My knitting this year (2018) took me to Sweden and Norway, Iceland, Great Britain, and Nova Scotia, Canada, all on on the trail of Vikings and their braided knot-work motifs. The Vikings didn't knit, but their art still inspires knitters around the world. I hope you'll enjoy some armchair travel as you knit this cowl.
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NOTE: If your hoop doesn't get gripped properly/super strongly, because of a misadjustment, then there can be slippage during sewing which causes pattern mistakes and thread breaks (the finer the design, the more likely this can happen).
This video shows some easy adjustments to make loading hoops a snap on the Butterfly embroidery machine! Important if there is any binding when inserting hoops, or you are going to be doing many jobs.


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Rabe v. Washington (1972)
By Roy B. Flemming
Related cases in Movies, Video Games, and Comics
The showing of a movie with sexually frank scenes at a drive-in theater in Richland, Washington, led to the conviction of the manager on obscenity charges. However, the Supreme Court overturned the conviction, saying the state's laws failed to give 'fair notice' to film exhibitors as to what was prohibited. This photo of a drive-in theater sign for a Paducah, Kentucky, theater is from 1979. (Image via Library of Congress, public domain)
In Rabe v. Washington, 405 U.S. 313 (1972), the Supreme Court reversed the obscenity conviction of the manager of a drive-in movie theater in Richland, Washington.
Drive-in manager argued movie with sexual scenes was protected by the First Amendment
William Rabe was convicted under Washington's anti-obscenity law after a police officer viewed the film Carmen Baby, which included sexually frank scenes, from outside the theater's fence. Rabe contended that the material was not obscene but rather constituted First Amendment–protected expression.
Washington's high court, applying the Supreme Court's test for obscenity in Roth v. United States (1957), did not consider the film obscene "if the viewing audience consisted only of consenting adults." This latter consideration, however, prompted the state court to uphold Rabe's conviction because the "context of its exhibition" rendered the movie obscene [italics in original].
Court said state obscenity law didn't give 'fair notice' to film exhibitors
The Supreme Court reversed in a per curiam opinion, finding that the state's law did not include context in its definition of obscenity. The statute failed to give "fair notice" to film exhibitors, like Rabe, as to what was prohibited and the criminal liability they faced for showing sexually explicit films.
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger concurred in the decision but stressed that Carmen Baby or other public displays involving nudity or sexual activities "are not significantly different from any noxious public nuisance."
Narrowly drawn statutes aimed at protecting the public, especially juveniles or adults unwilling to view the material, he opined, "involve no significant countervailing First Amendment considerations."
Issue of public nuisance resurfaced later in secondary effect doctrine
Burger's dicta regarding public nuisances later made their way to the Supreme Court in Erznoznik v. City of Jacksonville (1975). Jacksonville forbade any drive-in theater from showing films containing nudity if they were visible from public streets or places. The Court struck down the ordinance because it discriminated on the basis of content of the films and was impermissibly broad in its attempt to protect children or as a traffic regulation.
As drive-in theaters disappeared from America's landscape, the issue of public nuisance resurfaced in the Supreme Court's development of a "secondary effects doctrine" in its review of local zoning policies controlling the location of adult-oriented businesses, for example, Young v. American Mini Theatres (1976) and FW/PBS, Inc. v. City of Dallas (1990).
This article was originally published in 2009. Roy B. Flemming is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Political Science at Texas A&M University.
Erznoznik v. City of Jacksonville (1975)
FW/PBS, Inc. v. City of Dallas (1990)
Narrowly Tailored Laws
Secondary Effects Doctrine
Warren Burger
Young v. American Mini Theatres (1976)
Zoning Laws
Mackay, Thomas C. Pornography on Trial: A Handbook of Cases, Law, and Documents. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 2000.
Roy B. Flemming. 2009. Rabe v. Washington (1972) [electronic resource]. The First Amendment Encyclopedia, Middle Tennessee State University (accessed Jan 27, 2023). http://mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/359/rabe-v-washington

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Firma KROHNE je předním světovým výrobcem a dodavatelem průmyslové měřicí techniky.
V České republice má firma KROHNE CZ, spol. s r.o. sídlo a servisní středisko v Brně, pobočky pak v Praze a Ostravě.
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The functionality of the Foundation Fieldbus (FF) module for H250 M40 variable area flowmeter has been updated from Interoperability Test Kit 5.2 (ITK 5.2) to ITK 6.3.
Electromagnetic flowmeters WATERFLUX 3300, WATERFLUX 3070 and OPTIFLUX 4300 are now available with approval according to MID 2014/32/EU annex VI MI-004 for thermal energy meters.
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KROHNE Marine introduces a new version of EcoMATE: the software system for fuel consumption monitoring now also includes monitoring and reporting of carbon emissions for ships.
KROHNE adds six new 24 and 80 GHz FMCW radar level transmitters to its portfolio.


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Listed below are all of the tasks on Rosetta Code which have been solved using Self.
If you know Self, please write code for some of the tasks not implemented in Self.
Self is an object-oriented programming language based on the concept of prototypes. It was used primarily as an experimental test system for language design in the 1980s and 1990s; however, as of May 2015, Self is still being developed and maintained as an open source project. The latest major version is 2017.1, which was released in May 2017.
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Having finally got around to testing Alchemy on Linux and ironing out a few bugs, we have added a Linux release to the download page today. For more info and tips on using Alchemy on Linux, check out this forum post here. Enjoy!


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2020 Jackets In The Pros Football Archives
(59) Danny Trevathan, Chicago Bears
(Photo courtesy of Chicago Tribune)
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Jackets In The Pros: Danny Trevathan, Chicago Bears
Linebacker Danny Trevathan returning to the Bears on a 3-year
deal, report says
By Brad Biggs
Updated: Sunday, March 15, 2020, 6:17 p.m.
Danny Trevathan represents one of the best of many moves general manager Ryan Pace has made in free
agency, the rare big-dollar signing to play out his entire contract.
Trevathan did so well for the Bears, both as a player and a leader on and off the field, that the team is
keeping him around. NFL Media reported Thursday night that the Bears have re-signed Trevathan, who
was set to be an unrestricted free agent Wednesday, to a three-year contract. One source said the deal can
total $24 million.
The inside linebacker, who turns 30 on March 24, made 70 tackles in nine games last season, adding one
sack and a forced fumble. He was standout for the 2018 defense with 102 tackles, two sacks, two
interceptions and one forced fumble.
His return ensures he will be starting next to Roquan Smith in the middle of the defense, giving the Bears
two players with good range. It also gives coordinator Chuck Pagano a lot of options in sub packages,
which dominate action in the current NFL.
The Bears originally signed Trevathan in 2016 when he was coming off a Super Bowl championship with
the Broncos. He signed a four-year, $28 million contract and immediately stabilized the middle of the
defense.
Trevathan has missed 16 games over four seasons. He went on injured reserve last season with a left
elbow injury that cost him the final seven games. Trevathan missed four games in 2017 and and seven in
Trevathan's return virtually guarantees Nick Kwiatkowski, a 2016 fourth-round draft pick, will depart in free
agency. Kwiatkoski, 26, could command $5 million or more per season on the open market.
Re-signing Trevathan also brings into focus the situation with outside linebacker Leonard Floyd, whose
fifth-year option for 2020 is for $13.2 million. Other teams believe Floyd could become a salary-cap
casualty, and putting good money into Trevathan could increase that likelihood.
The Bears have until the start of the new league year Wednesday to part ways with Floyd before that salary
is fully guaranteed.


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It doesn't matter if you're a small or medium sized group, as you'll join other groups, companies and organisations at these party nights, who are looking to let their hair down and have some fun after a long working year.
With a large selection of shared Christmas party choices on offer this year, there really will be something for everyone with the venue's Christmas Selection Box nights! From Christmas celebrations at the end of November and throughout December to All Inclusive Evenings, Xmas Through The Decades, 2-4-1 Party Nights, Tribute Nights and evenings especially for those in the emergency services, there's an evening here that everyone can enjoy!
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When Hurricane Joaquin interacted with a "slow-moving weather system coming across the Southeast," it resulted in a "1,000 year" rain event and some of the worst flooding South Carolina has ever seen. Flooding was particularly damaging in the area around Columbia, where 17 inches of rain fell on October 4th. Rainfall was so intense that 17 stream gauges placed by the U.S. Geological Survey registered the highest river peak flows that those particular gauges had ever recorded. The President declared it a major disaster area, and dispatched the Federal Emergency Management Agency to begin distributing aid to survivors. 19 total deaths have been reported due to the weather event, many of which occurred when drivers were caught on the roads during flash floods. State officials have likened the event to the catastrophic flooding caused by Hurricane Hugo in 1989.
Damage estimates are still not very clear, but some estimates put the cost close to the $25 billion of damage caused by Hugo. One estimate from CoreLogic, a catastrophe modeling firm, says that home insurers could face costs of around $18 billion. Several roads, including 12 primary routes, remain closed in the state.
The floods were likely made worse by the failure of several dams, especially in the Columbia area, which includes the Gills Creek Watershed. Of the 36 dams that are known to have failed, 23 of them were in the Columbia area. The vast majority of dams in the state are unregulated by the state's inspection authority with the Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC). The estimated 10,000 to 20,000 dams that go uninspected are the responsibility primarily of waterfront associations on small lakes. The major problem here is that individual responsibility within these groups is unclear, and many resist the costs of dam upkeep. Even for dams that are regulated, few resources are made available to maintain an effective inspection regime.


As a homeowner, I'm used to getting all sorts of shady offers in the mail for new mortgages with astoundingly bad terms. But now that home values are declining, the free market has spawned a new kind of scam, at least in California. In our fair state, home values are reassessed only when they are sold (hoo boy, Prop 13!). In the meantime, the County Assessor assumes that your home value increases by about 2% each year and increases your property taxes accordingly. Historically, this has been a win for homeowners, whose property value was outpacing 2% by leaps and bounds, and a increasingly problematic loss for any local tax-supported services (such as school funding).
Anyway, these new offers take the form of a letter warning you that your home is probably worth less than the county thinks it is, and giving you the opportunity to pay a third party company to file a "tax reassessment" form to have the property properly revalued (and get a lower property tax bill). What makes this such a miserable scam is that anyone can file this form themselves, for free. Here are online instructions, with the online form. Not only that, but the County Assessor is pre-emptively re-assessing 500,000 homes this year (sold between 2003 and 2008) to see if they should be adjusted — you don't even have to file the form! The County Assessor's office is clearly exasperated with this scam, too, and has posted a scam warning on the subject.
Recently, I received one of these offers that really took the cake. Not only did the letter from "Property Tax Adjustment Services" try to entice me to pay for a free service, but it actually came formatted as a bill — complete with a "due date" and a "late charge" if payment was not received by the deadline! As I stared at the "bill", it seemed strangely familiar… so familiar that I went and dug up my actual property tax bill. They are formatted virtually identically. See image at right (click to enlarge). The "reassessment bill" is on top, and my property tax bill is on the bottom (actual numbers removed). Obviously they're hoping that I as a busy homeowner might glance at this and think it comes from the County Assessor's office and is a required payment.
This scam letter actually does mention the fact that you can file the form yourself (but not that it's free to do so). It also warns that "Property Tax Adjustment Services" is an expert business who will ensure that it gets done right. Yeah. The form requires all of three pieces of information: your home's address and the addresses of two comparable recent sales. This information is available easily from the County Assessor's website, which even has a browsable map interface so you can see all recent sales near your home.
Disgusting, is what it is. Or simple capitalism in action? Caveat emptor!
Gah. I wonder what junk mail is floating around in New Mexico.
I get very similar scams for both of my businesses. Corporations (of any sort) are required to hold board meetings once a year, and keep a formal agenda in a record book, with the names of all officers present. Also, they are required to file an information statement (address, phone number, etc) with the state each year, at a cost of $25.
There's a private organization calling itself "California Corporate Compliance Board" that will generate said agenda and print out the form for you, for something like $150. Similarly, they will file your information statement for you for also abut $150. In both cases, they send a formal-looking letter to the company notifying you of the due date and making it look like you owe *them*. If you look very carefully there's always fine print somewhere saying "this is not a government document", but it's so convincingly done that I've twice gotten about halfway done with their paperwork before catching myself.
I wouldn't be shocked if this is the same outfit running your reassessment scam.
Disgusting? Definitely. It must be a very profitable venture for them that the county has notices placed throughout their site telling people it's a scam.
I frequently receive official-looking domain renewal notices from the likes of "Domain Registry of America" (and others) whose goal is to switch my domain hosting (as opposed to web site hosting) to their much more expensive service. (It's very amusing to receive postal mail addressed to "Spammers must die" or "Washington State Resident.") My dad just got one of these, but before sending it in, thought to ask about it. Not many people do.
Not really a scam, but also worth being wary of is the auto-renewal. In a previous contract I had, the vendor made a third of its revenue from people who signed up for the service with auto-billing, but never used the service.


Over Labor Day weekend Jeanie and I went to visit friends at their farm in the hills of Virginia, a place of remarkable care and beauty.
Their home is actually a retreat house which Anne, a therapist, author, and spiritual mentor has built on family land. Every guest room motif reflects a part of the world where she and David (a successful executive) have served in mission or social enterprise. Every path cut through the woods has stopping places for rest and prayer.
On an afternoon walk Anne pointed to a slope where dozens of white sleeves stand, supporting newly planted maple and oak trees.
Those "trees for tomorrow" kept me wondering, as we drove home into the busy fall season, what markers will we – family, teachers, others – leave for our children and grandchildren?
Over dinner David and Anne talked about places where they might eventually be buried at their farm, whether at the corner of a rustic chapel, or on a beautiful vista on top of Whisky Hill.
David wondered why he found little in the Bible about burials. Actually there's a fair bit. Abraham was buried in the cave of Machpelah, along with his wife and sons. Moses was buried in a valley although the exact place was unknown. Joshua was laid to rest in the hill country. The bones of Joseph were brought back from Egypt to his father's ground. The places, except for Moses, were marked.
Deep in our bones and spirits it seems is the desire to have markers, markers not only that we have lived, but why we have lived.
And what do we remember from Jesus? Not only the tomb where he was buried and which he left behind, but the living memorial he established at the last supper: drink this wine, eat this bread, remember me, love one another as I have loved you, and lay down my life for you.
What legacy then are we leaving for the children in our care, our homes and schools?
It was passed on to their daughter Catherine, who brought up her children to know and love the Lord.
Their lives were their markers. Three generations planting seeds that still grow on.
I don't have a farm in Virginia where I can plant a grove of trees. You may have neither a platform to preach or a farm to run.
But could we each plant one tree – or at least a seed – for every child who is born?
And, with small seeds, a prayer, a word of encouragement, a bit of needed attention, also plant "trees for tomorrow"?


We have 5 models defined in our LookML. I wanted to experiment with access grants to be able to deploy code that is useful to advanced users of Looker without bothering the basic users with new features.
So far so good. Not sure why but I had to define it in each model, correct?
Next I go to one of the views and insert required_access_grants to one of the dimensions. Unfortunately upon validation I get errors that this access grant doesn't exist in one model.
Oops, I forgot about one, so I added it and revalidated it. The error still persisted.
I had to remove required_access_grants from the dimension, save id, validate it, then go back, add it again, save it, and validate again. Only then the validation passed.
I think it's possible that this is not a bug specific to access_grant, but rather a general feud that we see sometimes between the LookML validator and the cache. Sometimes, validation errors persist through validations even when they really shouldn't, and changing something, saving, re-validating, etc. can jump it back to the correct state.
It doesn't happen very often, but it does happen. I wouldn't think too much of it— It's something that we're working on pinning down the exact cause of, but in the interim, I'd try refreshing the page and revalidating if it ever happens again, instead of first changing things.


Earth Day is April 22, but you don't need one day out of the year to make a difference. Making small changes to your everyday life can greatly reduce your carbon footprint. In fact 60% of the Average American's carbon footprint is actually from indirect energy use – it comes from everything we buy and use – goods and services. So, this year, don't fall for the greenwashed goods and marketing gimmicks that make pretense of offering quick fixes to complicated environmental issues (which usually involve consuming more stuff). Instead, look to these 7 things you can do on Earth day (and everyday!) to lower your carbon footprint and help ensure a sustainable planet for future generations.
Drive better. Speeding and unnecessary acceleration reduce mileage by up to 33%, waste gas and money, and increase your carbon footprint. So slow down. Apply this to your life as a general practice; stop speeding through life, man. Savor it.
Eat Local. Buy Local when possible: Shipping burns fuel. Approximately 13% of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions result from the production and transport of food. Transporting food requires petroleum-based fuels, and man fertilizers are also fossil fuel-based.
Don't waste food. Are you getting flashbacks to childhood when your mom used this line in hopes of you eating your vegetables? Well, turns out she was right. About one-quarter of all the food prepared annually in the U.S. gets tossed, producing methane in landfills as well as carbon emissions from transporting wasted foods. Talk about yuck.
Eat less meat. Vegetarians may be onto something – they save at least 3,000 pounds of CO2 per year compared to meat eaters. If you can't forgo the meat, keep in mind that poultry is less greenhouse gas intensive than beef. It takes a lot of resources to raise cows. So stay informed where your beef comes from – if you purchase beef from somewhere in Brazil, cows graze on land that used to be a tropical forest but was cleared for agricultural use. Deforestation is a top contributor to carbon emissions and thus climate change. Yikes.
Shut down the electronics. Enable your power management at work so your computer and monitor shut down. Don't leave lights on. Unplug appliances when you're not using them. So simple, right?
Be mindful of your water usage. Take shorter showers, wash your car less often, use climate-appropriate plants in your garden, instal drip irrigation so that your plants only receive what they need, make water-efficient choices when choosing shower heads, faucet heads, toilets, dishwashers, and washing machines.
Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. You've heard it once, you've heard it a million times, but it's because it's great advice. By buying used products and reselling or recycling items you no longer use, you dramatically reduce your carbon footprint from the manufacture of products.
There you go, folks. What else do you have to add to our list? We'd love to hear it in the comments.


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Wells, J. M., R. S. J. Estepar, M. N. McDonald, S. P. Bhatt, A. A. Diaz, W. C. Bailey, F. L. Jacobson, et al. 2016. "Clinical, physiologic, and radiographic factors contributing to development of hypoxemia in moderate to severe COPD: a cohort study." BMC Pulmonary Medicine 16 (1): 169. doi:10.1186/s12890-016-0331-0. http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12890-016-0331-0.
Background: Hypoxemia is a major complication of COPD and is a strong predictor of mortality. We previously identified independent risk factors for the presence of resting hypoxemia in the COPDGene cohort. However, little is known about characteristics that predict onset of resting hypoxemia in patients who are normoxic at baseline. We hypothesized that a combination of clinical, physiologic, and radiographic characteristics would predict development of resting hypoxemia after 5-years of follow-up in participants with moderate to severe COPD Methods: We analyzed 678 participants with moderate-to-severe COPD recruited into the COPDGene cohort who completed baseline and 5-year follow-up visits and who were normoxic by pulse oximetry at baseline. Development of resting hypoxemia was defined as an oxygen saturation ≤88% on ambient air at rest during follow-up. Demographic and clinical characteristics, lung function, and radiographic indices were analyzed with logistic regression models to identify predictors of the development of hypoxemia. Results: Forty-six participants (7%) developed resting hypoxemia at follow-up. Enrollment at Denver (OR 8.30, 95%CI 3.05–22.6), lower baseline oxygen saturation (OR 0.70, 95%CI 0.58–0.85), self-reported heart failure (OR 6.92, 95%CI 1.56–30.6), pulmonary artery (PA) enlargement on computed tomography (OR 2.81, 95%CI 1.17–6.74), and prior severe COPD exacerbation (OR 3.31, 95%CI 1.38–7.90) were independently associated with development of resting hypoxemia. Participants who developed hypoxemia had greater decline in 6-min walk distance and greater 5-year decline in quality of life compared to those who remained normoxic at follow-up. Conclusions: Development of clinically significant hypoxemia over a 5-year span is associated with comorbid heart failure, PA enlargement and severe COPD exacerbation. Further studies are needed to determine if treatments targeting these factors can prevent new onset hypoxemia. Trial registration COPDGene is registered at ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT00608764 (Registration Date: January 28, 2008) Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12890-016-0331-0) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.


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Mac's Fireweed signing of EVOLVE, Canadian Vampire Anthology, Friday, 4-6pm
I'll be at Mac's Fireweed, Friday April 23rd from 4-6pm signing copies of EVOLVE: Vampire stories of the new undead–an anthology edited by Nancy Kilpatrick, where I have a story, "How Magnificent is the Universal Donor." It's all-Canadian (or in my case, landed immigrant), all vampire and the theme is the evolution of vampires. As far as I know, this has never been done. Shaking up the old rules. These are new kinds of vampires.
Come and find out how vampires have evolved and what they've become. Or just come and say hi. I'll be behind a lonely desk, and will want company.
This is the YUKON launch of the book–and we're planning a reading in Tagish–sometime soon. It's been launched now in Brighton, UK at the World Horror Convention in front of other horror writers; it's been launched in Toronto in front of fantasy, science fiction and horror enthusiasts; and it's being launched in Winnipeg, Montreal and Vancouver as well.
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Folks in Wisconsin seem to have an affinity for swim jigs. While Tom Monsoor is pretty much the world authority on the method, that doesn't mean there aren't other ways to do it. Matt Stefan has made the Forrest Wood Cup three of the last four years, and each year he's put at least a few in the boat on a swim jig no matter where the season has taken him.
Through his love of the bait Stefan has formed several opinions about it, from what makes a good swim jig to the best times to put one into action.
Before signing on with Dirty Jigs, Stefan made most of his own swim jigs, and would probably still do so if he weren't satisfied with what is commercially available.
For the actual jig, the meticulous pro likes a bullet-shaped head and a vertical line tie – one that is in line with the hook. He believes that combination produces the most weedless jig possible. Stefan also likes to thin out the brush guard, sometimes taking out as many as one-third of the strands. He often thins the skirt as well, both shortening and removing some of the strands. Finally, Stefan prefers a jig with a good trailer keeper, be it a nice molded-in barb or a wire keeper. Though he sometimes uses Super Glue to lock trailers in place, he doesn't like the buildup that can occur overtime.
Stefan throws the Dirty Jigs Swim Jig or the Finesse Swim Jig 95 percent of the time, relying mostly on the standard model. He also occasionally uses the No-Jack Swim Jig.
"I utilize the finesse one when I'm fishing smallmouths, which is usually in rivers," says Stefan. "I do that because the hook is substantially smaller on it. It's still extremely stout. You don't have to worry about bending it on a fish, but they get it in their mouths better. The smallmouths have a bad habit of just coming up and grabbing the tail, and I think that a bigger hook has prevented some fish in my past from getting the bait.
Stefan usually opts for 15-pound-test Seaguar InvizX line and sometimes drops down to 10-pound test in wicked-clear water. He sticks with a high-speed reel and usually uses a custom-built rod made on a St. Croix Legend Tournament finesse swim jig rod blank. The blank is a 7-foot, 1-inch, medium-heavy power with an extra-fast action – heavy enough to manage around cover but light-duty enough to present and work some fairly small baits.
For his trailers, Stefan prefers a swimbait.
Most of the time his swimbait of choice is a Reaction Innovations Skinny Dipper, and he starts the process by cutting the head off. Then, he trims up from the bottom to make the bait a little more streamlined before rigging it on he jig. When finished, the process creates a really nice package that will come through grass very easily.
Chucking and winding a swim jig through shallow vegetation is probably the most common way to fish one. It's also one of the simplest techniques because once you have a good swim jig combo you're basically set to start winding it back through the grass.
Two ways that Stefan likes to make use of the swim jig's versatility are in shallow river situations and on deep weed edges. Both require a bit more refined technique.
One of Stefan's favorite times to fish a swim jig is when he's keying up shallow in rivers such as the Mississippi and the Wolf in Wisconsin and Minnesota.
Stefan says the key to finding cut banks is using your eyes and looking at places that have or had current flowing by.
The season and target species determine whether he focuses time in the main river or the backwaters.
Stefan mostly targets cut banks that are 2 to 3 feet deep and likes the 3/8-ounce Finesse Swim Jig because he wants to be prepared for smallmouths, and he wants the bait to fall fairly quickly and not be swept away like a ¼-ounce bait would. He likes chartreuse and white for smallmouths or a mixed bag and black and blue or green pumpkin when he's more dialed in on green fish.
Regardless of where they bite, Stefan likes to put the bait right up on the bank, with about 90 percent of his casts being some kind of underhand pitch or skip.
Another of Stefan's more Northern techniques is tossing a swim jig on deeper weed edges in the summertime. It's a great way to go for numbers and size, and makes for a good excuse to get some 3/4-ounce swim jigs.
Though a swim jig is a good tool to cover water, finding the right types of places is key.
Once he has a rough starting spot, Stefan typically concentrates on irregularities in the weeds.
Stefan also likes to fish the ends of weedlines, where a sharper edge begins to flatten out into a weed flat. He imagines it like fishing underwater bluff ends, and says that those transition areas can be particularly good.
For the bait, Stefan uses the standard Dirty Jigs Swim Jig in a 3/4-ounce model with a fair number of strands plucked from the skirt and almost always throws black and blue, green pumpkin or a combination of the two. Most weedlines up north finish off in 8 to 14 feet of water, and it takes a pretty heavy jig to stay down where Stefan wants it.
It may not be the most common way to fish a swim jig, but it works, and it's a good statement about the versatility of the lure. Depending on how you set it up, a swim jig can be used for almost any situation. If you aren't swimming a jig, you're missing out on fish somewhere for sure.


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Are you still using outdated, old switch you cannot dim? If so, you might be wasting a lot of energy and money on bulbs.
Why not upgrade all your switches in the house to dimmable ones? These simple dimmers don't cost a whole lot and will pay for itself in the long-run.
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Bangalore: According to Gartner, the Indian software revenue totalled $4.765 billion in 2013, a 10 % increase from 2012 revenue of $4.334 billion. In the India software market share, Microsoft has retained the first spot while Oracle moved into the second place replacing IBM from the 2012 rankings.
There is a shift in vendor rankings from 2013 at the top of the worldwide and India software market. This is the first time in Gartner's India software market share research that Oracle has ranked second in terms of total software revenue with approximately $505 million in 2013, capturing 7.3 % of the market. "Trends around business intelligence and analytics, with increasing customer investments in database management systems, helped to drive Oracle's top-line growth," Sood added.
Among the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), the Indian software market experienced the highest growth rate with 10 %. Besides large enterprises, the Indian market also boasts a large potential small and midsize business (SMB) segment that is playing a crucial role in changing the consumption patterns of technology. SMBs are on the threshold of leveraging ICT, but they currently lack the scale, and in some cases experience, which is inevitable in understanding and handling technology-related issues.


Insect pests can hinder the growth of plants in your greenhouse. Use these tips to help you better protect your indoor garden from harm.
Yellow sticky traps like this one can help get rid of insect pests like whitefly.
Plants in containers can become rootbound, with compacted, crowded rootballs that lack air and soil. Repotting plants regularly prevents this from happening.
A neem tree is one of many solutions that can help to drive away unwanted insects in your greenhouse.
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Talk to any greenhouse grower and they will tell you that the two worst pest problems are aphids and whitefly. You might also find sow bugs, mealybugs, scale insects, and red spider mites. Larger greenhouse pests include slugs and snails that hitch a ride under the rim of large pots or in the drain holes of larger pots. Although screened windows can keep out butterflies and moths, you may also find a caterpillar or two feeding on your plants. Lastly, rodents can get into the greenhouse. Mice are a common problem and I've had groundhogs, skunks, and even a fisher that ate all the goldfish in my greenhouse pond one night when I forgot to close the door.
The best way to control insect pests is to be careful what you bring into your greenhouse. An isolation chamber can be a convenient way to keep new plants separate from the main population of greenhouse plants until you are satisfied that they are pest-free.
Whether to use insecticides is a personal decision. I prefer not to spray pesticides of any kind inside the greenhouse because they can kill off beneficial insects along with problematic ones and I find the effects of the product are multiplied by being in an enclosed structure. I have noticed that the odor of a pesticide in the greenhouse can last several days. Also, continual use of the same insecticide can eventually give rise to insecticide-resistant bugs.
My preference is to take the approach of Integrated Pest Management (ipm). This means I always begin with the least toxic type of prevention before moving on to more drastic measures. I start with barriers and screens to keep out pests, rotate crops, eliminate host plants in the vicinity of the greenhouse, isolate incoming plants, keep the greenhouse clean, handpick pests, and finally, bring in natural enemies such as ladybugs to feed on harmful insects. All these controls can easily be integrated into your greenhouse practice before you need to resort to chemical pesticides.
Most beginning gardeners take many years to figure out the two most important tools are not a trowel and a spade, but observation and feel. When it comes to keeping plants healthy your best bet is to inspect your plants, no matter if you only have one plant or thousands. You need to touch them and more importantly, touch the soil, especially the soil around container plants.
When looking at your plants, try to see how they are enjoying where you put them. Are they growing? Are the leaves green or are they yellow or worse still are they brown? Are the leaves normal or have they curled? Are the plants standing tall or are they wilted? Are there any insects or insect eggs on them? Have the plants bolted?
Learn what your plants should look like when healthy so you can identify problems quickly. It also doesn't hurt to knock a plant out of its pot and check the roots. If the roots are going around the bottom of the pot, the plant may be rootbound and it's time to transplant. Container plants should be checked this way at least once a year.
You'll never be able to keep every insect out of your greenhouse. They fly in when you open the door, they crawl through minute cracks and openings, and they can hitch a ride in on your boots, tools, or new plants. However, you can keep the vast majority of insects at bay with the use of screens placed across vents, windows, and other openings. The problem with screens is that they cut down on the amount of light that gets into the greenhouse. Ideally, you will use screens whenever the windows and vents are open and remove them to allow in maximum light when the greenhouse is closed up.
Another way to help keep insects out is to have an air lock between the outdoors and the inside of your greenhouse. If you are growing crops that are prone to particular pests, such as cabbage white caterpillars on brassicas, you can also use floating row covers placed over the plants to protect them.
Sticky traps are another way to control pests in the greenhouse. Some common traps include yellow sticky traps for whitefly, and red balls for coddling moth and fruit flies. The insects are attracted to the color of the trap and get stuck on the adhesive covering. It's a good way to monitor and identify pests that may be lurking around your plants. Put them under the benches, close to intake vents, and near windows and doors.
You have a greenhouse full of plants and buy a new plant which turns out to be buggy. Pretty soon your entire greenhouse is full of bugs. To prevent this from happening, you can isolate any new plant or cuttings until you are satisfied that they are bug free. In most cases this means the plant is in isolation for about two weeks.
An isolation chamber can be quite simple. One option is a small plastic greenhouse or cold frame kept in the air lock or just outside the greenhouse in summer. You can also use a large aquarium tank with a tight-fitting lid, although these can be quite heavy and are not very portable. The isolation chamber should stay at the ambient temperature for your greenhouse and will also allow the plant to become acclimated before it is moved into the general plant population.
There are very few plants that do not attract insects but there are some that repel them. Rue (Ruta graveolens), for example, repels bees and some beetles. Spearmint repels aphids, and strong-smelling herbs like rosemary, thyme, and wormwood are all distasteful to the olfactory senses of many moths and flies. By interplanting these insect repellents in your greenhouse, you can help to drive out pests. For example, a pot of mint placed next to any of the brassicas will help keep cabbage white butterflies away. Similarly, a pot of rosemary will keep bean beetles and carrot flies away.
Another option is to plant a neem tree (Azadirachta indica) or two. Neem trees are the source of a natural insecticide that can be used in the greenhouse, but growing your own plant in your greenhouse is another safe way to deter insects. To make your own insecticide, simply chop neem leaves in a blender and add water. Add a dash of liquid soap to help the solution stick to leaves. Leave the solution for twenty-four hours and strain off the liquid. Spray it onto your plants. Neem will break down in the greenhouse sunshine in a few days.
An alternative that is the complete opposite of repellent plants are those plants that attract certain insects. These indicator plants can be used to demonstrate when insects are present. For example, whiteflies are attracted to lettuce and tomatoes. By checking these plants regularly for insects, you can ascertain whether your controls are effective.
Another aphid predator is the green lacewing, although if they run out of aphids they are just as likely to eat each other. Damsel bugs and assassin bugs will also feed on aphids.
The larva of the midge Aphidoletes aphidimyza bite into aphids and inject a toxin. They usually prey at night and all you might see are sawdust-like aphid carcasses on leaves. One drawback to Aphidoletes aphidimyza is that it likes warmth and works best in summer.
Several parasitic wasps and predatory mites are also efficient biological controls. Aphytis melinus can control scale and Encarsia Formosa seems to do the best job on whitefly. Trichogramma wasps attack caterpillars. The predatory mites Amblyseius californicus and Phytoseiulus longipes can control spider mites.
As with outdoor garden beds, it is a good idea to practice crop rotation to help reduce the incidence of soilborne diseases in your in-ground greenhouse beds. For example, if you are growing winter greens, you might change to bedding plants in spring and tomatoes in summer, then clean the beds before planting autumn crops.
You can also consider leaving your greenhouse empty for the summer when all your plants can easily survive outside and thoroughly cleaning it before moving your plants back in (carefully inspect plants before bringing them back into the greenhouse). A more radical solution to remove severe infestations is to let the entire greenhouse freeze for a few days in winter. That will effectively kill off any insects, but if you cannot let your greenhouse freeze, let the temperature drop to just above freezing so that insects become sluggish, and infected plants can be easily removed without the insects flying off the plant before you can get them out of the greenhouse.
If you do choose to use insecticides, start with the least-toxic products first. The products listed here have low toxicity, but they can still damage beneficial or harmless insects along with the pests, so use them sparingly. If you are applying these products, follow the directions on the package and be sure to observe any safety instructions, such as wearing a mask, respirator, gloves, or any other recommended clothing.
Insecticidal soap sprays kill pests by dehydration. You can make your own soap spray by adding 2 spoonfuls of liquid soap (not detergent) to a quart (1 liter) of water.
Horticultural oils are refined petroleum or vegetable oils that work by smothering pests.
Pyrethrum is derived from chrysanthemums. It is a broad-spectrum insecticide that affects the insects' nervous system.
Rotenone, which occurs naturally in the seeds and stems of several plants, is a broad-spectrum insecticide and piscicide. Do not use it near any fish you have in a greenhouse pond or aquaponic system.
If conditions are right you can easily get fungal molds in the greenhouse. In some cases mold can affect an entire fruit crop and all your hard work caring for your plants may come to nothing. The easiest way to prevent molds from occurring is to ventilate your greenhouse well. If you do not get cross-ventilation when the greenhouse windows are open, make sure you have a fan blowing across or above your plants to ensure air is well circulated. If that fails, you should remove infected plants, and you may have to spray with a fungicide depending on the severity of the infection. The main fungicides for use in the greenhouse are sulfur, copper, and Bordeaux mixture (a combination of copper sulfate and lime), but in many cases these work best as preventative measures rather than curative ones.
Remove old plant matter such as dead leaves to eliminate food sources for insects that live on decaying plants.
• Give your plants plenty of room and good air circulation.
• Mop up pools of standing water helps to eliminate algae, moss, and insect larva.
• Use sterile potting soils, and sterilize compost before using it.
• Clean gardening tools, seed flats, and other equipment.
• Remove or isolate infected plants.
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piggybacker April 3, 2019, 10:55pm #1
Does anyone realize Eddie came from Creighton and nolan came from Tulsa and they worked out fine?
If that were today you guys would not want them to even interview
3agle09 April 3, 2019, 10:57pm #2
piggybacker:
Hmmm where did Pel come from?
pghawg1 April 3, 2019, 11:05pm #3
I hope Yuracheck can PICK out good coaches just like Frank did when he did hire Eddie and Nolan. He he can do that we will be ok. I think whats making a lot of us nervous is we don't know if he can make good hires or not
hog584 April 3, 2019, 11:23pm #4
Agree PJ, I assume we will just have to be patient. Plenty of time to go loco after the hire has been announced if necessary!
099jeg April 3, 2019, 11:49pm #5
[quote="3agle09"]
Former assistant to Eddie Sutton, one of the coaching greats. Former assistant to Billy Donovan, another one of the coaching greats. Played 1 year with Eddie Sutton and then 3 years with Rick Pitino at Kentucky.
Coaching searches. They're a crapshoot.
You hire a coach and hope for the best.
Worked out great with Nolan and Eddie. Not so great with Pelphrey and Heath.
prairiehoophog April 4, 2019, 2:00pm #6
3agle09:
And before anyone asks, Stan came here from Kent State.
bobghawg April 4, 2019, 3:06pm #7
I'm wondering how fans that wanted MA fired could ever be satisfied. The coach at Arkansas does not have the talent pool some other guys have. Our coach will not have a flock of one and dones.
Hogmodo April 4, 2019, 3:19pm #8
BobgHawg:
So, Yurachek is pursuing coaches who succeeded without one-and-dones. He and we assume if you can do it at Texas Tech, Nevada, etc. you can do it at Arkansas. That is what is being expected.
harleyhawgidson April 4, 2019, 4:21pm #9
PrairieHoopHog:
Stan was at Kent St only 1 year and took them to the elite eight. We seem to always lump Stan's and Pelphrey's tenures here together. Here are a couple of reasons, I don't think we should:
Stan was a terrific recruiter and recruited nationally. Without 2 unlucky recruiting breaks, he may have had a very good tenure here. He had a commitment from Al Jefferson (5* recruit), before Al decided late that he was going to jump to the NBA out of High School. Olu Famutimi was as high as the #5 recruit in the country before his season ending injury in his Senior year, and never fully recovered. Here's a list of some of his nationally ranked recruits:
Al Jefferson - 5* Top 10 (included because with today's rules he would have been a one and done)
Olu - 5* - #13
Sonny Weems - Top 5 JUCO
Ronnie Brewer - #39
Steven Hill - #44
Charles Thomas - #59
Darian Townes - #74
Patrick Beverly - #76
That's a very nice list of top 100 recruits and only 1 was from Arkansas.
As our coach, he improved each of his first 4 seasons and fell off only slightly his 5th year and went to the NCAA Tourney in both his 4th and 5th years. Even Pel, in his first year, went to the NCAA tourney with the team Stan left him. From then on Pelphrey did nothing notable and had 2 losing seasons. I'm not saying we should have kept Stan. In fact his coaching stops after leaving here indicate he may have peaked in his last 2 years here. Unfortunately, his coaching acumen didn't compare favorably with his recruiting. He also didn't do a good job policing off court and academic problems. He did, however, leave the program better than he found it.
In my opinion, Stan and Pelphrey had very different levels of success and should not be lumped together as if both were disasters. Pel's tenure was a monumental disaster.
prairiehoophog April 4, 2019, 4:33pm #10
HarleyHawgidson:
Not really lumping them together, just pointing out that they both came from mid major programs.
I hated that we went after Gillispie.
harleyhawgidson April 4, 2019, 4:47pm #11
Oh man, I didn't mean to single your post out as you doing that. About all of us, including me, tend to call the those 9 years a disaster by lumping Stan and Pelphrey together. I just felt a need to point out that there was a very different level of poor coaching and recruiting between Stan and Pelphrey.
On Gillispie, KY probably helped us prevent another type of disaster, but with a few more wins than Pelphrey gave us.
randyreece April 4, 2019, 4:50pm #12
Pelphrey had proven his mediocrity at Samford, which is quite a step down from Creighton and Tulsa. Never should have been a possibility.
No, man. We're alright. lol
It was only a matter of time before Billy G would've turned into the basketball version of the Petrino saga. Too many drunken co-eds hanging out on Dickson Street for someone like that. He just had that look about him.


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John Burnside's Waking Up in Toytown is a moving account of a poet's travails, finds Adam O'Riordan
By Adam O'Riordan
5:45AM GMT 10 Jan 2010
Waking Up in Toytown is the second volume of memoirs from the award-winning Scottish poet and novelist John Burnside. In the early Eighties, 28-year-old Burnside attempted to rebuild his life after a decade of alcohol and drug abuse and borderline mental illness (in Burnside's case 'apophenia' – seeing patterns or connections in random or meaningless data).
After a period of hospitalisation, where this memoir opens, Burnside moves himself to suburban Surrey seeking 'a perfect banal' and the promise of stability among 'those isolates who make clockwork of their existence'. However, Burnside's former life, its habits and habitués, quickly reprise themselves in the shape of old lovers and hard-drinking colleagues (including one particularly nasty character who attempts to persuade Burnside to murder his wife for him).
Nevertheless, Burnside progresses through a series of menial jobs to a post as a civil servant, and on to a career in software engineering. As his life superficially stabilises, his work takes him as far afield as California.
However, the book offers no simple story of escape. Rather, this beautifully written and observed memoir comprises a delicate mediation on the nature of memory and existence; the ghosts we cannot escape and the states of being that forever escape us.
What might make an unremarkable autobiography (which demands factual authenticity and strict chronology) makes for a compelling memoir as Burnside takes advantage of the freedoms of the form. The book moves back and forth between present and past; from walking alone in the woods near his home to waking to snow with his young son, from remembering the death of the girl he worked with in a factory one summer, to offering a disquisition on his fascination with flight and the banality of air travel.
Burnside has an ability to lend a beauty to the mundane and the debased. Early on he describes how Harry, a companion at an AA meeting, 'sat there, his face and hands soft?…?the way they might have been for a lost child or a bird trapped in a conservatory'. The characters we meet, no matter how ordinary their circumstances, are afforded a dignity and are convincingly rendered, albeit glossed by the disclaimer at the book's opening that 'Some of the characters, especially the homicidally inclined, have been camouflaged for their own protection.' Throughout this well paced and at times slyly ironic memoir, Burnside excels as a guide through his inner life and its complex, shifting terrain; whether sharing hard-won epiphany or hellish visions recalled from the depths of his illness, where 'the dead wait to welcome us like ushers at a wedding'. An experience that is further enhanced by the spiritual exactness of Burnside's prose; take, for instance, his evocation of those woods near his home, an important locus and symbol of his spiritual state, whose silence he describes as 'like the caught breath of the choir before they sing the Kyrie'.
This is an affecting book from a writer of manifest and manifold talent; a compellingly readable memoir possessed of a genuine spiritual and intellectual depth.
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