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I don't mean to hijack your thread but I also am looking for one,
Thanks
Nik
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Honestly, I think the only way you can stop it is to get a new number. A few years ago my wife and I went to a cell provider and did away with our land line, partially because of the number of telemarketers that were calling. Our latest phone numbers are consecutive, and while it's not as bad as it was, she continues to get unsolicted calls and I don't. The only thing we do differently is when ever I'm asked for a phone number at a store, online, etc I give them the number for the disconnected land line. I do give my actual number out when I have to, like when I deal with my bank, the government, etc but that is it.
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A while back I had the chimney for my wood fireplace cleaned and after the job was done the sweep advised me that there is a hole in the liner (not sure if this is the right terminology). At the time he quoted $2500 to replace it, but I didn't get a good feeling from the guy. Just wondering if anyone works in this business, or if maybe someone else has had this job done recently and roughly what it should cost. Just looking for a ball park...
Some particulars if it helps - I'm in a one story with a basement, the home is close to 40 years old, low slope roof, the fireplace is on the main floor and is not an insert. The chimney is on an outside wall and has a masonry exterior.
Thanks for your time!
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Don't know if you've seen this already, but some pretty good info here...
http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/video-h...01/14379036001/
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I wonder if not fishing in these years of poor returns will have unintended negative consequences down the road. What I mean is I'm sure the powers that be track how many classified waters licenses are sold for the Big T, and if they see less licenses sold that might be percieved to mean there is a decline in interest. I'm sure there are competing special interest groups that could use decreasing numbers of anglers on the river as justification to have earlier and/or longer openings of the commercial fishing seasons on the lower Fraser, resulting in more bycatch. I'm not saying I think that IS the case, just speculating...
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I tie a pattern that sounds pretty close to what you describle, but I use a pearl oval bead.
-I put a large needle in my vice, and then I slide the oval bead on, the diameter of the needle should be large enough that the bead won't turn. I take a dremel with a cutting disk on it and I cut a grove about 4/5ths of the length of the bead.
- Slide a red round bead on to a hook (I like the 1xl 2xh wetfly style hooks) for the eyes
- Tie in a set of rubber legs about 2/3 of the way down the shank so that the legs stick out at right angles (leave them a bit long)
- slide the pearl bead on to the hook and position the grove in the bead so it faces up. Pull the legs out of the grove.
- I use a brown mottled synthetic wing material for the shell, start the thread behind the bead and tie in the shell but trim it to make the tie in point as small as possible. Whip finish and cut the thread
- Start the thread again between the beads, but before folding the shell back over I fill the grove in the oval bead with flexcement.
- Fold the shell back over, and tie off. If you want, use a small amount of dubbing between the two beads to hide the tie off point. Turn the fly upside down and let dry.
Ideally the oval bead slides back and covers the tie in point at the back, the flexcement binds the shell to bead and protects the legs so the fly is pretty much bullet proof.
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I had something like that happen on an Oldman trib this year. I hooked and landed a 16" rainbow on a dry at the tail out of a pool, and after reviving it I watched it swim away and it ended up taking a position in the pool where I could see it clearly. I changed my position and started running a prince nymph through the pool and I watched the same fish swim over and smack the nymph on the first drift.
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Look at the shoulders on that thing! Nice fish...
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I've had good experiences with Knibbe Automotive up in the NW.
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Dan are you in the insurance industry?
My issue is them demanding a this kind of personal information more than it is any concern about my rate changing. I know not everyone would agree that this is any kind of concern but it bothers me when I get the feeling they are asking this kind of thing just because the think they can. Most people don't seem to care but I'm a computer / network guy and I have a somewhat different perspective, as do many of my peers. This bothers us because we understand how it can be correlated and abused, or at least we see it a bit more.
So my question is do they need her policy number for a legit reason or are they fishing?
I am in the insurance industry, but I haven`t worked in that end of the business in a few years.
Robert pretty well said it. There are a couple of reasons they ask for the information on all the drivers in the house hold, but it mostly has to do with the rating. As you gathered, if there are two people in a house hold driving a vehicle they generally want both drivers listed on the policy, and if one`s record is worse than the other they will generally want the one with the worst record listed as the principle operator. By asking for her DL and Insurance information they are looking for confirmination of her driving record and to confirm that she is being rated as the PO of a vehicle with another carrier. If they can confirm that, then generally they show her as an additional operator and nothing else happens. For what it is worth, what the insurer can ask, how they can use it and even what they can charge you all goes through the Government Rate Board for approval, and it is all subject to the Privacy Act on top of that.
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If she is really never, and I mean NEVER, going to drive your jeep ask about adding an SEF 28a to your policy to exclude her as a driver. If you do go this route make sure your agent or broker goes over the endorsement and you know what you`re getting in to before you sign it.
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I couldn't disagree more about the purebred vs. mutt arguement. You couldn't pay me to take a purebred, under any circumstances. And I know half-a-dozen champion dog mushers who'd tell you the same. Also, a couple guys who work with search & rescue dogs, not to mention the lady I know who trains seeing-eye dogs.
Are they triploid sled dogs?
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Like harps said, I'm just throwing stuff at the wall and seeing if anything sticks.
It's all good, and I don't mean to come across like I'm dumping on your ideas. I've had similar thoughts and to have someone else post them just gives me the chance to play devils advocate, so to speak.
I thought about the bounty idea a while back, because I know it has been done for other species like starlings in the past, but I don't know if it could be made to work for fish unless the goal was to completely irradicate the species from all waters. For example, if you wanted to elimate brookies, say, from drainage 1 but not from lakes 2 & 3, how could you prove that the bounty wasn't being paid on brookies from outside the target area?
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I’m not sure I can do it justice, but it is basically because the natural selection processes that have developed over thousands of years in the wild can’t be duplicated by hatcheries. In the wild the “best and brightest” tend to mate with one another, which increases the chances they will pass on their favourable traits to their offspring. In hatcheries, on the other hand, they tend to take two fish at random from the same area that are sexually mature at the same time and mix their eggs and sperm. It’s like comparing a pure breed with the Heinz 57 at the pound. The mutt might be fine as a family pet, but a dismal failure as a working dog.
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The article is pretty accurate. Stocking AF3N only gives you one more safety net. The AF process is even less reliable than the triploidy process (it's temperature driven). In any given 10,000 fish stocking, there will be a few dozen fish capable of reproducing. If they do escape, they will breed with wild stock and they will have some kind of effect. In my opinion, the majority of stocked lakes in BC take this into account and stockings are fairly well planned. I have a lot of opinions on fish stocking, but they aren't related to the context of the article. The argument about 'lake fish vs river fish' doesn't hold because there are multiple strains of fish stocked in BC, one of the most common being Pennask strain, which show a very common small stream body form and are one of the most adaptable strains in the province.
PGK, I'm sorry if it seems like I'm attacking your posts because that is not my intention. It is just that you are making points that I don't agree with, even though I generally agree with your intent as I understand it.
You're right, triploids only provide an additional measure of safety, thats all they can do. But I think the point of the article is that genetically modified fish could interbreed with wild populations, but it is physically impossible. A triploid fish cannot breed, the fish that remain reproductively viable are the ones where the process didn't take, so they remain genetically unmodified hatchery fish. That is not a good thing either, but it is a different issue.
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Problem 2: Brook & rainbow trout. Opening up harvest on those species helps but like someone said, you'll bycatch a few BLTR along the way. Anglers who can properly identify their catch are the exception not the rule. Options: Find funding to host an angler education course. Make it mandatory and a complement to a special waters license. If you want to buy a cutthroat license, you have to take this test. Create a non native species management incentive....you get $5 for every brook trout head you turn in, and you pay $20 for every bull trout you misidentify.
Interesting idea, but the downside is it would legalize the poaching of Bulls for those people who are inclined to do such a thing. If a person were to catch a huge Bull they they wanted for the table or the wall, they could keep the fish and then go and catch four brookies to subsidize their crime. Even if you adjust the amounts of the reward for a brookie and the penalty for a Bull it would be problimatic to enforce and administrate.
Problem 4: Guiding. When you make something important you risk making it exclusive. License guides and set fixed rod days per river. If you don't do that you'll end up like the east kootenays.
I don't understand the argument, as I read it you're saying the way to prevent it from being exclusive is to make it more so?
All of it comes back to funding. You won't get anywhere without money. You can make all the regulations you want but at the end of the day they aren't worth the paper they're written on if there isn't a fund set up to carry them off the ground. Increase your license fees. Want to fish Stauffer for browns? OK, but it's gonna cost you $20 a year and half that money is going straight into cutthroat management.
Agreed on the funding and the regulations, but why shouldn't all of the money go in to supporting the reasource, and why shouldn't the money go to where it was generated? That is, if it is going to cost $20 to fish Stauffer, why shouldn't that money go to the management and enhancement of Stauffer?
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These genetically
modified fish are now able to enter our
stream populations, competing for the
same food and space as our wild stocks.
Growing larger more quickly they
consume more food, taking away from
the resident population.
By definition a triploid has an extra chromosome, so instead of a female XX or male XY you have XXX or XXY, which is what renders them infertile. They aren't more agressive, they grow larger faster than their diploid counterparts because their bodies don't have to spend resources on developing mature sexual organs.
The processes
used to create triploids have a 98 per
cent success rate, leaving 2 per cent able
to breed. And no one is checking every
triploid for sterility. So over the past five
years 6,500 genetically modified fish capable
of mating have mixed with our wild
stocks, including the blue listed ones.
It is my understanding that the reason 2% remain fertile is because the shocking process used to create triploids doesn't work, so you effectively have the same diploid hatchery fish that were stocked for decades.
Researchers at Purdue University
in the USA have come up with startling
information. While the triploiding of
fish makes them larger and thus more
attractive in a reproducing population,
their offspring were less likely to survive.
Knowing this the Purdue team, using a
computer modeling program, took a
60,000 wild fish population and placed
60 triploid fish capable of breeding into
the population. They found that within
40 generations both the triploid cross and
wild populations went extinct.
The researchers stated in their report,
“A population invaded by a few genetically
modified individuals would be more
and more transgenic [capable of transferring
a gene], and as it did the population
would get smaller and smaller.”
Faulty logic, triploids can't reproduce. They can develop spawning colors and exhibit spawing behaviors that could disrupt wild fish, but they can't pass on genetic material. If the afore mentioned 2% were to interbreed with wild fish then it is true their offspring would be less likely to survive, but because hatchery fish of any stripe are genetically inferior to wild stocks. Old news.
By stocking triploids there is 98% less chance that hatchery fish will interbreed with wild populations, which is what will ultimately destroy them. Assuming stocking non-native diploids is out of the question, the only other alternatives are to stock diploid native species that will freely interbreed with wild populations and reduce their genetic fitness or to stop all stocking programs immediately.
There is a kernel of truth behind the article, but either the author doesn't have a grasp of genetics or the information has been sensationalized to sell more copy.
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As has already been mentioned, you can ask the adjuster for the option to buy back your vehicle for the salvage value. If you go that route it is my understanding that you won't be able to register the vehicle until all the damage has been repaired and it has been inspected and deemed road worthy. Chances are the value of the vehicle will be based on the "book value" (I think it is based on the black book value as opposed to the blue book value, but I could be wrong) and/or the recent sale price of similar vehicles in similar condition. The bottom line is the insurance company is only obligated to pay the lesser of the cost to repair the vehicle or it's actual cash value. If you think the value you are being offered is unfair you can look at online classifieds, auto trader type publications, etc to find examples that you feel better represent the value of your vehicle and ask the adjuster to reconsider on that basis. If all else fails, you can usually request third party arbitration.
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The Okuma SLV is a good buy for the money. It's not really a bargin in terms of the initial price, but I've found the SA GPX to be a solid performer that simply lasts longer than anything else I've used in a long time.
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Two things - First, we don't have to make up for 100 years of fish harvest for the simple reason that the spring freshet basically wipes the slate clean. If that wasn't the case they wouldn't be fertilizing BC rivers because, despite some poor returns recently, they have gotten strong returns for millennia. Second, you can't restrict the effects of this proposed enhancement to one section of a stream. *hit flows down hill, literally, and this will all end up in the Bow, Highwood or the Oldman eventually. If you applied the nutrients to multiple streams you will get a magnifacation effect when all those tributaries reach larger rivers.
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This is just a layman’s point of view so take it with a grain of salt, but I think it is tough to make an apples to apples comparison of the streams on the West Coast to the streams on the East Slopes because they are fundamentally different. Since the Coastal mountain ranges are largely volcanic in origin they are mostly made up of silicates, which aren’t very water soluble, which makes the streams that flow over them relatively nutrient poor. On the other hand, the Rocky Mountains are almost exclusively made up sedimentary rock that belong to the carbonate group and, depending on their composition, they tend to be more soluble, which makes the streams flowing off of them more nutrient rich by comparison. Introducing nitrates and phosphates encourages plant growth, which in turn encourages insect growth and so on. The down side is that this excess plant growth can reduce the amount of dissolved oxygen in the water because they actually use oxygen at night, and also when they die in the fall the decomposition process uses oxygen. Additional nutrients might benefit some streams, but all in all I think preserving habitat and ensuring adequate water flows would probably do more to enhance our East Slope fisheries than anything else.
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High powered air rifles generally aren't that light, something pushing a .22 cal pellet at around 900 FPS is probably going to weigh around 7-8 lbs. On the other hand the average .22 rimfire repeater is probably going to be around 5 lbs. You can also get break down models that are lighter and would probably pack better like this one http://www.marlinfirearms.com/firearms/selfloading/70pss.asp Just my $0.02...
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We had to have our furnace replaced on short notice two years ago, we were looking at a Carrier but the installer recommended a Goodman and I have no complaints. It was installed by Monty's Plumbing and Heating Service out of Airdrie and I'd recommend them to anyone. The cost was reasonable, they do exactly what they say they are going to do, and they do it quickly and neatly without cutting corners. We've had them back since to do some plumbing work and it was the same story.
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I know what you mean dek, I saw something similar a few years ago. I was fishing in the city about this time of year and I foul hooked a 10" whittie. I was bringing the little guy in to an eddy to release him and a trout as long as my leg came of out of the deeper water looking to make a meal of it. It was so big it took a couple of beats to register that it was a trout, but when it did I had to sit down for a while...
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Forget it, Donny, you're out of your element!