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Kribs compatibility? Ok so I am trying to plan out fish for my 36 gallon tank and was hoping to put a pair of Kribs in there. What would be some good dither fish to add? I like cardinal tetras and danios, but will the cardinal tetras be too small for when the kribs get aggressive while spawning? I wasn't sure on what is the minimum size fish I could safely keep with kribs. Anyway, would schools of those fish work or what are some other suggestions from anyone who has experience with kribs? By the way, would only getting a pair of Kribs be okay? Thanks in advance! |
SO cardinals like really acidic and soft water and kribs like around seven so there is the first prob... don't get cories I regret it with kribs and size wise cardinals would work... maybe a good option would be the lemon tetra or some other that you like |
Alright, thank you so much! |
As mentioned in our profile of the Kribensis, small fish may be eaten. And a pair is recommended. During spawning (they will spawn) they can be a bit rough to other fish, so somewhat "robust" upper fish like Danio, smaller barbs, medium characins are possibilities. There are several of each of these in our profiles. Byron. |
Okay, thank you. Would tiger barbs be suitable? I remember reading somewhere that some barbs might harm the fry. Not sure if this is accurate. |
To the Tiger Barb. If you read our profile (click the shaded name) you will see this is not a normal community fish; it comes with problems that again can be more or less obvious depending upon the fish and environment. But it is safest to have at least 8 (preferably more), and in their own space unless the tank is large, and larger than a 36g. |
Thank you for your quick reply, it was all very helpful. :-D |
heey i have kribs and they really dont bother anything and they even bred and didnt attack anything:p they currently live with harlaquin rasboras,cories,guppies,barbs,bamboo shrimp |
Oh thanks, that is nice to hear! I have some danios at the moment, and I was thinking about getting some tetras too. Also, would a pair of pearl gourami be suitable with kribs? I have read that slow moving fish like gourami shouldn't be kept together with cichlids, but then I read on a compatibility site that they are one of the types of gouramis that can be kept with kribs. |
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Recycling I have no doubt that most people reading this article will have a basic understanding of the concept of recycling. With our environment being in the crisis that it is, it should almost be considered mandatory to recycle in the home. HomeImprovement4u wants to ensure that doing your part for the environment is easy and enjoyable. Recycling in the Home: The easiest way to recycle in the home is just as easy as the habits we have already formed. We are so used to throwing our waste into one big dustbin that gets taken to a dump in our area. However, we don't often think of the repercussions that this has on our poor earth. Simply throwing away items that could be recycled to dumping grounds means that you are contributing to the never-ending cycle of waste. Recycling in the home ensures that your waste is taken to places that will reuse your old products in a way that is beneficial and resourceful. Your household waste such as plastic, paper, bottles, cans and jars. All of these items should be sorted through and divided and taken to recycling locations in your area. Sorting through these items should not be considered a difficult task! Indulge yourself in a DIY project of creating three or more separate bins for each separate item of waste. Create one bin for plastics, one bin for papers and perhaps another bin for glass. Doing this is the easiest way to ensure that you are making a difference to the way communities treat waste and how it impacts our earth. Recycling made fun: The amount of creative and innovative things one can do with recycling is endless. One example that is a great one for kids, who have millions of broken and dirty crayons, is to turn them into bright, vibrant coloring tools once again! Crayons contain harmful chemicals and plastics that have a negative impact on the environment if they are not properly disposed of. Here is how to turn these art tools into pieces of art: Step 1: Make sure that all the old, dirty wrappers are removed. Step 2: Break each crayon (I'm sure they're already smashed into pieces by now) into pieces that are approximately 2 cm. Step 3: For crayons that are a fun cupcake shape like the picture shown, place the crayons in a cupcake tray that is lined with wax paper. Step 4: Heat the crayons for fifteen minutes at 350 degrees. Watch as the colours mold and melt into one another, creating entirely new crayons! Recycling projects can be done with almost any object in your home; this is only one example of many! If you are interested in exploring more projects in home improvement, please visit our homepage.
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New Orleans has been eating local and restoring its treasures well before such practices were cool: This year it won the survey for cool antique shops, like the legendary M.S. Rau Antiques on Royal Street. For recycled vintage fashions, you can browse the 1940s dresses and '80s leather jackets at Magazine Street's Revival Outpost (or you can shop for new, fair trade apparel at nearby Branch Out). New Orleans also won the survey for its notable restaurants, and one notably local eatery is Purloo—so-named after the Southern concoctions of meat and rice—which just debuted at the Southern Food and Beverage Museum. As proof that good times are recyclable, the city also won the survey for its reliably wild weekends.
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Readers React to "Confessions Of... A Front-Desk Clerk"
We've gotten some passionate letters in reaction to our recent article, Confessions Of...A Front-Desk Clerk. Here's a sampling:
I was appalled by Anne Szeker's "Confessions of a Front-Desk Clerk" (November 2006). She says, "The folks who reserve through discount sites are at the bottom of the food chain" because "the hotel barely makes a profit on the booking." Nobody is forcing any hotel to participate in third-party booking sites, such as Expedia and Priceline. But if a property does choose to release rooms to those sites, it has a responsibility to treat all guests equally. What Ms. Szeker is really advocating is a two-tier system: The guests who have lots of money get treated like royalty, and everyone else gets the shaft. Did it ever occur to Ms. Szeker that some people simply can't afford the outrageous prices charged by most hotels? In my experience, $200 a night buys a room with stained carpet, ugly furniture, paper-thin towels, scratchy bed linens and one-ply toilet paper. Guests are nickel-and-dimed for everything, including Internet access fees and "resort fees" for services they don't use. Perhaps if hotels offered better value for the money, their guests wouldn't have to use the discount sites. --Regina Klapper, Santa Fe, N.M.
I enjoy your magazine, and particularly the insider tips from employees within the travel and leisure industry in your "Confessions Of" piece. However, I take issue with the comments of the hotel front desk clerk in your December/January issue. Across our society we suffer from a decline in civility from those whom we seek service. From sullenness at fast food joints to unfriendly store clerks, bad attitudes and bad service are far too common. The writer's attitude speaks volumes as to the cause. She seems to be implying that in order to get consistently good service, the customer must treat her well. It is the "me first" attitude that has become all too typical of service industry employees. I am assuming the hotel she worked at was upscale, and not the standard budget or economy roadside establishment. If that is the case, I do hope that she is atypical of the employees and management there. Good retail businesses know that rule number one is "the customer is always right." Rule number two is, "when the customer is wrong, refer to rule number one." Repeat business results from the experiences one has with the establishment. I have traveled frequently all over the world, and I can tell you that if you want me to continue to spend my money with you, treat me kindly, even when I am wrong! --David E. Chesebrough, Woodbridge, Va.
I was absolutely stunned and shocked at what Anne Szeker said in her article, "Confessions of .....A Front Desk Clerk" in the Dec 06-Jan 07 issue. Specifically about the comments concerning third party reservations (Expedia, Priceline...)! "Hotel Managers can't stand it when guests reserve room through Expedia, etc.....because the hotel barely makes a profit on the booking." And, "The folks who reserve through discount sites are at the bottom of the food chain." Is this commonly known? Am I the only one who doesn't know it? I have never heard this or even imagined it! If they don't make a profit, why do hotels participate in it? We're told they want to fill rooms and often discount them to do that, so we figure we're all happy. Do they not have a choice if they want to compete in the market? I've only booked through the Internet a few times, and had no problem, but I will hesitate to do so in the future. If this gets out, where will Travelocity, Expedia, et al, be?? Are there any other desk clerks out there to verify that this is indeed true, even if, of course, the hotels themselves would never admit it? --Susan Paradis, Machias, Maine
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I grew up in a famous resort called Grossinger's in New York's Catskill mountains. The author of "Confessions of a Front Desk Clerk" got it all wrong. It was not the responsibility of the guest to make her shift pleasant, it was her responsibility as an employee of the hotel to make the guest's stay pleasant! --Tania Grossinger, New York, N.Y.
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Large swarms of bees from several hives attacked the novice monks who were sweeping the grounds of the Luang Worawiham temple in Chiang Mai on Sunday.
Phra Ratcha Jetiyajarn, the temple abbot, said 76 novice monks were stung and rushed to three hospitals in central Chiang Mai.
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The germ of the idea for Sit-N-Spin came while McCrossin was in Greenville in the mid-'90s, but it wasn't until he opened a second shop in Wilmington that he actually acted. One of his employees, James Reardon, is in Rodeo Boy and McCrossin decided to put out their single. But what began as a simple 7-inch soon grew to be a whole album.
When McCrossin got married, he sold his CD Alleys in Greenville and Wilmington and moved to Winston-Salem. He came to Chapel Hill a little over four years ago, when his wife applied to UNC-Chapel Hill for grad school. He spotted 2-Way Pull Records holding a going-out-of-business sale, and soon he was back in the record business. With such a vibrant scene, it wasn't long before the label was alive again, releasing a Kingsbury Manx single and a Comas 7-inch picture disc.
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On 14/01/2013 16:20, Thorsten Scherler wrote:
Can you please tell me how can I address block_A's sitemap from from block_B's sitemap?
I have used blockcontext:/ for this before.
This should work In the same way as in *servlet-service.xml, e.g. by replacing
Hi, I just tried the above in another project but using it in the sitemap I get
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I am trying to use a central module to store common xsl that I need both in cocoon and in my java code.
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Ifrit Golem
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- This article is about the Sonic and the Secret Rings boss. You may be looking for the Ifrit from Sonic Rivals 2.
Ifalas zaraz i is zarak. Ifalas zaraz i is zarak. Come forth from the fiery depths of Jahannam, ye condemned by Iblis! Iz Afrit!
— Erazor Djinn, Sonic and the Secret Rings
The Ifrit Golem is the boss of Evil Foundry in Sonic and the Secret Rings, after being summoned by Erazor Djinn in order to burn the pages of the Arabian Nights. Shahra refers to it as "a djinn that controls fire", although it appears to be mechanical.
The Ifrit Golem is mostly brown (which is rusted) with red eyes and core on the top of its head. The Ifrit has two arms and a torso.
The Ifrit is summoned in the Evil Foundry by Erazor Djinn after he destroyed half the pages of the 1001 Arabian Nights. He reveals to Sonic and Shahra (who broke into the Evil Foundry knowing Erazor was planning something there) that he intended to let the Ifrit burn the remaining pages in the book. The Ifrit Golem is initially invincible, and although Sonic displays his first use of Time Break here, he is forced to escape and locate the Water Blue World Ring. Having found the Ring, Sonic returns and manages to defeat the Ifrit.
When it is defeated, the Ifrit drops a bomb, which Sonic takes outside of the Evil Foundry so that it can explode safely. The bomb releases the Red World Ring when it explodes, leaving Sonic wondering if the djinn had the World Ring (and the rage that the ring contained) inside of it the whole time.
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The Ifrit can use many attacks, such as firing an eye laser that does not hurt Sonic directly but creates a flame wall, dropping tanks of gas when Sonic goes near its hands, and (later in the battle) dropping into the molten metal within its cauldron. It would also fall into the cauldron if Sonic successfully attacked all the lights on its hands, in which the Ifrit would be helpless for a time long enough for Sonic to perform a few homing attacks (or Speed Break) on its head. The Ifrit would not surrender until Sonic performed fifteen homing attacks or Speed Break on its head, causing it to fall into the cauldron and melt in the burning magma. To get the Gold Medal for this boss, the player must finish it in two minutes.
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- Chapter 9: #3: Escaping the Factory
- Ifrit means ghost or demon in Arabic.
- Interestingly, when Erazor is chanting his spell to summon the Ifrit, he refers to it as "Ye condemned by Iblis." Iblis is the name of the Satan in Islam and, coincidentally, also the name of the monster from Sonic the Hedgehog (2006).
- Coincidentally, a different creature called Ifrit would later appear as a major antagonist in Sonic Rivals 2.
- Also, the Ifrit Golem and Ifrit from Sonic Rivals 2 appeared in the same year, which is 2007.
- The first part of the incantation, Ifalas zaras I e zaraq, is heard in Sonic and the Black Knight when Merlina summons Sonic. However, the subtitles spell it differently.
- A rubber duck can be seen in Ifrit Golem's cauldron in the official artwork.
- While summoning the Ifrit, Erazor says "Come forth from the fiery depths of Jahannam," which means "hell" in Arabic.
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You should just try a direct translation, first (be sure to add strict and warnings), and it'll look pretty recognizable. Then, as you learn perl, you can add more tweaks. Here's a version of your code through one of many possible evolutionary branches. The first variation is a direct translation of your code--it's pretty darned similar in perl. In the second one, we convert the C-style for loop into a simpler to read perl-style loop: In perl, you can also modify a statement with if or for statement. Here we're using a for modifier on the print statement: Then, of course, we can take advantage of some other interesting bits of the perl language. The 'x' operator, for instance: A bigger jump: If you think about your program, what you're really doing is just transforming a list of integers into lists of strings. The map operator takes a list and allows you to perform a translation on each item, giving you a new list. So we'll take each integer and convert it to a string of stars followed by a newline: I advise you to play around, read perldoc perlop and perldoc perlfunc to find out how perl likes to do things, and play around with it. Have fun! ...roboticus When your only tool is a hammer, all problems look like your thumb.
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Sustainability is commonly defined as:
- Meeting present needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own
- Making conscious choices that sustain the quality of our region's landscape and way of life
Sustainability is fundamentally about our relationship to the world around us and our responsibility to future generations. Sustainability does not demand perfection in the beginning. It is a journey comprised of individual choices that lead to healthy natural and social systems that can be sustained long into the future.
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* Bosnia paralysed by infighting; Serbia and Kosovo at odds
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SARAJEVO, Oct 30 The United States and the European Union combined on Tuesday to push Balkan states to resolve festering political and economic disputes obstructing more integration with the rest of Europe.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton began a three-nation Balkan trip in Bosnia, where a power struggle between ethnic Serb, Muslim and Croat parties has stymied progress since their 1992-95 war.
Clinton's Balkans trip, probably her last before stepping down early next year, represents her final effort to settle some of the legacies of the bloody break-up of federal Yugoslavia in the 1990s, when her husband Bill Clinton was president.
"We're disappointed that the leaders of Bosnia and Herzegovina have not put the interests of the country first," a senior U.S. official told reporters travelling with Clinton.
In similar vein, Clinton and Ashton will urge Serbia and majority-Albanian Kosovo, which broke away from Belgrade in 2008, to improve their ties further, U.S. officials said.
Bosnia has been governed along ethnic lines since the war, which killed an estimated 100,000 people and split the country into two autonomous regions joined by a weak central government, under the U.S.-brokered 1995 Dayton Peace Accords.
Intense political infighting has slowed reforms, leaving Bosnia lagging its neighbours on the road to EU membership.
Clinton and Ashton were likely to remind Bosnian leaders that they must stick with the Dayton agreement.
"Party leaders can obviously work out, within that framework, the relationships they want, but there should be no questioning of the basic fundamentals of the Dayton peace arrangement," the U.S. official said.
Leaders of Bosnia's Serb Republic do not hide their contempt for the joint state and say it is doomed to disintegrate.
Clinton and Ashton were due later in the day in Belgrade, where they will encourage nationalist Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic and Socialist Prime Minister Ivica Dacic to make good on promises to improve ties with Kosovo, the U.S. official said.
Serbia, a pariah under the late Slobodan Milosevic in the 1990s, has made some progress on reforms since his ouster in 2000, arresting war crimes suspects and overhauling the economy.
But tensions with Kosovo, which seceded with the help of a NATO air war in 1999, are holding Belgrade back and the EU says accession talks cannot start until they are resolved.
Nikolic and Dacic, whose coalition took power this year, say they are ready for more normal ties with Kosovo, but that Serbia will never recognise Kosovo as independent.
"Obviously there's much work that remains to be done and significant differences remain," the U.S. official said.
Clinton and Ashton plan to hold meetings in Kosovo on Wednesday, before Clinton goes to Albania and Croatia, both members of NATO. The West hopes Croatia's scheduled accession to the EU in 2013, following fellow ex-Yugoslav Slovenia in 2004, will encourage its neighbours to redouble their efforts.


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Profit Confidential's lead contributor and financial expert, Michael Lombardi, warns investors that stock market borrowing has reached an all-time high and a sudden correction could damage investors' portfolios.
www.ProfitConfidential.com), an e-letter by Lombardi Publishing Corporation, a 27-year-old consumer publisher that has served over one million customers in 141 countries, warns that stock market margin (borrowing) has reached an all-time high, which could spell financial trouble for investors if the stock market experiences a sudden correction.
— Profit Confidential ("Increasing margin debt is a reflection of investor sentiment. Investors see the stock market moving up; this gives them more long-term confidence and leads to borrowing more money to use for investing," says lead contributor and financial expert Michael Lombardi. "Today, 48% of investors are bullish towards key stock indices; in June, that number stood at just 32.9%. Investors are getting way too bullish on stocks, which points to lower stock prices." (Source: "Sentiment," American Association of Individual Investors web site; www.aaii.com/files/surveys/sentiment.xls?, last accessed November 11, 2013.)
According to the New York Stock Exchange, investors borrowed a record $401.2 billion against their portfolios in September—a significant increase over the April record of $384.4 billion. On a month-over-month basis, margin debt increased 4.8%, the largest single-month increase since January. By comparison, the S&P 500 gained just three percent. (Source: "Securities market credit ($ in mils.), 2013," NYXdata web site, last accessed November 13, 2013; http://www.nyxdata.com/nysedata/asp/factbook/viewer_edition.asp?mode=tables&key=50&category=8.)
According to Lombardi, this bullishness and eventual correction is a familiar refrain. "You don't have to go very far back to see what happened when the majority of investors turned so bullish," he adds. "Remember 2007? Or the Tech Boom? In both of those situations, investors believed the key stock indices would continue to soar, and those who railed against it were ridiculed. The reality is that the risks on key stock indices continue to increase, and as this market gets higher, one questions how bad the market sell-off is going to be when it finally hits."
According to Lombardi, should the stock market suddenly experience a correction, investors who have been buying stocks with borrowed money will need to sell their holdings at a loss to meet margin requirements. Unfortunately, investors who are forced to sell can further exaggerate moves to the downside.
"While timing the market is impossible from simply looking at margin debt, it is an additional warning sign," he concludes. "Key stock indices have moved higher on very weak fundamentals, and the higher they go, the bigger the market sell-off is going to be." Lombardi remains very cautious and suggests investors be aware of further shifts in investor sentiment."
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Many have tried to define in exact words what makes a person attractive. But what if you could measure attractiveness through a mathematical formula?
The map above overlaid on a human face is based on the Divine Proportion and measures symmetry and harmony of the face.
But should the Divine Proportion be applied in the field of cosmetic surgery? Can we set a universal definition of beauty?
When you look at cultures throughout history, there is a preference for symmetry over asymmetry. But did you know that clear skin is viewed as a universal beauty trait? There are certain preferences that have to do with gender as well. Males tend to have a preference for females with a small jaw, small nose, large eyes, and defined cheekbones. These features are sometimes referred to as being "baby faced" and thus youthful. Females generally prefer males with a more mature face, strong features, full lips, and clear skin. On an interesting side note, females preferences for beauty change during menstruation.
The issue of race is one that has been in the news, especially with the increase in demand for buttocks lifts. Different cultures define beauty in different ways. A few weeks ago the New York Times ran a fascinating article about this which I recommend taking a look at. (Ethnic Differences Emerge in Plastic Surgery http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/19/nyregion/19plastic.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=plastic+surgery&st=cse )
I find it fascinating from an anthropological perspective to look at how humans objectively define beauty. However, I philosophically believe beauty to be subjective. Though there be mathematical formula's, cultural preferences, and trends, it all comes down to you, and how you define beauty for yourself.
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(CNN) - Puerto Rican voters appear to be as divided as Democrats on the mainland, according to CNN's exclusive exit polls.
Among Hillary Clinton's supporters there, 72 percent said they would not be satisfied if Barack Obama wins the Democratic nomination, while only 26 percent said they would be.
Obama's supporters were slightly more willing to support Clinton, but not very. Nearly 60 percent said they would be dissatisfied if the New York Democrat won the nomination, while only 38 percent said they would be satisfied.
Puerto Ricans are not eligible to vote in the general election.
(CNN) - Even in a state Hillary Clinton appears to have won by 35 points, a majority of Kentucky voters say the New York senator attacked Barack Obama unfairly.
According to the exit polls, 54 percent of voters said Clinton launched unfair attacks on Obama, though that didn't seem to deter voters there from supporting Clinton - 55 percent of those who said Clinton attacked unfairly still voted for the New York senator.
Clinton faced a similar statistic in West Virginia last week. There she won by 41 points, but nearly 60 percent of voters said she made unfair attacks against the Illinois senator.
(CNN) - Two of three voters in Oregon's Democratic primary disagree with Hillary Clinton's call for a moratorium in the federal gasoline tax. Twenty-six percent of the voters in CNN's Oregon voter poll, conducted by phone, think suspending the gas tax is a good idea; they went for Clinton over Barack Obama 64 to 34 percent. Sixty-three percent think it's a bad idea to suspend the gas tax - those voters supported Obama 67 to 31 percent.
(CNN) - CNN just predicted Obama will win the Oregon primary. How did the Illinois senator win there so easily?
Obama won overwhelming support from Oregon voters who attended college. Nearly 60 percent of that demographic went for Obama there and those voters made up nearly 80 percent of the demographic.
Obama also won big in another category: among those voters who say they do not have a religion, or have another religion outside of Catholicism, Protestantism, and Judaism.
Nearly 30 percent of Oregon Democrats said they were not religious and those voters went for Obama by 21 percentage points, 60 percent to 39 percent. And among those voters who listed "other" as their religion, a group that made up 10 percent of the vote, Obama won by 42 points, 70 percent to 28 percent.
(CNN) - In another sign Barack Obama has trouble courting blue-collar voters, less than half of Kentucky Democrats said Tuesday that Barack Obama shares their values.
According to the exit polls, only 43 percent of voters there said Obama shares their values, a statistic that could potentially hurt him in the fall should he win the party's nomination.
That compares to 73 percent of Kentucky Democrats who said Hillary Clinton shares their values – a statistic the Clinton campaign often references when it claims the New York Democrat has a better chance of winning the crucial swing states in a general election.
The numbers were very similar in West Virginia last week. There only 43 percent said Obama shared their values while 70 percent said Clinton did.
Obama clearly has a long way to go in defining himself among these voters should he be the party's nominee.
(CNN) - Much has been made about both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama's entrenched demographics, with each claiming crucial Democratic voting blocs. In primary after primary, it seems like the same coalitions vote for each candidate.
But exit polls out of Kentucky and Oregon Tuesday night show demographics are not necessarily destiny - geography and culture play a large role.
Consider white blue-collar voters, a demographic that is often considered to be Clinton's strongest. In Kentucky, she won 75 percent of these voters, while only 18 percent went for Obama. But in Oregon, exit polls show Clinton and Obama are essentially tied among this demographic: 50 percent supported Clinton, and 47 percent voted for Obama.
And consider voters under 30 - a demographic that usually votes overwhelmingly for Obama. In Oregon he carried these voters by 40 points over Clinton. But in Kentucky, Clinton beat Obama in that demographic by 16 points.
(CNN) - CNN has just predicted a wide margin of victory for Hillary Clinton in Kentucky. How did she win so overwhelmingly there?
The exit polls point to three reasons: Her support among white voters, her support among rural voters, and Barack Obama's controversial formal pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
Among whites in Kentucky, who made up 9 in 10 voters, Clinton won 71 percent of the vote while Obama only won 22 percent.
Rural voters also voted overwhelmingly for Clinton. Those voters made up 45 percent of the electorate and nearly 80 percent of them went for Clinton. Among suburban voters, who made up 30 percent of the vote, Clinton won by a narrower 18 point margin. Meanwhile Obama carried urban voters by 18 points, but those voters only made up a little more than 10 percent of the electorate.
There is also evidence Obama's former pastor continues to haunt him. Nearly 55 percent of Democratic voters said Obama shares the most controversial views of Wright and those voters went for Clinton 84 percent to 9 percent over Obama. Among the 44 percent of Kentucky voters who said Obama does not share Wright's views, 51 percent voted for the Illinois senator while 43 percent went for Clinton.


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On Tuesday of last week, 16-year-old Oluwaseyi Ogunyemi was murdered in Stockwell, south London. The headlines reported: "Teenager knifed to death as 30 youths rampage in bloody battle on the streets" and "Boy killed in 'tit for tat' murder". The truth is rather different.
I met Oluwaseyi's parents last week, and it brought back precisely the feelings of hopelessness that I felt when my son Damilola was murdered nine years ago for standing up to the thugs who were bullying him. He was a fine, upstanding young man who was in the wrong place at the wrong time, but the police and media didn't take the time to find that out. One of the problems the poor Ogunyemi family have encountered is that the police see all young black boys as possible gang members.
The tally of young lives being senselessly lost on the streets of London is starting to rise again. As the recession deepens, my great fear is that there will be even less hope than before for our young people in the inner cities, and that poverty may drive the numbers up towards the record deaths of last year.
Oluwaseyi's death also made me aware of a new problem. The police are failing to take serious action to clamp down on the hard core gangs who are blighting local communities. When they are able to take over local estates or shopping centres, it can become impossible for the community to live normally, free from fear. They intimidate the younger children and take retribution against those who refuse to join their ranks.
They should be treated as what they are, terrorists, cowards hunting in packs who have caused a lot of the killings we are witnessing.
Only zero tolerance – from the police and local communities – can get rid of them. The police know who the worst of the gangs are. They should act to take them off the streets. Failing that, the local community should call Crimestoppers and break the wall of silence themselves.
We can only make the good children safe if we stand up for them.
Since accepting the Prime Minister's offer to become a special envoy to the Government for youth violence and knife crime, I have met a lot of families that are suffering the same painful loss than I continue to suffer. I would like to absorb the power of those feelings constructively, to help me create a "Manifesto for Change" to take back to the Government.
One of my great passions is working with our positive young people, who sadly do not receive the same media exposure as the feral minority. In the hope of trying to remedy that, this year the Damilola Taylor Trust will launch The Spirit of London Awards, a community "Oscars for young people". It is this kind of activity that encourages the majority to make some noise in support of each other, and we need to see more of it.
I was very heartened by The Independent on Sunday's recent article about Sisco Augusto (The uplifting truth of Britain's youth, 12 April), a fellow pupil of Damilola at Oliver Goldsmith's School, in Southwark. His story shows that there are young people who are thinking again about the wrong path they have taken, people who are ready to help rebuild their local communities while turning their own lives around.
The common denominator with young people is that they all want to find a level of success. They want to enjoy their futures and live well. To deprive them of that hope is to starve them of ambition. They need our support more than ever.
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Genealogical news from Spokane, Washington, USA, and the Inland Northwest.
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What You Missed EWGS Meeting June 2, 2012
This is a lousy picture of John Caskey the historian from Greenwood Memorial Terrace Cemetery. His topic was on why so many Civil War Veterans are buried in Greenwood Cemetery, but he actually covered why so many are buried in the Spokane area. Spokane did not even exist during the Civil War, but the main reason was land. In 1862 the homestead act was passed giving land to anyone that could live there for five years, and later they changed that to three years for veterans. Many never stayed the five years, but after they learned to dry land farm near Ritzville many homesteaders stayed and prospered. Spokane also had FOUR transcontinental railroads, not many cities in all of USA had four transcontinental railroads, and the railroads lowered the rate for immigrants to attract settlers.
The one fact I thought was interesting was that more Civil War Veterans are buried at Greenwood Cemetery than at the GAR cemetery on the coast specifically for Civil War Veterans
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It may be hard to believe that Tyra Banks would ever have been considered too fat, but the America's Next Top Model guru insists if she were trying to get a modeling career off the ground today she'd be shut down.
In an open letter posted on The Daily Beast, Tyra Banks shares her thoughts on weight in the industry where image rules all.
Tyra Banks' open letter begins, "To models around the world, I want to celebrate Vogue's recent groundbreaking announcement. The editors of Vogue's 19 international editions have pledged to ban models from their pages who 'appear to have an eating disorder,' to create healthy backstage working conditions, as well as several other revolutionary initiatives. This calls for a toast over some barbecue and burgers!"
The 38-year-old went on to say, "When I started modeling, I used to see models who seemed unhealthy backstage at fashion shows. They appeared to be abusing their bodies to maintain a certain weight. These girls were booked over and over again for countless fashion shows and photo shoots... At times, I feel there's an unspoken rule that says, 'there's no such thing as being too thin, as long as you don't pass out.'"
Referring back to her younger days in the modeling industry Tyra Banks shared, "In my early 20s I was a size four. But then I started to get curvy. My agency gave my mom a list of designers that didn't want to book me in their fashion shows anymore. In order to continue working, I would've had to fight Mother Nature and get used to depriving myself of nutrition."
"As my mom wiped the tears from my face, she said, 'Tyra, you know what we're going to do about this? We're going to go eat pizza.' We sat in a tiny pizzeria in Milan and strategized about how to turn my curves into a curveball. In a way, it was my decision not to starve myself that turned me into a supermodel, and later on, a businesswoman."
On the subject of her own weight Tyra Banks went on to write, "The truth is that if I was just starting to model at age 17 in 2012, I could not have had the career that I did. I would've been considered too heavy. In my time, the average model's size was a four or six. Today you are expected to be a size zero. When I started out, I didn't know such a size even existed."
So what are we to do? The ANTM creator, who considers herself a mentor to young models, advised, "There needs to be more industrywide protections for models, and we need to be more consistent with what the acting world does: Protect our minors, as well as the health and well-being of models."
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As in past years, Brian Hibbs has gotten access to the actual sales for trade paperbacks and graphic novels in 2011 as recorded by Bookscan, a service of Nielsen. I encourage readers to take a look at Hibbs's article and see how the figures break down.
Bookscan draws upon cash-register data from many member bookstores — and from Amazon — and its share of industry sales on individual titles varies. The service reportedly covers something like 70% of bookstore sales, but that varies depending on the item. Thanks to Amazon offering Bookscan figures to creators, we're able to compare them with known sales to get a sense of what's in and what's out; from what I've seen, that 70% is a reasonable estimate, but I don't have enough data to draw from to say for sure.
So the list comprises a big chunk of bookstore sales. Does it cover all items? Pretty much, yes, with reports for more than 24,000 items going all the way down to single copies. My own spot-check found a few significant titles that should have been in the file but weren't, but I do not have a big enough sample to say how comprehensive the list is. For discussion purposes, figure that the list gives us maybe three-quarters of all sales outside comics shops for graphic novels and manga. So how'd they do?
Hibbs finds that the top 750 items, once non-comics items are weeded out, sold for $79,961,951 at full retail; that's down 8.5% from last year, just in that grouping. On the other hand, the list of items in the "long tail" grew again, and it adds about $95 million to the overall total; that brings the overall amount to $175 million.
Armed with that, as in past years, I have calculated an "all-industry number. Here's how it works.
We start with the two figures we already know about 2011. The Top 300 trade paperbacks for every month in 2011 had sales of $70 million in comics shops — and sales for all trades in the Direct Market were probably closer to $150 million. We also already know that the Top 300 Comics each month accounted for $248 million of Diamond's $417 million in sales; periodicals not in the Top 300 and magazines would have accounted for the remaining $20 million or so.
Now we go to the mass market. Taking Hibbs' figures, we have around $175 million in Bookscan outlets for graphic novels. That may be high, depending on how much of the long tail of that table still has non-comics items in it; but let's take it as is. If Bookscan is three-quarters of the market or so, that could mean there's another $50 million or so in graphic novel sales outside Bookscan.
So all told, that's about $225 million in graphic novels and trade paperbacks outside the comics shops — and $375 million in trades altogether. This means that trades are pulling in more money than comic books, right?
Yes, but there's some outlets for comic books we have yet to add. Comics are still sold through newsstands, although the percentage is falling; looking at Marvel and Archie's Statements of Ownership, I would guess there could be $30-35 million in newsstand sales not covered in the Diamond charts. And finally — and almost always forgotten — are subscription sales, which could bring in another $3-5 million.
Between those sales and the sales inside comics shops, periodicals would be doing something near to $305 million. Comic books are still king in comics shops, where they're nearly 60% of the trade — but they are closer to 45% of all comics and graphic novel dollars, if Hibbs' Bookscan estimates are correct.
So, that gives us, fusing everyone's estimates with a fudge factor involved:
Direct Market Comics, Trades, GNs, and Magazines (Comichron): $417 million
Mass Market Trades and GNs (Hibbs/Bookscan): around $225 million
Newsstand Comics (Comichron/USPS): around $35 million
Subscription Comics (Comichron/USPS): $5 million
Comic book and trade paperback sales in North America: $660-690 million
And that's where you get the largest figure that's on the Yearly Sales table here. The Direct Market is 60% of the overall market for comics, and nearly twice the size of the bookstore market when it comes to comics material.
Note, it does not include two important groupings. Diamond UK sells about 10% again its U.S. direct market sales of comics and graphic novels to comics shops in the United Kingdom — so that's another $40 million or so that publishers here realize. This may or may not expand out to the UK bookstore market the same way, given rights issues, but if it did, the United Kingdom could add $60 million or more to the U.S. total, meaning U.S. print products are bringing in three quarters of a billion dollars annually.
And that doesn't get into digital sales at all.
The biggest question marks above have to do with the portion of the mass market outside Bookscan, first and foremost — and then the size of the newsstand market. The Direct Market figures are pretty solid, comparatively. These calculations are very rough, and subject to revision as I get more data. But the point is that the comics market is a lot bigger than what's just in comics shops — and it's larger than many probably imagine.
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Summit County Fishing Report: Dillon Reservoir opening up
May 24, 2013
It's been a while in the coming, but Dillon Reservoir is opening up. While not fully open, a few brave souls have been packing hand-launch craft to the water. For their efforts they've been rewarded with a fair number of smaller rainbows in the 10-12 inch class. Ten Mile Creek inlet, and likely the others, is a good place for shore anglers. Reports indicate most worms, power bait, streamers and spoons are producing.
Below the reservoir the Blue River is still running low and clear for those waiting out the high, roily water of most rivers. Midges and mysis shrimp patterns are the mainstay for most, but don't hesitate to run a small streamer through the deeper runs, especially during low-light conditions and low angler pressure.
South Park reservoirs are drawing a number of anglers and even producing a few fish. Antero and Spinney are both seeing fair numbers of cruising trout near shore. Midge and chironomid patterns below a strike indicator are producing a few fish. Streamers also will work for those liking a more active approach. Eleven Mile and Tarryall reservoirs are worth visiting, Eleven Mile for bigger fish, Tarryall for fast action. The road to Jefferson is not yet open.
A few quick notes.
Williams Fork Reservoir is closed to trailered boats and no motors are allowed at this time.
Wolford Mountain Reservoir is low, but filling. Consequently, water clarity is bad, although bait is working somewhat.
Granby Reservoir has decent clarity, and remains cold. It's under 45 degrees and a great opportunity for shallow lake trout. Only the Sunset ramp is open. Also, hazard buoys are not out and a fair amount of debris is floating on the surface, so caution is needed when boating. Both Grand Lake and Shadow Mountain Reservoir are open and fishing fair.
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- Francesca Enea and Megan Bush homered and Stacey Nelson threw a two-hitter against the nation's top scoring offense as top-seeded Florida beat Arizona 3-0 Thursday night.
Nelson (40-3) gave up singles to the Wildcats' first two batters, but then didn't give up another hit for her 21st shutout of the season. The Gators (61-3) haven't given up a run in 38 of their 61 wins this season.
Arizona coach Mike Candrea gambled by going with starter Lindsey Sisk instead of ace Sarah Akamine. Sisk (13-5) had struck out a career-high 14 in relief as Arizona rallied to beat Stanford and advance to the World Series, but gave up both home runs before being relieved by Akamine in the second inning.
Brittany Lastrapes led off the game with a single into shallow left, followed up by K'Lee Arredondo's bloop into right. Jenae Leles grounded out to move the runners over, but Stacie Chambers struck out and Sam Banister popped up to leave the duo stranded in scoring position.
Single-season UF home run record-holder Enea belted a two-out, two-run shot after Leles turned a double play in the bottom half of the first. The long ball gave the Gators a 2-0 lead after one.
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After giving up her second jack of the game - a solo shot by Megan Bush to leadoff the second, Sisk was given the hook in favor of Akamine. The junior allowed a hit, but struck out three to end the inning down 3-0.
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One in five supermarket chickens carries a food poisoning bug, according to new research.
Laboratory tests carried out by the consumer group Which? found that 18 per cent of whole and partial chickens from leading grocery chains was carrying campylobacter, the most common form of foodborne illness in the UK.
Unless contaminated chicken is properly refrigerated, stored separately from other foods and cooked thoroughly, it can cause a bout of sickness lasting days. Symptoms of campylobacter food poisoning include fever, nausea, stomach cramps and diarrhoea.
Although a substantial improvement on the 65 per cent infection in chickens found by the Food Standards Agency three years ago, Which? said its findings showed that campylobacter levels were "still unacceptable" and called for more action by producers and retailers. In response, the British Retail Consortium accused Which? of "scaremongering". Campylobacter occurs naturally in the guts of many animals. Chicken – the most popular form of meat in Britain – causes 20 to 30 per cent of cases, according to the European Food Safety Agency.
Officially there were 62,684 cases of campylobacter in England and Wales in 2010, but the Health Protection Agency estimates that for each reported case there are a further 9.3 unreported cases, meaning that the likely annual total in England and Wales is 582,000.
Taking into account that supermarkets sell almost half of chickens consumed in the UK, Which?'s findings suggest that as many as 61,000 people in England and Wales are falling ill each year from chicken sold by major grocery chains. Which? tested whole chickens and chicken portions from nine supermarkets: Aldi, Asda, Co-op, Lidl, M&S, Morrisons, Sainsbury's, Tesco and Waitrose. Levels of contamination varied, but all had at least one contaminated sample. Of the 192 tested, 18 per cent were contaminated with campylobacter, 17 per cent with listeria and 1.5 per cent with salmonella.
Which?'s executive director Richard Lloyd said: "While the situation is improving, it is still unacceptable that one in five chickens we tested were found to be contaminated with campylobacter. We want to see the risk of contamination minimised, because for far too long consumers have been expected to clean up mistakes made in the supply chain."
The Chartered Institute of Environmental Health praised the FSA and food industry for investing money to reduce the figures. Jenny Morris, its principal policy officer, added: "If nearly one fifth of chickens still carry contamination, we must make sure we do not relax rigorous hygiene practices." Many cases of campylobacter are thought to be spread by preparing vegetables for light cooking on chopping boards with residues of raw chickens.
British Retail Consortium food director, Andrew Opie, criticised Which? for referring to "contamination". He said: "Campylobacter is completely killed by normal cooking so providing people prepare chicken properly and follow sensible hygiene practices, they're at no risk."
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The 14th Bucheon International Comics Festival (BICOF) starts Wednesday under the concept, "Smartoon", a combination of the words of "smart" and "cartoon", at the Korea Manhwa Museum and Bucheon Media and Culture Complex through Aug. 21.
This year's festival highlights the potential and wide range of comics in the digital era and introduces foreign works of digital comics.
The event explores the past, present and future of Korean digital comics.
The exhibition consists of five themes ― Pioneers of Digital Comics; Hyung Min-woo and Priest; the Digital Restoration of the Ninth Myth; Present Conditions of Korean Digital Comics; and Digital Comics Technique.
The "Pioneers of Digital Comics" section reinvents the early experimental pieces of web cartoons. Pioneers of online comics such as Scott Macleod, Daniel Merlin Goodbrey and Stephen van Dinther will participate to showcase their inspirational digital works.
In the "Hyung Min-woo and Priest" section, prominent cartoonist Hyung's illustrations and sketches will be on display. Renowned for his representative comic series "Priest", Hyung is one of the most acclaimed Korean artists in the comics and graphic novel genre. In this section, an interview video with Hyung and original character figurines from "Priest" and the process of making the character figurines will be demonstrated.
The "Digital Restoration of the Ninth Myth" section is a meaningful project that presents the digitally restored issues of the comic magazine "The Ninth Myth" (1985-87) published by nine cartoonists including Kim Jin-I, Kim Hye-rin, Shin Il-sook, Lee Jung-ae, Lee Seung-hee-I, Hwang Mi-na and others. The magazine was a predecessor of the publication of "Renaissance" in 1988.
In the "Present Conditions of Korean Digital Comics" section, the works by Korea's representative Web cartoonists such as Kang Full, Kang Do-ha, Yoon Tae-ho and Ha Il-kwon will be exhibited.
A work by Scott Macleod, one of the pioneers of online comics will be featured at the 14th Bucheon International Comics Festival (BICOF) that starts Wednesday. / Courtesy of BICOF
The "Digital Comics Technique" section is an introduction by leading U.S. online cartoon firm ComiXology of innovative online viewer technology. CEO David Timothy Steinberger of ComiXology will give a speech on Aug. 18 about the strategy of the comics industry in the era of smart media. The company transitioned comic books to the iPad and other tablets and has dominated Apple's top grossing apps list in the book category for the past couple of months.
Milton Griepp, CEO of ICv2, will overview the U.S. comic industry's digital situation, while Ferreyrolle Catherine, director of CIBDI, will present the operation strategy of the comic archives to adapt to technological environment.
Along with the themed exhibition, 11 other exhibitions including the late Kim Jong-rae exhibition, the Park Hee-jung exhibition and the commemoration exhibition of Heo Yeong-man will be held. Kim, the first-ever bestselling artist renowned for "The Long Journey in Search of My Mother", created comics shadowed with poverty and sad characters, reflecting the Korean pathos and sentiments of the 1950s and 1960s. During the period, Kim (1927-2001) produced numerous works based on traditional values. Born in Japan, Kim moved to Korea in 1946 and created "The Story of Park Mun-su" and built his reputation as one of the best dramatic comic artists with "The Horizon of Tears". Kim's family donated 474 volumes of his comic books to the Korea Manhwa Museum in 2010 and part of the donations will be exhibited during the festival.
Park, known for "Hotel Africa" and "Martin & John", will hold her special exhibition at the Korea Manhwa Museum. She has a wide fan base for her emotional works both at home and abroad. Heo's donation of 15,000-page manuscripts to the Korea Manhwa Museum will be featured.
Also, a digital fair that showcases the distribution structure of Web comics and BPP (BICOF Promotion Plan) that is intended to open the door for more active investment in comics content are to be presented.
For more information, visit www.bicof.com or call (032) 310-3135.
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In a bid to revive its flagging share price, Yahoo Japan is to launch a high-speed internet access service.
But not everyone is convinced that Japan's dominant internet portal has the financial muscle to compete in an expensive and unfamiliar market. Yahoo Japan said it would be teaming up with its parent company, internet holding Softbank, to offer asymmetrical digital subscriber lines (ADSL), which transmit data up to ten times faster than a standard connection. The move is a departure for the firm, which like other Yahoo affiliates around the world has so far concentrated solely on providing content, earning its income mainly from advertising. Ad worries Fears over falling advertising revenues have seen Yahoo Japan's share price more than halve in value, to just under 4m yen (�23,000; $32,400) this year alone. The move is not yet seen as indicative of a shift in overall Yahoo strategy, because the US-based firm only has a minority stake in Yahoo Japan. Yahoo Japan's announcement cheered the Tokyo financial markets, causing an 8% bounce in the firm's shares. A tricky task But not everyone is convinced that moving into ADSL internet access will prove the cure for Yahoo Japan's ills. The Japanese ADSL market is dominated by Nippon Telegraph & Telephone, the country's biggest telecoms company. Other Japanese firms, including a subsidiary of Japanese conglomerate Mitsui, have tried and failed to loosen NTT's hold on the ADSL market. In order to compete, Yahoo Japan is planning to be aggressive on price, with charges possibly only half those of NTT. This could spark a price war, at just the time when Yahoo Japan and Softbank will need cash to cover the huge costs of rolling out an ADSL network. According to Japanese press reports, Softbank is planning to invest 100bn yen by the end of this year to install ADSL infrastructure in major Japanese cities. "The business won't pay," said Akihiro Ito, an analyst at Deutsche Bank, in a note to clients. |
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NAPOLEON -- Napoleon Police and Safety Services will hold its annual Halloween candy check from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Oct. 31 at the police station, 310 Glenwood Ave. The public also is invited to Haunted Kids Kingdom across the street from the police department from 7 to 8:30 p.m. that evening. Refreshments will be served.
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