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DescriptionWhitespotted Bamboo Shark (Chiloscyllium plagiosum)
Quick Care Facts
Care Level: Expert
Temperament: Semi-aggressive
Maximum Size: 38"
Minimum Tank Size: 350 gallons
Water Conditions: 72-79°F; sg 1.020-1.025; pH 8.1-8.4
Diet: Carnivore
Origin: Indo-Pacific
Family: Hemiscyllidae
Species: Sharks
Aquarium Type: Fish Only
Species Information
Whitespotted Bamboo Sharks (Chiloscyllium plagiosum) or Marbled Bamboo Sharks are found throughout the Indo-Pacific ocean, where they are generally found living on coral reefs and shallow lagoons. Like other Carpet or Bamboo shark species, the Whitespotted Bamboo Shark uses its slender body to get inside rocky crevices and holes in the reef to hunt for inverts, crustaceans and small fish species.
They also use the reef and/or rocky formations along the lagoon bottom to protect them from other larger shark species. Whitespotted Bamboo Sharks are commonly found within the aquarium hobby due to their relative small size and ease of care.
Adult specimens generally reach about 30 to 36 inches in the aquarium environment, which means they can be housed in aquariums as small as 450 to 500 gallons as an adult. The Whitespotted Bamboo Sharks slender body and natural reef habitat also make them better suited for aquarium life as they can maneuver in tight areas and shallow water.
Aquarium Care
Whitespotted Bamboo Sharks require excellent water conditions, no stray electrical currents in the water, a soft sandy or mixed sand/rubble substrate, open room to swim and as large of tank as possible. Unlike some other shark species commonly seen within the hobby like the Nurse Shark, Whitespotted Bamboo Sharks are small enough as an adult to be properly housed in larger aquariums ranging from 350 to 500 gallons depending on shape.
It is important to maintain excellent water conditions when keeping Whitespotted Bamboo Sharks, thus aquariums housing this species should have excellent biological filtration, large efficient protein skimmer and a large sump to help augment water volume.
All shark aquariums should be securely covered in order to prevent sharks from jumping out and should be designed with maximum length and width in mind to create the largest possible aquarium footprint providing for maximum swimming area. Tropical sharks like the Whitespotted Bamboo Shark also required very high levels of dissolved oxygen in the water, thus there should be plenty of water surface agitation, additional power heads or air stones to provide as much dissolved oxygen as possible.
Bottom dwelling shark species like the Whitespotted Bamboo Shark should generally not be kept with fish species that tend to pick at the reef or at bottom dwelling inverts. Examples of poor tank mates for Bamboo Sharks include: Large Angelfish, Triggerfish, Puffers, or Groupers larger than the shark.
Good tank mates include: other similarly sized shark species, Stingrays, Tangs, smaller Groupers, Grunts, Hamlets and other similar species. Bottom dwelling Carpet Sharks like the Whitespotted Bamboo Shark are well known invertebrate and crustacean predators, thus they should not be kept with crabs, shrimp, snails, starfish, etc unless they are intended as food.
Feeding & Nutrition
Whitespotted Bamboo Shark in the wild spend much of their time foraging amongst tropical reefs and within shallow lagoons looking for a variety of invertebrates like shrimp, small crabs & clams on which to feed, along with crustaceans and small fish.
In the aquarium environment Whitespotted Bamboo Sharks will quickly adjust to eating prepared meaty foods including: fresh or frozen silver sides, squid, clams, shrimp, clam, mussel and pieces of fish flesh. It is best to feed them a variety of marine based meaty foods in order to provide them with a complete nutritional diet, which will help them maintain a strong immune system.
Juvenile specimens should be fed 3 to 4 times per week, while keeping an eye on both their growth in length and girth. Adjust feeding accordingly so that the shark grows at a reasonable pace while maintaining a body girth that is not too skinny or overly plump.
If well fed they tend to leave most other fish tank mates alone, but they are likely to attempt to consume invertebrates or crustaceans while they hunt during the night.
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A second disclosure of a major consumer data breach was announced on July 29 by Capital One Bank. That same day, the FBI arrested a suspect who was charged with stealing the personal information on March 22 and 23. The apparent focus of the financial theft was credit card applications filed with the bank between 2005-2019.
Those most vulnerable are two types of consumers: small businesses whose company credit card applications included personal Social Security numbers, and other customers who linked "secured" credit cards to other accounts.
For these two developments to occur on the same day, suggests a tacit agreement between one of the nation's 10 largest banks and the country's top law enforcement agency.
But why did it take 160 days for consumers to learn their personal data has been at risk for four months?
Ranked number 145 on the Fortune 500 company list, Capital One has 45 million customers in the states of Louisiana, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Texas, Virginia, and the District of Columbia. In the second quarter of this year, the bank reported net income of $1.6 billion.
According to the bank, the data breach affects approximately 100 million consumers in this country and additionally 6 million Canadians. An estimated 140,000 Social Security numbers used for credit card applications and another 80,000 bank account numbers all place affected consumers in financial jeopardy.
"I sincerely apologize for the understandable worry this incident must be causing those affected and I am committed to making it right," said Richard Fairbank, Capital One's CEO. The bank has also pledged to provide affected customers with free credit monitoring and identity.
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Equifax, one of three NCRAs, waited two months to disclose its cybersecurity breach that occurred in July but was kept from the public until September that year. During that delay, 147 million unsuspecting consumers—the equivalent of 58 percent of the US adult population—did not know that their personal data, including federal income tax records, as well as employee records for government employees and those of Fortune 500 firms, – was at risk. Nor did recipients of major government programs like Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security learn that they, too, were affected.
In response to Equifax's massive cybercrime, a surge of 50 federal class action lawsuits were filed in at least 14 states and the District of Columbia in September 2017, following the public disclosure.
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CERTAIN UNDERWRITERS AT LLOYD'S LONDON; GLOBAL AEROSPACE UNDERWRITING MANAGERS LIMITED; MITSUI SUMITOMO INSURANCE COMPANY (EUROPE) LTD; TOKIO MARINE EUROPE INSURANCE LIMITED; BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INTERNATIONAL INSURANCE LIMITED; GREAT LAKES REINSURANCE (UK) PLC; WURTTEMBERGISCHE VERSICHERUNG AG; SWISS RE INTERNATIONAL S.E. UK BRANCH; ALLIANZ GLOBAL RISKS U.S. INSURANCE COMPANY; NATIONAL FIRE & MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY, Plaintiffs -- Appellees,v.GARMIN INTERNATIONAL, INC., Defendant, and HENRY P. BARTLE, Defendant -- Appellant
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Gregory L. Anderson of Dwyer, Daly, Brotzen & Bruno, LLP, Los Angeles, California (Christopher Carpenter and Tracy M. Hayes of Sanders Warren & Russell LLP, Overland Park, Kansas, with him on the brief), for Defendant-Appellant.
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This case involves a dispute over insurance coverage following a private airplane crash. Garmin International, Inc., purchased an insurance policy from Appellees. In 2008, while the insurance policy was in effect, Appellant Henry Bartle, an individual who had some dealings with Garmin, crashed while piloting his malfunctioning personal aircraft, injuring himself and his passengers. Mr. Bartle then sought coverage under Garmin's insurance policy for indemnification from claims brought against Mr. Bartle by his injured passengers. Appellees, the insurers, brought suit in the United States District Court for the District of Kansas seeking a declaration under the Declaratory Judgment Act, 28 U.S.C. § 2201, that Mr. Bartle does not
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Mr. Bartle submitted evidence to the district court to demonstrate he was indeed an " Insured", but the district court refused to consider much of the evidence because the evidence failed to conform to district court rules regarding proper citation. Without considering this evidence, the district court granted summary judgment to the insurers, finding that Mr. Bartle was not an " Insured" under the policy. Mr. Bartle appealed both the district court's grant of summary judgment to the insurers and its refusal to consider the excluded evidence. For the reasons set forth below, we affirm the district court's decision.
In 2006, Garmin International, Inc. sought to test a new product, the G900X, in experimental, home-built aircraft.[1] The G900X replaces an aircraft cockpit's traditional analog navigational display with a computerized display and requires extensive installation to connect the product to various aircraft systems. Garmin desired data and diagrams from the installation of the G900X system in experimental aircraft to aid in creating a G900X installation manual.
Mr. Bartle owned a Lancair IV-P aircraft--the sort of home-built, experimental aircraft sought by Garmin for collection of this installation data. Chris Shulte, a Garmin manager and friend of Mr. Bartle, approached Mr. Bartle about installing the new system in his Lancair IV-P. Mr. Shulte agreed to provide the G900X to Mr. Bartle at a discounted price. In exchange, Mr. Bartle was to provide Mr. Shulte and other Garmin employees access to his aircraft in order to obtain installation data.
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Installing the G900X into the Lancair IV-P aircraft requires an aircraft-specific bracket to hold one component of the G900X system in place. Mr. Bartle, who possessed a background in composite fabrication, designed his own bracket for that purpose. Garmin received permission to use diagrams of Mr. Bartle's bracket in the G900X installation manual and listed Mr. Bartle's company, the Ultimate Group as the supplier for that bracket in the manual. At the time of discovery in this case, the ...
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The first batch I made on Monday night were too flour-y as I wasn't used to the texture of the dough and thought that it had to be thicker. Boy, was I wrong. The first three dozen were absolutely vile. I was determined to get it right, so I used the same recipe last night (a little different than the Tollhouse recipe) and tweaked it a bit. They came out fabulously, if I do say so myself.
Makes approximately 44 cookies
+ 2 cups of flour
+ 1 teaspoon of baking soda
+ 1 teaspoon of salt
+ 2 sticks of unsalted butter, softened (not melted)
+ 3/4 cup of granulated sugar
+ 3/4 cup of brown sugar, packed
+ 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
+ 2 eggs
+ 1 bag of semisweet chocolate chips *
* My family likes their cookies very chocolatey, but you can use however much you like. The cookie itself is delicious.
1. Preheat your oven to 375 degrees.
2. Combine the flour, baking soda, and salt into a separate bow.
3. Combine the sugars (brown and granulated), vanilla extract, and sticks of butter into a big mixing bowl. After mixing them together, add the eggs one by one.
4. In increments, mix the dry ingredients into the wet mixture. It's less messy to add the flour/baking soda/salt little by little.
5. On a pan, arrange a dozen tablespoon sized balls a couple of inches apart from each other. Bake for 8 minutes and let them cool before transferring them elsewhere. Bonus: I like to let them set on a brown paper bag so the grease absorbs.
It's honestly a simple recipe, but nothing beats a homemade batch of chocolate chip cookies.
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Medical Humanities Lecture
Dr. Barbara N. Ramusack, University of Cincinnati
Gives the talk: "Medical Women and Maternal and Infant Health Programs in Colonial South India"
In 1917 the Madras municipality in colonial south India, comprised mostly of Indian men, inaugurated maternal and child welfare centers to provide ante- and post-natal care in the poorest areas of the city. This lecture focuses on the Indian medical women who operated these centers and the challenges they faced, especially the expectations of the members of the Municipal Council of Madras. Improved maternal health and infant mortality rates were the stated goal, though gender biases and professional rivalries are shown to be as potent as racial biases in devaluing the performance of Indian medical women in the child welfare centers.
Date of lecture: Nov/9/10
Visit the Taft research center website at: http://www.artsci.uc.edu/taft/
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The author, Ma. Florina Y. Orillos-Juan is a history professor who also teaches in De La Salle University-Manila. Even though I studied history there I haven't encountered her. Anyway, she is a historian and a number of her articles, as I have researched are about the epidemics of insects in the lands. She can write well about history, science and environment, connecting the three broad subjects beautifully.
As much as it has been said, the holocaust have been there as part of nature since way back when. It was also mentioned in the bible although the one in the bible has something to do with God's wrath upon the people. In this article, the holocaust was mentioned to have been back and have destroyed co many crops it its wake.
This article is an article about "Kasaysayang Pampook" or about the history of a certain place at a certain timeframe and a certain event. In this case, it's about Pampanga in the year 1800s during the epidemic holocaust that wiped out the entire land for harvest.
Basically the first part focuses on the composition, the study of the insect "Balang" and how does it really affect the crops. It is really important to study the life of a "pest" to formulate a better solution for the complete elimination of it. In every life stages of the pest, there is a corresponding devastation it brings to the crops. Since the pest comes and goes in seasonal behavior, it is better for the places affected to be vigilant and alert in order to successfully drive out or eradicate the pending attacks.
The 2nd part of the article talks about the focus of the paper, which is Pampanga in the year of the Spaniard's colonialism and how it came to be. It is said that Pampanga is the "economic heartland". How is that so? Pampanga has a vast land covering the provinces that are now part of the other provinces like Bulacan and some towns in Bataan. Because the land of Pampanga has rich harvest of crops, it supplies Manila as well. The article has rich history and facts about the composition and coverage of the province of Pampanga which has been hit badly by the holocaust. The information relayed on this article has indeed credible facts and figures although of course as I've not read much from other sources, I could not properly confirm the facts. What's interesting about this article is that there is a table that consists of all the towns covered by the Province of Pampanga and it showcased the tally of the town, the gravity of the destruction every time the pests invade the crops, counts of roughly how many sacks of "balang" and "locton" was captured, the methods used by each town to eradicated the pests and the feedback.
The holocaust that happened wasn't just a simple tragedy to the Kapampangans. It also affected the supply in the nearby provinces and Manila as it is dependent on the crops sent from Pampanga. So the topic is very sophisticated and broad to be able to talk about in just a simple short article. However, in this article, the author was able to briefly describe the parameters and simplify the complexity of the topic in layman's language.


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Kristin Booth couldn't help but feel a bit lost on the set of The Kennedys After Camelot. The Canadian actress recently reprised her role as Ethel Kennedy in the follow-up to The Kennedys, the 2011 miniseries about the most famous American family of all time. Only this time, she performed without costar Barry Pepper, who played her ill-fated husband Bobby.
"I honestly felt like I was missing a limb," says Booth. "I felt disjointed and strange and alone. Finally I realized it was because I didn't have Barry, and then I realized as well, if I'm feeling this as an actor I can't imagine how a woman like Ethel would feel losing her husband."
After Camelot begins exactly where its predecessor left off: the scene of Bobby's murder. In just four episodes, the series will span almost three decades, covering a multitude of Kennedy exploits that dominated headlines and featuring turns from Katie Holmes (Jacqueline Onassis) and Matthew Perry (Ted Kennedy).
"For The Kennedys, I had done so much research and read all these books about Ethel," says Booth. "I was easily able to go back and look over my notes. I even found a piece of script that Barry had written on with a note about our characters and their amazing marriage. It made me cry almost seven years later!"
Who was your favourite co-star from either The Kennedys or After Camelot?
Katie Holmes. She's just an amazing woman. She's really inspiring, especially on Camelot. To watch her star in it, direct it, produce it, and then also take the time to be a great mom as well — I'm just in awe of her, I really truly am.
Not including Ethel, who is your favourite Kennedy?
Bobby Kennedy. How could it not be, right?
What would you say your hidden talent is?
Counselling. Friends come to me a lot for me to listen and offer advice.
What are you watching right now on TV?
I just finished Westworld, loved that. Imposters was a surprising one for me. I didn't know what to expect at all — I was kind of skeptical to be honest — but it has this amazing dark comedy aspect to it. If you haven't seen it, it definitely deserves a watch.
What is the best piece of advice you've received?
A drama instructor in theatre school taught me to trust my instincts, and my grandmother always told me to be myself.
What would you say was the hardest scene from The Kennedys to shoot?
Definitely the hospital scene where we have to make a decision to turn off Bobby's life support. It starts off the new series and Ethel is pregnant!
What is your worst habit?
Spending money. Shopping. [Laughs.] I like pretty things, unfortunately. It's bad, but I love very delicate fine gold and diamond jewelry, so I love to layer and that is a really bad habit.
If you weren't acting what do you think would have been your backup?
That's funny you ask because for years I had no clue what I would do if I weren't acting. Years ago, when I was a child, I thought I might be a veterinarian, but then I was horrible at math and science so that went out the window. From the time I was 12, I wanted to be an actor and I couldn't find anything that gave me the same sort of thrill. Recently, in the last year, I rediscovered pilates and became a certified mat pilates teacher. So if it came down to finding a new job right now, that's probably what I'd do.
The Kennedys After Camelot premieres April 16 on Bravo.


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White youths heading to the surf in California in 1961. Pic: Allan Grant/The LIFE Picture Collection, via Getty Images
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Author: Daniel Duane. The first time I saw a swastika in the wild, I happened to be carrying a surfboard. The year was 1989. I'd just come home from college hungry to claim the California identity that felt like my birthright. I could not have told you what that identity was except that its highest form appeared to be something like a blue-eyed, blond surfer with a golden tan, preternaturally skilled at riding the waves of his native beach.
I was a pink-skinned redhead who'd grown up too far inland to learn the way you're supposed to — as a kid, at the surf spot down the block. My mom and dad were more about left-wing politics than California identity, and my years at Berkeley High School involved more protest marches than beach parties.
On the upside, I had a cool surfer uncle who'd ridden all the most famous waves in Hawaii and California. I'd always wanted to be like him, and he'd obliged with a couple of lessons in my teens. My uncle taught me the lingo, too, and gave me confidence that surfing could be mine. Around the time I graduated from college, he bought me a pointy little surfboard with two fins.
To get started, I drove from Berkeley to Santa Cruz, the hippie town where locals once sued Huntington Beach over the trademark Surf City U.S.A. I parked near a sea cliff where beautiful youth strolled sunny sidewalks radiating physical well-being and belonging. Looking out over the waves, I watched somebody soar across a blue sparkling wall of water. I wanted all of it, always and forever — freedom in the Pacific, daily contact with infinity. Pulling on my wet suit, I started down concrete steps toward the sea and saw that swastika spray-painted next to the phrase, "Kooks go home."
I remembered that swastika last month when video surfaced of high school water-polo players in affluent Garden Grove, Calif., making the Nazi sieg-heil salute and chanting an obscure Nazi marching song. This kind of idiocy has been on the rise since last year.
Anti-Defamation League statistics show anti-Semitic attacks in California up 27 percent between 2017 and 2018. Last March, in the still-wealthier-and-whiter town of Newport Beach, Calif., students arranged plastic red cups in a swastika for a drinking game, then photographed one another gleefully sieg-heiling as if that were just totally hilarious.
In April, a young man with an assault rifle marched into a Southern California synagogue, shouted anti-Semitic insanity and proved his heroic masculine bravery by murdering an unarmed 60-year-old woman. In early June, 12 miles from my own childhood home, some creep built a 10-foot-wide concrete swastika in his front yard.
Among the many disturbing things about my personal swastika memory is that I recall feeling less horrified and disgusted than intimidated. I knew exactly what a swastika signified. My grandfather flew bombing raids over Nazi Germany, and I grew up across the street from an elderly couple who'd survived the Holocaust.
But, perhaps because I was a straight white male from a nominally Christian household, I was more bothered by the word "kook," surfer parlance for unskilled outsider — as in, me. At the time, the term "surf Nazi" often got applied to any surfer ferociously committed to the sport and territorial about his local waves. Viewed through that lens, I read the combination of swastika and "kook" like a skull-and-crossbones on a clubhouse door upon which I planned to knock loud and hard.
Surfing brought a ridiculous amount of joy to my life, still does. For 30 years, I've enjoyed the satori-like flow-state that comes with gliding on a pulse of wave energy, watching bottlenose dolphins silhouetted black by the setting sun as it melts red into the blue horizon. I've built my work schedule around being free whenever the draining tide and long-period swell line up with easterly wind. I've written a book about surfing, lived in the Surfer magazine house in Hawaii, binged on surf movies and chased waves in Iceland, the Galápagos, West Africa and elsewhere.
As a passionate student of surf culture and history, though, I've also seen a lot more swastikas. The first commercially made surfboards sold in California, in the 1930s, had swastikas burned into their tails and were marketed as the Swastika model by Pacific System Homes of Los Angeles. The 1959 edition of "Search for Surf," a series of surf movies by Greg Noll, included Californian surfers in Nazi storm trooper uniforms riding Flexi-Flyers in a storm drain while friends held up a Third Reich flag. Ed Roth, the artist and custom-car visionary known as Big Daddy, sold plastic Nazi storm trooper helmets to surfers in the mid-1960s and told Time magazine, "That Hitler really did a helluva public relations job for me."
Then there was Miki Dora, king of Malibu and still the greatest culture hero in all of California surfing — our very own Elvis, the last word in coastal cool. Handsome and criminally dishonest, Dora built his reputation in the 1950s and '60s on genuine athletic brilliance, expensive cars and clothes, and vicious elitism. When the movie "Gidget" came out, also in 1959, telling the story of a cute girl taking up surfing at Malibu, hordes of beginners descended on Dora's favorite break. Dora, who was known for spray-painting swastikas on his surfboards, pioneered the concept of localism — the idea that waves belong to surfers who grow up near them and that interlopers deserve violence.
The term "surf Nazi" was so commonplace in the 1970s and '80s that the B-movie "Surf Nazis Must Die," set in the dystopic aftermath of an apocalyptic California earthquake, told the story of followers of the "Führer of the New Beach" murdering a hardworking black man, and the victim's elderly mother avenging his death by hunting them all down.
I've heard all the predictable excuses for this stuff, like that the swastika was an ancient Sanskrit symbol not associated with Nazis when Pacific System Homes built its surfboards. Of course, Hitler's "Mein Kampf," published in 1925, described a Nazi flag with the hooked cross representing "the mission of the struggle for the victory of the Aryan man."
Hitler became chancellor in 1933. That same year, the country's sterilization laws sought to purify the "white race" through forced sterilization of social undesirables. Two years later, the swastika appeared on the German national flag. In Southern California, those flags soon showed up at rallies of the German-American Bund, an openly anti-Semitic pro-Nazi group that held youth camps in Los Angeles parks teaching Aryan supremacy and the sieg-heil salute. Pacific Home Systems didn't give up the Swastika model until 1938, after Germany invaded Austria.
In "The History of Surfing" by Matt Warshaw, Noll, the legendary big-wave rider and filmmaker behind the "Search for Surf" films,shrugged off accusations of latent Nazi sympathy by saying, "We'd paint a swastika on something for no other reason than to piss people off. Which it did. So next time we'd paint two swastikas, just to piss 'em off more."
Putting a swastika on something to anger people means you know that it angers them and very likely why. Allied troops liberated Auschwitz 14 years before Noll made his film. Southern California was full of veterans who'd seen death camps with their own eyes, as well as Jewish families who'd lost relatives and families of all kinds whose sons died in the fight. Angering those people for kicks meant that the slaughter of six million Jews didn't strike you as a big deal.
As for Dora and the Malibu crew, according to Matt Warshaw, they eventually figured out that Kathy Kohner, the real-life inspiration for the character Gidget, was Jewish. Her father, Frederick Kohner, fled Nazi Germany for California and, when his daughter took up surfing, wrote the novel that became the film. A member of the Malibu crew responded to the news about the Kohners' ethnicity by spray-painting a swastika on their driveway.
According to the book "All for a Few Perfect Waves: The Audacious Life and Legend of Rebel Surfer Miki Dora," by David Rensin, Dora often used racial slurs and advised acquaintances to put all their money in gold before Mexicans and blacks poured over the borders and ruined the economy. While serving prison time, Dora (who had been convicted of both check and credit-card fraud) wrote to a friend that he loved American Nazis. Dora eventually relocated to apartheid-era South Africa.
The famed surfboard designer Dale Velzy told Mr. Rensin that he recalled Dora boasting, in that period: "I have a black man who wakes me up in the morning, gives me my orange juice, gives me my robe, carries my board to the beach. Everybody ought to live in Africa. I have a coolie for everything I do. Everyone should own a coolie." In a later letter, as the anti-apartheid movement grew, Dora wrote that black South Africans were "flesh-eaters," adding, "Give these guys the rights and you'll get white-man jerky for export."
Nat Young, world surfing champion in 1966 and 1970, knew Dora. As Young told an interviewer: "Dora's take is push the black man under. He's a supreme racist, always has been. When I was younger, I believed it was all just in mirth, that he was just jivin' it all; but no, he believes absolutely in white supremacy."
So it doesn't take much imagination to recognize the blue-eyed, blond surfer ideal for what it is: a white racial fantasy rooted, like most such tropes, in spurious claims of authentic connection to land. Indigenous wave-riding cultures are known to have emerged in several places around the world, including Peru, Polynesia and West Africa. Not one is in Europe. California, furthermore, was one of the most densely populated places in North America when Spaniards came in the 18th century, and was part of Spain and Mexico for nearly 80 years before the United States claimed it in the Mexican-American War. Before the 1848 Gold Rush, out of a total California population of about 150,000, there were perhaps 1,000 Anglos in the entire state.
Put another way, nothing about either the sport of wave-riding or California itself is intrinsically white, much less blond.
Then there's the story of how both came to be viewed that way. While other territories of the Western United States displaced indigenous people, California politicians openly discussed outright extermination. Between 1850 and 1861, the California government spent an estimated $1.5 million reimbursing bounty hunters and militias for deliberate mass murder of Native Californians.
The first California Legislative Assembly, in 1850, effectively established California as a kind of white ethno-state with laws legalizing enslavement of Native Californian children and barring people of color from voting. Other laws prohibited nonwhites from testifying against whites in courts of law. This effectively immunized whites from prosecution for violence against people of color.
During the Civil War, California was so lousy with Confederate sympathizers that the Union Army garrisoned troops in Los Angeles to guard against insurrection. In the early 20th century, when immigration from eastern and southern Europe stoked Anglo-American anxiety over racial purity, California became a leader in the so-called eugenics movement aimed at preserving white identity through forced sterilization of social undesirables. Thirty-two states enacted compulsory sterilization laws, but California enforced its own with such enthusiasm that it ultimately sterilized approximately 20,000 people, one- third of the national total.
In 1934, a California eugenics promoter named Charles M. Goethe returned from Nazi Germany to tell a colleague, "Your work has played a powerful part in shaping the opinions of the group of intellectuals who are behind Hitler in this epoch-making program." Germany's racial-hygiene laws were based on a Model Compulsory Sterilization Law developed in the United States.
Forced sterilization continued in California until at least 1973, when a Latina named Dolores Madrigal, who had given birth at the University of Southern California medical center, walked out with a tubal ligation she didn't want from an obstetrics ward in which the head physician had been heard to say, according to the testimony of a hospital technician, that "poor minority women in L.A. County were having too many babies, that it was a strain on society and that it was good that they be sterilized." (The head physician has denied any wrongdoing.)
Today, I don't know how to think about my youthful yearning to become the great blue-eyed, blond surfer. One view, I suppose, would be to say that racial and political biases and power relations can ride seemingly innocuous notions into one's unconscious mind, then infect one's worldview in ways that come to seem natural.
That sea wall swastika in Santa Cruz, after all, wasn't just a skull-and-crossbones any more than the genocidal racism it represented was a German import. Like Noll's and Dora's swastikas, and also the more recent swastikas and sieg-heils and Confederate flags throughout California, it was, rather, pus from a boil festering since the Anglo-American invasion of this glorious place. My reading of that swastika as no more than a toothless warning — like my confidence that it would not apply to me for long — was an act of historical ignorance and naked racial privilege.
I'd like to say that everything has changed and that my mind is now pure. Unfortunately, it wasn't until last year that I began to wonder why so few African-American men surf my local break. That thought came up only because I heard about a nonprofit called Brown Girl Surf and realized I'd met exactly one African-American female surfer ever — in Australia, of all places, where we'd both gone for a literary conference.
My first glimmers of an answer came a few months ago, when I happened across a book called "The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America," by Richard Rothstein. The many factors include, of course, redlining that made it impossible for African-Americans to buy homes on the California coast, plus white delusions about black bodies leading to Jim Crow segregation of swimming pools and the outright lack of swimming pools in black neighborhoods. The Southern California town of Manhattan Beach, childhood home of one of my closest surf buddies, used taxpayer money in 1924 to claim eminent domain over beach-side homes of taxpaying African-American residents in order to evict them and make the area whiter.
For 20 years, while driving from San Francisco to my favorite surf spot, I've passed through a mid-20th-century subdivision called Westlake, on the coast. Not until a few weeks ago did I learn that Westlake homes were developed and sold in the 1950s with the following clause in their covenant: "The real property above described, or any portion thereof, shall never be occupied, used or resided on by any person not of the white or Caucasian race, except in the capacity of a servant or domestic employed thereon as such by a white Caucasian owner, tenant or occupant."
Few of us consider ourselves evil, fewer still truly are, but that's beside the point. Murderous hatred and delusional bias hide and self-replicate inside our cultural forms, inside our language. A hundred and fifty years of white people like myself have helped make white-supremacist racism as Californian as panning for gold and hanging ten. Allowing ourselves to see this doesn't make us good people, but it's a baby step toward breaking the cycle.
- AUTHOR: DANIEL DUANE - Daniel is the author of the surfing memoir "Caught Inside: A Surfer's Year on the California Coast."
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Today was very emotionally draining and the extent of what we saw is just beginning to set in. Quite frankly, I'm not sure it ever "sets in" but I guess you begin to digest it. We went to Jerusalem, a tent city about 40 minutes outside of Port-au-Prince. You basically take a left off the road into a field and you've entered the maze of dirt roads called Jerusalem. I'm not sure how many people live there but its a lot; certainly in the thousands. And, these are truly tents; poles and vinyl. This tent city was set up after the earthquake. Most of the tent city residents of Haiti have been resettled but this one seems to be turning into a permenant community.
How do these people get money? Jobs? Water? We would normally says, "God knows", with a bit of scarcasm. But, really, after today, I'm not even sure that saying holds true. All I know is every child we saw today was hungry. And, all of them probably have worms that are causing terrible tummy aches. How do you deal with that? The problem is so overwhelmingly enormous that all you can do is continue the conversation, hoping you are making forward movement on behalf on the Haitian people. I truly believe that it's our obligation as their American neighbors. Slavery and history got them there and it is our obligation to help them improve their lives. They can't do it alone. But, we have to help them help themselves so that it is sustainable.
On the hopeful side, thanks for Medical Aid for Haiti, these beautiful people are receiving basic healthcare once a week. I think everyone in Connecticut should know what MATH is doing. MATH was started in a church room by a dedicated group of individuals on a shoe string budget. MATH does more with it's limiited budget than I've ever seen any charity accomplish. All the MATH employees in Haiti are Haitian and the clinic goes off each week without a hitch. And, progress is being made. The clinic used to be held in a tent. As of two weeks ago, it is held in what are the beginnings of a church. There are some walls, rubble on the floors and tenting material as the roof. There are separate rooms. This is extremely helpful today because we were able to separate triage, patient care, the eye clinic and eyeglass dispensing. And, on our way back out, one of the main roads into Port-au-Prince that was dirt in the morning was paved by the afternoon! That is major progress in Haiti.
Thanks for reading and keep this lovely nation in your thoughts and conversations.


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How to Fortify Your Purpose and Bolster Your Business
To learn everything you need to excel as a personal trainer, attend the IDEA® Personal Trainer Institute, February 23–26 in Bethesda, Maryland, or March 30–April 2 in Seattle.
It was 2014 and Jill McKay was at a critical juncture. For the past decade, she had thought of herself as "just a mom," yet recently the idea of founding a fitness organization had begun to consume her. The problem? McKay lacked both confidence and the know-how to get started. Soon, however, she'd find her first step—and the catalyst to fulfilling her aspirations—underneath the Christmas tree.
"My husband had purchased my first IDEA Personal Trainer Institute experience as a Christmas gift," McKay recalls.
Despite feeling skeptical that the fitness event was going to be "one big commercial," she packed her things and headed to Alexandria, Virginia, in February, 2015, eager to explore the educational adventure that awaited her.
"I felt nervous and a bit overwhelmed because I could see all the conference rooms set up and I had my agenda in front of me—so much was yet to come! Walking through the lobby and on the elevator to my room, I met a ton of friendly faces; all there just like me, mostly traveling solo, not knowing anyone, yet obviously sharing a love of health and fitness."
Since attending the IDEA Personal Trainer Institute in 2015—she returned in 2016 to soak up more knowledge and inspiration—McKay has worked dutifully to develop FaithfullyFit.org, a Christian wellness ministry that provides fitness and wellness programs to churches.
"The IDEA Personal Trainer Institute certainly has had a huge impact on my career," she says. "I am currently implementing what I have learned (both at the events, and through connections I've maintained after the events) to get this program to stand on its own and grow."
Whether you're like McKay—new to the industry and unsure of where to begin—or a seasoned vet looking for a fresh take on your career, the IDEA Personal Trainer Institute offers you unrivaled opportunities to get ahead of the game.
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Each year, IDEA's programming department scours the earth looking for the most respected, most innovative education and experts so that personal trainers can learn top tips, skills and strategies to build and grow fulfilling careers. Here's a small sample of the topics you can expect to learn about this year:
- Fascia maintains its hot-topic status as new research and techniques continue to emerge. In the session "Current Evidence and Concepts on Myofascia," Anthony Carey, MA, owner of Function First in San Diego, will explore some of the latest research areas, including the existence—or nonexistence—of myofascial lines, and the role that fascia plays in pain perception.
"I'll also share why people feel the need to roll every day and feel better post-rolling, but feel exactly the same 24 hours later, and why people feel the need to go with harder, more focused pressure over time," says the presenter.
- Technology has become a major player in helping personal trainers maintain contact with clients outside their three weekly sessions. In "How to Use Technology to Change Your Clients' Behavior," presenter Clifton Harski, director of training and global head coach for Fitwall, plans to share his insights on the top tools available and which are most appropriate for each client. For example, he offers this simple tip to keep clients adherent outside of scheduled sessions:
"They set an alarm to go off a few times per day that alerts them to move in a way that they determine (walking, stretching, brief exercise, foam roller, etc.), and [then they] mark it off a to-do list on their smartphones," he explains. He discusses the experience with clients during a subsequent meeting to enhance accountability.
- Investing in equipment can be expensive. But Shari Kalkstein, CSCS, owner of Fortify Your Frame, says you don't need the latest and greatest to provide clients with fun, challenging workouts. "I'm a business of one and don't have a budget for lots of 'toys,'" she says. "However, I like a variety when I work with my older clients."
If she's looking for new tools to add to her toolbox, Kalkstein can be found roaming the aisles of her local dollar store. She'll share some of her finds in the session "Budget-Friendly Tips for Creative Trainers." "One of my new favorite core activities is done with a beach ball. I'll be using videos of my clients using these dollar store items."
- Developing a cover-model body is a dream many clients share. But what is truly required to get lean? Adam Feit, MS, assistant director of performance nutrition at Precision Nutrition, plans to answer that question in "The Cost of Getting Lean—Is It Really Worth the Trade-Off?"
"Trainers and clients alike sometimes forget the sacrifices and struggles one must go through to reach the level of leanness seen on Instagram and magazine covers," Feit says. He will describe various levels of leanness and what it takes to achieve them. That way, he says, trainers can better help clients determine if their goals are realistic.
- A strong social media presence may be a necessary component of a profitable business, but not everyone makes the right choices when sharing content. One of the biggest mistakes an entrepreneur can make is to focus on himself and not the customer, says Vito La Fata, founder of Fitness Profit Systems. "[Business owners or trainers] send promos and post class updates, etc., but they don't actually deliver . . . helpful and useful content with the intention of serving their ideal avatar," he says.
Baffled about what to post? In "Social Media Content Made Easy," La Fata will clear up the confusion and provide a step-by-step process for producing attractive, engaging content.
These sessions only scrape the surface—the education well is deep, and there is much you can pull from to expand your knowledge base and grow your business. From exercise science to marketing, there's something for everyone:
Movement Science
- Mobility and Injury Prevention for Lifelong Health
- Restorative Poses for Recovery
- Anatomy in Motion—What Muscles Really Do!
- Supramaximal Eccentric Training
- If We Are Going to Call It "Functional" . . .
Coaching Strategies
- Use Advanced Interviewing Strategies for Targeted Results
- Communicating With Your Female Clients for Breakthrough Results
- Discover Your Inner Coach
- The Other 165—Habit-Based Coaching for Long-Term Success
Specific Populations
- Training Active Boomers—From Prehab to Rehab
- New Ideas for Training Generation X Clients
- Smarter Exercise for Smarter, Fitter Kids!
- Training the Female Client—How Hormonal Changes Influence Program Design
- Complete Program Design for the Obese/Overweight Client, Updated for 2017
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Top-level education is only part of the overall IDEA Personal Trainer Institute package. Aside from choosing among more than 100 instructional sessions, you'll have the potential to earn up to 21 CECs (and up to 8 additional CECs with preconference sessions); share stories and make new friends during social and networking opportunities; and score deals on education and equipment offerings from your favorite companies.
Check out these two can't-miss fitness events:
- At Thursday night's Opening Session, "How to Transform Your Passion Into Financial Freedom," Rick Mayo, founder and CEO of Alloy Personal Training Center and Alloy Personal Training Solutions, will share everything he's done to create and license a wildly successful business model and live the life that's always been his dream.
"I've owned and operated my brick-and-mortar gym since 1992," Mayo says. "I will provide the audience with some of my most effective actionable items that they can take back to their businesses and implement on Monday!"
- Mix, mingle and build solid connections with fellow attendees and fitness conference sponsors during Friday night's Networking Happy Hour.
Check out some of the other exciting educational opportunities that await you this year:
- Get tips on how to start your own fitness studio, how to increase sales without feeling like a salesperson and how to promote your business to new markets.
- Discover new ways to help your female and overweight clients be more compliant and achieve real results, and pick up programming ideas to get kids hooked on exercise.
- Learn how to design outcome-focused strength programs utilizing multiple modalities.
- Obtain vital information on a host of common conditions that afflict your aging clients, and learn how to help them regain function and strength.
- Uncover new science, research and methods for integrating nutrition education into your clients' training sessions.
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TN Film, MVA, PVA and IPS ? Which one's for you?
Panel Technologies
TN Film (Twisted Nematic + Film)
With their fast response times, TN Film panels are arguably the most responsive in the market today. Response times of 4ms G2G and under are common place. Black depth is not quite as good as VA panel types, but has improved significantly in recent times, aided further by the introduction of high dynamic contrast ratios. Colour accuracy is very good with proper calibration; however some people are put off by the 6-bit colour depth. Modern FRC methods and improved panels make TN Film still pretty decent in terms of colour accuracy, but remain behind VA and IPS panels. Movie noise is often a problem, especially where overdrive technologies are excessively used, or implemented with poor control. Perhaps the most obvious down-fall of TN Film is the restrictive viewing angles, especially vertically. TN Film based displays are normally very cost effective however, and dominate most sectors up to and including the 22? range.
MVA (Multi-Domain Vertical Alignment)
MVA panels offer typically very good black depth, a notch above TN Film. The viewing angles are also greatly improved, and are wide in both horizontal and vertical fields. Colour depth is nearly always a true 8-bit, with no need for FRC methods. Colour accuracy is very good, and movie playback is probably the smoothest and least prone to ?noise' on MVA based matrices. Response times are decent with modern overdrive methods, but not quite as fast as TN Film panels. MVA screens are considered very good all round. Viewing angles are slightly inferior to IPS panels however, and a characteristic contrast shift can be seen as you move your line of sight off-centre. This is why IPS panels are considered more suitable for colour critical work, and are more widely used in professional display ranges. Premium-MVA (P-MVA) and Super-MVA (S-MVA) are variants of this technology and represent the modern generation of such panels. Advanced?MVA (AMVA ) is very new, and is designed to offer the next generation of improvements in this technology.
PVA (Patterned Vertical Alignment)
Samsung's own version of VA matrices, offering very similar characteristics to MVA based screens. Movie noise is more accentuated however, and overdrive control is more variable. Black depth is very good; arguably the best in the market, and again PVA panels are pretty decent all round. Super-PVA (S-PVA) panels represent the latest generation of PVA screens and feature some improvements over the older PVA panels.
IPS (In Plane Switching)
IPS and Super-IPS (S-IPS) panels are well regarded at the moment. They offer the widest viewing angles in the market, and are superior in this regard to VA matrices. They do not suffer from the off-centre colour / contrast shift of VA panels and are commonly used in colour critical professional displays as a result. Response times are variable, but some modern overdriven panels are very responsive in practice, even being comparable to the fastest TN Film panels. Colour depth is 8-bit and colour accuracy is very good. Black depth is not as good as VA based displays, but modern dynamic contrast control has improved performance in this area for multimedia application. IPS based screens are typically the most expensive however, but some modern panels are very good all round. Movie playback is noisy in most cases, and a step behind MVA panels.


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We made this patch a while ago as a demonstration of an uncommon functionality. Not many musical instruments double as an alarm clock! With Thanksgiving next week, we thought this might come in handy in the kitchen, so we polished it up and posted it. The idea is simple: set the time with 3 knobs (hours, minutes, and seconds) and then press the Aux button to begin counting down. When the timer runs out, the alarm bells sound! The fourth knob controls the volume of a tick tock sound, and they keys also play a simple synth tone for fun.
Although this patch may be more of a novelty than musically useful, it might come in handy under certain circumstances. All of the sounds (the tick tock and alarm bells) may be replaced with your own .wav files. So you can really have any sound loop for a certain amount of time and then something else start sounding when the timer runs out, like when it is time to get on stage.
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The blowout U.S. jobs report for October means the Federal Reserve may be weeks away from raising interest rates. For U.S. savers earning next to nothing on $2.6 trillion of money-market mutual funds, the move will barely register.
The reason is that there's an unprecedented shortfall in the safest assets, especially Treasury bills -- a mainstay of those funds and traditionally the government obligations that are most sensitive to changes in Fed policy. The shortage means some key money-market rates will probably remain near historic lows even if the central bank increases its benchmark from near zero next month.
As a share of U.S. government debt, the amount of bills is the lowest since at least 1996, at about 10 percent, and the Treasury is just beginning to ramp up issuance of the securities after slashing it amid the debt-ceiling impasse. Meanwhile, regulators' efforts to curb risk after the financial crisis are stoking increased demand: Money-market industry rules set to take effect in October 2016 may lead investors and fund companies to shift as much as $650 billion into short-maturity government obligations, according to JPMorgan Chase & Co.
"The demand for high-quality short-term government debt securities is insatiable and there is just not enough supply," said Jerome Schneider, head of short-term strategies at Newport Beach, California-based Pacific Investment Management Co., which oversees $1.47 trillion. "Even given the increased bill sales coming as the debt-limit issue has passed, it won't keep up with rising demand from regulatory forces. This will keep rates low."
While the U.S. government stands to benefit as the imbalance holds down borrowing costs, it's proving the bane of savers. Average yields for the biggest money-market funds, which buy a sizable chunk of the $1.3 trillion Treasury bills market, haven't topped 0.1 percent since 2010, according to Crane Data LLC. In 2007, they were above 5 percent before the Fed started slashing rates to support the economy.
With returns this low, investors have less incentive to sock away cash. The Standard & Poor's 500 index has earned 3.8 percent this year, including dividends, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
The one-month bill yield was at 0.04 percent as of 12:35 p.m. New York time, after touching as low as negative 0.05 percent last month. The Fed effective rate, the average rate on overnight loans between banks, is 0.12 percent.
The U.S. sold $30 billion of three-month bills at a rate of 0.135 percent and $28 billion of six-month bills at 0.34 percent. The bid-to-cover ratio, a gauge of demand, for the three-month bill sale was 3.31 percent, the least since October 2013.
Mary Lee Wegner, a 54-year-old Los Angeles lawyer, is among investors eschewing money funds for higher-yielding choices as her financial adviser, Ross Gerber of Gerber Kawasaki, tells her rates will remain low even after the Fed begins tightening.
"The Fed has forced me to become a more willing investor, because if I decided to keep a large portion of my money in savings with the level of inflation and zero interest rates, I'm losing money," Wegner said. "I don't have much of a choice but to be less risk averse."
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The new rules threaten to roil the industry as much as near-zero interest rates.
Regulators are trying to make money funds more stable after the 2008 collapse of the Reserve Primary Fund, as bets it made on Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. debt soured. The decline in its share price below $1 triggered a run on money funds that contributed to freeze credit markets.
The new Securities and Exchange Commission measures, which include redemption fees in times of market stress, apply to so-called prime funds, which can also buy corporate debt such as commercial paper. Under the new regulations, institutional prime funds must have a floating share price.
BlackRock Inc., Federated Investors Inc. and Fidelity Investments are among asset managers changing money-fund offerings in response to the shifting rules. They're converting prime funds to choices focused on government securities, including bills and agency offerings. Those funds will retain the stable $1 share value that's been a bedrock assumption of money markets.
Bill Imbalance
Adding to the supply-demand imbalance in bills, higher capital requirements have led some banks to place fees on deposits, pushing savers into short-term government securities.
"There has been tens of billions that has flowed into the government money-market sector, but it's about to turn into hundreds of billions," said Peter Crane, president of Crane Data, a Westborough, Massachusetts-based firm that tracks the industry. That pressure will "keep government and Treasury rates nailed to zero."
The upshot is that the history of bill rates during past Fed tightening cycles won't serve as a guide this time around. The last time the Fed was raising rates, it pushed its benchmark from 1 percent in June 2004 to 5.25 percent two years later. In that period, one-month bill rates rose from about 1 percent to around 4.5 percent.
Fed Approach
Bill rates may climb more quickly if the Fed expands its reverse repo program, or RRP, which it will use to suck liquidity from the financial system and guide rates higher. The RRP rate, now fixed at 0.05 percent, will be the floor for the Fed's target band, while the interest rate on excess reserves -- now 0.25 percent -- will be the top. The Fed allows a maximum of $300 billion in daily use of its RRP. In these agreements, the Fed temporarily borrows cash from counterparties using securities as collateral.
"How big the RRP program gets will have a big impact on where bill rates go in the Fed liftoff," said Alex Roever, head of U.S. interest-rate strategy at JPMorgan. "That will matter to the bill market because the Fed RRP's are going to be a substitute, and likely a higher-yielding one, for short-term Treasury bills."
Even though the Treasury said last week that it plans to ramp up bill sales, most investors say it still won't be enough.
"Bill rates are going to be low relative to other rates due to the supply-demand imbalances," said Steven Meier, the Boston-based head of cash, currency and fixed-income at the money-management unit of State Street Corp., which oversees $2.4 trillion. "And this gets worse in 2016 and it gets worse quickly. Bill rates have been sticky on the downside and slow to move."
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KHDK Electronics is the brainchild of David Karon, a former employee of Randall and Washburn, and current guitarist of one of the biggest metal acts on the planet, Kirk Hammett.
KHDK has Kirk's blessings all over their pedals, and the Dark Blood distortion is the company's most aggressive release yet. The pedal combines solid-state and MOSFET tech and includes a treble booster right in the front end of the circuit. KHDK proclaims the Dark Blood to be a distortion that's tube-like in nature, and after some experimentation we found that it more than lived up to its claims of being a solid alternative to the distorted channel of your amp (or as a second channel for your single-channel amp).
The pedal is easy enough to navigate and dial in a snarling distorted tone with it's simple four main control knob layout, but the Dark Blood also features a built in noise gate for taming some of the background hiss that becomes an issue once the gain is cranked. Considering the massive amount
of gain on tap, this gate proves to be extremely useful. The Dark Blood also features a HI/LO switch that offers two steps of gain with the LO setting intended for rhythm playing, and the HI setting offering additional saturation, sustain, and compression.
With the insane amount of gain available and its built in noise gate, it's a great pedal to add to any metal guitarist's arsenal. Come test it out and peel the paint off our walls.


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Any good waiter has spent time developing a sharpened instinct and a way of moving that comes into play often enough in the daily grind. I was talking to a bartender I know recently, and she told me a story about how she was carrying glassware and managed to drop one of her easily-breakable objects while in transit. Instead of being able to catch it or somehow lessen the fall of her glassware, it simply bounced off of the floor and landed unharmed.
That could have been a one-in-a-million circumstance, but most service staffers usually muster a snap-second "Oh-shit-something-is-going-terribly-wrong" coping mechanism which prompts us to react in a very particular way before we even know what we've done.
In any restaurant, your trip through the dining room will have customers throwing out their chairs suddenly to go to the restroom, small children tearing around without looking where they're going, people swinging coats on in grandiose manners, other servers racing around corners, people gesticulating wildly, and all other sorts of wild, unpredictable nonsense. And you'll usually be holding plates of food and trays of drinks. And you'll be making that trip forty or fifty times in an evening.
In this environment, you'll eventually become what I refer to as a "Cat."
You can tell when someone is new to the service industry. He will look like there is nothing more terrifying than carrying multiple plates. He will pace through the dining room at 3 feet per hour until reaching the table. And his eyes will have never left his payload.
Taking the story from the beginning a step further, I was carrying six pint glasses in a 6-rack formation back to the dish room. The middle glass slipped out from the bunch and hurtled perilously to the floor.
Without even thinking, I scrunched the remaining 5 glasses in my hands together for safekeeping and used my right toe to kick the glass back into the air.
I hopped about 6 inches off of the floor, and snatched the glass midair between my ankles.
After I landed, my brain caught me up on what I had just done on adrenaline-fueled instinct. Immediately after that, my first reaction was to look around frantically and say;
It was an immensely satisfying moment. Probably made more intense by the fact that I had just prior been on the verge of failure.
Another cat I know had the pleasure of serving a mean, senile old man. I don't know what it is about old people, but after a certain age most of them tend to want to interact through awkward close-range grapples.
When your server is carrying a tray of iced teas, you as a customer would probably think to get his attention with a wave or an "excuse-me" if the situation is somewhat urgent. If you need another beverage, any of the above methods may apply. This is a picture of the standard hand-wave.
This gentleman, who had been ill-mannered since his arrival, saw his server (who I will remind you was at the time carrying a tray of iced teas), and grabbed him by his tray-carrying arm.
My friend almost lost his beverages but because of his sharp reflexes, he was able to release himself from the death-grip and counter-swing his arm to stabilize the tray. Many of my server friends might have suggested that he accidentally "lost" the drinks all over this grouchy old man and let him get what he deserved. What was so urgent that he had to physically grab my friend and nearly caused a big accident? He just wanted to begrudgingly demand his check.
You can always tell when someone works in this business if they say "Behind you" whenever they walk by outside of your field of vision. It's because he or she is a trained cat.
Monday, May 9, 2011
How Good Waiters Become Cats
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It's officially the Holiday Season! There are so many ways to celebrate the holidays in Bucks County, so we're highlighting just a few of our favorite events each weekend. Here are our picks for November 30 through December 2. You can always find even more things to do by visiting our Bucks Happening calendar and our 2018 Holiday Guide. Plus, take a look at our Holiday Craft Show Round-Up and Hanukkah events.
Bolton Mansion Tree Lighting & Caroling
When: November 30 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. (Tree Lighting), December 1 from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m., December 2 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Where: 85 Holly Drive, Levittown
For just $5 a person, you can stop by the mansion for baked goods, 9-foot trees, caroling, and a visit from Santa himself! The mansion will host a variety of holiday activities the remainder of the weekend.
Annual Newtown Tree Lighting
When: Friday, November 30 from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Where: Newtown Fire House, 14 Liberty Street, Newtown
Join Santa, his friends, and the rest of the Newtown community for the annual Christmas tree lighting.
Perkasie's 109th Christmas Tree Lighting
When: Saturday, December 1 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Where: 7th and Market Streets, Perkasie
Bring the family to the oldest community tree lighting ceremony in the United States! There will be pictures with Elsa and Olaf, horse and carriage rides, music, food, and of course, Santa. Have the kids bring a non-perishable food item to donate to Pennridge FISH, and they'll be entered into a drawing to flip the switch the light the tree!
Yardley's Olde Fashioned Christmas Parade & Tree Lighting
When: Saturday, December 1 from 3:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Where: S. Main Street, Yardley
The Yardley Olde Fashioned Christmas Parade is a family-friendly event that brings the entire community together. Get a great spot anywhere along South Main Street for an amazing view, great music, celebrity guests, Mummers, marching bands, carol singers, and more. Stay for the tree lighting in Buttonwood Park, and then visit with Santa and Mrs. Claus in Santa's Workshop for a great photo opportunity!
Newtown Holiday Open House Tour
When: Saturday, December 1 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. (Snow date December 2)
The 56th Annual Open House Tour gives visitors an inside look at the historic farmhouse that was once George Washington's headquarters after his victory at the Battle of Trenton. Formerly called "Christmas in Colonial Newtown," this open house has been a treasured tradition for Bucks County residents. Tickets are available online and children under 12 get in free! Click here for more details.
Holiday Petting Zoo at Froehlich's Farm
When: Saturday, December 1 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Where: Froehlich's Farm & Garden Center, 3143 York Road, Furlong
What-Knott Farm's Traveling Petting Zoo will be spending the day at Froehlich's Farm. Visit with a huge variety of animals, including miniature goats, baby doll sheep, tortoise, bunnies, ducks, llama and other barnyard friends. Warm up by the bonfire with hot cocoa and cider. And stop by the holiday gift shop and take a look at the fresh cut Christmas trees, wreaths, and greens.
"A Rat Pack Christmas" at Sellersville Theater
When: Sunday, December 2 at 1 p.m. (Doors at 12:30 p.m.)
Where: 24 W. Temple Avenue, Sellersville
Reflections Of The Rat Pack returns to Sellersville for a special holiday performance! This tribute is a magical recreation of the music, antics and camaraderie of three of the most legendary entertainers of all time: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. The strength of their performances have earned them acclaim in Las Vegas and around the world. The chemistry between these three entertainers will take you on a journey back to the swinging years making you feel like you are watching the Legends themselves. Tickets range from $29.50 to $45. Get tickets here.
Menorah Lighting
When: Sunday, December 2 at 4:30 p.m.
Where: 1501 N. Main Street, Warrington
Head to the shops at Valley Square for a Menorah lighting, music, latkes, hot drinks, and a chocolate gelt drop.


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Josh Houston's Hole in One
Josh Houston hit a 119-yard hole in one using a Pitching Wedge on the 3rd hole at Eagle Run in Omaha. The ace was reported on Sept. 6, 2017. Witnesses: Jason Houston.
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Dawn Gagne most definitely has a green thumb. One stroll through her new shop on River Street in Downtown Troy, and you will see how she used her knack for gardening and her background as a fine artist to build her new business, The Botanic Studio. Dawn creates masterful works of art with small plants, rocks and organic materials, and presents them under glass. Terrariums have become quite the sensation of late – just open any interior design magazine and you will find them pictured in every well decorated celebrity home. Terrariums add a bit of sophisticated green to any interior – celebrity or otherwise. The best part? They are extremely easy to care for.
The Botanic Studio is located at 282 River Street and is open Tuesday – Friday from 11:00 am – 6:00 pm and Saturday from 9:00 am – 5:00 pm. www.botanicstudio.com
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Explore the city of New Orleans and the famous Oak Alley Plantation on this guided, bus tour in New Orleans. First head to the Grande Dame of the Great River Road, Oak Alley Plantation. See the historic grounds — 25 acres of history and romance, regret and rebirth, tragedy and triumph. Arguably nowhere in the south is there a more spectacular setting. All entry fees plus a New Orleans hotel pickup and drop-off are included. Next hop into an air-conditioned minibus and begin with a trek through the French Quarter, the Garden District, the Ninth Ward, and City Park. Southern Style Tours has one mission, to provide guests with accurate historical information for an authentic understanding of New Orleans.
After a New Orleans hotel pickup, relax on board an enclosed, air-conditioned minibus.. Take a short ride (about 35 mins) and your at the swamps.
We invite you to join us for an educational journey back to the early days of Louisiana bayou and swamp explorations.
Swamp creatures, seeing our boats daily, recognize them as part of their normal environment. Unafraid and responsive to their boat captain's call, they peak out from underbrush and between moss-draped trees and shrubs, frequently coming directly to the boat. In the safety and comfort of the boat, you can actually come within a few feet of jumping alligators.
As your boat drifts through the waterways, you will learn about the Louisiana Wetlands, the inhabitants of the swamp, particularly the life and habits of the American Alligator, as well as the unique history of the Cajun town of Frenier within the Manchac Swamp.