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Cambridge software maker HubSpot fell from number eight to number 17 in this year's list of the fastest growing technology companies put out annually by Deloitte LLP.
On the 2012 Technology Fast 500 list, compiled by the San Francisco-based consulting firm and announced Wednesday, Boston-area companies made up 9 percent of the total companies on the list. That was second only to the San Francisco area, which claimed 20 percent of the companies on the list. New York, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, Los Angeles and San Diego all tied for the third-highest number of companies on the list, with 6 percent each.
"Creative and cutting-edge cities often have several things in common including access to capital, supportive local governments, and world-class education systems," said Bill Ribaudo, national technology, media and telecommunications leader for audit and enterprise risk services for Deloitte in a statement. "Many of these cities have the resources and culture that startups need to thrive, and so they have become innovation powerhouses and consistently turn out fast-growing companies year over year."
Software companies made up the bulk of those on the list - 40 percent - followed by biotechs, Internet companies and communications firms.
HubSpot, which was the highest New England area company on the list both this year and last, provides inbound-marketing software-as-a-service, mostly for small and medium-sized businesses. Earlier this month, it raised $35 million in funding to allow the company to make acquisitions and to add between 150 and 200 jobs by the end of 2013. That brings the company's total to $100 million raised since its founding in 2006. It's planning an IPO next year.
The number one spot on the list was taken by Tesla Motors Inc. in Palo Alto, Calif., which saw revenue growth of 270,000 percent from 2007 to 2012.
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Diabetes is not reversible. And controlling your blood sugar with drugs or insulin will protect you from organ damage and death.
That is what the medical profession would have you believe.
But medication and insulin can actually increase your risk getting a heart attack or dying.
What you are not hearing about is another way to deal with this epidemic.
Today, I want to review in detail a new way to think about diabetes and next week I want to tell you exactly how to prevent, treat, and reverse it.
Let's get started.
The diabetes epidemic is accelerating along with the obesity epidemic.
Type 2 diabetes, or what was once called adult onset diabetes, is an increasing worldwide epidemic affecting nearly 100 million people -- and over 20 million Americans.
We are seeing increasing rates of Type 2 diabetes, especially in children, which has increased over 1,000 percent in the last decade and was unknown before this generation. One in three children born today will have diabetes in their lifetime.
Yet this is an entirely preventable lifestyle disease.
In a report in "The New England Journal of Medicine," Walter Willett, MD, PhD, and his colleagues from the Harvard School of Public Health demonstrated that 91 percent of all Type 2 diabetes cases could be prevented through improvements lifestyle and diet.
==> The Road to Diabetes Starts Early
Diabetes is often undiagnosed until its later stages. Insulin resistance, when the body becomes resistant to the effects of insulin, is primarily what causes diabetes.
When your diet is full of empty calories, an abundance of quickly absorbed sugars and carbohydrates (bread, pasta, rice, potatoes, etc.), the body slowly becomes resistant to the effects of insulin and needs more to do the same job of keeping your blood sugar even.
High insulin levels are the first sign of a problem. The high insulin leads to an appetite that is out of control, and increasing weight gain around the belly.
High levels of insulin are warning signs -- they precede Type 2 diabetes by decades.
Insulin resistance and the metabolic syndrome associated with it is often accompanied by increasing central obesity, fatigue after meals, sugar cravings, high triglycerides, low HDL, high blood pressure, problems with blood clotting, as well as increased inflammation.
These clues can often be picked up decades before anyone ever gets diabetes -- and may help you prevent diabetes entirely.
If you have a family history of obesity (especially around the belly), diabetes, early heart disease, or even dementia you are even more prone to this problem.
Most people know about the common complications of diabetes such as heart attacks, strokes, amputations, blindness, kidney failure, and nerve damage. Some may even know that it increases your risk of dementia and cancers and can cause impotence.
But most people don't realize that insulin resistance or pre-diabetes can be just as bad causing heart attacks, strokes, dementia, cancer, and impotence -- decades before you get diabetes.
In fact many people with pre-diabetes never get diabetes, but they are at severe risk just the same.
==> Living in Harmony with Our Genes
We were highly adapted to a nutrient-dense, low-sugar, high-fiber diet rich in omega 3 fats. But when we eat out of harmony with our genes, we turn on genes that promote diabetes.
Take Arizona's Pima Indians, for example.
They were thin and fit 100 years ago, living on a diet of over 70 percent carbohydrates. They ate high-fiber, unprocessed plant foods and they had no diabetes or obesity.
Now, in just one generation, they are nearly all obese and 80 percent have diabetes by the time they are 30 years old!
That's because they are eating food that turns on all the wrong gene messages -- foods like sugar, trans fats, white flour, and processed foods.
==> Diabetes is Reversible: Diagnose Problems as Early as Possible
Diabetes and pre-diabetes ARE reversible.
New science shows that it's possible, through an aggressive approach of lifestyle, nutritional support, and occasionally medications.
It is important to diagnose Type 2 diabetes early, but it is often not diagnosed until very late.
In fact, all doctors should aggressively diagnose pre-diabetes decades before diabetes occurs, and before any damage is done to your body. Damage begins with even slight changes in insulin and blood sugar.
Unfortunately, there is a continuum of risk from slightly abnormal insulin and blood sugar to full blown diabetes. This should be addressed as early as possible on the continuum.
In a recent study, anyone with a fasting blood sugar of over 87 was at increased risk of diabetes. The lowest risk group had a blood sugar less than 81.
Most doctors are not concerned until the blood sugar is over 110 -- or worse, over 126, which is diabetes. Therefore, I recommend early testing with anyone who has a family history of Type 2 diabetes, central abdominal weight gain or abnormal cholesterol.
Don't wait until your sugar is high.
==> Testing for Insulin Resistance and Diabetes
The tests I recommend include the following:
These are tests any doctor can perform and are covered by insurance. I have included the interpretation with my written blog so you can know exactly where you should be.
That's all for today.
In next week's blog, I will tell you how to prevent, treat, and even reverse diabetes. I have seen this hundreds of times in my patients and there is no reason you can't achieve the same thing if you apply these principles.
Till then, remember what Michael Pollan said: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."
Now I'd like to hear from you…
Have you been diagnosed with pre-diabetes or diabetes?
Have you been told that it is irreversible?
What steps have you taken to prevent diabetes?
Please let me know your thoughts by leaving a comment below.
To your good health,
Mark Hyman, M.D.
Department of Physiology, University of Kuopio, Finland. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=9566667&dopt=AbstractPlus
We tested the effects of an uncooked vegan diet, rich in lactobacilli, in rheumatoid patients randomized into diet and control groups. The intervention group experienced subjective relief of rheumatic symptoms during intervention. A return to an omnivorous diet aggravated symptoms. Half of the patients experienced adverse effects (nausea, diarrhoea) during the diet and stopped the experiment prematurely. Indicators of rheumatic disease activity did not differ statistically between groups. The positive subjective effect experienced by the patients was not discernible in the more objective measures of disease activity (Health Assessment Questionnaire, duration of morning stiffness, pain at rest and pain on movement). However, a composite index showed a higher number of patients with 3-5 improved disease activity measures in the intervention group. Stepwise regression analysis associated a decrease in the disease activity (measured as change in the Disease Activity Score, DA with lactobacilli-rich and chlorophyll-rich drinks, increase in fibre intake, and no need for gold, methotrexate or steroid medication (R2=0.48, P=0.02). The results showed that an uncooked vegan diet, rich in lactobacilli, decreased subjective symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis. Large amounts of living lactobacilli consumed daily may also have positive effects on objective measures of rheumatoid arthritis.
PMID: 9566667 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
The food's life force is greatly depleted or destroyed. The bioelectrical (energy) field is altered and greatly depleted (as is graphically demonstrated with kirlian photography). Live and bioactive (raw) food is rendered dead and inert.
The biochemical structure and nutrient makeup of the food is altered from its original state. Molecules in the food are deranged, degraded, and broken down. The food is degenerated in many ways. Fiber in plant foods is broken down into a soft, passive substance which loses its broom-like and magnetic cleansing quality in the intestines.
Nutrients (vitamins, minerals, amino acids, etc.) are depleted, destroyed, and altered. The degree of depletion, destruction, and alteration is simply a matter of temperature, cooking method, and time.
Up to 50% of the protein is coagulated. Much of this is rendered unusable. High temperatures also create cross-links in protein. Cross-linked proteins are implicated in many problems in the body, as well as being a factor in the accelleration of the aging process.
The interrelationship of nutrients is altered from its natural synergistic makeup. For example, with meat, relatively more vitamin B-6 than methionine is destroyed, which fosters atherogenic free radical-initiating homocysteine accumulation (which is a factor in heart problems).
The water content of the food is decreased. The natural structure of the water is also changed.
Toxic substances and cooked "byproducts" are created. The higher the cooking temperature, the more toxins that are created. Frying and grilling are especially toxin-generating. Various carcinogenic and mutagenic substances and hordes of free radicals are generated in cooked fats and proteins in particular.
Heat causes the molecules involved to collide, and repeated collision causes divalent bonding in order for new molecules, and hence a new substance, to form. In an ordinary baked potato, there are 450 by-products of every description. They have even been named "new chemical composites".
Unusable (waste) material is created, which has a cumulative congesting/clogging effect on the body and is a burden to the natural eliminative processes of the body.
All of the enzymes present in raw foods are destroyed at temperatures as low as 118 degrees fahrenheit. These enzymes, named "food enzymes" are important for optimum digestion. They naturally aid in digestion and become active as soon as eating commences. Cooking destroys 100% of these enzymes. Eating enzyme-dead food places a burden on the pancreas and other organs and overworks them, which eventually exhausts these organs. The digestion of cooked food usurps valuable metabolic enzymes in order to help digest the food. Digestion of cooked food is much more energetically demanding than the digestion of raw food. In general, raw food is so much more easily digested that it passes through the digestive tract in a half to a third of the time it takes for cooked food.
After eating a cooked meal, there is a rush of white blood cells towards the digestive tract, leaving the rest of the body less protected by the immune system. From the point of view of the immune system the body is being invaded by a foreign (toxic) substance when cooked food is eaten.
A general augmentation of white corpuscles in the blood and a change in the relative proportions of different blood cells occurs. This phenomenon is called "digestive leukocytosis".
The natural population of beneficial intestinal flora becomes dominated by putrefactive bacteria (particularly from cooked meat), resulting in colonic dysfunction, allowing the absorption of toxins from the bowel. This phenomenon is variously called dysbacteria, dysbiosis, or intestinal toxemia (toxicosis).
A buildup of mucoid plaque is created in the intestines. Mucoid plaque is a thick tar-like substance which is the long-term result of undigested, uneliminated cooked food putrefying in the intestines. Cooked starches and fats in particular are a major culprit in constipation and clogging of the intestines.
A build-up of toxins and waste material in many parts of the body, including within individual cells. Some of these toxins and wastes are called lipofuscin, which accumulates in the skin and nervous system, including the brain. It can be observed as "liver spots" or "age spots."
Malnutrition at the cellular level. Because cooked foods are lower in nutrients, in addition to containing wastes and toxins, individual cells don't receive enough of the nutrients they need.
Tendency towards obesity through overeating. Because the cells don't get enough nutrients they are so to speak "always hungry" and hence "demand" more food. Cooked food is also less likely to be properly metabolized, which is another factor in excess weight gain.
From time to time the body experiences detoxification crises (also called purification or healing crises). This happens when toxins are released through the skin or dumped in the bloodstream for elimination by the liver, kidneys, and other organs. The symptoms may include headaches, fever, nausea, vomiting, colds, bronchitis, sinusitis, pneumonia, diarrhea, etc.
The body can become so toxic that all kinds of particles, such as pollen, can cause detoxification crises, called "allergies". An estimated 80 million Americans suffer from such "allergies".
The immune system, having to handle the massive daily invasions of toxins and toxic by-products, eventually becomes overwhelmed and weakened. A key factor in the aging process.
Some of the waste material builds up in the arteries and clogs them, leading to high blood pressure, atherosclerosis, arteriosclerosis, strokes, etc. - killing an estimated 50% of Americans.
The wastes, toxins, mutagens, and carcinogens that build up within cells, as well as the daily onslaught of excess free radicals eventually cause some cells to become cancerous - killing an estimated 30% of Americans.
In general, the natural aging process is accelerated by cooked food. People who switch to raw food often become biologically and visibly younger.
Cooking food is plausible as a contributor to cancer. A wide variety of chemicals are formed during cooking. Four groups of chemicals that cause tumors in rodents have attracted attention because of mutagenicity, potency, and concentration:
Nitrosamines are formed from nitrogen oxides present in gas flames or from other burning. Surprisingly little work has been done on the levels of nitrosamines in fish or meat cooked in gas ovens or barbecued, considering their mutagenic and carcinogenic potency.
Heterocyclic amines are formed from heating amino acids or proteins.
Polycyclic hydrocarbons are formed from charring meat.
Furfural and similar furans are formed from heating sugars. Heating fat generates mutagenic epoxides, hydroperoxides, and unsaturated aldehydes, and may also be of importance.
Sunday 09 September 2007 http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092807P.shtml
People should avoid using Wi-Fi wherever possible because of the risks it may pose to health, the German government has said.
Its surprise ruling - the most damning made by any government on the fast-growing technology - will shake the industry and British ministers, and vindicates the questions that The Independent on Sunday has been raising over the past four months.
And Germany's official radiation protection body also advises its citizens to use landlines instead of mobile phones, and warns of "electrosmog" from a wide range of other everyday products, from baby monitors to electric blankets.
The German government's ruling - which contrasts sharply with the unquestioning promotion of the technology by British officials - was made in response to a series of questions by Green members of the Bundestag, Germany's parliament.
The Environment Ministry recommended that people should keep their exposure to radiation from Wi-Fi "as low as possible" by choosing "conventional wired connections". It added that it is "actively informing people about possibilities for reducing personal exposure".
Its actions will provide vital support for Sir William Stewart, Britain's official health protection watchdog, who has produced two reports calling for caution in using mobile phones and who has also called for a review of the use of Wi-Fi in schools. His warnings have so far been ignored by ministers and even played down by the Health Protection Agency, which he chairs.
By contrast the agency's German equivalent - the Federal Office for Radiation Protection - is leading the calls for caution.
Florian Emrich, for the office, says Wi-Fi should be avoided "because people receive exposures from many sources and because it is a new technology and all the research into its health effects has not yet been carried out".
Are Your Cell Phone and Laptop Bad for Your Health? By Stan Cox AlterNet
Tuesday 31 July 2007
In the wee hours of July 14, a 45-year-old Australian named John Patterson climbed into a tank and drove it through the streets of Sydney, knocking down six cell-phone towers and an electrical substation along the way. Patterson, a former telecommunications worker, reportedly had mapped out the locations of the towers, which he claimed were harming his health.
In recent years, protesters in England and Northern Ireland have brought down cell towers by sawing, removing bolts, and pulling with tow trucks and ropes. In one such case, locals bought the structure and sold off pieces of it as souvenirs to help with funding of future protests. In attempts to fend off objections to towers in Germany, some churches have taken to disguising them as giant crucifixes.
Opposition to towers usually finds more socially acceptable outlets, and protests are being heard more often than ever in meetings of city councils, planning commissions, and other government bodies. This summer alone, citizen efforts to block cell towers have sprouted in, among a host of other places, including California, New Jersey, Maryland, Illinois, North Dakota and north of the border in Ontario and British Columbia. Transmitters are already banned from the roofs of schools in many districts.
For years, towers have been even less welcome in the United Kingdom, where this summer has seen disputes across the country.
Most opponents cite not only aesthetics but also concerns over potential health effects of electromagnetic (EM) fields generated by the towers. Once ridiculed as crackpots and Luddites, they're starting to get backup from the scientific community.
It's not just cell phones they're worried about. The Tottenham area of London is considering the suspension of all wireless technology in its schools. Last year, Fred Gilbert, a respected scientist and president of Lakehead University in Ontario, banned wireless internet on his campus. And resident groups in San Francisco are currently battling Earthlink and Google over a proposed city-wide Wi-Fi system.
Picking Up Some Interference?
For decades, concerns have been raised about the health effects of "extremely low frequency" fields that are produced by electrical equipment or power lines. People living close to large power lines or working next to heavy electrical equipment are spending a lot of time in electromagnetic fields generated by those sources. Others of us can be exposed briefly to very strong fields each day.
But in the past decade, suspicion has spread to cell phones and other wireless technologies, which operate at frequencies that are millions to tens of millions higher but at low power and "pulsed."
Then there's your cell phone, laptop, or other wireless device, which not only receives but also sends pulsed signals at high frequencies. Because it's usually very close to your head (or lap) when in use, the fields experienced by your body are stronger than those from a cell tower down the street.
A growing number of scientists, along with a diverse collection of technology critics, are pointing out that our bodies constantly generate electrical pulses as part of their normal functioning. They maintain that incoming radiation from modern technology may be fouling those signals.
But with hundreds of billions in sales at stake, the communications industry (and more than a few scientists) insist that radio-frequency radiation can't have biological effects unless it's intense enough to heat your flesh or organs, in the way a microwave oven cooks meat.
It's also turning out that when scientific studies are funded by industry, the results a lot less likely to show that EM fields are a health hazard.
Low Frequency, More Frequent Disease?
Before the digital revolution, a long line of epidemiological studies compared people who were exposed to strong low-frequency fields - people living in the shadow of power lines, for example, or long-time military radar operators - to similar but unexposed groups.
One solid outcome of that research was to show that rates of childhood leukemia are associated with low-frequency EM exposure; as a result, the International Agency for Research on Cancer has labeled that type of energy as a possible carcinogen, just as they might label a chemical compound.
Other studies have found increased incidence of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (commonly called ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease), higher rates of breast cancer among both men and women, and immune-system dysfunction in occupations with high exposure.
Five years ago, the California Public Utilities Commission asked three epidemiologists in the state Department of Health Services to review and evaluate the scientific literature on health effects of low-frequency EM fields.
The epidemiologists, who had expertise in physics, medicine, and genetics, agreed in their report that they were "inclined to believe that EMFs can cause some degree of increased risk of childhood leukemia, adult brain cancer, Lou Gehrig's disease, and miscarriage" and were open to the possibility that they raise the risks of adult leukemia and suicide. They did not see associations with other cancer types, heart disease, or Alzheimer's disease.
Epidemiological and animal studies have not been unanimous in finding negative health effects from low-frequency EM fields, so the electric-utility industry continues to emphasize that no cause-and-effect link has been proven.
High Resistance
Now the most intense debate is focused on radio-frequency fields. As soon as cell phones came into common usage, there was widespread concern that holding an electronic device against the side of your head many hours a month for the rest of your life might be harmful, and researchers went to work looking for links to health problems, often zeroing in on the possibility of brain tumors.
Until recently, cell phones had not been widely used over enough years to evaluate effects on cancers that take a long time to develop. A number of researchers failed to find an effect during those years, but now that the phones have been widely available for more than a decade, some studies are relating brain-tumor rates to long-term phone use.
Some lab studies have found short-term harm as well. Treatment with cell-phone frequencies has disrupted thyroid-gland functioning in lab rats, for example. And at Lund University in Sweden, rats were exposed to cell-phone EM fields of varying strengths for two hours; 50 days later, exposed rats showed significant brain damage relative to non-exposed controls.
The authors were blunt in their assessment: "We chose 12-26-week-old rats because they are comparable with human teenagers - notably frequent users of mobile phones - with respect to age. The situation of the growing brain might deserve special concern from society because biologic and maturational processes are particularly vulnerable during the growth process."
Even more recently, health concerns have been raised about the antenna masts that serve cell phones and other wireless devices. EM fields at, say, a couple of blocks from a tower are not as strong as those from a wireless device held close to the body; nevertheless many city-dwellers are now continuously bathed in emissions that will only grow in their coverage and intensity.
Last year, the RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia closed off the top two floors of its 17-story business school for a time because five employees working on its upper floors had been diagnosed with brain tumors in a single month, and seven since 1999. Cell phone towers had been placed on the building's roof a decade earlier and, although there was no proven link between them and the tumors, university officials were taking no chances.
Data on the health effects of cell or W-Fi towers are still sparse and inconsistent. Their opponents point to statistically rigorous studies like one in Austria finding that headaches and difficulty with concentration were more common among people exposed to stronger fields from cell towers. All sides seem to agree on the need for more research with solid data and robust statistical design.
San Francisco, one of the world's most technology-happy cities, is home to more than 2400 cell-phone antennas, and many of those transmitters are due to be replaced with more powerful models that can better handle text messaging and photographs, and possibly a new generation of even higher-frequency phones.
Now there's hot-and-heavy debate over plans to add 2200 more towers for a city-wide Earthlink/Google Wi-Fi network. On July 31, the city's Board of Supervisors considered an appeal by the San Francisco Neighborhood Antenna-Free Union (SNAFU) that the network proposal be put through an environmental review - a step that up to now has not been required for such telecommunications projects.
In support of the appeal, Magda Havas, professor of environmental and resource studies at Trent University in Ontario submitted an analysis of radio-frequency effects found in more than 50 human, animal, and cellular-level studies published in scientific journals.
Havas has specialized in investigating the effects of both low- and high-frequency EM radiation. She says most of the research in the field is properly done, but that alone won't guarantee that all studies will give similar results. "Natural variability in biological populations is the norm," she said.
And, she says, informative research takes time and focus: "For example, studies that consider all kinds of brain tumors in people who've only used cell phones for, say, five years don't show an association. But those studies that consider only tumors on the same side of the head where the phone is held and include only people who've used a phone for ten years or more give the same answer very consistently: there's an increased risk of tumors." In other research, wireless frequencies have been associated with higher rates of miscarriage, testicular cancer, and low sperm counts.
Direct current from a battery can be used to encourage healing of broken bones. EM fields of various frequencies have also been shown to reduce tissue damage from heart attacks, help heal wounds, reduce pain, improve sleep, and relieve depression and anxiety. If they are biologically active enough to promote health, are they also active enough to degrade it?
At the 2006 meeting of the International Commission for Electromagnetic Safety in Benevento, Italy, 42 scientists from 16 countries signed a resolution arguing for much stricter regulation of EM fields from wireless communication.
Four years earlier, in Freiburger, Germany, a group of physicians had signed a statement also calling for tighter regulation of wireless communication and a prohibition on use of wireless devices by children. In the years since, more than 3000 doctors have signed the so-called "Freiburger Appeal" and documents modeled on it.
But in this country, industry has pushed for and gotten exemption from strict regulation, most notably through the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Libby Kelley, director of the Council on Wireless Technology Impacts in Novato, California says, "The technology always comes first, the scientific and environmental questions later. EM trails chemicals by about 10 years, but I hope we'll catch up."
Kelley says a major problem is that the Telecommunications Act does not permit state or local governments to block the siting of towers based on health concerns: "We'll go to hearings and try to bring up health issues, and officials will tell us, 'We can't talk about that. We could get sued in federal court!'"
High-Voltage Influence?
Industry officials are correct when they say the scientific literature contains many studies that did not find power lines or telecommunication devices to have significant health effects. But when, as often happens, a range of studies give some positive and some negative results, industry people usually make statements like, "Technology A has not been proven to cause disease B."
Michael Kundi, professor at the Medical University of Vienna, Austria and an EM researcher, has issued a warning about distortions of the concept of cause-and-effect, particularly when a scientific study concludes that "there is no evidence for a causal relationship" between environmental factors and human health. Noting that science is rarely able to prove that A did or did not "cause" B, he wrote that such statements can be "readily misused by interested parties to claim that exposure is not associated with adverse health effects."
Scientists and groups concerned about current standards for EM fields have criticized the World Health Organization (WHO) and other for downplaying the risks. And some emphasize the risk of financial influence when such intense interest is being shown by huge utilities and a global communications industry that's expected to sell $250 billion worth of wireless handsets per year by 2011 (that's just for the instruments, not counting monthly bills). Microwave News cited Belgian reports in late 2006 that two industry groups - the GSM Association and Mobile Manufacturers Forum - accounted for more than 40 percent of the budget for WHO's EM fields project in 2005-06.
When a US National Academy of Sciences committee was formed earlier this year to look into health effects of wireless communication devices, the Center for Science in the Public Interest and Sage Associates wrote a letter to the Academy charging that the appointment of two of the committee's six members was improper under federal conflict-of-interest laws.
One of the committee members, Leeka Kheifets, a professor of epidemiology in UCLA's School of Public Health, has, says the letter, "spent the majority of the past 20 years working in various capacities with the Electric Power Research Institute, the research arm of the electric power industry."
The other, Bernard Veyret, senior scientist at the University of Bordeaux in France, "is on the consulting board of Bouygues Telecom (one of 3 French mobile phone providers), has contracts with Alcatel and other providers, and has received research funding from Electricite de France, the operator of the French electricity grid." The NAS committee will be holding a workshop this month and will issue a report sometime after that.
A paper published in January in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives found that when studies of cell phone use and health problems were funded by industry, they were much less likely to find a statistically significant relationship than were publicly funded studies.
The authors categorized the titles of the papers they surveyed as either negative (as in "Cellular phones have no effect on sleep patterns"), or neutral (e.g., "Sleep patterns of adolescents using cellular phones"), or positive, (e.g., "Cellular phones disrupt sleep"). Fully 42 percent of the privately funded studies had negative titles and none had positive ones. In public or nonprofit studies, titles were 18 percent negative and 46 percent positive.
Alluding to previous studies in the pharmaceutical and tobacco industries, the authors concluded, "Our findings add to the existing evidence that single-source sponsorship is associated with outcomes that favor the sponsors' products."
By email, I asked Dr. John Moulder, a senior editor of the journal Radiation Research, for his reaction to the study. Moulder, who is Professor and Director of Radiation Biology in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of Wisconsin, did not think the analysis was adequate to conclusively demonstrate industry influence and told me that in his capacity as an editor, "I have not noted such an effect, but I have not systematically looked for one either. I am certainly aware that an industry bias exists in other areas of medicine, such as reporting of clinical trails."
Moulder was lead author on a 2005 paper concluding that the scientific literature to that point showed "a lack of convincing evidence for a causal association between cancer and exposure to the RF [radio-frequency] energy used for mobile telecommunications."
The Center for Science in the Public Interest has questioned Moulder's objectivity because he has served as a consultant to electric-power and telecommunications firms and groups. Moulder told me, "I have not done any consulting for the electric power and telecommunications industry in years, and when I was doing consulting for these industries, the journals for which I served as an editor or reviewer were made aware of it."
A year ago, Microwave News also reported that approximately one-half of all studies looking into possible damage to DNA by communication-frequency EM fields found no effect. But three-fourths of those negative studies were industry- or military-funded; indeed, only 3 of 35 industry or military papers found an effect, whereas 32 of 37 publicly funded studies found effects.
Magda Havas sees a shortage of public money in the US for research on EM health effects as one of the chief factors leading to lack of a rigorous public policy, telling me, "Much of the research here ends up being funded directly or indirectly by industry. That affects both the design and the interpretation of studies." As for research done directly by company scientists, "It's the same as in any industry. They can decide what information to make public. They are free to downplay harmful effects and release information that's beneficial to their product."
Meanwhile, at Trent University where Havas works, students using laptops are exposed to radio-frequency levels that exceed international guidelines. Of that, she says, "For people who've been fully informed and decide to take the risk, that's their choice. But what about those who have no choice, who have a cell-phone tower outside their bedroom window?
"It's the equivalent of secondhand smoke. We took a long time to get the political will to establish smoke-free environments, and we now know we should have done it sooner. How long will it take to react to secondhand radiation?"
For more information, visit Environmnental Health Perspectives; Microwave News; the National Center for Biotechnology Information.
Another Week Down: Time to Update Your Plan
Congratulations! You're now nearly halfway through 30 Days to a Greener You. You should also have several more items that you can add to the Greener Life Plan you created in lesson 7:
Recycling: You should have your system in place. Now, update your plan to show activities you'll need to take on a regular basis. You'll probably need to sort daily, and deliver the sorted recyclables weekly, either to a convenient drop-off point, or to your curbside.
Eating and Drinking: You've committed a portion of your grocery budget to greener food, and will probably want to make shopping for it a weekly event. If you can make it part of your regular grocery shopping, great - add that to your plan. If not, identify a point during the week you can do your green shopping, and try to combine it with other trips you would normally make.
Energy, Transportation and Consumption: While light bulbs only need to be changed occasionally (especially now that you're using longer-lasting, more efficient bulbs), you may want to make a habit of checking other energy uses in your home: thermostat and hot water heater settings (especially if someone in your home has a tendency to adjust these!). You'll want to start replacing your furnace/AC filter monthly, as that will help those systems run more efficiently.
Have you scheduled regular trips by mass transit, bicycle or "foot power?" Have you taken note of car trips you can combine? If not, get those into your plan!
You may also want to have a standing weekly appointment with your new favorite swapping site - you never know what might show up!
Your Action for Today:Update and Revise Your Greener Living Plan
Of course, once you've done this, you'll want to engage in another activity that should be on the plan: using your Green Journal! Put your updated plan in your journal today. Take a look at the plans others have revised. Finally, enjoy your success - you're already living a greener life!
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This makes me think that we should perhaps have a specific naming convention for multipages that include a "special" character, perhaps '-', i.e. UbuStream-Configure, UbuStream-DynamicDates?
This would mean that pages including '-' will not show up in the lists. What do you think?
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With its clean, kid-friendly design and cheery accent colors, the HP Chromebook 11 could fit nicely into K–12 classrooms and libraries, writes Test Drive reviewer Joelle Alcaidinho.
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"The EV3 is one of those toys that transcends consumerism and becomes a pathway into new kinds of hands-on production and learning for kids and adults alike," writes Chad Sansing in our review of LEGO's latest version of the popular Mindstorms robotics platform.
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Flexibility and personalized education: That's what the learners of 2014 will expect from their libraries. We must be available everywhere, nimbly respond to students' needs, and allow kids to learn in ways that suit them. It's an exciting time. Here are the top trends for 2013 and beyond.
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The Best PowerPoint Alternatives for Creating Great Presentations
We've all endured "death by PowerPoint." It's a painful experience for the audience and probably not all that fun for the presenter either. To help students deliver effective presentations—free of those deadly bullet points—SLJ columnist Richard Byrne cites his go-to applications.
Tech Tidbits from the Guybrarian: Where do you get your ideas?
The smartest teachers in the world work in my school—they have brilliant lesson plans, amazing classroom management and solid assessment skills. It is really enjoyable to work with them on a project and just when we need it the most, I can say, "This looks like a job for Sound Cloud!" or "Storybird would be great for this fable unit." I love pulling the perfect tool out of thin air. My teachers think I'm a genius!
SLJ Speaks to National Book Award Finalists
A story about the race to build the atomic bomb, a harrowing tale of the Khmer Rouge's reign of terror in Cambodia, and an adventure about love, loss, and family are among the National Book Foundation's five finalists in the Young People's Literature category.
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SLJ columnist Jeff Hastings test drives Aerbook Maker, a new platform for creating your very own tablet-ready graphical ebooks.
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It's not uncommon for little kids to shudder at the sight of their parents showing affection toward each other, but it has never been more perfectly caught on camera.
These adorable twin girls, Evelyn and Elinor, 2, certainly made their feelings known during a surprise Father's Day photo shoot for their dad, Sergio Carbajal.
"David [the photographer] asked us to kiss, and then told the girls to cover their eyes," Mandy Carbajal, of Amarillo, Texas, told ABC News. "But it actually worked out perfectly because Elinor was not cooperating for smiles because she was nervous about train sounds she was hearing in the distance. And Evelyn was being a total ham so she was happy to oblige."
Family Photo Session Not Your Average Day at the Beach
Although the precious family portrait wasn't exactly a candid, it still made for a great photo opportunity that would be tough to top in years to come. But that won't stop them from trying.
"Not sure we could capture the same kind of moment, but my girls are pretty hilarious so I'm sure we'll have some wonderful, fun family shoots in the future," Carbajal said.
Adorable 1-Year-Old's Fierce Photo Becomes Overnight Reddit Sensation
And contrary to what this hilarious photo gone viral would make you believe, the little girls' mom assures they are no stranger to affection.
"The last thing we do together as we put the girls to bed is 'family hugs and kisses,' she explained. "Basically, a group hug and kiss goodnight.
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In Shards one means through which I shatter perception is by drawing attention to the ragged edges of the ripped illustrations. I am emotionally as well as aesthetically drawn to the original works of art. And I feel similarly about the illustrations as well, with their immediate, touchable accessibility that allows me to make them my own, conceptually and artistically. For example, all the fragments are pictures of stone, and the stone-colored compositions are meant to evoke relationships between artistically wrought human figures from the Greco-Roman, on the one hand, and rough mineral matter on the other.


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LittleBigPlanet will receive "The Patch" sometime this week, according to the Jeff Rubenstein, social media manager of the PlayStation Blog. He also announced that inFamous is "[going] to the movies."
We can only speculate on what Rubenstein's cryptic notes mean, but we assume the LBP patch will bring a lot of gamers back to the popular game. As for his word on inFamous, can we expect a movie based on the game, a new trailer in the Home theater, or a preview commercial before the start of a movie at the cinema?
We'll give you all the details as they become available.
LittleBigPlanet getting "The Patch," inFamous "goes to the movies"
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The 57th Filmfare Awards is one of India's most prestigious award ceremonies, honoring the best film of 2011 from the Hindi-language film industry (commonly known as Bollywood). The ceremony will take place on January 29, 2012 at Yash Raj Studios, Mumbai. The ceremony will be jointly hosted by Shahrukh Khan and Ranbir Kapoor. Incidentally, both of them have hosted the award ceremonies previously but with different co-hosts (Khan with Saif Ali Khan, Kapoor with Imran Khan), hence making it the first time this pair will host the show.
The nominations for the awards were announced on January 11, 2012. Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara was the most nominated, receiving 13 nominations. It was followed by Rockstar with nine nominations, and Delhi Belly with seven nominations. Consequently, Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara won seven awards, becoming the leading award winner for films in 2011. The 2012 awards thus equaled 2011 (Udaan) for the maximum number of awards won by a single film, and this also marked the largest award tally for a single film since 2007 (Omkara). 2012 also marked the first time after 2010 (3 Idiots) that the film with the most number of nominations also won the most number of awards.
57th Idea Filmfare Awards 2012 Winners List:
BEST FILM – Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
BEST ACTOR MALE – Ranbir Kapoor, Rockstar
BEST ACTOR FEMALE – Vidya Balan, The Dirty Picture
BEST DIRECTOR – Zoya Akhtar, Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
BEST DIALOGUE – Farhan Akhtar, Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
BEST SCREENPLAY – Akshat Verma, Delhi Belly
BEST STORY – Sanjay Chauhan, I Am Kalam
BEST EDITING – Huzefa Lokhandwala, Delhi Belly
BEST ACTOR MALE (CRITICS) – Ranbir Kapoor, Rockstar
BEST FILM (CRITICS) – Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
BEST ACTOR FEMALE (CRITICS) – Priyanka Chopra, 7 Khoon Maaf
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR MALE – Farhan Akhtar, Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR FEMALE – Rani Mukherjee, No One Killed Jessica
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD – Aruna Irani
SCENE OF THE YEAR – The Dirty Picture
RD BURMAN AWARD – Krsna, Tanu Weds Manu
BEST MUSIC – AR Rahman, Rockstar [A special 47 ct diamond studded 2500th trophy presented]
BEST PLAYBACK SINGER FEMALE – Usha Uttap & Rekha Bhardwaj, Darling, 7 Khoon Maaf
BEST PLAYBACK SINGER MALE – Mohit Chauhan, Jo Bhi Main, Rockstar
BEST LYRICS – Irshad Kamil, Nadaan Parindey, Rockstar
BEST CHOREOGRAPHY – Bosco-Caesar, Senorita, Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
BEST BACKGROUND SCORE – Ranjit Barot, Shaitan
BEST SOUND DESIGN – Nakul Kamte, Don 2
BEST DEBUT DIRECTOR – Abhinay Deo, Delhi Belly
BEST DEBUT MALE – Vidyut Jhamwal, Force
BEST DEBUT FEMALE – Parineeti Chopra, Ladies vs Ricky Bahl
BEST VFX – Red Chillies, Ra.One
BEST ACTION – Don 2
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY – Carlos Catalan, Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN – Shashank Tere, Delhi Belly
BEST COSTUME – Niharika Khan, The Dirty Picture


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Cites & Insights 9:11 (October 2009) is now available.
The 30-page issue is, as usual, PDF, with HTML separates available for most of the essays. The issue includes:Bibs & Blather
In an effort to expand their readership and sales, both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal are planning to start San Francisco editions, the NYT reported. The new editions would offer more local news for the San Francisco Bay Area in a bid to win new readers and advertisers.
Neither paper has released details of their plans, but the NYT spoke to anonymous sources about the Journal's project who explained that the SF edition would contain a page or two of general interest news from California, probably once a week. It anticipates starting the new edition in November or December.
The Wall Street Journal is also looking at a weekly arts and culture section focused on New York City, according to reports in July. This has been interpreted as an attempt to compete more directly with the Times, and a San Francisco edition, if it does indeed include general interest rather than business news, is likely to be viewed in the same light. The Times itself is considering regional editions based in other cities, according to the NYT article.
Pat Holt of Holt Uncensored decries the plummeting of print newspaper sales, and offers several serious suggestions to publishers.
"After our 30-year honeymoon with computers, and 20 solid years on the Internet, people are getting tired of screens and starting to miss the newsprint experience. It's time for newspapers to earn their way back into readers' minds and pocketbooks. Here are some suggestions: Fight for Your Paper - Everybody's waiting for publishers to do something — to, in the first place, define the benefits of newspapers that computers can't offer. If you run a newspaper, the time has come to get out there and tell readers: Our paper publishes the kind of stories in print that you can't find on the Internet. This means that the newsprint version will be different from the website version, so you have to believe in it. If you don't think that newspapers are far ahead of the Internet in key ways, get outta the biz."
"After our 30-year honeymoon with computers, and 20 solid years on the Internet, people are getting tired of screens and starting to miss the newsprint experience. It's time for newspapers to earn their way back into readers' minds and pocketbooks. Here are some suggestions:
Fight for Your Paper - Everybody's waiting for publishers to do something — to, in the first place, define the benefits of newspapers that computers can't offer. If you run a newspaper, the time has come to get out there and tell readers: Our paper publishes the kind of stories in print that you can't find on the Internet.
This means that the newsprint version will be different from the website version, so you have to believe in it. If you don't think that newspapers are far ahead of the Internet in key ways, get outta the biz."
The Reader's Digest Association Monday became the latest magazine publisher weighted down by severe debt to file for bankruptcy protection. RDA said it reached an agreement in principle with a majority of its senior secured lenders on terms of a restructuring plan to reduce the company's debt from $2.2 billion to $550 million, and expects to file a pre-packaged Chapter 11 petition for its U.S. business within the next 30 days.
RDA's lender group will also provide the company with $150 million in debtor-in-possession financing which, it said, will be convertible into exit financing upon emergence from Chapter 11.
But, there will always be Reader's Digests....won't there?
Jennifer Garner tells Oprah Magazine, that when she was a young'n growing up in West Virginia she always wanted to be a librarian.
"I had a very rich imaginary world," said Garner, who is 37. "And my dream was to grow up to be a librarian, because I had a librarian named Mrs. McCann who I thought was the most magical woman on the planet. She used to publish little versions of my stories, typing them on manila folders and illustrating them with pictures of me and my teddy bear."
In a break with tradition, The Associated Press plans to prevent members and customers from publishing some AP content on their websites. Instead, those news organizations would link to the content on a central AP website — a move that could upend the consortium's traditional notions of syndication.
That's one revelation from a document we obtained (labeled "AP CONFIDENTIAL — NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION") that offers new insight into how the AP is planning to reinvent itself on the Internet according to Neiman Lab, Harvard University.
The seven-page briefing, entitled "Protect, Point, Pay — An Associated Press Plan for Reclaiming News Content Online," was distributed to AP members late last month. It provides greater detail about the tracking device that will be attached to AP content and describes their plans to create topic pages around news stories to rival Wikipedia and major aggregation sites. And in an hour-long interview last night, the AP's general counsel, Srinandan Kasi, also shed light on how the consortium views reuse of its material across the Internet.
Cites & Insights 9:10 (September 2009) is now available. This 28-page issue includes the results of two followup "research" projects and a certain amount of summer silliness. The issue is PDF. While three of the four essays are available in HTML form (as links from the essay titles below), I really don't recommend viewing either of the research projects that way--they're heavy on tables, and it's fair to say that Word's HTML converter was overzealous in its preparation of tables: They may or may not look very good, and they result in quarter-megabyte downloads. The PDF version is much easier to read...
Here's what's in the issue--and yes, some of the "regular" features may return soon:Perspective: Public Library Blogs: A Limited Update
I looked at May 2009 posts and comments, and the most recent post prior to May 31, 2009, for all of the public library blogs in the book Public Library Blogs: 252 Examples (based on blog activity March-May 2007). This update considers currency, frequency, comments and conversational intensity and how those have changed from 2007 to 2009--and includes brief notes on pioneer blogs and some of the blogs I found particularly intriguing. (The HTML is large and may not look all that great.) With this update, my work on these blogs is complete--and the spreadsheet's yours for the taking, if you're so inclined.
NY Times: Shorthand wasn't always just for secretaries and court reporters, Leah Price writes in her essay on the history of shorthand in the London Review of Books.
Before the 1870s, it was used more for writing down one's own thoughts or discretely noting the conversation of others. Samuel Pepys, Isaac Newton and Charles Dickens used it, as did legions of "spirit-rappers, teetotalers, vegetarians, pacifists, anti-vivisectionists, anti-tobacconists," and other members of a "counter-culture of early adapters" who generated something of a shorthand craze in mid-19th-century Britain. Isaac Pitman, creator of the wildly successful "Stenographic Soundhand" method still used today, made arguments that don't sound so different from the tweeting techno-evangelists of our age. When people correspond by shorthand, he declared "friendships grow six times as fast as under the withering blighting influence of the moon of longhand."
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125g planted tropical community tank journal
Welcome to my 125 gallon journal. This is going to be a rather long journey, but I am going for great results here.
I really don't know where to start here, but I'm going to do my best.
This tank will be planted, using 6 bags of Eco complete and 2 bags of searchem flourite. I will also have a sand area for the comfort of the fish and for the looks. There will be driftwood and some rocks as well.
Dimensions: 6' by 1 1/2' by 21 1/2"
Filter: eheim classic 600 canister filter
Lighting: in progress
Heaters: Yes
co2: Most likely
Tank currently:
Now, one question that I've been asking myself is:
"Is this going to be an aquascape, or will I just put in plants?"
I want to have a nice looking tank with a specific design to it, so I guess this will be an aquascape to a definite extent. I'm not trying to replicate anything in particular, so the design will just be an idea I thought of.
Here is the stocking of fish that I am positive about keeping:
25 Cardinal tetras
20 rummynose tetras
20 Three lined Pencilfish
10-12 Sterbai Cories
10-12 Adolfoi cories
6-7 farlowella
6 Siamese algae eaters
6 German blue rams
6 zebra/golden zebra loaches
2-4 Angelfish
1 pleco(leaning towards a zebra or a gold nugget)
The Angelfish will be my centerpiece, because I have decided against discus. You can guess why, but I'd rather answer in private message rather than talk about it on this journal. I'm going to try to get completely solid color angelfish because I want the centerpieces to stand out. I've heard of pure blue angelfish, and the pictures of them look amazing.
I've had nothing but good results from these in my 55 gallon. This time, I plan to get 6 of the normal "stick catfish" farlowella, and get one Royal Farlowella as a centerpiece to a group.
Of course, the bottom centerpiece will be the pleco. It will have a cave.
The top of the tank will not have a centerpiece fish. I have a beautiful gardneri killifish, but they get kinda aggressive. I don't really want to risk it.
Fish that I want to keep but have concerns about:
20 Ruby Tetras
15 Marbled hatchetfish
15 lambchop rasboras
10 Coral red pencilfish
6-8 Congo tetras
6 Peacock Gudgeons
6 Licorice gourami
(I am not planning to keep all of these at all)
Marbled hatchets:
Apparently these can jump out, but only when in an extreme circumstance. Being top dwellers, I don't know if I could be comfortable with the risk of them possibly jumping out. I would like to fill the tank with water to almost the very top, and I don't want to put a cover on this tank just for one group of fish.
Ruby Tetras & Lambchop Rasboras & Coral red pencils & Congos
This has to do with the case of overcrowding the tank. Now, I don't use AqAdvisor to determine my stocking. I judge on how comfortable the fish are, do they have enough swimming room, and is the tank big enough in general. Congo tetras are something that I've always wanted to keep, but they get pretty large. Sure a 125 gallon is plenty for them, but with this many other fish, is the concern. I like the idea of a small school of larger fish, but I just don't know if this would be a smart long-term decision.
Ruby tetras are stunning and I want to keep them. They look like an excellent addition. I want to either have these, or the coral red pencils. Probably not both. The coral red pencils are a very beautiful fish that I would love to keep as well, but they might interrupt with the other pencilfish. These can be a little aggressive to each other, but with other pencilfish might be something I have to judge myself. They are rather expensive also.
Lambchop Rasboras look like a smaller version of harlequin Rasboras, and just seem like a nice addition. I will consider these fish last and decide whether or not they would fit in.
Peacock Gudgeons:
A pretty small fish that I would like to try out.
Licorice gourami:
Google it. I never considered these until I knew saw how stunning they got. I'm probably going to choose between peacock Gudgeons & licorice gouramis instead of getting both.
I don't know if there are any synodontis that work in a rather peaceful planted tank with water on the more soft side, but please inform me if there are any.
So that's about it, I will be updating whenever something comes up. Feel free to post suggestions, questions, and advice, because it will help me a bunch.Last edited by Faded; 08-23-2014 at 09:37 PM.
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0The hatchets definetly will jump I had 5 I think all jumped out and died.
The synodinos can has a couple different species in it, I would try a school of upside down catfish or 1 featherfin in there.
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0Oh and the zebra plecos are about $500-$700 just sayin. :yes:
0Online they range from $100-$160 on one website. There's an LFS I can get them for $200 from. $500-$700 sounds like what you would pay for a female zebra pleco.
I don't have much of an issue with paying a lot for just one fish, but when it's a bunch of small fish that are expensive that gets me.
All of the big costs are out of the way, now it's going to be mainly the fish and the plants, although I haven't got the co2 regulator yet. Anyways, I don't want to worry about the prices, that can be saved for later when they become an issue.
The good thing is that I'm not planning to just finish this quickly. I'm going to be fairly busy, so it's going to take about a year for me to say it's "complete".Last edited by Faded; 08-24-2014 at 04:51 AM.
0Featherfin would get way too huge for a peaceful community, but upside down catfish might be a really decent addition. I'm not sure how they would like softer water, but it's definitely worth acclimating them for a day and seeing how a group of 4 does.
Thanks for the idea, I'll have to keep these in mind.
0The only thing with Ruby tetras is they are so small and shy, they would probably be harrased by the Siamese algae eaters and eaten by the Angels :-(
If your careful like you seem, you can keep Hatchets without a problem.
Red Coral pencils can indeed be terriotorial with their own species but with a tank your size, this could curb that.
Even though Harlequins have always been one of my favorite fish, I realy have come to like Lambchop rasboras and their smaller size and brighter colors.
Congo's are always awesome but still get a little big, which won't matter in your tank, but their always being on the move could bother some of the smaller species.
I like all your choices, have fun stocking, looking forward to seeing it all come together :)Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit. -Vince Lombardi
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0I agree about the ruby tetras. I have seen mixed opinions on whether or not SAEs are aggressive when in groups, but you know, this choice could be made after I have them for some time. Coral reds might just be the better option here. When the angelfish get big, generally fish under an inch dwelling the same area, might just be way too risky.
I may add a glass border on the top because SAEs as well can jump out, so I could be even more safe here with the marbled hatchets.
And I could just keep Congos until I'm uncomfortable with their size, then get my money back since they are worth quite a lot at full size.
Lambchop Rasboras over ruby tetras, and coral reds, is what I'll go with for now.
0I fell in love with the Coral red the first time I saw then 9 years ago, only thing I don't like is; the price has not come down any in that time. I think they would realy top off your tank if you go that route :)
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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit. -Vince Lombardi
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1Nice set up you have going there, I know you didn't post it as one of your concerns but insure you have enough natural barriers set up in this tank, especially for the german blue rams because they can become territorial especially while mating.
Additionally with the Siamese algae eaters, inspect them throughly to confirm they're true siamese algae eaters and not false ones as they can become fairly aggressive.. here's a small article so you can tell the difference.


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Mar 28, 2006, 05:47 AM | |
hmm "playing" for a few years 3 years of onroad racing 1 year of vigourous offroad nitro bashing misc. other "toys" a couple fo helis and now 2 planes. i recon i would break close to 10K and im 19 years old been doing this for 6ish years,
i have had one of everything except glow planes and glow helis, have had all scales (1:32-1:8) of cars EP and GP on and off road, EP and GP boats ,you name it. and i know lots more than i would think worthy of my brainspace. oh well i find RC very addictive |
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I spend all of it.
Paul Siegle once was asked that question (how much he spends a year) by a non RCer. He simply answered "all of it". You spend all that you have to spend. If you have $100 to spend on RC, that is what you will spend. If you have 10,000 to spend, that is what you will spend. So I spend all of it. All of it is usually at least $500 a year, but sometimes pushes $1000. In 1999 I flew a contest in San Diego and one on Long Island, so travel just to that alone exceeded the $1000. In 2001, I flew a contest in San Diego and one in Seattle. But since then, no "fly away" contests. Ryan |
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There was a conversation at my lhs with the owner a couple of months ago , I have ben spending a fair amount and wanted to know how much was the most in a year . He replied one guy spent $30,000 ( all time record) one year and some guys go to $10,000 here and there . He keeps very good records so I dont doubt him .
Mar 28, 2006, 09:39 AM | |
Well, my "Toys-R-Us" foamie experiment has set me back about $300-$350 - and that includes the purchase of a new charger, battery packs, radio system, motors, etc. Of course, now my 11 year old daughter is hooked, so dad (me) likely won't make her spend her allowance on a plane - I'll probably give her the foamie and buy a new one for me (plane, radio, batteries, etc.).
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Everything is a trade off. I too have thought "man, I could be flying for real for this $" but then I realize with my life and schedule that might transition into flying once or twice a month, rather than the 10 times a month I fly now. Ryan |
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Being in the construction field, I bought this Craftsman set originally for work, but it ended up being my daily carry knife. I keep the little one on my keychain. Its the best knife (set) I have ever owned (and the sharpest).
I carry a case knife in my front pocket
I carry my CRKT tiny tighe breaker on my front pocket and sometimes my gerber on my hip daily. On special occasions I carry more and bigger.
I carry my Ruko bowie in my right front pocket of my jeans and its attached to my belt loop... For being such a big knife its actually quite comfortable..
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace." Jimi Hendrix
I dont often carry a knive, but sometimes when I go out at night i carry one in my side pocket [I usually wear camo pants. They suit my style]. I can easily get it out if somebody tries to mug me or similar.
Right now I carry Pepper Spray in the back pocket, and a Gerber 3.5" fixed-blade knife, in its sheath, in my front pocket. Sometimes the knife prints a little or shows at the top of the pocket, depending on the pants. It will be replaced by a small multitool when I start carrying an actual firearm.
For me it's a CRKT M-16 clipped inside my right front pocket. It's the first clipped knife I've had and took some getting used to. I'm a lefty, so every other knife I've ever carried has been in my front left pocket. I'd say the thing that grippes me the most is snagging the clip on something and bending it, or poking a hole in the sofa (the wife REALLY loved that one ).
Front pocket on a clip. I like how it has a lever to flip it open.
i keep a 550HG Griptilian, a leatherman Wave, and a byrd cara cara. the wave on the belt weak side. the Grip in my strong side from pocket and the cara cara strong side back pocket.
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March 4 State Competition Board MEETING - check Fall 2015 calendar and generate Spring 2016
March 7 Publish State Playing Schedule March 8 Policy Deadline to post for State Spring Alignment (Section 6, Alignment)
Mar 13-15 UYSA AGM Hilton Downtown Salt Lake City (Board Meeting)
Mar 21 Section 6 policy mandates that the spring season shall start no later than the third Sat in March (Section 6326)
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