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|Bob. great job, especially on the Tide water squid.. After you told me about it I looked it up ,printed it and will give it a go... yours looks just like the one in the other post.
WOW! That squid is a killer calimari.
Back in the original calimari caper I put together 3 extended body squids using nylon tube fly tube material. I gave Roop the front fly at last year's spring clave so can't post a close-up but here is the image taken back then for the article that never happened...
The surprising thing about them is that they are very light when extended with nylon tubing and are very castable. That little gray blur right at the mantle is the hook.
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The calamari evolution....
One of the things that I have tried to develop is a reliable BIG FISH squid pattern. Here is a sampling of some of my early efforts culminating in one of the best squid patterns I've ever seen for proportion and action.
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Some of the early efforts from two years ago, pretty basic but trying to find a pattern that would push some water ...
Tried a stiffer mantle by working E-Z.Sparkle Body into the fibers
Then I was distracted into thinking that I needed LOOOONG tentacles to make it work...
Now, all of these did catch fish but I never went LARGE with one. Couldn't figure it out until I started really looking at the proportions and 'texture' of this bait... Up at the StonyBrook social Hawkeye & I had a chance to brainstorm breifly about building extended bodies for squid patterns. Then I saw this pattern posted on the SOL board by a member by the handle of Tidewater. His names Brian Dowd and he was nice enough to post the instructions.
The Tidewater Squid! It's going to be in my box this year for sure...
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Wednesday, September 7, 2005 - 4:30 PM ET
Starting in about a half hour from the time of this post, Take2 will be having a live broadcast of their fiscal 2005 third quarter conference call. You can listen in at this link after just filling in your name and email (and you'll need RealPlayer or Windows Media Player). The financial results for the third quarter ending July 31, 2005 will be discussed and while that may not be at all that interesting to you, there is a possibility that we should hear news pertaining to Liberty City Stories. Specifically speaking, perhaps an official release date. And following this broadcast the official LCS site should be updated in the next few days using gathered logic.
If you are going to miss the conference call or just plain don't want to bother sitting through it, check back here later and I'll update the post with any important information that comes out of it.
Okay so after listening to the hour-long conference call, I am disappointed to announce that no LCS release date was given. However, a few things were said on the topic of Grand Theft Auto.
- The "Hot Coffee" recall cost Take 2 $28.8 million.
- Starting next week, GTA:SA is being released with an M rating again on the PC and Xbox, with a PS2 re-release coming later.
- Rockstar will have 2 more games for PSP in 2006 (unknown titles).
- Liberty City Stories is on schedule and is guaranteed to ship this quarter (on or before Oct. 31, 2005).
- Take2 said they felt confident about LCS and its options in the PSP market, and they would like to expand on the PSP in 2006. However, they did not make a statement on any other GTA titles for PSP.
Take-Two's next fiscal year will see "extensions of the Grand Theft Auto franchise" on unidentified platforms, according to its earnings report. But when asked by analysts if this meant a new console GTA was coming next year, Chief Financial Officer Karl Winters demurred, saying only "We haven't announced that yet...[we have] no announcement beyond PSP Grand Theft Auto."
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Also, proper focus also needs to take into consideration that this team won 6 of its last 9 games. And we played the same team with very similar rosters on both sides and outscored them 65-31 in two huge wins, and that margin wouldn't have even been that close had the Bills not scored some garbage points in the second matchup. One of the only major changes for either team's roster was us and the QB position. Last year our QB had 5 TD's and no interceptions, while this year we had 1 Td and 2 INT's along with absolute pathetic third down success and laughable yardage.
Once you take the facts into "focus", it's pretty evident that the QB position is a major factor in us losing this game. We could have eased this team into having a young take the helm, but we sat down a QB who finished the year very strongly last year for a guy who wasn't even that impressive in preseason. I didn't ask for a rookie QB to be handed a starting job, and I'm not gonna excuse him for being a loser, which is what a guy who is given two opportunities to win a game and throw an interception both times is, no matter how long he has played.
That was a tough read. It's all the edgey-ness of Jay Leno with the execution of Dane Cook
I wonder how many people want to give Ireland all those high draft picks and 50 mill under the cap now? This team his as Gonzo put is a bleeding vaginal wart of roster talent! I total featuring labia blister at lt, lg, rg, te, rb, wr, de, olb, fs, and cb.
You can add Sean Smith, Jared Odrick, and Kia Misi to the we collect a game check for nothing club! I would be perfectly ok if you take them and Long then Channing Chrowser their career!
The above post is not subject to penalty under the TOS I declare the Hayden Fox defense. " It is impossible for the staff to know my context therefore I cannot be penalized"
Considering where he was drafted, how much he was paid, what they didn't draft and how poor his play is currently, Jake Long's legacy will be that he was one of the worst decisions in a Dolphins draft.


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The Princeton University Gospel Ensemble will perform "A Soulful Christmas Celebration" at 7 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 8, at McCosh 10.
The student-directed ensemble's annual Christmas concert will feature a variety of musical styles, including a solo from the Culturally Yours a capella group.
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Trust me, it just doesn't wanna play nice with the receiver.
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When I get home I'm gonna lug my receiver upstairs into his room and try it. If I get a solution, I'll let you know. I really like puzzles :)
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I know this isn't a music thread. But since I have put the Annies away for resale. I pulled out my trusty CALs and have been listening to this mix. The bass in it is fantastic. A little bit of Dub, Electro and Drum and Bass.
HowlanDub on the Electronic thread posted it. All thanks go to him.
How I missed thick deep bass. I always love being reminded how awesome the CALs do bass with the HM5 pads on.
Sorry for derailing the thread.
Hello, I need a pair of headphones for gaming, I'm among the Sennheiser HD 419, Beyerdynamic DT 235, JVC HARX900 (btw, it looks very heavy), Superlux 668B and Samson SR850.
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Rebecca Elizabeth Koch Sweeney, 34. Becca, a doting mother and wife, a loving daughter, a giving sister, and a committed and true friend to all, passed away Sunday, February 17, 2013 after a courageous and resolute two plus year battle with Leukemia. Becca was born and raised in Sioux Falls, SD attended Mark Twain Elementary, Patrick Henry Jr. High and was a graduate of Lincoln High School. Pursuing her love for travel she studied abroad in France for a year before moving to St. Paul, MN where she studied Corporate Fitness Science at the University of St. Thomas. She went on to complete her Masters of Physical Therapy at the Mayo School of Health and Sciences in Rochester, MN.
She met her husband, Sean, while studying in Rochester and after her graduation they moved to Chicago, IL where she worked as a Physical Therapist at Rush University Medical Center.
They then moved to Madison, WI where she continued practicing PT at Meriter Hospital. During her career at Meriter Hospital, Becca was the lead therapist on the inpatient unit. Becca was passionate about her patients and an inspiration to fellow workers.
So much of Becca was giving; she was a woman dedicated to family and community. An incredibly loving and affectionate mother to her two children - there was nothing for which she cared more than Anna and Nora.
Becca is survived by her husband, Sean, and two beautiful children, Anna Elizabeth and Nora Koch; her mother and father, Betsy and Dan Koch; and her brothers, Jim, Jeff, and John. Parents-in-law Gary and Dianne, brothers-in-law Brian (Stephanie), Todd (Sandra) and Kevin (Amy). Becca also has numerous aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, and extended family and friends whom she loved unconditionally.
Becca was a beloved friend, colleague and mentor to so many wonderful and supportive people who have been there every step of her journey with cancer. Becca was so grateful to her team of doctors and nurses at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics for the years of supportive care they provided.
A visitation for family, friends and colleagues, will be held from 4-7pm, Tuesday February 19, 2013 at Cress Funeral Home, 3610 Speedway Rd., Madison, WI 53705.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 11:00 am on Wednesday February 20, 2013 at Our Lady of Queen of Peace Catholic Church, 401 S. Owen Dr., Madison, WI 53711, with visitation from 10:00 am until the time of Mass at church. A Celebration luncheon will be held following burial at Resurrection Cemetery.
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(Sept. 17, 2007)--UTSA Career Services invites job-seeking UTSA students and alumni to attend the Fall Career Fair from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 20 at the Recreation Center on the 1604 Campus.
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For a list of participating employers and more information, visit the UTSA Career Services Web site or call (210) 458-4589.


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doctoral dissertation, tech. report CMU-RI-TR-01-32, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, December, 2001
|This dissertation tackles the problem of using genetic programming to create the vision subsystem of a reactive obstacle avoidance algorithm for a mobile robot. To focus the search on computationally efficient algorithms while dealing images from a non-toy problem, the representation restricts computation to be over a window which moves vertically over the image. The evolved programs estimated the distance to the nearest object in various directions, given only a camera image as input. Using a typical supervised learning framework, images of the environment were collected from the robot's camera and the correct distance in various directions determined by hand. Evolving programs were evaluated on this fixed training set and compared to the hand determined answers. Once the evolution was complete, obstacle avoidance programs were written to use the best evolved programs, and the combined system used to control a robot. The approach can be seen as automating the iterative design process. A researcher's main contribution is typically at a high level-techniques and frameworks-yet most time is spent on an example problem, trying different instantiations until one works. When faced with such a problem, one can usually think of a half dozen very different approaches, and even write them out in pseudo code. The technique proposed here can be seen as searching the space spanned by that pseudo code. In a series of experiments, programs were evolved in three different ways for two different environments to both create working systems and push the limits of the approach. Even in this nascent form, the evolved programs work about as well as existing, hand written systems. They used a number of architectures, including a recurrent mathematical formula and a series of if statements similar to a decision tree but with non-linear relations between as many as five image statistics. They successfully coded around peculiarities of the imaging process and exploited regularities of the environment. Finally, when given a representation so general as to cause the genetic algorithm to fail, and hand constructed rough answer was used as a "seed," which the genetic algorithm successively modified to cut its error rate by a factor of 5.8. This dissertation grew out of my conviction that critiques of Artificial Intelligence can be viewed constructively, as intellectual light-houses to guide us closer to the fundamental nature of thought, to the real problems at the heart of intelligence. To not address them, to work on techniques with fundamental flaws, would be fooling oneself no matter how impressive the demonstrations. There seems to be something fundamental about AI that we are all missing, and I believe these critiques bring us closer to it. This dissertation describes the experiments and their results, discusses ways to develop them further, then presents critiques of AI and discusses the potential of this approach to overcome those critiques.
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Scuba Scene are comitted to preserving the underwater world and support Project aware with environmental conservation.
The team of dive masters and Instructors will be holding a Finathon at St James pool on the 16th July 2013 to raise funds for shark awareness. The staff will be retaking their dive master stamina exercise the 400 meter swim while being timed. They will be scored on their performance!
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Guy Cogeval, President of the Musée d'Orsay, Paris introduces Masterpieces from Paris
Press release: Masterpieces from Paris, the most successful exhibition in Australian history (24kb, pdf)
Masterpieces from Paris: Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne and beyond features 112 of some of the best-known works of modern art from the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, one of the great museums of 19th-century art. Famous works include Van Gogh's Bedroom at Arles 1889, Cézanne's beloved Mount Saint-Victoire c 1890, Gauguin's Tahitian women 1891, as well as many other great examples of Post-Impressionist art. A collaboration between the Musée d'Orsay and the National Gallery of Australia, this extraordinary exhibition is one of the most spectacular to come to Australia.
Masterpieces from Paris explores the dramatic changes in late 19th century European art through some of the best-known and much-reproduced paintings. Indeed many of these paintings are central to the Musée d'Orsay's high reputation, both in France and world-wide. There are only a handful of Post-Impressionist works in Australia—including Georges Seurat's study for Le Bec du Hoc, Grandcamp 1885 at the National Gallery of Australia—so the opportunity to create an exhibition from a single collection of such outstanding quality is rare indeed.
Post-Impressionism announces a break from Impressionism, the revolutionary movement which occurred in France in the second half of the 19th century. By the mid 1880s, artists were experimenting with even more radical ideas. Van Gogh's intense, richly coloured surfaces communicate emotionally through the artist's expressive manipulation of paint. Gauguin's monumental, decorative and often exotic works stand for a new and at times brutal aesthetic directness.
Cézanne's mastery of the genres of still-life, landscape and portraiture fulfils his own prophetic promise to 'astonish with an apple!' These artists encapsulate the challenges to painting and the development of a multi-faceted avant-garde at this time: Pointillism, Neo-Impressionism, Synthetism, Symbolism, School of Pont-Aven, Cloisonnism, the Nabis and Intimism.
In addition to some of the most famous painters, the exhibition includes Symbolist masterworks by artists who are now less known to a general public, but who had a profound impact on their contemporaries. Visitors will find jewel-like domestic scenes and figures, portraits of friends and family members, as well as several large decorative schemes designed for specific interiors. Masterpieces from Paris reveals cross-influences between artists, and shows the flowering of the modern movements throughout Europe. These fascinating paintings forecast the development of Fauvism, Cubism, Expressionism and led also to Abstraction in the 20th century.
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For many years, this painting was believed to be an original work of art created by the 17th-century artist Johannes Vermeer. It was even displayed in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. The painting is a fake. It was actually created in the 1920s by a very skilled forger.
Why It Matters
- In addition to artworks, archeological artifacts, or objects made by earlier humans, have also been faked. Generally, the fake artwork or "artifake" is created to make money. Real artworks and artifacts often sell for very large sums. Therefore, people who unknowingly buy fakes may lose a lot of money.
- How are the fakes detected? Some can be detected by experts just by looking closely at them. But many have been created too skillfully to be detected this way. Instead, they must be analyzed by scientific methods.
- There are many scientific methods that can be used to estimate the actual age of an artwork or artifact. One method is radioactive dating. Watch this short video to learn how radioactive dating works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phZeE7Att_s
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The Recording Academy actively represents the music community on such issues as intellectual property rights, music piracy, archiving and preservation, and censorship concerns. In pursuing its commitment to addressing these and other issues, The Recording Academy undertakes a variety of national initiatives. ArtsWatch is a key part of an agenda aimed at raising public awareness of and support for the rights of artists. To become more involved, visit Advocacy Action @ GRAMMY.com and sign up for Advocacy Action E-lerts.
The House Judiciary Committee's Nov. 16 hearing on H.R. 3261, the Stop Online Piracy Act, resulted in extensive opposition to the bill. The Recording Academy supports this legislation. Addressing just one of the following list of objections, RIAA Senior Executive Vice President Mitch Glazier encouraged those in opposition to the bill to ask the question, "What specific legislative proposal do you have that would meaningfully address this problem?" For those who would appreciate a quick review of the problem of rogue websites, the MPAA recently released several helpful video spots. Among the opposing views:
Those are just a few of the most prominent objections — EFF provides a longer list of the "explosion of opposition." On Nov. 15 Reps. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) said they were working on a rogue website bill that would take an alternative approach. The Stop Online Piracy Act has certainly focused attention on the problem and drawn a multitude of pledges to collaborate with lawmakers on more narrowly drafted alternatives. Meanwhile, Internet companies have benefitted from the online status quo and intellectual property owners have been hurt by it, so now is a great time for innovators to propose workable legal solutions to the ongoing piracy problem presented by rogue websites.
On Nov. 10 the RIAA sent a cease-and-desist letter to used MP3 marketplace ReDigi that read, "There can be no doubt that ReDigi's conduct constitutes willful copyright infringement." The service responded that its "method of managing the sale of a digital music file in the secondary market is far superior, in protecting the rights of copyright holders, to anything available in any other secondary market." ReDigi is relying on the untested Digital First Sale doctrine to protect its business model.
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Apple launched its iTunes Match cloud-streaming service as part of its Nov. 14 iTunes update. The service costs $24.99 a year — primarily intended for distribution to music rights owners — and imposes a capacity limit of 25,000 tracks. Tracks purchased directly from the iTunes Music Store do not count toward the limit.
On Nov. 10 the Copyright Office announced that the Library of Congress has begun a job search for the position of chief copyright royalty judge of the Copyright Royalty Board. Applications are due Nov. 28 and attorney candidates must have at least seven years of legal experience.
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By Tiernan Ray
I'm at a media event being hosted by Verizon Communications (VZ) and the Motorola unit of Google (GOOG) at Lincoln Center in New York City to unveil three new models of the "Droid" line of phones running the Android operating system that Verizon has offered since 2009.
Motorola's Rick Osterloh, head of product management, discussed three new models, the "Ultra," the "Mini," and a revised version of the Droid Razr Maxx. Among the noteworthy features are a casing finish made of Kevlar; 10 megapixel cameras; the 7.81-millimeter depth of the Ultra, which Verizon said made it the thinnest smartphones running the 4G standard "long term evolution," or LTE; and a boost in the Maxx's battery life from 32 hours to 48 hours.
The handsets make use of a bundle of technologies that Moto calls "X8," which is a collection of 8 chips, including two application processors by Qualcomm (QT), two graphics processors, or "GPUs,", a "contextual processor," and a natural language processor.
Osterloh said the X8 system provides for "touchless," manipulation of the phone, which sounds a lot like Samsung Electronics's (005930KS) Galaxy S4 smartphone.
The devices will be priced at $99 for the Mini, $199 for the Ultra, and $299 for the Maxx, with two-year contracts.
Pre-orders online are starting today and the handsets will be available August 20th. More detail on the three handsets is available on Verizon's news Web site.
Verizon showed a number of accessories as well, including an adaptor for the "Miracast" wireless media standard. It plus into your TV and then you can beam media — audio and video — from your phone to the TV wirelessly.
Update: Actually, I was wrong, X8 is not the tap-less motion control that the Galaxy S4 implements. It's all based on the voice-recognition chip, which allows the phones to respond to spoken commands while maintaining a low-power state so as not to drain the battery.
In a demo, company reps showed how the natural language chip can be used to wake up the phone by speaking a command, "Okay Google Now," and then pose any question or make any request that one can make normally with Google's "Google Now" assistant program that's on all Android phones. It was indeed responsive: Even in a crowded ballroom here at the meeting, with the phone sitting on the table about three feet from the person doing the demo, who was standing up, the device display switched on as soon as the gentleman said "Okay Google Now What's the Traffic Like on Broadway" in a normal pitch and volume.
One amusing prospect: A rep noted that if your phone ever falls below the cushions of your couch while you're sleeping, and you wake up and don't know it's there, you could just start screaming "Okay Google Now Call My Mobile" and the phone will start ringing, allowing you realize you're sitting on your phone.


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Total population: 6,961,049 (July 2011 est.)
GDP per capita (PPP): $900 (2011 est.)
Total expenditure on health per capita (Intl $, 2009): $57
In-country partner: Centre ATD d'Accueil et de Prévention du Diabète (Dr K.P. Tossou & colleagues) & Togoverein
Located in Western Africa, the Togolese Republic sits between Benin and Ghana on the Bight of Benin, and brings together over 35 ethnic groups. A former French colony, Togo achieved independence in 1960, but was ruled by the military for another 40 years. The first relatively free and fair legislative elections were held in October 2007.
One of the world's largest producers of phosphate, Togo also generates a substantial amount its export earnings from cotton, coffee and cocoa.
Life for a Child support
Commenced support: 2011
Life for a Child supports 50 children and youth up to 23 years of age with:
- insulin
- syringe/needles
- Meters and strips
- Education materials
Plans for 2012 include a site visit by an international paediatric endocrinologist, and a much-needed HbA1c machine and cartridges for the children and youth.


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The Mandelbrot set.
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This concept of fractals reminds me of my Father who quoted: "The bigger fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em. And those little fleas had smaller fleas, and so ...ad infinitum"
stunning - simple, elegant, complex, unique, perfect
In mathematics, the Mandelbrot set, named after Benoit Mandelbrot, is a set of points in the complex plane, the boundary of which forms a fractal. ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandelbrot_s et
Remarkably, even 10 Gigapixels really doesn't do it justice - if anything demands infinite zoom, this is it. Alas, even gigapanning has its limits.


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Family: Canidae, Dogs view all from this family
Description Unique northern fox well adapted for living in harsh Arctic climate with distinctive color and short legs, snout, and ears. Unique among canids in having fur color that varies geographically and seasonally. Coastal populations are typically bluish gray in winter and dark bluish gray or chocolate-brown in summer. Continental foxes are usually white in winter and grayish brown in summer. Eyes have golden irises; soles of feet are furred. Thick, luxurious pelage insulates animals down to -70°C.
Dimensions 83-110cm, 28-42cm, 3.2-9.4kg; / 71-85cm, 26-32cm, 1.4-3.3kg
Habitat Beaches, shorelines & estuaries
Range Alaska
Discussion Often bold in the presence of humans. Nocturnal except in Arctic summer. Hunts seabirds and small mammals alone, may scavenge in pairs or small groups. Introduced on several coastal islands, where they are farmed and harvested for the valuable fur. Populations cycle in concert with expanding prey populations, such as lemmings and voles. Inhabits Arctic tundra.


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Thanks, keep the updates coming!
Thanks, keep the updates coming!
Q cal back to WB
2, 7, 13, 14, 16, 18, 22, 26, 27
Gavin B.
The Amateur stake is done, or nearly done. A squall line is coming through and all the vehicles were removed from the field to the roadside. There may be one or two dogs left to run after the rain passes.
The test was a shortish triple through heavy cover with two retired.
Am callbacks to land blind: 2,4,5,6;7,8,10,11,12,13,
Open dogs back to water marks: 2,8,14,16,18,19,20,21,
27,29,33,36,37,39,43,44,50,54,57,58,59,63,66,73,74 .
25 dogs.
Seven or eight dogs left to run the Amateur land blind this morning. The cold and wind will be on the judges team for the water blind to follow.
Qual -
1- Ike/Gunzer
2- Burke/ Price
3- Abbey/Morrison


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How is that going?
I know the MSM lavished praise on Obama, and Christy kissed the emperors ring, so all is well.
Can anyone tell me how that is working out?
Or has Obama and Amerika's Pravda moved on?
Just askin'.............
How is that going?
I know the MSM lavished praise on Obama, and Christy kissed the emperors ring, so all is well.
Can anyone tell me how that is working out?
Or has Obama and Amerika's Pravda moved on?
Just askin'.............
Stan b & Elvis
Obama doesn't care about Italian Americans.
That's my boy "Blue"!!!! Flyin High in the Passenger Side x Katie May of Belgrade
Yeah! Where is Sean Penn and his video crew?Michael Moore and his pathetic reproductions?AlGore and his worthless dribble! Wait! Is this a movie?
It is still a mess but nobody cares because the victims are for the most part working class white.
Hihope Hiland Heathen of Perth CD, RE, CGC, TDI. (RIP)
teracroft Clan Piper of Perth CGC TDI (RIP)
Boyne's Fast Break of Perth RN CGC CGCU( munchin in training)
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Everyone's friend is No One's friend
Someday your life will flash before your eyes. It's your responsibility to make sure it's worth watching!
There are still people without electricity on Staten Island and parts of NJ.
The insurance companies were doing a really good job ... I had a flooded basement, and the insurance adjuster from Met Casualty called me before my electricity was back on! He was staying in a motel here in PA because of the conditions in NJ (we are close to an interstate highway just over the border from NJ). This adjuster was travelling to NJ each day to handle claims there.
Reconstruction work in NJ is still slow due to the unions not allowing non-union workers to do certain things. The lady that Obama hugged, with the marina, months later was still fighting red tape & nobody in the WH was interested in helping out.
Christie is still praising Obama and C's approval ratings are high ... if Christie is still R by 2016, I'll be surprised. He publicly stated that he is in agreement with Cuomo on most things; and that includes gun control! At first it sounded like he was "different," but it seems he is just another politician, and a bit left of center at that.
"Know in your heart that all things are possible. We couldn't conceive of a miracle if none ever happened." -Libby Fudim
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Main Institution:
Stacey Larizza, Lawson Research Institute, London, Ontario (Canada)
Other Institutions:
The University of Calgary, The University of Victoria (Canada)
Principal Investigator:
Other Investigators:
L.Donovan; D.Miller
Locations of the project:
London, Calgary and Victoria (Canada)
Amount allocated:
July 1, 2011 - March 31, 2015
No evidence-based, evaluated, population-appropriate resources exist to translate Type 2 diabetes (T2DM) primary prevention messages to Canadians. Significant barriers to such large-scale interventions include
- the need to identify, then target specific at-risk populations
- significant time-delays before any program effects on T2DM incidence may manifest.
However, women with gestational diabetes (GDM) are a readily identifiable study cohort at significant risk for recurrent GDM and T2DM—hence GDM women provide important opportunities for rigorous, timely diabetes prevention intervention studies. We propose FDD (Families Defeating Diabetes), a Canadian diabetes prevention intervention uniquely targeting women with recent GDM in the context of their families.
Results to date:
"Reducing diabetes risk after gestational diabetes" Diabetes Voice June 2014
7th International DIP Symposium, Firenze (Italy), March 2013
75th Scientific Sessions of the ADA, San Francisco (USA), June 2014
17th Canadian Diabetes Assocation/Canadian Society of Endocrinology and Metabolism Annual meeting, Winnipeg (Canada), October 2014
The University of Ottawa Dietetic symposium, Ottawa (Canada), March 2015
76th Scientific Sessions of the ADA, Boston (USA), June 2015
World Diabetes Congress, Vancouver (Canada), December 2015 (3 posters)
BRIDGES (Bringing Research in Diabetes to Global Environments and Systems) is a programme initiated by the International Diabetes Federation, and supported by an educational grant from Lilly Diabetes.


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UPDATE: Polanco has passed the physical, and the Phillies have officially announced the signing. The dollar figures below are accurate.
A baseball source confirmed to the Inquirer this afternoon that Placido Polanco will probably finalize his contract with the Phillies later today. Polanco has agreed to a deal to become the Phils next third baseman, barring an unforeseen hitch in the physical.
Polanco is taking a physical to finalize an agreement that the team's official website said was worth $18 million over three years, with a mutual option for a fourth year. The physical is an important final step in any deal, but if it goes well, the signing will become official this afternoon, with an announcement to come later today or early tomorrow. Stay tuned...
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Who We Are...
Our Philosophy
ELEVATE is not just a community of like minded investors and business owners. It is a philosophy infused into every area of our lives. We believe in living to our highest potential, and inspiring and guiding others to do the same. We believe in Elevating our goals, our businesses, our vision, our families, our health, our spirituality as we understand it, and all areas of the human condition so we might live truly blessed and abundant lives. Elevate is an action oriented philosophy, believing that it is only through the application of correct principles that true wealth and prosperity can be achieved. Elevate believes in servitude leadership, understanding that it is only by living by example can we inspire others to do the same. Elevate believes in the spirit of abundance and giving back, and we strive to bring the principles of wealthy and abundant living to our local communities, as well as serving the communities that have given us so much prosperity.
Leadership Team:
Jon ONeal
Jon is one of only a handful of members who sit on the Founders Advisory Board for Renatus. He has an extensive background and knowledge in owning and operating his own general contracting business. He was introduced to the world of real estate investing and never looked back.
Within two years of being a part of Renatus Jon has become a recognized leader and the founder of this Elevate Team. Through commitment, consistency, a clear "why" and application of knowledge he has become officially out of the "rat race". He has produced over four hundred thousand dollars in the last two years, successfully completed multiple real estate transactions and owns several rentals. His dedication and commitment to this team goes above and beyond expectations.
Michael Huggins
As a leader of the rapidly growing teams in Salt Lake City & Denver, Michael Huggins - is the youngest member to sit on the Founders Advisory Board for Renatus brings much to the table. With his extensive knowledge in personal development, Michael has coached many into living the life they deserve. As the youngest leader in the Renatus community, he has set the bar high for those following, and he will continue to push himself to be the best he can be.
With 5 years of experience, Michael has mastered the skills of running a successful marketing business. He now runs a team of 220+ people and has cleared six figures for the last 2 years. This heightened income has allowed Michael to follow his dreams. He now has the time freedom to tinker with race cars, travel the world, and be with his family.
What does Michael love most about his profession? Being able to help others achieve the results he's seeing himself. Michael has no shortage of content, and he's fired up about sharing his knowledge!
Raul Campos
Raul Campos spent nearly 20 years as an Independent Investment Advisor, managing money for clients and himself. In 2001 he sold his practice and enjoyed a few years away from Wall Street while contemplating his next move. He discovered the wealth-gaining opportunities found in real estate and wanted to start investing. Raul quickly realized that if he was to have massive success he would need to get the proper education and network with other successful investors to quickly cut his learning curve.
He found the Renatus education and applying those investing strategies and techniques, his success skyrocketed. Raul now completes 40-50 transactions a year and continually adds to his real estate portfolio. Today he enjoys assisting and mentoring others all over the country with this powerful knowledge so they, too, can go out and succeed in their real estate investment endeavors. Raul says, "Want to be a successful real estate investor? GET EDUCATED!"
Christion Sadler
Christion Sadler is CEO of Patriot Property & Management and founder of Investors Train Investors. Through his companies, Christion has bought and sold properties spanning multiple states including four counties of his home state of Utah. He has helped countless individuals across the nation learn and apply real estate investing strategies. He is a nationally recognized speaker, trainer and mentor on the topics of sales, marketing, personal development and real estate investing. His mission in life is to inspire others to live at a higher level of their own potential. He lives that mission everyday through his real estate mentoring and also by constantly seeking improvement in all areas of his own life to be an example to others. Christion has met many challenges in his life before and after becoming an entrepreneur, but now looks at each of those challenges as important lessons to help him grow. Above all things, Christion values his relationships and that is easily seen in his interactions with family, friends and even perfect strangers. He considers those relationships as his most valuable assets. Currently Christion has real estate projects underway ranging from single family fix & flips up to 100 acre development parcels. He is an avid learner and teacher at the same time and looks forward to helping you take your Renatus business to the next level!
Stuart Rosenberg
Stu is a wonderful husband and a proud dad to three beautiful girls. He loves to play the piano, write music and have fun in the sun! He has been an business owner, and entrepreneur for over 23 years. He owns and operates 4 different businesses. As Co-owner of Creating Solutions he has helped numerous people solve problems they've had with their properties. Since beginning his real estate investing career he has successfully completed multiple transactions, has two rentals, and is part owner of 97 properties including residential, commercial, multi-family and raw land. As co-owner of Creating Investors. Stu has helped numerous individuals start their own real estate investing and marketing business.
Tonia Rosenberg
Tonia is an amazing wife and a mom to three beautiful girls. She loves to ski, go 4-wheelin, hiking and the great outdoors. She has a degree in web design and uses her talents to lend support to the team and investing community. She has owned multiple business for over 23 years. Tonia is a co-owner of Creating Investors and loves to help teach and train on business ownership and marketing. Her strengths are in design, development of marketing material and business strategies. Since beginning her real estate investing career she has successfully completed multiple transactions, has two rentals, and is part owner of 97 properties including residential, commercial, multi-family and raw land.
Anjanette Mickelsen
Anjanette passionately works in the music business, 18 years and counting, becoming one of the country's top vocal coaches. She also has co-written songs that have reached #2 on the Billboard Classical and Classical Crossover Charts. She now lends that passion towards helping individuals and families become financially free through real estate investing. She loves teaching the Cashflow Game Night Trainings which trains people the basics of financial literacy and analyzing real estate deals.
Regina Ngata
She is known as "Lani" but to others known as Regina Ngata. She is a mother, wife, sister, daughter, cousin, friend and mentor to many. She is married to her sweetheart Finau Ngata and together they have 2 daughters Ofa & Leila. She got started doing real estate investing end of January 2014. She was mentored by great leaders, had went thru training to develop skill sets that have helped in building the momentum she has acquired in such a short time. She now has a team here in Salt Lake City as well as in Honolulu, Hi. She has done her first real estate deal as a seller finance and working on a few rehabs on the Wasatch Front as well as a lease option deal. She is looking to expand her real estate portfolio nationwide. Lani is a determined individual and willing to help in the progress and growth of her team as well as others. Always thinking of ways to better her skills as a leader so that she can help others who were in the same place she started. She is an amazing leader to our Elevate team and wants to inspire many through her actions.
Del Jensen
Del Jensen, a full time Real Estate Investor and Independent Marketing Affiliate, helps other people realize their financial goals through the magic of Real Estate Investing.
Prior to becoming an active investor and upon retiring as an Army Officer, Del entered Corporate America ultimately being named a VP and Site President for a Fortune 10 Corporation. Although professionally successful, Del didn't have the amount of time freedom he desired to spend with his beautiful wife Jill and their 9 children. In fact Del relates that the year he began investing, he canceled or cut short every family vacation without exception. He became introduced to Renatus, LLC and came to realize this was the "most brilliant marketing plan and opportunity in America today." He became a student of Renatus and quickly generated a six figure income through the marketing opportunity, even though he was only working this business part-time. He continued his success and quickly replaced the income from his full time job and developed a portfolio including cash flowing properties in 3 states.
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We Jump Out Of Planes...
We Have Fun...
About Us
We believe in Elevating our goals, our businesses, our vision, our families, our health, our spirituality as we understand it, and all areas of the human condition so we might live truly blessed and abundant lives.
Our Philosophy
ELEVATE is not just a community of like minded investors and business owners. It is a philosophy infused into every area of our lives. We believe in living to our highest potential, and inspiring and guiding others to do the same.


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I am trying to shift my project to my other computer. I think I have the compiler set up properly. Initially, I thought it was DX causing the issue, but I narrowed it down to WinMain(..). Here is the code:
int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, LPSTR lpCmdLine, int nCmdShow) { HWND hWnd; WNDCLASSEX wc; ZeroMemory(&wc, sizeof(WNDCLASSEX)); wc.cbSize = sizeof(WNDCLASSEX); wc.style = CS_HREDRAW | CS_VREDRAW; wc.lpfnWndProc = WindowProc; wc.hInstance = hInstance; wc.hCursor = LoadCursor(NULL, IDC_ARROW); // wc.hbrBackground = (HBRUSH)COLOR_WINDOW; // not needed any more wc.lpszClassName = "WindowClass"; RegisterClassEx(&wc); hWnd = CreateWindowEx(NULL, "WindowClass", "Our Direct3D Program", WS_EX_TOPMOST | WS_POPUP, // fullscreen values 0, 0, // the starting x and y positions should be 0 int(SCREEN_WIDTH),int( SCREEN_HEIGHT), // set the window size NULL, NULL, hInstance, NULL); //return 0;//exits without crashing ShowWindow(hWnd, nCmdShow); return 0;//it will crash here // set up and initialize Direct3D GameEngine.initD3D(hWnd,hInstance); //init the environment here. // enter the main loop: UINT ExitMessage=GameEngine.MainLoop(); return ExitMessage; }
Notice the 2 return lines arround ShowWindow(..)? That's how I came to the conclusion it had something to do with showing the window. I believe it's the creation that's actually causing the problem, but I don't know what could cause it to work on one machine and not another. Perhapse I don't have the correct SDK (VC) or I don't have my compiler set up correctly????


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Updated on 7 May 2013
The Indian biotech industry has done remarkably well so far. The inventiveness and efficiency of the industry has contributed immensely to the success and resilience of the Indian biotech sector, especially in the manufacturing and service segments. Despite heavy odds, including drought of financial resources, stiff competition among several domestic manufacturers, and having to walk the tight rope between doing innovative R&D and delivering affordability with quality, Indian firms have introduced a number of products in the market.
The last decade witnessed a spectacular growth of 24.18 percent for the sector, although due to the global economic meltdown there was a slump of 18.5 percent during 2011-12.
The biopharma segment continues to dominate.
India's expertise in the art and science of GMP for macromolecules has earned it the goodwill and respect of the international community. Because of our tried and tested strengths in vaccine development and manufacture, new alliances are beginning to emerge between the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Indian companies, public-funded institutions and global philanthropic institutions such as Malaria Vaccine Initiative, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Program for Appropriate Technologies in Health and the Wellcome Trust. The other noted strength of Indian biotech companies is carrying out contract services related to R&D, clinical trials and manufacturing.
Due to several reasons, India is fast becoming a hub for global clinical trials and this is likely to create numerous opportunities for a number of associated industries such as invitro diagnostics, education and data management. This will in turn have a cascading effect on the implementation of quality assurance measures and enforcement of ethical norms and good clinical practices.
The Indian agri-biotech segment has done spectacularly well with Bt cotton. A mere 50,000 hectares of area under the crop in 2002 increased to a massive 10.8 million hectares in 2012. Bt cotton is a clear winner and demonstrates how timely introduction of a new technology can break productivity barriers and help crop production in a sustainable manner. It also taught us lessons in regulatory issues and the need for better and clearer communication with the consumers and the public.
Nevertheless, the pall of uncertainty surrounding the agri-biotech segment today is mainly due to the collective failure of various stakeholders to resolve differences gracefully and dispassionately regarding the potential benefits and risks of GM crops, especially food crops. All of us-government, activists, the scientific and agricultural communities and industry are to blame for the current gridlock. In this atmosphere, investments into this segment are likely to decrease.
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It has been a long time since I posted here and, as usual, guilt caught up with me and I decided to post an entry.
Since April of last year a lot has happened. I was diagnosed with an Acoustic Nueroma, a tumor near my brain sitting on the balance nerve of the inner ear. In November it was removed and I lost all hearing in the right ear. I have permanent tinitus (ringing) in it, which is sort of cool because when my blood pressure goes up, the ringing gets louder (sort of an onboard BP tracker). The post op nightmare was terrible. I had swelling so bad that blood flow was cut off to the brain and I had an infection. It lasted for nearly 3 weeks and I was back in the hospoital twice. In any case, I feel better now and am working from home. I also lost a lot of weight from puking (my body has a strong dislike of drugs and certain anitbiotics). I guess that is a benefit ...
Now onto the neat stuff. Since April I delved into NetBSD development. I migrated some code from a friend of mine to a module for the Verified Executable Kernel Modification. That was a blast. I learned a lot, lesson one of kernel development: do NOT try to track -current if your making big changes, merge them when you are done or ready for BETA. After that I went onto in depth tuning again, some PR articles, and started working on userland utils. My "open source" resume has expanded quite a bit.
In the future I want to get get back to helping with further kernel security, keep closing as many PRs as I can, and with some help branch out into other areas. I also need to wrap up my degree, I have too many floating credits and now that I have a lot of free time, it is time to put free time to use.


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Skin turgor is the skin's ability to change shape and return to normal (elasticity).
Doughy skin; Poor skin turgor; Good skin turgor; Decreased skin turgor
Skin turgor is a sign commonly used by health care workers to assess the degree of fluid loss or dehydration. Fluid loss can occur from common conditions, such as diarrhea or vomiting. Infants and young children with vomiting, diarrhea, and decreased or no fluid intake can rapidly lose a significant amount of fluid. Fever speeds up this process.
To determine skin turgor, the health care provider grasps the skin on the back of the hand, lower arm, or abdomen between two fingers so that it is tented up. The skin is held for a few seconds then released.
Skin with normal turgor snaps rapidly back to its normal position. Skin with decreased turgor remains elevated and returns slowly to its normal position.
Decreased skin turgor is a late sign in dehydration. It occurs with moderate to severe dehydration. Fluid loss of 5% of the body weight is considered mild dehydration, 10% is moderate, and 15% or more is severe dehydration.
Note: Edema (a buildup of fluid in the tissues that causes swelling) causes the skin to be extremely difficult to pinch up.
Connective tissue disorders, such as scleroderma and Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, can also affect the elasticity of the skin. This does not have to do with fluids, but is a change in the elastic properties of the skin tissue.
A quick check of skin turgor by pinching the skin over the back of the hand, on the abdomen, or over the front of the chest under the collarbone is a good way to check for dehydration at home.
Mild dehydration will cause the skin to be slightly slow in its return to normal. To rehydrate, drink more fluids -- particularly water.
If turgor is severe, indicating moderate or severe dehydration, see your health care provider immediately.
The health care provider will perform a physical exam and ask questions about your medical history, including:
Tests that may be performed:
Intravenous fluids may be necessary for severe dehydration. You may need medications to treat other conditions that affect skin turgor and elasticity.
Greenbaum L. Deficit therapy. In: Kliegman RM, Behrman RE, Jenson HB, Stanton BF. Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics. 19th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 54.
Gorgas DL, Barry JD. Vital signs measurement. In: Roberts JR, Hedges JR, eds. Clinical Procedures in Emergency Medicine. 5th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2009:chap 1.
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He may pay less as a percentage, but he still pays way more than I do. He even pays more than GE did a few years ago.
Stop the spending,stop the entitlements,pay less taxes.
And Yes I want hiom over BHO who puts tax cheats into positions all the time, lots of politicians skip paying all together and not just in creative ways.
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Let's throw the elderly out in the streets along with the sick and eflicted so Mr. Romney doesn't have to pay any taxes. For your information, the upper-middle class is who takes it on the chin. They can't do all the things this wantabe can do, so quit giving him a pass.
But, taxes are not the place ....
Do we all wish we could have his tax burden (as a matter of percentage) YES!! Do we wish we had his tax burden (in dollars paid) NO!!!!
You see... this is a guy who is NOT waiting on the tax system to change... he is DOING something to make a better life for thousands of the less fortunate by GIVING OF HIMSELF AND HIS OWN MONEY OF HIS OWN FREE WILL!!!!
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The Root surname is part of Rosmer P. Kerr's heritage. His eighth great-grandfather was:
- John Roote of Badby, Northamptonshire, England. In the year 1600, he married Ann Russell. John and Ann were my tenth great-grandparents.
- Thomas Roote [1], baptized 16 January 1605 at Badby. He emigrated to New England by 1637, when he was listed as a soldier in the Pequot war. With his wife, whose name is not known, he had seven children. He died at the age of 89 in 1694 (17 June by one source, 17 July by another). Thomas [1] was my ninth great-grandfather.
- Thomas Roote [2], born about 1644 in Hartford, Connecticut. On 3 July 1666 he married Abigail Alvord, with whom he had five children. After her death in 1699, he seems to have moved to Boston and then to Lynn, Massachusetts, where he married the widow Mary Cox, daughter of Philip and Alice Kirkland, on 4 December 1701. He died by January 1730. Thomas [2] and Abigail were my eighth great-grandparents.
- Deacon Thomas Root [3], born 11 April 1667 in Northampton, Massachusetts. On 4 March 1691 he married Thankful Strong. Together they had eleven children. By 1709, this family had moved to Coventry, Connecticut, where Thomas became the first town clerk and the first deacon. He died at Coventry on 13 November 1756. Thomas and Thankful were my seventh great-grandparents.
- Experience Root, the seventh child of Deacon Thomas Root, born 18 January 1703 at Northampton. She was married to Samuel Parker, Jr., at Coventry on 24 March 1726.
- Thomas Roote, born about 1555/6 in Badby, where he married Ann Burrell about 1574/5 at the Church of the Virgin Mary. (Some sites give the place name as Bagby, Northampton, which I believe is incorrect. Bagby is in Yorkshire; Badby is in Northamptonshire.) Thomas is said to have died 5 April 1609 at Northampton, and was buried in the churchyard (at Badby, I presume). If correct, Thomas and Ann would be my eleventh great-grandparents.
- John Roote, said to have been born or baptized 24 June 1576 at Badby. His marriage to Ann Russell is said to have taken place at the Church of the Virgin Mary, Badby, on 27 July 1600. John and Ann are the same couple named above, at the beginning of this post.
Root, James Pierce. Root Genealogical Records. 1600-1870. Comprising the General History of the Root and Roots Families in America. New York: R.C. Root, Anthony & Co, 1870.
Messier, Betty Brook, and Janet Sutherland Aronson. The Roots of Coventry, Connecticut. Coventry, Conn. (1712 Main St., Coventry 06238): 275th Anniversary Committee, 1987.


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After a mild winter with plenty of exposed food apparently the turkeys had nothing to do but eat. My first was the heaviest kill for me at 28lb. 14 oz. 1 1/2" hooks but a pencil thin 10" beard - hey you can't have everything and I am down right happy with this bird. A true butterball he had a half inch layer of fat all over under his skin. Probably why it took him an hour and half to waddle over to me.
Yes that is turkey dog Vic checking it out. He is very jealous, not understanding at all why he can't come on the hunt.
Another hunter I met & one I heard about each killed 32+ pounders and at least a dozen others have taken birds in the 27-28 pound range. The WI state weight record is 34.5 pounds so there is still a ways to go breaking that one.
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Black ghost knife
Hey, i just bought me a Black ghost knife fish and i have always wanted one but i though at first it was an asian fish but learned a few month it was an SA and i all about SA and i have a tank large enough for one maybe a bit small for a max size one but most fish won't reach the size they can get but if he do ill sell him to a local aquarium owner that has lots of large tank since he only keeps the largest aquarium fish
I know they can grow to about 20" but i know from personal experience most fish never reach there max size even if they are wild caught, had 2 wild caught angels long ago and they were the smallest angels i had about 4" when they can reach close to 6" but i have a back up plan in case my fish are the one that will become 20".
I do have a few questions though.
When i researched this fish a few month ago i found a few saying they eat the eyes of angels and other large fish that they can't swallow whole but i found more saying it's very rare that they will do that. Today i was bored after i got the fish and thought i would do some more fish reading on all the fish i have and plan to have in both my tanks and i found this time that it was more saying they will eat the eyes of all other fish in the tank and the fins of them, so now i'm a bit scared since i love my angels more then the black ghost and i don't want to hurt my loved angels. So what is the truth about this?
Then i have a question about BN with them i have 2 albino BN that im going to pick up in the future from my uncle as hes holding them since the tanks was down a few month and we didn't have time to try to catch those when i picked up the angels from him. will this work together or will the knife kill the BN's?
I do have a few PVC pipes that i got from a friend to have for caves to the BN's the question are for both BN's and the knife fish i do have one pipe that's about 1.6" in diameter and i wonder if thats to tight for a BGN, i also got several 1.2" in diameter pipes and those was planned for the BN's but they might be to tight for them. If the larger pipe works for the BGN i'm going to put it in the tank tomorrow so the BGN gets the larger pipe for him and the Bn's can get the small ones if they work for them.
I don't want to have any replies telling me BGN needs large tanks i know this all i want to know is about these questions. The BGN will be able to get it's own space in this tank so it won't get attacked or need to attack for it's space, Just want to know if it will attack because it's an asshole.
I'm sorry to say, but you'll get comments saying he needs a big tank...and here is why:
the fish will get big and aggressive
the aggression starts day 1 because that is in their genes
as the fish grows, it needs more and more space and recognizes that he/she is big and strong enough to take that space.
The issue is something that correlated to the tank size.
you don't have much time before that BGK destroys everything in your tank...
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BGK are really not aggressive, but they are predators. They will grow to around a foot. They will actually do fine in a 75 gallon, if they are kept alone. If you want to keep other fish with them, a 125 would be about the smallest you would want. You will need to keep medium to large fish with them. Nothing too small or they will eat it. You also don't want to keep overly aggressive fish with it. The BGN will get picked on. Angels, eartheaters,discus, silver dollars, tin foil barbs, bala sharks, plecos. Things around those sizes and temperament can be kept with them.
They will feed on pellets, bloodworms, flakes when they are small, shrimp, most anything they can find and that will fit in their mouth.
They are in the same family as the electric eel. So you should only keep one of them. No matter how big the tank, their electric fields will mess with others of their own kind.
If you keep it fed well, and have a piece of driftwood or PVC pipe for it to hide in, it should be fine with your angels, and your BN plecos if they are full grown.
The BGK's in the midwest reach a healthy 18inches.
Many LFS' around here have one in their massive display tanks.
they are great fish, but as said before-keep it solo or if you want him happy-a 150 would be minimum for a 15-18inch fish.
but if it thinks something will fit in it's mouth. it'll try to eat it-may it be the long fins of the angel enticing it, or a tetra, it'll be hungry and try like every other predator does.
on topic though: op you mention that you research post purchasing fish...that will lead to issues (like this one).
its suggested to look up fish, their requirements, capability w/ current/future stock (ask on forums like this) THEN go buy it if it's a good idea.
you save time, money and headaches.
05-24-2013, 02:04 AM #5Member Platy
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Okey good to know but it still does not answer the questions and thats the important thing here. Some say the best tank mates for BGK are large passive fish and among them are several cichlids.
As Kim92, well put it: it depends the tank size.
doing the bare minimum means no tank mates.
get a 300gallon and you are talking many fun tankmates...
so what is your tank size for the bgk?
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Some cichlids are fairly passive if kept in a large tank. Angels, discus, severums, acaras,eartheaters. If kept in a tank big enough for a BGK and tank mates, you should not have any problems with those cichlids. I would not keep something along the lines of a buttikoferi, jaguar, umbee, or dovii.
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My respond here came abit late took like almost an hour trying to give a respectful response so just ignore that one. The tank is a 99.76 gallon tank but it's to small for my taste i would like a 190 gallon tank but so far i have not found one in my price range all have fish that comes with the tank so the price goes up and i just want an empty tank. But thats the plan for now not allowed to have more then 211 gallon were i live because of the weight but hopefully ill get a better apartment were i can get me a 300 gallon tank or bigger. I'm going to have the angels i have and maybe a few Cleithracara maronii but those are hard to come by were i live most stores won't order fish for you here so you have to find them when they have them in which is rare.
But do anyone have any comments about the pipes i have are they good enough to fit the BGK, and the BN in the small pipe?
The BN thats going into the tank are full grown both are about 2 years old and the male is a bit larger then 5" the female a bit smaller, right now it goes a 11 month old BN in there turns a year in exactly a month hes nearly 5" but hes going into my small tank when i get the old BN in the large one.
Mizzoutank i did do the research before i got the fish but when i got it i read some more just because i was bored and everything had changed
A lot of people say that their BGKs are shy and rather peaceful and that they make good community fish for larger tank mates. But I agree, they ultimately will need a large tank.125 - BGK, pictus cats, silver dollars, kissing gouramis, palmas bichir, delhezi bichir
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Ancient versions and modern translations consistently entitle this book after Ruth the Moabitess heroine, who is mentioned by name twelve times (1:4 to 4:13). Only two OT books receive their names from women—Ruth and Esther. The OT does not again refer to Ruth, while the NT mentions her just once—in the context of Christ's genealogy (Matt. 1:5; cf. 4:18–22). "Ruth" most likely comes from a Moabite and/or Hebrew word meaning "friendship."Ruth arrived in Bethlehem as a foreigner (2:10), became a maidservant (2:13), married wealthy Boaz (4:13), and discovered herself in the physical lineage of Christ (Matt. 1:5).
Author and Date
Jewish tradition credits Samuel as the author, which is plausible since he did not die (1 Sam. 25:1) until after he had anointed David as God's chosen king (1 Sam. 16:6–13). However, neither internal features nor external testimony conclusively identifies the writer. This exquisite story most likely appeared shortly before or during David's reign of Israel (1011–971 B.C.) since David is mentioned (4:17, 22) but not Solomon. Goethe reportedly labeled this piece of anonymous but unexcelled literature as "the loveliest, complete work on a small scale." What Venus is to statuary and the Mona Lisa is to paintings, Ruth is to literature.
Background and Setting
Aside from Bethlehem (1:1), Moab (the perennial enemy of Israel which was east of the Dead Sea), stands as the only other mentioned geographic/national entity (1:1, 2). This country originated when Lot fathered Moab by an incestuous union with his oldest daughter (Gen. 19:37). Centuries later the Jews encountered opposition from Balak, king of Moab, through the prophet Balaam (Num. 22–25). For 18 years Moab oppressed Israel during the judges (3:12–30). Saul defeated the Moabites (1 Sam. 14:47) while David seemed to enjoy a peaceful relationship with them (1 Sam. 22:3, 4). Later, Moab again troubled Israel (2 Kin. 3:5–27; Ezra 9:1). Because of Moab's idolatrous worship of Chemosh (1 Kin. 11:7, 33; 2 Kin. 23:13) and its opposition to Israel, God cursed Moab (Is. 15–16; Jer. 48; Ezek. 25:8–11; Amos 2:1–3).
The story of Ruth occurred in the days "when the judges ruled" Israel (1:1) ca. 1370 to 1041B.C. (Judg. 2:16–19) and thus bridges time from the judges to Israel's monarchy. God used "a famine in the land" of Judah (1:1) to set in motion this beautiful drama, although the famine does not receive mention in Judges which causes difficulty in dating the events of Ruth. However, by working backward in time from the well known date of David's reign (1011–971 B.C.), the time period of Ruth would most likely be during the judgeship of Jair, ca. 1126–1105 B.C. (Judg. 10:3–5).
Ruth covers about 11–12 years according to the following scenario: 1) 1:1–18, ten years in Moab (1:4); 2) 1:19–2:23, several months (mid-Apr. to mid-June) in Boaz's field (1:22; 2:23); 3) 3:1–18, one day in Bethlehem and one night at the threshing floor; and 4) 4:1–22, about one year in Bethlehem.
Historical and Theological Themes
All 85 verses of Ruth have been accepted as canonical by the Jews. Along with Song of Solomon, Esther, Ecclesiastes, and Lamentations, Ruth stands with the OT books of the Megilloth or "five scrolls." Rabbis read these books in the synagogue on five special occasions during the year—Ruth being read at Pentecost due to the harvest scenes of Ruth 2–3.
Genealogically, Ruth looks back almost 900 years to events in the time of Jacob (4:11) and forward about 100 years to the coming reign of David (4:17, 22). While Joshua and Judges emphasize the legacy of the nation and their land of promise, Ruth focuses on the lineage of David back to the Patriarchal era.
At least seven major theological themes emerge in Ruth. First, Ruth the Moabitess illustrates that God's redemptive plan extended beyond the Jews to Gentiles (2:12). Second, Ruth demonstrates that women are co-heirs with men of God's salvation grace (cf. 1 Pet. 3:7). Third, Ruth portrays the virtuous woman of Proverbs 31:10 (cf. 3:11). Fourth, Ruth describes God's sovereign (1:6; 4:13) and providential care (2:3) of seemingly unimportant people at apparently insignificant times which later prove to be monumentally crucial to accomplishing God's will. Fifth, Ruth along with Tamar (Gen. 38), Rahab (Josh. 2) and Bathsheba (2 Sam. 11–12) stand in the genealogy of the Messianic line (4:17, 22; cf. Matt. 1:5). Sixth, Boaz, as a type of Christ, becomes Ruth's kinsman-redeemer (4:1–12). Finally, David's right (and thus Christ's right) to the throne of Israel is traced back to Judah (4:18–22; cf. Gen. 49:8–12).
Interpretive Challenges
Ruth should be understood as a true historical account. The reliable facts surrounding Ruth, in addition to its complete compatibility with Judges plus 1 and 2 Samuel, confirm Ruth's authenticity. However, some individual difficulties require careful attention. First, how could Ruth worship at the tabernacle then in Shiloh (1 Sam. 4:4), since Deuteronomy 23:3 expressly forbids Moabites from entering the assembly for ten generations? Since the Jews entered the land ca. 1405B.C. and Ruth was not born until ca. 1150 B.C., she then represented at least the eleventh generation (probably later) if the time limitation ended at ten generations. If "ten generations" was an idiom meaning "forever" as ehemiah 13:1 implies, then Ruth would be like the foreigner of Isaiah 56:1–8 who joined himself to the LORD (1:16) thus gaining entrance to the assembly.
Second, are there not immoral overtones to Boaz and Ruth spending the night together before marriage (3:3–18)? Ruth engaged in a common ancient Near Eastern custom by asking Boaz to take her for his wife as symbolically pictured by throwing a garment over the intended woman (3:9), just as Jehovah spread His garment over Israel (Ezek. 16:8). The text does not even hint at the slightest moral impropriety, noting that Ruth slept at his feet (3:14). Thus, Boaz became God's answer to his own earlier prayer for Ruth (2:12).
Third, would not the levirate principle of Deuteronomy 25:5, 6 lead to incest and/or polygamy if the nearest relative was already married? God would not design a good plan to involve the grossest of immoralities punishable by death. It is to be assumed that the implementation of Deuteronomy 25:5, 6 could involve only the nearest relative who was eligible for marriage as qualified by other stipulations of the law.
Fourth, was not marriage to a Moabitess strictly forbidden by the law? The nations or people to whom marriage was prohibited were those possessing the land that Israel would enter (Ex. 34:16; Deut. 7:1–3; Josh. 23:12) which did not include Moab (cf. Deut. 7:1). Further, Boaz married Ruth, a devout proselyte to Jehovah (1:16–17) not a pagan worshiper of Chemosh—Moab's chief deity (cf. later problems in Ezra 9:1, 2 and Neh. 13:23–25).
I. Elimelech and Naomi's Ruin in Moab (1:1–5)
II. Naomi and Ruth Return to Bethlehem (1:6–22)
III. Boaz Receives Ruth in His Field (2:1–23)
IV. Ruth's Romance with Boaz (3:1–18)
V. Boaz Redeems Ruth (4:1–12)
VI. God Rewards Boaz and Ruth with a Son (4:13–17)
VII. David's Right to the Throne of Judah (4:18–22)
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