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Beneficial bacteria grows on everything in your tank: in the rocks, all over the filter, in the filter media - everywhere. However, you want as much as you can in the filter, with water actively running through it. Like they're saying, you can jut add a sponge to the filter for a place inside the filter for bacteria to grow. This is because of the huge internal surface area of the sponge. A regular kitchen sponge would work fine (as long as it's never been used).
+1 Cliff, AquaClear is also a good brand.
With the mechanical filter, you can usually get "filter floss" at any LFS. It's just a mesh-like material that you place in the filter. It needs to be replaced from time to time, and washing it out a bit before replacing it never hurts.
However, as it holds bacteria, it may be a good idea to wash it in tank water from a partial water change. If your sponge for bacteria ever gets grimy - and I mean REALLY dirty, not just a different color - you can wash it in the used tank water as well. However, don't do this often, and never wash it in sink water, if for no other reason than the difference in pH.
You shouldn't have chlorine in your tap water because it's from a well, but it may have a lot of minerals, which would make it hard. Make sure to test for this once you get a test kit. If it's too high, you can always get a water softener pillow, which is something you can just add into your filter.
Awesome info everyone! I think I officially understand filters (or as much as I can at this point). I've found some great deals on Aqua Clears, so I think I might head that direction. One last question concerning filters, and this was already answered a little, but how often do I need to buy and completely replace the sponge/floss, carbon, and ceramic?
My next area of focus I'll look at is heaters. Same general questions: recommended brand, wattage for a 20g, things to look for or avoid, etc... I have a lead on a free heater, though at this point I know nothing about it. Could be good, could be a bust.
On a different note, I think I had both a setback and a break through with Mrs. Switch today. I nabbed my free tank one day on my way to work with first letting her know that I was going to do so. When I got home from work I told her, but all that was done out of order. Tell first, get second. lol. Anyway, today we took a trip to a nice locally owned pet store. They are amazing when it comes to fish and aquarium supply, and they have a huge stock of fish to look through. I never once brought up trying to purchase anything, the future of the tank, which fish I liked most. I just observed. It wasn't long before she started remembering what she loved about her families fish growing up. She actually found a couple of favorites too! On our way home she said, "So where are we going to put the aquarium?" HA! A breakthrough! I tried to play it cool. Hopefully after a few more trips and conversations it could really happen.
Not that anyone really cares about the behind the scenes family stuff, but it was relevant to the original post, so I thought I'd update my situation.
I'm trying to figure out who to insert images, so pictures are on the way, but I water tested my tank yesterday morning. I realized after the first hour there was a leak. A couple hours later there was probably three inches of water gone. Twenty four hours later it's at the same level, so I guess that means the leak is toward the top. But from what I've been reading, it's better to just reseal the whole thing. that may become my next project if I decide it's worth it to invest some time, money, and energy into this thing.
I realized today that my line of questioning is probably better answered in some equipment specific areas instead of generally in one place. And, the way this is going, I guess I may be better suited with a journal than an open thread of thoughts and ramblings. We'll see I guess.
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Hi Switchfoot, if the glass is in good shape then it is worth resealing. There are some good threads here on how to do it and it really is pretty simple.Mike
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I figured I would post some more questions here before starting new threads and jamming up the forum. We'll see if anyone responds...otherwise I'll start a new thread. lol
I've made a lot of progress on my setup so far and had a specific question or two concerning substrate. I've decided I'll be adding some Corys to my tank whenever I get to that step. As far as I've been reading, I'll need sand, or a finer material instead of larger gravel or fluorite. Is that correct? Reading has also shown me that I can get sand at a local home store. Is that right? My concerns are now my filter and the sand. Will I be able to run something like an Aquaclear 50 with a sand substrate? Or will it clog it up?First 29g Tank: In process
+1 to cliff. i just swapped from a 20 gallon rated tetra whisper to a aquaclear 50 on my 20 gallon high. Much less noise hardly any at all and much more room for options with filter media. great filter overall :). as far as heater goes i have fluval m series 100 w i think http://www.amazon.com/Fluval-M-100-W.../dp/B0027VQ0WM. i haven't swapped my substrate to sand yet can't help you there i know you have to be more careful when doing a vacuum job and keep it like an inch above it .


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QueensU Mining Eng Field Trip To Chile
Trip Start Jul 21, 2005
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It would be needless to say that going to Chile was the best field trip I have ever been on - it doesn't get too much better that this. This will be a long read just so you know.
Next update won't be for some time now so if any of you want to contact me you can by my contact details in the last update. Photos are posted for entire trip so far so check them out by following the link somewhere on this page...
For those of you who don't know, Chile is a really long and narrow country located on the west coast of South America. It is about 200km wide being boarded by the Andes Mountain Range to the east and there is also a smaller coastal mountain range (it's still bigger than anything in Australia)
It is unique climate they have here that allows some of the best agricultural products to be grown/made here including fresh fruit, vegetables and wine.
We arrived in Santiago on Tuesday morning around 7am local time (after flying through Dallas, Texas) and we headed to the hostel where we would be staying. One of the students traveling with us was from Peru and we later found out the hostel we were in was in one worse areas of town according to his relatives there, but anyway I didn't have any trouble.
Once we had loaded our stuff off the bus and into our rooms we headed out to the centre of town where we all split up and got food and this was fun trying to order when I didn't recognize a single word on the menu. I stuck close to Alberto (the Peruvian guy) who could speak Spanish and we managed to find a place that served some traditional Chilean food which was awesome. We wandered round a lot in the afternoon and we were so surprised at the amount of stray dogs around - apparently there is something like 40,000 in the country. Anyway, in the evening we went to this amazing restaurant just down the road from the hostel whose name is translated to "The fat cow." The guys had also discovered quite quickly that beer was sold here in litros (litres) for quite cheap - the equivalent of $1.50for a litre and back in Canada you buy a schooner for $5 at the bar - they were all determined to get their moneys worth
The next day we were into the school part of the trip to Codelco's Andina mine about 2hours north east of Santiago. (Codelco is the state owned copper company producing 20% of the worlds copper and holding 40% of current reserves?). I was more amazed with the scenery than anything else - we were up in the Andes mountain range at 3100m elevation and the snow was still on the mountain tops and it was just amazing. So we couldn't go all the way to the pit as the fine weather was causing the snow to melt and there was a potential for avalanches and rockslides across the road - they have an annual 20m of snow at this place each year! But what we did get to see was their underground mill - that's right - the crushing and processing complete in a series of enormous underground openings spanning what I would guess to be 20-25m wide, 80m long and 25-30m high. It was awesome to see. We were so hungry by the time we left which was about 3pm but once off the mine site we were taken to an amazing French restaurant just nearby and had orderves and a 3-course meal with white/red wine paid for by the company - definitely the best mine lunch I have had so far.
The next day we were off to El Teniente also owned by Codelco - the largest underground mine in the world producing 132000t of copper ore a day
In the evening we headed out to an area of town called providencia or something - basically the upper class restaurants and touristy area where we were swarmed by waiters trying to get us into their restaurants as piranhas would swarm something that came into their water. They were offering us free beer - turned out to be about 50mls in a wine glass, amongst other things like free girls. We had people trying to solicit us into all the clubs and strip joints too. Once they realised that it was our Peruvian friend making the decisions on where to go as he could speak Spanish they all started going for him - it was quite amusing. I had to get money out that evening so I took out a big 100 G - that is 100k pesos or AUD $250 and I was so pumped when I saw the receipt saying had over half a million in my bank account. Pity it wasn't in Aussie dollars. By the time we finally got home it was another long day and we were thankful for a later start the next morning.
On Friday we went to the Codelco head office to hear a presentation from one of the executives there who did his PHD at Queens, and then on to a project management company called Bechtel - I had never heard of them but they are one of the largest project management companies in the world, before another amazing 3-course meal paid for by Bechtel and then we went onto Sandvik to see their manufacturing plant assembling LHD loaders, before heading out to an Irish bar in the evening called the Geopub and having all our food and drinks paid for during the evening by some mining association there in Chile
Saturday was our second free day and after the last few breakfasts at the hostel we decided to try our luck elsewhere. After catching the subway up 5 stations - which was amazingly clean - on our way to the zoo we ate at this cafe where my eggs came out still floating in oil - they use so much of it here - but what can you expect when the country's heritage is Hispanic. While we were waiting for our food we had a rather interesting encounter with this drunk guy who came up to our table with a pool cue in one hand and had 3 pairs of underpants on his head - I think he wanted to swap a cigarette for an almost empty bottle of Pepsi. our waiter eventually got rid of him where he proceeded to stand in the middle of the road with cars going either side of him... yep you get those nuts in every city. Speaking of nuts - there were there vendors everywhere roasting nuts and then selling then and they smelled amazing and tasted even better. Well a bunch of us went to the zoo and yeh, having just seen many of these animals in the wild in South Africa it was kind of boring. One cool bit was when this guide was walking around with some bird on his arm and I told my mate to take a photo of me next to it and yeh as he took the photo the bird flapped is wings out and I was bent over backwards trying to avoid it - see the pic.
Later that day we headed back to Santa Lucia - this amazing castle thingy on a hill that had fountains and all kinds of beautiful things to see. Once again see the photos they describe it much better than I can. we then headed over the road to a market place where I had bought an alpaca wool jumper earlier in the wk and I bought a couple of extra things while I was there and that evening we went back to the fat cow place to eat again for another amazing meal for cheap!
On Sunday we spent a good 10-12 hours traveling about 1000kms north to a place called Copiapo. The difference in scenery was amazing with Chile being in a very temperate area with stuff growing everywhere to Copiapo - which was very close to the water but was basically a desert. We stayed at a hotel this time and it was certainly a lot nicer than the hostel in Santiago. The next day we visited La Coipa- a placer dome gold mine at 4260m elevation and as much as you think you'd be ok - the altitude really does get to you. Your reaction time is a lot slower. We had the mine paramedics following us around with oxygen the whole day just in case. The real difference in the climate was noticeable and I thought I might have well been on the moon. It was really dry and they are lucky if it rains at all. This is seen in their mine planning but I won't go into it as the bulk of you will have no idea what I am talking about
Wednesday we were so happy as we knew we were having our last bagged breakfast for the trip - it was pretty much a ham and cheese sandwich every day of the trip - it is pretty much the staple diet here. We went to a small underground copper mine Punta Del Cobre owned by Pucobre and it was a short trip from the hotel. The cool thing about this place was standing looking up into an 80x80x100m high open stope with little to no ground support in the mine whatsoever. We finally had an early finish and we headed back to the hotel to laze around the pool all afternoon and having another company sponsored 3-course meal by Phelps Dodge in the evening.
The next day we went to the Candelaria mine owned my Phelps Dodge which was one of the best visits of the trip - short, sweet and mostly in English - ie not having to wait for a translation on everything. In the afternoon we headed back to the La Serena/Coquimbo area about 4 hours drive back towards Santiago
The next day we had another short and sweet visit to the Carmen de Andacollo mine (Aur Resources) - an open pit copper mine close to La Serena. Throughout the day many of us had approached George - the professor with us from Queens University about our accommodation and our concerns over our health, safety and security regarding the place. He was already thinking the same himself and had instructed his wife (who is Chilean) to search for some alternate accommodation for us. He had to keep to group together as there were enough of us who were prepared to move to a nearby hotel. We went to the beach at La Serena that afternoon while the accommodation stuff got sorted out and had another amazing meal at a beachside restaurant - it was funny watching the Canadians at the ocean - they were just like little kids discovering stuff for the first time- one guy hadn't been to the beach since he was 3 or 4 - I guess it was a little like me wanting to throw snowballs at everyone whenever I got the opportunity..
We found out later in the afternoon that we had new accommodation almost right where we were in these beautiful beachside villas - it was great. Incidentally I also got watch the sun set over the ocean for the first time in my life and it was amazing as there was this massive cross on the hill nearby - the Millennium cross it is called - it just added to the scenery. The country is like 95% catholic here too - there seems to be road side shrines everywhere.
In the evening we unsuccessfully tried to go out to a discotheque as they are called but without going into the whole story we somehow ended up at an all ages club - we didn't even bother going inside. I think the best thing of the night was on the walk home were two of the girls were being whistled and called at by a passing car who proceeded to crash into the car in front of them at the stop sign.
I pretty much spent all day on the beach playing Frisbee and swimming and later in the day a dead sea lion got washed into shore - it was really sad. It looked like it had suffocated to death by a couple of those plastic cables you get around boxes or even around pallets or bricks or something. It really stunk.
To be honest I was pretty much ready to go home by this time. The school part of the trip was dragging on a bit and yeh basically all my clothes were dirty and I was down to recycling them so yeh - I just wanted to go home - well as much as Canada is home at the moment.
Sunday we left the villas and headed back towards Santiago and we stopped in this town one our way to the mine we would be staying at, and I saw the most brilliant rainbow I have ever seen in my life - it was so defined and we could see both ends of the rainbow about 300m apart - see the pics
Monday I went to an underground limestone mine owned by Lafarge Resources which was really cool to see and we then later toured their kiln for turning limestone into cement. I think the best bit about it was that we were seeing something different from copper - copper mines are getting pretty boring by this stage. In the evening, George - (the professor who worked in Chile for 8 years) showed us how to play Chilean pool which was cool - it was a cross between 9-ball and snooker and it was fun.
Tuesday - so excited to know we would be leaving that afternoon, we couldn't wait to get out of the place. We just wanted to get the mine visit out of the way that day and get to the airport. I was very happy to walk into the airport later that day.
I took use of the duty free facilities to buy myself a 1L bottle of Baileys for US$20 as a birthday present to myself - that's right - I turned 21 on the 5th. Well anyways the flights were reasonably good except for the turbulence we got on the second flight from Miami to Toronto - caused by the cyclone just off the coast of Florida.
It was great to be back in Kingston and that evening I went out to dinner with my house mate for my birthday and just a quite evening at home.
Well hope you are all well, and thanks to my family and friends for those birthday messages!
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Couples News: Is Madonna Spoiling Jesus? Drew's Disney Date
Madonna may be "just a friend" to Jesus Luz, but she's a really good friend. At least according to the London Sun, which says the Big M has tapped DJ Enferno, a spinner from her Sticky & Sweet tour, to teach the Brazilian model how to fulfill his turntable dreams (and perhaps give him a skill to fall back on should the boy-toy thing not work out). What's more, adds the tab, she's coughed up $50,000 on equipment for Luz, who recently did DJ duty at a birthday bash for the fiancé of designer Marc Jacobs, a longtime Madonna pal. "She spares no expense with Jesus -- he's really spoiled," opines a mole, adding, "She hopes he'll get into old-school hip-hop, but he's into techno." Still, having a benefactor may come with a price. The paper claims Madonna also gives Jesus advice on how to dress and corrects his grammar.
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In other romance rumblings . . . At this point, we can safely assume that Drew Barrymore is just messing with us. Last Friday, the amiable actress supposedly enjoyed an "intimate dinner" with "Entourage" star Adrian Grenier. But on Tuesday, she was back in the company of Justin Long as they took a trip to the Happiest Place on Earth. RadarOnline.com reports the light bulb squeezes (read: on-again, off-again), whose PDA-crammed coupling fizzled last summer but appeared to reignite a few months back, made their way through Disneyland with fingers entwined. "They were really excited and acting like kids," says a spy, "holding hands and acting all lovey-dovey." Turns out they weren't just acting like kids -- they were dressed like kids. The pair, who have repeatedly insisted they're now just pals (despite that hickey the actor was sporting last month), were decked out in pirate costumes, with Drew getting deep into character with a drawn-on moustache. As for that dinner with Adrian, seems he was just interviewing Barrymore for a documentary he's working on.
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Meanwhile, Miranda Kerr is tap-dancing around reports that boyfriend Orlando Bloom recently slipped a sparkler on her telltale finger. "No, no engagement ring," the Aussie model-cum-koala advocate pooh-poohed to the Daily Telegraph as she showed off a rock-free digit during a promotional appearance at a Sydney department store on Wednesday. "You can't always believe what you read."
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That's probably what Vanessa Minnillo tried to explain to Nick Lachey following her recent interview with Robin Leach, in which she dropped wedding anvils left and right. At one point, she even gestured to a five-carat diamond ring decorating her middle finger and predicted, "It will be 10 carats when it moves to the fourth finger!" Not that she's thought about it or anything.
As for the first Mrs. Lachey, Jessica Simpson, she remains touchy-feely with her quarterback beau, Tony Romo. People magazine spotted the twosome at a friend's birthday party in Dallas looking "very loving with each other -- very affectionate."
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And finally, has Evan Rachel Wood moved on -- and upgraded -- following her split with Marilyn Manson? The New York Post caught the snow-white starlet snuggling up with actor Shane West during a night out at Las Vegas hot spot Tao on Saturday. "They were both there in a big group of 20 people," relays an onlooker. "At around 3 a.m., Shane and Evan Rachel were all over each other and making out in the middle of the table."
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"The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others."- Lord Robert S.S. Baden Powell of Gilwell, founder of Scouting.
You know that in our community 1 out of every 17 homes will go hungry tonight. Parents are making sacrifices to keep the heat on and a roof over their heads, and so some will go without food. This, as tragic as it is can be remedied, at least for a time with our Scouting for Food campaign.
It is a fact that even when times are tough and there is uncertainty in the economy, giving still happens, in fact, the tougher the times, the more the giving. People are generous when times are bad. We see this in our FOS contributions, gifts to charities, and during our Scouting for food drive.
Last year our Troop helped with the St. Vincent dePaul food bank, we will help there again this year. The collections of food totalled 7204 lbs. That was a record. I spoke with the St. Vincent dePaul coordinator this week. She is anticipating well over 9000 lbs this year.
That is a wonderful band aid to those in need.
We are blessed to have the ability to help, to be on the giving end.
Baden Powell challenged us to "put happiness in the lives of others"! This is so simple when we remember our Oath and Law and have a Scouting Day.
Once again I was asked why I say that, to which I replied it is an attitude of living the Scout Oath and Law. It is not a dorky saying or catch phrase. It is a simple reminder to have a Scouting Day! A day in which the Scout Oath and Law are driving me. A choice I make to be all that is promised in the Oath and the attitude of living the values of the Scout law. Am I perfect? Heck no.. but remembering that I have this simple phrase to keep my compass straight, well it makes life better, for me and for others. "Putting happiness in the lives of others" as BP said, that is what it is all about, not just when we wear our Scout uniforms, but everyday. And that is why I remember to Have a Great SCOUTING day!
This Saturday is our Annual Scouting For Food Drive… I'll be there and all the while I will know that we will put happiness in the lives of someone in our own Community. Now that is Scouting!


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Memories of Burley
The Queens Head
The Queens Head is where my Mum and Dad had their first date, after meeting on Burley Street, and went on to live in Burley and have six of their seven children, before moving to Surrey.
Tea Rooms
My sisters and I would spend our pocket money of 6d old money at the shop, on a Saturday, and walk past here everyday we walked to and from school.
Manor Hotel
Our Dad worked as the gardener for the Manor Hotel, and they lived at Park Lodge, on the edge of the grounds, where my two older sisters were born.
Cricket Pitch By The School
Walking to school, looking out onto these grounds, at weekends our Dad would watch them play cricket.


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Bristol Temple Meads is a major train station in the UK. It was designed and built by the remarkable Isambard Kingdom Brunel who also built the nearby Green Park station (www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=20541) and the Clifton Suspension Bridge which can be seen from as far away as Bath (www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=9802&snapshot_id=27623).
This image looks badly over-exposed to my eye. I think my brain was on autopilot at the time because this shot was supposed to be *under* exposed so you could see metalwork in the roof clearly.
Still, I like the composition and a friend persuaded me to make it public, so here you go.
Images taken with kind permission of FirstGroup.
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Well, I am glad that I see what I see because the look on some of the people's faces are priceless. This really is one of your extraordinary GigaPans, but extraordinary is only in the eye of the beholder... only the English who frequently ride the trains and the tourists would appreciate this GigaPan as much as I do and understand all of its symbolism. :)
It is an odd artifact isn't it? When I first saw it I thought "that's funny - I don't remember there being a mirror on the back of the train". The story is that the train pulled in just as the gigapan had started taking that area of the scene. I paused the unit until the train had stopped, backed it up a bit and resumed shooting, praying that the train wouldn't move off too soon. It didn't but clearly I did quite back up the unit enough.
Lots of discovery as well as a bit of excitement here Kilgore... a question: In a snapshot to this GigaPan, I have identified the train as the train departing to Plymouth, but what I am so curious about is why the end or front of the train is missing a segment as it were moving? I believe I am correct in saying that the train was moving from right to left and it came to a stop after the first photo on the left of the train was taken. And afterwards as you completed that portion of the GigaPan the train was stationary. Simply the engine was not shown and that the first car on the left is the restaurant car, which is always towards the front of the train... usually the first passenger car, but as I remember, the seat material was not red in firrst class, so it is not the restaurant car. Regardless, its an excellent GigaPan because of capturing the people waiting for the train to stop so that they can board. However, if the platform across the tracks, is platform 5, then all of what I have just said is wrong about going to Plymouth... the train is going to another location. This may well be one of my favorites of all your GigaPans... I have bookmarked it.
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Has anyone found anything after Jedi Council Yoda yet? I've noticed how everythings slowed down alot over here, even R2DToys haven't had anything since Lott Dod!
Has anyone found anything after Jedi Council Yoda yet? I've noticed how everythings slowed down alot over here, even R2DToys haven't had anything since Lott Dod!
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I picked up the new Saga Imperial Officer & Rebel Fleet Trooper head variants from R2DToys last week - but these were one-offs that I'd won on eBay auctions, rather than out of a full case assortment.
Both these figures have lighter hair-colour than their POTJ predecessors. The Imperial Officer is the version with the wider chin, and the face of the Rebel has an expression that to me looks more determined and less nervous than the previous version.
Haven't seen a Jedi Council Yoda, but then I haven't been looking for one. My local branch of Forbidden Planet has had waves of the Destroyer Droid figure in stock about three times.
"Afterlife, aftershave - don't hold with any of it!" - Sir Henry Rawlinson.
What are Toys'r'us doing lately?
"Giggety giggety!"
Jek Porky 2008
R2Dtoys haven't had anything new for ages
but i think everything is coming all in one big go according to them
hopefully padmé 2003 is coming soon
Ireland rule!!!!!
Next on List : Destroyer Droid (Arena Battle) ,Clone Trooper with Speeder bike, Geo Arena, Dooku Speeder, Aayla Secura (Jedi Knight), Barris Offee (Jedi Knight), Commerce Guild Spider Droid!!!!!
TRU will be selling off all the cheap stock they got from hasbro, older stuff mostly with possibly a trickle of the new stuff which will fly off the pegs faster than you can say "blip". TRU in Chester and Liverpool looked fairly empty last time i was in and they appeared set to recieve all the new stock on everything. Liverpool had almost completely removed their star wars stuff and Chester were putting out plenty of figures just nothing new. Chester is a prime store to visit being a high turnover store. They get a better deal that a store like Liverpool which doesn't move enough stock. Chester will have more new stuff sooner and more of it it than a low turnover store like Liverpool. Even Warrington is a slow store apparently.
Cardiff Toys R Us has next to nothing, even the new action fleet which only arrived there just before christmas,hasn't been restocked.
Not star wars related,but this weekend I picked up some new things. First was the toy of the Starship Enterprise NX-01, fantastic little thing,more like a model and nothing like the naff electronic enterprises and starships of the past. Impressed with this.
Then second I got two replica swords from lord of the rings, Gandalfs Glamdring and Frodos Sting, really really really nice things, and I got them severely cheap, certainly wasn't going to pay the rip of £250 that Battleorders do them for.
All in all,good weekend. Still no email from d&s toys about the action fleet shipping cost,and nowt from Hasbro, tho that hasbro email I only sent friday,so thats fair enough
The Toys R Us in Sheffield is quiete lately they have loads of Ephant Mons and the other usual figures...oh and a Gunship!!
Lakeside TRU looked like there'd been a riot. There were next to nothing on the shelves, even with the fact that they've shrunk the stock down to about five pegs!
They still had almost 20 12" Maces, and a few Wattos and Pilot Jango - but that was it!!! They're also still pushing the Artoo offer, although anyone would be hard pushed to spend £30!
The Entertainer had the usual mix of stuff, as did Into The Void, and the Collector stall in the old Marketty bit.
And Tesco Beckton have the Reek for a fiver...
Look - I'm Princess Leia!
Norwich TRU is a similar scene. There's lots of figures, but nothing new and did't I hear recently that that he price of figures would drop to £3-£4? If TRU want to shift old stock, they aren't going to at £5.99.
and I thought they smelled bad on the outside...
If anyone wants an extra Anakin OPD for customising purposes (or just target-practice), there's currently about a dozen of them on the pegs in the basement of London's Tower Records for £2.99 each.
I might drop by and pick one up this lunchtime if Forbidden Planet have still got their £1.99 Qui-Gons, and do a quick head-swap....
"Afterlife, aftershave - don't hold with any of it!" - Sir Henry Rawlinson.


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First day of setup for lca2013
Some of the linux.conf.au 2013 team took the chance to rock on over to ANU today and do some final AV testing. While I was there I took some pictures of the various theaters, as I figure it will help answer some of the questions our speakers have.
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"Each day I examine myself on three counts: whether or not I am loyal to those in whose behalf I act; whether or not I am trustworthy in my dealings with friends; whether or not I practice what is imparted."
— Tseng Tzu
Thought this was worth passing on. Found it in my Franklin Planner. A great way of waking up every morning and setting a course for your day. Also a great way to lay your head down at night and reflect on your life of Character.
It seems that the Scout Law is not just for Scouts…
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Appreciate the amazing magnificence of all that you are and all you were put here on the planet to do.
You are not trying to be any one else, you are living your life as an expression of love for who and what you were put on the planet to do. This breath represents the fullness of all that you are, every cell of your being alive and awake to who and what makes your heart beat down to the cellular level ingrained in the codes of your DNA.
Love. Yourself. With wild abandon and cherish the moods and rhythms of your sacred sounds. There is only one of you. Complete and healed and whole and in full possession of unending joy, peace, love and presence of self.
Experience all of you and say Thanks God for who you are.
Exactly as you are.
Take your authentic loving self into the world and celebrate each step, each encounter and each expression of your truest self, fully revealed and alive and awake in each moment.
If you get hung up on any part of remembering to love who you are, ask yourself the beautiful question "Why Not take all of me?" and enjoy Willie Nelson singing All of Me a song written in 1931 in a decidedly different era…
Why Not? What do you have to lose? Why not take a chance on accepting yourself and your way of being as perfectly perfect.
Why not?
We never know why we are made a certain way. Who's to say one quality you consider a hindrance isn't the key to your path through. You never know how the gifts you have been given will be received and to what affect. All you can do is give your gifts freely and openly.
In talking to reporters when Walt Disney opened Disney Land he shared, "It's something that will never be finished, something I can keep developing and adding to. It will get more beautiful eve-ry year. And it will get better as I find out what the public likes." The happiest place on earth was built on the spirit of work in progress where adventure unfolded and imagination flourished and the never ending process was cherished.
I gladly give up my fear
I move into eternal joy
Standing in the truth
Balanced and at peace
Returned to full awareness
Celebrating my life
Let my heart rise and flow
expanding through my breath
In its ever radiating glow
Restore my blissful self to its rightful seat
In Love
Inviting my heart space
to unlock the treasure chest of recognition
Prospering in all ways and means
Revealing what is already mine
In service to my magnificence
Striking a tune the likes of which emanates from my soul
The hum of which cascades ever forward
Gently with force
Exploding the crucible of my being
Once crucified and crushed
In Harmony
With Infinite Love and Gratitude
My thoughts are teachings my teachings are words my words give flight to my dreams
Flight of the Soul started thousands of days ago. Through this blog I have been able to celebrate so many different beliefs, to consider new possibilities, to learn to dance with life as it comes in beautiful harmonies.
Divine Love and Wisdom Unfolds When Wisdom is Applied to Commitmentin that space of the heart. When we are lucky this space is in alignment with all that is.
"A wise old Owl sat on an oak, The more he saw the less he spoke, The less he spoke the more he heard, Why aren't we all a bit more like that wise old bird?"
In the preface to Emanuel Swedenborg's Divine Love and Wisdom the Latin Translator of the text talks about the sketch of a Roman Garden that adorned the title page of each of Swedenborg's books under the phrase Cura Et Labore "with care and work." The image of a beautiful garden with a cherub like Angel watering the plants tending to the well loved garden's growth and harmony strikes to the core of any process.
It is a reminder of the wisdom and grace that exists when discipline is applied to commitment in realizing the fruits of our labor. It represents the opportunity for us to make manifest the joys of a life fully lived in divine Love. When we enrich each moment with care and work, making conscious choices. Free of the energies that keep us bound. We allow nature to take its course in harmony without calling out the struggle, we effortlessly step into the full beauty of existence.
Move into the garden of your being remembering everything is as it is. You are exactly where you are supposed to be and you know absolutely how to tend to your needs.
Swedenborg was one of the first and my favorite dude to express the idea of religion into the revelation of light and to translate the ideas into the concept of spirituality tramping through the late 1600's through 1772, that all the doors lead to the same place. His roots into the ideals of mysticism are well documented and another of the Renaissance spirits who illuminated concepts outside of the current limitations of present conscious understanding. Like Benjamin Franklin who would follow in Swedenborg's self publishing divinely inspired writings Swederborg is an inspiration. Men of vision and insight and continual curiosity expanding principles into the hearts and minds of humanity to lead the way forward to freedom.
Spending the beginning of a new year, another Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday weekend enjoying the spirit and love and all the wisdom imaginable celebrating how far on the journey to discover the truth I had come was the ultimate gift. I know how blessed I am to know what I know and to get to participate with so many of you in sharing this beautiful, wonderful life. Thanks again for all the miracles and thanks again for the laughs and most importantly thanks for all the memories.
thanks for Joining me for these Flight of the Soul inspirations on Beliefnet.com.
As we all begin new endeavors and new projects and new relationships while treasuring the old, as the days stretch forward filled with more and more light and love, may this new day bring you everything possible in service for the highest expression of who you are. May you live in the fullest expression of joy and happiness possible and may you always remember whatever your circumstance the center of inner peace is yours.
lots of love,
#MelsLoveLand #Peace #Wisdom
My best friend is Jewish. She was raised in a community in Diamond Bar California with a Dad who was superintendent of LAUSD.
When her five year old daughter asked me at a Diner "Is Santa Real?" My inner Christian froze, a million thoughts went through my head, her Dad is a bit orthodox, they are not super Christmas-ers, God knows I don't like to lie, and who am I to answer this question. Whatever was going on in my brain, my heart knew what to say. "I'm going to write Santa a letter, right now."
Excitedly, she bounced with Glee, "I want to write one too!"
I didn't need to tell her anything, her heart knows that Santa lives in our hearts ever available for us to talk to, he is as real as our imagination tangible and intangible, always on call to listen to what our dreams are.
Christmas is the time of year that divine light broke through human consciousness to reveal love and possibilities. The idea of light being born in complete immaculate space of union with the intersection of humanity and that which is the bridge to other conscious realms. It is an intersection to infinite joy and grace.
Enjoy the holidays and the messages and the symbols and the love flows in your heart no matter what is happening. Today is a day to remember Santa Claus is real, he represents wishes and dreams that live in your heart that want to be born. Gifts given and received and cherished.
Lots of Love,
reconcile the despair over the gap between legislation being enacted granting rights and the prejudice being perpetrated around the country negating the spirit of universal equal rights.
wave of forgiveness to caress whoever has come to mind that needs this wave of love, allow this wave of love to flow freely from center and watch it embrace those in need and those we cherish and those we don't know and the world at large, flowing into the ethers of the universe. Rest and relax and know all is well and all will be well and return once again to center, the source of all the love there ever was, all the miracles that are possible, and all the joy that resides in the purest laugh of the smiling heart.
I am the One who is the Mother of all the mothers, who is the Primordial Mother, the Shakti, the desire of God, who has incarnated on this Earth to give its meaning to itself; to this creation, to human beings and I am sure through My Love and patience and My powers I am going to achieve it. I was the One who was born again and again, but now in my complete form and complete powers I have come on this Earth not only for salvation of human beings, not only for their emancipation, but for granting them the Kingdom of Heaven, the Joy, the Bliss that your Father wants to bestow upon you." – Shri Mataji,
2 December 1979—London, UK
the onslaught of doubts on the interior and exterior in conflict with the effort required to release love's fullest power and the healing that extends from its embrace.
Corinthians 13:7-13 a good reminder of the depths with which this energy flows. "Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends; as for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. For our knowledge is imperfect and our prophecy is imperfect; but when the perfect comes, the imperfect will pass away. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became a womyn, I gave up childish ways. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall understand fully, even as I have been fully understood. So faith, hope, love
abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love."
As Rumi wrote – You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop. Practice seeing with the heart. Feast on the fullness of love's expression igniting a fire of possibility for peace on earth. Enjoy the world you see with your heart.
Love is the wake up call of the moment. This is the destiny of this expression of humanity. This is the way that we understand our destiny to love and be loved.
The mechanism of love, those internal gears that are developed over time and in the
flow of our life as we practice the discipline of love as a way of being brings us into the center of our divinity.
how small the beginning may seem to be,


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Wisconsin off to 10-0 start
MADISON - The Wisconsin Badger men's basketball team is ranked fourth in the nation in the Associated Press rankings released Monday.
The Badgers are off to a 10-0 start-- the second best start in Wisconsin basketball history.
Arizona is the new number one in men's college basketball. Syracuse is second, Ohio State third, Wisconsin fourth and Michigan State fell from first to fifth. That gives the Big Ten three teams ranked in the top five.
The Badgers had been ranked fourth last week.
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This conference offers an exciting and rigorous scientific and keynote speaker program that critiques the evidence and challenges all to reach new standards of excellence in nutrition and dietetics. A new look workshop program, is aimed at supporting professional development across a range of practice areas and experience, including a dedicated new graduate stream. Themed 'The Future is Now' delegates will develop tangible action plans, so that conference 'gems' are translated into practice in the workplace. Along with fabulous sunshine in May, Brisbane offers the perfect place to unwind, celebrate life and do some serious networking.
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How Do I Talk To 4th Graders About IT? 531
Tsunayoshi writes "My son volunteered me to give a presentation on what I do for a living for career day at his elementary school. I need to come up with a roughly 20-minute presentation to be given to 4-5 different classrooms. I am a systems administrator, primarily Unix/Linux and enterprise NAS/SAN storage, working for an aerospace company. I was thinking something along the lines of explaining how some everyday things they experience (websites, telephone systems, etc.) all depend on servers, and those servers are maintained by systems administrators. I was also going to talk about what I do specifically, which is maintain the computer systems that allow the really smart rocket scientists to get things into space. Am I on the right track? Can anyone suggest some good (and cheap/easy to make) visual aids?"


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Egyptian-American human rights activist to speak, March 26
Posted March 17, 2004; 05:02 p.m.
Saad Eddin Ibrahim, an Egyptian-American human rights activist who was a political prisoner in Egypt, will speak at 4:30 p.m. Friday, March 26, in 1 Robertson Hall. He will present "Seven Reasons for Hope in the Contemporary Arab World."
A sociologist at American University in Cairo, Ibrahim is founder and director of the Ibn Khaldun Center, an organization that promotes democracy in Egypt.
Arrested in June 2000, Ibrahim was convicted twice by a state security court of harming Egypt's image with his research on vote fraud and human rights. His case attracted attention around the world, including from Amnesty International. In March 2003, Egypt's highest appeals court found him innocent of all charges.
The event is sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Studies .
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ACParadise is proud to be teaming up with Akibafest to handle their cosplay activities and making sure both cosplayers and fans of cosplay have a great time! Cosplayers can look forward to the following things:
1. Cosplay Area: We'll have some backdrops available to pose for photos in, with props and accessories to liven things up! This area will also be open to any gatherings organized by fans, or if you just want individual photos with some lovely scenery.
2. Cosplay Lounge / Changing Area: We know it can be inconvenient to get in and out of costume without a hotel, so we have a dedicated changing area. Besides being covered by drapes, we'll have staff available to make sure your privacy is respected. Next to the changing area will be a "Cosplay Lounge", an area blocked off from regular attendees, for those times you want to take a break and not be approached for photos.
3. Cosplay Contest: Whether you want to do a dance performance, skit, or even a simple walk-on, we hope you'll sign up and show off your costume in our costume contest! We accept all kinds of entries, and we'll have some great prizes offered by Akibafest and its industry partners. For more information on signing up, please refer to Akibafest's contest page at
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Bellas first duck hunt at 5 months old!!!
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A downtown landmark will close its doors for good Christmas Eve.
According to owner and founder Janet Kelly, she's not willing to sell Auntie Crae's specialty food store, and none of her family members or workers want, or are able, to take it over.
"I'm just retiring and I have no comment on it other than that and I'm closing the store," Kelly said Sunday. "I was never going to sell the business, ever."
Kelly confirms that certain Auntie Crea's products will continue to be sold through other stores, although she didn't say which ones.
"I'll probably licence people to do some of the products."
The store was established in 1977 in Churchill Square, but moved to its current Water Street location a decade ago.
Before being turned into the specialty foods shop, the Water Street building was a hardware store called Neyle-Sopers for nearly 100 years.
A part of the current store is now called Fishhook Neyle's Common Room, where people are welcome to bring their own lunches and snacks or those bought at the store and socialize.
Elizabeth McRae, who the store is named after, lived from 1862 to 1927 and leased the building at 308 Water St., a document she's believed to have signed in 1891 for a 10-year period for the sum of $650 per year.
Auntie Crae, Kelly's great-aunt, was said to have fought the flames of the Great Fire with holy water and prayers as it lapped at her building.
And though it's not nearly as storied, in recent years Kelly has had to be creative to keep her business running.
Kelly went public with her problems attracting staff and announced she'd be changing her hours as a result in 2008. She spoke on a panel called "The Disappearing Work Ethic: Fact or Fiction," about a new generation of worker and she also recently posted a sign on plywood covering a broken picture window saying "smashed window compliments of George Street revellers," and, below that, "Yes, we are open as usual. Auntie Crae's."
The store has played host to book launches and readings, and every Tuesday the "Auntie Crae's Band" plays for the lunch crowd.
Now over 70, Kelly says it's time to retire.
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MoVida with its signature brand of Spanish dining is set to open at the end of August 2013.
MoVida is targeting travellers with its signature brand of Spanish dining, with a restaurant at Sydney Airport's T2 Domestic Terminal set to open at the end of August 2013.
The new 137 square metre tapas bar will seat 80 and serve a selection of Spanish tapas and raciones designed to share, as well as breakfast, pastries, sandwiches and bocadillos (Spanish sandwiches).
MoVida favourites on the menu will include 'Bomba', a Catalan potato and chorizo dish; 'Carrillera de Buey', slow braised beef cheek in Pedro Ximenez on cauliflower puree; and Jamon and Manchego Bocadillo.
"Sydney Airport's T2 passengers appreciate choice and quality dining options. MoVida will be the perfect venue for travellers to start their journey in style, and for Sydneysiders to farewell and greet their families, friends and colleagues over a tantalising meal," Sydney Airport General Manager Retail, Andrew Gardiner, said.
MoVida Owner and Head Chef, Frank Camorra, said he was pleased to be opening MoVida's sixth restaurant at the main concourse of T2 at Sydney Airport.
"Like other MoVida sites, the key ingredient of fine dining in a fun and informal setting is preserved at T2, with the same attention to the theatre of eating out. Customers will be greeted with a hearty 'Hola!' just like a traditional 'hole in the wall' Spanish tapas bar.
"Our architect, Adam Dettrick, has designed the new restaurant, referencing MoVida's staple style throughout the fitout, with a solid Blackwood bar, chunky steel footrests, and eye-catching LED scrolling signage. Terracotta tiles and rustic steelwork stamp the space with MoVida's unmistakable laneway heritage, whilst Blackwood timbers and intimate lighting provide a warm and inviting space for customers to enjoy the experience," he said.
MoVida at T2 will be open daily from 6am to 9pm.
For more information about Sydney Airport, visit www.sydneyairport.com.au
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For more information please contact DEC Public Relations, on behalf of Sydney Airport:
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HOLLAND - Hope College finished 18th at the NCAA Division III championships which concluded Friday, May 18. St. John's, Minn. topped the 35-team field with a 72-hole total of 1,204 strokes. Hope ended with 1,266 strokes.
Junior Tommy Yamaoka of Zeeland (Zeeland HS) achieved All-America distinction by placing 15th in the 185-player field. His average of 76.5 strokes per-round was the best-ever by a Hope golfer at nationals. Yamaoka, who was the national freshman of the year in 2005, was voted to this year's Ping All-America second team. He had tournament rounds of 77-75-78-76.
Senior captain Nate Golomb of Schoolcraft (Schoolcraft HS) led every golfer in the tournament in Par 3 efficiency. He averaged 3.06 strokes on the courses' eight par three holes. He finished 43rd in the final standings with rounds of 77-79-80-78.
Scores of other Hope golfers were: Steve Martindale (junior from Midland/H.H. Dow HS), 96th place (84-86-77-79); Ryan Sheets (junior from Saline/Saline HS), 102nd place (86-85-81-76); and Matt Lapham (junior from Brighton/Brighton HS), 115th place (83-81-85-86).


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Chimairas Mark Hunter Discusses His Twitter Outburst, The Misconception Of The Music Industry
Posted by Zach Shaw on Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 10:21 am
For the past two days, Chimaira frontman Mark Hunter has been going at it nonstop on Twitter. While his tweet-a-thon has included responses to fans questions and interactions with the likes of Lamb Of Gods Randy Blythe and Metal Blades Brian Slagel, a chunk of his tweets have addressed the core issues bands struggle with day to day. Hunters candid insight into the misconception many have about the recording industry is truly an eye opening read.
While we covered his interaction with Brian Slagel about Spotify, we realized that it was going to be very difficult to give Hunters tweets the proper coverage they deserve (seriously, hed post anywhere from 10 to 30 tweets per hour). As we were trying to determine the best way to cover this during the first day of his Twitter rampage, it suddenly occurred to us: Why dont we actually talk to the Chimaira frontman himself?!
Hunter was gracious enough to step away from his computer to talk directly with us. Hunter took the time to further break down the structures of record labels and touring, as well as frankly discuss the hardest part of going through lineup changes, why Spotify is a brilliant service, and how social networking has the power to do remarkable things.
First off, thanks for taking time away from Twitter to talk with us!
[laughs] Well thanks for pulling me away from it!
Is this the first time youve talked openly about the music industry, besides via Twitter?
Ive kind of been more of a behind the scenes guy. Ive really been in charge of handling a lot of the business for Chimaira. So Ive fortunately seen a lot of what goes on. Its kind of like one of those things you see where some people start to open up and you realize how important it is to be forward. And I guess since yesterday [September 27] there was just something inside that was like Its time to start talking about something real! Some people have been doing it earlier than me, but I guess yesterday was my day to say Im over the misconception!
Well yesterday (9/27), you really covered a lot about the music industry (including downloading, touring, etc.). So to start things off, what would you say is your biggest concern facing musicians right now?
Well, the reality is, the format that we were all releasing music on is virtually dead. So it becomes very difficult to understand how theres any revenue, how theres supposed to be a relationship between the artist and record label if neither are getting the revenue that they need to do the job.
Would you say that the labels are more at blame for the current problems, or the fans for illegally downloading?
I dont think you can point a finger, honestly. For example, its really easy for an artist to blame the label for something. But at the same time the artist can be making stupid mistakes that theyre unaware of, and the only person they can blame is the label when the label might not have any idea what that issue is. So you cant just blame people and you cant just expect things to revert and go back to normalcy, but you also cant keep these issues hidden from the young aspiring band, maybe people currently in the industry wondering why everything is so weird. I think its just time to realize the fact that the industry has changed and its time to adapt.
What would you say is the best way for musicians and the industry to adapt?
Ok, well I think it starts with the artist having to be good. And right now, what has been happening, labels will maybe get lucky with one band or they see success that another label is doing with one band. So you get a lot of copycatting and imitating. And I think what this period of time that were in [needs] is a reorganization, and you have to squeeze it so hard that you get rid of a lot of the bands and labels that are just trying to grab onto a quick cash grab. I think there needs to be an emergence of extreme originality. And its so difficult to believe that I cant hardly find a metal band anymore that doesnt sound exactly like the metal band that was just released last week or the week before that. Its just this whole
I dont know what it is, this Pro Tools generation. But I think that youre going to, hopefully, see the end of that.
During some of your tweets, you explained how a record deal breaks down (with the label making 6-7 times more than the band). Though you highlight how labels are an important source of funding for promotion and production, you also admit that Chimaira is currently at a status where (though still not the biggest band) you can still get major media coverage without labels. Why, then, did the band decide to sign a recording deal with eOne Records last year when you guys were free agents? Did the band ever consider going DIY?
Yes, honestly, once we became free agents, that was the goal. We were fully intent on pushing forward and being completely independent. And I thought to myself Ok, well if we wanted a publicist, we would hire the same publicist who was working for us at the same time, Maria Ferrero [Adrenaline PR], and I would go to Maria and say Hey, were without a label, could you do me a favor? Maybe she would have, maybe wouldnt. Either way, we wouldve paid her to do this service. Then theres radio, we wouldve contacted the radio department. Marketing, we wouldve contacted Marc Shapiro [Branch Marketing Collective]. So all the people that our label were contacting to hire and outsource, we could do the same exact thing. Now then the biggest obstacle from that point would be getting it distributed, how youre going to get it in the stores. We wouldve tried to do whats called a distro deal with RED Distribution, who are familiar with Chimaira as theyve distributed all of our other albums. So its essentially whats called cutting out the middle man.
But what we came to realize was the bankroll, and getting that initial funding to do those things. To record an album costs us anywhere from $20,000 to $50,000. Then theres hiring a publicist, perhaps its around anywhere from $4,000 to $10,000 a month? I dont even know these costs, Im kind of making them up. Lets just say youre up to about $100,000. Well, it would be nice if Chimaira had 100 grand parked in the savings account to go forward and do that, but unfortunately we did not. So at that time, it made more sense to sign up with a team that would help us promote and reach further than we could on our own. And another giant factor in that was Europe. The market over there is completely different than it is here, and we knew that we know nothing about that. It wouldve been career suicide to try to do that on our own over there right now. So as were still part of the paradigm shift, its essential to hold onto it while we can because they still do help. I dont see them as such a negative, but my purpose for informing people, bands, fans, and aspiring musicians is maybe theyll appreciate what the artists are doing just a little bit more and what they go through.
Its not what its cracked up to be. Yes, if we were Lil Wayne, wed be making a lot of money, but thats not the case. This is below minimum wage for so many people, below the poverty line for so many people, and all of it is for an appreciation of art and the connection with the fans. So if they realize that, maybe when the go see the bands, they go off a little harder or instead of buying 15 beers at the show, maybe they buy 14 and a t-shirt. These things are important because otherwise all of our favorite bands are going to eventually start dropping like flies. Its already happening. Its not going to start happening, its happened.
I was curious then whether eOne has met your expectations or not so far (with Chimairas new album The Age Of Hell having been out since August).
I take no issue with eOne at all. There has been a really good communication with the team there, and I feel they did a solid job, and they had many obstacles. For example, Best Buy, who was the number one seller for Chimaira for our entire career, made it extremely difficult for us to get our product in the store. So if youre a metal head and all your favorite mom and pop stores are closing down, youre going to Best Buy because its cheap and you know stuff is there. Well, if our records not there and you want the physical product, where are you getting it? F.Y.E. for $16.99? I dont think so! So theres Hot Topic, but you have the whole stigma that some metal heads dont even want to walk in there [laughs]. So it makes it extremely difficult and our backs are against the wall.
But do I think eOne did a good job? Yes. I mean, they did everything that weve had done in the past, and they went a little outside the box as well and really let me be the nut that I am and be in charge of the little guerilla marketing ideas Id have in the middle of the night. They were really interested in everything that weve had to say. Do I think there couldve been better sales or stuff? Yeah. Do I think thats their fault? No. I think that they did what they could do with what they were given, given the circumstances and the time that we live in.
I loved that you mentioned just now about Best Buy. I would normally go to Best Buy as a kid, and when I walked in recently for the first time in years, I was amazed by how small the CD selection had become. It killed me.
Yeah, when I was a kid, I used to collect VHS tapes. And when the DVD came out, I saw the DVD section went from 1 aisle and the VHS was about seven aisles, and then within a few years that entire shelving system was reversed. I dont think Ive even walked into a Best Buy in two years. I dont even know what it looks like. I cant imagine [laughs].
Its better than F.Y.E., but youre not missing much!
I went into an F.Y.E. yesterday. [laughs]
I saw that picture! [laughs]
Yeah, of course they didnt have the new album and were overpriced. Whos going to pay $16.99 for that CD? Who?! You can get a subscription to Spotify for less.
Speaking of Spotify, I love that you admitted that your Twitter rampage actually started when you couldnt listen to Cannibal Corpse on Spotify. And you even got [Metal Blade CEO/founder] Brian Slagel to make his first public statement about Spotify. After being in contact with Slagel and hearing what actually went down between Spotify and Metal Blade, have your feelings toward the service changed?
No, not at all. First Id like to say that Brian is one of the very few in this industry that is genuine and cares about his artists. And he truly is a fan, and thats amazing to see. Even though weve never been on the label, every time weve encountered each other, from the first day its been smiles and handshakes and Hey, how are you doing?, just deep respect for each other. So hes genuine, and thats rare.
And I dont even want to be a Spotify poster boy by any means because from talking with my friends, theyre like Well, you can still do the same stuff on YouTube, and I can listen to Pink Floyd and Metallica on YouTube. I cant listen to them on Spotify. But I still think that the service is amazing, and once I saw the Facebook integration happen and fans were listening to some of the weirder music I listen to and commenting on it and discovering it, I was like Aw man, this is huge! And the reach that Facebook has already, whether you hate the site or not, is unquestionable. So as an artist, I imagine fans listening to Chimaira on Spotify and then new people becoming fans of us because of that. And as an artist, that is all you want, is to have fans. So I find the service to be brilliant and the integration sealed the deal for me. Even if the royalty system sucks, I think that with the amount of fans you can potentially gain from the people that are interested in our music, that could translate into the live scenario and/or maybe extra merchandise sales, which are the things that truly matter to keep the bands wheels going anyway.
Do you see why independent labels might seem hesitant, though, to partner with Spotify because of the low royalties, or are they missing the point?
Well, every label has their own reasoning, and I dont know whats going on with that honestly to comment. Im sure that it is not a good system, but the reason I called Brian out was because, like you pointed out, he had not commented. And from what Im reading from other people, it doesnt seem, I guess, are they just pulling out because they want more money or because they want more money for the artists? Because I dont see how the artists are going to get more money. Why is Spotify going to be like You know what, we really need Cannibal Corpse? They dont! So Im just really trying to figure out what the catch is behind it. I was hoping that as innovative as Brian is that he did want to be a part of this service because he has some great bands on there that can definitely benefit from the service.
You highlight numerous times in your tweets how not only does a lot of money go into touring (for very little return), but also a lot of politics. Can you explain a little further the exact process that goes into getting a band like Chimaira on a tour package? Is it as difficult as putting together a headlining tour?
Both are their own challenges. For example, when we were a young band and we got an offer to tour with Slayer, that was huge for us, right? So of course as fans we want to take that tour more than anything in the world. And the reality of our situation was the guarantees were just about enough to cover the gas. So we were left with a pretty big wall to get over. So at the time our label, Roadrunner, offered whats called tour support. And they invest what they, Im just going to throw a BLEEP! number, lets say they invest $25,000 and they give you that so you can do the tour. Well that $25,000 is paid back at such a slow rate that youre just digging yourself into such a hole youll never get out of it. Youll have to sell millions of records. And as a young band, you get really BLEEP! guarantees. So you have to rely on the tour support.
So what had happen was with our entire first album, we got all these cool tours but offered low guarantees, and we had to go into the hole with Roadrunner. And the first album Pass Out Of Existance didnt perform that well to merit those costs. So when The Impossibility Of Reason came out, we were faced with either getting dropped or our advance would be reduced. Of course we didnt want to get dropped, so we took an advanced reduction. And just went and made the album the best way we could and then that album started to do well. And when it really started to do well, there was no money left over from the first album to really put forth an extra umph into maintaining it. So here we are at a peek of our career, touring with Slipknot, playing in front of thousands of kids a night, but theres no marketing behind it, theres less than 700 records in stores in the United States, and you see its our fault but its not our fault.
Its so weird [laughs], thats the word I guess I can use. Its like they loan you the money so you can get on that tour and get bigger and once you get bigger if you need that extra money but if you havent paid back the loan, oh well. And I just didnt understand that. To me its like they werent protecting their investment, but they certainly protected their investment because they made it back and then some. Its just not on paper for us because the way that artists pay back is at a slow percentage. If you get handed $100,000 and your royalty rate is $1 per CD, you have to sell then a 100,000 CDs to recuperate. So the more you go into the hole, the less chances of ever seeing a profit. I dont know if I can answer the question fully [laughs] I tend to rant a lot.
No thats good! Now how does that compare to the process of putting together a headlining tour?
Well the obstacles of a headlining tour, for example, because right now the economy is weird and certain promoters have taken a big hit. But say we need to get from Cleveland to Texas and in between those markets you have Kentucky, St. Louis, or whatever. Well lets just say Kentucky offers you $2,000 and youre like Ok, we can do that. So the agent marks that on the calendar. Alright, whats the next city in line? Its North Carolina. Well North Carolina, theyre not doing any shows. If there are too many shows in the market, they dont make an offer. Things like that happen all the time. And then the bands will sit there and complain that Oh, it looks like it was booked by a monkey throwing darts at a map. Well thats kind of how it is because you cant always just get where you want to be when you want to be. So theres a lot of challenges with that. And then sometimes you might need to go from Seattle to California and the only thing in the way is Portland, and Portland is only offering $1,000 or $500. Its like, well do you tell them to just BLEEP! themselves or do you take the money because you need it for the day? So you never know what youre gonna get. You have no idea whats ahead and all bands get different salaries. Some bands are lucky to get $100 a night, some bands are making over $10,000 a night and that $10,000 isnt enough for them. Its all relative to the band, but we all face the same tasks and challenges and its just different numbers, thats all.
I remember you tweeting earlier today [September 28] about how Daath didnt get paid during a tour you did with them. I imagine that there are some nights where its common for even the headliner to get screwed out of money as well?
Definitely. We did a whole tour in 2009 and that promoter of that still owes us over $10,000. So its like you go and do this tour and you come home and youre like Wheres the money? Well the moneys not coming. So everyones just away from their family, away from the chance to make some side money. Sure the shows were fun, but then when you come home and theres nothing to see for it, its a pretty rotten taste in your mouth.
Youve kind of just touched upon this, and you also admit this via Twitter, but do you think that had a major role in Chimairas lineup changes this past year?
100%. Nobody likes to work for free, nobody likes to feel underappreciated, and nobody knows where this thing is going. You feel a lot of tension, a lot of anxiety, a lot of stress, and maybe throw in your personal life too [laughs]. And now your personal life is Oh how am I paying my mortgage?, or I have a kid!, or I need to eat! So those stressors come into the camp and it comes across in the performance. It comes across in the sound. I can just hear, its like Man, we are out of gas! You really have to be able to just slip your own perspective to move forward. And as bleak as I see things are, maybe I also see a beauty in that and I dont mind that. It doesnt scare me. It doesnt stress me out maybe as much as it would someone in the group that has a child. I dont have that type of responsibility. So I guess I can afford to be a pioneer even if its a disastrous choice.
You mention in a tweet how lineup changes are unavoidable. What would you say, though, is the biggest difficulty about going through a change in the band like that?
Honestly, the biggest difficulty
well theres two, and theyre totally different because one side is for the business and one side is for your personal. The personal side is like a relationship. You dont want to see your friends go, you dont want to see that happen. The guys that have left this group have spent almost ten years if not more on the road, and you know these people inside out, you care about them deeply. And you realize that we just needed a break. Whether that break was a vacation or someone handed us a fat paycheck [laughs], or where we could kind of just rest for a minute, and that works a lot. But to work so hard on a relationship and have it crumble because of extraneous circumstances and petty things, that hurts. It be like if you were dating a girl for a year and a half and you proposed and you went Alright, now were going to get married, and youre going down the altar and next thing you know all the problems just unravel. Youre going to have a pretty BLEEP! feeling. So thats difficult.
On the business side and the reality side of the business are fans and their reaction. The assumption of the fan is that we are like the three musketeers or the six musketeers, if you will, that were all in this one for all and were writing a song and its all six guys and theyre playing their part, and this and that. And well, if Jim [LaMarca, ex-bassist] is gone, then the sound is going to suffer. Thats just unfortunately not the truth, and how do you make a fan understand that? You cant. So we never tried to. All we can do is put out an album and say Hey, does it still sound like Chimaira to you? Is it worthy of having the name? And thats all you can hope for, is that the fan enjoys the music despite the changes. But right off the bat, theres a preconceived notion that everything is different. Well of course everything is different! Even if it was the same, were not going to make the same album we just made. [laughs] And a big thing that fans complain about anyway is that every album changes from sound to sound, but thats what weve done. So to have lineup changes happen for us brings in new life, brings in new energy and brings in creativity. We see the positive and the negative.
In addition to your persistence on Twitter, I think its amazing how youve not only gotten fellow musicians and names in the industry to react, but also have gotten them to join the discussion. Do you think that the past two days have shown how powerful social networks can be when used properly?
Exactly! Thank you for saying it like that. I cant count how many times I talked to friends and Im like, We have mastered the ability to communicate with each other at a level that is unprecedented, and we use it to show the pictures of what were eating and talk about how BLEEP! Mondays are! And the vanity retweets where were like Hey, love the band. Yeah we know! So Im just sick of it. Not saying I havent been guilty [laughs]. We can use this for whatever we wanted to. We have a voice. We can make our own destiny, our own reality. And it could be a bunch of older industry guys flapping their jaws on Twitter and that is a meaningful message to some, or you can use it for good. Whether its politics or maybe a social issue that you hold dear to your heart, I feel if you approach the conversation with a respect and dont just try to degrade and attack somebodys interests or feelings or thoughts on the matter, it leaves it open for a good debate.
For example, Randy [Blythe, singer of Lamb Of God] loves to go to the store and buy the CD. I used to love that too, but I dont find personal joy in that anymore. It doesnt mean that were going to sit there on the internet and say Well youre wrong and Im right! Thats just ridiculous, but thats exactly what happens. I think that us as artists are smart enough and have been through enough that we can have the ability to show people that you can have an open dialogue about serious things and show the good sides, show the bad sides, just show whats real. And unfortunately some people dont like to hear the truth. Ive had kids on there [Twitter] say Im whining, but Im not whining about anything. What am I whining about? I love what I do, Ive made that clear. Im just showing that I aint driving around in a Maserati and I dont have three Latino BLEEP! in my car with me giving me head while I blow coke off their BLEEP!. I sit at home with a couple of dogs and just try to make ends meet like everyone else.
During all of this, you actually got introduced to Kickstarter. You even said that the band might consider doing a video via donations through the service. Have you and the band discussed any possibility of using Kickstarter in the future?
I want to look into it. Right now, a good friend of mine, a young up and coming art student, really wants a shot at making a video, and he gave a pretty respectable budget. And now that I put a feeler out there to see what the reaction would be, I dont mind trying it. We dont want to do something thats ridiculous or where we need four hundred grand for this because we want to blow up couple porches [laughs]. Were going make something thats of artistic quality and something that will visually entertain you to accompany the song. I think thatd be interesting because I as a fan love the video world, but the reality for us is that nobody is going to pay for it. So if you want to see another Chimaira video, we got to figure something out. I want to see one, dont you? So lets figure this out.
What song would you possibly do a video for?
The friend of mine that wants to do the video suggested the track Losing My Mind. What I thought was cool yesterday was that a fan proposed that they get to possibly vote on which video we would do one for. I like that idea too. So maybe we could do both or something and see if we can get two.
That would be really cool. So you have the tour with Unearth and Skeletonwitch coming up. Any plans after that?
Yeah, well were touring for the next nine weeks in the States, and then were going to go overseas in 2012. Im sure well do couple more shows in the States in 2012 without question. We also have our 12th annual Christmas show, which is at the end of the year and is always a big deal for us. And just business as usual, and its good to go back on the road and on the full touring schedule because we havent really done that in almost four year as a headliner. So its a little overdue.
Well thank you so much for taking the time to chat with us. Are you going to continue the tweets or are you going to try to slow down on that?
What do you think I should do?
I think you should do whatever you think feels right! [laughs]
[laughs] You know, I got to entertain myself, Ill be honest with you. My girlfriend is out of town and I
Oh NOW we find out why youre doing Twitter so much! [laughs]
Yeah! [laughs] No, I have extra time man. Ill be honest, Im always on Twitter. Im always looking. Theres so many times when I just have my phone in my hand, Im one of those phone junkies, and Im just constantly looking and I just never say anything. Im always like Ugghhh, I wanna say that, but I guess Ive just never been able to jump off the diving board until yesterday. And it feels good. It feels good to start swimming. [laughs]
You just mentioned about having your phone, I just got an Android recently and Im still amazed at how connected I feel to the world. Even while Im walking outside, the possibilities are endless. I cant even imagine how I was before not having the internet on my phone. It really is amazing.
Precisely, and the fact that were going to be on tour and we all have phones, I mean theres so much down time on tour. Its unbelievable. So I think Id like to continue. Maybe not with as such a bombardment [laughs], but I think I really like talking about real stuff. That doesnt mean Im not going to talk about what Im eating and where Im hanging out at or with whom, but I think that this has opened up a serious dialogue for many people about whatever issue they want to talk about and hopefully the trend is followed. Continued I should say, not followed.
Well I will continue to follow you on Twitter.
[laughs] Appreciate it!
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By Sheena Barnett/NEMS Daily Journal
TUPELO – Before you ask, yes, Champian Fulton is Champian Fulton's real name.
"My father picked it out in the hopes he'd have a son, a 'champ,'" the jazz artist said in a phone interview with the Daily Journal. "So when I arrived, they decided it's a good name for a girl, but they changed the 'o' to an 'a' to make it feminine."
Fulton, a New York-based jazz singer and pianist, will be joined on stage by her father and two other musicians when she performs in Tupelo next week. It's Fulton's second time to perform in Tupelo, and the show is a part of a big tour for her, as she's touring the States and just arrived home from Europe.
"We had such a good time (in Tupelo), we thought we'd come back," she said.
Fulton's love for jazz came from her jazz trumpeter father, Stephen Fulton, so she was raised on the genre.
She's recorded several albums, including her most recent, "Champian Sings and Swings."
She plans to perform some of the tracks off that album in Tupelo – but that's as much as she's planned.
"Usually I like to wing it. I never make a list of things we're gonna play," she said. "Right before we go on stage, I'm always like, 'What do you guys wanna start with?'"
"Champian Sings and Swings" will be available at the show, and she's already thinking about her next recording.
"Right now I'm going through and picking out some songs that I hear on the radio and on records and thinking, 'That would be nice,' or 'Maybe I could come up with a cool arrangement for that.'" It's still really early, and I don't have any set ideas or concepts," she said.
Before she gets started on that, she's got a tour of the U.S. to get her sound out to the masses. Fulton is excited about the tour.
"We're driving in the U.S., so it'll be a lot of time on the road – and a lot of Cracker Barrels," she said. "That's my favorite place to go when we're driving."
• On stage
Who: Champian Fulton
When: 7 p.m. April 10 and 11
Where: Vanelli's, Tupelo
Cost: Free
Info: (662) 844-4410