According to a report from Andy Katz of ESPN.com, there have been some discussions about moving the Final Four out of domes and into a regular basketball arena.
The Final Four has been in a dome since 1996, when it was hosted by the Meadowlands, and is currently booked all the way through 2016, when the NCAA title will once again be won in Houston.
But?new NCAA executive vice president for championships Mark Lewis has twice brought up the idea of moving the event back into basketball arenas. And while common-sense would lead you to believe that the decision would be made because basketball isn?t meant to be played in domed football stadiums without any kind of shooting backdrop to speak of, the truth of the matter comes down to the simple fact that the only domes are found in middle America.
In other words, a change to how we determine where the event will be located would bring the potential for Boston, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami and a handful of other major cities to play host:
Lewis told ESPN.com on Thursday that when he was hired earlier this year, he took out a United States map and saw that both coasts are largely left off from hosting the Final Four.
?I don?t know where this will lead, if anywhere, but the right thing is to sit down and have these conversations and see if we want our championship in more than eight cities or do we like playing exclusively in domes,? Lewis said.
?None of the cities where we play our championship is named New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Chicago or Miami,? Lewis said. ?We don?t play on a campus. We play in professional football arenas.?
I doubt that ever happens, and the reason can be found in that exact same article: ?San Antonio hosted [the Final Four] in 1998, 2004 and ?08, but Lewis said he was told the Alamodome is now too small.? The Alamodome can hold as many as 72,000 when it is fully expanded, although, according to the Wikipedia page, it holds just under 40,000 for basketball games.
40,000 is double the capacity of places like Madison Square Garden, TD Garden and the United Center. And that?s still not enough.
I know the NCAA gets around $770 million a year based on their NCAA tournament deal with CBS/Turner, but are they really going to pass up all that income generated by ticket revenues?:
?It?s something we would want to explore,? Lewis said. ?What?s the best place to play a basketball game? Is it harder to play in a dome? We?ve got to do what?s right for the game of basketball. I have a sports background but I?m not a basketball guy, so the answer should be driven by what?s the best experience for the student-athletes.?
I?ll believe it when I see it.
Rob Dauster is the editor of the college basketball website?Ballin? is a Habit. You can find him on twitter @robdauster.
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Bradley Cooper and Zoe Saldana in The WordsPhotograph by Jonathan Wenk/CBS Films/IMDB.
Is there anything worse than a nested Russian-doll narrative in which each successive layer is less interesting than the last? By their nature, stories-within-stories interrupt the audience?s flow, forcing us to stop and reassess our engagement with each new set of characters, problems, and ideas. When none of those characters, problems, or ideas provide much to care about, the intricate puzzle-box structure connecting them starts to feel less like a game than a trap. The tepid literary melodrama The Words (CBS Films), co-written and co-directed by first-time filmmakers Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal, unfolds like the slow-motion dismantling of the world?s most boring matryoshka.
The story?s outermost layer concerns a successful and critically celebrated middle-aged novelist, Clay Hammond (Dennis Quaid), who?s giving a reading from his latest book to a large and admiring audience. Later on, we?ll discover that Jay is being semi-stalked by a gorgeous grad student (Olivia Wilde) who?s obsessed with his work. But for the movie?s opening scenes, Jay exists mostly to provide a voice-over?a florid, highly detailed voice-over that flouts the creative-writing axiom about showing rather than telling by doing both at the same time. The story Jay over-narrates for us is the plot of the book he?s promoting, The Words. In it, a considerably younger novelist, Rory Jansen (Bradley Cooper) is accepting an award for his work, a debut novel with the unpromising title The Window Tears.
The Window Tears, which in turn soon becomes the subject of its own nostalgically lit film-within-a-film-within-a-film, follows the travails of an unnamed young American soldier (Ben Barnes) who falls in love with a French barmaid (Nora Arnezeder) in the aftermath of the second World War. The whole of The Words pivots on the audience?s acceptance of the proposition that The Window Tears is a work of singular genius, though all I could make out from a few shots of the manuscript in progress was the phrase ?Claudette?s honey-speckled eyes? and something about the shedding of a single, blood-stained tear. (This is an ongoing problem in films about fictional artists: At some point or other the audience gets a glimpse of whatever masterpiece the hero?s been laboring over, and the facsimile of ?great art? on display tends to be a letdown?if powerful work were that easy to fake, we wouldn?t have so many bad movies.)
Rory?s whole life is turned around by the success of The Window Tears: He wins a major literary prize, enabling him to quit his low-level publishing job. The manuscript of another novel he?s been peddling unsuccessfully for years is suddenly in high demand, and he?s no longer so broke he needs to beg his father (J.K. Simmons) for periodic cash infusions. But (mild spoiler alert ahead, though the twist in question comes early on) Rory is hiding a guilty secret: Not one honey-speckled word of The Window Tears is his own. He found the whole manuscript in an antique attach? case in Paris while on his honeymoon. After reading it in a single impassioned sitting and obsessing about its perfection for days on end, he types the book into his laptop word for word and convinces himself, in some fevered haze of writerly envy and self-justification, to pass it off as his own.
The idea of a movie about a writer who hits the big time with a plagiarized book, and must forever after be looking over his shoulder, has promise?after all, who among us doesn?t identify at least in part with the fear of being uncovered as a secret lifelong fraud? And when an age-makeup-laden Jeremy Irons shows up as a crabbed old man who claims to be The Window Tears? true author, The Words does seem like it might go someplace interesting for a brief, tense scene or two. Imagine the psychological warfare, the passive-aggressive competitiveness, the blackmail threats that such an encounter might occasion! But instead of taking advantage of the rich contrasts of the Irons/Cooper dyad?youth vs. age, integrity vs. fraudulence, Oscar for best actor vs. People?s sexiest man alive award?the filmmakers choose to plonk Irons on a park bench and put him to work narrating yet another nested flashback, as we revisit the story of the work?s composition 50 years before.
It?s as if the only mode of human communication The Words recognizes as meaningful is when a writer, standing immobile at a podium or sitting on a park bench, formally recites a story that?s simultaneously recreated in images as literal as Christmas-pageant tableau. This is especially true of the nearly dialogue-free Paris flashbacks, which are essentially simultaneous re-enactments of the events being described in voice-over. For a film that purports to be about the love of literature and the call of the writerly life, The Words is remarkably uninterested in playing with either language or ideas. It?s solemn and dull to a degree that can?t help but breed fantasies of Rocky Horror-style heckling (bring your own crumpled pages of bad prose to lob at the screen during the multiple tormented-writer-at-work montages!). The closing scene between Quaid and Wilde (remember that frame story? Me neither) seems to be aiming for a tone of postmodern ambiguity about how these three competing stories fit together to form one truth, but instead the resolution feels deliberately muddled and vague. ?At some point you have to choose between life and fiction,? another character earnestly warns Cooper?s callow plagiarist at a turning point in the story. If the fiction under consideration is the movie The Words, go ahead and choose life.
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An explosive mix of dysfunction, miscommunication, and misunderstandings inside and outside the White House led to the collapse of a historic spending and debt deal that President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner were on the verge of reaching last summer, according to revelations in author Bob Woodward's latest book.
The book, "The Price of Politics," on sale Sept. 11, 2012, shows how close the president and the House speaker were to defying Washington odds and establishing a spending framework that included both new revenues and major changes to long-sacred entitlement programs.
But at a critical juncture, with an agreement tantalizingly close, Obama pressed Boehner for additional taxes as part of a final deal ? a miscalculation, in retrospect, given how far the House speaker felt he'd already gone.
The president called three times to speak with Boehner about his latest offer, according to Woodward. But the speaker didn't return the president's phone call for most of an agonizing day, in what Woodward calls a "monumental communications lapse" between two of the most powerful men in the country.
When Boehner finally did call back, he jettisoned the entire deal. Obama lost his famous cool, according to Woodward, with a "flash of pure fury" coming from the president; one staffer in the room said Obama gripped the phone so tightly he thought he would break it.
"He was spewing coals," Boehner told Woodward, in what is described as a borderline "presidential tirade."
"He was pissed?. He wasn't going to get a damn dime more out of me. He knew how far out on a limb I was. But he was hot. It was clear to me that coming to an agreement with him was not going to happen, and that I had to go to Plan B."
Tune in to "World News with Diane Sawyer" and "Nightline" on Monday September 10, 2012 to see Diane Sawyer's exclusive interview with Bob Woodward
Accounts of the final proposal that led to the deal's collapse continue to differ sharply. The president says he was merely raising the possibility of putting more revenue into the package, while Boehner maintains that the president needed $400 billion more, despite an earlier agreement of no more than $800 billion in total revenue, derived through tax reform.
Obama and his aides argue that the House speaker backed away from a deal because he couldn't stand the political heat inside his own party ? or even, perhaps, get the votes to pass the compromise. They say he took the president's proposal for more revenue as an excuse to pull out of talks altogether.
"I was pretty angry," the president told Woodward about the breakdown in negotiations. "There's no doubt I thought it was profoundly irresponsible, at that stage, not to call me back immediately and let me know what was going on."
The failure of Obama to connect with Boehner was vaguely reminiscent of another phone call late in the evening of Election Day 2010, after it became clear that the Republicans would take control of the House, making Boehner Speaker of the House.
Nobody in the Obama orbit could even find the soon-to-be-speaker's phone number, Woodward reports. A Democratic Party aide finally secured it through a friend so the president could offer congratulations.
While questions persist about whether any grand bargain reached by the principals could have actually passed in the Tea Party-dominated Congress, Woodward issues a harsh judgment on White House and congressional leaders for failing to act boldly at a moment of crisis. Particular blame falls on the president.
"It was increasingly clear that no one was running Washington. That was trouble for everyone, but especially for Obama," Woodward writes.
For all the finger-pointing now, Obama and Boehner appear to have developed a rapport during the negotiations. The Illinois Democrat bonded with the Ohio Republican, starting with a much-publicized "golf summit" and continuing through long, substantive chats on the Truman Balcony and the patio right outside the Oval Office.
Boehner was drinking Merlot and smoking cigarettes, Obama sipping iced tea and chomping Nicorette. Obama, who had quit smoking by the time, wasn't offered a cigarette by Boehner and didn't ask for any, though he told Woodward he always made sure an ashtray was available for him. The two men were divided by ideology but united in looking for a legacy-making moment ? even if it meant sacrificing their own jobs.
"I would willingly lose an election if I was able to actually resolve this in a way that was right," Obama told Woodward about his mindset at the time, comparing the debt negotiations to the decision to strike Osama bin Laden's compound.
Boehner voiced a similar desire to accomplish something big on spending: "I need this job like I need a hole in the head," he told Woodward. Yet top deputies loomed large over the negotiations. Vice President Joe Biden was labeled the "McConnell whisperer" by White House aides for his ability to cut deals with the often implacable Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. The vice president led a parallel set of bipartisan talks that reached breakthroughs without the president's direct involvement.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor is depicted as more in touch with the Republican caucus that elected Boehner speaker, particularly with its strong contingent of tea party freshmen who came to Washington pledging to put the brakes on federal spending at any cost.
Cantor, Woodward writes, viewed Boehner as a "runaway horse" who needed reining in, given the realities of his own caucus. The Boehner-Obama talks started without Cantor's knowledge, and Boehner later acknowledged to the president that Cantor was working against the very deal they were trying to reach, according to Woodward.
Intriguingly, Cantor and Biden frequently had "private asides" after larger meetings, according to Woodward. After one of them, Woodward writes that Biden told Cantor: "You know, if I were doing this, I'd do it totally different."
"Well, if I were running the Republican conference, I'd do it totally different," Cantor replied, according to Woodward.
Woodward writes: "They agreed that if they were in charge, they could come to a deal."
With the president taking charge, though, Obama found that he had little history with members of Congress to draw on. His administration's early decision to forego bipartisanship for the sake of speed around the stimulus bill was encapsulated by his then-chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel: "We have the votes. F--- 'em," he's quoted in the book as saying.
Click here to purchase an advance copy of Bob Woodward's new book "The Price of Power"
Obama's relationship with Democrats wasn't always much better. Woodward recounts an episode early in his presidency when then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid were hammering out final details of the stimulus bill.
Obama phoned in to deliver a "high-minded message," he writes. Obama went on so long that Pelosi "reached over and pressed the mute button on her phone," so they could continue to work without the president hearing that they weren't paying attention.
As debt negotiations progressed, Democrats complained of being out of the loop, not knowing where the White House stood on major points. Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., the ranking Democrat on the House Budget Committee, is described as having a "growing feeling of incredulity" as negotiations meandered.
"The administration didn't seem to have a strategy. It was unbelievable. There didn't seem to be any core principles," Woodward writes in describing Van Hollen's thinking.
Larry Summers, a top economic adviser to Obama who also served as Treasury Secretary under President Clinton, identified a key distinction that he said impacted budget and spending talks.
"Obama doesn't really have the joy of the game. Clinton basically loved negotiating with a bunch of pols, about anything," Summers said. "Whereas, Obama, he really didn't like these guys."
Summers said that Obama's "excessive pragmatism" was a problem. "I don't think anybody has a sense of his deep feelings about things." Summers said. "I don't think anybody has a sense of his deep feelings about people. I don't think people have a sense of his deep feelings around the public philosophy."
Obama and his top aides were at times dismissive of the tea party freshmen in Congress who made the debt limit into a major fight. He told Woodward he had "some sympathy" for Boehner, since "he just can't control the forces in his caucus now."
"You see how crazy these people are. I understand him," the president said.
Boehner was equally harsh in his judgment of the flaws inside the White House.
"The president was trying to get there. But there was nobody steering the ship underneath him," Boehner told Woodward. "They never had their act together. The president, I think, was ill-served by his team. Nobody in charge, no process. I just don't know how the place works. To this day, I can't tell you how the place works. There's no process for making a decision in this White House. There's nobody in charge."
One important moment in the negotiations came when the president scheduled a major address on the nation's long-term debt crisis. A White House staffer thought to invite House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., along with the other two House Republicans who had served on the Simpson-Bowles debt commission.
The president delivered a blistering address, taking apart the Ryan budget plan as "changing the basic social compact in America." Ryan left the speech "genuinely ripped," Woodward writes, feeling that Obama was engaged in "game-on demagoguery" rather than trying to work with the new Republican majority.
"I can't believe you poisoned the well like that," Ryan told Obama economic adviser Gene Sperling on his way out of the speech.
The president told Woodward that he wasn't aware that Ryan was in the audience, and he called inviting him there "a mistake."
If he had known, Obama told Woodard, "I might have modified some of it so that we would leave more negotiations open, because I do think that they felt like we were trying to embarrass him? We made a mistake."
The book makes no significant mention of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who chose Ryan to be his running mate more than a year after the main events in the book transpired. The 2012 election is not a major focus of the book, beyond the president's repeated insistence that any debt deal cover spending and borrowing through his reelection year.
Woodward portrays a president who remained a supreme believer in his own powers of persuasion, even as he faltered in efforts to coax congressional leaders in both parties toward compromise. Boehner told Woodward that at one point, when Boehner voiced concern about passing the deal they were working out, the president reached out and touched his forearm.
"John, I've got great confidence in my ability to sway the American people," Boehner quotes the president as having told him.
But after the breakthrough agreement fell apart, Boehner's "Plan B" would ultimately exclude the president from most of the key negotiations. The president was "voted off the island," in Woodward's phrase, even by members of his own party, as congressional leaders patched together an eleventh hour framework to avoid default.
Frustration over the lack of clear White House planning was voiced to Obama's face at one point, with a Democratic congressional staffer taking the extraordinary step of confronting the president in the Oval Office.
With the nation facing the very real possibility of defaulting on its debt for the first time in its history, David Krone, the chief of staff to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, told the president directly that he couldn't simply reject the only option left to Congress.
"It is really disheartening that you, that this White House did not have a Plan B," Krone said, according to Woodward.
Congress reached a short-term deal to slice spending and extend the nation's debt ceiling through the election. But it also set up a mechanism that will lead to a "fiscal cliff" of tax hikes and deep cuts to programs, including defense spending, at the end of this year, absent new congressional action. "It is a world of the status quo, only worse," Woodward concludes.
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Our?pre-caffeine roundup is a collection of the hottest, strangest, and most amusing stories of the morning. Here's everything that you need to know before taking that first sip of coffee.?
The mobile industry is firing on all cylinders this week: major press events from Nokia, Motorola and Amazon are scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday, but the opening volley goes to Samsung and Verizon with the newly announced Samsung Galaxy Stellar, a 4G LTE handset that seemingly aims to be all things for all people ?? and for a very intriguing?price.
Meanwhile,?Microsoft and Nokia are holding a joint?press event at 10 a.m. ET/7 a.m. PT today. We'll be there to cover the news live, but in the meantime, here's a rundown of what we expect from the two companies today.
As expected,?Apple is holding an event at?10 a.m. PT/1 p.m. ET,?Wednesday, Sept. 12, at?the?Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, where the company will no doubt introduce the next generation iPhone.?
Speaking of Apple, hackers leaked 1 million Apple device IDs, claiming they got a trove from the FBI database. (The?FBI is denying this.)
Speaking of the government,?the White House released new versions of its White House app for iOS and Android Tuesday, including apps tailored for tablets. And in an unprecedented move, it opened its apps to developers to modify for their own use.
In Democratic National Convention news, YouTube copyright bots accidentally killed DNC video. Whoops!?
Meanwhile,?Michelle Obama's speech last night let to a whole lot of tweets -- 28K per minute, in fact.?
Here, get a close look at the bogus "Google pyramids," why don't you?
We've had this sneaking suspicion for some time now?that we weren't exactly?hearing the whole story when it came to the Angry Birds saga. Now, the?Angry Birds swine get to shine in "Bad Piggies!"
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Don Miller writes:
Gold remains the favorite of precious metals investors, but silver is now a strong number two...with a bullet.
That means you should consider investing in silver now before it goes even higher.
In case you haven't noticed, after wallowing around in the mid-20s for months, silver prices have shot back over $30 an ounce.
And thanks to wildly bullish technical and fundamental indicators, silver could soon retest its 2011 high, or even blow through it.
If that happens, silver's run-up will hand investors a fortune, so here's how you can cash in.
Turnaround in Silver/Gold Ratio
Historically, the price of silver per ounce has usually been equal to around 1/16th of an ounce of gold,meaning it took 16 ounces of silver to equal the value of a single ounce of gold.
But over the past decade, gold has taken off, trading as high as 60-70 times the price of silver.
That is, until last year. As silver prices rose to nearly $50 an ounce, the ratio fell to 30-1.
But as prices for the white metal settled near $27, the ratio has skyrocketed back up.
Right now, you get 55 times more silver for your money than gold.
But it would still have to triple in price to even sniff where it should be in relation to gold.
And there are signs that this is just what's going to happen.
Strong Signals for Silver Price Rally
From a technical viewpoint, the rally in silver may be just beginning.
You see, the silver futures markets are in what's known as "backwardization."
It's a rare condition that occurs when the current cash price is higher than distant contract prices.
In other words, it costs more to buy silver today than it would to buy silver a month from now, or six months from now.
For instance, the September 2012 silver contract closed on Aug. 27 at $30.90. The December 2012 contract closed the same day at $29.64. And the March 2013 contract closed at $27.28.
There's only one reason for this - there's a shortage of physical silver on the open market.
Fact is, silver demand is on the verge of hitting historic highs.
Investors bought 797 tons of silver-backed exchange-traded products this year. They now hold 18,093 tons, or more than eight months of global mine output, according to data compiled by Bloomberg News.
That brings total silver assets to just 2.9% below the record 18,639 tons held in April 2011. Investors will likely buy another 500 tons in 2013, Barclays PLC (ADR NYSE: BCS) and Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) predict.
There are also signs that industrial demand is improving. Unlike gold, silver has a bevy of critical industrial uses.
There's silver in just about every electronic device out there - from televisions to computers to cellphones to tablets.
But since July 3, stockpiles in warehouses dropped 6.5%, posting a four-month low on Aug. 8, according to COMEX. Inventories had grown every month since November to 147.1 million ounces.
In other words, silver owners aren't selling, they're hoarding.
On top of all that, the latest Fed minutes suggest the central bank is ready to begin another round of quantitative easing, which has been favorable for silver and gold. Europe and China are also in stimulus mode.
The Two Best Ways for Investing in Silver
Like gold, there's a variety of options for investing in silver - but two in particular stand out from the crowd.
One popular option for silver ownership is through exchange-traded funds (ETFs).
The iShares Silver Trust ETF (NYSEArca: SLV) has over $9 billion in assets and trades more than 9 million shares daily.
SLV shares represent approximately 1.0 silver ounce each and are easy to buy and sell through your broker. The ETF has gained approximately 110% since inception, delivering both performance and liquidity.
But ETFs can only establish a paper claim on silver.
Fact is, there's no substitute for owning physical silver in times of crisis.
But it's simply not practical to own large amounts of bullion and keep it in your house. That's why owning a combination of both paper (ETF's) and a small amount of coinage is the way to go.
You can buy "junk" silver -- bags of pre-1965 dimes, quarters, and half-dollars -- that contain about 90% silver.
Collectible silver coins often have premiums of 25%-50% or more than the spot price of silver.
But because they don't have collectible value, you can buy "junk" coins now at just 1%-2% above the current spot-market price for an ounce of silver.
They usually come in $1,000 face-value bags worth about $23,600 at today's prices. But many dealers will split them into smaller bags.
If you choose SLV and "junk" when investing in silver, you get the best of both worlds: diversification and the comfort of holding the physical metal in your hands.
Editors Note: Here?s everything you need to know about buying physical silver. Click here.
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ScienceDaily (Sep. 5, 2012) ? Albatrosses leverage the energy of the wind to fly with essentially no mechanical cost to themselves, very rarely flapping their wings. New work offers insight into how exactly they accomplish this feat.
The researchers, led by Gottfried Sachs of the Technische Universitaet Muenchen and Francesco Bonadonna of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), used advanced GPS tracking.
They determined that the energy gain during the albatross's "dynamic soaring" comes from a repeated oscillation consisting of a combined curve-altitude flight maneuver, with optimal adjustment for the wind.
The results may provide inspiration for robotic aircraft that utilize the flight technique of albatrosses for engineless propulsion, the authors write.
The research was published Sept. 5 in the open access journal PLoS ONE.
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There is a group of guys, of which a good friend is involved, who are wrapping up a short trip on Isle Royale National Park. ?Their mission, to raise awareness of Coaster Brook Trout. ?A conservation effort well worth commending each for. ?This from their facebook page:
Hot off the Press ? Brett Watson to submit an All Length World Record application to IGFA for his 46cm Coaster Brook trout caught today on a Sage ESN 3wt paired with a Ross Evolution LT. The Fish took a pink and purple streamer on 5x. Video of the fight to follow in the days ahead.
First of all, IGFA and fish records are retarded? and since my mom reads, that is putting it?nicely. ?Second, a bunch of record-seekers toting ultralight tackle to one of the last places in the U.S. that harbor descent populations of coasters is the absolute last thing a group of guys trying to promote their conservation should want. ?Third, what the fuck is a guy going to Isle Royale to catch and raise awareness about coasters doing with a 3wt in the first place? ?? and since my mom reads, that is putting it nicely.
A 46cm (18-inches for you ?mericans) is not a large coaster by any means. ?Still, even at the small end, this size coaster is too much for a 3wt and 5X. ?You see, there is this thing called lactic acid buildup. ?What is lactic acid build up? ?Its elementary, dear [Brett] Watson.
?Physical exertion from a particularly long fight causes an oxygen deficiency in the tissue, forcing the muscles to function without oxygen (anaerobically) which in turn causes lactic acid build up in the muscle tissue which diffuses into the blood. This subsequently causes the pH in the blood to drop. Even slight changes in pH can cause disruptions of the metabolic processes which may ultimately kill the fish. If the fish is handled little and released quickly, its blood pH usually returns to normal and the fish survives. But, while fish may appear alive after a long fight, when released the imbalance in the blood chemistry may kill them as much as three days after being caught. This is why, with any species, it?s important to choose the right tackle for the job and to not fight that fish for a long time. The bottom line is the more stress you put that fish under, the more chance it has of dying. This is not speculation, this is a fact.?
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If you care about coasters? and you?re supposed to since you?re on a trip with a bunch of dudes whose sole purpose is to raise coaster awareness? you should leave the 3wt at home. ?Come on, man! ?I am just totally disappointed in not only you ? a complete stranger? but also in anyone else on that trip who didn?t give you a look of disdain when you pulled it out of the rod tube. ?You obviously have no idea why you?re really there.
Source: http://alexkain.com/2012/09/04/predators-posing-as-house-pets-or-isle-royale-douchebaggery/
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) ? Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren says President Barack Obama is a fighter for the middle class. And she slams his Republican opponent, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, as someone who wants to cut taxes for the rich and big corporations.
Warren spoke during a prime-time address at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday.
Warren says that for years America's middle class "has been chipped, squeezed and hammered."
Obama "gets it," Warren says, because he's spent his life working for the middle class. She says he will continue to do so.
Warren says that's a contrast with Romney. The Senate candidate says Romney's economic plans will hammer the middle class by pulverizing financial reforms, changing Medicare and vaporizing the Obama's health care law.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/warren-says-obama-fighter-middle-class-011737949--election.html
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