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I did not feel you were bashing the shorter bellied lines, you were simply giving your own opinion. I agree that the Scott 1509 is one sweet rod, the true powerhouse of the 9wt's. I used a demo rod on the Skagit one day and was amazed how well it would throw my heaviest shooting heads. I think this rod would perform great with the longer belly lines, in fact right now I am casting different rods trying to find the right one that would work with the longer lines, still waiting to cast the new Dereck Brown rods before I make my decision but the 1509 is at the top of the list.
RE:Weekend report?
Sorry if I came across as bashing short bellied lines. I agree they have their time and place. I just wanted to make the point that air temps in the 20s are not their strong suit.
Brian, you are right on the heavy tips comment. I fish some heavier tips in the winter but I do so on my 10 weight. It is no where near as nice to cast as my 8 though but then again, the 8 will not handle those tips even with a windcutter style line. Perhaps a good stout 9 is the answer. The Scott 15' 9 is a great rod and have heard good reports on several of the newer batch including the 14' and 15' Sages.
Doublespey, excellent observation on the short bellied line being more brush friendly.
Tight lines everyone (no matter how long their belly is)!
RE:Weekend report?
I agree - there are several big advantages to the shorter head lines and fishing heavier tips is definitely one. Another that wasn't mentioned was standing under overhanging limbs tight to the bank (anybody fish the Sol Duc?) and trying to fish a seam 60-70' out. You don't need much of a D-loop with those shorter head lines - just flex the rod and the line will go out. With the longer belly lines, you need to throw that D-loop behind you and that can cause problems in tight quarters. I still keep my WindCutter's spooled for those moments!
But I think I've found my own niche with the longer midspey lines (70-80' heads) bacause, as the other Brian said, when you really need to reach out you can do so with minimal stripping and you still have a manageable length of belly when fishing tips. I've also found that, when I need to get down, 1.5" brass tube flies on my regular 15' type 6 tips will put me right near the bottom in all but the heaviest flows. The big advantage is that they don't affect the cast as much as you'd think, so I can continue to fish my normal lines even when the need arises to DReDgE (gotta do that a lot for the winter hatchery rats).
And the funny thing is that, with lighter wire hooks, I can be bouncing off rocks all day and not hang up near as much as with standard weighed patterns.
RE:Weekend report?
Have slowly started switching over to the long belly lines. For my summer fishing I think thier hard to beat,but for winter fishing I still like the shorter heads. I can cast some pretty heavy tips on 9 and 8wt rods,with a long belly line and heavy tips I would probably have to get a 10wt. I have used a few 10wt rods and wouldn't want to cast one for 10 or 12 hours a day, atleast not at this point. I have found also that most long belly lines don't load rods well at 50 to 60ft, thus I find my self fishing a long line when there is no need to do so. But on the other hand when your stripping line all day that adds up to a lot of time when your fly is not fishing. With the rods I use if I want to go to the heavier tips I stick with the shorter heads or pick a happy happy medium such as the mispey type lines, which will fish at 65 to 70ft with out shooting line and you can hit 80 all day with a minimum of shooting line. Different strokes for different folks I guess.
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You've got a point Duggan, it's also nice to wear gloves and not have to deal with a lot of finger work. At the same time, it's also nice to be able to throw virtually any tip density using the Mike Kinney recipe head system as well despite lots of stripping and shooting, the likes of which would be very hard to achieve on a long belly line. No easy answers!
I guess working the softer seams and fishing a workable tip on a long working length of line would be the best way to go. I recall fishing a DTF 9wt cut and looped with a short 8wt type IV head in winter without taking the gloves off for long periods of time, and catching fish on it by working inside lies.
Sounds like the new 9140 might be a suitable tool for this approach listening to the reports. I'll bet the next set of freshets really gets things going in a hurry out there!
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Let me guess --- Windcutter?
The iced up guides is one of the main reasons I switched to a longer bellied line and away from stripping and shooting. Anyone else have thoughts on this?
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Managed to drag my sorry rear out bed at 4:30am Saturday. Headed for Sauk bar on the Skagit. I timed my walk in just right and arrived at the river with just enough light to tie on a fly. I wanted to fish the run before the sleds started tearing the place up. It was so cold my guides would completely ice up. My reel would freeze to the point I had to check it every couple of casts and free it. Made for some interesting casting as my line would freeze solid in the guides. I was able to fish the entire bar before the sleds arrived. But, no fish, not even a sniff. Beautiful morning. The mountains and the glaciers that feed the river were gorgeous in the morning light. Nice and peaceful. All things must pass though as 6 sleds began tearing up and down the river. Sometimes I wonder how those guys catch fish after ripping the river to shreds.
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The beauty of steelheading is that even the off-condition days really are better than good days doing other things. In places like the upper Skagit, the Sky, the Clackamas, virtually any pacific northwest stream - the catching is a bonus but the fishing is a dream.
One day I was hiking along the river by the coal mines in the gorge where the families of those buried in cave-ins ask people not to go. Feeling enough honor that I respect these grounds and interested in finding steelhead up in the canyon, I walked the mossy rock walls upriver until I found an amazing sight. One of the geothermal springs was really running clear due to the volume of groundwater from the rains and it trickled down into a river rock bowl carved by a tumbling stone. There are a lot of these cylindrical holes in the gorge from the top of the flaming geyser all the way to palmer. This one still had a 100 pound round rock ball in the bottom of it and the water was like a bath. Although I had barely taken a cast yet, The temptation was too much... I hung my goretex, neoprene and polypropelene on cedar branches and lay the flyrod against the boughs, then sat in this steamy hole in solid rock, looking up at the giant trees peircing upward into the drizzly sky until I needed to start the long uphill hike back to the truck to tend to obligations. I went back there one time in the summer and it was a stinky sulphur pot, but after a winter of rains and when the ground is swelled with water it runs clean.
I'm sure we all have our steelhead sanctuaries, and sometimes there are even fish involved.
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Dianne and I fished the Clackamas for several hours with no results. Beautiful blue sky, but cold as a witches tit. I'm sure looking forward to our session with Dana in March.
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Yeeow! Sorry to continue with the depressing tone of this thread, but Dana and I fished the upper Skagit from dawn till dusk (or almost) with nary a pull. Ditto to OC's description - very low flows (significantly lower than last week), clear, and C-O-L-D! Juro won't have much sympathy, but there was a thick frost on my truck when I headed out in the pre-dawn darkness and it stayed cold thru much of the morning.
If Eagle-Gawkers were Steelhead, we'd have been in hog heaven! Must have seen somewhere near 200 of those pass by us. Got a little applause from a couple ladies for casts almost landing in their laps (and frowns of concern from the stupid raft "captains")when the odd one would float right through our seam. And one guy was even talking with his passengers about spey rods and what kind of casts we were doing (Dana the Snake Roll, me the Doublespey) Most were courteous and stayed in the main flow along the other bank (the river is easily 300' wide at this point).
Bad news on the Digital Front - I thought I'd erased the old images from the card, but it seems they were still there and the pictures I took were never saved. I'm not sure if it's a defective memory card of if i'm just doing something ~stupid~! Either way, the results are the same . . No Pictures!
If you'd seen the beautiful sunny afternoon we had, with a perfect classic run and Dana booming out casts, you'd appreciate how bummed I was.
The upside is that Dana gave me several of his flies (not the Monsters - I'll get a pic of one of those in February), so I'll do a pic of them and my own when my Koday DC5000 arrives.
tight lines and RAIN!!!!
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RE:Weekend report?
SinkTip and myself fished the Sky and froze our buts off. Air temp 1st light about 25 water temp below 40. River low, low and lower. River clearer than a Montana Spring Creek. Most of our normal runs were unfishable as there was no flow running through them.
Thank god SinkTip has a good sence of humor because moving down a run with no feeling in your feet is a challenge. Also leaving many flies and leaders wrapped around rocks as under water art work brings out the best in ya.
But who cares, good company, bright sunshine and being on a river is the best place to be no matter how cold it is.
Oh ya I'm going back to boot foot waders, they are 10 times warmer.
Hope some others hooked a fish this weekend.
Weekend report?
Need a fix!
Low water keeping the missles at bay (pun intended). I'd be doing the coastal scene for the ever-elusive salter steelhead by now if low flows were holding fish out of the rivers. Are Indian nets bobbing in the lower estuaries or have they finished for the season? I hate to use that as an indicator but driving to work I would inspect the floats of the gill nets (in sheer pain) to monitor tidal area arrivals.
Dying to see those tube fly pictures, I chatted with the HMH rep at the show and would love to show him our passion for their products!
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Based on Jayspawn's What Was You're First Figure? thread at the OLD SSG Forums!
When the Power of the Force Star Wars figures first came out in '95, everybody scrambled to get their hands on them. This was the rebirth of Star Wars figures and toys!
So who or what was your first POTF2 figure?Where did you get it?
Mine was Darth Vader,Stormrooper,Luke and (I think) Han I bought them at a shop called Big-W or woolworths at the price of AU$8.85 each (now the figures are AU$16.00^ each) I was so happy until I found out that Luke and Vader were the rare ones a couple years latter,I've been made at myself since!

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By Reshma Kapadia
South African gold miners rejected a pay offer aimed at ending a strike at three of the country's biggest gold producers– AngloGold Ashanti (AU), Gold Fields (GFI) and Harmony Gold Mining (HMY) –raising concerns the unrest may take longer to settle, the WSJ's Patrick McGroarty writes. The violence associated with the unrest continues, with one man burned to death and another shot by protesters today, Reuters' Sherilee and Agnieszka Flak report.
Eurasia Group Africa analyst Mark Rosenberg says he doesn't expect South Africa to "go off a cliff" but did say he expects a rocky road ahead.
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9 Dec 2011 – 9 April 2012
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Located within the exhibition, the room is for children aged 3–12 and their families. The family activity room evokes the harmony of classically inspired architecture combined with an interior domestic scene, Carpaccio's Birth of Mary c.1502–04.
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In this fun and educational room, children aged 3–12 can explore the illusion of one-point perspective, construct and place buildings in a Renaissance landscape and draw themselves in the portrait styles of the period.


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I think this taken from what is called the Oxo Tower Wharf. Certainly it is the Oxo Tower you can see on the far right of the picture. Waterloo Bridge is on the left and the Blackfriars Bridges are on the right.
For the view from the other side of Blackfriars Bridge see www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=25110.
You can see Waterloo Bridge from the other side in an earlier shot www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=19292 and the same again but from the North Bank here: www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=22234.


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First Disappointment Leads to a New Way to Win
Disappointment sometimes leads to a new way to win. From age 12 in Lordstown, Ohio, Meagan Gibson knew she wanted to play college volleyball. Practicing, playing and suffering through injuries paid off through a scholarship from Fairmont State University—but it came with a price.
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Date night is the time to break out of your usual routine and crank up the romance. Here are the secrets to getting the best flirty makeup looks—with a little celebrity inspiration.
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This deep wine lip color is just intense enough to be a pretty focal point. To get this kind of precise color that also lasts, start by tracing the natural border of your mouth with a burgundy-colored lip pencil, and use it to fill in the entire lip area. Then, with a lip brush, apply a dark red lipstick such as Dolce & Gabbana The Lipstick in Ultra on top. (To buy: $30, saksfifthavenue.com)
Keep the rest of the face simple by adding a bit of mascara and filling in brows where needed, says makeup artist Quinn Murphy.
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So, right here, Rihanna has that all-natural "I-just-roll-out-of-bed-this-gorgeous" look. The secret to re-creating it? Wearing the same glowing makeup color all over the face.
With a fluffy powder brush, lightly dust bronzer (Bobbi Brown Bronzing Powder, $38 , macys.com) on the temples, just below the cheekbones, and under the jawline.
"You're keeping the color on the edges but still allowing the high points of the face to come forward," Murphy says.
Dab a touch of blush on the apples of the cheeks, swipe a dark brown eyeliner along the top lash line, and smooth on a gold-flecked neutral lip gloss (we love Benefit Ultra Shines in Nudie-Tude, $18, benefitcosmetics.com) for your own spin on this effortless look
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Line the top and bottom lash lines with black eyeliner, and smudge with a Q-tip or a small pencil brush.
Apply a light brown eye shadow (we like Burberry Beauty Sheer Eye Shadow in Midnight Brown, $29, nordstrom.com) around the outer corners and blend toward the brow bone and under the lower lashes to soften the border.
Dust on a shimmery champagne shadow (try CoverGirl Eye Enhancers in Champagne, $3.19, drugstore.com) on the center of the eyelids and "build the color to the edge of the crease," says Murphy.
You know how we said smoky eyes are dramatic? When you're getting decked out for a major night on the town, nothing less will do.
Copy Julianne Moore's by drawing a black eye pencil—we love how well Elizabeth Arden Smoky Eyes Powder Pencil in Smoky Black ($18, macys.com) smudges—along the upper lashes. (It's OK if it's a little messy...that's the idea.)
Apply a matte slate or concrete eye shadow (Sephora Colorful Mono Eyeshadow in City Fog, $13, Sephora.com) just below the lower lashes and on the eyelids, then blend outward to the crease.
"Blur the edges—that gives you that really smoky, diffused look. It starts with the black and just fades into a slate color," says Murphy.
Finish with tons of black mascara. Leave the rest of the face pretty bare—just conceal any spots of redness, and dust on a natural blush and some clear lip balm.
Flushed cheeks, like Olivia Munn's, are where sweet and sexy meet. To get the look, "definitely use a cream blush," says Murphy. "It's soft, natural, subtle."
With your ring finger, dot color on the apples of the cheeks and blend back toward the ears.
Murphy recommends rosy pinks for fair skin, corals for fair-to-medium, russet and terra-cotta shades for medium-to-tan, and blushes with hints of plum for darker tones.
Some of our favorite formulas: Maybelline New York Dream Bouncy Blush ($8, maybelline.com) and Mark Just Pinched Instant Blush Tint ($9, avon.com).
When you want a look that's fresh, exciting, and a bit seductive, purple eye shadow fits the bill and flatters a surprising range of skin tones.
To get the look, line the eyes with a black or deep eggplant eye pencil (we like Urban Decay 24/7 Glide-On Eye Pencil in Lust, $19, sephora.com).
Blend a rich aubergine eye shadow into the outer corners and under the bottom lash line. Add "a shimmery mid-tone purple, like a dark lavender, over the lid," says Murphy, and swipe on a bit of black mascara.
Bright, rich lips, like Solange's here, are romantic and just plain pretty.
To get the look, "tap the color on with your finger," says Murphy. You'll still get that flash of brightness, but "it's going to have softer edges and look more undone."
Brights look amazing on every skin tone, so don't be afraid to experiment.
We love L'Oréal Paris Colour Riche Lipstick in Volcanic ($9, drugstore.com) for orange, M.A.C. Matte Lipstick in Russian Red ($15, maccosmetics.com) for red, and Yves Saint Laurent Rouge Volupté Silky-Sensual Radiant Lipstick SPF 15 in Provocative Pink ($34, sephora.com) for fuchsia, Murphy's personal favorite shade.
Silvery shades on the eyes catch the light for the perfect amount of flirty sparkle.
Rim the eyes with a dark brown or black eyeliner and smudge it with a cotton swab. Then take a cool metallic shadow (Lancôme Color Design Sensational Effects Eye Shadow in Style Section, $19, lancome-usa.com) and apply it to the eyelids and inner corners.
"For this look, you don't want to blend the color up to the brow bone," says Murphy. Keep it to the lids and inner corners only.
"This makes it sophisticated instead of junior high." Murphy also suggests defining the eyes with a brown shadow blended into the outer corners and crease to enhance their shape.
Long, dark lashes make eyes more defined and bat-able, but the key is to make them look natural, not cartoonish.
To get Eva Longoria's just-right flirty fringe, apply a few individual false lashes to the outer corners of each eye for an almond shape, and to the middle for a doe-eyed look.
Check out our guide to applying fake lashes.
Be sure to curl your natural lashes before applying the false ones, and finish with a few coats of mascara to blend the reals and the fakes.
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Wondering. What is everyone seeing as the most expensive line on their HT report?
Wondering. What is everyone seeing as the most expensive line on their HT report?
HRCH Wilson's God of Thunder - Thor
HR Wilson's God of Mischief - Loki
Birds--about 42% of revenues. Next would be judges expenses (including dinner, hotel,travel and gift) at about 28% of revenues. We limit at one flight for MH so that would be higher for folks that run more.
Birds first , than judges expenses
Do we consider Judges expenses, as a collective item (as in expenses for all judges?) That has been our most notable cost, but likely because of a lack of judges native to the Area. Although I will say we've been really lucky with judges, helping out and not turning in exorbitant expenses. Next item would be birds... Then You got start-up cost (Ribbons, Insurance etc.) however those cannot be tied to a single test as they are usually yearly expenses (but they are a large chunk of change when they come due).
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"Hunting is a skill to be learned whether you do it early or late it still needs to be learned"
GMRH-I HRCH Quick MH (most importantly Duck/Upland Enthusiast) Rip. July-2014
GMHR HRCH Lakota MH (most importantly Upland/Duck Enthusiast)
MHR HR Storm SH (Beginning Upland & Waterfowl Enthusiast)
I've never seen a HT report and I don't want to see one. I'll pay my club dues, entry fees, etc. and provide backbreaking labor wherever needed but please delegate the finances to someone else.
Lonnie Spann
DISCLAIMER: The above post is the opinionated and biased view of your's truly, Lonnie Spann, and is in no way intended to reflect the opinions or views of the unfortunate individuals named below who just happen to be doomed with guilt by association.
Member of CAHRC and North AL HRC. I train with AND AM FRIENDS WITH: Fishduck, Laidback, Splash_Em, RF2, Drake2014, Claimsadj, Hooked on Quackers, RookieTrainer and Roseberry.
HRCH Spann's Quacker Jack "Jack" 500 Pt. Club (New & IMPROVED jacket).
With the rising cost of EVERTHING, fuel, motels, food, should we be looking at ways to help/reduce cost for a hunt test weekend? Clubs and handlers
HRCH Wilson's God of Thunder - Thor
HR Wilson's God of Mischief - Loki
We have done a bulk ammo buy this year with 3 clubs and the same with poppers. We are working with local motels on reduced rates for judges and handlers. Struck a deal with Subway on sandwiches. Looked into a club run judges dinner ( we will do that for our D/Q )
Lots of ways to save a few $$$$ and it all adds up.
Never trust a dog to watch your food!
Got to have judges. No judges, no Hunt Test. Let's do some math:
40 dogs started, 30 dogs seasoned, 2 50-dog finished flights = 170 dogs. 1.5 birds/dog = 255 birds. 255 X $13 / bird (If your lucky) = $3315 worth of............ TRASH the guy that draws the short straw has to deal with Sunday. If I worked for a company and I knew 40% of the revenue was disposed of and didn't take a look at doing something to capture the loss to reduce cost, they'd show me the door! It would seem logical to use a reusable resource that last long than 2 days.
HRCH Wilson's God of Thunder - Thor
HR Wilson's God of Mischief - Loki
Judges expenses, then birds and finally food. Then, if you haven't factored replacing poppers and ribbons then that next.


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The original art for the dust jacket of F. Scott Fitzgerald's first edition of "The Great Gatsby" will be on display Friday, May 17 through Saturday, June 1, in the Rare Books and Special Collections 18th century gallery in Firestone Library. The gouache painting by Francis Cugat (1896-1981) will be on display with a copy of the final published novel in its original dust jacket. The display, in celebration of Baz Luhrmann's new movie "The Great Gatsby," will be on view 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, and noon to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.


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Culture Change Publisher's note: Thanks to the submission of a report from a UK youth/homeless counselor and educator who sees the big picture consistent with Culture Change, we present his poignant and profound observations (see Chris Dilworth's section at end).
- Jan Lundberg
I have stayed in Hackney, a poor section of London where rioting has been going on. It was a squat turned into a quasi-public word-of-mouth home, shared with revolving travelers and seekers. In the neighborhood I noticed anti-landlord graffiti. I was impressed by the conviviality and mutual aid of the squat. Needless to say, there was no bureaucracy involved. Nothing to riot about against the anarchistic management.
The UK is to a great extent a packed, overpopulated consumer society. How people can get by year after year based on generating cash to buy largely imported goods, without the former connection to the land they once held in common, is an amazing miracle. Of course it would break down, as we have just seen.
On my visit to Hackney and London, where I was speaking at The Institute of Petroleum, I got the full flavor of the metropolis. I was not impressed by the old monuments and "sense of history," rather it was dreary and hopeless to me. The downtrodden people aren't just the poor black youth enraged in the streets; they are "The little man who gets the train / Got a mortgage hanging over his head / But he's too scared to complain / 'Cause he's conditioned that way... / And all the houses in the street they've got a name / 'Cause all the houses in the street they look the same" - Shangri-La, the Kinks
For those not up on the news, there have been "blazing cars and running street battles in Hackney, of police horses lining up in Lewisham, of roiling infernos that were once shops and houses in Croydon and in Peckham. Last night, Enfield, Walthamstow, Brixton and Wood Green were looted; there have been hundreds of arrests and dozens of serious injuries, and it will be a miracle if nobody dies tonight. This is the third consecutive night of rioting in London, and the disorder has now spread to Leeds, Liverpool, Bristol and Birmingham [and Manchester, Gloucester and Leicester]." - Laurie Penny, 24-year-old London journalist
While the austerity measures impacting the poor in the UK are fearsome and loathsome, to analyze the rioting by looking at government finances and employment is to look at the mere surface. British society grew out of not just hierarchy but theft of the commons (the Enclosure) and the costs of its pointless but profitable, fading empire. What's more, peak oil has hit, reducing not just the North Sea petroleum-extraction revenue but jacking up of energy costs -- and energy costs are shot through everything people buy.
How can people riot against peak oil? They don't and they can't, but they sure as hell will riot against the effects. Just wait until the riots are out-and-out food riots. Carrying capacity of the gentle English ecosystem has been surpassed and trampled. The rich can buy what they want, only up to a point.
The debate on whether it's an insurrection or a violent reaction that will just fade is moot when we look at it all as a "rats in a cage" syndrome. In no way do I view people as rats or deserving to be caged. But let us be objective and see what modern society has done. Are there too many people for the local land and what it can offer? Britain industrialized originally because it had lost it's handy forests for fuel, so it exploited coal -- technologies for extraction, transport and processing became "wonders" celebrated as progress. If modern life is viewed by the average person as simply progress and science, having said goodbye to tribal ways and roots, then being an oil-dependent consumer who does what he or she is told by the "democratic" and "representative" government (and police state) is all well and good. Unfortunately, there is little future in it, and the injustice and inequality of it is something to riot over.
The social justice activists generally don't understand peak oil or ecology.
Is the message in the Jethro Tull Song, Living in The Past, apropos? "Now there's revolution but they don't know what they're fighting"?
Riots will come to the United Paved Precincts of America (USA) too, but whether they'll be termed food riots or class warfare is of secondary importance to the big picture of overpopulation, overcrowding, and peak oil (which arrived in the U.S. in 1971).
Petrol (gasoline) protests and shortage rocked the UK in 2000, as high prices and strikes involved blockades and interruption of supply. The causes were never addressed or solved, despite The Institute of Petroleum's taking note of my proposed "Citizen Petroleum Councils" idea in Feb. 2003. To implement something like that, there would have to be true democracy and open communication for all, instead of institutionalized and corporate-controlled media devoted to the status quo.
UK youth counselor Chris Dilworth in the UK supplied this analysis to Culture Change:
Youngsters are running riot around the country. Some of us, who work in education and on the 'street', kind of predicted and warned of this possible eventuality. It has happened. Our kids have been trained to consume; have been thwarted by lack of progression and aspiration.
I am often talking about the famous 'Rats in a Cage' experiment as discussed in the Culture Change Magazine article "Overpopulation & terrorism: rats in a cage." I have been messaging people on a social website with the article's concise thoughts that cover mine on this subject. It has much to do with the possible/probable future that humans have on this planet.
When I mention heterosexual sexual activity and the consequent breeding that is going on in the world, my friends and myself can get weird looks from people who don't understand. They get very defensive about their innate right to breed. When you then tell them of the consequences of that and the behaviours of humans around the world, they get frosty and shuffle off feeling in some way offended by the observations.
The rioting in the UK over the past few nights by young people has come as a shock to the middle classes. The middle classes didn't bother about the 'ghettos' of housing estates where such behaviours have been going for years, and, us, working in these areas, just knew that eventually something would kick off. Well, it has.
The kids, who have been trained to consume are now taking stuff. A long wake up call. Part of that scenario is the fact of population and high density living so the 'rats in a cage' experiment' is pertinent.
I have trained as a counsellor in group dynamics and also worked in youth work, mental health, and a drug, alcohol and homelessness centre over many years. Working with people who have been, in some way, having to work out how to survive from day to day. I now work in an education establishment.
Young people have great potential. They have dreams and aspirations. Yet, at the moment, they know that the prospects they face in the workplace and society are tough. Most work hard at school. There are a few that are difficult to reach but we attempt to do our best to nurture and improve their chances and challenge their negativity. Yet somehow, we can only do so much. Tensions arise within the institution. Resources, including space, teachers, time are somewhat short of ideal. Youngsters know it is tough. Some achieve great things but also some find that competition daunting and off putting.
They are consumers of the education system. The system attempts to steer them. Many have the latest gadgets, and use them. They expect instant gratification of their desires, yet in some ways, no means of getting these desires met. No power, no money: leading to a somewhat despondent and frustrated view of their circumstances. Even the 'lucky ones' who have come away with good qualifications know that they will incur great debt if they continue their education beyond our 'A' level system. They have worked hard. All their aspirations tied up with getting through the next hurdle. They will consume the education offered. They are trained to consume.
But the resources are not there to support those hard won dreams. It costs. The resources question, in my opinion, also hides a way to not say 'there are too many people'. People don't want to raise this issue as it goes to the heart of our human condition; our ability to breed. My informal observations in school suggest that stress, depression and dissociative disorders are quite high. I can only surmise that maybe due to the crowded classrooms and corridors. The pupils, metaphorically, and, in some cases, literally, biting, kicking, pushing, bullying and exhibiting withdrawal from contact, in a place that is supposed to be safe for them. The staff do as good a job as they can to safeguard the children but that does not ameliorate some of the tensions.
Now we have summer holidays. Children have other priorities than going to school. They still have their aspirations, real or imagined, maybe some now find a cognitive dissonance, a dystopia, (not words they would use), in the way society is towards them. They are not powerful enough on their own but in a group they do feel that they have a say. The rioting is an expression of that need to feel powerful and wanted, in my opinion. They are going out to get what they want, period. Societal sanctions will not stop them. They feel that they have a right to these goods. Unfortunately, there is a disconnection between the recieving of the goods and the paying of them.
They are taking what they consider to be theirs to have.
This situation has been supported by the use of that technology they have in their pockets, the Blackberry. The texting of each other. They know this technology and are using it.
Overpopulation & terrorism: rats in a cage. It said,
When a pair of reproductively competent rats are placed in a closed space and provided with sufficient food, they will reproduce and reproduce until the space is filled with rats. At a critical density, wars break out. Some rats, alpha males, claim territory and defend it. Others attack. Sound familiar? Only difference between rats and humans is the language-making capability of the human left brain. We humans give names to our territories -- "World Trade Center" is one. The right brain, impelled by drives and emotions, is the fundamental force operating here. The left brain makes "reasons" for what the right brain is going to do anyway. Some of these "reasons" are: democracy, Islam, God, Allah, terrorist, Third World, globalization.
[1] http://www.culturechange.org/cms/content/view/767/1/
[2] http://culturechange.org/issue19/overpop_terrorism.htm
[3] http://www.culturechange.org/cms/index.php


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As I watch the very expensive & expansive bailout effort & it's success or lack thereof, I'm wondering about the arrogance of the bureaucrats believing that they can productively salvage or accomplish anything. As Booty said, think Mustang Ranch!!!!
But that's not what started this thought process. As governments are looking for new sources of wealth to continue living on the high side of the hog, they are intruding into areas that the private sector can better handle. I find that trend disturbing. & I'll provide a couple of examples for your thought in another paragraph.
What really started this was a comment made by Mark Steyn in the National Review discussing Nanny Statism - "Under the Swedish model, state spending accounts for 54% of GDP. In the US, it's about 40%. Ten years ago, it was 34%. So we're trending Swedish." A little scary, IMO anything that disappears through taxes is non-value added.
Some examples, in our little city of 5K & 1.5 K families the city owns beyond the usual the NG company, the Water company, the Cemetery & the Storm Water drainage facility. They also own the Sewer system. Does anyone believe the city should be involved in these pursuits?
Another WA city purchased 10 acres of existing wetlands - their goal being to sell Wetland Mitigation to those developers in need. This leads to a couple of questions - 1) if it's already wetlands how can you mitigate it? & 2) is there a conflict of interest? They have wetlands to sell, How can someone private sell the same thing with them in the chain & do they see a property being developed that is marginal being placed in a higher classification so they can sell more of their stuff.
& I won't even put stadiums & event centers on the table.
But I see this sort of action happening all over the state & believe it to be anti competitive. But then again, I see a lot of functions controlled by the bureaucrats that would be better left the private sector.
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Before I got involved in the software industry, I spent a lot of time watching demos, collecting and producing mods, and talking to and meeting people from around the world that were involved with the scene. Having a chunk of my history on a dvd makes it more accessible to my friends and family. It also preserves classic works of art at risk of obsolescence due to hardware requirements from many earlier generations of pc hardware.


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Hi Tony,
The Struble U-15 is a very nice and strong reel seat. It is the same reel seat that Sage used on their SP model of fly rods. They use it on their heavier rods, starting from the 7 weights. My 8 weight XP has a thin, anodized aluminum reel seat too, and they are nice! It's fine!
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Struble U-15 reel seat question
I picked up a Struble U15 off of Ebay cheap,including the full wells grip.I was planning on using it on a 10ft 8wt blank,and when finished,matching it with a Redington AS 9/10 reel.I haven't used or seen this model before and when it showed up it was much thinner than I was expecting.It is rated as a small diameter saltwater seat,but is it meant for line weights up to an 8wt or higher?The reel fits but I was concerned on how strong this seat is.Will it handle a 9/10 weight reel or should I have bought a larger reel seat.I could always match the rod to a 7/8 reel if I had to.Has anyone used this model on an 8wt system?The ultra slim profile looks sweet and lowers the overall rod weight,but I'm a little uneasy about it's strength given it's small diameter.Does anyone know any manufacteres that use this seat on their rods?If so which models and how high in line weight?Any info would be appreciated.
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By Lena Mitchell/NEMS Daily Journal
CORINTH – A Thursday evening hearing to determine the future employment status of the Alcorn Central Middle School principal turned into a marathon session that lasted more than six hours.
The hearing for Dan Burcham began at 4 p.m. and continued until 10:30 p.m., with 10 witnesses called on behalf of Burcham and the Alcorn County School District, said a source with direct knowledge of the proceedings.
Judge Johnny Ross presided, with Corinth attorney Jimmy Price representing the school district and Booneville attorney Thomas Cooley representing Burcham.
Burcham was suspended with pay from his duties as principal in February as a result of complaints about his conduct that were being investigated. He was fired later the same week by Superintendent Gina Rogers Smith, but was reinstated when he submitted a demand to the school board for a hearing.
His reinstatement was a requirement under state law, Price said, and he remained on paid administrative leave until Thursday's closed hearing.
After written testimony is transcribed by the court reporter for the judge, Ross will submit a written recommendation to the school board, which may accept or decline the recommendation.
Board members did not attend the hearing and will have 30 days to render a decision.
Earlier this week, a lawsuit was filed in federal court in Aberdeen that appears related to the investigation the led to Burcham's firing.
The suit alleges Burcham "engaged in reprehensible conduct" toward the two female teachers who filed the lawsuit – Janet Walls Holley and Stephanie Leigh Eaton – as well as other employees of the school district, naming him as a defendant. Smith also was named as a defendant with allegations that she violated the two employees' right to free speech by ordering them to not reveal the nature of the conduct that led to their complaint.


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WEST CHICAGO – Swiss-born photographer Britta Renwick is exhibiting a photography spread featuring images from a sweeping vista of the Swiss Alps to a sweet bowl of strawberry ice cream.Ā Renwick's "Switzerland, and Other Beautiful Things …" – a photography and hand-crafted jewelry exhibit – will be on display through Nov. 25 at Gallery 200, 200 Main St., West Chicago.
Surrounded by the Swiss Alps and Lake Lucerne growing up, Renwick was raised in a creative environment. Her passion for photography birthed after recieving a camera from her parents at the age of 5.Ā
With Renwick's family still living in Switzerland, she and her husband and children visit her homeland each summer, spending four to five weeks immersed in the culture.ĀDuring trips home, Renwick often finds the time to add to her photographic repetoire of Swiss shots.
Renwick works as an administrator for the Swiss Machine Tool Society, and often combines her photography with her job by using her images in marketing efforts, such as the society's membership directory.
In her spare time she gives back to her childrens' school district by volunteering her time as a crossing guard and lunch supervisor.
While looking for new creative ways to relieve stress, Renwick discovered jewelry-making – a medium she has added to her artistic endeavors.
"Photography is what I love, but I can't go out on a rainy day and take pictures.ĀThat's why photography and jewelry making are such a good combination," she said in a news release.
Her own love of jewelry making lead Renwick to organize a series of jewelry making classes at Gallery 200 as part of a "girl's-night-out" initiative.Ā
"Women don't do enough for fun – we're always busy. Let's go out, have fun and wear our new jewelry creations out to dinner at a local business afterward," she said in the release.Ā
Currently, three classes are offered: Bracelets will take place Nov. 9; Crimp Bead Necklaces Nov. 16; and Hoop Necklace Nov. 23.ĀClasses are held at 7 p.m. Fridays and cost $20-$25. The fee includes all supplies.ĀTo register for a class, visit www.gallery200.org.Ā
There will be a free opening reception for Renwick from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, Nov. 2 at the gallery. Swiss chocolate, and other Swiss treats will be available for tasting.
Along with jewelry, additional photographic items available include cards, placemats, bookmarks and reusable tote bags.Ā There will also be poster prints available for purchase.
To view items for purchase and Renwick's photography, visit www.brittasphotography.com.
About Gallery 200 Gallery 200 is a cultural initiative supported by the City of West Chicago and the West Chicago Cultural Arts Commission, and is one more reason West Chicago was named an Illinois Arts Friendly Community in 2007. For more information, including a complete list of current art classes, call (630) 293-9550 or visit www.gallery200.org.


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Hi i'm going to update the default avatars (we still have jay fielder avatars... sheesh) and I need new high rez avatars. Please post your creations and you'll see them added to our avatar collection! Thanks and I look forward to seeing your work.
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CTL/CTL format character previews
As Lior Kaplan demonstrated at LibreOffice 2011 Paris, our format character preview really sucks for CTL and CJK users. If no CTL/CJK text is selected then no CTL sample text is shown, and the CJK sample text is from the fontname itself. Many font names are just Latin text, so give no indication what they look like in the actual script/language that is being written in.
e.g. Old dialog for CTL, will only preview some Western text if no text is selected, no attempt to show any sample CTL text, or even the CTL fontname. For CJK it will additional show the fontname of the CJK font in the preview, which isn't helpful if the CJK fontname contains no CJK glyphs.
Simply adding the CTL fontname wouldn't help much, seeing as the fontname is David CLM. So, currently reusing the preview text used in the font-dropdown first stab at "doing the right thing" gives me…
Code for all this is mostly in svtools/source/misc/sampletext.cxx where there is now some hugely over-engineered set of heuristics to guess the best script a font is tuned for and various functions to generate suitable text when all we have is the font, versus the font+language vs just the language and if we want a short identifier to classify what script a font might be good to render vs a longer sequence of sample text for a font preview.
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Where the Turkish Military Fails, Egypt's Succeeds
While Egypt's military leaders demonstrated unity of purpose when they overthrew President Mohammed Morsi in 2013, the officers involved in the recent coup attempt in Turkey were proven weak and divided, writes CFR's Steven A. Cook. Key differences in the political role and public support of the Egyptian and Turkish militaries explain why one successfully overthrow an elected government and the other failed to.
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Fresh orange glaze sets off these soft-and-chewy holiday cookies.
Ungala Gillespie from St. Petersburg, FL created this recipe for a Celebrate the Season Holiday Cookie Contest.
"Can you say chewy? I have always loved the texture of a hearty oatmeal cookie and I've always been a fan of a chewy cookie over a crisp one. This is why I love this cookie so much. Tart but sweet and very chewy!" Ungala Gillespie
Place food directly on Reynolds® Parchment Paper and bake as directed. Treats will bake evenly and release from paper with ease. Plus, because you're baking right on the paper, clean-up is a breeze.
You'll need 1 medium orange for the grated peel in the cookie dough and the juice in the icing.
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Uhh, have you heard about this, my darling photographer friends (and photogs I don't know but who are potentially equally as awesome)? Well, if you think you're the bee's knees and you have camera – will travel, then CHECK. THIS. OUT:
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***Edited To Add: It seems like a lot of interests are from out of state, don't be shy to consider a move This will be a full time position!!!
If you've got the chops, and you want to be a part of a seriously amazing team, well then, what are you waiting for? Err, what is it for which you are waiting? (Now you see why I never write it like that? Grammar sometimes makes things sound icky.)
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What are we doing there?
When will we get out?
Our men & women are in harms way and dieing.
What is the end game?
Why is this one OK?
Can't find the link on this being the deadliest month since we have been there.
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This painting is drawing direct reference from the hand-coloured lithograph produced by Louis Auguste de Sainson...De Sainson was the appointed draughtsman on the Astrolabe commanded by Dumont d'Urville. The lithograph itself was printed in 1833.
The image depicts the area within King George Sound, south-west Western Australia, probably Middleton Beach. In the foreground, members from d'Urville's expedition load water onto one of the ship's longboats via a long flexible hose. Interaction between the crew and the Minang people is obvious and positive with several individuals helping to load water.1
This historical image is a rare snapshot of some of the first interactions between Europeans and the Minang people. It shows the exchange of ideas however different they are. It is the point where new ways of thinking are discovered.
Physics provides a detailed equation using pressure, depth, atmospheric pressure, density of water and acceleration of gravity to explain how a siphon works. Hydrology (the science of water on earth) gives us detailed theories and explanation of river formation, one of which I have placed within the painting.
To me the work provides optimism through the way in which the French interact with the Minang people, but it also symbolises the beginning of change in ideas and, ultimately, beliefs.
Christopher Pease, 2005
1. Alternative names: Minung, Meenung, Mirnong, Mean-anger, Minnal Yungar (lit. 'southern men'), Meenung (name given by Ko:reng), Mount Barker tribe.


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Jing An Temple
Jing'an Temple is the most famous landmark in Jing'an District, from which the district obtained its name. It is known as the oldest shrine in the city, dating back even further than the city itself. It was constructed in 247 at the time of the Kingdom of Wu, during the Three Kingdoms period, more than 1,000 years before the official beginning of the city of Shanghai in 1292. Originally located beside the Suzhou Creek, it was relocated to its current site in 1216 during the Song Dynasty, rebuilt in the Qing Dynasty and renovated in 1953,1984 and 2000. In 1912, the country's first Buddhism organization was established at the site. Before 1949, this was Shanghai's richest Buddhist monastery, presided over by the Abbott of Bubbling Well Road (known in Colonial times because of a well located in front of the temple), an imposing figure who kept seven mistresses and a White Russian bodyguard. The temple was converted into a plastics factory during the Cultural Revolution, but back to a temple following reconstruction in 1983.


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"As with PH, building a relationship with your transplant team is so important. It is vital that you have faith in their care, and the transplant team similarly has to trust that you will care for these precious, new, life-saving lungs. It certainly helps to start this process early, perhaps even before your child is truly ready for transplant." — Christina Doak, parent to a child with PH who received a lung transplant
The transplant process can be confusing and overwhelming for families: When should your child go on the transplant list? How long will it take? How will it change your child's current medical visit schedule? What will happen when a new pair of lungs, or heart and lungs, becomes available? How long is recovery from a transplant? Read on for a brief overview of the transplant process, and watch a webinar on pediatric transplant by visiting www.PHAClassroom.org/Pediatric-Transplant.
Ideally, families should meet with a transplant center early to establish a working relationship. Talk to your child's pediatric PH specialist and your local transplant team, if possible, to determine the best time to put your child on the transplant list.
Following a referral to a lung transplant provider, you and your child will be scheduled for a multidisciplinary evaluation with the lung transplant team. This can be done either inpatient or outpatient depending on the health and surrounding circumstances of your child's medical condition.During the evaluation, you and your child will meet with the transplant team and appropriate sub-specialists to determine if a transplant is the best treatment or if there are other medical or surgical options for your child. These providers include doctors, nurses, physical therapists, dieticians, pharmacists, social workers, psychologists, and financial counselors. Input from each member on the transplant team is critical to making the decision to place a child on the waitlist. The transplant evaluation is an ongoing process and requires candidates to be monitored closely and undergo a series of testing and consultations on a routine basis. It does not end with the initial consult.
Most children wait for their new lungs at home. You and your child should be ready for the transplant call to come at any time. Be prepared by keeping a packed suitcase ready, know the route you will use to get to the hospital, and know where your family plans to stay while your child is in the hospital.
When an appropriate organ donation becomes available, the transplant coordinator will ask you and your child to come to the hospital. You will be given instructions on where to go in the hospital and will be told that your child will need to be made "NPO" (they may not eat or drink) in preparation for surgery.
Once admitted to the hospital before the transplant, the hospital staff will conduct a number of tests, including blood work, chest X-ray, EKG, echocardiogram and vital signs. They will have a peripheral IV placed for surgery. You will review consent forms with both anesthesia and surgical teams, and your transplant coordinator will provide further guidance and preparations prior to transporting your child to the operating room for surgery. A team of surgeons, called the "donor team" or "procurement team," is charged with picking up the organs for your child's surgery.
Following surgery, your child will remain in the intensive care unit for recovery for approximately five to seven days. Then your child will transition to the inpatient units. During the hospital stay after surgery, your child and your family will be involved in a number of activities designed to help your child recover from transplant surgery, monitor the function of your child's new organs, prepare your child for going home, and inform you about your child's healthcare and lifestyle once he/she is discharged from the hospital. You and your child's healthcare team will work together to develop a medical care plan for your child post-transplant.By Katie Byrne-Oshrine, RN, CRNP, Nurse Practitioner and Transplant Coordinator, CHOP, and Debby McGrath, MSS, Social Worker, Division of Pulmonary Medicine, CHOP
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Bill Maher, on his own show, has said he may have to leave CA because his income tax bite will now be about 50%. He called it ridiculous. Evidently, he felt HIS "fair share" shouldn't be that much?
Then he admitted ... that he had just found out that the top 5% of income-earners pay 70% of all the taxes. Talk about a low-information voter! And he used his high profile to support the DNC cause.
He admits this on his own show. Is he just being honest? Or terminally stupid?


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Such, at least, is the conclusion drawn by writers at the 'Economist' who have just reported on the publication, in 'Cognition', of a paper that claims (in its title) that 'Antisocial Personality Traits Predict Utilitarian Responses to Moral Dilemmas'.
Reading the article in the Economist made me recall a report that apparently appeared in the Los Angeles Times a few years ago. In the same it was that reported that when "asked to resolve hypothetical dilemmas — such as tossing a person from a bridge into the path of a trolley to save five others — people with damage to their ventromedial prefrontal cortex tended to sacrifice one life to save many". Indeed, according to the report, "people with damage to their ventromedial prefrontal cortex" are "about three times as likely to sacrifice one person for the greater good compared with people without brain damage or those with damage in a different part of their brains" (or, rather, this is how they respond to rather unlikely thought experiments). This was based on findings published in Nature by Koeings et al in a paper titled "Damage to the prefrontal cortex increases utilitarian moral judgements" (available as as pdf here)..
The new paper referred to in The Economist ('The Mismeasure of Morals') is by Daniel M. Bartels of Columbia University and David A. Pizarro at Cornell University. The two note in their abstract that "Researchers have recently argued that utilitarianism is the appropriate framework by which to evaluate moral judgment, and that individuals who endorse non-utilitarian solutions to moral dilemmas (involving active vs. passive harm) are committing an error." But they then report on "a study in which participants responded to a battery of personality assessments and a set of [trolley] dilemmas that pit utilitarian and non-utilitarian options against each other. Participants who indicated greater endorsement of utilitarian solutions had higher scores on measures of Psychopathy, machiavellianism, and life meaninglessness." The authors claim "these results question the widely-used methods by which lay moral judgments are evaluated, as these approaches lead to the counterintuitive conclusion that those individuals who are least prone to moral errors also possess a set of psychological characteristics that many would consider prototypically immoral."
Bartels and Pizzaro (and indeed the Economist) are keen to stress that the "results do not speak to whether utilitarianism … is the correct normative ethical theory, as the characteristics of a theory's proponents cannot determine its normative status". It is also pointed out by Bartels & Pizzaro that "a variety of researchers have shown that individuals with higher working memory capacity and those who are more deliberative thinkers are, indeed, more likely to approve of utilitarian solutions".
Still, does it make anybody wonder? Is it wrong if it does?


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The major chains here in Salinas (Central Coast) have the Duros/Shmi/ Ketwal et al wave pretty much warming the pegs. I have been here for about 8 weeks now and have had no problems finding the figures up to this wave at one of the stores at any given time. They have even gotten in some of the older stuff like Vader Dagobah and Vader/interrogator droid.
Target is overrun with the 12" Luke/Speederbike, Wal-Mart frequently (not always) has the 12" Luke/Yoda, and TRU seems to keep the T.I.E. Interceptor in stock, though I never see more than 1 or 2 on the micro-tiny shelf space they have relegated the line to.
I am anxious to see what the scalper activity is like here. I am hoping to score the 12" Luke/Speederbike at the 12-15 dollar clearance price.


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The Alumni Council is once again offering Tiger football fans a chance to hit the classroom before they hit the stadium.
The council has organized a series of lectures this fall that precede each home football game. The lectures are free and are open to the public.
Here is the schedule:
- Saturday, Sept. 28 (Lafayette game): Dan Rubenstein, professor and chair of ecology and evolutionary biology, "Zebras of Kenya: From Behavior and Ecology to Conservation and Management," 4 p.m.
- Saturday, Oct. 12 (Colgate game): Simon Morrison, assistant professor of music, "How to Listen to a Movie," 10 a.m.
- Saturday, Oct. 19 (Brown game): James Gould, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, "Animal Behavior," 10 a.m.
- Saturday, Oct. 26 (Harvard game): Anthony Appiah, the Laurance Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values, "Being Yourself: Race and Individuality," 10 a.m.
- Saturday, Nov. 9 (Pennsylvania game): Lee Mitchell, the Holmes Professor of Belles-Lettres and professor of English, "Does Reading Good Books Make You Better?," 10 a.m.
- Saturday, Nov. 23 (Dartmouth game): William Howarth, professor of English, "Earth Islands: Darwin and Melville in the Galapagos," 10 a.m.
All will take place in 10 Guyot. For more information, contact Christine Hollendonner at the Alumni Council at (609) 258-5854.
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Lot of changes to my network recently. The old PIII-800MHz became a pfSense router for a friend, and the server is the Intel Core2 4400 at 2GHz, so quite a step up. But getting it all configured was major pain.
After putting the new motherboard into the case, the system sort-of booted, but not really. Couldn't find the kernel. As this was the server, my network was down, so not easy to download a bootable cd, which I should have prepared actually. Somehow I had a FreeBSD 8.0 disk, so was able to boot with that in the end and poke around. It appears the kernel was ad4, instead of ad0 ??? Still don't understand it. The disk was ATA, but I also put in a SATA disk which became ad6. And the MBR was corrupt or perhaps the next boot loader was corrupt. Had to reinstall to boot and set it up to load the kernel from ad4.
Putting the old motherboard in another case went wrong too as the PSU (Zalman ZM460B-APS) died in the process.


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What is the Kaleidoscope Project?
Interviews and conversations with experts on sustainability, design and innovation, reflecting theory and generating actions between a diverse range of disciplines including design [product, fashion, graphic, web, architects and interiors], science, art, activists, business, psychology and academia.
The 5 Kaleidoscope Videos, split into four different values; Balance, Meaning, Innovation and Culture. During each interview we asked how each value is seen and practised today and how they should be practiced in order to move towards a better future. The last video focuses on the tools and skills that we need to get to that better future, acting as a call to arms for designers and professionals about the need for rethink the way we practice our disciplines.
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Nearly three years old, the Conficker worm continues to pose a threat to PCs. Aryeh Goretsky wants to know why this is, and what can be done about it.
The US Department of Justice's announcement yesterday of the takedown of the command and control (C&C) servers for the Coreflood bots (detected by ESET as Win32/AFCore) and seizure of their domains marks another step in the growing awareness that crime, whether it is committed with bullets or with botnets, is still crime. This particular botnet,
Here's a little information from ESET's point of view about the Coreflood botnet, whose C&C (Command and Control) servers were taken down yesterday by the Department of Justice. The Coreflood bot is detected by ESET products as Win32/Afcore and has been active since the early years of the last decade (certainly since 2001), though our


text: For those who live in Canada, I'm sure you've experienced the "fights" (with money, that is) that we have put up to get the better figures. I remember the last Vader w/ removable helmet, I never even saw it at TRU or Walmart. Of course, I had to pay $45 for him from some guy at the toy convention. What do you think about the next Vader and Jedi Luke? Will people have to resort to buying them at specialty stores? Or do you think there will be lots available at TRU or Walmart, like Saga Bespin Luke and Vader?


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Japanese Dock Surfs to Oregon!
Why It Matters
How did a dock from Japan make its way to a beach in Oregon?
The earthquake and subsequent tsunami that hit the coast of Japan on March 11, 2011 continues to have impacts worldwide. In June 2012, a surprise arrived on the shore of Oregon:
'Mystery' dock washes up on Oregon beach
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1. How did it get to Oregon?
2. Where else do you think scientists will find debris? Scientists refer to the accumulation of debris in the ocean as a garbage patch. Here is a map of where debris concentrates in the ocean: Here is a team collecting debris: Pacific Voyage Finds a Sea of Floating Tsunami Debris NOAA has used computer models to predict the movement of the debris from the Japanese tsunami:
3. Use the following simulator (http://las.pfeg.noaa.gov/oscurs/#) to track surface ocean currents from Japan through the Pacific Ocean. At the bottom of the simulator, you can enter in March 11, 2011 as your start date and drag the marker to the coast of Japan. Run the model and note the path of the surface currents. Now try changing some of the optional parameters. What happens to the surface current path as you change each of these?
4. What other kinds of debris do you think they will find? Witness to a Plastic Invasion
5. Track your own marine debris sightings using this app!
Resources Cited
KATU. CNN. http://cnn.com/video/?/video/bestoftv/2012/06/06/dnt-mystery-dock-lands-in-oregon.katu
NOAA. http://youtu.be/Lo5uH1UJF4A
Lisa Stark. ABC News. http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/07/the-garbage-cruise-a-sea-of-floating-tsunami-debris/
Laurie Penland. Ocean Portal. Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. http://ocean.si.edu/blog/witness-plastic-invasion
Southeast Atlantic Marine Debris Initiative. http://sea-mdi.engr.uga.edu/?p=155
Connections to other CK-12 Subject Areas
- Tsunami (SCI.ESC.364.L.1)
- 21st Century Tsunami (SCI.ESC.364.1.L.1)
- Earthquakes at Convergent Plate Boundaries (SCI.ESC.362.2.L.1)
- Ocean-Continent Convergent Plate Boundaries (SCI.ESC.342.4.L.1)