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I'm at the LVH theater (what was at one time branded the Las Vegas Hilton) for the keynote of the afternoon at the Consumer Electronics Show, Yahoo! (YHOO) CEO Marissa Mayer.
At the start of the talk, Yahoo! Shares are up 94 cents, 2.4%, at $40.87.
Minutes before the show started, there was still a line around the block, so to speak, in the hotel lobby to get into the 1,000-seat theater. Not everyone may get to see this show, or they may miss the beginning, at the very least.
Consumer Electronics Association chief Gary Shapiro introduces her with a boisterous recap of her achievements, including coming to run Yahoo! in 2012 at age 37, after 13 years at Google.
Mayer starts by talking about CES as a place where "dreams become reality," before mentioning the word "mobile."
Mobile "takes the things Yahoo! has excelled at for years" such as email "and puts them into your pocket." She cites a variety of stats, such as use on mobile devices having risen five-fold in recent years. Activities include checking stock quotes and email. "Does this sound familiar? This is who we are," says Mayer.
The company, she announces, has acquired a company called Aviate. "What if your phone suggested music when you got into the car," or fitness apps when you need them? Like Yahoo!, Aviate focuses "on your daily habits."
She says Yahoo! has performed more than 600 experiments in the past year to understand user behavior.
She goes into some detail about how great Yahoo! Mail is, including adding capacities for "SSL," an encrypted tunnel for data, last week.
Mayer trumpets several key content hires, including Katie Couric. And Couric is here! She comes on stage and they hug. It's her birthday, big applause for that from the crowd.
She recalls her stone-age start in the news business, when "harass was two words instead of one." She started in the biz changing the ribbon on the teletype machine.
Couric says the flood of information has meant "too much information" but "not enough understanding." She lauds Mayer's "commitment to the kind of quality content that will help us all have a better understanding of the complicated, noisy world that we live in."
And she's off. Mayer says the team was trying to solve the problem of "fragmentation," a problem, she says, of "too long and didn't read," or "tl;dr."
She brings on product manager Nick Deloisio. He introduces something new, "Yahoo! News Digest." A product, one supposes, of the acquisition last year of startup software maker Sumly. The service will provide a morning and an evening summary of the news.
Time for a demo: he shows screen shots where there is a "nice picture" at the top, followed by "atoms" of information, such as, perhaps, a snipped of relevance from Wikipedia, or some related tweets. "As a user I can swipe cry quickly from story to story." At the bottom of the feed is a count of how many things you've done, and the satisfying message "Done!" for a "feeling of completion." it's available now in the App Store.
Mayer says the company wondered if it could combine the "elegance of magazines with all the information on the Web." The result is a new way to consumer information, a series of digital magazines, starting with "Yahoo! Food." It will have "snippets" and be led by "an all-star editorial team," "taste makers," and a "pleasing accordion interface."
And leading the Yahoo! technology magazine will be … David Pogue, formerly The New York Times tech columnist.
He launches into a diatribe about the lameness of tech sites, with names dropped in such as "The Urge" in place of the actual site names. He says there is a need for discussion of tech in English. "You don't come home and say, Hey, honey, look at the form factor of this turkey I bought."
There are too many sites out there, he says, obsessed with "tweaky" topics, and nothing for the 85% of readers who don't care about that stuff.
Pogue is showing the first demo of Yahoo! Tech — a stream of "tiles" filling the screen. As you click on a tile, it expands to show the article. And, there are no display ads. "Marissa is going to explain later how we make money with no banner ads." There will be fresh daily features. One is reviewing Kickstarter projects. "I'm as far as I know one of the only people doing that," he says. How are you supposed to know whether to fund these things if no one has reviewed them?" The site launches today. Right now! he cheers.
Mayer comes back up to talk about the new manner of consuming video. Mayer says the company wants to bring the elegance of magazines to videos.
Adam Cahan, head of emerging tech, comes up to talk about video. He notes that use of tablets and other devices mean people are watching video later in the day, more evening watching of online video. He announces Yahoo! Smart TV, which will intelligently select things for you to watch, in partnership with various parties, undisclosed, on a multitude of devices.
After showing a brief clip from Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update, Mayer invites out the host, who comes to the stage on a rolling desk that zooms out from behind the video monitor. Thence follows a slew of tech jokes, to fairly decent applause. The Reverend Al Sharpton joins the desk and jokes about a small chocolate milk company Yoohoo turning into a big company.
Mayer returns to talk about four key areas: search, communications, digital magazines, and video. They are "powered by two incredibly important engines," Flickr and Tumblr. Mayer calls Tumblr "one of the most powerful publishing platforms" on the internet, and the brains behind the new digital magazines. She lauds founder David Karp, and invites him up. Karp, in hoodie, comes on stage to talk about how engagement zoomed by 55% last year, and 250% when talking about mobile specifically.
The average Tumblr post is re logged 14 times, he notes. "That's a huge part of the distribution power" of Tumblr. And for promoted posts, it is actually 10,000 times, on average, he notes.
Tumblr sponsored posts are now powered by Yahoo! Advertising, he says. That will add Yahoo!'s personalization ability to advertising. He hopes that will help advertisers make better Tumblr ads.
"I think when you put beautiful, immersive ads on Tumblr, it increases opportunities for advertisers," says Mayer.
She brings out senior veep of advertising Scott Burke. He's going to talk about the problem of a "highly fragmented" advertising world. Ad firms today need to be like "systems integrators", he says, doing too much work to tie things together. Yahoo! today is announcing a simplification of its ad buying mechanism.
The first measure is with respect to "native ads," including the Tumblr ads.
The second measure is "Yahoo! Audience Ads." It combines Yahoo! data with an advertiser's information.
Third, both native ads and display ads can be bought through a self-serve tool called "Yahoo! Ad Manager," including a version called "Ad Manager Plus" for larger buys.
Fourth, he announces the "Yahoo! Ad Exchange," stemming from the acquisition of Right Media.
Mayer says the new products "will make it simpler for advertisers to connect with their key audiences."
To close things out, in true Vegas fashion, John Legend! He plays "Hear Comes the Sun."


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Just a guy procrastinating so he doesn't have to finish Uni work. Main anime that I watch atm are One Piece and Hunter x Hunter, other than that I'll watch shows randomly depending what I'm in the mood for but I never seem to be able to hold enough interest in a show to watch it as it comes out. If anyone knows of anything good coming out, give me a message.
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Yeh same mate, been years. Just been working really, i quit uni just before christmas, so i've got a temp job at a coffee shop for now untill i'll move on to car design (hopefully i'll start at bently, work my way up the career ladder from there and branch off to other car companies). I'm just trying not to waste my time at college studying design really, i wanna job that balances practical work and computer work so i'm not staring at a screen all day. Sorry i'm going on, what about you mate, up to much recently? :)
Only That i watched the first episode and the complete 180 turn it made from being cool to ecchi made me want to puke :) Didn't know you still visited this site mate, how's it goin?
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hey, couldnt help but to see your "animes that made me cry like a girl list" and sometimes men need a good crying series ^^
Anyway if you want an anime to make you cry again chrono crusade's ending is very sad , something toward the end of Valkyria Chronicles is sad. Midori no hibi ending is sort of sad, and the ultimate anger/sadness/despair feeling with lots of suspence ... Monster!
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|Classic Atlantic Salmon No pursuit rivals salmon rivers, flies & legacy
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|In my experience fishing NL, if I were to recommend fishing anywhere other than the Humber River, I would head to the Northern Peninsula, and fish either Portland Creek, the Big East River, River of Ponds or The Torrent River, my preference though is the Torrent. Theres campground and cabins located alongside both Portland Creek, River of Ponds and the Torrent, with the big east within a couple minutes drive of the torrent. Great runs of grilse in all these rivers, and local guides can also bring you to some wonderful secluded pools. There is a tendency in primetime to get some crowded pools though. Biggest advantage to fishing the Humber is its such a large water system theres a better chance of getting free of the crowds. All the rivers mentioned here in cluding the Humber, are within 200 kms of each other. If you decide to do this I could probably refer some guides on all rivers. For the best fishing though, no matter what the water conditions, go to Deer Lake and fish the Humber.
Ok, I'll bite...
Besides the Humber, name some rivers that would be worth checking out (no secret honey holes required, but I hate fishing in crowds or rotation). The fish don't have to be massive, but reasonable catch rate would be nice. Gaspe hasn't been kind to me my last two trips
I'm currently scouting out vacation ideas for me and my wife. She loves hiking, camping, etc, but not so keen on the fishing. We were considering Newfoundland as one possible destination, but I'd need to narrow down the areas on the island to think about, it's a big place...
|For about $150 a day you can get a guide. When in any communities surrounding the rivers ( Deer Lake or Corner Brook for the Humber), just ask at the hotel counter, or look on posting boards in the hotel or local stores, very easy to get a qualified guide and as stated previous, someone very flexible to meet your needs. I think for the money, even the most experienced fly fisherman will gain tremendously from some local knowledge. At least when you step on the pool you can apply your skill if your fishing good water with a pattern that is proven. Certain pools at certain water conditions can play such a major factor, you will elinimate that with some local knowledge. Hell, call me, I`ll be there everyday from June 10th on.
|Unlike New Brunswick and other provinces where one has to be a resident ,in Nfld. one doen't have to be resident to be a guide So, all you non residents ,you should be intelligent enough to figure THAT one out
Yes, a non-resident must fish with a guide every day that they are on Newfoundland waters. I paid about $130 per day back in the late 90's.
When you add up all of the costs of salmon fishing, it costs about the same to fish Newfoundland inexpensively as it does to fish any other salmon fishing location in eastern Canada.
In Quebec, a non-resident doesn't need to have a guide on most waters. However, you will probably be paying at least $70 (or considerably more) per day to access the fishing pools on the river of your choice.
In New Brunswick, a non-resident must have a guide (@ $100-300 per day). There is public water in NB, but it can be difficult for non-residents to get on good pools without help from a local. So, you probably will be paying a lodge or land owner for access to their pools on top of your guide's fees.
Nova Scotia is the economy anglers spot ... no guide requirements for non-residents and no water access fees on most rivers. However, their most popular river (Margaree) is quite busy (very busy in prime time). Most of the rest of the salmon rivers in NS are spate rivers and/or have limited fishing opportunities.
PEI ... I've not fished it ... Salmon Chaser can give all of the details. I believe that there is no guide requirement or water access fees in the province. However, your river options are quite limited on PEI.
Obviously, a guide will provide a major benefit to any angler fishing unfamiliar waters. I'm not advocating a 'go it alone' approach, just stating the legal requirements for each province.
The angler needs to travel to the location of their choice, and pay to stay, eat, etc. once they are there. For the economy angler, relatively cheap restaurants and motels can be found in every province. Travel might be a bit more expensive to the Rock than to NS or NB, but probably not too much more than getting to the Gaspe or North Shore of Quebec.
So, I figure that 'economy salmon fishing' ends up costing about $200 per day in any eastern Canadian province. One pays for different things in different places, but it all shakes out about the same at the end of the day.
I talked to several experienced salmon anglers that know their way around Newfoundland. They hired their guide, dragged him around to where they planned to fish and they did their own thing with fly and pool choices. Yes, they had to pay him. However, most guides will be flexible - if you want to use their expertise, they are ready. If you've got your own plan, they'll be quite content to accompany you and let you call the shots.
Unless the angler is already a resident in one of the Canadian provinces that is blessed with salmon water, the guide requirement won't end up making the cost of fishing in Newfoundland very different from any other eastern Canadian location. On the MAJOR upside, there is no private water in Newfoundland, they've got about 170 salmon rivers, the people are great and you will see some amazing pools. Oh ya, you will get fish if you go for a week in season.
Don't non-residents require a guide for all salmon waters, and for greater than some short distance (800m?) from a public road/bridge for non-scheduled rivers?
I've been very interested in investigating the salmon fishing in Nfld. for a while, but the guide requirement has kind of put me off of the idea. I always get a guide for one or two days when I visit a new area, to learn about the waters, and contribute a little to the local economy, but I typically like to go it alone or fish with a close friend after that.
|I live about 15 minutes from the Humber, and for the most part you can experience exceptional fishing from about June 12-oct 15. Only the lower section (below Deer Lake) has a fall fishery (Sept 5-Oct 15), which is catch & release only. But theres much more to the Humber river than Big Falls and spey fishing on the lower humber. There are literally hundreds of fabulous salmon pools on the upper humber. The first pool is in the small community 10 minutes north of Deer Lake. From there on there is easy access to many wonderful pools, wet & dry. Some of the more popular ones can be crowded during peak runs but theres alot of good water which has little to no fishing pressure. Upper sections of the river are much easier to wade and use single handed rods. Last season was a little slow, with a great deal of the season experiencing very high water conditions. High is usually good , but we had about a month where we couldn`t get on the river. But from my experience, its the best river on the island.
Not by the river, but by what seems to be the bane of my existence lately - my job.
Ah well, the only thing worse is lack thereof. Maybe next year...
I will however be looking for a make-up trip with a vengeance before this season is over.
Chromer, I will fish vicariously in your reports... and will go to newfie as soon as I possibly can pull it off.
|Just beware of the fact that they have what I believe is a province-wide rule requiring single, barbless hooked flies. It's a good rule, but one a lot of guys don't know before heading there. Leave your flies tied on doubles and the double and/or treble hooks for your tube flies home.
I'll echo Jim's statement
Two excellent Nfld. sites are (use google search)
Salmon Association of Eastern Newfoundland (SEAN)
and Salmon Preservation Ass. for the waters of Newfoundland. (SPAWN)
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Just GO for goodness sake! There are SO many salmon rivers in Newfoundland, and little-no private water. There's lots of relatively-inaccessible water, but it's not private if you can get to the riverbank.
This being said, there are great salmon rivers, easily accessed by road, all over the province. You can get into whatever kind of water that you love. Big water (e.g. Humber, Gander, Exploits), smallish water (e.g. East, Torrent), brawling streams, still pools ... EVERYTHING!
Guides are mandatory, but usually not too expensive. All will know their local water. Some will be excellent by any standard, others - while being fine guides - might challenge your expectations of the guide/sport relationship. If you go with an Outfitter I'd expect your experience would be first rate - with all of the usual bells & whistles.
The most popular spots (e.g. Humber - Big Falls) will be crowded during the summer runs, and the local anglers tend to not rotate through the pools. Still, you can get a good spot at most of the busy places. If you want secluded fishing, just ask your guide. You'll be able to drive a few miles and find your own pools - or river - to fish for the day.
I've fished the Codroy, Humber, River of Ponds, Torrent and Big East, and I loved them all! Other anglers could list up to 50 more rivers as their favorites, and all of their choices would be just as good as mine. Water levels will profoundly affect the smaller rivers. Quite a few of them do not fish well in low water, and the Fisheries can be closed by the Government in season. This is not a problem on the bigger rivers, but you have to be flexible if you hope to fish some of the smaller gems.
I went in early July for several years in the late '90s. I caught fresh-run fish - mostly grilse. This may be changing now, as the MSW fish aren't being netted out of the ocean to the extent that was going on in the '90s. Still, most NF rivers host larger grilse runs than MSW fish. This being said, the late-season fishery on the lower Humber is all about catching the large fish than come in later in the season.
If you go in prime season, it would be hard to not get into fish. It can be slow, but no worse than any other salmon fishery in North America. Best of all, there is another great river up or down every road or shoreline. It's a superb place for a 'plan as you go' salmon trip. And, you will never forget the country! The natural beauty is beyond description and the rivers are spectacular.
Oh ya - don't plan to drive any distance at night! The moose & caribou are a very real hazard on the Rock.
Enjoy your trip!
Jim Corrigan
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I will be visiting the Humber in Newfoundland for the large fall atlantics soon... if all goes well, fingers & toes crossed.
Excited? Jumping out of my skin would describe it aptly.
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I hear unbelieveable things about this favorite fishing hole for Lee Wulff. Anyone fished there? I am thinking of going there next summer especially if steelhead is as poor as it was this summer here.
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Does anyone know, or has heard when volume 2 will be released?
Does anyone know, or has heard when volume 2 will be released?
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I have no clue, but would put my money on November or December...right around the time when the EP3 DVD is rumored/scheduled to be released.
BTW, the whole CW series (1&2) is supposed to air on CN on Sat, 14th at 7 Eastern.
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That's actually good news that it will be on. I own volume 1 and saw all of volume 2, but i would love to see it again!Originally Posted by Mandalorian Candidat
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how did you see all of volume 2? only 5 episodes have ran for it (the 30min thing on toon network) eps 21-25
It is correct that #21-25 is the whole season, becasue they are 12 minutes each (total 60 min.). The end of #25 leads into ROTS.
Exactly, that's how I saw all of it. I'm glad that they're reshowing both volumes since it's the basic story of what happens between ep 2 and 3.Originally Posted by Warryyr
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It would have been nice to get the release before Episode III. I hope it comes out soon.
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im kinda bummed.. only a 60min dvd for volume 2? it better be 9.99!!
Rumors are flying about the release date for Episode III on DVD. Many are saying November 8th, so maybe CW Vol. 2 will hit a few weeks before.
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Uhh . . . Volume 1 was 67 minutes total. I bet that Volume 2 would be the same price.Originally Posted by BoPs
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CHANCE brought into my hands three years ago Mr. Richard Hutton's fine volume on the "Leaders of Religious Thought in England"; and I turned with natural interest to the essay on George Eliot, who was so intimately known to me through a long series of years, and to the criticism on "Middlemarch" and its heroine, Dorothea Casaubon. And I reflected that, so far as I knew, nearly all the elaborate criticisms on George Eliot's work had been written by men. Women seem to have held aloof with a sort of fear from any attempt to measure the achievements of that extraordinary mind; and yet neither her ponderous weight of learning, nor the full flow of her thought, nor the extra‐ page: 2 ordinary extraordinary wealth of illustration with which she wrought out her meaning should have hindered women from discussing the utterances of one who was in her own person essentially womanly, and who bore down upon the younger members of her own sex with what seemed for a time to be an almost irresistible impact.
There are reasons which make "Middlemarch" especially interesting to me; for it was there that I first saw the writer! It is a much truer book than "Adam Bede"—truer, I mean, to the real conviction of the creating mind. "Adam Bede" is a wonderful tour de force—a painting from knowledge and observation of a group of people known, for the most part, to George Eliot in her youth, and the finest of whom were profoundly moved by convictions on which had ceased to have the slightest hold. During the years when I saw her most intimately, I had with her private conversations, and heard her speak with others in a weighty, thoughtful manner which left not the slightest loophole for the idea that at this period of her life, from 1850 onwards, she retained any faith in Christianity. I think that her unbelief was historical, I had almost said page: 3 mechanical, but it was of the most sincere and absolute kind.
Yet these intellectual conclusions were in singular opposition to the general cast of her character. Born myself in the very bosom of Puritan England, and fed daily upon the strict letter of the Scripture from aged lips which I regarded with profound reverence, I am in a position to declare that, from first to last, George Eliot was the living incarnation of English Dissent. She had "Chapel" written in every line of the thoughtful, somewhat severe, face; not the flourishing Dissent of Spurgeon or Parker, or the florid kindliness of Ward Beecher, or the culture of Stopford Brooke, but the Dissent of Jonathan Edwards, of Philip Henry, of John Wesley as he was ultimately forced to be. Her horror of a lie, her unflinching industry, and sedulous use of all her talents, her extraordinary courage—even her dress, which, spend as she might and ultimately did, could never be lifted into fashion and retained a certain quaint solemnity of cut and gesture like an eighteenth‐century diction applied to clothes—everything about her, to me, suggested page: 4 Bunyan in his Bedford prison, or Mary Bosanquet watched by Fletcher of Madeley as she bore the pelting of the stones in the streets of Northampton. No one has ever before said this, so far as I know; no one has ever attempted to describe her as I saw her in her younger years, but I think I saw the truth. She has been compared personally to Dante and Savonarola. I think that her real affinity may be traced nearer home; that there was in her nothing Italian, nothing in any sense foreign; in the Wars of the Roses her ancestors would have adhered to any leader who promised best for the people; in those of the Commonwealth the brewer of Huntingdon would have commanded them to a man. And precisely in such an atmosphere, except for certain differences of speculative opinion, did I first see George Eliot. Driving from Warwick through the arching elms of that embowered nook of the Shires, with a very dear and gifted companion (a descendant of Oliver Cromwell), we reached Coventry, and Rose Bank, the house of Mr. Charles Bray. It lay on the outskirts of that provincial town which has been rendered doubly famous by George page: 5 Eliot's life and letters, and is at least the suggestion of the Middlemarch of her dream. There, being at the time myself just one and twenty, I was taken to make the acquaintance of the very learned scholar, Miss Evans. Not Abelard in all his glory, not the veritable Isaac Casaubon of French Huguenot fame, not Spinosa in Holland or Porson in England, seemed to my young imagination more astonishing than this woman, herself not far removed from youth, who knew a bewildering number of learned and modern languages, and wrote articles in a first‐class quarterly.
I remember the scene vividly, though, unfortunately, after so long an interval of time, I can remember none of the conversation. George Eliot had a bad headache, and received us kindly and politely, but with an air of resigned fatigue, Mr. Bray himself was a great talker; always full of ideas, somewhat vigorously expressed. I do not remember that Miss Evans said any noteworthy thing, but I looked at her reverently, and noticed her extraordinary quantity of beautiful brown hair (always to the last a great charm), and that we all went out and stood on a page: 6 sort of little terrace at the end of the garden, to see the sunset, and that the light fell full on her head and was reflected from her kind blue eyes. And as night fell, my companion and I were driven back to Warwick, and I did not see the learned scholar again till the next year in London, the year 1851.
And so it came to pass that when "Middlemarch" was published, many years after, the place seemed familiar to me, and Dorothea stood beneath elms with the sunset falling upon her hair, and that she has always been to me most real, though I cannot but think most unreasonable in her misuse of life. The girl is real enough; it is her chances which she and her biographer seem to me to have singularly missed, probably because the very weight and worth of English Dissenters forty to fifty years ago secluded them from all society but their own. From the aristocracy and from the wealthy landed gentry they were absolutely cut off. They never rode steeplechases by moonlight with their nightshirts buttoned over their uniforms; they did not frequent a doubtful salon at Holland House, or a much more doubtful one at Kensington page: 7 Gore; to them a woman of indifferent reputation was only that and nothing more, whatever her abilities or her place in the world. The old scandals of the pre‐Victorian Court, the occasional trials before the Lords, the wine and the whisky of the political dinner, the hunting pastor who strolled into his wife's bedroom in pink, cracking his whip as he bent to kiss his new‐born child—all these things were as far from the horizon of the Dissenters then as they are from ours now, and farther. But it was not wholly gain; some things were missed which might well be totted up on the other side. The wide political skyline, the knowledge of foreign countries, of the embassies and the diplomatic services, the unbroken links with the older Roman Catholic families—Howards, Talbots, Petres, Arundels, Welds—and the stirrings of the new life among the Catholic converts; add to these the traditions of the stage, the Kembles and the Keans, Garrick's widow only lately dead (she survived her husband for nearly fifty years); add to these whatever life remained in the English Church, a life soon to re‐blossom like the rose; and it must, I think, be acknow‐ page: 8 ledged acknowledged that the noble, pure‐hearted English Dissenters saw but one side of the national truth. As between them and the rest of the nation a gulf was fixed which can only be measured from where we now stand, when the lines of parties are so much effaced, when the Catholic Church is daily rising in power, when the press and the railroad and the post are more and more welding our peoples into one.
George Eliot, I think, places her story just before the passing of the Reform Bill, a period which in Warwickshire brought out the sharpest contrasts between the classes. Radical Birmingham was with difficulty kept from rising, and when the one vote carried the Bill, a gentleman—my father—drove at a gallop through the night in one of Lord Grey's carriages and brought the first news to the "Metropolis of the Midlands." Ah! those were days when the telegraph and the railroad were alike unknown. Great affairs of State were swung off by signal from the huge arms of the great machine on the roof of the Admiralty, and were repeated from the Telegraph Hill at Hampstead to Harrow, and far across to the north or south, as the case page: 9 might be. But for any other sort of news we galloped through the night. The landed gentry were ensconced in their parks, and the one family with which George Eliot's father was locally connected paid ninepence, as did all the rest of the world, for their letters—unless they obtained franks, as was probable. Strange antique world, that I, though not yet very old, can faintly remember. The coaches with four horses and a horn which stopped at the Mitre Inn in Oxford; the post‐chaises and their relays which, perchance, as happened to one of ours, were wrecked against carts at two o'clock in the morning, to the great danger of life and limb; and for foreign parts the travelling carriage shipped at Dover, and thence rumbling all over the Continent, exactly as if the inmates were Horace Walpole or Lord Chesterfield doing the grand tour; such were our conveyances. Moi qui vous parle, I have spent eight days posting between Paris and Geneva, and three days from Boulogne to the capital, halting at Montreux, at Abbeville, and at Amiens.
Such being the outer world into which Dorothea Casaubon was born, George Eliot formed the opinion that her moral chances were page: 10 very poor indeed. And yet, strange to say, at that very time, and in that very circle wherein is laid the beautiful drama of Mr. Gilfil's love‐story, a girl was actually born who has proved to be one of the principal, and certainly one of the most really efficient, workers of modern times. It has always seemed to me a curious irony of literary fate which made her create a Dorothea in Warwickshire, in Coventry, in the very class, almost in the very family, in which Mr. Newdigate's energetic cousin was born!
Dorothea, then, starts with more than average intelligence; thirty years later than Jane Austen's heroine, delightful Elizabeth Bennet; and so far touched with the modern spirit that she burns with desire to do good, which, oddly enough, is inspired by the example of St. Theresa. Now, St. Theresa was a cloistered nun (George Eliot, be it noted, had an early attraction to Spain), and her work was not outwardly practical, but spiritual. Its efficacy entirely depended upon the validity of certain alleged facts in regard to prayer and a personal relation to an unseen Christ. The undeniable continuity of St. Theresa's work, which subsists page: 11 to this day in full swing and efficacy, is one of the proofs, patent to all, of the deep root of this kind of faith in human nature; but as it was a faith which George Eliot wholly denied, and of which there is no sign of her heroine having in any way partaken, it is singular that so powerful and well‐cultivated an intellect should have chosen the Spanish nun, dead three hundred years ago, as a constraining example. I have never been able to understand in what way St. Theresa impressed Dorothea Casaubon, nor why she wanted to resemble the saint. The foundress of some active order would have seemed more to the purpose.
Also, in regard to Dorothea's marriage, her point of view is, to me, inexplicable. To marry for money or position may be wrong, to marry for pity, or for usefulness, or religion, may be foolish and dangerous; but to marry that you may help a man to finish a big book, even were it the all‐embracing Code Napoléon, seems to me to be an inconceivable reason. So far had I written, when, on reading the last sentence to a young friend, she answered, quick as lightning: "Ah, well, then, I understand it." I page: 12 bow submissive; I feel bound to give the emendation—only remarking that it does not seem to me to partake of that touch of nature which makes the whole world kin.
In truth, "Middlemarch" is to me as a landscape seen in the twilight; au teint grisâtre. It is from first to last the plaint of a lost ideal. I do not think it even a true rendering of life as it was lived in England sixty years ago. It would be easy to account for this by saying that the writer had lost "the wider hope." I prefer not to do it. Such an explanation is, indeed, so far obviously true as that in a country town the most strenuous belief, the most unflagging work, is religious. But the scepticism of "Middlemarch" also extends to things social and human; although at the very time there were forces stirring in England which were about to transform the era of the first gentleman in Europe into that of the Queen and Prince Albert. Surely a notable change.
I understand the opening of the story to be about the year 1828, and Dorothea to be about ten years older than George Eliot herself. I have touched on the outward aspect of the page: 13 England of my own birth; let us see wherein lay the hopeful germs of the future. In 1828 Miss Nightingale was a little student, and Mrs. Fry was a mature woman. Mrs. Fanny Kemble was a bright girl of twenty; two years later she was acting in Birmingham, and impressing her vivid personality on my father's household—sitting on the hearth, and playing with the youngest child. In the upper sphere of all, the Duchess of Kent was doing her utmost to bring up fitly that young daughter of nine years old, on whose character hung much of the future of England and her colonies. In politics, Grey and Brougham were fighting hard battles with the Tories, and the elder Mill and the young D'Israeli, and another youth, named William Gladstone, were alive in the world of letters, or preparing for the fray. Mr. Newman and Mr. Manning were preparing as hard‐working young clergymen. A friend of mine remembers to this day how great a pleasure it was when young Mr. Manning came over to Midhurst, carrying a black bag with his sermon. In Birmingham, two eminent doctors—De Lys, the Frenchman, and Joseph Hodgson, Sir Robert Peel's friend— page: 14 were the local Lydgates. The air was trembling with scientific discovery; the railroad and the steamboat were invented, though the former was not yet in use; the photographic plates of the Lunar Society lay hidden in a cupboard, and there had lain for thirty years; but the Penny Magazine, parent of the modern press, with its extraordinary wood‐cuts, which cost such a mint of money, was just about to start (its first cut was, I believe, the Dresden Madonna). Harriet Martineau had begun to write, and Mrs. Barbauld had left off. Mrs. Siddons was lately dead, her statue was not yet in Westminster Abbey. Princess Lieven was writing to Earl Grey; and Lady Morgan, in white satin, was stirring up any metropolis wherein she might happen to be with Sir Charles. Surely a bright, eager England of blue and green coats with gilt buttons; of white muslin frocks and hair twisted over high combs; an England full of the last speech and the last sermon; not so very long before "Tract 90." And all the innumerable ladies of the landed classes whom we, with our own eyes, have during the last forty years seen travelling, page: 15 painting, writing, and serving on committees, were little girls at their mothers' knees, like that little Princess who was dutifully to grow up and do heavy work as private secretary to England for fifty‐eight years! And into this England was Dorothea Brooke born, with no sort of need, it seems to me, to wish to imitate St. Theresa. We have one or two saints of the world who would have suited her better as a model! Surely, surely, no young woman born in the Shires, however "unked" she might feel at times, had any cause to marry Mr. Casaubon's big book or Will Ladislaw's unworthy personality. No, no, Dorothea! I am obliged to admit and believe that you were a real person, but you will never persuade me that you might not have done better in every sense of the word!
My younger public, having read the foregoing pages, assure me that I have not given a sufficient description of George Eliot herself. One of them even says, "You have opened a door and shut it in our faces," adding that, as I had known her so well, I must have something page: 16 more to say of the most remarkable woman of my generation. And indeed it requires touch upon touch to render such a personality living to those who never saw her, for her power was in some sense a veiled one. In the first place, none of her portraits appear to me to be like her. The one in a hooded bonnet, said to have been sketched in St. James's Hall, is a monstrous caricature and accidental impression of her face, which was neither harsh nor masculine. The one which prefaces her life is too sentimental. The early photograph, on sale at Spooner's in the Strand, is very like, but not favourable, and absolutely without any art in the arrangement. It is, however, the only real indication left to us of the true shape of the head, and of George Eliot's smile and general bearing. In daily life the brow, the blue eyes, and the upper part of the face had a great charm. The lower half was disproportionately long. Abundant brown hair framed a countenance which was certainly not in any sense unpleasing, noble in its general outline, and very sweet and kind in expression. Her height was good, her figure remarkably supple; at moments it had an almost serpentine page: 17 grace. Her characteristic bearing suggested fatigue; perhaps, even as a girl, she would hardly have been animated; but when she was amused her eyes filled with laughter. She did not look young when I first saw her, and I have no recollection of her ever looking much older.
The effect of her presence—it was peculiarly impressive. Her great weight of intellect told in all circles. My father was much attached to her, and whenever any special celebrity was invited to dinner, such as Thackeray, Grote the historian, or old Mr. Warburton (one of the principal founders of the London University), he was never content unless he had also secured his young countrywoman, Marian Evans, for he himself was a Warwickshire man. On these occasions, from 1851 to 1855, she used to wear black velvet, then seldom adopted by unmarried ladies. I can see her descending the great staircase of our house in Savile Row (afterwards the Stafford Club), on my father's arm, the only lady, except my mother, among the group of remarkable men, politicians, and authors of the first literary rank. She would talk and laugh softly, and look up into my father's face respect‐ page: 18 fully, while the light of the bright hall‐lamp shone on the waving masses of her hair, and the black velvet fell in folds about her feet. But for the deliberate casting away of her social chances when she left for Germany with Mr. Lewes, she would undoubtedly have achieved a very great position in the London world quite independently of her novels. In those years not a soul suspected her of a tinge of imaginative power. A real, deep thought and quiet wit were the characteristics of her talk. Most interesting as it was, I should hesitate to call it charming. There was always a want of brightness in her conversation. Her nature smouldered deeply, and occasionally glowed with interior fire; to the outward eye it never burst into a quick flame. respectfully
The story of George Eliot's life having been fully told in her own letters, the chief question which I can be supposed in any way to answer is: "Why did she act as she did in the principal relation of her life?" I do not know that any sufficient explanation can be given of the reason of human inconsistency. She was the very last woman in England of whom such a step could page: 19 have been prophesied. She certainly was in all her bearing grave, sincere, and of a sort of provincial reticence. In principle she was a strict monogamist, witness the testimony of all her books; and in every relation of life she placed an immense value upon the virtue of faithfulness. You could not be with her and not recognize that her Yea was yea and that her Nay was nay. But she probably believed, though she would hardly have allowed it in words, written or spoken, in a sliding scale of action; by which I mean that she considered a man or a woman justified, on rare occasions, in taking circumstances into account. Mr. Lewes's home having been broken up by causes of which I conclude that she held him innocent, George Eliot must have thought that he was justified in forming another tie. I do not think that she would have accepted a light excuse, but it is quite evident that her moral judgment accepted what she herself regarded as a grave one; and I can only say, as a Catholic, that I do not expect people who are not Catholics to think and act as if they were such. It is a distinguishing mark of the Roman Church that she speaks with page: 20 authority on this matter, independent of what may be called local arguments. She does not leave the conduct of life in the grave matter of marriage dependent upon the judgment of interested parties, but it is surely unreasonable to expect that a woman whose intellect had totally rejected Christianity in any form should have held Mr. Lewes unable to contract what she undoubtedly regarded as a second marriage. He was at the time very ill, threatened with softening of the brain from overwork and worry, and she went with him to Germany and nursed him into convalescence; being herself independent in means and of a worldly position hitherto high and secure. Surely only those who hold the sacramental view of marriage would have had a right to condemn her, and their condemnation would fall nearer the source of the error—on the fatal facility with which, years earlier, she had suffered her spiritual nature to be swept bare. But it behoves us to speak with pain and hesitation of so deep a problem as the responsibility of an individual soul before God. The example was very unfortunate, and was one of many causes which have page: 21 deeply shaken the old respect for the marriage law in England; and she herself, strangely, lost no opportunity of saying, by pen and speech: "Do not follow my path in life." At the time of her very sudden and untimely death, her mind was, I think, slowly reverting to some measure of faith—at least, if we may judge by the indications of "Daniel Deronda." Happier and more normal circumstances, into which she had entered, might have helped that great mind to have regained its freedom of poise, her sense of loyalty being no longer engaged upon the side of wrong.
And this brings me to the one mystery which I have ever felt quite unable to solve. That George Eliot should have chosen her own path and created in her own mind a moral code which covered her action—that I can understand. It would be unjust to judge her by a Christian law which she repudiated. But why, in the exercise of this amount of moral liberty, she should have idealized and finally almost worshipped Mr. Lewes, is one of those problems before which those who know the inner wheels of London life in the Fifties may well stand confounded. On page: 22 the manuscripts now deposited in the British Museum she has left an imperishable testimony to her conception of his worth. The dedications "to my dear and ever dearer husband" rise in a pathetic crescendo of affection and esteem. I had myself at any time but an external acquaintance with Mr. Lewes, never having seen him until the return of George Eliot from Germany. I had been aware of her intention for some weeks before she went away. She told me of it during a long walk round Hyde Park. Needless to say, that I heard her with a sinking heart, and that remonstrance was practically impossible. That conversation seems to me, after a lapse of nearly forty years, to be printed on the very stones of Park Lane. When, after many months, she returned to London, I sought her out with anxious affection. I then saw Mr. Lewes for the first time. And during the long years of their union I saw him occasionally in the drawing‐rooms of their various homes. My domestic circumstances withdrew me from George Eliot's sphere, but the inward tie was never broken. I was, I believe, almost the last person to whom she wrote before her sudden death, after four days' page: 23 illness; and I was, perhaps, the first to whom the most unexpected event was communicated by letter, with a request that I would break the intelligence to Madame Bodichon, our close friend.
Since, then, my personal knowledge of Mr. Lewes was comparatively slight, I refrain from any observations on him. The impression he made on his contemporaries has been recorded by several among them. There is no real difference in the portraits drawn by Mr. L'Espinasse and Mrs. Lynn Linton, by Carlyle himself and by Mrs. Carlyle in her letters. The acute and brilliant side of his mind is shown in his books, biographical and philosophical. They are delightful reading if not very profound. His moral ideas he has told in "Rose, Blanche, and Violet." I would add that I believe him to have been very kind and helpful in domestic life. But there will come a time when no care for the living and no respectful reticence with regard to the dead, will check the publication of contemporary diaries and private letters. It is because I see plain signs of that time approaching, that I wish to place on record the exact truth of my page: 24 conception of George Eliot's character. It must be borne in mind that to her Mr. Lewes seemed true and reverent. She must have evolved some better self than that perceived by the outer world.
I will say in conclusion that I know she loved much, not only the one to whom she gave faithful years of devoted care, but his children, whom she educated and made her own, the friends of her youth, the poor, the sick, and the suffering. She apparently regarded the Christian controversy as relegated to the region of dead intellectual lumber; yet it is true of her, as of all of us, that to our own Master we must stand or fall. To Him I leave my dead friend.


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Alternate name: Northern Katydid
Family: Tettigoniidae, Long-horned Grasshoppers and Katydids view all from this family
Description Leaf-green. Oval-shaped wings with many veins that resemble leaves and enclose abdomen. Hind wings shorter front wings. Upwardly pointed head.
Dimensions 1 3/4-2 1/8" (45-55 mm).
Food Leaves of most deciduous trees and shrubs, especially oaks.
Sound Both male and female katydids rub their forewings together to make loud two-part katy-DID; less often a three-part katy-DIDN'T.
Life Cycle Breeds in late Summer and early Fall. Females lay eggs on stems which then hatch in spring. One generation annually.
Habitat Forests, thickets, or fields with lots of shrubs or trees.
Range Eastern US; west to Texas, northeast to Ontario.
Discussion Katydids spend most of their time at the tops of trees where most of the leaves are. Can fly short distances when threatened, but prefers to walk and climb. Flight primarily a downward flutter. If a katydid lands on the ground, it will walk to the nearest tree and climb. Known as the True Katydid because it was the first katydid species to have its call transcribed. It can be heard easily at ground level while chirping from treetops.


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By Patsy R. Brumfield/NEMS Daily Journal
Year's end and the start of another give me a mental boost for things I've meant to do or things I usually do by this calendar time.
This past weekend found me psyched up chiefly to set my holiday-themed house in order.
But there's a rhythm to such a process. It just doesn't start under my new fake Christmas tree.
Actually, it kind of works backwards.
First, the traditional storage places must be re-ordered and prepared to receive all that stuff that I hauled out to proclaim the season, as well as the new stuff acquired for the same purpose.
Disorder was the state in which I found myself Saturday morning, just a few days after the departure of my nearest and dearest.
The obvious place to begin was my personal walk-in closet, which was strewn with garments, as well as wrapping paper, hardware and all other manner of stuff I'd put there to avoid cluttering the rest of the house.
The new, soon-to-be-dismantled tree was the immediate impetus for orderly storage.
Frankly, it had to go somewhere, although, on reflection, I guess I could have put it in the unheated, unfloored attic on last resort. Still, that doesn't seem in the new tree's best interests.
The only way I seem to be able to re-order a space is to pull almost everything out of it. The two adjoining rooms became the temporary placements for things from a tall stepladder to extra chairs and a safe Margaret's beau gave me because he decided someone living in New Orleans (himself) should have a safe that floats.
With help from the vacuum cleaner and more hangers, order was restored, and I discovered the disassembled tree, now boxed tightly, fit there nicely after I discovered it was too heavy for me to haul upstairs, even with the assistance of my trusty dolly.
Thus began the story of the weekend, mostly accomplished as The Grandpuppy watched sleepily from the living room sofa, a favorite perch.
Now that that's done, I turn to other pursuits involving order.
Naturally, we think about preparing to prepare our annual income tax reports. I've got records here and there to collect, then look back over my detailed calendar to ensure I've remembered as much as possible.
The Purveyors of Political Fear say that now we've barely avoided the Fiscal Cliff, folks like me, questions remain about whether we early-tax filers can go ahead for the much anticipated mid-February refunds.
I am not quite sure why this is could be an issue because my 2012 tax report ought not to have anything to do with federal withholding tax uncertainties for 2013 or the loss of the payroll deduction or whatever else our fabulous political representatives to the U.S. House and Senate will or won't do to our financial lives.
(Why do we keep sending these people back and expect something different to happen?)
My latest organization task, though, is more immediate and electronic.
Remember all those online orders you and I made during 2012? Well, those businesses always asked for our email addresses so they could keep us apprised about the status of our little purchases.
What they also wanted was to build their marketing address books and bombard us regularly with "deals" we simply couldn't miss out on.
Recently, I was instructed that those annoying emails can be dispatched via the "unsubscribe" link written in teeeny, tiny print at the bottom of the offer.
How satisfying, even to re-order my own cyberspace.
Happy New Year, everybody!
Patsy R. Brumfield writes a Thursday column. Contact her at (662) 678-1596 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow her on Twitter @realnewsqueen.


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MADISON, Wis. - The Wisconsin State Senate is in session Tuesday and taking up issues like asbestos lawsuits and propane loans.
Senate to vote on bill affecting asbestos lawsuits
The Wisconsin state Senate plans to vote on a bill opponents say would slow asbestos-exposure lawsuits.
The measure up for a vote Tuesday would require plaintiffs to reveal how many businesses their attorneys plan to go after. Republican supporters say such a move would prevent lawyers from hiding multiple claims in hopes of maximizing awards.
But opponents, including veterans exposed to asbestos during their service, say the measure is designed to slow cases down in the hopes plaintiffs will die and protect corporations from making payouts.
The Assembly passed the bill last year. If it clears the Senate, it would then head to Gov. Scott Walker for his consideration.
Senate passes propane loan program
The Wisconsin Senate has passed a bill that would create a new loan program to offset high propane prices.
Under the bill passed Tuesday, the state would guarantee up to $2,500 in loans to purchase propane or other heating supplies and pay down interest. The borrower's household income could not be higher than double the county median household income, however.
The Assembly overwhelmingly approved the bill last month. The Senate's unanimous vote passing it now sends the measure to Gov. Scott Walker for his signature.
Wisconsin and other Midwestern states have been grappling with a propane shortage spurred by the cold winter, a temporary pipeline closure and heavy propane demand for drying grain last fall.
Wisconsin Senate debates driver liability bill
The Wisconsin Senate has moved close to passing a bill that would limit parents' liability for young drivers.
Currently children under 18 need a parent or other adult sponsor to sign and verify their driver's license application. That makes the parents or sponsors liable for the driver's negligence or willful misconduct.
Republican Sen. Glenn Grothman's bill debated Tuesday would limit that liability to a total of $300,000. Current law has no limit on a parent's potential liability.
But Democratic Sen. Fred Risser objected, saying if liability is going to be capped the parent should be required to have at least that much insurance.
Democrats used a procedural move to block a vote on final passage until Wednesday.
Senate votes to change Milwaukee mental health
The Wisconsin state Senate has approved a bill that would take control of the troubled Milwaukee mental health complex away from the county board and give it to a group of medical professionals, patients and family members.
The bipartisan proposal passed unanimously Tuesday comes after six patients died at the facility in 2012.
Opponents to the bill, including the union that represents nurses and workers at the complex, say control should not be taken away from elected local officials on the Milwaukee County Board.
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The Bulldogs downed Kansas State University 68-52 in the Battle in Seattle last Saturday in their only game of the week.
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The Associate in Arts degree in Music is a comprehensive course of study preparing the student to transfer to a four year institution in music or a music related field, or to enter the music industry or a related field upon completion.
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Through the study of music history/literature, students examine music masterpieces from multiple eras and cultures, synthesizing information and making judgments as they evaluate how music reflects individual composers' lives, as well as the contemporary social/historical context in which the compositions were created and performed.
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Thats the new "secret" etailer out there. Up on March 10th. OS has all your info. shop.starwars.com
Thats the new "secret" etailer out there. Up on March 10th. OS has all your info. shop.starwars.com
Maybe they will pick up Cantina bar Wave II.
Kitik Keed'kaks for everyone.
That is a great idea. Over at RS, they have posted a interview with Paul Ens re: the store. He claims that exclusive figures will be sold individually, but that basic figures will be sold in case packs.Originally Posted by Boba Fetish
This isn't bad news...at this point I'd even buy a case of the Cantina Bar Wave II as I could split the case with a friend. I'd also buy a case like the 3rd CW wave so I could get the SA Clonetrooper, not to mention Rambo Kit and Battle Man Tin .
I really hope the online store isn't a bust...with all the hype and anticipation leading up to the OTSE DVD Box and the release of EP 3, this could be a cool way to get some really great stuff.
I just hope the supply is better than in the days of the Jawa Trader. Maybe the store could be run with the KEBCO philosophy-one of everything, for everyone who wants it...all the time, brother (apologies, Hogan).
I'd also like to see things like Ephant offered in some exclusive way; if the cases aren't being made anymore buy Hasbro, maybe a exclusive pressing of the figure could be done. We have the upcoming OTC collection, we have yet to see alot of the HOF collection(boy, I should have picked up the couple of figures I actually wanted to buy...again...when I saw them once weeks ago )...start some kind of new collection...I dunno, call it the Hard To Find wave. Looking at the response to the new poll; Holo R2, Sio Bibble; the list goes on and on with what you could put out.
And one more thing-radical concept here , but if basic figures are only sold by the case, do exclusive case assortments with just army builders. Come on! I could even dream up cases:
Wave 1: Imperial Troops-sandtroopers(all ranks), stromtroopers, scouttroopers (these last two could have 2 each a case, clean & BD)
Wave 2: Republic Army-a mix of every Basic release Clonetrooper(Blue,Red,Pilot,SA,Yellow,White[clean]) with none of the inarticulated CW deluxe packs, throw in a binocular with 2 figures a case, though...
Wave 3: Jabba's Thugs-weequays, gamorrean guards, niktos(yes, this is a rehash from the upcoming TRU 4 pack, but the 1st 2 figures would make sense)
Wave 4: Imperial Elite- DS troopers, All head sculpts of Imperial Officers, Tie pilots, AT-ST drivers(anyone with vehicle 'skills ' or non-ranking, non-stormtrooper soliders), Royal Guards (Saga scuplt)
Wave 5: Naboo Defenders- Gungan soliders, NRGs, NRSs
Wave 6: Armies of the Trade Federation- Tan/Red BD(Saga Sculpt), DDs (BD sculpt both cleaned up & blast-apart, SBDs (from Deluxe Sage Yoda with better legs)
...well, you get the point. If Hasbro is all about making money and we as fans want to spend it making armies and dioramas and just freaking out visitors who see a massive table of Imperial MIGHT, this is a great way to do it.
The wave idea is just an example of a way to make this concept work and not overwhelm the pickpocketedbooks of buyers.
BTW-does anyone believe that Hasbro read these posts? I rememer ranting a long time ago about how I'd want to see Hoth Han done-with Luke's saber, removeable visor,etc...and I know others suggested such improvements also. Well, we got more than one could ask for. Does anyone think Hasbro would actually cave-in to it's "constituents" and make Army Builder support? Any thoughts?
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very cool store, i've aready order a star wars tee and OTC figures wave 7. the figure price is not bad it averages out to about $5.41 ea. i can't wait to get my revenge patch either.
I can't get in. The store's 'virtual doors' are shut and boarded. Did it crash already? I tried this morning and then again just now. Guess I'll check back later.
Well, I guess even they couldn't predict what it would take to keep it open. I've tried a couple of times but no luck. I guess the first 500 got in and then it went in the crapper soon after.
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Its closed now, I hope it opens soon. I'm really wanting to see the selection.
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It's dead, Jim.
That was kinda pointless, if they can't think to make a secure enough server when they know people will rush it why the heck even do that much hype?
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Here's another thought......we leave things as they are. If we change this board to something else, where will the bluewater reports go when they come in? And why is this board the one to be on the chopping block? There are a few others with even fewer threads and posts, so why not propose a change to them?
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My two cents.
Will check that company out but an 18 weight rod must take a real man to through.
Look forward to those blue water fly pictures from Artb.
When I was in Bermuda on business a alot 3 years ago I checked out blue water for marlin there. Beleive it was a $ 1,000 a day minimum for the boat and crew etc.. We decided to go golfing at the best course on the island (Mid Ocean) instead for $ 200
Since there is not much blue water going on perhaps we could make this the fly fishing ethics or fly fishing story section of the board ?
Just a thought, back to my corporate problems ! :eyecrazy: :eyecrazy:
|Check out Cape Fear rod company - they build some brutal sticks. I've not fished them but have spoken with folks whoi have and the reports are good - how about an 18wt?
|I built a 15 weight rod for my son to keep on his boat incase someone decides they want to give it a try. I think it has done in blue sharks around 100 lbs, yellow fin tuna to about 40, and quite a few mahi mahi. Striblue you arer on the right track about the reel, you could use a broomhandle with guides for a rod. From experince, :eyecrazy: get an anti- reverse reel and carry lots of backing.and always have a week-link in your leader system say 20 lbs. its not very good seeing your flyline disappear. I also found if you are trolling a fly one wants something that is going to throw a roostertail in the wash, the bogger the better. I was experimenting with a Parrakeet Fly made of yarn, hard to tie, but works pretty well. If you are chumming be sure to have several chum flies. At the winter shows talk to Captain Bill Brown of the "Billfish" out of Westerly He has been bluewater flyfishing for years. I will have to post some bluewater flies ArtB
|Don't know..maybe a 16 but I have held the 14 and it is a short rod...7 feet...not really a casting rod...used for Marlin buy teasing them up with the rubber lure then droping the fly ,letting line out near the teaser.... I do know that the 12 will work on small BFT as the 12 is a good tarpon and shark rod. My 12 is a very stiff Winston XTR with a fore grip. They easily cast the whole fly line and then some into the backing.
Interesting, what is the heaviest weight fly rod on the market now ? I don't have anything over a 10 weight for our type of FF.
12 weight sounds light to me for those size of fish.
|Believe it or not a lot of guys will use a 12 wt and don't have to do a lot of casting..only when a fish is spotted or jig the fly down with a 650 grain. Tuna have been spotted within 5 mile of shore as well. Roop and Bob Pink went out about 10 I think and spotted tuna. I raised the 14 wt as insurance and the reel has to be bigger for the backing which I think you already know. Just a thought.
Sounds highly intensive from a cost, time, and physical perspective. I can see why there are very few people doing it. Need a high seas craft and costly equipment just to begin the pursuit. 50 miles out is farther than I would venture out in the ocean. Most I have been is twenty miles off NJ coast.
A 14 weight rod, I don't know if I could handle one of those for more than a couple of casts to a mako shark or whatever. Probably need to increase my weight lifting program to throw that weight.
I wonder if Ernest Hemingway or Zane Grey would have tried fly fishing in blue water if they had the fly fishing tackle we have today ?
Look forward to reports when they come.
|PM...and Art...I am working on it... looking at a 14 wt rod with appropriate reel.... 15 to 20 miles off the Cape...shark and tuna... my next concentration... will be looking at Bluewater flytying also. We need to get that forum going.
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PM Flyfisher, The reason why no reports as I see it, is because there is not a lot of bluewater flyfishing on this board. I guess the reason is this board is almost strictly flyfishing, offshore flyfishing requires a certain crazy breed. There is other :eyecrazy: Flyfishing boards that deal with bluewater flyfishing, but when the truth is known most is with winches, and fighting chairs. Most guys on this board are flyfishermen that do not get much opportunity for bluewater flyfishing. It requires a rather large allowance. Gas alone is about $300, at least , it is quite a run offshore. I haven't been yet this year, so no reports from me. My son has gone a couple of times, but most of his charters have been inshore this year, economy is down.I guess they tangled with a big hammerhead shark last week the hammerhead won. Here again this was not flyfishing. I hope to go soon. I had hoped 4 guys could get together and go for a day, but it hasn't worked out. In the past it has been exciting to stand in the stern throwing flys at a couple of circling Mako's, but seeing them and getting them on a fly is very difficult. In my neck of the woods it is about a 50 mile run to good offshore fishing. This month should be about the top in the area. If I get out I will post. The fish are there right now but I am not.:eyecrazy:
Still no blue water reports yet ?
Must be an unexplored fishery or wrongly defined as "blue water".
I know what "blue water" in the ocean is addressing so where are the reports on tuna, sail fish, marlin, etc.. on the fly ?
Where are the blue water reports ?
Ok its July, July-September should be the prime blue water fly fishing time around the world or at least North America, who really does this type of fly fishing ? Is there any one ?
Other wise lets convert this space to either the "Indicator" anglers or "Fly fishing Ethics" section or some other useful topic, etc......
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text: In my thirteenth year of Star Wars collecting, I can safely say that I quit, after seeing these sorry excuses for action figures for 2008. The cartoon style is just silly. If I was five years old I might be thrilled, but as an adult collector, Hasbro has failed me. I want figures I saw in the movies, not these. It is a shame, the figures, with a few exceptions, where really getting good, especially compared with the old POTF2 line. It was like a dream come true, until today. No more Vintage Line? Go to hell Hasbro! You will not be getting any of my money this year, and I predict that this cartoon crap will be a miserable business failure. See you in 2009, if Hasbro's Star Wars line can survive that long.


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Spent about an hour apt-get upgrading my box. At last i managed to unbreak my package configuration though. Solved an annoying problem with the perl5.6 packages not having a /usr/bin/perl symlink in.
Started work on my collection on python powered GNOME applets now that i've completed the docs for GNOME-Stones i need something else to keep me busy.
Ressu has been merging the 4.3 PHP-Nuke tree into DP's CVS hopefully, we'll be able to merge our changes and complete the TODO list.
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