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350 Litre Upgrade!
Ok, this is a little earlier than planned...mainly because my LFS messed up the delivery day and delivered the tank this Friday instead of next Friday! I had to rush home from work early to meet the driver. Eek. I didn't have anywhere to put the tank so it had to sit in a bit of the hall.
Jeez, it's a lot bigger in real life compared to on the website! Here's the cabinet...yet to be built.
So, I had a few jobs today. the first one was to go pick up a piece of plywood cut to fit the base of the cabinet. I didn't want the cabinet resting on the laminate flooring in case the feet of the cabinet warped it, or left marks. Our flat is rented so I want to be sure we don't damage the floor. I got the plywood and got them to cut it to a few cm larger than the cabinet. I'm not too fussed about the look of it.
With that job done (plywood carried home on the bus!) I had to get working on the current 120 litre tank and get it moved to the spare room as a temporary measure whilst the big tank is installed and "run in" for a while. I'll be using new ADA Amazonia substrate so it will leech a lot of ammonia in the first week or two.
Here's the old tank, background removed, ready for draining.
Once drained and de-planted the fish were caught (two net method) and housed temporarily in this tug-tub with a heater and bubbler. I normally put them in one of the orange water buckets I have but I bought this tub today for the purpose. It worked really well and I had no jumpers. The barbs always try to jump out of the bucket - I think they are far calmer in a black container so this worked really well. I didn't even bother covering it.
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." Carl Sagan
~ 350 Litre Tank Journal ~ ~ 30 Litre Tank Journal ~
Removing the substrate was really messy! I have it in another tub and plan to sell it as I think it has at least another year of goodness in it for anyone who wants to plant their tank up. ADA Malaya is slow release.
So here's the tank all cleaned up and ready to move.
And here it is all moved. The plants spent a few hours in a bowl of water in the bath, likewise the wood was held in the bath and showered every half an hour or so to keep the plants/moss wet. I've just dumped the plants in to float for now...they'll be ok for a few days like that I hope.
When I was returning the fish to the tank I was absolutely mortified to find that an oto was still in one of the nets I'd left on the side! I can't believe I missed it. I thought it was dried up and dead for sure, having been out of water for TWO HOURS but when I plopped it back in the bucket it began to wriggle and very quickly appeared to make a full recovery. I was amazed. AMAZED!
I did a proper head count whilst returning the fish to the tank:
28 cherry barbs
7 peppered corydoras
5 sterbai corydoras
9 otos (including miraculous survivor)
Back to the empty space, here's the plywood in place for the stand.
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." Carl Sagan
~ 350 Litre Tank Journal ~ ~ 30 Litre Tank Journal ~
Cabinet built!
Dragged this in...required my other half's assistance for lifting this thing onto the cabinet...nearly put his back out
And here it is...looking bloody huge!
I was a bit scared I'd made a mistake buying this thing at this point as I realised that I need a step ladder to access it. The top of the tank is eye-level!"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." Carl Sagan
~ 350 Litre Tank Journal ~ ~ 30 Litre Tank Journal ~
First water test...this is at 120 litres (the capacity of the old one!) I don't think I'll be able to do 40% water changes quite as frequently as I used to. I might have to cut back to 20% and stock this one a bit lighter. This thing takes nearly 30 buckets to fill!
...and that's where I've gotten up to so far. I'm shattered now. Should sleep well tonight though.
I'll be draining it tomorrow if all looks sound and starting the scaping with some rockwork and the substrate. I've realised I need a new syphon as the one I have is too short! Whoops."Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." Carl Sagan
~ 350 Litre Tank Journal ~ ~ 30 Litre Tank Journal ~
That looks really cool so far. You will not regret having a bigger tank.
If your new substrate is the same stuff as the old could you use the old with some new? Then you could sell the new in bag stuff for lots more money. And can you get a python or an aqueon water changer to make the water changes easier?
We still use a standard syphon when draining the big tanks because it gets better suction but it is nice not carrying buckets to fill too.
Oh and that tank looks super clean for just having the substrate come out of it.
No I won't be reusing the old substrate as it is a different colour. I could have bulked out the bottom with it, but for the sake of one more bag I didn't - mainly because I didn't know how degraded it might have been until I removed it. Over time it can turn to silt.
Here's the tank, full, with filter going, heater in, lights on. I think the lights are pretty decent. Certainly an improvement on my old bulbs. I suppose that's a good job with the depth of this thing.
The internal filter box (heater is in here too). I was in two minds whether or not to keep this or cut it out. I thought I'd try it out for a while and see how it goes - it'll be an addition to the Eheim Pro 3 anyway.
NOW, I'm going to bed. If I wake up with water lapping at my feet, I'm in a lot of trouble!"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." Carl Sagan
~ 350 Litre Tank Journal ~ ~ 30 Litre Tank Journal ~
Looking good.If you take your time to do the research FIRST, you can successfully set-up and keep ANY type of aquarium with ease.
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Awesome! Can't wait to follow this thread Firefly. I have a Juwel Rio 240 (has the same footprint as yours but shorter) and a 400 -- they are such nice looking tanks! (mine are Beech not black tho).
I did away with the filter box in both of my tanks and run 2 canisters on each. They took up too much room.
Not done a huge amount today, mostly I've been tidying up and cutting up all the cardboard from the boxes for recycling!
I drained the tank the lazy way. Airline out the window and directly into the drain (seven hours later it was half empty...so I finished the rest with the syphon (also out the window!)
Dried, I added the substrate.
I'm going to be moving the wood in from the other tank but I can't do this until I decide to fill the tank because there's lots of anubias and moss attached to it. I'll have to put that in last.
I'm not sure yet, what to do with the rest of the space. I've been thinking about using some of my best pieces of slate to hold back some of the soil (as my cories will be all over it and have it flattened level in no time) in a kind of terrace. I'm not sure how effective this will be though. These are the pieces of rockwork I have set aside.
They're sat on cardboard that matches the footprint of the tank. Any thoughts? I suppose I could put the rockwork under and around the base of the wood and get a second piece of wood for the lefthand side.
Shall I get another piece of wood? I'm very undecided but I do think the tank will need some height inside it once it's refilled."Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." Carl Sagan
~ 350 Litre Tank Journal ~ ~ 30 Litre Tank Journal ~


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I am continuing my thread series.
This will discuss ONLY the vehicle in the title of the thread (in this case Ody Mandrell's Podracer vehicle from The Phantom Menace).
I will cover several unmade vehicles for the action figures per week, choosing them from a rotating schedule through the movies and the Expanded Universe.
I'll order it TPM, AOTC, ROTS, ANH, ESB, ROTJ, EU, and then keep going back through the order in that manner.
So here I'm only asking you if you'd buy Ody Mandrell's Podracer vehicle from The Phantom Menace?
I envision this vehicle for the $24 price range. At least it should be if it didn't turn out to be an exclusive.
The more obscure podracer vehicles for background characters could have been 2009 exclusives for the 10th Anniversary of TPM, but that window of opportunity is over.
However, I'm going to handle polling for the Podracers based on criteria that takes into account action figures Hasbro has already made, possible action features the pod could utilize, and how cool it looks (as some were better designs than others). I will later poll on re-releases / upgrades to Anakin's and Sebulba's pods, but for the less-involved racer characters, let's just assume we're going to get these TPM vehicles or upgrades to them again, then vote whether you'd want to flesh out your race contestants with these other ones.
Ody's podracer's best feature could be that it fires a pitdroid out the back of it, to simulate Ody's race-ending disaster during his pitstop after the first lap.
The only other thing it might do is have the flaps be moveable by remote buttons similar to the way Anakin's works.
The best reason to own this pod would be to recreate a racing diorama.
An Ody figure should be included with his racer, most likely - as well as some pit droids.
Do you want it made?
What other features would you want on it?
Why would you NOT want it?
How do you think it would sell if produced?
Podracing could be again featured in The Clone Wars and I think Ody is still alive then to compete again. I'm not sure if he didn't retire after 10 years from TPM though - or he might have been killed during that interim.
Who knows?
But please post your thoughts and vote on it.
The Phantom Menace has already gotten the following poll results:
NO - Gungan Bongo Submarine
YES - Trade Federation MTT
YES - Republic Cruiser Radiant VII
YES - Naboo Gian Landspeeder
YES - Trade Federation Battle Droid Carrying Skiff
NO - bigger Sith Infiltrator
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Pinnacles, Gabilan Range > North Chalone Peak > Climber's Log
North Chalone Peak Climber's Log
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|Condor Roost
Date Climbed: May 30, 2009
|Have climbed this one many times, usually by the standard route from Bear Gulch. Be sure to do the High Peaks trail while you are in the area. That's where the best scenery is in this park.
|Posted Sep 2, 2009 8:32 pm
Date Climbed: Dec 31, 2008
|Annual new years trip to Pinnacles.
Continued on to South Chalone
|Posted Jan 13, 2009 4:02 pm
|Summited in Fog
Date Climbed: Mar 30, 2008
|My plan was to do North and South Chalone, but the weather didn't cooperate. Anticipating the weather report of 70 and sunny, I wasn't quite prepared for 45 and windy with light mist at times. Views weren't too bad, but I expect on a clear day they are spectacular. Bailed on South Chalone this time, maybe I'll try again when its warmer. Decent workout, 3 hours up and down including time at the top and taking a ton of pictures on the way down.
|Posted Mar 30, 2008 9:30 pm
|Up and Down
Date Climbed: Mar 2, 2008
|Up and down through the bear gulch cave. Windy day, so all the smog and haze were blown away; good views. Passed on S Chalone this time.
|Posted Mar 2, 2008 11:31 pm
|vancouver islander
|Up, down and along
Date Climbed: May 2, 2007
|Up via the Rim Trail from the east side (Bear Gulch) in 1h 40m. Snooze/lunch on top. Down to the High Peaks junction, up, along the High Peaks Trail and down Condor Gulch to the car.
Good workout, excellent views and perfect (not too hot) weather. Just under 6 hours car to car.
My 6th or 7th visit to the Pinnacles. Enjoy it more every time.
|Posted May 9, 2007 8:42 pm
|Eastside, The Trail
Date Climbed: Feb 22, 2006
|its hard to believe this place started in Santa Barbara.
|Posted Jan 31, 2007 10:40 pm
Date Climbed: Mar 25, 2005
|Went up.
|Posted May 14, 2006 9:55 pm
|Fredd C Dobbs
|Route Climbed: Chalone Peak Trail
Date Climbed: Apr 6, 2006
|Finally, a day without rain! Took advantage of the break in the weather to climb North Chalone Peak. Despite the recent heavy rains the trail was in great condition with no mud. There was a small portion of the trail which was flooded at the resevoir, but it was easily by passed. Nice time of year for this hike- everything is green!
|Posted Apr 7, 2006 3:54 am
|Nice day in the Pinnacles
Date Climbed: Apr 2, 2006
|A nice hike we did from Pinnacles, did some bouldering and scrambling on the way up. Great views from the summit.
|Posted Apr 2, 2006 11:52 pm
|From Bear Gulch
Date Climbed: Mar 18, 2006
|Nice hike, well graded. Leave all the people at the Reservoir behind and go to North Chalone! We met a guy in the Bear Gulch parking lot who was going on a 30 mile trail run: up and over High Peaks, down to the West side, north wilderness trail, back to Bear Gulch, then out to North Chalone (which he called the "gut check" part) then back down with another loop through the High Peaks(?)! Anyways, he said he loves running there. It's humbling to meet people like that.
|Posted Mar 21, 2006 2:45 pm
|Route Climbed: Chaparral Date Climbed: 6/16/05
|Decided I didn't want to drive all the way around to Bear Gulch and needed to get in a good hike, so I started from Chaparral on the West side. Started kinda late, 11:20am, and it was a little warm being June but some cloud cover helped about half way up to the summit. This is probably the toughest route as you have to climb over 1000 ft to reach the High Peaks Trail, then descend almost 900 ft back down to Bear Gulch Reservoir before climbing about 1750 ft to the summit. It really gets tough having to climb again after the inital 1750 descent to Bear Gulch Reservoir on the way back.
|Posted Aug 16, 2005 2:21 pm
|Matthew Holliman
|Route Climbed: There's a choice? Date Climbed: Jan 30, 2005
|Pleasant morning hike through Bear Gulch Caves up to the peak, and back through the High Peaks.
|Posted Feb 9, 2005 12:57 am
|Route Climbed: North Chalone Trail Date Climbed: 1994
|Climbed this peak several times when I was younger, climbed with the family during summer trips to the pinnacles
|Posted Jul 23, 2004 3:53 am
|Route Climbed: North Chalone Peak Trail Date Climbed: July 11th, 2004
|Ok, not the most intelligent thing to do. I started out at the Bear Gulch parking lot at 11 am in the middle of July. I finished at 5 pm. Yes, right in the middle of the heat and it was very hot! Luckly, I packed 7 liters of water and drank ~5! The trail is well marked and well maintained. There is no shade on the route whatsoever. I was able to make it to the peak in 1:45 min (~4.5 miles). I decided to try my luck and summit South Chalone as well. See my summit log there for details. Overall, the views were nice, but I would recommend this hike in the late fall or early spring. The air quality will be better and you won't experience the sizzling of your brain tissue.
|Posted Jul 12, 2004 5:55 pm
|Route Climbed: The trail :) Date Climbed: 19 March, 2004
|Lovely hike on an exceptionally clear day. Exuberant wildflowers and a (possible) condor sighting made the hike even better. Bring plenty of water if it's hot (which it was)! Hike report and pics are here
|Posted Jun 21, 2004 3:30 am
|Route Climbed: Regular Date Climbed: January 17, 2004
|Very easy hike from the Eastern park entrance (Ranger Station). We only had a couple of hours to kill before the park closure and decided to check this hike out. Views from the top were nice on this very clear and warm winter day. What a great introduction to this wonderful park! (this was our first time there)
|Posted Jan 19, 2004 7:43 pm
|Route Climbed: Chalone Peak Trail Date Climbed: 03-Jan-2004
|Cold morning scramble from the reservior. Very clear day. Continued on to South Chalone Peak, though I'm not sure this bit was worth the extra effort.
Pics: here
|Posted Jan 15, 2004 1:29 am
|Route Climbed: Direct route from Bear Gulch Visitor Center Date Climbed: January 10, 2004
|See my Trip Report for more details.
|Posted Jan 11, 2004 11:30 pm
|Route Climbed: Chalone Peak Trail Date Climbed: 12 October 2003
|Followed the butterfly plan from Bear Gulch Visitor Center via the Moses Spring Trail to the Reservoir and then down the Chalone Peak Trail. Lookout tower looked in good repair this time and was some good shade for lunch. After lunch, off to South Chalone...
|Posted Oct 12, 2003 11:46 pm
|Route Climbed: Direct from Bear Gulch Trail Head. Date Climbed: Dec. 22, 2002
|After a week of storms and only one outing since the start of the school year, I had to get out. Decided to head to Pinnacles instead of the Sierras to avoid the crowds. What a good choice. Temp. in the upper 40s - lower 50s and only a few clouds in the sky by the time I reached the summit. Didn't see a soul except for the ranger at the entrance kiosk until I arrived back at the reservoir. The trail is very pleasant with ever changing views from the High Peaks of the Pinnacles to the north, San Benito Mountains to the west, to the Salinas Valley and Coast Range to the west. A great day!!!
|Posted Dec 22, 2002 9:19 pm


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On a recent speaking trip to Dallas, I had a free afternoon.
I spent that time going back in history by driving to Ft. Worth and taking a trip down memory lane. My first stop was at an old house on Hemphill Street and then to a small one-story commercial building down the street.
It was at that old house, in 1972, that my then wife and I adopted our daughter, Reena from the Edna Gladney Home. We then came back in 1975 to adopt Adam. The old house was where the main Gladney office was and the one-story building was the small hospital where, in the past, the babies were born.
After reminiscing about those amazing moments so many years ago, I drove about 10 miles across Ft. Worth to the much-larger and very modern present-day Gladney facility. It is now called The Gladney Center for Adoption and is right across the street from a large hospital.
Gladney has been in existence for over 120 years. It was a tenacious woman named Edna Gladney who served as Superintendent of the then Texas Children's Home and Aid Society for 33 years. In 1936 she was instrumental in getting the Texas legislature to remove the word "illegitimate" from birth records.
A movie was made in 1941 about Edna Gladney and The Home. It was called "Blossoms in the Dust" and starred Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon. To give you an idea of the scope of the modern-day Gladney story, they were adopting out about 300 babies a year in the early 1970′s.
Thus, as I mentioned, we adopted Reena when she was a week old from Gladney in 1972. Then, in 1975, we came back to adopt Adam.
Now we get to the main point of this message.
The kind folks at Gladney did something so special on that July day in 1975 that I believe can be an important lesson in making people feel important. And isn't that the core of all great relationships.
My wife and I were brought into a beautifully-decorated room that was called "The Delivery Room". A nurse then took Reena and the two of them went to that little hospital a couple blocks away to go get Adam.
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do you know a tutorial that explains how to setup (serial?) communication between an Attiny2313a and an Atmega328p (as master) ? Or a library/code?
You could use my ICSC (Inter-Chip Serial Communication) library that I'm working on:https://sourceforge.net/projects/arduino-icsc/
#include <MIDI.h>PROGMEM byte buttonNumber[8] = {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8};boolean currentButtonState;void setup() { MIDI.begin(); for (byte a = 0; a<1; a++) { pinMode(buttonNumber[a], INPUT); digitalWrite(buttonNumber[a], HIGH); }}void loop() { for (byte i = 0; i<1; i++) { currentButtonState = digitalRead(buttonNumber[i]); if (currentButtonState == LOW) { MIDI.sendProgramChange(buttonNumber[i], 10); delay(250); } }}
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Iranian Atomic Urgency
• Erdogan to mullahs: NATO radar installations in Turkey could be dismantled.
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• Syrian army deserters who fled to Iraq talked to McClatchy News about their units killing unarmed civilian protesters.
The testimonies of the former soldiers, however, are the first accounts from individuals who were serving in military units that allegedly carried out the atrocities . . . .
Yet a day later there was another demonstration of 400 to 500 men, women and children, and as the crowd chanted "Allahu Akhbar" — God is great — his commander ordered the unit to "Shut them up." First they fired small arms over the crowd. "But they didn't stop," Kawa recalled. The commander was angry. "He said, 'Shell in their midst,' with a rocket-propelled grenade. I saw with my binoculars that people were killed," Kawa said.
• Worth reading: The Stalled Revolution: Ten days with Syria's besieged protesters.
Rest O' the Roundup
• Israel jails more reporters per capita than any other country, except for Eritrea, claims a Columbia Journalism Review blogger. Problem is, the stat is skewed when you realize per capita what. By the way, the PA arrested another Palestinian journo over a Facebook post. According to the JPost:
Agents belonging to the PA's Preventive Security Service in Ramallah arrested Tarek Khamis, who works for the Palestinian Zaman Press news agency, for criticizing the PA's current clampdown on Palestinian journalists in the West Bank . . .
The spiraling PA press freedom also made AP's radar. It also made Jodi Rudoren's. The incoming NY Times Jerusalem bureau chief posted this ill-advised tweet:
• The Daily Telegraph's Damian Thompson notes that a letter written by Dr. Franklin Lamb and a passage from Fisk's book "Pity the Nation" contain verbatim descriptions of the gruesome 1982 Phalangist massacre at the Sabra and Shatilla refugee camps.
I asked Fisk how he could account for the mysterious similarity between the two passages. He said he had never read those words by Janet Lee Stevens, and added: "If this woman wrote words similar to mine how can I have seen her work?"
Lamb has yet to reply to Thompson.
• Feel-Good Article of the Day: Kiryat Shemona's football team took the Israel Premier League Championship. After reading CNN, I'm saying Bring on Barcelona . . .
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"It's a tiny place right on the frontier of one of the Middle East's most enduring conflicts, not to mention the very edge of European football," he added.
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A Sixth Sense
Student Exploration
What if you could determine your direction by detecting the Earth's magnetic field with your eyes?
Certain birds use light-sensitive magnetosensors to migrate and current studies show that we may have the ability to develop this skill as well: http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/magsense/
Are we developing our sixth sense?
Extension Investigation
- Birds, bats, and turtles have been known to detect the Earth's magnetic field to orient themselves much as we use a compass. Look up the magnetic declination of where you live: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/geomagmodels/Declination.jsp Why do you think that the magnetic declination of where you live is different from someone that lives further north or further south?
- Using NOAA's site as a reference (http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/geomag/faqgeom.shtml), does the magnetic pole shift over time? Draw (by hand or digitially) a story that shows how this is recorded on the ocean floor.
- For fun: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2008/08/25/google-earth-shows-that-cow-and-deer-herds-align-like-compass-needles/
Resources Cited
Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group. University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign. http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/magsense/
NOAA. http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/geomagmodels/Declination.jsp
Discover Magazine. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2008/08/25/google-earth-shows-that-cow-and-deer-herds-align-like-compass-needles/
Jeanna Bryner. Live Science. http://www.livescience.com/14694-humans-sixth-sense-magnetic-fields.html


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PHOTOS: Miley Cyrus & Meek Mill Hit The Studio Together
When she's not hanging out with Pharrell Williams and Tyler, the Creator, or flirting with 2 Chainz, Meek Mill, Rick Ross, or YMCMB's Mack Maine on Twitter, Miley's kicking it with hip-hop's most notable female rapper, Lil Kim.
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I mean I believe it was Madalyn Murray O'Hair is the only person I know of that I think died from lack of stupid beliefs.
from or free from ?
I live in the Tampa Bay area, and I'm a little too close to the Bible Belt to have a red A on my car to not have it be used against me in job promotions and overall discrimination. I see what religion is doing to this world, though, and then I think about how other minorities had to go through the same nonsense from bigots throughout history. It's a hard decision to make. Fully coming out at my job is a particularly hard decision considering the 60 hour weeks I've worked to get where I am. Black people couldn't hide that they were black, and women couldn't hide that they were women, but one's religious beliefs are a little easier to sweep under the rug just to fit in. I think a lot of atheists aren't as militant as Dawkins and don't see the same problems with religions that make them worth attacking, and that will hurt us from finding that "critical mass" that gay people have already found: a radical switch from a scary and shadowy unknown minority to an almost elite group of members who have a lot to share with society.
Growing up in Catholic school, I heard stories about how the early Christians would draw half a fish, and the other person would finish it to say that yes, they were a Christian. I think Atheists need something similar. :-)
I don't wear my atheism on my sleeve but I'm ready to proclaim my stance should the need arise, Like when Jehovah's Witnesses come to my door. :-)
I'm "out of the closet." I'm a very outspoken atheist, more of a militant atheist, really. I lived a lot of my life in the Bible belt and my atheism was infamous.
I came out of the closet by changing my religion on MySpace. My mum noticed, went and changed it back to Catholic. I noticed and changed it to Atheist again. This went on for quite sometime until I eventually had to sit down and talk to my mum about my beliefs, or lack thereof. She isn't happy with my decision but she recognizes my decision.
If you come out of the closet, you lead a happier life. There's no reason to live a lie and you'll find that there are actually a lot of other atheists out there that are just scared to come out because they don't have anyone. Be that person for someone.
Very recently (in the past few months) I have fully "come out" as an atheist. Prior, I was always afraid of what the response might be (particularly from my family). However, I am now in a position where I am not dependent on anyone but myself for support, so I finally felt comfortable with being honest about my atheism. There were some serious repercussions (most of family will not talk to me, currently), but for me personally, it was an enormous relief.
Don't know if it's in the closet, but I don't advertise it. If someone asks I will tell them if it is pertinent to the discussion that we are having. I will say that most of the time, people don't believe me. They will tell me they know I believe in God (always the xtian god) since I seem to know the scriptures better than they do, and I just don't know what church to go to. It never comes up, but I also know some of the Koran, the Rig Vedas (Hindu), Avesta (Zorasterian, but a complete version has not survived) etc. I think since religion is an invention of mankind, reading about them can shed a light on our common humanity, as I percieve religion as a failed science. They will not believe me. I'm totally dumbfounded by this. I say what I mean, they believe other things I say, why not this? Sorry, got a little off topic, just venting some of my frustration. Peace and long life.
Let's see. My girlfriend knows. She's an atheist as well (or she has told me so). People who have me on their friends list on FB know. (I was actually surprised to see that I didnt end up friendless..LOL) I don't know if my physical family has any idea ( one aunt is on my FB but never see her check it). I have one brother whom I am estranged from and that doesnt matter. My parents are dead. I dont walk around wearing a sign at work but if someone asked me point blank I would tell them I don't believe in God or The Bible,etc.
I tend to keep it to myself.I will tell some people if I think I can trust them but that isn't very often.I like this site alot because I can be honest and others agree with me too.
Open - But I live in Canada and no one gives a shit.
Be careful, Canadians are just more polite and won't come out and say what they think. :)
You'd be surprised how much people really do care... it's what I've come to realise.
On second thought maybe its me that doesn't give a shit :)
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André MASSON
André Masson (b Balagny, Oise, France, 4 January 1896 – d Paris, 28 October 1987) studied painting at the Académie des Beaux-Arts, Brussels before moving to Paris, in 1912, to study at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. During the First World War he was seriously wounded, an experience which left an indelible mark on his psyche and art. Hence, by 1922 he had begun an association with the Surrealist group.
Masson's first ballet commission was for the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo's production of Les Présages (1933), followed by set designs for Armand Salacrou's play La Terre est ronde (The earth is round) (1938). After the Second World War, Masson returned to theatre work, producing set and costume designs for Hamlet and Jean-Paul Sartre's play Morts sans sépulture (The victors) (1946).
In 1958 he appeared as a cameo role in the film André Masson et les quatres eléments (André Masson and the four elements), while also completing designs for Jean-Louis Barrault's production of Tête d'or (Head of gold). In 1965 he again returned to the theatre, this time producing designs for the ceiling of the Théâtre de l'Odéon in Paris. During the 1970s Masson continued to produce theatre designs and his work also appeared in several films, one of which, A la source, la femme aimée (At the source, the beloved) (1966–67) about his erotic drawings, was censored.
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André Masson in Aix-en-Provence, during preparations of Iphigenia in Tauris 1953 Atelier Robert Doisneau, Paris


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Student Exploration
Something Fishy
Molecular biological techniques are impacting our lives in many ways. One of these ways is in monitoring our food supply to see if people are being honest about the food they provide. Look here to find out more about the issues involved
This problem, which may seem minor to some, can have profound effects on people and ecosystem management.
Go here to can find out more here about the prevalence of mislabeling in different areas of the United States, as well as health and ecosystem concerns.
Washington State http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=141603845
Southern California http://oceana.org/en/news-media/publications/reports/widespread-seafood-fraud-found-in-los-angeles
South Florida http://oceana.org/en/news-media/publications/reports/persistent-seafood-fraud-found-in-south-florida
Extension Investigation
Use the below resources to answer the following questions
- How could genetic testing of seafood help manage our food supply?
- How can mislabeling of seafood affect people's health?'
- How does mislabeling of seafood complicate ecosystem management?
- While the numbers differ what pattern is consistent in Southern California, South Florida and Washington as far as where the most mislabeled fish are found?
Resources Cited
- Boston Globe Youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvA3m_hZOX4
- http://oceana.org/en/news-media/publications/reports/widespread-seafood-fraud-found-in-los-angeles
- http://oceana.org/sites/default/files/reports/LA_Seafood_Testing_Report_FINAL.pdf
- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=141603845
- http://oceana.org/en/news-media/publications/reports/persistent-seafood-fraud-found-in-south-florida
- http://oceana.org/sites/default/files/reports/South_FL_Seafood_Testing_Report_FINAL.pdf


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Mr Charles (Charlie) Walker is the new CEO of Alchemia
Singapore: Brisbane-based pharma firm Alchemia has appointed Mr Charles (Charlie) Walker as its chief executive officer. Mr Walker, who holds a BSc (Hons) in Pharmacology and an MBA, has accepted the position effective immediately. Mr Walker was Alchemia's chief financial officer for the last two years and has over 20 years' of international life science industry experience. Furthermore, the present chairman of the firm, Dr Mel Bridges, will resume his role as non executive chairman.
Mr Walker, who originally trained as a pharmacologist in the UK before embarking on a career in the pharmaceutical industry, has spent more than a decade in corporate finance advising international technology companies, executing more than 40 successful corporate transactions including initial public offers (IPOs), merger and acquisitions (M&A) agreements and fund raisings. He also co-founded a successful life sciences investment banking firm in the UK, which was sold to Nomura International in 2005 realizing significant returns for investors.
Dr Bridges said that, "The board is delighted to have secured the services of a talented and experienced life sciences executive to lead the company through what promises to be a critical development period. Charlie's financial, technical and operational background and proven leadership skills will support the delivery of key milestones, while maintaining a sharp focus on delivering shareholder value."
Mr Walker commented, "Alchemia is a fast growing, late stage drug development company with a bright, international future. The next 12 months will be transformative both in terms of clinical and corporate development and I am looking forward to building on the strong foundations already established, and continuing to work to unlock value for shareholders."
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#include <LiquidCrystal.h>// Connections:// rs (LCD pin 4) to Arduino pin 12// rw (LCD pin 5) to Arduino pin 11// enable (LCD pin 6) to Arduino pin 10// LCD pin 15 to Arduino pin 13// LCD pins d4, d5, d6, d7 to Arduino pins 5, 4, 3, 2LiquidCrystal lcd(12, 11, 10, 5, 4, 3, 2);#define CONTRAST_PIN 9int backLight = 13; // pin 13 will control the backlight#define CONTRAST 125void setup(){ pinMode(backLight, OUTPUT); digitalWrite(backLight, HIGH); // turn backlight on. Replace 'HIGH' with 'LOW' to turn it off. analogWrite (CONTRAST_PIN, CONTRAST); delay(1000); lcd.begin(16,1); // columns, rows. use 16,2 for a 16x2 LCD, etc. lcd.clear(); // start with a blank screen lcd.setCursor(0,0); // set cursor to column 0, row 0 (the first row) lcd.print("Test"); // change this text to whatever you like. keep it clean. lcd.setCursor(0,1); // set cursor to column 0, row 1 lcd.print("hacktronics.com"); }void loop(){ }
Thanks! I'll have a look and change around the wires.
I know quite a few people have had the same problem ...
... but I haven't found a solution yet.
Whenever I upload a sketch to my LCD the result is always just black boxes.
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This fun and fascinating educational facility offers behavioral demonstrations, activities and tours daily from 9:00am to 4:30pm. Visitors will receive up-close interactions with Atlantic bottlenose dolphins and California sea lions– an extraordinary experience for adults and children alike. Military personnel will be asked to show their military identification cards or other proof of military service when they arrive at the facility to receive free admission.
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My favorite Sunday rut
People tell me I'm in a rut. Actually, a series of ruts. At most of the places where I eat lunch, they can place my order when I come in the door.
But I think there's something to be said for ruts. The reason they are ruts is because I'm usually doing something I enjoy or eating something I like.
Knowing my fondness for eating, you probably know where this is headed.
Anyhow, one of my favorite ruts is getting up and making a big breakfast for Jenny and Joe on Sunday.
Most times the menu is the same: tomato and orange juice, eggs, bacon, toast and milk. What makes the eggs special is scrambling them with lots of Philadelphia cream cheese and a few chopped chives.
I've been making the same Sunday breakfast for more than 40 years, so I guess that definitely qualifies as a rut. Well, not quite the same breakfast. Until a few years ago, I would have thrown in a skillet full of nice greasy hash browns, too. As I've gotten older, I've cut down – a little.
Every couple of months, I make my "special" breakfast — Belgian waffles and fried sausage patties. We really like waffles at our house, but we tend to eat too many and then wonder why we're in a malaise the rest of the day.
It's "special" because I only like one kind of Belgian waffle mix (another rut?) and we haven't been able to find it around here. We usually buy several boxes when we visit Jenny's parents in northern Kentucky.
But I've gotten off topic. Last Sunday morning, I was ready to make my usual big family breakfast when Jenny suggested that we have pancakes instead.
OK, I thought, getting out the electric griddle and a box of pancake mix. Just add water and mix.
What could be easier?
I put in the amount of water listed on the box and mixed. The batter was really thick. I added more water and mixed again. The batter seemed too thin. More mix.
By the time I got it right, I had a lot of pancake batter.
Finally, I got the pancakes on the griddle. The batter didn't seem to rise much and the finished pancakes were about the thickness of a tortilla.
I checked the expiration date on the pancake mix box.
"Uh, oh. It says use by September 2011," I said.
"It'll be fine," Jenny said.
"Did you know you bought sugar-free syrup?" Joe asked, holding up the bottle of Log Cabin.
"It probably tastes the same," Jenny said, as she looked for another bottle.
Joe poured the thin liquid on his pancakes. It resembled the consistency and color of New Albany water on a bad day.
"It doesn't," Joe said.
We all managed to eat a pancake or two – with lots of bacon.
"You don't want me to save all these leftovers, do you?" Jenny asked.
It must have been a rhetorical question.
Next Sunday we'll be having eggs with lots of Philadelphia cream cheese.
There's something to be said for ruts.
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The Commerce Department said on Friday its first estimate put fourth-quarter gross domestic product growth at its fastest pace since the third quarter of 2003. The economy expanded at a 2.2 percent annual rate in the third quarter.
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To the Editors:
I read with interest Brian Hayes's thoughtful column, "Leave the Driving to It" (September–October), in which he examines some of the possible concomitants of the push to develop driverless cars. What Hayes does not mention are the potential effects of this and other such technological "advances" on our independence, competence and originality as individual human beings.
It has been said that our children are increasingly being "raised by machines." And a colleague worries that he sees in our current students a "profound disconnection with the natural world." As I consider the burgeoning entertainment and social-networking industries, I interpret those remarks in a larger sense: More and more of our daily experience is secondhand—gathered, edited and placed by someone else. With such increasingly artificial and thus constrained experience, who will see the surprising new thing, either indoors or out, that may refresh the thinking of his or her generation? How will we develop the perceptiveness, skills and responsibility to enrich our understanding and appreciation of the complex world, natural and social, that we have inherited?
I'm ignoring the more practical issues, some of which Mr. Hayes does mention: energy and resource availability, the loss of a profession (drivers) at a time of frightening unemployment, and even the loss of social interaction on public transportation. But I do ask: Can we think this through more fully?
Helen GhiradellaUniversity at Albany, State University of New York
To the Editors:
Brian Hayes left out one important contribution that computer-driven cars may help us achieve: making the electric car practical. A computer-guided car would be able to engage an electrified rail or wire on limited-access roads that have such infrastructure. This improvement would make limited battery range inconsequential, because the battery would only be needed for local streets.
I also predict that the first autonomous or semiautonomous vehicles will be agricultural equipment. Tractors and other such vehicles are slow moving and expensive. The slow speeds ease the control problem, and the high cost allows for a more expensive solution. The strength of the agricultural-equipment manufacturers in farm states will also help ease the political and legal barriers to autonomous vehicles. Sometime in the near future, farmers will direct three or more tractors from a base station, attending to the tractors when the machines need executive assistance.
David ErrickTenafly, NJ
Mr. Hayes responds:
As Helen Ghiradella points out, the social consequences of technological change are difficult to predict, and they often overtake us before we realize what's coming. My main motive for writing about the prospect of self-driving vehicles was to provoke questions such as those that Ghiradella raises. Here's another: If we become thoroughly accustomed to cars that go where they're told without driver intervention, will we lose our own geographic sense of how to find our way?
David Errick mentions agricultural applications of autonomous vehicles. As it happens, tractors, combines and other farm vehicles steered by GPS signals have been a part of "precision agriculture" for several years.
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BALDWYN – Division 1-2A rivals Baldwyn and New Site played Friday with Prentiss County bragging rights on the line.
Behind the solid pitching of junior righthander Jorda Waters, the host Lady Bearcats exited the field in celebration after claiming a 9-1 victory in a six-inning, non-division county tournament quarterfinals game.
Baldwyn (13-4) plays Wheeler, a 4-0 winner against Jumpertown, at 1 p.m. today in the winner's bracket.
New Site (11-4) played Jumpertown in a late loser's bracket game Friday.
Waters, who didn't know she was working in the circle until game time, struck out five and scattered four hits, all singles, during her six innings.
"I was proud of her," Baldwyn coach Jessica Taylor said. "She throws hard and she hit her spots."
Taylor has used three pitchers, including Waters, this season. The other two are Savannah Alexander and Shelby Blackwell.
"They're all pretty much neck and neck," Taylor said of her trio's pitching talents. "It depends on who we're playing as to who I pitch."
Baldwyn's bats gave Waters all the offensive cushion she would need with a four-hit, four-run first inning.
MacKenzie Riley, who went 3-for-3, started the hit parade with a triple. Maggie Marti and Kali Nanney had RBI singles. Two runs scored on a fielding error.
Haley Sandlin's RBI single made it 5-0 lead in the second inning. Sandlin, Samantha Phillips and Waters later had RBIs.
Molly Walden and Shelby Stricklen singled in to score New Site's only run.


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Hello! I just got my Betta (and Two Otos) and I had a few questions for people who know a bit more than I do. Right Now Tardis (my Betta), and the two oto's are in a quarantine tank (5.5 gallons with some fake Bamboo on and off for 2 hours each because it gets waterlogged and sinks so I have to let it dry out). Anyways, I've had him for... well... less than 24 hours thus far so I know that some of his seemingly odd behavior is probably just shyness and nervousness, but I want to make sure there's nothing wrong with him so far since he (and my other 6 fish, the 4 cory cats and the 2 otos) are the first fish I've had since elementary school and the first non-goldfish fish I've had in my entire life (bit of a fudge there, my mom had a pleco when I was 7, but the goldfish it was with died and the algae stopped growing but we didn't add algae wafers or anything so...). Anyways...
1) He's jumped out (successfully) 3 times, and the makeshift lid I made (I can't find one that fits so I cut down a chunk of cardboard and weight it down with an encyclopedia so my cat won't knock it off) showed me that he tried to jump out at least once while I was at Tai Chi last night. Is he always going to be that eager to escape or will he calm down some once he realizes he's not food and is in fact, "king of the tank" and the living, focal point?
2) He kinda lists to the side whenever he's not swimming actively (both sides seem equal depending on where he faces, his head and back touch the glass and the rest of him just kinda goes away from it), at first I thought it was the current from the filter, but I changed filters because the current was too strong and was blasting him and the Oto's all over the tank so I changed it to a waterfall filter with a bubbler under it to divert some of the current; he still does it, is he sick or just... being a lazy boy?
3) He's swimming fairly low in the tank, I mean... it's not a big tank, there's no substrate or anything and I'm just glad he isn't trying to jump out, but the freaking bottom-feeder oto's regularly are swimming over his head! I mean, when he first came home he just stayed at the top and grabbed a mouthful of air every 20 minutes or so (I put in the bubbler cuz of that, I thought the water was lacking oxygen). Anyways, is it normal for them to practically swim on the bottom of a tank?
4) He keeps trying to run away from me when I walk over to the tank to check on him and the others (making sure nobody is looking sick, or fighting, or stuck, or jumped out of the tank, etc.) Is that just normal "I'm still getting used to here" stuff or is that something I should be worried about? (I check on the quarantine tank about every 15-20 minutes, and my regular tank about every hour, just in case something goes south.)
5) I'm not quite sure what to call him as far as finnage and coloration go. I can't get a good picture as the Q-Tank is lightless (to reduce stress and also cuz I couldn't find a hood) and my camera phone doesn't have flash. I THINK he's a crowntail as far as fins go, but I'm not certain. His fins are pink on the outer edges, purple-ish blue by the body, and his body progresses from a blue to a violet-pink sort of color. (He's absolutely gorgeous in the right kind of light). He looks kinda like this (note: not my picture) only with a bit more blue and less pink.
Thanks for all the answers, advice, and etc. in advance.
PS; When he's over the Quarantine (the 26th) he'll be in a 15 gallon column with 4 albino Cory Cats, and when the Oto's finish their extended quarantine they'll join the others. The Cory's will be moving out by Christmas though, the 15 gallon is well planted with 2 caves/hidey holes and I'm going to add some fake bamboo there too if I can get it to float for more than 2 hours before it gets too wet and sinks... you'd think an aquarium plant would not do that, but oh well.1 Tank 5.5 Gal. (QT) - empty
2 Tank 20 Gal. - 6 female betta, 8 glotetras, many plants, 1 Albino Bristlenose Pleco, 1 Clown pleco
3 & 4 Tanks 2.5 Gal - 1 male betta (dragonscale deltatail), 1 MTsnail
swimming low and swimming away when you approach are normal. think of it. any small fish in the wild that swims carelessly in the open and does not flee when a large, ominous creature approaches will not pass on its
genes. as soon as the betta realizes that there are no predators lurking in its new home and associates you with food and not harm that evasive behavior should stop.
however, listing and jumping(especially repeatedly) are signs that something is wrong outside of just stress of being in a new tank.
what are your water parameters? temperature? did you dechlorinate the new water? did you add mature filter media to the quarantine tank? did you acclimate and how? anything else worth mentioning?
The PH is a bit low (somewhere around 6 I think... I'm not very good at reading the strips or the tubes when I use a liquid test), the water is dechlorinated. I use API Quick Start and Stress Coat. The filter in the tank is the one that ran in my other tank before I put the fish in. Temperature is roughly 80 I think, but I could turn it down a bit easily enough. I acclimated all of my fish the same way, they floated for 10 minutes undisturbed (after the bags were opened), then every 5 minutes I poured a quarter of a cup of tank water into the bags over the next hour. The day I got them WAS very hot, and I got them near noon (the store I purchase from doesn't open until 10 so I didn't have a lot of choice). My car was reading in the upper 80's or lower 90's, had been sitting in the sun for a bit and such, but I got them in and got them home within about 20 minutes (I live fairly close thank goodness) but maybe that hurt them? I've also got a cat in the house, but once I told her she wasn't allowed to eat the fish (with the corys) she stopped showing any interest in all of my fish, even if I carry her over to the tank to watch them. Also, every time Tardis has jumped out I've had some trouble picking him up to put him back in (longest time so far was a little under five minutes cuz every time I finally got my hand UNDER him he flopped off before I could put another hand over him) so maybe that hurt him a bit?
I also have a medication in the tank (the people in the Fish department at petsmart said that it's a pre-emptive medication used in their own quarantine tanks). It's Tetra Lifeguard "All-in-one Treatment". I could stop using it though and I doubt it would make a difference...1 Tank 5.5 Gal. (QT) - empty
2 Tank 20 Gal. - 6 female betta, 8 glotetras, many plants, 1 Albino Bristlenose Pleco, 1 Clown pleco
3 & 4 Tanks 2.5 Gal - 1 male betta (dragonscale deltatail), 1 MTsnail
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The only "preventive" medication I've seen recommended for use in a QT is prazi pro which is meant to kill any internal parasites - I'm not familiar with the all in one treatment but from what I've learned here, there is no need to put any medication into a tank unless your fish is showing clear signs of an illness (like fungus, ich spots, etc.).
Medication just for the sake of adding it reduces available oxygen in a tank - that is why its not a good idea to add stuff as a preventive with the exception of what I just mentioned above.
Everything read as 0 when I checked the tank last night at dinner time.1 Tank 5.5 Gal. (QT) - empty
2 Tank 20 Gal. - 6 female betta, 8 glotetras, many plants, 1 Albino Bristlenose Pleco, 1 Clown pleco
3 & 4 Tanks 2.5 Gal - 1 male betta (dragonscale deltatail), 1 MTsnail
"Lifeguard" In my experience is a fish Killer. I'd recommend getting it out of there ASAP. Besides this, do not medicate fish that don't require medication.
Betta are surface breathers. They breathe oxygen using a specialized breathing organ they have. They generally hate turbulence in the water, so I'd get rid of the air "bubbler", its only going to stress him out.
Also, get rid of the bamboo, its not actually a water plant and will foul the water.
Betta need temps around 80 degrees for their happiness as well as plenty of silk plants to hide in. Little water disturbance, and crystal clean water.
Normal Betta behavior is as "hams". They usually, if seeing the person that feeds them regularly, come up to the front of the tank to greet you. They may, or may not shy away from you touching the glass, but generally, will stay at the glass and watch you if you sit near it. They will swim on all levels of the tank, exploring and "cruising" their territory.
Betta also sleep. They can look quite dead, hanging out motionless and not going up for air for several hours, in plant leaves, on decorations, hanging over gravel on the bottom. Its not unusual.2 10 gallon tanks, 1 20 gallon tank, 1 Fluval Edge, 1 29 gallon tank, and one backyard pond.
I turned the bubbler off and he seems much happier... he's still hiding behind the waterfall from the filter but at least now he's hiding at the top. The bamboo I have is all fake bamboo, plastic (It's actually part of a 3' tall fake plant that I just cut a few chunks off of so that something would be near the top of my column tank for him since none of my other plants are tall). I've also stopped the lifeguard and replaced the charcoal filter part (I took it out cuz the box said to). My main tank requires bubblers because of the other fish (cory cats and Oto's) and the fact that it has a lid that cuts out a lot of oxygen getting in, but I got fine-mist bubblers and 2 of them. (When the cory's get moved I could possibly take them out though.) Since this is a Quarantine tank I'm trying to minimalism decorations so that anything that does pop up doesn't have a place to hide and reinfect them, the water in the tank is clean and set for 80 degrees (dunno how well it's holding it, but it feels the same as my 78/80 degree main tank so I'd assume fairly well). I also do a small water change every time the Q tank looks cloudy, just in case (So far 3 water changes in 3 days, 2 in the same day because Tardis thought the algae wafer was a toy and tore it apart so it clouded the water a bit). The filter I have is meant for 10 gallons so it should do pretty well on my 5.5 gallon... if the water keeps clouding though I'm gonna put in my spare 5 gallon filter as well and try to angle it so it doesn't push everything in the tank over into one corner like it did last time.1 Tank 5.5 Gal. (QT) - empty
2 Tank 20 Gal. - 6 female betta, 8 glotetras, many plants, 1 Albino Bristlenose Pleco, 1 Clown pleco
3 & 4 Tanks 2.5 Gal - 1 male betta (dragonscale deltatail), 1 MTsnail
The bubblers in the big tank shouldn't bother him too much since there is much more room to get away from them. They really hate those things LOL. And sorry, thought it was real bamboo!
Since you are trying to keep decorations to a minimum in quarantine (understandable) you might want to find a non porous "hiding place" for him to feel safe. Good options are a small teacup turned on its side, a small ceramic plant pot (the minis they have at hardware stores) turned on its side, or a Betta log. It will give him a place to retreat and de-stress.2 10 gallon tanks, 1 20 gallon tank, 1 Fluval Edge, 1 29 gallon tank, and one backyard pond.
Oh! I can try those easily enough, thanks! (he doesn't like the bamboo much even when I can get it to float so I may just go swipe a teacup from upstairs)1 Tank 5.5 Gal. (QT) - empty
2 Tank 20 Gal. - 6 female betta, 8 glotetras, many plants, 1 Albino Bristlenose Pleco, 1 Clown pleco
3 & 4 Tanks 2.5 Gal - 1 male betta (dragonscale deltatail), 1 MTsnail


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One of the first lines under: Archery , Wild Turkey, "Archery hunting for wild turkeys is extremely difficult "!!!!!! I tend to agree.
I brought my hunting buddy Chuck to my secret turkey town up by my uncles house in Martinez Calif. AND WE GOT INTO TURKEYS!!!!!!
Three times as many turkeys as last year,I mean we were covered up in turkeys. Unfortunately those turkeys didn't really have a lot to worry about.
Opening day broke warmer than we had expected with no rain we set up two b-mobiles three hens and a jake spread around an opening on a ridge where three roads intersected. Perfect!! At daybreak gobbles were coming from up the hill and down the hill. A box call and a gobble call had all the turkeys talking back to us, OMG this is gonna happen fast. 7am 3 hens and a fat gobbler come running up the hill to the decoys, the gobbler ducked under a barbwire fence and circled around a bush ready to beat the holy crap out of my decoy. At 25yds I decided it was time to show him the shaft as my arrow left the blind it was in about a 4"corkscrew flight pattern then nicked the barbed wire that i forgot about and dove under the toms belly Well my buddy Chuck, while happy to see turkeys, was less than impressed with my arrow flight! I told him the good news is "its your shot". Then about a half hour later 4 toms appeared on the hill but we couldn't get them to come to us. Then the rain came and it was time to head back to the house and lick our wounds.
The rain let up around 3pm and we decided to run and gun bowhunting style? We dropped down the hill about a 1/4 mile to see if the turkeys were in the bottom? YUP 20+ turkeys all looking at us like "what are you doing here?"
instantly the carbon started flying all over the place. At least ten arrows missed their mark DOH but it was fun and we found the spot we would be in the morning.
The next mourning broke crisp and clear. We were set up with our backs against an abandoned flatbed again at the intersection of three roads again PERFECT!!! well before daybreak and the gobbles started soon after that . Then
coyote howls? At about 6:30 2 hens and a huge tom surprised us walking straight to the decoys. The huge tom was strutting in the road 15yds from us and chuck says I'm hung up? I look over and his Rage 3blade is hung up in the blind netting. So i raised my bow and attempted to draw? turns out we set up too close to the flatbed and i couldn't draw my bow all the way back because my elbow kept hitting the trailer. Panic and pure stupidity told me i could hold my elbow out to the right and still make a shot? Uhh Wrong. Never even saw the arrow or that turkey again.
After that, with time running out, we set up hiding behind some trees adjacent to a field and some olive trees where we saw the turkeys the first day. The coyotes had scattered the turkeys and there were gobbles coming from all around us. We started lost yelping and they came in from all directions. A tom snuck up on me and started putting, as I was frozen i heard a THUMP, and a turkey i never saw ran into the bush next to me and piled up!!!
FINALLY turkey down. With time running out we headed back to the house happy as can be knowing ill be back soon for round two.


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Thanks to Commtech for the stash this morning. Got it on my way to work.
Thanks to Commtech for the stash this morning. Got it on my way to work.
Found ARC 170s at $7.48 & Tie Bombers at $6.24 at Woodland Hills Target. WOOOOT!!! There were several if anyone wants to make the trip, but they might be gone by now.
Also, got a Def Leppard signatures series electric guitar 75% off ($49.75) at Sepulveda Target that'll go to my teenage cousin. Guitar Hero motivated her into playing real guitar.
Sweet! I love Def Leppard!
"Rock of Ages" was my first 45 on vinyl. Remember those? I played it with my Fischer-Price record player. I was so cool.
BAD Pts Need: R5-C7 lf leg (x2), , R4-P44 right leg BAD Pts Offered For Trade: PM me - I have lots of parts now including BG-J38!. New Kyle Katarn is also available.
Looks like North Hollywood Target marked their SW clearance stuff down to 50% and it is ALL gone (including a crapload of AT-RT BPs and ARC-170 ships that were there a few days ago). I stashed 2 AT-RT BPs last week - one was still there, so I scored one for $15. Uncovered someone's GI Joe Cobra Legions 5-pack stash (the 1st version w/the Baroness) and picked it up for $6.24.
Saw Jackie Chan arriving there as I was leaving. That silly little bastard was too little... too late. Snags wins again.
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Nothing new today at Burbank Target. Jackie Chan was there and said he was going to hit a bunch of Targets looking for clearances. LOL! Good Luck!
Didn't find any new SW today. Went to a few Targets looking for clearance items, but only found Arcs and AT-RTs at $15-$20. Did get lucky at TRU and managed to pick up "The Batman" Martain Manhunter, Flash and Superman.
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SW Customs Album
Burbank TRU must have had wave 8 today because I was just there and found a few Jango's and Clone In Training figs that weren't there yesterday.
I'm still looking for McRebel if anyone has an extra or makes a stash...
Public thank you's go to Commtech for the Justice League stash and to Frank Footer for the UGH McFett.
the only thing new I picked up today was a Cars Dinoco Mia/Tia and a Titanium AT-OT. Glendale had a Titanium Saesee Tinn JSF but I didn't want to pay $6.49 for it.


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Hurricane Ike devastation in Galveston
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UTSA Responds to Hurricane Ike: How You Can Help
(Sept. 19, 2008)--Below are ways UTSA and San Antonio community members can help those affected by Hurricane Ike in the Houston and Galveston areas.
E-mail additional resources to firstname.lastname@example.com, and they will be added to this list.
Today's headlines
- La Prensa Foundation is newest member of UTSA Lone Star Society
- UTSA alumna Jordan Kaufmann wins $50K for new stent-graft start-up
- UTSA begins new way-finding sign installation this summer at Main Campus
- USA Today: UTSA long jumper Tyler Williamson rescues three-year-old boy
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UTSA Gardner Center for Writing Excellence
UTSA's Judith G. Gardner Center for Writing Excellence will collect non-perishable food items for the San Antonio Food Bank beginning Monday, Sept. 22. Bring items to Humanities and Social Sciences Building Room 2.02.22 on the 1604 Campus. For more information, call (210) 458-6703.
Save the Children
Save the Children is offering assistance to people in San Antonio, Houston and Austin. Read about Save the Children efforts after Hurricane Ike. For more information, visit the Save the Children Web site or call 1-800-728-3843.
San Antonio Food Bank
Cash donations can be made online at the San Antonio Food Bank Web site. To help Hurricane Ike relief, donate food. If you are in the food industry and want to donate meals or product, call (210) 43108310. Also, anyone can drop off donations at the SAFB warehouse at 5200 Old Highway 90W, on the corner of Old Highway 90 and Highway 151. To donate time, volunteers are needed to sort products, pick up donations and prepare food in their community kitchen. For more information, call (210) 431-8311.
San Antonio Volunteer Organizations Active in Disaster (SAVOAD)
The group has activated the Volunteer Operations Center (VOC) at the Freeman Coliseum Frontier Room. Report to the coliseum to register for volunteer opportunities. The process includes completing an application, background check and orientation. Volunteers must be at least 18 years old and must bring a photo ID. For more information, call VOC at (210) 224-5365.
American Red Cross
To donate, visit the American Red Cross Web site or call (800) REDCROSS (800-733-2767).
Salvation Army
Visit the Salvation Army USA Web site. Note "Hurricane Response" right sidebar.
State Employee Charitable Campaign (SECC)
Donation packets will be distributed to UTSA employees the week of September 22 to donate to SECC. Some agencies helped by SECC are United Way agencies.
To donate now to United Way
United Way has established the 2008 Hurricane Recovery Fund to support long-term recovery and rebuilding efforts. Cash donations can be made by credit card at the United Way Web site or by phone at (866) 404-5826. Mail checks to: United Way, 5196 Hamstead Village Way, Suite 135, New Albany, Ohio 43054. On checks, write in the memo line: "United Way 2008 Hurricane Recovery Fund."


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WASHINGTON As politicians in Washington and across the country seek to cut spending to reduce their budget deficits, the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds that the American public is divided about how far they should go.
In the poll, eight in 10 respondents say they are concerned about the growing federal deficit and the national debt, but more than 60 percent including key swing-voter groups are concerned that major cuts from Congress could impact their lives and their families.
Whats more, while Americans find some budget cuts acceptable, they are adamantly opposed to cuts in Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security and K-12 education.
And although a combined 22 percent of poll-takers name the deficit/government spending as the top issue the federal government should address, 37 percent believe job creation/economic growth is the No. 1 issue.
Republican pollster Bill McInturff, who conducted the survey with Democratic pollster Peter D. Hart, says these results are a cautionary sign for a Republican Party pursuing deep budget cuts.
He points out that the Americans who are most concerned about spending cuts are core Republicans and Tea Party supporters, not independents and swing voters.
It may be hard to understand why a person might jump off a cliff, unless you understand theyre being chased by a tiger, he said. That tiger is the Tea Party.


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Commencement events scheduled, June 1-3
Posted May 27, 2003; 12:48 a.m.
Several activities for undergraduate and graduate degree candidates are planned for Sunday through Tuesday, June 1-3:
- The baccalaureate service will take place at 2 p.m. Sunday in the University Chapel. Dean of Admission Fred Hargadon will speak.
- The Class Day ceremony for seniors is set for 10:30 a.m. Monday on Cannon Green (Dillon Gym in case of severe weather).
- The hooding ceremony for advanced degree candidates will begin at 5 p.m. Monday in McCarter Theatre.
- The University's 256th commencement ceremony is slated for 11 a.m. Tuesday on the lawn in front of Nassau Hall (Jadwin Gym in case of severe weather).
Admission to all events is by ticket only.
The baccalaureate service will be simulcast on a screen outside of the chapel as well as in Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall; McCosh 10, 50, 60, 62, 64 and 66; and Betts Auditorium, School of Architecture; tickets are required at the simulcast sites.
The commencement ceremony will be simulcast in Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall; no tickets are required at the simulcast site.
The baccalaureate, hooding and commencement ceremonies will be broadcast live on TigerNet Channel 7 on campus and on Channel A11 on Princeton cable television. They also will be Webcast and will be archived for later viewing at the same site.
Contact:Tom Bartus (609) 258-3601


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Ralph Nader: Obama's a 'War Criminal'
It's no surprise that Ralph Nader isn't a fan of former President George W. Bush. After all, the longtime activist ran against him in both 2000 and 2004. But Nader's even less a fan of President Barack Obama, if only because he thinks Obama was capable of so much more.
Syndicated 2012-09-26 23:06:00 (Updated 2012-09-26 23:06:10) from proclus