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"So what is big is not always the Trout nor the Deer but the chance, the being there. And what is full is not necessarily the creel nor the freezer, but the memory." ~ Aldo Leopold
"The Greatest Obstacle to Discovery is not Ignorance -- It is the Illusion of Knowledge" ~ Daniel Boorstin
So very sorry your family is going thru this trial. Hope all works out. Heart felt prayers sent, you have an extended retriever family behind you!
God made a dog......
"So what is big is not always the Trout nor the Deer but the chance, the being there. And what is full is not necessarily the creel nor the freezer, but the memory." ~ Aldo Leopold
"The Greatest Obstacle to Discovery is not Ignorance -- It is the Illusion of Knowledge" ~ Daniel Boorstin
Man this was a tough read for me on a deep level. After washing out most dogs from more than 15 yrs and finding them a good home to start over again and again, i found the one i was looking for. He was the most intelligent, driven, and biddable animal i have worked with. I had my FT dog, finally! The dog that made me actually try to take it to that top level in retriever training. At 11 mos, we ran a fun derby, ran two derbies in the next two months and things were looking very promising. You could not knock him off line with a bull dozer, i just needed to get him to check up and breath when he got there...we were learning, it was a blast. He and i had a partnership, it was as easy as breathing when i trained him, it just fit. Then i got relocated for work, had to move on quick notice and was unloading the moving truck when he managed to get out of a porta kennel. i heard the car hit him and everything in me went hollow and numb. I think i turned inside out. Heck, this is hard for me to write....he did not make it 5 mins.
That was it, i was done with it. To say the wind was knocked out of me was an understatement. I yard broke my first bird dog at 4 yrs old and now i did not want a dog at all. Months passed and i started thinking that i was betraying all he had given me by not getting back to training. I found a litter, i liked of NFC Eba and a Bubba daughter and could not help it, we put in a deposit and away we went. I wish i could say that it all turned around, and it actually did, but not in a fair way to the new pup. That pup is now 8 yrs old and I am ashamed to say that it took me so long to every really get back into training regularly, that no one will ever really know how nice a dog she is. She deserved better and she is a game day dog. I would love to be able to wind back the clock and give her the chance she earned.....I have had 2 phenomenal dogs in the 30 or so i have owned. It is a shame that i did not realize what i had when i brought home the second one.
I agree. Someone who has not put the time and the heart into an working with a great animal can never really understand the loss of "what could have been",... but we can. There will be many folks on this thread that can relate.... Unfortunately, great loss seems to be the price of greater joy, the yin and yang.
Hang in there brother and i hope you recover more quickly than i did. And if, and hopefully when, you get that next great dog for your needs, i hope you are at a place that you can give him or her all you have.
yep, the back porch and cold drink sounds like a good idea
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Sorry this happened. Glad to hear Roux will pull through. I bet he's going to be a great dog. Something special about dogs who overcome...
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Hi everyone- been a long road but Roux has healed as much as he's going to. he's managed to keep the front shoulder and is able to use it a little bit -mostly for balance. One of the things we didn't originally see was damage to the pelvis. He has trouble getting up from laying or sitting and thats something that is still ongoing. My biggest concern now and what might require a very difficult decision is the change in personality since the accident. He's become extremely protective since the accident- example: most evenings we get together with 3-4 of our neighbors and have a drink around a picnic table before dinner. we've been doing this for years and the dogs have all been part of it since the beginning without issue. twice Roux has tried to have a go at one or another neighbor-no growling or barking just laying next to my chair one minute and then a lunge and snap of the jaws. thankfully in his physical condition he wasn't very effective at it either time and i got hold of him before he was able to repeat the action. it's important to note that no one was interacting with Roux or encroaching in anyway at the time it happened.
The Fed-Ex man (also a dog person) has told me he tried it twice on him as well. I hate to say this but i'm to the point where I'm scared he's going to have a go at either a neighbor or one of the kids friends when they are over for the night.
has anyone else ever had this issue with an injured dog? Since the first event i've been trying to re-socialize him (take him around all the people he's snapped at as well as strangers etc) and it always seems to go fine but it the incidents keep happening.
I'm almost to the point where i think the responsible thing to do is going to be the hardest one.
He is quick to "put people in their place" because he is feeling extremely vulnerable. He is the injured dog in the "pack", and those usually get killed by the pack. Put him up in a pen or the house in a room when you have people over until he heals enough that he isn't in any pain or feeling threatened. A lot of it also has to do with where this dog felt he was in the chain of command before his injury. If he thought that he was at the top or close to it, he may be less tolerable to being put at the bottom.
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Very sorry about the accident but Roux is very fortunate to have you as an owner a lot of people would've simply put the dog down. I believe that your actions speak for your character and I also believe that your family will be stronger as you work together to insure Roux has a full life,
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Charles Mattocks, Blue Circle Champion & celebrity chef brings us up-to-date on his latest campaign to change diabetes!
About a year ago I saw a big red bus in a Wal-Mart parking lot. I am sure most of you have seen them at hospitals and supermarkets; they are all over the place. These buses are a quick and easy place for people to donate their blood.
I was immediately struck by the simplicity of the bus idea, why could we not do the same for diabetes?
I had been looking for something that could inspire and help spread the word to the masses about diabetes and this idea seemed to be the way to fulfil my vision.
Originally, I was hoping to spend a month at a time going to major grocery stores, schools and conventions. I soon realized the work and support I needed was very intensive and I would need help.
I knew lives could be saved and changed. I tried to get some sponsors for the tour and while we got great feedback, I came up against hurdles. For a while the tour took a back seat whilst I continued to focus on my film 'The Diabetic You' and speaking commitments. However I never lost sight of my tour dream and eight months later my idea finally got the backing it needed.
We have been on the road for about a month now and I must say this is truly a dream come true. I will continue to update you on this journey and how lives have been changed. I will also speak about things I would love to change about diabetes, the lack of education and information around the disease, the lack of public understanding which stigmatizes diabetes.
I want people with diabetes to know that there are so many basic things you can do, to lead a healthier life.
Finally, I want the diabetes community and the general public to become more unified in the face of this public health threat.
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Orchestra features Brentano Quartet members, Dec. 6-7
Posted December 3, 2002; 08:07 p.m.
The Princeton University Orchestra will hold concerts at 8 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 6, and Saturday, Dec. 7, in Richardson Auditorium.
Michael Pratt will lead the orchestra in the music of Brahams and Shostakovich. Pratt and the orchestra will be joined by violinist Serena Canin and cellist Nina Maria Lee of the Brentano String Quartet , in residence at the University.
Tickets are $15 and are available at the Richardson Auditorium box office, (609) 258-5000.
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Description Brown carapace with yellowish circular marks. 2nd costal scute has c shaped figure. Marginal scutes have round mark. Yellow plastron. Long claws on feet of males.
Dimensions 14.6-41.6cm. (5 3/4-16 3/8")
Subspecies Eastern River Cooter- as above. Florida to se. Georgia.
Florida River Cooter - stripes on head. Virginia to Florida Atlantic coastal plain. Also Alabama.
Breeding May-July. Eggs 38mm (1 1/2") long, pinkish white. Up to 19 in a clutch. Hatch in August/September. Sometimes overwinter in nest.
Habitat Rivers, streams, lakes with moderate currents.
Range Virginia to Florida coastal plain.
Discussion Aquatic. Basks with other turtle species. If disturbed retreats into water quickly. Thought to be a delicacy in the South. Lives up to 40 years in captivity.


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We are pleased to be able to announce a new resource available on our History Online service: a listing of UK historians and the location of their working papers, where known.
This listing is a work in progress. At present we have just over 300 historians and we have been able to find the location of their papers for over 200; we have concentrated for the moment on historians who have recently died and also on those who we believe to have been fellows of the Royal Historical Society. We will continue adding historians and updating the list in the future. There is a webform for users to suggest locations of working papers and we would welcome any new information.
The historians' names are based on the full form given in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, but have been integrated into the site-wide search on History Online. So clicking on the name Taylor, Alan John Percivale searches for the more familiar form: AJP Taylor; this brings results from across the site, showing theses Taylor supervised as well as books he wrote or edited.
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Back when we were in high school or college, if we wanted to do a little teen drinking and get drunk, we raided our parents' liquor cabinet, went out and bought some beer (or scotch), or got an older sibling or friend to get it for us. But today, teens looking for a quick high have a lot more choices. In this guest post, Melissa gives us some startling insights into a problem there's a good chance you've never heard of.
There are many crazy things teens and college students are experimenting with to get drunk these days. While many of us simply turn a blind eye or think "my son or daughter would never be that stupid", these are real issues that our teens or future teens are attempting to either show off or to be cool.
While not all of these teen drinking trends are used by every teen, the popularity of attempting dangerous or outlandish things while drinking and then posting the results on YouTube is growing immensely. So we as parents not only have to educate our teens about alcohol and drugs but also have to educate them on the dangers of social media and publicizing too much on YouTube, Face book, or wherever. Once it's online, it can't be erased and too many teens are not thinking about how these videos could damage their future careers or reputations, not to mention their health.
Here are some of the latest teen drinking crazes:
- Eyeball Shots. Just do a You Tube search of eyeball shots and you get over 7 pages of results. Eye shots are done by filling 10% of shot glass with alcohol and then pouring it in the eye ball quickly. Some however attempt to pour more or less into their eye. Some describe the feeling as going blind temporarily or extreme burning. The theory behind eye ball shots is that the alcohol will be quickly absorbed by the mucus membranes surrounding the eye. Leading medical experts, however, argue that this is not an effective way to get intoxicated quickly and could cause serious damage to a person's vision.
- Drinking hand sanitizer. It only takes a few gulps to apparently feel the effects. Containing over 120 proof, hand sanitizer has significantly more alcohol in it than vodka, which is around 80 to 90 proof. Teens and young adults also find a thrill in drinking this product as a way to sneak around and get drunk in school. The problem is, drinking hand sanitizer is a fairly new trend so it's harder for the drinker or others around them to gauge overdose or warning signs. The pure speed of intoxication by drinking hand sanitizer is alarming.
- Inhaling alcohol. A new fad created to get drunk in seemly no time. That is because inhaling or smoking alcohol vapors will bypass the stomach and go right into the blood stream. "Instructional" videos are also popping up all over You Tube as a "fun" "new" way to drink. Unfortunately many teens are mixing several types of alcohol quickly, because inhaling alcohol is nothing like drinking a glass or shot of liquor. This can lead to a high risk of overdose or alcohol poisoning.
There are many other weird teen drinking crazes kids these days are trying, and these are just a few examples. While there is truly no way to prevent your teen from experimenting with alcohol in college or even on a night out, it is best to talk to them about alcohol overdose or poisoning. Teach them warning signs of an overdose, the right actions to take, and the consequences of drinking. As a parent we can only do so much but prevention is the key and it just may save their life in certain situations. Remember the best way to approach your teen is with a calm and understanding tone, anything else may send them running the other way.
Melissa is the Public Relations Coordinator for St. Jude Retreats–-a non-12 step alternative to conventional alcohol and drug rehab.


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Media Concealed Leaked TEPCO Report: 120 Billion Becquerels of Plutonium, 7.6 Trillion Becquerels of Neptunium (Decays Into Plutonium) Released In First 100 Hours
– News: Media knew 1.2×10^12 Bq of plutonium was released to the air in the first 100 hours (Fukushima Diary, Oct. 14, 2011):
The Report which Tepco made for press conference on 6/6/2011 was leaked on the internet.
According to the report, Tepco already announced that Plutonium 238, 239, 240, 241 was released to the air in the first 100 hours after the earthquake.
It reads the amount is 120 BILLION Becquerels.
When it comes to Np-239, it is 7,600 BILLION Becquerels.
It is possible to assume a certain amount of them have flown to around Tokyo.
Knowing the fact, Media kept concealing the risk for 7 months and kept people exposed.
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Something similar to this:[...]Maybe a spring instead of an airbag (for safety), but this would definitely be funny to see.
go get a fog machine and hook it up to the Arduino and put it to a sensor for example microphone to detect noise or PIR motion sensor. once you get a reading wait 5 min and activate smoke machine. place behind computer. They think computer is blowing up.
I recommend this:http://www.amazon.com/ThinkGeek-Annoy-a-tron-2-0/dp/B002YE3YDU
so maybe I can make the sound motion activated so that when he walks into his office it talks to him
I had a freind that got gloriously drunk at a work christmas party. Someone had decided to hand out disposable cameras at the same party.Cut a long story short i wrote a windows service that set a different picture of him getting plastered as his wallpaper everyday, I hid the pictures inside the executable and gave it a credible name. If that machine is still running, I sure the slide show is still going to this day.Duane B
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Dallas-based beer festival Untapped expanding to Nashville and Atlanta
Arlington-based production company Spune announced Monday a partnership with Paste Magazine that will expand the indie music and beer festival Untapped to a national scale.
As we reported in February, Untapped hits Fort Worth April 20 and has a Dallas date in September in the works. Expect Nashville and Atlanta festivals in October and November, respectively, according to Paste.
"We share a deep, abiding love for both independent music and craft beer – two things that are undoubtedly better together," Paste's Josh Jackson wrote. "We plan to expand to more cities in 2014."
Untapped's inaugural year at Trinity Groves in 2012 was testament to the growing Dallas craft beer scene. It sold out in 2012 to an overwhelmingly supportive crowd.
Untapped festival first takes place in Fort Worth on April 20, featuring music by Justin Townes Earle, Deer Tick, Sarah Jaffe, and TENNIS. Local brewing companies Rahr and Sons Brewing Co., Cedar Creek Brewery, Deep Ellum Brewing Co., Franconia Brewing Co.,Lakewood Brewing Co., and Peticolas Brewing Co. will return for a second year, while Armadillo Ale Works, Community Beer Company, Firewheel Brewing Co., Four Corners Brewing Co., Martin House Brewing Co., and Revolver Brewing will host sample tents for the first time.
Tickets are currently on sale for the April event. We'll update you when we have details about the Dallas installment of Untapped.
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Down a private, leafy, right-of-way, Amanda Alexander has created a traditional English country home from a standard post-war bungalow.
From the front, the house looks like a cosy cottage, with its red-tiled roof and black front door. The surprise comes at the rear. From the tranquil garden, the two-storey house - complete with multi-paned bay windows - has the more generous proportions of an earlier Remuera era.
Back in the 1990s, Amanda was living next door when the generous tree-lined site was destined to become four townhouses. "We heard the developer was selling," she recalls. "My late husband Stewart trusted that I could transform it, so under duress he agreed to buy it."
Amanda has always loved fabrics and design, channelling that creativity into her Daisy Chain clothing and homewares line.
She applied her stylist's eye and years of hard work into transforming the small house on
a fantastic site into an elegant family home.
"I've painted every surface inside and out," says Amanda. "Those multi-paned windows really are multiple panes when you're on the end of
a paint-brush."
She and Stewart started with a radical 18-month rebuild - with two young children.
"The kids loved that they could draw on the walls while we demolished practically everything. The original entry level became bedrooms and the dank, ratty basement became sunny living areas, opening onto a vast sunny terrace.
"We came from England, so I wanted something traditional, with separate rooms," Amanda explains.
She also wanted a place for family and friends to gather, starting with a large family kitchen.
"We have crowds for Sunday lunch but they all end up in here, of course."
Action revolves around the huge butcher's block island - the modern equivalent of the kitchen table. The panelled Smallbone-look cabinets work well with a butler's sink.
The adjacent dining room, with its cosy gas fire, has seated up to 16 people for family lunches, spilling out through French doors onto the sunny terrace. A real log fire anchors the serene bay-windowed living room next door.
"This is my sanctuary," says Amanda.
In later years, when kids Claudia and Zach outgrew drawing on walls, the family added
a spacious second living room off the kitchen.
"They could hang out with their friends in here while the grown-ups were at the opposite end of the house," says Amanda.
The bay window balances the living room's bay, creating a traditional symmetry that Amanda loves. The generous laundry, which matches the kitchen cabinets, and a half-bath for guests are other favourite features.
Summer life revolves around the terrace, big enough to swallow nearly 100 guests at Claudia's 21st birthday party. There's plenty of room for football (or a future pool) in the newly landscaped garden below, which has a sweet little playhouse.
Upstairs, the house was reconfigured to create four generous bedrooms, two with en suites.
Traditional black-and-white wallpaper features in Claudia's room, echoing the classic black-and-white tiling used in all three bathrooms.
Amanda commandeered an adjacent room as her sewing space and also squeezed in a bright office overlooking the front entry.
In the master bedroom, another sanctuary for Amanda, she created a little Juliet balcony above a bay window.
"It's the perfect spot for an evening drink," she says. She also treated herself to a stylish bathroom and well planned walk-in closet.
The cottage-that-grew has witnessed 17 years of Alexander family, friends, laughter and tears.
With the nest emptying, Amanda wants to redirect her creativity and let another family enjoy the home she's created.


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NASHVILLE – The term "Selection Sunday" took on a whole new meaning for Ole Miss this year.
After winning the school's second SEC tournament championship on Sunday afternoon, the Rebels were able to relax and enjoy one of college basketball's most anticipated hour-long TV programs, and they enjoyed it with a crowd of appreciative fans back home at Tad Smith Coliseum.
It was near the end of the program as the fourth and final region was revealed that Ole Miss learned it is a No. 12 seed and will play No. 5 seed Wisconsin at 11:40 a.m. in a West Region game on Friday in Kansas City.
"It was gratifying for these players who have put so much time and energy into this accomplishment, and it was great to see the people there, sitting in Tad Smith Coliseum and see the name pop up," Ole Miss coach Andy Kennedy said. "Then you understand you've reached your goal of getting to the NCAA tournament, so we can turn the page and focus on the bigger picture."
The Rebels last played in the NCAA tournament in 2002, and their streak of absences was the longest among SEC schools.
Kennedy was part of five NCAA tournament teams as an assistant coach, once at UAB and four times at Cincinnati.
He led Cincinnati to the NIT as an interim head coach and has coached the Rebels to the NIT five times.
NCAA committee chair Mike Bobinski said Ole Miss was in the field regardless of what happened in Sunday's SEC tournament championship game, which the Rebels won 66-63 against No. 13 Florida.
"The Ole Miss game did have a little bit to do with seeding, but Ole Miss was going to get in the field win or lose," he said.
Bobinski cited the Rebels' sweep of Tennessee as a factor in their favor.
Kennedy said he never sensed panic in his team, even when losses to struggling SEC opponents inflicted damage on the Rebels' NCAA resume.
"What we preach every day is that if you don't get too high or too low success will find you," he said. "That's what this team epitomized."


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A short-term visiting fellow this spring in the Humanities Council, Dorsky has been making films for 40 years. They often are short meditations on transitory natural phenomena and have been referred to as "lyrical epiphanies of sudden uncanny beauty."
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Federal Reserve Board member to discuss Social Security reform, Oct. 10
Posted October 5, 2001; 12:29 a.m.
Edward Gramlich, a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Board, will present a public lecture titled "Social Security Reform" at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 10, in Frist 302.
Gramlich became a Federal Reserve Board member in November 1997 to fill an unexpired term ending in January 2008. Before joining the board, he served as dean of the Gerald Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan from 1995 to 1997. Currently on leave as a professor of economics and public policy at Michigan, his recent research included school finance, budget and fiscal federalism arrangements; poverty and income redistribution; and the economics of sports.
He has extensive governmental experience, serving as both deputy and acting director of the Congressional Budget Office and the Office of Economic Opportunity from 1986 to 1987 and chairing the Quadrennial Advisory Council on Social Security from 1994 to 1996. Gramlich is also the director of the Policy Research Division at the Office of Economic Opportunity, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a staff member of the Research Division of the Federal Reserve Board.
Gramlich is the author of several books, including "A Guide to Benefit-Cost Analysis," and is the co-author of two volumes of "Setting National Priorities," as well as numerous other books and articles on topics such as macroeconomics, budget policy and Social Security.
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Jay-Z Rents Nursery For $1 Million A YEAR!
When Jay-Z or wife Beyonce wants to watch basketball at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn…they want to rest assured that their twelve month old daughter, Blue Ivy, is safe and outta their way!
Which is why the couple's daughter chills in a nursery that's 1 MILLION DOLLARS a year!ÃÂ Phew.ÃÂ According to UsWeekly:
"Jay rents a luxurious basement suite for $1 million a year," a source says. "It has an area for Blue filled with toys."
Jay's VIP space — the priciest of 11 spreads for rent (average cost: $550,000) — also serves as an adult playground. "It's all glass with a champagne bar and TV screen," says the source. "Jay lets friends use his digs when he's not there."
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A hernia occurs when the contents of the abdomen (usually part of the small intestine) push through a weak point or tear the thin muscular wall of the belly, which holds the abdominal organs in place.
A femoral hernia is a bulge in the upper part of the thigh near the groin.
Femorocele; Enteromerocele; Crural hernia
Most of the time, there is no clear cause of a hernia. Some hernias may be present at birth (congenital), but are not noticed until later in life.
Some factors that contribute to the development of a hernia include:
Femoral hernias tend to occur more often in women than in men.
You may see a bulge in the upper thigh just below the groin.
Most femoral hernias cause no symptoms. There may be some groin discomfort that is worse when you stand, lift heavy objects, or strain.
Sometimes, the first symptoms are sudden groin pain, abdominal pain, nausea, or vomiting. This may mean that the intestine within the hernia is blocked. This is an emergency.
The best way to tell if there is a hernia is to have your health care provider perform a physical exam.
If there is any doubt about the exam findings, an
Treatment depends on the symptoms present with the hernia.
If you feel sudden pain in your groin, a piece of intestine may be stuck in the hernia (called an incarcerated hernia). This needs treatment right away in a hospital emergency room, and you may need emergency surgery.
When you have chronic discomfort from a femoral hernia, talk to your health care provider about treatment choices.
Your surgeon may recommend femoral hernia repair surgery to avoid a possible medical emergency.
If you do not have surgery right away:
The chances of a femoral hernia coming back after surgery are about low.
If the intestine or other tissue becomes stuck, a portion of the intestine may need to be removed.
Call your health care provider or local emergency number (911) or go to the emergency room right away if:
Call your health care provider for an appointment or advice if you have a bulge in the upper thigh next to the groin.
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Tight fit, loose bass, and cracked plastic: Bustin' a groove or just busting?
Pros: Non-fatiguing, stylish (if you like the look), comfortable headband
Cons: Loose bass (initially), laid back, grainy treble; forward, shouty mids, durability, comfort
This isn't going to be my usual sort of review because just the existence of a write-up for the V700 on my usual scale is somewhat tongue-in-cheek, given the reputation these have. However, I did own not one but two pairs of them before I discovered proper hi-fi, and you could say that I technically still have two pairs of them. We'll get to that in a moment, but as a general statement the V700DJ isn't counted among the great triumphs of hi-fi. However, it was a very successful DJ headphone, and in that context its sonic signature makes some sense. I'm not exactly sure when it was first offered, but I know that in early 2012 it was discontinued. Perhaps its infamous durability problems (made even worse in later production runs) contributed, but I think it's more likely Sony simply wanted to update its lineup with better overall performers.
As usual, here's the Cliff's Notes version. The V700DJ (hereafter referred to as the V700) was the flagship headphone in Sony's Vx00 lineup, and one of two DJ headphones (the V500 being the other). It's not a particularly good headphone by hi-fi standards, as its frequency response is obviously colored. Out of the box they have boosted, somewhat muddy bass, forward, aggressive midrange, and subdued, grainy treble. This isn't a bad response for a DJ headphone, since it emphasizes bass and bass drum and snare drum cracks but rolls off the treble so they can be listened to at high volume without fatigue. On all other technical fronts they fall flat (in the case of the soundstage quite literally), comfort is lacking, and durability is appalling. I haven't personally heard any of them, but I imagine there are DJ headphones out there that don't suffer from these problems.
However, there is one fascinating thing about the V700 which makes me just shake my head in amusement. The plastic in the joint mechanism inevitably cracks, and as it does it gradually loosens the fit. Bass and lower midrange quantity are heavily dependent on a tight fit, so over time the V700 gradually loses bass quantity until it has less bass than a DT880. That's right, a DJ headphone that ends up with less bass than an airhead can--whatever next?
What's in the box, Build Quality, Comfort, Ergo, etc.
The V700 used to come in a fairly standard cardboard box. I remember it had teal print and a picture of the headphones on it. You got the headphones themselves, a shimmery off-white neoprene carrying pouch, a 1/4" adapter, and an instruction/specifications booklet.
Build quality, as alluded above, is abysmal. Both times I got them they broke within a year. The plastic used is brittle and cannot handle the strain caused by the tight fit, so cracks appear throughout the structure, usually around the swivel joints. The headband eventually loses its shape as well, and in my second pair the rubbery covering on the cable started flaking off after a few years and the plastic part around the jack separated and began travelling up the cable, strain relief and all. The cable is nine feet and coiled, though the second unit's coiling is very loosely wound and has almost completely lost its shape. The pads are pleather-coated fabric, and like all pleather pads they eventually dry out and begin cracking and flaking. The only part of these that remains intact is the cups themselves, which are fashioned out of seemingly tougher plastics and which are covered with metal caps.
Notice I keep talking about my second pair. That's because my first pair broke unrecoverably after just a year and a half. My second pair broke as well, but, luckily, it broke in different enough places that I was able to substitute parts from the first one in order to keep the second one going for a little over five years. This is not a shimmering endorsement, to say the least.
Comfort is initially sorely lacking. These are one of only two pairs of headphones I've ever owned that have caused me physical pain (a Grado SR225i was the other), and both of them, incidentally, were supraaural. That said, the main culprit here is the clamping force. I could wear the V700 for only about half an hour before the pain set in. The headband never gave me any trouble, however, and is actually more comfortable than that on my SRH440. As time goes on, the fit loosens, not because the headband conforms to your head, but because the plastic parts of the band begin breaking. Even completely broken (in) the fit never feels particularly secure despite still being uncomfortably (but not skull-crushingly) tight.
Tonal Balance
As mentioned above, the V700 has a sculpted frequency response. Or, it would, if it didn't break. It actually undergoes a fascinating transformation in which, in the end, tonally it actually sounds like a Grado with some added treble tizz. Imagine that! I'll evaluate its pre-broken (in) sound first, then describe how it "evolves."
Every stereotype you've ever read about "fart cannon" bass is true of the V700 to some extent. There isn't much extension, but there's a healthy bump in the mid- and upper bass department, enough to impart warmth on the lower mids. Its not particularly tight and tends toward boomy. Texture isn't anything to write home about, and impact is woolly.
Very forward, and not in the tasteful way of some mid-forward hi-fi sets. The V700's midrange can be shouty and it lacks transparency. There's also quite a bit of grain, which carries over into the treble. I remember my first impression was that it made all my classical recordings sound "old." A rather astute observation for a 13 year-old, but nevertheless I still listened to them for another eight years.
Subdued, non-fatiguing, but not entirely smooth. The treble is definitely a complement to the rest of the signature and not a major component. There isn't much extension here, either, and the overall character tends toward tizziness. The V700 in general is not a tremendously detailed set, and a little more treble might have helped here. But, of course, it would have made them more fatiguing at the high volume these are likely to be used at.
As the plastic bits break, the bass and lower midrange gradually shift lower in the mix. Eventually they reach a point where they're well below baseline, such that a DT880--that true basshead can --sounds bassy next to them. In this state, the midrange completely monopolizes the balance, and leakage is quite substantial (due to lack of a proper seal). I'm sad to say I probably listened to both pairs like this for the majority of the time I used them on account of their quickness to break. I wish I could do it over again, but time spent listening to crappy headphones is time you can never get back.
Presentation - Macro
As usual, I'm separating this into three main categories: soundstage, imaging, and transparency. The V700 does not have a terribly large soundstage, either in width or depth. In fact, pretty much all of my other headphones improve upon its presentation in every respect. The overall presentation manages to escape a feeling of outright confinement, though--I think the word to use here is intimate.
Imaging isn't bad overall. In fact, I have yet to come across a headphone with truly bad imaging. I'm not denying such a headphone exists, but even the kiddie phones I found in the storage barn could image competently. As far as the V700 is concerned, it's your typical planar presentation, with everything coming at you from the same (intimate) distance and very little layering. This isn't an offensive presentation, but it's certainly not top shelf.
Transparency is sorely lacking. Putting them on again after years without listening to them, they sound like a transistor radio. Granted, that's mostly because the bass has completely disappeared, but that doesn't excuse the inescapable feeling that you're listening to a set of headphones. Good gear disappears in use, and the V700 definitely does not. The graininess contributes to this, but the main culprits are lack of detail and lack of treble. The forward upper mids don't help, either.
Presentation - Micro
Here we'll talk about detail and texture. The V700 manages to gloss over most of the inherent texture in the track but imparts its own grain onto everything. This makes this section very simple: the V700 is lacking in both detail and texture. Listening to music on them feels like trying to watch the television across the room without wearing my eyeglasses. Back when I was in fifth grade, before I got my first pair, I wasn't aware how sharp and clear the world was to people who had proper vision. I'll never forget the first time I put them on just what a revelation it was. That was how I felt when I first listened to the M50, and going back to the V700 after that was like taking off my glasses and trying to look at the world: it's never the same again once you've seen it properly.
At this point there's not much more I can say. The V700 is certainly a purpose-built tool. However, I can't help but feel that its problems come more from the inherent limitations of its drivers than its sculpted tuning. I imagine other DJ headphones that have been tuned similarly might be able to produce more detail or exhibit better control over their sound. I also imagine that other models will be more comfortable or practical (i.e. circumaural instead of supraaural). And I'm almost certain that none of them has build quality as poor as the V700. This headphone has been retired, and apart from perhaps one person I've come across here on Head-Fi, I don't believe anybody will miss it.


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Imaged by Mark Smith From Larvae to Adult, collected in Connecticut. I never thought the larvae would pupate!!!! Description cited from www.entomology.wisc.edu/mbcn/kyf312.html Pteromalus puparum is a tiny pteromalid wasp that develops ins...
On the final day of the healthy bee frame much of the capped brood has emerged and the young brood is beginning to mature. The honey pattern has changed once again. If you look carefully you can once again see the new workers emerging though not as many as in the day before.
In day seven of the progression image many of the larvae have emerged. The honey pattern is slightly less than the previous day and there is a higher amount of uncapped brood. If you look closely you can see worker bees emerging. When I brought the frame into the lab, there were only two bees crawling around on it, how...
Day 6 of the healthy bee frame shows that almost all mature larvae have been capped and that new brood are beginning to grow. The capped honey cells are slightly different than before.
This frame contains a bee disease known as Chalkbrood. This disease is fairly common and affects the bees at the larval stage, killing brood in a matter of 2 days once they are capped. It will not kill a colony but it will weaken it. Notice the spotty brood pattern which is a sign of an unhealthy colony.
On day 5 of the healthy bee frame progression there is less open brood due to the dillegence of the worker bees.
This is day four of the healthy bee frame progression. As you can see, the frame has not changed drastically over the weekend although it does look slightly different than before. Many of the cells filled with pollen in the previous images are no longer and there are higher amounts of uncapped brood cells present.
On day three of the prgression image all the drone cells have hatched. The pollen formation has changed slightly and there is also small difference in the capped honey cell formation.
This is the same healthy frame from USDA Bee Research Lab in Beltsville. Unfortunately, the frame has not progressed very much due to the fact that it was kept in the lab overnight. Although there was some hatched brood it mostly took place on the opposite side of the frame not shown in the image, however if you look a...
This is a healthy bee frame taken from a hive at the USDA-ARS Bee Research lab in Beltsville, MD.


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Conventional wisdom says that anyone crazy enough to drive a fullsize through the Rubicon Trail deserves any accumulation of unwelcome carnage and/or mechanical quagmires they might experience along the way. For our group of seven seasoned trail veterans, one fearless quad rider, and a legendary truck fabricator, this posed a challenge. It was the kind of challenge worthy of its own television show. So with cameras rolling, we headed off across the granite slabs surrounding Loon Lake. We were out to prove that our Mega Titan could prevail over the crown jewel of all off-highway trails.
For those who don't know, the 'Con, as it's called, is better suited to Suzuki Samurais and CJ-5s. Yet, amidst a spectacular Sierra Nevada backdrop, our convoy crept deeper into the backcountry, further from civilization and everyday responsibility.
Our Mega Titan was borne from Top Truck Challenge. As a necessity to the event, it was intended to give judges and course-builders a prerunner and extraction tool for what some call the Olympics of four-wheeling. Often criticized for its excessive mass, many said the truck would never work in the real world. What better place to vindicate a larger-than-life vehicle than the Rubicon?
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Our Rubicon trip consisted of a wonderful group of friends brought together in honor of one special accomplishment: building the Mega Titan. However, it wasn't until a month and a half later that we all realized how precious the memories made on this particular outing actually were.
This photo, taken on the Rubicon, represents the last father-son outing for Four Wheeler friends Miles and Greg Boardman. Unfortunately, Greg was killed in a tragic auto accident on September 5, 2006. His father Miles, shown in the background, had always wanted to 'wheel the Rubicon. Greg, being the kind-hearted guy that he was, insisted that his father ride along in what was originally supposed to be his seat with Feature Editor Robin Stover in Project Teal-J. Greg was never one to miss a part of the action, so he simply brought along his quad and rode alongside our convoy, snapping pictures whenever an opportunity presented itself. Greg took this photo while the two rested near Loon Lake at the end of the trip.
Losing Greg was an unfortunate and significant blow to our industry, as his company-Desert Racing Concepts-was at the forefront of modifying trucks for outback adventures. His contributions were numerous, from Off-Road Magazine's project "Great White," to former Four Wheeler Tech Editor Craig Perronne's project "Heavy Metal" in Dirt Sports Magazine, to helping us out with the fiberglass bed sides for the project Mega Titan. Greg had a big heart and will be missed by many. He is survived by his wife Rebecca, who assured us at his memorial, "That Rubicon trip you guys took, he couldn't stop talking about it. He had the time of his life with you guys." We couldn't agree more.


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visualizing MIME structure
Better debugging tools can help us understand what's going on with MIME messages. A python scrap i wrote a couple years ago named printmimestructure has been very useful to me, so i thought i'd share it.
It reads a message from stdin, and prints a visualisation of its structure, like this:
0 dkg@alice:~$ printmimestructure < 'Maildir/cur/1269025522.M338697P12023.monkey,S=6459,W=6963:2,Sa' └┬╴multipart/signed 6546 bytes ├─╴text/plain inline 895 bytes └─╴application/pgp-signature inline [signature.asc] 836 bytes 0 dkg@alice:~$You can fetch it with git if you like:
git clone git://lair.fifthhorseman.net/~dkg/printmimestructureIt feels silly to treat this ~30 line script as its own project, but i don't know of another simple tool that does this. If you know of one, or of something similar, i'd love to hear about it in the comments (or by sending me e-mail if you prefer).
If it's useful for others, I'd be happy to contribute printmimestructure to a project of like-minded tools. Does such a project exist? Or if people think it would be handy to have in debian, i can also package it up, though that feels like it might be overkill.
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02-07-2013, 08:53 PM #1Junior Member Guppy
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One sick, one dead, brand new beautiful aquarium. What's going on?
So, I just started my aquarium. Water temperature is about 79 degrees (goes down to 76 in the night though). I added four von rio tetras (about an inch long apiece) and let the tank sit for three weeks with them. Added three plants (a crispus, anubia, and a chilensis), and waited another two weeks. So it was five weeks from the start. I had the water tested weekly until this five week mark, when I saw there was no ammonia, nitrate, or nitrite present in the water. The cycle was done (said the person in the aquarium store), and I could put more fish in. So here's what I added. For those of you who read my intro, I just got out my list of their names):
1 Yo-yo Loach
1 Dwarf Frog
1 Bushynose Pleco
2 Panda Corys
So that was last Saturday. They all seemed fine. I feed once a day in the afternoon. My tetras always eat (I give them one flake each), the loach is digging around on the bottom and must be eating *something*, and the pleco is eating algae (I think). I haven't been able to observe the corys or the frog eating, but that doesn't mean they aren't as soon as I turn my back since the food disappears. I also drop in some frog food for the frog in addition to the flakes.
Yesterday I noticed a white blotch on the side fin of one of my corys. I didn't know what it was, so I left it alone for a day to see if it worsened. I just got home from class and that cory is dead. Now the other one has a whitened (but not a distinct white colour) patch on the scales where the adipose fin attaches to his body. I'm concerned.... I don't see myself as having done something wrong (please let me know if I have), and I wasn't aware that an illness could kill so fast.
One thing I do notice is one of my corys would swim around a lot, swimming against the sides of the tank, and crazy. The other is much calmer. I'm not sure which one died, because I can't tell them apart easily....
Can anyone shed light on the subject? If pictures would help I could give it my best shot (which isn't much.... no good camera). Really sorry for such a long post; I know it's a terrible way to make a first impression here. I'm just clueless. As far as I've been told, there's no "Read this book to become a total expert on fish care" book.
One of the problems with cycling with fish (as you have done) is that the filter only develops enough beneficial bacteria to support the fish you already have - that means that you can only add a few fish at a time to the tank so the bioload doesn't increase too rapidly... Your tank may have been cycled with 4 tetras in it, but by adding 4 more fish and a frog at one time you more than doubled the bioload.
You never mention in your post what size the tank is and what filtration you have on it, which would also have an impact on how many fish you can add safely at one time... for example, if you have a larger (say, 55 gallon) tank, adding 4 small fish would raise the overall ammonia concentration so slowly that your biological filter should have time to adjust, while adding 4 small fish in a small tank can be catastrophic.
I would guess you had an ammonia or nitrite spike that killed your fish (are you still testing for ammonia/nitrites/nitrates?) - or, if not outright killed, must have weakened them to make them more succeptable to disease.
You also have to remember that most of the fish at the store are often not in the best shape when you get them - most would have spent a couple of days being shipped in little baggies, and are now in cramped conditions in the store tanks. It is pretty common for them to come complete with diseases, and you should really consider getting a small quarantine tank so you can keep any new fish separate for a few weeks to make sure they are not carrying something that could pass onto your existing fish...
Finally, what are your plans for final stocking? this will, of course, depend on the size of the tank, but I hope you realise that most of the fish you have listed are social/schooling fish and need to be in groups of about 6 minimum (i.e. you would want at least 6 of the tetras, at least 6 of the panda cories, at least 6 of the yoyo loaches). Since both loaches and cories are bottom dwellers/feeders, it is possible that the stress of not being in a school/group could have caused some aggression in your tank between the loach and the cories, which could also have contributed to them getting sick.
At this point, I would recomend doing a signiffican water change (50%), and monitoring your remaining fish very closely. Feed them very lightly over the next few days, and don't add any more fish until you are sure that all the remaining ones you have are healthy, and that your tank is once again cycled.
First problem: sounds like the corys have ick..
Second problem: you added a pleco (high poop producer) and corys at the same time with a fish in cycle tank after just a few weeks. They should always be the last added because this is what happens... they (any catfish) need a matured tank with stablility (long term stability, not 2-3 weeks).
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Whoa - I left out the critical details.... It's a 20 gallon tank, with an Aqueon 20 filter. Yes, I have been testing weekly. For the first five weeks I brought a water sample to the store (tomorrow makes six weeks), and I intend to continue to do that for quite some time (and buy a home test kit eventually). Last weekend there was a drop to very little ammonia, nitrate, and nitrite, and I was told by the guys there I could add about the number of fish I ended up buying. I don't know why they told me that, then. I have heard about a quarantine tank.... how many gallons would you consider small?
So, I'm totally new to this. I have no idea what I want to do, so I have really just been doing it as I go. I figure if I want to try something different I'll get a second tank when I know more. Until then, I picked the tetras for their colour. I got the pleco to eat algae, and the loach (which I have become fond of) to eat snails. I'm just trying to figure out what I'm doing, and have an aquarium with some nice fish. I definitely want to continue using live plants, but that's about my only criteria for this tank (other than keeping my fish healthy).
You say a school of six - should I be getting another few tetras when the tank is cycled again? As for the loach, I read online that loaches grow to 4.5in long. I can't imagine six of them in a 20 gallon tank.
It's interesting you say that. They didn't mention that in the store.... actually specifically told me the opposite. However, I did notice the cories chased the loach around a little. My second cory's fins are getting dark in colour now as well. I just noticed that.
I'm changing the water now, no problems on that front (and dechlorinating before adding it to the aquarium, not after as I've been told that's bad for the fish).
@Sandz They don't have white specks, it's large white patches.... from pictures I've seen, it doesn't look like Ick. Could be wrong.
That would have been great to know about the catfish before I added them to the tank. It's been 6 weeks, but you're right, that's not very long. Where can I learn more about what each fish species needs so I can make an informed descision when adding fish to the aquarium?
Last edited by meztek; 02-07-2013 at 10:11 PM.
Oh wow, a 20gal tank? You really do have a problem. The tank its self will not produce algae at the level to support a pleco. Also wood is a large part of their diet. You have a 5 week old tank, I cannot see how you have a snail problem that requires a fish specifically for it. And you are 100% right on there being 6 of them in a 20... they dont match.
I would stock 6-10 of one species of tetra, 6-10 corries and 1 centerpiece fish for this tank and that be it. What you have doesnt work so get the fish back to the store where its more safe for them before you lose them.
Doubling your bioload is hell on your filter and fish. Especially with the pleco almost tripling it by themselves.
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Well, I got a couple live plants and they snuck their way in that way. At their peak there were about 20 of them in the tank.... and I ended up liking the loach anyway. The other catfish died, but the rest look healthy so I suppose I'll just keep watching the water and wait for the water to cycle again, then add more tetras. Is there any chance I could put in a larger variety of fish? Since I don't have catfish any more, I only have the four tetras (will be six or eight), the loach, frog, and pleco. So are there fish that aren't schooling that would look good with these?
The store doesn't take returns of fish unless it's within two days, no exceptions. I don't have any decent aquarium stores near me. But this is great information. I just wish I knew this before I went to the store. They did tell me what I was doing would be working - I took a lot of their advice.


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Mobile Operation Attachment Bag
1050D Nylon with water resistant coating
Back-Up Belt System
Padded back with ventilation channels
Ambidextrous sling-style shoulder strap
A sling-styled bag that increases operational flexibility in the field, training, at work or play. MOAB stands for Mobile Operation Attachment Bag and with the new Tier System can rapidly connect/disconnect to any of the RUSH series of packs, DC Roller, and bags with web platform. The MOAB includes a top-access fleece-lined, non-scratching sunglass pocket, internal and external organizing pockets, key chain fobs, front and side web platform, flag and name tape Velcro, carry handle, and hydration pouch with pass-through port. In addition, it includes a tech pocket on the shoulder strap with an ear-bud eyelet pass-through, great for a small radio or smart phone. The ambidextrous sling-style shoulder strap is unique to the MOAB. It can be spun around from the back to the chest while being worn, making them easy to work out of, or to access the hidden weapon pocket. Perfect for field work to family trail hike or outing. Imported.
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ACE Adventure Resort is the East Coast's largest 1,500-acre mountain hideaway with more guided adventures, outdoor activities, whitewater rafting, lodging and amenities than any other Adventure Vacation Outfitter! ACE will maximize your mountain privacy and surround you with the great outdoors.
Located in the "Grand Canyon of the East" - the New River Gorge National River - we are in the heart of one of our country's national wilderness treasures. We love our remoteness yet we are conveniently just three miles away from the highway.
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We have a passion for creating outdoor adventures and sharing them with others for lasting memories.
We live our lives while having fun. When we aren't playing outside, we are busy planning our next adventure.
We constantly research and dream of the next great adventure that we can add to the long list of ACE Adventure Resort activities to accommodate explorers of all ages.
(It took a lot of hard work to get to the top, and we know it is going to be even harder to stay there… but it sure is fun trying!)
For the past 35 years, we have been committed to the "total" vacation experience. With our roots in river running since the 1970s combined with our love for land adventures, the folks here at ACE are veteran wilderness explorers who have earned their badges of courage through years of perspiration and determination.
Our success has been built over the years through partnerships with North American River Runners and the region's first whitewater rafting company, Wild Water Expeditions, who both aspired to the same mission and lifestyle philosophy as ours. We also need to give a shout out to our friends at West Virginia Tourism for helping us all along the way.
ACE Adventure Resort was established in 1980 as American-Canadian Expeditions. One of the first companies licensed to guide commercial whitewater trips on the New River, ACE, as it has come to be known, grew naturally from its inception as a weekend hobby pursued by its founder, Ernie Kincaid, a New River native and one of the true whitewater pioneers.
In 1988, the corporation was joined by fellow adventurer Jerry Cook (pictured above). They purchased a 1,500-acre tract of land that extends into the New River Gorge and across the highlands to its west. Part of the land, coined "Wonderland," includes a series of ponds, a mining-era ghost town and spectacular cliffs, waterfalls and overlooks.
President Harry S. Truman visited one of the cabins located at Wonderland -- a hunting lodge that has since become one of the most popular of the 50-plus guest cabins and vacation rentals located on property.
Through the 1990s and 2000s, the resort has continued to expand and innovate, outpacing the growth of the U.S. whitewater rafting industry with every paddle stroke.
In 2008, ACE entered into its most significant period of growth. Among adding numerous lodging options, it established the first zip line canopy tour in West Virginia, expanding it to extend a mile along the rim of the gorge.
ACE again achieved global prominence in 2012 when it set a Guinness World Record on one of its zip lines. More than 183 participants zipped along the 203-foot cable in under an hour, outnumbering the 2010 record set by 122 participants in Germany.
The "Wild and Wonderful" West Virginia mountains are teaming with streams that feed roaring whitewater rivers. ACE Adventure Resort has provided premier river adventures through the nearby big-water New River and the non-stop, adrenaline pumping "Beast of the East" - the legendary Gauley River.
Within a 30-mile radius of our resort, thrill-seekers can explore over 100 miles of whitewater rapids - a concentration of whitewater found nowhere else in the U.S. With dozens of different trips ranging from mild to wild, we can ensure the hands-down best paddling experience.
At the end of your day's adventures, crash in one of our deluxe lodging options (every porch has a hot tub waiting, spotless and ready for you) or pick from one of our rustic cabins and campsites.
We feature the most diverse lodging options in the area with everything from simple camping to splurge-worthy log cabin homes with full kitchens, bathrooms and satellite/cable televisions.
We can accommodate numerous groups of all sizes with custom group programs perfect for church and mission groups, boy scout and girl scout troops, sports teams, family reunions, college clubs and corporate retreats. Weddings in the Woods are another adventure we specialize in here at ACE.
Just about everything at our base camp centers around our unique, spring fed, five-acre lake filled with awesomeness. An all-access Gold Pass is included with every adventure package booked at ACE. (After even just a half-day of playing on the lake, you are guaranteed to have a good night's sleep.) Inflatable climbing walls, the famous BLOB, zip lining, beach volleyball and more summer fun can be found at ACE Adventure Lake.
Hungry? Don't worry about cooking any meals – our casual Lakeside Dining Lodge is the perfect place to relax and refuel with deeelish meals throughout the day.
From home-cookin' breakfast plates to traditional classics like pizza & burgers to hot buffets on weekends, the cooks here sure know how to please. Our lakeside Lost Paddle Bar & Grill is the perfect setting for nighttime fun with live music, a full bar and tasty pub food.
Bring your own mountain bike, kayak, SUP/paddle board (or rent one from us) for a guided adventure or go hiking on miles of private trails through our woods that connect with the National Park trails.
The area's most zip lines run from tree to tree and will send you flying high above the canopy and plunging deep into the forest - day or night (if you dare).
Discover beautiful waterfalls, explore numerous panoramic overlooks of the gorge, relax or fish at our private lakes or explore old ghost towns surrounding our property. The adventure opportunities for thrill-seekers are endless.
We are rated the #1 Adventure Outfitter in West Virginia. Guests realize that their hard-earned vacation dollars are best spent with a respected and experienced outfitter.
Our team of over 200 dedicated people helps make every detail of your experience meet our high standards for safety and fun. All of our office staff members, adventure guides, cooks, cleaning crew, shuttle drivers, kayak video boaters and gear shop employees do the best job we can with our heads held high... all in the spirit of adventure and fun. (Meet more of the team.)
Our professional, friendly staff make more guests choose ACE than any other outfitter. (Adventure activities are risky and it takes a special type of person to guide a raft down a river or set up a rope system and be responsible for your safety as you zip through the trees.) We can't afford to have just anyone working for us. We have rigorous training certification programs and review systems that are unparalleled in the industry. We choose the best of the best to work for ACE, and have this commitment of excellence on all levels of staffing – not just our guides.
ACE Adventure Resort has been the industry leader and innovator when it comes to outdoor adventures and it requires top-of-the-line equipment and knowledge. We were the first with self-bailing rafts – we now have a full fleet of specially designed rafts.
We are also experts at Zip Line Canopy Tours, Ropes Courses and other technical adventures. We have full-time professional inspectors that do nothing else but check our gear and equipment.
Want to know more or just want to talk to somebody at ACE?


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Port Elliot is a town in South Australia toward the eastern end of the south coast of the Fleurieu Peninsula. It is situated on the sheltered Horseshoe Bay, a small bay off the much larger Encounter Bay. At the 2006 census, Port Elliot had a population of 1,754, although this section of the coast is now built up almost all the way from Goolwa to Victor Harbor.
Horseshoe Bay was proclaimed a port in 1851, and the settlement above the bay was named Port Elliot in 1852 after Charles Elliot, the Governor of Bermuda who was a friend of the then Governor of South Australia, Sir Henry Young. The port was established to provide a safe seaport for the Murray river trade which terminated at Goolwa as the Murray Mouth was deemed too treacherous and unpredictable for safe navigation. Goods and passengers were carried between Goolwa and Port Elliot on the first public railway in Australia completed in 1854.[3] The Government Works to establish the port included Australia's first reticulated water supply, from wells at Waterport (about 1 km north of the bay) to tanks above the jetty which provided fresh water for ships as well as for the town. In 1864 after a number of disastrous shipping losses in Horseshoe Bay the railway was extended to Victor Harbor which provided safer access for ships. Port Elliot's role as a port ended, with the bay and jetty being left to the fishermen and beachgoers. The importance of the rail link between the river and the sea soon also ended with the building of a railway between Adelaide and Morgan which enabled river traffic to offload freight and passengers over 160 miles further upstream and rail them directly to Adelaide. The towns of the southern Fleurieu coast - Victor Harbor, Port Elliot, Middleton and Goolwa - were spared any further commercial or industrial development, and became a popular holiday destination with many guest houses, camping parks and 'weekender' houses and shacks.
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Clock Changes in Macquarie Island, Tasmania, Australia in 2012
DST Observed All Year in Year 2012
Macquarie Island observed Daylight Saving Time all year.
Daylight Saving Time in Other Years
DST changes do not necessarily occur on the same date every year.
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I admit to being confused by the NY Times article:It has been mentioned elsewhere that the Medicare prescription drug benefit was ill-advised (by Bush) since it has cost Medicare too much money. However, retirees pay a premium for their drug benefit; and if it is all done by private insurors, how come it is costing the Medicare program money? I understand that the premiums on this coverage continue to increase; and the premium is deducted from the SS checks automatically.Ms. Snowe's proposal recalls a provision of the 2003 law that added a prescription drug benefit to Medicare. At the time, experts doubted that insurers would sell stand-alone policies covering only prescription drugs.
That law allowed the government to establish a prescription drug insurance plan in any geographic area with fewer than two private plans. But private insurers, seeing a lucrative business opportunity, rushed into the market, and the government never had to establish a plan of its own.
The Medicare drug benefit is thus delivered entirely by private insurers under contract with the federal government.
The same article is discussing the govt only offering a public option where "affordable" health insurance is not available. They define "affordable" asThe figures would meanCongress would define "affordable" with a sliding scale based on income. Under a proposal being considered by the Finance Committee, Medicaid would be extended to anyone with income less than 133 percent of the poverty level ($29,327 for a family of four).
For people with incomes just above that level, insurance would be considered affordable if they could find a policy with premiums equal to no more than, say, 3 percent or 4 percent of their income. For people with incomes exceeding three times the poverty level ($66,150 for a family of four), insurance might be deemed unaffordable if the premiums were more than, say, 12.5 percent to 15 percent of their income.
3% of $29,328 = $879.84 ($73.32/mo)
12.5% of $66.150 = $8268.75 ($689.06)
Thus, someone making about 2.26X the $29,328 would be deemed capable of paying 9.4X more for health insurance before it became "unaffordable".
I wonder if they intend to change the "tax" for not having health insurance. At the presently proposed 2.5% individyual tax (even for higher incomes), the fellow earning $66,150 would pay $1653.75/year. Or does the present proposal call for a sliding scale upward on this no-insurance tax?
If the govt views 12.5% as "affordable", then will that be what the govt charges for its public option? Keeping in mind that the govt's goal will be to use the premiums it collects from younger, higher-income individuals to offset the "losses" on the older insureds with pre-existing conditions.
The math of this actuarial principle only works if the amount you collect from the young, healthy people is sufficient to cover the much larger costs of the older, less healthy people. As Dave says, there is no escaping aging.
The problem with govt programs (using SS & Medicare as examples) has been that as soon as the govt sees reserves building, which is actuarily sound & should be intended, they can't resist spending those reserves. In the end, when those reserves would have been needed to sustain the program, they have already been spent. In the case of SS, the govt actually "borrowed" from SS to throw $ into the general budget.
If there is to be any public option, there would have to be an absolutely inviolate prohibition on the reserves that build from being spent in any other program, or for increasing benefits without commensurate actuarial soundness. Only then could any plan, run privately or publicly, maintain its actuarial soundness.
Am I mistaken, or is it correct that nowhere are there any estimates of how much someone will pay for the presently proposed public option? For those who are in favor of some type of public option (even if proposed as a "back-up"), they might end up being very surprised by how much it would cost.
I cannot believe that the private health insurors can't come up with a computer "model" of such a program. The govt should also have the computerization capability to do this. If so, why haven't they done so? If they have done so, why isn't it public information? The COB has extrapolated the costs of the program, but they have not translated it into the individual cost to each insured, it would appear.
Locally, this kind of thinking, in one of our local school districts, ended up costing the taxpayers $57 million! The basic outline of that situation. The school board was sold a bill of goods that by buying derivatives they would save $2 to $3 million on the financing of the district's debt (being used to build new facilities). The board members have since admitted that they never understood what the whole thing was, nor did they understand what the negative aspects might be. They essentially played the stock market with taxpayer money, but didn't even understand what they were doing! Bottom line, if they didn't understand what they were voting for, they had no business voting for it. Financially, it is now considered the most troubled school district in the entire state.


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I never knew my great grandfather, Alfred H. Brown, he died in 1920 and his daughter, my maternal grandmother, rarely spoke of him. I always think of my great grandfather as a store keeper, but he had many facets to his life. Indeed he did own and run a general store in Canterbury, New Hampshire (it burned down about 1927 with several other structures, but was eventually rebuilt as a general store that was still in operations when I last visited the area in 1991).
I do know that my great grandfather was interested in his pedigree. Several of his books on county history have been passed on to me, including the History of Canterbury, New Hampshire, [1] The History of New Ipswich, New Hampshire, 1735–1914,[2] and Genealogies of the Old Families of Concord, Mass. And Their Descendants.[3] Thankfully, these histories have provided wonderful clues to what might have been a difficult family to search.
Alfred H. Brown was born in New Ipswich, New Hampshire, 14 July 1838, son of Hermon and Sophronia (Prescott) Brown.[4] He died 4 October 1921 as reference in the diary of his daughter, Alice M. Perkins by the following entries.
3 Oct 1921: "Papa [Alfred H. Brown] looks very sick and I feel he will not last long."
4 Oct 1921: "Papa passed away about noon. "
Around 1861, Alfred and his brother, Joseph moved from New Ipswich to Canterbury where they formed a partnership and opened a general store. In 1868, Alfred bought his brother out and continued to run the general store until his death in 1921.[5]
Margaret Elizabeth Gale married Alfred H. Brown in Canterbury on 20 January 1872.[6] She was the daughter of Eliphalet and Mary Jane (Merrill) Gale.
The couple had four children all born and raised in Canterbury:
- Josephine Maud Brown, born 1 January 1873;[7] and died 24 November 1958.[8] Josephine, who never married, served as a librarian at the New Hampshire State Library for many years.
- Fred Hermon Brown, born 19 March, 1874,[9] and died 21 July 1947.[10] He married…
- Mary Prescott Brown, born 2 May 1877.[11] She married Richard A. Cody…
- Alice Margaret Brown, born 20 Feb 1886,[12] and died 4 June 1983.[13] She married Homer Lathe Perkins of Loudon, 8 April 1908 in Chester, New Hampshire.
Alfred and Margaret raised their family in a four-over-four colonial structure with an attached el and barn. His daughter, Alice (my grandmother) was born in the front right bedroom on the second floor (see image of their home, called The Maples, in my blog about Alice Margaret Brown).
Alfred and Margaret are buried in Blossom Hill Cemetery in Concord, New Hampshire.
According to the History of the Town of Canterbury: [14]
No turmoil ever disturbed Mr. Brown and his record was never questioned, no matter how bitter the partisan strife of the day. In the discharge of his duties he has ever been courteous, obliging and helpful; and as a public official, he has enjoyed the confidence of all parties. During the long winter evenings the store was the place where politics and current events were discussed. No lyceum ever afforded more earnest debates and very few more entertainment. The arguments of political speakers and the facts presented by public lecturers were here analyzed and dissected. These gatherings night after night with their exchange of views contributed to make a Canterbury audience most critical, and he who came to address them was fortunate if his statements were not challenged by one of more of his hearers. If these store discussions took an acrimonious turn, Mr. Brown had the happy faculty of changing the current of thought of his visitors.
In 1862, be became postmaster of Canterbury and held that position for most of the years he had the store. Mr. Brown also served the community for many years as the town clerk of Canterbury.[15]
An article in The Granite Monthly, provided the following account of Alfred H. Brown:[16]
A.H. Brown is the A.T. Stewart of the town [Canterbury, N.H.]. For twenty years last past he has ministered to the corporal wants of Canterbury, dealing out the sweets and sours, attending to the clerkly business of the town, and devoting considerable attention to the improvement of an assorted breed of hogs. He is not to the manor born, although his better half is [Margaret Gale]. His mercantile operations are not confined to the limited sphere of Canterbury. His energies have sought an outlet at the Weirs, where a branch store will be run at full blast the coming season.
The place at the Weirs reference in The Granite Monthly article immediately was a summer hotel called the "Aquedoktan House", located 80 rods south of the train depot, where rooms could be found for $1.50 per day or $7 and $8 per Week. Breakfast was served for 35¢, supper for 35¢, and dinner for 50¢. Mr. Dennett was an apparent joint partner in this venture. I do not know how many seasons the pair ran this hotel before it was burned to the ground.
[1] James Otis Lyford, History of the Town of Canterbury, New Hampshire, 1727-1912, 2 volumes (Concord, New Hampshire: The Rumford Press, 1912), hereinafter cited as History of the Town of Canterbury.
[2] Charles Henry Chandler, The History of New Ipswich, New Hampshire, 1735–1914 (Fitchburg, Massachusetts: Sentinel Printing Company, 1914), hereinafter cited as History of New Ipswich.
[3] Charles Edward Potter, editor, Genealogies of the Old Families of Concord, Mass. And Their Descendants in Part to the Present Generation, volume 1 (Boston: Alfred Mudge & Son, Printers, 1887).
[4] History of the Town of Canterbury II: 46; and History of New Ipswich, 276.
[5] History of the Town of Canterbury I: 203.
[6] Brown-Gale Marriage Record, New Hampshire Bureau of Vital Records, Hazen Road, Concord, New Hampshire; History of the Town of Canterbury II: 46; and History of New Ipswich, 276
[7] History of the Town of Canterbury II: 46.
[8] Grave Marker of Josephine M. Brown, Blossom Hill Cemetery, Concord, New Hampshire, viewed August 1993
[9] History of the Town of Canterbury II: 46.
[10] Grave Marker of Fred H. Brown, Blossom Hill Cemetery, Concord, New Hampshire, viewed August 1993.
[11] History of the Town of Canterbury II: 47.
[12] History of the Town of Canterbury II: 47.
[13] Funeral Memorial Card for Alice M. Perkins, Arrangements by Foley Funeral Home, Keene, N.H. in possession of the author who also attended the funeral at the United Church of Christ in Keene, New Hampshire, 8 June, 1983.
[14] History of the Town of Canterbury I: 267.
[15] Alfred's daughter, Alice M. (Brown) Perkins served for many years as the town clerk of Loudon, New Hampshire, and his granddaughter, Josephine (Perkins) Woodward served a term or two as the town clerk of Walpole, New Hampshire.
[16] The Granite Monthly, a New Hampshire Magazine, June, 1881, page 388.


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Cruising the library's "New" shelf yielded Jennifer Ouellette's The Calculus Diaries. I grabbed that because I am very much an amateur mathematician and so always hope for that "Aha!" moment from a new teacher, and I also like reading about the history of mathematics. The book is heavy on Diary (is she sponsored by Toyota?) and light on Calculus but some of the anecdotes were fun. For example, even though my job involves mathematical modeling of populations (people or cells or molecules) I had missed the 2009 paper by Munz and colleagues in Infectious Disease Modelling Progress called When Zombies Attack!.
Ms. Ouellette's coverage doesn't leap straight into Kermack & McKendrick's 1927 paper on the SIR model, but instead steps back to simple population modeling with Thomas Malthus (1798, unrestricted exponential growth) and Pierre-François Verhulst (1838, logistic model). However, history is more rich than the space in the book will support, so it isn't pointed out that it took until 1920 before Pearl & Reed rediscovered the logistic equation and used it to model US population growth. The material that is really missing is when cool things start to happen, both mathematically and historically, when we moved away from linear algebraic models and over to multi-equation (compartmental) interacting nonlinear systems. Alfred Lotka buried that approach in his 1925 textbook (mainly applying it to chemical reactions) but it came more to the fore when Vito Volterra discovered it (apparently) independently and published it in 1926 when describing fish population dynamics (Dr. Lotka's letter to the journal, pointing out Prof. Volterra's oversight, is politely understated). While Kermack & McKendrick were applying Lotka-Volterra, it was made more rigorous by the work of Georgii Gause (1932) and Andrey Kolmogorov (1936). Then Kermack/McKendrick seems to be forgotten for a while, until it was popularized more recently by e.g. Prof. Roy Anderson. These days, in the medical world, this kind of model is not just limited to epidemiological disease modeling (and prevention strategies) but can also be used to model interactions between pathogens and cells within the body (e.g. the groups of Prof. Alan Perelson at Los Alamos and Prof. Martin Nowak at Harvard).
Also, thanks to Ms. Ouellette, having finished her book I am now reading Seth Grahame-Smith's Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (but not a Choc-ice to be found...)


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The 34th Montreal World Film Festival (August 26-September 6),
proved most heartening for those of us anxious about the state of global
cinema. I saw splendid works from all over the world, from both first-time and
veteran filmmakers. Over several days, I watched eight movies in a row that I
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Influitive Raises $7.3 Million Series A
Influitive is an advocate marketing company that has raised $7.3 million in Series A funding. Investors in this round include Hummer Winblad, Relay Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, New Enterprise Associates, Illuminate Ventures, Resolute.VC, Common Angels, and several angel investors. Lars Leckie of Hummer Winblad and Alexa Baker of Relay Ventures will be joining the Influitive board of directors. The company plans on using the funding to ramp up their marketing, sales, and services teams.