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Well we had a great trip to southeastern Minnesota. The area was hit with a pretty significant May snow storm on Wednesday-Friday, with some locations receiving up to 18" of snow. Our hunting area got mostly rain and sleet, with only around 6" of snow accumulation. I was going to meet two good friends of mine for the hunt (one driving from northern MN, the other from South Dakota) and would be the first one into town that afternoon. We hunted Saturday through Monday and a day by day account of our hunt follows below, I apologize in advance for the length but half the fun of the hunt is telling the story. If you don't want to read everything, here's the cliff notes version: the weather cooperated, birds were very active and we filled out with 3 nice gobblers in 2.5 days.
It had been snowing in southeastern MN for a day and a half by Friday morning and there was a winter weather advisory for our area until noon. I left the twin cities late morning with the idea of getting down there by early afternoon and doing a little "armed reconnaissance" of a public hunting area where we've had success in the past before Jack and Matt got into town that evening. There was a steady rain/sleet mix the entire way down with temps hovering around freezing. I arrived at one of our hunting areas at 1:30 in the afternoon, pulled on my snow camo (causing me to check my phone to confirm it really WAS May 3rd), and headed off into the woods in the sleet and rain. By 4:30 I had covered most of the area and had neither seen or heard a bird, although tracks were plentiful. I was soaking wet and cold, but in good spirits. There were birds around and the woods were beautiful with the snow. I headed over to the motel to check in and dry out. On the way I pulled into farm#1, a property we had permission to hunt and glassed a half dozen birds feeding in a field.
The bad news.
The good news.
At least the woods are beautiful.
Matt arrived at the motel a little after 6:00 (Jack had a late meeting in Rapid City and wouldn't be in till 1-2 AM) and I helped him unpack and settle in. We made a couple sandwiches for dinner and talked about our game plan for the weekend. At 7:00 we headed out to farm#2, a second property we had permission to hunt (and had hunted in the past) to see if we could roost some birds. It was still raining and sleeting a bit but we were optimistic anyways. On our walk in to a listening point we busted a jake out of a field, and got one bird roosted back in a draw to gobble twice. We headed back to the motel to have a few beverages and watch the Wild game while we waited for Jack. He showed up about 1:00, so we got him unloaded and settled in, then made plans for the morning. They were calling for rain all day on Saturday, clearing on Sunday, and Monday looked pretty nice. Low winds were forecasted for all three days with high temps in the low to mid 60's. Jack had brought a pop-up blind along with him and we decided to set it up in a ridge-top field at farm#1 where the landowner had been seeing a pair of gobblers recently. All three of us would cram in to stay out of the rain. We set our alarms and got to bed a little before 2:00.
I was awakened on Saturday by the ringing of my alarm at 4:00 AM, and the (slightly) less loud pounding of rain outside. It was absolutely pouring and I could see waves of water washing across the parking lot. We shrugged our shoulders, got up, and started to get ready. By 4:15 the rain had slowed considerably. When we climbed into the truck at 4:45 it had stopped completely and would not return for the rest of the trip. Temps had risen into the low 40's overnight as well, and that in combination with the rain had really knocked down the snow from the previous day. The valley bottoms were mostly clear, although the woods and ridge tops still had a few inches of wet sloppy snow and slush remaining. We arrived at farm#1 at 5:00AM, grabbed our gear and headed for the ridge top field. There was no road to the ridge top, so we were forced to climb up the side of the ridge through the woods carrying blinds, chairs and decoys. It was a tall ridge, a steep slope, and the snow made footing a bit interesting. After 30 minutes we had made it to the field and decided to set up at the north end. We got the blind set up, popped out a couple of decoys and clambered in. We had been hearing birds gobbling for 10 minutes or so by this time and sat waiting for flydown. Birds were responsive to our calls, but most seemed to be off the property to the north, and heading down the valley away from us. We continued to call and hear gobbles for the next hour or so, but nothing was very close. Around 7:30 two birds gobbled at the far end of the ridge to a string of jake yelps. A few more jake yelps and they gobbled again. After a couple minutes they were standing in the field 400 yards away looking at our decoys. They took their time gobbling and strutting down the field, meandering back and forth. Eventually they slipped off the top of the field to the left and down the side of the ridge, still gobbling and walking in our direction. Suddenly the gobbling stopped and they came running back up onto the field and out the way they had come. Something had spooked them on the ridge side, but we never saw what it was. We sat in the blind until 8:30, and then packed up and headed into town to grab some breakfast.
After breakfast we headed over to farm#2. By this point it was almost 60 degrees and the sun was starting to peek out. We pulled in a little before 11:00 and decided to split up and cover more ground. Matt and I went up the western ridge while Jack took the eastern. Matt and I were making for a small meadow on top of the western ridge that makes a perfect strut zone in the middle of the woods. We slowly worked our way up the 4 wheeler trail to the ridge top, stopping and calling every couple of hundred yards. It took about 30 minutes to reach the meadow, and we settled in to a couple of comfortable trees to sit and cold call for a bit. Before long we were hearing faint gobbles from the eastern ridge in the general area of where Jack should have been. The bird gobbled 5-10 times and we figured Jack was working him. Sure enough, we heard a gunshot from the east ridge about 10 minutes later, and I got a text message from Jack confirming the bird was down. Interestingly, we had heard a bird gobble 3 or 4 times after the gunshot, but jack never heard him. Matt and I worked slowly along the rest of the west ridge calling as we went, but nobody was home. A couple hours later we arrived back at the truck where Jack was waiting with his bird chatting with the landowner. It was a nice bird with a 10.5" beard, 1 1/8" spurs and probably 23-24 lbs.
Jack with his gobbler.
By this time it was going on 3:00 PM and we decided to head over to the public land I had briefly hunted on Friday to see if we could get anything going. It's a good place to get out and cover ground looking for a bird. By 5:00 we had covered most of the property and aside from bumping a hen hadn't seen or heard any birds. We decided to walk the final ridge top and then head into town for some dinner. About halfway along the ridge we heard a distant gobble. The bird was off the property down in a valley below the ridge we were walking. We moved along the property line and got even with the bird and tried him again. He gobbled again down in the valley, probably 500 yards or so away. There was a logging road running down from the ridge top to the valley where the bird was, but it was a long way and I really didn't think we had much of a shot to pull him up to us. He was, however, the only game in town so we set up where the logging road coming up from the valley met the trail along the ridge top. I put a hen decoy out at the T and we all took a seat at a different tree. The bird was not very enthusiastic at first, and would only respond to very excited cutting, but eventually he started working his way towards us. After 10-15 minutes he had made his way up the logging road to within 100 yards and it was starting to look like this might pay off after all. Pretty soon after that I could hear him spitting and drumming behind the bushes to my left front. I'm searching the area with my eyes waiting for him to step into view when all of a sudden a turkey head pops into view. Unfortunately it was mostly blue and gray and the hen walks by me at 5 yards clucking and purring as she heads straight for the decoy at the T.
She walked right up to the decoy, looked at it a bit, and starting yelping and clucking. That really got the old boy fired up. Now he was gobbling along with spitting and drumming and we could hear his footsteps in the leaves. I would guess he was no more than 30 yards away, but couldn't see him due to the thick undergrowth. We heard him spit and drum for another 10 minutes or so as he slowly circled our position to the left. I'm not sure if he ever came into view because that hen was still standing there 30 feet away so we couldn't shift around to follow him. Eventually she wandered off and the spitting and drumming faded. He would gobble when I cut at him, but it was pretty clear he wasn't coming back. When I saw that hen come waltzing right up the logging road and then stand at the T calling I thought it was only a matter of time before he followed. Instead, he slid off the road and circled us in the thick underbrush. Oh well, you can't win them all, and it was a great encounter regardless. We were still shaking 20 minutes later when we got back to the truck.
We split up to roost birds that evening, Jack and I went to farm#1 and Matt headed over to farm#2. Birds were tearing it up at farm#1, especially once a pack of coyotes started howling. Matt heard a couple birds as well at farm#2.
Up at 4 AM again and we decided to head to farm #1, although we would split up and go after separate groups of birds this morning to up our odds. Matt would go after a couple birds roosted in a draw on the eastern side of the farm, while Jack and I would haul the blind up to the ridge top field and try for the two birds from the previous day again. The climb up the ridge through the woods was much easier now that the snow had melted off, and we set the blind up on the crest in the middle of the field with a hen decoy on the north and south sides.
Birds started gobbling at first light, and with the clear windless morning we could hear for miles from the ridge top. We could hear a dozen or so different birds sounding off, most over near the eastern side of the farm, but a couple off the edge of the ridge-top field we were set up in. We waited until after flydown to start calling, and then started excited yelping and cutting every couple of minutes with a variety of calls. After a half hour I saw a hen poke her head up over the crest of the field a couple hundred yards away and look in our direction.
I yelped at her and she started angling towards the blind on a course that would take her below the crest on the side of the field and out of view. After a few minutes I yelped a couple times on a slate and she answered from below the field to the right of the blind. I yelped back at her again and I could see her climbing into the field and moving towards us out the side window of the blind. I watched her as she was making her way towards the decoy in front of the blind. I turned my head back towards the front of the blind to tell Jack what she was doing and there was a strutter 150 yards out in the field directly in front of us.
The strutter would take a step In our direction, stop and strut, then take another step. By this time the hen had made it to the decoy and stood right next to it, feeding, preening, and trying to make small talk with the new but strangely unresponsive girl in the neighborhood. From where Jack was sitting he couldn't see either the strutter or the hen, but I was whispering a play by play of what was going on and he was doing a little clucking and purring on a slate to keep the hen interested. The strutter spent the next 15 minutes meandering his way towards us in a zig zag pattern across the field. He would take a step, strut, and take another step. He only gobbled twice, and they were very quiet muffled sounding gobbles, so we assumed he was a subordinate bird trying to avoid drawing the attention of other toms in the area. By the time he was in range I was shaking so bad it was hard to draw a bead on him, but I managed to settle down enough and shot him at 35 yards. He was another older bird, with curved spurs just over 1", but small for that area of MN, probably only 19-20 lbs. He had plenty of fat on him when I dressed him, he just had a small frame. Regardless, he had put on quite a show (for me anyways, jack couldn't see a thing and had to be content with the play by play), on a beautiful morning in a beautiful spot. This was only the second bird I had ever taken from a blind, we typically only use them in inclement weather preferring to stay more mobile, but the steep slopes on the edge of the field made setting up in the wood edge impractical and a blind was really the only way to hunt this field.
We packed up and climbed back down the ridge to wait for Matt by the truck. There was a bird tearing it up on his ridge and we were expecting to hear a gunshot any minute but it never happened. He came walking out of the valley about an hour later and we headed into town for some breakfast. We were in great spirits. It had been a beautiful morning, birds had been gobbling, and we had two on the ground in as many days.
My field top bird.
After breakfast we headed back to the public land where the drummer had given us the slip the evening before. Sure enough, we struck him after about 20 minutes of walking and calling, but he was on the opposite ridge from us and wasn't going to budge. It took about 15 minutes to walk back along our ridge, and cross over to his and by that time he had gone silent and we never heard from him again. We did some more walking and calling, and set up for 45 minutes or so in the general area he had been gobbling from but never heard another bird. A little after noon we decided to head back over to farm#1 and stake out a pasture in the back of the valley where we had seen birds off and on the previous couple of days. By this time all of the snow from Friday was long gone, the weather was beautiful (it was actually starting to get a little too warm, but we weren't complaining), and a couple hours sitting and napping sounded good to all of us.
We made it back into the pasture without incident and we put Matt on the field edge with Jack and I in the cedars 15 yards or so behind him. It was very comfortable out there and I think we all dozed off a bit. At one point we called a hen into the meadow, she walked past Jack and I at 10 yards, clucking and purring and fed around in the pasture in front of Matt for 20 minutes or so before making her way off up the valley.
The pasture. Matt is at the cedar to the right of the chair.
Checking to make sure Jack is still awake.
Less than 24 hours after being covered in 6" of snow...
We packed up a little after 4:00 and headed back over to the public land for one more shot at the drummer. We got a distant gobble about 5:00 but nothing came of it, and since we were meeting friends for dinner in town at 6:00 we packed up for the day. Dinner (and drinks) ran late as they tend to do with old friends and we never made it out to roost birds that evening, but by this point we had a pretty good idea of what they were doing. Jack had a long drive back to Rapid City in the morning, so he decided he was going to sleep in so it would be Matt and I hunting the final morning.
Matt and I were up again at 4:00, and headed back to farm#1 as we had heard at least a half dozen birds in the area the previous day. When we got out of the truck at quarter to five a bird was gobbling his head off to an owl hooting in the pitch dark. Taking that as a good sign we made the 30 minute hike up to the ridge top to set up as close as we could to a group of gobbling birds. Unfortunately at fly down they went off the other side of the ridge, and walked off gobbling down the neighboring valley. We spent the rest of the morning slowly moving around and calling and got a few courtesy gobbles but not much came of it. We spotted the two gobblers from Saturday morning in the ridge top field (so the bird I'd killed the previous morning had not been one of them as we thought), but they busted us from 500 yards away trying to make a move on them. We set up in a strut zone where we had seen a gobbler the previous afternoon and had a couple hens come through and check us out, but no more gobbles. We headed back to the hotel to pack up and check out at 9:00. We had just missed Jack, who was on his way back to Rapid City, but I would see him out there in a few days when we would be chasing merriams together.
Matt and I packed up and decided to give farm#2 one more try. I had to head out a little after 1:00, so if we weren't successful here, Matt would hunt out the rest of the day chasing the drummer on the public land. As usual we had a last minute man in our group, and for once it wasn't me. We got to farm #2 a little before 11:00 and decided to head up the 4 wheeler trail to the small field at the top of the eastern ridge where Jack had killed his bird on Saturday. We slowly made our way up the trail, stopping to call a few times but mostly just listening. After a half hour we were standing at the end of the wheeler trail, just below the field and the crest of the ridge. I called, and we heard a gobble in response. It was difficult to tell which direction the gobble had come from as the sound was bouncing all around in the draw the wheeler trail ran up, and while it wasn't real close, he didn't sound too far away either. We couldn't get him to gobble again so we decided to sit down there and wait a few minutes. After 15 minutes of waiting with a couple rounds of calling we hadn't heard anything more, so we moved up the slope to the edge of the field and began to walk around the perimeter. There were quite a few dry leaves on the ground making it impossible to walk silently, so we went extra slow trying to sound like a deer or turkey feeding along the edge. As we neared the far corner of the field I heard Matt's footsteps stop, so I looked behind me to see him urgently beckoning me to come back to him. I eased back towards him and whispered what was the matter? Had he seen something? "Didn't you hear that"? he whispered, "One just gobbled RIGHT THERE" and pointed just over the edge of the ridge at the corner of the field. I hadn't heard anything, and thought he must be hearing things, but I ran out a few yelps and clucks anyways. The gobble cut off my last cluck and sent me scrambling back 10 yards along the field edge, he had sounded less than 40 yards away.
We were just about to slide into the woods when I thought better of it and quickly slapped a hen decoy down 5 yards into the field, then we slid down into the woods 10 yards from the edge. We sat up next to some deadfall. There was a deer trail that ran the length of the ridge at our 10 o'clock, and the decoy in the field was 20 yards away at our 2 o'clock. I sat just behind and to the left of Matt close enough so we could easily whisper back and forth. Matt had a clear shooting lane to the deer trail and another to the decoy, but there was a tree 2 feet directly in front of him so he could not swing between lanes without picking his gun up and around it. Not an ideal set up but we didn't have time to look for a better one.
I yelped and clucked softly and he gobbled a few seconds later, he was just over the crest of the hill at the corner of the field, maybe 50 yards away. He gobbled pretty consistently for the next 3-4 minutes, but didn't seem to be too excited by my softer calling. I started to ramp it up a bit, clucking and yelping a little more urgently and building to loud cutting and aggressive yelping as he warmed up to it. A couple of minutes of this had him pretty worked up and we could hear him spitting and drumming back and forth along the field edge between our 10 o'clock and 2 o'clock, maybe 40 yards away but still out of sight. Now that He was all riled up I just shut down on him completely. He gobbled 5 or 6 times on his own during the next minute or two, but still hadn't broken from the edge of the woods. I reached down and started scratching the leaves, and he immediately gobbled at the sound. I spent the next minute scratching leaves and doing some soft purring and clucking. We began to hear his footsteps and drumming move towards our 10 o'clock. I whispered to Matt to move his gun to the deer trail and get ready, he was coming. The footsteps started to cross our front and I was about to whisper to Matt to shift his gun to the decoy when I saw him step out on the field edge 25 yards away. Matt was stuck with his gun on the wrong side of the tree and couldn't see the bird without turning his head. "Don't move! He's right there on the field edge!", I whispered. "Wait until he's looking at the decoy, I'll let you know when". The bird stood at the edge of the woods for a few seconds looking around, then spotted the decoy in the field. He immediately turned towards it and popped into strut. I could see him shake when he drummed and could feel it in my chest. The bird came out of strut, took a few steps towards the decoy and turned his back to us. "Ok, shift your gun over now, he's not looking". Matt got his gun around the tree and his head back down on the stock smoothly and quietly before the bird turned back around. He took a few more steps towards the decoy and popped into strut again. As he came out of strut for the second time I began to whisper "Ok, whenever you're rea.." and the little 20 gauge roared (well squeaked at least) and the bird went down in a heap. It was all high fives and smiles after that.
Matt with his last minute Gobbler.
He was a dandy of a bird, the best of the trip. 11" beard and 1.25" spurs. Heavy too, 24-25 lbs. Matt was thrilled, this was his first turkey since high school, and I was just as excited about the show he gave us. We spent some time taking a few pictures on the ridge top, then headed back down the logging trail to the truck. Chatted with the landowner a bit, packed up and headed for home. It was a little before 1:00 when I hit the road.
We had a great trip in SE MN. The weather was excellent, birds cooperated, and we all got a good show. If anyone has not hunted yet this year these last four weeks of OTC tag sales should be pretty good!


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December 7th, 1941 is a day much like September 11th, 2001. They are days in our history that live in our hearts and minds. 70 years ago today we were attacked thrusting us into war with Japan.
At 12:30 PM on December 8th, 1941 President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered those words that we hear every year on this day in remembrance of the attack on Pearl Harbor;
Yesterday, December 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.
Much like the attacks on September 11th we should always remember those brave souls that died on December 7th at Pearl Harbor. We should take the time to thank veterans of the Second World War, they are getting to be fewer and fewer each day.
Take some time today to reflect on just how good we all have it. Sitting at our computer or smart phone reading blogs and going about our daily lives.
Today, as was the case 70 years ago, soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines lean forward doing our Nations bidding. Provoked or not, these brave men and women serve so we may have the Freedom that we enjoy.
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|Classic Atlantic Salmon No pursuit rivals salmon rivers, flies & legacy
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RE:Maine Salmon C&R Debate
Great news, glad calmer heads prevailed... but as you point out the statistics were truly depressing, particularly the percentage of aquaculture escapees. Seems the nixing of the bill was just a small victory, the big battle is effective restoration of habitat, passage, etc.
To the friends in the PNW - you're lucky despite all the crap going on. It's worth every bit of fight to protect what's left.
RE:Maine Salmon C&R Debate
Found out last night the bill was killed in the House saturday by about a two to one margin. Ed Baum has a website at http://www.maineatlanticsalmon.com/ he sells his book there and some other stuff. For return rates check http://www.state.me.us/asa/ and be prepared to throw up.
RE:Maine Salmon C&R Debate
Tim -
Do you have contact information or know how I might contact Ed Baum? (I like this guy)
I am thinking perhaps we could contact LL Bean and Kittery etc to do something to fight this bill. It would certainly send a good message to the public to have a fishing-oriented giant like Bean or Kittery stand with the Forum against this clear "exploitation without preservation" bill.
Ed would be key to strengthening the message to the public. When I started this site I was motivated to figure out how to use the web to make things happen. This seems to be a great cause and the timing is right. If nothing else we can do a good job communicating, if we do it right we can raise a lot of awareness and steer things the right way.
I hope to heck that someday the Saco, StCroix, and all Maine runs are healthy enough to support salmon angling - but I don't see this as the way to get there.
Pete if you aren't completely tied up with your masters program - do you have any contacts with statistics on current return rates and impact?
RE:Maine Salmon C&R Debate
Ed Baum the senior biologist for the Maine Atlantic Salmon Commission summed it up best last week. When he resigned from the commission after 33 years of service in protest of the states treatment of these fish.
Maine Salmon C&R Debate
The Maine State Senate passed a bill to open the Penobscot, St. Croix and Saco rivers for C&R fishing of sea run salmon. admist concerns that the runs are still much too weak to be opened for sport fishing of any kind. Sen. M. Kilkelly, D-Wiscasset expressed concerns over the fragile remnant runs, among others. According to the Bangor news, the bill (LD 2579) will now proceed to the house.
My opinion on this matter, despite being a very enthusiastic salmon angler, leans toward the environmentalists. Maine has historically shown little concern for the salmon that once were part of it's legacy, now this bill re-inforces a feeling of exploitation of a resource that was ill-cared for over the last two centuries.
Let the government show responsibility for the welfare of a run before promoting access to it's remnants for sport! Any of you guys in Maine want to chime in on this topic?
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Doris and I went to the NRA Annual Meetings in St. Louis yesterday. What a show! Just about every company in the shooting, hunting or anything related to those activities was there. If you ever think that the shooting sports are not alive and well, I'd encourage you to attend one of these events.
The exhibit hall with 340,000 ft. of exhibit space was full of people. It was just like the event that we attended last year in Pittsburgh, there were people of all ages. What a great sight to see so many people who are interested in the shooting sports in one place at one time!
Several companies introduced new products at this show. We spent a good bit of time with some of these folks, looking at mainly some new guns, asking a lot of questions, taking a few pictures and of course visiting with old friends.
I can also tell you that people were buying products. Anyone who was actually selling there, reported good to excellent sales. I also learned that the hall had been as crowded yesterday as it was today. Judging from our experience last year, Sunday is also a good day, with many people coming back for another look or families coming after church to make an afternoon of it.
We visited with most of the major gun manufacturers. We saw and were able to hold, shoulder and examine several new guns, some of which will soon be on the market and a couple that should debut later this year. Sales have been strong all year for these companies and they were all optimistic about future sales based upon orders taken both at SHOT and this show.
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Planted Tank on a Budget
I figured since I always looked for a thread like this I would try to put together a few tips for people considering a planted tank, but being afraid of the costs decide against it...
For starters there are 4 main parts to a well planted tank - substrate, lighting, nutrients, and CO2, all of these can get very expensive if you aren't careful. But I will go through my experience and what I used with prices
1. For substrate, most types will work, if you want you can go with one of the specialty substrates such as Flourite or Eco Complete, I found that if you have a larger aquarium this can be very pricey
My solution: It is called Turface, it is the fine clay they use to top baseball diamonds. I used the pro-league (note: this did leach color for awhile and needs to be rinsed A LOT) but I do know a guy that lives near me and uses Turface MVP without rinsing and it works just as well. Turface is a baked clay with a high CEC, meaning it will absorb and hold ferts well. With the Turface I also use Seachem Flourish Tabs.
2. Lighting - I really considered two options here. This is the biggest investment I made towards my planted tank other than the tank itself. You can either go t-5 bulb route, or cfl bulbs. It really depends on what size tank and the look you want. The odyssea lights seem to be the best bang for the buck. They aren't top of the line, but they work.
I personally didn't want a raised light, so I decided to try a DIY method. It ended up costing me about $40. But will save even more when I go to replace the bulbs rather than buying the pricey t5 bulbs every 6 months.
I followed this thread. And it works great, I use 4 5500k bulbs and 4 7000k bulbs (or whatever you can find close to 6700k at walmart or home depot)
3. Ferts - I use a dry macro /micro mix from aquariumfertilizer.com (http://www.aquariumfertilizer.com/in...ditU=1&Regit=2). 1 pound shipped comes to around $20. The mix is 1 tablespoon powder to 8 tablespoons water, I use 5 ml per day so this size mixture will last 22 days. The 1 pound of this powder probably is close to 3-4 cups (possibly more, just aiming low). Just some quick math 1 cup = 16 tablespoons, 1 tablespoon lasts 3 weeks, 1 cup lasts 48 weeks!
The root tabs usually cost around $12 and last 4 months per planting (a box can do my tank at least twice, depending on what plants)
4. CO2 - some people will use a DIY set up. Personally i find mixing the yeast, sugar and water all the time would get annoying and poses a small risk if you aren't careful. Another option is Seachem Flourish Excel, but long term this will get expensive (1 gallon usually around $60). After some research I decided to try metricide 14, it is a medical disinfectant that is a stronger version of excel (rather than 1.4% it is a 2.6% solution). One warning with the metricide 14, it comes with a small activator bottle - throw this away right away, it is what makes it a poison. Also do not try the metricide 28, I have seen bad results from this.
I was able to pick up a gallon of metricide 14 on ebay for $20 shipping. I dose 5 ml per day in my 55 gallon (1ml / 10g). Once a week I do a 40-50% pwc and after the water change I do a 20ml dose of the metricide. Since starting this I can see growth everyday. This uses a total of 50ml per week for my 55g. So the math 1 gallon = 3785 ml, @ 50ml / wk this will last 75 weeks!
So a quick wrap up of my costs:
Substrate: 50lb bag of Turface = $21 (was enough for my 55 gallon, and two 10 gallon tanks)
Lights: A t5 set up should run $40-$70 depending on tank size (bulbs probably $30 every 6 months), my DIY ran me $40 (bulbs >$20 every 6 months)
Ferts: A two year supply (possibly more) costs $20 shipped plus the cost of a syringe and mason jar to mix it in
CO2: A year and a half supply costs $20 plus syringe and mason jar for easy access
Upstart costs: $60-$100 for substrate, lights, and misc mixing / dosing equip (be prepared to buy significant other a new set of mixing spoons)
Yearly costs: around $65 for the ferts, metricide, root tabs, and replacement bulbs
I hope this helps anyone looking into switching to a planted tank, I feel this is the cheapest route you can go unless you can find some used equipment. As for plants, places like aquabid have many sellers that will put together big packages for you or you can always check you LFS for decent prices, my 55 probably has about $40 worth of plants... remember, plants grow and propagate, so stock it lightly to medium at first, and propagate it up to a heavy planted tank if you wanna save a few bucks
Well done and very helpful! thanks30 g FW planted:corys, female ABNP, blue angel, harleys, zebra danios, rummies,
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Thank you. I just wanted to make something that kinda served as a one stop thread for people just looking into it. I know it was a pain to slowly track down all this info while I was look. I'm sure some people will have other methods or opinions. But this is just my experience. The plants are doing great and haven't had any issues with the fish that are caused by these products
the liquid CO2 booster type liquids have some bad side affects on them. some crypts and mosses (just from my experience: java moss and crypt wendtti (sp?)) will melt with them.
also if you want a good budget planted its best to go with low light no ferts or co2. im finding out that the liquid co2 is ot cutting it as well as it should be so i am upgrading to a 10lbs CO2 in the near future.
but this is just my input and you have a very good write up there. i think the plants im keeping are just a bit more sensitive to some parameters than others. but its always fun to be able to mess around with stuff a bit over your reach lolKING OF THE GOLD BARBS RAWR!!!!
I wonder if i plant one of my tiger barbs would the demon seed grow to a full tree?
gotta love them bunnies!
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It's certainly a good start. I'll chime in when I'm back at my pc.
Yea my crypt didn't like it at first... but i has started doing well again. Crypts from my experience just don't like any changes lol
True, that the lowest budget planted tank would be just low light stuff with nothing special. But I personally got bored with the growth rates I was seeing. It seemed like the plants weren't growing very much. There never seems to be a perfect answer to the questions that we have in the aquarium trade, what works for one person may not work for another. Best we can do is try something to see if it works, luckily I haven't had too many failures (the light was too much before I started ferts and CO2)
Good write up. We often see here others tell newbies to plant their tank but leave out the important and costly elements to having a planted tank. They rush out, get a bunch of plants only to find they then need proper lights and substrate to grow them. Seems to me that information should be offered first, not last?
If they want to stay within a decent price range, they can always attach anubias, java fern and add some java moss without going to the expensive of top-notch lighting, CO2 or plant substrate and the tank will still have plants in it, just not planted but attached to wood or rocks.
For my planted tanks, I use aquariumplants.com substrate.
A 5-gallon bucket does a 55 gallon with a choice of colors. Similar to the Turface, I believe. I use no CO2 in any of my tanks.
You may be right and I've read similar, as well, but I'm not too sure it would be legal to buy a product, repackage it and sell it under your own name. That lead me to question if it was the same or not but I'm sure they work very similar, if not the same product. I like it, regardless.
Ok, my 2 eurocents:
1. Substrate. As with a good pizza the secret is in the bottom. There's basically three ways of doing this
- all in one like eco complete. Easy solution if you like to look at the stuff. Not cheap for a big tank.
- 2 layer. Start with something nutritious in a thin layer. Can be a special aquarium product (I've had good experiences with tetra myself) or pond potting soil or even a good organic potting soil. Spread thin where you want to plant and cap with a layer of gravel
- Pellets/root tabs. Especially interesting if you go for sand. Stick these under the plants. Can be used on existing tanks without major disruptions.
2. Lighting is vital. If you're buying a new tank and you know you'll want to plant pay attention. T5 lighting is very nice to have, small tubes, lot of light. T8 is second best. LED can be good but good LED systems are expensive. 1 watt per gallon is good enough for most medium light species. If you got a really tall tank you'll want more. Also look for spread of light but this can be improved somewhat with reflectors.
Colour of light doesn't matter all that much but plants do best between 6500k and 10000k. Standard daylight tubes work well.
3. Fertilizer. This is probably the most debated subject. To consider:
- plants will only use fertilizer if there's enough light and CO2.
- mixing your own is very economical but there's also more room for error. (also be careful mixing your own, the chemicals can be dangerous and some are highly flammable!)
You can have good plants with just substrate. Start dosing if you see obvious signs of defficiencies. Your growth will be less spectacular. If you don't have a plant substrate or just root tabs use a general ready mix. Start at 35% of recommended dose and work your way up to about 75% slowly.
4. CO2. Not strictly necessary but it certainly does help. "liquid" Co2. works because it releases some CO2 but also because it inhibits algae growth and thereby makes more co2 available to plants. A bio setup is easy and affordable but also tricky to get a steady dose. Pressurized systems can be more constant but it also makes overdosing and harming your livestock easier. Both variants will affect your PH. On a pressurized system it's easy to get ph swings of 0.5-1 per 24 hour period.
When you run a planted tank a pair of small stainless scissors and planting tweezers will make your life a lot easier.
A good way to get cheap plants is to find someone local that runs a planted tank and just ask for some cuttings. Don't be disappointed if not everything does well.
And the most important tip: Be patient!My 33 gallon/125 liter tank. My photography on flickr.


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Those players have some nice traits. And then you'll see why they were third day picks. Try to win pivotal games with third day picks featured in the skill positions and I know what the likelihood is.
I'm sure we'll be bombarded with exceptions. Message boards are flooded with guys who scramble to find exceptions. Other than no value, it's a great hobby.
Ten point favorites sometimes lose by 20. But line them up and eventually it's a 4/1 success rate. Never varies much. Same holds true for every range. I realize I reference odds too much but it's what I know, and often it applies. Jeff Ireland seems to want to believe he's 10-20% better than the competition or the norm, that he can pay on the cheap and locate gems down the road. I suspect, and evidence shows, that he's very close to average. His fourth round picks will balance out to fourth round return, and so forth. Who really cares if he's touting Lamar Miller and Rishard Matthews to explode far beyond where they were taken? It's the same point I've made with the stadium. Tout a patchwork all you want but it's still a patchwork, with the fundamentals largely unchanged.
I can relate because I've been stupid and arrogant often enough. In the '90s and into the early '00s I had great success in ripping early quarterback picks. On a Las Vegas radio show on KDWN where I was frequent guest handicapper and draft analyst I hated on Tim Couch in particular, but also on Andre Ware and David Klingler and Akili Smith. The problem is, once you succeed using a certain approach you assume it will repeat. I wasn't paying nearly as much attention to players as I had previously, but thought I could quickly look at a quarterback and assert he'd fail to live up to expectations. And I've been wrong time and again. I remember I didn't particularly like Joe Flacco. I didn't really know anything about Joe Flacco, other than he transferred in college and didn't fit my preferred resume. The wisdom of the crowd has tremendous value. That's what I'm saying. There must have been a reason Player X went mid first round and Player Y lasted until the fourth. You may beat the field by a few percent but not consistently, and not dramatically higher than that.
We need to hit on the premium picks. Skill position, preferably. Tannehill, maybe. At least there's danger from him, even if he's not close to Flacco in terms of varying pace and loft to fit the evolving needs of the play. Jonathan Martin has lower athletic ability than an early second rounder should feature. We can't continue to make that type of mistake.


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Just some brief comments on your last post ....
it needs reiterating that the event Mr Voight took part in wasn't a Field Trial or anything like one, so the judges interpretation may or may not have represented their operations in a Trial. I'm not qualified to say just how judges in UK Trials give weight to handling or not, but you should bear in mind that the concept of a bird being a mark or not doesn't apply. If a bird comes to ground and the dog marks it, it's a mark and if it comes to ground without the dog seeing it it's a blind. In a US Trial the two are clearly distinguished, but in a UK Trial it's just a bird on the ground and you deal with it as you may.
One other thing crosses my mind; no ground game in US Trials. You'd need to train for it and also for steadiness to a running hare or rabbit. I've seen a GSP Trial that looked like a good night at a greyhound stadium, very amusing for everyone except the handlers.
Your point about a bird hitting the ground and running is well made. On a "real" shoot as opposed to a Trial, If I see a bird hit in the air that's flying on towards cover I'll often send the dog straight away, but I've never seen that happen at a Trial.
The "cultural" thing is often misinterpreted. Driven shooting is still not for the impecunious, but the associated dog work is open to Everyman. Trialling does have it's costs of course, but one of the most successful and well regarded Triallers in recent years is a lady living in a city area council house. Many folk use the cash from their picking up days (beaters and pickers get paid) to defray expenses generally and make a contribution to other doggy activities, which might be Trialling, Working Tests or scurries. The latter are probably worth an explanation in themselves.
Yes, American mores and perceptions are different to those over here; this is often summed up in the phrase "They're absolutely bloody barking mad you know". It's almost a definition of another culture to say "Well I don't understand it, but it's wrong anyway, we'd never do it like that".
Nose. Well it's of prime importance to me, and I selected Lab Jack as a puppy because his blood line was renowned for good schnozzles and he hasn't disappointed; to put it in "our" terms, he's as good as the best Springer I ever had! His sire was the winning Welsh dog at Sherborne which may or may not be a coincidence. It seems from what folk say, that US Trials don't put a dog's nose to the test in the same way that the Brit version does, wether that represents a potential problem for the breed I'm unqualified to say, that's for you guys.


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gotenks794 wrote:is there a free-er way?
Yes. Avidemux is free and is a tool that is a lot like Avisynth but with fewer plug-ins. I really like it actually.
Two words of warning:
- Surfer (who builds the Mac version) just moved to Leopard, and he hasn't quite got his build environment up to snuff, his latest build v2.4.3 (his first build on Leopard) has a few UI quirks.
- Its DV codec currently only supports 720x576 @25fps. Which means that you will almost certainly have to re-sample your video - but there is a filter built into Avidemux that will do that for you.


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Party-goers enthusiastically embraced the Bastille theme, participating in a French art-themed scavenger hunt to kick off the festivities. Attire ranged from summer sophisticated to full blown costumes, and the absinthe fairy and a man in full Marie Antoinette drag could be spotted meandering about the party.
Francophiles munched on a delicious array of hors d'oeuvres including smoked salmon, sausage, pate, and pommes frites, all courtesy of Rue de Jean. After relishing the savory, people made their way to a table of sweet treats as provided by Macaroon Boutique. The sated guests lounged at tables or chatted by the bar as the night wore on, enjoying tasty bites, good wine, and great company.
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I Do Not Support the Troops
I don't support the troops, America, and neither do you. I am tired of the ruse we are playing on these brave citizens in our armed forces. And guess what -- a lot of these soldiers and sailors and airmen and Marines see right through the bull**** of those words, "I support the troops!," spoken by Americans with such false sincerity -- false because our actions don't match our words.
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Made it a late lunch at Olive Garden. Why? Let me count the ways...
1. there are two nearby, and the nearer restaurant is notorious for long waits for dinner
2. I had a coupon
3. I also had an expiring-soon gift card to there, with some money left on it
4. I was jonesing for their Mixed Grill meal (skewered steak and chicken, with peppers/onions/veggies, potatoes)
5. free breadsticks and salad, of course
6. free water! (my favorite beverage? )
7. apparently, I wanted screaming children to seranade my meal, as well as their computers to crash temporarily
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Again, long time no see, no write.
Makes me wonder why I can't keep a diary going properly. I know of some distinct cases of people who can actually keep a weblog for quite some time (say, Alan Cox, Dave Jones, or Rik Van Riel) but I, for one, surely can't do it. Still to find out why. Anyway, just felt like writing tonight. And while we're at it, what a shame Alan decided to start writing his diary in welsh.. Hopefully he'll come back to his senses and start writing plain english again. Or not.
So, since last entry (which I can see was by end of January), I guess I'm better off updating on the major changes that happened both in me and in my working/studying environment. In terms of tools, I've decided to make a Linux distribution switch and instead of using my (forever) faithful Slackware, I turned to Mandrake Linux. This is not too important of course, but it was interesting as it happened out of the blue. Basically, Mandrake 9.1 ISOs were out a couple of weeks ago IIRC and I decided to leech them from Uni and give it a try in a spare partition on my laptop. To my surprise (or not) I got it up and running on no more than 10 minutes, not counting some partition tweaking that was in order before I could proceed with the instalation. And buy, was I stunned with the looks of it. I know, looks matter next to nothing, but honestly I've always been AA fonts fan and Mandrake has it nearly perfectly with KDE 3.1. I once tried to get AA with gtk, a good few months ago but gave up waiting for the day when AA fonts ceased to be a simple hack. That day has finally come.
Well, not only that, I also started coding more seriously so I felt the need for a good text editor. And that editor, while FAR from perfect, is KDE's Kate. I hear some of you shouting 'use emacs, you loonie' while others blab about Vi, but honestly I have nor the time nor the patience, at this very moment, to learn how to use any of them. And I confess that if I did so, I'd go for Vi. I've been using it ever since I got into Linux since 97 or so but never got past the basics. Maybe one day. I have no doubts it's as powerful as editors gets. (I said editors, not OSes *hint*).
On a different front, the Championship Manager work is at long last finished and wrapped up. I think we did a good job on localizing it and quite honestly, CM is probably the last thing I want to hear about for a couple of months. Now if I could only get my well deserved $$$..
On the Uni side of things, been pretty much happy coding away on sockets programming. I honestly didn't think at first that it'd be this interesting. Fortunately we're past the _very_ basics, while still at the basics I guess, but the third assignment, which I've nearly finished now, is quite interesting. It's basically a mini-inetd which regulates the date, echo, put and get services. I also wrote clients for those and it turned out to be more challenging that it seemed at first. Anyhow, jolly good fun and I hope I have a good mark on it.
Well, it's getting late (01:48am here) and I better get up early tomorrow. Tucking into bed reading a bit of a book, reminds me to tell anyone who's interested and reading this that I'm finally taking some time (not as much as I'd liked to...) to read Dune, the Frank Herbert classic. Honestly, I'm really enjoying it, it's just a shame I get lost in a multitude of programming tasks, thus not leaving time to read more. I have an enormous pile of books waiting for me to read them, you see. I'm actually taking a few days away, going up north, from Thursday to Sunday but unfortunately I have a test on Tuesday so I'll have to focus on that too instead of releasing myself completely from Uni/technical duties. Tough is the life of a graduate student.
Oh yes, some musical recommendations for anyone who happens to same roughly the same tastes as I do. My bands of the moment right now are: Tool, Evanescence, Opeth, Masterplan, Gotan Project and Cold. Check them out. Well worth it!


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Suppliers and retailers in the newsvendor setting need to submit their pricing and inventory decisions respectively, well before actual customer demand is realized. In the literature they have both been typically considered as perfectly rational optimizers, exclusively interested in their own respective benefits. Under the above set of conditions the wholesale price-only contract has long been analytically proven as inefficient.» 続きを読む
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In the highly dynamic, competitive and complex market environments (such as telecom, insurance, leasing, health, etc) the consumer's choice essentially depends on a number of individual characteristics, inherent dynamics of the consumer, network of contacts and interactions, and external influences that may be best captured within the Agent Based modeling paradigm. The Agent Based modeling is especially advantageous in the consumer market domain as it allows to leverage the full amount of individual-centric data from the CRM (Customer Relationships Management) systems highly available these days. Although there are no universal straightforward instructions for building Agent Based models, there are certain common steps and patterns. The goal of this paper is to introduce the patterns in consumer market modeling most frequently met in our consulting practice. The modeling language of AnyLogic is used throughout the paper» 続きを読む


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So, as it turns out my 3yo YLM is spending the summer with the girlfriend again this year. I was really looking forward to spending a lot of time with him on live birds, but that won't be happening. Long story short, I need someone in the area of Oakland County, MI that could assist in training him. My girlfriend is not accustomed to training or hunting at all, but she would be able to throw bumpers and help out. I am looking for all the help I can get, be it another amateur like myself, or a pro who does training days. I would be willing to pay for birds and other expenses of course, so I could work out something with anyone who could help. If anyone is able to help me out, or knows of someone who might be able to, I would greatly appreciate it.
A little about him, he hasn't had solid training for about a year now, as I only got to work with him on short periods when I was back home. I was using the Dokken: Gun Dog training DVDs and 10-Minute Retriever by Amy Dahl as my training plan. He is not exactly a high energy dog, but does have a strong prey drive on birds.


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Wonder why we have not heard about this in the prime time media:
The take on this I heard is like this...
If these are real then some large country was probably trying to dump their US holdings. If they are phony some large country is probably trying to further devalue our currency.
Either way the story should be huge but no press?!
When the Treasury was asked by a talking head to comment they refused comment.


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What did you think of the new Hasbro products shown at Wizard World?
From the Saga line, there was the deluxe Wampa and basic Luke Hoth, Obi-Wan Coruscant Night Club and Elan Sleazebaggano, deluxe General Rieekan, and plenty more.
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On April 2nd, 2011, LCD SOUNDSYSTEM played its final show at NYC's legendary Madison Square Garden. Frontman James Murphy had made the conscious decision to disband one of the most celebrated and influential bands of our generation at the peak of its popularity, ensuring that the band would go out on top with the biggest and most ambitious concert of its career. The instantly sold out, near 4 hour extravaganza did just that, moving the thousands in attendance (including YOU and us) to tears of joy and grief, with NY Mag calling the event "a marvel of pure craft" and TIME lamenting "we may never dance again." SHUT UP AND PLAY THE HITS is simultaneously a document of a once-in-a-lifetime performance and an intimate portrait of Murphy as he navigates both the personal and professional ramifications of his decision.


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There were a lot of white dresses on the Oscars red carpet this year. And while it may have been unusual to see areola on stage, it wasn't much of a surprise that it was attached to J-Lo. However! There were so many other white dresses on display. And some of them were nice. While others were simply confusing. Let's take a look, shall we?
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April 20th, 2012 My son Sage and I set out early for his first turkey hunt in Nebraska. We set up in a spot that I passed on 2 toms the weekend before thinking it would be a perfect hunt for him. After walking a 1/3 mile through a fresh tilled corn field we got busted by the farmers big sheep dog out cruising the property, just as the sun was popping the horizon... as heading to the plan B spot we spotted a nice Tom about a 1/4 mile off the gravel road with 5 hens. We drove on past and set up about a 1/4 mile south of the bird across the corn. Sage was getting SO MAD at me because the bird was locked up with the hens and he was wanting to shoot. Not understanding he can't shot 300 yards away. We ended up scaring those birds off after about 30 mins. Now its getting closer to 7:30am and we need to get to plan B spot 5 miles away. That was a long trip. Sage was not talking at all to me. Just staring out the window of our truck. Never hunting my plan B spot for turkey or even walked the property, I knew they were there . As walking in we heard a couple Toms way off. We found a nice spot on a slope next to a deep ravine and hay field. We set up our Zink "Look Out" decoy. Made a few calls and Sage quickly fell asleep. At about 9am a hen came in right to our decoy and walked a circle around it and then strolled right up within 10 feet of us and checked us out. It was really cool to see Sage's face seeing that hen so close. After the hen left us I made a soft yelp and BAM he made both of us jump. This Tom was upon us. He was coming up behind us on the other side of the ravine. Which put us right out in the open with no cover. Sage got his Mossberg 510 mini 20g ready. The bird strolled right along the ravine about 25 yards from us. As I told Sage "NOW" he put a perfect aim on the perfect first time bird. 8 1/2" beard 5/8" spur
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In the early 1990s they became members of the international Goddess organization, the Fellowship of Isis (FOI), in which Jocelyn trained for the priesthood. In 1995 she became a Priestess-Hierophant and began to run FOI Magi Degree courses by correspondence through her Lyceum of Isis Myrionymous within the Fellowship. In 2001 she was appointed to the Archpriesthood Union, the custodial body of the FOI. Keith furthered his studies in Ancient Philosophy, and founded the Stoic Foundation, through which he runs a correspondence course in spiritual well-being. He also works as a correspondence tutor for Warnborough University, Canterbury, England, where he is Professor of Philosophy, teaching MA and PHD programs in Ancient Ethics, Metaphysics and Philosophy of Religion. They live near to London and together run a local moot of the Pagan Federation-the leading Pagan organization in Britain.
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Glad to see you and Finn get a 3rd in the Am a couple of weeks ago and the Jam last weekend. If I remember right didn't Finn and Steve win the Open that same weekend? You are doing more than getting to the water bliind. It is a very competitive game you play so you have to love it when the plan comes together. Field Trialers would make great Minnesota Twins fans as they are used to dealing with disappointment! Are you running any more trials now..or going to hunt a bit and then run again in the spring. I imagine Finn will go to Texas with Steve in January. Kind regards Joel Druley
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Loving this new film for Marie Claire Italia. Watching Mila Krasnoiarova looking so delectable in Spring 2013 fashion from designer collections like Gucci, Céline, Fendi and Balenciaga makes us want to go shopping even more than usual. We may even just do a little catwalk-style dancing in the dressing room.
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Albert Hammond Jr. may come from money, but he also comes from music. His Gibraltar-born father had some minor successes on his own as a singer-songwriter in the '60s, and many more major successes when artists like the Hollies covered his "The Air That I Breathe." Later on, he teamed up with song doctor Diane Warren to write the Starship hit "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now." His son must be very proud. Of course, his son is best known as the diminutive, big-haired guitarist in the once ultra-hip NYC fivesome the Strokes. But it's possible, if not plausible, that the junior Hammond, who headlined the Paradise last Thursday as a solo artist, might have had a shot at a career in music even without the Strokes, who were born when the guitarist met singer Julian Casablancas at the elite Swiss boarding school Institut Le Rosey.
But enough history. For all the excitement the Strokes generated back in 2001 with their Velvetsy The Modern Age EP (Beggars Banquet) and their more expansive but still very NYC garage-rock major-label debut, Is This It (RCA), they haven't exactly lived up to their early promise. Yeah, they're a big draw in Europe and, especially, the UK. And they've yet to experience a complete commercial or artistic meltdown. But in the wake of 2006's First Impressions of Earth (RCA) — an album that debuted at the top of the UK charts but didn't come close to selling the 500,000 units required for RIAA gold certification here in the US — the band seemed increasingly to be slouching toward irrelevance. Indeed, Hammond Jr.'s solo disc, Yours To Keep, was released way back in October in the UK and didn't come out until five months later here in the US, where the New Line imprint Scratchie picked it up. Perhaps if those packed early Strokes shows at clubs like T.T. the Bear's Place hadn't created such a buzz, then none of this would matter. But it was hard not to note how relatively sparse and quiet the Paradise crowd was, or that from the top balcony it seemed noticeably thinner for Hammond than for his shaggy tourmates, the Dead Trees (formerly Furvis), who were making their triumphant return home.
Not that there was anything wrong with Hammond's set. Backed by an able line-up (it included Boston bassist Josh Lattanzi and guitarist Steve Schiltz of Longwave) that did most of the heavy lifting, Albert showed off his well-arranged if unexceptional solo material and did his best to bring a bit of charisma to the proceedings. In the end, though, it all seemed a bit pat, with none of the danger or the dark allure that Casablancas exudes as a frontman. And it's always a bad sign when a nostalgic cover — in this case the Cars tune "Don't Cha Stop" — is what brings the crowd to life.
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Microfinance Company Mambu Raises $2 Million In Series A
Mambu is a microfinance technology company that has raised $2 million in Series A funding from Runa Capital and Point Nine Capital. Kizoo Technology Ventures also participated in this round. Based in Berlin, Mambu said that this round of funding will be used to expand their team of microfinance experts. They will also use the funding to grow their global community and further develop their product. Mambu has offices in Germany, Spain, and Romania. Mambu operates as a software-as-a-service company for the global microfinance community.


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Pearl I. Reger, age 75, of Highland, passed away peacefully at her home on Saturday, January 12, 2013 following a long illness. The former Pearl French was born on March 4, 1937 in Madison to Floyd and Elizabeth (Franklin) French. She married Joseph Conner in 1953 and they were together for 18 years. Pearl married Arnold "Bud" Reger on September 27, 1971 and he preceded her in death on January 7, 1989. Pearl was a farmwife for many years with both Joseph and Bud and also worked summers at the Cobb Canning Co. for many years. She enjoyed reading, playing cards with her "own rules", fishing and going out to eat with her family. Her greatest joy was the time spent with her children and grandchildren.
She was also preceded in death by her parents; an infant child; a grandson, Russel Bymaster; a great granddaughter, Lybertie Davis and a special niece, Valarie Conner.
Pearl is survived by six daughters, Johanne Bymaster of Lancaster, CA; Mary Towsley of Blue River; June Hlavac of Montfort; Laurie (Cary) Turner of Prairie du Chien; Threasa (Bruce) Ramsden of Blue River and Carolyn Reger of Highland; two sons, Paul (Robin) Conner of Lone Rock and Eugene Conner of Boscobel; 19 grandchildren; 19 great grandchildren as well as other relative and friends.
Funeral services will be held at 11:00 A.M. Wednesday, January 16, 2013 at the McGuire-Peterson-Houck Funeral Home in Highland. Pastor Douglas Larson-Sell will officiate with burial in the Highland Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home on Tuesday from 4:00 P.M. until 8:00 P.M. and on Wednesday after 10:00 A.M. In lieu of flowers, memorials to the Iowa County Humane Society would be appreciated.


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Sam Wexler (Josh Radnor, who also wrote and directed) is an asshole. A self-important freelance writer, he's the kind of guy who makes half-hearted promises to girls so he can get them into bed. His friend Annie (Malin Akerman) bemoans the way 29-year-old men act as if they were 12 — yet she's too stubborn to look past the physical imperfections of the one guy who shows a legitimate interest in her. Their friends (Pablo Schreiber and Zoe Kazan) are actually a pleasant couple, but their contribution to this plodding plot is as clichéd as it gets. He has a job opportunity that would require them to leave New York. She finds out she's pregnant. What will they do? And, more important, why should we care about their trivial hipster quandaries? Rasheen (Michael Algieri) is a young child taken in by Sam after he gets lost on the subway. Acting as a heavy-handed metaphor, he's a saving grace both for the film and for these aimless twentysomethings.
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Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Hot dogs, kimchi and Chicago-style.
But for me, hot dogs aren't even just a summer food. I eat them and love them year-round, even in winter, when tomatoes are a no-no (I prefer my dog dragged through the garden, in true Chicago style) and the grill is covered in snow. I'll gladly throw a couple of hot dogs in the microwave, quickly chop up onion and tomatoes, bust out the pickles and mustard, and have dinner on the table in less than 10 minutes. Which is why we've been eating hot dogs once a week, every week around here lately, and probably why I've started getting sick of them, and why I still pencil them into our weekly menu anyway.
So when hot dog night rolled around last week, instead of the usual Chicago-style, I opted for something different: kimchi. Yes, I put kimchi on my hot dog. And I liked it. And I'd eat another one, too.
Some of you may have heard of a kimchi hot dog, and many of you probably haven't. I had never heard of it until my friend Diana gave me a recipe for kimchi hot dogs, inspired by a company called Asia Dog in New York City, that called for homemade spicy kimchi relish, spicy ketchup, jalapeno mustard and topped with crushed potato chips.
Since I already had kimchi in the fridge, and I didn't have any jalapenos, I veered away from Di's recipe. Instead, I chopped up the store-bought kimchi, mixed some plain yellow mustard with Sriracha hot sauce, and piled the toppings onto an organic, grass-fed, all-beef dog nestled in a poppy seed bun. I ate two of them.
If you've never had kimchi before, I wouldn't recommend putting it on a hot dog as your first experience. Get to a Korean BBQ joint, preferably with a real Korean if you know one, and try the kimchi with galbi or bulgogi or both. If you like meat, you'll like Korean food. If you like spicy, pickled vegetables, you'll like kimchi. If you like kimchi, you'll like kimchi hot dogs.
If you don't like kimchi, I understand. I spent a good part of my childhood associating kimchi with stinky, spoiled cabbage. I'd scrunch my nose and make a face whenever my parents opened a jar. But tastes change, and thank goodness for that.
My taste for the Chicago-style hot dog, however, will never change. I may be sick of it for now, but I'll love it always.
My Chicago-style Hot Dogs
The traditional Chicago-style hot dog, according to Vienna Beef, includes the following toppings: yellow mustard, bright green relish, chopped onion, tomato wedges, one pickle spear, sport peppers, celery salt, one all-beef frank and a poppy seed bun. I skip the relish and celery salt and sometimes eat sport peppers, but only on the side. Below is my version/assembly method. Although I don't include all the traditional ingredients, I think the tomatoes, pickle and no-ketchup rule qualify mine as still completely Chicago-style.
1 all-beef frank*
1 poppy seed hot dog bun
plain yellow mustard
finely chopped white onion, as much as you can handle
2 tomato wedges
1 Claussen kosher dill pickle spear**
Cook your frank according to package directions. You can steam it, grill it or even microwave it. Nestle the frank in the bun, then squirt 2-3 fine lines of mustard on one side of the bun, near the bottom of the frank. Sprinkle a handful of chopped white onion over the frank, so that the majority of the onion is on the mustard-less side of the bun. Insert the tomato wedges on the mustard side of the bun. Top with pickle spear.
Makes 1 hot dog.
Kimchi Hot Dogs
You can buy kimchi at most Asian grocery stores. Some supermarkets may also carry kimchi -- check the refrigerated section where they keep the won ton wrappers, tofu, etc. Or you can make your own kimchi with recipes from David Lebovitz or Steamy Kitchen.
1 all-beef frank*
1/2 cup kimchi, chopped
1 hot dog bun
1 tablespoon Sriracha hot sauce
2 tablespoons plain yellow mustard
For the Sriracha mustard, mix the Sriracha and mustard in a small bowl. Adjust according to tastes.
Cook frank according to package direction. Nestle frank in hot dog bun. Spread Sriracha mustard on one side of the bun. Top with as much kimchi as you like.
Makes 1 kimchi dog. Don't be scared.
*Get a good quality, all-beef frank. I recommend Vienna Beef or Hebrew National, although for the kimchi dogs I used Applegate 100% organic grass-fed and finished all-beef franks. They're a bit more expensive but oh. so. good.
**Must be Claussen. No other store-bought pickle compares.
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Kimchi is amazing, hot dogs are amazing, kimchi hotdogs are amazing!ReplyDelete
Regarding your loyalty to Claussen pickles you might find this taste test interesting. Claussen came in 4th!!! I have never had the top three, but this article has inspired me to seek them out.
I made my own pickles for the first time last week from some cucumbers my friend's mom gave me. They turned out decent but a little too sweet and a couple too many allspice berries. I used the recipe from the Charcuterie book by Michael Ruhlman.
Ooooh, the kimchi dog is a staple at my friend Tim's summer cookouts. I never remember to get the housemade kimchi when I'm at the Korean market in my neighborhood but since he lives right around the corner he always has some in the fridge. Thanks for reminding me, next time I'm there I'll pick some up!ReplyDelete
i enjoy hotdogs, but i don't eat it often. i adore kimchi and eat it even less often than hotdogs. my gentleman friend & i were at a posh cafe recently and they had hotdogs on the menu with 3 choices of style: german, korean or swiss. he went for german but i was secretly hoping for korean. must make this soon!ReplyDelete
I'll have to try these Applegate dogs. There's something about conventionally-made hot dogs and sausages that makes the ex-vegetarian in me squirm...but a grass-fed option sounds great!ReplyDelete
Also, this post is making me crave a trip to Hot Doug's or a Korean BBQ joint (never tried either). Now I just have to decide which to try first...
Nolan - Yes, yes and yes! And I can't believe Claussen didn't get #1 on that list! I've never pickled anything myself before, but I think it's something I should get into. And make more bloody marys to contain said pickled goods.ReplyDelete
Adrienne - Oh I'm glad I'm not the only one who eats kimchi dogs! I've been obsessed with kimchi lately.
Lan - Definitely try this if you love hot dogs, love kimchi, and are feeling a little adventurous. :)
Maddie - The Applegate dogs are good. Murdo went as far to say they were the best he's ever had, and that man knows his franks. And yes, you should definitely try a Korean BBQ place sometime!
ooh i just love this idea! gotta try this - thank you!ReplyDelete
megcjones - I hope you like them!ReplyDelete


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Carter Mountain, located about 20-miles/32Km southwest of Cody, Wyoming, USA. The mountain is volcanic in origin, made up of many layers of lava of various types and densities. The mountain is something of a pet project of mine. It dominates all of the lower end of the valley of the South Fork of the Shoshone River. It actually runs about another 8-10 miles further to the right, angling off straight away from this viewpoint. The steep vertical face on the right end of the mountain tops out at 12,187 feet (3715 meters), and the actual summit, about a mile away, is at 12,319 ft. (3755 M) making it one of the tallest mountains in the area.
This was taken on the evening of May 17, 2007, about 1/2 hour before local sunset. The late spring snows are melting out and the lower slopes are greening up nicely with the mild weather and recent moisture.
It's a stitched panorama, consisting of 12 horizontal frames shot with a Canon PowerShot S3 IS, mounted on a leveled tripod with panoramic head, stitched using Photoshop CS4 Photomerge and corrected for contrast. The final Large Format PSD file is 211-megabytes in size. The geo-location is the point from where the image was taken, which is north of the mountain itself, and across the Buffalo Bill Reservoir west of Cody.