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If you know Sandringham, you'll be familiar with this house on the corner of Taumata St and Duncan Ave. You've probably admired its distinctive presence from the street - the stucco walls, rich-orange roof tiles and the turret that many a passing child must have wished was their bedroom.
The home was built in the 1920s, in what Stuart MacKinnon, one of the current owners, likes to think of as Arts and Crafts style. The exterior is stucco over brick with a wooden internal frame, and the interior features handcrafted wood detailing throughout in the beamed ceilings, stairwells with cut-out hearts, the panelled doors and leadlight windows.
"Arts and Crafts is my take ... and it also has a hint of Tudor revival with the wood," says Stuart.
The home sits high on Taumata Rd on land that was part of a large farm from 1845 to 1910, before passing through the hands of different owners, but it wasn't until the 1920s that this home was built.
"A lot of people think this must have been the original farmhouse, but that wasn't the case," says Stuart, who shared ownership of the home with Jim and Elesia Ogg until Elesia died about a year ago. "This house was Elesia's passion and was very much a part of her family," explains Stuart.
"Elesia was well-known in this area, she was on the Sandringham Business Association and a driving force behind the Sandringham Spring Festival. She put a lot of work into creating the village feel."
Elesia's suburb certainly has a lot to offer its residents. Stuart lists Prague and Viola among his favourite bars and cafes; walkers enjoy the Watea Reserve in Taumata Rd, with its off-leash areas for dogs, and the Mt Albert walkways.
"And the farmers' market is a new thing in Sandringham."
Stuart appreciated that the home's original features had been kept intact. "Usually a house this size has been in six flats or a home for nurses."
From the archway of the stepped entrance, the front door opens into the hallway with the central staircase. Off to the left is the main living space with lounge and dining as one large room, with folding doors there if you want to divide this space.
"We had Christmas in here one time with a long table and about 30 people," says Stuart.
Off to the right of the hallway is a bedroom with another living space, and then a kitchen and bathroom. This space has been used for extended family and friends to stay, with the upstairs area kept for the owners. There are two bedrooms on the second level (the main has en suite), an outside terrace off the hallway, and then another kitchen and large living space. More stairs lead to the turret bedroom on the highest level with its grand views over Sandringham.
"This would also make a great artist's studio or be the place to write that novel," Stuart reckons.
"There are many different ways you could configure the house. It has the structure for doing what people want to do."
Outside, the large garden gets sun all day and Stuart suggests the next owners could move the garaging to the side of the section to make better use of the land.
But now, he and Jim are selling because Jim is based in Christchurch and Stuart is planning to move out of Auckland for work opportunities.
"I'd like to see a family with kids or older relations move in," says Stuart. "But you could buy it and have flatmates; and it would suit people who want to work from home."
He will be sad to leave. "I will miss all our memories. It's been a fun house, a lot of happy parties and dinners, a place for family gatherings."


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Anyone? Checked out the exchanges yet? Excited?Sep 29, 2013 at 8:01 pm #2029432
I'll take the fine most likely. Super stoked.
If you don't like Memes skip this thread.Sep 29, 2013 at 8:27 pm #2029438
W I S N E R !BPL Member
My wife's employer recently sent out an "informal" directive to all managers to no longer schedule anyone for 30 or more hours per week and/or make sure nobody overstays a shift and breaks 30 hours so as to avoid having to provide health care under the new legislation. They will be making sure they don't exceed the 50 full-time employee threshold.
My wife won't be affected as she already works under 30, but many of her co-workers are getting hours cut and are facing the prospect of finding a second shift somewhere else. They're stoked.Sep 29, 2013 at 8:44 pm #2029442
My brother-in-law and his co-workers are experiencing what Craig described.
I truly hope that something will come from all this which will make health care affordable for all but I'm doubtful.Sep 29, 2013 at 8:48 pm #2029443
I can see a reduction in hours in my future.
I'm 46 and have been uninsured for the vast majority of my life. Sucks. But this is not the answer.Sep 29, 2013 at 9:18 pm #2029449
I'm signing up
Because of Oregon regulations, when I was layed off I was put in a pool that will be replaced by Obama-care
I suspect there will be little difference. Same insurance company. About the same cost.
I'm sure there will be lots of problems initially because health care is so complicated, but eventually it will be like Medicare – people gripe about it but they really holler if you threaten to take it away.
Health care has become so expensive that it is taking a significant share of the economy and dragging everything else down. Obama Care is far from perfect but it's what was possible given politics.
I can see why the Republicans are so desperate – if it gets implemented and the world doesn't quit spinning on it's axis like the Republicans claim, they'll be screwed.Sep 30, 2013 at 4:30 am #2029476
The 30 hour rule is the stupidest part of ACA.Sep 30, 2013 at 5:09 am #2029478
The 30 hour rule?Sep 30, 2013 at 5:37 am #2029482
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I'm signing up…and frankly, many of us here in the backpacking community should be stoked as well. I HATE that my insurance has to come from my job – and it's not like you aren't paying for it there, either. I paid $215 every 2 weeks for my crappy PPO coverage at my last job…but with my health and my age there is not an insurance company on the planet who would give me an individual policy. So guess what? I ALWAYS had to have a full time job in order to have health insurance. Always.
So now I can sign up for an affordable individual plan, the insurance company can't charge me more because of any perceived medical conditions, and I don't have to work full time if I don't want to. If I want to work a little here, then go and say, hike the PCT next year, I can…WITH insurance, so that if I break my ankle or something, YOUR tax dollars won't pay for my not buying a plan.
Seriously people…what's NOT to like?
If it's the mandate…well, if you don't have health insurance then you are relying on my tax dollars to take care of you if you are seriously injured (and yes, it happens ALL the time to people who least expect it).Sep 30, 2013 at 6:12 am #2029486
I think people will gripe even with a perfect solution. It will always rub some the wrong way.
It's going to be a change for sure. Businesses and individuals will have to adapt to new new ways of doing things and, like even social security, changes will be made to minimize the cracks.
My family will be moving to the USA within the next year or so. My wife has panic attacks (nearly always denied coverage) and I'm a stay at home dad. The ACA means we will have more reasonable options for insurance.Sep 30, 2013 at 6:32 am #2029489
the 30 hour rule will be interesting to see how it pans out. If, as a business, I limit the number of hours my employees work to 30 when I'm used to getting 35 out of them then I'll have to hire more employees to cover those lost hours. At what point is it more profitable to just ensure them?
It has been argued that reducing the work week to 30 hours would be profitable for the economy precisely because it would employ more people.Sep 30, 2013 at 6:46 am #2029490
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"Seriously people…what's NOT to like? "
The ACA says that employers must provide health insurance for employees if they have 50 or more "full time" employees. They define "full time" as only 30 hours/week. So many businesses are trimming the hours of their employees so as to not have to deal with the financial and procedural complexities of providing health care.
So many people that were working, say, a 38 hour work week will see their hours cut back to 29.5….which would be the equivalent of losing a full day of work and pay per week. It has already happened to people I know.
Losing a shift and having to get a second job….If this is happening to you due to this legislation, that's what's NOT to like.
"If it's the mandate…well, if you don't have health insurance then you are relying on my tax dollars to take care of you if you are seriously injured (and yes, it happens ALL the time to people who least expect it)."
I love how the dynamic is to always pit citizens against each other.
With the myriad of screwed up ways the government completely wastes billions of taxpayer dollars…Corporate welfare? Foreign military and nation building escapades? Nope, get mad at the guy without insurance for wasting your money. Meh.
If ONLY my money cold be spent on people that need health care.Sep 30, 2013 at 8:18 am #2029517
"If it's the mandate…"
The mandate and the pre-existing conditions provision are to get everyone to be insured so my health care spending doesn't go to pay for other people that don't paySep 30, 2013 at 8:25 am #2029520
Health insurance is a relatively small part of the cost of hiring people.
If an employer just considers employees a line on a spreadsheet they won't get the most productivity out of them.
If an employer wants to entice good employees with good compensation, they'll get the best people who will be more productive. They will already be providing health insurance so Obama-care won't make any difference.
I think some people are saying they're employers and they're going to cut employee hours to less than 30 hours just as an emotional reaction to change.Sep 30, 2013 at 8:47 am #2029528
"I think some people are saying they're employers and they're going to cut employee hours to less than 30 hours just as an emotional reaction to change"
I think that making health care affordable for all people should be one of the highest priorities for our country. I also don't object to a hybrid system solution which involves both the public and private sector.
As far as the 30 hour rule goes, it's not a myth and it's not hyperbole. There are people, like my brother-in-law, who have already had their hours cut in anticipation of the ACA mandate.
That's $5000 a year for someone who was previously working a 40 hour week making $10 an hour. That's $5000 less (before taxes) to put food on the table, to buy school clothes for kids, and to pay health insurance premiums.
I think Jennifer touched on something that I agree with. A large problem with our health care systems is that it is mostly associated with our jobs.
It's a very complicated topic and as I said before, I'm doubtful ACA is the solution but I also hope I'm wrong.Sep 30, 2013 at 8:52 am #2029531
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"I think Jennifer touched on something that I agree with. A large problem with our health care systems is that it is mostly associated with our jobs. "
+1.Sep 30, 2013 at 9:19 am #2029547
Well, first, OP = troll, bringing up an issue like this in a BP forum. :)
Second, this is a false argument:
"With the myriad of screwed up ways the government completely wastes billions of taxpayer dollars…Corporate welfare? Foreign military and nation building escapades? Nope, get mad at the guy without insurance for wasting your money."
Just because we end up paying for other questionable stuff does not mean that we don't pay significant costs to cover the uninsured. Because we do- COBRA and all that- and it will be nice to do something about it. We ALREADY have universal healthcare in the US- it's just a damned inefficient and somewhat callous form. Ultimately, this is more money out of everyone's pockets, thus reducing our true wages. So why not be up front about it? Put it out in the open where we can count dollars?
So, since I am unwilling to support turning life-threateningly sick people out of ERs and onto the streets to die then I sort of have to support mandatory healthcare insurance, because it is fiscally responsible. (And I'm a conservative at heart.) Costs will actually probably go down as people get more preventative care. Well, assuming that the insurance companies don't just suck that up as extra profit- which we need to take steps to prevent.
In the long run, it will all level out. I will pay less for other people's healthcare, and this will become just another cost of doing business. Ultimately, insurance is just part of pay, so avoiding the ACA is merely a scam to pay your employees a substandard wage. "MY GOD if we have mandatory healthcare coverage the ECONOMY will COLLAPSE!" Get real. Most of the first world has some sort of mandatory healthcare coverage and they somehow manage. So, I agree that cutting employee hours is scare-mongering. If someone wants to purposefully limit his company's growth no higher than 50 employees who all work less than 30-hours, let them. They are a fool. Decent employees will flee, and he will start having to hire seasonal or lower-skilled and unmotivated high-school students or something, then incur costs with high employee turnover, etc. I laugh at him.
Could the ACA have been written better? Absolutely. But this was the political reality. The holes can be patched as we gain experience with it.
I'm a right-of-center moderate, but I have to admit that the ridiculous Republican scare-mongering and generally petulant attitude (shutdown?!?) over this has put me off. And I will vote accordingly. IMO the Republicans have been systematically alienating the moderates in the country for the past decade. All that they have left are the radical wingnuts. There is no longer any such thing as a "moderate Republican" in the House, and only one or MAYBE two in the Senate.
EDIT— Hey, what's the temp in hell, today? Because I am finding myself agreeing with Jerry and the other uber-pinkos on something! Who woulda thunk it? :)Sep 30, 2013 at 9:41 am #2029552
I have a hard time sympathizing with employers who use ethically questionable employment tactics just to bump their bottom line. I have great sympathy for those employees who, for their own reasons, have to put up with these practices.Sep 30, 2013 at 9:50 am #2029559
"I'm a right-of-center moderate, but I have to admit that the ridiculous Republican scare-mongering and generally petulant attitude (shutdown?!?) over this has put me off. And I will vote accordingly."
I'm in the same boat. Fiscally conservative/independent but casting more of my votes to the DNC and third parties every year.
Unfortunately in this case, a broken clock is right twice every day and there is some truthiness to a few of the GOP arguments. My observations of my brother-in-law's predicament are anecdotal but I'm inclined to believe that he's not alone.Sep 30, 2013 at 9:55 am #2029562
"Truthiness" is a good word- hopefully you understand what you just said, because that would be quite droll. :)
"Truthiness is a quality characterizing a "truth" that a person making an argument or assertion claims to know intuitively "from the gut" or because it "feels right" without regard to evidence, logic, intellectual examination, or facts.[1]"
That final phrase is the relevant one, here, and the scare quotes around "truth" are important. The only reason that any of the Republicans' predictions are coming true is because they are MAKING them come true- e.g. the employers cutting hours and total employees, etc. Not to mention, it's a pretty bald attempt to coerce employee voting by doing this and then sending emails saying "this is all because of Obamacare!" There were many news stories during the initial debate over the ACA of unscrupulous employers telling employees that they would be fired or their hours cut if it passed, and this is more of the same. And as an American I find it repugnant.
And if there is any justice in the world, the labor market will punish them.
I just wish the Republicans could actually be conservatives again, instead of… whatever the hell they are now. "The Big Corporation Party?" What?Sep 30, 2013 at 10:01 am #2029565
"I just wish the Republicans could actually be conservatives again, instead of… whatever the hell they are now. "The Big Corporation Party?" What?"
Democrats are also the Big Corporation party
we're screwed until we get rid of legalized bribes to politicians, and it'll be hard to do this because any politician that pushes this won't get re-electedSep 30, 2013 at 10:05 am #2029566
"As far as the 30 hour rule goes, it's not a myth and it's not hyperbole. There are people, like my brother-in-law, who have already had their hours cut in anticipation of the ACA mandate."
Since Obama-care hasn't taken effect yet, anyone that says they've cut people to less than 30 hours is just mything and hyperbolizing : )
Wait a year and then do a statistical analysis, not anecdotesSep 30, 2013 at 10:07 am #2029569
What the hell, Jerry? Twice in one day? Didn't I once post a huge rant in chaff about the initiative to amend the Constitution to declare that money is not free speech?
Citizens United v FEC was the worst Supreme Court decision since… hell, Plessy v Fergusun? Maybe I can bump it up to 1944: Korematsu v U.S.
Maybe that's my problem- I'm a conservative but not a corporatist, so I don't fit in anywhere. When forced to, I've occasionally described myself as a "Schwartzenegger Republican"- meaning very green, with somewhat of a libertarian streak on social issues, but fiscally conservative. It's that last- coupled with a sense of compassion that prevents me from just letting people suffer and die en mass- that bring me to support some form of universal healthcare coverage. But I admit, I have my issues with ACA. Current plan = far from perfect.Sep 30, 2013 at 10:21 am #2029574
There was a news story about Trader Joe's regarding part time employees.
And now for an anecdotal story. I have heard no one in GOP controlled congressional districts is going to sign up for ACA.Sep 30, 2013 at 10:29 am #2029576
> But I admit, I have my issues with ACA. Current plan = far from perfect.
It think it's the beauty of a democracy that the plan does not need to be perfect. It will be worked on, degraded and improved by future generations responding to whatever their needs are then. For now this is what we've got. It's a whole lot better than what was. If nothing else, it's an honest attempt to address a serious problem… that's more than has ever been done before.
Considering how difficult it is to address such far-reaching and important issues (think education) I say that we've got to give this idea a chance to play itself out.
> And now for an anecdotal story. I have heard no one in GOP controlled
> congressional districts is going to sign up for ACA.
Maybe with the monies levied from penalties there should be a Fed Owned Insurance Company to provide insurance for those who refused to buy it. That would REALLy piss them off. :D
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Small businesses sometimes pay hundreds of dollars a month more than necessary for their telephony - thanks to inertia.
Many have a mish-mash of telephony services. It's not uncommon for small businesses to cut costs significantly following a telecommunications health check, says Kelly Blomfield, business account manager at Telecom Hub Southland.
One such organisation, insulation provider Awarua Synergy, inherited many different telecoms services from three different suppliers when it took over a local business.
"It was a mess," says Awarua Synergy's general manager Sumaria Beaton. "We were trying to merge with another organisation and we had mobile phones, landlines, 0800 numbers, fax and EFTPOS."
All of the services were combined into one single package by Blomfield using clever tricks to reduce costs. For example all of the landlines needed to be retained, but instead of paying monthly line rental, the old numbers became virtual landlines, that redirected to the main switchboard. Beaton says her organisation's accountant was impressed by the savings.
Business customers often simply don't know what's available to them, says Blomfield. Other benefits include a reduction in the number of missed calls, and an increase in business efficiency.
Many small businesses don't keep up with the telecommunication services available to them. Some of these services save money, others make the business more efficient. They include:
· Free calls and transfers to mobiles: Landline customers often don't realise they can transfer calls through to staff mobile phone numbers for free - or divert calls through automatically on Telecom's BusienssTime plan. If both landline and mobile are on the same Telecom account those transfers are free. This is particularly advantageous for businesses that have staff members out on the road.
· Virtual landlines: Small business customers are often wary of calling businesses that have mobile phone numbers only. However Telecom business customers that have mobile phone packages of $100 or more a month can get a free virtual landline that diverts to their mobile - creating the impression of a larger organisation.
· Dual numbers: For very small or home-based businesses it's possible to get two phone numbers that run through one landline. The business person may have two businesses running through the same landline, or want a different number for home and business calls. One number can be diverted to another phone or call minder, whilst the other is still active. Dual numbers cost between $2.50 and $4 a month, which is significantly cheaper than having two phone lines.
· Faxability and FaxAddress: Faxing may be dying, but many businesses still need the ability to receive faxes. Faxability is very similar to dual numbers in that it provides a different ringtone for faxes, which enables your machine to recognise and incoming fax and pick the call up. Another useful service for business people who are often on the road is FaxAddress, which delivers faxes to a mailbox, which can be accessed from a fax machine, smartphone, or personal computer.
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· Bundled services: signing up for 12 or 24 month packages often saves money, but does come with early disconnection fees. It makes management easier with one bill. Bundled services from telecoms providers are usually cheaper than standalone.
Telephony is becoming ever more feature rich and is evolving at an ever faster rate. As a result small businesses should reassess their telephony needs and costs every couple of years. A lot of changes can happen in that time.
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WNV has the same seasonal pattern as enteroviruses, and is associated with neurologic signs and symptoms of aseptic meningitis. However, WNV-associated meningitis tends to occur among older persons (median age: 46 years) (10), whereas children and young adults (median age: 13 years) are at highest risk for enteroviral meningitis (1). The investigation of an aseptic meningitis outbreak in an area of high WNV epizootic activity in 2001 indicated that enteroviruses were the leading cause of aseptic meningitis in this area, and no evidence of WNV infection was detected (10). For this reason, diagnostic testing of specimens from younger patients with aseptic meningitis should include testing for enteroviruses, even during a documented WNV outbreak (10).
Early etiologic diagnosis of aseptic meningitis helps to avoid unnecessary antibiotic treatment and additional testing. Although virus culture is the standard technique for enterovirus detection, it consumes time and resources and has limited clinical use. Molecular methods of enterovirus detection (e.g., PCR and typing based on genomic sequences) are increasingly becoming available. Serotype-specific PCR primers have been developed by CDC for several enteroviruses, including E30 (5). These serotype-specific primers are useful for rapid differentiation of cases in patients infected with the outbreak strain from sporadic infections with other enteroviruses.
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I got my co2 rig up and running!!
GLA's Supreme Regulator
I have it set at about 2bps for now and its getting my drop checker a dark green colour by lights off. I'm going to keep playing with it over the next while and get it all tuned in.
Here's what it look like right before lights off so it looks like i need to up it a bit but we'll see what a full day of 2bps does tomorrow
GLA's Inline diffuser
Besides playing with my new toy i also set up some moonlighting for my tank. My lights go off at 8pm and there is always people up far past that so i wanted a little extra view time. Plus it casts an awesome shimmer effect that looks like a full moon. I will attempt to get a pic of it but its proving impossible.
Current's TruLumen Lunar LED's tucked under my reflector, I went with the 12000k because I dont really like the blue moonlight look and i couldnt be happier! Looks very natural.
I always Q my bows for a month lol. Your opening a can of worms with these little guys. There are easily 60+ species, and not enough tanks to keep em all lol
There are some smaller species out there that would compliment the bosmani's well. If you have an opportunity to grab some M.Nigrans, do it!!!
They have subtle colors, and have a more slender body. but very pretty when the light catches them just right. There a few breeders of these little guys in the states, and you will not find them in your LFS.
If you go for M.Praecox (know as dwarf neon rainbows) I would ONLY get them from a known breeder, the LFS stock is very fragile from over breeding and they do not tend to last that long, and the colors can be pretty drab compared to their pure genetic counterpart. M. Kamaka are great little bows as well reaching about 3" max. in length.
Great looking tank too!
|Nice tank, I have a 55gal tank with a 2 bulb shoplight and I decided to get myself a current sat+ led. I wonder how much light would a 4 bulb have produced and the hanging thing is awesome!
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very nice looking tank shambalove! your tank is very clean and neat looking unlike mine. good luck with the new co2 rig!
i see that you also have boesemani's hehe they are really interesting to watch
mine snack on the shrimp population in my tank too. if you're setting up another tank, try some dwarf neon rainbows! they are also pretty and more active in mating rituals hehe.
Picked up my co2 tank last night
75 bucks for a full, brand new, 5lb tank. Seemed like a decent deal?
And yes Boesemanis are pretty much my favorite fish now. I feed them some live white worms for the fist time last night and they started flashing immediately!! It was so cool, they look like cuttlefish changing colours. I had read all about it but i wasnt ready for that, im going to try and get a decent video of it.
very nice looking tank shambalove! your tank is very clean and neat looking unlike mine. good luck with the new co2 rig!
i see that you also have boesemani's hehe they are really interesting to watch
mine snack on the shrimp population in my tank too. if you're setting up another tank, try some dwarf neon rainbows! they are also pretty and more active in mating rituals hehe.
Had to do a big trim and re plant today, the wisteria was getting out of control! I actually dont really like the manicured look but it'll be a jungle again in no time. Plus the fish are loving the extra swimming room.
Here's a before/after
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Originally Posted by shambhalove. View Post
Just purchased my first co2 rig for this tank!!
Pretty excited to get into the more technical side of this hobby. I love how this tank is progressing but i think i'm ready to starting upgrading things.
Cannot say enough about the customer service at GLA, i know it has been stated many times here before but Orlando was awesome! I had so many questions and he answered them all within 5 minutes every time. To me that is worth every extra penny.
What i settled on
Got their inline atomic diffuser and a nice fancy drop checker too!
What do you guys/gals think?
Whatever it is you're doing - keep it up - you're doing just great.
You have a super looking tank !
And it's getting better as time goes on.
|Love the tank & the Bows! I had to LOL when reading your post on attacking the shrimp. Great job and the CO2 will really benefit the plants in your tank.
Just purchased my first co2 rig for this tank!!
Pretty excited to get into the more technical side of this hobby. I love how this tank is progressing but i think i'm ready to starting upgrading things.
Cannot say enough about the customer service at GLA, i know it has been stated many times here before but Orlando was awesome! I had so many questions and he answered them all within 5 minutes every time. To me that is worth every extra penny.
What i settled on
Got their inline atomic diffuser and a nice fancy drop checker too!
What do you guys/gals think?
Well I've learned a few things since the last update, which is good
1) 2 weeks is not enough quarantine time, despite how healthy the fish look and act.
2) Rainbows are shrimp seeking missiles.
So I bought some Boesemani rainbows, awesome fish. Ive wanted them since starting this tank. Went to the lfs and got 7, took them home and put them in my qt tank. Now i was under the impression that juvies all look rather washed out and that it was difficult to sex them at a young age. Well, after about 2 weeks they were settling in to their new qt tank and they all looked pretty male to me. All had a clear blue/orange split and none were the greenish colour I've see in pics of females.
So back to the lfs, they have always been good with returns (dead or alive) and have a 30 day full price/60 day half price guarantee. Went to scope out the other rainbows to see if they had some females, yup found some that were a more olive greenish colour with a more pale yellow tail. I decided to exchange 4 males for females. This brought me to 3M/4F ratio, now i am pretty new at keeping fish and never kept bows but from what i've read this was much better than 7 males for several reasons.
Back in qt with the others. Males were excited to say the least haha. But this is where i got impatient, they new additions seemed fine so i assumed they were just like the originals. Left them in quarantine for another 2 weeks anyways, kept a close eye on them and all seemed good so into the 75 they went.
Ich . Within a couple days i noticed a tiny white spot on the big females fin. At first i figured maybe just damage from netting so i just waited and watched. Couple days, couple more spots, all looking like grains of salt now but still only like 3 spots total on 2 fish. Well not a big deal i suppose, did some quick research as i didnt feel meds were needed and Ive used salt/heat before in unplanted tanks. Settled on heat and Ick Attack. Temp slowly up to 87ish and dosing Ick Attack as per directions. Spots spread to one other fish, but still only about 5 visible spots on 3 fish at the maximum. Been over a week now since the last spot so I'm starting to decrease the heat.
Only thing i would recommend with using Ick Attack is to make sure you change/clean your filter floss or any mech media (prefilter sponge etc) often. I actually took off my fluval prefilter and used an aquaclear sponge because it clogged in about a day and a half. For anyone interested, none of the livestock skipped a beat, everything was still eating and very active during the whole heat treatment. No deaths at all.
Now the cherries had been taking over this tank, my gourami is more interested in "feeling" them and the corys are only a big longer than a adult. I'm sure some were munched on, but not like this. In went the bows and holy shrimp massacre. They lock on to any movement and attack with lightning speed, as soon as this happens the rest of them are zooming in to see whats going on and jump in on the attack.
Not the greatest pic but i was able to catch them swarming a shrimp. Ive even seen them sneak up behind fully grown adults and scoop them up from behind, mouthful of sand and all. Then spend the next 20 minutes swimming around frantically with little shrimp feelers hanging out their mouth trying to choke it down. Which they do. Somehow.
Oh well good reason to start another tank Just thought I'd mention it as a warning. If you really like your shrimp population do not add larger rainbows, it does not matter how many hiding spots you have, they find find and kill them all. But you'll have some happy fish!! I think its kinda cool to watch them hunt too, the whole group stays in this tight "high alert" formation and anything that moves gets bombed. Including my corys, falling snails (which i swear they will choke on) and bits of leaves floating around.
K enough talk heres some pics...
Monster amazon swords! lol
Same girl later in the day, showing more of that olive green colour.
Little vacuum!
Time for an update! Its been a while and everything's still crusin along, moved some stuff around and did a big trim so back to waiting for everything to fill in again . I really need to learn how to take FTS though haha, everything has too much glare and you cant see any colours.
Got some new fish too!! 10 Sterbai Corys, they are awesome to watch scurry around lookin for food. Since adding them my sand is so much cleaner as well, the first week the kicked up so much dust but it seems the filter has caught up now.
Ive been putting all my cherry culls in this tank and they are taking over. They are even getting progressively braver, even jumping in on the algae wafer nom fest . Been getting some really cool colours/patterns too!
Nothing wrong with using Java Ferns &/or Moss on the driftwood, but my preference has always been dark-green leafed Anubias for that purpose.
Give Anubias some thought - just for you to have a look-see, here are some Anubias on DW in a small 15 gal tank of mine:
If you're looking for other plants elsewhere, besides on the DW, you might consider Nymphaea (Red, Green, or Tiger Lotuses).
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Your tank really looks quite spectacular - I think it would look even more dramatic with a suitable background - not sure what color it should be though.
But you're certainly doing a superb job with your aquascape. Keep it up.
I still need something for for the driftwood but cant decide on some moss or java fern. Some plants with a bit of color would be nice too. Any suggestions?
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I doubt Warner even believes what he was saying.
My guess is he is not doing well at his job on nfln. Often, when a talking head starts to say ridiculous things, its because his boss said "become relevant or find a new job."
Kurt probably thinks the best way to stay relevant is to piss off NYC and millions of Giants fans.
He must still be butthurt that Eli replaced him. What the hell is his deal man the coaches made that decision not Eli and if he played like he played in Arizona he could've started two years probable but **** him I'm glad he dissing us everyone is. This is setting up just the way we like it. On ESPN countdown they all picked the 49ers to win big cause Harabaugh and Alex sMITH WILL USE manningham yes MANNINGHAM to torch our secondary lol. CAN'T WAIT FOR THIS GAME SICK OF THE 49ERS AND THEIR BANDWAGON FANS!!!!
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[quote user="bigblue4417"]N.B.A. telecasts outdraw N.H.L. telecasts by somewhere between a 3-to-1 and 4-to-1 margin in America.[/quote]

You guys just don't get it. Hockey doesn't do well on TV because of the smallness of the puck. HD helps, but not enough. But the game is a great one. Far more fast paced, far more exciting. Plus you can hit people.

The NBA is essentially a sucky game. Its popular in the same way as Survivor or American Idol is popular. I can't watch a friggin basketball game until the 4th quarter. I get that you guys love it and I think thats great. You love your hoops and I get that. But don't knock hockey because you don't get it. Quoting attendance and TV stats is a losing argument. Basketball translates better to TV. And TV is where its at. Doesn't say anything about the quality of each game.

One thing we learned in the radio business.....The masses are *****.

Nobody is knocking hockey, Matt or myself. Just simply proving a point that hockey is no where near as popular as basketball nationally. It will always be the 4th most popular sport in the US and could someday go even lower.
If you asked a casual sports fan if he would rather have front row seats or an all access pass to tv games for hockey or B'ball 99% of them are going to go for B'Ball.
If you asked a serious Knicks/Rangers, Bulls/Blackhawks or Bruins/Celtics I would bet more than 70% takes B'ball.
No one cares about hockey nationally. If you have a team then of course you are going to care more. I have been to plenty of sports bars in my life. I have never seen hockey on TV nor hear people talking about it. There are bars that would rather show replays of SC than live hockey. No one cares.
[/quote]No dont get it twisted, Matt was bashing hockey and he does every time we speak on it
WOW, sports bars in Utah suck the ol brasciole. You never hear people talking about it cause Utah has no hockey team, the closest team is in Denver and the Avs blow dong, you even said it, if you have a team you'll care more and in your part of the country there is no team.
There are people that watch all 82 Rangers games at my local bar, hell even I dont watch all 82 Rangers games and they're my #2 after Big Blue, hockey fans are WAAAAY more dedicated than bball fans and there's less of a bandwagon, once a hockey fan always a hockey fan, and if you see a live game you're hooked for LIFE
It isnt always the 4th of the big 4, and its never going below that
Technically i was wrong by saying big 4, its actually 5th out of the big 5 if u want to get techincal. But I don't consider Nascar a sport... I think a ball has to be in pklay to be considered a sport
I've been to about 5 hockey games, so stop it.
you live in NEW YORK. This is what I mean that u have no concept of perception out of the tri-state of big cities.
I personally odn't like hockey, i find it boring. I can get into any sport for small periods of time but its just not an exciting game.
I said that american obviously agrees since they don't have the fan fare. You said they do and tried to give me HOME sales instead of overall sales and just ignore the whole TV thing. Truth is the truth.
And the fake fighting going on is making it go south. And now that Crosby is looking like he may never be what he was suppose to be - theres no doubt that general attendance and TV ratings have been down since he was on top of the game...
OK, dont clown yourself by bringing nascar into it
You live in NEW YORK as well so dont act like you're Captain America
You dont like hockey so obviously you're biased to this discussion just like I am
Truth is truth, hockey has a better following attendance wise, there are more cities in the USA that sellout 100 & 99% of their games in the NHL than the NBA and you seem to ignore that fact
Fake fighting???
And other than your opinion there's nothing that says crosby being hurt has hurt the NHL's popularity
i would have to say that per are debates here I have a better grasp of how Hockey is viewed. The only talking point you have is HOME sellouts. You won't even look at OVERALL sellouts, total sales, or TV ratings.
IF there is one thing America does, it milks any dime out of any interest it gets. Hockey doesn't make that money - for a reason.
And I brought up Nascar just to piss you off
I don't like hockey, but I also dont like MMA. This isn't a personal opinion debate, its a factual debate
anbd yea, that fake fighting that went on before the Devils-Rangers game was weaaaakkk....
talk about trying to market your game. Those guys had no desire to fight and barely tried throwing punches, they just dropped their gloves and it was all entertainment. A very big WWE feel to it
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Anne Hanley glimpses La Serenissima's turbulent side through the works of a lesser-known artist.
Few artists are identified with the image of a city as closely as Canaletto is. His Venice was a crisp vision of fairytale architecture and perfectly composed scenes of simple, Arcadian craftsmen's lives. But he wasn't the only artist who specialised in capturing the appeal of 18th-century Venice. Pietro Longhi and Gabriel Bella focused on the minutiae of La Serenissima's pomp and pleasure-seeking - the outlandish sports, stately processions, dancing lessons and gambling dens.
Perhaps most underrated of them all, however, is Francesco Guardi (1712-93), who offered an altogether more unsettling view of the city. Great banks of storm clouds gather menacingly, billowing smoke darkens horizons and gondolas are tossed on a choppy lagoon. His immense, troubled skies play fast and loose with real Venetian proportions and perspective, presenting a city dwarfed by an approaching storm.
Yet Guardi appears to have been just as bewitched by the beauties of his home town as his contemporaries were. Look beyond the immense skyscapes, and the Venetian fabric is as marvellously detailed as anything Canaletto ever produced. The people are impressionistic afterthoughts, but the bricks and mortar are surprisingly solid. And from now until early January, visitors will have the best-ever opportunity to see the city through his eyes, as more than 100 of Guardi's works are on show at the Museo Correr at St Mark's Square.
They are full of the Venice you can photograph for yourself today: the view across a lagoon full of bustling water-borne traffic to the Doge's Palace; the magnificent Palladian facade of San Giorgio Maggiore rising above the confusion; the mercantile traffic - silk brocades and spice then, ripoff football strip now - around and beneath the Rialto Bridge. His is a city of characters going about their business, the only telltale sign being that they are often doing so amid utter confusion, boats and gondolas going around in circles, on dangerous collision courses.
As a painter of cityscapes, Guardi first stepped in to fill the void left by Canaletto's departure for London in 1746. Early on, the influence of Canaletto was clear. But as Guardi found his feet, his works became much more evanescent, in a style known as pittura di tocco - painting of touch, dots and dashes rather than solid strokes. It was an approach that made him a favourite, 150 years later, with the impressionists.
The Venice that Guardi inhabited was a city in decline. Its position as a major mercantile force had been whittled away gradually over the space of almost two centuries and its once-great empire had shrunk to virtually nothing. But its response to its decline was to sink into ever-more-frantic denial, partying manically as the ship went down. And everyone wanted a piece of the action: Europe's gilded youth - and the not-so-young, too - flocked here for a wild fling before continuing their grand tour in cities such as Rome and Florence that demanded more cerebral commitment.
They were drawn by the elegant ridotti (gambling houses) and famously alluring courtesans. Eighteen theatres enlivened the city's evenings; Antonio Vivaldi's ensemble of female musicians added spice to his stately compositions; and the libertine Giacomo Casanova personified the spirit of a city devoted to unbridled indulgence.
Today, Venice is littered with reminders of these times. A minor local painter, Longhi, shows the antics beautifully in a series of small works that can be seen in the Fondazione Querini Stampalia (querinistampalia.it). In the same charming museum is a room full of scenes by the relatively unknown Bella: bullfights, processions, massive free-for-all punch-ups organised to allow the lower levels to let off steam, rowing races and arcane games that today would bring noisy protests from animal-rights organisations.
Guardi's nephew Giandomenico Tiepolo - son of the more famous Giambattista - painted a tingling series of frescoes for the Tiepolo family villa, of tumblers, harlequins and mountebanks with their accompanying audience of inquisitive well-heeled onlookers, now restored and on show in Venice's Museum of the 18th Century at Ca'Rezzonico (carezzonico.visitmuve.it). Here, too, are works by the 18th-century miniaturist and portrait painter Rosalba Carriera, one of the few women on the art scene and beloved of British grand tourists.
The Guardi paintings on show at the Museo Correr cover the artist's long career, from jobbing junior member of the family workshop to world-weary genius watching as the city-state limped towards the ouster of its last doge by the troops of Napoleon Bonaparte. There are portraits and religious works, caprices and Arcadian landscapes. But it's the Venice-scapes that hold the visitor's eye, presenting familiar scenes in an unsettling historical light.
Grand tourists didn't lap up Guardi's works with quite so much gusto as they did Canaletto's; as souvenirs from a magical city of non-stop hedonism, they didn't quite fit the bill. Today, with hindsight, they're a fascinating bridge between the classic fancy-free picture of 18th-century Venice and the city we see when we visit. But it's the similarities that strike us most.
The Museo Correr (correr.visitmuve.it) is open daily, 10am-5pm, admission €16 ($20).
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Harris-Perry: Detroit is "what it looks like when government is small enough to drown"
posted at 4:01 pm on July 20, 2013 by Erika Johnsen
This cannot be real life. Tell me this is not real life.
We can talk about the microstory of Detroit, but it seems to me that Detroit, as always, is standing for all kinds of things about America. In the case of Detroit, the reason that the tax base has become so small is because a loss of population, right? So folks out, they are not there to pay the taxes on the homes and the kind of deterioration is what you see in the numbers you've suggested. But this lack of tax base is also exactly the kind of thing that many Republicans would impose on us, even when our cities have sufficient populations, even when our communities have sufficient populations. This is what it looks like when government is small enough to drown in your bathtub, and it is not a pretty picture.
Okay… so, let's go ahead and get this straight. Detroit has been a bastion of All Thing Progressive for decades, with the government and its pension funds and etcetera spending themselves into oblivion while residents have been fleeing the accompanying signs of economic and social depreciation — which effectively worsened the problem of too much government spending by shrinking the available tax base and cutting into revenue — all of which has finally led to the inevitable conclusion of Detroit's fiscal ruin.
Despite this entirely liberal achievement, Harris-Perry tries to use the example of Detroit to criticize Republicans for… wanting to lower taxes? I think? As in, Republicans would shrink the tax base by lowering taxes, and thereby worsen the problems of governments that cannot cover their own expenses, and really what we should be doing is just growing the government and increasing taxes everywhere, all the time. I suppose the idea of — oh, I don't know — the government spending less, and not making promises that it can't afford to keep, and people instead using more private-sector, free-market means and reaping the benefits of the subsequent economic growth, isn't an option, then? Are we not doing that?
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What supplier has the best frames? What kind of wood are made from? thanks! Paul.
What supplier has the best frames? What kind of wood are made from? thanks! Paul.
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I actually like MannLake frames the best. But with shipping costs, I order from places I can pick up. I bought my last batch from Beeline Aparies in Bedford Pa., for .49 each and I picked them up. Can't beat that. When beeline started, they had a few issues. But they have worked that out and are much better now.
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Thanx for the "recommendation"
I need to let everyone know . . . that at this time and maybe for the next couple of months, I am unable to accept (promise ship date) any more NEW orders.
I've been overwhelmed w/ work (frames and "normal other stuff").
Thanx to everyone!
I buy exclusively from Dadant. I buy the larger quantities for the price break and drive over and pick them up to avoid any additional shipping cost. I am happy with them, however I wouldn't hesitate buying Walter Kelly frames based on all the positive comments I've read here on Beesource.
I have bought my last two orders from WesternBee. They have had "specials" on both times I talked to them. Economy grade is fine by me, because I have seen only two frames so far that I would call a second, and the problems they had were both easy fixes....I would suppose that all manufacturers do a good job---it's only the pricing that seems to set them apart in my untrained eyes. Sometimes, you know I think that you are paying a portion of the cost for the name brand.
Humble Abodes in Maine...if you're in the Northeast.
I bought some W.Kelly frames and liked them. Real dast shipping to me. They came with the nails you needed so no extra weight having to buy a pound of 3 separate types of nails.
Just a newbee's opinion! Eventually I'll get hooked into this hobby and buy nails and frames by the ton but not yet!
The best ones are whichever you don't pay shipping on. Beyond that, the cheapest ones....
I'm into Mann Lake PF 120s, small cell, $.99 per in quantity, no assembly.
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Not to be egotistical, but I like my frames the best. They are a combination of designs; mainly based on Charles Martin Simon's Un-foundation frames and George Killion's frame designs detailed in his "Honey in the Comb" book. I can make two complete frames out of one 19" length of 2x4 (using only a table saw). Since I have gone foundation-less, I have not seen any varroa in any of my hives. They all had varroa before. Every once in awhile the bees will "curve" a comb from one frame to another. I just trim the comb and press it into alignment with the bar. I would like to post instructions on how to make them if anyone is interested.
Sure Baloo! Please post as I'd like to see your design.
I am going over the steps and building frames today. Any suggestions on how to post this? I don't think we can embed pictures on this board.
If you need a place to post them, you can email them to me. I have lots of webspace.
What did everyone use to make the .pdf's in the "build it" section. I would like to make it in an easy printable format for printing out and using in the shop. Sorry for taking so long to do this, my phone has erupted lately with swarm and removal calls.