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Discussion in 'Football, Baseball, and Hockey' started by jammertime, Dec 6, 2006.
Post your non Wings NHL talk for this season here....
Nashville for real? I'm not sure I could handle a Nashville / Buffalo Stanley Cup Finals.
Buffalo is a fun team to watch. I haven't seen much of Nashville. Anaheim, San Jose, Dallas, Detroit and Nashville all look good from the West. Atlanta and Buffalo are the class of the East right now with a bunch of other teams that could make some noise if they can get in the playoffs.
Man, what a great game between the Canadiens and Penguins tonight. It had a bit of everything! Great passes, nice goals, hard hits, end to end plays, awesome saves, plenty of scoring, OT and a shootout. What more can you ask for? (Well, maybe 2 more shootout goals from the Habs would have been nice.) THAT is what hockey is all about. The commentators said that the league should package this game up and send it out to the entire world to market the game.
Yeah, Crosby 3 assists on the power play. Pretty neat. Hey, Peter Forsberg is on the block. As Kris Draper said on the radio this morning, when Forsberg is healthy, he's one of the best forwards in the game. I wonder who will make a move for him?
Per the L.A. Times: " The Anaheim Ducks are one of several teams that have contacted the Philadelphia Flyers to express interest should the Flyers – and Forsberg, who has a no trade clause – decide to deal. Even though Forsberg is struggling with health issues, the San Jose Sharks, Nashville Predators, Montreal Canadiens, Detroit Red Wings and Atlanta Thrashers are also believed to be interested"
The Nashville Predators have won the Peter Forsberg sweepstakes. The intense trade winds surrounding the veteran centreman were abutted on Thursday, when Forsberg was dealt prior to the Flyers' game against the Toronto Maple Leafs for promising youngsters Scottie Upshall, Ryan Parent and a first- and a third-round draft pick. link:CANOE -- SLAM! Sports - Hockey NHL Trades: Forsberg Nashville bound
Double Dag Nabit! Not only did we miss him, but our current arch rival gets him. But the real question is: (is dag nabit one word or two)?
I just caught the highlights from tonights Sens/Sabres game. Wow, what a game. Drury got blindsided by Chris Neil and it sparked an all out brawl. All 12 players on the ice got into it for 5 minutes, including the goalies who squared off against each other. Then, once he was done man handling Biron, Sens goalie Ray Emery took on Buffalo tough guy Andrew Peters... and was LAUGHING! I've seen goalies fight before, but I've NEVER seen the goalie fight another goalie and THEN a position player, let alone a tough guy. Had the coaches not been seperated by 2 plexiglass walls, they'd have been in there as well. ESPN.com - NHL - Recap
Great stuff Jammer. Thanks for sharing. Despite my best efforts, my computer wouldn't let me watch the entire tape, but I got to the part where Emery takes off his mask. Drury was definitely blindsided. What was funny was that Ottawa put Heatley, Spezza and Comrie on the ice, but Buffalo countered with their goon squad. Buffalo was obviously out for blood before the face off, and they were doing everything they could to start a rhubarb. Bad news for your fantasy team though. Drury may be out for a bit.
Just good old fashioned hockey.
A minor trade: The Carolina Hurricanes acquired right wing Anson Carter from the Columbus Blue Jackets on Friday for a 2008 draft pick, giving the defending Stanley Cup champions a scoring threat to replace a pair of injured forwards. link: SI.com - NHL - Hurricanes acquire Carter from Columbus - Friday February 23, 2007 1:50PM
Carter is a decent second tier power forward.
I drafted him :nerd2: and he was cut almost as quickly as Tom Poti.
He's not a fantasy player. He's the kind of guy who can help a team in the playoffs when the premium is on defense and physicality.
I agree. I'd love to have Carter on the Habs.
Here's a better, longer link from YouTube. YouTube - Senators Sabres brawl 2/22/07 Buffalo was the home team, so they had last line change. Murray should have called a timeout when he saw Ruff send out 3 goons against his top line. Emery looks like he can take care of himself pretty good, but a positional player shouldn't be allowed to go after a goalie. A Sen player should have put a stop to that. Too bad it was Spezza and Heatley out there. The funniest part is that former tough guy Rob Ray is right in the middle of it, doing colour commentary between the benches while 2 coaches go at it!
Thanks for the new link Jammer. Great action.
The rematch game is currently in progress. Already 2 fighting majors in the game tonight, with the Senators winning 4-2 in the 2nd period. Also, a great Wings and Predators game is going on right now (2-1 Detroit in 2nd period)
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Female southern bottletail squid may be able to influence the paternity and quality of their offspring by eating the sperm of males. This behaviour is likely to be the result of the conflict that arises between males and females because of their competing evolutionary interests in reproduction. Both sexes use a variety of tactics to manipulate the outcome of mating into their favour. In southern bottletail squid, Sepiadarium austrinum, males use aggression to coerce females into copulation........ Read more »
Wegener, B. J., Stuart-Fox, D, Norman, M. D., & Wong, B. B. M. (2013) Spermatophore consumption in a cephalopod. Biology Letters, 9(4). DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2013.0192
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The evolution of living fossils is not unusual. The odd thing about them is that they have ancient origins and are, today, not very diverse groups. Sturgeon are ray-finned fishes in the family Acipenseridae, which are known from almost 200 million year old fossils. Fossils that are recognisably similar to modern sturgeons appear about 100 million years ago. There are 23 (but maybe a few more) modern species in the Acipenseridae, which is probably fairly similar to their historical diversity. A s........ Read more »
Rabosky, D., Santini, F., Eastman, J., Smith, S., Sidlauskas, B., Chang, J., & Alfaro, M. (2013) Rates of speciation and morphological evolution are correlated across the largest vertebrate radiation. Nature Communications. DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2958
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You may have never thought about what feature distinguishes males from females. After all, in mammals the differences are often clear to us. In other groups too, the differences between male and female traits are often conspicuous. But, there are many species where male and female reproductive organs are both present in the same individual. Even in these species we can tell male parts from female parts.To distinguish male from female we look at the relative size of the sex cells or gametes. Male........ Read more »
Johnson, D., Monro, K., & Marshall, D. (2013) The maintenance of sperm variability: Context-dependent selection on sperm morphology in a broadcast spawning invertebrate. Evolution, 67(5), 1383-1395. DOI: 10.1111/evo.12022
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Charles Darwin coined the term living fossil in On the Origin of Species. He didn't use it the same way that it has come to be used. He suggested that living fossils are modern species that can be used to link to groups in the same way that fossils can. One of the examples he gave was the platypus, which lactates and lays eggs, which is evidence that mammals and reptiles share a common ancestor. I don't think he meant it to mean an unchanged relict, as some people interpret his words.Today, a ........ Read more »
Briggs, D., Siveter, D., Siveter, D., Sutton, M., Garwood, R., & Legg, D. (2012) Silurian horseshoe crab illuminates the evolution of arthropod limbs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109(39), 15702-15705. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1205875109
Mathers, T., Hammond, R., Jenner, R., Hänfling, B., & Gómez, A. (2013) Multiple global radiations in tadpole shrimps challenge the concept of 'living fossils'. PeerJ. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.62
Selden, P., Shih, C., & Ren, D. (2011) A golden orb-weaver spider (Araneae: Nephilidae: Nephila) from the Middle Jurassic of China. Biology Letters, 7(5), 775-778. DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2011.0228
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Many people are justifiably concerned with the potential impacts of climate change and ocean acidification on coral reefs. But, coral reefs have been declining for at least the last 25 years and probably much longer, overwhelmingly due to threats that are unrelated to climate change. If we do not address these impacts we will continue to lose coral cover and reefs will be more vulnerable to climate change and ocean acidification.A coral outcrop on the Great Barrier Reef (photo Wikipedia)A new pa........ Read more »
Gilmour, J., Smith, L., Heyward, A., Baird, A., & Pratchett, M. (2013) Recovery of an Isolated Coral Reef System Following Severe Disturbance. Science, 340(6128), 69-71. DOI: 10.1126/science.1232310
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Cave dwelling creatures are often blind. The prevailing view is that, in such species, mutations in the visual system have little or no effect on fitness and vision is lost as these mutations gradually accumulate. There are several other types of characters that we can be reasonably confident are adaptations to life in caves, such as elaboration of structures for touch or smell. However, it is often hard identify which population cave adapted species are descended from and, therefore, how long a........ Read more »
Klaus, S., Mendoza, J., Liew, J., Plath, M., Meier, R., & Yeo, D. (2013) Rapid evolution of troglomorphic characters suggests selection rather than neutral mutation as a driver of eye reduction in cave crabs. Biology Letters, 9(2), 20121098-20121098. DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2012.1098
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We started trying to manage fisheries using science-based principles more than 150 years ago. Today, despite great improvements, we are still struggling to manage fisheries well. Perhaps the greatest missing piece in our understanding is an ability to accurately link the number of spawning adult fish with the number of their offspring that survive to replenish the population. Recognition that individual differences play a role in the dynamics of natural populations promises to greatly improve fi........ Read more »
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Meekan, M., Vigliola, L., Hansen, A., Doherty, P., Halford, A., & Carleton, J. (2006) Bigger is better: size-selective mortality throughout the life history of a fast-growing clupeid, Spratelloides gracilis. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 237-244. DOI: 10.3354/meps317237
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As many as twenty one species of giant squid have been identified, but most of these were controversial. The general consensus was that there could be one with three subspecies or up to eight distinct species. Now, research shows that there is only one species with no subspecies. This is remarkable given that giant squid are found in nearly every part of the deep sea and their populations are probably large.Winkelmann et al. (2013) sequenced the mitochondrial genome of 43 giant squid that covere........ Read more »
Winkelmann, I., Campos, P., Strugnell, J., Cherel, Y., Smith, P., Kubodera, T., Allcock, L., Kampmann, M., Schroeder, H., Guerra, A.... (2013) Mitochondrial genome diversity and population structure of the giant squid Architeuthis: genetics sheds new light on one of the most enigmatic marine species. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 280(1759), 20130273-20130273. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.0273
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Giant and colossal squid have the largest eyes of any living animals. Eyes are expensive organs to build and maintain, which led some researchers to suggest that there must be a strong evolutionary advantage for large eyes in giant squid. Using a mathematical model they found that giant squid eyes were best suited for detecting large dimly lit objects. They argued that the only stimulus that was both large enough and important enough for giant and colossal squid to detect was the light prod........ Read more »
Schmitz, L., Motani, R., Oufiero, C., Martin, C., McGee, M., Gamarra, A., Lee, J., & Wainwright, P. (2013) Allometry indicates giant eyes of giant squid are not exceptional. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 13(1), 45. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-13-45
Nilsson, D., Warrant, E., Johnsen, S., Hanlon, R., & Shashar, N. (2012) A Unique Advantage for Giant Eyes in Giant Squid. Current Biology, 22(8), 683-688. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2012.02.031
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In most cities sewage is treated to remove most of the things that we don't want going into the environment. But, some things get through and out to sea. The Western Treatment Plant in Melbourne, which treats over 50% of Melbourne's wastewater (including my contribution), releases large amounts of nitrogen into Port Phillip Bay. Indeed, a 1996 report from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation recommended that nitrogen released from the Western Treatment Plant be reduce........ Read more »
Kidd, K., Blanchfield, P., Mills, K., Palace, V., Evans, R., Lazorchak, J., & Flick, R. (2007) Collapse of a fish population after exposure to a synthetic estrogen. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104(21), 8897-8901. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0609568104
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Many pelagic squid are able to launch themselves into the air using jets of water expelled through a funnel beneath their head. There are a number of photos online that show squid out of the water and holding their fins and tentacles in a gliding position. But it has been unclear whether the squid where using simple gliding, like a paper plane, or actively controlling the flight.The neon flying squid, Ommastrephes bartramii, holding its fins and tentacles for flight (photo Geoff Jones).Now resea........ Read more »
Muramatsu, K., Yamamoto, J., Abe, T., Sekiguchi, K., Hoshi, N., & Sakurai, Y. (2013) Oceanic squid do fly. Marine Biology. DOI: 10.1007/s00227-013-2169-9
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Many of the animals living at hydrothermal vents and cold seeps carry chemosynthetic bacterial symbionts in their body, which convert methane or hydrogen sulfide into food. Some have lost the ability to feed on anything other than what the bacteria living inside their tissues provide them. Almost all cannot survive without a sufficient supply of methane or hydrogen sulfide. One hypothesis is that decomposing organic matter that has sunk from the surface, like whale carcasses, seaweed, and wood c........ Read more »
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Jellyfish are not as charismatic as some marine species and consequently they have not received much research attention. Recently though, there has been increasing interest in them because their numbers appear to be on the rise worldwide. There are a few hypotheses about why this might be the case floating around in the literature.The beautiful and under appreciated jellyfish, Cyanea capillata. Perhaps the World's biggest (photo Wikipedia).Corals, which are in the same phylum (Cnidaria) as........ Read more »
Condon, R., Duarte, C., Pitt, K., Robinson, K., Lucas, C., Sutherland, K., Mianzan, H., Bogeberg, M., Purcell, J., Decker, M.... (2013) Recurrent jellyfish blooms are a consequence of global oscillations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 110(3), 1000-1005. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1210920110
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Increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere poses several problems for organisms living in the marine environment. Increases in temperature and ocean acidification are the two best known and most worrying. In order to predict how climate change and ocean acidification will affect marine species, we need to know how they respond to these conditions. The effect of climate change on corals has attracted a lot of attention because of their importance for biodiversity.We can't just expose corals to pr........ Read more »
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The aquatic ape hypothesis was first proposed 70 years ago by German pathologist Max Westenhöfer. The hypothesis has more recently championed by Elaine Morgan, most notably in her book The Aquatic Ape. But the hypothesis has not drawn a lot of attention in the literature and has been dismantled in various places (here's one that's pretty good). Essentially the hypothesis interprets certain features, such as human hairlessness, as adaptations to an aquatic environment.In 2011 Changizi et al. pub........ Read more »
Kareklas, K., Nettle, D., & Smulders, T. (2013) Water-induced finger wrinkles improve handling of wet objects. Biology Letters, 9(2), 20120999-20120999. DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2012.0999
Changizi, M., Weber, R., Kotecha, R., & Palazzo, J. (2011) Are Wet-Induced Wrinkled Fingers Primate Rain Treads?. Brain, Behavior and Evolution, 77(4), 286-290. DOI: 10.1159/000328223
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Diadromous fish are those that live part of their lives at sea and part of their lives if freshwater. Some of these fish reproduce in the upper parts of rivers above barriers like waterfalls, which they must scale in order to make it to the breeding sites. A newly published paper looks at how the Nopili goby, Sicyopterus stimpsoni, manages to climb waterfalls. The researchers found that the way the goby feeds and the way it climbs are very similar.The Nopili goby, Sicyopterus stimpsoni (photo Ta........ Read more »
Cullen J. A., Maie T., Schoenfuss H. L., & Blob R. W. (2013) Evolutionary Novelty versus Exaptation: Oral Kinematics in Feeding versus Climbing in the Waterfall-Climbing Hawaiian Goby Sicyopterus stimpsoni. PLOS One, 8(1). info:/10.1371/journal.pone.0053274
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A great problem for conserving marine ecosystems is that we rarely have a good data on what things were like before human impacts started. In my last post, I wrote about a study that showed that coral cover had declined on the Great Barrier Reef by 50.7% since 1985. At the start of the study coral cover was at 28%, but pristine coral reefs can have over 70% coral cover. This suggests that impacts on the Great Barrier Reef predate the time monitoring started by many years.A coral outcrop on........ Read more »
Roff, G., Clark, T., Reymond, C., Zhao, J., Feng, Y., McCook, L., Done, T., & Pandolfi, J. (2012) Palaeoecological evidence of a historical collapse of corals at Pelorus Island, inshore Great Barrier Reef, following European settlement. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 280(1750), 20122100-20122100. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.2100
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A recently published paper on the decline of coral cover on the Great Barrier Reef serves to illustrate an important point; even without climate change we are doing a great deal of damage to some ecosystems. The study by De'ath et al. and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, finds that coral cover has declined by 50.7% since 1985. They partitioned the losses into 48% tropical cyclones, 42% predation by crown of thorns starfish and 10% to coral bleaching.The crown of t........ Read more »
De'ath, G., Fabricius, K., Sweatman, H., & Puotinen, M. (2012) The 27-year decline of coral cover on the Great Barrier Reef and its causes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109(44), 17995-17999. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1208909109
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A new species of acorn worm has been named after Jedi Master Yoda, the best character in the Star Wars trilogy*. Acorn worms are not true worms. They are more closely related to echinoderms (starfish, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, etc.) than they are to worms. They were once placed as a subphylum of the chordata (i.e. our own phylum), but are now placed within their own phylum, the hemichordata.Yoda purpurata, the newly described species of acorn wormThe paper described three new species of deep-s........ Read more »
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Human activities have influenced that evolution of many species and not just through artificial selection. Our impacts on ecosystems, use of drugs and pesticides and our harvesting of wild populations is all having an effect on the rate and direction of evolution in many organisms. In fact, many of the frequently cited examples of 'evolution in action' are also examples of evolution human-induced evolution, such as mosquito resistance to DDT and drug resistant bacteria.The detailed studies on&nb........ Read more »
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San Ramon Valley Unified School District recently announced its classified employees of the year -- those important staff members who play key roles in student achievement, safety and health, said Assistant Superintendent Jessica Romeo.
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Regarding John Jacobs@ SRVHS. Cannot think of one person more deserving of the "employee of the year" award. Congratulations to a wonderful man


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Contact Energy produced a better than expected result this week with a 17 per cent increase in net profits after tax to $176 million.
Morningstar analyst Nachi Moghe said the result was well ahead of his forecasts but he won't be changing his projections because of ongoing uncertainty around hydrology conditions, demand, wholesale prices and retail competition.
Moghe said Contact had done well over the last year because of dry conditions in New Zealand and its diversified approach to energy generation.
Contact owns thermal as well as hydro power stations which meant it was able to make up a reduction in hydro output with an increase in its thermal generation.
The reduction in hydro generation also increased wholesale electricity prices.
But it suffered on the retail side of the business with margins at an all time low, intense competition and high customer churn. Moghe said Contact was well placed in a longer term because of its flexible portfolio of generation assets but he believed it would continue to have short-term share price volatility.
"Although, we don't see any near to medium term catalysts, we encourage long-horizon investors, who can withstand short-term volatility, to use the current valuation as a point to initiate positions."
Contact's shares closed down 3c at $4.87 yesterday.
Contact's strong result bodes well for the proposed partial float of Mighty River Power. Like Contact Mighty River has a mix of generation assets with both hydro and thermal generation stations.
In its half-year result Mighty River reported underlying after-tax profit of $101.7 million for the six months to December 31 up from $89.4 million in the previous corresponding period. It also raised its earnings forecast for the full-year from a range of $430 million - $450 million to a range of $460 million to $475 million.
The Government will be hoping Mighty River's result also exceeds expectations giving a good start to its float programme. Mighty River is due to report its full-year result on August 28.
Companies involved in the partial sell-down of Mighty River Power are getting more than they bargained for.
Stock Takes understands occupants of ANZ's Auckland tower called in police this week to advise them on how to cope with asset sale protesters.
The offices of Mighty River Power were picketed last month and lawyers Bell Gully have also faced protesters.
Police are understood to have told staff to keep calm and listen to what the protesters have to say.
Firms are worried that their other clients will feel uncomfortable with having to wade through picketers to get into the building.
It's just the latest irritant for staff in the ANZ building who have already had to put up with months of disruption while their building is renovated.
An Australian fund manager with links to the Packer family has emerged as a substantial shareholder in Trade Me.
A notice to the stock exchange yesterday revealed Sydney-based Ellerston Capital has taken a 5.18 per cent stake in the online auction site.
Ellerston was set up as a subsidiary of CPH - the Packer family holding company - in 2004. Its website says it focuses on direct public equity market and managed fund investments.
Investment bank UBS, which was involved in advising on the sale of Trade Me shares, has recently dropped its share in Trade Me below the 5 per cent threshold to 4.96 per cent.
Australian media company Fairfax retains a 51 per cent share in Trade Me.
All eyes will be on Trade Me's first full-year result announcement, due to come out next Wednesday, to see if the company meets forecasts made in initial public offer documents released ahead of its float last December.
Trade Me shares were issued at $2.70 in December and hit a high of $4.07 at the end of May. Yesterday they closed down 2c on $3.85.
Infrastructure investor Infratil managed to get enough investor support to pass a fee rise for its board and several subsidiary companies at the annual general meeting on Monday.
But the results show there was a significant level of opposition. The resolution passed with 79.98 per cent of the vote with 20.02 per cent voting against it.
A further block of shareholders controlling 47,503,516 shares abstained from the voting. The numbers abstaining were roughly half those who voted for it.
Shareholders' Association deputy chairman Des Hunt says it was in favour of the director fee increase because it believes Infratil is doing well in a tough market and its directors have a tough role managing businesses in overseas markets which require a high level of skill.
But others were not so happy because as well as receiving directors' fees the company pays a management fee to related party Morrison & Co Infrastructure Management. Last year it was paid $18.3 million.
Infratil shares closed down 2c on $2.08 yesterday.
Other market players have also noticed that many of Infratil's major investment companies have been raising money of late.
TrustPower, in which Infratil owns a controlling stake, this week revealed its $75 million bond offer was fully subscribed.
In July Z Energy, another Infratil investment, issued $135 million worth of seven-year bonds.
Some say the company has changed under the eye of Rob Morrison - the brother of Infratil found Lloyd Morrison who passed away earlier this year after a battle with cancer.
Morrison is said to be putting pressure on a wide range of group investments to perform more strongly.
It will be interesting to see how the strategy pans out for the company.


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ORANGE PARK, Fla. - A training exercise is planned for Wednesday afternoon at Everest University in Orange Park involving scenarios such as an active shooter on campus and a hostage situation.
The exercise will involve about 65 people from the Clay County Sheriff's Office SWAT and Negotiations Teams, Orange Park Police and Fire Departments, Clay County Fire Rescue and Everest University staff and students.
It will take place on the university's campus at 805 Wells Road from 2-5 p.m.
The drill will likely attract the attention of residents and motorists in the area. Message boards will be posted along Wells Road to alert people to the fact that it is a drill, not a real scenario.
There will be a large number of vehicles in the college's parking lot and various pieces of equipment moving in and out of the exercise scene, according to the Sheriff's Office.
As with most training exercises, involved personnel will be testing their capabilities based on predetermined scenarios, officials said.
They said planning for the training exercise began three months ago.
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The University of Colorado Boulder welcomed 19 students from Brazil this semester as part of the new Science Without Borders Program and Brazil's initiative to place and fully fund outstanding students abroad to supplement their studies in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM.
The students are among approximately 650 Brazilian undergraduates who have been selected to study on U.S. campuses with funding for their tuition, fees and housing from the Brazilian government's Science Without Borders Program. The program, announced last year, provides scholarships to Brazilian undergraduate students for one year of study at one of more than 100 host colleges and universities, including CU-Boulder. Scholarships are given primarily to students in the STEM fields. After two semesters and an on- or off-campus internship, the students will return to Brazil to complete their degrees.
"Science Without Borders interested me because I wanted to know what it was like to study and live on campus and to learn in a different environment," said Victor Sabioni, an aerospace engineering student from the Universidade de Federal de minas Gerais in Belo Horizonte. "I am taking two classes that are not offered at home, and everything is great so far.
"The campus is amazingly beautiful and everyone has been so welcoming and polite. CU couldn't be better. It's like heaven with homework."
The Science Without Borders Program at CU-Boulder is offered through a partnership between the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Engineering and Applied Science and the Division of Continuing Education.
"The students are studying with their peers, living in university housing and experiencing life in Colorado and the U.S.," said Anne Heinz, dean of Continuing Education and associate vice chancellor for outreach and engagement. "Several of the students already have indicated an interest in returning to CU-Boulder for graduate school.
"CU-Boulder students, whether they're from the San Luis Valley, San Francisco or São Paulo, will benefit from the enriched classroom conversations and experiences enabled by these programs," she said. "These collaborations foster our future as a global society, and we look forward to CU-Boulder's continued participation in this program."
An additional cohort of students is scheduled to arrive later this year for programs beginning in the summer and fall.
The Science Without Borders Program is part of a larger Brazilian government initiative to grant 100,000 scholarships to Brazil's best students to study abroad at the world's best universities. The program is sponsored by the scholarship foundation of Brazil's Ministry of Education, Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior. The program is administered by the Institute of International Education, an independent nonprofit specializing in international exchange. The institute has been working closely with the ministry and with CU-Boulder and other U.S. universities to place the students in study programs that best meet their academic needs.
"We are pleased to be partnering with the government of Brazil and with the U.S. host campuses to implement this important program," said Allan E. Goodman, Institute of International Education president and CEO. "At a time when Brazil's economy is expanding rapidly, and Brazil and the United States are forging unprecedented ties in trade, energy and scientific development, we look to higher education as another area where our two countries should seek much stronger cooperation."
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"The campus is amazingly beautiful and everyone has been so welcoming and polite. CU couldn't be better. It's like heaven with homework."


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The opening look at Victoria Beckham's show was a windowpane plaid coat. She also incorporated more sweaters and knits into her collection, with a nod to mod with some geometric, colourblocked shift dresses. The most unexpected looks were the flashes of bright yellow, including a sleeveless trench; the techno shine she added to pleated skirts that the audience could only see as the models walked; and the long cape-style tuxedo coat. One of the important evolutions for autumn is the softer shoulder, which she used to tweak one of her popular zip-back, slim-fit dress silhouettes. For shoes, she put models in lower kitten heels, made in collaboration with Manolo Blahnik, which was a bit of a surprise for a woman known for skyscraper stilettos.


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[quote user="Kase-1"]I love the Rangers coach, John Tortorella
It's a cheap, dirty hit," adding, "I wonder what would happen if we did it to their two whining stars." He called the Penguins "one of the most arrogant organizations in the league," saying that "they whine about this stuff all the time, and look what happens." And then, one final shot: "It's ridiculous, but they'll whine about something else over there, won't they? Starting with their two ****ing stars."
On Crosby: "This guy gets away with too much in my opinion, whines to the refs all day and all night. Its a joke."
So, why doesn't someone just take him those 2 out every game? If it becomes commonplace, it won't be nearly as controversial. lol
Whos the Rangers' enforcer?? lol
[/quote]Well just about everyone on the Rangers drops the gloves, but the 2 that
do it the most would be Mike Rupp and Brandon Prust... Im pretty sure
Prust leads the NHL in fights. I just checked on
And the Rangers actually have 3 guys in the top 10 in fights with Prust (20), Rupp (13), and Bickel (12).... We got a group of a bunch of tough bastids
[/quote]Everyone can enforce. haha. Prust is the man. Stall too. Yea pretty much everyone on the team
But the thing with Crosby is (imo) the NHL is protecting their poster child. Hes a baby. I also read the NHL is trying to discourage fighting as well. Has Crosby ever dropped his gloves??
[/quote]Prust is one of my favorites on the team, he's got a great motor and like everyone currently on the Rangers, he's a team 1st player.... Oh and he was excellent on 247
Staal is good, but Im more of a Girardi and McDonough fan, Staal is a phenomenonal defender, but he's a little soft for my taste
Argh, the NHL discourages fighting and then players get dangerous with the cheap shots and stick penalties. Now, you know that if you cheapshot the opponents star player, the next time you step on the ice you're getting pounded into oblivion. Fighting keeps the injuries and cheap shots to a minimal
[/quote]Its good because the players police themselves.
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Resting just between Richmond and Washington, DC, Orange, Virginia, and its surrounding vineyards offer what Wine Enthusiast Magazine declared as one of the top regions to visit in 2012. The rolling Shenandoah Valley offers ideal pockets of microclimates that have enabled the region to produce unique varietals that rival those in Napa—but visitors also find the lush pastoral scenes equally palatable. Close to a bevy of historical sites like Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, Orange is a golden opportunity to drink up culture as well as some vine-ripe vino.
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Nestled in a storybook setting 90 minutes from Washington, DC, the Inn at Westwood Farm is a 1910 farmhouse set on 15 scenic acres. Rooms are outfitted with fine Yves Delorme linens and down bedding, newly burnished heart pine floors, and private bathrooms with complementary robes, hand-milled soaps and Gilchrist & Soames bath products. Light-filled common areas boast a harmonious blend of traditional and contemporary décor. In-room coffee-and-tea service is available, and breakfast served in the dining room routinely draws from locally sourced and organic ingredients when the season permits.
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A full tank shot to start this off. Its been a while since I last posted but man, the tank has been looking nice.
Heres my latest cichlid addition to the tank. Several months ago I got a group of Cryptoheros cutteri at a local auction and have been growing them out. This one was the dominant male, and while his fins are either genetically a little funky or just healed weirdly while growing idk but hes got some nice color to him.
This guy has been doing well, definitely funny to think of how small he was when I got him (or she, I forget how you sex these things, I know it has to do with spines on the gill plate or something) and how he got super beat up for a while and was difficult to get eating. Eats like a champ now thats for sure haha
A nice shot of the dominant male angel. Might possibly be the boss of the tank too, but he doesnt mess with the cichlids or bichirs so (shrug)
Love these guys but this one in particular is a little snot. I tried adding an elephant nose to this tank and this guy just would not leave the poor thing alone. But hes a pretty fish, just cant have anything too too meek in the tank.
This rainbow cichlid colors up only when he wants to haha, but Ive had him at least 4 years now and hes definitely one fun fish and has been through a good amount of things with me. Definitely the biggest cichlid in the tank atm.
The pair.
One of the rose lines. Nice fish, I need more, they have to be near full grown though to play with the Polypterus though.
An assortment of plants, notably Rotala ramisori var. Florida, Rotala Colorata, Limnophila Mini Vietnam, Rotala indica, and Tonia fluviatilis Lotus Blossom.
Blood vomit thats been buried a little too deep, cant see the red super well, Ill bring it up higher in the substrate later on.
Some more cool plants. Rotala ramisori var. Sunset, Limnophila sp. Dwarf, Ammania pedicellata, Limnophila sp. Belem, Ludwigia sp. Atlantis, and some others.
Some Ludwigia Pantanal.
Some Rotala macrandra in front (the red one) and some Didiplis diandra (the green needle leaf one) behind it.
Nothing much to look at now but this is something relatively new to the states called Hygrophila Cherry. Its not the same as the Cherry leaf from what I can see, that plant has a much wider leaf and tends to be a lot greener and grow faster, this thing is growing at a moderate rate at best and is staying a nice red color.
Red Hadi Pearl Sword, a real nice dwarf sword (doesnt get taller than 4 or 5) that gets some nice color to it. If I can get it to flower thatd be fantastic lol
The lady pearl gouramis.
This is a new lotus I got from a buddy (Tinanti on several different forums) called Nymphaea sp. Santorum. Stays small (4-5 tall, leaf not too too wide) and has that nice reddish color.
Lagenandra Red, like the previously mentioned lotus it stays on the smaller side. I just want to get some moss or a liverwort growing on the wood that separates this two plants and Ill get some real nice looking contrast.
Rotala Hra, Anubias petite, and a bunch more.
Vallisneria Nana, has a lot of tiger striping and likes to spread more than grow tall, definitely a nice Vallisneria and weirdly the only one Ive ever had luck with (shrug).
Some wave moss, a nice sized Anubias hastifolia.
A lot going on plant wise here. This tank has over 100 different plant varieties in it :S I may or may not have gone overboard with my plant collecting haha
A nice little view at some of my crypt collection. Im just not sure about wendtii tropica it seems like its just a nicer name for wendtii bronze, and I have way too much of that plant given that it looks like nothing special. Id rather have my special crypts take over anyways striatola and silver queen are taking their sweet time to grow in (like, literal months). Nurii has started doing well for me as well.
Polypterus palmas polli, definitely my most outgoing bichir right now.
Staurogyne sp. purple looks really nice, way cooler than repens imho. Plus you dont see purple too often in fresh water aquariums.
Several java fern varients (trident, thors hammer, narrow leaf, needle leaf), some xmas moss, some Anubias coffefolia, among others.
Anubias Pinto, definitely an algae magnet, trying to get some of the plants behind it to shade it so that it gets less algae and grows a bit better but right now Im just happy that its growing. Not a cheap plant.
Some misc. plant shots.
Now this one is cool, its Ludwigia glandulosa x palustris from my good friend Barthog, who has a pretty nice website online with plants for sale. This one was also one he collected locally from his area. This one is going to look NICE when it grows in.
Tonia fluviatilis Lotus Blossom.
Bucephalandra centipede.
Java fern Windelov.
Tire track Nerite snail, great algae eaters and very colorful little guys, they do well with the cichlids because unlike other snails these guys tend to stay very close to the glass and leave very little gap between the glass and their shell.
Whiptail Cat is pretty cool, I have two of them, might add a third but idk. Pretty gregarious and never completely out of sight in the tank, pretty active at night and unlike many plecos dont lay a finger on the plants.
Reason they are called whiptails.
St. Elmos Fire this thing is going to look SICK once it grows tall.
Rotala macrandra Variegated super pretty plant, grows slower than regular macrandra, but man oh man am I excited for this one to grow in. It took me a FOREVER to find some.
A side view. Aponogeton capuronii is a really cool Aponogeton that I hear is hard to grow (in reality it just seems to demand softer water than most people probably grow it in) and while it grows decently quickly its not a monster like some of the others that needs constant pruning. Ive had to cut no leafs off from this plant (aside for old growth that looked meh from when I bought the plant) and its a blast.
Zebra Nerite, another cool Nerite.
The rope fish being silly.
These pics are about a week old now, and Ive since added a few more plants, so Ill have to do some updates in another week or so and at that point Ill give an updated full stocking list also thats going to be a monster of a post when that happens. But thanks for reading this far and tank on people
So already I'm thinking I may want to move some of these plants around haha. I'm looking at the left side of my tank and am realizing that the Helanthium sp. "Sao Paulo" is going to dwarf a lot of the plants around it, so I'm thinking at some point I should put that one where the Alternanthera reineckii "Variegated" and move the A.R. more to the front of the tank…although I'm debating about that too because I know the variegated can get a bit taller eventually. However I know that the H. sp. "Sao Paulo" is going to dwarf the s. repens and the Myriophyllum tenellum so I may have to re-arrange for the sake of those plants anyways. Not entirely sure how I'm going to do that but I'll think of something to make it look nice.
I also have to let the red Barclaya and the green Barclaya grow out more, and wait for some Ludwigia my friend gave me to grow out so that I can ID them. He thinks he gave me some combination of Rubin, palustris, and atlantis…he grows low tech so its hard to differentiate them and the stems aren't in the best of best of shape…time will tell though. I already have Rubin going decently and I wouldn't mind keeping atlantis but I'm not sure if I'm feeling palustris…then again if it's a palustris variety that gets a nice color I'll probably keep it. I got my Rotala macrandra as Variegated but honestly it looks more like Japan Red or the normal form to me…not sure if I want to eventually switch it out then or leave it as is…meh. I may also in the future switch out my Persecaria sp. "Kawagoeanum" for the "Sao Paulo" one but that remains to be seen.
I also need to figure out where I want to put my Piptospatha sp. Kalimantan as I'm not entirely sure how large it will grow under submerged conditions. Not a whole lot of info on these plants in terms of aquarium growth. I also have to figure out if some really badly stunted stems I have from the previous setup or worth or even possible to bring back to healthy growth. Specifically some Pogostemon stellatus Needle Leaf and Ammania praetermissa. I'll also, eventually, be adding a few more plants here and there. And more fish.
Anyways enough rambling, lemme post the lists.
Current Fish/Inverts
• Herotilapia multispinosa – "Rainbow Cichlid"
• Ctenopoma acutirostre – "Leopard Leaf Fish"
• Trichopodus leerii – "Pearl Gourami" x2:1
• Polypterus senegalus – "Senegal Bichir"
• Polypterus retropinnis
• Polypterus delhezi
• Erpetoichthys calabaricus – "Rope fish"
• Melanoides tuberculata - "Trumpet Snail" x#
Current Plants
• Carpets/bushes
o Myriophyllum tenellum
o Ammania praetermissa
o Staurogyne repens
o Helanthium sp. "Sao Paulo"
o Cryptocoryne x willisii
o Eriocaulon parkeri
o Hygrophila sp. "Araguaia"
o Eleocharis belem - "Dwarf Hairgrass"
o Alternanthera reineckii var. 'Mini'
o Blyxa japonica
• Foreground
o Alternanthera reineckii var. "Variegated"
o Cryptocoryne affinis cv. "Metallic Red"
o Cryptocoryne sp. "Green Gecko"
o Cryptocoryne becketii petchii
o Echinodorus parviflorus - "Tropica Sword"
• Mid-ground
o Lagarosiphon madagascariensis
o Cyprus helferi
o Cryptocoryne cordata cv. "Rosanervig"
o Cryptocoryne wendtii x hybrid
o Nymphaea micrantha
o Cryptocoryne nurii
o Ludwigia glandulosa
o Ludwigia x lacustris
o Hyptis lorentziana
o Bacopa salzmannii
o Cuphea anagalloidea
o Didiplis diandra – "Blood Stargrass"
o Rotala ramisori var. "Florida"
o Rotala sp. 'Nanjenshan'
o Pogostemon stellatus cv. "Needle Leaf"
o Persecaria praetermissa
o Rotala macrandra cv. "Variegated"?
o Aponogeton madagascariensis – "Lace Leaf"
o Ludwigia brevipes
o Ludwigia simpsonii x repens
o Rotala sp. "Vietnam"
• Background
o Cryptocoryne crispatula cv. "Balansae"
o Barclaya longifolia cv. "Red"
o Cryptocoryne usteriana
o Cryptocoryne cordata cv. "Rosanervig"
o Staurogyne stolonifera
o Ludwigia sp. "Atlantis"?
o Ludwigia inclinata var. verticillata cv. "Twisted"
o Piptospatha sp. Kalimantan
o Eriocaulon compressum
o Persecaria sp. "Kawagoeanum"
o Helanthium bolivianum cv. "Angustifolius" – "Vesuvius"
o Blyxa aubertii
o Ludwigia sp. 'Rubin'
o Hygrophila lancea
o Hygrophila polysperma cv. "Ceylon"
o Ludwigia palustris?
o Ludwigia alata
o Echinodorus sp. "Paul Klocker"
o Echinodorus sp. "Red Devil"
o Echinodorus x "Tanzende feuerfeder"
o Echinodorus x "Altlandsberg"
o Vallisneria americana var. "Nana"
o Hygrophila sp. "Brown"
o Hygrophila sp. "Tiger"
o Barclaya longifolia cv. "Green"
o Rotala mexicana cv. "Bangladesh"
o Ludwigia ovalis var. "Pink"
• Surface
o Lemna minor – "Duckweed"
o Pista stratiotes var. 'Dwarf' – "Dwarf Water Lettuce"
o Spirodela polyrrhiza – "Giant Duckweed"
o Hygroryza aristata
• Wood
o Burl
• Microsorum pteropus cv. "Trident"
• Microsorum pteropus cv. "Narrow"
• Bucephalandra sp. "Brownie Red"
• Bolbitis heudelotii – "African Fern"
• Microsorum pteropus cv. "Needle"
• Microsorum pteropus cv. "Windelov"
o Front branch
• Anubias barteri cv. "Nana"
o Front laying down branch
• Anubias barteri cv. "Petite"
o Back rising up branch
• Anubias barteri cv. "Petite"
• Stones
o Front wood stones
• Bucephalandra sp. "Shiny Purple"
• Bucephalandra sp. "Unknown Ebi"
• Bucephalandra sp. "Mini Catherine"
• Bucephalandra sp. "Silver Powder"
• Back left wood stones
o Bucephalandra sp. "Shiny Blue"
• Back right wood stones
o Bucephalandra sp. "Centipede"
o Bucephalandra sp. "Mini Belinda"
• Middle back stone
o Anubias barteri cv. "Congensis"
• Anubias hastifolia
• Back right stone
o Lagenandra meeboldii cv. "Pink"
• Substrate
o Dirt capped with sand
• Additional additives
o Dolomite
o Potash
o Osmocote +
o Earthworm castings
o Red Clay
• Hardscape
o Rocks
• Black Lava Rock
o Driftwood
• Manzanita x2
• Heater
o Inline Heater set at 76
• Lighting
o Catalina Black Solar T5 HO 4x54W with 8 dimmable moonlights
o Wave Point Tropical Wave
o Wave Point Color Wave
o Wave Point Ultra Growth Wave
o Giesemann Super Flora
• UV sterilizer
o Vecton 600 25W Sterilizer
• Filtration
o Eheim 2217 x2
• Circulation
o Koralia 750 x2 (only using the one on the right atm)
• Fertilizers
o GH Booster – 1tbsp after water change
• Carbon Dioxide
o Dual Stage Regulator on 20lb tank
o Up Aqua Inline CO2 Diffuser
• Aeration
o 2 air stones on one aerator
I got that crypt as Cordata rosenvarig. I'm thinking it will change appearance in my setup
If not it still looks cool
Great progress! I really like the look of your MTS, the ones I have and usually see are always tan colored.
What's the name of this plant here
I really like your redo. Great plant selection!
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So lets first start with where things were when I left them.
After this, the tank got worse and worse. Something from the crash caused disease to take hold and BBA to become unimaginable. I did not take pictures, it was bad. Really bad. I was losing fish still and it was awful. I decided it was time for a complete overhaul.
I have to thank both Tom Barr and msjinkzed for the wood. Two big pieces of Manzanita, Rachel bought them from Tom Barr, a friend of mine visited Rachel and bought wood from her and picked up the wood I bought from her, to then have another friend pick up the wood from me from our friend to then give to me…man, I really need a car.
I soaked the wood for about a month and a half. I managed to find a lot of nice black lava rock at Monster Aquarium in Flushing. $2 a pound I bought more or less everything they had that was black. Not pictured, I also bought my substrate materials. I decided that eco-complete was not the way to go, and so I bought 100lbs of black beauty blasting sand, which is apparently the same stuff as black diamond just different company. Regardless my friend uses the stuff and it works fine for him. I had to rinse it like you wouldn't believe though, jeez. I'll talk about substrate later on this post though.
January 2nd, I began the process of re-doing this tank. I needed remove everything and bleach the tank. BBA and other nastiness was becoming a big issue and this was the only surefire way to stop it. My plan was to drain the tank, let it sit for a bit, then spray a bleach water solution onto the tank, then fill the tank with a bleach solution, then spray the tank with an h202 solution, then drain and fill the tank until if smelled normal.
This is where the fish were sent to live. My neighbor was lending me an Eheim 2217 so I had 3 of them running on a 33 gallon brute force Rubbermaid garbage can. And I needed those lids as I know my fish are jumpers. And hey, no one jumped. I did lose a few fish in the process though. One of my male gouramis wasn't looking so hot to begin with and ended up dying. My gouramis in general were in a bad shape when going into this, they had fungal infections so I had to treat the system with methylyne blue. The 3 bosmani I got on black Friday did not enjoy that in the least *sigh* I needed to do this though, I didn't have another choice, and I was prepared for the possibility that fish may die in the process. Tbh, fish were dying from me not doing this too, so it was a screwed either way, lesser of two evils scenario.
January 3rd, before bleaching I decided I'd try and scrap off as much BBA as I could. Man, I could not tell you the last time I actually saw the back on this tank. So much elbow grease went into this.
January 4th, this is what substrate removal and bleaching gets you. I was lazy and didn't clean up water stains on the front of the tank though…still should probably do that…but this was like a whole new tank, as if I had just freshly bought it.
The closest shots to the final from my hardscape planning stage. I did this on the 4th as well while draining and filling the tank a whole buncha times.
January 7th. I let the tank air out for a bit, also had some holiday and family matters to attend to given the time of year so I had to wait a few days to get the ball rolling. This is where we talk substrate. I decided that I wanted this tank to be more like my 10 gallon which has had a lot of success with few setbacks. I attribute that to my usage of dirt capped with sand. However, for my 75, I wanted to do things up even more, given the larger plants I'd be using and the desire for better colors. I decided to take a page from the mineralized top soil ideas. I couldn't mineralize top soil myself and it wouldn't have paid to attempt to buy enough MTS online, so I improvised a little. I sprinkled potash and dolomite onto the glass, as well as some Osmocote + and earthworm castings, 1tsp of osmocote plus per 10 gallons and 2 tbsp of earthworm castings per 10 gallons. Not pictured, I ripped up something like 2lbs of red clay (that stuff was annoying as all hell to find) and threw it in as I was dirting the tank with miracle grow organic potting mix. I sifted out any overly large pieces of wood as well, but left a decent amount of smaller soggy wood pieces in, as I know they will be breaking down and adding nutrients over time.
Hardcape in the tank. I recently wound up removing the larger middle rock and the rock furthest to the right in the tank in order to make more planting space. Kinda bummed about that but, it's a planted tank with dirt so I needed the space.
January 8th. Fun fact, if you soaked your wood for a month and a half and then keep it out of water for like two weeks, its going to want to float for about a week. Luckily it didn't really float but it kept trying to so I put these two rainbow rocks there to weigh the whole thing down and let it re-soak. I threw in what plants I salvaged and could clean off from my previous iteration of this tank.
January 9th, added the plants that I bought from Ebi that I had sit in my high tech 10 gallon and my quarantine 10 gallon.
January 16th, replaced my t5ho lighting. Another fun fact, I totally forgot to update my record I keep on my computer for my tanks about what bulbs I bought…ugh. I'll post that information tomorrow when I write it down myself. I still have the boxes in my basement haha.
January 18th, took a picture of one of the MTS I am trying to get to populate this tank. My quarantine has a population of black MTS. I posted this on facebook and someone thought it was a rabbit snail. It's not I can assure you, these popped out of a batch of MTS I've had breeding in my tanks for a while now. Seems like a lot of MTS from that tank are this color, they start off light and as they get bigger the shell eventually becomes this super dark brown/black. Might have to distribute these to some local buddies.
January 22nd, finally was able to get in 2 order of plants from MadMax and from 2ManyHobbies. This particular plant is Myriophyllum tenellum. I won't go into detail about each species like I normally do but I think in another post after this one I'll write up some stuff about the plants specifically and give more details on the specs of the tank. This post is going to be running long as is.
Took me a few hours to get everything planted. But I am very pleased with the results.
Helanthium sp. "Sao Paulo"
Rotala ramisori "Florida"
Ludwigia brevipes
And until tomorrow I leave you with a picture of things to come.
Originally Posted by burr740 View Post
This is a fantastic journal. Im not sure what's more impressive, the vast assortment of fishes you've had, or the wide array of plants you manage to keep together. Im sorry about the recent losses. It can be a real kick in the crotch when something like that happens. Glad to hear you have further plans though, looking forward to future posts.
This whole break has been me doing aquarium stuff and its finally now at a point where I'm happy with it. Of course, always room to add a few more plant species and I need more fish, but its getting there. I'm at a solid 70% now I'd say.
|This is a fantastic journal. Im not sure what's more impressive, the vast assortment of fishes you've had, or the wide array of plants you manage to keep together. Im sorry about the recent losses. It can be a real kick in the crotch when something like that happens. Glad to hear you have further plans though, looking forward to future posts.
Originally Posted by dprais1 View Post
You know, concerning bows, they grow slowly, especially bosemani. But if you are willing to wait a bit for them to grow you should be able to get just about any bow for $4-$6 from a breeder.
I got 25 bows for a total of 120.00, each about 1.5" or so. Even at that size they have some nice colors and those colors have just been improving each week.
And I know there are plenty of rainbow fish peoples on the rainbowfish forum from New York.
One thing to consider is that since they are such aggressive eaters they would not mix well with passive fish.
What rainbowfish forum are you talking about? I'd love to be put in touch with some breeders... very interested in buying in bulk!
Originally Posted by spunky View Post
such sad news I lost a bunch of fish once to what we could only assume was a big chlorine spike in our tap. It killed my 5 perfectly behaved yoyo loaches, and most of my big schools of lemon tetras and rasboras. That was years ago and I am just now getting the big itch to get things up and going again to my high standards. I only do small water changes now and have been strongly thinking about setting up some system where I can store my water ahead of time and pump it into the tank. Might be over kill, but I also have pH issues (tank 7.5 and tap 8) and want some more tanks with fish that would want low 7 or high 6 too. Water can be so annoying huh?
I'll post an update on this tank at some point...its nothing to look at right now, but I have plans, because I refuse to let this tank go down or go to waste.
|such sad news I lost a bunch of fish once to what we could only assume was a big chlorine spike in our tap. It killed my 5 perfectly behaved yoyo loaches, and most of my big schools of lemon tetras and rasboras. That was years ago and I am just now getting the big itch to get things up and going again to my high standards. I only do small water changes now and have been strongly thinking about setting up some system where I can store my water ahead of time and pump it into the tank. Might be over kill, but I also have pH issues (tank 7.5 and tap 8) and want some more tanks with fish that would want low 7 or high 6 too. Water can be so annoying huh?
Sometimes, I really hate this hobby. This week has been one of those times. My folks did the usual 50% water change this week, and something went wrong. Apparently there was extra chlorine or something in the tap, because on Tuesday all of the congo tetras died. When that happened a 50% WC was done, and a 3rd Eheim 2217 was placed onto the tank that had extra carbon and nitrozorb. Then, either late Tuesday or early Wednesday, my threadfin acaras died, my rainbow fish died, my EBJD died, and a rainbow cichlid died, as well as two adult SAE I had added to the tank a several weeks ago and my female super red Bristlenose. I do not know if the male Bristlenose is still alive, and the retropinnis bichir hasn't been seen (however I can only find him at 3am when I do find him, I'll assume he isn't dead unless he is found dead).
I'll do a sad, sad update once the tank settles down, but I'm upset. My folks and I have been doing everything we can to settle the tank down, and I'd like to thank my next door neighbor and my friend MonsterFish for coming over and trying to help me figure out what's going on. I'm hoping that the water changes needed to lower the ammonia doesn't do any more damage (ammonia now reads at 1-2ppm). I can almost guarantee I've lost some plant species as well…in that regard I have no idea what is or is not left.
Seriously, when random mishaps like this happen, I can really start to hate this hobby T_T
For now though, I'm just going to dump all my old photos of the tank that haven't been posted since the last update.
God my hearts breaking looking at all these T_T
|Dude, it's a think. Look at Barr or CrazyDaze's tanks that have t5-ho end to end
Originally Posted by hybridherp View Post
i figured something was up with that since all my foreground plants take forever to grow.
Next time i get a t5-ho i'm doing like 8 bulbs.
I figured something was up with that since all my foreground plants take forever to grow.
Next time I get a t5-ho I'm doing like 8 bulbs
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Children murdered in Connecticut grade school
Original post made by maguro_01, Mountain View, on Dec 14, 2012
Now the death toll in Connecticut is at least 27 mostly children in a grade school who were murdered by a nut with 4 guns and body armor. One difference here was access to high tech firearms and plenty of ammunition. Google [LIVE UPDATES: Newtown, CT School Shooting] without the brackets.
This weaponry allows a nut who might be dealt conventionally into a monster that requires paramilitary units to deal with. We also end up with a country with security and lockdowns not compatible with normal civil life in the America we believe in.
If the second amendment does enable this to happen then it's past time to amend the second amendment. Part of the change from years ago is the increasing affordability and availability of high rate of fire military weapons. We read that there is a new generation of these forthcoming and there is no reason why such formidable weapons should exist outside the military at all.
Perhaps we are too gridlocked to banish the institutionalized corruption of our Pay-To-Play political system in Washington. Money prevents restricting money.
But we can do this, NRA or not.
Comments (16)
a resident of Downtown North
on Dec 14, 2012 at 12:38 pm
Bless the memories of the children murdered today, along with the other 30 Americans killed by guns today, tomorrow, yesterday, every day, every week, every month, every year.
If now is not the time to rationally discuss curbing the availability of assault weapons, when is?
The Fox/NRA network mocked the sports broadcaster who asked that question last week; will they do the same this week? One thinks they will not even mention his name after today as it shows how absurd their argument, their mockery, is.
Did we learn nothing from Columbine? From Gabby Giffords? From James Brady?
a resident of Palo Verde
on Dec 14, 2012 at 12:39 pm
It seems a nut with a knife can get into a school just like a nut with a gun. However, a knife is less likely to inflict mass murder whereas a gun (or more) can.
I agree 100%.
a resident of Greenmeadow
on Dec 14, 2012 at 12:43 pm
What if the guy drove around the school grounds at lunch time in a semi truck? Would banning killing people using a truck solve the underlying problem here?
a resident of Palo Verde
on Dec 14, 2012 at 12:55 pm
Semi trucks and guns, no comparison!
a resident of Downtown North
on Dec 14, 2012 at 12:59 pm
Palo Parent:
30 Americans a day killed by guns. Massacres becoming more frequent: movie theaters, shopping centers, schools.
How many massacres involving semi trucks this year?
One just hopes these massacres abate. One certainly hopes they never occur around here.
One wonders: what kind of thinking does it take for a person to equate another gun massacre with an imagined nut in a truck? The kind of thinking that will prevent one from looking at the pictures of the victims out of fear that their position doesn't withstand any rational scrutiny?
"May god bless the memory of the victims, and, in the words of scripture, 'heal the broken hearted, and bind up their wounds.'"
a resident of Midtown
on Dec 14, 2012 at 1:10 pm
Newtown, CT was my hometown. It is normally a very quiet, peaceful place. I did not attend that particular elementary school but our town's high school is nearby.
Something like this can happen anywhere and anytime.
I started teaching Karate in Newtown over 28 years ago and now teach Karate and self-defense classes at several locations in this area. Last year, after the attempted abductions at a couple of our local schools, I started offering to teach introductory self-defense to all our school kids for FREE. Only one accepted the offer and they were apparently very glad they did. I am again offering to teach these classes, for no charge. And I would be more than happy to work with the teachers and other staff as well. I am ready to donate hundreds of hours of my time for this. It will be worth it if it helps even just one kid avoid getting hurt.
Let's keep our kids safe.
a resident of Stanford
on Dec 14, 2012 at 1:28 pm
The latest from CNN at this time is that at least 30 people total were murdered, another 10 wounded. Of the murder victims, 20 were young children.
It is seldom reported, but having lived six years in Japan, I read about many horrible murders, just not committed with guns. Knives, swords, bows and arrows, poison, toxic gases, etc were used. If a murderer is intent, gun control will not stop him, he will choose some other weapon.
a resident of Downtown North
on Dec 14, 2012 at 1:46 pm
The Aurora movie theater shooting had a gun clip holding 100 rounds.
Want to rethink: "gun control will not stop him, he will choose some other weapon."
I don't care how good an archer is, nor how large his quiver.
A domestic terrorism gas attack 20 years ago in Japan is your best argument against gun laws that allow 40% of all guns purchased in the US to be done without background checks?
We need to control access to weapons of mass destruction, along improving mental health services.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg today:
"For every day we wait, 34 more people are murdered with guns," Bloomberg said. "Today, many of them were five-year olds."
Bloomberg, a co-chair of Mayors Against Guns, also slammed President Barack Obama's earlier statement on the shooting, saying that it did not go far enough to address the issue of gun violence.
"President Obama rightly sent his heartfelt condolences to the families," he continued. "But the country needs him to send a bill to Congress"
"Calling for 'meaningful action' is not enough. We need immediate action."
A gun in the home is three times more likely to be used on a member of the home.
a resident of Downtown North
on Dec 14, 2012 at 1:56 pm
"What if the guy drove around the school grounds at lunch time in a semi truck...?"
I'll go along with your analogy if you'll tell me when anybody ever moved a household of furniture across the country in a gun.
a resident of Downtown North
on Dec 15, 2012 at 9:48 am
Limit the number of shells to three per clip; pump or bolt action only, no semi-auto.
Prohibition would probably inhibit the overall death count, but it would also violate the 2nd Ammendment, and it would guarantee the old tautology: "When guns are outlawed, only outlaws would have guns"...then innocent people would have no protection against the bad guys.
If the nutcases used molatov cocktails, instead of guns, would there be talk of banning gasoline? Remember, the biggest school masacre ever n the U.S. was in 1927 (Michigan), and it was done with a bomb. Norway has very strict gun laws, but there is always a way to get them, if the determined shooter wants to do a masacre (as happend last year).
a resident of Crescent Park
on Dec 15, 2012 at 11:02 am
Dear Gary
my first response to your post was to just want to write 'f*** you' over and over and over. However, I am a bit calmer now so I will try to be a bit more persuasive in my arguments. So your main argument against gun control seems to be that it would violate your rights? Regardless of whether it is a good idea or not, it is your constitutional right to own as many and as lethal weapons as you wish. Seriously? That's the best you got? Yes, Norway's strict gun laws did not prevent their recent massacre but has there been anything since? Not that I have heard of. After the Dunblane school massacre in the UK in the mid 80s guns were virtually outlawed - how many gun incidents have there been since? I remember a couple of mass shootings that made the news and every so often someone resurrects an old wartime weapon for no good but that is it in over 20 years. Yes there is knife crime but it is much more difficult to commit mass murder with a knife than a gun. Here, though, here, the kids and teachers killed yesterday have not been dead for 24 hours and there is news of a shooting in a hospital in Alabama, another one in Las Vegas - it just goes on and on - it is so sickening!
You know, I get that we are not going to be able to ban guns in this country - really don't like it but I get it. However, why does anyone need multiple guns? Why does anyone need military grade weapons? Why? Because it is their constitutional right to do so - and they don't care how many kindergarteners have to die to protect their rights. There has to be a sensible way of regulating the ownership and use of firearms - has to be - and if it means trampling on a poorly written and ambiguous part of the constitution, so be it.
a resident of Midtown
on Dec 15, 2012 at 1:52 pm
tips on talking with kids about violence: Web Link
a resident of Downtown North
on Dec 15, 2012 at 2:58 pm
Dear Cathy,
If you would bother to actually read my opinion about guns in this country, you would find that I am in favor of relatively resrictive laws. Try again, and try to be patient.
If you are concerned about murdered innocent children, as I am, you might want to consider the massive slaughter of the unborn children, in this country, under the cover of "choice". The screams, from all the tortures inside the womb are silent to all who refuse to listen to them. I do consider all of that torture, yet I still come down on the side of womens' choice. Same for gun rights. It is a cost-benefit/rights decision, in the end.
a resident of Downtown North
on Dec 15, 2012 at 3:22 pm
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a resident of Downtown North
on Dec 15, 2012 at 5:34 pm
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a resident of Menlo Park
on Dec 17, 2012 at 9:14 pm
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This topic is so sad. I'm alarmed by the violent video game culture we have allowed to flourish and desensitize ourselves and our children to "the shooter". Not long ago, we used different terms such as "murderer" and "assassin" to describe the sick people who commit these crimes in the real world. Lots of people are shooters, but only murderers and assassins use guns to steal innocent lives and break hearts. Let's do our best to use appropriate terms to distinguish disturbing but legal video game behavior from vicious, cowardly real-world homicide.
When we use words like "shooter" with its diluted, fantasy world meaning, we unwittingly support the purveyors and players of these horrible games.
Nobody will ever persuade me that American civilians need automatic weapons in their homes and cars.
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Any case produced by Apple itself has to survive a fair amount of scrutiny. After all Apple makes the device the case is protecting. It has to work well in every way, from the out of box experience, to putting it on the device, to protecting the device it covers. Not surprisingly, Apple's iPhone 6 Silicone Case does stand up to scrutiny, assuming you're looking for a case that doesn't claim to take extreme punishment.
iOS 8: How to Change Safari's Default Search Provider to DuckDuckGo
As much as I love Google's ability to find exactly what I want, I've grown concerned about the amount of data they collect from my searches. You've probably experienced that lovely phenomenon of casually searching for a product and then seeing ads for that same product all over the 'net. Luckily for those concerned about such things, there's DuckDuckGo, a search engine that makes privacy its number one concern. Even more luckily, Apple's added it to iOS 8's list of search providers.
iOS 8: Taking Full Advantage of Interactive Notifications
One of iOS 8's most talked about features is Interactive Notifications. Now when a notification banner or alert appears, a response can be sent off without leaving the current app or unlocking the device. This works right out of the box with Messages and soon with many other apps as developers push updates for iOS 8. How to take advantage of this new feature is fairly intuitive, however it took a bit of experimentation to fully understand how they work.
Logitech's Ultrathin Keyboard Cover for iPad Air: Quality Build Plus Great Key Feel
If you've ever looked into keyboards for the iPad, you may have come across Logitech's Ultrathin Keyboard Cover and thought it looked like a great option. Its compact size and integration with the iPad as a cover that goes everywhere your iPad does is a great concept that doesn't disappoint. Of course as with all keyboards of a portable nature, there are trade-offs. However, the Ultrathin has some compelling features that may well make up for those trade-offs and then some.
Spotlight on the Mac: Searching the Current Folder by Default
If you'd rather look through the current folder when using Spotlight's search field in Finder windows instead of searching every drive connected to your Mac, you aren't alone. Lucky for you, Michael Johnston knows how to tell Spotlight to do just that, and he's ready to show you how, too.
iOS 7: Hiding Stocks and Customizing Today View in Notification Center
The "Today" view in iOS 7's Notification Center can be pretty useful. It tells you the current date, weather conditions, upcoming appointments, and even how your stocks are doing. But what if you don't want one or more of these things in your "Today" list? Fortunately there's a way to customize it and it's pretty easy.
OS X: How to do Math in Spotlight
Spotlight is more than just a tool for seraching the contents of your Mac's hard drive. It's also a calculator, and Michael Johnston is ready to show you how to make it bend to your mathematic bidding.
Are We There Yet: Navigating With Siri
There are many great turn-by-turn apps out there, but the one provided by Apple's Maps is the one Michael Johnston uses most often because it's integrated into iOS so tightly -- even with Siri. Read on to see how he uses Siri to get him whereever he wants to go.
Bring Back Older "Filter-Style" Search in iTunes 11
One of the more significant changes to iTunes 11 is how one searches an iTunes library. In the latest version, typing a search query reveals a truncated list of results below the search field from which to choose. However, many preferred the way it worked previously, filtering all items in the selected media category. Thankfully there's still a way to do this, and Michael Johnston shows you how.
Jailbreak for iOS 7 Released by Evasi0n Team
The team behind the iOS 6 jailbreak released its latest jailbreak utility on Sunday, and now it's compatible with iOS 7. The Mac and Windows utilities were released today at evasi0n.com by the team of iOS hackers known as the Evad3rs. The jailbreak is compatible with iOS 7 devices from version 7.0 through 7.0.4, and even the unreleased iOS 7.1 beta.


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