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Dear Emily,
I'm just going to skip over the second paragraph where you place blame on a cyclist for his own death.
Our roads are the domain of everyone who uses them. Finger tapping motorists and scofflaw cyclists alike.
From WalrusMagazine.com:
Driving the Lane: Toronto Prepares for Public Bicyclingby Emily TestaWhat do Jack Layton and David Byrne have in common? Sure, Layton's Twitter account tells us he'll be busking on the Danforth this Saturday, but at press time, the range of his musical talent remains untested. No, it's a shared interest in the future of cycling that unites the current NDP leader and former Talking Head, who will participate in an October 24 panel discussion at the International Festival of Authors. Along with Toronto Cyclists Union executive director Yvonne Bambrick and urban designer Ken Greenberg, Layton and Byrne will discuss the potential of urban planning — specifically, bike lanes — to improve the political climate of cycling in Toronto and around the world.…Next, I call Richard Poplak, who has written about bike culture for Toronto Life magazine and is currently at work on a graphic novel about bicycle hoarder Igor Kenk, the "Fagin of Queen Street." As an authority on sharing the roadway, Poplak's credentials certainly pass muster — he estimates that between commuting and training as a UCI–licensed racer, he spends twenty-five hours every week on a bicycle. Poplak is doubtful that the riders who use Toronto's new public system will amount to a meaningful increase in the number of regular bike commuters, or a meaningful decrease in the number of cars downtown. In the meantime, he calls for improved road infrastructure ("so that bicycles can safely traverse the streets without having to dodge lake-sized potholes") and a large-scale safety campaign targeting cyclists and drivers alike. I ask whether Toronto's public bicycle system should underwrite an expanded network of bike lanes, and can almost hear him shaking his head from the other end of the telephone line. "What bike lanes don't do is enshrine cycling as a right," he says. "What they do do, is enshrine the primacy of the car." Like Heaps, Poplak believes cyclists should simply obey the rules of the road: no more rolling through red lights as they see fit. As well, motorists should recognize cyclists' right to share their roadways. "Cyclists have the right to be everywhere except the 401 [highway] and the Don Valley Parkway. End of story," he says. "We have rules — all we need to do is enforce them."Whether enforcing the rules will neutralize the discord remains to be seen. What is certain, though, is that no one, whether they travel by car or by bicycle, has the prerogative to ignore where and how their fellow commuters take to the road. Just before he signed off, filmmaker Christopher Sumpton put it to me this way: "It's like the weather. Everyone has to deal with transportation." Poplak was more frank in the last email he sent me: "No matter how much you may loathe cyclists, you'd have to agree that something has to be done, and pretty quickly. Painting white lines on the road and/or handing out bikes isn't the solution. Making sure we all understand the rules of the game, however, is."
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Actually, if you peel the tape of off one side, you can slide the Bubble out w/o damaging the card too much. I opened a preveiw Grievous this way and slightly ripped the card under Vaders head. It is unnoticeable to an untrained eye.
Actually, if you peel the tape of off one side, you can slide the Bubble out w/o damaging the card too much. I opened a preveiw Grievous this way and slightly ripped the card under Vaders head. It is unnoticeable to an untrained eye.
thanks Chux Turbo LBC Bobafrett Mtriv73 Rjarvis JF96 JT JMG FB Rogue2 Tycho Slicker Deoxy Caesar JontheJedi JJReason Brandon Solo JMS UK for great deals.
SSG Pro Football Pick em and Bowl Pick em Champ 2006. 2007 NCAA Bracket Champ
#24 - Gone but not forgotten
Ya, but I bet you know its there . It would bug me to know that although almost no one else can see the rip, its still thereOriginally Posted by kidhuman
Much thanks goes out to you Ji'dai. Stopped by my local Kohl's and picked a clone pilot, clone commander, exploding body grevious, vaders droid, and a mas ammeda. This was the good part of my Kohls adventure.Originally Posted by Ji'dai
Bad part was that somehow the people at Kohls didnt use the barcode at the bottom of the figure, so that meant, Kohls pricetags on all the figures, on the cards.
But after a few minutes of carefully taking off the tags and putting them on the bubble so they could be purchased and taken off easier, all was well in my star wars world.
Again, gotta thank ya for the tip, this made my day
No problem, glad it paid off and you found some new stuff.
I keep forgetting to mention that I saw a ROTS inflatable "Hoverdisc" at Wal-Mart. I think they run about $8-9. They're kinda like a cross between a mylar balloon and a giant frisbee.
TRU restocked today but mostly with figures 1-32. They did get in a few cases with 33-36, but those figures were snatched up pretty quickly. I'm looking for doubles of 37-40 so no big deal. The Palpatines I saw had blue sabers.
The only new thing TRU got in today was a case of the Darth Vader talking wrestling buddy.
TRU also put out new LOTR figs. I must've missed the Eye of Sauron but I did see Gothmog and Mount Doom Sam. Rounding out this wave is Mount Doom Frodo and Dagger Throwing Legolas.
Not a big weekend for collecting. Only thing I bought was a Grievous Unleashed. Im too busy planning for C3 to do any collecting
After reading several posts about people finding #33 and on at Kohl's, I stopped at mine to check it out. Boy, what a score! I picked up a clone pilot, Vader's medical droid, Mas Amedda and the scarlet-colored Palpy. They were on sale for $7 (regular $8).
Debating if I want to track down the female Jedi figures to get them signed at C3.
With all there is to do at C3, wouldnt really wanna wait in line, but they would be a cool edition to your collection.
My Silver edition Boba signed by Jeremy Bolluch and Daniel Logan is preety cool though
TRU had quite a few #33-36 figures on the pegs today. The Palpatines all had blue sabers. I'm waiting on the red saber one. I was tempted to pick up some more Clone Commanders and Pilots but I passed.
Kroger grocery stores have ROTS role play and the small-to-midsize vehicle assortment. I haven't seen any figures there yet.
heh, it always seems the hard to find figures are at the places you would least expect to have them. I found 35-40 at Kohls, and i remember during AOTC, a Bespin Luke was hard to find, but I found one at CVS

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View the photos of the opening of Slow Dancing with the premiere of the Dutch portraits in Slow Dancing.
Slow Dancing is comprised of a series of larger-than-life video portraits of dancers and choreographers from all around the world. The portraits were done with a high-speed camera that makes it possible to record movements and play them back in extreme slow-motion. With this technique each captured second can be blown up to as much as a minute. Looking at these images that reveal the dancer's supreme concentration makes it an almost surreal experience.
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Batten down the hatches, I am sending you a gift!!!
Keep us posted...........
Batten down the hatches, I am sending you a gift!!!
Keep us posted...........
Stan b & Elvis
only 4 inches from your gift, so far.
but when Franco's gift joins it this eve.
and they start clog dancin' over Boston.
thats when the fun will start.
ps- now all of rtf is thinkin' of Franco and Roadkill clog dancin'
"So what is big is not always the Trout nor the Deer but the chance, the being there. And what is full is not necessarily the creel nor the freezer, but the memory." ~ Aldo Leopold
"The Greatest Obstacle to Discovery is not Ignorance -- It is the Illusion of Knowledge" ~ Daniel Boorstin
BTW, thanks for the gift Stan. Glad it wasn't the middle of this week.
John Baitinger
I have to gas up the snow blower for some serious action later today! Up to 30 inches of the white stuff predicted!
Thanks for the nice gift Stan!
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Good Idea's The Cutting Edge- "Edge" 9/29/2014 (Grady x Good Idea's Touch of Class)
They are predicting 3+ feet in some areas. Hurricane force wind gusts and 4" per hour overnight. That will make for some enormous drifts.....
Be safe!
All the schools canceled yesterday in advance, town crews are gassed up and ready, people are buying passes to the snowmobile trails, selling milk, water and batteries like crazy and, so far, nothing!!! Forecast had predicted snow all of last night. We could sure use it for the local economy, we'll see...
Good luck to those on the coast.
A couple weeks ago we had -30 degree weather for a few days and that wasn't fun good luck out there and stay safe
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Foundation's Rolling Thunder
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Most of the time I'm aware of the users which are reading my blog frequently… But I have to admit that I was really suprised today.
Recently I took a look into the Koobface trojan and it's infrastructure. The result of my research was the post "Koobface – the social network trojan".
Today, while I read thru my favorit blogs, I came across the post The Koobface Gang Wishes the Industry "Happy Holidays" at Dancho Danchev's blog. It tells that the cybercriminals behind the Koobface trojan just published a Merry Christmas wish on the fourth (and final stage) of their infection process.
If you scroll down at the end of the page the following text appears:
When you read thru the text above, you will ask yourself "who is Soren Siebert"? I just asked me the same question, but I have an answer on this. When you look at the HTML Source code of the page, you will see that the text "Soren Siebert with his great article" refers to my post about the Koobface trojan:
People how knew me personally also know that my real name isn't Soren Siebert. Let me explain how the Koobface gang came across this name. On my blog you will find a reference to a disclaimer page in the navgiation bar. The disclaimer is written in german and was generated with a impressum generator provided by e-recht24.de. The webpage and the impressum generator is maintained by a laywer called Sören Siebert, which is also mentioned as source of the text on my disclaimer. So the Koobface gang just came across this name on my disclaimer and thought that this is my name.
Anyway, I'm a bit proud that the Koobface gang read my post about their trojan and the fact that my post was mentioned in the same way as well-known Antivirus vedors like Kaspersky and Trend Micro. That was a great Xmas gift from the Koobface gange – thank you! 🙂


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It seems GOVIA is getting along very well now. We have split development into two teams; locus and queue. queue is run by mattr, and locus is being done by chip (not on advogato yet). With this new division, things should run smoother, and I can spend time on other aspects of the project. I should have the mailinglists moved to Mailman some time tomorrow (today now :) ).
Tomorrow is a server shuffle day. I am going to be moving the mailing lists off of the original OSEF box and to the new server. To do this I will add lists.osef.org to the dns as a cname (and mx record) for our main server.


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Company certifies IBM WebSphere Message Broker as a Governed Service Platform
Los Angeles, Calif., March 17, 2008—SOA Software, a leading Integrated SOA Governance Automation vendor, today announced that it has certified IBM WebSphere Message Broker as a Governed Service Platform. This certification allows customers to use IBM WebSphere Message Broker to implement and enforce governance policies for enterprise Web services providing reporting data to enable a closed-loop audit process as part of their enterprise SOA.
Certified Governed Service Platform status means that customers can be confident that their platforms won't compromise the fidelity of the governance systems and structures defined in an enterprise SOA program.
SOA Software's Workbench and Service Manager ensure that IBM WebSphere Message Broker can facilitate and benefit from the Integrated SOA Governance Automation best practices:
SOA Software provides a custom palette for the IBM WebSphere Message Broker Toolkit. The nodes can be dragged and dropped into the appropriate points in a process flow and provide the full functionality of the Agent for last-mile policy enforcement, and the Delegate for first-mile policy implementation.
"We are pleased to announce the integration of our Integrated SOA Governance Automation products with IBM WebSphere Message Broker," said Frank Martinez, executive vice president of SOA Software. "The certification of IBM WebSphere Message Broker as a Governed Service Platform gives customers confidence that their existing investments in IBM WebSphere Message Broker preserve the fidelity of the governance models, structures and mechanisms supporting their enterprise SOA program."
SOA Software and IBM
IBM customers leverage SOA Software for seamless, heterogeneous SOA Governance, Security and Management integration with their IBM Middleware infrastructure to ensure interoperability across disparate partners and platforms. SOA Software's products provide uniform lifecycle and policy governance across all existing platform investments with standards support for Governance automation and trust enablement and mediation.
SOA Software's products work seamlessly with IBM's WebSphere product family including WSRR, DataPower, Process Server, Application Server, and Message Broker.
About SOA Software
SOA Software is a leading provider of comprehensive, enterprise-class integrated SOA Governance solutions. SOA Software products provide a comprehensive closed-loop SOA governance solution (Workbench), a high-performance, scalable SOA security, mediation, and management solution (Service Manager), and a mainframe Web services solution for CICS applications (SOLA). SOA Software products process over 500 million mission critical transactions a month and are used by the largest Fortune 1000 corporations, including Merrill Lynch, Verizon, and Pfizer. For more information, please visit http://www.soa.com.
SOA Software, Workbench, Service Manager, and SOLA are trademarks of SOA Software, Inc. IBM WebSphere Message Broker and Websphere are trademarks of IBM. All other product and company names herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their registered owners.


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Sony revealed a lot of details about its PlayStation 4 console last night, but the only physical evidence that the hardware even exists at this point was the new DualShock 4 controller. Lead system architect Mark Cerny ran through the features and capabilities of this revised take on the DualShock as he held it up for gathered attendees and livestreamers to peer at. He also offered a brief glimpse into the relationship that the new controller has with the PlayStation 4 console and as well as the PlayStation 4 Eye camera.
Let's take a moment now to consider how the DualShock 4 fits into the PlayStation 4 ecosystem. It's a multi-function peripheral that can basically be summed up as a SIXAXIS-plus, with an assortment of new bells and whistles that feed into various enhancements that the PS4 makes over its predecessor.
If It Ain't Broke
Fundamentally, the DualShock 4 offers the same functionality that the DualShock 3 did. The form factor seems to have been tweaked somewhat, though it appears to be for the better, addressing complaints that have dogged the DualShock 3 for the length of its existence. The handgrips are longer on the DualShock 4, presumably to make it more comfortable to hang onto.There also appears to be some kind of textured backing to help players maintain their grip. More importantly, the L2/R2 triggers now curve outward rather than inward, giving your trigger fingers a sturdier surface to latch onto.
The twin analog thumbsticks are no longer perfectly rounded on top, with a shallow well for the tip of your thumb to grip onto. The four iconic Sony face buttons appear to be unchanged, as does the D-pad. Overall, the shape of the thing falls closer to that of an Xbox 360 controller, not the DualShock 3 of old. While this move is likely to cause some… unrest within the hardcore fan community, it's also for the best. The DualShock 3 is a well-designed piece of tech, but not the most comfortable thing to hold onto. The DualShock 4 seems to marry the best of what Sony's gamepads offer with some of the more sensible approaches to form factor that the Xbox 360 gamepad embraces. Much like what Nintendo did with its own FPS Pro Controller.
The internal makeup of the DualShock 4 is also mostly unchanged, beyond the new features that we'll discuss below. The skeleton of the DualShock 3 remains, however, with a three-axis accelerometer and three-axis gyroscope bringing back the underutilized SIXAXIS functionality for the next generation. The controller will also still connect to your console via Bluetooth, just as it did on the PS3.
New Bells, Whistles, And Touch Pads
The most glaringly obvious new feature on the DualShock 4 is a front-and-center touchpad that bears no small resemblance to the touchpad mounted on the rear of the PlayStation Vita. The press release confirms the surface to be a two-point capacitative touch pad with a built-in click mechanism. The one thing it's not is a screen; you have touch inputs through the pad, but nothing is displayed on it. Based on the specs, it sounds like you've got what is functionally an Apple Magic Mouse built right into the controller.
The touch pad isn't the only new piece of plastic taking up real estate on the controller. The Start and Select buttons that sat in the center of the DualShock 3 are no more, replaced by a Share button on the left and an Options button on the right. Options will be your gateway to the features that Start/Select once offered while Share ties into the PS4's expanded focus on social interactions. It's not entirely clear how the Share feature works, but it's the function you'll rely on when you want to create video clips and stream your play (based on examples offered up during the PlayStation Meeting).
One of the less obvious enhancements is the addition of a small mono speaker. What purpose it will serve remains to be seen, but the original Wii embraced a similar setup for Wii Remotes, with the handheld speaker used to add aural color to various games. More importantly, a built-in stereo jack allows for the use of a wired stereo headset, which was never an option on the DualShock 3.
Another welcome improvement: you can charge the controller even when your console is off. Nicely done, Sony.
Eye See You
There's one more vital component to the new features puzzle that is big enough to warrant its own discussion. The top of the DualShock 4 features a light panel that is similar to the sphere that tops PlayStation Move controllers. There will be some minor gameplay advantages because of this. When multiple players are all connected to the same console, each controller will have its own color to identify it, plus developers will have a chance to make small changes as well. In the game Killzone: Shadow Fall that was demonstrated during the Sony event, when the character was injured int he game, the light panel changed form green to yellow to red to match the level of damage. That will be left to the developers though.
More importantly though, this factors into the way the controller works in tandem with the new PlayStation 4 Eye, Sony's Eye replacement. Remember that using a Move controller requires that you have a PS Eye plugged into your console. The situation is the same with the PS4 Eye, though the camera has undergone some significant upgrades.
The new PS4 Eye is closer in shape to Microsoft's Kinect than it is to its predecessor, though it of course carries the unique visual stylings that clearly identify it as a Sony product. The upgraded Eye packs in dual HD cameras that capture 30 fps footage at a resolution of 1280×800, a huge leap past the previous model's 640×480 single-lens ceiling. The enhanced lenses on the new Eye also offer a wider viewing angle and the unit packs in four microphones for voice commands. the dual cameras also allow the Eye to judge depth, a fundamental change. Face tracking and triangulation will also be utilized. This will also help to improve any augmented reality games, like Wonderbook.
It's hard to say what the applications for all of this are until we know more about Sony's plans and how well the tech works. Look at the Kinect: theoretically, there's a lot of potential for dramatically changing the way we interact with our games, but the technology isn't quite there yet. Sony's PlayStation 4 Eye promises to offer Kinect-like functionality with some added enhancements thanks to the hardware's support for interactions specific to the Move and DualShock 4. Exactly how this all functions together is purely speculative until we see all of it in action, but the specs on paper are certainly promising.


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I will go to the Registry of Vital Records and Statistics on a weekly (or Bi-Monthly) basis and make a copy of the requested record and upload it to the system in a timely manner.
I will go to the Registry of Vital Records and Statistics on a weekly (or Bi-Monthly) basis and make a copy of the requested record and upload it to the system in a timely manner.
Full payment upfront
Massachusetts, United States
Massachusetts, United States
I need the full names of the persons, the date and location of marriage. At least one DOB of either the bride or the groom would be helpful.
Please note the following facts about the records maintained by the Registry of Vital Records and Statistics:
•Certain records are restricted from public access. Identification may be required for processing some orders.
•The Registry of Vital Records and Statistics maintains no indexes or records on the Internet. Records are only available on site at the Registry offices or at the city or town where the event occurred.
•Note that ONLY CERTIFIED COPIES of records are issued by the Registry of Vital Records and Statistics, regardless of intended use.
Section 2A. Examination of records and returns of children born out of wedlock or abnormal sex births, or fetal deaths, or of the notices of intention of marriage and marriage records in cases where a physician's certificate has been filed under the provisions of section twenty A of chapter two hundred and seven, or those of persons born out of wedlock, or of copies of such records in the department of public health, shall not be permitted except upon proper judicial order, or upon request of a person seeking his own birth or marriage record, or his attorney, parent, guardian, or conservator, or a person whose official duties, in the opinion of the town clerk or the commissioner of public health, as the case may be, entitle him to the information contained therein, nor shall certified copies thereof be furnished except upon such order, or the request of such person. The provisions of this section shall not apply to such records, returns or notices recorded or filed prior to January first, eighteen hundred and forty-one or to such copies thereof.


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Theater classics are at a significant disadvantage: overfamiliarity. How many times can you see Hamlet step toward you at that moment before you start mouthing "To be or not to be . . ." with him? That's similarly true with Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie, which in conventional hands can parade what are by now stock characters: the reclusive sister, the smothering mother, the regretfully resentful son.
Yet under the masterful direction of Fred Sullivan Jr., the Gamm Theatre is revitalizing this drama (through April 4) to the point where the Wingfields seem to be discovering their self-illuminating defeat for the first time.
The most autobiographical of Williams's plays, the title refers to the collection of little glass objects obsessively cared for by Laura (Diana Buirski). She is so painfully shy that she gets physically ill when she has to deal with people besides her mother and brother. At the beginning, her mother Amanda (Wendy Overly) is upset that Laura has spent the past six weeks only pretending to go to a secretarial course they couldn't afford, having dropped out the first day.
You don't disagree with mother, Laura has learned, a lesson never accepted by brother Tom, who has been supporting them with a menial job at a shoe warehouse. He wants desperately to sail away, write poetry, and become his own person. But his mother is always angrily berating him for such "selfish" thoughts, while he equally angrily watches his life draining away in her grip.
The central difference in this take on The Glass Menagerie is that Sullivan has Tom portrayed both young (by Marc Dante Mancini) and old (by Sam Babbitt). This is ingenious rather than gimmicky because Williams has Tom tell us that this is "a memory play" and has him step in to narrate as well as interact in the recollected scenes. So now we can see the white-haired teller of the story as well as the youth he is recalling. Not only do we see young Tom swig from a hip flask, coping with his boxed-in life, we also see who he later becomes: resigned, never without a glass of whiskey in hand.
That underscores the difficulty of portraying Amanda. What fun is there in watching a manipulative shrew practice her craft unless more is going on? Overly makes sure we see the gears working beneath Amanda's imposing façade, creating a character who isn't simply intent on getting her own way but who is — however neurotic and ham-fisted — single-minded about getting her children to do what is best for them. You can dislike her actions and even get mad at her fury, but you can't hate her. We can't trust an Amanda who is sly, but Overly makes her lovingly wrongheaded.
In the beginning, young Tom gives as good as he gets, raging back at her on every occasion. Mancini has a difficult role here, since Babbitt got to present Tom's gentler self, but I needed more modulation of young Tom's early anger; a speaker burns out if not now and then dialed back from 11. We eventually get it, though, when all that previous energy provides a poignant background for Mancini's description of Laura as "peculiar," a sweet assessment, however harsh that may sound.
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Just 20 minutes from Panguitch, is the magnificent world-class attraction known as Bryce Canyon National Park.
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A guy who grew up surrounded by 8-bit and 16-bit video games. A fan of SID, retro computer synths and rock music. A gamer, a programmer, a musician.
How to contact me?Simply – by e-mailing me on email@example.com. Any offers or thoughts – I'd be more than glad to consider them all.
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Program Providers
The following study abroad program providers: AIFS, API, CAPA, CIS, SIT, and TEAN give preferential status to Rhode Island College students. Check out their websites and note the financial incentives that are provided by these programs to RIC students. For additional program providers you are encouraged to search the internet and consult with the Study Abroad Director. Also, see the "Links to Helpful Resources" section for specific study abroad search engines.
AIFS – American Institute for Foreign Study
AIFS will provide a grant of $400 for each student enrolling in an academic semester program and $200 for each student enrolling in a summer program.
API – Academic Programs International
API offers need and merit based scholarships ranging from $250 - $1,000. Students can download an application on the API website: www.apistudyabroad/scholarships. Rhode Island College students may also be eligible for additional API scholarships. Please contact the RIC Study Abroad Office for more information.
CAPA International Education
CAPA provides a $600 scholarship to students on a CAPA semester program and a $300 scholarship to students on a summer program.
CIS – Center for International Studies
CIS will provide a $250 discount per student accepted to a semester program (including semester-long internships) and a $100 discount per student accepted to a short-term study or internship program.
SIPN - Study in Portugal Network (SIPN) will provide RIC participants with a $500 scholarship.
SIT Study Abroad - Each year, SIT awards more than $1 million in scholarships and grants to SIT Study Abroad students. Many SIT scholarships and grants are available for both terms of study: semester and summer. Individual awards generally range from $500 to $5,000. SIT matches Federal Pell Grant funding for all SIT semester programs.
TEAN will provide a $300 scholarship to each RIC student attending a full semester program. Also, TEAN no longer has application fees. It's free to apply to any of their programs.


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I want the new Battle Blades Voyager Optimus Prime.
I didn't find any toys at Target, but Smallville Season 9 and Sons of Anarchy Season 2 were out on DVD!
Then I got an e-mail from Entertainment Earth that they shipped my Human Alliance Mudflap! Awesome! I can't wait to complete my HA collection thus far. Now we really need more Decepticons in that line or "a Human Nemesis line."
BAD Pts Need: R5-C7 lf leg (x2), , R4-P44 right leg BAD Pts Offered For Trade: PM me - I have lots of parts now including BG-J38!. New Kyle Katarn is also available.
Got my jabba from wm.com in the mail yesterday. Its nice to check this one off the list finally.
La Cienega TRU - nuthin' new.
Culver City TRU - nuthin' new, I think some remnants of TVC wave 2.
Crenshaw WM - some SL wave 2, 1 TVC Obi-Wan ROTS, 1 Mandalorian speeder with figure stolen out , they said they could only give me a 10% discount, I said no to that noise.
La Cienega Target - nuthin' new.
At least this WM had Saga Legends at $7 instead of $8, so I bought 2 Snowtroopers.
I could really use a stashing on that Mandalorian Speeder, and Transformers Animated Rodimus.
Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
Kylo Ren - came from Space Brooklyn, although he moved to Space Williamsburg before it was trendy.
The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.
thx for the report JT.
when are these g&*%&#n stores gonna have a sale?? I'm sick of seein the same SL, TVC wave 1, CW and tvc BPs, and mid size & deluxe vehicles on the pegs. Target needs to get on the ball with new product.
Figs need to go $7 and lower. No excuse for vintage --esp. when there's no extras packed inside (BAD, coins, etc.)
I got the Sideshow Exclusive 501st Clonetrooper today. Unfortunately, it looks like someone stepped on the box or some heavier package smashed it. I've already sent Sideshow a replacement request, but who knows if they'll have any extra.
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SW Customs Album
New battle packs (ARC Troopers and Mandalorian Warriors) are up at HTS.
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Serves 2
This gussied up version of a BLT boasts a poached egg whose runny yolks acts as a lusty sauce for the sandwich. Lightly dressed bitter greens stand in for the traditional lettuce; their bite provides a nice counterpoint to the richness of the egg.
Combine the mayonnaise and harissa in a small bowl and stir until blended. Set aside.
Cut the bacon in half crosswise, arrange in a medium skillet, and put the skillet over medium heat. Cook, turning the bacon frequently, until cooked through and crispy but still a little chewy, about 8 minutes. Transfer to a paper towel–lined plate and set aside.
Bring about 4 cups of water to a boil in a small saucepan. Lower the
heat to a bare simmer and add
1 tablespoon of the vinegar. Crack an egg
into a small cup or ramekin and, holding the cup just above the surface
of the water, carefully pour the egg into the water. Repeat with the
second egg. Cook the eggs until the whites have cooked through but the
yolk is still runny, 2 to 3 minutes. (To check, carefully lift an egg
out of the water with a slotted spoon. Prod the white—it should feel
firm and bouncy all the way through.) With a slotted spoon, transfer the
eggs to another paper towel–lined plate.
In a small bowl, combine the frisee or radicchio, the remaining 1 teaspoon vinegar, the shallot, and the olive oil. Sprinkle with a pinch of salt and pepper and toss to blend.
Toast or grill the bread to your liking, then spread the mayo evenly over two pieces. Top with the bacon, tomato, frisee, and egg. Sprinkle the egg with a little salt and pepper, then top with the other two pieces of bread.
Serve right away (with plenty of napkins).
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Range Mid-Atlantic, New England, Western Canada, Rocky Mountains, Eastern Canada, Great Lakes, Alaska, Northwest, Plains.
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Exposure Preference Shade to partial shade.
Flower May - June
Native Distribution Labrador to Alaska, s. on mts. or cool slopes to n. New England, n.e. Minnesota, Colorado & n. Oregon
Site Preference Moist, wooded areas
Soil Preference Cool, moist soils.
Wildlife Value Fruit attracts gamebirds, songbirds and mammals.


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PITTSFIELD, Mass. — A high school student and a college student were found with loaded weapons this week after each created a disturbance at their respective campuses.
On Tuesday night, a Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts student was arrested at the North Adams campus after becoming belligerent during an evening class. Chris LaFrance, 25, was allegedly intoxicated when campus police pepper sprayed him; upon arresting him, police said they found a loaded handgun on his person. While reportedly licensed to carry a firearm, LaFrance is facing a number of charges related to the incident and the public school where he had been training was apprised of his arrest and terminated his participation.
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|Pacific Northwest Sea Run Forum No such thing as rainbow trout, only landlocked steelhead
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RE:Spey Rod Size?
What up guys this sounds like a does size matter topic.
I started the never ending search for the perfect rod with the St Croix 14' for 9/10. Landed my first Thompson fish on this rod. Other than the cheap components I really like this rod. I cast the blank built buy a custom builder and prefer it to the 9140-4 (brown), it feels a lot like Brians AW blank.
Ok, then I went for the 7136 for the Kalama, EFL or the Deschutes on the rare non windy day. The small light nimble feel creates the impression, everything except looong casts are effortless. Next I got the old sage 10150-4 nice traditional rod for the bigger rivers like the Big T and the Skagit. Within a couple of weeks I came across a 10151-4 with a screemin deal attached, loved the feel and bought it. I've broken this rod three times and the only weekness is it breaks, otherwise it's a wonderful casting and fishing tool 9 it just doesn't travel without friends) We'll see the last time Sage fixed it it came back with a different feel (butt has been stiffened).
Next the 8150-4 which quickly began my favorite summer rod for bigger water. This with without question has been my bread and butter stick on the Deschutes and "larger" SW WA rivers.
My go to rods are
Smaller water Burkheimer 13'3"
Larger water Sage 8150
Larger water Sage 10151-4/10150-4
(big fish water)
RE:Spey Rod Size?
Couldn't be simpler, Double. I take a long-belly Mastery Salmon Spey floater (77 feet of fat) in the 8/9 I think it is, cut 19 feet off the tip and replace it with the sinktip portion (15 feet) of the old SA steelhead taper type 5 for an 8 weight. This fishes quite deep and is easy to cast on the 7136. I just saved my old single hand type 5's from my guiding days and cut the tips off at the color change. It's my go-to line for confidence. As for hook sets, I'm 27 for 34 (including a 27 pound chromer king on the 7136) on landing since I switched to the crappie hooks (knock on wood) last spring--which is a vast improvement for me compared to all the years I fished Partridges (crap), Alec Jacksons (better), and Tiemcos (better still). When I look at that list, it seems like the prettier the hook, the lower my landing percentage. The crappie hooks outdo them all by so far I can hardly believe it. But then that's a whole other topic that I can go on and on about forever. Anyway, see if you can get your mitts on a new (green) version of the Sage 7136-4 or 9140-4. They're both a bit lighter, livelier and stiffer than they're previous incarnations (brown). Good luck and let me know what you think.
RE:Spey Rod Size?
My experience with the 8150 is ditto to Sinktip's - I Love it! I have a custom-built one, so the grip is a little narrower than stock ( i did notice how big the standard grip was - don't know whether I'd like it or not).
Anyway, one danger is deciding you like a rod -or not - based on casting it with one line. I know plenty of people who'll tell you how they hated a rod until they got it lined correctly (for them).
I think we all agree we'd like to go as light and as short as we can without sacrificing the ability to mend/control the line and effectively hook and land the "average" steelhead we can hope to hook in whatever river we're fishing. The reason I like the 8150 is that it's light enough to fish all day for as many days as I want to fish without tiring me out and yet has the length to make serious mends and control the fly at 70-80'++.
A point Juro mentioned about the 7136 and heavier wire hooks (think 2/0 Tiemco) is worth considering as well - you can present the fly, but can you get a good hookset with the 7136 and a 2/0 heavy wire hook? I don't think so - or at least I coundn't. The upside is that I've been experimenting with brass tube flies for winter fishing this year and have been very happy with the results. The brass tubes get the fly down effectively, and you can really feel the contact with rocks much more clearly than with a heavy-wire hook and with far fewer snags.
I've been using #4 Tiemco 105 hooks - wide-gap lightwire hooks designed for tying egg flies. Even when I've been bouncing the fly off rocks, the hook seems relatively unaffected - I check it often and it's stayed sticky-sharp thru several "snags" and many bottom-dredging swings. With this small wide-gap hook, I'm much more confident that if a cold-water steelie grabs my fly and I can "feel" him with the 7136 I can get a solid hookup.
Skookum - I'd be very interested to hear your line formula for the 7136 (similar to Kinney's?). I've been using the Rio Windcutter 6-7-8 and have been very happy so far - I normally find the Windcutter head to short, but actually like the 55' length for the shorter 12-13' spey rods.
RE:Spey Rod Size?
Sink tip
This goes to show you that it's very much a matter of persnal preference. A friend of mine bought an 8150 the first thing i notices while casting it was the weight in relation th the diameter of the cork grip. To me it seemed heavy and uncomfortable to hold. I did't like the way it cast. That however is 100% myopinion of how the rod cast with my style.
It just wasn't the rod for me and also emphasizes the fact that you should always cast a rod before you buy it:O)
My friend loves his 8150. The main thing is once you have a rod you like to make the time to get out and enjoy it.:O)
RE:Spey Rod Size?
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the 8150-4 yet. I also started out with the 9140-4 but was never satisfied with the feel of it. It just always seemed to soft to me and I hate the handle. Possibly the line was part of the problem as I used an 9-10-11 Windcutter on it and in my opinion that is a little much for that rod.
Through some kind fishing partners, I got the opportunity to cast a number of rods and line setups. Last Spring, while floating with Tyler, Bryan, Juro and Bill, I cast Bill's new 8150. I told him then that he had just cost me a lot of money. This Summer I picked one up and cannot say enough good about it. It is light and can cast a mile. It handles a floater effortlessly and will even easily sling a 150 gr. 15' tip. I expected fly size to be a limited but it throws any of my 1/0 creations. I also have picked up a 10150-4 and it is a cannon and will certainly throw a heavy tip but is nowhere near as nice to cast and fish with as the 8 weight. The last month on the Sky I have found myself fishing the 10 less and less and reaching for the 8.
RE:Spey Rod Size?
Well, here's my two cents: For our spring fish and on the Dean, I fish the Sage 9140-4, and love it. There is a reason it's "the standard" for a lot of people. Of course, I wish the handle was a little longer, or that I fished a heavier reel to give it a little better fishing balance, but otherwise, I think it's a great rod.(more on this in a minute) For most summer run fishing and and other times when hatchery size fish are the norm, I too like a lighter rod, and I like the 7136-4 for these purposes quite a bit. It's light, easy to fish, and once I slow down a little, it throws a sink-tip well and fishes it deep. I originally thought it was more of a dry-line rod, but I made a deep sink-tip that dredges for those early summer run hatchery fish in high flows, and I have a lot of confidence in this line. If you want the formula, let me know. Anyway, I may be biased as I am now working for Sage, but they just sent me the new 9140-4 that's been redesigned and made with a higher modulus graphite (IIIe), and I fished it the other day on the Sky. What a great improvement--lighter, a bit quicker, and it feels extremely "lively" in the hand and on the swing. Incidentally, this was an earlier model that has since been changed back, but it had a longer foregrip, which made the balance point comfortably under your right hand. This years version has the original length handle, and I've been talking to them about a handle length somewhere in between the two, but for now, the 2000 model has the long handle, and the 2001 has the same length as the old rods. The balance problem on the short handled version can easily be solved by going to a heavier reel, but you'll pay for it--Tibor Gulfstream, anyone? I highly recommend you get your hands on this new version of either the 9140-4 or the 7136-4. I love both these rods in the old version, but this new design and material really is better--makes a guy think about trading up. I know a product endorsement from someone making a living from the company is hardly credible, but I really am excited about the improvements. Give 'em a try and let me know what you think. Now, if only our rivers were going to be open in the spring...
RE:Spey Rod Size?
My odessy with spey rod size goes as follows. I started with the 9140-3 then fell into a deal for an 18' Bruce and Walker (actually 2 of them @ $100 CAN each!). I used the big stick for 3 solid years on the Thompson, Skagit and the Sauk, I loved it I could not only cast a mile I could mend the line while it was out there. At that point I added a Sage 10151 to the arsenal and thought I might as well use the "little" rod a bit and did so (as long as it stayed in the regulation 4 pieces anyway). I love casting the 10151 (it is definitely my favourite rod to cast) but it was too much rod for the Skeena summer fish, so I went with the 7136. I love this little rod too, it was perfect on the Bulkley and I even caught some big Thompson fish on it this year. It is however not enough rod for the 'T" so I went with the 10151 until I broke it the 2nd and 3rd times. As a result I fished a plethora of rods this season thanks to Dana's sweet supply of test rods. Among others I fished Dec Hogan's 13 and 14' models, my 9140-3 as well as my favourite the 14 Loop Yellow. In spite of all these excellent rods I still long for the control and extra distance offered by the 15' rods - especially when wading deep. As for my 18'er I broke one when Juro was up with me in October and I've been a little reluctant to risk breaking the other so its in semi-retirement. Though a busy November day on the 'T" may get me to bust out (bad choice of words) the big stick to fish some "unused" water! I like most of the rods I fished and changing from one favourite to another was usually dictated by the river I was fishing.
Tight lines - tyler
RE:Spey Rod Size?
My 13ft 9 wt is a Thomas and Thomas. I have been using a windcutter 7/8/9/ on it. It has worked well for me on the Babine,Klickitat and Deschutes Rivers. It will fish tips around 150 grains fairly easily and handles the floater very nicely.
My 15 ft 10 wt is also the sage 10150-4 it took me a while to get this rod dialed in but i really like it for throwing my 15 ft 550 gr tip:O)
RE:Spey Rod Size?
I do not personally own it but GLoomis's 11'6" 7/8 GLX is one sweet stick. It can be fished either single handed or double handed, has a fast tip which casts heavy tips no problem. Also with the fast tip, you will have no problem penatrating heavy gauge hook's through a steelie's mouth. It casts a dry line like a DREAM. And because it is a GLX, it is super light.
RE:Spey Rod Size?
My rapidly dwindling Spey exposure per annum concluded the following before I left the wild west...
Started with the 14' 9'er like everyone else in those days. Fun, but wanted a 15' 10wt so sold it and picked up the Sage 10150-4. Hit the Skagit and a few other rivers that size... LOVE IT! It casts dense winter heads easily. It casts DT's and windcutter lines easily too. Very sweet rod, almost sold it - GLAD I DID NOT!
Then got my hands on a 7136-4 for summer. Sweet! Hooked and landed a lot of summer fish on it and got hooked on the lighter and shorter feel (to your point!). Fished it into the winter... started to hook bigger spring nates and find out that it is not easy to get the thick wire winter hook penetration needed with the little noodle to hold big fish in big water. I really do like the lightness and ease though. Needed something more stout for spring fish in smaller rivers.
Third: found an G.Loomis IMX 15' 4pc 8wt rocket launcher. It is a perfect in-between the other two. It casts a head, Windcutter, DT, etc.
I am pretty happy with the mix I have going right now but if there were a shorter rod with the same pop as some of the longer Spey rods I would welcome it in my arsenal.
Who makes the 13ft 9wt you have?
Spey Rod Size?
When I first began Spey fishing abour 5 years ago I bought the standard 14ft 9 wt. I soon found myself wanting a bigger more powerful rod so I bought a 15 ft 10wt. I like the rod and it does everything I want it to and I am sure it could do more than I am capable of. I just recently bought a 13 ft 9wt I planned on it being my summer/floating line rod. But I have found meself using it for everything. My 15 footer hasn't seen the light of day since last April. I am wondering have other spey rodders had similiar experiences? Moving away from longer heavier rods to shorter lighter ones? What is it you like about the rod you chose?
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A bill allowing the use of "any legal" hunting method, including modern, repeating centerfire rifles, on private and leased lands during most deer seasons in Mississippi was signed into law Monday.
Listed as House Bill 1139, the law goes into effect July 1 and applies to all seasons opening after Nov. 30. While it would not affect the early bow season or the early antlerless-only season that coincides with the early November youth season, it would effectively eliminate the necessity to use a muzzleloader or the certain breech-loading single-shot centerfires specified by the state in previous years during the traditional primitive weapon periods that fall in the early to mid December and the mid to late January slots.
The move adds roughly four more weeks for hunters to use regular modern rifles each year, but it only applies to those doing their hunting on private and leased land. Hunters on public land will still be required to follow the primitive weapon guidelines as they were in place last year.
Although the new law eliminates the practicalities of primitive weapon season for hunters on private and leased land, it does not eliminate the necessity that they hold a valid hunting license with a primitive weapon season endorsement during that time. A valid primitive weapon license, sportsman license or lifetime sportsman license, if required before, will still be required.


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A documentary on John Hughes is going to get a worldwide release according to the BBC.
A low-budget documentary about the late director John Hughes is set for international release after its rights were bought, reports say.
Trade magazine Variety said Alliance Films of Montreal agreed the deal shortly after the news broke of the film-maker's death last week.
Directed by actor and film-maker Matt Austin-Sadowski, Don't You Forget About Me takes a look at Hughes' life.
The title comes from the Simple Minds song featured in The Breakfast Club.
Hughes, who died at the age of 59, made hit teen movies such as Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Home Alone and Planes, Trains and Automobiles.
Austin-Sadowski, who starred in the Power Rangers: S.P.D. TV series, said Hughes' films had a huge impact on him when he was in school.
"He inspired me as a person, going through an awkward adolescence, as many people do," he told Variety.
"He took affairs of the heart very seriously, and no other director gave teenagers that sort of treatment at that time."
The film was made before Hughes' death and Austin-Sadowski said he is hoping it will boost people's interests in the director's films.
"That's what's important to us. It's not the deal. It's not more exposure for us," he said.
Actors who participated in the documentary included Ally Sheedy, Judd Nelson, Mia Sara, Kelly LeBrock and Andrew McCarthy.
Molly Ringwald, who found fame in Hughes' The Breakfast Club and Pretty in Pink, refused to take part in the project.


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Forbes has named its top 10 social networking stars, and GRAMMY winner Rihanna has been crowned queen. Musicians dominated the list, with the top five rounded out by Lady Gaga, Eminem, Justin Bieber, and Katy Perry. Portuguese soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo was the only non-musician to place on the list. The ranking was based on a simple formula of adding Twitter followers and Facebook fans. Forbes speculates that musicians' early adoption of social networking has allowed them to reach more followers than actors and other celebrities. (8/10)


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After reading this thread and Clark's, allaboutshooting, website I have decided to get a box of them and give them a try. I have a Browning with a barrel 28" barrel and the Carlson .664 begin shot choke. My question is what size would you recommend? #5,6 or 7?
Thanks and after I shoot them over Easter I will report back on them. What type of distances should I try? 40,50 and 60? Thoughts?


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Wednesday, 8 December 2010
Happy Bloody Birthday, Behind the Couch
Thanks so much to everyone who has swung by over the last year to share the good times, ride out the bad, celebrate the highs, endure the lows, gasp with delight at the absurd, marvel at the wondrous and swoon over Vincent Price. It has been a good year – there was even a book. Thanks to everyone who supported that and said nice things about it.
Here's to the next year of writing about horror movies! May it be as wine drenched, bloody and erm, good as this one!
10 comments:
- Steve Finnell said...
you are invited to follow my blog
- 8 December 2010 at 14:41
- James said...
Thanks Steve. I shall politely decline your kind invitation though. I'm atheist.
- 8 December 2010 at 15:20
- Shaun [The Celluloid Highway] said...
Happy birthday :-), many blood soaked returns. I hope to be around blogging to celebrate many more with you. I've held off commenting on your F13th reviews, unfortunately I can't stand the franchise.
- 8 December 2010 at 16:39
- WriterME said...
Time for cake, methinks. Congratulations! :)
- 8 December 2010 at 21:28
- Christine Hadden said...
Congrats, James! Seems like just yesterday I happened upon your little slice of the internet. So glad I did, 'cause you rocketh much!
Keep up the stellar work - you write the best review this side... wait! ... on either side of the ocean ;)
Much love.
- 9 December 2010 at 04:56
- James said...
Thanks guys!
@Shaun: I know all too well that F13th is NOT to everyone's taste! But please. You don't even like it a little? Never tempted to stick on Part II when no one's looking? ;)
@Christine: Thanks Chris, you're too kind. And probably on your third glass of merlot!! ;) Much love right back at ya.
- 9 December 2010 at 10:25
- Marty Byrne said...
Sorry I'm a bit late to the party, I guess there's no cake left.
Happy Birthday Behind The Couch!!
Coffee and live music again soon? :)
- 9 December 2010 at 17:00
- James said...
I'm sure there's still a wee bit of cake around here somewhere, Martin. Failing that, coffee and live music sounds like a plan! ;)
- 10 December 2010 at 10:47
- Carl Manes said...
lol.. of all the posts to get spammed on.. Happy 2 Year James!! Seems like we have all known you much longer now. Heres to many more years behind the couch!
- 14 December 2010 at 01:05
- James said...
Thanks Carl! Appreciate that. ;)
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|Thanks Jim, I'll definitely give that a shot; I can get gasket cork material from Mcmaster-Carr, as we order from them regularly. I'll let you know what develops. I'm not actually in the Keys, but I do some research there from time to time. My boss owns property in Blue Water and Shark Keys, and I'll be done sometime in July for a month or so to do some testing on a few new fishing products we're working on. We'll probably be up at your locale a few times to walk through Bass Pro's saltwater "warehouse". Other than that, I hope to be out of Blue Water Key nearly every day chasing anything that swims. Do you get down that way very much?
A larger washer is in diameter, not thickness. Cork material can be purchased at most auto parts stores. It is gasket material. Cutting out the material can be fairly easily accomplished by using various diameter tubing. I use copper tubing, one for the diameter of the spindle and one for the outside diameter of the drag washer. Filing a sharp angle on the cutting end of the tubing insures a smooth, accurate cut. The thickness of the gasket material may vary. If too thick, then sand it to the proper thickness. Use the original washer as a template.
Good luck and let me know the results. Where in the Keys are you located? I spend Jan-Mar at Islamorada.
|Thanks Jim. I was under the impression that the major problem with the drag washer is it's relatively small size, and that the actual spindle would have to be lengthened (along with the pins) in order to place a larger washer inside the housing; I had actually thought of making a washer from a self-lubricating plastic material that we use in manufacturing. It's fairly easy to work with. I'm willing to try cork, though. Any suggestions as to how I would go about making the washer, and where would I go to get the cork material? TIA for the suggestions and help, I appreciate it!
you have a couple of options on the ML series aside from selling them:
1. Replace the drag washer with one from a standard AL series. It is larger in diameter.
2. Form a cork drag washer the same diameter as the drag plate portion of the sleeve.
I've replaced the standard drag washers on the AL series reels with cork, per a recommendation from John Brazelton at Redington. Over time, a combination of grease/oil and debris on the standard drag plate reduces drag capability. That is why I went to cork.
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Hello All,
I'm new to this forum, but have been a flyfisherman most of my life, and currently about 70% is done in saltwater. I have a question for those of you who have experience with the ML series from Redington. It was their 10th anniversary edition reel, only 10,000 were made, but Redington chose not to sell them because they felt that the drag washer was not large enough on each model. Stupid me did the ultimate no no, bought a pair of them on-line (and I'm not telling what I paid, though I think they were pretty cheap) before I really knew anything about them since they're not on Redington's website and no one was in the office yet that day. Come to find out after a chat with their Tech guy that the drag is indeed too small in his opinion, which is why the reels were sold at Orvis tent sales for liquidation. These reels are very pretty, the two I have are gold anodized 7/8 models that hold around 200 yards or more of 20-lb. backing as well as a full 8-wt. line. I bought these reels because I already own a pair of GD series which I'm quite happy with. So the question is this: anyone have any experiences, good or bad, that they'd care to share so I can figure out if these reels are better off going back on line? I really appreciate anyone's input. BTW, I'll be using these reels to do some "light" striper, bluefish, redfish, and snook fishing this summer.
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Wolves call a halt
Wolves can today confirm that they have called a halt to discussions with Nottingham Forest regarding a potential loan and subsequent transfer of Bakary Sako in January and that the matter is now closed.
Chief Executive Jez Moxey has brought an end to any ongoing saga after the Championship club, who knew Wolves' position regarding the terms of any deal, failed to meet their conditions.
Moxey said, "Our position has been firm but consistent - we don't want to lose Bakary Sako. Everyone involved in these discussions is fully aware of what our requirements were to, reluctantly, allow Bakary to leave. However, we took the decision to cease all discussions with Nottingham Forest not because they didn't meet our valuation but because the terms surrounding the offer were unrealistic."
Wolves have stated all along that whilst recognising the commercial realities of League One football and respecting the desire of quality players to play at a higher level than the Club can currently provide, no member of the squad would be allowed to leave unless it was on acceptable terms.
Furthermore, the Club was not prepared to indefinitely engage in protracted negotiations without a conclusion being reached. Everyone at Molineux is disappointed that Bakary Sako, a top class player and a crowd favourite, has again been distracted by the continuing speculation handing Head Coach Kenny Jackett another challenge in trying to re-focus him for this crucial season.
However, while it is understandable that Bakary has been affected by the renewed interest, he has remained a model professional in both his application and his performances, and he is currently joint top scorer with five goals. The Club has the utmost respect for the player and hopes he will continue to display that same level of commitment and professionalism once he has recovered from illness and is ready to be considered for selection. The Club also expects the fans to continue their wholehearted support for such a talented player.
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Investors have long praised emerging-market central bankers for running appropriately tight monetary policy, while criticizing the U.S. Federal Reserve for printing money. But now its becoming clear that emerging markets enjoyed the benefit of the Fed's easy money policy–and could pay the price once the buying actually stops.
Just the fear that the Fed will scale back its bond purchases has caused investors to bail on developing nations, demonstrating the importance of U.S. liquidity for those markets and economies. While EM central banks have responded, it's uncertain just how much control they'll really have to boost their economies or strengthen their currencies once the Fed gets around to the real thing.
Take Indonesia. It hiked its overnight deposit rate last night to stem the decline in its currency, which has dropped 5.2% against the U.S. during the past month. The move, however, might not be enough to keep foreign investors around, says Citigroup's Helmi Arman.
Rising FasBI rates may eventually give onshore banks some room to raise interest rates on the rupiah (vostro) accounts of non-resident portfolio investors. Non-resident investors who have sold their rupiah bond/equity investments can see some added incentive to not immediately purchase USD. However as the current outflows also appear to have been driven by broad asset reallocation motives, it is unclear whether such interest rate increases will suffice to stem the wave of dollar purchases.
Turkey's central bank, meanwhile, stemmed the decline of its currency by selling dollars and buying lira.
Already investors are speculating that the Fed might have to quiet talk of "tapering" to prevent a crisis in the emerging world, at least according to Reuters.
…[An] enmeshing of the United States and the economies of the developing world since the turn of the century means the link between U.S. monetary policy and currency runs on the other side of the world could be tighter than many assume.
Another financial shock now in emerging economies that use vast holdings of U.S. Treasury bonds as capital insurance buffers could complicate a Fed exit from quantitative easing.
"As with so many previous emerging crises, although the Fed often triggers the withdrawal, it's then forced to turn more accommodative by default as a result of the fallout," said Simon Derrick, strategist at Bank of New York Mellon.
Emerging markets have stabilized today, so maybe such steps won't be needed. The iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Index ETF (EEM) has dropped just 0.2%, after falling 4.7% during the past week, while the iShares JPMorgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF (EMB) has gained 1.5%, after losing 4.1%. The Market Vectors Emerging Markets Local Currency Bond ETF (EMLC) has gained 0.9% today, after falling 4.3% during the past week.
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In 1967-68 Young developed the 'dot' style, which brought him considerable attention at the time. His aim in using this technique was the same as that for which the technique of pointillism had been developed in the late nineteenth century - the painting of light. Beginning with the familiar assumption that white and light are composed of all colours, Young distributed thick dots of wide-ranging spectral hues evenly over a white ground.
Young's fascination with dots, however, preceded its pointillist application. His first paintings, those from 1963, frequently employed bands of dots reflecting his admiration for primitive decoration, and in Number 29, 1968, one of the last canvases of that year, the dots are configured to create patterns, though in this case they resemble the paisley patterns so popular in the counter-culture of the late 1960s. Shortly afterwards Young characterised his work and that of most of his generation as 'psychedelic painting', a particularly appropriate term for the mobile patterning of Number 29, 1968.1
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I went hunting this morning in an adjoining county with a long-time friend and his 12 year old grandson. The major goal was to get his grandson a turkey.
It was a classic fall hunt. A cold morning, heard the woods wake up, followed by hearing a few clucks and a gobble. Tried a few kee-kees and nothing.
After 2 hours, we got up, I looked around the bend and saw 11 birds, including a gobbler.
A little sneak down a ravine to come up on the other side of them, a rush and a good bust!
We sat down and waited about 5 minutes before I began to kee-kee and immediately had birds answer. Within another 15 minutes we had 5 birds out in front of us.
The grandson took his, I took one and my friend missed. It really did not matter to him, he was so happy for his grandson and I wish you could have seen the look on the young man's face. Priceless.
It just does not get much better than that.
Now Doris and I will hunt our place together and hopefully we'll both get a bird as well.
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Titled "Fried Chicken and Fried Rice: Beyond the Stereotypes," the event will feature Black Arts Company Dance, Black Arts Company Drama, Naacho, Princeton South Asian Theatrics, the Princeton University Gospel Ensemble and many more, plus a guest performer from Russell Simmons' Def Poetry Jam.
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EFF is continuing its research into Comcast's use of forged RST packets to interfere with their customers' BitTorrent connections. (Apparently the FCC is investigating, as well.) While Comcast has remained conspicuously silent about the technical details of its activities, a few networking engineers have tried to defend Comcast by proposing technical justifications for Comcast's interference activities.
Over the last couple of days, Comcast has been telling the press that they're not interfering with their users' traffic, they're just "delaying" it. Let's examine that proposition for a moment. In our previous posts, we discussed Comcast's forging of TCP RST packets to kill users' connections on BitTottent, Gnutella and Lotus Notes. To see just how disingenuous Comcast is being, consider the following analogy:
Yesterday, we posted about some experiments showing that Comcast is forging packets in order to interfere with its customers' use of BitTorrent. There have been reports of strange things happening with other protocols, and we've been running some tests on two other file transfers protocols in particular — HTTP (which is used by the World Wide Web) and Gnutella. Comcast has also been strenuous in telling us, "we don't target BitTorrent". Perhaps not. Perhaps what they're doing is even worse.
In the limited tests we ran, we didn't see any interference with HTTP traffic. Comcast's network seems to behave correctly when you run a private web server and share a few of your photos or videos over it (we tested files up to about 25MB).
This morning the Associated Press reported that Comcast is interfering with users' ability to run file sharing applications over its network.
Since we spoke to Comcast last month and understood them to deny that they are doing this, we've been running our own tests.
The results of our tests have agreed with AP's. Comcast is forging TCP RST packets which cause connections to drop (a technique also used by Internet censorship systems in China). These packets cause software at both ends to believe, mistakenly, that the software on the other side doesn't want to continue communicating.
We've been receiving a lot of inquiries from people concerned about recent allegations that Comcast is interfering with its subscribers' use of the BitTorrent protocol, perhaps by using an appliance that disrupts BitTorrent sessions. Some of the people contacting us are Comcast subscribers who've had trouble with BitTorrent recently and think that they might be affected by the same problem.
Debugging network problems can be complicated because of the varieties of versions and configurations of client software and the number of places in the network where problems could occur. Most mysterious network errors aren't intentionally caused by anyone. But some ISPs and universities have experimented with appliances that block or disrupt particular traffic, such as VoIP or P2P file-sharing traffic.
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But let me ask you about 3 questions.
1. Do you think the concept of significant man made global warming is more complex that predicting the effect of the eruption of Mt. St. Helens, on the surronding area?
2. Do you think "ceditable" scientists got it wrong in their conclusions?
3. If your answer is "yes" to the 2 above questions, how can one be so sure of the conclusions drawn on either side?