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November 14, 2013

Product News: Paragon Announces Retirements

Word from Gene & Teri at Paragon is that both U.S. Cavalry Set #1  in Medium Blue Plastic and U.S. Cavalry Set #2 in Medium Blue Plastic have sold out and have been retired. Both sets remain available in light blue plastic. Likewise the set of U.S. Cavalry Scouts in blue and Apaches Scouts in Buckskin colored plastic are sold out while the all buckskin plastic set is still available.

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    I came across this looking for info on the INA2332 instrumentation amplifier
    really i’m trying to figure out how to draw a schematic for this device…any ideas?

  2. nico Post author

    Hi josh,

    It all depends on how much detail you need to know. If you just need the general schematic, you can find that in the datasheet (two op-amps and a few resistors). If you need a transistor level diagram, that will take more work.

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Saturday, July 5, 2014

Don't keel over from the shock of me posting two times in two days... but I wanted to help Susan at Middle School OCD promote her TPT Sale!

When I started teaching back in the day (heehee) and Susan helped me SO much with everything, so trust me when I tell you that everything in her store is wonderful. Plus, she doesn't post just anything, she makes sure that it's the best of the best.

Go visit her store!!

Also,  since I have you around... I did make a new item for TPT. It's the 5 Stages of Writing Poster to help you keep track of your classroom writing situation.

Go and check it out here!

Friday, July 4, 2014

Medieval Shield Project

(So, I'm going to pretend like I've been blogging this whole time! Long story short, class was misery and I'd rather not think about those kids one moment longer than I needed to! I'll be moving to a 6th grade high achiever class for next year, so hopefully I'll have more inspiration!)

This past year, I brought back a fun project for my students to work on - the Medieval Shield!

My students get to design their own Medieval Shield, complete with symbols that symbolize who THEY are. I tie it into the Medieval unit, which is about two chapters in our social studies books.... It works nicely with the Feudal System and Knights.

I'll tell you one thing, students love to talk about their favorite topic - THEMSELVES.

The shield has six openings, so I have my students pick six symbols. They have a rough draft shield to sketch their symbols on first and plan out their shield before I give them the construction paper cut out.

Additionally, because I feel guilty if my students are not constantly writing about something... they have to complete at least a paragraph that explains why they chose each symbol. The paragraph requirement depends on the class/level/attitude of the students that I'm teaching. If they can handle more, the requirement goes up. If we can actually get to the computer lab, then their paragraphs have to be typed.

Additionally, even the background color should symbolize an emotion or feeling that the students can tie to themselves. Here are a few links that you can use. I was planning on re-doing my instruction guide this year, however... I'm moving back to 6th grade. So, I'm not going to bother (haha!) since it's all Ancient History, not Medieval!

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Friday, January 17, 2014

Favorite Teacher Giveaway

(A small aside - why hello!  I am alive!  I've just had a slightly difficult year with some behavior kids… They have been zapping my blogging energy, so when I get home, I'd rather not think about their issues anymore than I usually do!  Thanks to Susan at Middle School OCD for getting me off my couch and back to writing.)

I am so happy to join up with Susan at Middle School OCD and Erin at Miss Lifesaver to join their 300 Follower Giveaway!

First, you must go and follow Miss Lifesaver and Middle School OCD!

Go.  Now.  I can wait.

{hums patiently}

Are you back?  Oh good, then we can continue.

They are hosting a fantastic giveaway that features a scavenger hunt, where EVERYONE wins and a grand prize package full of wonderful items.

Graphics and Fonts by Confetti Graphics, The Learning Site, Lovin' Lit, and Shelia Melton

I've included my Literature Circle Guide as part of the grand prize.  It helps you prepare for using Literature Circles in a middle school setting based on my triumphs and failures!

I've also included some of my smaller items in their Everyone Wins! Giveaway.  There are so many awesome items, that I'm headed off to go and participate.

Favorite Teacher

My favorite teacher was Mr. Bacer, my 6th grade teacher.  I loved this teacher, he was able to make all our subjects so interesting and it always seemed like he really cared about all his students.  He also was a computer guy and had an account to Prodigy (OMG I'm so old) that we could log onto to the internet during our 1/2 computer time.  The man was obviously a visionary in 1990.  I remember that his class really made learning fun.

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

2 Year Blog Anniversary

Two years ago - I started this blog because I had been transferred to a new school and I missed all my work friends.  I never thought that I would still be blogging two years later and would have made so many new blogging friends and followers!

I wanted to celebrate two years of stories, linky parties, pinterest boards, lessons, TPT products with all my friends and followers.

I have some great blogging friends and bloggers that I simply aspire to be like lined up to celebrate with me!

To celebrate, I am giving away some fabulous prizes! There will be an individual winner for each prize.

  • $25 Amazon or TPT Gift Card (Winner's Choice)
  • My entire 35 item TPT Store
  • Prize donated by Middle School OCD
  • Prize donated by Joy in 6th Grade
  • Common Core Task Cards from Carson Dellosa Publishing
  • Winner's Choice of 2 Items from Teaching Tales Along the Yellow Brick Road's TPT Store
  • Graphics Set from I'm Lovin' Lit
  • Paragraph of the Week Kit from Teaching in Room 6
  • Number of the Day Task Cards from Laffin's Learnings
  • 12 Genre Book Reports from 2 Peas and a Dog
  • Winner's Choice of a Math Unit from Ideas by Jivey
That's a total of 11 awesome prizes for 11 awesome winners!

To earn entires you can follow each blog and their TPT stores.  You can earn additional entries by tweeting about the contest and writing a blog post on your own blog!  Earn your entries by claiming them in the Rafflecopter below!

Here are the wonderful bloggers that are joining up with me for the party!  Each blogger has graciously donated an item to celebrate!

Middle School OCD

joyin6th Homepage

Teaching Tales Along the Yellow Brick Road

I'm Lovin' Lit

2 Peas and a Blog

Thank you again for following me!  I hope to keep up my blogging about Life in Middle School :)

Monday, September 16, 2013

Quick Plot Review Chart Freebie!

A quick post - but I wanted to share something that I made tonight!

I needed something that I could give to my students and have them quickly review plot elements.  Since my school is concerned about my "excessive paper usage" (pft!) these are two on a page - save some trees.  (Or your school budget in my case!)

If you do download it, please leave me a comment letting me know!

My BIG BIG BIG 2 Year Blog Anniversary party starts tomorrow (or tonight at midnight!).  Come back and check out the super awesome prizes you could win!!

Sunday, September 15, 2013

A Peek at my Week - Week #6

I'm excited to be back for another installment for a Peek at my Week linky!  It's funny, I have stuff to blog about during the week, but it's been hard to get going after a long day a work.  I have pictures from my Interactive Student Notebooks, a lesson called "Hooks from Books" and my common assessment woes.  (Woes!)

The posts I write in my head are pretty awesome people.  If only I had my clone available to write them.

It's another full week for me:

1.  Blog Anniversary!

This week marks the 2 year anniversary of my blog!  I've been working to gather together some fantastic bloggers to join my celebration and I'm so very happy with the people that are participating!  When I decided to have my little internet party, I wanted the bloggers that I enjoy reading their blogs and buying their products to join up.

The bloggers that are joining me are:
  • Susan from Middle School OCD
  • Kim from Joy in 6th Grade
  • Christy from Teaching Tales Along the Yellow Brick Road
  • Erin from I'm Lovin' Lit
  • Stephanie from Teaching in Room 6
  • Jennifer from Mrs. Laffin's Laughings
  • Jessica from Ideas by Jivey
  • Kristy from 2 Peas and a Dog
Come back on Wednesday, September 18th to see what you have to do to win all the fantastic prizes available!

2.  Re-teach, Re-teach, Re-teach!

My students totally bombed their common assessment this week.  It's pretty embarrassing, but I know that it's time to put a full stop to any new material and to go back to what they need to have mastered.

Have you guys read Instruction for all Students by Paula Rutherford?  (Amazon Link)

I love this book.  It has a lot of good ideas.  One idea listed is called "Chris' Test" - you put the students into groups of 2 and then they have to correct a fictional student called "Chris" and his/her test.  They don't know which answers are marked correct or incorrect - they have to go through and determine how to make their test better.

I'm going to be using this on Tuesday to help my students review the common assessment and determine their mistakes.

3.  The Hunger Games (insert the music here)

Finally, finally, finally - my class is starting on the Hunger Games.  I think they are excited and starting to enjoy the first few pages we read on Thursday.  I had a few dissenters, but you can't make everyone happy.  I did purchase the famous Hunger Games TPT Lesson by Tracee Orman and it's as fabulous as you would think!

4.  Maintain Everything and Maintain my Sanity

Yep!  It's tough handling everyone, everything and to keep smiling.  Does anyone else feel the same way?

Sunday, September 8, 2013

A Peek at My Week - Week #5

Hi Everyone - I'm back and gearing up for Week 5 at work.  My husband is finally on the mend from his surgery and our lives are starting to get back into the regular routine of life!  (Thank goodness!)

So, to start off my week on the right foot, I'm joining Jennifer over at Mrs. Laffin's Laughings for her Peek at my Week linky!

1.  Continue with the Routines:

Another week into the madness of trying to get my 7th graders close to where I think they should be.  It's been a little difficult getting my morning group "with the program" so to speak because I have this weird revolving door situation with my classes.

1st Period: 34 total students -- with 7 leaving at the end of the period

2nd Period: 27 total students staying in the room -- with 13 students coming in.  (Yep...  you added them up right total of 40 kids with my TA that I am training with the madness.)

3rd period: 27 students leave -- 13 stay and then I add another 12 (very very very low) come in.

The volume level increases as the periods roll in and out.  I've been kicking them out for the break and making them walk in silently.  I've been making the stay room silent read too.  They work, but it's all just exhausting.

2.  Keep Moving Forward:

I feel tired just looking at this.  UGH!  Now, I noticed that I don't have anything for 9/11 on Wednesday.  I'll have to think about if I can squeeze something in that day.

3.  Read the Lottery:

I'm excited that we are going to start off the Hunger Games by reading The Lottery by Shirley Jackson on Monday and Tuesday.  Such a good story and what a great tie-in to the Hunger Games!

4.  WRITE:

My students looked at me like I had grown a second head last week when I made them write an essay.  Five paragraphs?  Hook?  Whaaaaaaaaaaa?  I was ready to tear my hair out!  (I also mentally cursed a few 6th grade teachers that only taught from the book and liked to read newspapers during class.  GR!)  So, I'm starting Writing Wednesday.  Hopefully, it will help some of my struggling students.  I haven't graded their essays this week - I'm scared people.

I know that I have some other home life stuff going on, but it's nothing fascinating...  Laundry (boo).  Reading Logs (boo).  I'm really waiting for all the good TV shows to come back on.

Also, my 2nd blogging anniversary is coming up.  I know that I have a few bloggers lined up for a giveaway, but email me ( if you wanna participate.  It's always good for getting new and exciting people to visit your blog!

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The Globalist's Top Ten Books in 2016: The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer

“The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer has helped me immensely with great information and perspective.”

Bob Bradley, former US and Egyptian national coach

"James Dorsey’s The Turbulent World of Middle Eastern Soccer (has) become a reference point for those seeking the latest information as well as looking at the broader picture."
Alon Raab in The International Journal of the History of Sport

“Dorsey’s blog is a goldmine of information.”

Play the Game

"Your expertise is clearly superior when it comes to Middle Eastern soccer."
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"No one is better at this kind of work than James Dorsey"
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"Essential Reading"
Change FIFA

"A fantastic new blog'
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"James combines his intimate knowledge of the region with a great passion for soccer"
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"An excellent Middle East Football blog"
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Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Turkish government bans political slogans during soccer matches

By James M. Dorsey

Turkish interior minister Muammer Güler has banned the chanting of political slogans during the country’s next soccer season in a bid to reign in militant football fans who played an important role in mass anti-government protests in June.

The ban follows the recent indictment of 94 protesters, 20 of whom are members of Carsi, the influential militant support group of storied Istanbul club Besiktas JK. The soccer fans have been charged with membership in an illegal organization.

“We are adding bad political and ideological slogans to the list of illegal demonstrations in football stands, or behavior not complying with sporting ethics,” Mr. Güler told an Istanbul sports conference.

He said plainclothes policemen would be deployed in those areas of stadiums where militant soccer fans gather and that a tender for the installation of cameras would be issued in the near future.

The minister said the ban was an implementation of Law No. 6222 known as the Law on Violence in Sports which went into effect in 2011. The law outlaws “any slogans exceeding the limits of sports.”

Mr. Güler said that it was “clear that political and ideological slogans do not comply with sport’s spirit. That includes profanity or non-sporting behavior. The rules are related to all of those.”

Mr. Güler said that more than 4,000 soccer fans had been investigated since the law came into effect, 2,000 of which had been banned to avert violence. “The controls will be more effective in the future,” he said. He added the government was building a databank of those charged with sports crimes.

Carsi joined forces in June with supporters of Istanbul arch rivals Fenerbahce and Galatasary to initially protect environmental protesters opposed to the destruction of a historic park on the city’s iconic Taksim Square against a heavy-handed police crackdown. The street battle-hardened fans confronted security forces as the protest mushroomed into massive demonstrations against Islamist Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s haughty and majoritarian style of government.

Officials said the ban was particularly urgent because Besiktas would be playing its home games in Istanbul club Kasimpasa SK’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan Stadium while its own stadium is under renovation.

Mr. Güler said Besiktas would be obliged to force spectators to sign a pledge not to chant political slogans before they would be allowed to attend a match. Failure to abide by the pledge could result in cancellation of season tickets.

The ban and the charges against Carsi reflect Mr. Erdogan's attempts to criminalize the fans and the protesters in a bid to cater to a traditionalist and conservative base and distinguish himself from the more modernist façade of his Islamist rival, Fethullalh Gulen, a powerful, self-exiled, 76-year old imam with a strong popular and media base and influence in state institutions like the police and the judiciary.

Mr. Gulen, shared Mr. Erdogan's criticism of the protesters and blaming of international media but in contrast to the prime minister quickly backed away from denouncing them as vandals and foreign agents. Instead he urged his followers not to underestimate the grievance underlying the protests and to accept that his movement as well as the government had not done enough to resolve social problems.
At the same time, he sought to drive a wedge between the protesters by praising the original peaceful environmentalists demonstrating against the cutting down of trees in Taksim's Gezi Park as opposed to violent protesters, a reference to the soccer fans.

James M. Dorsey is a Senior Fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies as Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, co-director of the Institute of Fan Culture of the University of Würzburg, and the author of the blog, The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer.

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Say Goodbye to the Eggstravaganza Cart (and Hello to the Eggstravaganza Truck!)

Arturo and Maribel from Eggstravaganza

The Eggstravaganza Cart is trading up to a truck and it should be hitting the streets this week. Owner, Arturo Macedo, told me that he’s looking forward to expanding his menu in the larger space. The truck is currently being wrapped though it may be on the streets as a generic looking white truck today. Arturo is planning some giveaways (free food!) for the grand opening, which will hopefully be as soon as Wednesday, alas, isn’t going to happen for a few more days now, we’ll keep you posted with any details as we get them! As of now the plan is to remain in their regular spot on the northeast corner of 52nd and Park. Keep tabs on them via twitter @ETRAVAGANZA.

  • I hope this works out well for them. They are one of my favorite midtown lunch spots – both because the food is excellent (and cheap!), and they are super friendly.

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    I wonder if they let the guys in the Rafiqi’s truck that they share the corner with know that they will be parking a truck right in front of them….also, how will NYC parking enforcement feel about two trucks right on that corner daily?

    I’m hoping they really gave this decision a lot of thought.

    Now to sound negative, but it’s possible that their costs could go up dramatically. Between parking tickets, paying for parking, and being forced to shut down to move locations….then again, maybe it will all work out.

    • those are valid concerns. take the example of Jamaican Dutchy- things kinda went downhill (so at least it seems) once they got the truck. and now they’re not even in NYC anymore!

    The “Eggs-tra freaky” edition

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Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Lazerbeak: 'Legend Recognize Legend' Album Promo (Video)

Can't leave Big Sean up on top forever, gotta get some real shit to lead off MWB. My two favorite parts of this video: 1) Beak cracking the PBR in a Doomtree koozie at 29secs, 2) Beak in his fur coat on top of a building at 46secs. Baller status.

Seriously though, preorder Legend Recognize Legend at the Doomtree website.

Big Sean: Finally Famous, Vol. 3 (Mixtape)

The third mixtape in G.O.O.D. Music artist Big Sean's Finally Famous series is here. Perhaps he'll get a little more famous if he puts out an album. Who knows? Maybe it'll even be half-decent.

F. Stokes EPK (Video)

Monday, August 30, 2010

Heiruspecs in the Studio (Video)

This. Cannot. Come. Soon. Enough.

I.B.E., Danami, Mally, & Mike Dreams: The Coalescent Show, Act 1

This is going down tomorrow, August 31 at Cause Spirits & Soundbar (formerly Sauce) on S. Lyndale. It's free, and you'll see some of the Twin Cities' best young talent! Win win situation, right there.

Saturday, August 28, 2010

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Lazlo Supreme: "Feather Lighter" (Music Video)

Three-piece Minneapolis hip-hop group Lazlo Supreme just released this new music video. Along the same vein as the recent (and undeniably catchy) Ceel-Lo Green music video. These guys are really quite good and I hope to hear more from them soon.

Fifth Element Thursday Night Events Promo (Video)

As Medium Zach says, you can't go wrong visiting Fifth Element on a Thursday night, as there is a different event each Thursday of the month. So head on over to Uptown.

In the meantime, make sure to check out the sleek, streamlined new Fifth Element website.

F. Stokes: "Wait A minute"

Chicago's F. Stokes let loose some new heat off his upcoming Baked Goods mixtape.

Guante at National Poetry Slam (Video)

I would say it's safe to assume that many of you do not know that Guante's slam poetry team recently repeated as national champions at the recent National Poetry Slam in downtown Saint Paul. Here is footage of him performing his poem in the semifinals. Rather powerful stuff. Congrats to Guante and the whole team.

Guante & Big Cats! will also be releasing a free mixtape in the near future, titled Don't Be Nice. Word from their camp is that the tape will feature some new stuff, some older stuff, and some live material, and that it will be less dark and dense than their latest LP.

Franz Diego: Catch A Case Mondays (Video)

Funny story: I was getting a late-morning breakfast with my homie at the Sunny Side Up Cafe on Lyndale last week, when all of a sudden I see Franz Diego cruise by no handed on his bike, listening to music in his headphones. Apparently Franz does, in fact, bike all over the metro area.

On another note, it probably would have been helpful for me to post this yesterday, or last weekend, but I'm late. There's always next Monday!

Lipset: "Distortion" + 'Level Heads LP' Announcement (Video)

I've been slow on the uptake lately, and with lots of new local music being sent my way it's time to play a little catch up. There will be plenty of posts all day highlighting some of the work being created by many of the Twin Cities' independent musicians. First up is rapper Lipset's new track "Distortion" off his forthcoming Level Heads LP.

Lipset: "Distortion"

Monday, August 23, 2010

Black Milk: "Deadly Medley ft. Royce Da 5'9" & Elzhi" (Music Video)

When any combination of these three Detroit artists collaborate, it tends to be a heater. This one is no different. Black Milk's Album of the Year will be out September 14. Props to Nah Right.

Friday, August 20, 2010

P.O.S.: "Purexed" (Live)

Here is some video of P.O.S. performing one of his best cuts of Never Better at Flushing Meadows Skate Park. Seeing P.O.S. complete with his live band for the first time during Soundset 2010 was quite an amazing experience. If you ever get the chance to check him out, do it. There's more footage of the set at this website. Peace to Rhymesayers.

dumate: Making of "Thankful"

Madison, WI group dumate recently recorded their new track "Thankful", here is the 'Making Of' video. In other dumate news, they recently put their excellent 2009 LP We Have The Technology available for free download online. I highly recommend checking that out.

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Brother Ali at Pizza Luce Block Party (Video)

Just dug this up on YouTube. Brother Ali and DJ Snuggles fought through a little bit of rain at the start of the show to put on a quite incredible set. Ali always strikes me as one of the artists who is consistently improving his live show. He adds a new element to the set each time I see him. Last Saturday's Pizza Luce Block Party was no different. Amazing time.

Saturday, August 14, 2010

Atmosphere: "To All My Friends"

Atmosphere just put out a new song to help get fans excited for their upcoming tour. They performed this one at Soundset, too, it's a great live track. YouTube stream only, because you gotta purchase it on iTunes if you really want it.

No more posts for the day, because I'm off to the Pizza Luce Block Party. Dessa, Prof, and Brother Ali will all rock the stage (among other local acts Red Pens and Lookbook), so if you've got the free time definitely head over to Uptown.

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Lazerbeak: "Salt and Sea" + New Album Details

Lazerbeak's long-awaited solo release Legend Recognize Legend will soon be upon us. Interestingly enough, 'Beak threw us a curveball, switching up styles to sound more pop-accessible. Judging by the first release, "Salt and Sea", this should be a good one. Lots of details below, including the presale package, tracklist, and single. Much props to Doomtree, of course, as well as the homies at Sound Verite and Switchblade Comb.

The Legend Recognize Legend presale will include: 1) a signed copy of the album, 2) a DVD that includes music videos for all 10 songs, 3) access to a password-protected webcast featuring Lazerbeak. The first 300 preorders will also get an autographed poster. Lastly, one lucky fan receivs a VIP pass to the Doomtree Blowout, which features tons of random goodies you can read about on their website.

1. Dream Team

2. Land’s End

3. Let It Go

4. Bound

5. Wild Life

6. Salt And Sea

7. Pearly Gates

8. Cannon Falls

9. Tempest

10. Foothills

Black Milk: 'Album of the Year' Interview (Video)

Sunday, August 8, 2010

Lupe Fiasco: "Scream" (Live in South Korea)

YouTube tag doesn't specify which Korea Lupe is performing in, but I'm going to go out on a limb and assume it's not North Korea. Lasers coming... soon?

Thursday, August 5, 2010

Kanye West: "Power" (Music Video)

I suppose this is actually the 'Portrait of Power', but who am I to tell? Pretty epic, regardless. I hope a full version gets released at some point.

Kanye West: "Power" (Live in Singapore)

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Have a great weekend! + Black History Month

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Another hiatus for The B-Side

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Fall TV Preview

Many prime-time TV watchers already have their must-watch lists for the fall TV season. But once again, there are so many exciting, new show...

The B-Side Weekly Wrap-Up: Fashion|Buzz

This is coming to you way later than I had planned, but here it is before we move into a new week. My shortest--I think--best-dressed list...
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Video of the Week: Little Mix Feat. Sean Paul "Hair"

Recently Watched: The Big Short

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Leda Hartman interview with Mike Craver for WFDD/NPR

Mike Craver is a haunted man and it's a fact he freely admits. After all it's hard not be possessed by the pull of those who came before you, when their traces are everywhere you live, in the cedar trees and the cow pastures and the pine needles of the Piedmont, in the old houses still standing and the ones' torn down.

Craver's people have been around here for generations; some of them were among Lexington's earliest settlers. Now he's given them new life, by capturing the spirit of their time and place in his CD WAGONER'S LAD.

"He's sort of got this old soul, I think, which comes out very strongly in his new body of work," says George Holt, Director of Public Programs at the North Carolina Museum of Art. "Many of the songs come directly from the old nineteenth century ballad tradition, which was transplanted here with the first Anglo and Scotch Irish settlers and there's a very direct lineage there, but of course Mike brings a very modern sensibility to his interpretations."

You can hear this mix of old themes and new sounds in the CD's title track "A Wagoner's Lad" -- a new song with an old name. Hartman plays some of "A Wagoner's Lad":
"Had me a shop in the Rockford town, nineteen hundred and two Built me a barn with the carbide lights A cottage with a river view…"

The crossroads where Craver grew up during the l950's and 60's was one of those tight little Piedmont NC communities where everybody literally did know everybody else, and they all looked out for each other.

Craver returned to Lexington in l994 after a long stint in New York City. Back home he spent hours listening to his mother's memories of the place, and his understanding of it deepened and set his creative juices flowing.

Craver: "We'd ride around, we rode around Davidson County till we wore it out, then we went over to Rowan Davie and up to Yadkin and Surry, and she would just talk. We'd pass old farms that looked like the farms when she was a girl, and we she and I both had this nostalgia for it, even though it wasn't my era, but it got to the point where I just enjoyed it and loved it so much that I Wanted to live in that era myself, and maybe in your imagination you can."

Hartman plays a some of Dewberry Place.
"There was a time we surely miss, a time of charm and grace
Embodied in an edifice, known as Dewberry Place"

Both writing and music came early to Craver. When he was a kid his favorite book was the Complete Works of William Shakespeare, and he'd scratch out plays with a pen dipped in ink. His father, a frustrated violinist, made sure that Craver took music lessons. "At various times during my father's he'd decide to take the fiddle back up again -- excuse me, he never called it a fiddle -- he only played classical music. And if you turned on the TV and there was country music, that was "hillbilly music" to him.

Hartman: "He was a snob?"
Craver: "Yes, he was a total snob about that. Both my parents were. The classics were ALL!"

But Craver's no snob. His musical influences run the gamut of American Pop culture. In the early l960's he found Motown -- he says it spoke to his hormones. Then in his high school years he was part of a very clean cut, well, nerdy-looking, folk group, called the Bleecker Street Singers. Still later, at the University of North Carolina, Craver played rock and roll.

Craver: "We played for a "Students for a Democratic Society" rally on Franklin Street. We were on a flatbed truck with a gas generator, and the police came and somebody threw something and the police threw some mace into the crowd. and it was very exciting. We had a wonderful time!

When Craver joined the Red Clay Ramblers in l973 he found artistic partners who shared his desire to fuse various musical influences to create an original sound. Bill Hicks was one of the original founding members and still one of Craver's close friends.

Hicks: I think as a pure musician Mike was the most trained and the most versatile and just the most talented person in the band.

Craver brought the Ramblers his piano and guitar playing and song writing and an ethereal tenor voice. You can hear it soar on Lord Gregory, the only traditional song on Wagoner's Lad, which he sings completely in falsetto. Hartman plays some of Lord Gregory.

"I am the the queens daughter I come from Capuchin
In search of Lord Gregory, pray God I find him"

Craver left the Ramblers in l986 for New York, where he helped direct and arrange the music for the off Broadway hit SMOKE ON THE MOUNTAIN and wrote the tunes for two other award winning musicals. He came back to North Carolina a few years before his mother's death, seeking solace, simplicity, and a sense of home.

Craver: "I felt like I wanted to come back and experience it while it was still here, the little of it that was left."

Craver recorded WAGONER'S LAD in a cabin back behind the old home place, overdubbing his own his voice and keyboards and guitar to create a body of work that's totally his own. He performed some of the songs from his CD this summer at the North Carolina Museum of Art, but he isn't planning a major tour to promote the disc nor is he signing on to a big label for major distribution. Craver's music doesn't fit into any predictable formula. Bill Hicks says that may be an asset that's artistic, rather than commercial.

Hicks: "Mike has his own vision, so he'll have possibly a hard time, if he wants, to try to sell songs to mass market people -- that might be hard for him, cause he's' not writing songs that are stupid."

The artist himself meanwhile doesn't seem overly concerned with promotion and sales. He says he made WAGONER'S LAD because he could, and he's sure it would please his forbears. Hartman plays some of One Day When Now Is Gone: "One day this'll all pass and I might have a little regret
Tthat I didn't spend more time with Mom on the porch
Watching the crabgrass bloom and the roses scorch."

I'm Leda Hartman….


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Why Having an Average Day is Really AWESOME!

Time for some more random musings, thoughts and ideas on inspiring workplace cultures…

• The next time you are frustrated by a colleague’s behavior, rather than getting judgmental, be curious. It’s a much healthier and solution-oriented approach to ask yourself, “Why might this person be behaving this way?”• Sprott School of Business researcher Linda Duxbury suggests that about 10% of employees at the most might be considered chronic jerks or abusers, yet most organizations create restrictive policies that penalize the 90% of employees who will never abuse their freedom.
• On a recent trip to the Galapagos Islands with Gap Adventures, my wife Claudine and I noticed how Gap Adventures used every point of contact to ramp up the anticipation and excitement about our upcoming trip. Don’t forget to help your fellow employees or customers anticipate and get excited about a major event coming up in your business. Happiness research suggests that anticipating positive events can be just as rewarding as the event itself!
• For a more focused meeting, turn your meeting agenda items into questions. “How Can We Trim 10% Off Our Budget Without Harming Morale?” will encourage participants to start thinking about an issue immediately and will help focus your meeting conversations.
• Remind people how you’d like them to behave at work. The Atlanta Falcons football team posted a sign reading No Energy Vampires Allowed to remind players of their “no complaining” policy during training camp.
• Rather than always trying to have an AWESOME day, some research suggests that people should instead encourage each other to merely have an average day. Aiming for an average day lowers expectations and the pressure for everything to always be 100% perfect and, well, AWESOME! So go on…have an average day!

Michael Kerr is a Hall of Fame business speaker who travels the world researching, writing and speaking about inspiring workplace cultures and humor in the workplace.

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Thursday, October 25, 2007

RE:Little by little

Little by little, this blog is gaining more hits. I know some come from the WV bloggers group. I know one was my brother. But some of the other blog locations are pretty cool, one from the Middle East, one from the United Kingdom. It is nice to get the international page views. Then ,I had one from Palo Alto, California and one from Utah. I guess it just shows you never know where your blog hits are coming from.

Other than that, the work week has been pretty hectic. However, I know lots of people have hectic weeks too. It's almost over. Writing wise well, I wrote a lot earlier this week, but nothing new lately, I'll probably write some this weekend.

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Back to the blog! I've been away from the blog for a while. I've been busy writing for the AC. Mostly, sports related articles. It was kind of cool, to be targeted, offered to write some articles, and challenging to meet the deadlines. I did it, though! So I have some previews of the pitching match up in game 1 of the World Series, previews on the Golden State Warriors, Sacramento Kings, Los Angeles Clippers and Indiana Pacers.

Non-sports wise, they did publish one on the Ghost Walks in Harpers Ferry. Which is cool, I wanted to write something local and that is just down the hill. I also wanted to do something on this side of the Potomac.

I have a review of Snowshoe pending, and I hope to write some more ski resort reviews soon. Chances are something else will come up..stay tuned!

Thursday, October 11, 2007

WV Blogger Pride

I ran across a blog community the other day which was pretty neat. It was a forum for West Virginia Bloggers. I joined since I live in West Virginia, basically on the border, and I also went to school in West Virginia. To put a site together 1) puts up a community within the state for bloggers, 2) shows some pride in bloggers of the state. I think it should be fun and a chance to meet some other writers.

Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Good Things, Louisiana Politics and a Friends Blog

A friend of mine made a post about a Louisiana Candidate for a political office. And yes, he made some comments about how this persons life had some bad twists of fates. This candidate is also an entertainer, which is why my friend was blogging about him in the first place. He said this person was putting there life back together, and would be good at the position due to his talents. He also said this person had a passion for the position he was running for, but some how people attack him for being down on the person. I don't get it. When life doesn't or isn't going like we plan and it kicks us down a bit(or a lot) isn't it natural to put it back together? Isn't that a good thing?

Isn't having skills a good thing? Especially when the skills could help him with the job he is running for?

Isn't having passion for the job a good thing?

Isn't having a desire for the job a good thing?

In my opinion, I think the people of Louisiana would care more about what a candidate for any political position was going to do for their great state.

Louisiana has a long way to go in rebuilding from Katrina. New Orleans has a long way to go before it is back to being like it was before Katrina. How are they going to prevent such devastation the next time? What are they going to do with the levees? We hear a lot about New Orleans since it is a major city, but what about the smaller towns? What's being done to clean up the waters, were so many make a living? Or just for preserving the treasure of those wetlands. Or the concerns any citizens have of the economic development, taxes, roads, education, social services, and their safety.

My interest is 1) it was a friends blog, 2) as a tourist I loved what the state had to offer, 3) as a supporter of several outreaches to the area, and 4) the musical heritage of the area.


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Mildura Rural City Council has celebrated the achievements of the more than 20 young people nominated for Wednesday night’s 2017 Mildura Rural City Council Youth Awards.

The awards are now in their fifth year and serve as a way to thank local young people under 25 for their efforts across a wide range of areas within the community, including volunteering, the arts and caring for others.

Celebrated during National Youth Week each year, the Youth Awards recognise and highlight not only the contributions our youth make within the community, but the important role they play in our future.

Thirteen people took out awards in four categories on Wednesday night:

Youth Volunteer Award Joint Winners – Georgie Hopkins and Antonio Liparota

Youth Artist Group Award – Afghan Representatives of Mildura Mehdi Arifi, Sayema Najafi, Idress Jaffari ,Latifa Jaffri, Mohammed Ad Shujaee, Raihana Hashimi, Rohullah Ataye, Sadia Najafi, Saadat Ibrahimi

Youth Carer Award – Guylac (Rau) Mak

Youth Artist Award – Emily McEwan

While unable to attend the event Mildura Rural City Councillor for Community Wellbeing and Services Ali Cupper congratulated all nominees and award winners.

 “Wednesday's awards was a celebration of our youth and illustrated just how much our young people do in the community,” Cr Cupper said.

 “It was a chance to let the region’s youth know that we recognise the valuable contribution they make to our region, and the difference they make within our community.

 “The awards also raise awareness among the wider community about the work our young people do each year and how much we have to be proud of.”


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Potential Signs of Postpartum Depression

Mother with new baby talking to a doctor.

Being a new mother is hard, and having a baby can be overwhelming — both physically and emotionally. Bringing home an infant is an experience unlike any other. One minute you might be over the moon with happiness, and the next you feel like crying for reasons you can't explain.

That's why it's important to remember that, in addition to the lifestyle transition of welcoming a baby, your body is also going through a lot of changes. While the "baby blues" are common for many women after giving birth, some women face a more prolonged and serious period of depression. If your feelings of sadness or anxiety do not go away, you may be suffering from postpartum depression. However, even though it may feel like it, you’re not alone, and you don’t have to go through this alone. There is support and treatment available to help you get better.

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About Home Health Care

Saturday, July 14, 2012
Numerous seniors that are older than sixty five years old have difficulty maintaining their lifestyle because of sickness or feeling weak. As with young kids, they have providers that arrive in-home to help them out. These home health care assistants come during the day, or some stay overnight to help with regular day time duties. The most typical responsibilities these assistants do are listed below in this article.Preparing meals is definitely an important responsibility since it retains your family member's health. A good health care aide will ensure that seniors consume a well balanced diet plan. A wellness assistant can make breakfast every day, lunch, as well as supper before they leave. This can also be based on the recommendations of a physician, when the elderly patient has certain health conditions or even allergic reactions to certain foods.Housekeeping may be a premise for some aides, though not all, just like what a babysitter would do. A few examples would be vacuuming, laundry or dishwashing. If not, you may need the help of a house cleaner too.Incontinence is really a common medical problem amongst senior citizens and several may need to stay in diapers.

Just like an infant, a grownup sitter will even carry out these types of responsibilities. In case your mother or father is affected by incontinence, it is crucial to describe this throughout the job interview, to ensure applicants understand this particular responsibility.Transport service may also be provided. It's no secret that senior citizens need to stay active and maintain some semblance of a normal life. That's why if you can keep up with them taking excursions, doing chores, or even going shopping, by all means do. Some assistants will be a driver, a cook and serve multiple roles.In the end, being able to move around is actually a part of why individuals feel liberated. Having the ability to maneuver any place you want, is one thing which everybody may connect with, as well as value. Therefore, make sure to give this support for getting your parents as much freedom to move around as possible, instead of limiting them.Healthcare providers can perform health services, such as giving insulin for diabetes sufferers, altering catheters, as well as periodic screenings. A competent home health care assistant should be comfortable with this, so you don't have to worry about your parent getting medications or checkups on time.The similarities between kid care and grownup care are extremely comparable. A home health care agent is going to care for someone dear to you. Given that babies as well as senior citizens require a lot of attention, be sure to prudently select one who will treat your mother or father like their own.


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Greg-Mauro-PreachingI will forever remember as though we were standing there now, as you read these words.

The place: The walking bridge connecting the student parking lot to the bustling campus of Oral Roberts University, where the grandiose buildings and space age architecture were a daily reminder to the thousands of us students of Dr. Oral Roberts' charge to “Make no small plans here.”

The time: 25 years ago.

The experience: A life-changing encounter that would set the course for my spiritual future in ways I would never have imagined when I woke up almost late for class that beautiful spring morning in Tulsa.

With a mere six weeks remaining before graduation, and with a dream in my heart far bigger than myself, I was ready to go from this incredible place of preparation to be used by God to fulfill the Great Commission and reach our world for Christ.

Serving as a youth pastor in a local church, as a worship leader in another, carrying a 10-foot cross and sharing the gospel with whomever would listen across Tulsa, preaching on the streets, outside bars, leading evangelistic teams to Florida’s beaches during Spring break to witness to the masses of college students that swarm there from across the country—now coupled with my ORU experience—I was ready to spread my wings and take the next exciting step in God’s unfolding plan.

I drove my old car from the student apartments to campus, parked in the lot outside the Mabee Center and began my trek to class. I had done it hundreds of times. Grab my books, slam the car door closed and begin my brisk walk with a spring in my step to be sure I get to the first class of the day on time.

Connecting the parking lot and the campus is a simple white cement walking bridge spanning across a creek that divides the lot from the ORU campus, a well-traveled daily route. But I was soon to find out that this day would be unlike any other.

As I set foot on the bridge, I encountered a tangible presence and heard a voice that I knew only too well—and it stopped me in my tracks. Students scurrying to class by the scores walked past me as I stood still at the midpoint of this small bridge. Perhaps a minute passed, and now I was standing alone on the bridge.

I was unexpectedly stopped by a wonderful presence and challenged by the unmistakable voice of the Holy Spirit. The words are as fresh today as they were 25 years ago:

“Greg, what would you think if I called you to serve another man’s ministry that had the same vision that I have put in your heart, and by doing so, you would reach more people for My kingdom than if you did so on your own?”

I stood motionless pondering this heavenly proposition. A few straggling students passed by on the bridge, I’m sure wondering if this skinny 6-foot-9 motionless statue of a fellow student had lost his marbles!

Knowing how I responded to this divine moment would surely set the course for God’s future plans for my life. And marveling what a gentleman our God is. To present a “what would you think?” question, and not some “thus saith the Lord, you will do such and such …” command! I stood there and pondered.

Give up the idea of launching “my own” ministry … Serve someone else’s ministry that had the same heart as I do; reach more people; be more effective for the Kingdom of God. The more I mulled it over, it was a clear no-brainer!

“Sure, Lord.  If I can be more fruitful and reach more for You by helping someone else who is already doing what You have put in my heart to do, then count me in!”

Two weeks later, the ORU chapel service guest minister—worldwide evangelist, apostle and prophet Dr. Morris Cerullo—was introduced to the students. Another life-changing encounter. As this servant of God spoke from the words of John 6:28, “What must we do that we might work the works of God,”the Mabee Center chapel shook as the anointing of the Holy Spirit was poured out mightily upon the students.

Soon all were out of their seats, dropped to their knees, and crying out for God to use their lives; as was I. As I slowly began to stand after this season of prayer and communion with God on my knees in this powerful chapel service, that same voice I encountered on the bridge spoke again.

“Greg, I am calling you to stand by Morris’ side and help him in the ministry.”

Immediately my plans to enroll in the ORU seminary that fall flashed before my mind's eye. I asked God, “What about my plans to attend seminary?”

A quarter of a century later, God’s four-word reply has proven over and over again to be the understatement of my life: “This will be greater!”

On my knees in that ORU chapel service, I could not have imagined the blessings that God had in store these past 25 years serving as the vice-president of ministries for Dr. Cerullo.

I have a beautiful, godly wife and eight incredible, healthy children. By the grace of God, and their hard work, each were offered full scholarships to attend some of the top universities in the world. I have three adorable grandchildren, and a praying mother that loves and includes our family and the ministry of Dr. Cerullo in her prayers daily. I have a younger brother, Glenn, who has a heart of gold, and another brother, Gary, who pastors one of the great churches in America.

I had the opportunity to stand by Dr. Cerullo’s side as communism fell (as he prophesied for 14 consecutive years prior from the platform of the Royal Albert Hall) and conduct the first historic public crusade in Moscow before 50,000 people in the Olympic Stadium.

I have been privileged to stand by Dr. Cerullo’s side and to give birth to week-long Mission to London outreaches from world famous Earl’s Court to capacity crowds of 16,000 per night for six successive years. These events shook Britain and garnered unprecedented national and worldwide attention for the message of the power of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

I have been fortunate to personally preach by a spontaneous miracle to 200,000 protesters on the University Square in Bucharest, Romania, following the fall of the dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. I was in there meeting with key leaders who had invited Dr. Cerullo to conduct a national school of ministry and crusade later that year.

Now on my fourth passport, having been privileged to have seen millions saved, healed, set free, receive the impartation of the anointing, and being used by God on every continent … yes, there is unquestionably an incredible blessing waiting for those who will rise up to accept the calling to serve another man’s ministry.

To do so we will have to rise above a culture and an era that celebrates the entrepreneur, the self-made man or woman who blazes his or her own trail. That same spirit has permeated the church, particularly the independent, charismatic segments, where we are frequently bombarded with all the messages, encouragements, “words from the Lord” and marketing tools to launch your own ministry: get ordained, start your website, launch your own worldwide ministry and go!

In sharp contrast, Jesus said, “And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man’s, who shall give you that which is your own?” (Luke 16:12, KJV)

If we agree that there is a calling to serve another man’s ministry, then it is my prayer that many will rise up from their church pew as a spectator each Sunday and find an exciting, blessed place of service alongside the ministry of which they are a part.

I Corinthians 12:28 highlights the importance of the ministry of helps in the God-ordained structure of the church, listing it right after apostles, prophets, teachers, miracles, and gifts of healings: “And God has appointed these in the church: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, administrations, varieties of tongues” (NKJV).

Kim Harrington of Master Builder Ministries said it so well in her article on “The Ministry of Helps”:

“People approach the church with pretty much the same consumer mentality they bring to the shopping mall—you better deliver the goods, be nice and user-friendly, or I’ll simply take my business elsewhere. The concept of servanthood and faithfulness, sacrifice and dependability seems to be a thing of the past, or at least something that doesn’t apply to church anymore.

The desperate need in all sorts of Christian ministries is for those who will dedicate themselves to the ministry of helps, a rather inglorious sounding title, but listed in order right after miracle and healing ministries in the above text. The Greek word translated ‘helps’ means ‘to lay hold of, so as to support.’”

In other words, a minister of helps is someone who commits himself to another ministry in order to support and assist in any way he or she can.

I’m impressed by the ministry team of Billy Graham in this respect. One of the great reasons for his enormous success has to be the dedicated team that has worked with him since the early 1950s—Cliff Barrows, George Beverly Shea, and others, have been with him from the very beginning. They didn’t see their work with Billy as a stepping stone toward their own independent ministries, but rather as a lifetime calling.

And in the process of helping his ministry, they have achieved personal ministerial success that they never could have attained on their own. How many records has Bev Shea sold, how many millions of people has Barrows taught over the years that never would have been possible outside of Billy Graham’s ministry? When you commit yourself to the ministry of helps, you lay hold of personal success that you might never have achieved otherwise.”

Is there a Barnabas, a Silas, a Timothy, an Aquila or Priscilla who is ready to serve the next Apostle Paul? Or is there a band of mighty men ready to serve the next David? An Elisha to serve the next Elijah? Or the next Kenneth Copeland who will serve at the book table of the next Oral Roberts?

God has ordained an amazing journey for you, and secret number one to experiencing this incredible blessing is settling the question once and for all. Yes, as a New Testament Christian, I am called to serve another man’s ministry.

Note: The preceding is an excerpt from The Blessing of Serving Another Man’s Ministry: Seven Serving Secrets That Will Sentence You To Success, available on Discounted bulk copies are available direct from the author at

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Man, 25, Charged With Allegedly Pinning US Marshal With SUV

Complaint: Protective Vest Saved US Marshall From Being Crushed

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A 25-year-old Minneapolis man faces charges accusing him of striking and pinning a US Marshal with an SUV last week, according to the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office.

James Douglas Mitchell faces first-degree assault on a peace officer and fleeing a police officer, both felonies, in connection to the Oct. 6 incident.

According to the criminal complaint, officers from various departments responded to the general location of 20th Avenue South and 1st Street South in Minneapolis on the report of Mitchell being present. Officers were attempting to execute multiple warrants for his arrest – and he was also wanted in connection to four new criminal cases.

At the location, Mitchell was observed sitting in the driver’s seat of a stolen Cadillac SUV along with two female passengers. While officers were arriving, Mitchell started the vehicle and drove two blocks west, parking on 2nd Street.

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When officers approached and asked Mitchell and the other passengers to raise their hands, he responded by reversing his vehicle and striking the US Marshal, the complaint said. Mitchell then fled by driving away through some bushes and into a parking garage.

The US Marshal reported that while he was pinned, he could hear the engine continue to rev and that he feared he’d be crushed to death. He was, however, wearing a protective vest with a plate that prevented his chest from being crushed, authorities said. He was taken to the hospital where a preliminary check revealed bruising.

Mitchell was arrested the following day by US Marshals after another vehicular pursuit.

Mitchell’s active warrants are for first-degree burglary and third-degree assault. He’s also wanted in connection to three new criminal cases, which include criminal vehicular operation, fleeing police in a motor vehicle and burglary. He’s also wanted in Ramsey County on suspicion of motor vehicle theft.

He made his first appearance in court Wednesday. If convicted, Mitchell could face up to 20 years in prison on the first-degree assault charge and up to 3 years and a day on the fleeing police charge.

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  1. Dan Mack says:

    That is just so unfair. Habitual criminals, Radical Muslim Terrorists, black gangs, and illegal aliens are just here for a better life. How can you blame them ? Here in the Socialist Village we are committed to allocating every available resource to helping them turn their lives around. They just need more funds from us, not Incarceration and or deportation. Their diversity makes us stronger and we need to continue to import more of them to grow the Socialist Village.

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In what’s become a recurring theme, the weekly addresses of President Obama and congressional Republicans offered a preview of the two sides’ political strategies heading into this fall’s midterm elections.

Mr. Obama and his fellow Democrats are pushing an income-equality agenda that includes a hike in the nation’s minimum wage and more federal investment into manufacturing, infrastructure, education, and other areas.

The GOP, on the other hand, continues to zero in on the president’s health-care reform law and its negative consequences, a tack the party is sure to continue heading toward the November contests.

In his weekly speech, the president touted the executive steps he took earlier this week, including the launch of two new “manufacturing hubs” to promote innovation, a $600 million infrastructure grant competition and other actions.


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Friday, 30 March 2007

MIR on Wikipedia

I just noticed the music information retrieval entry on Wikipedia. It's the first hit you get when you search for music information retrieval in Google.

There are no sections on:
- open source MIR tools (e.g. Marsyas, CLAM, ...)
- relevant MIR conferences (ISMIR, ...)
- history of MIR (e.g. first TREC-like evaluation in 2004 etc.)
- ...

The Wikipedia entry on information retrieval might be a nice starting point?

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24 hours to live...
24 hours to live...
Seven thousand four hundred twenty three grains
of sand drop from the hourglass
It's how much time I got left on this planet
Some motherfucker's gotta die!
I'm an evil motherfucker ready to tear shit up
I'm gonna put these things on you and never let up
See my momma...she was wrong when I was born
That a nigga like E should'a never been born
Too late, big mistake in '72
It's '92, now the year of code blue
15 hours..11 minutes..30 seconds
I'm a motherfuckin' wreck
Gonna pay back niggas who did me wrong in the past
My days ain't long
I'm comin' strong and fast
Lock up 8 niggs..kill up 10 pigs
??? and fuckas are ?altered? by a 2
Now what else can I do?
Fuck, fuck, fuck and plant my seeds
Leavin' kids in this world like me
The lunatic psycho mutherfucka Eazy-E
Chorus (sang)
24 hours to live
But I don't wanna die
24 hours to live
Oh why, oh why?
Must die
Sky diving, scuba diving
To Evil Kinevil stunt car drivin'
Bungee cord jumpin' off a bridge
It's hard to breathe with a fractured rib
I can't take this shit
Let me see how much more time I got to spend
Hit more skins
Back up in her pussy
Up in the back
I gotta let off
A few more nuts
I'm starting to panic
I'm starting to sweat
'Cause I don't really wanna die yet
Dizzy spells, flashbacks in my head
Niggas ain't want me to bein' happy when I'm dead
But I ain't goin' out unless 30 niggas die
I'm dying anyway so I'm thinking suicide
Run into a crowd of niggas dyin' by the pistol
Took the motheruckin' whistle
To sweep with the feet when he hit the concrete
Chop him up, dice him up and sacrifice his meat
Drag him by his ankles to the cemetary
Shut the fuck up nigga
'Cause you ain't seen shit
I'm 'bout to take this ???? and staight up grip
I'm holdin' the neck of the devil and drink his blood
Allowing my soul to be polluted by his evil root
And now I'm mad insane, red as ???? as I strain for my hearbeat
To thumpety-thump to pump, it might burst
False alarms, and no harm that will commit to the E
But now I'm down to an hour 23
Time is moving fast, but not that slow
I thought I had an hour, but it's seconds left the go
I ran into the office
No more time is left
I ran up to the doctor with a bomb to my (BOOM)
As I lay me down to sleep
I pray the lord my soul to keep
As time winds down to it's last 24 hours
in an earth that weighs 60 trillion tons
Travelling 1,037 1/3 mph, how do you define time?
What is a minute?
How important is an hour when 24 hours becomes a lifetime
Oooooh, so define how do we define time?
Now you choose
How will you spend your last 24 hours?
C'mon..talk to me
3X Chorus ("must die" is faded into next chorus loop)

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Master Builder Freudian Symbols Essay Research Paper

СОДЕРЖАНИЕ: Master Builder Freudian Symbols Essay, Research Paper Freudian Symbols in The Master Builder The Master Builder, by Henrik Ibsen, is a play about individuality, morality, and

Master Builder Freudian Symbols Essay, Research Paper

Freudian Symbols in The Master Builder

The Master Builder, by Henrik Ibsen, is a play about individuality, morality, and

self. But beneath those very ambiguous descriptions lies a play with symbols that clearly

depict the collective unconscious. Through a careful psychoanalytical critique of the

text, the relationship between the symbolism and the psychological themes can be

discovered as they interact throughout the play.

Within a play, ?symbolism has a broader role as a kind of natural metaphor, or

mode of comparison? (Neu 115). A psychoanalytic criticism will concentrate in the

symbols within the play and discover their ?hidden meanings,? because ?elements of the

latent content are expressed not directly but symbolically in manifest content? (Erdelyi

Solness, the primary character, is a successful but aging architect who uses others

to fulfill his own selfish intentions. He demands respect and fear from all characters who

interact with him. Even his old carpentry teacher refers to him as ?the chief? and refuses

to make decisions without Solness? consent (Ibsen 13). But, beneath the hard exterior, he

wrestles with instincts and dark forces. And yet, he can not surmount the sexual

obsession that drives him through life; Solness is a nymphomaniac and can not handle his

wife?s infertility which results in the loss of their sexual relationship. In an effort to

obtain sexual freedom, Solness destroys himself.

Hilda is also a nymphomaniac. Because she went through adolescence without a

mother, she was unable to successfully resolve an identity conflict as a child. This results

in her inability to develop her own gender identity, and she can not, therefore, create a

relationship with Mrs. Solness, but turns to Halvard to fulfill her sexual needs instead.

While both of the previously mentioned characterizations may seem, at first

glance, to be quite unrealistic, the actuality of each of them is much more plausible after

a close analysis of the Freudian symbols in the play. Then, an accurate personality for

each character may be obtained.

The first obvious symbol in the play is the characters? perpetual references to

?rooms.? Solness fears that the youth will not ?make room? for him, and the room

symbolizes the womb – a place where Solness can take refuge from his ever-present

desires and return to innocence (Ibsen 115). He emphatically shouts, ?make room – make

room – make room! (Ibsen 540).

And, ?make room? is precisely what Mrs. Solness does. Offering Hilda

hospitality, she immediately becomes concerned with preparing a room for the child.

Again, Mrs. Solness is presented as the mother and quickly welcomes Hilda into her

womb and intends to care for the child as a mother would. In contrast to Solness?

exclamation, ?There?s not that much room here,? (Ibsen 157) Mrs. Solness states,

?There?s more than enough room? (Ibsen 632). In the same way, Hilda is given the

children?s room and this symbolizes her role as Mrs. Solness? lost child. Unfortunately,

Hilda?s identity issues prevent her from assuming the role Mrs. Solness needs and wishes

her to undertake.

While, the room serves as a symbol of the womb, the various entrances and exits

serve a similar function as they designate the entrance to the womb – the uterus. Solness

fears youth will destroy the womb he is trying to create and cries, ?someday youth will

come here, knocking at the door? (Ibsen 542). Then as if on cue, Hilda arrives. Being

the symbol of youth, she implores that he (and his wife) ?open your door to the young.

Let them come in with you? (Ibsen 980).

The symbol of a bird is used to portray the wild passion of Hilda. As the act of

flying symbolizes the capability to perform sexually, the bird epitomizes the sexual

being. And, in the play, Hilda is the character with the wild and untamed carnal appetite.

When Solness asks her if she will return home, she tells him, ?Wild birds never like

cages. Birds of prey like hunting best? (Ibsen 2212).

But, the bird is not the only emblem used to depict the intense sensuality in Hilda.

When the reader gets the description of her, she is full of symbols the denote her

?She is of medium height, supple, and well-formed. Dressed in

a shortened shirt, sailor blouse open at the throat, and a little

sailor hat. She has a knapsack on the back and a long alpenstock?

(Ibsen 547).

While the initial description is rather self-explanatory, the most interesting section can be

detected through the symbols used in the description. She carries with her a lengthy stick

which is an obvious phallic symbol, and serves to represent her obsession with the male

genitalia. In addition, her clothing is that of a sailors? which can easily be paralleled to

water – the symbol for amniotic fluid. Indeed, this very deliberate depiction of Hilda?s

sexuality cannot be easily ignored.

Even the flowers in Mrs. Solness? garden are used to symbolize and contrast the

beauty and lust within Hilda and Mrs. Solness. Coming up from the garden with a

bouquet of flowers, Hilda asks Mrs. Solness, ?don?t you go down even once in a while

and visit all those lovely things? (Ibsen 2002)? Mrs. Solness replies that, ?it?s grown so

strange to me, all of it. I?m almost frightened of seeing it again? (Ibsen 2005). She is

quite unable to appreciate the innocent sexuality of the garden because her age and her

experiences have caused her to become disassociated with sex and love and hope. The

death of her children and the perceived infidelity of her husband has given her an

inoculation against the powerful beauty within the garden.

And yet, the fact that Hilda is referred to as ?princess? and not ?queen? creates a

very distinct dichotomy between the role she plays and the role Mrs. Solness plays with

regard to Solness. While there is evidence to support that Mrs. Solness can be Halvard?s

mother figure, Hilda can only be the opposite. Solness tells Hilda, ?the princess shall

have her castle? (Ibsen 2588). Rather than give her the title of queen (and mother), she is

given the role of the innocent child (princess).

While many of the symbols in the play portray the sensuality of the characters,

there are still more symbols which serve as windows into the psychological minds of the

characters. For example, the castle, churches, and books represent the three components

of personality: the id, ego, and superego. The castles in the sky symbolize the id for

Hilda initially and Solness eventually. The id is the part of the personality containing

energy with sexual and/or aggressive instincts; the pleasure principle. Hilda expresses

her desire for a sexual relationship with Halvard through her wish for a castle in the air

and similarly, Halvard imagines that the kingdom will allow him to give in to his

desperate urge to be gratified through intercourse with Hilda.

If the castle represents the id, then the churches logically symbolizes the

superego. The superego is defined as ?the past of the personality that represents good

and conscience , that distinguishes right from wrong in moralistic terms? (Berger, 39).

However, the death of Solness? children gives him the strength to repress his superego

and, as a result, he ceased creating churches. He tells Hilda, ?from the day I lost them, I

never wanted to build another church? (Ibsen 1410). Interestingly, while Solness did

build churches, they all had terribly elongated towers. As the tower undoubtedly stood

for a phallic symbol, its presence essentially decreased the strength of the superego

image. Where the church failed, the tower was able to defy gravity and led him closer to

redemption – or so he thought.

The third component of the personality is the ego. The ego is the part that

regulates between the demands of the id and the limits of the superego (Berger 39). The

play uses books to represent the ego. Because books contain both morality and sexuality,

they allow a reader to live vicariously without dealing with the repercussions of either.

While the ego might have redeemed Solness and Hilda, both refused to read the books.

Hilda says, ?I can?t connect with them anymore.? And Solness agrees and states, ?it?s

exactly the same for me? (Ibsen 1260). Indeed, the id has gained enough strength to

obliterate both the ego and the superego. The characters are quite doomed to accept the

consequences of their actions.

Notable the consequences which essentially characterize the play?s conclusion are

also very stereo-typical images of sex within Freudian philosophy. It is quite clear that a

number of objects are used to denote the genitals symbolically in the final act. The

climbing of steps is most commonly used to symbolize sexual intercourse. Thus,

Solness surmounts his deadly fear of climbing as he begins the ascent to the top of the

tower (another previously discussed phallic symbol). While Mrs. Solness is afraid for

her husband and wishes he would turn around and descend, Hilda emphatically

encourages him to continue upward saying, ?He?s climbing and climbing. Always

higher. Always higher? (Ibsen 2650)!

And yet, the symbolism does not end there; Solness? death is a portrayal of his

failure to perform sexually. His inability to climb without falling symbolizes his ability

to obtain either gratification of redemption through sex. Instead, he plummets to his

death and Hilda is left staring at the tower of possibilities. Without Solness, there could

be no castle and her superego is refused fulfillment.

It is also very necessary to note the impact Freud?s symbols have on minor

characters as well as the major ones. Kaja is the one character with steady control over

her own identity. She is secure in her sexuality; this can be portrayed by her profession

as bookkeeper. According to Freud, ?weapons and tools generally stand for male

genitalia, while materials (things worked upon) stand for female genitalia? (Sulloway

338). Although Kaja uses a pencil (male), she is a keeper of books (female), and as a

result, has created a very even balance for her sexuality. Unfortunately, even she can not

resist the strength of the superego which is represented by old Solness.

Through a careful examination of the symbols used in Henrik Ibsen?s The Master

Builder, a very successful Freudian analysis of the play and its characterizations can be

revealed. Indeed, it becomes clear that the characters are driven by forces – sexual forces

- quite out of their control, and it is the forces which ultimately destroy Solness? life and

Hilda?s chance for gratification.

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Sunday, March 29, 2009

Mississauga Kids Enjoy Summer Music Camps

There are a variety of Summer Camps in Mississauga. Some of them focus on particular interests. If you have a kid who enjoy Music perhaps one of the options below might tickle their fancy.

CP School of Music and Arts offers over 14 exciting summer camps for children ages: newborn - 12. There is something for everyone: Piano, Guitar and “The Next Idol” Camps for music lovers; Discovery Art Camps for kids who love sculpting and drawing. Preschoolers will enjoy music, dance and art in the half-day “Jazzy Land” Camp. “You think you can dance” and “Princess Fairy” Dance camps will be great for the young dancers. Kindermusik is a fun music and movement program for the little campers.

SING would like you to know that if you are looking for something to do with your baby or preschooler in July and August Sing has plenty of musical camps running this summer! Kindermusik® Adventures Camps for newborn to age 7 provide you with lots of parenting tools and opportunities for you to bond with your child! Prefer a drop-off program? ABC Music & Me is a wonderful music and movement program for ages 2 to 6! Summer voice and piano lessons also available!

For More information about these Music CAmps and other Mississauga Summer Camps visit our website at MISSISSAUGA KIDS!

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Mississauga March Break 2009 - Day 2

It's a beautiful day in the neighbourhood! (How many of us still hum that Mr. Roger's tune?) We may not be in the sunny Caribbean but Mississauga Kids are experiencing some delightful weather so far! Did you know you can always get the latest forecast for Mississauga Weather right on our main Mississauga Kids website? Just check the upper right hand corner of the page!

Why not get the kids out doors for a bit of fun this morning! From 10 to 10:45 the Mississauga Fire Department will have trucks out a the Central Library at Square One for the kids to check out. I'm guessing they may be giving out some fire safety coloring books too while supplies last. Enjoy the trucks then head inside to wonder the stacks. Hmmm wonder if the librarian could help you find a book on firetucks or firemen?

Don't forget today is St. Patrick's Day! Everyone gets to be Irish today! Just wear a bit of green and a smile on you face!

For more on what's happening this march Break in Mississauga check the Mississauga Kids website or follow us on Twitter!

Monday, March 16, 2009

Mississauga March Break 2009 - Day 1

Today is the first Day of March Break in Mississauga and Mississauga Kids are finding there is plenty to do right here in Mississauga!

Today is Grandparent's Day! Mississauga Recreation Centres have a little something special planned Grandma and Grandpa today! Free Activity Passes will be issued to the first 100 Grandparents to come out for an activities with a grandparent in tow! Get out! Get active! Have fun. As my own grandma Dot would say each Spring, "Time to get out and blow the stink off!"

Are your kids Dora and Diego Fans? The Walmart at 800 Mathesom Blvd. W. in Mississauga invites you to bring your kids and your camera when you visit Dora and Diego at the store form 2-4 today.

Need last minute childcare? Check with Susie At Alpha's Discovery Club. They are offering a great daycamp for Mississauga Kids that will keep them busy and happy while you get done what needs doing!


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Jersey Boys doesn't translate to the screen

Over the opening credits of director Clint Eastwood's Jersey Boys, there's something unusual for a modern movie: an overture. And over the closing credits, there's something unusual again: the entire cast joining together, dancing in what amounts to a curtain call. If you watched only the first minute and last minute of Eastwood's Jersey Boys, you might think that this guy has a pretty solid handle on the risky proposition of turning a Broadway musical into a movie.

In recent years, as audiences have generally resisted movie musicals that aren't animated, we've seen how hard it is to translate to the screen what makes a musical work on stage. And Eastwooda director who generally displays a minimalist visual sensibility—might seem like exactly the wrong guy for the grand theatricality of a story that began as singing and dancing in front of a live audience. The frustrating thing is that he seems to want to give the audience for his Jersey Boys the experience of watching a stage musical in a movie theater, without really grasping what to keep and what has to change.

Jersey Boys tells the story of the Four Seasons, the legendary pop music group that begins with Newark, N.J., childhood friends Frankie Castelluccio (John Lloyd Young) and Tommy DeVito (Vincent Piazza) performing club gigs together with bassist Nick Massi (Michael Lomenda) whenever they're not involved in small-time crimes. As they get more serious about their music—including Frankie changing his last name to Valli—they hook up with songwriter Bob Gaudio (Erich Bergen), and start recording hits that take them to the top of the charts, while the inevitable tensions work at the group from within. And along the way, we get great little bits of trivia, like the role eventual Oscar-winning actor Joe Pesci plays in the group's formation.

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  • “Do I put my left hand in and my right hand out?”

The stage version of Jersey Boys—with a book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, who also adapted the screenplay—employed a device in which each member of the group narrated their version of the story in turn. That notion is retained here, but only halfway: The characters sporadically break the fourth wall and address the audience, but not in any cleanly organized way. As a result, the movie loses the key notion that each member of the group recalls their rise and fall in his own way, leaving only a standard musical biopic complete with the kind of "everyone instantly realizes this new sound is amazing" scene that was so brilliantly mocked in Walk Hard.

Even the way the music itself is handled becomes a frustration. While plenty of terrific Four Seasons hits appear throughout the film—"Sherry," "Big Girls Don't Cry," "Walk Like a Man," etc.—the context almost always requires the story to stop dead to present an actual performance by the group. While that might feel more natural than other "jukebox musicals" like Mamma Mia! that have the characters burst into song in the middle of their lives, it changes the energy of the storytelling, and draws attention to stretches of the narrative when music seems to disappear entirely.

Most problematic, however, is the nature of the performances, which feel as though they're being pitched at a live theater audience. The story overflows with broad characterizations—Tommy's "fuggedaboudit" strutting; the flaming gay mannerisms of the band's producer, Bob Crewe (Mike Doyle)—that might work on a stage, but start to feel shrill and overwrought when blown up with cinematic intimacy. Young won a Tony Award for originating Valli on Broadway, yet while he has a handle on the sense of loyalty that complicates his relationship with the volatile, fiscally irresponsible Tommy, he still gets stuck in scenes of domestic melodrama with his wife, Mary (Renée Marino, who also played her role on stage), that degenerate into awkward shouting matches.

There's an ironic moment in Jersey Boys when Frankie gets advice before a performance on "The Ed Sullivan Show," explaining how he should perform for the camera rather than for the balcony. Eastwood never seems to give his own actors that same advice. He clearly loves the idea of filming a live performance of Jersey Boys for a movie theater audience—but by the time his cast takes a bow, it feels as though it wasn't such a great idea.

Jersey Boys opens at the Carmike 12 Fri., June 20.

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Archive for the Carp fly Patterns Category

Oh Yeah! The 50ft Stretch of Rock Pile Pays Off Again with a Big Hybrid Striped Bass!

Big Fish of the Day

This little stretch is almost always holding a couple Hybrids, a Drum or two and sometimes you might find catfish. Thanks to the pumps that come on every 10-15 minutes and discharge into the creek, this spot is usually hot…sometime more than others. You might have heard me lamenting a big fish i hooked in the discharge a week or two ago…it was a super powerful fish that struck a big hammerhead sculpin right in the discharge as it erupted about 6ft off the bank. I went back today as i often do… I started out with the same fly…I started by dappling the outer edges of the rocks right around some submerged vegetation and wouldn’t you know it, before my very eyes a big hybrid comes up and gulps the fly! it was a really nice fish like some of the others I’ve been catching lately..

hybrid striper up high

That was nice! and look who showed up on the very next cast straight into the rushing discharge.

That was enough to keep me casting for another hour or so, the fish usually hit real quick when they are present so any lul indicates the fishing is probably done, but I don’t quit easy.  When the pumps went off I knew it was time to throw right up in the discharge…a tap on the line and bingo! Big fish on.  Forgive my self photography

This bad boy ran me up the creek then came back down…and ran me a couple more times… i had to crank down the drag danger tight just to make sure he didn’t get me in the snags. what a fish! I never checked for broken stripes, but the fish did seem flatish and broad so im going to say Hybrid striped bass, cuz I’ve never seen a stripper, but on second inspection of all the photos I don’t see any broken stripes..?.  This fish was a good 5 inches bigger than any of my previous catches and did about 2-3x the running.  All time best or damn close.

After that I got a drum on the same fly.  summing it up….

June 20th: Hybrid Bass in the Creek

….and a lone fish from several nights later… this fish was right in front of me probably for hours…as i rolled up to move/go home the fly dragged across the surface just before pulling up. I saw the fish make a swipe literally 5 feet away. I dappled 8 ft casts and had him shortly thereafter. I hear they are down on the Meramec river too..the river is up real high and the fish are up most creeks.

And the Fly Shop is Re-Opened

Its been at least a year since I filled an order, and there’s still work to be done, some new images are needed and some flies need to be added, but for the time being, if you need flies..I’m open for business once again! Inventory and Selection has been reduced so that i can focus on what I do best; specialty/custom dubbing blends on my core group of flies that I fish day in and day out. When you buy my flies you can rest assured that your fishing with the very same patterns I am. All tested and proven to the max. If you’ve not seen it yet, here’s a little something to light your fire.

Weather you tie or not don’t forget to go out and get the

The Orvis Beginner’s Guide to Carp Flies: 101 Patterns & How and When to Use Them

by Dan Frasier

and the

The Best Carp Flies: How to Tie and Fish Them

by Jay Zimmerman

you’ll find some of my best patterns with tying recipes and some notes on how and when to fish them, along with many other patterns by the top tiers in the sport.

2015…. Here we go!

I can feel the excitement in the air.

freshwater drum

First fish of 2015! A healthy Freshwater Drum

and more drum…

Freshwater drum fly fishing

Drum on the fly

catfish, channel catfish

Oh yeah.. on the weedless wooly fished deep just as the rain started for real

Day 2 was a windy cold bummer, but did yield several fish… This was my favorite of the day

catfish on the fly

An Olive Hammerhead Sculpin drew an immediate big hit in shallow water by this Channel Catfish on the muddy windblown side of the lake.

2014 saw me employed full time with the old carpentry crew, and when I’m working its really all I have energy for.  The fly shop section of Missouriflies got shut down, and I quit posting…. Depressing I know. Long story short, I’m not done with Missouriflies, or fishing just yet.   As many of you already know Dan Frasier’s new book “The Orvis Beginner’s Guide to Carp Flies: 101 Patterns & How and When to Use Them” featuring many of my flies and flies from other top carp fisherman is out! get your copy here! I know Dan put in a lot of hard work and has something to be really proud of.  Surprisingly enough, despite my almost complete abandonment of my blog and fly shop for nearly a full year…. facebooks likes are starting to rack up pretty darn fast and I have a sneaking suspicion Dan’s book has a lot to do with that! so don’t hesitate, the book has good reviews, and flies from the best guys in the carp world.

Don’t let me forget another Carp fly book by one of the biggest names in fly fishing, Jay Zimmerman’s “The Best Carp Flies”.  get your copy here! Jays been at the fishing game a lil while…  both books are a valuable resource for anyone looking to get into carp on the fly, and even the full fledged pro.  I highly recommend both.

I got out the other day for the first fishing of the year and it wasn’t bad. I hit my favorite creek and went upstream the first day… fish were definitely stacking up high in the creek.  I took the most fish from the the uppermost pool i can access, where there’s an abrupt rocky riffle, often serving as a fish barrier.  I used weedless bead/lead eyed wooly buggers dragged on bottom with a 15ft sink tip (fast sinking).  If you can’t feel the fly on bottom… your not in the zone. Freshwater drum have acute hearing/vibration sensitivity, so actually touching bottom is a virtual must.  I don’t even bother with this style of fishing without weedless flies… in which case i will lose only 2 or 3 flies if Im lucky, vs the 5-10 I would lose without it.  I even ran into a couple channel catfish.  Two were taken while bottom bouncing for drum, and one i got the following day over at the lake, using a big hammerhead sculpin in Olive… my favorite.  That fish was on the downwind side of the lake about 15 ft from shore in the shollow turned up muddy water, and hit like a tun of bricks.  I really really like catfish…they are just too hard to find in any numbers consistently, though hitting a connected oxbow lake May into June would be a really good bet. cast to shoreline structure with a size 4 white/silver/ and or yellow rabbit strip zonker with lead eyes and you should get into plenty. I like to strip immediately and as fast as i can. hits come fast…hardly ever past strip #4 or 5.  There were also plenty of Grass carp roaming and a couple of Commons, but i largely didn’t care… i guess i know when to throw at them and when not to… its still too early, or they just weren’t feeling it…sometimes you just know, and when the drum are feeding…. i just go with the drum because they are the earliest arrivals and the most consistent bite of the the fish in the area.  Next comes the hybrid bass and everything else… culminating with the the Mulberry drop. The Most epic fishing of the year…


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Friday, January 14, 2011

I will have my drinks in one hand while flicking my cigarette butts at all the art in this group show that displeases me. I will also be slurring alot of seemingly important opinions... if only you could make them out!
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