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12-21-2012, 02:59 PM #1Junior Member Guppy
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Dalmatian Molly attacking Neon Tetras
I have a 20 gallon tank with a Marineland 150 Biowheel filter and both live (Amazon Broad & Anarcharis) and artificial decoration that has been set up for about 2 months and has finished cycling. The tank currently has:
-3 Mickey Mouse Platies
-4 Lyretail Dalmatian Mollies (3 female, 1 male)
-2 Neon Tetras (was 5, see below)
About 72 hours ago, I had 5 Neon Tetras. Over the course of the next 24-36 hours, two of them turned up dead, but I didn't know why. Then, last night, I saw a female Dalmatian Molly attacking and killing one of the Neon Tetras (it wasn't very fun to watch, but I couldn't do anything to help him and didn't have a QT tank). I've noticed that this same Molly has also been very aggressive towards another female in the tank. I was careful in selecting my fish to make sure they were likely to get along and was sure the schooling Neons, while smaller, would do well with the communal livebearing Mollies and Platies.
Can anyone tell me why the female Molly (and yes, I'm certain she is a female) is attacking my Tetras and other Mollies? Is it some sort of mating thing? If I removed the male from the tank, would it make a difference? Was I wrong about the compatibility of Neon Tetras and Mollies?
I'm not entirely sure, I suck at stocking advice, but 20gal might be a little small for a molly group that size, maybe she is taking out some aggression on the little ones. Other than that I have come across a couple really aggressive female mollies before, I just traded them in for a different female and the problem was solved. But maybe someone else will know the root of the problem.
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I'm not familiar with the temperament of mollies but if you have the ability to remove it or return it to save the rest of your neons that would be the best - replace it with more neons because they do best in larger groups - that's my advice - perhaps someone else will suggest something else.
BTW, until you actually put fish together in the same tank, you never know whether one species or sex might be an aggressor towards others & you need a game plan if one fish decides to fight others.
Great advice above. Overall you have to consider that each fish is an individual and has his/her own quirks... Their personalities can't be changed and we just have to respect that. I think rehoming her and getting more neons is a great idea.
12-31-2012, 06:20 PM #5Junior Member Guppy
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starting over, sort of...
Thanks everyone for the replies and advice. Sorry for the delay in responding, but it's been a tough couple of weeks in the Tarheelfish world. We found a new home for the murderous Molly, followed shortly by our first Ich invasion and losing the last two remaining neon tetras (cause of death: unknown). And to top it all off, I can't seem to keep Anacharis alive for anything, and if you've ever grown that in a tank you know what a mess it can make when pieces start coming off everywhere. And I've also been invaded by a yet to be determined species of snail--so far I've seen two of the little buggers roaming around.
The Ich seems to be under control so after a few more days we're debating what to add to our 3 platies and 3 dalmatian mollies. Maybe some tetras, maybe some Cory Cats? We'll see!
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If this were my tank, I'd go with some cories - you already have fish taking up the midsection of the tank and 6-7 cories would be nice for the bottom - if you added tetras (which need a school) I think the tank would look too full.
Snails usually come in with plants.
Ich being "under control" doesn't mean it's gone yet - I had that for a while and I waited a very long time before adding new fish (by then I acquired a QT &all new fish go into it) - didn't want to take any chances.


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If Bush would have heeded the warnings of the CIA we may not have been attacked once much less 8 months into his Presidency.
- Bush told of hijack warning weeks before 9/11
President Bush was given an intelligence briefing, entitled Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States just weeks before the September 11 attacks, it emerged yesterday. Details of the August 6 briefing in 2001, which warned of terrorist preparations being made for hijackings on American soil, surfaced in testimony given by the US national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, to a commission of inquiry studying the September 11 attacks.
How many terrorists attacks that have killed 3,000 people in America since obama has taken over the Presidency and that covers 2 years, not just 8 months?
The righties here do a good enough job of bi***ing about everything Obama says or does so there is no need for me to join in on the bashing.

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This room is dedicated to four major paintings known collectively as the Diaspora series that introduce a new paradigm in Imants Tillers' work. Compared with his earlier works the structure of these paintings includes a vast array of small components of images and text references. These components can be shown independently or inter-connected in large works encompassing many visions and voices.
The series was sparked by dramatic political events in the late 1980s and early 1990s that saw the collapse of the Soviet Union and the independence of the Baltic States, including Latvia, the original homeland of the artist's parents. Tillers had grown up with his parents' view that the fate of Latvians was to be subsumed by a colonising culture resulting in the suppression of their language and customs. In the broader context he was interested in poetic, evocative ways to convey recurring cycles of loss, new beginnings and the need to acknowledge diverse voices.
The four paintings collectively represent an epic statement relating to the dislocation of people from their original homelands, including within their own lands due to colonisation, and the coming together of disparate cultures that is so much a part of the stories of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
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If you want the real unbiased truth, listen to Limbaugh, Hannity, Beck ect.
Here is what I look for in the news...a real un-biased poll.
Here is a direct quot from the article:The sample of speech-watchers in this poll was 45 percent Democratic and 18 percent Republican. Our best estimate of the number of Democrats in the voting age population as a whole indicates that the sample is about 8-10 points more Democratic than the population as a whole.
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My wife.
She likes to do research and to pick apart what people say and why. Also what they hear and how it is interpreted by them from the original (going in the ear) statement.
I told her that I liked to watch FOX so I could have a heads up on the next political attack and to know what not to believe. She said that I should not believe everything I heard on the networks or the INTERNET. I told her again thats why I watch FOX, to make it easy on me. If they said it then I did not Need to check it out, it was either false somewhere from the git-go or they slanted it to bring out some strong emotion like hate or loathing or seething ridicule.
Not believing me and saying that I was speaking with bigotry about FOX, I told her to watch for a week and tell me how accurate and truthful they are. She took notes, researched original sources, many while they where broadcast unedited, then replayed the FOX programs as needed to recheck.
And what was the results of her researching? She told me the I could not watch FOX with her in the house. That even if she heard them from another room, the thought of what they are doing had started to make her sick to the stomach. This I can attest to, I would flip it to FOX and within a minute she would call from the other room for me to either turn it off or tell her to leave the house. I asked her how she new what I was watching and she said it as how the words where put together, the inflections used in dialog, and subliminals... something about below perception feeling or vibrations that she felt whenever FOX was on. One other thing, she did the same when I was watching CNN and HLN a few times but said I could watch them, it was only one tenth as bad. She also said my first impression was correct, If its on FOX, then there is almost certainly something wrong in the message.
I do think that I could have a more peaceful life now if I had not wasted all that money on Her Psychology Degree.
As to the other Network, they tend to be more accurate but still need to be checked out at source. One thing I have seen so far is that if it has been on somewhere else twice, then its apparently OK to rebroadcast. This includes stuff on or from Fox venues.
Another thing I am not to sure of but Fox seems to actually be the source of many questionable items and not just the initial point of reporting.
Am I a FOX hater, I do not think so but they do save me a lot of research time if I am in a hurry.
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News Reporting is just now catching up.
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Family: Trochilidae, Hummingbirds view all from this family
Description ADULT MALE Has a metallic greenish yellow back and nape. Cap, throat, and gorget usually appear dark (almost black in harsh light); once in a while, however, feathers catch the light and sparkle metallic violet. Underparts are whitish, especially on breast, and flanks have greenish yellow feathering. ADULT FEMALE Has metallic greenish yellow upperparts. Underparts are whitish and clean looking. Tail has striking white tips on outer three feathers. JUVENILE Similar to adult female; immature male gradually acquires darker, iridescent feathers on throat and crown.
Dimensions Length: 3-3 1/2" (8-9 cm)
Habitat Fairly common summer visitor to southern Arizona and southern California; small numbers also winter in extreme south of its North American range. Favors vegetated desert areas and chaparral habitat.
Observation Tips Regular visitor to feeders within its range. In spring, males sometimes perch conspicuously, advertising territorial ownership and looking out for rivals.
Range California, Rocky Mountains, Southwest
Voice Utters sharp, metallic call notes.
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U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has offered new details on the U.S. timeline for withdrawal from Afghanistan (NYT), stating for the first time the Pentagon's hope to conclude combat missions by as early as mid-2013 and begin the shift to a security assistance role. The defense chief framed the transition, which some see as an acceleration in the pace of withdrawal (WashPost), as an inevitable step toward the fulfillment of NATO's transition strategy. The announcement was greeted with surprise in Kabul, where officials appealed for U.S. forces to stick to the previously agreed timetable for withdrawal (FT).
Pulling back U.S. troops too early could overwhelm Afghan forces and undermine tenuous negotiations with the Taliban, a central pillar of Washington's exit strategy. A recently leaked NATO report suggests captured Taliban fighters are encouraged by their combat performance, believe they have support within Pakistan, and are confident in their return to power (ArmyTimes). However, NATO officials underscored the inherent bias of the findings.
Instability in Afghanistan could jeopardize the primary U.S. objective in the war of preventing a regeneration of terrorist safe havens. Toward this end, Washington has pledged an enduring presence in the country to implement counterterrorism efforts and provide ongoing training and advising to Afghan forces. But a rapidly deteriorating security environment could cause a highly strategic and potentially volatile part of the world--with a nuclear-armed Pakistan and an increasingly isolated Iran--to plunge into turmoil.
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The timing of the U.S. withdrawal in Afghanistan continues to feed debate among U.S. security experts. Military analysts Frederick W. and Kimberly Kagan write that the United States risks a return of al-Qaeda bases if the Haqqani network is permitted to keep control of safe havens in Afghanistan. Eradicating these havens, they write, "is a challenge only the American military and one or two of its allies can meet."
If Washington is still planning to leave Afghanistan by the end of 2014, it makes sense for U.S. combat missions to wind down by the end of 2013, writes Mark Thompson at TIME. The timeline shouldn't come as a surprise, he says. "It happened in Iraq, and it's part of an orderly withdrawal." But Marco Vicenzino, writing for The Hill, says Obama's timeline will strengthen the Taliban's negotiating position and embolden the insurgents.
CFR's Stephen Biddle says that in all likelihood, the security situation the Pentagon hands over to the Afghans will yield nothing more than stalemate. The Obama administration is waging a war in which it has little interest, he says.
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CFR's Linda Robinson says the best way to stabilize Afghanistan when international forces are drawing down is to place Afghan forces in charge of their own counterinsurgency and nation-building efforts. "Counterinsurgencies are essentially contests for legitimacy that must be won by the government under threat," she writes.
The decision to put a firm date on ending the U.S. combat mission in Afghanistan is "long overdue," writes Christopher A. Preble in the National Interest. Washington should have transitioned to a limited counterterrorism mission many years ago--one that employs intelligence, special operations, and technological advantages such as drones, he writes.
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This Congressional Research Service report examines post-Taliban governance in Afghanistan, the security situation, and U.S. policy in the region.
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The Volcano Viper is a real example of a kitbash done right. He's got a couple of parts I think are new (the "jacket" and helmet, mostly), and the rest is made of existing parts used to maximum effect.
I hope to get another one if I can (who cares about the pods?), and get a couple of the orange version when it's released. It may not be the intended purpose, but I'm using these as the cool POC update of the Leaky Suit Brigade.


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Reach out and touch some one.....
¡Que la fuerza te acompañe!
This show keeps getting better. I really enjoyed last night's episode!
May the force be with you.
Good lord and butter, the preview for the next few weeks looks stunning. If things go as it appears they will, with Capone and Luciano finding themselves on opposing sides in an Atlantic City gang war, I wonder how the writers will work it out so it jives with later real-world history.
That's my jacket!
I'm hoping we get to see Chicago on St. Valentine's Day 1929...
This thing just keeps getting better and better!
¡Que la fuerza te acompañe!
Indeed. I think we passed the "best show on TV" point several weeks ago, and it's just getting better. If those guys aren't careful, they might actually surpass Deadwood and The Sopranos, since they're all neck-and-neck right now.
That's my jacket!
Does it have zombies?
If not, I don't see how it can be the best new tv show of 2010.
[FONT=Book Antiqua]He passes to Moses - He shoots, he scores![/FONT]
Mummy of the raincoat is a gigantic trollop.
Twists and turns, twists and turns. The greatest thing about this show is that about the time you think you know which way things are going.....you're wrong!
Excellent writing!
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Skills are the next important part of planning and preparing for your next outdoor adventure. What ever that adventure is. Last night our Troop began preparation for the next camp out, a caving trip up in Washington. So as is the custom of our PLC, they alway begin with First Aid. What are the specific first aid skills needed for this event? They listed them and take a meeting or two to practice. They determined that the worst thing that could happen is a sprained ankle or falling injury in the cave and so the skill they decided to work on in that regard was "Moving an injured person". Last night they built litters and worked on buddy carry's.
The point is that preparing for your next adventure requires that you build skill sets to meet the adventure head on.
I love in Backpacker Magazine when they introduce a new backpack trip in the pull outs. They list the skills needed in that area, meal suggestions, and facts about the area. This is all important. When we head up to Mt. Hood in January, we will certainly be prepared with winter camping skills, meals that will keep us warm, and we will know weather patterns and other facts about the conditions, place, and time of year we are going.
Simple skills like those that allow a Scout to use a pocket knife, start a fire, and the rest of the list of "Trail to First Class" skills are an important in your Scouts adventures.
We spend much of our time in preparation for events. How much time we spend on skills development directly affects how the event will go.
When you are talking about those adventure with increased risk the amount of skills development will impact the risk management and reduction of risk.
Skills are important no matter what the adventure, make sure that you dedicate time and energy to quality skills development. Take no short cuts when it comes to skills.
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Laura received her Masters Degree in Mental Health Counseling at the University of Central Florida as well as her B.A. in Psychology. Laura is an experienced counselor practicing since 1999 and is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LHMC). She also is a Nationally Certified Counselor since 1999. Laura maintains the highest ethical standard in continuing education by satisfying continuing education requirements for both the state of Florida, and the National Board of Certified Counselors (NBCC).
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Enjoy! :)
Player Mods:
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Adio Chain
76ers Iverson Jersey Mod
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Miscellaneous Mods:
Horseshoe Help - creates pointers on top of horseshoe locations if you're having trouble.
Carcols Chart - comes with new colors and a chart with a picture of every color in the carcols.dat file.
Sega Genesis / Sega Megadrive - replaces the game console in CJ's house with a Sega Genesis / Sega Megadrive.
Script Mods:
The Green Sabre - once you get 100%, the Green Sabre will spawn at CJ's house.
SnakeNOS - allows you to add NOS component to cars, planes, and the Vortex. You can't add it to bikes/boats/trains though. You can, however use the other adjustable NOS.
Mission Choose - lets you select any missions in the game.
God Mode - enables you to be like GOD!
Unflip Car Mod - unflips your vehicle (ANY vehicles) if your vehicle is completely upside down and stopped.
First Person Camera - creates first person view while in car. First person as in being able to see the dashboard.
Fast Heli Take Off - lets you instantly take off in a helicopter instead of waiting the rotor blade to spin.
Speedometer - displays the speed of any vehicles in about miles per hour.
Patriot Explosion Launcher - will let you launch an explosion if you press the attack button while in a Patriot.
Coordinate Mod - will let you see the coordinates in San Andreas.
Wall Climbing Mod - will let you "climb" to roofs of buildings.
Vigilante Anywhere + Infinite Time - allows you to do the vigilante missions anywhere with as much as you want to complete them.
Chop Shop - adds a chop shop to San Andreas that lets you get money for your stolen rides.
GTA2 Camera - lets you play the game using a simulated version of GTA3's top-down view camera.
Steed Mod - lets you stay on a motorcycle/bike no matter what happens unless you exit it.
Bullet Time Mod - lets you be in bullet time (adrenaline mode).
Real Time Clock - controls the in-game clock to imitate real life ones.
Save Anywhere Mod - lets you save anywhere, anytime (except during missions).
Car Wash - enables you to use the car washes in San Andreas.
Vehicle Mods:
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1997 Toyota Supra AE
1997 Toyota Supra AE Targa SR
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1996 Toyota Supra TwinTurbo RZ
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1972 Chevrolet Chevelle SS
1963 Aston Martin DB5
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1972 Detomaso Pantera
1992 Chevrolet Caprice L.A.P.D.
1992 Chevrolet Caprice Taxi
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Crossbow - replaces the AK-47 with a crossbow!
Super Guns - makes all your guns instantly kill, and it also gives them 999 ammo.
Map Mods:
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New Grove Street - changes most of Grove Street with new, nice looking textures. The hood never looked so great!
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TUPELO – The Tupelo Public School District will create space for more pre-K students and give its high school baseball field a major face-lift.
The school board approved four construction projects during its regular meeting Tuesday to be funded by $4.4 million in low-interest bonds the district received this year from the federal stimulus program.
Tupelo will use the money to add several classrooms to the Early Childhood Education Center, renovate the baseball field at its current location, upgrade the high school cafeteria and do some minor renovations at Carver Elementary School.
The ECEC renovation will allow for either four, six, eight or 10 new classrooms, depending on the cost after bids are received. It also will include more parking at the school for 4-year-olds.
The district currently has 260 4-year-olds enrolled, including a new class that began Dec. 1. Each new classroom will allow for 20 additional students.
Tupelo currently has about 600 students in kindergarten and is trying to get closer to that number with its pre-K population.
"I think the most important thing is to plan for the future and have the availability to serve more children," said TPSD Federal Programs Director Dale Warriner. "There is obviously a need."
The baseball work will include replacing the backstop and renovating the press box, dugouts and concession stand, plus adding a visitor bleacher section. It also will make the stadium more handicap accessible.
The plan is to have the backstop, dugouts and press box completed by the season opener on Feb. 22 and then continue with the rest of the work.
"We will make some major renovations to modernize the facilities and make it very comparable to some 6A fields," said TPSD Assistant Superintendent Matthew Dillon.
The field is located on the Tupelo Middle School campus, which used to be the high school. The district considered building a new field on the current high school campus but determined renovating the existing field would be more cost-effective, said Superintendent Gearl Loden.
The high school cafeteria renovation will allow for seating for 200 additional students. It will also create outdoor seating that can also be used by classes at the school.
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Reading Moglen's essay
Today I finished reading Eben Moglen's essay "Anarchism Triumphant: The Death of Copyright"[1]. Altghoug I really like his style and his approach tho "intellectual property", I not that pleased with his treatment of anarchism.
His argument why comments in source code strongly indicate the non copyrightable nature of software is nice:
Though substantially involving "functional" elements, computer programs contained "expressive" features of paramount importance. Copyright doctrine recognized the merger of function and expression as characteristic of many kinds of copyrighted works. "Source code," containing both the machine instructions necessary for functional operation and the expressive "commentary" intended for human readers, was an appropriate candidate for copyright treatment.
True, so long as it is understood that the expressive component of software was present solely in order to facilitate the making of "derivative works." Were it not for the intention to facilitate alteration, the expressive elements of programs would be entirely supererogatory, and source code would be no more copyrightable than object code, the output of the language processor, purged of all but the program's functional characteristics.
Not so nice are his (few) statements about anarchism. He doesn't further explicates why
But the most significant difference between political thought inside the digirati and outside it is that in the network society, anarchism (or more properly, anti-possessive individualism) is a viable political philosophy.
And I really didn't get why
The GPL, also known as the copyleft, uses copyright, to paraphrase Toby Milsom, to counterfeit the phenomena of anarchism.
But all in all this is a nice essay. I strongly recommend to read it and if it's only for it's ironic style.


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Gandalf and Saruman aren't the only wizards running around Middle-Earth; there's three more. We don't know much about two of them, but the third, Radagast the Brown, pops up on occasion. Gandalf runs into him on his way to Minas Tirith to research the ring in The Fellowship of the Ring, and he's mentioned in The Hobbit and The Silmarillion. He's set to make an appearance in Peter Jackson's Hobbit film, played by Sylvester McCoy.
There are many magic users in the Buffyverse, but Ethan Rayne is by far my favorite. A chaos worshiper and kind of a cad, he's responsible for a wide variety of mayhem, including that Halloween where everyone in Sunnydale turned into real-life versions of their costumes. Medieval damsel Buffy? Not so useful.
His door reads "Harry Dresden, Wizard," and no, it's not a joke. Both a wizard and a detective, Harry is the subject of a series of books by Jim Butcher as well as a television show that was depressingly short-lived. His TV version carries a hockey stick as a staff, and he keeps a drumstick hidden up his sleeve in case of emergencies. Also, he has a talking skull that runs errands for him.
Gandalf and Saruman aren't the only wizards running around Middle-Earth; there's three more. We don't know much about two of them, but the third, Radagast the Brown, pops up on occasion. Gandalf runs into him on his way to Minas Tirith to research the ring in The Fellowship of the Ring, and he's mentioned in The Hobbit and The Silmarillion. He's set to make an appearance in Peter Jackson's Hobbit film, played by Sylvester McCoy.
Lev Grossman's novel is at once a send-up of Harry Potter and Narnia and a commentary on them. Having grown up his whole life in love with the Fillory books (read: Narnia), Quentin is one day surprised to discover that they are not fiction. Furthermore, instead of a regular university, he somehow finds himself at Brakebills (read: Hogwarts). But it turns out that the magical worlds of both Fillory and Brakbills aren't quite what Quentin had imagined...
In Neil Gaiman's novel, the Lilim are ancient witches that require the heart of a star to stay young and powerful. Michelle Pfeiffer played Lamia, the eldest of the three, in the 2007 film version. Don't let her near Claire Danes.
It's pretty common knowledge these days that the sorcerer of "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" is named Yen Sid ("Disney" spelled backwards), but he's still worth noting. Top bad Mickey had to run in and screw everything up.
Anne Rice doesn't write only about vampires-- she also writes about witches. The Lives of the Mayfair Witches series chronicles (perhaps unsurprisingly) the lives of a family of witches in New Orleans known as the Mayfairs. There IS some crossover with The Vampire Chronicles, though, so don't be surprised if you catch Lestat wandering through on occasion.
He may not be called a wizard and she may not be an actual witch (at least, not in the "I'm not a witch, I'm your wife!" way), but these two are a powerful magical duo all the same. Have fun stormin' the castle!
In what's considered Shakespeare's last great play, Prospero, the Duke of Milan, is ousted by his brother and sent to die at sea. Luckily, he washed up on an island and went to work perfecting his magic skills. You may be noticing that Prospero looks rather a lot like Helen Mirren here. That's because in Julie Taymor's wacky film of The Tempest, Prospero became Prospera. It's okay, though, because Helen Mirren can do no wrong.
I don't know about you guys, but this was one of my favorite books when I was a kid. Who wouldn't want a spaghetti pot that's never empty? Of course, there's that whole be-careful-what-you-wish-for thing to contend with, but still. MAGICAL SPAGHETTI!
Marten Broadcloak goes by many names. You may know him as Walter O'Dim. You may even know him as Randall Flagg. But whatever his name, you don't want to run into him. Trust me.
Rincewind is the rather hapless wizard that jump-started Terry Pratchett's Discworld series with the novel The Color of Magic. Technically, he's not a full wizard; he failed out of the Unseen University. Furthermore, his talents lean more towards the running-away-from-things-while-screaming variety than the magical wizardly sort.
Like Harry Dresden, John Constantine is a wizard detective; unlike Harry Dresden, he's lacking in the friendliness department. Fun fact: John Constantine's look is modeled on Sting (the musician, not the Hobbit sword).


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MovieTowne is turning into quite a culinary hub for those in North-West Trinidad. When it first opened it was a bit of a wasteland (outside of the cineplex). The biggest non-movie attraction for the longest while was 'Shakers', an outdoor pub/bar. However over the last 12-18 months there's been an explosion of eateries, representing everything from sushi (Hanami's), to Trinidad Creole (Woodford Café) to American chain eating (TCBY's and Ruby Tuesdays), Chinese (Shanghai Experience), Irish (J. Malone's) and much more!
On my latest jaunt (to see the Simpsons movie) my friend and I dropped by Paradis de la Creme, the complex's resident bakery/patisserie.
Their treats are always breathtaking and artfully displayed:
So far I have only sampled their desserts, but they also offer savoury pastries, quiches and breakfast and lunch offerings. The premises are always clean and well maintained and the quality of the food remains consistent. Service can be spotty though and the staff often seem visibly inconvienced by customer requests, even when placing orders. Even though I haven't personally had much trouble when there, on this visit they twice messed up my friend's requests and she had even more 'horror stories' of past interactions. Tsk Tsk Tsk 🙁
This time around I decided to try out their Noyers (according to their description "walnuts, coffee and caramel in perfect harmony" )
The flavours of coffee and chocolate were so intense that I almost passed out from the first bite. and the texture somehow managed to be simultaneously dense but mousse-like. The layers floated above a layer of walnut pieces. I personally would have preferred the walnuts to have been ground or broken into smaller fragments, as I'm not a fan of bold nut chunks, but that may just be a personal hangup of mine. I would definitely purchase it again the next time around but I really have my eye on the Fruit Tartlets, Fruit Slices and Oreo Mousse cakes… Ooo la la!
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Journalists in Hong Kong and Taiwan Battle Beijing's Influence
Media owners' reluctance to draw China's disfavor imperils the ability of the Hong Kong and Taiwanese press to play a watchdog role. By a CPJ Contributor
Media owners' reluctance to draw China's disfavor imperils the ability of the Hong Kong and Taiwanese press to play a watchdog role. By a CPJ Contributor
New York, March 14, 2012--China has approved revisions to its criminal code that grants police broad powers to hold journalists and others who discuss sensitive national issues without charge in secret detention for up to six months, according to news reports.
By Kristin Jones/CPJ Asia Program
"Zhang Mingyu isn't out of danger yet."
These words, posted at 7:37 p.m. Wednesday on the Sina Weibo account of Chongqing property developer Zhang Mingyu after his detention by police, mark the latest twist in a story of political intrigue leading up to this week's legislative meetings in Beijing. As required by China's hardworking censorship machine, the state media has approached these meetings with a heavy dose of old-school propaganda, along with excruciatingly dull depictions of handshakes and applause and descriptions of work sessions sucked clean of any controversy.
By Madeline Earp/CPJ Senior Research Associate
China media analysts are looking to two significant events to shape coverage this month: The anniversary of a failed uprising in Tibet, and the annual meetings of China's top political bodies, the National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in Beijing. Journalists at work in both areas attracted coverage of their own today--but from vastly different angles.
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Beijing-based blogger Woeser reported on her website Invisible Tibet today that she has been confined to her residence by Beijing public security officers who are stationed outside her home. Woeser, an outspoken critic of Chinese government policies in Tibet, has written about a series of recent self-immolations among monks and arrests of writers in western China.
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Read this article yesterday and found it very interesting.
Tiger, Barack, and the Law of Transitivity
By Lisa Schiffren
As a rule, the revelation that a married athlete (or actor, or rock star, or politician) has conducted extramarital affairs with bevy of "party girls" may titillate, but rarely has the power to shock. In those realms, these things happen. Entitled men. Willing women. Deceived wives. What's new?
So what is it about Tiger Woods that makes his cheating so different from the usual that ten days on, the nation is still discussing revelations of conquests, trysts, payoffs, and physical injuries inflicted by a golf club?
Sure, there's normal prurience at work. But mostly, we are interested because Tiger Woods, who may legitimately be the best golfer ever, had been turned into an all-purpose icon: a man of personal rectitude, a lovely smile, apparent openness; a family man, with a lovely wife and two adorable babies. And of course, he was our first living embodiment of the collective hope for racial reconciliation. Who knew that the early reports of his betrayed wife Elin swinging at him with a golf club constituted literal icon-smashing?
We are staring because we've been had. Betrayed. We see now that the image was all a fraud. The talent was real. But the things that made the public like Tiger personally -- the low-key demeanor, manners, and sweet smile of countless sports-page photos, magazine covers, political analogies, and most important, product endorsements, was an act. That would be betrayal enough. But it wasn't just Woods' act. The larger lesson here is about how much artifice -- sustained, deliberate deception -- goes into the construction of a public persona when there is profit to be made or power to be had.
But enough about Tiger the man, who is, after all, only a golfer. Let's move on to Tiger the metaphor. Because anyone with four functioning brain cells gets that if this comprehensive a charade can be sustained for a decade as Woods and those around him amassed billions, it can happen elsewhere. It can happen right in front of our eyes.
If I were watching the public's disgust with the newly revealed Tiger Woods from an office in the West Wing, I'd be concerned. Because Barack Obama is about as completely manufactured a political character as this nation has seen. His meteoric rise, without the inconvenience of a public record or accomplishments, and the public's willing suspension of critical evaluation of his résumé allowed his handlers and the media to project whatever they wanted to on his unfurrowed brow.
Ironically, the parallels have nothing to do with race. The Obama campaign did explicitly attempt to borrow the from the then-universal Tiger Woods appeal to allay any discomfort voters might have had with a mixed-race politician. They constructed a persona that would make the American electorate comfortable with a barely-known, first-term senator with a left wing voting record, a deliberately obscured personal and professional past, and no traditional qualifications for high office.
After a year in the spotlight, Barack Obama, hailed as a brilliant man and a creature of destiny who would heal us all, is himself falling rapidly to earth. (Thankfully, his family life remains above suspicion.) The flaws that were airbrushed out of the candidate photos are becoming glaringly obvious under day-to-day scrutiny of his public performance in the White House.
And while it doesn't matter if another athlete is an adulterer, it matters a lot if the president is revealed to be an inexperienced, excessively ideological, and weak man who is naïve about the world and uncomfortable exercising American power during a time of war. It matters if nothing in his training would have equipped the president to understand what it takes to stimulate job growth, or ameliorate a recession, or to end an overseas conflict successfully. It matters that he is uninterested in the science behind global warming -- and wishes to use the issue to amass power and reorder society. It matters that he has no interest in the construction of policy.
Ultimately, Woods is an exceptional golfer with a character problem. Barack Obama, by contrast, is not an exceptional, or even particularly competent, leader. But because so many politicians, interest groups and factions have an interest in his continued presence, no one is ready to reveal the man behind the curtain just yet.
But many voters from both the center and the far left who believed in the Obama magic are increasingly dismayed by watching the human god fall to earth. This is a major problem because, as Shafer notes, the impulse of the betrayed is to tear their fallen deities to shreds


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Taking a que from my good friend KG, thought I'd start a poll...it's a poliltical thing to do, you know.
So...how long will it take #44 to turn the economy around and why that long?
It's my first poll, so be gentle cause ya'll are kind and caring.
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Rolling your own Debian (net) install cd is not difficult. If you ever need to install Debian on a machine but need special drivers for some of its hardware (say, a raid controller or a network card), you can make your own install cd with custom kernel like this:
mount -o loop bf2.4-3.0.23-mini.iso /cdrom mkdir /cd2; cd /cd2 (tar cvf - /cdrom/* /cdrom/.disk /cdrom/.xlp | tar xvf -) mv cdrom/* . mv cdrom/.disk . mv cdrom/.xlp . rmdir cdrom
mount -o loop rescue.bin /floppy
umount /floppy
tar xzvf drivers.tgzThe modules.tgz file needs to be replaced with a tgz archive of the /lib/modules/your-kernel directory. Make the archive:
tar cvzf modules.tgz /lib/modules/your-kernelThen recreate the drivers.tgz file and remove the other files:
rm drivers.tgz tar cvzf drivers.tgz install.sh modconf.tgz modcont modules.tgz pcmcia.tgz type.txt rm install.sh modconf.tgz modcont modules.tgz pcmcia.tgz type.txt
cd / mkisofs -r -b boot/rescue.bin -c boot.catalog -o debian-bf24-2424.iso /cd2/
Remote Debian Install
I needed to install Debian on a couple of HP BL20p's in a colocation thousands of km away. Enter the iLO (integrated Lights-Out) that these blade servers come with - complete with a remote console and 'virtual media'. Both are Java applets - and both work fine from a Debian workstation. The virtual media option allows the mounting of a floppy (image) or a cdrom in a machine with web browser, which shows up as a usb floppy/cdrom in the blade server. Brilliant concept, right?
I couldn't get the virtual media to work with Firebird or Konqueror and my JVM 1.4.2. With the static Opera .deb's from opera.com, it works fine - provided you run Opera as root in order to access your cdrom.
The remote console worked in all browsers I tried.
Doing a dual-floppy boot/root install from stock Woody install images doesn't work - the kernel on the boot disk doesn't recognize the floppy change. But with the bf2.4 iso image it worked fine - though I had to swap its kernel for a 2.4.24 with support for the SmartArray 5i controller and the Broadcom 5700 gigabit ethernet card.
There's something amazing about doing an OS install from another continent...
If you ever need to drive a truck through Boston, avoid Memorial Drive. It's got lots of height restrictions - not necessarily indicated before it is too late to take an alternative road. Trust me, backing op on Mem Drive is not fun. And as I found out afterwards, driving a truck there is apparently illegal - though in typical Bostonian fashion, that was not indicated in any clear way...


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Its capability to fully automate devops processes that involve both developers and IT operations departments is compelling for these collaborative teams. There is some truth in this, especially when enterprise developers are tasked to create and manage multiple applications. The ability to automate application release processes can eliminate bottlenecks of application development. - 451 Research
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Well, finally I decided to put something here.
I didn't put anything in this diary, because my english is really poor, but - may be - it's a good moment to try to learn it, and the only way to learn anything, is using it.
Other thing that get me far from diaries, weblogs and stuff like that, is I'm not a *guru* or *influent* man, that should spread my word around the world, telling people how they must think, or what they must do.
The net is plenty of such kinds of blogs where not important people, say not important stupid things, in the hope that, someday anyone stop at his blog, and read it.
That's what I will not post here anything about me, my boring life or my personal ideas.
There's only one thing I will speak about here, my current programming project cssed [home page].
If you're looking for any kind of "illumination", a personal guru or a political counsel, it's not a place for you.
Once said that, I will put some words about cssed.
cssed is a small CSS editor for web developers, written in C with GTK2. It uses as editor component the scintilla editor.
Lot of people asked me about why I choose scintilla. Well, the true is I've used scintilla some years ago, and It's full featured, open source and low memory consuming, so my question is: Why I must not use it ?
It works much better that GtkTextView and GtkSourceView. May be when GtkSourceView get a couple of years of development I will switch to it, but right now I recommend everyone to use scintilla.
many people was confused about scintilla itself, there where opinios of all flavors:
- It's propietary
- It's not portable
- It's C++ so you must use C++
But all of them was really confused:
- Scintilla is open source
- Scintilla was done with portability in mind
- Scintilla is a library that can be linked with C code with no problem.
It's other example about the fact that human stupidness is infinite.
It's open source, so wtf you care about it was done for Windows? Is not enought that scintilla's author made it with portability in mind and build a Gtk1 and Gtk2 versions?
Once explained that - cssed use scintilla because I think it's the best editor control for programers build with Gtk - just some words avbout the state of the project, and I'm sure it's enough for my first diary entry.
cssed is right now running for the beta. That means it's still in Alpha but sounds much better ;)
I'm right now changing the API of some dialogs to run them as independent ones -connected to some callbacks - or with gtk_dialog_run and use a function call to get the dialog results. All this dialogs simply returns a string with a CSS declaration.
That's the main and boring task that gets me working hard.
I will start to describe my advances from this point.
But not today ....


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|Let's be honest: Audrey Hepburn was flawless in any hairstyle. But something about her closely shorn crop made her birdlike features and milky white skin all the more irresistible to America, and the Academy, earning her an Oscar for Roman Holiday in 1953.
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|Lesley Hornby—better known as Twiggy—went from pretty teen model to the international symbol of sexy '60s androgyny with a few quick snips of the scissors.
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|A slimming red suit and effortlessly feathered waves? It's no wonder Farrah Fawcett's 1976 poster has sold over twelve million copies to date.
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|There was just something so lovably right about Meg Ryan's shag, it's hard to imagine late '90s blockbusters like "City of Angels" and "You've Got Mail" without it.
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|The star recently told Allure magazine the cut was "the ugliest haircut [she'd] ever seen." Needless to say, America did not agree. (It is still one of the most requested styles at salons across the country.)
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|If you're known for your ultra-long glossy black tresses, what's a good way to make waves? By shaving them off, of course, like Demi Moore did in 1996 for her role in "G.I. Jane." The movie earned lackluster reviews, but Moore's gutsy move was a universal thumbs up.
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|A sharp angular bob took Posh Spice from a UK singing sensation to a stateside fashion icon.
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|In 2007, Rihanna kissed her Bajan braids goodbye—and said hello to a worldwide number one hit "Umbrella." Four Grammy Awards later, and the hair chameleon is still keeping her look fresh.
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|The ultimate girl next door turned Hollywood hot with heavy bangs, angled ends, and an A-List husband.
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|After her split with Ryan Phillipe in 2007, the star's breakover bangs turned heads at the Oscars, earning her a slew of leading lady roles—and an Avon contract.
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|With her overgrown Hogwarts hair, she played the brainy and beautiful Hermione in the "Harry Potter" series. But by chopping it all off in 2010, she promptly caught the attention of the fashion elite, appearing in Burberry ads and signing a Lancome contract.
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Study Day LA (County): The Claremont Colleges
Join fellow art enthusiasts for a stimulating day trip to the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains to explore art at the Claremont Colleges. Highlighted by the full sunset experience of James Turrell's extraordinary Pomona College Skyspace, we'll also visit museums and see Mexican murals at two locations.
The Claremont Colleges have a distinguished history of teaching and collecting art. We will visit the Pomona College Museum of Art, home of important collections of early Italian panel paintings, American and European works on paper, and indigenous art from the Americas. At the museum also is the exhibition Witness: Käthe Kollwitz featuring some of the most remarkable works created in Berlin between the wars at a time of tremendous political and social upheaval.
As part of the day on the Pomona College campus, we will have a guided viewing of the Promethius fresco of 1930 by José Clemente Orozco, one of the three great Mexican muralists. We will also visit the Margaret Fowler Garden at Scripps College with murals by Alfredo Ramos Martinez, the Father of the 20th century Mexican Mural Movement.
At sunset, we will experience Dividing the Light, a Skyspace by James Turrell. The subject of recent acclaimed concurrent exhibitions at the Guggenheim, LACMA and Houston, Turrell is known for his work solely using light as a medium.
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22nd annual Briloff Lecture at Binghamton University
Judge Stanley Sporkin will be the speaker for the 22nd annual Abraham J. Briloff Lecture Series on Accountability and Society at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, November 12 in the Chamber Hall of the Anderson Center at Binghamton University. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Sporkin, a retired federal district court judge and director of enforcement at the Securities and Exchange Commission, will deliver a talk titled, "On the Road to Financial Shangri-La – What Happened."
Sporkin served twenty years with the Securities and Exchange Commission, five years as General Counsel to the CIA, and was appointed by President Ronald Reagan as U.S. Judge for the District of Columbia. Sporkin's current practice, the Gavin Consulting Group, consists of corporate counseling, mediation and arbitration services, and crisis management consultations.
The annual lecture series is named in honor of Professor Briloff, the Emanuel Saxe Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Bernard Baruch College and Presidential Professor of Accounting and Ethics at Binghamton University. Over his long and distinguished career Professor Briloff has been recognized as the ethical conscience for business and the accounting profession. Through his writings and lectures, Briloff emphasized the need for ethical business practices and influenced others to make the highest ethical standards the basis of their work.
The Briloff lecture series brings members of the accounting profession, businesses, and campus communities together to contemplate topics of business ethics. A reception will follow in the Anderson Center Reception Room.
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The Architecture of Social Space: Creating spaces of critique within the places we live
Matthew Mazzotta is a conceptual artist who creates permanent and temporary public interventions that range from opening up new social spaces inside the built environment, to addressing more pressing environmental issues, but always with a focus on community and public participation.
Matthews work evolves from an interest in exploring the relationship between people and their environments, as well as between each other. His practice is conceptual and manifests as participatory public interventions that aim at bringing criticality and a sense of openness to the places we live. The work triggers social situations that open space for dialogues around issues of becoming, understanding that there is much more to us than our surroundings give us credit to be. The objects, situations, and spaces he creates as community projects and participatory interventions, ask us to relate to ourselves, and each other in unfamiliar ways, in hopes of finding new perspectives on how we see ourselves in this world.
By creating unique and unfamiliar visions of our world, Matthews work focuses on drawing people in by curiosity, so they may begin to find themselves participating in something unrehearsed. It is about challenging our notions of space, cutting apart what has become invisible to us, and providing a context for not merely acting, but reacting -- and interacting. This process revolves around introducing an idea to a location, for it to be appropriated and expanded upon by the people there, which ultimately becomes a reflection of that community.
These socially-engaged, participatory public interventions allow for a re-entry of the physical and metaphorical landscapes of our lives by provoking conversations around exploring the local, questions of ecology, public involvement, community building, artists sensibilities, science, bringing criticality to a space, and dissecting the systems that make up our everyday. The work is about building a platform that allows people from a range of disciplines and backgrounds to exchange ideas and energies, so that they can work together towards a final goal or transformation. Often times these projects include working with local laborers, academics, engineers, builders, community members, activists, artists, poets, and anyone else that is willing to be involved in something experiential and participatory.
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