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We all get to a point when we hit the wall, reach the point of diminishing return, stop having fun. Teen age boys seem to hit that point way before adults and that my friends seems to be normal. So know what we know, how do we deliver that promise without loosing our cool, making Scouting painful, and zapping the fun out of it.
I have been giving this subject a lot of thought lately and it pretty much came to a head for me the other night at our Troop meeting when I had a little chat with a Scout and his Dad. This Scout is a good kid, he is growing up and seeing where he can push and pull on the limits with his parents, school, etc… that to seems to be pretty normal, I mean, all kids test the waters. They see were they can get away with things and what they will be allowed to do and not do. But that is not really here nor there in the conversation other than to say, this young man is testing where he can and Scouting is becoming a push and pull point between his Dad and himself.
I remember when this young man entered our Troop, he was gung ho about Scouting and dove right in. He quickly worked his way through rank and never missed a good Scouting opportunity. Went to the National Jamboree and Philmont and has by and large been a good Scout. But now he has a driver's licence, a girl friend, and Scouting is not cool among the crowd he is hanging with at School. Again, normal… right?
Like I said, this all has come to a head this week, the discussion about how we maintain a good balance for our Scouts without compromising the program. How do we keep older Scouts engaged and how do we keep it fun and adventurous for them while we compete with the rest of their worlds? How is that we keep them from reaching that point of diminishing return and get them to continue to make a contribution to the Troop? How do we assist them in staying active as a member and leader in the troop?
Well, I may not have the answers, but I am willing to try to at least offer solutions.
I am, as you know, a big believer in the Patrol method. I think that the Patrols are a big piece of the puzzle here. Allowing the Scouts to maintain the Patrols of guys that they want to be with, share common interests and likes and dislikes. Maybe if they stay together, they will rally around each other. To much moving around and the Scouts start to lose interest in going through the stages of team development and maintaining that high performance attitude.
So let them pick and keep their Patrols and Patrol mates. When they invite a friend, let that friend be in their Patrol.
Leadership is always an issue also. We expect our older Scouts to be leaders. And I agree, but to what end? When they start to hit the wall, they are not affect leaders, they tend to go through the motions and develop bad attitudes. If they don't want to lead, don't make them. They will get their leadership time and I would much rather have a leader that wants to lead than one that is being forced. Leadership comes in many forms and maybe just their example can be enough till they are ready to step back into the spot light of Troop leadership.
Attendance. This one gets debated over and over again, and everyone has an opinion. By the way, I am interested in yours.. leave a comment. Here are just a few thoughts of mine regarding this issue. I am not a big proponent of forcing Scouts to be there. I want them to be there. I also understand that life for these kids (and adults) is busy. Sports, homework, vacations, friends, other clubs all pull at the Scouts and their families. Don't let Scouting be the thing that becomes the bad guy. Make Scouting something they want to be at. I have said it before, Scouting may not be for every boy and as their world pulls at them it provides an opportunity for choices to be made. The more they understand the value of Scouting and the fun, the higher on the priority list it goes. Attendance at meetings, outings, and other unit functions needs to be the choice of the Scout and the family.
But Jerry, how do you determine what "active" means? Well, I always go back to what the Boy Scouts of America has determined as the standard. Here is how the BSA defines "Active":
A Scout will be considered "active" in his unit if he is;
Registered in his unit (registration fees are current)
Not dismissed from his unit for disciplinary reasons
Engaged by his unit leadership on a regular basis (informed of unit activities through Scoutmaster conference or personal contact, etc.)
In communication with the unit leader on a quarterly basis.
(Units may not create their own definition of active; this is a national standard.)
So that's it. That is active. I may or may not agree with it, and I am sure that there are some of you that feel that this standard is a bit chinsy.. but it is what it is. That is how the Boy Scouts of America define it and that is what we must comply with when determining the activity of our Scouts. That is the standard.
And so that is what I use as my guide. Now, during the Scoutmaster conference I make it a point to ask what the Scout is getting out of the program… typically, you get out of Scouting what you put into it. So once a Scout gets to that point where Girls, Gas, and Goofing off start taking a priority and troop meetings start to take a back seat, what is he getting out of it. Does he still camp with the Troop? Does he show up for service projects or courts of honor? That would make him active, right? I think it may. The Scout will let you know how he is doing in the program, but we all know that forcing the issue on a teen-aged young man will result in push back. And then you are back at square one. The fun will officially be zapped out of it.
So what now?
First, know your Scouts. What they like, dislike, and what makes them want to be there.
Second, use the Patrol method. Enough said about that.
Finally, be flexible. It's only Scouting. There is much to be gained in our organization, but if you are not happy here, or not here at all, you won't get anything out of it.
Don't be a Troop dictator. Be as Baden-Powell said in Aides to Scoutmastership.. "To get a hold on boys, you must be their friend".
Build trust in them and let them set their course for adventures in Scouting.
Hope that made any sense… Don't zap the fun out of Scouting.
Thanks for hanging in there and reading the blog.
Have a Great Scouting day!


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Miguel co-founded and is CTO of Xamarin where he his helping turn over half a million C# developers into Android and iOS developers virtually overnight. Prior to Xamarin, Miguel has directed the Mono project since its creation in 2001 and oversaw the launches of Mono's desktop, server and mobile offerings at Novell from 2003-2011. Before Mono, he co-founded the GNOME project in 1997. In 1999 Miguel co-founded Ximian and worked on Gnumeric, and the Linux kernel. He has received the Free Software Foundation 1999 Free Software Award, the MIT Technology Review Innovator of the Year Award in 1999, and was named one of Time Magazine's 100 innovators for the new century in September 2000.

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Political correctness
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Political correctness (often abbreviated "PC") is a term which denotes language, ideas, policies, and behavior seen as seeking to minimize social and institutional offense in occupational, gender, ethnic, cultural, sexual orientation, certain other religions, beliefs or ideologies, disability, and age-related contexts, and doing so to an excessive extent.
- Politically Correct' was originally a phrase on the Leninist left to denote someone who steadfastly toed the party line. Then it evolved into 'PC', an ironic phrase among wised up leftists to denote someone whose line-toeing fervour was too much to bear. Only in connection with the PC debate itself did the phrase get picked up by people who had no fidelity to radicalism at all, but who relished the nasty syllables for their twist of irony.
- Paul Berman, "Intoduction", in Debating PC: The Debate over Political Correctness on College Campuses (New York 1992), p. 5.
- It is an article of passionate faith among 'politically correct' biologists and anthropologists that brain size has no connection with intelligence; that intelligence has nothing to do with genes; and that genes are probably nasty fascist things anyway.
- Richard Dawkins, in The Economist, Vol. 328 (1993)
- I am politically incorrect, that's true. Political correctness to me is just intellectual terrorism. I find that really scary, and I won't be intimidated into changing my mind. Everyone isn't going to love you all the time.
- Mel Gibson, as quoted in interview with Roald Rynning in Film Review (January 1997), p. 37
- Political correctness is tyranny with manners.
- Charlton Heston, speech at the Harvard Law School (1999), as quoted in "Appreciation : Charlton Heston" in TIME magazine (6 April 2008)
- Political correctness is one of the brilliant tools that the American Right developed in the mid-1980s, as part of its demolition of American liberalism. . . . What the sharpest thinkers on the American Right saw quickly was that by declaring war on the cultural manifestations of liberalism — by levelling the charge of "political correctness" against its exponents — they could discredit the whole political project.
- It really worries me that 84% of this audience agrees with that statement, because the kind of people that say "political correctness gone mad" are usually using that phrase as a kind of cover action to attack minorities or people that they disagree with. I'm of an age that I can see what a difference political correctness has made. When I was four years old, my grandfather drove me around Birmingham, where the Tories had just fought an election campaign saying, "if you want a nigger for a neighbour, vote Labour," and he drove me around saying, "this is where all the niggers and the coons and the jungle bunnies live." And I remember being at school in the early 80s and my teacher, when he read the register, instead of saying the name of the one asian boy in the class, he would say, "is the black spot in," right? And all these things have gradually been eroded by political correctness, which seems to me to be about an institutionalised politeness at its worst. And if there is some fallout from this, which means that someone in an office might get in trouble one day for saying something that someone was a bit unsure about because they couldn't decide whether it was sexist or homophobic or racist, it's a small price to pay for the massive benefits and improvements in the quality of life for millions of people that political correctness has made. It's a complete lie that allows the right, which basically controls media now, and national politics, to make people on the left who are concerned about the way people are represented look like killjoys. And I'm sick, I'm really sick — 84% of you in this room that have agreed with this phrase, you're like those people who turn around and go, "you know who the most oppressed minorities in Britain are? White, middle-class men." You're a bunch of idiots.
- Stewart Lee, in Heresy, BBC Radio 4 (16 May 2007)
- We'll be right back to the politically correct program called "The Good, the Bad, and the Beauty Impaired."
- The term "political correctness" has always appalled me, reminding me of Orwell's "Thought Police" and fascist regimes.
- Helmut Newton, in American Photo (January/February 2000), p. 90
- Need I remind you that Stone Mountain and Birth of a Nation are also exercises in political correctness for their time, as are the inscriptions on the monuments erected by several southern states in honor of the service of their state's Confederate forces at Gettysburg?
- Brooks D. Simpson, "Erasing History? Monuments and Memory" (10 January 2016), Crossroads, WordPress
- Ranting about "political correctness" is best read as "I can't really deal with the merits of your interpretation, so I'll deride it largely because it doesn't reinforce my own preferences and prejudices."
- Brooks D. Simpson, "Erasing History? Monuments and Memory" (10 January 2016), Crossroads, WordPress
- If I could believe that this was said sincerely, I could put up with anything.
- We have now reached the point where every goon with a grievance, every bitter bigot, merely has to place the prefix, 'I know this is not politically correct, but...' in front of the usual string of insults in order to be not just safe from criticism, but actually a card, a lad, even a hero. Conversely, to talk about poverty and inequality, to draw attention to the reality that discrimination and injustice are still facts of life, is to commit the sin of political correctness. Anti-PC has become the latest cover for creeps. It is a godsend for every curmudgeon and crank, from fascists to the merely smug.
- Fintan O'Toole, The Irish Times, 5th May 1994
- Immoral (definition): Obsolete expression meaning "politically incorrect".
- Richard Summerbell, Abnormally Happy: A Gay Dictionary (1985)
- These "disguises" make us look like those politically-correct, multi-ethnic gangs that only rob people in bad TV shows.
- Brian K. Vaughan, in Runaways, 1.7 : Teenage Wasteland
- [...] secretly everybody's getting tired of political correctness, kissing up. That's the kiss-ass generation we're in right now. We're really in a pussy generation. Everybody's walking on eggshells. We see people accusing people of being racist and all kinds of stuff.
- Clint Eastwood, in Michael Hainey, Clint and Scott Eastwood: No Holds Barred in Their First Interview Together, Esquire.com, Aug 3, 2016


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I am searching, nay, questing, for a pepper crusted steak/roast recipe that rivals the one I had at my cousins wedding, we had the most fantastic peppered/salted buffalo roast EVER. I am in full on search mode for it!
However, during my travels I came across this one, and decided to give it a try since I have a lot of steak in my freezer, and it was 30 degrees Celsius outside on the first day of fall, so BBQ'd anything was on the menu!
Ingredients needed:
1/2 cup olive oil
2 tbl balsamic vinegar
2 tbls Dijon Mustard
1 1/2 tbls ground rosemary
1 tbls chopped garlic
red pepper to taste
black pepper to taste
3 tbls finely minced onions
Start by mixing your oil and vinegar together.
Slowly add in the other ingredients, mixing it all up well. I didn't use ground rosemary, and a word of warning, if you don't crush it, it's little chewy sticks on your steak. I like little chewy bits of toasted rosemary, so I leave it whole.
Mince the garlic up and add it.
Add in your red pepper, and believe it or not, this was about a tablespoon and wasn't nearly spicy enough for me. I would double it next time.
Mince your onion up and add it in.
Put the steak on some tinfoil and coat them steaks up real good cowboy.
Wrap them up and marinate them for as long as 24 hours, if you so desire.
And this is what they look like.
Throw them on the BBQ until your desired doneness, and enjoy! These were absolutely divine with my Ultimate Stuffed Potatoes, recipe coming soon.


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I spent a large part of today toying with ExtUtil::MakeMaker in order to get a more sane build tree for some perl modules we've been using. Boy, what a pain. The main pain comes from trying to fit it into our current tree, realizing it wouldn't work, and being forced to do massive CVS changes to the directory structure of our repository.
Some days, I love CVS. Other days, I know it exists simply to torment me.
I really wish there was a simple rename/move subcommand for it. Removing and re-checking in wreaks havoc on a wide scale.
The main reason for the reorg is to make it easier to build tarballs using standard perl mechanics, as well as to make building RPMs easier. Who knows, maybe some of this will show up on CPAN some day. That would be cool, because we've got some good, reusable stuff that no one has really done yet. Of course, I can't go into details about what it is quite yet, so don't ask.
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Because his combo with Prime is cool. That's really all there is to that figure.
Because his combo with Prime is cool. That's really all there is to that figure.
It's not enough for me, not by a long shot, especially since he's like $25.
I did some checking, it's been almost 4 months since I last found a new Energon figure! That's not counting the defective Cliffjumper, recolored basics, the role play weapons, or Omega Supreme, but 4 months since I've seen any new basic or deluxe figures, it drives me nuts. What is up with this stall-out? This is the 20th anniversary of TF and Energon is the main line, Alternators already had a stall-out and now Energon is suffering a massive one.
Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
Kylo Ren - came from Space Brooklyn, although he moved to Space Williamsburg before it was trendy.
The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.
He's $19.99 actually.
That's why I said "like".
Meister & Tracks packaged: http://boards.allspark.com/index.php...post&id=997375
I don't think this looks so bad, the red is a better marketing color than blue and more Transformers-y. The cars seem to be higher up in the box, but I think the boxes are the same size as the blue ones.
The official Tranformers Hasbro site has done an update: http://www.hasbro.com/transformers/e...dn/default.cfm
and here's my take...
Sledge: I like this one, looks good in alt mode and not bad in bot mode although a little shrimpy.
Duststorm: alt mode looks like a minicon, bot mode looks like a mess at the upper body. I'm pretty sure I won't be getting this one but his green brother.
Steamhammer: alt mode seems way oversized, bot mode looks marginal and unfortunately reminds me too much of Armada Scavenger (whom I loathe).
Beachcomber: Does nothing for me, the blue and white makes no sense and I already know I hate this mold, so it's an easy one for me to pass up (though having already owned Cliffjumper, this is the superior paint scheme... or rather, "less inferior"). Alt mode photo has the rear wheel way out of alignment.
Wingsaber: Alt mode, I swear I have this already from the Power Rangers: Time Force line. Looks like a big flying mess. Bot mode - "hi, I'm wingsaber, I have no SHOULDER ARTICULATION!!!" - beyond that, he also looks so much like he secretly is a PR Megazord it's scary. I just don't see why everybody's interested in this one at all.
Omega Sentinel: Hasbro should have waited to release this pic, gonna keep me from buying Omega Supreme now, that's for sure. This colorscheme looks way better.
Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
Kylo Ren - came from Space Brooklyn, although he moved to Space Williamsburg before it was trendy.
The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.
The new Alternators package is reminiscent of the what the vintage Transformers came in. I personally liked the blue box but dont have any beef with the red they will be going with. Cant wait to get Jazz and Tracks. I hadnt seen any pictures of Wingsaber before and i must say if it werent for the photo being on the Transformers website i would think it was a Power Rangers toy. Needless to say its staying on the peg once i see it. Omega Sentinal looks better than Supreme. Any clue as to when Grimlock and Swoop should be hitting?
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I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who sees Wingsaber as a Power Rangers piece, most TF fans are howling for joy over this piece and I just ain't seeing why.
Grimmy & Swoop should be next month.
One thing I didn't notice about the new Alternators packaging is that there's no outer window. This is a pretty big mistake IMO as the dust and box-breakage issues will get a lot worse with this design. I like the graphics, but not the windowless window.
Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
Kylo Ren - came from Space Brooklyn, although he moved to Space Williamsburg before it was trendy.
The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.
Grimlock and Swoop are actually scheduled for October.
"Scheduled" means very little to Hasbro.
I finally found Bulkhead. Is anybody having trouble with the hip ratchets on the drone? Mine are totally misaligned so neither jet/arm can stay parallel with the main body (or each other). If I see another, I'm taking this one back for exchange.
The packaging is a beast, lots and lots of twisties, and the clear tray over the vehicle holding the rotors is annoying.
I have to say, I love this figure design, this is easily one of my favorite figures in the line, although I don't like the color scheme, cheap materials, and joint problems (aforementioned drone joints and the hip joints having those spread joints with very few ratchet points leaving few angle choices but straight together or VERY wide apart). This figure is the king of designing, I think there are so many great ideas used here that this had to be a labor of love for some lucky designer.
The alt mode is cool, I like the use of the tail landing gear activating the rotors a lot and it's well-hidden, and the chopper is well-armed and bulky, looking like Blue Thunder evolved some; it feels fairly solid too, I feared it'd be a loose goose but nothing flops. The drone attached is ok too, brings enough weapons and big engines to bear that it is easy to forgive the covering of its main button in this mode.
Speaking of the drone, it is pretty cool in its own rite, the packaging doesn't even mention that the main button activates not only a machine gun sound but also LEDs within the clear blue guns that blink on and off. The drone in afterburner mode also makes a fairly convincing mini-ship. But more importantly, there's no mention of the coolest feature, found on the underside are 2 flush buttons, push one in and you get the transformation sound, push the other and you get the de-transformation sound!!! Minicon fans beware though, the only Minicon point is on the tail opposite the rear rotor.
Transformation to bot mode is very wild, there are so many folds and tricks, concepts from so many different TF lines, I found it to be one of the more satisfying transformations. And virtually nothing is left exposed, no open gaps anywhere that would cause the bot to not work, the back is a little open but I think of that more as the holder for the blade weapon than an exposed back.The transformation also allows for a mildly floppy gerwalk mode for those who like unofficial modes. The rotor blade weapon even has a peg which folds out and the rotors fold in slightly. The drone's transformation would be inconsequential except that the designers added a spring-loaded flap to cover the opening up half-way, adding a nice extra touch.
Bot mode is amazingly cool, a very serious look on the face (with nice lightpiping), good proportions, and tons of articulation, specifically: head, shoulders, shoulder "flapping", upper arm rotation, hinged elbows that can bend almost all the way back, universal-joint hips ("flapping" ratchet is a little lacking as previously mentioned), thigh rotation, ratchet-hinge knees, hinged upper-ankles (foreward & back), and hinged feet (tilting side to side). A lot of this articulation isn't even needed for tranformation. I didn't mention the panels on the sides of the waist which hold the missile launchers; speaking of the waist, it can rotate for transformation but is locked into place in bot mode, oh well. For undocumented features, the transformation allows for the hands to rotate around to reveal guns, the waist panels can fold out to the side and point the launchers straight up for jetpack action (or if you're brave, a minicon platform), and the upper back can still hold onto the rotor weapon for storage. I think the plant workers packaged the hips pointing backwards, they're uni-jointed with swivels before the knee, so they can rotate all the way around and still work equally well either way, but the way Bulkhead is found in the package has the screws pointing forwards. The legs are a little Gundam-y, but not as bad as Mirage's legs, while the feet here are fairly unique to this figure; the entire tail assembly hangs down the back all the way past the knees and restricting the backwards range of the legs, but if you tilt the legs out some you can get them further back for more dynamic poses.
The Drone's ED-209 mode looks cool and tough, I love how the feet open up and then are on these crazy ball joints, but because the "knee" joints on mine are ratcheting at the wrong angles, mine stands funny. The Drone in this mode is well-articulated with 22 separate points of articulation, including main guns, shoulders, shoulder-to-knee, universal knees, swivel upper thigh, thigh-to-big shin hinge, ball-jointed foot with 4 separate toes. The knee joints allow the Drone to stand almost as tall as Bulkhead, or with some adjustments as low as Bulkhead's waist, or just above his head. You can even get an unofficial gun emplacement out of this for Bulkhead to use by flipping the guns all the way over so the main electronics button is on the bottom and the guns are pointing backwards, this mode also brings 2 sets of nozzles as more blasters to the party, time to take down some flying Decepticons!
Bulkhead combines with the Drone in backpack mode fairly easily, adjust a couple panels on Bulkhead and then slide the backpack over the figure's back and it locks into place. Brute mode indeed! The figure's head now rests directly on the main electronics button, you can push the head back slightly and set off the sound (it is so close that it goes off by itself if you pick it up, but you can tilt the plate that the head rests on down a little to keep the button away from the head), the lightpiping even still works. The backpack brings big mighty arms into play and they're fully articulated, yet even with these big arms stretched fully in front of the figure, he can still stand upright, especially when you lean him back slightly. I dunno why a Transformer would need an exo-suit backpack, but it's very damn cool none the less.
Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
Kylo Ren - came from Space Brooklyn, although he moved to Space Williamsburg before it was trendy.
The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.
JT, what did you mean by windowless window on the Alt packaging?
There's an outer window besides the fit-to-form plastic that holds the car in the box. You have to look at how the light is shining on the packaging "glass."
Or I misunderstood you.
Still no sign of Hound, Silverstreak, or Dead End in San Diego.
I check most stores since I Star Wars hunt.
How many per case ship? Are Sideswipe and Smokescreen still in the case assortments?
The only new thing around here is that Toys R Us got the Alternators whereas before I'd never noticed them there (Smokescreen and Sideswipe in good quantity that is).
All my Wal-Marts have from 2-4-8 or so of the S&S wave.
Ok, well scheduled was my word. It's not like they control when retailers put out their stuff anyway.


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After yesterday's rebound, stocks look to be heading for another down day Wednesday, with futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average and Standard & Poor's 500 index down more than 0.5% at the latest.
WSJ MoneyBeat's Steve Russolillo this morning had a good take on what the week's trading action so far may portend:
As this column noted yesterday, stocks generally rebound the day after big declines such as the one witnessed on Monday. But the market also tends to move lower over the next few weeks during these types of trading environments. Worries that typically trigger a drop of Monday's magnitude don't usually go away in one trading session.
This week, chart watchers are keeping their pulse on the Russell 2000 index of small-capitalization stocks for clues about the market's next move. After a big run-up this year, the index has recently been looking technically vulnerable. It fell 3.8% on Monday, finishing at its lowest level since Feb. 26, before rising 1.8% to 923.30 on Tuesday.
Bank of America (BAC) certainly isn't helping matters, with the Dow component's stock down 2.8% after first-quarter earnings results that had some worrying signs:
Although the bank was able to cut $1 billion in expenses, loan growth showed signs of sluggishness. The bank saw lower net interest income, or the money it makes off loans, as borrowers took less money from the bank than they did a year earlier. The net interest margin—a measure of the bank's lending profitability—fell to 2.43% from 2.51% in the year-earlier period.
The results show that while the bank has been able to reduce its expenses, signs of growth amid chronically low interest rates and an ebbing mortgage market are hazy.
Shares of Textron (TXT) are down 10% after disappointing first-quarter earnings and a full-year outlook well below previous guidance:
"Customers, especially in the light jet segment, tend to be small-business owners who continue to defer purchase decisions reflecting continued concerns about the financial outlook," Chief Executive Scott Donnelly said on a post-earnings conference call.
The company's Cessna business jet unit delivered 32 new aircraft in the first quarter ended March, down from 38 units a year earlier.
Textron said it expected 2013 income from continuing operations of $1.90 to $2.10 per share, below its earlier forecast of $2.10 to $2.30 per share.
Meanwhile, The Wall Street Journal today suggests a man who may be "linked" to the spike in health industry stocks just before the close on April 1. Companies including Humana (HUM) and UnitedHealth Group (UNH) jumped less than an hour before the 2014 Medicare Advantage rates were released — it turned out the rates were much more favorable to health-services companies than expected:
Mark Hayes is currently an outside lobbyist for health-insurance giant Humana. His email to Washington investment-research firm Height Securities, alerting it to a government decision that will save the industry billions of dollars, was a final piece of confirmation Height received before blasting a news alert to its clients, according to emails and people familiar with the matter.
The Height report now is the subject of a preliminary probe from the Securities and Exchange Commission, according to people familiar with the matter. The SEC has contacted individuals involved to determine whether anyone leaked or passed along word of the decision in violation of insider-trading laws.
The SEC's probe represents the agency's first known look at the political-intelligence industry, the burgeoning business of collecting market-moving information from Washington and providing it to Wall Street.
Hayes was previously a top aide to Republican Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa.
The Journal says hedge funds SAC Capital Advisors and Viking Global Investors were among those making big bets on health company stocks; the paper tactfully states that "It isn't clear what factors went into their trading decisions."


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So I've been writing down ideas for an RPG game with a leveling system, and I wanted to get some input on here about where my thoughts are going. This is in no way finished, nor is everything I list going to be used; this is just a rough draft of some ideas I threw together.
NOTE: THIS IS NOT AN MMORPG type game; this is for single-player, or servers that friends can play together on, like Minecraft or Cubeworld (players set up the server).
So far, I'll have a leveling system that grows in difficulty by some exponential amount. At certain levels, the player will receive different bonuses and/or items. Quests in the game will help leading people into certain roles (like an intro to ____ quest), help raise certain stats, and so on.
Some stats, like luck, would obviously require some balancing; therefore it might have a steeper leveling curve, or it's maximal increased output is capped. As for how fast one gains levels, and how fast one gains bonuses, followers, items, etc. will be balanced on implementation. Some other implementation details might be that certain things (recipes for food, crops, etc) might require certain levels and experience to handle. Maybe even unlocking certain attributes once doing a tutorial or reaching a certain overall level.
Here's a list of some of the attributes a player can level up (some have descriptions, as they might not be so straightforward):
[overall level]
[cooking] - when making food, the higher this level is can make the health heal more health, hunger, and saturation. Saturation is how long the food lasts before hunger begins to drop again; it also can define the speed at which the hunger drops for a little while after hunger begins.
[attack (melee)]
[attack (ranged)] --might want to combine ranged and melee
[defense (melee)]
[defense (ranged)]
[aim] - aiming, for ranged is straightforward. Players and NPC's will have "weak-spots", and aim heightens the chance of hitting weak spots. Also, aim will, with higher levels, shave off the "randomness" of a ranged attack.
[mining/digging] - when mining, luck for drops and the speed of mining can increase with level. Certain levels are needed to use certain tools.
[endurance] --mainly these are for traveling and how fast the hunger bar drops and how hunger effects speed.
[building] - buildings, cities, etc. More of a contractor type of job. There is building in the game, as it is destructible terrain.
[engineer] - electrical and mechanical components (when these tiers are reached).
[banker] - you get bonuses for saving money / making large sums of money. Raises chances of NPC's trading and buying/selling to you. Good for bartering as well (not so sure about this one....)
[chemistry/alchemy] - mainly for potions, but I hope to also have chemicals useful for other things as well...not sure exactly what yet.
[stealth/thievery] - sneaking, stealing, hiding, etc.
[research] - somewhat for finding about new tiers; using raw materials is fine, but things like steel, electricity, and such require research, possibly? Maybe even tackling a really difficult (read: much higher than challenging) dungeon might open up research on new, harder and durable metals, or certain chemical recipes for medicine. Reward for adventure and exploration!
[luck] - just plain, sheer luck. Players gain exp for luck when they get a bonus for something (more minerals in a dig, etc).
[trust] - NPC's trust in the player. The game will allow the player to hire NPC's for stuff, and with high enough trust, a player can even create kingdoms!
other stuff:
-sword, shield, bow, mace, double-wielding, etc. for different weapons.
-something for clothing, leather, etc.
What do you all think about this? Any criticism, words of wisdom, things you like....? I'm currently implementing the system, but I have such a huge list of attributes I thought I'd ask around of what people think about these so far (the ones I like quite a bit are listed here).
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January Jones is sick and tired of everyone paying so much attention to her face.
Natalie Portman both had a red flower on her dress to distract from her pregnancy bump, and probably angered her grandma by giving her a shout out and then promptly announcing that her fiance Benjamin Millepied totally wants to bone her (as evidenced by said pregnancy bump).
January Jones is sick and tired of everyone paying so much attention to her face.
Christina Hendricks is tired of everyone paying attention to her other things.
Edie Falco is still mad everyone thinks she's a comedy actress now.
Jane Krakowski would like everyone to stop paying attention to her baby bump. Look! Thigh!
Katey Sagal would like all the people who thought her career was over when Peg Bundy went off the air with Married With Children to witness her 2011 Golden Globe.
Paz De La Huerta would like the world to stop noticing that she's been looking fugs lately.
Sofia Vergara is a hot momma! You can tell because she's wearing red. And her cleavage is out.
Al least someone is respecting the name of this awards show.
Action star Bruce Willis is so pleased about all the jokes about Red that are about to come up during the night's show. He simply loves laughing at himself.
Look at this jaunty stance. Now back away. Slowly.
Robert Downey Jr. is all smiles here. But he went on to get the only decent jab at Rickey Jervais in all night, saying:
"Aside from the fact that it's been largely mean-spirited with sinister undertones, the vibe of the show has been pretty good so far."
He then proceeded to give a really creepy speech about how he wanted to sleep with all the female nominees he was announcing.
You win some, you lose some.
Hollywood Foreign Press president Philip Berk does not appreciate Ricky Gervais' brand of humor. And was one of the few people who actually said so.
Too bad the press (foreign or otherwise) has zero effect on box office numbers these days! Luckily for Philip, producers do. And there were plenty of those in the audience too.
But it's ok! Ricky Gervais and his lady friend here are going to laugh all the way back to his slowly dwindling bank account.


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Dragons are creatures with nearly unlimited life spans. They can survive for long periods of time, and no one has found a dragon that has died of old age. Adolescence is usually marked by the growth of a hatchling's wings, although not all breeds of dragons grow wings and some breeds have other traits that indicate the beginning of maturation. Once they hit adolescence, hatchlings change quickly, maturing to their full forms in only 2 years.
Dragons don't communicate with each other verbally, but they will growl to scare off predators and frighten prey. Young dragons will emit an extremely high-pitched squeal when they are frightened. To communicate, they use telepathy with each other and to speak to other creatures.
Aria dragons are a brightly-colored and sprightly breed, perhaps most adored for their lyric calls. Their song-like melodies fill the areas they inhabit; their coos resemble those of birds, only more elegant and refined. They have fairly strong magical capabilities, but tend to reserve these strengths for last-minute defense, choosing to live their lives in simple peace. Arias, sticking to the tropics, typically live quite far from human settlements, giving rise to the previously held belief that they had gone extinct.


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Concerned about West Nile virus or ticks? Or just want to enjoy late-summer and fall outdoor gatherings, camping, hiking, and hunting without biting bugs? If so, you're in luck.
For this insect repellent review, brave testers at an outside lab bared their arms in mosquito-filled cages and also let ticks crawl on them. We recorded how long it took for mosquitoes to start biting and for ticks to crawl over treated areas. Our bugs were free of disease, but wild mosquitoes in the U.S. can carry West Nile virus or St. Louis encephalitis. Travelers outside the U.S. might encounter mosquitoes carrying malaria, yellow fever, or dengue fever. Ticks can spread Lyme disease, human babesiosis, and Rocky Mountain spotted fever. (Stay on top of the news related to West Nile virus at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's West Nile page.)
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Several tested repellents (see ratings below) protected against deer ticks and two common types of mosquitoes for 8 hours or more. Four of those—Off Deep Woods Sportsmen II (30%), Cutter Backwoods Unscented (23%), Off FamilyCare Smooth & Dry (15%), and 3M Ultrathon Insect Repellent 8 (25%)—contain deet in varying levels.
The active ingredient in some insect repellents is oil of lemon eucalyptus. (It's not recommended for children under 3.) Almost as effective was Natrapel 8-Hour with picaridin, which protects with picaridin. Our five top choices worked for at least 7 hours.
(See also: What you need to know about sunscreen)
While effectiveness of the best insect repellents is similar they feel and smell somewhat different. Cutter Backwoods leaves little scent or sensation; Off Deep Woods has a citrusy odor and filmy residue panelists wanted to wash off; Off FamilyCare has a fruity odor and dries quickly; 3M Ultrathon has a strong odor and leaves an oily feeling on the skin at first; Natrapel has a floral odor and is a little greasy.
Ingredient issues. The Environmental Protection Agency judges deet safe when used as directed, but it has caused rare toxic reactions when misused. Don't use it on infants less than 2 months old. The American Academy of Pediatrics advises against using repellents with deet concentrations higher than 30 percent on any children. We think that no one needs a repellent with more than 30 percent deet.
Also note that national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that you avoid products that mix sunscreen with deet insect repellent. Unlike repellents, sunscreens are meant to be applied liberally and often, so using a combination product could result in unnecessarily high exposure to repellents. Another reason not to use a combo: Many mosquitoes tend to bite long after the highest risk of sun damage has passed.
Bottom line. Most of the tested products will do the job if you're going to be outside for only a couple of hours, but look for a highly rated product to protect you on longer excursions. The insect repellents in our ratings, below, are still available; prices reflect what we paid when we tested these products in 2010.
How to apply repellent and protect yourself
When applying any repellent, follow directions. Use your hands to apply it to your face, avoiding your eyes and mouth, and don't apply it to cuts. Use just enough to cover exposed skin. Some directions suggest using it on clothes, but most tested repellents damaged leather and vinyl, and some of them stained synthetic fabrics. Wash repellent off your skin and launder treated clothes. For extra protection:
• Wear light-colored, loose clothes and avoid using scented products when outdoors, especially at peak feeding hours—dusk to dawn for most mosquitoes.
• Remove standing water near your house. It can be a mosquito breeding ground.
• To avoid ticks, tuck pants into socks and wear closed shoes and a hat. (Read about tick protection for pets.)
• Inspect yourself for ticks after venturing into wooded or grassy areas.
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Speaker: Julius Bryant
Kenwood is one of England's most well-known country houses located in what is now part of suburban London. In 1928, it became the home of the Iveagh Bequest, a superb collection of paintings donated by Edward Cecil Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh (1847-1927). The collection was shaped by the tastes of the Gilded Age – when the Earl shared the cultural stage and art market with other industry titans such as the Rothschilds, J. Pierpont Morgan, and Henry Clay Frick. Acquired mainly from 1887 to 1891, the Earl's purchases reveal the typical taste for portraiture, landscape, and 17th-century Dutch and Flemish art found in English aristocratic collections, and include works by artists such asGainsborough, Vermeer, Lawrence, Hals, van Dyck, Rembrandt, and Reynolds.
Speaker Julius Bryant is keeper of word and image at the Victoria and Albert Museum and formerly held the positions of curator of the Iveagh Bequest at Kenwood and chief curator at English Heritage. He will explore Kenwood and the Iveagh Bequest collection highlighting works that will be on exhibition in the United States in 2013.
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"Jets fans will tell you LaRon Landry is one of the Top 5 safeties in the league. We�ll respectfully disagree because for all the big hits there are some bad angles, missed tackles, and a lot of plays made after the offense has essentially won the play.
What makes it so bad is that the AFC was loaded with excellent safety play. Eric Weddle is the most complete safety in the game, Jairus Byrd the best cover safety, and Reshad Jones a huge playmaker."


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Indulge yourself with an old-fashioned bacon-and-egg breakfast with this easy pie recipe.
This pie is impossibly easy because there is no crust to roll out. The crust forms as the pie bakes.
Chop 3 green onions to use instead of the chopped yellow onion.
You're frying anyway, so why not fry a double batch of bacon and store the extra in your freezer? Having fried bacon on hand is great for sandwiches, seasoning vegetables and making Impossibly Easy Bacon Pie even easier.
If you're lucky enough to have leftovers, reheat them in the microwave oven. Cover with waxed paper and microwave 1 slice on a microwaveable plate on Medium (50%) for 2 to 3 minutes or until hot.
Savory Impossibly Easy Pies can be covered and refrigerated up to 24 hours before baking. You may need to bake a bit longer than the recipe directs since you'll be starting with a cold pie. Watch carefully for doneness.
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Hey all..! I have created some videos marketing and upload to YouTube. After, a month I got around 600+ viewed of my whole videos. Did anyone have some I idea to increase more traffic to YouTube videos..?
Submit your video to many social website.or paid advertise.
Try websyndic just create your account and submit your video url and wait for the approval when approved then distribute your earned credit to your video url after doing all the traffic will be delivered to your video, hence views will be increase.
Hi basicblogtalk,
If you are willing to spend money on videos' views, you can do so by Youtube's Display Network Advertising. This is by investing money through ads. However, if you are not, then you will really have to push through and double your effort in sharing your videos.
What are the most common topics in your videos? Are you advertising your own site/business or are you doing some informative videos/tutorials? Usually, your strategy will be depending on your video contents.
In Google there are so many video promotion websites are available.By using that all video promotion websites,you could increase the view of your all videos.And another one Social medias should more help to collect more number of views to your videos.Just share your video URL in all social media profiles and video promotion websites.
promote your videos in other free/paid video promoting site and you can also share your videos in your facebook or twitter account ith your friends by this you can able to get traffic in your video.
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Share your videos on Social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest etc.. Also there are several videos sharing website available on the web where you can share your videos and get good traffic.
I have some good experience with being active on forums specificly for YouTubers. This is also the place where I got my initial subscribers for my main channel, too.
You can also do bookmarking of your video to increase traffic towards it. Yes, social media sites are always remains at the top to share things. Through blogging also you can promote your video. Make your more seo friendly during giving name and description to the video because it will help to increase visibility of the video in search engine which indirectly increase traffic on the website/webpage
Put your youtube link on social websites, there are many types of social sites like facebook, twitter and linkedin. It may be helpful for you.
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It's better to create an interesting video that go viral People will love to watch and share it. But if you want to promote your current video, you can buy youtube ads. Or you simply to submit it on other video channels as well as your social channels.
If you have a video tutorial you can submit it on how-to websites. Please tell me more about your video, I can give you some suitable websites to submit.
video quality must good, Submit your video to many social website.or paid advertise.good luck!
you can go through buying youtube follower and like to make your site ranked in min time.
[B][I]Although this is the most obvious thing to ensure you have optimized properly, it is usually the thing that I see is causing peoples videos not getting the attention they deserve.
There are several ways to increase your youtube views and subscribers.Here are some of the methods : Ask for Subscribers, Use Annotations, Add a YouTube Widget and More to Your Blog, Leverage Featured Channels, Consistently Interact with viewers, Create a Payoff.This will definately gain you more viewers. And other easy and definately working tips is to get paid views.You can even get 10000 views per days using paid views.Here is the best site I found to get youtube views. Clink on the link : <snip>
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It's not just awards season for actors. It's a time to honor authors, too. On Monday, the American Library Association (ALA) announced the top children's books of 2012. The John Newbery and Randolph Caldecott Medals and the Coretta Scott King Book Awards are the best-known honors, but other prizes were also handed out at the ALA Youth Media Awards ceremony in Seattle, Washington.
And the Winners Are…
Author Katherine Applegate took home the John Newbery Medal for outstanding contribution to children's literature for The One and Only Ivan. The book tells the story of a gorilla named Ivan, who lives among humans and rarely misses the jungle. The tale of courage, which was inspired by a true story, is told in Ivan's voice. The Newbery Medal is named after John Newbery, an 18th-century bookseller. It is awarded each year.
The picture book This Is Not My Hat won the Randolph Caldecott Medal. The Caldecott Medal for illustrators is named after Randolph Caldecott, a 19th-century illustrator. The winning book was illustrated and written by Jon Klassen. A follow-up to Klassen's best-selling book I Want My Hat Back, it tells the story of a little fish who steals a blue bowler hat from a big fish and the adventures that follow.
More Honored Books
The Coretta Scott King award is given to an African-American author and illustrator of "outstanding books for children and young adults." This year, the author award went to Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America. The book was written by Andrea Davis Pinkney and illustrated by Brian Pinkney. The husband-and-wife team have both won ALA awards in the past. Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America is a collection of stories about 10 extraordinary and accomplished men from different eras in American history.
The King prize for best-illustrated work went to I, Too, Am America, illustrated by Bryan Collier. The book was written by Langston Hughes, a poet famous for using the rhythm of jazz and of everyday speech in his poetry. Through its pictures, the book tells the history of porters on Pullman Company trains.
Katherine Paterson, who has won many honors including two Newbery Awards and two National Book Awards, received the Laura Ingalls Wilder prize for lifetime achievement. Paterson, who is 80 years old, has written more than 30 books.


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CATHERINE OPIE: I'm Catherine Opie with Richard Hawkins, and we've curated the work of Tony Greene for the Whitney Biennial.
We went to school with Tony at Cal Arts, as well as remained friends with him up to the time that he died of AIDS in 1990.
RICHARD HAWKINS: It was about mid-88 that Tony really hit his stride. Things changed at that point and all of a sudden blossomed into these photographic substrates that are covered with either glaze or kind of amber or green resin with sunken moats around them, because he always called them moats, and then put within these kind of stained modernist frames.
CATHERINE OPIE: In terms of Tony's work―one of the things I started really looking at and being aware of it―was the notion of beauty in decay, incorporated in a visual language in a way that I hadn't thought about it before.
RICHARD HAWKINS: Tony was the first one out of all of us making work specifically about HIV. He's like the first one that I know that kind of said, Hmm, I'm sick, I'm going to die, I'm going to do whatever the hell I want to do.
CATHERINE OPIE: Yeah.
RICHARD HAWKINS: And what I want to do was like integrate these ideas of how gay men have traditionally used photographs in order to communicate with each other.
CATHERINE OPIE: Tony was really trying to kind of tackle desire in relationship to HIV.
RICHARD HAWKINS: An interesting thing to me about Tony was that he still wanted to be a painter and work with the paint and the history of painting, but at the same time, be able to incorporate an activist dialogue into the work.
CATHERINE OPIE: I don't think that Tony in his mind ever wanted to be the political artist in relationship to his own body, and the politics for me within Tony's work is the politic of permission to reach deep inside of yourself to fulfill your own desires. And I think that that that's part of the incredible beauty and legacy of Tony's work in my mind.


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Yea.....I love the GRAVY! My wife called up and said she and the kids were going to go out for a couple hours and I headed to the pond. I tried topwater for about 20 casts with no interest in several spots on the pond and changed over to the newly tied Clousers. About three casts into it I hooked up a junior Bass and it gave a good pull, wiggle, and a flip. Then the next catch was a twenty foot Pine tree top- my steeple casting needs work. That broke off my fly, tippet, and partial leader. Next up - a very nice Crappie from the dam side deeper water. The retrieve used with a foldover foam strike indicator to key on is a very, very slow retrieve with the tiniest up and down jugging of the rod tip. This made the indicator go forwards and back on the pond surface hopefully imparting life to the clouser below. Moving around the pond I got another Bass or two and switched to the above brown and white bugger and caught one Bluegill (mediumsized) and one small Bass.
Time was up and I went back around to first area where I had parked and my motto is "leave on a good fish" or at least try to when the time is short. So....I cast and caught another bluegill and tried one last time and got a definite STOP on the fly. The line tightened and started to tug and bend the rod. Hmmmm...something of size under there. In a few seconds I'm rewarded with a flash of silver green of a sideways much bigger fish. The lack of a strong run and the head jerking made me think of a large crappie, but no it turns out to be another Largemouth and this one's mouth measured right at 4 inches across when fully open. Not quite a lunker but decent from this little pond. My pix are still on the camera. All in all, I felt pretty confident about the clousers and my success rate though some look skinnier in the water than I thought would be effective. My vise and tools should be here this weekend and I'm ready to tie some smaller, scaled down, mini-Clousers to match the itty bitty minnows I see at the very edge of the pond that appear to be an inch or so long.
|Using thread the matches or compliments the overall color of the fly is a good idea; however, as Mark pointed out, "the important thing is you're tying flies that will catch fish."
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|The important thing is that you're tying flies that will catch fish. Everything else is gravy.
Hey flytyer, a big THANKS!
That does give a guy a big boost of confidence. The one I fished yesterday for only about 10 casts (time ran out) is the number 3 in the top pic. Since the pond was glass calm I could see the fly when it ran about 2 feet under or shallower when it got closer to me. Hence the "toothpick" analogy. More like a winglless albino damselfly darting around underwater. I'm getting good info here and will see how my tying progresses after the vise and bobbin get in hand. My head shape and general threadwork are not the neatest and I look to improve with the right tools and a stationary fly instead of hand held forceps and not enough fingers to add and control the fly ingredients. Here's a little bugger fly-no name really and now re-thinking it there would be matching thread not the white that I used. Oh well, I'll learn someday.
Glad to hear you have "seen the light" and decided to get a good vise along with the bobbin and other tying tools. They will make a very big difference in both ease of tying and how well your flies and tied.
These Clousers of yours don't look too bad. They have good proportions, aren't too sparse or too bushy. The thread wraps, etc. will fix themselves in short order after you get the vise and other tying tools. You are tying some pretty decent flies despite having handicapped yourself pretty well with the hemostats for a vise and no bobbin.
Bob Clouser designed his Clouser minnow to be sparse, sparkly, with a prominent eye, and with a jigging motion to imitate a frightened or wounded minnow. Yours are very close to the sparseness of his. Remember, they were designed to give the illusion of life, not bulk, and Clousers are superb in producing the illusion of life.
Tied some Clousers.....sort of....don't laugh...
you might choke or spray your monitor if you're drinking anything.
Here's a few pix of my first ever efforts at Clousers or minnow patterns for targeting Crappie, Bass or whatever. Some are from other recipes and some are just "thought up". After looking at some internet sites for patterns I find I have tied the Half and Half by Clouser and Kreh by accident without ever having seen it first. Just luck I guess. They are similar with common ingredients of peacock herle for a lateral line, peacock crystal flash and either bucktail and fox together or white marabou or light grey hackles and dumbell eyes with white thread. Some of the hooks were bent slightly at up to a 30 degree angle to assist in being more weedless. One was a hackle tail variety with a wound hackle for the body. I fished one yesterday for a few minutes and it appears to be toothpick thin in the water. Is it tied too sparsely? After looking at some recipes, I noticed that many say to tie sparingly, but some were a bit bushier. Just wondering if I need to double up on some materials or keep it "lite"? Please don't look too close at the thread windings, guys, a vise is on order. EGADS! you say? Yep.....I've been tying on my forceps the whole time and after a few hundred flies, I broke down and ordered one, and a bobbin, a bodkin, whip finisher, and hackle pliers. And I cobbled together a laptop box to catch the waste and have a clamping place for the vise. Can't hardly wait. I think the lack of the 3rd hand and the fact that hackles will unwind like a spinning propellor when you get near the hookeye and try to secure them...... and......let go too soon! AUUGGHHh! what a glutton for frustration I am! lol! OK, you can quit laughing now and clean your monitors from drink spray. Surely, I'm not the only guy to have ever hand tied a fly in this manner. Right? a WHOLE LOT of my early flies look like something a barnyard cat yakked up after eating a bird. But one really ugly fly is no more than small cube of white foam with long, knotted peacock herle legs tied helter skelter on it looking like a drowned Daddy-long-legs and it catches fish like nobodies' business...go figure.
When I lived in a area with a lot of black crappie in the stock ponds the ranchers built on their spreads, I found the most effective flies to be either a plain Black Woolley Bugger with a sparse amount of pearl Krystal Flash in the tail on a #8 or #10 4xl hook or a #8 Black Bunny Leech tied with a very short red marabou under tail, black rug yarn body, oval silver ribbing, black bunny strip tied at front of hook and held down with the silver tinsel matuka style, and a very webby black hen hackle collar.
Each of these was weighted with either lead wire under to front 1/3 of the body, a large brass bead tied behind the eye so the body went over it, or extra small led eyes tied after the hackle was wound. The weighting was to give the fly a jigging action as the fly was retrieved with strips and pauses on a floating line.
I admit my flies have been shabby lately! Maybe losing them all in my goodie box was a sign from the fish gods!
Tie two Jock Scotts, extra jungle cock - and call me in the morning
Yeah but you still catch more fish than I ever do I am just a crappy angler.
May have to let you borrow my boxes for a few months you can you add a little of that Mukai crappiness to mine.
|According to Sean, all my flies are crappy
|Lots of good advice above. Stick with bright colors and let the fly sit. Crappie like to hit a motionless target. A bright unweighted or lightly weighted woolly bugger that suspends in the water will pull them in all day.
|Dble Haul
Crappie have relatively large mouths for their size, so I use hooks up to size 4 for them. Standard flies like clouser minnows, wooly buggers, and any minnow imitating pattern work well. Sometimes a buggy subsurface pattern such as a bully spider will also get them.
I have always, always done better with crappie when using bright attractor colors such as white, yellow, chartruese, and pink in my flies. These color schemes really seem to get their attention around here, but then again I don't fish in super clear water.
Have fun.
you sound right on track with your materials, especially minnow imitating shiny materials and materials with alot of movement.
There are few people who target crappie specifically enough to create unique patterns for them, but a standby for me is any sparkle wooly bugger in sizes 12- 8, its shiny enough to grab their attention and the flowing movement of the marabou entices the bite more readily. My recomondation is to be creative with your tying and find what works for crappie in your area.
heres my recipe for a fly thats been producing well for me in my neck of the woods.
hook- Daichi 1270 or similar bend long shanked hook in size 12
gold bead head
rubber legs
collar- black ostrich herl and a peacock herl wrapped at the same time
tail- black goose biots
the rest of the body is medium black wapsi wire and peacock krystal flash
the fly is similar to a rubber leg copper john but with more movement
Got Crappie Fly Recipes?
Just picked up some materials at the local fly shop for tying minnow patterns and they included soft grey hackles about 4-5 inches with marabou at the quill end, some enameled pearl eyes, crystal flash in peacock and will add buck tail and or fox tail to contrast the light gray hackle. I may tie in a herle on each side for a lateral line. Anybody specifically targeting Black Crappie? If so what flies work well. I'm still a beginning tier and caster and have only caught crappie on the fly once before with a friend last month on gummie flies that he had. They were real effective from my canoe by short casting them with floating line as the breeze pushed us across the pond with no stripping of line. Any ideas would be great. I may try to make some gummies too with a strip of minnow shaped pop-tart mylar embedded in silcone goop with a hook and eyes attached also embedded.....maybe.... depends on how messy it gets.
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An abridged letter from Troy Clarke, President of General Motors
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In response to your request to call legislators and ask
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You are both infected with the same entitlement mentality that has
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Ok.. so fair warning.. I am going to rant in this post. I know that I try to keep this blog positive.. but this is something that I must get off my chest. Why you may be asking? Well its because what I am about rant about is a fundamental part of Scoutmastership. And when I hear what I heard while at Summer camp, well it flat out worries me that there are Scoutmasters out there that are failing their Scouts.
Let me explain…
While at Summer Camp last week all of the Scoutmasters met daily at the program cabin. Each day the staff would give the Scoutmasters a run down of the days events and take any questions or concerns that we may have. On Tuesday night the Scouts would have to cook dinner in camp, so on Monday night, the commissioners gave the SPLs a meal order form. This form had all the basics on it, the SPL was to scratch off the items that they would not need, sign the form, have the Scoutmaster initial it, and then turn it in on Tuesday morning. Pretty simple.
So on Tuesday at the Scoutmaster meeting, the staff reminded us that the SPLs would be turning these forms in. As soon as the staff made the comment three Scoutmasters (well we will call them Scoutmasters.. after all they have the patch on their uniforms) began to laugh. The program director asked what was funny. The Scoutmaster in question stated "Not sure you can trust an SPL to get it done..hahaha" One of the other Scoutmasters suggested that he never saw the form and that the staff should had given the form to the Scoutmaster.. after all, he would be the one doing the cooking.
My jaw hit the deck and smoke began to appear from my ears. I told myself to just shut up and let it go. And then the following statement came ooozing out of this Scoutmasters mouth. "You can't trust a boy to this stuff". WHAT?
I looked at this dude and asked him if he ever heard of Youth Leadership? He looked at me and said.. uh yeah.
I asked him if he was embarrased? He said what for? I asked him if he ever trained the SPL.. I mean after all.. it is the Scoutmasters job to train the Senior Patrol Leader.. right? He replied its hopeless.. he's just a kid. I asked again if he was embarrassed. Again he said what for? I shared with him that I would be embarrassed if I would have said something like that, especially on a deck full of Scoutmasters. He told me that I would not understand. I asked him to help me understand why he would not train a Scout to lead, I asked him to explain to me why he had no faith in the Scout. I asked him to share with me what he thought his responsibility was as a Scoutmaster when it came to training, coaching, and teaching the SPL. He looked at me with a puzzled look.. that was all could take. The staff at that point stepped in and said they would take care of it.
So there it is… This saddened me. I was dumbfounded at the lack of training this Adult offered his Scouts. I am saddened that the Scouts of his unit will not get opportunities or the trust of an adult allowing them to be successful. It is tragic that the Scouts of his unit are getting the benefit of the full Scouting program. I can only imagine how the rest of the program in that Troop is lacking. At the end of the day, it's the Scouts that will suffer.. but then again.. what they don't know.. well, yes it will hurt them in the long run.
They do not have a leader willing to Train them, Trust them, and let them lead.
An hour in the middle of the lake in a row-boat made me feel much better.
I apologize for the negative post. I try not to do this, but this one has been on my mind since Monday of last week and I could not let it go another day.
Please everyone.. Be a good Scoutmaster! Train them, Trust them, and Let the Boys lead!
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An observation and a question.
Schaefer, your "partner" and "bubba" schtick is a little idiotic. Doesn't make you look too smart.
Why isn't UCF in the top 25? They beat Lousiville last night. They gave South Carolina everything they could handle a few weeks ago. That team is good.
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However, if you put any stock at all in the "pelts on the wall" theory you would have to say we know something about what we are doing. IIWII.
And for those of you who say the SEC is favored by the media and polls, that must be a brand new development. See Alabama 1966, Alabama 1977, and Auburn 2004 for just a few examples right off the top of my head.
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This is part of what when on in BHO's town hall meeting here. People camped out for days to get tickets...Hummmmmm
By Michelle Malkin
Henrietta Hughes was offered a home by Chene Thompson, wife of State Representative Nick Thompson, who heard the homeless womans pleas for help to President Obama before a local and national crowd.
The house is in LaBelle, the first home Thompson bought after law school. She told Hughes, Just give me the opportunity to help you.
Hughes broke down in front of thousands when she told the president that she and her son have been homeless for more than a year. They are living in a pickup truck.
Obama hugged her after she asked her question and said his staff would help. A staffer later gave her a card to the head of the housing authority and she was told he would help her.
Reader Erik E. has questions. Careful, Erik. You are committing sacrilege. Dissent is unpatriotic. And cruel.
"You know you cannot just enter an Obama town hall meeting. They give out tickets in advance. Who gets the tickets? People who stand in line and wait. Who tells people when and where Obama will appear next? Certainly not the Secret Service who has to protect this man. Not the MSM, who are too busy telling us how great he is without asking any critical questions.
Sooooo how does a 61 year-old homeless woman whos living in a pickup truck with her son JUST HAPPEN to get a ticket so she can VERY PUBLICALLY ask Prez. Obama for a HOUSE? Anyone? Who pushes her up on stage? Shes right at the front of the crowd. Did she just happen to get a seat there?
Now, within moments of this happening, its trumpeted all over the news. AND, surprise, surprise, the wife of State Representative Nick Thompson, Chene Thompson JUST HAPPENS to have a spare house worth $150,000 lying around, so she GIVES it to this unemployed, homeless, living-in-a-truck woman. Theyve been homeless for more than a year, which coincidentally, predates the current housing and banking crisis by quite a while. How did they learn about the Obama Town Hall and Tent Revival? Were homeless people simply rounded up? Did someone pre-canvas the area in search of great, tear-jerking stories? Of all the people in the audience, SHES one of the ones Obama chooses to ask a question?
BTW-the taxes which will be charged on this free house will bankrupt the poor woman. Taxes are levied based on the homes assessed value, not on the basis of it being a free gift.
On a second, double-snort, the last guy who gets to ask a question JUST HAPPENS to be a 19-year-old kid of Hispanic descent whos going to Edison State College (free tuition perhaps for in-state students?) and has worked at McDonalds for FOUR AND A HALF YEARS. By my math, he started working there when he was 14! Florida child-labor law infraction, anyone? Now, having worked at McDs several times in my past I can say that they DO offer health care plans. You have to PAY for it, just like everyone else in the country does. Its OPTIONAL. Its not a God-given right.
Do the Thompsons get to claim this as a charitable tax deduction against their (probably) considerable 2009 income? How many houses do they own? Is there anyone left in the media who will ask these questions? Ever?