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"I need a pleco to keep my tank clean"
Lately I've been seeing a few threads in which people have purchased or are looking to purchase a pleco because they think it will "clean the tank". Some people have even been under the impression that plecos and other bottom feeders eat fish poop. I wanted to set the record straight with some photographs.
This is my pleco. He's a sailfin pleco - similar to the common plecos that you most often find in stores. Like them, he was available for purchase at a small size - about 3" - but he'll soon be getting much, much bigger. If you notice the white specks on him don't worry - it's not ich, it's the white sand that I have mixed in with the black in this tank.
This tank is not for display, so I haven't bothered removing any algae growth. This little pleco has done a great job of that. He cleans the glass and the decorations, and there is no longer any visible algae anywhere. He will become less interested in algae as he gets older for what it's worth.
So, on one hand, you can say that this pleco is cleaning my tank. But on the other hand, consider this:
This is what all that algae (plus zucchini and regular fish food) has been turned into: pleco poop. This tank's substrate was completely cleaned three days before this picture was taken. There are other fish in the tank but everything you see here is from the pleco - and that's just one end of the tank!
In fact, he was busy making more poop while I was taking pictures!
Now, none of this is a complaint. I have two plecos and they're two of my favorite fish. I wish I had more of them. But I didn't buy them expecting them to be something that they're not. They do take care of algae to some degree but in return they give you massive amounts of poop. As always, the responsibility of keeping the fish tank clean and maintained belongs to the fish keeper, not the fish.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to find my gravel vacuum...300 gallon mega tank: sailfin pleco, clown loaches, silver dollars, roseline sharks, congo tetras, new world cichlids
125 gallon office tank: Africian cichlids, synodontis catfih
75 gallon community tank: bolivian rams, black skirt tetras, dwarf neon rainbowfish, corys, harlequin rasboras, otos, bristlenose and bulldog plecos, assassin snails, various shrimp
60 gallon goldfish tank: fancy goldfish
Glad you posted these pictures, now we have proof to show people how much waste the can produce.Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
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Very good post!
I bought 10 otos to take care of a brown algae outbreak in my tank, and JEEZ did they poop! Every day, literally, piles of it to hoover out...such was the scale of my brown algae issue. They effectively took all the algae off everything, recycled it inside their bodies, and pooped it out on the substrate (which was easier for me to clean up than the algae).
They certainly don't reduce/consume waste, they just repackage it.
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I'm glad you made clear that plecos don't eat poop and "clean the aquarium." I am sure I'm not alone in overhearing pet shop employees tell people this is exactly what they do. On a couple of occasions I confronted the same customers outside the store and told them the truth.
god even if i wanted an algae eater for my ten gallon tank, which i don't, this is totally turned me off plecos, at least for tanks smaller than 20 gallons or unplanted tanks.
20 gal tall - Helios - HM Betta Male, 1 rasbora het, 2 rummy tetras, 1 glowlight tetra, 1 additional tetra, 1 zebra nerite, 10-15 cherry shrimp, Java Moss and crypto planted tank w/ Driftwood and Spider Wood
Plecos seem to be good for planted tanks. Poop being fertilizer and all.
There seems to be a misconception among newer fish owners that "every tank needs an algae eater".
Plecos do a solid job keeping the walls clean but they do a mediocre job on decorations, lousy job on plants (eating/nibbling them on occasion), and they actually make the gravel much dirtier. I like the photograph you posted it really drives that last point home.
I don't care how bad your algae is, you don't "need" one. At least not for the algae. There are about a dozen things you can do to decrease your algae, and you could even get every type of algae eater in addition to that and you would still need to clean your tank sometimes. You should buy the fish because you like it, eating some algae should be a benefit.
Beyond that, people should not keep algae eaters in 10 gallon tanks. Only Otocinclus cats are small enough for them and they should be kept in schools. You could probably keep some in a 10 gallon but you wouldn't be able to get very many and that would be an issue. Having only one or two isn't ideal.
I found it impossible to keep plecos and plants successfully together. They grow so big and strong that they would just tear through everything and uproot the lot (mine were 10 inches and 12 inches when we had our 6 foot tank). They did keep the glass clean...but that's about it!
Excellent thread Brhino [I rated it a 5 :-D].
Yep, Plecs are poop machines, 'Nuff said.
Firefly there are plenty of smaller plecos that coexist with plants just fine, Just not the ones you had :-P.
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Why pretend there are no stupid questions? Actually, There are many stupid questions: "Should I drink this bleach?" Is just one example.
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30 May 2012
'I believe the best days for health are ahead of us, not behind us' said WHO DG Margaret Chan at last week's World Health Assembly. And that flash of optimism was true for diabetes when governments adopted the first ever global target on Non-communicable Diseases (NCDs) just a few days later, committing themselves to cutting NCD deaths by 25% by 2025 ('25 by 25'). It was a milestone in diabetes advocacy. IDF and the NCD Alliance have been working for this for over a year, and it shows again what 'people's power' can do when allies work for a common cause.
You should have seen the activity at the World Health Assembly as an army of NCD Alliance volunteers fanned out across the building, ambushing government delegations in coffee queues and corridors to persuade them that we needed an NCD mortality target – and we needed it now. Judith Watt, Director of the NCD Alliance, coordinated this activity from campaign headquarters, a circle of chairs in the Serpentine Café at the Assembly overlooking Lake Geneva. And we were supported in this task by NCD elder statesman, Sir George Alleyne, and others deeply respected in the global health community.
And along with the pressure from civil society, we saw true leadership from a number of Member States to get the mortality target adopted. Two small island states - Jamaica and Samoa – ran like Usain Bolt ahead of the field, with the United States, Barbados, Canada, Australia, Brazil, Egypt, Norway, Russian Federation, Thailand and Switzerland close behind. After just a couple of days of negotiation all governments had signed up to it and all had committed to collecting data on diabetes and NCD deaths, and reporting regularly on progress to the UN. Some targets sit forgotten on UN shelves and others, like the MDGs, focus action and resources. It is our job to ensure this target drives positive change. We must act as watchdogs to make sure our governments report on time, and monitor the progress they report. We will offer solutions and expertise to encourage national efforts on diabetes prevention, early diagnosis, screening and care. And IDF will continue to use our people power to galvanise the – still missing - essential national and global resources for diabetes.
There is a lot to play for. The Resolution passed last Saturday commits governments to reaching consensus, before the end of October, on additional targets for the four main NCD risk factors - tobacco use, harmful use of alcohol, unhealthy diet and physical inactivity - and to consider further targets relating to obesity, fat intake, alcohol, cholesterol and health system responses, such as availability of essential medicines for NCDs. IDF and the NCD Alliance will continue to advocate loudly for a comprehensive set of targets that address both prevention and treatment, and particularly to ensure that the target on essential medicines is not forgotten. We must protect future generations from NCDs and we must also treat the people suffering now – because it is their right and because we can.
It was deja vu for me ten days ago when the NCD Alliance held a meeting in same the room in Geneva where the Alliance had been launched three years before in 2009. That was when we first called jointly for a UN Summit on NCDs. Three years ago, diabetes and the other NCDs were completely marginalized on the global health scene. I told IDF President Martin Silink to prepare to eat a lot of sandwiches – I hoped he was hungry because I was sure no-one would turn up to the NCD Alliance event and reception. But Martin said IDF was an audacious organization and we must always travel optimistically.
This morning in Beijing I attended the launch of the first five year NCD Plan for China. Remarkably, that Plan was drafted jointly by 15 government ministries, in response to a commitment made at last year's UN Summit. The Summit brought home the reality that prevention and control of diabetes and the other NCDs is the business of the whole of government. The Chinese government have done the difficult job of convening 15 ministries to design an NCD Plan which they will be accountable for delivering. I hope other countries will follow suit.
Last September when the UN Summit ended without agreeing targets I felt let down. Governments had agreed no vision, nothing to aim for. But when the decision on targets was deferred to 2012, we continued to fight for what was important - accountability for the millions of people with diabetes and NCDs dying before their time. Every diabetes death must be recorded and whenever one person with diabetes (child or adult) dies a death that could have been prevented, that death must be counted and we must demand an explanation.


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The keynesian solution - - - after total failure - try, try again.
There are some thoughts in marketing that never change. The hardest task any company is faced with is in changing the perceptions by the public of their brand. A brand is a brand, perception is reality to the consumer/voter. Once a brand falls into disfavor, bad image etc., it is almost impossible to change that image no matter how much money a company is willing to reinvest into that brand. No amount of talk will change that image. Budweiser use to be the #1 selling beer. Unfiltered Lucky Strikes were the top selling smokes. The list is very long of brands that were once popular that today are no longer anywhere near the top in market share. The Republican Party is one such broken brand. There is nothing they can say or do that will ever get them back into the White House.
Mainly because the Repub Party has little appeal with the under 40 year olds or anyone that isn't white. Even white females voted Obama, 56% to 44% in ther last election.
So, someone tell me how they will ever return to prominence with their refusal to enter the 21st Century?
"All those things bother me: The populism, the lying and the scapegoating and the xenophobia bother me, but then theres a layer of incompetence here. I suppose, in a way, we should be thankful: If he had a coherent ideology, hed probably be more dangerous." P J O'Rourke
Did any of you actually look at the numbers? Do you even have the slightest idea what parts of the economy grew and which contracted?
Sure doesn't seem like it judging from the comments here.
"For everyone to whom much is given, of him shall much be required." -- Luke 12:48
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During the periods of control & especially in the R column, the caucuses are not one smooth flowing group.
While you point out Franco as a leading example of someone who has it right, who's going to lead his group? - for the Paul's it is a big fund raising jackpot that they will exploit to it's fullest. When Goldwater is brought up Franco belittles his accomplishments when he's the last politician to have enough charisma to excite the base in any tangible volume. At the least when Perot ran under United We Stand he excited enough folks that we only had one term of GHWB, but we got the Clinton's. If there is going to be a viable 3rd party there must be a charismatic leader.
As for vote denial, it's long been a case of voting against rather than voting for - until there are credible candidates someone is always going to vote what's good for them, which may not be good for us .
But I'll say this, I've posted twice about uncommon items, AlGore's windfall from AAPL & Chelsea's cushy new directors job (just the tip of the iceberg) with little comment from members of this forum. Until some can comprehend the underlying thought behind those actions, How do you think we can get a credible 3rd party started? Sheeple or No .
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Someday your life will flash before your eyes. It's your responsibility to make sure it's worth watching!
Gee, I wonder? Could a contraction in GDP be due to a contraction in military spending? Is that a good or bad thing? JD
One cannot reason someone out of something they were not reasoned into. - Jonathan Swift
Second, I have never belittled Goldwater. I have given him many props here on POTUS. Though an early Libertarian leaning Repub, his legacy is mostly lost in today's Libertarian Party. The cheese, so-to-speak, has been moved.
Third, Dr Ron Paul has retired from the House. He is on a speaking engagement tour raising money for the Liberty Pack which he donates 100% of his speaking fees to and not lining his pocket. Just as he refused to accept Medicare and Medicaid payments from the government for the people he treated in his medical practice. It is called, integrity and you wouldn't know an honest man if you met one! To refer to him as dishonest just demonstrates how corrupt you are Marv.
Lastly, we have that charismatic leader. His name is Sen. Rand Paul and if you haven't been paying attention, he is the most active member in the Senate. He's a reformer that has authored more bills this session than any other Senator. Only to have them rejected by the status quo which you support. And, he traveled to Israel with a Libertarian group this year meeting with Israeli leaders including one of his biggest supporters, Ben Netanyahu. Explaining to him why he would cut back military aide to him as well as the radical Islamic countries that we pour tax dollars into. Before leaving, he visited the main Temple and read the Torah in Hebrew. Impressive to say the least for a non-Jew. Rand makes the rest of the Repubs look like sheep.
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"All those things bother me: The populism, the lying and the scapegoating and the xenophobia bother me, but then theres a layer of incompetence here. I suppose, in a way, we should be thankful: If he had a coherent ideology, hed probably be more dangerous." P J O'Rourke


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The Copper Turret is a college-owned restaurant located just off campus in the center of Morrisville, N.Y. In addition to its role as a fully-operational dining establishment, the popular eatery serves as a learning laboratory for students in hospitality-related majors.
The building that now houses the Copper Turret was originally built in 1814. The property boasted some unique design features in the 19th century, such as a cast iron sidewalk and fence, and a few remain today, including stained glass over the front entrance, intricate fireplaces and beveled edges on windows which are leaded in their metal frames.
The burgundy building, crowned with a gleaming copper turret, has been lovingly renovated to showcase these original design features which have been complemented with copper accents on the fireplaces, a copper top on the bar, a vaulted ceiling in the Turret room and beautifully reproduced windows throughout.
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text: What do you want to bet we end up in this alone? The only countries I have a remote hope in are Canada and Britain. Looks like everyone else wants to be a sellout. You're either with us or against us, the way I look at it, and if they're not going to kick in some help, they might as well go join the Taliban. I'm really disappointed with all these countries that are saying we are using the word "war" to loosely. How would any of their nations feel if this happened in Berlin or Rome? I bet it would be war then, and they'd be begging us to help, too.


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I'll be honest with you: I've never known how to feel about the current C6-generation Chevrolet Corvette.
On paper (yeah, I still use the stuff), it's got everything an old muscle-car guy like me could want. Right out of the box, this thing gives you a tried-and-true 6.2-liter pushrod V8 with 400-plus horsepower.
But the motor I really want is the 505-horsepower, 7.0-liter V8 in the limited-production Z06 coupe. Seven liters is a newfangled way of saying 427 cubic inches, and that's a special number in Corvette lore. Chevy put its first "big-block" 427 in the 1966 'Vette, see, and that ferocious V8 had already become a legend when the 454 replaced it a few years later. I've driven the Z06, and its 427 is as fierce as the original. Makes the standard 6.2-liter job feel a little too docile for its own good.
No problem, you're thinking, just buy a Z06, right? Thankfully, I'm at a point in life where I could probably make that financial stretch, assuming the ol' ball-and-chain didn't find out till it was too late. But here's the problem: I love the Corvette convertible's lines. This is a car that was born to be topless. It just looks right as a roadster. And Chevy has never offered a Z06 Corvette convertible, no sirree Bob.
Never, that is, until model-year 2013.
One of a Kind
That's right: for this year only, as the Corvette production team in Bowling Green, Kentucky prepares for the new C7 and C7 Z06 Corvette's arrival, the C6 Z06 ragtop is a reality.
Oh, sure, the marketing types are calling it the 2013 Chevrolet Corvette 427 Convertible, but blah blah blah. To a man, this is a Z06 roadster. Same big brakes. Same race-inspired V8. Same dragstrip-proven, slam-it-home Tremec six-speed. And you get even more of that exuberant NASCAR-style soundtrack, since there's no roof between your ears and the 427's Z06-spec quad exhaust tips.
Yeah, I got to drive one. And, you're probably a little jealous, as well you should be. The 7.0-liter "LS7" is one of the greatest V8s ever to grace an engine bay, using every bit of its 7,000-rpm operating range to plaster a terrified grin on each lucky driver's face. It's less powerful than the exclusive ZR1 coupe's "LS9" supercharged 6.2-liter V8, of course, but whereas the LS9 makes basically the same broad-shouldered torque from idle to redline, the LS7 just keeps piling it on as engine speed rises. From where I sit, it's the most thrilling motor under $150,000.
And now it's available with the Corvette convertible's alluring bodywork and fun-in-the-sun freedom, all for barely half that cost. 2013 Corvette 427 Convertible pricing starts at a very reasonable-for-what-you-get $76,900.
Personally, I think the jury's still out on the C6 Corvette. If you're looking at the base 6.2-liter version, I'd suggest waiting to see what the redesigned C7 is all about.
But I know exactly how I feel about the 2013 Corvette 427 Convertible. I'm a big believer in buying Christmas presents for myself, and as we close out 2012, next year's wish list has a new number-one contender.
Attention 'Vette Owners
If you're already a member of the C6 Corvette club, I should add that the kind folks who allow me to write this column have a bunch of C6 Corvette accessories and C6 Corvette parts on offer right now. MagnaFlow exhausts, Covercraft car covers—you name it, they've got it. Check out the Advance Auto Parts site or just head to your local store for details.
Editor's note: While I'll leave the specs and such to our resident gearhead, I will add that you can get your order even faster when you select the "Store Availability" option as you shop at AdvanceAutoParts.com. You certainly don't want to keep a beauty like this waiting. —JK


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Apolipoprotein CII (apoCII) is a protein found in large fat particles absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract. It is also found in very low density lipoprotein (VLDL), which is made up of mostly triglycerides.
This article discusses the test used to check for apoCII in a sample of your blood.
ApoCII; Apoprotein CII; ApoC2
A blood sample is needed.
You may be told not to eat or drink anything for 4 - 6 hours before the test.
When the needle is inserted to draw blood, you may feel moderate pain, or only a prick or stinging sensation. Afterward, there may be some throbbing.
ApoCII measurements can help to determine the specific type or cause of high blood lipids (hyperlipidemia).
The normal range is 3 - 5 mg/dL. However, apo CII is usually reported as present or absent.
Note: Normal value ranges may vary slightly among different laboratories. Talk to your doctor about the meaning of your specific test results.
High levels of apoCII may be due to:
Low apoCII levels are seen in persons with a rare condition called familial apoprotein CII deficiency. This causes chylomicronemia syndrome.
Veins and arteries vary in size from one patient to another and from one side of the body to the other. Obtaining a blood sample from some people may be more difficult than from others.
Other risks associated with having blood drawn are slight but may include:
Apolipoprotein measurements may provide more detail about your risk for heart disease, but the added value of this test beyond a lipid panel is unknown.
Genest J, Libby P. Lipoprotein disorders and cardiovascular disease. In: Bonow RO, Mann DL, Zipes DP, Libby P, eds. Braunwald's Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine. 9th ed. Philadelphia, PA:Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 47.
Semenkovich, CF. Disorders of lipid metabolism. In: Goldman L, Schafer AI, eds. Cecil Medicine. 24th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 213.
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Video calls are becoming so sophisticated now that the need for physical meetings in companies has been nearly eliminated from the vocabulary. Here at Batipi, we offer hosted teleconferencing services that allows you to confer with anyone around the world thanks to our cloud infrastructure & Vidyo technology. In fact, you can hold meetings while on the go and teleconference on your smartphone or tablet in perfect clarity.
But while you're still physically seen through our video call service, what should you ultimately wear when talking with an important business associate? And should the setting where you hold your teleconference be in a conservative location? There might be acceptance now of being seen in places unimaginable a few years ago.
What Should You Wear During a Video Call?
There may be a tendency to want to dress more casually, depending on the work environment of a particular company. What happens, though, if you hold an important business meeting on Vidyo and those associates are wearing suits? It's probably a good idea to at least dress up a little so you're not caught wearing t-shirts and shorts during an important business deal.
Regardless, you should obviously look into the style of that other company and see what their general clothing choices are before making a decision.
As far as the differences between the genders, Radvision found in studies that women are more apt to dress in business attire than men. Males who get away with shorts in teleconferencing should take heed.
What's the Best Location for a Video Call?
It might seem incomprehensible that 10% of employees polled in the above Radvision study say that the bathroom is an acceptable place to be seen during a teleconference. While that might show that the acceptance of comfort has hit a high point in the video meeting format, should that really become the standard?
A better setting might be teleconferencing by a pool that was deemed acceptable by 35% of those studied. In fact, a relaxed pool setting could possibly help in closing a business deal to show that business doesn't have to be so buttoned down. The good news about video calls is any kind of setting can ultimately be altered by merely moving to a certain location in the room or setting up a particular backdrop.
Even if the bathroom ultimately becomes an acceptable part of video call protocol, it's unlikely someone will show a certain amenity in that bathroom as part of their physical background.


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- Looking south east across the parking lot at the Alex G. Spanos Sport Complex - California State University, Sacramento by Joel Baldwin
This was the second Gigapan attemp I ever did with my Canon SX10IS. It didn't turn out as well as I had hoped, which is why I haven't posted it until now. It's a bit over exposed and there are a number of stitching errors and blurred frames I'm going ahead and posting it because it does have some intersting stuff in...
- Hornet Stadium at the Alex G. Spanos Sports Complex - California State University, Sacramento by Joel Baldwin
This is my first attempt at using a Canon SX10IS on a Gigapan. How do you think it turned out? Zoomed in all the way to 560mm equiv. Gigapan camera tray hacked to make the SX10IS fit. Info on the stadium follows. Taken from the top of an adjacent parking structure. www.spanossportscomplex.com/home ...


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Valentine's Day is all about expressing your love in the loudest way possible. And here at the Crushable office, we love the Oscars more than we ever loved any human being in our whole life. From the glitz and glam of the red carpet to the scripted banter on stage to the excited tears from the winner. So we're celebrating Valentine's Day the only way we know how — by sharing our love for 2012′s Oscar nominated films with you!
Yes, you read that right, we're celebrating Valentine's Day with you. (Don't worry, we're not looking for anything serious. Just a few clicks, a few times a day and we promise not to go too clingy.) Check out our gallery of custom Oscar nominated film themed cards below and feel free to share them with the person you love – or the person who loves that movie.
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OK. Everyone is talking about this Advogato thing so I figure I have to have a look. I set up an account and I'm running through the list certifying (or is that Certifying?) everyone whose name sounds familiar if it turns out I know anything about them. Did Alan Cox up as Master; not because I know anything about the man, but, well, because he's Alan Cox for crying out loud! :-)
Then I stumble onto Chris DiBona's page...
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Blah Blah Blah, VA Linux, Blah BlahHe has a link to his homepage. Not a single solitary diary entry. A gazillion people have certified him. He hasn't certified anyone... At all!
Whatever else Advogato is, it's apparently designed to bring out the worst tendencies towards mental masturbation. :-(


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2013 Harvest Report – Foxx Viticulture
Hi all,
80% of the Santa Cruz Mountain Vineyards I work with are coming in heavy. Most Pinot Noir Vineyards, especially in the Corralitos area are at a minimum of 25% over yield of last year and 2012 was a big year! A select few vineyards are showing even more production, some as much as 50% or more over normal. Quality is very high. There have been some issues with even ripening in younger vineyards and wine quality may have been affected if allowed to overproduce. Older vineyards are showing the best fruit I have seen in years even with a big set.
I attribute this to the perfect spring weather and excellent set. Disease pressure was very low during summer months. There were no heat spikes after verasion. We have enjoyed a slow steady maturation period that has produced perfect numbers. pH is coming in 3.2 to 3.5 depending on harvest date. Sugars are 23 to 25, less for those choosing to pick at the first hint of ripeness. TA is hitting 7 to 8. This is what I call a winemaker's year. With environmental pressure low (no significant rain or heat) winemakers can pick their harvest date based on individual vision and style preference. Each vineyard I work with is in full expression of it's terroir showing fruit flavors unique and fully developed across the board. In general cluster size and density is up, phenolics are strong, color is good even at first crush. Pinot Noir clusters that normally average 2 oz are showing easily 3 oz per cluster. Bins are regularly topping out at a pure half ton. 2013 promises to be a phenomenal year in every sense.
Bon appetit!
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Evil Dead - Well worth watching. The acting was far superior to the original and the storyline was better developed.
Evil Dead - Well worth watching. The acting was far superior to the original and the storyline was better developed.
May the force be with you.
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I watched Behind Enemy Lines several years ago and I love that movie. It did a great job of portraying the hopelessness of a war like that. When the Soviet Union collapsed, Yugoslavia erupted into a nasty civil war between Serbians, Croatians and Muslims. But it was never a clean war with clear good guys and bad guys, they were all bad guys. The atrocities and crimes against humanity were committed on all three sides of that war.
I went over there as part of an engineer unit and our original goal was to start tearing down all the American base camps because we were supposed to be pulling out. However, after we got there, Clinton decided to extend our presence there indefinitely, so we spent the next 7 months just doing odd jobs to help the Bosnians get stabilized. Croatia had already broken off into its own country by then, so we didn't have much to do there. Although I did spend almost 4 months with a float-bridge engineer unit babysitting one of the two bridges that still connected Bosnia to Croatia. We stayed on the Croatian side of the Sava River in Slovanski Brod.
And destroying religion will have no effect on crushing evil in this world, because evil is inherent in human nature. There were over 100 million people slaughtered by atheistic governments in the 20th century alone, so the lack of religion or the presence of religion have no effect whatsoever on the evil that every human being on this planet is capable of committing.
Anyways, Behind Enemy Lines... great movie and one of my all-time favorite war movies.
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split. - Robert E. Howard
T, is your first novel out now? Let me know, I've been wanting to check it out ever since you first mentioned it. Also, I believe the number of people dead from the drug war is up to 50,000 now. That's just the numbers from Mexico.
May the force be with you.
BigBarada and Sith_Killer....
Sith_Killer, simplest answers first: - my novels will both come out this fall, with a sequel to the modern story next spring or summer. I'm getting artwork and final editing done now, plus the final legal arrangements.
The "industry" actually told me the public would not support another Civil War project, and IF (major if) they are actually correct, I will release the first part of my modern story at the same time to show I'm diverse and create double book sales.
The idea is that if people reading that "50 S&M shades of drug-dealing and Mafia politics with porn-star-girls (whoo-wee!)" than they will want to know "how it all got started" back in the Civil War with "cowboys and more cowboys" in the military from back in the day.
Of course I'm being fecicious and the ideas are much more sophisticated than that.
But the situation made me resent "New York" and I want to demonstrate I can write for the modern action-thriller audience who likes the current political intrigue (and James Bond girls) as well as the historical aficionado who will appreciate my research and reverence for American history, and the good Kurt Russel / Val Kilmer style of the modern western (as I don't think I epitomize any such honor as displayed in John Wayne's work - but that's intentional, not that I don't love John Wayne's work - I just don't write that way).
But yes, sadly the drug war in Mexico is horrible with its death toll. My modern story is set only 2 years in the future from now when their war spills into Louisiana (and Texas presumably, though I have no scenes set there since Louisiana works perfectly for my needs in spite of there being no land border - my characters use the Miami Vice style fast boats and fight the U.S. Coast Guard, uh if they haven't used sex, money, and drugs to bribe their sectional commanders already - part of a plot give-away. As noted above, my story actually is not only not about honorable characters like John Wayne would play, there ARE NO honorable characters - which is the point. My work is dark!).
BigBarada, do you think President Clinton decided to stay in Bosnia because of the genocide being brought to light? Possibly by soldiers like Brady?
I remember that at first, people dismissed that as trying to create a distraction to the Monica Lewinski sex scandal before they realized how serious the Bosnian genocide problem was. Then I think it became a fight against evil like that of Hitler. I think it was also "PR" to show Muslims that we're not against good justice for them in light of this atrocity (not that Islamic Terrorists have given us ANY credit for trying to help their creed).
I agree with you that "evil is inherent in human nature." That's what Buried Values is about. Sure, there's buried Civil War treasure from the first book, but as I write more for the series, that will be less and less important, if even mentioned in some later novels set historically between my bookend stories.
But Atheism is not the absence of religion. Atheism is a religion. And sure it has killed (Stalin) just like theistic religions. You know, Agnosticism has probably killed too. People's Buried Values (shameless plug). But reducing the reliance on dogma (the Bible, the Koran) will be kind of like partial nuclear disarmament. It takes away the ammunition of some demagogues if people are questioning that even holy texts don't have definitive proof, let alone interpretations of them as such Scott Roeder (proclaimed Christian who killed abortion provider) or Osama Bin Laden (you all know who he was) make, claiming they know what the holy texts mean.
Anyway, I agree with you BigBarada about Behind Enemy Lines! Yes it was a great war movie and thank you for serving.
I think that Bosnia is one such conflict American soldiers should be honored for that is too often overlooked and forgotten. It was war over there and just as horrible as any war our vets fought in. There just are more vets today from Vietnam, Iraq, and returning from Afghanistan.
Lot of people forget about Korea as well - but maybe less so with N.K. mouthing off every other day.
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Starter For 10. An English movie where a kid goes to college, falls for the hot girl, gets on a team that competes on a Jeperady! type game show. My lady Alice Eve was the hot girl.
Robot Chicken Star Wars Episode III, I like the 'emphasis' on the Emperor. I like how he can't stand Vader.
The Raven, its Baltimore 1849 and somebody is going around killing people in a way that mimics Edgar Allen Poe's writing. Poe's ladyfriend is kidnapped and he is working with the police to find her. Alice Eve is Mr. Poe's lady friend.
The Decoy Bride. Blahh blahh blahh, Mrs. Enoch Thompsan from Boardwalk Empire and Alice Eve are in it. Sensing a trend in the movies I've been watching???
I am old. I picked up the Queen from the library (free DVD rental), thinking it was from just a few (maybe three or four) years ago... it was in 2006. But the film was pretty good, and I can see why/how Helen Mirren won the Oscar for it. I couldn't quite remember 1997 and Diana's death all that clearly (also a sign of oldness), or at least the royals' reactions to it.
I predict that the upcoming Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi film will include the word "and." Multiple times.
I watched "Pitch Black" the other day and my wife and I were taking about it. Our 11 year old daughter asked me "What's Pitch Black".
So I told her, it's an old movie from before you were born.
She didn't think anything of it, but my wife was kind of thrown back by the realization.
May the force be with you.
I enjoy Behind Enemy Lines. I've bought used copies of the two sequels, related by name only. The third one is okay. Both are straight to video.
How the West Was Won (1962). One of those epic movies that follows a family from the early 1800s to post-Civil War era settling of the Old West. An all-star cast but Debbie Reynolds and George Peppard had two of the biggest and instrumental roles in the movie.
Amos and Andrew. The wife and I watched this little 90s gem with Nic Cage and Samuel L. Jackson. Pretty funny. It was refreshing to see Brad Dourif in a normal role for once, not some weird-o character that he's associated with these days. And where's Dabney Coleman when you need him the most?
Kapo (1960). A French-Italian venture that follows a French girl in a concentration camp. The girl's (Susan Strasberg) journey from victim to kapo, concentration camp quasi-guard, was interesting.
Dead Snow. I've been wanting to see this zombie movie for several years. Didn't want to do a blind purchase, but I found it on a four-pack of movies at Target. Norweigian kids on a weekend trip to the country run into Nazi-era zombies. And the zombies are ruthless! Had some real funny moments.
License to kill. This was a great James Bond movie!
The production really stepped up to a level of the more modern movies here
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I found it rather stupefying that the Phoenix proudly toted an interview with Shepard Fairey on the same front page it used to complain about artists getting the shaft by money-grubbing businesses.
Fairey, who is notorious for having sticky fingers and "appropriating" other artists' work for his multi-million dollar company, without giving a dime of compensation or credit when he can, is somehow painted as the innocent anti-establishment artist. Give me a break. You were so busy kissing Fairey's ass you probably didn't have time to ask him about René Mederos, the Cuban artist that he stole from to create one of his more popular T-shirt designs. Only when caught did Fairey's company pull the T-shirt and pay the artist's family a pittance of a royalty fee. (See here.)
Now Fairey's most famous work of President Obama is proving to be just as mired in plagiarism — he's attempting to stiff the original photographer. (See here.) Fairey's proving himself to be the next Todd Goldman, and trying to say that finding something on Google means he doesn't need to give credit where credit's due. Funny, I found his art on Google — but he wants me to pay him to hang it on a wall.
Way to go, Phoenix — you really know how to side with the short-changed artists.
Lucy Gray
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Thanks, Phoenix, for your great cover the other week, which hit newsstands the night after President Barack Obama's inauguration. Just think, one of the most monumentally historic events in our nation's history occurred only days ago and you managed to design a cover featuring a guy squeezing a woman's tit. This image will look nice adjacent to the New York Times and Boston Globe covers that I hope to frame in order to memorialize this miraculous moment.
Great job, you boneheads!
Phil Goff
EDITOR'S NOTE Phil obviously missed our January 16 cover story (on stands during the inauguration) about how right-wing nut jobs are gunning for Obama.
Poison in the well
Regarding "Toxic Talk: Hating Obama," where did all the hate come from? Where have you been for the past eight years? Haven't you paid attention to what the left has been calling George W. Bush? An author won a prize for a novel about assassinating Bush. Plus, there's 9/11 Truthers, Michael Moore — the list goes on.
Jeez, if you poison the well it doesn't magically clean itself up. In fairness, Bill Clinton also got a lot of abuse, but it turned into an industry with Bush.
Pat Charles
Spokane, Wa
Heating up
Thanks for covering the HEET weatherization barn-raising. I would like to see a barn-raising to weatherize the White House, perhaps with the assistance of the This Old House or Extreme Makeover: Home Edition crew.
If you go back into your morgue, you might find an article or two about the solar barn-raisings the Urban Solar Energy Association — the precursor of the Boston Area Solar Energy Association — did around Boston nearly 30 years ago. Some of these installations still exist and are still working. That's good to remember, especially since it seems to be the future that's coming around again.
George Mokray
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Me I'm an opener, although it does get difficult at times because they look so pretty in the packaging.
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Last week, we got an email from an admitted student asking us to withdraw his application because he was headed instead to another school. He mentioned that one element of his decision was that, having been admitted to the summer start1, he feared that it would be harder for him to get a job. His concern stemmed from something on our admitted student site, written by former summer-starters, about what they saw as the advantages of the summer start. (If you're an admitted student, you can log in to read the communication in toto.) In the course of their lengthy exegesis, the summer-starters debunked some anti-summer myths they had heard, including this: "Because lots of other schools have conditional-admit programs2 that begin in the summer, employers will think you're in some kind of remedial program in you're in Michigan's summer start." In response, they espoused their anecdotal theory that it might actually be easier to get jobs as a summer-starter, but in so doing acknowledged that, as students, they weren't in a position to "deal with 'facts' and 'data'"—matters better tackled by Admissions and Career Planning administrators.
The withdrawing student read the student-authors' eschewing of facts and data to mean that the Law School itself was affirmatively unwilling or unable to support the students' claims with facts and data. This reading—quite understandably—gave him serious concern. But his reading was wrong. Now, if someone were to write the breezy little "facts and data" comment today and hand it to me for review, my antenna would go up, because I have been thoroughly sensitized to the many issues about outcomes and data. My sensitivities were quite different, though, when the letter was written a few years ago, before the massive paradigm shift occasioned by the economic contraction. Further, until our withdrawing student, no one had advanced any concerns about either the phrasing on the website or the overarching question. Further still, while the difference between starting in the summer and starting in the fall can be a weighty consideration for individual enrolling students, those of us within the institution don't experience the summer- and fall-starters as fundamentally different, and therefore don't break down data along those lines. In other words, while I feel more than a little abashed that our annual scouring of the website didn't unearth this as something worthy of updating, all I can say is—better late than never?! Not to mention, thankyouverymuch to the withdrawing student for raising my consciousness.
I'm happy to illustrate now, with the aid of actual facts and data, the bearing out of the anecdotal intuitions of the authoring students. Below are the most recent three years' worth of data on graduating students, broken down by year and term, as well as aggregated for all graduating students, all graduating summer-starters (who graduate in December), and all graduating fall-starters (who graduate in May):
Arguably, the summer-starters are consistently a bit more interested in doing public interest work than are the fall-starters, but that's the sole category where I can discern a potentially meaningful difference.
Feeling that 2011 data might seem a little old (the data on 2012 grads is still being crunched, and won't be ready for another month or so), I also pestered Career Planning for a little data on the 2L summer jobs of this year's 3Ls (i.e., the jobs that the December 2012/May 2013 grads had in the summer of 2012), on the theory that one's 2L summer job is a decent predictor of one's immediate post-grad job. Now, bear with me as I engage in a little reflexive distancing of myself from the argument I'm about to make: I am most certainly not of the mindset that private law firms are the universal Great White Whales of legal jobs. Of the 2L jobs I saw listed for the summer of 2012, I personally was pretty intrigued by Harley-Davidson and the Farm Animal Reform Movement (and I noticed several people on the list who had been signed up to go to formerly über-fancy and now-imploded Dewey & Leboeuf, but who had to turn on a dime during finals to line up an alternative). As a general category, the happiest lawyers I know work for the ACLU and various U.S. Attorney's offices. All of which is to say, please do not read what I'm about to write as an argument that the only worthy post-law-school job is one at a private firm.
Blah blah blah. Forgive my digression. The point I was leading up to is this: Noting the percentage of people going to private law firms is a reasonable way to gauge the kinds of opportunities graduates from particular schools have available. To be sure, you may very well choose to do something different with your freedom of choice—more than one student has had me urge him or her to resist mindless prestige-seeking behavior (hi, BC!)—but having some freedom in the first place is the key. To that end, it is worth noting that overall, two-thirds of last year's 2Ls went to private firms—and while a very respectable 63% of the fall-starters did so, a whopping 78% of the summer-starters did. (Now, that would seem to contradict the public-interest pattern of the summer-starters from the immediate prior three years of graduates, but maybe these summer-starters will bear out my do-something-different-with-your-freedom scenario and choose to pursue other opportunities after graduation.)
In short: A case cannot be made that outcomes for summer-starters are materially different, let alone materially worse, than outcomes for fall-starters. There are many reasons an individual might prefer either a fall or a summer start, but concern about finding a law job ought not to be on the list.
And now, a plea: if you have a question or concern—whether prompted by something on our website, or by something else entirely—by all means, raise it with us! The student who so helpfully asked the question that prompted this post suggested that he knew other admitted students who shared his concern, but that they were reluctant to ask lest they appear rude. One of the things you are trained to do as a lawyer is to think critically and ask a lot of questions; it is, perhaps, the lawyerly trait most likely to drive non-lawyers crazy, and that may be why 0Ls, not yet lawyers, would worry that it is rude behavior. Certainly, you can ask questions in a rude way, but the mere fact of asking is not, to my mind, even remotely rude—and in general, a group of lawyers is probably the last group of people to get their backs up. So, please: ask!
1Approximately one-quarter of every entering class at Michigan are summer-starters, while three-quarters are fall-starters. Applicants indicate at the time they fill out their application whether they're willing to enter in the summer and if not, we don't consider them for a summer spot. A student who wants to change his or her enrollment term after admission has to make a request to do so, and proffer a reason.
2A few law schools offer conditional-admission programs, where a formal offer is contingent upon a student's successfully completing a term, often in the summer, prior to full-fledged enrollment. We do not offer that kind of program.


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WASHINGTON The Federal Election Commission has transmitted its fiscal year 2002 budget proposal to Congress and the Office of Management and Budget, requesting $47,671,000 and 375 personnel for FEC operations. The present
(FY2001) appropriation is $40,410,900 and 357 personnel.
In a letter accompanying the formal request, FEC Chairman Danny L. McDonald wrote, "While the FEC is aware of the general budgetary climate and has striven to reach agreement with OMB on our budget request, we did not reach agreement for the FY2002 request. Therefore, we must independently make a special appeal to pursue the staff and resources necessary to fulfill our statutory mission. And, depending upon the scope of campaign finance reform legislation under consideration, the FEC could face significant additional resource needs."
Chairman McDonald said the OMB recommendation of $41.4 million and 357 personnel is inadequate, and OMBs freeze on non-salary cost levels "...would foreclose the opportunity for the FEC to assist state and local election officials to develop operational standards to address a variety of election administration issues." The requested funding seeks $4.8 million and 18 personnel in programmatic increases for FY2002, which includes resources for the FECs Office of Election Administration (OEA) mission, which "...would enhance the existing and planned Voting Systems Standards (VSS), as well as other election administration issues, including acquisition of new voting systems, administering elections, training election workers, ballot design, and public education," the chairman wrote.
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-- Mandatory Electronic Filing Program: The first mandatory electronic filings were received for the monthly reports due on February 20, 2001. Of the 605 reports received for that filing, 440 reports were filed electronically. Only one committee required to file electronically submitted a paper report. More than 1,000 committees filed electronically during the 2000 election cycle under the voluntary electronic filing program.
-- Administrative Fine Program: This program was implemented with the July Quarterly Reports, due on July 15, 2000. As of March 12, 2001, the Commission has made public its final determination in 48 cases and has collected civil money penalties totaling $63,230.
-- Implementation of a state-filing waiver program: This program allows state election offices a waiver for maintaining paper copies of reports at state offices, by making the FEC reports available online. The FEC provides states with surplus computer equipment. This program relieves state offices of filing and maintenance burdens, relieves committees of duplicative state filing, and maintains or increases the level of state disclosure. Rules to implement this program became effective
June 7, 2000, and to date 47 states have been granted a filing waiver.
-- Development of a pilot Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) program: This program promotes compliance with the Federal Election Campaign Act by encouraging settlements for eligible respondents in lieu of the traditional enforcement or litigation processes. The program began on October 1, 2000, and as of March 1, 2001, the ADR Office had concluded eight agreements based on seven complaints filed with the Commission. Settlements were obtained in an average of 91 days from the time matters were referred to the ADR Office.
Among other documents, included in the budget transmittal package is the Commissions FY1999-2000 Performance Report and the most recent status report to Congress on recommendations from PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Chairman McDonald urged both Congress and OMB to consult the more-detailed Budget Justification in the package, noting that "It contains several charts depicting how our budget request would be allocated and how it compares with previous years."
The chairmans letter concluded, "Again, the Commission strongly urges the full support of our FY2002 budget request. We are ready to answer any questions you may have and to work with you in securing sufficient funding for the Commission in FY2002."
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On selecting good timeouts
Timeouts are a common design choice or implementation detail in any computer system, but are in particular popular in High-Availability clusters (such as those build with the SUSE Linux High-Availability Extension and other stacks that are similarly based on corosync and pacemaker).
They are seemingly straightforward to detect faults: if the task doesn't complete within N seconds, it is considered failed, and recovery attempted. (The task could be anything from a network messaging protocol, a database starting under the cluster's control, any IO, and a number of other cases.)
However, selecting a good value for the timeout is less straightforward than it may seem; more often than not, they are much too short. This seems to stem from the belief that a fast response to failures is unconditionally a good thing: the system will perform better if timeouts are shorter. This is not quite true, though.
To illustrate, assume two scenarios:
- First, that the system has failed in such a way that it will not respond with a failed response to a monitor task immediately, but instead runs indefinitely unless aborted by the timeout.
- Second, that the system is operating fine, but experiencing a brief period of stress, where responses are delayed, just to the edge of the timeout value.
Now, let us explore the impact of a timeout that is one second "too long"; and then, one that is one second "too short".
For a too long timeout, the failure in the first scenario is detected one second later, adding one second to the recovery time. In the second scenario, no timeout occurs, and the system continues as normal.
For the too short timeout, the first scenario is recovered one second faster; the second scenario causes an unnecessary recovery, probably incurring a real service outage in the attempt to restart the application, or at least a brief period without service!
Another problem arises from how timeouts are often chosen; of course, if they were obviously too short, administrators would immediately notice, since their system would never get off the ground at all, but immediately start spewing errors. Instead, the timeouts are usually adequate for the tested scenario (note that you can use the pacemaker monitoring tools to look at the actual runtime of operations); if your test load exceeds the load of your live system, raise your hand - more often than not, it does not.
Under a stress/peak load, the system response tends to degenerate exponentially; it will not just slow down by ten percent, but by thirty. If this scenario gets treated as a failure, the likelihood that the fail-over system will experience the same level of stress is high; worse, requests may have queued up, and if - due to the stress, remember - the system did not shutdown cleanly, an application-internal recovery phase will compound the effect.
Monitoring application performance for load-distribution is quite a different task from monitoring application correctness. The former is important, and a performance degradation may also imply violation of service level agreements; however, initiating recovery through restart is unlikely to alleviate the problem. (In a pacemaker cluster, this would best be monitored externally and fed into the utilization constraints of the resources and nodes.)
In summary, a too short timeout is the worse choice; rather, it is safer to make hard timeouts large enough beyond reasonable doubt. Yes, it will slow down the fail-over and recovery slightly, but at least not cause them by mistake.
(For a rather excellent and exhaustive treatment of this subject matter, see K. Wolter, "Stochastic Models for Fault Tolerance: Restart, Rejuvenation and Checkpointing," Habilitation Thesis, Humboldt-University, 2007.)


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We've all had texting mishaps, you send the text to the wrong person, and as you watch that text being delivered you feel that sinking feeling in your stomach…..farrrrrrrrrk!
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Ahmed Kablan
For the past eight months, I have had the privilege of working on the committee to organize the 5th annual NIH Career Symposium. Serving on the planning committee was a valuable experience, both personally and professionally. Below are some of the key things that I learned by volunteering as a committee member.
The importance of teamwork and time management.
It is crucial to communicate clearly with your team to avoid duplication of effort. My time management skills have improved, resulting in increased productivity. By learning to prioritize the issues at hand and work with a team, my life seems more manageable.
To practice leadership skills at all times.
You don't have to be in a leadership position to build your leadership skills. Each one of us had the chance to take the lead on a certain issue and bring new ideas to the group.
To step out of my comfort zone.
Getting out of the lab, talking to other fellows, and doing a different kind of work helped me to discover skills I didn't know I had. I learned that I could communicate my complex science in simple language. I also saw how skills that I had learned in the lab were applicable in other settings. These included planning a project, explaining it to the other key players, justifying the resources needed to complete the project, and communicating effectively with people of broad educational backgrounds.
How to build a network and witness why it is important.
You have heard it a million times, but networking is an important skill to develop. What is not always apparent is how easy it can be. Attending the Career Symposium social events was a great way to connect with the speakers and other attendees. The atmosphere was relaxed and everyone was there to network. I was able to see how we as a committee had used our network to make this event happen. The success of the Symposium relied on the ability of committee members and staff to identify potential speakers and invite them to come. Our networking skills helped us to put together dynamic and valuable panels.
The value of using social media effectively.
I have used LinkedIn more in the past few months than I did in the first six years after I signed up for it. I used it to advertise and start discussions around the information presented at the Career Symposium.
Giving back is highly rewarding.
Working on the committee to organize the NIH Career Symposium was also personally fulfilling. I have benefitted firsthand from a previous symposium, so by participating in this committee I hoped to help others find similar career guidance.
This post is based on content that was originally published on the OITE Career Blog, which is produced by the Office of Intramural Training and Education at the National Institutes of Health. It is reproduced with the kind permission of the author and the OITE Career Blog team. We hope that Ahmed's compelling reasons to serve on a committee will help convince our readers to join a volunteer committee at OSA or another scientific organization.
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A little 'Downton' in Binghamton
BINGHAMTON, NY – Fans of Downton Abbey are eagerly anticipating the U.S. premiere of Season 4 on Jan. 5, when the British television drama resumes with events unfolding in the early 1920s. A trip to the Binghamton University archives offers a glimpse of what may lie even further ahead for Highclere Castle, the real-life estate featured on the show.
Tilly Losch, a dancer and artist, married Lord Porchester, the sixth earl of Carnarvon and heir to Highclere, just before World War II. Her personal memorabilia is part of the Binghamton University Libraries' Special Collections.
Highclere, which is still home to the Carnarvon family, stands in for the fictional Downton Abbey on TV. Beth Kilmarx, curator of rare books at Binghamton, recently made a connection between Losch's papers and the show. She and a colleague were speculating on whether the collection contained some hidden treasures when she stumbled upon a letter addressed to Lady Carnarvon at Highclere Castle.
There are many parallels between reality at Highclere and the events that have unfolded on screen. The castle served as a hospital during World War I, for example, and a member of the household staff was diagnosed with a serious illness that attracted the attention of the wealthy family for whom she worked. "I don't think she realises how serious a complaint it is," the head of staff wrote to Losch, who was traveling abroad. "She is having deep X-ray treatment at the hospital, and will have to go to London each week to continue it."
But the most significant parallel might be the romance between the head of the aristocratic family and a foreign beauty. At Downton, this is the Earl of Grantham and his American wife, Cora. At Highclere, this is Lord Porchester and Losch, who was born in Austria.
C.I. Stubbings, a sort of secretary/head of staff at Highclere (think of a female version of Downton's Carson), remarked on the earl's affection when she wrote to Losch in 1941. "It will be no news to tell you how much his Lordship is longing for your return," she wrote. " . . . He misses you terribly, and seems more lonely every day. . . . I don't know what will happen to him if you do not come soon!"
The marriage (the second for both) didn't survive their wartime separation, and Losch's letters to the Carnarvon Estates Company provide a view of her situation as a socialite in post-war America. At one point in 1947, she sent a four-page list of her wardrobe to Highclere with a request that items be shipped to her. The list includes five evening dresses, 11 pairs of gloves and "all French high heel shoes."
Losch and the earl remained on friendly terms throughout their lives. After the divorce, he continued to write to her as "My beloved Tillykins."
Neither ever remarried.
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Binghamton University's Tilly Losch Collection spans the years 1907-1975 and includes correspondence, personal memorabilia, diaries, photographs and 300 of her paintings. Among the 18 linear feet of material in this collection are letters and telegrams from actress Joan Crawford, U.S. Sen. Jacob Javits, composer Cole Porter, journalist Walter Winchell and other celebrities of the day. Losch owed her start as a choreographer to Max Reinhardt, an Austrian theatrical producer and director. In her will, she donated her papers, photographs and paintings to the Max Reinhardt Archives at Binghamton, linking her legacy to that of her former mentor.


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How many entries were there last week times 4.50? Im just a old country boy but someone is doing alright if there is only two employees working.
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After subtracting a 3-4% credit card transaction fee that $4.50 gets much smaller. If everyone paid with a check it would be different. One would assume that the pros are all VIP accounts and pay by check, most individuals pay by credit card. I know the giant retailers get a much better deal than 3-4% due to volume but small retailers, professionals, etc. do not. When those entry fees hit $100 after subtracting the transaction fee there isn't much left.Originally Posted by Chad Baker;
Would out cost EE less if we had the option to pay with Paypal?
If you send the money on PayPal as a gift it is free but they probably couldn't get away with that just saying regards
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It might be beneficial to EE to set up to take Electronic Checks. Electronic checks have a lower processing fee some services below $0.25 a transaction. They process either instantly or at most 5 days so it will clear before start of trial/test. A huge number of EE's customers are repeat customers and their is no other way to enter events so they have a monopoly going. Electronic checks would also save money by reducing the number of paper checks they handle and process. Of course as an incentive you could reduce the entry fee for electronic checks to say $2.50 and still make more money on those transactions then the transactions using credit cards.
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The more options you add, the more moving parts you have, the more opportunities that you have for things to go wrong.
For ease of administration, it makes sense to limit the option. As a consumer of EE services, I would prefer to charge entry fees and delay payment, rather than pay by check
The higher the entry fee charged by the club, the less profit margin there is for EE.
Assume 3% credit card charge.
If $80 entry fee charged by club, $2.40 goes to credit card company.
If $100 entry fee charged by club (and I suspect we are not far from first $100 trial), $3.00 goes to credit card company.
That $4.50 is getting chewed up pretty quickly.
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As a consumer I would rather save $2 an entry and have enough after 35-40 entries to pay for one with the savings Credit card usage has more moving parts than an electronic check and their is more room for fraud which is why the have such a high cost to use for the merchant. Credit card use is a cash loan that the merchant (passed on to consumer) pays for. An electronic check is not a cash loan so there is no interest added into the use. Credit card companies also cahrge the card holder interest if they do not pay off their card every month.
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I'd rather pay a couple more bucks in entry fees and have the extra money go towards a a better display of entries. I'd like to see dog name, breed, owner, handler, breeder, etc, on a single line. I'd like the option to filter or sort entries by breed, age, etc.
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