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02-03-2013, 12:16 AM #1Junior Member Guppy
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Attempting a planted aquarium for first time
Okay, I got SeaChem flourite as a substrate (rinsed it for like, forever before placing in tank). I planted a variety of swords and ferns. I have daylight bulbs in the hood. Plants are dying. I don't know what else to do. I visited my local pet store and it had this phenomenal planted aquarium - everything looked lush and vibrant. And then I noticed a plastic soda bottle with an airline tube coming from it and going into the tank and bubbles coming out of it. I asked about it and finally I found someone who said that yeast and carbon dioxide and plants will thrive. I tried to find out more but it was a delivery day and all the workers were scrambling to stock the shelves. So, has anybody heard of this? Can you help me do this in my planted aquarium? What can I do? What do I need? Thank you!
For people with smaller tanks and/or not wanting to invest in pressurized CO2, there's a way to make a DIY CO2 setup using yeast and sugar. CO2 is the byproduct in fermentation so you can run some airline tubing to a diffuser/reactor to get it dissolved in the water. You can't use the same high-pressure diffusers used by pressurized systems though because the plastic bottles won't be able to sustain such pressure without failing (exploding). There's plenty of information available on the net if you do a search for "DIY CO2" but here's a good link to learn all you need to know about it.
Also, it would help if you told us the size of your tank and more details about your light fixture to find out why your plants aren't thriving. CO2 isn't always necessary to have a lush planted tank so your problem may be something else.
Funk gave you a run down on the CO2 but google 'DIY CO2' for more details or 'aquarium CO2' or similar for details on what it does.
The more important thing to address atm is that CO2 is not 'step A' in getting a lush planted tank, Proper lighting IS.
In fact, CO2 is entirely optional for a lush verdant tank. Proper lighting is not, So we will address that first.
As mentioned we need the tank size, # of bulbs, Their wattage & Spectrum [This will be a number on the bulbs ending with a K] and how long you leave them on for.
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Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.
Why pretend there are no stupid questions? Actually, There are many stupid questions: "Should I drink this bleach?" Is just one example.
Having said that, Just because it's a stupid question doesn't mean that it shouldn't be asked. It's better to know.
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+1 to the above
Depending on the plants that you would like to keep, CO2 may not even be required. I have found lighting to be the biggest factor in success with easy to moderatly difficult plants to keep.
I personally perfer my planted tanks to be as low tech as possible, but like I said, that is just my preferanceIf you take your time to do the research FIRST, you can successfully set-up and keep ANY type of aquarium with ease.
"Not using a quarantine tank is like playing Russian roulette. Nobody wins the game, some people just get to play longer than others." - Anthony Calfo
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Agree with that. But I know what OP means. One of my local shops has a 7 foot display tank, planted classic dutch style and kitted out with just about any gizmo they sell. So much CO2 in that that the plants look fake from a distance.
Bio Co2 is just a matter of yeast, sugar, some tubing and a few bottles and an airstone.
As noted, the proper amount and type of lighting is crucial. That is the #1 thing to assess. Besides that, what is the stocking level of your tank? What is your nitrate level? Do you use any liquid or substrate fertilizers? Also, for the ferns, did you plant them in the substrate? The rhizome of ferns should not be buried, and instead should be attached to rock or driftwood.
Also can you describe how your plants are dying? E.g. stunted growth, discolorations, formation of holes, melting away, etc. What is happening visually can help diagnose the problem.
I grow many varieties of plants in my planted tanks, including swords, and I have never used CO2. I have used a liquid carbon source (Seachem Excel) on occasion, but even that has been rare. CO2 is not a "make or break" type of thing unless you're talking about a high-tech tank with demanding plants.
02-04-2013, 08:20 PM #7Junior Member Guppy
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Thanks for replies!
Okay. I think I have a 30 U.S. gallon freshwater tank. I am using an AQUA-Tech 20/40 power filter with carbon filter
media and a "bio pad" to house beneficial bacteria. I have a heater that keeps the water temp around 74-76 degrees
Fahrenheit. The aquarium has been set up for about two months now and I initially used "Start-Zyme" to add a good colony
of bacteria.
The substrate is Seachem flourite clay mixture and I have about 2-3 inches depth - more graded toward the back of the tank.
I have an incandescant hood and I originally used these plant grow bulbs that I purchased at Walmart. However, I recently
switched over to Zoo Med 6500K/10 Watt/5" Super Daylight Mini Compact flourescents and immediately noticed the tank is much
brighter and the color of the fish look better. I leave the two lights on from 8 AM to 6 PM.
I have Java Fern Plants attached to cocunut husks that I placed in the tank but didn't bury in the substrate. I had 3
Sword Plant varieties that I did plant the roots in the substrate. I also had 3 other varieties of ferns that I also
planted in the substrate. The directions said to gently wash the gel mixture off the roots and plant in the gravel. The
planted ferns and planted swords were dying and turning to mush - the best way I can describe it - they just disintegrated
and decomposed. I have since added more plants to the tank, fingers crossed.
In the tank I have 4 small Angel Fish (two are veil tails), 3 Cory Catfish (albino, pepper, sterbai), and one Butterfly
I bought a 5-N-1 Test Strip Kit and the results are as follows (bear in mind that I'm color blind - difficulty in
recognizing some colors - so I'm giving you my best determination):
Nitrate: close to zero
Nitrite: between zero and .5
Total Hardness: 75, soft
Total Alkalinity: zero, low
pH: between 6.2 and 6.8, leaning towards 6.8
I hope this helps. :-)
Also, if you can please recommend more plants for my aquarium as I want a jungle, lol, that will be full and grow fast!
so we gotta address a few things first....
your tank is not cycled.
you don't have adequate stocking of fish-meaning your angels will destroy one another...soon.
these two things take precedence over plants because you'll either kill your fish, or your fill will kill each other.
food for thought...
In addition to what mizzoutank said, your plants also have fundamental issues. First, it looks like your java fern (in front of the rock on the right) is planted in the substrate. It doesn't look like it's on a coconut husk above the substrate, which is what you described. Second, is that an anubias in the back, slightly right of center? That is also a type of plant that should not have its rhizome buried in the substrate. Third, I see multiple plants that are not true aquatics. Unfortunately, some stores will sell "aquatic" plants that are not true aquatics. They are guaranteed to rot away if one tries to grow them submerged. These are actually bog or marginal plants. It's false advertising, but somehow they get away with it. This applies to your peace lily (Spathiphyllum wallisii), slightly left of center, and various ferns around the tank that are not java fern. Sorry
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02-05-2013, 03:22 PM #10Member Oscar
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You're going to need to start dosing fertilizers. With 0 nitrate in the water column, none of the rhizome plants, anubias, ferns, etc. are getting any nutrients. The Swords are root feeders so you should be providing them with root tabs buried in the substrate to make them happy.
If the tank is truly uncycled, I have never been successful in growing plants in that environment. Whether from high ammonia concentrations or lack of nutrients until the tank has matured & stocked, they just never seem to thrive for me.


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Description Large head. Grayish/dark brown skin. Long front legs for burrowing, unlike their behind legs which are shorter. Carapace yellowish brown. Plastron light yellow. Concave on males.
Dimensions 23.5-36.8cm. (9 1/4-14 1/2")
Endangered Status The Gopher Tortoise is on the U.S. Endangered Species List. It is classified as threatened wherever it is found west of the Mobile and Tombigbee Rivers in Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. The western population of the Gopher Tortoise is threatened mainly because of the destruction of its habitat, as well as misuse of its habitat (for example some of its habitat in national forest land is used for military operations). Tortoise populations are slow to recover from population losses because the females do not breed until they are 15 to 20 years old, and young tortoises are vulnerable to predators and other hazards.
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Habitat Forests, grassland near sandy areas.
Range South Carolina to Florida coastal plain. Also Louisiana.
Discussion Herbivore scavengers. Terrestrial. Very good digger, burrows are abnormally longest. Longest was 47 1/2' with a large chamber at the end. Often shares the burrow with other animals including owls, snakes, gopher frogs and toads. Forage morning and evening, otherwise bask at the entrance of burrow.


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"Dear Rob,
You introduced me, when I was 12, to the concept of computers, programming, logic circuits, and mathematics. I fell in love with all but the last of these at that young age as you were discovering them.
You immediately went into the sciences and I went more into music. As time went on, my love for computers and tech things never left me and I was able to teach myself most of the technologies I now use today.
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And what eulogy would be complete without a list of regrets? I'm sorry I couldn't visit you more often this past year. I'm sorry we had that long period of non- contact. Mostly, I'm sorry that you won't be around anymore.
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Blender is the focus program, but I want to get viewpoints for Wings 3D ray plug-ins, too. It's time for me to go game performance for long term strategy. I'll start 3D game creation by the end of the year, after working with 2D games this autumn, progressing nicely - much thanks to this community!
Background is that I am learning C# and Python. I have over two years experience in creating 3D content for a couple games being developed. Light weight rendering with performance in mind will be used sparingly in my future games.
Kerkythea and PovRay are being considered by me. I want liberally free, no cost, and open source rendering technology to plug into Blender and Wings 3D. One out there I already elliminated due to being too slow, so I will keep that one quiet and see who knows their stuff here.
EDIT: Given: I sometimes see realistic glass and metal in games alongside conventional image textures, shaders, and so on, sometimes in the same model. I am looking for the most performance friendly technologies for including such feaures in game 3D models.
Question: Are things like raytracing feasible for this goal and which open source plugins would get me there?
As always, any and all comments, criticism, and praises are welcome!
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RE:Ross Canyon #6 for a Spey reel?
I got to tell you that standing upriver watching Ryan perched on a rock midriver double-hauling 80' of line out was a thing of beauty. Bunnyleach and I both commented that A River Runs Through It came to mind. The kid can cast!
RE:Ross Canyon #6 for a Spey reel?
I have not actually fished the Canyon but I have sold a few of them since they came out and everyone loves them and the price!!
They are amazing reels and I believe that if Ross priced them at 100 or 150 dollars more they would still sell.
Plus you are getting the ROSS lifetime warranty which is great. Send the reel back to ROSS and you have a new reel in less than a week, no questions asked.
I fished the 8126-3 Graphite IV yesterday. Talk about a rod with a lot of potential. And as you said, I believe that if they lengthened the handle the rod which fish a little easier.
I was throwing a Rio Anadramous Dredger on it all day. The 200 grain was pretty lite and would not load the road, thus I was single handing it all day so I could double haul and get the line speed necassary to cast it. The 300 managed to load the road so I could two-hand overhead cast but it was still very uncomfortable to cast and my arms and back are paying the price at this moment. Put a true spey line on it like Mid-Spey or Windcutter etc. the rod would be a rocket!!! And it is so light that you would not notice at all, casting it all day.
BTW-Thanks to Sinktip and Bunnyleach for a great trip down the Sauk yesterday. We had 7 vis in the morning, about 3 at 11 and at 1 we were down 18 inches, yet the water was still dropping. A couple dollies and unseen, most likely steelhead, LDRed by Bunnyleach. No fish but what a beautiful river. Managed to mark a couple spots I could walk into this April where no game warden could find me...kidding.
RE:Ross Canyon #6 for a Spey reel?
While I have not yet seen the Canyon, I have been using the Ross Saltwater V for 4 years as my Spey reel of choice. I love it and it gobbles up my custom Speydriver line and 300+ yds of 30lb dacron. I was somewhat saddened by Ross discontinuing the reel but it seems that they may have given it a facelift and called it the Canyon. It is funny as they never really seemed to market the Saltwater Series as it wasn't even in their brochures. I will say though, that if the Canyon is of the same quality as the Saltwater V it will be an awesome spey reel. BTW - I just checked the Livin' Large II piece - nice...
RE:Ross Canyon #6 for a Spey reel?
My next rod purchase will be a Sage 8126 (if they lengthen the handle). I was considering the Ross Big Game #6 for use on this rod.
Ross Canyon #6 for a Spey reel?
Anyone thinking about the new Ross Canyon Big game reel for a Spey reel? I am picking one up for a SWFF reel this year and and thinking it will double as a Spey reel in the #6 size.
Here is a link to their specs...
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Mississippi State's Twitter presence will no longer extend to Scott Field.
According to a memo distributed by the NCAA football rules committee, Twitter hashtags will no longer be allowed on the field of play. For MSU, that means the hashtag #HAILSTATE can't be painted in the north end zone, as it was all of last season.
MSU was the first school to put a hashtag on the field, for the 2011 Egg Bowl against Ole Miss. A hashtag is a way for Twitter users to track a particular topic – in this case, MSU fans and other interested parties tracking information related to the Bulldogs.
The memo, dated April 17, outlined what is allowed on a football field, such as conference, team and sponsor logos. Otherwise, "there may be no advertising on the field," the memo said, "which includes the end zones and sideline areas."
The prohibited advertising includes "social media designations such as URL's [sic] and hashtags."
The #HAILSTATE hashtag's last appearance at Scott Field was the Maroon-White spring game on April 20.
The memo was sent by Rogers Redding, the committee's secretary and rules editor, and the former coordinator of football officials for the SEC. He told USA Today's Dan Wolken that the prohibition does not extend to the sidelines or stadium signage.
The memo gave no further explanation for the hashtag ban.
NCAA spokesperson Stacey Osburn told the Journal in an email, "Hashtags in football stadiums are okay, just not on the actual playing field. The Football Rules Committee clarified this rule because it wants as clean a field as possible."
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The reason for this post is twofold. First, I have a wonderful opportunity, which I am taking fiull advantage of, to work for and train with one of the better FT trainers in the game. I will be leaving at the end of the month and will be training around Niland, Ca. untill March. Secondly I want to publicly thank a couple of people, who post on this site, that have encouraged me and quite frankly made it possible for me to do something that maybe I would not have done or been able to do otherwise.
Angie B, who has really been a mentor to me since I started taking this dog game business seriously. Angie has talked me out of selling all my dogs and just forgetting this training thing entirely more times than I can count. She has answered every question and has always encouraged me to push myself further than sometimes I think I would have done on my own. She is a wonderful friend.
Lanse Brown, a man that certainly stirs up deep sentiment in some but, despite the fact that he does not know me personaly outside of some correspondece that we have exchanged, did not hesitate to make the connection that put me in the position to sudy and learn more about the Field Trial game than I probably could or would have without his help. I am in his debt.
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Original post made by Collapse, Another Pleasanton neighborhood, on Mar 23, 2013
Okay ... that was then. Let's fast forward to now. Where is the economic collapse? The stock market is booming. Yes, there have been some government program cut-backs, but the sky didn't fall.
In my opinion, the sequester is good for government. It sends a signal that government is subject to "reality economics".
Incidentally, I don't think any part of the government should be exempt. Enforcement, military, shrink them all. I'm tired of my tax bill causing me high blood pressure.
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on Mar 23, 2013 at 9:13 am
If everyone is certain one thing is going to happen, that's exactly what is NOT going to happen. Who predicted the stock market crash in 2000, the housing bubble, etc.... The prediction of rampaging inflation that never happened. The media is manipulated to get you to believe and act one way so the 1% ers can take more of your money. That is why you should buy stocks when they are low and sell when they are high but most people do just the opposite.
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thank you for sharing...
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Mar 23, 2013 at 11:35 am
Millions of impoverished kids are eating less, but thank god the economy hasn't collapsed. If the sequester has meant merely that more kids are going to bed hungry at night, heck, let's cut some more! My tax dollar is far more important to me than some poor kids who'll probably end up in jail anyway.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Mar 24, 2013 at 6:50 am
Good one, hammerhead. Right out of the Wasserman-Schultz play book. Have an original thought and quit with the talking points from the fear monte ring dems.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Mar 24, 2013 at 6:51 am
Good one, hammerhead. Right out of the Wasserman-Schultz play book. Have an original thought and quit with the talking points from the fear mongering dems
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Mar 25, 2013 at 10:01 am
Don't start waving the victory flag yet. People have the mistaken notion that the stock market is a real-time indicator of the rest of the economy. It astounds me that people put so much faith in an invisible, abstract market where tens of thousands of shares are being traded by computer algorithms in a matter of seconds. Remember the scare we got when the market dropped a few thousand points in a number of minutes, then rose back up later?
Jobs are still a huge problem, and one that's not being adequately addressed.
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on Mar 25, 2013 at 1:35 pm
Doesn't anyone read, or understand what they are reading? The fed is printing money, interest rates are almost non existant, the real unemployment rate is somewhere between 13% and 15% and true cost of the new medical care landscape is only now starting to unfold. While Obama clearly overplayed his hand on the immediate impact sequester, the changes will be felt over time. Check out the article on government employment in today's Wall Street Journal.
Inflation, higher taxes and more central control is coming. There are not enough 1%'rs to tap, and too many 47%'s that need pandering. Take a look at Cypress, Spain Portugal and rest of the floundering European Union states, it may not all happen here but it could.


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Thursday, March 29, 2012
The Shadow of the Filibuster
Gerard N. Magliocca
One issue that came up in the arguments yesterday was the role of the filibuster in increasing legislative inertia. Current cloture practice, which is totally inconsistent with how the Senate operated for most of our history, complicates the Court's consideration of the Affordable Care Act case and is pushing the Justices toward a more radical opinion. How so?
I think there's another filibuster-related aspect to this case. Democratic Senators will generally be rather upset if ACA is overturned, if only the grounds of judicial overreach and (as Noah Millman suggested) that fact that it's very hard to legislate if SCOTUS is willing to change the rules after the fact to invalidate the legislation. I suspect that's going to make the confirmation of justices nominated by Republican presidents very, very hard, given that it only takes 40 senators to filibuster such nominations. What are such nominees going to say that will reassure Democrats that they won't engage in the kind of overreach that current justices seem headed for? And I don't think the fact that the Court might not have nine justices as a result of such a filibuster is going to be a deterrent - how is losing 5-3 worse than losing 5-4?
Of course, the inverse could happen as well, with Republicans filibustering any future Obama nomination on sight.
The overturning of ACA will very possibly lead to a slow-motion constitutional crisis; that, I suspect, will be its eventual effect, and not whatever happens in November. The filibuster is one potential "victim" of such a crisis.
You're awfully optimistic about the willingness of D Senators to play hardball. There's no evidence of that at all.
Worse yet, you're making the same mistake that people like Jeff Toobin made about the Court: you're assuming the Right is willing to play by the rules. They aren't. If the Dems were to filibuster a Court nominee or the repeal of the ACA, the Rs would eliminate the filibuster.
You're awfully optimistic about the willingness of D Senators to play hardball. There's no evidence of that at all.
To some extent that depends on how upset they believe their base is with a ruling overturning ACA. But I think the issue of how difficult it would be to legislate in a world where SCOTUS felt free to overturn legislation based on ever-shifting criteria will be a powerful motivator.
If the Dems were to filibuster a Court nominee or the repeal of the ACA, the Rs would eliminate the filibuster.
That was actually my point. And, once gone, it's not coming back. Long-term, the filibuster is far more helpful to Republicans than Democrats, as the past two years has demonstrated.
Sorry, I was responding to Prof. Magliocca. Indefinite pronoun references are killers.
Anyway, I agree with your (brats') first point but I'm not sure about your second. "Long-term" is too vague.
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MORAGA, Calif. - Saint Mary's scored 11 of the game's final 14 points to overcome a five-point deficit and hand the Gonzaga University women's basketball team a 54-51 West Coast Conference loss Thursday evening at McKeon Pavilion in Moraga, Calif.
With the tough 3-point loss, the Bulldogs dropped to 12-5 on the year and 2-1 in West Coast Conference play, while the Gaels improved to 11-4 overall and a league-leading 3-0 in WCC.
The Bulldogs themselves had to overcome a rough first half to get into the position to control and possibly win the contest. Gonzaga went into the locker room at halftime down 29-24 after shooting just 29.4 percent from the floor (10-of-34) and missing all 12 shots from behind the 3-point arc.
Gonzaga did score the final four points in the opening 20 minutes to turn its 9-point deficit with 1:47 to play into a manageable 5-point deficit. Junior Stephanie Golden sank two free throws while classmate Jazmine Redmon, who was hit two early fouls and only played six minutes in the first, drove the lane and scored a hard lay-up to close out the scoring.
The Zags opened the second half with a scoring burst, tallying 10-straight points to claim their first lead of the contest at 34-29 – a lead it would hold until the fateful final 17 seconds. Senior sharpshooter Taelor Karr began the scoring, hitting a 3-pointer, her 12th in three games. Sophomore Sunny Greinacher tied the contest at 29-29 with a layup off an assist by Karr while Karr gave the Bulldogs their first lead with her second 3-pointer. Greinacher followed with a jumper to put the advantage at five with 16:36 to play in the game.
The Gaels did charge back and tied the game at 36-36 at the 13:49 mark but a 10-2 spurt by the Zags had them holding their largest lead of the contest at 46-38 with 8:01 remaining. Karr and junior Haiden Palmer both drained a 3-pointer during the run, while sophomore Keani Albanez started things off with a layup and Palmer closed things out with a jumper.
Saint Mary's started their charge though with a 3-pointer by Kate Gaze at the 6:56 mark. Teammate Danielle Mauldin, who ended the first half with 11 rebounds, was fouled by Karr 36 seconds later and sank two free throws to cut Gonzaga's lead three.
Greinahcer, who returned to the game after sitting for eight minutes with four fouls, halted SMC's run with a layup to give the Zags back some breathing room with a five point lead with 5:21 to play but then things started to go the home team's way.
Mauldin grabbed the offensive rebound off her own miss to score a layup, followed by two free throws by teammate Carli Rosenthal to put GU's edge at one point. It was Golden that stepped up for GU and scored to make it a 3-point lead at 50-47 with 4:06 remaining but after that make the Zags only scored one point.
Gonzaga's final point was a free throw by Golden at the 2:53 mark which made Gonzaga's lead 51-48.
Gaze hit a baseline jumper at 2:14 to get Saint Mary's within one of tying the game but then both teams went cold. The Bulldogs had three opportunities to score and make it tough for Saint Mary's but couldn't get the ball through the hoop.
It was with 17 seconds left the tide turned for the Gaels. SMC's Jackie Nared missed a jumper with the shot clock winding down but Gonzaga couldn't get the rebound as Mauldin did instead. Golden fouled Mauldin who then went to the line and sank two free throws which gave the Gaels a 52-51 lead.
Gonzaga called a timeout to set up a play for Palmer. Her teammates found her but her free throw line jumper rimmed out and Nared grabbed the defensive rebound for Saint Mary's. Nared made her two free throws after being fouled with 7.4 seconds left to put their advantage at three points.
Karr had one last opportunity to tie the contest but her 3-pointer as the buzzer sounded was off the mark.
Karr finished the game with 11 points as did Palmer. Greinacher was the Zags leading scorer with 12 points.
For the game, Gonzaga shot a dismal 29.2 percent (21-of-72) from the field, including 17.4 percent (4-of-23) on 3-pointers. It did make 5-of-6 from the free throw line.
Nared led Saint Mary's with 17 points while Mauldin had a double-double of 12 points and 17 rebounds. The Gaels shot worse that the Bulldogs at 26.9 percent from the field (14-of-52) but made up for it at the charity stripe, hitting 22-of-27.
Gonzaga looks to regroup Monday when it plays at the University of Portland. Game time is set for 7 p.m.


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Class of 2004 spring concert set for April 3
Posted April 2, 2003; 11:38 a.m.
The Class of 2004 will hold its spring concert, featuring California-based rock band Brightlife, at 10:30 p.m. Thursday, April 3, on the south lawn of the Frist Campus Center .
Fabled, a group composed of Princeton students, will be the opening act.
Free tickets are available for all University ID holders at the Frist ticket office. The concert is co-sponsored by the Princeton University Trustee Initiative on alcohol.
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Since fall is in the air here in the Midwestern United States it is only fitting that we draw our color challenge inspiration from the colors of fall. Shannon and I each made a color swatch. You can choose either to make your card! I used Cherises Scrapsimple Card Templates: 4.25x5.5 Sweet Kindness Mini to make my card. Such a versatile set of templates!!
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The Rebellion didn't care if a laser ice cutter was meant to cut ice, if it could kill Imps, they'd use it as a tank.
TheRPF, if they had more organization I'd check them more often. It's a heck of a find.
Yeah, the personnel carrier is one I'd really like to see Hasbro do, and they obviously won't after taking a bath on the ANH personnel carrier they did, so looking at customs is the next best thing. The funny thing is, from that shot Hasbro's made everything but that personnel carrier.


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Big changes coming to Village Marquee, including hipster Asian food and a corny dog wearing shrimp's clothing
On Wednesday, Side Dish reported on big changes coming to Village Marquee Texas Grill and Bar. I checked in with co-owner Mark Hearl and chef André Natera, and most, but not all, of what Side Dish reported was correct. The restaurant will close around August 7, according to Hearl, and only for about a week; the plan is to reopen the downstairs dining room as Village Kitchen around August 15. About a month later the upstairs dining room will reopen as a sushi bar called Toko V, with Daniel Chau as sushi chef. Chau was formerly head sushi chef at Steel, according to Hearl.
Downstairs, those big square booths will be pulled out of the dining room, which will be redesigned: "We're looking at wooden floors, wooden tables — more casual," says Natera. "Kind of what you'd get in a butcher shop, with big rolls of white butcher paper we could write the specials on daily." It'll be "a lot more approachable in terms of ambience," he says.
And the food sounds like it'll be approachable, too — and playful and fun. Yes, there'll be a burger — Natera says he's been working on a house-ground short rib-brisket-chuck number: "a dripping wet burger that's delicious and juicy." He's been working on a fried chicken recipe, as well, to be served with bacon-and-chive waffles. And there'll be steak frites.
But it sounds like it'll get much more creative than that, with dishes that "can resonate, but be chef-driven and playful," as Natera puts it. For instance, he's making a mousse inspired by dim sum shrimp dumplings that he'll use to coat corn dogs, to be served with Sriracha and Chinese ketchup.
There'll be salads, too, like a peach and Burrata salad, and grilled watermelon salad with pickled onions and local greens.
Nightly specials will be part of the picture, including nightly pasta specials. "We're trying not to go the fine dining route," says Natera, but the Friday night special will be lobster Thermidor jazzed up with corn kernels and chipotle, which the chef will serve with mac and cheese topped with lobster-stock-flavored corn bread crumbs. Wednesdays will star "My Pet Pig Rosie," a special named for a pig owned by one of the sous-chefs — "pork belly or a pork loin, or we'll make our own guanciale."
Upstairs you'll be able to get traditional nigiri sushi and rolls sitting at the sushi bar. Or sit at a table and sample some of the raw fish dishes Natera's been working on, along with other "global-inspired Asian Food — things like a Thai green papaya salad, Korean-style barbecue ribs made with baby back ribs, or a chicken moo shoo, but my version. Malaysian laksa in addition to ramen. Kind of what David Chang has done at Momofuku, or Mission Chinese."
Oh. Hipster Asian food, right?
"There you go," says Natera.
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Grace was 6 when she was diagnosed with diabetes. Now 11, she's learned how to help manage her condition. Here, she talks about living with diabetes and how it doesn't prevent her from doing the things she loves.
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During the second session of my Wood Badge course (WE1-492-01-05) in June of 2005, we were camped at the beautiful Camp Clark, AKA Adventure Cove.
Our Second night in camp, the Beaver Patrol had just finished a great dutch oven cake, got things cleaned up and watched the final embers burn out of our camp fire when the tell tale yawning started signaling "Lights out" was near.
We said our good nights and crawled into our sleeping bags humming "Back to Gilwell".
Now, I am a pretty hard sleeper, especially when in a sleeping bag out in the woods, but this night a sound the likes of which I had not heard in sometime, caused an eye to open and an immediate reach for the headlamp. I looked through the flap of my tent and scanned the camp site looking for the source of the noise. About the time my light hit the picnic table 4 other lights illuminated the campsite from the other patrol member tents.
And there it was, our garbage bag, thrown about the campsite, we had been invaded by the Raccoon patrol. Unfortunately, there is not a Raccoon patrol in the Wood Badge course. No this was a patrol of mask wearing varmints that would not rest till it had removed every piece of garbage in search of leftover cake.
The lights phased them for a second and they scurried off into the darkness of the Coastal night.
A nod that the coast was clear and all of us Beavers were once again snug in our bags, Tom already had a good snore going on.
It did not take long for this aggressive band of misfits to return. I had a sealed box that locked sitting on the table. This contained the patrols food. This box is hard enough for people to get into let alone raccoons, so we felt pretty safe.
But these raccoons were going to give it a try. I heard the noise and poked my head out of the tent. Shinning my light toward the table I could see the beady little eyes of the raccoon that clearly was leading the trio. He was barking directions and waving his little arms suggesting a break in of the box was the mission.
My light had become a tool for them, this time they were not phased and seemed to be enjoying the extra light.
After multiple attempts at opening the box, the band had to move to plan "B". This was my signal to wake up the rest of the Beavers. Their flashlights now helped the raccoons at their task.
The leader of the bandits signaled that the box needed to be dropped from the table. On his command, they pushed the box. It slid across the table and dropped to the ground. The raccoons followed with a sense of urgency.
Upon reaching the box, they noticed it had not opened. The leader, obviously frustrated, now came up with the plan to take the box back to their hide out and work on it there.
Two of the raccoons then got behind the box, rose up on their hind legs and began to push the box down the trail, all the while their fearless leader cleared the path and made sure the flashlights were still trained on him. They pushed for a good one hundred feet when they were abruptly halted by two stumps that would not allow any further movement. Beaten, the raccoons sat down on the box and looked at us, still shinning our lights at them.
The lead raccoon gave us a wave and the would be robbers departed into the darkness of Camp Clark.
After a good laugh it was time for us Beavers to hit the rack.
Flash lights led us back to the comfort of our sleeping backs and within a minute or so Tom was sound asleep and snoring.
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Homecoming to bring campus and local community together
BINGHAMTON, NY – The biggest annual on-campus event for alumni – Homecoming 2010 – will take place Friday-Sunday, October 8-10. Each year, about 1,000 graduates and their family members return to campus for a variety of educational and fun activities. Many events are open to the local community.
The public is invited to attend Homecoming's signature event – a tailgate party starting at 4 p.m. Saturday in the Events Center parking lot. The Alumni Association, which is organizing the weekend's events, invites people to bring their grills and food to an outdoor barbecue that leads into the 7 p.m. men's soccer game against the University of Vermont in the Bearcats Sports Complex. A fireworks display will follow the game.
The opening reception at 5 p.m. Friday will include the premiere of a video celebrating 60 years of Harpur College history, and the presentation of the Alumni Association Special Recognition Awards in Old Union Hall of the University Union. A wine and cheese reception, at 7 p.m., in front of the Events Center, will feature wines from alumni vintners.
The acrobatic and comedic dance company Galumpha, featuring Binghamton University alumni, will perform at 2:30 p.m. Saturday in the Watters Theater of the Anderson Center. Metropolitan Opera tenor Raul Melo – also a Binghamton graduate – will perform at 8 p.m. Saturday in the Osterhout Concert Theater, also in the Anderson Center.
Homecoming 2010 will also celebrate the 40th anniversary of the School of Management and 40th anniversary of Colonial News/Pipe Dream. The weekend will have reunions for the classes of 1950, 1960, 1970, 1980, 1985, 2000 and 2005.
For more information and to register, visit homecoming.binghamton.edu.


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Elusive Paradise: The Millennium Prize
09 Feb 2001 - 13 May 2001
Ten international contemporary artists attempt to answer the age-old riddle of what makes a perfect world. At stake is The Millennium Prize, a $50,000 cash prize supported by the National Gallery of Canada Foundation, thanks to generous contributions from its Circle members. Elusive Paradise: The Millennium Prize is on view from 9 February to 13 May 2001. Elusive Paradise: The Millennium Prize explores the theme of Arcadia and questions our relationship to nature at the dawn of the new millennium. The Roman poet Virgil created the image of Arcadia, describing it as an idyllic place of harmony and leisure, a land of perpetual summer in which nature fulfilled every human need. Today the dream of an unspoilt landscape seems more poignant than ever, as we face the consequences of encroaching agriculture, industrialization, urban development, and modern technology.


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Family: Sciuridae, Squirrels view all from this family
Description A very small chipmunk. Distinguished from other southwestern chipmunks by small size, dull color, and lack of gray. Runs with tail held vertically. The subspecies T. m. silvaticus shows coloration typical of many central and northern forms. The subspecies T. m. scrutator from far western United States has gray on the rump, central dorsal stripe, and head. Southwestern forms are paler brown.
Dimensions 185-216mm, 78-113mm, 32-50g
Habitat Scrub, shrub & brushlands, Deserts, Forests & woodlands
Range Plains, Great Lakes, Rocky Mountains, Southwest, California, Northwest, Eastern Canada, Western Canada, Alaska
Discussion Typically flicks tail up and down when perched. Calls short and infrequent. Most abundant in coniferous forests and tundra, also found in woodlands, meadows, scrublands, and sagebrush desert.


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...but I just got home and need to sit down and relax. Report to come later. :)
...but I just got home and need to sit down and relax. Report to come later. :)
ARGHHH!! NO FAIR! Ryan, go buy a red bull, guzzle it, and TYPE!
Seriously, rest up buddy... but make the report good ;-)
...reel empyting, rod doubling, tailwalking hooknoses!! But now I gotta go unload my truck...
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This was first solo venture into the saltwater of Sekiu. I had the great teachers of Juro and Brian (DoubleSpey) last week, but today I was on my own. Let me just say that everything is a little tougher when you have the whole boat to yourself, especially when faced with large swells and constant chops that pounded me all day long.
When I got in last night, the general consensus was that the fishing was very good and many big fish were to be had (2, 20+ weighed at the Clallam Bay grocery). But due to the nasty storm that rolled through with torrential rains and gusting winds, everyone was pleased to get their two fish and make it back in one piece yesterday.
When I first looked out the window this morning, I was pleased to see clear skies and just a light breeze. I hurried as fast as I could, grabbed my boat and headed first for Slip Point, as my cabin neighbors advised me that the fishing was very good there the past couple days.
The fishing started off slow for me at least, as I bucktailed my way towards Slip Point. An hour into the day and many nets flying around me, I was becoming discouraged.
The water was not glass calm as what with Juro and Brian last week. In fact, it was the exact opposite! As the sun came up the breeze picked up and made the water very choppy-as I believe the Straight had yet to recover from yesterdays howling winds. I had to trouble keeping the boat straight at first and was a little anxious about heading into deeper water.
A little north and a little west of Slip Point, I hit my first fish. A nice little coho about 5-6 pounds. Whew...finally off the snide. Maybe today was not going to be so bad...
As I headed North, working my way into deeper water, following diving birds and congregations of boats, I saw even more nets flying around me.
I began to head West. Not a short while later, line was peeling off my reel. I popped the boat into neutral and managed to gain my footing in the rocking, spinning, and dancing boat. Among one of the swells, I saw the heavy spray of a large coho somersaulting across the surface. The fish dived and the rod doubled. And in a matter of seconds the heavy pulsating of the rod stopped, the rod unload and dryline popped to the surface. I sulked for a quick moment but shook it off...
The fish had to be 10#'s...hopefully this was a sign off what was to come.
What was to come was a day of a few large fish and one that epitomized hooknose!!
A near repeat of the first fish followed except the second one was faster, took more line, dived deeper and doubled the rod even more. And like the first big coho, this fish just popped off. The rod was bent to butt and I was putting lots of pressure on him and the road just unloaded. My heart sank and I reeled as fast as I could, just hoping, JUST HOPING, the fish was running at me. But after taking up about a good amount of backing and my whole flyline, there was no fish. This fish was a teener but sadly I never say him.
I managed another small coho as I worked cautiously worked my way into deep water, bucktailing east-west then west-east.
Now the first two large coho can be debated about how large they were and if you would classify them as hooknoses. I never saw them up close and they fought like large teener coho. Juro, Brian and myself caught some nice coho but nothing LARGE and these two previous fish made the coho we encountered last week seem like planter trout.
I was trolling west-east, head held down out of the sun as I left my shades in my truck. I was also heading into the wind and into the chop. I was doing everything I could to keep the boat straight as well as reassuring myself that the large swells were now match for the boat.
And like the first couple hooks, this fish took off like off like a bat outta Hell but this fish was faster, ALOT faster then the second which was faster then the first. I popped the kicker into neutral, stood up and waited for the run to stop.
This run was not as long as the second but had more authority. It was not a quick burst but that slow, authoritarian way in which large fish take line. I slowly worked the fish, gave it a couple of extra sets and was putting as much pressure on this fish as possible. Then the fish ran at me and cleared the water in one of those forever etched in your mind leaps that dreams are made out of. VERTICAL was the best way to describe this leap...if only you could have been there to see it.
I have fought lots of steelhead, large high-teen Alaskan coho and those infamous Alaskan rainbows. All 3 of these races are known for awe inspiring jumps and I have seen all three of these races throw awe inspiring leaps but none have compared to what Mr. Hooknose pulled off in front of me today.
As the fish ran some more, I regained focus at the task at hand. But just as soon as I keyed back in on landing this large hooknose, I felt pop, then slack. A few moments earlier, I was literally yelling outloud 'Whoa...sh*t!" but now I was screaming "f***, F***, F***!!" I stripped in line as fast as I could in a futile effort, in hopes that he was still there but today was not my day to bring a monster hooknose into the boat.
I stood in the spinning boat, head dropped in despair and all that I could was slap my rod against the water and scream "F***!!" as loud as I could in hopes that the world would find out about the monster coho I had just hooked on the surface, on the fly, on a #7 bugrod. All that I saw, was a lone moocher in a boat not far off staring at me and my foul mouth. I am not kidding you, when I say that we looked at each other for a good minute. I purposely bucktailed by him as close as I could, because I needed a condolences. He looked at me and I looked at him..."WHOA!!...NICE!!! fish." All that I could muster was a short reply-"Yep."
I fished for another few hours but I had been beaten to oblivion. I wanted to head for the shipping lanes but the water conditions just would not allow and as the sun came high over head, I could not buy another fish.
I headed back for Sekiu. The lower Elwha was calling my name but so was my new found love-Bonny's Bakery in PA. I chose Bonny's as I was beat and starving.
So the fishing all in all was slow, nothing compared to the action I saw last week with Juro and Brian. But the few fish I hit were BIG, STRONG and ELUVISE to say the least.
I couldn't have hooked the fish I did today with Juro and Brian's lessons on Sekiu Coho last week. Thanks guys!!
Now you know why even with all the action we had last week - I left without being sated. The memories of the big deep bodied rod busting hooknoses from many years gone past haunted me. Fish that pulled the old rusty scale out in front of Olsens deep into the teens, and fish with different proportions than the common sleek and silver coho - fish with body dimensions and head dimensions that are as different as a schoolie to a cow striper, a blackmouth to a tyee, a jack to a salmon, and epic leaps to boot.
But I had a blast, and nothing can change that. In the years to come, I will target the monster coho again, and with a little luck the rain will come before I arrive and the encounter will materialize as it has for me years ago.
In those conditions I would have spent at least some time focused on the more sheltered areas east past Mousolini Rock and west past Eagle Pt on the flood to see if the big shouldered bad boys came to the kelp to find bait. There you just cast toward into the depths where you see feeding activity and the reduced wave action might have helped you get a couple hooknoses to hand.
I wonder if there were adjustments to the hook design or size that would have increased the holding power during the fight, but I suspect the boat being tossed had something to do with the dropped fish.
Kudos on braving the big seas alone, you deserved to hook the big nasty salmon - they just won this time that's all.
Anyway, thanks for the awesome report and I am glad you got a taste of hooknose fury; and a taste of Bonny's Bakery magic on the way home. Tough choice between a pass on the lower Elwha but I would have been at Bonny's too ;-)
Bravo Ryan!
Getting them in the boat is fun, but I definitely go for the battle!!
It's no fun being out on the water when the weather gets rough, and it would be especially not-fun to be there alone.
Were you still fishing your Flashy Lady??
The battles were great but I wish they would have lasted a little longer. I dont think I was geting a good hookset in them. I had two rods the other day. :D One was what I was fishing last week...9' #9 with the Rio Deep Sea 350 with a Flashy Lady. I kept that rod handy incase I ran into a pod of a fish, baitball or rip and I would cast to them with that.
But I mostly fished my 9'6" #7 (It is hard to know if you are in a pod of fish with just one rod out plus with the water conditions as they were it was not easy to stand up and cast so I bucktailed 95% of the day) with a straight floating line so that I was truly bucktailing. I was fishing a Trophy Flasher Fly-the fly that was hanging in my rear view mirror that I was showing you. I actually ran it rigged with a stinger so I was really surprised that my ratio of hooked fsh to fish lost was so low. ???
I could tell I wasnt getting good hooksets/hook placement in them because I didnt lose them due to slacklining them or on their jumps or at the boat. I would just feel the line go slack when the fish was running and even when I had my rod doubled over. ???
It was frustrating to say the least!!