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OK, the tank is filled, to temperature and the filter was turned on today. The water is consequently still a little bit cloudy and everything in the tank is still covered in bubbles. I've also done an initial planting but some more will go in in the next couple of weeks. Not sure yet if the wife has finished with the furniture, but I've managed to keep it fairly reasonable so far - just one big lump of amythyst that she had to have. The guy at the shop recommended I fit a CO2 diffuser kit if I was going to have a well planted tank, and that's what you can see back left of the tank, with the heater right in the corner. On the right is the filter inlet pipe, and if you look closely to its left at the surface you'l just about be able to see the spray bar outlet (currently partly submerged but will be raised when I've got all the piping & cabling properly arranged).
Next picture probably when I've completed the planting
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quote:Originally posted by hembo:[QBwhat you will see is total commitment and no namby pamby behaviour[/QB]
In general yes, but there has been a little bit of diving creeping into the game, particularly for kick-through obstruction and the like, and some teams now seem full of players who get injuries just as the opposition get a penalty, 5m scrum/lineout etc, particularly if it's in the last 10 minutes. So yes, it won't be anything like as bad as soccer, but don't think rugby is whiter than white these days.
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My experience of setting up a new company is that marketing is everything. Rather than diversifying into an area that may not be your expertise, probably better to put the money into marketing what you already have and know. There are also some bodies like Business Link that exist to help small businesses. At a recent Pals4Pets franchise owner meeting we had a session with one of their guys and he was very good at focusing you in the right directions, even at a first meeting, and I’m looking forward to what he comes up with at later meetings. A call to them at the very least would be a very good start You could also try the small business advisor at your bank. He will probably be able to give you some good advice and point you at other sources of help.
Failing that of course you could always go into online Viagra sales. Be careful though, it’s a potentially hard market
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Football (ie FIFA, UEFA etc) have signed up to the world drug testing program. In that program missing a drug test is almost as bad as coming up positive. Footballers don't have to remember much, but if he (or his club) can't remember something so important and potentially career-ending then I'm afraid he gets what he deserves. And let's remember that the footballers testing regime is nothing like what athletes or swimmers go through - it's not exactly rigourous.
I would question whether the testers attempted to contact/find him on the day, and I suspect that because of this and because he did a negative test 36 hours later he'll get away with a warning or slap-on-the-wrist fine. The FA were in a no win situation however. Let him play and risk getting the team disqualified for fielding an ineligable player, or not play him and get vilified in the press. I can't believe they didn't contact FIFA or UEFA to ask advice, and I think they've done the right thing. At least we can claim to still have a little bit of sporting honour!
Let's turn it round. Let's suppose that Turkey win and then are found to have played a man who was later found to be playing under similar circumstances. You can almost feel the sense of righteous indignation that The Sun and The Daily Mail would generate!
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Thanks Newt, I've passed that on to the guy who's investigating the fault
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I'm not trying to make anybody feel guilty or indeed happy, and I didn't really expect to be criticised for gently suggesting that people should take care of their health. You've had your close call and survived which doubtless gives you a different viewpoint on life. The big difference however is that yours was an accident which was presumably outside your control, and that makes it a somewhat different scenario to leaving a wife and kids on their own for the sake of a little bit of health consciousness (and it doesn't take much to make a difference). If people are genuinely happy with themselves then they will do nothing and I wouldn't expect them to. If however they harbour the odd doubt then it would do no harm for them to examine them a little more closely, and then maybe they'll stand more chance of also being able to take pride in the fact that they can see the day begin, and watch their children grow.Ziffy:Your story is touching, but why do you try to make people feel guilty about being happy?
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Went karting with a group from work tonight. Sadly an hour in one of the drivers had what looks like a heart attack and I would imagine from the fact they'd been CPRing him for 20 minutes before the ambulance left that he's unlikely to have survived. Kind of brings home what's important in life and what isn't. So if you're a little overweight and under-exercised as many anglers are, do yourself and your family a favour and take a look at yourself and your lifestyle and see if you can help yourself.
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Thanks Newt, I suspected it was something along those lines. Just what one needs though - a spammer with your address and a virus!
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Newt, it's definitely using that API. What I'm trying to find out is where does that API actually get the login ID from on the machine. We suspect the problem is that the Citrix session doesn't store the login ID in the same place as a normal login would, so we want to find out where it would normally be got from outside Citrix then have a look in the same place from within and see if it's there (did that make sense?).
I haven't even started on the fact that one uses NT and the other uses Win 2000 under Novell - that's too scary to contemplate!
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Long shot as this is a very techie question (well beyond me as a tester!)
I’m currently testing a system that when logging on uses the Windows function GetUserNameA to obtain the login ID of the current User. When we try the same thing under CITRIX however it doesn’t work. What I need to know therefore is where exactly does this function get the ID from? Is it in the registry somewhere, and if so where?
Thank you
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Thanks John - good advice, particularly regarding the water from the shop. I had been wondering about getting a little something from my outdoor filter as a starter but I think the uncertainty of not knowing how it would react with warm water and tropicals had talked me out of it. Your suggestion makes a lot of sense.
I'll be getting the fish from Maidenhead Aquatics, probably the Iver branch, as they seem to be amongst the best I've seen. As for fish, haven't really decided what's going to be in there yet. The wife wants to chose so I'll probably let her produce a list and then point out which fish will eat all the others! We'll probably end up with a community tank of fairly basic stuff, although I am rather partial to coryadoras and some of the more interesting plecs.
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Try Smoothhound - lots of B&B's & non-chain hotels. Lists 20+ for Tunbridge Wells from £20 upwards. Appropriate name for sea anglers as well
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It's very difficult to be a credible opposition when the party in power has effectively implemented most of your policies and become the party that you were before the election. Where do you go?
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The beans scene in Blazing Saddles
The car chase in The Italian Job
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Blazing Saddles for me too. Cracks me up every time I see the bean scene.
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The Wife has been nagging me to buy a fish tank for some time now, so today I did it. I've got a 100cm bow-fronted tank of around 140 litres with an external filter and should have it sorted and ready to fill by the weekend. Will try and post some pictures up here as I go through the stages and hopefully in about a months time we should have a few fish in it (tropical community).
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If you keep neat maggot in a container without maize or sawdust you'll very soon have an extremely unpleasant bait box. Maggots sweat (and I would presume excrete) and the maize or sawdust is really there to absorb this and keep the maggots as dry and clean as possible. If you're keeping maggots for a few days then you should really riddle off the maize/sawdust on a regular basis and replace with fresh. As for a preference, I think I prefer maize, but as you say, it does get everywhere!
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As I guess we all do, I find myself from time to time thinking about what I'd create if I had the opportunity to build a lake from scratch. I'm not think a commercial fishery here, just something that you could build and fish yourself. Also don't worry about the technicalities of building it, let's assume that everything you need is available and viable.
So what would you build? How big? How many pegs? What type of pegs? Depth? What would you stock? What would you plant? Go on, live your fantasy!
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When it's cheaper to bring lamb from New Zealand than from the local farm I think that says it all. Supermarkets have a lot to answer for though. Think back before them (I can just about) and the majority of what you bought was local produced. You bought meat from the local butcher who would have bought it from the local slaughterhouse or even direct from a local farmer. The fruit and vegetables would have come from the local wholesaler who would have been in the nearest large town or city and would have supplied largely local produce when in season. Milk and cheese came from the local dairy. Supermarkets however want to buy from one source in bulk as cheaply as possible. That kills any thoughts of local supply stone dead overnight and reduces the prices paid to the lowest levels. Any farmer who then can't operate at the minimum cost starts losing and will never come back. A crazy state of affairs.
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Retaining a fish for a few minutes until a steward arrives is unlikely to do the fish much damage, and in the scheme of things certainly less than sticking treble hooks in it's mouth. As with all things however if the fish is retained carelessly or for too long then it is deservedly frowned upon. Pike matches are a fact of life and it's not something that's likely to change. If a fish cannot for whatever reason be immediately weighed and returned then I'd rather that the fish was retained in an appropriate container than by any other means. To this end JackPike is to be congratulated for considering this possibility and being prepared to buy a suitable product rather than making do with a substandard one as many would.Bulster:quote:Competition. Championship. Verification of large catchOK, point taken but is winning a competition, chapionship more important than fish welfare.
Telford Anglers Specimen Group
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When I was TAA treasurer the TASG representative was a guy called Norman but for the life of me I can't remember his surname I'm afraid (he worked for Dave Preston). I'd suggest you ring Stan Harris or Malcolm Kelly and either of those should have a contact, assuming TASG are still affiliated. 590605 or 244272 I think from memory, but it's been a couple of years! Their numbers are probably in the Star or Journal columns.