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Title: | Comparison of Periphyton Grown on Different Substrates as Food for Organic Tilapia Culture |
Author: | Milstein, Ana; Peretz, Yakov; Harpaz, Sheenan |
Date: | 2008 |
Publisher: | Israeli Journal of Aquaculture - BAMIGDEH |
Citation: | Milstein, A., Peretz, Y., & Harpaz, S. (2008). Comparison of Periphyton Grown on Different Substrates as Food for Organic Tilapia Culture. The Israeli Journal of Aquaculture - Bamidgeh, 60(4), 243-252. |
Abstract: | Regulations regarding organic tilapia culture result in increased feed costs. To reduce such costs, experiments were conducted to enhance the natural production of periphyton, on which tilapia feed. Strips of substrates of different textures and colors were placed in the water column of tilapia culture ponds to induce periphyton growth. Some strips were placed in cages to protect them from fish grazing and some where placed in the open pond, accessible to the fish. Periphyton development was evaluated by the contents of chlorophyll, dry matter (DM), and ash free dry matter (organic matter) and by an autotrophic index. The first experiment tested growth on substrates of different textures including natural (palm leaves) and artificial (agricultural nets, plastic surfaces) materials. The second experiment tested the effect of different colored nets. The differences between periphyton grown in cages and in the open pond indicate that tilapia grazed on the periphyton. Palm leaves decomposed too quickly to be of practical use in large- scale aquaculture. Periphytic material seemed to be more easily dislodged from smooth plastic substrates than from rough nets, changing the structure of the residual attached periphyton. Growth was greater on nets with a fine mesh (5.3-9.6 mg/cm2 DM) than with a coarse mesh (3.7- 4.0 mg/cm2 DM) or on smooth plastic surfaces (1.4-2.6 mg/cm2 DM). The color of the substrate did not affect the chlorophyll content of periphyton but did affect its dry and organic matter con- tent. The white substrate had 40% more dry matter (11.5 vs 7.9-8.2 mg/cm2) and 50% more ash free dry matter (2.1 vs 1.4 mg/cm2) than the blue and black substrates. |
Series/Report No.: | The Israeli Journal of Aquaculture - Bamidgeh |
Pages/Duration: | 10 pages |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10524/19265 |
Keywords: | organic tilapia culture, periphyton-based aquaculture, substrates |
LC Subject Headings: | Fish culture--Israel--Periodicals. Fish culture--Periodicals. Aquaculture--Israel--Periodicals. Aquaculture--Periodicals. |
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Parker, a transfer from Anne Arundel Community College, took a pass from freshman Erika Neuser (Forest Hill, Md./Fallston) and beat Hartwick senior goalkeeper Andrea Lenon.
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Frostburg State (1-0) held a 17-13 advantage in shots, while Hartwick, whose head coach, Ken Kutler, directed the FSU men's program from 1967 to 1985, held a slight 5-4 edge in corner kicks.
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Fascinating. From the comments, it appears that Muslims dislike Hindus and some think they, Muslims, should control India. Probably fortunate for both India and the rest of the world that they don't.
Being an Indian, it is extremely depressing to read some of the patronising, jingoistic and chest-thumping comments made above, presumably by my fellow Hindu Indians. Gloating, condescending, and oh so full of themselves. M. J. Akbar is right - the idea of India is better than most Indians! Rather than lend a helping hand to strengthen the moderates next door and encourage Hindu-Muslim unity & friendship as our founding fathers did, all we do is sneer and say how lucky we are to have had someone like Jinnah give us a strong Hindu-majority India. No wonder ordinary pakistanis dislike and distrust us. Frankly, in our narrow-mindedness we don't seem any better than them!
One of the possible future scenarios for Pakistan would be for Punjab, Sindh, and some areas of NWFP to begin the process of negotiating a reunion with India in a federating structure. This will create a geographically more secure region, lower defence spending, curtail the threat of the nuclear exchange, and above all secure the economic future of everyone involved. Some tribal areas are so far gone in their enthusiasm for religious militancy that they might as well be from another planet and will have to be ditched to save the population and economic core.
@Mirza Pandit
Would I be right in thinking that the very last two sentences in your excellent post,
"....guess who founded wipro? I will give you one guess, it's a muslim gentleman."
could have ended thus,
"....guess who founded Wipro? I will give you one guess, it an Indian Muslim gentleman."
It is India, not Pakistan that is producing large numbers of Parsi, Muslim, Sikh and Christian led MNCs, as well, of course, as many Hindu owned and led MNCs.
All Indians are proud of this. Wipro gets the same treatment as any Indian MNC irrespective of the religion of the owners.
@Awakening Tempest
Please permit me to clarify that Non-Hindus did not always rule Hindus or the whole of Hindu India. The Mauryan and Gupta Empires were Hindu-Buddhist (290 B.C. 470 A.D.)
No Muslim Kingdom, even that of the Mughuls ever ruled the whole of India. Nor, were the Mughals such a pre-eminent military power as you may think. Emperor Akbar had a hard time getting the Rajputs to obey him.
Of course, finally, the Mughuls were militarily weakened by the Sikhs and Mahrattas prior to East India Company took hold of India. Muslim rule of India had collapsed as a result of armed insurrection by Hindus and Sikhs. The British, of course, delivered the coup de grace.
South Indian Hindu kingdoms were subdued by the Deccani Sultans but only just. Once their armies was gone from the area, the old Hindu Kingdoms revived.
Incidentally, one of the reasons why the majority of Hindus could not be converted to Islam was Hindus were too numerous. The Muslim armies, rulers and their Ulema did try their best, used force in quite a few areas. So, almost one third of the sub-continent's population today is Muslim. Not a mean achievement, when you think of how old Hinduism is and how deeply that religion's 6,000 years old culture is embedded in the psychology of the people of the Indian sub-continent.
Saudi Riyals and oil dollars are still helping with conversion to Islam in free democratic India. The hope is, Indian Muslims will be very different in their approach to Islam as compared to the Pakistani Muslims.
If not, India's future may be troubled.
There is some merit in the view that Jinnah may have done a favour to India. But then, we are told he did not anticipate that his Pakistan would turn out to be a hate-filled religious asylum for terrorists and extremists. But he should have.
Mr. MJA is spot on when he writes that this is in 'Pakistan's genes'. Hatred of Hindus and India is in the genetic make-up of Pakistan. That country cannot, therefore, ever live in peace with India.
But then GOD 'works in mysterious ways'. This set of Pakistani genes is also causing serious ulcers and cancers to Pakistan itself. At last, the world has noticed it. But Pakistanis are in denial. It is all America's fault or Israel's or India's.
The post by 'Tempest', perhaps, from Pakistan is a good example of this 'denial'. He or she may not have realised that the security services of most countries, including some Muslim-majority ones, are most busy watching extremists of Pakistani origin who are now nationals or immigrants in those countries. His post claims that Pakistanis live by the laws of those countries to which they have emigrated. But most of them do support terrorism even if passively. Reliable and anonymous surveys show the percentage of British born Muslims of Pak. origin supporting terrorist acts abroad and in Britain itself.
Thus, Pakistan is well and truly an 'international migraine'. Even China hesitates in give visas to Pakistanis, not sponsored by their government.
Many around the world may well be gnashing their teeth when Jinnah's name is mentioned.
Canuck132 and Awakening Tempest, India as a political entity did not exist until 1947, before that it was a region like the Middle East is a region. There were empires, but they were the Mughal empire or the Mauryan empire or a collection of kingdoms. Under the British, it was part of the British Empire
Future Unrosy
Your book review could be a summary for the real book by this Indian Journalist thriving under the tree of Indian democracy but his fuzzy logic stands out in stating that the slain Pakistani Governor of Punjab would have been alive in India of to-day.
What would have been the fate of Benazair Bhutto convassing on behalf of Kashmiri Muslims in Indian part of Kashmir?
Every infant born in a Muslim family does not arrive in this world clutching a miniature copy of the Koran.
It will be real headach for the experts in Genetics to establish a connection with Religions of the World we live in.
Very interesting comments on this article.
The problem is more broader than what has been highlighted. India has always been India and was not formed in 1947 as mentioned in this article. India has always been ruled by people of faith other than Hindu - Muslims (Mughals) and Christians (British) and Hindu's have parted with the side that is stronger. While the Mughals were at the peak Hindu's were on their side and when the British came and increased in power the Hindu's switched sides.
Today we see nothing different - Hindu's are on the side of America (Christians) as it is America who is making India a power. It is in the interest of America to provide incentives, deals and trade options to increase the economy of India so it can become the rival to China - as China is growing in power which is gradually destabilising America and its grip in Asia.
During the era of the soviet invasion of Afghanistan, America played the same game with Pakistan - bare in mind Pakistan is a young country and through high difficultly challenged India Nuclear Programme by its own Programme. America used Pakistan to fight a proxy war in Afghanistan to break up the Soviet Union to what it is today - much the same way America and Israel are using India to contain China's rise.
One question to really think about is that amongst most Indian non-Muslims it is alleged that Hindu's suffered badly by Muslims during the Mughal era, that they were oppressed, killed, etc. But if that was the case then during the period of 1526 till the 19th century went their empire came to an end Hindu's were still a large community in India - one would imagine that during this period the Muslims would have totally wiped out the Hindu community but yet Hindu's still exist today in India as 80.5% compared to Muslims of just 13.4%. Had the Muslims actually did do what Hindu's claim then it would be evident by statistics and Muslims would be the majority in India rather than Hindu's.
Around the world, Pakistanis live according to Islam and their holy book - majority of them keep their principles but yet abide by the laws of the country they live in. It is also true that some Pakistanis have ignored their principles and engages upon activities that are frowned upon in their religion, but much like any other religion - like Hindu's where some sects are forbidden to eat meat are actively eating meat in foreign countries, changing their religious appearances etc.
Admittedly Pakistan is a very young country created only in 1947 but its has achieved extraordinary level of success and continues to do so. It has fought many wars and yet is till on the map.
Hindu could only rule India if a separate nation was created for people of other religions, so part of this was successful and Pakistan was created - and to some extent Hindu's should really appreciate Pakistan as the reason for their success - the nation that has been unsuccessful was Sikh who despite attempts never freed themselves from Hindu Majority by creating their own nation 'Khalistan' therefore along with the minority of Muslims they too are under Hindu rule.
Excellent analysis infact by 2020 given higher birth rates muslims would be in a majority in India!!
The corolllary is Lebanon in the 1950s it was a christian majority country today it is a muslim majority country with christians emigrating in large numbers...
Forget superpowerhood forget resurgant pagan pride forget simply surviving would be most Hindu Indians topmost concern.
Jinnah was astute enough to know all this and probably created Pakistan to save India..I know this is far fetched but lets look at the man his closest friends were Hindus and he was married and deeply in love with a zoroastrian woman(The only time he is known to have publicly wept is at the grave of his wife just before leaving for Pakistan for good)
I think he being a rational and secular man realized the disaster that awaited Hindus in a united India therefore in his dying days did the ultimate GOOD KARMA by partitioning India thus at the stroke of midnight giving Hindus demographic permanance and peace for atleast the next 1000 years in which to modernize the ancient hindu social structures and develop an advanced economy.
Hindus will be eternally indebted to MA Jinnah!!God bless him..
Jinnah has been the best friend Hindus have had for centuries. In truth, he SAVED them from utter perdition - or at least offered them a great chance to save themselves.
An India without Partition would have been crushed by hourly Hindu-Muslim violence. Every single issue would have divided Hindus from Muslims. It would have been a permanent civil war. No government would have time for any issue but trying desperately to hold the country together by placating endless Muslim grievances.
By taking away two-thirds of the Muslims to form a separate state, Jinnah saved the Hindus from this dreadful fate. The only valuable piece of land the Muslims got was the Western Punjab. The rest of what became Pakistan is mostly desert and (in Bangladesh as it is now) an overcrowded swamp. The Muslims were in effect partitioned into three roughly equal and widely separated countries. The vast majority of Hindus stayed united in one country, and kept three quarters of India, in one piece.
Despite the great human tragedies of Partition, Pakistan was an extremely good deal for Hindus.
Well done, Quaid-e-Azaam Jinnah!!!!
It is refreshing to read sensible comments on the topic of India and Pakistan, rather than the usual diatribe by bigoted Hindus and India-hating Pakistanis.
Mr. Mirza. Really heartfelt comments. True picture of where Pakistan is heading. Wish you well
To Mirza Pandit:
That was very touching. I'm sure that your Grandfather is very proud of you. I'm very familiar with the struggles of the Ahmadiyas in Pakistan. Your people even boast a Nobel Laureate, Abdus Salam, in Nuclear Physics. However, the Pakistani government is very anti-Ahmadiya. According to Wiki: "In applying for a passport or a national ID card, all Pakistanis are required to sign an oath declaring Mirza Ahmad to be an impostor prophet and all Ahmadis to be non-Muslims."
Did you know that even the founder of Pakistan, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, whose picture is depicted in this article had one surviving daughter. The daughter's mother was a Zoroastrian named Dina, I believe. Jinnah's daughter actually settled in *INDIA*, and not in Pakistan in '47. Her son, Nusli Wadia, started an amazingly successful textile company called Bombay Dyeing.
The final irony of Jinnah and Pakistan is that even Ismailis, of which Jinnah was a member of this progressive and peace-loving community, are persecuted and intimidated in Pakistan.
jinnah owes my grand father, an ahmediya muslim, who immigrated to lahore from new delhi an apology. my gramps, a very bright doctor, who was avowedly secular was seduced by jinnah's promises that the azim premjis, the m.j.akbars, the fareed zakarias and even the salman rushdies of this world would be pakistanis, not indian muslims.
p.s.hey daddu [gramps], if you can hear me out there in the cosmos somewhere, we live in new york now. after the sunni mobs burned dad's clinic in lahore for the second time, dad packed it in and moved us all to the u.s.
i studied computer science at your boston alma mater, and now work for the tech giant, wipro. daddu, guess who founded wipro? i will give you one guess, it's a muslim gentleman.
"When India and Pakistan begain in 1947"
India did not "begin in 1947." It began as an ancient civilization, one of the earliest in fact.
MJ Akbar is one of India's preeminent journalists. In 2002, he did an interview on NPR, and the hostess asked him how being a Muslim in India is different from being a Muslim in Pakistan. His answer was that in India he gets to vote (remember, this was during Musharaff's dictatorship), and more personally, he gets to drink. When the interviewer pointed out that alcohol was banned in Islam, his answer was, "It is. But, I believe Allah is merciful. So I should give him a reason to show me mercy."
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Of course, PIVOting uses up some CPU. However, if the data is dense (all the cells in the pivoted result set are not NULL), then the size of the pivoted result set may be significantly less. As a result, the overall time to retrieve a pivoted result set and transmit it over the network may be less. Here are my benchmarks.
Let us create a helper table with 1M numbers:
CREATE TABLE dbo.Numbers(n INT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY); GO TRUNCATE TABLE dbo.Numbers; INSERT INTO dbo.Numbers ( n ) VALUES ( 1 ); GO DECLARE @i INT; SET @i=0; WHILE @i<21 BEGIN INSERT INTO dbo.Numbers ( n ) SELECT n + POWER(2, @i) FROM dbo.Numbers; SET @i = @i + 1; END;
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CREATE TABLE dbo.ObjectAttributes(ObjectID INT NOT NULL, AttributeID INT NOT NULL, IntValue INT NOT NULL, CONSTRAINT PK_ObjectAttributes PRIMARY KEY(ObjectID, AttributeID)); GO TRUNCATE TABLE dbo.ObjectAttributes; INSERT INTO dbo.ObjectAttributes(ObjectID, AttributeID, IntValue) SELECT n1.n, n2.n, n1.n FROM dbo.Numbers AS n1 CROSS JOIN dbo.Numbers AS n2 WHERE n1.n <100001 AND n2.n<11;
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SELECT * FROM dbo.ObjectAttributes;
SQL Server Execution Times: CPU time = 157 ms, elapsed time = 8369 ms. SQL Server Execution Times: CPU time = 266 ms, elapsed time = 5935 ms.
Let us select pivoted data:
SELECT ObjectID, [1],[2],[3],[4],[5],[6],[7],[8],[9],[10] FROM dbo.ObjectAttributes PIVOT( MAX(IntValue) FOR AttributeID IN([1],[2],[3],[4],[5],[6],[7],[8],[9],[10])) AS pvt ORDER BY pvt.ObjectID;
Although the pivoted query used more CPU, the overall time was substantially less:
SQL Server Execution Times: CPU time = 1219 ms, elapsed time = 1794 ms.
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Radiometric calibration of the vacuum-ultraviolet spectrograph SUMER on the SOHO spacecraft with the B detector
Applied Optics, Vol. 39, Issue 3, pp. 418-425 (2000)
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The Solar Ultraviolet Measurement of Emitted Radiation (SUMER) vacuum-ultraviolet spectrograph was calibrated in the laboratory before the integration of the instrument on the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft in 1995. During the scientific operation of the SOHO it has been possible to track the radiometric calibration of the SUMER spectrograph since March 1996 by a strategy that employs various methods to update the calibration status and improve the coverage of the spectral calibration curve. The results for the A Detector were published previously [Appl. Opt. 36, 6416 (1997)]. During three years of operation in space, the B detector was used for two and one-half years. We describe the characteristics of the B detector and present results of the tracking and refinement of the spectral calibration curves with it. Observations of the spectra of the stars α and ρ Leonis permit an extrapolation of the calibration curves in the range from 125 to 149.0 nm. Using a solar coronal spectrum observed above the solar disk, we can extrapolate the calibration curves by measuring emission line pairs with well-known intensity ratios. The sensitivity ratio of the two photocathode areas can be obtained by registration of many emission lines in the entire spectral range on both KBr-coated and bare parts of the detector's active surface. The results are found to be consistent with the published calibration performed in the laboratory in the wavelength range from 53 to 124 nm. We can extrapolate the calibration outside this range to 147 nm with a relative uncertainty of ±30% (1σ) for wavelengths longer than 125 nm and to 46.5 nm with 50% uncertainty for the short-wavelength range below 53 nm.
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OCIS Codes
(120.5630) Instrumentation, measurement, and metrology : Radiometry
(120.6200) Instrumentation, measurement, and metrology : Spectrometers and spectroscopic instrumentation
(300.6190) Spectroscopy : Spectrometers
(300.6540) Spectroscopy : Spectroscopy, ultraviolet
Original Manuscript: May 24, 1999
Revised Manuscript: September 20, 1999
Published: January 20, 2000
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Steve Moon was on his way to a candlelight church service on Christmas Eve with a turkey in the refrigerator when he and his wife, Lois, had an epiphany.
The couple, hosting their son and grandson at their Hilton Head Island condo, remembered how much they enjoyed the fellowship they found at last year's Our Community Christmas Day Dinner.
So rather than cook the turkey they had waiting, they decided to return to the Holiday Inn Oceanfront.
"This is just such a neat outreach thing for the neighborhood," said Steve Moon, a Realtor.
The free turkey buffet for residents and visitors of Hilton Head Island and Bluffton, now in its seventh year, lasts for four hours and is run by 300 volunteers, some of whom start at 2:15 a.m.
Organizers planned to serve food, all of which was donated, to about 900 people between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m.
That total includes the volunteers, many of whom wore red and green as they sang Christmas carols and heaped mashed potatoes, turkey, gravy, green beans and the like onto plates.
Organizers, who collect money for Second Helpings and Meals on Wheels and give any leftovers to Second Helpings, say the dinner is intended to spread the Christmas spirit.
For Holden Williams, a marketing consultant from Worcester, Mass., this was the third year he has volunteered to usher guests to their tables while visiting his mother-in-law.
The bearded and bespectacled man said he likes to meet and greet the diverse cast of diners and volunteers who come together to share the holiday within sight of the beach.
Besides, he would be "a disaster" if stationed in the kitchen, he said.
Williams e-mailed the dinner's leaders in November to ask if they could use his help again.
He previously worked at a soup kitchen in Worcester for Christmas, but he said the Hilton Head event has replaced that as a staple of his holiday.
"It wouldn't be Christmas if I didn't come here," Williams said before escorting the Moons and their son, Peter, and grandson, Kenton, to a booth.
As the Moons were eating dessert, a group of carolers led by dinner matriarch Barb O'Connor marched in to celebrate "the most important birthday of the year" and sing "We Wish You a Merry Christmas."
At the end of the song, the Moons, who hosted a different set of relatives last year, said they would like to help with the dinner in the future.
"The next year we don't have anybody here, we need to volunteer," Steve said.
"Yes," replied Lois. "Yes, we do."
Once the Moons finished their meal, the next wave of diners began pouring in, a sight that pleased O'Connor.
"I love it when it gets to a feverish pitch," she said.
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#flyers hot topic Of the new additions on the Flyers, which one have you enjoyed watching the most? Why?
Simmonds by far. It's fun to watch the "kids" but Simmonds energy is a breath of fresh air.
Hrmmm straying away from my Couturier pick, I will go with Voracek. He is just missing something to become a huge star in this league. Maybe it's chemistry, who knows, but he looks great both defensively and offensively.
I literally haven't heard anything about Voracek so far. Almost forgot he was on the Flyers lol. He's been doing well?
Read, I think. The kid's gonna do some big things.
Surprised at the lack of Andreas Liilja votes
Can Mick Jagr get a little love? Holy dangles, Batman.
Simmonds and this kid from Russia. He's pretty nifty. I just wish he would score or else I'd call him a bust.
Simmonds no doubt, Voracek has been quiet but doing his job. Jagr is playing good but liked the pre-season Jagr more.


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Veendam Cruise Review by travelcookie_7: HAL had the Code Red undercontrol
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HAL had the Code Red undercontrol
We arrived to the Santiago airport to board the transfer bus to Valparaiso and were told by HAL staff the ship was delayed in leaving due to the Code Red. We were given a letter by HAL explaining the influenza outbreak, the current sanitation being performed and we would be given a $15 ship board credit due tot he delay. The letter also offered a full refund if someone felt uneasy about sailing with this Code Red situation. Very forthcoming in my cruise experiences! The transfer buses went to the Sheraton hotel in Santiago and there we waited until 2:30 PM until the go ahead was received to drive to the port. There were plenty of staff in the Sheraton conference room were we sat at tables with drinks and sandwiches for 4 hours. The Sheraton charged $5 for 3 hours of Internet if you had a laptop so we used our skype to call people and check emails. After a slow drive and sometimes in circles around the Valparaiso town square we check in at the port terminal around 5:30 PM.
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staff were professional and quick with check in and getting our luggage to us. Once in the Lido, we all got a free glass of champagne and it had been a very long day for those who traveled a long distance the night before. First port of call was Puerto Montt, Chile and we had a full day with chef Richard Knoblach and the Taste of Chile, fresh fusion excursion. It was limited to a small group and we were bussed from the port to the fish monger, organic produce farm and then the restaurant Richard uses for cooking the menu. There were too many of us to help cook so we drank lots of Chilean wine and ate many delicious food courses until we almost burst. It was a fun adventure for foodies alike.
Sailing the channel to see the Chilean fjords and Amalia glacier were gorgeous and much more scenic than Alaska, breathtaking! Punta Arenas, Chile was an easy taxi ride for $8 to the town center where local handicrafts can be purchased. I bought hand knitted scarfs,hats and dolls for $5 to 10 each, a colorful handmade sweater for $20 and locally made jewelry for Christmas gifts. Having $1 bills is a good plan since I used all I had to buy these items. Diagonally across the street is Cyber Net, a clean and nice place to use desk top or laptop computers for $2 an hour. Clean restrooms and delicious hot chocolate and coffee for about $2 each. Many shipmates used local mini vans and taxis to go to Otway penguin preserve for about $30 and walked among the penguins. Some said its best to go first thing while the penguins are active and then they shopped in the town center on the way back to ship. It is a one hour drive each way to Otway so plan time accordingly.
Port of Ushuaia, Argentina, we booked the beagle penguins channel viewing by boat and it was a highlight tour by catamaran boat. The excursion was 6 hours and included a small island with herons and an island with Magellan penguins and sea lions. Two hours into the sailing, we reached the furthest point with the mass of Magellan's and some Gentoo penguins. The boat gets right up to the island for lots of picture taking so people who have trouble walking can get a full view of the penguins without leaving the boat. During this excursion, no one leaves the boat and there is a snack bar for purchase of food and drinks. This excursion was run well and narration was live in English and Spanish. Some people took a taxi from Ushuaia to the national park and saw foxes and those who took the train excursion said was not worth the cost and disappointing. Ushuaia is worth walking through town for its uniqueness.
Cape Horn cruising was smooth but the weather was foggy and high seas so we couldn't dock at the Falklands. We were promptly given a refund for the booked shore excursion.
Montevideo offers a quick walk to the Mercardo del Puerto where vendor after vendor cooks the best meats and chickens and you can sit at their bar and eat and drink and also get an empanada in the market area. Some of the souvenir shops will negotiate with the price if you pay in cash. Small Internet shop nearby, $3 for an hour. Internet near the port is $6 an hour.
Half way through sailing the Code Red was lifted and the pools, hot tubs and library were opened. Self service laundry uses quarters and the front desk will change US $ for quarters. As the cruise days went along, more and more washers went out of service. The SpeedQueen washers and dryers do a terrific job, $2 for wash including soap and $1 for dryer. Bring quarters, its easier! The signature drink card is about $62 and is good for 10 signature bar drinks. Typical cabins, good staff especially working overtime to stabilize the code red and great entertainment. The culinary arts center had informative demonstrations and the Pinnacle Grill booked reservations quickly and none were available 2 days into the cruise.
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Moss technique
It's common, when displaying bonsai at indoor exhibits, to cover the surface of the soil with moss. The alternative – dirt – doesn't really compare. Scott decorated his Ponderosa Pine with a great arrangement of mosses and lichens at this year's BIB exhibit.
Depending on where you live, you may have found that moss doesn't just show up the week before exhibit. Either that or you find it difficult to keep it under control, a problem I do not have in Northern California. For years now, I've taken note of all of the patches of attractive moss I run across that grow on public property. Come January, I go moss-collecting. If all goes well, I end up with a few trays like the one below.
Collected moss
One other ingredient is necessary to make the process a succes – moss. White sphagnum moss, to be specific, the kind usually available from orchid growers. It typically comes in clumps. Run it through the large screen you use when sifting bonsai soil to produce the fine particles shown below.
White sphagnum moss
With these two special ingredients close by, it's time to get started. The first step is soji – removing, or "cleaning" the top layer of soil. Depending on the quality of your soil, this step may not be necessary. Because I use organic fertilizers like cottonseed meal, I find that in January the decomposed fertilizer becomes gunky and impedes drainage. Now's a good time to remove it. I do this with bent-nose tweezers – possibly the most used tool in my bag.
Removing the top layer of soil
If any roots stick out, I clip them with root scissors.
Clipping an exposed root
I then fill the pot with bonsai soil but stop a quarter-inch below the lip. This is to make room for the moss. If your moss is thicker, leave a bigger gap.
Fresh bonsai soil (akadama, lava, pumice and charcoal)
Here's where the sphagnum moss comes in. Sprinkle a thin layer over the soil.
White sphagnum moss
The sphagnum moss helps keep the dollups of fresh moss moist. Watering it down before placing the fresh moss makes the work easier – and keeps it from blowing away.
Sphagnum moss moistened – ready for fresh moss
This is where the moss work becomes technical. Clipping the base of a dollup of moss helps it fit into the pot.
Preparing a clump of moss
Some folks start in corners – others begin around the base of the trunk.
One down, more to go
It's possible that somewhere, someone has written a treatise about moss-laying. I like to think so anyway. Turns out it's much easier to do a bad job than it is to make the moss smooth and attractive. I've seen many workshop students shrug their shoulders and breeze through a tree only to find themselves reapplying the moss under Boon's supervision.
Half-way there – Jeff always does a good job
Where can moss-work go wrong? Some things to keep in mind. Like-sized clumps look good together. Placing large clumps on the left side of the pot and small clumps on the right side stands out something awful. The same rule applies to moss color, character, and direction. Yes, direction. Look closely and you'll notice that most moss leaves that grow together point the same way.
Some of the most attractive work blends together different kinds of moss. It's worth experimenting to see what effect you like. Bonus points for good use of lichen. We'll save antenna-theory for another day.
Freshly applied moss
Tamping the moss with tweezers or trowel helps it stay put. As moss frequently grows in mucky soil, firmly pressing the moss into place really sets the clumps into the sphagnum and bonsai soil below.
Tamping the moss with tweezers
Tamping the moss with a trowel
For a final touch, feel free to sprinkle tiny soil particles over the moss and sweep away the excess. By filling in the gaps, the edges of the clumps don't dry out so quickly. A popular BIB top-dressing is black lava, or "pepper," as you'll hear folks refer to it in Boon's workshops. The purple lava works well because it stays fairly dark when dry – pumice and akadama are lighter-colored when dry.
Sweeping away excess "pepper"
Moss-work complete
Once all's set, water in the moss-work. Bonsai with freshly applied moss can be placed in full-sun, but care must be taken so it doesn't dry out. The longer between the moss application and the exhibit, the more the clumps will fuse together and the taller the moss will sit in the pot. Some day I'll lay moss early and let it grow for a month before exhibit. It makes for a somewhat rangy look that complements rough-hewn bonsai well.
Here are a few more examples of moss-work from BIB's 11th annual exhibit.
Black pine with green moss
Ponderosa pine with moss and lichen
Root over rock procumbens juniper with green moss and a small fern
Gooseberry with green mosses
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Nice job Jonas, and it looks so simple……
Nicely done…as is much of what you have been blogging lately. Thanks!!
where are you guys located? I just moved to CALIFORNIA from Brazil..
We're all over the place – for information about Bay Island Bonsai, see: http://bayislandbonsai.com/membership/
Hi Jonas, I just tried this method after looking at this post. Too bad I didn't have more moss. I used what I had, but I think my own project would have came out "better" if I had more. Thanks for posting this useful info.
btw: I attended the last BIB meeting on the 6th for my first meeting with you guys. I enjoyed that and meeting all you as well. thanks again. -
Hi Steve, thanks for the note – it was nice meeting you at the meeting. Moss this time of year is tricky – don't be surprised if it doesn't stay green as long as you'd like. If it fills in over the next month or two, consider it a big success!
Very informative article about laying moss. For my b'day this past Jan., I received 2 Japanese Quince bonsai. My question is about leaving the moss growing in the pot. Can this be a permanent feature or should the moss be removed after a period of time? Excellent pictures with the article.
Hi Peter – good question. If moss doesn't get in the way of watering or fertilizing, and it doesn't disturb the tree or the tree's bark, it's ok to let it grow. Moss can help a tree preserve moisture, and it can make it hard to tell if the underlying soil is moist or dry. It's also pretty! Because I fertilize with globs of organic fertilizer, I tend to keep my trees free from moss, with the exception of a single pine grove.


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The results of two years operation of the visiting specialist service to the Waikato mobile ear clinic. | |
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PMID: 7478335 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
AIM: To review the function and results of the Health Waikato mobile ear clinic service 1993-4. METHOD: Data were collected on all children reviewed at the fortnightly specialist clinics conducted in the mobile ear clinics during 1993-4. An overall pathological assessment of the middle ear and eardrum was made for each ear. RESULTS: Of the 467 children examined 311 children were wait listed for elective surgery. Pathology ranged from recurrent acute otitis media to cholesteatoma. Large numbers of children were found with atelectasis of the tympanic membrane. Children as young as seven years of age required modified radical mastoidectomy for treatment of otorrhea due to cholesteatoma. CONCLUSIONS: The results of this survey show the mobile ear clinic service requires a large amount of resources to operate. The mobile ear clinic generates a large operative workload which creates an imbalance between resources devoted to finding the disease and those devoted to treating it. Recommendations include a tighter integration between the mobile ear clinic and the hospital, and appropriate allocation of treatment services to treat the children identified by the service. |
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP)
Samuel Deduno fixed Twins manager Ron Gardenhire with a stare. Gardy stared right back.
Nobody wanted to budge.
It was the sixth inning and Deduno had been shutting down the punchless Kansas City Royals all night, but he'd just allowed a leadoff double. Gardenhire trundled out to the mound while calling to the bullpen, only to receive a withering look from his young right-handed pitcher.
''He was definitely eyeballing me,'' Gardenhire said. ''And I was definitely eyeballing him when we got out of the inning. I told him, `I think I know what I'm doing, Sammy.'''
The Twins' bullpen picked Deduno up by escaping his sixth-inning jam, and then kept the Royals off the scoreboard the rest of the way in a 3-0 win Tuesday night that left Kansas City with its franchise-record 11th consecutive home loss.
''I want him to eyeball me. I don't want him to come out of the game. But that was actually a really cool stare,'' Gardenhire said afterward, recalling his light-hearted exchange with his pitcher.
''He stared me down,'' Gardy said. ''I melted, but I went and got him anyway.''
Deduno (2-1) allowed four hits over six-plus innings for the Twins, who have rebounded nicely from a 10-game losing streak to win eight of 10. They also managed to exact a little revenge on the Royals, who swept them in early April - a three-game set that seems long ago.
While the Twins have soared, the Royals have lost 22 of their last 28 games.
''We're just not getting the job done right now. It's plain and simple,'' Royals manager Ned Yost said. ''You can come up with all the reasons and all the excuses why, but we're just not producing offense for our pitchers right now. Those things turn, but it's an extended stretch for us where we've been struggling offensively.''
The way Kansas City has been hitting lately, the game was basically decided when Ryan Doumit went deep off Luis Mendoza (1-3) leading off the fourth inning. Just to be safe, Doumit and Josh Willingham added RBI singles in the fifth inning to provide the Twins with a three-run cushion.
Glen Perkins pitched a perfect ninth for his 12th save.
''We can't get the guys in when we need to,'' said Billy Butler, who had one of the Royals' four hits. ''I was on second with nobody out and we had a guy (Lorenzo Cain) on third with less than two out. There are two runs right there. We've got to pick up the easy ones when we can.''
Mendoza didn't allow a hit until Doumit's shot in the fourth. The right-hander escaped the inning, but four straight one-out hits in the fifth ultimately knocked him from game.
It was the 18th straight time that the Royals' starter has failed to win a decision.
Their offense has been the biggest culprit: The Royals are hitting.183 with runners in scoring position since May 21, when they led the AL with a .308 average in such situations. That includes going 0 for 7 on Tuesday night, and 2 for 27 over their past three games.
It's certainly not the start that Hall of Famer George Brett wanted to get off to as the team's interim hitting coach. The Royals' offense has continued to scuffle in the five games since Jack Maloof and Andre David were reassigned and Brett given his familiar No. 5 jersey to wear.
''You just keep hoping every day you come to the park that you're going to break out of it,'' Yost said. ''George is working tirelessly with these hitters, with their mental and physical approach. We come to the park everyday hoping we snap out of it.''
The Twins, meanwhile, have already snapped out of their malaise.
After enduring one of the longest losing streaks in franchise history, their offense has propelled the Twins to seven wins in their last eight games - four straight over Milwaukee and a series win over Seattle that was highlighted by a 10-0 blowout in the finale on Sunday.
Doumit has been one of the catalysts for the resurgence. He's hitting .324 with four homers and 13 RBIs over his last eight games, just as the Twins have been catching fire.
''I'm just getting back to basics,'' Doumit said. ''After a slow start, I watched some video and just tried to get back and simplify things.''
Maybe that's the approach the Royals should take.
Deduno, who turned heads for the Dominican Republic in the World Baseball Classic, struck out five while walking just two of them. It was his second straight strong start after allowing one run on four hits in seven innings in a victory over the Brewers last Wednesday night.
''Everything was working - the fastball was working, the curveball and changeup. Everything was working,'' Deduno said. ''I've got a lot more confidence, and everything was working.''
NOTES: Royals C Salvador Perez was reinstated from the restricted list and RHP Kelvin Herrera recalled from Triple-A Omaha. C Adam Moore and RHP Louis Coleman were optioned to Omaha. ... Twins OF Clete Thomas joined the team after his contract was selected from Triple-A Rochester on Monday. ... RHP J.P. Walters starts Wednesday night for Minnesota against Royals RHP Jeremy Guthrie.
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IT IS the season for shareholder meetings in Japan. The majority of publicly traded firms held their annual meetings this week—around 1,000 of them on June 28th. The practice was originally intended to make life difficult for sokaiya, racketeers who dish dirt at the meetings of firms that do not pay them off. This year, however, Japanese managers faced an even more menacing threat: activist shareholders.
Corporate law is actually more shareholder-friendly in Japan than in America or Britain. In theory, Japanese shareholders can vote directly on dividends and executive pay. They can even oust the entire board without cause. In practice, most Japanese investors defer to managers.
However, foreigners now own 28% of Japanese firms' shares. They have called on managers to use large cash reserves to increase dividends or buy back shares. Around 30 companies faced shareholder resolutions this year, almost twice last year's figure. Activists have also demanded revisions to articles of incorporation and the unwinding of recently established "poison pill" measures aimed at preventing hostile takeovers.
The assertiveness has sent shivers through staid Japanese boardrooms. Managers fear they might lose control over boards and find their authority checked. Politicians and media demonise the activists as financial criminals who prize short-term gains over firms' long-term health.
Elsewhere activist shareholders have got firms to jettison assets or cut managers' pay. A senior German politician famously called them "locusts" in 2005. But in Japan, they are upending the tight-knit business culture to an even greater extent. This is because they are exposing many practices, such as the maintenance of large cash reserves, a reluctance to sack staff and close relationships with suppliers, buyers and creditors. Although these were responsible for Japan's post-war success, they are now seen as holding its firms back.
After years of policy reforms and corporate restructuring that helped turn around the economy, Japanese companies have little debt and are making record profits. But strong operational management has exposed poor financial practices. Despite their hoards of cash, many firms offer shareholders meagre returns. The cash and securities held by Japanese firms is equal to 16% of GDP; in America the long-term average is around 5%. And Japanese companies' return on equity is around 9%, compared with between 14% and 17% in America and Europe.
This suggests that Japanese managers could put their profits to better use, perhaps by returning more money to shareholders who could then invest it more productively. Many listed companies have book values greater than their stockmarket values—which tends to send financial sharks into a feeding frenzy.
Steel Partners, based in America, has investments worth $4 billion in some 30 Japanese companies, including Sapporo, a brewer. At recent shareholder meetings, three companies passed poison-pill provisions to block Steel from buying controlling stakes. One such measure, adopted by Bull-Dog Sauce, in effect diluted Steel's 10% stake to around 3%.
After the meeting, the president's eyes grew moist as she described how the 105-year-old condiment maker had felt it must take such action if it was to ensure its survival. This week a court ruled the dilution was acceptable, in what is seen as a test case on the legality of poison pills. Nearly 400 firms have gone ahead with such provisions since May. Other activist funds facing resistance include Ichigo Asset Management, The Children's Investment Fund (TCI) and Dalton Investments.
And yet Japanese investors are also beginning to show an activist streak, helping to legitimise the foreigners' objectives if not their tactics. Although one of the earliest and most prominent activists, Yoshiaki Murakami, has been felled by charges of insider trading, others are stepping into the breach. Japan's Pension Fund Association, a quasi-governmental body that oversees more than $100 billion of assets, recently said that it will insist on higher dividends and vote against the directors of firms that have had a return on equity of less than 8% for three consecutive years.
Meanwhile Sparx Group, a publicly traded investment fund, is quietly working with managers to identify mergers that benefit shareholders. It recently brought together Japan's oldest camera firm, Pentax, with Hoya, a maker of glass lenses.
Japanese bosses gripe about activism, yet privately concede that the pressure is spurring many firms to increase returns to shareholders. If nothing else, shareholder meetings are getting longer. In previous years they lasted around 30 minutes—just enough time for the ink to dry on the directors' rubber stamps. Those days are becoming as anachronistic as the sokaiya.


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MATLAB® adds default methods named disp
and display
all MATLAB classes that do not implement their own methods with
those names. These methods are not visible, but create the default
simple display.
The default simple display consists of the following parts:
A header showing the class name, and the dimensions for nonscalar arrays.
A list of all nonhidden public properties, shown in the order of definition in the class.
The actual display depends on whether the object is scalar or nonscalar. Also, there are special displays for a scalar handle to a deleted object and empty object arrays. Objects in all of these states are displayed differently if the objects have no properties.
The details
method creates
the default detailed display. The detailed display adds these items
to the simple display:
Use of fully qualified class names
Link to handle
class, if the object
is a handle
Links to methods
, events
, and superclasses
executed on the object.
See Class with Default Object Display for an example of how MATLAB displays objects.
MATLAB displays object properties that have public get access and are not hidden (see Property Attributes). Inherited abstract properties are excluded from display. When the object being displayed is scalar, any dynamic properties attached to the object are also included.
The matlab.mixin.CustomDisplay
class provides
an interface that you can use to customize object display for your
class. To use this interface, derive your class from CustomDisplay
classdef MyClass < matlab.mixin.CustomDisplay
The CustomDisplay
class is HandleCompatibile
so you can use it in combination with both value and handle superclasses.
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The CustomDisplay
class defines three sealed
public methods. These methods overload three MATLAB functions: disp
, display
and details
. The disp
and display
behave like the equivalent MATLAB functions, but use the customizations
defined by classes derived from CustomDisplay
The details
method always uses the default
detailed object display and does not apply customizations defined
for the class.
The CustomDisplay
interface does not allow
you to override disp
and display
Instead, override any combination of the customization methods defined
for this purpose.
There are two groups of methods that you use to customize object display for your class:
Part builder methods build the strings used for the standard display. Override any of these methods to change the respective parts of the display.
State handler methods are called for objects in specific states, like scalar, nonscalar, and so on. Override any of these methods to handle objects in a specific state.
All of these methods have protected access and must be defined
as protected in your subclass of CustomDisplay
is, Access = protected
There are three parts that makeup the standard object display — header, property list, and footer
For example, here is the standard object display for a containers.Map
The default object display does not include a footer. The detailed display provides more information:
Each part of the object display has an associated method that assembles the respective part of the display.
Method | Purpose | Default |
| Create the string used for the header. | Returns the string, |
| Define how and what properties display, including order, values, and grouping. | Returns an array of |
| Create the string used for the footer. | There are two footers:
There are four object states that affect how MATLAB displays objects:
Valid scalar object
Nonscalar object array
Empty object array
Scalar handle to a deleted object
Each object state has an associated method that MATLAB calls whenever displaying objects that are in that particular state.
State Handler Method | Called for Object in This State |
displayScalarObject |
displayNonScalarObject |
displayEmptyObject |
displayScalarHandleToDeletedObject |
The CustomDisplay
class provides utility
methods that return strings that are used in various parts of the
different display options. These static methods return text that simplifies
the creation of customized object displays.
If the computer display does not support hypertext linking, the strings are returned without the links.
Method | Inputs | Outputs |
Valid object array | Object dimensions converted to a string; determined by
calling | |
| Displays the titles and property groups defined | |
Object | Simple class name linked to the object's documentation | |
None | String | |
Object | String containing phrase | |
Object | String containing linked class name, link to handle page
(if handle class) and | |
None | String | |
Object | String containing linked class name and the phrase |