Achilles Tang

What am I talking about? You of course, the investor! Think twice before putting your (time &) money into something se x-up & attractive like 'fast returns' timeshare companies versus slow but bonafide returns from banks or financial houses. I can't understand the concept of new companies announcing its worldwide affiliations with other established companies when one can't even judge its linkages or the value in it. It's understandable when a bank advertises itself being recognized worldwide - when everyone has already been doing business with it for years! What price Genuinity regarding Management when it is continunally being caughtout on fraudulent underhanded behaviour and scandals after scandals throughtout its short history? Blatant shamelessness in re-telling its lies until its convinced in its truth? I'm talking about people who cause the downfall of companies like Enron, AIB, Barings, CAO... or am I not? Anyway, back to 'timeshare' companies... I've been bitten once, wasted a few hours of my life but now I walk away with some valuable insight. Giving away prizes does not make it an attractive prospect! Don't get caught up on its own hyped-up euphoria on how fantastic its products are or high its share prices are when its worth nothing less than its paper value. Absolutely disgraceful on the local trading scene to put up a big notice saying otherwise when everyone knows better. It's akin to some managers taking a look inside a competitor's premises and dismissing the twice full number of GENUINE customers seen inside and extolling the half-number seen in its own lobby. Do they think that people don't have eyes to see for themselves? Take a cue from many ex-investors in the know who after having learnt its true nature have already dropped their interests, after its initial hype & failure in promising to deliver on in its sales pitch? I guess such people aim to go after the new customers of other established companies (a strategy not unfamiliar to their startup phases - absolutely proven!). Too many corporate disrepute these days... what is this world coming too? Sigh! I guess competition can be ugly... absolutely! Anyway... don't worry, I've not been taken in or cheated. I'm just venting of course... I'm quite free these days to speculate on things that absolutely amuse me.

Indigestion? Ingestion of air? airbladder problems? who knows? its something internal.. i guess you have to wait and see. Sorry to hear about it....

Would help if you put a price to it?

try chopped nori. Cheap and good! They will sure fattened up.

Our sponsor, reef depot has a big collection of artificial corals. Do mention that you got this info from SRC!

Smart! hehehe.....

For peace of mind, why dont you just siphon those eggs out?

Wanted to say the Manta Ray is the largest ray but I realised that it doesn't have a sting!

I remember catching baby fishes looking like this floating in the sargossum patches that come off the East Coast Parkway beach.

???? You're not setting up a SH tank anymore??

... unless they have a direct seawater intake to bring in the zooplankton that these fishes feed on, I don't see how its possible.... like in most captive reef aquariums, they grow skinny and die....

I wonder if they keep replenishing their purple queens every week! Beautiful but impossible to keep alive long term!

ermmmm.......

Yikes! Maybe you can bottle and sell back to LFS as phytoplankton water!

Ok i bid $4.60! 10cents more!

That purple piece is

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Moving image of the Moon shot by HDTV KAGUYA (SELENE) World’s First Image Taking of the Moon by HDTV November 7, 2007 (JST) Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) have successfully performed the world's first high-definition image taking by the lunar explorer "KAGUYA" (SELENE,) which was injected into a lunar orbit at an altitude of about 100 km on October 18, 2007, (Japan Standard Time. Following times and dates are all JST.) The image shooting was carried out by the onboard high definition television (HDTV) of the KAGUYA, and it is the world's first high definition image data acquisition of the Moon from an altitude about 100 kilometers away from the Moon. The image taking was performed twice on October 31. Both were eight-fold speed intermittent shooting (eight minutes is converged to one minute.) The first shooting covered from the northern area of the "Oceanus Procellarum" toward the center of the North Pole, then the second one was from the south to the north on the western side of the "Oceanus Procellarum." The moving image data acquired by the KAGUYA was received at the JAXA Usuda Deep Space Center, and processed by NHK. The satellite was confirmed to be in good health through telemetry data received at the Usuda station. http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2007/11/20071107_kaguya_e.html

One can only wonder... "The pain, shame and guilt will haunt me the rest of my life " sounds like something really bad happened to her. Scam or the truth - I just want the absolute truth. I have no time to be scammed along for another person's agenda to destroy another.

Yeah... even the spammers take the time to be descriptive in THEIR spam messages! (you guys won't see it because we delete them quickly).

READ THIS!!!!!!

Testament, you have gotten my pm. Please respond to me on my request asap. For your sake I hope you have everything in order. God help you if you are not genuine. On the same token, heaven is usually kind to the downtrodden and oppressed. WHICH side are you on?

It's certainly the Scandal of the Year if its true! - worse than all the cheating, scamming, car-painting, stealing from LFS, even worse than the recent break-in c um mega-theft of equipment from reefers home! OMG! How many more rotten apples can there be in this society!!!

That's one mean looking critter!

I always believe that there is no smoke without a fire. If the aggrieved party is actually the 'victim', then why no cries of shock, disbelief, denial, claims of innocence etc. even though this has come to light quite some time ago in the community? To be fair... I'm waiting for Testament to give me a call to prove herself and maybe even the so-called 'victim' to also give me a call to see if I to expect an out-of-court settlement soon between both of them and they wish this thread to be buried. I will help both parties when the time is right. To be fair... I will be pissed if Testament is taking all of us for a ride and using SRC for an evil agenda (if there is zero truth to the sexual harassment allegations)... as much as the show is becoming more interesting.... I will delete the thread without hesitation and ban Testament and her IP address. This much I will promise everyone. The Truth shall set you Free! BTW, Honzo... I love your signature... "what goes around, comes around!.... eat your own medicine!"