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I now think of celebrity in America as a form of historical painting. One of the reasons we have traditionally needed the famous is so that their acts (a.k.a., "deeds") might become events. The contemporary celebrity is an image-based entity, of course; it consists less of action than of visual material made at once experiential and monumental, commemorative. Here history is replaced by a populist pictorial complex, a list of images sourced from various points of view, each of which points allegorically away. Celebrity is massive and yet an indexical logic: a hair, the iceberg's tip. The image of celebrity is in fact a slender way into a broader slew of information about how significant living is undertaken in the present—and usually in the first world. The meaning of the celebrity is not his or her private life, who he or she "really is," but rather some quantity we have no access to, a story we the audience have collectively agreed to agree is significantly withheld.
Roland Barthes, re: the spectacle of historical painting, pauses over the "scandal of those exaggeratedly rearing horses, of the Emperor frozen in an impossible gesture." The "scandal" is the shocking irrelevance of these visual details. Fastened, for example, to the meticulous surface of a canvas by Emmanuel Leutze showing Washington crossing the Delaware, anyone would ignore time's depth. The viewer of the historical painting proceeds laterally, enjoying the figurative view. The kind of memory implied by historical painting is immediate, confrontational, lush. Like the symmetrical faces of celebrities, such paintings summon and transfix memory while simultaneously brushing aside historical data. There is no content in a painting of George Washington crossing the Delaware. Similarly, there is no content in a JPEG of Lindsay Lohan asleep in an SUV. These two kinds of images play on fame in a more or less analogous way, even if they otherwise diverge wildly and one is likely to far outlast the other.
Celebrity brings together two favorite bugbears of the present: compression and irony. This is to say: Memory is now not just false or unreliable, but crowd-sourced and "lossy." (We are familiar with the infidelity of compressed digital files—and I'm hardly the first to make a comparison between digital assets and stored contents of the mind!) Ideally, the data discarded in compression isn't noticeable. Still, the Internet is littered with blocky images we sometimes refer to as "photographs," as if it doesn't matter that clouds aren't square. The obviousness of the loss of information in many of our most commonly employed commemorative formats is where the irony inheres; we've learned to include it, like a drooling Lindsay, in our jokes. Poets, too, are exploring this aesthetic. To me it feels like a kind of historical wash over contemporary language: commercial, fascinating; exceedingly relevant and yet fact-free.
Of course, we have to believe that somewhere someone (Robert Caro?) is keeping up with reality—and that in professional circles history is still a social science tied to the concrete, is very hard work, and keeps for itself the quality of being professedly true.
Anyway, here I can only speak for literary pursuits. And when a writer is feeling more serious and therefore more strictly historical, it is likely that she values the work of noticing—and, in particular, the work of noticing the exemplary, telling detail. The kinds of truth we feel most at home with in modernity are contingent, i.e., evidentiary, clue-like. We mostly read materiality in the place of heroes and celebs when attempting to be serious, historical. Perhaps, then, history is no longer even written, but rather read, gleaned. The excluded and the insignificant are inherently more eloquent than the well-known narrative or figure. It makes a kind of common sense: Fragments, chance information, minor objects and errant facts afford access to something like the unconscious of events, a real that's more real than what we really believe to—ex post facto—be the case. Here history is all that theory (Benjamin, Foucault, for starters) said it would be: a mystery with symptoms, a morass of paperwork, a field covered in tiny pieces of trash over which an army has just trampled…
Perhaps, too, the sleuthy approach is very American? Certainly it has to do with American poetry. I think, predictably, of Ezra Pound, so seriously gathering up the "limbs of Osiris," lest the twentieth century be shrouded in misty colloquialism and finance; his long poem "including history" vacillates between recounting minutia of personal experience (café society, disappointing girlfriends, the time he saw an ant) and championing an imaginary imperial regime that seems to have as one goal a Fukuyama-like conclusion of history. For this reason, Pound's depiction might be viewed with some suspicion; other American poets have been a bit more antinomian, of course! But we still see the sifting, the search for a documentary edge: I think of Muriel Rukeyser's discussion of coal mining and silicosis, for example; Susan Howe and M. NourbeSe Philip's charged inscriptions; the records of migration and transliteration proposed by Myung Mi Kim.
Few professional historians would want to make a claim for a divinatory capacity of writing (much as few poets have been as ectoplasmic as Victor Hugo!) Yet the possibility of "access" to something gone or past or simply not present by means of writing remains a not entirely unconvincing proposition. I sometimes think that in contemporary poetry what is most interesting is not the question of knowledge—of producing something that might strictly be termed knowledge—but rather the question of what might or could become tangible to us, palpable, such that the historical fact not remain merely useful or abstract but instead arrive as another kind of experience. Here we might find ourselves thinking of work in prose that has a speculative valence, Renee Gladman's nation of Ravicka or Jon Leon's stressful nightclubs. The otherness, the otherworldliness of what might be termed history could also be compellingly rendered as an elsewhere, an otherwise with certain heightened qualities: a dis- or utopia. Of course at this point, it might no longer be strictly historical…
Here I want to return to the question of the patently fake—the monument, the celebrity, the historical painting—since history also pertains to the not-insignificant labor of making something that is not a representation (an event, a population) into a representation. In this sense, history is not just a style, topic, or theme to be borrowed for literary experiment, but a surprisingly useful metric for considering what exactly one is doing when one is making things up. The pressure we bring to bear when it comes to the historical fact twists and turns interestingly if directed toward "poetry." I don't suppose I will get anything true from a poem—and yet I'm at the same time far from convinced that it will be impossible to think or know or learn anything true, while reading a poem, regarding the past.
The painstaking process of reconstructing—artificially if not expressly falsely—what could not be experienced first hand brings us back to the notion of compression. Writing itself provides an appealing material difference: Writing is experiential, much as it depicts. Writing requires time. Writing is also made of discrete letters, a syllabary or alphabet, and in this sense wrtng is nt a vry gd cnddte fr lssy cmprssn. Thus, the kind of commemoration writing promises might at best be fairly minor, offering less a vision of an era than a glimpse at the plodding, formal, and apparently incidental fact that someone or something has written (or been programmed to write) and has, therefore, chosen letters and words over other letters and words. Yet from such minor facts we may derive a sense that experience itself is not discrete, even if consciousness is. A written thing, anyhow, is basically a document. In the impossible task of saying anything true about history I don't want to preclude the possibility that we have occasionally, perhaps accidentally and in spite of ourselves, foregone interpretation and somehow managed to write events "in themselves."
Lucy Ives was born in New York City and earned a BA from Harvard University, an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and a PhD in comparative literature from New York University. Her first collection, the book-length poem Anamnesis (2009), won the Slope Editions Book Prize. Ives is also the author of...


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David Wells woke up at 8 o'clock this morning and bounced off walls for 11 hours. Then he took the mound at Camden Yards and was at his surgical best, burying fastballs inside to the Baltimore Orioles, using a swirling wind to his benefit and leading the Yankees to a 1-0 victory. Robin Ventura's seventh-inning homer accounted for the run.
Wells was making the first start of his second tour with the Yankees, and he did everything he could to calm himself during the day. He listened to AC/DC and Creed as he paced across his hotel room, mixing in a phone call to Creed's lead singer, Scott Stapp. He had lunch with his former Orioles teammate Scott Erickson and was chirping to the waiter, driving people crazy.
He arrived at the ballpark at 2:30, more than an hour before he usually does, and realized he had forgotten to bring his headphones. No music this time. Just nerves.
''Tonight was probably the most that I've ever been nervous,'' said Wells, who is 38 and has pitched more than 500 games, including five in the World Series. ''I know the odds were against me by going out there and having not pitched since July and the back surgery. There's a lot of people who probably doubted.
''But, hey, I'm a survivor. As long as my back's all right, I know what I'm capable of doing as a pitcher. I've been in the game a long time, so I've got to learn how to pitch.''Continue reading the main story
Wells applied his knowledge with an approach that took advantage of the cold air. With a runner on in the fourth inning, he made a mistake to David Segui, who turned on a fastball and crushed it to center.
Wells and catcher Jorge Posada were sure it would be a home run, but the wind pushed it down and Bernie Williams caught it as he backpedaled onto the warning track.
Wells realized he could challenge hitters and get away with it. ''After I saw Bernie camped under it, I thought, that's what I have to do: stay in,'' Wells said.
He shut out the Orioles for seven and one-third innings, leaving after Mike Bordick's double to the left-center-field wall in the eighth. Steve Karsay came in and Jerry Hairston flied out. Mike Stanton entered, and Chris Singleton flied out to end the inning.
When Mariano Rivera pitched a scoreless ninth for the save, the Yankees' bolstered bullpen had worked exactly as planned.
The Jason Giambi plan is still waiting to take off. After grounding out with the bases loaded on opening day, Giambi was 0 for 4 tonight, striking out three times and breaking his bat on a grounder. He is 1 for 8 and has not hit the ball out of the infield in his seven outs.
But Giambi fielded well tonight, snaring a line drive in the sixth inning and scooping throws out of the dirt in the first and seventh, when he dug a ball out for Ventura, who had barehanded a soft grounder at the edge of the grass in front of third.
''He told me after the game, 'Skip, I did it with the defense tonight,' '' Manager Joe Torre said of Giambi. ''I said, 'Don't worry about it.' ''
Ventura took care of the offense. Leading off the seventh, he pulled an 0-1 changeup from Jason Johnson onto the pavilion atop the right-field scoreboard. The right-field corner is an inviting target, 318 feet from home, and Ventura has 8 career homers here in 150 at-bats.
His home run, and the bullpen's ability to protect the lead, gave a victory to Wells, the returning Yankee hero, who got a surprise two-year contract from the Yankees' principal owner, George Steinbrenner. Wells struck out one and walked one, allowing four hits and building off an impressive spring training.
Wells's back held up fine. It was 53 degrees at game time, late-afternoon rain having given way to a raw evening. But Wells said he prefers to pitch in the cold because hitters are uncomfortable. He ambled across the outfield to the bullpen before the game, raising his bare arms to acknowledge the ''Boomer'' cheers from visiting Yankee fans.
The same fans cheered him as he walked off the mound in the eighth, and Wells held his glove high to say thanks. He never expected to pitch so well after being so nervous, he said, but his performance was a rousing success.
''It was a big night for me,'' Wells said. ''To go out and pitch as well as I did was awesome.''
Major League Baseball fined DAVID WELLS $1,500 for hitting the Philadelphia Phillies' JIMMY ROLLINS with a pitch in a spring training game on March 29. The Phillies' VICENTE PADILLA had hit SHANE SPENCER earlier in the game, and Wells admitted he was protecting his teammate. . . . The Yankees hired JASON GIAMBI's personal trainer, BOB ALEJO, as a batting practice pitcher on Wednesday. Alejo, who quit his job as the Oakland Athletics' strength and conditioning coach to work exclusively with Giambi, had been prohibited from the clubhouse under new major league security rules. The Yankees solved the problem by adding Alejo to the payroll. ''The most important thing is keeping me out on the field,'' Giambi said. ''He does a great job of that.''
Manager JOE TORRE said ROGER CLEMENS would make his scheduled start on Sunday. Clemens said the swelling in his right hand had gone down since it was hit when he tried to barehand a comebacker on Monday. . . . The Yankees who toured the Pentagon on Wednesday were impressed with the rebuilding efforts since the Sept. 11 attacks. ''They're like five months ahead of schedule,'' BERNIE WILLIAMS said. ''I'd like to hire them to do my house.'' The tour was arranged by Gen. RICHARD B. MYERS, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Clemens, Torre and two coaches also attended.Continue reading the main story

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Peter Nordell receives the President's Award, while John Nackley is given the William W. Carpenter Award. Both awards were presented on Feb. 11 at the NAFEM Show in Orange County Convention Center, Orlando. The President's Award recognizes a non-elected NAFEM volunteer who has donated their time and expertise for the betterment of the association. "I'm
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Canton, Mass., Tweeter Home Entertainment announced that its CEO and president, Jeffrey Stone, is leaving the company to become president and COO of Tivoli Audio, the consumer-electronics manufacturer in which Tweeter owns a 25% stake.
Tweeter CFO Joe McGuire will serve as interim CEO, effective immediately. Stone will remain with Tweeter through April 26 to assist in a smooth management transaction. He will continue to serve on Tweeter's board following the departure.


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Figure skating medal hopeful Mao Asada left for Vancouver, British Columbia, on Saturday, determined to battle for gold against longtime rival Kim Yu Na.
"I want to turn in my best performance of the season and win the gold medal," Asada said before her departure at Narita airport. "I've been training to have one triple axel in the short program and two in the free skate, so I'm ready to do the same at the Olympics."
The 19-year-old has been training in Japan, instead of touching down in Vancouver early, following her victory at the Four Continents Championships in South Korea in late January in the absence of Kim.
Kim skipped the event on home soil in favor of training for the Olympics.
"I'm in better form than I was at the national championships or the Four Continents event," said Asada.
She believes her triple axel is the key in her gold medal quest against Kim, who has won all of the five international events she has entered since last season.
Asada, meanwhile, was moved by Daisuke Takahashi's bronze-winning performance in the men's event Thursday.
"That was really impressive. It made me want an Olympic medal even more," she said.
Joining Asada in the women's figure skating from Japan are Miki Ando and Akiko Suzuki, who also have a chance to make the medals podium.
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Bill to tax Internet sales closer to passage
WASHINGTON — The Senate moved closer on Thursday to passing a bill to tax purchases made over the Internet. But a final vote in the Senate was delayed until senators return from a weeklong vacation.
Although opponents hope senators will hear from angry constituents, they have a steep hill to climb to defeat the bill in the Senate.
The Senate voted 63-30 to end debate on the bill, setting up a final Senate vote to pass the bill on May 6. The final vote will only require a majority. But it faces an uncertain fate in the House, where some Republicans consider it a tax increase.
The bill would empower states to require online retailers to collect state and local sales taxes for purchases made over the Internet.
Under Pennsylvania law, online shoppers must pay a use tax if sales tax is not collected by the seller.
Retailers celebrated Thursday's vote.
"The special treatment of big online businesses at the expense of retailers on Main Street will soon be a thing of the past," said Bill Hughes.


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New York State Conservative Party Endorses MTA Tax Repeal Legislation
Albany, NY- Senator Lee M. Zeldin (R, C, I –Shirley) announced that the New York State Conservative Party has endorsed his MTA Payroll Tax Repeal legislation (S.5596/A.8193).
The New York State Conservative Party released the following statement:
Brooklyn, NY -- The New York State Conservative Party issued the following Legislative Memo today, strongly supporting Sen. Lee Zeldin's proposed bill to immediately cut parts of the onerous MTA payroll tax and gradually reduce the tax in the seven counties surrounding New York City. The memo follows:
Party Position: In 2009, an onerous tax on employers in areas serviced by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, was enacted. The region is called the Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District (MCTD) and employers in the region are required to withhold $.034 NYS income tax from employee wages.
The tax has had a negative effect on current businesses and has stymied growth of new business. Schools have also been required to pay the tax and this bill seeks to immediately repeal the tax on businesses with less than 25 employees and all schools, both public and non-public.
The payroll tax for the seven suburban counties within the MCTD will be gradually phased out beginning on January 1, 2012 and fully repealed by January 1, 2014. Within NYC's five boroughs, the tax will begin being reduced on January 1, 2013 to .28%, .21% on January 1, 2014 and remain at that rate.
The seven suburban counties include Nassau, Suffolk, Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, and Westchester and are not as reliant on the MTA's services as those who live in New York City and use the subways and buses daily.
This onerous tax has provided $1.4 billion in annual support for public transportation since enacted in 2009. The businesses, schools and other government entities forced to pay this tax, without benefiting from MTA's services, must be granted the relief sought in the proposed bill. Citizens who use services provided by the MTA, will continue to pay the tax, but at a reduced rate.
The Conservative Party urges immediate passage of the proposed bill.
"I am excited that the New York State Conservative Party has endorsed our MTA Payroll Tax repeal legislation. It is important that we eliminate this job- killing tax as soon as possible, and I am extremely grateful to have the Conservative Party's full support in this effort. I am working very hard to bring together a broad bi-partisan coalition to fight for this tax repeal legislation. In the coming days, I look forward to announcing more support, as the groundswell of support continues to grow," said Senator Zeldin.


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Urayoán Noel was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, lives in the Bronx, and is an associate professor of English and Spanish at NYU. As a poet, Noel is the author of Buzzing Hemisphere/Rumor Hemisférico (Arizona, 2015), a Library Journal Top Fall Indie Poetry selection; Hi-Density Politics (BlazeVox, 2010), a National Book Critics Circle Small Press Highlights selection; Kool Logic/La Lógica Kool (Bilingual Review, 2005), an El Nuevo Día Book of the Year; and several books mostly in Spanish, most recently the performance text EnUncIAdOr (Educación Emergente, 2014). Other works include the DVD Kool Logic Sessions (Bilingual Review, 2005), a collaboration with composer Monxo López; the artist's book/performance/website The Edgemere Letters (2011), a collaboration with artist Martha Clippinger; and the critical study In Visible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam (Iowa, 2014), winner of the LASA Latina/o Studies Book Award and recipient of an honorable mention in the MLA Prize in Latina/o and Chicana/o Literary and Cultural Studies. A contributing editor of NACLA Report on the Americas and Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, Noel has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the Howard Foundation, the Bronx Council on the Arts, and CantoMundo, and is currently completing a bilingual edition of the poems of Pablo de Rokha. See more at urayoannoel.bandcamp.com and at wokitokiteki.com, a bilingual, improvisational poetry vlog.
full name: Tomás Urayoán Noel Martínez
date/place of birth: April, 1976; San Juan, PR
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JERUSALEM (Dec. 2)
The Palestinians are saying that the Cairo talks for implementing the self-rule accord are deadlocked, but Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, on a whirlwind tour of European capitals, is insisting that he will press forward with the peace process.
After a two-day meeting of its leadership in Tunis, the Palestine Liberation Organization issued a statement Thursday calling for the co-sponsors of the peace process, the United States and Russia, to get involved in the negotiations.
The negotiations "have reached an impasse which threatens the credibility of the peace process," the statement said, adding that the United States and Russia should intervene to "guarantee the implementation of the agreement."
Despite the PLO's criticism of the talks' progress, chief Palestinian negotiator Nabil Sha'ath said the negotiations would continue as planned next week.
The issues that have plagued the Cairo talks include control of the border crossings near the Gaza Strip and West Bank town of Jericho, the boundaries of Jericho that will come under Palestinian authority, and guarantees for the security of Israeli settlements in the two regions.
Rabin, who was in Bonn on Thursday, denied rumors that he had secretly agreed with PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat to postpone the Dec. 13 deadline for starting the implementation of the accord.
"I am not aware of any such agreement," he said, adding that instead of speculating about a postponement, the two parties should focus their efforts on concluding the negotiations on schedule.
The statement marked a departure for Rabin, who earlier in the week had said that the deadline was not "engraved in stone."
During his stay in Bonn, Rabin met with German Chancellor Helmut Kohl.
The German leader promised his country's support for Israel's request to upgrade its status to associate member of the E.C.
That meeting was one of several Rabin had with members of Common Market nations.
In Brussels, Rabin said the negotiations had reached a delicate stage.
"We are in a very sensitive period where the two parties must have solid nerves to achieve their objectives and overcome the obstacles," he said.
Rabin was scheduled for a brief stopover in London before returning to Israel on Friday, when he will begin preparing for the visit to the Middle East next week by U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher.
While the talks in Cairo proceed, the death toll caused by groups opposed to the peace process continues to mount.
On Wednesday, gunmen with the Islamic fundamentalist Hamas movement opened fire on a car stalled by the side of the road, killing a 24-year-old kindergarten teacher, Shalva Uzana, and critically wounding another occupant of the car, 19-year-old Yitzhak Weinstock.
On Thursday, Weinstock died, causing Jewish settlers to hold demonstrations and set up roadblocks throughout the West Bank.
Earlier this week, demonstrations by Palestinians in Gaza had led to clashes with Israeli police — the most violent since the self-rule accord was signed in Washington in September.
(Contributing to this report were JTA correspondents Gil Sedan in Bonn and Joseph Kopel in Brussels.)


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GUANGZHOU, China — Chinese warships headed toward Somali waters Friday to combat piracy, the first time the communist country has sent ships on a mission that could involve fighting so far beyond its territorial waters.
The deployment to the Gulf of Aden, which has been plagued by increasingly bold pirate attacks in recent months, marks a major step in the Chinese navy's evolution from mostly guarding China's coasts to patrolling waters far from home.
The move was welcomed by the U.S. military, which has been escorting cargo ships in the region along with India, Russia and the European Union. But analysts predicted that the Chinese intervention could be troubling to some Asian nations that might see it as a sign that the Chinese military is becoming more aggressive.
The naval force that set sail from southern Hainan on Friday included a supply ship and two destroyers armed with guided missiles, special forces and two helicopters. China announced Tuesday that it was joining the antipiracy mission after the U.N. Security Council authorized nations to conduct land and air attacks on pirate bases.
Pentagon spokesman Maj. Stewart Upton said the United States welcomes China's move.
Pirates working out of Somalia have made an estimated $30-million this year, seizing more than 40 vessels off the country's 1,880-mile coastline. Most of the attacks have occurred in the Gulf of Aden, one of the world's busiest shipping lanes.


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STAGE TUBE: Tony Awards Roundup- From HEDWIG to VIOLET, Watch All of Last Night's Performances!
Golden Globe and Tony Award-winning actor Hugh Jackman returned last night to host THE 68TH ANNUAL TONY® AWARDS, broadcast live from Radio City Music Hall in New York City on the CBS Television Network. The event marked Jackman's fourth time hosting the Tonys. For a complete list of the night's winners, click here!
This year marked the 68th anniversary of the TONY Awards, presented by Tony Award Productions, which is a joint venture of The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing, which founded the Tonys. Nominations for the 2014 Tony Awards were announced live on Tuesday, April 29 from New York City.
Last night's broadcast featured more performances than ever, including amazing songs from the nominated shows, medleys from host Hugh Jackman, and more! Watch (or rewatch) all of the most exciting moments below!
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The City of Cedar Key will gain new parking for golf carts and motorcycles on Dock Street courtesy of Levy County, which owns land right where Dock Street meets the City Marina and Boat Launch area.
In its meeting Tuesday the Levy County Commission decided it did not want to sell the land outright, but would allow the city to use it. The commission agreed in concept and it is up to the city to draft the agreement.
That worn out, way too narrow strip of asphalt known as Shell Mound Road will finally be widened to 22 feet, have guardrails in a vulnerable spot and be repaved, thanks to the county recreation impact fee fund.
Joshua Slemp has been a fixture of Levy County's school system at several levels, from teacher to project manager to assistant principal.
His journey has led him to his latest stop, Cedar Key School, where the 39-year-old is in his first job as principal.
It's a culmination of the various roles he's served, and a place where that experience figures to come in handy at the K-12 school, which has about 250 students.
The TRIM ― Truth in Millage ― notices are at the printer and will be dropped in the mail to property owners on Aug. 19 according to the Levy County Property Appraiser's Office.
Oz Barker, Levy County Property Appraiser, said there is noting new in the TRIM notices this year, except the taxes being levied by taxing authorities.
While California grows 99 percent of the nation's artichokes, the edible plant high in antioxidants might get a chance to grow in the Sunshine State, if a University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences researcher gets good results from his field trials.
Artichokes flourish in a cool environment, so a warm winter might present an obstacle for Florida growers. Artichokes generally require at least 250 cumulative hours below 50 degrees for bud formation. Therefore, flowering must be artificially induced to produce artichokes in Florida.
In the past couple of years, our fishing regulations have seen a lot of changes. It is of course the anglers responsibility to keep up to date on the changes, or suffer the wrath of some expensive fines. All of these regulations of course are to keep our resource sustainable, which I fully endorse.
Today, Aug. 11
Economic development board meets
The Nature Coast Business Development Council is holding its regular monthly board meeting 3 p.m. Aug. 11, at the College of Central Florida, 114 Rodgers Blvd., Chiefland, in the conference room.
Due to the membership of the NCBDC consisting of more than one member of the Levy County RESTORE Act advisory committee, this meeting will also serve as a meeting for the Levy County RESTORE Act advisory committee.
Volunteers are needed to help with the 4th Annual Cedar Key Pirate Invasion weekend Sept. 16-18.
Plans for the event calls for a historical reenactment where visitors can check out an authentic pirate encampment in the City Park and see how real pirates lived and worked on land.
There will be a Thieves' Row of pirate-themed vendors at the park and historical encampment, and a live auction where bidders can purchase treasures while helping to raise funds for local causes.
The Florida Department of Transportation is inviting island residents to a public meeting on Aug. 30 at 4:30 p.m. at the Cedar Key Community Center to discuss plans for replacing the C/Dock Street bridge.
The department has been wrangling with the plans due to concerns about the effect on the commercial district on Dock Street which has one-way traffic and a request by city officials to raise the bridge to allow more boat traffic at the City Marina. Requests were also made to do the work without affecting a motel and a condominium on either side of the bridge.
For those who have not returned their absentee (vote by mail) ballots and are undecided about who to vote for in county races you have a chance to study up on the candidates in this issue of the Chiefland Citizen.
The Levy County Newspaper Group posed questions to candidates in the county commission and school superintendent races and their answers can be found on pages 4,5,8 and 9.
For those among the 1,075 who had voted as of Tuesday, you can read the candidate responses, but you cannot change your ballot.
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Random Fake Band: Blythe Hill Fields
What songs do you think are on this album?
Wanna play along? 1. Go to Wikipedia and click Random article. The article you get is the name of your band.
2. Go to QuotationsPage.com and hit Random Quotes. The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.
3. Go to Flickr.com and click on explore the last seven days. The third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover. Note: I'm only using Creative Commons licensed pics here, with attributions.
4. Use photoshop or picnik.com (a free online photo editor) to put it all together.
If you do play along, please link back here and I'll collect the links in a later posting.
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Looks like an introduced species of the parasitic vine known as dodder is making a big splash on the west coast of the U.S. Over the past couple of weeks there have been various news blurbs about the spread of Japanese dodder (Cuscuta japonica) through California. According to this report from the Sacramento Bee, the species has now been found at more than 40 sites in Sacramento County, thanks to the efforts of the county's residents. In the midst of the surveys, officials discovered something significant: people from Native American and Chinese cultures have been cultivating the plant for its herbal properties. While it is certainly helpful to have identified a vector of transport for this invader, the surprising news that this chlorophyll-free, odd-looking species is being cultivated indicates that ridding the state of California of this species would be no easy task.
Bonus points to the Bee for printing the scientific name of the plant.
Update: Monique points to a group of excellent photos of Japanese dodder infestations. This plant is scary! Also, check out this post about less scary dodder species from Niches (and this post as well).
I've found dodder interesting for all kinds of reasons, and realize there are several non-natives. We've found several native species and have been struck by the USDA Plants labels of a couple of these being tagged as threatened/endangered and at the same time as "noxious". Interesting.
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We discovered this same problem species in Houston a few years ago, and for the same reason. Japanese dodder is *huge* compared to other species, and it is capable of killing large trees in a short period of time. Cutting down and burning the host is about the only way to get rid of an infestation. The seeds can remain viable in the soil for decades. An infestation at Duke or Clemson was only wiped out when the soil was heat-sterilized with a tractor-drawn flamethrower (the seeds must be heated enough to pop like popcorn, or they are just scarified.) Since this is a cultivated plant, a massive public education campaign as to why it is dangerous is necessary-- in multiple languages. Images can be seen by going to this address and searching for cuscuta japonica:http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/gallery/gallery_query.htm
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Holy cow, those are some spectacular photos! Thanks for the link Monique.Wayne, I can't believe you didn't leave a link to your dodder posts. Adding as well...
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Haiku by Japanese Dodder:Cuscuta. Dodder.Green alien spaghettiI will eat your trees
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Awesome!!!!---------My retort:C. japonicaParasite I do not knowAnd hope not to meet.:-)
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More than 100 applications were judged in all, and Mayor Gregor Robertson said during a news conference that his city "now has a selection of street food that represents [its] cultural diversity and culinary skill." The 19 carts can begin operating as of May."
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Native American artifacts on display in Alexandria July 26
A Native American Artifact Show is planned for Sunday, July 26 in Alexandria.
The Gopher State Archaeological Society will host the annual event from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Holiday Inn.
The show is for anyone interested in the early history, cultures and artifacts of North America.
Local collectors will display a wide range of items from arrowheads to beadwork.
Many of the items are local to this region where the archaeological records span 12,000 or more years. The artifacts displayed represent a wide range of material, such as flint arrowheads, flint knives, stone axes, celts, copper tools, bone tools and more recent historical items such as beadwork.
If anyone has found items or has items that have been passed along through family, they are encouraged to bring them to the show.
A number of experts will be available to look at artifacts that are brought in.
For more information about the event or to have a display table set up, call John Lindquist at (320) 834-4788.


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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Jeff Burton finished eighth in the Chase for the Championship last year and comes to next month's Daytona 500 looking for his first win at the Daytona International Speedway. Burton took time away from this week's test session to talk about the upcoming season. Here are excerpts of that interview:
Question: What would it mean to win the Daytona 500?
Burton: Over Christmas I went to Ward's (Burton, his brother) house, and his Daytona 500 trophy was in his house there. You know, I don't know what it was about it, but I saw that trophy and it was like it was the first time I had ever seen it. My son was down there, he's 7, and I said, "You know what that is?" He's like, "Yeah, that's the Daytona 500 trophy." It was pretty special seeing that trophy. Having that trophy sitting there, that's the biggest race you can possibly win in our sport. That's something that no one can ever take away from him, and that's something that he'll always cherish and his family will. That's a special thing. Any win is a big win, but when you can look at -- if you look at a trophy like that and have that sitting in your house -- that's a different kind of win. It's one of those that lasts forever, and it has so much meaning, the importance of it.
Question: There was a lot of bump-drafting last week during the test. Do you expect a lot more beating and banging during this year's Daytona 500?
Burton: The great question is honestly how the car is going to handle. My inclination is that they're going to handle bad enough where I don't think bump-drafting is going to be a factor. I think the factor is going to be who can put the car where they want to put them. Bump-drafting really becomes a problem when you have the 43-car packs with no other option to pass somebody other than get the bump draft thing going. I think this is going to be a different kind of race. I think handling is going to be really important. The other thing about the bump-drafting when the bumpers do line up, it doesn't cause the problem that we saw with the other cars. We had a lot of wrecks in the other cars that people said were bump drafting when it was just wrecking. There's a difference. Running into the back of somebody isn't bump drafting, that's running into the back of them. Those mistakes won't show up as much in this car because the bumpers do line up.
Question: A lot was made of the declining television ratings last year. Are you concerned?
Burton: Well, to be clear, any time that attendance is down or TV ratings are down, we should be concerned about that. I'm not smart enough to know why the ratings are down. I'm not smart enough to know if that's something that's going on throughout television in general. I don't know. It's nothing that I can control, nor is it something I can impact, so I don't spend a lot of time worrying about how to fix it. You know, I think that we have more competitive teams today than we've ever had. We have more competitive drivers today than we've ever had. You can talk about the good old days all you want. The racing today is better than it's ever been. Those are facts, and those are things that I do know.
Question: Would the Daytona 500 have as much prestige if it was moved to later in the season?
Burton: I don't know. I think there's something unique about this being the first race and the biggest race. I've got to tell you, preseason football bores me to death. I can't imagine sitting and watching a preseason NBA ballgame. We just get right at it. I think there's something to be said for that. I think that the excitement starting, boom, right now, I think is a great thing. To me the Daytona 500 meaning so much, being the first race of the year, all the enthusiasm and excitement, that's something that can't be replicated by other sports. I wouldn't want to see that change. I think it's in the best interest of our sport to let the championship, the last race of the year, be a great big race no matter where it is because it's the championship. But the first race of the year being the Daytona 500, that's a special thing.
Question: Although Richard Childress Racing got all three cars in the Chase last year, all of you seemed to struggle during the playoffs. How do you avoid that this year?
Burton: Well, I can speak particularly for the AT&T team. We started the year great. I mean, if you go back and think about it, we finished third here, we had a chance to win California, and I missed a shift late in the race. Jimmie Johnson and I were battling with 20 to go in Vegas for the win, and we broke an engine. We went to Bristol and finished second. We were running as well as any team on the circuit for five, six, seven races, and then we lost it a little bit. Our stuff didn't drive as well as it had earlier in the year, and I think other people got better. Our stuff didn't really drive worse, it's just other people's stuff started getting better. We weren't able to make a step to get our cars better later in the year. We probably didn't do as well as we could have, it wasn't because we didn't try, in taking the old car and moving it forward. And ultimately that affected our Car of Tomorrow program, too.
Question: What will it take to win the Daytona 500?
Burton: It really depends on the kind of race that we get. I think like I said earlier, handling is going to be really important. We're going to focus a great deal on trying to make our cars drive as good as they can drive and then getting the right kind of race so that you're in the position you need to be in with the equipment set up the way it can. But right now we're going to have to be smart. We're going to have to have the right kind of race if we're going to take advantage of that race. There's a tremendous amount of strategy that goes into winning this race. You saw last year, the two cars that finished first and second, at no point did they exhibit the brute force that you would say that's the car to beat, but they put themselves in the right position at the right time and then took advantage of the situation that they were in, and I think that's what we're going to have to do.
Question: What will be the biggest storylines for the 2008 season?
Burton: I think the Toyota strength is obvious. We saw that last year at Talladega. The Toyotas were extremely fast obviously. Everybody is talking about Dale Earnhardt, Jr., being fast, the beginning of his time with Hendrick. But really at the end of the day the Car of Tomorrow, what is the impact of the Car of Tomorrow on the Daytona 500, how is the Car of Tomorrow going to make the race different than what we saw in the past. That's really the question that we all have to answer, what we're going to have to do differently to be successful with the Car of Tomorrow versus what we did with the last car. If you approach this race the same way you approached it with the car we've been racing, I think you're destined to be disappointed. This is a completely different package. It's a completely different mindset. And I think learning what that mindset needs to be is what's really important.
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A New York broadcasting company announced here today that it has obtained a contract from the Israel Government to record the forthcoming trial of Adolf Eichmann, in Israel, on videotape and film, for distribution to all news media around the world who may request the recordings.
The trial of the No. 1 Nazi specialist in the extermination of Jews is expected to get under way in Jerusalem in the spring, and will last several months. Frank M. Smith, president of the firm, Capital Cities Broadcasting Corporation, said the company will distribute television tape and films at cost. Applications for such facilities have been made to the Israeli authorities by networks and film companies from all over the world.
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Below I provided a simple step by step instruction on how to compile QT 5.7 with VS2015 assuming you already have VS2015 and Git client installed on your Windows machine.
Install Perl, Python and Ruby.
To get QT 5.7 sources open Git Bash and run the following command (the repository has some submodules, so "recursive" option is required):
git clone --recursive https://github.com/qtproject/qt5.git --branch 5.7
Create a bat file called configureqt.bat with the following content:
set PATH=%PATH%;"C:\Program Files (x86)\Portable\ruby-2.3.0-i386-mingw32\bin";C:\Perl\bin;C:\Python27 D: cd D:\Repos\qt5\ set _ROOT=D:\Repos\qt5 set PATH=%_ROOT%\qtbase\bin;%_ROOT%\gnuwin32\bin;%PATH% set QMAKESPEC=win32-msvc2015 set _ROOT= configure -debug -nomake examples -opensource


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Forest Laboratories Comments on ISS Report
Forest Urges Shareholders to Vote "FOR ALL" Ten of Forest's Director Nominees on the WHITE Proxy Card
Forest Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: FRX) ("Forest") today commented on a report by proxy advisory service Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) regarding the election of director nominees at the Company's Annual Meeting of Shareholders, which will be held on August 15, 2012.
The Company stated, "ISS's recommendation rejects two of Icahn's four nominees, including Eric Ende, whom Icahn chose to lead his proxy contest. We believe ISS's recommendation for Icahn's two other nominees is based on a flawed analysis that adopts Icahn's fundamental misunderstandings of the Company's business model and strategic focus in support of a reckless, cost-cutting strategy with the potential to destroy value for shareholders. We are confident that our ten highly qualified nominees possess the right combination of skills, experience and expertise to ensure that our products reach their maximum potential."
"Compared to last year, Forest is in a stronger position to deliver value for shareholders on every front. Our pipeline is more robust – we recently received FDA approval for Tudorza and we expect FDA approval for one of our largest potential new drugs, linaclotide, in September. We are continuing to make great progress with our "Next Nine" and four strong lifecycle products and believe we are extremely well positioned to more than offset the impact of our patent expirations over time. We believe both the market and our shareholders understand the value of our pipeline and look forward to communicating directly with our shareholders in advance of our Annual Meeting."
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Just got them but I have a few opinions already
By Paul
from NYC
About Me Avid Cyclist
Comments about Nashbar Ragster II Cycling Sandals:
Somehow I got these for 1/3 the cost of the most popular brand. I'll give them a shot. Seems like I'll need some tape on my feet while I try to wear these in. Can't compare the weight to other brand name sandals, but these are a bit heavier than my Shimano SPD shoes. I would recommend these on sale with conditions. It will take me a year or two to know if I really like clip in sandals. They are more difficult to disengage, so I may ride with one clip in and one unclipped, at least for a while.
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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Superb 3-season shoes!
By "Juanito"
from El PasoTX-USA
First off, always use bicycling shoes/sandals when pedaling; if you don't, the pressure on your foot will discourage extensive cycling. Anyway, you can buy more expensive, name brand shoes/sandals, but these BikeNashbar sandals are extremely durable and usable for three seasons +. I haven't yet tried them in extreme cold with booties, which might make them 4-season. They are not very good for walking--which I've had to do in LordsburgNM-USA, for nearly 7miles/11kms. There is no tread sufficient for traction, especially on a gravel/loose surface (I/my Doublevision fell on AZ80 just North of DouglasAZ because the gravel shoulder had a downward tilt and my feet went!) But they are ideal for bicycling and getting good air flow. I am extremely pleased with these BN sandals, highly recommend them and they have my "Wheel of Approval!"
Comfortable & convenient
By J
from Charlotte, NC
3-way Velcro straps make the fit easy to adjust just right, wears like a comfortable sandal off the bike.
Poor fit. Heavy. Not worth returning due to $7.99 charge
By Catrike
from Out on the road
Since the Shimano sandals in my size were sold out and the newer model was $129, I opted for the house brand. When I received them I was appalled at the size,fit, and weight.
Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
This is a GREAT sandal!
By runbum
from Decorah IA
I purchased these sandals for the largest organized ride across Iowa (RAGBRAI) and they were great during the warm temps. Comfortable, breathed, and just all around a great recommendation from a friend. I would buy them again and had several riders comment/compliment them and ask what brand they were. Price is very reasonable for the quality.
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My "go to" cycling shoes
By Scriv
from Kansas City
I bought a pair of these years ago and they are the most comfortable pair of cycling shoes I've ever owned. I wear them through 3 seasons - down to temps as low as 40° with socks on. Having worn my original pair out I just purchased another pair.
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Comfy and Cool
By jm in tx
from DFW TX
About Me Casual/ Recreational
I've been waiting for these to drop in price for AGES and when they did, I jumped. Best shoe purchase decision in a long while. Been wearing Shimano shoes for a long time, but $120 for a pair of Shimano sandals is more than I could afford. After getting the cleats installed and adjusted, I have not put my regular shoes back on. I wear them for everything because they are cool and comfy, I love them. My wife wants a pair... Do they come in a version for women?
Eah, design could be improved
By SunnyCO
from Sunny Denver, CO
I assembled the cleats on the shoe and took off for a ride. To my horror when approaching a street I couldn't get the cleat unhooked from the pedal. The sole of the shoe is soft and the toe box is larger than a normal cycling shoe. I didn't have the room to unclip it and the soft sole added to the inability to unclip. Actually had to remove my foot from the shoe in order to stop. Hopefully I will learn the shoe better but initial impressions aren't that great.
Excellent cycling sandal.
By Barb
from Poughkeepsie, NY
I wear a women's size 8 regular shoe, and these sandals are a perfect fit in size 39/40. The three straps make adjustments very easy. Very, very comfortable.
By Rick
from Seattle WA
Size runs a little short so order 1/2 bigger than you think you need.
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This relationship exists for a few reasons. First, smoke inhalation increases inflammatory markers in the body, which in turn trigger pain sensitive structures leading to headache. In addition, nicotine, one of the components of tobacco, stimulates the blood vessels in the brain to narrow, when it is out of your system the blood vessels over-dilate which leads to rebound and withdrawal headaches. Finally, patients that suffer from migraines in particular, are often very sensitive to smell both during and between attacks, and being around the smell of smoke alone can often lead to a migraine attack. For many patients, by avoiding situations or places where smoking occurs, headaches may be avoided.
It should be mentioned that patients that suffer from migraines with aura are at a baseline increased risk of having a stroke in their lifetime. Smoking further increases that risk. Subsequently, while smoking is strongly advised against for all patients, patients with aura should be particularly mindful of their heightened stroke risk. One more reason to put down that cigarette!


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António Nobre's House
-- Eugénio de Andrade
The house was small, in front of the sea.
It would be insignificant if António Nobre
Had not finished his days there:
He went there to die, with all his papers,
Sick of the world, his lungs all undone.
He was thirty-two—he'd written
Such a singular book
That it remains peerless even now.
The house is still there, and the Ox-
Drivers Square has changed only in name.
Today it's the main avenue of The Foz.
The house has held up against the sun, and hasn't been flattened
By the north winds. Petite bourgeois taste
Marks it more than vulgarity:
The walls covered with tiles,
The cement skirt around the balcony.
A discrete tailor has his workshop
On the lower floor, close to the ground,
But it's a long time since a white dress,
Or the loosened laugh of some child,
Have graced the second floor balcony, or since
Anyone's eyes were cast over the sea shimmering
Even in darkness. And the most attentive
Will not hear the shadowy voice of one who felt
Like "an orphan of caresses, a widower of hopes."
Only from the rose acacia, on flaxen evenings,
Come whispers, sighs, fever.
Here is a translated Portuguese poem that goes against all of the precepts of post-post poetry and of what we should be doing now (3-D typography, formal or free, spatial or flarf, weather reports, documentary, identity-stoking, anti-poetic, video-looped, ecumenical, social rather than private, corporate as opposed to cottage, political not apolitical, warming not cooling). This poem is not "poetry by other means," it is not experimental (though it suggests something too experimental for any experimentalist to experiment with). It evokes a single scene and holds it in a thin bezel of fact. The house is the objective correlative of a complex feeling, one of loss, of pining for the past, one which idealizes, though under the shadow of death, a poet long dead by a poet (now) recently dead. It is initially guarded and gradually opens until we reach the epiphanic conclusion. It reads like a free verse version of Yeats on the great houses of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy and yet the house in this poem couldn't be any more modest or less aristocratic. It pays no attention to politics. It is more interested in the death of a poet than the life that led up to it. It doesn't know whether it prefers the late 19th century, or the late 20th, though it recognizes that not all that much, at least as far as poets are concerned, has changed: a street sign and a peaceful sense of abandonment are all that seem different. It uses the changes in the house to describe how we have gotten to where we have gotten, how one period becomes another, and how certain things remain constant: the glimmering sea, the persistent shrubbery, the way poets accumulate their papers, their drafts, their projects, all of which take on an emblematic, almost religious importance, as though they were more material than the poet himself. It implicitly links the dead poet to the living poet, who can now draw his typologies: how poets live and die, alone (an orphan of caresses), how they are figures somewhat less robust than bankers or trolley drivers, consumptive (both a cliché and a deathly reality – Nobre died at the age of thirty-three), suffering from ennui, with the sea always near. It is not concerned with rupture. It is not concerned with making anything new. It is not concerned with being at least as well written as prose. It is more concerned with words than with breath, music than with white space, sincerity than with irony, description than with theory, continuity over the jagged precocity of collage. Things are put in their places and the result is as orderly as a well-kept cupboard. Our eyes follow the lines as though they were following a photograph by Eugène Atget, one of his empty Parisian squares, up to the balcony, down to the ground floor, out to the estuary. If not a poet on the upper floors, then a discrete tailor on the ground floor; if not vulgarity, then Petite bourgeois taste; if not insignificance, then just significant enough.
Some notes on the poets:
Eugénio de Andrade, arguably one of Portugal's most important 20th century poets, died in 2005. António Nobre was considered by many to be the precursor to Portuguese modernism. I translated the poem a couple of days after Andrade died. There was a supplement in the Sunday paper that contained several poems and several articles. I was sitting at my kitchen table waiting to go to my in-laws for lunch (a Sunday ritual). The poem flowed like water from Portuguese into English. It took about five minutes to complete. I translated it right onto the newspaper, next to the original version. I love to translate poetry, but I am usually too busy translating other stuff, which, as I indicated in my last post, is not nearly so pleasant. Translating poetry or literary prose is a whole other order of language work.
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Poor planning — and a poor response in a crisis — do not come close to describing the unnecessary havoc that unfolded at Hernando High School Tuesday night. Because the gymnasium was filled to fire-code capacity, an undetermined number of parents were unable to be in the same room as their graduating children when diplomas were handed out.
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The reason they were denied entry? Because the school passed out more tickets than it had room to accommodate in the gym. Each graduate got at least six, and some as many as seven, tickets for families and friends. The seating was first-come, first served to any ticket holders.
Parents who could not gain entry were directed to the performing arts center, where they watched the ceremony on a monitor. But that experience just isn't the same, and any school official who rationalizes that it is an acceptable substitute just doesn't get it.
School administrators knew the number of graduates, the number of staff members who would be attending, and the seating capacity of the gym. An elementary school student could have done the math to determine how many tickets should have been distributed.
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wich line works best?
Is there any fly lines that work better than otheres on different rods? I plan to purchase a 4wt 7'6''-8'6'' Ovis Clearwater II, with an orvis battenkill MA reel for 3-5wt. I will be on small streams most of the time. I am considering the Cabelas Prestige WF floating 4wt line, and 5x leader, and using the standard 4 thru 7x tippet. Is this a good set-up or am I getting it wrong? Thanks in advance for any help and comments.
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Hi Mnflyfish.
I don't know the Cabela's Prestige WF floating. It is probably made overseas and would not be my choice. I think the RIO Selective Trout II Fly Line would be a better choice.
Re: wich line works best?
Sorry, never tried a Cabelas line. In your case, I'd recommend a SA Master Trout or Rio Selective Trout line in a double taper. To be reallistic, you won't be aeriallizing a bunch of line, so you don't need a weight forward line. Double taper lines roll cast better which is important for smaller streams.
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Cabelas prestige plus is made in the u.s
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Interesting thread, this, and timely in my case. I've got a ZG Helios 10' 4-weight tip flex 9.5 rod coming in, and am looking for a suitable fly line for it. I bought the rod for fishing technical tailwaters like the San Juan and Guadalupe among others, thinking that its length and light weight (2.5 oz.) would aid in "high stick" nymphing and mending of line for all flies. The Rio Selective Trout II looks to be a good candidate, but am still wondering about whether to go for Double Taper instead of my usual Weight Forward, not only because of what I've heard to be easier roll casting, but also because I would expect presentations might be lighter. Any thoughts on this, and for that matter, are there other fly lines I should be looking at (one that comes to mind is the Orvis Trout Easy Mend Wonderline Generation 3 Fly Line)?
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Your average double taper and weight forward lines are for all intents and purposes exactly the same for the first 30' (or so)
One does not land lighter than the other, nor does one roll cast easier
It's after the initial taper where the difference lies.
The weight forward will shoot line better and the DT may roll cast better at a distance.
The DT is also reversible for added value
I can't recommend a specific line.... I use $10 factory seconds ;)
When I started using a higher end floating line years ago, I was surprised to find what a difference it made in both my casting distance and accuracy. for some of us, a better line does help. Maybe more so for beginners?
Where does one find $10 factory seconds fly lines?
They're $9.50 actually...... 3 for $22.50 and free shipping, last I knew
I have 8 of them, no problems
Re: wich line works best?
I am relatively new to fly fishing but all the reviews I have seen (and magazine picks) are either 3M Scientific Anglers Series line or Rio lines.
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