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Ferdinando Sarmi
|Count Ferdinando Sarmi
|c. 1916
|Fashion designer
Count Ferdinando Sarmi (born c. 1916) was the head of the Sarmi fashion design house in New York City.
Early years[edit]
Ferdinando Sarmi was born into a wealthy Italian family. He expressed interest in fashion as a youth but was discouraged from pursuing a design career by his father. Sarmi stated in a 1965 interview with Time, "in Italy, when the oldest son tells his father he wants to be a dress designer, it's like a woman saying she intends to be a prostitute".[1] Sarmi's father sent him to study at the University of Siena, where he received a doctor of law degree.[1] Despite his professional training, Sarmi still desired a career in fashion. He became a costume designer and created costumes for two Italian films: Musica Proibita (released as Forbidden Music in the US) in 1942 and Cronaca di un Amore (released as Story of a Love Affair in the US) in 1950. Sarmi was given a leading role in Cronaca di un Amore, but it was his first and only on-screen performance. He left Italy in 1951 to work in New York fashion.[1]
New York[edit]
From 1951 to 1959, Sarmi was head designer for Elizabeth Arden.[1] It was during this time that he developed a reputation as a top designer, wooing an influential clientele that included celebrities, New York socialites, and foreign dignitaries. Pat Nixon wore a Sarmi for Arden gown to her husband's second Inaugural Ball in 1957. He was best known for his opulent evening looks, and for his use of extravagant fabrics such as swansdown.[1] Sarmi left Arden and opened his own Seventh Avenue boutique in 1959. In 1960, he was awarded the prestigious Coty Award for fashion design. His collection included haute couture and ready-to-wear apparel that set the pace for 1960s fashion in New York. His designs commonly featured intricate embroideries, vivid colors, and racy hemlines as well as hand=silkscreened silks and the first-ever tie-dyed silk chiffons used in haute couture, designed and produced by Tzaims Luksus.
During the late 1960s, the house fell upon financial difficulties. In 1972, his business was renamed Ferdinando Sarmi, but it closed shortly thereafter.


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The company have taken steps in order to become more social and connect with all of their 175,000 employees around the country by launching social business projects. These projects include The Green Room – a staff-focused web portal – as well as Your ASDA – a website that houses the 'happy to help' promise.
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New Windsor Cantonment State Historic Site is where the Continental Army under General George Washington spent the last winter and spring of the Revolutionary War. In October 1782, General Washington moved his northern army to New Windsor to establish winter quarters. Some 7,500 soldiers and 500 women and children civilian refugees encamped here. By late December 1782, they had erected nearly 600 log huts into a "cantonment," a military enclave. It was at the New Windsor Cantonment that the cease fire orders were issued by Washington ending the eight-year War of Independence on April 19, 1783.
From mid-April through October visitors will find costumed staff demonstrating musket drills, blacksmithing, military medicine and other 18th century skills, with additional demonstrations in July and August. Buildings include the reconstructed "Temple of Virtue," which served as a chapel and office and the Mountainville Hut, perhaps the only surviving example of original timber construction by the Continental Army. Year round, guests can view two exhibits at the Visitor Center on the stories of the men and women who lived at the 1782-83 cantonment, and on General Henry Knox's New Windsor Artillery Park that stood nearby in 1780-81.
Special events include an encampment by Revolutionary War reenactors each April, Memorial Day and Independence Day activities and a Children's Day of fun activities remembering the 219 children that once lived here. Annual living history programs take place in cooperation with nearby Knox's Headquarters State Historic Site.
New Windsor Cantonment State Historic Site is also home to the National Purple Heart Hall of Honor. To honor the service of his troops, General Washington chose a select few to receive a small purple cloth Badge of Merit, inspiring creation of the present day Purple Heart medal. In 1932, the new Purple Heart medal was presented to nearly 138 veterans of World War I on these same historic grounds. The National Purple Heart Hall of Honor is dedicated to preserving the stories of Purple Heart recipients from all branches of service and across generations.
The New Windsor Cantonment State Historic Site is co-located with the National Purple Heart Hall of Honor at 374 Temple Hill Road (Route 300) in New Windsor, NY, just three miles south of the intersection of I-87 and I-84. The historic site is closed holidays except Presidents Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day and Veterans Day. Costumed living history demonstrations are available from mid-April to the end of October, from Wednesday to Saturday, 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM and Sunday from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM. The visitor center is open except for the above mentioned holidays year round Monday - Saturday from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM and Sunday from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM.
Museum and Grounds open year round, Tues - Sat 10AM -5PM and Sun 1PM - 5PM
Living history closes for the season at the end of the day on October 31. The site will have a Christmas event on Saturday December 13 and Saturday December 20 as well as tours at 10AM, 11AM, 1PM, 2PM and 3PM, December 26-28. The site will also have the Presidents weekend event in February. Any other visits by appointment. The Visitor Center along with Purple Heart is open all winter.
Visitor Center Exhibits are open year round Monday-Saturday from 10am-5pm, Sunday from 1pm-5pm.
April-October: Wednesday-Saturday from 10am-5pm, Sunday from 1 pm-5 pm, closed on Monday and Tuesdays.
Explore the Cantonment at your own pace enjoying the beautiful semi-wooded grounds and trails. From late spring through early fall enjoy talking with a soldier or soldier's wife along with occasional demonstrations of musket firing or blacksmithing. With summer the site is alive with costumed soldiers and civilians demonstrating period skills like 18th century medicine, drilling with muskets or cannon, cooking over an open fire, laundering clothing, or hewing timbers for log huts. It's not all work though, and you'll be invited to try your hand at period games and sports, along with occasional celebrations such as Independence Day. Guided tours with living history demonstrations are available for organized groups by advance arrangement only. Please contact the Interpretive Programs office at New Windsor Cantonment (845-561-1765 ext. 22) for more information on tours.
African American History Month
Across this nation and throughout the Empire State, African Americans have helped to shape American history, fight for independence, and secure freedom. The efforts of these individuals stand as a testament to their courage and an inspiration to us all.
In observance of African American History Month, the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation gives special recognition to some of the many stories associated with the African American experience at state historic sites.
On display, New Windsor Cantonment has an account of an African American soldier who was briefly stationed there during the Revolution in addition to an encompassing overview of the war and the many contributions the thousands of African Americans who served during the American Revolution made as soldiers, laborers, and spies. Learn more about their contributions at New Windsor Cantonment.
Behind Every Great Man
The Continental Army in Winter, 1782-83. Just as General George Washington praised the service of the officers and soldiers under his command, the New Windsor Cantonment today remembers those men whose names and stories might otherwise be forgotten. Life size conjectural portraits recall an officer who died under tragic circumstances, a private held back only by his race, a soldier called upon to use his skills as a blacksmith, and even the wife and child of a soldier who abandoned his family in camp. Some 8,000 souls lived at the cantonment, and their stories and the artifacts they left behind come together to tell what life was like at the dawn of a new nation. Follow the story to the present as the New Windsor Cantonment is preserved and opened as a historic site.History is hands-on in this exhibit. While touring take a look inside a soldier's knapsack, a washerwoman's tub, and an officer's trunk filled with reproductions of the tools, clothing and other items that were used each day by the residents of the Cantonment. Peer through "peepholes" to see how soldiers' children living at the army camp might have dressed. Read the stories of the men and women in their own words in a special section of eyewitness accounts.
"The Last Argument of Kings"
Revolutionary War Artillery Artillery in the 18th century made a bold statement of national prestige and power. Decorated with the coat of arms or cipher of the monarch, the cannons spoke when diplomacy failed. Learn the history of muzzle-loading artillery, with 14 original artillery pieces, ranging in date from the early 18th to the mid-19th century, two of which are rare trophy guns captured from the British in 1777, following the Battle of Saratoga, New York.Another part of the exhibit features the New Windsor artillery encampment of 1780-81. From nearby Knox's Headquarters, General Henry Knox supervised the assemblage of the heavy siege artillery needed to attack the British in New York City, sixty miles to the south. In the spring of 1781, the hills around New Windsor echoed to the sound of cannon fire as the artillery gunners practiced. During their training, they created detailed artillery tables, recording the distance varying charges of powder gave to their shots. Taking advantage of French naval strength in the south, Washington ordered General Knox to follow him not to New York City, but Yorktown, Virginia, in the summer and fall of 1781. Trapping the British inside defensive works, with their backs to the York River, the siege of Yorktown was an artillery battle, where the importance of the training at New Windsor became apparent. The Continental artillery could now drop exploding shells "just over the enemy's parapets destroying them where they thought themselves most secure."
Temple Hill
Beyond the two exhibits in the site's Visitor Center, New Windsor Cantonment's grounds house additional exhibit and landmark features. The Cantonment ceased to exist when a 1783 auction raised much needed funds for the army by selling off army surplus equipment including the nearly 600 timber buildings that made up the Cantonment. The auction took place in the former army chapel known as the "Temple of Virtue", also the scene of a dramatic speech by George Washington to his officers in March, 1783, as well as the declaration of cease-fire one month later. The area where the building once stood became known as "Temple Hill" and served as a working dairy farm and creamery into the 20th century. A massive stone Centennial Monument marking the Cantonment site was completed in 1891. In 1933 the National Temple Hill Association was founded to preserve the site and the Mountainville Hut, a log building believed to be built from an original Cantonment hut, was moved to the grounds. By 1964 a conjectural reconstruction of the Temple of Virtue was built on the site along with a Blacksmith Shop and other structures to house living history programming.


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Invented here, sold there.
The United States created the solar cell industry and literally launched it into space 50 years ago. And, yes, solar PV is going to be one of the largest job-creating industries of the century, projected to grow "from a $20 billion industry in 2007 to $74 billion by 2017."
But while conservatives work hard to kill the clean air, clean water, clean energy jobs bill that is America's only real hope of remaining globally competitive, the rest of the world eats our lunch, a lunch we were kind enough to cook for them using on our own no-longer-secret recipe. As Tom Friedman explains:
Applied Materials is one of the most important U.S. companies you've probably never heard of. It makes the machines that make the microchips that go inside your computer. The chip business, though, is volatile, so in 2004 Mike Splinter, Applied Materials's C.E.O., decided to add a new business line to take advantage of the company's nanotechnology capabilities "" making the machines that make solar panels. The other day, Splinter gave me a tour of the company's Silicon Valley facility, culminating with a visit to its "war room," where Applied maintains a real-time global interaction with all 14 solar panel factories it's built around the world in the last two years. I could only laugh because crying would have been too embarrassing.
Not a single one is in America.
Let's see: five are in Germany, four are in China, one is in Spain, one is in India, one is in Italy, one is in Taiwan and one is even in Abu Dhabi. I suggested a new company motto for Applied Materials's solar business: "Invented here, sold there."
As the National Renewable Energy Laboratory documents, "From 1980 to 1985, the U.S. industry dominated the world market contributing 50% or more of world production." But then President Reagan gutted Jimmy Carter's renewable energy program (see "Who got us in this energy mess? Start with Ronald Reagan"). President Clinton began to increase federal efforts and incentives, so our market share began to increase. Then the Gingrich Congress started to roll back Clinton programs, especially those aimed at clean energy deployment or those aimed at increasing the competitiveness of US solar manufacturers. Finally, the Cheney-Bush administration came in and started a major effort to gut all clean energy deployment programs, just as our competitors were seriously ramping up their efforts.
And so our market share in solar has plummeted in the past decade, as the NREL figure below makes all too painfully clear:
But don't get all friggin' sentimental on me. Think of the few billion dollars U.S. taxpayers saved that went to cut taxes on the wealthiest 1%.
The fundamental tenets of conservative ideology say that if countries like China and Taiwan and Spain make most of the PV cells, it must be because they have an inherent "comparative" advantage over us. You gotta start reading your Ricardo, people.
Any card-carrying conservative knows that if other countries manage to get millions of their workers' hands dirty actually making stuff, it's only because they are better at it. We're still the brainiacs who invent the technologies first and then wisely save a few pennies of the taxpayer dollars not promoting American technologies into billion-dollar American industries. We've still got all those Internet-related jobs, and it's not like the government had anything to do with that.
So please, all you progressives and enviros out there, stop your whining. The plan is unfolding as it should, indeed as it must. Do not argue with the invisible hand. People will think you're crazy.
Sure those thin films look cool. They seem like something that could generate a lot of jobs for a high-tech, high wage economy.
More seriously, it will be interesting to see whether significant incentives and real requirements for renewable energy at a national level can restore some semblance of US leadership (see EIA projects wind at 5% of U.S. electricity in 2012, all renewables at 14%, thanks to Obama stimulus). But for a sustained revival we need to pass the climate and clean energy bill, since it is the only way to bring a steadily rising carbon price and massive state and federal clean energy funding — as I (and Friedman) argued last week. Returning to Friedman's new piece:
The reason that all these other countries are building solar-panel industries today is because most of their governments have put in place the three prerequisites for growing a renewable energy industry: 1) any business or homeowner can generate solar energy; 2) if they decide to do so, the power utility has to connect them to the grid; and 3) the utility has to buy the power for a predictable period at a price that is a no-brainer good deal for the family or business putting the solar panels on their rooftop.
Regulatory, price and connectivity certainty, that is what Germany put in place, and that explains why Germany now generates almost half the solar power in the world today and, as a byproduct, is making itself the world-center for solar research, engineering, manufacturing and installation. With more than 50,000 new jobs, the renewable energy industry in Germany is now second only to its auto industry. One thing that has never existed in America "" with our fragmented, stop-start solar subsidies "" is certainty of price, connectivity and regulation on a national basis.
That is why, although consumer demand for solar power has incrementally increased here, it has not been enough for anyone to have Applied Materials "" the world's biggest solar equipment manufacturer "" build them a new factory in America yet. So, right now, our federal and state subsidies for installing solar systems are largely paying for the cost of importing solar panels made in China, by Chinese workers, using hi-tech manufacturing equipment invented in America.
Have a nice day.
"About 95 percent of our solar business is outside the U.S.," said Splinter. "Our biggest U.S. customer is a German-owned company in Oregon. We sell them pieces of equipment."
If you read some of the anti-green commentary today, you'll often see sneering references to "green jobs." The phrase is usually in quotation marks as if it is some kind of liberal fantasy or closet welfare program (and as if coal, oil and nuclear don't get all kinds of subsidies). Nonsense. In 2008, more silicon was consumed globally making solar panels than microchips, said Splinter.
"We are seeing the industrialization of the solar business," he added. "In the last 12 months, it has brought us $1.3 billion in revenues. It is hard to build a billion-dollar business."
Applied sells its solar-panel factories for $200 million each. Solar panels can be made from many different semiconductors, including thin film coated onto glass with nanotechnology and from crystalline silicon. At Applied, making these complex machines requires America's best, high-paid talent "" people who can work at the intersection of chemistry, physics and nanotechnology.
If we want to launch a solar industry here, big-time, we need to offer the kind of long-term certainty that Germany does or impose the national requirement on our utilities to generate solar power as China does or have the government build giant solar farms, the way it built the Hoover Dam, and sell the electricity.
China … no longer believes it can pollute its way to prosperity because it would choke to death. That is the most important shift in the world in the last 18 months. China has decided that clean-tech is going to be the next great global industry and is now creating a massive domestic market for solar and wind, which will give it a great export platform.
In October, Applied will be opening the world's largest solar research center "" in Xian, China. Gotta go where the customers are. So, if you like importing oil from Saudi Arabia, you're going to love importing solar panels from China.
Well, conservatives must love importing oil from Saudi Arabia, since they've blocked every effort to promote efficiency and alternatives, so I guess they will love importing solar panels.
The rest of us need to fight for the clean energy jobs bill.
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Conservative economic strategy these days seems focused primarily on whatever it takes to make PRICES low in the short term…not on whether we all have decent JOBS here so we can keep buying even cheap things.
Of course that has led to lower prices and fewer good jobs.
Now to afford to buy even the cheap stuff we have to borrow the money. Apparently the conservative goal is to borrow more money from China to buy slightly cheaper solar panels from China.
Like all ponzi schemes it works great for awhile…and then it doesn't. Then it fails spectacularly.
"Invented here, jobs and profits over there".
Re "the climate and clean energy bill … is the only way to bring a steadily rising carbon price":
This is something that the cap-and-traders (e.g. Romm) and carbon tax advocates (Hansen et al) have in common, the belief that a carbon price needs to be "steadily rising". What is really needed is an initially high carbon price, which can overcome market barriers and get economies of scale to the point where the renewable energy industry becomes self-sustaining. As grid parity is approached and surpassed, the industry will be less reliant on price support, and the carbon price can steadily decline.
So what we need is $100/ton right now — not 10 or 20 or 40 years in the future. For coal-generated electricity that translates to around $100/MWh. But what Romm, Hansen and others (e.g. Friedman) do not seem to understand is that $100/MWh does not necessarily mean that you impose a $100/MWh fee on coal power. A $100/MWh subsidy for renewable sources would give them the same price advantage and commercialization incentive as a $100/MWh fee on coal power. If the subsidy is focused on new sources, it could be funded from carbon fees that would initially be zero and would increase steadily as renewables gain market share. The carbon fees would be "steadily rising", but the $100/ton effective price incentive would remain stable from day 1.
Slow down on Sunday…
Slow Sunday: The simple solution to global warming
Using Sunday as a day of rest and renewal would be good for our personal health as well as the health of the planet
At a stroke, we can reduce 10% of our carbon emissions into the atmosphere by making Sunday a low-carbon day and at the same time make ourselves healthier and happier. So, let us make Sunday a day of rest and renewal rather than a day of travel and toil.
The fixation on photovoltaic is amazing. Even smart, well educated people can not see how wasteful is PV and why we should not use it when we are connected to the grid. Do the math and see the true cost to society and compare it to what can be achieved by energy efficiency and conservation, 30 times more reduction in greenhouse gases per dollar! And if you tell me we should use all of them, realize that we do not have all the resources needed to do just the critical things, we certainly should not waste money on "attractive technologies" and concentrate were we actually can reduce global warming. Focus on the critical issue: reduction of global temperatures by reduction of greenhouse gases and related elements such as black carbon. And do it ASAP
Clear example: Germany that every one is talking about, put all it political support, public support and money behind photovoltaic for over a decade. Now, after all the immense support and spending over $60 billion dollar on it they are producing just 0.3% from PV. Again, just a third of a percent!. In the back door, there are now in Germany some 50 new coal powerplants in various stages of construction. Germany produce a lot of PV beacuse they have low cost coal-generated electricity. And since it takes some 7 to 10 years to payback the energy PV generate in Germany, just 750 kW a year!, the coal powerplants are working very hard, emitting a lot of CO2 to create this PV that every one admires.
Be careful to see the total picture and focus on the reduction of global warming and not on specific technology. We must drop the emotions and use the intelligence and brain we have to solve our crucial problems of GW.
We can not afford mistakes of this magnitude. We must cut greenhouse gases at the maximum rate we can. We do not have another Earth to escape to.


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Loss of a Spouse Can Cause Depression, Even Two Years Later
Oct. 18, 1999 (Cleveland) -- The recent loss of a spouse is a significant risk factor for depression in elderly patients, according to a study published in the October issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry. Some people can continue to have symptoms of depression up to two years after the loss of their spouse.
"Spousal loss should spark extra energy in terms of exploring the possibility of major depression," co-author Robert B. Wallace, MD, tells WebMD. "Also, there is a lore that major depression in the oldest-old is somewhat less common than it is in young and middle-aged adults. But in fact, that's very difficult to measure, and we know that depressive symptoms are often higher [and atypical] in the elderly. So for those reasons, we always need to be looking out for it," he adds.
Lead author Carolyn L. Turvey, PhD, and colleagues looked at more than 5,000 people aged 70 or older. They found that the older people -- and specifically women -- had higher rates of depressive symptoms; they also found that women were more likely to suffer from long-term depression. Newly bereaved individuals had the highest rates of depression and its associated symptoms, such as sadness and lack of interest in activities they once enjoyed.
Compared with married subjects, the newly bereaved had rates of depression that were nearly nine times as high as married subjects, while the rate of depressive symptoms without the full-blown disorder was almost four times as high. At one month after the death of their spouse, 33.3% of patients had six or more symptoms of depression, compared with 12. 2% of patients for whom 19-24 months had passed since the death of their spouse
Nevertheless, notes Wallace, who is a professor of epidemiology and internal medicine at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, depressive symptoms were still higher than before the loss of the spouse. "While on average, depression in these patients did start to go away ... an average of 3 to 6 months [after bereavement], the rates at 2 years were higher than baseline levels. So this loss seems to be associated with some long-standing depression," he says.


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Arabian Journal of Geosciences
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The use of injection wells and a subsurface barrier in the prevention of seawater intrusion: a modelling approach
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Damsarkho (Latakia, Syria) coastal aquifer is under severe hydrological stress due to the overexploitation of a shallow groundwater table for irrigation and tourism. Excessive pumping during the past few decades has caused a significant lowering of groundwater levels, which has in turn lead to seawater intrusion into the aquifer. Meteoric infiltration and flow from the adjoining carbonate aquifer recharges the Damsarkho aquifer. Natural outflow occurs through a diffuse flow into the sea, while artificial outflow occurs through intensive extraction of groundwater via wells. Water exchange in the aquifer takes place both naturally (leakage) and artificially (multi-screened wells). For the purpose of planning and management, SEAWAT, a variable density solute transport computer code, was used to study groundwater volume and quality. Seawater intrusion was represented by a three-dimensional finite difference model using the SEAWAT numerical code of VisualModflow software; the conceptual model is based on field and laboratory data collected between 1960 and 2003. Results obtained from the model establish that seawater intrusion is essentially due to withdrawal near the coast during the irrigation season, which occurs almost entirely in the Damsarkho plain. This simulation also demonstrates that the use of injection wells or a subsurface barrier would both represent a good method with which to improve water quality and prevent seawater intrusion.
KeywordsSeawater intrusion Coastal aquifer SEAWAT Injection well Subsurface barrier
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- The use of injection wells and a subsurface barrier in the prevention of seawater intrusion: a modelling approach
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Arabian Journal of Geosciences
Volume 5, Issue 5 , pp 1151-1161
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- 2012-09
- 10.1007/s12517-011-0304-9
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- 1866-7511
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- 1. Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry Department, University of Szeged, 6722 Egyetem utca 1, Szeged, Hungary


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Faulconer leading in fundraising
Feb 2, 2010, 12:02 a.m.
Candidates running for four seats on the San Diego City Council raised more than $278,000 for their campaigns in the last half of 2009, with Councilman Kevin Faulconer in the lead. Yesterday was the deadline for candidates in the June 8 election to submit or postmark campaign finance statements. As ...
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Just when San Diego city officials thought they had closed a $179 million budget gap, another has opened up because more money will be needed to pay for employee pensions. The city will have to contribute $231.7 million to the retirement fund in the fiscal year that starts in July. ...
San Diego to survey residents on service levels
Jan 18, 2010, 12:51 a.m.
Last year, scores of citizens took the time to attend 10 community forums, dubbed "San Diego Speaks," to provide input on budget priorities to the City Council. Nearly 700 people also filled out a survey on what they see as essential services that should be protected from budget cuts and ...
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SAN DIEGO The city of San Diego would give hiring preference to all U.S. veterans, not just those who served in the armed forces when a draft was in effect, under a ballot measure proposed by Councilman Todd Gloria to amend the city charter. Military personnel who have returned ...
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say what you will about the carpet, but cate blanchett is now, officially, the only movie star.
Ellen looks like Shirley Partridge, not that it is a bad thing.
White shoes? WTF? I guess I should be glad Ellen isn't wearing sneakers.
omg you missed Sally Kirkland on the red carpet?! CRAZY
Please tell me more specifics of Sally Kirklan's red carpet insanity.
Mark Wahlberg is still hot!
I thought Pan's Labyrinth was Spanish.
Did anyone else cringe at Ellen's insinuation that Penelope Cruz is Mexican?
Actually, Ellen went out of her way to acknowledge PC as Spanish.
And nope, Pan's Labyrinth is Mexican.
I like Amber Breslin way more than that creepy Dakota Fanning...but not as much as Will Smith's kid. He's just so damn charming.
I also have to say, this is the first year the Oscar ceremony is actually, truly keeping me entertained. I've actually laughed several times. And I haven't even opened the bottle of wine yet!
How can you hate a 10 year old girl so much?
I agree. That comedy musical number with Will Ferrell and Jack Black was deeply funny.
I'm just kidding. Abigail Breslin is adorable, I just don't want her to accidentally win an Oscar, so I'm hoping to sway public opnion with my excessive ill will.
Wait, that was funny, but the Snow White number, which was at least actually rehearsed, was awful? I don't understand.
Fnarf: The concept of the comedy number was brilliant, and made up for the sloppiness in my book.
Snow White's dream of Old Hollywood while on a blind date with Rob Lowe was an insane idea before either of us were born.
Jessica Biel looked like she could eat her co-presenter for his protein and no net carbs.
She looks great though, even with that fugly dress. Who was the chicken in a suit?
Steeerike one!
DAMN! Arkin? Really? sheesh.
But at least the Rob Lowe/Snow White bit had dancers who could dance. And talented people were nearby; Gene Kelly is briefly visible on the side of the stage. There isn't a soul within a hundred miles of that auditorium tonight who's worth a tenth of Gene Kelly.
Where's the Shiite truck bomb when you need one?
I know! I'm always wrong, and I'm always sure that this is the year I'm going to be right. This is why I'm scared Abigail Breslin is going to win Best Supporting Actress.
One Martin Scorsese is at least equal to one Gene Kelly.
Think that's Abigail's lucky monkey in her lap?
Any five minutes of "American in Paris" is worth more than Scorcese's entire career.
Interpretive dancing by MUMMENCHANZ. (sp?)
SEVENTEEN nominations?
I knew he'd only won one, but damn, Randy, I didn't realize it was that bad.
Fnarf, I'm breaking up with you, your love of "Cattle and Cane" be damned.
Fuck Randy Newman. Gross.
Randy's got a split personality. His film stuff tends to be pap, but damn, his first half dozen records or so are head-crushingly good.
David, you can't break up with me now, I just did my nails!
Listening to these douchebags congratulate themselves for their moral leadership on global warming is puke-inducing. Al Gore is too real a guy to be hanging out with these idiots.
Robotslave speaks the truth.
douchebag, be careful, Dan has a trademark on that old passe put down of cleaning the vagina
or are straight men now douching a lot these days?
Randy Newman keeps making the same song over and over again. The first 20 times he did that type of song it was good maybe even great. But now?.....no dice.
Like I said, split personality. His early records are... well, they're a bit different from the movie songs.
Al Gore isn't a candidate, and if he does declare, he won't get a significant percentage of his campaign donations from Hollywood. No one does.
Jack Nicholson is 2 pork sandwiches away from being the next Brando.
I'm not sure which was more disturbing--the commercial turning people into M&Ms, or the writer of the Departed seeming to teeter VERY close to an emotional breakdown before the orchestra played him out with Gentle Piano...
Every time Randy Newman farts, another catchy tune is born. His is the best pap in the business. Why begrudge him his talent?
We should all hope the Academy doesn't insult Martin Scorsese by giving him an Oscar for a mediocre effort.
True that Robotslave. True that.
I vote for the people turning into M&Ms.
Suggestion: why not just let Jack Nicholson ACTUALLY host next year--he's been trying to for years from the front row...
Shall we all wonder to guess what Tom just whispered into his former boss's ear?
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Inhumanoids: Volumes 3 & 4 [Import]
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Inhumanoids deserves better than this!
July 18 2003
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I love this show, it's easily one of my all-time favorites of the 80's. - So why two stars? Because of Rhino's crap treatment of it! They get one star for it simply BEING Ihumanoids, and an additional star for the episodes being in order. As for the rest, read on....
Just a few points - This is easily one of the more under-rated 80's cartoons out there, and really deserves better treatment. How about a Complete Series set? You could easily squeeze all 13 episodes on 2 DVDs (or, preferably, 3 to maximize picture quality).
Think of this series as "Cthulu Lite," with Lovecraft-esque creatures bent on world domination, the only thing standing in their way being a small group of environmental explorers. Not as cheesy as it sounds, Inhumanoids boasted some of the best one-liners (genuinely FUNNY one-liners, not the typical 80's cheese) and genuine peril for its characters than any series of the period. Plus the series was actually a continuing saga, with the events of each episode affecting the next. If you watch them out of sequence, you'd be completely lost as to what was going on. At least I'm glad to see Rhino was releasing the episodes in their proper order, something the previous 80's video release didn't.
I've never seen any official word on the subject, but it would not surprise me in the least if one of the reasons the show was pulled (aside from low ratings and poor toy sales) back in 1986 was for excessively violent content. I can easily believe parents forbidding their young ones to watch this show. Unfortunately for the curious, the most violent episodes are the final 4, which have yet to be officially released in any format (aside from the original TV broadcasts, of course). All Rhino has succeeded in doing is re-releasing all of the episodes which have been available for the past 17 years in one video release or another, with the elusive final 4 still being unseen outside of fan bootleg videos. This may partially explain the poor sales - most people HAVE the episode they've released already, and want the last 4 episodes more than anything else! Release THOSE episodes, and maybe you'll get more people buying all 3 volumes as a set! Myself, I held off because I wanted to get the whole set. I've got all the old video releases, and they're in great shape, so I saw no reason to re-purchase the same episode in a different format, unless the quality was significantly better (which it doesn't seem to be - if anything, the quality is WORSE than my old VHS tapes) and if they released the final 4 episodes, thus allowing me to finally replace my old TV recording. But it looks like I'll be holding on to that TV recording a while longer...
Now, a clarification - I don't know why people are thinking the series had animated closing credits, it didn't. I still HAVE my old TV tapes I recorded back when the show was originally on, and I can honestly say, with the proof of the original broadcasts themselves, that the closing credits NEVER had animation, they were always the still frames. I remember thinking at the time how odd it was, since all of Sunbow's other shows had animated closing credits. Just wanted to clear this up, clearly some of you are mis-remembering this detail.
As for the opening theme, yes the original version is considerably different than the version presented here. The music and animation is the same, but there is some character and narrator dialogue that accompanies the main song. I don't know why this version of the opening isn't on these DVDs. The original version makes for a far more exciting intro than the watered-down alternate version presented here. The version on Rhino's DVDs is the same intro sequence that was used on Malofilm's (Canadian) VHS release of the pilot movie in 1995. It seems that the only official videos that have the original openings are the old Hi-Tops videos releases in 1986-87, and good luck finding those.
Now, the angry rant - If Rhino was going to buy up the rights to all of Sunbow's old shows, the least they could have done is PROPER releases of them. Inhumanoids deserves far better treatment than it has received with this DVD set. In this day and age of Season sets, there is no longer any acceptable excuse for releasing volumes of a handful of episodes of an already short-lived series! If it's a 13 episodes series, just release a boxed set of all 13, for cryin' out loud! Rhino screwed up the sound (and editing in some episodes) in ALL the Transformers sets, they completely mucked this series up, what's next? Why bother getting the rights to all these great old shows if they were just going to -
A) Dole them out a handful of episodes at a time,
B) Not even bother to complete the set, as in this case, and
C) muck about with the original audio/video in an effort to "improve" upon the originals? (Such as the remixed sound and re-edited episodes in the TF sets)
Just leave the dang things ALONE, and give the fans what they WANT! Or hand the rights over to someone who actually cares about delivering a quality product to the real fans! Do they actually think they're marketing to KIDS with these shows? Nonsense! Today's generation (overall) could care less about some 20 year old cartoons. It's ADULTS who are buying these sets, ADULTS who grew up with the shows and want to relive those great old memories, and therefore ADULTS to whom they should be aimed.
Hopefully someone at Rhino will read this and give the subject some thought. Although I guess placing this review in one of their lowest-selling titles may not do much for the chances of it being seen...sigh...
To sum up - Do Inhumanoids properly. Stop messing with the sound and video in these sets. Be aware of who is buying these sets and market accordingly, since it is most definately NOT the current generation of kiddies.
Oh, and if anyone is looking for the last 4 episodes, I'll happily dub them for you since Rhino doesn't seem to care two hoots about this show anyway...
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Queenstown multisport athlete Jim Hawkridge will join the
field of competitors in the annual New World Tour de Wakatipu
mountain bike race from Millbrook to Chard Farm for the first
Back for its sixth consecutive year, the race will take place
on Sunday, April 19.
Hawkridge said in a statement he was looking forward to the
challenge of trying to beat last year's fastest time of 1hr
29min, achieved by Matthew Lees in the elite open men's
''My current training has been designed to maintain a high
threshold level for some time,'' Hawkridge said.
With a recent King of the Mountain title in the Milford
Classic, he will provide a real challenge to other elite
''I'm really looking forward to it, the race is in my home
patch with part of the trail going right past my backdoor and
the exclusive access that the race gives will be fantastic.
My thanks go to the farmer for allowing the Tour de Wakatipu
this once-a-year access.''
The Tour de Wakatipu starts at Millbrook Resort and finishes
at Chard Farm Winery.
The course makes use of the majority of tracks prepared by
the Queenstown Trails Trust and the event provides the
opportunity to ride them all in one go.
Race director Geoff Hunt said what was good about the race
was anyone, at any level, could participate and make it as
challenging as they wanted.
Wakatipu residents registered so far include Alastair
McIlwrick and Arvid Petersen, plus Sonia and Terry
''We are getting a lot of feedback from people who will be
competing in their first-ever event, to elite riders and
bikers who are making a comeback to competition,'' Hunt said.
Last year, the race attracted more than 600 competitors and
he was expecting similar numbers this year, he said.
''The interest we have had already this year is huge - the
versatility of the event caters to cyclists of all abilities.
''At one end we get the serious competitors and at the other
we get families interested in a scenic ride around the most
beautiful track in the country.''
Last year, the last to finish the event were Jean and Roger
Parks from Stourbridge in the United Kingdom, who were
visiting their son and his wife here.
Mrs Parks took up mountain biking five years ago at the age
of 70 and her husband is 79.
Mr Parks said, ''I have never been on a course like this.
It's just so incredible.''
Mrs Parks said she ''found the scenery absolutely stunning''
and that everyone they met was very friendly.
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After the fall of France in May 1940, the British Expeditionary Force was miraculously evacuated from Dunkirk. Britain now stood alone to face Hitler's inevitable invasion attempt. For the German Army to be landed across the Channel, Hitler needed mastery of the skies - the RAF would have to be broken - so every day, throughout the summer, German bombers pounded the RAF air bases in the southern counties. Greatly outnumbered by the Luftwaffe, the pilots of RAF Fighter Command scrambled as many as five times a day, and civilians watched skies criss-crossed with the contrails from the constant dogfights between Spitfires and Me-109s. Britain's very freedom depended on the outcome of that summer's battle. Britain's air defences were badly battered and nearly broken, but against all odds, 'The Few', as they came to be known, bought Britain's freedom - many with their lives. These are the personal accounts of the pilots who fought and survived that battle. We will not see their like again.
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This is just a short note on a new NIST publication: Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information in Nonfederal Information Systems and Organizations
Here's the link
I recently had to review some of the security standards in order to get consistency in the framework I have been defining.
The first and most important standard I have been following is the family of ISO 27000 (Information Security Management).The ones I used most are:
To get deep understanding of the ISO27K the NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) standards are the most valuable ones. Just to note that NIST is an american agency that basically defines a series of strong standard in the system security area.
Together with NIST I strongly suggest to take a look at the The Standard of Good Practice for Information Security that give a full coverage on standard and control practices that can be fully and straightforward applied to any environment.
I got good insights from the the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) that was developed by some of the major credit card companies and consists in a series of core requirements to be developed in order to achieve data security in credit cards payments
Most of the times, in order to get the big picture, I had to refer to the famous Control Objective for Information and related Technology (COBIT) or to the ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) frameworks. COBIT is basically a control framework that enables the management and right governance of an ICT system, while ITIL is not directly linked to security but is again a series of good practices in managing and operating IT systems. As a matter of fact most of the practices have a direct impact on the security of the systems (e.g patch management and incident management).
The ones up are in my opinion the basics, while additional ideas can be obtained from
where possible I put some links in my link page.
A constraint is anything that restricts the project manager's options. Constraints are requirements, confines, or, if you're a glass-is-half-empty kind of person, prison walls.
Constraints can include:
Management is often setting unrealistic expectations, even if we should admit that sometimes we have to determine who's really to blame. Usually the project managers are correct. Usually. But sometimes the project managers are so out of tune of the project management processes that they don't know how to plan or attack the project objectives.
Other times, management has no concept of what the characteristics of the project (e.g. software development) are. Management may throw a schedule and budget together and dump them on the project manager's desk. In these instances the project manager must communicate the problem. If the project manager does nothing other than rant in private, things won't change and the project will likely fail.
The key here is to document the problem as a risk, share the risk assessment with management, and then document the results. If you're faced with unrealistic expectations from management, your job is not to fail and then tell the managers, "I told you so." (That will not earn you a promotion) It's to say, "Here's a problem: unrealistic expectations. How will we fix it?"
Here are the basic principles of TOC that find there application in the critical chain management:
Kaspersky released two paper which are really interesting in order to understand the level of sophistication cyber criminal reached. Here are the links
I strongly suggest to read them, some parts are technical, but some other are understandable and gives serious insight on modern cyber-crime.
This article is following the one where I highlighted some attention points to take care when changing job, but it specifies the aspect in relation to a team of IT professionals.
Here I would like to focus on the importance of a vision, an idea a final point which will drive us to what we want to reach with the team.
I would like to stress that creating your own vision is a fundamental task which usually takes a lot of time and involves both personal (what gives me the highest satisfaction in my work) and professional (where i want to be) aspects. Additionally this isn't a static process, but it will be normal that your vision will change as your career and personal life will progress.
Our own vision will be the result of a personal work, that we will build during or after the analysis of the situation where we will be working. However this is not enough, our idea of what we will be must be shared with our team and (most difficult) it has not to be against the one of our company. For this reason after a personal work, we must follow with a confrontation phase with our bosses and our team.
A good practice is to discuss first with our executive and then keep one or two brainstorming session with our team, later we will close the sessions with a clear commitment for getting the objectives that were agreed.
Once the scope and a draft of the plan are defined, we need to star the project risk analysis.
When we do a correct risk management, in order to reduce/eliminate the risk we found, we often need to reconsider some decisions we took during the definition/planning phase.
For this reason it is clear that deleting the risks since the beginning of the project its quite important in term of added value. Indeed, in this phase the cost of one change is still very low, since the status of many document is still open and many decision are still to be taken.
This big TO-DO list should help us in the initial phases, since it gives some ideas to find and reduce the risks related to the most importat project areas (scope, planning, resources). Maybe many of you will take it as obvious things, but, at the end, it is usually on this obvious things that we find the biggest problems.
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By By Steve Arel, U.S. Army Cadet CommandMarch 22, 2012
ANNISTON, Ala. -- On the eve of his sport's biggest meet, Cody Bernal's frustration was obvious.
He sighed heavily at times after shots. He slapped his leg. He turned away from his target, shaking his head.
Good thing this was only a practice round Thursday. Now the Rayville (La.) High School senior has only hours left to get it right.
"I was fighting my natural point of aim," said Bernal, who believes the problem rested with his body alignment. "It would be on, then it would be off. … I'll get a good night's rest. The best thing is to put your mind at ease."
The JROTC Air Rifle Championships begin Friday morning at the Civilian Marksmanship's indoor rifle range. Some 225 Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps Cadets will shoot for team and individual titles over the next two days.
They'll fire in prone, kneeling and standing positions in either sporter or precision categories. Sporter air rifle is designed for competitors who want to compete with little customization or specialized shooting equipment. Precision air rifle is modeled after Olympic-style shooting and allows the use of specialized target rifles and shooting equipment.
The top seven Army sporter and top four precision teams, as well as the top eight sporter and top five precision individuals are competing. They earned national berths during last month's service meet.
Kevin Cruz took third individually in precision last year. He's back, gunning for a better finish after winning the individual category at the Army level.
And this time, he's more confident.
"I stay positive and get all the negative things out of the way," Cruz, of Del Valle High School in Texas, said.
Even with his win last month -- a victory in which he edged one of the nation's top teen shooters -- Cruz doesn't feel pressure to repeat his performance at the national level.
"I'm relaxed and don't let it bother me," said Cruz, who also will fire with his team that qualified to vie for a national championship. "I've improved since last year by focusing on the little stuff."
Rachel Mangan, of Walhalla High School in South Carolina, shares that optimism.
After shooting well enough last winter to qualify for her first all-service national meet, Mangan's performance in the event when downhill when it mattered most. Categorizing her shooting as "pretty terrible," she remembers running to her car during a brief break between firing positions to go cry.
What Mangan did since, between her sophomore and junior years, was focus on technique, setting herself up for success.
"I have enough technique down where if I have a bad day" it doesn't sink the overall performance, she said. "I didn't have that last year."
Mangan also has less of something she felt she had too much of last year, her first on the national stage: pressure.
"Getting here was the goal," she said of this year's run. "I'm relaxed. I've gotten to the point where I can pretty much tune everything else out. I know I'll do better."


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Minnesota investigators found that every one of the 30 people with recent salmonella infections in that state had eaten peanut butter before falling ill, and confirmed in the "overwhelming majority" of those cases that the victims had eaten King Nut brand, according to state Department of Health spokesman Doug Schultz. The Minnesota salmonella strain matches the bacteria that have sickened at least 369 people in 41 other states since early September, although Minnesota authorities haven't connected the peanut butter to the national outbreak.
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Martin Kanan, chief executive of King Nut Cos., Solon, Ohio, which issued the recall, said in a release, "We are very sorry this happened. We are taking immediate and voluntary action because the health and safety of those who use our products is always our highest priority."
One salmonella-infected Minnesota woman in her 70s died. State health authorities are unsure whether other medical conditions caused or contributed to her death, Mr. Schultz said.
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Well, only one bulb sprouted out of 2 big ones. As someone else noted: you have to keep the receipt and you can mail the bulb back to the company for a replacement or you can always take it back to Walmart( don't think it would be an issue).
The plant is very pretty -reddish and green in colors. I will definitely buy more of those.
I have this one and the other one that Walmart sells. Both are great! Here it is after about 4 weeks (see photo). It took a little while for it to start growing and it's not a fast growing as the other one, but as you can see, it's a beautiful plant! I plan to buy another one.
I got one package which had two bulbs. One was a dud. HOWEVER the other makes up for it. As you can see in photo we even had to wrap stems around long to allow light for the fish. We have at least 10 leafs and I just put the bulbs in 3 weeks ago. great color and great grow rate
I only received one bulb in my package :(
I bought two packs of bulbs, one aroponogenton & one lilly. I was very disappointed to find that they were all duds, growing white fuzz & not sprouting after several weeks. Knowing that they probably don't have a very long shelf life, I understood that this was not either company's fault. You just have no way of knowing if they will sprout or not until you throw them into your tank. I had made several other purchases at Wal-Mart that day, so I did not want to send in my receipt as proof of purchase. Instead, I put one lilly bulb back into the box I had purchased it in, put it into a regular envelope (bulky as it was), put two stamps on it & sent it off. I also thanked them in advance with a small not & a "Thank you!" on the back of the envelope. Within two weeks, I received thirteen bulbs in return!! They even wrote "Thank you Amanda!" on the back of their envelope as well! Needless to say, I am overwhelmingly pleased by their quick response, generosity & thoughtfulness! They now have a loyal & life long customer! Thank you Sea Life Inc.!!!
To all the other people who negatively reviewed the product, you guys did waste your money. They garuntee the bulb to sprout in 30 days or they will send you new ones. You must save your proof of purchase, because, like the others said, they don't always sprout. However, when you send the bulb back to the company and the proof of purchase, they are more than generous with the return. I sent in 1 bulb and in a few weeks received two handfuls worth of bulbs in the mail. Every one of those bulbs sprouted. Way more than what I paid for. I had to plant them in my other tank because there were so many of them! They are very beautiful when they grow. LESSON HERE: keep your proof of purchase and read the instructions on everything you buy!
I bought two packages of these yesterday and got 7 bulbs out of it. I let them sink on their own and only two refused to. I wrapped those up in a coffee filter with some gravel, tied it off with nylon and let it sink. I can see at least three bulbs already sprouting, including one of the ones who wouldn't sink on it's own. Now, that's what I call quick. I don't know why people are complaining about cloudy water because these I didn't even rinse off before putting them in and I got absolutely no dirt and the water is extremely clear. I think these are wonderful.
While shopping in the Pet Section at Wal-Mart, I came across the Hardy Aponogeton and Dwarf Lily Aquarium Plant bulbs.
I just "popped" them in my Discus Fish tank and lush green and red plants are "up and running".
My aquarium is now beautiful. Discus love them.
The Lilys took a little longer but were certainly worth the wait!!! They look just like the picture on the card.
I highly recommend them.
I bought a few packages of a variety of bulbs available at Walmart. I kept all the packages and receipts. After they didn't sprout for weeks and fungus started growing on them I looked up the company online and found that other people had been successful in getting their bad bulbs exchanged for good ones with Sea-Life. I left the bulbs in the tank for the 30 days hoping sprouting would occur, but gave up after the guarantee time, dried the bulbs out and mailed them and a letter of explanation and copy of my receipt. In a couple weeks I rec'd 2 packages of bulbs, and have 100% growth within a week of placing in tank. I can only guess that there was some lag time before Walmart gets these things out on the shelves, and perhaps the bulbs were too old or something. The replacements are great. I really love companies that stand behind their products.
This product are the best I have seen. The plants grow after 3-4 weeks in the aquarium. And if they did not grow, I could return it to the compagny Sea-Life
I got some of these lilly bulbs in with my Christmas present from my sister. I had actually forgot about them, until I found them in a box in June. I popped the bulbs into my 29 gallon aquarium (which had NO live plants at this point). I really expected nothing to happen, since I had tried something similar before. To my surprise about a week after tossing them in the tank, I saw sprouts! Now I have two small lilly plants in my tank. They have grown all the way to the top of the water. Now I'm just waiting to see if they will actually flower. It's an added bonus that my fish seem to love these plants, and it has improved my water quality.
I got a pack with 2 decent sized bulbs and both are sprouting after 6 days. One sank right off and the other sank after I held it under long enough for a large air bubble to escape. Both sprouts are reddish-purple in color. I can't wait to see how much they've grown today!
people say that the lillys will not grow, well i find that hard to believe i sent one back that didn't grow and they sent me 3 back and i had to give one to a friend thanks.... out of 2 packs of lillys i now have 6 beautiful large plants counting the ones they sent me....THANKS AGAIN will buy again
I got two bulbs (1 large, 1 small), and while the small one didn't produce any sprouts, the large one absolutely exploded. In about 2 weeks, it went from a half-buried lump to a large, vibrant leafy plant that has (so far) survived 2 algae blooms.
Bought a pack of these from Walmart back in April and tossed them into my tank, after three weeks there was no growth and white spots started forming on the bulb so I took them out and sent them back to Sea-Life with proof of purchase, a note, and the original packaging per the instructions on the original packaging. It is now mid July and I have not received a replacement, a letter, a phone call, or email. Nothing. It's sad to see that the company has stopped honoring their guarantee when I read so many positive reviews before purchasing the bulbs.
I have had these bulbs for less than 2 weeks and there are roots shooting out from them. For the people that didnt have so much luck with them mabey you did something wrong. You are not supposed to bury them or even mess with them at all. You just drop them in your aquarium or pond and let them do there thing! Best wishes! XD
Posted a picture for ya! I have two growing but the other one was behind something were i could not snap a pic of it!
Bought a pack of these just to try them out. Within days it was moldy and clouding the water, so I sent the bulb to Sealife. In less than two weeks I received a package with 10 bulbs! Three were of the lilies, and seven of their other kind of bulb they sell. I put them in water and all but two sunk within minutes, those two had sunk within a few hours later. I have high hopes for all of these bulbs, though really I don't have space for them all! Be prepared for the walmart bulbs to fail, then send them to Sealife. You will receive far more than what you paid for! I highly recommend this company. They have a lifetime customer!
I bought this for my Betta tank and the bulb never did anything except sit on the bottom and started growing fungus. My Betta got sick and finally I took it out. I placed it in a separate container and waited for several months and still it did nothing. If you want plants for your aquarium you should get live already developed plants that are about the same price and require no effort to care for like a Rotala Indica.
I planted these and in two weeks my first bulb started sprouting. As the other people stated the lillies took longer to get started but they are beautiful. I almost went and purchased more until the last few bulbs sprouted. WOW! My tank could not handle another pack. Great buy. Highly reccomend. (Why are negative reviewers mad they cannot get a refund without proof of purchase? This is basic and listed on the instructions, clearly.)
While it was a great price, it comes with the saying, "you get what you paid for." I had it in my tank not even two days and it had mold start to grow on it. Next time, I'm just going to invest the money in a plant that is already sprouted, and ready to place in the tank from a place that specializes in freshwater aquatic plants.


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The issue will continue to be contested, but in the first skirmish between quarterback Quincy Carter and the Cowboys, Dallas has prevailed.
Special master Stephen Burbank has ruled that the wrongful termination action filed by Carter, suggesting that his Aug. 4 release by the Cowboys violated terms of the NFL's collective bargaining agreement, does not fall under his purview.
Thus, the case is now just a standard non-injury grievance that will be filed with an independent arbitrator. There is no time frame for when the case will be argued. Such cases can take weeks, or even months, to get onto the arbitration calendar.
Carter and the NFL Players Association have contended the quarterback was released after a repeat violation of the league's substance abuse policy. The agreement between the league and the union precludes such an action. Dallas officials have argued that, while Carter led the Cowboys to a 10-6 record and wild-card playoff berth last season, he was cut loose for performance reasons.
The NFLPA filed for a special master proceeding with Burbank, who presided over the Terrell Owens case early this spring, because such cases provide greater latitude in terms of discovery than do standard grievances. In a special master proceeding, for example, it is likely that Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and coach Bill Parcells would have been compelled to submit to pre-hearing depositions.
Richard Berthelsen, the NFLPA's general counsel, said the decision by Burbank will not substantially weaken Carter's case. Berthelsen said the NFLPA will also use the Carter case to investigate allegations and the Cowboys may have been conducting drug testing independent of league-administered screenings.
League policy prohibits individual teams from testing players.
A former second-round draft pick who started 31 games for the Cowboys in three years, Carter last week signed a one-year contract with the Jets to serve as a backup to starter Chad Pennington.
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Coach Gregg Clear: "She's just awesome - a great kid with a great work ethic. She works so hard to get better every day. Her goal is to win state. She wants to get better so we can get there."
Dodgen: "There weren't that many girls at 119 pounds. I wish I could've moved up to 128 pounds to wrestle. Every shot I took didn't have to be the best shot, but I was strong enough to pin them and win."
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