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Good algae?
I picked up a frag of macro algae from a fellow reefer. In addition to mopping up a small amount of nutrients I'm hoping it will provide a perfect breeding ground for pods, well that's the plan anyway. The algae is Haliptilon sp. and apparently it can be quite invasive so I opted to keep it away from the rock work. I initially had it sitting on the sand in the right corner of the tank but the snails like to sleep there and have barged it out of the way a number of times. It was also near to one of the entrances of the pistol shrimp burrow and one morning I found it had been almost completely covered by sand. Fortunately it appears quite tough but not wanting to take any chances, I have moved it to the middle rear of the tank now. The hermit crabs have investigated it quite thoroughly and so far it has survived the attention mostly intact but it really needs to be attached to a rock to prevent it being knocked over.
I have lots to update, hmm where to begin? I think I should probably get the bad stuff out of the way first.
Forgive me Father for I have sinned. For quite a while I had noticed that I was harvesting less and less macro algae from the refugium, growth had slowed to almost nothing at all despite there being plenty of nitrate and phosphate available. The days of my tank having low nutrients were certainly in the distant past as they had been slowly but surely creeping up. At the last ICP analysis nitrate was sitting at 11.5mg/l and phosphate at 0.13mg/l. I'd also noted that the mini brittle stars that used to thrive in amongst the algae had dwindled from hundreds to zero (there are still lots in the DT). I'd come to the conclusion that Charlize the hitchhiker crab had been supplementing her diet with some brittle star meat. Anyway hair algae had taken a firm hold in the upper half of the refugium and was choking out the growth of macro algae below. This meant that there was even less algae available to the crustacean residents (Charlize and also Bruce the Emerald crab) at the bottom of the refugium. Then at the beginning of December, I discovered what was left of Bruce, had he also been eaten by Charlize? RIP Bruce.
So on the 16th December 2019 I decided then to take the refugium out for a good clean, removing the old mud substrate and replacing it with some new, a long overdue task I must admit. I carefully salvaged as much of the macro algae as I could (a mix of Caulerpa racemosa and Chaetomorpha) and placed it, along with the naughty Charlize, into a bucket (with tank water obviously). I then disconnected the refugium and set about cleaning it.
Once everything was clean(ish) I added a new layer of mud, refitted the refugium and carefully filled with water. After a while I reintroduced the macro algae and crab. So far so good, however things were about to take an unfortunate downward turn. It seems that by cleaning the refugium and/or replacing the mud I had altered the water chemistry and not in a good way either. The redox value dropped to 250mV and stayed there. Under normal circumstances the redox probe reads somewhere between 350mV to 450mV and to be honest I don't pay that much attention to it. The numbers bounce around depending on whether I've just fed the fish or done a water change. A value of 250mV however was definitely not normal. I wondered if the probe was reading accurately so I cleaned and recalibrated it but still the readings remained low.
A few days after cleaning I noticed some suspicious looking brown algae starting to appear in the refugium and I just knew this wasn't going to be good. Sure enough after about a week or so I started to see signs of it appear in the DT too. It began by coating the gorgonians, the Plexaurella was particularly affected and closed up. Ten days after cleaning I discovered Charlize the hitchhiking crab dead in the refugium. Nooo! I couldn't believe it and felt so terrible guilty. Why did she die? My immediate thought was that the brown algae may have been the cause as some species of dinoflagellates are know to be toxic. I've have not been unfortunate enough to have to deal with this type of algae before but I've certainly read about it a lot. It looked just like typical dinoflagellates, brown and snotty with trapped air bubbles but just to be sure I took a sample and dusted off the microscope.
My suspicions sadly proved correct. The tiny oval protozoans were swimming in a circular motion around an anchor point like a tetherball which is typical of Ostreopsis sp., this is indeed toxic to snails and other herbivorous creatures. I've read many horror stories regarding dinoflagellates in reef tanks, so to say I was feeling depressed was a bit of an understatement, I had visions of all my corals covered with brown snot and the sand littered with shells of dead snails.
According to my research there is no easy way to rid a tank of dinoflagellates and I certainly wasn't keen on the idea of performing a 5-7 day black out. I decided not to panic and continue tank maintenance as normal. I continued with the weekly water changes (yes I know these were not advised) and siphon out as much of the 'snot' as possible in an effort to give the gorgonians a tiny bit of relief. I don't know if it helped them but it certainly made me feel better. In the ensuing days the dinos spread to the tips of the Seriatopora hystrix but surprisingly nothing else seemed affected. Every morning I would count the number of snails to make sure they were all still present and correct.
The redox level remained very low so on the 14th January I sent off a sample of water for ICP analysis just to check if the mud was leeching out something nasty but as you can see from the link below the results looked OK. Nitrates and phosphates were lower than the previous test but not that low.
Since I'd effectively removed most of the beneficial bacteria and critters from the refugium (except for amphipods and mysid shrimps) I decided it might be a good idea to add some diversity back in the form of some live rock rubble. This proved easier said than done as nobody seems to stock actual live rock anymore, it's all artificial or dead rock and bottled bacteria these days. I tried ordering some in from a local shop but when I went to collect it, it was just a bag of dry rock, sigh! In the end I located an online shop that was out of stock but expecting a fresh delivery of Australian live rock in the next few weeks or so. I decided to preorder a small amount and crossed my fingers that it wouldn't take too long.
In the meantime the redox gradually started to creep back up again and by the end of January it had hit 350mV once more, the gorgonians started to pick up again. The first to bounce back was the Muricea followed by the Pinnigorgia and finally after over a month of looking completely dead the Plexaurella shed a layer of algae/mucus and the polyps came back out again, sadly a couple of branches had stripped but at least some of it was still alive. I also only had to frag off one of the Seriatopora branch tips and the rest bounced back in no time at all.
As of today the dinoflagellates have almost completely disappeared from the DT, if you check the Pinnigorgia very closely there is still some evidence of some thin brown strings in one area of low flow but there's not much left at all. I am hoping in another month or so it will have gone altogether, I have my fingers crossed.
Oh and just as things were starting to look up I received acknowledgement that my small order of live rock was available and ready for delivery (20th February 2019). That story will have to wait until another post, oh the stress is never ending....
Courting disaster?
A few weeks ago I decided to take action against the hair algae growing on the skeletons of my recently deceased Acros. I armed myself with a toothbrush and tried scrubbing the affected areas, at the same time I performed a water change enabling me to siphon out the algae as soon it was liberated. It didn't take long for me to realise that this just wasn't going to work very well. It was almost impossible to reach some of the areas without running the risk of damaging the surrounding corals and even in the areas I could reach I was unable clear it all off. Worst of all during the process, thanks to my clumsiness, I snapped off the branch tips of several corals. So no more scrubbing for me!
Instead I decided to embrace the hair algae rather than hate it. For years I've wanted to try keeping a Rainford's goby (aka Court Jester goby, Koumansetta rainfordi) but never had the courage to try one because of their reputed difficulty in accepting prepared foods plus need for filamentous algae in their diet. As luck would have it I came across one of these little fish during a visit to a local fish shop, I observed it for a while whilst running through my Rainford's goby purchasing check list.
1. A healthy looking specimen (sleek looking without a concave tummy). ✓
2. Eating prepared foods (I watched it tuck into frozen mysis). ✓
3. Mature aquarium to introduce it to (the tank is 22+ months old now). ✓
4. Filamentous algae present on which it can browse (yes indeed!). ✓
5. No super aggressive tank mates such as dottybacks or hawkfishes to harass it. ✓
My biggest concern, apart from the feeding issue, was the presence of my Yellow and Pintail wrasse, they are much bigger fish and I had no idea how they would react to the introduction of a small and delicate goby. I was fairly confident that the other nano gobies and wrasse would have no issue. After much umming and aahing I decided to take the risk and bring the little fish home with me.
Amazingly, once introduced the new goby was completely ignored by all the resident fish, I was certainly not expecting that! Despite the lack of aggression the goby was far from relaxed which I suppose is normal for any new fish and the Yellow/Pintail wrasses are undoubtedly quite scary to a timid little goby. He didn't hide but kept low down on the sand in the front left-hand corner of the tank and actually looked to be struggling with the brisk flow so I turned down the powerheads to give him some relief. That night he created a cosy little depression in the sand underneath the Utter Chaos zoanthids to sleep in. By the way I have no idea if this fish is male or female, I decided to go with male (a tough little guy with any luck) and named him Jessie.
Over the next couple of days Jessie slowly settled in and started exploring the tank. I can confirm that he does peck at/sift the sand and eat hair algae, result! I can't see him being voracious enough to eradicate the hair algae or even keep it in check for that matter but that doesn't bother me right now, I'm just thrilled that he's eating. He was still nervous of the bigger fish and would dart out of their way whenever they approached and when it came to frozen food he would look interested but was not confident enough to grab a bite. Fish have to be quick off the block in this tank when it comes to food as the greedy wrasse tend to hoover it up in no time at all.
I increased the number of feedings from three to four times per day and on the fifth day post introduction, Jessie felt confident enough to sneak a couple of small pieces of Gamma Mysis. By the eight day he was up for trying to tackle a large piece of PE Mysis but this was a bit beyond his capability, he tried 'chewing' it 4 times but as he spat it out for yet another attempt a wrasse swooped down and stole it, lol! To ensure that he is getting his fair share I have introduced him to the magical food dispenser (me and a pipette). I like to spot feed most of my livestock (fish, corals, shrimp and crabs) and naturally the fish know that the pipette means food so it takes a bit of time and patience to get the food to the intended target. The Yellow and Pintail wrasse try to steal as much of it as possible, I swear given the chance those fish would keep eating until they popped! I have to wait until these fish 'appear' to lose interest before quickly releasing a piece of food in front of the intended recipient. Fortunately, Jessie is a quick learner and took to the pipette trick remarkably fast, he's even started pecking at the tip in his impatience for the food to appear.
It's early days for this fish but so far I think it's looking promising. I will certainly keeping a very close eye on the state of his tummy to make sure it stays full looking and not sucked in.
Decapod des res!
I first discovered Charlize the hitchhiking crab sitting at the base of the Seriatopora in February 2017, she was such a tiny little thing back then no bigger than the nail on my little finger. For a couple of months I let her do her thing before deciding to move her after she knocked a frag off the rockwork. She was surprisingly easy to catch and rather than dispose of her, something I never like to do with any living creature, I placed her into the most desirable of crab residences, the refugium! Since then she has positively thrived and has grown incredibly. She's a beefy crab now measuring a couple of inches across, quite a bit bigger than the Emerald crab she now shares her home with. When I added Bruce (the Emerald crab) I did worry that there might have been issues between the two but so far everything's been good. They tend to hang out at opposite ends of the tank although I occasionally find them relatively close together as in the second photo below. I can't help but wonder how much growing Charlize still has left to do, I may need a bigger refugium if she keeps expanding, gulp!
It occurred to me after my last update regarding the continuing red bug issue that there was one pest I hadn't actually seen in the tank for a while and that was pyramid snails. For months and months I religiously siphoned out as many of the tiny parasitic snails that I could find, I literally removed hundreds of them without any obvious dent in their population. Naturally this got old very fast and as the months went by and my hardworking clean-up crew (Trochus & Turbo snails etc) and clam looked fine I became less vigilant. I would still remove any that I saw attached to the snails but I no longer actively seeked them out. Today though I've searched the tank most thoroughly with a magnifying glass and cannot find any evidence of a single pyramid snail. That's not to say that they aren't still present in the tank but considering how many there were at one point I take it to be a positive sign. Perhaps one of the fish has finally found a taste for them, the most obvious candidate being the Yellow wrasse but I have never seen her (now him) show any interest in eating them even when faced with one crawling up the glass in front of her face.
So that's the step forward, now for the backward step. Since the demise of some of my Acropora I have been faced with the issue of what to do with their dead skeletons. I fragged off as much as I could but that still left a goodly amount of encrusted base on the rocks. Sadly these have now become a magnet for hair algae. Normally the snails would have made short work of this algae before it had chance to establish but they find it quite hard to navigate their way round the rockwork these days due to the fact that there are lots of other corals in the way, in fact I hardly ever see the Trochus/Turbo/Ceriths on the rocks at all now, they just spend all their time cruising round the glass. Since this algae is growing ever longer by the day and starting to spread I need to formulate a battle plan asap.
That's it for now I'll sign off with an updated video for your viewing pleasure.
A fine balance.
Not much new to report really, everything seems to be ticking along and there have been no new additions.
I harvested a load of macro algae from the refugium as the upper half was a completely solid mass. I think I might have been a bit over zealous with my pruning as the algae growth seems to have stalled somewhat since then. A knock on effect being that the nutrient levels within the tank have risen slightly. On the 9th January phosphate tested at around 0.046ppm and nitrate 0.35ppm using the Elos low range kits. When I tested again on the 10th January the phosphate level had crept up to 0.08ppm and nitrate to 1ppm. Hopefully once the algae growth picks up again the levels will stabilise as I don't really want the phosphate level to get any higher. I must get into the habit of harvesting smaller amounts of algae on a more regular basis.
I've also been chasing the male pintail wrasse round in the hopes of capturing a decent photo of him displaying to the female but boy, he's really fast! I have multiple shots of just his tail or the rear half of his body, lol. I am very persistent though, thank goodness for digital cameras or I would have probably given up by now.
I finally relented and moved the Balanophyllia to the sump, it was on the fast track to coral heaven if I left it in the DT thanks to the Pintail's attentions. It's so much easier to feed down there now, especially during the day as the refugium is reverse lit so it's nice and dark. The good news is whilst the flesh on one side has receded quite badly due to the earlier infection it doesn't appear to be getting any worse and it's certainly happy to start eating again. It's a pale shadow of what it once was, the photo below shows how far the tentacles currently expand (and the receded skeleton). I hope it improves and opens up fully again.
The green tentacled corallimorph was looking a little more extended than I usually see it during the day so I whipped out the camera for a quick snap of that too (with flash). It looks like an anemone (and is commonly called a ball anemone) but actually is a part of the mushroom family. It hitchhiked into my tank on a small piece of zoanthid rock and doesn't appear to have spread much in 8 months time, mind you neither have the zoas either, lol. I think it actually looks rather attractive.
I'll sign off with another short video. It's not much different than the last one I posted tbh but hopefully still enjoyable to watch.
Refugium life.
When the lights switch off above the display tank there's still plenty of action to watch down below in the refugium.
Happy Birthday!
My tank is exactly a year old today! Wow, where has the time flown to? I've been a bit lax with the updates recently so there's lots to catch up on.
First lets get the bad news out of the way. I'm afraid that I've lost the lovely Tridacna maxima clam, it simply never thrived in my tank. Before adding it I carefully checked the shell looking for any nasty hitchhikers but I never found any. I must have missed some (or their eggs at least) as I started to notice some pyramid snails feeding on my precious Trochus and Turbo snails. Nooo! I checked the clam regularly at night with a flash light but never found any of the little devils feasting on it. After two and a half months it finally it became clear that the clam was doomed so I decided to remove it before pollution became an issue. I checked it over again when it was out of the tank and still couldn't find any pyramid snails on it. These guys are so small and clearly hide really well! Later on three teeny tiny ones did emerge from inside of the clam, it's hard to imagine that just three could have any impact on an animal so much larger than they but clearly over time they do. Unless of course the maxima was suffering from something else too?
At this point there's not much I can do about the pyramid snails, I am removing any that I see every day and I've become quite adept at spotting them now. On average I remove about 10 per day. The wrasse are sadly not eating them, come on guys I could really do with a helping hand here, sheesh earn your keep why don't you!! At least I haven't lost any of the snails yet and my original Tridacna crocea clam seems to be doing fine, it's laying down new shell so I take that to be a good sign for now.
The other blip on my reefing horizon is the Balanophyllia. It just doesn't look as good as it once did and I can't work out why. Am I feeding it too much or not feeding it enough? I had been offering it a piece of food once per day (at night), generally PE mysis, clam, Krill or lancefish, perhaps that wasn't enough to sustain it? So I decided to up the feedings to multiple times per day (anywhere between three up to a maximum of five a day) but this seemed to make no difference at all (in fact the coral looked a little worse) so now I'm trying less food. It's really frustrating because the sun coral is looking fantastic on a single feed per day.
Apart from the above everything else seems to be doing OK. The fish are all good, Rei the Yellow wrasse eats like a horse and is noticeably bigger. The best news is that my Tomiyamichthys nudus gobies have finally paired up with the Red Spotted pistol shrimp so I get to see them all much more now. The male goby still goes MIA every now and again but always resurfaces at some point. The gobies and pistol shrimp do not naturally associate together in the wild but I suspect they have done so in my tank because there are simply no other alternatives.
The corals are getting bigger and some are starting to get close to each other already, war is on the horizon I expect.
The zoanthids are spreading nicely especially the Utter Chaos, these are reproducing at a phenomenal rate and unfortunately over taking some of the original slower growing morphs. Whatever was afflicting the Red Tuxedo zoanthids seems to have subsided and I've not lost any more recently, I hope that's the end of that.
After a bit of a slow start the algae in the refugium has really got going now and the amount of life in there is incredible. It's amphipod, mysis shrimp and brittlestar heaven! Charlie the hitchhiking crab is alive and kicking and still growing. She was such a tiny thing when I first noticed her in the DT hanging out in the Seriatopora, now she's huge in comparison.
Life in the refugium.
Whenever I harvest any algae, I spend the following 30 minutes rescuing brittlestars from amongst the fronds. Well I can't just throw them out can I? It's easy to see how they are reproducing by division.
My first canister of ATI Carbo EX came to the end of its life in September, it lasted just over 3 months which I don't think is too bad. I have decided to continue with the CO2 scrubbing and have replaced it with a fresh cartridge.
Last week to celebrate the fact that the tank was approaching its first birthday I decided that some new additions were required. There was a gap (left by the T. maxima clam) that was just crying out to be filled. OK it didn't really need to be filled but what can I say, any excuse to shop for new corals.
I decided another encrusting Montipora sp. would do nicely and since it was likely to be the last addition (never say never tho) I wanted something special. I decided the Beach Bum (what a name!!) Montipora would contrast nicely with the three that I currently have. Since I was mail ordering from a fellow reefer I found I couldn't just buy the one coral so I ended up with frags of Hawkins Echinata (Acropora echinata) and a Sunrise Goniopora too. My name is Lisa and I'm a coral addict, lol!
Here they are on the sand awaiting fixing (squeezing!) in place.
Phew that was a marathon (are you still with me?) before I sign off I'll add a few more updated photos. After all who doesn't love a bit of eye candy?!
Utter Chaos and CUC.
There's one zoanthid morph that I've been saving a spot for in my tank but have never seen it for sale in an aquarium shop or via my favourite online supplier so I decided to give E-bay a whirl instead. I ordered two polyps of the "Utter Chaos" zoas, they arrived promptly and were in great condition, I was very pleased (and relieved) with my purchase. I did treat the polyps to a dip in Reef Primer just in case there were any unpleasant hitchhikers, it seemed unlikely on such a small frag disc but as I didn't know the source tank I decided it was not worth the risk. I can see why these zoanthids are so popular, the fluorescent orange colour really 'pops' under the blue LEDs. I roughly chopped down the frag disc as much as possible and hope the remainder will be grown over and hidden asap. I hate frag discs on show in the DT!
I also added a few more snails today to boost my clean up crew as I've noticed that the resident crew aren't quite managing to keep the algae growth in check, not unsurprising now that I am feeding the tank more. So a big welcome to Laurel, Hardy, Eric & Ernie the Trochus snails and Del Boy & Rodney the Ceriths.
Pincer movement!
Never in a million years did I think that it'd be easy to catch and remove my hitchhiking crab but boy how very wrong I was. My deluxe homemade crab trap actually worked first time! I propped an empty glass spice jar up against the top rock where the crab lived and baited it with some mysis shrimp just after lights out. I honestly felt that the jar was a little too tall for the job and it would never catch anything but to my very great surprise it did. I checked back on the tank after just an hour and was gobsmacked to discover the crab sitting in the jar. It's so great when a plan comes together without any blood being shed (and doesn't cost anything, lol).
With clearer photos I'm now confident that the crab is indeed Chlorodiella nigra. Please refer to the link below for comparitive purposes.
Of course I couldn't bring myself to kill the little guy, after all he had done no wrong, simply knocked a frag off the rock which was probably my fault for not fixing it down securely enough. The biggest issue for me was the fact that he'd set up home right next to my clam and whilst this species is reported to mainly eat algae I didn't want to take the risk of the clam being irritated or even worse becoming a crabby snack down the line. So off he went into the refugium where hopefully he'll be content with an endless supply of algae (and pods?) to munch on.
Hi, my name is Lisa and I live in Derby, UK. I am a self-confessed reefaholic!
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PRESS CONFERENCE VIDEO: Narduzzi Syracuse Preview
PAT NARDUZZI: Good to be with you again today. Obviously, it was a much more pleasant Sunday here with our kids. A lot of energy in the room last night compared to a lot of sad faces and disappointment here in the last couple weeks that we faced.
I couldn't be happier for our kids. I mean, that's kind of why you coach this game is to be around our guys and to enjoy wins together. There was a lot of good things on tape you watched. There's a lot of little things you've got to fix. Fumbled on the one yard line with some communication errors on offense, just blocking lines of fourth and one, same thing. Just really communication more than we couldn't block them up front. Little errors like that; you'll see a guy run through with a front call, whatever may have been done there.
And defensively, pretty solid performance overall except we gave up a 70-yard pass on a coverage where, you know, safety has got his eyes in the backfield trying to look and say, I wonder if he's going to throw it there. And by the time you get your eyes back around, he's got too much time and he didn't get there fast enough.
But the next challenge is Syracuse. Obviously a good football team that came in here a year ago and put some points up on us and we put some points up on them. Defensively, I think they are a lot better football team than they were a year ago. I think they are somewhere, 49th or 50th in the country in total defense. They are playing well…Coach Ward has got them going on defense.
They have got some junior college guys in. They are playing faster, playing a lot of man coverage, packing the box. So they are going to try to force us to try to throw it over their heads or loosen up, one or the other; and if Jester and Max play like they did last weekend, that could be fun to watch.
And then offensively, again, they spread it out. Coach Babers is a very creative guy, the old Baylor coach, and you see all those things. They did some stuff that we had never seen before a year ago, with pulling a tackle out and they had never seen it before, and now they are doing it all the time. They must like it.
So we'll be obviously better prepared for some of those, just quick-now routes, where they are getting a blocker on you, taking a tackle and putting him on the corner. Some interesting, interesting stuff. But I'm sure they will have some new creative stuff for us.
Tempo will be an issue that our defense has got to cope with, and I think with our depth on defense right now (knocking on wood) and we've been pretty darn healthy. You know, Phillipie Motley is probable for this weekend, so we're going to find out how he looks this week. He did a lot of things last week, so you add another corner in the mix, it just gives you some guys that we can rotate. We were a little short last year, which, you know, was part of the problem, and then plays on the field were another part of the problem.
Look forward to that challenge again, going up there and playing in the dome.
Q. You had mentioned last year's game — how much did you look back at that tape?
COACH NARDUZZI: You look at it a lot. We've looked at that thing probably 15 times in the last year. You look at it a lot. You look at, you know, they are going to come out and do some of the same things. They are going to do a lot of things different and you try to prepare for what they possibly could do. You are looking at all the games they have played this year. You have a five-game breakdown plus that, so it's like a six-game breakdown that you are looking so say, who are they this year because everybody is a little different 2016, 2017, and then find out what kind of new wrinkles they want to do based on what they have seen us also have problems with.
Not only are you looking at what Syracuse is doing, but hey, what are your weaknesses; what are they seeing. They want to get matchups. Sure, they are going to try to go after our safeties, and I would, too.
So we have got to shore up what we are doing with those guys, how we are doing it. And you know, they can go after the corners. I hope they go after the corners because I feel good about who those guys are out there right now. I feel a lot better than we did last year at this game.
And then we've got to stop the run up front. They are 34th in the country, I think total offense, so they are very balanced at running it and throwing it.
So it's not just throwing it around the park. They have got a lot of, you know, short stuff they will throw out there, and they are talented. They have got some players out there.
Q. In trying to attack the safety, they have this kid Philips who had 17 catches. Is that sort of what they try to do, get matchups?
COACH NARDUZZI: They are getting matchups. They put smaller guys inside and try to work your safeties, put their bigger guys on your corners. So some of the bigger receivers are out there. Ishmael is out there. So they will put their bigger guys outside and throw some jump balls and they will put their small guys in and try — it's something to deal with, that's for sure. It's interesting stuff and they spread you out.
Q. You've seen what they do on tape — how ready are you —
COACH NARDUZZI: We're not ready at all right now but give us a couple days and hopefully we will be.
Q. When you played Oklahoma State there was a lot of trying to get guys on the field, the right packages between snaps, obviously to go tempo. At what point does it become — you have to be wary as a coach of trying to do too much, too quickly; just saying, keep the 11 on from snap to snap and hope they don't screw it up?
COACH NARDUZZI: If they sub, we'd like to sub, okay, so that's the first thing is the referee will give you one of these (stretching arms out wide to the sides). You'll see the umpire, there's been times I've watched tape, and they are subbing and you can see the personnel changing. And you know, and again, coaches coach, players play, and officials got to officiate.
But if they sub and Jerry (points to beat reporter Jerry DiPaola) comes in the game, we are supposed to have time to say, okay, Jerry is in. He's a bigger tight end, okay. He doesn't run so well, okay. We can get someone else who doesn't run so well in the game —
Q. Jerry's got game speed —
COACH NARDUZZI: He's a gamer. (Smiles) So we should be able to sub. But there's times you'll watch on tape where they are not standing over the ball, and that center judge should be staying over the ball — 11 best out there, if it's three-and-out, that's great. But if it gets in a longer drive, and that's what they want to do is get a big play on you. And you're going, oh, gosh, let's sub them out, and then they are going to go even faster at that point.
Q. Schematically, how similar are they to Oklahoma State?
COACH NARDUZZI: They are very similar. I think to attack us, they are going to play three and four wide-outs. A year ago, empty was their favorite formation, so they are going to line up on empty and ding, ding, ding and just throw it around. And just remember, they did that all last year with their backup quarterback. Dungey was out and Dungey's back now.
Q. They ran the ball pretty well against you guys last year.
COACH NARDUZZI: They started off throwing, it got us thinking all the stuff out there, and then, you know, then our linebackers started looking.
So our guys got to trust what they are doing and you know, trust it. But you see linebackers running in the box and then thinking, okay, it's not a run, again, because they are just going to throw it over my head. So they start to run out towards the pass and then it is a run.
I mean, you'll see Seun Idowu, who doesn't normally do that, do that several times, and it's like, you know — so they play that cat-and-mouse with you, throw it out there, and then run inside.
So no, we didn't — that's why I said, it's a challenge and that's why they have successfully, 34th best offense in the country right now based on the numbers; they have successfully ran it and thrown it on everybody they have played.
Q. Speaking of the run game, do you like the combination of Bookser at tackle? Does that give you the best chance to run the ball?
COACH NARDUZZI: Right now he does, I mean, based on, not only run the ball, but protect the quarterback, too. He did a good job of protecting Max last week and that's critical.
Q. When it comes to the issue of running the ball, is it the same things you saw from the previous week, just running backs and all other guys, pretty much involved.
COACH NARDUZZI: You know, it's a little bit of, you know, just not running the ball like we need to and not blocking them as good as we need to. Again they are packing the box up in there.
So again, whether you want to throw it or run it, I mean, I think they assume let's pack the box and make this quarterback throw the ball. Well, guess what? He did. We hadn't seen it thrown like that before. So you know, Max is — Max is back, and we've just got to keep him that way and we've got to be able to throw the ball this weekend, for sure.
Q. How much can a game like that help you in the future with Max– teams know now they have to play you honest in the passing game —
COACH NARDUZZI: Jester got his touches and threw the ball up there. Max has got confidence he can do it in the game, and I think Coach Watson and his staff got confidence, hey, we throw it up there, we've got a chance. You know, whatever it is.
There's a lot of guys made plays out there from Aaron Matthews to Lopes. There was a lot of playmakers out there. It wasn't like we were throwing it just to him. I think there was a lot of good things that loosens it up. You can die by one player or you can loosen up a little bit and let us run it a little bit, I guess.
Q. How much was it what you guys were doing versus who you were playing against? The level of competition will be a little bit higher, so evaluating tape off a game like that, how do you weigh that?
COACH NARDUZZI: Again there's so much parity in college football now. You look at, you know, some people that are winning football games out there nowadays. It's not like it used to be. There's parity. There's a lot of good football teams out there. Rice is a good football team. They have got guys that are good football players.
There will be a couple guys on that football team playing in the NFL. So you know, was the competition — you know what it was a year ago when we played Clemson, or Oklahoma State? No. But it doesn't mean they can't make plays, and you talk about this. Again it wasn't like they won by seven, either. That was the other thing you look at it. It was a convincing win. It wasn't a 28-0 half-time and then we stopped playing in the second half.
So we learned our lesson there, and it was a convincing win. I mean, I think we scored in every drive in the first half offensively, except for the one; we fumbled on the one.
Q. What I was trying to get at is more like: What did you see on film from an execution standpoint that you think is going to hold up over one week to the next, as opposed to is Jester a better athlete —
COACH NARDUZZI: We'll find out. We'll find out this week. But there was better execution. I think our kids stuck with the plan. Overall even in the run game when it didn't go, the guys are hitting the right holes. And again, there was more execution in the passing game as far as doing the right thing. The week before, we could still be better blocking downfield with our wide-outs for sure.
But our receivers, their releases were better. There was just more — sometimes receivers get into that tendency of just I'm going to run a route and not run it the right depth. There was still a little bit of that going on, either the wrong landmark for a tight end or, you know, a bad release by a receiver. Releasing inside, okay, which brings the corners eyes inside which is not good. So all those details, which I saw get cleaned up a lot.
Now we have to have consistency, too. So one week doesn't define you as a football team or an offense.
Q. Now that Max is back, do you think going back to him instead of turning away from him, and he does that, can sort of help his confidence?
COACH NARDUZZI: I think so. And again, I don't think he lacked any confidence at all, anyway. I think he's a very confident kid. I think most quarterbacks are confident, and so is Ben. Ben is ready to go too, now.
You guys asked me — Jerry asked the crazy question: You think you found your quarterback? For a week we did. And Max has got to continue to play well or Ben will jump back in there, and I trust Max will do that. I love what I saw.
To me I saw a different, more calm, composed guy that made quicker decisions, and that's what we've got to keep him — he's got to know how he got to where he is, what he did to get there and to again. Again, versus a good pass rush, too. Our offense did a great job. We gave up three sacks, and one was a tight end, one was a back, one was a lineman. But overall, we protected the quarterback for as much twists and movement they were giving us inside.
Q. Doesn't one's confidence get taken to another level when he sees the ball get caught —
COACH NARDUZZI: Find out this week. Confidence is a good thing for sure.
Q. With Max now back to being the starter, how much of a leash is on him, how much leeway — what does he need it do to retain that spot?
COACH NARDUZZI: He needs to keep doing what he's doing. There's no leash. Put you on a leash. There's no leash. We'll drag you around game time. But there's no leash. I mean, we don't put leashes on any of our guys. We want him to go out and play, play football the way it's supposed to be played, and we've got a faith and trust in him that he can go out and do that.
Q. Are you expecting your offense to have to have the best game of the season going up against the Syracuse offense?
COACH NARDUZZI: You know, I never say, you know — I think our defense has got to play the best game of the season, too. I think we have to play great as a unit: Offense, defense, special teams. You can't go in there and say: Hey, offense, you'd better score a lot of points because they are going to score a lot of points. That's a poor attitude to go into a game with.
We have to play better in all three phases to win a football game. It's a good team, and we're still a young team, but there's still plays to be made out there for everybody.
Q. How would you evaluate your defensive line and how they have played so far?
COACH NARDUZZI: You know there's a lot of good things they are doing and there's a lot of things that you want to see better, you know.
But again, we've got total different defensive line than we had a year ago. So there's a bunch of young guys that are a work-in-progress right now, but I like what Coach Partridge is doing and it takes time.
Q. Any of those guys stand out the most? Seems like Weaver is the one that has made the biggest jump.
COACH NARDUZZI: Weaver has done some good things. Dewayne Hendrix, I tell you what, he can run and burst. He does some special things out on the field at times.
But inside Shane Roy has been really, really steady. He was the defensive unsung hero this week just because he does everything right inside and did a nice job.
Q. What do you think has led to the increase in turnovers, the forced turnovers?
COACH NARDUZZI: Them putting it on the ground and throwing it up to us I guess. They want to take shots — our guys are making plays on the ball. You look at Dane Jackson, that's a beautiful — you talk about Jester Weah having confidence, and you go back to, you know, do they have confidence to throw it at number 11. Because they keep throwing at number 11 the last couple weeks and he's made plays out there. You might complete one, but then you throw a pick and that's a change-of-field position and a major factor where quarterback is going, maybe I shouldn't do that.
You know, I think there's a lot of factors that go into that but I'm happy with the way the corners are playing.
Q. There's been a lot of talk this year about inexperience of defense. At what point, with game six coming up, does that not become a factor?
COACH NARDUZZI: I don't think it ever becomes a factor. I think we're going to be a heck of a much better football team in a year from now if we don't lose much, and we're going to have guys that have been through the fire.
You know, you wish they would learn weekly but it's hard. It took you years to be a good writer. It didn't happen: 'Hey, I wrote a bad newspaper article today; I'm going to write a good one next week.' I guarantee it; it takes time for things to gel and for them to really figure it out. You think they figure it out, but they go back to the same things. It's just a time thing I think.
Q. But coaches have to have a lot of patience then.
COACH NARDUZZI: Better. Just like a dad. Better have a lot of patience.
Q. Are you a patient dad?
COACH NARDUZZI: I'm pretty patient. My wife will tell you no. But probably more patient at the office than I am at home.
Q. Damar Hamlin, has he been getting the most snaps?
COACH NARDUZZI: I would say it's about even. Him and Bryce have been playing probably about even, guessing, without counting.
Q. Having already played Penn State — how prepared do you think the defense is to face another offense who does RPOs —
COACH NARDUZZI: Well, I mean, I think we are better prepared now but we'll find out. I mean, that's why we practice, and you know, we're definitely going to see RPOs, okay.
I think our guys kind of looked at it, and again, I told you after the Oklahoma State game we went and watched that tape because it's going to help us for the future. You know, not only were we watching Syracuse tape; we're watching that Oklahoma State tape to say: What are they seeing, where is their matchups, what do we need to do to defend that better.
The only problem is, they only give you 11 guys to do it with, so we'd like to get 12, but they ain't going to give them to us.


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The Pentagon spent millions of dollars investigating reports of unidentified flying objects, according to reports from The New York Times and Politico.
The $22 million Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program began in 2007 after its funding was pushed by Sen. Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat who retired this year, according to The Times. Reid has long had an interest in the phenomenon of UFOs.
Much of the money spent on the endeavor went to an aerospace firm owned by billionaire Robert Bigelow, a longtime friend of Reid, according to The Times. Bigelow told CBS's 60 Minutes in May that he was absolutely convinced that aliens exist and that UFOs have landed on Earth.
The Times noted that the Defense Department had never before acknowledged the existence of the program, but officials now say it was shut down in 2012.
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Politico said the program is getting attention this year because of the October retirement of Luis Elizondo, a career intelligence official who ran the program and reportedly told Defense Secretary James Mattis in his resignation letter that the Department needed to take the program's research more seriously.
"We were trying to take the voodoo out of voodoo science," Elizondo told Politico.
Elizondo told of sightings by Navy pilots of aircraft that were able to make maneuvers that should not be aerodynamically possible, but complained that military leaders were not taking the threat seriously.
"If a Russian 'Bear' bomber comes in near California, it is all over the news," he said. "These are coming in the skies over our facilities. Nothing but crickets."
Despite funding for the program ending in 2012, Defense officials have continued to research UFOs during the past five years, according to anonymous officials quoted by The Times.
Reid told the Times he was proud of his role in creating the program.
"I'm not embarrassed or ashamed or sorry I got this thing going," he said. "I think it's one of the good things I did in my congressional service. I've done something that no one has done before."
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Food Labels Confusing You?
Follow these quick steps from the American Heart Association on reading those tricky nutrition fact labels:
1 - Start with the serving information at the top of the label.
This will tell you the size of a single serving and the total number of servings per container (package).
2 - Next, check total calories per serving.
Pay attention to the calories per serving and how many servings you're really consuming if you eat the whole package. If you double the servings you eat, you double the calories and nutrients. The next section of information on a nutrition label is about the amounts of specific nutrients in the product.
3 - Limit these nutrients.
AHA recommends limiting these nutrients: Based on a 2,000 calorie diet, no more than 11-13 grams of saturated fat, as little trans fat as possible, and no more than 1,500 mg of sodium.
4 - Get enough of these nutrients.
Make sure you get enough of beneficial nutrients such as: dietary fiber, protein, calcium, iron, vitamins and other nutrients you need every day.
5 - Quick guide to % Daily Value.
The % Daily Value (DV) tells you the percentage of each nutrient in a single serving, in terms of the daily recommended amount. As a guide, if you want to consume less of a nutrient (such as saturated fat or sodium), choose foods with a lower % DV — 5 percent or less. If you want to consume more of a nutrient (such as fiber), seek foods with a higher % DV — 20 percent or more.
For a more in depth explanation from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Click HERE
Remember that the information shown in these panels is based on 2,000 calories a day. You may need to consume less or more than 2,000 calories depending upon your age, gender, activity level, and whether you're trying to lose, gain or maintain your weight.


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New York Red Bulls II will head to Indianapolis to take on Indy Eleven in the quarterfinals of the 2019 USL Championship Playoffs at IUPUI Carroll Stadium.
USL confirmed that the quarterfinal matchup will take place on October 26, with kickoff set for 7:30 p.m. ET, with coverage available on ESPN+.
NYRB II and Indy split the season series, with NYRB II winning 2-1 at MSU Soccer Park on April 28, while Indy won the most recent meeting at Lucas Oil Stadium, 1-0, on September 4.


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For the second year in a row, every partner at Unruh Turner Burke & Frees was named to the 2019 "Top Lawyers" list by Main Line Today magazine. In our Trust & Estates section, David Frees (Trusts and Wills) and Doug Kaune (Elder Law) were named. Congratulations to […]Read more →
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See, I knew this was going to turn out looking pretty cool. There's one problem though; the blue colored pencil I was using just would not sharpen correctly. It continued to crack and break until there was virtually nothing left. I wasn't even half way finished yet! So, I'm a little bit stuck on what I should do. However, this is an abstract piece and I'm just going to continue on anyways. Maybe I'll just change the colors up for the rest. Or perhaps go with lots of red.
Either way, it kind of sucks because the color change won't be because of a creative decision, it will be a decision out of necessity. I really don't like that! No matter how I feel about it though, like I said, it's a necessity. So, screw it, it's happening. I'll do my best to continue to make this piece of artwork look as awesome as possible.
That's something I don't think about too often. For years now I've been way more focused on my digital art experience, rather than the physical art experience. With digital, I simply don't run out of materials. I can go on for as long as I'd like and the thought of "I don't want to use too much blue, because the last piece used up a lot of those specific colors." doesn't even make sense when in the digital painting space.
Speaking of painting, I can't image what painters go through. Well, some painters at least. I get stressed out when I have constraints or limits to anything I do. When you paint, you spend money on a canvas, brushes, materials, etc. If you try to paint and something just doesn't feel right, or you feel something isn't turning out very good, you would get the feeling of completely wasting money. Wouldn't you? That sounds so stressful.
The other day I was trying to draw something using all my new drawing tools and it wasn't turning out. I feel like I completely wasted everything. I didn't feel like I learned anything, and the drawing turned out to be something that looked completely amateur to me. I just wasn't feeling it. What if that had of been on a huge canvas with paint? Not only do I waste time, but money as well!
Anyways, I'm already feeling like the $40 I spent on these colored pencils is disappearing. Well, the value of that $40 anyways. A good amount of them are already getting low. I'm also using a lot of ink on pictures like the one I did today. It's also going to be pretty stressful when I start running out of ink, and I'm not making any of the money back!
Okay, that's going to be all for tonight. I had a super busy day (despite being completely snowed in!) and I only found time in the past couple hours to get some drawing done, and write this post. No answering any questions like I have been for the past few days or so. I should be able to get back to that tomorrow.
All in all, this picture has me a little bit excited to see where it goes next. I think there are some people that are really going to appreciate how it turns out. Good night!
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Southeast PAECT Upcoming Events
2013-2014 School Year - Scheduled Events
October - Flipped Learning Event
December - Tech the Halls
February - PETE&C
March - Open House
2012-2013 School Year - Past Events
August - Happy Hour at Nodding Hill Brewery (Philly)
November - Hack Your Education Tour with Steve Hargadon @ SLA (Philly)
December - Tech the Halls at Gimaro Steakhouse (Montgomeryville)
January - Sponsored breakfast at Educon and facilitated a session (Philly)
February - PETE&C regional meeting (Hershey)
March - Open house at Brandon's House (Lansdale)
April - DEN Spring virtual conference at Wegmans (Collegeville)
May - Sponsored breakfast at Edcamp Philly
July - Family BBQ at Brooke's House (Collegeville)
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A lot has been happening in the 'payments of DStv subscriptions' arena over the last couple of months. First, Ecocash reduced the amounts that subscribers could pay for their subscriptions, then they outright stopped taking payments (well, they moved to accepting from their Rand accounts).
Then Telecash followed suit by cancelling, and more recently CABS revised their terms of accepting payments.
I'm somewhat happy that there's been a power fault in our neighbourhood for more than 3 weeks now, in that the conversation with the Mrs in regards to paying our monthly subscription has not yet been had. Thank you ZESA!
However, eager to know what the status of payment for one's DStv account as of today (March 22, 2017) for our readers I took a trip to Multichoice Zimbabwe to know more. So if you want to know how to pay DStv through the following methods, hopefully this will help:
If you have cash (whether Bond Notes or USD) there are a number of options for you.
Multichoice Zimbabwe themselves do not accept cash payments and you will have to make your way to one of the following banks: FBC, ZB, CBZ, Metbank, POSB, Stanbic and Steward Bank. NMB (Avondale Branch) also accept.
Another option is to convert that money to South African Rands (don't ask me if I know any names of money changers at Roadport) and put it in your Ecocash Rand account and then make that payment from there.
Bank Cards
If you walk into a Multichoice shop today, they allow you to swipe from a number of bank cards. They accept all ZimSwitch bank cards, with the exception of the following: ZB, NBS, NMB. They also do not accept Ecocash Mastercards.
The exception of the above mentioned ZimSwitch cards is temporary, as they state that they're looking into rectifying the 'anomaly'.
Bank Payments
Using either your mobile or online banking one is capable of making payment for your DStv account. The following banks accept payments towards DStv through your bank account with them: FBC, CABS, NMB, Barclays, ZB, CBZ, Metbank, Standard Chartered (mobile payments only), POSB, Stanbic and Steward Bank
Online Payments
Multichoice also accept payments online, allowing customers to pay using their bank cards, whether Visa or Mastercard. If you have a bank account that can make online payments, then visit the PayU website and transact there.
Hopefully this article has assisted in allowing you to make your payment, if it hasn't please state your case in the comments and I'll be sure to follow it up.
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The High Priestly Prayer
Devotion by Tyler Snavely
John 17
1 When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, "Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you, 2 since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him. 3 And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. 4 I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do. 5 And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed.
6 "I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world. Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. 7 Now they know that everything that you have given me is from you. 8 For I have given them the words that you gave me, and they have received them and have come to know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me. 9 I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours. 10 All mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them. 11 And I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one. 12 While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me. I have guarded them, and not one of them has been lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled. 13 But now I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves. 14 I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. 15 I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one. 16 They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.17 Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. 18 As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. 19 And for their sake I consecrate myself, that they also may be sanctified in truth.
20 "I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, 21 that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22 The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, 23 I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me. 24 Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world. 25 O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me. 26 I made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them."
The words Jesus spoke in this prayer are powerful. Unfortunately, we tend to forget each and everyday of Christ's mission and this prayer he prayed before he was handed over. As we read this chapter Jesus sums up his life on Earth and gives us an example to follow. It is clear that Jesus' mission and goal was to bring glory to the Father. He glorified God by the works he performed, and the sacrifice He made with His life. We don't think of life as a mission like Jesus did. He knew He only had a short time and he lived every moment of it selflessly. We too only have a short time, and we see in this passage that we are sent by Christ to proclaim the truth to whoever will listen. The glory Christ received from God he has now given to us so that 'they may be one even as we are one'. We cannot be one if we are living life alone. We have to be intentional, like Christ, to reach out to those and share life with the people around us by living in truth and making sacrifices.
- Why do you think Jesus doesn't ask to take us from the world (v15)?
- In v20 Jesus prays for "those who will come to faith by their word" That's US! We are directly mentioned in v20. How does it make you feel to know that Jesus prayed for you to be one with other believers, knowing you would come to faith by the word of His disciples?
- How can we manifest the love that Jesus has for us to others?


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In Bangkok, the aptly named food service PaleoRobbie helps city slickers follow this ancient diet. The company was founded by brothers Erik and Robbie, from the Netherlands, and now serves specially prepared meals to over 400 people every day.
The interest in the Paleo Diet first took root when 24-year-old Robbie—who used to weigh a whopping 137kg—came to Phuket with friends, all on a mission to get in shape. The Paleo Diet worked wonders, and he lost 35kg in the first five months. Upon visiting his brother Erik, who was then living in Bangkok, Robbie found the food choices in this city to be vast in variety, but scant when it came to truly healthy meals.
Robbie then began cooking at home, and the brothers would invite friends who all happily came back for more. Soon there were 16 guests per dinner, and things just grew from there. People started to ask if they could use similar ingredients to cook at home, so the brothers decided to launch a grocery home delivery service. Now, four years later, business is booming. Healthy meals, made from scratch, are being delivered daily all over Bangkok, while hard to find healthy groceries can be delivered to homes nation-wide.
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AILA is a collective of attorneys that practice immigration law. It has over 15,000 members and they share access to many things that are important to you search for the person you hire as your immigration lawyer.
ALIA provides its members with access to many seminars and events to educate its member on trends and compliance with existing immigration regulations and procedures.
Attorney Tom Howard, you maintains this website for his own immigration law practice is a member and enjoys all the opportunity for learning provided by AILA. As your potential attorney what he or she is doing to stay on top of the law.
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Vote against wind project raises questions about future development
Credit: By Charlotte Albright | Vermont Public Radio | January 15, 2014 | vpr.net ~~
A vote against a wind energy project proposed for Seneca Mountain, near Island Pond, is raising questions about the developer's next steps. Residents opposed to the project say they are sending a unified message that turbines are not welcome on pristine mountain tops in the Northeast Kingdom.
But the company hasn't pulled the plug. At least, not yet.
This wasn't an official election in the Unified Towns and Gores of Essex County. It was an opinion poll conducted by mail and paid for the Seneca Wind. When the replies were tallied before a UTG meeting in Ferdinand Monday night, opponents to the 20-turbine project claimed victory, saying the outcome – 170 against, 107 for – wasn't even close.
Valerie Desmarais is a co-founder of one of three citizens' groups opposing the project.
"We've done a lot of work and a lot of outreach and done as much education as we can to help people understand the impacts of a set-up like this on the mountain," she said after the vote.
And those impacts, she says, are not just environmental, but economic in a remote area that relies heavily on income from tourists looking for unspoiled recreational settings. So she and others at the UTG meeting nodded when the Seneca Wind project manager, John Soininen, said that his company would have to re-think its plan.
"Yes, we committed to abiding by a local vote," he said.
But before the meeting Soininen said, paraphrasing a written statement, that Seneca Wind may not be dead, yet.
"We would like to extend our thanks to all our supporters for their efforts and for taking the time to cast their ballots. At this point Seneca Mountain Wind will need to evaluate the results and consider our options moving forward," Soininen said.
The landowner, meanwhile, has closed his vast acreage to public snowmobile traffic, apparently out of frustration at the vote. So there's a lot of ambiguity surrounding the UTG survey – not only about what it will mean for future development on Seneca Mountain, but also elsewhere in the Northeast Kingdom. Wind opponents say it follows a trend set in a series of local votes, including Brighton, Newark, Eden, and Sutton, against mountaintop turbines in this scenic region. But some Kingdom communities have voted for wind projects. And Gabrielle Stebbins, Director of the trade group Renewable Energy Vermont, says the UTG survey should not be seen as an industry defeat, because over 100 people voted yes.
"I think in the long run the multiple benefits of wind energy will outweigh the concerns, and many of those concerns are not based in science, so we're going to continue to work towards that day when we're focusing on what wind projects bring in terms of clean energy at very low cost," Stebbins said.
But clearly there are strong disagreements about what those costs are, and not everyone measures them in monetary terms. Stebbins says local communities should put their trust in the Public Service Board to assess both environmental and economic impacts of wind projects. Opponents say the PSB criteria are too narrow.
So the debate is likely to continue, not only about individual projects, but about the way the state regulates them.
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The father of techno and founder of the Detroit is coming to London this summer to lead the City of London Sinfonia Orchestra at the Southbank Centre's
The father of techno and founder of the Detroit is coming to London this summer to lead the City of London Sinfonia Orchestra at the Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall.
The show will be run by a Macedonian musician Dzija Emin, where the orchestra will play classics from Derrick May's debuts, including 'Rhythim is Rhythim' and 'Mayday', both which remain on top the list, after decades.
This show had already been performed in the past across the globe with 70 musicians for concerts in Europe, USA, and Australia. Emin, for each his performance, he spends a full few months on compositing his music with the orchestra for each show. For the Southbank Center show, he is planning a special performance with a high-energy vibe and more interaction between the musicians and Derrick May with jazz players to create an ultimate feeling of "freedom". Emin says, "When you feel free, you can do whatever you want to do. You can dance, sing, play music… With Derrick, we have great energy on stage. We have a lot of fun."
Derrick May started his Djing career as a teenager when he met Juan Atkins and Kevin Saunderson and they called themselves the "Deep Space Soundworks". Their music was inspired by European electronic sounds and black American dance music, therefore the trio created a new type of techno sound called "Detroit". The style is described as both 'futuristic and emotional, physical and cerebral'. May's recalls "None of us knew this would be ground-breaking or revolutionary. We had no idea what we did would change the world,". The orchestral project was born in 2013 when the producer Ognen Uzunovski asked Emin to create a collaboration between Derrick May and the Symphony Orchestra. The goal of this project was to mix high culture music with low culture music, in order to prove that both types of music are considered to be equally important in today's society.
The first show of the orchestral project was premiered in Ohrid in 2015 with the Macedonian Philharmonic and since then they performed also with Symfonieorkest Vlaanderen, Orchestre Lamoureux, Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. This summer Derrick May continues the project by collaborating with the City of London Sinfonia Orchestra at the Southbank Center's Royal Festival Hall on Thursday 29th of Agust 2019, starting from 7.30pm.
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Tickets to the greatest annual sporting events in the country unfortunately aren't easily available. This means that, if you want to go, you'll have to pony up plenty of money. Before you get your hopes up, here's your cheat sheet for the Top 10 Hottest Tickets in American Sports.
1. The Masters
The Masters is unlike any other major sporting event in the world since the management at Augusta National is against maxing out the almighty dollar in the name of tradition. That means they limit the number of corporate partners, limit the amount of commercials (four per hour) that run on the CBS broadcast of the event, and they have shown no interest in making any sort of real market value off their tickets.
This year will mark the 40th straight sellout at Augusta, though we have no idea what that exactly means since the total number of tickets produced is not a public number. Tickets are not available for purchase, either. Only patrons who are on the list receive the right to purchase four-day badges for a ridiculous bargain of $175.
The list of the lucky ones also isn't public, though we know it consists of past champions, members of the club and Augusta residents. And you can't get a first-hand ticket by waiting on some list. That hasn't been opened since 1978 and it only opens to a few new fans a year since tickets can be willed from one family member to another.
So, what happens if you really want to go? Prepare to pay a broker $2,000 to $10,000 apiece.
You can apply for tickets to the practice rounds at Augusta National, but even those are limited. Applications for 2007 must be in by July 15, 2006. For more information, see www.masters.org.
Also, the annual Par-3 Tournament held on the Wednesday of Masters week is a fun event. Fans are allowed to take photos (which is prohibited during the tournament itself) and are more likely to enjoy some relaxed interaction with the players.
2. Duke vs. North Carolina at Cameron Indoor Stadium
You won't see the NCAA men's basketball championship on this list -- those seats can be had for a couple hundred dollars. But a ticket to this rivalry in Durham is for the high rollers. Tickets to the matchup this year sold in the $2,000 range. "If you don't have a lot of money and you want to go to this game, the best thing to do is try to get into Duke as a student," said Eric Baker, co-founder of Stubhub, an online secondary ticket marketplace.
What makes this ticket so expensive is the rivalry combined with the lack of seats. Try this matchup at the Dean Smith Center in Chapel Hill, where a seat typically can be had for $350 because the arena has 12,000 more seats.
3. The Super Bowl
Tickets to the NFL's championship game usually can be had for $2,000 apiece before the teams are announced. That price will either rise or fall depending on a variety of factors, most importantly the popularity of the teams. The worst seat in the house for Super Bowl XL was selling, at the last minute, for $2,500. Super Bowl XXXVIII ended at $1,500 and Super Bowl XXXVI ended at $100. With the face value of the tickets now in the $600 to $700 range, don't expect to ever get anything under face.
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Some of the hottest Super Bowl parties are invite-only, but after three straight Super Bowls in so-so cities -- Houston, Jacksonville and Detroit -- Miami is going to be rocking with parties. For $1,500, you can have your choice of some of the best in town.
4. The 2007 NBA All-Star Game
Tickets to the NBA All-Star Game typically hover in the $800 to $1,000 range. Good luck getting anything close to that price when the league's midseason classic heads to Las Vegas. Gamblers will use this as another excuse to get to Sin City, even though no action will be taken on the game itself.
Maybe go a couple days early and hope to win enough money to afford a broker's asking price? OK, maybe not.
Just get yourself to Vegas for All-Star Weekend and enjoy. It's not like you can't find anything else to do if you can't get into the game! The atmosphere around town is sure to be even more wild and outrageous than usual, and you'll probably pocket dozens of celebrity sightings from the A-list to the D-list. The game itself may well end up being an afterthought.
5. BCS National Championship Game
How much demand is there for a game like this? More than 100,000 seats in the Rose Bowl are just not enough. This past year, $175 tickets were routinely selling for more than $1,000, thanks to the fan bases of USC and Texas.
A trip to the Rose Bowl offers enough pageantry and general Southern California fun to make it worth your while any year. Try it in a non-national championship year when prices are lower.
6. The World Series
As Red Sox fans found out in 2004, ticket prices can greatly vary depending on the location. For many, it was actually cheaper to fly to St. Louis and see one of the games at Busch Stadium than to pay top-notch prices in Boston. Ticket prices range from hundreds to thousands depending on location inside the stadium.
Location, location, location. If you're determined to cross the World Series off your list of sports events to see in a lifetime, sit tight and wait for a year when there's a team with a relatively large stadium and relatively lukewarm support. While bandwagon fans are sure to sell the place out, prices on the secondary market should be more reasonable.
7. Red Sox vs. Yankees at Fenway Park
While we're on the Red Sox... There's no question that this is among the best rivalries in sports, and if you're going to watch it at Fenway, prepare to pay a pretty penny. Face value tickets are already among the highest in baseball with capacity around 36,000. Green Monster seats, which were once $50 when they debuted in 2003, now cost as much as $130 each. Field box seats are normally $95 and loge box seats are $85. But you're certainly not paying those kinds of prices to watch the team play against "The Evil Empire." If you want to see these teams play at the end of the season with something on the line, prepare to pay $500 apiece and that's not even going to get you much.
As with Duke-North Carolina above, it's all about capacity. Yankee Stadium can hold more than 56,000 fans, so Red Sox-Yankees prices should be a bit lower there.
An alternative in Boston is simply to head across the street from Fenway to the Cask 'n Flagon, and watch from that classic sports bar. Step outside onto Landsdowne Street to try to chase down home run balls which clear the Green Monster.
8. Kentucky Derby
If you just want to get in the place, you can pay $40 for walk-up general admission tickets that can get you in the infield at Churchill Downs. But actually having a chance to really watch the race from the grandstand will cost you at least $300 and clubhouse seats will set you back at least $1,000.
Pack away your fancy hats until you get a raise, and fork over the $40 for the unsurpassed scene of debauchery that is the Kentucky Derby infield.
As far as the Triple Crown, Belmont Park is much larger, and ticket prices are much lower. Buy your tickets and cross your fingers that you'll see the Belmont Stakes with the Triple Crown on the line.
9. U.S. Open Men's Final
There are 23,000 seats at Arthur Ashe Stadium for the U.S. Open men's final at the U.S. National Tennis Center. But the event's close proximity to New York and the tremendous corporate investment in the tournament means forking over hundreds of dollars for a nosebleed seat.
Best chance of getting a cheap ducat? Root for a real no-name to make it into final two.
In many ways, tennis majors are best experienced in the early or middle rounds, when you can stroll the grounds, soak up the atmosphere, and catch multiple matches in a day. Go to www.usopen.org for ticket information; 2006 tickets go on sale on June 12.
10. NASCAR Sharpie 500 (Bristol Motor Speedway)
Even though Bristol Motor Speedway seats 164,000, the nighttime race held there in late summer is known as the toughest ticket in NASCAR. Ticket holders are able renew their tickets annually, and pretty much all of them do choose to return to this half-mile oval which has a football stadium feel, with seats surrounding the entire track.
Why not just go to NASCAR's premier race, the Daytona 500? You'll have no trouble scoring a ticket, though a good box seat will cost you north of $200. Great seats -- like in the Nextel Tower section -- will cost you triple that.
Darren Rovell, who covers sports business for ESPN.com, can be reached at email@example.com


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Join the Crew host Corey Moss, Katye McGregor Bennett, Jonathan Brawn, Justin Rexing and Lauren Larson as they welcome their guests:
Richard Ventura – Vice President of Strategy at NEC Display Solutions of America, Inc. and Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Digital Signage Federation (DSF)
Alan Brawn – Principal at Brawn Consulting
Andrea Varrone – Show Director – Digital Signage Expo
Stephanie Gutnik – Vice President, Business Development at Broadsign
All begin the show talking about the Digital Signage Federation (DSF), for which Rich is the Chairman, and Alan announces recent additions to the Board, including one person who is on this show. Alan expounds on the DSF as former chairman as well as being a long time educator, and later Rich has a special announcement where Alan's long time involvement is concerned. Stephanie talks about the DSF and her involvement now within the organization.
Andrea then talks about the Women of Digital Signage group, Katye, Alan and Stephanie also add to the discussion. Stephanie begins discussion about what's happening at Broadsign, talking about a focus on sales tools and additions to their tech stack for 2018. She also talks about where the AV industry is going concerning digital signage, and Lauren adds to the discussion being from the commercial AV side. Rich then talks about the DSF, the digital signage industry, NEC and also follows up on AV, digital signage and display perspective. There's some "connected" discussion here too.
Rich starts the trade show talk with ISE 2018 and the technologies there, as well as how he'll be getting around the show. In the midway there's the beer talk, and we also find out who our designated podcaster is. We also talk about a hall of fame induction – you do have to hear this discussion. Rich also makes that special announcement here.
We turn to Andrea who discusses this award as well as industry support, and then DSE 2018, as she briefly discusses the show and what will be taking place there – and more to come on The AV Life prior to the show. Stick around as Alan closes up with some important commentary on digital signage including content, analytics, IoT, the DSE, DSF and the Digital Signage Experts Group.
Sit back, plug in and enjoy this show with leaders in the digital signage industry as we live…
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