Making Bonds: The Steroid Scandal

Written by Gary Whittaker


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•Jose Canseco reversing position on his position on steroids in athletics, when he was caught advising a parent on how and when to use them doing on of his book signing tours. •Politicians blasting Canseco when they usedrepparttar popularity of his book to get a hearing to discussrepparttar 132859 issues he resurfaced. •Curt Schilling throwing curveballs himself, as he changes positions before, during and again afterrepparttar 132860 hearings. •People who actually believe that an organisation like MLB, led by a man like Bud Selig, cares enough aboutrepparttar 132861 integrity ofrepparttar 132862 game, andrepparttar 132863 quality of health of not enough his players, but society as a whole, that he would seriously admit he was late in reacting to a reasonable threat of steroid use inrepparttar 132864 game, and would take appropriate corrective measures.

All MLB players, including Barry Bonds, haverepparttar 132865 right to be innocent until proven guilty, and should only be judged byrepparttar 132866 guidelines set byrepparttar 132867 sport at that time. While taking certain performance enhancing drugs in illegal, there are still natural supplements used by players to get an edge overrepparttar 132868 competition. Until either Baseball gets serious about it’s testing policy, or a player is caught, players need to be givenrepparttar 132869 benefit ofrepparttar 132870 doubt and accorded allrepparttar 132871 privileges and awards that he is deserving of. Maybe Bonds is taking time off now, not only to heal from his injuries, but to avoid any testingrepparttar 132872 new policy would make his submit to. Who knows? But at his age, if he does not come back soon, and steroid free, he will never berepparttar 132873 Home Run King and that would be punishment enough for him, givenrepparttar 132874 circumstances

Gary Whittaker is the editor of http://www.tenwebzine.com, a webzine with balls!


Fishing with Strike Indicators

Written by Cameron Larsen


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Putting it All together

To use or not to use an indicator, that isrepparttar question. Or when to use it, and when not to. There are other times when I prefer not to use an indicator while using sub-surface flies. One is in very crystal clear water, when stealth is of utmost importance. I don't use one when fishing emergers either, their strikes are almost as easy to detect as dry fly fishing. And as mentioned above while trying to hook up onrepparttar 132858 bottom they can interfere. Although there are ways around that problem. One is to use Palsa Strike Indicators. When using weight or flies treated with Xink,repparttar 132859 Palsa will go sub-surface, you can still see it, depending on water visibility. And it will still work. You can also adjustrepparttar 132860 depth of leader below your indicator. If you are fishing depths around six or seven feet, make sure you have that much leader belowrepparttar 132861 indicator. I rarel have my indicator more than two feet belowrepparttar 132862 fly line anyway.

Cameron Larsen is a retired commericial fly tier and fly fishing guide. He now operates The Big Y Fly Company. http://www.bigyflyco.com/flyfishinghome.html He can be reached at info@bigyflyco.com. This article will appear in the Big Y Fly Fishing E-Zine at Http://www.bigyflyco.com/Bigyflyfishingezine.html


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