting the deficit is broadly supported, but there are few government programs — other than foreign aid — that a majority of Americans favor cutting. Sometimes it is literally impossible to follow public opinion." It's also not clear that a democracy should necessarily be doing the bidding of the average voter on most issues. "The purpose of a political system is to resolve political questions in a satisfactory way … the watchword of democracy should not be responsiveness but rather accountability," Matt Yglesias wrote. Economist Tyler Cowen of George Mason University made a similar point: "Many lower- or middle-income voters decide to vote retrospectively over outcomes … That suggests we should judge the responsiveness of the system in terms of how well it aims toward those outputs, not whether it gives lower-income voters their preferred policy inputs." So for instance, average people might vote on whether politicians have produced economic prosperity, not necessarily on what specific policies they chose to get there. A system that was listening to average voters, in this model, would be a system that produced prosperity, not that followed public whims on individual issues. I'd like to read more depressing things on this topic.
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Post by FWS on Apr 19, 2014 10:15:04 GMT -6
Climate change increasing massive wildfires in WestDoyle Rice, USA TODAY April 19, 2014 Massive wildfires are on the increase in the Western USA due to rising temperatures and worsening drought from climate change, and the trend could continue in the decades to come, new research suggests. Overall, the number of large wildfires increased by a rate of seven fires a year from 1984 to 2011, while the total area damaged by fire increased at a rate of nearly 90,000 acres per year, according to the study, published this week in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). The study comes against the backdrop of what could to be a disastrous year for fires in the West, especially drought-plagued California, which even saw fires in the normally quiet month of January. Though relatively calm this week, "Expect dry and windy conditions to develop over the Southwest Tuesday and Wednesday," according to a forecast Friday from the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise. By May, "Above normal significant fire potential will expand over portions of Southern, Central and Northern California," the NIFC predicted earlier this month. "Continuing changes in climate, invasive species and consequences of past fire suppression, added to the impacts of larger, more frequent fires, will drive further disruptions to fire regimes of the Western U.S.," according to the AGU study. Scientists only looked at fires of greater than 1,000 acres in the study in 17 Western states, and found that man-made climate change was a very likely factor. "We looked at the probability that increases of this magnitude could be random, and in each case it was less than 1%," said Philip Dennison, a geographer at the University of Utah and lead author of the paper. To measure the fires, researchers used Landsat satellite data, which has only been available since 1984. Though wildfire records go back a couple of decades before that, Dennison said that information before satellites started taking measurements is not reliable. "We have definitely seen a trend toward larger, more severe fires in the past decade or so," Randy Eardley, chief of external affairs at the NIFC, who was not part of the study, said via e-mail. Eardley said that nationally, since 2000, three separate years have seen 9 million acres burned, while 8 million acres have burned in three other years. Before 2000, no year had seen 8 million acres burned. This is not the first study to make the connection between climate change and Western fires. Research in the journal Ecosphere in 2012 found that "climate change will likely cause more frequent wildfires in the Western United States within the next 30 years and throughout North America and most of Europe by the end of the century." A satellite image of the 2011 Las Conchas Fire in New Mexico shows the 150,874 acres burned in magenta and the unburned areas in green. This image was created with data from the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity Project.(Photo: Philip Dennison, University of Utah/MTBS)
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Post by FWS on Apr 19, 2014 10:01:38 GMT -6
The Grisly Reality Behind Soaring Lime PricesMexican cartels are making the citrus more expensive in the United States. By Elahe Izadi National Journal April 15, 2014 The lament of increasingly expensive limes has become widespread among America's margarita lovers and guacamole fiends. But while we in the United States may be upset at the uptick in lime prices—which have jumped to $100 from $25 for a 40-pound carton in just a few months—the increased strain on wallets masks a very grim state of affairs in Mexico, which provides nearly all of the limes consumed in the U.S. A spike in price—caused in part by heavy rains and a citrus disease hitting a prime lime-growing area in Mexico—has attracted the attention of criminal cartels, which have been looking to exert control over the lime economy. Reports of extortion, violence, roadblocks, and intimidation have been trickling out of the biggest lime-growing areas of Mexico. These regions also happen to have a large presence of the brutal Knights Templar drug cartel. The Knights Templar have branched out from drug trafficking and now make more money from mining, logging, and extorting mostly lime and avocado producers. A Mexican government official estimates the cartel earns $800,000 to $1.4 million a week from extortion—and that the organization controls the wholesale distribution center, where lime growers sell their products to the world, and where lime prices are set. It's gotten so bad that people involved in lime production have begun to fight back. "For lime grower Hipolito Mora, it was time to organize and pick up arms when a packing company controlled by a brutal drug cartel refused to buy his fruit," the AP reported in November. Mora, along with other lime growers, pickers, and ranchers, is part of a militia formed to fight against the cartel. Criminal involvement in produce is not new in Mexico. A 2011 Christian Science Monitor report documents how the drug wars exacerbated a spike in lime prices back then. "Be it extorting farmers, attacking produce trucks, or causing more time-consuming border inspections, criminal gangs are affecting almost every link in the produce supply chain," the newspaper reported. So the next time you bemoan the pricey lime in your shopping cart, you may want to dial back your complaints. For Mexicans, that price tag stems from a dangerous and deadly set of circumstances.
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Post by FWS on Apr 19, 2014 9:39:57 GMT -6
Brazilian female cave insects have penises and have sex for up to 70 hoursThe male of the species has the equivalent of a vagina, scientists have discovered Heather Saul The Independent Friday 18 April 2014 Scientists have discovered gender-bending female cave insects with "very impressive" penis-type organs which can have sex for up to 70 hours at a time. Females of the neotrogla species insert their penis into males during mating, who instead of having a penis have the equivalent of a vagina. The neotrogla were discovered in a cave in eastern Brazil and are believed to be the first example of an animal with sex-reversed genitalia. Researchers at the Hokkaido University and Keio University Japan found that during copulation, which lasts between 40 and 70 hours, female insects insert an elaborate, penis-like organ into males' small, vagina-like opening. The penis has been named a gynosome by the researchers and once inside grips on tightly, sucking out sperm and nutritious fluids, researchers noted in their study. To lock on, the membranous part of the female gynosome inflates and numerous spines internally anchor the two insects together. A close up image of the insects mating In one instance, when the researchers attempted to pull a male and female apart, the male's abdomen was ripped from the thorax without breaking the genital coupling. "Although sex-role reversal has been identified in several different animals, Neotrogla is the only example in which the intromittent organ is also reversed," researcher Kazunori Yoshizawa said. Scientists believe the insects' sex organs and sex-role reversal may have been driven over evolutionary time by the resource-poor cave environment in which the bugs live. Males provide females with nutritious seminal gifts in addition to sperm, making it advantageous for the females to mate at a higher rate. "It will be important to unveil why, among many sex-role-reversed animals, only Neotrogla evolved the elaborated female penis," lead researcher Yoshitaka Kamimura from Keio University. The study Female penis, male vagina, and their correlated evolution in a cave insect is published in the journal Current Biology.
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Post by FWS on Apr 19, 2014 9:31:01 GMT -6
17 Things Extremely Happy People Say Every DayBill Murphy Jr. Time April 18, 2014 Are you as happy as you wish you were? If not, try saying a few of these simple, inspiring things to other people. There’s an easy-to-articulate, hard-to-implement best practice when it comes to how to teach yourself to be happy. It stems from the recognition that the positive things you do for other people often reverberate back to create positivity in your own life. In effect, doing little things to make other people happy can greatly improve your happiness. Make sense? There are two theories at work. The first is that focusing on others creates joy of its own accord. The second is that as you succeed in improving others’ happiness, you’ll wind up with happier, more grateful people around you. They’ll find you likable and charismatic, which in turn can lead them to treat you in a manner that produces even more happiness. It’s easier said than done, but fortunately, there’s a compelling shortcut. Your words are among your greatest tools, so you can have an outsize effect on others simply by thinking about what you say every day and making an effort to be both positive and sincere. There are certain inspiring things that truly happy people find themselves saying to others all the time. Try making an effort to say a few of these every day for a week. You’ll be amazed at how the positivity you create improves your happiness. 1. “I’m happy to see you.” This is the most basic and attractive sentiment you can express to another human being–that simply being in the person’s presence creates a positive feeling. Whether you’re telling an employee that you need his skills, that you value his opinions, or just that you think he’s good company, you’ve begun an interaction on a very high note. How can that not produce some level of happiness in the other person? 2. “I’m always happy to see you.” Take the previous remark a step further. This is the opposite of most relationship advice–that you should never take a specific negative action and suggest that it’s indicative of someone’s entire way of acting. Well, turn that on its head, by expressing that it’s not just this interaction that has produced positive feelings but basically all interactions with this person. It’s an amazingly gratifying thing to hear. 3. “Remember when you…” Surprise someone by bringing up a positive thing that she did in the past, and you’re almost guaranteed to induce a positive response. Maybe it’s a joke the person told that you’re still laughing about; maybe it’s a small act of heroism she performed. Regardless, if it’s something she thought was long forgotten, learning that something she did made a positive, lasting impression on someone else is an amazing experience. 4. “You might not realize this, but…” This an even more potent version of the previous suggestion, provided you finish the sentence with a description of how the person’s actions led to a positive outcome. It’s one thing to learn that other people recognize the favorable things you’ve done; it’s another thing entirely to learn that you’re having a positive effect on other people without even realizing it. 5. “You really impress me.” This is similar to “I’m happy to see you” and “I’m always happy to see you,” except that it focuses on things that the person does, rather than his or her existential being. Other variations include “You are really great at…” or “People love that you…” Simply be sincere and specific. “You’re really great at calming stressful situations” or “People love that you always have the best music.” It can be anything, as long as it’s authentic and truly positive, and it’s guaranteed to elicit positive reactions. 6. “You really impressed me when…” Focusing on specific actions or events can be even more powerful. It means that you’re not only thinking abstractly but offering proof that things the other person does provoke positive reactions. It’s the difference between saying that a comedian was really funny and quoting one of his or her best jokes. (Other versions: “You handled that well when you turned that client’s objection into an opportunity” or “It was really cool to see how you parallel-parked that car into that tiny spot.”) 7. “I believe in you.” People have self-doubts. You do, I do, we all do. (Heck, every time I write a column here–and this is number 167, by the way–I wonder how people will react.) When others simply say they believe in you, however, it becomes easier to believe in yourself. Here’s an analogy. Have you ever gotten into lifting weights, or simply watched people do it? It’s amazing how the slightest bit of assistance from a spotter–with force equal to the weight of a pencil–can help someone lift far more weight than he could on his own. It’s the same concept here–just that small expression of confidence can push people to achieve more–and then to be thankful for the help. 8. “Look how far you’ve come!” It is so important to celebrate achievements. This doesn’t mean you have to throw a party, but even acknowledging that someone’s efforts have achieved results can be extremely gratifying for the person. Of course, heck, if you want to take things to the extreme, throw a party. Just be sure that you’re the one buying the first round and singing the loudest. 9. “I know you’re capable of more.” Everyone needs to be pushed at times, especially when we fall short. If you care about people, you’re going to be called on sometimes to be a bit of a coach, or maybe to employ a bit of tough love. Even the most steadfast and confident among us sometimes need a friend to guide them to a better way of acting. The late, great NFL coach Vince Lombardi put this best: “Leadership is getting someone to do what they don’t want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.” Nobody does anything great alone, so be the one standing by to help, and you’ll inspire positivity and gratitude. 10. “I’d like to hear your thoughts about…” Everyone likes to think that his or her opinions matter, and of course they do–sometimes. However, this kind of invitation to share what someone thinks can’t help making the person feel just a tiny bit more self-worth, which in turns creates both happiness and positive feelings toward you. Just be sure to be sincere; don’t just say this for the sake of saying it. Make sure that you are truly interested in whatever subject you’re asking about and listen actively. 11. “Tell me more.” This is the best follow-up to the last item. It tells the other person that you’re listening, and that you find value in what he or she is saying. The actor and writer Peter Ustinov once said that the greatest compliment he ever received took place when he was afraid he had gone on too long in a conversation with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, only to have her tell him, “Please continue.” 12. “I took your suggestion.” OK, it’s almost too easy at this point. Combine asking someone’s opinion and demonstrating that the person has had impact on your life and you’ve provided him with two of the most gratifying, basic experiences of the human condition. It doesn’t matter really whether you tried a new restaurant on the other person’s advice, followed his suggestion on how to begin an important conversation, or started getting up 15 minutes earlier for a week because he said it was a good idea. Simply being listened to and having impact makes people feel better. Bonus points if his suggestion created a positive result, but you’ll get credit regardless. (Related: “You were right.”) 13. “I’m sorry.” Say this when you mean it–when you’ve done something worth expressing regret for or the other person deserves sympathy. However, don’t water it down by using it when you don’t mean it. In fact, one writer made a compelling argument recently that the phrase is so overused that it ought to be retired. That would be a shame, but it underscores how people appreciate this phrase when it’s sincere, and how it annoys them when it isn’t. 14. “I’d like to be more like you.” Now you’ve got it–you’re expressing positivity toward other people almost naturally, pointing out not only things that they do well but maybe even things they do better than you do. If you want to see a sentiment similar to this work very effectively, watch the 1997 movie As Good As It Gets. Or else, just read this short bit of dialogue in which Jack Nicholson’s character offers Helen Hunt’s character the ultimate compliment: “You make me want to be a better man.“ 15. “Thank you.” It’s not that much of a stretch to suggest that every other item on this list is in fact a form of “thank you.” This is truly one of the most powerful, underrated phrases in the English language. It packs a heck of a punch, encompassing positivity and impact in two little syllables. (By the way, thanks for reading this far into this column. Maybe if you share it with others, they’ll thank you, too.) 16. “You’re welcome.” Not “yep.” Not “no problem” or “no worries.” Say “You’re welcome.” Instead of deflecting another person’s thanks, as some of these other phrases do, saying “you’re welcome” dignifies the person’s gratitude. It acknowledges that yes, you did do something worthy, or nice, or positive for someone–because you believe that she’s worth it. 17. “No.” There’s one small risk in this entire mode of expression, and this word is your fail-safe. The danger is that sometimes people who make other people’s happiness their priority can wind up doing so at the cost of their own happiness. We all know some people who take advantage, or who simply aren’t going to be happy no matter what your efforts amount to. Two little letters, and yet they can be so powerful. Most important, they demonstrate that you care for yourself, which is a key prerequisite to caring truly for other people. Carry this one in your back pocket; use it when necessary. You’ll find that the most positive and happy people you interact with respect you for doing so–and that can make you happy, too.
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Post by FWS on Apr 19, 2014 9:19:53 GMT -6
There are several videos of it, and they are definitely taking wolves, which Mongolia has a lot of.
This is a great video,
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Post by FWS on Apr 18, 2014 19:42:49 GMT -6
Deadliest Day: Sherpas Bear Everest’s RisksBy ELLEN BARRY and GRAHAM BOWLEY New York Times APRIL 18, 2014 NEW DELHI — The Sherpas always go first, edging up the deadly flank of Everest while international clients wait for days in the base camp below. They set off in the dark, before the day’s warmth causes the ice to shift. They creep one by one across ladders propped over crevasses, burdened with food and supplies, all the while watching the great wall of a hanging glacier, hoping that this season will not be the year it falls. On Friday, however, it did. Around 6:30 a.m., as the Sherpas were tethered to ropes, a chunk of ice broke off, sending an avalanche of ice and snow down into the ice fields on the mountain’s south side and engulfing about 30 men. The toll, at 12 dead, with four still missing, is the worst in a single day in the history of Everest, climbers and mountaineering experts said. The disaster has focused attention on the Sherpas, members of an ethnic group known for their skill at high-altitude climbing, who put themselves at great risk for the foreign teams that pay them. Among their most dangerous tasks is fixing ropes, carrying supplies and establishing camps for the clients waiting below, exposing themselves to the mountains first. Even as rescue teams attempted to reach victims of the Mount Everest avalanche, Dawa Yanju, the sister-in-law of a survivor, Dawa Tashi, described what happened. A Sherpa typically earns around $125 per climb per legal load, which the Nepalese government has set at around 20 pounds, though young men will double that to earn more, guides say. Raised on stories of wealth earned on expeditions, they also have very little choice, coming from remote places where there is little opportunity other than high-altitude potato farming. Friday’s avalanche, which killed no foreigners, left many thinking about this calculation. “All the hard work is done by Sherpas, that is the reality,” said Pasang Sherpa of the Nepal National Mountain Guide Association. “The client will say, ‘I did the summit three times, four times.’ That is our guest, and we have to accept it. Our job is to make a good scale for the clients, to make this comfortable. We have to do that.” “Normally our culture is like, we say, ‘The client is our god,’ ” he added. The Sherpas were spread out at an elevation of about 19,000 feet when the avalanche hit, crossing a notorious area known by some locals as the Golden Gate because of the shape of its ice formations, Pasang Sherpa said. Climbers try to pass it as quickly as possible, but they have no choice but to edge across ladders one by one, stretching the crossing to 20 or 30 minutes, he said. Typically, he added, the teams try to cross before sunrise, when rising temperatures may cause shifts in the ice. “This morning, our friends started a little late,” Pasang Sherpa said. “They arrived at quarter to seven.” Tim Rippel, who is leading a group of mountaineers on the mountain with his company Peak Freaks, wrote on his company’s website that the Sherpas had been moving slowly, hauling “the mountainous loads of equipment, tents, stoves, oxygen and so on up to stock camps.” He was on the phone from base camp just before 7 a.m. local time when an ice chunk began to fall, causing the avalanche, said his wife, Becky Rippel. The mountaineers were following a popular southern route up Everest from the Nepalese side, but this route means they have to pass underneath the western shoulder and its moving glacier. Mr. Rippel had been watching the glacier, which is a well-known problem, in recent days but did not think it looked as dangerous as it had in the past, Ms. Rippel said. In the post on his website, Mr. Rippel described watching search and rescue efforts. “I sat and counted 13 helicopter lifts,” he wrote, “12 were dead bodies flying overhead, suspended by long-line from a helicopter.” “Everyone is shaken here at base camp. Some climbers are packing up and calling it quits. They want nothing to do with this,” Mr. Rippel wrote. Between 350 to 450 Sherpas are hired above the base camp during the two-month season, said Richard Salisbury, who works on the Himalayan Database, a record of Everest climbs. Apoorva Prasad, the founder of The Outdoor Journal, an Indian lifestyle and adventure magazine, described it as “very dirty work,” laborious and dangerous. “These are the guys going up the mountain every season in the least safe way possible,” he said. Foreigners are increasingly bringing their own guides, and, in an attempt to secure their livelihoods, Nepal this year proposed requiring outsiders to hire a local guide for any ascent above 26,000 feet. One such team hit a tense point last April, when three European climbers fought with a group of local guides between two camps. Some Sherpas said the foreign climbers had ascended ahead of their guides while they were fixing lines, violating the custom in Everest climbing. Nima Nuru Sherpa, the first vice president of Nepal Mountaineering Association, said there was little question that Sherpas take more risks on Everest, mainly because they go ahead to fix lines and set up camp for paying clients. “Today the incident happened, so we are just feeling sorry about ourselves,” he said. “The day-to-day life is very tense. We never know what will happen. So we are not at peace. It’s a scary profession, a scary job.” The Himalayan Times identified the dead as Mingma Nuru Sherpa, Dorji Sherpa, Ang Tshiri Sherpa, Nima Sherpa, Phurba Ongyal Sherpa, Lakpa Tenjing Sherpa, Chhiring Ongchu Sherpa, Dorjee Khatri, Then Dorjee Sherpa, Phur Temba Sherpa, Pasang Karma Sherpa and Asman Tamang. The missing were identified as Tenzing Chottar Sherpa, Ankaji Sherpa, Pem Tenji Sherpa and Ash Bahadur Gurung. Nima Nuru Sherpa said the men’s families would consult lamas, or holy men, to determine the most auspicious time to burn their bodies. He said he knew all the men reported dead, but was closest to Ankaji Sherpa, who was a member of his association and a friend. “It’s too terrible for us, it’s very sad for us, it’s sad,” he said. “I say God will take him to the right heaven.”
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Post by FWS on Apr 18, 2014 19:32:27 GMT -6
Keystone XL Review Delayed AgainA final decision on the pipeline may not come until after November's elections. By Ben Geman National Journal April 18, 2014 The State Department announced Friday afternoon that it's extending its deadline for review of the proposed Keystone XL oil-sands pipeline, a move that could punt a final decision until after the midterm congressional elections. State said it told federal agencies that they will have more time to weigh in on the proposed northern leg of TransCanada's pipeline, a project that's at the heart of an intense political and lobbying fight. The department is citing an ongoing Nebraska court battle over the state law used to approve the route through that state as reason to extend its review. "Agencies need additional time based on the uncertainty created by the ongoing litigation in the Nebraska Supreme Court which could ultimately affect the pipeline route in that state," the State Department said in its announcement Friday. The move extends what has been the highest-profile environmental battle in years. The delay appears likely to push the final White House decision on the politically explosive project beyond the November elections. A senior State Department official declined to provide a revised timeline, noting the uncertainties of the legal process. A court decision that requires a different route through Nebraska could alter the environmental, socioeconomic, and cultural issues that agencies are assessing, the official told reporters on a call. One environmentalist tracking the court case said a final ruling may not arrive until the beginning of 2015. "We ... believe that the possibility that Keystone XL's fate won't be decided until after November's midterm elections has increased dramatically," the consulting firm ClearView Energy Partners said in a note Friday. State's final environmental review, released in late January, had opened a 90-day window for other federal agencies to comment ahead of a final White House decision. It also brought a large number of public comments that State says it's weighing. "During this time we will review and appropriately consider the unprecedented number of new public comments, approximately 2.5 million, received during the public comment period that closed on March 7, 2014," the department said. Keystone supporters slammed the latest delay in what has been a five-year-plus review of the pipeline, which would carry crude oil from Alberta's oil sands to Gulf Coast refineries. "Today's decision by the Administration amounts to nothing short of an indefinite delay of the Keystone Pipeline. This decision is irresponsible, unnecessary and unacceptable," said Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., who is locked in a tough reelection fight. The new delay also drew immediate criticism from Republicans who are pushing for Keystone XL's approval. Landrieu and Republican Sen. John Hoeven of North Dakota said the delay will fuel their efforts to win a permit for Keystone XL through congressional action. "I will continue to work with my colleagues to approve this important energy project congressionally rather than let the president defeat it with endless delays," Hoeven said in a statement. An aide to a Democratic senator who opposes the pipeline said the political implications of the delay on the ultimate decision are tough to game out, but believes it may make a rejection more likely. "Reading the tea leaves on how something like this affects Keystone is about as easy as it is to clean up a tar-sands spill. You could make the case that it is good for the opponents, as it shows the Obama administration's willingness to look at all of the angles to build the best case against it, without endangering those senators who are vulnerable to a rejection decision," the aide said. "Or you could make the case that this is good for those who want it approved, because they don't want any excuses left to challenge its construction," the source added. Environmentalists bitterly oppose the pipeline, while oil-industry and business groups and a number of unions are lobbying in favor of it. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TransCanada Tries To Seize U.S. Land For Keystone PipelineJames Conca Forbes 2/24/2014 On Wednesday, a Nebraska judge struck down a state law that would have allowed TransCanada TRP -0.28% to use the power of eminent domain to seize private land to help construct a short 300-mile segment of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline between Cushing and Steele City, Nebraska. The law in question, LB 1161, allows Nebraska Governor David Heineman and TransCanada to avoid regulators in siting a crucial portion of the pipeline. Lancaster County District Judge Stephanie Stacy sided with three landowners who challenged the law, finding that regulatory power over industrial companies such as TransCanada must remain with agencies such as the Nebraska Public Service Commission, not the governor’s office. The judge ruled that the law violated the state constitution, and she issued an injunction blocking the Governor’s office from taking any action on the Governor’s January 2013 approval of the Keystone XL Pipeline route, which would include allowing land to be acquired through eminent domain (Court Documents). Nebraska’s attorney general is appealing Judge Stacy’s ruling. While this judgment seems very local, it has national impact. Eminent domain is the power of the state to take private property for public use by a state or national government. However, it can be legislatively delegated by the state to municipalities, government subdivisions, or even private persons or corporations when they are authorized to exercise functions of public character, usually for health and safety (Wikipedia). It is sometimes given to corporations. And it is debatable whether building the Keystone aides the health or safety of America, or even our general interest. President Obama has said that all decisions should take greenhouse gas emissions into account so it is definitely not settled (EcoNews). In an email after the publication of this article, TransCanada said it has reached voluntary agreements to secure 100% of the private easements required for the pipeline in Montana and South Dakota. It has 76% of the easements required for the route in Nebraska, it said. In general, the company said it has had to use eminent domain with only 2% of landowners. The Keystone XL pipeline is at the heart of this and many other energy and environmental debates. The pipeline will carry 830,000 barrels per day of bitumen product made from tar sand through a meter-wide pipeline from the Alberta fields to refineries on the Gulf Coast, mostly to be exported. The $2.3 billion southern segment from Cushing, Oklahoma to the Gulf Coast is almost complete. The bulk of the $7 billion 2,000-mile pipeline is being held up until President Obama either cedes to Canadian and business pressure or blocks the construction because of environmental and health concerns. The Keystone pipeline route alternatives through the northern United States. Source: U.S. State Department The Keystone pipeline route alternatives through the northern United States. Source: U.S. State Department At the same time as last Wednesday’s ruling, President Obama, Canadian Prime Minister Harper and Mexican President Nieto were meeting in Toluca, Mexico. In response to Harper’s push for Keystone acceptance, the U.S. President seemed unconvinced, saying, “Keystone will proceed along the path that’s already been set for it” (The Globe and Mail). TransCanada has used eminent domain on another part of the pipeline route (NYTimes). In a 2012 ruling, Texas Judge Bill Harris HRS +1.13% of Lamar County upheld TransCanada’s takeover by eminent domain of a strip of land across Julia Trigg Crawford’s pasture in Paris, Texas to build part of its Keystone XL pipeline. The ruling was delivered in a 15-word text message sent from the Judge’s iPhone, demonstrating the seriousness with which the Judge handled such a constitutionally-charged case. Not sure if that ruling is a first in judicial history, but I guess it was better than a Tweet. As usual, the political cauldron has been thoroughly churned during this President’s tenure. Eight years ago, President George Bush issued Executive Order 13406 which stated that the federal government must limit its use of taking private property for public use with just compensation for the purpose of benefiting the general public, wording mirrored in the U.S. Constitution. Bush’s Order 13406 limits the use of eminent domain so it may not be used for the purpose of advancing the economic interest of private parties to be given ownership or use of the property taken. While Bush’s Order applies only to the Feds, it certainly colors the same powers of the States and has an effect on the appellate courts. It is probable that the issue will not be resolved until the President decides, once and for all, the fate of Keystone. It is important to note that a recent Harris Poll had 82% of Americans in favor of the Keystone XL Pipeline (Brigham McCown, Forbes). It is also important that the State Department’s environmental impact statement reported that Keystone XL would have “minimal impact on the environment”. In addition, an independent study by IHS IHS +0.07% CERA found Keystone XL would have “no material impact on U.S. GHG’s” (IHS). But why would anyone not want the Keystone pipeline on their property? I mean TransCanada offered Crawford a whopping $7,000 to help complete its $10,000,000,000 project (OEN). Surely that was fair. Maybe Crawford declined because there have been over 6,300 pipeline incidents since 2002. 154 people have died, 540 people have been injured and $4.7 billion in property damage has resulted (Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration; Cornell University). The potential economic damage caused by the expected spills from the Keystone pipeline alone could outweigh the benefits of any jobs created by the project. To be fair, the alternative methods of oil transport do not look promising either. The number of railroad accidents and spills from rail transport of crude oil has dramatically increased (Huffpost). I’m not sure we want increased tanker trucks on the road given the accident rates. TransCanada states that this pipeline is fabricated to more specifications and safety standards than any pipeline in history. And that may be the case. According to TransCanada “the specifications for the steel used in the Gulf Coast Pipeline and Keystone XL are detailed in the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration’s (PHMSA) 57 special conditions TransCanada voluntarily agreed to (PHMSA 57). These specifications ensure that Keystone goes above and beyond what the federal government requires. The Gulf Coast Pipeline and Keystone XL are legally required to use the highest quality carbon steel, most sophisticated leak detection system ever installed, remote controlled shut-off valves, 24-hour security and monitoring and more frequent inspections for any pipeline in the history of the United States.” The State Department’s own environmental impact statement report states that, “Incorporation of the 57 special conditions would result in a (pipeline) project that would have a degree of safety over any other typically constructed domestic oil pipeline system under current code (Oil&Gas Journal).” So, if the amount of oil we use in America is going to increase, which is the nominal reason for the Keystone in the first place, where do we want it to come from and what transport mechanism do we want – ocean-going supertankers from other continents, pipelines, rail or truck from this continent? In the end, the real debate should be – do we want more oil or less? How we get it here will be dangerous no matter what method we use.
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Post by FWS on Apr 18, 2014 13:45:46 GMT -6
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Post by FWS on Apr 18, 2014 8:51:55 GMT -6
Leonardo DiCaprio will make his return in The RevenantThe star is set to play a fur trapper in a period revenge thriller directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu Ben Child The Guardian.com Wednesday 16 April 2014 Furry vengeance … Leonardo DiCaprio will play a 19th-century trapper in revenge drama The Revenant. Photograph: Sebastien Nogier/EPALeonardo DiCaprio will star as a fur trapper who is left for dead in the wilderness of early 19th century North America in the period revenge thriller The Revenant, directed by the Oscar nominee Alejandro González Iñárritu, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The film will be DiCaprio's follow-up to the critically acclaimed but controversial Martin Scorsese black comedy The Wolf of Wall Street. The Revenant, based on Michael Punke's 2002 novel, The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge, has been a twinkle in Iñárritu's eye since 2011, but has been in development for more than a decade in total. It now has a screenplay by the director and Mark L Smith, the writer of Vacany and The Hole. Punke's book is set in 1823 in the areas of North America that now make up North and South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming and Nebraska. It centres on 36-year-old Hugh Glass, a real-life figure, who joins the Rocky Mountain Fur Co on a journey into the wild. After being mauled by a bear, he is left at the mercy of two would-be rescuers who later steal his belongings and abandon him when their camp is attacked by Native American raiders. Glass must then travel the 350-mile journey back to civilisation through perilous territory. Iñárritu, who directed Amores Perros and Babel, plans a September shoot for the film adaptation, and is aiming for an autumn 2015 release date. DiCaprio enjoyed critical acclaim for The Wolf of Wall Street. Scorsese's highest-grossing film was nominated for five Oscars in January, including best actor for DiCaprio, best film and best director. But the film-makers emerged empty handed from the Dolby theatre in Los Angeles last month, a disappointment that some observers blamed on the controversies surrounding the film. DiCaprio was beaten to what would have been his first Oscar win by The Dallas Buyers Club's Matthew McConaughey. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge Paperback, by Michael PunkeAlready sold to Warner Bros. for a major motion picture, this riveting novel of the frontier evokes such classics as Jack London's "To Build a Fire" and A. B. Guthrie's The Big Sky. Michael Punke's The Revenant tells a story of nearly unimaginable human endurance over 3,000 miles of uncharted American wilderness, spanning what is today the Dakotas, Montana, Wyoming, and Nebraska. Based on the real life of fur trapper Hugh Glass, The Revenant recounts the toll of envy and betrayal, and the power of obsession and vengeance. Punke's novel opens in 1823, when thirty-six-year-old Hugh Glass joins the Rocky Mountain Fur Co. on a venture into perilous, unexplored territory. After being savagely mauled by a grizzly bear, his nearly lifeless body is left in the care of two volunteers from the company—John Fitzgerald, a ruthless mercenary, and young Jim Bridger, the future "King of the Mountain Men." When Indians approach their camp, Fitzgerald and Bridger abandon Glass. Worse yet, they rob the wounded man of his weapons and tools—the very things that might have given him a chance on his own. Deserted, defenseless, and furious, Glass vows his survival. And his revenge. From Publishers Weekly
Based on a true incident of heroism in the history of the American West, this debut by a Washington, D.C., international trade attorney and former bureaucrat in the Clinton administration is an almost painfully gripping drama. A Philadelphia-born adventurer, frontiersman Hugh Glass goes to sea at age 16 and enjoys a charmed life, including several years under the flag of the pirate Jean Lafitte and almost a year as a prisoner of the Loup Pawnee Indians on the plains between the Platte and the Arkansas rivers. In 1822, at age 36, Glass escapes, finds his way to St. Louis and enters the employ of Capt. Andrew Henry, trapping along tributaries of the Missouri River. After surviving months of hardship and Indian attack, he falls victim to a grizzly bear. His throat nearly ripped out, scalp hanging loose and deep slashing wounds to his back, shoulder and thigh, Glass appears to be mortally wounded. Initially, Captain Henry refuses to abandon him and has him carried along the Grand River. Unfortunately, the terrain soon makes transporting Glass impossible. Even though his death seems certain, Henry details two men, a fugitive mercenary, John Fitzgerald, and young Jim Bridger (who lived to become a frontier hero) to stand watch and bury him. After several days, Fitzgerald sights hostile Indians. Taking Glass's rifle and tossing Bridger his knife, Fitzgerald flees with Bridget, leaving Glass. Enraged at being left alone and defenseless, Glass survives against all odds and embarks on a 3,000-mile-long vengeful pursuit of his ignominious betrayers. Told in simple expository language, this is a spellbinding tale of heroism and obsessive retribution. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, IncLegend of Hugh Glass The story of Hugh Glass ranks as one of the most remarkable stories of survival in American history. So much so, that Hugh Glass became a legend in his own time. Little is actually known about Glass. It was said that he was a former pirate who gave up his life at sea to travel to the West as a scout and fur trapper. Exactly when is unknown. He is believed to have been born in Philadelphia around 1783. He had already been in the Western wilderness for several years when he signed on for an expedition up the Missouri River in 1823 with the company of William Ashley and Andrew Henry. The expedition used long-boats similar to those used by Lewis and Clark 19 years earlier to ascend the Missouri as far as the Grand River near present-day Mobridge, SD. There Glass along with a small group of men led by Henry started overland toward Yellowstone. At a point about 12 miles south of Lemmon, SD, now marked by a small monument, Glass surprised a grizzly bear and her two cubs while scouting for the party. He was away from the rest of the group at the time and the grizzly attacked him before he could fire his rifle. Using only his knife and bare hands, Glass wrestled the full-grown bear to the ground and killed it, but in the process he was badly mauled and bitten. His companions, hearing his screams, arrived on the scene to see a bloody and badly maimed Glass barely alive and the bear lying on top of him. They shot the bear head and uncovered Glass's mangled body. They bandaged his wounds the best they could and waited for him to die. The party was in a hurry to get to Yellowstone, so Henry asked for volunteers to stay until Glass was dead and then bury him. John Fitzgerald and Jim Bridger agreed and immediately began digging the grave. But after three days Glass was still alive when Fitzgerald and Bridger began to panic as a band of hostile Indians was seen approaching. The two men picked up Glass's rifle, knife and other equipment and dumped him into the open grave. They threw a bearskin over him and shoveled in a thin layer of dirt and leaves, leaving Glass for dead. But Glass did not die. After an unknown time, he regained consciousness to a very grim situation. He was alone and unarmed in hostile Indian territory. He had a broken leg and his wounds were festering. His scalp was almost torn away and the flesh on his back had been ripped away so that his rib bones were exposed. The nearest help was 200 miles away at Ft. Kiowa. His only protection was the bearskin hide. Glass set his own broken leg and on September 9, 1823, began crawling south overland toward the Cheyenne River about 100 miles away. Fever and infection took their toll and frequently rendered him unconscious. Once he passed out and awoke to discover a huge grizzly standing over him. According to the legend, the animal licked his maggot-infested wounds. This may have saved Glass from further infection and death. Glass survived mostly on wild berries and roots. On one occasion he was able to drive two wolves from a downed bison calf and eat the raw meat. According to Glass's own account he was driven by revenge. He told others that the only thing that kept him going was the thought of killing the men who had left him for dead. It took Glass two months to crawl to the Cheyenne River. There he built a raft from a fallen tree and allowed the current to carry him downstream to the Missouri and on to Ft. Kiowa, a point about four miles north of the present-day Chamberlain. After he regained his health, which took many months, Glass did indeed set out to kill the two men who had left him for dead. He found Bridger at a fur trading post on the Yellowstone River but didn't kill him because Bridger was only 19 years old. Glass later found Fitzgerald but didn't kill him either because Fitzgerald had joined the Army. Glass eventually returned to the Upper Missouri where he died in 1833 in a battle with hostile Arikaras Indians. As with many mountain men of the era, Glass himself wasn't much of a talker. However the story of his trek was recounted far and wide among other frontiersmen and even the native American tribes. The story needed no embellishment, but at least one version (false) had Glass cutting out the still-beating hearts of the men who left him for dead. Another claimed (again, falsely) that Glass forevermore carried Bridger's and Fitzgerald's scalps on his belt. In truth, Glass may have simply forgiven the men who had left him to die. The story of Hugh Glass is well known and has been made into a movie "A Man in the Wilderness" in 1971 staring Richard Harris and John Huston, a moderately accurate film. A novel, "Lord Grizzly" also recounts and embellishes the story. There's no evidence that Hugh Glass ever visited the Black Hills, although he certainly did know of them. As early as 1828 stories of gold in the Hills had begun to circulate, but Glass was a trapper and trader, not a gold seeker so he probably had little interest. Some accounts suggest that Glass may have been part of party that passed near the Black Hills in 1831 and may have visited the Hills briefly at that time. The monument to Hugh Glass is located on the shores of the Shadehill Reservoir southwest of Shadehill, SD. Books about Hugh Glass include: "Hugh Glass" by Bruce Bradley (1999 ISBN 0966900502) and "The Saga of Hugh Glass: Pirate, Pawnee and Mountain Man" by John Myers Myers (1976 ISBN 0803258348).
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Post by FWS on Apr 17, 2014 21:52:16 GMT -6
A lot, and in great variety, including shellfish.
I can eat some form of marine organism every day and not get tired of it, too much diversity in species and in preparing it. And I get a lot of wild game too. Good variety there too.
That's a pretty short list..............
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Post by FWS on Apr 17, 2014 12:21:16 GMT -6
Evacuation came too late; death toll expected to rise The Associated Press April 17, 2014 MOKPO, South Korea -- An immediate evacuation order was not issued for the ferry that sank off South Korea's southern coast, likely with scores of people trapped inside, because officers on the bridge were trying to stabilize the vessel after it started to list amid confusion and chaos, a crew member said Thursday. Meanwhile, the coast guard said it was investigating whether the ferry's captain was one of the first ones off the sinking ship. The first instructions from the captain were for the passengers to put on life jackets and stay put, and it was not until about 30 minutes later that he ordered an evacuation, Oh Yong-seok, a 58-year-old crew member, told The Associated Press. But Oh said he wasn't sure if the captain's order, given to crew members, was actually relayed to passengers on the public address system. Several survivors also told the AP that they never heard any evacuation order. The loss of that precious time may have deprived many passengers of the opportunity to escape as the Sewol sank Wednesday, not far from the southern city of Mokpo. Twenty people, including a female crew member, at least five students and two teachers, were confirmed dead by coast guard officials Thursday night. But the toll was expected to jump amid fears that more than 270 missing passengers — many high school students — were dead. Coast guard officials put the number of survivors Thursday at 179. Video obtained by AP that was shot by a survivor, truck driver Kim Dong-soo, shows the vessel listing severely as people in life jackets cling to the side of the ship to keep from sliding. A loudspeaker announcement can be heard telling passengers to stay in their quarters. The increasingly anxious search for the missing was hampered all day Thursday by strong, dangerous currents, rain and bad visibility. Officials said divers would continue trying overnight to enter the ship, hoping for gentler currents. There were 475 people aboard, including 325 students on a school trip to the tourist island of Jeju in the south of the country. The ferry had traveled overnight from Incheon on the northwestern coast of South Korea and was three hours short of its destination when it began to list. The cause is not yet known. The 146-meter (480-foot) Sewol now sits — with just part of its keel visible — in waters off Mokpo, about 470 kilometers (290 miles) from Seoul. Oh, a helmsman on the ferry with 10 years' shipping experience, said that when the crew gathered on the bridge and sent a distress call the ship was already listing more than 5 degrees, the critical angle at which the ship can be brought back to even keel. At about that time, a third mate reported that the ship could not be righted, and the captain ordered another attempt, which also failed, Oh said. A crew member then tried to reach a lifeboat but tripped because the vessel was tilting, prompting the first mate to suggest to the captain that everyone should evacuate, Oh said. The captain agreed and ordered an evacuation, but Oh said that amid the confusion and chaos on the bridge he does not recall the message being conveyed on the public address system. By then it was impossible for crew members to move to passengers' rooms to help them because the ship was tilted at an impossibly acute angle, he said. The delay in evacuation also likely prevented lifeboats from being deployed. "We couldn't even move one step. The slope was too big," said Oh, who escaped with about a dozen others, including the captain. At a briefing, Kim Soo-hyun, a senior coast guard official, told reporters that officials were investigating whether the captain got on the first rescue boat, but didn't elaborate. Passenger Koo Bon-hee, 36, told the AP that many people were trapped inside by windows that were too hard to break. He wanted to escape earlier but didn't because of the announcement that said passengers should stay put. "The rescue wasn't done well. We were wearing life jackets. We had time," Koo, who was on a business trip to Jeju with a co-worker, said from a hospital bed in Mokpo where he was treated for minor injuries. "If people had jumped into the water ... they could have been rescued. But we were told not to go out." It is not clear if the captain's actions violated any procedures, and he may have believed at the time that it was still possible to control the vessel, which would have made the order to evacuate unnecessary. Worried and angry parents of the students gathered at Danwon High School in Ansan, which is near Seoul, while other relatives assembled on Jindo, an island near where the ferry slipped beneath the surface, leaving only the blue-tipped, forward edge of its keel visible. In Mokpo, relatives of the dead students wailed and sobbed as ambulances drove away with the bodies, headed to Ansan. The families, who spent a mostly sleepless night at the Mokpo hospital, followed the ambulances in their cars. At the school, some desperate relatives lashed out in frustration, screaming threats at journalists. On Jindo island, one woman passed out and was carried to an ambulance. The family of one of the dead, 24-year-old teacher Choi Hye-jung, spoke about a young woman who loved to boast of how her students would come to her office and give her hugs. "She was very active and wanted to be a good leader," her father, Choi Jae-kyu, 53, said at Mokpo Jung-Ang Hospital while waiting for the arrival of his daughter's body. Choi's mother, sitting on a bench at the hospital, sobbed quietly with her head on her knee. While more than 400 rescuers searched nearby waters, coast guard spokesman Kim Jae-in said that in the next two days, three vessels with cranes onboard would arrive to help with the rescue and salvage the ship. Divers were working in shifts in an attempt to get inside the vessel, he said, but strong currents wouldn't allow them to enter. Kim said that divers planned to pump oxygen into the ship to help any survivors, but first they had to get inside. The water temperature in the area was about 12 degrees Celsius (54 Fahrenheit), cold enough to cause signs of hypothermia after about 90 minutes of exposure, officials said. The ocean was 37 meters (121 feet) deep in the area. Kim said coast guard officials were questioning the captain, but declined to provide details or speculate on the cause of sinking. "I am really sorry and deeply ashamed," a man identified by broadcaster YTN and Yonhap news agency as the captain, 68-year-old Lee Joon-seok, said in brief comments shown on TV, his face hidden beneath a gray hoodie. "I don't know what to say." Kim Han-sik, president of Chonghaejin Marine Co., the ship's owner, also apologized separately, bowing deeply and saying, "I committed a sin punishable by death. ... I am at a loss for words. I am sorry. I am sorry." The last major ferry disaster in South Korea was in 1993, when 292 people were killed.
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Post by FWS on Apr 17, 2014 11:58:33 GMT -6
Hunters Call For End Of Sunday BanBy Christian M. Wade Statehouse Reporter Salem News April 17, 2014 BOSTON — Mike Prendergast likes spending time outdoors, hiking through the wilderness, sleeping under the stars, and taking aim with his compound bow on white-tailed deer and wild turkey from his perch in a tree. Working more than 50 hours a week as a welder doesn’t leave much time for hunting. Making it harder, a centuries-old Massachusetts law bans him from hunting on Sundays, usually his only day off work. “You can go fishing, shopping and buy alcohol on Sundays, but you can’t hunt,” said Prendergast, 35, of Rowley. “Frankly, it doesn’t make any sense to me.” Lawmakers are considering a repeal of the Sunday ban, the product of a Puritan-era blue law, and sportsmen, including Prendergast, are hopeful that it will finally succeed. Campaigns to repeal the ban have been persistent but short-lived in Massachusetts. A bill filed by Rep. William Strauss, a South Shore Democrat, would allow bow-and-arrow hunting seven days a week during the state’s bow hunting season, which runs from Oct. 20 to Nov. 29. Another bill, filed by Rep. Byron Rushing, a Boston Democrat, would allow rifle or shotgun hunting on Sundays. That legislation also includes provisions to protect pigeons and increases the penalties for “sexual abuse of animals.” A third, filed by Rep. Anne Gobi, a Democrat from central Massachusetts, would allow bow-and-arrow hunting on Sundays and state holidays. Opponents of loosening the restrictions, led by the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, argue that hunting is allowed every other day, and hikers and bird watchers should be granted at least one day to enjoy the woods without worrying about getting shot or stumbling across a group of armed men dressing a deer carcass. “It may have started as a blue law, but with less land in the state and more development, there are significant reasons to keep the ban in place,” said Kara Holmquist, director of advocacy for the MSPCA. “If anything, the need for the prohibition on Sunday hunting is more important than ever.” Massachusetts is one of six states where hunting is completely banned on Sundays. The others are Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, according to the National Rifle Association. Another five states restrict Sunday hunting. Bob Young, a longtime bow hunter from Beverly, says the Sunday ban keeps younger hunters from getting involved in the sport. “There’s a lot of people who work five days a week, and their kids are involved in youth sports on Saturdays,” he said. “So, the only time to get out with their sons or daughters and teach them about the oldest sport in the world is Sunday, and they can’t do it. It’s sad.” Dennis Hayden, president of the Massachusetts Bowhunters Association, argues that the Sunday ban is preserved by “a vocal minority” of animal rights groups. He said people seldom get caught in the line of fire — especially from bows and arrows. “Bow hunting is far less dangerous to non-hunters and hunters alike than any other form of hunting,” he said. Hayden said bow hunting has gained acceptance as a means of controlling deer populations in rural and even suburban areas, where car collisions and Lyme disease from infected deer ticks are increasingly common. What’s more, he said, the Sunday ban is chasing away big bucks. Hunters from the Bay State are heading to New York, New Hampshire and Rhode Island, which allow Sunday hunts, Hayden said. Massachusetts also uses a portion of revenue from hunting licenses to buy and preserve tracts of open space. The state bought nearly 4,000 acres of land last year using proceeds from its $5 hunting licenses, according to the Department of Fish and Wildlife. But the number of hunting licenses in Massachusetts has been on the decline since 1996, when 98,179 were issued, according to state figures. In 2012, 72,064 were issued. “We’ve bought hundreds of thousands of acres of open space so hunters, hikers and bird watchers all can enjoy the outdoors,” Hayden said. “So, this would provide even more money for the state to preserve land.” Amy Mahler, a spokeswoman for Fish and Wildlife, declined to say if the agency has taken a position on the Sunday hunting ban and wouldn’t comment on the proposed bills. A spokesman for Gov. Deval Patrick did not return a phone call seeking comment. The Sunday Hunting Coalition — which includes the National Rifle Association, National Shooting Sports Association and retailers including Bass Pro Shops — is lobbying to repeal Sunday hunting bans in states that still have them. But they’ve had few victories. Last month, Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe signed a law giving hunters permission to go after deer and other wild animals on Sundays provided that they hunt on private property and stay 200 yards away from churches and other houses of worship. Some lawmakers have proposed expanding the legislation to allow hunting on public land. “The economic impact of that is going to be through the roof, and it’s only on private land,” said Jake McGuigan, director of state affairs for the National Shooting Sports Association. “They’re going to have a lot of people coming into the state to go hunting.” A 2011 study by the Congressional Sportsman’s Foundation suggested that Massachusetts would add 527 jobs and create $51 million in economic activity by lifting all restrictions on Sunday hunting. That estimate — based on surveys of hunters in Pennsylvania and North Carolina — assumes those in the Bay State would take advantage of at least one extra Sunday during the deer season. McGuigan said Massachusetts lawmakers have wrestled similar bills in the past — including legislation allowing shotgun and rifle hunting on Sundays. “For some reason, the leadership doesn’t want to bring this up,” he said. “Every year, it gets brought up, and every year, it gets shot down.” In 2011, Gobi proposed legislation that would have allowed shotgun hunting on Sundays, but the bill never came up for a vote. And her timing couldn’t have been worse. Shortly after filing the bill, a 66-year-old Norton woman walking her two dogs just was shot and wounded by a hunter who claimed that he thought she was a deer. The woman recovered from her injuries and the hunter, an off-duty state trooper, was not charged. “The bill got some traction and after that nobody wanted to touch it,” Gobi said.”We got a lot of pushback on that one.” Gobi said the non-hunting public tends to be more accepting of bows and arrows than shotguns. Because of that, she thinks the bow proposal has a better chance of passing.
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Post by FWS on Apr 17, 2014 11:52:18 GMT -6
Despite elk-loss research, Montana hunters protest increased quota on cougarsBy Rich Landers The Spokesman Review April 17, 2014 A Montana study that monitored elk fitted with radio collars has found that mountain lions have had a major impact on Bitterroot Valley elk herds. (Associated Press) A Montana study that monitored elk fitted with radio collars has found that mountain lions have had a major impact on Bitterroot Valley elk herds. (Associated Press)HUNTING — Here's an interesting twist to the turmoil about predators and their impact on Montana elk populations. Even though research has indicated that mountain lions kill way more elk than suspected in the Bitterroot Mountains — way more than wolves — there's opposition to reducing the cougar population, and it's coming from mountain lion hunters. Borthwestern Montana cougar hunters roundly criticized Fish, Wildlife and Parks’ proposed lion quotas for the next two seasons at the Fish and Wildlife Commission meeting in Helena last week, reports Brett French, outdoor writer for the Billings Gazette. Read on for the details in the rest of French's story. Under the proposed changes, lion quotas would be raised in 37 hunting districts and all of Region 7 in southeastern Montana allowing an additional 37 lions to be killed. In only two hunting districts, HD 121 and 122 in northwestern Montana, would the quota be reduced by four. The commission approved the creation of a study group to examine the idea of combining the six Region 2 hunting districts into one lion hunting license area with the number of licenses issued equal to twice the quota of the six districts. The group should have a recommendation to the commission by June. Quotas for lions in Region 2 would remain at 2013 levels. The hunters specifically denounced FWP’s lion population estimates in the Bitterroot Valley as being too high. The area has been under scrutiny because of declining elk populations blamed on a predator-rich environment that includes mountain lions, bears and wolves. A recent FWP study showed mountain lions killing more collared elk calves than the other predators combined, so this past season the second half of the lion hunt was opened to anyone with a lion tag, as opposed to limiting it to only those with a permit to hunt those specific hunting districts in the Bitterroot. The lion quota was also increased in the area. The result was a large influx of hunters from outside the region and the killing of young lions simply to satisfy outfitted clients, Bitterroot lion hunters charged. The additional hunting pressure was unwarranted, they said, because there are few of the big cats left. “They’re not there,” said Chuck Pyles, who lives along the West Fork of the Bitterroot River. “I hunt almost every day and they’re not there. I would like to see you lay off the females, lower the quota, because if not, we’re going to have a problem.” Veteran hunter Grover Hedrick said he drove 132 miles of roads and only found five adult lion tracks in the Bitterroot. “That’s not very many,” he said. The FWP study that estimated lion numbers for the region was criticized as deficient on many fronts by the hunters. “What we got was keyboard cougars and paper pumas,” said Rod Bullis. Retired Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife research scientist Gary Koehler called the baseline population a best guess in a study that couldn’t be replicated for verification. “This is a dangerous extrapolation from an untested protocol,” he said. He said that work the study cited in Washington utilizing DNA samples is still being peer reviewed and tested. “I’m concerned about using DNA … that may set a dangerous precedent for other wildlife agencies,” Koehler said. Fish and Wildlife Commission chairman Dan Vermillion said the lion controversy, which has dragged on for decades, is “one of the most vexing issues I’ve faced.” “Today’s comment period raised more questions for me than it answered, said Commissioner Matt Tourtlotte, of Billings. “For me, we’ve got a report that says the lion population is more than” what lion hunters are seeing. He said the commission is essentially being asked to consider two very different sets of numbers, both of which are vague. FWP Wildlife Bureau chief Quentin Kujala said the agency’s population study is undergoing peer review, which could provide more clarity for the commission. “It’s a vexing issue,” Tourtlotte said. “I fear I’ll hear about it every year I’m on the commission. I just think it’s a mess. It seemed like we were taking a step in the right direction but we’re bogged down in the mud.”
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Post by FWS on Apr 17, 2014 11:44:08 GMT -6
Not 'only', you have far fewer species and the size is pretty small on average. Also, your freshwater fish have lower health benefits since they are much lower in the omega-3 fatty acids, and may contain more of the unhealthy fatty acids. And consider how you prepare those freshwater fish, like breading and frying bluegill fillets. Most saltwater fish can be prepared without added fats, breading, batters, etc. Pretty close to what I'm able to do, but with many more inshore species. I was fishing surfperch on a beach a little while back, it was about 72 degrees, light breeze, surf was small. And there was what seemed a steady stream of girls jogging on the hard sand behind me, in those little nylon running shorts and jog bra tops. Beyond the surfline there was big flock of surf scoters (sea ducks) and the brown pelicans were diving on baitfish that were being pushed around by the pod of Pacific white-sided dolphins that were hunting. Dolphins were breaching and getting airborne, quite a spectacle. I'll take that over sitting on a bucket on ice jigging through a little hole in a snow machine suit................ And you'd really like them fresh caught, particularly when they're alive before cooking. The taste and texture is amazing, hence the reason why the Asians want so much of their seafood live and pay big money to get it. This is actually cheap for a superb product,
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