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Strike King KVD Dream Shot 10pk
Designed by Kevin VanDam to be the perfect all-around drop shot bait, the Strike King KVD Dream Shot is based on the popular caffeine shad design with its triangle hinged tail section that quivers and shakes with the smallest movements. It was also the bait that Jonathan Van Dam used to catch the majority of his quality fish and win the 2012 Bassmaster Elite Series Mystery Lake Green Bay Challenge on Lake Michigan. Available in a variety of colors, the Strike King KVD Dream Shot is made with Strike King's killer Perfect Plastic material and will keep you in the money.
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Customer Reviews
Comments: There are definitely some pros and cons to this bait but trust me it flat out catches some fish. I've caught a 7 in a neighborhood pond dropshotting with this and I've caught thousands of bluegill. A major con is the price and how easily the bluegill tear this bait up when you hook one. Usually rig it with a 1/0 Gama Dropshot hook and a 1/16 ounce VMC tungsten weight
From: Ethan: Tulsa, OK 7/7/15
Comments: Hands down the best drop shot bait I've ever used! Went to Clear Lake and I was using this bait and absolutely killed it. I was fishing with two other good fisherman that both swear by roboworms. They caught fish but oohing like the fish I was catching. The fall is amazing and the action in the tail is unmatched by any bait I've ever used. One of my parters refuses to fish anything with the name KVD on it but when he saw me catching fish he's never seen caught on a drop shot he went to the local tackle shop and immediately picked some up. Greatest drop shot bait I've ever used hands down.
From: Cameron: Stockton, CA 6/24/15
Comments: Strike king should rename this bait. Caught a 5 pound smallie on this first cast on drop shot. Caught several other three's and two's later on which is great for idaho. Hands down the best drop shot bait, if you think otherwise you are confused.
From: Tanner: Star, ID 5/26/15
Comments: Great drop shot rig for catching fish in slowly days or high pressured waters. But don't buy it for the durability, they last two good fish abd that's it. Sometimes even the rock bass rip the little tail off, so it's one bait out for zero fish sometimes, but I still buy many of these.
From: Thierry: Canada 4/10/15
Comments: Great drop shot bait. Not sure how others are rigging this with complaints but it sits horizontally and catches bass. Have won two tournaments using this exclusively this year. Boated 25 fish in 3 hours. Best colors have been KVD Magic and Pumpkin Sapphire. Durability has been fairly good for a plastic, especially in the 5".
From: Travis: MI 7/16/14
Comments: This bait holds true to its name "DREAM". By far the best drop shot bait I've ever used. Smallies kill these things and I've landed some nice large mouth too. Better than a robo worm in my opinion.
From: Blake: Charleston, WV 3/7/14
Comments: used this bait today, not the first time ever using it but its my first real time actually really workin with it and my god am I impressed! I was fishing with four pound mono and a sliding egg sinker as my drop shot weight because I left em at home. Anyways on my second cast at a spot that was just a joke I got bit by the biggest bass I have ever seen personally, but because I was using 4 pound it broke me off in the weeds with ease. EXTREMELY IMPRESSED
From: Andrew: Dana Point, CA
Comments: great bait. darts like a minnow and the tail paddles. Havent had much trouble with durability yet either
From: Brendan: Gardern Illinois
Comments: Recently bought these in Chart Blue Glimmer Back at my local Dicks, the color looks great and was excited to try them on a drop shot. Unfortunately they don't sit horizontally, instead falling vertically on the drop shot and ultimately was a waste of money considering theres much better drop shot alternatives for a cheaper price. Will not buy these again and wouldn't recommend them to anyone looking for a drop shot lure. Stick to Roboworm and other floating worms/shads.
From: Mike: Fall River, MA
Comments: I don't understand how anybody can complain about these, they are great I have caught tons of LMB with them. Best colors are the KVD magic and the candy color. Roboworms suck compared to these in my opinion. Only drawback is durability, tend to not last long and panfish love to bite the tails off. Magnums are a little more durable though and work just as great!! Still my favorite drop shot bait period and I've tried almost everything.
From: Brandon: West Chicago,IL
Comments: The bad reviews talked me out of buying but later decided to try a pack. Other people may not like them but the smallmouth do!
From: John: WA
Comments: One bait does not work everywhere all the time. But, I am catching nice LMB with the Dream Shot much of the time. Especially on the fall so be ready!
From: Jim: Phoenix, AZ USA
Comments: good stuff. great action on the fall, you dont see it but the bass does
From: MV
Comments: Awesome drop shot bait. I caught 2 smallmouth back to back one went 2.5 and the other went 3.0lb's. Soft like roboworms, one fish and it's pretty much destroyed. Will definately be purchasing more of these in a variety of colors.
From: Jason: Winters, CA
Comments: This is an excellent bait. I was fishing with it in Northern Michigan, and out fished my buddies who were using roboworm by a lot
From: Yang: San Diego, CA, US
Comments: I will stick to roboworm and reins for drop shotting, theres alot of hype about this bait, its ok but its not a roboworm or reins bubbling shaker
From: Steve: Ventura, CA
Comments: IDK how all the other reviewers are rigging this. but it doesn't stand out horizontally on a drop shot, it sits vertically, which sucks in my opinion, if I'm drop shooting its because fishing is tough and I'm just letting it sit the rte, for that this bait will not work. Looks decent on the fall but a drop shot bait, IMO, should sit horizontally on the hook and have a great fall. Disappointed
Comments: Destroys Michigan Smallmouth, and holds up well
From: Dekota: MI
Comments: After drop shotting this bait for deep water smallmouth I believe strike king should take Berkeley's moto cuz they truly out fish live bait
From: Brad: PA
Comments: i can't help but laugh out loud when i read some of you saying this is too expensive. are you kidding me. go dig some night crawlers in your yard. you bass fish and you are saying a pack of lures that cost less than 5 dollars is too expensive?
Comments: I have to agree here with a lot of others. Great marketing Strike King, but this bait is not even in the same league as the Robo products.
Comments: This bait is awesome and does catch fish. It may not be better then said product but it does what I need it to do and put fish in the boat. I read these comments and I am surprised half of you aren't women. $4.59 is not expensive price. Strike King doesn't copy cat other bait company's. If you complain about losing baits and it being expensive you shouldn't fish period.
From: Keith: East Coast
Comments: Actually Tyler, KVD and Zona took a Caffiene Shad and cut it to come up with this exact bait..
From: Steve: VA
Comments: I was surprised by the way some people slammed this product. Have been using it for the last two years, and you drop it in front of a Smallmouth, he eats it. That's all I care about.
From: Scooter: Gladstone, MI
Comments: Not saying this is better then a robowarm or anything but it did just win an elite event in wisconsin and kevin wasnt the main one behind the design it just got added to his line of baits, Kvd didnt copy it and he didnt copy a square bill
From: Tyler: USA
Comments: Actually Mark Zona designed this bait
From: Utah
Comments: I really like this bait and it works fairly well on largemouth. Personally though, I like Roboworm FX Sculpins. All around great bait though, good job KVD
Comments: No were near as good as Roboworms, Shaking Squirrel Worm, or a Kamakazee fidget! Save some money and buy the 3 that I mentioned. TW needs to start carrying the Kamakazee fidget again!!!
From: Brian: Pittsburgh
Comments: dont waste your money , doesnt even come close to the roboworm, attraxx worm , or crosstail shad just another kevin van damm copy of another company like he did with the square bill. in the water the action well there really is none that i can see the tail does not quiver like the hype at icast. it really doesnt do much of anything on a dropshot rig .the plastic used is not the consistancy of the other products i mentioned and therefore you get no action out of the bait. strike king is a copycat company riding on the shoulders of kvd what a joke.
From: MI
Comments: Deadly on Smallmouth. That is all I can say.
From: Greg: Nova Scotia, Canada
Comments: Too expensive, like most of Strike King's plastic offerings.
From: Dean: British Columbia, Canada
Comments: I was given this product before it was on the market and I am not impressed. Save your money and catch more fish by purchasing the roboworm sculpin FX 4inch.
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Brownlee's Western Conference Predictions: Blockhead or Genius?
Robin Brownlee
March 18 2008 06:45PM
Making predictions is about the easiest way there is to look like a blockhead. Then again, the flipside is that once in a blue moon you get lucky and come off like a genius, a puck clairvoyant. I'm willing to roll the dice on either possibility by laying out how I see the playoff race in the Western Conference unfolding. Specifically, how it'll go for the six teams, including the Oilers, who are battling for the final three spots.
The top five teams in the Western Conference will be Detroit, San Jose, Minnesota, Anaheim and Dallas, with the only the order to be decided. I know, how bold.
That leaves Calgary, Vancouver, Colorado, Nashville, Edmonton and Phoenix, all separated by just seven points going into action tonight, dicing for sixth, seventh and eighth.
OK, OK, the fine people of Columbus would like it known they're good enough, at the very least, to vault over Phoenix when all is said and done. They're probably right, but I'm not laying out all the remaining games for the Blue Jackets. Here's how it looks to me. Or not...
RIGHT NOW (6:45pm Tuesday)
6. Calgary 37-25-10 for 84 points 7. Vancouver 37-26-10 for 84 points 8. Colorado 39-29-6 for 84 points 9. Nashville 36-29-8 for 80 points 10. Edmonton 36-32-5 for 77 points 11. Phoenix 36-32-5 for 77 points
March 18. at CBJ WIN OT 20. COL WIN OT 22. MIN LOSS 24. at COL LOSS 25. VAN WIN 29. EDM LOSS 30. at VAN LOSS OT
April 1. at EDM WIN OT 3. at MIN LOSS 5. at VAN WIN RECORD 5-4-1
March 20. at EDM LOSS OT 21. MIN LOSS 25. at CGY LOSS 25. at CGY LOSS 26. at COL WIN OT 28. at MIN WIN 30. CGY WIN OT
April 1. COL WIN 3. EDM LOSS OT 5. CGY LOSS RECORD 4-4-2
March 20. at CGY LOSS OT 22. at EDM LOSS 24 CGY WIN 26. VAN LOSS OT 28 EDM WIN 30 at MIN LOSS
April 1. at VAN LOSS 6. MIN WIN RECORD 3-3-2
March 18. WSH LOSS 20 DET LOSS 22 CHI WIN 25 CBJ WIN 28 at CBJ LOSS OT 30 at DET LOSS
April 1. at STL LOSS 3. STL WIN 4. at CHI LOSS OT RECORD 3-4-2
March 18. PHO WIN 20. VAN WIN OT 22. COL WIN 24. MIN WIN 26 at MIN LOSS 28. at COL LOSS 29. at CGY WIN
April 1. CGY LOSS OT 3. at VAN WIN OT RECORD 6-2-1
March 18 at EDM LOSS 20. LA WIN 22. ANA LOSS 25 SJ LOSS 27 at LA WIN 30. at SJ LOSS
April 3. DAL WIN 4. at DAL LOSS OT 6 at ANA LOSS RECORD 3-5-1
6. Calgary 42-29-11 for 95 points 7. Vancouver 41-30-12 for 94 points 8. Colorado 42-32-8 for 92 points 9. Edmonton 42-34-6 for 90 points 10. Nashville 39-33-10 for 88 points 11. Phoenix 39-37-6 for 84 points
—Listen to Robin Brownlee every Thursday from 4 to 5 pm on Total Sports with Bob Stauffer on Team 1260.
Hmmm. Obviously, I should've snuck a peek at the scoreboard for the Calgary and Columbus game before starting my trek to Blockhead City.
March 18 2008, 07:25PM
Here's hoping you aren't wrong about Edmonton v. Phoenix.
March 18 2008, 10:25PM
Holy Crap Brownlee? Where is the team spirit? Two points out of the playoffs? Hells No!
I predict the Oilers will win 8 of their remaning 7 games, and will be retroactively credited with a win for an October 5-2 loss to the Canucks, on the grounds that there were too many men on the ice.
Should be interesting if they go back to Rolo again against Vancouver, Garon has had success against the Nucks. Seeing Robin has made his predictions, I've been making my own at Mullers hockey picks.com for the past three years. Check it out if you wish.
In regards to Muller, 630 CHED was sayin after the game that Garon most likely will start against the Nucks.
March 19 2008, 08:41AM
Robin quick question.
Theoretically lets say the Oilers make the playoffs. Will any of the injured players be ready to play in them? I know they all had season ending injuries, but that was with the assumption the Oilers weren't going to make it. IF they do, can any of them come back?
BR: No chance Horcoff, Torres and Souray could play even if the Oilers got into early June. Their surgeries require extensive rehab -- their goal is to be completely fit by training camp. As for Moreau, I don't know. He didn't have surgery, but with him re-breaking the same fracture that kept him out of the start of the season, you've got to know the medical staff will play it very safe with him. I can't see it, bit I'll have to ask Ken Lowe on him.
March 19 2008, 12:54PM
Thanks Robin. I kinda assumed that.
RB: Did you get a chance to have a chat with or about Torres? Has he still been hanging around the team?
Also, because I don't think I'll see this anywhere else, can you do some digging for some Pouliot quotes from MacT and then interview the kid and come up with a story for this site?
He's most likely on his last chance and that story's getting lost in the shuffle and I'd like you to shine a little bit of light on it.
Gord: Raffi's around. I asked about him the other morning after your note -- I just haven't seen him. Different hours for all the rehab guys, as I said.
Maybe on Pouliot -- that's not a bad idea, although at this time of season with every game being so important, players are hesitant to talk about their particular situation as opposed to the team thing. I'll keep it in mind.
Thanks, RB.
I get your point on the timing of a Pouliot piece; I just find his situation intriguing given his draft pedigree and the glut of young talent he's now encountered in his quest to make the top 13 come the '09 season.
In any case, I think there's a story there. Kid's putting up close to a PPG in his second season in the A, gets a call and plays the last ~50 games of the '07 season but then finds his way back to the minors for the vast majority of the following season.
The guy's really picked up his play in the last few games and after looking like he was primarily worried about not being scored upon during the first couple of games of his recall, now he's starting to create some chances as well.
Also, here's another idea for you and maybe something you can give us a little insight on: if you put Souray back in the lineup now -- or even if you're looking ahead to next season -- considering that Smid and Greene are out 5th and 6th dmen, which one of them would sit for Souray, and in your opinion, why?

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- Model Year: 2012
- Heritage: Reebok 6K Sidekick III shaft
- Level of Player: Ideal for the intermediate to advance level of player
- Shaft Dimensions: Rounded corners/Straight sidewalls
- Flex Point: Low kick
- Blade Compatibility: Traditional 0.620" blades
- Weight: 362 grams (Based on a 85 flex shaft)
- Construction:
- Lightweight construction uses high quality composite materials that reduce weight without sacrificing durability
- Flex Profile:
- Dual Matrix Technology offers a spring loading effect at the kick point for a quick and deadly release
- Two different graphite weaves are used on the forehand and backhand to increase the power and snap during shot release
- Dual Matrix Technology offers a spring loading effect at the kick point for a quick and deadly release
- Geometry:
- Traditional shaft shape
- Rounded corners with straight side walls
- Grip: Griptonite™ offers a slightly rubbery feel for increased control and better reaction speed
- Flex: Mid 75, Regular 85, Stiff 100
- Length: 54"
Comments: I recently purchased the reebok 16K hockey shaft because I needed a backup stick for my roller league. Soon after, its become my number one stick to play with. With the 85 flex i get enough resistance but also the right amount of whip to get off quick snap shots. Its improved my slap shot power and i get a little more pop off the stick. The shaft is pretty light even with my Reebok 10K ABS blade in it. I didn't even use a wooden butt end plug. I've used that setup in a couple of ice pick-ups and was still able to play the same way as always. All in all definitely would recommend this shaft to any player looking to get a light and durable stick. I played with this stick about three times a week for about 6 months and it still looks new. Would buy again!
From: David, Los Angeles, CA
Comments: I play defense so I need a heavier stick that can take a bit more abuse. I like using one pieces but for the cost 2 pieces work better. Coming from someone who used the Reebok 6K Sidekick III shaft the Reebok 16K Sidekick 4 shaft is awesome. Bought the 100 Flex and its perfect. Holds up will, A lot lighter then I though it would be. Ive only had it for a few days and so far so good. Only complaint is that its only offered with Grip. I would prefer clear finish.
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Skip to comments.McGrath: There Is a Disaster Coming. Get Ready For It.
Posted on 11/13/2012 9:37:39 PM PST by Kartographer
Were talking about the potential for an absolute credit freeze that will make the situation in New York spread across this country almost overnight.
Ask yourself this question: Are you prepared to take care of yourself?
If you cannot answer that question with the affirmative it is time to stop just listening to alternative media and thinking of it as entertainment, but taking the advice seriously and considering if you have a plan to take care of yourself and loved ones if the situation arises.
Because if you look around this world, if you look at the mainstream media, theyre forewarning you about whats coming.
There is a disaster coming. Get ready for it. Make sure you are mentally and physically prepared for what is coming.
(Excerpt) Read more at shtfplan.com ...
Preppers' PING!!
Gold, guns, generators, gas, groceries, cash.
Stock em up boys....
I've made it through a few hard times without a genset. I don't know the last time I bought gas. Been a while. The city hasn't sent a lawn notice since spring.
Groceries, the good Lord provides wherever we live, if you study.
Studying brings 2nd Timothy 2:15 to mind. Skillsets are important.
You need to jump off your high horse, which for you will be a long tumble, and read some Proverbs, some of Paul's other epistles, and study some parables.
I would also like to know why showing wisdom in prepardeness somehow means you won't have skillsets....and won't have the Word of God.
If I stock up on guns, gold, cash, generators, fuel, batteries, groceries, etc - I will still have my Bibles and my skill sets.
Or, you could just be a bitter old prune looking for a fight and intentionally going off topic.
What's the big deal? Everybody should just raise their debt ceiling.
You know, like the government.
I've had plenty of them. Humbling ones.
By all means, prep with all the material things you think you might need. Lord knows I do as I can, and you don't need my blessing or permission to do what you think is right.
The topic is preparedness for hard times, correct?
I'm ready if trucks stop.
Preppers bump.
You're wrong about Johnny. He is down to earth and can survive anywhere and has had to do that in the wilderness for a long period of time.
He was just saying survival can be done if you don't have the blessing of goods. He is also a Godly man.
That's really, really gonna suck, though. No way around that part of it. At least we'll stay busy.
"The fizzling emerging market story is a key reason why the West has relapsed this year. The world is now facing a synchronized downturn on all fronts, with little scope for fiscal and monetary stimulus."
I don't think he's off topic. I'm glad he said what I didn't: not everyone can afford gold or a generator; not everybody is going to be able to save cash. But if you know how, it's still possible to survive.
I am going to have a hard time surviving on my own—I'm just a lady in her middle years. No money to buy gold or a good generator—nothing at all. I'm focused on buying medication and laying in firewood and ammunition, just to try to hold out as long as possible. I sure wish all this would be put off for eight or nine months 'til I can get out of this house, but that's probably too optimistic.
I've had to give away preps 4 times since Y2K. A lot of missions and food banks were blessed. I had to go where the Lord sent me and it didn't include being able to take them. When my husband, daughter and I were broke on a Pacific Island, we found food in the refrigerator we didn't buy or put there. I've seen food multiplied. When we had practically nothing, our neighbors out of the blue brought a whole stem of bananas. Another time, our other neighbors invited us to a feast, just for us, to meet us because I'd been friendly to their daughter. When I was single and without work, with almost nothing in the fridge, I found yogurt (my favorite) that I knew was put there supernaturally. You don't miss stuff like that if your fridge is pretty much bare. We went to a weekly walk when we had nothing for our daughter. The group was having a picnic that day that included cake so we all celebrated her birthday. Prepping is wise, but it's wiser to find out what the Lord specifically wants one to do. One shoe doesn't always fit all. Do I have a well stocked pantry and other supplies? Will they end up being given away again? Only God knows. God can still send a raven today.
I can not see anyway possible for America to return to be the country that I grew up in, and I would not want to prep to live in USSA Hell.
I started international travel in 1999, first living in central Europe, and now well settled in the Philippines for the last four years..
If for some reason SHTF here, I can bail out to another island group, or wherever.
I have very few material things to worry about, but I have a very happy life on the beach with my wife and our 18 month old baby boy.
I have not been back in the USSA since Jan. 2005
"If I stock up on guns, gold, cash, generators, fuel, batteries, groceries, etc - I will still have my Bibles and my skill sets."
I hear a lot about preppers who are convinced that they can survive with gold, guns, and other supplies.
Unfortunately, you will be shortly overrun by the massive hordes of those who do not have what you have.
You would need an army to protect you and your treasures.
Johnny is saying skills is important. You can have all the stuff but skills trumps stuff.
Still, I gots stuff and lots of it.
I got mad skills too and I'm a country boy with some Beechnut and a .45...
The first key to survival is to be out of the way of the 'hordes' Far enough out of the way so that their foraging in the urban and suburban areas disperses them.
Second is low profile.
These 'hordes' won't be the "Walking Dead" type who can walk and exist on nothing for decades; they're still human (at least by some standards) and vulnerable to all sorts of calamity, fighting amongst themselves, for instance.
I expect internal casualties amongst looter types to be 80% or greater.
And very quickly. Within the first ten days to two weeks.
"One shoe does not always fit all."
- Good observation! Great posted reply. -
Thanks for posting but I doubt anyone who is that specific. IMO we are getting close but we won't know when.
During the Sandy aftermath the looters didn't go all that far from their home.
I think the common assumption that we'll see hordes of looters descending out of the city is misplaced. Those people will be out of gas and fighting each other for whats left.
Thanks for pinging the threads. Will study them.
Including couponing skillsets. Just picked up my Thanksgiving turkey for FREE last night via coupons.
I think the Russellites made the same prediction but for a date in the year 1914. When that didn't come to pass they reformed as Jehovah's Witnesses and they have been knocking on my door with Watchtowers ever since.
The 'hordes' can't go too far from their supply of crack and heroine.
Roads out of cities would be impassable.
Heck, people complain about commuting times when things are good, and their gas tanks are full!
That's something that always in a way irritated me about people planning for some kind of "bug out" scenario.
Unless you can get out a good three days or so before SHTF, "bug out" is suicide.
If you are trapped on the road in your rig during the collapse, you are a sitting duck.
Many of us have prepared well (and continue to do so), but the reality is we still hold mortgages on our houses that we cannot pay off quickly.
If it is a total economic collapse and the banks close - they cannot take in or record mortgage payments - how does that work for those of us who do not own our houses outright?
Do they still attempt to foreclose on millions of houses the "old-fashioned" way?
Or will there not really be any machinery in place to affect that, so we just "stay put" until if/when the world economy rights itself.
Any thoughts, ideas?
If you have a car, you have a generator.
Just get an inverter (750w) and some extension cords.
Anyone wanting details let me know
One thing's certain. If anyone says the day of The Lord will be X, it won't be X.
I would love a piece of property out in the mountains but I'm not convinced it would be any safer than the suburbs. It all depends on what happens.
Stay put and wait until they start demanding payment. Then it's "let's make a deal" time.
You have to think about the contradiction of planning for a societal collapse while expecting that courts will still continue to function and enforce business contracts against millions of defaults by ordinary people who used to be the backbone of a society of law
You could still continue to write checks even if you know no one will cash them or clear them
Agreed- The last thing banks want, at that point, is your house.
As long as banks are open, they can try to collect. They did in the Depression, but only after many months and even years. But if they are closed, no, there is no way they can collect.
that is why for worst case planning you need good maps, good shoes, and lightweight survival supplies (make temp shelter, stay warm, purify water, sustain calorie intake) - and a place to try to get to
I have these visions sometimes of my family walking over the mountains, like my ancestors did 250 years ago
got to think that ony a few mega banks would even survive and they would all be seized by the gubmint
And where are you walking to in these visions?
back home to my small hometown where everyone knows each other, where I know how to find clean water and where to grow food and find temp shelter with family and friends, or where I would choose to die if that time comes
not in some beseiged abandoned suburb
Upside of using your car+inverter= modest household appliance and tool power is:
2. convenient
3. really portable
4. FAR quieter than most any generator of the same size. When the power is off and NOTHING else is running or moving, you can hear a typical generator for MILES. That'll bring flies to the honey. OPSEC.
DOWNSIDE: it's not terribly efficient from a fuel consumption standpoint v. a good generator. But see 1-4 above.
We have an 1100W portable, a 5500W semi-rollable (real-man move-able) and a 2500W Whistler inverter, fused, for the 4X4 SUV, with an extra heavy duty battery.
Some of that goes with us; some is pre-positioned.
On your terms, at peace with God.
Dittos about Johnny. One of the people on the preppers threads you would want as a friend.
A diesel truck with extra batteries is GREAT for the car-inverter "generator".
It's not ideal, but it sure will do in a pinch and on a budget. I did some research and your typical car alternator will only put out 750 Watts (3/4 kilowatt), but that's plenty for running a modern freezer or refrigerator.
And you don't have to have them constantly running.
The cheapest "power" for your freezer is to wrap it in blankets and run it for an hour every 12 hours or so. Also, keep your freezer full, even if you take up space with water jugs.
Here's a trick to "alarm" you if your freezer has gone off for longer than it takes to thaw (even if it comes back on and re-freezes everything).
Fill a standard 1pt water bottle half full and freeze it upright. Then turn it upside down in your freezer.
If you question whether your freezer has thawed and refrozen, check the bottle. If the ice is now in the neck and conformed to the shape, the water has melted all the way and has refrozen. Even if it has "slid" but still retains the shape of the bottom, your stuff is safe because the temperature never got above freezing.
I started thinking about the series Jericho (before it went lame) - that guy and his sister owned a farm that was in financial trouble - the girl that ended up staying there was from the bank or IRS originally sent to start foreclosure - it took her awhile to figure out it didn't matter anymore....
I would consider myself to be somewhat of the prepper type.
A couple hundred pounds of food, alot of water, some electrical generation capacity.
And a few guns.
I don't relish the idea of killing someone.
Problem is, in an SHTF scenario, any idea of believing that someone is a fellow American or a fellow Republican or even a fellow Democrat goes out the window.
EVERYONE. And that means EVERYONE that you don't personally know, (and even some that you do personally know), must be perceived as a threat, an IMMEDIATE threat.
For me, I'm in my late 50's. Not sure it's worth the grief.
But I'll tell you two things. I AIN'T gonna starve. And I AIN'T gonna freeze!
And if the spring comes, and the sun warms things up, and the evenings get soft again, I have a boatload of seeds of all types and varieties. Life could be good again, a challenge, but very rewarding.
All true with one caution:
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* SIFF filmmaker to speak at Shoreline
A scene from "the Forgotten Kingdom" which pemiered at the Seattle International Film Festival. Director/writer Andrew Mudge will speak to Shoreline students Monday, June 3.
Shoreline Community College film students will get a close up of may be in their own futures.
Andrew Mudge, writer and director of "The Forgotten Kingdom," which premiered at the Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF), will be on campus Monday, June 3, 2013, to speak about his art and career.
"This is an amazing opportunity," Kris Boustedt, Shoreline digital filmmaking faculty said. Shoreline has its own strong showing at SIFF with a number of films listing students and faculty on the credits.
"Kingdom" is the story of a young man who reluctantly journeys to land of his ancestors, Lesotho, South Africa, to bury his estranged father. Once there, he finds himself drawn to the beauty of the land and hardships of the people. Early reviews note the film's amazing cinematography, including vibrant street scenes in Johannesburg the meditative tale of a return to native land and relationships.
Mudge says he started early making "a pile of short films about farmer's children who get struck by comets, swamp monsters that metamorphose into house pets, and malicious lawnmowers..." However, that developed-expertise apparently paid off with his win in 2003 of the Chrysler Million Dollar Film Competition for his project, "The P.T. Johansen Field Guide to North American Monsters." The grand prize was a $1 million feature film production deal courtesy of Universal Pictures and Hypnotic.
In his talk at Shoreline, Mudge will show scenes from "Kingdom" as part of the discussion. His presentation is scheduled for 3:30 p.m., Monday, June 3, in Room 2010 in the Visual Arts Center. Faculty member Boustedt says the event is open to anyone, but that seating may be limited.
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OilersNation's 2009-10 Western Conference Predictions
October 02 2009 12:00PM
Oh sure, the puck hasn't even touched the ice yet for the Little Team That Can (And Will)™. But that's never stopped the writers here at OilersNation from putting on their prognostication (I had to look it up) hats to determine how things are going to shake out this season. Find out what's going to happen in the Western Conference this season, according to OilersNation.
Robin Brownlee's Predictions
- San Jose
- Detroit
- Vancouver
- Chicago
- Calgary
- Columbus
- Anaheim
- St. Louis
The Sharks are loaded up front and are the class of the West... the Red Wings will slip some but will hold off the Blackhawks in the Central . . . loaded with grit and skill up front and set in goal with Roberto Luongo, the Canucks could overtake Detroit for second overall... the Flames have a great blue line but are suspect up front . . . watch the Blue Jackets climb the ranks with youngsters Derick Brassard and Nikita Filatov providing Rick Nash some offensive support... love him or hate him, the Ducks will miss Chris Pronger and Anaheim could easily slip two spots, opening the door for Dallas or Edmonton.
9. Dallas 10. Edmonton 11. Nashville 12. Los Angeles 13. Phoenix 14. Minnesota 15. Colorado
I'm leery of expecting more than 50 games from Nikolai Khabibulin, who didn't inspire great confidence in pre-season, and that makes goaltending a question with unproven Jeff Deslauriers as the back-up... unless Gilbert Brule is the answer, GM Steve Tambellini still has a gaping hole in the line-up until he goes out and gets a bonafide face-off man and penalty killer... the Oilers will bleed points in division games against the Flames and Canucks... special teams should be better, but the penalty killing was so inept last season it'll need to improve 10 places just to be middle of the pack and will have to do it without Fernando Pisani to start the season... Dustin Penner looked rejuvenated in pre-season, but in his two seasons with the Oilers he's yet to show he can maintain any consistency... Sam Gagner needs to put a first-half together for the first time in three seasons and he'll have do it with Pat Quinn's shoe in his backside as he's starting on the fourth line.
Jason Gregor's Predictions
Outside of three teams, I think there are nine teams that could take the final five playoff spots.
The Sharks. They'll win the west by ten points, because they are the best regular season team in the league. Thornton and Heatley will light it up and the Shark Tank is still one of the most intimidating rinks in the league.
The Hawks. They are still very young, but their playoff run last year will only make them better. I'm still not sold on Huet, but the Hawks depth will push them to the top of their division.
The Wings. I'm sure sick of this team, because they aren't that exciting to watch, but man are they good. The Hawks will give them a run for the division, and I think the Wings will actually finish fourth, but they are in easily.
Now it gets difficult. Everyone is in love with the Canucks, and most are picking them to win the NW. Outside of the Sedin Sisters, they don't have many proven scorers up front. Will Burrows be that productive again? What about Kesler? I like the grit those two have so I'll go with the Canucks, but the NW will be tight.
In fifth I will go with the Blue Jackets. Derek Brassard will make Nash a 48-goal man this year, and the Jackets are loaded with young talented players. Their defense is questionable, but look for Scott Howson to address that as the year progresses.
The Flames won't be very exciting on or off the ice. They might have the worst quotable team in the league, but Brent Sutter will ensure they play stifling defence and finish 6th. The problem for the Flames is that they won't get out of the first round because Kiprusoff will be burnt out once again.
The Oilers were a speed bump down the stretch last year, and considering nine of their forward underachieved and they were still in the playoffs with ten games to go, I'll put them in 7th. Quinn and his staff will make them more accountable, and their goals against will go down. Their PK will be better and that probably gives them at least two more wins, toss in the new coaching staff and the Oilers manage to win the dog fight for the last two playoff spots.
My surprise pick will be the Los Angeles Kings finally getting to the dance. Drew Doughty is outstanding, and they have lots of depth up front. Their goaltending will be a question mark, but I like what Dean Lombardi has built in LA and the Kings will make the playoff for the first time since the 2001/2002 season.
The Blues will miss the playoff by one point, because they will be decimated by injuries again and many of their young kids won't perform like they did last season.
The Ducks are another team I have fallen out of the race. Their backend isn't as strong, and something tells me they are ready for an off-year. The Preds and Coyotes will also be close. The Avs will finish last and have the best odds of choosing first overall.
I do think that if any team from 4th to 12th suffers one or two significant injuries they won't make it to the dance. Let the games begin….
Jonathan Willis' Predictions
- Detroit
- San Jose
- Vancouver
- Chicago
- Anaheim
- Calgary
- Columbus
- Edmonton
- Minnesota
- Dallas
- Los Angeles
- St. Louis
- Nashville
- Phoenix
- Coloroado
These predictions were extremely difficult to put together. However, that's not going to stop me from starting at the top and working my way down through the flawed reasoning and poor assumptions that I used to create them.
Detroit's obviously a very good team, and while most people think San Jose will be better they've really done a number on their defensive depth over the summer and I think they might be in some trouble when injuries strike. I almost did something really wild and slotted Vancouver up top, but the Canucks are a little ways back of those first two teams. The other thing worth mentioning about Detroit is that I see Osgood as being significantly better in the regular season this year.
Chicago's in the same range as the top three teams, but I'd peg them just a little lower than the Red Wings. Anaheim underachieved last year, something that won't happen again, and Calgary's a very good team hampered by lousy goaltending. Columbus rounds out the best of the West; I'm banking here on an improved powerplay and no disappearing act from Steve Mason.
The teams ranked 8th through 13th are largely interchangeable, and it wouldn't surprised me at all to see the order's switched around at the end of the season. Edmonton has a bunch of question marks, the most serious of which is whether Nikolai Khabibulin is going to be a) healthy and b) motivated. The Minnesota Wild were actually quite a decent team last year in a lot of ways, but it's a season of transition for them with the departure of Lemaire. Turco should be better in Dallas, but I'm still not sold on their generic-brand defensive corps. I like most of what L.A. has done but I trust neither their goaltenders nor the health of guys like Smyth, Williams and Stoll. I've probably short-changed the Blues here (particularly if Kariya and McDonald come back strong from injury) but they were a miserable 5-on-5 team last year and that must change. Finally, Nashville's always a playoff threat but they're one of the least potent offensive teams in the NHL right now.
Off-ice issues in Phoenix have forced G.M. Don Maloney to go bargain-hunting; the team's performance will reflect that. Meanwhile Colorado, despite a decent new goaltender, is in complete rebuild mode, and have not one but two players from the last draft in the opening night lineup.
Wanye Gretz's Predictions
- Detroit
- San Jose
- Calgary
- Chicago
- Vancouver
- Anaheim
- Dallas
- Edmonton
As much as things have improved in San Jose with the addition of that son of a bitch Heatley, we can't see anyone taking down the Red Wings this season in the West. Those dinks in Calgary have greatly improved with the addition of Bouwmeester and unless Iginla decides to retire they should win the division - though they will lose to the Oilers in the seasonal series. The rest speak for themeselves until 8th place. We pick the Oilers to make the playoffs if only because they are going into the season with little love and low expectations. Translation: Expect a bounce back year from Les Oilers, who will make several large moves during the season changing their roster dramatically.
9. St. Louis 10. Nashville 11. Columbus 12. Minnesota 13. LA 14. Phoenix 15. Colorado
Know who sucks? These seven sucking teams made of suckers sure do! While most of these squads lay claim to "rebuilding" we know what these teams are really up to. Tax evasion. Tax evasion and murder for hire schemes. Pity the poor Coyotes down there at the bottom of the conference. Can you spell d-o-o-m-e-d? If only the worst thing that will happen to your team this year was missing the playoffs huh Phoenix? If only.... The Avalanche will smartly rebuild and be back in the playoffs within 4 years. Book it in your book of bookings.
Amber McCormick's Predictions
I am going to be first to admit that I am the worst at picking any long range predictions. I thought Beta would outlast VHS.
At risk of the backlash I could face or ridicule I will face, here are my predictions... random random predictions.
- San Jose- 114
- Detroit- 108
- Vancouver- 107
- Calgary- 104
- Edmonton- 103
- Chicago- 100
- Anaheim- 99
- Columbus- 97
- Minnesota- 96
- Nashville- 95
- Dallas- 93
- St. Louis- 93
- Los Angeles- 92
- Phoenix- 88
- Colorado- 80
I thought about this so much that at one point nothing made any sense!!!
bingofuel's Predictions
In order to predict the Western Conference standings at the end of the season, I mixed together several noxious chemicals and fed them to one of those sign-language-signing Gorillas. All that this resulted in was a horny gorilla chasing me around my basement. NOTHING MORE.
So I asked my roommate instead. He was passed out on the floor. His husky, Vinny, provided me with these answers.
All I'll say is this: I think/hope/can't promise but would like to think... that the Oilers make the playoffs this year. They have a lot going for them, and a lot working against them. I guess we'll get an idea of how much of a clust#$@% this'll be come Saturday...
- San Jose
- Detroit
- Chicago
- Calgary
- Vancouver
- Anaheim
- Dallas
- Edmonton
- Columbus
- Minnesota
- St. Louis
- Colorado
- Los Angeles
- Nashville
- Phoenix
The competition...
Read what the enemy has to say about the Western Conference:
October 02 2009, 03:35PM
GSC wrote:
If last night was an indication, Calgary is going to be just as defensive, if not more so, under Sutter. Winning a game 5-3 despite being outshot roughly 40-20 seldom happens.
Giving up 40 hardly qualifies as a defensive success does it?
October 02 2009, 03:37PM
Cable guy is coming tomorrow morning, so I'm missing all these games. I'm in for tomorrow - GD, B!
October 02 2009, 03:38PM
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St. Louis has Conklin… …they're goin to the Cup final~
Or he will at least clinch the Blues a spot in the next regular season outdoor game.
October 02 2009, 03:39PM
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OvenChicken8 wrote: 1.Detroit 2.San Jose 3.Edmonton 4.Chicago 5.Calgary 6.Columbus 7.Los Angelas 8.St. Louis blockquote> Dude I love your wide eyed naivete and I'd love to be proven wrong but in my book this might get one of those implied face-palms. *fixed
October 02 2009, 03:39PM
Hey guys I know this is fof-topic but I'm just looking for some support from my fellow oiler fans. I was on show alst night on CMT called Karaoke Star. and voting runs til october 7th at midnight. It's the halifax episode but I'm originally from just north of E-town. If you all could vote for me as mush as possible as there is no limit to the amount of times you vote that would be amazing. Thanks Guys!! Heres the link http://www.cmt.ca/kstar/Vote.aspx?round_id=25 Also if you click on my pic you'll see a video clip of me
October 02 2009, 03:39PM
@ rubbertrout: Apparently I'm retarded. WHen does the edit button come?
October 02 2009, 03:40PM
rubbertrout wrote:
GSC wrote: If last night was an indication, Calgary is going to be just as defensive, if not more so, under Sutter. Winning a game 5-3 despite being outshot roughly 40-20 seldom happens. Giving up 40 hardly qualifies as a defensive success does it?
No. No, it does not. They're going to have to tighten up; something I think will happen over the course of their first 10 games as they settle in with the new system.
October 02 2009, 03:41PM
@ dyckster: LOL. Ya, I can't believe Philli didn't sign him for the outdoor game. they went with 'the shutout king' Brian Boucher. Idiots~
October 02 2009, 03:49PM
@ RossCreek:
Tch, yeah - a system of... SUCKING!
October 02 2009, 03:50PM
The Flamers are gopign to do whatthey do every year play well until march then drop off and then loose in the first round
October 02 2009, 03:56PM
Oil Kings 'n' Pretty Things wrote:
Cable guy is coming tomorrow morning, so I'm missing all these games. I'm in for tomorrow – GD, B!
f-ing cableguy
@ Dustin Terpstra: I threw a vote your way, Dustin.
October 02 2009, 04:17PM
@ cableguy:
I'm okay with him unless he doesn't show up at all. He is, after all, bringing me the wonderful world of sports and internet. I've been missing out on all of this talk of the ice girls because I'm only able to access the Nation at work.
October 02 2009, 04:21PM
Reggie wrote:
Robin, did the Team1260 listeners or Gregor or somebody convince you Dallas isn't good enough to be in the top 8 ? You changed your pick from the other day. What was the deciding point ?
Yes, it was the listeners . . .
Actually, I had Dallas and St. Louis pretty much even up for eighth. After looking at the Blues pre-season stats and seeing that Kariya and some of the other players who were injured last year are back and producing, I gave St. Louis the nod. That, and I like the thought of Marc Crawford missing the playoffs. In any case, I still think they're neck-and-neck.
October 02 2009, 04:33PM
RossCreek wrote:
Secondary scoring is an issue after their 1st game? A 5-3 win? Where the goal scorers were Giordano, Bourque, Prust & Pardy? "Based on how Calgary played last night… Secondary scoring will be an issue" Yeeeee-ahh. ~Makes Sense~
It will be a problem, Louongo sucked last night and should of had 2 of the first 3 period Flames goals. The Canucks outplayed the Flames and should have won, so to repeat "Based on how Calgary played last night… Secondary scoring will be an issue"
October 02 2009, 04:46PM
If you dont think the oil will finish 7th or 8th then eat a dick
October 02 2009, 04:56PM
@ ahuoseh:
Amber thinks they're going to finish 5th.
October 02 2009, 04:56PM
ahuoseh wrote:
If you dont think the oil will finish 7th or 8th then eat a dick
That statement says volumes...
Robin Brownlee wrote:
That, and I like the thought of Marc Crawford missing the playoffs.
I like the idea of Crawford missing the playoffs too ... btw ... Kariya had a pair of goals today.
October 02 2009, 05:38PM
from PuckDaddy... a first glimpse of beloved wrestling icon and underrated film star Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson as "The Tooth Fairy," as a hockey player who is forced to serve as an officially sanctioned Tooth Fairy for one week. The trailer is out... http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/blog/puck_daddy/post/Video-The-Rock-s-hockey-Tooth-Fairy-masterpiece?urn=nhl,193654
October 02 2009, 06:01PM
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@ Dustin Terpstra: I threw a vote your way, Dustin.
Hey thanks alot I really apprciate it and I would love to make the final round and win the ten grand. Oilers fans unite!!! Vote for me http://www.cmt.ca/kstar/Vote.aspx?round_id=25
October 02 2009, 06:25PM
Dustin Terpstra wrote:
Fish wrote: @ Dustin Terpstra: I threw a vote your way, Dustin. Hey thanks alot I really apprciate it and I would love to make the final round and win the ten grand. Oilers fans unite!!! Vote for me http://www.cmt.ca/kstar/Vote.aspx?round_id=25
Bugger off. Get laryingitis and die.
October 02 2009, 06:50PM
Robin Brownlee wrote:
Dustin Terpstra wrote: Fish wrote: @ Dustin Terpstra: I threw a vote your way, Dustin. Hey thanks alot I really apprciate it and I would love to make the final round and win the ten grand. Oilers fans unite!!! Vote for me http://www.cmt.ca/kstar/Vote.aspx?round_id=25 Bugger off. Get laryingitis and die.
whoaaaa wats with the hostility man look i realize its a hockey site which is why i said i know this is off topic. It's also the first time iv'e posted about something not hockey related.
October 02 2009, 07:52PM
IS that Naustrodomis???
October 02 2009, 08:30PM
@ offside:
Wouldn't you rather those teams to not get a lottery pick? I loved it when we just snuck in infront of the 'nucks. Hate hearing about them at work. Didn't see a single kid at school wearing canuck garb today. Huzzah!
October 02 2009, 09:07PM
1. Sharks 2. Wings 3. Flames 4. Hawks 5. 'nucks 6. Ducks 7. Blues 8. Oilers
9. Jackets 10. Stars 11. Kings 12. Preds 13. Wild 14. Yotes 15. Avs
It's going to be down to the wire. The difference between 7th and 12th spot probably won't be more than 7 pts.
October 02 2009, 09:49PM
Oilers to finish 5th AHAHAHHAHHAAH thats why you dont get a chick to predict hockey seasons
Meh, alot of people are all dreamy with SJ, but they have some issues. Heatley and Thornton are a slick scoring duo, but who on that team is going to do the dirty work along the boards and in the corners to get those guys the puck in the first place? Their D also lacks depth. Huet can be beaten high glove side all night long - Chicago needs someone better. Phoenix will do better than most predict I think. They were actually 5th in the west at the all-star break last year.
October 02 2009, 10:53PM
Dustin Terpstra wrote:
Oilers fans unite!!! Vote for me
Brownlee's right.
Fans "unite" for a common cause, not a selfish cause.
Set up a deal with Wanye or Bingofuel whereby if you win you'll give half the cash to the Stollery and you might have something there.
October 02 2009, 11:13PM
@ Dustin Terpstra: That's not hostility. That's keeding. I keed. Hostility would be . . . nevermind.
October 02 2009, 11:43PM
@ Robin Brownlee: @ Dustin Terpstra: no, hostility from brownlee would be him getting out the walker, shuffling to your house, then poking you in the arm until you went insane. He would then proceed to to irritate you with his irritants until he dies of old age..... so roughly 20 minutes... (RB I "keed")
October 03 2009, 08:24AM
*stunned look on face*
19 votes for finishing 1st!?! You guys must be joking right? Right?
October 03 2009, 08:25AM
Oh yeah...
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The Oxford Film Festival gets better with age.
For proof, look at its schedule, full of award-winning films, locally-produced movies and workshops and panels. Oxford Film Festival's organizers went out of their way to make this 10th anniversary festival a busy and memorable one.
"It's a huge deal, and we're constantly amazed and excited that we've made it to 10," said Molly Fergusson, the Oxford Film Festival executive director. "We have a lot of free activities to celebrate 10 years. We're doing what we can to give back."
The festival kicks off with a special film fest-related Thacker Mountain Radio at 6 p.m. Feb. 21, followed by a screening of the Oxford community film "Ten." In it, filmmaker Joe York talks to Oxford and Lafayette County 10-year-olds about what it means to be 10.
Then, the festival kicks off, and the weekend is full of movies, workshops and panels.
All workshops and panels are free on Saturday, as is the kids' acting workshop.
The films, Fergusson said, are excellent selections.
"The older we get, the better submissions we get," she said.
Selections include the documentary short "We Didn't Get Famous: The Story of the Southern Music Underground, 1978-1990"; "Congratulations," a feature about a couple that doesn't get engaged; and "An Ordinary Hero," a documentary about a Southern white woman's battles during the Civil Rights era.
There's also a block of Mississippi music videos, animated films and more. The entire schedule, including parties, panels and workshops, is online.
"You can look at everything by genre – animation, documentaries – and you can see what's there and pick something to your liking," Fergusson said. "We tried to get things most everybody would like."
Tickets can also be purchased online, or they're available at the door.
"It's first come, first serve," she said. "So we encourage everybody to get there early."
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Lawyers, journalists have no standing to challenge foreign surveillance law, SCOTUS rules
Posted Feb 26, 2013 04:41 pm CST
A group of plaintiffs that includes lawyers and legal organizations has no standing to challenge a foreign surveillance law, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in a 5-4 opinion.
Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. wrote the majority opinion (PDF) finding that the plaintiffs had not established an injury in fact based on their assertion that their communications could be intercepted. The plaintiffs cannot establish standing based on their "highly speculative" theory of future injury, Alito said, nor by taking present-day measures to avoid "hypothetical future harm."
The law as amended in 2008 authorizes surveillance of foreigners who are outside the United States, with advance approval of the "targeting procedures" by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. The American Civil Liberties Union, which filed suit on behalf of the plaintiffs, says in a press release that the 2008 law permits "dragnet surveillance" without identifying the targets to any court. Dissenting Justice Stephen G. Breyer used different wording; he said the law permits surveillance "on a programmatic, not necessarily individualized, basis."
The groups seeking to challenge the law contend that their work requires them to communicate with likely surveillance targets. The plaintiffs include lawyers representing accused terrorists as well as legal, human rights, labor and media organizations.
Alito said the plaintiffs cannot establish standing based on a theory of future injury that relies "on a highly attenuated chain of possibilities." The government would have to decide to target communications of people with whom the plaintiffs communicate, it would have to invoke the law at issue, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court would have to approve the wiretap procedures, the government would have to succeed in intercepting the communications, and the plaintiffs would have to be parties to intercepted communications.
"In sum, respondents' speculative chain of possibilities does not establish that injury based on potential future surveillance is certainly impending or is fairly traceable to" the law at issue, Alito wrote.
As an alternate theory, the plaintiffs contended they were suffering present injury because their fear of surveillance was causing them to take costly and burdensome measures to keep their communications confidential. The plaintiffs said they avoid some email and phone conversations, they talk in generalities, or they travel to have in-person conversations. Alito rejected that argument as well.
"Respondents cannot manufacture standing by choosing to make expenditures based on hypothetical future harm that is not certainly impending," Alito wrote. "If the law were otherwise, an enterprising plaintiff would be able to secure a lower standard for Article III standing simply by making an expenditure based on a nonparanoid fear."
Breyer's dissent was joined by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan. Breyer saw "a very high likelihood" that the government, acting under the law, will intercept some of the plaintiffs' communications. One plaintiff, for example, is a lawyer who represented a defendant acquitted on terrorism charges and Guantanamo detainee Khalid Sheik Mohammed, who has been described as the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks.
"The government does not deny that it has both the motive and the capacity to listen to communications of the kind described by plaintiffs," Breyer wrote. "Nor does it describe any system for avoiding the interception of an electronic communication that happens to include a party who is an American lawyer, journalist or human rights worker."
ACLU deputy legal director Jameel Jaffer criticized the "disturbing decision" in a press release. " "This ruling insulates the statute from meaningful judicial review and leaves Americans' privacy rights to the mercy of the political branches," Jaffer said.
The case is Clapper v. Amnesty International.
Updated at 1:35 p.m. to include information from the ACLU press release.
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Jared Haddock is the organizer for the Crandall Canyon Memorial Half-Marathon on July 27. "We want to keep the memory of the Crandall Canyon miners alive. We all believe in what they did for us. This is one of our smaller marathons. We couldn't do it without the help of the Emery County Sheriff's Office deputies that keep the runners safe and the volunteers at the water stops along the way." Organizers invite everyone to come out and participate or watch the race. Former Emery County Sheriff LaMar Guymon is still involved with the organization of the race and helps to keep it going. The Crandall Canyon Mine disaster was on Aug. 6, 2007 and this year will mark the sixth anniversary of the tragedy.
The Crandall Canyon Memorial half-marathon, 5k and 10k, will be held on July 27. Packet pickup will be at Huntington City park the morning of the race at 5:15 a.m. Runners will be bused to the start of each race and back to Huntington City after the races. In order to increase the comfort of the runners and decrease traffic on the course, the buses will depart at 6:15 am.


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In Vino Veritas restaurant is situated in the house about what the first written mentioning date back to 1458.
It is a small family restaurant the food and drinks choice of which was made by the Italy cuisine loving owner . In small pleasant menu of In Vino Veritas owner offers only what feels best for him thus you can't get disappointed. Sommelier of our house will helps you to chose from 300 different wines in our shop the wine for your food that will be right exactly for you and we hope that in the company of good wine it will be more fun to wait for food that is prepared in our small kitchen.


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ASIATIQUE, The Riverfront is the largest waterfront themed retail and new lifestyle night shopping place in Bangkok, Thailand that combined the elements of the Thai history and the modern lifestyle in the fabulous way, under the concept of Festival Market and Living Museum. The total project area is over 12 Acres located adjacent to Chaopraya river with the longest boardwalk over 300 meters.
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The color pages are in a bathing place, probably a hot spring or sth. Chouji and Shino stay a bit further from the gang.
Of course girls are in a separate place...but it's as assumption that they are color pages, but in the end why not?
The chapter...
Naruto tells Raikage that there's nothing he can do to stop him.
In response Raikage tells him, that if there's nothing then he will kill him.
Raikage attacks for real and as Tsunade wants to interfere, Bee stops them.
Raikage and Bee are remembering their past.
Source: NF
Credits: vered
Confirmation: Confirmed
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ナルト キバ リー シカマル ネジ シノ チョウジ 赤マル
The guys in the bathhouse: Naruto, Kiba, Shikamaru, Neji, Shino, Chouji and Akamaru
テンテン サクラ イノ ヒナタ
The gals: TenTen, Sakura, Ino, Hinata
56巻表紙は ナルトダルイと金銀角
The volume cover of 56 features Naruto, Darui and KinGin bros


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Responders chase reports of people in swollen Fountain Creek, find none
Water from widespread flooding in communities north of Pueblo flowed rapidly south Friday, causing the Fountain Creek to swell past its banks.
Local emergency crews and Pueblo Police officers patrolled the fast-moving creek for precautionary purposes. There were no reported injuries.
The Pueblo Fire Department's Swift Water Rescue Team was called to the creek twice with reports of people being taken by the current, but both reports turned up empty.
Woody Percival, fire inspector, said at about 11:30 a.m. there was a report of a homeless man being missing and possibly in the creek.
Pueblo police officers on patrol found a destroyed camp near the creek off Dillon Drive and 40th Street. A witness saw what looked like a person in the water.
A Flight for Life helicopter made a pass over the area, but the crew was unable to locate anyone in the water. The search was called off.
Later in the day, there was another report of a person in the creek, this time near the Fourth Street Bridge over Fountain Creek.
"It turned out to be a piece of tarp flowing along the creek," Percival said.
The heavy current snapped trees in half and sent them floating down the creek. The sound of the streaming water at times gave way to the sound of cracking wood as the trees were destroyed.
Debris from homeless camps also was scattered across the rushing muddy waters.
Emergency Management Officials at the Pueblo County Sheriff's Office cautioned citizens to stay away from the banks of the Fountain Creek and the Arkansas River.
Fountain Creek flows into the Arkansas River, which peaked at about 7 feet in Avondale; this is considered a minor flooding stage by the National Weather Service.
The weather service said water levels are forecasted to stay below flood stages for the next few days.


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Sam Gagner heads to salary arbitration
Jonathan Willis
July 05 2012 05:18PM
On the same day that the Edmonton Oilers announced new contracts for restricted free agents Jeff Petry and Devan Dubnyk, another elected to file for salary arbitration. Sam Gagner is one of 15 players to file for arbitration this summer.
Scott Reynolds of Copper and Blue looked at a list of likely comparables for Gagner late last month and suggested that based on the contracts those players received the Oilers really don't have much to worry about:
The median contract is in fact Gagner's last contract, which is a bit amusing, and serves to highlight the ways in which Gagner's performance by the traditional offensive measures has stagnated. It's also fun that he and Jakub Voracek continue to track well with one another as they have ever since they were drafted. But the best thing here for the Oilers is the absence of any truly scary numbers. Granted, Gagner has way more games played than most of these players, but even if he ends up at the high end of this chart (based on established performance), he wouldn't end up grossly overpaid and would likely remain a desirable commodity via trade.
The only players on Reynold's list to receive a contract north of $3.0 million per season were Stephen Weiss ($3.1 million/year on a six-year contract) and Dave Bolland ($3.375 million/year on a five-year deal). Both of those contracts took those players into unrestricted free agency; a one or two-year deal for Gagner wouldn't do that.
I've argued previously that Gagner's next contract would give us a good idea of whether or not the Oilers regarded him as a key part of their future. A short-term deal – especially a deal reached through the combative arbitration process – would be an indicator that the Oilers do not envision him as a long-term part of the plan down the middle.
If the Oilers do see Gagner as part of this rebuild, the best idea is probably to sign him to a longer-term deal before arbitration begins. On a four or five-year deal similar to that signed by Weiss or Bolland, Gagner would be an affordable secondary scoring option over the long haul.
This week by Jonathan Willis
- Tom Renney joins the Detroit Red Wings
- Why not Michal Rozsival?
- Have the Edmonton Oilers done enough?
- Wild sign Parise and Suter - how much better will they be?
- Was Justin Schultz leaving the Ducks unfair?
- Steve Tambellini on the Oilers now and in the future
- Bargain signing: Guillaume Latendresse goes to Ottawa
- Bargain signing: Brad Boyes joins the Islanders
- Darcy Hordichuk re-signs in Edmonton
- Ray Whitney signs with the Dallas Stars: Two years, $9.0 million
- Ryan Smyth re-signs with the Edmonton Oilers
- Free agency: It's a $70 million cap world, now.
- Jay Grossman talks about the Khabibulin contract
- The UFA market for defensemen: it's going to get ugly
- Ralph Krueger: in the driver's seat
I'd love to sit in on that hearing. Sam's value has been hotly debated for years...
Maybe Gags should have Arch sit on his side of the table!
So this is sam saying he thinks hes worth more than anything the oil want to give him? (yet no one else will give up the picks required to snatch his rfa status away from the oil)
Seems a little lame to me but i dont know all the details.
I'm pretty sure I could watch that video a million times and still get pumped. It's a good thing I'm not in charge or I'd give all the money to Gagner.
July 05 2012, 07:22PM
I'm pretty sure I could watch that video a million times and still get pumped. It's a good thing I'm not in charge or I'd give all the money to Gagner.
I still watch it about once a week... that and Crosby's golden goal too...
When Gagner's arbitration decision is announced you cut him loose and sigh Kyle Wellwood for $800K.
No harm, no foul.
July 05 2012, 05:31PM
I still feel Tambo will screw this up somehow.
July 05 2012, 05:40PM
Jonathan, you've been a workhorse this summer. I'm of half a mind to think that "Jonathan Willis" is really a collection of writers.
Good analysis about Gagner's contract.
For the record I'm all for moving Hall to C.
If I recall correctly, wasn't Cogliano the last Oiler to go to arbitration. And he was then traded to Anaheim. Ergo, Sam Gagner will be traded to Anaheim for Bobby Ryan. That sounds perfectly reasonable, doesn't it?
I'm glad Petry and Dubnyk are signed, though I would have liked to see a longer contract for Petry.
As for Gagner, I am not convinced he'll make it to arbitration, I think the two will come to an agreement.
I see Backlund (another '07 draftee) got signed to a one year
I'd second that Mr. Chambers. All of it.
July 05 2012, 06:01PM
Another Dman is coming our way via trade (I hope). Hjalmarsson? Gagner would be the piece to trade.
I'm all for moving Hall to C as well.
July 05 2012, 06:06PM
Hopefully the Right Honourable Mr. Steven Ott is presiding over these Gagne proceedings..
Moving Hall to center would make Ryan Smyth this clubs no.1 left winger *shudders*.....leave the euros to play the right side so they don't sulk. Move Eberle to the middle, unless you feel he's a one trick pony, or just had a career yr so early.
July 05 2012, 06:12PM
My guess is a 3 year 9M deal.
Honestly thought Petry would get more and Dubnyk get a little less. He's slightly below Rask IMO and well below Schneider.
In shock Dubnyk got that much, was thinking $2M per for two years. He hasn't established himself as an NHL starter yet for crying out loud, bad move by management.
July 05 2012, 06:30PM
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July 05 2012, 06:35PM
Even the most optimistic Arbitrator wouldn't have awarded Devan that much. Why offer him that if you're not being held at gunpoint?
I cant believe the name Bryce Salvador has not come up, especially with parise gone, you could throw in konipararsky(big winger), for gags and 2ndpick/potter/etc.,or just sign him and make NJ match?
July 05 2012, 06:55PM
Gags and a 2nd rounder for Salvador and an imaginary player? My gawd I thought Tambi was bad.
That duby signing was horrible. I don't know what they were thinking.
July 05 2012, 07:06PM
I hate it when a player goes to arbitration. Even if they just split the difference with a number both sides can live with it usually ends up ruining the relationship. In order to ensure he is not awarded too much they have to point out all his flaws and explain why he is not worth much right in front of him. It usually ends up in hard feelings.
Unless they super lowballed him and offered the same kind of money as Petry then he should have negotiated the best deal he could and then sign. Typically a player that goes to arbitration will demand as much as they can their entire career and will go to the highes bidder when free agecy comes rather then resign with their club.
I agree with others that were shocked by the numbers. Petry is at worst on our second pairing and led Dmen in points. I figured they would offer him 5 yrs at 3 million per year and get him locked up at a reasonable rate for the future. Dubnyk might turn out to be a stud, but cased on the numbers last year they paid him way more then they needed to. If he only wanted to sign 2 years I would have offered 1.5-2 million and given the option to increase it a little for each extra year. I would have done the 3 million for him if he would sign for 5 years as well. At very worst he has proven to be a very reliable backup.
I do think that with a good D in front of him his stock will soar and we will be paying him 5+million on his next contract
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He's an ahl goalie. Not even good enough to be a backup in the NHL.
3.95x5 years. You buy FA years and make his contract reasonable in terms of value and it does not hamstring us financialy. If we stumble upon a better option at center he moves down a notch to 3rd line and it still not a Horcoff like contract.
July 05 2012, 07:26PM
The Oilers probably paid Petry that specific amount of money because they could. As he gets closer to UFA status, and if he continues to improve, (I'm optimisitc,) then he'll do better. A LOT better.
Curious about DD. On a two year deal they don't appear to be buying any UFA time, but maybe I'm wrong. If I'm not, it's a massive over-pay.
Gagne is a talented guy and he's only going to get better. (After all, he's only 22 or so.) The real question then becomes, "how much better?" If they don't trade him, and in the absence of a better alternative for 2nd line center they probably won't, I'd love to see if there is chemistry between he and the Yak because I think the Yak has a bit of Kane in him.
Guess it'll all turn out in the wash. . .
July 05 2012, 07:44PM
I get that Gagner wants more, we all do; but arbitration is so difficult for the fan base to swallow. Given what Petry an Dubnyk were signed for (seriously wtf would you guys want to sign a starter for? Instead of critisizing the Dubnyk signing why not exalt the Petry rate?) what was the offer for Gagner? Was it realistic?
Gagner has been mentioned in trade rumour orgies like crazy for a while, it's going to go batsh!t crazy now. What purpose does it serve for the player? Does his agent smell a good demand for centres of his ability? I think so.
It seems management will have to make a decision either way on Gagner.....too bad. I think arbitration states his stay was tenuous at best anyway.
July 05 2012, 08:00PM
My god I hope they get him signed. Sweet baby Gagner. The preciousss.
Some nice snippets of Hjalmarsson getting pyloned in that clip.
Given that Dubnyk ended up at $3.5M/year and Petry ended up at $1.75M/year, I have no idea where Gagner will end up.
Filing for arbitration is just a formality at this point. It ensures that he has a contract by training camp.
The options for Gagner's contract are multiple and complicated, which is why it will take some discussion and some time.
Jonathan, you've been a workhorse this summer. I'm of half a mind to think that "Jonathan Willis" is really a collection of writers.
Good analysis about Gagner's contract.
For the record I'm all for moving Hall to C.
Jonathan! Does Wanye have you locked up in his basement forcing you to pump out these articles?!?! Do you need help?!?
Gagner going to arbitration shows he is worried about his future here . If they settle before then Oilers are committed to him , otherwise i believe they are looking to move him .
Dubnyk is our NBR.1 goalie as last season showed us , behind a very porous defence . His contract reflexs that committment . A number one goalie at that $3.5 M is still a bargain , not an overpayment . He should even be better this year with a better defence and offence operating around him .
Question : Some older vets might be of interest short term at low value i believe . Ie: Arnott , Langenbrunner and a couple others - worth persuing ?
Question : Some older vets might be of interest short term at low value i believe . Ie: Arnott , Langenbrunner and a couple others - worth persuing ?
Absolutely . . . but which of Arnott, Langenbruner, or John Madden would best fit with Smitty and the young gunners?
July 05 2012, 09:26PM
So does going to arbitration mean Gagner will not be involved in any possible trades until at least the end of August?
That will greatly reduce the rumour mill!
Oiler Domination to Follow
3 years 9 Million is the perfect deal for both parties, get it done :)
July 05 2012, 11:18PM
When Gagner's arbitration decision is announced you cut him loose and sigh Kyle Wellwood for $800K.
No harm, no foul.
Haha.. I was just going to comment about you using Wellwood as a comparison.
He did have as many points as Gagner did last year. Lock that kid up long term. lol


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Peas are here! I've posted a recipe for Green Pea Pulao at Maine Food & Lifestyle. For this yummy Indian side dish you want English peas—the kind you have to shuck—not sugar snap or snow peas.
Monday, July 13, 2009
Green Pea Pulao Recipe at Maine Food & Lifestyle
Labels: Indian, local, Maine Food and Lifestyle
5 comments:
That looks awesome. I love fresh peas, and the act of shelling is one of my all-time favorite activities. I've got a bag of purple hull peas waiting to be shelled in my fridge. Mmmm! But I need to find some fresh English peas.ReplyDelete
Any kind of peas that require shucking are fine. English peas are what we grow here, but your purple hull peas would also work well. You just want big, fat, round peas, not the little ones that grow in edible pods.
I also find shucking meditative.
That looks delicious and one thing I can sure get hold of easily are English peas!ReplyDelete
Very pretty! Cross-cultural with the English peas! hahaReplyDelete
This dish is right up my alley. Yellow rice with some veggies and you said Indian right.PerfectReplyDelete
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