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My boyfriend came home from work this morning with a present for me.
Can anyone guess what is going to happen to this "jar"? :D
Still thinking up ideas for it and need a small treeish looking piece of driftwood but I am absolutely excited about it!! Such a great surprise.
Will need some color of 2 to 4 male/female neo shrimp to go into it. Blues, painted red or yellow, orange? would be lovely. And some blue or pink ramshorn snails. Of course none of which I have yet.
But first things first, critters aren't the main attraction at all. Now I have to spend the next 2 months deciding on plants and finding moss. YAY!!
Presents are so exciting!!
Oh, that's a nice present!
I like that. There is so much u could do with that
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You have a great BF there.
I have a crapload of Taiwan moss from my Mini-M if you are interested. I just did a trim yesterday and can send some your way.
That would be really lovely. :) TYVM
I've been soaking soil and getting the big pieces out. Mixed in a bit of floramax that I had extra sitting around, so should be ready for plants in about 4 days. Going to top with black diamond blasting sand.
Thinking for plants I will start with -
jungle val
bacopa carolinia - i think it will transition well growing out of the top for a nice flower effect and leave the water line below the rim, which is curved in so nothing should be able to jump out.
Assorted mosses, depends I what we have on hand when I plant the tank next week
Dwarf sag
Dwarf hair grass - to be added later, have to hit Petco up first for a tiny bag of it to see if we can grow it in our tanks with no Co2, i hope so.
And if I can find some pretty parrot feather, i also think this will grow up and out of the water nicely. The fluffy look of parrot feather fits with the look I want for the cactus tree.
1 type of floater but undecided as to which one to use, leaning towards dwarf water lettuce but may go with frogbit, just depends on what grows, we have 2 pieces of frogbit and 1 water lettuce that showed up after putting a mix of duckweed, red root floaters and salvinia in our tanks. Lovely surprise, they are both beautiful, nice long roots growing out!
I made a nice looking cholla wood "tree" cut up a piece and super glued it for a semi-half-kind of stunted cactus look, will super glue moss to the tree and hopefully get a very nice happy place for the future shrimps. I super glued it to a very flat rock so that it won't be in danger of ever falling over (I hope). I may super glue it to the bottom of the jar, if it is a tipping over issue.
I found several very nice rocks but will probably use them in the 1.5 gallon cube that is currently housing mystery snails and a very small dragonscale halfmoon plakat named Damien that followed us home from the local petstore yesterday (Badfish! LOL). I'm actually considering smashing the larger rock with a hammer but am afraid it will lose the beautiful color if I do, it's so pretty, if i could get it into several smaller rocks I'd be overjoyed.
Such a small 2 gallon jar but so much happiness contained inside. I am so lucky to have my boyfriend. He brought home my first small tank as a surprise in November and now we have MTS for sure. It's been a slow and very work intensive project but has kept me going and involved every step of the way. The wonders it has done for depression is staggering, although it still creeps in, the tanks are peaceful and help tremendously when my RSD flairs up and I am in agony in the middle of the night, which happens very, very often. Just watching the tanks has helped me through quite a few bad spots and he somehow knew it would. He's the best thing to ever happen to me, everyone should be so lucky. :)
More updates soon. I'll try to get pictures of my stunted cholla cactus tree.
Great present! I had a one gallon planted pickle jar, but it was a pain to maintain because of the shape I took it down. I would like to get a larger bowl or jar like yours and resurrect the planted jar again!
I've got some Pink Ramshorns if you're interested :)
that's an awesome gift. very thoughtful! i bet its going to be a fun project!
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The cholla wood tree, I am going to tie moss to the tips of each branch for a fuzz cactus look. Surround the bottom with small rocks with moss tied to them and maybe some baby java ferns, since my plants keep shooting off a bajillion plantlets.
I love it! Very cool. Your shrimp will be smiling!
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Updated picture of my Present Jar. It's mostly planted. I believe I will add some DHG or Chain swords to the front/side next week when they get here possibly a riccia carpet. It's cycling so plan to add 2 to 4 shrimp and pink ramshorn snails in a few weeks after the cycle is done. It's turned out very well and I'm really happy with it. It will be a joy to watch the shrimp grow and breed as an observation jar right next to me.
Still undecided as to the color of shrimp to add - orange, red or blue. I'd like the malawa that breed fun colors occasionally but it's crazy to pay shipping for just 2 shrimp :P
Will update after I add the live critters.
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Special thanks to PeterN1986 for the taiwan moss and clippings from his tank that he sent me, they look wonderful in there.
A picture of the cholla wood cave I made and covered with the moss for the shrimp to hide under and in.
Edit- for some reason after the post up there, i could not get another picture to load. So had to post a second time. Sorry for the back to back posts.
I love it! Looks great. :D
Very nice, that's a cool jar.
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Lively text and illustrations will delight young children whilst teaching them that God made the animals ? and that each one is special and different.
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A Wallsend singer has won a top US music award for one of his tracks.
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Taking a commercial approach from day one was costly, but a good investment
Andrew and Natalie Vivian like to joke that their chilled ready meal business, Tasty Pot, is their fourth child.
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Symfony 2.0.10 has just been released:
Twig has been updated to 1.6.0 (which fixes a bug when using Assetic in the production environment);
Doctrine has been updated to their latest minor versions;
And as always, some minor bugs has been fixed.
The CHANGELOG has all the details about the changes done in this release and you can also have a look at the full diff.
If you are starting a new project, you can get the Symfony Standard Edition distribution on the download page.
If you already have a project based on the Symfony Standard Edition 2.0.x, you can easily upgrade to 2.0.10 by getting the new deps and deps.lock files.
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The Jimmy Dore Show march 9, 2012
This Week:
After his advertisers started jumping ship, Rush stepped up and courageously gave a phony apology, proving the old axiom "No man stands taller than when he insincerely apologizes to stop a money drain".
He makes the false equivalency of Bill Maher calling Sarah Palin a cunt and Rush Limbaugh attacking a college student for three days. We explain to Howard that when ridicule is aimed at the powerful it is called "Comedy", when ridicule is aimed at the powerless it is called "Bullying".
Benjamin Netanyahu calls in to let us know that war with Iran is not up to the United States. Just because America doesn't want to go to war again in the Middle east, it really doesn't matter. And if you disagree with BeBe, then you are, of course, and anti-semite!.
Bill Oreilley calls into to defend Rush Limbaugh and impune women everywhere. He tells of how he used to relax with hookers when traveling in asia.
Andrew Breitbart calls in from hell to complain about the inefficiency and laziness of the union bloodsuckers down there.
The hilarious opening song "Oops" was performed by Henry Phillips.
With Frank Conniff, Mike MacRae, Steve Rosenfield, Paul Gilmartin.
Originating from KPFK 90.7 FM in Los Angeles, The Jimmy Dore Show is an irreverent and humorous take on today's headlines and hypocrites. The program skewers politicians as well as the corporate mouthpieces which make up today's mainstream "news media." Each and every week, The Jimmy Dore Show provides the unvarnished truth with a twist of funny.
Don't forget to subscribe, donate, and review the show on iTunes!
Jimmy! I love this show. It's so FUCKING good. I've been on-board since the beginning. When I do use Amazon, I go through your link, but I'm pretty broke these days. The minute I have some extra money, it's yours. But what else can I do to support you? I've written Bill Maher several times and demanded he have you on the panel. I want to get you on TV, somewhere where they won't interfere too much with your content, but where you get paid the amount of money you deserve. Your show is so tight, so well produced. People need to watch it nationally. So, what can I do?
Jimmy Jam!
If you have Benjamin Netanyahu on the show again, can you bring up the other words they like to throw around, "Existential Threat"? Maybe point out that Ahmadinejad did not threaten to "wipe Israel off the map."
Translation: Wipe Israel off the Map, Part 1
Translation: Wipe Israel off the Map, Part 2
Those links are just to show the controversy. I think its pretty easy to do your own research or just get someone you trust to translate the original words for you.
It would be nice if we got some light on this drummed lie for war. Its important to speak the truth on this, cause its repeated everywhere. Even the lesbian Chris Hayes and his guests are pushing this garbage.
@10min mark
Thanks buddy.
Hope to see you on more TYT. How about host the point. I know you wouldn't fuck up like they did with the question from "the Amazing Atheist". I was wondering why Amazing was so hostile when he asked his question, but I guess he new how incompetent the panel was. That's a little harsh. I didn't mind the host before this. I thought the show with Paul Gilmartin was fine (Paul Gilmartin was awesome! Still thinking about his reasoning for religion as need to fit in.)
The problems with the first past the post voting system are interesting. I wish the panel was more informed on the subject. Here are some good overview videos, if anyone is interested.
The Problems with First Past the Post Voting Explained
Other voting subjects are covered in that playlist as well.
Thanks again for the show Jimmy. Great job, keep them coming.
Your fan,
Did you guys ever stop to think that all of Rush's advertisers
were just waiting for one to pull out so that many of them could use the excuse. That's the impression I get. And you are all right, as a political junkie I already know what your gonna talk about, but it is very funny hearing Paul's reaction
to some of the clips you play. Funny as always!
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I have to say - reference my humble lil Surefire E1e ... I reckon in that case the LED head is pretty much ''up there'' compared with std bulb.Except for the Inova LED (tested but not shown), the LED lights don't really match the output power of the Xenon bulb lights.
My light is only a belt carried item - tho I have considered getting a tac' light to go on my 226 - trouble is then holstering!
The LED head is wicked pricey but - my thinking was with regard to the sudden drop-off of output with the bulb. I use my light for so many things and did not want ''sudden death'' when least needed!
My main appraisal has been re the reach of the beam and - a flash into someone's eyes! Of course the LED output is much ''colder'' in color temperature, which is no prob. Plus the fall-off of output is nicely extended. Despite the light's very modest output (compared to larger models) - everyone on whom I have tried the flash in the eyes test has recoiled and made a sorta ''ouch'' sound (self included) - reporting then a loss of clear vision for a second or so.
Thus for me that does prove well useful and in a low light/dark situation would I feel permit me that vital fraction of time to get gun into play.
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Armand J. Corriveau, 89, Westport
Armand J. Corriveau, 89, of Westport passed away on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013, at his residence. He was the husband of the late Alice E. (Boissinot) Corriveau.
Armand was born in Fall River, the son of the late Joseph and Yvonne (L'Homme) Corriveau. He served his country during World War II at the Battle of the Bulge in Normandy with the United States Army's 280th Engineer Combat Battalion and earned the rank of corporal.
After the war, Mr. Corriveau began working for Davis Print then for Riveredge Printers in Fall River. He then owned and operated Armand Construction for a few years. Mr. Corriveau went to work as a technician inspector at Raytheon in Portsmouth, RI, until his retirement in 1988.
Armand was a communicant of Saint George Church in Westport. He was a founding member of the DAV in Westport. Mr. Corriveau cherished the time he spent with his family and friends and helping others.
Survivors are a daughter, Suzanne Y. Nawrocki and her husband Richard of Westport; two grandchildren, Lauren Belliveau and her husband Rob of Dartmouth, and Richard Thomas and his wife Beth of Cranston, RI; three great grandchildren, Robbie, Eric, and Johan; along with many nieces and nephews. He was the brother of the late Irene Cote, Maurice and Roland Corriveau.
His funeral will be held on Friday at 8:45 a.m. from the Hathaway Home for Funerals, 1813 Robeson St., Fall River, followed by a Mass of Christian burial at 10 a.m. in Saint George Church 12 Highland Avenue, Westport. Relatives and friends are invited to attend. Burial with military honors will follow in Notre Dame Cemetery, Fall River. To light a memorial candle, sign guest book, facility or church directions go to www.hathawayfunerals.com or call 508 673-0781. Donations in his memory may be made to either Saint Jude Children's Research Hospital, Attn: Tribute Program, P.O. 1000 Dept 142, Memphis, TN 38148 or the American Heart Association Founders Affiliate, P.O. Box 417005 Boston, MA 0224. Calling hourts will be Thursday from 4-7 p.m.


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I met Margarita about eight months ago. She is a very kindhearted individual with such a warm spirit, but because I've been scammed so many times it was very difficult for me to openly trust anyone in regards to helping me with my foreclosure issues. However, yesterday I decided to step out in faith, put my trust in the Lord, and have Margarita represent me in fighting for my home. Margarita seems to be a very aggressive and knowledgeable lawyer in her field of study. I am afraid of being homeless with my two kids, but I am also willing to take my chances in fighting for my rights. According to Mrs. Rubin, I was told that I have the absolute WORST predatory lending case that she has ever seen, and so I am hoping and praying that at the end of this tribulation, that justice will be served. I'm definitely looking forward to the best outcome possible and trust that Margarita will do all that she can to assist me.
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is Google moving to Palo Alto?
Original post made by resident, South of Midtown, on Jul 13, 2013
Mercury-News says Google is looking at buying large properties in the southern part of Palo Alto. I'm guessing that these properties are already zoned for office and light industrial use, so Palo Alto residents may have no say in the matter. News report: Web Link
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a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Jul 13, 2013 at 10:59 pm
No, GOOGLE is not moving to PA, however, some of the office buildings on East Meadow Circle are empty, so a small Division of GOOGLE could move there. Just more traffic on East Charleston!!!
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Google doesn't need the office space. It needs satellite parking that it can run shuttle busses from.


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Vogue Fashion Night Out 2012: Show Us What You've Got Competition Winners Announcement2012-08-08 17 28 Share Tweet
We were really happy to entartain you with this competition and it seems you have appreciated it: over 600 submissions in less than a month – good job Lomographers! Want to know if you are among the 20 winners whose shots will be displayed at LGS Milan during the Vogue Fashion Night Out? Keep on reading.
So, just to refresh your memory, Vogue Fashion Night Out is an event taking place almost everywhere in the world on September. In Milan it will be on the 6th – during that same night, we will display 20 of your best fashion-related shots in our LGS.
Less talking now, here are the winners – in the podium these 3 shots, which will be rewarded, respectively, with 15, 10 and 5 piggies:
And here is the gallery of the other 17 photos that will be displeyed in our store.
IMPORTANT: since we have to print out you shots, we need all the 20 winning photos in high resolution. Please, send them here ASAP, so we can forward them to print – thank you!
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SafeCat Foundation comedy show fundraiser
Original post made by Aubrey B., San Ramon, on Apr 13, 2012
in a local animal rescue organization...SafeCat Foundation. This Sunday April 15th at 7pm at the Village Theater in Danville, 233 Front Street. Trapped in Rumor will be performing an improv show in the style of Drew Carey's "Who's Line Is It Anyways?" The show is hilarious!
I went last year to support autistic children and had a great night! All the
proceeds go to our medical fund to care for cats and kittens in need. SafeCat
is recognized as pulling medically fragile cats/kittens from shelters....that
is, those cats/kittens that would otherwise be euthanized because of costly
medical procedures get a second chance at life because of this wonderful
organization. We would love to see a full house to support our foster kitties! Tickets
cost $10 for adults and $8 for seniors. Thank you!
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a resident of San Ramon
on Apr 13, 2012 at 1:46 am
San Ramon Oberver is a registered user.
Thanks for posting this, Aubrey. I hope the theater sells out. It's a fun show for a great cause. I've been fostering for Safe-Cat for four or five years now, and they do an amazing job for a small organization.
a resident of San Ramon
on Apr 13, 2012 at 7:25 am
This improv group puts on a great show. You won't be disappointed. It is wonderful how they help non-profits by putting on these shows. I too am a foster with the wonderful group, Safe Cat Foundation.
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Bulls Restaurant Long Beach MSLong Beach, Mississippi USA
Bulls Restaurant Long Beach MS Two star eatery posing as nice place Long Beach Mississippi
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Beware. Don't be fooled by the fancy building paid for by Katrina insurance and disaster relief money. The true disaster is the food.
The food is not even premium Sysco food. EVERYTHING is out if a box or a bucket. The condiments that are put on your table are NOT fresh and reused everyday and only changes when it runs out. Gross.
Your $26 dollar steak will be seasoned with store bought Lowrys season salt and cooked by whoever is hanging by the grill. The famous "tuna dip" is scooped with an ice cream scoop and "decorated" to the tune of $12. It's tuna salad you can make at home for 99 cents. Your sister Schubert bread is warmed in a microwave and handled by everyone and occasionally dropped on the floor. No worries they have a two second rule. There is NOTHING original about this place. Your premium dish Trout Long Beach is prepared days in advance on a plate and simply warmed up when ordered, on the same plate. Don't forget to check your napkins a lot have stains and mildew from being taken to the laundromat rather than professionally cleaned.
The owner is amazingly narcissistic and his mammoth wife follows suit by commenting on how ridiculous customers are when they complain and will do anything NOT to comp your meal.
They do have a lot of regulars, but most of those think a fancy night out is a $15 meal. If that's your thing this is your place. Inevidibly you'll make the mistake of trying it once but that's all it will take.
Save your money.
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Yesterday I received yours of the 18th [?]. We left Nashville the 21st
up to this date have expended $30,000 and paid some 600 men. I have
no good opportunity of writing as when the Cars stop I am busy and when
they are going can not write. We leave for Chattanooga in about ten
minutes. This is a beautiful Country we now in sight of the Tennessee
River and the Sand Mountains. The Rail Roads in this country seem to
follow the shape of the surface of the ground and not have long grades
like we have East. The sight we had just coming over the Dauphin
Mountains was grand.
A M Bridgeport
June 27th 1865
Here we are in front of old Lookout whose top we expect to be on this
afternoon if we get time. I received orders to proceed to Knoxville
and suppose we can go this afternoon.
All well. Much love to all.
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An Informal Compendium of SSAS Errors
This is the first in a series of posts on some SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) errors for which there is apparently little, if any, documentation anywhere on the planet. For an introduction to the compendium, see http://multidimensionalmayhem.wordpress.com/2011/09/21/an-informal-compendium-of-ssas-errors-part-1-introduction-and-data-mining-errors/. Check back Saturday, Oct. 1 for the next installment, An Informal Compendium of SSAS Errors, Part 3: Unresolved Errors.
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Do you have a pool? Have you ever considered building one? Are you a home buyer dreaming of a garden but with a very sharp pencil point?
Installing a pool is a major expense. It's important to figure out if it's worth it -- both for you and potential homeowners.
As every good appraiser knows, the answer is simple. It depends. I know. That's why we get the big bucks.
For me, it seemed the simplest way to find the answer was to examine a nice, homogenous neighborhood. I picked one where the construction styles and quality were all similar -- Cudjoe Gardens.
The trouble is, of all the sales there in the last two years, only two homes with pools have sold. "Hmmm," I said to myself. "What does that mean?"
Undaunted, I selected another homogenous subdivision -- Cutthroat Harbor Estates. I ran into the same seawall.
My conclusion is that in the Keys, there is no demand for pool homes on canals. Unless your own personal vanity demands it, don't bother.
I therefor skipped Sugarloaf Key, Saddlebunch Keys, Shark Key and Key Haven and dove right into Key West. But Key West is a tough customer because there aren't so many standard neighborhoods.
I started with what I call the "bedroom community" near my office. Those are the homes bounded by Kennedy, Flagler and Roosevelt Boulevard. I liked my data. It was very friendly. I found 13 sales of three-bedroom, two-bath homes in the last 24 months. Eight of them had pools.
Survey says: Pool=profit. The average sale price of a home with a pool was $459,863. Average price without is $436,800. That's close to $24,000 less. The price per square foot of living space was also slightly higher for pool homes vs. those without, $283/sf compared with $280/sf.
It was a little peculiar, though, because the average days on market (or marketing time) was slightly longer for homes with a pool compared with those without a "P" -- 181 to 135.
The question is, was this a fluke? Could it be just an accident that my 13 houses worked out this way?
So, I found another similar area of houses in Key West. This time, I selected those bordered by Atlantic Boulevard, Bertha Street, Flagler and White streets.
I got so excited, I thought I might need a paper bag over my head. In the last two years, there were 17 sales, all similar age, size, construction. I was giddy. Yet the best part was the data supported my earlier discovery: Pool=profit.
This time, it was a slam dunk. The average sales price of homes with pool was $500,083 compared to only $352,620 for those without.
Water produced a sharply higher price per square foot to inland as well -- $348/sf to $276/sf.
As if it were my birthday, the days on market for pools was only 134 and for no pool was 219.
The results are clear, at least for this market. It pays to be wet.
All potential homebuyers, owners and home sellers, please be aware. Every market is different. If you want to know if building a pool or buying a pool home is fiscally worthwhile, seek the advice of a professional.
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Cyber gangs more ingenious, with one victim handing over $1.1m.
New Zealanders lost more than $4.4 million to internet scams in the last year as cyber criminals became better organised, more resourceful and turned to blackmail.
More than 10 victims lost $100,000 or more; one person was duped into handing over $1.1 million to a scammer.
NetSafe is warning people to be suspicious of any unexpected emails promising large sums.
In the past year, the largest losses recorded were to inheritance and government grant-type scams where the victim was persuaded to part with money before they could receive their windfall.
More than $1.5 million was handed over in these schemes.
The scam which held the previous top spot, romance ploys, fell to No2 in this year's annual review of cyber incidents, with almost $1.3 million lost.
NetSafe's chief executive, Martin Cocker, said internet users should be suspicious of any unexpected emails and not send money by wire transfer unless they knew the other party personally.
"Once sent, it's impossible to track or recover your funds."
A new scam reported for the first time this year put a technological spin on blackmail.
Scam victims took part in naked video chat sessions only to find their activities had been recorded. The other party threatened to upload the film to YouTube or social networking sites unless money was paid.
NetSafe received reports of up to $600 being sent to blackmailers believed to be as far afield as the Philippines and Morocco.
"It's a very difficult situation to find yourself in - we've had users afraid of friends and family seeing the videos, or losing their jobs," Mr Cocker said.
"Once an initial sum has been sent through, the requests for more money keep coming."
The largest number of reports came under the online trading category, More than 350 people reported they lost money buying goods online.
"Individuals can easily create a profile on a local Facebook group, list items for sale and give a buyer their bank details," Mr Cocker said.
"We've had many people report losing money when the cheap iPhone or clothes they've sent payment for has failed to arrive and the seller has disappeared, blocked them from the page or ignored all messages."
The cyber safety organisation said some online shoppers suffered when buying goods from e-commerce companies which had taken money and not delivered. They included sites operating with a ".co.nz" domain name but were run from overseas.
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As reported in the North American Journal of Fisheries Management 2016, the current gold standard for chemically removing and killing New Zealand Mud Snails is GS 256 and Super HDQ disinfectant. A 0.4% bath or a spray of 0.8% with an exposure duration of 10 minutes will meet or exceed disinfection requirements for NZMS, quagga mussels, zebra mussels, whirling disease, and chytrid fungus. GS 256 and Super HDQ disinfectants are available from janitorial supply centers. Neither chemical is licensed by Cal EPA as a molluscicide and both are highly toxic to aquatic organisms. Used solution should be disposed of at a municipal sewage facility or onto bare earth well away from water.
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A brown to black very small (maximum size of 5 mm) mudsnail with a sharply conical shell with five (rarely 6) spirals. The small size and 5 spirals are distinguishing characteristics for layman's field identification.
A native to New Zealand, the New Zealand mudsnail (Potamopyrgus antipodarum) (NZMS) lives in a variety of habitats ranging from estuaries and lakes to large rivers and small streams. It feeds on bottom dwelling algae (periphyton) and detritus. The mudsnail can reproduce sexually or through the process of parthenogenesis, which produced clones of the female mudsnail. In its native waters the mudsnail population is primarily kept in check by trematode (small worm) parasites that sterilize the snail or change mudsnail behavior making it more likely that mudsnails are eaten by foraging waterfowl.
Probably around 1986 the mudsnail was imported from New Zealand into a trout hatchery in Idaho from which it was widely disseminated through trout stocking. Another theory suggests it made its way into the States via Australia. In September 2005 a second morph, possibly a second species, of NZMS was discovered in the Snake River. The Western American strain is clonal and apparently did not bring the normally associated trematode parasites with it. Without its natural enemies, the mudsnail has spread uncontrolled through some of the most productive waters in North America.
The mudsnail has a tremendous propensity to rapidly populate its environment, and upwards of 750,000 mudsnails per square meter have been found in some waters. The mudsnail does not appear to be self-limiting from density dependent effects. Their sheer numbers dominate the base of the food web and they can consume over 80% of a river's productivity. Their presence exerts a negative impact on mayflies, stoneflies, caddisflies and some midges. In one Montana stream infested with NZMS only 3% of the macroinvertebrate biomass now consists of indigenous species. Conversely scuds and some midges thrive on the mudsnail's nitrogen rich feces.
Even when deprived of other food, trout and sculpins avoid feeding on the NZMS and one study suggests that even when they are consumed, mudsnails can pass through the digestive system of trout unscathed. Whitefish and some crayfish do feed on the mudsnail, but studies suggest that mudsnails are a poor source of nutrients compared to other aquatic invertebrates. Though quantitative analysis is not yet published, it appears quite likely that the presence of large numbers of NZMS can have a profoundly negative impact on a trout or salmon fishery.
In lab studies the mudsnail selects gravel as its preferred substrate; in the wild they can inhabit just about any stable substrate but seem to do best in areas where streambeds and riparian zones have been disturbed or altered. Spring fed creeks and tailwaters produce the highest densities of snails. Areas of high water velocities produce the least suitable habitat. Diverse, natural habitats seem fairly resistant to NZMS colonization, but this may be a result of the habitat preference of particular clones that have been introduced. So far, high-gradient first order streams and lakes have not been colonized in the West (Lake Ontario supports a NZMS from a European clone. This appears to be a mudsnail specifically predisposed to dwelling in lakes).
Though the NZMS can tolerate temperature extremes from near freezing to 90°F, they thrive between 65°F and 70°F. Water chemistry appears to play only a minor role in growth and reproduction rates.
The NZMS has been documented in the Columbia, Snake, Missouri, and Colorado drainages. In 2000 snails made landfall in California in the Lower Owens River near Bishop. Since then it has moved throughout the Owens drainage including Hot Creek, Rush Creek and Lone Pine Creek. In October 2003 mudsnails were discovered in Putah Creek and two months later in the Mokelumne. In January 2004 a well established population was discovered in an eleven mile reach of the Calaveras River. A population was found in the Napa River drainage later that summer that was possibly spread by construction equipment that had been used on the Mokelumne. NZMS were later documented in Piru Creek and by early 2006 NZMS populations were popping up in small creeks throughout Southern California. On December 29, 2006 NZMS were found in the spring that feeds the Department of Fish and Game's Hot Creek hatchery near Mammoth Lakes.
In 2007 NZMS were discovered in the Lower American River near Sunrise Bridge (home to one our largest hatcheries); in Alameda creek then Hayward Creek, the largest watershed within the San Francisco Bay region; and in Santa Cruz's San Lorenzo River - home to a nearly extinct population of coho salmon. In late 2007 snails were found in Lake Shasta - the only colony of lake dwelling snails in the US outside of Lake Ontario. It may be a new strain, or simply the original California strain that has adapted to still water. A year later they were discovered in Big Lagoon, and in the nearby tidewater narrows between Lakes Earl and Talawa, Humboldt County. Later in 2007 they appeared in Antioch Creek in the South Bay. In 2008 NZMS were found in the Russian, Smith, and Klamath Rivers. As of September 2009 additional infestations were discovered in Baxter Creek in the East Bay and in the Stanislaus River. In May of 2013 NZMS were confirmed in the Truckee River near Reno, Nevada. In 2016 NZMS were discovered in the Lower Yuba and Lower Feather Rivers.
Within a river system downstream drift and spread is facilitated by the mudsnail's propensity to cling to leaves and "raft" with the current. Upstream spread is poorly understood. The invasion is rarely a smooth march outward, but hop scotches like spotting before a forest fire which suggests spreading by vector. Birds, fish, and even cattle have been implicated on an anecdotal level, but evidence strongly points towards wading anglers as the primary source of NZMS dispersion. In a recent survey of 50 wading anglers at Putah creek, 100% of the fishermen had mudsnails on their waders and/or in their boots (an average of 33 snails per angler!). The possibility has been raised that the Mokelumne may have been inoculated from the Calaveras by salmon monitoring activities.
With current technologies, once established NZMS are unlikely to be controlled. The importation of parasitic trematodes has been considered but the potential disruption to native fauna has yet to be established. Since the mudsnail is clonal it has very little genetic resistance to a clone specific disease process and perhaps genetic engineering will provide us with a targeted weapon against the NZMS. Perhaps the mudsnail will take care of itself. Invasive exotics are well known for overshooting the carrying capacity of their new found home. NZMS populations in Lake Zurich rose dramatically then crashed. The populations in Denmark have all but disappeared. Scientists still do not know why.
Since NZMS populations can't be controlled once they become established, the first order of defense is containment. Angler awareness is paramount since it is likely that the spread of the mudsnails is strongly associated with wading. Thorough decontamination (see top of page) of wading gear is mandatory to halt the spread of NZMS. Though inspection of wading gear has been suggested as a measure of control, the fact that snails may be a small as a fleck of pepper make this route highly unreliable. Immediate, frequent, and persistent bio assessment is needed to identify and (hopefully) contain incipient populations of NZMS.
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Notes of an Amateur: CPE Bach, R. Murray
Shafer, Lindberg, Goerne's Schubert.
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Magnificat; Heilig is Gott, WQ217; Sinfonia in D Sharp Major. RIAS Chamber Choir, Akadamie für Alte Musik Berlin. Hans-Christoph Rademann. Harmonia Mundi HMC 902167.
Coming to the choral music of CPE Bach from that of his father, Johnann Sebastian, can be an thrilling shock, especially if the son is in the hands of Alte Musik Berlin who relish their difference. We leap from the baroque to the rococo, where textures are simpler, melodic lines are longer, and the atmosphere is more vibrant. Alte Musik Berlin's CPE Magnificat (1849) gives us religious faith that is bursting with more affirmative energy than reverence. I have always wondered how the world would hear this music if its composer were named anything but Bach. Or how the music would have gone down 40 years earlier with the conservative church officers of Leipzig with whom his father had to deal.
The three works recorded here were the essence of a program presented on Palm Sunday, April 9, 1786—and it must have been a stunner. Just as in his keyboard concertos and solo keyboard sonatas, Carl Philipp Emanuel, while he's as respectful of his father as always, seems to be kicking over the traces of the older generation. We are clearly approaching the age of Mozart.
I'm sure there are some who would play especially the fast sections of the Magnificat at a slower pace, reducing contrast with the slower ones—and with the music of the father. I'm sure Rademann and his musicians are conscious of a desire to do quite the opposite. Even the soloists—bass Markus Eiche in particular—sing with notable gusto. And when alto Lehmkuhl and tenor Odinius sing the duet in section six, we are a good deal closer to opera than Johann Sebastian's church would have put up with. It is possible ones response to this interpretation of the work will depend on how Lutheran one is!
To return to one of my earlier remarks, were CPE named something other than Bach, based on this work I'm confident we would be ranking him alongside Haydn, whose several oratorios are to my ears a step behind Carl Philipp's in shear eloquence. But then I haven't heard Alte Musik Berlin play Haydn!
Heilig ist Gott (1776), composed 27 years later, is even more moving than the Magnificat. Its mood is appropriately more somber, though this doesn't much daunt AMB who are so much in love with the composer's partaking of the spirit of a new musical age they're not about to hold much back. And based on the results, few are likely to fault them. Sinfonia in D# Major (1780), with no religious concerns to address, is pure CPE Bach exuberance and joie de vivre.
A great album that will be a revelation to some of you.
R. Murray Schafer, String Quartets, Nos. 8-12. Molinari Quartet. Atma ACD2 2672. (2 cd's).
Canadian Murray Schafer (b. 1932) is about as close to being a unique composer as one can be these days. His heart is romantic, his language tends toward dissonance—and thus his music is fiercely rhapsodic. It is the ferocity that keeps keeps everything in the air. That said, in the first two quartets programmed here, he also exhibits a need to step outside his form—in Quartet No. 9 (2005) with children's voices; in Quartet No. 10 (2005) with a paragraph of spoken commentary. Depending on how you feel about 'mixed media,' this will either please or dismay you. His music certainly does not require these...intrusions...to move us and could be said to break the spell, bringing everything back to earth and limiting its power of ramification. I prefer artists, especially those with the eloquence and skill of a Murray Schafer, who have faith in the power of their art to suffice.
I have yet to hear his earlier quartets, so I don't know how often he yields to this temptation. Quartet No. 11 (2006) is all music and to my ears the better for it. Unlike most music, it does not make us think of other music as it takes us into its own realm. I consider this a rare accomplishment. Quartet No. 12 (2012) flirts with impressionism but soon enough moves on to other musical matters. There is a tendency to swoon here and there and also peculiar, elusive recalls of popular stage music, idioms of the 1940's and 1950's. On the whole this quartet feels almost like a personal memoir. "The mood changes rapidly throughout the single movement of the work, alternately the lyrical and suave with the fast and energetic. One might find the tempo unusual for a composer approaching eighty years old." (RMS)
Quartet No. 8 (2000-2001) completes the program. The first of its two movements is an adventurous olio of different styles, which apparently take their thematic coherence from references to the lives of its dedicatees. The second, in which a pre-recorded quartet plays alongside a live one, is a whole musical world unto itself—dark, reflective, emotionally intense—occasionally very moving. An unsettling (alarming?) shrieking motif appears in both movements. As a two-part work, Quartet No. 8 is difficult to digest: each half insists on its own, largely separate existence.
I was alerted to the existence of Schafer and his quartets by composer and Fanfare Magazine reviewer Robert Carl, who admires him enormously. (Volume 37, No. 3, Jan/Feb, 2014). Carl and I agree on Schafer's overall aesthetic but I have more listening to do before my admiration catches up with his. I recommend his review to those whom I've made curious.
Magnus Lindberg, Violin Concerto. Jubilees. Souvenir. Pekka Kuusisto, violin and director for the concerto; Tapiola Sinfonietta, Magnus Lindberg, conductor for Souvenir and Jubilees. Ondine. ODE 1175.
A leading light among Finnish modernists, which is saying a lot, Magnus Lindberg is the perfect complement (antidote?) to fellow Finn Kaija Saariaho, meeting her mystic spirituality with an intense and disciplined Scandinavian protestant severity. His Violin Concerto has some of the boldness of Thomas Adès,' though not quite its humanity. Ligeti's also belongs in a comparative discussion.
The first movement is cool (arctic?) and resolute. We hear a six note theme drowning in a dissonant storm. It re-emerges in the second movement but the storm soon returns to sweep it away... until it returns again. The violin is then allowed to solo for a while, with and without the theme. The third and final moment adds intensity to the mix (as if it were needed!) and then concludes with a soupçon of harmonic relief. I am tempted to say this work feels more Swedish than Finnish and my wife's Finnish relatives would likely agree.
Jubilees (2000-2002) a work for small orchestra, is more variable in mood and will strike some resistant to the charms of the concerto as more interesting; but there is sufficient bluster to it to remind us whose musical world we are in. And it concludes with a fierce, stalking movement that even a valedictory oboe can't deliver us from.
Another work for small orchestra, Souvenir (2010), is the most recent work in the program. The mood here has warmed a bit. It is intended as an elegy for two of the composer's former teachers, so we spend somewhat more time in middle of the keyboard than in the other works. That said, Lindberg's essential qualities remain in force. His cool, stoicism is never far away.
Overall, Lindberg's musical world has become uncompromisingly Type A. It asserts an unindulgent, sometimes threatening, emotional landscape over which it claims dominance. It tests our willingness to submit to and abide for a while in a world where the traditional rewards of music are given little room to breathe, which is after all what a great deal of modernism is about.
Don't let me drive you away if you're bold of spirit. Lindberg has a large following in the musical world, so he's clearly got his hands on at least a part of our zeitgeist.
Schubert. Wanderers Nachtlied. Matthias Goerne, baritone. Helmut Deutsch, Eric Schneider, piano. 'Goerne Schubert Cycle, Vol. 8.' Harmonia Mundi HMC 902109.10 (2 cd's)
There are two things going on in every performance of Franz Schubert's lieder: there is Schubert and there is a voice, setting aside for the moment the pianist. I make this obvious remark because Peter Pears,' Dietrich Fischer-Diskau's, and Mathias Goerne's Schubert are very nearly three different composers. And there is no getting around this. Despite what I will say at the end of this review, there is no definitive Schubert lieder any more than there are definitive Schubert piano sonatas. And human voices differ more than pianists and their pianos.
Schubert's lieder is his greatest music. It is also the most protean. It changes its very being depending on its interpretation. I am fond of its painfully lyric eloquence coming through the voice of high tenor Peter Pears; and of the smooth richness that comes through Fischer-Diskau. But from Mathis Goerne, I hear music that almost literally makes the earth move, as it surely must have done in the musical mind of the composer himself. Goerne sings like God's cello, the instrument most often compared with the human voice—the entire range of the cello. There is a timbre to his voice that no other Schubert singer can approach. And the piano accompanists Harmonia Mundi have blessed him with all (truly all of them) have the ability to make us believe we are hearing sonatas that have been given both deep roots and wings. Today it is Helmut Deutsch and Eric Schneider.
We have 32 lied here, taken from many moments in his brief life. We have had some 250 or so to date. The Hyperion Records edition gave us somewhere around 350. How many lied did Schubert compose? "Over 600." How far will this series go? Latest word is that there will be eleven volumes, which will give us roughly the same number of CD's as the Hyperion set. But all by Goerne! Excelsior.
Equipment used for this audition: Resolution Audio Cantata CD player; Crimson 710 preamplifier and 640 mono-block amplifier; Tocaro 40 loudspeakers; Blue Circle BC3000II GZpz preamplifier and BC200KQ stereo amplifier; Jean Marie Reynaud Orféo Supreme loudspeakers; Crimson cabling.
Bob Neill is a former equipment reviewer for Enjoy the Music and Positive Feedback. Since 2004 he has been proprietor of Amherst Audio in western Massachusetts, which sells equipment from Audio Note (UK), Blue Circle (Canada), Crimson (UK), Resolution Audio (US), Jean Marie Reynaud (France), and Tocaro (Germany).


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One of the world's poorest nations, Burkina Faso, boasts an extraordinary dance company, Salia ni Seydou, writes Stephanie Bunbury.
Years ago, I had to write an economic report on Burkina Faso. This was something of a challenge: I didn't even know where it was. Then I found out that this small, West African country had the lowest per capita income in the world.
The rain in the Sahel was always uncertain and the grazing land marginal. An idealistic president had been killed by his friend. This Judas then opened the country to foreign banks, so that it was not only achingly poor, but mired in debt.
What was striking in the midst of all this, however, was that Burkina Faso - or "Land of Men of Dignity", surely the most beautifully named country in the world - was also the home of Africa's most important film festival, held twice a year in the capital, Ouagadougou. The city also had a thriving music scene. Against all the odds, Burkinas had found ways in which they were not poor. All these years later, though, it is still a surprise to find that Burkina Faso is home to one of the most innovative contemporary dance companies on the European circuit.
Salia Sanou and Seydou Boro met first at drama school in Ouagadougou, where they studied African contemporary dance along with other theatre skills. In 1993, they were invited to join the Mathilde Monnier company in France for a multicultural production of Antigone. They stayed and formed their company, Salia ni Seydou, a hybrid of the dance they saw around them in France with their own dance tradition and the compelling music of home.
In Melbourne this week, the company presents their fourth major work, Weelani (The Call), a collection of three arresting solo pieces. It is absolutely modern, yet exotic; avant-garde, abstract, yet as immediate as any traditional African dance.
Salia is hard-pressed to give their work a cultural definition.
"The critics define it for us," he says. "For us, we were looking for something that came from us and suited us, something that reflected our experiences in Africa and in Europe ... It's new. The first time people saw us in Burkina, they said, 'What's that? I don't understand it. They dance like white people!'. Then, when you tour Europe, people say, 'Ah, that's African dance!'."
I met Salia in Lisbon, where he has been invited to give workshops. Watching him perform his solo piece in Weelani, you see every muscle in his back, a tussle of tough little animals under his skin. Now he swings across the room in lithe leaps and swings of the arms. No single movement is difficult, but almost none of the students can follow him. Their bodies simply do not anticipate the right movements.
"It's another technique, another energy, another way of looking at dance," says Salia. "Most European students have a classical formation, a very classical contemporary base. African movement is more based on energy and the relation with the ground."
Although, he adds, the French are different from the Italians and both are different from the Portuguese. There are no cultural monoliths. There is such a thing as culture shock, however. Salia felt this awkwardness of body himself when he went to work with Monnier.
"To start with, Mathilde's choreographic vision was almost opposite to African choreography in its energy, the use of space, the relationship of dance to music and to silence ... She didn't force me to learn Western contemporary technique. It was me who took that step."
He did classes in contemporary dance. He learned flamenco. He found he was interested in everything.
"What is it? What is energy? How does it work? I joined every class, just to get an idea."
Salia's father is a peasant farmer. It is not easy for him or Salia's childhood friends to come to grips with the idea that anyone could make a living out of dancing.
"In Burkina Faso, different dances mark births, deaths, initiations and weddings. It's well codified, very ritualistic and organised. And it is very important, even if not everyone has the potential to dance well. It is through dance that you can express values that cross the various generations.
"Everyone dances in Africa. But when I first told my dad I was going to dance in France he said, 'He's mad; this is not possible'. People go to France to study to get a doctorate or become a doctor or a solicitor. No one goes to France to dance. I had to help him understand that we were professional dancers and that we made a decent living."
Without touring, French funding and workshops such as this one in Lisbon, the company could not survive. They might perform four times a year in Burkina and draw full houses, but that would not stretch to 10. It is fortunate, he says, that they have such a strong reputation.
But in a country where many people barely have enough to eat, isn't contemporary dance rather an indulgence? "Burkina Faso is a very poor country," says Salia simply. "Without the sea, without gold or diamonds or oil. Nothing. It rains for three months a year and, for the rest, there is the heat and drought. But, since independence, Burkina Faso has been one of the countries in Africa that has always had a minister of culture and devotes 10 per cent of its national budget to culture."
Art may not be "work", but it is has been ascribed a political importance.
"There is a kind of recognition of that. People say: 'We haven't got anything. What can we say to prove that we exist; that we are also men and women on this earth; that we can be useful to humanity?' Nowadays, there is a real cultural dynamism, with private and state initiatives. Culturally, it is one of the African countries where there is a lot of change going on."
Salia finds working in Burkina Faso inspiring.
"There are more important things than life conditions," he says.
"How people are with each other; how they speak to each other; how they love each other; how people hold hands.
"This is what is so beautiful in Burkina. In a country that is so poor in the world, there is human wealth."
Weeleni is at the Playhouse from October 22-25.
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|1 x Male Elbow Connector
- Can be used to connect various pipes, such as air pipe, fuel pipe, water pipe, etc.
- Easy and convenient to install.
- An ideal male elbow connector.
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