By default, the Azure AD Connect has a limit of 500 objects that can be deleted in single shot in your Active Directory without triggering a confirmation. In my customer's case, he deleted 1268 accounts and start receiving alerts from Microsoft Online Services Team, in this article we are going over the issue and the steps to solve it, before starting the fix make sure that you have the synchronization account handy because it will be required to complete this tutorial.
Note: the credential will be asked every single time that a cmdlet is executed.
After deleting the objects, the message received on the alert was similar to this one below.
In order to confirm the situation, we can open the miisclient.exe, and on the Connector related to Azure Active Directory (has the suffix – AAD) we will see stopped-deletion-threshold-exceeded, as depicted in the image below.
Logged on the server that has the AAD Connect installed, run the following cmdlet to list the current thresholdcount (by default is 500).
In order to disable the feature, use the following cmdlet, you will be prompted to enter the Azure AD Sync or similar role to authenticate.
After disabling the feature, we can always check the status by running the same Get-ADSyncExportDeletionThreshold cmdlet, as follows.
Now that the feature is disabled, we can go to the Azure AD Connector, right-click on it and on the new window and click on Export.
The process may take a while, you can check the progress by looking at the Deletes increasing on the Export Statistics.
After completion we can re-enable the feature, by running the cmdlet below (in our case we defined as 666). The entire operation can be seen on the image below.


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Review: Royal Ballet in Scenes de ballet / Voluntaries / The Rite of Spring at Royal Opera House
Performance: in rep until 11 June 2011
Reviewed by Graham Watts - Tuesday 31 May 2011
Reviewed: 28 May
***The Royal Ballet* closed its roster of productions for the 2010/11 season at the Royal Opera House (although we still have *Romeo & Juliet* _to come at the O2) with easily the best triple bill of the year, bringing together three of the company's great treasures: Frederick Ashton's monumental _Scènes de Ballet (not seen since 2004); Glen Tetley's aching requiem lament in Voluntaries and Kenneth McMillan's earthy, aboriginal The Rite of Spring. There were no risky premieres and no computer graphics to bedazzle us, just glorious dance that had been tried and tested many times before with these three works having had 300 prior performances at Covent Garden between them.
If there was a risk, it came with a trio of major debuts in leading roles as younger dancers emerged to claim these significant aspects of the Royal Ballet's heritage for themselves. In Scènes de Ballet it was Lauren Cuthbertson and Sergei Polunin who graduated into the roles originally made on Margot Fonteyn and Michael Somes in 1948; and in the boldest move of all, the role of the Chosen One in The Rite of Spring was to be danced by men, beginning in this first cast with Steven McRae (with Edward Watson to follow).
From the opening bars of Stravinsky's jazz-infused score to Scènes de Ballet (originally composed for a dance divertissement in a wartime Broadway Review), Sergei Polunin stamped an indelible mark with simple, yet masterful dancing: slicing the air with crisp entrechats, then holding an achingly long arabesque before letting loose strong quadruple pirouettes into double tours. His impeccable technique was studded with Ashton's postures and sharp turns of the head, and elegantly framed by four cavaliers. They give way to a corps de ballet of twelve ballerinas, gorgeously dressed in André Beaurepaire's sumptuous tutus, with iconic Toreador hats and pearl necklaces, heavily influenced by the 'New Look' couture that had swept Paris in the previous year.
Back in 2004, Lauren Cuthbertson was in this corps de ballet but now she has graduated to the star role. If Polunin roared his confident acquisition of this most iconic of ballets, Cuthbertson took control more demurely, but with no less success. Wearing Beaurepaire's iconic yellow & black tutu, she gave one of her most dazzling performances to date, announcing – if any further statement were needed – that she is the star British ballerina at the Royal Ballet, a role that has been vacant since Darcey Bussell's retirement in 2007. Cuthbertson had shown great potential (it is now several years since her debut as Juliet) until an illness temporarily derailed her career, but she has emerged from that unhappy period stronger and more determined, tackling this role – made on Fonteyn at the height of her powers – with great maturity. Her gloriously crisp and detailed footwork and expressive dancing spoke volumes in Beaurepaire's plotless and desolate landscape. .
Tetley's Voluntaries (1973) was made in memoriam to his friend and fellow choreographer, John Cranko (who died tragically young on a transatlantic flight) and is now regularly performed by the Royal Ballet. The lead pairing brought together the company's longest-serving and newest Principal dancers, with Leanne Benjamin partnered by Nehemiah Kish (who joined the company earlier this season). Kish is a powerful, broad, muscular dancer and Benjamin a tiny, sinuous performer and while both did all that they could, I felt that they were ill-matched, like chalk and cheese, in their pas de deux. The enigmatic Benjamin floated across Poulenc's dramatic Concerto for Organ, Strings and Percussion, capturing the exhilarating aspiration of the music, while Kish lifted and carried effortlessly but laboured to match Benjamin's evanescence. Years beyond the age at which most other dancers retire, Benjamin continues to dance to the very highest standard and long may it continue. Excellent support was provided by the ethereal Sarah Lamb, Ryoichi Hirano and an uncredited Valeri Hristov (a late replacement for Thiago Soares).
The much anticipated debut of Steven McRae as the Chosen One in The Rite of Spring turned out to be the disappointment of the day. The paradox being that McRae danced superbly well and was technically as solid as Polunin had been in Scènes. But, the Chosen One simply doesn't work as a man and however well McRae danced; he doesn't exude the vulnerability and despair that, for example, inhabits Mara Galeazzi's interpretation of this role (for me the best of the chosen people in modern times). Instead, one had the feeling that McRae's Chosen One was playing a game in these Rites; and one that he was knowingly – even arrogantly – winning, which meant that the dénouement of his death was a surprising anti-climax instead of a long slow, build towards the stunning concluding crescendo. At the curtain call, McRae looked hardly out of breath, whereas Galeazzi would have been dead on her feet. It makes a difference. The 46-strong tribe of Royal Ballet dancers were, however, triumphant in delivering one of the most astonishingly visceral ensemble performances in the company's repertoire, thus bringing to an end an excellent programme with which to close Dame Monica Mason's penultimate season as the company's Director. Since she was the original Chosen One, 49 years ago, it seems a fitting way to segue into her final year at the company's helm.
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Best Fly Rods
By Spencer Durrant / Rods
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Over the past decade, I reckon I've fished nearly 100 different fly rods, thanks in large part to my job as a fly fishing writer. Gear reviews are always popular, and fly rod companies are constantly bringing new products to the market. All this time spent reviewing rods has allowed me to figure out what makes a rod truly great, instead of just good or average.
Best Under $200Redington Classic Trout
3 - 6 Weight
Best Under $500Sage Foundation
Best Over $500Orvis Helios 3D
5 - 12 Weight
Best Fly Rods for the Money
Best budget fly rods under $200
Best Mid-Priced Rods – $200 – $500
Best Expensive Rods – $500+
What Are The Best Fly Rods By Weight?
Top 3wt Fly Rod
Hardy Zephrus – Top 4wt Fly Rod
Sage X – Top 5wt Fly Rod
G Loomis IMX Pro – Top 6wt Fly Rod
Orvis Helios 3D – Top 7wt Fly Rod
Scott Sector – Top 8wt Fly Rod
Best Fly Rods By Species
Sage X – Top Fly Rod for Trout
Hardy Zephrus DH – Top Fly Rod for Salmon
G Loomis IMX Pro – Top Fly Rod for Smallmouth Bass
Scott Sector – Top Fly Rod for Largemouth Bass
What is Your Experience Level?
Echo Base – For Beginners
Thomas & Thomas Zone – For Intermediate Fly Fishing
Take Your Pick – For Professional Fly Fishing
Echo Base Kit – Best Beginner Fly Fishing Starter Kit
Sage Foundation – Best Fly Rod & Reel Combo
Thomas & Thomas Classic Series – Best Bamboo Fly Rod
Hardy Zephrus – Best 2 Handed Spey Fly Rod
How much does a good fly rod cost?
Who makes the best fly fishing rods?
Best Top End Fly Rod Brands
Mid-Range Fly Rod Brands
Budget Fly Rod Brands
Fly Rod Warranties
Saltwater vs Freshwater Rods
Fighting butt
Reel Seat
Caring For Your Fly Rod
So, as you look to add another rod to your quiver, this guide should help you figure out which fly rods are the best for your money. I've broken the rods down into categories based on price, because budget is the determining factor for which rods you can or can't buy.
For the most part, fly rods that are cheaper than $200 aren't all that great. This price range is tricky to get right, because manufacturers have to cut costs somewhere. So, you'll usually see these rods come with a lower-quality cork handle, or a less-fancy rod tube than you'd expect to see on other fly rods. These are small trade-offs to make, though, for grabbing a fly rod that costs less than $200 and still performs admirably.
With that in mind, here are the best rods you can buy for less than $200.
Orvis Clearwater
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Orvis has long been known for building some of the best fly rods on the planet, and they've been doing it for as long as anyone else – if not longer. The Orvis Clearwater Fly Rod is yet another example of why so many anglers decide to fish Orvis. This rod has a fast-action that's pleasant to fish with for an entire day. The rod has a surprising amount of power in the butt section, meaning you can really punch out line at distance, even through a stiff wind or with heavy bugs on the end of your leader.
The Orvis Clearwater Fly Rod probably won't win over a lot of fans in the aesthetics department, but that shouldn't dissuade you from giving it a try. This rod is capable of quite a lot, and it's priced amazingly well.
Fenwick Aetos
For years, until Orvis came out with their newly-designed Clearwater, the rod that I told all new anglers to fish was the Fenwick Aetos. I'm still not sure how Fenwick manages to build this rod for less than $200, but they do. It's surprisingly light for being in this price range, and it has a very light swing weight.
Fenwick doesn't offer any kind of lifetime warranty with this rod, but very few rods at this price will. Overall, though, the Aetos is a great piece of gear that's capable of laying out a size 22 dry fly or picking up and fishing a heavy nymph rig. It'll even toss smaller streamers with aplomb.
If you're looking for a good beginner rod, I'd say it's a dead heat between the Clearwater and the Aetos. My recommendation is to head to a local fly shop, give them the good ol' fly shop wiggle, and see which one you enjoy best
Redington Classic Trout
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I didn't put the Redington Classic Trout down here at the bottom for any specific reason. It's a fantastic rod with a very reasonable price. As the name implies, it's primarily a stick for fishing traditional trout flies – dries and smaller nymphs. It'll fish these incredibly well, and the Classic Trout may very well be one of the best fishing rods you'll find on the rack at a fly shop. There's a difference between a good fishing rod and a bad one, and the Classic Trout is tons of fun to fish.
It features a medium-fast action that forces you to slow down while casting. The light tip protects smaller tippets well, though it might be a bit under-powered if you run into some truly big fish. Rounding out this fly rod is a surprisingly nice rosewood reel seat and decent cork. In all, if you need a rod for small streams and spooky fish, but don't want to spend more than $200, the Classic Trout is worth a serious look.
This is another tough category, because the lower end of it features rods that are only marginally better than their sub-$200 counterparts. The upper end of this fly rod price range, though, is full of sticks that are really, truly good rods – but at the cost of $500, isn't it worth it to just spend $800 and get the best available?
That's a question you'll have to answer for yourself. The following rods, though, are among the best you'll find in this price range.
Douglas DXF
Douglas is a newer rod company, based out of New York, but they don't act like it. Their rods are top-of-the-line in every price range, and I've yet to find a Douglas that I don't absolutely love. The DXF is no exception, and it may very well be the best fly rod under $500.00.
This is a fast-action stick, made to handle anything trout fishing throws your way. The matte green blank is gorgeous, and Douglas selects beautiful wood inserts for the reel seat. This rod does not come in a rod and reel combo, although I don't think that should be a make-or-break factor in your decision.
The DXF is easily one of my favorite rods I've fished in the past five years.
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The Foundation is one of the best efforts I've seen Sage make at building a truly fantastic entry-level rod. If you're a fan of fast-action rods, the Foundation is for you. It features a taper and feel eerily similar to the heralded XP, with enough backbone to push flies through wind, but the delicacy to present tiny dries at short distances.
Of course, the tradeoff here is that you get a rod that's not as aesthetically pleasing, nor is it as light as some other rods. But if you want a Sage and Sage-like performance, but don't want to pay more than $400, it's hard to pass up the Foundation. It's just a fun fly fishing rod that's extremely capable and a joy to fish.
The good news is that the Foundation is covered by Sage's lifetime warranty. If anything happens to this rod, you send it in, and for $75, Sage will either repair or replace this fly rod.
Thomas And Thomas Zone
Thomas & Thomas has a reputation for making some of the best fly rods in recent memory. A vintage Thomas & Thomas fly rod commands respect and reverence from most anglers I know. But the company sort of fell off the map for a while, before re-entering a few years back with a bang.
The Zone is their cheapest fly rod, but at $499, it's not being sold for chump change. The Zone is a great trout fishing rod, with a nice moderate-fast action that's not too slow. And, Thomas & Thomas offers a lifetime warranty on this rod, too. That helps give you some peace-of-mind when you take your fly rod on a long trip and worry about it breaking.
Lastly, the Zone is one of the prettiest rods on this list. Thomas & Thomas doesn't skimp when it comes to build quality, and the deep midnight-blue of the blank, its unsanded ridges, and amazing cork handle combine to really make this a stunner of a fly rod.
Echo Trout
Echo is another company making and selling great fly rods right now. The Trout rod is a newer addition to their lineup, but it's more than proven its worth as a solid fishing stick. Each rod model features a different action, so you can match your fishing style to a rod that has a matching action. For example, the 8'6″ 4wt will fish completely differently from the 9′ 6wt. These rods have all been built from the ground-up in each length and weight category to deliver a truly great fishing experience.
The Trout doesn't skimp on looks either, like some of Echo's other rods. It features a matte-black blank with blue thread wraps, and decent cork. The cork handle is shaped to accommodate a wide variety of grip styles, too. In all, this is one fly rod that you definitely need to give a serious look.
Hardy Sirrus Glass
Word on the street is that the Sirrus Glass will be discontinued soon, but that shouldn't stop you from picking one up if you can find them for sale. This is the first fiberglass fly rod on this list, and it's not that I have anything against glass fly rods. It's just that there are so many great rods to choose from for a piece like this, that some have to be cut.
The Sirrus Glass fly rod, though, deserves a spot on this list because of the fishing experience it offers. It's an absolute pleasure to cast, with a soft, forgiving action that glass fly rods are known for. It's an excellent dry fly rod, and it looks great, too.
Scott Flex
Scott is another fly rod company that has a long history of building great fishing tools. The Flex is a fast-action offering that's a bit pricey, but good if you're looking for a fly rod that will do it all without hesitation, the Flex should be at the top of your list. It can handle just about any fishing situation you throw at it, and then ask for more.
Douglas Upstream
Douglas gets another entry in the mid-priced fly rod market with their incredible Upstream rod. This fly rod is built for dry fly fishing on tiny water, and it does that exceptionally well. Available only in weights 2-4, the Upstream fly rod features a blank color that's reminiscent of bamboo, with spigot ferrules and an incredible, soft slow action. If your idea of a perfect day of fishing involves small creeks, small fish, and tiny flies, than this is the rod you need in your quiver.
In all honesty, once you hit the $500 or so mark when shopping for fly rods, the differences between one rod or the other really depend on your fishing style. A $600 rod will be nearly as great as an $800 rod, and you're not sacrificing anything by going with the $600 option. In this category, the most important thing you can do when shopping for a rod is to find one that matches your wants and desires exactly. You're spending a lot of money – get something perfect. This will be an important part of your fly fishing life for years to come – so don't skimp.
Winston Air
Winston makes some of the best rods on the planet, period. They build according to the philosophy that the best fly rod is one which is the best fly fishing rod – not just a fly rod that can throw an entire fly line. The Air embodies that philosophy incredibly well, and it's one of my favorite fly rods I've ever fished.
The Air features the classic Winston progressive action, which is quick and lively in close, but slower and more controlled at distance. This fly rod is one that will handle any situation you want to put it in. Hand-crafted in Twin Bridges, Montana, the Air is probably best known as a dry fly rod, though I wouldn't hesitate to throw big streamers with it, either. This fly rod has the backbone to get the job done, and it's one of the finest fly rods Winston has ever built.
Orvis Helios 3D
When Orvis released this rod, they billed it as the most accurate rod ever built. After having fished it for a few years now, I have to agree with Orvis – the H3D certainly gives you the tools you need to make pinpoint casts at any distance.
This is a fast-action fly rod that generates a high line speed and does it all with almost no swing weight present. That means you can fish this rod all day long and not end up with tired, sore shoulders. For those of you who go on long fly fishing trips, this is particularly nice because you won't be exhausted by the end of your time on the water.
I've personally used the H3D on a variety of fish, from sockeye salmon in Alaska to tiger trout in Utah. It handles everything well, and whether it's the rod for you depends entirely on the rod action you're looking for. If you want a fast, wind-resistant fly rod that just gets the job done, then it's hard to pass up the H3D.
It's hard for me to talk up the H3D too much, in all honesty. This fly rod has handled catching 20-plus inch trout on 6x tippet, and then turns around and horses in a seven-pound sockeye salmon. It feels indestructible, and I'd be surprised if I ever break any of the H3 rods I own.
Douglas Sky G
Of all the rods on this list, if I could only have on to fish with for the rest of my days, I'd pick the Sky G. I know I've featured Douglas a lot on this list, but it's for a good reason. They make fantastic fly fishing rods. It's that simple. I have more fun fly fishing when I'm using my Sky G than almost any other rod.
The Sky G has a fantastic progressive action and a blank stiff enough to pick up 60 feet of line and recast it in one motion. If you spend a lot of time fly fishing big water, the Sky G will be a revelation for your fly fishing game.
Despite all that speed and power, the Sky G protects lights tippets extremely well, and generates amazing line speed. It's also the rod with the lowest swing weight ever recorded in George Anderson's Yellowstone Angler 5-weight Shootout.
For trout fishing, I'd be hard-pressed to name a rod other than the Sky G that's the best. I've fished it in a variety of situations, from small streams to big rivers and lakes. It handles it all with grace, and makes casting feel effortless. It's so light, yet powerful and responsive, that at times you forget you even have a rod in-hand.
And at the price of $795, it's hard to justify not buying this rod. And I'm not being hyperbolic here. It's really that great of a fishing tool.
Now, let's answer a few of the more popular questions I'm often asked about picking new fly rods.
This section will look at which rods are the best, according to the rated line weight. Each weight has a specific range of use and the intended application.
3 Weight Fly Rod
Fly anglers primarily use a 3wt rod on smaller rivers and creeks. This scenario is very often associated with dry fly fishing. However, one of the most versatile rods one can buy today is a 10ft 3wt, more suited for nymph fishing.
Sage Trout LL – Top Dry Fly 3wt Fly Rod
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Sage made use of their latest KonneticHD technology to design the ultimate dry fly rod. The 3wt Trout LL is available in two lengths. The 7'9" model is ideal for small intimate streams where shorts casts are required underneath dense overgrowth. Due to its shorter length (compared to the 8'9" model), it loads easier at close distances.
The 8'9" 3wt Trout LL is my rod of choice. This versatile rod provides the angler with a tool that can deliver longer casts, yet it can put down a fly with incredible finesse due to the medium action. The longer length also makes line control easier, especially when fishing in rivers with tricky currents.
The Trout LL has a timeless mahogany blank color, bronze thread wraps with gold accents, and Fuji ceramic stripper guides. The super grade snub nose, half wells cork grip is as good as it gets, offering a comfortable and delicate grip. At the butt-end of the rod, you have a bronze-colored reel seat with a walnut wood insert.
This rod will make any dry fly loving fly angler's knees weak.
Thomas & Thomas Contact II – Top Nymphing 3wt Fly Rod
The new Thomas & Thomas Contact II is the ultimate nymphing rod. The tip is incredibly sensitive, yet the rod has enough backbone to handle large fish with ease. I would not hesitate to take this 3wt rod into larger rivers and target 6lb trout. Yet, I've fished it, with great success, on small rivers throwing size 18 and 20 nymphs.
The Contact II 3wt is available in 3 lengths, including a 10', 10'9", and an 11'2". The longer rods do offer more reach; however, I prefer fishing with the 10-foot model. It provides you enough reach to stay in contact with the flies, yet it is just short enough to fish smaller rivers.
Of all the 4wt fly rods I've fished with this year, the Hardy Zephrus 9ft 4wt is my favorite. The versatile length makes it suitable for both boat and wade fishing. The Zephrus is also available in a 4wt rendition; however, I didn't have the opportunity to fish with it, so I cannot comment on its performance.
Back to the 9ft model. Hardy used their Sintrix 440 material in the blank. This material doesn't necessarily make for the lightest rod; however, the feeling and durability is impeccable. The rod is equipped with singlefoot REC black recoil guides and Fuji titanium stripper guides, which help keep weight to a minimum.
The rod has a fast action yet forgiving action. It is nowhere near a G Loomis Asquith or so. The other thing that I love about the Zephrus is that, although it is a premium rod, it comes in at about $200 less than the other big names.
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If I could only choose one freshwater fly rod, it will be a 5 weight. Its versatility allows you to delicately cast to rising trout on smaller rivers and target bass in lakes. One of the top multi-purpose rods on the market is the Sage X. It is a brilliant 5 weight.
There are five models in the 5 weight line size, each with a specific intended purpose. The 9ft 5 weightt would be my first choice. The length is ultra-versatile, giving you the best balance between line control in the water and castability. Sage offers this length of the X either with a fighting butt (591-4) or without (590-4).
If you regularly fish of a drift boat or under overgrowth, the 8'6" model will suit you best. The rod can form tight loops with ease.
For increased reach, especially when nymphing, the 9'6" and 10" model is ideal. The extended reach allows you to control drifts better. The butt section of these two rods is also quite substantial, which means that you can target much larger fish.
Before we get stuck into what this rod is about, I know that some of you are thinking: "But the IMX Pro hasn't won any awards as the best 6wt rod?". Yes, I know that. I chose the IMX Pro is the top 6wt fly rod not because of how it casts but rather how well it fishes in the long run.
I've had the privilege to fish with the IMX Pro many times, and every time I think, "This is all I need.". The rod comes into its own when fighting fish such as bass or large trout. It has immense power.
Probably the thing that I love the rod the most is its durability. G Loomis rods have always, at least in my opinion, been very durable. The IMX Pro is no different.
Depending on your needs, there are two models in the IMX-Pro 6wt range. A 9ft all-purpose rod and a 9'6" option, which is excellent for longer casts and controlling the line in tricky drifts.
There are two 7wt versions of the Orvis Helios 3D. The 9ft version is an ideal multi-application stick that will cover most scenarios. The 10ft rod is perfect for the surf and shore angler that needs to make longs casts.
Starting from the bottom, the Helios 3D has a substantial fighting butt made from a combination of reinforced and natural cork. The black anodized reel seat is saltwater ready and has a black carbon insert to reduce weight. A -high-quality full-wells grip is perfectly shaped to adapt according to power and accuracy needs. The rod is finished with a matte black blank color and black recoil snake guides, and SiC/Titanium strippers guides.
All of that means that the Orvis Helios 3D is a high performance, fast action rod that is saltwater ready. The 7wt is perfect for tackling anything from bass and carp to bonefish and stripers.
A good 8wt fly rod is the perfect rod for bonefish and sizeable freshwater fish species such as golden dorado and salmon. The Scott Sector, although primarily designed as a saltwater specific rod, performs well in both scenarios.
At the butt end, you'll find a fighting butt made from EVA foam and cork. The black anodized aluminum reel seat has the Scott logo engraved onto it. A handy line weight rating is also engraved on the locking rings, making it easy to identify the rod.
The line guides are all of the recoil type. A thin clear coat is applied on the rod blank, exposing the coil-like carbon wraps that Scott is known for.
The Sector holds nothing back in terms of performance. It is lightweight, has an impeccable recovery rate, and can handle sizeable fish.
In this section, we'll look at the best specific fly rods for catching particular fish. The species we look at include trout, salmon, smallmouth, and largemouth bass.
Trout can vary significantly in size. Take the rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss), for example. In the streams of Cape Town, where I regularly target them, they are, on average, between 5 and 12 inches long. In Jurassic Lake, Argentina, they attain sizes of well over 20lbs. These are the two extremes. In my opinion, most of the trout fly fishing in the world is suited for a 5 weight.
For this reason, the best all-around fly rod for trout is the Sage X.
If you're looking for a dedicated fly rod for salmon, the best option is a double handed rod. One of my favorite double handers is the Hady Zephrus DH. It is available in 7 models and in lengths ranging from 11'6" to 15'11".
Smallmouth bass is incredibly fun to catch. What I love about them is that they can be caught in rivers. They're powerful fighters and take a fly eagerly. Smallmouth bass is smaller than their larger cousin, the largemouth bass.
The ideal rod to target smallmouth bass is a strong 6wt. Our top 6wt fly rod mentioned above, the G Loomis IMX Pro, is a perfect smallmouth rod.
Largemouth bass is a different kettle of fish. They are super aggressive and usually, after taking the fly, turn back to their nest. This fighting style, together with the fact that they can get massive, means you need a rod with a lot of power. You'll also cast giant flies such as frogs, mice, and baitfish imitations.
In my opinion, the best rod weight for largemouth bass is an 8wt. The rod will deal with the large flies with ease and have enough stopping power to put pressure on a large specimen. The Scott Sector will handle bass with ease.
Selecting a rod according to your experience level, especially when you're a beginner, is vitally important. I've seen beginner anglers cast high performance, fast action rods, and they couldn't get the line out. When switched over to a more suitable rod, they found the entire experience much more pleasurable.
I find that beginners perform better with a medium actioned rod. What this means is that the rod bends much deeper into the blank, resulting in more feeling. This characteristic helps the new caster time the cast better, ultimately resulting in a better cast. The medium action also allows them to slow down the casting stroke to gain a better understanding of all the mechanics involved.
One of my favorite beginner rods is the Echo Base 5 weight. The price is unbeatable, and it comes with a rod tube, rod sock, and lifetime warranty. This four-piece rod has a medium-fast action and can tackle most freshwater fishing applications.
Most of us fall into this category. You spend more than 20 days a year on the river and have your cast and double haul dialed in. You'll benefit greatly from a faster action rod and need a tool that is light in hand, will last you for years to come and is moderately priced.
Many rods suit these requirements; however, one of my favorites is the Thomas & Thomas Zone. The Zone is available in sizes from 7' 6" 3wt to a 9' 10wt. It is hand-built in the States, comes with a lifetime warranty, and performs exceptionally well, even compared to rods double its price.
If you're a professional fly angler, you probably have your favorite rod, or you're on a pro-staff program of sorts. Once again, there is a myriad of exceptional high-performance fly rods on the market. Brands such as Orvis, Sage, Thomas & Thomas, and Scott all make outstanding rods. It all boils down to personal preference and the amount of money you're willing to spend.
As mentioned above, one of my favorite beginner rods is the Echo Base due to its low cost and a perfect medium action. Echo also offers this rod in kit form in the Echo Base Kit. The kit includes the following:
Echo Base rod
Echo Base reel
Weight forward floating fly line
A hard case that can accommodate the reel attached to the rod
While I seldomly recommend a premium fly rod and reel combo, the Sage Foundation Outfit offers excellent money value. All the items included in the combo are of exceptional quality and will serve you well for many years to come. The Sage Foundation Outfit is available in 4wt to 8wt.
The Sage Foundation Outfit includes the following:
Sage Foundation Rod, which is constructed with Graphite IIIe technology
Sage Spectrum C reel suited
Rio Gold fly line, which is one of the best trout fly lines on the market
A fabric-covered hard case that protects the rod and reel
Bamboo has taken the backseat as a rod building material after the introduction of fiberglass and carbon fiber. These two materials have some performance improvements, but the biggest reason they took over is that they can be produced at a higher rate.
A bamboo rod takes expert craftsman weeks to build. This slow production rate and the artisan's incredible skills result in a high cost. However, for those that can afford it, bamboo rods are unlike anything else. They are smooth to cast and have an incredible feel to them.
One of the best bamboo fly rods on the market is the Thomas & Thomas Classic Series. It is available in weights ranging from 3 to 6, which suits most trout applications.
Although single hand rods are versatile, if you're fishing for steelhead and salmon regularly, you need a two-handed rod. Once again, there is a heap of exceptional brands and rods on the market. One of my favorite two-handers is the Hardy Zephrus.
The Zephrus is constructed using their Sintrix 440 material, which is ultra-durable. The finishes include REC recoil guides and Fuji stripper guides. The Zephrus double-hander range consists of 7 rods ranging from an 11'6" 6wt to a high powered 15'1" 10wt.
This all depends on your definition of good. If you want a rod and reel combo, you'll always pay more. If you prefer a low rod weight, you'll also have to shell out more money. If you're after something that's just an absolute joy to fish, you don't have to spend as much – but you definitely can.
I guess the best way to tackle this question is to say that a good fly rod costs as much as you're willing to spend. Thanks to advances in rod building technology, it's possible to find a great fishing rod at nearly any price point. Yes, there are marked differences between a top-of-the-line rod and a budget bin pick, but those are tradeoffs you'll have to decide to make on your own.
This is another question I hear often, and the answer is fairly the same as above – it all depends. Right now, however, Orvis [1], Winston [2], Sage [3], and Douglas [4] are producing some of the best rods on the market, all at various price points. Other manufacturers are doing well too, but these are the rods I personally love to fish the most. Echo and Redington are building good rods right now, too, and you can't overlook Fenwick, either.
The bottom line is that it's easier now than ever before to find a good fly rod at any price. The only limiting factor here is your own budget.
Here is a list of some of the best top-end fly rod brands (in no particular order):
Swift (Epic)
Here is a list of some of the best mid-range fly rod brands (in no particular order)
Here is a list of some of the best budget fly rod brands (in no particular order)
Fly rod warranties can be quite deceiving. If a rod comes with a lifetime warranty, it does not mean that they will repair it no matter how it breaks. Usually, a lifetime warranty means:
Rod manufacturers will repair the rod if the rod breaks due to poor craftsmanship or material failure
This warranty is usually non-transferable. So, it's only valid for the original owner.
So, let's have a look at what the difference is between a freshwater and saltwater rod. Let's break it down to a component level:
The blank of a fresh or saltwater rod is optimized to perform in the intended scenario. For instance, a lightweight freshwater rod might be designed specifically to cast size 18 dry flies in small creeks. This exact blank will not fare well in the salt environment.
In contrast, a 9wt designed for flats fishing will not perform on the small creek mentioned above. So, the blank needs to be optimized for the intended purpose.
Saltwater rods have a much faster action in my experience, which allows the angler to produce high line speeds. This high line speed deals with wind and large flies better. These fast-actioned designs have started making their way into freshwater rods in the last couple of years.
Freshwater rods under 5-weight seldomly have fighting butts. The exception here is long euro nymphing rods, where the fighting butt is used to anchor the rod against your forearm when high-sticking.
All proper saltwater fly rods have a decent sized fighting butt. This fighting butt helps to anchor the rod when fighting a fish and keeps the reel away from your body as the fish makes a run.
The reel seat on a saltwater rod must be constructed using anti-corrosive materials. Saltwater takes its toll on most fly rod hardware. The most popular reel seat material is anodized aluminum.
Freshwater rods come in a wide variety of grip styles. On light rods, a small half-wells grip allows for delicate and accurate presentations. Heavier rods have beefier full wells grips that will enable more power input during the cast.
Almost all saltwater rods have a version of a full-wells grip.
Here we're specifically talking about the material used to construct the line guides.
As mentioned earlier, saltwater is incredibly corrosive. Therefore, any decent saltwater fly rod will use titanium, stainless steel, or similar material for the line guides.
Whether you have a $100 beginner or a $1000 saltwater specific fly rod, it is essential to care for your rod. A well looked after rod will perform at its best, won't let you down when you need it, and last many years to come.
A rod used in a saltwater environment takes the hardest beating. So, we'll use a saltwater environment as an example. This procedure may also be applied to your freshwater rods.
After each day on the water, it is essential to thoroughly rinse the most vulnerable parts of the rod with fresh water. These parts are the line guides and the reel seat locking screws.
What I do is:
Undo the reel (while keeping it rigged up) and rinse it off
Turn the reel locking screws back and rinse it off
Re-insert the reel and tighten the locking screws
After a full week on the water, take the rod apart and thoroughly rinse all the components and ferrules. Then take a clean cloth and dry everything. Once you get home, do the following:
Polish the blank and ferrules with some furniture polish
Lightly coat the reel seat and line guides with a thin coat of general-purpose lubricant
At the end of the day, the fly rod that you'll love the most is the one that you like the most. The best thing you can do to make sure you find the right rod is to visit fly shops, test cast them, and even see if your fishing buddies have one you can borrow for a trip or two. With the more expensive rods, it's definitely an investment you want to make carefully. The cheaper rods are still great – but it's less important to really love a $150 rod than a $900 one.
It's also important to match the rod to your fishing style and most common fishing situations. I live and work in the Rocky Mountains, so I tend to buy fly rods that are better for small streams and smaller fish. That's the kind of fishing I do most, and my fly rod collection matches that fairly well. I tend to have more slower, softer-action fly rods than most other anglers I know, because that's the kind of fly fishing I prefer to do.
Do your homework, look for the fly rods that fit your fishing style, and set a budget. Once you do those three things, you'll be able to find a fly rod that's perfect for your fly fishing adventures for years to come.
[1] https://www.orvis.com/
[2] https://winstonrods.com/
[3] https://www.sageflyfish.com/
[4] https://douglasoutdoors.com/
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Highlands' Seth Cohen scores past Mt. Pleasant's Jonas King Friday, Feb. 1, 2019 at High School.
Mt. Pleasant's Jacob Johnson and Jonas King defends on Highlands' Antonine McDaniel Friday, Feb. 1, 2019 at High School.
Edging toward its 11th section title in school history, Highlands showed no letdown from Tuesday's big win at Knoch.
The Golden Rams put on a show for the home fans Friday on senior night, rolling to an 86-59 victory over Mt. Pleasant in a Section 1-4A contest.
Junior Johnny Crise scored 21 points, punctuated by four dunks in the first half, and collected 16 rebounds — three during one offensive sequence.
Highlands held the Vikings scoreless for a little more than six minutes in the first half, racing to a 41-19 lead at halftime.
The Golden Rams are 8-1 in the section, 13-5 overall. They need a victory at Derry on Tuesday night to clinch at least a share of the section crown.
Knoch's game was postponed Friday night. It is a half-game behind the Golden Rams with two games left.
Highlands went on an 18-0 run that bridged the first and second quarters to take control.
Mt. Pleasant fell to 4-15, 1-8.
Crise had 12 rebounds in the first half, compared to seven for Mt. Pleasant, which often was limited to one shot per possession.
Crise led four Golden Rams in double figures. Korry Myers had 17 points and Dom Pesci 15, though both started the game on the bench, giving way to seniors Dylan Signorella and Chris Leahy.
Junior Luke Cochran had 11 assists for Highlands to go with his 15 points.
Despite the down season, the future looks bright for Mt. Pleasant. Junior Jacob Johnson scored 21 points, and promising freshman Luke Brandner, at 6-foot-5, finished with 15 points.
Sophomore Jonas King, at 6-4, grabbed seven rebounds to lead the Vikings.
"I keep saying, and I guess I'm tired of saying, we're very young," Bilinsky said. "We lose Sam Napper and Zak Lucullo, one starter and one sub, but we have a lot coming back. Luke has a lot of room to grow.
If Highlands and Knoch tie for section honors, both will receive a plaque, per WPIAL policy.
For Highlands, it would be the fourth time in school history the Golden Rams won back-to-back sections.


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That's why this afternoon was so incredible. But rewind to yesterday. My boss and I were talking about my transition and we discussed moving options, including renting a Uhaul truck. This afternoon, he calls to say last night that his sister had a dream about him and "Charles Porter." In it, I was driving a Uhaul down to my bosses house, and unloading stuff, and it was all confused and a mess and Greg came out and helped and we got it all put together and organized. His sister was not aware of the impending move.


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C-Fu: The Tofu Made Of 100 Percent Mealworm Protein
Fry it up with some sesame oil and ginger
By Francie Diep | Published Feb 3, 2015 1:30 AM
C-Fu Raw, C-Fu in an Empanada
We haven't tasted it yet, but we love it already. A team of graduate students at Cornell University created a tofu-like product made entirely with protein taken from mealworms, the Cornell Daily Sun reports. The product is called 'c-fu,' which combines the Chinese word for curd—"to-fu" in Chinese means "bean curd"—with the letter "C" because the original c-fu was made with cricket proteins. However, in the spirit of improvement, the team later found that mealworm-fu is tastier than cricket-fu.
Like other insect food products, c-fu is aimed at creating something that's as appealing as meat, but has a lighter impact on the environment. Bugs use less land, eat less food, and emit less planet-warming gases per pound of protein they make, compared to larger animals such as cattle and poultry. In a blog post, the team estimated that an area the size of Rhode Island, full of farmed mealworms, would feed 2 billion people.
As for the appeal, team members have posted some nice photos of c-fu dishes on their blog. They also filmed their classmates' reactions to trying the stuff. "It's pretty good," one tester opines. "It tastes like a really firm tofu," offers another.
To make the mealworm cubes, the Cornell students developed a way to isolate the protein from ground-up worms and to restructure the proteins into tofu-like blocks. Although it takes 10,000 mealworms to make about one pound of c-fu, the resulting product has about as much protein pound-for-pound as egg, and it has more protein than tofu, the team reports. It also contains omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids. Diets rich in those nutrients are associated with lower risks for heart disease.
The team will present c-fu at a conference called Thought For Food next month. There, it'll be competing for up to $10,000 in seed funding, to turn c-fu into a supermarket product.
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Reading the Mind of Artificial-Intelligence Systems That Process Language
Neural networks, which learn to perform computational tasks by analyzing huge sets of training data, have been responsible for the most impressive recent advances in artificial intelligence, including speech-recognition and automatic-translation systems.
During training, however, a neural net continually adjusts its internal settings in ways that even its creators can't interpret. Much recent work in computer science has focused on clever techniques for determining just how neural nets do what they do.
In several recent papers, researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and the Qatar Computing Research Institute have used a recently developed interpretive technique, which had been applied in other areas, to analyze neural networks trained to do machine translation and speech recognition.
Neural nets are so named because they roughly approximate the structure of the human brain. Typically, they're arranged into layers, and each layer consists of many simple processing units — nodes — each of which is connected to several nodes in the layers above and below. Data is fed into the lowest layer, whose nodes process it and pass it to the next layer. The connections between layers have different "weights," which determine how much the output of any one node figures into the calculation performed by the next.
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They find empirical support for some common intuitions about how the networks probably work. For example, the systems seem to concentrate on lower-level tasks, such as sound recognition or part-of-speech recognition, before moving on to higher-level tasks, such as transcription or semantic interpretation.
But the researchers also find a surprising omission in the type of data the translation network considers, and they show that correcting that omission improves the network's performance. The improvement is modest, but it points toward the possibility that analysis of neural networks could help improve the accuracy of artificial intelligence systems.
"In machine translation, historically, there was sort of a pyramid with different layers," says Jim Glass, a CSAIL senior research scientist who worked on the project with Yonatan Belinkov, an MIT graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science. "At the lowest level there was the word, the surface forms, and the top of the pyramid was some kind of interlingual representation, and you'd have different layers where you were doing syntax, semantics. This was a very abstract notion, but the idea was the higher up you went in the pyramid, the easier it would be to translate to a new language, and then you'd go down again. So part of what Yonatan is doing is trying to figure out what aspects of this notion are being encoded in the network."
The work on machine translation was presented recently in two papers at the International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing. On one, Belinkov is first author, and Glass is senior author, and on the other, Belinkov is a co-author. On both, they're joined by researchers from the Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI), including Lluís Màrquez, Hassan Sajjad, Nadir Durrani, Fahim Dalvi, and Stephan Vogel. Belinkov and Glass are sole authors on the paper analyzing speech recognition systems, which Belinkov presented at the Neural Information Processing Symposium last week.
Leveling down
Neural nets are so named because they roughly approximate the structure of the human brain. Typically, they're arranged into layers, and each layer consists of many simple processing units — nodes — each of which is connected to several nodes in the layers above and below. Data are fed into the lowest layer, whose nodes process it and pass it to the next layer. The connections between layers have different "weights," which determine how much the output of any one node figures into the calculation performed by the next.
During training, the weights between nodes are constantly readjusted. After the network is trained, its creators can determine the weights of all the connections, but with thousands or even millions of nodes, and even more connections between them, deducing what algorithm those weights encode is nigh impossible.
The MIT and QCRI researchers' technique consists of taking a trained network and using the output of each of its layers, in response to individual training examples, to train another neural network to perform a particular task. This enables them to determine what task each layer is optimized for.
In the case of the speech recognition network, Belinkov and Glass used individual layers' outputs to train a system to identify "phones," distinct phonetic units particular to a spoken language. The "t" sounds in the words "tea," "tree," and "but," for instance, might be classified as separate phones, but a speech recognition system has to transcribe all of them using the letter "t." And indeed, Belinkov and Glass found that lower levels of the network were better at recognizing phones than higher levels, where, presumably, the distinction is less important.
Similarly, in an earlier paper, presented last summer at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Glass, Belinkov, and their QCRI colleagues showed that the lower levels of a machine-translation network were particularly good at recognizing parts of speech and morphology — features such as tense, number, and conjugation.
But in the new paper, they show that higher levels of the network are better at something called semantic tagging. As Belinkov explains, a part-of-speech tagger will recognize that "herself" is a pronoun, but the meaning of that pronoun — its semantic sense — is very different in the sentences "she bought the book herself" and "she herself bought the book." A semantic tagger would assign different tags to those two instances of "herself," just as a machine translation system might find different translations for them in a given target language.
The best-performing machine-translation networks use so-called encoding-decoding models, so the MIT and QCRI researchers' network uses it as well. In such systems, the input, in the source language, passes through several layers of the network — known as the encoder — to produce a vector, a string of numbers that somehow represent the semantic content of the input. That vector passes through several more layers of the network — the decoder — to yield a translation in the target language.
Although the encoder and decoder are trained together, they can be thought of as separate networks. The researchers discovered that, curiously, the lower layers of the encoder are good at distinguishing morphology, but the higher layers of the decoder are not. So Belinkov and the QCRI researchers retrained the network, scoring its performance according to not only accuracy of translation but also analysis of morphology in the target language. In essence, they forced the decoder to get better at distinguishing morphology.
Using this technique, they retrained the network to translate English into German and found that its accuracy increased by 3 percent. That's not an overwhelming improvement, but it's an indication that looking under the hood of neural networks could be more than an academic exercise.
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Jonathan Potts – American Revolutionary Physician
7 June 2013 16 December 2022 ~ MD Harris Institute
Military physicians, just like all soldiers and military officers, should read military history. We will be better if we do.
By Mark D. Harris
Napoleon suggested "Read over and over again the campaigns of Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, Gustavus, Turenne, Eugene and Frederic. … This is the only way to become a great general and master the secrets of the art of war. …" As true as this maxim is for line officers, it is also true for leaders in the Army medical department. By studying the struggles, victories and defeats of our forebears we can better surmount the obstacles we face today.
Dr. Jonathan Potts is a medical officer worth studying. He was born in Popodickon, Pennsylvania in 1747 and, with Dr. Benjamin Rush, attended the famous medical school in Edinburgh, Scotland. He returned to the colonies on learning of the illness of his fiancé, Miss Grace Richardson. Potts married her in May 1767 and completed his Doctor of Medicine at the College of Philadelphia, the first institution to grant medical degrees in America, in 1771. He began a private practice in Reading, PA, but responded to the call of independence, seeking assignment with the Continental Hospital Department, comprised of Northern, Middle and Eastern Departments.
Dr. John Morgan became Director General (DG) of the Continental Hospital Department on 17 Oct 1775, and was immediately embroiled in the controversy on the relationship between the hospital department and the regimental medical system and on the DG's authority over the Northern Department Hospital Director, Dr. Samuel Stringer. Potts, hired in June 1776 as "physician and surgeon" for the Northern Department, steered clear of the imbroglio. He was busy at Fort George, at the south end of Lake George, supporting the army retreating from Canada. Morgan and Stringer were relieved in January 1777.
Traveling with the new commander, BG Horatio Gates, Potts brought not only himself but medicine and supplies for the hospital at Fort George. On arrival he found 1000 patients with smallpox and dysentery, a number that retreating forces swelled to 3000 by mid July. Patients were "without clothing, without bedding, or a shelter sufficient to screen them from the weather." Medicine was in short supply. Nonetheless, Potts used variolation, a technique whereby scabs from infected smallpox patients was used to expose uninfected people to small amounts of the virus, to combat the epidemic. By 28 August Gates wrote Washington that "the smallpox is now perfectly removed from the army".
As fall approached medicine and even food were scarce. Potts began transferring patients to the better supplied hospital in Albany and even discharged some to return home and recover. The later practice was halted, but by December 1776, the expected British attack on Ticonderoga having never come, the Fort George hospital was closed and its patients moved to Albany. Potts became acting Director of the Northern Department in February 1777, and by May the department was "well prepared to handle the casualties of other campaign."
Washington's defense of New York in the summer and fall of 1776 had resulted in disaster, and between 1/3 and ¼ of his remaining army was sick or injured as he retreated south through New Jersey. These were sent in advance of the main army and housed in "flying camps" until they could recover. By late November these patients were flooding Philadelphia. When Dr. Potts arrived in the city in December, taking leave from his work at Fort George, the city's Council of Safety asked him to arrange for their care, and to send those from Maryland to get care at the new hospital in Baltimore.
The Northern Department under Potts had much to do in the summer of 1777, for the British were moving south from Montreal, taking Ticonderoga on 6 July and Fort George on 29 July. Patients were moved to Albany, and a new hospital was built near the concentration of American militia outside Bennington, VT. Supplies and equipment were in short supply, much having been lost to the British. Tension between the regimental medical system and the hospital system persisted. Nonetheless out of 6,023 men in the Northern Army on 20 July, only 459 were hospitalized. American victories at Bennington in August and Saratoga in October turned the tide of the war, and found hundreds of wounded and ill redcoats in American hands. The medical staff performed well, but ill-health forced Potts to return to Philadelphia in September.
After the fall of Philadelphia in September 1777 Potts assisted with the care of American wounded who were evacuated west across the Schuylkill River. By the time Washington began wintering at Valley Forge, Dr. Potts had become Deputy Director and Purveyor of the Middle Department. The cold was bitter, and food, medicine, clothing, and nearly everything necessary to support an army in the field, were nearly absent. The Commissary General, Ephraim Blaine, and Dr. Potts were both charged with feeding sick and injured soldiers. This caused conflict at first, but by April 1778 adequate amounts of staples were in camp. Medicines, medical supplies and other medical and surgical equipment was a problem throughout the winter and spring. Large orders of lime juice suggest that scurvy was a plague in the camp. Smallpox inoculation continued, but death rates were higher than expected due to the soldier's emaciation.
In July 1778 the British abandoned Philadelphia and Potts arranged to reopen the hospital there. He continued serving his patients and the colonial cause until he resigned from the army in 1780. Potts died in Reading, PA in October 1781.
As a physician, an administrator, a trusted leader, and a tireless supporter of the cause of freedom, Dr. Jonathan Potts was an example for medics of all types in the Army today.
1. Mary C. Gillett, The Army Medical Department 1775-1818, Center of Military History, US Army
2. Physicians, Surgeons and Mates with Washington at Valley Forge, http://www.ushistory.org/valleyforge/served/surgeons.html, accessed 6 June 2013.
3. Jonathan Potts, http://berks.pa-roots.com/Biographies/JonathanPotts.html, accessed 6 June 2013
4. Edward D. Neill, Biographical sketch of Doctor Jonathan Potts, http://openlibrary.org/works/OL1618421W/Biographical_sketch_of_Doctor_Jonathan_Potts, accessed 7 June 2013
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Tu B'Av, the fifteenth of the month of Av, is an ancient Jewish holiday when women would go out to the fields in borrowed white clothing and dance. They would choose spouses from among the men who came to dance with them. Tu B'Av is also celebrated at the end of the Israelites' forty years of wandering in the wilderness. This Tu B'Av ritual, created by Tamara Cohen and Rabbi Jill Hammer, is also appropriate for Rosh Chodesh Av, or for a Rosh Chodesh group that wants to celebrate later in the month.
Tu B'Av's history includes matchmaking, dancing, and the celebration of the promise of new life and hope after fear and grief. Tu B'Av appears on the calendar between the communal mourning of Tisha B'Av, when we mark the destruction of the Temple, and the personal spiritual accounting of the High Holiday season. We suggest that this late summer holiday is an ideal opportunity for ritualizing the sharing we have always done as women – the telling of some of the intimate joys and pains of our lives. Of course, in our collective past, there have been some parts of our experiences of love that we have shared more freely than others. Indeed, it was the experience of breaking these silences and sharing fuller truths about love and sexuality that made the early years of the feminist movement so profoundly life-altering for many. It is our hope that this ritual will present a new context for this kind of sharing, a context that will lead to a greater sense among Jewish women and feminists that there is room within Judaism for all of our experiences, and that there is healing in coming together to share our experiences.
This ritual is intended for a group of friends, a women's group or a Rosh Chodesh group that feels comfortable sharing with one another. An intergenerational group could be particularly powerful. The idea behind the ritual is that each year every one of us, regardless of where we are in our lives, experiences ups and down in our loving relationships. We are living in an era in which our possibilities for expressing love are perhaps wider than ever – thanks to the women's movement, the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender movement, and modern science and technology. Yet, none of this necessarily makes love any easier.
While Tu B'Av is a celebration of love, many of us need something more than just celebration – we also need a space in which we can acknowledge the complexities of love – where a mother can share both the joys and pains she has experienced in the process of planning the marriage of her daughter or a son, where a single woman can laugh and cry about her experiences of dating, where a happily divorced woman and long-time partnered lesbian and a single mother and a newly dating grandmother can share together some of the wonders and trials of love as they experience it, long for it, mourn it, relish it, question it, fear it, and embrace it.
Participants should bring
a small item that symbolizes something they would like to bury from their experiences with love over the past year.
a piece of clothing, jewelry, or scarf that they have but no longer wear. These things will be "swapped" so everyone will go home with something different than what they came with.
Facilitator needs
A basket or designated space for the donated clothing
paper and pencils (and something hard to lean on for writing)
a white tallit (prayer shawl)
a plant, a pot and potting soil
a cd or tape player
copies of the verses from Lamentations and Jeremiah for all participants
The facilitator thanks the group for coming and explains that the ritual has two basic parts, as it begins with mourning and moves toward dancing and celebration. She presents, in her own words, some of the ideas expressed above about the purpose of this Tu B'Av ritual and add anything she wants about her own apprehension and expectations. She may want to ask the group to agree on respecting the confidentiality of anything shared during the evening. She can then invite someone to read the following.
2. Voicing our Loss
We have just completed Tisha B'Av, when the book of Lamentations is read. While Tisha B'Av commemorates communal tragedies, one of the voices of the Book of Lamentations is that of a woman whose powerful words express many levels of individual loss. Tonight we will use her words as our refrain in this first section of our ritual. Let us recite them together now, allowing this ancient poetry to evoke in us any feelings of loss we have experienced over the past year.
Group recites together
עַל-אֵלֶּה אֲנִי בוֹכִיָּה, עֵינִי עֵינִי יֹרְדָה מַּיִם--כִּי-רָחַק מִמֶּנִּי מְנַחֵם, מֵשִׁיב נַפְשִׁי
Al elleh ani bokhiyah
Eyni eyni yorda mayim
Ki rakhak mimmenni m'nakhem
Meyshiv nafshi
"For these things do I weep,
my eyes, my eyes flow with water
because far from me is a comforter
anything that might revive my spirit.."
—Lamentations 1.16
3. Writing
The facilitator then introduces the next section of the ritual: five minutes of free writing during which everyone is invited to explore her experiences of loss of love during the past year. This can include anything from the death of loved ones, to break-ups, to changing relationships with parents, children, friends, one's own body and sexuality. Participants should be told at the beginning of the exercise that they will be given the opportunity to share what they write, to share part of it, or to keep it private. The facilitator should keep track of the time and warn participants when they have two minutes left.
4. Sharing
The facilitator explains that each participant will now take a turn to share her writing, word or phrase. She will indicate that she is done by putting her giveaway object into the basket, and her burial object into the planting pot. The facilitator can explain that there is a tradition that explains Tu B'Av as a holiday during which we lay our griefs and fears into the earth, burying them as discarded parts of ourselves, or, perhaps, planting them in order to transform them into new sources of life.
To indicate that group has heard and accepted the words and gifts of the participant who has just spoken, the entire group should recite the verse from Lamentations between each participant's turn. If there are more than six or seven people in the group, give everyone a time limit for speaking, and recite the Jeremiah verse once, after everyone has spoken.
5. Shedding the loss
After the last participant has shared her loss and placed her word or object into the pot, the facilitator of the ritual should invite everyone to lie down, if space permits. The facilitator can explain that this lying down is a symbolic re-enactment of the mystical vision of the Israelites who lay in the sand of the desert and shed all that was keeping them from being fully alive, every night, in order to rise whole and pure and ready to move forward. The facilitator can invite everyone to symbolically and/or physically shake off all they are ready to shed. She can then slowly rise and recite, in Hebrew or English:
מִנְעִי קוֹלֵךְ מִבֶּכִי, וְעֵינַיִךְ, מִדִּמְעָה: כִּי יֵשׁ שָׂכָר לִפְעֻלָּתֵךְ
עוֹד תַּעְדִּי תֻפַּיִךְ, וְיָצָאת בִּמְחוֹל מְשַׂחֲקִים
Min'i kolekh mibbekhi
V'einayikh middim'ah
Ki yesh sakhar lif'ullatekh
Od taddi tuppayikh
V'yatzat bimkhol m'sakhakim
"Restrain your voice from weeping,
Your eyes from shedding tears;
For there is a reward for your labor"
"Again you shall take up your drums and go forth to the rhythm of the dancers."
—Jeremiah 31: 3
The facilitator can then tap the shoulder of another and help her up. She then reads aloud the verse from Jeremiah and rouses the next woman, and so on. If the group is large, recite the verse once and ask everyone to rise at her own pace.
6. Naming Our Love
When all have been gently roused and welcomed to their feet, the group should stand in a circle. The facilitator can ask everyone to think of as many positive words associated with love as they can and invite everyone to share by completing the phrase "Love is..."
7. Planting and Blessing
The facilitator can then invite everyone to lift the plant into the pot and packs soil around it. The tallit can be held over everyone and, if desirable, the group can recite shehechiyanu, the prayer over a happy occasion.
Recite together: Let us grow new lives out of our losses. Let us remember how the people Israel emerged from the harsh wilderness into a land flowing with milk and honey. Let us celebrate together the many possibilities for love in our lives."
8. New Clothes and Renewed Hope
The leader then invites everyone to select a garment, scarf or piece of jewelry from the basket. As someone selects a gift she should say what blessings or dreams of love she wishes for in the coming year. When the last person has spoken everyone joins together and loudly proclaims:
Ken Yehi Ratzon . May it be so!
Celebratory dancing and a festive meal can follow.
At the end of your ritual or during your meal, or as a separate project, you may want to collect tzedakah (money for justice) for women who cannot obtain the privileges of marriage. The Mishnah relates that "The girls would go out in white clothes which they borrowed one from the other, in order not to embarrass girls who did not have white clothes." Some young women, those with more economic privilege, were seen, in their time period, as having better prospects for marriage. This inequality was symbolically redressed on Tu B'Av through the exchange of white clothes.
We too can address inequity by contributing to those working to extend the privilege of marriage to all women and men who want to enter legally sanctioned unions. Invite your participants to take action to promote justice for women in relationships. The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force 202.332.6483 www.ngltf.org and The National Center for Lesbian Rights 415.392.6257 www.nclrights.org work to obtain marital rights for gay and lesbian couples, who cannot legally marry. Agunot, women who are bound by religious marriage contracts to ex-husbands who refuse to grant them gets (Jewish bills of divorce), are also denied the right to marry. There are organizations in North America and Israel working to give these women the freedom to remarry and carry on with their lives. To find out more, call the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance (JOFA) at (212) 752-7133 and buy an Agunah Solidarity Pin, or ask for a recent newsletter in which they list a number of organizations working to free agunot. Contact the Center for Women in Jewish Law www.schechter.edu/women/law.htm to learn about agunot in Israel, or look for information on the website of the International Jewish Women's Human Rights Watch: www.icjw.org.uk.
Printed in Ma'yan's Journey Spring 2002
Found in: Rosh Hodesh Av: July - Aug., Israeli Holidays, Jewish Day of Love: Tu B'Av
Tags: Tamara Cohen, Rabbi Jill Hammer


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A sociology major, she plans to earn a Master of Arts in Mental Health Counseling in the future, and said having presented at a research conference will give her something to talk about in an admissions interview, and set her apart from others competing for selection.
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Alex Martakis, a nursing major, presented a paper titled Writing with the Mind, written for his independent research project with Kevin Clark, associate professor of psychology. His presentation explored creative writing, writer's block, and how to apply psychological concepts to storytelling.
He appreciated the chance to work one-on-one with Clark, and to learn from his research experience.
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Sometimes, the lesson is where the research didn't turn out as expected.
Senior Arlanda Rainey researched how children are affected by living in poverty for her poster, surveying fellow students.
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Her faculty mentor, Medley-Rath, taught her how to develop a survey, said Rainey, from Las Vegas. The experience will help her as she prepares for graduate school, with plans to work in a field that benefits children.
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