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So let me get this straight... some of you think that putting a hand down over a dog's head is going to keep them from breaking?????? Just curious.....
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So...for those that use your hand on the send for marks....what do you do for a dog that is on a remote sit? Do you then walk over to the dog and send with your hand?
Yes. They are conditioned to understand that they cannot go - after the last bird is shot (and excitement the highest) - until the hand goes down and their name is said
I have seen a handler or two who do not follow this practice (which is the norm in FT), and their dogs seemed more prone to breaking
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I only use a no-hand send on "Easy" memory birds, I also use a very soft voice on those check downs.
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its funny that I just had this conversation with Lanse at 6:30 this morning when we had our weekly phone call to BS about the past weekend's events (PRTA in Ga)....one of the marks in the 4th series of the Am was a short check down variety, here is Lanse's play by play description almost verbatimthere is you handling lesson for the day thanks to David Rorem via Lanse...it just depends on the situationLanse : "as Rosa came back with the bird I could hear Rorem in my ear saying Lanse, this is a no hands soft send...so I kept the bird in her mouth and watched her breathing before taking the bird from her mouth, then I sweated her for just a bit until her breathing became less heavy,I leaned over and gave her a soft send no hands whisper Rosa....she nailed it..the Lanse of old would have put his hand down and given a booming back and probably sent her into Charlie Hays' bedroom (trial was held at his property) "
I know that with lots of repetition, hopefully dogs learn that they cannot go without being released. I'm just not convinced that it's the hand over their head that keeps them steady, any more than not hearing their name as the cue they can go. But, that's just me and my problem!!!!
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While disparities continue to exist between minority students, economically disadvantaged students, and their peers, the "achievement gap" among public school students is an issue that the North Shore as a whole is uniquely qualified to address head on.
That was the thrust of a presentation and workshop hosted last week at Concordia University in Mequon and facilitated by Wisconsin Association of School Boards Executive Director John Ashley, who addressed a crowd of school board members, school administrators, and superintendents from across the North Shore.
While, taken as a whole, North Shore school districts are both high-ranking and high-achieving, less well-off and minority students continue to perform below their peers. Across the region, white and Asian students averaged a 25.4 and 23.4, respectively, on last year's ACT, while their black and Hispanic peers averaged 18.7 and 22.
According to Ashley, Wisconsin as a whole has some of the largest achievement gaps between black and white students, particularly among young boys when tested on reading.
And while there is no "silver bullet" when it comes to closing the achievement gap, Ashley said, the more local elected and school officials make the public aware of the problem, and the more they hold their schools accountable, the more they move in the right direction.
"This is the first time, that I'm aware, that (a group of school boards) has decided that it's an important enough issue to get together," Ashley said, addressing the crowd. "The first part of this issue is acknowledging that we have a problem. Getting together and talking about the achievement gap — that's powerful."
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Regardless of overall achievement or ranking, there is an observable achievement gap in testing data in every North Shore district.
In Whitefish Bay, which posted the highest average ACT score of any Wisconsin public school district last year, white and Asian students averaged a 26.6 and 26.7, respectively, while black and Hispanic students averaged 19.8 and 23.9.
In Mequon-Thiensville, the top-rated Wisconsin K-12 district in last year's DPI report card rankings, white students averaged a 25.6 while black students scored a collective 18.5.
In Brown Deer, the home of the North Shore's most diverse high school student population, Hispanic students topped the scale with an average 22.9 ACT score, followed by white students, who averaged a 22.6. Asian students scored an 18.8 while black students averaged an 18.1.
Across the North Shore, economically disadvantaged students averaged a lower ACT score than their non-economically disadvantaged peers.
"The challenge for the North Shore is you already do a great job of educating students overall," Ashley said. "...The achievement gap, in this environment, adds extra pressure to address it."
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Ashley said a contributor to the achievement gap issue, among myriad individual things, is an expectation or acceptance by some school boards and among certain teachers that minority students won't achieve at the same level as their peers.
He said elected officials and school administrators have to hold themselves accountable for the success of every student.
"Every student can achieve, and it's our job to get them to that point," Ashley said. "No excuses."
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To that end, various school board members and superintendents around the room said they were excited to be collaborating with their North Shore peers and leveraging their combined resources to tackle the problem.
Brown Deer Superintendent Deb Kerr commended the group for having the courage to come out and discuss the achievement gap, and said she will be happy to share with the "North Shore neighborhood" the strategies her district has employed in recent years.
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no problem driving out on your own, although perry always picks us up early. we are on the water by 8:00 am and off at 4:00. often the various guides will "car pool" as they all will have clients that have to be picked up in freeport, thus making it easier for the guide. however whe i go there are 4 of us so perry almost always does the pick ups and returns, but if you're alone or with one other person, the person picking you up and dropping you off will likely change each day. that said they are always quite prompt.
when it's the 4 of us we often stay out to 5 or 6 if the bite is on or the tides are right. of course we pay extra but perry is amenable. i think he would be particularly so if he did not have to pick you up and bring you back. keep in mind though that the sun is low on the horizon in the early morning and late afternoon thus making seeing the fish more difficult.
if you do book with perry, please let him know that you got your recommendation from neal from boston on the flyfishing forum. it's good for the forum and good for you.
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Guys, i am trying to book captain perry. one question, i know he will pick you up in Freeport even though he fishes out of McLeans Town. But that is a ton of driving for him after hopefully poling my butt around all day in a skiff. Realistically, would i get more fishing time if i rented a car and drove and met him there?
My plan is to fish three days guided. The day i get there, i have a half day so i'm planning on a little DIY fishing just to enjoy the day. The next three days would be guided before heading home.
I say this because i would already have a car. it seems to me i could fish more if i offered to drive out there.
|ditto on bernard. fished him twice good guide-sees fish like no other. but constantly distracted with phone calls and errands while fishing. not in the same class as demeritte.
|Yep fished him once, hes decent , but if Perry Demeritte is availible I would book him
Thanks guys. Sounds like the thing to do would be to book a day or two with Tommy and then book a day on the East End.
By chance, have any of you fished with Bernard Bevans on the East End.
i fish gb regularly, but i only know rolles by reputation, and it's good. like md, i fish the east side out of mcclain's town. i fished the north side once with sam taylor. we were scheduled to fish with him for 7 days but got rid of him after 3. a nice guy who moonlights as a guide ( he's a security guard full time) and lots of laughs, but clueless.
the east side is considered the best place to fish on gb. lots of flats and BIG fish-probably the biggest bones in the bahamas. the guides there are also some of the best you'll find anywhere. most have gone through a rigorous and lengthy training program with north point riding club before venturing out on their own, and their training really shows. consistently very good guides. i always try to book perry demeritte. i think he's the best one, highly professional and highly regarded by other guides. the local hotels book him (and some others) for their clients.
the only draw back with the east side is transportation. while you can rent a cottage in the area, it is remote. we stay in freeport which is real nice with plenty to do and very reasonably priced, but a good hour from mcclains town, although the guides will pick you up and bring you back at no extra charge.
I have fished Tommy six or seven different times - solid guide, good eyes, and boat handling skills. He also has a great sense of humor and does not mind mixing it up with you especially if you blow a shot (I consider this a plus). He even met me and the family one year and we both fished a southsideflat e my girls played with his daughter.
The only potential negative would be that his homewaters" are on the West End which feature a dark turtle grass bottom on the Northside and a rocky dark bottom on the Southside. This is a stark contrast to some of the sandy bottoms and mixed sand bottoms found on the east end of the Island out of MacCleans Town. Does not mean the fishing is any worse - fish are just tougher to see - I have caught some big fish on that end as well as had multiple shots at permit.
As you can probably guess I prefer the east end - but always schedule a day with Tommy on the West End, and Sam Taylor out of Freeport just to break things up.
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Has anyone ever fished with Tommy Rolle on Grand Bahamas? i have heard good things, but wanted to see if any of you experts had any thoughts. Am starting to put together my 2009 trip and was looking to fish GB.
Also, does anyone have experience fishing the west end?
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Released in 1985 the JX-10 (Super JX) combines two individual JX-8P's for an outstandingly warm, rich and analog sound which is still used in many modern studios all over the world. This synth was the first Roland Synth to be fitted with a quality 76 note keyboard with velocity and aftertouch. Two DCO's per voice, two ADSR envelope generators per voice, and a resonant lowpass & non-resonant highpass filters are only the beginning. It has a 12 voice polyphony for a total of 24 oscillators and it is by far one of the most programmable synths of its time! However, as on the JX-8P, knobs and sliders have been replaced by low-profile buttons and a nice LCD display. Although this may look sleek and elegant, it makes editing a chore. Assign parameters to the alpha dial for tweaking, one at a time, or get the optional PG-800 Programmer to provide traditional, hands-on, dedicated sliders for editing the JX-10's parameters.
The JX10 has a Chorus effect and a chase-play Delay function. The chase-play function allows programmable delayed repeats of voices by alternating patches of the upper and lower modules. The simple chorus effect is either off, slow or fast. It has two programmable sliders (if you don't use the PG-800) for some real-time control which can be recorded along with other effects and keyboard modes into one of the 64 Program Patches. This is in addition to its standard 50 preset and 50 user patch memory. A simple sketch-pad 1-track real-time sequencer is also on-board. It stores sequence data directly to an M16C card, or an M64C card for Patch/Tone OR sequence data. The M16C has a capacity of 400 notes, the M64C 1440, according to the manual.
The JX-10 also comes in a rack-mount version known as the MKS-70. It's worth noting that the JX-10 can not be edited via SysEx, however the MKS-70 can which is one reason many have chosen the rack version over the keyboard. The JX-10 can make bulk dumps of its sounds over sysex, but only with (discontinued) Roland M64C RAM cartridges. The JX-10 has been used by Jane Child, Pink Floyd, Duran Duran, Angelo Badalamenti, Yellow Jackets and The Cure.
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Post-streptococcal GN is a form of glomerulonephritis. It is caused by an infection with a type of streptococcus bacteria. The infection does not occur in the kidneys, but in a different part of the body, such as the skin or throat.
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A physical examination shows swelling (edema), especially in the face. Abnormal sounds may be heard when listening to the heart and lungs with a stethoscope (auscultation). Blood pressure is often high.
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TUPELO – To supply electricity to its customers in seven states, the Tennessee Valley Authority uses more than 13,000 miles of transmission lines.
But those transmission lines need to be relatively clear of vegetation, i.e., trees, that could interfere with that delivery.
In fact, TVA spends about $20 million a year on what it calls right-of-way vegetation management, which includes removing property owners' trees.
"Power lines and trees don't mix," said John Dooley, TVA's West Area Line Applied Services manager.
High voltage lines – which carry 100,000 volts or more – can arc to trees, buildings or other nearby objects and cause fire, property damage or costly power outages.
Through aerial surveys and other methods, TVA regularly checks to keep trees clear.
The industry standard is to not have trees over 15 feet under power lines. And the width of the rights of way can vary, from 75 feet to 200 feet.
"Those lines can sag 15 to 25 feet, so it's important that we keep those rights of way," Dooley said.
The 2003 blackout in the northeastern U.S. affected 50 million people and cost and estimated $6 billion in total economic damages. A tree was the root cause of the blackout, Dooley said.
"So the industry as a whole set minimum clearances for the lines across the country," he said.
Recently, TVA was fined $175,000 due to a power interruption caused by a tree. A willow tree grew almost 30 feet in a right of way in Alabama, and when it grew within 10 feet of a 500,000-volt line, the line "flashed over" and triggered an outage.
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Premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) is a condition in which a woman has severe depression symptoms, irritability, and tension before menstruation. The symptoms of PMDD are more severe than those seen with premenstrual syndrome (PMS).
PMS refers to a wide range of physical or emotional symptoms that typically occur about 5-11 days before a woman starts her monthly menstrual cycle. The symptoms usually stop when, or shortly after, her period begins.
The causes of PMS and PMDD have not been found.
Hormone changes that occur during a woman's menstrual cycle may play a role.
PMDD affects between 3% and 8% of women during the years when they are having menstrual periods.
Many women with this condition have:
Other factors that may play a role include:
The symptoms of PMDD are similar to those of PMS. However, they are generally more severe and debilitating and include a least one mood-related symptom. Symptoms occur during the week just before menstrual bleeding and usually improve within a few days after the period starts.
Five or more of the following symptoms must be present to diagnose PMDD, including one mood-related symptom:
No physical examination or lab tests can diagnose PMDD. A complete history, physical examination (including a pelvic exam), and psychiatric evaluation should be done to rule out other conditions.
Keeping a calendar or diary of symptoms can help women identify the most troublesome symptoms and the times when they are likely to occur. This information may help the health care provider diagnose PMDD and determine the best treatment.
A healthy lifestyle is the first step to managing PMDD.
Keep a diary or calendar to record:
Antidepressants may be helpful.
The first option is usually an antidepressant known as a selective serotonin-reuptake inhibitor (SSRI). You can take SSRIs in the second part of your cycle up until your period starts, or for the whole month. Ask your doctor.
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) may be used either with or instead of antidepressants. During CBT, you have about 10 visits with a mental health professional over several weeks.
Other treatments that may help include:
After proper diagnosis and treatment, most women with PMDD find that their symptoms go away or drop to tolerable levels.
PMDD symptoms may be severe enough to interfere with a woman's daily life. Women with depression may have worse symptoms during the second half of their cycle and may need changes in their medication.
Some women with PMDD have had suicidal thoughts. Suicide in women with depression is more likely to occur during the second half of the menstrual cycle.
PMDD may be associated with eating disorders and smoking.
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The home of the Phantom of the Opera ;) - Apartment Pozole
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Just behind the Opera, in Pest's cultural center, in the pedestrian street can be found this exclusive flat waiting for you and your company to discover Budapest. The separate bedroom and the airy living room assure comfortable rest for five people. In the well-equipped kitchen and dining room you can cook for any nation's taste. TV, fast Wi-Fi, washing machine, dishwasher and ironing possibilities are ready for your service.
Welcome and Indulge yourself in Budapest!
Sheets, bed linen, towels, hair dryer are provided.
Cheap airport transfer or parking possibility is available, reservation needed.
Baby bed and high chair upon request.
House rules1. The apartment can be occupied on the day of the arrival from 2PM and should be left before 11AM on the day of departure. When possible we are flexible with these times so please advise us of your requirements in advance.
2. We kindly ask all our guests to fill in our registration book upon arrival.
3. Please return all the keys received as agreed previously at the handover.
4. Please always lock the doors to your apartment, i.e. the street door, the apartment door and the security gate if available.
5. In case any apartment key would be lost you should inform us immediately; the necessary lock and key changes will be charged to you.
6. The apartment can be used only by our checked-in guests.
7. Please leave the apartment in the same general condition as you found it on arrival. Any damage caused during your stay must be compensated by you.
8. Should you face any problem with the apartment while your stay, please inform us immediately.
9. We accept no responsibility for your valuables left in the apartment.
10. Please take care of the cleanliness and tidiness of the apartment. At the checkout please wash any used dishes and remove any rubbish, leaving the apartment in the same condition as you occupied it.
11. Pets are not allowed in the apartment, unless formerly agreed with us.
12. Smoking in the apartment is strictly forbidden.
13. This point is particularly important and no concessions will be made: Please pay respect to other residents of the house. Please close the doors carefully and silently, stay away from any behavior that can disturb any residents particularly after 9PM. We reserve the right to cancel the service immediately with keeping the whole fee of the rental if we receive any valid complaints from other residents of the house.
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Our stay was without any complaint. Nice neighborhood, good apartment and excellent and flexible service and correspondence. Thank you.
The flat is in a great position - just round the corner from the synagogue and many areas of interest are within walking distance. As Deak F Ter (transport interchange) is very near it was easy to travel all over the city on the metro.
Really good location within reach for major sights and close to the tube station. Nicely decorated flat with a nice view from the balcony. Wireless not working might be an issue for some.
Next time in Budapest, we will book the same for sure.
Very good first experience for us. The apartment was quite consistent with the description, spacious (for two ...) and very pleasant.
Très bonne première expérience pour nous. Le logement était tout à fait conforme à la description, spacieux (pour deux...) et très agréable à vivre.
Great apartment, clean, having everything for living. Nice neighborhood, apartment located near Vaci street, train, metro and bus station. Host is very pleasant, willing to help us about all things that we need. Also available all day for any information.
We had great time in Budapest, and apartment is surely top recommendation.
I am very pleased with the choice!
Sono molto soddisfatta della scelta fatta!
Lovely flat in a quiet and central Budapest street, we recommended to book it. Perfect view on the Gellert hill.
No complaints about the host. Friendly and correct, and I think it belongs to a larger empresma, so it was all very clear and specific purposes and interests of the tenant. As for the apartment, or in general, if you want to cook something down the kitchen, although it is understood by the small size of the apartment. We were 4 and fits well, albeit 2-3 and best mate. Being close all the nightlife we believe is the best highlight. The only negative to the hot water tank is short and if several people are just douche, but hey, it is a lesser evil!
Sobre el anfitrión ninguna queja. Amable y correcta, y creo que pertenece a una empresma más grande; así que estaba todo muy claro y sin fines específicos ni intereses del inquilino. En cuanto al apartamento, bien en general, si se quiere cocinar algo apretada la cocina; aunque es de entender por las dimensiones reducidas del apartamento. Nosotros estuvimos 4 y se cabe bien, aunque de 2 a 3 mejor y para pareja ideal. Toda la marcha nocturna cerquísima que creemos es el mejor punto a destacar. Lo único negativo que el acumulador de agua caliente dura poco y si se duchan varias personas se acaba, pero bueno; es un mal menor!
+ : Flat with perfect location in Budapest. Ktichen and bathroom very nice. Host quite helpful.
- : Radiators without thermostat so we had to leave the windows open night and day ! Beds not really comfortable. TV not connected at all and WiFi rarely working. Ugly and dirty door mat just in the entrance not welcoming!
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So with the 50th anniversary of the assignation of JFK approaching it's been interesting reflecting on the day. I was in 7th grade at North Junior High in Brighton Colorado- Mr. Stillwells American History class. They were remodeling the cafeteria so to eat lunch we all had to march 2 blocks to the High School. As usual the local motorcycle cop was running traffic guard but this day he was clearly distraught and plainly had tears on his cheeks. Once we got to the High School- it was mayhem. Stunned silence mixed with tears and anger. The Principal and a couple of teachers rolled in TV sets to the cafeteria and we all sat on the floors watching as the events unfolded. Remember it like it was yesterday.
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Flowers: Umbel to 2 1/2" (6.5 cm) wide; sepals and petals 5 each.
Leaves: Basal leaves 1-4" (2.5-10 cm) long, long-stalked, ovate blades indented at base, edges with teeth; upper leaves pinnately divided into 3 segments with several narrow lobes, edges with teeth.
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Height: 8-24" (20-60 cm).
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Take that, crappy April Fools joke, I actually have both of these! They were on TRU shelves last night. The Snowspeeder is shortpacked at 1 per case and won't be in the upcoming "wave 1 revision __" cases.
The Cloud Car is pretty much exactly as expected based on the preview images. The connection point between the 2 halves is very strong and at first didn't seem like the cars were going to connect without a gap, but with enough pressure that last millimeter gave up and they snapped together. The cloud car seems smaller than the vintage, but upon comparison they are the same size except the connecting arms on the vintage are wider by around maybe an inch. The cockpit has painted details, nothing too fancy but it's nice to see it in there anyway, and they sculpted a bit of a raised bump for the actual seat (an issue that bothered the EU Cloud Car). The paint has no weathering at all, which is the only issue IMO that isn't a positive. The cockpits open nicely, although they sculpted an inner lip underneath so it's not as smooth getting figures in as the vintage was, but I was able to get POTJ Lando and the OTC Cloud Car pilot in with no difficulty (they were what I had at hand). The landing gear are simple, and even closed their tabs stick out the bottom which bugs me a little, but they sculpted and painted a small gun on each so I'll forgive (it makes no sense, but that's ok). The pod-sliding gimmick is fun, though I wish the weapon inside was more exciting. All in all, it's still a little boring but it's alright. I don't think I would have paid TRU's $28 on its own though, only thanks to BOGO50% would its value be acceptable. Funny enough, the packaging diorama backdrop has 2 small cloud cars on it in the background, both are of the weapons-deployed variety with the pods slid in.
The Snowspeeder is very nice right out of the box. No weathering, but otherwise it's head and shoulders above the original (which was very nice too, but had inaccuracies). The lack of raised line detailing is great, instead it's recessed - it was only buying both of these new vehicles and comparing them to their vintage counterparts that I noticed the Kenner vehicles consistently used raised lines to represent panels rather than ones cut into the vehicle, I believe due to improvements in tooling technology. The canopy looks great, the windows bigger and smoother and more accurate, with lots of visibility. The smaller size is more accurate to the films, it looks better and is more fun to whoosh, and the only liberties that I can see they took were a small trough in the underside of the hull, and the position of Luke's seat (in the movie, Luke sits right under the dash, which would have been impossible unless they cut off his legs or the T-47 was Flintstones-powered). The missile-firing guns aren't so bad, but I'm grateful they weren't the only option, they're fun but not accurate, so it's good to swap them out. Likewise, the swappable rear gun is dandy, they don't pivot up and down but they share sculpted detailing, and the larger firing one has a cute trick with the "cable out!" gimmick, a small hatch in the underside that houses the excess line and then pops all the way out. I wish the string was even longer, I may have to make that happen. The hidden hatch door comes off a tad easily, but it's sculpted to be put back on either way so orientation is never a worry. The upper flaps open, but the lower ones are still static. The removable rear cannon bit is removable on the right side to allow access to the panel under - in ESB, Luke's snowspeeder has this removed while the others don't, so it's a great touch. Deco is decent, mixed grays and a few touches of white, under the access panel and flaps is dark reddish orange, there's tons of tiny aurebesh writing everywhere, but I haven't translated it yet. The cockpit interior has a very nice sculpt, but requires a dozen stickers. Oh, and a nice little touch, they sculpted a hole to accommodate the recent Luke Snowspeeder's grappling gun, sans hook. All in all, quite nice and a worthy update.


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In some college towns, you're lucky if you can find two or three good eateries. In Providence, you could get through med school and still not be done exploring — especially if you're willing to venture deep into the city and out across Rhode Island.
It helps to have a great culinary-arts school at Johnson & Wales University, which fills the city with talented young chefs just as Rhode Island School of Design fills it with artists. But that's only a small part of the story: The Ocean State, you'll discover, is a foodie's heaven, with a wildly diverse array of options, from the traditional, to the exotic, to the sublime — with a healthy dose of weird in-between.
Schools may be back in session, but summer is not quite over. And for those hitting the beach in the southern part of the state — that's "South County" to the locals — there's plenty of great fare.
It's not just frozen lemonade. It's DEL'S LEMONADE, a Rhody classic: light, sweet, specked with pieces of lemon rind, and soft and swishy so you can squeeze it right out of the cup — the way to have it. ("You MUST not eat Del's with a spoon or straw or ever be seen doing so," warned one native.)
Also down south, you may discover the Ocean State's luscious and super-fresh seafood, available (relatively) cheap at countless little family eateries and clam shacks (our favorites include FLO'S CLAM SHACK in Middletown, next to First Beach in Newport, GEORGE'S OF GALILEE in Narragansett, and a little closer to the city, QUITO'S RESTAURANT in Bristol).
You'll need to know some basics, starting with the three kinds of chowder: Manhattan is red and has no place north of Long Island; ignore it. New England is white and creamy; the best kinds will be lightly creamy rather than goopy. Rhode Island has a clear, flavorful broth.
Next, the clams: In the Ocean State, you'll find three main kinds. Littlenecks (and the larger cherrystones) are sweet, compact, and eaten raw on the half-shell, steamed in broth, or baked.
Steamers are long and flat, with dark shells and long necks; they're served steamed, with a bowl of broth to rinse them, or fried — as "whole clams" complete with bellies, or as "clam strips" (just the necks). Clam necks are chewy, a bit like squid; the bellies are more like cooked oysters.
The king of Rhody clams is the quahog (pronounced KO-hog), shaped like a littleneck but the size of the palm of your hand. Quahogs aren't served whole, but they're the basis of clam chowder and of two local favorites: stuffies and clam cakes. The latter are dough fritters loaded with clam pieces; dip them in malt vinegar. Stuffies are gigantic stuffed clams; the best are not too doughy and crispy on top.
Also worth trying: fresh lobster rolls, baked scallops (or any baked seafood here — buttery, topped with crispy crumbs). And if you can't head out to the coast, try HORTON'S SEAFOOD in East Providence, which has all the good stuff without the seagulls.
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02-05-2013, 11:51 AM #1Junior Member Guppy
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in search of a suspect...........help!!
my tank has redtail shark, rainbow shark ( 2-2 each), molly, neon tetra-4 and guppy-4..
few days back i had put 5 danios.... 2 days before i found trimmed tail of guppy and he/ she died after 1 day...
and after that i lost a neon tetra...
i m suspecting danios but 1 of the senior member of this forum is saying its shark...
m confused bcoz i found my shark very gentle.... never seen them hurting others... plz help!!
for one, sharks are best left as 1 per aquarium. they can have bad tempurments and pick on any fish thats smaller, slower, weeker. they dont really prey on them its just an issue of them picking on them. most likely the issue is them staking out part of the aquarium as "theirs". a danio swims into this area and WAHM! no more tail. some times its jst too hard to see it happen. all the other fish are not none nippers. i know im the one who told you the shark before, just giving me reasons. im sure most of the other members will agree.KING OF THE GOLD BARBS RAWR!!!!
I wonder if i plant one of my tiger barbs would the demon seed grow to a full tree?
gotta love them bunnies!
I.R.S.: We've got what it takes to take what you've got!
Gen - His guppys lost the tail not the danios - [Danios are prob too fast for the 'sharks' to catch anyway]
As far as the nipping goes, It could be any of the above. Danios can be nippy [Big fins are very tempting to them] in smaller numbers like you have them. IMO the deaths are due to one of the sharks. I am betting your tank is far too small for two of these particular sharks though [and possibly the danios also]. This is the real issue here.
What size tank is this?
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Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.
Why pretend there are no stupid questions? Actually, There are many stupid questions: "Should I drink this bleach?" Is just one example.
Having said that, Just because it's a stupid question doesn't mean that it shouldn't be asked. It's better to know.
A warm beer is better than a cold beer. Because nothing is better than a cold beer, and a warm beer is better than nothing.
+1 to all above, to have 4 sharks like that, even if they are all small you would need a larger tank, I don't think I'd trust them in my 55 let alone anything smaller...
I don't believe that the danios could remove an entire tail, but I haven't had guppies before, so it may be possible... Guppies really are kinda wimps, the danios are fast and belong in a longer aquarium but are ok with other fish since they can escape harm
Please provide some info on your tank (size, filters, hiding spaces avail)
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I totally agree with all advice above - if you research those sharks, you will see that they need to have a tank to themselves - they don't live well with other fish species let alone others of their own kind.
Even if they are small (they all start off small), their aggressiveness is still there.


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WHEW! Finally, a release of libFreeDnD. Available at the FreeDnD page.
I'm really quite tired.
And speaking of D&D, I have to DM in two days, and I don't have an adventure yet.
WHEW! Finally, a release of libFreeDnD. Available at the FreeDnD page.
I'm really quite tired.
And speaking of D&D, I have to DM in two days, and I don't have an adventure yet.
Yeah, so.. uh. New Funbot out. Timer support, good timer support. SourceForge project for FreeD&D set up. Hackers 1.0.0 released. Yeah.
Arr. I can't seem to upload Funbot 2.0.3, with the requested timer support. It's really neat support, too. It's on SourceForge, at least.
Speaking of which, when did SourceForge's interface get so confusing and slow? Last time I tried something there it was fast. Now it hurts my head to navigate it.
OK, took care of some memory leaks in libDnD. Maybe I'll have a real 0.0.0 release by the end of the week.
Released Hackers 1.0.0. Final version. No more updates. No bugs. Right?
Screw glade for now, trying to write my first GTK programs not knowing how to use it exactly is too hard. And I'll probably want to learn the low-level UI stuff eventually. So off I go to learn GTK.
Well, uh, yeah. I guess I got this. So I should write something here.
Reed has an annoying bug I found that crashes it when it's loading large files via stdin. No clue why, gdb sez it's in fputs() somewhere. Project for another day.
libFreeDnD maturing well for a newborn. Spell structures all done, as well as coding style constaints that I _will stick to dammit_. Plans for the rest of the functions are dueling to the death in my head as I write this, and I'm sure will give me a lot of nice dreams.
Speaking of dreams, need to finish Dream.pm and release it. That's a really useful module.
Oh yeah, and I promised chris I'd get timers into Funbot by... yesterday. Darn. I need to deal with that so I have an excuse to release a new version besides fixing a stupid fatal bug.
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How many of you follow this? Is this just negotiating or are the principle players locked in to their positions? Do you believe that negotiating in the MSM is helping the situation? What do you believe should be the outcome, with specifics?
& separately, what's your opinion of Costco borrowing money to pay a special dividend - noting that Sinegal, the founder, was a big Obama supporter, specifically his support for taxing the !%? Hypocritical?


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well great news we went out yesterday and my wife got her first turkey. we set up along the same trail i got mine we had been there a couple hours and were starting to wonder if we had been skunked when just about dark this guy started moving through he was headed along a different trail about thirty yards away headed towards some roost trees. unfortunately my wife got him and he started flopping around and rolled right down the hill to us but he tore up his tail on the way through. on the way home my son informed me he needed a shotgun and his hunter safety so he could get one next year.
its been a great year weve been watching and waitng for our chance. this was our first year drawing tags and we have filled two of three. he had 8 3/4 beard and 3/4 spurs. i believe these are rios i am not sure though in this area i know there are both rios and merriams.
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thanks for lookin and all the help and advice this year.


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Imagine the spending spree hangover Linda McMahon must be nursing today.
No matter how much money you have, the estimated $100 million McMahon spent over two campaigns trying to acquire a U.S. Senate seat was an enormous fortune to fritter away.
And really, in the end, what's to show for it?
Think of the hospitals and schools all that money could have built, how much could have been spent on, say, medical research that might have improved so many lives.
She might have even gotten the lights on sooner in Connecticut, if she had saved just some of the money spent on airing so many more campaign commercials during the state's hurricane disaster week and instead hired teams of linemen.
Imagine spending more money on egocentric political campaigns than anyone ever, and still losing.
I thought it curious that McMahon, in doubling down on her loss to Sen. Richard Blumenthal in 2010, did more harm than good to her reputation on her second Senate campaign.
The 2010 campaign unearthed the seamy side of her WWE wrestling empire, the federal investigation into steroids abuse, the drug-addled wrestlers, wrestlers who died early because of their work, wrestlers who were not even entitled to medical benefits despite the severe toll their work took on their health.
It all seemed new then to voters, and newsworthy.
I was reminded a few weeks ago, when someone began circulating old video clips of the original raunchy WWE programming, back when Linda McMahon was in charge, of how people forgot this year how awful many of the shows were.
One scene in particular that I had never seen before seemed especially distasteful.
There was Vince McMahon, Linda's husband and business partner, in the ring one night, leaning over a cowering woman dressed only in a bra and panties. McMahon was shouting at the woman while undoing his belt and unzipping his trousers.
The camera panned the crowd and showed thousands of young men on their feet, cheering and shouting and egging McMahon on.
It's hard to imagine an architect of that kind of distasteful entertainment, no matter how entertaining to some, could find her way into the country's political elite.
By the start of her 2012 campaign, McMahon had a new strategy. In part, she and her campaign advisers knew the shock of WWE programming would have waned somewhat and that it was less newsworthy.
At the same time, they began refashioning McMahon as a mild-mannered grandmother, hoping women voters in Connecticut would forget about all that sexist programming.
In the end, the 2012 campaign was much more dishonest than the one in 2010, in which McMahon confronted the attacks against WWE and took on Blumenthal on the issues.
Instead, against Chris Murphy, McMahon crafted a nasty campaign full of character assassination and misleading or untruthful attacks.
Even her campaign press releases were harsh and mean-spirited, the product of a take-no-prisoners, win-at-any-cost political machine manned by a lot of old hands at the game of attack politics.
In other ways, it was a new animal in Connecticut politics, a campaign that dodged traditional media, interviews with reporters and editorial boards, and subsisted instead on images fabricated in television advertising and glossy brochures.
Even many of her supporters, the young people holding up McMahon signs on street corners and at rallies, were on the payroll.
Party leaders, sucked in by her money, turned their backs on traditional Republican candidates who have succeeded in winning elections in the past.
And now they've lost twice with the let's-buy-a-Senate-seat strategy.
Let's hope that's the last we have seen of that strategy in Connecticut for a while.
This is the opinion of David Collins.
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Check Out Galen Okazaki's Awesome Lion Fight 8 Photos
- Written by Dave Walsh
Our friend and Can't Stop Crazy contributor Galen Okazaki was in attendance at Lion Fight 8 this past weekend and if you paid close attention you probably saw him hanging out around the ring snapping up some photographs. He was there and captured the essence of what was a really important night for American Muay Thai live on AXS TV.
So I urge you to go check out the awesome photoset from the evening.


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The Chapel Choir will perform "Amahl and the Night Visitors" at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 5, in the University Chapel.
The one-act opera, directed by Penna Rose, will feature senior Meg Meyer and Jameson Creager. "Amahl," written by Gian-Carlo Menotti, tells the story of a poor shepherd boy and his devoted mother. Members of the Princeton University Chapel Choir will play shepherds and will sing among the audience.
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The recent decision by the Justice Department to forgo prosecutions of HSBC officials who willingly laundered money for drug traffickers and terrorists for years has just proven that Lady Justice is not blind but has excellent vision when it comes to the rich and powerful.
It really sickens me to see this and the blame rests clearly with Eric Holder and President Obama.
Here is an interesting article.
From Matt Taibbi Rolling Stone Magazine
If you've ever been arrested on a drug charge, if you've ever spent even a day in jail for having a stem of marijuana in your pocket or "drug paraphernalia" in your gym bag, Assistant Attorney General and longtime Bill Clinton pal Lanny Breuer has a message for you: Bite me.
Breuer this week signed off on a settlement deal with the British banking giant HSBC that is the ultimate insult to every ordinary person who's ever had his life altered by a narcotics charge. Despite the fact that HSBC admitted to laundering billions of dollars for Colombian and Mexican drug cartels (among others) and violating a host of important banking laws (from the Bank Secrecy Act to the Trading With the Enemy Act), Breuer and his Justice Department elected not to pursue criminal prosecutions of the bank, opting instead for a "record" financial settlement of $1.9 billion, which as one analyst noted is about five weeks of income for the bank.
The banks' laundering transactions were so brazen that the NSA probably could have spotted them from space. Breuer admitted that drug dealers would sometimes come to HSBC's Mexican branches and "deposit hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, in a single day, into a single account, using boxes designed to fit the precise dimensions of the teller windows."
This bears repeating: in order to more efficiently move as much illegal money as possible into the "legitimate" banking institution HSBC, drug dealers specifically designed boxes to fit through the bank's teller windows. Tony Montana's henchmen marching dufflebags of cash into the fictional "American City Bank" in Miami was actually more subtle than what the cartels were doing when they washed their cash through one of Britain's most storied financial institutions.
Though this was not stated explicitly, the government's rationale in not pursuing criminal prosecutions against the bank was apparently rooted in concerns that putting executives from a "systemically important institution" in jail for drug laundering would threaten the stability of the financial system. The New York Times put it this way:
Federal and state authorities have chosen not to indict HSBC, the London-based bank, on charges of vast and prolonged money laundering, for fear that criminal prosecution would topple the bank and, in the process, endanger the financial system.
It doesn't take a genius to see that the reasoning here is beyond flawed. When you decide not to prosecute bankers for billion-dollar crimes connected to drug-dealing and terrorism (some of HSBC's Saudi and Bangladeshi clients had terrorist ties, according to a Senate investigation), it doesn't protect the banking system, it does exactly the opposite. It terrifies investors and depositors everywhere, leaving them with the clear impression that even the most "reputable" banks may in fact be captured institutions whose senior executives are in the employ of (this can't be repeated often enough) murderers and terrorists. Even more shocking, the Justice Department's response to learning about all of this was to do exactly the same thing that the HSBC executives did in the first place to get themselves in trouble they took money to look the other way.
And not only did they sell out to drug dealers, they sold out cheap. You'll hear bragging this week by the Obama administration that they wrested a record penalty from HSBC, but it's a joke. Some of the penalties involved will literally make you laugh out loud. This is from Breuer's announcement:
As a result of the government's investigation, HSBC has . . . "clawed back" deferred compensation bonuses given to some of its most senior U.S. anti-money laundering and compliance officers, and agreed to partially defer bonus compensation for its most senior officials during the five-year period of the deferred prosecution agreement.
Wow. So the executives who spent a decade laundering billions of dollars will have to partially defer their bonuses during the five-year deferred prosecution agreement? Are you fucking kidding me? That's the punishment? The government's negotiators couldn't hold firm on forcing HSBC officials to completely wait to receive their ill-gotten bonuses? They had to settle on making them "partially" wait? Every honest prosecutor in America has to be puking his guts out at such bargaining tactics. What was the Justice Department's opening offer asking executives to restrict their Caribbean vacation time to nine weeks a year?
So you might ask, what's the appropriate financial penalty for a bank in HSBC's position? Exactly how much money should one extract from a firm that has been shamelessly profiting from business with criminals for years and years? Remember, we're talking about a company that has admitted to a smorgasbord of serious banking crimes. If you're the prosecutor, you've got this bank by the balls. So how much money should you take?
How about all of it? How about every last dollar the bank has made since it started its illegal activity? How about you dive into every bank account of every single executive involved in this mess and take every last bonus dollar they've ever earned? Then take their houses, their cars, the paintings they bought at Sotheby's auctions, the clothes in their closets, the loose change in the jars on their kitchen counters, every last freaking thing. Take it all and don't think twice. And then throw them in jail.
Sound harsh? It does, doesn't it? The only problem is, that's exactly what the government does just about every day to ordinary people involved in ordinary drug cases.
It'd be interesting, for instance, to ask the residents of Tenaha, Texas what they think about the HSBC settlement. That's the town where local police routinely pulled over (mostly black) motorists and, whenever they found cash, offered motorists a choice: They could either allow police to seize the money, or face drug and money laundering charges.
Or we could ask Anthony Smelley, the Indiana resident who won $50,000 in a car accident settlement and was carrying about $17K of that in cash in his car when he got pulled over. Cops searched his car and had drug dogs sniff around: The dogs alerted twice. No drugs were found, but police took the money anyway. Even after Smelley produced documentation proving where he got the money from, Putnam County officials tried to keep the money on the grounds that he could have used the cash to buy drugs in the future.
Seriously, that happened. It happens all the time, and even Lanny Breuer's own Justice Deparment gets into the act. In 2010 alone, U.S. Attorneys' offices deposited nearly $1.8 billion into government accounts as a result of forfeiture cases, most of them drug cases. You can see the Justice Department's own statistics right here:
And that's just the icing on the cake. The real prize you get for interacting with a law enforcement officer, if you happen to be connected in any way with drugs, is a preposterous, outsized criminal penalty. Right here in New York, one out of every seven cases that ends up in court is a marijuana case.
Just the other day, while Breuer was announcing his slap on the wrist for the world's most prolific drug-launderers, I was in arraignment court in Brooklyn watching how they deal with actual people. A public defender explained the absurdity of drug arrests in this city. New York actually has fairly liberal laws about pot police aren't supposed to bust you if you possess the drug in private. So how do police work around that to make 50,377 pot-related arrests in a single year, just in this city? Tthat was 2010; the 2009 number was 46,492.)
"What they do is, they stop you on the street and tell you to empty your pockets," the public defender explained. "Then the instant a pipe or a seed is out of the pocket boom, it's 'public use.' And you get arrested."
People spend nights in jail, or worse. In New York, even if they let you off with a misdemeanor and time served, you have to pay $200 and have your DNA extracted a process that you have to pay for (it costs 50 bucks). But even beyond that, you won't have search very far for stories of draconian, idiotic sentences for nonviolent drug crimes.
Just ask Cameron Douglas, the son of Michael Douglas, who got five years in jail for simple possession. His jailers kept him in solitary for 23 hours a day for 11 months and denied him visits with family and friends. Although your typical non-violent drug inmate isn't the white child of a celebrity, he's usually a minority user who gets far stiffer sentences than rich white kids would for committing the same crimes we all remember the crack-versus-coke controversy in which federal and state sentencing guidelines left (predominantly minority) crack users serving sentences up to 100 times harsher than those meted out to the predominantly white users of powdered coke.
The institutional bias in the crack sentencing guidelines was a racist outrage, but this HSBC settlement blows even that away. By eschewing criminal prosecutions of major drug launderers on the grounds (the patently absurd grounds, incidentally) that their prosecution might imperil the world financial system, the government has now formalized the double standard.
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Humane societies run out of space, money
Iowa County Humane Society seeks donations
DODGEVILLE, Wis. - A number of animal shelters across the state are running out of space and money to support pets without a home.
Labrador mix Bradley spent five years in the Iowa County Humane Society before being adopted by Peter Schwei and JorJan Borlin.
"It's so unfortunate that there are dogs that are left unloved," Borlin said.
"He really deserves something better than that," Schwei added.
The Iowa County Humane Society is surviving month to month. The shelter slipped into significant debt after an electrical issue.
"A month ago, we were looking at closing the doors," said Sharon Shea, Iowa County Humane Society board member.
Donations will get the no-kill facility through another four weeks or so, but almost 40 dogs and nearly 100 cats are in danger of not having a place to live.
"It's a labor of love for everyone," Shea said.
The Iowa County Humane Society gets some help from the county government and contracts out stray animal services for a little extra cash. However, that money only covers about a fifth of its $300,000 operating budget, so the organization relies heavily on donations.
"That makes it tough because there are other nonprofits that need support too," Shea said.
Lafayette County doesn't have its own shelter. People living there use the Green County Humane Society's facilities, and local police forces are responsible for picking up and dealing with stray animals.
The nonprofit Everyone Needs A Home, Inc., runs spay and neuter programs, as well as a pet food pantry. Mike Jerge stores and distributes more than 1,400 pounds of dog and cat food from his warehouse in Monroe every month.
"There are a lot of animals that end up in shelters now that, if they had the means in their home, wouldn't end up there," Jerge said. "So it's kind of a preemptive strike or a proactive approach to the homeless issue on the pet side of things."
About 80 families pick up food from the pantry every month, feeding about 200 pets.
While Jerge hopes the food pantry helps solve some of the problems around Lafayette County, other issues persist. Shelters in Beloit and Janesville are turning to Dane County for additional space for animals they have taken in.
Rock County Humane Society Director Angela Rhodes said having enough room for stray dogs and cats is the primary issue for her organization. She added that having a number of different agencies handling animal control across the county often makes it difficult to communicate among all of them.
In Dodgeville, Shea said the Iowa County Humane Society has a new board, and she's excited to pursue new visions and plans for the financial side of the shelter, as well as all aspects of giving the pets a home.
"It's a labor of love. It just is. That's the best way I can say it," Shea said.
Those interested in helping the Iowa County Humane Society with contributions or who want to learn more about adoptions can visit http://www.ichs.net/.
People can go to http://everyoneneedsahome.org/ to donate to the pet food pantry or if you are seeking help feeding their animals at home.
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Steve "The Homer" True recovering from car crash
Voice of Marquette basketball in Milwaukee hospital
MILWAUKEE - Steve "The Homer" True has been updated from critical to stablecondition at Froedtert Hospital in Milwaukee after his car was struck by an apparent drunk driver Wednesday morning.
Milwaukee police say True's car had the green light at the corner of Hampton and Fond du Lac avenues when another car ran a red light.
The other driver is suspected of driving while impaired and was arrested, accused of intoxicated use of a motor vehicle causing great bodily harm.
True is being treated for a serious head injury according to a report by WISN-TV in Milwaukee.
True is in his 20th season as the voice of the Marquette Golden Eagles men's basketball team and hosts a daily afternoon radio talk show on 540 ESPN Wisconsin and 100.5 FM ESPN Madison.