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SPOKANE, Wash. - Teenage girls often like hanging out with friends, shopping, and getting their hair and make up done.
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And while Alyssa is like any girl her age, she is focused on her future and is planning for a future likely including child care.Alyssa wants to help kids just like her
"I've always been interested in children ever since I was a child."
In high school, last year Alyssa's favorite class was a child development course. This year she's looking forward to advancing that.
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Just as you take steps to protect your personal safety and health while engaging in real-life encounters, a sex worker should also be mindful of the dangers of the online world.
As we wrote in a separate blog post today, the sex worker forum MyRedBook, along with its companion sites, have been seized by the FBI in connection with a criminal indictment. This could potentially mean that sensitive user data is in the hands of law enforcement.
We will be watching the situation closely to see how it develops. In the meantime, we hope that sex workers take advantage of some of the tools other vulnerable communities have used to keep themselves safer from government oppression.
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Last week, an online community for sex workers disappeared from the Internet. Visit SFRedbook.com, MyPinkBook.com, or MyRedBook.com right now, and you'll only find the seals of the law enforcement agencies—the FBI, the DOJ, and the IRS—that seized the sites as part of a prostitution and money laundering investigation.
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Salmon Flies on the Deschutes
Fished last week on central Oregon's Deschutes River for "Redsides", the local strain of rainbow. Late May/June is generally regarded as prime time on this river, since this is the peak of the salmon fly hatch.
As most may be aware, Oregon is experiencing a drought this spring, and consequently, the Deschutes is as low as I've seen it in years.
This didn't interfere with the fishing or boating in the least, but seems to have accelerated the season a bit. Late May is usually early in the hatch, but this year, once we got below North Junction, the numbers of salmon flies declined dramatically, and by the time we reached Dant it was pretty much over. We found good hatches of caddis coming off in the evening and fish we starting to collect in the eddies, so things are really advanced time-wise compared to the last several years.
For those thinking of going to the river, there are still abundant flies and good surface action in the Warm Springs to Trout Creek stretch. From Trout Creek down to Whitehorse and North Junction, things are falling off a bit. Below Dant, use July techniques (fish the eddies with small flies).
Nymph fishing is reliable and productive in the mornings. Soft hackles should start producing well as the caddis hatches build.
Thanks Eric, great report. I ran into three folks on Cape Cod who were headed out to the Deschutes this month, gave them the URL - I hope they read your report.
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Of all of John Irving's books, this is the one that lends itself best to audio. In print, Owen Meany's dialogue is set in capital letters; for this production, Irving himself selected Joe Barrett to deliver Meany's difficult voice as intended.
In the summer of 1953, two 11-year-old boys – best friends – are playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire. One of the boys hits a foul ball that kills the other boy's mother. The boy who hits the ball doesn't believe in accidents; Owen Meany believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul ball is extraordinary and terrifying.
As an added bonus, when you purchase our Audible Modern Vanguard production of John Irvin's book, you'll also get an exclusive Jim Atlas interview that begins when the audiobook ends.
Why we think it's a great listen: For 20 years, John Irving believed that his ambitious novel could never be adequately executed in audio – and then he met narrator Joe Barrett.... In the summer of 1953, two 11-year-old boys - best friends - are playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire. One of the boys hits a foul ball that kills the other boy's mother. The boy who hits the ball doesn't believe in accidents; Owen Meany believes he is God's instrument.
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"John Irving, who writes novels in the unglamorous but effective way Babe Ruth used to hit home runs, deserves a medal not only for writing this book but for the way he has written it. . . . A Prayer for Owen Meany is a rare creation in the somehow exhausted world of late twentieth-century fiction—it is an amazingly brave piece of work . . . so extraordinary, so original, and so enriching. . . . Readers will come to the end feeling sorry to leave [this] richly textured and carefully wrought world." (Stephen King)
"Roomy, intelligent, exhilarating, and darkly comic...Dickensian in scope....Quite stunning and very ambitious." (Los Angeles Times Book Review)
"John Irving is an abundantly and even joyfully talented storyteller." (The New York Times Book Review)
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This book is wonderful. Owen earns a place in my heart for ever. The narration is superb, especially Owen's voice which is something you wouldn't get in print. I strongly recommend this book.
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This has been my favourite book since I first read it years ago. The audiobook has increased my love of this wonderful tragic novel. The narration was nearly perfect. That's only because I can't imagine anyone doing justice to Owen's voice. But this is as close as you can get. Warning - do not listen to the last chapter while driving. I knew the ending and still had to pull over.
"A wealth of characters"
This is a truly great story. Although the plot makes its way down a certain track nothing will prepare you for the revelations that unfold.
"Out-standing novel!"
I listened to this book approximately two years ago ( I have decided to review books since the Aussie site is a little bereft of reviews compared to the USA site which I formerly belonged to) and I have to say that this is my favourite audio book to date. It was highly entertaining and hard to stop listening to.Despite the length, I am going to listen to this again because it made me laugh and it also made me sad in parts and I feel it taught me a lot about life at times.I just loved the narrator's voice also!
"Favourite book, beautiful performance."
I read this book for the first time more than 25 years ago.
All this time later it is still a beautiful story with an ending that makes me cry. The audio book does a wonderful job of bringing the characters to life, even Owen Meaney's ALL CAPS DIALOGUE. Brilliant job by the narrator.
This compelling and moving story of faith, friendship and American politics in the 1950s and 60s kept me intrigued from beginning to end. Each event that occurs is important as the story unfolds, and the clever way everything is ultimately linked makes for a very satisfying conclusion.
Joe Barrett's narration is nothing short of superb. All characters, both male and female, are so well represented, but especially the voice of Owen Meany which I had expected to find irritating, but instead found quite appealing.
It's a long book - 26 hours - but I couldn't stop listening to it. Usually I listen to audiobooks when out on my morning walk, but in the end I sat in a chair and listened for hours, and then was sorry when it ended.
There is a very interesting 25 minute interview with John Irving at the end which throws light on his writing process, and also gives further insight into the two main characters in ways I hadn't considered.
I thoroughly recommend A Prayer For Owen Meany and will definitely be trying other books by John Irving on the strength of this.
"The Best ever audio book"
I have listened to many books in the past but this has to be the best in my estimation. John Irving is a genius and Joe Barrett reads this book to perfection. A totally mesmerising story that has weaved its magic into my soul; I will be thinking about these complex characters for years to come. I will be downloading more of this author and will look for other books by this reader. Thank you John Irving
I listen to a lot of books while i drive my roadtrain in Western Australia, it keeps me going through the long nights. When I got this book I was a little concerned with its length and seemingly lack of interest in the plot etc.. Well all I can say is the narrator was fantastic and the story was great, quite often i wanted to sit in my truck after arriving at my destination after a 12 hour shift to listen to a bit more.
"A Prayer for Owen Meany"
I have always enjoyed John Irving's writing, but I haven't read anything by him in many years. This book did not disappoint.John Irving's has a wonderful skill of turning a phrase and makes the common ideas seem ridiculous and is always questioning convention. Brilliant! Joe Barrett's narration of this book is also brilliant. The range he uses to individualize each character enables the listener to "see" each character individually. I was a little skeptical to buy this book since I love John Irving and I didn't want the narration to "ruin" the story. I am enjoying this production tremendously and will encourage anyone to give it a listen.
"A Modern Classic"
If I could choose one phrase to summarize this masterpiece, I couldn't do better than the title of Jan's review - "Not written - crafted...exquisitely" (nicely said, Jan!). Although APFOM has an interesting plot and a shattering ending, if you read this book just for the story, you will miss the best part; APFOM is truly a modern classic with some of the best and most engaging use of literary devices and provocative thought I've ever seen. To list a few:
1. Enveloping and evocative use of setting - both historical and geographic - to set the tone and pacing
2. Masterful use of the first person form. First person is challenging when you want to portray detail for many characters. A Prayer not only provides detail characterization for a great cast of eccentrics, its primary protagonist is not the POV character. In lesser hands, the reader would not be able to relate to Owen Meany with all his strangeness when portrayed only from the POV of his friend, John Wheelwright, but Irving not only slowly makes you understand Owen, but truly love him.
3. Foreshadowing, allusion, and symbolism so subtle and finely woven into the narrative that you will not realize until the ending that you have been told repeatedly what is going to happen and still the ending is gut-wrenching and shocking and inevitable.
4. Some of the most insightful commentary on religion and faith that I have ever read in fiction. The beautiful, tragic, and repulsive aspects of religion are all woven into this narrative with little jewels of wisdom scattered throughout. One of my favorite quotes, "My belief in God disturbs and unsettles me much more than not believing ever did. Unbelief seems vastly harder to me now than belief does, but belief poses so many unanswerable questions." In the end, A Prayer is a real tribute to active Faith.
I read the book many years ago when it was first published and I think it can be advantageous to see this book in print to understand how Irving wrote it (Owen's dialog is in all caps and Irving often throws a word said in Owen's voice into the middle of John's sentences) so you will appreciate the phenomenal narrative interpretation of the book by Joe Barrett - truly an outstanding performance of a challenging book. I have had a permanent place on my bookshelves for APFOM for years, but not re-read it just because the ending is hard. However, I couldn't resist the audiobook when it was on sale and now I realize I should have picked it up long ago because it is more than worth full price. If you have read the book, I strongly encourage you to listen to the audiobook - you will not be disappointed. And, Irving packs so much beautiful prose and food for thought in this book, it is one that really should be read or heard more than once.
This was one of the best books I have ever listened to. Owen Meany has stolen my heart.
"formidable reading of a memorable book"
The best! If you have or have not read the print version of A Prayer for Owen Meany by all means get this. This reader, Joe Barrett, gives believable life to the characters. ESPECIALLY OWEN'S. This is a bucket list read.
"A wonderful story"
Excellent narration of a difficult subject - how to reproduce "The Voice" of Owen Meany - it could have been irritating but Joe Barrett has succeeded in making it believable.
John Irving has everything in this story - growing up, family life, tragedy, mystery, politics, religion, faith and humour.
I love this book.
"I love the atmosphere and the clever reflections"
When the helplessness of certain characters, the weirdness of Owen, the sad death of a young woman become qualities on which this intricate and incredibly clever story is based, you can only raise your hat. The suspense with which you wait for the end may well keep you up - like me - for hours...
"great book"
I considered reading this book some years ago but couldn't get into the premise of a little leaguer's foul ball killing the mother of his best friend and how it affected their lives. For some reason I was ready for it now. I know John is a great writer and this is a great book. If you grew up in the Vietnam era or are interested in a book with that in the background of two kids growing up in New Hampshire, you'll like this book. It's an intellectual, thought provoking story.
"Favorite book of all time."
John Irving is not for everyone, and if you have not listened to one of books choose this one. If not this one, then Cider House Rules. I have over 500 books in my Audible library and this by far is my favorite. John Irving books are by no means" thrillers", but the characters he creates are memorable, especially Owen Meany. Sad, funny, poignant this book should be on everyone's list of great American fiction. Told during the turbulent 60s the book is set in a small town in NH and follows the life of the main character (narrator) and Owen Meany, who is deformed in body but not in spirit . The ending will bring tears to your eyes:
And they were also lifting up Owen Meany, taking him out of our hands. O God -- please give him back! I shall keep asking You."
"An amazing and memorable book"
I've read two other novels by the author and hoped that this book would be as good. I wasn't disappointed: it's a remarkable creation that will stick in my mind for a long time.
I didn't want it to end. It starts as a story of small town America and then diverges in all directions as the eponymous Owen and his close friend John grow from boyhood to manhood and we get to know their families, foibles and achievements. On the back of their story, populated by many larger than life characters, the author lets his imagination rip as he contemplates questions of morality, religion, politics, loyalty, love, war and patriotism to name but a few of the myriad of topics that enrich this marvellous book that tugs at the emotions but also very funny at times. Owen Meany is an extraordinary creation. Never exceeding 5 feet tall with a voice that has hasn't broken he dominates the book and all around him. The narrator gives him such a memorable voice:, a cross between Twittie Pie and Donald Duck, that makes him endearing but not one to be pitied: he is an heroic character.
The narrator is outstanding and brought the characters to life in this memorable book.
"Just listen - it will captivate you"
Let it just keep going, because the start is a little slow. It's long - and it will be worth every minute of your time.
Beautiful writing, and such expert narration.
Sad and sobering though some of the story is, it's not written in a way that cynically tries to milk the pathos. In fact, most of the sad incidents are dealt with in such a matter-of-fact way, it helps you to deal with it, too. It is also a very funny book, with sly, sideways humour and sometimes some pure slapstick comic passages.
I really did love this boo and was very sad to leave it.
"An Oscar for Joseph Barrett."
Joe Barrett deserves an award for his beautiful reading of this beautiful book. (that's only 13 words)
"A moving masterpiece."
A beautifully crafted, funny, heartbreaking work of genius from a world-class writer at the top of his game, A Prayer for Owen Meany is one of those books that simply defies easy description.
It's about angels. And armadillos. THE VOICE. An armless Indian and an headless Holy Goalie. A lethal baseball, a Christmas pageant baby Jesus, and the precise connection between what the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come saw on a cardboard tombstone and the burned and blistered corpse of a helicopter pilot killed in Vietnam. Through all the quirky characters and masterful plotting, however, at its heart, A Prayer for Owen Meany is about family, friendship, community, and what it really means to be a hero.
Narrator, Joe Barret's, pitch perfect reading captured the spirit and voice of each unforgettable character, including that of Owen Meany, whose screeching, grating, damaged voice is portrayed in the novel in full caps. Somehow Barret accomplishes this feat in such a way that he fully embodies Owen's unforgettable voice, yet is still easy on the ears of audio book listeners.
This Audible version of A Prayer for Owen Meany made me laugh, made me fall in love with Owen Meany and, ultimately, broke my heart. When the book was over, I missed Owen, as if I'd known him.
"Stunningly well written & read"
Not my usual cup of tea, but 'A Prayer for Owen Meany' builds up over the length of the book into a great mix of characters and plots.
Throughout the entire storyline there are beautiful little references to seemingly innocuous past events, with the smallest details weaving such a wonderful picture, leaving the reader (listener) with a clarity of what this world looks like and what the people are like, but still allowing the imagination to form the shapes.
I wished my drive to work was longer so I could have listened to more in one go, and in fact there were occasions that I took a 'long-cut' just to hear a particular story line thread play out!
It is to a budding novelist as a Mozart concerto is to a wannabe musician who has just picked up a tambourine... You think you'd like to try your hand at writing, then you see this and realise what a really good author can produce.
I'm a great fan of the Jason Bourne series, and John Le Carre is by far my favourite author of a book series or genre, but Owen Meany is that exception to the rule. Truly mesmerising.
"This is what audiobooks are for!"
What a treat. It's long but I would have rather it hadn't ended... An immersive experience
"Such an annoying boy - but totally captivating..."
Prepare to be irritated, infuriated and enchanted by Owen Meany in equal measure. This is a book about friendship, love, religion and war - all the big themes - but beautifully woven into a vivid story about a charismatic boy in small town America, spanning the Fifties to the Eighties. Joe Barrett does a marvelous job of narrating this lengthy story, particularly in tackling Owen's screechy voice in an honest and unfliching way.
I recommend you listen to the final chapter, which is an interview with John Irving and an amazing insight into how an author understands his own work.
This a big time investment but probably one of the best you will ever make.
"wonderful wonderful"
I would listen to Owen Meany again and I plan to. I read this book many years ago and was delighted to see it on Audible. To listen to it was so pleasurable and delightful.The narrator is really really good. Now I am looking for everything else he has done!
Owen Meany is the heart of it and the ending is just so surprising, I was on the edge of my seat and so affected for days.
It certainly made me cry.
"Will stay with me forever"
I have not read the print version
The nativity play and the car in the school made me laugh out loud.
The pathos throughout
I was desperately ill in hospital for about 3 months. Every evening I was able to listen to this book and shut out what was going on around me. It kept me sane.
They were all equally brilliant
Read it certainly but Joe Barratt's voice lulled me and enticed me like I was listening to an old friend. A very moving book.
"An excellent book on all levels"
It is well written, the story is very good and, mostly through the character Owen Meany, the book makes lots of important points about the absurdity of many aspects of life. I thoroughly recommend.
Joe Barrett is a good reader too.
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Love this movie! 12/1/2013Brian from St. Petersburg, FL
I am so glad I found this movie on DVD. I know Kenny Rogers is a corny actor in this movie, but the plot is very good and it's a fun story to follow. One of Diane Lane's early movies and a good character for Anthony Michael Hall.
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A 180° panorama from long-ago disused quarry. The centre on the image is looking approximately north, the left being west and the right, east. Views include: Long Lee (in foreground, north) Rombalds Moor / Keighley Gate (in the distance with two transmitters visible, north east) Keighley town centre (north wes...


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By Dennis Seid/NEMS Daily Journal
TUPELO – BancorpSouth looked outside its ranks to name a new chief executive.
James D. "Dan" Rollins III, 53, was named CEO of BancorpSouth on Monday. Since 2006, he had been president and chief operating officer of Prosperity Bancshares. The Houston, Texas-based financial holding company, whose chief subsidiary is Prosperity Bank, has 213 locations across Texas and about $13.9 billion in assets.
Rollins replaces longtime CEO Aubrey Patterson, who earlier this year said he would step down by next April. Patterson has been with BancorpSouth since 1972 and has been chairman and CEO since 1991. Rollins officially begins Wednesday. Patterson will stay on as chairman of the board through April.
Hassell Franklin, who headed the search committee, said Rollins "emerged as the leading candidate."
Global executive search firm Spencer Stuart of Chicago helped conduct the search.
In a statement, Rollins said, "BancorpSouth is a respected financial services company in our industry with a long and distinguished record of service to its shareholders, customers and local communities. Aubrey Patterson's 40-plus years of dedicated service have positioned BancorpSouth well. I am pleased to have this opportunity to follow Mr. Patterson, and to build on such a strong foundation of respect and accomplishment."
Patterson was named BancorpSouth's chairman and CEO in 1991, and has been on the board of directors since 1983. He was president and CEO from 1990 to 1991 and was president and COO from 1983 to 1990. He joined what was then the Bank of Mississippi in 1972.
"My years of service to BancorpSouth have been my life's chosen work," Patterson said. "Moving ahead, I look forward to working with Dan Rollins in a successful and seamless transition. I congratulate Hassell Franklin and the board's search committee on their excellent work in selecting Dan. I believe BancorpSouth's best years are yet to come."
David Zalman, Prosperity's chairman and CEO, said, "On behalf of everyone at Prosperity, we would like to thank Dan for the many contributions he has made to the organization over the years. We are excited for Dan in his new role and we wish him success in his new endeavor."
Rollins earned his Bachelor of Business Administration in finance from the University of Texas in 1983, then began his banking career with First State Bank and Trust Co. in Port Lavaca and Bay City, Texas. In 1984, he joined Prosperity and began his 18-year climb up the corporate ladder.
He was president of Prosperity's Matagorda Banking Centers from 1994 until 2002. Most recently he was president and COO of Prosperity Bank, roles he assumed in April 2006.
Rollins oversaw a rapid expansion at Prosperity. In the past year, it acquired five Texas banks. In July, it closed a $3 billion acquisition of American State Bank in Lubbock.
Some industry observers have suggested Rollins will look to grow BancorpSouth with its own acquisitions.
In a research brief, financial analyst Matt Olney of Stephens Inc., said the hiring of Rollins would remove the possibility, at least in the near-term, of a potential acquisition of BancorpSouth.
"However, given Rollins' background of running one of the leanest banks within the industry, we expect substantial improvements in BancorpSouth's efficiency ratio down to peer levels," Olney wrote.
BancorpSouth has been a client of Stephens, the company disclosed. Olney's compensation will not be related to his views in the research brief, Stephens added.
Olney also said BancorpSouth's earnings per share could approach $1.65 a share and stock could reach $20. BancorpSouth (NYSE: BXS) shares have traded between $8.81 and $15.69 a share during the past 52 weeks. On Monday, it closed at $13.02, down 54 cents, or nearly 4 percent.
Trading volume of the bank's stock was heavy on Monday, with more than 1.5 million shares traded. On average during the past three months, about 494,000 shares of BancorpSouth were traded daily.


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By Parrish Alford/NEMS Daily Journal
OXFORD – It wasn't enough to keep the Ole Miss undefeated in SEC play, but the second-straight strong scoring performance of sophomore guard LaDarius White could be very important for the Rebels moving forward.
White had 17 points in the Rebels' 63-61 win at Auburn Saturday and followed that up with another season-high, leading Ole Miss with 22 points in its first SEC loss of the season.
White was 9-for-16 from the floor, 3-for-3 from 3-point range.
Buckner on the boards
As Ole Miss coach Andy Kennedy has mentioned, more than once, Murphy Holloway as a player of the year candidate, the work Reggie Buckner has done on the boards in SEC play has been overshadowed.
Buckner went into Tuesday game leading the SEC in conference play with 9.7 rebounds a game, slightly ahead of Kentucky freshman Nerlens Noel, who was averaging 9.5 boards against the league and not much farther ahead of Holloway – and Tennessee's Jarnell Stokes – who were both averaging 9.3 in league play.
Head to head to head Tuesday night, Buckner had nine rebounds, Holloway eight and Noel seven.
Player of the game
Noel set a school record with 12 blocked shots.
Next game
The Rebels are on the road at No. 4 Florida for a 6 p.m., tip Saturday night. The Gators are at home tonight against South Carolina.
"He's 17-2. Would you please build the guy a new building? That locker room we're in, I'm like looking for squirrels." – Kentucky coach John Calipari.


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Interview: Steve Vai and Tosin Abasi
Tosin Abasi strides into a Hollywood photo studio dressed in a crisp striped jersey, jeans and a pair of horn-rimmed glasses that make him look a bit like the young Dizzy Gillespie.
He's toting a pair of the Ibanez eight-string guitars that have become his stock in trade, sleek-bodied instruments with broad, massive necks that carry the heft and menace of weaponry.
And indeed Abasi uses these guitars to devastating effect on the two albums he's recorded as the mastermind of Animals as Leaders, post-thrash, prog-metal exponents of a brawny, blindingly virtuosic style of instrumental guitar rock called djent. The genre name is an onomatopoetic nod to the sound of a palm-muted downstroke on ultralow, hyperdistorted guitar strings. And nobody lays that sound down quite like Abasi.
The young guitarist is soft spoken, possessed of an understated cool, a sharp sense of style and a winning smile. And as Tosin gets into makeup for the day's Guitar World cover photo shoot, discretely ditching his horn-rimmed cheaters, Steve Vai appears on the scene. He too is packing a pair of axes: two fine examples of the distinctive JEM guitar that Vai designed for Ibanez way back in the Eighties. One of these is the legendary Evo, the white JEM that has figured prominently on countless Vai recordings and live performances down through the years.
The instrument looks well used, its finish faded and worn away along the sides and sections of the top. The nicks and gashes speak of the long journey Vai has traveled from his initial late-Seventies debut as Frank Zappa's "stunt guitarist" and "little Italian wonder boy" to his present-day stature as one of the most distinctive, innovative and insightful guitarists of the rock era.
Abasi and Vai embrace. It's a torch-passing moment, a meeting of two generations, personified by two guitarists who perhaps best embody the highest musical aspirations of their peers and those who will come after. As a leading light of the Eighties shred phenomenon, Vai raised the bar for rock guitar playing, setting the stage for the prog-metal and djent scenes of more recent years. Vai's pioneering application of the seven-string guitar to rock virtuosity is a clear precursor to the eight-string mayhem of Animals as Leaders and djent-head cohorts like Periphery, Veil of Maya and Textures.
The line of influence is clear, although not always readily apparent to the ear. Relentlessly frenetic and mercilessly overbearing in its harmonic and rhythmic intensity, the music of Animals as Leaders is the perfect soundtrack for our present era of information overload, socio-economic meltdown and cyber anguish. But within this maelstrom, Abasi manages to make his own unique and eloquent statement. For all his stylistic indebtedness to recent metal styles, there are also elements of free-jazz adventurousness in his work, not to mention a sly kinship with electronic genres like drum and bass and dubstep, which share a fondness for ramped-up, wildly skewed rhythms and insanely precise eruptions of terse staccato notes.
In contrast to all this urgent now-ness, Steve Vai has entered what might be termed a phase of mature classicism, at the apex of a career which has spanned everything from hair metal to world music to symphonic composition. His new album, Real Illusions: The Story of Light, is awash in both melodic grandeur and steamy rock riffology, all steeped in a mystical conceptual overlay in the best tradition of classic prog masterworks like Yes' Tales from Topographic Oceans. Vai's command of the fretboard is so thorough and effortless and his melodic sense so finely honed that passages of astounding virtuosity can slip by almost unnoticed—until you pick up a guitar and try to reduplicate even a few bars yourself.
Still, Vai and Abasi are brothers in arms, an elder statesman and a young relatively new hopeful. Although the two have met before, this is the first time they've had the opportunity to sit down and really talk over what they care about most: music and guitars. Their conversation is much like their music, inspired, passionate and full of surprises.
GUITAR WORLD: Perhaps we can compare notes on how and when each of you discovered the other's music.
STEVE VAI: My kids listen to all sorts of music. And I believe I first heard Animals as Leaders coming out my son's room. I said, "Whoa, what's going on there?" I got the record, and the first thing I thought was, This is a new trend in band names. And I really liked it because it was so unconventional—Animals as Leaders. 'Cause there are bands now with names like iwrestledabearonce.
TOSIN ABASI: We played with them. They're crazy.
VAI: But it wasn't just the name Animals as Leaders that I loved. As a musician, I look for certain things that stimulate me. And what I look for is something that's an evolution on a particular genre that I never heard before. And that's what I heard when I listened to Tosin's record. I have a musical mind from all my years with Frank Zappa and stuff. And when I listened to Animals as Leaders, the analytical side of me was really intrigued.
The harmonic structure was very unique, and the rhythmic structure too. But there was something even more there that I connected with on an emotional level. I know as a guitar player that anybody who practices real hard can become a really fast player, so I'm not really impressed by fast players unless they're doing something really beautiful. And I just heard it all in Tosin's music. He was playing melodically beautiful harmonic tapestries that were making me feel a rhythmic juxtaposition that I really enjoy. Sure, it was rooted in that subculture, Meshuggah polymetric stuff that locks together. But a lot of that stuff doesn't work for my ears. In Tosin's case, though, all the elements came together.
ABAS:I Wow.
VAI: Congratulations, and thank you.
ABASI: Thank you. A lot of what you described as far as what you look for in music and what pushes your buttons is totally what drove me to try to create that sound. And as far as evolution, I know what you mean. You don't want to do what everybody else is doing. And I think those artists who inspire a lot of people to copy them were not copying anyone. There are always these individuals who make quantum leaps. They have this impact and everyone wants to catch up…until someone makes another jump. So I've always listened to players who I think were fierce individuals and really concerned with their own trajectory. That was my food. And it's crazy to be able to pull off a kind of music that you've had in your head for a long time.
VAI: It's nice. And like you say, I think that's the driving factor. I don't know if you ever felt this way, but you almost feel like you don't have anything to lose.
ABASI: Yeah, especially in the beginning.
VAI: Especially in the beginning, yes. When I first came out, I was with all these big rock bands [Whitesnake, David Lee Roth] and I enjoyed it, but it was crushing me musically, 'cause I had something in my head that I wanted to do. And when I quit all those rock bands, I basically felt, "Okay, it's all gone. What have you got to lose?" And that's usually what it takes for you to look into yourself and find what it is you really want to express.
ABASI: I first got into guitar during the whole alternative music craze [of the Nineties], so I was just doing barre chords. I could play every song I knew just by moving a barre chord around. But my older brother started getting into more serious players, and that's how I discovered instrumental guitar rock. And Vai and Joe Satriani were just already all over anything that I was into. If I got an issue of Guitar World, I was just like, What is this stuff? So I bought Passion and Warfare on a cassette tape. There were moments when I wasn't sure if I was listening to a synth or a guitar—just these striking musical moments in it. It really changed my idea of what you could do with a guitar. From then on, I started practicing way more and learning more about these players. That began me on this journey to whatever it is I sound like now.


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Deeplinks Blog posts about CALEA
On May 5, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments in a suit brought by EFF and a coalition of public interest, industry, and academic groups challenging the FCC's unjustified expansion of the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA). By forcing broadband Internet and interconnected voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services to become wiretap-friendly, the FCC ignored CALEA's plain language and threatened privacy, security, and innovation.
Senator Patrick Leahy, the chief sponsor of the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act CALEA), had a few strong words for the FCC ruling that would expand the CALEA to broadband ISPs and VoIP providers. In a statement Leahy writes "The expansion of the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) to the Internet is troubling, and it is not what Congress intended." He goes on to warn that "...stretching this law without changing it, and without properly examining the implications of doing that, invites a basketful of potential new problems." Leahy further explains:
The FCC's new tech mandate requiring Internet backdoors exceeds the FCC's authority, is arbitrary, capricious, unsupported by the evidence, and is contrary to law, and EFF and six other groups have teamed up to stop it.
The coalition has petitioned an appeals court to review the FCC ruling that would expand the Communications Assistance to Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) to broadband ISPs and VoIP providers, forcing them to build insecure backdoors into their networks. Law enforcement says it needs the backdoors because, they argue, it's just too hard for them to intercept all the communications that they need. But that kind of easy access will also endanger the privacy of innocent people, stifle innovation, and risk the Internet as a forum for free and open expression.
The FCC is set to expand CALEA and force VoIP and broadband providers to make their networks wiretap-"friendly." Along with curbing technological innovation and passing along the costs to service providers and their customers, this casual expansion of surveillance powers poses a substantial privacy threat. If we want to see where the slippery slope leads, we need look no further than Italy.
According to a recent LA Times story, wiretaps in Italy are so easy to do that they're used routinely to snoop on millions of innocent people:
"Surreptitious listening is now so common in Italy that people with little or no connection to criminal cases have found themselves recorded and their private utterings made public in newspapers....
Time recently published a very brief -- even glib -- article [subscription required] on the FBI's push to expand the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) to some Internet communications. The article is remarkably uncritical of law enforcement's claims, so we wrote a letter to the editor to give readers the whole story:
Your account of FBI efforts to embed wiretapping into the design of new Internet communication technologies ("Psst! The FBI is Having Trouble on the Line," Notebook, August 15) is in error.
You claim that police "can't tap into [Internet] conversations or identify the location of callers, even with court orders."
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Should the Immigration Laws Be Changed
Original post made by stephen levy, University South, on Apr 6, 2007
The broader question about unauthorized immigrants is whether people like them are a benefit to the economy and to the country. Congress is debating whether to change the laws.
I favor having an earned path to legal status for most current unauthorized immigrants and changing the law to provide legal channels for low-wage workers to enter the country to meet needs in our economy.
What do others think?
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a resident of Monroe Park
on Apr 6, 2007 at 8:08 am
We do have law like that. These come in different forms. In Texas when we need extra help in the farms the farmers are allowed to get help from across the border for un-skilled labor.
For skilled labor we have H1 visas.
The problem arises when we try to enforce our own laws.
a resident of Meadow Park
on Apr 6, 2007 at 8:10 am
Every generation has its new immigrants who take the unappealing jobs at preposterously low wages. This generation is no different. One motivation to keep the laws the way they are is to oppress illegal immigrants through fear of deportation into accepting low wages and dangerous working conditions. I don't happen to share that motivation. The reality, IMHO, is that there is not a huge groudnswell of legal immigrants who would take up the jobs that would need to be done if the illegal community were all deported. Why? Because if you are legal you can demand to be paid minimum wage, at least. And many of those jobs are under the radar.
a resident of Midtown
on Apr 6, 2007 at 8:39 pm
Congress should sit down and write a law that is enforcable and include severe penalties for any company, church , city or state that conspires to violate the law. Congress should not go home until they have that law.
a resident of another community
on Apr 7, 2007 at 2:15 pm
What part of "Illegal" is it hard to understand? Do we start picking which of our laws to enforce then? Sould we stop making stealing a crime then? We need a guest worker program but one started in a persons own country, and not after they come here illegally? Why have all this airport security when our back door, our southern border is left wide open? Deport those here illegally no matter what the number of millions and put some penalty behind coming here illegally, like time in a detention center. And the Southwest, including California does not belong to Mexico as many of the signs carried by "Illegal Immigrants" in my town of Ukiah said when they had their boycott march last May 1, in their attempts to justify their being here in an undocumented status.
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TUPELO – For decades considered the wrong side of the tracks by many people in the city, east Tupelo now has two men working hard in the quest to represent it for the next four years.
Registered voters of Ward 5 have a choice between Jonny Davis, 48, an incumbent who has worked hard to connect the eastern part of the city to the rest of Tupelo, and Buddy Palmer, 72, a retired grocer whose property has been annexed by the city twice.
The part-time city council position pays $16,932 annually and works with the six other council representatives to set public policy for Tupelo. Included in the position is approving or rejecting many members recommended by the mayor to boards and commissions.
Davis and Palmer both say they are best qualified to represent the area that covers most of east Tupelo, once a stand-alone municipality, along with newly annexed areas north of Highway 78 such as Deer Park and Indian Hills. The city ward includes Veterans Park and an Itawamba Community College campus.
Both men have been involved in the community in different ways through their adult lives. Davis and his wife, Sherry, a biology instructor at ICC, have focused on helping improve public schools through the years by serving in leadership roles in parents organizations. Palmer has coached youth football and baseball and served on a handful of city boards, including the planning committee and parks and recreation board.
Inside Johnnie's Drive In near East Main Street recently, Davis explained the value of the Major Thoroughfare Program construction project that's arrived to the roadway. He said it is much more than a taxpayer-funded project that will ease traffic congestion in the area and include biking and walking paths connecting downtown the Elvis Presley's birthplace. With a history of feeling slighted by leaders in City Hall, Davis sees it as a symbolic connection between the east side of the city and the rest of Tupelo.
"We're all in the same boat rowing in the same direction," he said. "If we don't row together, we'll all sink."
The project is funded through a combination of city and federal funding.
Also with the current City Council, $12 million was allocated to build a new aquatic center at Veterans Park, a facility currently located at Rob Leake City Park in Ward 2, an addition to east Tupelo that both Palmer and Davis support.
Receiving the most new residents from the recent annexation, many people in the area want to feel confident the city will provide full public services in a timely matter. As part of the annexation plan, the city of Tupelo allocated more than $21 million for water, sewer and other related annexation costs.
Living in an area recently annexed, Palmer said he's the natural candidate for annexed residents to support, suggesting that many residents opposed to the annexation originally wouldn't support the incumbent.
"To annexed people, annexation happened during his term," Palmer said. "I think it would be good to have a representative who lived in that annexed area."
While the state Supreme Court sided with the city of Tupelo in 2012 in the court case with Lee County, city officials filed petitions to annex 16 square miles in 2008, before Davis began serving on the council.
Discussing annexation, Davis said his opponent seems to mislead and has the wrong approach.
"One difference between my opponent and me, I feel like I'm speaking to unify and my opponent is speaking to divide," Davis said. "We're not going to stand on the sidelines with city services. I want it done immediately."
Another difference between the men is Palmer said he wouldn't have publicly issued a statement for the previous Tupelo Public School District superintendent, Randy Shaver, to resign. Members of the city council, including Davis, called for him to step down, and he followed their advice and resigned in April 2011.
Davis said he stands behind his decision to call for new leadership, along with all other decisions he has made as councilman.
"I can justify why I have voted the way I have for the last four years," he said. "I have never voted against my conscience or constituents."
For Palmer, he said his many years running the grocery store, Palmer's Big Star Supermarket, taught him how to work with others and solve problems.
"In the grocery business, you have to be a diplomat," he said.
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Age: 48
Family: Married with two sons, one granddaughter
Education: Tupelo High School, Itawamba Community College, University of Mississippi
Occupation: Private property management
Community Service: Current Tupelo City councilman, Ward 5; Major Thoroughfare Committee; Commercial/Residential License Commission; Veterans Park F-105 Thunderchief Jet Project Committee; Association for Excellence in Education, president; Presley Heights Neighborhood Association, president; Lawhon Elementary School PTO, president; TPSD Parent Council, president; Lawhon Elementary School Long Range Planning Committee, chairman; TPSD School Redistricting Committee, chairman; founding member, the Parents Campaign; volunteer: Regional Rehab, Boy Scouts; Helping Hands Food Pantry; First United Methodist Church Children's Ministry; NRA charter member Golden Eagles; Who's Who Worldwide Business Leadership member
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Age: 72
Family: Married with two sons
Education: Tupelo High School; Mississippi State University, marketing degree
Occupation: Retired small business owner, Palmer's Supermarket
Community activities: Coached Tupelo Parks & Rec football for 10 years (Lawhon Colts); sponsored Tupelo P&R baseball teams (Palmer's Supermarket); served on boards/committees: Tupelo Parks & Rec, Planning Committee, Museum Board, Affordable Housing; member, Presley Heights Neighborhood Association
Ward 5 Q&A
1. What relevant experience and personal qualifications would you bring to the Tupelo City Council?
I am the best-qualified candidate, serving as the current Ward 5 city councilman and working for more than two decades volunteering on city committees and in the local schools. My experience and knowledge gives me a unique ability to continue progress in Presley Heights. My established relationship with Council members, department heads and employees offers the citizens of Ward 5 proven leadership to continue working hard for them every day. I worked to bring a balanced budget, higher quality of life, more projects and improvements, improved city services and the new Aquatic Center to our ward with no tax increases.
As a small business owner, I know how to work with people and realize the importance of staying within your budgetary limits. I will offer a unique perspective to the council, as I have lived in the city of Tupelo for most of my life, a resident of Ward 5 for more than 40 years and a resident of the newly annexed area for nine years.
2. Name the top three goals/projects that you will pursue if elected.
Continue my work to improve neighborhoods in our ward and the city through better streets, drainage and services available to citizens.
Continue my work to increase tourism in our ward and the city through improvements at the Elvis Presley Birthplace, Coliseum, Civil War and Native American sites, festivals and the new Aquatic Center at Veterans Park.
Continue my work recruiting businesses to our ward and the city.
Working on these three key areas will keep taxes low, quality of life high, and increase Tupelo's presence as the premier destination to live, work, play and raise a family, while remaining the industrial and retail center of north Mississippi.
My No. 1 goal is to learn all I can about city government, and I am looking forward to this opportunity.
Another goal would be to work with the new mayor and council to make the very best decisions for all residents of Tupelo and to keep Tupelo's "All-American City" tradition alive and well.
A third goal would be to work hard to ensure a smooth transition for our newly annexed citizens and that city services are provided them in a timely and informed manner.
3. The 2010 Census showed stalled population growth and median income in Tupelo compared with northern suburbs. How should city government help retain and recruit middle-class residents?
City government can retain and recruit residents by working directly with the private sector and being present and active in supporting this partnership. Many years of apathy and noncommitment from city government placed Tupelo in a difficult position. This apathy led to declining neighborhoods, underperforming schools, deteriorating roads, and lack of new and improved infrastructure, causing citizens to relocate. This relocation also caused an imbalance in housing rental property, further straining neighborhood integrity and causing declining home values. I have been steadfast in working/voting to correct this decline, bringing unprecedented improvements and projects to our ward without any tax increases.
There is no easy answer for this, but we must continue to provide our city with the following:
• Superior schools with adequate discipline policies in place.
• Low crime rate.
• Affordable housing.
• A clean and beautiful city.
• Great parks.
• Job opportunities.
• City needs to be fiscally responsible.
• Provide citizens with first-class services.
• Reasonable codes and ordinances that are enforced.
The city must address these and many other areas to attract and keep new residents.
4. Tupelo has begun taxpayer-funded neighborhood redevelopment initiatives. Do you support continued action and expansion of these projects?
I will continue to support public/private partnerships to improve Tupelo's neighborhoods and property values, while attempting to decrease our overspent rental property percentage. A strong city requires every stakeholder, every tool, and every effort to maintain and improve the foundation of that city. No one piece of this corrective puzzle can afford to sit on the sideline and wait for someone else to fix the problem.
I bring the leadership skills, qualifications, experience, and willingness to continue the unprecedented growth in our ward. I will continue to work hard and fight hard for east Tupelo as your re-elected city councilman.
I will support re-development initiatives in "all" neighborhoods in Tupelo, when it pertains to providing better city services in that area (streets, sidewalks, lighting, enforcement of codes, etc.) that fall within the city's budgetary limits. I will need more knowledge on "taxpayer funding" before I can make a further statement of support.


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Posted November 6, 2000; 06:13 p.m.
John P. Sarbanes, special assistant for the Baltimore City-State Education Reform Partnership and partner in the law firm of Venable, Baejter, Howard and Civiletti, will deliver the lecture "Where Have All the Teachers Gone?: A View from Ground Zero of the Service Economy" on Wednesday, November 8 at 4:30 p.m. in Bowl 1, Robertson Hall at the University.
A partner in the health care group at Venable, a multi-disciplinary corporate law firm with offices in Maryland, Washington, D.C., and Virginia, Sarbanes received an A.B. from Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in 1984. At Venable, Sarbanes advises hospitals, managed care organizations, and other institutional health care providers, targeting issues concerning care for the elderly. Since 1998, Sarbanes has reduced his workload at Venable to serve on a part-time basis as a special assistant for Maryland's state superintendent of schools, focusing on the Baltimore city school reform effort.
This lecture is cosponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Program in Law and Public Affairs . It is free and open to the public.
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Boulder Cycle Sport would like to invite you on a group ride leaving our North location at 10:30am Saturday October 19th. The ride will end at the Cyclist for Jamestown fundraiser, located at the Beech Aircraft building by the McGuckins Warehouse, out on hwy 36 & Neva Road. This is a one day event where you can come and meet leaders of our cycling community including some pro road and mountain bike racers, make a donation forJamestown, and also buy some cool stuff in the silent auction. There will be food, coffee, and beer. Probably music, too! –
The ride will be an approximately 40 mile route out through Hygiene, to Rabbit Mountain, and ending at the event. We invite ALL our fellow cyclist, of ANY ability, to join us. The weather is supposed to be in the high 50's and sunny on Saturday, so please dress appropriately.
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Comment Re:the one answer they won't find acceptable (Score 1) 62
I want to keep my devices secure. This means: Let me control them.
DRM / Remote Control are hard to defend, but *I* don't want to manage the milk carton chip which tells the refrigerator it's empty. I could manage it, being a technical person, but the majority of people don't even have that option.
So what are we going to do?
Don't require them to phone home, or to be connected beyond my local network if I don't want.
The milk carton will be restricted to talking to the refrigerator, but *I* don't want to manage a refrigerator. You want "things" to only talk locally and any external communication to go through a server you manage? That sounds reasonable at first, but it's not more secure: a milk carton with an encrypted/steno-graphed/timed communication is not something people can fight against. That milk carton is not going to be open or have an API, it'll be opaque hardware that's constantly changing. I can hear the corporate excuses already: "Some of the older cartons had an error that leaked info, but they'll be gone in two weeks."
Unless I control what software is run, and what it talks to, then there can be no security for my "internet of things".
Is there "no security" for you're Banks network? Security doesn't mean control.


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We just released our Second Candidate Release of Redfoot. We look to be in good shape for hitting our big 1.0 release on our one year SourceForge anniversary the 7th of September.
Released Redfoot 0.9.5 on our quest towards Redfoot 1.0
Applications can now be build on top of a RedServer by writing a handler class (called UI) and "two lines of Python".
It sure would be nice to get certified so that I can list myself as co-developer of Redfoot.
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
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Communiversity festival, April 15
Posted April 12, 2000; 12:31 a.m.
Communiversity, the annual spring celebration of the arts, will be held in the streets of downtown Princeton, Saturday, April 15 between noon and 4 p.m. This year's events include performances by student groups, displays by organizations such as The Princeton University International Center, a "Walk Through Time" presented by Princeton Environmental Action and many children's activities. In case of rain, the festivities will be moved to alternative locations. For more information, contact co-chairs Andrew Shtulman '01 (258-8195) or Ayse Tanyeri '02 (258-9396).


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Thread: Flathead Catfish advice?
Originally Posted by isaactifist
A. How about NOT returning any of the nastys [viral, bacterial or fungal] that are in the tank to the wild with the fish.
B. It may or may not be legal to take them in the first place and the same goes for re-releasing them.
Yes Willie, Apparently you do need to write it up.
Gas mileage isn't everything OIIIIIIIO
Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.
Why pretend there are no stupid questions? Actually, There are many stupid questions: "Should I drink this bleach?" Is just one example.
Having said that, Just because it's a stupid question doesn't mean that it shouldn't be asked. It's better to know.
A warm beer is better than a cold beer. Because nothing is better than a cold beer, and a warm beer is better than nothing.
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No sure about the pond bit. Koi and gold fish depending how big they are may try to eat the catfish depending if they can get it in to it's mouth without the spikes Harming it.
The only thing plants help with is removing nitrates from the water. Keep doing what you are soun and do plenty of water changes. There are additives you can put in the tank to help it cycle and yes the ones I use do work. The most common one is tetras safe start. The other Is Fritz Zyme 700. It's roughly $25 for a 4oz bottle. Pricey but worth it.
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post a pic?RIP Shark Bait, my Red Tail Shark :(
my other hobby is fishing,do you know how big flatties get, i catch them around 40 lbs all the time... they will take down a 2 foot koi, turtles, frogs, snakes.. it will be the only thing in the pond before it is over... trust me
ps flatties get BIG if they can get to 70 + on there own in the wild, it will be huge in a non-threatened pond...
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Do not lesson to them when it comes to releasing. It was probably illegal anyway to keep a wild catfish for a tank unless you have a DNR fishing lisence.
There's far worse woes in nature right now then ANYTHING you could possibly put into the "wild" from a wild caught fish (just be sure to return where you found it) Asian carp for example are invading the great lakes.. Flat heads are native fish.
its better to release your fish. You obviously cannot care for such a large catfish, I'm asumming you don't want to or cannot shell out the millions of dollars it would take to have a tank big enough. and I think its best for everyone involved if the fish is either killed or more mericfly released. The river/creek has everything the catfish needs, millions of gallons of water, live food,ect,ect and if it gets eaten that's nature
You've already broke the law once ( assuming you do not have a Lisence) anyway.
As people have told you this isn't a fish to be kept in aquariums. They are better off in the wild.


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Hook: size 4 salmon/steelhead
Tag: Oval silver tinsel and yellow silk floss
Tail: Tip of orange chinese rooster hackle
Butt: Peacock herl
Body: Black floss
Rib: Oval gold tinsel
Hackle: Orange chinese rooster hackle at second rib
Throat: Blue guinea
Wing: Moose body hair
Tying Instructions:
1. Lay down a layer of thread all the way back to directly above the barb of the hook. Tie in the silver tinsel, make 2 turns around the hook moving forward, and tie it off.
2. Tie in the yellow silk directly after tinsel. Begin wrapping up the hook and stop directly over the point of the hook. Tie it off and trim.
3. Snip off a little of the rooster hackle tip, and tie it in directly over the point of the hook. Put the rest of the hackle away for later.
4. The tail should stop just short of being directly over the bend in the hook. You can put golden pheasant crest in too if you want to be fancy.
5. Tie in a peacock herl, and a strip of gold tinsel at the same time. The peacock should be dangling off the back of the hook, and the tinsel should be draped over the hook towards the eye. Make a few wraps of peacock herl, until you're happy and then tie it off and trim.
6. Pull the gold tinsel out of the way and then start making nice wraps towards the center of the hook.
7. Tie in the hackle that you clipped the tip off for use in the tail. You're going to want it to fall about where you think the second wrap of gold tinsel will be. A wrap or two back from the middle is usually right on.
8. Continue wrapping the black thread forward until you get close to the head. Leave more room for the head than you would with featherwing.
9. Wrap the gold tinsel forward, careful to pick out any orange hackle fibers that might get caught. Tie it off and trim when you meet up with your bobbin.
10. Fold the orange hackle back and start palmering around the hook, more or less following your tinsel. When you get close to the head, I like to add a few extra turns for more body. Force the fibers to lay back and not get caught under each other. Tie off and trim.
11. Hold the blue guinea feather at the tip and stroke downwards to separate the fibers. Lay it on the hook, tie it in and trim the tip. Make a few wraps directly in front of the orange hackle, pulling each wrap back so it doesn't get funky (technical term). After you're satisfied, tie it off and trim.
12. Lay down a few turns of thread between the hackle and the eye, covering up any hackle butts or other sins.
13. Grab a chunk of moose hair, cut it out, stack it, and then pick out the just fibers. [Note: Some of these flies were tied between sessions of tying elk hair caddis, so if some look like Don King, I apologize] The tip of the moose should align with the tip of the tail. Tie it in, trim it away from the eye, build a nice head on the fly.
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Toronto's anonymous group of activists known as the Urban Repair Squad are no stranger to Harbord Street. They've installed bike boxes, comically expressed the sensations of cycling along the street pre-repairs and now they're questioning why, with fresh pavement laid, the Harbord bike lanes do not extend between Bathurst and Spadina.
City Councilor Adam Vaughan has answered this question time and time again, stating that he believes that street parking is essential along this strip. Funny, because Joe Pantalone didn't seem to have any issue with having less street parking on Harbord between Ossington and Bathurst that I know of. Sure, there are less businesses there, but considering that Harbord connects many U of T students and many downtown workers with their homes in the West end, this disconnect endangers many for the benefit of so very few.


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The itinerary takes into account a group with a number of wheelchair users, factoring in the time needed to get on and off the bus and negotiate each site.
Visit the landmarks around the northwestern Sea of Galilee, including:
Capernaum - Known as "Jesus' Town" in the New Testament, Capernaum on the Sea of Galilee is home to one of the earliest churches in the world as well as a monumental ancient synagogue. This was also Peter's home town where Jesus performed many miracles.
Tabha- Jesus' miracle of the Multiplication of the Fish and Loaves is illustrated beautifully in an ancient mosaic of the Byzantine church that stood here. Visit the renovated Benedictine church, built in the same style and along the same lines as the original one.
The Mount of Beatitudes - Enjoy an inspiring view of the Sea of Galilee from the top of the mountain where tradition says Jesus preached the Sermon on the Mount.
The Yigal Alon Museum at Kibbutz Ginosar - This is a unique institution, focusing on the human experience in the Galilee in the past, present and future. It is also home to changing exhibits showcasing the finest talents of Galilee artists from a variety of faiths and ethnic backgrounds, and the magnificent display of the Galilee Boat, dating from the time of Jesus, discovered mired in the mud on the shore of the Sea of Galilee.
Stroll through the archaeological park in the midst of downtown Tiberias, with its remains dating from numerous period's in the town's long history.
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brand new Album "Kälte" finished
I would likely present the new Album "Kälte" from my Band Cryo Tekk on lastfm.
We are all happy to have this album finished after two years. You can listen to our album for free on lastfm.
We are also happy that we are on the "Industrial Underground Sampler number one" from Quickstar Productions. Hopefully this takes us all a step forward.
It would be nice if someone leaves a shout on lastfm.Eingetragen unter:Cryo Tekk Tagged: album, Cryo Tekk, Kälte, music, new