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Everything is working without any problem.
So it is very late in Germay and i hope i will read your answer tomorrow
I have a problem setting this up.
It always shown up as "0 Days" for me regardless of what I enter in for the Date and Month. The Time and Minutes, however, work perfectly fine. I tried all kind of formats, both in words, numbers, tried to respring, reboot... but still no luck.
Can anyone help?
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Hello guys, I'm on my way on releasing the new update but I need your help this time. Is anyone of you a native (or extremely fluent) speaker of a language except from English? (the new version will have translations and it is already translated into Greek and Dutch) Please let me know if you fall into this category and I will contact you.
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I'm sorry.. but where can i find this one?
i want it sooo badly but i think it must be removed from cydia.
i got modmyi source of course..
Can anyone mail me this tweak?
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This is the developer of CountdownCenter. What you're describing is odd, because when I click dev portal on ModMyi I can still see my tweak as present and I can also see its downloads. So you might have issues with ModMyi's repo. Reload data and try again later and if you still have issues let me know and I will send you the .deb as an email and contact one of ModMyi's staff for this hosting problem.
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They pay close to it and it's a heck of a lot closer to 50% than the folks who don't pay any tax on their income at all.
I just checked. Millionaires have about $11.4 trillion in income this past year. That means a 1% increase in "fair share" would be what....$11.4 billion? That's a pittance in terms of Federal spending. (Of course the argument can be made that I'm talking taxes for all levels but talking only Federal expenditures.) Suppose the rate was adjusted so that they paid 10% more. That's still only $114 billion. How much? give us a number. Rather than just waving your hands around, tell us how much is a "fair share"?
The millionaire in the US is somewhat an endangered species. The number here declined about 125,000 while the number world-wide grew by 175,000.


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Former evolutionist Paul Frank discusses Creation/Evolution debate Nov. 29, 2011
Many people think the Creation Science movement is just made up of Christians who ignore the scientific evidence. Well, that thinking will be challenged by Paul Frank, this month's Creation Science Society of Milwaukee speaker.
Paul Frank offers an interesting perspective on the Creation/Evolution debate, since he graduated from the University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh with a B.S. in biology and a minor in chemistry. But even more noteworthy than his scientific background, is the fact that he began his college years as an agnostic and devout evolutionist!
From the CSSM Newsletter: "[Paul's] evolutionary beliefs were challenged when a friend presented him with a book entitled Studies in Creation by Dr. John Klotz. The book piqued Paul's interest and the next book he read on the subject, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, marked a watershed moment in Paul's life. The theory of evolution seemed implausible to him after reading that book. Incidentally this was the same book that Lehigh University biochemist Michael Behe read that turned him from his evolutionary beliefs and resulted in his seminal work Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution. To this day Behe's first book remains a benchmark for the new ID movement." (My emphasis)
Paul Frank will approach the Creation Science / Intelligent Design movement vs. Evolution from a scientific, bio-chemical viewpoint--that genetic entropy (deterioration) rules out progressive macroevolution (major changes occurring over a long time), and "the necessity of DNA and proteins arising at the same time. He will also present a formidable argument against chemical evolution using probability statics."
In layman's terms, mutations cannot account for changes necessary for large scale evolution (one cell animals to humans or even fish to amphibian), because we now know that mutations just take away or repeat code that is already written. We also now know that new genetic information cannot be spontaneously added by chance, because that is mathematically impossible--the sequencing is far too complex for chance.
As you might have guessed, this presentation will be more technical in nature and is intended for adults.
Mr. Frank will present his talk on the Creation/Evolution Debate on Tuesday, November 29, 2011 at 6:45pm at Grace Bible Church, 2643 S. 117th Street, West Allis, Wisconsin. (Located between Cleveland and Lincoln Avenue on 117th Street.)
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A Stelton state of mind: To believe in surprising innovative clearly functional and high quality Scandinavian design. Stelton is a brand that tickles the design gene; an adventure in stainless steel.
Stelton was founded in Denmark, 1960 with humble beginnings selling steel hollowware. When administrative director Peter Holmblad established a cooperation with the leading Danish architect and designer Arne Jacobsen in 1964 they saught to create a true line of tableware where correlation of design between the individual items would always ensure harmonious table settings. The result was the now famous Cylinda-Line which was launched in 1967 and immediately attracted considerable attention for its serene and functionalist design. The company rapidly grew in Denmark and worldwide due to the success of Cylinda-Line.
Today, Stelton offers five different design-lines with products from more than 20 top-designers and thereby represents once again one of the most innovative and front-running companies of its kind. Stelton has been awarded the "ID-prize" by the Danish Design Council four times and a number of Stelton products are exhibited in a.o.The Museum of Modern Art and The Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Victoria & Albert Museum and British Museum, London; Staatliches Museum für angewandte Kunst, Munich and Kunstindustrimuseet, Copenhagen; Louvre and Pompidou, Paris. On top of this, Stelton receives each year some of the world's most important international design prizes such as iF product design award, Red Dot, and FORM.
Stelton represents a special view of the world - we call it "a Stelton state of mind": to believe in surprising, innovative, clearly functional and high quality Scandinavian design. Stelton - awarded "Denmark's Coolest Brand 2005", "Superbrand 2006" and "Danish Design Prize 2007".
Sebastian Holmback and Ulrik Nordentoft met when they were training at the Danish Design School in Copehagen. After almost 10 years of successful individual careers in product design, furniture, lighting and interior design, they founded their studio HoldmbackNordentoft. Their partnership has resulted in a series of hallmark achievements that include the Red Dot Design Award, Best of the Best, 2011 and the Formland Design Award 2011. With a philosophy to evoke emotions with their product designs and solutions, combined with a belief in sustainable design, the duo create designs that age beautifully with wear and tear.View other products by Holmbacknordentoft


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Interesting news. Looks like the second incarnation of the band may be back with a vengeance, which would be nice in an era where Ozzy has become little more than a reality TV joke.Black Sabbath members to form new band
LOS ANGELES - The Black Sabbath boys are back, as the new band Heaven and Hell. Guitarist Tony Iommi, bassist Geezer Butler, drummer Bill Ward and singer Ronnie James Dio former members of British metal supergroup Black Sabbath are forming the band named after their 1980 hit, according to their publicist. They plan to launch an international tour next year.
"The fans have been wanting to see this for years and years. Now was just the time," publicist Maureen O'Connor said Wednesday.
Since its formation in 1969, Black Sabbath has undergone numerous member changes and reunions.
Dio, who replaced original Sabbath vocalist Ozzy Osbourne as part of the band's early '80s lineup, has been recording new songs with Iommi in England, O'Connor said.


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Record Broken!
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Most Table Tennis Balls Bounced Into Cups In One Minute
Trevor Cummings
Mesa, Arizona, United States / August 4, 2011
Trevor Cummings bounced 20 table tennis balls into cups in one minute.
Stride's setting 100 records in 100 days. At the end of 100 days, we'll verify if you are the standing Record Holder. If you are, you'll get $500 for each record you managed to hold with your guile, talent, and sheer will.
General caution and common sense required. We show the Stride Team at work, but recommend that these challenges be done at home.
- must set up 10 cups in triangular formation on one side of table
- must stand behind opposite side of table for duration of attempt
- balls must bounce one time on both sides of net before bouncing directly into cups
- may only throw one ball at time.
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Zach Neal
See, I had the right idea, but Jeff had the better idea. Good job man, nice thinking.
Schuyler Van Horn
Great effort - Jeff if you win I hope you take your helpers out to dinner!
eva su
I like this record.
Dan Rollman
Concur with Perry-David. Nicely done.
Perry-David van Dillen
Nice! I'm glad you went ahead and beat your own record considering the controversy with the other video!
Test urdb
Perry-David van Dillen
Fair enough. At :37 seconds the camera just seems to shift though as if there is a cut in the footage. Look at the edges of the frame. The table or whatever it is on the right hand side moves just slightly more out of frame. The head of the other person on the left hand side suddenly jumps out of frame. Also note the position change on yellow lining on the left side behind the head of that second person. When focusing on the yellow support beam the cut at :37 seems to be most noticeable to me.
Dan Rollman
Thanks to all for your input. Our moderation team is standing by our decision to approve the attempt. His feet and body clearly remain in an identical position, and as Jeff says, the video quality is mediocre throughout.
Joe P
its not a cut in the film its the low quality of my camera just like many other records on here the cameras arent perfect. if you keep looking at that one spot just after :37 you'll see that other balls get stuck in frame due to the poor camera quality
Perry-David van Dillen
Austin is right. There is a cut at :37 that is pretty obvious once you are aware of it.
Austin Cummings
at :37 a ball freezes in mid air and other balls kept on coming
Corey Henderson
Betty White can totally beat this record. see Betty on Fallon
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Thread: Pregnant? Maybe?
1st September 2012 08:57 AM #1
Pregnant? Maybe?
So.... About a month-and-a-half ago I had my Mirena IUD removed because of various unwanted, persistent side effects. When it was removed, I had been experiencing spotting for several months.
I have not lost a single drop of blood since it was removed. The day before I had it removed, I had sex with my husband. Since it was removed we have been having sex with a condom.
I wanted to try natural family planning, but I was waiting for my period to come so I would know my cycles have not come. The thing is my period never came... I am breastfeeding my 19 month old, but mostly at night. I am starting to have some very familiar symptoms, like heavy/painful breasts, frequent urination, and middle-of-the-night hunger pains. I have also had several people ask me if I am pregnant because my stomach is poking out.
I have not taken a test but I am concerned that I may be pregnant. How far-fetched would it be for me to have become pregnant after the IUD was removed from the sperm left over from the previous day's intercourse? Could I have possibly been pregnant when it was removed, even? I know no birth control is concrete...
I don't know what to do you guys. I cannot afford to get a pregnancy test right now, we are completely broke. Also the reason that affording a fifth baby would be so hard for us right now. =(
3rd September 2012 05:28 AM #2
Hi Mom2Many,
I have a friend who has 13 children and her husband's job has always been their only source of income. She homeschooled all of their children and learned to cut costs in many areas.
One day, when they were expecting their 5th child, one of the grandparents said to them, "When are you going to stop having children?" The response from the father of the children was, "Which one would you have wanted us not to have?"
That was a beautiful response because it really helped the grandparents to realize that every single child that comes into a family is a blessing and is very precious. The grandparents never questioned again how many children the family would have, and as I mentioned before, they ended up with 13.
This is someone I went to high school with, and they now have grandchildren of their own. A very large family, but God always provided for all their needs... and they always had a meal, clothing and a roof over their heads.
I would encourage you to go to your local Pregnancy Care Center (a pro-life program that most communities offer) and they will do a free pregnancy test for you. This is what I did when I thought I was pregnant with my 2nd child. We didn't have any extra money either, so I just made an appointment at the local Pregnancy Care Center and they did a free test for me. It was positive (I had a feeling I was pregnant).
If the test is positive then you'll probably want to make an appointment with your midwife or doctor and they may be able to give you a general idea of how far along you are. They may also order an ultra-sound which would give you more accurate dates (but you probably already knew that).
If you're not pregnant, then seeing that negative test will put your mind to rest. It just sounds like you really need to know one way or the other because not knowing is making you worry.
As for your question about whether you could have become pregnant with sperm left over, when the IUD was removed... it is possible. I had a friend who had a vaginal check by the doctor, and he asked her how long ago she had had sex. She said 11 days ago, and he was amazed because he found live sperm in her. This isn't typical - typically sperm can last up to 5 days or so in good quality fertile mucus, but it does happen, and if your husband's sperm were really strong and you ovulated a few days or even a week after the IUD was removed, you could have conceived.
And as you know, you could possibly have been pregnant before the IUD was removed as well - so hard to tell.
I'd encourage you to take a test. The dollar stores have 99¢ tests which I've had accurate results with and I think that 99¢ would be worth the peace of mind of knowing what's going on. Even if you are pregnant, you'll be able to start making plans for the little one.
I have lots of ideas on ways you can add another precious blessing to your family without it impacting finances too much.
What kind of insurance do you have? What kind of a birth would you want to have?
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16th September 2012 06:46 AM #3
Hello Mom2Many,
Just looking for an update from you. Any new news? How are you feeling?
Warm Regards,
17th September 2012 06:23 AM #4
Hey Kate,
Thank you so much for the thorough response. I want to have a birth center or homebirth. The cost would be out of pocket because we do not currently have insurance, yet another issue. I am very involved in the homebirth community, however, as a student midwife so I should be able to get a pretty l lenient payment plan with our CPM. There is also a CPM here who does hospital births, government subsidized insurance would cover that and may be the route we have to take at this point.
I have volunteered at the pro-life pregnancy test center in the past. I feel so embarrassed since I know the women but I may have to go in to get an ultrasound, etc. I feel a lot better after having read your response. My family is not that happy with us. They couldn't believe it when I had my fourth. They are very pro-birth control and pro-hospital birth. I am neither, which causes somewhat of a rift between my mother and I. She never wanted me to have more than one. Here I am possibly having 5!! BUT I also know she will come to love the baby anyway. I know that we all will.
As for saving cash, I breastfeed and make my own baby food. I have cloth nappies and I only buy used clothes. My husband is in school, he is going to be a nurse practitioner and I am studying to be a midwife myself. Right now I work as a doula and do various freelance jobs. We both work from home. I am the breadwinner and have been for the last few years. It is hard, but we will manage. I just know the way people will look at us. It is so stressful.
Thank you so much for your kind words Kate. You have really made me feel so much better about this. I forgot to mention that I bought a .99 test last week and it didn't work, was inconclusive. I just got paid though from one of my many jobs and I am going to stop and get another test today. After that I am just going to chalk the lack of period up to the breastfeeding. I do kind of hope it comes back soon though, if I am not pregnant, as I would really like the peace of mind.
17th September 2012 09:29 AM #5
Hi Angela,
When you pick up another test, would you mind shooting a picture of it (if you can) and uploading it so I can take a look at it? Also, my midwife will give a test a good 30 minutes before reading it, just to be sure it is negative. I had a negative result at the 3-5 minute mark, but a positive pregnancy test at the 30 minute mark once (and I was pregnant, but I did miscarry early).
I would think that your test would be showing a fairly dark line by now and I would pick up another 99¢ test rather than investing in a more expensive test. See if you can get one with a good expiration date (not expired). Expired tests work just fine and often the pro-life pregnancy care centers will actually use these because they have been donated, but if you want one that will give you the best result, then a non-expired test would be better. Again, both should work, though.
Let me know what you find out
Warm Regards,
19th November 2012 02:30 AM #6
I didn't save the test but I am actually thinking I may take yet another one today. I can't believe it has been two months since I put this out there. It seems so strange to me that I am still not having a period. It should feel wonderful, but instead I feel a bit broken.
22nd November 2012 08:46 AM #7
Hi Mom2Many,
Did you take another test yet?
I wonder if the "B" vitamin, Inositol, would help lift your spirits. I remember when my body wasn't producing enough of the "feel good" hormone, and just thinking about getting pregnant again seemed overwhelming. I took large amounts of Inositol for a few months and then I quit because I felt so much better. When I look back on all of that, I realize that the reason I felt like I wouldn't be able to cope with another pregnancy and baby was because... in general... I was having a hard time coping with a lot of things, and it was a chemical imbalance within my system.


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New Mexico's Whitewater Rafting Season starts in mid-April, as ski areas close down and the snow begins to melt. This is the beginning of the "High Water" rafting season. The early season until mid-June offers the biggest excitement and whitewater features. Increasing temperatures and declining water levels as summer progresses lead to New Mexico's technical late season runs. This is a great time for families to go rafting in New Mexico and lasts through the first week of September in most years.
The Racecourse section is our most popular New Mexico rafting trip, ranging from a wild class III+ ride during the spring high-water to a more technically-demanding run as the water goes down and the rocks come up in July and August. In spring and early summer, be prepared for cold water, big waves, and plenty of excitement. As summer continues, your guide will be depending on you to help maneuver the raft through many tight slots. In addition, the water warms up and there is more opportunity for warm-water fun, such as swimming and boat surfing. The Racecourse is a great trip for beginning whitewater enthusiasts, as well as experienced rafters looking for a quick adrenaline fix. Minimum age is seven, although Kokopelli Rafting Adventures reserves the right to raise the age limit during extremely high water. At lower flows and warmer temperatures typical of later spring and summer new mexico rafting, you will have an opportunity to swim and splash around in the river. This trip travels five miles through a quartzite and basalt gorge near the northern new mexico town of Pilar. Site of the historic Pueblo revolt of 1854.
Trip Length: Half Day
Minimum Age: 7
Season: April 28 - September Intensity Level: Class III
The "Box," perhaps the premier one-day wilderness trip in the US, home of the best whitewater in New Mexico. This 17-mile trip starts just northwest of Taos. We float through relatively calm water for a few miles, practicing our teamwork and paddle strokes for the demanding rapids downstream, including Ski Jump, Dead Car, and Powerline Falls. As the gorge deepens and the white-water increases, we'll still take time to look around at the beauty of northern New Mexico, possibly spotting a bald eagle high on the cliff-tops or a great blue heron on the river's edge or heard of big-horn sheep on the bluff overhead. The last two-and-a-half miles of the "Box" are known as the "Rio Bravo," or wild river, section. We challenge one class III or IV rapid after another, then catch our breaths, before dropping into the grand finale, Sunset Rapid. This trip is demanding but unsurpassed in its combination of excitement and wild beauty. A fresh, all-you-can-eat buffet lunch is included, as well as polar fleece tops and full splash suits to keep you comfortable. Minimum age on the Taos Box is 12, although at some water levels we advise that guests have the physical stamina to fully participate.
Trip Length: Full Day
Minimum Age: 13
Season: May - July Intensity Level: Class IV
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By Michael Aneiro
DoubleLine bond guru Jeff Gundlach's been talking bonds on CNBC this afternoon, and as he's wont to to he's wading into some other markets too like MLPs and, of course, Apple (AAPL) stock. Notably he says (somewhat begrudgingly) that in this "wacky" era of quantitative easing you need to have some sort of inflation hedge in your portfolio, but that it should be silver, not gold.
"I think silver is the way to do that," Gundlach says, urging investors to "avoid gold, don't short it" and warning that metals yield nothing and are "dead money unless the price goes up."


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DRC: Accelerating response to cholera crisis
National authorities, the UN and aid agencies are accelerating their response to multiple cholera outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of Congo, part of a region-wide effort to curb an epidemic across western and central Africa.
In the western DRC, more than 7,000 people have fallen ill and 390 people have died, since the authorities sounded the alarm three months ago.
The western epidemic has hit communities in Bandundu, Equateur, Province Orientale and Kinshasa, along the Congo River –the DRC's most important waterway, an important source of drinking water and an essential trade route.
In July, the UN's Central Emergency Response Fund allocated USD 4 million to the World Health Organisation and UNICEF – who are working with NGO partners to bolster the response.
WHO is training health specialists and running awareness campaigns, while UNICEF is helping to pre-position medical supplies to prevent future outbreaks.
The disease is particularly hard to tackle in the DRC, due to widespread water, hygiene and sanitation problems. Many communities do not have access to clean drinking water or latrines; and people are often reluctant to report new cases, both for social and financial reasons.
One patient visited by OCHA earlier this year, for example, explained that she had hesitated before seeking treatment, because she did not know that treatment was free.
Fidèle Sarassoro, the Humanitarian Coordinator for DRC, said it was essential to bolster the country's health infrastructure to tackle the underlying causes of the epidemic.


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Yesterday I received an email about the ANWR area. I didn't post it here since I wasn't able to verify its contents.
It showed photos of Alaska that were very gorgeous, but stating those are not the areas where the drilling area is! In fact, the drilling area is a very tiny area of the entire ANWR. The area where drilling would take place are actually desolate & grim.
I did forward it to some close friends, and one of them responded:It's kind of interesting that this whole controversy over the ANWR area has evolved from a political expediency that appears to have had little thought related to the actual ecological importance of the area in question ... but rather, had more to do with what area might be of least importance to the future commercial development of Alaska.When this question first came to my attention I asked "XXX" about it. Since they are from a politically involved family in Alaska. They said that the "wild life area " was established to help Alaska become a state. A family member was a big deal newspaper publisher and in a conversation with some Gov't official it was suggested that, establishing a wild life Area might help the chances of Alaska becoming a state . SOoo they picked the most desolute, worthless, isolated area and it became "A Wildlife Area" and Alaska was accepted as a new state.
I wish I had stored that email it was much more clearly stated.
The establishment of this area as a refuge was a political joke.
Unintended consequences?
I would agree with Brian that the POTUS, and most of our politicians, are very out of touch with the man-on-the-street.
Even now the Fed is worried about "deflation" ... obviously they have not visited the grocery store! (They have people to do that for them). Obviously, their incomes suffer only marginally from the increase in gas prices, alone, while it can be much more significant for the fellow driving 30 miles to work each day.
They want to take away the deduction for home mortgage interest. How about taking away the deduction for mortgage interest only for the "second home". There are about 535 people who benefit most from the second-home deduction. Those people might be?
We speak so often of the increase in %-age of those under the poverty line. That is typically attributed to the benefits given to the rich through lower taxes. We rarely consider that those who have fallen below the poverty level were once taxpayers, who finally had nothing left to give as a result of the laws politicians made that took more income away from those in the lower end of the middle class. It became easier to collect govt largesse for being poor than to work harder to have more disposable income.
We pay our legislators enough so that they are no longer on a part with the constituency. A lot of our founding fathers were farmers, and the time they served their country ended up costing them, rather than reaping big benefits. I believe that legislators should not be forced into poverty for serving, but perhaps we have made them too soft WRT to the realities of life faced by their constituents?


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EVGA GeForce GTX 690 review -
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A week or four ago NVIDIA announced a new graphics card, yep the GeForce GTX 690 has surfaced. The card we test today comes from EVGA, they obviously released a SKU based on this product as well. The product tested is reference based thus the review will be very similar to the original review. However we decided to review a retail sample for the simple fact top see if anything at all would be different, and obviously to show you what you receive bundle wise.
The GTX 690, in a nutshell, NVIDIA took two of their best (Kepler GK104) GPUs, placed them onto one card, topped it off with a very nice and dandy cooler and called this symbiosis of components a single solution graphics card. Internally on that card a small PLX chip functions as a PCI Express bridge in-between the two GPUs and sure, that means SLI is in full effect. The release today is very interesting as the GTX 690 is amongst the most silent multi-GPU solutions we have ever had our hands on, the performance really is quite seriously staggering and despite all that brute force the power consumption remains very acceptable.
The end result is a beast of a graphics card that renders games atrociously fast, even with the most stringent image quality settings. Obviously the GeForce GTX 690 will break massive records in 3D performance as the performance is nearly equal to a pair of GeForce GTX 680s in SLI. The two PLX bridged Kepler GK104 GPUs provide 3072 Shader cores. They are paired with two 2GB memory clusters at 6 GBPs (4GB in total).
The GPUs on the GeForce GTX 690 have a boost clock of 1019 MHz, and that's less than 3% away from the GeForce GTX 680 at 1058 MHz, so that sounds pretty terrific. All other specs are identical; the number of shader processor cores, memory speed, and memory bandwidth per GPU are the same on both cards.
The first impressions of the board are really good, a nice sturdy design, the cooler is nearly a work of art -- we'll talk about it guided with some photos though as there is much to talk about. Looking at the printed circuit board (PCB) we spot a vigorous 10-phase digital PWM design for the cores themselves while the memory will likely receive its own 2-phase grid allocated. Two 8-pin PCI-E connectors feed the card. NVIDIA is giving the GTX 690 a maximum power target of +35%, which given the cards default power target of roughly 265W means it can be set to draw up to ~350W, and that means you'll be able to overclock nicely as well.
Display connectivity then; NVIDIA uses the same 3x DL-DVI and 1x miniDP port configuration that is used on the GTX 590. That will allow for three connected monitors over DL-DVI. Now these are just the first impressions, we are going in-depth over the next few pages of course. We do need to mention that that card is very expensive at a price of 999 USD / 949 EUR. Have a peek at the awesomeness that is the GeForce GTX 690, and then head on over to the next page where, as always, we'll go a little deeper, but not too deep. We'll look at noise levels, power consumption, heat, we'll do a nice photo-shoot and an extensive benchmark session to see where this product positions itself.
Have a peek at the EVGA GeForce GTX 690 -- next page please.
We review the EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 SC Gaming armed with 8GB GDDR5 graphics memory. Now we all like the reference founders edition cards, but let's face it, aren't the proper board partner cards so...
EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Ti SC SuperClocked ACX Review
In this review we test the EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Ti SC SuperClocked ACX review, armed with that 450W cooler and our FLIR camera we'll see if it really is good cooling. Oh and hey, SC means a factory o...
EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Classified review
We review the EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Classified, this graphics card is equipped with NVIDIA's second to best flagship GPU. Combined with an all custom PCB design and a lot of tweaking features this product will be enticing for a lot of you guys.
EVGA GeForce GTX 760 SC ACX review
In this article we review the EVGA GeForce GTX 760 SC ACX edition, this particular model comes with a dual-slot two fan ACX cooling solution. That boils down to a more silent product versus and great cooling performance. EVA offers the card factory overclocked at some pretty impressive clock frequencies. Join us in this review and let's see if the 269 USD ACX model will be worth it for you.


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Marian Rae Mitchell
Madison - Marian Rae Mitchell, age 67, passed away peacefully at Karmenta Nursing & Rehab Retirement Homes on January 24, 2013. Marian was born in Madison, WI on Nov. 19, 1945, to parents Raymond and Dorothy Mitchell and was baptized and confirmed at the South Shore Methodist Church. Marion is a graduate of Madison Central High School. After school she worked as a daycare teacher, for hotels, and had a passion for sewing. Marian would make wonderful embroidered gifts for her friends and family. She loved to frequent the library to escape into the fantasy of books. Marian's family would like to thank the staff at Karmenta, for the care they have given her the past few years.
Marian was preceded in death by her Parents, her Niece Teresa, her Nephew Danny, her Brother in-law Mr. "B", her Great Niece Jessica, her Aunt Jewell and Uncle Milford, her Aunt Minnie and Uncle Weldon. Marian is survived by her Sister Holly, her Nephews Randy, Allen, and Jamie; her Nieces Jolene and Lisa, is also survived by Great Nieces and Nephews and her Great Great Nephews. She is also survived by her Uncle Melvin and Aunt Lila Ruth.
Services will be held at 11:00 AM on Wednesday, January 30, 2013 at Cress Funeral Home, 3610 Speedway Road, Madison. Marian will be laid to rest next to her parents at Forest Hill Cemetery, Madison following the services. A visitation will be held at 10:00 AM and until time of services Wednesday at Cress Funeral Home.


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Topics: "MN Marriage Amendment Debate" & "AAR Reopens Duluth Air Maintenance Facility"
Description: The "marriage amendment" on the Minnesota ballot this November is generating much debate. This week, we'll hear opposing viewpoints on the constitutional amendment from leaders in the Christian community.
And there is good news for the local economy, AAR Aircraft Services is hiring, as Duluth's long dormant jet maintenance facility gets set to take off once again.
Guests: Pastor Grant Stevensen, Minnesotans United for All Families; Father Eric Hastings, St. Benedict's Catholic Church; Danny Martinez, AAR Aircraft Services; Don Hoag, Duluth Workforce Development


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Three words: camp out Friday.
I gave up on Hall H entirely last year. I figured I could wait all day to see one movie preview for a movie I'll eventually see previews for anyway (and they stopped giving out awesome freebies a few years ago), or I could go and enjoy the rest of the Con.


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I recently listened to a podcast about a guy that thru hiked the Continental Divide Trail as a Yo Yo.. that is when you complete the hike, then turn around and do it again, returning to where you began, in one trip. All in all that on the CDT, that would be about 6000 miles.
He did the trek alone and took about a year to hike it from start to finish.
I was amazed as I listened in on the show and heard him describe the preparation, the training, and the gear he used, or didn't use.
He talked about the wonderful vistas and the wildlife he saw as he navigated down the center of our country. From the Canadian border to Mexico. The varied terrain and encounters with the flora and fauna of our great continent.
In the end he spoke of lessons learned. Things that he would do over again, things he would not. Gear he would take, and gear he would leave at home. He talked of the experience. But the most striking thing he talked about was the solitude. How he loved it at first, but after months on the trail he began to realize that he was lonely. He reflected on the fact that it really started to get to him, but he pushed on. At the completion of this monumental expedition, the most valuable lesson he learned was about friendships.
He values his friends more now than ever before, and says that in the future he won't hike alone.
He used the hike as a metaphor to illustrate that in our lives we need people. We need friends.
So how does this relate to Scouting? Well in 1907 Baden Powell new that we needed friends and he created the Patrol method. He realized that we have more fun when we do it together. When we play the game of Scouting we challenge one another, we share in the joys of success and we work through the rough times as a Patrol.
I still remember the guys from the Flaming Arrow, Troop 100. My first Patrol! The fun times that we shared, I will cherish for my life time.
Now that I am an adult.. well kinda… I know that I need friends… People to share my life with. I enjoy the solitude of the trail, but its better to hike with a Partner. My wife, my kids, and my friends, as few as they are, they are great friends and I could not get through life without them.
A Scout is Friendly. Remember that. Hold on to your friends and value them. You need them.
Have a Great Scouting Day!


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Hey boys and girls!
I just wanted to share a picture of the calls I have collected.
I have calls from Andy Kaiser, Scott Hembrook, Tim Sanford, and Bobby Vanover.
Each call finds it's way into my vest every spring and fall. They are all unique, and beautiful, and do exactly what they were built to do. Help me locate and work birds.


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President hosts Faculty Honors May 3
By Tim Brownlee
Assistant Director of Public Affairs
(May 2, 2007)--UTSA President Ricardo Romo and Provost Rosalie Ambrosino will host the 2007 Faculty Honors Convocation from 2 to 3 p.m., Thursday, May 3 in the Business Building Richard S. Liu Auditorium (2.01.12) on the 1604 Campus.
Today's headlines
- La Prensa Foundation is newest member of UTSA Lone Star Society
- UTSA alumna Jordan Kaufmann wins $50K for new stent-graft start-up
- UTSA begins new way-finding sign installation this summer at Main Campus
- USA Today: UTSA long jumper Tyler Williamson rescues three-year-old boy
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The event is free and open to the UTSA community. A reception will follow the ceremony.
The convocation honors recipients of teaching, research and service awards and acknowledges recent retirees. Awards will be presented by the UTSA deans.
Honors will include the President's Distinguished Achievement Awards, the Chancellor's Council Outstanding Teaching Award, the Chancellor's Council Innovation in Education Award and an announcement of the recipient of the Ashbel Smith Distinguished Professor.
Watch UTSA Today for stories on the honorees.
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This diary entry is sort of summarising all the thoughts I've had about a new file system methodology. I think it's new because I've never heard of anything like it; I think it has a lot of good features that both make things easier for programs, users and even the OS itself; I think it makes the best use of a fully multi-tasking OS without causing too much hassle on non-multi-tasking systems (i.e. this functionality is optional); and in the days where someone can actually write the code to do this and not be employed by a huge powerful corporation (and also not have to justify its development and testing on anything but eir own basis) it's time to get it out of my mental closet.
The essential difference between this FS and all others is that this treats a disk as a single contiguous array of sequential bytes. No sectors. Each object stored on the disk, be it a file or a directory or something else, is stored as a series of chunks, where each chunk starts at a point on the disk and consists of a contiguous stream of bytes from there. All these numbers are 64-bit, to cope with modern storage requirements. Disks are numbered starting from byte 0 and working up, in some sort of established order through the sectors, cylinders and heads, to provide a linear contiguous byte array up to the last byte on the disk.
Let's start by looking at how a file is arranged. The file entry in the directory contains the file name, date, total size, and the usual attributes. Then follows a list of the chunks in a file, consisting of ([Start Byte],[Offset on disk],[Length]) tuples. [Start Byte] is the number of the first byte in this chunk, [Offset on disk] is the physical disk location of the start of this chunk, and [Length] is obviously the length of this chunk. The total length should always add up to the total length of the file.
When writing a file, ideally one simply finds a chunk of free space and writes the entire file contiguously into it. If, for some reason, you're writing a file that is larger than the largest single chunk of free space, you just write multiple chunks, using up each chunk of space before moving on to the next. I haven't done much research into which allocation methodology is best - best fit, worst fit, random fit, whatever - but that can be tested and possibly even configured at time of use. Reading a file is fairly obvious.
The immediate advantages are that there's no wasted space at the end of the last sector in a file. Small files take up exactly their amount of space, no more. Files are mostly contiguous and fragmentation is kept to a minimum by virtue of the fact that it's relatively easy to find and use a contiguous block of storage. We waste no space in large FATs or inode lists (where most of those are listing sequential sectors anyway).
Some things we can do with this that are more difficult in other FS methodologies:
- We can write sparse files (e.g. a 100MB file with only the last byte actually storing any data) simply by pointing the Start Byte at the location of the data we want to store.
- We can insert an arbitrarily large amount of data anywhere in the file by writing that chunk and then manipulating the chunk list appropriately. For instance, we can write data into the start of a file by writing that chunk and then adding the new offset to the Start Bytes of all the other chunks in sequence.
These two concepts would lead to a radically new and easier way to write and read all sorts of files that have had to done in roundabout ways - such as writing to the start or middle of a file without having to rewrite the entire file.
- There are multiple ways to defragment a file. For instance, we can examine the amount of free space immediately after each chunk, and if that free space can take the next chunk we join the two chunks and shorten the chunk list.
- We can even be defragmenting a file while it's in use, either by only defragmenting the chunks of a file that aren't in use at the time or by making sure that the new file is written out as a new, single, contiguous chunk.
- Supporting compressed files is much easier because we break the file up into arbitrarily large segments and compress each as a chunk. When we want to rewrite part of a file we can write that chunk afresh and re-offsetting the existing chunks. We don't have to touch any chunk other than the one which is modified.
- I'd like to build hooks into the operating system that allows it to gradually defragment files in quiet time.
I might leave it there for one day and see what comment (if any) that invites.


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I almost saw two very small kids get hit today. It was at the intersection of Shoreline and Latham. A red VW GTI was making a left
onto Shoreline eastbound from southbound Latham. The signal changed, but the driver failed to realize that the pedestrian signal had also changed. The driver sped into his left, directly at the kids. The dad darted in between the car and the children trying to get the driver's attention and protect the kids. It was really, _REALLY_ close. The only reason I write this is because less than a yr ago I watched the same exact scenario at the same exact intersection, but that time the pedestrian was hit and laid in a lump on the road until the fire dept arrived. It was a sickening sight first thing in the morning back then, and I don't want to think what it would have looked like if it involved the 2 kids today.
Jeeze, is it really that difficult folks? SLOW DOWN!


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A journalist in the hands of Somali pirates
Shadows of emerging skyscrapers in a neighborhood in Nairobi come alive as the sun glides down the western horizon. I am walking down one of the deserted streets in the city's Eastleigh shantytown. Lately,
Eastleigh has become a
contradiction of sorts. While the roads remain as torn as ever and clean
drinking water and other social amenities remain out of reach, there is a new
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Spoleto is rapidly approaching, and Charlestonians celebrated the renowned arts festival's 36th year at the annual Spoleto Festival Auction. The Memminger was filled with the familiar faces of veteran Spoleto supporters, all dressed in their cocktail finest for what was sure to be a lovely evening on the town.
Servers circulated with trays of appetizers, including bites of chicken and waffles, and many people gathered around the platters of sushi as they mingled and discussed the evening's upcoming performance. Guests chatted about this year's festival over cocktails, marveling over how Spoleto and Charleston have grown over the years. "It's amazing what both the Festival and this town have become," one guest mused. "Spoleto has brought so much to Charleston."
Partygoers were invited to bid in Spoleto's online auction during the cocktail hour, but a live auction was paired with the private concert. The cocktail hour drew to a close, and guests filtered into the main dining area for tapas and an incredible live performance by The Nicole Henry Jazz Quintet.
The Spoleto Auction benefits the Spoleto Festival USA in order to support the Spoleto Festival Orchestra. Spoleto Festival USA is an annual, internationally recognized 17 day festival of the arts which takes place in Charleston, SC. While providing performances of the highest caliber, Spoleto Festival USA maintains a dedication to young artists, a commitment to all forms of the performing arts, a passion for contemporary innovation, and an enthusiasm for providing unusual performance opportunities for established artists.


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This September, the Original Trilogy will finally be officially released on DVD; the classic Star Wars trilogy films have been some of the most-requested DVDs since the format first hit the market in the late '90s. Earlier this week, the official Star Wars site released public images of the four-disc set's outer package (each disc will also have its own packaging within the set that will fit with the look of the already-released Prequel films' boxes), but what are Star Wars fans' opinion of this main package's look?
Click here to view the DVD package
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How do you qualify for these two events?
How do you qualify for these two events?
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A win plus 2 other points.
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You really gotta be careful about how high a pedestal you put your method, your accomplishments, your dog on. There's usually someone who's done more, somewhere. And they may have used a different method than you did! Chris Atkinson 2013
get your dog out and TRAIN! caryalsobrook 2013
these are the qualification requirements for the National Amateur
Qualification Requirements: A 1st place carrying five Championship points plus two additional Championship points in Amateur and Owner-Handler All-Age Stakes and in Open, Limited, Restricted, and Special All-Age Stakes when handled by an Amateur in AKC Member or Licensed Trials. Winners of the previous years National Amateur Championship Stake and the Canadian National Amateur Stake are automatic qualifiers. The winners of the National Championship Stake and Canadian National Championship earn automatic qualification when handled solely by an Amateur in said Nationals.
the difference in the National Open is that the championship points come from only the Open,Limited,Restricted All Age Stakes and may be handled by a pro.
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Binghamton University ranked among Top 50 public universities in U.S.News & World Report's annual America's Best Colleges
For the eleventh consecutive year, Binghamton University is ranked among the nation's top universities, according to the 2008 edition of "America's Best Colleges" by U.S.News & World Report.
According to the latest edition of magazine, which hits newsstands Monday, August 20, Binghamton University ranks 37th among public universities and colleges and 82nd among all public and private universities.
"I am very proud that Binghamton University has once again being recognized by U.S.News & World Report as one of America's best universities," said Lois B. DeFleur, president of Binghamton University.
"Binghamton consistently ranks among the elite public institutions due to its excellent reputation among peer institutions and the quality of its students, faculty and staff. We work very hard to be an exceptional university and these rankings validate those efforts."
Using a proprietary methodology, the annual U.S.News & World Report rankings represent the most comprehensive look at how schools stack up based on a set of 15 widely accepted indicators of excellence, and help consumers evaluate and compare data compiled from more than 1,400 accredited four-year schools. Each factor is assigned a weight that reflects the magazine's judgment about how much a measure matters. In its methodology, U.S. News considers academic reputation, retention, student-to-faculty ratios, student selectivity and alumni giving rate, among other factors.
In addition to the magazine, some of the results will also be available at www.USNews.com.


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I don't write reviews very often, but when I do it is a policy of mine to write only for the series I love. I feel that if it wasn't worth watching, then it's not worth spending even more time writing about. I thoroughly enjoyed Cat Planet Cuties. Even my brother, who spends most of his time watching the action packed bad ass anime with tons of fighting said this was one of the best anime he had ever seen. So I think it's safe to say Cat Planet Cuties deserves some love. So without further ado, let's break this series down. Story I'm pretty sure I don't have to tell you I didn't buy a series called... See full review
I love Higurashi. It's a very interesting anime. As opposed to just reviewing Higurashi no Naku Koro ni (When They Cry), I'd like to review Higurashi as a whole. The reason being that while it is a very enjoyable anime/manga as a stand-alone series, you can't fully appreciate it (or even comprehend it) without watching it's relations Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai and Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Rei as well. STORY: The story of Higurashi always seems to go the same. Each series has several arcs or sagas in it. Each arc starts with the peaceful villagers of Hinamizawa enjoying themselves in their quiet little... See full review
From the description of Magikano's story and the various images you can find of the characters, you would never guess just how aggressive and violent the girls can be. If "Slapstick" and "Jealousy" had a baby together, you'd get Magikano. I got this series completely on a whim and I couldn't be happier with my aquisition of such a hilarious series. Sadly it's a short series, but then the short series usually are very good. It is so much fun to watch and involves an array of events as normal as a trip to the pool to things as strange as talking cat panties (didn't see that one... See full review
I am a fan of shoujo series, which you can easily tell if you know me. Fruits Basket is the second I have ever seen, preceded only by Sailor Moon. In a way, you could call Fruits Basket the anime that turned me back onto shoujo. In my very early years of watching anime, I mostly watched what I could find on TV. Dragonball Z, Sailor Moon, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Bobobo, etc. There was a time I didn't even know it was called anime, so you can imagine how it didn't even occur to me to look for other "anime" online. That said, I didn't know what to expect when one day my friend... See full review


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07-11-2013, 09:50 PM #1Banned Guppy
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Pretty new to the hobby and i need some help with fish.
Hey, im pretty new to the hobby i've had an aquarium for about 1.5 year but never really done any research only done as the one i bought the aquarium told me.
I would want something diffrent then my tetras something that lives at the middle/bottom of the aquarium that fits well with my south american neon and kardinals, just learned i had kardinals aswell the old owner of this tank said there were only neon tetras in the tank and the small ancistrus i believe he said. This weird but awsome fish had to move though he kept tearing my plants from the sand. was plastic plants before i got the tank but i didn't like the plastic look on them so i got some real plants.
If there are any other fish thats not tetras that comes from south America that would fit in the aquarium i got i would love to hear some information about them, like species if there are a certain groups of fish i could get, also how many i should get
I don't want to get any fish from another continent since i feel like mixing fish that don't live in the same water as one and other is not kind.
I also have a question about my neon and kardnials they seems like they fight a lot, do i have to many of them so i should remove?
The aquarium is a 100 liter (29 gallon) thats heavy planted with lot's of driftwood and a Ph at around 6.2
I was also told that the price of the aquarium was so high since it came with a top notch filter for the tank says Fluval 205 on the filter was i just cheated on the tank or is this a top notch filter for the aquarium?
How many neons and cardinals do you have in the tank? With schooling fish like these the more the merrier. There are several fish that can go in your tank, but until we know how many you already have it is tough to make a recommendation.
Fluval is an excellent filter brand, but the 205 is a bit small for your tank unless you keep the tank stocked very lightly. If you want to increase the number of fish you might want to buy another filter to go along with the one you already have.When I go fishing I just throw sharp rocks in the water and wait for the dead fish to float to the top... Kingfisher
Everything happens for a reason. Sometimes that reason is you are stupid and make bad decisions.
I think my fish is adjusting well to the four gallon, He's laying on his side attempting to go to sleep on the bottom of the gravel.
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Dear naps, sorry I hated you so much when I was a child... Love me
07-12-2013, 08:12 AM #3Banned Guppy
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i think there are about 30 give or take a few with close to a 50/50 ratio of neons and kardinals, There is another filter in there aswell that the last owner said came with the tank when he bought it new, but he had no idea how big it was. only thing i can see on it is that is says "eheim" but are the tetras fighting? they seems to all go into a ball then spread out to redo it probably once a week to nearly every day. I was also told that this many fish works in this tank since these fish are very small, i wouldn't even say they are an " maybe close to an " on the biggest ones
According to Aqadvisor your tank is approx. 80% stocked so you could add some other fish, but not too many.
Some fish that might be nice to add are some Hatchetfish, some Cories, some Pencilfish or a set of Ram cichlids?
Just make sure you don't overstock it.
About the tetras fighting i can't be sure, i don't think they are because tetras usually are pretty relaxed fish or atleast mine are, my tetras really like to school and even school with my pencilfish which also seem to love the tetras company.
Got about 20 tetras and 15 pencilfish and they're doing fine.
07-12-2013, 01:22 PM #5Senior Member Red tailed catfish
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I respectfully disagree on adding more fish to this tank - 29 gallons and 30 fish - ok if only neons but with the cardinals in there I think it's more important to make sure the filtration is adequate.
Do you own a test kit? Have you been changing the water and vacuuming the substrate? Are you aware of "cycling" - the point of test kit is to make sure your tank is cycled - you need to be taking readings for ammonia, nitrites & nitrates - if your tank is not cycled and has poor water parameters, this could be stressing out your fish and making them fight with each other, along with having too many fish in there IMO.
I've never heard of a kit that came with an Eheim filter, they usually come with cheap filters. 30 cardinals/tetra must be an impressive sight, I would love to see a picture of the tank. Your description sounds like they are just schooling, which is what schooling fish do, I wouldn't worry about it.
You could probably add another neon or cardinal or two but Imma24 is correct, your tank is pretty much fully stocked regardless of filtration.When I go fishing I just throw sharp rocks in the water and wait for the dead fish to float to the top... Kingfisher
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I would request you do a couple things - read the cycling sticky's, get a liquid test kit, read the e-book on the site.
Its great you have neons/cardinals, they are a great fish and its great you have plants as they eat nitrate and help buffer the tank. The only thing I would add to this tank are som type of dwarf cory - 6 of them. However I would not do so until the filtration issue is addressed, we get a picture of the tank, we get an accurate stock of the tank (5 off matters) and we make sure you are testing at 0 ammonia, 0 nitrites and 15 or less nitrates.
I assume by "fighting" you mean the fin flaring and little zigzag-teleport dance that two fish will occasionally engage in?
That is mostly harmless, and nearly always safe for the fish. Those are males, and they are establishing the social order. It happens mostly when new stock are added, but there do come times that the order is ruffled and reshuffled during breeding times. (Don't worry, you have a near zero chance of eggs hatching, and a 100% chance of any such hatchlings being devoured.)
Add another thicket of small leafed plants to the tank if it bothers you. They don't establish territory, at least not in the traditional sense, but more hiding spots and fewer sight lines seems to curtail the behavior a bit.
Neon Tetras offer a very low bioload, so you can put a fair number of them in even a small tank. Cardinals are effectively the same fish that gets slightly larger and has a red belly. They school together. Both are usually skittish, as they are the food fish of choice of most of their biope mates.
Your filtration is more than enough... Neons/Cardinals are fragile. Ammonia doesn't cause them to act weirdly or fight... ammonia causes them to swim in spirals and go belly up.
Adding new fish is tricky. Most of the panfish shaped SA tetras are nippy. Neon's favorite tankmates come from other parts of the world. SA Cichlids eat them. Any larger fish can scare Neons, literally, to death. However, you might try:
Otocinculus, tiny suckermouth catfish, eat algea... leave plants alone, doesn't dig. Supplement with algae wafers or veggies on a skewer.
Corydoras species... any work, but the smallest ones that would look best in a 29g are expensive.
Hatchetfish are top level swimmers, from nearly the same habitat.
Rummynose Tetras are the right size for your tank, look different from your current stock, and live in the same waters. Neons are not usually too bothered by them.Looks about 40 Gallon Tank
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I bought a test kit and everything says zero apart from nitrate that says 4. I really don't want another schooling fish that lives in the top and mid levels of the tank, i guess the rummynose are mid to top swimmers. i looked at corydoras species and they seems to big to get a real school going, i know 6 is enough but i don't count that as a school maybe 20 or so at the minumum for a nice group, and the corydoras that looks the best do get quite big 7cm while my tetras are about 2 cm, thats nearly 3 times the length. Would a pair of GBR work? did some reading on them and they do get around 5cm but you don't have so many of them.
By fighting i mean every one rushes towards each other and then straight up in the air and the water gets a bit cloudy after it. happens about once a week or so.
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What test kit did you get? Strips or a liquid kit? I'm not familiar with a reading of 4 for nitrates - that scale normally goes 0, 10, 20, 40, 60, etc. - a safe reading is 20 or less
NitrItes, however, can have a reading of 4 - that scale goes 0, .25, .5, 1, 2, 4 - if that's the reading you're referring to, that's pretty dangerous- nitrItes in a cycled tank should be 0
Ammonia also has a scale like that - starting with 0 and increasing to .25, .5, 1, 2, 4 - if your ammonia is up to 4 you are also in trouble - ammonia should be 0 in a cycled tank too


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In June 1863, when Brig. Gen. Albert Jenkins' cavalry, in the vanguard of the Confederate army, galloped into Pennsylvania, its aim wasn't only to spy and steal supplies.
The soldiers were also determined, as historian Margaret Creighton notes, to round up African-Americans, whom the Confederates regarded as "contraband" that should be returned to "rightful" owners.
The "slave hunt," as contemporaries and later historians called this phase of the Confederate invasion, would last as long as Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia remained in Pennsylvania. It ended only when the defeated Southern troops retreated back to Virginia after the Battle of Gettysburg.
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Lee told his soldiers, once the invasion of Pennsylvania was under way, that "no greater disgrace could befall the army," or discredit the Confederate cause, "than the perpetuation of the barbarous outrages upon the unarmed and defenceless [sic] and the wanton destruction of private property that have marked the course of the enemy in our own country."
Yet Lee's high-sounding words did not stop Confederate troops from pursuing African-Americans, with the intent of returning them to slavery.
Nor did Lee's order stop raiding parties, such as one near Mercersburg, from threatening to burn down "every house which harbored a fugitive slave" unless the blacks were handed over in 20 minutes.
Nor did the work of rounding up blacks appear to trouble the consciences of the Southern troops. Philip Schaff, a professor at Mercersburg Theological Seminary, asked a Confederate soldier guarding a wagon load of African-Americans, whom the Southerners claimed were Virginia slaves, "Do you not feel bad and mean in such an occupation?"
"He boldly replied that he felt very comfortable. They were only reclaiming their property which we [Pennsylvania residents] had stolen and harbored," Schaff recalled the man saying.
For some Southern soldiers, the slave hunt in Pennsylvania was familiar work: Many had likely served on slave patrols in their home states, even if they did not own slaves, according to historian David G. Smith.
Indeed, the patrols were a bulwark of the South's peculiar institution. In some states, patrol duty was compulsory for most able-bodied white men.
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Estimates vary as to how many blacks were caught in the Confederate dragnet during the Gettysburg campaign. Mr. Smith puts the figure at more than 1,000 -- especially if it includes those seized in Winchester, Va., Martinsburg, W.Va., and Rockville, Md.
Ironically, most of the blacks seized during the Gettysburg campaign were captured in areas where slavery had been abolished.
In Pennsylvania, the gradual abolition of slavery began before the end of the Revolution. The process was largely complete a generation before the Civil War. And President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, issued Jan. 1, 1863, freed enslaved people throughout most of Virginia.
The chance to make a mockery of the Emancipation Proclamation in a "free" state, such as Pennsylvania, and undo its effects in a slave-holding state, such as Virginia, may have motivated some Confederate soldiers to wreak particular vengeance on blacks, Mr. Smith said.
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Life had never been easy for African-Americans in Pennsylvania's border counties, those separated from the slave-holding state of Maryland by the Mason-Dixon Line.
Blacks mostly were confined to menial jobs -- day laborers and domestics were common occupations. They were deprived of nearly all constitutional rights.
Above all, African-Americans faced the threat of kidnapping and re-enslavement. True, underground railroad routes coursed through the border counties -- Fulton, Adams, Franklin, and York -- as fugitive slaves made their way to freedom.
But the area was also the site of what Ms. Creighton, a historian at Bates College, has called "the other underground railroad" -- a network of slave-catchers who prowled the back roads in search of fugitives, but who didn't hesitate to kidnap free people of color as well.
For white families, "the survey line that separated Pennsylvania from Maryland was seamless ground, easily passed over without consequence," Ms. Creighton has written. "To black families, the division between the free states and the slave states was nothing less than a chasm."
Now that chasm was being crossed by more than 70,000 Confederate soldiers -- the fighting arm of a government whose cornerstone "rests upon the great truth that the Negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition," as Confederate Vice President Alexander H. Stephens told a cheering crowd in Savannah, Ga., in March 1861.
Predictably, the prospect of a Confederate invasion prompted a frantic response in Pennsylvania: The state's Republican governor, Andrew Curtin, called for volunteers to defend the commonwealth. But when black men from the Gettysburg area heeded his call and organized themselves into a military company, Curtin refused to accept their services.
Hundreds of people, particularly African-Americans, fled from areas likely to be overrun by the Confederates. Harrisburg, at the northeast terminus of the invasion route through the Cumberland Valley, was crowded with refugees.
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On June 15, 1863, Union supply wagons, likely driven by black teamsters, raced into Chambersburg with news of the approaching Confederates. The wagon train, which had eluded capture in Winchester, Va., was soon followed by black refugees, "contrabands" as Rachel Cormany described them in her diary. Some had fled Winchester after Confederate forces defeated Gen. Robert Milroy and ended a six-month Union occupation of the town.
Milroy supported the Emancipation Proclamation. To the outrage of Winchester's white citizens, he vowed to enforce Lincoln's decree.
Union soldiers were instructed to tell enslaved people that they were now free and had "the right to claim wages from their masters or quit them," according to a report in the Pittsburgh Gazette in mid-January 1863.
But the new social order in Winchester was short-lived. Confederate troops, heading north, drove Milroy's forces out of the city during one of the first major battles in the unfolding Gettysburg campaign.
Near midnight on June 16, Rachel Cormany, who lived in a rented room with her infant daughter, again heard the clattering of hooves. She ran to a window and saw "Greybacks going as fast as their horses could take them down" toward Chambersburg's main square.
By dawn, it was clear the Confederates were "hunting up contrabands and driving them off in droves," as Cormany described it.
"O! How it grated our hearts to have to sit quietly & look at such brutal deeds -- I saw no men among the contrabands -- all women and children," Cormany wrote. "Some of the colored people who were raised here were taken along -- I sat on the front step as they were driven by just like we would drive cattle."
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Historians have found no evidence that Confederate President Jefferson Davis or his secretary of war, James A. Seddon, directly ordered Confederate troops to seize African-Americans. But the practice was so widespread -- as attested to in newspaper articles, diaries, soldiers' letters -- that some historians say it is hard to argue that the kidnappings were the work of rogue units in the Army of Northern Virginia.
Davis and other Southern leaders frequently excoriated the North for "enticing" slaves to flee from their masters. When a South Carolina convention approved secession in December 1860, the delegates cited as one reason the refusal of Northern states, including Pennsylvania, to enforce federal fugitive slave laws..
Mr. Smith is convinced that the slave hunts were known and approved by the highest officers in the Army of Northern Virginia. He contends they were acting on a policy developed by Confederate leaders in Richmond, Va., in March 1863 and "reinforced in a circular from Lee's headquarters," directing that "lists were to be compiled of fugitives 'arrested' by the army and the slaves sent to special depots in Richmond."
Historians, including the late Edwin B. Coddington, have also found evidence that high-ranking officers knew about the kidnappings in the orders from Lt. Gen. James Longstreet on July 1 directing Maj. Gen. George Pickett to begin moving his troops toward Gettysburg. The order, signed by Longstreet's assistant adjutant general, G. M. Sorrell, tells Pickett that "the captured contrabands had better be brought along with you for further disposition."
Aside from the paper trail is the fact that many units in Lee's army kidnapped black people. This, Mr. Smith believes, "underscores the likelihood that some policy, formal or informal, sanctioned these actions during the Gettysburg campaign."
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Lee, of course, was right: For an army to attack unarmed and defenseless civilians is a disgrace and, by modern standards, a war crime. The African-Americans whom Southern soldiers rounded up, seized and in some cases fired upon, did not threaten the Army of Northern Virginia. As Coddington wrote a generation ago: "Under no circumstances could the Confederates justify the hunt on military necessity."
For Jacob Hoke, who witnessed the slave hunts and in the 1880s would write a well-regarded history of "The Great Invasion," the raids revealed the object for which many Southerners had waged war: "to found a government based on human slavery."
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