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Oddballs: A Primer
Oddballs are fish that don't fit in any of the common families, and some don't even fit in the common tank :) However, properly cared for, the oddballs are fascinating, and in some cases, oddly beautiful, fishes.
There is no way to lump them into one water parameter, or even tank size, but in this post I'll list several of them with their care. Questions are, of course, welcome.
Now, some species.
The African Butterfly Fish (Pantodon buchholzi) is native to still, vegetation-choked water ways of Western Africa, and is not only our first oddball; its the only member of its genus.
Pantondon (means teeth everywhere) buchholzi reach nearly 5 inches, and is the most common oddball in shops.
They are perfect for a planted tank that has top swimming room, especially one with a few floating plants in it, as it mimics the natural habitat. They prefer water between pH 6.5 to 7.5, moderately soft to moderately hard. It is unwise to keep top-swimming fish like danios with them, as they will naturally snatch and eat them, and Pantondons have surprisingly large mouths. Also, their tank MUST be covered, as the fish will sail right out at night. They are strictly top feeders; if it doesn't float and wiggle, they won't eat it.
Really a sort of flying fish, African Butterfly Fish have long, wing-like pectoral fins, especially the males, making it easy to identify the sexes when viewed from the top. The top of the fish is flat, and the ventral and anal fins are feathered with long, feeler-like rays. Their large eyes look forward and up to spot prey, and the colors are browns and blacks
They are strictly carnivorous and live food is mandated with them. They are particularly fond of crickets. You can dust the crickets with powders designed for color or lipids (NatureRose and Protein HUFA are brands) as it improves health and vitality. Earthworms, small healthy live fish, cockroaches; all will be eagerly eaten, though you'll probably have to hand-feed the worms and the fish. Live foods designed for lizards like meal worms are perfect, and mixing them with frozen or freeze-dried examples over time can wean Pantodons off purely live foods. Variety is particularly important with these fish. African Butterfly Fish are also long lived, with 15 years or more common.
They do well in groups of their fellows given the space, and you may see a rare breeding when kept en masse. The large, yellow eggs float, collecting around floating plants, and the parents don't touch the eggs, nor the tadpole-like young. They aren't difficult to wean on to floating high quality pellets, but you'll have to lower the water in the fry tank to just a few inches to get the food and the little Butterfly Fish together.
Anableps anableps from the coast of South America is our next oddball and is a livebearer of another sort from the guppies, swordtails and mollies we know - for the larger, brackish-water tank.
Reaching a foot in length and doing far better in groups of six or more, Anablep's common name - Four-Eyed Fish, is incorrect, as the fish has two eyes, but the iris is split to see both above the water, to spot predators and fishkeepers, and under the water to search for food.
They are long, golden and silvery, slender fish. The sides are divided by a trio of blue-black lines, and the belly is greenish white. Males have a gonopodium for copulation and identification, and they are noticeably smaller and more slender than the females. Their water must be brackish, say 1.015 specific gravity. Temperature should be around 77 degrees, pH about 7.5 to 8 and fairly hard, gH of about 14.
Also, the surface area should be large, and you can add a beach area if you wish on one end of the tank as occasionally Anableps likes to haul out on land, usually to look for food, like a cricket which has crawled out of the water. They MUST have live food to have live young, and nothing is more discouraging than to see baby Anableps being born dead. A tank about 200 gallons is good for a group of them. The tank can be kept half full if you use a beach (which your should) and a few floating plants wouldn't be amiss. Anableps tends to take a rest, time to time, on floating plants.
Foods should float, as they won't take anything that sinks. Live foods are preferred and very beneficial to them. Crickets, meal worms and earthworms are good, and they will take the latter two right from your hand. You can also feed them freeze-dried food like krill, but emulsify them with Selco or Super Selco first to increase the nutrition and to make them more palatable to the fish. Variety is vitally important with these fish. Anableps are always hungry so they should be fed enough to eat in within a minute - no less than four times a day - as starved, they suffer deformities, disease and death. The water has to be very well filtered and very clean, as they are quite sensitive to dissolved organics like Nitrate.
Breeding them is very, very special, because not many keep them in groups, feed them correctly or keep them in large enough tanks. Remember, surface area is most important, so a custom-made acrylic tank may be necessary to keep a group of these fascinating fish.
The babies are nothing short of charming, and will take food like small freeze dried shrimp right from your hand. The parents should be removed after spawning. Mine never ate the babies, but err on the side of safety by removing the parents.
Small surface-dwelling fish are a big no-no with Anableps, because the will by nature eat them. Larger tankmates like Archer Fish are ignored.
Anableps are very neat fish, and one of my favorites.
A favorite of the brackish tank due to its method of getting food is Toxotes jaculatrix; the Archer Fish of the mangrove swamps of Southeast Asia.
Simply a silvery, flat-topped, 10-inch fish with black markings half-way down the body, Archer Fish are almost strictly surface feeders, and their food of choice is insects.
In the top of the fish's mouth is a groove where, by the pressure of the tongue and the snapping of the gills, the fish can shoot down any insect that alights on a plant within the adult fish's 10-foot range. Their large eyes account for the natural refraction of water, though it takes youngsters some time to learn to correct for the diffraction. When an insect is spotted, the archer pokes his snout out of the water and shoots a stream of water that nearly 100 percent of the time downs the insect. A rare miss is followed by a machine gun of water pellets from the Archer Fish. They often shoot in groups, and there's no enmity if another gets the insect shot down.
Small ones can only shoot five or six inches, but the range increases as they grow.
They can also jump out of the water to snatch a bug off a branch that's within a foot of the water, so make sure to cover your Archer Fish tank.
They will eat insects like crickets happily, and soon learn to take pelleted foods that float as well. If it's an insect that floats, Archer Fish will eat it, and bugs are their best food. Dust them with vitamin and mineral powders for maximum nutrition. You can hand-feed Archers things like meal worms, which are a good food, being the larvae of a beetle. Though they feed mostly on the surface, they can go deeper, if it's something they see and wish to eat, like live shrimp.
The Encyclopedia of Live Foods by Charles Masters has information on culturing several kinds of bugs to feed your Archers and other insect-eaters. It's recommended you culture your own insects to feed your fish, because you'll be secure in knowing they come from a clean source.
Their ability to shoot down insects that land on vegetation is what makes these fish a dependable show for visitors. You can toss live house flies under the cover, and watch your Archers pick off each one.
By the way, Toxotes means a bowman (archer).
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A kind of Goby and one of the most unusual and rather challenging fishes to keep are the Mudskippers; Periophthalmus genus.
There are 17 species of Mudskippers in the Genus, all of them highly amphibious, brackish water fish. Periophthalmus argentilineatus (silver-lined), which reaches six inches long, is very wide spread in Mangrove mud flats in Eastern Africa, Southeast Asia, Australia, Southern China, Japan, Madagascar and Samoa - is the most likely species you'll run across. They are yellowish-white on the bottom with an attractive green and blue-speckled black top. The eyes are on top of head and protrude, and can swivel as the fish looks for food.
There are nine Genii of Mudskippers, but other then the members of the Periophthamus Genus, the other 8 are rarely if ever available.
Regardless of the species, Mudskippers are very difficult to keep alive, and special custom-made tanks are necessary to have a hope of keeping the species. They eat live food only - small live crabs and other live crustaceans, but will take insects, like crickets, as well. They MUST have variety, so you must be well-versed in culturing a variety of amphibious Crustacean life forms long BEFORE buying the fish. They WILL NOT take anything prepared or frozen.
Only the most experienced and dedicated hobbyist should even attempt keeping these fish. I rescued six of them from someone who begged me to, as they were rapidly fading. I cut down a large acrylic tank and built a land and water section in it at top speed. It was close, but I managed to save all six, as at the time I lived close enough to the ocean to harvest sand crabs and sand fleas to feed them with until I got all my cultures going. I kept them for 8 months before I found a zoo to take them off my hands.
The 'land' part of the tank must be soft enough, like muddy sand, so the mudskippers can construct burrows. Mangrove roots in the water are helpful, as they naturally crawl on them . The water must be brackish; 1.015 specific gravity, with a pH between 7.5 and 8.5 and as hard as a marine tank. A cover is necessary to keep the humidity high as the fish must be kept moist when out of the water, and the temperatures are 80 to 88 degrees; no less and no more.
The tank MUST be large and wide, say 12 x 6, as Mudskippers need the space. They must be kept in groups, but too many will cause fighting for territory and death, thus the space so each male can have his own burrow and territory. The pairs lay the eggs in the male's burrow if his dance and display pleases her, and he guards them. As they are air breathers, he blows bubbles of air on the eggs and fry. When the fry consume their egg sacks, they emerge and head for the water, where they will remain for some time before becoming amphibious like their parents. The fry can be fed live swimming crustacea, starting with Mysis shrimp, the size dictated as the fry grow. If you mix a quality meaty pellet of a suitable size with the crustacea, the little mudskippers often learn to eat them, to their benefit. Tank bred fry are much more hardy than their wild caught parents. The water must be kept very, very clean, so any uneaten must be PROMPTLY removed
Mudskippers can really leap - more than two feet - if they are startled, angry at a too close neighbor, or especially if they see a tasty crab.
A fascinating group of fishes, but not one to be kept casually.
Growing to an impressive size is Chitala chitala, the Clown Knife Fish of all over Southeast Asia.
A jumbo freshwater fish for the very large planted aquarium and a food fish in Asia, C. chitala reaches nearly four feet long. A very silvery fish with a line of black spots surrounded by white on its lower half; the number, size, and dispersion of the spots depending where the parent fish were from. The anal fin covers nearly the whole bottom of the fish, and is used to stay in place and for stealthy movement toward prey. The body is long and shaped knife-like, obviously, and narrows to a pointed head with large eyes. The mouth is large can can swallow surprisingly large foods.
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They are confirmed predators, and can dominate fish their size and larger. Suitably-sized fish will be eaten, and with their size, many fish, even adult Cichlids like Oscars, are suitably-sized. Being confirmed carnivores, the food must be meaty. White fish flesh, frozen penaeid shrimp - if it's meaty and lean, they will eat it. It's not advisable to feed them live fish unless you're sure of the source and culture them yourself. Live fish SHOULD NOT be the primary food source as such rich food will damage the fishes' kidneys causing total renal shutdown and death. Foods must be frozen or prepared fish, and crustacean based.
They soon learn to take prepared foods as well. High quality and varied pelleted foods should be the main diet. To my experience they are most eager toward pellets with a large percentage of marine fish flesh as an ingredient. As with any carnivorous fish, a vegetative pellet will provided the greens they get from eating live prey in nature.
They are native to the still, plant-choked swampy areas of Southeast Asia, thus they prefer soft, slightly acid water pH 6.0 to 7.0, and the well-planted aquarium. However, they are adaptable within reason, but do need cover like floating plants and overhangs to shelter under. Best temperatures are the upper 70's and lower 80's, say 78 for general maintenance of the species.
They obviously need very large aquariums in the many hundreds or thousands of gallons. They can be kept in groups in a large enough aquarium if introduced together as youngsters, and can be home bred, either on a flat rock or shallow depression. A slow temperature raise up to 88 degrees usually triggers breeding, but it is VERY advisable to remove tankmates when they do, as the male, who guards the eggs and fry, is far beyond aggressive and will kill every other fish in the tank, not matter what it is. I don't know of any way to divine the sexes, other than venting the fish, and venting an adult Knife Fish is a challenge indeed, as they are incredibly powerful fishes. I tried it exactly once, and ended up wet and beat up as did my helpers, and still didn't find out the sex of that fish. For those who want to try it, goodness knows why, he's pointed and she's rounded. I kept them for nearly five years in the 80's when I was in my big-fish stage.
A fascinating fish to keep, but it's adult size demands deep pockets, and lots of space, for that huge planted aquarium.
A truly unique fish for the aquarium are the Morymids, family Mormyridae, of the still, dark waters of Western Africa.
The most commonly available species is Gnathonemus petersii - the Elephant-Nose Fish - native to slow-moving waters and found near stands of driftwood in the rivers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria and the Cameroon. Topping out at nine inches, Peter's Elephant Nose is black to dark gray, depending on the specimen. A crescent of white is near the tail, and that area is what makes the Elephant nose truly unique, the fish's appearance not withstanding.
The caudal peduncle, the part of the body before the tail, is quite thin and generates a weak electrical field by contracting the muscles there, and surrounds the fish. The electric field helps them navigate, identify each other, and find prey in dark or muddy water. Thus, if you drop in some live worms in the middle of the night, the Elephant Nose fish will quickly find them by the motions of the worms.
The body is laterally compressed, meaning they are narrow when viewed from the front. The fish's lower jaw has a trunk-like proboscis attached that is lined with electrical receptors to help them zone in on food and each other. The eyes are small, and the fish has poor eyesight, but with their electrical systems they navigate perfectly well. The tail is deeply forked, and the dorsal and anal fins are far back, and nearly perfectly symmetrical.
They can easily be kept in groups, with six or more best. Do not by any means keep a pair, as one will bully the other to death. Less than six is a gamble you don't want to take. They are perfectly amiable fish in a school unless you try to add another to the group; it will be attacked, and the proboscis can be used as a weapon.
They are deeply attached to worms as a food source. Easily-cultured California Black Worms (Lumbriculus variegatus) are a favorite, as are clean earth worms of a suitable size. Frozen bloodworms, live White Worms - Elephant Nose Fish love them. If it's a worm and you can culture it, your Elephant Noses will happily eat them. They will, however, eat prepared foods, pellets specifically, but to keep them long term, feed them live (best) and frozen worms most frequently. They commonly live well over 10 years, how far over, I don't know, as I kept them from 1978 to '88, and they were still hale and hearty when I sold them.
They prefer water pH 6.8 and soft, and planted tanks with a good deal of driftwood is perfect. They will adapt up to pH 7.5 and moderate hardness, but don't do as well. Best temps are 73 to 80 degrees. They are quiet, deliberate, fishes, so don't keep them with fast eaters or aggressive fish. You may have to target feed them if you keep them with quick eaters like larger tetras (lemons, rosys).
They eschew bright light, so be sure there are areas that are dark with the wood so your fish will be comfortable. Overhanging wood is recommended, as are floating plants. Remember, these are dark water fishes. Make sure you build several dark hiding places for them.
Another unique feature is their brain to body weight ratio, which is larger than ours. They use their large brains to process all the information from their multiple sensors.
To my knowledge they haven't been bred in aquariums. In my research at the time prior to keeping the fish, it was suggested that aquarium sizes were too small for the full expansion of the electrical fields, so they couldn't determine the sexes. We have the same problem, as there are no obvious differences between the sexes of Elephant Nose Fish. Perhaps the key to breeding them would be a large enough aquarium. Mine were kept in a 200 gallon, so it'd have to be larger than that.
There are many more species of Morymids, though several have different needs in water parameters, so do your research prior to buying them. All are dark-water fishes.
An all together fascinating family of fishes.
Almost prehistoric in vintage and appearance are the Bichirs, African fishes of the Polypteridae family. All are from the still waters of Africa.
Incredibly tough fishes, pH and hardness levels mean nothing. All they need is clean water and good food. I've kept two Polypterus species over the years; P. ornatipinnis and senegalus. Still have the ornatipinnis - the Ornate Bichir, and have since I was 12 years old.
Mine is in pH 6.8 soft water in a 40 gallon breeder, but as above, they are very, very adaptable, as long as it's clean. If it's a meaty food, they will eat it. They have a keen sense of smell, and will even eat pelleted food. I feed mine live worms, penaeid shrimp, white fish flesh, apple and pear chunks and three kinds of pelleted food. They define bulletproof hardy. As long as the water is clean and you feed them, they will thrive in nearly any tank of suitable size.
Bichars ignore fish too large to eat, so they are unusual tankmates for the larger aquarium. Larger because the Senegal Bichir reaches nearly 16 inches, the Ornate Bichir close to two feet, though mine is 18 inches. They can be kept in groups, but pairs are VERY ill advised as just one will get all the food. In a group of five or more they can be quite entertaining, as they occasionally wrestle for a tasty bit of food. They are phenomenally long-lived, as I personally know of a Senegal Bichir that has outlived two owners, so is at least 80 years old. You might have to write your Bichir into your will for its continued care.
Tankmates should be mellow themselves, as Bichirs can be picked on by aggressive fish like Cichlids. Larger tetras and barbs are OK, as long as they grow large enough not to be considered food. You shouldn't keep them with plecos, as they usually suck on the Bichir's sides. Tank should have cover for your Bichirs - a well-planted tank with driftwood and stones is perfect.
They are true living fossils, as Bichars can trace their kind back 60 million years, to the time of the dinosaurs. Thus, the popular common name of 'Dinosaur Eel' is apropos, though the aren't eels.
Perhaps the most durable fish you can buy, thus I recommend them. Only caveat is tank size, tank mates, and good filtration and maintenance.
There are many other fish that can be considered oddballs, fish that are off the beaten track. And they may need very large tanks, or special foods, or different water conditions. I've touched on just a few species that I've kept over the years that in the broad sense can be considered oddballs. What not try and oddball in that next tank?
DaveWhen a finger points to the moon, the imbecile looks at the finger.
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Very cool!! I had no idea about birchirs being prehistoric!
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Great primer Dave!
Dave, good info my man, hope to see more primers, especially on the South American cichlid species ;) lol.
Hi HO HI HO of to the LFPS I go....
ME: Hey guys I'm here...
LFPS: So
ME: I'm looking for an oddball fish
LFPS: Which one?
ME: The brown one
LFPS: Which Brown one
ME: the one that can zoom thru the air witht he greatest of ease..
LFPS: *Funny Look*
ME: You know the moth fish or what ever it is called
LFPS: You mean an African Butterfly fish
ME: No that is too sweet a name for this killer...You are the experts you should know what I want.
LFPS: *Shakes head and walks away*
ME: *Driving home with more mollies for the kids tank.*
Thanks Dave now I really want my Bichir tank again but the suggestion of the butterflies has got me a thinkin'This posting was approved by:
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Thanks Dave! Always love reading your work, find out something new everytime!
Cheers mate!
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I did not know you could keep bichirs in that small of a tank!
Thank you, Dave, your primers are always excellent.
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Eunice Mae "Pooch" Wainscott, 98, of Owenton, died March 31, 2009, at St. Joseph Hospital in Lexington.
Born July 12, 1910, in the Gratz community of Owen County, she was the daughter of the late Tom and Sarah Morrow Smoot. She was also preceded in death by her husband, Jess Wainscott, and her brother, William Smoot.
Kline Jones, 46, of Corinth, died April 2, 2009, on Dixie Highway near Corinth from injuries received in an automobile accident.
He was a self-employed carpenter.
He is survived by two daughters, Mikala Jones and Madison Jones, both of Harrison County; his father, Orlie Jones of Corinth; his mother, Edith Riddle of Lexington; four sisters, Sheryl Adams of Cynthiana, Kathy Burke of Georgetown, Debbie Glass of Owenton, and Orlana Sparrow of Corinth; and three brothers, Dennis Jones of Owenton, Clifford Jones of Williamstown, and Rodney Jones of Ft. Wright.
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Glenn David Cox, 61, of Owenton, died March 18, 2009, of a heart attack on his Owen County farm.
He was born Sept. 18, 1947, and was the son of Glenna Holbert Cox Schrader and the late Kenneth Cox. He was a member of ElBethel Christian Church.
Besides being a life-long farmer and part-time carpenter, he served two and a half years in the U.S. Army, including 13 months in Vietnam. During his military tenure, he was a top-security military police officer, communications specialist, and sergeant.
Glenn David Cox, 61, of Owenton, died March 18, 2009, of a heart attack on his Owen County farm.
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Robert C. Haydon, 83, died March 30, 2009, at Golden Living Center.
He is survived by his wife of 37 years, Nelba Bourne Haydon.
He was a member of Graefenburg Baptist Church since 1972. He retired with 33 years of service as an engineer with Blue Grass Energy.
He was a World War II Army veteran, serving two tours of duty overseas, and was an avid hunter and fisherman.
He was preceded in death by his son, Dan Haydon.
James David Parks, 51, of Milton, died March 15, 2009, at his residence.
Born Aug. 25, 1957, in Breathitt County he was the son of the late Luther and Geneva Lansaw Parks and was also preceded in death by his siblings, Jesse, Eugene and Wanda Parks.
Eleanor B. Ligon, 94, of Owenton, died March 14, 2009, at Owenton Manor.
Born May 31, 1914, in the South Fork Community of Owen County, she was the daughter of the late Aaron F. and Lucy Jane Gray Ligon. She was also preceded in death by her brothers, Grover Gray Ligon and Boyce C. Ligon.
Kathy M. Wilhoite, 56, of Florence and formerly of Owenton, died March 14, 2009, at St. Elizabeth Hospice Center in Edgewood.
Born Sept. 4, 1952, in Owen County, she was the daughter of the late Delmar Moore, and was also preceded in death by her siblings, Vickie Jacobs, Judy Moore and Gene Moore.
Kathy was a former custodian supervisor at the Florence Mall and a member of the Baptist Faith.
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Glen served in the Army during the Vietnam era and was a member of Carrollton American Legion.He was employed by Milacron.
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I had a talk with a good friend of mine about a sermon he heard at his church on Sunday.
The Pastor of his Church gave a talk about the "Golden Rule" and how it is supposed to guide our lives. The preacher had a problem with peoples understanding of the rule and in particular why people did not understand it and live it.
Why, said the preacher, do people fail to understand that simply living within the rule of "Doing unto others…" makes the whole world a better place.
The more we talked I thought about this topic and applied it [as always] to Scouting. I had the same question? Why, don't they understand?
And then it hit me. I can fix all the worlds problems with 12 words.
Yeah.. you know what they are. Starts with Trustworthy… ends with Reverent.
SO… Why is the world the way it is???
Lazy, Greedy, Selfish, Self absorbed, Arrogant, Mean, Stupid, Lack of Knowledge…
Almost sounds like a group of Dwarfs waiting on Snow White…
Why don't people just see the forest for the trees? It is so simple.
Why cant we be Trustworthy?
Why cant we be Loyal?
What do we gain by not being helpful?
What would happen if we were actually friendly to people, other than their friends?
Wouldn't it be better if we all were more Obedient?
I think you get the point. It's the same old song.. different verse, same chorus.
So why not? Why can't we live the Scout Law? Are we not aware of the impact it can have on our world?
Are we so self absorbed that we forget about those around us?
Are we so arrogant that we can not get past our self to be helpful?
You know, we can turn the economy around by being Thrifty.
We can help the environment by being clean.
No one needs to be hungry because we are kind. No one needs to be cold because we are cheerful and helpful.
But it only works IF everyone lived it.
There was a guy.. about 2008 years ago that called us to Love our neighbor as we love ourselves. Pretty darn simple, but I guess it's just to hard.
Man is just not meant to have it easy. But, ever since Adam took a bite from that apple, we have been learning.
Thank goodness some of us understand and want to.
The Scout Law.. Live it like you would have others live it.
Just think about what a great world this would be.
I long for the day… But its been 2008 years since the golden rule hit the scene and it still meets resistance.
The Scout law may need some time to catch on too.
Have a Great Scouting Day!


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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/techn...rticle7529135/The therapy was lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). By the mid-sixties, the man voted Hollywood's Most Attractive was one of an estimated 40,000 people who had used it in an attempt to heal their brains, whether to unravel long-repressed trauma or to overcome addictions.
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All of us MUST know the difference between these two dollar bills.The green stamp is debt based. It is a Federal Reserve Note. It is printed by the private Federal Reserve and loaned to the Government at Interest. This is why we pay much more in income taxes then we should. Every month part of your check goes to foreign con artists; the owners of offshore banks that run the Federal Reserve.The red stamp is debt free and printed by a sovereign United States. It is a US note. If US notes were printed, all national debt could be illegalized along with most of our taxes.They don't want you to know ANY of this Information!!
Returning to a same monetary policy is long overdue. It begins with Congress taking on the reponsiblity of controlling our own money and not a central bank controlled by international banking! I also realize that many don't mind paying the taxes that they do and have no problem working for the government.
The recent Libor banking scandel, the too big to fail of 08 and our government's failure to bring charges forth and prosecute only happens because We The People no longer care!
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Having seen far too many busted-up boats along the highways I firmly secure my canoe when traveling. Not only to the rack but also to the vehicle frame, both for and aft. Remember that a reversed canoe will cup the wind giving far more lift than a kayak.
As to PFD, none that I've encountered are comfortable in every scenerio. And the sospender type works best on the display shelf where, in my estimation, it should stay. I'm sure steelheader69 could give you the best on this.
I rolled my canoe two years ago in the river with my 13 year-old son along for the ride. Although it seemed to have happened in slow-mo there wouldn't have been enough time to activate an inflatable PFD's manual mechanism and I have little to no faith in the automatic operation (think airbag). No, the old-fashioned foam type III did just swell.
Be safe!
If the crossbars on the rack extend wider than the canoe you don't need anything to secure from the sides. In other words you can tie a fixed loop on one end of a rope long enough to double over the canoe, slip the end of the rope under the cross-bar and over the canoe, under the far crossbar and finally thru the loop on the end of the rope, tighten, and tie a cartoppers knot. This will secure side-side.
Then do the same with the front and back and you're good to go. The idea is to secure both laterally and linearly during movement.
Generally a compress-able material between the boat and the rack will make for a more secure footing. The foam pads are a good way to go. Some guys put pipe insulation onto the rack crossbars instead.
I think the most comfortable PFD is the inflatable sospenders, you might get more opinions on that though.
Good luck!
|Bob Pauli
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|Bob Pauli
Canoe & 2000 Ford Expedition
My Hexpedition's rack consists of moveable forward aft bars. There are no side rails to secure line to. Ford has a "kayak kit," and the sales literature is unclear as to the components included in the kit. Ford states the rack is made by Yakima.
My canoe is an aluminum Grumman [successor] 17-footer. I am new to canoeing.
Which rack do you folks recommend? Manufacturer? Price range? Quality reputation? Web sites?
Are tie down straps a special item?
What weight and shape anchor is best?
The least uncomfortable PFDs?
The canoe will be used on small lakes, spring creeks, and the American and Napa Rivers in Calif.
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Kristyrat's Source: Samurai Champloo 1-5
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WINNER: Kristyrat
(Another) Congratz to Krat for the win, he definitely deserves it. Even it's my first IC, pretty glad I lost to an awesome video as his.
Here's the video that lost
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Will probably fix it up a bit and upload it to the org sometime or another.
Krat's video is linked in the R1 thread somewhere, if he wants I can edit this post to include it.


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Buying Here: HamptonNovember 8, 2013 8:32 PM
"Whoever buys it just has to love it," declared owner JoAnn Travis, referring to her home of the past 14 years.
The home at 3931 Mount Royal Blvd. in Hampton (MLS No. 977361) is more than a home to Ms. Travis and her husband, Andrew. It is a piece of history dating back to 1787. The log and wood-framed farmhouse is on the market for $274,000 through Debbie Platts of Coldwell Banker Real Estate Services (412-366-1600 or www.pittsburghmoves.com).
An open house is set for 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday.
The three-bedroom, two-bath, cedar-shingled building with a springhouse and two-car detached garage began life as a simple log cabin built by John Walters, a Revolutionary War veteran.
"It was built right after the war with a depreciation land certificate," explained Ms. Travis.
After the Revolutionary War, land certificates were used to reimburse soldiers who had been paid with depreciated currency during the war.
Now, this unique family home includes not only the best of the past but numerous updates that provide modern comfort. "A warm and friendly house," said Ms. Platt. "When you walk into it, you just want to sit down by the fire and stay there forever."
Hand-hewn logs fill three walls of the 19- by 17-foot living room. The brick fireplace at one end of the room extends from the floor to the ceiling. On either side of the fireplace, the hearth extends the width of the room, creating a riser above the beautiful hardwood floors that extend throughout the house.
The formal dining room measures 19 by 15 feet and has a Dutch door with glass panes that leads to the covered side porch. The decorative brick fireplace has a hook-up for a potbelly stove and storage space for logs. A built-in cupboard provides plenty of storage for linens and dinner services.
Over the years, Mr. Walter's family and farm grew in size along with his home. Additions were made to the rear, which now contains an eat-in kitchen, full bath and family room on the first floor and two bedrooms on the second. James Rafferty, the previous owner, made many of the sensitive updates to the house, including the kitchen.
"We bought if from a couple who had been here for 30 years. He was a teacher and he lovingly restored the house," said Ms. Travis.
Mr. Rafferty installed new cherry cabinets and a neutral ceramic tile backsplash, countertop and floor. Appliances include a Kenmore refrigerator and dishwasher, Sharp convection oven/microwave and GE stove with a hood fan by Broan.
As owner of Farm Fresh Antiques in the Wexford General Store Antique Center, Ms. Travis has a deep appreciation for the house's history. She added her own distinct style to the kitchen. "I took two of [the cabinets doors] and put glass panes in and then added mirrors on the pantry doors to open the room up a little bit," she said.
In the pantry is a new Frigidaire large-capacity washer and a Maytag dryer. Both can be purchased separately by the new owner.
The 16- by 16-foot family room features a wood-burning fireplace with built-in bookcases on one side and a desk on the other. With its own full bathroom, it could become part of a first-floor master suite.
Ms. Travis discovered more of the home's history in the cellar.
"What we found was a spear, looked like it was African," Ms. Travis said.
The house was reportedly a stop on the Underground Railway around the time of the Civil War.
Although the house qualifies as a historic landmark, the family decided not to pursue historical designation as it would prevent alterations like the newer Pella windows the previous owner had installed.
A skylight set in the sloped roof over the second-floor bathroom reveals Ms. Travis' passion for antiques and her ability to combine new and old. Designing both bathrooms herself, she used beadboard for both the walls and the ceiling in the upstairs bathroom. Then she converted an antique dresser to a vanity, brought in a clawfoot tub and installed Moen brushed nickel hardware and a chandelier overhead.
Off the 16- by 14-foot master bedroom is an 11- by 11-foot bonus room lit by a dormer window. Tall windows and a double closet give the bedroom a spacious feel. It also contains another of the owner's finds:
"In the master bedroom there is a little wood burning fireplace ... We found it hidden behind drywall." She had it fitted with a new flue.
The two remaining bedrooms each measure approximately 16 by 15 feet but are decorated differently. One is a relaxing white room with soft light and beautiful views while the other is more masculine with towering cathedral ceilings and double cedar-lined closets.
Every room in the house is filled with wonderful antiques and decorative pieces that could be purchased by the new owner.
There is a two-zone, gas-fueled, forced-air heating and central air conditioning system. The three building all have asphalt roofs with cedar shingles and the two-level springhouse has a stone foundation.
Downtown Pittsburgh is roughly 15 to 20 minutes away while the restaurants and shops of Lawrenceville, Oakmont and McKnight Road are close by.
The property has a 2013 county assessed value of $130,700 (www2.county.allegheny.pa.us/RealEstate/Default.aspx). Over the last three years, 13 properties have sold on Mount Royal Boulevard for prices ranging from $60,600 in December 2012 to $767,000 in July 2010 (www.realstats.net).
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I don't think this is so true,, The ultra conservatives I know don't think its their business to interfere with other peoples decisions that they don't even know. I think you mean right wing republicans. Now there are many here that think because I believe this I can't be conservative. That kind of thinking is quite ignorant . many like to use "Thou shall not kill" as their biblical reason for this.Quote:
But this is what bothers me about right wing conservatives--while they are strictly against abortion they don't want to deal with the consequences of that choice. They complain about making birth control more accessible and affordable and then they complain about the burden of the welfare system and not wanting to add to it. There are also many that are against education in school. It seems like they don't care a lick about that child once it is born--end point is that the agenda is met when the baby is born without concern to what environment that may be
I use the record of the intentional assault on a pregnant woman's womb resulting in a miscarriage and show the fine resulting in that action. Murder was punishable by death not by a fine. So we have our differences. And Jesus was refereed as a"Holy thing" in the womb. Any way that's why I am neutral on the matter.


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Posted October 12, 2001; 12:00 a.m.
Princeton graduate who is a Jakarta correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review will speak about the new Indonesian government Monday, Oct. 15.
Sadanand Dhume, who earned his M.P.A. in 1999, will address the question "Can Megawati Save Indonesia?" at 4:30 p.m. in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall.
The Far Eastern Economic Review is Asia's leading business and political weekly, published by Dow Jones in Hong Kong. Dhume covers Indonesian business, politics and society. In this lecture, he will speak broadly about the challenges facing Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri and her government, as well as likely responses to economic stagnation and political unrest.
Dhumes lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs Office of External Affairs.
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Nymex-traded crude futures rose 4.1% to $91.71 per barrel, the largest gain since August 3. The rally does not appear to have been sparked by any specific news — jobless claims and news out of Europe were incrementally positive, with ECB President Mario Draghi saying that the ECB is ready to buy bonds as soon as it is asked. Traders likely saw crude as a relative "bargain" after its recent drop.
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By Tiernan Ray
Shares of cloud-based marketing software maker Marketo (MKTO), which went public back in May, closed up 39, or 1.2%, at $31.88, after Wells Fargo's Jason Maynard initiated coverage of the shares today with an Outperform rating and a $40 to $42 "valuation range," writing that it is "an emerging winner in the increasingly important marketing automation software category."
Maynard thinks marketing is just one area of a new wave of customer-related software that's being up-ended by cloud computing, in what he refers to as the "Big Customer Era":
We believe the rapid adoption of mobile, social and cloud computing is creating massive disruption in the way customers and businesses interact and transact. The result is a power shift in favor of the customer across both business to consumer (B2C) and business to business (B2B) segments. Customers are now equipped with more knowledge and control in how they interact with an organization's brand, sales, commerce and support channels. In concert, customer expectations are climbing as the entire experience from interest to purchase must be relevant and in context. In our view, this phenomenon is producing immense turmoil in all aspects of customer interaction and revenue generation. The offshoot for business is that a throng of engaging, socially savvy, and intelligent software technology is emerging to help organizations rise to meet this challenge. Underpinning this new application software wave is the heavyweight muscle of unprecedented big data technology that can analyze, predict and even suggest the way to deliver the perfect customer experience. We believe we are at the dawn of a new era for generating revenue and delivering a superior customer experience. We are calling this new market the "Big Customer Era" of front office software. Big Customer is the moniker we use to describe the entire category of customer related technology. We see the inevitable collision of advertising technology, inbound marketing systems, customer focused engagement apps, existing sales & support systems, commerce and of course analytics. With these systems, businesses are moving closer to being able to link their advertising and marketing efforts all the way through to the ultimate transaction. In total we see the Big Customer market growing to nearly $50 billion in software revenue in the next five years with marketing automation becoming a $20 billion piece of the category.
Marketo has a lot of overlap in its customer base with the poster child of cloud software, Salesforce.com (CRM):
The marketing automation software category is experiencing both rapid growth and consolidation given its growing importance. Changing customer behavior is driving marketers to adopt tools like Marketo. The sector is growing quickly, forcing Oracle (ORCL) (Eloqua), Salesforce.com (CRM) (ExactTarget/Pardot), and Adobe (ADBE) (Neolan) to round out their front-office portfolios via acquisitions. It is worth noting that IBM (IBM), Microsoft (MSFT), and SAP (SAP) do not offer Marketo-like capabilities. Although Oracle has a huge customer base with which to cross-sell its products, we think that Marketo's independence is an advantage. Approximately 80% of Marketo's customer base also is a customer of Salesforce.com. Historically the two SaaS vendors have partnered very well together and have tightly integrated solutions for sales and marketing. This relationship, however, is likely to change given Salesforce.com's recent purchase of ExactTarget. While on the surface this overlap might look troublesome for Marketo, but we do not think it will derail revenue growth. Pardot is not the core focus of SFDC's Marketing Cloud and is, in fact, part of the Sales Cloud. Marketo is moving up market and Pardot is a low-end solution. In our view, the category is still large and emerging with plenty of room for a pure play like Marketo.
He sees double-digit revenue growth continuing for several years:
We think Marketo has the potential to grow in excess of 25% for the next several years because of the following business drivers: (1) increasing budget allocation for revenue- generating software solutions, (2) aggressive customer acquisition, (3) cross and up-selling in the installed base, (4) product fit for SMBs to larger organizations, and (5) increased penetration in B2C market segment. We are forecasting FY2013 revenue of $90.5 million, operating margin of negative 40.2%, EPS of negative $1.48, and CFO of negative $22.8 million. For FY2014E, we assume revenue growth of at least 27%, to $115 million, significant operating margin expansion to negative 26.6%, EPS of negative $0.75, and CFO of negative $16 million.
Maynard is modeling sales of $80.8 million and a net loss of $1.48 per share this year, and revenue of $103.7 million and a 75-cent loss per share next year. That compares to Street consensus of $90.25 million and negative $1.47 per share and $115.5 million and negative 74 cents, respectively.


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Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, having forgotten their summons to Hamlet's castle at Elsinore, are passing the time tossing coins and musing over a continuous and seemingly impossible run of heads over tails. As they remember their task, they are approached by a band of tragedians led by the Player, who offers them a "private" performance with Alfred, a boy actor. After some wagering with the Player, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern request a play but are quickly transported to Elsinore before it begins.
Tom Stoppard's Tony award-winning comedy places two of Hamlet's most intriguing characters in the limelight. This irreverent look at what happened behind the scenes in Shakespeare's play provides an existential view of the human condition through the amusing adventures of Hamlet's college chums.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, having forgotten their summons to Hamlet's castle at Elsinore, are passing the time tossing coins and musing over a continuous and seemingly impossible run of heads over tails. As they remember their task, they are approached by a band of tragedians led by the Player, who offers them a "private" performance with Alfred, a boy actor. After some wagering with the Player, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern request a play but are quickly transported to Elsinore before it begins.
The origin of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead dates to late in 1963 when Stoppard's agent suggested that he write a comedy about what might happen if Rosencrantz and Guildenstern went to England and encountered a raving mad King Lear at Dover. The original version, written in 1964, was a one- act verse farce which Stoppard admits was a failure. Stoppard reworked the play by returning to the framework of Hamlet, and in 1965 a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company heard about the play, requested the first two acts and commissioned a third. The RSC's twelve-month option on the play expired, so the play was presented by Oxford students as part of the "fringe" of the Edinburgh Festival in August of 1966. Ronald Bryden's review for The Observer called it "the most brilliant debut by a young playwright since John Arden's . . . [e]rudite comedy, punning, far-fetched, leaping from depth to dizziness." Because of this glowing review, the National Theatre bought the rights to the play and in April of 1967, the play was presented in a revised version at the Old Vic Theatre. Including radio plays, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead was the eleventh play that Stoppard had written but the first to gain great success, acclaim, and a wide audience. For the CSF production, director Gavin Cameron-Webb takes his cue from the study of quantum mechanics, a favorite subject for Stoppard. In this approach to physics, the idea of cause and effect is mitigated, things merely "happen." This negates the basis for what we consider to be "natural laws" but also gives rise to infinite possibilities and highlights Stoppard's sense of play. These qualities are realized in this production by violating natural laws on stage. Probability is the first to fall (the coin toss) followed by others, such as time and gravity. In this production, what goes up might not come down. In addition, this production has a symbiotic relationship with the CSF outdoor production of Hamlet. The setting is a warped reflection of the Hamlet set and the actors who portray Rosencrantz and Guildenstern reprise their roles, this time at center stage. These crossovers add an exciting extra dimension for audiences who attend both productions. For them, this Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is truly a play within a play within a play. At the castle they are greeted by Claudius and Gertrude who tell them of Hamlet's "transformation" and their wish that the two attend him and find the cause. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern play a game of questions with each other to prepare for the task but when they encounter Hamlet they become frustrated by his answers. With Rosencrantz and Guildenstern looking on, Hamlet commands the Player to perform a play, The Murder of Gonzago, "to catch the conscience of the King." Gertrude enters and questions them about their conversation with Hamlet and they report his interest in the players. Claudius tells them to encourage him in that pursuit. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern watch the tragedian's dress rehearsal for the dumbshow from The Murder of Gonzago. The play now includes two spies who are executed in the final scene. Claudius tells Rosencrantz and Guildenstern that Polonius has been slain by Hamlet. He orders them to bring Hamlet and the body of Polonius to the chapel. They encounter Hamlet but he escapes, dragging the dead body with him. When Hamlet is found again, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are ordered by Claudius to accompany him on a ship bound for England and to deliver a letter to the English king. On board, they discover the letter orders Hamlet's death. When pirates attack the ship, Hamlet escapes. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern discover that Claudius' letter has been switched by Hamlet. The letter that should have brought them favor now orders their deaths. As they contemplate their situation, the action switches to Denmark where an ambassador brings the news that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead.
The Problem of Genre: The Other Side of the Coin by Charlie Mitchell Like many of Shakespeare's plays, Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, a play about the offstage world of two minor characters from Hamlet, defies categorization. Is the play a farce, an absurdist or existential work, a play of ideas, a comedy of manners, or straightforward Shakespearean parody? Although Stoppard himself acknowledges a debt to such absurdist playwrights as Beckett, Ionesco, and even the poet T.S. Eliot in The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, he continues to resist labels. Though Stoppard admits that the play can be interpreted in existential terms, he chooses to characterize it as "the perfect marriage between the play of ideas and farce or perhaps even high comedy." This definition is strangely equivocal coming from a former drama critic. Most critics have been drawn to the play's absurdist tendencies. Often the connection to Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot is used as a means of classifying the piece as belonging to the genre of the Theatre of the Absurd, a phrase coined by Martin Esslin to classify plays that express the senselessness of the human condition and the failure of rational thought to deal with this disturbing reality. This kinship is more than cosmetic and less than total. Indeed, both Rosencrantz and Guildenstern and Beckett's clowns share some common elements. They seem trapped in worlds in which they are manipulated by unknown rules, teetering on the brink of a void of meaning. Both sets of characters share a preoccupation with death and are presented with facts that do not enlighten experience, but seem only to question the validity of experience itself. Yet Stoppard's approach has more to do with entertainment than with the total nullification of life experience which Beckett's plays sometimes imply. It is Stoppard's enormous wit, intelligence, and sense of play that separates this piece from the grimness found in other absurdist works. In fact, many critics have condemned Stoppard for not taking the serious issues quite so seriously. Stoppard's work belongs to a strange theatrical genus which rides the fence of all definitions, combining elements of each while retaining certain defining characteristics. His plays are highly self-referential, intertextual (depending upon references to other plays for meaning), and present a comical view of the world. Attempts to impose a single meaning on the play correspond to the dilemma of the characters at the beginning of the play--seeing only one side of a coin. Perhaps a more valid means of discussing the play is to examine the implications of its dialectical nature. Stoppard seems to place his characters on a metaphorical chess board, letting them propose questions and counter-questions without providing definitive answers. However, unlike Shakespeare, we can gain further insight into the play from the playwright himself: What there is, is a series of conflicting statements made by conflicting characters, and they tend to play a sort of infinite leapfrog. You know, an argument, a refutation, then a rebuttal of the refutation, then a counter-rebuttal, so that there is never any point in this intellectual leap-frog at which I feel that is the speech to stop it on, that is the last word. (Stoppard 6-7) In Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, there is always another side to the coin. Some of the conflicting views include art verses pornography, free will verses predestination, and observation verses participation. By flipping the coin, the play moves forward. As the Player proclaims: "We keep to our usual stuff, more or less, only inside out. We do on stage the things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit being an entrance somewhere else." For the title characters, the action of the play becomes a kind of Escher print, entrances leading to other entrances, with an always-incomplete understanding of the implications of what went on before. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are romantics in an anti-romantic play, striving for reality in a world of illusion, provided with a role but without an action. Sadly, even their roles are in question. In Hamlet, the confusion surrounding the names of these "attendant lords" is essentially an oddly out-of-place gag concerning their interchangability and insignificance. But as Stoppard moves these minor characters to center stage, their namelessness becomes a critique of identity. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are not mistakenly identified because they are indistinguishable from one another. Their identities are in question because they are dictated by others. This suspicion is so extensive that they can hardly keep track of their names themselves. If a definition of genre is demanded, perhaps the most applicable would be what Normand Berlin calls "theatre of criticism." According to Berlin, Stoppard allows the audience to function as critics during the play rather than afterward. By transplanting characters from a play we already know, one which has become a part of our common mythology, Stoppard enlarges our perspective. We can see beyond the limited view of the characters of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern and critique their situation in the context of our own lives and even the theatrical enterprise itself. We can see both heads and tails.
Berlin, Normand. "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead: Theater of Criticism." Modern Drama 16 (December 1973): 269-77. Bigsby, C.W.E. Tom Stoppard. London: Longman Group, Ltd., 1976. Londre, Felicia H. Tom Stoppard. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co.,1981. Stoppard, Tom. "Ambushes for the Audience: Toward a High Comedy of Ideas." Interview. Theatre Quarterly 4 (May-July 1974): 3-17.


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With the uncertainty of the looming lockout hanging over the NBA, teams having the daunting task of using this offseason to position themselves for success in whatever direction the new CBA takes them. We are doing a division-by-division break down of what teams should be aiming to do this offseason. We will analyze each team's current situation, free agents, draft prospects, and whose contract the team would drop if the new CBA includes a new amnesty rule. GMs, no need to worry. We've got you covered.
Boston Celtics: 2010-11 record: 56-26 (Atlantic: 13-3)
Do the the Celtics have enough in the tank to go for one more title? Doc Rivers is staying put, but Shaq (the Kendric Perkins replacement) is retiring. They will need to add size and scoring to their bench this offseason. Honestly though, the Celtics window of opportunity may have already closed.
Free Agents: Glen Davis, Jeff Green (restricted), Nenad Krstic, and Delonte West are the key free agents. They will want to keep Davis because of his scoring and energy. Green didn't provide the scoring punch they were hoping to get with their trade so they may look elsewhere. The Celtics don't have much payroll flexibility so their hopes of adding an impact player is slim, but they have to improve their scoring off the bench and their defense in the post. Jamal Crawford would be ideal but he is probably too expensive. Maybe they should gamble on Yao Ming if he's cheap.
Draft: The Celtics have the 25th pick. They should focus on getting a high energy rebounder ala Kenneth Faried or Trey Thompkins.
Amnesty: The only upside to the abhorred bench of Band-Aids for temporary solutions is that they all come off this year. In stead of wiping someone of the roster, they need to focus on adding to it.
New Jersey Nets: 2010-11 record: 24-58 (Atlantic: 3-13)
I don't see Deron Williams staying with the Nets past this upcoming year and Brook Lopez is about to get a lot more expensive. So New Jersey may try to make a splash by spending big in the offseason while everyone else waits for another year when the big names enter the free agent pool.
Free Agents: Kris Humphries, Brandon Wright, and Dan Gadzuric. Humphries was a bargain last year but he will now be a lot more expensive. The Nets need a big guy who can cover Brook Lopez's soft defense and rebounding. They also need someone who can actually score off of William's passes. Tyson Chandler will be available but he will also be a wanted man. Tracy McGrady may find the Nets appealing and it could be a project that could rejuvinate him. Jason Richardson could excel here as well. Reggie Evans would be a good backup plan if they can't get the bigger names.
Draft: New Jersey has the 27th pick (another reason they should try to win now). They should try to get a guy who can contribute right away like JaJuan Johnson or Chandler Parsons.
Amnesty: Dropping Travis Outlaws' mistake of a contract (4 years; $28 million) certainly won't hurt when trying to create a supporting cast around their new star.
New York Knicks: 2010-11 record: 42-40 (Atlantic: 10-6)
Did the Carmelo trade really help them that much? They have the star power but they don't have the pieces that you need to win a championship. Amare Stoudemire and Carmelo are two of the biggest egos in the game and neither of them excel in defense. If New York can find the unselfish defenders to surround them like Memphis did with Zach Randolph, they may be able to eventually compete for a title.
Free Agents: Jared Jeffries, Anthony Carter, and Ronny Turiaf among a large number of unimportant players. Chauncy Billups' contract doesn't give the Knicks much flexibility for this year. They will probably try to sign players to one year contracts so they can spend a lot of money the following offseason. They are just hoping Amare still has knees by then.
Draft: They have the 17th pick and should use it to try to get a lock down defender like Chris Singleton.
Amnesty: The only option is Renaldo Balkman (2 years; $3.5 million), who was a throw-in by Denver in the Melo trade who doesn't play. Every bit counts.
Philadelphia 76ers: 2010-11 record: 41-41 (Atlantic: 9-7)
The 76ers overachieved last year and now have a solid core of young players. They lack a true go-to scorer but they have a lot of guys that can catch fire for short periods of time.
Free Agents: Spencer Hawes (restricted), Thaddeus Young (restricted), and Jason Kapono are the most important FAs. They will most likely match any offer that Young is given unless someone overpays him. They may try to move Igoudala over the offseason to clear up space, but even if they don't, they should try to get some wings that score. Jason Richardson would be an interesting match as would Jamal Crawford. They may want to wait a year before spending big as Elton Brand's contract will come off the books. This will be the strategy for a lot of teams because of the diluted free agent pool.
Draft: They have the 16th pick. A potential scorer like Marshon Brooks or Klay Thompson would be ideal.
Amnesty: While Elton Brand (2 years; $35 million) is finally fitting in, shedding his salary would put the team under the cap. Iggy would be the other option, but he still has trade value.
Toronto Raptors: 2010-11 record: 22-60 (Atlantic: 5-11)
The Raptors have some intriguing pieces in DeMar Derozan, Jerryd Bayless, and Ed Davis to build around. Unfortunately they are overpaying Jose Calderon and Andrea Bargnani for the next several years so this project may take a while.
Free Agents: Sonny Weems (restricted), Leandro Barbosa (player option), Reggie Evans, and Julian Wright (restricted). Barbosa will likely exercise his option but the Raptors could still spend some money if they wanted to. There aren't many free agents that can stick around for the rebuilding process unless they wanted to outspend Portland for Greg Oden or gamble on a player like Earl Clark. Carl Landry could provide some low post scoring, but they need big guys who can score and rebound.
Draft: Toronto has the 5th pick. It's not a good year to have the 5th pick. They may gamble on one of the huge foreign guys to develop into an NBA scorer. They won't have any sure future all-stars to choose from so picking an unproven European center with potential may be a good move.
Amnesty: For some reason the team is sold on Bargnani (4 years; $41.5 million) so look for them to shed either Calderon (2 years, $20 million) or Amir Johnson (4 years; 25 million). The best talent that will likely be available for the 5th pick will either be a big or a point guard, which happen to be the same positions as those two guys. So it depends on who they draft.


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After five consecutive playoff appearances, the Miami Dolphins have made it to the playoffs just once since 2001. Since Dan Marinos retirement in 1999, the Dolphins havent had an elite quarterback to lead them. The rushing game has been a patchwork job from mediocre players like Ricky Williams and Ronnie Brown, with Wildcat formation trickery. Its been a long and steady decline since Marino retired, but things finally appear to be turning around for the Miami Dolphins as a franchise.


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Jerusalem is like no other city, people often say. But what makes it so? Could it be your feeling, as you walk these ancient streets, that you are walking a tightrope between heaven and earth?
Jerusalem had two natures, it has long been said: the "heavenly" and the "earthly." Sometimes it may seem to visitors that its "earthly" elements are just like those of any other city – perhaps even more so; as you navigate the Old City streets, and even at its holy places, seeking the spiritual moments you imagined you'd always have, you might occasionally find yourself jostled by the crowds, who seem to have not the slightest bit of respect for your space!
Yet Jerusalem may be where "respect for space" was invented. After all, God said of it: "My Name shall be there" (I Kings 8:29). And you want to come here because you want be on that spot – where tradition says Abraham stood a moment before the angel stopped him from sacrificing his son Isaac. You want to come to Jerusalem because at the Mount of Olives you can behold the city spread out before you, floating like a vision of all time. You want to be here to walk down the Mount of Olives and hear the echoes of crowds shouting "Hosannah!" You want to be able to sense the strengthening of your faith as you pray under the ancient olive trees at the Garden of Gethsemane. You want to stand at Golgotha, and behold an empty tomb. You want to walk up the steps leading to the Temple that Jesus also must have climbed, and where Peter healed a beggar. You want to restore your vision, like the beggar of old at the Pool of Siloam, where every day, under the skilled hands of the archaeologists, the earth yields up the stones that Jesus knew. You want to celebrate here with the Jewish people on the biblical holidays of ascent to the Holy City – Tabernacles, Passover and Pentecost.
You will come because you want to learn what true "sacred space" is. It is here that you can relive like nowhere else the moments when Jesus walked through streets like these, carrying the cross. It dawns on you here how 2,000 years later the crowds still jostle for space, still ignore the needs of others – or offer to help out a stranger with overflowing compassion; the vendors still vie for your attention, and the air is filled with the aromas of cinnamon and myrrh, coriander, cumin and sage. And that is when you realize what "sacred space" is all about. Because this is what you seek, this is what leads you to Jerusalem, you'll find when you are here that you can move easily between the realms of the earthly and the heavenly, and make the Holy City your own.


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who uses them and if so does it effect the thread by exposing them to light??? Do you cover them with anything??
I have a thread rack but was told it would not be good for the thread I need help
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who uses them and if so does it effect the thread by exposing them to light??? Do you cover them with anything??
I have a thread rack but was told it would not be good for the thread I need help
My Mom and some quilting friends have thread racks. I've never heard any complaints. I would just keep them out of the sun if you can help it. Because I don't have a sewing room, I keep my threads in a plastic thread bin. Easy to move around and put away from the sun if needed. I would think if you couldn't move them out of the sun, putting a sheet over it or some other fabric to block the light?
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I got several containers for mine, like briefcases. they close. keeps the dust off, my main concern. and perhaps helps the thread not dry out too. it's very dry where I live. got mine at JoAnn's mostly. maybe by Sulky. I gave most of my hanging racks away.
I keep mine in acid free photo boxes, glued extra long golf tee's to bottom slip spool on has room on top for bobbin thread to. keeps dust and sun out.
I have my threads on racks hanging on my wall and I don't cover them. They hang on the same wall as my only window so they never get direct sunlight. I cover the nozzle on my vacuumn with a piece of pantyhose and dust them when I vacuumn my floor. I've not had any issues with fading or breaking.
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thanks for all the information I think I will try mine out I could always put clear plastic vinyl over the rack.
I had to quit using my thread racks when I shared my sewing room with my cats. They got litter dust and fine hair on them. Now I have a new sewing room and I am using the racks again. Racks hang on same wall as window and no sunlight. I bought them to use and now I am.
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I would be concerned about dust. All of my thread is in plastic boxes. My sister has the thread rack and several spindles snapped off of it. She switched to boxes.
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My embroidery thread is in plastic boxes. My sewing/quilting thread is on thread racks which are located on the same wall as the window. I don't cover my thread but can see that it might be nice to sew some clear plastic covers to hang over the thread - to keep cat hair and dust off.


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The ultimate argument for dating your best friend: Harry and Sally meet multiple times over fifteen years, but it's not until they learn to love each other's insecurities and flaws that they actually fall in love. Worth it just for Billy Crystal's speech at the end.
The Vow looks like it might have a lot of the tropes you find in great romantic films: Amnesia, a lost love and making someone fall in love with you again. Watch the trailer here!
The ultimate argument for dating your best friend: Harry and Sally meet multiple times over fifteen years, but it's not until they learn to love each other's insecurities and flaws that they actually fall in love. Worth it just for Billy Crystal's speech at the end.
Music heightens the romance in any movie, but this dazzling musical from Baz Luhrmann uses pop and rock songs to paint a lush world and a mostly believable, entirely romantic, love.
For one of the most realistic portrayals of slowly falling for a kindred spirit over the course of one night, watch this solemn, lovely film starring a young Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy. Then, when you've stopped crying, pick up the sequel Before Sunset, set and shot a decade later.
The enduring classic about a peasant willing to do anything for his ladylove, including taking on a pirate's identity and fighting to save her from kidnappers.
A different kind of classic, this film hits all the right points of funny, sexy, cool, and sweet.
Eternal Sunshine is the delicious kind of movie that takes several viewings to fully take apart... but at its heart, it's a parable about why we can never forget our past loves (and why we shouldn't try to).
Come on. I don't even have to tell you why.
I love me my supernatural love stories, and even though the book is far better, this movie still communicates the frustration of feeling like you're always waiting for your life to begin.
Julia Roberts goes through the dreaminess and joy of a wedding day... except she's trying to steal the groom. If this movie were made today, it would devolve into bad pop culture joke and an outlandish ending. But back in the '90s, it made sense that a wedding party would sing "I Say a Little Prayer for You" at a lobster shack, and we cheered Julia on at every step.
Another entry that goes without explanation.
Heath Ledger's first big movie, and one of his best: This retelling of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew is still beloved for its sharp-witted quotes, song-and-dance scene, and the fierce, slow love between Heath and Julia Stiles.
Another where the book is better, but the main story still comes through: Man dies suddenly of a brain tumor, but he leaves behind handwritten instructions for his wife and family on how to move on without him. This is a good use of Gerard Butler, as opposed to The Ugly Truth.
Falling in love while rehearsing the original Romeo and Juliet is just as romantic as you thought it would be. And it's kind of fun to see Colin Firth as a villain for once.
It's a long time coming, but when Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) tells Bridget (Renee Zellweger) that she's "wonderful... just the way you are," every viewer realizes that's all that she wanted to hear.


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I would just make this the thread. The draw should be out by end of the week and that may keep this from being buried.
Any bets bobby?
Small bets today on Seppi, Kohlschreiber, and Rhyne.
ETA: -160, -140, and +125, respectively
Not confident?
SIAP, but Rafa got a five seed. That is a frick job by the seeding committee, I thought they don't have to follow rankings.
Roger Federer is past the point of no return. He has hit the wall. He isn't winning another major. And I would be willing to bet money on that. Just name the price. I'm in. I'm not hating, and I'm not trying to be a dick or start a Rafa v. Fed holy war. But there comes a point in every athlete's career where he is simply never going to be the player that he once was. For example, I really like Mike Tyson, and I always hoped that the up-to-and-including-the-Spinks-fight version of Tyson would reappear in every fight of his that I watched. But that Tyson was done. Now in that case, it wasn't age, it was the fact that he fired Kevin Rooney and was thus never properly trained to fight in the style that Cus taught him, which was the style he HAD to fight in to be effective, but the analogy remains the same. Federer has been losing matches over the last six months that he never would have lost at any point since 2003. The guy is clearly done. I'm saying it without equivocation or qualification. Insert fork. Done.
Bobby you're breaking my heart with that Fed talk
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The New York Times reported that the National Security Agency has been searching through the e-mail messages of the American people on a massive scale, even in some instances where the messages are not to or from foreigners residing abroad. "The N.S.A. is not just intercepting the communications of Americans who are in direct contact with foreigners targeted overseas," the August 8 story reported. "It is also casting a far wider net for people who cite information linked to those foreigners."
Senior Obama administration officials — such as Director of National Intelligence James Clapper — had falsely denied the NSA even collected data on phone calls and Internet traffic on millions of Americans until whistleblower and former NSA contractor Edward Snowden revealed them to the press.
But the New York Times story revealed that the NSA is not merely collecting the information of Americans, it is also actively sifting through Americans' private Internet and e-mail messages. "The National Security Agency is searching the contents of vast amounts of Americans' e-mail and text communications into and out of the country, hunting for people who mention information about foreigners under surveillance, according to intelligence officials."
The Times' story flatly contradicts the public reassurances of President Obama just two days ago. "There is no spying on Americans," Obama told NBC's Tonight Show host Jay Leno just two days before the Times story. "We don't have a domestic spying program."
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By Tiernan Ray
Citigroup's Surendra Goyal this afternoon raised his rating on shares of Infosys (INFY) to Buy from Neutral, and raised his price target on the ordinary shares traded in Mumbai (500209BOM) to 2,750 Rupees from a prior 2,700 Rupees, writing that despite "pessimism" regarding the company following weaker-than-expected fiscal Q4 results a week and a half ago, but that risk-reward is "favorable" for the shares.
Infosys on April 13th reported Q4 revenue below expectations and said this quarter's and the year's results would fall short as well. The stock got three downgrades on April 16th, and the stock has sold off almost 20% since then.
The stock is now trading at 14 times forward earnings, he observes, versus 23 times a year ago, and Infosys may have hit bottom in terms of a slowdown in contracts, he opines:
While Q4 was disappointing (despite our expectation of BFSI weakness) and challenges remain, we believe it should be a trough given some pickup in decision making for the sector. We expect growth to be ~1% in Q1 (decent despite the sharp ramp-downs in March) and ~4% in Q2 (ramp-upsshould happen) – improving decision making in the sector should help [...] Any first signs of pickup will be adequately rewarded while risks are low.
With Infosys having lately shown weakness in its traditional area of strength, "BFSI," investors "keep questioning the "premium pricing" and "Infosys 3.0" strategies." Fine, writes Goyal, but he thinks low valuation is enough to sit out the matter in the meantime. That, and the fact that Infosys's cash conversion cycle is still "the best in the business."
Goyal is modeling 386.8 billion Rupees in revenue this year, and 163.2 Rupees a share. That is more or less in line with the average estimate for 387.2 billion and 162.93.
Infosys's ordinary shares traded up today by a fraction to 2,349, while its American Depository Receipts rose 45 cents, or 1%, to $46.19.


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Firstly- Yes Yes I KNOW! Miller played college football in Miami, but lets put that aside.
People keep asking why he isnt getting snaps? People ask this a lot. Many of those same people argue that pass protection from a running back isnt important- I disagree.
Read this excellent article. If Miller had been in on that play instead of Reggie then that wasn't a TD. I know Miller has a lot of potential but he just isnt ready for the NFL yet. Have patience.


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Independence Day is right around the corner, and while no one is going to pretend that fireworks are very eco-friendly (though many companies are moving to greener techniques – in 2004, Disney patented an air-launch system that they've since opened up to other companies), it's still a time of celebration and fun. We've gathered up some ideas for making your celebration green (or at least greener).
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ARSC contract and academic work to continue during downsizing
ARSC contract and academic work to continue during downsizing
As has been reported in the news media, the University of Alaska Fairbanks is moving forward with plans to downsize the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center. Those plans have included issuing six-month layoff notices to most employees and beginning to recruit for the continuing positions that will make up the core of the new supercomputing unit at UAF.
During the downsizing, ARSC employees will continue to provide service both to users within the university and the Department of Defense.
ARSC has a contract with the Defense Department through the end of May 2011 and will continue to meet the terms of that contract. In addition, UAF and ARSC leaders are investigating the possibility of providing specialized supercomputing services on an as-needed contract basis to the Defense Department in the future.
The new supercomputing unit at UAF is being designed specifically to meet the academic and research needs of the university's staff and faculty members and students.
Over the next six months, UAF will be working to define university supercomputing needs and will also be seeking appropriate contract and grant-funded work.Users with questions about how the downsizing will affect them should contact chief scientist Greg Newby at email@example.com or director Frank Williams at email@example.com .
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Posted By Josh Hoffman On May 19 2009 @ 1:19 am In Los Angeles Lakers | No Comments
So we're down to the final two — not to mention the top two — Western Conference teams: the Lakers and Nuggets.
For Los Angeles, it's been a helter-skelter road back to the conference finals for the second consecutive year: a five-game opening series against Utah, then a seven-game semifinals scuffle with Houston that appeared to be more of a setback than a step forward. In the midst of it all, inconsistency and lack of urgency have become overwhelmingly synonymous with Purple and Gold.
For Denver, meanwhile, it's been a tale of two seasons: the AI era and the post-AI era. Thanks to the arrival of Chauncey Billups, the Nuggets went from straddling the lower portion of the conference standings to surging into second place by season's end. Show me the door suddenly became show me the money.
With that said, let's fire up three burning questions about this series, which begins on Tuesday at 6 pm PST:
1) Can the Lakers win the series if they continue their inconsistent and at times lackadaisical play?
Not a chance. Without Yao Ming for the final four games of this last series, the Rockets were a team running on fuel in the forms of passion and energy. As we all saw, they exhausted such fuel by Game 7. Not only do the Nuggets bring both of those components to the series but, more importantly, they are significantly more talented than Houston, with or without Yao. If the Lakers play like they did in games 1, 4 and 6, you can pencil in Denver as the Western Conference champions. It's going to take a 48-minute effort each and every game for the Lakers to find themselves in the championship round for the second time in as many years.
2) While the Lakers are the one-seed, many are touting the Nuggets as the favorite. Who is the favorite and who is the underdog?
Sure, the Lakers aren't playing up to their potential. Sure, they're doing what they need to do to get by. Sure, the Nuggets are well-rested and may be playing better basketball of late. But the Lakers have been here before. Although they may not show it, the Lakers understand the magnitude of this series. They have the home-court advantage — and that's enough for me to dub them the favorite.
3) Who wins?
The Lakers in 6. While the Nuggets are playing their best basketball of the season and the Lakers might be playing their worst, all it takes is an ounce of adversity — in other words, a second-round Game 7 — to wake a sleeping giant. This series will be Andrew Bynum's coming-out party (the 2009 version, at least) and the Lakers will dominate the paint on both ends of the floor. The Lakers will win their first three home games (Games 1, 2 and 5) and close out the series in Denver in Game 6 — yes, you read that correctly — for back-to-back Finals appearances.
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