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My Vintage Selection for 2010, Part 3
Posted By:
Thomas Rucki
on December 27, 2010 - 7:02 AM
In this third part, we will first take a look at the English label
—which restores the television scores of ITC—, then we will thoroughly analyze the television music of two decades and also draw conclusions about them. Finally, we will sum-up this musical year with statistics.
year, Network gave us four television soundtracks from their ITC catalogue. We've had to wait for ten months between the last release (July 2009) of the previous year and on May 7, 2010, Network announced a 4-CD set for the color years of
The Saint
composed by Edwin Astley but on order from May 31. On May 26, for the first time, the label posted a YouTube link back to a long
lasting 4 minutes 41 seconds from the set. On June 5, the label announced the June 28 release of a 2-CD set for
The Zoo Gang
composed by Ken Thorne and with a theme by the rock band Wings (i.e., Paul and Linda McCartney). On June 23, Network posted a link back to YouTube to listen to a 4 minutes 9 seconds sample of
The Zoo Gang
through a
of cues. As I used to notice it in 2009 (see my
previous rundown
), Network's soundtrack CDs are sold as DVD's: not only the case but the technical description on the webpage which is a DVD template (that includes absurd parameters as region, subtitles). At last, at long last,
Danger Man
(2008) and
The Saint
(2010) are available because listeners only own disappointing, adulterated and re-arranged Razor and Tie re-recordings of both titles. To conclude, the year 2008 gave us six titles, 2009 four titles and 2010 only
All soundtracks are classified in the alphabetical order of the composers.
means "Liner Notes" and they include authors dealing with cinema/tv and music analysis, track-by-track commentary, vintage LP notes, technical talk.
The Saint
is a blessing and a pure joy especially the various renditions of the main title."
2. Television
1960's Soundtracks (3)
The Saint
(LN: Andrew Pixley)
Farnon et al.
The Prisoner: The Complete Chappell Recorded Music Library Cues
(LN: Eric Mival, Roger Langley, Rick Davy, Derek Lawton)
Hawaii Five-0
(Film Score Monthly)
(LN: Jon Burlingame, Leonard Freeman)
The Saint
is a blessing and a pure joy especially the various renditions of the main title (disc one: track #2 from the opening title of "The Russian Prisoner"; disc three: track #13 from the end titles of "The Power Artists"; disc four: track #2 from the opening title of "The Organisation Man" and track #47 from the end title of an alternate take) and the commercial break stings (disc one: track #76 from "Interlude in Venice"; disc two: track #58 from "The Fiction-Makers"; disc three: tracks #56 from "Vendetta for the Saint") and the vocal elements of the main theme sung by the female performer (disc four: track #25 and #48).
Disc one
aka the best disc has two good scores: "The Russian Prisoner" (featuring the Saint theme in track #11) and "The House on Dragon's Rock" and two forgetable ones.
Disc two
has two little and minor scores—I enjoy the noble rendition of The Saint theme in "The Queen's Ransom"—and a strong one ("The Fiction-Makers") to finish. Skip the first twelve tracks from
disc three
because they are popular songs and solos of instruments that fit four small scores but the orchestral music returns with "Vendetta for the Saint" in which Templar goes Italian.
Disc four
has the opposite configuration, meaning a fine orchestral score ("The Organisation Man") followed by a tiny song score ("The Portrait of Brenda") and the "Alternates Takes and Other Cues" section.
What producer Derek Lawton has accomplished for the completist of
The Prisoner
is marvelous and priceless: just witness
disc two
of this 3-CD set and the colorful and diverse stock music conceived as a patchwork for the 26 tracks of "The Girl Who Was Death" from Johnny Hawksworth for his Baroque harpsichord compositions and one Eastern Indian psychedelic piece ("Psychedelia"), Roger Roger for the funny electro-acoustic music with an eerie mood ("Blast Off") and his Middle East folklo music ("Arabian Market") and his crowdy amusement park background music ("Fête foraine"), Jack Arel & Jean-Claude Petit for their groovy hippie tune ("Psychedelic Portrait"), Nino Nardini for his humoristic jazzy tune ("Le siffleur") and his experimental clownesque tune ("Catch the Man"), Paul Bonneau for his funny military march ("March Rhythmique") and his catchy flute fugue ("Stac Flat") and his nod to the traditional European hunting music ("Chasse à courre") and his
Ondes Martenot
-laden outer space "UFO"-like track ("Fond des mers"), Sydney Torch for his merry clown cartoon music ("Bring on the Girls"), Mel Young for his jazzy military march ("They are Coming"), Robert Farnon for his short percussions cues and his Irish harp music. The booklet is a goldmine for archivists. Lawton informs us that his edition contains 92 cues against 45 for the three Silva Screen CD's which means he has discovered 47 new cues but 8 cues that he calls "mystery cues" remain unidentified. On the down side, he couldn't secure the licence for the popular songs aka "commercial tracks" whose one "Dry Bones" is the essence of rebel hippie character N° 48 from "Fall Out". To order and support the cult set limited to 1000 copies, send a message to
. Be seeing you!
Hawaii Five-0
soundtrack is a LP reissue and a compilation of original cues unused or heard and culled from season 1 ("Cocoon" in track #1, 2, 5, 7, 8, 12; "Strangers in Our Land" in track #9; "Tiger by the Tail" in track #9; "The Ways of Love" in track #6; "Pray Love Remember, Pray Love Remember" in track #2; "Up Tight" in track # 4, 5, 10, 11) and a tiny bit from season 2 ("The Singapore File" in track #3). It's not very representative of the series music because it's too fragmented—one track can contain cues from different episodes (see "The Long Wait": the first downbeat piano-laden part is heard in the pilot when secret agent Hennessy lies down in the water tank of the high-tech Chinese lab and the second rhythmic part is heard in "Up Tight" when Danno carries the blonde junky Donna to drug guru David Stone's house and peace activist Banu Savang posing as a maid to assassinate Kono replacing dictator Jhakal in "Leopard on the Rock")—, too pop and anecdotal (i.e., source music like the easy-listening "McGarrett's Theme" or the rock tune "Blues Trip" or psychedelic folklo music like "Beach Trip"/"Up Tight") or rough renditions coming from the self-contained pilot which is the series at an experimental stage hence you won't recognize the typical arrangements. Even the main theme (track #1) is a first draft never heard in the actual series and as well as the bulk of these tracks. Anyway, "The Long Wait" is the best track because of its slow ominous Richard Shoresque percussion style and it is tracked to death during season 3 and 4. I have a soft spot for the radio music "Blues Trip" that is heard in the Californian cell of convicted Steve McGarrett posing as a wise hood in "The Ways of Love", heard on the beach when Danno comes out of the water in "Up Tight" and heard in the club The Jad when a hit man is searching for his female target in "The Singapore File". To tell you the truth, I have bought this item as a memento and for Jon Burlingame's notes because this music doesn't transport me back to the realm of the series. This shallow and ill-assorted album was a flop back then. Book this CD, Danno. Aloha, sucker!
Hunters Are for Killing
is the finest vintage television soundtrack that you can find on the market in 2010 because it transcends the boundaries of the little screen!"
1970's Soundtracks (4)
Hunters Are for Killing
(Film Score Monthly)
(LN: Lukas Kendall)
A Step Out of Line/The Brotherhood of the Bell
(LN: Jeff Bond, Douglass Fake)
The Zoo Gang
(LN: Andrew Pixley)
Various Artists
TV Omnibus: Volume One (1962-1976)
(Film Score Monthly)
(LN: Jon Burlingame)
According to FSM producer Lukas Kendall, the main title of
Hunters Are for Killing
"features the origin of his jazzy
Matt Helm/Big Sleep
theme." Kendall reveals that this title has been a long struggle: "I've been trying to release this for 11 years!" Kendall asserts that "Rudi in LG.'s Room" contains the memorable "laughing trombones" already used by the composer for
Advise and Consent
(see a section of "Invitation" and a tiny portion of "Premonition") and
Star Trek
's "The Trouble with Tribbles". The "laughing trombones" sound like a couple of horny cats which gently miaow. As usual, the composer makes reference to his past:
Advise and Consent
(Cf. "Politely Political") in the last seconds of "Welcome Home" and in the last section of "Big Nite's Doings",
Star Trek
in "Rudy in L.G.'s Room" and the start of "Mr. Florin",
in "Car Race"—that features the same hectic jazzy cue rearranged from the season 2 score "Pressure Point" that is also slipped in for the track "Amy's Noise" from the 1971
Straw Dogs
—and "Keller Drives In", the heroics of
The Wild Bunch
in "Big Nite's Doings", "Hunting Party", "You Tell Your Men" and the Mexican melancolic sides in "You're Wrong Keller" and "Better Off Dead",
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
in the track exit of "Bad Sign". Keen listeners will identify two tracks (a section of "Chase" and "Elements") foreshadowing a nervous martial cue from the 1971 score "Murder by the Barrel" from the first season of
McMillan & Wife
. The general arrangements of this Fielding score are derived from his
work! As usual, the orchestration is by Fielding and his faithful working partners McRitchie/Niehaus and the music supervision by CBS big shot Morton Stevens—note that west coast jazzmen as trumpeter Pete Candoli and drummer Shelly Manne performed at the recording sessions.
Hunters Are for Killing
is the finest vintage television soundtrack that you can find on the market in 2010 because it transcends the boundaries of the little screen!
The Brotherhood of the Bell
is the masterpiece of this top-notch double header which has the feature film quality that uplifts it. Both scores are protean and diverse.
The Brotherhood of the Bell
dives us into a complexe and tragic nightmarish atmosphere derived and re-oriented from
and it is also filled with smart jazzy Bach fugues. Nevertheless,
A Step Out of Line
is a good score between the hip
In Like Flint
(see "Hot Wire") and
The Last Run
and it features drumbeats a la
(see "Main Title": notice the urgent escalation of speed from 00:43 to 00:56) and arrangements a la
Escape from the Planet of the Apes
(see "Set Wires", "Break In").
The Zoo Gang
is anachronistic as a series and as a main theme which blends the awful French accordion cliché from the mid-1930's with the early 70's rock guitar: at best, the theme alone sounds like a commonplace track of a rock album. As last year's
Jason King
, it's the fun-fun-fun release from Network. The score ("Revenge: Post-dated") that debutes disc one takes off from track #9 with some easy listening muzak heard at Nice airport. The best scores remain the last two ("African Misfire" and "The Counterfeit Trap") because of the laid-back or tense pace. Track #70 from "The Counterfeit Trap" is a fascinating fast-paced rock piece done with electric guitar and organ.
Apart from one insipid song for
Dr. Kildare
, one end credits music and one score ("The Bronze Locust" by Johnny Williams) from the 1962 series
The Eleventh Hour
and three scores from
Then Came Bronson
, the 5-CD set
TV Omnibus: Volume One
is pure solid Seventies. We'll dissect it by preferences but note that set features many jazz musicians as trumpeter Don Ellis, pianist Dave Grusin, tenor and baritone saxophonist Gil Mellé, bassist George Romanis and pianist Lalo Schifrin.
Disc one
has two beauts by Leonard Rosenman and Don Ellis that play very well together as good companions: "The Phantom of Hollywood" is a nostalgic score that celebrates the Golden Age by inserting seven old tunes as watermarks, the best of the omnibus due to its scope and its general modern military texture a la
in tracks "The Ring", "Empty Street", "Captive Ready" and "The Bulldozer Appears" but its post-modernistic concept lies in the track "Westside Financial/The Phantom" because of the shift of music range from sweet retro jazz (00:00 to 02:19) to edgy minimalistic music and that transition is the equivalent of cocking a gun which is relevant in the case of the composer's credits. The cue "Phantom on the roof" has a passage close to
's "And The Sky Was Opened" and I have a soft spot for the nod to Vincente Minnelli's
The Band Wagon
in "That's Entertainment". "The Deadly Tower" is a slow-moving and obsessive dissonant score not to miss, especially the tracks "Mom/Note/Rifle" that has the avantgarde mark from
The Seven-Ups/
The French Connection II
from 00:05 to 00:20 and 00:50 to 01:05 but rearranged with a dominant synthesizer and "Photos/Wife" that has two vivid elements: the intrusion of a sweet haunting tune, from 00:33 to 00:41, derived from a traditional English children song entitled "This Old Man" and, at 01:13, the flow of the music takes a new turn and slips into unexpected terror with dominant
-like strings.
Disc two
contains three rather good scores for "Assignment: Vienna" by Dave Grusin. "The Last Target" is very redundant, too formulaic and suffers from the touristic postcard syndrome due to the ad nauseum use of the cimbalom. The composer who really mastered the cimbalom was Lalo Schifrin starting back to the mid-1960's and defined the People's Republic sound. To salvage that cliché approach, Grusin plays some lazy 1950's jazz at the end. It's from "Hot Potato" that the music takes off and the best score remains the subtle "A Deadly Shade of Green" with its jazz funk musical phrases almost like
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
(see "Long Jim Silver" and "Good Year").
Disc three
has one single gem: Mr. Snare Drum's score or should I say Jerry Fielding's funny hyper kinetic marching band-oriented "Shirts/Skins" featuring a whistled tune "Sweet Georgia Brown" and the orchestration is by the Fieldinger Two Greig McRitchie/Lennie Niehaus. The first and extremely long (07:12) track entitled "1-M-1/Opening Titles" encapsulates the composer's musical career from comedy to dead-serious drama and it includes a lovely dreamlike passage from 02:34 to 03:03. The strength of the music comes from the interwoven and contradictory tones (heavy military beat, comical punctuations, light jazz and funk accents, dark mood and religious music) combined with an anthem that comes back and forth as a reminder. Some tracks shine or have fascinating cues, like "Rape/Shambles/Toy Soldier", "They Steal Mother" (see the mad circus-oriented music from 00:00 to 00:48), "The Stealing Nun/Meanwhile Back at the Museum" (an unusual transition that stops the beat abruptly from 00:39 to 00:41 or that injects a dreamlike pause from 03:03 to 03:08 and features blunt organ punctuations from 01:22 to 01:30 and from 03:11 to 03:20), "After the Girls/Sweet Georgia Brown/Smoking Dresses" (with its three shifts of music: the boyish light mood from 00:00 to 00:24, "Sweet Georgia Brown" anthem from 00:25 to 00:54 and the jazzy dynamic conclusion from 00:55 to 01:01). This well-oiled time-piece score can be understood as a first cold press for
The Super Cops
: nuff said. Perhaps, "Shirts/Skins" is Jerry Fielding emulating actor Jerry Lewis posing as a crazy soldier. Sooner or later, I will take a course to practice snare drum—the idea took me by surprise in September.
Disc four
features three scores for the series
Then Came Bronson
and Gil Mellé's two compositions are far superior and less conventional than George Duning's old hat approach—meaning it is written like a Four Star or a Desilu score (see "Metamorphosis" from
Star Trek
and "Edge of the Knife" from
)—: it announces the Mellé to come, for instance in the score "The Circle of Life", the cue "Let'er Rip" (#20) will be back in
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
or the melancolic cue "You Were On the Titanic" (#21) will be in the ABC Movie of the Week
The Six Million Dollar Man
. "The Forest Primeval" is modern jazz all over the joint and will be rearranged in the album
The Waterbirds
into two suites derived from "The Ranger/Godspeed" and "The Rainbow" for the label Nocturne Records! "Godspeed" motif is played in various renditions in the tracks: "The Rainbow", "Spin-Out", "Green Labyrinth", "Out of the Labyrinth", "The Message". The cue "Impass I" features a lovely flute performance from 01:11 to 01:31 and the track "The Search" contains an unexpected military drum that closes it from 01:44 to 02:03.
Disc five
has two dense and challenging scores, one by Lalo Schifrin and one by Billy Goldenberg. "Earth II" (recorded in February/March 1971) starts with a joyful and optimistic main title which will be reworked in "Metamorphosis" from the documentary
The Hellstrom Chronicle
and it is a suspenseful and sad experimental score which relies on an atonal line (see cues from tracks "Bad News", "Controls on Target", "On the Way Back") that typifies his work during that peculiar era: see the abstract sounds and the icy dissonant organ use a la
(recorded in October 1970) or
The Hellstrom Chronicle
(recorded in April/May 1971) or even
Dirty Harry
(recorded in October 1971), the minimalistic fragments of
Kelly's Heroes
(recorded in April 1970)—that you find in "Tamper Destruct Strategy"—and foreshadows the weird grim cues from
Planet of the Apes: The Series
(1974) and a Jim Phelps' tormented sentimental cue from
Mission: Impossible
's "Underground" (1972): see track "Tense Agony". This Schifrin opus targets demanding listeners. "High Risk" has the stamp of the composer's Universal sound between the
Night Gallery
pilot "Eyes" and
The Sixth Sense
(due to a wild and fast synthesizer: see the end of the long suite "Running Cable"),
(due to the use of the
scraped cymbal
or the
that produce a distorted sound like an agonizing cry in "Gather Around Children") and
—you can pinpoint cues written the same way as "Murder by the Book" (see the eerie use of the electric sitar in "Cholmec Civilization", "The Mask Cast"), "Suitable for Framing" (see a passage from the tour de force long suite "Running Cable" and What's Happening?") or "A Stitch in Crime"; you can even recognize the sound of Goldenberg's apprentice Dick De Benedictis throughout. In short, it's the very flower of the 70's Goldenberg!
TV Omnibus: Volume One
is real happiness. Art director Joe Sikoryak achieves an attractive and engrossing layout that recaptures the zeitgeist. My top scores list for this compilation is composed of Rosenman's "The Phantom of Hollywood", Ellis' "The Deadly Tower", Fielding's "Shirts/Skins", Mellé's "The Forest Primeval", Schifrin's "Earth II" and Goldenberg's "High Risk". Despite reduced and brief notes due to the length of the set, you learn more about some of these composers (Gil Mellé, Lalo Schifrin and Billy Goldenberg) unlike the official experts who managed to write about them: a real paradox. Liner notes author Jon Burlingame previously took care of another 5-CD set that I recommend:
Lalo Schifrin Film Scores Vol. 1
which foresees the two Schifrin television scores (the long-running series
Medical Center
and the telefilm
The Mask of Sheba
) for the next volume.
"Insects sting, not from malice, but because they want to live. It is the same with critics – they desire our blood, not our pain."
—Friedrich Nietzsche culled from "Assorted Opinions and Maxims" in
Human, All Too Human, II
("Vermischte Meinungen und Sprüche" in
Menschliches, Allzumenschliches, II
Television Music Final Report
Fielding expert Nick Redman wasn't involved in both
Hunters Are for Killing
and Mellé/Goldenberg expert James Phillips didn't takeover
Then Came Bronson
High Risk
. There are still too few vintage television releases. The vault of CBS is filled with rare gems to be offered for the audience. When will a label let us hear the complete T
he Wild Wild West, Mission: Impossible, Mannix, Hawaii Five-0
, to name the most obvious. Same thing with the vault of Universal which contains the core work of three "home" composers: Billy Goldenberg (
Columbo, Banacek
), Gil Mellé (
Rod Serling's Night Gallery, Kolchak: The Night Stalker
) and Oliver Nelson (
Ironside, The Six Million Dollar Man
). In order to promote the work of Dominic Frontiere and because it's been two years without any new item, I wish La-La Land would take steps like Intrada with Jerry Fielding and his notorious creative collaborations and release a Villa di Stefano unsold pilot (
The Ghost of Sierra de Cobre
) and the entire Daystar Productions catalogue like the companion series to
The Outer Limits
which is the rodeo series
Stoney Burke
(1962-1963) aka
The Outer Limits
on horse! Kritzerland producer Bruce Kimmel (aka Haineshisway) asserts that they don't emerge because there are not enough customers ("
a few hundred people
") to buy them, in other words, it's a niche (the vintage television music) inside a niche (the soundtrack market). Since Film Score Monthly initiated the first television soundtrack by Jerry Fielding, we may expect more to come like
McMillan & Wife
: a Universal title that Intrada could negociate.
Daystar Productions (1960-1965), founded by dramatist Leslie Stevens:
• three feature films:
The Marriage-Go-Round, Hero's Island
[the bulk is stock music from
The Outer Limits
• two television shows:
Stoney Burke
The Outer Limits
• two unsold pilots:
Mr. Kingston
"And that completes my final report until we reach touchdown. We're now on full automatic in the hands of the computers…"
—First lines told by Colonel George Taylor (Charleton Heston) from
Planet of the Apes
1. Statistics
per Composer
Film Composers
Goldsmith, Jerry:
9 CD's
Williams, John: 3 CD's
Fielding, Jerry: 2 CD's
Mellé, Gil: 2 CD's
Rosenman, Leonard: 2 CD's
Barry, John: 1 Set
Legrand, Michel: 1 Set
Lewis, Michael J.
Mancini, Henry
North, Alex: 1 Box Set
Rosenthal, Laurence
Schifrin, Lalo: 1 Box Set
Small, Michael
Television Composers
Fielding, Jerry:
2 CD's
Astley, Edwin: 1 Set
Duning, George
Ellis, Don
Farnon, Robert
Goldenberg, Billy
Goldsmith, Jerry
Grusin, Dave
Mellé, Gil
Parker, John
Romanis, George
Rosenman, Leonard
Schifrin, Lalo
Stevens, Morton
Sukman, Harry
Thorne, Ken
Williams, John
2. Statistics
per Label
14 CD's
Film Score Monthly: 10 CD's
Varèse Sarabande: 4 CD's
La-La Land: 2 CD's
Network: 2 CD's
Silva Screen
3. Statistics
per Music
Film Music Total: 29 CD's
Television Music Total: 7 CD's
Grand Total:
36 CD's
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Posted by
Jim Phelps
December 27, 2010 8:17 PM
re: Hunters are for Killing
As usual, the composer makes reference to his past: Advise and Consent (Cf. "Politely Political") in the last seconds of "Welcome Home" and in the last section of "Big Nite's Doings", Star Trek in "Rudy in L.G.'s Room" and the start of "Mr. Florin", Mannix in "Car Race"—that features the same hectic jazzy cue rearranged from the season 2 score "Pressure Point" that is also slipped in for the track "Amy's Noise" from the 1971 Straw Dogs—and "Keller Drives In", the heroics of The Wild Bunch in "Big Nite's Doings", "Hunting Party", "You Tell Your Men" and the Mexican melancolic sides in "You're Wrong Keller" and "Better Off Dead", Kolchak: The Night Stalker in the track exit of "Bad Sign". Keen listeners will identify two tracks (a section of "Chase" and "Elements") foreshadowing a nervous martial cue from the 1971 score "Murder by the Barrel" from the first season of McMillan & Wife. The general arrangements of this Fielding score are derived from his Mannix work!...Hunters Are for Killing is the finest vintage television soundtrack that you can find on the market in 2010 because it transcends the boundaries of the little screen!
Amen, bruddah!!! I said as much--though not as eloquently--in the HafK thread:
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Goshen, Ind.-based Keystone RV Co.'s very first brand — Sprinter — has undergone its most significant upgrade in the company's 17-year history, according to a press release.
Across the board, Sprinter weights have been significantly reduced while achieving a 100-inch wide-body construction, making the latest lineup of travel trailers and fifth-wheels the lightest and most spacious every built.
"We have enjoyed significant market share growth over the past year," said Josh Miller, Sprinter product manager. "Our dealers have been telling us they love the look of the product, our floorplan selection and our refocus on the Sprinter theme of 'Camping Made Easy.' When we discussed ways to further enhance the Sprinter product line we wanted to keep it simple. The message from the dealers having success with the product was to focus on reducing weight, maintain Sprinters' core identity, and make the product unique.
"We ended up doing all of that in a big way. Reducing weight and achieving a wide-body design enabled us to accomplish those goals along with adding more 'Camping Made Easy' features and living space. Dealers and customers alike will love that this is a story unique to Sprinter."
Among the major enhancements to the new Sprinter:
• Weight reduction of 500-700 pounds per floorplan.
• Increase of 5% additional useable interior space.
• King beds in all models.
• The highest tank capacities of any trailer or fifth-wheel in this class.
• An upgraded insulation package that was independently tested to perform at zero-degrees and 100-degrees.
• New décor with fabrics by Better Homes and Gardens.
In addition, the Sprinter fifth-wheel line will showcase an all-new front cap with dramatic LED accent lighting and "MaxTurn Technology" for 30% better turning radius.
The new lightweight, wide-body Sprinter travel trailers and fifth-wheels are currently in production and will begin shipping to dealers before the end of August. They will be on display at the Elkhart County RV Open House, September 17-19, in Keystone's exhibit at the RV Hall of Fame.


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|2012-06-25, 17:35
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Anyway. Watching the episode now. ...Girls, why are you heading into that town? Have you forgotten that you're supposed to be hiding until your concert? Leaving the ship was bad enough, but heading into a population center? Are you nuts? Of course it works out, but it's still stupid.
Hmm... Kirara definitely lit up a little when Nagisa was singing for the girls. Not much, but it was definitely a sign that she was on the right track. I'm glad to see it again. Kirara's been missing ever since it faded out due to Chieri's embarrassment two episodes ago.
Oddly-shaped kirara showing up out of nowhere...
Interesting tactic. Bleh to the soldiers. Really guys, shooting live ammo at 13-year-old girls is just not cool.
Some of the kids gained hearts in their eyes. If they can keep themselves alive, there may be a hopeful future for them yet.
In regards to comments on the poverty of the planet, I don't think we're supposed to think that the lack of entertainment is directly the cause of the people ending up living like that, but rather that the poverty is simply a symptom of a larger system that includes issues like the entertainment ban. Hmm... I don't know if that came out right. The lack of entertainment is just one of many ways the government is opressing these people, and it's the overall system of oppression that caused the poverty, not just the entertainment ban. Idols just get the most attention when they oppose the government, because they're flashy. They're designed to get attention. But I believe there is more to these oppressive governments than just being anti-entertainment.
And Takamina keeps ignoring my advice. Pushing for her right to perform was good, but giving up near the end undoes all of that. I hope she gets a grip on herself after she recovers from her fever. You should not give up, Takamina! You showed you still have the spirit to stand up on that stage, that you still have the right to be there. And we saw again that Tsubasa respects audacity. Stand up to her, and tell her that what she is doing to both you and Kanata is wrong. The two of you deserve to stand together on that stage. Find a way.
|2012-06-25, 17:45
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What about this concert on Tundrastar? Again it seems to have provided a brief uplifting of spirits and recruited another young girl. Are those people suddenly going to throw off their oppressors, rise up, and create a new village of freedom? It doesn't seem very likely to me.
If so, if this bleak theme really sits at the core of this story, I tip my hat to Okada-san. A theme like that upends the whole concept of idol worship and places AKB0048 squarely in the "circuses" category of the traditional "bread and circuses" approach to controlling the masses. It certainly fits best with the world depicted so far. The girls have small victories, but the forces of the DES and company are enormous and extend across the galaxy or wherever this takes place. The early Star Wars films, especially episode five, "The Empire Strikes Back," have an equally bleak outlook. The Empire is enormously powerful, and we are just a bunch of rebels in a few outclassed ships. The Rebel Alliance actually builds a military force, though; our young heroines so far work with the WOTA and aspiring young idols. The WOTA are effective, but I'm not sure they are ready to take on the Death Star.
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|2012-06-25, 17:51
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Other than that, I enjoyed the episode a lot, although I'm getting a little tired of the Takamina-Kanata subplot. I hope they wrap this up soon and move on.
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|2012-06-25, 18:00
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Agree with what you said up there.
AKB did help lessen the ban on entertainment so their efforts might contribute no matter how small.
I think Chieri was just being her cynical self or either it's Okada's fault.
But honestly since the part was so small, I totally didn't pick out. Like the other poster said...there's so many unrealistic situation going in this ep that really...it's just one line lol.....
Anyway considering the cliff hanger...pretty sure they'll wrap it up the next ep. I'm hoping they'll start to work on the beginning of Nagisa/Chieri storyline and then leave a cliffhanger at ep 13, which will ensure us of 2nd season...and maybe that cliffhanger involve Acchan
|2012-06-25, 18:22
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We're actually all getting trolled and Maeda is not going to appear until the final episode or something. This level of trolling would match the pedigree of the staff IMO.
I'm not sure about 0048 having no impact. The show does iterate that there is a strong push in the galaxy to repeal the ban. I think we're supposed to credit that to AKB. The previous planets they visited were supposed to be proof of their victories. But no idols = poverty!
|2012-06-25, 18:45
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Things get even more strange as we learn that Nagisa can make it glow, and of course Yuuko can too. So, why is this kirara so attached to Chieri who seemingly can't make it glow? Why not Nagisa, or Yuuko for that matter?
The one thing I'm pretty sure of is that it's not a mistake. Kiraras can even look into one's soul, so there's no way the little critter would stay with Chieri by mistake.
So it's kind of a mystery, and I hope it will be addressed at some point.
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|2012-06-25, 18:45
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its Ghost Madoka time!!!
those Tundrastar girls's who gained hearts on their eyes & possibly also their hair as they watched the concert, what does that suppose to mean? do the other AKB members also went through that process? or they had them naturally ever since they were born?
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|2012-06-25, 19:15
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I'm spending a bit of time pondering about how much of an effect the girls were doing, and how long their hit-and-run form of guerilla warfare would last, and how much of a dent they could make on the colonies. But several decades of dodging the DGTO indicate that they have yet to make a Midway or Waterloo in the lengthy guerilla war for music -- perhaps when that "sleeping giant" that is QS wakes up from a long slumber? And I wonder if Nagisa would be the one to wake up that giant?
|2012-06-25, 19:39
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It could also be that through their music, at least a seed of hope was planted in their heart.
About the matter of Chieri's Kirara...I'm pretty sure it's because she have a potential but at the same time she's missing something that stopping the Kirara from glowing.
|2012-06-25, 19:44
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I would like if there was a strategy like AKB0048 game, where you would have to hold concerts and the like to sway planets to your side, recruit new kenkyuusei, raise them as idols, and manage then. Somehow I think it would be a pretty interesting concept.
|2012-06-25, 20:50
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well..the closest we got to that is this..
|2012-06-25, 22:58
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Also, the whole Dualium slave mining really shows what type of corporate dictatorship they run. The girls are lucky they are dealing with a corporate dictatorship and not some insane religous government who would rather see entire planets burn than to allow one idol escape.
|2012-06-25, 23:03
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On a different note, something I found amusing. When the Russian lolis panic at being discovered, someone (I think it's Yuuka) says a phrase that can be translated as "We're not suspicious people" meaning people who arouse suspicion, not people who suspect someone of something. I find it funny, because it would be hard to find anyone more suspicious-looking in that whole village than our trainees. Firstly, almost none of them are wearing any headgear, and the one who is is clearly doing so for decoration rather than protection from the cold, while the people who belong there have hats and earmuffs, as is appropriate for the cold weather. Next, their technicolored hair stands out like a beacon among the drabness of that place. Also, their clothes are clearly some sort of uniform, compared to the more homely and individualized outfits of the citizens, and said uniforms are almost certainly much more expensive than anything anyone there is wearing.
In short, not only are they suspicious, they stand out like a sore thumb. I'm astonished they weren't arrested as soon as someone saw them.
|2012-06-25, 23:45
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Long story short, it doesn't seem like they need to have their mind all clear and stuff to make the kirara glow. Just a strong emotion is enough.
So whatever is happening with Chieri, is not just about getting something she's missing, or letting go of her current mindset, or whatever. In fact, as she is now she should be able to make the kirara glow just fine... and yet, it seems she still can't do it.
So either Okada hasn't put enough thought on this (and I'm overthinking) or there's something more about Chieri, although I still can't put my finger on what exactly it might be.
|2012-06-25, 23:58
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I think Chieri has still just been supressing her emotions, for the most part. Perhaps had DES not interrupted when the girls were singing for the lolis she might have made the kirara glow, but she didn't have the chance. While it does show up again when the four stars are singing together again at the end, it's hard to tell if it's brighter than normal or not. But then, they were singing a slow piece that's not so heavy on the overwhelming emotions that seem to set the things off. We just haven't gotten a good view of her when she's being an idol, while not supressing her emotions, and while the kirara is onscreen.
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The Onsted High School baseball team won its second straight tournament, posting three wins Saturday to win the Stockbridge Invitational.
Onsted, which won the Wood Bat Classic the previous weekend, beat Lansing Everett 20-5 in four innings, Stockbridge 9-5 and Reading 11-1 in five innings.
Isaac Henry was the winning pitcher against Stockbridge, allowing four earned runs on five hits, striking out three and walking four in three innings. Landon Duke went 3-for-5 with three doubles, two runs scored and four RBIs.
Pat Iott picked up the win against Stockbridge after allowing one earned run on three hits, striking out five and walking three in 5 1/3 innings. Iott also went 3-for-4 with two doubles and four RBIs. Chase Wagner was 2-for-4 with a run scored and an RBI.
Scott Lobbestael was the winning pitcher against Reading, yielding one earned run on six hits, striking out three. Lobbestael went 2-for-3 with a double, an RBI and a run scored. Wagner was 2-for-3 with a double, an RBI and two runs scored. Austin Lewandowski was 2-for-3 with two doubles, two runs and an RBI. Duke hit a walk-off, two-run home run in the fifth inning to end the game.
Onsted (9-12) will host Manchester on Monday.
Addison Invitational: The host Panthers captured the tournament with a 4-0 opening win over Jonesville and then an easier 15-5 win in six innings over Dearborn Heights Annapolis in the championship game.
Skyler Halliwill picked up the pitching win in the title game, throwing all six innings and allowing five hits and two walks while striking out three.
Tyler Corbin went 4-for-4 at the plate with a double and three RBIs while Shawn Coleman was 2-for-3 with a double and three RBIs and Jacob Voss was 2-for-3 with two runs scored.
Addison (5-11-1) led 12-5 in the bottom of the sixth inning when Jake Kimble hit a bases-clearing double that brought the mercy rule into play.
In the opening win against Jonesville, Voss pitched the win in a two-hit, complete-game performance. Voss walked just one batter and struck out six. He was helped offensively by Drew Defay and Collin Haag, both of whom went 2-for-3.
Lenawee Christian at Jackson Christian Tournament: At Jackson, the Cougars beat Plymouth Christian 7-3 in their first game of the tournament, before toppling Lansing Christian 12-2 in five innings in the championship game.
LCS scored two in the first, one in the third and two each in the fourth and fifth frames to pull away against Plymouth Christian.
Six different Cougars had one hit. Ron Whitman recorded a triple and two RBIs, while Jacob Land added two RBIs and Brad Harrah scored three runs. Land was the winning pitcher, allowing three runs on nine hits, while striking out eight and walking five.
LCS exploded for 12 runs on 17 hits in the championship game. Whitman went 3-for-4 with two triples and an RBI. Harrah went 2-for-3 with a double and two RBIs. Josh Gamel had two hits, scored twice and added an RBI. Jacob Single totaled two hits, two RBIs and scored a run. Jacob Baker and Eberly each had two hits, a run and an RBI.
Alex Eberly allowed two runs (one earned) on four hits, struck out three and walked one in five innings.
East Jackson at Madison: At Madison Twp., Madison swept the non-conference doubleheader, scoring 43 combined runs in the process with its 20-5 and 23-13 wins.
Avery Cantu picked up a win on the mound and contributed three hits on the day. Brandon Davis also recorded a pitching win.
Hunter Teunion-Smith went 6-for-8 with two doubles and seven RBIs over the two games. Nolan Anschuetz was 6-for-8 with three triples and eight RBIs, while Kris Paul had three hits with a double and five RBIs. Gunner Rainey had a double among his three hits, and Braxton Garza added three hits.
Madison is 9-10 overall.
PREP BASEBALL: Onsted, Addison, LCS win tournaments
The Onsted High School baseball team won its second straight tournament, posting three wins Saturday to win the Stockbridge Invitational.


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Life After the Vortex (An Existentialist Reading)
In my previous post, "Step into My Vortex" (which you should read before this one), I suggested a "braver" way to deal with our insignificance in the universe is to take Camus' approach to the situation presented in his Myth of Sisyphus.
Here's something I posted about this book on another blog.
Here's something I posted about this book on another blog.
I've written several times about the influence that Albert Camus' The Myth of Sisyphus has had on me. Camus starts with the assumption that humans seek meaning and purpose in their lives. The universe, however, always appears meaningless and purposeless. People suffer and die for no apparent reason, natural disasters devastate humans and animals, people mistreat others, people hoard resources, etc. Additionally, they discover (through astronomy) that they are insignificant specks in an unimaginably vast universe. When people begin to see the chaos in the universe, they are faced with a decision. Should they continue to live in this indifferent world or should they end their lives? If they choose to live, how shall they continue to do so?
Camus suggests that most people who decide to continue living make some kind of 'leap of faith.' They choose to believe that there is some kind of secret, hidden meaning and purpose to their existence. They posit a god who hides him/herself from humans, but who will some day right all wrongs. They invent another world outside of the one they know in which everything is good and different from the present world. This invention helps them deal with the reality glaring at them (viz. the universe is indifferent to their existence).
Camus offers another alternative to suicide and this 'leap of faith.' He recommends that humans learn to accept the universe as it is, that they stop trying to make it look better than it is, that they courageously accept the obvious senselessness of existence. The way to do this, Camus suggests, is to just stop picturing something better than what actually is. Our lot in life (as an insignificant collection of atoms) is only miserable when one attempts to imagine something better than what exists.
This is where Camus' allegory of Sisyphus is enlightening. The story of Sisyphus comes to us through ancient Greek myth. He was a man who did not properly fear the gods. He deceived them and would not follow their direction. For his insolence, Sisyphus was condemned to spend all eternity rolling a huge boulder up a steep mountain only to have the boulder roll down under its own weight before he got it to the top. Sisyphus' punishment, then, was to engage in eternal futility.
Camus believes Sisyphus' fate is analogous to every day human existence. We are all engaged in perpetual futility. Nothing we do has any lasting effect upon the vast universe in which we live.
How we choose to feel about the futility of our existence, however, is up to us. We could engage our thoughts in speculation about how the universe could be better and more responsive to our existence. We could imagine heavens and gods and pleasant things that do not exist in the world we know.
Another option, however, is that we could accept our existence for what it is ... futility. We could acknowledge that we could imagine a better existence (one with good gods, eternal life, and pleasures of every kind), but that this imagined existence simply is not what we have. We have a pointless existence, but this pointless existence is our pointless existence. It's all we have and as such it is good, because at least we have it.
This is how Camus imagines Sisyphus. Because he knows that the labor of rolling the boulder up the mountain is the only existence he will ever experience, it is not a punishment to him. It loses its misery. Only if he imagines something different, something "better," does what he does have become unbearable. If, however, he accepts his lot as his lot, then it is neither good nor bad, but simply what is. And because it is, it is better than not being and is, therefore, something to take pleasure in. Sisyphus learns happiness in the futility of his action because he stops imagining another, better existence.
At this point in my life, I feel that I can relate to Sisyphus. Sure, it would be nice to imagine some kind of eternal pleasurable existence (my "heaven" would be an eternity to love and be loved by my wife). It would be pleasing to think that my life here has some kind of eternal significance.
The evidence, however, suggests otherwise. And I'm okay with that. When my brain stops functioning and my heart stops beating, I will cease to exist. I will feel neither pain nor pleasure, grief nor loss, regret nor pride. I will no longer be. There will be nothing left to mourn the absence of my wife in my life. There will be nothing left of me. My body will decay, human life will go on and then eventually end without me.
This may sound sad, but it is what all the evidence seems to point to. It is what is. It is neither happy nor sad; it simply is.
I choose to live the life that "is" without fear or regret. I will not invent mythical worlds so unlike the one that actually does exist that it makes this one unbearable. I will face each day with courage. I will surrender to the futility of this life, not fatalistically, but with joyous acceptance of reality. I will make my friendships count in this world, in this life. I will not attempt to hide the person I am to please others because this is the only life I have and I want to live it honestly and openly. I will not waste this precious, short time I have hedging myself in an imagined religion that robs me of the only existence I will ever experience.
This is my philosophy of life.


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Barnstable police arrested a 16-year-old Saturday who allegedly flew from Nantucket to Hyannis to pick up heroin for distribution on the island.
Police did not name the suspect because of his age.
Employees at the Barnstable Municipal Airport alerted Barnstable police after they became suspicious of the Cotuit teen when he flew from Nantucket to Hyannis with no luggage and a return flight scheduled to take off nine minutes after his arrival, a statement from the Barnstable Police Department said.
After walking toward Route 132 and returning to the airport, the teen booked a 7:30 p.m. flight back to Nantucket after finding out he had missed his 6:30 p.m. flight, the statement said. When he returned to the airport again about 10 minutes before his flight, Barnstable Officer Keith Sexton and Yarmouth Officer Scott Lundegren of the Barnstable Street Crime Unit approached him.
The teen eventually admitted to having heroin hidden in his pants and produced three grams, which has a street value of about $800, the statement said. He told police he was paid to pick up the heroin for someone on Nantucket.
Police arrested the teen and charged him with possession of heroin with intent to distribute, the statement said. He was released to his father and will be arraigned in Barnstable Juvenile Court today.
The incident marked the second drug-related arrest at the airport in two days.
On Friday evening Matthew Chicoine, 21, of Falmouth, was charged with possession of Suboxone and marijuana with intent to distribute, and Russell Viera, 22, of Hyannis, was arrested on three outstanding warrants after police allegedly found $1,820 in cash, two bags of marijuana and a dozen Suboxone pills on Chicoine after the two men landed in Hyannis from Nantucket.
The juvenile's arrest was not related to the two arrests Friday, said Barnstable Police Lt. John Murphy in a phone interview Sunday.
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|March 28, 2013, 10:27 AM
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12ga.slugs for bear defense ? ? ?
In the Revolver Forum (HELP:44MAG OR 454) our members disagreed about shotgun slugs For Bear Defense. I use slugs on deer and Hogs a lot. And one blackbear that went 414lb, I used a 3 inchBRENNEKE BLACKGOLD SLUG went in one side out the otherside. Yeah a blackbear no GRIZZLY or BROWNBEAR. So whats do you think is this slug up to it if force to shoot one of the large Alaskan Bears while fishing or camping.please give both sides and why you think what you do.HOGSHOOTER
|March 28, 2013, 10:46 AM
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The consensus amongst pros and agents in the areas where brown bear or grizzly encounters are likely seems to be that the number one option would be the skilled deployment of a 12 gauge loaded with any of the harder than dead soft lead slugs...
|March 28, 2013, 02:41 PM
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Most Alaskan guides do not highly recommend slugs. The hard Brenneke slugs are acceptable, but no one would suggest standard slugs for large bear protection, not really a great choice for smaller bear. Shotguns are sometimes used because they are cheap and accessable.
If I were in big bear country I'd carry a short barreled CRF SS bolt rifle chambered in 30-06 loaded with heavy 200-220 gr Nosler Partitions. A 375 mag would be a better choice, but I'd still go with the 30-06 primarily because of recoil and the fact that I can get 5+1 mag capacity vs 3+1 with a magnum. I'd also use GOOD bear spray as my 1st line of defense
A good read. A study conducted by the Alaska Game & Fish Dept on bear protection. My choices are heavily influenced by their findings.
|March 28, 2013, 04:41 PM
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The study looks to be well done, but was completed in 1983, some 30 years ago. Much has transpired in the develpment of ammunition over the past three decades. For instance, the largest shotgun slug in the study is 1 oz and was likely made out of lead. The Breneke Black Magic slugs of today are 1 3/8 oz and are hard cast. Thefiringline staff Vanya, has some interesting and constuctive posts on this subject. Vanya would agree that a good bear spray should be your first line of defense, along with common sense.
|March 28, 2013, 06:33 PM
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Here is a little more to think about back in the 1980 or some where close to it a OUTDOORLIFE WRITER did something dumb he shot and killed a cape buff.useing the old REM.7/8OZ foster 2 3/4 inch 12GA they claimed it went threw one lung and lt broke up into chunks against the heart other two were lung shots.My father had the outdoor life mag. until he passed away in 2001.I think this man was nuts to try it but it did it.HOGSHOOTER
|March 28, 2013, 07:13 PM
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You can consider it dumb but if I could go on a cape buffalo hunt I would want a .30-06 and a 12 gauge with hard slugs...
If the critter won't come in or let me within 50 yards, I will drop it with the rifle...
otherwise I would really prefer to put the slug in it from 50 yards or under...
|March 28, 2013, 07:37 PM
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Here's the slug that I'd use: Lightfield Commander IDS Plus 12 Gauge 3-1/2" 1-3/8 oz Sabot Slug Ammunition
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if i was required to attend an encounter with a big bear on short notice, id simply do what many bear hunters in russia do. get my 91/30 out, and grab a box of that 203 grain russian made soft points. or standard 185 grain softpoints.
if i had advance warning, id have a really really nice bolt gun made, that could use those 20 round ww2 surplus BAR mags loaded with 220 grain jsp.
or if we live in a fantasy world, id be sitting in one of those ww2 british scout cars or a bren carrier with a 60 mm cannon.
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Slugs in a pump gun. Biggest and hardest you can muster.
The pump gun works fast without having to remove your grip. If you have bear problems it is almost always going to be quick and close. Just about every bear I have ever seen just seemed to "appear" out of nowhere. They are sly and quiet.
I only shot two blacks. Both moderate in size. One was with a BP .54 Lee REAL 380 grain bullet that broke three ribs, tore up the lungs and went a measured 36 inches through the bear leaving a ghastly wound channel about six inches in diameter. It knocked the wind out of the bear and slammed him flat on the ground. He still got up a loped off his last 50 yards. The second bear was a head shot with a Mosin which is darn close to an '06.
My 870 works every time, holds a bunch of 3 inchers, and is relatively short and light. But if weight is no problem, like around camp, an M1 with 8 appropriate .30-06 rounds would be hard to beat, and it too works every time. Both would be a comfort.
A bolt gun seems a bit to slow to work the action. And bears being bears can take a lot of lead if it isn't served up just right.
|March 28, 2013, 11:11 PM
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Re: 12ga.slugs for bear defense ? ? ?
Slugs for a black bear but Brown or Grizzly hell no.
Smallest thing I would take is a 1895 Marlin 45-70 with the 405gr rounds.
You need to understand that a black bear is like an angry large Rottweiler. A grizzly is 2,000lbs and 12-14 ft tall and can run as fast as a horse. You cannot put one down with conventional calibers.
Grizzly I would say
.375H&H MAG or larger but rifle like that are not a good choice for quick defense
|March 29, 2013, 12:05 AM
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Take a look at Dixie Slugs for a 12ga..
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|March 29, 2013, 01:44 AM
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Re: 12ga.slugs for bear defense ? ? ?
Thoughts on (I think) Dupleks STEEL slugs?
I keep seeing them advertised in Shotgun news.
1 1/8 oz wasp shaped steel w/ polymer wad and polymer belt
Expanding and non-expanding offered
I think 1450 fps
|March 29, 2013, 09:17 AM
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I've seen those steel slugs, and my thoughts were that it would be a lot like steel shot. It might work and it might not, though, but I won't be the one testing it. A hard-cast lead slug would be where I'd place my bets. Luckily, dangerous game in NM is pretty much limited to black bear and cougar, and neither of those are very dangerous. I'd trust 1 oz fosters to take either of those without much problem. Cougars are easy to kill, but if they want to kill you, you'd better be in a sensor-filled electrified cage, because you won't see them coming.
If I were going to be spending any serious amount of time in AK or somewhere with big bears, I'd have to get another .45-70. Someone needs to make a pump .45-70 with a tubular magazine that will handle level 2 loads. Until then, the guide gun is a hard platform to beat in my opinion. Granted, bucked firewood logs don't charge very fast, but my unscientific performance testing of .45-70 hard cast 350 grainers on that medium shows that they'll go through a whole lot of pine without much velocity. I've shot fosters at the same stuff, and it tends to stop short and send the pine log tumbling down the hill. Maybe I'll have to get my wallet out and get some of those other slugs to see what they'll do.
Anyone have a brown bear they'd be willing to loan me? I'll sew up the holes.
|March 29, 2013, 02:06 PM
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Pepper spray first. Modern slugs second.
|March 29, 2013, 08:54 PM
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.375 Ruger would be my choice. My .416 Rigby is too heavy to carry.
|March 29, 2013, 08:56 PM
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Now I'm jealous.
|March 29, 2013, 11:15 PM
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I haven't been to Alaska since the 80's, but back then, 12 gauge slugs were the weapon of choice for big bear defense.
|March 29, 2013, 11:39 PM
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Some folks use the 12 ga. pump with slugs, and swear by it, but they've not had to depend on it, the folks I know personally, anyway.
The ideal setup is a partner on watch with a magazine rifle, large bore. The other guy can carry the shotgun, fine, but he's not the main event.
The Forest Service investigated what to arm their work parties with up in Alaska, they decided on nothing less than a .375 H&H rifle. The .45-70 and 12 guage didn't make the grade at that time, I think 1980 was the study year.
They didn't look at .416 Rigby either, wasn't an available commercial cartridge then. Wonder what they'd say now?
They needed penetration about 18 inches, no fragmentation, and full energy expenditure in the animal's vital organs, no over-penetration.
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On Kodiak Island there is a small Coast Guard Station. A very large bear was killed within the base housing area by an off duty man while BBQ-ing dinner for the family. He killed the bruin with a 12 gauge shotgun slug. This bear is mounted and on display at the station.
Fire up the grill! Deer hunting IS NOT catch and release.
|March 30, 2013, 08:16 AM
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Re: 12ga.slugs for bear defense ? ? ?
a) 1 1/8 oz lead slug
B) 1 1/8 oz steel slug
Which do you think will deform more?
a) "hard cast lead slug"
B) steel slug
Not having received them yet, I don't know
|March 31, 2013, 08:38 AM
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The shape and density of the slug itself is a factor when determining penetration. A ton of bricks and a ton of feathers weigh the same too .
|April 1, 2013, 12:30 PM
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I've never found standard Foster slugs to be all that great on deer so I questioned their use on big bear. I was pretty well shouted down by the Brenneke crowd. Seem's they are far and way the choice.
|April 1, 2013, 02:25 PM
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Some (maybe many) East European hunters use 12G shotguns to hunt large bears in Eastern Russia. Their ammo of choice is sabot slugs with hard as steel aerodynamic bullets. Let me see if I can remember the name of those shells.
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does any manufacturer make hardcast slugs? i dont know alot about them
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Democratic candidate Peter Buckley sharply rebuked his rival, U.S. Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., for not attending a candidate's forum at the Hood River Middle School on Tuesday.
"He does still live here doesn't he?" quipped Buckley after telling the 30-member audience that he "passionately" believed that a public debate was necessary to highlight their ideological differences.
Camille Hukari, who represented Walden at the forum sponsored by the Citizens for Responsible Growth, apologized for his absence but explained that the elected official had just gotten out of a federal legislative session to set the national budget and debate possible military action against Iraq. She said Walden was following that workload with attendance at 56 events in 15 of his 20 counties.
"Greg is always being pulled in a lot of different directions, particularly this time of year, and unfortunately his schedule doesn't allow him to be everywhere he'd like to be," said Dallas Boyd, Walden's legislative assistant, in a follow-up interview.
However, even Walden's written response to a question submitted by Mark Nykanen of Columbia River Fellowship for Peace showcased the sharp differences between the two rivals for the Second District Congressional seat.
The federal candidates gave divisively different answers to the question, "Do you support the new doctrine of 'pre-emptive' attack proposed by the Bush Administration, which reverses established international law that has developed over the last century, and do you feel a pre-emptive attack on Iraq will destabilize the Middle East?"
Walden, who is seeking a third term in office, said he was "hopeful" that the threat posed by Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction could be eliminated without using military force. However, he believes the United States has to reserve the right to use force if diplomatic efforts failed.
"It would be irresponsible of America's leaders to allow a profound threat to our national security to gather without using every means at our disposal to neutralize it," Walden wrote.
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DETROIT – As the Detroit Red Wings head into their 12th game of the regular season tonight against the New York Rangers, they're still in search of an identity.
"We have to play well," Wings coach Mike Babcock said Saturday after the team's morning skate at Joe Louis Arena. "It's just like doing your job, you have to have a blue print to know what you're doing and you have to have the energy to come in and do it each and every day. We haven't established a blue print enough. We don't have an identity or whatever you want to call it."
After going 6-3-1 in their first 10-game segment, the Wings' 11th game was one they'd soon like to forget, a 6-1 loss to the Ottawa Senators.
"Through 10 games, you're 6-3-1 and you think you're off to not a bad start and then game 11 comes along and you're wondering what the heck you're doing," Babcock said. "We have to regroup here today, we have to play harder as a good and better as a group."
The Wings have scored just 25 goals this season, an average of 2.3 per game.
But they've scored just three goals over their last three games, going 0-2-1 in the process.
Babcock shuffled up his top two lines to try and generate more offense, breaking up Pavel Datsyuk and Henrik Zetterberg.
Datsyuk will center Todd Bertuzzi and Daniel Alfredsson, while Zetterberg will play between Johan Franzen and Tomas Tatar.
The bottom two lines remained the same.
The Rangers' offense has been even worse. They've scored just 12 goals in eight game, an average of 1.50 per game.
"Like every team you're playing you're going to have your hands full," Babcock said. "They're like us, they don't score any goals."
Tonight's game is the final of a nine-game road trip to begin the season for New York. The Rangers, who are 2-6-0, also played every preseason game on the road because Madison Square Garden was being renovated.
"I thought their D-zone look the same," Babcock said. "When I look at the Rangers it's a lot of carry over, lots of shot blocking, I really like 27 (Ryan McDonagh), 5 (Dan Girardi) and 18 (Marc Staal). I really thought they were fantastic the other night. (Derek) Stepan is obviously a real good player for them. (Brad) Richards seems to be getting it going again. (Dan) Boyle always impresses me, I think he's done a real good job and gone to New York and become a real good player here in the league."
Detroit has won six in a row at home against the Rangers and are 10-1-0 in the past 11 against New York at Joe Louis Arena
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - An eastern Ohio sheriff doesn't want exotic animals coming back to the same farm where they were set free by their suicidal owner last October.
But Muskingum County Sheriff Matt Lutz says there's not a lot officials can do to keep that from happening.
The widow of a Zanesville man who freed the dozens of animals before killing himself wants to take back the few surviving animals, including a leopard and a brown bear.
She says there are adequate cages to keep them at the Zanesville farm.
The state's agriculture department is expected to hold a hearing Monday on her request.
The Muskingum County prosecutor tells The Columbus Dispatch that they're limited in what they can do unless the animals are abused or if there's a clear public nuisance.
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Plymouth-Canton's WSDP-FM 88.1 flips to pop
On the afternoon of New Year's Eve, WSDP-FM 88.1 Plymouth wrapped up its stunting and officially took on a pop/Hot AC format, becoming Plymouth and Canton's Hit Music and inviting listeners to come up with a name for the station - and be entered for a chance to win a $100 gas card. Visit the web site for more information and to listen to the station live at TheNew881.com.
Musically, the relaunched station will feature artists such as Adele, Maroon 5, Kelly Clarkson, Journey, Bruno Mars, Taylor Swift, The Fray and Bon Jovi.
WSDP will continue to be run by students in the Plymouth-Canton Community Schools and provide hourly community news, live broadcasts from throughout Plymouth and Canton, live school sports from Canton, Plymouth and Salem high schools, and Plymouth Whalers Hockey.
WSDP featured an alternative rock format until December 27th, when it began stunting toward its new sound. The station's staff is working on an internet only station that will continue 88.1FM's former format, known as "The Escape."
"We're excited to bring The New 88.1 to listeners in Plymouth and Canton," said Kyle Linford, Program Director, "We look forward to serving the community in the months ahead."
Southwest Michigan AM goes dark
Mid-West Family Broadcasting has taken sports WCSY AM 940 South Haven off the air permanently, electing to cease operations as of 10:40 a.m. on Monday, January 2nd. It's expected the station's two tower array will be removed at a later date.
Cumulus' Spaulding travels down US-23
RAMP reports that Matt Spaulding has exited Cumulus' Ann Arbor, MI cluster (WWWW-FM / WQKL-FM / WTKA AM / WLBY AM) and has been named as VP/Market Manager for the company's Toledo/Monroe operations (WRQN-FM / WXKR-FM / WMIM-FM / WKKO-FM / WWWM-FM / WLQR-FM/AM).


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First off I read this thread http://www.opengl.org/discussion_boa...29-help-needed but since the last post here comes from 2.5 yrs ago I thougt I could add something here. Basically, I am experiencing the same problems as the author of the aformentioned thread. I have a GF 240 GT with some of the latest drivers.
I render 625 meshes and, obviously, need a world transform matrix for each. Also, there is view proj matrix passed to the shader (this is set only once as it is constant for all objects, so only world transform needs to be updated). Using traditional uniform variables approach I manage to render everything in less than 2ms, which is a little over 500 FPS (before recording the time I call glFinish).
Now I switched to a constant buffer. When I update the buffer's data with MapBufferRange the performance hurts immensely taking around 120ms to render a frame. On the other hand, when I update the buffer's data with glBufferSubData, the CPU time needed to execute API calls is less than 1ms (!) *but* that is before calling glFinish. After calling glFinish the measured time is around 9ms, which gives 120 FPS or so.
The thing that bothers me most is the difference in timing taken before and after calling glFinish. If rendering all objects takes less than 1ms and calling glFinish is so expensive I guess OGL is simply buffering all commands. If so then I think it's quite a lot of data to buffer.
Has anyone ever decided to abandon the use of goold oldie variable uniforms and switched completely to using uniform buffers?


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Nashville, Tenn. – After dropping the first two games of the season, the Tennessee State men's basketball team hopes that the third time will be the charm when the squad takes on Minnesota on Thursday night.
In TSU's last contest at South Dakota State, the Tigers fell behind by 15 at halftime, but dominated the Jacks in the second half. Still, TSU fell short, 71-78.
Forward Robert Covington was back to usual form for TSU, scoring 23 points and pulling down 11 rebounds.
Covington played big minutes in the game against the Jacks, but guard Patrick Miller played the entire 40 minutes for the Tigers.
Miller had a double-double with 12 points and a career-high 10 assists, but he attempted 18 shots while only making five.
Shooting was a problem all night for TSU as the team only made 37 percent of its shots.
However, the Tigers' defense came up big for the team, forcing 16 SDSU turnovers and stealing the ball 13 times.
TSU will need to replicate that defensive performance against Minnesota on Thursday night, as the Golden Gophers have outscored opponents this season by an average of 31 points per game.
Minnesota is led by Austin Hollis and Rodney Williams who have combined to average 20.5 points and 11.5 rebounds per game so far this season.
The Gophers are also coached by the legendary Tubby Smith who has amassed 492 career victories. While this is the first meeting between TSU and Minnesota, Smith is 2-0 versus the Tigers all-time.
The game will be broadcasted on ESPN3 at 7 p.m. Fans can watch the game, here.
--TSU Tigers--