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MC Swimbaits 6" Weedless Swimbait
The product of tireless research and development, the MC Swimbaits Weedless Swimbait offers anglers a snag-resistant baitfish imitation that works at any speed, in any environment, and for any kind of bass. Developed to absolute perfection, the MC Swimbaits Weedless Swimbait delivers a true-swimming action with a fast retrieve, slow crawl, and on the drop as well. Built with a deep, pre-split hook pocket, the MC Swimbait Weedless Swimbait is designed to fit a 7/0 Lazer Trokar Magnum Swimbait Hook for a perfectly balanced, weedless presentation.
Capable of being fished in grass, weeds, wood, and in open water, the MC Swimbaits Weedless Swimbait is already responsible for a number of trophy largemouth, striper, and calico catches. Hand-poured, one at a time, in the USA, the MC Swimbaits Weedless Swimbait has been tested over-and-over in a wide variety of situations to make it as versatile and as effective as possible.
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Comments: Great summer Swimbait, that kicks on the fall. Burn or crawl, stays upright and never rolls. Very durable.
From: Outcast: CA 10/10/14
Comments: Baits are legit. They're durable, weedless without the need to skin hook; and have an awesome hookup ratio. Can be fished fast or slow and gets bites from all sizes of bass. Will be a killer Summer time bait. Bass and Bluegill colors getting bit.
From: ACH: CA 6/10/14
Comments: Swimbait is amazing. Caught big largemouth bass in the baby bass and tilapia patterns. The action is amazing and can be fished pretty much any way you want. And it is extremely weedless.
From: Andy: USA 4/12/4
Comments: These baits are amazing! The colors are incredible and the fact that there are no perfect lines in these baits is even better. Nature isn't perfect and Corey nailed that with these guys. They can take a beating and still keep catching fish. They can be crept along the bottom, worked at a moderate speed, or burned. Either way they stay upright and that tail THUMPS! MC SWIMBAITS ARE DOPE!
From: Matt: USA 3/20/14
Comments: This swimbait is incredible. Its like fishing a piece of art work. I have been fishing this bait just under the surface on a medium retrieve to a slow crawl out in 25-30 feet of water. This swimbait is so versatile when fished with a Trokar 7/0 weighted 3/8oz swimbait hook. And yes this bait is a true weedless swimbait and then some! The action is as realistic as any bait fish seen swimming naturally in the water. I have five different baits with five or six fish on each of them and there still running strong with fish up to seven pounds. All the colors are great and realistic but where are the pan fish colors?
From: George: Cali
Comments: Excellent swimbait! Totally weed less, great action, durable, and it produces lots of fish for me! Colors are awesome too
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WASHINGTON -- The election may be over, but a new campaign is being waged in the nation's capital as lobbyists, advocates and trade groups fight to shape the government's response to the looming fiscal cliff.
It's a twist on the usual lobbying effort: Instead of digging for more tax dollars, they're trying to protect what they've got.
The tactics are familiar to voters who were swamped with TV commercials, newspaper ads and mailers in the frenzied months before Election Day. But this time, the effort is directed at politicians, not so much the public.
What do these groups want?
In this climate, lobbyists and advocacy groups are mainly trying to control the damage as Congress and the White House look to raise taxes and cut spending in an attempt to slow down the government's mushrooming debt. In other words: Don't raise my taxes and don't cut spending on programs I like.
At the same time, cheerleaders for fiscal austerity, including members of President Barack Obama's own deficit commission, are lobbying him and Congress to cut deficits. In 2010, the commission proposed a plan that mixed tax increases and spending cuts to reduce government borrowing by almost $4 trillion over the next decade.
Mr. Obama largely ignored that plan. Now, the two co-chairmen of the commission, Democrat Erskine Bowles and Republican Alan Simpson, have formed a group called Fix the Debt that is running newspaper ads that mimic popular advertising campaigns. One ad features a picture of a female runner and the catch phrase, "Just fix it." Another is a picture of a woman with a milk mustache and the slogan, "Got debt?"
"Even the best advertising in the world can't fix the debt," says the ad. "But together we can. Let's get to work."
Come January, the nation faces a massive combination of automatic tax increases and across-the-board spending cuts that have come to be known as the "fiscal cliff" because allowing this scenario to play out would probably send the economy back into recession, according to government economists.
Mr. Obama wants to let tax rates rise for wealthy families while sparing middle- and low-income taxpayers. Some Republican leaders, including House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, have said they are willing to consider making the wealthy pay more by reducing their tax breaks. But most Republicans in Congress adamantly oppose raising tax rates.
If the wealthy are going to put out more tax money one way or another, it may not matter much whether they do so by paying a higher rate or by seeing their tax shelters shrink. But most of those tax breaks have some broader policy purpose behind them. In Washington, lobbyists are paid handsomely to focus on seemingly small details like that and lawmakers are perfectly capable of getting tied in knots over them.
Advocates for older people are warning the negotiators to keep their hands off Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. "We didn't put out the resources that we did to elect the president and others to have them turn around and cut these programs," said Eric Kingson, co-director of the Strengthen Social Security Coalition, a group of more than 300 advocacy groups and labor unions.
The defense industry is fighting against spending cuts that would bite weapons makers. The National Association of Manufacturers warns that 1 million private-sector jobs could be lost if pending cuts to defense spending go through.
Companies that make medical devices are trying to stop new taxes on their products under the new health care law. The Charitable Giving Coalition warns that benevolent donations will suffer if they're no longer tax deductible.
A coalition of medical research groups called Research! America is trying to cut through the noise with stark ads likening spending cuts to poison: "WARNING: Washington politics just might kill you."
Many advocacy groups are pressing their cases directly. Labor leaders and several business CEOs met Mr. Obama at the White House last week, while mayors came to Capitol Hill to make a case to lawmakers against cutting aid to cities.
"Cities have already been at the fiscal cliff -- we've cut our budgets, we've cut our staffs," said Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors. "We recognize that tough decisions have to be made, but at the same time we have to make sure that we have a seat at the table. As some say in Philadelphia, if you're not at the table, you're on the menu."
That's a familiar refrain -- almost everyone acknowledges that money has to be cut, no one wants it to be theirs.
Advocates for the oil and gas industry say they fully expect the tax breaks they enjoy to be on the table. So, unlike other years when their lobbyists might seek to improve the industry's hand, the more modest goal this year is to minimize the damage.
"We're certainly not asking for anything on Capitol Hill," said Brian Johnson, senior tax adviser for the American Petroleum Institute.nation - electionspresident

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Canada wins silver medal at junior Pan Am Cup
PANAMA CITY – Canada won the silver medal late Monday night at the inaugural Junior Pan Am Cup men's volleyball tournament dropping the championship final to Venezuela 25-23, 16-25, 25-19, 25-23.
Nicholas Hoag of Sherbrooke, Que., registered 17 points to lead the Canadian attack while Daniel Moreau of Sherbrooke and Bradley Kufske of Abbotsford, B.C., added 13 each. Canada ends the competition with an overall record of three wins and three losses while Venezuela was undefeated in its five matches.
"I am very proud of my boys who made a great effort and showed what they are capable of,'' said Canada's national team coach Georges Laplante.
Venezuela out-blocked their opponents 13-9 and they were also better in the aces department 8-4.
"It was a very difficult match and not the regular 3-1 victory as the Canadians adjusted their defence and made it hard for us,'' said Venezuela's coach Gilberto Herrera.
The tournament was a first big tune-up for the Canadian squad which is ultimately preparing for the world junior championships later this summer in Brazil.
The men's national junior volleyball team sorted by province:
Alberta: Tristan Aubry, Edmonton; Jay Olmstead, Edmonton; Lucas VanBerkel, Edmonton; Branden Schmidt, Winton; Jarron Mueller, Calgary.
B.C.: Alex Davis, White Rock; Bradley Kufske, Abbotsford; Derek Thiessen, Coquitlam.
Manitoba: Brett Wiess, Winnipeg.
Ontario: Tyler (TJ) Sanders, London.
Quebec: Nicholas Hoag, Sherbrooke; Daniel Moreau, Sherbrooke; Tommy Bélisle, Quebec City.
Saskatchewan: Braden McLean, Birch Hills.
Head coach: Georges Laplante, Montreal
More information: www.volleyball.ca and www.norceca.org


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(January 13) This week we're celebrating . . . International Printing Week
International Printing Week
Educating and promoting the importance of Graphic Arts and Graphic Artists as well as the Printing Community in our everyday life.
Just imagine what your world would look like without their work. What would the Web look like? Plain, bland, with probably a lot of "programmer blue"? Functional. Yes. But really, really dull.
And who could imagine MTV without its bold and striking graphics and visual humor? Apple without is cool visual style? Magazines, books, TV, movies, the Web? All would be so boring without the ideas, vision, and work of the Graphic Arts community.
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While browsing on the internet the other morning reading the news, weather, sports and financial sections I came across what I thought was a most interesting item by Countrymom, titled How to Appear Wealthy. Most of the following is from that article.
Never discuss money with anyone other than your spouse or financial advisor. Quite frankly it's no one else's business what or how much or little money you make. Discussing money will make you look foolish and either greedy or impoverished. Most of the time people are not interested and also find it boring and or rude.
You don't have to be rich to have matching clothing. Keep your clothing clean and well mended. Take time to press your clothing and wear the proper undergarments. Golly Gee. I wish someone would of told me that years ago. Any one who knows me knows that I am not a preppy dresser.
My darling wife does her best to try to make me look respectable but she is fighting a losing battle. I remember years ago at CEU walking done the hall and two classmates bursting into laughter and then teasingly explaining to me that stripes and plaids don't go together.
Get rid of excess. Getting rid of excess things in and around your house will clean things up and make them appear neater. It will be easier to maintain and you will seem to be wealthier if you are neater and tidier. Have a yard sale or better yet box them up and give them to charity.
I certainly have a little work to do here as I am a hoarder and reluctant to discard almost anything while my wife is extremely neat and tidy. What did she ever see in me? I am just lucky I guess.
Lastly You don't have to drive a big fancy car, however, you do have to keep your car clean and in top running condition. Many wealthy folks do not have the latest model car but they do have them clean and neat, and remember most importantly to never try to keep up with the Joneses...they are broke too they just don't want you to know it.


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Secretary Vilsack and MD Governor O'Malley host "Buy Local"
Yesterday, Secretary Vilsack and Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley hosted Maryland's fourth annual "Buy Local" cook out. The event kicked off Maryland's "Buy Local Challenge Week" which encourages Marylanders to incorporate at least one locally-grown, produced or harvested product into their meals each day.
Governor O'Malley designated June 23-31 is "Buy Local Challenge Week" in an effort to raise awareness about the benefits of local farms and food so that the use of fresh, local products among consumers becomes more familiar and more frequent. The cookout featured recipes from 17 teams of local producers and chefs from across the State showcasing the diversity of local products available in Maryland.
For a better look at yesterday's event in Annapolis, Maryland, check out the video below:


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Urban Expressions Groove Crossbody Bag
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Item # 267319
Urban Expressions provides the best in animal friendly fashion! This stylish and spacious Groove Cross Body Bag is perfect for a busy day on the town.
- Faux leather cross body bag
- Top flap with magnetic closure and additional zip closure
- Flat faux leather strap with 25" drop
- Studded details and hidden slip pocket in front
- Printed fabric lining with zip pocket and two slip pockets
- Dimensions 12" x 3" x 10"
- Imported
By: bluangelskyee
Location: chicago
March 12, 2013
So Hippie Chic
"I had been stalking this bag online for a few weeks and finally made my way into the store to see in person. I instantly fell in love with the bag. It will look great as a crossbody and roomy enough to carry all of my essentials. The metal accents look super chic. So excited about this bag. I just wish it came in more colors"
By: ishadharma
Location: Michigan
March 10, 2013
Love it!
"I love this bag and think it is the perfect size for what I carry in my purse on a daily basis. The yellow color is beautiful and stands out. I am considering ordering the silver."
By: fmartin30
Location: New Carrollton, MD
March 04, 2013
"Very nice material and the color is true."
By: VeganGal
Location: Philadelphia, PA
February 03, 2013
Well Made Handbag
"This crossbody bag is a great size, roomy, but not too large and very well made. Urban Expressions is a quality brand. I should note that I thought the bag was a little heavy at first, but once I started to use it, I'm really enjoying it. So far it is holding up very well and I'm very pleased with the quality of the bag - zippers work well, etc. I am shorter (5'1") and it works really well for me, but it would also be great for someone taller due to the adjustable strap. I was having a difficult time finding a vegan crossbody purse that was large enough to hold everything, but not the size of a suitcase. I was very excited to find this bag as it fits all of my needs. I bought the bag in all 3 colors and I love them all. I showed the bags to a co-worker when they arrived and she loved them in all the colors too (she even commented on how nice the interior fabric is) so now she is going to buy one! I highly recommend this bag."
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|Posted by Hube on May 15, 2003 at 08:49:57:
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: : : There is a vent coming out of the front of my house. I presume that this release gas from the water lines (?). Unfortunately, it is right near my front porch/front door and every time the toilet flushes, you can hear the flush from across the street (practically). If someone is at the door, and I'm in the loo, I can't flush or the person will know my every move. Can I do anything to quiet or muffle the sound eminating from the vent?JEFF;IF the vent was installed according to code, it should terminate up on the ROOF, NOT at the FRONT of the house. Hube
: I am curious what jurisdiction you are in. The new International Plumbing Code, published by the inspectors organization, ICBO/ICC, allows for less vents and for them to come out the side of the house instead of the roof. I'm in Wichita, KS and we have been able to keep IAMPO's Uniform Plumbing Code but in jurisdictions where staff is stronger than the trade boards they have moved to the International Code.
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There are tons of great music videos, so I thought let's start a new thread similar to Rate that tune! for videos.
Rules are simple, post a link to a video and then the next poster rates it and posts a new link.
First video to get rated, Noisia & Mayhem ft. KRS-One with the song Exodus:
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Jason Gregor
August 30 2013 08:31AM
Based on the emotion, conversation and amount of articles I've seen since Wanye wrote Sam Gagner will be the Edmonton's 14th Captain; it is obvious hockey fans are getting restless. The season unofficially begins next week with rookie camp, while thankfully main camp is less than two weeks away, so the focus can go back to whether the Oilers have improved enough to contend for the playoffs.
We've enjoyed the distractions: debate of the captaincy, the return of Linus Omark, Taylor Hall's supposed Olympic snub by TSN and more, but none of that will matter once the puck drops Sept 14th vs. the Calgary Flames. What matters will be if the Oilers have improved.
Like everyone I like a good distraction now and again, so let's look quickly at what's transpired recently.
Hall hasn't done enough to be a lock for Team Canada. Hall dominated for 45 games last seasons, but he will need to show Steve Yzerman, Mike Babcock and the rest of the coaches and management team that was just the beginning of his emergence as a great player.
It isn't a knock on his abilities and accomplishments; it's just the reality of the game. You can't overlook Hall's play at the World Championships. You might not like how little Lindy Ruff played him, but Yzerman and company will be inclined to listen to Ruff's opinion more than those of diehard Oilers fans.
I believe the World Championships was a great learning experience for Hall. He had a coach tell him, maybe not with words, but with his actions, he needed to protect the puck better. Hall is a quick learner, and he's a proud player. I have no doubt he's learned from that situation and he will be a more complete player this year.
Oiler fans should be elated that Hall had that experience because it will make him a better player, and if Hall illustrates he's become a better all-around player, his Edmonton teammates will follow. Hall will be one of the leaders of this team, and if he plays with more desire and smarts in every aspect of his game it benefits the Oilers.
I didn't expect Hall to make to be on the Olympic team in August, and him not making the "mock" team shouldn't be a concern. He has three months to impress the Hockey Canada brass, and if he does make that team, that likely means the Oilers will be in the playoff mix entering January.
I believe the coaches have Kunitz ranked higher than Hall today, mainly because of his connection to Crosby, but I don't believe Kunitz makes the team at the end of December. Kunitz can't play better than he did last season, but Hall is just beginning his ascent into the elite category of NHL players.
Rather than worry about a snub on a mock list, fans should be excited about the potential of watching Hall become even more dominant this season.
Does it really matter who wears the "C"?
I don't believe it does. If the Oilers are going to become a consistently competitve team is won't be on the shoulders or mouth of one player. Behind every good captain are more great leaders. No captain leads by himself.
The obvious example is the Oilers of the early 1980s. Wayne Gretzky was the captain, but Mark Messier wore an "A," and many said he was the main leader. He wasn't, however, the only one.
Gretzky led by never letting up. If he had three points, he wanted four or five.
Kevin Lowe was an intense player, and he always challenged his teammates to be better, even Messier and Gretzky.
If Dallas Eakins ends up debating over who should be captain, then that is a great scenario. If he truly believes, Andrew Ference, Jordan Eberle, Sam Gagner, Ladislav Smid or Hall could be the captain that means he feels he has five solid leaders. That is what the Oilers need, a group of players willing and capable of demading more from their teammates, not one Captain who will magically transform them into a winning team.
I'd pick Ference, and have the others wear an "A".
The rest of the Oilers do not know how to win in the NHL. Ference has played more playoff games, 120, than all of the Oilers top-nine forwards and top-four D-men combined. Boyd Gordon (52), Ales Hemsky (30) and David Perron (19) are the only skaters with playoff experience.
Ryan Smyth (93), Ben Eager (47), Nick Schultz (24), Denis Grebeshkov (2) and Jesse Joensuu (1) have also played in the post-season, but I don't see them playing significant minutes this season.
Ference has been to Stanley Cup finals two of the past three seasons, and he averaged 24:31 TOI in the playoffs last year. He wasn't a bit player; he averaged the third most minutes on the Bruins. He won't be the Oilers' best player, but he's been on winning teams and he knows what it takes to win in the NHL. He has the experience and expertise to control the dressing room.
If one of the Oilers isn't competing hard enough, it would be much easier for Ference to call him out than one of the young kids. Ference could use examples from his playing days of how hard and smart you need to play to win in the NHL.
Some feel you can't give the captaincy to a new player. Why not? When Jason Smith was traded to the Flyers they named him captain right away. They had Mike Richards and Jeff Carter on that team, but elected to go with Smith. The Flyers went to the conference finals that year. I'm not saying Smith was the main reason, far from it, but he'd been to a Cup final two years earlier and he knew the commitment level necessary to win in the NHL.
None of the young kids know how to win in the NHL. Winning in junior or at the World Junior Championships is much different than succeeding against the best players in the world.
Being a great captain isn't just about leading on the ice, in fact, I'd argue most of his responsibility comes off the ice. Arranging team outings, approaching the head coach about an issue, speaking to the media daily and giving back to your community are important roles for the captain.
Ference is better equipped to deal with those situations. He has more experience, he's a proven leader and he's already got involved in the community.
He started the November Project in Edmonton. It was started in Boston by a few friends of his, and he's continued the tradition in Edmonton.
Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday morning Ference invites people to workout with him and some friends. On Mondays they meet at a park, it changes weekly, and they do a variety of exercises. On Wednesdays they do stairs, usually at Glenora, and then on Fridays they run hills, at a different location every week.
The idea behind the movement is to encourage people to workout and to meet new friends. Maybe you've been scared to go to the gym, maybe you need extra motivation, whatever the reason the November project promotes healthy living. It is a very simple thing, but many people are motivated and excited to train with an NHL player.
To find out where they workout just follow them on twitter.
Good for him for signing an NHL deal. I hope he plays well, but I don't see him solving the issues of the Oilers. I chuckled when I read one of the comments in my last article, ripping me for suggesting the Oilers have too much of the same in their top-nine.
The poster wrote, "Why does anyone believe this is true. Give me lines that outshoot the opposition, and draw more penalties than they take, and they can be 5'6 170lbs, or 6'4 225lbs. It is irrelevant."
He also suggested that Yakupov seemed more like a power forward.
Similar isn't just size, it is also the style they play, and no team wins with all similar type forwards. You can live in a dream world believing you will outshoot the opposition and draw more penalties with nine similar forwards, but I can't recall a team in the past two decades who was built that way and won.
You need a combination of skill, smarts, grit, desire, net presence, board presence, defensive awareness, toughness and size. The Oilers don't have that yet, but Craig MacTavish knows this and he'll keep adding and subtracting until he finds the right mixture.
I recommend you don't start watching this video until you have a ten minute break at work, because I found it hard to stop watching once I started. If you need a good laugh on Positive Friday, watch this.
Name something you feel before you buy it? ...Contestant answers... "Excited."
Name a famous Arthur.. Contestant answers... "Shakespeare."
Name something that has to warm up before you use it... Older contestant answers... "How about your wife."
People are funny....
- Minor hockey coaches and parents, if you have time today turn your radio to the TEAM 1260 at 3 p.m. today when George Kingston joins me. The former NHL coach has done extensive research on the keys to developing minor hockey players: how we should do it, which drills to use and many other great tips. Young coaches will really appreciate this interview.
- The CFL has a unique rule that I, like most fans, didn't know existed until Bud Steen told me about it.
Late in the Eskimos/Riders game Mike Reilly was hit, fumbled the ball and the Riders recovered, essentially ending any hope of an Eskimos comeback. The play was reviewed, because it was in the final three minutes, and they deemed it a fumble. What many don't know is that the Command Centre could have overturned the play if they felt that unnecessary roughness caused the fumble.
Weldon Brown delivered an inadvertent helmet-to-helmet hit on Reilly on the play. It wasn't malicious, but it was clear contact to the head. Yesterday, the CFL fined Brown for the hit, which is interesting because the command centre didn't believe it was unnecessary roughness. If they reversed the call on the field and awarded the Eskimos the ball, who knows if the Eskimos would have scored, but at least they would have had a chance. Making Brown pay a fine after the fact doesn't impact anyone. The fine is minimal and it has zero barring on the game. If the rule is there, why didn't the command centre enforce it?
- Spec's Deck sold out in less than a week. A huge thank you our sponsors. Prestige Limos who will pick you the winners, Vons Steak House and Oyster Bar who will feed us, Big Rock who wiill quench our thirst and to Yellow Cab who will make sure everyone gets home safe and sound.
Also, a huge thank you to all of you who donated for the cause. We raised $10,000 in five days. Awesome.
August 30 2013, 01:37PM
In implying that I get too wrapped up in other people's bothersome opinions, you have effectively gotten wrapped up in my bothersome opinion. Well done Mr. Hypocrisy.
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If you think that professional writers like Brownlee, Gregor, Willis have time to read the subtle nuances of your postings..........you are sadly mistaken.
You take what they write too seriously.........and what you write too seriously.
Try and have a great long weekend.........hockey is almost here!
I take hockey seriously, yes, and I also take balanced, mature, rational discourse seriously as well. Those are two things that I'm passionate about, and I think whether or not it is "too seriously" is simply a matter of opinion.
I'm not sure where I suggested that Brownlee and Willis misunderstood what I wrote. However, I think it goes without saying that if you're willing to engage in a conversation with someone as Gregor has done, you have the responsibility to do your best to try to understand what they've said. Otherwise it's not really a conversation, is it?
What's wrong with Jason telling people how to enjoy hockey? If Jason shouldn't tell people how to enjoy hockey, why should you tell people how to express their opinion?
And if can tell Jason how not to tell people how to enjoy hockey, what is the problem when the majority of fans here tell you not to tell Jason how to express his opinion.
My friends sometimes tell me how to eat certain food, like fries with vinegar instead of ketchup. So am I supposed to tell them that they should keep their mouths shut and stop tell me how to enjoy my fries?
It is so obvious that most hockey fans here were not offended by Jason's style of writing and disagree with your opinion. Funny you think criticism is a good thing except when your are the receiving end of the criticism. Have you even consider that those are constructive criticisms?
Spec's deck is morphing into one of those things that is going to be on every Edmonton sports fan wish list in the coming year.
The Specs deck should have an annual theme though like The Fringe. Something like "The deck that grew", "It came from below the deck", or "Space Vampires from the upper deck". Spec's Deck needs a theme. It would lend some extra madness to the whole affair.
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August 30 2013, 01:59PM
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It seems as though you're being purposefully obtuse.
You expressing your opinion is not what I take issue with, unless you expressing your opinion involves telling people how they ought to enjoy hockey, which you did in this article, and which you've done on previous occassions. That's my whole point.
"You don't have to agree with it, that is your right, but saying I told people what to do is hilariously false."
Well, you obviously didn't understand what I said. I said that you are telling people what they should and shouldn't be excited about, what they should and shouldn't like. You have done exactly this, by saying, "Rather than worry about X, you should be excited about Y."
I also never said I felt the gist of your article was in the point I raised. If you can quote where I said that, go ahead, but the text doesn't exist. I commented on what I felt like commenting on, beacuse I felt it was one issue in an otherwise good article. I'm not sure why I need to join the multitude of adorers fawning over your writing and giving props to your comments to take an issue with one aspect of your writing.
Alright Jesse, you got all the the attention you wanted, over nothing.... . now go play with your dinky toy, before I start thinking you are DSF.
With I title like that I don't get why there's not a picture of a transformer or at least the opening credits of the cartoon video. That was a missed open net.
For arguments sake the only thing similar about the forwards are maybe size but Omark for instance has extremely good puck possession on the boards where as Eberle will pick handle like a madman and hall will drive the net like crazy and shoot from all angles. I think with the proper combination u can get a lot from the forwards we have regardless of size and who knows maybe Hamilton or joensu plays there way up but as we sit now compared to last years trade deadline team we should slide in at 6th seed with the current roster
As soon as Mike Reilly took that hit I was yelling at the TV that it was helmet to helmet.To not call it when it happened then issue a fine later shows the incompetence of the officials in the CFL.Some things never change.
"For everyone who is lambasting me for not talking "hockey" on a hockey blog, I am *talking about* talking about hockey, which is obviously lost on many who have responded."
Hockey blog comment INCEPTION!
*turns on smoke machine, backs away into darkness*
August 30 2013, 03:14PM
It is amazing what happens when Gregor's writing is critiqued. The critique itself goes unaddressed and the cavalry comes in to his defense.
Jason, I was merely making mention that you often tell your readers how they should feel, and that this is problematic. It baffles me that you are unable to accept a critique in humility and furthermore that you think that your writing is above criticism. I do appreciate the vast majority of your writing, but apparently if one doesn't pump your tires and come to your defense at a moment's notice like the rest of these guys then you have no use for an outsider's opinion.
Talk about an echo chamber of self-flattery.
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August 30 2013, 03:21PM
It seems as though you're being purposefully obtuse.
You expressing your opinion is not what I take issue with, unless you expressing your opinion involves telling people how they ought to enjoy hockey, which you did in this article, and which you've done on previous occassions. That's my whole point.
"You don't have to agree with it, that is your right, but saying I told people what to do is hilariously false."
Well, you obviously didn't understand what I said. I said that you are telling people what they should and shouldn't be excited about, what they should and shouldn't like. You have done exactly this, by saying, "Rather than worry about X, you should be excited about Y."
I also never said I felt the gist of your article was in the point I raised. If you can quote where I said that, go ahead, but the text doesn't exist. I commented on what I felt like commenting on, beacuse I felt it was one issue in an otherwise good article. I'm not sure why I need to join the multitude of adorers fawning over your writing and giving props to your comments to take an issue with one aspect of your writing.
Your not from here are you?
I thought I wrote that in my article when I said he had the experience and expertise to control the room. I agree it is important. There are many variables that go into being a captain, but I think it is best to let a proven veteran who has one be the main voice, until this team starts winning and one of the kids are ready to take over.
You did mention that about Ference, not arguing there as he would be a great choice.
I feel that the importance of who is Captain is downplayed too much, and the definition of the role is largely missed. Captain's job is to run the room, that's pretty much it. It manifests itself in many different ways; including the ones you mentioned. The C on the jersey is largely for show.
But the selection of who it is, that it is just one, and that the selection is in harmony with the team is very important. Have many leaders is great, but you always need ONE at the head of the table. The other issue is if the coach selects a player that is not seen as a leader by the team, you create a lot of discord. When I was playing junior with a coach who later went on to the NHL, he selected a player that he loved and the team hated. The dressing room was broken because of this.
I agree with your selections of who would be a good fit, and with the longer term approach. I just disagree with the perceived lack of value you place on captaincy and what the role of captain entails.
August 30 2013, 03:27PM
I am pointing out that attempting to dicate how hockey fans enjoy hockey is asinine. I'm not being hypocritical, because it is okay to tell people what they ought to do in certain circumstances.
The statement "never give up" shows someone giving up on the practice of giving up, but still has merit.
I'm telling Jason he shouldn't tell people how to enjoy hockey. If I were telling him he shouldn't say "shouldn't" to people in any and all scenarios, then this would be hypocritical.
Good Lord, one bit of criticism and the whole freaking thread blows up. Criticism is a good thing, it holds people accountable and keeps us on the straight path of discovering truth.
I'm confused....are you happy the thread blows up with criticism of you because it holds you accountable and keeps us on the straight path of discovering truth?
August 30 2013, 03:33PM
So we are on a path to discovering truth because of how you interpret something. Deep, very deep.
Curious why you never responded to the guy, Nick, who asked about your blog?
Gregor, you should be happy to learn that the Dhali Lama is a hockey fan!
You can read the blog at www.spiritualleaderoftibet.com. (P.S. Gregor, any tips on how I should best enjoy this Sundays NFL games?)
August 30 2013, 03:33PM
Not to be confused with his cuz ....Rama Lama.
@Benny Botts
Might as well go for the hat trick.
@Old Retired Guy (A.K.A. Die-Nasty)
Almost 100% of your replies to my posts made me laugh. Thanks man.
Selanne back with the Ducks:
Wow! A refreshing comment from DSF! Jesse is the new DSF
"For everyone who is lambasting me for not talking "hockey" on a hockey blog, I am *talking about* talking about hockey, which is obviously lost on many who have responded."
Hockey blog comment INCEPTION!
*turns on smoke machine, backs away into darkness*
We need to go *deeper*.
August 30 2013, 03:56PM
Almost 100% of your replies to my posts made me laugh. Thanks man.
Then I achieved my objective....and welcome to Oilersnation......(seriously and with no sarcasm)
August 30 2013, 04:02PM
You do the same thing when you debate hockey with callers on your show. I phrased it in a very overly philosophical way, but we're all trying to figure out what is happening with the Oilers, the truth about the team. Perhaps it sounded silly, but it's what we're all doing.
For everyone who is lambasting me for not talking "hockey" on a hockey blog, I am *talking about* talking about hockey, which is obviously lost on many who have responded.
As for why I haven't posted a link to my blog in a comment thread where your most ardent supporters with the biggest crushes on you are here to trash every comment I leave, I would think that that would be obvious. I do not see that as a constructive way to engage in dialogue that helps us better understand hockey, or, as I obviously phrased it poorly before small-t truth.
You're welcome everyone...trash away.
The fact that we're able to argue over many names who should be Captain is a very good sign for the Oil.
Like it has been said many times, you don't need a letter to be a leader.
The Oilers seem to have a bunch of qualified candidates. More up arrows for our Oilers!
August 30 2013, 04:57PM
I think you are missing the main purpose of a team captain.
The primary job is not social organizer, face of the team for media, or talking to the refs.
The captain's job is to run the dressing room. This is a very difficult job, so you need a very strong personality and one that is respected by the team. With that in mind, your suggestion of Andrew Ferrence is likely spot on. The problem is we can never know or understand the dynamics of any dressing room unless you are part of it. This is the reason many captaincy choices seem confusing. It may very well be that when Gagner speaks in the room, everyone listens. He may also have a very good sense of how to run a room.
My favourite story about these dynamics was from several years ago in Calgary when Phaneuf was becoming a strong presence in the league. Apparently he was challenging Jarome's leadership. The Flames were Jarome's team and everyone knew that. It came to a point where Jarome decided that everyone had to leave the room except for himself and Dion. Everyone left. When they were invited back in, it was clear that there was not going to be a change in leadership, and also unlikely anyone would want to challenge for that leadership any time soon. Calgary was very fortunate to have someone like Jarome to run their room for so long.
Funny, my sources - and they are exceptionally good ones - tell me that iginla was a cancer in the room beginning about the time that phaneuf joined the team and that he was a complete disaster the last couple of years.
Flames suck, Nucks suck, Wild suck, everyone but the Oilers suck. Hockey Hockey Hockey. To grasp the absent minded ability to understand DSF, one must try opium.
Gagner can be captain on these terms:
He keeps fighting, scoring, and accepts that he has a "contract ceiling" to stay with the club.
Funny, my sources - and they are exceptionally good ones - tell me that iginla was a cancer in the room beginning about the time that phaneuf joined the team and that he was a complete disaster the last couple of years.
I'd get angry, turn sour too if I saw everything pissed away for ashes... wait.. Oiler fans know his pain all too well.
August 30 2013, 05:10PM
Excellent interview with George Kingston. How many millions of dollars have been wasted trying to one up your competition, just to coach your local community hockey team. What a farce all these coaching level certificates are, after listening to George break it down to two simple elements. Hockey Canada seen an opportunity to milk this industry for even more millions, and knocked that door off its hinges.
A fool and his money, soon do part...
I am sitting here very confused and perplexed. I am not sure how I am to feel about this article.
I know how to feel about the TSN mock draft.
There were, however, no instructions on whether to enjoy your blog or whether to be angry and irate.
So I find myself in a place where unable to think for myself I don't know what to do.
I now find myself on a path of Truth as instructed by @Jesse. I have discovered that Wanye is not Wayne - I find myself having flashbacks to August 9, 1988.
STOP! STOP! STOP! Someone stop this ride. I can't handle the truth.
August 30 2013, 10:15PM
Hey Jesse, congratulations on finishing the first year of a general Arts degree. 3 more to go and you can start applying for work at fast food drive-throughs.
August 30 2013, 10:49PM
For visualization purposes Jesse. Are you a B,C or D cup? Would really allow us to get comfortable knowing whom we're dealing with when responding to your claims.
*Drinks Kool Aid*
Mmmmm this some good kool aid by the way, I never take anything TSN has to say seriously. Their yearly assessment of any NHL team west of Toronto, east of Vancouver isn't worth the time. I've seen countless reports on Reimer and Kadri as many times as I've seen the Big Bang Theory reruns on CTV.
Hall on one of the scoring lines for Canada makes sense on the big doesnt it? I mean it should right? Hall with the foot speed of a bobsled and hands to boot. I'm glad that there are actual hockey minds choosing the team rather then what TSN has to say, hell they had to run a piece on the America team for the sole purpose that Kessel will be on that team.
This kool aid has me thinking that after a few stinkers in the nineties and the past decade. The Oilers are still the most successful team within the last thirty years, seven Stanely Cup appearances, five victories. Hard to argue with this logic, I really hope that they can finally put it together this year, I can care less if Hall and Ebs get selected I just hope they can finally lift this team into some meaningful hockeg come april.
August 31 2013, 01:33AM
i agree with leadership coming from all over at variable times but there are some consistencies that eclipse others more often in which the C - dealing with its inevitable nonsense - fits on other players better.
that said, right now, Sam Gagner is looking more like a Tim Tebow type leader around here.
is Sam as bad as Tebow? of course not, but they mirror each other in ways. having iffy potentiality in their arenas where others help create and then getting way too much credit for anything they do is one of the main reflections.
That video sucked
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Gamification is a set of techniques that generally revolve around engaging and motivating individuals and groups to perform specific actions, but technology is a primary enabler. And although the technologies are in a nascent state, elements and functions for adding game mechanics to non-gaming contexts—including online business environments—are available now.
Incorporating gaming techniques into business processes or any other structured activity consists of several clear steps. For those familiar with software development or IT implementation, these steps will seem relatively straightforward despite being an amalgam of new technology, careful user experience design, and business process reengineering.
As it stands today, the process of gamification tends to fork early into two main approaches. The first applies elements of gameplay to existing enterprise applications or processes. The second conceives an entirely new experience from the ground up, intertwining game mechanics with the application itself. Both solutions produce useful results, but the second tends to produce more impactful outcomes. The first is the most extensively supported by commercial gamification vendors and may be the easier starting point. Either way, the motivational aspects remain the most important element for success.
With M2 Research predicting the overall gamification market will grow from $100 million in 2011 to more than $2.8 billion by 2016, it's not a surprise to see vendors racing to get a slice of that pie. But what can those vendors actually do for you, and how can you tell if it's worth your investment?
Although enterprise adoption of gamification is still in its early days, the business of providing game-based design services is not; platform provider Bunchball was founded in 2005. Even more recently founded companies have garnered significant investment and, more importantly, attracted first-rate talent from game design companies such as Zynga and social platform providers such as Jive.
That talent is the primary reason to hire a vendor, whether you're looking for an end-to-end platform or a standalone application. Effective game-based design experiences blend behavioral psychology, social networking, customer experience, game design, loyalty marketing, reputation management, business process, real-time analytics, and more—all wrapped up in technology that can integrate with multiple systems, is customizable, and can function at massive scale. This combination requires leadership that can bring together great individual talent and create a great cross-discipline and cross-functional team.
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Example gamification vendors and boutiques
In the current landscape, only a few vendors provide end-to-end solutions that demand that breadth of talent. Most are specialists in a particular area, such as game design or social media marketing, while others consult to enable companies to leverage their own internal resources in building and deploying solutions. (See Table 1.)
"The problem is that a lot of businesses are not really thinking about the incentives and the motivational aspect behind why you would gamify anything," says Ari Lightman, director of Carnegie Mellon University's CIO Institute. "If you try to put game mechanics into a process without looking at the incentives and the motivational patterns around it, your effort is going to fail."
Companies can apply gaming techniques to marketing campaigns, product development efforts, sales activities, or any other business or nonbusiness process. To provide the desired effect—and for gamification technologies to be useful and the outcomes achieved— the goals of the game elements being applied must be connected in some well-defined and meaningful way to the business activity. The key is to embed the gamification technology into the process of getting work done, and connect that to the desired business goals.
These goals generally fall into the following categories and provide the motivation for engagement:
Marketing departments have been among the earliest adopters of gamification in many major corporations, particularly for demand generation programs. These new investments are designed to deepen customer engagement and long-term customer loyalty by encouraging and rewarding more frequent interactions, the sharing of information, and brand advocacy.
Adoption is really just beginning, though. According to a recent CMO Council study, only 7 percent of brands currently offer social customer incentives and rewards, even though 46 percent of consumers expect them when connecting with brands online.* Clearly, companies are missing an opportunity to reward customers for engaging with their brands, which can create trust and loyalty while also encouraging positive sentiment and word of mouth.
Game-based design provides new methods for implementing such marketing initiatives. Game mechanics help move consumers along in the decision-making process by encouraging a specific outcome or choice, such as converting from free trials to purchase. Loyalty and customer retention efforts can also benefit from game mechanics that make the consumer feel valued.
Different incentives work best at different stages of the sales cycle. Understanding game design and mechanics is critical—CMOs can partner with the CIO or external consultants to ensure they are building in the right mechanics at the right time in the customer interaction to incent the behaviors they are trying to achieve.
Tracking behaviors and rewards also helps the marketing organization assess how individual customer relationships are progressing. Many customer relationship management (CRM) tools have incorporated consumer social activity, and game behavior can be tracked as well. When combined with traditional customer demographics and sales records, the result is a more holistic view of each customer and their relationship with the company.
* Variance in the Social Brand Experience, CMO Council, September 2011, http://www.cmocouncil.org/cat_details.php?fid=216, accessed December 3, 2012.
Enabling those outcomes through game-based design requires a working understanding of the palette of technologies available. Existing platforms, applications, and enterprise architecture standards of the local environment will determine the technologies suitable for most organizations. However, some organizations might blaze their own trails in determining how to incorporate gaming technology into an effective business solution.
In the various commercial offerings of technologies, game mechanics are relatively easy to separate from business context. In addition, the separation of applications and technology infrastructure in many organizations means that game-based design techniques can be readily inserted into most existing business processes and applications.
A typical example of connecting the pieces is the following: ABC Corporation has an urgent need to improve median sales of the organization. It determines that a sales leaderboard would promote healthy competition, while informing and encouraging the sales staff of the exact state of their efforts compared to others. The leaderboard technology, whether it's virtual, a display in the sales office, or a mobile application, is connected to the customer relationship management (CRM) system via a real-time data feed. A reporting system then allows sales executives to compare the results to previous quarters, and the system issues appropriate rewards to the sales staff—rewards that are likely predefined to encourage competition.
Many executives and technology professionals are familiar with defining business requirements and then applying technology to them. However, gamification technology is relatively new, and it is worth taking a closer look at the common forms it can take.
Figure 1:
Connecting game objectives to business goals
As Figure 1 illustrates, game-based design technologies can enable the following behavioral drivers, adapted to specific audiences or scenarios:
User identity is a primary point of integration between technology and existing enterprise applications and IT infrastructure. Today's user directories generally are not game-ready. Gamification tools and platforms typically augment user directories, so user information related to the gaming activity is tracked, stored, and made available to gamified applications.
Today's vendors use a number of methods to add game elements to a user experience. Perhaps the most significant distinction among vendors is whether they offer a self-contained solution or add gaming technology to existing software applications.
Looking at the focus and capabilities of vendors can reveal the different ways that technologies can be applied. These possibilities fall into several categories:
Vendors span the spectrum, offering one or more ways of delivering technology to those implementing game-based solutions in their business activities. The matrix in Figure 2 summarizes the main approaches and solutions.
Figure 2:
Gamification technologies and how they are delivered
While gamification should align with business objectives and support a particular business process, the effort must also attempt to get inside the participants' heads. This approach usually starts with a psychological hypothesis of user engagement. The hypothesis consists of conjectures about how best to tap into the motivations, interests, and reward centers of the users. The initial hypothesis is periodically validated and adjusted to maximize the outcomes as the game-based design solution is monitored and refined.
To enable and support this hypothesis, an organization's digital user experiences (typically enterprise applications) can be designed with a special engagement layer, within which game-based design technologies are situated. In this approach, the technologies are incorporated into the IT systems of a company as shown in Figure 3.
Figure 3:
A notional enterprise gamification stack
Case study
The USA Network used Bunchball products to add game features to its website for Psych, a popular television show. From the outset, site visitors surged to 16 million, up from
9 million the season before. After the application of game mechanics and dynamics, the average visitor used the site four to five times per month, compared with twice a month before game features were added. Visitors on average remained on the site for 22 minutes per visit, compared to
14 minutes previously.
One of the more delicate aspects of game-based design is the relationship among the user experience, the gaming technology, and the business process. While some vendors provide a default user interface, such as a leaderboard or a reputation score wired into an existing social network, many leave the exercise up to the implementer, assuming that it must be situated appropriately for the local environment by those who know it best. Thus it's often up to IT organizations to take the selected technology, redesign—or at least instrument—an existing business process, and perform the integration across the various systems involved.
From a pure IT perspective, gamification is a systems integration effort, an application development effort, and an enterprise architecture exercise. How can an enterprise realize game-based design in the full context of a typical organization's technology landscape?
First and foremost, gamification is about situating, usually through lightweight systems integration, gaming technologies into an enterprise's digital workflows. Specifically, these systems include primary and secondary IT systems, such as systems of record (CRM, finance, human resources, and other line of business applications) and
systems of engagement (communication and collaboration systems, including content management, workflow, and social networks).
The inclusion of game mechanics and game dynamics in business applications will vary depending on the technologies selected and the business requirements. However, the resulting gamified solution typically delivers the following capabilities in some formal or informal way:
This list of capabilities provides a sense of the entire gamification stack—from the game experiences themselves to the underlying mechanisms that supply the game with business-relevant data and allow monitoring and control over the process.
However it is applied, game-based design is a deft combination of three key elements: people, business, and the technology. Without a strong appreciation of all three, organizations can be challenged to hit the mark and may be perceived as overly cynical or naive in the way they apply gamification to their work. Technology is only one leg of this tripod.
The good news is that a growing body of evidence shows that businesses can achieve results by incorporating gaming techniques into some business processes. As with any IT effort, the end result of applying gamification technologies should be measureable achievement of business goals. A lot of trial and error is required to find the right balance between game design and features that effectively gamify aspects of work. Enterprises that can readily mix capable user experience design, psychology, social dynamics, and enterprise architecture will reap the most rewards.
As for the future of this approach, the real question is not gaming technology itself, which is here to stay, but whether enterprises can sustain gaming approaches, which tend to be highly involved and engaging, in a world where attention is increasingly fragmented. In addition, gamification is an approach that may have the most relevance and value between the time a user is getting to know a process and when that user is proficient and no longer needs to be guided.
As Dawn Wolfe, senior digital marketing manager at Autodesk, says, "The simplest game mechanics work with a novice, but the same techniques wouldn't motivate an expert user, and we have a lot of them. There's something altogether different that we need to be doing with process. Your feedback mechanism has to change. It cannot stay the same throughout that journey, and the tactics that you take and the way that you engage must change based on their needs."
In this respect, motivation-centered design is a journey more than a destination, and while the technology will become much more systematized and ambient in enterprise applications, executives must be careful not to forget the human element and how people adapt to their environment.
Businesses that are open to the possibilities of this more psychologically oriented approach to design can see the way forward to unlocking a new level of engagement and productivity.


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As a rule, when either person is intoxicated, it is best to stop intimate behavior. If one person is more intoxicated than the other, the less intoxicated person may be held responsible for any sexual behaviors that occur. Remember that any compromise of the victim will be construed as nonconsent by law enforcement regardless of the circumstances.
Involuntary intoxication or the intentional drugging of people with alcohol or other drugs, classified as "date rape drugs" (drugs that alter mental consciousness), can lead to allegations of rape by intoxication, a much more serious form of sexual assault.
Even if one person is voluntarily intoxicated, however, complications can arise in many situations. For the recipient of sexual advances, the decrease in self-restraint and a more thoughtless and carefree attitude toward intimacy can lead to sexual intimacy that is not preplanned.
Intoxicated people may also appear to give consent by appearing to enjoy what they are doing and actively participating, even though ultimately they may not remember what happened (if they are in a blackout state). When they look back on the encounter, they may feel they have been violated, although at no time did they act as if they were being violated and in fact may have been actively and enthusiastically participating. For example, a person may be consenting to the sexual activity just because he or she is intoxicated. If that person were sober, he or she might not agree to have sex. In situations like these, the intoxication level of the victim can contribute to the accusation of sexual assault.
If the initiator of sexual intimacy is also intoxicated, the situation is further complicated. First, his or her ability to make valid decisions about consent or nonconsent is compromised. If both people are compromised, finding out exactly what happened during the sexual encounter is more difficult. If legal action is initiated and neither person has a clear idea of what happened, guilt or innocence becomes more difficult to determine. In any case, intoxication of the alleged assailant is a very weak legal defense against allegations of abuse.


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7 things to never say to a recruiter
Using a recruiter can be an effective way to find a job you want if you know a little about how recruiters work. First off, understand that while recruiters are paid by the employer, a good recruiter needs to make both the employer and the job seeker happy before a placement will happen.

Aaron Green, founder of Professional Staffing Group, provided some tips for how to get the most from a recruiter by suggesting what not to say.
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"I'm just meeting with you [the recruiter]—it's not like this is a real interview."

While recruiters are not the ultimate decision maker, they do make the decision on whether or not to present you to their client in the first place. In your interview with the recruiter you want to dress and behave as you would for a company for which you want to work.

 You can be more open with the recruiter as to your preferences, but when it comes to professionalism, bring your A-game.
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"I hate recruiters."

Do you really mean it when you say this? Often I find that people who say this do so because they had a bad experience with a recruiter in the past. If that's the case, my advice is to communicate your preferences for establishing a better working relationship this time. Focus on the end result, i.e. finding a new job, and how the recruiter may be your only link to some opportunities, such as those that aren't advertised.
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"I'm only interested in the highest salary I can get."

It's in the recruiter's best interest to get you the highest salary possible (often their compensation is based on the salary) but excessive focus on salary is never a good angle in an interview as the recruiter might screen you out as an unreliable candidate. You should explain your salary requirements but only after explaining your career ambitions and job preferences.
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"I forgot my resume and sorry I am late."

Be prepared and punctual. Once you get to the interview stage with a recruiter, it's an opportunity to demonstrate your professionalism.
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"I have very narrow and specific needs and requirements."

There's nothing wrong with knowing what you want in a job and a recruiter should work to find you opportunities that meet your criteria. When a recruiter asks what you're looking for, tell them, but also let them know which criteria are most critical to you and which are more in the "nice to have" category. If your requirements are too narrow at the start, the recruiter won't have anything to show you.
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"I'm open to anything."

If you're open to anything it means you're not focused on anything either. You have to give the recruiter some where to start. Recruiters like to know the candidate is flexible and open-minded, but they also appreciate honesty and direct feedback. It wouldn't be smart to send the candidate to every open position the recruiter is working on.
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"That's in the past. I don't want to talk about that."

Refusing to explain something, or worse, lying about an aspect of your work history is a real no-no. In general, don't try to hide or cover up something in your job history. Recruiters can coach you through difficult conversations and work with you on the best way to explain even a negative situation.
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No, we had even seen that a stolen bankai, might be performed in it's weakest or even weaker form than the original user have first invoked it. An example of that was when the Spear Quincy was only able to invoke the very first version of Sakechibe's bankai, what's more, at a weaker state than it was used before on Yamamoto.
The reason why Ichigo's bankai can't be stolen, is probably because the modern day Quincy techniques (like Oppie's Jail) doesn't work on Quincy. You wouldn't want your subordinates to fight between themselves over bankais, do you (then again switching medals might be possible ;P) ?
The reason why they didn't steal Yamamoto's bankai before Real Bach appeared, was because they were forbidden from doing it. Bach wanted his bankai for himself, since he was his nemesis and all that. What's more, we already have seen that giving a strong bankai to a weak Quincy, would be a waste of it's power and that Quincy would only be able to unleash a fraction of it's power, like the Spear Quincy.
At first, I thought that Unohana mastered healing methods to save lives, because she cherished life itself. But now, I think that she might have learned them so that she can keep alive her opponent for awhile longer, prolonging their fun at cutting each other.


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Canadian national women's volleyball team launches 18-day South - Central American tour with victory
PUAN, Argentina- Canada's national women's volleyball team launched its 18-day South- Central American tour with a 16-25. 26-24, 25-23, 16-25, 15-8 victory over Argentina on Monday night. It's the first in a five-match series this week between the two countries.
The Canadians are currently tuning up for the FIVB women's world volleyball championships October 29 to November 14 in Japan.
"Our goals for this tour are to focus on us and on our game without being focused too much on the result," said Canada's head coach Arnd Ludwig. "We have worked a lot on our attack using the block. We also worked a lot in minimizing our errors on the court and I hope we can transfer the good practices on the court for these matches."
Canada is fielding a 14-member team for the tour lead by team captain Tammy Mahon of Holland, Man., Sarah Pavan of Kitchener, Ont., and Tiffany Dodds of Lucky Lake, Sask. After Argentina, the Canadians also head to Peru and Costa Rica for four more matches.
Here is the match schedule for the Tour
Monday, August 30 Match vs Argentina - Puan, Argentina
Tuesday, August 31 Match vs Argentina - Coronel Dorrego, Argentina
Wednesday, September 1 Match vs Argentina - Olavarria, Argentina
Friday, September 3 Match vs Argentina - Gonzalez Chaves, Argentina
Saturday, September 4 Match vs Argentina - Belgrano, Argentina
Sunday, September 5 Depart for Lima, Peru
September 6-11 Matches vs Peru (match schedule TBC)
September 12 Depart for Costa Rica
September 13-15 Matches vs Costa Rica (match schedule TBC)
September 16 Return to Canada
Canadian team roster
Tammy Mahon, Holland, MB; Tonya Mokelki, Weyburn, SK; Kyla Richey, Roberts Creek, BC; Jennifer Hinze, Vancouver, BC; Tasha Holness, Calgary, AB; Sarah Pavan, Kitchener, ON; Carla Bradstock, Richmond, BC; Janie Guimond, Bécancour, QC; Julie Young, Red Deer, AB; Lauren O'Reilly, Langley, BC; Tiffany Dodds, Lucky Lake, SK; Nadine Alphonse, Montreal, QC; Tricia Mayba, Winnipeg, MB (Argentina segment); Marisa Field, Kelowna, BC (Peru/Costa Rica segment).
Canadian team blog
You can follow Team Manager Nichole Mailey's blog from this tour on the the Volleyball Canada Facebook page at: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Volleyball-Canada/79087986955?ref=ts


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So I'm making this thread out of boredom. I started thinking about some naruto movies and I came up with something, so I'll share it with you: I hope you manage to read till the end and enjoy
So, the plot is set mainly in the pre-war period,after Tobi announced the war, when all nations are preparing for the upcoming battle, gathering soldiers, estabilishing strategies and such.
In the past, soon after the foundation of Konoha, the uchiha and the senju started living together. There was a senju girl, one of the purest bloodline that fell in love with an uchiha of the top ranks. They married and had two children: a boy and a girl.
The girl was born with all the traits of the uchiha clan: black hair, black eyes and strong doujutsu. The boy tho' was different: he was born with two different eyes and blonde hair. The two grew together, graduated together and awakened sharingan together. But in the boy's case he awakened sharingan only in his right eye, the other one being a normal, non uchiha eye. They were happy, especially the girl, Koto. She was happy about the alliance with senju. Her mother told her about the previous wars and how senseless they were, and taught her to appreciate peaceful life that came thanks to the founding of Konoha. In result, Koto loved the village more than anyone.
But this is where good things end. One day, the two are training together. They fight to improve their skills, but by an unfortunate accident, the brother, Kaen, kills his sister. He holds her in his hands while everyone watches in horror. The sorrow and the pain awaken Kaen's Mangekyou Sharingan. The boy losos control of his new power and giant claws of chakra erupt from the ground, grabbing and squishing everybody around. The anbu arrives soon enough and they seal him. Afterwards they put him in prison, where he comes back to his senses and realizes what happened. The witnesses, those who survived, tell Hashirama what exactly happened, that it was an accident and he couldn't get a hold of his powers. The 1st hokage then frees Kaen from prison and lets him go back to his previous life. Of course nothing is like the old times anymore: Koto is dead and the worst thing is that HE killed her. The villangers behavior towards him changes a lot. They start whispering behind his back: the senju say it must be the uchiha deminic blood that transformed him into a monster. The elders put anbu members that will keep watch on him night and day. His life becomes that of an emarginated young man who everyone is afaraid of. They suspect him and despise him for being half uchiha.
One fateful night, he's visited by none other than Madara Uchiha. Madara tells Kaen about the prejudices of the senju against the uchiha, and how Hashirama and Tobirama try to turn them into the village's dogs. He teaches him that the only way to cleanse his name and live a satisfying life is to kill off the senju.
Kaen isn't convinced at first, but when the elders try to accuse him falsely of another murder he has enough of it and meets Madara again. The uchiha leader explains him the power of his mangekyo: once upon a time there is born an uchiha with the power to control demons of hades: Tengu. The chakra hands he summoned belonged to underground demons. If kaen had more experience he could have summoned the whole thing. Then Madara proceeds at telling kaen a way to obtain unextinguishable mangekyou sharingan. He transplants his sister's right eye in his own, so he achieves EMS in his only sharingan. He then trains under madara for some time.
In the end they're ready: Kaen and Madara try to make a coup d'etat. They attack konoha together: Kaen's power is so huge that he slaughters most of the shinobi who attampt to stop him, while Madara goes to battle Hashirama himself. Kaen encounters Tobirama and has an immense fight with him, but he loses to the 2nd's powerful space-time ninjutsu. Tobirama teleports him in another dimension and the Tengu's summoning fails. In the meantime Madara is "killed" by Hashirama. Everything seems to be good again.
The intro ends and the real story begins:
Kaen sits in a void dark dimension when a swirling pattern appears before him. Tobi has come to let him join the war. He says he'll get to have his revenge against the senju.
Kaen agrees to that and comes to the real world with him., but he doesen't act accordingly to the plan. In reality he doesen't care about the moon eye plan, but he only wants revenge on the senju. He isn't intimidated by neither tobi or kabuto: his EMS is still intact + the fact he's half senji which grants him hax chakra. He tells Tobi that youngsters shouldn't lecture adults, and then he departs to destroy konoha. Tobi and kabuto decie it's ok to let him do as he pleases, as long as he won't be a threat to the moon eye's plan.
Meanwhile, in konoha there is a meeting of all the kage do decide the war plans. Naruto and bee have just beaten kisame and are on the island. Everything is peaceful enough until Kaen gets to konoha. He starts rampaging on innocent inhabitants with his EMS. The kages immediatly notice this and send the best ninja to ckeck on the situation. Kakashi, Gai, Shizune, Sakura, Genma, Ao, chojiro, and other kage bodyguards go to check the situation. They meet Kaen, still young enough thanks to his strong senju chakra. The battle starts, but nobody is able to defeat kaen: his mastery of EMS and other jutsu are far superior to that of anybody else. He then summons the demon hands, that are good enough to keep his enemies at bay, while he doesen't have to move a finger. Afterwards he summons several bird like tengu, which are smaller than gedo mazou. This is where the kage have to kick in. There is even a request to bring Naruto and Bee on the battlefield.
The kages are busy fighting the tengu, and Kaen climbs on the highest building in konoha.
Thanks to some great techniques, the tengu retreat, but then Kaen draws all te attention on himself: he claims that nobody can beat a man who possesses both senju and uchiha powers: he then uses wood release:Jukai Koutan which puts the kage in trouble.
Kaen then uses another wood element tchnique: wood release: demonic wood cocoon. He creates a cocoon made of trees, in the middle of konoha. He reveals that he wants to gather enough chakra in the cocoon in order to summon Sojobou, the king of all tengu, so no only will he destroy konoha, but the entire planet, so nothing will remain anymore.
the kages want then to destroy the cocoon, but Kaen uses the Uchiha Kaenjin justu to create a barrier around it.
Naruto and Bee arrive on the battle field and start battling kaen. they can't do anything serious against his power, which is closer to that of the SO6P than anyone else's. The sage himself sealed the Sojobou under Konoha's ground centuries ago, and now he will unseal it.
The kage decide to give their best to destroy the barrier and let naruto destroy the cocoon.
The hokage accumulates all her chakra in a fist using her yin seal
The raikage creates a giant sword on thunder
The mizukage summons a huge lava creature
The kazekage creates a sand golem
Thetsuchikage uses a huge version of jinton.
Naruto prepares a big rasenshuriken using sage mode. They lauch all their attacks in the same time against kaen, but he mocks them. He says they underestimate the power of his eye, gifted with the uchiha blood and senju chakra. He turns it into a rinnegan and uses shinra tensei, repulsing all their attacks against them and making everyone collapse.
In the meantime, sojobou awakens, but kaen is out of chakra after all the things he has done. He collects all of sojobou's chakra in an ancient relict dagger, created by the SO6P to seal demons. Then he escapes konoha in order to restore his power.
Tobi and Kabuto however decide to eliminate him while he's weak, because he's got too powerful for their liking. They surprise him at his lair, but Kaen pulls another trick uot uf his sleeve and stabs himself with the dagger embeed with sojobou's charka. Like this he restores his chakra quick enough, but his body has difficulties at handling this much chakra. He engages Tobi. The masked man isn't quick enough to absorb him and kaen can't touch Tobi, so their battle is practically equal. Then kabuto butts in and summons Itachi, Nagato and Hanzou and takes complete control over them.
Kaen has to battle sharingan and rinnegan at the same time, so he summons full Sojobou. He smashes nagato into a rock, but before that nagato manages to absorb some chakra and un-cripples himself. Itachi tries some fire jutsu, but all's in vain. So he tries amaterasu, but the cloak of sojobou is made of black flame itself so it's useless. Then Nagato comes back and attempts to shinra tensei sojobou, but he's too massive and the shinra tensei in repelled back on Nagato who flies away again. Then Tobi tries to absorb Sojobou, but he manages to teleport only a small bit of his cloak. He would be long dead if he hadn't his phasing ability.
Hanzou then summons his salamander and covers sojobou in poison, but the demon cuts trough the violet cloud with his huge dagger. Tobi summons gedo mazou and the statue manages to hold back sojobou for a while until he slices its chest and beates him in the ground. The gedo disappears and itachi uses susanoo. He attempts to use the sword of totsuka on sojobo, but kaen undoes him in the form of his relict dagger, so itachi misses. Nagato uses chibaku tensei and manages to lock kaen in the huge sphere. But not for long. Kaen slices it with the dagger embeed with sojobo's chakra (its attacks look like black getsuga tensho) and gets free. Rocks fly in the air everywhere and je jumps from one to another. He takes chance of the fact nagato and itachi lost sight of him and he uses a kinjutsu names "heavenly spear" on them. he pierces them with rods of light, sticking them into the ground. the sticks erupt with red light until they reach the heaven, looking like pillars that join earth and the heavens. Nagato and itachi can't move. Hanzou is the only one left. Kaen battles him at close range and puts a seal on his shoulder.
Then he lets himself be absorbed by Tobi, who appears from nowhere, but right before being absorbed he uses the substitution justu with hanzou. So hanzou is gone too.
Kaen then says he's tired of games and now he'll put an end to tobi, cuz he tired him. He uses his demon powers to draw tobi into a corner and manages to stop him with the heavenly spear kinjustu. He proceeds by attempting to remove his mask. In that moment Kabuto summons edo-madara. Kaen is takes aback by the sight of his old mentor. Madara bribes Kaen with mind tricks: he promises he will return the life to his sister if he stops his deatruction plan. To their surprise, Kabuto was already prepared for a scenario like this: time ago, orochimaru took a sample of Koto's dna do analize the effects of merging of uchiha and senju genes. Kabuto uses edo tensei and brings Koto back. As soon as he sees his sister he loses all concentration: he hugs her and says how they will be able to live together again happily, after he wipes out all senju and konoha. Koto though is not happy at all with him. She says he is doing exactly everything to destroy her dream of a world where wars could be stopped. She says him that it isn't the prejudices fault if the senju feared him, but the innate fear of the human race. If little circumstences were different, it could have been the uchiha who feared him instead.
Madara approaches Kaen from behind , places a hand on his back and seals all his movements with a huge kinjutsu. Kabuto undoes Koo's edo tensei and she crumbles before her brother's eyes. Kaen asks madara if what she said were true. Madara replies that it was in fact true. Not only the senju feared hum, but even the uchiha: even he, Madara himself feared his powers, that's why he used him to accomplish his plans, only to kill him later on. He states that his sharingan is too dangerous for anyone to use and he takes it out of kaes' socket and squishes it. kabuto undoes Madara's edo and takes the dagger where sojobou is sealed. Like this, he himself will have enough power to destroy konoha and everyone, so the war won't even be needed.
Tobi, strfangely enough lets him do as he pleases. Setsu is surprised, but Tobi says that without Kaen's sharingan it's impossible to control sojobou, so kabuto will end up killed and sojobou will wear off with time. Like this they could get rid of both kabuto and the kages. he then stabs kean with a big sword and leaves him there on the verge of death, so it seems.
Kabuto of course doesen't notice anything, and goes to konoha where everyone is being healed. Kabuto unleashes the demon upon the village, but it does rebel against his will so kabuto has to flee. Sojobou starts destroying konoha. Everyone battles him: kakashi with raikiri and kamui, Gai with the afternoon tiger, naruto and sakura make combos together: the rasenshurikens and sakura's huge power. They manage to weaken sojobou a little bit, but it's still in vain. Bee goes 8 tails and tries to beat him with a biju dama. It almost seems like everyone went ok, but sojobou is way too powerful.
When everything seems lost, somebody uses wood release and binds sojobou with trees and roots: it's kaen, who isn't dead yet. he decided to use his last bits of power to protect konoha, like his sister wished. He says only a senju's power can contain uchiha based techniques like sojobou. He engulfs him in trees, going at the very limit of his stamina and starts sucking away his chakra. Sojobou becomes a lot littler than he was, while all of his chakra is contaned in the roots of the trees.
Kaen decides to give this chakra to naruto, to fuel a mega ultra hyper rasenshuriken, powerful enough to destroy sojobou. The plan works:
sojobou is destroyed, naruto wins (again), kaen dies after his last words about konoha, the world, hope, his sister and such. EVerything is back to normal: naruto and bee return on the giant turtle and the kages can start planning for the war again.
Tobi and zestu are disappointed to see kabuto's alive, but they have to keep fighting alongside him. Everything ends just like it started: the war is about to come.
Thank you for reading everything. tell me what you think of it and what you would change if you were me. Remember this is jsut a fanfic, made for fun, so no insulting please


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Steep rock: 2 Star
Face climbing: 2 Star
Long routes: 2 Star
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Rubber: 3.5mm Extasy
Help! I didn't understand this shoe. Down-to-the-toe laces, stout rands and a blunt toe box are features I'd praise on a long-route shoe. The high arch, powerful slingshot heel, and supple, unlined leather upper are features I'd look for in a face-climbing or steep-rock shoe. On the rock, it climbs like a Ford Taurus, nothing special ... but it will get the job done.
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