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Tiered caching, also called hierarchical caching, lets you isolate data management to one or more servers, allowing multiple clients to connect and use the server caches. This is the model for scalability, with many clients benefitting from the management resources of just a few servers.
In GemFire Enterprise hierarchical caching, there is a server-side distributed system and one or more client-side distributed systems. The server VMs run BridgeServers that listen on unique ports for data requests and updates from clients. The clients forward all data requests their caches cannot fulfill to the servers. To do this, they use a custom data loader, the BridgeLoader. The clients might also be configured with a custom listener, called the BridgeWriter, that updates the servers when data is modified on the client side. In the
HierarchicalServer.xml file for the cache server used in this example, note that the BridgeServer is defined for the entire cache. It services requests from any client for any region in the cache.
HierarchicalClient example is an interactive C# program that uses Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 to access the GemFire C++ API for modifying and viewing cache contents.
Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 must be installed before running this example. For information about installing the .NET Framework, see the GemFire Enterprise Native Client Guide.
HierarchicalClient demonstrates a server in a tiered hierarchical caching setup. The client application comes with a cache configuration file,
HierarchicalClient.xml, which is configured to create a root region and establish the native client endpoints to the locally-run server by specifying
HierarchicalClient cache listens for client requests at a specific port (see
HierarchicalServer.xml). The client connects to the cache server's port, sending data requests and updates. At the beginning, both the server and client cache regions are empty.
When you run the example it will:
Examples that interact with a Java cache server require specific environment configurations so the Java cache server will run properly. Follow the configuration steps listed below that apply to your operating system:
examples/EnvSetup.html. Refer to the developer's
guide if you need help with this step.
JAVA_HOME and
GF_JAVA_HOME environment variables to your installed Java JRE or JDK. See the Installation chapter of the GemFire Enterprise System Administrator's Guide for the versions of Java that are compatible with GemFire Enterprise. The
JAVA_HOME setting is for your applications, and
GF_JAVA_HOME is for the GemFire scripts. You must have a compatible Java JRE or JDK installed and you must set
JAVA_HOME and
GF_JAVA_HOME to point to it.
$JAVA_HOME/bin to the start of your
set CLASSPATH=%GEMFIRE%\quickstart\classes;%CLASSPATH%
The following is a list of the environment configuration commands for the
HierarchicalClient example. Choose the set of commands that are appropriate for your operating system. The text that you type is shown in bold.
These configurations only need to be performed for the sessions that invoke the Java cache server.
Bourne and Korn shells (sh, ksh, bash)
% cd GemFireInstallDirectory
% CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:$GEMFIRE/quickstart/classes; export CLASSPATH
% cd $GEMFIRE/quickstart
% JAVA_HOME=<Installed JRE PATH>; export JAVA_HOME
% GF_JAVA_HOME=$JAVA_HOME; export GF_JAVA_HOME
% PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH; export PATH
> cd GemFireInstallDirectory
> set CLASSPATH=%GEMFIRE%\quickstart\classes;%CLASSPATH%
> cd %GEMFIRE%\quickstart
> set JAVA_HOME=<Installed JRE PATH>
> set GF_JAVA_HOME=%JAVA_HOME%
> set PATH=%JAVA_HOME%\bin;%PATH%
To run the
HierarchicalClient example, create a session from the GemFire Enterprise product directory and complete the following steps. Throughout this example, when you're prompted to enter the native client directory, replace the
xxxx in
NativeClient_xxxx with the actual four-digit product version number.
This first session starts the Java cache server.
Configure the session environment according to the steps listed in Configuring the Environment.
%GEMFIRE%/quickstart directory.
cd %GEMFIRE%/quickstart
java quickstart.HierarchicalServer
The server creates
/root/exampleRegion and prompts you to start the
HierarchicalClient application.
cli_HierarchicalClient example directory:
cd \NativeClient_xxxx\examples\cli_HierarchicalClient
HierarchicalClient application:
The client session does a
get for
Key2, and
Key3, then forwards the requests to the cache server. The server session reports that the values have been retrieved.
In the client session
Enter, as prompted. The client session reports a series of entry updates and destroys, which are forwarded to the cache server.
In the server session
The listener for the cache server reports create, update, and destroy events resulting from the modified entries.
In the client session
Enterto end the application, then type
Exitto close the session.
In the server session
Enterto end the cache server, then type
Exitto close the session.
This product ships configured to run with default system properties. If you need to run in a non-default configuration, GemFire also takes a system-level configuration file. To configure a .NET client, rename any
gfcpp.properties file currently in the example directory, then copy
gfcpp.properties file into your
cli_HierarchicalClient directory from the
defaultSystem directory. Edit the
gfcpp.properties file in your
cli_HierarchicalClient directory, as needed.
If you also need to make a non-default configuration for the Java cache server, rename any
gemfire.properties file currently in the
%GEMFIRE%/quickstart, then copy
gemfire.properties into the
/quickstart directory from the
%GEMFIRE%/defaultConfigs directory and edit it. For example, to change the name of the
cache.xml file, uncomment this line and change the file name:
When you're done with the example, delete your edited versions of
gemfire.properties and
gfcpp.properties, then restore the renamed original versions to their original names so other examples can use the unedited files.
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Peter Chaveas, former U.S. ambassador to the Republic of Sierra Leone, will speak on "Peace in Sierra Leone: Not Yet Sustainable" at 4:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 21, in 16 Robertson Hall.Chaveas, who served in Sierra Leone from 2001 to 2004, was a foreign service officer for more than 35 years, spending much of that time in Africa. Last year, he became deputy director of the Africa Center for Strategic Studies at the National Defense University.
The center's mission is to strengthen the development of Africa's civil and military leaders, expand democratic governance and improve communications among leaders in Africa, Europe and the United States through programs in civil-military relations, national security studies and defense economics.Chaveas was a mid-career fellow from 1979 to 1980 and a member of the senior seminar from 1990 to 1991 in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, which is sponsoring the talk with the Program in African Studies. It is one of a series of Ambassadors Forum lectures.


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I got to St. Truidan after 66km ride at 6pm. There was a festival going on in the main square, a festival of the clearly-unsafe-and-uninsured-thirty-year-old-travelling-fairground kind that we all know and love. The tourist office was closed, so I asked around for an internet cafe. After a couple of mistakes/miscommunications/downright lies, I was directed to the library, where I used the internet (for free-bargain). The internet, bless its little heart, tried hard, really hard, to find the nearest campsite. I know it did, I trust it. This campsite was, precisely, 41.5km further on.
Several firsts were achieved this day. First 100km ride - hopefully the second won't be too soon; first night ride - fortunately, I am a clever boy and among the things I bought in Lille and Brussels were a headlamp and a compass; first worrying twinge in my left knee - this has reappeared a couple of times, but so far not escallated to anything serious.
I arrived at around 10pm, after only asking 2 people where it was and backtracking once. There was a bar there. By 11pm I was washed, changed, and in it, telling the freindly locals what I'd done and how great I felt and how I could do it again. I did feel great, and at that moment, I could have done it again. The next morning, however, I could barely move.
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Thread: Betta getting fins ripped/nipped
Betta getting fins ripped/nipped
i have a male betta in a 25 gallon aquarium with 8 cherry barbs, 6 leopard danios and 4 peppered cory cats. i noticed yesterday that his fins might be getting nipped by the other fish or ripped on the plastic plants and im thinking about moving him into his own tank. i currently have a 1/2 gallon betta jar. now this obviously way to small for him so i'm gonna purchase a new tank for him probably between 2-5 gallon in size. can anyone give some advice because he might get depressed going from a 25 gallon to a 2-5 gallon tank?
Sounds like your danios are nipping your betta. They sometimes get nippy when they aren't in a proper school; 6 really is the bare minimum amount for schooling fish. The best advice I can give you is to get the biggest tank you can for your betta; the bigger the tank, the easier it will be to maintain pristine water quality. Make sure to cycle it first and buy a heater. In the meanwhile perform at least 50% water changes every other day (more is better if you can) for your betta in a bowl and keep him in a warm room away from drafts.
couldn't i take water from the fully cycled tank he's already in and put it in the new tank?
Well, no... the problem with that would be that the nitrifying bacteria lives in your filter media, not suspended in water. You can run a small additional filter on your 25 gallon for about a month and then transfer it to your new 5 gallon. You could also see if a LFS will provide you with used filter media, this way your tank will be instantly cycled.
Also... (please no one gang up on me for suggesting this...) I have had success with a nitrifying bacteria in a bottle by the name of Dr Tim's One and Only. If you give this a shot you must use the entire bottle! Some people swear by it, others are skeptics. It basically claims to work by greatly speeding up the cycle and keeping amonia levels throughout at a minimun.
Most people here, however, will suggest you get your hands on some cycled media. Ultimately, that is the only guaranteed way to safely get your betta into a new tank at once.
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Do not put your betta in anything smaller than a 5gal (with a filter rated for at least 10gal)- they come in those little cups in the LFS only for display - not for permanent housing LOL
I agree it would be to the fish's benefit to run its own filter on your larger tank for a few weeks - either that or put some used media into the new filter to "seed" the new media with bacteria and then put the new filter onto the new tank along with the fish.
If you want to move your betta sooner than it would take to cycle a second filter, you have a few options.
One is to move the betta into the new tank and maintain it unfiltered and heated. This would entail daily water changes. If you did this, you could keep the second filter on the original tank until it has a colony of bacteria. Unfortunately, you don't really have any way of determining when the colony is large enough to handle the bioload in the betta tank, so you might risk moving it over too soon and then dealing with ammonia spikes or waiting longer than you really needed to.
Another option is to cycle the tank with the betta in it. This will also entail daily water changes and careful monitoring of the ammonia level. It won't be faster than leaving the second filter on the original tank and might even take longer.
A third option is to house the betta in a temporary tank (unfiltered/heated as in option 1) while you cycle a tank using ammonia. That would probably take 12-14 days, and it's the option I would choose. It's very close to what I did (except that I wasn't moving my betta from a hostile environment with other tankmates but from a smaller uncycled tank to a larger cycled tank).
Of course, you could just keep the betta in the current tank while the second tank cycles, but that risks more fin damage and stress. Is there any way that you could partition the tank temporarily to reduce those risks?
Just take filter "gunk" from your 25g filter and put it in your new 5g filter. That should be enough to pretty much instantly cycle the 5g. That way, you can move the betta immediately."The Dumpster Tank" 26g flat back hex - Bolivian rams, Checker barbs, Harlequin and porkchop rasbora, neon tetra, SAE, otocinclus
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Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.
Why pretend there are no stupid questions? Actually, There are many stupid questions: "Should I drink this bleach?" Is just one example.
Having said that, Just because it's a stupid question doesn't mean that it shouldn't be asked. It's better to know.
A warm beer is better than a cold beer. Because nothing is better than a cold beer, and a warm beer is better than nothing.
There is a lot of different opinions on how to keep bettas. While keeping them in tanks 5 gallon or larger, heated and filtered , is really ideal, people successfully keep bettas in smaller tanks that aren't cycled. I think it's one 50% water change once a week and 1 100% change weekly as well. Heating is absolutely necessary. You still have monitor your params, which could get to be a big PITA if you don't have a cycle (anything under 5 gal is hard to cycle)
Now, what I've done is fish-in cycle for the great majority of my bettas...one is in a 10g, the sorority is 20g. I only fishless cycled my first betta tank. I used Seachem stability, every single day and checked my parameters once a day,with water changes as needed. I also have lots of plants in both these tanks. All my fish were fine, thriving and growing. Bettas, because they have evolved to handle stagnant water, can take a lot more water fluctuations in stride than many other fish. But just because they can doesn't mean they should be exposed to high levels of anything. But doing a fish-in cycle should be fine, or if you have to house the fish in a heated jar for a few days, that should be fine too as long as you're checking everything and being responsible with your water changes.
I think, and I'm sure this will get me some tomatoes, that fish have different needs and tolerances in some cases. In my estimation, bettas are quite different than, say, danios in many ways, and therefore can be treated differently if necessary. Sometimes they even require it. Healthy bettas are not fragile, so if you have put him in a less-than-idea situation for a little bit, he will probably be fine. They are also pretty flexible...you may find he doesn't really care much as long as you give him time to adjust.Beth
1 - 55 gallon planted community
3 - 10 to 20 gallon planted betta tanks
My advice: slow down, think, and be willing to learn. Then you'll be fine, no matter what.


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Hope has placed 12 swimmers on the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) all-conference teams announced by the league's coaches. Both Hope teams captured league championships this season.
Three senior athletes achieved All-MIAA distinction a fourth consecutive year -- Audrey Arnold of Richmond, Ind. (Richmond HS), Ian Kobes of Holland, Mich. (Holland HS), and Michelle Smith of Olympia, Wash.
Joining Arnold and Smith on the All-MIAA women's team are sophomore Lisa Ekdom of Holland, Mich. (Holland Christian HS), sophomore Meagan O'Neil of Troy, Mich. (Troy HS), freshman Lisa Smith of Dearborn, Mich. (Dearborn HS), and junior Erika Steele of Portage, Mich. (Portage Northern HS). Ekdom, O'Neil and Steele are each being honored a second time.
Joining Kobes on the All-MIAA men's team are sophomore Kurt Blohm of Wilmington, Ohio (Wilmington HS), senior Ross Geurink of Hudsonville, Mich. (Hudsonville HS), senior Chris Hamstra of Zeeland, Mich. (Zeeland HS), junior Jeff Heydlauff of Chelsea, Mich. (Chelsea HS), and junior Matt Waterstone of Holland, Mich. (Holland HS).


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Cross/fade wrote:You crazy Portuguese person. What are you doing here ?
omfg first time u didn't call me Spanish
I am here trying to guess why the hell are u so popular naw
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Domovoy992 wrote:Not bad...
ReXMaster wrote:3/5 since alot better from u this video just seems like u were lazy and wanted to make something with this song but stull not bad editing ^^
Sayco wrote:What to say... Crossu generally good job, nicely matched anime and the song, like those atmosphere - Irish song and the beer that floooows everywhere, haven't seen Spice and Wolf so probably I didn't get the whole story that you told still I have a good impression of this one
Sephirothishere wrote:Cross/fade wrote:You crazy Portuguese person. What are you doing here ?
omfg first time u didn't call me Spanish
I am here trying to guess why the hell are u so popular naw
Fizziks wrote:This was a fun video to watch. The mood and atmosphere of this AMV was perfect.
Hagaren Viper wrote:You know, for all the good things Ive heard about this series, Ive never actually *seen* any footage or anything. You really took advantage of the atmosphere of the series, this kinda song really goes well with the scenes you used. The song itself was different from the average song choice...it was actually really refreshing in a way.
Some of the clips seem to be a little offbeat, but that might possibly be because I streamed rather than downloaded?
Sounds like this must have been fairly hard to make with the kind of clips you had, so nice work~ 4/5
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I haven't watch the anime yet, but now I really want to
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Nice interesting story and nice interesting song choice. I liked the lyric sync and overall mood of this video. Good job
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Phantasmagoriat wrote:so simple and so effective.
keep it up
Ryko89 wrote:BEST AMV EVER!!!
The amount of beer consumed through this amv is the equivalent to win
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Dubbed "An Orchestra of Human Voices," SIX combines the musical showmanship and boundless energy of six remarkable brothers (Barry, Kevin, Lynn, Jak, Owen and Curtis). Their intense high-octane energy, electrifying stage presence, and powerhouse vocals combine to create a truly amazing entertainment experience. Now in their sixth year in Branson Missouri, SIX has perfected the vocal sounds of more than just lyrics, but also instrumentation and sound effects. The playlist for their current show set features everything from Elvis, Frankie Valli, Beach Boys and Tom Jones to LMFAO, MC Hammer, Kansas, Coldplay and Journey. Captivating audiences with comedy and family stories like only blood-brothers can, the masterful command of their voices take listeners on a roller coaster of emotion.


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Hit the lot at 4:30am and headed for a spot I heard birds last week. 5:20 hit the crow call and one blows off below me. Move down closer and the bird is on the wrong side of the road, no problem as I set up on the other side 20yds back off the road. As it gets lighter I can see him on the limb 80yds or so out gobbling his head off. I try a couple soft yelps on 2 boxes and no answer, try the pot and he gobbles. I am hiding along side a large tree and peaking around to watch him. I will reset my spot when they come off the limbs. 6:15 fly-down and I quick rotate my seat to his side of the tree. If they come to feed they will be 40yds out. I hear faint clucking and soon a hen pops out of the brush toward me. Then a gobbler blows off and I believe we are in business. 3 toms emerge from brush behind the hen and one starts strutting. Boom Boom time as I take out the struter at 45 paces. Its 6:30 and I have a large jake down. I head back to truck, dropped off the bird and proceeded to round up 3 more jakes and I believe a mature bird I hope to take next week. I did not call once they hit the ground
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Only one more week left in the UK. We're up tomorrow morning early to head down to Weymouth, where we're going to catch the ferry to Jersey too stay in St Aubin for a couple of days with some guys I'm working for. It sounds like they might be putting a lot more work my way, so it'll be nice to meet them. It'll also be nice to see Jersey, and a nice experience for Mee's last week in the UK.
It is now becoming almost unbearable. I listed all the niggles I've got with the hardware in a previous post. I switched (why!?) from Debian Unstable to Fedora Core 2 a couple of weeks ago, which broke a lot of stuff. I had to frig around to get MP3s working, and even now I haven't got half the useful applications working that I had before. I then made the situation worse by installing GNOME 2.8 (out of CVS) into /opt/gnome, which has taken out some of my panel applets, keyboard shortcuts (Alt-Tab) and other stuff because when I did it I ran out of time too tie up all the loose ends. I decided I wanted to go back to Debian, and along came Ubuntu Linux.
So, I downloaded and cut a CD, but for some reason my laptop (Dell Inspiron 8100) just freezes during the initial stages of the Debian installer. I cut another CD and checked MD5SUMs, so it's not a defective CD. Now, I must struggle on and get some work done on an 'only-just-usable' laptop. I'm now considering my next laptop purchase, and if I can hold out long enough to save up for one, I'm considering one of the new PowerBooks (15" or 17" would be fine!) with the ATI graphics cards (nVidia can suck my cock). Which brings me nicely to working out how to pay for it...
I've always had a love/hate relationship with GnuCash. One one hand, it lets me track all my financial accounts and transactions, but on the other, it's written in Python, and looks ugly with it's GTK1 interface. I've got nothing against Python as a scripting language, I just think that desktop applications should be implemented in C. I now have a considerable amount of data built up in GnuCash files, some of which I need to do a certain amount of post-processing that doesn't seem to be possible in GnuCash. Also, GnuCash won't work on my iPAQ, which is how I (eventually) want to input transactions.
So, I figured I'd start by analysing GnuCash's XML format and preparing some C data structures for them. I'd then write file parsing and writing functions, and wrap them up in some kind of 'libgnucashfile' library. I figured this shouldn't be too hard, and would pave the way for a set of Glade interfaces and some code to provide a GUI to maintain the files. Eventually, you could re-implement all of GnuCash this way, or just use GnuCash for the bits it does better.
I've made a lot of progress with converting the internal translation message structure to use the new gettext API directly. I found that I was wasting a lot of time trying to fix up things that I didn't feel belonged in gtranslator (at least, not in a GTK2-based program), such as colour-schemes and configurable fonts etc. Also, code to uncompress po files before editting, or work on compiled po files seem to me to be a kind of 'feature bloat' now. All this stuff is handled by other programs (e.g. fonts and colorschemes are now handled by GNOME/freedesktop, and users file manager should uncompress a po.gz file and run gtranslator on the temp file - no need to attempt this in gtranslator). Re-writing all this unnecessary stuff to work with the new internal structures proved to be more hassle than it was worth.
So, I'm stuck with a monolithic patch that changes far too much and wondering how to commit it in a clearly defined set of stages without reducing gtranslator in CVS to a largely rewritten beta version. I want gtranslator to follow the upcoming six month GNOME development cycle, and have a fully-featured translation editor by the time GNOME 2.10 (or whatever) hits the mirrors.


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By Tiernan Ray
Shares of MetroPCS (PCS) are in play following the company's announcement yesterday it would merge with Deutsche Telekom's (DTEGY) T-Mobile USA unit, as Bloomberg's Aaron Kirchfeld, Serena Saitto, and Scott Moritz this morning report that multiple unnamed sources tell them Sprint-Nextel (S) is willing to make a bid for the company to top Deutsche's offer.
The sources tell the authors Sprint has been talking with advisors "to evaluate the feasibility of a higher offer," and that the effort to "reevaluate" a PCS bid started a week ago.
PCS shares fell almost 10% yesterday as analysts wrote that the effective take-out price implied in the recap was merely in line with sector valuations, offering shareholders no premium whatsoever.
PCS shares today are down 24 cents, or 2%, at $12. Sprint stock is off 11 cents, or 2%, at $5.09.
Update: Reflecting on the Bloomberg report, Stifel Nicolaus Sprint analyst Christopher King reiterates a Hold rating on the shares, writing that Sprint "is in an increasingly difficult position here":
A TMO-PCS deal does leave Sprint Nextel out in the cold from an M&A perspective, and without a large, transformational deal, we question Sprint Nextel's long-term future, positioning within the US wireless industry, and current valuation. However, we also note that Sprint's board of directors shot down a proposed deal for Metro PCS earlier this year, as reports suggested directors felt that Sprint's management team had enough operational issues on its plate without another integration to deal with.
Sprint shares today closed down 11 cents, or 2%, at $5.09, while PCS stock rose 54 cents, or 4.4%, to close at $12.78.


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Lots of people who come to The George in Rye are always surprised that we have so many English Wines on our list. Any cynicism is usually blown away when we persuade them to try a glass or two! it makes perfect sense, really; we're slap bang in the middle of English Wine-making country, which is concentrated in the chalky soils along Kent and Sussex.
We're lucky enough to be collaborating with English Vine Tours this summer, an organisation which offers group and bespoke guided visits and tastings to our best vineyards. Think Sideways but with an Anglo twist! Look out soon for the launch of private wine tours for Georgers, or shouls that be Georgians….. in the meantime, we interviewed the fittingly named Georgie Furst, the founder of English Vine Tours, about the revolution taking place in our vineyards. What she doesn't know about English wines isn't worth asking.
Why do you think there's been a surge of interest in English Wines in the last couple of years?
It's really been a steady growth over the last 5-7 years really, in which time English Sparkling Wines have won numerous international awards, beating the French at their own game. This in itself has created the impetus for interest, growth and increased production. The weather in the UK has been warming over the last few years which has enabled us to ripen our grapes further which has enabled us to produce better quality wines all round. Additionally there has been a tremendous growth and interest in the production of local foods and wines.
What's the one English wine would you foist upon the cynic to change their mind and why?
Well that has to be our sparkling wines. The sub-soil structure is similar to Champagne and our sparkling wines are undisputedly amongst the best in the world. Fresh clean fruit, good mousse (fizz), subtle fruit notes on the palate balanced with refreshing acidity and hints of yeast are typical characteristics.
Is there a typical punter who comes on your tours?
We have a varied range of people booking from individuals, corporate groups to couples from London visiting for the weekend. The key common factor is the interest in visiting the vineyards and getting to understand a little bit more about how wine is made, without having to travel abroad. Another key thing to remember is that the tours are experiences so they make a perfect gift for any friend or loved one. The vineyards are set in beautiful countryside so simply make a great day out.
What vineyards are leading the way in this renaissance?
In reality all the vineyards are leading the way. They are all promoting themselves slightly differently as well as trying different things either in the vineyard or in the winery itself, thus giving us a diverse range of products.
Carr Taylor, Breaky Bottom, Sedlescombe Organic Vineyard, Ridgeview Vineyards all in Sussex, Chapel Down in Kent, Camel Valley in Cornwall, are just a few who are making not only some great wines but also making headway in promoting UK wine as a viable alternative at the dinner table and English vineyards as a tourist destination.
What's the future of English wine – top trends and tips!
The future of English wine is going from good to great and as such it is one of the few home grown industries that is experiencing growth. As our climate slowly warms, the wines that we produce will get better and better. As such it is key for us to ensure that we do not sell out to foreign investors and lose the uniqueness and individuality of what we do. Top tips would be English Pinot Noir in the next 2-3 years, and Rose wines which are growing in quality as well of course the sparkling wines. Buy some local cheese and savour!
If it wasn't 10am as we write this, we might just do that.
Look out soon for the launch of our partnership on the main George in Rye website. Till then, happy drinking!


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Updated on 29 November 2012
Genomic Replikin Count increases to the same elevated range found before the 2003 SARS outbreak
Singapore: The World Health Organization (WHO) reported four new cases of SARS-like virus in Saudi Arabia and Qatar, and the Department of Health in Singapore reported one additional case. When the first two cases were reported, BioRadar, a UK-based biotechnology company focused on predicting and preventing viral pandemics, published data on October 5, 2012, showing a rise in the genomic Replikin Count of the human SARS virus to the same levels of 2002 that preceded the lethal 2003 SARS outbreak.
At the Healthcare Emergency Management Program held by Boston University School of Medicine, US, Dr Samuel Bogoch, senior distinguished scholar of the university stated that the recent WHO and Singapore reports, coupled with the rise of the genomic Replikin Count to the same elevated range found in 2002 before the 2003 SARS outbreak, have prompted renewed calls for immediate trials of newly available synthetic Replikin vaccine, specifically developed for this unique viral strain.
An analysis of the current virus's genomic Replikin Count has revealed the count to be increased significantly above the preceding low "resting" levels of 2004-11. The identification of the modified virus, as being responsible for new cases of SARS-like respiratory virus, has raised concerns over the risk of the disease spreading. These concerns may be justified given the observed rise in the virus' genomic Replikin Count.
The established pattern of genomic Replikin Counts increasing to high levels, accompanied by sporadic lethal human cases, followed by an outbreak of rapidly replicating spreading lethal human disease, was also found in six other correct predictions in influenza made one-to-two years in advance. The geographic locations of these outbreaks were also specified, as in lethal outbreaks of H5N1 in 2006-07 in Indonesia and in Cambodia. Similarly, the highest Replikin Counts in foot and mouth disease (FMD) virus in 52 years predicted the current outbreaks of FMD in Asia and the Middle East one year in advance.
It is unusual for two currently lethal viruses with rising Replikin Counts, namely H5N1 and the SARS-like viruses, to be of concern at the same time with regard to further spread as outbreaks or pandemics. The possibility of preventing the development of influenza and coronavirus virus outbreaks and pandemics is being considered for the first time because quantitative changes in the genome have been shown in seven instances to predict strain-specific outbreaks and the particular geographic locations where outbreaks will occur.
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A newly published novel by the late best-selling writer and filmmaker Michael Crichton titled Micro was inspired in large part by his visit to the lush forests of UH Mānoa's Harold L. Lyon Arboretum.
The author-screenwriter of Jurassic Park and other blockbusters visited the Arboretum in May 2008 with his wife, Sherri, to get acquainted with the vast and varied landscape of the nation's only university botanical garden located in a tropical rainforest. He died later that year while still working on Micro.
"Some of the Arboretum's history and gardens, including the bromeliad garden, are depicted very well," said Christopher Dunn, director of the Lyon Arboretum. "Several chapters focus on action and suspense in the arboretum. Great stuff! I'm delighted with it!"
This isn't the first time that Lyon Arboretum's tropical setting has inspired creative minds. It was also filmed in the movies Jurassic Park III and Tears of the Sun – and it's been a setting for television's Hawaii Five-0.
According to former staff Alice Katajima, Crichton was a quiet man, but asked a multitude of questions, particularly of the bromeliad garden and talipot palm. Katajima gave the first-time visitors, the Crichtons, something to take home with them as a memento: a bag of jaboticaba (Brazilian grapes). "They also picked some skeletonized leaves from underneath the bodi tree," she said.
Just like his other science-fiction books and true to Crichton fashion, Micro pits nature against technology. Based in Honolulu, the Lyon Arboretum is portrayed as the "Waipaka" Arboretum. Staff who took Crichton and his wife on a tour of the arboretum are depicted as characters in the book, including Katajima (as Alyson Bender) and Raymond Baker (as Vin Drake), who had an encyclopedic knowledge of the grounds and was an employee for 38-years before he passed in 2010.
The overview on Crichton's official website states that Micro is about groundbreaking technology that has ushered in a revolutionary era of biological prospecting. Graduate students from Cambridge, Massachusetts are sent to the arboretum where they are promised access to tools that will open a whole new scientific frontier. Once they arrive, they are thrust into a hostile wilderness that reveals profound and surprising dangers at every turn, and find themselves prey to a technology of radical and unbridled power.
Crichton's fascination with the Lyon Arboretum has obviously made a lasting impression. The book was completed by science writer Richard Preston after Crichton passed away to cancer in November 2008.
For more information about the Micro, visit www.michaelcrichton.com/books-micro.html.
As a branch of the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, the arboretum serves as a center for educational activities on plants, arts, culture, geography and a range of other sciences. Approximately 34,000 visitors each year participate in classes, research projects other community activities or enjoy the beautiful plant and displays on the 200-acre grounds. The Arboretum is responsible for developing a major resource center for tropical plants with Hawaii-, Pacific Basin-, and Asian-focus, by enhancing its living plant collection and establishing an appropriate reference library and herbarium. For more information about the Harold L. Lyon Arboretum, visit www.hawaii.edu/lyonarboetum.
Top photo: The Bromeliad Garden at UH Mānoa's Harold L. Lyon Arboretum is depicted in Crichton's posthumously published book, Micro.


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Most surgeons will offer you a 12 month no financing deal, look into that at least. Hope everything works out for you.
Most surgeons will offer you a 12 month no financing deal, look into that at least. Hope everything works out for you.
Very sorry to hear about your dog, that is sad and scary. I hope you can find some financial help. If there are humane societies in your area, sometimes, they may have programs or even vets that offer reduced prices, or vets that will work with you on a payment plan. I know it is hard to think when you are stressed and worried. Possibly some friend or relative could look into alternatives for you. I hope your dog makes it and you both have many years of hunting in the future.
Kim Pfister, Rainmaker Labs
Prayers sent . Please everybody put a lock on your gates to many dogs are getting away or in states like ours are being stolen.
Prayers sent hope you can find a way to make it happen.
"Feetdown Beatdown Razr's Edge"
Prayers sent...there's just nothing worse than having a dog hit by a car. Ask your vet's office about financing, most vets no longer do payment plans but they have arrangements with finance companies that can loan you the money. And if you have a credit card, that's what they're for.....who cares if you have to stay home weekend nights for a year, give up spending $ at bars, restaurants, etc., 5 yrs. later you won't remember the things you sacrificed, but you will remember your best friend.
Julie R., Hope Springs Farm
Chesapeake Bay Retrievers since 1981
Prayers sent Brother... Very sound advice from Julie R....
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Annaloughan Arrow "Bailey"
Prayers sent. Ask the vet about Credit Care program.
"You can't win until you are not afraid to lose."
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Prayers sent your way! I agree with Julie R! 6 years ago my younger sister let my dog out and didn't get her hooked up, she bolted across the road and was hit as well. Took her to the vet and she needed a great deal of surgery. I told the vet to do whatever she needed and I would find a way. I was unemployed at the time but they had no problem setting up payment plans. I never regret it and would sacrifice my "extras" for her again in a heartbeat. Good luck and keep us updated!
Prayer offered up for you and for your dog. May God help you find a way to get this done, and may He heal your buddy completely. I had a setter I lost to cancer in 2006. The vet bill was about $1600 for the surgery, best as I can remember. I lost my dog and was out alot of money, and I tell you right now, I would make payments for a long, long time if I could have my Susie back.
Surgery is just too expensive. From what my vet told me he recommended was a specialist and he said that bill would run atleast $3000. He said if he would do it he would charge minumum of $1200 but he's done very few of them and none have been recent. He was very honest and said he wouldn't be comfortable doing it and he couldn't even gaurantee he could bring Spook back to decent health for just a pet. I have the x-rays and him looking around. I'll attach the x-ray below. If anyone has had any experience with this it would be much appreciated.
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Make sure that your clothes are dried and ready for you to wear when you use the Frigidaire 7 Cubic Foot Affinity Series Red Stackable Gas Front Load Dryer with Quick Dry (FASG7073NR). This stackable dryer allows you to dry a full-size family laundry load in just minutes, as this dryer has the quickest full load dry thanks to the Quick Dry setting that drys the load in just 25 minutes! Ten (10) drying cycles enable you to wash all different types of fabrics, while the five (5) temperature selections and the five (5) dryness level selections give you an amazing versatility that is unmatched by any other dryer.
The timed dry settings allow you to set the load to dry for 30, 60, 75 or 90 minutes at a time, which means that you have the freedom to go about the house or run errands while you let the dryer do its thing. After the load is done, the status signal lights will let you know what part of the cycle it is on, while the chime lets you know that the load is ready to be unloaded from the unit. A control lock keeps the dryer from opening unexpectedly during a drying cycle, and the stainless steel dryer drum keeps your clothes drying while keeping the entire dryer durable and sturdy. With extra features like a built-in lint screen and a reversible front load door, this dryer is a perfect addition to any home.
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Financial aid totaling $3.3 billion helps Minnesota students and families pay for postsecondary education, money that is provided by the state and federal governments, colleges, and private sources. Minnesota students receive $1.5 billion in grants and scholarships, $1.6 billion in loans and $48 million in work-study earnings.
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- Minnesota State Grants, awarded to eligible Minnesota residents attending Minnesota postsecondary institutions as undergraduates
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At the onset of the Depression, governments confronted a collapse in output without the benefit of knowing what that output was. The US national accounts had yet to be invented, so the Hoover and Roosevelt administrations based policy on shards of evidence: the behaviour of stock prices, freight-car loadings, production data from particular companies. The dearth of reliable economic measures provoked a minor revolution. Simon Kuznets led the economics profession in creating statistics for gross domestic product and much more.
Now, in the wake of the financial crisis, the question is whether a new Kuznets revolution is possible today. On one side you have thinkers who call for the creation of economy-wide financial risk statistics, who pushed successfully for last year's launch of the US Office of Financial Research. On the other side is Andy Haldane, executive director for financial stability at the Bank of England. In a speech at the Fed's Jackson Hole conference last week, Mr Haldane subversively argued that the neo-Kuznets vision could be a trap.
It is easy to see why this vision is attractive. The crisis has shown that economic performance ought to be judged in terms of risks as well as quantities. In pure quantity terms, gross domestic product growth in the US, Britain or Spain was robust in the years up to the crisis. But adjusted for risk, these countries' records were considerably less good. Just as sophisticated fund managers have long measured their performance by some version of the Sharpe ratio – returns divided by the risks taken to generate them – so policy makers must learn to risk-adjust macroeconomic performance.
If risk is important, the case for a data revolution seems clear. Standard metrics of risk capture leverage, or risk-weighted leverage, or exposure to the possibility that short-term credit might dry up. They do not capture the risks in currency swaps, interest rate swaps or other derivative contracts. If policy makers in the 1930s could glimpse only half the GDP elephant, their descendants arguably see an even smaller proportion of the risks in finance.
The trouble is that harvesting good data is no small challenge. In the US, the OFR has worked with the Securities and Exchange Commission to start collecting information from hedge funds. The exercise is proving costly; some hedge funds have spent 3,000 hours responding to SEC questions. Worse, the SEC's questions are so vaguely worded that many answers will be worthless. And they may have perverse consequences. Ordered to disclose all internal risk measures, funds may lighten their burden by discarding some of them. Finance may end up dicier than it was.
In a thoughtful paper, three proponents of a neo-Kuznets revolution – Markus Brunnermeier, Gary Gorton and Arvind Krishnamurthy – suggest a different way of tackling the data gap. Rather than asking dozens of unfocused questions, regulators should ask financial companies to estimate how they would fare under various stress scenarios: a change in one-year loan rates, a panic in the repo market, or some combination of such shocks. But this approach presumes that companies can calculate the answers. In practice, a shock in one corner of the system can generate aftershocks in unexpected places. How is a bank or hedge fund supposed to pinpoint its expected losses in the face of such feedbacks?
Enter Mr Haldane of the Bank of England, whose starting point is that finance features not just risk, which is quantifiable, but uncertainty, which is not. Human beings are incapable of listing all possible futures and assigning probabilities to each one. Even in a controlled game such as chess, grand masters can only grasp the consequences of all possible sequences five moves out. Finance is vastly more complex, not least because the "rules" – for instance, the relationship between long-term and short-term interest rates – are constantly in flux.
In an uncertain world, grand risk-mapping ambitions can be taken only so far. The OFR can usefully press companies to improve the quality of their data, which are often scattered among incompatible IT platforms. But regulators cannot be expected to measure all the risk in an economy; nor should they spend unlimited resources on an effort that will only disappoint. In the US and the UK, the growth of financial regulation has far outpaced that of the financial industry, as armies of supervisors seek to discover risks and neuter them. The trend is not sustainable.
For banks as for hedge funds, costly attempts to gather complex data may be counterproductive. Mr Haldane constructs a sample of about 100 global banks in 2006 and asks which of two measures predict the odds of failure in the crisis: a simple leverage ratio, measuring assets over equity; or a more complex, risk-weighted one. The answer is that the simple metric performs better. The vast expansion of the Basel rules over a quarter of a century may have achieved nothing.
None of this means that tough regulation is wrong. If complex risks cannot be finely monitored, they must be crudely capped. Leverage should be limited without wasting time on over-complex risk weighting. Derivatives should be moved on to exchanges, without shedding tears about the suffocation of complex over-the-counter products. And banks that are too complex should be broken into pieces. In financial regulation, simple is good.
The writer is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and an FT contributing editor
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What if you wanted to measure the height of a flagpole using your friend George? He is 6 feet tall and his shadow is 10 feet long. At the same time, the shadow of the flagpole was 85 feet long. How tall is the flagpole?
Indirect Measurement
An application of similar triangles is to measure lengths indirectly. The length to be measured would be some feature that was not easily accessible to a person, such as the width of a river or canyon and the height of a tall object. To measure something indirectly, you need to set up a pair of similar triangles.
Measuring Something Indirectly
1. A tree outside Ellie's building casts a 125 foot shadow. At the same time of day, Ellie casts a 5.5 foot shadow. If Ellie is 4 feet 10 inches tall, how tall is the tree?
Draw a picture. From the picture to the right, we see that the tree and Ellie are parallel, therefore the two triangles are similar to each other. Write a proportion.
Notice that our measurements are not all in the same units. Change both numerators to inches and then we can cross multiply.
2. Cameron is 5 ft tall and casts a 12 ft shadow. At the same time of day, a nearby building casts a 78 ft shadow. How tall is the building?
To solve, set up a proportion that compares height to shadow length for Cameron and the building. Then solve the equation to find the height of the building. Let represent the height of the building.
The building is feet tall.
3. The Empire State Building is 1250 ft. tall. At 3:00, Pablo stands next to the building and has an 8 ft. shadow. If he is 6 ft tall, how long is the Empire State Building's shadow at 3:00?
Similar to Example B, solve by setting up a proportion that compares height to shadow length. Then solve the equation to find the length of the shadow. Let represent the length of the shadow.
The shadow is approximately feet long.
Flagpole Problem Revisited
It is safe to assume that George and the flagpole stand vertically, making right angles with the ground. Also, the angle where the sun's rays hit the ground is the same for both. The two trianglesare similar. Set up a proportion.
The height of the flagpole is 51 feet.
In order to estimate the width of a river, the following technique can be used. Use the diagram.
Place three markers, and on the upper bank of the river. is on the edge of the river and . Go across the river and place a marker, so that it is collinear with and . Then, walk along the lower bank of the river and place marker , so that . feet, feet, feet.
Example 1
Is How do you know?
Yes. because they are both right angles. because they are vertical angles. This means by the AA Similarity Postulate.
Example 2
Is How do you know?
Since the two triangles are similar, we must have . These are alternate interior angles. When alternate interior angles are congruent then lines are parallel, so .
Example 3
What is the width of the river? Find .
Set up a proportion and solve by cross-multiplying.
The river is feet wide.
The technique from the guided practice section was used to measure the distance across the Grand Canyon. Use the picture below and , and for problems 1 - 3.
- Find (the distance across the Grand Canyon).
- Find .
- Find .
- Janet wants to measure the height of her apartment building. She places a pocket mirror on the ground 20 ft from the building and steps backwards until she can see the top of the build in the mirror. She is 18 in from the mirror and her eyes are 5 ft 3 in above the ground. The angle formed by her line of sight and the ground is congruent to the angle formed by the reflection of the building and the ground. You may wish to draw a diagram to illustrate this problem. How tall is the building?
- Sebastian is curious to know how tall the announcer's box is on his school's football field. On a sunny day he measures the shadow of the box to be 45 ft and his own shadow is 9 ft. Sebastian is 5 ft 10 in tall. Find the height of the box.
- Juanita wonders how tall the mast of a ship she spots in the harbor is. The deck of the ship is the same height as the pier on which she is standing. The shadow of the mast is on the pier and she measures it to be 18 ft long. Juanita is 5 ft 4 in tall and her shadow is 4 ft long. How tall is the ship's mast?
- Evan is 6 ft tall and casts a 15 ft shadow. A the same time of day, a nearby building casts a 30 ft shadow. How tall is the building?
- Priya and Meera are standing next to each other. Priya casts a 10 ft shadow and Meera casts an 8 ft shadow. Who is taller? How do you know?
- Billy is 5 ft 9 inches tall and Bobby is 6 ft tall. Bobby's shadow is 13 feet long. How long is Billy's shadow?
- Sally and her little brother are walking to school. Sally is 4 ft tall and has a shadow that is 3 ft long. Her little brother's shadow is 2 ft long. How tall is her little brother?
- Ray is outside playing basketball. He is 5 ft tall and at this time of day is casting a 12 ft shadow. The basketball hoop is 10 ft tall. How long is the basketball hoop's shadow?
- Jack is standing next to a very tall tree and wonders just how tall it is. He knows that he is 6 ft tall and at this moment his shadow is 8 ft long. He measures the shadow of the tree and finds it is 90 ft. How tall is the tree?
- Jason, who is 4 ft 9 inches tall is casting a 6 ft shadow. A nearby building is casting a 42 ft shadow. How tall is the building?
- Alexandra, who is 5 ft 8 in tall is casting a 12 ft shadow. A nearby lamppost is casting a 20 ft shadow. How tall is the lamppost?
- Use shadows or a mirror to measure the height of an object in your yard or on the school grounds. Draw a picture to illustrate your method.
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API Freshwater Liquid Tests Expire 1 year after opened?
I just noticed on the UK site, for each FAQ on a liquid test, it states the expiration of an unopened bottle, as well as an opened bottle for each test.
How long the test bottle lasts once it is opened depends on individual circumstances, but as a rule bottles should be discarded within 12 months of opening.
The man at my LFS said 3 years after opening, but I have no idea where he got his info from... the thing is, I really only test when something seems off or if I'm cycling a new tank, so I don't even use them up in the 3 years O_o
I would consider calling them out on it since I don't see how that reps statement and their previous statements about their expiry dates can both be true.
I cannot search on AC atm but i have posted the entire list of how long they last on several occasions, I will find it again and post it here.
In the meantime read this reply from pat the admin at :
It is relevant here and ALSO: For the record an API rep says that you DO touch the card when comparing results.
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« on: August 06, 2008, 1155 AM »
While searching the internet I came across this very informative thread on another forum. I know many use the API kits so I am copying it here. For the complete thread you can visit
Here is the post
Hello all. I have gone back & forth via email with API today, and they've given me some valuable information on the API Freshwater Master Test Kits. The original topic thread on concerns that I had about the test kit results are in a previous topic:
Basically, I was seeing nitrate test results yesterday that I found unbelievably low - zero - in an established tank.
I was very impressed with the quick responses I got from API, and my faith is restored in their test kits. I'll paste in the information from emails with API. Note - I was finally able to get a nitrate reading of 40 ppm after following their directions:
"Thank you very much for contacting us regarding our products. All of
your comments and questions are valuable. We use your feedback to
create the most effective line of aquarium and pond products available.
Your solutions are not expired. Each reagent bottle has a Lot # printed
on the bottle. The last four digits are the month and year of
manufacture. Example: Lot # 28A0102. This is a pH reagent manufactured
in January of 2002. Pond Care Wide Range pH, Ammonia, High Range pH,
Nitrate, Phosphate, Copper, Calcium and GH all last for three years.
Nitrite and KH will last for four years. Freshwater pH(low range) and
Pond Care Salt Level will last for five years. I would not trust these
kits after they have expired.
Liquid Nitrate Test Kits from any manufacturer can have a common problem
with their last test solution. For some companies, it is bottle number
3, but for us it is bottle number 2. One of the ingredients wants to
solidify out of liquid solution. If the test bottle sits for any period
of time, this can happen. If this does happen and the test is performed
without Bottle # 2 mixed properly, then you can get a falsely low
reading. I have never heard of falsely high readings with Nitrate Kits.
I would try tapping your Bottle # 2 a few times on a table or counter
top. This should loosen-up anything that has solidified. Then I would
shake this bottle for about 2-3 minutes, to really mix it up. Try the
test again and hopefully this will fix your problem. With regular weekly
usage, this bottle should only need to be shaken for 30-60 seconds.
Always check results at the recommended duration of time. Letting the
tubes sit longer can result in falsely high levels."
I then asked if heating the nitrate test solution #2 would help get the material back into solution and got this reply:
"I don't think heating is necessary, plus I don't want to degrade the
chemicals in any way. Tapping your Bottle # 2 a few times on a table or
counter top and then shaking should be adequate, but you will
immediately know with the next test."
I then asked if the proper way to match the colors was to place the test tube directly on the card, or back it up a bit, since the color can get a little darker when placed directly on the card. Since the gentleman was being so honest with me, in admitting that there could be a problem with their test solutions (or anyone elses) I thought it would be courteous to ask if I could share this information in the forums I read:
"You do touch the test tube to the color card.
It will be ok for you to share the Nitrtae Test Information. It is a
problem that every manufacturer has and we are interested in the kit
working properly for the consumer. "
As I said, the nitrate test finally gave me an expected reading, and my faith is now restored in the test kits. And I am really impressed with any manufacturer that replies quickly, tells you that there could be a problem with their product, and tells you how to fix it!
TO reiterate:
Each reagent bottle has a Lot # printed
on the bottle. The last four digits are the month and year of manufacture.
Example: Lot # 28A1012. This is a pH reagent manufactured in October of 2012.
* Pond Care Wide Range pH, ammonia, High Range pH,
Nitrate, phosphate, Copper, calcium and GH all last for three years.
* Nitrite and KH will last for four years. Freshwater pH(low range) and Pond Care Salt Level will last for five years.
* You do touch the test tube to the color card to compare test results.
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Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.
Why pretend there are no stupid questions? Actually, There are many stupid questions: "Should I drink this bleach?" Is just one example.
Having said that, Just because it's a stupid question doesn't mean that it shouldn't be asked. It's better to know.
A warm beer is better than a cold beer. Because nothing is better than a cold beer, and a warm beer is better than nothing.
Kind of odd that the apifishcare.com website does not have a FAQ on expiration of the kits, whereas the UK apifishcare.co.uk does.
Each bottle of reagent has a Lot # printed on the bottle towards the top. The last four digits of this Lot # are the month and year of manufacture. Nitrite test reagents will last 4 years from the manufactured date.
How long the test bottle lasts once it is opened depends on individual circumstances, but as a rule bottles should be discarded within 12 months of opening.
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Although this is an old thread, I found it to be an interesting read, and the info here still is valid...thanks guys


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Can I just say that this move has "Jocketty" written all over it? Talk about a big game hunter. Still remember that from a Cards forum post written about him at the time the Reds got him. And boy oh boy, is it ever true!
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My male yellow is 5.5mths old. We followed Hillman puppy DVD to a tee all the way through, probably training a bit more than the video. He is a retrieving machine with real birds and dummies.
Once hillman was done we started CC using Lardy's dvd we spent 4-5 days getting sit just right we are moving on to "here tomorrow and will take my time through this also as i dont believe there is a need to rush the basics.
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I am an elected official from Chickasaw County (county supervisor) and a substitute school teacher at Tupelo High School.
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This letter is to the City of Nettleton and the Nettleton School District, thanking them for the veterans parade and program that was held Friday, Nov. 9, 2012.
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Dart makes good heads capable of alot of power. For 780 lift they would be using big valve heads. 780 is way over kill for 2.02 valves. Solid roller sounds right but it also sounds like a max effort combo. 18 degree or other pro style heads would help alot. It does sound possible with alk and max effort build you could reach the power level it takes to put the little vega down the track.
Sbc does make a good race combo and will put the car down the track a little easier than the big fords but its all about the setup. Day one i would not expect anything close. But yeah properly built just like most any engine they will make a lot of power. Probably more than enough.
Ask him to take it to the track and run the number for you. Agree on a price if it performs and one if it dont.
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doctoral dissertation, tech. report CMU-RI-TR-07-23, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, July, 2007
|Proficient teams can accomplish goals that would not otherwise be achievable by groups of uncoordinated individuals. This thesis addresses the problem of analyzing team activities from external observations and prior knowledge of the team's behavior patterns. There are three general classes of recognition cues that are potentially valuable for team activity/plan recognition: (1) spatial relationships between team members and/or physical landmarks that stay fixed over a period of time; (2) temporal dependencies between behaviors in a plan or between actions in a behavior; (3) coordination constraints between agents and the actions that they are performing. This thesis examines how to leverage available spatial, temporal, and coordination cues to perform offline multi-agent activity/plan recognition for teams with dynamic membership.
In physical domains (military, athletic, or robotic), team behaviors often have an observable spatio-temporal structure, defined by the relative physical positions of team members and their relation to static landmarks. We suggest that this structure, along with temporal dependencies and coordination constraints defined by a team plan library, can be exploited to perform behavior recognition on traces of agent activity over time, even in the presence of uninvolved agents. Unlike prior work in team plan recognition where it is assumed that team membership stays constant over time, this thesis addresses the novel problem of recovering {agent-to-team assignment for team tasks where team composition, the mapping of agents into teams, changes over time; this allows the analysis of more complicated tasks in which agents must periodically divide into subteams.
This thesis makes four main contributions: (1) an efficient and robust technique for formation identification based on spatial relationships; (2) a new algorithm for simultaneously determining team membership and performing behavior recognition on spatio-temporal traces with dynamic team membership; (3) a general pruning technique based on coordination cues that improves the efficiency of plan recognition for dynamic teams; (4) methods for identifying player policies in team games that lack strong spatial, temporal, and coordination dependencies.
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Description The Dungeness crab, Metacarcinus magister (formerly Cancer magister), is a species of crab that inhabits eelgrass beds and water bottoms on the west coast of North America. It typically grows to 20 cm (7.9 in) across the carapace and is a popular seafood. Its common name comes from the port of Dungeness, Washington.
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