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The recent Medicare reimbursement articles have been highly accessed articles here at BMED Report. Please review Jeff Cock's latest informational update that answers common questions surrounding the 2010 medicare payment changes that will go into effect in 2010.
Jeff Cook writes: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released its final rule on the 2010 fee schedule. The rule includes changes to Medicare payments for the practice expense portion of all covered services, including those commonly billed by psychologists. Based on the final rule, Medicare payments for psychological services are scheduled to be reduced an average of 2 percent per year for the four-year period beginning January 1, 2010 and lasting through 2013.
Why are practice expense values changing?
Practice expense relative values are the portion of the Medicare fee schedule that recognizes the direct and indirect costs of providing services — including rent, utilities, supplies, equipment and staff.
CMS began utilizing resource-based practice expense relative value units in the Medicare fee schedule in 1998. In 2005, the agency revised its methodology for calculating practice expense values, an action that stemmed in part from requirements under the Balanced Budget Refinement Act of 1999 and was designed to make practice expense values more specific to the service provided. The effects of that change have been phased in over the past three years with the transition scheduled to conclude with the 2010 fee schedule. Under the 2005 methodology, practice expense values were reduced by approximately 2 percent each year from 2006 to 2009.
Amid concerns that CMS was using outdated information, a multi-specialty survey was launched in 2007-2008 to obtain current data about the indirect costs of providing services. Prior to this survey, there was no baseline indirect practice expense data for a number of specialties, including psychology. Since 1998, psychologists' overhead expenses per hour had been linked to those reported by psychiatrists. The recent survey provides more specific indirect cost data for psychology and the other specialties.
CMS will now make payment determinations based on survey data that more accurately reflect the indirect costs associated with practice expense. For psychology, the survey data indicate that indirect practice expenses are lower. See the Q and A below about the involvement of the American Psychological Association (APA) in this process for further information.
Who is affected by the changes?
All providers of Medicare services will be affected by the changes. Beyond psychology, other specialties also will experience significant reductions in practice expense – and, therefore, in their Medicare payments. For example, practice expense values for cardiologists are cut by 10 percent, while radiologists will lose 14 percent and nuclear medicine will drop 15 percent.
What does the new rule mean for me and what can I expect in 2010?
CMS will begin to implement the changes to practice expense values for services provided on or after January 1, 2010. While the rule proposed by CMS last summer planned to reduce Medicare payments for psychological services by an average of 7 percent, the final rule will phase in reductions over four years — resulting in a lesser immediate impact of an average of 2 percent for services in 2010. Medicare payments are expected to be reduced by 2 percent on average in 2011, 2012 and 2013 as well — resulting in a total reduction of 8 percent when fully phased in. The average impact on psychological services increased from 7 to 8 percent because CMS adjusted its formula so that indirect costs represent a higher proportion of the final payment. Further, to maintain budget neutrality as required for Medicare, the higher reduction in payment for psychological services resulted from other services having increases in practice expenses.
Importantly, the changes will not equally affect all services. The chart below projects payment changes for the most commonly billed psychological services.
Average 2010 fees* for the Most Commonly Billed Services
|CPT Code
|2009 Average Fee
|2010 Average Fee
|% Change 2010 v. 2009
|Psych. diag. intvw.
|45-50 min. outpt. psychtx
|$ 89.08
|45-50 mins. inpt. psychtx
|$ 85.84
|Psych testing by psych
|$ 84.40
|Psych testing by tech
|$ 51.21
|Psych testing by comp.
|$ 46.17
|Neuropsych testing by psych
|Neuropsych testing by tech
|$ 74.30
|Neuropsych testing by comp.
|$ 68.52
|Health/Beh. assmt.
|$ 22.72
|Health/Beh. interv.
|$ 20.92
*2010 fees are based on the 2009 conversion factor and do not reflect the projected SGR cut.
** The 5% restoration for psychotherapy services is not included in these calculations.
How are the changes calculated?
Practice expense values are expected to change for all services provided by psychologists. Not all psychological services will see the same rate of change in their practice expense values because of the way the values are calculated. The practice expense value for a code is based on multiple factors used to calculate both the direct and indirect costs of the service. Factors included in the formula used by CMS are:
Direct Costs
- Supplies, equipment, clinical staff time/cost;
- Utilization rate for each service plus the sites-of-service (in-office or in a facility);
- Current pool of practice expense values allocated to direct costs for all services in the fee schedule;
- Conversion factor; and
- Budget neutrality factor.
Indirect Costs
- Survey data of rent, utilities, administrative staff and numbers of hours per year that the practice is open;
- Current pool of practice expense values allocated to indirect costs for all services in the fee schedule;
- Conversion factor; and
- Budget neutrality adjustment.
The direct and indirect costs are calculated separately and then blended into the final practice expense value. In most cases, the practice expense values account for approximately 30 percent of the total payment for psychological services.
The Medicare payment formula consists of three types of relative value units (RVUs) and the conversion factor that translates those units into a dollar amount. The average Medicare fee is derived by adding together each of the relative values – work, practice expense, and malpractice expense – and then multiplying that sum by the conversion factor. A geographic price adjustment may also be made to reflect the added costs of providing services in some areas.
How was the APA involved in the survey process?
Following the implementation of the 2005 revised methodology that resulted in annual reductions in practice expense values from 2006 to 2009, the American Medical Association, the APA and fifty other physician and non-physician organizations were concerned that CMS was using outdated information that was resulting in lower practice expense values. Together the organizations sought an independent, multi-specialty survey to obtain current data about the indirect costs of providing services, and the APA arranged for psychologists to participate in the survey.
Independent research firm DMR Kynetec administered the surveys and The Lewin Group analyzed the non-physician survey data, which was then sent to CMS for use in the calculation of practice expense values. CMS projected changes to practice expense based on the survey data when it issued the proposed rule on the 2010 fee schedule on July 13.
The APA was greatly concerned that the proposed rule from CMS projected a 7 percent cut on average for services provided by psychologists and immediately sought the survey data to examine for flaws in its administration, approach and findings. Because the APA and other specialty societies kept pressing for the data, AMA finally released important details about the survey on September 8, followed by additional information including the data specific to psychology on September 29.
The APA utilized the services of its actuary to review the practice expense data obtained in the survey. After confirming the validity of the data, our actuary noted some possible explanations for why the results indicated that psychologists had lower indirect practice expenses. Psychologists tend to have small practices with few administrative and clinical staff. Also, in response to the economic downturn over the past few years, psychologists likely have improved their productivity and/or reduced spending for items such as technology and office supplies.
If we had determined that an element of the survey was flawed, we would have exhausted every option to persuade and/or force CMS to revisit the changes.
Based on the this survey data, CMS promulgated the final rule on October 30, projecting a phased-in 8 percent cut through 2013 (2 percent per year beginning in 2010) on average for services provided by psychologists.
Why are certain services, such as neuropsychological testing, hit harder than others?
Neuropsychological testing is unique because of the supplies and equipment that are used to provide these assessments. Due to the costs for supplies and equipment, the practice expense values for neuropsychological testing services account for a larger percentage of the total fee than they do for psychotherapy or psychological testing. As a result, reductions in the practice expense values for neuropsychological testing — including changes in indirect costs such as rent, utilities and administrative staff — have a greater impact on the final payment than do practice expense reductions for other psychological services.
One additional factor reflected in these reductions is that the percentage of direct and indirect costs in the total payment is changing. Currently, direct costs represent 63 percent of the total practice expense relative value, while indirect costs represent 37 percent. Effective January 1, 2010, the direct costs will represent just 51 percent of the total value, while the indirect costs will rise to 49 percent. CMS is making this change having concluded that the data from the multi-specialty survey indicate that direct costs make up a smaller percentage of the total practice expense costs for almost every single specialty surveyed.
In summary, neuropsychological testing is harder hit because:
- The indirect practice expense costs applied to all of psychology will be lower for 2010;
- The lower indirect costs will make up a larger percentage of the total payment; and
- Direct costs, which are higher for neuropsychological testing than other psychological services, now represent a smaller portion of the total payment.
Services for psychological and neuropsychological testing by a computer will have their practice expense values raised. These changes are due in part to the new data about the licensing fee costs for these services that the APA provided to CMS in late 2007.
What are the APA and the APA Practice Organization doing to advocate for increased Medicare reimbursement for psychologists, and what other Medicare changes could occur in 2010?
Seeking appropriate reimbursement levels for psychological services remains a top advocacy priority of the APA Practice Organization (APAPO). While the APA's options are limited in response to the new rule on practice expense values, we continue to do all we can to influence those aspects of the reimbursement formula upon which we can have the maximum impact.
The APAPO is actively lobbying Congress to extend the restoration we won in 2008 providing an extra 5 percent for psychotherapy services for an additional two years to 2012. The restoration extender was included in the recently House-passed Affordable Health Care for America Act (H.R. 3962), as well as the Senate Finance Committee's America's Healthy Future Act. The APAPO continues to work to ensure the provision is included in the Senate's health care reform bill and the final bill that ultimately emerges from the conference committee.
Final payment amounts for 2010 will not be known until Congress decides if and how to address the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) cut currently projected by CMS to reduce all payments by 21.2 percent. Congress is expected to prevent the SGR cuts through legislation later this fall, and the APAPO is working with other providers to ensure passage of this critical measure.
In addition, coinsurance parity in Medicare will be phased in starting in 2010 when Medicare's payment rises to 55 percent and the beneficiary's portion drops to 45 percent. Full parity — with 80 percent paid directly by Medicare, just as for physical health services — will take effect in 2014.
Jeff Cook, J.D.
Director of Field & State Operations
American Psychological Association Practice Organization
750 First Street, NE Washington, DC 20002
(202) 336-5875 (Office)
(202) 336-5797 (Fax)
jco…@apa.org (click to verify and reveal email)
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In our ranch-style house in Greenville where I was born, the wood-paneled kitchen was where everyone wanted to be in the evenings. Our dining room functioned as my mom's sewing room for her sewing and alterations business, so we ate dinner at the kitchen table that sat just inches away from the avocado green refrigerator. When my little brother was a baby, he got his baths in the kitchen sink, and after dinner, the table was covered with puzzles, board games and homework.
For a rare treat, my parents would pull the TV with its bunny ears antenna into the kitchen, if a Disney special like Chitty Chitty Bang Bang or The Journey of Natty Gann (which might have been the first movie of John Cusack that I ever saw and loved, and the thought of jumping a train and traveling like a hobo with him seemed pretty romantic…) was playing during dinner. But most nights, there was no TV during dinner, and of course, no texting, no tweeting, no Angry Birds, or anything else like that (although our parents did have to pry books out of our hands when we tried to bring those to the dinner table). We sat and ate dinner and talked and laughed - just how I want dinner to be with my own kids someday.
The laminate-covered counter that backed up to the couch is the place I remember my brother, sister and I gathering around when my mom was cooking or baking. Every family dinner, birthday cake, batch of cookies and holiday pie was prepared at that counter, with us standing on stools or the tips of our toes, our noses pressed against the edge of the counter, trying not to miss out on a single drop of cake batter, spoonful of cookie dough or smear of frosting. We'd argue over who got to lick the bowl, beaters and spatula, as though we thought we would never have another chance, even though there was likely to be another dessert in a week or two. But to the mind of a child, that's the same as waiting forever.
If I was really lucky, my mom would let me have all the leftover scraps of pie dough after she finished making pies, to shape into my own little mini pie. I would play with the dough until it was completely tough and overworked, and then fill it with jam to bake alongside her pie.
I learned early on that cake batter was delicious, but muffin and pancake batter… not so much. I'm still not sure why that is. We ate spoonful after spoonful of raw cookie dough (with no regard for raw eggs), but a tiny taste of raw pie dough was more than enough.
It seems that no matter how grown up we get, we never lose that child-like love of cookie dough – maybe because almost all of us, every once in a while, wish we were kids again, back in the kitchen helping mom, with no worries of bills, health insurance, jobs, commutes and all that other grown-up stuff that's not nearly as fun as baking cookies. So after a friend mentioned a to-die-for cookie dough cupcake she'd eaten from a local bakery, it became my personal mission to create a signature version of my own.
Now, I've never tasted the cookie dough cupcake from that bakery, or any bakery for that matter, so I just gave a lot of thought to what I would like in this cupcake. I'll admit, I'm a sucker for the Chips Ahoy Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies – as much as I love homemade cookies, these are my favorite store-bought cookie. They're just so soft, so perfectly barely baked – so I knew that I wanted to incorporate these into my cupcakes in some way. I know, I know, I could/should/would have baked my own cookies before-hand (if I hadn't already baked two birthday cakes plus a batch of cake pops that weekend), and you certainly can if you like. Or just do it the easy way, because it's just as yummy. And coincidentally, these little cookies fit perfectly in the bottom of a cupcake liner, which is exactly what I wanted them for. Who could resist a cupcake baked on top of a cookie?
Yellow butter cake tastes rich and delicious, without competing for attention with the cookie or the frosting – and since the frosting is the most important part of this cookie, it should be the star. I considered mixing chocolate chips into the cake batter, too, and as amazing as that would be, I decided against it (more due to the fact that I didn't have enough chocolate chips for both the cake and the frosting than for the fear of chocolate chip overkill, if such a thing even exists).
So, for the part I know you're waiting for: The Frosting.
The frosting was my cookie dough element in this cupcake, although I didn't want to just place a scoop of cookie dough on top, I wanted it to be a cookie dough buttercream. I looked at the list of the ingredients that I would usually use when baking chocolate chip cookies – butter, brown and white sugar, eggs, vanilla, salt, cinnamon or nutmeg, flour, baking soda, chocolate chips and possibly nuts, my favorites being pecans. I nixed the eggs, flour, baking soda and white granulated sugar, and tweaked the ratio of butter and brown sugar, with powdered sugar instead of granulated, to make a creamy, fluffy buttercream with enough brown sugar to add that slight grittiness that is expected when you eat a spoonful of raw dough, and just the right hints of salt, vanilla and cinnamon.
After whipping the buttercream until it couldn't get any lighter, I stirred in the chocolate chips and chopped pecans. With the frosting sitting pretty on top of the cupcakes, a little sprinkling of mini chocolate chips and garnished with a half cookie, there was nothing I wanted to change. And I think my group of taste-testers would agree!
Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cupcakes
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- 45 Chips Ahoy Chewy cookies
- 1 box yellow cake mix
- 3 eggs
- 1/3 cup (2/3 stick) unsalted butter, softened to room temperature
- 1 cup milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 1/2 cups (3 sticks) unsalted butter, softened to room temperature
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 2 1/2 - 3 cups powdered sugar
- 2 tablespoons meringue powder
- 1 teaspoon coarse salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
- 2-3 tablespoons milk
- 1/2 cup finely chopped pecans
- 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 1/2 cup mini semi-sweet chocolate chips
Preheat the oven to 350. Line muffin pans with 30 paper liners. Place a cookie in the bottom of each liner, reserving the other 15 for later.
Mix the cake mix, eggs, butter, milk and vanilla on low speed to combine, then on medium speed for 2 minutes. Spoon into the liners, on top of the cookies, filling them 2/3 full.
Bake cupcakes for 18-20 minutes, until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool in the pans for 5 minutes, then transfer to wire racks and cool completely before frosting.
In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, beat the butter and brown sugar for 5 minutes on medium speed, until pale and fluffy. In a separate bowl, combine the powdered sugar, meringue powder, salt and cinnamon. Add by spoonfuls to the mixing bowl, mixing on low to combine. Add the vanilla and milk, then beat on medium high for 4-5 minutes until light and fluffy, adding more powdered sugar if it's too thin, or more milk if too thick. With a spatula, stir in the pecans and 1 cup chocolate chips.
Spread the frosting over the cupcakes. Take the remaining 15 cookies and cut them in half with a sharp knife. Top each cupcake with half a cookie and the mini chocolate chips.
Yields 30 cupcakes.
Recipe from Curly Girl Kitchen

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TRAVERSE CITY, Mich.: A U.S.-Canadian agency is urging both nations to crack down on big farms and other sources of phosphorus that is believed responsible for a rash of algae blooms on Lake Erie.
The International Joint Commission released a report with its recommendations Thursday. After taking public comment, the commission will revise the document before submitting it to both federal governments.
Runaway algae is a worsening problem on Lake Erie and some bays of Lakes Huron and Michigan. It contributes to an oxygen-deprived �dead zone� in Lake Erie and can release toxins. Scientists say a leading cause is excessive phosphorus runoff from farms and cities.
The report calls for setting firm targets for reducing runoff. It also recommends tougher regulation of farm fertilizing practices and banning most phosphorus fertilizers for lawn care.


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Located in southwest France, Bordeaux is a World Heritage Site recognized for its incredible historic cityscape. The Miroir d'Eau in front of Place de la Bourse is unmissable; this spectacular feature is the world's largest reflecting pool and is particularly popular among locals during the hot summer months.
The region's wine history is wonderfully recounted in the graceful, decanter-shaped La Cité du Vin museum on the banks of the Garonne River. To top it all off, your tour ends with a glass of fine Bordeaux – sheer bliss.


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- Interesting sabotage and reconnaissance missions
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[SP/COOP1-5] Last stroke
On June 21, 1941, before invasion Germany in USSR there is a little time. The German command throws diversionary group on the soviet territory, for the purpose of weakening of defense of councils, before blow.
[SP/COOP1-7] Bridge
A month passed after Germany's attack on the USSR, Soviet troops retreat to the east. There was a threat of encirclement of three divisions and, to prevent this, a Soviet sabotage group was abandoned in the German-occupied territory. It is necessary to create a congestion on the only bridge in the district so that the Germans can not transfer the troops that they need to fully encircle the Soviet army.
[SP/COOP1-7] Elimination
As a part of reconnaissance group, you have been abandoned for the front line. Your task to move forward in the caused position and to destroy the major general: Walter Weis.
[SP/COOP1-7] Sunset
There have passed several months, after invasion of Germany into the USSR. The guerrilla movement gains the steam, as a part of such group, you will move forward to the village to carry out there multiple diversions.
[SP/COOP1-7] Secret
The Soviet command hasn't managed to evacuate important documents of regional committee of the CPSU USSR which were stored in the railway car. Soon, Germans have occupied this area, but the importance of the found documents haven't managed to estimate. We need to destroy this railway car with important documents.
[MP/COOP1-7] Captive
The Soviet command is preparing a plan to attack the German positions. To fully implement the plan, more information is needed on the structure of the German defense. It is behind this, you have to move beyond the front line to capture a valuable "captive" who recently came to the front line for revision.
[SP/COOP1-7] Stille
Soviet intelligence, managed to capture the German major, responsible for the distribution of artillery on the front. During the operation, he was wounded and taken to the Soviet hospital. Until he came to himself, but as soon as he does, a great threat is that the Soviet command will find out about the basing of all the artillery at the front. The German leadership secretly sends a sabotage group to the enemy's rear to neutralize the major, so that important information does not reach the enemy.
[MP/COOP1-10] Trenches (Call of Duty: United Offensive remake)
Summer 1943, a group of recruits are transferred to the front in the Kursk region. After unloading from the railway car, they need to take a rifle and go to the front line. At the front, recruits immediately see all the realities of the war. As soon as the soldiers manage to get into the trenches, the German army begins an attack on the positions of the Soviet army..
[SP/COOP1-7] Tiger
The Soviet management manages to capture the confidential German PzKpfw VI Tiger tank. In turn, the German military authorities quickly throw the diversionary group, on the territory where tests of the new tank have to be carried out. It is entrusted to group: at any cost to destroy the tank.
[SP/COOP1-7] Rising
Belarus, September, 1943, the local guerrilla movement regularly performs operations in the German back. You should participate in one of such operations. It is necessary to steal explosive and to deprive of Germans of two fuel tanks in the village.
[SP/COOP1-7] Curtain
In several days Norman operation has to begin, but investigation reports that on all perimeter of the beach, air defenses of the opponent are stuck, also the opponent's fighters are based on local airfield. Your task "to smooth out" the territory and to prepare the base for Norman disembarkation.
[SP/COOP1-3] Death to Spies
Summer 1944. Belorussia is already liberated, however, a group of enemy scouts on its territory regularly transmits important Intelligence information about soviet forces. At the same time, a soviet officer was ambushed and killed, and important documents were captured. If the information is correct, then we are dealing with an elite german unit "Brandenburg 800". A recon squad under the command of a SMERSH officer is sent to find and eliminate the enemy forces.
[MP/COOP 1-10] In august 44th
The soviet commanders are preparing a full-scale assault in the region of Poland. In order for us to start the operation we have to eliminate certain threat that may lead to the failure of our advance. You are a recon soldier of the 1st Belorussian front's recon squad. You will have to risk your life whilst carrying out dangerous operations behind the front lines.
[SP/COOP 1-7] PayCheck
The Red Army is preparing for a large-scale attack to kick the enemy out of the Baltic! But, right before the operation begining, a secret card file with list of SMERSH agents was stolen in a special section of the Baltic front. The unexpected plan of attack is in danger of failure, as the list of all the Baltic agents has disappeared. Soviets counterintelligence agents have identified the person who might be involved in stealing documents and roughly tracked his location. This is Bogdan Petrov, probably he was recruited by the Abwehr along before the war. The Soviet command urgently gathered and sends a group of scouts for the single mission - elimination of the traitor and returning secret files to the USSR.
[SP/COOP1-7] Dungeon
As usual, a group of bombers, under the cover of fighter jets, advanced toward the front line. After the successful defeat of targets, German air defense began to work suddenly from the ground. One of the jets was shot down, the captain of the US Air Force was sitting at the helm. Before a major operation, the American command decided to release the prisoner so that he would not be killed when the US army will attacked.
[SP/COOP1-7] Resistance
Poland 1944, the Germans seriously worried about the situation at the front. The German command received information about the impending offensive of the USSR. To delay the offensive, the Germans throw a sabotage group behind the front line. She needs to blow up a storage with weapons and grab a secret map on which the parts of the Red Army are marked.
[SP/COOP1-7] Blizzard
Before large operation, American command, throws one of the prospecting groups on a front line. She should take important both for Germans and for Americans documents on dislocation of the German troops in the area.
[SP/COOP1-7] Spark
After capturing the most important documents (see the mission of Blizzard), the American command prepared a plan for attacking and seizing German positions in the city of Neaville. For a successful start of the attack, the reconnaissance group needs to begin to destroy two cannons, which can impede the advance of the troops, and then support the attack of the main forces.
[SP/COOP1-5] Ambush
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Stanford Weill, the former chairman and CEO of Citigroup, just listed his lavish Manhattan penthouse for… drumroll please… $88 million. According to the Wall Street Journal, Weill and his wife Joan are hoping to downsize their digs and acknowledged that in this economy it's "a pretty good time" for wealthy Americans "to be quiet."
The Weills bought the full-floor penthouse at 15 Central Park West for $43.7 million in August 2007, which was the highest paid price per square foot at the time. The penthouse boasts ceilings as high as 12.5 feet, 19 glass doors, four bedrooms, 6.5 bathrooms, and a 33-foot-wide living room. Needless to say, the impeccable spread typifies luxury living at its finest.
In a move that should elicit much admiration, Weill announced that he intends to donate to charity the proceeds form the sale of his $88 million penthouse. If the former CEO of Citigroup fetches even close to the $88 million list price, the sale would undoubtedly set new real estate records, and provide the economy with the boost it so well needs. Weill commented, "the proceeds of what we get will go to what we can give away to try to help make the world a better place."


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Dining: Best Local Food
The tasty portion of our Best of Honolulu 2004 issue.
(page 1 of 3)
Best Ahi Salad
It's $7, crunchy, soft and spicy. A small eatery called Sushi Land serves up an ahi vegetable salad, an attractively arranged bowl of slivered green and purple cabbage, chopped iceberg lettuce and finely julienned carrots and cucumbers—all topped with ahi sashimi, garnished with tobiko and slivers of nori. Drizzle it with sesame seed or ko chu jang (Korean chili paste) dressing or both, mix it all up and your taste buds will delight in the mix of crunchy and soft textures and spicy flavors. Adding warm rice makes it even better. The salad comes alone ($7) or in a "set" with miso soup and rice; there are salmon and hamachi variations, too. The best part is you feel like it's so good for you. And it probably is. Sushi Land, 1610 S. King St., 945-2256.
Best Pastries, Breakfast
Lots of bakeries in Honolulu can supply reputable Danish, doughnuts or croissants to supplement your morning coffee. But we ducked into Kakaako Kitchen one morning, and found some baked goodies that were out of the ordinary, and, frankly, scrumptious. They are the work of pastry chef Lisa Siu. Siu's morning buns are cinnamon rolls, with just enough spice and sugar, not the gooey mess of similar concoctions. Her scones are well flavored, light and crumbly, and her dense, but remarkably moist banana poi and pumpkin ginger breads are so good you'll be amazed when your slice disappears lickety-split. (Most of these pastries are big enough to split.) Morning is hard enough, it should always taste this good. Kakaako Kitchen, Ward Centre, 1200 Ala Moana Blvd., 596-7488.
Best Bread, Baguette
Nothing beats a baguette with a crisp-but-not-tough crust surrounding a chewy, moist interior. After tasting so many baguettes that our table was covered with bread crumbs, we found the perfect combination in the baguette from the Patisserie. We loved it plain, and we loved it slathered with salted butter and accompanied by red wine. There are so many good breads around now that it was tough distinguishing this loaf. But it easily surpasses some of the recently popular Mainland breads (La Brea, Grace, Raymond and others) that arrive as frozen dough and are baked in Hawaii's supermarkets. Some of these, let it be known, deserve a few more minutes in the oven to achieve their intended good flavor and texture. Patisserie, Kahala Mall, 4211 Waialae Ave., 735-4402.
Best Bread, Specialty
This wasn't true even five years ago, but Hawaii now has wonderful breads, everything from cheese loaves to pain rustique. Of all the specialty breads we tried, the stand-out was La Brea's Whole Grain Bread, available in a two-loaf pack at Island Costco outlets. We felt virtuous eating this—it's full of things like flax, millet and cracked wheat—but what we liked best was the rich, slightly sweet flavors, the wonderful soft texture and the firm crust. Devotees of complex carbs should know this bread does contain some refined white flour, but it's also full of everything from soy to rye to sunflower seeds. Also worth noting: Most Costco outlets sell this in the standard paper La Brea bags, but at Costco Hawaii Kai it's sold in plain plastic bags with a Kirkland label. "We had trouble with the paper bags breaking," said a bakery worker there, "but it's La Brea bread." Costco, five Island locations.
Best Shave Ice
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Future Venus Missions
Future Venus Missions
Jul 1 2005, 01:30 AM
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Oh well, might as well start that new topic since it's already well advanced in the Juno area...
My perspective on landers is as follows. All the landers we've had so far were dropped blind onto an essentially unknown surface. Any future landers can be targeted for specific terrains. It really is not true that we have had representative landings. Even a descent image or two, a panoramic photo plus a bit of surface composition, from a simple Venera-class lander just updated a bit, would be useful if we could put several down at well chosen targets. My choices would be:
Examples of the main plains units (smooth, fractured, ridged)
high elevation radar-bright tesserae
large fresh lava flow unit ('fluctus')
crater dark parabola
crater ejecta outflow unit
dunes area.
And I have always assumed, rightly or wrongly, that it would be relatively easy to put these down, so they ought to be fairly inexpensive as planetary landers go.
... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Jul 1 2005, 09:23 AM
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Well, to repeat a point I've suggested (somewhere) on this site before: given the great additional difficulty of designing a Venus probe if you have to add an airlock to it to allow it ingest samples into its interior, how much good compositional data can you get on Venus' surface WITHOUT such an airlock. A surprising amount, I suspect. A test has already shown that the LIBS system planned for instantaneous, precise and long-distance element measurements on the MSL rover should work just as well in Venus' environment ( ).
On Mars and on airless worlds, this instrument can probably be combined with a Raman spectrometer (which also uses laser light) for a lot of mineralogy studies (although this system wasn't considered quite ripe enough by the LIBS group right now to add it to their proposal for the MSL's LIBS; it's worked fine in ground tests). I'm not sure whether Raman would work as well at long-range in the super-dense Venusian atmosphere -- it relies on measuring an extremely small trace of backscattered laser light -- but even if it doesn't, you could put the fiber-optic connections to a Raman spectrometer and its laser on a simple arm on the lander to contact the local surface in different places. You could also add other gadgets to that arm: a microscopic imager, and maybe even an abrading wheel to grind the weathering crust off Venusian rocks -- which the lander could probably locate on the surface using a simple hardness sensor on the arm.)
Add a panning near-IR spectrometer to the lander (plus a tiltable flashlamp (or broadband laser) to periodically illuminate the surface and allow that spectrometer to distinguish its reflectance spectra from thermal emission spectra), and maybe also a gamma-ray spectrometer inside the lander's hull, and you could answer damn near every important scientific question about Venus' surface -- except for in-situ age dating -- without ANY airlock, and without any need for instruments that require a long time to gather their data (such as X-ray and Mossbauer spectrometers). An X-ray diffractometer like the one on MSL (which also requires ingested samples) could provide additional mineralogy data, but I question whether it's really essential by itself given the Raman and near-IR spectrometers.
Jul 1 2005, 09:27 AM
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I see I forgot to provide the URL for the LPSC abstract on the use of LIBS on Venus. *sigh*
Jul 1 2005, 04:28 PM
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Phil is, of course, completely right about the list of interesting Venus terrains; I think anything but an aerobot approach will leave us a long time in seeing all of them, but a network of four geophysical stations ought to be chosen opportunistically to sample some of the more unusual locations.
A possible Venus exploration gizmo: either an aerobot or a stationary lander that needed a source of artificial light to do spectroscopy despite the incessant IR glow could have microprojectiles that contain nothing but a flash device. This need not require any wet chemistry or electronics whatsoever, or very minimal versions thereof, and therefore be extremely simple and light. An aerobot could drop them, or a stationary lander could eject them several (tens of?) meters away, and then the main craft would image the surface at the time/place of the flash. To get the purest signal, this could be done at night, when only the venusian IR glow would persist. Of course, with-flash and without-flash data would help to get rid of the noise. Perhaps this adds nothing to the LIBS approach -- the question is whether a laser casts its light farther and cheaper and more multispectrally than a "bottlerocket" style of flash. The laser could be used more often, but the flash would allow work at a distance to eliminate all of the scattering problems of the laser and half of the atmospheric absorption. Perhaps an aerobot that is not configured for Venus surface heat, but stays a few km up, could make use of flashes in a circumstance where a laser would require a lower and hotter "perivenus"? Just a thought on the behalf of 13th century technology.
Jul 1 2005, 04:31 PM
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QUOTE (BruceMoomaw wrote.)
....and without any need for instruments that require a long time to gather their data
I think you are right, a Mössbauer spectrometer of the kind the MER rovers have will not do, whatever instruments a Venus lander will be provided with they need to work rather fast.
Perhaps the robotic arm should work by a simple cog and wheel system moving automatically from point to point and a simple contact that turns of the downward movement as soon it touch hard soil, just in the hope it will get to touch down on more that one kind of mineral and bedrock. Without computerized parts, you wont risk overheating and failure.
If one airconditioned lander survives the first 12 hours or whatever, it should have the ability to download new instructions, so this would indeed be a workable kind of lander.
But I have a hunch that the space agencies never will spend that much money to send any simpler lander that Phil Stooke suggests. When they spend that many millions for the launch and logistics, the administrators will upgrade the lander up to the point where the lander will be one other megabuck marvel in itself.
So that proposal of a really simple non computerized system and Phil Stooke's suggestion might not happen at all, yet I have a hunch that for one inhospitable place like Venus, the best way to go is by the 'keep it simple stupid' thinking.
Jul 1 2005, 11:28 PM
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The main justification for simplifying a Venus lander is that it can enable you to launch more than one at one time. Larry Esposito's "SAGE" concept -- which, from what little I know about it, apparently DID have both an airlock and a GCMS atmospheric analyzer -- neverthless consisted of two or three landers on one mission.
Jul 7 2005, 02:39 PM
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Given that the surface is so hot and so highly pressured, why not take a leaf from the early explorers of the ocean bottoms? Dredge for rocks!
Picture a balloon flying in Venusian atmosphere at about the 32km level. This height is good since it's below the bulk of the cloud cover, giving you the ability to view the surface. Pressure is around 8bar and the temperature is around 200C. Not really a problem for well-designed electronics & balloon materials. Water doesn't automatically boil at this pressure/temp, so may be useful for radiators.
A thin titanium wire, with a basic end effector, could be winched down from a balloon at this height to pick up suitable rocks for analysis back within the balloon. A wire some 1.32 mm across, tapering to around 1mm at the bottom, would in total mass about 160kg, and enable a load of about 20kg to be lifted, assuming some 5kg mass for a grabber/hardened camera, etc.
100kg of lift in a CO2 atmosphere could be provided with just under 8 cubic metres of H2 in the balloon, so the size of the bag could be really quite trivial.
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Jul 7 2005, 02:54 PM
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As there are some fairly well-described outline designs for RTG-powered refrigerated landers, I find myself wondering whether the waste heat from the refrigeration system could be used to produce lift in a hot-air balloon. An almost mechanically inert (in terms of externals - obviously, there's pumps and whatnots beavering away inside!) lander could drift around the landscape, rising from time to time then falling once more. Think of a Galilean Thermomoter, and the way the glass spheres bob up and down...
You'd get:
Multiple ground-truth sites
Aerial imaging
And probably a few other goodies, too!
Remember: Time Flies like the wind - but Fruit Flies like bananas!
Jul 7 2005, 08:18 PM
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QUOTE (Bob Shaw @ Jul 7 2005, 07:54 AM)
As there are some fairly well-described outline designs for RTG-powered refrigerated landers, I find myself wondering whether the waste heat from the refrigeration system could be used to produce lift in a hot-air balloon. An almost mechanically inert (in terms of externals - obviously, there's pumps and whatnots beavering away inside!) lander could drift around the landscape, rising from time to time then falling once more. Think of a Galilean Thermomoter, and the way the glass spheres bob up and down...
You'd get:
Multiple ground-truth sites
Aerial imaging
And probably a few other goodies, too!
It'd be great if it worked, but of course, the refrigeration scheme itself involves a lot of mass per payload mass.
Venus permits a lot of buoyancy, potentially, especially if helium filled the balloon, but that margin could be eaten up with a nuclear-powered refrigerator + thermal insulation + ???
Also, heated CO2 would not give you much buoyancy compared to helium unless you really heated the hell out of it. Venus's high ambient temperature really works against that. To halve the density of CO2, you'd have to double the temperature, up to roughly 1000K! I'm no material scientist, but I guess you're talking about fewer and fewer possible balloon materials that will hold up as a strong, thin film when boosted to white heat!
I think compressing and uncompressing helium (at thermal equilibrium with the outside) would provide a *lot* more lift with less mass. Although, I understand and admire you're looking for synergy between a design side-effect and a possible desirable feature.
The synergy you get in design with Venus balloons is that the higher a balloon resides, the cooler the ambient temperature that must be withstood. If thermal inertia (passive!) can keep the system alive throughout a single exploratory drop, then we might have systems that can only tolerate the Venusian surface environment temporarily, but long enough for an arbitrary number of descents. The Veneras operated in this fashion. A balloon carrying a heat sink could reach thermal equilibrium at 40-100 C. Then the question is: How much time would be required in a surface stay to do useful science? For imagery, very little. To grab a sample, very little. It is possible, in times of favorable geometry, to work a single telemetry/command feedback loop with Earth-based controllers in just a few minutes. (Transmit an image, ask which rock/soil unit should be grabbed, and receive that command -- the AI for that is beyond MER, but not beyond reason.) If a ~45-minute surface stay is well within safe margins for thermal constraints, then that's not a bad MO. If descents could be managed at roughly the rate of one per day, then a lot of surface exploration could take place in a primary mission of two or three weeks.
The whole scheme then could be to identify a swath across one line of latitude of Venus that contains several worthwhile terrain units that are, moreover, going to be in local daylight with a line-of-sight to Earth during a desired primary mission. The craft would control its horizontal motion by ascending into local winds, thereby deriving the horizontal motion. The heat sink would get well below top operating temperature, and then the craft would perform a dive to its target. It would take descent images and a single surface panorama, beam them to Earth, and autonomously perform surface science while awaiting a command from Earth identifying which surface patch to sample by arm. After about 20 minutes, the human-made decision would reach the craft, an arm would make a grab for the target, and then the craft would ascend again, and spend its time analyzing the sample up in the cool heights above. An exploration of terrains in the vicinity of 150 E, moving along the equator or 10 S -- could be a heck of a mission, with lots of geological and "remote" sensing of many terrains. Of course, if a pair of these things could be afforded, working at different latitudes but identical longitudes in the same time frame, then a very thorough exploration would result.
Jul 8 2005, 01:58 AM
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Actually, this type of mission -- a balloon using "reversible fluids" to achieve controllable variable buoyancy with a surprisingly low use of both gas and power, spenjding most of its time in the clouds but dipping periodically all the way to the surface briefly -- has been studied by JPL for years as the "Venus Geoscience Aerobot". I've just found two very detailed descriptions of it that I wasn't even aware were on the Web (including Martha Gilmore's article, of which she privately sent me a less developed version YEARS ago. Apparently it took her that long to get Acta Astronautica to publish the damn thing.)
If this balloon design is workable, then obviously this has tremendous merit as a New Frontiers or Small Flagship mission. (One can easily conceive of an improved version, which uses LIBS and Raman spectrometers for its brief surface analyses rather than an X-ray spectrometer as she suggests -- or which actually deploys a core tube or scoop to snatch a surface sample for later leisurely onboard analysis, like JPL's recent Titan Organics Explorer concept: http://www.lpi.usra.edu/opag/feb_05_meetin...resentation.pdf .)
Unfortunately, that seems to be a a very big "if", judging from Kerzhanovich's recent LPSC piece ( http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2005/pdf/1223.pdf ), in which he says flatly: "A key problem is that at the time the decadal survey
was published, no high temperature balloon technology existed to implement either mission. Prior technology development efforts had concentrated on a
single balloon that could operate across the entire 0-60 km altitude range, tolerating both the sulfuric acid aerosols and the extreme temperatures of -10 to +460 ºC. However, this problem was unsolved because no combination of sufficiently lightweight balloon material and manufacturing (seaming) technology was ever found to tolerate the high temperatures at the surface." If, as this implies, polybezoxasole can't be adequately seamed after all, then we're stuck with his suggestion for a near-surface steel-bellows ballon whose instrument package must endure Venusian surface tempartures for o very long periods -- which will require new electronics technology, as the Solar System Roadmap says.
Jul 8 2005, 02:47 PM
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Very interesting - you are a fount of knowledge!
The nice thing about hot-air balloons is that they have a natural homeostasis, and can tolerate leaks so long as you can keep adding heat - pressure altitude bursts etc are also naturally avoided by virtue of the big open cavity. Some of the recent terrestrial around-the-world (etc) manned ballooon flights have also used hybrid structures, with a helium bladder surrounded by a hot-air envelope.
As for materials, an open-bottomed stainless steel structure could be extended at altitude when cool (think of one of those nested metal travelling drink cup affairs crossed with an umbrella made out of Webb Telescope hexagons), with some sort of caulking around the edges like an intumescent strip on a fire-door and then used as an aerobrake to the surface. On the way down, it heats up, the caulking melts in place, the metal expands and suddenly there's a balloon. Well, a balloon made for a deep-sea furnace, anyway...
If there's an active refrigeration system aboard the lander then it'd run *hot* at the radiator end - the darn thing'd have to be much hotter than ambient, and that's red heat, so we're looking at a ready energy source for bobbing around the landscape, even with CO2. The killer would be to get up into the cool air again to dump as much heat as possible, or else you'd end up floating at some gradually decaying height while your electronics and mechanicals slowly baked. Think of the remote sensing fun at 5kmh at 300m altitude for a month, though!
Speaking of balloons, have you ever come across any serious commentary on the VEGA Soviet/French balloons? About all I've found are brief mentions...
Bob Shaw
Remember: Time Flies like the wind - but Fruit Flies like bananas!
Jul 8 2005, 03:03 PM
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Among the interesting points in the .PDFs to which Bruce posted links are:
A wind-turbine to provide power for night-side operations
Pre-ordained trajectories for geological traverses
Very-high resolution surface imaging
Remember: Time Flies like the wind - but Fruit Flies like bananas!
Jul 20 2005, 01:45 PM
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A conceptual small Venus atmosphere probe picture from 1979, intended to allow a slow descent of a (fairly) long-lived vehicle under a balloon.
Remember: Time Flies like the wind - but Fruit Flies like bananas!
Jul 20 2005, 01:53 PM
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ESA is looking at a mission that is using a balloon that will stay afloat by dropping microprobes along the way. So you get both balloon and probe. Pretty neat idea.
found a website...
Nov 6 2005, 02:15 AM
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NASA's Venus Exploration Analysis Group (VEXAG) -- the new equivalent of MEPAG and OPAG -- held its first meeting yesterday in Pasadena ( http://www.lpi.usra.edu/vexag/vexag.html ). While I missed the morning session because I had to catch the final part of the COMPLEX meeting, I did manage to catch the afternoon session.
Unfortunately, not much was said then -- except that the subgroup that deals with "Planetary Formation and Evolution" (that is, surface studies as opposed to atmosphere studies) came up, during a session at the meeting itself, with what Steve Mackwell regards as a very good initial list of desired science measurements, along with information on how technologically difficult they will be. In the next two weeks, the subgroup will prioritize and finalize this list, and he's promised to send their conclusions to me -- although I imagine I'll be using those in my "Astronomy" article and so may not be free to announce them here. (I will say that he agreed with me that, since the minimal estimate for the cost of a Venus sample return is $10 billion, Congress will fund that mission on about the same day that O.J. finds the real killers. We will have to settle for in-situ measurements instead.)
Mewanwhile, three of the Powerpoint presentations from the meeting have just been put on its site at http://www.lpi.usra.edu/vexag/1st_comm_meeting.html . Three of them are disappointing, but there's a very nicely detailed description of the precise measurments that MESSENGER will make during its second Venus fyby in June 2007. (The instruments will be off during the first one in Oct. 2006, because it's near solar conjunction and the flyby is rather distant anyway).
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Last night, my party got Pokerus AND I caught a SHINY SWELLOW! RTA fan (talk) 12:17, June 4, 2013 (UTC)
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Moving the File from Trevor's image
Can you might possibly please help me to move Trevor's image that I accidently uploaded in the wiki in this image as File:Tierno Artwork.png and its suppose to be File:Trevor Artwork.png, I accidently marked Trevor's name as for Tierno's name before I uploaded and I realized from looking up on pokebeach.com for the info that its said Tieruno's, not Toroba's.{{SUBST:User:King Marth 64/Sig}} 04:03, June 14, 2013 (UTC)
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Allow me to get right to the point, Im one of the admins on the the wiki-answers, and we are in need of assistance.
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Rainbow a stub article is considered when it is less or more than 300 bytes but Hoenn Route 130 has over 300 bytes. The Fire Strikes 17:42, July 9, 2013 (UTC)
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All of the ability pages have a chart of all the pokémon that have that ability. At the heading of these charts, there is a color that associates with the majority type of pokémon that have that ability. Considering you're an administrator I thought I'd ask you a question on a dilemma I've been having. Should I consider pokémon that have the ability through the Dream World when I count the pokémon that have the ability in total? Because I was thinking that pokémon that naturally have the ability would count for 1, and pokémon that have the ability through the Dream World count for .5. What do you think? So I should go on with the
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- Get in chat, now. Gutless (talk)
- I see you've been active on the hunger games wiki, Jade. Still, no message to me. We need to talk now. Gutless (talk)
- Get in chat right now, Jade. Gutless (talk)
- And I mean ASAP, Jade. Gutless (talk)
- Read this message, get in chat. Gutless (talk)
Other Way Around?
This may be speculation on my part but the rules say we can't copy info from Bulbapedia right? But what if they copied stuff from us?
Signed, Winxfan1. I am the ultimate fan of Winx Club 10:32, August 2, 2013 (UTC)
It's the plot of the episode. They copied it from me. Can you fix it?
Signed, Winxfan1. I am the ultimate fan of Winx Club 15:24, August 2, 2013 (UTC)
Get in the chat.
Jade, don't force me to do something I will regret. Just join chat, please. Gutless (talk)
Last time I'm going to ask nicely. Gutless (talk)
Alright, Jade. I don't recall if I told you last time, but I have your IP address. Just in case, you never know what might come in handy. Gutless (talk)
Hahahahahaha! Oh Jade, your friend shouldn't have done that. You're in an even worse position right now. Gutless (talk)
...get in chat. Glacius Sabrewulf (talk)
Lol, scratch that. I am done with you, Jade. You're not even hot. Glacius Sabrewulf (talk)
Though I did let the user go, the last edit he made was clear spam. Energy X 21:35, August 9, 2013 (UTC)
More vandals
This is a repeated vandal, he is inserting wrong categories. Please deal with the user. Energy X 19:45, August 12, 2013 (UTC)
A couple of suggestions
Jade-chan, I think we should add a Gen VI section under the Pokemon Tap on the bar across the top of the page. (I afraid I don't if one should call it a Navigation Bar, or what.) This so we easily but information in regarding the new Pokemon and Mechanics found in the upcoming Gen VI games: X and Y. Speaking of which it might not hurt to add sections in the Games section under Main Series. For example I would like to inculde page about Mega Evolution, but I am unsure of where it should it go. For the info I have access to on regarding Mega Evolution please look here.
Also prehabs we should add pages pretaining to types (espically considering the reveal of the new Fairy Type); current and up comining events (I noticed the ones on the main page are really out of date) as I can provide info on these as well.
I'm sorry if I come across as bossy or demanding; I just was trying to suggest ways to make the Wiki better.
I'll add a sub-page of my user page for my sig, later if it's necassary. And I can't seem to make my sig work here...sorry. Edit: NVM that last statement, God helped me get my sig to work.
http://i1301.photobucket.com/albums/ag119/TristanTsunami/wendy_marvell___fairy_tail_by_meiji405-d41d659_zpsee1ce5ed.pngTristan http://i1301.photobucket.com/albums/ag119/TristanTsunami/7Jmk4xl_zpsed238cad.pngTsunami http://i1301.photobucket.com/albums/ag119/TristanTsunami/1420108K7I3IZP4_zpsdb84ba04.gif17:08,8/14/2013 17:08, August 14, 2013 (UTC)
I have to ask this:
How many things do YOU see wrong with this bit of Trivia on the Main Page?
"That Spiritomb and Sableye with Wonder Guard can be hit by the move Fire Fang?"
I can think of 3 right of the bat.
- Sableye and Spirittomb can't Legally possess the Ability Wonder Guard.
- A Ghost/Dark Type Pokemon with Wonder Guard (Legal or Hacked) CAN'T be hit with Fire Fang.
- A Ghost/Dark Type Pokemon has no Type Weakness that I know of (I'm not sure it Foresight + Fighting Attacks count here); so it if one has Wonder Guard, it couldn't be attacked without either: A. It Type Changing, or B. Its Ability Changing.
Can we make a Trivia Wall of Shame here too please?
And I'm sorry Rainbow; I just feel I needed to point it out. If you can Validate this Trivia, from a reliable source (i.e. Serebii/Bulbapedia), I will take back all I said.
Sorry to bug you with this.
The other thing I meant to ask is:
Is there a Page made for the In-game Rivals?
http://i1301.photobucket.com/albums/ag119/TristanTsunami/wendy_marvell___fairy_tail_by_meiji405-d41d659_zpsee1ce5ed.pngTristan http://i1301.photobucket.com/albums/ag119/TristanTsunami/7Jmk4xl_zpsed238cad.pngTsunami http://i1301.photobucket.com/albums/ag119/TristanTsunami/1420108K7I3IZP4_zpsdb84ba04.gif04:56,8/15/2013 04:56, August 15, 2013 (UTC)
Even when told that this Pokémon is female, this user still repeats the same edits; either he removes or replaces the gender with male. Can something be done about it? Energy X 09:09, August 15, 2013 (UTC)
Hi Im Phanphy! This Is My First time on Pokemon Wiki! Check out My Page!Do You Like Battles?!
I have To Ask You Something
Wanna Battle?
Either or?
Do you like Brock or Cilan?
So, why didn't you block the user who vandalised your user page? Energy X 08:30, August 18, 2013 (UTC)
I whole heartledly agree Rainbow-chan. Drop the Ban-Hammer on the fool. http://i1301.photobucket.com/albums/ag119/TristanTsunami/wendy_marvell___fairy_tail_by_meiji405-d41d659_zpsee1ce5ed.pngTristan http://i1301.photobucket.com/albums/ag119/TristanTsunami/7Jmk4xl_zpsed238cad.pngTsunami http://i1301.photobucket.com/albums/ag119/TristanTsunami/1420108K7I3IZP4_zpsdb84ba04.gif18:53,8/21/2013 18:53, August 21, 2013 (UTC)
NVM you already did. And I gotta rememger to fix my sig later. http://i1301.photobucket.com/albums/ag119/TristanTsunami/wendy_marvell___fairy_tail_by_meiji405-d41d659_zpsee1ce5ed.pngTristan http://i1301.photobucket.com/albums/ag119/TristanTsunami/7Jmk4xl_zpsed238cad.pngTsunami http://i1301.photobucket.com/albums/ag119/TristanTsunami/1420108K7I3IZP4_zpsdb84ba04.gif09:01,8/18/2013 09:01, August 18, 2013 (UTC)
What happened of Pokémon stats listing? On Zorua page, someone listed the stats, but they cannot be put in the template, so what should we do about it? Energy X 17:46, August 19, 2013 (UTC)
I am giving this user, Rainbow Shifter, BCRAT rights as she is a great help, and I am still going to be mostly inactive, as I'm trying to find a way to maintain Being the founder of two wiki's and being the only active user on both, I'm the only active user and BCRAT on the Infinity Blade wiki on Gamepedia, and I am working towards RB and CM on another, this wiki will be worked back into my schedule as soon as possible, But I may have to alter around stuff to get it fitted back in. Slay Talk "Shadows wonder why we scream."19:54,8/23/2013 4,527
XY Color scheme
Hey, have you thought of a color scheme to use for season and episode templates for the X and Y anime?
Signed, Winxfan1. I am the ultimate fan of Winx Club 22:00, August 29, 2013 (UTC)
That works.
Signed, Winxfan1. I am the ultimate fan of Winx Club 10:15, August 30, 2013 (UTC)
It has been some time, as Lucasmoura has been copying the episode plots from Bulbapedia. [DP170: An Elite Coverup|Here]] is one such proof from our wiki and here is from Bulbapedia. Energy X 18:42, September 1, 2013 (UTC)
Not sure if I asked you, but *please* move the Morison page to Morrison. Only administrator can do that, as it is explained that previous attempts to make the page were actually content copied from Bulbapedia and so it was locked.
Thank you! Energy X 09:03, September 2, 2013 (UTC)
HG wikia....
Sorry Jade can u unban me plz c;
{{SUBST:User:TheFireJay/Sig}} 08:32, September 2, 2013 (UTC)
I just cheeked and am still banned ;-;
I think its because the ip for ~TheFlyingWeave~ is banned so i am banned ;-;
http://thehungergames.wikia.com/wiki/User:TheFireJay heres a link to my profile
{{SUBST:User:TheFireJay/Sig}} 09:07, September 2, 2013 (UTC)
Just unban TheFireJay and RainAndFire (because i tried to log in but was blocked for ip...silly me) idc about TheWeave one
{{SUBST:User:TheFireJay/Sig}} 09:13, September 2, 2013 (UTC)
Is on pokemon chat c;
Jade come with my on pokemon chat >.>
New Code
In preperation for the XY anime how about for XY episodes, we use XY---?
Signed, Winxfan1. I am the ultimate fan of Winx Club 11:48, September 5, 2013 (UTC)
Just a preperation. After All, October is not that far off.
Signed, Winxfan1. I am the ultimate fan of Winx Club 12:02, September 5, 2013 (UTC)
Awesome Thanks.
Signed, Winxfan1. I am the ultimate fan of Winx Club 12:07, September 5, 2013 (UTC)
Perhaps so, but there are quite many people that wouldn't understand how to edit the base template. That is, they wouldn't understand where "the content went to", as all they see is {{Charizard}} or somesuch. Energy X 19:12, September 5, 2013 (UTC)
Can I?hi is it okay to put this pokemon on the X and Y page?Kaf2cute (talk)kaf2cute
If you have time, could you delete the videos (as most of them are not translated from Japanese)? If you don't have the time, it would be good to remove the content from this page, which displays the videos on the side bar. I would have done the latter... if I was able to edit that page. Energy X 22:03, September 5, 2013 (UTC)
- I see. There is another thing as well; they are fan-fic. If I recall, fan-fic videos shouldn't be posted, not to mention they are not placed in articles. Energy X 09:11, September 6, 2013 (UTC)
yes I looked it up, It's called Orotto but it has two different pictures and a videoKaf2cute (talk)Kaf2cute
Thank you, I placed it on the Orotto page ^^Kaf2cute (talk)kaf2cute
This user needs a quick ban for vandalising articles (without a break). Energy X 20:13, September 8, 2013 (UTC)
- Thanks. Hm, not sure if it is advisable, so Im'm going to ask you; would it be good to make a side list on which I can report troublesome users (primarily vandlas, trolls etc.)? Energy X 20:19, September 8, 2013 (UTC)
For some reason, this template has a certain glitch that causes the template to be spread out so much that it is not fully shown. Can it be shortened? Energy X 18:13, September 10, 2013 (UTC)
- Aye, thanks. Wish I knew what was the reason of it to change it sooner... Energy X 19:20, September 10, 2013 (UTC)
There is an argument that Dawn's Ambipom was male. Here it is seen that the user removed the trivia and here that the user changes the gender. Is it possible that the trivia was false? Energy X 17:01, September 11, 2013 (UTC)
As seen here, a user is inserting Pokémon appearances. While it is encouraged, isn't there a template that exists for such things? Energy X 17:21, September 11, 2013 (UTC)
Oh, it seems I made a mistake in naming an image. Can you re-name this image to DP163 99.jpg? Energy X 20:56, September 12, 2013 (UTC)
A small request
Hi, Rainbow Shifter! I would like to you edit this page for me please, to correct some information. The line
<option>* ... That [[Druddigon]] is the only basic Dragon-type that is not legendary?</option>
is false, as Bagon and Shelgon are both pure dragon types and not legendary. I'd suggest either remove the whole original line I just said or add Bagon & Shelgon. Many thanks! – Ozuzanna 14:02, September 13, 2013 (UTC)
- Also I remembered that Dratini and Dragonair are also non-legendary dragon types. – Ozuzanna 14:05, September 13, 2013 (UTC)
Gallery template
Not sure why is the need to insert the template, as seen here. It has ten images, which does not have as much as other galleries I encountered here. Energy X 19:10, September 14, 2013 (UTC)
- It is just that it seems a lot of work; I suppose I could start adding those (if you wish it), but there is the matter of huge number of images I added, from AG174 to DP165. Energy X 19:19, September 14, 2013 (UTC)
RE:Bot reminder
I'm not sending that in because there are two supports excluding mine. In my opinion, that is not enough. – Jazzi (talk) 19:45, September 14, 2013 (UTC)
- There are only two supports that are from other users. I will ask a staff member, but I'm not sure if three supports (with one from the nominator) will count. Additionally, if you are going to run a bot you need to have a community discussion that comes to a clear discussion and then have a staff member give you bot rights. You cannot run a bot without a community discussion, administrator or not. And a way to prevent a queue of files is to delete them as they appear. – Jazzi (talk) 20:23, September 14, 2013 (UTC)


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Super summer holiday in Devon
WE recently enjoyed a week's holiday in North Devon and although it was supposed to be a family holiday, we still managed to sneak in a bit of fishing. In this blog I will explain about the different types of angling we did and how it all went…
On arriving at our grandparent's house the weather was miserable. Our uncle, who lives nearby, had agreed to take us sea fishing but we decided to postpone the trip to the next day because of the heavy rain.
We slept the night in the conservatory of our grandparent's house. Thanks to our Nash H-Gun bedchairs that we had brought along with us, sleeping was made much more comfortable!
The next day we headed towards the Taw estuary in search of hard fighting bass. An hour of digging harbour worm at Fremington Quay was hard work but gave us enough bait for the day, and was free! As for tackle, we actually used our carp rod as it was tough enough to cast out 3 oz leads but was more sensitive to bites than the sea fishing rods.
The harbour worm seemed to work and by the time the light started to fade we had managed a bass each. Alex's fish – following the tradition – was a fair amount larger than mine!
Later that evening the weather gradually worsened and the wind made it difficult to spot bites. We drove home very happy having caught a new species which is always exciting for us.
Later in the week our grandparents treated us to an early birthday present: a two-fish ticket at Blakewell Trout Fishery, near Barnstaple. As you can imagine, we were extremely keen to have some further fly fishing practice as a whole year had passed since our sessions with Denis Cronin in Ireland last summer.
Arriving at the venue I noticed that they also had ornamental fish for sale, trout ponds where they breed fish for food and even a koi and goldfish pond. This was more than a fishery, it was more like "Fish Land"!
Renting a couple of fly fishing set ups, we strolled down a grassy path to the lake. It looked a little busy but that may have been due to the amount of room you require when casting. At the furthest end of the lake there was a free spot where the surface was flat calm and a number of carp and large trout were basking just beneath the surface.
We tried almost all of the flies in the box, but not a single one of them would tempt a trout. Several hours later and still no luck, I returned to the shop where I had a look at all the pond equipment, fish food and trout for eating. I got chatting to a fellow angler and he reckoned I needed a daddy long legs dry fly… and kindly gave me three of his. Top man!
After returning to the lake I gave the flies a go and had one follow and then a take. The rod hooped over before springing back… the line had snapped right next to the knot! It all happened so fast that I was not able to give the powerful trout the line it needed. I was gutted but continued fishing. Alex meanwhile had hooked another fish but it came off after jumping clear of the water.
A very kind angler who had been fishing just along the bank from us gave us a couple of his trout as he did not want to eat them. At least we had our supper!
We spent the last half an hour of the day catching a couple of small trout each on dry flies, in the easier pool. Although I was disappointed to blank on the big lake we hope to return one day, as we have so much still to learn about fly fishing.
Back to base, and our grandparents decided that buying us the fly fishing birthday present was well worth it; they had enough fish to feed us all for the week! Over the next few days we ate smoked trout, fried trout and baked trout…
Later in the week Uncle Paul took us to a rocky beach where he reckoned we could catch a dogfish. Using ragworm, which I believe is the same as harbour worm (comment below if you think I am wrong), and mackerel strips as bait, we successfully caught a rockling and a dogfish. It was awesome to try such different types of fishing and we definitely enjoyed ourselves.
Having said goodbye to our relatives we headed for home via Winchester. We had been invited by our friend Tom to fish a little stretch of his local river, the Itchen.
To start, we needed bait which was to be minnows. We all had great fun seeing the minnows pouncing on our worms. Once we had our minnows we walked down to a deeper channel, which Tom knew held perch.
First cast, a perch came out of nowhere and snatched my minnow just as I twitched it over some thick weed. The perch fought very well and it was such fun to see it diving towards snags in the clear water. Just as Alex was about to take the photo, my 12oz perch flipped and fell back into the water I was holding it over. "Noo!" I cried, "that was a beauty!" The colours of perch in clear water are always more impressive than when they have been living in murky water.
Not to be defeated, we all took a walk upstream and found a super spot where the river joined with a smaller stream. We spotted a shoal of small roach and knew there would be perch nearby. I saw one of about 2 lb sitting under some willow branches so I flicked my minnow under and gradually let it flow underneath. BANG! The line was pulled from my finger and a fish headeddownstream with the bait. I yanked my Micro Muscle Waggler rod back and hooked into a mental fish. It flipped around and dived towards the snags. This was no perch!
Alex walked slowly alongside the small tributary and gradually dragged his minnow with him. All of a sudden he hooked a perch that then came off. Leaving the minnow in the water seemed to attract the attention of another tiny pike that grabbed Alex's minnow. It was Alex's smallest ever pike but put up a good fight on the waggler rod.
By this point we were out of time and had to continue on our journey home. But what a varied week of fishing! Our thanks go to Tom who invited us to fish his stretch of river and of course to our grandparents and Uncle Paul for introducing us to fishing in North Devon.
- If you want to see more of the lads' videos for free, now, just browse the Carl & Alex channel in this website's new TV player.
Here's the list of all our exclusive new daily blogs and when they go live:
MONDAY: Carp crews on rotation – Korda, Fox, Nash and ACE.
TUESDAY: Steve Collett, Mail contributor and ultimate all-rounder.
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THURSDAY: Specialists from Pike Anglers Club, Korum and Pallatrax, on rotation
FRIDAY: Carl & Alex, Angler's Mail juniors and video diary makers.
SATURDAY: The Angling Trust – guys at the governing body.
SUNDAY: Colin Mitchell, veteran coarse angler and top journalist