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  1. i have the simms lightweights and like them a lot but for my next pair i'm going to go with patagonia. very reasonable prices:

    http://www.patagonia.com/web/us/product/co...R.WOMENS.WADERS

     

    and i'm sure that no other company does as much to preserve the natural environment:

    http://www.patagonia.com/web/us/contributi...mp;assetid=1809

     

    ethical manufacturing policy & great environmental policy. that's the company getting my money next time around. a friend has a pair of patagonia's and likes them (but has less than 30 days on em).

     

    actually, now that i review their website in greater detail, it appears they only sell women's waders. dang it!

  2. we paid 10 lbs for the new radiohead off their website. we think their venture is something worth supporting.

     

    for those that haven't heard, radiohead released their latest album for free download. if you like it, you can give money to them directly. that way they get all the money and remove the record production industry (RIAA) from taking the lion's share of the money you would otherwise pay for a CD from a store.

     

    i think that venture is worth supporting. kind of like pearl jam's initiative with ticketmaster in the 90s.

  3. you could also keep those old tippet spools. works great for hopper/dropper, dry/dry, worm/nymph rigs. the cardboard would be optimal as you could embed the hook into the cardboard.

     

    the only problem i see with the cardboard is that it would get wet and wear down and fold over time (is this your experience?).

  4. filled in the survey. thanks for posting.

     

    i think it's important to learn and participate in what's going on up there. i've learned that one of the international oil majors was planning to entirely put a stream into a concrete pipe for the life of a project, dig up the oil sands underneath in true open pit fashion, and then 'remediate' it afterwards.

     

    i hope they'll reconsider that option but what can anybody do when society values oil at $90/bbl and nature is worth $0/bbl.

     

    it's important to participate regardless of whether you value nature over oil or vice versa.

  5. good topic castus! instead of complaining about various things we can talk about where we'd like money invested.

     

    i'd vote for investing in education and investing in industries for the post-oil era which will eventually come. once all the oil is gone, it would be nice if people still lived here instead of migrating to the next big boom. hopefully Alberta won't be a province littered with ghost towns from the north to the south.

  6. guess we'll see the results tomorrow. no offense intended troutslayer. i just don't like people saying that 'thousands and thousands' of jobs will be lost without any data or analysis backing it up. it's heresay in my opinion until i see some calculations, data and facts.

     

    i got the impression that special Ed hinted the royalty structure would be modified. hopefully it doesn't affect your (or anybody else's) job security. and hopefully your employer will still have their EnCana contracts and the economy will keep rolling along. i'm sure that's the royalty review panel is hoping for as well.

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