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Awesome job, and I'm glad everything stabilized. What are your parameters like now that it's evened out?
I've been doing water changes rather infrequently, topping off with pure RO/DI water, and adding 1/4 tsp KNO3 and 1/8 tsp KH2PO4 for fertilization whenever I remember (trying for once a week, but that's certainly not happening---probably more like once every two weeks or when I notice deficiencies).
Recent readings were ~7.2 for pH, 5 dGH, 6 dkH. TDS is ~173, and I read 0s across the board for Ammonia, Nitrite and Nitrate (despite my fertilization...). I think the floating plants I won in a RAOK (thanks Nambroth!) have really helped the tank come into balance. I had some algae issues before (probably the light is too close to the top of the tank, since I'm just resting it there), but they are mostly gone with the addition of the floaters.
Fauna couldn't be happier! I picked up a bunch of James's otos (11 of them), and couldn't be happier with them! They've actually bred two or three times in the tank already, but the offspring doesn't survive very long with the Rams hunting about.
Oto party!
One of the little ones (still has an egg sac!):
The Rams have also been busy: since starting the tank I've had them spawn four times already. Unfortunately, none of the eggs have lasted the night because of the bristlenoses (one of which seems to believe he owns the entire tank).
Here's the culprit, innocuously eating a Zucchini slice:
And here's a video of him:
Too cute for me to bear getting rid of him... maybe I'll move the pair of Rams to a 20g long when they start to get into breeding condition again...
(in those above pictures you can see a suffering Anubias---not entirely sure what's wrong with it, as it was flowering several months ago! ideas?)
But I got some really good shots of the breeding process!
Proud female (3rd spawning, pardon the computer screen...):
Proud female 2 (first spawning, hope the other pair didn't break...):
You can see the male hiding in there---he was the same across all four spawns, and two different females. Polygamist!
Egg laying:
The father:
I also shot quite a few videos of them chasing people away from potential spawning spots, cleaning them off, and a few practice runs---unfortunately the camera died before they actually started spawning, but you can get the idea from the "practicing" they did in the spawning location.
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|Awesome job, and I'm glad everything stabilized. What are your parameters like now that it's evened out?
I've neglected my journal! This needs some updates, which will come a bit later when I get some better shots of the tank. It is (lightly) stocked now, though!
2x Bristlenose
6x Bolivian Rams
2x Amano Shrimp
I've been noticing some aggression between the bristlenoses for some time now (they've matured quite a bit since they were first introduced to the tank). Is it any cause for concern? I don't think much real damage is being done, but I do occasionally see a ripped fin on the submissive one (he's mostly unphased though and still chomps through fresh spinach like there's no tomorrow).
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Really like the setup. I'm trying to get ideas on a 75 gallon I plan on doing also. The only thing I'd add to your plants would be some Amazon swords. Where did you order your plants from?
|Really like the setup. I'm trying to get ideas on a 75 gallon I plan on doing also. The only thing I'd add to your plants would be some Amazon swords. Where did you order your plants from?
And we have nitrites! That was really fast... Guessing that the plants must have had a significant amount of bacteria culture on them to get this going quickly.
Ammonia: 0.5-1ppm
Nitrite: 5+ ppm
Nitrate: 0-5ppm
Adding some more ammonia now to bump it up to around 2ppm. Hopefully I'll start seeing nitrate production soon!
Thanks! Hopefully I'll get the hang of exactly how much to add. I should probably start practicing remineralization in a barrel or something so I can figure out just how much of the boosters I need to add to hit my targets.
The ammonia I'm adding is in the form of Ammonium Hydroxide, so I suppose that could be raising the PH as well?
|Looks like your off to a great start beside the whole water parameters, but they'll become stabile overtime I would think.
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Hello all!
Starting my first journal here, with my second tank ever and my first foray into the planted sector of freshwater aquaria. My goal with this is to be a relatively low-maintenance tank without sacrificing on the beauty.
So, here we go! First, the pretty stuff.
The order arrives!
I bought them all online and was surprised at the quality I got. Will definitely do it again in the future should I need more plants.
Getting them in the tank (using RODI water for the tank and the system isn't yet set up at this point):
Filling it up:
All planted! lol
Hardscape arrangement:
Getting ready to plant!
Bucket o' plants:
First planted plant!
The final product:
Closer to the wood. I'm hoping these Anubias attach... they are fairly loose.
Right side:
Left side:
Crypt. parva:
Crypt. wendtii "red":
View from the back:
The whole set, if you're interested: http://www.flickr.com/photos/8570487...7631224930540/
Now, the update stuff.
Wood still wanted to float despite being soaked for several weeks, so I had to tie it to tupperware lids with fishing line and bury the lids in the gravel. Easy, effective, and inexpensive. And non-permanent, which is a plus.
Just got the filters and the heater running (@ ~79F) yesterday. Media is set up as follows (excuse the crude ASCII drawing) in both filters:
polishing pad
purigen + bio stars
fine foam
ehfisubstrat pro
more ehfisubstrat pro
Beginning to fishless cycle the tank now, after finally finding some clear ammonia at a Walgreens (everything else has surfactants in it). Bumped the Ammonia to ~4ppm and waiting for it to fall.
I've remineralized the RODI water with GLA's GH Booster and added some buffering capacity with some baking soda, but it appears I overshot my target:
Wanted: 1-2 dGH, 1-2 dKH, pH ~6.5
Got: 3 dGH, 4 dKH, pH ~7.6
So I'll have to play chemist some more to figure out exactly how much of each I need to add since I clearly overshot (I think it didn't dissolve right away so I didn't see the new reading and overdid things). Oh well---iirc the cycling goes more smoothly at higher pH anyway.
And there you have it: a newbie planted tank journey, starting now!
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SAN DIEGO (July 24, 2012) - American Council on Exercise (ACE), a leading authority on fitness and the world's largest nonprofit fitness certification organization, is pleased to announce the launch of its new ACE Academy Elite, an interactive, video-led study tool designed to help aspiring professionals be more successful on the ACE Personal Trainer Certification Exam.
Through a video-led lecture series and custom progress tracking, ACE Academy Elite helps candidates retain the knowledge necessary to not only pass the exam but become better at their job later on.
"When people decide to become personal trainers, as with any dream, they want to be the best at what they do. Getting there can be hard," said ACE Chief Science Officer Cedric Bryant, Ph.D. "ACE Academy Elite coaches them every step of the way, and helps them learn the material like they would in a classroom. Bottom line, it helps them start their careers with a solid foundation."
Through video lectures led by ACE-certified professionals, reading assignments, custom progress tracking, interactive lesson quizzes, practice tests and a 2-hour Exam Review Course, ACE Academy Elite provides a fun, motivating e-learning environment that corresponds to existing ACE core study materials. The Web-based tool also comes with access to the ACE Resource Center, staffed with fitness professionals who answer study questions by phone or e-mail.
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A person or group of people who are known for eating mangos. A faggot. A friend who gets alot of girls. A friend who is whipped by his girlfriend.
I cant go to the game with you, I gotta spend time with my girlfriend. Your a freeking mango muncher buddy.
Hey mango muncher, get a girlfriend.
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Ah, the holidays… time with the family, good cheer, snowflakes on kittens and the crush of eCommerce retailing.
For many eCommerce retailers, this is the sales performance Super Bowl. This post is to designed to give a few quick marketing tips to help you "get yourself right" for gameday.
If you did CPC last year, look at the corresponding keyterm performance reports for comparable periods of time last year. It's always interesting to me that different parts of the product selection seem to have different curves during the holiday season. Some items peak earlier than others. Some items tend to be more for last minute shopping. Peak season is the time to pay special attention to these trends. There are a lot of companies that don't play the CPC game aggressively until the peak season. You'll see an influx of competition and price pressure to maintain position. You want to maintain your position on the terms that you are profitable on. You need to have clarity on which terms those are. Over the years, I've seen a lot of smaller retailers give away a lot of profit by being overly aggressive on their terms during the holiday because the prices went beyond where good ROI could be had. Conversely, you leave money on the table by not bidding aggressively on your best terms during the buying frenzy.
Consider testing a discount as a way to differentiate from the competition. For example, you might try a 10% off offer in your ad text or landing page. Run it as an A/B test with two different ads with two different tracking urls.
Lastly, double down on the holiday blitz by using Microsoft AdCenter. I've been impressed with the volume coming from Bing and Yahoo and you might find different veins of opportunity in the bidding environment in the AdCenter. Again, now is the time to try. There is volume and opportunity.
Turn the crank! Have you a had a meeting to talk about ramping up your email strategy for the peak season? Whoever is in charge of email should be at the top of their game right now. This is the peak season! If ever there is a time to be aggressive, it is now. How aggressive? Short answer is "VERY". Do you have data from last year? Use it! Unless you saw some real blowback from over mailing – ADD SOME MAILINGS. You really don't know where the line is, until you push up against it.
Also, this is the time where you have the best chance to do some testing. Segment your list. Try 3 messages per week vs 2 messages per week and compare results. You are trying to maximize your ROI for this year and learn for the future. The peak season is a great time to run statistically significant tests.
Testing ideas:
Try an A/B/A test. Break your list into three parts. Depending on your list size this could be 33%, 33%, 33% or 10%, 10%, 80%. Test an offer on two of the parts and roll the winner to the remainder. This allows you to optimize your offers for more than half of your audience.
Abandoned Cart Emails
Do you have them in place? There are incremental sales to be had here at no additional cost. Peak season is the time when you have the most abandons. If you don't have abandoned cart emails in place there is no quicker route to ROI than to implement them now.
Likewise, Product Reviews and Review request emails. The holiday season is the time for you to get a good volume of these to build up the quantity of reviews on your site. Wouldn't it be nice to have an abundance of fresh content for search engines and site visitors in Q1 2012?
Shopping Engines
Just make a point to revisit your feeds and tweak your listings before Thanksgiving. Make sure your listed products are up to date and in stock.
Your Webstore
Freshen up your category list. Does it make sense to make a "Gifts" category or "Holiday" category? Consider some seasonal "Hero Images" for your homepage or category pages. If you don't have any, there still might be time. Circle the wagons and schedule a photo shoot.
Not much to talk about here. SEO is not something you can change quickly. Hopefully the peak season is the time when you can reap the benefits from your natural listings (and the work you've done to make your site search friendly, fresh and content rich all year).


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There is an upside to the New Zealand currency playing second fiddle to the Australian dollar.
It makes our labour costs far lower, and when paying staff represents two-thirds of a business' expenses, it can give New Zealand companies a real advantage.
That's the reasoning of John Chetwynd, founder of the country's largest private call centre company, Telnet.
"At the present time we have two clear advantages - labour rates and the exchange rate," Chetwynd says.
"We have a competitive advantage against Australia of at least 30 per cent on cost."
Although Australian businesses can go to popular call centre destinations like Manila for their outsourced call centres, there are cultural differences. New Zealanders and Australians, on the other hand, have much in common, says Chetwynd.
When Australians talk about outsourcing to New Zealand, they call it nearshoring, as opposed to offshoring, which is more palatable to critics of the practice.
Telnet, which has passed the $10 million dollar turnover mark with 200 staff operating from its central Auckland headquarters, would like to double in size and Australia is Chetwynd's preferred option for achieving this.
Having tried putting people on the ground in Australia and sub-contracting for other Australian call centres, Chetwynd is now looking at growing across the Ditch through acquisition.
The Australian business would be the "shop front" for Telnet, but Australian clients would be talking to its call centre in Auckland's Queen St.
The businessman, who ran debt collection company Credit Corp when it floated in the early 1990s before merging with Baycorp, has always been struck by a comment made by Bill Gates.
"He talked about being able to see a business at twice the size. I can see Telnet being twice the size.
"We would consider a float," he adds. "I think the trigger point for that is if we can double the size of the business again."
Telnet launched formally in 1997, with Chetwynd and some money "thrown in" from investors at the American software company Telnet. Chetwynd got to know the American business when it had provided Baycorp with call centre technology.
These days Chetwynd and two senior staff have about a 56.5 per cent shareholding. Chetwynd's share is more than 43.5 per cent, while Pat Maxwell, the original US investor, also has 43.5 per cent.
Telnet NZ uses a computer-telephony software platform supplied by Zeacom and has been adding its own applications.
It prides itself on the reduced talk time of its call centre agents with customers. The company's clients include Mercury Energy, Vector and Sony Mobile.
The company also provides a cloud-based customer relationship manager (CRM) service.
One of Telnet's clients, Z Energy, has been using the CRM system for two years to assign tasks either to outsourced contact centre staff or to its in-house specialists.
Best achievement
I finally closed the deal to work for Sony Mobile Australia from the top of a chairlift at Whistler Blackcomb ski resort in Canada in January 2007. We guaranteed that we would improve on the average talk-time that they were achieving and have gone on to steadily improve the numbers for them beyond the initial commitment.
Top tip
Take time to sit in on recruitment sessions. It does two things: you will win over people who you may not normally have hired and you are able to paint the bigger picture for them. "We have 200 staff. Being involved in recruitment is the most important thing I do these days."


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Jonathan Raban is the author, most recently, of the novels Surveillance and Waxwings; his nonfiction includes Passage to Juneau and Bad Land. His honors include the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/West Creative Nonfiction Award, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers' Award, and the Governor's Award of the State of Washington. He lives in Seattle.


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A name given to someone who likes to ruin potential fun being had. McGreets can come in many varieties. Some McGreets feel the need to ruin funny moments with their unimportant comments. Others like to use sarcasm at incorrect times to, instead of coming off as funny and witty, are seen as someone with a stick up their ass. McGreets is usually a friendly way of telling someone to 'shut the fuck up'.
McGreets: "Dude, that waitress wasn't digging you at all. Besides, she has a boyfriend. Why are you trying?"
Friend: "Listen here McGreets."
Friend: "Listen here McGreets."
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In this week's paper, I write that David Rohde--the New York Times reporter who was kidnapped by the Taliban, and whose abudction was subsequently kept quiet by the Times, Wikipedia and others--still seemed, during a recent lecture at Harvard's Nieman Foundation for Journalism, to be wrestling with the ethical implications of his case.
After Rohde's Nieman lecture, I sat down with him for a few minutes to discuss his case and its lessons in greater detail. An edited transcript follows.
Q. How strange was it to come out of captivity and become not just a story in your own right, but also a case study in journalistic ethics? A. I think I was more uncomfortable with being the story. But I wrote the series, "Held by the Taliban," in the hopes that by telling the story of our captivity, we could teach people more about the Taliban and Pakistan. Q. Was it hard to have people saying that the Times shouldn't have kept quiet about your abduction, since that approach may have kept you alive?A. No. I'm a reporter: I love it when people ask questions and debate stuff. So I'm happy to have people hold us accountable. We should be held accountable. The original practice of keeping it quiet was actually something that emerged in Kabul before my kidnapping; it started with the Melissa Fung case. I don't know how that policy emerged; I don't know how journalists in Kabul created this informal agreement that they wouldn't report on kidnappings. I do think it should be a consist policy. It shouldn't be that if journalists are kidnapped, we don't report that. It should be that if anyone requests that a kidnapping be kept quiet, that request has to be respected. Q. You made it clear in the lecture that you're cognizant of the slippery slope this might create. As you said: What if the American ambassador in Kabul is kidnapped and the U.S. government asks for silence? It's a big story. But with stories like the Times's warrantless wiretapping scoop — or the abuses at Abu Ghraib, which you wrote about — the government can argue, 'These stories are going to put people at risk if you report them.' So does there need to be some sort of a policy beyond kidnapping? A policy that exists for any reporting situation in which harm may be created? A. Oh, I think in every story, every rep and editor is weighing what details to include and not include. I think it already happens in other cases — Q. You mentioned mob informants.A. Yeah. This is a concrete situation where someone's life is in clear danger. They're being threatened by people who are vowing to kill them if they don't get what they want. It's not a hypothetical. It's not, 'The release of these pictures could lead to problems in the future.' It's a very concrete situation. Journalists decide all the time what is a necessary fact, and what's a fact that doesn't change the tenor of the story, but could endanger someone. These are very rare cases, and they are very dangerous. So no, I don't think this policy should be expanded beyond kidnappings. I think editors and reporters should hear people's requests and arguments to not make something public, but there shouldn't be automatic deference. Q. When did you decide that your days as a war correspondent were over?A. Oh, you know. [Laughs] During the kidnapping.Q. When you came back from the Republica Sprska, had you weighed a similar move?A. I was cautious for the 13 years after my captivity in Bosnia. And I made the wrong decision in this case. Look, a lot of journalism is luck. I made a bad decision, and I was unlucky. I recognize that fact. We all have to make personal decisions, and I'm not going to put my family or my editors through anything like this again. It was very clear to me, early in the kidnapping, that I was not going to be covering wars anymore.Q. You talked about working with the Dart Center on guidelines to help journalists avoid the sort of thing you went through. What are some examples?A. [Hesitates] Obviously, in my case, don't interview insurgents. Many people have interviewed insurgents successfully, but something's going to go wrong, and it can be you. As I said earlier, in many insurgencies now, journalists don't have the protection of being seen as a neutral, third-party observers. So reporters just have to be very careful about how they move and where they go.Q. New York magazine wrote that your guards had been bribed, and that you simply walked out of captivity. Is there anything that's been reported that's incorrect — anything on which you want to set the record straight? A. No. What I said in the epilogue of the Times story is still true, which is that money was paid to people who said they knew our whereabouts, and that it didn't get to the guys who actually lived with us. There was nothing in the description of the escape that I withheld. There's nothing about that I've withheld or haven't disclosed. Q. You said earlier that you regretted telling your captors they could get millions of dollars for you. Is it possible, though, that creating that expectation helped keep you alive? A. It might have, but in hindsight.... I didn't understand, and I think we don't understand, how valuable they consider a Western hostage. It's not simply that they think they can get these big ransoms. As they told me, they think simply having one prisoner is delivering massive political blows to the American government. In reality, people forget about the case, and it didn't really matter. So in hindsight, maybe I didn't need to say that about the money, because they'd just be so happy to have a Westerner. But it's very hard to know what helped and what didn't help. I'm just elated to be home.


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Pulaski Technical College celebrated the opening of Ottenheimer Library on Friday with an open house that drew more than 500 students, faculty, staff and community leaders.
The day's festivities began with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 10 a.m. with officials from the North Little Rock and Little Rock Regional Chambers of Commerce followed by a drop-in reception. Guests were treated to refreshments and the jazz music courtesy of the Guido Ritchie Duo.
The event gave area business leaders and community members a chance to see the newly renovated library and learn about its many offerings.
Renovation and expansion of the existing library more than doubled the library's space from 7,798 square feet to 19,254 square feet.
The project began in May 2004 and was completed this summer. The two-story library is named in honor of the Ottenheimer Brothers Foundation, which contributed $500,000 --- the largest single gift the college has ever received.
The library expansion is part of an overall $19 million project that included renovating and expanding the library and building the Campus Center. The college issued $15 million in revenue bonds for the project, and the Pulaski Technical College Foundation launched the college's first-ever capital campaign to raise $4 million for the projects. The Campus Center grand opening is scheduled for Sept. 28.
"This project has enabled us to improve both the quality and quantity of our library resources," Pulaski Technical College President Dr. Dan F. Bakke said. "It is a tremendous resource for our faculty, staff and most importantly, our students."
The Ottenheimer Library features more than 34,000 books, multimedia and e-book titles, 36 research computers, six catalog search stations, 24 laptops students can borrow for use inside the library, more than 35 databases available on and off campus, seven individual study rooms and two group study rooms, three viewing/listening study rooms, six comfortable seating/study areas, 11 large, lighted study tables, and copy centers on both floors.
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Soooo, how can I introduce myself. I'm a Panthers fan from New Jersey but from being saturated in Giantsland I know about as much on the Giants as I do the Panthers. If you're wondering why, I think it's a combination of the whole "local" fandom thing becoming less and less prominent in the information age where you can access media on any team you want, and you like who you like. I also chat with countless Panther fans over on an unaffiliated Panthers discussion forum. I figure since the media spotlight doesn't shine bright on the Panthers there may not be a whole lot you know about the franchise and so I'm here to give you a better idea. Besides that I'm not here to talk a bunch of crap about who's going to beat who and I'll get to my evaluation of how the game is going to play out later. If I make any historical recaps on the Panthers it will only go as far back as, say, the 2005 NFC Wildcard game because that was about the last time the team was relevant. And I only bring it up because just about all of you would distinctly remember it, and may be wondering what the hell happened to the Panthers since then. I'm just going to go by an order of what comes to my mind first...
Cam Newton - This guy is single-handedly attracting spotlight to our team and putting it back into relevance. For the longest time the Panthers front office thought it could bring in any scrub QB and achieve success after they struck lightning with Delhomme. After Matt Moore and Jimmy Clausen failed miserably to carry the torch after Jake just didn't have anything left, Marty Hurney stepped out of his comfort zone and went all in on a QB in the first round, which was years overdue. Cam Newton is an electrifying QB that is changing the way the game is played as we speak. He can run, yes, but he's not a "running" QB in the same vein as Vince Young. The guy is also one of the best deep passers in the league (and advanced stats from 2011 will back this up), and is only getting better on his intermediate throws. He pretty much is the biggest reason RGIII was drafted where he was. He accounted for nearly 4,800 yards of total offense and 35 touchdowns in only his rookie season. And he's only going to get better. Don't take him lightly
If you get frustrated with your front office... - Trust me, it can get a lot more frustrating. If I had to compile a list of the 5 best general managers in the league, Jerry Reese would be somewhere up there. His investment in the secondary with guys like Antrel Rolle and Kenny Phillips, and then on the defensive line with Canty and JPP really paid off. He values a violent pass rush and a solid secondary which is what is needed to counteract all of these elite passing teams. On the other hand, Carolina just spent about 80 million in contract money just on the running back position, in the last year. There's no reason why they needed to make that kind of investment while we have mediocre safeties, barely any corner depth, and a defensive line that could use an infusion of talent. Imagine giving both Bradshaw and Jacobs $40 million contract extensions. It's a passing league now, you don't need to stack the running game with talent, and if there's any proof of that, it's the fact that you guys won the superbowl last year with the very worst running game in the league, while Carolina's record-breaking efficiency in the running game led us to a 6-10 record because we didn't have a defense that could cover anybody or pressure a QB. It annoys me Hurney sunk so much cash in that one position but if this team wins a championship I don't care.
About that John Fox guy - Fox is a very polarizing figure in Carolina. Half of the fanbase loves him, half of it despises him. For the first 4 years in Carolina, Fox was probably one of the best coaches in the league. He turned a perennial basement dwelling expansion team with no direction into a contender within 2 years. ...then he started resting on his laurels. After the 05 season, which ended in an NFCC loss to the Seahawks, the Panthers just couldn't deliver on the expectations time and time again, and Fox had no shortage of excuses.
Instead of raising the standard in Carolina, his early success yielded complacency and an indifference to losing. His defenses could never figure out what a Tight End was, and his offenses only thought of a tight end as an extra blocker. He wasn't innovative. His blitzes were unimaginative. His 8 yard cushions on a 3rd and 5 were infuriating to witness. His teams got gradually worse and worse, like the old frog in a boiling pot of water story. The 08 playoff loss to Arizona did it for me. Getting dominated at home, watching Delhomme implode, and seeing Fitz aggregate nearly 150 receiving yards in the first half because Fox wouldn't let our no.1 corner shadow him on the field convinced me we were spinning our wheels with Fox. He should've been fired right there after the game, but the front office let him go through the motions the last two years because they were too polite to can him.
Even now in Denver he coaches a dream team led by Peyton Manning, but I think he'll squander his tenure there just like he did in Charlotte. In my opinion he's like 20 years behind in his football acumen. Teams aren't winning championships by virtue of the running game anymore. The NFL has evolved into this passing league for a plethora of reasons. But Fox doesn't like the idea of farming a top-talent "franchise QB" as much as he likes veteran QBs or game manager types like Hostetler, Kyle Orton, etc that are useless in today's league. That's not to compare Manning with QBs like that, but if I had my choice of signing Manning in the shape that he's in or trading up for one of the top 2 QBs in the draft, I'm going to get my guy in the draft.
Thoughts about the game tomorrow - I'm really looking forward to seeing how we match up with you guys. The Giants are, in my opinion, the barometer in this league, despite the slow start. You guys are injured, but that has never stopped you before, and you proved that you can come back no matter how bad you play in the early going last Sunday. You're a tough, gritty, battle-tested team led by a QB who in my opinion deserves a lot more respect than he gets. It's not a defining moment for either team tomorrow night because there are a lot more games to be played but if the Panthers can squeak out a win, my confidence in them will be boosted a bit. Steve Smith vs. Corey Webster is going to be a huge match-up. Brandon LaFell is an emerging receiver that is on the threshold of a breakout year. He's already on pace for over 1200 receiving yards, which will give Smith one of the best complementary weapons he's ever had. I think the game is going to be decided within 10 points. Of course, there's the possibility of one of us deciding not to show up and getting blown out, but it's far more likely that won't be the case.
The Giants have Panther fans' respect - There are a number of extra-divisional teams the Panther fanbase hates (including Dallas), but the Giants are not among them. Though there are a few fringe exceptions, Panther fans in general view the Giants as a very respectable franchise with some of the classiest fans in the league, including me. Some of that is because you've beaten the Patriots twice in the Superbowl, but for me there are many reasons, a few of which I've already gone over in this thread. I generally wish the Giants the best as long as they're not getting in Carolina's way.
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The Congress of Aboriginal Peoples and several Metis and non-status Indians took the federal government to court in 1999 alleging discrimination because they are not considered "Indians" under a section of the Constitution Act.
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Then again, I think in a way, Minagoroshi-hen's ending is the truest of them all, while Matsuribayashi-hen is more like a "good end", so it really deserves more credit than just another "bad ending".
|2012-08-16, 13:37
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Does anyone know when MangaGamer will release Tsumihoroboshi-hen for iPod touch? They've released Onikakushi, Watanagashi, Tatorigoshi, Himatsubashi and Mekashi already. I really want to play Tsumihoroboshi, it's my favourite arc.
|2012-08-18, 11:19
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Can somebody tell me how to reach "Piece 52" in the Kai novel which is like the anime epilogue? I thought I had played through the whole Matsuribayashi arc but I didn't come across that piece.
Edit: I think I found a description, I hope it will work.
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|2012-08-23, 05:32
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Rereading Tatarigoroshi... Damn Keiichi is so annoying in the VN ,First of all he is a total moron and a idiot, He calls Mion a rich bastard not saving satoko when she can and makes her cry (Rena then tells him that mion is not the only rich family memeber here and anathor one is keiichi) , Then goes to MIONS house telling her that SHE IS THE MURDERER of the deaths and tells her to kill Tepei.....Poor Mion..Always gets bullied by everyone in every arc. Keiichi is always rude to everyone, Tells Chie-sensei that She cant do anything to save satoko and uses the exact same words Mion and Rena told him
Then screams at Rika for being so uncaring
And above this, he is not in the hinamizawa syndrome yet...........
I was never annoyed by him in the anime but reading his idiotic thoughts is unpleaseant.
Do you guys feel the same way? Or...Am I the first person to Hate K1? XDD
|2012-08-24, 13:18
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Keiichi may be "stupid" but he really cares about Satoko. The monologue when he sits in his room and thinks about keeping Satoko in the closet is very moving and also one of the best pieces in Higurashi in my opinion. I like Keiichi much more when he keeps making mistakes all the time. I personally think he's much more annoying in Minagoroshi-hen when he gets the praise all the time. Ryukishi really overdoes it there, sorry.
|2012-08-25, 01:53
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Yeah Rena is awesome to use sarcasm like that, But still , Keiichi attacked Mion for no reason.I know he cares for satoko and that is sweet but he is not the only one who is worried. He should understand that, He hurts his friends for no reason, screaming at chie for now reason.
Anyway I really dislike him .lol Just my opinion I guess.
|2012-08-25, 04:01
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I agree with you that Keiichi is very wrong to attack Mion but he sort of makes up for it when he thinks the whole following night about how he could save Satoko.
I think that's the most important aspect of the Keiichi character. He keeps making bad mistakes all the time in the question arcs but somehow learns from all of them as he keeps on going through the different worlds.
Maybe Keiichi is a reflection of the reader himself who goes through many wrong understandings of what happens in the story, correcting his errors as he goes on reading.
|2012-08-26, 12:55
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I'm re-reading Tatarigoroshi myself at the moment and some things still seem unclear to me. I thought - having read this in this board - Rena and Mion are trying to protect Keiichi by making up an alibi for him (however, they would have to talk to many people in the village to make it work). That seems to make sense on the surface, because Mion knows he's going to kill the uncle when he called her like Satoshi.
But if they want to protect him, why don't they tell him about their plan even when they are alone with him? For example, why do they ask him 'why do you think Satoko's uncle didn't come home yesterday' after he talked to Satoko about this? They seem to corner him rather than protect him by asking him this question. If they really wanted to protect him, they should first try to find a place to talk to him alone and say 'we're going to pretend you were at the festival, please do the same' or something like this.
The next step: Afterwards they go 'treasure hunting' - maybe that means they'll hide the body in a better place (however, why in broad daylight?) - but Rena says later on they will go to the dam construction site which doesn't have anything to do with Teppei's body, does it? I also think the 'show me the receipt from the clinic' dialogue doesn't really make sense, apart from disturbing Keiichi.
In another discussion board someone brought up the hypothesis that Takano and the Yamainu took care of the body, the holes and so on, and later on killed Keiichi to be on the safe side. But I'm not sure if that would work, either.
|2012-08-26, 13:21
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They want to protect him But they want him to admit his crime. They will not backstab him but they are hurt because He didn't trust his friends. They Move the body of Tepei, this is why He can't find it anymore. They cornor him to admit his sin, They care for him and they want Keiichi to realize what he just did.As for telling others, they don't need to do that, Keiichi already did the murder effectivly and with some smart thinking , they added him on the night of watanagashi.If you have Read Umineko it is the same way as Kinzos Body (EP5). Heh
|2012-08-26, 14:37
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The club members also tell Keiichi that the village leader scolded him because he was too near to the Saiguden. There is at least a possibility that someone asks the village leader about it and he doesn't know about this.
|2012-08-26, 14:48
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They are mad at him because He didn't talk to him about this, Murder is a serious crime and nothing justifies that, They are mad because, if they found out Keiichi was going to murder Tepei , they would have stoped him no matter what. As for Alibis, As I said It works the same way as Kinzo in Umineko Episode 5, There is a group of people, and during blind spots when nobody can see them, they act as in that person is really there, When the other classmates would notice that they were alone sometimes, they could have thought 'I heard they talking to maebara-san seconds ago, I guess he went somewhere else' .As for Kimiyoshi , they could have told him but either way, Why would someone ask Kimiyoshi such thing, the only person who would do would be Oiishi, and Since Mion moved tepeis body, Sonozaki Family probably knows too so they contacted Kimiyoshi and other people.
|2012-08-26, 15:19
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But when they keep cornering and challenging him for some time and he doesn't get their intention at all, I think they should have told him honestly about what they know and what they feel about the murder. But I must admit that this would have spoilt the mystery of the chapter, so I see the reason why it doesn't happen.
|2012-08-26, 16:52
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By the way, what's your favourite chapter in the Visual Novel? For me it's Meakashi as well as Tsumihoroboshi, they are both very intense and emotional.
The background music in the Kai chapters is so much better (I'm talking about the Manga Gamer version, which - as far as I know - has less different pieces of music than the original Japanese version which I don't know. The music in the question arcs is actually good but there should be more tracks to avoid repeating too much).
|2012-10-01, 03:33
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Umm, I think someone said that Oiishi knew about other worlds?
Well I was just reading Tsumihoroboshi and this scene came up randomly after Oishi and Irie finished talking,
..Umm the way it's placed makes it look like Oiishi is narrating this...O.o
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Danny, how does one have a conversation with the main man? I tried years back to invite Jamie to the school here, but as he was and is always busy that did not happen, and understandably. Now that there's new concern re academy schools and bad practices in place, I really wanted to get on board with Jamie.
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hello ive always liked jamie as a person and i really like his shows i tape all the programmes. but i want to buy a food processor but the magimix is so expensive so which is the next best one that yu have used you could recommed please. ive just joined today as im writing this 28/7/2012
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Hi, just joined today, and I'm looking forward to learning loads of new cooking techniques and recipies, as well as the best kitchen equipment to buy, as I've gotten into a bit of a rut when in comes to being creative at meal times, so any advice would be awesome.
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Welcome Lottie,
Jump on in. What are your favourite recipes?
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MAS Chef - you can send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com, they can ensure that the team working on Jamie's Kitchen Gardens (and School Dinners) will receive your email.
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hey Lottie1992 and welcome. ..... well you have certainly come to the right place, we are a friendly bunch who love a natter about recipes and life in general really. I think you will find this forum not only insightful but one of if not the best out there....
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Hello, Jamie!
My name is Katherine. I am 41 with 3 children - 9,7, and 3 years old, married.
I live in Moscow, Russian Federation. Sorry for my english in advance.
2 years ago we moved to the new apartment near Moscow, my yongerst daugther was very small and I often watched TV during the night. And once... I saw yong man cooking with so much pashion... That moment changed my life, the way I have cooked before, thought before and everything...
I bought all your books publised in Russia, wathed all the shows and TV programmes, espesially concerning "Fifteen" restaurant in England and in Australia, Food Revolution in the USA and I want to offer you to do the same in Moscow, Russia. That will be the eхploded bomb here, we need it so much! I want our children to be healhy, I want the young people here to have a chance to become good, educated people and I feel that you can help to do it. From my side I can garantee you any support you need, including meetings with government people in Moscow.
I hope that my message to you won.t stay without your attention.
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The food is good too, with a full restaurant taking up most of the floor space.
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We offer a cosy, medium sized apartment for two people. It has a balcony, a fully equipped mini kitchen with foldaway dining table, fridge, toaster, kettle. The bathroom has a tub and toilet. The room has a dining table, that can also be used as a work area. The corner sofa is convertible to a very comfortable bed for two. The room is very well lit, with lots of sunshine. The flat is on the first floor, the building has an elevator. It is close to the city center, very easily accessed via public transport, yet very quiet.
-Clean bed linen and towels
-Microwave oven
-Wireless high speed internet
There are a lot of nice restaurants and cafés nearby. You can also find grocery stores (some 24/7), pharmacies, a big market, ATM, shops and specialized boutiques. Pozsonyi street, which is two streets away, is worth a trip because of its special atmosphere, cafés and bookstores.
All touristic attractions are easily reachable. The Grand Boulevard is one corner away. On this corner is the Comedy Theatre, that has an impressive, elegant, late 19th century building.
The St. Stephen park or the Margaret Island is 5 minutes away. The famous ruin pubs of the 7th district are 20 minutes away. The Buda side can be accessed via the tram, through the Margaret bridge in just two stops. The Buda Castle is 20 minutes away, while the Gellért Hill is 30 minutes.
How can you get to the apartment from the airport by public transport?
1.Take the bus 200E from Ferihegy to Kobanya Kispest.
2.Take the Metro (M3) from Kobanya Kispest to Nyugati tér.
(website hidden)om Nyugati tér, walk along Szt István körút (the Bouleward where the tram goes), towards the Margaret bridge. The third street on the right is Pannónia street..
It takes about 45min ~ 3 EUR.
Airport transfer by taxi: from Terminal 2 it costs about 15 EUR.
The best taxi service is Budapest Taxi.
Please let me know if you have any questions, concerns or requests. You will receive my response quickly and I will do my best to make your stay in Budapest wonderful!
Please contact me before making a booking request!
住宿规定Please note I will NOT ACCEPT bookings unless you complete your guest profile and/or contact me BEFORE sending your booking request. I would like to know you a little better before I welcome you in my home.
Please don't disturb other residents after 22:00 by being very loud
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Best recommended for Single Traveller only.
For that price more than ok.
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First of all we really enjoyed our stay. One probably wouldnt want to cook a Christmas feast for 10 in the kitchen, its a bit small and the apartment faces the street so there is a bit of street noise but its low traffic and is pretty quiet at night, we slept well. Plus we stayed for 3 weeks and the kitchen was just fine. The best thing, apart from the nice owner who is very easy to communicate with, is the main room, it is really bright and spacious. Surprisingly so. Its a nice place to be. The building has character, and the area is brilliant, with a plethora of pubs and bars, some fancy, some grungy, several with craft beer. And a turkish place at the start of the street (or across from it) with a changing array of stews and stuffed things.
The Wohnug lies in the Pester part of town, near the marguerite bridge; the places of interest are well accessible on foot or metro. A tpically Hungarian old building; the only "drop of bitterness" is that the flat goes from the the street and this is surely driven on.
Otherwise it was a nice stay here, also because of the uncomplicated kind of Eszter.
Very clean and big apartment. Eszter was very kind and helpfull. We can definitely recommend the apartment!
A nice clean appartment. Close to the old center and the bridge to Buda.
We really enjoyd our stay in Ezster's place.
We had a very nice stay in Eszters apartement for 4 nights. It was good situated within walking distance from the railway/metro station where we arrived from the Airport.
You could also catch a tram on the main road not faar from the app. It was in a quiet area but still restaurants/bars and small 24h open kiosks nearby. It was fun living among the locals. The apartement was big, light and simply furnishured. The bedsofa was ok. What we miss - there was no warderobe with hangers and a hairdryer would have been nice...
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About a year ago we had an epiphany: The '88-'98 Chevrolet and GMC 4x4 pickups were rapidly dropping in price and quickly becoming a viable option for a fullsize wheeling machine, except for one huge drawback-independent front suspension.
Many 4x4 experts, ourselves included, will tell you that independent suspension parts are weak, expensive, complicated, lacking in travel, and have no real articulation-basically all-around junk. But what about letting real-world wheeling be the final judge? We needed to prove or debunk these claims once and for all and decided to find one of those chastised Chevys, do some common aftermarket upgrades, and run it through the scientific research of serious trail abuse.
Of course, we can break anything if we try hard enough, so the next few issues of the magazine will be covering a gradual ramping up of mistreatment to try and find the weak links, analyze actual costs, and eventually calculate definitive pros and cons of an IFS wheeling machine. Plus, it gives us a chance to spend some time out of the office or shop and in the dirt on "business."
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No one on staff had an IFS 4x4 in their stable that they were willing to thrash for the sake of research, so we headed to GM Truck Center in Burbank, California. This is the same outfit that helped build our Ultimate Adventure Chevy stepside in 2005, and they make a fine business of finding, fixing, and selling '70s and '80s GM trucks and Blazers. When we explained that we wanted an IFS truck for some off-road escapades, they turned us onto this '91 K-2500 Silverado. This land yacht came from the factory with a fuel-injected 454 big-block, 4L80E four-speed automatic, and a transfer case that is actually shifted with a lever-not a pushbutton. Unfortunately, we got it with nearly 200,000 miles on the ticker, thoroughly thrashed both inside and out, and the big-block in the bed half disassembled and full of rainwater. Other than the 13-foot-long wheelbase, it is a perfect platform for our testing and cost us less than we spend on coffee in a year.
The first step was to get our budget beater up and running. With a few phone calls, many trips to the local auto parts store, and a bleeding credit card we had a new long-block 454 (from Pace Performance center in Niles, Ohio), under the hood and running smooth. It was not as easy as it sounds, but we'll save the complete engine install debacle for next month.
With the truck running, we wanted to take it out wheeling in stock form, but ran into some other issues with a 15-year-old truck that had been sitting for nearly two years. The cracked stock-sized tires would barely hold air, most of the dash was torn up after multiple stereo and security systems passed through, the driver-side window was long ago smashed ($100), giving the cab months of rain and crud from being out in the weather, and after fewer than 30 miles, the transmission didn't want to shift out of second gear. While under the truck giving the tranny a well needed service and filter change ($60), we also found a driveshaft U-joint at the rear 14-bolt full-floating axle that was ready to grenade ($40). Our budget beater was getting expensive fast and we hadn't even modified it from stock yet.
Rather than a frustrating trip of stock wheeling, we decided some upgrades would be needed to give this land barge a fighting chance off road, but at the same time we wanted to test the IFS to really see what it could or couldn't do. Rather than dive into some high-dollar custom one-off long-travel IFS setup, we installed a basic aftermarket lift kit and some 35-inch tires and changed the axle gears to keep the drivetrain happy. We went back to GM Truck Center and started tearing the front end apart. One thing we found was how quickly the costs of lifting an IFS truck added up. The Tuff Country 6-inch kit we installed has a retail price of $1,459.95 and requires about 12 hours of labor depending on the shape of the truck. With hourly shop rates ranging from $60 to $85 per hour, that can add up to about $900, depending on where you live.


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BRISTOL, Tenn. - If you hear a rumble in the Tri-Cities this weekend, there's a good chance you're near Thunder Valley.
The drag strip is earning its name again this weekend as the National Hot Rod Association takes over Bristol. We were at the track all day Friday taking in the spectacle that is the Ford NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals.
More than 300 cars and drivers taking on the twin thousand-foot lanes are here this weekend, and people from all over the country have driven in to see the action.
In between the mountains, it's unlike anything else you'll see at any other drag strip. On two ribbons of rubber-coated tarmac, cars that burn nitro methane hit 315 miles an hour in four seconds, sending shockwaves of sound that bounce off the mountains.
It's what brought Raymond and Deborah Geoffory to town. "We love drag racing," Deborah said. "Its about a 10-hour drive, and we will travel that far to see a drag race."
It's their third trip in four years. They say they're drawn by the speed and constant action. "You don't take two hours to find out who your winner is on each pass," Raymond said.
It's much different from the 500-lap Sprint Cup races that made Bristol famous at the next-door Bristol Motor Speedway.
It's a unique experience on all its own according to Bristol Dragway Director Brandon Cross. "After they get done running, you get out of our seats and go walk through the pits. You watch these guys rebuild the motor," he told us.
It's access average fans can't get at a NASCAR event, but comes with a ticket to this weekend. Fans can walk right up to a team's garage stall and watch them turn the wrenches and meet the drivers.
"At the end of the day, the drivers are absolutely fantastic about coming up and singing and being a part of the experience," said fan Larry Patton from Draper, Virginia. "That means a whole, whole lot."
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