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Classic Muay Thai: Best of OneSongchai, Vol. 1
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This was one of Fraser's ideas before he left the blog, to post classic Muay Thai bouts. I stumbled on this particular trove of classics surfing one of China's viral video sites. It's a great way to familiarize yourself with better known fights from what's known as Muay Thai's "Golden Era," namely the 1980s and 90s.
The two biggest promoters of Muay Thai in Thailand are OneSongchai and Petyindee Promotions. Think Golden Boy and Top Rank, except they consistently make competitive matchups at the highest level and will co-promote. Scratch that. Don't think Golden Boy and Top Rank. While the two Thai promotions appear to have some history, they operate quite differently from the two marquee U.S. promotions.
The Best of OneSongchai is exactly what it sounds like: a compilation of the best fights put on by the promotion. The series is quite old, and I'm not sure how many volumes there are. Volume 1 is full of great matchups, starting off with Ramon Dekkers in his 1990 upset against Nampon Nongkeepahuyut.
Also in the video: Sangtiennoi Sor Rungrot vs Namkabuan Nongkeepahuyut, complete with all three people in the ring, including the referee, tumbling over the ropes in round four. That's at about 24 minutes into the video.
The bouts in this volume are fought under a slightly different ruleset from modern Muay Thai. The technique known as plowing, wherein a fighter catches an opponent's leg and pushes him across the ring, is now illegal. It can lead to instances like the one at 46:20 where Rainbow KOs himself by flying over his opponent's head with a high kick. I believe the maximum number of steps is now three.
The full lineup is as follows:
Nampon Nonkeepahuyut vs Ramon Dekkers;
Wangjannoi Sor Palangchai vs Cherry Sor Vanich, at 11 minutes;
Namkabuan Nongkeepahuyut vs Sangtiennoi Sor Rungrot, at 14:20;
Sakmongkon Sitchuchok vs Jongsanan Fairtex, at 28:30;
Den Muangsurin vs Rainbow Sor Pantalay, at 41:50;
and Pongsiri Por Ruamrudee vs Pirotnoi Sor Siamchai, at 48:20.
You can buy the volume on Amazon in VCD format (What is that?). The uploader for this video is simonjj.


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Lowering pH Naturally
I see people asking how to lower their pH naturally, here is what works for me using Peat and Driftwood.
The water where we live is very good water but high in pH 8.0 and hard and I like to keep South American Characins so; buy yourself a box of AZOO peat moss or any organic peat moss. Put it in the bag that comes with it or if you buy the peat moss elsewhere you will have to buy a media bag. Put the bag of peat (after rinsing well) in with your filter media. After 3-4 weeks my pH lowers to 6.5; you must monitor this closely. Remove the Peat from the filter at this time (your desired pH) because it will continue to soften the water and that can mess up the ammonia level in your tank. This is where the driftwood comes into effect as it will help buffer the pH and hardness. You will notice the pH go back up after water changes but again the driftwood will help buffer it back down.
You should not use chemicals to lower your pH. They work for some people but most others with experiance will tell you they are a quick fix and not good for your fish in the long run. Others will tell you to let the fish acclimate to the local pH which is fine, but alot of your South American and African Characins as well as many Chiclids from the same regions will realy show their best colors in lower pH. Plus if you become advanced enough to want to try and spawn most of them, they can't because they need soft water.
This is only one opinion, I hope it helps.
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Nice first shot. I think it's a bit more complicated than that though. Let me ponder this a bit.My 33 gallon/125 liter tank. My photography on flickr.
Peat moss is going to require a frequent level of guess and check work. It does work for a lot of people but if your PH is below 8.0 I would avoid messing with it at all. Most fish will adapt to the PH of your water as long as its between 6 and 8. Slower acclimation is key when introducing sensitive fish to extreme PH's on either end of that.
The best thing you can do is to use a method that avoids fluctuation. As you said chemical PH up or PH down products always fluctuate the PH wildly and that's why I would never use them. Even peat moss will do this to a lesser extent. The main thing to keep in mind is that if you are modifying your PH in a significant way then you need to monitor frequently so that the PH doesn't fluctuate. The fluctuation is worse for your fish than a less then ideal PH.
I work at a fish store and for reasons beyond my comprehension we are constantly using products to raise the PH of our goldfish tanks up to about 7.0. Ideally that's good, and the goldfish do great at it as long as we keep using the product. But sometimes we run out of the product that raises the PH and when we do there is a decent level of die off. The PH will drop to 6.0 or so, a good number of feeders will die, and then after a few days things level off and the fish stop dying. Sometimes we run out of it for weeks or even a month at a time and the goldfish will do great without it, even at a PH of 6.0. The PH doesn't seem to matter. The fluctuation kills them. If we just stopped using the product at all we would never have the moments of die offs that we have when we run out.
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That depends on your buffering. If your water is reasonably hard, peat or driftwood will have little effect. And many do not like the appearance of the amazon tank that peat will give you.
I agree with all the posts above, simply put, peat moss will naturally lower your ph but when it comes to water changes or any emergency, it will lead to an unstable/swinging your ph according to the hardness of the water.
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As I said, this is what works for me. It takes a little effort and close monitoring to work. If your happy to keep a nice community tank; than slow acclimate everything and your tank will be fine.
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I used peat moss in my canister when I first bought it to lower my 8.2 pH tap water. Between this and alot of driftwood it did actually lower the pH of my tank water to 7.4. It was a pain during water changes as is stated in the above posts so I ended up stopping the peat addition in my canister filter. None of the tetras past away during this experiment thankfully, but it will get the Ph down.
After checking the pH of the local lfs where I bought my fish, which was also pushing 8.0 plus, I decided my tap water was good enough.
It can be done but it's alot of upkeep. It takes time to lower the pH of your tank after doing a large water change which may just stress out the stock more then needed. Usually your only doing a large water change because something bad has happened and the last thing the stock needs is to be stressed out even more.
But if you have the time, resources and expect no large water changes it does work.
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There's another kind of moss that can be easier to find than peat moss, least for me it is. It's called pillow moss/frog moss and is in the reptile/amphibian section of a pet store if they have it:
This is what I use in my tank, it doesn't seem to tannin the water like peat moss does which is good or bad depending on the look you're going for :)
70 Gal Planted Rio Negro Angelfish Biotope with:
1 Whip Tail Pleco
7 Hatchet fish
11 Glo Light tetras, 6 Black Skirted Tetras
6 Bronze Corys
3 Wild Type Angelfish
Current Plants:
Giant Amazon Sword, Narrow Leaf Java, Val, moss on driftwood
Won't the PH naturally go back up once the peat moss stops working (even if you don't do a water change)?
I personally use a mix of natural and chemical and RO water to maintain my water quality. There's a LOT that goes into soft water tanks when it comes to maintaining them depending on your available water source. However, when the water itself becomes soft, the pH doesn't just go back up because you've lowered the KH through the decomposing moss. If your KH is low, your pH will stay low. Unless something is added that would change you KH, your pH won't really be affected. Now when using a chemical to force the pH to change, then discontinuing it's use WOULD cause a raise in the pH because it's no longer being forcibly lowered. Hence the difference between a true soft water tank and a purely chemically induced one. I hope that helps :)70 Gal Planted Rio Negro Angelfish Biotope with:
1 Whip Tail Pleco
7 Hatchet fish
11 Glo Light tetras, 6 Black Skirted Tetras
6 Bronze Corys
3 Wild Type Angelfish
Current Plants:
Giant Amazon Sword, Narrow Leaf Java, Val, moss on driftwood


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Staying with the theme of Winter Backpacking or Camping this week we are going to discuss the camp site.
One of the biggest challenges in a cold weather environment is Wind. It is one thing, like rain or driving snow that you can not change. You have got to learn to adapt to it. By that I mean learn to plan for it and around it. You can put on layers of clothing, a good protective layer that will keep the wind from penetrating and robbing you of valuable warmth.
You need to wind proof your camp site too.
Here are some things that you can do to establish a comfortable campsite in the cold.
The trench doubles as a natural chair. You can sit in your tent and put your feet in the trench while you cook or shake out your clothing before getting in the tent.
Also avoid ridges. Ridges provide little or no protection.
Look for natural wind breaks like groves of trees or a huge rock. Build a snow wall if that is all you can find, but get out of the wind.
Second. Look at your Tent. Keep the snow off the roof of your tent. Periodically knock the snow off to avoid to much weight. You do not want the weight of the snow to snap your tent poles. Use your guy lines and keep the tent tight to allow the snow to slide off. Just like in the rain…stake your tent out as tight as possible. You may have to anchor your tent. A water bottle or stick can make a good anchor, you can also buy anchors like the ones pictured here.
But keep your tent tight.
Fluff up your sleeping bag before getting in it. Sleeping bags store the heat in space between the fibers. Fluff it up to create air pockets.
Keep your Sleeping bag in the water proof stuff sack till you use it.
Sleep with your boots in your tent. Put them in a stuff sack turned inside out or a garbage bag. Throw them in your sleeping bag or under your bag… but keep them in the tent. If your boots get cold…boil up some water and fill your water bottle with it. Throw your water bottle in your boot while you eat breakfast. You will step into nice warm boots.
Note: Never cook inside your tent. If you must, cook it in the vestibule, but never in the tent.
Keep your tent ventilated.. open the windows to reduce the condensation.. and if you do fire up your stove in the vestibule you want the ventilation to keep from passing out.
Keep comfortable in the winter while you are camping. It makes the experience so much better, and the adventure all that more tasty.
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Today Mozilla Messaging released the Raindrop project
Raindrop is an experiment in the design of a new messaging platform in the open.
What I like most about Raindrop is our process. We started with some simple designs, created a couple iterations and now we've opened up the whole process to share. This isn't another email client or a twitter client, we have been designing for the way people communicate on the web today. And we're looking to make it awesome.
If you're a developer or just have lots of patience you could grab the source code, follow the instructions and get raindrop up and running. But that's not what we're launching, we're launching the next version, the one that we design and develop in the open. Read that again, there is no download.
Starting today, new raindrop designs will be uploaded into the Raindrop Design flickr group for discussion and review. As designs are ready to be implemented we'll be blogging about them in the Raindrop Design Blog.
Discussion of code and extension development takes place on the Raindrop Development Google Group. We're currently built on CouchDB, Python, and JavaScript. (if you're trying to get raindrop up and running make sure you read the INSTALL doc carefully)
From the ground up Raindrop was built as a set of extensions on top of extensions. This architecture was a design choice so that others could easily continue extend on top of our work.
There are places to add Data Miners which can search messages for regular expressions and User Interface Extensions which can modify the layout and design of messages presented.
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On friday Pete, Emelie and I went to Daniel's house for dinner. We had Swedish food for main course and Australian food for dessert. It turned out to be a bit of a Christmas dinner because we had boiled potatoes and sill (herring) for entr� and Janssons Frestelse and Swedish Meatballs for main course. Janssons (pronounced Yonson's) Frestelse means Jansson's Temptation and it's a potato bake thing with sardines in it to make it salty (we made an unfishy one for me) and breadcrumbs on top. The meatballs were very simiar to the meat paddies dad makes for barbies in Aus with beef mince, egg and onion. I made a pavlova for dessert which went down a treat. In fact Emelie said ''I think this may be the best dessert I've ever tasted!'' so can't get better feedback than that! We even found a mango to put on top, but had to use frozen berries instead of fresh
It was a really fun night, cooking together then watching Monty Python's Now For Something Completely Different. You will notice some odd attire in the photos... I'm not quite sure why but we were all wearing hats for the evening. Someone wanted to see one of Daniel's Salvation Army hats so he brought out 2 of them and 2 of his regular army hats and for some reason they stayed on all night. Seemed like a good idea at the time, as Dad would say.
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A selection of work by photographer Anna Schneider, based in Northern California. See more images below.
A lovely series of paintings inspired by a three month trip through the United States and Canada by London-based artist Charlotte Keates. See more images below, along with a short video of Keates discussing her work. "Sojourn" will be on display at Arusha Gallery in Edinburgh from May 5 – May 30.
Photos by Los Angeles-based photographer Neil Kryszak. More images below.
Another batch of surreal illustrations by Keith Rankin (previously featured here). See more images below.
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Barron's recently spoke with Krishna Memani, chief fixed-income investment officer at OppenheimerFunds, who's been a critic of the Federal Reserve's communication efforts, likening them to an "own goal" in soccer after the Fed's talk of tapering its $85 billion monthly bond-buying program sparked a surge in interest rates in May and June.
"At the end of the day they botched their communication," Memani says. "They want to have it both ways."
Memani says the Fed achieved one goal of deflating lofty prices in riskier, high-yielding assets like junk bonds and mortgage REITs, but it lost control of interest rates along the way.
"What they didn't anticipate was 100 basis-point backup in 10-year rates," he says. "If there was no substantial backup in rates, would they have been happy? I think the answer is yes."
Lately the ten-year Treasury yield has seemingly settled down into a new range right around 2.5% (it's at 2.497% at midday Tuesday, per Tradeweb data). "If rates end up being 2.5% its not ideal but its an outcome [the Fed] can live with," Memani says. "The worry is that data continue to [disappoint] and rates continue to back up."
Memani says financial markets are adjusting.
"Markets are getting more comfortable with current levels of rates every day," he says, adding that the market is discounting the Fed starting to taper its bond purchases starting in September. "If they don't taper in September or the data comes in softer, then there's the opportunity for a rally. I think in the best case scenario any rally takes us back to 2% or 2.25%."
Memani says corporate bonds were overpriced a couple of months ago, then cheapened after they sold off and credit spreads tightened, but aren't much better than fair value now. "Tightening sucked out all the value – they are decent but not super attractive now," he says.
He says agency mortgage bonds are vulnerable to further interest-rate volatility, while non-agency mortgage bonds and commercial mortgage-backed securities represent a "middle ground" that still offers value now. He also likes emerging market sovereign bonds after that market's recent sell-off.


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There wasn't a cucumber sandwich or lace doily in sight on Thursday night at the Wild Women Tea Party, a high-energy, girls-only gathering hosted by Lisa Rice on behalf of the Dee Norton Lowcountry Children's Center. In fact, I'm not sure there was any tea served at all! Parked cars lined the block leading to the Rice home, and golf carts zipped around ferrying people to the front door. Inside, the largest group of guests to ever attend this annual party were greeted by the smiling faces of DNLCC staffers Dr. Libby Ralston, Beverly Hutchison, and Kathleen Flynn. The record crowd included longtime and new supporters alike, and the Guerry family could have won an award for its support of the cause with six members—Caroline, Cathy, Cile, Charlotte, Debbie, and Elizabeth—in attendance!
The party featured a wonderful array of hors d'oeuvres donated by Lowcountry Eats (collard green-wrapped pork "eggrolls" and mini crab cakes on skewers), and the bar was manned by Vince Gilmore, the fete set's favorite drink slinger.
Too often, the message or mission of the charity gets lost in the clamor of a gala affair, but that is never the case with a DNLCC fundraiser (although people still buzz about the puppy that sold for more than $40,000 at the DNLCC auction a few years ago). Midway through the tea party, guests took a break from mingling to learn about the programs and success attributed to the center, which works with a slew of agencies (medical, legal, and social services) in order to coordinate and advocate the best care possible for victims of child abuse.
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Our vet usually calls if he has had a parvo pup in and we have an appointment for some of our pups. Cleo went into the office one time to get some health certificates for shipping. Local new owners locally had already picked up their pups. Evidently Cleo picked up the virous ON HER SHOES and all of the shipping pups came down with it and all three of the shipped pups came down with it, only one survived. Not any profit in that litter!
We now carry a LYSOL spray can in the van and spray our shoes every time we go to the Vets before we get back in the van. It may not have anything to do with it, but we haven't had any parvo since! Gosh I miss that woman, she was a jewel! Bill


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The Florida Bar
October 15, 2012
Ethics committee takes a dim view of plea waivers
PEC says it is unethical to ask defendants to waive a future claim of prosecutorial misconduct
By Gary Blankenship
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Despite objections from prosecutors, the Bar's Professional Ethics Committee has ratified a proposed ethics advisory opinion which says plea bargains that contain waivers to prohibit any future claim of prosecutorial misconduct or ineffective assistance of counsel violate Bar rules.
The committee had approved the opinion for publication at its June meeting and the 23-7 vote at the committee's September 21 gathering left it unchanged, clearing the way for an expected appeal to the Bar Board of Governors. If there is no appeal, the opinion is final.
Proposed Advisory Opinion 12-1
resulted from an inquiry from a defense lawyer on whether it was ethical to advise a client to accept a plea bargain that waived the defendant's right to later raise a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel. The plea agreement also barred the defendant from any future claim of prosecutorial misconduct.
The committee deliberated on the issue for more than a year before adopting the advisory opinion. It received a barrage of input before and after publishing the proposed opinion, with prosecutors opposing it and defense attorneys supporting it. The response included a letter signed by all three U.S. attorneys in Florida saying the opinion is not needed, while all three federal public defenders signed a letter with other attorneys calling for final adoption of the opinion.
Seventeenth Circuit Judge Charles Greene, a member of the committee, said collateral appeals can show the defense attorney made mistakes or that the prosecution accidentally or otherwise withheld important information. In his experience, he had seen only one such plea waiver in 10 years of handling criminal cases, but that one case bothered him. He said it occurred in a retrial necessitated because the prosecution had overstepped in the original trial.
"The prosecution proposed a plea that the defense would be foolish not to accept," Greene said, adding he was "ashamed" that he went along with the plea to spare witnesses and victims going through another lengthy trial in an emotional case.
"Justice wasn't done," Greene said. "I beg the committee to act [and approve the opinion] because the ethical implications of allowing individuals knowingly or inadvertently to shield themselves totally violates every standard of conduct the Constitution affords someone accused of a crime."
Added Jason Korn, another committee member, "How does a lawyer recommend a client waive a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel . . . that would affect that counsel?"
But committee member Jay Hunston said the committee was going too far and making a policy decision because members think the waiver agreements don't "feel" right. He noted that since the opinion was proposed, the U.S. attorney's office for the Middle District of Florida had dropped the waivers from its plea agreements.
"The law is it's legal. We're supposed to decide it's illegal and, therefore, we're going to change that law by issuing an ethics opinion," Hunston said.
He argued any ethical problems could be addressed by getting a second lawyer to advise the defendant on the waiver. He rejected claims that recommendation was impractical because of budgetary considerations. Hunston also said that Bar rules presume lawyers are ethical and will follow the rules.
"Our rules are based on the assumption that the lawyers of Florida are self-regulating, that we, in fact, know the ethical rules, and we will abide by them," he said. "We are making, as a committee the assumption of wrongful conduct by our members, and I for one am not willing to make that base assumption — that every lawyer in the criminal defense bar is a wrongdoer and trying to cover things up."
Hunston said it was wrong for the opinion to address prosecutors' conduct because the committee is supposed to limit its responses to the conduct of the inquiring attorney. (Although the inquiring attorney is a defense counsel, he did ask about the prosecutor's conduct, as well.)
Committee member Thomas Young agreed and said the opinion addressed a substantive law issue that would be better resolved with a case before the Supreme Court.
Carolyn Heck Miller, of the Southern District U.S. Attorney's Office and a former member of the committee, said the panel was going too far, especially since plea agreements are overseen by the courts.
"It is not unethical for a prosecutor to act in ways that are allowed under law," she added.
Committee member Skip Smith noted the committee's charge is to address ethics, regardless of whether they are practical or convenient. He noted that under Bar Rule 4-1.7(a)(2) a lawyer cannot represent a client on an issue where the lawyer has a material interest, and the committee had decided that, under the rule, the waivers represent a conflict for defense lawyers.
"This committee has quite rightly concluded this is a conflict of interest under that rule. Period. I really haven't heard any argument to the contrary," Smith said. "I've heard arguments about the practical effects, about what the law is. We're talking about what the ethics are."
The proposed opinion notes that most states — with the exception of Texas — that have examined the issue have found the waivers impermissible either from a conflict of interest or malpractice standpoint. Texas held the lawyer must decide the issue case by case.
The opinion said while the waivers do not directly implicate the malpractice rule in 4-1.8(h), there is an indirect impact:
"A defense lawyer's recommendation that a client waive a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel is akin to limiting malpractice liability, which is impermissible if the terms of the rule cannot be met."
Defense lawyers do have a conflict under Rule 4-1.7(a)(2), the opinion said, because, "The lawyer has a personal interest in not having the lawyer's own representation of the client determined to be ineffective under constitutional standards. This conflict is not one that the client should be asked to waive . . . ."
As for prosecutors, "the committee agrees with those states that find that the conduct is impermissible as both prejudicial to the administration of justice and assisting the criminal defense lawyer in violating the Rules of Professional Conduct under Rule 4-8.4(d) and 4-8.4(a), Rules Regulating The Florida Bar," the opinion said.
"The committee's opinion is that it is prejudicial to the administration of justice for a prosecutor to require the criminal defendant to waive claims of prosecutorial misconduct when the prosecutor is in the best position, and indeed may be the only person, to be aware that misconduct has taken place."
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The United Nations and its partners today released an Action Plan for Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines that seeks US$301 million to fund immediate, life-saving humanitarian needs for the millions of people who were affected by the disaster.
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"Millions of families have had their lives torn apart by Typhoon Haiyan," said Ms. Amos. "They have lost everything and desperately need help now. The scale of the destruction is shocking. We must make every effort to reach people," she added.
The Philippines Government and the UN estimate that approximately 670,000 people have been forced from their homes in Eastern and Western Visayas.
Tens of thousands of people are suffering from injuries. The death toll – believed to be in the thousands – is still rising as more areas are being assessed.
The Action Plan aims to provide targeted support to people in the hardest hit regions. It will support the Government's response over the next six months.
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Food, water, sanitation, hygiene, shelter, medicine, clearing debris and establishing supply chains have all been identified as urgent priorities. In Tacloban City, the Government has identified the lack of safe drinking water and shelter, and the prevalence of trauma injuries as the most immediate issues to be addressed.
The Philippines Government declared a national calamity on 11 November as the extent of the devastation in the provinces of Samar, Leyte, Cebu, Iloilo, Capiz, Aklan and Palawan became apparent.
Sebastian Rhodes-Stampa, the United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination team leader described the southern coastal areas of Eastern Samar province – where Haiyan first made landfall – as scenes of "appalling devastation and tragedy."
Towns along the coast of southeastern Samar were devastated by a 4 metre storm surge. Out of the 46,000 people in the city of Guiuan, at least 65 people have died and 20 are still missing.
Humanitarian response
All partners are focusing on fast-tracking relief efforts including incoming international assistance. Speaking in Manila, Ms. Amos said "the UN and its partners remain committed to supporting the Government and the Filipino people in any way required - now and in the longer-term when communities will need to be rebuilt."
The number of humanitarian responders also continues to increase. The President of the Philippines, Benigno Aquino III, said that 22 Member States have so far pledged to provide critical humanitarian relief.
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If my pup was born 11-26-12 when is her derby year up? Just trying to understand this new world.
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If my pup was born 11-26-12 when is her derby year up? Just trying to understand this new world.
Thanks Beau
She will be too old to run derbies on 11-26-14. She may start running derbies when she is 6 months old. However I think the last 6-8 months of their derby career is when most dogs will rack up the points if they have it in them to do so.
It actually depends on when The Open starts in relation to a birthdate. It's possible to turn 2 and still be able to run that weekend only.
SECTION 10. A Derby Stake at a Retriever trial
shall be for dogs which have not reached their second
birthday on the first day of the trial at which they are
being run. For example, a dog whelped May 1, 1983,
would not be eligible for Derby Stakes at a trial starting
May 1, 1985, but would be eligible at a trial the first
day of which was April 30, 1985. Derby stake tests
are limited to marked retrieves and dogs which are
handled on such retrieves shall be eliminated from
If I am not mistaken, the AKC has ruled that - despite this language - if the "derby" not the "trial" starts on the dog's second birthday, you are not eligible
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Ted, have you run into that personally? Seems like AKC would be going against their own printed rules.
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Thanks guys,
and what does a derby consist of? How do you go through the process of winning one? And when someone says the word "Jam" what are they saying?
kidding aside does anyone know of anyone reporting later than actual birthdays a day or two to give their pups an extra derby weekend?
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"Typical" derby is 4 series; each series is a double---2 land series followed by 2 water series.
It is for pups aged 6 to 24 mos.
Although handling is an automatic DQ, most pups are running blinds by the time they do derby. Pups who mark well and have been de-cheated on water and taught to fight factors like wind and terrain can do well.
At the end of the trial the pups who finish are ranked, judges can give out 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th place and a RJ (reserve JAM, sort of like 5th place). I have limited experience but the rest of the pups who finish seem to get JAMs.
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Metriaclima callainos and pseudotropheus saulosi
I was wondering if there would be an issue keeping these two together in a 55 gallon as the callainos bear a striking resemblance to the socolofi cousins of the pseudotropheus.
I'm thinking a saulosi, callainos, yellow labs and a single male flame back pundamilia nyeri
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I would say not much of a problem as long as your ratios are good say 1m 4f of each and it might be better to leave the flame back out just because single males dont usually work and they are from a different lake then the rest.
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I've kept cichlids before and one was a jewel cichlid in my malawi tank. So it's very doable. But that time I had socolofi, labs, trawavasse, springerea and afra's but decided to get rid of them to go salty. I would do afras again but the female really stand out because they are so dull looking.


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Construction of semi-confinement feeding floors for swine has increased in recent years. Available plans concentrate on design of the confinement area and feed handling.
As producers expand, they need more efficient ways to sort, handle and load hogs. Additional planning is required to design smooth flow patterns for livestock handling into the basic production unit.
Plans were developed to fit the basic swine feeding floor shown in Figure 1. This unit features a low profile, open-front building on the north. The feeding floor slopes south to the service alley. This alley slopes toward the lagoon or manure collection point. Lagoon location is determined primarily by land topography and traffic approach. Lagoons have been located on all sides of these units.
Figure 1Basic swine feeding floor
A common road is used for all vehicle traffic. The traffic approach and lagoon location impose limitations on the location of the corral system. The service alley is used as the main alley for the handling portion of the corral system.
The designs presented have the corral system located on the east, south and west sides of the production unit. For corrals located on the south side, the cross-slope of the service alley is to the north.
Corral floors should be concrete and should slope to permit drainage and facilitate movement of waste. The runoff should be collected in the waste management system. Fences and gates should be 3 or 4 inches above the floor to prevent manure accumulation.
Swine confined to concrete are reluctant to walk on other surfaces. They usually must be physically handled if forced off of concrete. Designs that include concrete loading chute floors are well accepted.
Sorting alleys are 16 inches wide and have solid side panels. This prevents the hog from seeing to the side and encourages movement to the open area ahead. Cutting gates in the sorting alley should be hinged on both sides. This provides for sorting incoming animals, such as feeder pigs, and outgoing animals. A two-way sort is provided in all of the designs. Three-way sorts are possible with some of the designs.
Circular crowds constructed with open-wire hog panels work well and may offer some advantages over those with solid walls. The pigs may be reluctant to enter the circle where solid walls are used.
For a swine handling facility to operate properly, flow patterns must be smooth. Sharp turns should be avoided if possible and there should not be any corners of 90 degrees or less. As hogs are moved through the service alley, they tend to stay along the feeding floor fence and socialize with hogs in the feeding pens. Reluctance to cross the service alley causes some flow problems. Alley crowd gates and gradual turning angles will solve this problem. Orienting the sorting alley so hogs move back toward the vacated pen seems to improve flow during sorting.
Production unit size and marketing program influence the selection of a corral system. Some smaller producers sort and market small groups of pigs at regular intervals. This marketing program requires a corral capable of sorting off 10 to 12 market hogs per marketing interval. Large producers may require a system with the capacity to sort off 100 to 200 head per marketing interval.
Cleaning the service alley before sorting and loading provides safer working conditions and results in cleaner animals to market.
Allowing hogs in the service alley for a period of time before sorting improves handling. They can socialize along the fence and become familiar with new surroundings. This practice is limited to opening one pen gate at a time to avoid fighting.
Keeping the facilities in good repair, particularly gates and latches, improves the movement of hogs and provides safer working conditions for the operator.
Figure 2"Simplest" system
This system (Figure 2) consists of a sorting alley, pens for a two-way sort, and loading chute. This unit can be located on the east or west end of the feeding floor. Pens of 60 hogs can be sorted at one time.
Figure 3Wallace system
This system (Figure 3) consists of a half-circle crowd, sorting alley, two-way sort, and loading chute located south of the feeding floor. Pens of 60 hogs can be sorted conveniently.
Figure 4Waddell system
This system (Figure 4) consists of a sorting alley, two-way sort, separate market hog holding area, full-circle crowd and loading chute. Location is south of the feeding floor. This system should handle groups of 60 hogs.
These systems (Figures 5, 6 and 7) are similar. They consist of a full-circle crowd, sorting alley, two- or three-way sort, scale and loading chute. These plans show the adaptation of the basic corral system to the east, south and west sides of the production units.
Figure 5CEC system 1
Figure 6CEC system 2
Figure 7Oberdahlhoff system
Figure 8Kennett-Tepen system
This system (Figure 8) consists of a full crowd, sorting alley holding area, pens for a three-way sort, and loading chute. Pens of 120 hogs can be sorted conveniently. The authors are indebted to Albert L. Kennett, Area Livestock Specialist, New London, Missouri, for valuable assistance in the development of this plan.
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First, where available use established fire rings. If rings are not available, pack in a fire pan or build a fire mound.
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Third, burn only sticks that can be picked off the ground and broken by hand.
and finally, burn all wood and coals to ash, put out campfires completely, then scatter the cold ashes.
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Minimizing the impact of campfires is not only a principle of Leave no trace, but a great idea for helping preserve our wilderness and protecting it against uncontrolled burns. Burning the sticks that lay on the ground helps the Eco system as it cleans up some unneeded fuels on the ground and it does not take away from the scenic beauty of the wilderness.
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When I power the whole thing up with a 5V 2A AC adapter, voltage on the 5V pin and the Vin pin is 4.55ish.
How can I make the 5V deliver 5V so that I don't have to tweak the code every time I change the way it's powered?
Plus, the ADC can reference an internal 1.1V reference. That would be more reliable probably than the fluctuation you might get on the 5V line. You might need a voltage divider so that you don't input more than 1.1V on the analog pin, if you choose to use that.
I checked the power rail once fed from the 5V pin and it does output the same as Vin, that is to say around 4.55/4.65 depending on the USB/DC jack combinations stated in the first post.
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Fabulous. Made it for my daughter's engagement party and was asked for the recipe by a number of guests. Couldn't find mirin either so did the same as others.
One of my favorite epicurious recipes!
This is amazing! I crisp wonton wrappers with a little salt and pepper in the oven and they're the perfect accompaniment.
very nice change up for avocado. tastes a bi like poke from Hawaii. could use a bit more wasabi.
I just threw this together and was about to rave about it, but as soon as I saw "pear" in the other reviews I added that (as I had also skipped the jicama: I am not familiar with them and after googling it I don't think I have ever seen one either). The wonderfully ripe bartlett that I added only made it better! I added more rice vinegar instead of the mirin, and instead of watercress used some mixed greens that I had (spinach and aragula) and am eating this as a salad. I just wanted to use my avocados and as I had already saved this recipe and had made an asian dinner, I decided to go for it. You can definitely taste the wasabi :). Oh yeah, I used almost all my sesame seeds on "sesame salt" for quail eggs (on epicurious) that I had made earlier in the week, and I used some of that instead of toasting more sesame seeds, as I want to use it up. As I had used mixed black and white seeds, it looks like black pepper in the salsa.
This recipe is a staple in my house each summer. My husband and I eat it in less time than it takes to throw together. I typically sub a pear, peach or nectarine for the jicama, but I like the watercress when I can find it.
This is just fabulous. I cater and it has been a hit every time I served it. I chop everything smaller than instructed so it will stay on a rice crisp or sweet potato chip. Sprinkle a little lime juice over the top to stop browning of the avocado and use both black and white sesame seeds if you have them for the prettiest presentation.
This recipe is so delicious. I have made it several times and tonight I made it since I was entertaining and am on weight watchers. I made it with the Salmon with Soy-honey and wasabi sauces. I usually have a hard time finding ingredients like jicama or watercress. I have in a pinch substituted cucumber and cilantro.
Couldn't find jicama, substituted a pear. Didn't have any mirin either, so i used a little extra rice vinegar, a little extra soy sauce. Threw in an extra avocado. End product: Delicious and enjoyed by all. Will make again!
Very good, though I edited. Skipped the mirin (didn't have), used chopped cilantro for the watercress (was what I had), and omitted the jicama (store was out). It still turned out great. I think it is an adaptable recipe, as guacamole is in general. Would love to make again, the main caveat being how to fit in "chips and guac" alongside an asian dinner. I liked someone's sushi idea, and I made this alongside the Seard Asian Steak/Mixed Greens recipe from this site.


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Full audio of Obamas 1998 redistribution speech he sees welfare recipients as major coalitition
Full audio of Obamas 1998 redistribution speech he sees welfare recipients as major coalitition
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if he had only been properly vetted back in '08..kind of sad that 4 yrs into the administration that the media is finally looking into his past and asking questions that should have been answered long ago...unfortunately that audio only goes to show what many suspected and will be spun by the sympathetic media types
I am wondering if the movie 2016 has any impact on Obama believers. I am wondering if any of them going to see it? I am wondering if any of them have read or have listened to his books, Dreams of My Father.
I really don't understand Obama and his devotion to a father who abandoned his mother and him. It doesn't sound like his father was around to have a personal influence nor to provide guidance and love.
Overlooked in the 1998 speech is that Obama believes the majority of Americans would like to have serious gun control. He's been working on the redistribution thing in his first term. Is he saving the latter for his 2nd term?
WRT redistribution ... as another poster mentioned, if the govt confiscated all the wealth of the very rich ... it would run the govt for only a short period of time. The knotty problem is, of course, you can only do that once. After that "the rich" have no more money to be confiscated. And, who would try to rebuild what was taken from them if it could just as easily be taken from them a second time?
Paraphrasing from Ayn Rand, would you let your own child starve in order to feed your neighbor's child? You would starve yourself in order to feed your own child, but would you let your child starve to feed someone else's child?
So it would seem much "wiser" to let them keep some of their earnings, so that they will continue to work. Just let them contribute their "fair share" ... which some bureaucrat decides. In France they are raising the income tax on "the rich" to 75%. Guess what? Those people are looking to move to some other country that will tax them less. Would any of us work for 25% of what we now earn? Could we survive on that?
Now if "the rich" flee this taxation, where will the govt get its money? It will have to raise the taxes on those who are not as rich as those who have fled. In cases like this, historically, the country will allow people to leave, but they must leave their wealth behind.
I knew a businessman who had been living in Rhodesia when it was "liberated" from colonialism. Rhodesia had such a rule. You could leave, but you had to leave your wealth behind. This businessman and his father owned a small, light aircraft they used for their business. They mortgaged all they could, took the cash and purchased rubies, put the "compact" wealth in their pockets, got on the plane & got out of Dodge. They came here to the US with their wealth. I'm sure there will be some country that will accept the rich people who would want to flee France.
That's probably a bad example ... as it would be depicted as one of the ways that the US "stole" wealth from an African country. Did the wealth belong to the country? or to those who had created the wealth?
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when I click on the link, it takes me to the Daily Caller, but I can't find anything about redistribution.
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I listened to this twice and never heard him say anything about redistribution. Could be my hunter's hearing. Can someone tell me about when in the speech it occurs?
Any doctrine that weakens personal responsibility for judgment and for action helps create the attitudes that welcome and support the totalitarian state.
(John Dewey)
Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.
(George Washington)
Gig'em Aggies!! BTCO'77HOO t.u.!!
The trick is figuring out how do we structure government systems that pool resources and hence facilitate some [wealth] redistribution -- because I actually believe in redistribution, at least at a certain level to make sure that everybody's got a shot."


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Musing on the power of convention
Howard Wainer
One would think that the speed with which convention is overturned depends strongly on how much of an improvement the unconventional technique provides—and how much evidence is available to support the replacement. Would that it were so.
A powerful final example further demonstrates the obstinacy of convention and provides the connection with the raven in the title.
pronounced Ka-ma-gui, is the Korean word for raven, written in the remarkable Hangul alphabet. To understand the relevance of this example, we must go back almost six centuries. China's culture dominated Asia for centuries, so it isn't surprising that the written Korean language of the 15th century used Chinese characters. Yet because the Korean language uses inflections and suffixes to add or modify meaning, whereas Chinese sentences are qualified with particles, the use of Chinese characters was far from an ideal match. In addition, Chinese characters, known as hanja, were complex, numerous and so difficult to write that literacy was reserved for aristocrats.
Sejong the Great (1397–1450), the fourth king of the Joseon Dynasty (1393-1910) apparently deplored the fact that common people, ignorant of Chinese characters, were practically forced into illiteracy. He felt that this deficiency had important practical consequences, for they had no way of submitting grievances to the authorities for possible redress. Nor could they record their thoughts or experiences for posterity, placing obvious severe limits on the breadth of Korean science and art.
To ameliorate this situation, King Sejong set about creating an alphabet especially suited for the Korean language, and his success provided a model for others. It is far beyond the goals of this essay to explain the details of the Hangul alphabet. Instead let me choose a few of its distinguishing features.
First, it is completely phonetic. Thus, if you can already speak and understand the Korean language, all you need to do to be able to read and write is to memorize the symbols representing the 10 basic vowel sounds and the 14 basic consonant sounds. Apart from a few minor exceptions, the phonetic value of each symbol is invariant. Thus, any letter string, even if unfamiliar or nonsensical, can be sounded out instantly and accurately. There is never a need to consult a dictionary for sounds or spellings. Contrast this with how the sound 'f' is represented in English—fat, photo, laugh; how the same vowel, say 'a,' can have many different sounds—fat, farm, face, fall, hurrah; and some letters in English have no sound at all—psalm, indict.
Each Korean character usually consists of two or three components: (1) a consonant plus (2) a vowel, or (1) a consonant plus (2) a vowel plus (3) a consonant. Thus, each Hangul character is of one syllable structured as:
The accompanying table lists the Hangul letters and their approximate pronunciation in English. To see how easy it is to spell and read in Hangul, consider the two-syllable word "Hangul" which is written
Use the table to sound out the written word.
Second, great effort was expended to aid memory. Each consonant sound is constructed to look like your mouth when you say it! In English, only one letter has this characteristic ('o'). In Hangul all consonants have this characteristic. Sometimes the letter looks like the shape of the mouth viewed from the front (for example,
the letter 'mium', which is an "m" sound pronounced with the lips spaced a little apart). Often the letter is a stylized drawing of the mouth when looked at from the side after a vertical cut down the center of the head, where the location of the lips and tongue indicate the letter. For example,
the letter 'nium,' an 'n' sound, depicts the outline of the tongue touching the upper palate.
And pronouncing the letter
'shiot' requires that the tip of the tongue and the upper teeth be brought close together; it is created by blowing through that narrowed passage.
In addition, the very names of the letters provide information on their pronunciation. So, for example, the letter 'rial'
is pronounced as an 'r' at the beginning of a syllable and as an 'l' when it appears at the end of a syllable. Compare with mium, which has an 'm' sound at both ends of a word.
It was generally agreed that a clever person could learn the entire alphabet in a morning and so go from illiterate to literate by lunchtime. Contrast this task with the 20th century Chinese requirement that children must learn at least 2,000 hanja characters by the end of high school to be considered sufficiently literate.
It would seem that this wonderful innovation would be adopted rapidly, but alas the power of convention prevailed. Confucian scholars of the 15th century believed that hanja was the only legitimate writing system. Choi Manli, a senior scholar of the time, presented a petition to the king criticizing the new alphabet:
Since the new alphabet is so easily understood, I fear that the people will fall into laziness and never make efforts to learn. Those who do not use Chinese characters but other letters and alphabets, such as Mongols, Sohans, Jurchens, Japanese and Tibetans, are all barbarians without exception. To use new letters would make us barbarians ourselves.
He continued,
Why does Your Highness seek to alter a language that has been used since early antiquity and has no ill effects, and place alongside it a set of coarse and vulgar characters of no worth at all? Is not this script, moreover, a mere transcription of the words spoken by the peasants, without the slightest resemblance to the original Chinese Characters?
Despite opposition of this sort, Hangul's use as an official Korean alphabet grew in fits and starts, although it took fully 500 years before it became widely accepted as the Korean alphabet.
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