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Mass fish death
I guess its contrary to conventional wisdom, but I made a bunch of changes in the tank, instead of making one change at a time and observing. I have had a slew of fish die off, and I cant pin point the culprit.
I have a 55 gallon semi planted tank.
Original Stock:
1 Gourami
1 Rainbow shark
1 Male Cherry barb
3 nerite snails
4 cory cats
10 Black neon Tetras
10 Glowlite Tetras
10 Tiber Barbs
two moss balls
two anubias
1 Java Fern
Things were balanced and doing well like this for months. However, as the gourami grew and the CAE grew older, they started to get more aggressive. I have also been getting fed up with fake ornamets, I want to go more natural. Here is the series of events over a few days.
I removed the Gourami and CAE and found a new home for them.
I removed a large fake bonsai tree.
I removed two bubblers
I added 5 Cherry barbs (2 Male, 3 female)
I added 4 Black Neon Tetras
I added 12 Neon Tetras
I added some Giant Hair Grass, a banana plant, and some Cabomba
I added some malaysian driftwood
Also in recent days, as I posted before the black neons have been spawning and its gotten the tiger barbs frenzied.
I measure the water parameters and all seems fine 0/0/ <20.
However, in the past 4 days, I have lost 4 neons, 5 Black Neons, 2 cherry barbs, and two more black neons are gasping rapidly right now.
Due to the re-newed aggression of the tiger barbs, I had suspected them. The first few deaths were very indicative of being attacked, the bodies were rather shredded. However, the last few deaths have been clean, and the barbs seems to be calm right now.
My list of the culprits:
1. Tiger barbs agression that I am not seeing. ( getting ready to rehome them anyway )
2. New fish from store were just weak and didnt make the transfer, and/or introduced some new bacteria into the tank that killed others.
3. The black neons I had were very large is size for that species and they were old and like salmon, just died after spawning. The lager females ejected eggs around 10-12 times in the past two weeks.
4. Taking bubblers out lowered oxygen levels in the tank and fish are suffocating (seems like a stretch)
5. New driftwood, even though it was boiled and soaked, leeched something into the water that the test kit doesnt indicate and fish are dying. (some fish died before introduction of driftwood.)
6. When moving stuff around and planting, lots of sediment/detritus was stirred up and could have infected some fish.
Any, all, or none of the above. Only seems to be one or two fish at a time, but its been going on for 3-4 days. Why not all fish at once? Why are Tiger barbs, pleco, farlowella, and cory cats seemingly unnaffected?
Getting ready to do a 50% water change in about an hour. Will vacuum gravel and rinse filters.
Actually, my first guess would be a huge ammonia spike from adding in much more bio-load than you took out. What are the water parameters?2 10 gallon tanks, 1 20 gallon tank, 1 Fluval Edge, 1 29 gallon tank, and one backyard pond.
I tested ammonia twice and both times it was zero, ( I had the same theory )
Params are 0/0/<20 as stated above. If you want other params, pH is around 6.7 or 6.8. Karbonate Hardness is low, general hardness is about 180 using the API test strips. I use liquid ammonia test kit and it showed 0.
Last edited by ddavis1979; 02-12-2013 at 12:59 AM. Reason: forgot to add data
01. Tiger barbs agression that I am not seeing. ( getting ready to rehome them anyway )
2. New fish from store were just weak and didnt make the transfer, and/or introduced some new bacteria into the tank that killed others.
3. The black neons I had were very large is size for that species and they were old and like salmon, just died after spawning. The lager females ejected eggs around 10-12 times in the past two weeks.
4. Taking bubblers out lowered oxygen levels in the tank and fish are suffocating (seems like a stretch)
5. New driftwood, even though it was boiled and soaked, leeched something into the water that the test kit doesnt indicate and fish are dying. (some fish died before introduction of driftwood.)
6. When moving stuff around and planting, lots of sediment/detritus was stirred up and could have infected some fish.
2. If the fish from the store were weak, you would have only lost the new fish (but you lost more black neons than you introduced). It is entirely possible that a new disease was brought into the system though, you really should consider quarantine in the future.. However, for my part, whenever I buy neons (not that often, and usually 10 at a time), I always lose one or two in the first couple of weeks, so weak stock could account for some of the losses at least.
3. Most tetras will happily spawn every so often through their whole life, and tend to live for quite a while. I have 2 female black neon tetras that I've had for about 12 years now (one is half-blind... old age and all that), and you have lost other fish that were not spawning, too.
4. This was actually what jumped out at me. Depending on what other filtration you have and how much water surface agitation occurs, and what shape your tank is... oxygen starvation can be a possible cause, especially at night when the plants switch from making oxygen to using oxygen, and you have added quite a few breathers in there... stick a bubbler in and see if it helps.
5. Chances of boiled and soaked driftwood leaching something out are pretty slim if you got the driftwood from the LFS, but a real possibility if it's a "found" pice of wood.. but if some of the fish died before the driftwood, you can probably rule it out.
6. It's possible that some gasses got released if you have a deep gravel bed that is not getting vacuumed too often, but it's pretty rare for that to happen. Also, the fish that were affected would have died promptly, not over the course of a few days.
Gasping at the surface means the fish are not getting enough oxygen - either because there isn't enough in the water, or because something is affecting their gills (like a bacterial infection or ammonia burn or a parasite), or because their blood is not carrying the oxygen effectively to their organs (nitrite poisonin). If you have no traces of ammonia or nitrite in your water, I would suggest you put at least one of the bubblers back in there, and see how it goes.
I think number 4 of dizzydezzy has a lot of merit since you removed bubblers and added very active fish. Also, the Bards could be responsible once they started on smaller fish and went out of control. As for number 6, this is possible and has happen to me. When #6 occurs, there is no measurable spike after a hour or so.Knowledge is fun(damental)
A 75 gal with eight Discus, fake plants, and a lot of wood also with sand substrate. Clean up crew is down to just two Sterba's Corys. Filters: continuous new water flow; canister w/UV, in-tank algae scrubber!! Finally, junked the nitrate removal unit from hell.
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I would guess #4 as well.......... it seems the most likely culprit, unless, during all the switching and changing, something on your hands or items may have had contaminants on them.2 10 gallon tanks, 1 20 gallon tank, 1 Fluval Edge, 1 29 gallon tank, and one backyard pond.
I'm playing devil's advocate and think #6 is your issue.
I did a major rescape with my tank, moving so many things, and whatever was stored in the gravel was released and killed 2 tetra's and my cockatoo cichlid.
I ended up having an ammonia spike, but my BB was well established and took care of that in a day.
you can cross #5 off, if you boiled it then that should kill the random buggers, the extra tannins that are released are harmless.
what is your current filtration?
I really doubt removing a bubbler will cuase that big of a drop on O2. that just seems unlikely (unless after removal of the bubbler-you are getting minimal surface agitation)
last suggestion is weak stock and or stock is bringing in random bugs.
try to QT the next batch. that will help troubleshoot as well
I dont have a QT tank yet....I am not even really sure how i would set one up. I called on a cheap 20 gallon tank last week on Craigs List but it had already sold. If I were to get a QT tank, how would I keep it cycled and healthy without fish in it, I rarely buy fish once the main tank is settled.
The filtration is one Aquaclear 70 HOB powerfilter and one Marineland Penguin 350 Biowheel HOB powerfilter. I have put a barrier in front of the Aquaclear filter to re-direct the flow towards the back wall of the tank, however, the surface agitation looked like enough. Those bubblers are a severe pain in the rear, and I hope hoping to do without them, but I will add them back in to see if I get better results.
I have a spare filter for my QT tank so I just move over some filter media from the main tank to the QT and you have a instant cycled tank. Other will also keep a sponge filter running in there main tank and move that over when needed as well.
I had learned many years ago not to add anything to my tanks without being QT'd first. I had a few situations similar to the one you are currently going through so I learned the hard wayIf 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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QT's are are really simple.
craigslist will get you the best deal, or just run to petco, 10-20gallon tanks are 10-30bucks.
filtration from an online store for 20bucks, and you are set for a QT.
You already have the air pump, so all you need is a sponge filter, so technically your filter is a 10dollar sponge filter.
I always thought I could risk it w/o a QT and be okay.
then I brought in fish with Ich.
50bucks is worth 0 stress and ensuring your main tank doesn't crash because of a $1 fish...
but continuing on.
w/ two hob's. you are at plenty of surface agitation, so you don't need to bother with the bubbler, so we should be able to cross that off the potential list


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Description Boisduval's Blue (Aricia icarioides) is a butterfly of the Lycaenidae family found in North America.
A. icarioides has been classified in at least four different genera since it was named by Boisduval in 1852. It started out in Lycaena, was transferred to Icaricia by Nabokov (Hodges et al., 1983), moved to Aricia by B·lint and Johnson (1997), merged with some other genera in the supergenus Plebejus by Gorbunov (2001), which was accepted by Opler & Warren (2003), however, Lamas (2004) among others use Aricia. Synonymy, subgenera, and subspecies vary considerably depending on the author.
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Eight Palo Alto parents and four school administrators have been named to a committee to advise the Palo Alto school district on a location for opening a 13th elementary school.
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Thanks to these parents for giving their time and energy in this way.
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It seems like the most impacted grades are at the middle school, since there are multiple elementary schools with space in South Palo Alto.
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Sharon Keplinger won't have any difficulty advocating for the Young 5's program, of which I am fully supportive. It seems like it's a conflict of interest to have her on the site selection panel, though.


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The Agonies of a GL Winter Steelheader
Excerpt from a Michigan humorous out doors book.
I have done some stupid things chasing winter steelhead on ice clogged rivers and deep snow covered forest roads, icy fisherman paths down steep banks, snow and sleet storms, etc.. but don't think I would ever have tried this one. I have fished this river and can imagine where they were. Actually lived for 7 years within a 30 minute drive of this location.
The Fish of a Thousand Casts
Tales of Mischief and Mayhem in the Great Outdoors
by Steven Hutchins
Snow, Steelies
and The Big "V"
Beef and I paid a visit to our good friend Wally. His wife nervously paced the house, as she doesn't like Beef or myself, but didn't say much because she knew we were on a mission of mercy.
"How ya feelin' old buddy?" I asked. Wally was sprawled out on the couch with an ice bag covering his . . . well . . . sensitive area.
"I'm a little sore," he answered. "Feels like I got kicked!"
"I'd be more than sore if they cut mine off!" Beef pointed out.
"They don't cut `em off," Wally answered. "What do you guys want?"
Before I continue, allow me to explain that Wally's predicament was self-induced. You see he and his wife felt that with three children they'd contributed enough to society. Since there was now plenty of offspring to carry on the family name, Wally was elected to undergo "The Big V". I think you know what I'm talking about. I'd recently gone through the Big D, but at least that painless, and welcome, extraction didn't involve surgery. Wally was now recovering and Beef and I felt his recovery would be faster if he got out and enjoyed some fine winter steelheading. The cold Michigan air would do him some good . . . maybe reduce the swelling, who knows?
"What do we want? What kind of question is that?" I said. "Get your coat, we're hitting the river!"
"Hitting the river? I'm in pain!" Wally shot back. "I'm not leaving this couch for anything!"
"I can't blame you," Beef spoke up. "I wouldn't want to do nothin' but lay around either if I got mine cut off . . ."
"They don't cut `em off," I said to Beef. "Now quit whining, Wallace, and get your rod and waders . . . we're angels on a mission of mercy here."
"Angels? You two?" Wally's wife snorted. "More like the angels of death . . ."
As I said before, Wally's wife doesn't like us, but that was neither here nor there at the moment. Undaunted by her snide remark, we continued on in our mission of mercy. Wally was adamant about not joining us for a little fishing. He was bound and determined to stay on that couch. He argued and refused even as he sprawled himself out in the back of my Explorer.
"You'll feel a lot better," I said as we backed out of his driveway. "A little fishing will take your mind off the pain."
"How would you two know about the pain?" he whined. "It's not like you've been through this! So you forced me off my couch, that doesn't mean that I'm going to get out of this backseat . . ."
"You know," Beef said. "I remember this old dog my grandparents had. He kept running around every night and the neighborhood was over run with puppies. They finally took him to the vet and that poor dog didn't want to do anything afterwards. It was like they removed his soul. I felt bad for him you know?"
"And your point would be?" Wally asked.
"Oh, no point," Beef answered. "I just feel sorry for you that's all. I know I could never get mine cut off that's for sure . . ."
"They don't cut them off!" Wally and I shouted in unison.
A heavy snow was falling as we made our way to the Dowagiac River in Niles, a favorite destination of ours for winter Steelhead. The Dowagiac has a large mixture of summer run fish and fall fish so we usually had pretty good luck there. When we arrived I had two choices, I could park at the easy access parking lot or I could slap the Explorer in four wheel drive and navigate a rough two track back to some isolated holes.
Wally began whining as the vehicle bounced along the two track.
"Ouch!" he shouted. "Is there a particular reason you're doing this? EEK! Why didn't you just park back in the lot? OOF!"
"Just hang on to your ice bag," I countered. "We'll be there in a minute."
When I finally stopped the vehicle, Wally was glaring at me as a cold sweat ran down his face. I could tell that he wanted to unleash a flood of vulgarities but that's not his nature. He did everything to restrain himself. The snow continued to fall at a blinding pace . . .
"Ah . . . doesn't get much better than this," I said. "There's nothing like being on the river in the middle of a snowstorm."
"Yeah . . . let me know how it is," Wally said. "I'm just gonna lay here with my ice bag and wait for you guys . . ."
There is an overpowering urge to winter steelheading that cannot be ignored. Wally tried to ignore it but as Beef and I donned our waders and began rigging our rods, he started to flash a little enthusiasm and finally relented to our mission of mercy.
"You know . . . maybe I'll make a few casts after all." Wally said.
Our trek to the water was delayed a bit as Wally slowly snugged his waders up to his chest, wincing all the while. He positioned the ice bag inside his waders for maximum relief and hobbled along the narrow trail down to the water's edge.
The spot we chose to fish was a long, deep hole that ran the entire length of a wide river bend. Winter steelies often like to hold in such areas and we'd had decent luck there in the past. At the tailout of the bend were several logjams that made fighting a fish tricky if you let them run that far. A layer of shelf ice created a small ledge at the riverbank.
"Anybody got a bobber?" Wally asked. "I left mine up in the truck."
"If you were in good health, I'd make you walk back up there and get them," I said, "but since I'm feeling benevolent today, I'll let you use one of mine . . ."
"I'd make him walk," Beef stated. "He did this to himself . . ."
When it comes to fishing for Steelhead in the dead of winter, bobbers are like gold. We die hard anglers horde them like kids with a stash of Halloween candy. It was a great sacrifice for me to give one up to Wally thus proving that I was, indeed, on a mission of mercy. Under different circumstances, I'd have made him walk.
Now, despite the fact that when the three of us get together certain bad things happen, I will say that we do pretty well when it comes to hooking fish. A spawn bag under a bobber is our standard offering of choice and we take a lot of fish with that, but when things are slow we break out the "secret weapon". The secret weapon is nothing more than a wax worm. Put a wax worm under a bobber and you'll get fish. It's as simple as that. The bobber is the key, however, and the reason we value them so much. Winter steelies are a pretty lazy bunch and the only sure-fire way to tell if they hit is to watch your bobber go down. I've tried doing it by feel but with cold, numb fingers, you don't feel much. Heck, I've had steelies inhale the wax worm, chew on it for awhile like bubble gum, swish it around their mouth a few times and then spit it out. All the while my numb fingers never felt a thing. With a bobber, you can at least wear gloves!
The three of us lined up on the ice ledge and began casting into the hole. The snow at this point was coming down so hard that we had it piling up on the top of our heads and we could barely see our bobbers.
"You know, this is pretty peaceful just standing here," Wally said. "I really don't feel that uncomfortable!"
"See? I told you so . . . beats laying around on the couch feeling sorry for yourself." I answered.
We kept casting and finally my bobber went down. A nice buck steelie, maybe 6 pounds or so, decided my pink spawn bag would make a good snack. He was pretty lethargic and after a quick battle, I removed the hook and allowed the vanquished creature to wander back to the depths of his hole to sulk for awhile. It wasn't long after that when Wally's bobber went under. He set the hook and realized he was into a fish much bigger than mine.
"Whoa! I think this ones a biggie!" he grunted.
The fish darted back and forth around the pool as Wally kept pressure on the rod. In an instance, the fish leaped from the water in spectacular fashion revealing his enormous length and girth.
Everything goes in slow motion when you're out on the river. What happens in a second seems like minutes. The fish was in full winter colors and as he hung in midair you could almost count his spots. He had a brilliant crimson streak down his side and a gnarly hooked jaw that showed he was a pretty nefarious figure in the underwater crime syndicate. Other fish most certainly avoided this character, as he was probably the type of bully that would push you down and steal your milk money! He hit the water with a resounding and magnificent splash. Soon after, he made a break for one of the logjams.
"You better follow him or else he's going to get in those logs!" Beef pointed out.
Wally shuffled along the slippery ice ledge as best he could. The faster he moved, the more he started to grimace. He was obviously in a great deal of discomfort and most of us would have said, "Nope . . . I'm not risking further pain by chasing a stupid fish," but this was the biggest steelie of Wally's life and he wasn't about to let a few ripped stitches deter him from subduing this thug.
Despite his efforts, the beast went under one of the logs, turned around and headed back upstream. Wally's line was wrapped around the log as his bobber went scooting by him in the opposite direction.
"Hey . . . he's still on," Wally said, "what should I do?"
"See if you can get your line out from under the log!" I answered. "Go out a little further on that ice ledge and see if you can run your rod tip under the log . . ."
"I don't know how safe that ice is!" he shouted back.
"Just put one foot on the log and the other on the ice . . . it will take some weight off the ledge," I said. "What's the worst that could happen?"
Wally did as instructed. He put one foot on the log, left the other on the ledge and was beginning to get his fishing line out from under the log when . . . the worst thing happened.
It was so slow, that it is painful just to describe it. First, there was a loud cracking sound and Wally's eyes shifted downward with a look of panic. Immediately thereafter, a section of the ice ledge broke free and began drifting away. Apparently, the excessive snow and cold caused the felt on the bottom of Wally's wader boot to adhere to the ice. As the ledge drifted away, Wally's legs began getting further and further apart. He began to scream. It wasn't a normal scream, mind you, but more like a high pitched wail. Beef and I were helpless and could only wince as Wally sunk lower and lower; his legs separating all the while. It was painfully slow. Wally reminded us of his faith in the Lord by summoning up numerous "Good Lord help me!" and "Sweet Jesus have mercy!" phrases mixed in with his high pitched wails. I was amazed at the absence of profanity in all of this. Weaker individuals, like myself, would've used up every vernacular in existence and even created a few new ones! But that's Wally, God fearing and focused . . . even under the direst of circumstances. The agonizing descent continued and when it was all said and done Wally had performed the splits so well that a teenaged cheerleader would have stood in envy and asked for pointers. His legs were completely straight out in opposite directions.
"Did you get the line out from under there?" Beef finally asked.
Wally's response cannot be printed here but, suffice to say, he was going to have to go to confession when he got home. Even I was shocked that such vulgarity could escape the lips of a God fearing man like Wally. Everyone has their breaking point.
As Wally hung inches above the water with legs spread wide, the fish grew tired due to the pressure on the line and began thrashing on the surface. I waded out to him and slipped the net under it. He was a pig . . . almost twenty pounds! Beef got Wally dislodged from the ledge and helped him back to shore.
It was the biggest steelie of his life and Wally decided to have it mounted. All the way back home, Wally didn't say a word. He simply lay in the back of the Explorer; cradling the fish and whimpering like a lost puppy. We helped him back to his couch where he didn't move for almost three days. His doctor figured that Wally had set his recovery back by more than a week.
"Why is he blaming us?" Beef asked. "He shouldn't have been out if he just got `em cut off!"
"I know!" I said. "The doctor told him to just take it easy and relax."
"Some people just never take responsibility for their own actions!"
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Manteau, chapeau et parapluiePodestà, Giovanni Battista
Coat, hat and umbrella, undated
painted garments and umbrella
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Podestà, Giovanni Battista (1895-1976), Italy
Giovanni Battista Podestà was the thirteenth child in a Lombard farming family. His father died when he was still a little boy and he was raised by his mother, surrounded by his twelve sisters. He left school at the age of ten and was hired as a builder's helper in order to provide for his family. In 1914, the First World War broke out and he went to the front. At the end of the conflict, the land owned by his mother was insufficient to support the family and Podestà was forced to join the drift away from the countryside. He ended up in Laveno, a town on the shores of Lake Maggiore, where he found employment as a policeman, then as a factory worker. When the Second World War was declared, Podestà re-enlisted.
Giovanni Battista Podestà created multicoloured, glittery sculptures and high and low reliefs made, among other things, from fragments of mirrors and metallic paper that he salvaged. He integrated sundry cultural, popular or religious motifs borrowed from the Middle Ages into his works, which had a strongly symbolic content. In this way he found an effective means to protest against the loss of spiritual values that occurs in a materialistic society. His body, which he adorned and displayed in the streets of his town, also became a support for expression.
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I'll take the river down to still water and ride a pack of dogs.
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- Teabagger, a term for Tea Party movement participants
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a type of bet (US: parlay)
one that accumulates, as a type of computer processor register or a hydraulic accumulator acegood, excellent (1980s slang)
a one in a suit of playing cards
someone who is very good at something. A term in tennis for a point won for the server without the opponent returning his or her serve.
fighter pilot who has shot down at least 5 enemy aircraft(v.) to perform outstandingly *; esp., to achieve an A (on a school exam)
the best starting pitcher in a rotation on a baseball teamadvocate (n.)Scottish also the Isle of Man, Channel Islands and South African lawyer who appears in higher courts (rest of UK: barrister)someone who supports or speaks for a particular position
generic term for a lawyer
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Its too early to be drinking...you must be smoking. Put down the bong Roger.
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Shove your left stream BS up where the sun does not shine!
The tea party got its name from the founding of this country
Fught back against taxes and toss the tea in the harbor.
It is the same darn thing. Taxation without representation.
THe catual taxpayers are not given fair respresentation. As long as those who pay zerp federal income taxes can vote to steal from the reeal taxpayers the system is totally messed up.
THE TAXPAYERS should decide how their hard earned money is spent.
WHE SOMEONE WHO STEALS FROM SOMEONE ELSE can dictate it is THEFT!!!!!
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Mind if I puke??? The "hanging chad of Port St. Lucie" giving the POTUS members of RTF an ENGLISH lesson????
But I do think it's appropriate that the Rocky Mountain HIIIIIIIII Groupies and the Hanging-Chad clowns are on the same page. When you want a 'cluster', we don't have to look very far.
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Hell hath no fury.
They're detaining his wife.
Hell hath no fury.
"Ohh, maxi big da fish! Well dat smells stinkowiff"
"No time to discuss this as a supercommittee.... I am not a supercommittee!"
Latest word is she was charged with the murder. So sad.
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I heard on Sportcenter last night that he was strangled with a purse strap.
Nowhere in your incoherent ramblings did you come anywhere close to the answer. Thanks to you, everyone in this room is now stupider having heard you. I award you no points and may God have mercy on your soul. -Billy Madison-
This is all crazyness
You'll be sorry, Pee-Wee Herman!
The Navy just called off a search for a sailor that feel overboard from the USS Shiloh in Tokyo Bay.
Up, up, and OKAAAAY!!!
That sucks. I feel for the family.
¡Que la fuerza te acompañe!
I forgot to mention former US defense secretary Robert McNamara passed away last week.
I predict that the upcoming Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi film will include the word "and." Multiple times.
He did indeed, good catch.
May the force be with you.
Nobody could cover the moon missions like Cronkite and Wally Schirra. How ironic we're just a few days away from the 40th anniversary of the first landing.
Thank you for all of your journalistic excellence. That's the way it (is) was!
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I have asked if anyone knows what could be cause for impeachment. I found this as an addendum to an article in The Daily Mail ...In the United States, Congress has the sole power to remove the president, vice president, and all other federal office-holders. The House of Representatives drafts Articles of Impeachment as a formal indictment, and the Senate holds a trial and votes on whether to convict.
The Chief Justice of the United States presides over that trial, in which two-thirds of the senators' votes are required to send an official packing.
Article II of the U.S. Constitution provides that federal officials can be impeached for 'Treason, Bribery, or other High Crimes and Misdemeanors.' The latter category is a vague catch-all based on England's idea that a 'high crime' is one that only a public office-holder is in a position to commit.
Future U.S. president Gerald Ford was the House Minority Leader in 1970 when he opined that 'an impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history.'
Of the 19 federal officials impeached in U.S. history, 15 were judges including one Supreme Court justice. The others included two U.S. presidents, an 18th-century U.S. senator and a 19th-century Secretary of War.
In 1998 and 1999, President Bill Clinton was impeached on perjury and obstruction of justice charges related to his statements under oath about an extramarital affair he had with a White House intern.
A Republican-controlled House of Representatives delivered the impeachment to a Republican-controlled Senate, but the GOP's 55-45 majority there wasn't sufficient. Fifty GOP senators and no Democrats voted to remove Clinton on one charge, and 45 on the other.
The Reconstruction-era president Andrew Johnson was impeached in 1868 after he violated the Tenure of Office Act by replacing Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, even though the law was largely written and enacted to protect Stanton's job.
Johnson was acquitted in the U.S. Senate by the narrowest of margins: a single vote.
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Would you have sent your dog for the retrieve?
Would you have blindfolded your dog and pretended nothing happened?
Would you have grabbed the bird and used it for training at some later date?
Other? Speak you piece as a reply!
"Your dog learns as much by doing his work right,by your praise and encouragement, as he does by your displeasure and correction." DLWalters
Ken...you need to slow down.....up here we "Brake for Moose"
At least your dog is only guilty of retrieving out of season. My golden is guilty of hunting without a license. Last fall she caught 6 cottontails within 2 weeks. (They converge on the yard after harvest.) She's caught a few since then, including one today. I confess, I used it to practice a few long backs. Nothing like a still-warm rabbit to ramp up the enthusiasm. (I have a feeling someone is going to say that was a terrible training idea. Oh, well.)
A year or two ago, she grabbed a gray partridge out of the air. No hunting license and out of season.
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So far, good replies and suggestions about such an earth-shattering event...a ponderable for the ages...a dilemma only solved by extremely deep thought and sublimely sensitive recommendations.
Nope. I ain't been into the moonshine. At least not yet.
Damned hawk was roosting in a tree out back last night and scared the hell out of me and Sadie when it blew out of the tree. Poor dog was just airing before bedtime. Startled me enough I aired a little, too, I think.


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Can anyone tell me what is new out there? Also, what waves and who are in them?
Can anyone tell me what is new out there? Also, what waves and who are in them?
Supposedly the Deluxe figures have made there way out into the market. I have yet to see any though.
"It can't rain all the time."
"Quote the Raven, Nevermore."
The latest wave included:
Emperor's wrath vader
Shmi Skywalker
Ob1 Jedi training
Han solo death star escape
Luke Skywalker X-wing (new likeness w/ removable helmet)
As for the upcoming waves...well as evenflow, i am uncertain also when are the deluxe figures coming out, but the deluxe line includes:
Bacta Tank Luke
Leia with sail barge canon
Darth Maul with training droid (shirtless maul)
As always...........L
After the deluxe figs, look for the wave that includes:
Eth Koth
Imperial Officer
Tantive IV Troop
Queen Decoy Outfit
This wave will be out before the holidays.


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Acacia Cart w/ Wood Top
Make your kamado grill look great by surrounding it with the Acacia Cart w/ Wood Top (SG-WCA). Made of acacia hardwood, this cart features two (2) towel bars and four (4) rolling casters.
With four (4) hooks to hang your cooking tools or oven mitts, this cart fits all Saffire SG18NC charcoal grills. This addition to your charcoal grill will help you with cooking large amounts of food and will look good when you are entertaining guests or throwing a party.
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Mr Francois Guibert, executive VP and president, Greater China and South Asia, STMicroelectronics
To get an idea of how much silicon technology will impact healthcare and wellness, we just need to look at how semiconductor advancements have shaped the evolution of other industries such as telecommunications and consumer electronics. Not only have the physical dimensions been reduced drastically (weight, width, height) but they have become easier to use, feature-rich, and their power consumption has improved tremendously.
This evolution has been pretty amazing. And the same technologies that facilitated these changes are being used to empower similar amazing changes in healthcare and wellness devices. Diagnostic machines that once filled entire rooms in hospitals continue to become smaller and lighter. Many other devices, once only available in doctor's offices or hospitals, can now be used at home or worn inconspicuously. Like our game consoles and phones, they can be used 24/7, providing a life-saving link to the hospital or personal physician monitoring our health. And by employing the same advancing technologies as those of the telecommunications and game industries, these devices are becoming smarter and more intuitive, very necessary features for out-of-hospital diagnostic and therapy applications.
Enabling technologies, societal needs
Aside from the pervasive availability of advanced silicon technology, there are societal factors involved in this evolution, such as the need to make healthcare more affordable and accessible and the rapidly growing interest in personal health and fitness.
Semiconductor technology is enabling this evolution on two broad fronts. The first is the continual improvement in traditional "medical equipment," ranging from fairly low-tech motorized hospital beds to the most sophisticated MRI machine. Like all industrial applications, these benefit from the universal "win-win-win-win" effect of semiconductor technology where we see a continuous improvement of price, performance, power consumption, and physical size.
However, it is on the second front where semiconductor technology is essentially redefining the healthcare industry, promoting and facilitating a dramatic evolution from a hospital or clinic-based approach to a cloud-based system that provides access to medical care potentially anytime and anywhere. In this new world, hospitals, clinics, and medical experts will continue to provide state-of-the-art diagnostic and surgical expertise while individuals and their local healthcare professionals will take on more responsibility for the day-to-day management of personal health and wellbeing, using a proliferation of "consumer" health and wellness products.
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Now I want the player to be able to set a production goal, that is a desired number of items he wants produced of a give type.
The task is now for the computer to find the most efficient way of fulfilling the goal. There can be a number of material items already in store, and there can be a cost in time and energy for the processes. The cost in time and energy should be minimized.
Which search algorithm should I use? Neither A* nor BFS seem appropriate...
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Let's Get Creative at the Children's MuseumLocation: Children's Museum of South Carolina
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All That Glitters Wine Tasting & Silent Auction—Sept. 2008
Sincere thanks to all who joined MacDonald Training Center and Honorary Event Chair Wayne Shattuck of ABC Action News for the 11th Annual "All That Glitters" Wine Tasting & Silent Auction on Saturday, September 27th, 2008.
Photos of the event were graciously taken by New View Gallery. Click here to view the pictures:
Winners of the "Best of" Challenges were the following:
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William Dean Chocolates for their Lavendar Chocolates
- Best Presentation--Quorum Hotel
- Best Chocolate Cake in Tampa--Let Them Eat Cake
- Best Appetizer--The NoHo Bistro for their Mushroom Crostini
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Princeton University sophomore Luba Margai paints a quote from poet Walt Whitman to decorate the walls of City Invincible Charter School in Camden, N.J. Margai recently spent spring break on a Breakout Princeton trip focused on arts and music education. The Pace Center for Civic Engagement sponsored six trips March 16-24 in which about 70 students participated in community immersion and service programs across the country.
Photos courtesy of the Pace Center for Civic Engagement
Play the Breakout Princeton civic engagement trip to Houston video by sophomore Ray Chao.
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Students take spring 'breakouts' to pursue community projects
Posted April 4, 2013; 12:00 p.m.
Princeton University juniors Cody Abbey and Shiro Kuriwaki recently spent their spring break just a few miles from campus, yet a world away from college life.
The students led a Breakout Princeton trip focused on arts and music education in Princeton, Trenton and Camden, N.J. The group was one of six Breakout Princeton programs organized by students and sponsored by the Pace Center for Civic Engagement that took place March 16-24.
"The disparities between the school districts we visited was striking," Abbey said, noting the challenges faced by public schools in lower-income cities like Trenton and Camden. "But no matter what school we visited, arts remained the common thread of our trip. Everybody we interviewed agreed on the importance of arts education in the development of children."
Students visited Tech Boston Academy as part of their Breakout Princeton trip in Boston focused on education reform and innovative learning techniques.
Since 2008, the Pace Center has sponsored trips during fall and spring breaks that bring together a diverse group of students to explore topics such as environmental sustainability, poverty and health care through community immersion programs and projects across the country.
"The Breakout program gives students the perfect opportunity to witness firsthand the nuances of how a particular social issue affects a community," said sophomore Ray Chao, who chronicled his fall 2012 Breakout trip in a video. "My weeklong trip examined how the criminal justice system affected juveniles in Houston and we returned to Princeton with a deeper understanding of the issues and renewed hope for the future."
"Breakout Princeton inspires learning, shapes perspectives and changes lives," he added.
Sophomore Dalma Foldesi spray paints a mural at the Norris Square Neighborhood Project in Philadelphia. Foldesi and other students on the Breakout Princeton trip collaborated with a high school graffiti artist on a mural intended to beautify and enliven the corner space.
About 70 students participated in Breakout Princeton this spring. In addition to the New Jersey program, students traveled to:
- Philadelphia to explore how art can instigate social change;
- Washington, D.C., to examine the paradox of food waste and hunger in the United States;
- Boston to examine education reform and innovative learning techniques;
- Pine Ridge, S.D., to record the heritage stories of elders on the Pine Ridge Oglala Sioux Reservation; and
- Pittsburgh to investigate the economic, environmental and political issues associated with natural gas drilling.
"By the end of an action-packed week, we found many of our original preconceptions challenged and our conversations buzzing with new perspectives and ideas," said junior Laura Du, who co-led the Boston trip examining the issue of education reform in the K-12 public school system.
Breakout Princeton allowed students to hear directly from stakeholders rather than just studying an issue from afar. In New Jersey, students visited traditional public schools and charter schools, talked with school district officials in the town of Princeton, met with state policymakers and worked with children in community arts programs.
Students worked with the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program during the Breakout Princeton trip that examined how art can instigate social change. From left to right are: freshman Aaron Yin; junior Nicole Sato; freshman Terry O'Shea; sophomore Kristin Cotter; and freshman Maggie Zhang.
"Our mission is not to create artists of kids, but to create an artistically literate population," said Dale Schmid, visual and performing arts coordinator for the New Jersey Department of Education.
During his conversation with the Breakout participants, Schmid advocated for arts, music, dance and theater classes, as well as teaching methods that weave the arts into other disciplines, such as using dance movements to demonstrate geometric figures.
"It was nice to get to the root of things and learn about the vision of the Department of Education and how they make the decisions that affect schools and teachers," said freshman Audrey Meng.
In Philadelphia, hands-on learning meant spray painting a neighborhood mural and visiting artists' studios.
"Though not all of our participants will ultimately end up within creative fields, I am incredibly glad that those who might not have had direct contact with artistic processes and artists were able to gain a better understanding of the topics — especially by getting down and dirty with painting and priming," said sophomore Kemy Lin, who co-led the trip.
Students who participated in Breakout Princeton also chronicled their experiences via blogs and Twitter, and some groups are working on follow-up reports and projects connected to their trip.
The Pace Center will accept proposals for fall 2013 and spring 2014 Breakout Princeton trips through its website from April 3-May 3, 2013.
Students took time to visit the National Mall in Washington, D.C., during their recent Breakout Princeton trip that looked at the paradox of food waste and hunger in the United States.
Co-leaders of the Philadelphia trip sophomores Gerardo Veltri (far left) and Kemy Lin (far right) stand in front of a mural with sophomore Dalma Foldesi (middle left) and freshman Maggie Zhang (middle right). Students who participated in Breakout Princeton also chronicled their experiences via blogs and Twitter.


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Unsolved Cold Case Homicide
Case Number 43-11023
Age: 24
Sex: Male
Race: Caucasian
Case Date: 12/01/1982
County: Jackson
Location of Offense: Rockford, IN north of Seymour, IN
Circumstances: Clifford Smith was reported missing by his wife on November 4, 1982. His body was found approximately one month later by trappers in a bayou near the White River north of Seymour, IN. Clifford Smith died of gunshot wounds.
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Lovely smooth shading, Guido. There's no need to send this again...but... they could be even darker :o)Assume for now that your drawing has one very dark tone or black in it. As soon as that dark tone has been drawn you immediately determine every other tone within the drawing. If that "dark" is light you will force yourself to work with a palette of light greys. Unless it was intentional, that usually leads to a flat drawing. Setting a wide range of tones, by making your darks dark will help with three-dimensional rendering and add visual impact to your work.In the attached image below (just a quick demo from my last workshop) the left-hand copy is the same as the original. You can see in the right-hand copy, with the contrast reduced, that it loses life and a strong sense of roundness. That's what happens if your darks are too light.
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Any form of mass transit has never been popular in this country. People here love their cars too much. Besides, how would I take 6 dogs hunting on a train?
Any form of mass transit has never been popular in this country. People here love their cars too much. Besides, how would I take 6 dogs hunting on a train?
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Our country's founders stated if such ever happened, our democratic republic would fail. That is why our founders put in safe guards to voting like property ownership.
David Didier, GA
Our governor just rejected the federal funding (2B) for our state and I could not be happier. In the end it would have cost the state an additional 3 BILLION to complete. The idea was to build a HSR from Tampa to Orlando. The problem is the drive from Tampa to Orlando is an hour and the time it would take by HSR is not much less. Florida is a state that you almost HAVE to have a car to get around in and most everyone does. By the time you park, pay for parking, get to your destination, find transportation to wherever you need to go once you get there…it is not worth the time and cost. Then you have to get back on and go home. Most tourist come to Orlando for the theme parks and have NO interest in going to Tampa. With few exceptions it is cheaper to fly into Orlando so I don't think there are a bunch of tourist that will want to fly to Tampa and take a train to Orlando. Oh and BTW…..Florida voters voted against the HSR a few years back, but you know they were just wrong and didn't know it I guess….. Lucky for us one of our senators (Nelson (D)) is still going to do everything he can to shove this down our throats because he knows the greater good of throwing money away even if the people don't
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In Pakistan, between 4% and 10% of people with diabetes develop a foot ulcer, and more than 10% of those ulcers lead to an amputation. The 'diabetic foot' is saddling Pakistan's already resource-constrained economy with a tremendous and growing cost burden. Significant achievements have been made in preventing diabetes-related foot ulcers and improving foot care throughout the country, including the implementation of a highly effective 'Step by Step' programme. Under the auspices of that programme, training is provided for physicians, diabetes educators and foot care assistants. As a result, a large number of foot care teams have been trained. Indeed, a nationwide network of foot clinics has been a key outcome of the Step by Step approach. Among key results to date has been a significant reduction in nationwide rates of amputation. However, as the authors point out in this report, further preventive and curative strategies are needed.
Preventing diabetes-related amputations in a developing country – steps in the right direction
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To all breeders:
Would it be possible to put your state in the thread title or at least the first line of the ad?
Two simple letters would sure save a lot of reading. Some ads don't even put the state in the whole description.
With gas prices location is a top priority and I personally can't bring myself to ship a pup.
To be honest, I use the entry express classifieds more because the state appears in the thread title.
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Future of Internet access is topic for talk, Nov. 16
Posted November 11, 2004; 03:57 p.m.
A lecture on "The Future of Broadband Internet Access -- What, Why and How" is scheduled for 8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 16, in McCosh 50.
Robert Lucky, an engineer known worldwide for his writing and speaking about technology and society, will present the talk as part of the University's Public Lectures Series . He is expected to discuss the sociology, economics and policies governing high-speed Internet access.
Lucky has led premier research laboratories in telecommunications over the last several decades, first at Bell Labs and then at Telcordia Technologies, where he was corporate vice president for applied research. Early in his career he invented the adaptive equalizer, the key enabler for all high-speed modems today.
Lucky co-wrote a textbook on data communications that was the most cited reference in the field for a decade. He is the author of many technical papers and of several books, including "Silicon Dreams" and "Lucky Strikes Again." Most engineers, however, know him best because of the monthly columns he has written for Spectrum Magazine over the last 20 years offering philosophical and sometimes humorous observations on engineering, life and technology.
Lucky's talk is designated as the Spencer Trask Lecture and will be available for online viewing a week afterward.
Contact: Tom Bartus(609) 258-3601