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By: Dr. Jeff Masters , 3:42 PM GMT on August 12, 2010
The remnants of Tropical Depression Five have re-organized this morning, and the storm is pounding Southeast Louisiana with heavy rains. Radar imagery out of New Orleans shows that the remains of TD 5 have have formed some respectable low-level spiral bands that have brought heavy rains in excess of five inches in some areas. However, with the circulation center now moving over land, not much further development can occur.
Figure 1. Morning radar image of TD Five's remains.
Why so quiet in the Atlantic?
The Tropical Atlantic is quiet, and there are no threat areas to discuss today. The Invest 93 system we were tracking has been destroyed by dry air and wind shear. There are a couple of long-range threats suggested by some of the models--the GFS model predicts a tropical depression could form off the coast of Mississippi six days from now, and the NOGAPS model thinks something could get going in the Gulf of Mexico's Bay of Campeche seven days from now. Neither of these possibilities are worthy of concern at present. Overall, it's been a surprisingly quiet August, considering the pre-season predictions of a hyperactive season. According the National Hurricane Center, this hurricane season has been exactly average so far. There have been three named storms and one hurricane as of August 12. The average date of formation of the third named storm is August 13. One hurricane typically forms by August 10. One reason for this year's inactivity may be an unusual number of upper-level low pressure systems that have paraded across the tropical Atlantic. These lows, also called Tropical Upper Tropospheric Trough (TUTT) lows, tend to bring high wind shear that inhibits tropical cyclone formation. The other major factor appears to be that vertical instability has been unusually low in the Atlantic over the past month. Instability is measured as the difference in temperature between the surface and the top of the troposphere (the highest altitude that thunderstorm tops can penetrate to.) If the surface is very warm and the top of the troposphere is cold, an unstable atmosphere results, which helps to enhance thunderstorm updrafts and promote hurricane development. Since SSTs in the Atlantic are at record highs, enhancing instability, something else must be going on. Dry air can act to reduce instability, and it appears that an unusually dry atmosphere over the Atlantic this month is responsible for the lack of instability.
Figure 2. Vertical instability (in °C) over the Caribbean (left) and tropical Atlantic between the Lesser Antilles Islands and coast of Africa (right) in 2010. Normal instability is the black line, and this year's instability levels are in blue. The atmosphere became much more stable than normal in both regions at the end of July. This lack of instability also extends to the Gulf of Mexico and North Atlantic Ocean between Europe and North America, as well as the Western Pacific east of the Philippines, and the South Indian Ocean. Image credit: NOAA/CIRA.
A record quiet start to the 2010 tropical cyclone season in the Northern Hemisphere
What is really odd about this year, though, is the lack of tropical cyclone activity across the entire Northern Hemisphere. Usually, if one ocean basin is experiencing a quiet season, one of the other ocean basins is going bonkers. That is not the case this year. Over in the Eastern Pacific, there have been five named storms and two hurricanes. The average is seven named storms and four hurricanes for this point in the season. This year's quiet season is not too surprising, since there is a moderate La Niña event underway, and La Niña conditions usually supresses Eastern Pacific hurricane activity. But over in the Western Pacific, which usually generates more tropical cyclones than any ocean basin on Earth, it has been a near-record quiet season. Just four named storms have occurred in the West Pacific this year, and the average for this date is eleven. Only one typhoon season has had fewer named storms this late in the season--1998, with just three. The total number of named storms in the Northern Hemisphere thus far this year is fifteen, which is the fewest since reliable records began in 1948. Second place belongs to 1983 and 1957, with eighteen named storms. According to an email I received from NOAA hurricane researcher Gabe Vecchi, the lack of tropical cyclones so far this year in the Northern Hemisphere is between a 1-in-80 and 1-in-100 year event.
So, what is causing this quiet tropical cyclone season? One possibility is that since Northern Hemisphere land areas have heated up to record temperatures this summer, this has created strong rising motion over the continents. This rising motion must be compensated by strong sinking motion over the adjacent oceans in order to conserve mass. Sinking air causes drying and an increase in stability. Another possibility is that the unusual jet stream configuration that is responsible for the Russia heat wave and record flooding in Pakistan is also bringing dry, stable air to the Northern Hemisphere's tropical cyclone breeding grounds. It is also possible that climate change is causing the reduction in tropical cyclone activity, for a variety of complex reasons. Computer simulations of a future warmer climate generally show a reduction in global number of tropical cyclones (though the strongest storms get stronger), and it is possible we are seeing a preview of that future climate. Or, this year's quietness may simply be natural variability. It will be interesting to see when the Russian heat wave breaks if vertical instability over the Atlantic increases back to normal levels. Current forecasts from the GFS and ECMWF models project the Russian heat wave to break late next week.
Moscow's air remains clear; coolest temperatures in two weeks
Moscow's winds remained favorable for keeping smoke away from the city today, and temperatures "cooled" to at Moscow's Domodedovo airport to 33°C (91°F)--the lowest maximum temperature since a high of 32°C (90°F) was recorded on July 30. Moscow's airport has reached a maximum temperature of 30°C (86°F) or higher for 35 consecutive days now (at Moscow's official observing site, the Moscow Observatory, this string is 30 days.) Moscow's average high temperature for August 12 is 20°C (68°F). Moscow's high temperatures have averaged 15°C (27°F) above average so far this August--a truly extraordinary anomaly for a country so famous for its notorious cold weather. The latest forecast for Moscow calls for high temperatures of 30 - 33°C (86 - 91°F) Thursday through Monday. This is still 23°F above normal, but will be a welcome change from the extreme heat of the past two weeks. Long range forecasts from the ECMWF and GFS models continue to suggest that a series of troughs of low pressure will begin to attack the ridge of high pressure anchored over Russia beginning on Wednesday, bringing cooler temperatures just 5°C (8°F) above average to Russia late next week. By ten days from now, the ECMWF model shows a strong trough of low pressure over Moscow, and a end to the Great Russian Heat Wave of 2010.
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Shares of BlackBerry (BBRY) are up 30 cents, or 4%, at $7.51, adding to a 14% surge on Friday, as the Street continues to reflect on the company's much-worse-than-expected fiscal Q3 report.
The responses on Friday seemed buoyed by the fact BlackBerry has reduced its balance sheet risk by offloading inventory responsibility for future BlackBerry handset production to contract manufacturer Foxconn. The Street on Friday also seemed to like CEO John Chen's plan to restructure the business along four different segments.
However, the most negative reports seemed to have been held for this morning, as the tone seems decidedly less charitable today.
National Bank Financial's Kris Thompson reiterates an Underperform rating on the shares, and a $3 price target, writing "while the commentary and strategy resonated with investors, we would continue to avoid the stock."
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But he's skeptical of the company's return to break-even: "Cash flow breakeven targeted by end of F2015, profitability targeted in F2016; BBM revenue in F2016. These goals were set on the conference call. They are aggressive, in our opinion."
R.W. Baird's William Power , reiterating a Neutral rating on the shares, cuts his price target to $7 from $9. Writes Power, although the company's cash position is "solid," and the company focus seems "sharper" under Chen's restructuring, something he "applaudes," nevertheless, he fears BlackBerry "still faces an uphill battle in devices, with potential revenue from BES10 and software/services also uncertain."
Power cut his estimates for this fiscal year ending in February to $6.86 billion in revenue and a net loss of $2.10 per share from a prior $7.13 billion and negative $1.81 per share.
Citigroup's Ehud Gelblum, calling the quarter "exceedingly weak," reiterates a Sell rating, and a $4 price target, writing that despite the new divisional structure, he still sees little hope for the BlackBerry devices business:
Overall, and putting the new C-suite of executive changes aside, we have seen very little different or revolutionary in Chen's approach and believe the company remains spread thin between various market segments such as high-end enterprise devices, mobile device management and other enterprise services, BBM, and low-end / consumer. We also fail to understand why Foxconn will be more successful in designing low end BB10 devices that can compete against low-end Android than Blackberry has been itself, while in the high end and enterprise, the strategy appears to be pretty much business as usual, an approach that so far has proven to have little traction. Note that to the extent the new Foxconn low end BB10 devices are successful in converting existing BB7 users over to BB10, Blackberry would lose service revenue at an even faster pace in exchange for a device sale that likely is break-even at best.
Gelblum estimates the company's BlackBerry subscriber count may have declined to 59 million in the quarter from a prior 68 million.
Gelblum thinks the actual cash burn in the quarter is more likely to be the rule in the future, rather than the reported operating cash loss:
We calculate that Blackberry burned $371M in cash in FQ3'14, after a $502M decline in cash in FQ2'13. Reflected in working capital are expenses related to Blackberrry's "CORE" restructuring program, which incurred $266M in pretax and $225M in after tax restructuring expenses, most of which were one-time several fees and fees associated with the company's strategic review. As a result, net cash declined to $2.2B from $2.6B q/q despite Blackberry raising $1B from Fairfax and others. We believe the decline in cash q/q is more illustrative of the company's likely cash burn progression than the operating cash flow loss of ($77M) vs. ($144M) in FQ2 given all offsets created by non-cash ass declines such as intangible assets and various tax assets. Tangible book value also declined to $5.13 / sh from $9.38 / sh given the downdraft in retained earnings on the write downs.
Gelblum cut his fiscal 2014 estimates to $6.9 billion and and a loss of $1.76 per share from a prior $7.5 billion and $1.35 per share.
William Blair's Anil Doradla reiterates a Market Perform rating, calling the quarter "dismal," but noting the restructuring has cheered the Street, that Chen came across as "skillful," and that the result is "nothing short of quadruple bypass surgery":
In a nutshell, the results were very unimpressive and weaker than the Street's already muted expectations across every conceivable metric. Although that in itself would have been reason for a strong sell-off in the stock, BlackBerry's new CEO's commentary hit the right chords across the investor base and potentially raised hopes of a miraculous comeback in the company's fortunes [...] In changing the incentives for the salesforce, aligning the company around end-customer needs, focusing on its core strength of security, and de-emphasizing its hardware business, Mr. Chen announced dramatic changes and came across as a skillful doctor conducting a complex bypass surgery on a very sick patient. Unlike previous BlackBerry management's presentations, this was the first time, in a very long time, where the company's leadership vision resonated well with us and we came away incrementally positive on the direction Mr. Chen has set out for the company.
Doradla thinks it is "too soon to tell" weather BlackBerry can sufficiently "execute" on the new approach.
Doradla cut his estimates for this year to $6.84 billion and a loss $1.85 from a prior 7.4 billion and negative $1.63 per share.
FBR Capital Markets's Scott Thompson reiterates an Underperform rating, but raises his price target to $6.75 from $6.50, writing that Friday's remarks by Chen were "a candid and sobering assessment of the business that is in desperate need of a new and profitable direction."
Thompson's not convinced there will be a "significant impact" from the new direction, however, he does offer that "we see enough room for the BlackBerrystory to improve in the next two to four quarters."
Thompson is encouraged by the slow-down in the cash burn:
BlackBerry slowed its cash burn some already. In F3Q14, the company used $348M in FCF, after having burned through $524M last quarter. The slight improvement is closely related to a sharp drop in working capital, which generated $1.3B in cash inflows this quarter as the decline in the devices business caused inventory levels and receivables to drop precipitously. In addition, a tax benefit and issuance of additional debt (at $1B) in the quarter helped to alleviate most of our concerns over BlackBerry's solvency, as its cash balance rose to a robust $3.1B, boosting our confidence in the company's ability to maintain enough cash to execute its eventual turnaround plan.
Raymond James's Steven Li and Tavis McCourt reiterate a Market Perform rating on the shares, with no price target offered, writing that the services business's decline threatens profitability:
The Foxconn partnership means BBRY should limit downside risk from future partnered devices and accelerate breakeven on hardware, in our view. However, with Services revenue down 13% q/q (-35% y/y) and our expectation of an 11-12% decline next quarter, despite the restructuring (opex cut 50%), profitability could remain elusive.
Li and McCourt give a nod to strength in the "BBM" instant-messaging platform as important for the company: "Since launching cross-platform, BBM has registered 40+mln downloads. We estimate BBM now at ~80 mln active users vs. Whatsapp at ~400 mln, Kik at ~100 mln, ~300 mln on LINE."
"This is all good news for BBM's valuation especially as a number of these messaging platforms are considering IPOs next year."


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The Buffalo Bills did not have to wait long to get their first win of the season as they beat the Kansas City Chiefs 41-7. Last year they were winless until they beat the Detroit Lions 14-12 in week 10! Hopefully this win will be an indicator of what will come from the Bills this year. What more can Bills fans ask for? Offense, defense and special teams were on their game today. The Bills may...


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I don't post here often, but lately I am just over the top with my state.....I just heard about this this morning...I also heard that within the bill (which I have not read yet) they will require you to carry a list of all the long guns you own and possibly even where they are kept in your home!!!!!! (the information would be public and you could request it under Freedom of Information!) Nothing like telling the bad guys where to go, huh!
Along with the overt PITA of it, they are looking for more and more $$$$$ any way they can get it....I also heard they want to make us register all bicycles in the state at a cost of $25.00 a year! ARRRRGHHH. I hate the taxes disquised as "registrations" and "fees".
The world is going nuts and it is starting here! I think I have to move to TX or ND now.


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David Crosby, Graham Nash, House of Photographic Art, Maryanne Charis, Neil Young, photographer Graham Nash, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Stephen Stills, The Hollies, The Photography of Graham Nash, Women of Chapman
Who knew Graham Nash, of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young fame, was an internationally renowned photographer? When Maryanne Charis told me she was resurrecting her House of Photographic Art (HOPA) and wanted to donate opening night ticket proceeds to Women of Chapman for a personal appearance with Nash showcasing his work, I jumped on it.
The HOPA night at the Forster Mansion in San Juan Capistrano was a sell-out with 110 guests, and the star of the show was definitely Nash. Not looking his 70 years, the legendary singer/songwriter – he had just returned from a European tour with Crosby and Stills and was headed to the Greek Theater for several performances – said he has been an avid photographer since childhood. So, all those years he was performing with the British pop group The Hollies and later, with Crosby, Stills and Young (both of which were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame), he was snapping pictures. The collection he brought to HOPA featured black and white photos taken between 1969 and 2010, etchings and hand-written images of the lyrics from some of the world's best loved songs. His photographs featured portraits of family, friends, self, and fellow music icons, as well as scenes captured during Nash's world travels.
Many guests had fond memories of Nash and his namesake group. WOC member Leslie Cancellieri's husband Dino said, "I've listened to him for 40 years, and 'Our House' is one of my all-time favorites." Nash wrote the iconic song in 1970 for the Deja Vu album released by CSNY.
Nash is obviously committed to both performing and photographing the world around him. "When you look at my photos, I want you to feel something," he said. I especially enjoyed "Neil Driving Home," a photo of Neil Young driving his vintage car away from the camera down a lonely dirt country road.
"The Photography of Graham Nash" runs through November 17, so plan on dropping by. You won't be disappointed! Thanks to Charis' generosity, who is a Women of Chapman member, we netted the tidy little sum of $4,350 to support Chapman University's Dodge College of Film and Media Arts and its new Musco Center for the Arts.


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Where does IDF get its information from for the statistics found in the Diabetes Atlas?
IDF gathers information from peer-reviewed journals, national health statistics reports, reports from international agencies such as the CDC and WHO (including STEPwise approach to surveillance reports), and from personal communication with investigators within the IDF network. These studies are then judged for quality and used to generate the estimates for diabetes found in the IDF Diabetes Atlas. Estimates for mortality and health expenditures rely on IDF prevalence data and other WHO figures to estimate the number of deaths and the medical costs attributable to diabetes.
When should I use national prevalence and how is this calculated?
The national prevalence is a percentage of the number of adults (20 – 79 years) who have diabetes in the given year (either 2014 or 2035) in a country or region. It is calculated by taking the number of cases in adults and dividing by the total population in adults. The national prevalence should be used when reporting statistics for just one country or region, or when the statistics being reported are not for comparison. If you are comparing one country or region to another, you should use the comparative prevalence.
When should I use comparative prevalence and how is this calculated?
The comparative prevalence allows us to adjust for the fact that there are different proportions of young and old people in different countries. In order to compare these countries, we take the national prevalence and make an adjustment to estimate what the prevalence would be for that country if the distribution of the population in different ages were different. The distribution that is used for this calculation is applied to all countries in the same way and is based on a 1998 distribution developed by the WHO in order to compare the relative burden of diseases in different countries.
What factors does IDF take into account when calculating the Atlas 2035 projections?
For projections, we only use changes in the predicted population and urbanization changes available from the UN Population Division. We do not include any predictions for changes in obesity or other risk factors. The projections are therefore quite conservative.
Are undiagnosed cases part of the number of cases for 2014 or in addition to the total?
Undiagnosed cases are already included in the total number of cases reported.
I notice that some of the national prevalence country data is less than the previous of the Atlas. Why is this?
The numbers of cases or the prevalence in a country may have decreased from previous editions because IDF was able to make some assumptions more precisely by utilizing better quality information. Lower figures are most likely due to a change in the source data (e.g. epidemiology studies, United Nations population estimates, World Bank income groups), and not due to an actual decrease in diabetes prevalence. Every country that has studies with consistent methodology over multiple years reports a consistent increase in diabetes.
Why has the prevalence and the absolute number of people with diabetes decreased in the Europe and Western Pacific region in 2014 compared to 2013?
New higher quality epidemiological studies conducted in Europe and the Western Pacific Region were published in 2014. Moreover, updated 2014 World Bank income group classifications and United Nations Urbanization were integrated into the model used to generate the estimates. Integrating these new data into the calculations resulted into lower comparative prevalence estimates for these two regions. The reasons for a decrease in the estimates in each particular country (due to either change in the epidemiological study, World Bank classification, or urbanization level) are complex. If you have any particular concern, contact the epidemiology team by e-mail [email protected] [2]
If the prevalence rates in some countries have decreased in recent years, how can IDF say that diabetes is on the increase?
Every country that has studies with consistent methodology over multiple years reports a consistent increase in diabetes. Our estimates may have decreased in some countries because we were able to make some of our assumptions more precise. Thus, actual numbers may change slightly but the overall trend is increasing for all countries.
What are the main factors, according to the Atlas, driving the diabetes epidemic?
There are a number of factors driving the diabetes epidemic but the most significant are those associated with type 2 diabetes: poor diet, less physical activity, and increases in life expectancy. We also note an increase in type 1 diabetes of around 3% a year in children, and the causes of this are still being investigated.
How does IDF propose we start to tackle this epidemic?
IDF has released a Global Diabetes Plan which outlines policies that will go far in preventing new cases of diabetes, providing good care to those with the diseases, and reducing the discrimination faced by those with diabetes. Countries must demonstrate their commitment to turning the tide on diabetes by implementing these policies across many sectors.


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I've been on a pretty decent reading kick as of late and I'm looking for something new.
Not too long ago, I finished Chuck Bariss' Confessions of a Dangerous Mind.
Very good book, a lot better than I expected. For those that don't know, "Gong Show" host Chuck Bariss claims he while he created shows like "The Dating Game" and "The Newlywed Game" he was also an assassin for the CIA. Not so sure I believe his claims, but as you read the book you almost want to believe it. Saw the movie afterward and was really disappointed by it.
Also recently read Dean Koontz's Odd Thomas. It's about title character Odd Thomas, a guy that can see dead people. That is where the similarities with The Sixth Sense end - this book is actually entertaining. It ran a little bit long at times for me at times though.
Just finished a very old an d beat up copy of Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo. Also very good and scary in a "I couldn't imagine" type of way. Imagine being a WWI soldier and getting blown to bits and surviving but you have no arms, legs, eyes, teeth, and a tongue.
If you've ever seen the Metallica video for "One" they play clips of the '71 movie version in it.
Currently, I'm in the middle of Star Wars: The Approaching Storm and The Partly Couldy Patriot by Sarah Vowel.
TAS is decent but nothing special. The latter is a collection of articles, essays, and pieces she did for various magazines and NPR. Pretty good, but politically nerdy stuff.
I'd like to find Gregory McDonald's Flecth Won. All the bookstores near me don't have any in stock. The possibilty of Kevin Smith doing a new, book faithful version (maybe with Zach Braff as Flecth) has snagged my curiosity.
Has anyone read Motley Crue's The Dirt? Saw it the other day, but passed. I didn't really want to spend $15 on a paperback that I'm not so sure I'd like.
Anyone have a summer reading list...
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I added myself here because I thought it'd let me see other people's email addresses. jum had a question about creating UFS disk images on OS X; I had figured it out a couple of weeks ago but there was no way I could see to reply to his diary entry. So I did the usual web search, and uncovered his address, but it was still harder than it needed to be.
And now I have an advogato account. Oh well. I have written some (small) bits of free software, see my software page. My first real application should be coming out in a few weeks, if I find a thesis topic first so I can get some time to finish it.
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n TUPELO – Carver Elementary School's Pam McAlilly is one of four finalists for the Mississippi's Teacher of the Year.
The fifth-grade gifted education teacher will represent the 1st Congressional District. She was named Tupelo School's Teacher of the Year in January.
The state teacher of the year is usually announced in May.
McAlilly is a 20-year veteran of teaching and is a National Board Certified Teacher.
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n OXFORD – A new trial date of June 1 is set for Tara Nicole Sloan's federal lawsuit against Craig Shannon and the Tupelo Public School District.
The case, originally set for April 27, will be heard by a jury in Aberdeen before U.S. District Judge Sharion Aycock.
Sloan, a Verona police officer, sued in October 2007, claiming Shannon sexually harassed her when she was a part-time school resource officer and was retaliated against for telling her supervisor.
Tupelo Schools, through its attorney Berkley Huskison, answered that Sloan failed to follow the district's reporting process.
Shannon denies he harassed Sloan, court documents show.
Huskison also wrote that Sloan's complaint is "unreasonable and groundless."
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Ole Miss to get tough
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n OXFORD — The University of Mississippi plans to more strictly enforce rules that limit tobacco use to designated outdoor areas of campus.
The policy was adopted nearly two years ago.
Starting today, campus police will hand out warning cards to people using tobacco products outside the designated areas. The cards list campus and state Department of Health resources for those who want to quit smoking.
The school also said that after a couple of weeks, officers will begin writing tickets for violations of the policy that carry a $25 fine.
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Authorities investigate
death of Houston man
n HOUSTON – One person has been arrested in connection with the death of a Houston man, but investigators are releasing little information on the case.
Chickasaw County Coroner Andy Harmon said Johnny Smith, 55, of Houston was killed Tuesday morning about 8:45. Harmon did not reveal the cause of death or the events that led to Smith's death.
Chickasaw County deputies have arrested a person of interest in connection with Smith's death, but hadn't charged him as of Tuesday afternoon.
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02-17-2013, 01:52 PM #1Member Platy
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Aequeon 15 gal Column Tank
Hi--I have treated the water and prepared the tank. I have never done fishless cycling and didn't understand cycling at all (still don't) completely before I found this site. I have the API master test kit and just did a lot of worrying and partial water changes forever til my nitrites disappeared. I still have ph problems at times and don't know why. I have a 60 gal , 40 gal turtle, 2 10's, and 1 5gal plus the new column tank. I am thinking of just cycling it with fish as usual. Also, could I put just one or two fairly large fish in it plus a pleco or flying foxes? It has monster aeration! Thanks for any help! Shirley
Shirley - I'm confused. You listed several tanks. What tank, specifically, are you asking about regarding cycling and stocking ideas?
Can you clarify the size of the tank, if it's in the process of cycling and what filtration you have?30 g FW planted:corys, female ABNP, blue angel, harleys, zebra danios, rummies,
15 g FW planted:2 male guppies, neons, pygmy corys, clown pleco, 4 types of shrimp, assassin snails
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It is a new 15 gal aqueon column tank with a small aqueon filter---I am new to cycling and newly back to aquariums; although I've had aquariums for 40+ years they didn't talk cycling in the old days lol! Thank god all the filter media has changed as well. I have an Aqua Clear 110 or 130 I could put on it if necessary if the other one won't do it, and 3 airstones are already going. I wondered if loaches would work in the tank--dojos or kuhlis? Since they swim up and down a lot. I would like something more interesting than guppies but I have plenty in my turtle tank and other tanks. Could one or two really cool fish work? I know the space is weird so I am at a loss as to what to put in it. Also, I have added the supplied aqueon water conditioner but have done nothing about adding anything else like Stability? It just seems strange to add bacteria and plop the fish right in, or do those bacteria regimens just speed up the process? Thanks----Shirley
I find when you give dojos and or kuhlis enough space they don't go up and down because they enjoy their space on the bottom of the tank.
what are the dimensions of this tank?
and if you have a cycled tank-you can use some of that media and "insta-cycle this one"
otherwise, read up on how to cycle fish LESS with ammonia.


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DOJ: Watch for Amber Alerts on cellphones
No alerts have been issued with new system
MADISON, Wis. - The state Justice Department is urging people to keep an eye out for Amber Alerts for missing children on their cellphones.
The agency implemented a plan in January that calls for it to notify the Dane County Public Safety Communication Center of an Amber Alert. The communication center in turn notifies the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, which sends the alert out through the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Wireless Emergency Alert program.
The program broadcasts alerts to mobile devices within range of the affected area. Users with WEA-enabled mobile devices receive the alerts for free whenever they're in the geographic area where they've been issued.
DOJ spokeswoman Dana Brueck said no Wisconsin alerts have been issued through the system yet.
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Andy Souwer vs. Yoshihiro Sato Set for Shootboxing
- Written by Dave Walsh
K-1 may be quiet these days, but that doesn't mean the rest of the kickboxing world is just sitting back. Shootboxing has their 2nd big show of 2011 coming up later this month, and they have just announced quite the main event. Headlining Shootboxing 2011 act.2 on April 23 will be former multi-time Shootboxing S-Cup and K-1 MAX Grand Prix champion Andy Souwer vs. Yoshihiro Sato. According to our rankings, that's a clash between the #3 and #5 fighters in the world at 70kg, and no matter how you see it, this is undoubtedly a great fight.
Souwer will come into the fight with a considerably edge in Shootboxing rules; an edge he has used to his advantage before, including his quick submission victory over Hinata last year. He also has the advantage of already holding a win over Sato - the two men met once before in K-1 MAX in 2007 with Souwer scoring the decision win (video below). But Sato is an incredibly skilled fighter, and an opponent you can never underestimate. After a rocky 2008, the Japanese star has regained his footing somewhat, going 9-3 in the last two years. He will be coming in off an upset loss to Armen Petrosyan, while Souwer has two recent upset loses of his own, to Abraham Roqueni under K-1 rules, and to Toby Imada at Shootboxing's 2010 S-Cup.
I see this being a highly technical affair, with both men using superior skill. The trouble for Sato is that Souwer may just have a few more skills in his arsenal. In addition to the experience in Shootboxing's unique rules, Souwer also is skilled at fighting in the clinch - and area that has shown to be a weakness for Sato, as seen most recently in the Armen Petrosyan fight. As he typically does, Sato will have a reach advantage here, and as always, he'll know how to use it. I expect he will try to keep on the outside and pick Souwer apart, but Souwer should be able to break through that range, get inside, and cause Sato enough damage to take the win. This is definitely one of those fights where the old adage of a human chess match will come to life.
This show will serve as a benefit for disaster relief in Japan, with many of the fighters already promising to donate their purses to relief efforts. Also announced for this card are some of Shootboxing's biggest homegrown names: Girls S-Cup champion RENA, Shootboxing 55kg champion Ryuya Kusakabe (who is also scheduled for Krush on April 30, so may end up dropping out of one or the other), and the popular Hiroaki Suzuki.
Andy Souwer vs. Yoshihiro Sato, K-1 MAX, 2007:


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of course it's true, whether some whiny, phony Pats fan thinks so means nothing to me.
The Jets get credit for a nice (or great, grand, best in Jets history) win, but don't try and make it out to be something it was not.
what NE did to us on Thanksgiving and in dec '10 was humiliation, I bet they'd trade both of those wins for the 2010 div rd win though.
Since NE would have had a shot to actually make the SB, they probably would trade them. If they knew the outcome would be the same as the Jets, I doubt it would make any difference to them. Only Jets fans care about title game losses.
even knowing you'd lose Miami fans would trade places b/c it would mean they'd get to see 2 playoff wins, the last time you won 2 playoff games in a playoff year was 1984.
As a fan, I would have enjoyed the ride like I am sure you did, but ultimately it was for nothing since the Jets have nothing to show for it. No one, other than the fans of that team cares or remembers playoff wins that result in nothing. I prefer the things that are written down in history, like Division Championships, Conference Championships, and Super Bowl Championships. When people look back in history from 2000 to 2012, they are going to see NE's 10 Division Championships, 5 Conference Championships, and 3 Super Bowl Championships. Nobody will care that the Jets advanced further than them in the playoffs in 09 and 10.


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The Mets are fielding a lousy team.
The Mets have fielded mostly lousy teams for 20 years now.
Even when theyre good on paper, theyre lousy on a diamond. This cant be blamed on Minaya or Phillips or any of the GMs that have put these teams together. No matter who's GM, the result always seems the same. Its the result of an organizational philosophy. Ever since the great teams of the 1980s were torn apart, its been the same formula over and over: a tired cast of generally indifferent, fireless mercenaries with what little homegrown talent that sprouts out a wasteland of a farm system usually winding up elsewhere.
When the mercenaries fail to live up to expectations, or go down with injuries, theres never anything to fall back on. When the mercenaries do well, they generally fail to gel as a team and spit the bit when it counts. The failure to run out batted balls and frequent botching of routine plays often doesnt make the box scores, but it almost seems like a Mets tradition at this point - we can all name the various offenders from the past two decades.
I can no longer blame the parade of different GMs, because the problem has proven to be endemic over the last 20 years.
I consider it the fault of an ownership that seems to despise colorful, scrappy gamers and loves safe colorless types that dont play with intensity. I consider it the fault of an ownership that will sign a few big names to fill the seats, but wont pony up a few million extra for guys like Abreu and Hudson to actually win when the roster is obviously full of holes. I consider it the fault of an ownership that seems to worry more about the menus in their exclusive restaurants than depth charts.
Not only do the teams reflect the dismal corporate philosophy of the owners, but I find the ongoing efforts to shed the team persona that won me as a fan in the first place and gentrify the team's image to be distasteful.
Meanwhile, prices have been raised so high that none of the Subway Series games have sold out and most of the better seats can be found for below their obscene face value on Stub Hub. I cant really say the franchise has been a source of much joy of late.
I almost find myself wishing for things to finally bottom out so that Fred and Jeff will just sell the team. I dont see much hope of significant change until then.


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Essayist, poet, playwright, and short story writer Vivian grew up in the Dundee neighborhood of Omaha. He has had over twenty plays produced off and off-off Broadway. Several have been published, with monologues appearing in the international anthologies Best Men and Women's Stage Monologues from 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998. He holds the PhD in English from University of Nebraska — Lincoln. Among his most recent plays is Something is Wrong, performed in Omaha by the Blue Barn Theatre. He also adapted Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts for Studio Arena Theatre in Buffalo, New York, which premiered in February, 2006. His work has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Creative Nonfiction, Glimmertrain, Georgia Review, Jabberwock, Janus Head, Massachusetts Review, The New York Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, River Teeth, Sycamore Review, Turnrow, and elsewhere. His essays have been included in the list of Notable Essays in Best American Essays for the years 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, and 2005. His collection of creative nonfiction, Cold Snap as Yearning, (University of Nebraska Press, 2002) won the Midland of Society Awards in for Nonfiction and the Nebraska Book Award for Nonfiction in that same year. Many of the book's essays first appeared in Harper's, Creative Nonfiction, Salt Hill, Sycamore Review, Seneca Review, and elsewhere. He was a finalist for the 2004 Iowa Short Fiction Award for his collection Eating the Bible. His first novel, The Mover of Bones, was published by the University of Nebraska Press in 2006. It was followed by two more: Lamb Bright Saviors and Another Burning Kingdom, parts two and three of The Tall Grass Trilogy, also from the University of Nebraska Press, which has also published a collection of essays, The Town That Burns Eternity Into Your Soul. His most recent book is The Least Cricket of Evening (University of Nebraska Press, 2011).


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Burisma Holdings, Ukraines largest private gas producer, has expanded its Board of Directors by bringing on Mr. R Hunter Biden as a new director.
http://burisma.com/hunter-biden-join...isma-holdings/R. Hunter Biden will be in charge of the Holdings legal unit and will provide support for the Company among international organizations. On his new appointment, he commented: Burismas track record of innovations and industry leadership in the field of natural gas means that it can be a strong driver of a strong economy in Ukraine. As a new member of the Board, I believe that my assistance in consulting the Company on matters of transparency, corporate governance and responsibility, international expansion and other priorities will contribute to the economy and benefit the people of Ukraine.
The Chairman of the Board of Directors of Burisma Holdings, Mr. Alan Apter, noted: The companys strategy is aimed at the strongest concentration of professional staff and the introduction of best corporate practices, and were delighted that Mr. Biden is joining us to help us achieve these goals.
R. Hunter Biden is a counsel to Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP, a national law firm based in New York, USA, which served in cases including Bush vs. Gore, and U.S. vs. Microsoft. He is one of the co-founders and a managing partner of the investment advisory company Rosemont Seneca Partners, as well as chairman of the board of Rosemont Seneca Advisors. He is an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown Universitys Masters Program in the School of Foreign Service.
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The provincial government says the continued decline in size of the George River caribou herd in Labrador makes it necessary to implement a five-year hunting ban. But at least one aboriginal group is not buying that story.
"We've been talking to our elders, and they did not agree to a total ban on our people," said Prote Poker, grand chief of the Innu Nation. "We always favour conservation, but a total ban is not justified."
According to the provincial government's most recent census results, the size of the herd is now less than 20,000 caribou. That is more than a 70 per cent decline from the July 2010 estimate of 74,000. In the late the 1980s, the herd's size was believed to be 800,000.
"The George River herd continues to experience a very serious decline, and strong action is required by our government to address the immediate and long-term protection of this important resource," said Environment and Conservation Minister Tom Hedderson.
"Our first priority is conservation of these animals, and that is why we are imposing a total allowable harvest of zero on this herd."
Hedderson said the ban will be reviewed in two years based on the herd's status and health.
Aboriginal Affairs Minister Felix Collins, who sat alongside Hedderson and Justice Minister Darin King at a news conference Monday afternoon, said discussions have taken place over the course of several weeks with aboriginal groups that traditionally hunt caribou. Some of those groups had already publicly discouraged their members from harvesting the George River herd.
Hedderson said that Nick McGrath, minister responsible for Labrador affairs, had recently held discussions with the Innu Nation on the matter. Poker confirmed that when speaking with The Telegram. He implied that the Innu Nation is not subject to such decisions ordered by the province.
"He called me this afternoon with that decision, and I said, 'We're not a part of that decision.'"
King said fish and wildlife enforcement officers are regularly monitoring the hunt in Labrador.
"We are conducting patrols with vehicles, snowmobiles and heli-copters. We also have additional resources at our disposal should the need arise. There is an operation plan in place with fish and wildlife, and it's prepared to handle situations where we may have to deal with large groups of hunters."
Poker knows what to expect if his people choose to not recognize the hunting ban implemented by the province.
"We anticipate that we will hunt and we will get charged for it. That's the measure we will take, because we don't condone this at all."
Willing to reduce harvest
Poker said the Innu Nation is willing to reduce the number of caribou it hunts in the interest of conservation. In recent years, the group has killed approximately 800-900 animals annually.
That figure was down to 680 last year, and Poker said the Innu Nation was willing to limit its hunt to 300 caribou in 2013.
Caribou hunted by the Innu Nation is not sold, according to Poker, and the animal has important ceremonial value for the Mukushan — a communal meal of caribou meat.
"We recognize and respect aboriginal culture and traditions," said Collins during the news conference at the Confederation Building. "But in this case, given the decline of the George River caribou herd, the need for conservation must be paramount."
Reacting to the decline in size of the herd, Poker said elders within the Innu Nation pointed to past incidents of dramatic decline in wildlife populations that later rebounded.
Members of the Innu Nation harvested 70 caribou last week, and Poker said elders have commented on the quality of the caribou, believing they are healthier in comparison to recent years.
"They think the caribou is coming back."
The 2012 fall classification data found five per cent of caribou in the herd were calfs and two per cent were large stags. Both those figures were down from the previous government figure for 2011 of 10 per cent and three per cent respectively.
Information from the caribou health-monitoring program also indicated that pregnancy rates were low in the herd, according to Hedderson.
Torngat Mountains MHA Randy Edmunds, a Liberal member, said the ban cannot be effective without involvement from Quebec, a province the herd navigates in addition to Labrador.
"I've always maintained that in the name of conservation, you need to get the stakeholders involved. There's no mention of a co-management board.
"I think that's the key. That brings the aboriginal groups and the governments to the table (and) gives that group the decision-making process."
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Well, instead of working on the new page layout as I had hoped, I spent some time perusing the saltwater sportsman site. Overall, I got the impression that I was reading a magazine - without the magazine. The stories are deferred to something you get with a subscription, sometime later on somewhere else. Clearly their intent is to sell you the magazine.
Although I agree with their arrangement of the active forum as a "what's happening NOW" thing (the same plan we've had all along), the rest of their forums are just more piles of conversational "chat" that are not real-time. You'd have to spend a lot of time to get anything of value out of it due to the low quality of the average post (IMHO).
They clearly have the opportunity to create a lot of interest, particularly if they connect the resources of their magazine into the conversational element of their fourms, but despite being a small fry in the game right now I have hopes of being a better fish than they are as an overall web experience. I don't see their site as a place where I can get involved, or make anything happen in the world of flyfishing. Despite their offering exactly the kind of contest I want to offer someday (same island too!) I don't feel like I can get involved and get anything for my efforts.
Great forum though, I'll put them on our list of "cool links" for saltwater.
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Sully -
Just to be straight, it's great to have you around this forum! Neutrality is never in question, and your involvement is certainly appreciated.
Some of you were around when we were testing a bunch of different BB software options. One was very similar to that one but it actually had a few extra features that were in some ways superior to Saltwater Sportsman's board. You could collapse and expand threads, or look at them in three different views.
We evaluated four over all. I decided to keep this one because the other boards get highly conversational, and not much is kept for posterity. I had hoped this forum would be something of a self-perpetuating archive, particularly in the fly pattern archives and other categories.
The good news is that we are educated about the other forums and can plug them in in a day or two. I am considering providing the other style forum for general discussion and keeping this one for product reviews and fly patterns.
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My dog sleeps about 14 hours a day. He has his food prepared for him. He can eat whenever he wants, 24/7/365. His meals are provided at no cost to him. He visits the Vet once a year for his checkup, and again during the year if any medical needs arise. For this he pays nothing. He lives in a nice neighborhood in a house that is much larger than he needs, but he is not required to do any upkeep. If He makes a mess, someone else cleans it up. He has his choice of luxurious places to sleep. He receives these accommodations absolutely free. He has absolutely no expenses whatsoever. All of his costs are picked up by others who go out and earn a living every day.
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This is my pup Tank's first year hunting. He is 15 months now and has progressed very nicely through training. The problem I have is that he breaks every time a shot is fired by shotgun. I train using a retrieve r trainer with yellow medium load. He does not break when this is fired and is rock solid. Today while hunting he broke even when other guys across the swamp were shooting, tearing his steak out of the ground twice before I put him up. After the hunt I took out the retrieve r trainer and put him back in the blind to see if it was the environment. Fired three shots and he was once again rock solid. I would like to know if anyone else has had this issue and what they have done to remedy it. Thanks in advance. Merry Christmas.
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Credit-card experts explain the extent of Obama's deception
posted at 1:12 pm on October 29, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
After writing twice about the deliberate decision by the Barack Obama campaign to avoid validation checks on credit-card contributions, I've heard from a number of people in the credit-card industry on how this works. Two explanations in particular explain the depth of deliberation and deception involved in disregarding address and security-code verification. The first explains that Team Obama probably didn't just opt out of using these verification processes, but more likely rewrote the code on their site to bypass them, emphases mine:
I have over 30 years of experience in investigating Credit Card Fraud and I can tell you, which you may or may not know, that the merchant acquirer that is conducting the collection of credit / debit card for the Obama campaign are responsible for the actions to be taken regarding the Address Verification System responses. The value of the AVS system is that the issuer of the card being used provides back to the merchant acquirer a response based upon the information provided during the authorization process. This response indicates to the merchant acquirer if the card information was validated as to ownership of the account. It is the merchant acquirer that determines what to do when the authorization response is received. In most cases the transaction that comes back with any negative meaning is denied. However, if the merchant acquirer has adjusted their system to accept any response as acceptable the transaction would be completed.
The value of the AVS system is to deny Card Not Present transactions (CNP) which are suspicious. This protects the merchant against charge backs for bad transactions. What is interesting to me is that the merchant acquirer has knowingly violated a basic CNP fraud prevention technique to accommodate a merchant (Obama Campaign). I think that both the Associations (VISA & MasterCard) would be highly interested in looking at the merchant acquirer that was processing these transactions. The value of ignoring the AVS responses is that multiple invalid transactions may be made without fear of being rejected by the authorization systems. This means that the real owner of the credit card account is willing to allow multiple transactions to be made on the account using different names and addresses that under normal conditions would be denied. The merchant acquirer has a complete listing of all transactions done and it would be very interesting to see how many transactions were conducted on the same account number using different names. I would think that this would be a Federal violation under the current campaign funding laws.
Another fraud-prevention veteran notes that Team Obama has at the least provided a testing ground for thieves looking to validate responses:
You may have mentioned this elsewhere, but disabling the security allows would be credit card thieves to "ping" numbers till they get a hit. The number of "pings" should have raised flags at Visa and MasterCard, don't you think?
I wonder if they warned the Obama campaign, or worse, ignored it.
In other words, a crook could simply type in random numbers until he found one sequence that worked in some fashion. That could give a thief a starting point for committing credit-card fraud. If all they had to do was type nonsense values for names and addresses, such as Doodad Pro, they could quickly determine which numbers were valid — and they could probably program bots to do that kind of work.
Thanks to Team Obama, millions of people now have to wonder whether they've been victimized by credit thieves. Some of us wonder if the thieves aren't really working at Team Obama in the first place.
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