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A winner was selected from 145 designs submitted by 28 freelance designers.
I need a new design for T-Shirt or sweater with our Logo. The Words "VET MED Wien" or "VET MED Vienna" should be on it!
T-Shirt or Sweater design with the logo of our University. The words "VET MED Wien" or "VET MED Vienna" should be somewhere at the Shirt or Sweater. You can use frond and back side or only front side! The design should be printed on different colors.
Homepage of University:
You can find the Logo under:
http://www.animal-care-center.at/oeh/siegel.tiff or
http://www.vu-wien.ac.at/pr/content/e502/e525 (this one:http://www.vu-wien.ac.at/download/logos/SiegelLowRes.jpg)
- Cool T-Shirt or Sweater design in college look!
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12:00 pm
French In Action "Residences IV" The Belleaus's doorbell rings again. Marie-Laure reports that it was a man in black asking if she had a sister who looked like an actress. Robert tries in vain to arrange room and board at the Belleaus's.G
12:30 pm
French In Action "Entertainment I" After dinner, everyone says goodnight except Mireille and Robert. They decide to see a movie the following day, and arrange to meet in Montparnasse, at a cafe near the movie theater.G
1:00 pm
Unfinished Nation "A New Corporate Order" Explosion of U. S. industry after Civil War, and factors which motivate unprecedented growth. Power and wealth amassed by corporate magnates. Recruitment of labor force. Women and children in the workforce. Workers attempts to organize for better wages and working conditions. Measures used to stifle worker discontent.G
1:30 pm
Unfinished Nation "The Age of the City" Industrialization shifts economic power and population to cities. Increase in immigration and ethnic neighborhoods; nativist reaction. City planning and infrastructure; urban transportation. Housing for wealthy, middle class, poor families. Threat of poverty, fire, disease. Growth of political machines, bossism. Consumerism. New leisure pastimes.G
2:00 pm
Biography of America, A "New System of Government" After the War for Independence, the struggle for a new system of government begins. Professor Maier looks at the creation of the Constitution of the United States. The Republic survives a series of threats to its union, and the program ends with the deaths of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson on the Fourth of July, 1826. D
2:30 pm
Biography of America, A "Westward Expansion" At the dawn of the nineteenth century, the size of the United States doubles with the Louisiana Purchase. The Appalachians are no longer the barrier to American migration west; the Mississippi River becomes the country's central artery; and Jefferson's vision of an Empire of Liberty begins to take shape. American historian Stephen Ambrose joins Professors Maier and Miller in examining the consequences of the Louisiana Purchase -- for the North, the South, and the history of the country. D
3:00 pm
SciGirls "Blowin' in the Wind" SciGirl Hannah and her friends design and build their own working miniature wind farm. D
3:30 pm
Biz Kid$ "Business Structures" What structure is right for your future business? It's not just "incorporated" anymore. Join us and learn about LLCs, sole proprietorships, partnerships, and more. Examine the pros and cons of each business structure and discover which one could be right for you. D
4:00 pm
The Electric Company "Shrink, Shrank, Shrunk!" Manny has borrowed the Skeleckian Shrinkanator 3002, an invention with the power to shrink anything down to a very small size. When Marcus and Jessica accidentally get shrunk, The Electric Company has to get the Shrinkinator back from Manny to get them back to normal size! This becomes even more difficult when Manny shrinks himself and is nowhere to be found. D
4:30 pm
Cyberchase "Father's Day" It's the annual Father's Day Parade in Tikiville, and Creech's father, Max (Matthew Broderick), is this year's Cyberdad of the Year. Max was once a schoolmate of Hacker's - and continually bested Hacker in all of their endeavors. Hacker has decided it's time to get even and this time he's got a really clever plan. D
5:00 pm
Lidia's Italy In America "From Coast to Coast: Three Favorite pastas in America" NULL
5:30 pm
Cook's Country from America's Test Kitchen "Retro Desserts" Bridget uncovers the secrets to perfect Banana Pudding. Then, Adam reveals his top picks for finemesh strainers. And finally, Erin updates a lost recipe and shows Chris how to make the ultimate Chiffon Cake. D
6:00 pm
Uncorked: Wine Made Simple "Uncorked: Napa Valley" Napa is the premier wine-producing region of the United States and while great wine is produced in other parts of California, Napa Valley boasts an extraordinary list of famous wineries and wine makers. In this episode, we learn what makes Cabernet Sauvignon the undisputed king of Napa Valley. We visit a winery built with Hapsburg era stones imported from Austria, and the American Center for Food & Wine; and adult Disney World of wine and food. D
6:30 pm
Clodagh's Irish Food Trails "Dublin and Dun Laoghaire" NULL
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Ask This Old House "Refinishing With Spray Paint; Installing a Pre-Finished Wood Floor" Landscape contractor Roger Cook and host Kevin O'Connor refinish several worn out items using spray paint. Then, general contractor Tom Silva removes wall-to-wall carpet and installs a pre-finished wood floor. And in the loft, plumbing and heating expert Richard Trethewey shows Kevin some new household devices that can be operated "hands-free. D
7:30 pm
Rick Steves' Europe "Oslo" Rick finds evidence of the proud Norwegian spirit in the country's capital - from Viking ships to a sleek new opera house, from World War II tales of terrorism to the constant festival at the thriving harbor. He takes in major art pieces and sails with friends in a fjord.G
8:00 pm
Grand View "North Cascades National Park" This episode explores the dynamic features of the North Cascades. This beautiful park is home to jagged peaks, deep valleys, cascading waterfalls and over 700 glaciers; It is also renown for it's unbelievable hikes. Baumann is accompanied by park ranger, Ryan Booth and Sherman Williams Sr, as they discuss the landscape of this beautiful region; Paula Ogden-Muse, national park ecologist; and Native American, Dorothy Stark, reveal the details of the region's natural and human history. D
8:30 pm
Lidia's Italy In America "From Coast to Coast: Three Favorite pastas in America" NULL
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Cook's Country from America's Test Kitchen "Retro Desserts" Bridget uncovers the secrets to perfect Banana Pudding. Then, Adam reveals his top picks for finemesh strainers. And finally, Erin updates a lost recipe and shows Chris how to make the ultimate Chiffon Cake. D
9:30 pm
Great American Seafood Cook-Off Fires blazed and seafood sizzled as New Orleans hosted the fifth annual Great American Seafood Cook-Off in August 2008. During the two-day competition, 15 chefs from 14 different states prepared their best dishes using the seafood indigenous to their state. Famed New Orleans chef John Besh, the winner of the 2004 competition and the 2006 James Beard Foundation's Best Chef of the Southeast, hosted the event. D
10:00 pm
Caprial and John's Kitchen: Cooking for Family and Friends "New Varieties of Cherries" The Pences visit a family-run orchard along Oregon's famous "Hood River Fruit Loop" and bring back some interesting new varieties of cherries. Flank Steak with Cherry and Onion Chutney; Chocolate Shortcakes with Sour Cherry Compote. D
10:30 pm
Rick Steves' Europe "Oslo" Rick finds evidence of the proud Norwegian spirit in the country's capital - from Viking ships to a sleek new opera house, from World War II tales of terrorism to the constant festival at the thriving harbor. He takes in major art pieces and sails with friends in a fjord.G
11:00 pm
Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish "El Rescate" In Mexico, Raquel and Angela come to the aid of someone with a surprising connection to don Fernando.G
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Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish "Atrapados" The Castillo family deals with a number of problems, including the hospitalization of don Fernando.G

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Oct. 27, 2007
Courtesy Plymouth State Sports Information
PLYMOUTH, N.H. - Senior tailback Jeff Mack rushed for a career-high 190 yards and two touchdowns Saturday afternoon as Plymouth State University ran past MIT, 27-0, in New England Football Conference Boyd Division action at rainy Currier Field.
Mack carried 28 times on the wet and sloppy field as the Panthers ran the ball on 74 of 78 plays from scrimmage and maintained possession of the ball for more than 42 minutes. The Panther defense allowed MIT only 89 yards on 36 plays, including one completed pass in nine attempts, to record its second shutout of the season and second in a row at home. The PSU offense, meanwhile, rolled up 431 yards, 406 coming on the ground.
The Panthers get back on the winning track and improve to 7-1 overall and 5-1 in the NEFC Boyd Division, while MIT had its two-game win streak stopped and falls to 2-6 overall and 2-4 in the division. It's the most wins in a season for Plymouth State since the 2001 team finished 7-3.
Plymouth State went 68 yards on 15 plays on its first possession, and took a 7-0 lead when quarterback John DeMarco hit senior Drew Richardson with an eight-yard touchdown pass. DeMarco completed all three of his pass attempts in the first half for 25 yards, and finished the day 3-for-4.
Mack extended PSU's lead to 13-0 early in the second quarter with a 25-yard burst for a touchdown. Senior Brad Largy, the holder on extra point attempts, ran in a fake kick attempt for the two-point conversion to make it a 15-0 game. MIT had three more possessions in the first half and Plymouth State two, but neither team was able to overcome the elements enough to put points on the board, and it remained 15-0 at the intermission.
The Panthers extended their lead on their first possession of the second half, going 85 yards on 13 plays. Sophomore Jay Baird finished it off, rumbling 38 yards up the middle and into the end zone. PSU's extra point attempt was blocked, leaving the score at 21-0.
Mack rounded out the scoring early in the fourth quarter on a one-yard run, his second TD of the day and 10th of the season, but the extra point kick attempt failed. The Panthers emptied the bench for their final two possessions, and held on for the 27-0 win.
The MIT defense had a busy afternoon. Senior Samuel Jasinski led the way with 12 tackles, while sophomore Alex Rubino and junior Kevin Foley added 11 apiece.


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Munin the monitoring tool surveys all your computers and remembers what it saw. It presents all the information in graphs through a web interface. Its emphasis is on plug and play capabilities. After completing a installation a high number of monitoring plugins will be playing with no more effort.
Using Munin you can easily monitor the performance of your computers, networks, SANs, applications, weather measurements and whatever comes to mind. It makes it easy to determine "what's different today" when a performance problem crops up. It makes it easy to see how you're doing capacity-wise on any resources.
Munin uses the excellent RRDTool (written by Tobi Oetiker) and the framework is written in Perl, while plugins may be written in any language. Munin has a master/node architecture in which the master connects to all the nodes at regular intervals and asks them for data. It then stores the data in RRD files, and (if needed) updates the graphs. One of the main goals has been ease of creating new plugins (graphs). [1]
Simply put, Munin allows you to make graphs about system statistics. You can check out University of Oslo's Munin install to see some examples of what it can do.
Munin relies on a client-server model. The client is munin-node, and the server is munin (referred as to "munin-master" in the documentation).
You will only need to install munin-master on a single machine, but munin-node will need to be installed on all machines you wish to monitor. This article will focus on a single-machine installation. Further documentation may be found on the Munin documentation wiki.
munin and munin-node
There is currently a munin (munin-master) and a munin-node package in extra.
# pacman -S munin munin-node
Optional web server
The following guide sets up Munin to generate static HTML and graph images and write them in a directory of your choosing. You can view these generated files locally with any web browser. If you want to view the generated files from a remote machine, then you want to install and configure one of the following web servers:
Or one of the other servers found in the web server category.
For IPv6 support on munin-node (using host :::1 in /etc/munin/munin-node.conf) you need to install the following packages:
- perl-socket6
- perl-io-socket-inet6
Start the daemon with
systemctl start munin-node
Enable the daemon with
systemctl enable munin-node
See Daemons for more information.
Run munin-node-configure with the --suggest option to have Munin suggest plugins that it thinks will work on your installation:
# munin-node-configure --suggest
If there is a suggestion for a plugin you want to use, follow that suggestion and run the command again. When you are satisfied with the plugins suggested by munin-node-configure, run it with the --shell option to have the plugins configured:
# munin-node-configure --shell | sh
Create a directory where the munin-master will write the generated HTML and graph images. The munin user must have write permission to this directory.
/srv/http/munin is used below, so the generated output can be viewed at http://localhost/munin/ provided that a web server is installed and running.
# mkdir /srv/http/munin # chown munin:munin /srv/http/munin
Uncomment the htmldir entry in /etc/munin/munin.conf and change it to the directory created in the previous step:
htmldir /srv/http/munin
Before running munin, you might want to setup the hostname of your system. In /etc/munin/munin.conf, the default hostname is "myhostname". This can be altered to any preferred host name. The hostname will be used to group and name the .rrd files in /var/lib/munin and further, used to group the html files and graphs in your selected munin-master directory.
Run the following to have munin collect data and update the generated HTML and graph images every 5 minutes:
# crontab /etc/munin/munin-cron-entry -u munin
Configure your email server so that you can receive mails to "munin" user. If you use postfix, add this line in /etc/postfix/aliases
munin: root
And run the command
Because many plugins read log files, it is useful to add "munin" user into "log" group:
# usermod -aG log munin
Munin should be able to run now. To make sure everything works, start munin-node:
# systemctl start munin-node
Then run munin-cron manually to generate the HTML and graph images:
# su - munin --shell=/bin/bash $ munin-cron
And finally test the interface by pointing your browser to the output directory or http://localhost/munin/.
There are many Munin plugins out there just waiting to be installed. The MuninExchange is an excellent place to start looking, and if you cannot find a plugin that does what you want it is easy to write your own. Have a look at HowToWritePlugins at the Munin documentation wiki to learn how.
Basically all plugins are added in the following manner (although there are exceptions, review each plugin!):
Download a plugin, then copy or move it to /usr/lib/munin/plugins
# cp <plugin> /usr/lib/munin/plugins/
Then link the plugin to /etc/munin/plugins:
# ln -s /usr/lib/munin/plugins/<plugin> /etc/munin/plugins/<plugin>
Now test your plugin. You do not need to use the full path to the plugin, munin-run should be able to figure it out:
# munin-run <plugin>
And restart munin-node:
# systemctl restart munin-node
Finally, refresh the web page.
If you want to remove a plugin, simply delete the linked file in /etc/munin/plugins - there is no need to remove the plugin from /usr/lib/munin/plugins.
# rm /etc/munin/plugins/<plugin>
If you come across a plugin that is not working as expected (for example giving you no output at all) it might be interesting to run it directly. Fortunately there is a way to do this. Following the instructions until here, you will for exmpale notice, that the plugin "apache_accesses" gives no output at all, when enabled. In order to run the plugin directly just run
# munin-run apache_accesses
The error "LWP::UserAgent not found at /etc/munin/plugins/apache_accesses line 86." indicates that a perl function could not be found. To resolve the problem simply install the missing library in this case "perl-libwww".


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Kingston Springs, Tenn.
Graphic design major Jocelyne Barchet has a passion for art and design, and her choice to attend UT Martin has opened doors for her endeavors.
"I was yearbook editor my junior and senior years of high school, and I really enjoyed that, working with computers," Barchet said of her choice to pursue a graphic design degree.
Through her coursework she developed design skills and personal style, which she describes as dreamscape-like with "lots of color."
Barchet was able to showcase her abilities through contests and campus presentations.
"I participated in a contest for the Student Success Center. They needed a logo, which they didn't end up using, but I won that out of all the graphic design students, so that was pretty cool," she said.
She also has a talent for painting, and in addition to currently working on a commissioned piece for a UT Martin administrator, she has had paintings printed in "BeanSwitch," the literary and art publication published each semester that features student work, and won second place for a painting in a student art show.
As a student who is serious about learning, it's no surprise that Barchet pursued and acquired an internship at Walt Disney World from January to August 2012, where she gained invaluable experience and knowledge about marketing and customer service.
"Ever since I was sixteen I wanted to do an internship there," she said. "You have to apply online, you have to be enrolled in school."
Barchet was accepted into the merchandising department and worked at Disney's All-Star Resorts gift shops.
"My duties were to answer the phone and work the register, but also the fun part … I got to do 'magical moments' with the children. You play games like with the giant Jenga set, and I would seek out children dressed like princesses and ask them for their autograph. They would get really excited when you ask them for their autograph, so that was a lot of fun."
Barchet said she thinks the knowledge she gained about customer service from the company that has a #1 guest service rating will greatly benefit her in the future and also hopes that the experience will help her with more opportunities with the Disney corporation down the road.
"I'm going to apply for the digital media internship, so I hope that working down there previously will help me get a step into the company," she said.
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Airbus's ACJ340
Step right up and take advantage of the four-engine fire sale.
Welcome, buyers, to our bargain-filled used-airplane lot and aviation emporium. Have you ever wanted your own late-model, four-engine jumbo jet so you could fly practically anywhere in the world unrefueled? We're talking 9,900 nautical miles nonstop on one bag of gas. That's 1,200 nautical miles farther than Singapore to New York—trips so long you'll need three flight crews.
Have you ever wanted an airplane so massive that you could bring along your spouse, all your friends and relations, dozens of children, their nannies, tutors, your butler, cooks, valets, stewards, footmen, personal aides, security staff, translators, deputy ministers, a dozen pesky reporters and all their truckloads of stuff? With room inside for an elevator, three kitchens with ovens big enough to roast a whole goat, a fully equipped operating room and a secure communications suite in the cargo hold?
Of course you have. But perhaps you've been held back by the price—up to $400 million for a new airplane with luxury interior. If so, we've got good news for you here on the lot, where we're going to sell you a barely used, late-model Airbus A340 jumbo quad jet that can do everything you want not for $250 million, not even for $100 million—no, not even for $50 million. We're going to let you have this airplane for a mere $20 million.
How can we do it? Read on.
When Airbus launched the A340 in 1991, the wholesale price of a gallon of jet-A fuel was 55 cents. In February 2014 it was $2.97. However, it spiked at $3.89 in July 2008, and that's when the world's airlines began parking their A340s and shortening their routes to enable them to use more fuel-efficient twinjets such as the Airbus A330 and Boeing 777. Today, more than 50 A340s are in storage.
Airbus shut down the A340 production line in 2011 after 377 were made. The bulk of these (218) are Dash 300 series—fitted in airline configuration with seating for up to 295 passengers and a range of 6,700 nautical miles.
Values of used A340s are still plunging, even though they're well equipped, relatively new and burn only marginally more fuel than comparable twinjets. But for airlines, pennies count, sometimes disproportionately, occasionally illogically.
This is how crazy it has become: the A330 twinjet and A340 share a fuselage, have nearly identical wings and carry about the same number of passengers. Indeed, the aircraft were developed in tandem and use many of the same parts. Nevertheless, an A330 of identical vintage sells for up to four times as much as an A340, simply because it burns slightly less fuel. (However, new-generation widebody twinjets such as Airbus's 350XWB and the Boeing 787 are up to 30 percent more fuel efficient than an A340.) Airline actuaries are focused on only one formula: four engines = bad.
I disagree. Most of the world remains covered with water and a twinjet traversing it is governed by the doctrine of ETOPS, or extended-range twin operations, something of a complex formula with a simple implication: if one of the two engines quits or a major aircraft system fails, you likely will be required to divert to an airport that is not your destination. And there's a long list of countries near large bodies of water where you wouldn't want to do this if you are a wealthy or high-profile individual. With four engines, you could continue to your destination at the pilot's discretion.
"You can do more with four," quips David Velupillai, the marketing director for Airbus Corporate Jets.
Because of the huge price chasm between a twin widebody and the A340, the extra—fuel—burn argument is a non-starter. Assuming you pay full retail for fuel, an A340 carries direct operating costs of around $14,000 an hour on the Dash 200s and $21,000 an hour on the long-range Series 500. One in private hands would be unlikely to be used even 400 hours per year. And Airbus and engine-maker Rolls-Royce are working diligently to bring costs down. Rolls recently announced an improved support program and engine modifications designed to cut maintenance expenses and reduce fuel burns to levels that rival those of a twinjet widebody.
Airbus, on the hook for potentially $2 billion in resale price guarantees on the A340, is moving to end the fire sale by attempting to get the airplane approved to carry up to 475 passengers, about 35 more than its current capacity in airline configuration. Doing that requires removal of the mid-cabin galley and lavatory and it remains to be seen how many airlines will find that option attractive—their passengers certainly will not.
A340s will never return to robust resale prices, but for those who want a truly insane discount, time may be running out.
A340s come in four main variants—the Dash 200, 300, 500 and 600 models—starting with footprints that are nearly 200 feet long and a wingspan of almost 200 feet and proceeding to 247 feet long and a wingspan of 208 feet, with maximum takeoff weights of 606,000 to 840,000 pounds.
Outfitted in mixed-class configuration, the A340-200 came fitted to carry 240 to 261 passengers with a range of 8,100 nautical miles; both it and the slightly larger A340-300 are powered by CFM56 engines, with maximum thrust levels of 25,000 to 34,000 each. Both models of aircraft have been fitted for VVIP usage, with the latter being operated by the German government. The larger A340-500 and 600 variants are powered by the Rolls-Royce Trent series 500 engines, with 54,000 pounds of thrust each. The 500 was the world's longest-range commercial aircraft at its introduction in 2002, able to carry 313 passengers 8,650 nautical miles; in VVIP configuration that range can be increased to 9,900 nautical miles. At just over 247 feet, the 600 remains one of the world's longest airliners, and it can carry 379 passengers 7,500 nautical miles.
Both the 500 and 600 are so massive that they have cameras to help pilots navigate during ground taxi. Airbus made 28 Dash 200s, 218 Dash 300s, 34 Dash 500s and 97 Dash 600s. Due to their range, the 500s appear to be the most desirable aircraft for conversion to VVIP configuration, a process that can take up to two years and—depending on the opulence of material selection and features—cost more than $100 million.
However, Airbus has developed a refurbishment option called Gala that considerably reduces the cost and time of this conversion by limiting its scope to the section of the aircraft between fuselage doors two and three—still a big chunk of real estate, but not as big an endeavor as recompleting the entire aircraft. "If you limit the VIP bit to the middle of the aircraft, you can have it more cost effectively and easily" and still have room to carry guests and support staff in airline first, business and economy classes, points out Airbus's Velupillai. With Gala, the principal still gets a private lav, bedroom, office and conference area.
Airbus doesn't do the work itself, but will assist customers in finding a qualified completion center and provide engineering and project-management services. So if you need to span the globe in the style of a potentate while saving tens of millions of dollars, the A340 may be just the ticket.
But you'd better hurry, folks. At these prices, they won't last long.


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Hello my lovely friends.
I am extremely grateful to have such wonderful friends here in the blog world. I must say that my heart is warm and touched by the outpour of email from many of you expressing your concern, love, encouragement to me and kind words. Lately, I have been depressed and wondering why this is all happening to me? Did I do something so wrong in a past life? LOL. But in any case, you all have lifted my spirits and have given me the support that I have needed to get through the days and nights.
So thank you! I really mean that from the bottom of my heart.
Now I have had many requests for my address as many of you have expressed to me that you want to send me cards and such. So I figured I would put my address in this post for all of you, that way if you lose it you can always refer back my blog. =)
If you want to send a little card or something, I'll be ever so thankful and appreciative of your kindness and thoughtfulness. Here is my mailing address:
Jo Williams
9709 Monmouth Avenue #C3
Margate City, NJ. 08402
I appreciate all your concern and support. Thank you so much.
Until next time, enjoy life's blessings!


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Grae's Rating:
Hit the books instead.
You should know better than to read the book before seeing the movie--and this version of Tess of D'Urbervilles follows the rule. The book is full of soaring hopes, searing defeat, and slow torture of the soul. Every fiber of your being aches for Tess. In Trishna, my solar plexus felt a little dodgy for most of the film, but it was only partially because I was sad for Trishna (Freida Pinto). I think the rest was just heartburn.
This is the typical "boy meets girl, gives girl job, asks her to move in, then eventually turns into her tormentor" story set in India. Trishna meets Jay (Riz Ahmed) as she's serving him at a hotel, which sets the tone for their entire master-servant relationship. He woos her, and when her father cannot work due to a major injury, he gives her a job. It's all "quiet flirtation in the corridors" at first, but finally, one night, they leave behind the old fashioned social rules of India and get it on. This leads to Trishna up and leaving the job and Jay in shame, but as obsession normally works, he won't rest until he gets her back. At first, it's all romantic escapism, but slowly, their relationship takes a turn. When life happens, they end up in a very different place than the one they started in.
Normally, romances like this are filled with lusty heat and heaps of personality, even if it's kept under wraps in a petticoat or sari. Although this movie is gorgeous and a very dynamic representation of India (to rival even that of the stunningly filmed Best Exotic Marigold Hotel from earlier this year), the main characters feel opposite that. I couldn't decide if it was a spot-on expression of the strict morality of Indian society, where couples are less free to express themselves in public than the ones in Western society, or if it was just a lack of good writing. I assume, due to my watch-glancing by the time Trishna had once again allowed herself to be bought by Jay, that it's the latter. I wanted to know them a little bit better, because I didn't have a sense of who they were beyond rich boy and downtrodden girl.
I really want to love Freida Pinto. When she shows up as The Girlfriend in movies like Slumdog Millionaire and Rise of the Planet of the Apes, I always see it as a sign that someday she's going to get her own big movie where she gets to talk a lot via a fully realized character. Even though in Trishna she gets a lot of screen time and is really great at making her gorgeous brown eyes look sad, it can't make up for deficits in the rest of the film. I didn't know why she fell for Jay, aside from his money and persistence. Of course maybe that's all it takes, but for her to put up with the endless parade of injustices walked the line between The Way It Is and Unmotivated.
This could all be intentional, however, because when something finally does happen at the end, it's a real jolt. But I'm left pondering whether the movie was intentionally plodding just to lead up to a couple of moments, instead of focusing on the sense of tragedy I should feel for Trishna. Aside from shock, there wasn't much in my heart for her. This comes off like more of a Cliff's Notes version than an ingenious interpretation.
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Reviewed By Mike P (Hyde Park, NY) Reviewed for a 2003 Acura CL —4/10/2012 7:59 AM
if you are thinking about getting an aem intake stop thinking and just get one. sounds great and def noticed a difference in performance at mid-high end revs. install was kind of a pain in the ass but the outcome was well worth it. took me about an hour and a half. great buy.


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Reading 2007 Tested Vocabulary Cards Grade 6
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Scientifically research-based program supports state standards in literacy, science, mathematics, social studies, art and music to prepare children for Kindergarten. Teacher's Guides help build and assess children's cognitive skills, alphabet knowledge, and social-emotional development. Interactive charts with songs and activities inspire class discussion and build oral vocabulary. Big Books, Trade Books, and Little Books provide shared reading experiences and develop children's concepts of print.
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June 2008 Archives
The first installment of my backward glance at the just-ending New York musical season was all about the Met. This time I'm thinking about some of the events that I attended at Carnegie Hall in 2007-08 -- first and foremost, Andras Schiff's four magnificent recitals (two in October, two in April) that covered, more or less chronologically, the first 17 of Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas.
Schiff often does "bulk programming" of composers -- cycles of works by Bach, Schubert, Bartok, and others. Although I am sure that he has been familiar with the Beethoven sonatas since student days, he waited until he was about 50 (he was born in 1953) to consider and then perform these monuments of the keyboard repertoire as a single corpus.
Which is not to say that he places these monuments on pedestals. On the contrary: his interpretations are characterized above all by enlivening freshness -- a freshness that can be achieved only by artists who are willing to contemplate a work from every angle and, for each detail, to discard one solution after another until they hit upon the one that seems to fit most naturally into the whole concept. Intellectual rigor, emotional intensity, and musical imagination abounded in all of these performances, which were conveyed with the tremendous conviction and technical security that are part of this great artist's basic equipment. I am already looking forward to the remaining four recitals next season.
Among other fine piano recitals at Carnegie this season, Radu Lupu's January appearance was memorable for a brilliant performance of Book I of Debussy's Preludes. The following month Alfred Brendel movingly performed a mixed program (Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert) as part of his final American tour; he will retire completely from the concert circuit next January. In March, Emanuel Ax, whose artistic growth in recent years has been practically exponential, gave outstanding performances of two Beethoven sonatas (Op. 2, No. 2, and the "Appassionata") and Schumann's Humoreske and Papillons. And in April, Leif Ove Andsnes presented a mixed program of which the highlight, as in Radu Lupu's recital, was a series of luminous interpretations of Debussy's Preludes -- in this case, a selection of eleven pieces from Books I and II. Far less successful, to my way of thinking, were recitals, in Carnegie's beautiful, mid-sized Zankel Hall, by Stephen Hough, who played on the surface of Mendelssohn's Variations serieuses and Beethoven's Sonata Op. 111, and Till Fellner, whom I had heard play beautifully in Switzerland a few years ago but who now, in a strange potpourri of a program (Mozart, Schumann, Liszt, Holliger, Ravel) seemed intent on demonstrating that he isn't "merely" a serious, Central European pianist but also a brilliant virtuoso. Virtuosity and depth ought to be mutually beneficial, but in this case the former often seemed to have been achieved at the expense of the latter.
I apologize if I'm boring you, but my enthusiasm for James Levine's work in the Met's pit this past season was carried over to his Carnegie concert appearances. Particularly noteworthy was a program in October by the MET Chamber Ensemble at Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall: the first half consisted of amazingly accomplished performances of complex works by three living American masters -- Elliott Carter (nearly 99 at the time), Milton Babbitt (91), and John Harbison (a babe of 69), all of them present at the event -- and in the second half the same three composers became Soldier, Devil, and Narrator, respectively, in an exhilarating interpretation of Stravinsky's The Soldier's Tale; the narration, rewritten for the occasion, was witty enough that it would surely have won the composer's approval. I confess that I still can't get the hang of Babbitt's works, but the soprano Judith Bettina deserved a medal, at the very least, for her virtuosic and virtually non-stop traversal of his densely packed, 22-minute The Head of the Bed. In January, the same ensemble, again under Levine, played six Second Viennese School works, including Berg's Chamber Concerto, with pianist Yefim Bronfman and violinist Gil Shaham, and Schoenberg's Pierrot luanire, with soprano Anja Silja, with polish and conviction. The following month, Levine and the whole Met Orchestra gave a shattering performance of Webern's Six Pieces, Op. 6, at the start of a memorable concert that also comprised Mozart's C minor Piano Concerto, K. 491, with Brendel (a few days before the aforementioned recital); Berg's Three Pieces, Op. 6, and the final scene from Salome, with Deborah Voigt in top form.
Also in February, two concerts by the Chicago Symphony under Pierre Boulez included the New York premiere of Matthias Pintscher's Osiris, which I found hard to fathom (the limitation is mine, of course), and music by Bartok (the Third Piano Concerto, with Mitsuko Uchida, in a performance that began too preciously but intensified from movement to movement), Debussy (all three of the Images), Berio, Berlioz (Les Nuits d'ete, beautifully interpreted by Susan Graham), and Stravinsky (the 1911 version of Petrouchka). I doubt that I will ever hear clearer, more luminous, or more brilliantly executed performances of the Debussy or the Stravinsky, and yet both suffered from that lack of forward movement that afflicts Boulez's interpretations when he seems to be concentrating more on bar-by-bar sound than on a work's overall architecture: you can't see the forest for the trees. It was like listening to a brilliantly analytical rehearsal rather than to a completely communicative performance.
In November Zankel Hall was the site of a fine performance by the Zehetmair String Quartet (Mozart, Hindemith, Schumann), but the most remarkable event that I witnessed there this season was the Lucerne Festival Academy Ensemble's performance, in January, of Boulez's Le Marteau sans maitre and sur Incises under the composer's direction, and with a pre-performance conversation between Boulez and Ara Guzeliminian, Carnegie's former artistic administrator. To my taste, sur Incises is a much more attractive work than Le Marteau, which has become a classic of the 20th century's avant-garde; in any case, both were played with apparent ease by these virtuosic young musicians from all over the world, under the nearly 83-year-old master's guidance.
For me, the Carnegie/Zankel season ended pleasantly on May 11 with a concert by the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra conducted by Douglas Boyd and with Dawn Upshaw as the fine soloist in some Stravinsky songs (Two Poems of Konstantin Balmont and Three Japanese Lyrics), Ravel's Three Poems of Stephane Mallarme, and Osvaldo Golijov's not terribly effective arrangements of four Schubert lieder. (Why has there been a resurgence of interest in old and new orchestrations of Schubert's songs? No matter how skillful the arranger, the pieces simply don't sound as good with orchestral accompaniment as they do in the original voice-and-piano blend created by the composer.) The other works on this program were Dvorak's Serenade for Winds and Stravinsky's Pulcinella Suite (1949 revision), deftly and arrestingly executed by this fine Minnesota ensemble.
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3/27/2011 5:10pm, #1
UFC Fight Night 24: Nogueira-Davis
Phil Davis overcame the toughest obstacle in his young career last night. In his fifth fight in the UFC and his eighth professional fight overall, Phil 'Mr. Wonderful' Davis defeated Antônio Rogério Nogueira by unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27) in the main event of the night.
Throughout the first round, Antônio managed to stuff four double-leg attempts while the two fighters struggled to earn a striking advantage. This changed in the second and third rounds when Davis changed his takedown of choice to a single leg. Davis managed to secure and maintain dominant positions over the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt, who did not seem to threaten off his back. Davis won the fight in convincing fashion.
Also at UFC Fight Night 24:
Anthony Johnson won over Dan Hardy by unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
In what was expected to be a showdown between two brawlers, Anthony Johnson wrestled his way to a safe unanimous decision. Dan Hardy has now lost three in a row in the UFC. He has not won a fight since UFC 105 in November 2009, where he earned his title shot.
Amir Sadollah defeated DaMarques Johnson by submission due to strikes (3:27, Round 2)
The fight started with a close first round in which Sadollah threw an accidental groin shot and both fighters worked their ground game. Sadollah seemed to get the better of the ground fighting, sweeping Johnson late in the first round. Sadollah effectively clinches and ground-and-pounds in the second. Johnson is forced to submit to powerful elbows by Sadollah after taking several powerful knees to the body.
Chan Sung Jung defeated Leonard Garcia by submission (twister) (4:59, Round 2)
The fight began with both Jung and Garcia gauging the other. Both fighters are noticeably calmer then at their first fight at WEC 48, trying to find their range. Neither seemed willing to throw like they did in their first encounter. Jung finished the round in full mount. The second round started slow but both fighters end up throwing flying knees. Jung again takes Garcia to the ground, landing some good elbows from Garcia's guard. Jung transitioned to the back and finished the fight by twister with one second left in the second.
Preliminary Bouts
Johny Hendricks defeated TJ Waldburger by technical knockout (1:35, Round 1)
Aaron Simpson won over Mario Miranda by unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-26)
Nik Lentz defeated Waylon Lowe by submission (guillotine) (3:24, Round 3)
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Christian Morecraft defeated Sean McCorkle by technical submission (standing guillotine) (4:10, Round 2)
Michael McDonald won over Edwin Figueroa by unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
John Hathaway won over Kris McCray by split decision (29-28, 29-28, 28-29)
Mackens Semerzier defeated Alex Caceres by submission (rear naked choke) (3:18, Round 1)
Mike Russow defeated Jon Madsen by technical knock out/doctor stoppage (5:00, Round 2)
Fight of the Night: Michael McDonald and Edwin Figueroa
Knockout of the Night: Johny Hendricks
Submission of the Night: Chan Sung Jung"That was the only way you could destroy me. Neither do I quail at death nor act in deference to any god. So drop your talk, I come resolved to die. But first, there are these gifts I bring for you." At once he hurled a javelin at his enemy, then sent another and another still straight to the mark. - Virgil's The Aeneid
3/27/2011 9:59pm, #2Chan Sung Jung defeated Leonard Garcia by submission (twister) (4:59, Round 2)
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You start to take the back, lock up of the guys legs with both of yours as he tries to turn in to you, get his arm behind your head, grab behind his head and crank on the neck. It's something of an esoteric submission. The only other time I've seen it in MMA was during an exhibition match on Human Weapon.
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Eddie Bravo is sooooooo happy about this one.
Also, did anyone notice how the Korean Zombie said he learned it from youtube? Sucks to be Leonard Garcia."Never trust a quote you read on the internet" - Abraham Lincoln
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Most people who do Eddie's stuff learned it from youtube, including myself. Which I think is why it has taken so long to show up in the big leagues.Judo is only gentle for the guy on top.
3/28/2011 10:03am, #7
My (obtuse and unstated) point was that this reinforces the idiotic notion that one can learn how to grapple/fight from youtube. "Garcia got beat by something that dude learned off youtube, bro. Submissions101 is the bizness."
On topic, I want to see the un-aired prelims. (esp Morecraft McCorkle) Are they online? Links anyone?"Never trust a quote you read on the internet" - Abraham Lincoln
3/28/2011 10:09am, #8"That was the only way you could destroy me. Neither do I quail at death nor act in deference to any god. So drop your talk, I come resolved to die. But first, there are these gifts I bring for you." At once he hurled a javelin at his enemy, then sent another and another still straight to the mark. - Virgil's The Aeneid


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All That Follows
A Novel
Jim Crace
Nan A. Talese / Doubleday: 230 pp., $25.95
British novelist Jim Crace has written in "Gift of Stones" about a Stone Age community that senses its doom when a Bronze Age tribe settles nearby. He has written in "Quarantine" of a young and annoying Jesus spending his 40 desert days among craggy cave-dwelling neighbors. In "Being Dead" he has written of the life in and around the decaying bodies of a murdered husband and wife.
In an odd way, each of those novels is a masterpiece. Not for the extremity of their stories, entirely removed from any ordinary notion of literary realism, but for their astonishing emotional realism.
Nothing human is alien to me, the Latin saying goes; with Crace, whose best is unsurpassed by any living British writer, nothing alien is
human. Poet Marianne Moore wrote of imaginary gardens with real tigers in them; Crace's wildly imaginary gardens are populated not by tigers but by real human spirits.
With "All That Follows," he has tried his hand at a small, essentially realistic novel; one set a few years in a future that is only a slightly intensified present. There is quite a lot to like in it, but it doesn't really suit him. Lifted like Antaeus from his own ground, or perhaps an Ariel obliged to walk, he loses much of his strength.
Leonard Lessing, the novel's protagonist, is a jazz saxophonist who at 50 and with the excuse of a shoulder injury has temporarily retired from an admired career.
He has retired from much more -- essentially from any action or decision involving effort or courage.
He spends much of his day as a couch potato, watching the news and aimlessly Googling, while waiting on his wife, Francine, with a nervous assiduity that seeks to mask his depressed passiveness. If he fails at his early morning routine of getting her breakfast, "then he will steep like unattended tea, growing darker by the moment."
Hostages and a plan
Francine, a busy teacher, has been unhappy since quarreling and losing touch with a grown daughter. She is sparky by nature, though, and Leonard's mix of supineness and cosseting makes things worse. They'd first met when she approached him after he'd played a wild jazz solo. "Truly valiant," she'd said; what followed were adventurous years of gigs and political demonstrations. "What I couldn't guess back then," she tells him now, "was that the jazz was the only thing that wasn't . . . decaf."
Leonard's funk begins to abate when he watches a news report about a radical group taking hostages in a nearby town. He recognizes the leader from a trip he'd made to Texas in 2006, 18 years earlier. He'd gone there hoping to link up with Nadia, once a would-be girlfriend. Instead he found her living with Maxie, a blowhard who was trying to organize a violent outbreak during a book talk by Laura Bush. Leonard reluctantly agreed to participate, chickened out, and it all went ludicrously wrong. Crace is excellent at human ludicrousness; it's only little removed from human tragedy.
Now, vaguely stirred, Leonard drives to the hostage house, besieged by security and a host of ravenous journalists. When a teenage girl comes up to announce she is Maxie's and Nadia's daughter Lucy, Leonard approaches her. And there he begins a series of ventures and retreats that will end up edging him out of his anomie.
The ups and downs are intricate. Lucy proposes to disappear, announce her own kidnapping and threaten that she will be killed unless the hostages are released. Touchingly, she expects Maxie to be more father than terrorist. Leonard agrees to help, then retreats, then reengages.
Meanwhile, Francine finds her spirits rekindled by his fumbling ventures into real action, however farfetched. It is his lost wildness she missed.
Crace does well configuring Leonard's rabbit state, Francine's tormented urgency and Lucy's appealing teenage farfetchedness. But he is unable to provide a convincing story for them to move through; it is thinly and hastily contrived. At home as he is in the towers and spires of his fable-like fiction, realism's daily housekeeping, with its narrative chores and due bills, evades him.
Story in music
The writing, though it has its moments, seems to struggle as well. Only in passages evoking the lost wildness of Leonard's saxophone improvising does it achieve the visionary immediacy of Crace's distinctive strength.
"He's on the tightrope, balancing. It's technique and abandonment. He is elated, yes, but he is also terrified." And, Crace continues: "He has exhaustively prepared in order to seem daringly unprepared. But here, tonight, he is not playing what he hears; he is hearing what he plays."
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|December 8, 2012, 09:58 AM
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First rifle after .22
Hi. I recently got the bug. Moving back to Utah in a few months, I want to hunt deer and elk in the near future. Having very limited experience with fire arms, I bought my first rifle ( savage bolt 22) to practice fundamentals. I might be recoil sensitive, since I have never shot anything "more" than an M-16 when I was in the USAF. My main concern is developing a flinch.
I have been looking at the 308 or 30-06 since they are versatile hunting rifles. While I'm not opposed to buying a deer rifle and an elk rifle, it obviously cost less to buy just one.
So, will the jump from a .22 to a .308/30-06 be a stretch? I just dont want to develop bad habits. Also, Im 70 inches/180 pounds. Should I start with reduced recoil rounds then work up?
One more question (haha) Winchester Model 70 or Marlin XS7 for first rifle. I will keep it forever and it wont be my last.
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|December 8, 2012, 01:34 PM
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Maybe it's a big jump, but a 30-06 or .308 with a limb saver might just be OK. Good luck
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|December 8, 2012, 01:57 PM
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Light bullets give less felt recoil.
Practice with 150 grain bullets, then use 165-180 grain bullets to hunt. (Be sure to zero your scope for the hunting bullets).
A Past shoulder pad or Limbsaver pad will help.
|December 8, 2012, 03:39 PM
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A Winchester 70 in 30-06 would be hard to beat. From what I hear the marlin is a decent rifle as well. Get the one that feels most comfortable when you shoulder it.
Practice in short sessions to help avoid the flinch. Maybe 20 rds a day. Only shoot from the bench to sight it in, this is where you will feel the most recoil. Practice from standing, on one knee and sitting on the ground. These are positions you will need while hunting and you feel less recoil than at the bench.
Have fun doing it. Get different targets. I use clay pigeons for practice. They are small enough to be challenging and they explode when you hit them.
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|December 8, 2012, 03:49 PM
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If you plan to hunt elk you should go with the 30-06. You can mitigate recoil by buying a fairly heavy rifle and/or installing a very good recoil pad (a Weatherby Vanguard S2 weighs a lot more than a Remington M700). You can also practice with reduced charge rounds like Remington's Managed Recoil ammunition. If you will be humping up and down hills on hunts, I would avoid a real heavy rifle and practice with managed recoil rounds, then check your zero with standard charge rounds before the hunt.
If you do not mind spending the extra money, the new FN produced M70s are getting great reviews for their build quality and accuracy. The Marlin X7s are reportedly very accurate, and they are a great bargain.
|December 8, 2012, 06:47 PM
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I vote for Winchester and no, it is not too big a leap. Just make sure you have hearing protection and a Past recoil pad or something similar. Millions of city boys learned to shoot with a 30-06 in the 40's although the O3's and Garands are pretty heavy. 150's or even 130's have much less recoil.
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I don't know where you are at but I'm fairly familiar with Utah and if it was only going to be one gun besides my 22 I would think about a light easy to carry quick handling gun. A Savage Scout 10FCM in .308. Iron sights or a low power fixed scope for deer hunting, chances are it would suffice for Elk, but a higher power scope if you must. A lot of Elk has been taken with iron sights and the humble 30-30. There really isn't much better than a good .308. Unless you really like taking the long shots anything bigger isn't really necessary.
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|December 8, 2012, 09:51 PM
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Killing elk doesn't require a big caliber rifle, but it does require one you can shoot well. Quite a few elk have been taken with cartridges I wouldn't try, but if your patient and disciplined enough to take the right shots then just about any rifle will do. With current bullet construction a lot of different cartridges are now capable of providing better terminal performance than ever before.
You don't have to just use the .308 or .30-06, and like others have said if recoil is a problem use a lighter bullet in the 150-165 grain range instead of 180's. I'd probably go with the Winchester M70 as well if your budget can afford it, not that the Marlin isn't a good rifle they just aren't the same class so to speak. Winchester offers a .270 Win, 7mm-08, .308, and .30-06 all of which are very versatile and adequate for elk. I'm sure the Marlin is offered in the same chamberings as well.
For chasing elk in the Utah mountains I feel the M70 FWT or Extreme weather to be the best offerings for rifle choices. I really like the FWT's but the EW is really starting to grow on me. The M70 Super Shadow will be the cheapest Winchester around $600 new. Marlins will be in the $350 price range at most places I've seen them. Don't overlook good used Winchester push feed M70's and M670 rifles they will sevice you very well and be a lot cheaper to purchase.
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|December 9, 2012, 03:53 AM
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The Winchester Model 70 is my hunting rifle. I'd recommend it to anyone.
As I've gotten older I find about 40 rounds of .30-06 is enough, more than that and my shoulder lets me know about it.
If you're worried about developing a flinch I'd suggest you get some lessons. Starting out on the right foot is going to help you more than any other choice you make.
|December 9, 2012, 09:19 AM
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I also like the Winchester rifles, Savage makes a plethera of accurate choices also.
The main thing is pick a suitable caliber, and practice with that dude until you feel comfortable shooting at game at various distances, in various positions.
As far as a caliber goes Id start at .270 win, if elk is a possible target, and move up from that point as far as suitable calibers go. Any caliber that is suitable for elk, should also be fine for smaller game of course. And if you start to handload, the caliber you finally pick can possibly be loaded up and down for the varying size of game that you decide to go after....I also think 7mm 08, is a low recoiling option for you.
Reading literature on any guns and ammo always help a new big game hunter.
Good luck and happy shootin dude.
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|December 9, 2012, 08:26 PM
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I think .270 Winchester would be a good option. 140-160 grain bullet for what your going after. 308 is another good option, and so is the .30-06.
Recoil pad if you find that its too much. Practice with good hearing protection.
|December 10, 2012, 09:39 AM
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I also started with .22 rifles and now have 7 of them.
When I started to acquire some larger calibers I also had some concerns about recoil.
I had some bad initial experiences with a old Springfield 1903 in .30-06 but I found out that it had more to do with the narrow steel butt pad along with poor rifle placement at my shoulder and too loose a hold.
I couldn't begin to understand rifle placement when shooting a .22LR. You really learn why it's important if you shoot a .300 Win Mag and hold it as loosely as you hold a .22LR.
Once I got rifles with good butt pads, I found that the experience was based on the rifle placement and not the caliber and my concerns went away.
I did have to learn to manage recoil so the rifle stayed on target but that just came with practice.
Noise can be as much of the problem with flinching as the actual rifle movement. Make sure you use good hearing protection so the noise won't become the factor.
After many years, I now have bolt rifles in .223, .22-250, .270, .308, and .30.06 and semi autos in 7.62x39, .308 and .30-06.
The long actions bolt rifles, .270 and .30-06, recoil the most, but the recoil hasn't been a problem even as I am getting older.
In fact, rapidly approaching 70, I am shooting as well or better than I ever have.
I guess lots of practice really nelps.
|December 10, 2012, 09:57 AM
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Thanks guys, I think a good recoil pad on the butt, a PAST shoulder recoil pad, lower grain ammo, and a sweatshirt is in store.
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|December 10, 2012, 10:18 AM
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My 10 year old grandson shoots a .30-06 and handles the recoil just fine. If you shoot shotguns, the .30-06 recoil is roughly equivalent to 12 gauge shotgun recoil. Get a rifle that fits you, a scope with decent eye relief and tuck the rifle in before you shoot it and you will be fine. As far as hearing protection, muffs or plugs are fine, muffs over plugs to me are gilding the lilly unless you're firing artillery or something big with a nasty muzzle brake.
As far as first rifle after .22 and maybe for elk, for sure a decent bolt action 30-06 will serve you very well.
|December 10, 2012, 10:36 AM
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Has the Model 70 Super Shadow been discontinued?
|December 10, 2012, 03:07 PM
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Look at shooting vests with the padded shoulder, they are not expensive and allow you to shoot in shirt sleeves in good weather. Just make sure it fits fairly snug and it will take the sting out of the recoil bite.
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|December 10, 2012, 04:37 PM
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I think that there is a fairly significant difference between 308 & 30/06 on your shoulder (& muzzle blast), and there is absolutely nothing lacking with a 308 on Elk. It's largely preference between the two cartridges, but I prefer the 308.
My son took an Elk with one shot at about 80 yards with a 308/180. He only went over one ridge and into the next ravine before going down for the count. It was a perfect shoulder shot. If the slightly reduced recoil of the 308 would let you shoot even a smidge better, then it would be the better choice.
If you handload then it's 6 of one half dozen of the other. Bullet selection and placement is everything, and more important than velocity or energy, even on Elk.
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May I suggest getting the Sako Model 85 bolt gun, as you first choice. Occasionally...I even flinch when shooting offhand, when shooting 22's, because I did not accept the wobble; and tried to snatch the shot. I would buy a shooting bipod/tripod shooting stick that would help in offhand and kneeling/sitting positions; and practice with them.
At the range...I stuff cotton rags {Bag of Rags that I buy from an auto parts store} and stuff them under my shirt; to mitigate the effects of recoil; or just ball up a sweatshirt between the butt stock and your shoulder.
Wear a quality set of headphones/eyepro at the range, {with calibers the like of 50 BMG, use headphones and earplugs} and possibly a good set of amplified headphone ear protection when hunting.
Shoot with both eyes open ---if you blink your eyes when you break the shot --- you have a minor flinch going --- so...keeping both eyes open, will help prevent a flinch.
Imagine your trigger finger, as its own "entity", finger "flat" on the trigger...pulling straight back from the tip of muzzle to the rear of the buttstock.
Relax your shoulders...take three deep breaths ---inhaling though your nose and exhaling though you mouth---break the shot on the third exale within six to ten seconds, if not...reject the shot; and do more breath control. If your stance is correct...you should not hit your headphones, when you bring the rifle up to your shoulder.
I do like my Sako Model 75 bolt gun in 30-06, but would prefer the M-85, because it has a better retaining magazine release button. Training with reduced recoil loads, is not a bad idea.
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|December 10, 2012, 06:08 PM
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If you are worried about recoil I would look at a semi-auto action. From my limited experience I would say moving from bolt to semi-auto reduces recoil about 15% and if there is extra weight, there usually is, another 10% is not abnormal. The action not only absorbs some of the recoil, but also spreads it out over a slightly longer period.
You can get the rifle ported or purchase a ported model. Remember, the more aggressive the porting the louder the rifle will be to those around you.
If you hold the rifle correctly a 308 out of a normal rifle should not give you a flinch. If it is hard to handle I would look into how you are holding it. A super light sporting rifle may kick a bit though.
I would try to shoot before 6 seconds b/c at that point my balance and sight begin to be effected. Not drastically until 10 seconds or so, but there is an earlier effect.
I wouldn't have anything lumpy moving around under my shirt shot to shot. There are sew on recoil pads for shirts. Many good shooters use them.
Here is an example although I am unfamiliar with this design/brand.
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|December 11, 2012, 11:11 AM
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I just saw the Model 70 or Marlin XS7 question. Between the two, I would prefer the Model 70. But I'm old and a traditionalist.
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|December 12, 2012, 12:43 PM
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First off, neither the .308 or .30-06 is a bruiser. Second the gun has to fill a need and if you're lookin at Elk either makes a great choice. You aren't gonna get much reduction in recoil from other calibers and still retain the capability you want. As for being recoil sensitive............ Man up and practice.
|December 12, 2012, 02:19 PM
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.30-06 recoil is just not that heavy. Every American soldier in WWI and WWII trained with and shot it. It's a sporting round now and NOT a punisher. No need for limb saver, PAST, padding stuffed inside your shirt, sandbag between gun and shoulder, reduced loads or any such silliness, especially for someone 70" and 180 lbs. Tuck the rifle firmly into your shoulder and fire away. You don't even need to man up. My 10 YO grandson shoots .30-06. He's hardly a man. People need to stop thinking .30-06 recoil is anything tough to deal with. Its just not.
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|December 13, 2012, 06:33 PM
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Thanks for the feedback. I'm gonna go with a 30-06, and Im not gonna skimp. It's not that I was scared of the recoil...I have never shot a rifle that powerful and didnt want to develop bad habits. I was wondering when I was gonna get told to man up and stop worrying. HAHA. But, I will start with smaller loads and a shooting vest.
|December 14, 2012, 01:34 PM
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O'smagik: make sure you come back and tell us what you got and how you like it.
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|December 14, 2012, 11:50 PM
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I have never ever heard anyone say "This recoil pad is too soft and reduces recoil too much." I think the shooting shirt/vest isn't the best idea as it is sort of a pain. A good pad on the rifle is always there.
I use the slip-on Kick-Eez pads on a few hunting shotguns. I would not use them on a rifle as they do not fit that tightly and are not stable. There are glue on options and more expensive ones that tie on and such.
A "BAR" won't have much recoil as they are hefty and semi-auto. You said you weren't going to skimp...
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In one word, I would describe my 2015 as purposeful . I had my fair share of bumps and as beauty queen-ish as this sounds, I used them to get myself to move out of my comfort zone. It made taking risks easier. I remember telling myself several times this year, "If not now, when?" Tough, grown-up calls made sense. I was taking on greater responsibilities, both at work and in the family. I had no trouble at all with the former. It's the latter that I found emotionally draining but I took on whatever it was being put on my plate.
On days when I felt like bitchin' out ( we all have these moments, right? ) and giving up, purpose always made me tread on. In the process, it has taught me to be selfless. It does a huge difference when you have self-discipline and when you put the interest of others first before yours. Telling myself A LITTLE BIT MORE always went a long way — I am beyond grateful that 2015 brought me opportunities that changed my perspective in a lot of things and at the same time, this year made me a more tenacious yet a more compassionate version of myself.
Let's timehop a bit and see how 2015 has been for me.
Wishing and hoping that we're in Japan. We did go back to Japan - 10 mos. after this.
Celebrated my 23rd birthday ( again ) in KL
My grandmother joined her Creator in March,
but it gave the family some time to re-connect.
Taking on bigger roles at work
One of my super good friends, B starts his journey to forever
And we got another wedding here ...
Did a lot of new projects and firsts with these two.
I tell you guys, it's good to get out of your comfort zone.
Made new friends co-organizing my first-ever 4 x 4 off-road challenge
I dunno how long it has been since she was last here in Manila
but it's great how we just picked up from where we left off,
as if we just saw each other the other day — the only diff now
is that she now has a kid and is enjoying every minute of it.
Got extremely lucky to have been allowed to have some days off
to travel ( again ) to one of my favorite countries — JAPAN.
Osaka, Kyoto, and Nara took my breath away. Can't wait to be back!
See photos from my trip in my VSCO page.
Food is an integral part of any culture and it goes hand-in-hand with travel. The last time I was in Singapore, I only stayed for a few days and didn't get to do much BUT I did discover the BEST KAYA which is in Bugis. I would love to visit again so I can have my Kaya, enjoy local gastro-adventures, and share this Singapore experience with fellow foodies slash travel junkies, @sobarney and his wife PLUS my favorite travel buddy who needs to get out of his comfort zone of Spam, bacon, and hotdogs. 😀 We've been making plans for trips but they never push through, so probably this time, it will happen. A reunion and food trip sound like fun.Ü #SingaporeInvites #Philippines
I joined an international photo contest for the first time.
Read about it here.
If we're friends in Facebook, you'd remember the caption to this happy photo. It said, #34;The crown is back to where it belongs." This night was epic. The feeling of winning is indescribable. Being champs ( again ) was one of the highlights of my year – a shared joy with my #Moldex family 💜💙💜 #Christmas2015 #HappyHolidays #YuletideCheer #Champions #MoldexRealty
Ended the year on a very happy note. Good times.
To YOU ( the person reading this post ), I am happy that we counted another year of being virtually together. I genuinely hope to meet you in person in one of my future travels. From my blog to yours, may you have a blessed, peaceful, and love-filled 2016 ahead. Happy blogging in 2016 and keep on smiling! ☮ Peace + ❥ Love + Good Vibes. RUSS.


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