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as in the attached quote, they went in boxes designed to break apart on landing... Fish and Game officials first experimented with willow boxes, but that effort was abandoned because of fears the beavers would eat their way out of their airborne box at the most inopportune time. Heter’s crew eventually made a box that broke apart when it hit the ground. But would the beaver die in the process? That was an interesting question for sure. Enter Geronimo. To test proper drop heights and box designs, Fish and Game officials dropped Geronimo “again and again.” “Each time he scrambled out of the box, someone was on hand to pick him up,” Heter wrote. “Poor fellow! He finally became resigned, and as soon as we approached him, would crawl back into his box ready to go aloft again.” With Geronimo’s help, Fish and Game learned that the best launch height was between 500 and 800 feet because it allowed the chute to open properly and still maintain some accuracy in placement of the bewildered beavers in the selected meadow. In 1948, Fish and Game dropped 76 beavers in the backcountry. There was only one fatality, a beaver that “jumped or fell” from his box at about 75 feet. A year later, observations showed that all airborne transplants were successful. “Beavers had built dams, constructed houses, stored up food, and were well on their way to producing colonies,” Heter wrote. Heter said the transplanting effort showed a marked savings over mules, claiming that the expense of moving four beavers was $30. Although Heter’s article makes no mention of how many beavers were ultimately transplanted via parachute — or why and when the program was stopped — he did say that Geronimo was treated well for his efforts. He didn’t die and get 40 virgins for his suicidal sacrifice. Instead he “had a priority reservation on the first ship into the hinterland, and that three young females went with him,” Heter wrote. If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

Jesus Christ I hope your just drunk posting because you are sounding like a mental patient right now that is having some kind of attack. There are a thousand reasons and 1 reason for her to carry that gun. And the only one that matters its it was her fucking choice to carry it not you. Google murder pictures, take a look at every dead person. Every result you see is a reason for anyone to carry a weapon, mace, asp, or taser. I think you live in your own protected little world you have built yourself, and are ignoring real life. Actually, the whole world doesn't view the US that way. A lot the world's elites may ( I would I guess include you in this, because you obviously know what's better for everyone than they possibly can)... If you look at mexico, for instance, there's a whole lot of people in that country that love having access to guns. Same with many central and south american countries. There's a lot of people in Africa and Asia that enjoy having access to guns. You may not like that they have access but your 7.1 billion people is getting smaller all the time... If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

There's a difference between freedom of speech and hate speech. Your opening statement would qualify as hate speech, wishing children to kill your so-called 'gun-addicts'. If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

He didn't say he hates America. Just has a desire to not get shot while there. The possibility being shot shouldn't come into ones mind, while just out doing errands, shopping or having a coffee. actually, that's NOT what he said. He said Now, if just all toddlers would kill their gun-addicted parents, we'd have a better, less violent, society !!! I don't feel sorry for the victim. Not one bit!!! So yes, I would say he hates a large proportion of the American society... If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

You think HE has issues? Maybe you should go back and read through all your own posts in this thread... If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

What an ignorant question. Why don't you ask Bob Holler's friends if he would rather do that jump over, or if maybe he should have pulled a little higher. I'm sure you would take back any mistakes you made that involved death, or would you? I wonder. And here is WHY I wonder: I cannot believe you are condoning children shooting their parents, THAT is sick. But wait, there's more! Apathy in the face of death. Put THAT on your resume' umm, YOU brought it up. And your whole premise is out of line. What is your preferred solution? She should have left the gun in the glove box of the car? I suppose no, the only solution YOU could ever come up with will be that she shouldn't have the ability to have access to a weapon, eh? That about it? If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

Lol, Cuomo probbaly realizes that at current world oil prices there is no fracking in the US. WHy do you think OPEC is refusing to cut production? Oil under $70 a barrel is sustainable for Kuwait, UAE and Qatar. Not sustainable for the rest of the world. Basically OPEC has us bent over and is lubing up. Not so fast... U.S. Seen as Biggest Oil Producer After Overtaking Saudi Arabia http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-07-04/u-s-seen-as-biggest-oil-producer-after-overtaking-saudi.html And it's not just oil. Natural gas as well. I don't know where you're from but it's pretty busy here in central Ohio. Lots of fracking happening here. That article is from July. Not sure if you ahve followed the news in the last couple of weeks? But at under $60 a barrel all that oil you are extracting costs more to extract than to sell. It is the same in the Oil Sands in Alberta. Have you given any thought as to why OPEC might not be willing to cut production at this point? That is a huge over-simplification, and frankly, not true. Existing oil projects in Alberta and in the US are still profitable at this point because the capital costs were already expended. What doesn't make sense is spending money now to build new projects that won;t pay for themselves... If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

perhaps then we should look at regulating china's coal-burning power plants before we start saying fracking is automatically bad. Oil produces no where near the smog coal plants do... If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

That's a very good question. We didn't have this problem up until say ten years ago (in my recollection.) I can theorize that it is two-fold: 1- increase in the number of combat vets that are either returning to LEO service after deployment or entering LEO service post-discharge. 2- shift in training of LEOs post-911 that everything that could POSSIBLY be threat should be shot. This is possibly both a result and a symptom of the shift of 'law enforcement' to a quasi-military organization geared towards urban combat and unrest. As someone pointed out in another thread, I believe there was also a shift in LEO responses after Columbine, where protocol was to essentially barricade the place until you had enuf people to go in overwhelming force, but ended up with a lot more dead civilians by the time the perps were taken out. Now it's much more likely to be cops racing in looking to take out the target. And with much better equipment to do that with. If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

I would argue with point 1 - I think that broadwick and leo stevens both had backpack systems developed long before Irvin - and Irvin would have used them. Probably many others also developed their own backpack systems independently as well. Also point 2 - leo stevens system had a ripcord before the Irvin/smith system came out. Rod Law was one of the demo jumpers for him. admittedly the ripcord was usually attached to the plane by a static line, which was good for one demo jumper who fell out of (off of) the plane somewhere around 400 on one celebrated jump. If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

the so-called 'pro-pack' used to be called 'trash-packing' back in the day... be interesting to know just who was responsible for re-naming it... If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

But geez... if I had strong-arm-robbed a store, I'm not going to be sauntering down the middle of a goddamn street acting like nothing happened and with the stolen goods in hand. Brown was an idiot, and his actions led to his demise. In his defence Billy, he had marijuana in his system from what I hear. So he was probably high. If he hadn't been he might not have sauntered proudly down the middle of the street after robbing a store. But I guess we'll never know for sure... If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

exactly. so he was justified to warn them about jay-walking. and how can you say he wasn't aware that these kids had possibly robbed the store when he was with them? If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

if you are a threat... If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

People profile each other every day. That's just how it works. Of course. Nonetheless, the broader message implied by his suggestion is repugnant. from what I've read, crime is down across the US (and canada) over the last 20 years, but is down even more in the city of New York (as an example). From what I've been reading the reason they attribute crime in New York being down even more than the rest of North America, is because of increased police presence, and 'stop and frisk' laws in certain areas which HAVE, according to the studies I read of, REDUCED THE OPPORTUNITY FOR CRIMINALS TO JUST HANG OUT AND COMMIT CRIMES OF OPPORTUNITY WITHOUT HASSLES. That's what I've read. So, if you want to call it profiling, it seems to have worked... If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

hopefully not if they react as per their training. Shoot at centre mass until the threat stops. And I don't begrudge them that... If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

Ayup. Then there's that whole "history of slavery, Jim Crow laws, miscegenation crimes, restrictive covenants on deeds, and lynchings" thing. All of those things except slavery existed during my lifetime, and I'm only middle-aged. Anyone who fails to recognize the lasting effect of those things on group psychology is a fool. You know, it's a funny thing: the white people in the Deep South still have their institutional memory informed by the belligerencies of the War of Southern Insurrection, and yet in the same mental breath the rednecks throughout the country still fail to appreciate just how much the US's history of racism informs the institutional memory of American black people to this day. Sigh... I suppose it's all a matter of whose ox is getting gored. You talking about the War of Northern Aggression? If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

I'm still trying to figure out how you say he didn't know about the robbery ... from the washington post summary linked in post 985 by ryoder When the narrative begins, Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson is sent to another call. He hears two radio dispatches describing a person who stole cigarillos from a nearby market, a black male wearing a red hat, khaki shorts and yellow socks and accompanied by another male. This summary was derived from the evidence presented to the grand jury. He absolutely knew, according to this, that there had been a robbery, and had a rough description of the perps... If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

and he then initiated a conflict with a police officer by blocking him from opening the door and then reaching into the car to attempt to take that officer's gun. bad move. If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

I'd say he was scared because the kid attacked him and tried to take his gun. I can see why it scared him... If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

ahhhh, the left coast Bill and the right coast Bill, hope you are well there have been 3 cost studies, that I'm aware of, that have shown that the base cost for infrastructure, to be able to provide the power, are in this range said another way, generation, transmission, substations, distribution, metering, and the equipment and systems to support that infrastructure are in the $60-$80 range per month backing up a step (for others), net metering is often defined as, if the utility sells a kWh for 10 cents then if a customer sends a kWh to the utility they should be paid, or netted, 10 cents, admittedly that definition is not consistent and there are a few areas that tend to follow a method similar to what this post is about the problem with this is that the base cost of infrastructure exists even if no energy (kWhs) is delivered, so when a customer is netted 10 cents they are being paid the full retail cost of the service, not for the value they are sending to the utility in my area the actual cost, called avoided cost, (and it varies considerably) of energy is around 4 cents, that means that the difference of 6 cents (10-4=6) is the cost for everything excluding the energy what is being heavily discussed and has been the subject of two court cases (so far), is net metering and the subsidy that occurs under the traditional definition many believe that the payment to the customer should equal the value they are providing, in it's simplest form that is the avoided cost of energy one way of doing this is to charge a solar customer a base rate of $70, plus the cost of energy for what they buy and subtract the avoided cost of energy for what they "sell" to the utility, it would be fair to use the value of the energy at the time of the sale this allows the customer to contribute to the cost of the grid which they want to stay connected to and it eliminates the subsidy that non-solar customers are paying here in the green province of ontario, my last power bill shows that over the last 30-day period I used 656 kwh, for an average cost of about 9.03 c/kwh (it's time of use pricing from 7.5 to 13.5 c/kw depending on time of day) but then they tack on a delivery charge of 73.45. And then I pay regulatory charges of 4.33 and the debt retirement charge of 4.59. and of course the hst of 18.41. So my $60 of electricity just cost me $160. raising my average cost to about 24.4 c/kwh. and I don't have electric heat... and the gov't itself is predicting electricity will rise by at least 40% over the next 5 years. Welcome to the future. If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

power lines generally aren't 300 - 500 ft high. If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

Breaking News from the North American Platform Against Wind Power: Statement related to Health Canada’s flawed wind turbine and health study summary, Dr. Robert Y. McMurtry November 9, 2014 On the heels of a media release by the North American Platform Against Wind Power, and on receipt of a sound exploratory synopsis (Denise Wolfe) of gaps and errors in methodology and design in the study/summary of Wind Turbine Noise and Health provided by Health Canada, Dr. Robert McMurtry offers the following statement: "I have just had the opportunity to review the Denise Wolfe DOCUMENT, and appreciate its obvious quality, reinforced by knowing something of her background. The paper is a powerful statement that casts serious doubt on the recent Health Canada and CanWEA preliminary announcement, the background paper and related media statements. I am deeply saddened that the Ministry whom I was so proud to work for, appears to have fallen." “In addition , ongoing efforts will be made with our international network to evaluate all elements of the Health Canada conduct and management of this research. Focus will be on their claims about adverse health events ’ prevalence and incidence. These health effects have been reported globally (peer review publications), by the public and media in the environs of industrial installations of wind turbines. also Bayshore Broadcasting The Medical Officer of Health for Grey Bruce is disappointed with a Health Canada report on wind turbines. Doctor Hazel Lynn says the study leaves a lot of questions unanswered, including how the study was conducted. Health Canada says it found no evidence linking exposure to wind turbine noise and health effects reported by people living near the towering structures. However, the study did find a relationship between increasing levels of wind turbine noise and residents’ annoyance related to noise, vibration and shadow flicker from the structures. The year-long study included a detailed questionnaire to adults in more than 1,200 households in southwestern Ontario and P.E.I. living at various distances from almost 400 wind turbines. R and Rob Gowan, Kincardine News Dr. Hazel Lynn says an important segment of the population has been left out of a Health Canada study into the impact of industrial wind turbines on peoples’ health. The Health Canada study, released Thursday, found no link between wind turbine noise and negative health effects in people. But Lynn, the medical officer of health for Grey-Bruce who has done a review of such studies, said some of the best survey findings are from the people who have moved away because they simply couldn’t live near turbines. “These folks are still living there so obviously they are not in that 10% of people who actually abandoned their homes,” Lynn said of those who participated in the study. “Although the wind folks would pooh-pooh those people (who have moved away) as being especially difficult, I think they are especially sensitive and if you are living in a place where you are afraid to go to sleep at night then you are going to move. Obviously this study didn’t pick up any of those folks.” R If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

Windmills actually cause repetitive-stress forearm injuries due to all the shaking of fists. They are an aid to aerial navigation though. Shown on sectional charts. as long as you don't fly into one, like that plane earlier this year If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

Do you have a source for that? from the toronto sun newspaper This time, energy analyst Tom Adams and University of Guelph economist Ross McKitrick in their report, What Goes Up, argue the Dalton McGuinty/Kathleen Wynne blunder into green energy is hurting consumers, making the province less competitive and benefitting industry insiders. It has created the absurd situation in which Ontario has an energy surplus, while energy prices skyrocket. As Adams puts it: “Wind and solar power systems provide less than 4% of Ontario’s power but account for 20% of the cost paid by Ontarians, yet the government wants to triple the number of wind and solar generators. That’s a good deal for wind and solar producers but a raw deal for consumers.” and from london free press, oct 31st Change text size for the story Print Report an error Wind and solar power are providing less than 4% of Ontario's power but account for 20% of what Ontarians pay, according to a study released Thursday by the Fraser Institute. And costs will only continue to rise unless the province takes action, the report's authors say. "That's a good deal for wind and solar producers but a raw deal for consumers," said Tom Adams, an energy analyst and study co-author. Adams said their analysis also found that new hydroelectric projects have not been beneficial for electricity consumers in Ontario. "We are not just picking on wind and solar," Adams told The Free Press. The report by the right-leaning think tank suggests the Ontario government could prevent further electricity rate increase by halting all new hydroelectric, wind and solar projects. To reduce rates, the province could terminate, where possible, existing contracts between renewable energy companies and the Ontario Power Authority. In what is certain to be a controversial recommendation, the report says Ontario could reopen four of its 12 coal-fired power units at Lambton and Nanticoke that have been outfitted with advanced air pollution control equipment prior to closure. It could also refurbish its nuclear power plants, the Fraser Institute report said. If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone