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What NOT to expect from your fish store
If you buy a rump roast from the grocery store, do you ask a worker how to cook it? If you buy your first car, do you ask the saleman how to drive it?
Fish stores are hired help that stock shelves, dip your fish and check out customers. It is not their job to tell you how to cycle your tank, what fish to buy, what size they will grow and what size tank they belong in. Not only do they not have time to spend hours with each customer that walks through their doors each day, many of them simply do not know themselves and possibly never kept a fish tank themselves.
And seldom does anyone know about every kind of fish in every fish store and it's requirements. If you wish to keep fish it is your job to do the research yourself rather than blaming the employees at fish stores for everything you did not take the time to learn.
It's no different than asking a waitress how your meal was cooked. Her job is to deliver. The cooks job is to know.
You are the cook! Learn these things yourself and stop placing the blame on every fish store in the world.
Research, research, research!
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+1 on what Lady wrote.
Very well said.
I agree to some extent, but I think this is a bit extreme. This puts ZERO responsibility on their end to know anything? I agree that they probably shouldn't know everything about every fish and whatnot, but I don't agree that their only job is to scoop the fish and bag them for you. You should know about what you are selling. does a car dealer just take you for a test drive and know nothing bout the car he's in? Or a Butcher know nothing about the meat in the counter? Or your tax accountant know nothing about what's behind your tax return? Or most important, you go and adopt a child, but the adoption agency knows nothing about the baby? I mean lets get real here. Yes the local high schooler at Petco or Petsmart or wherever is most likely not going to know the breeding habits of every fish in their tank, but they should at least have a clue about things to answer a question. There is definitely a degree of acceptable knowledge, but to take all responsibility off of them, I find a bit ridiculous.
I get the point of your message Lady, and I'm not saying you're wrong, but there is a degree here to this claim. You can't sell a product and know zero about it.
Great thread Lady Hobbs
After all, if you (as the fish keeper) are going to be a responsible pet owner, caring for a living animal, you need to know how to provide that care BEFOR taking the fish home. In this day and age, there is no reason for not being able to find the information you need to properly research and learn how to care for fish
I dont mean to come off as implying all the employees at LFS do not know how to care for fish, but they certainly will not know your tank or completely understand your level of knowledge. Therefore, even the best and most knowledgeable employee still will not have all the required information that you have and may be limited to how much they could help you.If you take your time to do the research FIRST, you can successfully set-up and keep ANY type of aquarium with ease.
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Frankly, I just wish employees would admit that they don't know things, rather than giving out terrible advice. When I worked in a lumberyard I didn't know anything about home construction, and I didn't pretend to. If someone asked me where the 2x4s were, I helped them. If they asked me for tips in building a deck, I didn't make something up, I referred them elsewhere.300 gallon mega tank: sailfin pleco, clown loaches, silver dollars, roseline sharks, congo tetras, new world cichlids
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Well said Brhino....this is the problem with this world. Its all about the $. No one cares cause they know that people will keep coming thru the doors. Maybe not you or me, but someone else. And once that person has a bad experience and doesn't come back, someone else will be coming through. The nature of the beast.
They know dechlorinator goes in the water, they know fish swim and eat.
It's a hobby we are taking on and it's our job to know about the hobby. That butcher knows a rump roast from a chuck roast. But he probably never cooks one nor should he have to stand there telling us how to marinate it, what size pan it goes in, how long to leave it in the oven and what the temp should be set on. And then, how to make the gravy? His job is wrapping the roast in paper, pricing it and handing it to us.
People in this day and age have such easy access to learning by having computers. If we do not do our own learning but get wrong answers from someone else, who is really responsible for the lack of information?
Lady Hobbs is right on. Grangers710 is also right on. Since being on this forum and doing research I now pay close attention to what employees at the lfs are saying. Some know what they are talking about others don't. If an employee is having a bad day he will not help where is one having a good day will. Some people immerse themselves in their job and try to learn everything about where as others just collect a pay check.
People like me shoot first and ask questions later hence my first 55gal disaster. It was an employee at petco that told me about cycling and ammonia which lead me to the Internet and this forum. It could go either way but still i like lady Hobbs suggestion of research. This is in hind site though. It just "SEEMS" that fish keeping is relatively easy. But once in and you have to learn a little science all over again.......... My 2 cents.
If an LFS is family-owned and family-run, with maybe just one or two additional employees which they make a practice of training well and educating, and that family has owned and run that business for many years, you're likely to get really knowledgeable help from the staff there, and looking around at their tanks and stock will show you instantly whether they care enough to keep their environment clean and their animals healthy. If you communicate with them information about your tank and your goals for it, folks like these are likely to be quite helpful. That doesn't mean they know everything, and you still need to do some research on your own.
On the other hand, if you go to some big box store or chain outfit with minimum-wage kids working there who really just want to collect their paychecks and go home, you aren't going to get much service and their tanks and stock will often show poor management. There are exceptions, but generally, that has been my experience.
I am fortunate enough to have found the first type of LFS, and they really do know and care about their inventory. I rarely see a dead fish in any of their tanks, and if there is one now and then, an employee comes around and removes it. They make the rounds and check their tanks, frequently. They remove uneaten food from the substrate, and their quarantine process for new arrivals is rigorous.
It all depends on who owns and runs the business, who they hire and how they treat them, and also their suppliers, as far as selection goes.
I have found that the more you learn on your own and can discuss your concerns and desires intelligently, the more they respect you as a customer and the more likely they are to work with you to your benefit. On the other hand, if you walk in knowing absolutely nothing, you can't expect them to take time out of their busy schedule to educate you on every issue you might encounter.
The only beef I have with my LFS is that their selection isn't as broad (not as many choices and not as much availability) as I would like, but they have explained to me the situation with their suppliers, and there really isn't a lot they can do about it short of changing suppliers.
It's a two-way street -- you have to educate yourself, then you can expect a reasonable amount of knowledge and conscientiousness from them. I do feel that if someone is going to work for a business, they should make some effort to learn about that business and the products it sells.
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The picture was the crux of a Press Herald story covering part of the ongoing revelations about Reverend Bob Carlson, who killed himself in November 2011 when allegations began surfacing that he sexually abused minors. In this development of the matter, which is being covered exhaustively in other media, former Husson University president William Beardsley (now the state's conservation commissioner) confronted Carlson in 2006 about an allegation of some sort of sexual misconduct. The reverend resigned from his post as campus chaplain; Beardsley claims he told Carlson not to return to campus. The photo is evidence that Carlson did visit campus for official events after that conversation.
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|Pacific Northwest Sea Run Forum No such thing as rainbow trout, only landlocked steelhead
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It all depends on water temps! And there is no reliable way to tell by sitting at the computer!
Make sure that you are counting this years run- based on the '04 counts you can safely go by 5/1 for Bonn and 5/28 for John Day. Normal passage, with water temps under 72F, between the two dams runs in the 2 to 4 week range. If the river boils they will all but stop moving. If this year is like the past several, expect that there will be at least 200K steelhead holed up in the Bonn pool and almost half of those will 'disappear'.
For what it is worth, the JD counts are whacky- I don't even bother to look at the dam anymore. Over the past several years it seems that there are nearly the same number of fish counted over it and the Dalles. Maybe the Dalles is undercounting???
The conversion rate between Bonn and the Dalles is running as high as I can recall (or research) for this early in the season. It also looks like most of the fish are scooting towards Idaho.
Anytime you are getting over a 1000 fish/day over the dams you are bound to find a couple in the tribs!
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I've got a question for 'ya all that maybe atleast one of 'ya can answer...
I have never really bothered paying attention to the dam counts and thus have never really identified a pattern that can be followed to understand if the steelies have made their way into a favorite trib. or two.
But, begining last year and hopefully continuing this year, I am spending more time on Columbia River tribs...
So, say, hypothetically, I want to get an estimate of the number of fish in the trib.s between Bonnneville and John Day...so I look at the counts at both Bonneville and John Day and do notice a differance but what is the delay (time taken for fish to travel from dam to another)I should be looking for, if in fact I should even bother with that?...or do most of you just look at a general differance over say a week's time and figure those fish headed for tributaries between say Bonneville and John Day.
And what are the threshhold(s) you look for as in is there a certain number you look for over a certain dam(s) to figure that there will be enough fish in the trib.s above that dam?
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Binghamton University will confer more than 4,000 degrees for bachelor's, master's and doctoral candidates during the 2007 Commencement ceremonies Saturday, May 19, and Sunday, May 20, in the Events Center on campus.
The ceremony for the Graduate School will be held at 5 p.m. Saturday. On Sunday, the ceremony for the professional schools will begin at 9 a.m. and the ceremony for Harpur College of Arts and Sciences graduates is scheduled to begin at 12:30 p.m.
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Singer, who will speak at the Harpur College ceremony, is arguably the most significant scholar in the study of war and peace over the past four decades. A veteran of the U.S. Navy who served in World War II and the Korean War, Singer earned a bachelor's degree from Duke University and a doctorate from New York University.
In 1963, Singer spent a year at the University of Oslo and the Institute for Social Research as a Fulbright Fellow, helping to establish the Peace Research Institute and lay the groundwork for the Correlates of War (COW) project. The COW project changed the culture of the study of political science by beginning a systematic and steady accumulation of scientific knowledge about war. One outcome of Singer's work with COW was the 1972 publication of a book, with co-author Melvin Small, The Wages of War, which produced a standard definition of war to guide scholars in their research. A second book by the pair followed: Resort to Arms: International and Civil War, 1816-1980.
Singer has received the Founder's Medal of the Peace Science Society, the Susan Strange Award of the International Studies Association and the Lifetime Achievement Award of the conflict Process Section of the American Political Science Association.
Philanthropist, teacher, accountant, investment advisor and Binghamton University alumnus and volunteer Allan R. Lyons will receive an honorary degree at the Commencement ceremony for the professional schools.
Establishing and maintaining a relationship with Binghamton University that is virtually unparalleled, Lyons earned his bachelor of arts degree in accounting from Harpur College in 1962, before continuing his education at Ohio State University, where he received his master's in business administration. He joined the firm of Piaker & Lyons PC in 1964 as a Certified Public Accountant, rose to the position of partner and served as chairman and chief executive officer from 1994 through his retirement in 1999.
Currently a partner with Vestal Venture Capital and owner of 21st Century Strategic Investment Planning, LC, Lyons serves on the boards of directors of Franklin Credit Management Corporation and Source Interlink Companies, Inc. and has been a director for AMBANC Holding Company; The Score Board, Inc.; Ecosoil Systems, Inc.; IEC Electronics; Retail Entertainment Group, Inc.; and Priceline.com.
Since his retirement from Piaker & Lyons, he has been active in several Binghamton University Foundation initiatives including serving as a member of the Binghamton Fund's Leadership Society; and he is currently a member of the Lead Gifts Solicitation Team for the University's comprehensive gifts campaign. For his support of Binghamton University, he was awarded the Chancellor's Medal for Philanthropy in 1999.


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I'll be boarding a bus later today heading for Dunedin. Sounds like a nice little city ... steep streets, nice train rides .... we'll see. It will be a quick trip I think, work my way around the bottom of the island (the weather will determine if I head right down to the tip or not ... it's getting frigging cold here!!). The plan is to loop around to Greymouth and then take a train through the Mountains (Aurthor's Pass) back to Christchurch and then fly back to Australia.
Well, what has happended on the farm since I last wrote?? Lulu is still doing fine
That was my happy cow news ... but there is also sad cow news. One of the other cows, whose name we won't mention cause it doesn't deserve to be mentioned cause she's a stupid bitch cow ... well she was preggers (by the same bull as Daisy ... slut!). I was really hoping that she would calf before I left and that maybe I would get to watch (Lulu was born in the middle of the night). So the other day Margaret and I look over into the cow paddock and sure enough the heffer is walking all bow legged and her utters look like they're going to pop. Margaret says "looks like she's going to have the calf today", I imediately run and get my camera ready
Went to my first agrocultural fair on the weekend. WAs great, sheep and wool competitions (Margaret and Jim entered 23 sheep and seven fleeces) and sheering competitions. There were also pig races and horse stuff .... and alpacas!! I want an alpaca ..
The next day I went with Andrew (one of Margaret and Jim's sons') and drove through the Rakaia river. Fun stuff!! the river was lower than I had hoped, so it wasn't like we were driving through water that was up to the windshield or anything (he had a snorkel on the car so that would have actually been possible) but it was still fun. WAs a beatiful day, mountains all around ... all snow capped ... sooooo peacful. Andy is a pretty cool guy. Has a mountain hut up in the hills somewhere and he hunts mountain goats. I wanted to go up and see the hut but didn't get a chance ... next time. He's also pretty handy and made me a ring out of stainless steel as a momento. Seriously, these people are soo nice!!
As for my wool accomplishments, I come away from my time here with a sweater I knit using wool I spun myself and a hat to match, a woven bag (I wove myself), a felted merino scarf (I felted myself) and a felted hat (I felted, you guessed it! MYSELF!). Everything I wanted to learn how to do I managed to accomplish in this little nothing of a town on a little farm. Funny how things work out.
Anyways, I'll put up a few pics .. havn't got any of my wool accomplishments I'm affraid ... will put those up later.


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I am a pathologist with expertise in cytopathology and hematopathology. In cytopathology, we analyze cells to make a diagnosis. These cells can be obtained through non-invasive or minimally invasive procedures. One of these minimally invasive procedures is fine needle aspiration biopsy, a procedure that allows an accurate diagnosis without the need of a surgical procedure. These biopsies are highly sensitive and they can be obtained through a thin needle with minimal potential complications. They represent a safe alternative to open surgical biopsies. I and my colleagues in the Cytology service perform fine needle aspiration biopsies of superficial palpable lesions.
My research is focused on the use of tumor markers in cytology specimens, both for diagnostic as well as prognostic purposes. In the surgical pathology field, I am particularly interested in neoplastic hematopathology, especially in the field of lymphomas.
As an educator, I serve as Medical Director of the MSKCC Cytotechnology School and Associate Director of the Cytopathology Fellowship Program.
- Clinical Expertise: Cytology; Fine Needle Aspiration; Hematopathology
- Languages Spoken: English
- Education: MD, PhD, University of Sao Paulo (Brazil)
- Residencies: University of Sao Paulo (Brazil); New York University Medical Center
- Fellowships: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
- Board Certifications: Anatomic Pathology; Clinical Pathology; Cytopathology
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A good friend of mine has an 1100 (since the 1970s) that he uses for dove, duck, deer,and turkey hunting. It has a full choke and I talked him into getting a spare barrel for it because it does not throw a dense enough pattern for turkey hunting compared to what a modern screw-in choke barrel can do. (He lost a good bird this week and it took that for him to finally listen to reason)
My question is; Is any supplier one better than another for getting Remington barrels, or are Remington barrels common enough that one place is as good as another? I own an 870 that my Grandfather left me, and that is probably the only Remington I will ever own. Thanks for any information and opinions.


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Description To 20" (49 cm). Moderately elongate, with distinctive hump on nape (in adults) overhanging head. Greenish-gray above, sides lighter, whitish below. Breeding males reddish-orange below and on paired fins. Head short; snout depressed, broadly rounded, overhanging mouth. Fins large, triangular; 9 dorsal fin rays; 10 or more anal fin rays; caudal peduncle very long and narrow; caudal fin deeply forked.
Endangered Status The Humpback Chub is on the U.S. Endangered Species List. It is classified as endangered in Arizona, Colorado, and Utah. Its numbers have declined throughout its original range, in the Colorado, Green, Yampa, White, and Little Colorado Rivers, and it has disappeared in some areas due to impoundments, water diversions, and the introduction of exotic fishes. This fish was adapted to the turbulent waters, the temperatures, and the food sources of the Colorado River and its tributaries. The massive dams built along the river changed all that, and a number of fish declined precipitously. The Colorado River Fish Recovery Team and other groups are working to bring native species back to stretches of river between the dams.
Habitat Swift channels of large, turbid rivers.
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Oh the magic of carbon. It's hard to believe that we ever rode without it, and unlike other materials, its construction technology continues to advance. To stay at the front of pack, you need a handlebar at the forefront of innovation, and the FSA SL-K Compact Carbon Handlebar is that handlebar. Utilizing a forgiving, shallow design, the SL-K Compact delivers a rigid and direct ride quality at a race-ready overall weight. FSA's SL-K Compact Handlebar is made from a blend of unidirectional carbon fiber and Kevlar. Formed in a continuous, one-piece construction, the reinforced carbon design provides a heightened rigidity for explosive sprints and predictable handling. Additionally, the carbon weave dampens road vibration while the Kevlar offers durable strength that reduces material fatigue. The engineered result is simple -- the S-LK Carbon handlebar will remain stiffer, longer. These attributes have been further accentuated by the implementation of a double-width single cable groove along the bar. The composite composition creates a thicker inner wall then you see on K-Force, and that's where the few extra grams generate from. However, the second blade of the sword shows that the SL-K's thicker construction greatly increases its resistance to fatigue.The S-LK Compact Carbon features reinforced and textured clamping areas for the attachment of the levers and stem. This treatment prevents slippage, and helps to maintain the life of the bars. FSA has also widened the center section to 120mm in order to allow the addition of clip-on aero extensions or any combination of accessories. To achieve an agreeable shape, fit for long days in the drops or on the hoods, FSA has designed the S-LK Compact with a moderate 125mm drop, 80mm reach, and 2 degree outward bend. And to ensure a consistent fit and ride quality for every rider, these dimensions vary in scale by each of the three widths available. - $270.00


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I am glad to see that Pedro is also having fun with R. There are, however, times when it drives me crazy. For example, carrying out simple linear regression, then using the result to predict a value. Note that in the code below I have replaced my preferred assignment operator (less_than + hyphen) with Pascal's := because Advogato doesn't like stray angle brackets, so rewrite it if you want to run the code;
# Let's create some x and y values
xlist := c(1:5);
ylist := c(0.9, 2.1, 3.2, 4.3, 5.1);
# Now simple linear regression
regobject := lm(ylist ~ xlist, data=data.frame(cbind(xlist, ylist)));
If I look at the contents of regobject then all is well. However, now for the prediction. In a sane world this should be as simple as;
predict(regobject, newdata=testvalue);
Where testvalue has the x-value to be used in the prediction. Unfortunately R fails worse than silently as it just provides the predicted values for everything in xlist. Okay, maybe I need to coerce the value into a data frame.
predict(regobject, newdata=data.frame(testvalue));
Nope. It needs a data frame with a column with the same name as that used to generate the regression object. I have not seen that written explicitly in any book or help file. Thankfully a few other folk have ranted about this so there are explanations out there.
predict(regobject, newdata=data.frame(xlist=testvalue));
Woohoo! So now,
predict(regobject, newdata=data.frame(xlist=2.5));
gives me the predicted y-value for x=2.5 (y=2.59). My guess is that being an R programmer is now so lucrative that documentation is written in an obscure (but factually correct) manner deliberately. Prepare for this blog entry to receive a takedown notice :-)


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Korg M500 Micro-Preset
The Korg Micro Preset synthesizer is a curious late 1970s beast with a slightly bizarre matrix of pre-set sounds, including laughable woodwind and similar noises and a low-quality keyboard all housed in a wooden box! It's a 32-note monophonic preset synthesizer with 6 push-button presets including voice, synth1, synth2, brass, string, and wood. Its single-oscillator design has only rudimentary decay/release envelope controls and no access to the guts of the sound generation stuff. Perhaps it was aimed at the beginners market.
Once you're over the outward appearance, a bit of probing will reveal a noise box that sounds remarkably similar to the MS-10 at times. There is a lot of fun to be had with the 'traveller' control, a sort of filter and resonance control rolled into one, offering interesting squelchy acid-style bass run effects. In fact, like the MS-10, bass is about all you'll get out of this oddity in terms of useful noises. But overall this is a bit of a novelty synth, and is not especially playable nor distinctive - apart from its looks! There are absolutely no MIDI, CV nor similar inputs so you can forget about any of that. Add N To (X), The Human League, OMD, Jean Michel Jarre, OMD, Pop Will Eat Itself and Brian Eno are thought to have used the Micro Preset.
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- Polyphony - Monophonic
- Oscillators - 6 Sounds: voice, synth1, synth2, brass, string, and wood
- LFO - Vibrato with depth and speed
- Filter - 'Traveller' control - filter and resonance slider
- Arpeg/Seq - None
- Keyboard - 32 keys
- Memory - None
- Control - None
- Date Produced - 1977 - 1980
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1. The Citgo sign just as the sun sets and it starts to light up.
2. Fall that looks like this:
Sorry, everywhere else, you might have a time between August and November that gets a little colder, but Boston has the trademark on Fall™.
3. We love boats powered by a guy pedaling inside a giant swan. And this somehow makes sense to us.
4. Boston respects ice cream. Not that Pinkberry stuff — real ice cream parlors you go to on Friday night.
5. There's even a giant milk bottle that's an ice cream stand.
6. These guys are from Boston:
New Kids on the Block
7. And these guys:
8. And also this band:
The Pixies
9. And also these guys:
New Edition
10. Free summer concerts from the Boston Pops at the Hatch Shell.
11. When Chik-fil-A's owner came out against gay marriage, Mayor Menino wrote this letter:
12. The red brick Freedom Trail that runs through Boston.
The city has a built-in map to take you to all the historic landmarks, which is kind of ingenious.
13. Someone lovingly puts winter scarves on the bronze duck statues from Make Way For Ducklings.
14. The North End has better pizza than *gasp* New York.
There. I said it. NYC may have the best greasy cheap slice, but Pizza Regina has the best brick-oven crispy-crust slices.
15. We know how to fix signs so they have the correct pronunciation.
16. Obviously, Dunkin' Donuts is testing out a doughnut-bacon-egg sandwich in Boston before the rest of the country.
Goddamn, we love Dunky's.
17. Boston has the oldest restaurant in the country, the Union Oyster House (and it's really good).
18. The fact that everyone calls this the Salt-and-Pepper Bridge because, duh, that's what it looks like.
It's technically the Longfellow Bridge, but whatever.
19. The old Boston is just hiding right underneath you.
20. The Paul Revere statue in front of the Old North Church.
21. The way the gold dome on the State House lights up at sunset.
22. And the fact that the Old State House is still there, tucked away between skyscrapers.
23. This guy smoking a cigar indoors.
Larry Bird and Red Auerbach
24. And thank god, Tom Brady no longer has a ponytail (that was a dark time).
So now we can love him again.
25. Community Boating on the Charles River
26. The deadly nature of the scorpion bowls at the Hong Kong in Harvard Square.
27. The ICA is one of the best places to see contemporary art.
…and it has this view from inside.
28. Boston's city streets don't need no stinkin' grid.
How do you like them apples?
You didn't possibly think this could be a completely Damon/Affleck-free list, did you?
29. Because if you keep believing, against all odds, Boston will come through for you.
The 2004 Red Sox winning the World Series.
Correction: A previous version of this post misidentified House of Pain as being from Boston.
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Volvo´s common diesel engine factory in Skövde, Sweden produces engines for most business areas within the Volvo Group. This includes engines for trucks, buses, construction equipment and for Volvo Penta´s sales of marine and industrial engines.
Volvo Penta account for about 20-25 percent of the total engine production in this factory which is one of the most automated engine factories in the world. From here Volvo Penta take their well-reputed 7 to 16 litre diesel engines, for instance the D12 engine.


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|This episode opens with the Enterprise doing some scientific research around a planet which is emitting strange "ripples" in time. The ship is constantly buffeted and shaken by these ripples, but Spock insists that the data they are gathering is invaluable so they continue. Then there is an accident - a console burns out and electrocutes a crew member. Bones rushes to the bridge and decides that an injection of Cordrazine is needed, despite Kirk's layman's warning that it is "tricky stuff".
The injection works, but another ripple causes the good doctor to fall on his hypospray, giving himself a massive overdose of the drug. Bones immediately becomes hysterical and rushes from the bridge. He manages to make his way to the transporter room and beams down to the planet below, closely followed by a landing party led by Kirk.
Once on the planet the landing party discovers ruins of an ancient city - and in the centre of them stands a large, irregular ring structure. The crew fan out and are quickly successful in capturing Bones, who is raving with paranoia as a result of his overdose. Spock scans the ring and declares that it is the source of the time distortion. The ring speaks to the crew, announcing itself as "The Guardian of Forever". It claims to have been there for billions of years - greatly predating the ruins around it - and says it is a doorway that can take them to any time or place. Images appear in the middle of the ring, showing Earths past flowing by at the rate of decades every second.
McCoy breaks free of his guards and dashes through the ring. Instantly the Enterprise vanishes from orbit - all trace of the Federation has been wiped out except for the landing party who are protected by their proximity to the Guardian. Spock deduces that McCoy must have caused some change in the past which has prevented the formation of the Federation. The only way to restore history is to go through the Guardian after him. Kirk decides to go, ordering the others to make further attempts if he fails. Spock attempts to judge the exact moment to jump through, and the pair vanish.
Emerging on 1930's Earth, the pair steal some clothes to blend in with the locals - including a hat to cover Spock's ears. They find a local mission run by a woman named Edith Keeler where they can get some lodgings and work. Kirk is fascinated by Edith, who confidently predicts a future free of poverty in which man will travel the stars. While Spock spends his time attempting to build a computer capable of accessing his tricorder to view the images he recorded from the Guardian, Kirk and Edith fall in love.
Eventually, Bones appears in the city, still delusion. He collapses and is taken to the same mission, where Keeler cares for him. Gradually he recovers, although he is naturally reluctant to accept that he is really in the 1930's! Meanwhile Spock makes progress, and discovers the change McCoy introduced - in the original timeline Keeler was killed in a traffic accident. In the alternate timeline McCoy saved her, and she went on to become an important figure in American politics. Her avocation of peace delayed the entry of the USA into World War II, allowing the Nazis to develop the atom bomb first and so win the war. In order to restore time, Kirk must allow the woman he loves to die.
As Kirk escorts Keeler to the movies, she makes casual mention of Doctor McCoy. Kirk rushes back to the mission to be greeted by a delighted Bones. Edith, following him back, steps in front of a car. As McCoy dashes out to save her Kirk grabs hold of him and holds him back. Edith is hit and killed. Time is restored, and the three officers head back through their 'portal' to the future just moments after they left. The Enterprise is back in its normal place, and Kirk orders the landing party beamed up.
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|The Enterprise is investigating the planet Pyris VII, but the landing party - comprising Sulu, Scott and Crewman Jackson - is overdue for their routine check in. Jackson finally contacts the ship asking to be beamed aboard, but when he appears he collapses to the floor, dead. Amazingly, a voice from his mouth informs Kirk that the ship is cursed!
Kirk beams down with Spock and McCoy, leaving Assistant Chief Engineer DeSalle in command of the ship. They arrive in a fogbound environment, quite at odds with what their sensor readings indicated. Detecting lifeforms nearby the landing party investigates, only to be confronted with a ghostly apparition - three witches, warning them to leave or face disaster. Undaunted, the officers press on and discover a large castle. They enter and begin to explore, but a section of floor collapses beneath them, knocking them out.
They wake to find themselves chained in a dungeon. Scotty and Sulu appear, but they appear to by drugged or hypnotised, not recognising their fellow officers. They free the landing party and take them at gunpoint from the room to meet a robed man. He is, apparently, some kind of magician - complete with a wand and black cat. The man's name is Korob, and he appears intent on getting the Enterprise officers to leave as soon as possible. Korob claims that the events have been staged to test the Enterprise crew, but he clearly seems to be hiding the truth.
A woman, Sylvia, enters. She demonstrates her own power to Kirk, holding a small model of the Enterprise over a candle - and action which causes the real ship in orbit to grow unbearably hot! Although she spares the ship, Korob seals the model in a glass block, which paralyses the real ship within a strange forcefield.
Kirk and Spock are taken to the dungeon, whilst Sylvia questions McCoy. She argues with Korob about their plans - Sylvia states that she enjoys the sensations she is experiencing in her present form, as apparently their normal existence does not afford them such. Korob argues that they have a mission to complete, but Sylvia seems in favour of abandoning it.
Sylvia brings Kirk back to talk, and reveals that she has become enamoured of him. She is thinking of getting rid of Korob and keeping Kirk for herself. Kirk plays along for information, and learns that the "magic wand" is a transmuter, able to reform matter into different forms - this is how the pair create the various strange things Kirk has encountered. She realises the deception and has Kirk returned to the dungeon.
Korob, beginning to fear Sylvia's intentions, releases the Enterprise and Kirk and Spock. He expresses regret for how things have gone, wishing there could have been peaceful contact. As they attempt to flee, Kirk and Spock encounter Sylvia's black cat, only grown to enormous size. The cat kills Korob, and Kirk grabs his transmuter wand and escapes. Sylvia demands the transmuter wand, which is more powerful than her own device, but as Kirk begins to hand it over he instead smashes it. At once the castle and everything within it vanishes, leaving only Sylvia and Korob in their true form - two small, vaguely birdlike aliens who quickly die. With the menace defeated, the officers beam back to the ship.
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|Spock and McCoy encounter a recently arrived crewmember, Crewman Norman, in the Enterprise corridors. McCoy notes that something bothers him about the man. Not only is he avoiding a medical exam, but he seems unemotional and detached from the rest of the crew. Spock, taking this as a jibe against himself, dismisses the complaint.
Norman goes to the auxiliary control center, overpowering the personnel there and taking control of the ship to lock it onto a new course. He rapidly goes to the emergency manual monitor and engineering, effortlessly defeating multiple crewmembers and resetting the ship's systems to lock out any change in the course he has laid in. Finally he proceeds to the bridge where he points out that his alterations have connected the matter-antimatter pods to the main navigational bank with a trigger relay, meaning any attempt to change course will destroy the ship. He also opens a panel in his stomach, revealing that he is an android.
The ship spends four days at Warp 7 heading for an unexplored Class K planet. Norman remains dormant throughout, standing motionless on the bridge. On arrival he demands that Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Uhura and Chekov to beam down, threatening to destroy the engines if they refuse. They beam to a facility on the surface where None other than Harry Mudd reveals himself to have been behind their kidnapping. Mudd declares that he is now Emperor Mudd the First, and that the crew of the Enterprise will remain on his planet for the rest of their lives and there is nothing they can do about it. Mudd is accompanied by multiple robots, many of them identical to one another. He reveals that after his last encounter with the Enterprise he managed to escape from prison and engaged in further petty crime, including reselling patents. He was caught on Deneb V and sentenced to death, but again managed to steal a ship and escape. After wandering for a while he chanced on this planet and explored it, finding the facility there along with androids running it. The facility is equipped with fantastically advanced technology, capable of building massive numbers of androids to any specification, along with almost anything else one could want. Mudd, of course, stocked the place almost entirely with hundreds of female androids.
Although it seemed like a paradise at first, Mudd soon grew bored with the planet. He decided to leave, but the androids are so determined to serve him that they refuse to allow him to leave the planet. Mudd eventually told the androids about the Enterprise and asked them to capture the crew so they would have other Humans to serve, and so allow him to leave. He tries to convince Kirk that it won't be so bad, demonstrating some of the pleasant aspects of the place - including an android replica of his own wife who nags him specifically so that he can have the pleasure of yelling at her to shut up. The androids reveal that they were built by a species from the Andromeda galaxy which is now long gone.
Spock conjectures that the androids do not operate independently, but must function via some kind of control control system which guides them all. He tries to quiz them on the subject but they politely decline to answer his queries.
The androids begin trying to tempt the officers to remain. They tell Uhura that an android body will last for some half a million years. Since a human brain can be installed in one, this would give the person almost perpetual youth and beauty. Chekov finds himself enjoying the prospect of being surrounded by beautiful female androids, whilst Scotty is intrigued by their incredibly advanced engineering technology. Meanwhile the androids have forcibly removed the crew from the Enterprise, putting an android crew aboard to run the ship. There seems to be no way to stop them.
Kirk is increasingly annoyed by the situation, and when an Alice series android promises him that they will do anything to make him happy he states that he cannot be happy without his ship. Alice seems confused by this and asks Norman to "coordinate" a response, before leaving.
Mudd prepares to depart, but the androids refuse to let him leave despite their earlier deal. They reveal that they plan to export vast numbers of androids to all Human worlds, giving them the same life of complete luxury as exists on their planet - along with the same lack of freedom.
Spock notes that there are hundreds of each model of android on the planet, with the exception of Norman. There is only a single Norman as far as anybody knows. This, combined with the way the Alice asked Norman to coordinate a response when she was confused, makes Spock speculate that Norman may be the control system he spoke of earlier. Since illogic seemed to confuse the Alice, they wonder if they might not be able to overload Norman's ability to command the androids if enough strange and inexplicable behaviour is presented to the androids.
Reasoning that the androids will expect an escape attempt the crew stage a mock one, with Uhura turning traitor and telling the Androids about it so that they can foil the plan. Now hoping to have them at their ease, the crew begin their real campaign. They each challenge the androids with surreal behaviour, spreading confusion and illogic amongst them. Spock informs two of the Alice series that although he loves one of them, he hates the other - stating that he responds to them so differently because they are identical to one another. The illogic of the statement causes both androids to shut down.
The crew begin to target Norman directly, making him more and more confused until Kirk finally informs him that Harry Mudd is a liar, and everything he says is a lie. Harry then informs Norman that he is indeed lying - prompting Norman to realise that if that is a lie then Mudd must be telling the truth, but that if he is telling the truth then he must be lying. Finally overwhelmed, Norman shuts down and all of the other androids shut down with him.
With the crew back aboard the ship and control restored, Kirk decides what to do with Mudd. He will be left on the planet, stranded with the androids to look after him. Mudd is pleased that his imprisonment will at least be pleasant - until he finds that Kirk has had at least 500 copies of his nagging wife constructed, all of them designed so that they will ignore any order to shut up. Harry is thus left to indefinite imprisonment under the eternal nagging of the woman he most hates.
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Hi guys, im brand new to flyfishing but i've been fishing all my life. Just got into it 2 weeks ago. I'm hoping someone can help me out with my questions.
I have nothing fly fishing related so im thinking about going with this combo from cabelas <direct link removed>
I'm thinking about fishing from small rivers/ larger rivers in yosemitie and other lakes around california for trout and small bass. Would a 5 or 6wt be best?
Thanks for any info!
Welcome to the forum!
Your post was brought to my attention by one of the moderators because of the direct link to a non-sponsor business. I know this was your first post but the membership agreement clearly points out that isn't how we do it around here and we thought it might be fresh in your mind since it's required to agree at sign up.
In any case it was removed, but feel free to describe the setup and you'll probably get good advice...
But this also brings up a good point. The value of flyshops, instructors and access to experts who work in the industry is you get first-hand advice, maybe even a free lesson in the parking lot. You might save a little money buying on line, but you could just as easily waste a lot getting the wrong thing.
If it were me, I'd visit a local flyshop of good repute and learn a little. I think it was Ben Franklin who coined the saying "penny wise, pound foolish". I think this applies to saving a little on line to making a well-informed decision with the help of your local neighborhood flyshop.
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I would visit a fly shop but i just dont want to spend all the money right now. This combo is 135 and includes everything to get started. Yay or Nay?
Genesis Fly-Fishing Combos include everything you need to get started fly-fishing. The graphite composite rod is moderate/fast action to accommodate the beginning caster. A genuine cork handle, composite reel seat and double-foot chrome snake guides make it a first-class fishing instrument. The reel is die-cast aluminum with a disc drag sporting a large knob for simple, dependable adjustment. And it easily converts from left- to right-hand retrieve. All combos include a rod/reel case to protect your outfit while traveling. The 4-, 5- and 6-weight rods include an assortment of two-dozen flies suited for trout fishing. With the 8-weight rods, you receive an eight-piece popper assortment for bass and other warm-water species (comes with a medium flat/ripple fly box).
Each combo also includes:
# A Scientific Anglers Headstart® weight-forward fly line and 100 yards of backing
# One bottle of Scientific Anglers fly floatant
# Floatant holder
# Two tapered leaders
# Nippers
# Forceps
# Two small retractors for forceps and nippers
# Strike indicators
# Split-shot assortment
# Leader straightener
# Fly assortment
# Chestpack to store all your equipment.
Head to Cabelas if u want they helped my neighbor and myself my neighbor actually got the Genesis he and I like it, i like the reel for soem reason
My pop used to buy fishing kits like this from the backs of his Boys Life magazines when he was a boy scout. You get what you pay for, but it sounds like a good beginners practice / learning setup.
kaster, i am very new to fly fishing as well. i started out last spring and only mannaged to get out 2 or 3 times. I fished for brook trout and i was able to pick up a nice combo setup at Walmart for like 50$. its a fenwick 8.5 ', 7 - 8 wieght rod with the reel and it was set up with backing line and leader ready to go. I was out for the first time on saturday for atlantic Salmon, and it even handled the larger salmon quite well. I would guess if you are like me, and you are just starting out that would work just fine and it may save you few bucks. Then down the road maybe next year if you really get into fly fishing like i am, you wont mind spending a couple hundred dollars on a nice setup because you all ready know its something you will not regret buying. good luck which ever direction you choose.
oh yeh, and welcome to the site.
be gentle on the hook set, i am a newbie to fly fishing
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Can't speak to the particular set-ups your considering, though the price seems very good. I can comment on the fishing where you are aiming, however, and that might help you specify which set-up (ie line wt) you want.
I live in the Bay Area for about 12 years, and took any opportunity I could to head to the Sierra to fish for trout. Typically fished with a 5wt, but in later years also used a 3 weight in some situations.
For an all around trout rod for that region, I'd go with either a faster 4 wt, or a moderate 5 wt. I presume the the set-ups your looking at are more moderate in action so would go with the 5 wt.
If you want also to do a little bass fishing with the same rig, you might look at the 6 weight. Either a 5 or 6 would be just fine for the valley river winter steelhead run, though you wwould be seriously undergunned if you hooked a salmon.
As far as waters to try. the river's will all be high with runoff through the month of May at least. As a hint, grab a delorme atlas and look for forest service or logging roads that cross any of the rivers NEAR yosemite. I think they fish better than places IN yosemite myself.
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Hi Kaster!
I use a 4wt for panfish and LM bass here in eastern NC. I can throw 2" streamers on my rigs. A 14" bass on a 4wt is no problem.
A 4wt is very light and very versatile. I can cast mine in the wind, roll cast, hit targets 60 feet away, and cast larger flies than you believe possible with a 4wt.
I've hooked some nice bass on those 4wts. They threw the hook out. If the hook stayed in the mouth, I'd have caught those fish. I'm guesssing the bass were 5 lb -7 lb range.
Get the 4wt and you will be able to handle any 16" fish out there!
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Last weekend I went for a walk east along Dundas, before long I found myself deep in the Regent Park housing development. Although this area is undergoing some major structural improvements, there is still much stigma surrounding Toronto's oldest and largest community housing project. From what I saw, through innovative design and construction there is a significant effort being put into reversing the degradation and negative atmosphere.
In 2006, the Toronto Community Housing Corporation (TCHC) initiated a $1 billion, 12-year plan to revitalize the 69-acre Regent Park neighbourhood. Originally built in the 1940s, the neighbourhood was planned after the ideals of the British 'garden city' urban model. Through which "modern" living conditions were established with low-rise units, meant to reduce the use of vehicular transportation by increasing the population density of a region. In this case, the density was successfully improved but the residents themselves suffered, and Regent Park subsequently became one of Toronto's most infamous neighbourhoods.
Among many factors, the layout and organization of the neighbourhood can be partly to blame for failure of the original urban model. Many residents feel that they are separated from the rest of the city even though in reality they live close to the downtown core. In the adjacent graphic you see how the existing neighbourhood has very few bisecting roads. It is organized into North and South regions, which are only divided by Dundas East, acting as the major artery through the neighbourhood. The proposed plan is to open up the area, by building roads that go through these large North and South "superblocks". Not only will this allocate more space for community green-space projects, it will also improve the livability of the region by reintegrating it with the surrounding city. Safety, which is currently a problem, will also be improved as the smaller blocks can be easily accessed and monitored from the surrounding streets.
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They're SOFT all the way, and proud of it. That's true of students in the Sustainable and Organic Farm Training (SOFT) program, which has finally made the leap from two off-campus sites to the middle of the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. Established in 2007 by the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, the program – one of the largest in the state run by students and faculty – has blossomed into a harvest of vegetable crops, fruit trees and a bountiful herb garden.
Initially, the collegiate cultivation took place on a one-acre site at the UH Research Station in Waimanalo and at the Magoon research facility in Mānoa, giving students a true hands-on experience in horticulture, pest control, nutrient management, business and marketing. In the initial start-up stage, several participants toured college farms on the mainland to help them plot out and develop a sustainable farm environment of their own. They returned with a bounty of information, and then applied their newfound knowledge to create a successful campus farm program that strives for smart, efficient and sustainable agriculture.
On most weekends, SOFT volunteers, or SOFTies as they like to call themselves, could be found hard at work at either of the two initial farm plots. The crops are harvested regularly and sold at a weekly farmer's market on campus. The profits are then used to purchase more plant material, tools and supplies.
But while the farms served as valuable training grounds for the students, the University's larger campus community was unaware of their growing prowess. "We wanted to have something visible for people to see so they could learn more about our group," said Gabe Sachter-Smith, a recent graduate of the Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences (TPSS) program who will be pursuing his master's degree in the Fall. "Establishing on-campus plots is also easier to sustain and can help promote our work by acting as living billboards."
In cooperation with landscaping manager Roxanne Adams, the green-thumbed students came up with plans to bring sustainable farming to the middle of campus. Their tireless efforts came to fruition this past Spring, and right around Earth Day in April, when they established a plot on the grassy stage of the Sustainability Courtyard. SOFT volunteers dug up the rich Mānoa earth to create what they envision to be a mini edible garden, planting everything from sunflowers, cassava, basil and rosemary, to sweet potato, taro, coco yam and lemon grass, to name a few. "It is our hope that this installation will encourage more student involvement," said SOFTie Jeana Cadby, a senior in the TPSS program. "We look forward to selling these publicly grown veggies and herbs soon."
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One person who couldn't be more thrilled with the student-driven effort is Ted Radovich, a CTAHR specialist in sustainable and organic farming systems, and SOFT's proud faculty advisor. "With support from CTAHR, UH Landscaping and others, the SOFTies have really taken the initiative to develop self-learning opportunities for themselves and other students," he said. "They've put science and theory learned in the classroom into practice by growing and marketing food."
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The close proximity of the cemetery to the sea and the eerie atmosphere such combined imagery evokes, really reminded me of the setting for The Woman in Black (1989). Being the horror aficionado that I am, I tried to find out if there were any reported hauntings or spooky tales about the place, but sadly these proved elusive. I did however read a gruesome story about the brutal deaths of several nuns at the hands of British soldiers in the vicinity of the abbey.
In 1563, Sister Honoria De Burgo (Nora Burke) daughter of Richard an Ierain (Iron Dick) – the second husband of pirate queen Grace Ó Malley (Granuaile) – built a small convent close to the abbey where she lived with her fellow sisters. Around 1580 she and the other sisters fled from marauding British soldiers and sought sanctuary in the mountains. When they thought it safe to return to the convent, they were seized by the soldiers, stripped, beaten to death and their bodies thrown into a boat. One of the sisters, Magaen, managed to escape, and when she reached the shore she hid in the forest. Seeking refuge inside a hollow tree, she was found dead the following day and eventually buried alongside her sisters. Perhaps they still wander the grounds of the abbey and the surrounding shore?
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Two days ago we had a Linux day. A nice event where innocent people bring their computers to us, we install Linux on them, try to fix broken configurations, and give lectures.
The people from Actcom sponoered lunch as always, and the T-shirts for installers and gurus. The Bezeq people came late and sponoered an ADSL line for one day. It was very nice of them, besides the fact they were 3 hours late, and forgot to bring filters... so we had network only 5 hours after we started configurations ;). The people from BeyondSecurity (Aviram Jenik's company) came and brought installers (3) and some stuff. They also came a bit late ;).
The local people who worked on the day to be a success are:
- epsalon - Alon Altman, who did a lot to make sure all matters, both technical and administrative would function as expected.
- EzAton - after configuring his server to perform as a kickstart nfs server (we mainly installed RH 9.0 + updates), and bringing lots of network things, he still went on and installed, solved problems, etc.
- Meir Maor - did a lot as installer, helped to carry the heavy stuff around.
- Shachar Rijndael (it's not the way he writes his name, but in Hebrew is name is equivalent to the one used by the Advanced Encryption Standard) - just like Meir - helped to carry the heavy stuff, and installed a lot.
- ladypine - arrived after work, and helped to make sure things were running smoothly (which as usual wasn't the case).
- shlomif - came, installed, wrote the slides for the lecture.
- Adir - Besides a little lifting made more noise than expected. He was in charge on few things, and most of them were screwed up. This fact didn't caused him to understand he did almost nothing, and to behave like the boss.
- yours truly - as I was in Central America during the summer, I wasn't one of the real organizers. However, I gave the lecture 3 times, tried to make sure there will be a nice music all around the event (almost succeeded in that for 9 hours). etc. I did also some heavy lifting.
Hopefully next time would be better ;)
btw, after the mess, I re-certified Alon as a journeyer. He really deserves this status, after working hard, and trying to communicate with Adir (usually without success). I also certified shlomif (at last). Even though I am not using his scripts, he still did a good job, and good job is always entitled to recognition.