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So I had a fun little experience a couple nights ago. For the first time that I've noticed, my son deliberately disobeyed me just to get a reaction. It was so blatant that it was almost comical, and I actually had to turn around so he wouldn't see me laughing.
The challenge we've been dealing with lately is throwing. My son throws everything: toys, forks, food, sippy cups, you name it. Sometimes he does it because he doesn't want it anymore. Sometimes he does it because he's mad or frustrated. Other times I think he does it just because it makes a fun noise when it hits the ground, or because it's fun to watch it fly down the stairs.
When he throws things, I'll warn him first. I'll say, "We don't throw our (insert object that was thrown.) If you throw that again, mommy is going to take it away." If he does throw it again, I'll pick it up and place it out of his reach. Sometimes he gets upset, sometimes he just moves on to the next thing and forgets about it.
The other night, we went through this routine. But every time I would take away one toy, he'd pick up another one, look directly at me, and then throw it. Like I said, it was so blatant that I actually had to go around the corner to laugh.
So my questions to you, fellow disciplinarians, are this: Do I stay the course and continue to be consistent in my method? Is it possible that the negative attention he receives by throwing things is actually egging him on, so should I just ignore the throwing behavoir instead? Do I take away all the toys instead of just the ones he throws? Do I do a time out instead? He's 15 months old. Not sure how effective that would be. I am at your mercy. Please help. :)
One thing we did when our kids were younger was try (try!) to focus on the right course of action (e.g., Toys are for playing, not for throwing. Couches are for sitting, not for jumping.) So if your son throws a truck, you can try reinforcing it by demonstrating how the truck drives on the ground.
That said, consistency is important. We also put toys in "time out" (rather than our sons) like you are. If you keep that up as needed, eventually he'll get the idea that a thrown toy is a lost toy, and will move on from that game.
Good luck!
I have a 22 month old. At about 15 months he was the same way as your son (throwing everything). He still throws things sometime, but has cut way back. Stick to your guns. If it's thrown then it gets taken away. You may even be able to reduce the attention to the act by just saying "You threw your XYZ, so its going away for awhile; because we don't throw things". This way you are not warning and then saying something again after its thrown. He knows by now it shouldn't be thrown and is seeing if you will be consitant in your response. It may get to the point when you don't even need to say anything - just remove the toy from sight if it is thrown.
Something my mother suggested is to give them something that can be thrown. Say "We don't throw XYZ, but come over here...you can thrown this".
Taking away all his toys won't go anywhere. He won't learn anything and in boredom will start to get into things he wouldn't have otherwise.
We calmly and methodically take each toy away as it's mistreated (our daughters are 15 months old also). To me it's more important for them to learn that the same action will receive the same punishment every single time.
One thing we did during the throwing phase was to point out some things are okay to throw and some aren't. When our daughter got into a throwing mood we took away the toys that shoudn't be thrown and gave her the ones that are suppose to be thrown. She quickly learned if she wanted to play with something she shouldn't throw it and if she was in a throwing mood the foam balls were what to throw.
Have you considered taking all his toys away when he moves on to the next? Of course, that might push him to pick up the good china and toss it! LOL
To be honest, we never had this problem with either of our boys. I would probably use a firm voice and if he didn't respond, I would take him by the hand, walk him into his bedroom and put him on his bed for 10 minutes! Similar to a time-out! Good luck!
You guys are too nice, and will live to regret it. We put our liitle dears in a corner, for "time out," so throwing things turned into no things. We kept our kids on a metaphorical short leash, and now have 5 kids 14-22 who people like to have around.
I must add that the short leash of early childhood turns a kid into a teen who just wouldn't dream of being a nightmare, because we insisted they behave. They like themselves, too. I'm no tiger mother- just old-fashioned.
All plush toys...raise some quarterbacks.
Consistency is most important.
10 minutes in time out is likely too long for tot...point is ...to make a point. If you are spending your time keeping them in time out you have now moved on to another issue. I do, however, believe that after one toy is removed and they move to another that removing the child to another area for a brief time and without much "attention" i.e. little discussion or even eye contact from you but a simple "No" will suffice.
One consideration is that tots this age see everything in the world as extensions of themselves and to throw something might simply be their examination of this phenomena rather than a purposeful act of defiance.
I think you are past the warning stage. I would warn the first time each day. After that the next thrown thing gets taken away with no warning and no talking. Example: 8AM he throws his sippy. You warn him that sippy cups are not for throwing and if he throws it again it gets taken away. He throws his fork next. It just gets taken away. If he doesn't throw anything else till say 4PM then I might warn again just because so much time has passed, but this seems like something you are going through almost every day anyway, so I am almost positive that he knows not to throw things without you ever warning him again.
A friend of mine stopped letting her son have the toys back after they were thrown a certain number of times. It went into a bag in her closet. He got down to 5 or 6 toys in one week once. When he didn't throw anything for a day he got to pick a toy from the bag to play with again. He was slightly older than your son, but not by much. YMMV.
He is at age to see what his limits are, remember, your the boss...no discipline creates brats....
agree with consistency and I am not a fan of the "re-direct the action." But there was a good add on a while back that made me evaluate how I deal with my kids: http://www.ispot.tv/ad/7kwj/td-ameritrade-support-featuring-jonathan-horton
Maybe if he really likes throwing things, you have a quarterback or baseball player in the making. what about getting a soft small ball and making "throwing time" (later it will become baseball practice) scheduled time doing something he loves equals another point of note for him as he grows "Please don't throw that, it's not throwing time or the ball. If you want to throw the ball today with me, you have to wait or ask." Then it's not always a punishment, but a redirection OR punishment. you get to choose. Its hard to keep punishing over and over, as a parent, with choices, it makes life easier. Just my take and I am by no means a perfect parent.
We started similarly to you - a warning, then the toy taken away, and an explanation. If it happened repeatedly in a short space of time, I would take it away without saying anything. This kind of response to something they know they shouldn't do and know the consequence of still works well with my 6yo and 4yo. When my daughter was 8mo she dropped things off her high chair just for the reaction, looking right at me. In that situation I looked right back at her and ignored her, continuing with feeding her, or whatever I was doing. She quickly learnt it wasn't worth doing, and I bottled my laughter and let it out later on. Throwing is a bit trickier though because something - or someone - could get hurt.
We use time out with our kids, and we're quite strict with them, but consistent. And allow them to be kids when it's appropriate. People comment that they're very happy, allowed to be kids, not little robots, but well behaved and nice to be around. Time out for ours is anywhere I put them (usually a chair, but when we're out any spot of ground I can sit them on works) for one minute per year old they are. We started that at around age two.
It's a stage he'll get through, he just needs to understand it's not allowed, and not going to get a reaction.
Good luck!
Discipline, and then immediate distract. From his picture he looks too young to really comprehend much of the warning. So don't throw discipline out the window, but don't get stuck at it either.
Discipline and distract
Discipline and distract
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Letting him know you are upset with him is perfectly acceptable and needs to be done. Remember, it is not just about the throwing of the toy, it's also and more importantly about him respecting you and following your rules. You are the parent. You're past the first time and the second time. So get serious. If you do not demand respect you will not get it and he will not respect you. This will only get worse. The next time it happens (and you must catch him in the act) you should get angry with him with a very loud reactive (angry) voice and (I mean make him jump out of his shoes) followed by an in your face nose to nose butt chewing. Let him know that you are done with his disrespect and him not following your wishes. After that, the next time follow it up with a slap on the back of the hand or a pop on the bare bottom to get his attention. Start now or you will regret it later. Remember, it's not about the toy anymore after you have instructed him to stop. Let's be clear, every child is different and react differently to discipline. Follow through! He will respect you more if you do.
Thanks for all the advice, guys. We're staying the course and hope to see some improvement soon!
I'm old fashion and my solution for most things was "ok! Go to Bed!" or as they term it today,'time out'! I think that unwanted behavior should be addressed with a stern look so that the child knows this is the 'OK, Mom or Dad has had it and they ARE NOT PLAYING!' Kids have been learning how to push parents buttons form the womb because they started listening and learning from the inside!!! But, I had to run in the bathroom and laugh a few times myself! Good Parenting to You!!
I totally solved this problem by letting my little slingshot know that a spanking would follow any and all throwing incidents. Three spankings later there was no more throwing. The spankings don't need to inflict pain.
He's a scientist. Playing with gravity ("Wow! The sippy flies down the stairs...I wonder if the truck will, too?") and with you ("How many times can I get the adults to pick the spoon up off the floor before they go nuts? How many times will they respond in the same way to this stimulii?").
Be solid. You're on the right path. Soon he'll move on to another experiment! If he has not thrown anything lately, I would not remind him (read:give him any ideas). Ours is 21 now, and delightful. He threw down...everything...but it passed.
When Sebbie my youngest wouldn't stop throwing his toys I bought him Nerf Balls and a big bucket. I taught him how to throw them in the basket. Took all the other toys away for a while. For the forks and spoons I gave him a tap on his hand and said no we don't throw stuff on the ground for food I told him my floor wasnt' hungry. Now at 22 months he is good but I think every baby goes thru the same thing.
By far my fav, I am going to work on that one tonight with my two.
hasanmf111 wrote:Discipline, and then immediate distract. From his picture he looks too young to really comprehend much of the warning. So don't throw discipline out the window, but don't get stuck at it either.
Discipline and distract
Discipline and distract
Discipline and distract
he knows what is expected by now, but he enjoys the reaction. when he throws somehting just pick it up and put it out of his reach like you are doing. but don't say anything. don't make eye contact with him. don't interact with him at all. he will get tired of it. then save the attention for when he is behaving the way you want him to.
jrguerra wrote:By far my fav, I am going to work on that one tonight with my two.
I have tried all methods mentioned here, and distraction works best for young toddler.
I think we are all forgetting why a toddler threw things. An elder once told me to "understand your child" instead of just scolding and giving time out.
A 15 months toddler is too young to understand discipline AND remember the consequences.
Due to the fact that a toddler can't communicate, throw things is one of the ways to "tell you how he feels". A toddler threw things to get to your attention, to express frustration, to express "something". It is your job to find out why.
So, if you don't like discipline and distraction, try discipline (just a few words of "we don't throw things") and followed immediately by "helping the child". For eg. My son throws his trains and cars on the floor, I go to him, tell him not to do that, take away his toys, but gives him a hug to calm him down (so that your hug blocks his arm for reaching more toys). Depending on how frustrated he is, I also say "Shhhhh" to calm him down. Right after I would try to gesture what he wants. Since he doesn't talk, I show him "possible things" I think that might frustrates him, like putting cars on the road, or connecting his trains, or putting duplo blocks together. Help him as much as I can. He will response and agree to what he wants with his gesture. Then I play with him a little. It works most of the time.
Sometimes your child just want you to spend some time with him.
But there - but there was no pick! I - I did not pick! There was no pick! No! No pick!
Both of our sons tried that as toddlers. If we were at home, the toy was immediately taken away (no warning). If the child threw something again immediately after, the consequence was a time-out. We had a zero-tolerance policy for throwing things in the car, as that is a dangerous distraction for the driver. My older son threw a toy in the car when he was 1 1/2, and I immediately pulled into a shopping center and threw the toy away into a trash can while he watched. He never did that again. Both of our sons are now honors students that are active in their schools and the community, so we figure that our disciplining them didn't hurt their self-esteem much
jrguerra wrote:I told him my floor wasnt' hungry.
HA! That is awesome!
I have a son who can be stubborn. When he threw something he wasn't supposed to throw, I said, "Okay, fine, You want to throw, let's go throw." Then I'd take him to the back yard and let him throw the toy. After he threw it, I'd tell him to get it and throw it again. This continued until he said he didn't want to. Then I'd tell him he started the game and he had to throw it three more times. By then he was sick of throwing toys. Works with other unwanted behavior, like eating halloween candy after told to stop, we'd make him eat until he threw up and then eat three more pieces. Same thing later with beer and cigarettes. Now he doesn't like cigarettes, beer, candy and other things bad for him. He's very respectful, healthy, married and we can't wait for him to have his own children.


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The roads of Russia appear to be a total anarchist state. Lanes are a suggestion. Safe following distances are non-existent.
And expensive pileups are the norm. Like here, when an Audi A4, a Maybach, and two Cadillac Escalades all run into each other on the highway.
From the video, it looks like the Mayach and the Escalades may be running together in some sort of semi-official convoy for the government or possibly an organized crime syndicate.
The road appears to be blocked by an orange cone and the Audi looks to be waiting to merge. The Maybach and the Escalades don't seem to notice this.
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By Joe Brewin
Mikel Arteta was all smiles after scoring his fourth Premier League goal of the season against Blackburn on Saturday.
The midfielder hit Arsenal's fourth of the afternoon in the comfortable 7-1 win over Rovers - his third of the campaign against Steve Kean's side.
"Sometimes I can't really get forward because we just have too many talented players up there!" he told Arsenal Player.
"I had a few chances in this game though and I am just pleased to score again.
While Arteta had one goal to his name, it was captain Robin van Persie who stole the show with another hat-trick.
The Dutchman clocked up his 22nd Premier League goal of the campaign with his treble, a contribution Arteta was delighted with once more.
"I think he was just fantastic again to help the team and make them play really well," he said. "But it is not just his goals; it is his attitude in the game.
"We are really pleased to have him in the squad."
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Dynasty has some big news about sponsorship. The first part of it is that we will no longer be sponsored by Empire Paintball. We will continue to be sponsored by Guerilla Air and Official Planet Eclipse. There will be news coming soon about which gear we will be[ using next year.
Hmm.. What gear will they have now? HK sponsor perhaps? Virtue loaders? Sly??


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By Giuseppe Muro
James Shea has revealed he treated Arsenal's FA Cup game at Old Trafford as "a game of football with his mates".
When Wojciech Szczesny's finger injury left Arsène Wenger with a shortage of first-team goalkeeping options, the 19-year-old was drafted in as Manuel Almunia's deputy for the trip to Manchester United on March 12.
Shea was the first player to run out for his warm-up and received a magnificent reception from the travelling 9,000 Arsenal fans before taking his seat on the bench. The magnitude of a cup tie between two old rivals may have got the better of some - but Shea admits he wasn't fazed by the occasion.
"I wasn't nervous to be honest," he told Arsenal.com. "I just try to see it as playing a game of football with my mates.
"I felt quite cool, calm and collected but it was amazing. I remember watching Arsenal versus Manchester United games when I was younger and I always thought I would love to be there one day. Even though I didn't play, just being involved with the first team was great.
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thanks guys, thats sick lost its reminds me of stone carvings. i hope people throw some more up
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The objective of this collaborative research is to evaluate soil incorporated insecticides for controlling strawberry rootworm (SRW), Paria fragariae, infestations in containerized evergreen azaleas.
SRW are an important insect pest of evergreen azaleas. SRW overwinter as adults in trash on the soil surface and within the potting media. Adult beetles emerge in early spring (Feb-Mar), mate, and begin laying eggs on the sepals of azaleas. Eggs hatch and larvae migrate into the blooms to feed and develop. Larvae are deposited to the soil surface as blooms are shed from the plants. Larvae move into the soil to either feed on the root system or to pupate, but inflict little damage on the plant at this point. The adults feed at night and cause small irregular shaped holes in the leaves which diminish the marketability of the plants when insects reach high numbers. Since these insects require soil contact in order to pupate and complete their transformation into adults, a soil applied insecticide would prevent further development and prohibit the formation of new adults. A soil incorporated insecticide would also prevent worker exposure to pesticide drift and lessen the impact on pollinators. Bifenthrin (trade name Talstar®) is currently used in containerized nursery stock as a preventative treatment for imported fire ant control, Solenopsis spp., in both spray and soil incorporated treatments. A rate of 25ppm AI of granular bifenthrin is considered effective to at repel fire ants for a certification period of one year. Ornamental nurseries that comply with these regulations are certified "fire ant free" under APHIS-PPQ guidelines. If granular bifenthrin at this rate or slightly higher rates was proven effective at controlling SRW populations in potted azaleas, this would negate need for further insecticide treatments and offer a preventative for eliminating newly developing SRW in the potting substrate. This research will evaluate the effect of increased dosage of granular bifenthrin on SRW populations in a nursery setting. This study will be installed at three locations: Rocky Creek Nursery in Lucedale, MS, the Mobile Ornamental Horticulture Research Station in Mobile, AL, and the USDA-ARS Thad Cochran Southern Horticultural Laboratory in Poplarville, MS. At each location two blocks will be installed in order to account for possible site variation. Each block will consist of a randomized configuration of 40 potted azaleas (4 treatments, 10 reps per treatment). The cultivar 'Pink Ruffle', which shows susceptibility to SRW damage, will be used exclusively. One gallon 'Pink Ruffle' azaleas will be transplanted into three gallon containers that will contain potting media with 25, 50, and 75ppm of bifenthrin incorporated into the potting media. These concentrations were achieved taking bulk density of the potting media into consideration using formulae provided in the 2007 USDA APHIS-PPQ imported fire ant guidelines for quarantine treatments for nursery stock (USDA-APHIS program aid No. 1904). Controls will consist of untreated pine bark potting media. Each block will be evaluated every 30 days for a period of one year. At each evaluation period, a rating of plant damage due to SRW and counts of any SRW found present will be recorded. This data will be compiled and analyzed using basic ANOVA procedures using a repeated measures design.


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Each of our weekly clips will feature footage of a classic goal plus expert analysis from former Gunner Stewart Robson and Arsenal.com editor Richard Clarke.
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Now that we have seen 49 of the greatest goals in Arsenal's history, it may not be a surprise for many to learn that the final installment comes from Dennis Bergkamp. The Dutchman's strike at Newcastle is a testament to the player and everything he accomplished in a decade with the Club.
Bergkamp has five previous appearances on our list and a vast collection of classic moments, but this was quite possibly his magnum opus. The goal sums up his vision, intelligence, touch and clinical finishing in one master stroke.
And it wasn't just about artistry. It came two months before the end of the season and
Arsenal were fighting for the Premier League title. Bergkamp's strike at St. James Park set up an invaluable 2-0 win.
Also memorable, the play involved three of Arsenal's biggest guns. Patrick Vieira started the fluid counter-attack and picked out Bergkamp from deep inside the Arsenal half. The Dutchman played the ball to Robert Pires on the left flank and then stormed forward while the Frenchman made progress out wide.
Pires cut inside and spotted Bergkamp on the edge of the box. He fired a pass toward the Dutchman who was sitting at the edge of the area.
Bergkamp slid from right to left with Newcastle defender Nikos Dabizas close by. As the ball came flying towards his left foot, Bergkamp had to call on his famous creativity. With his right foot, he flicked the ball to one side of Dabizas and rolled around the other side. He then simply outmuscled the defender to get back on the ball.
Still having Shay Given to beat, the Iceman kept his composure to finish off what he had started. Ever so coolly, Bergkamp side-footed the ball past the Newcastle keeper and into the bottom corner.
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Also, plug-in hybrids offer much, much higher well-to-wheel efficiency and better emissions. By time you've put a diesel hybrid together, you're in PHEV pricing territory, and those are more efficient.
Also, plug-in hybrids offer much, much higher well-to-wheel efficiency and better emissions. By time you've put a diesel hybrid together, you're in PHEV pricing territory, and those are more efficient.
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You'd think it'd be an easy and relatively inexpensive thing to implement on a gas powered car and diesel's would likely improve their city mileage, somewhat negating the hybrid's traditional advantage.
And the fuel use goes up much quicker on a gas engine if you use those high RPM's.
It's cliche, but the TDI's feel better than their on paper numbers describe - and that's because most people aren't flooring their cars all the time.
Id probably choose the Fusion Hybrid over this, but I would have to drive both first...just seems like the Fusion offers more car for essentially the same price.
45 mpg combined for the TDI is on the high end of what people post at tdiclub.com. Many are at what I've been getting: 42 - 43 mpg.
I checked out a recent base Fusion vs a base Jetta, and for all the complaints, the Jetta is really much nicer than the Fusion in terms of interior materials. There must be a lot of difference between a base Fusion and the ones that reviewers get.
I feel better about the impact of a TDI as opposed to the metals in the Li-ion battery that are toxic to plantlife and have a potential of creating toxic fluoro-organic compounds; but that's just me. Join the hybrid crowd sheeple, band wagon will wait.
There are 518 2012 Volkswagen Jettas (Diesel L4) with reported gas mileage parked at Fuelly
Looks like mi-to-high 30's is the average.
Only ask because right now I'm in south Florida and OMFG it feels like I have a 300 lb lead weight in the car when accelerating from a stop with the AC on. Turbo engine suffers I guess in the humidity. I feel like these conditions would be perfect for a hybrid, especially the non-turbo gasoline engine versions provided they have a good stock battery cooling setup.
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It sounds like they are different technologies, that get similar MPG in slightly different applications. Choice like that is always good..
It has pretty much all the features most hybrid shoppers are looking for. It seems right in line with the pricing of the TDI which makes sense. Kinda gives people the option of going diesel or hybrid. Similar returns yet two different ways of providing it. They are just allowing for people who are more accustomed to a hybrid and are weary about diesel to join VW.
Smart business. It will probably do pretty well against the competition. The only competitor in this segment is the Civic Hybrid (Eco cars don't count without a similar powertrain).
Is this a Volkswgen with a big battery....cause.....NO.
Compared to what I would call the class leading Fusion it is a near mirror image price wise with heated leather and navigation.
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FireVortex (sorry, no more)... bunch of VWs.
I came back for #Dieselgate
The current line of common rails are very quiet, actually my TDI is the quietest car I own and it may or may not even have the DPF still ..
For a split second leaving the line there is a tiny bit of diesel rattle but then it smooths out. With the windows open cruising in a city environment it is no louder then my 1.8t or my 2.0t when they were stock.
At least the hybrid won't have a $10000 HPFP explosion
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possible yes.
45+ highway with a manual is possible without too much effort, my former commute was about 15 miles highway and 10 city which I got about 38-40 regularly and 42ish if I tried.
The city figures are what will really bring the diesel down and the hybrid up on the combined.
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so what are you averaging with your TDI ?
first let me say: i welcome any new technology that improves where auto industry is heading. that said. i will still pick my TDI
all i can say: to average 45MPG in current TDI is doable but not extremely easy to do it tank after tank after tank if you live in a major city. but i blame this mainly on drivers.
what i'm going of: i live in Los Angeles (Long Beach) and commute to work near Santa Monica.
my daily commute is 30 miles each way, and lately its been averaging about 1 hour each way, so lots of traffic. but even in those condition my running average (last 10 fill ups) is 45.3 MPG (so technically it can be done)
my overall average since i bought the car (52,1xx miles / 94 fill ups) is 42 MPG,
my average has been going up since car is broken in, i've seen serious average jump in MPGs after 30,000 miles.
so there you have 45 MPG real works with tons of city driving, very much doable.


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Discussion in 'The Trash Can' started by haribobo, Dec 16, 2012.
If 3 Russians, Kostner, and Korpi finish 1-5, which 5 will take places 6-10?
Well, Valentina Marchei, Elene Gedevanishvilli, Victoria Helgesson, Joshi Helgesson, Jenna McCorkell ... who else is there?
Do we know for sure that three Russians will finish in 1-5? I can see Tuktamysheva placing 1-5. If Sotnikova delivers, she will be there too, but she needs to land her jumps. GP events did not work for her that well, but at least it wasn't complete disaster. But who is the third one? Leonova? Ending 6th and 7th in GP event does not make me believe that this season she will end up 1-5 in Europeans. The same about Makarova or Korobeinikova, if they send her.
Good point- they won't necessarily make top 5 (they didn't all make it last year), but there's a chance they will, and they were the easiest to lump together with Korpi and Kostner. I find polls like this more interesting than the medal polls most times, but I don't need to a poll to tell me that the Russians will place highly if they hit.
I would hope that gedevanishvilli and marchei are aiming for higher than 6th
As much as I love Elene I irrationaly dont want her to place top 10 and waste a 2nd never used spot. I much rather want the Helgesson sisters to get three so Olsso is sent next year, Glebova placing top 10 so Liinamae joins her too and Meite keeping the 2nd spot for Silete next season.
It doesn't matter, because the spot gets wasted in any case. If Elene is in top ten and they don't have second lady, it is wasted. But, if Helgesson's sisters gets third spot and Olsso may have a chance, she still has to meet the requited score, and considering how high the score is, the spot will be wasted too. Same probably with Glebova placing in top 10 and getting spot for Liinamae. Would Liianamae meet the required score?
Yes, both have met the minimums for Worlds as well as Euros.
Gedevanishvili can medal, IMO, but it will be hard for Marchei to make the top 6.
Gedevanishvili, the Helgessons, and Marchei.
When I first responded, the poll didn't list any names at all. Now with the list available, I'd definitely include Mae Berenice Meite ahead of Joshi and Victoria Helgesson, and drop down Jenna McCorkell to a lower placement.
Meite is in second place on the poll Perhaps all that gold lame will blind the judges to her faults.
Sorry, wrong post. I haven't figured out a way to delete my post yet. Sorry. Where is the delete button?
For the record Both Isabelle Olsson and Gerli Liinamae have met the World TES and this is euro spots we're talking about, the TES minimums are easier to gain.
I think Marchei will be aiming for more than 6-10. Her recent performances have been pretty good, she scored 107+ for her FP last weekend. While her PCS are still pretty low (and admittedly that's ok) I think if she goes pretty clean she has a chance of making the top 5.


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We need to do our best to pressure their shooters. Dare Joe Smith, Ben Wallace, Joakim Noah, and Ty Thomas to beat us. I won't expect much offense out of Tayshaun because he'll be exerting too much defensively guarding Deng. On the other side, just stay balanced and hope that Noah doesn't bait Sheed into needless frustration. Noah strikes me as the Anderson Varejao type who can really screw with Sheed's head.
Tay outplayed Deng in the playoffs and he was one of the Pistons main scorers. I wouldn't expect any different.
True, but if you're expecting that Deng improves this year, which I think he will, then he would go into that level of player that Tayshaun can stop, but he cannot stop and provide his offense at the same time. See games against Kobe and Lebron.
Chat's open!
Disappointing loss tonight. The Bulls jumped out to a lead with the Pistons starters playing poorly and the bench playing disastrously, but the Pistons cut the lead in the 3rd quarter on a flurry of 3s and a huge run of points by Sheed. The Bulls dominated the boards all night long, but some strong Pistons D got them a chance late in the 4th, only to come up short when 3 makeable shots all missed in the final minute. The bench really stunk tonight, which was a key factor as the Bulls bench came up big. Hayes was mostly invisible in 20 minutes, and JMax was so bad that he only got 11 minutes. Aside from one brief stretch in the 4th, JMax just couldn't do anything right on either end of the floor. With Rip struggling from the floor and Tay being invisible, it was too much to overcome, even with Sheed pouring in 36 points.
Brutal. It is instances like this where seeing if AJ could be more effective than JMax may have been smart to try.
We should have played off of Tyrus on D earlier in the game, rather than midway through the second quarter. We had to play like absolute crap to lose by less than five. I can live with that. Lulz at the UC chanting "Detroit sucks".
No dependable "go to guy" is starting to make this squad look bad far too often late in games. Defense gets stops, and even rebounds (wow), and Pistons come down the floor running isolations with 2nd tier isolation players. Opposing team doesn't even have to double and consequently, they limit us to one and out every trip down the floor late in games. Same song, same channel, one year later. I'm waiting for the young guys to get healthy and take the reins from the old guard, or a trade, or both.
IMO, this game was lost in the first quarter. That is when the Pistons lackadasical play allowed the low scoring Bulls to get off 29 points as no one could or would step up to stop Tyler Thomas. Once again, as was the case last season, a three day layoff hurts the Pistons Sheed tried to singlehandley win this game on both ends, but he didn't get any real help from Tay or Dyess. Thomas got free for far to many dunks and put backs as the bulls won the battle of the paint 42-26. Most of our points in the paint came from Sheed in the 3rd qtr and Sheed also dropped in three treys in that qtr. ...He probably had his best game as a Piston with 36 points. (if he had had 40 we would have won The Bulls outhustled the Pistons who had 7 TO's in the first quarter. The bench contributed 8 TO's to go with their inept play and picked a perfect time for a no-show on the first night of a back to back. The result was that the starters averaged 36 minutes. Maxiel probably should have played more, but even he could not keep up with Thomas. Big ben grabbed nine boards, but was a non factor down the stretch. Chauncey hit 2 threes, but did not have his best game either.. The big question is what happen to Tay since Rip came back??? He was all world while Rip was on paternity leave and now that he is back, he disappears?? Maybe we should have rip or tay coming off the bench? One thing learned from this loss is you can't wait until the 4th qtr to turn it on. Tougher game tomorrow night vs Clips as Kamen has been a monster in the middle. If Mobley is still hurt,(groin) we may get a break there.
Close game for the most part. For sure we could have used some free throws being made. Sheed had a couple attempts posting up Thomas in the end and did not come thru - but at least he was trying to go inside. One goat tonight was Hayes, or actually, the coach who would try guarding Deng with Hayes. Very bad choice. Hayes scored a bit, but not nearly enough to offset what he was giving up to Deng. Maxiell got into early foul trouble and played very little in the first half. Followed by not playing all that long in the 2nd half even though he was getting into the game a bit. I wonder what excuse Flip Saunders is going to use this time for not going with the hot player, choosing to play Dyess in crunch time. Yeah, and if Maxiell could not play his minutes, why is that not a good time to give Amir a few minutes? Mohammed instead? Mohammed did make one jumper. Wow, like that helped much. Murray did score 6 points. And he turned the ball over a lot. Afflalo got his token 2 minutes at the end of the 3rd quarter, made an alert pass to trigger a fast break score. I think Flip Saunders does that just so he can honestly say he is playing Afflalo. A bit of a joke on Dumars, in my opinion. For the most part, we used an 8 man rotation, with Hayes, Murray, and, wait - make that a 7 man rotation. Mohammed, Maxiell, Afflalo each played a bit. What a contrast as Chicago was playing Noah extensively and the young Mr. Thomas started. Man, does Chicago look young and energetic compared to us. We were killed on the boards. Dyess was worthless as an inside defender. Dyess made a few jumpers or he would truly have been bad for this game. Jumpers by the way that did give us points, but as usual had zero chance of drawing any fouls, or helping to establish an inside game. Back to Chicago. Joe Smith played big and productive minutes off the bench for them, as did Nocioni, Duhon, and Noah. Any guesses which team was fresher late in the 4th quarter? How bad can a bench be? We learned the depths of how low Flip Saunders will go to put a pointless unit on the floor. At one point early 2nd quarter we had Flip Murray in the backcourt, who can't play D worth a darn, Hayes and Dyess, neither of whom can move laterally, as our forwards, and the slowfooted Mohammed at center. I guess Prince was the 5th guy in the unit. Mind you, Maxiell was sitting with foul trouble so Flip Saunders will think he has a ready excuse. But he does not. Basing a bench on slowness is pathetic. We need youth and enthusiasm from our bench. Where did Flip misplace it? Hey, Flip, look a bit harder at the end of the bench. Afflalo and Amir can play the game.
No lie. Someone had a thread about Rip maybe coming off the bench a while ago. Rip was my favorite player for the first few years of my Piston fandom, then I switched to Big Ben and now Sheed. Doesn't it seem like the game is more static with Rip back out there? I know we'd miss his scoring but couldn't he be like Gordon for the Bulls, or Jason Terry for the Mavs.He could come out and be that "instant offense" guy. I like Tay as a higher option for offense on our team now. Mostly I just missed seeing Tay be an integral part of the offense. Sheed was great to watch tonight. Another thing that mystified me was our first half defense. How did the Bulls get all those paint points in the first half? They weren't just jumpshots, contrary to TNT's Kenny's opinion that the only thing Chicago can do is perimeter jumpshooting. The Bulls got a lot of second chance points hustle points and passing into the paint points. Maybe it's that Sheed and Tay were the only ones playing defense until the last quarter. I dunno. Maybe if the defensive effort was more consistent, we wouldn't be in the position of desperate desperado defense in the fourth. It's like they start playing LB defense in the last quarter of any game where they are up against the wall and the rest of the time it's FlipBall. That said, the Pistons have been playing really well. The Bench sure had a bad night. Hopefully "adjustments" will be made by the next game. LOL.
We are not getting much from Dyss. That is a big problem as Sheed is left alone to do it all. Maxiel and maybe Amir need to be used. We win this game with Maxiel playing over Dyss. If the rookies fail us, we trade for a big. We are big short it seems and this is a problem that will not go away. The defense was horrible. Yes, some of it was regular season stuff but it was too easy. Chicago did what they wanted for most of the game. The McClosky article is a sham about us holding them to a basket in the last 4 minutes. The Bulls are a dead team. The hype of last year has worn off and that team is going nowhere in my opinion. Our run will be over unless we get some youth in the lineup. We need to use Tay more also. His improvement or not will determine where we land.
Thanks for the great posts folks. Disappointing game for me. The Pistons seem to have regressed from the first two games.
I don't think it's a lack of a go to guy so much as it is a lack of ball movement. All we run any more are ISOs after ISOs. Flip Saunders makes me miss Larry Brown's offense. Hayes confirmed my fears about his defense against quality NBA players. Afllalo should'e played more,and Amir sat AGAIN. We needed speed and athleticism. Our coach is stupid. Also, we need to run the offense through Tay NOT Rip.
Hayes needs to play in spots because he is limited in defense and rebounding. I don't fault Flip for searching for those spots. But by the second quarter, it was obvious that we needed some defensive adjustments. This coach just can't seem to make defensive adjustments. Yes, it is a regular season game but you still do little things to give yourself a chance to pull it out.
^ That's the most frustrating part b/c these are all winnable games save a few adjustments that Flip doesn't seem to be able to make.
Anyone think we post up a bit too much? I mean, Sheed, Tay, Chauncey, Rip, Hayes, Dice, Max, Nazr. Pretty much everyone was getting post-ups tonight. And that's good to a point, but most of these lead to contested turnaround 15-foot fadeaways. Rip in particular. His personal vendetta with Hinrich usually ends up with him forcing up these bad shots in iso situations. It's fine when Sheed, Max, or Tayshaun are posting consistently, because that is their game, and they get high percentage shots. But at a certain point it just slows the offense down too much. You end up with absolutely ZERO movement, thus the defense is always in position, and the offensive rebounding opportunities are slim-to-none (See tonight) We need a lot more drive and dish, and a lot less standing around watching guys shooting turnaround 15-footers. The other thing that gets me is Dice allowing layups/dunks when he's got plenty of fouls to give, and plenty of bodies behind him to pick up the slack if he does get into foul trouble. He's conceeding layups to Ben Wallace, and ends up with only 2 fouls in nearly 40 minutes. Tyrus Thomas could have been knocked on his ass a time or two as well.
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I'm not busting your balls, just giving my opinion. The difference here is that you *ordered* the car you wanted understanding that it would be a fall release with no guaranteed delivery date. They would not be in posession of that car had you not ordered it for yourself. In your case, you are trying to sell a car that you already own. No one asked you to buy it for them so they could buy it from you.
In your current situation, If I was the guy coming to buy your car, I would not back out of it even if I found one next door the day before coming. The only way I would back out of buying your car is if it was not as described. I might call and see if you had another buyer, and if so I would change my mind. AND if I was you, and someone went through the trouble of texting you a picture of the check and their bus tickets, I also would not sell it to anyone else until he didn't show up if that were to happen.
Now- your sales guy that blew up on you was totally not cool but I can certainly understand your frustration. If I was in their situation, you would not be getting your deposit back. Now if you lost your job or had some other reason that you could no longer afford or buy the car, I'd be a nice guy and give it back. But you got so excited that you couldn't wait a few more weeks for the car that you yourself had the dealership buy to sell exclusively to you? I would definitely make the deposit non-refundable.
|Just called with my credit card info to get a refund. Guy sounded in much better mood, so my guess is he got over it. All's well that ends well.
Even though I didnt buy the car I ordered I dealt with the same people start to finish and next car I buy as long as its a ford thats where I will get it.
And I set the phone up yesterday it was super simple and the hands free works really well and is super clear on both ends.
|The more I think about it, actually, the more I put myself in the original salesman's shoes since it parallels the way I'm selling my outgoing car. I have a buyer. He promised to come this weekend (even went so far as to obtain a cashier's check and show it to me via MMS), made travel plans and will supposedly drive the car away. All the while implicitly promising to me that he won't buy a different car if one becomes available to him locally (implicitly due to the unspoken rule of reciprocation - I explicitly promised him I wouldn't sell it to anyone else, either, even if a better offer comes my way). Is he full within his rights to reneg? Sure. He made a promise, but ultimately he doesn't owe me a thing. And, furthermore, I will have had ample warning since the color of my car is the last of five on his list of priorities (much like my dealer did when I e-mailed him asking how long it would take for me to get the ST2 instead of the ST3). He can call me tonight and tell me: "Sorry, dude, found a blue one $500 cheaper next door. Doesn't have the heated seats (which mine, ironically, has), but I don't need them and would rather save a few bucks." That puts him out the hotel and bus tickets he spent money on already (kinda like the Go Pro with me) and it puts me out of a sale. Guess what? I'm going to wish him luck and hang up the phone - not make it seem like he's the biggest jerk on the face of the planet. You know why? Because I have confidence in that my car is good enough for someone else to come along in a week and buy it - without me having to settle on a price I still think is a few hundred bucks too low (kinda like the A-plan, if you will). Yes, it's extra inventory in my hand (along with having to insure it, it's actually a lot more of a pain for me to keep a car in my driveway than for a dealer to keep "my" ST3 on the lot, relatively speaking), but I will sell it. And what am I going to achieve by getting mad and yelling at the dude? I'll make my own heartburn worse and will give him a case of it as well. Nerve cells don't re-generate, so why waste them?
Did I need a car right now? Not really. This isn't really about "needs" as nobody needs an ST. Did I want it before first snow hit the ground? You bet. Two extra months of driving it, considering how long I've waited for an ST to come stateside, is a HUGE deal to me. I was one of the first to order, so naturally I expected to be one of the first to get the car (not for the distinction of being among the first, mind you, but for the purposes of actually having it as close to the release date as possible).
What clinched it for me was the situation with the car I am driving right now. Two things: need to sell it (obviously) and it's coming up on its 60K mile service. As you may know, those aren't cheap for any vehicle, leave alone Europeans. So throwing away north of $500 for the 60K and then driving the car for only a month or so before selling it didn't make any sense to me. Plus, I found a buyer for it right now (fingers crossed that he comes this weekend) and would much rather have a car to drive when the old one is gone than ...do what?.. for two months. All of this, of course, is not information the first dealership cares about (as well it shouldn't, I suppose).
Like I said, I doubt the dealership will lose money on my order (especially if the experience of my second dealer is any indication - took less than a week from the first guy backing out for me to drive it away). And if the guy wasn't such a dick on the phone, I would have gone an extra mile to make it worth his while and show my appreciation (which I'm still kinda doing, having mentioned on numerous forums now that I have a canceled order which someone could possibly take over and still get the Go Pro). If nothing else, it increases their chances of selling the car to a non-A-plan member (not sure if they make any more money or if Ford kicks some over their way for selling to a plan customer anyways), although that might be a reach given that in SE MI everyone seems to be a plan customer of some kind. Like I said - I feel badly about the situation, but not overly so.
I hear you - and it's probably not a huge deal as I'm sure they will sell it, but again it's about peoples word which seems to mean less and less every day.
Were you in a situation that you NEEDED a car now? If so, I can understand - but still only to a point. They fact is Ford never promised these cars on any date other than "Fall 2012" so if you ordered it and expected to have it by a certain date - again that's on you.
I'm also VERY excited to get my ST, but I placed an order and I'll wait until mine arrives. It's only another few weeks.
Just my opinoin!
What would you have me do instead? Bottom line, between the time I discovered my ST2 on the second dealer's lot and the time I went and picked it up (5 days), my first dealer could have done absolutely nothing to get me in an ST. So even calling him ahead of time to cancel (which I didn't want to do on the off chance I couldn't get financing in time and someone else would have bought the ST2 but I would no longer have the original ST3 order anymore) wasn't really an option. The car I wanted was sitting on the lot, ready to be purchased. How much do I owe it to the original guy to keep waiting (whether for the ST3 or for a replacement ST2) in that circumstance? I actually wanted to send him a bottle of wine or something, but thinking about it more and more, the way he chewed me out on the phone when I called to cancel, was more than enough satisfaction for him, as far as I am concerned. And, actually, my car was in the exact same situation - someone ordered it, then changed his mind. It's not like the original dealer should have much of a problem selling the ST3 once it gets there (assuming he's unable to get it deleted from the order bank), considering the attention the car has gotten.
Plus, I lost a couple of free oil changes (well, one - the other dealer offered me my first one free as well) and the GoPro. So as far as I am concerned, we each came out having lost something out of this situation. This is one of those where either way it turned out on the extremes (on one end me having to wait for an extra couple of months and possibly losing the advantageous % APR through my credit union that may not be available later but making the dealer happy and on the other precisely what ended up happening) would make someone unhappy without a good middle ground (unless you can come up with something that I haven't thought of).
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To most people the words 'prawn' and 'shrimp' mean something deliciously edible from the sea, probably with several legs and a hard shell. Australians think of prawns as large animals seen in the fish shop or on the menu in a restaurant. To them shrimps are smaller, the little pink things on the top of pizzas or maybe the small quick translucent creatures in rock pools.
But it isn't quite that simple.
Before deciding if prawns and shrimps are different, it has to be agreed that they are at least a bit similar. All prawns and shrimps are crustaceans, which are mostly aquatic animals with a hard skin (an exoskeleton) over a segmented body. Crustaceans belong to the subphylum Crustacea. They are like insects, which also have an exoskeleton, but differ in usually having many pairs of legs, instead of three pairs. The Decapoda, the group of Crustacea to which all prawns and shrimps (and lobsters and crabs) belong, have five pairs of legs on the main part of the body, plus five pairs of swimmerets on the abdomen or tail. It is the muscular tail that is edible. The classification of the Decapoda is very complex, even to a carcinologist (a scientist who studies Crustacea).
The crustaceans that Australians call prawns belong to one decapod family, Penaeidae. Adults grow to about 200 mm long. Most penaeids sold in Australian fish shops are caught by trawlers in the tropics, in places like the Gulf of Carpentaria. Small fisheries for prawns exist in estuaries farther south. In Asia prawns are raised in coastal farms.
Penaeids live close to the seafloor in shallow water, burrowing in the mud during the day and moving only at night, when they can be caught by trawl nets. Prawns reproduce by dispersing their eggs freely into the water, where the young prawns hatch and swim into estuaries to grow up.
There are about 70 species of prawns in Australia, but only 10 are of economic significance: banana prawn, Endeavour prawn, tiger prawn, king prawn, red-spot prawn and school prawn are some of the names used for different species or groups of species.
Australian shrimps, on the other hand, are members of the Caridea, another group of Decapoda comprising many families. Most carideans are not edible, or they are too small (rarely more than 40 mm long) to be caught commercially in Australia. The only edible shrimps seen in Australia are imported in cans from Asia. Carideans produce eggs that are carried by the adult female, attached to the swimmerets under the tail.
Hinge-beak ShrimpPhotographer: Michael Marmach. Source: Museum Victoria
A typical shrimpIllustration: Jo Taylor. Source: Museum Victoria
An important difference between penaeids and carideans, besides the way they reproduce, is in the way the segments of the abdomen (tail) overlap. In penaeids (prawns) the sides of all segments overlap the segment behind, like roof tiles. In carideans (shrimps) the sides of the second segment overlap both the one before and the one after (see drawing). And in prawns the first three of the five pairs of legs on the body have small pincers, while in shrimps only two pairs are claw-like. In some shrimps one or other of the first two pairs of legs is bigger than the other whereas in prawns all the legs are similar lengths.
A shrimp in the USA is a prawn in Australia!
But that is not the end of the story. There is a large fishery for penaeids in the southern USA, especially in the Gulf of Mexico, and Americans call them shrimp! Paul Hogan made the word familiar in Australia with his expression 'Throw another shrimp on the barbie!'
A typical prawnIllustration: Jo Taylor / Source: Museum Victoria
Grey, D. L., Dall, W. and Baker, A., 1983. A Guide to the Australian Penaeid Prawns. Northern Territory Government Printing Office: Darwin.
Poore, G.C.B. 2004. Marine decapod Crustacea of southern Australia. A guide to identification (with chapter on Stomatopoda by Shane Ahyong). CSIRO Publishing: Melbourne.
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The Indonesian magazine, Tempo, is in hot water with some Christian youth for its latest cover. The Alliance of Christian Students claims Tempo is guilty of blasphemy and wants the government to prosecute it under Article 156 of the Criminal Code which makes criminal public defamation, hostility and hatred toward religions. The cover draws upon Leonardo de Vinci's "The Last Supper" only it now depicts the former Indonesian ruler Soeharto eating supper with his four children. This is another of those examples of people getting hot under te collar over nothing. There is no visual or written evidence of anything anti-Christian, but, apparently, the students believe using a famous portrait for your own satirical purposes somehow constitutes being blasphemous. The hierarchy of the Catholic Church accepted the magazine's apology and considers the entire matter much ado about nothing.
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We're just getting into serious duck hunting here in Alberta. We've putzed around in the past, but don't know much about decoy spreads and layouts.
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Posted by Richard Fichera on February 29, 2012
At its recent financial analyst day, AMD indicated that it intended to differentiate itself by creating products that were advantaged in niche markets, with specific mention, among other segments, of servers, and to generally shake up the trench warfare that has had it on the losing side of its lifelong battle with Intel (my interpretation, not AMD management's words). Today, at least for the server side of the business AMD made a move that can potentially offer it visibility and differentiation by acquiring innovative server startup SeaMicro.
SeaMicro has attracted our attention since its appearance (blog post 1, blog post 2), with its innovative architecture that dramatically reduces power and improves density by sharing components like I/O adapters, disks, and even BIOS over a proprietary fabric. The irony here is that SeaMicro came to market with a tight alignment with Intel, who at one point even introduced a special dual-core packaging of its Atom CPU to allow SeaMicro to improve its density and power efficiency. Most recently SeaMicro and Intel announced a new model that featured Xeon CPUs to address the more mainstream segments that were not for SeaMicro's original Atom-based offering.
Posted by Richard Fichera on February 18, 2012
On Monday, February 13, HP announced its next turn of the great wheel for servers with the announcement of its Gen8 family of servers. Interestingly, since the announcement was ahead of Intel's official announcement of the supporting E5 server CPUs, HP had absolutely nothing to say about the CPUs or performance of these systems. But even if the CPU information had been available, it would have been a sideshow to the main thrust of the Gen8 launch — improving the overall TCO (particularly Opex) of servers by making them more automated, more manageable, and easier to remediate when there is a problem, along with enhancements to storage, data center infrastructure management (DCIM) capabilities, and a fundamental change in the way that services and support are delivered.
With a little more granularity, the major components of the Gen8 server technology announcement included:
Posted by Richard Fichera on February 5, 2012
In late 2010 I noted that startup SeaMicro had introduced an ultra-dense server using Intel Atom chips in an innovative fabric-based architecture that allowed them to factor out much of the power overhead from a large multi-CPU server ( http://blogs.forrester.com/richard_fichera/10-09-21-little_servers_big_applications_intel_developer_forum). Along with many observers, I noted that the original SeaMicro server was well-suited to many light-weight edge processing tasks, but that the system would not support more traditional compute-intensive tasks due to the performance of the Atom core. I was, however, quite taken with the basic architecture, which uses a proprietary high-speed (1.28 Tb/s) 3D mesh interconnect to allow the CPU cores to share network, BIOS and disk resources that are normally replicated on a per-server in conventional designs, with commensurate reductions in power and an increase in density.


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UV Sterilizer
Recently, I had an uproar of algae bloom in my 20 gallon freshwater tank. I was running a 24" T5 and kept on the light that came with my Aqueon 20gal. I've had it set up for a 12 hour cycle for quick growth from the beginning, however, i have realized that wasn't the best idea. I have since bought a UV Sterilizer (Green Monster 9w) and taken off the stock lighting, while reducing the cycle to about 9 hours light on, roughly. I started seeing the growth of black hair algae, (possibly red beard algae???). Since then, have manually removed most of it, but it is quite the nuisance. Some is still popping up very slowly, but has been less noticeable since my changes have taken place.
As a new(er) hobbyist (<6 months), I got a little overexcited and impatient and added a bit too many fish to my tank. Luckily, since they are small and i still have time to get a bigger tank (50 gal+), everything is looking ok. I have all living plants, a sword, krypt, some ferns, and a couple pieces of driftwood. I also have quite the clean-up crew, with 3 Amano Shrimp, 1 whisker shrimp, 3 snails, and a couple suckers. I conduct a 25%ish water change once every 4-5 days and this seems to be sufficient.
My point of this posting is to note that the UV sterilizer makes all the difference in the world in this tank and the water looks just as clear as it did(if not, more clear) when I first got my tank up and running.
If anyone has any suggestions concerning the black hair algae let me know, I looked in to some types of danios and SAE fish, but I don't want to be adding fish to my tank just to clean algae problems up(also i don't have the room for anymore currently.) Thanks!
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Mike McQueary Files Whistleblower Lawsuit Against Penn State
Former Penn State assistant football coach, Mike McQueary, has filed a Whistleblower lawsuit against his former employer according to several reports.
McQueary is best known for his disturbing testimony where he admitted to seeing Jerry Sandusky engage in illicit acts with minors in the Penn State shower room. McQueary claims that comments made by the University have harmed his reputation.
He also claims the University has caused him distress, anxiety, humiliation and embarrassment and he seeks millions of dollars in damages.
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"Spanier's statements have irreparably harmed (McQueary's) reputation for honesty and integrity, and have irreparably harmed (his) ability to earn a living, especially in his chosen profession of coaching football," the lawsuit said.
Regardless of how this lawsuits ends up, this is just yet another bout of bad publicity for Penn State. It appears it will be years before they can move past this horrific scandal.