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I picked up the 6" Young Justice Artemis and Robin figures over the weekend and was able to use the $5 off DC 6" figures coupon from SDCC on them.
My Artemis' upper arms are extremely warped from how they packaged her drawing her bow.
I picked up the 6" Young Justice Artemis and Robin figures over the weekend and was able to use the $5 off DC 6" figures coupon from SDCC on them.
My Artemis' upper arms are extremely warped from how they packaged her drawing her bow.
Young Justice Robin's lack of neck is keeping me from biting on that line. Might collect the smaller figures, though, since I'm thinking the Hall of Justice backdrop might look pretty awesome behind me DCUC figures.
Oh, Also...I broke down and purchased the first series of Young Justice 4" figures a while back when TRU had their Buy-one-get-one sale, and I have to say that I'm actually kind of impressed with them! I'd mainly wanted the Hall of Justice dio, but the figures, though lacking in articulation, are actually of quite high quality! I'm thinking they'll look fantastic as a group once the lineup is complete, and I am surely planning on collecting the entire line now.
Wow, that is the stupidest thing I've ever seen. That probably cost MORE than the 5-pack, not counting the time and effort put into doing it. All to fool a minimum-wager who couldn't have cared less.
Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
Kylo Ren - came from Space Brooklyn, although he moved to Space Williamsburg before it was trendy.
The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.
I found and bought the 6" Young Justice Aqualad at Target today.
Other DC figures I've bought recently are the Movie Masters Harvey Dent for $5.99 at Ross, the JLU Adam Strange/Starman/Animal Man and Golden Age Flash/GL/Hawkman packs from Mattycollector, Batman Legacy Batgirl from TRU.
I've already got all of Young Justice 4" series 2. I still think the lack of articulation sucks, but I actually really like them and the Hall of Justice dio is great! It's a lot bigger than I'd imagined, and I can't wait to complete it! I'm actually planning on using it to display my Eaglemoss DC lead figures collection on.
In time for the new movie, Mattel has released some of the previous wave of "Batman" 1:42 die-cast line of batmobiles, now with a new boring-as-hell packaging of a brown rockface with the source's logo and title (in this case the Batman Returns white logo and hollow lettering) and the name of the car in small letters. It's like they're TRYING to fail, pricing these at $8 and giving them the worst possible packaging.
Anyway, I passed up the Penguin's duck car thing, the Adam West Batmobile (how many of these do we need?!?) and the Adam West Batcopter (it looks too small and thin and plasticky for the price, also it's never been my thing, not one of the more interesting parts of the '66 Batman film), picking up only the Armored Keaton Batmobile.
So, I hadn't realized there were differences between the '89 and Batman Returns armor, but there are, and this definitely the latter; the shield is flat at the top in the first film, the second it is lower until it runs into the air intake; also, the "mass murderer" wheel bombs are smaller in the second film. That said, Mattel took a few liberties with both those changes, making the wheel hubs tiny and the intake hump very tall; they also stretched the whole thing, especially the rear end which seems too long.
I also hadn't realized that Mattel wasn't just including a removable shell, this is a nigh-solid chunk of Zamac with its own wheels and a faux batmobile closed cockpit in plastic within a small sliding portion of the shell. It's an interesting idea, and gives it a real feel of being its own toy. It also makes it possible for kids who aren't familiar with the Keaton films to just imagine it's a whole armored Batmobile rather than an armored shell, and I don't mind that.
The whole thing is cast in Zamac, painted black, and given weathered dark gray brushing to give it more of a realistic look, despite the movie version being clean. The underside has a new sculpt, and at the middle and rear end hints at the car that would be underneath, were there one. The main sculpt has the smaller panels and the swirled wheel covers from the film, and even the notes they didn't get 100% accurate are suggestive enough to give a pass.
The real gimmick here though is the 3 largest armadillo-like panels make up a separate piece (the only plastic on the exterior proper, and fairly well-matched to the metal) which slides forward about half an inch to expose a black plastic version of the Keatonmobile within. The good aspect is that they did a competent job sculpting and expressing that section of the car, they even sculpted the part of the hood with the vents just ahead of the cockpit despite it not easily being visible under the slid-forward shell. The only drawback, aside from wanting the whole car to come out from under there, is that the car facade is VERY low to allow clearance of the shell, it causes the permanent hump to be quite thick. Sliding the panels backwards does remind me of the first movie quite a bit, but I thought the second movie had them fold out from under the sides - I could be thinking of the lower portion only though.
The tires look just right from beneath, the rear ones are a fantastic thickness, and there is sculpted detail in the wheel hubs even, I'm not sure if they simply used the ones from the keatonmobile but they did a good job either way. The armored car sits very low to the ground, yet has enough ground clearance to roll freely, which makes it more fun than just being a static pillbug.
At first, I was annoyed that there wasn't a repeat of their Keatonmobile underneath, I love that car; it also bugged me that there was only a single gimmick. But out of the package and in-hand, the gimmick is fun and expresses the core concept of the expanding shield fairly well, while also leaving the car a fun Batmobile toy for someone not familiar with the car itself - it says "Armored Batmobile" and that's exactly what it could be even if you didn't know it was meant to be a shell. Is it a good value? Not really, but it's not as bad as it seemed, it's nearly all metal, it has a decent film-accurate sculpt for the most part, it rolls freely with lovely tires, and the gimmick ain't so bad, so it's not a total ripoff nor a cash-grab. It's too bad that the packaging is such junk.
Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
Kylo Ren - came from Space Brooklyn, although he moved to Space Williamsburg before it was trendy.
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Krista Tippett, host of American Public Media's nationally syndicated radio program "Speaking of Faith," will read from her work and join Princeton scholars in a roundtable discussion at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 5, in McCosh 50.
After reading from her book, also titled "Speaking of Faith," Tippett will participate in a panel with Leigh Schmidt and Judith Weisenfeld, professors of religion, and Matthew Hedstrom, a postdoctoral researcher in the Center for the Study of Religion. The discussion will be moderated by Carolyn Rouse, associate professor of anthropology and African American studies.
A journalist and former diplomat, Tippett founded the "Speaking of Faith" radio program in 2000 to examine the religious impulses characterizing human life in a manner that avoids the often contentious debate between the religious and the secular. She was a reporter for The New York Times, Newsweek, the BBC and other international news organizations in Berlin in the 1980s and later served as special assistant to the U.S. ambassador to the former West Germany.
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I have been reading a few Computer-Human Interface books by Bruce Tognazzini and Jef Raskin. I want to learn how to make good user interfaces.
An intersting idea came to me after reading about Fitt's Law. Fitt's Law helps to quantify the time that it takes to target an object on the screen with a mouse. Basically, it will be easier and faster to hit the object if the object is large and close to the current mouse position. Both Raskin and Tognazzini site the example of the Macintosh menu bar which is located at the top of the screen. It is faster to use since the mouse stops at the top of the screen, making its effective size is much larger.
I've been trying think of ways to exploit this property further. Many unix desktops have virtual screens. Often you can switch virtual screens by simply moving off the edge of the screen. I have found this a little disconcerting. Often the scrollbar is right on the edge of the screen - if you don't take car you can miss the scrollbar and end up on a different virtual screen. Some window managers fix this problem by employing "friction". If you move the mouse off the edge of the screen the virtual screen does not change straight away, but if you keep it off the screen for a configurable time the virtual screen will change to the next one.
I thought about the way the mouse operates. Move the mouse to the point corresponding to 0,0 on your mouse pad and the mouse cursor will move to the point 0,0 on the screen. You can effectively scale the distance you move the mouse on the mouse pad to the distance it moves on screen by modifying the speed of the mouse. The fast the mouse the smaller the distance you need to move the mouse to move the pointer the same distance on screen.
Some games make it easier to target an object by giving the objects "gravity". If you move the mouse close to an object the game will move the pointer so that it targets the object.
Many desktops give the objects on the desktop a 3D look. Perhaps this look could be exploited in combination with Fitt's Law. Instead of treating the desktop as a flat plain think of it as populated with ridges and bumps and plateaus. The mouse should move the pointer fastest over flat surfaces. Moveing over a slope will cause the pointer to move slower, it has to move further after all. Consider moving the mouse out of an application window. It will take a few more rolls of the mouse to move the pointer over the edge of the window. I think this sort of idea has been tried out with "force feedback mice" but I have never used one so I'm not sure how effective it is.


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In front of a sold-out crowd of 7,027, the Spokane Indians used an offensive eruption in the bottom half of the seventh inning to earn a 10-3 victory - the team's fifth in as many days - over the Eugene Emeralds on 4th of July Fireworks Night presented by NAPA Auto Parts, KISS 98.1, 590 KQNT and The Inlander.
With the Indians down 3-2, Spokane came out in the seventh inning and loaded the bases with one out. After two walks and a sac fly that plated two runs, Janluis Castro and Cam Schiller hit back-to-back singles to give Spokane a commanding 8-3 lead.
Spokane collected 10 hits on the night, including three by catcher Kevin Torres who pushed his batting average up to .280. Christopher Garia continued his hitting tear as well, belting a double in one of his two hits. Barrett Serrato and Alberto Truinfel had three and two RBI, respectively.
RHP Sam Wolff (1-0) earned his first win of the season as he tossed 2 scoreless innings. Wolff is the only Spokane pitcher who has yet to allow a run this season.
Indians starting pitcher Kelvin Vasquez started off strong, keeping any Emeralds from scoring in the first two innings. But his luck changed in the third as he allowed one run after Trae Santos hit a single to left field. He allowed two more runs, leaving after four innings, and was relieved by RHP Abel De Los Santos.
The Indians' defense was strong as well on Independence Day, as Torres showed strength behind the plate, throwing out three runners attempting to steal second base. Spokane also committed no team errors.


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The other day I visited the entrance to Newport Harbor in Newport Beach, California.
This is a beautiful harbor, where some of the most expensive yachts in the world are docked.
There is a lesson in that harbor, and in others around the world, including some of the ones I used to bring a boat into the Midwest years ago. There are speed restrictions in Newport Harbor.
You cannot just come out of the place where you dock your boat and suddenly take off at high speed before you get to the ocean.
You've got to abide by the speed limits of the harbor so that you don't cause problems for other boats. You don't "rock the boat" so to speak, until you get out to the ocean.
There is a lesson here in setting goals in life. Isn't it the same lesson? Too often, when we set goals, whether it deals with our health, our weight, our finances, or our careers, we want to take off like a shotgun.
But, we've got to realize that, when it comes to setting goals, it's really important to break down long-term goals, big goals, into shorter goals, small, short-term goals that we have to be patient with and take one step at a time until we get to the big goals.
It's the same concept in Newport Harbor. You first have to come out at slow speed. And then, when you come to the ocean, at the end of the harbor, you can take off at a much faster speed.
So, may I suggest to you that, whatever goal you have wanted to set, and you've got the big picture, then break it down to something manageable. Break it down to pieces that are manageable, that you may take at a slower pace at first, until you pick up the pace and you're able to accomplish much larger goals.
When it comes to setting sail for your future, may I suggest that you take some small steps first before you can go at a much faster pace. I believe that will help you create momentum.
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I set some short-term goals that I can believe in and I'm taking one step after another.
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Thread: risks of pregnancy :(
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risks of pregnancy :(
Hi, at the age of 38, what are the risks of pregnancy for women and what would you advise to optimize our chances of having a healthy baby?
Thanks in advance.
20th August 2012 07:01 AM #2
I would definitely encourage you and your husband to start a preconception care program.
Your husband may not have to do as much as you (he could probably eat more fish than you can) but it would be good for you both to eat more vegetables, including some green smoothies, and eat high quality protein. Avoid sugar and simple carbohydrates, and be sure you're getting good essential fatty acids. The EFAs can be taken in the form of cod liver oil or flax oil.
Please post back if you have any specific questions.
Warm regards,
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Thanks Kate.
2nd September 2012 09:44 AM #4
I just gave a detailed response about what you can do to increase your chances of getting pregnant and decrease your chances of having a miscarriage. You can find it on the chances of pregnancy thread.
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The Rev. Sue Anne Steffey Morrow, associate dean of religious life and of the chapel, will become Protestant chaplain and religion master at the Lawrenceville School after leaving the University in June.
Morrow, who came to Princeton in 1981, announced in January she would step down at the end of the academic year. Morrow served first as assistant dean of the chapel and in 1988 served as acting dean of the chapel. She was promoted to her current position in 1989.
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Sad to see people blindly back the actions of any administration. It is not about the actual attack or why. It is about the story/coverup that was invented to gain an election.
Wake up.... both parties are guilty of giving us government full of lies and deceit and nobody goes to jail. Each time they get away with these actions we suffer as a nation.


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They cant look into the Justice Dept or Homeland security because BO will raise his arm and sign an EX order just like a big ol protective daddy . The fish always stinks from the head.
Defense contractors are already audited constantly, all major manufacturing locations and support activities have onsite Defense Contract Audit Agency auditors and unscheduled compliance visits -- http://www.dcaa.mil/. Ask anyone who works in these facilities they can tell you the audits are extensive. What Senator Paul is proposing is and audit of the Departments themselves (the Government Departments not the contractors).
The 1911 (.45 caliber) to a 9mm weapon was dictated by the requirement for commonality among NATO partners.
At the time we were at the height of the Cold War. That is why NATO had and has as a standard 7.62mm, 5.56mm and 9mm for small arms.
As for selection of the M9 over the Sig product (the Sig 226) in addition to the cost factor there was also a requirement for a factory to be built in the U.S. for production beyond a certain number of weapons, Sig at the time was unwilling to construct the facility in the U.S. for the production, Beretta agreed and only produced a small number of the weapons in Italy before transitioning production to the U.S. Sig has since built a facility in the U.S. and are producing handguns here.
Sig was selected for a low production weapon, the M11 which is their 228 model and is essentially a shortened version of the 226 both in the handgrip and the barrel length. The M11 was fielded for undercover agents and other applications where concealability is a consideration. At one point the plan was for it to be a standard aircrew weapon it never was produced in numbers to support that application.
I carried the 1911, M9 and M11 while on active duty. My favorite is the 1911 but a close second is the M11.
QUOTE=BonMallari;1002946]I have no problem with auditing defense contractors, their lobbyists are some of the most corrupt that are out there...case in point, when the US Army decided to change from the .45 cal to the Beretta 92 9mm, the Sig - Sauer actually tested higher but Beretta was awarded the contract, there is a whole lot of waste in military/defense spending especially in high tech weaponry, the closure of bases done strictly based on which Senators who carry the most constituents or the most clout in Congress...and the list goes on[/QUOTE]


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With troops loyal to Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi pushing back rebel forces that had taken control of several cities, there's increasing urgency to the question of whether the United States and its allies should intervene beyond sanctions on the Qaddafi regime. Specifically, the question of imposing a no-fly zone has sparked debate both in Washington and within the UN Security Council. In this exchange and for the next week, CFR fellows Elliott Abrams and Micah Zenko debate the question of whether or not the United States should intervene militarily in Libya.
March 18, 2011
Micah Zenko
Those who support invading Libya share a maximalist objective (regime change), via minimalist tactics (no-fly zone and limited airstrikes).
On the eve of NATO's air war against Serbia, which aimed to compel Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic to cede sovereignty over Kosovo, President Bill Clinton promised, "I do not intend to put our troops in Kosovo to fight a war."
Like Clinton and French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe, who declared that "only the threat of use of force can stop Qaddafi," Elliott believes pre-announced limits are preferable, hoping the "mere announcement of a no-fly zone" will change Qaddafi's calculations.
Unfortunately, the no-fly zones over Bosnia-Herzegovina and Iraq demonstrate that this tactic--threatened or enforced--neither protects civilians nor compels dictators to abandon power.
I quote at length Rear Admiral J.C. Wylie:
The ultimate determinant in war is a man on the scene with a gun. This man is the final power in war. He is control, he determines who wins. There are those who would dispute this as an absolute, but it is my belief that while other means may critically influence war today, after whatever devastation and destruction may be inflicted on an enemy, if the strategist is forced to strive for final and ultimate control, he must establish, or must present as an inevitable prospect, a man on the scene with a gun.
Of course, outside countries will not deploy ground troops to Libya, and the outgunned rebels appear incapable at marching on Tripoli to topple Qaddafi.
Beyond Libya, Elliott also raises the need for intervention because of international signaling; i.e., if President Obama doesn't authorize an intervention in Libya, Tehran will not be threatened by U.S. ability to attack its nuclear weapons program.
By that logic, the U.S. invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq should have compelled Tehran to give up its nuclear program already. Of course, the manner in which those invasions unfurled only reinforced Tehran's pursuit of a nuclear deterrent, and strengthened Iran's influence in the Middle East against its greatly weakened neighbors.
Finally, I share Elliott's concern about the potential for large-scale civilian casualties in the Libyan civil war. However, if the United States preemptively intervened in Libya because there might be a mass atrocity, it incentivizes rebel groups to instigate attacks that would more likely lead to one. This is precisely the kind of international signaling the United States must avoid.
Should civilians be killed in large numbers in Libya, the political will and rapidly deployable forces to intervene on the ground to stop it will be required. For how rapidly deployable forces can be used to prevent genocide or mass atrocity, I offer my article from seven years ago.
March 16, 2011
Elliott Abrams
Micah and I disagree on several points. One of the significant ones is how much effort it would take to help the opposition defeat Qaddafi. The latter have done remarkably well for a couple of weeks, in part because Libya's military is not very impressive. Over this period, it has finally begun to defeat the rebels, because they lack the tanks and jets Qaddafi has. I believe that the mere announcement of a no-fly zone, or one test of it by a Qaddafi jet, would end his use of air power. Moreover, it would change the morale of the Qaddafi and opposition forces and create very different calculations as to who would win in the end.
I worry about the situation we will leave behind should we not act. The Arab League and Gulf Cooperation Council have now requested and supported action, as have some of our closest NATO allies who would join us in it. President Obama has said that Qaddafi must go and repeatedly stated that we have an interest in his defeat. Should we fail to act here, against as weak and antiquated a force as Qaddafi's, one wonders when the president would initiate action. That question will be of some interest to the Iranian regime, where--as in Libya--it is official U.S. policy that "all options are on the table." Any remotely credible threat against the Iranian nuclear weapons program would be undermined if not destroyed by inaction in Libya.
Finally, it seems logical to expect great bloodshed in Benghazi if Qaddafi were to retake it, and to expect very large refugee flows into Egypt. I suppose we all agree we should help care for those refugees. But how much blood would have to flow before President Obama, and Micah, would say "enough--I won't see another Darfur or Rwanda on my watch." Then we'd be intervening after too many were dead and when Qaddafi had already won. It's the worst possible outcome. Far better to give the opposition the limited assistance it needs now, and for which we now have the full support of the Arab states.
March 15, 2011
Micah Zenko
A short, though important, semantic counter to Elliott's prior post. While there are many ways to define one, a military invasion that attempts to unseat the political authority of a sovereign territory--as was the immediate impact in Grenada and Panama--is a war.
To further selectively quote from President Obama's March 11 press conference, when he was asked twice the question everyone wanted answered:
Q: You had said that you want to see Qaddafi leave power, leave office. Are you prepared to use any means necessary in the United States government to make that happen? And if not, why not?
The President: I have not taken any options off the table at this point.
Q: You say you're concerned, but is Qaddafi staying? Is that an acceptable option for you, ever?
The President: I think what you're asking is are we going to do--engage in any potential military action to make that happen. And as I've said before, when it comes to U.S. military actions, whether it's a no-fly zone or other options, you've got to balance costs versus benefits. And I don't take those decisions lightly.
Once again, there was no commitment from the president to do what could ultimately be required to assure Qadaffi is removed from power: intervene with U.S. military forces.
I agree that as things stand, the Qadaffi regime will maintain power via this civil war. As one fighter noted (NYT): "There's no comparison between our weapons and theirs. They're trained, they're organized . . . even if we had weapons, we wouldn't even know how to use them." A former officer who defected to the rebels noted (Economist): "Our tanks and artillery are derelict. They were kept simply for national pageants." Another warned (NYT) flatly: "This isn't an army."
This massive disparity between a well-armed military and an underequipped, voluntary rebel force makes it unlikely that it will only require, as Elliott wrote, "a small amount of effort to ensure that Qaddafi is defeated."
Whether it is a question of imposing (or even just announcing, as some suggest) a no-fly zone, cratering runways, or launching limited airstrikes, nearly everyone endorsing a military intervention in Libya on behalf of the rebels has placed a preordained ceiling on what level commitment will be permitted. Senator John Kerry already decided (WashPost) that "the one option that should not be on the table is American ground troops," while French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced (WSJ) his opposition to an undefined "massive military intervention in Libya."
But, of course, if President Obama commits the United States to removing Qaddafi from power, he must be prepared to go all the way to see it through. And have a plausible explanation for what follows.
March 14, 2011
Elliott Abrams
First, I would like to insist that there's a difference between wars--including wars of choice--and military intervention. The United States has intervened militarily in many ways and in many places over the last decades, without having a "war" such as the war in Iraq. I would not call the Reagan intervention in Grenada a war, nor the George H.W. Bush intervention in Panama, nor Clinton in Haiti, nor Reagan in the Falklands. Yet these were uses of military power to advance American interests.
Now, to Micah's question. Two things have changed since February 15. The first is context: the series of Arab revolts in favor of democracy, the inclusion of Libya in those revolts, the brutal suppression of the revolt by a terrible regime, the call for outside support by the Libyan rebels, then the Gulf Cooperation Council, then the Arab League. If we do not intervene, we see the prospect of Qaddafi's victory pretty near (and predicted by the director of National Intelligence), and we must contemplate what that will bring. In my view, it may bring sufficient bloodshed to lead to American intervention later, and it may lead to Qaddafi returning to his nuclear program and to support for terrorism. Certainly it will, as I suggested in the first post, teach a dire lesson to autocrats: The more they kill the safer they will be.
The second thing that has changed is that President Obama had spoken--more than once, and not casually.
"We are slowly tightening the noose around Qaddafi," he said at his press conference on March 11. The president said Secretary Clinton would meet with opposition leaders, that he was moving "swiftly," that he wanted to "change the balance . . . militarily" in Libya. And he spoke about where U.S. interests lay:
"I am absolutely clear that it is in the interest of the United States . . . for Mr. Qaddafi to leave . . . it is in the United States' interest and the interest of the people of Libya that Qaddafi leave . . . let me be as clear as I can about the desired outcome from our perspective, and that is that Qaddafi step down."
That's three times in one short statement. One has to wonder what the president means by invoking American interests in this way. If we have not only principles at stake but, in his word, "interests," why not act to protect and advance them?
Perhaps the president should not have said these things, and should have said "this is not our fight, we have nothing at stake, and we aren't getting involved." But he did not; he took sides. The only question now is which side wins. Given the small amount of effort needed from the United States to ensure that Qaddafi is defeated, it seems to me unwise to permit him to defeat us.
March 11, 2011
Micah Zenko
I appreciate the opportunity to weigh in on the issue of what role the United States should have in Libya. While there are smaller points of contention with your post, overall I disagree that the president's statement compels the United States to take any specific actions toward Libya. To be explicit, President Obama has made one statement directed at Qaddafi on March 3.
"The violence must stop. Muammar Qaddafi has lost the legitimacy to lead and he must leave. Those who perpetrate violence against the Libyan people will be held accountable."
Telling a foreign leader they must leave does not commit the United States to intervene militarily to do so. In creating policy, every president makes aspirational statements that shape administration thinking, test allied support, and gauge public opinion--it is worth noting that only 12 percent of informed Americans support a military intervention (PDF).
Furthermore, like all preceding presidents, President Obama's statement has been further qualified by cabinet secretaries and senior civilian and military officials who have addressed a range of important political, military, legal, and humanitarian issues related to Libya.
U.S. foreign policy should not be based on chasing international perceptions, or, in the abstract, trying to alter the calculations of tyrants, who often display limited rationality. America's reputation is constantly being made and remade based upon the interests at stake and military and non-military capabilities that the United States can marshal regarding a specific issue.
For example, the Laurent Gbagbo regime in Cote d'Ivoire has correctly judged that it is not in U.S. interests to intervene on behalf of rebels who support the internationally recognized president, Alassane Ouattara. The United States has appropriately provided humanitarian assistance and applied diplomatic and economic pressure against Gbagbo. However, assuring that a tyrant loses in Cote d'Ivoire--or in a dozen other civil wars--is not in the U.S. national interest.
Thus, to answer you directly, I disagree that the United States must ensure Qaddafi loses. The only way to ensure that would be through a direct military intervention that physically removes him from his barracks in Tripoli. To paraphrase another George W. Bush administration official, intervening in Libya would be a "war of choice" at a time when America's economic and military capabilities are severely constrained.
Regime change in Tripoli was not in U.S. national interest on February 15, nor is it now. My questions are: did you believe it was in America's national interest to intervene militarily to remove Qaddafi from power on February 15? What has happened since then to influence your thinking?
March 11, 2011
Elliott Abrams
The key question is what our goal is. Military intervention is a means, of course, and not an end.
I take it that our goal is the end of the Qaddafi regime, for that goal has been stated by the president and secretary of state. At this point, Qaddafi's survival in power would weaken the United States and weaken the president, showing that defiance works and that our words have little meaning. Moreover, the lesson it would teach others--in Syria, for example--would be that former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak's mistake was not to kill enough people, and that extreme uses of violence work.
So how do we achieve that goal of getting Qaddafi out? We use a combination of means, which may include UN resolutions, Arab League and other Arab and Muslim actions, sanctions, freezes of his oil income, recognition of an alternative government, meetings with opposition leaders, broadcasting against the regime, and on to more forceful actions. These could include arming the opposition and/or preventing Qaddafi from using the military strength he retains to win this civil war. Preventing him from using air power is a possible part of the mix, and that might be achieved from NATO air bases in Italy or ships in the Mediterranean.
Such steps would constitute military intervention despite the fact that no American or NATO soldier would set foot in Libya. It is extremely difficult to believe, and I do not believe, that the air power and air defenses available to Qaddafi would present much of a problem for NATO military planners. What he owns is old and far inferior to the aircraft, missiles, and electronic warfare available to NATO and U.S. forces.
If one takes the position that military intervention should be ruled out, one should weigh the consequences. Qaddafi would presumably win his war and retake control of all of Libya. As noted, the lesson for all tyrants is that any amount of violence pays--and will not be blunted or stopped by anyone outside. One can predict bloody revenge against his opposition in Benghazi and elsewhere, which might itself prompt our intervention later--when it is too late to avoid all those deaths. He might well, back in power, return to supporting some terrorist groups or seeking weapons of mass destruction--programs he abandoned in 2003.
The conclusion, then, is that we have a national interest in his defeat and must act sensibly to ensure it. That will most likely include some military action of a limited kind, and we should not shrink from using the means to reach the ends we have embraced.
Micah, whatever your thoughts about whether the president should have said what he said, we are where we are. Do you agree that now we must ensure that Qaddafi loses?


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Russells career started with an injury setback (knee), but he rebounded with a vengeance. Brent used his competitiveness and agility to become one of the top defenders at the FCS level and a legitimate NFL prospect.
Russ Lande from National Football Post had this to say about Brent:
While Russell lacks the ideal size to overpower NFL offensive linemen, he has dominated with his strength at this lower level of football and needs to prove to NFL teams that he can play strong at the next level despite weighing less than 300 pounds. He plays with great intensity on every snap and scouts at this game will be interested to evaluate whether Russells initial quickness is good enough for him to be a consistently disruptive gap shooting force in the NFL as he often has been at Georgia Southern.


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I covered a lot of ground in that family line today
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4.1: Earth's Shape
Before spacecraft, how did people know that Earth is spherical?
The ancient Greeks knew that Earth was round by observing the arc shape of the shadow on the Moon during a lunar eclipse. Was there other evidence of Earth's roundness available to people before spacecraft gave us a bird's eye view?
Earth's Shape
Earth is a sphere or, more correctly, an oblate spheroid, which is a sphere that is a bit squished down at the poles and bulges a bit at the equator. To be more technical, the minor axis (the diameter through the poles) is smaller than the major axis (the diameter through the equator). Half of the sphere is a hemisphere. North of the equator is the northern hemisphere and south of the equator is the southern hemisphere. Eastern and western hemispheres are also designated.
What evidence is there that Earth is spherical? What evidence was there before spaceships and satellites?
Try to design an experiment involving a ship and the ocean to show Earth is round. If you are standing on the shore and a ship is going out to sea, the ship gets smaller as it moves further away from you. The ship's bottom also starts to disappear as the vessel goes around the arc of the planet (Figure below). There are many other ways that early scientists and mariners knew that Earth was not flat. Here is a summary of some: http://www.physlink.com/education/askexperts/ae535.cfm.
Earth's curvature is noticeable when objects at a distance are below the arc.
The Sun and the other planets of the solar system are also spherical. Larger satellites, those that have enough mass for their gravitational attraction to have made them round, are spherical as well.
- Ancient Greeks knew that Earth was round because of the shadow the planet cast on the Moon during a lunar eclipse.
- A boat does not get smaller with distance but sinks below the horizon - more evidence for Earth's roundness.
- Earth is divided into hemispheres: northern, southern, eastern, and western.
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Gold Miners Turn on a Dime, Surge 4% or Higher
Gold-fund outflows are one thing, but traders are giddy over the suddenly strong performance in the gold-mining sector.
Market Vectors Gold Miners (GDX) has jumped 4.2% with a few minutes left in Wednesday's session. Market Vectors Junior Gold Miners (GDXJ) is up by 4.9%.
Writes Jordan Roy-Byrne, editor of the newsletter the Daily Gold, in an afternoon client email:
[T]his sets the sector up for a strong reversal on the weekly charts. It already looks good and strength to end the week would only enhance it. Simply put, its time to put more cash to work.


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Philips PMC 100
From the designer of the SFX peripherals for the Commodore 64, came this curious little box — the Personal Media Composer (PMC) 100. It's got a Yamaha two-operator FM chip, a membrane keyboard (flat, but not capacitive like the EDP Wasp) and its most striking feature, the built-in cassette deck. This allowed you to save your compositions as either sound or data, or it could function as a Walkman or dictaphone. The PMC 100 came in black or (a much rarer) white.
The main voice is monophonic, with simple preset accompaniment rhythms (with 15 options for the rhythm's voice) controlled by the 'Gling' safe-note system. This heavily limits its potential as a solo instrument, not only because the beats are laughably thin but because the accompanying voices are fixed in their patterns.
There are 100 preset melody voices, mostly the standard Yamaha PortaSound two-op noises, but there's also a surprising amount of useable sound effects and slow, evolving (but moving in very obvious digital steps) pads. It's charming in its own incredibly lo-fi way.
The real area where it shines, though, is the step sequencer. It's visualized on an LCD screen in full stave notation with rock-steady tempo, adjustable to insane degrees! Notes can be edited in or out of the sequence at will. If this thing had MIDI out it would have become a cult classic.
Sadly, though, it was a flop in terms of sales. It's not that hard to understand why; even by the mid-eighties this thing would have been considered comical and there's little hope of understanding the architecture without a manual. Still, it's a great curio to have in any synth collection and can even be useful for some styles or when buried in a mix.
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I think that a really great company like McFarlene toys or whoever made the Matrix figures should get up off their arses and make a kickin-kewl Indiana Jones line. They would have absoltly no trouble selling it since Indy films are almost as well loved by apsolutly everyone as Star Wars. Plus, they never made a toy line for The Last Crusade! My picks would include
Indiana Jones
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Bill Gates-esque guy who brands his hand on the medallion
German Mechanic who gets chopped to bits
Willie Scott
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Dr. Henry Jones Sr. (I WANT A SEAN CONNERY FIGURE!!!)
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they would come with signiture voice chips like "Why did it have to be snakes?" "Hold on to your potatoes!" "This is intolorable!" and "You have chosen wisely."
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Tuesday, February 12, from 11.30 p.m.
At the stroke of midnight of Mardi Gras, a water parade of gondolas and traditional boats will float along the Grand Canal, illuminated for the occasion by thousands of candles.
From Rialto Bridge to the San Marco basin, there will be only rowing boats to parade on the calm waters of the lagoon, making the last night of Carnival unreal and magical.
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IMF Director Christine Lagarde gave the keynote speech at the Africa Rising conference in Mozambique on May 29, 2014. She discussed demographic, technological, and environmental challenges to growth, and policy priorities.
Build people
So, we have the foundations of our building (infrastructure); we have set up the systems to ensure that it functions effectively and efficiently (institutions); now we need to let the people in.
This brings me to my third priority: build people—children, youth, workers, and in particular, women.
Let me be clear: Africa's greatest potential is its people. They are the key for the region to fully capture the dividends from population growth. By some estimates, a one percentage point increase in the working age population can boost GDP growth by 0.5 percentage points. This is huge.
For this to happen, however, "good" jobs need to be created in the private sector. Today, only one in five people in Africa finds work in the formal sector. This must change. With wider access to quality education, healthcare and infrastructure services, it can change.
Similarly, technology can be tapped to extend the reach and access of financial services to millions of people. Here, Kenya's experience offers valuable lessons to the rest of the world on how to empower the poor through financial access.
By combining mobile banking with financial services provision, 75 percent of Kenya's population now has access to financial services. Crucially, it is the poor that have benefited the most from this expansion.
Which brings me to a topic that is close to my heart: women. I know that most of the women in Africa cannot afford not to work. But when they do, they are mostly employed in informal activities. We all know what this means: low productivity, low incomes, low prospects. We also know the constraints: access to education, credit, and markets.
The gains to be made by overcoming these constraints are immense—particularly through girls' education. By some estimates, the economic loss in developing countries from the education gap between girls and boys could be as high as $90 billion a year—almost as much as the infrastructure gap for the whole of Sub-Saharan Africa!
As the old African adage goes: "If you educate a boy, you train a man. If you educate a girl, you train a village."
My bottom line: invest in women. It has a great rate of return—economically and socially for the future.


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I have been playing around with awstats to do the web stats for several sites, I looked at the Perl source of awstats and was a bit shocked at it. I was thinking of making some changes to improve the dns caching but I am not sure that I have the time to restructrure the source code as well :( May when I have more time later in the year.Windows Socket Code
Why does MS not improve there connection code in the sockets lib, this is killing our distrubuted app. I wonder if there is a replacement for WinSock that does not have the connection lag?Solaris Doors
I made a small change to use Solaris' Doors in some RPC code when on the local machine, I was expect that the would be a small improvement, but I was suprised to see quite a large one. It seams that Doors removed the 'duck into' the kernel and this is quite a noticeable win.Malloc Lib
In the way that everyone reinvents the wheel because they did not like someone else wheel I wrote a new malloc library. It had the special feature that it returned the memory pages back to the OS when the page was no longer in use. I am working on getting this library release to the public domain. I am not sure how I get it into one of the public libraries but I will cross the bridge when I get permission.


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Some mornings are bringing forth the gobbling. That gets the blood a moving.
Seems to be more hens alone or with fewer poults this year and some of the poults are small very small. Must have renested late to have poults this late barely able to fly.


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NEH supports a novel "encyclodictionary" of the New Urbanism to bring a common vocabulary to urban planning and design.
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Until very recently, many African Americans were unable to trace their ancestors' first steps in America because so few credible records were available.
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Deuce Loosely wrote:SatoshiSakura wrote:I sent an entry a while ago, but I'm not on the list ~
Hmmm...I don't think I got it.
When did you send?
Is it the entries you submitted for Katsucon?
If so, I still have those and can transfer them to the Zenkaikon file.
Resend just in case...
On Jan 1.
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Those Pitman motors are probably 1/8inch.There are standard motor shaft sizes, There problem is, there are many standards... Metric sizes will probably be either a whole or half millimeter and under 1/8 inch they will probably be in 1/32 inch increments (or 1/64) over 1/8 they will generally go by 1/8ths with a couple 1/6ths thrown in (we seem to like 7/16 and 9/16)
You can get gears/pulleys for a smaller shaft and drill/ream them out. 4.1mm sounds unlikely - micrometer or calliper guage is the way to measure.
Are there shaft adapters for DC motors usually used in toys so that I can use rods that are larger than motor shafts?
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There's the usual assortment of team uniforms and loud Hawaiian shirts, but Sunday's Tely 10 offered what surely must have been a first for attire in the 83-year-old road race:
A guy running the 10 miles in a puffin suit, complete with puffin head.
To help promote the Sept. 26 provincial marathon — the Huffin Puffin Marathon — Rob Briggs of Nautilus Running Club donned a puffin outfit with a T-shirt advertising huffinpuffinmarathon.com.
"I'm sweatin' like a ... well, you can't publish what I'm sweatin' like," said Briggs, who actually ran the majority of the race.
To at least try and make it somewhat bearable for Briggs, the puffin's head was outfitted with a tube rigged up to water bottles.
Briggs said the marathon will be open to teams of four, allowing each runner to complete 10 kilometres.
In an ultimate show of gamesmanship, Gerard Fleet of St. John's started to hit the wall about 100 feet from the finish line. When he collapsed to the pavement, a group of runners tried to help him to the finish line before a pair of St. John Ambulance attendants jumped into to assist the runner across the line.
Yes, that was Harold St. Croix. The Newfoundland Sports Hall of Famer, a six-time Tely 10 winner, returned to Newfoundland from Fort McMurray, Alta., to run the race.
St. Croix, entered in the 50-54 age group and a little heftier than he was in his heyday, finished in 2:12.06.
Until Colin Fewer clocked 48:48, only St. Croix (49:50 in 1991) and Paul McCloy ran the 10 miles under 50 minutes.
It's not official, but nine-year-old Emily Gannon of Toronto was probably the youngest to run Sunday's race.
Young Emily finished 1,263rd with a time of 1:31.31.
She is spending the summer in St. John's with her grandparents.
The Dr. John Williams award, which goes to the Tely 10 participant who has inspired others through enthusiastic and spirited participation, was given to long-time Nautilus Running Club member Bill Aylward.
Art Meaney was presented with a certificate commemorating his 30 years running the Tely 10. Greg Redmond and Danny Dodd have each run the race 25 years and were also presented with certificates.
Three soldiers, running for a good cause, completed the race in 2:33.28.
Not exactly an eye-catching time, until you find out they did the 10 miles in fatigues, boots and each carrying 55-pound rucksacks.
Royal Newfoundland Regiment Sgts. John Sloan and John Carew and Officer Cadet Harry Little were running to raise awareness for the Forces' Solider On Program. The program helps ill and injured Canadian Forces members and their families live active lives by subsidizing their expenses.
All three have served in Afghanistan.
Sloan, Carew and Little crossed the finish line holding aloft a Canadian flag.
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PUL Alliance board approves supplier site development
The Pontotoc-Union-Lee Alliance board approved the additional purchase of 20-plus acres of property for a potential Tier One Toyota supplier during its meeting Wednesday morning.
According to Three Rivers Planning and Development District Director Randy Kelley, this acreage will be property that the not-as-yet-named supplier will option for future development.
Right now, you own 40 acres of land that this supplier plans to locate on and build its Phase one plant, Kelley told the board. But, we are requesting that you purchase this additional property because this industry would like to option it for purchase to build its Phase II and possibly Phase III in the future.
Kelley put a request of up to $125,000 of local dollars to match funds from the Mississippi Development Authority for the property purchase.
The supplier has agreed to take out a five-year option on the additional property, to be purchased in two blocks of 10 acres, Kelley continued. If they do not buy the property within the five years, they will then have to pay six percent of the purchasing price per year on the property. Thats about $2,000 an acre, which would mean that they would just about be buying the property anyway.
Kelley said that the company would pay the PUL Alliance up front for the first 40 acres of property, which includes four acres for an electrical substation.
Kelley told the board that he felt if it did not agree to purchase this additional property, it could potentially be a deal-breaker.
Tupelos Community Development Foundation Director David Rumbarger assured the board that this site was the original site looked at by this potential supplier and that the supplier had no plans to locate outside of Pontotoc, Union or Lee Counties.
The board also approved the advertisement to bid for 13 future projects, including the construction of bridges, railroad, natural gas metering and gate stations, pipelines, pressure sewer, water transmission and sewer lift station and pump station improvements.
We are trying to get a bulk of these projects approved at the same time so that we wouldnt have to schedule several meetings for their approval as they came up individually, said the State of Mississippis Project Engineer Chad Wages.
The board also approved a regular monthly meeting schedule to be on the 10th day of each month, or the closest available date to it, should it fall on a weekend or holiday, or should other conflicts arise.
The board also approved a motion to see designs on lettering for the prospective water tank located near the site during its next board meeting. The board, after several minutes of discussion approved the sign PUL Alliance and Wellspring with an American flag.
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Family: Eschrichtidae, Gray Whales view all from this family
Description Unique with mottled gray color and low rounded hump in place of dorsal fin. Narrow triangular head is covered with barnacles and whale lice. Mouthline is straight or slightly arched. Small flippers and large flukes are frequently marked with white from lice and scars. Top of tail stock is covered with bumpy knuckles..
Dimensions 11.1-14.3m; / 11.7-15.0m, 15,700-33,800kg
Habitat Beaches, shorelines & estuaries, Offshore waters
Range California, Northwest, Alaska
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Just out of curiosity, why not just discuss the issue at hand, instead of rationalizing criminal behavior by pointing out that a Republican has done something similar? It seems that any time a point is brought up about a Democrat, you deflect by claiming the same behavior by a Republican. What does that prove other than that there are scoundrels on both sides?
The fact is that we are finding multiple Obama appoinees that have tax problems. That could indicate a number of things:
a. Our President likes tax cheats
b. Our President has a staff that is incompetent and incapable of properly vetting a candidate
c. Democrats in general don't pay taxes
d. Politicians in general don't pay thier taxes
e. The tax code is so complex, most of us can't understand it and may likely be tax cheats, ourselves
f. None of the above.
What I find disturbing from folks on both sides of the political aisle is the tendency to justify bad behavior on the part of "our guys" with examples of bad behavior on the part of "their guys". I am personally disgusted with both Republicans and Democrats. Bush's big government tendencies are just as unappealing to me as Obama's. His prescription drug benefit plan is just one step toward Obama's social medicine plan. If we the people continue to allow our elected officials to pit us against one another as if we are sports fans rooting for our respective teams, instead of citizens concerned about the future of our country, we all lose. We should be most critical of those that purport to represent our beliefs, not just those that oppose them. As a Conservative, I should be quick to point out those on the right that represent me poorly. As a Liberal(?), you should be policing your own house as well. If we can't agree that cheaters should not be elected or appointed into positions of power, regardless of political affiliation, this country is doomed.
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Binghamton University is named to U.S. President's Honor Roll
Binghamton University has been named to the first President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for distinguished community service in recognition of extraordinary volunteer efforts by the school and its students to serve area neighborhoods and Gulf Coast communities devastated by Hurricane Katrina.
Binghamton University and 140 other institutions of higher education were recognized for distinguished service and named to the President's Honor Roll at a recent Campus Compact 20th Anniversary event held in Chicago. Schools receiving distinguished service recognition provided exceptional community service over the past year, contributing their time, resources, energy, skills – and intellect – to serve America.
During the 2004 – 05 fiscal year, Binghamton University students contributed approximately 275,000 volunteer and internship hours to the Greater Binghamton community.
"I am very proud of the efforts of Binghamton University students," said Lois B. DeFleur, Binghamton University president. "They are involved in a wide-range of community service partnership projects that serve and enhance our region. These partnerships include providing tutoring and mentoring programs in area schools, collecting food and clothing for area assistance agencies, and volunteering at local hospitals and family support facilities. To be named to the President's Honor Roll is significant recognition of the commitment and the work performed by our students."
The President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll is co-sponsored by the Corporation, the Department of Education, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, USA Freedom Corps, and the President's Council on Service and Civic Participation.
The recognition is presented in cooperation with Campus Compact, a national coalition of nearly 1,000 college and university presidents, and supported by all the major national higher education associations.
"Binghamton University has set a strong example for college-level civic engagement," said Stephen Goldsmith, Chief Executive officer of the Corporation for National and Community Service, the federal agency that works to foster a culture of volunteering and service in America. "Many people and communities have been improved because Binghamton University and its students identified some of society's most pressing needs and got involved."
A recent study by the Corporation for National and Community Service shows that college student civic engagement has risen significantly in recent years. The study, which used data collected by the U.S. Census Bureau and the Bureau of Labor Statistics, showed that student volunteering increased approximately 20 percent from 2002 to 2005, and that 3.3 million college students serve their communities and nation. The study showed that college students between ages 16 to 24 are more likely to volunteer than cohorts in that age group who are not enrolled.
Observers have attributed the growth in student service to several causes: the proliferation of high-school and college service-learning classes; an increase in the number of campus offices that link students to volunteer opportunities, and the lingering impact of the September 11 and Hurricane Katrina catastrophes.
The Corporation for National and Community Service is working with other federal agencies, higher education and student associations, and nonprofit organizations to encourage even greater levels of service and civic engagement by college students. Their goal is to increase the number of college student participating in volunteer service to 5 million college students annually by 2010.


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Maine's Angus King to caucus with Senate Democrats
WASHINGTON (AP) — Independent Senator-elect Angus King of Maine says he has decided to caucus with Democrats, which will add to the party's voting edge. His decision ends months of speculation about which party he would align with.
The former Maine governor was elected last week to replace retiring Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe, a prominent centrist. GOP and conservative super PACs spent millions of dollars to attack King during the campaign for Snowe's seat.
With King joining their caucus, Democrats will have a 55 to 45 edge in the Senate.
King said Wednesday that caucusing with Democrats will still allow him to take independent positions on issues.


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RE:Fly falling apart, what can I use/do?
Back cast - hadn't even occured to me and you're both probably right on with that. I'll have to look back while I'm casting and watch.
Should probably coat the flies anyway, these are ones I've purchased and they're very nice ones, so I don't want to trash them in one outing.
RE:Fly falling apart, what can I use/do?
I've used fabri-tac, zap-a-gap, epoxy, and sof-tex all with great success. I have also used clear fingernail polish with not as great success. BTW clear fingernail polish painted on your watch face saves it from scratches. When the finger nail polish gets scratched you either remove the old and coat again or just add another coat.
As Juro stated, I bet your biggest culprit in the falling apart fly is the back-cast.
RE:Fly falling apart, what can I use/do?
Without seeing it, I can suggest a couple things:
a) you can go for a slightly thinner thread and use more wraps, crisscrossing and wrapping fore and aft to keep eyes straight. A couple drops of zap-a-gap (a common hobby store superglue) will turn it into steel if you have enough of a thread base.
b) coat with epoxy being careful not to load it up too thick to throw off the profile and balance (aesthetic) of the sand eel fly.
c) use quality eyes, I use "real eyes" because they are steel (vs. soft lead) and have a deep vee in the middle. They also have recessed eye sockets to allow sticker eyes (match the diameter w/ clearance) to be applied without glue.
d) watch the back cast, most eyes are lost on the back cast as opposed to the bottom - unless it's a rocky bottom (as opposed to sand or gravel).
e) use a bendback hook instead of weighted eyes to tie the fly - it'll ride point up if you tie in the material correctly. Put more material on the side you want to ride up, especially if it's bucktail or other hollow natural hair. You will need the sinking line to get it down but it will glide on the bottom without snagging.
Fly falling apart, what can I use/do?
Some flies I use with a sinking line must be dragging on the bottom because the threads holding the dumb bell eyes on are coming apart (and hence the eyes fall off).
Can I coat these with something without hurting the material? Nail polish?
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Kate, sent you an email. I got your message but couldn't send you one back..: )