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Campus Safety Drill
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Lady Lakers Hockey vs Northern
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Location: Norris Center's Taffy Abel Arena
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Hello LRH's,
This is my first post here, although I have been browsing these forums for quiet a long time. A little of my background before I get started with my question. I am a former Marine (93-97) and during my 4 years, each qual time (4 times) I scored a 349 of 350 for Expert. I am only telling this since it shows that I was profecient in windage and elevatoin adjustments and obviouosly know how to shoot
Since those fun USMC days the only shooting I have done is with my Thompson 25-06 with a Nikon Prostaff BDC reticle going after Whitetails here in Oklahoma. I love this caliber for whitetails here on the corn and soy bean fields were the average shot is around 300-500 yards ( I only hunt out of treesstands - good for long range field shots). Every year my freezer is full of meat from the hunt so I have to be doing something right. This thompson is the only rifle I own not because it is the most versatile caliber and rifle but because as a single income family I just really could not afford anything better for what I usually do out in the field. I also do some target shooting against my redneck family memebers and beat thier socks off every time, but we mainly just do it for fun and to see who has to buy the next 6pack. I would like to continue busting whitetails as I am now, but also extend my range out for target shooting. A thousand yards would be nice but to do it accurately It would take a pretty good rifle. I'm not looking to get into benchrest competition yet. That may be a thing I get into later but NOT in the next couple years and certinly not off this upcoming rifle.
Last month my wife finally graduated college and has entered the work force making a bit more than me and this has more than doubled our household income. Now it's like we are rolling in cash. My wife also decided that since I had been the sole bread winner for so long I now have 6 months of free paychecks ( I can spend my paychecks on whatever I want with none of it going to bills). This leads me to my question:
I need help on rifle manufacturer selection and scope selection. I am set on the caliber. I cant be persuaded on that part. I have been browsing all over the internet for the past couple months and my new rifle is going to be a 6.5x284 (I know all its pro's and cons and intend to handload for it - I got that order list ready to go and have posted on another handloader forum elsewhere for info instruction and info on that). For the manufacturer I am thinking the Cooper Arms Model 52 Excalibur (
) and for the scope I just cant make up my mind between the Nightforce Beast (
) or the US Optics ER-25 (
) with some customization done to it.
I like the cooper rifle for the 1/2 moa @ 100yds gurantee + the lifetime gurantee and everything I have read on them says they customer service is amazing. Just from all the reading I have done I think the only way to get a better rifle than this would be a custome build, but I dont know the first thing about custome builds.
The two scopes I like both have the options I like and are said to be the clearest glass on the market and they also have the best customer service (So I have read).
My hope is that someone here can help me get a better rifle and scope than what I was able to find and currently have selected. Budget wise I dont want to spend more than 3k for the rifle and no more than 4k for the scope. I intend to purchase the rifle first and then the scope about two months after that. I still have about a month and a half of saving left for the rifle so that gives me some back and forth time on this forum
Thank's in advance for anyone who helps with this project.
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Location: Jackson Hole, WY
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Re: New rifle build help needed
You can't go wrong with any combination you choose. Nightforce is the standard we judge other scopes by. US optics is freaking awesome too. Stepping up from your current rifle to a Cooper with one of those scopes is a night and day difference. I wish I had your problem, but either would be awesome.
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Re: New rifle build help needed
I agree with your current plan. I like Nightforce. You have done your research and I would go with your current idea and make no changes.
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Re: New rifle build help needed
Thats kind of what I thought. I didn't spend a day looking for the ones I mentioned above. I have been forum browsing this site and many others over the course of a couple months and the cooper + NF/USO was what I came to within my budget.
I am leaning more heavily towards the USO scope than I am the NF just because of the customization on ordering one.
For the rifle though I know that there has to be something better. A custom rifle most likely but I just don't know enough about building a rifle and what all is needed for building one and who makes what the best and why. Pretty much I am staying away from customer jobs cause I dont know crapola about it. It would be fantastic if someone here could say: go to this website and and order this rifle with these parts reccomended plus have this guy build it and provided you do your part it wil shoot 6inch groups at 1k yards
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Location: South of Canada and North of Wyoming
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Re: New rifle build help needed
Welcome to LRH and you've got a great wife there!
You've picked a great chambering for LR shooting. It's probalby the most popular cartridge on this site.
Have you budgeted in reloading equipment and a rangefinder? Unless your going to be shooting at know distances, like BR shooting, a range finder is a must. I would recommend a Lieca 1600. You will also need need a wind/weather meter and i would recommend a Kestrel 4000 or 4500. There will be some other miscellaneous stuff as well.
Coopers are great rifles but I would not choose a sporter rifle as long range rifle. I'm sure you would be able to shoot long with it but you would be better served to to build more of an LR platform with heavy barrel for more consistency. A full custom build is going to run about $3000-$3500 or more.
I just did a 6-284 off of a S&W of a S&W M1500 (made by Howa)
I bought the donor rifle for $350 at a gun show. I'll be able to sell the walnut stock for about $1000
Broughton Light Varmint Sporter Contour (.720 muzzle) $400
B&C Medalist Stock (Same or very similar to the Cooper) $275
Tactical knob on bolt handle (smith mached a section of old rifle barrel)
Smithing, inlet and bedding $990
Muzzle brake installed $200
Bottom metal cerakote $40
Total cost $2135 less $100 for the old stock.
I could get a Timney trigger for it for another $110
With a NF NXS, base and rings it brings the total package up to about $4200
The muzzle brake isn't in the picture because I decided after the break-in to have it installed. Also, the finish is not complete because I am getting it nitrided and it will have a matte black finish.
The Beast is a great scope but i would go with a 5.5-22 NXS (I love mine) or the ACTAR for a lot less. That would allow you to allocate funds toward a little better LR rifle and some of the other LR stuff you will need.
Something to think about.
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Posts: 211
Re: New rifle build help needed
Ill play. If it were me, I'd buy all the parts, then search out a smith to assemble. You get everything you want then, actually thinking of a similar build, but here would be my list
Stiller, defiance, bat action repeater action, long
Krieger or brux fluted 6 or varmit
Mcmillian edge, manners stock or sim
Jewell trigger, of course
I'd go blind mag, my last build has the detachable aics mags. They are okay, but as a hunting rifle, think they get in the way, harder to sling I for one never have needed more than 3 down. And you save weight and money, more streamlined rifle.
IMO you have a better starting point than the cooper, than again, never owned one. You have sourced the best components from firms specializing in making the best "pieces"
Smiths, plenty to pick from, just do some more research. Plenty on this forum
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Location: Central AZ
Posts: 1,149
Re: New rifle build help needed
Sounds like you are headed in the right direction. Cooper makes a quality firearm - and many would list it as a custom build. The Nightforce is also a great scope. Something to think about is how you want this rifle to handle. While Nightforce is a great scope, the NXS is no lightweight (with the BEAST weighing even more). On a 9 pound rifle, I found the NXS made the rifle feel "top heavy" and out of balance. The rifle was always wanting to roll right or left on me. I still have an NXS on my 12 pound rig and it just feels right, especially with the A-5 stock. Not bashing Nightforce in any way - just saying they are built like tanks and sometimes that weight can dominate the rifle and take it out of balance.
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A good old dirt hole set has without doubt caught more fox and coyote in the history of trapping than any other type of set. Most trappers target Red and Grey fox and coyote with the dirt hole set, but many other critters such as mink, raccoon, badger, skunks and others are also taken with this set. Most trappers have their favorite sets to catch fox and coyote, but the dirt hole set is still the standard of the trade in modern trapping today. Other sets that canine trappers commonly use are the flat set. The urine post set, and the scratch up mound set. These sets are equally very successful for trappers across America, but the dirt hole and its many variations is still the bread and butter set of the majority of canine trappers. The many variations of the dirt hole set with maybe a dozen or so successful canine trappers you probably would not see any one of them making the set the same. Of course there are numerous other variables to take into consideration, the most important being the set location itself. The best made set will not catch many canines if placed in areas where there are few fox or coyotes. Secondly. The set must be placed in an area where fox and coyote frequently travel. Other variables of critical importance are taking advantage of prevailing winds, the proper use of lures, baits, urines and other attractors, using clean traps, keeping human odor to a minimum at sets, trap checking methods, the use of natural guides, and many more.
The dirt hole set can be used anywhere a trapper can dig a hole in the ground. Most trappers use a narrow digging tool with a narrow blade and a short handle. Trappers can purchase digging tools specifically designed for making dirt hole sets from trapping supply businesses. There are many designs, some with very narrow blades for digging holes the sizes of mouse holes to blades 2-3 inches wide for making slightly larger holes. Trappers who make large holes for sets may use a tool as large as a tiling spade. The dirt hole set is always attractive to fox and coyote because it resembles a small mammals burrow or a place where another fox or coyote buried a morsel of food for a later meal. Fox and coyote often find the hole and the smells coming from it are intriguing, as well as arousing to their appetite and curiosity. Regardless of the type or style of dirt hole used, the trapper wants the critter to come into the set without hesitation or fear. The use of good urine and its proper application is one of the most common methods that trappers use to eliminate fear at a set. The use, type and height of a backing for the hole is another factor often overlooked when making a good dirt hole set. A backing could be a clump of grass, old bone, rock, piece of bleached wood or bone or a dried up cattle dung. The backing helps to guide the animal to the front of the trap where the trap is placed. The most important thing about the use of a backing is to keep it small, subtle and natural to the surrounding area. A dried up cow chip may be a natural backing for a set in a cattle pasture, but may be out of place and perhaps unnatural if it is place at a set in an agricultural field where cattle do not frequent. Fox and coyote often become wary and overly cautious when they cannot see over the set. This fear can be reduced or eliminated by using small natural backing maybe no more than two inches above the ground.
The key to success in using the dirt hole set does not depend on the size, or the depth of the hole, type of lure or baits used. The one common denominator and universal thing that any good set has is the proper placement, bedding of the trap and concealment. Therefore, the most important point here is how the set is constructed and the other little variables tat are done with the set so it is set upwind from the canines approach. First, lets say a little bit about trap placement. How far back from the hole or attractors should the trap be set? Should the trap pan be placed off center an inch or two to the right or left? If the trapper is targeting fox, then seven inches from hole is ok. If the target is coyote, then possibly nine inches will work. What if you are trying to catch both fox and coyote? Surely, I would not want to miss a raccoon either, especially if coon prices are good. I have used numerous variations of the dirt hole set over the past 50 years, and after all those years, I largely use a tow hole system where I set the trap right next to the hole and attractors in what is know today by professional trappers as the "Walk through approach". This method can use one hole dug or two. I prefer to dig two small holes the size of a mouse hole on both sides of the backing. I really need only a 1/2 inch rebar stake punched into the ground about 5-6 inches, sometimes less if the ground is frozen. A small digging tool with a blade about one inch wide is often used by trappers when working in ground that is not frozen. If the ground is frozen then the rebar stake pounded into the ground works better. I simply ream the stake in a circular motion and create a cone shaped hole. The bait and lure are wedged down into the bottom of the hole making it virtually impossible for the canine to remove it. With the use of two small holes I like to use a gland lure in one hole and a food lure in another. This is kind of like offering the canine a smorgasbord. This method really works on the canine's curiosity. The baits and lures are concealed and invisible, and are difficult for the canine to remove. With larger holes a canine will often times remove the bait or substance that the lure is applied to, and immediately its curiosity is fulfilled. Once this happens the canine may leave the set and the trapper will just have to wait for another day or better luck the next time. The use of multiple holes, baits and lures allows the canine to take a few extra steps thus greatly increasing the trapper's odds in making a catch. When using the walk through approach, the trapper should give some consideration to the prevailing wind. Studies have shown that 80 percent of the time a canine will approach the set from the downwind side. Placing the trap between the animal and the smell attractors and letting the wind currents send out the odors from the baits and lures will work in the trapper's favor. Therefore, setting the trap with the prevailing wind direction and setting upwind from the actual travel route of the canine is very important when using any kind of dirt hole set.
Once the trap is properly bedded, concealed and dirt sifted over the trap with a slight depression over their trap pan, the final touch of urine is then used. This can be done in several ways. I believe the best results are achieved when only a small amount of urine is sprayed in a pinpoint fashion between the holes on the backing. This causes the canine nose to focus its attention on the one spot while moving about its feet. Too much urine can cause the canine to be overly cautious. My preference for the greatest success in coyote trapping is to use only red fox urine, I do, however, like to use coyote urine on some of my urine post sets in the same area. I know that there are many successful trappers that have a lot of success with using coyote urine at all types of coyote sets. The choice of type of urine may depend on area of the country trapped, time of year or any number of independent factors.
Before I leave the set I will do a little landscaping and fencing to make sure the canine plants its foot directly on the pan. I like to use something that is natural and readily available at the set. This cold be a piece of cow chip, rock, dirt clod, corn cob, grass tufts, coyote or fox droppings, etc. and all of these materials should be small and subtle, but very visible to the canine. Just lightly bed one of these materials into the dry sifted dirt over the trap. Maybe a dirt clod over the loose jaw, one over the trap trigger and maybe one above the trap between the two holes. Using this fencing helps to guide the canine's paw between the jaws directly on the trap pan, like you are telling the canine where to step. It also keeps the fox or coyote from stepping on the jaw and pan at the same time, resulting in a toe catch, and thus creates a pathway to walk through. There are countless other variables too numerous to elaborate on in just a short article that can make a difference in any kind of dirt hole set. Hopefully, I touched on some of the main points that have made the dirt hole set the bread and butter set of canine trappers for several generations.
John Almquist
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Madeline Dare has finally escaped rust-belt Syracuse, New York, for the lush Berkshire Mountains in Massachusetts. After her husband's job offer falls through, Maddie signs on as a teacher at the Santangelo Academy, a boarding school for disturbed teenagers. Behind the academy's ornate gates, she discovers a disturbing realm where students and teachers alike must submit to the founder's bizarre therapeutic regimen. From day one, Maddie feels uneasy about smooth-talking Dr. Santangelo but when she questions his methods, she's appalled to find that her fellow teachers would rather turn on each other than stand up for themselves, much less protect the students in their care. A chilling event confirms Maddie's worst suspicions, then hints at an even darker secret history, one that twines through the academy's very heart. Cut off from the outside world, Maddie must join forces with a small band of the school's most violently rebellious students-kids whose troubled grip on reality may well prove to be her only chance of salvation.
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I recently moved from PA to MD and am looking to do weekend crewing on the
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Looking to crew on the Chesapeake
I am 70, retired and have a Tartan 37 which
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Looking to crew on the Chesapeake
Hi Barbara,
Your post caught my eye - like you, have helmed 50 footers on sailing courses/vacations yet want to achieve confidence/competence in smaller more managable craft. Currently have a boat in Edgewater MD - south of Annapolis. Though usually play the part of sailing wife (good follower of directions) and herder of small children, anxious to become confident boat handler in my own right. Boat is a 28 foot San Juan sloop-rigged with decent accommodations plus a Boat US Tow membership! I am 33, a nurse, fairly strong and fit. Would love to have a female companion to occasionally take Bay trips with and to gain some much needed dutch courage. Maybe we can both get what we need - interested? Email me at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Fair Winds,
Looking to crew on the Chesapeake
Doh! Thought I better note that I need "plain old courage" - not necessarily "dutch courage" as mentioned in my original post. oops. (Though maybe after we get back to the dock dutch courage might be more suitable!?) My mistake, Jane
Looking to crew on the Chesapeake
Hello, I would love to join you folks anytime you need crew. I am rehabbing an old Pearson Triton at HH North and live out in Shady Side. I am 40 years old and in the process of re-inventing myself. I have passed my CG OUPV exam but need more sea time for the review board, I have sailed solo, most of the time, on boats in the 25-30 range but still feel like I am a neophyte. I am good with most things mechanical, able bodied and don''t whine. I am also a good cook and good ship mate. I am interested in meeting women of similiar interest. I would look forward to hearing from any of you. You can reach me at firstname.lastname@example.com
Regards, Ang
Looking to crew on the Chesapeake
I am looking for crew. I have a 31 foot sloop at Fairwinds Marina on the Magothy River. I have been sailing from the Magothy for 20 years. My age 55. Would like to plan a sailing trip for Sat. June 5.
Looking to crew on the Chesapeake
I sent you a message via the message center. I am available to crew on 6/4.
Looking to crew on the Chesapeake
Hi. I have a 30 Hunter and always looking for crew on the weekends. Pls cal if interested. 703-768-7568.
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If you are well-disposed to the American political orientation and have sufficiently lowered your expectations, then the convention speeches might be fun.
One of the remarkable characteristics of contemporary American politics is that the country has no real orators. Just try listening to your Congressional representative or senator. They are about as lousy at speaking as your local news anchor. For any Indian familiar with politics, speeches are a mainstay of politics. So it is with most parliamentary democracies in the world. In lobbyist-driven democracies, however, one does not have to be good at public speaking. It is enough to be a schmoozer.
Most convention speeches are an exercise in tolerance of your faculties and sensory abilities. They are rote, non-descript and may well be used one day to teach how not to give speeches. "Speechifying" is not an element of the American political process. There is no George Fernandes here. There are no fiery union leaders either. If the primary qualification for a politician is the ability to raise money, then it is understandable that public speaking is not their forte.
Senators. whose lot is excruciatingly dull to begin with, have re-defined boring in many ways. If you have watched the "question" hour in the British Parliament - check out C-SPAN sometime - you will realize what quick wit and alertness of mind do to political speeches. If you are well-disposed to the American orientation and have sufficiently lowered your expectations, then the convention speeches might be fun.
Another fellow senator, Joe Biden, demonstrated just how different it is to speak from behind the bench than it is from the podium. The crowd had waited for him all evening. He followed Bill Clinton who declared that he "loved Joe Biden." But his main lines, punched with "more of the same" confused the audience. They were chanting with him in the first unfinished sentence and then wandering around with the next. The speakers in the spectacle are often saved by the enthusiasm that is already in the audience. Their energy carries you forward, but the more you kill it, the worse it gets.
After months of campaigning and two senate campaigns, Hillary Clinton is somewhat of a speaker. She is far less spontaneous and has learned very little, except self-confidence from her accomplished spouse. She is most effective when speaking angrily about how women should mobilize and how they need to "keep going," recalling the fight of the women sojourners in historical terms. Otherwise, she carries the day by who she is, by little tricks of delivering her lines slowly.
With his years of training and perhaps by working with his earlier boss, Al Gore has taken on a more relaxed approach to his speeches. It was a delight to read an advance copy of his speech and then watch him deliver it with verve and energy. Ted Kennedy saves himself by shouting the lines that he feels strongly about. The rhythm and the energy are gone.
Clinton makes his case like a charmer, but hits you with simple bullets that you can take home. The idea that the United States should refrain from showing "the power of our example, rather than an example of our power" was deliriously effective and sufficient enough for the rest of the world to understand. Diplomatic, measured, warm, seductive and charming, he did all he could to wipe away the bitterness of the primary season to remind us why he is one of the most appealing leader from this country to the rest of the world. And, we have to consider him one of the best speakers of his generation.
The climax was, of course, the speech by Barack Obama. For someone who talks in interviews slowly, deliberately and often thinking too much before saying anything, he lights up when speaking before a crowd. He delivers superbly. Smooth he is not, but he is forceful and articulate. He is better at getting angry; this time in INVESCO field he was more a union leader than a political reformer. Nothing wrong with that, as we need some of each! A well-written speech, delivered with grace and force, it rose to the occasion and drew the battle lines for Democrats.
His lines about "enough is enough" and "America, don't look back now" will be remembered by historians. In each of these lines, there were hidden two levels of meaning, with a call to end the corruption and thoughtlessness of the past eight years as much as an appeal to end racial intolerance to elect a man with a "different pedigree" that he does not share with other presidents.
Eloquent yes, easy no! That may well be Obama's problem, if he happens to lose. He is too articulate, too brainy and there is much of the faculty lounge talk in him.
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"Fish that grow up in protected reserves are more naive than ones in regularly fished areas and are easier to catch, since they don't turn tail at the first sight of humans," says Our Amazing Planet. "But new research reveals that this naiveté persists a short distance outside reserves, as well. This 'naiveté radius' presents an unexpected windfall for fishermen lurking on the border of these protected areas, and presents a reason why reserves should be supported, according to a statement from Australia's ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, which conducted the study."
Wrens can use passwords
"Some species of cuckoo are known as brood parasites for their devious tactic of laying their eggs in other species' nests so those birds can care for the cuckoos' young," writes Sindya Bhanoo of The New York Times. "Now scientists have discovered that an Australian bird called the fairywren has evolved a way around this tactic: The mothers teach their unborn chicks a unique begging call – a sort of password." The cuckoo chick tries out many begging calls until it sounds similar to the fairywren but, because it has hatched several days before the young wrens, it has had little time to practice and perfect the password-like call of the fairywren mother.
When our ancestors ate grass
"Our ancestors began eating grass half a million years earlier than thought, soon after they started leaving the trees," says the New Scientist. "Early hominins, living three million to 3.5 million years ago, got over half their nutrition from grasses, unlike their predecessors, who preferred fruit and insects. This is the earliest evidence of eating savannah plants, says Julia Lee-Thorp at the University of Oxford. She found high levels of carbon-13 in the bones of Australopithecus bahrelghazali, which lived on savannahs near Lake Chad in Africa. This is typical of animals that eat a lot of grasses and sedges. … A. bahrelghazali may have eaten roots and tubers, rather than tough grass blades. Adding these to their diet may have helped them leave their ancestral home in east Africa for Lake Chad."
Courtroom theatrics
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Okay, so the general public had not entirely forgotten Steven Finn or Graham Onions, but for the two pacemen it had seemed an eternity since they were handing their England caps to the umpire.
Play finally got underway in a Test that lost its first two days to the weather for the first time in England since an Ashes Test against Australia at Lord's in 1964, and captain Andrew Strauss announced that both men would make their returns.
Specifically, Strauss said at the toss that Onions was to replace James Anderson, while Finn stepped in for Stuart Broad, which prompted frenzied speculation as to where that left them respectively in the pecking order.
Strauss was entirely unapologetic when asked about the selection of his line-up, adopting an approach near identical to that of his coach.
"We look at things from a very simple point of view - what is best for the England cricket team," he said. Who can argue with that?
For Onions, it was his first Test since January 2010 in Cape Town and what a long break it had been.
His Durham team-mate and former England dibbly-dobbly-wibbly-wobbly medium-pacer Paul Collingwood promptly tweeted: "Chuffed to bits for @BunnyOnions. Serious determination to work his way back to fitness and into the England Team."
Onions was the pick of the England bowlers on a patience-testing day for the hosts, and his efficient, bustling approach to the crease was instantly reassuring.
Equally Finn, despite missing out on taking the new ball with Onions, caused a real impact with his height and bounce coming on first change and took the key wickets of Darren Sammy and Darren Bravo.
What is important to note from the way that Finn and Onions performed, is that the pair picked up their rhythm and form following such a frustrating spell on the England sidelines.
After an entire winter of carrying drinks, bowling at cones with David Saker and playing Xbox, it was to the duo's credit that they were able to slot in as required and bowl with such accuracy and potency for extended spells.
This is the 'Team England' wider squad set up that Flower and Strauss have advocated for so long, and the value of having very competitive and accomplished back-up players was demonstrated.
Inevitably, there had been lots of debate about how England might miss Anderson's bowling, but it was actually his absence from the slip cordon that was most sorely felt.
Ian Bell, rather inexplicably wearing sunglasses on a dark, dank day in Birmingham, dropped two simple catches at slip which would have given England the ascendancy from early in the day.
But England will have been relatively happy with their day's work and, weather dependent, the hosts will look to bat quickly and effectively to post a first-innings lead that the bowlers can defend.
Only two teams have ever managed a Test victory after the first two days were washed out by rain: England triumphed over New Zealand at Headingley in 1958 when the spinners Jim Laker and Tony Lock shared 19 wickets in the match, while New Zealand also beat Bangladesh in similar fashion 11 years ago.
England will not be confident of a victory with the forecast so dubious for the next two days, but they certainly have the bowlers available - despite the absence of their frontline seam pairing - to fire them to victory if there is sufficient play.
It has been a difficult few weeks for a defensive and combative Flower, but his squad policy which he will be sure to employ on numerous occasions this summer and into the future has already shown its benefits.
On a purely personal level, Onions and Finn will just be overjoyed to be back bowling for England in a Test match.
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Big 5 Sporting Goods (BGFV) posts 26 cents vs. 28 cents first quarter EPS despite a 5.3% higher same-store sales and 9% higher total sales. It ups its quarterly dividend 28%. It also sets a $15 million stock buyback. It sees second quarter comp sales in the low-to-mid-single digit range and EPS of 23 cents to 27 cents.
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Guess (GES) posts 34 cents vs. 18 cents first quarter EPS on 14% higher same-store sales and 20% higher total net revenue.
NVIDIA (NVDA) posts 23 cents vs. 18 cents first quarter EPS (GAAP) on a 17% revenue rise.
Analog Devices (ADI) posts 39 cents vs. 31 cents second quarter EPS (GAAP) on a 7% revenue rise. It sees third quarter revenue of $675 million to $685 million and 38 cents to 39 cents EPS.
Best Buy (BBY) plans to acquire a majority interest in Jiangsu Five Star Appliance Co., China's fourth-largest appliance amd consumer electronics retailer, for investment of $180 million including $122 million capital injection.
Kohl's (KSS) posts 48 cents vs. 36 cents first quarter earnings per share (EPS) on 6.9% higher same-store sales and 16% higher total sales. As a result of the strong first quarter and the benefit of the investment of proceeds from the sale of receivables, it raises fiscal year 2007 EPS guidance to between $2.91 and $3.02.
Taser International (TASR) is to delay the filing of its first quarter 10-Q after it determined its historical methodology for calculation of indirect manufacturing expense applied to inventory was incorrect. It also identifies a clerical error in calculation.
Arctic Cat (ACAT) the snowmobile maker posts 3 cents fourth quarter loss vs. 13 cents EPS on a 2.4% sales drop. It says the fourth quarter was affected by poor snowfall in the East and Midwest that reduced sales and increased sales incentive programs. It sees 27 cents to 31 cents first quarter loss, and $1.13 to $1.19 fiscal year 2007 EPS.


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Phyllida Lloyd's all-female Julius Caesar is extraordinarily bold. It's not just the casting that makes it feel daring; there's also a crazed, percussive intensity, and the production abounds with weirdness, thuggery and horror.
Set in a women's prison, it seems far removed from the original Roman location. The constrained environment prompts thoughts about restrictive gender roles. But I wouldn't call it a straightforwardly feminist reading; it's something weirder and wilder than that. Most of the action takes the form of a play within a play: the inmates are staging Shakespeare's aggressively political drama, and their power struggles emerge in a great surge of riotous physicality.
The aesthetic is all rather Prisoner Cell Block H, with a twist of Stasi brutality. The theatre's usual seating has been stripped out, replaced by functional plastic chairs. Bunny Christie's set is hard, grey and grimy.
CCTV cameras suggest the hum of activity offstage. Occasionally some of the performers launch into thrashy rock music, which echoes ominously.
At the same time there's grim humour: doughnuts being used as instruments of torture, the haunting soothsayer deriving her predictions from a copy of Heat magazine.
The action moves swiftly. It's most arresting in the famous assassination scene, which here involves Caesar being choked with bleach. Much of the audience will find the details tricky to see – and that's deliberate. As so often with eruptions of violence, we wonder what it is we've just witnessed, and there are plenty more moments of nagging ambiguity.
Frances Barber is a viciously bullying Caesar, an arbitrary tyrant who in her beret and leather trenchcoat looks like someone you might find in a spy film loitering seedily in a railway arch. Harriet Walter's austere Brutus is a performance of riveting intricacy. Cush Jumbo's Mark Antony is impassioned, yet she also at times has an unusual brooding stillness. Jenny Jules brings a raw derangement to Cassius. There are ex-offenders in the cast, too, graduates of the excellent company Clean Break.
This strikes me as an important production. Lloyd pushes her vision very hard, perhaps to the detriment of its logic. The elaborate framing device of the play-within-a-play doesn't quite work. But even it it's not a Julius Caesar for purists, this is visceral and exciting theatre.
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Zeltiq Aesthetics Climbs After Raising $91 Million in IPO
Zeltiq Aesthetics Inc., the Pleasanton, California-based maker of fat-reduction technology, climbed as much as 15 percent in Nasdaq trading after raising $91 million yesterday in an initial public offering.
Zeltiq rose 12 percent to $14.59 at 10:43 a.m. New York time on the Nasdaq Stock Market after earlier climbing as high as $15. Yesterday the company, which trades under the symbol ZLTQ, sold 7 million shares at $13 each, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Zeltiq had cut its price range on the shares from a planned $14 to $16 apiece. At least 70 companies have withdrawn or postponed U.S. IPOs this year, the most since the comparable period in 2008, Bloomberg data show. Ubiquiti Networks Inc. raised $105.6 million last week in the first IPO in more than a month. Through yesterday, the stock had risen 27 percent since the offering.
Zeltiq offers a method using so-called controlled cooling to reduce fat bulges that can't be eliminated through dieting or exercise, according to a regulatory filing. The company received U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval last year to market the method, called CoolSculpting, for fat reduction on the part of the body commonly known as "love handles."
The procedure has also been approved in 46 international markets, where its use is typically not limited to a specific body part, according to the filing.
Revenue in the six months ended June 30 more than quadrupled to $31.6 million from a year earlier, while the net loss narrowed to $1.4 million from $8.5 million, according to the filing.
Zeltiq said it plans to use proceeds from the IPO to pay outstanding licensing fees and for research and development.The offering was led by JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS)
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Well today I have to get ready for the family to start invading. Everyone is coming over for DD's birthday dinner (my baby turns 13, I fell old now). For today
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Today we are getting together with my side of the family to celebrate Christmas. We are so spread out that we only see each other once a year (always at Christmas time). I'm so excited! This will be the first time in 3 yrs that my son (and my new DIL) will be with us. We don't leave for another 4 hours, but I wanna go now!! LOL!12-23-2006, 09:55 AM #3
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Today I have to:
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I have to work a double today. Bleck.
I've already:
~washed & dried two loads
~got another load in the wash & will put it in the dryer before I leave
~loaded & ran the dishwasher
~cleaned up the kitchen
~cleaned up the dining room
Dh is going to clean the rest of the house w/ the kids while I'm at school.
On my way home I need to stop at the grocery store & get bread, cereal, and eggs.12-23-2006, 10:34 AM #5
~Good title for today. Everyone, I'm sure is busy busy! DH is busy tackling his long Honey-Do list which includes gluing broken dishes, cleaning up yard trash, hanging curtain brackets, and hauling furniture and totes of clothes out to the storage shed. My list for the day includes sewing the last set of Sesame Street sheets for my niece, wrapping presents, vacuuming bedrooms, sweeping and mopping kitchen, and hanging curtains. I'd also like to bake cookies, but that's lowest priority. We're spending Christmas Eve with my in-laws and the house is LOADED with goodies! I don't have to bring or do a thing!~12-23-2006, 11:38 AM #6
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Good morning everyone
It's a great day here in PrairieRose land. Ds and ddil are here, dd#2 is here and dd#1 will be here later in the day. We have several days of togetherness and we're thrilled. I've got a few things to do today other than just enjoy them.
~workout (omg what I ate at 11 last night.... )
~straighten up
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That's about all I have to do.... . Hope everyone has a great day! I know I will.12-23-2006, 11:41 AM #7
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I've been up since 3am when I had an asthma attack. No fun going to my sons girlfriends house to do Christmas. cause the grandboy will be with their mom. Then to do Christmas at son#3 house for the same reason. Then home. Waiting for my sister to give me the # to the hospital where my brothers at. so we can all take turns calling. I have 4 sisters and 2 brothers. 5 of them are in North Dakota and Montana and my older sister and I are out here in Ca.
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I don't have much planned for today. I just need to:
Clean the upstairs bathroom (didn't get this done yesterday)
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I've got to get some housework done today.
Get last load of laundry done.
Start getting some prep work done for my Christmas Eve and Christmas dinners.
Make centerpiece for Christmas table. (I picked up a half-dozen red roses for $3 at Aldis. I'm going to add some fresh greenery from the yard such as pine, holly and spruce.)
Kick back and maybe watch a movie this evening and relax before the rush tomorrow starts.
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I've been busy already today,
~ Woke up and got ready to drive DH to work
~ DD and I went to bank to cash a check
~ Went to housekeeping persons house for a talk
~ Went to AC Moore, making a bone shaped pillow so I needed fiberfill
~ Went to supermarket and got a few things
~ Went to a house to pick up a fake tree (freecycle)
~ Straightened up house for guests tomorrow
~ Sweep and mop hardwood floors
~ Let doggies out (did some and still some to go )
~ Reheat dinner
~ Clean up dinner mess, lol
~ Relax and watch a movie with DD and DH
Tomorrow it's dinner at my Mom's and then Christmas Day I will be visiting my best friend and her family in NY, so want house to be clean before leaving tomorrow morning so I will straighten up again once house guests leave tomorrow.~TRACY~*
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well got up and started stuffing the pork rost .For tomorrow. Then started Baking all kinds of cookies.I pretty much had to make every thing that I was making all month again to day. next year i am going to make a batch to freeze every time I make some.
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Olympic sprint gives way to Stanley Cup marathon
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(Reuters) - With the sprint for Olympic gold over, the marathon run for the Stanley Cup begins this week with the opening round of the National Hockey League playoffs.
While the Sochi Games was a two-week gold rush, the quest for the Stanley Cup is an ultimate test of endurance requiring the eventual champions to persevere through four best-of-seven series before lifting the NHL's top prize.
The first round gets underway on Wednesday in what will be as much a battle of survival as a sporting contest for the 16 teams that qualified after an 82-game regular season.
Such is the ferocity of the postseason that Boston Bruins forward Patrice Bergeron played through torn rib cartilage, a broken rib, a separated right shoulder and a punctured lung in last year's final against the Chicago Blackhawks before spending three days in a hospital.
Still stinging from last season's loss, the Bruins are back in the playoffs, this time as the NHL's most complete team and with the added benefit of home-ice advantage in each series they play after finishing first overall during the regular season.
No team knows more about the postseason grind than Boston's first-round opponent, the Detroit Red Wings, who are back in the playoffs for a remarkable 23rd consecutive year after sneaking in as the Eastern Conference's second wild card.
The Bruins and Red Wings, two of the NHL's Original Six franchises, will clash in the playoffs for the first time since 1957 when their series opens on Friday.
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Batman Begins GameCube
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Longtime Bat-gamers can consider Batman Begins the cave-engineered antidote to the Bat-crap that's been dropping on consoles in recent years.
The training levels are a little tedious, but serves it purpose to have you naturally thinking and reacting as if you're Batman by the heart of the game.
Batman Begins isn't just a good game, it's two great games that play great together. When you're the caped crusader, it's an action game in the mold of "Splinter Cell"... Then, when you're driving the Batmobile, the game morphs into "Burnout," with you knocking cars off the road as you careen through traffic.
If you enjoyed the newest Batman movie and want to "play" it in game form, Batman Begins will satisfy your inner batty desires.
Flaws considered, this is still the best Batman videogame to come out in two generations and there's a lot for both the comic book and movie fans to enjoy.
While the storytelling is poor, the game does an excellent job of evoking the film's ambience, with striking visuals even better than those in the movie. The game's use of light as it streams through broken boards into a dark room is reminiscent of the wonderful art direction of the first "Splinter Cell" game.
The decision to go stealth was a good one and even though scripted and prompted, the gameplay hits the broad mark.
They've almost got the formula, the look and style of the game was perfect for the Dark Knight, but they seem to have forgotten that Batman is a detective. I don't need to be lead through the game by my hand, let me try to figure out my environment on my own, that would have been more Batman's style.
Game InformerIs it great? Heck no. Does it offer little substance, but an enjoyable handful of thrills? It does, more often than not. [Aug 2005, p.97]
The Batmobile levels alone will keep you well entertained and the game captures the film's dark mood well enough. This one certainly deserves a weekend rental for sure.
AceGamezIn the end or in the beginning if you like, Batman Begins is a good game, just falling short of great due to the linearity.
With extremely linear gameplay, a relatively flawed fear mechanic and basic combat system, Batman really isn't breaking a sweat in this title.
It stays true to the movie but at the expense of repetition and a convoluted storyline that tries to tie in all the filler. It's still a good game for anyone looking for an interactive movie that doesn't require much practice or skill.
A game that has a great set of concepts, but inevitably falls short once you realize there's not much to it, and that you're essentially traveling along a linear path and repeating the same process over and over again until you reach the end, with your only occasional relief being the driving sessions.
Not the best game ever, but one of the better movie based games and easily one of the better Batman games in recent history.
At least it's easy on the eyes and ears: Batman Begins looks remarkably good, from twilight environments that make for a spooky Gotham City to some surprisingly impressive character models.
EA is only good at making games if it incorporates some type of ball, and the movies are still far better than the games.
The sound is just as good as the visuals, mainly because the actors from the film lend their voices to the game.
Unfortunately, the gameplay feels too much like a mishmash of several other well-known gaming franchises and ends up overly simplistic.
If you are a fan of the Batman, you should play this game in some form, as it is one of the better representations of the comic hero in quite some time.
The game is repetitive, easy, short, and offers nothing new to the genre besides the introduction of the fear meter. But even that is misused as you can only put fear into enemies by doing what the games tells you to do, not what you want to do.
Nintendo PowerWe're crossing our fingers that the next Batman title lets us play the comic book hero like we really want to. [Aug 2005, p.80]
The stealth fails, however, in at least two significant ways. The first is a near-total lack of choice: there's almost always one prescribed way to navigate a given situation, and player improvisations are promptly curtailed by unsustainable gunfire.
With all of the risks developers have been willing to take lately on properties like "Psychonauts" and "Killer 7," it's really painful when a product comes along and unabashedly cribs from other people's notes. Batman Begins doesn't have a genuine bone in its body.
A run of the mill stealth title, borrowing gameplay elements from other titles in the genre, and it does nothing to expand or deepen them. The extra features such as fear and Batmobile action stages are automated when they should be intuitively controllable by the player.
Requiring only five to seven hours to finish, and having virtually no replay value, only the most dedicated fans should own Batman Begins.
Edge MagazineWhere the game really succeeds, however, beyond providing a robust and solid, if unassuming model of explorative stealth and attack, is in fulfilling that old and oft-forgotten criterion - putting the gamer inside the movie. [Aug 2005, p.95]
A reasonably engaging, yet perfectly average experience--much like most summer blockbusters.
It features some excellent graphics and audio production, as well as some of the best voiceover work to date. However, this can't make up for the frustrating gameplay, which tries to focus on stealth, combat, and platforming, yet doesn't manage to do any of these particularly well.
While this rises above its predecessors, its true potential is hampered by restricted game mechanics.
Pelaaja (Finland)Despite its limitations Batman Begins is an okay-ish action/adventure game, which has excellent production values. The voice acting is excellent and helps to make the game feel and sound very authentic compared to the movie. This game certainly is no "Catwoman"! [July 2005, p.59]
It's too simplistic. While the game gives the illusion of Splinter Cell-style freedom in how you want to take out your enemies, Batman only really ever has one course of action: knock something over, scare the bad guys into dropping their guns, then come in punching and kicking.
Unless you are a true comic fan and know nothing about games, avoid this title like avoiding the Scarecrow's neurotoxin. Instead, save your money from the rental and see the movie, which far exceeds what this game presents.
Compromised because you've pretty much seen and played the game before. Fans will see the adventure through, but many players will find their attention wandering.
Although its blend of stealth and action is clever, it's also derivative and boring.
Batman Begins feels more like work than fun. Look at Spider-Man 2 to see how superhero games should be done. [NGC]
Computer Games MagazineYou've basically got a barely interactive "Splinter Cell for Dummies." [Sept 2005, p.91]
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#14 Most Discussed GameCube Game of 2005
#21 Most Shared GameCube Game of 2005
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Mixed or average reviews- based on 10 Ratings
User score distribution:
Positive: 6 out of 10
Mixed: 1 out of 10
Negative: 3 out of 10
Aug 2, 2016One of my favorite batman games of the early 2000's is this one. The game is still flawed and the game is kinda bland but besides that thisOne of my favorite batman games of the early 2000's is this one. The game is still flawed and the game is kinda bland but besides that this game is very fun.… Full Review »
Nov 2, 2013I used to play this all the time as a kid and I just recently dusted it off again. It is amazing how much higher my expectations are forI used to play this all the time as a kid and I just recently dusted it off again. It is amazing how much higher my expectations are for graphics these days. I remember playing this nearly a decade ago and being amazed by it.
The graphics do still stand up, but there are some odd moments. This game really shines by making you feel like you are Batman. The levels are very vey linear and by that I mean you have one and only one way to play through each level there isn't even a detour you can make through a level. You have to get rid of all the enemies in the same fashion.
I think this game doesn't get enough credit. I really firmly believe that this game was a the great starting point for the Arkham video games. There are a lot of similarities between them.… Full Review »
Nov 27, 2011It's a slow progressive game that defines a mixed taste , while Batman ( in that time) didn't had a fantastic moment in the gaming industry .It's a slow progressive game that defines a mixed taste , while Batman ( in that time) didn't had a fantastic moment in the gaming industry . Batman Begins , begins a good reputation to the grim hero .… Full Review »


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Remember, the only thing that has been decided at this point, is how to interpret the patent involved. As we said earlier, the trial starts in two months and HTC and Google can try to claim prior art, which might be difficult since it would require finding some reference to thethering from the early 1990's. Or HTC could simply deny the infringement and if that fails, it can ask the 6 member ITC commission to overrule the judge. And if that fails, a ban on Android tethering could ensue. Or, as is most likely, Nokia will be receiving royalty checks from HTC. In case you're wondering, Apple and BlackBerry have already settled their legal difficulties with Nokia.
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The Cruze was announced about 7 months ago.
Ford announced the 3.2 and 2.0 diesels 2 months ago.
Pretty much ANY car exported from the US has a diesel option. 99% of all Chrysler products, including Jeep, offer at least one if not 2 diesel engine options.
As for the hybrid folks, hybrids are a hazardous waste accident ready to happen, not to mention the eco footprint to develop them is far beyond eco-friendly. No emergancy services require special training for normal gasoline-diesel engine vehicles, hybrids on the other hand do.
Diesel has no special properties making it especially attractive for passenger car propulsion. It's just another option that USA consumers have little interest in pursuing. Diesels are finding their way into american econoboxes simply because GM and Ford are finally producing true world cars (common vehicular platforms to sell worldwide). I applaud that. If they export 50K diesel Cruze cars to Asia, this allows them to sell a few thousand here to people like you without creating financial losses. However make no mistake, this change in marketing strategy does not mean demand for domestic diesel passenger cars is growing sharply or this is some fix for eco problems. It only means domestics can now OFFER a very low quantity of diesel world cars cars here
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BECAUSE they are recouping the diesel car R&D costs thru export sales.
Ecologists and reputable, independent scientific organizations rate today's clean diesel, hybrid and gas cars of similar size about equal on the eco scale. This takes into account risk of chemical accidents, battery manufacturing, end-of-life retirement, emissions per mile and responsible recycling. I'll defer to experts in the field, thank you. Hybrid battery chemicals are offsetting pollutants you are more familiar with such as carbon particulate and poisonous combustive gasses. The fact that we're more familiar with diesels and cigarettes does not make them safer. All electric vehicles are a bit less clear since they may be powered by fossil, natural gas or nuclear depending upon the source of electric power.
A huge disparity in eco value is seen when comparing light weight econobox transportation to inefficient 5000lb luxoboat AWD SUV's with modest seating capacity, huge tires, tall roof line, poor coeficient of drag and massive V8 engine. If you want to pick something to be concerned about from an environmental standpoint, maybe a twin turbo V12 Mercedes sedan or 500HP SUV with seating capacity for 5 would qualify? These hogs use the fuel of 5 hybrids and pollutes about 5x more and despite leather seat covering, easily contain 3x more synthetic material.
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Santa Barbara-based FindTheBest.com, the online search and ranking site headed by former DoubleClick founder Kevin O'Connor, is launching a new "badge" program on the site Wednesday, which it says will help show the best products and services rated by its experts. The site said that it will allow companies to show a badge when they are ranked among the top 10 highest rated products and services on the site. The badges include the best ski resorts, luxury resorts, motorcycles, airports, headphones, and a slew of other categories. FindTheBest said the badges are based on an Expert Rating, which reflects a weighted compilation of scores from the most trusted valuation sites. FindTheBest provides an online site letting users see ranking on the best products and services.