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Hoping someone can help with an issue I've just discovered in my FS9 setup. I recently updated the NZ Airspace freebie released around 2005 with the later version released in 2008. Since then, I have lost some of the waypoints at the UK entry/exit points of the NAT tracks. The NAT track files i found on Avsim (NAT ver4.0) by Gianfranco Corrias worked fine before with the old NZ Airspace file. I replaced the new NZ file with the old file & all works fine. There must be some sort of conflict with the new file. The waypoints lost are between N50 W015 & N54 W015 inclusive. I really would appreciate any help here, as i prefer the new NZ Airspace file as it includes Samoa, Tonga, Cooks, etc. Thanks guys, Ross. |
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May 9, 2012
A seasoned astronaut is among the experts who have joined a startup whose mission is to mine asteroids for precious metals and other rare substances.
The Washington Post reports that Tom Jones recently signed on as a scientific adviser to Planetary Resources. The company made waves last month when it formally announced that, armed with funding from backers such as moviemaker James Cameron and Google co-founder Larry Page, it planned to mine asteroids in outer space.
The addition of Jones to its formidable arsenal of scientists and business executives is the latest coup for the company, which is already expanding its engineering research and development initiatives. In an interview with the Post, Jones said that Planetary Resources is charting an altogether unconventional course as it works to profit from space, a feat that no company has thus far achieved.
According to Jones, the first challenge Planetary Resources must overcome in its quest is identifying specific asteroids that could potentially house valuable elemental compounds. He said that in an effort to keep costs from ballooning – an essential part of the startup's plan – researchers would use small telescopes to detect nearby asteroids. Using the specially designed engineering tools, scientists will then measure reflected sunlight to ascertain their makeup.
Jones affirmed the company is increasingly confident it will succeed in its mission, as researchers have thus far located more than 8,500 near-Earth asteroids that could potentially be studied. What's more, he noted that Planetary Resources estimates there are approximately one million such space objects that could be exploited for metals and other important compounds.
Additionally, Jones asserted that aside from elemental deposits, many asteroids are also rich in water. He said that the company hopes to pinpoint water-rich space objects and then extract the resource.
"If we can find those asteroid types, simply by concentrating sunlight on the dirt on their surface you can extract distilled water," Jones said. "That could make rocket fuel, breathing oxygen, drinking water. It goes hand in hand with lowering the cost of future space exploration. At the same time, we might find rare, strategic metals that could be returned to Earth. That's a long way off."
The planetary scientist, who flew on the Space Shuttle four times during his career as an astronaut, contended that if Planetary Resources is successful in its mission, it could help transform space travel and research, among other fields. He noted that the technologies the company is currently developing are inexpensive and innovative in a number of ways, and that they could serve as prototypes for other private businesses hoping to break into the sector.
After first distinguishing asteroids that are rich in natural resources, the company's efforts to extract such compounds would "enable exploration and … lower the cost of doing anything in space, which helps everything from tourism to setting up industrial concerns in space," Jones told the Post.
Planetary Resources is not the only company aiming to mine increasingly scarce resources in outer space, according to The Space Review. Established in 2010, Moon Express Inc. is also working to locate and procure a host of compounds outside of Earth. The company has mainly focused its engineering research on the Moon, but it is also eyeing asteroids in its work.
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After my last post on Baby Sign Language, I've received some very useful feedback from some other Mummies providing details of classes and resources that they have heard about and used. I thought I would consolidate them all here.
PS sent me the following two links which are websites that teach sign language:
American Sign Language Browser - You'll need to download Quicktime to watch the clips. This site teaches general signing that is not specifically tailored for babies. The good thing about this site is that the videos are fairly quick to load up.
Baby Hands Production: Dictionary of Signs - You'll need Windows Media Player to watch the movies on this website. I don't know if it is just my connection, but it took so long to load the video that I gave up waiting. They also sell educational DVDs but the range is quite limited compared to Signing Times.
Baby Signs - founded by Drs Acredolo and Goodwyn. I picked up one of their brochures when the hubby and I were walking through The Curve. Currently they only offer classes to parents who want to teach sign language to their children. The parent-child classes are not available at present. Personally I think it would have been better if they had started with the parent-child classes first. Baby Signs also offers a range of products from books on baby sign language to DVDs and signing cards.
Selangor Institute of Music – offers the Kindermusik program which recently launched a sign and sing class that teaches sign language to babies. They are located in Petaling Jaya near Rothman's round-a-bout.
Kidz Talent - also offers the Kindermusik program. They are located in Ikano.
I have not tried any of these classes so I can't offer any feedback although I welcome any other Mums who have tried them to comment.
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In this Crucial Questions booklet, Dr. R. C. Sproul outlines timeless principles for discovering and applying the will of God in day-to-day decisions. He then illustrates how these principles should inform two of the most significant decisions we face in life the choice of a career and the choice of a spouse. Here is valuable guidance for those who are passionate to follow God. ChristianBookPreviews.com The Crucial Questions Series, published by Reformation Trust, is a compact, five-volume series that introduces some of R.C. Sproul's writing in a new format. The first volume, Who is Jesus?, is solidly grounded in Scripture from the start in its presentation of Christ, yet it weaves other historical data throughout. It gives helpful insight into familiar titles for Jesus, such as Son of Man and Logos. The book tackles the Virgin Birth, the law of causality, and the whole realm of the miraculous. The concluding section on the significance of Christ's ascension was excellent, the implications of which are not often taught at any depth.
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Sometimes, the voice of the, LORD is silent, because ...
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"The hand of God shall be known to His servants"
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"I meditate on all Your works; I muse on the work of Your Hands"
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It keeps me busy so, I don't have to concern myself about great matters.
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Well, I woke up in July/August of last year. My senior year of high school I took a bs consumer math class (which was actually helpful because we learned things like how to balance a checkbook, investing, buying a car, interest rates, etc.) I remember we broke into groups and picked stocks to play in an imaginary account. This was January of 2000. Needless to say by April we were all done for. That was my first taste of the market.
My Dad had been a banker my whole life and talked me into making regular contributions to a brokerage account that was managed by a family member financial adviser. I put roughly 25% of my pay into this account every month only to have it LOSE money between 2001 and 2007. Go figure I found out later money was in Goldman Sachs funds.... I went on market hiatus from 2007 to 2010 due to an ex wife emptying our savings account and maxing out credit cards, then leaving me with the debt. In 2010 I returned from a second deployment overseas and another family member talked me into opening an options account and taught me the basics. Another bad move. I lost about $2100 with that gig. By this time my Dad had left the banking industry and became a financial adviser with a brokerage firm. He had talked me into managing my money during my deployment and I trusted him because he was family. This was a good move. He is the only former banker/financial services guy that doesn't cheat people out of money and tries to help them out. It's kind of weird, because he switched careers all of a sudden before the housing meltdown and I suspect it's because he could see what was coming (or the dirty things the bank was doing). Anyway, he made me a nice ROI. Between losing so much money over the last decade and having nothing to show for it, my feelings for the market were bitter hatred. Something just wasn't right, but I couldn't tell what it was. My new wife is ultra-conservative with money and would make the comment that she doesn't like the market because you never get to touch or hold what you buy. After rolling this through my head I had a "duh" moment and asked what she thought about investing in silver/gold. After buying our first ounce of silver last year she's been sold ever since - and I have, too. My first ounce was a 2011 Britannia for $48 last year. The rest is history. We have bought from that down to $27/oz with most of the buys between $27 and $33. We look over this site, Miles Frankin, Chris Duane and a host of others for our news and updates. I'll NEVER go back. Sure, it's hard not to share the "great news" with my Dad, but he's working for the Cartel and unfortunately brainwashed that paper is the answer. I feel more secure now than I ever have. When silver dropped recently, I didn't lose an ounce of sleep...or silver. Every available dollar is exchanged for metal and my wife is more supportive than ever. 401(k)? Please. We have "self-directed plans" in 100% metals and sleep better than we ever have. I woke up last summer. I'll NEVER go back and lose wealth to paper again, and I hope you won't either. |
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US Muslim placed on no-fly list is unable to see his ailing mother
SHAFAQNA (Shia International News Association) - In April of this year, Saadiq Long, a 43-year-old African-American Muslim who now lives in Qatar, purchased a ticket on KLM Airlines to travel to Oklahoma, the state where he grew up. Long, a 10-year veteran of the US Air Force, had learned that the congestive heart failure from which his mother suffers had worsened, and she was eager to see her son. He had last seen his mother and siblings more than a decade ago, when he returned to the US in 2001, and spent months saving the money to purchase the ticket and arranging to be away from work.
The day before he was to travel, a KLM representative called Long and informed him that the airlines could not allow him to board the flight. That, she explained, was because the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) had placed Long on its "no-fly list", which bars him from flying into his own country.
Long has now spent the last six months trying to find out why he was placed on this list and what he can do to get off of it. He has had no success, unable to obtain even the most basic information about what caused his own government to deprive him of this right to travel.
He has no idea when he was put on this list, who decided to put him on it, or the reasons for his inclusion. He has never been convicted of any crime, never been indicted or charged with a crime, and until he was less than 24 hours away from boarding that KLM flight back to his childhood home, had received no notice that his own government prohibited him from flying.
As his mother's health declines, he remains effectively barred from returning to see her. "My mother is much too sick to come visit me, as she has difficulty now even walking very short distances," Long told me in an interview Sunday in Doha, the sleek, booming capital city of America's close Gulf ally, where the former Senior Airman and Staff Sergeant has lived for several years.
"I don't understand how the government can take away my right to travel without even telling me," he said. What is most mystifying to him is that he has spent the last decade living and working, usually teaching English, in three countries that have been very close and compliant US allies: Egypt, United Arab Emirates, and now Qatar. "If the US government wanted me to question or arrest or prosecute me, they could have had me in a minute. But there are no charges, no accusations, nothing."
As compelling as Long's story is, it is extremely common. Last year in Washington, I met a 19-year-old Somali-American Muslim, born and raised in the US, who saved money from a summer job to purchase a ticket to travel for the first time to Somalia to visit family members he had never met. When he went to the ticket counter to check-in, he was informed that he was barred from flying and suffered the humiliation of having to return home with his luggage and then trying to explain to his employer, family and friends why he did not travel.
Like Long, that American teenager was never convicted or even charged with any crime, and was mystified and angry that his own government secretly placed him on this list, though he remains too afraid to speak out without anonymity. "I'm scared that if I do, it'll only get worse," he told me.
Like so many post-9/11 civil liberties abridgments aimed primarily at Muslims, this no-fly-list abuse has worsened considerably during the Obama presidency. In February, Associated Press learned that "the Obama administration has more than doubled, to about 21,000 names, its secret list of suspected terrorists who are banned from flying to or within the United States, including about 500 Americans."
Worse, the Obama administration "lowered the bar for being added to the list". As a result, reported AP, "now a person doesn't have to be considered only a threat to aviation to be placed on the no-fly list" but can be included if they "are considered a broader threat to domestic or international security", a vague status determined in the sole and unchecked discretion of unseen DHS bureaucrats.
But the worst cases are those like Long's: when the person is suddenly barred from flying when they are outside of the US, often on the other side of the world. As a practical matter, that government act effectively exiles them from their own country. "Obviously, I can't get to Oklahoma from Qatar if I can't fly," said Long. "Trying to take a boat would take weeks away from work just for the travel alone, and it's not affordable. If I can't fly, then I can't go back home."
Gadeir Abbas, a lawyer with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) now working on Long's case, told me:
"What is happening to Saadiq happens to American Muslims with alarming regularity. Every few weeks I hear of another Muslim citizen who cannot return to the country of which he is a citizen.
"It is as if the US has created a system of secret law whereby certain behaviors - being Muslim seems to be one of them - trigger one's placement on government watch lists that separate people from their families, end careers, and poison personal relationships. All of this done without any due process."
The ACLU has spent years challenging the constitutionality of the no-fly list in court. Representing 15 US citizens and permanent residents who have been placed on the list, including four military veterans, the civil liberties group scored a possibly significant victory this June when the 9th Circuit of Appeals reinstated their lawsuit, which a lower court judge had dismissed, and allowed the case to proceed. ACLU lawyer Nusrat Choudhury, who argued the case, told me:
"The No Fly List bars thousands of people from commercial air travel without any opportunity to learn about or refute the basis for their inclusion on the list. The result is a vast and growing list of individuals who, on the basis of error or innuendo, have been deemed too dangerous to fly but who are too harmless to arrest. Some have been stranded abroad when they suddenly found themselves unable to board planes.
"None of these Americans have ever been told why they are on the No Fly List or given a reasonable opportunity to get off it. But, the Constitution requires the government to provide our clients a fair chance to clear their names."
Long's case is both typical yet particularly compelling. Strictly on humanitarian grounds, it is outright cruel to deny a person who has been convicted of no crime the ability to see his ailing mother.
Beyond the constitutional and humanitarian questions, Long was confounded by what seems to be the utterly irrational reasoning on which the no-fly list is based. As it bars him only from flying, he remains technically free to board a cruise ship to the US, one that would be filled with American civilians. Every US citizen has the constitutional right to enter the country, so he is technically free to visit the US or return there to live if he is able to get back, to visit crowded streets and shopping malls, to board trains, in essence to do anything but fly.
"It makes no sense, so it's obvious this is meant as some kind of punishment, but for what?", he asked. "If they are so afraid of me, they can just put a law enforcement agent on the plane to escort me back home."
After learning he had been barred from flying, Long sought assistance from the US Embassy in Doha. "After many follow-up calls to the embassy," he recounted, "they finally gave me 'assistance' in the form of the website to DHS and instructions to file a complaint." On 15 May, he filed a formal complaint with DHS and received a so-called "redress control number" with a promise to review his case within 7-10 business days. Almost six months later, he is still in Doha waiting for an answer, still harboring hope that he will receive clearance to return home to visit his sick mother.
Abbas, the CAIR lawyer, told me: "It makes my stomach churn what the US does to American Muslims while they travel." Unfortunately, he said, the political reality of this issue tracks the familiar pattern of Muslims being denied the most basic rights: "there is zero political will to alter the use of endless secret watchlists that terrorize the Muslim community and make none of us any safer."
Abbas worked last year on the truly wrenching case of Gulet Mohamed, the then-18-year-old Somali-American who, while visiting Kuwait, was detained at the behest of the Obama administration, and beaten and tortured by Kuwaiti authorities while he was interrogated for two weeks. Once the Kuwaitis were done with him and wanted to release him, Mohamed - who, to date, has never been charged with any crime - faced a horrible dilemma: at some point when he was traveling, the US government placed him on a no-fly list, meaning that he could no longer stay in Kuwait, but also could not return to the US, stuck in lawless limbo.
When he was in Kuwaiti detention, Gulet was able to use a cell phone illicitly obtained by a fellow detainee, and his family arranged for him to call me and the New York Times' Mark Mazzetti to recount his story. I spent an hour on the phone with him, and still vividly recall the terror and visceral fear of the American teenager as he tried to understand why his own government first arranged for his detention and beating, and then barred him from returning to the country where he was born and had lived his whole life, even when the Kuwaitis were eager to release him. That is the tyranny of the no-fly list.
"Our litigation in Gulet Mohamed's case seeks to establish what I think is the very modest proposition that the US cannot actively obstruct a citizen's movement into the US from abroad," said Abbas. As modest - and self-evident - a proposition as that is, it is one the US courts have not recognized in the context of no-fly lists.
Saddiq Long has now purchased another ticket to travel to the US on 8 November, less than a week from now, in the hope that the US government will allow him to fly. "If he isn't allowed to fly home on the 8th," said Abbas, "we will plan on mobilizing people to contact the Special Agent in Charge of the FBI field office in Oklahoma City. The FBI controls these lists and his intervention could end Saadiq's predicament."
For now, Long can do nothing other than wait and hope that his own country, which he served for a decade in the armed forces, will deign to allow him to return. Secret deprivation of core rights, no recourse, no due process, no right even to learn what has been done to you despite zero evidence of wrongdoing: that is the life of many American Muslims in the post-9/11 world. Most significantly, it gets progressively worse, not better, as the temporal distance from 9/11 grows.
International Cycling Union Says 'Lance Armstrong Has No Place in Cycling'
SHAFAQNA (Shia International News Association) — The International Cycling Union has upheld the lifetime ban given to Lance Armstrong by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency and has agreed to strip Armstrong of his seven Tour de France championships. The head of the UCI, Patrick McQuaid, said at a press conference today that, "Lance Armstrong has no place in cycling" and "deserves to be forgotten."
The USADA released a final report on their investigation of Armstrong earlier this month, accusing him of running "the most sophisticated, professionalized and successful doping program that sport has ever seen." Their findings were based on eyewitness testimony from 26 people including 11 of his former teammates who all admitted to being a part of the doping program and fingering Armstrong as the ring leader. The USADA recommended that Armstrong be banned for life and stripped of his titles. Today's ruling affirms that decision for all international races, though Armstrong had previously announced that he would no longer challenge the accusations made against him through legal channels.
Armstrong continues to insist that he never broke the rules and that he has never failed a random drug test, though there have been some accusations that he did fail some drug tests and worked to cover them up. No decision has been made about whether to award his titles to another rider, but the UCI will hold another meeting on Friday to discuss that and other issues related to the banning, such as seeking the return of prize money.
English museum and gallery visitors - which place was most popular in 2012?
SHAFAQNA (Shia International News Association) — With hundreds of museums and galleries in England it's no surprise that thousands of visitors flock to them for a good day out but which place is the most popular?
Figures published today by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) show the number of monthly visitors to museums and galleries in England such as the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) and the Tate Liverpool. In August 2012, the combined visitors to the Tate Modern and Tate Britain was 673,212. The British Museum with more than 480,000 visitors in August alone had the highest number of any single museum on the list.
The chart above allows you to choose a specific museum or gallery and it will show you the number of visitors by year. Move your mouse over the chart to see the figures.
The data shows visitor figures by month for museum and gallery groups also. Therefore we can see that the Tate galleries (comprising of Tate Liverpool, Tate St.Ives, Tate Modern and Tate Britain) were the most popular in August with 791,164 visitors. The Science Museum group (Science Museum South Kensington, Museum of Science and Industry, National Railway Museum (York), National Media Museum, National Coal Mining Museum for England and National Railway Museum in Shildon) and the Natural History Museum group (branches at South Kensington and Tring) both had more than 600,000 visitors in August.
The data also shows visiting figures over time. You can see how some have progressed over the years, such as the small but popular Sir John Soane's museum in London which has risen from 85,001 visitors in 2004/05 to 109,527 in 2010/11. Last year the Tate gallery group had the highest number of visitors followed by the British museum and the National Gallery. It was a similar picture in 2004/05 which shows some firm favourites have always ranked highly in terms of visitors.
The table below shows the monthly visitors to each museum, gallery and group for 2012. You can find data over the years and by total visitors per year for each of the museums and galleries. What can you do with this data?
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Source: the guardian
Iran's navy to place warships off US coast 'in the next few years'
SHAFAQNA (Shia International News Association) — The head of Iran's navy says the country aims to put its warships in international waters off the U.S. coast "in the next few years."
The comments Tuesday from Admiral Habibollah Sayyari on state TV are part of Iran's response to Washington's beefed up naval presence in the Persian Gulf.
The US Navy's 5th fleet is based in Bahrain — across the gulf from Iran — and the US plans maritime war games later this month.
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Iran has made similar claims in the past that its ships could soon sail into international waters off the US coast.
Tehran and Washington have been in odd over Tehran's nuclear ambitions that the West suspects it has aimed at weapon. Iran denies the charge.—www.shafaqna.com/English
Source: CS Monitor
Pigs' heads and blood left at French Muslim worship place
SHAFAQNA (Shia International News Association) — Muslims attending morning prayers Wednesday were confronted by two pigs' heads in the entrance to their mosque in a French town where a gunman killed two paratroopers in March.
The incident in Montauban was described as a "racist provocation" by a watchdog which monitors anti-Islamic actions in France and as an "odious and blasphemous act" by the Montauban mayor, Brigitte Bareges.
It was the first of its kind in the southern Tarn-et-Garonne region but officials refused to speculate on a possible link to the March tragedy.
The paratroopers killed in March were two of the seven victims of Mohamed Merah, who also shot dead three Jewish schoolchildren, a rabbi and another soldier in nearby Toulouse before being killed himself in a police siege of his apartment.
Hajii Mohamed, the imam at the mosque, told AFP the people who had left the pigs' heads had also spilled a large amount of blood on the floor of the entrance to the mosque, which is located in a town house that has been converted to a place of worship.
"It is contemptible," the imam told AFP. "To attack a religion like this, I don't know what is happening. People lose their heads, especially during Ramadan."
Abdallah Zekri, the chairman of France's Islamophobia Observatory, said Wednesday's outrage occurred against the background of an increase in anti-Muslim actions in the first half of 2012.
"For this to occur during the holy month of Ramadan, it's unspeakable," he said. "It is racist provocation."
Wednesday's incident also came hot on the heels of a controversy over the treatment of four young Muslims who were sacked for observing the Ramadan daytime fast while looking after children on a summer camp.
The town council which had dismissed the four instructors reacted to an outcry over the issue on Tuesday by announcing that it would no longer enforce a requirement for summer camp workers to eat and drink in the middle of the day.
French authorities have also been at odds with the biggest Islamic community in Europe over legislation which bans women from wearing full veils while recent elections have been marked by debate over the use of halal methods of animal slaughter. —www.shafaqna.com/english
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- Sleep in a cool bedroom; 21 degrees C is about the highest temperature for comfortable sleeping
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Baby is now 10.1cm long from crown to rump and weighs 50-70 grams. By the end of this week, all of the major organs will be formed within your baby. The heart, kidneys, liver, pancreas, lungs and spleen will be in their proper locations, but not necessarily performing their function yet. The organs will continue to grow and develop with each respective system, and begin working over the next couple of months. In no time, all of his little systems will be up and running.
It's still a little early to feel movement, although you should feel your baby move in the next few weeks!
Your baby's rapid growth continues. Its skin is thin. At this point in its development, you can see blood vessels through the skin. Fine hair, called lanugo hair, covers the baby's body.
By this time, your baby may be sucking his thumb, which you may well pick up during an ultrasound. Eyes continue to move to the front of the face but are still widely separated. Ears continue to develop externally and bones that have already formed are getting harder and retaining calcium (ossifying) rapidly. If an x-ray were done at this tome, the baby's skeleton would be visible.
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On Tuesday morning before work, I slipped over to Joan's house to pick a couple more peonies to have at my desk. I opened the back gate, walked up the sidewalk, and --ugh. A dead squirrel, newly expired, lay sprawled in the middle of the walkway.
This was almost certainly the same squirrel that Riley and I had seen on Sunday. He was sitting in the middle of the alley then, staring glassily into space, his jaws working as though he were chewing gum, his lips covered with foam. Riley stared through the fence for a long time but didn't bark, awed, perhaps, in the presence of death.
The squirrel eventually ran to the top of a fence post and stayed there the rest of the afternoon. I suspect some time in the night he found his way to Joan's peonies and died. Not a bad place to die.
So yesterday I decided that when I got home from work I would remove the squirrel. The last thing an abandoned house needs is dead animals rotting away in the yard.
But by the time I got home last night it was 9 p.m. and raining hard, so I waited until this morning. It was still raining, but I had to take Boscoe out anyway. I walked him around the block and then left him chewing sweet grass along the side of the alley, and I opened the gate to Joan's back yard.
The squirrel was soaked, flattened, looking much deader than yesterday. Even in the rain, there were flies and ants. I had a mutt mitt ready--I was going to pick him up the way I clean up after the dogs, with my hand inside the sack so as not to touch anything--but the squirrel looked a lot bigger than I remembered. His eyes were white and filmy and I had this horrible thought that he was going to suddenly get up, Zombie Squirrel, and stalk toward me.
I fled.
Put Boscoe in the yard. Got a shovel, and scrounged around in the garage and found an empty charcoal briquets bag. Nice and big. Nice and sturdy. It would hold a dead squirrel. It would hold a lot of dead squirrels. But fortunately I only had one.
The shovel was something of overkill; a small trowel would have worked better. This was a spade, with a long wooden handle, heavy and awkward for this kind of maneuver. It took some doing, but I was able to sort of shove the squirrel over to the side of Joan's house wall and then push him into the bag. He did not wake up. No Zombie Squirrel. I closed the bag, trotted back down the alley, and dumped him in our trash.
Today is trash day. Here's hoping there isn't a strike. We need this load to go.


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Empire Magazine has released a new Iron Man 3 character poster, which features Sir Ben Kingsley as The Mandarin. Check the image below:
Wow, Mandarin looks pretty relaxed. He even has Iron Man's helmet at his feet, and what appears to be Captain America's WW2 helmet right beside him .
Marvel's "Iron Man 3″ pits brash-but-brilliant industrialist Tony Stark/Iron Man against an enemy whose reach knows no bounds. When Stark finds his personal world destroyed at his enemy's hands, he embarks on a harrowing quest to find those responsible. This journey, at every turn, will test his mettle. With his back against the wall, Stark is left to survive by his own devices, relying on his ingenuity and instincts to protect those closest to him. As he fights his way back, Stark discovers the answer to the question that has secretly haunted him: does the man make the suit or does the suit make the man?
Starring Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Rebecca Hall, Stephanie Szostak, James Badge Dale with Jon Favreau and Ben Kingsley, "Iron Man 3″ is directed by Shane Black from a screenplay by Drew Pearce & Shane Black and is based on Marvel's iconic Super Hero Iron Man, who first appeared on the pages of "Tales of Suspense" (#39) in 1963 and had his solo comic book debut with "The Invincible Iron Man" (#1) in May of 1968.
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Editor's Note: D. Casey Flaherty, corporate counsel at Kia Motors America Inc., developed and administers an in-person, technology competency audit for his outside counsel. (Read more about it here, here, here, and here.)
Here is a single topic, mini audit that in-house counsel can administer remotely.
The ask: Request that outside counsel provide you with a budget estimate for a common task, such as an opposition to a motion for summary judgment. When counsel respond that they are unable to construct a budget for a content-free hypothetical, ask that they merely provide you a range of costs for a final budget. If they supply that range, ask how they developed it, and what data it is based on.
What's being tested: Whether your firms use the large quantities of time data they collect for anything other than sending bills to clients.
Why: Most law firms are religious about recording attorneys' time. Time is the key metric in how they bill their clients. Many law firms purport to know, with a high degree of certainty, how much time was required to accomplish a specific task and how much the client owes the firm for that work. Yet, ask for a budget for a prospective task and you typically are fed a word salad about uniqueness, idiosyncrasies, contingencies, etc. In short, you are subjected to most lawyerly of all phrases: "It depends."
It certainly does depend. But your lawyers are not operating in an information vacuum. Presumably, they are your lawyers because they have done this kind of work whatever it is many times before. How long did those projects take? How much did they cost?
A budget request is not a demand for predictive perfection; it is probabilistic exercise based on expectations grounded in past experience, much of which has been captured as empirical data. Unfortunately, in too many instances, if you can move counsel beyond waxing eloquently about the contribution infinite variety makes to the subtle majesty of the law, you are given a gutstimate a guesstimate based on gut feeling in the hope that you will go away and let them get back to real lawyering. These conjectures are often useless.
Lawyers, as a group, seem particularly prone to the planning fallacy the systematic tendency to underestimate how long is required to complete a task, despite past experience of similar tasks that ran over budget. Lawyers, as a group, are also less apt to recognize such shortcomings because we are the poster children for self-serving bias the systematic tendency to attribute our successes to our personal merit, but attribute our failures to situational factors beyond our control.
The lack of data-driven deliberation can be galling, especially because the firms already collect the pertinent data. The numbers are there; firms just need to analyze them in such a way that they can provide in-house counsel with a range and distribution of potential time/cost for commonly recurring tasks. Discrete tasks can be combined to supply a cost range for a phase. And phases can be merged to present a budget for the engagement.
Indeed, there are umpteen ways to analyze, arrange, and present the data. And there any number of software providers and consultants who are happy to offer the 'optimal' method for doing so. I, however, am not advocating for any one approach. From what I have seen (candidly, pure anecdata; please email me to tell me I am wrong), few firms are at the point where it is even worth debating which method is preferable. For now, I would simply be heartened to be presented with any attempt at empirical analysis that is intended to be of use to clients.
The benefits of reasonably accurate budgets do not need to be explained to an in-house audience. But I probably need to be more explicit as to why in-house counsel would rely on law firms for quantitative analysis. Many in-house counsel already have access to all sorts of data about costs incurred on matters past.
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In my development of "The Proportionality Triangle" Game last year, I really got down into the data when it comes to cost predictability on the discovery side of the house. I built spreadsheet models that accommodate a wide range of variables, defensibility requirements, preservation strategy, culling strategy, search strategy, technology treatments to the data such as TAR. My conclusion was much like Mr. Flaherty's (in the discovery sense)...reasonably accurate budgets are possible, at least on the discovery side.
"Lawyers, as a group, are also less apt to recognize such shortcomings because we are the poster children for self-serving bias — the systematic tendency to attribute our successes to our personal merit, but attribute our failures to situational factors beyond our control."
See: "Fundamental Attribution Error" This is a nearly universal human trait.
The flip side of this bias is the belief that others fail due to personal shortcomings rather than as a result of confronting the same situational factors the observer uses to excuse his own failures.
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I personally think that simply asking a law firm to create a budget is unfair. Clients have a responsibility to provide the firm with details of what it is that they are looking for. When someone undertakes a house renovation with a contractor.. you have specific details, expectations, timelines and costs. Budgets for legal work should not be any different. I would be concerned if a law firm in today's market place responded saying that they cannot provide a budget estimate. Most firms understand the new market conditions and the power buyers of legal services hold. A law firms response demonstrates to the client the firms proposed game plan and what the client should expect. Anything less then a reasonable, predictable plan is sub-optimal and the client should look elsewhere.
I think that gone are the days where a law firm, particularly one that a client has used numerous times before, would list a thousand and one excuses as to why it can't put a budget together. Sophisticated buyers of legal services in today's tight and competitive market will say that If your firm CAN'T ( or is unwilling to) provide me with a budget… then I will find someone who CAN.
I agree with asking for background material around how a firm came up with its budget. It may shed some interesting insight into how the firm manages a clients work and may also identify factors that a client may have missed. I think corporate clients have started to use budgets as an alternative to a much larger and drawn out RFP processes. I think there is a trend in that budgets are being used as reverse bids where multiple firms bid on a piece of legal work.
What about alternative fee arrangements? What role does technology play there? Are more clients asking for AFA? This blog has some insight into the matter but what are your thoughts? http://fir.mx/1598eIO
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It would be the subject of a much longer article, but I don't currently utilize flat fees (not that I have an objection to them). In general, the primary reward that I can offer is additional work.
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Cost: Dependent on the number of titles chosen and the type and size of the subscribing institute.
Tested: Oct. 8-12, 2003
Xrefer has come a long way since its debut in 1999, at least in the United Kingdom where many academic libraries subscribe to the Xrefer Plus service. In the U.S. it is still not a household term, but it's certainly better known than it was in 2000. Now the British digital publisher of mostly British reference works has launched a campaign in the U.S. market for its subscription-based service, and has among its clients the City University of New York, Simmons College, the University of Chicago and the New York State Library.
Two years ago in this column I highly praised the free version of Xrefer, which had more than 50 reference works. (Oddly, the home page of Xrefer Plus incorrectly claims that the free version had only 30 titles.) The free version was expected to be temporary (lasting for nearly three years) in order to demonstrate the power of cross-referencing entries across the entire collection (more about that later).
Xrefer Plus can have many incarnations depending on which sources the subscriber chooses beyond the core collection. There is, for example, Xrefer100 and Xrefer125, alluding to the number of sources subscribed. As the number of sources increases, there certainly will be additional packages and, hopefully, there will also be a smaller core collection for those institutes that would like to benefit from the aggregated and integrated collection, but at a lower entry level of, say, 50 titles. The complete title list will give you a feel for the variety of publishers and reference titles.
It is a good idea to let subscribers customize the package for several reasons. One is that there are many dictionaries and encyclopedias on the same subject in Xrefer Plus. While it is beneficial to have access to two to three health encyclopedias, only the largest medical libraries would need (or could afford) all 10 medical dictionaries offered by Xrefer Plus, no matter how mouthwatering that sub-collection is with titles ranging from Black's to Dorland's and Stedman's respected dictionaries.
Another reason for the need for customization is that some of the encyclopedias and dictionaries have been available free of charge on the Web and are likely to remain free, such as the Columbia Encyclopedia (hosted at least by six different web sites), the Hutchinson Encyclopedia, the Collins English Dictionary and the Collins Spanish-English/English-Spanish Dictionary, to mention a few that I have reviewed before.
My evergreen free favorite, Bartleby.com, alone has some of the same reference works as Xrefer Plus, such as the Columbia Encyclopedia, American Heritage Dictionary, Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase and Fable, Roget Thesaurus II, Simpson's Contemporary Quotations and the Respectfully Quoted collection. Some of the titles have links to other titles in the collection, such as from the Columbia Encyclopedia to the CIA World Factbook, but these are not reciprocal, let alone universal, among the components of the Bartleby collection as they are in Xrefer Plus.
It is important to elaborate on and illustrate the point of the free alternatives that appear in Xrefer Plus because this will be a cardinal issue among librarians who will make the purchase decision.
The free versions of some of the works included in Xrefer Plus often stand alone, do not search the full text, are sometimes less current than in Xrefer Plus and, in case of the Bloomsbury collection, are misleading and utterly frustrating due to the brain-damaged software used by the publisher on its site. In my review two years ago I pointed out many of serious deficiencies of the Bloomsbury software, coupled with lack of quality control of the digital version. The pathetic software of Bloomsbury still cannot find the entry about cinquecento in its own implementation of the Guide to Art when searching for 16th-century Italian art, nor can it find the bibliography of Tintoretto, a well-known artist of the cinquecento. Xrefer Plus retrieves both these entries in half a second and lists them as the top two hits.
Of course, by Bloomsbury's software standard it is progress that it no longer repeats each entry twice and finally shows four hits instead of eight as it used to.
The Bloomsbury software also misses many articles. If you look for an article about degenerate art, it finds nothing even though it has a cross-reference from one of its entries to the substantial entry. Xrefer Plus finds seven articles for this term in addition to the cross-referenced entry from the Guide to Art and 21 additional articles from its other resources.
The Bloomsbury software remains not only mentally challenged, but also visually impaired and misinforming. It still encourages you to "click the blue heading to see the full entry" but as I noted before, "You can look for a blue heading until you're blue in the face because the headings are displayed in red." Xrefer smartly highlights the matching terms with yellow. I wonder when someone at Bloomsbury will get red in the face seeing this incompetent and careless digitization project?
The Hutchinson Encyclopedia also has a free version hosted by Tiscali. Maybe the programmers of the Bloomsbury site were involved in its implementation as the symptoms of carelessness are very similar. There are many ways the Tiscali software cripples the excellent content of the Hutchinson Encyclopedia, the most important of which is dropping the accented characters or replacing them with some weird symbol, making articles about a large number of French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Scandinavian and Hungarian people and places irretrievable because in these (and some other) languages diacritical marks are extensively used.
When such articles are retrieved by other search criteria that do not include characters with diacritical marks, they look as appealing as punk-rock fans with melting make-up after partying all night Xrefer Plus handles accented characters with aplomb and allows searching either with or without the accent mark and displays the accented characters correctly.
It's no wonder that Xrefer Plus finds 34 articles in the Hutchinson Encyclopedia about Paul Cézanne, while Tiscali retrieves none because the painter's name appears as Czanne everywhere. Thinking about the many personal and place names that include á, é, í, ó, ú, ñ, à, â, ã, ä, ê, ô, õ, ö, ø, ç, õ, œ and š, you get a good idea of the dimension of the problem in the mutilated free Hutchinson version. This may not sit well with Tiscali users in several European countries who will not be pleased when the names of their famous scientists and artists or of their favorite soccer teams and players are not retrieved from the entire Tiscali site. This blunder is not easy to detect until you accidentally find the good entry about Dürer that appears as, and needs to be searched for as, Drer. In Xrefer Plus it can be searched as durer or dürer (uppercase or lowercase) and is displayed perfectly.
Another free version of an Xrefer component should not be taken at face value, either. You may believe that an English dictionary of Penguin is freely available on the well-known publisher's site, until you click on its logo. It takes you nowhere and always times out with an error message. The original Penguin offering, the Penguin New English Dictionary, was the same and is now part of the Xrefer collection. It is a good resource, but it was replaced by the Penguin Concise Dictionary and the programmer forgot to turn on the links. You would think that Penguin could afford to hire a programmer who can get it to work, but apparently not, and my e-mails about this abysmal situation have gone unanswered. While I am a fervent proselytizer for open access reference works, Bloomsbury, Tiscali and Penguin give a bad name to open access. When comparing free sources with their counterpart in Xrefer Plus, such features should be considered.
Most of the titles in the Xrefer collection are of British origin, but it does not preclude its success in the U.S. Actually, they provide a fresh angle. With that said, some of the titles that are quintessential in the United Kingdom may be a hard sell in the U.S. market, and therefore should not be part of the core collection. The Xrefer page about the publishers duly extols their virtues and for Debrett's it claims that it has "recorded some 100,000 prominent people over the last decade, the meritocracy."
If this refers to its Peerage and Baronetage volume, it is perhaps more aristocracy than meritocracy, and the typical American users may not get excited to learn about such noble things as "one hereditary peerage has gone into abeyance, but two have come out of abeyance." I am personally relieved by the positive balance and although it will unlikely be a question on the many American TV game shows or in public libraries. (In case you are interested, the baronies are: the Barony of Adley for the former, and the Baronies of Arlington and Berners for the latter. Now you know.)
Some of the reference works have informative and unique illustrations that are reproduced in Xrefer Plus, such as the one in the various Andromeda publications, like the Atlas of the Bible. You will also find 17,000 reproductions from the Bridgeman Art Library.
All in all, Xrefer Plus has a rich assortment of high-quality and mostly current reference titles. Some of them fill a serious gap in digital ready reference where there are no free alternatives and very few high-quality competitors, except for the Oxford Reference Online collection. Its sub-collections in science, business, health, humanities (including what in the U.S. is called social sciences) and religion are particularly useful for the quality dictionaries from a variety of respected publishers.
The only genre that I badly miss is the almanac, specifically the Chambers Book of Facts and the Whitaker Almanack, which are fine sources with British focus. Both publishers are partners of Xrefer in publishing some of their other titles so there is a chance that they will be included. I will review in details some of the Xrefer titles later, but in the rest of this review I would like to focus on the Xrefer software that adds much value to this good collection.
Xrefer has a capable search engine and an intuitive interface that allows for exact phrase searching and Boolean operations in the entire body and in the entry header. When browsing in each resource, the list of header terms is a valuable feature as some users like to wander around in the vicinity of a specific term.
The help file is informative, but needs some clarification. For example, when it discusses phrase searching, it claims that "searching for 'Winston Churchill' will return a great many results. Not all of these entries will be about Winston Churchill, but his name will be mentioned within the body-text of an entry. To filter these entries out, and ensuring that only entries about Winston Churchill are returned, change the setting from 'full text' to 'headings'. This will then only return entries where Winston Churchill is mentioned in the heading".
This is actually not good advice as the search will be implicitly limited to those 68 items where Winston is followed by Churchill in the header of the article. This arrangement happens only in the quotations dictionaries, in all the other sources, about 80 articles, his name appears as "Churchill, Winston."
This is an unfortunate example, anyhow, not that I don't want to see his biographies or sarcastic quotations, but because there is an American novelist by that name (although without the Spencer middle name and the Sir title), and his entries are interspersed with those about the statesman. It is unavoidable. Therefore, choosing a simpler example for the help file should be done to avoid confusing users when they turn for help.
A much better alternative for the help file example would be Laurence Olivier limited to the header field in an AND relationship rather than as exact phrase. It would eliminate the need to explain the use of reverse name format (the comma luckily does not matter) and retrieves five more articles (all of them relevant) than "Olivier Laurence."
The software also offers a "spelt & sounds like" option, which certainly will appear in "reviews" that are based on press releases. While it sounds good that "searching for '~psycologist' will return results for psychologist," this search option, also known as Soundex Search, is less perfect than it appears. The query will indeed retrieve psychologist, but only as the 26th entry following such entries as oenologist/enologist, mycologist, phycologist, cytologist, gynaecologist/gynecologist, serologist, mixologist, sinologist and a few others.
I am hopelessly unauthentic in pronunciation, but I don't think that any of these words sound or (with the exception of phycologist) are spelled more like the query term than psychologist. The relevance ranking does not help and an alphabetic listing would give a better chance for the users to efficiently locate the sought after term (as the first character is much less often misspelled than the third and fourth). The relevance ranking could be much improved by comparing matching number of letters in the suggested term versus the query term.
Relevance ranking is the default in presenting the results of any search, but you may switch to give preference to entries with images. This is a good idea and is well implemented. Displaying the number of words in the entry, or using it as a sort criterion in the result list would also help users in deciding which entry to examine.
The two best features of the software are the display of the list of related cross-references and the mapping of the terms. When searching for Honolulu in the entire collection you get a result list of 172 entries — don't ask me why Honolulu is a female noun in Italian but a male noun in Spanish. On the side of the result list you can see five of the terms to which Xrefer Plus generated a cross-reference.
You may display all the additional xreferences, in this case 18 entries from the variety of sources, on a separate page. These are the most closely related terms to the query, based on the "see" and "see also" references in the various dictionaries, encyclopedias and gazetteers aggregated and integrated in Xrefer Plus. This is an effective tool, as it reduces the spurious hits of full-text searching.
The mapping feature visualizes which other articles may be related to the one used in the query. It takes a minute or two to create the map, but you see it progressing until the chosen number of 100, 200, 300 or 400 results are analyzed. Hovering over the map with the cursor shows the title of the entries that are related. If you click on one of the entries it will also display the sources. This is a promising tool that you can try out by going to the demonstration site.
Xrefer Plus brings valuable and new resources to your digital ready-reference desk with innovative software. It is a very good resource for large public and academic libraries. The variety of dictionaries and encyclopedias complement each other well, and often provide more well-rounded results than even the best single resource could, as I illustrated in my earlier review of Xrefer. It also offers the possibility of comparing entries in order to corroborate facts, an essential element in quality reference service, that is much facilitated in digital reference services, as you can see from my PolySearch Engines.


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I purchased this jacket for a trip to Ireland, where I was expecting a fair amount of rain. It never rained but temps were in the 30's for the entire trip with wind. This jacket was a great for travel and blocked out the wind. I just added a fleece vest under and it was great. This jacket is super light and packable, looks great, and will give a lot of flexibility. I love that it has a full hood and brim that packs away in the collar and still looks nice.
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Surprisingly warm for a shell. The pit zips do not open/close easily and require a two-step close (wouldn't be an issue if you have three hands). Zippers that are exposed to the elements are the new, micro waterproof type. Main ziper is not, but is covered by a flap. Integrated hood is key for waterproof performance. Similar jackets by other manufacturers go for $200+
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Comments: I think the "Expert" from Chicago who couldn't get this to work and threw it in the trash (instead of selling it or giving it to someone else) has greatly overstated his "qualifications". Hey, if you can throw $200 away out of anger, I guess you're an "expert" at something!

Thick, green tea from the two that I have used. Very little fiddling with it to get it set, too. Far less adjustments required than my Super Reef Octopus INT-1000.

This is a fantastic design that works very well. In the year that I ran them, I didn't even have to clean the injection nozzle.

Very recommended!
Comments: Setup is very simple, but if you're new to protein skimmers it might take some thought. The skimmer seems to work as described, but to be frank both the manual and web site provide very little information for users; many of the links on the web site are non-functional. From reading other users' comments I have an idea of what I'm looking for, or what I should want ( a dry foam or skim, rather than liquid), but this is very much a learn as I go process. I would say the unit does do a good job of pulling particles out of the water, and it's easy to use.
Comments: well i wasnt sure about the urchin,i checked around on line and with this website and reviews were very good,so i got one and all i have to say is its the bomb,best skimmer yet,dont listen to the negative,you will like it.If you want a great product and service,this website is the place,these guys go the extra mile to help you out,that does not happen very often,you cant go wrong with these folks,the skimmer is producing some nasty form. BUY the aqua c urchin.
Comments: Best.skimmer.eveerrr. Silent, fills with fithy doo doo, easy to own. Bubbles in the display went away after several weeks..
Comments: I am not in the habit of writing product reviews, but the Aqua C Urchin was one of the bigger disappointments from my 20 years of reef-keeping experience. Obviously the Urchin is a well reviewed entity -- and I made my purchase based upon research from independent sources, as well as consumer reviewers. Perhaps I received a faulty unit. I am very tuned in to the quirks associated with skimmers, the need for patience during the break in period etc. I have never before met a skimmer that I couldn't get to function satisfactorily. This product, however, was a giant migraine from day one. Following instructions to the letter, it was still impossible to adjust the water chamber in order to get an appropriate bubble column. And the overflow of wet foam resulted in a massive quantity of micro-bubbles in my tank. AND, the unit is unduly NOISY. I am very very happy for the many fine people who have been satisfied that the Aqua C Urchin in-sump does a good job for them in the all-important protein-skimming department. As for me, I go back to the "fool me once/shame on you... fool me twice/shame on me" dictum ... and would decline to ever again purchase a product from this manufacturer. My Aqua C Urchin is currently residing in the trash. R.I.P.
Comments: Very pleased so far. Easy installation.
Comments: It is built very well and is quiet, efficient, compact, and essentially maintenance free. I am sure this rivals more expensive skimmers. I empty the cup nearly everyday and am sure that I will start using the drain fitting soon. I don't think you can beat the value of this skimmer.
Comments: I needed a small in-sump refugium for my 65gal mixed reef tank. Its only been running overnight and its pulling out gunk already. It seems to be put together well and adjusting the neck for a thicker foam is easy and its quiet. I've had several skimmers over my 15 yrs of reef keeping and this one is among the better ones, definitley for the size and price. Buyers note the exit port is a waterfall type and is on the right side of the skimmer as you look at the pump, the drain fitting is also on the right side.
Comments: The skimmer is very easy setup. I did not have the problems others have with lots of wet foam needing to be emptied every hour or less. I feel that is a water chemistry/balance issue. It started creating a good foam the next day. I would change the location of the drain plug since it hampers the o-ring, there is an inch of space less to adjust for drier foam. You will need 1/2" ID hose to connect to the drain plug. I used the Coralife SS in the sump and the constant adjusting of the water level is not a problem with the Urchin. Check your clearence space for cup removal I would give a few extra inches than they state. The water discharge and drip valve are located on the right side of skimmer so keep that in mind.
Comments: This skimmer is great for small compact sumps. The foam generated by the spray nozzle is excellent. It keeps the water very clean and is easy to use. The cup height can be adjusted easily by moving the o-ring up or down. No fiddling with gate valves and multiple pumps. Great and simple product.
Comments: The product quality is great and it is very easy to setup. It is very compact, which is good as my tank is a 2 foot cube, which does not leave me a lot of room. The skimmer has been running for 5 days and the cup is about half full of nasty wet skimmate. (My tank is still only 4 weeks old) I am currently running it with the skim box all the way down but I plan on raising it to get a more dry foam. The spray injection is a little louder than my built-in overflow. Overall, it is still pretty quite. I am running the Urchin In-Sump with the drain fitting and a Maxi-Jet 1200.
Comments: This is a great in-sump skimmer. It is easy to set-up in literally just a few minutes. It is a simply, yet effective design that is quiet and has a small footprint in the sump. The instructions are simple and easy to follow. As indicated, the first 12 hours or so did not produce much foam, but afterwards, it produced a nice foam that pulled a lot of waste out of the water. I purchased the model with the drain fitting which only requires a small additional 8-10 inches of 1/2 inch tubing. Otherwise, this skimmer is ready to use out of the box.
Comments: Give it a few days or so to break in and this thing goes to town. The cup height is very easy to adjust to get the desired skimmate. I would suggest getting the drain fitting if you plan to wet skim as the collection cup will fill very quickly. I keep my cup almost all of the way up and it produces a nice thick (dry) foam. Great skimmer with very easy set up, adjusting, and cleaning.
Comments: This thing works like a charm. I would suggest not getting the drain fitting unless you are sure you want to use it. You could always just drill a hole in the side of the cup and attach a hose yourself later. The downside to the drain fitting when not in use is that the cup can only fill up about a 1/2 inch before skimmate flows back into your tank. I didn't have to mess with raising or lowering the cup, it just started working 3 days after I threw it in my tank. Very easy set up, works better than my bigger skimmer.
Comments: I am quite new to this hobby.So i sifted through countless reviews to find a good skimmer for my tank. This web site had really good reviews and descriptions. It made the decision to pick this skimmer easy. After 2 days this thing has removed some seriously nasty stuff. I highly recommend this product. It is as simple as plug in and go as you can get for a in sump skimmer. I will be using this web site and aqua c products for a long time.
Comments: I am relatively new to the hobby and had a lot trouble with all the fine adjustments needed on my old skimmer. This skimmer is working extremely well without the need for constant fine tuning adjustments. It looks good, worked immediately as promised, and is skimming lots of gunk from my 55 gallon tank. And a question I had about installation was answered with quick, helpful service from the manufacturer (you call them and they actually call you back!!). Highly recommend this skimmer.
Comments: I have set up this skimmer about a week ago.it started producing foam after three days.now I cant keep up with it! I had to keep upsising the drain bottles! after using and fixing the Amiracle skimmer I have been using for the fifteen years I cant belive what this thing is taking out of my tank. Thank you AquaC for this.I love this thing!
Comments: This is very simple to set up. I replaced an old marine land that was top of the line back in the day venturi type. I researched skimmers out the yang cause I didn't want to pay for junk and didn't want more than I needed. It does what it says, perfectly. Hooked up for a couple of weeks now. I don't know how it will perform a year from now or how much maintenance is required yet but it ROCKS!!! from the start. Takes a couple of days to kick in. I think it's nearly impossible to beat this thing for the money. Had tanks for 20+ years.
Comments: I'm new to this hobby but it does'nt take a scientist to figure out that the skimmer was pulling out a brownish liquid/froth withing 4-5 hours of installation. That's the goal to get the gunk out. Fit in my sump perfectly. Really easy to set up & clean the drain out. Very happy so far.
Comments: I bought this pump because of the reviews of the Remora. All this skimmer is is a in sump version of the very popular Remora Protein Skimmer.

Please go with the maxi-jet 1200 upgrade as the rio pump will work but for larger tanks the maxi works much better.

Setup was easy, just connect the pump, drop the skimmer in the sump and off you go.

Finding the exact footprint of this model was hard, as many sites list it as a 6x6 inch square. Not true. My own measurement is 6x5 inch including the maxijet pump. You can get creative and possibly get it down to 6x4 with rotating the pump in a different direction.

Also note that the water exit level is 12 1/4 inch high from the base of the unit. I had to build a platform for the skimmer to sit on so the water could exit properly.

All in all this is just one awesome protein skimmer.
Comments: I have had my AquaC Urchin skimmer for about 2 years now and it has performed flawlessly! It is so easy to use...all I do is empty the skimmate from the drainage bottle several times a week , then once a week I wash the cup and lid out. So far I have not needed to do any fiddling or adjusting...it just runs like a dream! Alot of "serious reefers" cant believe the great water qualityI get with this "little" skimmer.
I recently got a bigger tank and I need a skimmer for a larger tank....I'm definitely going to get an AquaC Urchin pro!
Comments: I just got my skimmer today. It took not even 5 minutes to set up and start. This skimmer started pulling gunk immediately! AquaC Urchin is a very well built skimmer, it's slim design fits perfectly in my already tight sump. My old skimmer had to be set up outside the stand which proved to be very risky not to mention that it wasn't hardly pulling anything out. This skimmer definitely out performs my old skimmer.
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