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|Gold Gourami
The beautiful color of the Gold Gourami makes this a very desirable addition to an aquarium, but it does get big and can become belligerent to small tank mates!
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Fat freak josh - 2004-06-07
I have two aquariums, a ten gallon and a thirty gallon. In my thirty gallon I have a five inch plecostomus, four corydoras, two african dwarf frogs, one angelfish, two dwarf pufferfish, one male betta, six freshwater clams (who stay under the gravel though),two fairly small pink kissing gouramis, and one gold gourami. My gold gourami is very territorial, but the only fish it chases are my pink kissing gouramis. The gold gourami, for some reason likes to pick on my pink kissing gouramis and is very aggressive towards them, while it leaves the other fish alone. I think the gold gourami is a very beautiful fish, very active, and is a very nice addition to many aquariums, but it can be slightly aggressive.
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Anonymous - 2010-09-22
I have 2 honduran red points and one is a baby and the other is a adult but my lil baby hasn't been growing for the last 3 months plz help me!
Raymond - 2010-02-08
Just bought Two Gold Gouramis and brought them home two days ago. BIG mistake on my part for not observing them for awhile before buying. I'm not sure what sex they are, but one is a darker orange then the other one. Yesterday, I noticed the darker one chasing and nipping at the other lighter one, both gouramis are about equal size as well. Anyways the other one would go and hide, or not move at all at the bottom of the tank. Anyways, this morning, the lighter one was dead. I'll have to wait and see if the darker one goes after any of the other fish, so far it hasn't.
Andy - 2009-09-20
I just got my Gold Gourami from a little mom and pop style shop called The Reef. He's about 4.5 inches long and he's absolutely beautiful and so far, doesn't seem to be that aggressive. But I know he can hold his own 'cause they had him in a tank with around 4 aronawas, three other male gold gourami his size (one was a real scrapper), albino and common pleco, and a black ghost knifefish. I'm so excited to be taking care of gourami again! :)
Mike - 2009-07-10
I just got 1 gold gourami and 1 holy gourami and they are getting bit by my tiger botias and the beotias keep scaring them. They are really nice fish and I'm thinking of getting an opaline gourami because they are really nice fish and they get to 6 inches. My fish are in a 10 gallon right now but in a month they will be moved to a 55 gallon tank with 110 gallons of filtration, and I'm also getting id sharks. I also have 1 common pleco and 1 high fin butterfly pleco and I'm geting another big common pleco when I get my 55 gallon tank. If my id sharks grow over 1 ft in less then 1 year im putting them in a 125 gallon tank that my bro has.
kat - 2009-04-21
I've recently become an avid aquariust and it was love at first sight with gouramis. My first pair were Flame Red Dwarfs then added a pair of Powder Blue Dwarfs. There was a bit of nudging at first but it now looks more like games of tag and they get along just fine. Recent additions are a pair of Blue Gouramis (Three-spot) a pleco, emerald cory cats and leopard cory cats. They make a beautiful, colorful scene to watch and each have distinct personalities while co-existing peacefully. In a seperate tank I have a pair of Gold Gouramis. They are constantly bickering back and forth and "kiss" while shoving each other around the tank. One female, one male. I thought perhaps another pair of fish would lighten their mood so I introduced a pair of Pearl Gouramis and a Clown Pleco. Hah! I no sooner had put the Pearls in and had to remove and transfer them to the larger tank. The Gold Gouramis were very aggressive/belligerent towards the Pearls. It was like watching a wrestling match when they are thrown upon the ropes! I'm thinking when the Pearls are all grown up I'll let them have a re-match...or perhaps their larger Blue cousins would like to have a few minutes go at the Golds. The Golds are beautiful but also seem to have a more "boisterous" attitude. I would incorporate with caution.
Heather - 2009-03-15
To be honest they are not too aggressive with small fish. I just purchased 2 gold Gourami that had been living with a tiny guppy at a pet store for 2 months and took all three of them home about three days ago. They dont even bother the guppy at all, unless it gets too close to them and then they nudge it away with a quick nip. But other than that they have done nothing with it!
Jennifer - 2009-03-02
I recently acquired 2 golden Gouramis to add some color to my tank of bland silver and black fish. One died days after being introduced to his new home, probably due to stress the poor thing :( . Our remaining gourami is quite the character. He is very shy, but very curious, and all he wants to do is touch the other fish with his feelers. Which is not what the others want, lol. I have him housed in a 56 gallon tank with Two red-tailed tinfoil barbs, 2 Rainbows (Parkinson's rainbow and Australian Rainbow), 2 corydoras (Albino and Pepper) one columbian shark and one very tiny pleco that I'm convinced is part ninja (His hiding skills are top notch). Chester, The gourami, tends to stick around with the Rainbows or be alone. The barbs, although the most docile fish in the tank, seem to scare him a lot, although he has since gotten used to the whole idea. I am thinking of getting a blue gourami to be Chester's friend, but I don't really want him to be bossed around... So I might not buy one after all.
Bill De Vinney - 2008-06-29
Hello everyone, I have a 55 gallon tank. I started off with two gold Gourami's and two blue. One blue jumped out of the tank through the opening of my water fall filter system. I also have a 10 inch Sailfin leopard pleco and 6 purple Zebra Cichlids, two Emerald Cory Cats, 10 Kribs (Cichild family) and a Bala Black tip shark. Everyone gets along fine and they all kmow the pecking order. The Kribs and the Purple Striped Zebra Cichlids keep the Gold Gourami's in check. As I'm writing this letter the sole Blue male Gourami is making bubbles at the top of the water. I feel he should check with the other gold male before he gets any ideas.
Matt F - 2008-06-28
I recently added 2 gold gouramis to my thirty gallon aquarium that also has 3 peppered corydoras catfish in it. The smaller of the two gouramis constantly chases the larger one around the tank. I know this is not because they are both males as I know one is female, the other fish's sex is unknown. I'm not sure why the larger fish allows the smaller to bully it, however they are quite beautiful and make a good addition to an aquarium.


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The weekend has come and gone, there were ups there were downs but we made it unscathed for the most part. Nothing in the way of exercise was experienced but busy was the flavor of the day on both days so with that a new week begins. Saturday I had the opportunity to head on over to a health and wellness fair in Hartford CT we got to check things out, from a local EMT bicycle patrols whips and gear to a past biggest loser contestant. I met Bill Germanakos from season 4 of the biggest loser back in October of 2008 at this same health fair and this time around I had a chance to meet Rudy Pauls from season 8 of TBL. Nichole Brewer from season 7 was there too but I didn't get the chance to meet her as she was not quite at the booth when I went through , she is in the background of a photo that wify took of me talking with Rudy so I just missed her and hadn't noticed that she was setting up until I got home and looked at my pictures.
Me and Rudy Pauls from The biggest loser season 8 in Hartford October 16th 2010.
I Talked with Rudy for a few minutes and as we were chatting I said to him "I've lost more than 200 pounds so far" to which he responded "I can see it in your face" then said "I mean you can see it everywhere but I mean...yeah you can see it" and then went into talking about the loose skin that he has to deal with and how it bothers him. This told me that yes indeed I have "that look" of someone that has lost a lot of weight, you know the look right? the one where from the chest up I look perfectly normal almost like a fella with a little more on his bones than he should have but over all looks healthy and then the skin is an obvious flag hanging from those same bones stating loudly that the Sharpei is all up in the house. I am not all hung up on the fact that the skin is there because the alternative is much worse, you know, that other life where I weigh 500 plus pounds, yeah that one so the fact that its there though it bugs me I am happy that its not what it was 3 years ago.
Rudy was pretty nice and I have found of all three of the contestants that I have met from the biggest loser all share that, every one of them was more than willing to chat and talk about what was successful for them and offer advice. I met Neil Tejwani who was also on season 4 not at a fair or event but in an every day place which I will not disclose exactly where that was but I have had more than a few conversations with him over the past year. When you share something like dropping 200 pounds with somebody they know just as much as you do just how hard it is to live at the higher weights and I find that most people are more than willing to share their experiences with others who may be struggling or need help. My daughter wanted to get a picture with Rudy "Dada, I want to take a picture with the exercise show guy" but changed her mind when it came time for the shot "Nah, I don't wanna" at the last minute.
Sunday we pretty much gutted a room in my house that was being used for storage because we want to use it for a rec room kind of thing and because of the gutting I was in the house almost all day. I did go over calories on Sunday by a slice of that home made apple pie that I made and possibly a small pile of trail mix and I didn't drink as much as I normally do either, about a gallon and a quart but that's ok, hopefully the week brings me a loss come Friday. Today I have an opportunity to go to the gym with Wify as she has some appointments to take care of and took the day off of work so that should be fun and we will see if she pushes me or I push her.
My day is beginning so the post has to end, I will this week push myself at the gym, count every calorie that goes into my body and enjoy every minute of it, won't you join me?
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Is it Friday already? that of course means that its time to post up the scales number for the week which is a little off this time around but it is what it is. I will get right to it and say that the display flashed me with a 330.0 this morning, I am happy with that number because it reflects a loss and that's where I am going with my motivation. What do you mean when you say "which is a little off this time around" man? how can it be off? that's talking like a fat person! Let me splain, Yesterday morning I weighed 328.6 pounds but weight lifting day fell on Thursday this week and instead of playing games and skipping it or doing it today I thought about what was more important a low number for the weigh in day? or making sure I trained the way that I need to and well the training won that battle. My back, shoulders and triceps are feeling somewhat fatigued as I type this and I am sure that I am retaining more fluid because of it, now don't read into that as some kind of excuse because its not, I knew that my weight would be higher than yesterday and honestly I thought that I would show no loss so I am very happy with the 330.0.
My 5.5 pound orchard fresh apple pie.
We have many choices to make throughout our days, all of us do, even the skinny people of the world and when we make good decisions most of the time things go our way. This week I got out there and did what needed to be done almost every day by either getting to the gym or taking a bike ride, for my efforts I am a pound lighter than last Friday. The weekend has some things in store for me that could end up being pretty fun and possibly motivational so I am actually looking forward to that and I will do my best to get to the gym at least one of those days, perhaps a Sunday bike ride down a path or trail.
Last night I did something that could threaten to derail me on some level, I made a five and a half pound apple pie from the apples that we picked at the orchard. I make this pie every year after our trip and I won't stop making it because I am eating better, my kids love it, wify loves it and it gets my daughter all kinds of excited when she helps me make it. I will have a slice, perhaps two but I will count it into my calories for whenever I have it and I do use splenda in place of sugar and smart balance in place of butter so it is a lighter version even if it isn't exactly light.
We have a one pound loss for the week and I am looking for a better number next week, I am down 4.4 total pounds since my run at 275 restarted and that's right on track so I ain't gonna sweat a smaller loss this week. Continuing down the road that will ultimately lead me to having the thinner body to go with the healthier me that I have worked so hard to get is what I will focus on daily until I get where I need to be. We can all achieve our goals as long as we keep on keepin' on and do what we must, the alternative is to not do anything and keep on wishing that things would be different, the thing about wishing is that if you $hit into one hand and wish into the other the hand with the $hit always seems to fill up first.
Do what you need to do and the rest will fall into place, this is how I choose to live my life.
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Yesterday I had the chance to go out on a ride so that's what I did, I took the regular trail that I ride that is about a 15 mile round trip but at every trail head where it crossed a street I explored a bit up and down the roads. The bike computer said that I did 19.5 miles so a new long distance for me was made but my ass paid for it because man was it begging me to get off of the bike by the end of the ride. I need to figure out my what to eat needs if I am to keep going on longer rides because I started feeling low on energy around an hour into the hour and 28 minute ride, the last time I took a longer ride which was 18 miles and an hour twenty minutes I ate a Zone bar about halfway through the ride and I didn't feel anything negative the entire ride. I figured that I had the camera with me and was taking a break at the end of the trail before taking on the hill to my house and decided to make another video to post so here it is.
Video can be seen at zeusmeatball.blogspot.com/2010/10/suck-it-up-buttercup.html
Today will be a gym day because I like to alternate between the longer rides and the gym, plus I want to lift weights so I won't be on the bike today unless you count the stationary at the gym. The plan is simple, 25 minutes on the stationary bike followed by 45 to 60 minutes worth of weight lifting and a cool down either on the treadmill or a spin bike depending on whether there is a class going on when I am there. My weekend sort of steered me off course a bit because of some not so good decisions and lack of working out but I am still looking to pull off a loss come tomorrow mornings weigh in.
Tomorrow I weigh in, keeping focused is going to be my main concern in the coming weeks, I need to get down below 300 pounds and I need to get to that 275 pound goal and I would like it to be sooner than later. With a lot of face time at the gym and on the trails I will get there, I will need to keep my intake where it needs to be and I will have to remain diligent and complete the task at hand, I will do those things and I will do them decisively. There will be weeks that I lose more, there will be weeks that I lose less, then there will be those weeks that nothing will be able to get in my way as I excel into the physical me that I am aiming for, I am taking matters into my own hands and when that happens nothing is stronger than that.
My time, your pain, I reign on you....
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Choices are what we make of them and every day of each and every week we will be faced with decisions on whether to workout or stay home, eat this or not eat that and each and every one of those choices are ours to make, we own every last one of them. Deciding to do what we need to is not always the easiest or most convenient of things, we have to miss out on a slice of birthday cake or pass on a beer with a buddy sometimes and these little things though not so important in the grand scheme are in fact things that we enjoy but making the good choice to enjoy them in moderation is key. The alternative is missing out on almost everything that life has to offer, of course I am talking about when a person weighs north of 500 pounds like I did not so long ago but I am sure that it applies to lighter people as well. The things that I am capable of at this very moment in life are more opposite than day and night and making good choices is how I changed where I was in life with my health.
Going to the gym at night is sort of odd for me because I love going at that time because I feel like I get in an awesome workout yet it means that my sleep will suffer because I am all kinds of pumped up and getting to sleep is impossible. Last night I was faced with a decision to go to the gym and have my sleep be less than optimal or stay home and miss out on working out for the day so off I went about 8:30 last night to get a workout into my day. I thought about how the biggest loser was on and I usually watch it and going to the gym I would miss it as it was a weight lifting day and I could either watch fat people work out or be a fat person working out so off I went. After 25 minutes on the stationary bike I headed over for some weight lifting which lasted about 50 minutes then back over to the treadmill for 25 minutes at a brisk pace on a decently steep incline. I must be neglecting my walking/running because my feet started hurting in the places where they hurt when I don't run for a while and the inside of one of my toes feels rubbed this morning, I suppose that means I need to do some more sprints at the gym in the coming weeks.
Two days from now I will weigh in again for the blog, I need to drop 2 pounds to stay on track with my goal of weighing 275 or less by April 1st and I am planning on doing everything in my power to get there. The food gods are not on my side though if I am being honest, I mentioned our annual trip to the orchard and some 30 pounds of apples that we have and its that time of year for me to make my 9 pound apple pie. Now I don't know if the pie actually weighs 9 pounds but its damn close and I have to make it as I have been making it for years and my family enjoys it. I have in the last couple years changed the recipe a tad bit by using Splenda in place of the sugar that's in it but it is still a hefty slice of yumminess, decisions decisions.
I am at some point today going to be riding down a bike trail somewhere because the days of doing so are numbered with winter on its way and these rides really are therapeutic for me. I found a section of a trail that I want to try out but its a bit of a ride to get to the trail head so perhaps next week as a planned ride leaving early or perhaps a weekend ride. A weekend slip will not derail me, nothing will derail me because I have something to finish and that's going to be the plan until I get to that 275 pound goal. Making goals is kind of silly yet they do so much for us as we tread forward with our healthy living plans, When I began I could not walk 1/3 of a mile comfortably and riding a bicycle was not an option. My goal was to be able to actually live and I am doing that so in that respect I have accomplished what I set out to do which is to not feel caged in my own body but now its tome to get into a place with my health that I will have surpassed just living comfortably and excel in a way that I am above average with my physical self.
Wow fat man! you are going for above average physically? indeed I am my good people and I will do it right in front of your eyes so that you can see that it is possible to do so without any fancy pay as you go diet plans or surgeries or or or... With that said its time to end this post because I need to start getting ready for a bike ride this afternoon and I have some chores around the house to get taken care of before I am off so that's all I got for today.
When faced with a decision to do something for your health or do something for leisure, will you choose your health above all else?
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Moving right along we are at Tuesday already, My weekend if I am being honest was very much less than stellar with the diet and exercise. I did not get out on a bike ride all weekend and I went over on my calories Sunday and Monday because of a hectic day on Monday but Sunday was just being lazy with the caring about counting. Saturday we went on our annual apple picking day to a local orchard and ended up with about 30 pounds of freshly picked apples, I figured that walking around at a fair/festival for more than 4 hours counted as some movement but I still felt bad about missing out on a real workout. Sunday turned into an all out clean the house kind of day and I did ok until one of my daughters friends stopped by for a "play date" and brought a big ol plate of m&m cookies that were still warm, lets just say that I could not resist. I was very restless yesterday and we ended up taking down our awning out in the back yard and doing some yard clean up while the kids jumped into the pile of leaves that was raked up but I ate too much throughout the day and this morning when I weighed myself I am more than up and feel stupid for my poor eating choices over the long weekend.
Its funny how eating is still a "demon" for me, it is a constant struggle to resist the bad stuff while packing the good stuff in even at this stage of the game. I will recall part of my yesterday and show you how it just happens and then an instance where its plain and simply just stupid decisions which when I step out of that it was me and look at it could use the word addict to describe it. Wify and myself were boxing some stuff to pack away for the winter in the knee wall upstairs and she was upstairs while I was down at this point, I had a pot of chicken soup cooking on the stove and had just eaten a banana with peanut butter as a between lunch and dinner snack. I look up on the shelf and see a bag of trail mix that wify bought the day before and reached in, took a handful and started munching on it, now you should know at this point my calories for the day are always figured out and that banana was all that I could afford yet here I was eating trail mix?
After I finished the trail mix I quickly did a calculation in my head and figured out that I had just eaten about an extra 200 calories so I justified it and thought "ok so I will end at 1900 today no worries". My dinner was about 600 calories, we made breakfast for dinner, I made a scramble with onions, peppers, potato and egg whites and with that we had turkey sausage to which I had given myself six of the little breakfast sausages to have with dinner. I could have skipped the sausages and come in right at 1700 calories, skip breakfast sausages? on what planet would this be acceptable? ummm this one fat boy! but alas I did not skip them, instead I had eight instead of six! Holy fuvk?? really? hmmmm yes indeed so my dinner was now instead of 605 calories it came in at 675 when I was already over for the day by 200! that isn't even the bad part of the day.
Dinner was finished and I was now at 1975 calories, it is what it is, lesson learned and tomorrow will be perfect because it has to be after this monstrosity of a day. Wify hit the sack early and I decided that I would watch "The Event" before following suit and when it was finished I wasn't tired so Pawn Stars it was, I wandered into the kitchen to fill my bottle of water up and made myself a peanut butter and jelly sandwich while I was in there, Wait!? what?? Yes a peanut butter and jelly sandwich at 10:15 PM on a school night, Calvins in a ball on the front seat....skip that last part. The worse part? after slathering the peanut butter onto the bread I thought "Don't do it stupid" I $hit you not I actually thought that! yet down the hatch it went. Lets us add that 285 calories to the already over budget 1975 and I come in at a grand total of 2260 for my Monday, Mama would be proud! bleh.. I am completely disgusted with that decision mostly because I caught myself as I was making that late night ass padding and still ate it.
This is the point where understanding that food can be and is for many people an addiction is important. I have been at this for what will be three years this January and am motivated beyond belief currently yet consumed a 285 sandwich on top of an already calorie dense day about 30 minutes before bed. Why? what was the driving force behind the late night snack? was it like a shark when it smells blood? it just reacts, is peanut butter like blood in the water to us fatties? is this something that will be with me forever? at this point I have to suspect that yes it is and will be because if I am almost three years down the road of eating better and living a healthy lifestyle yet eat a peanut butter sandwich before bed even after catching that it was happening this runs deeper than just liking the way something tastes.
Slip ups will happen, this is just something that has to be understood because when they happen it can do one of two things, we can see it for what it is and realize that each and every one of us is human and will slip from time to time or we can allow it to become the hard center of a giant snow ball rolling uncontrolled down the slope. Even after habits are made these things can happen and I refuse to beat myself up, make excuses or hide the fact that there are times where I struggle with making the best choice. What I will do is continue to reach towards my goals and bust my ass in and out of the gym to help it all along, I believe that most people that fail with weight loss do so because one small failure like a late night peanut butter sandwich snow balls into an oh woe is me state of mind and when that happens its all over.
That's all I got for today.
"Failure is not falling down, its refusing to get back up."
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It seems that since the release of Skype 5.0 for iPhone less than a month ago the good folks at Skype have been really listening and taking user feedback to heart. According to their blog, Skype 5.1 for iPhone added some additional capabilities including the ability to edit a message, delete a conversation and add a contact filter that selects Skype contacts only. And now, the newly minted Skype 5.2 for iPhone adds a few more features and returns old ones that people have been asking for.
Connect with Dad with remastered Skype 5.0 for iPhoneGreg Gazin - June 13th, 2014
If you are unable to visit Dad for Father's Day and plan on calling him over Skype, iOS users will be happy to know that Skype 5.0 has been totally remastered for iPhone.
Is Apple dumping the 3.5 mm headphone jack?Adam Swimmer - June 5th, 2014
Apple has introduced a new hardware spec for its headphone manufacturers, according to a report by 9to5Mac.
Instead of making headphones or earphones that connect through the standard 3.5 mm stereo/mono (TRS) connector, its partners, through the Made-For-iPhone/iPad/iPod (MFi) Program, can create headphones that connect to iOS devices via the Lightning connector instead (which is Apple's proprietary alternative to USB).
Three tips from Henry's Phoneography classRosalyn Solomon - June 3rd, 2014
It's no secret the shutter is closing on traditional cameras in favour of our smartphones, and while you may consider yourself a savvy mobile snapper, there's always something new to learn.
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Well, not actual shopping per se, but the Mayor will be hosting a guided tour of the retail opportunities in Back Bay and Fenway today for members of the International Council of Shopping Centers.
Maybe he's got his eye on a ridiculous $600 hammock chair from Anthropologie. It would look good on the 5th floor.
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Country superstars Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton are about to face off against some friendly competition at the 48th annual CMA Awards:
Each other!
Both singers are up for Entertainer of the Year honors alongside Luke Bryan, George Strait and Keith Urban when the awards as passed out November 5.
A married couple known almost as much for their relationship (often the target of tabloid gossip), there's no debating Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton's talent.
The pregnant Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley return to host the ABC awards telecast for the seventh consecutive year from Nashville, Tenn.
Darius Rucker and Little Big Town announced the nominees in the first five categories on Good Morning America early Wednesday. See them after the jump:


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Sarah Jessica Parker is auctioning three pairs of shoes from her Carrie Bradshaw days to raise money for a New York high school.
Her Sex and the City shoes from Prada, Jonathan Kelsey and Dolce Vita will be sold alongside Elvis Presley's brown leather boots, Shaquille O'Neal basketball shoes – size 22 – and pink platforms that Britney Spears wore on tour.
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Prize awarded
A Brooklyn-based poet has won a prize named for one of the New York City borough's most famous former residents, Walt Whitman.
The Academy of American Poets announced Wednesday that Chris Hosea has won the Walt Whitman Award for a debut collection. Hosea will receive $5,000, and his book Put Your Hands In will be published by Louisiana State University Press.
The winner was chosen by one of the greatest contemporary poets, John Ashbery.
Fleetwood splits
Court records show Mick Fleetwood has filed for legal separation from his wife of more than 17 years in Los Angeles.
Fleetwood, 65, and Lynn Frankel Fleetwood have been married since July 1995 and have twin 11-year-old daughters together. He is seeking joint legal custody but wants his estranged wife to have physical custody of their children.
The Fleetwood Mac drummer filed for separation on March 22, but the documents were not publicly available until Tuesday.
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Among celebrity birthdays today: Actor Joel Grey is 81. Actor Peter Riegart is 66. Actor Meshach Taylor is 66. Actor Bill Irwin is 63. Singer Steve Azar is 49. Singer Lisa Stansfield is 47. Singer Joss Stone is 26.


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George Will: In a rut on Voting Rights Act
The question concerning which the Supreme Court heard oral arguments last month was whether Section 5 of the VRA is still constitutional, given the disappearance of the conditions that once made it acceptable as a temporary and emergency truncation of states' sovereignty under federalism.
In 2008, two years after the fourth renewal of the act, Barack Obama won a higher percentage of the white vote than did Al Gore and John Kerry in 2000 and 2004, respectively. Today Mississippi has more black elected officials - not more per capita, more - than any other state. Yet defenders of the continuing necessity of Section 5 merely shrug about the fact that race is no longer a barrier to either the nation's highest office or to state and local offices in what once was the state most emblematic of resistance to racial equality.
Last month, Chief Justice John Roberts, noting that Massachusetts has the worst rate of white turnout compared with that of blacks, and that Mississippi has the best, asked Solicitor General Donald Verrilli: "Is it the government's submission that the citizens in the South are more racist than citizens in the North?" Verrilli said no. His answer was obviously false. Otherwise, the administration would favor extending Section 5 to the entire nation.
Justice Anthony Kennedy asked Verrilli why the government, which purports to believe both that the VRA remains necessary and that there are not regional differences in racism, does not want to make the VRA universally applicable. Verrilli replied that "history remains relevant" and Congress considered it "prudent" in 2006 to maintain Section 5's "deterrent and constraining effect." It was prudent, and history is relevant, only if the citizens of the South remain more racist than the citizens of the North.
Verrilli did not deny that Section 5 takes a toll on federalism. Kennedy, whose vote is apt to be decisive, described the toll disapprovingly as a federal "trusteeship" over the covered states and jurisdictions. Citing the Marshall Plan and other excellent laws that were not necessary forever, Kennedy said: "Times change."
Not for progressives, they don't. Section 5 was enacted as a temporary response to many measures employed, primarily in the South, to disenfranchise minorities.
It requires nine states and some jurisdictions in others to get federal permission - "pre-clearance" - for even minor changes in voting procedures. It has been extended four times, most recently in 2006 for 25 years. The 2006 House vote was 390-33, the Senate vote was 98-0; obviously, the political class's piety about the act has extinguished thought about its necessity. But one reason for judicial review - for active judicial engagement in the protection of constitutional rights and arrangements - is that the political class, with its majoritarian temptations, cannot be trusted to do so.
In 1982, Section 2 of the VRA was amended to say that the act is violated whenever nomination and election processes "are not equally open to participation" by minority voters. And equality of participation is said to be denied whenever minority voters "have less opportunity than other members of the electorate to . elect representatives of their choice." And representatives "of their choice" has been construed to mean representatives who are members of the same minority. This expresses two tenets of progressivism's racialism. One is identity politics: Your race is your political identity.
he other is categorical representation: Members of a race can be understood and represented only by members of this race. By this reasoning the VRA has become an instrument for what Roberts has hitherto called "a sordid business, this divvying us up by race."
Each renewal of the 1965 act should have involved sifting the most recent voting results, but the most recent data used in 2006 was from 1972. By 2031, this data will be 59 years old. Unless the court now stops this pernicious silliness, in 2031 Section 5 will no doubt be renewed a fifth time, perhaps for 34 years, through the centennial of this temporary measure.
George Will is a columnist for Newsweek in Washington, D.C., and a commentator for ABC News.
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The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. on Friday took over Community National Bank at Bartow, in Bartow, Fla., with $67.9
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A playful investigation (with a twist) into madness and murder in an isolated region in the south of France.
A native of the Southern Alps, New Wave filmmaker Luc Moullet noted that cases of mental illness were particularly prevalent in the region, with murder, dismemberment, suicide and immolation, among other thing, being implausibly common.
Wielding deadpan humour, and with an eye for the absurd, Moullet embarks on a chequered investigation of just what it is about his place of birth that drives the locals to such inexplicable acts.
"The great-grand-nephew of the great-grandfather of my great-great-grandmother one day took a pickaxe to the village mayor, his wife and the forester, who was guilty of having moved his goat 10 yards. It provided a good starting point." - filmmaker Luc Moullet


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Making Room for Records
Continuing our celebration of American Archives month, today's post comes from Christina James, intern in the National Archives History Office.
Since it opened and began accepting records in 1935, the National Archives has had to face the issue of space. Housing the records of the Federal Government is no small task, even when only 1-3 percent of the government's records are held in perpetuity.
In the decades since its establishment, the National Archives has addressed its storage needs in a number of ways, some more effective than others.
The National Archives first confronted the growing mountain of records it faced by increasing storage space at the National Archives Building. The building's architect, John Russell Pope had designed the building to have an interior courtyard, which could be converted to storage place at some point.
This courtyard was almost immediately filled in to expand the building's stack area and nearly double the building's storage space. This addition to the building was completed in 1937, but again in the late 1960s, the National Archives Building reached its storage capacity.
Posted by Jessie Kratz on October 20, 2014, under American Archives Month.
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"The Posner Affair"
Continuing our celebration of American Archives Month, today's post comes from Christina James, an intern in the National Archives History Office.
As the inscription on the west side of the National Archives Building reads, the National Archives is home to "the chronicles of those who conceived and builded the structure of our nation." Primarily thought of as a place where history is preserved, one can easily overlook the ways in which historical events have directly affected the National Archives.
During World War II, the National Archives found itself under attack by the Senate Subcommittee on Independent Agencies regarding ties between the National Archives and German archivist, Ernst Posner. A short chapter in National Archives history, this incident is recorded in the Personal Files of Solon J. Buck as "The Posner Affair."
Born in Berlin in 1892, Ernst Posner was a German citizen who had served in World War I and later became an archivist at the Prussian State Privy Archives. Prior to the start of World War II, Posner eagerly sought to leave Germany and hoped to relocate and secure an archival position in the U.S. He first met Solon J. Buck in 1938 while visiting and lecturing in the United States. Shortly after his return from this trip, Posner was arrested and imprisoned following the Nazi … [ Read all ]
Posted by Jessie Kratz on October 13, 2014, under American Archives Month.
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Survey of Federal Records
Continuing our celebration of American Archives Month, today's post comes from Tom Ryan, an intern in the National Archives History Office.
Do you ever wonder where records were stored before the National Archives was created in 1934?
Before 1934, the Federal Government lacked a uniform manner to handle its records. Congress enacted legislation requiring each Government agency to keep its own records and gave the State Department responsibility for most archival duties.
In 1934, Congress passed legislation creating the National Archives which also created the office of the Archivist of the United States.
The new Archivist's first step was to determine which of the older Federal records the Archives would accession (take legal and physical custody).
The National Archives Act also created the National Archives Council, whose primary duties were advising the Archivist in determining which documents should be included in the Archives.
The council was chaired by Secretary of State Cordell Hull. In a speech to the council, Hull declared: "We should approach our duty in a manner that will save us from allowing this vastly important work to become routine."
In the early days, the process of collecting government records was anything but routine. Before the council could establish rules regarding the acquisition of records, … [ Read all ]
Posted by Jessie Kratz on October 6, 2014, under American Archives Month.
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Symbols of Significance: The Pediments of the National Archives Building
October is American Archives Month! To celebrate the month dedicated to all things archives, we will feature weekly posts on the history of the National Archives. Today's post comes from Christina James, intern in the National Archives History Office.
Measuring 118 feet wide and 18 feet high at their peaks, the pediments on the north and south sides of the National Archives Building are the largest in Washington, DC. These grand pediments depict scenes that convey the purpose of the National Archives and contain rich symbols of the Archives' significance to the nation.
When he set out to design a national hall of records, architect John Russell Pope sought to create a neoclassical building of monumental size and design. This meant that the structure would be embellished with ornate, symbolic sculptural details, inspired by the art and architecture of the ancient Greeks and Romans. Pope wrote, "In view of the classic spirit in which the design of the building was conceived, it was considered essential by the architect and the sculptors that allegory rather than realism be the means of conveying the significance of the sculptural decoration."
The pediment on the north side of the building, facing Pennsylvania Avenue, was designed by accomplished sculptor Adolph Alexander Weinman and is titled Destiny. The figure at the center symbolizes Destiny. He is seated, staring intensely from a throne on … [ Read all ]
Posted by Jessie Kratz on October 1, 2014, under American Archives Month.
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Doors of Monumental Proportions
Today's post comes from Jessie Kratz, Historian of the National Archives.
On June 24 at noon, the National Archives celebrates its anniversary with a special film event: From the Vaults: 80th Anniversary of the National Archives
If you have ever visited the National Archives in Washington, DC, you may have noticed two very, very large bronze doors that mark the original Constitution Avenue entrance to the building. Visitors enter through the Constitution Avenue entrance to view the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights as well as the many other exhibits the National Archives Museum offers.
These bronze doors stand about 37 feet, 7 inches high and are 10 feet wide and 11 inches thick. Each weighs roughly 6.5 tons. The building's architect, John Russell Pope, understanding the national significance of the structure, sought to design a public exhibition hall of monumental proportions. As a reminder to visitors of the importance of the building's purpose, the public exhibition hall Pope designed—the rotunda—measures 75 feet high; the bronze doors leading into the exhibition hall match that in size and character.
The doors were first opened on October 18, 1935. Then visitors to the National Archives … [ Read all ]
Posted by Mattea Sanders on June 23, 2014, under News and Events, Pennsylvania Avenue, preservation, Rare Photos.
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The United Nations International School (UNIS) is a private international school in New York City. It was founded in 1947 by families who worked for or were associated with the United Nations. The school was founded to provide an international education, while preserving its students' diverse cultural heritages. It includes a Kindergarten, elementary school (Junior school), junior high school (Middle school) and high school (Tutorial House, or Tut House). As of 2013, it has over 1,450 students representing 250 countries. English is the main language of instruction. Secondary studies aim towards the International Baccalaureate.
The school has two campuses, one in Manhattan, on the East River adjacent to Waterside Plaza (approximately one mile south of the United Nations Headquarters), and one in the borough of Queens, in Jamaica Estates.
Every year, students from UNIS organize and run the UNIS-UN Conference, held in the General Assembly Hall of the United Nations Headquarters.
Students are taught in relatively small classes, with averages of 17 children in kindergarten (JA), 17 in grade 1 (J1), 17 in grade 2 (J2), 19 in grades 3-4 (J3-J4), and 21 in middle and high school (M1-T4).[1] Emphasis is placed on preparation for the IB exams during High School, for which virtually all seniors sit (full Diploma or Certificate). UNIS has campuses in Manhattan and Jamaica Estates, Queens. The school provides an "international education that emphasizes academic excellence within a caring community". The School promotes diversity of persons and cultures in consideration of the United Nations Charter. Children whose parents transfer from abroad to work for the United Nations, Missions to the UN, and Consulates enjoy priority in terms of admission, but admission is not necessarily automatic. All children are required to be interviewed and assessed in person at UNIS, in addition to consideration of official school reports.[2]
Between 2003 and 2008, the top 10 College destinations for UNIS Graduates were: [3]
|Total Students Attending (2003–2008)
|George Washington University
|Cornell University
|Boston University
|New York University
|University of Virginia
|Brown University
|Duke University
|Barnard College
|Harvard University
|Columbia University
Notable alumni[edit]
- Gaurav Nanda, Bollywood Actor
- Dorothy Bush, daughter of George H. Bush[4]
- Yasmine Bleeth, actress[5]
- Kate Burton, actress[6]
- Vikram Chatwal, socialite and business tycoon, son of Sant Singh Chatwal[7]
- Alain Chesnais, computer scientist, past president of the Association for Computing Machinery
- Stéphane Dujarric de la Rivière, former United Nations spokesperson[8]
- Mohamed A. El-Erian, former CEO of PIMCO [9]
- Nicholas Guest, actor
- Stephen Hartke, composer[10]
- Sarah Jones (stage actress), actress[11]
- Sarah Kay, poet[12]
- Radhika Coomaraswamy, lawyer and former United Nations Under-Secretary-General[13]
- Rashid Khalidi, Columbia University professor[14]
- James Mayer, Professor of Chemistry
- Joakim Noah, basketball player for the Chicago Bulls[15]
- Atsushi Ogata, film maker[16]
- Amanda Plummer, actress
- Qubilah Shabazz, daughter of Malcolm X[17]
- S. K. Thoth, performance artist[18]
- Asa Akira, world renowned pornographic actress [19]
- Marius Vassiliou, scientist.
- John Zorn, musician[20]
- Mike Greenberg, sports radio host[21]
- Gary Cohen, TV sports broadcaster [22]
- Devon Scott, actress [23]
- Jennifer Grey, actress[citation needed]
- ^ FAQ at unis.org
- ^ http://www.unis.org/admissions/admissions_procedures__guidelines/index.aspx
- ^ http://www.unis.org/academic_programs/high_school/college_counseling/index.aspx
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- ^ Schoeneman, Deborah (March 5, 2006). "Vikram's Big Fat Sikh Wedding". New York Magazine. Retrieved 18 February 2010.
- ^ Secretary-General appoints Stéphane Dujarric as Spokesman
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- ^ Coomaraswamy, Radhika. "Radhika Coomaraswamy". Huffington Post.
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A new California law will compel carpet makers to tack on a 5-cent per yard tax on carpet sold in The Golden State starting July 1, one of several rules that could drive up carpet costs at a time when the industry is struggling to recover from deep cuts and steep sales declines.
If worse comes to worst, new environmental regulation on carpet could make rugs and carpets cost-prohibitive to sell in some states, which in turn would cost jobs in Chattanooga and North Georgia, industry officials say.
The Carpet America Recovery Effort, or CARE, will use revenues from California's newest levy as an enticement to spur carpet recycling efforts throughout the state, similar to how many states collect a surcharge to support the recycling of tires — another petroleum product.
Consumers will foot the bill for the new law (AB 2398) in the form of slightly higher prices on all carpet shipped to California for sale.
But supporters of the bill claim it's a small price to pay to keep millions of tons of carpet from landfills.
Teresa Bui, policy associate for the nonprofit group Californians Against Waste, said she would prefer to have recycling quotas in the bill, but still supports it as a significant step forward for recycling.
"This is the nation's first comprehensive and industry-financed carpet recycling program," she said. "Carpet is a significant waste problem — it's 3.2 percent of all landfill waste."
In addition to reducing greenhouse gases and reducing demand for petroleum, the bill will generate jobs, growing the state's recycling work force to 250 jobs from 60 currently, Bui said.
Walking the line
Prior to the downturn in carpet sales five years ago, CARE estimates nearly 2.5 million tons of carpet ended up in landfills every year, Georgina Sikorski, executive director of CARE.
The 100 yards of carpet that will cost a additional $5 to recycle under the new California law could help save 44 gallons of oil, 1 million BTUs, and 450 pounds of landfill waste, according to the group's website.
"It's not a huge amount, but it's enough for us to provide incentives to the carpet recyclers," Sikorski said.
The tricky part for industry-supported CARE is to play along with California lawmakers without encouraging other states to take the concept to an unworkable extreme, said Frank Hurd, vice president of the Carpet and Rug Institute in Dalton, Ga.
"If this were to grow to 50 cents a square yard, it would be a disincentive to purchase carpet," he said. "We're very conscious of that, and we're doing everything we can to resist things that will move in that direction."
A bill in the Washington state legislature would have required carpet makers to sponsor recycling centers in any city with more than 100,000 residents, or 40 sites altogether, Hurd said.
"There is no way you could afford that economically," he said. "Nobody bothered to ask if this made sense."
Though lobbying stopped the bill, it's set to come up again in 2012, he said.
"We've got some good-intentioned folks who don't understand how business works, how to be efficient or how to make regulations effective without killing industry," Hurd said.
Compromise or deselection
The California law is a compromise manufacturers reached with legislators to avoid costlier regulation. But far more troublesome rules lurk on the horizon for the Dalton-based industry, said Werner Braun, president of the Carpet and Rug Institute.
California scientists are adopting carpet emission recommendations that are 500 times stricter than current industry specifications and 120 times more stringent than European rules, Braun said.
The proposed limit affects levels of allowable caprolactam, a chemical used in the manufacture of Nylon-6. Besides carpet, Nylon-6 is also the basis for food packaging, tires, umbrellas, luggage, sleeping bags, clothes and medical applications.
In 1991 caprolactam was included on the list of hazardous air pollutants by the U.S. Clean Air Act of 1990. The chemical was removed from the list in 1993.
Further restrictions on caprolactam could cause prove expensive and what Braun terms "deselection," a situation in which consumers are unable to afford to buy products that have been altered to be legally compliant.
"One of the major consequences of this is going to be jobs," he said, noting the already-struggling California had shed nearly 30,000 jobs in May alone.
The irony, as Braun sees it, is that the partially self-regulating carpet industry has already adopted limits below OSHA and European guidelines in an effort to stave off just such an action from the state.
Carpet chemistry
OSHA's limit of 1,000 micrograms per cubic meter for eight hours per day is designed to keep workers safe over a 40-year career.
Europe's regulatory body has adopted a limit of 240 micrograms per cubic meter, Braun said. The industry-created Green Label Plus standard mandates levels at or below 100 micrograms, even though caprolactam in carpet dissipates after only a few weeks, he said.
California wants just 2 micrograms per cubic meter.
Braun, the rock-climbing former toxicologist from Dow Chemical Co., added that he takes California's ruling as a personal affront to his 40 years of experience with human-chemical interactions.
"It's toxicologically absurd," he said of the state's experiments with rats' inhalation of the substance. "Caprolactam is what we call a semi-volatile, which means it's really hard to get that into the air in the first place."
But the real danger, as with AB 2398, is what could happen if the recommendation by the state's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment were to be adopted elsewhere.
"Thankfully, there aren't a lot of states like California," Braun said.
California study
Sam Delson, a spokesman for California's Environmental Protection Agency, doesn't see the caprolactam debate in the same terms as his colleagues in the carpet industry.
After all, the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment doesn't make laws or enforce regulations, it only issues non-binding recommendations after careful scientific inquiry.
"Obviously with carpet, off-gassing of substances is an air quality issue," Delson said.
In practical terms, everything starts with a series of risk assessments.
After his agency's assessment, other agencies use the California EPA's recommendations to issue their own recommendations on whether to implement rules.
"Under California's air toxics hot spots program, facilities that need to conduct a risk assessment of airborne emissions use reference exposure levels to evaluate the concentrations of chemicals in the air," Delson said. "The risk assessments are used by local air pollution control districts to determine whether there is a need for pollution controls."
Slippery slope
The spat started with a set of experiments conducted by the California EPA on rats using caprolactam, in which investigators found damage to the lining of the nose and airway after chronic exposure to the chemical, Delson said.
Investigators set the chemical's allowable level as low as they did to protect "sensitive subpopulations such as infants and children, the elderly, and people with asthma or other respiratory diseases," he said.
OSHA guidelines are designed to protect working individuals, not infants or people with chronic illnesses, he contended.
Workplace rules also "take into account factors such as the cost and technical feasibility of measures that employers would need to implement to meet their standards."
But the fact that the state doesn't even consider in the cost of compliance with regulation is part of the problem, said Ralph Boe, president of carpetmaker Beaulieu of America.
"Someone's come up with an idea that if 100 micrograms is good, than two is even better," Boe said. "We want these products to be as safe as we can make them, but we have to be economic too."
More importantly, "we don't even have the capability yet" to make carpet with that level of caprolactam," Boe said.
Tested to death
He also takes issue with the state's tests, which he said the agency insists on performing at the factory where concentrations are highest.
"If you think about it, the product's going to be made, shipped, installed, and all this time it will be continuing to lose whatever residuals are in it over time," Boe said.
Boe faces are an immediate loss of sales in California, whose population represents about 10 percent of all Americans, he said.
But the pain won't be equally spread around. Not all carpet is made with Nylon, and not all Nylon is Nylon-6, so some carpet manufacturers will feel more pain than others.
Dan Frierson, chairman and CEO of The Dixie Group, uses a different type of Nylon, and therefore doesn't use much caprolactam.
"The direct impact on us would be minimal, but on the industry it would be significant," Frierson said. "I think, obviously it's a case of overregulation and a case of nonscience-based standards. Whenever you start down that path, it's not good for the industry."
Ellis Smith joined the Chattanooga Times Free Press in January 2010 as a business reporter. His beat includes the flooring industry, Chattem, Unum, Krystal, the automobile market, real estate and technology. Ellis is from Marietta, Ga., and has a bachelor's degree in mass communication at the University of West Georgia. He previously worked at UTV-13 News, Carrollton, Ga., as a producer; at the The West Georgian, Carrollton, Ga., as editor; and at the Times-Georgian, Carrollton, ...
"A new California law will compel carpet makers to tack on a 5-cent per yard tax on carpet sold in The Golden State starting July..."
Dalton's natives should compel carpet makers to tack on a $1.00 per square yard tax on all carpet sales as reparation for destroying their town.
There is no doubt that carpet, in it's present form, is an environmental nightmare. No product takes as much room in landfills, with such a limited useful lifespan compared to the many decades it takes to decompose.
We've come a long way from reliance on the all-cotton chenille that started this industry. In the early days of carpet, the story of how and why (natural) jute carpet backing was replaced by synthetics is an interesting one that I personally witnessed as a child, through my father as a sales rep. It was an international affair, involving dock strikes, which hastened the arrival of synthetic substrate.
Not mentioned in this piece are the longtime efforts by our pioneers in pre-cycling carpet by using recycled/recyclable materials in manufacturing, allowing a commercial situation where carpet is actually "leased" and worn tile sections replaced and recycled. Virtually no disposal problems.
It is up to the fiber corporations to overcome these nylon challenges, just as their industrious and pioneering counterparts have successfully done with other fibers. Otherwise, they bear the burden of responsibility that persists with how this product is created, used and disposed of, and with what ramifications, economic, health and environmental.


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