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The lead among registered voters represents a slight change from the NBC/WSJ poll in July, when Obama held a 49-43 lead -- suggesting Romney's campaign did not benefit significantly from the Aug. 11 selection of U.S. Rep Paul Ryan, R-Wis., as his running mate, NBC reported.
Obama leads Romney 94-0 among African-American voters, and has a 2-to-1 lead among Latinos. He leads 52-41 among voters under 35 years of age and 51-41 among women.
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The victim, Gregory Spruell, 39, suffered minor injuries during the robbery and was treated at the scene, Capt. Bimley West reported.
Spruell could not be reached for comment.
Police said the thief took a 3-year-old female dog and two female puppies, both about 12 weeks old. Officers identified the dogs as blue nose pit bulls and described the theft as unusual.
"We're unsure the exact monetary value of the dogs, but we believe the person responsible will likely try to sell them because they're a very popular breed of dog; they're very easy to sell," West said.
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In which issues concerning the profession of philosophy are
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Saturday, December 12, 2009
For-Profit Journals.
Several commentators pointed out that even if you accept the premise that these journals are exploiting their referees, this exploitation is small potatoes in comparison to the way they exploit the authors. It is a lot more work to write an article than it is to referee one, and access to the articles is the actual product our institutions purchase for us. And a referee boycott is much more likely to hurt the authors, and will hurt them in a more direct way, than it is to hurt Springer. These points seem 100% right to me.
It was also pointed out in comments that referee exploitation is not the real problem. The real problem is that for-profit journals are often prohibitively expensive to libraries, which can lead to libraries not carrying various journals, which is bad for scholars like us who need access to journals.
But again, no referee boycott is going to be effective, especially if the boycott is limited to referees in our discipline. According to Springer's website, they publish in the neighborhood of 2,000 journals. So I strongly doubt that a philosophy author boycott would do anything, either. It seems to me that if there were a professional association for college librarians, it might be better positioned to effectively protest this situation.
So one possible course of action would be to contact the ACRL and the head librarians at our own institutions and encouraging them to take action.
Another possibility is that journal editors might be in a better position than referees to do something about this. How much influence does the editor of a journal have over who publishes the journal? Could Stewart Cohen, for example, take Philosophical Studies to a not-for-profit publisher? Maybe we should start working on people like him.
--Mr. Zero
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Jesus Christ, don't tenured professors make enough money? Instead of saying "I don't support for-profit journals, as an author, subscriber, or referee, because I think they're scum", he wants a cut of the action. I forgot, there's no such thing as 'enough money', and if there was it wouldn't be under $2 million a year.
And I'd love to hear any arguments about how they're not scum and how they offer a valuable service as compared to those crummy open access journals.
- December 12, 2009 at 11:50 AM
Goldfarb wasn't raising the issue in order to demand payment. He was trying to promote the non-profit model over the for-profit model. The payment issue was his way of raising that point.
The simplest and easiest way for us to combat this is by....not sending our papers to for-profit journals in the first place. There are plenty of good journals that are non-profit. Send there instead.
- December 12, 2009 at 1:12 PM
Though that is the more reasonable point, I don't think it's supported by his words. He says "I began to think, why should I donate my time for no compensation to a for-profit enterprise?" not "Why should I have anything to do with these people?". Again, it's "It's one thing when a not-for-profit journal asks (for me, it's usually the Jnl. Symb. Logic, or Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, or Mind), but why should I give my time gratis to help Springer or Elsevier make money?". The gratis there is the key. He's saying if he's going to do this for them, he should get some money, not that he shouldn't do it all.
- December 12, 2009 at 1:31 PM
I think it's a horribly bad idea to start turning down referee jobs for Springer journals when there are already significant backlogs at many of the journals and dysfunctional review processes in place at others. We fuck ourselves so often in so many ways, let's not take the opportunity to do it again.
If Phil Studies, Synthese, Erkenntnis, and the other Springer journals start having harder times finding referees, the results will be very bad for those of us who are trying to get tenure or tenure track. In my admittedly limited experience, no one cares that it's absurdly hard to get papers published in philosophy or reviewed in a timely manner and they won't care that it's gotten worse during the very small window of time we have to make it in this business. Sure, pressure the people at the top to make changes but don't start encouraging people to shirk their refereeing duties. Horrible idea.
Speaking of which, as of today it's been 3 months that one of the Springer journals has had a paper of mine and I think they still haven't found a referee for it. WTF. My last publication with Springer took a year to get the first revise and resubmit because they couldn't find a referee who would actually give them a report. Please, please, please let's stop hurting young authors that need the evil empire of publishing.
- December 12, 2009 at 6:43 PM
How about if only the referees that accept papers for review but never follow through with them take part in the boycott? ;)
- December 13, 2009 at 4:32 AM
I hit three months in the same spot with a Springer journal about two weeks ago. I did email the assistant who promptly related that he would remind the assigned editor. It isn't clear that this has helped since my paper is still there.
Further, while all this was going on I sent another paper to a respected journal not in this hemisphere. I checked the status two days later, 'under review.'
- December 13, 2009 at 6:59 AM
I wouldn't let the "under review" status get you excited. I've had a paper at a respected journal not in this hemisphere (perhaps the same one?) for about four months now, despite it's going to "under review" status in a day or two.
- December 13, 2009 at 8:41 AM
Agreed. I suppose though at least one obstacle to timely review has been avoided. From what I can discern from most journals, it is either (a) that the editor can't, won't, etc... find ref or (b) that the ref lags that explains a long process. At least now, assuming the process doesn't start again, (a) won't sink me.
- December 13, 2009 at 10:32 AM
While we're at it, let's protest the teaching profession by not pursuing it and discouraging those that would pursue it.
The profession exploits the deep interest of those who like to teach by paying them a level of income that is unconscionable given the service they provide to society as well as inconsistent with the amount of work needed, pressures, and education required.
Oh right, we choose to do this freely, just as we do in submitting papers to for-profit journals. So stop wanking, or do something else.
- December 13, 2009 at 1:13 PM
"From what I can discern from most journals, it is either (a) that the editor can't, won't, etc... find ref or (b) that the ref lags that explains a long process."
Well, it's been 3 months of "editor assigned". The submission before this, paper I'm giving at APA rejected from Phil Q with supportive comments rejected from unnamed Springer journal without comments. The submission before that, received horrible and mildly abusive comments from unnamed Springer journal. Wrote (politely) to tell editor that I didn't think the ref did a particularly good job reviewing work for that journal. (Ref: A shows that so and so's view entails something that A and so and so think is obviously false, but some people in antiquity thought it was true so reject.) I have a sneaking suspicion that I won't be getting particularly good treatment from the editor anytime soon.
- December 13, 2009 at 5:08 PM
this leads me to question, what exactly is one supposed to do when one has submitted an article to a journal but doesn't hear anything? i kind of figured that it's just out of my hands, but then they don't want me to shop it around to other journals before they get around to rejecting it. what's s.o.p. here?
- December 14, 2009 at 9:34 AM
@Anon 1:13pm --
I find your closing words, "… stop wanking, or do something else" rather puzzling, as if a philosopher questioning a current practice of the philosophical profession on a philosophy blog were some sort of sin. It's the sort of response I'd expect in the comments section of my local small-town newspaper, of the "stop whining and be grateful you have a job" variety in response to an article about furloughs.
I don't see what's objectionable about questioning this aspect of the practice of refereeing, or why it counts as "wanking." Goldfarb did not really "propose[] a referee boycott of all for-profit journals," as the original post here suggests; he reported that he was "tempted to" begin a personal boycott and was interested in what readers of Leiter's blog thought. I've been tempted to do many things I've never done or proposed doing.
Volunteering to reshelve books at the local library makes perfect sense to me; volunteering to do so at the local Borders doesn't. But I suspect that the issue isn't merely about whether the institution is for-profit. Volunteering to give a series of talks without compensation at the community center makes perfect sense to me; volunteering to teach a class without compensation at my school doesn't -- though I can imagine circumstances in which it might. But Goldfarb was questioning something ordinary, nor extraordinary.
PS Even my relatively poor salary (it's well below the average for our peer institutions) is well above the median in my state; it's hardly "unconscionable."
- December 14, 2009 at 12:35 PM
Also, SCs can find you at the APA where they can leave messages for candidates at the site where all candidates sit and wait to be called in for their interviews (and you can leave messages for them). There's also a main bulletin board for everyone at the APA (not just those involved with searches) to leave messages for folks.
One thing to be aware of, if you aren't already, is that there are no dividers/curtains btwn all the tables (as there are at some other disciplines' conferences) so you'll likely be able to see folks with whom you've already interviewed interviewing others.
It's rather stunning that a group of relatively bright folks can't come up with a better (less traumatizing) system
- December 14, 2009 at 1:02 PM
And I just left that comment attached to the wrong thread, obviously.
- December 14, 2009 at 1:03 PM
Anon 9:34,
I've heard from a former editor that it's perfectly okay to email a journal if you haven't heard back after several months (say, 3–6, depending on the journal). Be polite. Ask if they can tell you anything about the current status of the paper. It's usually not the editors' fault—it's some referee who's been sitting on a paper. Your email might even give the editor something to use in leaning on the reviewer.
- December 14, 2009 at 1:51 PM


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I've been on a spicy food kick lately, more than usual, mostly from recipe testing for my cookbook. Many of my meals end up being all heat, such as dan dan noodles and spicy stir-fried shrimp with a dollop of kimchi on the side (I keep a jar in the fridge just to satisfy kimchi cravings, not for recipe testing). But, I rationalize, the more spicy food you eat, the more tolerance for spicy food you build up. So I'm actually bettering myself every day. And that's what January is all about.
Two weeks ago I found myself needing chili oil, on one of those snowy, slushy, windy days that we in the Northeast have been seeing too many of. Chinatown and Sunset Park were too far just for one item, and for some reason neither of the two supermarkets by my apartment had chili oil in stock. I've previously made chili oil in small batches just to use for a specific meal, but decided it would be as good a time as any to make enough for a bottle.
So here's a recipe to try if you, like me, can't find chili oil near your house or just want to have the good homemade stuff without any preservatives. You'll need just 3 ingredients: some peanut oil, sesame oil, and dried red chili flakes (or chopped dried red peppers). You'll also need an oil thermometer (if you have a candy/oil thermometer, you're golden) and a small, heavy-bottomed pot or pan. I use about a third of a cup of dried red chili flakes, which makes a medium-spicy oil that takes a second for your tongue to register, but feel free to adjust the amount to your liking.
You can also try this homemade chili sauce and chili bean sauce, two of the backbones of Sichuan and Hunan cooking.
Homemade Chili Oil
Makes 1 cup chili oil
- 3/4 cup peanut oil
- 1/4 cup sesame oil
- 1/3 cup dried red chili flakes
1. Heat the peanut oil and sesame oil in a small, heavy-bottomed sauce pot until your instant-read oil thermometer registers between 225°F and 250°F. Stir in the chili flakes (they should be foaming a little). Remove the pot from the heat and let sit at room temperature for at least 2 hours, or ideally overnight for the chili flavors to infuse.
2. Strain the oil through a fine-mesh strainer and discard the red pepper flakes. Store the chili oil in a clean bottle. The oil will keep for a few months if you store it in a cool, dark spot.


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Bomb attack kills 6 in Afghanistan's Kapisa province
Four police officers and two civilians were killed Monday when Taliban insurgents exploded a remote-controlled bomb in eastern Kapisa province, local officials said.
The blast – which occurred before midday at a bazaar in the town of Tagab, the capital of Kapisa's Tagab district – also wounded 13 civilians, district police chief Col. Sher Shah Yousufzai said by phone from the scene. However, a statement by Afghanistan's Interior Ministry put the number of wounded at 17. It said the dead included an Afghan Local Police commander and his son.
The wounded were taken to a nearby hospital for treatment, the ministry's statement said.
Security in some areas of Kapisa – which borders Kabul province, to the northeast of the Afghan capital – reportedly has deteriorated in recent months. Tagab is one of several insurgent strongholds in the province and the site of many attacks on Afghan government and foreign coalition forces.
French troops, who've had responsibility for security in Kapisa, are in the process of passing control to Afghan forces, and will be withdrawn by the end of the year. Four French soldiers were killed and five wounded in Kapisa's Nirjab district earlier this month when a suicide bomber attacked a French patrol, also wounding three Afghan civilians.
In January, four French soldiers were shot dead by an Afghan counterpart at a joint French-Afghan base at Tagab. A fifth soldier later died of his injuries.
The January incident prompted France's then-president, Nicolas Sarkozy, to move up the deadline for his troops' departure from Afghanistan by one year, to the end of 2013. Francois Hollande, Sarkozy's recently elected successor, pushed the withdrawal date up a second time, to the end of 2012, over opposition from the White House.
Also on Monday, the International Security Assistance Force, as the U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan is formally known, said one of its service members had died of wounds after an insurgent attack in southern Afghanistan. The ISAF refused to provide details about the location of the attack or the nationality of the service member.
Separately, the ISAF said it had no confirmation of a report that two Italian soldiers were wounded Monday after their patrol in western Afghanistan was targeted by a homemade bomb.


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Despite the existance of the in-game fleet finder, this question is still synonymous with users logging in. Even if your corporation is a strict user of the fleet finder it still suffers one big problem; you need to log in to game to find out what's going on. It also lacks detailed information regarding composition and pilots.
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This is often the second question asked by new pilots entering a fleet, after the asking about location. It can be a real frustration point because the player joining really wants to know what to fly whilst the existing members of the fleet just want to get on with things without having to spoon-feed ship choices to new members.
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This is a question that comes up all the time. Whether it's whilst players are forming up in a fleet, planning an operation or have just finished their latest skill plan -- they want to know how to fit out a particular ship to best effect. After reviewing the inevitable flood of minor alterations to the same fitting comes the task of finding and buying all the modules. It's tedious to say the least...
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Getting pilots to turn up to operations is about motivation but its also about making it easy for them to know what's happening. If you plan to take your corp off for a month assaulting a particular region then everyone needs to know about it -- where will the home base be, what ships to bring, etc. Likewise, tactical fleet operations need to be planned.
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Because no one reads the newspaper, and SportsCenter's anchors are too perky for this early in this morning, Deadspin combs the best of the broadsheets and internets to bring you everything you need to know to start your day.
•Graeme McDowell did just enough (i.e. hung around while everyone else went down in flames around him) to win the US Open at Pebble Beach. It gives the rest of us, who just aim for par, a hope that we too can win a major (with our 28 handicap). (Thanks to David for the screencap.)
•Manny Ramirez's return to Boston went exactly as he had hoped—assuming he forgot he was a Dodger these days, which is a pretty safe assumption. The Red Sox swept, moving into a tie for second, a game back of New York.
•Kim Clijsters is back at Wimbledon for the first time in four years, opening play with a straight sets win over some nobody. Her success since her return from starting a family leaves no excuses for those new mothers out there. Aww, you don't want to go to work today because the baby was up all night? Well, Kim Clijsters is kicking ass in a goddamn major.
•The cheese eating surrender monkeys shed at least half that label, resuming training in advance of tomorrow's match with South Africa. I'm sure this has to gall Ireland fans, but the upside of qualifying controversy has been the opportunity to watch the French implode on an international stage.
•Jimmie Johnson has won just about everything else, and now he can add a road course to his portfolio; though it didn't hurt that Marcos Ambrose's car stalled under a late caution flag. This now concludes our NASCAR coverage for the year.
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Before the 2012 season, the Vikings envisioned getting a lot of production from their pair of tight ends in the passing game.
They got half of what they were looking for as Kyle Rudolph turned in a Pro Bowl season as a reliable and frequent target for Christian Ponder. His 53 catches ranked second on the team and were 45 more catches than John Carlson had after signing a five-year, $25 million contract with the Vikes as a free agent during the offseason.
Carlson missed the entire 2011 season because of a shoulder injury and dealt with a knee issue and a concussion during his dismal 2012 season, but he isn't willing to say that injuries were the reason for his unproductive campaign. Which doesn't mean he has a firm handle on what did go wrong.
"I don't have an answer for you. If I knew, I would have tried … I did try to rectify the situation," Carlson said, via Bob Sansevere of the Pioneer Press. "It never came together. Missing that time in camp wasn't good because they didn't get a feel for what I'm capable of doing. And I didn't get a feel for the offense and the way Christian (Ponder) throws the ball, and how to run-block. It was a debacle. I'm thankful to be out here and be healthy and have another opportunity."
Carlson, who took a pay cut in order to stick around for that second opportunity, is now three years removed from back-to-back 50-plus catch seasons with the Seahawks so it's probably a stretch to expect him to match Rudolph's production as a receiver. There's a lot of room between that kind of output and what Carlson turned in last season, however, and something in the middle would be a welcome addition to the Vikings attack in the 2013 season.


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Honningsvåg Airport, Valan, is one of the most northernmost airports in the world. Sitting at the very tippy-top of Norway, it resembles a frozen wasteland for much of the year. Doubly so on the very last day before the winter solstice. Which makes flying into it a surreal, otherworldly experience.
When you try to land your Snow Speeder at the Ice Base on Hoth, this is exactly what it looks like.
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Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2017 11:39 am
Trump is getting torn a new one with a chain saw:
"Trump is the political version of a pickup artist, and Republicans — and America — went to bed with him convinced that he was something other than what he is. Trump inherited his fortune but describes himself as though he were a self-made man. We did not elect Donald Trump; we elected the character he plays on television. He has had a middling career in real estate and a poor one as a hotelier and casino operator but convinced people he is a titan of industry... He wants to be John Wayne, but what he is is "Woody Allen without the humor." Peggy Noonan, to whom we owe that observation, has his number: He is soft, weak, whimpering, and petulant."
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LONDON - Exactly a year after losing his sight while on military service in Afghanistan, American Brad Snyder captured swimming gold at the London Paralympics by winning the 400-meter freestyle.
Snyder won his second gold of the games in convincing style, beating Enhamed Enhamed of Spain by nearly six seconds in a time of 4 minutes, 32.41 seconds in front of many of the Navy lieutenant's U.S. servicemen friends.
"It's really great that they were able to make it today and be with me," the 28-year-old Snyder said. "The crowd is so emotional, it's hard to put that out of my mind.
"But after the military, I am conditioned to do that quite well."
Snyder was blinded by a blast after he stepped on an improvised explosive device laid by Taliban while on duty in Kandahar.
Snyder, of St. Petersburg, Fla., is one of many servicemen in London using sports to aid their recovery after being injured on the front lines of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.
"This was a whim of a dream last February so for it to come true, it is very, very exciting," said Snyder, who has also won gold in the 100 freestyle and silver in the 50. "I am absolutely elated with the outcome."
Also Friday, Esther Vergeer of the Netherlands won her fourth straight Paralympics title in the wheelchair tennis women's singles with a 6-0, 6-3 victory over compatriot Aniek van Koot, taking her remarkable nine-year winning streak to 470 matches.
Vergeer, who has been No. 1 in the rankings since 1999, required just 59 minutes to wrap up the win at Eton Manor in the Olympic Park.
"I know the day I will lose will come, but I don't know when," she said.
Vergeer needs 86 more victories to surpass what is widely believed to be the longest run of consecutive wins in sport - 555 by Pakistani squash great Jahangir Khan between 1981-86.
The 31-year-old Vergeer said she isn't ready to retire just yet and that her rivals are "getting a lot closer."


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Sherwood MP Mark Spencer is to give constituents an "In-Out" referendum on Europe.
Being part of the economic community in Europe is a big issue for many people, and was particularly in focus at the recent European elections.
But Hucknall MP Mark Spencer says he will be carrying out his own referendum on Europe and promises to share the results with the Prime Minister.
The Conservative MP is sending out "ballot papers" to every home in the Sherwood constituency, and a special website, www.sherwoodreferendum.uk, will launch on June 5th.
Mr Spencer said: "As Sherwood's MP, I have heard many different opinions from hundreds of people in the Sherwood constituency on this issue.
"I know that whilst some people have different priorities, for many this is one of the most important and frustrating issues at the moment.
'I would like to hear opinions on this matter and I will forward responses to the Prime Minister."
And he added: "'I think it's important that the people of Sherwood get the opportunity to have their say right now on the big issues, like our relationship with Europe, so that our government can take these opinions on board when they are shaping national policy."
The Conservative party has pledged to give people of Britain a say in an 'In-Out' referendum on Europe, should they achieve a majority in 2015.
Labour's Leonie Mathers, who will be fighting Mr Spencer at the 2015 general election, said that, overall, Europe was a good thing for Britain, but needed to change so that it worked better for people and businesses.
But she added: "It's always good to be out and about listening to people and it is good to see that after four years as MP Mark is beginning to do that. People tell us about their worries on the cost of of living, on energy, wages and job security so I hope he listens to them on those issues too."


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We've been fortunate to have such a great group of Guest Bloggers that we have not added any recently.
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Eric Blackwell is Director of Technology for RE/MAX Properties East a real estate brokerage of 120 agents in Louisville, Kentucky. He helps REALTORS reach and assist their clients using Technology and he is the Webmaster of www.HomesinLouisville.com. He is passionate about helping REALTORS succeed in their online marketing efforts and leading by example.
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There seems to be a lot od bad information and bad ways of thinking about stocking an aquarium.
Most common mistake and assumption: 'X many gallons can handle Y number of fish'.
There are MANY things that effect the maximum bioload (amount of fish plus food) that an aquarium can handle. The two most important are volume and water change schedule. The volume basically sets a general range for the maximum amount of fish. The most important is water change schedule.
Really the water change schedule in general dictates water quality, which is really the most important aspect. Without water changes Tons of filtration on a 300 gallon tank can't handle even a school of tetras. Massive water changes on a smaller tank with adequate filtration can allow for a larger bioload than the average water change schedule on the same size tank.
There are mistakes being made on both sides when stocking is being discussed. The person simply asking 'How many fish can go in my 29' is assuming that stocking level is based just on volume, and they are not taking into account the water change schedule and other factors. More at fault are all of those who simply start answering the question without asking 'what is the water change schedule?' or even 'What filtration do you have?'. The person asking may simply not be advanced enough to realize they need to be aware of these other issues, but they are asking for help. The others are neglecting to fully address the issue at hand and allowing others to keep looking at stocking in the wrong way.
Filtration does not just clean X many gallons the way the packaging suggests. Filters clean up after fish. A 75 with a school of full grown fancy goldfish needs a lot more filtration than if it was heavily planted with a few low-waste producing fish. Part of stocking an aquarium is providing the filtration to deal with those fish. Filtration can limit stocking. More filtration is never a bad thing. Barely meeting the minimal filtration needs of a certain setup is risking problems down the road. When the only or one of the filters stops running and you can't replace it for another week, if you only had the minimal to start with you are now faced with an under-filtered/overstocked tank.
In general the best measure of water quality is nitrate concentration. Nitrate is in general the end of the nitrogen cycle in an aquarium. In freshwater there are two main ways to remove nitrate, water changes and plants. With plants there has to be a very small bioload for that tank size and A LOT of plants. This is rarely the case and even then small water changes are needed. So in effect water changes are the only way to remove nitrate from the system. Nitrate itself will build in concentration over time. This can stress the fish, cause stunting, and can lead to illness and death. In addition, there are many other things that can build up over time. Growth inhibiting hormones are given off by many species of fish which can stunt conspecifics and cause the same problems as nitrate. There are also dissolved organic compounds and other things that slowly build up over time, causing stress, illness, and possibly death. Even if extremes such as illness and death are not caused, a general failure to thrive can occur. This means that even though the fish seem fine, they would be doing EVEN better (sometimes much better) if water quality was improved. In general these chemicals will not build up if adequate water changes are done. Although we cannot test for these other harmful chemcials, they do tend to correlate with nitrate concentration which is easily tested for. It is generally recommended to keep nitrate concentration under 20ppm.
So a more appropriate answer to 'How many fish can I put in my X gallon tank?' without asking any questions would be: 'However many you can have with your water change schedule and keep the nitrate concentration under 20ppm'.
This brings us to another important aspect, the upper limits of aquariums and large fish. Even if you can keep the nitrate concentration down (water quality up), there is still an upper limit to the stocking density. I tried this with a 40high. I did massive weekly water changes and the water quality was in ideal range. However, at a certain point it is simply so crowded that the fish are stressed not by water quality, but by the simple presence of so many other fish in the tank. This became apparent at about 80 fish in my situation in the 40high. At about that population mystery deaths started to occur as well as other signs that the fish were not thriving. I cut down the population and a happier, healthier community resulted. I do not suggest this and it is much better to prevent issues than treat them (don't fill your tank until they start dying to figure out the maximum population).
In addition to simply being crowded, we come to the topic of big fish and their minimal tank sizes. Water quality is still most important. But with big fish and schooling fish, you face a minimum in addition to that of maintaining water quality. In general, the tank should be at least as wide as the longest fish is long. So a cichlid that is 15" long should be in a tank at least 15" wide, to allow for an arguably comfortable turnaround. There are a few exceptions to this. Fish that are very long and extremely flexible do not require the turnaround width like bulkier fish do. These would be fish like ropefish, bichirs, and eels. These fish can be 18" long and turn around comfortably in a 12" wide tank. This does not mean you can crowd a bunch into a 55, but that the minimum width rule is not really in effect. Schooling fish also require larger than expected tanks. For example: giant danios generally only get to about 4" or so, but since they are so active and do like to school (a school is generally considered at least 6 fish) they should be in something like a 30long at minimum, some would even say a 55. Goldfish are another example. Many suggest 20 gallons for one and an additional ten gallons for each additional goldfish. This is a good guide, but since they do school this means that in order to have fancy goldfish you should really have at least a 75 gallon aquarium. For the more active, and larger, long-bodied goldfish it is generally recommended to have at least a 125.
Fish behavior also needs to be taken into account. An active species needs more space than a less active species of the exact same size. So things like danios, although small, need a larger tank one-because they are so active, and two-because they school. Aggressive species need special attention as well. Although they can turnaround in a 125 and you may maintain the water quality, five oscars in a 125 will end up most likely killing each other, there is simply not enough room for all of them. This is especially true of cichlids when they pair off, they will become extremely aggressive and may lay claim to the entire tank as their territory. These fish were not made to be in aquariums. Many of them have territories in the wild larger than almost any aquarium they are kept in. So when they pair off they are not required to obey your feeling that there is enough room for everyone.
Another commonly overlooked aspect is nocturnal fish. They hide away unseen during the day, but can be VERY active at night when the lights are out and the fishkeeper is not watching. As far as the keeper knows it is a medium fish that hides all the time and is very lazy. Only they do not realize that at night that fish is all over the place, possibly stressing out the diurnal fish that are now trying to rest. This can even cause things like mystery disappearances of fish. People see healthy fish and yet they keep disappearing. The culprit may be that otherwise very lazy catfish that at night goes after the sleeping fish the keeper has seen disappearing.
An increase in tank size does not mean the keeper can now become lazy about water quality. Yes, a larger tank does mean that water quality will stay a little higher, but that does not allow any laziness on the part of the keeper. Since many upgrades are made for a growing fish, the water quality will still need to be maintained and water changes schould remain just as often and as large.


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Project Arts brings a "school edition" of the left-of-center cult puppet-musical to The Rotunda (4014 Walnut Street) for shows tonight @ 7:00, Friday & Saturday @ 8:00, and Sunday @ 3:00.
"School edition"–of which they recently did a rendition of Rent–means that the material is softened just enough so as not to be wildly inappropriate for the teens participating in their theater education program.
According to Project Arts–"Although this version has been edited to take out some of the racier elements, the irreverence and the content remain mostly intact. We also choose theater pieces that incorporates issues of the lives of real teens such as gender, class, drink-ing, diversity, LGBT issues, etc."
Avenue Q, was created by Robert Lopez, co-creater of Book Of Mormon. If you haven't seen it, think Sesame Street but hilariously inappropriate (again, in this instance, just appropriate enough for teens to participate, but not much more!).
Tickets are $15.00 and the cause is good. Project Arts operates as an after-school program offering a variety of theater training services to local youth at no charge. For tickets, visit http://projectartsavenueqschooledition.bpt.me/


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Clarence Thomas's Divided Soul
A brilliant bio of a baffling hypocrite who revels in eliminating those equal protection measures which had afforded him his opportunity to make it in a society which had previously been perfectly comfortable completely marginalizing people who looked like him
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Even if Clarence Thomas weren't a self-hating Black man, he would have had a hard time trying to fill the shoes of Justice Thurgood Marshall, a man who had risked his life by mounting legal battles to dismantle the Jim Crow system of segregation all across The South, winning the landmark Brown vs. Board of Education case, before later ascending to the Supreme Court as an elder statesman.
About all that Thomas had going for him on his spotty resume' was the fact that he was a well-connected, right-wing bureaucrat who was willing to be promoted or wheeled out for a photo op whenever Republicans needed a Negro yes man.
It didn't help his image any that during his appointment hearings, Anita Hill, a former protégé, would make a very credible witness testifying about the sexual harassment she experienced at his hands during the period she was employed by him.
But the Senate being the lily-white, male boys' club that it was, his nomination was approved, thereby enabling the possibly-perverted jurist to sit on the country's highest court for life.
"Supreme Discomfort: The Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas" is an unauthorized biography which seeks to set the record straight about some of the nagging questions about a man whose name alone tends to raise the blood pressure of the average African-American. Like a Black version of Woodward and Bernstein, co-authors Kevin Merida and Michael A. Fletcher, both reporters for the Washington Post, left no stone unturned in search of the truth about this enigmatic political figure.
Much of what we learn here is not much of a surprise, like the fact that Anita Hill was telling the truth after all, and that Thomas is an intellectual lightweight who never voices his own opinion in open court, but rather simply takes his cues from his arch-conservative colleague Antonin Scalia.
Apparently, he does have his positives, witnessed in private, such as his serving as a surrogate father to the son of a nephew serving 30 years in prison. But that barely makes up for his willingness to rubber stamp the efforts of his fellow Republicans on the Supreme Court to overturn all the hard-fought, historic civil rights decisions of the Fifties and Sixties.
A brilliant bio of a baffling hypocrite who revels in eliminating those equal protection measures which had afforded him his opportunity to make it in a society which had previously been perfectly comfortable
completely marginalizing people who looked like him.
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"Thomas once said he would never accept a race-based job, and yet he spent an entire federal career in such positions… The irony is that the career path that led him to the most prestigious tenured position in America is one he discourages other blacks from taking... Even as Thomas goes about his work, it's his racial identity that most defines him. Would he even be on the court if he were not black? Race remains an inescapable factor in most black lives, no matter how successful or disappointing they have turned out to be. Even in his cloistered, rarefied world as a member of the most important judicial body in existence, Thomas will always be black, and he knows it. Not just black, but black before everything else."--Excerpted from the Prologue (pg. 6)
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johnhe wrote:Well Rob can correct me if I'm wrong, but I think what he's trying to say (and I agree) is that if you're going to submit your album to RARB, then you need to consider whether or not the standards by which RARB is going to measure your album are your standards, or standards that you would accept. You mention that RARB is one of the only ways groups can learn "right from wrong." That assumes, though, that the group has accepted the "right and wrong" that RARB prescribes to.
Groups can certainly make music and record it for many reasons, as outlined by Rob's post. Speaking from my own limited personal experience though, groups often think that simply because they've recorded an album, the "thing to do" is to submit the album to RARB, and then the cross their fingers and hope for the best, and then when the critical reviews come in, they're upset. Their approach to recording is not in line with RARB's philosophy, and as such they can't understand why they received a poor review and as such can't learn from the experience.
Basically, to summarize, a group can record an album however it wants. If they're going to submit said album to RARB, though, they should be ready to have their album evaluated under the standards that RARB sets forth.
Exactly, right on!
I personally view RARB equally as an educational resource and a source for review for the rest of the community. I have never, nor will I ever discourage a group that genuinely wants feedback from submitting to RARB (nor have I ever, or will I ever tell a group to just give up and stop recording). Just make sure that if you submit you know that you're being graded, you understand where that grade comes from, and you feel as though that grade will be helpful and useful to you and/or your group. No need to submit an album that you don't feel confident in just because submitting to RARB is the "thing to do." It's only so if the process of review is in line with your goals!


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I am looking for a way find the time when:
- Pleiades will be at the Zenith today (11th November 2011)
- Pleiades will conjunct with the Moon
- The Moon will be at the Zenith today
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Jack Whitehall is looking forward to returning to Leeds, but recounts one past appearance with a shudder. "I was doing a student gig in Headingley and it was the first time I'd ever compèred a show," he says, recoiling at the memory.
"Jim Jefferies was up on stage and there were two drunk people heckling him. If there are two people you don't want to heckle it's Frankie Boyle and Jim Jefferies. After they started he did five minutes of the most brutal put downs. The compère is supposed to smooth over any gaps and I had to come back on and pick up the pieces. I stopped compèring after that," he says.
Whitehall will be hoping to face a less rancorous crowd at the First Direct Arena later this month. His At Large tour is his first in two years. "In the old days comics could sometimes tour the same show for decades whereas now there's constant pressure to write new material."
Whitehall, though, isn't just a stand-up comic. He's earned rave reviews for his portrayal of former public schoolboy JP in Channel 4's hit comedy drama Fresh Meat, and he also created the Bafta-nominated sitcom Bad Education – not bad for someone who's not yet turned 30. He almost landed one of this century's most coveted film roles when the casting team for the Harry Potter films turned up at his school in Oxford. "I was 11 and every child in the country wanted to be Harry Potter. My mum dressed me up as him, though I looked like Harry Potter anyway, but I completely flunked the audition, it was a bit of a disaster."
Instead, he concentrated on honing his craft as a comic and trying to find what he calls his "voice." "It was this kind of mythical thing and I had no idea what it was and how to find it, it was really frustrating," he says. "I went through a period of being deadpan, doing a version of Jack Dee. Then I went for the oddball angle and bought a massive parka, but at one gig in Bristol it was so hot under the lights I nearly passed out because I was sweating so much. Then I tried doing a cockney accent because I was worried that I sounded too posh." In the end he returned to his "original", and more authentic, voice which he describes as "posh and slightly camp... someone who wants to be one of the lads but never quite fits in."
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Short determined to get right man
Sunderland owner Ellis Short will do his homework before appointing Paolo Di Canio's successor.
The Texan businessman has drawn up a list of potential replacements for the 45-year-old Italian with former Brighton manager Gus Poyet having emerged as the leading candidate.
However, Short, having been forced to relieve Di Canio of his duties after just 175 days and only 13 games, is determined to get it right this time around.
As a result, he will iron out any potential problems before he makes an appointment, and have a series of contingencies in place.
Reports from Italy have suggested Poyet has all but got the job, but Press Association Sport understands that while the Uruguayan is currently the preferred option - bookmakers were quoting him as a 1/6 favourite on Wednesday - no concrete decision has yet been taken.
As a result, development coach Kevin Ball, who threw his own hat into the ring after Tuesday night's 2-0 Capital One Cup third-round victory over Peterborough, will continue at the helm as the Black Cats prepare for Sunday's Barclays Premier League visit of Liverpool to the Stadium of Light.
Asked how long he expected to remain in his interim role after the game, Ball said: "At this moment in time, until Sunday.
"They asked me to take tonight and Sunday. If anything changes between now and Sunday for whatever reason, so be it, but at the moment, I believe it is until Sunday, and then obviously we will take things from there.
"I would like to think we will talk sometime tomorrow to have a chat about how things are going.
"I know it sounds a cliche, but you talk about one game at a time and I don't think I can do anything more than that. We will just wait and see what happens."
However long his time in the limelight lasts, Ball will at least be able to reflect upon a successful start.
Having been asked to wade into the mess left behind by Di Canio, the former Black Cats midfielder managed to mobilise a dressing room left shell-shocked by the excesses of the Italian's brief reign to produce the most convincing performance of the season to date, albeit against opposition they were expected to beat comfortably.
Ball handed former captain Lee Cattermole, who had been discarded by the former Swindon boss in pre-season, a central role and asked summer signing Emanuele Giaccherini to play in the hole behind lone striker Jozy Altidore.
The pair combined to good effect with 32 minutes gone to give their side the lead, the Italy international firing home from the midfielder's cross, and victory was secured 17 minutes from time when substitute Valentin Roberge headed home a second goal.
Ball was particularly pleased with Cattermole's contribution after working with the 25-year-old in pre-season following his exile to train with the under-21s.
He said: "What I enjoyed most about him was seeing his professionalism and how he went about things, how he did things and how he demanded from the under-21s.
"Sometimes, I have to say, it put a little smile on my face because it reminded me of when I played.
"You could see some of the under-21s probably thinking, 'He's having a go'. But I said, 'Listen boys, that's what you have got to accept. He's not having at go at you to have a go at you, he's pushing, he's demanding from you'.
"When you saw Lee on the pitch, bearing in mind he hasn't played 90 minutes for a long period of time, he put in a very accomplished performance, along with a fabulous ball for the goal, and he drove people on.
"But that was one of many good performances."
Indeed, it was the collective effort rather than those of individuals that pleased Ball after a traumatic 48 hours on Wearside.
He said: "They displayed a lot of confidence yesterday in training, they worked very hard, they were very professional and you have to give them credit."


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To help you fill your free time at the 2011 annual meeting in Washington, D.C., we polled the ASBMB staff and came up with the following list of 20 of our favorite things to do in the city.
The 2011 American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology annual meeting is fast approaching, and although your main purpose in Washington, D.C. will be to attend lectures and network, you probably will have some downtime in which to explore the city. Sure, you can visit the U.S. Capitol or the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum and take a tour of the monuments, but the city has lots of other things to offer. To help you fill your free time, we polled the ASBMB staff and came up with the following list of 20 of our favorite things to do in the city.
1. View 15 buildings from around the world made entirely of LEGO® bricks at the National Building Museum. Many consider this museum's shop to be the best in the city, so even if you're not that interested in buildings, you may want to check it out!
2. Go to the top floor of the National Gallery of Art East Building and view Henri Matisse's paper cutouts. He created these by cutting colored paper into shapes, pinning them loosely to his studio walls, and later adjusting, recutting and combining them to his satisfaction.
3. Explore the grounds of the Washington National Cathedral and take a gargoyle tour to see the gargoyle fashioned after Darth Vader.
4. View one of the largest known blue diamonds, the Hope Diamond, at the National Museum of Natural History. The museum also has an 8.62 meter-long giant squid on display and an insect zoo with tarantula-feeding demonstrations.
5. Get a real taste of D.C. and order a chili half-smoke at Ben's Chili Bowl on U Street. For those of you who don't eat meat, Ben's also serves vegetarian chili and veggie dogs.
6. See Kermit the Frog, the Fort McHenry American flag that inspired Francis Scott Key to write "The Star Spangled Banner" and Julia Child's kitchen at the National Museum of American History.
7. Check out the National Museum of Women in the Arts – it's the only museum in the world dedicated exclusively to recognizing the contributions of women artists.
8. Take advantage of the mild spring weather and go for a walking tour of the city. Washington Walks conducts a variety of tours, including a haunted house tour and a memorial by moonlight walk.
9. Have a pint and a delicious plate of corned beef and cabbage and catch a (European) football match at Fado Irish Pub in Chinatown.
10. Sit on a bench at the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden and reflect on all the sculptures, including a giant typewriter eraser by Claes Oldenburg and a two-dimensional house by Roy Lichtenstein that recedes into space.
11. Visit the National Zoo and watch giant pandas Mei Xiang and Tian Tian or visit the giant Pacific octopus in the invertebrate exhibit.
12. Do some shopping, sample a variety of foods and catch some music at the free Lunch and Listen concert series at the Old Post Office Pavilion.
The 15th annual ASBMB Undergraduate Student Research Poster Competition is at 1 p.m. on April 9 at the Washington, D.C., convention center. Here are some answers to questions you might have about the competition.Q: If I submitted my abstract by the November 2010 deadline, am I automatically entered into the poster competition?A: No, you are not automatically entered into the poster competition. However, you are eligible to sign up for the competition in January. We encourage all eligible undergraduates to enter the competition.Q: How do I sign up for the poster competition?A: If you are a first author and submitted your abstract to an ASBMB topic category, you will have received an e-mail in January inviting you to sign up for the competition online. You also can go to the ASBMB website for information or follow us on Facebook.Q: I submitted a late-breaking abstract; am I eligible to enter the poster competition?A: No, late-breaking abstracts are not eligible. However, you are welcome to visit the poster competition as a guest.Q: I'm a travel award recipient; am I automatically entered into the poster competition?A: No, you are not automatically entered into the competition. You will need to sign up in early February (see above). Travel award recipients are required to participate in the poster competition.
13. Meet up with friends, pick up some books and grab a bite to eat at Kramerbooks and Afterwards Café and Grille in Dupont Circle.
14. Join in the annual spring celebration at the National Cherry Blossom Festival, commemorating the gift of Japanese cherry trees from Mayor Yukio Ozaki of Tokyo to the city of Washington. You can catch the parade on April 9 or take a leisurely walk along the Tidal Basin to view the blooms.
15. Take in a free performance at the Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage every evening at 6 p.m. Acts include everything from performances by the National Symphony Orchestra to gospel groups.
16. Head over to the up-and-coming Atlas District for drinks and dinner. You can enjoy a beer and a game of Skee-ball or indoor miniature golf at the H St. Country Club.
17. View some of the amazing photographs that never made it into National Geographic at the National Geographic Museum.
18. See the taped door that led to Richard Nixon's resignation and try your hand at being a reporter or photographer at the Newseum.
19. Go for a mule-drawn canal boat ride along the C&O Canal in Georgetown. When you're done, stop at Georgetown Cupcake, meet the sisters from the TLC reality show and grab a tasty bite to eat.
20. Learn about the lives, languages, literature, history and arts of the Native Americans of the Western Hemisphere at the National Museum of the American Indian. Don't forget to save room for some food at the museum's Mitsitam Native Foods Café.
Do you have a favorite thing to do in Washington, D.C.? Add it to the comment section below.
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Did PepsiCo Steal Ad From Tumblr Blogger?
Is Tumblr now fertile ground for stealing ideas? Sierra Mist has a new ad—a cross promotion with The Office on NBC—showing a bunch of office workers flying toy helicopters around their workspace as Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries" plays in the background. "Is your office this much fun?" the voice-over asks. The Sierra Mist spot is amazingly similar to a promo video that the young blog wizards at Tumblr released seven months ago. The same helicopters buzzing around the office; the same background music. Tumblr founder David Karp tells us he came up with the idea on a lark, to show off life in the office of the young company, and that the musical idea was "the result of being raised by a composer with an appreciation for theme music." He also tells us he wasn't contacted by Sierra Mist's ad agency before their ad went up. Scandal? We've emailed PepsiCo. for a response. It could be an uncredited rip off—or just a case of both being inspired by Apocalypse Now. Click to watch the clip above juxtaposing the two ads, and decide for yourself. [Full original Tumblr spot here. Full Sierra Mist ad here.]


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Venus will transit the face of the Sun on June 5, forming a small black silhouette against the brilliant Sun. For most of the United States, the transit will be in progress as the Sun sets. Only Alaska and Hawaii will see the entire event. This is the last Venus transit until 2117. Although it is visible to the unaided eye, you need eye protection to view it safely, such as dark welder's glass. [Sun image: NSO]
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There will be a Fan Club Pre-sale on Tuesday, November 15th at 10am local time. The password for this pre-sale is midnight.
Tickets will be on sale at 10am local time on Friday, November 18th.
Please note this show is All Ages.
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Student or Learner
tried to imagine myself far away from the house. A short time
later, Mother and Father stormed into the kitchen. Look at this,
Steve, Mother barked, thrusting her finger in the direction of
the bowl. So you think The Boy is through stealing food, do
By the look on Fathers face, I could tell he was getting more
and more tired of the constant What has The Boy done now
routine. Staring at me, he shook his head in disapproval and
stammered, Well, Roerva, if you would just let The Boy have
something to eat.
Do you think he is no longer in the habit of stealing food? To be through is to be finished.