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06-25-2012, 01:41 AM #11Junior Member Guppy
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To try and answer several of the questions that have been asked of me in this thread:
-From what I've read and experienced, red empresses aren't aggressive, except during mating time (which is more territorial than aggression), so keeping them with angels, behaviorally, should be fine
-I know that the empresses and angelfish are from different areas, but after reading about them both on various sites, it seemed that there was a balance area where they could both be just fine. Maybe that isn't the case.
-I've heard everywhere before this forum that the Xp4 should be more than enough for my tank, which is why I didn't already attach both it and the xp3 (which is missing a few small parts, not a big deal or expensive, just enough that I don't have them sitting around already). If its an issue, putting the xp3 on as well isn't a problem.
-The rams were more of trying to shoehorn a 3rd kind of fish in the tank, but this forum has sufficently disuaded me from putting them in this tank.
I got the ammonia, so for my 125g tank, how much should I put in to help with the cycling?
Thanks for your responses and help and thoughts everyone.
0The cycling process is in my signature link. Bring it up to 5 like stated in the thread. Add a bit, allow filter to mix it in well for half hour or so and then test it with your tester. If more is needed, then add a bit more.
If you have two canisters, I would run both. That gives you lots more room for bacteria to grow, prevents dead spots on the opposite end of the tank and it's also nice to have a back up should one filter fail.
It's quite possible your empress gave you no problems before because they were kept with their own kind? Who knows what issues they may have had with other cichlids.
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0The tank I had them in before was an inherited one from someone I lived with for about a month and then moved, leaving me his 30g tank. It had some chinease algea eaters, zebra danios, 3 bettas (1M/2F), 1 medium sized blue cichlid (which I never did find out what it was) and 3 jouvanille red empresses (1M/2F). There was never any real problems with this group of fish. Except the blue fellow ate the male betta, but it happens. A little chasing otherwise and about 2 fish deaths every 6 months for a year and a half, until I lost the survivors in a long move:( I had previously just kept (and bred) bettas and kept a tank of barbs, but I knew the tank was about as full as it should be with so many species so I never looked into adding things, and as long as everyone seemed healthy I didn't look into the conditions as much as I could have.
0You were given a pretty confusing mess to began with so no wonder you've had questions.
Betta's can not be kept together other than females. Males and Males and Males and Females can not share tanks. They will kill each other. The Male and Female can only be together for the brief time to spawn and then separated again immediately. Even death can occur during this time.
Chinese Algae Eaters are dogs. They eat algae when young but then turn aggressive, chase small fish and stop eating algae when they get older. Siamese Algae Eaters are great, however.
The medium blue cichlid was most likely a mbuna.
Fish can live for many years other than Betta's whose lifespan is only a couple of years. I will say that those fish living for more than a couple of weeks together is quite remarkable but I can assure you, there had to be a lot of aggression with fish hiding, fleeing and running for their lives much of the time.
Fish are stuck in a glass box with no chance of fleeing from a preditor. It is simply unfair to keep them in this manner. Some cichlids can be kept with community fish like the dwarf cichlids.....rams or apisto's cichlids......some angelfish......etc. I have blood parrots and they do fine with community fish as did my firemouths. Those are all south american cichlids, however, not africans.
I would follow thru with the fish you want and simply make it a Hap-Peacock tank. Put lots of rocks in it or some flat slate, those ferns you wanted and you will have a knock-out tank? Once you get it cycled, you can add many fish at once which is the best way to stock africans due to aggression. I'm sure others will suggest perhaps another species you may wish to add but as I already stated, I have never had these fish so will not "go there" as I do not have the experience of recommending.
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0Oops, I meant I had siamese alae eaters. There was only 1 male betta in the tank, and for whatever reason, it always was good with the females.
0I was going by this that you wrote above:
"It had some chinease algea eaters, zebra danios, 3 bettas (1M/2F), 1 medium sized blue cichlid (which I never did find out what it was) and 3 jouvanille red empresses (1M/2F)."


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This is a system for writing Latin (Catholic Latin) using the Coptic Alphabet invented by David Biliot, who uses it to teach Latin to English speaking students. The reason he uses this is to overcome several of the difficulties encountered by English speaking students when they approach Catholic Latin for the first time. They often will already have some Latin background, usually in Classical Latin, that will interfere with the course of study he's teaching them.
As a way to remedy this, he uses the Coptic Alphabet. By doing this, He can specifically teach them and reinforce within them the places and times when Catholic Latin has sound changes in the consonants. He does this by making the student use a completely different letter to denote the sound change. This also allows him to overcome another difficulty that English speaking students often encounter and that is vowel changes.
In Catholic Latin, vowels never change sound, though they may change length. By instructing them that a different sound in the Coptic Alphabet will have a different letter, the fact that none of the vowel sounds have a different letter reinforces the Catholic Latin rule that vowels never change sound. Coptic works well for this purpose because the letter shapes of many of the letters are familiar to the student but many are also very new. This allows the student to be in familiar territory but at the same time to know that this alphabet works different from the one they have been using their whole life and so they are open to being told exactly how it works and not expecting it to work as English.
He also points out to the students that he has taken several liberties with the alphabet, and not to approach a real Coptic piece of writing and used the sounds they have learned from him. He only uses the Coptic alphabet in the opening stages of study, until the students have a good vocabulary and have minimum conversational skills. At that point he switches to the Latin Alphabet but by then, the places where there are sound changes have already been learned and the student can proceed without thinking that GI equals GHI. Many students do usually become at least mildly interested in the Coptic language and this becomes a doorway to teaching about the other forms of Eastern Catholicism other than the Byzantines.
In the future he hopes these kinds of uses of Coptic letters will allow Copts greater fidelity with Catholics.
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LOS ANGELES - Chris Horton is headed home for Thanksgiving, but to Texas not Louisiana. Home now is in La Porte, a city of 31,000 pressed up against Galveston Bay. It is a house that he never has set foot in with neighbors he has never met and in an area he does not know.
Truth is, the UCLA free safety couldn't exactly locate La Porte, Texas. It is nowhere near the New Orleans neighborhood where he grew up, the parks and fields where he played football and ran track. His friends from high school used to get together at every opportunity. But where are they now?
Scattered, just like Horton and his family.
He never needed to know anything about La Porte, which has a deepwater port, is home to the Houston Yacht Club and a slew of petrochemical companies. Hurricane Katrina took care of all that.
But Horton will be happy to be there this holiday.
"Hopefully, it's going to be the same," he said. "The only thing that isn't the same is we're not in Louisiana anymore. We're in Texas. But I'm sure everything else will be the same - family, food, so I'm looking forward to it."
The five Bruins' football players impacted by Katrina all will be home, to differing degrees. Running back Chris Markey and center Aaron Meyer are headed back to the New Orleans area, in Luling, La. Offensive lineman Chris Johnson is visiting his grandparents in New Jersey. Horton is with his family in La Porte. Only linebacker Fred Holmes, whose mother works at the New Orleans airport, decided to remain in Los Angeles and spend Thanksgiving with relatives in the area.
And they are able to give thanks after Hurricane Katrina damaged or destroyed the homes they, along with thousands of others, grew up in, as well as the lives they once knew.
The hurricane is the most destructive and costliest natural disaster in the history of the United States, with more than 1,000 dead and damage in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama estimated to be anywhere between $70 billion-$130 billion. Bodies still are being uncovered as the cleanup continues in New Orleans. De la Salle and Jesuit high schools, where Horton and Markey attended, have reopened, but public schools remain closed.
"I feel real fortunate to be able to go back and be around people that I know," Meyer said. "It's kind of one of those things - bittersweet. You're happy that you're there, but you wish you could have all of your friends there with their families. From what I know of, a lot of people won't be there. A lot of people have lost homes. I have a lot of friends who live in the city, in the heart of the city, and they probably won't be there. There will be a lot of faces missing in the crowd.
"It makes every opportunity to get home real important. Like before last year, sometimes you'd think, well, I don't want to come home for Thanksgiving, I'd rather wait and come home for Christmas because it's a longer holiday. ... But now, any time we can fly back there, all the guys on the team from that area, even if it's going to Texas or New Jersey, we want to go see those people, talk to those people and just let them know that even though you're 2,000 miles away, you're still thinking about them."
UCLA has helped. Shortly after Katrina hit, the NCAA allowed its member institutions to accept donations for the families of their student- athletes impacted the hurricane and lifted its ban on extra aid and benefits. At some universities in the area, that has meant aid in obtaining temporary housing and jobs, as well as financial assistance through donations.
The Bruins' athletic department, in an on-going effort, has been able to distribute money to the families of the football players.
"We took that opportunity, and we solicited former players, donors, friends of the program, to help and we were able to raise money to send directly to the families to help them in this time of transition and help them get back on their feet, to provide some resources in what is a very difficult time," UCLA associate athletic director Bob Field said.
"I'm sure even the people who gave didn't probably even understand how great of a gift that was. It was really encouraging to see people step up and do that and I think it was very meaningful to those families and to our athletes, knowing that we were helping their families."
Food, rent, clothing. Home repairs, furniture.
"Everything," Field said.
"That definitely helped," Horton said. "My parents were sleeping on blow-up beds, and when they got that money, the first thing they did was buy a real bed. They're definitely appreciative of what the university has done for them. When you lose everything, it's hard. But I have a strong family and everybody sticks together so we're all going to pull through."
Before settling in La Porte just last week, Horton's mother, Kim James, had been evacuated to Houston, moved to a hotel, evacuated to Dallas when Hurricane Rita hit the Houston area and moved back to an apartment in Pasadena, Texas.
They lost their home in New Orleans to Katrina, and everything in it.
"We took two sets of clothes - we thought we'd be back in a few days. Then, wow, the whole city goes under water. You don't expect that, and there's nothing that you can do," she said.
"When we started, we didn't have anything. We were sleeping on air mattresses. That's a wonderful thing, to have a warm place to sleep."
And, now, a more permanent roof over their heads. It might not be New Orleans, but it is home.
"He's going to recognize us, but he's not going to recognize La Porte," James said of her son, home for the holiday. "But I think he's going to like it."
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Boeing Poised to Keep Crown From Airbus on 787
Susanna Ray and Robert WallBoeing Co. is poised to keep the title of world's largest planemaker for at least two more years amid rising deliveries of the delayed 787 Dreamliner, the jet that helped it beat Airbus SAS for the first time in a decade.
Boeing shipped 46 Dreamliners last year, pushing total commercial jet deliveries one higher than its top forecast of 600. Airbus, which had held the No. 1 spot since 2003, handed over 516 jets through November out of a yearlong goal of 580. The European planemaker won't report 2012 data until Jan. 17.
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Production of the 787, the new composite-plastic jet that was more than three years behind when it entered service in late 2011, is set to double this year to a wide-body record of 10 jets a month. Boeing is boosting total airliner output more than 60 percent in the four years through 2014 in response to customer demand for more fuel-efficient equipment.
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Deliveries marked a 26 percent gain from 2011, when Boeing shipped 477 airliners and fell short of its target for 787s with just three. The company surpassed this year's goal of as many as 42 Dreamliner deliveries by four.
Deliveries are important because that's when planemakers get large bulk payments on the purchase price of a jet. While 2012 revenue will show a boost from the higher 787 deliveries, profit won't be as enhanced because of the plane's lower margins, Stephen Levenson, an analyst with Stifel Nicolaus & Co. Inc., wrote in a note today. Boeing reports earnings on Jan. 30.
Net orders climbed 49 percent to 1,203, led by purchases of single-aisle 737s, which more than doubled as Boeing offered an upgraded version with new engines. The total was the second-largest in the company's history, boosting its backlog to a record 4,373 jets. Airbus had a target of 650 orders for 2012 and has already announced deals for more than 720 units.
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"As I look at 2013, fundamentally it's lining up a lot like we saw last year," Randy Tinseth, Boeing's marketing chief, said in an interview today. "We expect to see continued strong demand on the single-aisle side."
Boeing won orders for 40 737s from unidentified customers in the past two weeks, according to an update today of its website tally. Orders were canceled for 25 of that model and for one 787.
Annual orders for 767s, 777s and 787s, all twin-aisle jetliners, fell from the previous year. Dreamliner orders ended the year in the negative, with 50 cancellations outstripping purchases by 12. Boeing still has unfilled orders for 799 of the new planes.
At Toulouse, France-based Airbus, output of the flagship four-engine A380 is sagging as the aircraft maker fixes a wing-component flaw that has caused cracking in parts of the plane. Airbus delivered 30 A380s in 2012.
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Boeing is set to remain ahead of its rival in both 2013 and 2014, said Reiner and Howard Rubel, an analyst with Jefferies Group Inc. in New York.
"After that, it will be whoever has the solution for that mid-range widebody, which they're both going at hammer and tong," Rubel said. Airbus's new A350, the 787's competitor, is scheduled to enter service in 2014.
Last year's deliveries were a record for Boeing-labeled jets. The three other times in the 97-year-old company's history when production was greater than 600 airliners each included now-discontinued models made by planemakers Boeing bought.
"What's equally interesting is the large commercial transport market delivering over 1,200 airplanes, which will be the third record year in a row for deliveries," Rubel said, referring to combined shipments by Airbus and Boeing. "We have it forecast as modestly up for the next two years, then we need traffic to really kick in again."
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Airbus last year opted not to boost output of A320 family aircraft to 44 per month from 42, in part out of concern suppliers couldn't keep pace.
"The challenge for both Airbus and Boeing will be to get the supply chain to deliver on the increased rates without any issues," said Zafar Khan, a London-based analyst at Credit Suisse.
Boeing faces an additional risk meeting targets this year as the union representing 23,000 engineers and technical workers, mostly at Boeing's manufacturing hub around Seattle, has warned of a possible strike.
Wage talks are set to restart Jan. 9, and the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace has said it may call for a work stoppage the first week of February if no agreement is reached.


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text: Lewis Hamilton's Michael Jackson-Themed F1 Helmet Is Surprisingly GreatTravis Okulski11/15/13 10:00amFiled to: Austin F1Lewis HamiltonMotorsports40EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink I give Lewis Hamilton a lot of flack. He's a damn good driver, but I've always found him to be a bit of a prima donna. But that doesn't stop me from loving his Michael Jackson helmet. Shamon now. Drivers make special helmets for a few races every year, and for some reason Lewis decided that Austin, which has absolutely no connection to Michael Jackson or the Jackson family, was the place to pay tribute to the late King of Pop. Advertisement Advertisement The helmet, that he unveiled on Twitter (Lewis is one of those people I follow just because his tweets mostly make me angry), ditches Lewis's traditional yellow for red, and has a 1980s era picture of the original Smooth Criminal on the top. Very cool.As I normally expect Lewis to have something diamond encrusted and garish, this is a pleasant surprise. Shamon Lewis. Shamon.Reply40 repliesLeave a reply


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Thread: Wong Fei Hung vs Wikipedia
6/25/2010 12:30pm, #1--
Wong Fei Hung vs Wikipedia
Ming, I've always noticed the wiki page on Fei Hung has what they say is an "alleged" photo.
I have yet to find out why this is "alleged". But why there are no pictures of someone who was quite popular in a time when photography was relatively common...why are the only supposed photos of him so suspect?
There are very grainy videos of Mok Gwai Lan in her 80s doing what looks like tiger/crane and chain whip demonstration for a TV show...really old stuff. Boy I wish someone had gotten Fei Hung on video...
YouTube- Mok Gwai Lan
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1. Anyone can edit Wiki to insert any crap they want.
2. Wikipedia doesn't critically evaluate it's sources. One can easily cite an Ashida Kim equivalent on any topic.
3. If you want to cite sources, do some reading, use proper academic sources, cite that.
Wiki <> credible source of info.
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The credibility of individual articles might vary but well written/edited articles certainly have citations to more credible stuff. In the case of Wong's photo it's controversy predates Wikipedia anyway, which was just the first link that came up when I went searching for the photo.
6/25/2010 1:03pm, #6--
Are you just here to argue or what?
Please note, I'm being nice.
1. Wikipedia does not critically evaluate it's sources.
2. That means, any jackass can write a book or article, and Wikipedia will accept it as a source.
3. This further means that Wikipedia is not a solid source of information on which a poster can rely to deliver solid, indesputable backup to his stance.
4. If you want to back your point, get off your ass, read a book, make sure the author is someone who knows what he is talking about (background in history, ma, or known scholar, etc.)
Otherwise you're just arguing a moot point.
6/25/2010 1:07pm, #7--
If I was here to argue I'd be debating you bullet by bullet. I am just pointing out the picture in Wiki happens to be the same picture all the other sites/books about Fei Hung have, and they all claim it is "supposed" but "questionable". I wanted to know if anything knew why this picture is considered "questionable".
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what i heard is that it's a photo of one of his sons who "looked like" him.
your point is TOTALLY irrelevant to this discussion. please drop it, it does NOT matter. if you want to talk about how ready to discuss lineage all legit CMA instructors are then, we have something to talk about.
so... did your sifu (certainly a legit sifu) trace back your lineage to at least WFH for you? IIRC it's part of the first belt test in your system to be able to recite the whole lineage."Face punches are an essential character building part of a martial art. You don't truly love your children unless you allow them to get punched in the face." - chi-conspiricy
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Toronto, ON - The Canadian Opera Company is deeply saddened to learn of the sudden passing of former general director Lotfi Mansouri, who guided the company from 1976 to 1988.
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Robin Milhouse4 Stars Out Of 5June 28, 2010Robin MilhouseThis review was written for The Wedding Machine.A little confusing and difficult to get into at first (lots of flipping i from past to present in each of the four women's lives as their stories unfold), I grew increasingly engaged in this book by about the 4th or 5th chapter. Again, so interested to read of the cultural norms of the southern US that are highlighted in this story - I enjoyed it very much! (I found it to be an interesting pick for a "Women of Faith" book. The women do not have any sort of personal faith in God through at least the first half of the story, so we see them acting and reacting in all their "fallen human" glory. But, as we know, sometimes it takes a lot of sorrow in this fallen world to get our attention and remind us that God knew we would need a Savior!)
AJH1 Stars Out Of 5May 14, 2010AJHThis review was written for The Wedding Machine.Well . . . I was glad it was a discounted book. I too was disappointed that this would be a Women of Faith book. It was a little too much like a "world" book. The story was a good one about the women and their friendship, I just wish it could have been a true Christian book, because it really wasn't.
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A fun action game that improves on flaws of the previous turtle games. This is definitely worth a weekend rental or purchase for turtle fans!
This is a fun little romp that captures the feeling of the old school arcade game, while adding some features that keep the game from feeling too dated.
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Levels are often quite redundant and boring after just a few minutes, players can feel as if they've already seen and done everything.
The only thing that would really make it worthwhile to me is playing through far enough to unlock Turtles in Time and then playing that. It's sad when a game made ten years ago can out-perform one made today.
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It does offer the upgrade system which redeems it, but overall the game is kind of boring.
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As nightmares go, this one ranks right up there with the one about entering the schoolyard pantsless, and perhaps even on fire. The turtles deserve better, and its unfortunate this game extends their bad luck streak.
Nintendo PowerEven the classic "TMNT: Turtles in Time" bonus arcade game doesn't run as smoothly as it should. [Jan 2006, p.114]
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- XWL said...
Do you have Flat Tax Fever yet?
Imagine if all you needed to do tonight was total all your annual income and divide by five.
Simple, elegant, and fair, all things the current system are not. - 4/14/07, 7:07 PM
- Eli Blake said...
No, I don't. I'm quite happy with the tax system being the way it is. People who are on the lower end of the scale need more of what they make just to survive (in fact, I'm all for the EIC to help them do that, even though I'm way out of the range for it.) Kids and mortgage interest, just to give a couple of examples, cost more, so there should be deductions for it. And imagine what a big hit charities would take if there were no 'tax deductible' associated with contributions?
And guess what else? If you make more than I do and we have a graduated tax system, then after taxes you will STILL make more than I do! The higher tax brackets still only apply to your taxes after a cutoff amount below which you are taxed at the previous rate.
In fact, I love seeing how much I pay in taxes every year-- it's a measure of how much I'm making. - 4/14/07, 8:00 PM
- Mark the Pundit said...
Well, better now than never I suppose!
By the way, are you one of the millions being pit through AMT hell? Count me in as a flat-tax man, regardless of what Eli Blake may argue. :-) - 4/14/07, 8:17 PM
- kimsch said...
finished mine earlier - turbo tax.
- Larry said...
Why don't you just get an accountant? It's a relative bargain, and it's tax-deductable at that.
- Adam said...
This February, I was newly broken up with my boyfriend. So I did my taxes after work on Valentines Day. Insult to injury, huh?.
- PatCA said...
No, you're not alone. Just finished mine. Not helped at all by the broken wrist and the hacking cough.
I'm holding them responsible for every penny! - 4/14/07, 9:01 PM
- Joe said...
No, you're not alone. But I get paid to do it. I'll start my own on Tuesday sometime.
- Joe said...
And yes, checking Althouse while I'm working is one of my guilty pleasures...
- Mark the Pundit said...
And yes, checking Althouse while I'm working is one of my guilty pleasures...
It's all about the vortex... - 4/14/07, 9:54 PM
- James Wigderson said...
The advantage of being married, my wife is doing our taxes.
Two quotes to cheer you up:
"Just what is the standard deduction for watermelons?"
- Gallagher
"Be wary of strong drink. It may make you shoot at tax collectors - and miss." - Robert Heinlein - 4/15/07, 12:01 AM
- blake said...
Every year on January 1st, I get all hopped up to do my taxes. By the time all the paperwork has come in February, I've lost all interest.
But I did get it done 3 weeks ago.
I've been "rich" and currently I'm "poor" ("rich" is better). I get confused a lot about which is which because Bush's tax cuts really helped me (but I thought they were for the "rich"?).
This year, my income tax burden was due almost entirely to $900 made as a freelance writer. The government hates the self-employed.
Social Security on the other hand is brutal. Actually regressive. (I'll never forget my first real paycheck where I had request no tax be withheld and yet 10% of my check was gone, while it was insisted that no part of my check was being withheld.)
Meanwhile, I cringe because I know that the little extra money I make this year will take me out of the mostly non-tax-paying category and probably back into the "rich" category where half of the extra $20K I make will go to the gov't.
Unlike Eli, my inclination is simply to not make that money. - 4/15/07, 1:47 AM
- Kirk Parker said...
What on earth is with you people doing your taxes today? Don't you have all Sunday for that???
- John Kindley said...
For those who consider Adam Smith a Doctor of the Capitalist Church, here's an appropriate quote from the Wealth of Nations:
"If direct taxes upon the wages of labour have not always occasioned a proportionable rise in those wages, it is because they have generally occasioned a considerable fall in the demand for labour. The declension of industry, the decrease of employment for the poor, the diminution of the annual produce of the land and labour of the country, have generally been the effects of such taxes. In consequence of them, however, the price of labour must always be higher than it otherwise would have been in the actual state of the demand: and this enhancement of price, together with the profit of those who advance it, must always be finally paid by the landlords and consumers. . . .
Absurd and destructive as such taxes are, however, they take place in many countries."
In my view, the proposition that no one should pay any tax on those fruits of one's own labor that are necessary to establish and maintain a decent and reasonably secure standard of living (i.e., roughly, on income up to the U.S. household mean income), or consumption taxes on those goods and services consistent with the same, rises to the level of a natural right.
I would be fine with a flat tax so long as it incorporated a standard deduction conforming with the above principle. For most of our country's history (up until WWII), only the very richest (if anyone) paid income tax, and our present confiscatory taxes on the modest incomes of lower and middle class citizens would have been unthinkable (particularly for the Founders, who were none too accepting of unjust taxes). - 4/15/07, 6:50 AM
- John Kindley said...
The most cynical part of me, aided and abetted by the cynicism long wafting out of Washington, strongly suspects that our current tax policies are motivated by the following perennial economic "principle," as expressed by the following in the history "The Worldly Philosophers" by Robert L. Heilbroner:
"The new philosophy [in the eighteenth century] brought with it a new social problem: how to keep the poor poor. It was generally admitted that unless the poor were poor, they could not be counted upon to do an honest day's toil without asking for exorbitant wages. 'To make the Society Happy . . ., it is requisite that great numbers should be Ignorant as well as Poor,' wrote Bernard Mandeville, the shrewdest and wickedest social commentator of the early eighteenth century."
Translation: If no one is desperate (and economically unfree), who will man our McDonalds? - 4/15/07, 8:17 AM
- vet66 said...
I found out years ago that my accountant was using TurboTax. It is so easy, a 'caveman could do it!" and I save the $175 he was charging me.
The secret to it is to organize your receipts throughout the year. I recommend Quicken also. Let the computer balance your checkbood and pay your recurring bills. I suspect that in the future TurboTax will prepare a basic 1040 based on Quicken/Bill Pay etc. that we can then tweak and be done with in an hour.
Money well spent and it is tax deductible. - 4/15/07, 8:37 AM
- Synova said...
I think that our taxes took a single page this year, at the most two. Certainly compared to many people doing them ourselves would have been trivial.
But we paid to have someone else do them. We sat there the whole time. Wouldn't have taken any longer to do them ourselves, filling in the blanks on a computer program just like the accountant did. And we paid and sure we could have used the money.
But if we'd done that I *would* have been doing it yesterday and today. Because I'd have been doing that avoidance thing just like everyone else.
We got ours done in January. The day after we got the W-2.
Neener neener.
- Jeff said...
Kirk, I am with you brother. I am planning on doing my taxes tonight. Probably. Wonder what's on tv? Sopranos? I can't get all excited about it as eli blake does. Right around tax time I enjoy looking at the pork spending. Makes me warm and fuzzy knowing that I would have to pay the same amount I am this year for another 9200 years to equal what the government is paying peanut farmers to store their peanuts for 2007.
- Kev said...
I did mine quite a while ago, as I knew I was due for a big refund. (As an educator who teaches both at a college--where taxes are taken out--and as an independent contractor in a public school system--where I'm considered self-employed--I have a foot in both worlds. As I've found over the years, the secret to balancing these worlds is to have a whole bunch of extra tax taken out of the college job.)
I ran my numbers past my accountant (who goes by "Dad" the rest of the year) over spring break, and my refund was magically direct-deposited into my savings at the beginning of the week. But if it had been one of those years where I owed tax, I wouldn't be mailing the forms off until tomorrow. - 4/15/07, 5:53 PM
- Theo Boehm said...
I blame TurboTax for the demise of yet another great American tradition: the April 15th community social at the local Post Office.
How I miss the mail clerks lined up at the sidewalk to grab envelopes from drive-by taxpayers; the crowd of bleary-eyed procrastinators desperately pawing through disorganized piles looking for a fresh Schedule C; the 5-gallon percolators of weak coffee helpfully but departmentally brewed by Postal employees; the mixed feelings of superiority and compassion for some poor schlub who has just figured out that he owes the IRS $1169.70, and has $83.49 remaining in his bank account from last week's paycheck; the feeling of exultation as one completes the return, stuffs it into the envelope, licks it, and hands it to the clerk at 11:53, heading out into the April night, breathing the cool air of freedom and joy.
Now we sit, disembodied, faced by the flat panel's cool geometry, silently, unsocially answering robot questions, typing numbers and pushing buttons. The cup on the table contains green tea or some Sumatra we got last week at Peet's. No aluminum-flavored institutional brew for us. No rubbing elbows in a crush of people.
And we go to our favorite blog to talk about it. - 4/15/07, 9:30 PM
- PatCA said...
That still happens...lot of people are like me, we don't file electronically. Why give them quicker access to your money and make it easier for audits, we all as paying a fee to e-file! - 4/15/07, 11:21 PM


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One man by myself even then I'm 4 deep
Like hotel swimming pools that's 4 feet
These niggas like the rooms: so suite
Priceline: so cheap
I'm a cell phone, they some room keys
I'm some shell toes, they the shoestrings
I turn 'em off (I turn 'em off)
I take 'em out (I take 'em out)
I'm Reverend Run, with the laces out
My Adidas, so adios
"All Day I Dream" like I'm comatose
That's your ship sinking, and I'm so afloat
I'm T-Pain, I'm on a boat
Not the slave one, DiCaprio's, neither
Here the waves come, they started in the bleachers
So I'm swag surfin', the pool's getting deeper
You still sweet, though, here come them roomkeepers
Okay, I be the strings, you be the shoes
But guess what? Now they Jimmy Choos
I wear the pants, you in the Poohs
Yo' shit meows, my shit awoooooos
I got a fifth floor, call me Brother Man
Africa the set, yeah, that's the Motherland
For that BP I shed 50 tears
In Nigeria that oil been spilling for like 50 years
"50 years? Hell naw!"
Hell yeah! I'm tryna tell y'all
At this rate, niggas gonna lose
Can't search for water or grow your own food
Tell me what's gonna happen when them stores close
And ain't gon' open up no more?
That's the realest shit, yeah, you gon' feel that
Hunger's your enemy, but you can't kill that
Nigga, wake up, don't join the Army
Kill your own peoples, but fear Illuminatis
And they ain't even real, or are they?
But you wouldn't even know, because you partay
Too fucking much, if you start to doubt
They already in your mind, and coming out your mouth
It's not a trick, nigga, it's a trap
"Survival of the Fit" is what they aiming at
And niggas ain't fit (nope), fat as hell (yep)
Fat in mind (yep), body fat as well
Who use most the drugs? Americans!
What's in Afghanistan? Heroin!
You think that's by mistake? They can stop that?
Don't think you safe though, because you not black
Greed is colorblind, so I'm colorblind
They gon' fuck with yours soon as they done with mine
They say I try too hard, verses overwhelm
I learned most of this from niggas sitting in jail
Where you think I'm from? From the streets, nigga
Triple OGs, told me to teach, nigga
And that ain't made up, that's a fact
They say that gangsta shit, is the shit I rap
Look who I attract, look at my inner circle
Buncha street niggas, and a couple Urkels
Look at my fan base, oh, yes
Fuck what Pro say, look at this protest
Where they do that at? (Huh?) Who they do that for? (Who?)
Must mean I'm doing bad, and things is moving slow
They talking revolution on public radio
They catch down in Houston, sitting on them 84s
Trae, what's up? ABN
Got your back, nigga, sink or swim
Free Chilly Chill, shake off your masters
Pray to God, build your mind faster
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Lupe Fiasco is freestyling over Rick Ross' "B.M.F." (Blowin Money Fast) beat – except in his version, rather than talk about black gangstas, he names black leaders
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Group buying stalls in Asia
Deal sites storm the exit doors
Posted in Business, 23rd January 2012 21:37 GMT
The Asia Pacific group buying market is in consolidation mode due to intense competition, according to a new report from Daily Deal Media.
According to the new report 798 daily deal sites shut down globally in the second half of 2011.
In Asia the contraction was profound with 1,348 Asian daily deal sites swithcing to becoming deal breakers during the back end of 2011.
Daily Deal Media CEO Boyan Josic said that the high rate of mortality for the Asian group buyers was due to China. "It's simply due to the sheer numbers of startups which was also followed by a large percentage of them failing," he told the Register.
He added that key factors to global consolidation include the increase in subscriber acquisition costs. With lots of deals sites covering the same ground, it's also hard for them to source quality deals, and investors are taking a "wait and see" approach, starving the sector of new capital.
Josic predicts that further consolidation will unfold this year, even more so than the carnage of the second half of 2011. "I also expect more startups to continue to innovate in the space, but the days of the Groupon clones that have no distinctive advantage may be coming to an end."
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Georgia Southern senior wide receiver Teddy Craft has died as a result of a July 4th motorcycle crash. Craft, from Hartwell, Georgia, was a second-team All Southern Conference selection the past two seasons, and led the Eagles with 319 receiving yards and 5 TDs last season.
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It's about that time of the season again. The Crazies have emerged from "The Bachelor," and boy, have they got each other reeling! But the question is: Whatever will Brad do about it? Will he allow them to tear each other's weaves apart, or will he pull out all the stops and tell them he's got no room for divas in this here Texan heart?
And how did the dates go? Does he get rose-happy and play nice to all or does he dash a girl's dreams of getting a ring round her finger and her eggs fertilized?
Guess you'll have to read the recap and find out:
Clowning Around With Granny
Reminiscing on how much fun it was to hang with his Granny back in the day, Brad chooses Ashley H., the frenetic and over-exuberant dentist who claims she's 26 (but whom we know is going on 46).
Off they go in the convertible! Ash hangs onto her wig for dear life but nonetheless is thankful for the strong winds blowing on her face, as it gives her an immediate face lift! The two turn onto a dirt road and begin walking through the creepy woods. Before they know it, they're in front of a surprise switch. Ash flips it on and then BAM! She realizes they're at a carnival!
They play games! Eat cotton candy! And go on the ferris wheel! Yippie!
Ash suddenly pushes him towards her and proceeds to suck his face for 15 seconds. His mouth searches for her upper lip, but there is none to be found…sadly, only the taste of Polident.
After the face-sucking ends, Ash lays down the law and says she needs stability because her daddy was never in her life. Brad, overcome with emotion, says they're like TWINS! He's got daddy issues, tooooo! She commences with 1,000 more questions coupled with so many hand gestures, we believe she's created her own sign language just for Brad-dilda.
In the end, the Mustard-Haired Muscle Man gives her a rose, and she thanks him by allowing her tongue to act like floss between his teeth.
Bloody War
Group date! Keltie, Chantal O., Madison, Melissa, Kimberly, Marissa, Raichel, Britt, Meghan, Emily, Stacey, Allie, Shawntel N., Lisa, and Michelle are asked to give by making blood donation PSAs for the American Red Cross…but Michelle wants to receive. After all, it's her 30th birthday, and she can act like she's five if she wants to.
"Happy freaking birthday to me," she sarcastically exclaims—angry that she has to share Brad with 14 other girls. "People are going to piss me off today—I know it."
And did they ever! Take after take, various girls had the pleasure of slobbering over Brad-Man—it was like PSAs Gone Wild! While Michelle is cutting herself in the corner out of jealousy, equally psychotic Melissa can't handle taking the back seat, either! She runs onto the set during Brad's lines and latches onto his lips…then she faints (because that's what happens when one doesn't eat for a month).
Psycho Babble
At the rooftop after party, Melissa grabs Brad-inski for some one-on-one time. With jitters, she attempts to convince him she's not crazy for attacking him on the set, while at the same time, searches desperately for a drumstick.
Preparing to rumble with Melissa, Raichel gulps down three eggs and does bicep curls in the corner. Once the skinny minnie walks over to her, Raichel slams her for not being "real" with Brad (i.e. telling him that she was planning on leaving if she didn't have a one-on-one with him). The two girls go kamikaze on each other, with Raichel trying to manscape the tongue from Melissa's mouth!
Once everyone settles into the pool, Brad presents the coveted rose to the bratty birthday girl, Michelle. To show her satisfaction that her manipulative ways paid off, she sways creepily with the rose in her hand. Off in the distance, we hear muffled screams as the camera catches Raichel shoving Melissa's head down into the chlorine-drenched waters…
NERD Alert!
It's a "Pretty Woman" date for Jackie, and her jutting underbite reveals how pleased she is! Brad takes her to a posh hotel and together they get dressed in white robes and receive bird poop facials! After taking her into another room filled with pageant dresses courtesy of Stein Mart, he surprises her again by draping her with Neil Lane jewelry. She giggles and thanks him so much that we begin to realize the gravity of the situation: We've got a bonafide nerd on our hands.
But one more surprise! Hee hee! Brad takes Jackie to the Hollywood Bowl! Cheering with utter delight, her face suddenly reminds us of Balki from the 80s sitcom "Perfect Strangers."
Once they begin eating their Panda Express dinner, Brad starts to uncover her Kingdom of Dork-dom. She tells him she had just one boyfriend in high school (ahem, doesn't count) and dated one other guy after college.
"Wow, you're extremely cautious," Brad politely says, disguising what he really knows to be the truth: Miss Naivete doesn't know squat about relationships.
But hey, Brad throws caution to the wind and gives her a rose for the heck of it. Then the band Train shows up and sings a few tunes. In between groveling and thanking her man profusely, Jackie dances in his arms and kisses him, hiding her retainer in her cleavage.
The Crying Game
As Michelle steals Brad to ask him what kind of coffee he likes and what he stores in his fridge (hers has dead bodies), Raichel and Melissa continue barking at each other like chihuahuas. The other girls tell them to get over it, but Melissa won't stop stalking Raichel, who's about to get Jersey on her non-existent arse.
To help soothe her nerves, Melissa sobs and tells Brad about being "the target" in the house. In mid-sentence, she apologizes for her onion pizza-scented breath. Brad widens his eyes with incredulity.
Then he checks on Raichel, who's busy doing one-arm push ups, and realizes she's in tears, too! She calmly tells him that Melissa is an angry paranoid anorexic in need of animal tranquilizers.
Look at the Happy Couple!
But before all hell breaks loose, Ali and Roberto show up, all sparkly and smiles! Aside from interrogating all the girls and giving a full assessment to Brad, their uneventful presence allows us to get up for bathroom breaks.
Before Brad kicks three cats to the curb, he finally decides on giving the final immunity rose to Emily, whose sweetness is almost as distracting as the whiteness of her porcelain veneers.
No More Drama in His Life
In the wisest move yet, Bradonka-Donk boots off drama queens Raichel and Melissa, and for "kicks" he sends Keltie home, too.
Highlights from Next Episode
Action adventure movie! Hot tub time! Singing Seal songs out of key! A contestant walks off and wants to go home! Oh noooo!


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Three LA Beer Events You Can't Miss
The annual 213 Beer Crawl has expanded to two days - that's right, you can now go through all of the Downtown bars (Casey's, Cole's, Broadway Bar, Golden Gopher, Seven Grand, Cana Rum Bar and Las Perlas) on both Saturday and Sunday, August 10 and 11. Curated with the help of the Beer Chicks, more than 100 craft beers will be offered from top breweries, including Allagash, Brouwerji West, Cismontane, Deschutes, Eagle Rock, El Segundo, Firestone, Golden Road, Goose Island, Hangar 24, Noble Aleworks, Smog City, Speakeasy, Stone, Uncommon, Valiant, Weihenstephane and so many more. Tickets are $119 for a two-day VIP pass, which gets you early admission into bars and private seminars; or $69 each day. General admission is $49 per person. Make a night of it and stay at the Biltmore Hotel - there's a special rate for attendees throughout the weekend. Find more info and tickets here.
And a couple beer stalwarts celebrate their anniversaries in classic blowout style. Blue Palms Brewhouse is throwing down an afternoon tasting event for its fifth birthday. The list of beer participants is enormous (check it out here), and you'll get to taste 10 for $45 ($50 at the door) plus enjoy some special menu items gratis. Owner Brian Lenzo promises extra A/C units and misters - it does get hot in there. Get more info and tickets here. Sunday, August 11, noon to 5 PM.
Not only Mohawk Bend toasting two years in Echo Park, the building that houses it is officially 100 years old. From August 8-13, new beers will roll on tap every day, from The Bruery's Sour in the Rye to Habanero Sclupin. On August 14, head in for a special release party for Mohawk Bend beer collaboration from Golden Road. Tickets are $24.95 and include passed apps and beer tasting. And on August 21, get all-you-can-eat pizza in the Romona Room for $15.95. There will be four new flavors, including a kung pao pizza. Reservations are required for the release and pizza parties; make them by calling 213-483-2337.


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Olympic Lifting for Better Downhill Running
Categories: Running, Strength+Endurance
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Really excited to publish this last article as it represents my evolving understanding of strength & conditioning needs for endurance athletes. It also represents my growing collaborative efforts with other coaches down at San Francisco CrossFit, most notably Carl Paoli of GymansticsWod and Diane Fu of Fu Barbell. I feature both of their websites in this article as they have excellent resources to learn more about the box jump, double under, and the olympic lifts respectively.
Each week I get to coach a lot of Bay area endurance athletes at San Francisco CrossFit, and each week I get to dial in a strength & conditioning program that supports their training and racing demands in new and innovative ways.
I hope you enjoy my latest thoughts and ideas based on my work with these endurance athletes and conversations with these knowledgeable coaches.
Excerpt from my latest Competitor.com article:
In order to run faster downhill, incorporate some weightlifting into your training regimen.
In this article, we will discuss the importance of downhill running and how we can improve it. Any runner who has run marquee races such as the Boston Marathon, the Dipsea, Western States, or faced the steep hills at the Wildflower Triathlon know that being able to run down is as important as running up.
I learned this lesson painfully in my first ultra marathon.
I was running in the chill and salty Cape Town air, facing three miles of upward, unrelenting pavement with a in view of the Indian Ocean. I was about to plunge down a three-mile descent of equally unrelenting pavement along the Atlantic. I was about 15-18 miles into the Two Oceans Marathon — my first (and let the record show) only ultra marathon.
I trained well, chugging by runners on this steady ascent. With 20 miles still to run, this strong feeling gave me that much needed confidence in my plan and preparation to keep going.
Midway down the descent, however, it was me who got passed. While my heart rate was low, I just couldn't run faster. I was maxed, and my hips and knees ached with the effort. I resigned myself to watching the same runners I previously passed retake the lead. I started to ask myself: what does it take to be a good downhill runner? And why am I a bad one? I suffered through, finished the race, and went back to the drawing board…
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Meet Last Year's Mr. Fire Island Bear
The third annual Fire Island Bear Weekend is coming on June 15th - 18th 2017. Part of the weekend is the Mr Fire Island Bear competition. We caught up with last year's winner, Patrick Donohue, to talk about the competition.
Beauty and the Beast' Dances Off with Top Box-Office Spot
This weekend at the box office, nostalgia-driven fare was everywhere, from "Beauty and the Beast" to "Power Rangers" and "CHIPS," producing both successful and underwhelming results.
Berkeley Killing Renews Debate Over Gender Pronouns
Pablo Gomez Jr. was a University of California, Berkeley, senior majoring in Latino studies and a prominent campus activist when authorities say he stabbed to death a popular elementary-school teacher.
Mike Tyson Suffers Rare Loss In Noisy Latin America Bout
Over his career, former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson recorded 50 wins and six losses. But he recently notched another big loss in Latin America - this time as a coach of a bird.
Memorial Planned for Ruth Coker Burks, Who Cared for Early Victims of the AIDS Epidemic
Back in the '80s, when the population of gay men was rapidly decimated by AIDS one woman, Ruth Coker Burks, cared for them, stood beside them on their deathbed and made sure they were buried with basic human dignity.
Opponents: Arkansas Exposure Bill Targets Transgender People
An Arkansas lawmaker wants to expand the state's indecent exposure in a move that opponents say could criminalize transgender people's use of bathrooms.
Ron Reyes: Finding the Hero Within
Based out of Orange County, Ron Reyes specializes in photos of men, unapologetic images that celebrate the male form... and, in particular, the gay male form.
Mental Makeover Month
We must be very careful what we agree to, even mentally, because what we agree with, we are creating for ourselves. Just as there are no idle thoughts, there are no idle agreements, and that includes the next four years.
Workout: The Art of Aging
The way you see the aging process mentally, can be a big factor in your physical health.
Miami Beach Gay Pride Selects Parade Marshals
Miami Beach Gay Pride is handing its grand marshaling duties over to an intern. Ross the Intern to be exact.
Pride in Palm Beach: Parade Will Feature Jazz Jennings as Grand Marshal
Just as they have since 1992, the LGBT community will celebrate the strength and growth of the Palm Beach County LGBT community with the annual two-day Palm Beach PrideFest celebration Saturday, March 25 and Sunday, March 26.
Logo Announces "Fire Island" Release Date
"Fire Island" follows a group of young professionals living together in a beachfront share house for the summer as they search for the romance, temptation and thrills that have brought the LGBTQ community to the island for decades.
Trump Administration Approves Keystone XL Pipeline
The Trump administration issued a permit Friday to build the Keystone XL pipeline, reversing the Obama administration and clearing the way for the $8 billion project to finally be completed.
FCC Approves Measures Intended to Combat Prison Cellphones
The Federal Communications Commission in Washington voted 3-0 to approve rules to streamline the process for using technology to detect and block contraband phones in prisons and jails across the U.S.
Greta Garbo's Former NYC Apartment on the Market for $5.95M
Film legend Greta Garbo's former longtime apartment in New York City is up for sale for nearly $6 million.
Cadillac Subscription Plan
General Motors is launching Book by Cadillac in hopes that a subscription-based model will work for luxury cars.
Anthony's Kitchen: Totellini Salad with Bacon
This week on Anthony's Kitchen is my recipe for Tortellini Salad with Bacon. It's a very tasty meal, or in smaller portions a great lunch.
HIV in the Age of PrEP
At first it was heralded as a medical miracle-the news that a daily single dose of the drug Truvada protected sexually active people from contracting the HIV virus.
MA Students Take Part in Queer SF Travel Class
At first blush, spending spring break studying queer San Francisco might seem a bit too much navel-gazing even for the average LGBTQ San Franciscan. Think again!
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Qflix Philadelphia Film Festival
Qflix Philadelphia held their 23rd annual Film Festival. Despite the snow and extreme temperatures, people came in droves to catch directors and stars while watching quality LGBT films.
Who else in NYC other than Daniel Nardicio would come up with Mr. Nude York? Well, it is now in its 6th successful year. An impressive display of HUGE ( cough ) talent. To use Nardicio's own words "They don't make them do these things in Miss America"