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Five years ago, when Sean "Sickboy" McNab stepped on stage at the Salmon Festival concert in Grand Falls-Windsor, he was only there to help set up for Alexisonfire. Still, many in the crowd recognized him, and started chanting, "Creepshow! Creepshow!" as he helped move gear around.
This week, McNab is making it back to the province with the rest of The Creepshow, to perform two long-awaited shows at CBTGs on George Street.
The psychobilly band, based in Ontario, has undergone a few changes over the past five years, but only McNab insists, when it comes to its members; not its style or sound.
First, lead singer Jen "Hellcat" Blackwood had a baby and left the group, and was replaced by her sister, Sarah.
Drummer Matt Pomade decided to quit touring once he got engaged, and earlier this year, Sarah's priorities also changed after her other band, Walk Off the Earth, gained quick popularity with their YouTube cover of Gotye's "Somebody That I Used to Know," played by the five band members on the same guitar at the same time.
Enter drummer Sandro Sanchioni, guitarist Daniel (no last name) and singer Kenda Legaspi.
"We've never really had a guitarist who could bring us to the next level," says McNab.
McNab, who plays the upright bass, and The Reverend McGinty are the band's remaining original members.
"A friend of mine heard we were looking for a new singer, and told me, 'She's perfect, she's got the voice, she's gorgeous and she's covered in tattoos,'" says McNab of Legaspi.
"We held auditions and as soon as Kenda spit out three words, we just all looked at each other, like 'She's perfect.'"
Despite the changes, The Creepshow has never stopped touring, and is currently on a country-wide tour that will see a stop in Halifax before it comes to St. John's for gigs on Thursday and Friday nights.
The band have been working out some new material on stage, while still performing the punk- and country-twinged, horror-themed rockabilly from records "Sell Your Soul," "Run For Your Life" and "They All Fall Down" that has earned them a worldwide following.
Since McNab and McGinty have always done much of the songwriting, the sound doesn't vary much.
"It's always a worry when you change singers, but I think a lot of people are just glad we didn't pack it all in," said McNab - who has played here before with his former band, Jersey.
Local fans should expect nothing less than the raucous show they've been looking forward to for the past five years.
"It'll be a really good time," McNab says. "A good party and a lot of fun."
The Creepshow will play Thursday night with special guests Jack Marks and the Lost Wages, 2 Guitars Clash, Rocket Rocketship and Uneeda, and on Friday night with Minus a Lung, DT and the Dinosaurs, Brat Attack and Wild in the Streets.
Tickets are $12 in advance at Fred's Records and Rosie the Rebel, or $15 at the door.
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If Donald Trump's ludicrous flaxen pompadour and that nauseating reality television show were not enough to put you off him, this documentary should do the trick. In a vigorous and unabashedly partisan manner, it charts the oafish and bullying New York tycoon's attempt to establish a resort development with two golf courses in a sensitive heritage coastal zone near Aberdeen in Scotland.
Lawyers for Trump tried unsuccessfully in October to stop the BBC from screening the film, calling it "highly biased and manipulative", and they have laid complaints with the relevant authorities.
That's hardly surprising: Baxter, a British journalist, makes Trump, who both literally and metaphorically bulldozes everything in his way, look pretty bad, though it has to be said that Trump gives him plenty of help. When, at a function, he comes across a local woman he plainly considers easy on the eye, Baxter's microphone catches him suggesting to his minders that "she may want to work for sales and stuff".
Baxter wisely builds his story around a handful of impressively immovable local residents, who constitute the very thin front line of opposition. But he lays out his case with cool precision: the Scottish Government ignores its own environmental rules to give the project the green light and the local constabulary do not exactly cover themselves with glory.
The film's channelling of Bill Forsyth's 1983 film Local Hero, set on the same coast, and over-energetic editing are both distracting and unnecessary and the repeated sequences that depict Baxter's travails in making the film risk a loss of focus. A passing mention of what the project's impact might have been on the endemic unemployment would have been useful, too. But in a country like ours, where governments are keen to bend the rules for rich foreigners, this makes compelling viewing.
Stars: 3.5/5
Director: Anthony Baxter
Running time: 95 mins
Rating: PG (low-level offensive language)
Verdict: Portrait of an oaf
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It is a long drive pulling a boat, But that is the way it goes some days. I am sure we will not make it back down for stripers. Work & the Cape are calling. But the Blues will be here soon And that will bring us & our old flys back to the Bay real soon. Hope to see you then
Thanks Phil. Nice to read fish reports while at the office. Must want to make you wet a line in one of those water fountains.
Timing is everthing as you fully know. Just wish comming all that way trailing you caught some of the action.
|Once again, Very nice Capt'n. Keep up the good work
Great read and photos Capt. Ray! Thanks.
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Hotel 6 left the light on!
Ron checked in the night before a fishing trip to get some much needed rest. Bright and bushy tailed, he arrived at my house at 4:45 am brand new and full of enthusiasm. We splashed at 5:00 and idled our way thru the harbor and moorings of Greenwich Cove. Outside the wake zone, the motor roared to life. We were off and greeted by a spectacular sunrise and flat conditions.
We viewed some bird activity quickly leaving the cove near Sally Rock, but nothing materialized. Turning the corner at Warwick Light we headed toward Providence Point to get a much better view of the bay. Took a few cast into the boulder field and as they say, No Love. Headed on an easterly bearing we fished around the shoreline of Colt State Park. Ron is finally tight after several dozen casts with a quality striper tugging at his fingertips. The highlight for me during the struggle is when Ron comments and tells me, This is my first fish of the season. It was nice to break the ice for him this season.
Off we motor to the Barrington shoreline to fish over structure. Several boats on the "Rocks" were already on the prime spots. No luck. We move off toward the shore to find some virgin water. Ron quickly spots a patch of rough water inside a cove. The patch starts to move outward and we find a school of large menhaden trying to protect it selves in the shallows. At first the bunker is relaxed, lazily swimming in a clockwise circle. Than suddenly a surface burst occurs with one giant boil. The fish get tightly packed and increase their speed. We have fun watching the experience and nailed a few pogies on a fly. We let them free swim with the fly attached and have some fun watching the spectacle. Our battles last but a few minutes before the large stripers releases their grip on their meal.
It doesn't take long for the few bass that are present to finish their meal. Gone! Each adult pogie is over a pound a piece. Me thinking no more than three can be consumed by one fish at a single time.
Temperatures started to soar into the nineties as the day advances with the bright sunlight and cloudless sky. We didn't produce the numbers today like previous trips, but we had quality fish.
The day wasn't over just yet till Ron had a chance to teach me a lesson in humility. Ron switches off to his famed red and white Clouser and begins to cast. After some light banter about the switch, Ron is tight to the reel and the fight is on. After a few minutes of struggle, the fish is tight to the bottom and cannot be budged. Nothing happens for a while. We both think now that the fish is off and the fly snagged to the bottom. Ron applies a little more leverage and breaks it free. The fish is still on. The picture shows the results, an 8 lb. blackfish. Who would have thought!
There are plenty of pods of bunker around at least for the time being. Fish early darkness into the morning would be your best bet. Plenty of boats the holiday weekend. The early angler will catch the fish.
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On the eve of the 2014 Sochi Olympics in Russia, thousands of human rights supporters came together at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, NYC for an unforgettable night. Imagine Dragons, Flaming Lips, Ms. Lauryn Hill, Tegan and Sara, Cold War Kids, Colbie Caillat, The Fray, Cake and others performed. Madonna took the stage to announce members from Russian art collective PussyRiot, who were recently freed from prison after 21 months (and hundreds of thousands of online actions by Amnesty activists).
Stories were told. Actions taken. Lives changed.
Thank you to all who took part. We hope you join us as we continue to bring human rights home.
"Amnesty's past concerts have featured some of the greatest artists of our generation and have been catalysts for real, measurable change. It's an honor to perform as part of this event and continue the cause of championing human rights around the world."
-- Dan Reynolds, lead singer of Grammy-nominated rock band Imagine Dragons
"We are happy to support Amnesty International's work on behalf of human rights and political prisoners. We, more than anyone, understand how important Amnesty's work is in connecting activists to prisoners."
-- Nadezhda "Nadya" Tolokonnikova and Maria "Masha" Alekhina, members of Pussy Riot who were jailed in 2012 for publicly criticizing Russian president Vladimir Putin in a church
"I am honored to introduce my fellow freedom fighters Masha and Nadya from Pussy Riot. I have admired their courage and have long supported their commitment and the sacrifices they have made in the name of freedom of expression and human rights."
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I like the way you guys think!
I'm glad you guys are digging the story. I really hated the figure in all its myriad color schemes until I saw the version from the SRO set, which proved that it just needed a decent paint job. (Not sure why none of the 4,325,786 other decos of this mold have anything but flat applications that look awful.)
By the way, this may not exactly be the right thread, but here's my preferred use for (pieces of) Agent Helix, Baroness: Attack on the GIJoe Pit, and Desert Ambush Scarlett (along with DVD set Lady Jaye and Indiana Jones). Way far from finished, and the paint on the head is especially jacked up right now from the hair transplant, but I think she's looking pretty cool so far. Be kind; she's my first custom to involve this level of dis-assembly and parts-swapping.
(Edit: Dangit, I'm not sure how to rotate the pic once it's here. You'll figure out the gist of it.)
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[FONT=Courier New]That custom looks really great El Chuxter and thanks for the news on the hair being able to come off. I may have to check that out for possible female Jedi customs.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Courier New]PS: Your camera should allow you to rotate a photo before you post it.[/FONT]
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All the female heads post 25th line have had hair that is glued/removable. It's not just Helix.
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Thanks for the kind words, guys. If you notice any problems, please don't take me too literally at the "be kind" comment. I know of a couple of issues, the chief one being the length of her arms. I like the appearance of a little exposed wrist, though, so I might "cheat" by displaying her with both arms bent to hide that they appear to be the equivalent of about four inches longer than normal. (The legs are a tad proportionally long, but I purposefully chose parts that had the right appearance and were slightly longer, going for a "leggy" appearance since she was a former model.) There's some damage under her right, uh, boob from me not using enough padding when cracking the torso, but I think some paint and the jacket should totally obscure that from sight. My only real regret is that I wanted to keep the original face, but, even if it hadn't messed up, I'm not entirely sure it was painted fully enough to not expose yellow plastic with the Baroness hair.
There's probably a how-to from someone better at it than me, but I found boiling the head for a minute or two, slowly working something between the head and hair, and repeating, using an x-acto knife when absolutely necessary, worked best. The bulk of the cement seemed to be in the back and in the groove attachment in the top (which I wasn't aware of until I got to it); once it's only attached in the groove, the hair twisted off fairly easily.
I think the amored Scarlett figure actually has a nicer head of hair, but it's too well-managed, IMHO, for any Joe who's actually going into combat. I can see Cover Girl putting on her designer boots and making sure her bomber jacket is properly positioned for maximum style before going out to run over Cobras in her tank, but not taking two hours and a can of mousse on her hair.
I know I could rotate the pic before it was uploaded, but I thought you could do it afterward. I'm just lazy.
BTW, I'm somewhat ignorant when it comes to guns, but I'm noticing a dearth of M-16's in the line, and Marauder appears to only sell them with the grenade launcher attachment. What's the best way to get an M-16 of decent enough quality to use with a Joe, but without the grenade launcher? CG's filecard lists that as one of her qualified firearms, but she's rather small and I somehow don't see her dealing with the extra weight of the grenade launcher. (Lady Jaye, on the other hand, would not only carry it, but beat people over the head with it. )
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Well considering the M16 went out of service style in the 80s and they switched to the M4 or some other weapon?
I'm weird, every Joe but Scarlett and Lady Jaye for me has a Marauder gun. I break them down into Joe guns and Cobra guns when new sets come out. There is one Marauder M16 with removable clip. I understand the want/need for the file card, but there's so much better guns out there now. For the females I'm torn between MP5s and P90s, although the MP7 has made quite the impression on me (i love marauder's version, especially with a scope and the modular silencer!!!). There's the Brittish LR85, I tend to avoid the AUG21 since I place that gun in the Cobra camp.
There was an M4/M16 from Hasbro that came with a shotgun underslung it from Hasbro. I always found that one very easy to trim off and instant M16. Let me dig around for a day or two I can try to see what I have since I'm trying to forcibly retire the M16 from all figures I own.
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I picked up an exclusive set at TRU that's a Mole Pod, two Neo Vipers (with slightly different outfits and/or bodies), a Pit Commando with short sleeves, Duke, and Ripcord. It was $25, a huge bargain. I was on the fence, since I have one Mole Pod, want to get the second for the upcoming Lava Viper, and am not particularly crazy about the vehicle in the first place. But, as cheap as it was (buy five figures for $10 less than retail, and get a Mole Pod free), I figured better to snatch it up while it was there than pass.
At that price, that thing is a far cry from the Lars homestead set.
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My hands are complaining again. I'm not sure what exactly they are complaining about: using my mouse, using emacs' key sequences, or just being at the keyboard for so long.
I've tried a few things. One was to make an .Xmodmap file and map my PC keyboard to a more SUN keyboard (swap the Caps Lock and Ctrl keys). That worked for a bit until I had to use another computer. So lately I've just remapped my most commonly used emacs commands to the function keys. I have twelve of them, so I might as well use them.
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We got some hint of that last week, when Panos was arrested. It seems the ex–Buffalo Bill went home to Wisconsin and became a minority owner of the Milwaukee Iron, an Arena Football League franchise. He and his wife filed for divorce this past November, but Panos must not have been over her, because he showed up at his wife's house on Valentine's Day and found another dude spooning out his grapefruit, if you know what I mean. The hulking ex-jock got so mad he went into the garage, raided a golf bag, and then proceeded to smash the interloper's vehicle with some of the clubs.
Cops arrived and charged Panos with disorderly conduct and criminal destruction of property. The police report said the woman and the victim have been dating for five months — you can do the math and see why the marriage went bad.
All things considered, you'd have to give Panos credit for not physically harming his ex's new beau. A lot of football players would have done much worse. Give him 11 points for breaking a windshield and being scary.
10 lords-a-leaping, 9 Henrys crying . . .No golden rings!
Or so said a judge this past week, when constantly copulating ex-Bills/Titans/Broncos running back Travis Henry — he of the nine children by nine women — went to court to ask to have a $3000 child-support payment reduced. The judge denied the request, apparently accepting arguments from opposing counsel that Henry had made a great many irresponsible purchases (including a $100,000 car and $146,000 in jewelry) that could be liquidated if needed. When asked about a series of $70,000 withdrawals Henry made after he was cut by the Broncos this past year, however, Henry took the fifth. The man is under indictment on cocaine-trafficking charges, you see, and it seems the cash might be related to that matter. "All those big withdrawals have to do with my [criminal] case," Henry said.
Henry signed a contract for $22.5 million with the Broncos — $12 million of that guaranteed — just a few years back, but now he is apparently broke. This guy is rising fast in the sports-criminal pantheon. No points for this thing, it not really being a crime. Let's see where he ends up later this year after the court rules in his coke-trafficking case.
Meanwhile . . .Henry, some folks might remember, originally came into this league as a hard-to-bring-down running back who packed unusual power and breakaway ability into average size and speed, breaking tackles with abandon in the snow of Ralph Wilson Stadium. Remind you of anyone?
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Money Managers Bailing Out of Natural-Gas Shorts: Data
The latest data on speculative funds' bets in natural gas futures is in from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. It suggests something of a floor in bearish sentiment.
From Dow Jones Newswires' David Bird:
Commodity funds and other money managers reduced ... their bets on falling natural-gas futures prices by 45% in the latest week, CFTC data show. Commitment of traders for the week ended Tuesday show these investors cut their short position--or bets on falling prices--by 8,876 contracts in the week, while raising the long position by 4,670 contracts. The net-short position dropped to 16,658 from 30,205 contracts a week earlier. The repositioning lifted front-month futures prices by 4.8% in the reporting period. Prices have climbed a further 1.2% since Tuesday, suggesting further erosion in funds' confidence that gas has more room to fall, analysts said.
United States Natural Gas Fund L.P. (UNG) is now down fractionally for 2013 after a 17% drop the last three months.
Leveraged ETFs VelocityShares 3x Long Natural Gas ETN (UGAZ) and Direxion Daily Natural Gas Related Bull 3x Shares (GASL) are down 21% and up 22%, respectively.


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To all gun owners, hunters and shooting sports people. A bill has been introduced in the house of rep. It is H.R. 45 Holt's bill. This is a dangerous bill that would require a fed. permit to own any handgun or semiauto weapon that uses a feeder clip. There goes my deer rifle and my small game 22.
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The Center for Maine Contemporary Art is back in full swing after an unexpected winter hiatus. The opening of the center's Biennial this weekend was celebratory, the cars that lined the lengths of the sleepy Rockport streets evidence of the community's support. The whitewashed galleries are now crowded with works by 41 artists who bear various connections to Maine, culled from a daunting pool of 654 applicants by jurors George Adams of George Adams Gallery in New York, Boston-based independent curator Rachael Arauz, and Belfast landscape painter Dennis Pinette.
While aiming to present both the resilience of a Maine artistic tradition and Maine's contribution to the larger contemporary scene, the exhibit is heavy on the former, with landscape paintings and photography running rampant and a curious absence of video, sound, and new media. Many of the landscapes are beautifully rendered — Susan A. Cooney's miniature graphite islands are impeccable, and Ken Sahr's bleak portraits of Seal Harbor cool and nostalgic — but as a force here they are underwhelming.
Where the success lies in this pairing of the traditional and the progressive is the confrontation and integration of the two. Several artists act as ambassadors here. Carrie Dickason's "Untitled (Garden)" addresses the assimilation of the unnatural and synthetic into our landscapes with her cinder-block raised-bed installation in the gallery, in which a mish-mash of living grass, shag rug, and de-threaded oriental carpet are interwoven. Kenneth Deprez's "Through the Body" layers pencil and acrylic on mirrored photographs of roller coaster scaffolding, reminiscent of Bernd and Hilla Becher's photographs of industrial architecture. Blocks of transparent color are Tetris-ed over the image, and red lines harshly dissect the work, giving the overall effect of a hazy and questionable memory of a place. John Lorence's abstracted oils on canvas feed mountainous horizons through refracted shards, with muted earth tones and fleshy pinks framed by assertive black lines, both graphic and expressive.
Rangeley couple Shannon Rankin and Justin Richel provided two of the strongest works in the show, both with large-scale installations nicely occupying their own brand of witty elegance. Rankin, who was awarded the Juror's Prize, pushes her topographic metaphors into three-dimensional space with "Falls," a graceful and exacting pyramid of cascading parabolas snipped from the baby blue oceans in maps. Jurors lauded her "rare zone of originality" and her "language of abstraction clearly defined." Richel's "Whirling Dervish" introduces the upstairs gallery with a 10-foot-tall wispy tornado of his trademark candy-colored pastries, ewers, modern and Victorian furniture all spilled from a bright blue coffee cup. Each object in Richel's Carroll-inspired tea-party-gone-disaster is painstakingly rendered in gouache and cut from paper, delectably and eerily perfect in perspective and detail.
Cassie Jones parallels Richel in the gallery, with a wall-size grid comprised of 72 bold and whimsical works on paper. Each piece contains a brightly hued seed-like form, seemingly plucked from a constellation of like forms. The works within the grid reflect one another but are never repetitive, suggesting something molecular, something mechanical, but mostly something playful. Squirreled away beside Jones's work in the gallery, and unfortunately trumped by the grid only because of their subtlety, are Bridget Spaeth's gorgeous wood-panel sculptures: confidently minimal architectural elements protruding in quiet arcs from the wall.
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Rise, It's Showtime Japan Announce September Matchups
- Written by Dave Walsh
In the main event of September 23rd's RISE 83, NJKF Super Flyweight Champion KENJI, brother of Yuta Kubo, will take on #3 ranked Ryuma Tobe in a fight that will have large implications for the RISE Bantamweight title that Nobuchiko Terado has vacated. KENJI made it to the semifinals of the Krush 55kg tournament, but lost to eventual champion Shota Takiya. In his last 10, KENJI has only lost to Takiya and the aforementioned Terado. Tobe is currently on a 2-fight winning streak. Also announced for RISE 83 is a bout between TURBO and Hirotaka Egawa(?).
On September 11th at It's Showtime Japan 3, former It's Showtime -61kg Champion Sergio Wielzen will take on Kanongsuk Weerasakreck in yet another bout that will likely have implications at the It's Showtime title. Wielzen defeated Frenchman Mikael Peynaud for the inaugural It's Showtime 61kg title and defeated Masahiro Yamamoto in his first defense, but lost the title to Karim Bennoui. Kanongsuk has been on a tear as of late, going 8-1 in his last 9 with wins over Hiromasa Masuda, Genki Yamamoto and Rashata while his only loss is to current IS 61kg #1 contender Kan Itabashi. Already announced for the card are matchups between WBC Japan Super Bantamweight Champion Genji Umeno will take on Techakarin Chuwattana(?) while WPMF Japan Featherweight Champion Yosuke Morii will take on kickboxing convert and former WBO Bantamweight Champion Ratanchai Sor Vorapin. {jcomments on}


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Over at Motion Math Games, a developer GeekDad has long admired for bringing math to kinesthetic learners, they have put their app where more apps should be – under the researcher's microscope. They invested their own funds and partnered with the GameDesk Institute to have a look at the real educational value of the iPad and their app and whether it indeed supports and improves children's ability to learn math, specifically fractions, which their Motion Math app is based on.
The recently released study is called Motion Math in Class.
There is a lot of anecdotal evidence about the value of the iPad, many would say so overwhelming that the significant investment being made by School Districts into mobile technologies and tablets isn't worthwhile. But, without any decent research or proven randomized trials to demonstrate the educational effectiveness, anyone making claims about the huge educational benefits of certain technologies, apps or other new product is not doing it based on any rigor or serious testing. So, it is heartening to see at least this developer recognizing the importance of putting their money behind some work to try to establish whether there is educational value behind not just what they are doing, but what we are all doing as our children move into a world of mobile technologies.
The value of such research is not really in the final percentage breakdowns listing the achievements of children and whether they have benefited or not from using an app or a piece of mobile technology. The real value is understanding the nuances and grappling with questions that app developers in this space should be tackling like:
- What aspects of the design contribute to improved learning?
- How do children engage with the tools as learning devices and what can we learn from this in improving our development?
- Is it the app itself that supports learning, or the nature of the device, or a combination – and what is that combination and how can we better use it to improve learning?
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By Kevin Tate/Outdoors Writer
As much a tradition as the seasons themselves, the wild game suppers that spring up in the swing time between the close of deer and the opening of crappie fill tables and meeting halls wherever friends may gather.
An opportunity to share extra fish and game with friends, a chance to swap recipes and share stories, to break bread together and enjoy a few laughs and a good meal on a gray February day all bring out area chefs' best work in nature's provender.
Two such events, one on Monday in Pittsboro and another in Dorsey on Feb. 23, are prime examples of what can be created through the community spirit.
In Pittsboro, a yearly wild game supper began in the 1980s and steadily built in popularity for a time. Renewed in 2003, the now-annual tradition brings more than 100 friends and their families together at the Calhoun County Agri-Center's multi-purpose building.
The event includes a wild-game-related program and a friendly competition for best dish in a variety of categories. Judging for this year's event begins at 6 p.m. and the program commences 30 minutes later. This year's speaker will be Eric Michel, from Mississippi State University, who'll discuss the causes of antler and body size differences in the state's deer herd. The price of admission is $1 for those who bring a dish and $3 for those who do not.
"We enjoy it and it's just a good event all around," Millie Goforth said. She, her husband Joe and a core group of their neighbors coordinate the event, which includes drinks, homemade desserts and pulled pork barbecue for those of less adventurous palate. For more information about the Pittsboro event, contact Goforth at 628-6260.
Breaking grass in Dorsey
At Bethel Baptist Church in Dorsey, an event set for Feb. 23 is expected to draw more than 400 people for a similar wild game event, this one headlined by Mossy Oak's Greg Briggs and by Breaking Grass, a group that plays bluegrass and gospel music. Additional events are expected to include fishing advice from Clay Coleman, of Clay's Bait and Tackle in Tupelo.
"We did one of these about three years ago," Jerry Marlin, one of the event's coordinators, said. "This is our second one. If the word gets out, we should have a good crowd because we have such a wide variety of game. There'll be elk, deer, hog, squirrel, crappie, bass and catfish for sure, then we'll have some exotic things like beaver and raccoon and other things because lots of folks want to try that."
As with the Pittsboro event, there'll be alternate dishes for those not inclined to try the wild game.
A community event
"Out here in Dorsey, we've got so many hunters and fishermen, and that includes men, women and children, it just fits very well with our community," Marlin said.
The event will serve as a fundraiser for the church's children's ministry, so admission is set at $10 for adults and $5 for youngsters 12 and under. For more information about the Dorsey event, contact Bethel Baptist Church at 862-7375.


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Any doctrine that weakens personal responsibility for judgment and for action helps create the attitudes that welcome and support the totalitarian state.
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Any doctrine that weakens personal responsibility for judgment and for action helps create the attitudes that welcome and support the totalitarian state.
(John Dewey)
Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.
(George Washington)
Gig'em Aggies!! BTCO'77HOO t.u.!!
Trickle down economics.............. The Government awards Hallibuton a $7 billion dollar contract (which they were the only company allowed to bid), Dick Cheney sticks $50 million of our tax payer money in his own pocket then buys his cabin, hires a maid and a butler. Of course Dick Cheney is the hero since he's going to pay his 10% in taxes while the butler and the maid are basically going to live off the Government. This is a great plan.
i am almost certainly the first conservative, part time poster here to give credit to president jimmy carter for his original appointment of paul volker as chairman of the federal reserve. volker seemed at one time to understand the folly of the continuous monkeying around with money supply and governmental spending in order to stimulate the economy. thus he is credited by me with the total elimination of "keynesian economic" policies that had been thought credible for decades. his changes to monetary policy created market uncertainty that temporarily resulted in inflation, recession and the highest recorded interest rates in our history. imho these temporary impacts unjustly hang around carter's legacy. volker was wisely and thankfully reappointed by newly elected president ronald reagan in 1980. once the free market and its business leaders began to experience the certainty that existed when these new economic policies replaced the mistaken keynesian economics of the past, one of the greatest periods of growth and prosperity in our history began.
also in that period, economist and advisor arthur laffer's curve demonstrated the relationship between tax rates and tax revenues. essentially, a tax rate of zero% generates tax revenues of zero dollars. likewise, a tax rate of 100% generates tax revenues of zero dollars.(since no sane american will go out and work and recieve no income since it is all taken by taxes) laffer proposed that there is a tax tate that will maximize tax revenues by motivating people to produce by allowing them to keep what they earn and at the same time be happy with what is taken from them by their government. to exceed this optimal taxation rate on income creates disincentive to produce and will ultimately result in less total tax revenue.(zero at 100%) the tax act of 1986 followed and eliminated the top marginal tax rates that were previously as high as 70%(i think). total tax revenues skyrocketed with these rate decreases and prosperity and growth skyrocketed too!
now for some reason our current administration has revived the debunked keynesian economic policies of the past where govenment stimulus and manipulation of money are thought answers to economic issues.
"supply side economics" is simple and essentially is thought to state that if government gets out of the way(less regulation on producers) and tax rates are set to maximize both production and tax revenues(a policy debate as to what rate maximizes total revenues) then the free market will competitively produce and supply goods to consumers that are of higher quality and cost less than are possible under any other scenario.
it has been a long time since i took an economics class but things that make good ol' common sense like the laffer curve and supply side economics stay with me a while.
i may not accurately recall what happend in our nations economic history or accurately define "supply side econ", but this i know-if that rich bastard is taxed such that he can't build his house or expand his factory, this general contractor and home builder will not, i repeat, will not be able to continue the derby campaign of his two current competitors or next years pup either and that my friends would be a shame!
would i trade those "dog campaigns" for national debt reductions? sure i would. would i trade those campaigns for entitlements to enable a meth addict or to buy a pack of newport menthols.........
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ask yourself, how is it that bill and hillary were worth tens of millions even prior to being elected president? hillary worked at a law firm($150k in the '80's), bills best paying job was governor of arkansas($150k for four years). prior to book deals, $100k speaking engagements, etc. good money but not enough to create true wealth. obama and michele, she was at a law firm($200k in the '90's) he a community organizer(what? $35k) and they are worth millions prior to his senate run? why do they do it. BECAUSE IT'S WORTH IT!!!!
corruption is not new......and not limited to political party. but an awarded government contract to haliburton, solyndra or whoever has nothing to do with trickle down economics......that is keynesian economic principles. even if cheney is a free market believer i can assure you when he was walking off with his wheel barrow full of benjamins he didn't refer to that trick as trickle down!
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About the trickle down thing.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/...ma-and-romney/In 1980, Americans were bearing double-digit interest rates and inflation, growing trade deficits on oil and with export juggernauts Japan and newly industrializing economies in Asia, and stuck in a malaise of self-doubt quite similar to today.
Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, appointed in August 1979, pushed interest rates even higher to halt runaway inflation, the economy suffered two wrenching recessions, and unemployment peaked at 10.8 percent just 22 months into the Reagan presidency.
The Reagan recovery package emphasized putting money and decision making back into the hands of ordinary citizens and private businesses. Immediate tax cuts, followed by tax reform—just three personal income tax rates, a top rate of 28 percent, and fewer special breaks and loopholes.
He removed Carter-era policies that discouraged domestic oil production, and aggressively sought to right-size regulation—not slash and burn, but retaining what was needed to keep business honest and foster competition, and jettisoning the rest.
All, strikingly similar to Governor Romney's platform.If my math is correct, that would mean that it took less than 2 years for the economy to show strong recovery using those methods, rather than the ones we've used over the past nearly-4 years.When President Reagan faced voters in 1984, the economy was growing at 6.3 percent and unemployment was down to 7.3 percent—it ultimately fell to 5 percent, as Old Dutch engineered a 92 month economic expansion.Plus, I think we should make anybody who does things like those $800,000 junkets in govt agencies pay dearly for such abuse of their public trust. That gal who just resigned from Homeland Security. There is a lawsuit (I believe) in progress, if that suit proves valid, she should be severely penalized ... also an abuse of her public trust as a govt employee/supervisor.Listen to Governor Romney closely—he's offering Ronald Reagan's "Morning in America" all over again—not a replay of the inept Bush administration, as Barack Obama would have voters believe.
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Your facts are wrong....unemployment fell below 6% in 1996....never saw less that 7% during the reagan/Bush H era.
His growth strategy was triple the national debt; turning his back on farmers to turn plow shears into sords
it was a feeble attempt to quote a lyric (from a well known liberal) Don Henley and his song "End of Innocence"
O' beautiful, for spacious skies
But now those skies are threatening
They're beating plowshares into swords
But it actually comes from the Bible, in more than one reference
Isaiah 2:4 He will judge between the nations and will settle disputes ...
And he shall judge the Gentiles, and rebuke many people: and they shall turn their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into sickles: nation shall not lift up


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In 1987, the Indiana General Assembly passed a law that extended the school year to 180 days. Before the law was passed and schools were required to make up lost days, Indiana high school graduates went to school the fewest number of days during their 13 years of schooling of students in any state in the United States. In fact, Indiana and Hawaii were the only states that did not reschedule canceled instructional days at that time.
Since that law was passed, schools are required to complete 180 full instructional days, based on the instructional time requirements described above. In the event of emergency weather conditions, schools are allowed a maximum of 120 minutes for a delayed arrival or an early dismissal. Anything beyond that amount of lost instructional time is not considered a full instructional day and the day cannot count as one of the 180 required instructional days.


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"Force fetch isn't about retrieving as much as it is conditioning a dog to handle pressure, in a very controlled environment. It's about putting a dog in the position of having to figure out how to turn off pressure by finding the correct response. This translates into numerous areas in training." Sharon Potter.
VERY VERY COOL!!!!!!!!!! Great Job
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This isn't a social event!!! Get a dog on the line!!
very nice to see a youngster and dog working together and thanks for taking your daughter out and getting her into the great outdoors.
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Family: Felidae, Cats view all from this family
Description The largest cat in the New World, Jaguars are unmistakable, powerfully built, spotted cats. Coat is tawny-colored with large black rosettes. Rosettes are also visible in the rare black morph.
Dimensions 1.7-2.4m, 52-67cm, 79-158kg; / 1.6-2.2m, 43-60cm, 31-85kg
Endangered Status The Jaguar is on the U.S. Endangered Species List. It is classified as endangered in Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. This cat was once a regular inhabitant of the U.S., but now apparently only wanders north of Mexico. The settlement of the West contributed to its decline, as development modified the Jaguar's historical habitat and proximity with humans caused other problems. Jaguars were often killed for fear that they preyed on livestock, as well as for their fur, which was quite coveted. Although no Jaguars are currently known to be breeding in the U.S., individuals are still seen north of Mexico, mainly in Arizona.
Habitat Forests & woodlands, Scrub, shrub & brushlands, Swamps, marshes & bogs
Range Southwest, Texas
Discussion Active any time of day. The US population was hunted to extinction in the 1800s, but recent sightings in Arizona suggest the possibility of reestablishment. They are active both day and night. Solitary hunters of large and medium-sized prey in warm forests and desert scrub, they prefer streamside and wetter habitats.


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MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Republicans in the Wisconsin Senate voted Wednesday night to strip nearly all collective bargaining rights from public workers after discovering a way to bypass the chamber's missing Democrats.
All 14 Senate Democrats fled to Illinois nearly three weeks ago, preventing the chamber from having enough members present to consider Gov. Scott Walker's so-called "budget repair bill" - a proposal introduced to plug a $137 million budget shortfall.
The Senate requires a quorum to take up any measures that spend money. But Republicans on Wednesday split from the legislation the proposal to curtail union rights, which spends no money, and a special conference committee of state lawmakers approved the bill a short time later.
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Gananath Obeyesekere , professor of anthropology emeritus, has been selected to receive the Huxley Memorial Medal for 2003.
The medal, the highest honor presented by the Royal Anthropological Institute, is awarded annually to a scientist, British or foreign, distinguished in any field of anthropology in the widest sense.
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Barbs and Gouramis?
I have 3 dwarf gouramis and I was wondering would it be possible to keep a school of about 8 tiger barbs with them? Would it stress the gouramis to death because they seem to be rapid swimmers?
They would stress the gourami too death because they probably nip all their fins.... Barbs are best kept with barbs... especially tiger barbs....75 Gallon South Cichlid: Tiger Oscar and Jack Dempsey
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okay, yeah thats what i figured. thanks for the input. you always answer to my threads :)


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