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Friday, December 30, 2005
Good Night and Good Luck
Or in my case, "Good Luck Seeing This Movie Uninterrupted and in its Entirety with a Fairly Decent Print". If any of you out there happened to be at a showing of this film on Wednesday night at a small San Francisco theatre, you would have seen the projector shut down and house lights come up not once, not twice, but THREE TIMES during the first hour of this film. After each of the first two interruptions, there was a 5-10 minute wait before the film unceremoniously started back up, with the audience having no idea how much they missed. After the projector quit for a third time I was out the door, coat in hand, getting my refund. I don't know if the film ever resumed after that.
I've never demanded a refund before at a movie theatre, but the reason I did this time was because the movie had me completely hooked. I was miffed, and determined to see it before it ends its theatrical run.
The next night in Albany I would get to see the complete film; although the print was filthy and covered with dust and dirt, Good Night and Good Luck sucked me into the world of Ed Murrow, Joe McCarthy and CBS. I'm not going to write a long thought out review because there are tons of them out there.
I do want to express my excitement over a few of the film's key attributes:
Casting - Great across the board; Strathairn being the obvious standout; while this guy is on screen he IS Murrow. Amazing. I like Clooney too. Patricia Clarkson is one of my favorites and being a fan of Homicide: Life on the Street, it's nice to see Reed Diamond on the big screen. Ray Wise (you may remember him as Leland Palmer on Twin Peaks) is very good in the few minutes of screen time given to him. I cared more about his character in those few minutes than I do for most characters who get whole features devoted to them. Other supporting roles played by Robert Downey Jr., Frank Langella, Jeff Daniels...all great.
Music - Excellent use of music, as interlude as well as commentary. The lyric 'I've got my eye on you" from the second musical interlude...perfect.
Cinematography- Beautiful. I love black and white film; the simplicity of it. Curls of grey smoke over black backgrounds, subtle rim lighting, the contrast of pure black on pure white, creamy greys.
Production Design - The film looks like it was made in the 50's. For the budget they had, the sets are fantastic; I was totally immersed in that world.
Subject Matter - I love how this is just a part of Murrow's life and career. I have been avoiding full biopics lately because for some of them, the scope is just too big, too bombastic, too many special effects, and too many stars trying to outdo each other on the screen. There is none of that here. The cast works as a team, they all support each other; the balance is perfect. And on a side note, it's great to see so much smoking in a film. I've had it with digital removal of cigatettes and cigars from movies, tv and album covers (and I'm not a smoker). Show it like it is -- these guys smoked. A LOT.
I could go on and on, but see it for yourself; this is a great film.
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Monday, December 19, 2005
Happy Holidays
And on this day in the Civil War:
Monday Dec. 19 1864
It was a strange time for the men of the army William T. Sherman had led from Atlanta to the Sea. It had been a long march, and not the first, and although pitched battles had been relatively uncommon, the sniping and stray shots from behind rocks and trees had never completely stopped. Now they had reached the ocean, which many of them had never seen, and a few days rest allowed exploration of this new wonder and its creatures. Every camp was experimenting with the uses of oysters--oyster soup, oyster stew, oysters fried, roasted, and raw on the half-shell. Although hardly unknown, to inlanders they were the legendary repast of the rich. When no one could stand more oysters, they were used as stuffing for roast goose.
(Quoted from Civil War Interactive)
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Storyboard Study: Action
I wanted to break it down to try and get into the director's head because this scene is very entertaining and very clear, two things you don't find together very often in action scenes today. These boards read across the page, not up and down like in The Gift board study.
Of special note is the 180 degree camera rotation in the third row. It's a great move, and introduces the bad guy. The 180 spin really tells us someting is going to happen that is not the norm; a perfect usage of WHY to go over the 180 line (see the "Over the Line" post).
Also note the low angle on page 2, row 2; this is another big moment where the imposter shoots the real motorcycle cop.
The close up in row 4 shows us the determination on the bad guy's face; he has succeded in infiltrating the caravan. These three moments are the key bits of storytelling in this short section and the shots tell us this.
When I get around to it, I'd really like to draw up and break down the second half of the scene...
Posted by Ted M at 8:00 AM 7 comments
Labels: Current Flavor, film, inspiration, research, storyboarding
Tuesday, December 06, 2005
A page in the making
Posted by Ted M at 2:37 PM 9 comments
Friday, December 02, 2005
Afterworks 2 - The Sag Dig
Some more exploratory doodles for my story in the upcoming Afterworks 2 anthology. Still not set on the design of the dog...
Posted by Ted M at 8:00 AM 10 comments
Labels: comic projects, Current Flavor
Thursday, December 01, 2005
Thanks to everyone who has supported me in my first comics endeavor. It has been a truly rewarding experience. Part 1 will go into its second printing next year, most likely in time for the APE convention in San Francisco.
(If you would still like a copy, please check out the stores listed in the sidebar to the right; most if not all of them still have some copies available.)
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I once heard that Rav Moshe Feinstein forbade eating veal due to Tzar Balei Chayim. Is it true? If yes, is anything different in the way veal is farm raised nowdays?
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Igros Moshe Even HaEzer IV: 92:2 The main quote is
עכ"פ חזינן שלא כל דבר רשאי האדם לעשות בבבהמות שמצער אותם אף שהוא להרויח מזה אלא דבר שהוא הנאת האדם ממש כשחיטת הבהמות לאכילה ולעבוד בהם וכדומה
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Meat & (Jewish) Ethics: Rabbi Moshe Feinstein on Veal
Rav Moshe in this teshuvah is not dealing with whether or not the animal is kosher, but with the question as to whether the animal may be raised under these circumstances. Since this does not actually improve the meat (Rav Moshe says it is appearance only), then it is forbidden to do so. On the other hand if the animal is kosher after slaughter, then it would be edible. The isur of tza'ar ba'alei chaim would not affect the kashrus.
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Should women have to cover up when they breastfeed in public?
August 4, 2014 - Andrea Johnson
Should women be required to cover up with a blanket or a shawl when they breastfeed their babies in public?
Andrea Scannell, a Logan, Utah woman, is apparently kicking up a fuss because the principal of her son's school sent out a letter asking breastfeeding mothers to be more discreet. The woman attends a public lunch program run over the summer at her son's middle school and breastfeeds her daughter in the lunchroom.
The principal wrote that his office had received complaints from multiple people about women breastfeeding during the lunch program and suggested that Scannell and other breastfeeding mothers either cover up with a small blanket or ask the lunchroom staff for assistance in finding a private area in the school where they can breastfeed. He said parents have different views of public breastfeeding and he would personally not want his own child exposed to it without having a chance to discuss it with him first.
Scannell is outraged by the letter and says she is being bullied and that it is completely legal to breastfeed in all 50 states. She also has told media that she is always covered when she breastfeeds, though she doesn't say with what. Some of her supporters even organized a protest last month where they all came to the school and breastfed their babies during the lunch program.
I don't have strong personal feelings one way or another about this issue, though I think it would be in better taste for breastfeeding women to be both modest and discreet if they are breastfeeding in public. It shouldn't be too hard to use a light blanket or a shawl when they are breastfeeding, especially in an area with a lot of other people. I didn't think the letter the principal wrote was at all rude or bullying. He was asking Scannell and other breastfeeding mothers to be more considerate and she responded by being even more inconsiderate.
What do you think women should do if they are breastfeeding in a public space?
Article Comments(10)
Aug-14-14 8:59 AM
loco....don't you want this 'War On Women' stopped here in America? Wouldn't women here be more at peas?
Aug-13-14 8:40 PM
Guys will be guys, Jack & Free.
Aug-13-14 4:26 PM
You too, Free? My, oh my, if we justa could get our American women to be as liberated as those Europeans at the Riv....
Stop This War On Women.....
Aug-13-14 2:55 PM
I think JackAaah would be amused to see the 'Women of Wal*Mart that frequently is posted on cyberspace. Good for a laugh at times but it goes beyond No shirts, No shoes...No service.
I still have a stiff neck from the time I was on a beach in the Riviera.
Aug-13-14 12:39 PM
Chalk it up to cultural expectations. I don't think Americans are ready for topless women to go about freely in public.
Aug-12-14 12:22 PM
I justa don't know why it should stop at breast-feeding...us men can be topless in public....Andrea, why should women not be able to also.
We scream all these 'rights'....justa exactly is wrong with bare-chested women? With all the other rights women are demanding and are getting, why is there a war on women to keep them covered?
Aug-09-14 3:11 PM
"This issue wouldn't even have come up had some of the women breastfeeding would have had consideration for other people's varied feelings on the subject (my opinion)."
This didn't sound right...trying again:
This issue wouldn't even have come up had some of the women breastfeeding had consideration for other people's varied feelings on the subject (my opinion).
Aug-09-14 3:09 PM
I did cover up when I nursed my babies. It was more "modest" and "discreet."
As some people are uncomfortable with a woman exposing her breasts, even to use them as God intended, I covered to make sure they didn't have a reason to be uncomfortable. I used a larger receiving blanket when the babies were smaller. As they grew, I used a smaller quilt until they were weaned.
To me, this is a matter of being polite. I have friends that would not always cover, and they would get "looks." Sorry, but in our country, it's just the way it is.
This issue wouldn't even have come up had some of the women breastfeeding would have had consideration for other people's varied feelings on the subject (my opinion).
Aug-08-14 4:17 PM
I don't have kids, which may be why I don't understand why it has become a "thing." Years ago I did interview some women who were very into the whole natural childbirth, anti-circumcision, homebirth, anti-vaccination, attachment parenting movement. Not that there's anything wrong with some of that, but I get the impression that this is the sort of woman who is apt to be outspoken on the topic. This Andrea Scannell's website would tend to bear that out.
Aug-06-14 1:51 PM
For some reason, this breastfeeding thing has become a thing. And I don't understand why.
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Buntings and New World Sparrows (Emberizidae)
Raimondi's Yellow-finch (Sicalis raimondii) - HBW 16, p. 637
French: Sicale de Raimondi
German: Grauflanken-Gilbammer
Spanish: Chirigüe de Raimondi
Taxonomy: Sycalis raimondii Taczanowski, 1874, vicinity of Lima, Peru.
Molecular-genetic data suggest that genus is most closely related to the "hooded" group of sierra-finches (Phrygilus atriceps, Phrygilus punensis, Phrygilus gayi and Phrygilus patagonicus); also, that it belongs within the tanager family (Thraupidae). This species previously considered conspecific with S. luteola owing to similarities in plumage, but the two occur sympatrically and behave as good biological species. Monotypic.
Distribution: Pacific slope in S Peru from Lima S to extreme N Tacna.
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Preston Pecinovsky is a criminal residing in Liberty City in 2008 and is wanted by the LCPD for credit card fraud. He hangs out in Northern Gardens, Bohan. Pecinovsky can be killed by Niko Bellic, depending on the players choice. His appearance is that of a generic Albanian gang member.
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The British Horse Society Access Week 2008 will take place from May 16-26, highlighting the work of BHS staff and volunteers and raising awareness and money for Access campaigns. Access Week is an annual event to raise awareness of access issues and the work being done by BHS staff, volunteers and Affiliated Bridleways Groups on behalf of riders across the UK. ...
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The first ever BHS Master Class and Lecture Series to be hosted by Royal Windsor Horse Show will take place between Thursday 8th May – Sunday 11 May covering all aspects of horse care, training and sport. The programme will take place in the Copper Arena on all four days and among the highlights will be a master class by ...
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Following the first Ragwort Awareness Week 0f 2008 in April, the May deadline for submitting reports on your activities to feature in the British Horse Society (BHS) magazine 'British Horse' is fast approaching. Anyone who held a Ragwort Pulling Party during the week of April 14-20 is invited to send in a brief report about their event along with any photographs by ...
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This economic recession has plagued the speeches of politicians, stained the covers of magazines and has been a major topic on almost every news program. The recession has been like the boogeyman, lurking about America, stealing jobs from the middle class and widening the already canyon-like financial gap between Americans. And I, a college freshman, never thought I had to worry about it. I told myself, "No, no way, not me". The recession was a myth to me, something tangible only in a world that I've never seen. And now it's truth has come into my world and refuses to leave.
According to the Associated Press 85,000 jobs were lost in December alone. With every company cutting back hours and positions it has been frustrating beyond belief to make phone calls all day, hoping to find a place that is even accepting applications, only to hear "We're not hiring" or "We just had to cut a few people". It doesn't seem real.
It shouldn't be real. I may not have a degree in Economics, but there is a simplicity to it that it seems no one wants to see. This vicious, brutal, and never ending circle has ravaged our nation. How can I spend money if I don't have a job? If I'm not able to spend money and buy a product then that store will have to cut back because they're not making enough revenue. That means that someone else will get fired and end up without money to spend, puting them in the same boat as me. So then why is the only solution of these companies to get rid of as many people as possible?
I understand that sometimes you have to spend money to make it, and I also understand that these companies need to make a profit, but how can a CEO sit at the top of the chain making 7 or 8 figures a year when there are so many people struggling to make ends meet? It's not a matter of taking one for the team, but taking one for the nation, for the well being of millions of people whose lives depend on these jobs.
I know I'm not alone and there are people who have been hit by this financial heavyweight harder than me. But this has to, absolutely has to, change. And until it does we just have to realize that things have been and can be much worse and if we are at the bottom then that means things can only get better.


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Got the following problem:
Let $F:R^3 \rightarrow R^3$ a linear transformation so that $F(0,0,1) = (2,-1,\alpha)$
$(1,0,-1)$ and $(0,1,0)$ are eigenvectors of F with associated eigenvalues $3$ and $-9$ respectively. Find $\alpha$ knowing that $-2$ is eigenvalue.
What I guess is that I have to find the eigenvector's basis first, then find $(0,0,1)$ and $(2,-1,\alpha)$ coordinates in that basis, but I can't figure out how to find the third eigenvector that I need to have that basis.
Any hint will be appreciated. Thanks in advance for your time!


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Pitt Running Back James Conner Appears On 'Ellen'Pitt running back James Conner's emotional story and battle with cancer is getting a national audience.
Injuries Already Taking Toll For Fantasy Baseball Owners In 2016First, it was the Arizona Diamondbacks losing outfielder A.J. Pollock before the season even began, and now it's the Chicago Cubs losing catcher/outfielder Kyle Schwarber in the first week. The San Diego Padres also may have lost starting pitcher Tyson Ross for awhile. What do you do if these guys are on your roster?
PSU Coach James Franklin Excited To Renew Rivalry With PittThere's always excitement in State College for football season.
Report: Pitt To Play Penn State In Basketball Next SeasonThere are reports that University of Pittsburgh will face off with Pennsylvania State University
Pitt Head Coach Kevin Stallings: 'You Need 2 Or 3 Pros' To Win National TitleNew Pitt basketball head coach Kevin Stallings is getting the lay of the land at his new job but took some time out of that to talk with Joe Starkey of The Starkey and Mueller Show about what it will take to get Pitt to the point where they can be in the conversation of national title contenders.
Report: Pitt Basketball To Hire Jeremy Ballard As Assistant CoachIt looks as though Pitt basketball coach Kevin Stallings has added an assistant to his staff.
Villanova Defeats North Carolina 77-74 For National Championship With Buzzer-BeaterIt might be April, but March Madness prevailed to the very last second of this NCAA Tournament.
Brotherly Battle Between Jenkins, Britt For National Title Has Pittsburgh TiesKris Jenkins and Nate Britt, brothers in every way except blood, are giving each other the silent treatment for about 48 hours.
Pat Narduzzi: 'You Wouldn't Know' James Conner Has CancerPitt football head coach Pat Narduzzi talks about what it's like to be around James Conner as he battles Hodgkin's lymphoma.
New Pitt Coach Stallings Offers Brandin Knight Position On StaffNew Pitt men's basketball head coach Kevin Stallings has offered a job to Brandin Knight.
Kevin Stallings: Recruiting Pipeline Widens At PittJust two days into his tenure as the ew Pitt basketball head coach, Kevin Stallings joined The Starkey and Mueller Show to talk about leaving Vanderbilt to join Pitt in the ACC and his expectations for this program.
Dunlap: Stallings Really Gained My Respect TodayNew Pitt basketball coach Kevin Stallings definitely won his introductory press conference on Monday afternoon, even as the room upon arrival resembled more pep rally than press conference.


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SEATTLE - Junior Stephany LaRosa drove in a pair of runs, sophomore Allexis Bennett posted a pair of hits and junior Ally Carda struck out eight and retired the last 12 batters of the game to help the top-ranked Bruins defeat #5 Washington 4-2 on Saturday at Husky Softball Stadium.
The Bruins improve to 27-1 overall and 4-0 in Pac-12 play, while the Huskies fall to 20-6 and 1-2 in league action.
In the complete-game effort, Carda gave up two unearned runs, four hits and three walks to move to 16-1 on the season. UCLA had six hits as a team.
Carda escaped a jam in the bottom of the first. Victoria Hayward led off with a bunt single to the left side and moved to second on a Hooch Fagaly sacrifice. Kaitlin Inglesby followed with a tapper back to Carda, who went to third to get Hayward, but the throw was late to allow runners at the corners. Kylee Lahners grounded one to third, as sophomore Mysha Sataraka looked Hayward back and got the second out at first. Carda then struck out Ali Aguilar to end the threat.
UCLA crossed home plate three times in its half of the third. Bennett hit a full-swing squibber that died in front of the third baseman for a one-out infield single, Carda was hit by a pitch and freshman Delaney Spaulding walked to load the bases. With LaRosa up, a passed ball brought home Bennett with the game's first run, as Carda and Spaulding each moved up a base. LaRosa then hit a screaming liner off the Washington first baseman's glove into right field for a two-run single, as Carda and Spaulding came home to make it 3-0.
The Huskies cut the gap with two in their half of the third. Hayward led off with a walk, one out later, Inglesby reached on an error by Sataraka and Lahners singled to center to load the bases. Aguilar was hit by a pitch to force home Hayward with Washington's first run. One out later, Kimberlee Myers walked to bring in Inglesby to make it 3-2.
Washington had a chance to get the equalizer in the fourth, with a leadoff single for Kelli Suguro and a walk to Hayward, but both would be stranded, as Carda began a game-ending streak of 12 straight retired. The junior struck out two in the fifth and two more in the seventh to close the contest.
UCLA added an insurance run in the seventh. Carda led off with a single to left, moved to second on a passed ball and scored on a single up the middle by Spaulding to make it 4-2.
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I know there are similar questions, but none refer to the way I go about it. Freezes are not regular and I can't reproduce them.
When it does happen, it usually completely freezes for about 10 seconds (sound glitches and no keyboard or mouse moves) after which it comes back for 2-3 seconds and then it repeats. I usually get rid of this by ALT+CTRL+F2 or F1 and issuing
top and waiting for a chrome process that uses around 50 to 60 % of the processor to go down (couple of seconds).
Other times the main process eating resources was Clementine (the music player) but that was only around 30%.
After the process goes below 10% I go back to Ctrl+Alt+F7 and it doesn't make any more problems.
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Vol 8 No. 19 - January 30, 2008
Florida State Representative Bill Galvano (center) meets with Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) District Secretary Stan Cann and another FDOT official on the bridge.
By Tom Vaught
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HOLMES BEACH – State Representative Bill Galvano, R-Bradenton, wanted to make sure Florida Department of Highways officials knew how he feels about the Anna Maria Island Bridge, so he went to the top.
Galvano invited Florida Transportation Secretary Stephanie Kopelousos to tour the bridge to get a first-hand look at where the state will spend $9.1 million this year to give it 10 more years of service. He also lobbied for a new bridge as soon as possible.
"I hate the thought of spending nearly $10 million to fix the bridge for 10 years," he said. "We need to do something now, and $50 to $75 million for a new bridge is not in the cards for the next session or probably the one after that."
Galvano said Kopelousos indicated she would try to speed up the process of finding a replacement for the drawbridge.
"She said she thought she could start the process to where it might come together to replace it in 10 years," he said. "If we could agree on an outside date, then we'd have a goal to work toward."
Galvano said that Kopelousos was very apologetic about how FDOT handled announcing the yearlong rehabilitation that starts in a week and will close the bridge for 45 days. When FDOT made the announcement, it said that the closure would be for 75 days during a period when tourism is customarily still strong. Island businesses, residents and their political leaders protested, forcing FDOT to renegotiate with the contractor to shorten the closure and move it back to a time when business is slowest. It was later disclosed that FDOT knew about the closure long before it told the Island.
"She said that the communication wasn't there," Galvano said. "She promised that something like that would never happen again."
FDOT District One Secretary Stan Cann accompanied Kopelousos. After walking out onto the bridge in the cold wind, the group returned to their vehicles to attend a luncheon in Palmetto to discuss highway and bridge funding. Kopelousos told the crowd that her department is actively seeking alternative ways for financing construction projects since the gasoline tax that funds them now is decreasing as people drive more fuel efficient vehicles.
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The Slavic Union, a notorious ultranationalist group likened to fascists by prosecutors, was banned for extremism by the Moscow City Court on Tuesday.
The hearings were closed to the public. Dmitry Dyomushkin, the union's leader, said the court ignored the group's arguments and he promised to appeal, Interfax reported.
The probe against the union, abbreviated "SS" after its Russian name, Slavyansky Soyuz, was opened by the city prosecutors, who accused the organization of promoting nationalistic supremacy similar to the ideology of Nazi Germany. SS was also the abbreviation used by Hitler's security forces who carried out the Holocaust.


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In addition to bringing Adventure Mode to the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of Minecraft, Title Update 14 will also introduce an all-new user interface for the popular block-building title. Giving fans their first look at the new UI on Feb 20, 4J Studios released screenshots of the improved interface via their Twitter account.
Not only do the screens show off the new user interface, they also tease a few other features that 4J Studios is adding to Minecraft in Title Update 14. Thursday's interface reveal also teased the new menus for anvil enchanting and NPC trading which are coming to the home console editions of Minecraft for the first time thanks to the upcoming update. Judging from the teaser look at the new interface, it seems that Xbox 360 and PS3 players will also be able to dye armor and wolf collars. This feature already exists in the PC version of the game and appears to now be coming to consoles.
No date has been specified for when players should expect to see TU14. Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition is now available via Xbox Live Arcade and Minecraft: PS3 Edition is out now on the PS Store. 4J Studios also recently revealed that they are currently working on a new City Texture Pack DLC in addition to continued development of next-gen versions of Minecraft for release on Xbox One and PS4.
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It's time to do some fishing with this week's Gear Review Opportunity. This week's rods and reels come to us from Okuma ~ High Performance. Some of you will be familiar with Okuma as a reliable, lower price point reel, and you would be right. They are known for good value priced reels. What you may not be aware of is the range of products they offer, and the quality of the products. I have been a fan of Okuma products for years. If you think that all Okuma has to offer is the lower end value priced rods and reels, here is your opportunity to try some of their better products. And – I DO know what I'm referring to, from experience. On a bonefish trip to the Bahamas a couple of years ago, I landed 16 bones to 9 pounds with an Okuma Epixor spinning reel, and saw a few other reels – generally regarded as top of the line – blow up. On my trip to Alabama last week, 2 of the rods I took along were Okumas, and they performed flawlessly. Here is your opportunity to experience the same quality I've come to rely on.
There are 6 items up for grabs this week. they are:
2 Okuma Trio High Speed Spinning Reels. From the website:
Okuma innovation advances rapidly within the Trio spinning reel's revolutionary Crossover Construction platform. Taking the best of aluminum's strength and graphite's lightweight handling, Trio delivers an intelligently designed, agile and rugged performer for all freshwater and inshore saltwater fishing applications. Available in both standard gearing and high-speed models, Trio elevates every spinning reel experience with motivating design that's fun to fish and advanced performance you're proud to own. Featuring a full complement of Okuma technology including our powerful Dual Force Drag, EOS elliptical oscillation system, HPB high performance bearings and CRC corrosion resistant coating process, the Trio again resets the standard of consumer value in spinning reels.
Trio Spinning Reels Feature:
Multi-disc, Japanese-oiled felt drag washers
DFD: Dual Force Drag system
9BB + 1RB stainless steel bearings
Quick-set anti-reverse roller bearing
Precision machine cut brass pinion gear
CRC: Corrosion Resistant Coating process
HDGII: Corrosion resistant, High density gearing
Crossover aluminum and graphite hybrid body design
Crossover aluminum and graphite hybrid rotor design
EOS: Patented Elliptical Oscillation System
Hybrid spool design with graphite arbor and aluminum lip
ADC: Aluminum Drag Chamber precision spool system
Rigid, forged aluminum handle design
Hydro Block water tight drag seal
Heavy duty, solid aluminum, anodized bail wire
RESII: Computer balanced Rotor Equalizing System
Trio spinning reels are backed by a 1-year warranty
The retail value of these reels is $75 – $90, depending on the size of the reel.
Bold, in both design and its 7.3:1 high-speed gear ratio that's available in both right and left hand retrieve, the Okuma Citrix makes an aggressive statement by itself, and even more so when paired with a matching Citrix rod. The bold strength of Citrix's Alumilite construction frame, A6061-T6 spool and multi-disc drag is tempered by the smooth handling of an eight bearing drive system, micro-click drag adjustment and ergonomic swept-in handle. Need to gear down for brute strength? Citrix is also available for right-handers in a gear ratio of 5.4:1.
Citrix Features:
ALC: Rigid diecast aluminum frame
A6061-T6 machined aluminum, anodized V-shaped spool
Multi-disc composite drag system
7BB+1RB bearing drive system
Micro-click drag star for precise drag settings
External adjustable centrifugal cast control system
Quick-Set anti-reverse roller bearing
Graphite side plates on both sides
Easy change palm side plate access port
Ergonomic handle design allows cranking closer to body
Zirconium line guide inserts for use with braided line
Available gear ratios: 7.3:1 and 5.4:1
7.3:1 gear ratio available in left hand retrieve
Citrix reels are backed by a 1-year warranty
Retail value of this reel is $119.00
The final offering from Okuma this week is 2 Okuma Citrix Baitcasting rods
Can you remove all evidence of weight in a fishing rod while still delivering its' power? Fish an Okuma Citrix bass rod and the answer becomes yes. High modulus graphite blanks set the stage for Alps guides with braid-ready Zirconium inserts. EVA foam split rear grips are feather light and comfortable while the Pac Bay Minima reel seat is barely there. Securely mount a matching Okuma Citrix low-profile baitcast reel or Okuma spinning reel with the precision and strength offered by a custom aluminum threaded cap and the rod disappears as the combination's balance centers squarely in the hand.
IM8 graphite blank construction
Lightweight EVA split grips for reduced weight
Zero foregrip design for improved balance and weight reduction
ALPS stainless steel guide frames
Zirconium line guide inserts for use with braid or mono lines
Pac Bay MINIMA reel seat for reduced weight
Custom anodized aluminum reel seat threads for strength and balance
Stainless steel hook keeper
Citrix rods are backed by a limited lifetime warranty
Retail value of this rod is $119
Finally, we are proud to offer to our bloggers 3 assortment packs of Fish Creek Spinners. "Why are we proud to offer these", you ask?? Because these spinners are made by John Delaney, and he has been with us here at the OBN since our emergence. I've wanted to do something to promote John's spinners and company and, now that Spring is inevitable, we really ARE proud to offer these assortments. Trout fishermen, early season river folks – here is your opportunity to try some great spinners. Each assortment is valued at $18.75. THANK YOU, John, for your generous offer. John also writes a blog that can be found here on the OBN. Click to link to Noise on the Line. Check it out!
As with the previous offerings with multiple items up for grabs, you need to let us know which of the products you would be able to put to the test. Simply include Trio Reel, Citrix Reel, Citrix Rod, and/or Spinners in the body of your comment.
Before you pull that comment trigger: Gear Review Opportunity is open to OBN Members with an Active Blog on the Outdoor Blogger Directory. By Commenting on this Entry you confirm you have read the Reviewer Guidelines and agree to the terms and conditions. Comments will be accepted until Sunday at 5 p.m. MST. Winning comment (s) will be selected by the Random Number Generator and announced this coming Monday on the OBN. Please check back to see if the RNG has shined upon you, we don't track down winners…


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Oprah Winfrey Talked To Rihanna
Oprah Winfrey Talked To Rihanna – Oprah Winfrey has telephoned Rihanna to talk to her about being assaulted by her ex-boyfriend Chris Brown and to offer the singer her help.According to reports:
"To my knowledge Riri has spoken to Oprah," "Rihanna declined to have it as a topic on the show but spoke to her as a friend. Oprah told her that if its anything she can do just let her know."
The next part of the Chrihanna soap opera will enfold when Chris Brown appears in court on March 5, 2009 on felony charges of criminal threat.
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I hate christ for this
l hate christ for this
I don't hate him and I'm not disappointed in her for what ever decision she makes regarding staying or leaving him. They've got to muddle through this on their own. They had a terrible day. To bad.


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[groovy-user] fixed: help please -- weird setter problem?
Hello there, On Feb 29, 2012, at 9:23 PM, Ondřej Čada wrote: > perhaps I am overlooking something obvious, but well, this code ... > auction.setAuctionIsCreated(true) > ... works perfectly. This variant though ... > auction.auctionIsCreated=true > ... consistently throws ... exception. Well, found and fixed the culprit. You may recall from my previous message that so as I can use syntax "foo.bar" to call "foo.bar()", I was using the following Object category (installed through mixin): <at> Category(Object) class DecentPropertyAccess { def propertyMissing(String name) { def method=metaClass.methods.find { meth -> meth?.getName()==name } if (!method) throw new Exception("DPA: Unknown property '$name' of '${this.getClass()}'") this.metaClass."get${name.capitalize()}" = {-> // next time do it fast (*) method.doMethodInvoke(this,null) } method.doMethodInvoke(this,null) } } Now, it seems that's the catch -- looks like the Groovy runtime tries to be smart or something, and if it happens to have the getter installed in metaClass, it does not bother trying to use the original setter -- either it finds it alongside the getter, or it fails.(Continue reading)


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Exploring Cosmic Darkness, Scientists See Signs of Dawn
By JAMES GLANZ
Published: August 4, 2001
The dim haze from a distant epoch that astronomers have dubbed the cosmic dark ages, a time so ancient that stars and galaxies had not yet begun to shine, has been seen for the first time by earthly telescopes, members of a multinational team said on Friday.
The discovery, if it withstands scrutiny by other scientists, who have been searching for the effect for decades, amounts to a sighting of the first dawn in the cosmos as starlight and other radiation began to pervade the heavens.
''It's the birth of stars, really,'' said Dr. Richard Ellis, an astrophysicist at the California Institute of Technology who was not involved in the work, which he called ''very exciting.''
The sighting was made by scientists with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, an ambitious effort to map large swaths of the universe and catalog some 200 million celestial objects.
''There were no stars, there were no galaxies up until this point,'' said Dr. Robert H. Becker, an astrophysicist at the University of California in Davis and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory who was one of the leaders of the Sloan team.
''This is when matter finally got organized enough to create stars and galaxies.''
Scientists have long believed that after the explosive genesis of the universe some 13 billion years ago, there followed a barren, lifeless period -- the dark ages -- before gases from the explosion could coalesce into stars and galaxies like the ones gleaming in the sky today.
But as the universe expanded and cooled, large amounts of that gas remained wafting through space like a thick fog or haze, in the form of hydrogen atoms. That haze blocked much of the light thrown off by the first stars. In a way eerily similar to a dawn on Earth, the fog would have quickly burned away as more and more stars were born and their light ionized the hydrogen, making it essentially transparent.
Sir Martin Rees, an astrophysicist at Cambridge University, said, ''The expectation is that the universe started off, the first half-million years, being very hot,'' because of the initial explosion, called the Big Bang.
But as the universe cooled, Sir Martin said, the dark ages dragged on for hundreds of millions of years, until stars started forming and finally ionized the gas.
''And then the fog suddenly lifts, as it were,'' Sir Martin said.
The astronomers of the Sloan survey saw what they believe is a shadow caused by the last traces of that fog in the light of the most distant object ever seen, a cosmic beacon called a quasar that members of the same team discovered earlier this year.
The effect was like seeing clouds on Halloween night by watching their silhouettes drift across the face of the moon.
Dr. Michael A. Strauss, a Princeton astrophysicist who was among the leaders of the project, said the observations, which the team plans to submit next week to The Astronomical Journal, indicated that the fog lifted when the universe was about 900 million years old.
''We're in some sense probing the end of the dark ages,'' Dr. Strauss said, ''which means the universe has lit up.''
The other leading members of the project were Dr. Xiaohui Fan of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and Dr. Richard L. White of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore.
The discovery is also a triumph for another member of the Sloan team, Dr. James E. Gunn of Princeton University, who, with a colleague, Dr. Bruce Peterson, predicted more than 35 years ago that neutral hydrogen gas should absorb radiation and cast just such a shadow in the spectrum of distant quasars. The so-called Gunn-Peterson effect did not show up in decades of searching until now.
In retrospect, Dr. Gunn said, ''it's just that we had to find objects distant enough to see it.''
The Sloan survey is an $80 million, five-year census of the cosmos involving institutions in the United States, Europe and Japan. One of its aims, searching out a million quasars, has been achieved with spectacular success over the last two years, as it turned up the four most distant such objects ever found.
Quasars are thought to be powered by matter pouring into the collapsed objects called black holes. They can be seen from so far away because they shine with an energy equivalent to billions of suns. Even so, the four recent quasars found by the Sloan's telescope, in Apache Peak, N.M., were so faint that ordinary searches would be unlikely to find them.
''The role of the Sloan was to discover the quasars,'' said Dr. David H. Weinberg, an astrophysicist and team member at Ohio State University, ''which required covering a large area of sky and being able to comb out that one-in-a-million object with unusual properties.''
To study the four objects, the astronomers looked at the spectrums of the light they emitted; three of the four did not show any sign of the haze. But when closely examined by a more powerful instrument, the Keck Telescope on Mauna Kea, in Hawaii, the spectrum of the most distant one displayed a dark swath in which light was virtually absent.
''It's the first indication that we're starting to see maybe into the edge of the dark ages,'' said Dr. Joshua Frieman, a Sloan astrophysicist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and the University of Chicago.
The quasar must have been burning just as the dark ages were giving way to the glittering universe of today, said Dr. Frieman, who added that more extremely distant quasars would be needed to confirm the result and discover whether the dark ages ended at the same time all over the universe.
According to some theories, radiation from hot gas collapsing to form stars, as well as light from the stars and quasars themselves, may have helped to clear the cosmic fog. Scientists expect the observations to answer those questions and to provide new information for theorists trying to understand exactly how and when the first stars formed.
Sir Martin, of Cambridge, said the first isolated stars must have formed before the clearing of the final haze observed by the Sloan team.
Like the fragmentary chronicles that survived the dark ages on Earth, said Dr. Marc Davis, an astrophysicist at the University of California, persistent mysteries about the cosmic version remain. One of them, he said, was how quasars began blazing into life as the dark ages waned.
''How in the devil did such massive beacons, with their accompanying huge black holes, get created so quickly?'' Dr. Davis said. ''It tells us that we don't really understand enough detail about how galaxies formed.''
Chart: ''When the Universe First Saw the Light'' After examining the spectrum of light emitted by a distant quasar, scientists estimate that the universe's first dark ages ended about 900 million years after the Big Bang explosion. BIG BANG About 13 billion years ago, the Big Bang fireball created a hot, dense stew of charged particles. DARKNESS ARRIVES As the universe cooled, neutral hydrogen atoms emerged and blocked the passage of light. The universe became opaque and entered the cosmic dark ages. FIRST STARS Stars emerged from the cooling gases, and they boiled the hydrogen into a charged, transparent plasma, which allowed light to propagate inside bubbles around the stars. THE HEAVENS SHINE As stars grew in number and began grouping into galaxies, the regions of transparency grew, eventually bringing the dark ages to a close about 900 million years after the Big Bang. (pg. A12)


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Goldman Sachs walloped consensus second-quarter profit estimates and nearly matched year-earlier earnings even as CEO Lloyd Blankfein notes "market conditions deteriorated and activity levels" fell amid Europe's turmoil and ongoing global-growth concerns.
Analysts had rushed in recent weeks to outdo themselves in slashing Goldman earnings estimates, many of them coming in well below a dollar a share.
Profit fell 11% to $1.78 a share compared to the analyst consensus of $1.16 a share.
Revenue fell a less than feared 9% from a year earlier, though it slumped by 1/3 from the first quarter.
Meanwhile, Goldman Sachs' second-quarter value-at-risk, which refers to the amount of money the firm had on the line on any given trading day, fell to $92 million from $95 million in the first and $101 million a year ago, an indication clients continue to sit out rocky markets.
Second quarter results showed weaker investment banking activity and a 37% gain in fixed income trading from one year ago. But first half results showed weakness across the Goldman's various businesses, with nearly all of them reporting lower results compared to the first six months of last year.
"Market conditions deteriorated and activity levels for both corporate and investing clients were lower given continued instability in Europe and concerns about global growth," CEO Blankfein said.
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Though she has worked in the same position for the past 22 years, Jean Irvin is no stranger to change. As Executive Director of the Forsyth County Health Juvenile Justice Council — a collective of 38 public and private nonprofit agencies offering an array of children's services — the Winston-Salem resident has helped change the lives of thousands of children for the better.
"People often ask me if I ever get bored working in the same place for so long," says Irvin, with a light chuckle. "But we do so much." Unlike larger, more bureaucratic institutions, continues Irvin, the Council can "connect people with services quickly and effectively. We help children and families by making sure that the system in place to help them is smart and effective."
As a support system for Forsyth's child-serving agencies, the Council performs a variety of functions including educating these institutions on each other's offerings, resolving problems or disagreements between them, and making referrals. Agencies, says Irvin, often rely on her organization to inform them what services are available to best accommodate their clients. However, she points out that the Council's supporting role manifests in other ways as well. "Sometimes, the best way to support a particular agency is to throw them a party and tell them that they are doing a good job," says Irvin.
Irvin uses her organization to bring people together on behalf of children. "We put people at the table to talk to one another," she says, noting that agency leaders are required to come to Council meetings themselves as opposed to sending their representatives. "It's amazing what can happen if people know who each other are," insists Jean Irvin from Winston Salem NC.
No less amazing is her own commitment to seeing that children's needs are being met. This grandmother of three sits on the North Carolina Bar Association's Juvenile Justice Section, the CenterPoint Human Services Children and Youth Advisory committee and the Governor's Crime Commission/Intervention Committee. She serves as president of the United Way Agencies Executives Association and as a member of the Forsyth County Child Protection and Fatality Teams. Irvin is also a board member for the Forsyth County Dept. of Social Services, the United Way of Forsyth County, and Forsyth Futures, a community organization benefiting children and youth.Composed of a variety of civic leaders and child advocates, Forsyth Futures has acted as a model for the state by exemplifying how local leaders can effectively collaborate to serve children.
"She is well aware of what services have been promised kids by law," says Attorney Lewis Pitts, the director of the Advocates for Children's Services arm of Legal Services of North Carolina. Pitts, who cherishes Irvin "as a person and a child advocate" worked with her on the NC Bar Association's Juvenile Justice and Civil Rights Committee three years ago. "She also knows that these promised services are often not delivered and she is more than willing to speak up about it," he says, referring to ongoing problems in the areas of Medicaid, special education and foster care. Irvin's attitude, continues Pitts, is that "if they promised it, then our kids should get it."
Irvin believes that a family's needs and resources have to be in balance, and that change is unrealistic if they are not. "It's wrong to identify 15 needs for a family and then only give them the resources to meet two of them," she contends, noting the complexities of dealing with such dilemmas as substance abuse and homelessness. If agencies do so, continues Irvin, "they are setting up the families to fail."
Jean Irvin's from Winston Salem desire to meet the needs of others was sparked at an early age. In nightly conversations with her parents at their Raleigh home, she received a solid grounding in such topics as civil rights, history and music. She also was socialized to believe she could make a difference in the world. The family was a mainstay at Raleigh's Pullen Baptist Church, an institution well known for its active role in the civil rights and anti-war movements of the 1960s.
Upon graduating from Broughton High School in Raleigh, Irvin attended North Carolina State University. She graduated with a BS in history in 1971. After getting married and moving to Winston-Salem, she spent time at home raising her children while volunteering for the Council from 1974 to 1979. During this period, Irvin penned the grant proposal that would ultimately allow for the organization's ongoing function.
Regarding current state policy, Irvin thinks that a lot of folks are "thinking right" and moving in the right direction on issues of child welfare. However, she clarifies, that "thinking right is not the same as doing right." She uses the recent Leandro case as an example, stressing how it needs to be interpreted in a tangible way that improve overall child well-being, not just classroom education. Child advocates, says Irvin, have to "make sure the concerns they've brought to the table, stay on the table."
Irvin is also concerned by the large number of children currently suffering from mental health problems. "We've got to recognize that we must get these young folks help and treatment," says Irvin, noting how funding is both too meager and too segmented. "Prevention and intervention are not 'either-or' issues," she maintains. "They both are the issue."
Whether it's mental health issues, drug use, violence in the home, or other problems plaguing children and their families, Irvin drives home the consequences of allowing such dilemmas to go unaddressed. A few years back, at a symposium she conducted at a local school on violence and safety, Irvin asked elementary school students what made them feel safe. One girl responded, "I feel safe when my mommy pays the rent." A young boy offered, "I feel safe when I have my gun with me."
At another program, Irvin asked a teenage student with whom she had an ongoing dialogue, what he wanted to be five years from now. The teen responded, "Ms. Irvin, in my life, you don't get no dreams." At 6:30 the next morning, reveals Irvin, "I got a call informing me that this young boy had murdered someone." Shaken, she went back and reviewed the boy's records. "This kid was never thought of as bright," says Irvin, noting that he'd been repeatedly classified as slow or unable to learn. And yet, outside of the school context, "He was probably the most bright and engaging kid I ever met."
The impact on Irvin is clear. "These are the things that motivate me to keep my nose to the grindstone," she says. "I want that girl to not fear losing her home, and those boys to not feel the need to carry a gun or kill somebody."
The real challenge, explains Irvin, is being well aware of the extreme social problems that drive people to behave the way they do while trying to make them understand that they cannot continue to act in such a negative way. "We can only offer them the possibility for change by creating an environment supportive of it," says Irvin. Unfortunately, "we can never do it for them. And that's a tough thing to realize."
"Families can either do themselves a lot of good or a lot of harm," continues Irvin. By serving the agencies that serve them, she adds, "our job is to help them do no harm." It's a job at which Irvin has succeeded admirably – and a generation of youth across Forsyth County and the state are the true beneficiaries.


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"all belts do is collect dust". floyd obviously doesn't need a belt to know he's the best. strip the belt from him and give the belt to the guerrero/berto winner. doesn't josesito lopez have the silver wbc WW belt? haha. i wonder if floyd doesn't face the guerrero/berto winner, will lopez get a shot at the winner? he should right...
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Mayweather stated he is not too interested in belts anymore
They should have stripped him off that belt a long time ago
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No way they voluntarily strip Mayweather unless he makes it known he won't defend that belt. Mayweather has worn a green belt in 5 divisions and while it may not matter much to him Suliaman knows he can't can't get more money in sanctioning fees from anyone else provided floydmis willing to give him any sanctioning money
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Even tho WBC is worthless , he should've been DQ'd as soon as he sucker punched Ortiz when the ref never said "box"
I highly doubt floyd gives 2 lottery sodas about this
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Floyd is law unto himself he wont mind. Just gives him a chance to regain the belts as if hes special. Like ali being a 3 time heavyweight champ.
Just cant behave himself Floyd. What problem has he got with fighting like everybody else? Does he hate boxing that much.?
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What a miserable post.
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Floyd should be banned from the sport he hates if he cant defend his belts. He wants to known as the man who regained the most belts as he knows he dont fight often enough to defend his titles to get to where BH was with 20 middleweight defenses......Floyd knows that aint happening.
So Floyds going down another easier route. Hes cheating his fans, dishonest and no ambition in the sport he claims he loves.
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If Mayweather does not agree to fight the Guerrero-Berto winner within a reasonable amount of time then he should lose the WBC 147 pound tittle and the Guerrero winner should become the full champion.
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like he cares...
floyd's in a position where can fight for any belt at any time he wishes and he doesnt care much for mandatories these days
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If you have a holomorphic function $f$ from the unit disc $D$ to a unit square $U$, such that:
1) $f$ has a continuous extension to the boundary of $D$,
2) $f$ restricted to the boundary of $D$ is a bijection between boundary of $D$ and boundary of $U$.
Then WTS $f$ is a biholomorphism between $D$ and $U$.
This was a question my professor mentioned as an example of something that might be on the final tomorrow. My hypothesis may be not quite correct, specifically I'm not sure if we are assuming 2 or if we can conclude it. I think we have to assume it?
Anyway, so I want to do this problem by applying the argument principle to the function $g(z) = f(z) - w$ for any $w \in U$. Showing that $\int_C \frac{g'(z)}{g(z)}dz=2\pi i$ will imply that $g(z)$ has exactly one zero (since $f(z)$ is holomorphic on $D$ so is $g(z)$, so it has no poles and we conclude 1 zero from the argument principle) so therefore $f$ is a bijection and we are done.
So I'm not quite sure how to handle this integral. Using contour integration, we get $$\int_C \frac{f'(z)}{f(z)-w} dz = \int_0^{2\pi} \frac{f'(e^{i\theta})}{f(e^{i\theta})-w}i\cdot e^{i\theta}d\theta.$$ And from here I want to use a logarithm, but I am getting hung up on branch cuts and where to go from here.
Could anyone walk me through how to complete this integral?
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