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Pins and Needles
Albuquerque tattoo artists unite
The way Noel Ortiz gushes about the tattoo culture in Albuquerque, you'd think his body was covered in ink.
In fact, Ortiz brandishes only one tattoo. But even though he lacks a lot of personal experience under the needle, Ortiz' love for the tattoo industry in the Duke City runs deep. "Most tattoo shops I've been to have been very energetic," Ortiz says. "Once you walk in, there's a buzz of artistic expression, bright colors and music. There's a level of energy there that makes you feel excited."
Ortiz says the tattoo parlors in Albuquerque deserve more exposure and recognition. With this in mind, the self-proclaimed "infamous Atomic Cantina door guy" organized the Pins and Needles Tour. The four-day-long affair offers a chance to see what happens when six of the city's tattoo shops work together. As far as Ortiz knows, his event marks the first time tattoo shops in Albuquerque have joined forces.
The event launches with a meet-and-greet at Atomic Cantina with artists from all six shops. Potential clients can peruse samples of artists' work and make appointments to get inked. The meet-and-greet also gives tattoo shop workers and owners a chance to network and share ideas. Star Tattoo owner Chris Partain says he's constantly getting new ideas from people in the industry. "I always like feeding off of other artists' styles of tattooing," Partain says. "I'm constantly picking up pieces here and there from people I like. I think it's cool on a local level to be able to share ideas."
The "Pins" portion of the project consists of seven bowling pins painted by artists from the participating tattoo shops. They will be bestowed as raffle prizes on the final day of the event, also taking place at Atomic.
Raffle participants visit the six shops and figure out which pin(s) they like best. Ortiz says tour participants can familiarize themselves with the various shops and get an idea of what each parlor has to offer. "My hope is that people will come in and say, I heard you guys are a part of the Pins and Needles Tour—what's your shop all about?" Ortiz says.
Partain says Albuquerque boasts both a surfeit of talented artists and plenty of residents eager to put them to work. The industry veteran of nearly 20 years says Albuquerque's tattoo scene can hold its own against bigger cities. "People come from Los Angeles and other larger markets and are surprised to see how many shops are staying open in this city," Partain asserts. "Who would have thought that Albuquerque of all places would be a tattoo Mecca?"
Ortiz struggles to explain why Albuquerque's scene is burgeoning, but he says it helps that tattoos now enjoy mainstream acceptance. "Ten years ago, if you had a tattoo, you were kind of different," Ortiz says. "Nowadays, if you don't have one, you're looked at as being kind of weird."
"Bueno" Gallegos, an apprentice at Redlight Tattoo, says the tour should help prospective customers feel relaxed about the tattoo process. "Maybe it will help people that don't know too much about tattooing," Gallegos says. "It gives them a chance to realize that artists are pretty much like everyday, normal people."
Ortiz says his tour should erase any doubts that Albuquerque deserves even more attention from artists and ink-junkies across the country. "I hope this show puts us on the map so that, in the future, there will be no question as to whether the talent exists here," Ortiz says. "I know it's here."
There are a lot more than six tattoo shops in the city, but Ortiz says he chose the parlors with artists he's familiar with. Next year, Ortiz says he hopes to get more shops in on the action. "These individuals come into the Atomic Cantina often, and I developed a rapport with them," Ortiz explains. "In the future, my goal is to make it a lot bigger."
On Friday, Jan. 23, at Atomic Cantina, artists from six tattoo shops chat with clients and show off their work. Grab a raffle ticket for your chance to score one of seven painted bowling pins, which will all be on display. The meet-and-greet is free, and Who Killed Carla, Black Maria, Scenester and My Majestic Mind provide musical accompaniment. The event starts at 6 p.m. Only 21-plus folks are invited.
On Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 24 to 25, head over to any of the six participating tattoo shops to buy a raffle ticket. One costs $10. The shops are: Star Tattoo (10200 Corrales Road NW), Redlight Tattoo (4401 Coors SW), Heart and Soul (4010 Central SE), Independent Ink (5411 Fourth Sreet NW), Tinta Cantina (3902 Central SE) and 71 Tattoo (9800 Montgomery NE).
Then on Monday Jan. 26, Atomic hosts a tattoo contest. The person with the best tattoo wins $100, and second place takes home $50. It costs $10 to enter a tattoo in the contest. The winners of the bowling pin raffle are announced Monday as well. It's completely free to enjoy the festivities and listen to Dead Mary, Adams Dagger and Ends !n Tragedy. Be there by 6 p.m. You must be of drinking age to get down.
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Shares of memory chip maker SanDisk (SNDK) are up $2.31, or 4.2%, at $57.43, after the company this evening announced its board approved initiation of a dividend of 22.5 cents per share per quarter, and $2.5 billion in new share buybacks.
The buybacks add to the current authorization for $3.75 billion in buying authority. The company said $1 billion will be spent via an accelerated share repurchase during the current quarter.
The initial dividend payment is expected on August 30th to holders of record as of August 12th. The payout has a current yield of 1.6% based on SanDisk's close today of $55.12.

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Description The Western Sulphur or Golden Sulphur (Colias occidentalis) is a butterfly in the family Pieridae found in North America. Its range includes the Pacific Northwest and parts of British Columbia.
Flight period is from late May until early July.
Wingspan is from 53 to 50 mm.
Larvae feed on Vicia spp., Lupinus spp., Lathyrus spp., and Thermopsis spp.
Dimensions 1 1/2-2" (38-51 mm).
Habitat Alpine & subalpine habitats, Forests & woodlands, Meadows & fields, Scrub, shrub & brushlands, Shorelines & salt marshes.
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I stashed a SITH Evo set today...PM if interested.
I stashed a SITH Evo set today...PM if interested.
WM in Porter Ranch had nothing good. They did have a Jedi Evo set, but it was a return missing Qui-Gon's cloak and the Jedi Luke figure, replaced with McQuarrie Han. Weird.
WM West Hills nada.
Target Topanga Canyon nada.
Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
Kylo Ren - came from Space Brooklyn, although he moved to Space Williamsburg before it was trendy.
The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.
I picked up the Sith Evolutions Pack and the Stormtrooper Evolutions Pack today at Target on Desoto. And a Clone Battlepack.
Nothing at TRU on Topanga or Walmart at Fallbrook Mall.
Deadwood Target had all of Wave 2 Evolutions (1X each), some Han & Mace MM, and whole pile of Battle Packs. The basic figures look like they time-warped in from October.
I stashed the Evo Secret Apprentice set, if anyone wants it.
My 2008 Wave 2 case (Force Unleashed) shipped today from NewForce. Good times ahead.
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Dir. Jonathan Levine
A bunch of horny guys try to seduce an unobtainable sexpot at a backwoods holiday ranch, with devastating and splashy consequences. Sound familiar? well, maybe that's coz it is. But! Though its title sounds more like a Ryan Reynolds and Katherine Heigl starring rom-com, All the Boys Love Mandy Lane is an above par slasher movie, with more than a few nods to its Friday the 13th influences.
A lengthy, almost languid opening evokes the tantalizingly forbidden sexuality of The Virgin Suicides, with a dreamy soundtrack and sun-kissed photography. Its in this context that the title arouses connections to idyllic childhood sweet-hearts and that one girl in school who matured before the others, capturing the imagination of the male populous. Almost every shot features a half naked teen, frolicking in slow motion in a pool or on the playing field or smoking a joint. The stifling atmosphere of hormonally charged sexual exploration is explicitly conveyed and hangs thick in the air, as is the manipulative nature, pettiness and hurtful interactions of teenagers.
The film's strength lies in its exploration of this facet of teen life with their alternative agendas and manipulative backstabbing – perfectly highlighted in an early scene involving two young men daring each other to jump off a roof into a pool below. The characters are infinitely more drawn than their usual slasher counterparts. Having said that, they can be just as annoying and make as many clichéd decisions as every other slasher film teen. Wandering off into the dark to investigate a strange noise, anyone?
The camera seems as enraptured by Mandy Lane's body as her male peers are, and indulges in every inch of it. As the titular character, Amber Heard combines the sultriness and girl-next-door quietude of Scarlett Johansson and Abbie Cornish, and she delivers a modest and sincere performance.
Events soon veer into blatant slasher territory as Mandy is invited to stay in the isolated family ranch of flaky stoner Red. They are joined by two other couples who can't seem to decide who they want to 'get with.'
It's no secret though that the three guys who organised the trip, want to get into Mandy's underwear. However, it soon becomes apparent that they are not alone. There is also a sex-crazed psycho stalking the surrounding countryside who also takes quite a shine to our Mandy and will do anything to get her alone. Except that after the first two uninspired and unsurprising deaths, director Levine reveals the, again rather unsurprising, identity of the killer. This guy is certainly no Jason Voorhees or Michael Myers though. While this means we don't have to sit through the usual deranged modus-operandi and obligatory self-pitying histrionics of the psycho (Mrs Voorhees and Axel Palmer we mean you) and how 'Mandy never paid him any attention so the only way he could make her love him was by killing her friends', what we get instead is a further twist that may not surprise some but certainly highlights again the underlying theme of manipulation and obsession. This premature unveiling of the killer also doesn't detract from the carefully built-up tension, and events still whisk along at a brisk pace. Quite frankly though, no one will be fooled by the ranch-hand red herring.
Despite a vast array of clichés, the film still manages to remain quite fresh and the creepy atmosphere is perfectly conjured as the camera prowls around the vast house, follows characters out into the darkness of the surrounding countryside, and sneaks peeks out of windows, revealing half-glimpsed figures strolling towards the house.
The violent dispatching of various characters by the killer is quite often shocking and raw, if a little stylised; one death in particular harks back to Dario Argentoesque eye-violation, blunt and sadistic in its execution.
In the harsh light of the following morning the tension is just as thick and the violence more brutal.
Mandy Lane wears its influences on its blood-soaked sleeves, from the rather fitting title-card that harks back to the likes of My Bloody Valentine, to the sun-baked landscapes of The Texas Chain-Saw Massacre, albeit the remake, with its sweaty/dirty/sexy glossiness complete with sunspots on the camera lens. Thankfully it keeps the teen characters preoccupied with themselves, and their libidos, enough to disallow any unwelcome Kevin Williamson-style 'irony.' This is a sincere love letter to the grit of late 70s/early 80s slasher films. Any humour in the script comes from the acidic wit of the protagonists as they verbally spar with each other over everything from penis size, to who should go 'check out the generator.' Remind me again why these people are friends?
While there is a spate of early-slasher revival with the likes of The Hills Have Eyes remake, Switchblade Romance and Wolf Creek, and the varying-in-quality remakes of Prom Night, April Fool's Day and Halloween, Mandy Lane has a sexy edge and sly wit that places it easily alongside, if not ahead, of the best of the bunch.
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ARP Pro/DGX
The Pro/DGX is a thirty preset monophonic analog synth based on the Pro-Soloist of the 1970's. The main difference is that the Pro/DGX had electronic switching (touch buttons) between its preset sounds whereas the older Pro-Soloist had circuit-based switching (rocker switches). It has 30 preset sounds to choose from, including Flute, Bassoon, Brass, Fuzz Guitar etc. Other features included pitch, portamento, vibrato, growl and wow effects. The keyboard has 37 keys with aftertouch sensitivity for volume, brilliance, vibrato, wow, growl, and even bend effects (all at once if you desire!). A few basic filter, envelope and LFO controls allow some tweaking of the preset sounds, however there is no memory to store your settings.
The Pro/DGX sounds slightly different than the Pro-Soloist however. The presets are virtually the same, but the Pro/DGX implemented a new filter design which some say sounds worse than the one used in the Pro-Soloist. Both synths refer to their single filter control (the filter cutoff) as "Brilliance". A few additional control sliders are available for the Volume, Portamento Time and Aftertouch Amount. Later on during its production, the Pro/DGX was released with the "Orange+Black" look of later ARP synths. It has been used by Tangerine Dream and Keane.
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Audio Clip 1 - This demo plays through several of the preset sounds (Bassoon, English Horn, Oboe, Clarinet, Flute, Trombone) followed by a repeated Space Banjo riff.
- Specifications
- Polyphony - Monophonic
- Oscillators - 1 VCO
- LFO - Yes
- Filter - Yes with 1 slider "Brilliance"
- VCA - Yes
- Keyboard - 37 keys with aftertouch routable to volume, brilliance, vibrato, wow, and bend.
- Arpeg/Seq - None
- Control - None
- Date Produced - 1977-1980
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Thanks to your big-eared-buddy in the White House, your union friends will be getting another windfall from Chrysler. You should be elated.
For the record, however, here's another slant on that rip-off.
Why Obama's Chrysler Meddling is beyond DUMB
Courtesy of The Wall Street Journal
Chrysler and the Rule of LawThe Founders put the contracts clause in the Constitution for a reason.
By TODD J. ZYWICKI
The rule of law, not of men -- an ideal tracing back to the ancient Greeks and well-known to our Founding Fathers -- is the animating principle of the American experiment. While the rest of the world in 1787 was governed by the whims of kings and dukes, the U.S. Constitution was established to circumscribe arbitrary government power. It would do so by establishing clear rules, equally applied to the powerful and the weak.
Fleecing lenders to pay off politically powerful interests, or governmental threats to reputation and business from a failure to toe a political line? We might expect this behavior from a Hugo Chávez. But it would never happen here, right?
Until Chrysler.
The close relationship between the rule of law and the enforceability of contracts, especially credit contracts, was well understood by the Framers of the U.S. Constitution. A primary reason they wanted it was the desire to escape the economic chaos spawned by debtor-friendly state laws during the period of the Articles of Confederation. Hence the Contracts Clause of Article V of the Constitution, which prohibited states from interfering with the obligation to pay debts. Hence also the Bankruptcy Clause of Article I, Section 8, which delegated to the federal government the sole authority to enact "uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies."
The Obama administration's behavior in the Chrysler bankruptcy is a profound challenge to the rule of law. Secured creditors -- entitled to first priority payment under the "absolute priority rule" -- have been browbeaten by an American president into accepting only 30 cents on the dollar of their claims. Meanwhile, the United Auto Workers union, holding junior creditor claims, will get about 50 cents on the dollar.
The absolute priority rule is a linchpin of bankruptcy law. By preserving the substantive property and contract rights of creditors, it ensures that bankruptcy is used primarily as a procedural mechanism for the efficient resolution of financial distress. Chapter 11 promotes economic efficiency by reorganizing viable but financially distressed firms, i.e., firms that are worth more alive than dead.
Violating absolute priority undermines this commitment by introducing questions of redistribution into the process. It enables the rights of senior creditors to be plundered in order to benefit the rights of junior creditors.
The U.S. government also wants to rush through what amounts to a sham sale of all of Chrysler's assets to Fiat. While speedy bankruptcy sales are not unheard of, they are usually reserved for situations involving a wasting or perishable asset (think of a truck of oranges) where delay might be fatal to the asset's, or in this case the company's, value. That's hardly the case with Chrysler. But in a Chapter 11 reorganization, creditors have the right to vote to approve or reject the plan. The Obama administration's asset-sale plan implements a de facto reorganization but denies to creditors the opportunity to vote on it.
]By stepping over the bright line between the rule of law and the arbitrary behavior of men, President Obama may have created a thousand new failing businesses. That is, businesses that might have received financing before but that now will not, since lenders face the potential of future government confiscation. In other words, Mr. Obama may have helped save the jobs of thousands of union workers whose dues, in part, engineered his election. But what about the untold number of job losses in the future caused by trampling the sanctity of contracts today?
The value of the rule of law is not merely a matter of economic efficiency. It also provides a bulwark against arbitrary governmental action taken at the behest of politically influential interests at the expense of the politically unpopular. The government's threats and bare-knuckle tactics set an ominous precedent for the treatment of those considered insufficiently responsive to its desires. Certainly, holdout Chrysler creditors report that they felt little confidence that the White House would stop at informal strong-arming.
Chrysler -- or more accurately, its unionized workers -- may be helped in the short run.
But we need to ask how eager lenders will be to offer new credit to General Motors knowing that the value of their investment could be diminished or destroyed by government to enrich a politically favored union. We also need to ask how eager hedge funds will be to participate in the government's Public-Private Investment Program to purchase banks' troubled assets.
And what if the next time it is a politically unpopular business -- such as a pharmaceutical company -- that's on the brink? Might the government force it to surrender a patent to get the White House's agreement to get financing for the bankruptcy plan?
Mr. Zywicki is a professor of law at George Mason University and the author of a book on consumer bankruptcy and consumer lending, forthcoming from Yale University Press.This is an act of fascist stupidity. Why is Obama's actions any different from what Chavez does? Obama supporters?
I remind you:Halliburton moved to DubaiWeatherford moved to GenevaTransOcean Drilling moved to GenevaNoble Drilling moved to GenevaFoster-Wheeler moved to Geneva
This encompasses about a million high level jobs. Management, Financial, Technical, Engineering, and Operation. The Americans in these Executive and Engineering positions moved with the companies. They can hire the "pick & shovel" workers overseas.
These are savvy companies who assessed correctly the costs that would be shifted to their businesses by the Democrats, starting with the Democrat take-over in Congress in 2006, and culminating with the apparent selection of Obama before the Democratic Convention about May of 2008.
If the Rule of Law does not reassert itself and revert the changes by Obama and the Democrats to GM, Chrysler AND the Banks, you will see the Exodus of the bulk of Americas top corporations AND Executives to more business friendly environments.
When it comes to union payback by Obama, there is no such thing as rule of law or the constitution and forget about doing what's right...
You say you have a valid contract?...not anymore...you say you are a first position bond holder?...move to the back of the line please...this guy is Chavez with bigger ears...where is the outrage by the dems for this lawbreaker?...a thief is a thief regardless of party...


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RedGiant A00 Malleus Solid Metal In-Ear Headphones
" At around $65 USD (but also priced just over $40 USD in Taiwan), the entry-level Malleus is an economic tour-de-force. It does come with a much sparser set of accessories than the A03, with no felt carry case, no extreme bass-sealing tips or silicone elastomer rings (according to RedGiant, both may be included in future revisions), but it doesn't mean RedGiant skimped on the Malleus. ..." --tomscy2000
RedGiant A03 Ossicle Dual Driver In-Ear Headphones with Remote
" ****The following is riddled with hyperbole and flowery, long-winded writing; if you're not interested in any of these things, please skip to the SUMMARY section, or close down your internet browser, slam your mouse down in disgust, and curse me. Also, the pictures are again taken with a sub-par camera, as my camera has been undergoing numerous maintenance changes. What is..." --tomscy2000
RedGiant A04 Incus Solid Metal In-Ear Headphones
Durable construction and a powerful sound signature make the Incus a perfect choice for your daily use in-ear headphone. A solid cast zinc-alloy shell directs the energy from the tuned 12mm drivers into producing thick, rich bass instead of flexing or vibrating the housing. The solid build and sound quality offered by the Incus make it a go-to tool worthy of even the most discerning audio...
Sunrise Audio Xcited
" (This is my first review ever so, if you see something you don't agree with, it's a free country. Voice your opinions. But this is only one person's thoughts. Take it with a grain of salt.) I've been hearing about this IEM for the past year now. I was most intrigued by the reviews. It was hard to see a review about the Xcited (and its older brother, the Xcape IE, which our brother Spica,..." --amzies01
Sunrise Xcape Impressive Edition
The SW-Xcape is a more balanced IEM with a sweet midrange and nice bass, yet never compromises detail anywhere in the spectrum, notably the highs. Highs are neither in the forefront or in the background; they are balanced with the rest of the spectrum and are present as the recording dictates. There is a slight emphasis on the midrange, which is great for strings, vocals, and rock, but is still...
" Impressed with the sound overall, balanced throughout the frequency range (bass is tight, medium to high frequencies not bad but I still think my Shures are better in the mid to high). That being said, the build is very worrisome - the right shell came apart exposing the tiny speaker and had to be glued. The cord is very flimsy and appears it won't take much of a yank to break the cord...." --jlopes89


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From Farm to Table—The New Mexico State Fair kicks into gear this weekend, and with it comes parking-lot green chile, Navajo tacos and batter-dipped novelty foods out the yin-yang (Twinkie-on-a-stick, anyone?). But you must not—cannot—step foot off the fairgrounds without a visit to the New Mexico Country Store, located in the Agriculture Building at Expo New Mexico. The store is an ephemeral courtyard market, organized by the New Mexico Department of Agriculture and home to a statewide harvest of prized produce and cottage-industry products. It's the closest thing we've got to a culinary cross section of our state. Stop in for some apple-sweet onions or bag of blue corn-piñon pancake mix. You will not be disappointed.
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04-28-2013, 06:00 AM #1Junior Member Guppy
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Our first tank.
Hello there. This is my Fiance and I's first fish tank.
We are total beginners, but my mother has a tank. This is a 35 gallon tank, with water heater, waterfall pump (is that what its called?), the under the gravel type of filter with 2 pumps hooked up to it. We have 25lbs of black gravel (clearance at walmart @ 2.00 per 5lb bag) and also 5-6 bags of the multicolor fluorescent gravel which I absolutely love as I didn't know it even existed.
We got the tank from a friend what has since gotten a bigger tank. The back was mirrored but had some peeling off. We got the tank, cleaned it very well with water only. Decided to trash the gravel and start fresh. I thought "well if the mirror is peeling why don't we just peel it the whole way off". Tried it, failed. Then found out that if we use a razor it worked. Then we removed the copper/silver with muriatic acid. Perfectly clear glass now. We made sure not to get any on the glue. Again cleaned the tank with water only/sponge. It came with 2 lights for the hood. The correct size one had a worn out switch. The tiny edison base one I took the switch from and replaced the switch in the correct light. The power strip which has a breaker in it needed a new power cord and cleaned up. Replaced the cord (soldered inside w/shrink just like the switch). I mean why buy a new power strip just because of a bad cord..
We then took it home, did the gravel, filled it up with tap water (Friday Night we filled it). NO fish yet. Then we took a water sample to the best local pet shop Saturday. pH of 7.2 they said was good, Ammonia level 1.0. We were told not to put any fish in but then had to put "Novaqua water conditioner" in, half a bottle. And then shortly after add a bottle of the Tetra Safe Start. They said we could bring the sample back shortly after that so we let it settle about an hour. Went back. Ammonia level still the same. But the lady at the store gave us a "Nerite Snail" to help balance the tank a little quicker, and to bring a new sample back after 3 days.
Decided to get a Goldfish because we wouldn't be able to go back until at least the weekend and spent all this time preparing - lol. We also had an algae eater of some kind that we had stored in my mother's fish tank temporarily. We put the snail, algae eater and goldfish in our new tank. (I think it was called a Fancy tail or something?) We had also put in the aquarium salt for freshwater tanks before putting the fish in.
Here's the goldfish. I named it Hope for I hope it is going to be okay in here:
Currently the goldfish is living at 72 degrees, lots of bubbles for him. He swims around and seems healthy. No bad signs but he likes to hang out in the one corner mostly. When we can't see him thats where he usually is. Algae eater is always hiding under the decoration at the left. I had been reading at random sites on google that goldfish like colder like pretty much under 70. We want a tropical community tank, and have heard bad about mixing tropical with this goldfish. This is where I am lost. HELP!
Edit: Just remembered - friday night we added a chemical from walmart that only removes chlorine and not chloramine (didn't know about the chloramine at the time).
Last edited by ChadNBeth86; 04-28-2013 at 06:12 AM.
Sounds like you tank is not cycled yet. There is a link below in my sig to another thread here that explains how to cycle a tank with fish. You'll need to get a good test kit and start testing you water daily for a while and change water to keep the ammonia and nitrite levels at or below 0.25 ppm
I would also suggest using a product called Prime made by Seachem. It is a very good quality dechlorinater that handle both chlorine and chloramines.
Do you know what type of goldfish you have ? Most of them can outgrow a 35 gallon tank
Last edited by Cliff; 04-28-2013 at 01:14 PM.If you take your time to do the research FIRST, you can successfully set-up and keep ANY type of aquarium with ease.
"Not using a quarantine tank is like playing Russian roulette. Nobody wins the game, some people just get to play longer than others." - Anthony Calfo
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For one, don't listen to pet store employees. While the are a few who know their stuff and want to help, most either have no clue or want to sell you stuff.
The algae eater makes me wary. Algae eaters often are sold to "clean up" the tank. They may help with a bit of algae but in reality, it is the aquarist who is supposed to clean up. A species that most beginners are told to get is the common plecostomus. Who knew they grew to over a foot. Could you take a picture of your algae eater?
04-28-2013, 02:39 PM #4Senior Member Red tailed catfish
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05-01-2013, 02:35 AM #5Junior Member Guppy
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OK Ammonia levels are fine, on Sunday we got a constant ammonia alert by seachem. Also bought a ph tester. So we added some new fish. 4 Zebra Danios, Black Molly, Silver Molly, 2 Red Wag Platys - these are so cool, and 2 white clouds.
there is supposed to be no ammonia in the water. EVER
your are not cycled and probably don't know what it means.
so your going to have to cycle with fish now. it is hard.
here is a sticky about it http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/aqua...ad.php?t=36492.
you will need to buy a master test kit. to cycle. don't buy strips they are unaccurate.
and stop listening to the pet store. almost none of them know anything about fish.
and goldfish are not suppose to be with tropical fish
Often as first time aquarists, we rush into things (speaking from experience here) and rely on people at the fish store to help us - as you have done.
Unfortunately, however, this often leads to disaster - which is where you're heading - sorry
If you want to keep your fish alive and have a successful experience, you need to do one of 2 things at this point:
1) return all the fish as soon as possible then complete a fishless cycle on your tank (see the beginners sections stickie on fishless cycling). then in 3 - 4 weeks when your tank is cycled, you can stock.
2) keep the fish and cycle the tank with them in it. If this is your choice, then get an API master liquid water test kit and test the water for ammonia, nitrites and nitrates every morning. Any morning that Ammonia and or nitrites exceed .25 ppm, do an immediate 50 - 75% water change, depending on how high the readings are. both ammonia and nitrites above .25 are toxic to your fish and if they are kept in water with readings above those levels they will eventually become ill and die. You also want to keep nitrates under .20ppm. Water changes ,again will correct that issue. You may have to do daily water changes for a while to keep levels under control. Do not assume that if you have good readings one day that they will be good the next. Until you consistently get readings of 0 ammonia and nitrites and less than 20 ppm nitrates, your tank is not cycled.
Once you achieve 0/0/<20 you can switch to weekly water changes of 50%. This can take up to 3 months.
Note: Seachams Prime is the only product you need to cycle with fish and for ongoing water conditioning.
Also of note: You are trying to grow beneficial bacteria to keep the water safe. This BB is grown in your filter and filter media, not in the water. So if you cycle with fish, do NOT change your filter media. Do not clean your filter media. Wait until your tank achieves 0/0/20 readings before cleaning anything. And then, only clean your filter media in old tank water that you've removed during a water change. If you clean it in tap water, you will kill all of the BB you have worked so hard to grow and you will have to start cycling all over again. continue to use the same filter media you started with. Do NOT replace it as the manufacturer suggests. Most of us use the same media for years
Hope these tips are helpful, but again, do read the cycling stickies and the free e-book provided on the site before you decide what way to go .
Last edited by fishmommie; 05-01-2013 at 01:58 PM.30 g FW planted:corys, female ABNP, blue angel, harleys, zebra danios, rummies,
15 g FW planted:2 male guppies, neons, pygmy corys, clown pleco, 4 types of shrimp, assassin snails
90 Gal Journal: http://bit.ly/1vC7gVX
fishless cycling: http://bit.ly/1DARf3T
fish in cycling: http://bit.ly/1ILvcfp
05-01-2013, 02:32 PM #8Senior Member Red tailed catfish
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When you say your ammonia level is fine - what does that mean? What exactly is the level? It will range anywhere from 0ppm all the way up to 4.0ppm - with fish in the tank, you want it to be no higher than .25ppm. I hope you are aware that you will need to change your water whenever the ammonia goes over .25 which means using a siphon to remove water and replace it, adding dechlorinator each time.
Also, until you read about cycling and do what is needed to grow bacteria, I would advise you to not add anymore fish to the tank.
++ to Imma24. You need to monitor the water quality with the API liquid water test kit. The alerts are not reliable. Sorry
Last edited by fishmommie; 05-01-2013 at 02:39 PM.30 g FW planted:corys, female ABNP, blue angel, harleys, zebra danios, rummies,
15 g FW planted:2 male guppies, neons, pygmy corys, clown pleco, 4 types of shrimp, assassin snails
90 Gal Journal: http://bit.ly/1vC7gVX
fishless cycling: http://bit.ly/1DARf3T
fish in cycling: http://bit.ly/1ILvcfp
You did not need the ammonia alert OR the pH adjuster. This is a common goldfish you have. They grow to one foot and belong in ponds. Goldfish are also cold water fish and the other fish you bought are warm water fish.
A snail will balance the tank? Not hardly! Get your advise here, not from the store!
Goldfish chart in my signature.


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There are two artists who began their careers then on view currently at Aucocisco Galleries in Portland: Bernard "Blackie" Langlais and Jean Cohen. Langlais died in Maine in 1977. Cohen, whose early career intersected Langlais's, lives and works on Long Island, New York.
Both were active in New York in the '50s and '60s and are among the many artists who, for sometimes inscrutable reasons, aren't part of the handful we think of from that period. They both showed in the 10th Street galleries including the artist-run Tanager and Area galleries along with Lois Dodd, Fred Mitchell, Charles DuBack, William King, and Alex Katz and many others. They were sometimes knit very close — Dodd was married to King and Cohen to Katz.
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In Cohen's "Loop the Loop," an oil on canvas from 1973, an amorphous magenta curved shape rests on yellow-orange field. The shape has a "waist" that narrows from the top and bottom, dividing it into two separate but connected lobes. Ovoid shapes the color of the background rest on the magenta. The hues and borders prevent the work from being read as figure and ground; it is instead a field of color in relationship with another field of a different hue. The action of the painting takes place where the two color schemes meet.
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I was going to write a few detailed stories about some of my hunts this past season when I could get around to it…but I can't find my tuit.
So here is a short synopses of my 2012 season.
Hunted a total of 41 days and traveled just over 6700 miles.
Killed 11 gobblers total and helped 2 guys kill a bird also.
My kill was;
3 Merriam toms and 1 jake…2 in Neb and 2 in MT
5 eastern toms and 1 jake…1 in Neb and 5 in Wis
1 rio tom in Ks
Started off with the Neb early archery season and hunted with my new crossbow. Got this one in SE Neb in the evening and had 6 or 8 hens within 10 yards of me (some at 5 yards) and killed the tom at 15 yards as he strutted next to 2 other toms. He had 5 beards.
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That same afternoon I had headed back to camp after the hunt and was having a snack in my tenet when I thought I heard a gobble (I wasn't sure as I had my hearing aids out then). I put my aids back in and made a call outside the tent. He was CLOSE! Got my gun and vest on real quick and went down the trail 40 yards and set up. Made a call and got the gun up. Shot him at 22 yards as he came up over the lip of the hill. I was still in my camp slippers when I got him.
Then I went straight to NE Colo to help my friend James get a rio. He drew a tag for the area and I didn't. We had a fantastic hunt! Set up on a roost and had a great show but didn't connect. Went to a spot I thought would be good and I called 2 gobblers across the river. The first one I could have shot at 20 yards but James couldn't get a shot. The next one came in perfect about an hour later and James nailed him. He had about 1 3/8 spurs and was BANDED!!!
Then it was off to MT to hook up with montana mcs. I got a tom the first day about 11:00 after not hearing a thing and hunting up one side of a valley a couple miles and down the other. Called him across the valley and up a very steep slope.
A couple days later I got on some roosted birds and sort of spooked them after they were on the ground a while. There was several gobblers and I saw a tom and a jake together at about 45 yards. They were going back & forth a lot and I lost track of which one was the tom. Finally I had a shot at one and took it. It was the jake. No pic.
Then on our last day I went with Mike (montana mcs) and called for him. We had a really neat hunt in the dust and the tom and the deer. But I will let him tell you that story.
Then I headed to Wis but on my way there I decided to hit Ks. I left super early and heard some birds at dawn but couldn't get on them. I just guessed where they might be in the evening and called in a nice tom at about 6:30. He had 1 7/16 spurs and the most curved spurs I have ever got. Forgot the camera at the truck so by the time I got back it was almost dark.
Wis was berry berry good to me…eh? I got there during 4th season. It was a tough hunt at first and I managed to kill a gobbler on the last day of 4th season with just 20 minutes to spare before I had to leave to go on a hunt in central Wis.
Then I met some guys from the T&TH forum for a hunt in Central Wis during 5th season. It was great to yap some turkey with those guys and we also got to have lunch with T&TH editor Brian Lovett at the T&TH offices in Wis. The hunting was tough but I did manage to shoot a jake on the last evening and then miss a tom on the last morning…but that's enough about that. No pic.
Then it was back up to my cabin for 6th season and the birds where working great. I felt that if I found a gobbler on the roost I could call him in. I got on a bird on my land one evening and thought I might call him in right then. He was hot and gobbled about 20 times (rare for a bird to gobble in the evening there) but would not come in. He roosted on my place though and I was there early the next morning. I got in tight…real tight. When he finally gobbled I was only 40 yards away and I could see him in the tree. He flew down towards where he heard all that calling the evening before but the cover was thick and I could not see him even though he was only 20 to 30 yards away. A couple calls on a mouth call and I could hear him drumming. Finally saw that "light bulb" white head and got him at 15 yards. This was the first turkey I ever killed on my land. I took a pic of the drummer on a grouse drumming log.
A couple days later I got on another gobbler and got within 30 yards or so but couldn't get a shot. He had hens with him and they went on their way. Next morning I was more zeroed in on him and called him right in off the roost. Got him at 25 yards. No pic.
My last morning to hunt I managed to find another gobbler before flydown and was within about 100 yards of him when he hit the ground. He came right in and I had my last bird of the season. I took some time for a cup of coffee and to reflect a bit before packing up and heading home.


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BEND, Ore. - A federal judge in Eugene will hear arguments Wednesday in a bid by critics of Bend's controversial surface water improvement project to block the work from starting pending a full hearing on their claims.
The start of the $20 million-plus pipeline replacement project was scheduled for Wednesday, but city spokesman Justin Finestone said Tuesday they will wait for the judge's ruling on the request by Central Oregon LandWatch for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction. That is expected by the end of the week, he said.
Attorney Paul Dewey's group lost another, similar effort to head off the project Tuesday when the state Land Use Board of Appeals rejected their motion for a stay of the related part of the city's water facilities plan.
Dewey said LUBA ruled they had failed to show irreparable harm if the city proceeded.
The project foes argued that cutting of groves of trees along two bridges over Tumalo Creek, by the Tumalo Falls parking lot and other impacts to the wetlands in the area constituted irreparable harm.
"LUBA said that the city said it was planning to do replanting" about 270 trees and restore the disturbed riparian areas, Dewey said – "never mind no one alive will see the large ones as they are."
The LUBA case will proceed, with oral arguments later this month and a decision expected around late November, Dewey said. That could also lead to a construction halt, "if the snows haven't done so already," the lawyer said.
Perhaps it was inevitable – and it's quite likely to be costly, whatever the outcome. But it now appears the project's fate will be decided as much in the courts as it will in the city council chambers, or at the ballot box – perhaps more so, if foes succeed in a last-ditch race against the clock to block the project, just before it begins.
The work is now slated to begin west of Bend to put a new 30-inch water pipe from Tumalo Creek (actually, its Bridge Creek tributary) down Skyliners Road and to Bend.
A 28-page memorandum filed last week in a lawsuit against the U.S. Forest Service lays out a host of reasons for the injunction, including claims of failing to follow federal policies in granting the special use permit so Bend can get the project $20 million-plus for first phase, perhaps $69 million overall – done and the 60- to 90-year-old failing pipes replaced before they fail.
Staging work began in recent weeks, as the timing is supposed to dovetail with reconstruction of Skyliners Road west of town and also with low fall stream levels for such work as pouring concrete and laying pipe.
As you might expect, city leaders were not surprised by the court challenge, and say they expect to prevail.
"The surface water project has been studied and well vetted by multiple parties over the past several years," said Finestone. "We know our case is strong, and look forward to beginning construction on the pipeline next week as planned."
Several people running for city council seats have said they would try to put the brakes on the costly project, siding with the anti-project group Stop the Drain's view that Bend can easily get by with only water pumped from ground water wells. But a majority of the current council has said having two sources of water is not something the city should give up.
The LandWatch group claims the project will boost water diversions and reduce Tumalo Creek's water quality, especially during the summer when the flows are lower.
They claim the Forest Service accepted city engineering consultants' information without an independent review and verification. What's more, they claim the current system operates well and that forecasts of increased water demands have "not materialized."
In the LUBA appeal, the technical legal argument is over when the city gave "final" approval of the project, but also dives into the planned removal of "large, scenic trees" by the Tumalo Falls parking lot and two bridge crossings.
Deschutes County's road manager, Chris Doty, was quoted in The Source last week as saying they could wait for the city to do its work next fall and winter, without hurting the project -- though he said it's not preferred, due to the federal dollars involved. The city had sped things up when it faced a 2012 EPA deadline for the project, but that was pushed back two years.
Consultants have said delays caused by opponents will add up, perhaps to the tune of $1 million. How many dollars – taxpayer or otherwise – will now be spent in court over the legal battle is, at this point, anyone's guess.


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Cold. Its supposed to snow today.I cant wait. Up to 6+ inches (Hey, thats a lot for here)
Cold. Its supposed to snow today.I cant wait. Up to 6+ inches (Hey, thats a lot for here)
Treat your stepmother with respect Pantera, or you'll be sleeping in the streets!!
Chilly and overcast, but still quite bright outside. Was greeted to a winter wonderland again this morning. All the trees had a white frosty sheen to them caused by "freezing fog." The snow is melting right now but it should refreeze again tonight. Very cold in the overnight hours the past couple days, lows in the single digits.
I can see clearly now the rain is gone (and has been for a couple of days now).
Sunny and in the 60's. Mr. Weatherman says we may flirt with the 70's this week end. Nice, but we still need more rain (and snowpack).
¡Que la fuerza te acompañe!
Snowed yesterday and last night. We even got off work early due to it. Today, sunny, warmer and snow slowly melting, hopefully the icy roadways too.
Treat your stepmother with respect Pantera, or you'll be sleeping in the streets!!
I was in Death Valley National Park this weekend (this is their time when visiting is possible and desirable), and it got up to as high as 77 and as low as 47 (at night). But there was evidence of flooding from the heavy rains a few days prior.
Back home, today will be the warmest day of the week (near 80, sunny). Expectation of possible rain by the weekend.
I predict that the upcoming Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi film will include the word "and." Multiple times.
We got about 4+ inches of snow last night so I had to shovel again this morning. It's in the 20s and overcast.
Clear, upper 70s yesterday and today. "Winter? I hardly knew 'er."
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 snow just started this pm...that makes 4 or is it 5? Thank God for HDNet!!!
"In my experience there's no such thing as luck."
Our wildflower season is just a few weeks away. One of our best-held secrets. The hills will look spack-tack-ular soon!
¡Que la fuerza te acompañe!
It's been flurrying all day here. Only an inch or so of new snow (there's still about a foot on the ground) and I think they said we're supposed to get another inch.
Up, up, and OKAAAAY!!!


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A community study committee will undergo change in knowledge, feelings, thinking and enthusiasm as it explores a community problem. When the time arrives for the committee's report and recommendations, there may be a gap between the knowledge, thinking, feelings and enthusiasm of the committee and that of the citizens and appointing body.
A study group exploring a problem may be headed for serious disappointment when it is unable to gain acceptance of its findings. Facts, as important as they are, do not necessarily change opinions. Education of the community is not achieved by sales techniques.
Influential people appointed to the study committee may lose influence when the community fails to understand the report. In fact, influentials may lose influence with people who have an interest in the issue, but who have been bypassed by the committee. Good citizens with a reputation for honesty, good judgment and integrity are vital to a study committee. However, their reputation may undergo change in a rapidly changing community, especially if the report is sprung on the people.
A committee working behind closed doors to work out things before disclosure may create suspicion in those concerned, but not involved, with the study of the issue. Committee members may be hurt when they feel they have lost the confidence of their neighbors. Who you are and what you are may be of decreasing importance when attempting to put over an issue.
Reports through newspapers, radio, television and public meetings are often used to get the facts before the people. These one-way methods of getting the information out to the people are helpful if well done. However, they may fail to convey the message that is intended. If an air of suspicion or distrust exists, one false rumor may dissipate the efforts of the study committee quickly.
Capitalize on the grapevineRepresentation and participation are two sides of the coin. In the small community, reports of last night's study committee meeting may spread via conversation quickly. In such informal reporting, distortions usually increase as the message is relayed from the original source.
Study committee members may have opportunities to clarify distortions as the message is circulated, as long as they are an integral part of the circulation process. It is best not to try to keep the committee work secret.
Study the distortions and opinions for guidelinesDistortions, plus added opinions, may discourage the study committee members from giving out information. The talk of the town is an indicator of public interest.
Opinions expressed by townspeople may be excellent guides for the study group. Loose talk may act as a guide, as target feedback is to a guided missile. The target in this case is the thinking and feeling of people. However, it is important to remember and take into consideration that the people of the community are also in process of changing as they are exposed to different ideas and opinions.
Two-way contacts are most productive for changeWhen an individual's thoughts and feelings are verbalized to make sense to himself, he desires to get the same across to his listeners. Opinions have a way of getting into the process. When opinions that are verbalized fail to be consistent with thoughts and feelings, the individual (speaker or listener) seeks knowledge and information to give balance and meaning to the issue.
Hear them outA study committee member is a source of the desired information. A citizen may want to present new information he or she considers reliable to the committee. If he is heard when he contacts the study committee, his dignity is respected. Both citizens and committee members increase their understanding of the issue through this process of interaction.
Feelings (emotions) are ten times more difficult to change than thinking (mental/rational). Personal feelings are influenced most favorably in a warm, informal and permissive climate. Norms are more easily influenced in small face-to-face groups.
Involve large numbersIn larger communities, citizens become involved by other methods, including those used in the smaller community. Most issues being pursued by a study committee are advantageously subdivided and assigned to subcommittees.
A community study committee in a town of 6,000 had 12 study subcommittees during the study phase and 15 committees disseminating and gathering new information during a later stage prior to a bond election. More than 300 people were actively involved in committee work, but these 300 related to and gathered feedback (and often new ideas) from numerous other citizens in the community. This was a community educational program. A new comprehensive school — junior high, senior high and junior college — developed out of this activity and became the pride of the community because they felt it was theirs!
Involvement through participation means more than getting people to a meeting to answer roll call. Active personal and group participation means the people attending are engaged, feeling and thinking. As the group develops, it becomes easier to reach group consensus.
In a developing community, some measure of consensus does exist. The community functions rely upon consensus.
Not everyone has to agree on all details of an issue for consensus to be effective. It is necessary that citizens be in general agreement and a substantial portion are aware of the issue and its ramifications and have a sense of community responsibility.
Often, what appears to be disagreement turns out to be differences on minor details. Working relationships involve some give and take to get what is desirable for the whole.
Involve the sensesPresentations that require the use of the senses (hearing, seeing and feeling) may increase understanding. A discussion on a street improvement program becomes much more meaningful when city street maps, pictures or illustrations of completed streets are displayed with a verbal presentation. Tours, slides or movies also add to understanding.
Have the vested interests participateRepresentation through participation by those whose interests will be affected helps develop community consensus. Involvement of citizens whose homes will be razed for a community improvement may be willing to make a sacrifice for community progress when they have explored the problem and its implications. When it is sprung on them as the final plans are announced, the loss of a vested interest becomes a great threat.
Community consensus is a result of interaction between people in a social process. Both the psychological part of the individual and the sociological parts of groups become involved in community development. Community improvements (physical, economic or other tangibles) are worth more when people's wants and feelings are considered in a community development program. Things are secondary to people. And the product is secondary to the process in the development of the competencies of people.
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text: My wife and I left went to London for a vacation. When we returned my 3 year old lab was acting very strange. I could tell he was in pain but couldnt put my finger on where. Then the next day he was fine so we did some a 10 minute training session for fun and he seemed perfectly fine. Then he was fine a whole week. Then yesterday I noticed he was in pain again so I took him to the vet. When the vet was looking him over he showed pain when turning his head left. Also, we noticed he will not look left. He gave me some previcox and tramadol for pain and inflammation he thinks its muscular. I spoke to a friend who is a vet and he said it is common and he calls it a pinched nerve. I'm baffled I don't know how it happened. I do know when we got home he seemed fine for the first minute then I think the excitement with the other dogs and them rough housing is when it happened. Im hoping he heals and he doesnt have to live like this for the rest of his life. Any thoughts?


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I tried to get BeOS 5 Personal Addition working last night. First, I tried to install it onto the machine I have BeOS 4.5 running on. However, the installer is for Windows and could not figure out how much disk space was available so wouldn't install on that machine.
Then I tried to install it on my iMac in Virtual PC. If I could get it working there, I could finish getting the GTK+ port integrated into mainstream at home. However, my experience was not so great. It installed fine and boots, but it is really slow and doesn't function very well at all. Ah well, it was a long shot. (It works better than 4.5 did though.)
I'd really like to get BeOS working on a notebook. It seems like the Sony VIAO's might be supported, but I only infer that from support for the VIAO CDROM drive. A list of known supported laptop models would be useful.
I'm going to try and get it running on my oldish Toshiba notebook. I would have tried last night but unfortunately I need a floppy to boot and the floppy was, of course, at work and not at home where the notebook and I were. I do not know if there will be enough room to even test BeOS on my notebook, since it's a 1GB drive.
The biggest problem with working on the GTK+ port for BeOS right now is that the BeOS box is at work and I need to do work when at work. So, it's been getting ignored. I've considered taking that machine home so I can work on it there.
Ideally though, I could work on it on a notebook so I could do things requiring high-bandwidth connection at work and then the real work off-line. Ah well.
I have LinuxPPC installed on my iMac now. I don't know the secret to using a one button mouse in X yet, so I can't configure any of the GNOME stuff. I think I might have to install a different X server, but I haven't even looked into the options yet.
Macs have the same firmware as Sun machines, which really kicks ass. I've set my iMac to stop at the firmware before booting, once flaggz figured out how to do that on his new powerbook.
GNOME on the iMac is incredibly slow. It could be partially due to the speed of the framebuffer X server, but I think it probably has more to do with one of the panel's applets sniffing everything that happens in a very inefficient and slow ass manner. To put it mildly, out of the box GNOME on LinuxPPC sucks. I had a similar performance issue on Intel Debian as well before I got rid of the majority of the applets. By default, it was also using Enlightenment and not Sawmill - duh. And the default theme obscured the corners of windows. Who's bright idea was it to make that default?
Switching between text consoles and X when using the framebuffer X is almost unbearably fast and cool. It's freaky. You expect the normal slow video switch to happen and instead it's there ready for you to type. It's really very cool.
Once I have GNOME configured to a minimum of crappiness (as opposed to the default), and have correctly set up the framebuffer or other X server on the iMac, and either get a multibutton mouse or figure out the command keys to do a click, I think I'll actually be able to do some programming on that machine. Cool.
Photo Exibits
Now here is a cool thing. Check out the Photo Exibit System. It's done by Xach on xach.com. Basically, it allows you to comment all those photographs you have up on the web. If I had any photos online, I'd enter them (and not only because Xach would be twisting my arm). I think you should enter yours.
Perhaps Advogato needs the ability to let a hacker upload a photo, to display on his public page.
Crappy APIs
At work, flaggz and I are discovering just how poor APIs can get. We are working with a vendor who is giving us Java APIs written by someone's first chance to code with Java. These APIs are simply horrible! They now have new people coding on this stuff, but we are stuck working with this crap.
For example, it allows you to create an object. This object has a phone number associated with it. The object has a method getPhoneNumber() which returns a String. That method is only valid right after you create the object for the first time. When you look it up again, it isn't valid to use that function. That's right, depending on state, it isn't valid to use the function. You heard me. Ok, maybe a code sample (this isn't the real code, just illustrating what I mean):
// Next line creates an object with a lot of non-working // functions. Foobar foobar = new Foobar();
// Set some attributes of foobar here/ ...
// The next line takes the attributes we set and creates it foobar.create();
// this is the only time the next method is valid phone_number = foobar.getPhoneNumber();
// Then, if you look it up later: FoobarParent parent = new FoobarParent(); Foobar foobar = parent.getFoobar();
// The next line is an error, we can only do this after a // create(). Stupid, eh? phone_number = foobar.getPhoneNumber();
This is just insanity. It would be better if it were something usable, like:
// Create object in one step, never allow an object you // can't use. This could just return an object Foobar too, // depending the expense of creating the object. int foobar_id = Foobar.create(...);Oh well.
// Look up given the ID, all functions are *always* valid. Foobar foobar = Foobar.find(foobar_id); String phone_number = foobar.getPhoneNumber();
Flaggz will be wrapping all of their API inside a sane one as we wouldn't want to taint the rest of our code with this API. Unfortunately, we will have to keep the phone number information around in our own database since we can only get it once. What a great design decision on their part.
Hiring People
Our company is trying to expand from 2 people to like 5 or so. I thought this would be fairly straight forward. Apparently, it's more difficult than that. I'm now convinced that people we want to hire are not only good at what they do, but also intelligent enough to have already landed them in a situation they find acceptable. So, the few friends we wanted to come work for us don't want to leave their jobs. Of course, there is a lot of risk involved in working for a company this small, which I think has a lot to do with it.
If they wanted to leave their current job, they would have done so already. There seems to be a significant barrier to leaving someplace that isn't that horrible. If nothing else, this has proved interesting. Perhaps the good people end up with jobs they like; that's kind of a nice thought anyway.
The main disappointment here is that we really want to hire on people we know, so that when we grow more that we have a solid base of people that we can trust and that we know can help us lead and manage the company in the correct manner. Instead, we might end up just hiring people we don't know to do Java coding and fill in our management later on.
Ok, I've finally watched Das Boot. This movie is 3.5 hours long. That's long enough to require you to flip of the DVD part way through. It is an very good movie. Watched Wallace and Gromit as well... kick ass. Next in the queue to watch are Grey Owl and Summer of Sam, which are sitting on my speaker at home.
I watched the new Jet Li movie in the theater, Romeo Must Die. It's not all that great. flaggz hated it. Jet Li is pretty cool, but this movie's fight scenes were unrealistic and the script could have been better.


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Tevin Lindsey's basket from near the free throw line gave Baldwyn a late lead and the Bearcats advanced to their second straight MHSAA Class 2A state title game.
Baldwyn beat Williams-Sullivan 50-45 Friday night at Mississippi Coliseum in a grind-it-out game that was tied with 1 minute, 26 seconds left.
"We need one more and we know we've got a great challenge ahead of us," Baldwyn coach Jason McKay said.
Baldwyn (30-3) will face the Bassfield-Coahoma AHS winner Thursday for the championship .
After a timeout, Lindsey gave his team the lead and Sullivan's Kortez Wade missed an open layup.
Martell Brown made 1 of 2 from the line, Wade walked and Duke Upshaw broke free for a lay-in to seal it.
Baldwyn made 7-of-10 free throws and had four players in double figures, led by Lindsey's 14.
"Anytime a contest comes down to a few points, naturally it's the little things you do," McKay said.
Freshman Conner McKay shook his defender at the third-quarter buzzer and sank a floater for a 32-27 lead. His 3 to open the fourth put the Bearcats up eight.
Back-to back scores by Lindsey and Brown put Baldwyn back up by eight with 6 minutes left as it went back-and-forth.
Brown finished with 10 points and nine rebounds. Wade led the Yellow Jackets (27-5) with 13 points.
Baldwyn also got 11 from McKay and Upshaw, who had three fouls in the first quarter. Mason Penson took four charges for the Bearcats,
"They're a very disciplined team, very well-coached and they play the game the right way," said Williams-Sullivan interim coach Adam Wells.
Baldwyn is in the finals for the third time in four years.
Baldwyn is going for its first title since back-to-back wins in 1986-87 with McKay at the point then.


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text: RFI would like to introduce -- 13 year-old, Marisa Melo, of Mt. Shasta, California, and her dog Kerryburkes California Dolly MH. Her and Dolly have become quite a team, especially with only 6 years separating their birthdates! Upon disco...vering our Retrieving Freedom organization, Marisa has decided to dedicate her success to our Veterans and children in need of a service dog. Her plans include sharing the needs of RFI with the following that she currently has, and combining these efforts into a funding push for 2013. Marisa, thanks for your true heart!


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UPDATE: 3:58 p.m.
PETA has announced a reward of up to $5,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of anyone responsible for shooting Carol, the 39-year-old Asian elephant used in the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. The reward is in addition to a $250 reward offered by former First Congressional District Rep. Travis Childers.
A circus elephant is alive after being hit by a bullet in a drive-by shooting early Tuesday morning in Tupelo, according to Tupelo Police.
The elephant, Carol, 39, is part of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus that is in town for a series of performances. The Asian elephant was in an area outside where the circus keeps animals at the Tupelo BancorpSouth Arena. A vehicle drove past the arena and fired into the area where the animals are kept, Police Chief Tony Carleton said. The shooting happened around 2 a.m.
Ringling Bros. Circus Spokesperson Melinda Hartline said the elephant is alert and under veterinary care. No other animals are people were injured during the incident.
"We are frustrated and appalled that something like this would happen on our property," said Todd Hunt, the BancorpSouth Arena executive director. "Our concern is not only for the animals, but circus and arena personnel that were in the area. We want to assure them that Tupelo is safe and that this isn't normal or tolerated."
Former First Congressional District Representative Travis Childers was equally frustrated with the incident and has offered up a $250 reward for information leading to the arrests of anyone involved in the shooting.
"How sorry is it to shoot a defenseless animal that was brought here to make children smile," he said. "This isn't representative at all of Tupelo."
A circus veterinarian is en route to Tupelo to assess the animal's condition. The Tupelo Police are investigating the incident.
Anyone with information is encouraged to call CrimeStoppers at 1-800-773-8477. Childers is coordinating his reward with CrimeStopers.
More as it is available.