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Plants turning brown in new tank
So I just set up a 55 gallon tank about a month and a half ago and I am having some difficulty. I have money wart, amazon sword and another plant I am unsure of in my tank. I also have 2 Chio angel fish, 5 zebra danios and 5 orange catfish. I am also trying to plant baby tears by cutting the bunch I got into patches and planting them about 1 inch apart so that they will grow into a carpet.
The temperature is ~80 F, there is a 5lb Co2 tank w/ regulator with about 2bps and a Marineland 350 filter. I have 156 watts of light and just started using Flourish excel fertilizer. The lights and Co2 are on a timer for 12 hours a day and I feed the fish once a day and the ph is around 7.
The fish seem happy and are doing well, but my plants are not thriving like I would like them to. They are turning brown, rotting and falling off. I already had to take a bunch of dead ones out. The tank seems really cloudy, it is growing brown algae on the glass, and green algae on the wood. Is there anything I am doing wrong that is causing this? Basically how can I get my plants to thrive with out algae?
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When one supplements C02 one also needs to step up the nutrients as well. You are moving into a high tech tank with the lights you have and adding C02. With that said the reason I see you are having problems with a lack of nutrients for the plants. Plants require something like 17 different nutrients. Some natural happen from the tank some of it is in the tap water you use the others you will have to add. Co2 is one and since you are dosing that and dosing Excel ( which is a liquid carbonic acid supplyment basically the same as C02) you have a lack of nutrients.
I would suggest stop using Excel and look into dry fertilizer methods. Until you resource that try using Flourish Comprehensive. For the substrate rooted plants try some root tablets (flourish has some also). The brown algae is most likely daitoms they are common in new setups and should go away on their own. If not then there is others factors that can be addressed. The rest of the algae can be control by the hours of lighting and getting the nutrients in balance with the plant needs. This want happen over night though. There is going to be some trial and error since you have a high tech tank. The best method I know of (also the cheapest for this setup) is dry fertilizer. You might want to seriously look into it.
I agree with Boredomb and will expand a bit on a couple points.
Flourish Excel is a liquid carbon supplement and is unnecessary if you are adding diffused CO2. Plus, Excel is known to kill some plants, Vallisneria is one, there may likely be others. I would not use it.
As for fertilizers/nutrients, I would not recommend Flourish Comprehensive if you are adding CO2 via diffusion. Comp is "intended" for more natural (low-tech) setups; it is a comprehensive supplement containing all nutrients (except oxygen, carbon and hydrogen) that does work very well as a sole fertilizer in low-tech planted tanks. Once you add CO2 you are increasing the level of balance, requiring more light (which you appear to have) and a need for significantly more nutrients. Daily nutrient dosing may be necessary. The other Flourish products, such as Flourish iron, trace elements, potassium would be better, but that is very expensive. Mixing dry fertilizers is preferable, and as I've never gone down that road I will leave it for those who have to comment.
Temperature. 80F is a bit warm, both for plants and fish. I would lower the tank temp to around 77-78F. Unless the angelfish are wild caught [I am not familiar with "Chio" angelfish], then 82F.
Last but not least, welcome to Tropical Fish Keeping forum.
Yep you need to ditch the liquids and get some dry fertilizers. Look up EI dosing once you get your head around it its pretty simple.
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Hey thanks for all the replies. The dry fertilizer looks like it will work well, but I do not think I can get it in time / master how it works quick enough. I will try and look more into it and figure out the best way to use it.
For the time being I would imagine that the best route to go would be to use the Flourish Comprehensive supplement for fertilizer. The bottle says only to use it once or maybe twice a week, but Byron, you say to use it more frequently so maybe ill try like 5 times a week? Also I did not mention that my substrate is for plants, so it should have necessary minerals.
Side note: Any good tips for growing baby tears into a nice carpet? I've been told that my lighting is not good enough but I'm going to try it since I like the way it looks. I tried micro sword and it failed pretty bad.
(*Koi Angelfish)
Mikaila is a better member to be advising you on high-tech, that is not my cup of tea. 1077 also uses dry ferts.
Alright, I'll look more into it. Talking to some fish keepers it seemed like a co2 tank and high light was the way to go for plants, guess I just underestimated nutrients.
Flourish is only a trace fertilizer. Dosing it in excess may help a tiny bit, but its not going to do much. For heavy fertilizing most use 4 different kind of fertilizers. Three of these are the macros NPK and are what your tank is missing. These are what your plants need the most of.
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My period is a week late, I took 3 test and a blood test all were negative. Yet I'm having some brown and white discharge also would have cramping once in a while. Could I be pregnant??? And when should I test again if I should? Has this happen to any of you
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Had my first baby on January 17 th, and had the normal postpartum bleeding for about 4 weeks after delivery ( vaginally, no rips or tears.). Now, at about 7 weeks postpartum, I noticed I am having a thick brown discharge, thought it was my period returning, but normally my periods are red and not thick and start out much heavier than this. I heard your first period after birth is heavy, so just wondering could this be my period returning? Or does it sound like something else?
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Tyler, Angle of Abundance. I have read this and I am waiting to receive, my Angle. This is a very trying time for me with this huge debt of mine and I believe I will be helped by this wonderful angel. I am praying with you and hope to receive. Thank you so much, DEW
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HI Sue, I read your article on Angels of Abundance. I have to agree with you that I too believe in angels but I do not believe we can call on them for our benefit to our lives. The Bible says in Philippians 4:19 God shall supply all your needs from His glorious riches which have been given to us in Christ Jesus. We are to trust in Him alone for all we need. Angels do exist but they are only mssengers from God and do what God says not what we order them to do. If we trust in God for our needs not only will He meet them but He will give us more than we could ever expect because it is according to His riches not ours. I write this in love but have to stand up for the truth. Blessing, Connie
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As more and more schools jump on to the international school bandwwagon, the state staddles the new corridors of learning with ease, reflecting the true sprit of the global Gujarati. India Today's Anil Mulchandani reports.
Pascal Chazot recalls the opposition he and Anjou Musafir faced in the late-1990s when they took over a school in Mithakali Gam from the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation. They wanted to refocus the school and rename it as the Mahatma Gandhi International School (MGIS). "There was much opposition to the idea of a municipal school teaching in English and an international curriculum. The fears were that the children of Gujarat would be negatively influenced by Western thought. That there would a French director for the school didn't help either," recalls Chazot. They went ahead in any case, with support from the people and the "highest courts".
The project took shape in 1999 and in November 2002, the school got International Baccalaureate Organisation (IBO) authorisation to offer the IB Middle Years Programme for 11 to 16-year-old children. The IB diploma programme for 16 to 19-year-old students got the nod in 2005. "We also offer Gujarat education board though the percentage of learners opting for SSC and HSC has gone down as parents have gained confidence in the IB system," says Chazot.
The IB programme started in Switzerland in 1968 when a group of mobile parents and educators felt the need for a rigorous education system that was relevant at every geographical location. Today, it has a reach of more than 1,920 schools across 124 countries reaching over five lakh students worldwide. "The IB programme is touted as one that inculcates cultural tolerance, global perspective, language fluency and a foundation for learning," says Chazot. The key feature of the IB programme is the inquiry method it adopts where the school tries to understand what the students want to and need to know. It then finds answers to them, thus turning students into knowledge seekers rather than passive recipients of information. Says Anjou Musafir, director of MGIS, "It is not just telling a student: 'Answer this' but giving them the opportunity to explore why it happened and the circumstances surrounding it." Chazot explains that international does not mean Western. It means to be more connected with the rest of the world while developing an understanding of your own cultural identity.
Though the school campus is small, the 200 students of MGIS get access to good learning aids including a state-of-the-art computer room, a laboratory and a library that can match many in Ahmedabad especially in Psychology and Literature. The approach is big on projects which makes learners over- come obstacles rather than learn from textbooks-a focus on 'how to learn' rather than 'what to learn'. "When we first started, parents were worried about our unconventional approach and the IB programme's status in India though we convinced them that the IB is accepted by the Association of Indian Universities as an entry qualification to all universities in India. After seeing the improvement in their children, parents stopped doubting our concept. Our first batch cleared the Gujarat board with flying colours," says Musafir.
According to Musafir, Monique Seefried, president of the IBO Council of Foundation, commented that MGIS made a special impression on her though she visits schools worldwide. "In the IB World Magazine, she wrote about how, in our school, expat children and those from upper and middle income group families of Gujarat study alongside children who live in shacks. Privileged children from affluent families pay fees, which subsidises the education of the financially disadvantaged, and we also take children with special needs," says Musafir.
According Dr. Tarulata of the Ahmedabad International School (AIS), though Gujarat has been late in getting internationally affiliated schools compared to other Indian states like Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and the National Capital Region, Gujarati parents are increasingly opting for IB and Cambridge University's IGSCE. "International systems of education have been developed with a structured approach incorporating best practices from across the globe," she says. AIS was started in 2000 by Gorsi Atul Parekh. She says they selected the IB board for the primary level as it encourages a positive attitude to learning. Children learn to ask challenging questions, critically reflect, develop research skills, participate in community service, analyse, interpret and become thinking individuals. AIS also offers Trinity College programme in music, drama, speech, dance, English, communication skills for three to nine year old learners.
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There is also considerable flexibility in combinations, rather than sticking to a 'stream' as is done in India, which gives students of all ability levels the freedom to choose subjects that are right for them. Thus they have the opportunity to score good grades as well as opt for a career," says Munjal. "IGCSE students are examined by the Cambridge Checkpoint, a diagnostic series of tests that pin-point strengths and weaknesses in key curriculum areas. As it is less rigid with regard to age, capable students can give their exam earlier and save a few years of education," she adds.
Started by Yogesh Sridhar, managing trustee of the school, NTIS emphasises on learning aids with an audio-visual room where children watch educational films, a science lab, and an overall developmental approach that works to discover hidden talents. The campus has Whistling Woods International, a film, television and media institute by Subhash Ghai and is shortly starting a music academy by music director Annujj Kappoo with an audition centre for the talent hunt programme Sa re ga ma. "About 25 to 30 per cent of our students opt for the Cambridge IGCSE. Affluent and aware parents who do not mind the extra cost for a better methodology, those who want to send their children abroad to study, and NRIs who want their children to study in India, study here," says Leela Ashok, principal of NTIS, adding, "Having attracted the children of NRIs, the trustees have now acquired land in Los Altos, California, for the NTIS Inc which will combine an international curricula with Indian culture for children of Indian origin."
While New Tulip's trustees propose to open their school in California, Manjula Pooja Shroff of the Calorx School proposes to attract foreign students from West Asia, Africa and the Far East where English is not taught or at least not to the highest level to come to Ahmedabad and enroll at her school. She is also trying to attract children of expats working in multinationals and projects in Gujarat as well as NRGs so that the school becomes multi-cultural and multi-racial. The multi-acre complex at Nandoli on the outskirts of Ahmedabad has neatly manicured gardens, sound systems, an amphitheatre for performances and well-ventilated classrooms in cottage-like architecture set around lawns and gardens, with a hostel block under construction. The hostel will be of an international standard with a/c rooms, an attached bath shared among four students, with each child getting an independent wardrobe, study table and storage area.
"I want to make this a complete IB World School to give students a continuity through from pre-school to 19 years age," she explains, "I got interested in the IB because of their 'Inquiry Method' which helps activate students' curiosity about the world," she explains. Another interesting aspect of the programme, she feels is that IB does not teach copybook lessons but uses methods where the lines between different subjects are blurred, helping students realise how different subjects relate to each other. "For instance so often in the regular syllabus we repeat concepts in science and in geography, in history and in political studies. The third USP of IB is that the learning is spiral, for instance a maths concept brought up in the third grade may be revisited at a more sophisticated level in the fifth grade so the learners constantly build upon what they have learnt and take decisions about how to use the knowledge." In the campus, students will learn environment-friendly farming, carpentry, plumbing, masonry, product design, toy-making, computer applications. The meals for day scholars and boarders will include a variety of Indian, western and far-eastern cuisine, with learners being introduced to the art of fine-dining. The school will teach performing arts, visual arts, board games and a variety of sports, have clubs for students interested in different activities, celebrate important dates, and arrange a variety of field visits, excursions and workshops.
It is not just Ahmedabad that has jumped on to the international schooling bandwagon. Navrachana International School has been an IB World School with boarding facilities in Vadodara since June 2006 while Nalanda International School, also in Vadodara offers ICSE and IGCSE with an imaginatively designed campus using natural materials and traditional methods of environmental control.
Rajkot has Galaxy International School and BM Kiyada International School which are implementing international syllabi. Ryan International in Surat is part of a chain of IGCSE-based schools. Concludes Dr Tarulata, "It's a global world and Gujaratis have always looked globally for opportunities. Gujarat will be one of the leading states in India for international schools and foreign universities. Which is why even IB schools from cities like Mumbai are opening branches in Ahmedabad."
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There's few better ambassadors for the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour than Mike Stefanik.
But how much longer he'll get to serve in that role is something the 7-time division champion is beginning to question.
"The future is not bright," Stefanik said. "As a matter of fact, it's a pretty dimly lit bulb right now in this division."
That was the reaction of Stefanik Tuesday after hearing the news that the division would race for a purse of less than six figures at Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway on Aug. 19 and also the news that Stafford Motor Speedway would be lowering the purse for its May 22 TSI Harley Davidson Classic by more than 20 percent from last year and dropping the winner's share for the race by more than 30 percent.
"I see this all going away," Stefanik said of the NASCAR sanctioned Modified Tour, which is celebrating its 25th season this year. "I hate to be this bearer of bad news, it's not like I'm wishing something bad on this. I love Modifieds and I love racing in New England and I love racing at this level, but I just don't see a good future at this level at all.
"The upper brass of NASCAR just thinks like there's a bottomless pit of money down here to run these regional series'. The cuts just never stop and the owners have to absorb more and more expenses and they can only afford so much. You keep cutting the purse, it doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure out that pretty soon they're all going to sit down and say 'We've had enough.'"
Mark Arute, CEO and general manager at Stafford Motor Speedway, said current economic conditions forced him to make the decision to cut the purse for their May 22 event and drop the race from 150 to 100 laps. Arute, who said he looked at the possibility of dropping the event altogether, believes that a continued focus on negative issues could hasten a possible end to the division.
Asked if he thought the Modified Tour was nearing its end Arute said: "I believe that if we still continue to paint that picture through the media we might be. But I think the glass is certainly half full rather than half empty.
"You certainly can look at it either way. You can make a negative out of something or a positive. It's unfortunate that the media has made negatives of just about everything with the NASCAR Touring [divisions] and NASCAR in general in this region does."
Asked what he saw as the positives team owners and drivers should look at right now with the Modified Tour Arute said: "Take a look at the economy. General Motors is going out of business, they're going to file bankruptcy. Take a look at The Hartford Courant. You guys will be lucky if you still have jobs in six months. But I think if everybody speaks in terms of doom and gloom there is that possibility. Not that just being optimistic about it is going to change it, but it certainly makes the perception a lot better all around. That's why I use the terminology, a glass half full certainly sounds a lot better than it being half empty. It's semantics but there is something to be said about that. And I do worry about the Modified Tour because of the half empty aspect of it."
Defending Whelen Modified Tour champion Ted Christopher said using the economy as the reason for continued cuts is an easy excuse.
"Everybody uses the economy as an excuse on a lot of things," Christopher said. "It will be funny to see if the economy turns around next year, will the purses all be doubled back then? No, you know that won't happen. They'll say 'We had a bad last year so we're going to wait and see how it goes this year.' They'll always cut it quick but they'll never jump it up right away if everything changes."
Issues with a continually shortening schedule and lowered purses have become the norm over the last two years on the Whelen Modified Tour. In 2007 it was the introduction of three "Flash Events," - short distance, small purse races at smaller venues - that had many team owners crying foul.
Last year Thompson International Speedway joined in the business of reduced purse events when they ran a 75-lap race in June. This year Thompson owner Don Hoenig made the decision to drop two Modified Tour events from his schedule.
In 1999 the Whelen Modified Tour was running a 22-race schedule visiting 12 different tracks. As recently as 2004 it was a 19-race schedule for the Tour. This year the division will run 14 events at eight different tracks with half of those events taking place between Thompson (three events) and Stafford (four events).
"When do you not even call it a series any more?" Stefanik said. "At 14 races we're right on the edge of 'What are we doing here?' I don't know. I think we have a good program, I think we put on good shows.
"I think everybody in the series is willing to do what they can physically do to help the promoters, but on the other hand, the promoters, they know that our expenses have gone up. Obviously their purses have gone down. They're businessmen. Ninety-nine percent of the car owners that go to [Stafford] will lose money. Would [the track] be in business if their odds were one percent that they were going to make money? I don't think so.
"Fortunately the car owners we have aren't all businessmen that don't care to look at what we do as a business. It's more of a hobby to them. But when the hobby becomes so out priced then the hobby is going to get tossed aside and that's what its kind of come down to. You've got a lot of car owners that just love Modifieds and that's what's keeping this series alive. Nobody in their right mind would get involved in this series to try to meet expenses and you can't find a sponsor for it that will let you meet expenses. So you better have a love for it and you better have deep pockets or you're in trouble."
NASCAR's announcement in December that the Modified Tour would visit Bristol Motor Speedway in 2009 was met with glee by many in the division, but even that addition is now souring many.
Whelen Modified Tour veteran Ed Flemke Jr. was angry Sunday that NASCAR officials had yet to give drivers and owners a definitive purse number for the event at Bristol.
"If I'm running a business I need to make decisions," Flemke said. "We can't make decisions without knowing what we're racing for. We have to know if doing this is the right investment for us to make because there's a lot of expense involved in it. Is it worth it? We need to know that. Say I have a business and I'm going to go buy a new machine, I'm going to spend a million dollars because I know can make seven million in the next two years with it. But are we going to spend a million dollars so we can make $100,000 over the next two years? We need to know these things to understand what we're doing and why we're doing it."
George Silberman, NASCAR's managing director of racing operations, said Tuesday the purse for Bristol would be in the range of $90,000, - "in the low 90's," - comparable to big event purses paid at Stafford and Thompson.
Stefanik said that for the mostly Northeastern based Whelen Modified Tour teams, the expenses involved in testing at Bristol in June and then returning to compete in August for a purse similar in size to what owners and drivers race for at short tracks in Connecticut, could have numerous teams looking at the possibility of not showing up for the event.
According to Stefanik, the expense of going to the June 8 test session alone will cost most teams more than what they can expect to make for racing in the event.
"A lot of people don't want to commit to an expensive testing process to go race at the famed Bristol Motor Speedway for no money," Stefanik said. "You can't have a series and pay no money. This series is an expensive series to run. All the pit equipment, all the engines, all the preparation, all the travel, you can't do it for free. And that's about what it's come to. Actually it's not even free, it's costing everybody money. Even if you win you lose."
Team owner Don King said earlier this year that he doesn't expect to see tracks raising purses, but he does believe that NASCAR could do things to help the financial model currently in the division.
"I look at the Sprint [Cup Series] banquet at the end of the year, some of these checks they hand out to drivers are like $962,000," King said. "Maybe they could take [$12,000] of that and make it $950,000 and I don't think it would hurt those guys that much and it sure would help us. You do that from 30 people and suddenly we'd have a pretty nice points fund.
"You look at [the Daytona 500], last place pays a quarter of a million dollars. I'm not saying they should or shouldn't get that, but there's so much money there in NASCAR being passed out and do you know how little we would need to turn our situation around? We don't need two or three or four million dollars to turn this thing around. What was our points fund last year, maybe a little over a hundred thousand dollars? It wouldn't take much to make it $200,000 and that would be huge."
In the end Stefanik believes that some form of the Modified Tour will continue, but he doesn't expect it to be under NASCAR's watch much longer.
"You can't continue to expect to steer the ship down the path we're going because it's going to go right off the freaking falls," Stefanik said. "The ship is sailing toward the falls right now, it's just a matter of time before it gets there."
Said Flemke: "The bottom line, I don't know what the right answer is. We do need to stand up and say 'Ouch, this hurts.' Because if we keep letting these people hit us with these baseball bats, they're just going to keep on hitting us. We need to say 'This hurts, we don't like it.' But I don't know how we can fix it. I do know we will not be able to continue going like this."
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Passover Haggadah: Go Forth and Learn
Continuing the great tradition of JPS commentaries, this haggadah is a wonderful addition to anyone's library and haggadah collection. It makes a thoughtful host/hostess gift for the seder. Hebrew and English text with new commentary and essays. Rabbi Silber has given us two books in one: the Haggadah itself, in English and Hebrew, with his seder commentary and a collection of essays that provide close readings of the classic biblical and rabbinic texts that inform Seder-night ritual and narration. Both parts work beautifully together to illuminate the central themes of Passover: peoplehood, Covenant, our relationship to ritual, God's presence in history, and other important issues that resonate with us all. Just as midrash attempts to bridge the gap between ancient text and contemporary meaning, Rabbi Silber's Haggadah provides new sources of insight that deepen the Passover experience for today's readers.


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An affiliate of Priceline.com has selected Bellevue for a customer-service center that could mean up to 350 new jobs, officials said Thursday.
Booking.com, which touts itself as the world's leading online hotel-reservation service, has signed a lease at Sunset Corporate Campus in Bellevue's Eastgate area for its third U.S. customer-service center, according to the Economic Development Council of Seattle & King County.
The move puts Booking.com in the backyard of its chief competitor, Expedia, which owns Hotels.com and other travel-related websites.
On its website, Booking.com says it offers bookings at more than 329,600 properties in 184 countries. Hotels.com's site says it offers travelers some 205,000 properties worldwide.
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Booking.com said the Bellevue area's concentration of multilingual residents was a key factor in its decision to select it for the new hub, which will serve markets in Asia and the Pacific Rim.
"We're focused on increasing our presence in a region that reflects the technological savvy and diverse workforce that perfectly fit our company," said Todd Dunlap, managing director of Booking.com's North American operations, in the council's news release. Booking.com is based in The Netherlands.
The company opened a Seattle office last year that's expected to grow to 50 employees and move to downtown Bellevue later this year.
Jeff Marcell, the economic-development council's president and CEO, said in a statement that Booking.com's choice "will further strengthen our reputation as a great place for international companies to set up shop."
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04.21.2012 | by: Tom Hagerty
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As longtime government, political and general assignment reporter in Polk County and the wider I-4 corridor Billy Townsend wrote extensively about Polk's unique regional identity and the issues shaping it, including USF Polytechnic, the Heartland Parkway and the CSX rail deal.
While Billy left professional reporting to take a corporate writing job, he keeps close tabs on news of all stripes (especially political news) and the changes in modern journalism. Joining Lakeland Local in 2008, Billy became the site's guiding force in 2013.
Throughout his tenure, Billy's news and commentary focus on Lakeland and its citizens -- even when column subjects range fair afield.
Billy's wife is Julie Townsend, executive director of the Lakeland Downtown Development Authority. They live with their children in the Lake Morton area.
Billy Townsend's New Book
A near civil war swept Florida-and much of America-in the wake of World War I and Prohibition. It pitted white versus black, Protestant versus Catholic, wet versus dry, and savagery versus civilization. Age of Barbarity: The Forgotten Fight for the Soul of Florida is the untold story of this civil war, as lived through the eyes of the people who fought.


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How Greenhouse Gases Absorb Heat
Student Worksheet
In this experiment, you will observe the effects of higher concentrations of greenhouse gases.
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Think about and respond to the following:
- What do you predict will happen if we conduct an experiment where we vary the amount of greenhouse gas in a model atmosphere?
- What are the independent and dependent variables?
- What variables are we holding constant?
- Formulate a hypothesis with an explanation of the results that you expect.
- 15 ml of Bromothymol Blue (BTB), an acid and carbon dioxide indicator
- 1 small beaker or jar
- 2 large jars with lids
- 2 pieces of black construction paper of equal size to place inside the jars
- 2 thermometers to place inside the jars
- 1 Erlenmeyer flask (250-500 ml)
- 1 one hole stopper for above flask
- 1 straight piece of glass tubing
- 1 50 cm piece of flexible tubing (aquarium air tubing works fine)
- 100 ml of vinegar
- 4 heaping teaspoons of baking soda
- Watches or classroom clock to time readings
- Lamp with 100 watt bulb or sunny window sill
- Collect materials together. Assemble the flask, stopper, and tubing as seen in the illustration. Remove the stopper and place 100 ml of vinegar into the flask and add a half teaspoon of baking soda, then replace the stopper. Place the flexible tubing into the BTB solution and notice the color of the liquid as the gas bubbles through the indicator solution. What color change do you notice?
- Set-up your two jars with equal pieces of black construction paper in the bottom and the thermometer in each.
- Now remove the stopper and place the remaining 3 1/2 teaspoons of baking soda into the flask, replace the stopper and place the tubing into one of the large jars. Allow the tubing to stay in the jar for a minute or so.
- Record your starting temperature and then turn on your lamp making sure that the jars are placed and equal distance from the light source and that they are getting equal amounts of light. Record the temperatures on the two jars every 2 minutes for 15-20 minutes.
- Plot your results on a graph of Temperature vs. Time for each jar. What do you notice about the temperature in the two jars? Share and compare your results with other teams in your classroom.
- What can be said about the results? Do they support the hypothesis that you formulated before you did the investigation?
What do your results imply about what might happen to Earth's atmosphere if we increase the concentration of greenhouse gases?
- What sources of error do you think might have affected your results?
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I saw a bunch of lisianthus this morning and it reminded me that I have always loved them and I now have a greenhouse; came home and ordered seeds on line.
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I had to google that artjak. New to me. Looks very rose like in the T&M picture
It's a pretty thing Nut and a good cut flower but I don't know anyone who grows them.
This site http://www.bhg.com/gardening/plant-dictionary/annual/lisianthus/ says they're extremely tricky to grow from seed.
Nut, you will have seen them in florists I expect. I found an American site based Chicago I think (much colder than here; the Riviera of Norfolk) who grows them outside in summer and found that they need lots of water and not too much sun. Just wondered if anyone grows them here. You can get plug plants but I decided to go the cheap route with seeds.
Definitely on my 'to have a go at list' but I think I need to invest in a greenhouse first. Would love to know how you get on artjak.


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You thought you had problems. Try finding someone to install a mother-of-pearl ceiling on your private jet.
It's a charming coincidence that on the same day it is announced New York has retained its No. 1 position as the state with the greatest inequality between the rich and the poor, The Wall Street Journal comes out with a ginormous story about how it's sooooo hard to find someone to customize one's private plane these days. Demand for personal aircraft has just ballooned in the past few years, the Journal reports, but "completion centers" — those magical places where mere private planes are transformed into dream planes — have not quite caught up. Currently, there are only a few dudes out there who install "mother-of-pearl vanities, gilded ceilings, exotic wood cabinets, hand-made carpeting, multihead showers" gyms and "throne rooms" requested by people such as Saudi prince (and Citigroup majority shareholder) Alwaleed bin Talal, who owns a double-decker Airbus A380 with not one but two throne rooms. Poor? Laid off from Bear Stearns? Get your glue gun. Looks like there's a job for you out there after all.
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April 30, 2016
The daughter of Michigan U.S. Rep. Candice Miller has been sentenced to probation for driving while visibly impaired and assaulting a police officer.
St. Clair Shores District Judge Mark Fratarcangeli (frat-ahr-kon-'JEL-ee) on Tuesday sentenced 33-year-old Wendy Carmack to one year of probation. He also ordered her to pay $800 in fines and costs.
The St. Clair Shores woman pleaded guilty to the charges in February.
Carmack was arrested Dec. 2 just northeast of Detroit and charged with driving while intoxicated and other counts. Miller, a Harrison Township Republican, said at the time her daughter had a problem.
A message seeking comment was left for defense attorney James Simasko.
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Abstract: Let be a separable Fréchet space. We prove that a linear operator satisfying a special case of the Hypercyclicity Criterion is topologically mixing, i.e. for any given open sets there exists a positive integer such that for any We also characterize those weighted backward shift operators that are topologically mixing.
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April 29, 2016
A contractor was crushed and killed after a loading dock on a hydraulic lift collapsed at Atlanta's airport.
Emergency responders say the accident happened at a cargo area at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport.
Dozens of firefighters worked for nearly three hours to free the man, with a medical helicopter on standby. They used a crane to remove the loading dock.
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Xenin-25 Amplifies GIP-Mediated Insulin Secretion in Humans With Normal and Impaired Glucose Tolerance but Not Type 2 Diabetes
- Burton M. Wice1⇓,
- Dominic N. Reeds2,
- Hung D. Tran1,
- Dan L. Crimmins3,
- Bruce W. Patterson2,
- Judit Dunai1,
- Michael J. Wallendorf4,
- Jack H. Ladenson3,
- Dennis T. Villareal5,6 and
- Kenneth S. Polonsky1,7⇓
- 1Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Lipid Research, Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri
- 2Division of Nutritional Science, Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri
- 3Division of Laboratory and Genomic Medicine, Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri
- 4Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri
- 5Division of Geriatrics, Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri
- 6Department of Geriatrics, University of New Mexico School of Medicine and New Mexico Veterans Affairs Health Care System, Albuquerque, New Mexico
- 7Division of Biological Sciences and Pritzker School of Medicine, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
- Corresponding author: Kenneth S. Polonsky, polonsky{at}bsd.uchicago.edu, or Burton M. Wice, bwice{at}dom.wustl.edu.
Glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide (GIP) potentiates glucose-stimulated insulin secretion (GSIS). This response is blunted in type 2 diabetes (T2DM). Xenin-25 is a 25–amino acid neurotensin-related peptide that amplifies GIP-mediated GSIS in hyperglycemic mice. This study determines if xenin-25 amplifies GIP-mediated GSIS in humans with normal glucose tolerance (NGT), impaired glucose tolerance (IGT), or T2DM. Each fasting subject received graded glucose infusions to progressively raise plasma glucose concentrations, along with vehicle alone, GIP, xenin-25, or GIP plus xenin-25. Plasma glucose, insulin, C-peptide, and glucagon levels and insulin secretion rates (ISRs) were determined. GIP amplified GSIS in all groups. Initially, this response was rapid, profound, transient, and essentially glucose independent. Thereafter, ISRs increased as a function of plasma glucose. Although magnitudes of insulin secretory responses to GIP were similar in all groups, ISRs were not restored to normal in subjects with IGT and T2DM. Xenin-25 alone had no effect on ISRs or plasma glucagon levels, but the combination of GIP plus xenin-25 transiently increased ISR and plasma glucagon levels in subjects with NGT and IGT but not T2DM. Since xenin-25 signaling to islets is mediated by a cholinergic relay, impaired islet responses in T2DM may reflect defective neuronal, rather than GIP, signaling.
- Received October 13, 2011.
- Accepted February 29, 2012.
- © 2012 by the American Diabetes Association.
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|Daddy's Little Girl
|Henry Alonso Myers
Sarah Goldfinger
|Terrence O'Hara
|Original Airdate
|January 19, 2006
Daddy's Little Girl is the twelfth episode of season six of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
The CSIs investigate the stabbing of a motocross racer who was about to leave town with a woman he had been living with.
Meanwhile, as Nick investigates the death of an attorney hit by her own car, he comes closer to the truth about his kidnapping.
- Nick finds the tape recorder, listens to where it's currently at, and then rewinds it, and plays it further back on the tape. While he is doing all of this you can see it's in his left hand, the hand closest to the camera (which is on an angle because his hand would have been blocking it). However, as soon as he listens to it, when the camera angle changes, if you watch the frames before it's in his left hand and then suddenly in his right hand, while he listens and starts walking around the room.
- When Sara is pointing to the various phone records with her finger where she's standing, where her arms are and where she's supposed to be pointing is inconsistent. She would have to move unreasonably fast in order for the timing to match up.
- When Kelly's heart stops, Sofia proceeds to do CPR. However, in order for the CPR to be effective, Kelly would have to have been moved off the bed onto the ground or another hard surface in order for the chest to compress, she wouldn't have been able to compress her chest the correct depth.
- Warrick wasn't wearing gloves when he picked up the screwdriver that Grissom said needed to be printed.
- Sara: Freud would have a field day with this family.
- Warrick: Dad loves his daughter, but mom only sees the daughter as competition.
- Sara: And everyone wonders why Bianca can't meet a nice boy.
- Warrick: Bianca eats nice boys for brunch.
- Warrick: Every time this chick calls Tom, somebody gets shot.
- Grissom: It's like thermite.
- Sara: Thermite?
- Grissom: When you combine two seemingly harmless elements, aluminum and rust, press them together, add heat, it creates an explosion so hot it'll burn through steel. Powerful but uncontrollable. It burns and burns until it burns itself out, finally consuming both elements.
- Sara: I guess some people just shouldn't be together. (looks towards Grissom)
- Warrick: Who brings a gun to a knife fight?
- Grissom: The winner?
- Brass (to Chelsea): So what are you on besides meth?
- Chelsea: Not meth. Glass.
- Brass: Uh-huh.
- Chelsea: We did some coke at the club, had a couple of drinks. There was this guy that gave us these, uh, these blue pills, but I had to come home and lie down.
- Brass: Ecstasy.
- Chelsea: We only do this when we're ... when we're clubbing. I mean it's... it's just a hobby. It's not a habit. We have it under control.
- Brass: Well, the dead guy from the garage might beg to differ.
- Warrick (about the victim): It'd be kind of hard for one of those women to wrestle him down.
- Grissom: Not if she walks softly and carried a big knife.


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Well said, Don Woodrow. I was already annoyed when Di Resta got his drive through. The guy is trying to pass and gives us a spectacle, and we reward him by giving him a drive through penalty. Then when Hamilton did the same thing, it was a given he was gonna get a stupid ass penalty as well. Shame.
Respect for Schumacher knowing how much to close the door (which he did, but still left enough space for a car).
Massa got what he deserved. That was pathetic the way he closed the door and got his car destroyed for it by not even opening after they touched. Was he hoping to crash both cars beyond recognition? What a douchebag. Lucky that crash in the tunnel didn't end up in injury.


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Academic Background
Benchmarking Diagnostic Algorithms on an Electrical Power System Testbed
Tolga Kurtoglu, Sriram Narasimhan, Scott Poll, David Garcia, Stephanie Wright
Published in: Proceedings of Annual Conference of the Prognostics and Health Management Society 2009, San Diego, CA, Sept 27 - Oct 1, 2009.
Diagnostic algorithms (DAs) are key to enabling automated health management. These algorithms are designed to detect and isolate anomalies of either a component or the whole system based on observations received from sensors. In recent years a wide range of algorithms, both model-based and data-driven, have been developed to increase autonomy and improve system reliability and affordability. However, the lack of support to perform systematic benchmarking of these algorithms continues to create barriers for effective development and deployment of diagnostic technologies. In this paper, we present our efforts to benchmark a set of DAs on a common platform using a framework that was developed to evaluate and compare various performance metrics for diagnostic technologies. The diagnosed system is an electrical power system, namely the Advanced Diagnostics and Prognostics Testbed (ADAPT) developed and located at the NASA Ames Research Center. The paper presents the fundamentals of the benchmarking framework, the ADAPT system, description of faults and data sets, the metrics used for evaluation, and an in-depth analysis of benchmarking results obtained from testing ten diagnostic algorithms on the ADAPT electrical power system testbed.
Towards a Framework for Evaluating and Comparing Diagnosis Algorithms
Tolga Kurtoglu, Sriram Narasimhan, Scott Poll, David Garcia, Lukas Kuhn, Johan de Kleer, Arjan van Gemund, Alexander Feldman
Published in: The 20th International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis (DX-09), Stockholm, Sweden, June 14-17, 2009
Diagnostic inference involves the detection of anomalous system behavior and the identification of its cause, possibly down to a failed unit or to a parameter of a failed unit. Traditional approaches to solving this problem include expert/rule-based, model-based, and data-driven methods. Each approach (and various techniques within each approach) use different representations of the knowledge required to perform the diagnosis. The sensor data is expected to be combined with these internal representations to produce the diagnosis result. In spite of the availability of various diagnosis technologies, there have been only minimal efforts to develop a standardized software framework to run, evaluate, and compare different diagnosis technologies on the same system. This paper presents a framework that defines a standardized representation of the system knowledge, the sensor data, and the form of the diagnosis results – and provides a run-time architecture that can execute diagnosis algorithms, send sensor data to the algorithms at appropriate time steps from a variety of sources (including the actual physical system), and collect resulting diagnoses. We also define a set of metrics that can be used to evaluate and compare the performance of the algorithms, and provide software to calculate the metrics.
First International Diagnosis Competition – DXC'09
Tolga Kurtoglu, Sriram Narasimhan, Scott Poll, David Garcia, Lukas Kuhn, Johan de Kleer, Arjan van Gemund, Alexander Feldman
Published in: The 20th International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis (DX-09), Stockholm, Sweden, June 14-17, 2009
A framework to compare and evaluate diagnosis algorithms (DAs) has been created jointly by NASA Ames Research Center and PARC. In this paper, we present the first concrete implementation of this framework as a competition called DXC'09. The goal of this competition was to evaluate and compare DAs in a common platform and to determine a winner based on diagnosis results. 12 DAs (model-based and otherwise) competed in this first year of the competition in 3 tracks that included industrial and synthetic systems. Specifically, the participants provided algorithms that communicated with the run-time architecture to receive scenario data and return diagnostic results. These algorithms were run on extended scenario data sets (different from sample set) to compute a set of pre-defined metrics. A ranking scheme based on weighted metrics was used to declare winners. This paper presents the systems used in DXC'09, description of faults and data sets, a listing of participating DAs, the metrics and results computed from running the DAs, and a superficial analysis of the results.
Advanced Diagnostics and Prognostics Testbed
Scott Poll, Ann Patterson-Hine, Joe Camisa, David Garcia, David Hall, Charles Lee, Ole J. Mengshoel, Christian Neukom, David Nishikawa, John Ossenfort, Adam Sweet, Serge Yentus, Indranil Roychoudhury, Matthew Daigle, Gautam Biswas, Xenofon Koutsoukos
Published in: The 18th International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis (DX-07), Pages 178-185, Nashville, TN, May 29-31, 2007.
Researchers in the diagnosis community have developed a number of promising techniques for system health management. However, realistic empirical evaluation and comparison of these approaches is often hampered by a lack of standard data sets and suitable testbeds. In this paper we describe the Advanced Diagnostics and Prognostics Testbed (ADAPT) at NASA Ames Research Center. The purpose of the testbed is to measure, evaluate, and mature diagnostic and prognostic health management technologies. This paper describes the testbed's hardware, software architecture, and concept of operations. A simulation testbed that accompanies ADAPT, and some of the diagnostic and decision support approaches being investigated are also discussed.
Inductive Learning Approaches for Improving Pilot. Awareness of Aircraft Faults
Lilly Spirkovska, David L. Iverson, Scott Poll, Anna Pryor
Published in: Proceedings of Infotech@Aerospace 2005, Arlington, VA, Sept 26-29, 2005.
Neural network flight controllers are able to accommodate a variety of aircraft control surface faults without detectable degradation of aircraft handling qualities. Under some faults, however, the effective flight envelope is reduced; this can lead to unexpected behavior if a pilot performs an action that exceeds the remaining control authority of the damaged aircraft. The goal of our work is to increase the pilot's situational awareness by informing him of the type of damage and resulting reduction in flight envelope. Our methodology integrates two inductive learning systems with novel visualization techniques. One learning system, the Inductive Monitoring System (IMS), learns to detect when a simulation includes faulty controls, while two others, Inductive Classification System (INCLASS) and multiple binary decision tree system (utilizing C4.5), determine the type of fault. In off-line training using only non-failure data, IMS constructs a characterization of nominal flight control performance based on control signals issued by the neural net flight controller. This characterization can be used to determine the degree of control augmentation required in the pitch, roll, and yaw command channels to counteract control surface failures. This derived information is typically sufficient to distinguish between the various control surface failures and is used to train both INCLASS and C4.5. Using data from failed control surface flight simulations, INCLASS and C4.5 independently discover and amplify features in IMS results that can be used to differentiate each distinct control surface failure situation. In real-time flight simulations, distinguishing features learned during training are used to classify control surface failures. Knowledge about the type of failure can be used by an additional automated system to alter its approach for planning tactical and strategic maneuvers. The knowledge can also be used directly to increase the pilot's situational awareness and inform manual maneuver decisions. Our multi-modal display of this information provides speech output to issue control surface failure warnings to a lesser-used communication channel and provides graphical displays with pilot-selectable levels of details to issues additional information about the failure. We also describe a potential presentation for flight envelope reduction that can be viewed separately or integrated with an existing attitude indicator instrument. Preliminary results suggest that the inductive approach is capable of detecting that a control surface has failed and determining the type of fault. Furthermore, preliminary evaluations suggest that the interface discloses a concise summary of this information to the pilot.
System Modeling and Diagnostics for Liquefying-Fuel Hybrid Rockets
Scott Poll, David L. Iverson, Jeremy Ou, Dwight Sanderfer, Ann Patterson-Hine
Published in: NASA TM 2003-212270, June, 2003.
A Hybrid Combustion Facility (HCF) was recently built at NASA Ames Research Center to study the combustion properties of a new fuel formulation that burns approximately three times faster than conventional hybrid fuels. Researchers at Ames working in the area of Integrated Vehicle Health Management recognized a good opportunity to apply IVHM techniques to a candidate technology for next generation launch systems. Five tools were selected to examine various IVHM techniques for the HCF. Three of the tools, TEAMS (Testability Engineering and Maintenance System), L2 (Livingstone2), and RODON, are model-based reasoning (or diagnostic) systems. Two other tools in this study, ICS (Interval Constraint Simulator) and IMS (Inductive Monitoring System) do not attempt to isolate the cause of the failure but may be used for fault detection. Models of varying scope and completeness were created, both qualitative and quantitative. In each of the models, the structure and behavior of the physical system are captured. In the qualitative models, the temporal aspects of the system behavior and the abstraction of sensor data are handled outside of the model and require the development of additional code. In the quantitative model, less extensive processing code is also necessary. Examples of fault diagnoses are given.
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