Recurve Bow shooting question ?
I have been shooting for 20 years using a compound bow, but finally decided to try a recurve..I have no recurve experience at all, but this week bought a new recurve to learn traditional shooting….I bought a Fred Bear Grizzly, shooting carbon arrows with 3 vane straight plastic vanes…..I am shooting fine and hitting well for a beginner, but my problem is the arrows keep tearing the bear hair rest off of the shelf….What is the secret to keeping the bear hair taped to the shelf ?? I am putting the cock vane at the 9 o clock position when looking down the arrow….Every few shots the bear hair comes loose….My string nock is set at .5 inch high….Shooting fingers with leather glove….Obviously I could super glue it down, but I doubt that is the correct solution, I mean it should stick well with the 2 face tape that is attached to the bear hair, right ???
Thanks Kenny
Should I Become an Atheist?
I’ve been a Christian all my life, well, all 15 years that is haha, but I’m starting to question whether or not God really exists.
I feel that the idea of an all powerful and all knowing God is a little far fetched. It’s like saying, jump off a 50 foot cliff, you might make it. You might make it, you might not make it. There may be a God, there may not be. If God loves us so much, why would he let us live a life full of ’sin’, and not do anything about it. I feel like this is the work of the Church back in Medieval times.
When you think about it, human society has corruption. In the Middle Ages, wouldn’t it be so easy, for a bunch of clever men, to add on to an idea of a God, and say, if you don’t obey these rules set down by him, he will send you to hell unless you repent for your sins and confess. Well, in such an uneducated world, control like this had to be easy. Plus if they require you to confess to save yourself from eternal suffering, they can find out if anyone wants to undermine the church. Now if you study Europe from back then, you’ll notice that the Catholic Church was ABOVE the King, and everyone else. The King would go to priests to find out about war and the future.
Also, with modern science, carbon dating, fossils, proof of evolution, and recently, ‘brane theory’. Which is the idea that two dimension are incredibly close to each other, but we can’t get to the other, and every trillion years or so, they bump together, and release matter as a radiation from the collision. Then the universe cools and calms down, just like heat, or a ripple in a pool of water, then the dimensions collide again. It makes so much sense to me, and almost perfectly contradicts God.
I know I REALLY dragged this out, but I just need to know whether or not I should become an atheist.
Mold in fishtank?? It isn't algae. Water tests come back fine.?
I have read other questions regarding the mold in a fishtank, and most people say it is algae and not to worry. But it isn’t algae in my case. Here is what has been going on:
-I had a fish whose eye turned white and fuzzy. I administered an anti-fungal, taking the carbon out of my filter and continuing for 7 days as instructed.
-On the 3rd or 4th day I came home and most of my fish had died (3 bottom feeders, 2 female bettas, 3 tiger barbs, 2 rainbow sharks). All I have left is my pleco, male betta, and two others.
-I did a partial water change, and continued medication (as instructed on the bottle)
-I finished the medication and did another partial water change.
-I had my water tested, my nitrates were a little high but nothing alarming. To be expected with all of the previous mentioned problems.
-A day or so later I put an algae chip in my tank for my pleco, since there wasn’t any algae left for it to eat. The next morning the chip had floated to the top of my tank. The day after that it had white fuzzy mold growing on it.
-I took my water to get tested again. All came back fine.
-Last night another fish died and I noticed white fuzzy mold growing on the top inside of the tank.
So I have literally done everything I could possibly have done. The fish store has assisted with products and water tests. My tank had been set up for over 2 years, so it was well established. I keep it clean, and make sure I don’t have too many fish.
Any idea what I am doing wrong, or what could have happened to make mold grow on the inside of my tank? I am planning on going home tonight and cleaning it, partial water change, again. Any suggestions on what to use to kill the mold but not kill the fish (that are left)? Some insight would be nice. The couple of aquarium stores I have called/been to have no idea why I have had this mass die-off and so many problems when my water is coming back clean.
Another note: I have a fresh water/brackish tank.
Should and will President Obama act on these 'Plan B' climate suggestions?
The Presidential Climate Action Project has made suggestions as to how President Obama can use his executive authority to achieve his goal of 17% greenhouse gas emissions cuts by 2020 despite congress failing to pass a climate bill. So far the President has not backed off this committment despite congress’ failure.
1) Create a national roadmap to the clean energy economy for state and local governments to follow. According to the Center for Climate Strategies, if all 50 states adopted a set of 23 energy and climate policies, they could cut emissions 27% by 2020 compared to 1990 levels, about nine times deeper than the cuts the President has proposed. At the same time, those 23 policies would boost GDP by 4 billion, save consumers billion and create 2.5 million new jobs.
2) Challenge the United States—currently a pathetic 22nd in energy efficiency among the major economies—to become the world’s most energy-efficient industrial economy by 2035.
3) Push Congress to modify the surface transportation reauthorization bill next year such that it gives more funding for mass transit than building roads. Currently more funding goes to building roads.
4) Stop subsidizing fossil fuels. According to the IEA, phasing out these hundreds of billions of dollars of subsidies over the next decade would achieve more than 30% of the cuts in carbon emissions necessary to keep rising atmospheric temperatures at no more than 2°C above pre-industrial levels.
5) Make ecosystem restoration a central strategy in climate mitigation and adaptation.
http://www.climateactionproject.com/plan2010/PCAP-Report_August2010.pdf
What do you think of these suggestions - should and will President Obama act on them?
Person actually cursed by evil?
I am not particularly religious but my father is DEFINITELY cursed by evil. You would not believe the life he lives. He brings it on himself mostly. EVERYTHING in his life is plagued with misfortune and if you are around him, you will get unlucky and sick.
Just to illustrate the unlucky nature that surrounds him, and this is one of THOUSANDS of examples… I bought a very expensive DVD set for his birthday, like 0. I was very happy to have received it in the mail and just as I was about to give it to him, the carbon monoxide/gas detector went off without any apparent reason whatsoever. My cat spends 99% of days outside but today, he for some unknown reason was sitting in the room with the deafening alarm so his hearing is probably permanantly damaged now.
Everything and anything around my father is miserable and deadly and he brings his unluck and misfortune to all around him. Always has been this way. You can even feel the negative presence around him. If he comes within 50 feet of me, I start sneezing, coughing, nose running because my body can sense something not right.
Like I said, I’m not particularly religious or whatever but this man without question has some type of evil plague on him. In fact, because it is so annoying, I decided I am not giving the DVD set as a gift. I will sell it on eBay. My father doesn’t deserve nice things because he is a piece of garbage.
For the first time in my life, I actually hope my dad dies so I don’t have to be around him anymore. He is true human garbage, unworthy of life.
@ Superfuz– As funny as it sounds, you actually CAN develop allergies to other people!!!!!
@ mia– You hit the nail on the head there. He and his brothers were highly abused and constantly beaten as children. I have heard the stories so many times. I guess you are right…… but jeez… I mean, can’t a person "man up" about it?
I really think I might be underestimating my bioload(??) Any thought?
I currently have an up and cycled 15gal tall aquarium (20×10x20 I believe). The floor of the covered with a mixture of river stones, natural-colored sand, and black aquarium rocks (all pet-smart bought). There are also tons of fake plants lining the back of the aquarium (no real plants at this time). My biggest concern is that the tank must be transported to and from my college dorm every year. I have posted a few pictures of the tank here: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v51/elves117711/Fishy/100_3986.jpg (there are a few pictures, and the filter isnt dirty -that is loose carbon on the top from the bottom of the package).
Housing: 7 zebra danios (2 male 5 female I believe) ; 1 male betta (veil tail, very very passive) ; 2 mystery snails (1 gold and 1 blue) all of the creatures in the tank for the most part ignore each other. I could not be happier with the set up!
Heater: Constantly on; used to keep the tank at about 80*F (it turns itself on and off)
Air Stone: There is a 12in (??) air stone along the very back of the tank. It helps to move air into the water but is blocked by lots of large plants. The betta does fine in the “current” bc there is literally no current moving through the whole tank bc of all the plants breaking it up.
Filter: A combo lid/light/carbon-biowheel filter. The monster is an Eclipse 1 system by Marineland running 150gal/hr (so, 10x my tank size). You can read up on it here: http://marineland.com/sites/Marineland/products/productdetail.aspx?id=2054&cid=3243&mid=3227
Maintenance: I change the carbon filter about every 2-4 weeks (i.e. whenever it turns black) and perform about 30% water changes every week to every 2 weeks with a gravel vacuum. The replacement water sits overnight and is conditioned before use.
Feeding: The little fellas are fed a combination of Topfin color enhancing pellets and Topfin freeze dried medly and/or Tetra Tropical Crisps… and there is usually one little algae wafer in there for the snails.
The “Rule”: Sure, there is the whole rule about 1in of adult fish per gallon or 3in of adult goldfish per gallon (I have 1.5 in of fish left over by this rule), or some say to use this rule based on the standard size of the aquarium (so mine would be a 10gal for stocking reasons because you would ignore that it is a tall). …but then, if you do regular water changes and have a super filter (like my 10x my tank size one) you have much more room for bioload reasons (I not discussion swimming space in this thread). …but then other people say that the more stuff you have, the less bioload you have (makes some sense bc there would be less water).
Does anyone have experience on this? I have quite a bit of middle swimming room going unused, my fish are content in each other’s company, I do regular water changes biweekly at a minimum (although could probably do it once a month)… do I really only have room for one little 1.5in max fish? As a science major, MY bioload story does not add up. The tank is fully cycled and the filter works wonders on it. I really think I could add more creatures.
Thank you for any comments,
Sarahbeth
Qik - Offsetting our Carbon Print by James Whatley
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Obama set up CXX with Joyce Foundation and Shoreline Bank so he profits billions off Cap and Trade (CXX is Chi?
Obama set up CXX with Joyce Foundation and Shoreline Bank so he profits billions off Cap and Trade (CXX is Chicago Carbon Credit Exchange). So shouldn’t he be disallowed from seeking to extort US businesses and consumers with Cap and Trade, a bill he’s pushing?
Not only is global warming a hoax, but it’s a big extortion money maker for Gore through GIM (Europe’s carbon exchange) and CXX (Chicago’s).
If the wages of sin is death should a tax be applied to that wage?
Should hell have a carbon emissions off set tax
How can airlines help lower an aircraft’s weight at take-off, thereby reducing its carbon footprint?
Would it make sense to weigh each passenger with their luggage,
and to take this total weight into account when setting the price
of that passenger’s ticket along with any additional
(and sometimes passenger-discretionary) needs
such as extra-wide seating or extended leg-room?
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