In late fall, they close of the river and divert the flow of salmon up into a run. From, there the salmon are held until gravis. The spawn go in here:
They grow here, until about six inches, when they're released. There's a white spot on each back, where their dorsal fins are removed by state law. Helps to differentiate them from wild salmon. Imagine cutting the fin off of a couple of million smelt sized fish. Labor intensive.
That's what my parasailing instructor described my fear of heights as, earlier today. A problem with edges. Parasailing, jumping out of planes, rappelling....no issue dude. But edges? They are like my Room 101.
After parasailing, my wife and I went up to Ecola Park, here abouts. Beautiful place
See this cliff? We went over and took some pictures, and then started walking towards the high point. As we walked, saw a blonde Russian girl walking down into the crevice. Yellow top, tan skirt and soft sided shoes. Odd. We passed her friends as they shouted "we were only joking (wife translating)." Kept wondering where the girl was going as we rounded the corner. Looked back on last time, and saw a crowd gathering on the prominence.
The girl fell down the cliff an into a cove. No outlet. Tide coming in. These two doods jumped dwon to go after her. We watched them climb down, as we made our way back. On the cliff, we saw the first dood get to her.
Now see, here's where I figured I should have climbed down after them, and offered assistance. Instead, I called 911 described the situation and her location. Gave them my number and hung up. They called back once more (it's damned important to keep eyes on and give out a good contact number when calling 911) for a final fix. Ten mikes later, Fire and Rescue where on the cliff.
The girl.
Her friend calls the girl, and we find out that she has a broken leg. Fire Rescue tries rappelling, but that's not going to work.
The girls other friends observe.
The Coasties return and she is rescued.
Video:
My problem with edges kept me from leaping bodily to her rescue. But I'm damned glad I called 911.
...And tragic. The Beach Patrol converged on a spot half a kilometer from us. When we went back out, a Coastie helicopter was hovering overhead. It looks like the undertoe has claimed another.
I usually don't watch his show, but it's on in the background. Alot of wall to wall Libby coverage (and some snippets about the Doctors Jihad), but good old Coop made me laugh when he said "we don't take sides. we just keep the government honest."
People are making a big deal out of the "special treatment" Libby got from President Bush. But let's face it, he got "special treatment" throughout this entire process.
People went hunting for the administration, and now even their "All I got was this Stupid Libby" t-shirts are played.
BAGHDAD, July 2 — Iranian operatives helped plan a January raid in Karbala in which five American soldiers were killed, an American military spokesman in Iraq said today.
Probably the Cheney War Machine running amok, right? Or simply war made new (again).
I was digging around the internets, looking for the full quote to Joe Haldeman's book, "All my sins remembered." Shakespeare? That line's up there with "We are all broken, and heal by living." D.K. Moran, methinks.
Anyhoo, came across this interesting google response:
We want our users to feel safe when they search the web, and we're continuously working to identify dangerous sites and increase protection for our user
For a while, Heinlein concentrated on short stories for the pulps and short novels for teenage boys. As with all great science fiction, his work constantly speculated about technology, social progress, good government, and so on. By the early 1950s, married for a third and final time, he was drifting away from his left-wing past and adopting a new brand of politics.Slugs vs. iowa
Looking up information on Craigslist's Craig Newmark, I find his blog (and yes, I know this is like claiming I've discovered 'air'). Of interest is his post about Larry Lessig leaving the Copyfight to fight, well, let's call it honest, government pork.
After I finish Stross' "Glasshouse," I'm going to tuck into Heather's "The Fall of the Roman Empire" (no beating around the bush with all that Decline business).
So I fired up wiki to go looking for any modern day empires. America? Check, got it.
But the Eurosphere? That's a new one to me. I always saw Europe as getting rolled in the Euromed partnership or by GAZPROM. But who nows, maybe that old dog's got some life in her yet.
LORDY. If you want a description of the Eurosphere in Orwellian bureaucratese, then go here:
EUROSPHERE is a European Commission-funded Integrated Project within the 6th Framework Programme.
I am looking for a moderately attractive man between the ages of 18 and 40 who has air conditioning in his bedroom. As the temperature is slated to reach in the 100s this week, my need for a boyfriend with air conditioning is especially pertinent.
This arrangement is intended for the month of August, however, an indian summer may extend our relationship.
If all goes well, I could offer warmth in the winter.
IF Comprehensive Amnesty Reform unpopular AND citizens speak out against THEN Comprhensive Amnesty Reform not passed.
IF Irakwarunpopular AND people "against" war THEN defund war....[EXCEPTION THROWN].
You know, I'm one of the three hundred odd thousand people who watch CNN when something is not blowing up. The constant drum beat of beating retreat in the face of the enemy is a constant refrain (they use politer words). But if there is such a groundswell of "popular opinion" against defeating the savages then why has it not ended?
"I don't mind them asking for my ID, but they don't need my driver's license number," said Campbell, 43. "I'm just buying a six-pack. All they need to know is how old I am."
Rollins said scanning licenses has proved beneficial in other ways, such as catching criminals.
I believe Tennessee has something called TENNCARE, some kind of guvmint health care plan. I wonder how long before they link these two trends ("we see you also bought cigarettes, tsk, tsk"). Tres European. The more responsibility you hand over to the government, the more choice goes with the handover.
