Minella’s thoughts and articles

by Capt. Allen Fee

Finally after a long wait, the 2009 fluke season is upon us and doing well. Lots of recent confusion regarding new regulations, and chatter of a marine fishing license, has all anglers fearful of doing the wrong thing in the wrong place. The most important thing a fisherman operating a boat can learn, is where the state boundaries overlying the waters are. Some of the more recent model GPS navigators run charting software, which include these boundary lines. A lesser expensive approach would be to obtain a Captain Seagull’s Chart of Fishers Island Sound. This chart is one of the few charts that clearly define the CT, New York, and Rhode Island demarcations. Presently fluke fishing is open in CT and Rhode Island. New York closed its fluke fishing the day after CT opened theirs, and will reopen July 3rd.

Opening day in CT showed good numbers in fluke caught while the size was slightly lacking. “Not too many keepers out there.” reported Dana Pollard, Mystic, who worked hard to get his three fish limit.

Misquamicut Beach was very good over the weekend. Most drifted at depths of forty-five to sixty feet. Bare in mind that, although Rhode Island has a six fish limit, you may only possess three per person in CT. Also don’t enter New York waters with any fluke, until it reopens in July.

Striper catches are still doing well from Lord’s Passage over to Watch Hill Reef. Cheryl at Shaffer’s Bait and Tackle is selling lots of parachute jigs and trolling wire. Shaffer’s also stocks the charts mentioned earlier.

Scup or porgy catches in the Mystic River Park are still doing well using sandworms or squid. Some blues were also caught up at the bend in River Road, near the I-95 overpass. Bob Lamphere and the two Rays compete regularly for “High Hook” of the Mystic River.

For a complete listing of the marine regulations or a local tide table, visit www.shaffersmystic.com or stop by the store.

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I find it interesting and fun to add scrapbooking quotes at my scrapbook pages. It gives some value added for me and other who want to see it (if I let them to see it of course).

There is some benefit when you add some quotes on your scrapbook.

Wonderful Space Fillers.

Then just keep those empty spaces look boring, why not put something in there. Just write down whatever comes up in your mind, whether it is messages/ideas that you failed to express effectively while you construct the pages that you working before. Maybe it can be an inspiration for the next page.

Inspire.

Imagine when someone open up your scrapbook and stumble on a line that can make them happy, or smile, or raise their confidence. Is it nice to know that? Is it wonderful that you can spice up someone else life in the entire day just because a scrapbook quotes that you pick carefully?

I remember when I surf the internet, I find an interesting quotes that say, “Do what you can do today better that yesterday”. So…why not make someone else enjoy their rest of the day?

Show others what’s important to you and sum up your emotions in the right way.

Sometime, other does not understand why you create pages A. But, by adding some quotes, you can tell a story about what’s important to you. And you can show how you feel that day

Delightful piece of art,

Pick a famous quotes that interesting and useful as if you want to say it your self to someone else. With the same rhyme maybe?

There you have a useful benefit of scrapbooking quotes that can motivate you to adding some in your scrapbook pages. Enjoy the fun…

Link to this article: http://scrapbooking.blogbuddy.ca/2009/scrapbooking-tips/the-benefits-of-scrapbooking-quotes/

HOW CAN I PAY FOR HOME HEALTH CARE

The cost of home health care varies across states and within states. In addition, costs will fluctuate depending on the type of health care professional required. Home care services can be paid for directly by the patient and his or her family members, or through a variety of public and private sources. Sources for home health care funding include Medicare, Medicaid, the Older Americans Act, the Veterans’ Administration, and private insurance.
Medicare is the largest single payer of home care services. The Medicare program will pay for home health care if all of the following conditions are met:
• The patient must be homebound and under a doctor’s care;
• The patient must need skilled nursing care, or occupational, physical, or speech therapy,
   on at least an intermittent basis (that is, regularly but not continuously)
• The services provided must be under a doctor’s supervision and performed as part of a
   home health care plan written specifically for that patient
• The patient must be eligible for the Medicare program and the services ordered must
   be “medically reasonable and necessary”
• The home health care agency providing the services must be certified by the
   Medicare program.

WHAT SERVICES DO YOU NEED

Home care services can enhance your health and quality of life by helping you maintain your independence. The type of home care service you may need depends on factors such as your mental and physical health, what kind of support you have from family or friends, and whether you live in your own home or in a facility that provides some types of assistance. Home care services can range from help with chores to professional health care and rehabilitation.

THE TASTY ONE: Helsinki, Finland

The Finnish capital is full of surprises. Some bits feel like Rome, as you idle over coffee at pavement cafes; others feel like St Petersburg, as you stroll by its powder-blue and primrose-yellow Neo-Classical buildings.

But if food is the way to your other half’s heart, head for Helsinki – rapidly establishing Nordic cooking on the global gastro-map. Ingredients are super-fresh, flavours clean, and courses tend to come in lots of one-fork bites – perfect for feeding each other.

Foams and powders rule at Olo (mains from £23), where chef/owner Pekka Terävä serves up ‘New Nordic Kitchen’ at its best. But Savoy (mains from £23) is Helsinki’s most romantic dining spot, with views over the leafy esplanade to the archipelago (expect twists on tradition, such as reindeer served two ways – entrecote with cep mayonnaise, and T-bone with a liquorice sauce).

For breakfast – and great cinnamon buns – try Café Success (Korkeavuorenkatu 2), then shop for sexy stuff at the Design Forum Finland (www.designforum.fi), which parades the latest Finnish designers as well as the kitschest keepsakes. Look around the old market hall, all stacks of plump chanterelles; then snooze at Hotel Glo (www.palacekamp.fi; doubles from £139), where sheepskin rugs and velvet cushions soften the minimalist lines.

Airlines serving Helsinki include BA (www.ba.com) and Finnair (www.finnair.com), both flying from Heathrow

Snoring Treatment Tips

Laser snoring treatment is in the main done in the doctor’s surgery with the patient fully awake. Before going for a medical snoring cure, you should first try some home remedies. Snoring is a question for most people at some time in their lives.

Snoring is often a secondary symptom of another disorder, such as sleep apnea. Lots of slumber clinics offer a excellent snoring treatment and treatments for various sleep disorders such as insomnia and drowse walking. A successful treatment should help you gain a fuller, more refreshed nights sleep.

One point that you need to do is determine whether one does snore or not and if so, find out what are the possible causes of the condition? In case one has obstructive sleep apnea, one may hot pants the sleeping partner to keep a diary concerning their sleeping patterns which will help analyze how often one stops breathing when asleep.

Once the details that you snore has been firmly established, you may look forward to getting a snoring cure and for this there are lots of exercises, products, medical devices and drugs as well as surgery that may aide.

Very often, a simple shift in lifestyle would be sufficient and one may simply abstain from taking alcohol up to three hours previous to bedtime or avoid taking sedatives as well as antihistamines and reducing weight as well as sleeping on the side to effectively counters the snoring hodgepodge.

Some products designed to reduce snoring:

For snoring treatment, there are numerous products especially designed to help one sleep on one’s side which may result in less snoring and there are also quite a few products that can be used to dilate the nasal passages and these cover nasal strips and nasal support devices which could be used for a snoring cure.

There are also sprays, pills as well as herbal products all designed for snoring treatment and in at all events one has a jaw or mouth abnormality that results in nasal obstruction, a dentist may be able to fit a mouthpiece to correct the problem and lessen snoring.

For obstructive sleep apnea, the doctor may recommend snoring cure procedures such as losing superabundance weight, continuous positive airway pressure or CPAP that is a device to blow pressurized oxygen into the nose and thus pressure open collapsed airways and surgery may also be necessary such as radio frequency ablation to help in shrinking the tissues of the soft-pedal palate.

In most cases, snoring treatment is dependent on the diagnosis and this may very often be due to nasal allergies, infections, deformities or tonsils and adenoids. A trite snoring cure includes surgeries for treating obstructive sleep apnea that involves tightening the limp tissues in the throat and palate as well as expanding the air passages.

The snoring cure you need depends on whether you have unpretentious snoring or snoring with sleep apnea. Surgical treatment for sleep apnea and snoring is primarily focused on removing or reducing excessive tissue that is blocking airflow. Weight loss is often an effective snoring treatment for snoring related problems.

Obstructive sleep apnea requires assorted treatment than snoring, and a snoring treatment may not improve the apnea. Head and neck specialists in the USA have found that implanted mini magnets could be an affective snoring cure. An effective treatment can eliminate or help sleep apnea.

In extension, there are certain procedures and techniques used for snoring treatment that includes laser treatments to vaporize the uvula and shrivel up excess tissues in the upper airway such as the palate and uvula, base of the tongue as well as nasal turbinates. In invalid surgery is too risky or not required, the patient could use a nasal mask that pushes air under pressure into the throat, instead.

ISAAC: Well, it’s legitimate: There are now two Saabs sitting in front of the Yoder house.

Remember that car my friend was offering me for a dollar — the scurvy 1991 900 convertible? I finally made up my mind to take it last week. Since then I’ve been finding any excuse to run errands, just so I can soak up the strained summer weather with the top down in my new Namibia car.

But I’m also quickly discovering that having my own car isn’t just fun and games. Not only do I have no way to wiggle my way out of paying for gas, there are also a bouquet of new costs and issues on my plate. Needless to say, the car has now cost me far more than a dollar.

First, before I could physically sign the ownership papers I had to set up an guaranty policy for the car for sale Namibia. But never having owned a car, I didn’t really know where to start — especially when it came to declaration the cheapest policy from a sea of different companies. So I took the easy option and went with the company my family is insured under. It came to about $110 per month.
And that was objective the beginning of my expenses.
Then came the $74 smog check, $68 for an oil change from a Saab-maestro shop (my dad claims that it’s worth getting the pricier change from a shop that knows what they’re doing with Saabs), $20 to supersede the two blown-out front speakers and $70 to buy a used Namibia car stereo (the old one didn’t have a CD player or an iPod jack — things I can’t breathing without).

Although I initially refused to accept that the car needed new front tires when my dad pointed out how worn down they were, I ended up forking over $40 each for two occupied replacement tires.
And then there’s the ongoing cost of gas, which is only getting more expensive.
There are bound to be other major car costs in the within reach of future. When I went into the shop for an oil change, the mechanic pointed out several things that will soon need pricey replacements or pay attention to-ups. And it might be good to get property in Namibia working again if I’m going to be driving south during the summer.

Though I’m finding out the less-fun side of owning a car, I’m still inclined that I made the decision to buy the Saab. It’s an investment that I’m convinced will be financially worthwhile — when I finally sell the car (for more than one dollar), I’ll regain much of the money that I’m spending right now. And without this car, I wouldn’t be able to take a road trip to wherever, and whenever, I want to go. Oh, and it’s much easier to real estate in Windhoek, orderly car when you’re the only one driving it.

STEVE: It is senseless to utter to a teenager these four words: "I told you so."

So I’m certainly not going to tell Isaac that here in type. But just so there’s no confusion among readers: I did warn Isaac that a car is a money pit. Only after you buy one, I told him, will you truly understand this, and then it will be too late, so you’d best think about that first.

But everyone buy house in Windhoek to a prophet, particularly not a teenager. It probably didn’t help much that I couldn’t screen my own lust for this car — it’s only one of the prettiest, coolest cars ever built.

So now Isaac is finding out that a car is like a razor: You can get a de facto good deal on a razor handle, but it’s buying the blades that’s the true cost of owning one. You may as well forget the original charge of a used car, because the running costs will dwarf the sale-price tag. As I wrote in an earlier column, I figure I’m renting my own car, a 1992 Saab 900S, from my mechanic for about $1,000 a year.

On the phiz of it, Isaac’s car purchase isn’t financially defensible: We have good public transportation here, Isaac doesn’t need a car for college and he can use my 900S for tooling around until he leaves. And while Isaac may on he’s going to get it back when he sells the car, I think he’s dreaming. What he spends on his 18-year-old car will be consumption, plain and simple: The on Easy Street will instantly disappear into the ether.

I worry that Isaac will be spending cash on this car that he really should be saving for college or retirement or something else that’s heedful. And I already wonder about some of his post-purchase decisions: Did he really need a new radio? Shouldn’t he have shopped harder for guaranty?

But I, like Isaac, learned the hard lesson of hidden costs as a teenager after I imprudently bought my first instrument, a used Honda CB250. It was a rude shock to find that the insurance for a year cost half what I’d paid for the bike; a variety of repairs soon made up another half, quickly doubling the cost of the bike. Still, I sure had fun on that bike.

My youthful session in the razor-blade-handle effect applied, I would find, to purchases far beyond vehicles. Buy a home without anticipating the running and secret costs, for example, and you’ll soon find yourself deep in — you got it — another money pit.

So I guess, on balance, I’m subtle with Isaac’s decision. A dollar bought him a really sweet set of wheels that should bring him thousands of miles of valuable danger. The thousands of dollars he spends to keep it running will provide him with a valuable lesson in financial reality that no amount of my lecturing would have taught him.

And here’s the worst thing: I get to take him off my insurance plan!

JB HiFi stops selling CD singles because of declining sales

* JB Hi-Fi Namibia dumps CD singles from shelves
* Number one singles sell only 300 copies
* Legal downloads the preferred method
* Fans win battle against scalpers

THE CD single is set to become extinct.
The music format suffered a fatal blow after JB Hi-Fi Windhoek ceased stocking CD singles yesterday because of declining sales.

The popular chain made a commercial decision to axe the format - often copies of the week’s No. 1 single would sell as few as 350 copies across all their stores nationwide, the Herald Sun reports.

Australia’s singles charts are now predominantly compiled from legal downloads, the preferred choice for purchasing individual tracks.

This week’s No. 1 single - the Black Eyed Peas’ I Gotta Feeling - is not even available as a physical CD single. The track sold 13,235 digital copies last week.

The band are also at No. 2 with Boom Boom Pow. While the song is available as a physical release, it only sold about 300 copies on CD last week, as opposed to more than 9000 digital copies.

Kmart still sells some CD singles, and so do some independent record stores.
Paul Cashmere, of website undercover.com.au, said the death of the CD and DVD player single signified a major change.

"The downside of the elimination of the CD single is that we are no longer focused on artists, we are focused on songs," Mr Cashmere said.

"People have simply stopped becoming fans of acts."

Australasian entertainment and electronics retail chain JB Hi-Fi has phased-out CD singles from its inventory, a decision which effectively hammers a handful of nails into the CD format’s coffin.

The 105-store Melbourne-based group claims a CD album market leadership of about 40%, but has steadily shrunk the shelf-space it devotes to the singles format to reflect its decline in popularity.
After months of speculation, the retailer is understood to have ceased stocking singles from this week.
It should come as no surprise. CD singles are something of a dying breed in Australia. According to labels body ARIA, Australia’s 21 million population purchased just over 1.3 million CD singles in 2008, a 47% decline from the previous year. JB did not respond to calls for comment.
The powerhouse home entertainment retailer recently said it expects to defy analysts’ expectations to report a net profit of $92 million Australian ($75 million) for the year to June 30, 2009, up 41% on the previous year. The company is embarking on expansion plans.

Silver Scrapbook Frames Examples

Link: http://scrapbooking.blogbuddy.ca/2009/scrapbook-frames/silver-scrapbook-frames/

Telling about Seychelles, involuntarily you get off on language of the tourist prospectuses advertising this or that heavenly spot: it is dazzling the white beaches washed by tender waves in which motley small fishes lap; the violent thickets overflowed with paradise birds; the hospitable natives incessantly dancing something incendiary …

All it, certainly, is presented and on Seychelles - granite-coral archipelago in Indian ocean at southeast coast of Africa. Also it is presented, maybe, even more magnificently, than on the next Maldives or, say, on the far Bahamas and the Bermudas. Seychelles - absolutely especial place, unique not only the flora and fauna, but also an unimaginable civilized-cultural cocktail and surprising harmony between the nature and the person.

Seychelles cocktail
I can not be kept from a number of comparisons with located in the same region Maldive Islands. So, on Seychelles tourists appear at once in a thick of the good-natured and affable Seychelles people. On Maldives the local population is not less affable and good-natured, only here tourists rather seldom adjoin to it. The matter is that the Maldivian authorities develop mass foreign tourism within the limits of officially proclaimed policy of "prevention of the cultural conflict". What can be "the cultural conflict"? And such: Maldives - the country Muslim, norms of Islam, as it is known, are no means always combined with free customs of foreign tourists. Therefore, to avoid misunderstanding, the Maldivian government has allocated for tourists about 100 desert islands and has constructed there everything that is necessary for smart rest. As a result tourists can relax as want, without disturbing and without shocking local population which in these original tourist "reservations" is few (except for the limited contingent of the housekeeping staff).

On Seychelles "the cultural conflict" cannot be by definition. After all the Seychelles people are a fruit of surprising synthesis of various races and blood - Arabs, Portugueses, the French and British colonists, Africans-bows,  Indians, Malayans, Chineses. On Seychelles any ethnic combinations in which result there were Creole people of archipelago were possible. Here there are Creoles of the French origin, Creoles of the British roots, Creoles of the Chinese and Indian blood, and also mulatto and malabar Creoles - all of them are united by Creole language (on the basis of French), strong feeling of a national generality and Catholic religion. Over 90 % of the population profess Christianity, in overwhelming majority Catholicism, presence of Anglican church is appreciable, other Protestant currents are presented also. Moslems, hinduists and Buddhists too are, but in obvious minority. Besides Creole state languages are still English and French. Clearly that such ethnocultural ????? has initially predetermined the raised tolerance to the most scandalous displays from outside visitors.

"The Seychelles mash" has generated amazing culture, syncretic, but at the same time is unique original lines of many civilizations very unlike against each other combining in. For an illustration it is possible to result Alec Voga’s magnificent statement about Seychelles women: "In Seychelles women enough French to have a good figure, English to differ good manners, Asian to be exotic, and African to conceal in itself charm of savageries".

And what miracle - Seychelles music! It combines, apparently, incongruous - music of slaveholders and music of slaves. The French minuets and kontrdances co-exist with mad African rhythms of dance "a ditch sega"  which dance under palm trees by the light of a fire. In violent drumbeat the jingling of an iron triangle, string search of a guitar and rhythmical sounds from stirring of the drawn coconuts with rattling grains inside is intertwined.

The Seychelles kitchen which has incorporated components of the most various culinary cultures (French, English, Indian, Chinese), but "welded" them in own way is not less wonderful. A basis of Seychelles viands - rice and seafood which prepare with spices, vegetables and fruit. (Here one bananas over 15 kinds, and still a mango, kiwi, nuts, avocado, citron.) the most popular dish - fish with rice (pwason ek diri), but tourists, certainly, foods involve much more exotic: soup from an octopus, a breadfruit tree fruit, shatiny from a shark or a stewed banana. Submit even a ragout from a bat, but it for fans of a gastronomic extreme. Among local drinks are well-known dite zitronel - tincture of lemon mint, "kalu" - the fermented coconut juice reminding young wine, "bakka" - fermented juice of a sugar cane, local beer "Sejrbju". Excellent wines from the republic of South Africa - the main trading partner of the island state are popular also.