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Brit nu-rave band Klaxons were forced back into the recording studio to re-tool their second album, which seems to have taken forever to complete. But it's now (finally) almost upon us, and the band has issued more details on its release, including the title and track listing.
Surfing the Void will be issued in the U.K. on August 23, and will be preceded by a single titled "Echoes" on August 16. Ross Robinson, who worked with artists in that other nu- prefixed genre, nu-metal, including Korn and Slipknot, produced the record in Los Angeles.
Full track listing for Surfing the Void:
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Looking for a small safe
I will just have 2 handguns, so a B rated save with no fire proofing necessary. When I travel I may put in some credit cards that I really don't use often and my check book and check, maybe always on these things. So I ran across the only small safe with 1/2" front and 1/4" sided, Gardall H2, yes it is small but that is not bad for me. Any Amsec with the same gauges of steel are at least twice the price (and yes, bigger). So what is the opinion of this little Gardall?
http://www.gardall.com/area-safes-sa...ounter.htm.htm http://www.safeandvaultstore.com/sea...s=H2&x=55&y=17 I can get one for $390 delivered so the price is very attractive. Thanks |
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AMSEC MS1414C. Should be around the same price, and should be of slightly better quality.
AMSEC has around 3,000 dealers nationwide. See if you can find somebody near you before looking on the web.
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The amsec has 1/8" sides and made in China in the same factory as a similar gardall. This gardall is made in Korea with 1/4 inch sides. The whole things is very confusing, and the gardall uses the S&G combo lock, so again, confused.
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Is there a reason that you seem to like Amsec better?
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I don't know if anyone is particularly "sold" on him, he barely played. But he was a big hitter and didn't get burned too often. Even on the Gonzalez TD on him, he did everything he can.
He was a rookie too, the guy is only 22. I actually see him progressing and becoming a good safety for us.


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In Fast Company
If internal combustion ever becomes obsolete -- that is, if the auto industry ever allows internal combustion to become obsolete -- whatever will movies do for heart-stopping drama? Hoofbeats are dramatic and the chug of a steam engine is suspenseful, but the roar of a gasoline- powered vehicle stirs the blood of any self-respecting moviegoer. The ineffectual hum of an electric motor just doesn't cut it. The Fast and the Furious, Rob Cohen's fanciful action movie about the L.A. road-racing scene, has, if nothing else, plenty of roaring motors and hiccuping gear shifts. This is not, however, the most remarkable sound in the film. That honor belongs to Vin Diesel, who plays the romanticized speed racer at the center of the story.
Who, or what, does Diesel sound like? It can drive you nuts trying to figure out something to compare his voice to. He sounds like...sort of like George Segal mixed with rapper Tone-Loc, slowed way down and played back through a speaker submerged in 30-weight oil. Oddly, this turns out to be quite pleasant to listen to. Diesel, bald and brawny, was the man-of-action antihero in the sci-fi yarn Pitch Black and the nice Italian soldier in Saving Private Ryan, but his most notable screen work may have been as the voice of the title character in the terrific kids' movie The Iron Giant. Even allowing for remixing enhancement, it is doubtful that another actor could have sounded so much like a metal robot with a heart: imposingly strong yet warm.
Diesel has a similar quality in The Fast and the Furious, in which he plays Dominic, the paternal alpha male of a circle of gearheads who race souped-up cars in clandestine rallies on the streets of L.A. As hobbies go, this ain't cheap, so Dominic and his pals subsidize their activities with daring truck robberies.
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The newcomer to this circle is an eager-beaver racer named Brian (Paul Walker), who ingratiates himself with Dominic over the suspicions and jealousies of the gang. What ensues is basically an uncredited remake of Kathryn Bigelow's Point Break, with high-performance cars replacing surfboards. Remember Point Break? It was a ludicrous but rather elegant piece of eye candy in which Keanu Reeves falls in with a group of surfers, led by Patrick Swayze, who finance their lifestyle by robbing banks in rubber U.S. president masks. The film provided one of the great freestanding images of the '90s: a man in a smiling Reagan mask brandishing a flaming gas pump.
If there's nothing quite that visually lyrical in The Fast and the Furious, director Cohen, most recently of The Skulls, gives us a pretty efficient ride all the same. The film, inspired by a Vibe magazine article, takes a while to get going -- early on, the sequences seem almost random, and it's hard to follow what's happening. But as the relationship between Dominic and Brian progresses, the charm of the actors takes hold, and the film calms down, at least as much as it can within the bounds of its speedy genre. The movie may be intellectually sophomoric, dramatically adolescent and morally vacuous, but it's good fun while it lasts.
Like Point Break, The Fast and the Furious is essentially a love affair, punctuated by action, between two men who inconveniently happen to be heterosexual. Not to worry -- Dominic has a sister (Jordana Brewster) to act as his surrogate in bed with Brian. There's also a girlfriend for Dominic, played by Girlfight's Michelle Rodriguez, who is striking in a fairly thankless role.
The plot's various convolutions come to a head in a lengthy and impressive chase scene on a desert highway, during which Dominic and crew attempt one more truck stick-up. It's a fine piece of action filmmaking, reminiscent of the finale of The Road Warrior, though far punier. You may well find yourself rooting, however, for the poor beset truck driver who, armed with a shotgun, defends his rig and his freight with uncommon valor.
Pure leadfoot fantasy though it is, The Fast and the Furious does nonetheless have a sociological angle that may bear study. The cars here are foreign -- rice rockets, in the subculture's parlance. To what can the relaxation of traditional motorhead xenophobia toward imports be attributed? Multiculturalism? The WTO? It would be interesting to see how this L.A. movie's Nissans and Mitsubishis play in Peoria.
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Click to read moreWhy do so many Gordon grads go on to complete graduate degrees? High expectations, a multitude of opportunities and a campus culture of mentoring and encouragement.
Click to read moreWhile some college students are picking up part-time jobs or catching up on lost sleep, many Gordon students continue to live out their faith by serving others over Christmas break.
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ATLANTA – Southern Miss has been here, while Mississippi State has not, and it would be tempting to reduce the analysis of today's meeting to comparative postseason experience.
But there will be many subplots in play when the two teams open this NCAA Regional at Georgia Tech's Russ Chandler Stadium (2 p.m., CSS).
This will be the ninth consecutive NCAA tourney appearance for No. 2 seed USM (39-17), which won here two years ago en route to a College World Series berth. And while it's the 31st trip to the NCAAs for No. 3 MSU (34-23), this is the first time since 2007.
None of that seems to matter to either team.
"Like coach (Scott) Berry said, everybody is 0-0 when you get out there (today)," USM outfielder Tyler Koelling said. "State has a great team. They wouldn't be here if they didn't have a good team."
MSU hasn't been great lately and was two-and-done in the SEC Tournament last week, playing like a team not used to the postseason spotlight. They look for that to change this weekend, and senior catcher Wes Thigpen downplayed the postseason experience factor.
"I don't think it'll be an edge (for USM)," he said. "This team is led by seniors, and we know it's our last shot, and we'll get out there and give it all we've got."
This is a rematch of April 5, when the Bulldogs beat the Golden Eagles 5-4 in Pearl. The winning pitcher that game was Luis Pollorena (6-5, 4.44 ERA), who will draw the start today opposite USM ace Todd McInnis (8-2, 2.61).
Pollorena has struggled since moving from the bullpen, compiling an 8.82 ERA in three starts. So how he handles himself will be a huge factor.
The sophomore left-hander threw what he called his hardest bullpen session of the year on Monday, with Thigpen describing Pollorena's fastball as "explosive."
Thigpen said he thinks Pollorena is becoming more comfortable in his new role.
"I think he's really gotten in a routine now of starting," Thigpen said. "He hasn't really had a starting routine down pat."
Pollorena has the added challenge of pitching in what's known as a hitters' park with unusual dimensions. It measures 328 feet down the left field line, 391 to left-center, 353 to right-center, and 409 just left of the center-field wall.
It's a challenge for MSU's hitters as well, especially the left-handers who might be tempted by that short deck in right field. Cohen sure isn't going to abandon the small-ball approach he's preached for so long, no matter the park.
"We've got to do what got us here," Cohen said.
Question marks
USM is having to deal with some key injuries. Koelling, the team's leading hitter (.367), will be in the lineup today despite a hamstring injury. He said he should be at 85 or 90 percent by game time after not playing in the Conference USAtourney.
First baseman Michael Doleac (foot) is questionable, and left-side infielder B.A. Vollmuth will play first if need be.
Other question marks abound for both teams. Neither is playing particularly well of late: MSU has lost three games in a row and five of its last seven, while USM has dropped six of its last eight.
When MSU is at its best, it can do some damage. It's beaten Florida, South Carolina and Vanderbilt once apiece, and Southern Miss hasn't forgotten what happened in Pearl nearly two months ago.
"They've been through it, they've done it, and when they pitch, play defense and get timely hits, they're as tough a team to beat as anybody," Koelling said.
So which MSU team will show up today? Will the players seize the big-stage opportunity or bobble it?
Senior third baseman Jarrod Parks said earlier in the week that he expects there to be a certain level of nervousness today, but he and the rest of the Bulldogs feel they can move past that and play well.
"We're thrilled to be here, but that's not our main purpose," Cohen said. "We really believe that it's a business trip, even though our kids haven't had this experience before. We want them to enjoy themselves, but we're here to try and win a regional."
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Parents need to know that Santa Paws 2 is the sequel to The Search for Santa Paws and the latest installment in the popular direct-to-DVD Buddies franchise. There's nothing inappropriate, but there is a sad subplot about a widower and his two motherless kids who are having a hard time dealing with Christmas. The Santa pups and young characters learn the real meaning of Christmas isn't stuff but a spirit of service and love.
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There's a new litter of puppies at the North Pole: Hope, Jingle, Charity, and Noble. The mischievous new "Santa pups" are desperate to prove they're ready to be full-time Santa's helpers, so they stow away on Mrs. Claus' (Cheryl Ladd) sled as she travels to the small town of Pineville to spread the spirit of Christmas. As Mrs. Claus gets to know a melancholy widower (George Newbern) and his young son Carter (Josh Feldman) and daughter Sarah (Kaitlyn Maher), the pups -- with the help of a magical crystal -- start granting wishes. The problem is that one wish is to end Christmas celebrations altogether, which once granted threatens to ruin the holiday for everyone.
Is it any good?
Although the musical numbers in this holiday special aren't all that memorable (not sure a song about a "Christmas Cold" is all that appealing to anyone), the pups are certainly adorable. And the characters are such sweet underdogs it's hard for even the frostiest, anti-talking-animals viewer to resist the cuteness. But yes, those who aren't amused by the sub-genre of chattering pets will have a harder time warming up to the storyline than those who fully embrace the doggy protagonists.
Former Charlie's Angels star Ladd is so distractingly beautiful, there's never been such a gorgeous Mrs. Claus. Newbern's Mr. Reynolds and his kids provide an emotional depth to the story to balance out the cutesy pups. By the time order is restored and Christmas can be properly celebrated, it's clear that the messages here are in keeping with the best of (secular) season's greetings -- that Christmas is a time for family togetherness, kindness to strangers, and generosity.
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DVD/Streaming release date: | November 19, 2012 |
Cast: | Danny Woodburn, George Newbern |
Director: | Robert Vince |
Studio: | Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment |
Genre: | Family and Kids |
Topics: | Cats, dogs, and mice |
Run time: | 88 minutes |
MPAA rating: | G |
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Day 2 - More Driving and a Surprise!
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Jun 29, 2013
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Aug 10, 2013
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What I did
We awoke to gray skies but were able to get packed and moving fairly quickly, on the road by 9:30. Our route took us close to downtown St. Louis so we decided to take a detour and see the famed arch and Gateway to the West. How appropriate given our destination.
Rain sprinkled down as we got out of the car and walked along the grand Mississippi. I vividly remember driving across the Mississippi River in 1993 when all the flooding restricted us to just a few of the biggest bridges to cross. The high water markers were visible at about 15 feet above our heads from 1993.
After spending about 45 minutes walking around the waterfront we'd taken enough pictures and were eager to get back on the road. Our destination was a surprise to the kids--Great Wolf Lodge in Kansas City, KS. They had no idea!
Lunch was taken west of St Louis at a Panera Bread that was renamed "St Louis Bread Company." Not sure what was going on there but we had nice lunch and then resumed the drive.
After crossing Missouri we popped into Kansas and then drove around Kansas City. The Great Wolf Lodge is on the western side of the city in Kansas. Another state down!
Christina took a great video of the kids that is posted below on their reaction to finding out where we were staying. We had told them we couldn't find a hotel and had to keep driving (like what really happened the night before!)
None of us had ever stayed at a Great Wolf Lodge but we had heard they were great for families. Christina in her wisdom thought that this would be a nice break from the long driving days. The kids had a blast and lots of pictures are posted.
For those that don't know, GWL is a hotel with an indoor and outdoor water park. There are pools, water slides and all kinds of water activities for the kids, all indoors.. It was a fantastic stopover.
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Growing Pains to Championship Reigns
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A contending team, headed up by the best player in history. An adoring crowd of 23,000 packing the United Center. Worldwide popularity with red Bulls' No. 23 or No. 33 jerseys seen on city streets on half a dozen continents.
The momentum is all forward as the Bulls mark their 31st season in the NBA in 1996-97. But only a minority of Jordan/Pippen/Rodman followers truly realize how tenuous a hold the team, and pro basketball for that matter, once had on Chicago.
Only 13 years ago, the Bulls struggled to draw fans as a rudderless, defenseless team before snaring a young man out of North Carolina, and before the addition of an aggressive new ownership. But go back another 15 years and you'll learn how the Bulls endured tremendous growing pains. One night the Bulls announced a record-small Chicago Stadium gathering of 891 against the Seattle SuperSonics on November 7, 1968.
Follow the timeline back still another five years: Chicago had been abandoned by the NBA after two league franchises had come and gone. Only the insistence of ABC-TV Sports' President Roone Arledge persuaded the NBA expansion committee to give the Windy City still another chance with the neophyte Bulls, who would begin by hanging on for dear life as a Chicago franchise until the mid-1970s, and naturally Michael Jordan cemented the team's future once and for all.
Chicago, in fact, once was called a "graveyard" for pro basketball. The success the Bulls have enjoyed over the past decade went against the grain of local sports history. The string of continuous home sellouts at both the Stadium and United Center, dating back to 1987, would have been unthinkable in other decades. But the foresight and enthusiasm of a small group of basketball pioneers provided just enough impetus to keep the Bulls going until the franchise and the NBA truly got airborne in the '80s.
There was Dick Klein, a hustling importer who tried to buy the Chicago Zephyrs, the previous local NBA entry, but founded the Bulls on a shoestring instead. There was Johnny "Red" Kerr, who came home after a 10-year pro career out East to midwife the Bulls as coach in their first season.
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No present-day Bull, basking in the attention of a far-flung rooting section, can truly understand how fragile a grip basketball once had on Chicago. Until the mid-1970s, Blackhawks' hockey dominated as the city's top wintertime sports attraction for fans and TV coverage.
While basketball became a passion in New York and other Eastern markets after World War II, Chicagoans often greeted the sport with shrugged shoulders. Hoosier Hysteria did not cross the state line and migrate the few miles up Route 41.
"The East Coast people knew the game, and they were very up on how the game should be played," said Kerr, who starred at Tilden Tech on the South Side of Chicago, and at the University of Illinois before setting endurance records as a center with the old Syracuse Nationals (now the Philadelphia 76ers).
"Chicago didn't have that kind of background and history, where people cared much about the game," said Kerr. "In the East, they watched top college programs, and they liked the give-and-go, pick-and-roll plays and the game strategy. I don't think people in Chicago talked about those things."
No dominant college program emerged to galvanize the city's attention prior to the 1970s. Loyola won the NCAA title in 1963, but its tiny lakefront campus gym prevented a sizable patronage from following the Ramblers. Neither Loyola nor DePaul ever came close to establishing a dynasty. The University of Illinois fielded respectable programs but was 135 miles away. College basketball doubleheaders at the Stadium occasionally piqued local interest, but that could not be sustained.
In the meantime, several fledgling pro basketball leagues started fielding franchises both in big cities like Chicago and in much smaller markets like the Quad Cities. Baseball stars like Lou Boudreau played a few months of pro basketball in their offseasons to earn a few extra bucks, but the leagues usually had a short life span.
Some of the Chicago entries in those leagues included the Bruins, Gears and Majors. They often competed against one another for the minuscule slice of the market interested in basketball. The result was always the same, the teams folded.
Chicago also sported a charter franchise in the Basketball Association of America, soon to become the NBA, in its first season of 1946-47. The Stags won the league's Western Division with a 39-22 record, outdistancing the St. Louis Bombers, Cleveland Rebels, Detroit Falcons and Pittsburgh Ironmen. Meanwhile, the only two original NBA teams still in the same city -- the New York Knicks and Boston Celtics -- began competition in the Eastern Division against the division titlist Washington Capitols and the Philadelphia Warriors, Toronto Huskies and Providence Steamrollers.
Paced by New Yorker Max Zaslofsky and Illini product Andy Phillip, the Stags fielded competitive teams through the 1949-50 season, after which they disappeared into trivia lore. In the meantime, the NBA was taking in practically every fly-by-night owner it could find, with franchises popping up in such unlikely cities as Sheboygan, Wisconsin; Waterloo, Iowa; and Anderson, Indiana.
Teams continued to come and go through the league for several seasons. Pro basketball's time truly had not come for the consuming public. By 1955, the NBA had shrunk to an eight-team circuit. Teams played in Ft. Wayne, Indiana, along with Syracuse and Rochester, New York. The Minneapolis Lakers moved to Los Angeles in 1960. But there was still no team in Chicago until the NBA gingerly took another step into expansion by adding the Packers at the International Amphitheatre for the 1961-62 season.
The Packers hardly attracted attention with an 18-62 record, and their only distinctive player was NBA Rookie of the Year Walt Bellamy with his 31.6 points-per-game average. They were hardly better in 1962-63 when they were renamed the Zephyrs and moved to the decrepit Coliseum, south of the Loop. The Zephyrs drew few fans and finished 25-55.
By now, businessman Klein was entertaining thoughts of owning a team. A former Gears' player, he made an offer to Zephyrs' owner Dave Trager. But while on an Arizona vacation, Klein found out that Trager had instead sold the Zephyrs to Baltimore owners, who planned to move the team.
"I now had a taste of wanting to own a basketball team, but I had no team to buy," recalls Klein. "So in 1963 I called the NBA's expansion committee and formed the Chicago Pro Basketball Corporation."
Nothing happened for the next two years. Finally, the NBA decided to add another team for the 1966-67 season. Klein had already lined up affluent investors in oilman/NFL owner Lamar Hunt, drug company impresario Dan Searle, and Harold Meyer of Oscar Meyer fame. He also had the support of owner Fred Zollner of the Detroit Pistons and Ben Kerner of the St. Louis (now Atlanta) Hawks to put another team in Chicago. But New York Knicks' President Ned Irish was "violently" opposed to a Chicago franchise.
Klein credited a pivotal role to Roone Arledge, then the most dynamic executive in sports TV. He said Arledge told the expansion committee he would not cut a network TV deal for the NBA unless it fielded a team in Chicago, then the nation's second largest video market.
Finally granted a team, Klein went about wooing a reluctant city. He got the late Mayor Richard J. Daley to proclaim "Chicago Bulls Day." The big welcoming parade down Michigan Avenue featured several cars, a high school marching band, and a live bull riding a flatbed truck.
Klein was hamstrung with a $125,000 player payroll and $75,000 for coaching and office salaries. His travel budget was $265,000. He could not make a trade in which the player coming to the Bulls would make more than $10,000 over the traded player's salary.
Nevertheless, Klein made more good moves than bad for the inaugural season. Obtaining Kerr and guard Sloan in the expansion draft from the Baltimore Bullets (the old Zephyrs), he retired Kerr from the playing ranks and made him head coach, while Sloan became a starting guard. He traded young guard Jeff Mullins and Jim King back to the Warriors for veteran backcourt playmaker Guy Rodgers, giving the Bulls some veteran credibility.
Fans could not easily follow the Bulls at times. None of Chicago's four newspapers sent beat writers on the road with the team. WGN-Radio broadcasted only home games, while WGN-TV aired just a handful of road games, meaning many away contests were not covered by any Chicago media. Kerr and assistant coach Al Bianchi kept a ready supply of change in their pockets to call in road-game box scores to Chicago newspapers.
Nevertheless, the city paid some attention to the Bulls. Klein nearly filled the Amphitheatre when top NBA draws like Wilt Chamberlain and the 76ers or Bill Russell and the Celtics came to town. "It was a cozy atmosphere in the Amphitheatre," said Bob Rosenberg, who has served as official scorer for every Bulls' home regular-season and playoff game in franchise history. He also scored every Packers/Zephyrs home game.
Klein's break-even point was 5,000 in attendance. "I promised my investors they would triple their money in five years. Well, it quadrupled in three years," he said.
The first-year Bulls won 33 games, still a record for an expansion franchise. And the team made the playoffs, also an unprecedented first-year feat. Chicago made the postseason again in 1967-68.
"Making the playoffs those first two years were keys to making the team stick in Chicago," said Kerr.
But the bumps in the road soon grew large. Klein's spartan budget prevented him from building up the roster. He had to pass up drafting Walt Frazier out of Southern Illinois University because he wanted a three-year, $75,000 contract. Klein had to select guard Clem Haskins instead. Frazier would soon help the Knicks win two NBA titles.
The Bulls were forced to move to the higher-rent Stadium for the 1967-68 season when the original McCormick Place burned down. When crowds did not increase at the Stadium for a worse team, the team's finances were hobbled further.
Unusual, and often questionable player moves were the order of the day. The Bulls let promising forward Don Kojis go in an expansion draft, then traded top backup Keith Erickson, a contributor to some top Lakers teams of the early 1970s, to get back their original center, Erwin "Wolfgang" Mueller. Half a season later, Mueller was sold to the SuperSonics for cash and a draft choice.
Gunning guard Flynn Robinson came to town. "Flynn was just worried about hitting home runs," said Rosenberg. "He used to say, 'I'll get my 40 tonight.' He wasn't a team player."
Klein drew more criticism for hiring then-unknown college coach Dick Motta in 1968 to replace Kerr, who left for the then-expansion Phoenix Suns. But Motta did not wait long to begin building the Bulls back up -- particularly when new General Manager Pat Williams took over player personnel decisions from Klein in 1969.
Trades brought Chet Walker and Norm Van Lier to complement the floor-burns-crazy Sloan on the roster. The Bulls enjoyed their first winning season in 1970-71 -- the first of four straight 50 wins plus campaigns under Motta. Williams introduced a series of fan-pleasing promotions to augment the action on the court. Capacity crowds began to rock the Stadium for visits by the Lakers and Bucks, the latter headlined by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
"Pat Williams did a nice job of making the Stadium a friendly, family-type affair," said Kerr. "People always used to say it was in such a bad neighborhood, and nobody wanted to go there. But once they started winning, nobody cared about the neighborhood."
All Bulls road games were finally broadcast on radio in 1970, while the majority of road contests were televised by 1973. Only a collapse at the end of the 1975 NBA semifinal playoff series against the Warriors prevented the Bulls from completing the half-decade of fun with a championship.
The remainder of the 1970s and early 1980s were shaky years for the Bulls, brightened only by an astounding 20-4 run at the end of the 1976-77 season that clinched a playoff spot, and the addition of Artis Gilmore, the only dominating center in franchise history. A total of 157 defeats from 1981 to 1984 once again left the Stadium half full while frightening longtime Bulls watchers.
But soon any such thoughts became moot. The Stadium started to rock, title banners began decorating the rafters, and Bulls' merchandise proliferated throughout the planet.
Not bad for a team whose growing pains have encompassed two-thirds of its existence.


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For those of us who are passionate about our winter sport, whether skiing or snowboarding, the opportunity to be raised and trained in either seems like an unattainable dream. For youth in South Lake Tahoe, this dream is not only attainable, it's readily available thanks to the non-profit Heavenly Ski & Snowboard Foundation who sponsors and trains young athletes primarily through fundraisers and donations.
One such athlete who had the opportunity to nurture his talent and prepare himself for a career in skiing is U.S. Ski Team member, Olympic hopeful and Heavenly High Roller Team Member, Sho Kashima. It was obvious from a very young age that Sho had "that rare combination of physical talent, drive and intelligence,†says Foundation coach, Jere Crawford. Sho started with the Foundation at the age of 10 and joined Crawford's team two years later after sampling all the different programs the Foundation had to offer and realizing he had a propensity for jumping and doing tricks.
According to Sho, his 7 years on the Foundation team and with Coach Crawford's team, in particular, were some of his best memories growing up and the place where he made some of his closest friends. Sho says Jere "was just a great, knowledgeable coach. The environment was great, too. We had plenty of help from Heavenly to set up all of the training we needed. Our typical days would be to free ski with Jere in the mornings, then go and train jumps and moguls in the afternoon when the snow got softer. It's such a great program for all ages because Jere and his coaching staff keep everything fun, but there's also plenty of technical and serious business as the kids get older to help us get to the top level of the sport.â€
Sho credits the Foundation for contributing to his wealth of knowledge and experience that has allowed him to compete with the best in the world. He got a taste of the Olympic fever in Vancouver in 2010 before a knee injury that put him out of the running. Currently ranked 17th in the world, Sho's aspiration is to give it another shot in 2014 and hopefully bring home the Gold for the U.S. and for Heavenly Mountain Resort.
To get to Sho's level of skiing, time, dedication, and focused training are essential ingredients in a young person's life. Many of us have sensed this kind of passion within ourselves, but have had to indulge it when our lives and jobs allow. We CAN, however, help a young person to have such an experience by supporting the Heavenly Ski & Snowboard Foundation. The cool thing is that you don't have to just write a check, the Foundation throws all kinds of fun and unique events that you can participate in for the price of your donation.
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Theo Epstein: "You Can't Rush Young Players"
April 9, 2013 – 10:45 am by Chris FedorIn 2011, Theo Epstein arrived in Chicago. He came with the Boston glow on him and was looked at as one of the top, young front-office people in the game of baseball.
Epstein was given a difficult task. It was his job to turn the franchise around and do it with a long-term vision. It hasn't been easy. He's had to remove the dead weight from the roster, try to get rid of some of the bad contracts that were on the team when he arrived and focus on the draft as opposed to spending money in free agency. It will take time; it will take patience. Losses will pile up while the rebuild is ongoing. They already have.
The Cubs won just 61 games last season and they are off to a slow start again this year. But this is the plan. With Epstein calling the shots for the Cubs, the team is on the right path even though it may be tough to see right now.
Theo Epstein joined WSCR in Chicago with Mully and Hanley to talk about whether he keeps an eye on the rebuilding of Wrigley Field, how much say he had in removing Carlos Marmol from the closer's role, how tough it is for him to be patient and what his projection is for this year's team.
Whether he keeps a close eye on the rebuild of Wrigley Field:
"Yeah I do. I kind of look at it as I look at a lot of other important issues that we have … that may not impact us on the baseball side immediately but are very important for a couple of years down the line. Draft day for example. You hit on your first-rounder versus miss on your first-rounder, that can impact the organization a few years down the line. We need to hit on this, get a deal that makes sense for the club and for the city and not really change the revenue position that we're in for years down the line, which obviously impacts our baseball picture. Stay involved with it and we talk several times a week, but I'm not at all directly involved in the negotiation."
How much say he had in the decision to take Carlos Marmol out of the closer role:
"That issue, Carlos' potential trade value, I've heard a lot about that in the media, but that literally has not come up in discussions with Dale (Sveum) and Bos (Chris Bosio). We talk all the time about how to put the players in the best position to succeed and maximizing our chances to win in the short term, but yeah, we talk about big-picture issues too — usually in relation to a player's development. … I'm trying to think if I've ever talked to Dale since I've been here besides maybe right before the trading deadline and a player's starting-pitching schedule. I don't think I've ever talked to them about doing something to enhance a player's trade value. It's hard to manage the club when you have somebody leaning over your shoulder telling them how to use players and how not to use players. And heaven forbid, what to do to maximize a player's value versus winning games, so this was a baseball decision. You people have to realize we are three appearances into the season for him and he went through this last year where he struggled, ended up going on the DL, fixing himself and was pretty effective for the second half of last season. Veteran players don't lose their jobs based on a tough week at the end of spring training. That's a sign of a poorly run organization. … We couldn't put the team in that position where they work hard to win a game and then have so much uncertainty going into the ninth inning. I thought it was certainly appropriate to start the year with Carlos in that role and I thought this move was very appropriate now, to give him a chance to fix himself in low-leverage situations and give our team a better chance to win late in the game."
How tough it is for him to be patient with this club:
"It's always tough to be patient for me. I'm extremely competitive and I hate losing a single game, let alone having an unsuccessful season, but the one thing I've learned over two decades in baseball now is you simply can't rush young players. You can, but you run a significant risk of jeopardizing their development and their future. Young players literally get ruined by rushing them through the minor-league system and then forcing them to break onto the big-league club before they're ready. Besides disrupting their development, it can traumatize them as well and often times be something they don't recover form. I wish this were the NBA or the NFL where you could draft players and all of a sudden they make an impact the next year. It just doesn't work that way. Look, as an example, Will Middlebrooks, another high-school player we drafted in Boston, and Jackie Bradley is on that team through the draft. Jacoby Ellsbury, Dustin Pedroia is on that team through the draft, you get into the (Jon) Lester's the (Clay) Buchholz' and everyone else so it can be done. It just takes time."
On preparing for the future:
"I started out this past road trip in Pittsburgh and Atlanta, but I also flew around the country and saw four kids who are probably going to go in the top 10 picks in the draft. There's a chance we take one of them, so we are doing everything we can to win as many games as we can right now, but we also have our eye on the big picture and we have to understand that draft picks that we make on draft day this year, they're not going to effect the 2013 club. They're probably not going to effect the 2014 club, maybe 2015. But there will be a day when you're interviewing me five or six years down the line and say, 'Hey, isn't it nice to start Opening Day with a solid core of homegrown players, being picked right on top of your division, having the payroll flexibility because those players aren't making much money and you've gone out and added this big-time free agent? Doesn't this feel good?' I will say, 'Yeah, it feels a heck of a lot better than it did in 2013 when we had this conversation."
Whether he has a prediction on a number of wins for the Cubs this year:
"These days you can try to predict anything. Whether you are accurate or not remains to be seen, but the amount of information with pretty accurate player projections you can take it to the next level and do some really accurate team projections. Actually, over the last 10 years we have developed it so we were on a stretch there for eight years where we were within one and a half wins of our projection every year with the Red Sox. It's a little more complicated now because there's more fluctuation when you are dealing with young players and we are dealing with a lot of 'buy-low' players that we brought in and we're still in the process of finding our own projections here. I think every team in baseball will run projections. It's pretty important to see where you project, at least statistically, on paper. Obviously the human element will define everything and the game is played by people, not by stat lines but I think it is important to get an understanding of just what your talent projects to, where your strengths are, where your weaknesses are so you make decisions in proper context."
Listen to Theo Epstein on WSCR in Chicago here
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Based in the year A.D. 3732, Peepo was the property of Space Academy, a futuristic school for young space cadets located on a man-made planetoid. Peepo assisted the aging space instructor Commander Gampu (Jonathan Harris) as he imparted his wisdom to the new recruits.
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While all-aluminum, the Mercury was no lightweight at 450lbs... |
The prototype, tube-frame Mercury rolling chassis |
The all-aluminum chassis of the Mercury |
In truth, with limited funds available to buy a new engine (let alone develop a motor of their own), Jenks and his partner Mr. Swabey, who ran a garage tuning Scott engines, relied on the Past for their Mercury motors, and used reconditioned and tuned Scott engines from as far back as 1933 in their futuristic machine.
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'Speed! With safety and comfort.' |
The rear suspension linkage system, with short trailing links, attached by rods to spring boxes bolted along the upper frame member |
Seen from above, the Scott gearbox, dynamo, and carb, installed in the Mercury chassis |
The Scott Power-Plus 600cc two-stroke motor (sans cylinder head and primary drive) |
Blueprints for the Mercury...but the engine appears to be different.... |
...because Laurie Jenks, like any good Futurist, had far more ambitious plans for his 'ideal motorcycle'... |
...a sporting, two-wheeled car... |


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Jack Vidgen
Jack Vidgen | |
Vidgen at The Sapphires Australian Premiere in August 2012.
Background information | |
Born | 17 January 1997 |
Origin | Mona Vale, New South Wales[1] |
Genres | Pop, soul |
Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter |
Instruments | Guitar, piano, violin[2] |
Years active | 2011–present |
Website | jackvidgen |
Jack Vidgen (born 17 January 1997)[3] is an Australian singer, best known for winning the fifth season of Australia's Got Talent. He subsequently signed a recording contract with Sony Music Australia. His debut single, "Yes I Am", was released for digital download on 3 August 2011. Vidgen's debut studio album, also titled Yes I Am, was released on 19 August 2011. The album debuted at number three on the ARIA Albums Chart and was certified gold by the ARIA. His second studio album, Inspire, was released on 27 April 2012, but was less successful than its predecessor, only reaching number 23 on the ARIA Albums Chart.
Early life[edit]
Vidgen is the son of Steve Vidgen and Rachel Hayton.[4] From 2007 to 2010, Vidgen performed at various events in Sydney, including Schools Spectacular, Eisteddfod, and the local Christmas carols.[5] He also taught himself how to play the piano and guitar.[5] He attended Balgowlah Boys High School.[5] Following his win on Australia's Got Talent in 2011, Vidgen withdrew from his high school to continue by distance education.[6] In March 2014, it was reported that he had had a lesion removed from behind his eye.[7]
2011: Australia's Got Talent[edit]
Vidgen auditioned for the fifth season of Australia's Got Talent in 2011, singing a rendition of Whitney Houston's "I Have Nothing".[8] The performance earned a standing ovation from both the judges and the audience.[8] Judge Kyle Sandilands said before the audition, "You're either gonna be amazing or dreadful – both I will enjoy", while judge Brian McFadden was so moved by the performance he ran up on stage to kiss Vidgen's cheek once it was over.[8] The performance has received over 23 million views on YouTube.[9] Vidgen was dubbed Australia's answer to Justin Bieber and inundated with international and local interest.[10][11][12] He also attracted the attention of celebrity gossip blogger Perez Hilton, who posted several blogs of Vidgen's performances on his website.[13]
Vidgen performed on the first semi-final show, singing a cover of "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" from the Dreamgirls soundtrack.[14] After the performance, he earned another standing ovation from the judges and audience.[14] Sandilands told Vidgen that he made him believe in reincarnation as he was sure Vidgen had a black woman inside him,[14] while McFadden said Vidgen had one of the best voices he had ever heard.[14] After winning the public vote from the first semi-final show, Vidgen progressed through to the next round, the final showdown. During this round, Vidgen performed a cover of Adele's "Set Fire to the Rain".[15] After his performance, judge Dannii Minogue said, "Your voice lifts everybody who listens to it", while McFadden joked that he was jealous of Vidgen because he spelled the end for other guys in the music industry.[15] Vidgen once again won the public vote, which made him progress through to the grand final. During this round, Vidgen performed an original song titled, "Yes I Am".[16] A few days later, Vidgen was the centre of criticism over the song when it was revealed that it was co-written with two other people. Critics questioned how involved Vidgen was in the writing of the song.[citation needed][17] On 7 August 2011, Vidgen appeared on Sunday Night and said, "I sort of wrote the lyrics, and then I took them to vocal coach Erana Clark's studio, and we had the producer – I didn't write the music, I can say that, but I did write the lyrics."[18]
Vidgen was announced as the winner of the season during the grand final decider show, which aired on 2 August 2011.[19] He was awarded a prize of $250,000.[19]
2011–present: Record deal, Yes I Am and Inspire[edit]
Following his win on Australia's Got Talent, Vidgen signed a recording contract with Sony Music Australia.[19] "Yes I Am" was released for digital download on 3 August 2011, as Vidgen's debut single.[20][21] The song peaked at number 35 on the ARIA Singles Chart.[22] Vidgen co-wrote the gospel soul-inspired[23] song with former Australian Idol vocal coach Erana Clark and producer A2, who also penned the song, "Fly", for Vidgen's debut studio album also titled Yes I Am.[20] The album was rush-released on 19 August 2011.[20] It contained cover versions Vidgen performed on Australia's Got Talent, which were all produced by musical director Chong Lim,[20] as well as the two original songs.[20] The album debuted and peaked at number three on the ARIA Albums Chart,[22] and was certified gold by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA), for shipments of 35,000 units.[24]
Vidgen's second studio album, Inspire, was released on 27 April 2012.[25] It featured more covers of songs from artists including Michael Jackson, Bill Withers, Cyndi Lauper, John Lennon, and Beyoncé.[25] The album peaked at number 23 on the ARIA Albums Chart, failing to match the success of his debut album.[22] Vidgen's second single "Finding You", which was written by The Potbelleez' IIan Kidron, was released digitally on 10 July 2012.[26][27] He performed the song on Australia's Got Talent the next day.[27] As of 2014, Vidgen is no longer signed to Sony Music Australia.[28]
Studio albums[edit]
Title | Album details | Peak chart positions |
Certifications |
Yes I Am |
3 | |
Inspire |
23 |
Year | Title | Peak chart positions |
Album |
2011 | "Yes I Am" | 35 | Yes I Am |
2012 | "Finding You" | — | TBA |
Promotional singles[edit]
Year | Title | Album |
2011 | "And I Am Telling You (I'm Not Going)"[30] | Yes I Am |
Awards and nominations[edit]
Year | Type | Award | Result |
2011 | Nickelodeon Australian Kids' Choice Awards[31] | Aussie Musos | Nominated |
IT List Awards[32][33] | Single of 2011 ("Yes I Am") | Nominated | |
Album of 2011 (Yes I Am) | Nominated | ||
Australian Male Artist | Nominated |
- ^ "Jack Vidgen, Australian's "Baby Bieber" mobbed at local mall". International Business Times. 10 May 2011. Retrieved 2 November 2011.
- ^ Johnson, Roanne (12 May 2011). "Young Jack's got talent". townsvillebulletin.com.au. Retrieved 27 September 2011.
- ^ "Jack Vidgen Awesome Aussie Vocalist". rivenmaster.com. 9 January 2011. Retrieved 27 September 2011.
- ^ Bennett, Rod (3 August 2011). "Jack's got talent: Teen releases debut single". Manly Daily. News Limited. Retrieved 4 August 2011.
- ^ a b c Corbett, Bryce (3 August 2011). "Jack Vidgen: Australia's answer to Justin Bieber". The Australian Women's Weekly. Retrieved 4 August 2011.
- ^ Neil, Alicia (3 August 2011). "Jack Vidgen: I Hope to Win a Grammy". Who. Pacific Magazines. Retrieved 4 August 2011.
- ^ "Australia's Got Talent winner Jack Vidgen doing OK after tumour surgery". 3 March 2014. Retrieved 17 March 2014.
- ^ a b c "14-year Jack Vidgen wows judges on old Australia's Got Talent with a Whitney Houston rendition". The Daily Telegraph. 4 May 2011. Retrieved 27 July 2011.
- ^ Obermeder, Sally (12 July 2011). "Australia's newest star". Today Tonight. Retrieved 7 February 2012.
- ^ Byrnes, Holly (5 May 2011). "Australia's Jack Vidgen has a smidgen of that Justin Bieber mojo". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 27 July 2011.
- ^ Coster, Alice (2 June 2011). "Blond bombshell Jack Vidgen tipped to be the next Bieber". Herald Sun. Retrieved 27 July 2011.
- ^ Corbett, Bryce (3 June 2011). "Jack Vidgen: Australia's answer to Justin Bieber". The Australian Women's Weekly. Retrieved 27 July 2011.
- ^ "Gossip king Perez Hilton meets the boy from Oz". Herald Sun. 15 July 2011. Retrieved 27 July 2011.
- ^ a b c d "VIDEO: Jack Vidgen shows Australia he's got talent, again". Manly Daily. 1 June 2011. Retrieved 4 August 2011.
- ^ a b "Video of Jack Vidgen Singing Adele's "Set Fire to the Rain" on Australia's Got Talent Final". Popsugar.com.au. 13 July 2011. Retrieved 4 August 2011.
- ^ Allen, Floyd (28 July 2011). "Jack Vidgen Takes 'AGT Grand Final Risk with Original Song". International Business Times. Retrieved 4 August 2011.
- ^ Frost, Carleen (29 July 2011). "Police investigate Facebook attack on Jack Vidgen". Manly Daily. Archived from the original on 1 May 2012. Retrieved 4 August 2011.
- ^ "Video of Jack Vidgen and Kyle Sandilands Interview on Sunday Night Addressing Songwriting Controversy". POPSUGAR Celebrity Australia. Retrieved 13 October 2014.
- ^ a b c "Australia's Got Talent grand final highest rating show so far this year". Herald Sun. 3 August 2011. Retrieved 4 August 2011.
- ^ a b c d e McCabe, Kathy (3 August 2011). "No time for celebrating as AGT winner Jack Vidgen gets straight to work". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 4 August 2011.
- ^ "Yes I Am – Single". iTunes Store. Retrieved 4 August 2011.
- ^ a b c d e "Discography Jack Vidgen". australian-charts.com. Hung Medien. Retrieved 6 August 2011.
- ^ "Jack Vidgen is guaranteed a record deal whether he wins or loses Australia's Got Talent". The Daily Telegraph. 28 July 2011. Retrieved 4 August 2011.
- ^ a b "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2011 Albums". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Archived from the original on 28 August 2014. Retrieved 29 April 2012.
- ^ a b c "Buy Inspire Jack Vidgen, Pop, CD". Sanity.com.au. Retrieved 29 April 2012.
- ^ "Finding You – Single". iTunes Store. Retrieved 18 July 2012.
- ^ a b Harris, Amy; Christie, Joel (10 July 2012). "Australia's Got Talent winner Jack Vidgen returns to TV show with new look and new sound". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 18 July 2012.
- ^ "Local Roster – Featured Artists". Sony Music Australia. Retrieved 1 December 2014.
- ^ "Yes I Am (SIGNED COPY) – Jack Vidgen". Sanity.com.au. Retrieved 6 August 2011.
- ^ "iTunes – Music – And I Am Telling You (I'm Not Going) [Live] – Single by Jack Vidgen". iTunes. Retrieved 13 October 2014.
- ^ Barnett, Sophie (15 August 2011). "Aussie KCA's 2011!". MTV Australia. MTV Networks. Retrieved 15 August 2011.
- ^ Manser, Robert (31 December 2011). "2011 IT List Awards Nominees Announced". Poprepublic.tv. Archived from the original on 2 January 2012.
- ^ Manser, Robert (11 February 2012). "2011 IT List Awards Winners Announced". Poprepublic.tv.
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CATTARAUGUS INDIAN RESERVATION, N.Y. (AP) — The latest in a tangled series of state and federal court decisions has halted New York state's plan to collect taxes on cigarettes sold by Native American retailers to non-Indian customers.
A state appellate court judge in western New York on Wednesday restored an order stopping the collections, Gov. David Paterson's office said. An earlier order had been lifted Monday by a state judge, a decision appealed by the Seneca and Cayuga nations.
Those tribes won a federal court order Tuesday temporarily barring collections against them. But the state said it would start imposing the $4.35 per pack levy on other reservation retailers starting Wednesday.
The Senecas staged a rally Wednesday against the tax. The tribes say it violates their sovereignty and threatens their financial well-being.
Attempts to collect the tax in the 1990s resulted in sometimes-violent protests and fires on Seneca territories. State officials have been reluctant to push the issue since then.
Last week, a sign was spotted on an overpass on the Tonawanda Band of Senecas' reservation reading: "NYS declares war 9-1-2010. Let the fires begin!" The band operates independently of the Seneca Indian Nation.
But with New York facing a fiscal crisis, the governor and state lawmakers vowed in June to go after the potential $200 million revenue source by requiring cigarette wholesalers to prepay the taxes before supplying reservation stores.
That would force Indian retailers — whose tax-free sales have given them a huge competitive edge over off-reservation competitors — to significantly boost their prices.
Cigarette makers sold 24 million cartons of non-native-brand cigarettes to tribes in New York in 2009, with the Senecas buying the most at 10.2 million, the state Department of Taxation and Finance said. Tribes also sell millions of cartons of American Indian brands.
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65% of Americans don't know what happened at the Constitutional Convention, according to a recent survey by Newsweek.
The "Teaching American History" grants—the largest Federal program supporting history education—have been completely eliminated.
Visits to the Top 20 Civil War battlefields have dropped in half from 1970 to 2009 according to official National Park Service statistics.
40% of Americans can't identify whom we fought in World War II, according to a recent survey by Newsweek.
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"There is little that is more important for an American citizen to know than the history and traditions of his country," John F. Kennedy wrote in American Heritage.
The "We the People Program," which touched some 30 million students and 90,000 teachers over 25 years, has been completely eliminated.
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On March 4, 1929, Herbert Hoover took the oath of office as the thirty-first president of the United States. America, its new leader told the rain-soaked crowd of 50,0000 around the Capitol and countless more listening to the radio, was "filled with millions of happy homes; blessed with comfort and opportunity."Read more »


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HELP! im a begginer Hello everyone. I am desperate for help here On satrday, i went to a fish store and got a new tank, filter pump, a water plant, 2 young giant danios and 6 white cloud fish. I set up the tank nicely, intriduced the fish and everything was fine. Then, the next day i wake up to find the water had gone cloudy. I then did some reaserch on the net and found out about "cycling". Now, the water is cloudier than ever, 3 of my white cloud fish are dead, the rest are sick (not eating, movint slowly, gulping for air) and im freaking out. the nitrogen cycle has started. I realy love my new fish and i don't want any more to die. Can anyone help me? How can i comfort my fish while the tank is cycling? i heard that giant danios are hardy fish but will they be able to cope with the high toxin levels? and is there any way i can reduce the severity of this "new tank syndrome"? i am changing about 20% of the water every day but it dosn't seem to be helping.:-( I have included pictures of my tank: Free File Hosting Made Simple - MediaFire |
Not much you can do. Maybe try stress coat, but not sure if it will help. You're going to have to just wait and hope for the most part to see if your fish are gonna make it or not. Sorry to hear about your misfortune. Hope it turns out well. The danios will have the highest chance for survival. * One more note, how big is your tank? It appears to me like 5 gal from the pics. If so you have it over stocked with fish. You should also do some research on that as well. General rule of thumb is 1" of fish per 1 gallon of water. |
Sorry to hear about your rocky start to keeping fish. Don't get discouraged. It's a common mistake with new fish keepers. Good for you that you've researched about cycling. You'll need to get yourself a test kit so you can test for ammonia and nitrites and later for nitrates. API makes a good kit which includes all of these tests plus Ph. Here's a link to it Aquarium Water Testing: Aquarium Pharmaceuticals Freshwater Master Test Kit You'll need to test your water so you know where you are in the cycle and to be able to tell when your tank is fully cycled. Don't add anymore fish until it's fully cycled. In the meantime water changes will help your fish. You may need to do a little larger changes but it depends on what your readings are. Don't touch the filter media at this time until your bacteria colony is established. Be sure to use a good water conditioner such as Prime which can help detoxify ammonia and nitrites in the water. Heres a link to that Aquarium Water Quality & Conditioners: Seachem Prime Water Conditioner Add the conditioner to any new water during your water changes. I'm also curious what size tank it is. Giant danios are pretty active and grow to about 4" so they may need a larger tank. You may be ok with the white clouds. Good luck and be sure to ask lots of questions. We are here to help. |
Thanks so much for the information guys. I just did another water change now. How often should i do one? I will go out on the weekend to get an Ammonia and nitrite tester but for now i will need to guess how much ammonia is in there based on the cloudiness of the water. The fish actualy seem a little healthier with the latest water change. The danios are much more active but none of the fish will eat anything. Im not sure exactly how many gallons my tank is but the dimentions are 36x22x26. How long do you think it will take for the cycle to complete? Thanks for the help:-D |
Most people would recommend a weekly 15% change, or around that much. Different people have different opinions. Also depends on other factors like how much ammonia is in your tank etc... I personally change out about 3 gallons weekly. All the bad stuff stays low for me with that much. And cycling can take anywhere from about 4-6 weeks or so to be fully cycled. And your tank is a 5 gal, or 18.3 liters if you use liters. At some point, your danios will need a new, bigger home. You would be fine with just the white clouds for their full life in this tank however. We've all had our falls, like jeaninel said, try not to get discouraged! And imo, since your willing to research and ask for help at places like this, I'm sure you'll do good in this hobby. =) |
I would do 50% waterchanges daily until the tank levels out. Thats what i did in my 10 gal. |
not a good sign Just when i thought things were getting better I have found that one of my giant danios can't swim properly and is swimming on its side. Also, it sometimes lies upside-down on my water plant. this is simmilar to how one of my white clouds acted before it died. I cant loose this one too! how can i help it? |
A biological supplement like "Cycle" or "Stress Zyme" will help reduce the stress on the fish, and if used from the first day would in my view have saved some of them, but probably not all and at this stage I don't know. it depends upon how bad their gills have been burned. Adding Cycle or SZ can't hurt, so if you can get some I would do it immediately. |
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Terms of the settlement were not disclosed. Attorney Jeffrey Tillotson, repping Texas Rangers Baseball Partners and administrator Alan Jacobs, wasn't available this morning to discuss the deal; and we're waiting to see if Hicks has a statement through spokesperson Lisa LeMaster. But as Bloomberg points out this morning, "The accord is subject to formal approval by lenders in the bankruptcy, according to the filing."
Just a few weeks ago it didn't appear a settlement was on the horizon: Tillotson filed docs alleging, yet again, that Hicks engaged in "self-dealing and [a] pattern of fraudulent asset transfers calculated to enrich himself at the expense of TRBP." Hicks, who sold the ball club for around about $590 million in 2010, has always maintained he lost around $200 million during his tenure as owner of both the Rangers and Dallas Stars, but TRBP disputed that assertion; said the November 2 filing, it wanted to Hicks to "show the source of funds [he] allegedly contributed to TRBP."
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