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Good conversation is more easily defined by what it is not than by what it is. Highly cultivated people are sometimes the most silent. Or, if they talk well, they are likely to talk too well to be good conversationalists but were nevertheless recorded as bores in conversation because they talked at people instead of talking with them.
In good conversation people give their charm, their gaiety, their humor, certainly—and their wisdom, if they will. The aim and design of conversation is, therefore, pleasure. This agreed, we can determine its elements. Conversation, above all, is dialog, not monolog. It is a partnership, not an individual affair. It is listening as well as talking. Monopolizing tyrants of society who will allow no dog to bark in their presence are not conversationalists; they are lecturers. There are plenty of people who, as Mr. Benson says, "possess every qualification for conversing except the power to converse." There are plenty of people who deliver one monolog after another and call their talk conversation. The good conversationalists are not the ones who dominate the talk in any gathering. They are the people who have the grace to contribute something of their own while generously drawing out the best that is in others.
Another element of successful conversation is good-humored tolerance, the willingness to bear rubs unavoidably occasioned. The talker who cavils at anything that is said stops conversation more than if he answered only yes or no to all remarks addressed to him. There are times when good conversation is momentary silence rather than speech. It is only the haranguers who feel it their duty to break in with idle and insincere chatter upon a pleasant and natural pause. A part of the good fellowship of acceptable conversation is what one might call "interest questions." "Interest questions" are just what the words imply, and have about them no suspicion of the inquisitive and impertinent catechizing which only fools, and not even knaves, indulge in.
There are two kinds of hedging in conversation: one which comes from failing to follow the trend of the discussion; another which is the result of talking at random merely to make bulk. The first is tolerable; the last is contemptible. The moment one begins to talk for effect or to hedge flippantly, he is talking insincerely. And when a good converser runs against this sort of talker his heart calls out, with Carlyle, for an empty room, his tobacco, and his pipe.
In discussion, far more than in lighter talk, decency as well as honor commands that each partner to the conversational game conform to the niceties and fairness of it. "I don't think so," "It isn't so," "I don't agree with you at all," are too flat and positive for true delicacy and refinement in conversation. "I have been inclined to think otherwise," "I should be pleased to hear your reasons," "Aren't you mistaken?" are more acceptable phrases with which to introduce dissent. In French society a discrepancy of views is always manifested by some courtesy-phrase, such as "Mais, ne pensez-vous pas" or "Je vous demande pardon"—the urbane substitutes for "No, you are wrong," "No, it isn't."
Benjamin Franklin, whose appreciation of the conversational art in France won completely the hearts of the French people, tells us in his autobiography that in later life he found it necessary to throw off habits acquired in youth: "I continued this positive method for some years, but gradually left it, retaining only the habit of expressing myself in terms of modest diffidence: never using when I advanced anything that might possibly be disputed, the words 'certainly,' 'undoubtedly,' or any others that give the air of positiveness to an opinion, but rather say, 'it appears to me,' or 'I should think it so-and-so, for such-and-such a reason,' or 'I imagine it to be so,' or it is so 'if I am not mistaken.'"
People of a resentful turn of mind, whose every sentence is a wager, and who convert every word into a missile, are fit for polemical squabbles, but not for polite discussion. Those raucous persons who, when their opponents attempt to speak, cry out against it as a monstrous unfairness, are very well adapted to association with Kilkenny cats, but not with human beings. It is in order to vanquish by this means one who might otherwise outmatch them entirely that they thus seek to reduce their opponent to a mere interjection. "A man of culture," says Mr. Robert Waters, "is not intolerant of opposition. He frankly states his views on any given subject, without hesitating to say wherein he is ignorant or doubtful, and he is ready for correction and enlightenment wherever he finds it." Such a man never presses his hearers to accept his views; he not only tolerates but considers opposed opinions and listens attentively and respectfully to them. Hazlitt said of the charming discussion of Northcote, the painter: "He lends an ear to an observation as if you had brought him a piece of news, and enters into it with as much avidity and earnestness as if it interested only himself personally."
Quite as noticeable an element in good conversation is the attitude of the conversers to their subject. They never try to settle matters as if their decisions were the last court of appeal, and as if they must make frantic effort to carry their side of the question to victory. They discuss for the pleasure of discussing; not for the pleasure of vanquishing, or even of convincing. They discuss, merely; they do not debate, nor do they enter into controversy.
One of the stupidest of conversational sins is quibbling—talking insincerely, just for the sake of using words, and shifting the point at issue to some incidental, subordinate argument on which the decision does not at all depend. It is the intellectually honest person who sparkles in discussion. Another reason why discussion is waning is the disrespect we feel for great subjects. We only mention them, or hint at them; and this cannot lead to very brilliant talk. Though prattle and persiflage have their place in conversation, talkers of the highest order tire of continually encouraging chit-chat. "What a piece of business, monstrous! I have not read it; impossible to get a box at the opera for another fortnight; how do you like my dress? It was immensely admired yesterday at the B——s; how badly your cravat is tied! Did you know that —— lost heavily by the crash of Thursday? That dear man's death gave me a good fit of crying; do you travel this summer? Is Blank really a man of genius? It is incomprehensible; they married only two years ago." This sort of nimble talk is all very well; but because one likes syllabub occasionally is no proof that one is willing to discard meat entirely. Conversational topics can be too trivial for recreation as well as too serious; and even important subjects can be handled in a light way if necessary. In order that a great subject shall be a good topic of conversation, it must provoke an enthusiasm of belief or disbelief; people must have decided opinions one way or the other.
Interruption, more surely than anything else, kills conversation. The effusive talker, who, in spite of his facility for words, is in no sense a conversationalist, refuses to recognize the fact that conversation involves a partnership; that in this company of joint interest each party has a right to his turn in the conversational engagement. He ignores his conversational partners; he breaks into their sentences with his own speech before they have their words well out of their mouths. He has grown so habitual in his interrupting that he rattles on unconscious of the disgust he is producing in the mind of any well-bred, discriminating conversationalist who hears him. The best of talkers interrupt occasionally in conversation; but the unconscious, rude interruption of the habitual interrupter and the unintentional, conscious interruption of the cultivated talker are easily discernible, and are two very different things. The unconsciousness is what constitutes the crime; for conscious interruption ceases to be interruption. The moment a good talker is aware of having broken into the speech of his converser, he forestalls interruption by waiting to hear what was about to be said. He instantly cuts off his own speech with the conventional courtesy-phrase, "I beg your pardon," which is the same as saying, "Pardon me for seeming to be unwilling to listen to you; I really am both willing and glad to hear what you have to say." And he proves his willingness by waiting until the other person can finish the thought he ventured upon. What better proof that conversation is listening as well as talking?
Sheer, nervous inability to listen is responsible for one phase of interruption to conversation. It is the interruption of the wandering eye which tells that one's words have not been heard. "The person next to you must be bored by my conversation, for it is going into one of your ears and out of the other," said a talker rather testily to his inattentive dinner-companion whose absent-minded and tardy replies had been snapping the thread of the thought until it grew intolerable. She was perhaps only a little less irritating than the man who became so unconscious in the habit of inattention that on one occasion his converser had scarcely finished when he began abstractedly: "Yes, very odd, very odd," and told the identical anecdote all over again.
There is another phase of interrupting which proceeds from the jerky talker whose remarks are not provoked by what his conversational partner is saying, with observation and answer, affirmation and rejoinder, but who waits breathlessly for a pause to jump in and tell some thought of his own. Of this sort of talker Dean Swift wrote: "There are people whose manners will not suffer them to interrupt you directly, but what is almost as bad, will discover abundance of impatience, and lie upon the watch until you have done, because they have started something in their own thoughts, which they long to be delivered of. Meantime, they are so far from regarding what passes that their imaginations are wholly turned upon what they have in reserve, for fear it should slip out of their memory; and thus they confine their invention, which might otherwise range over a hundred things full as good, and that might be much more naturally introduced."
A less objectionable phase of interrupting, because it has often springs from kind thought as from arrogance, is that of the conversationalist so anxious to prove his quickness of perception that he assumes to know what you are going to say before you have finished your sentence in your own mind, and to put an interpretation on your arguments before you are done stating them. His interpretation is as often exactly the opposite of your own as it is identical; and, right or wrong, the foisted-in explanation serves only to interrupt the sequence of thought.
Good conversation consists no more in the thing communicated than in the manner of communicating. Satisfactory conversation does not depend upon whether it is between those intellectually superior or inferior, or between strangers or acquaintances; but upon whether, mentally superior or inferior, known or unknown, each party to the conversation talks with due recognition of its first principles. There are, to be sure, different classes of talkers. There are those of the glory of the sun and others of the glory of the moon. It is easy enough to catch the note of the company in which one finds one's self; but the most entertaining and captivating person in the world is petrified when he cannot put his finger on one confederate who understands the simplest mandates of his art, whether talking badinage or wisdom. Without intelligent listeners, the best talker is at sea; and any good conversationalist is defeated when he is the only member of a crowd of interrupters who scream each other down.
Given conversation which is marked by conformity to all its unwritten precepts, "Men and women then range themselves," says Henry Thomas Buckle, "into three classes or orders of intelligence. You can tell the lowest class by their habit of talking about nothing else but persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to talk about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." Discussion is the most delightful of all conversation, if the company is up to it; it is the highest type of talk, but suited only to the highest type of individuals. Therefore, a person who in one circle might observe a prudent silence may in another very properly be the chief talker. Highly bred and cultured people have attained a certain unity of type, and are interested in the same sort of conversation. "Talk depends so wholly on our company," says Stevenson. Most of us, by the protean quality of man, can talk to some degree with all; but the true talk that strikes out all the slumbering best of us comes only with the peculiar brethren of our spirits.... And hence it is that good talk most commonly arises among friends. Talk is, indeed, both the scene and the instrument of friendship."
Conversation is essentially reciprocal, and when a good converser flings out his ball of thought he knows just how the ball should come back to him, and feels balked and defrauded if his partner is not even watching to catch it, much less showing any intention of tossing it back on precisely the right curve. "The habit of interruption," says Bagehot, "is a symptom of mental deficiency; it proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds." It is impossible for a good talker to talk to any advantage with a companion who does not concern himself in the least with anybody's mental processes—not even his own.
On the whole, then, the very best social intercourse is possible only when there is equality. Hazlitt in one of his delightful essays has said that, "In general, wit shines only by reflection. You must take your cue from your company—must rise as they rise, and sink as they fall. You must see that your good things, your knowing allusions, are not flung away, like the pearls in the adage. Conversation at its highest is the most delightful of intellectual stimulants; at its lowest the most deadening to intellect. Better be as silent as a deaf-mute as to indulge carelessly in imperturbable glibness which impedes rather than encourages good conversation. Really clever people dislike competing in a race with talkers who rarely speak from the abundance of their hearts and often from the emptiness of their heads.
(Adapted from The Project Gutenberg EBook of Conversation, by Mary Greer Conklin)


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The Excel Difference
Words From Our Community
"The teachers teach them to think beyond middle school and beyond high school. She's already thinking about what colleges she wants to go to. The teachers here at Excel make them think that far ahead and make them want to go further."
"I think Excel is a really great place where we have a lot of rigorous teaching and kids get that college prep and attention they wouldn't necessarily get in a bigger school. We're able to really focus in on students' needs and student learning."
Research tells us that extended learning significantly impacts student achievement. Excel offers an academically rigorous program with dramatically more time – seven and a half hours of school daily over a 185 day school year. This equates to over 500 hours of additional learning per year – the equivalent of over 80 additional school days of learning. The extended day additionally includes tutoring time after school to provide the individualized support necessary to ensure all students succeed. Excel's extended learning time will benefit the achievement of all students and professional development of all staff through increased learning, while minimizing the impact of potential disruptions such as tardiness, sickness, and testing.
Excel will develop regional leaders, equipped with the tools and knowledge necessary to be competitive not only for college success and graduation, but also for this region's employment opportunities. We will attain our ultimate goal of college completion by providing all students with an academically rigorous, STEM and literacy-focused program that is aligned with Common Core, College Readiness, and Next Generation Science Standards. During the extended day, Excel will employ a mix of instructional methods that will teach students to learn and think in different ways, as they will need to in college. To bring all students to grade level, Excel will provide a 100-minute block of ELA instruction each day. Further, all students will receive extended content instruction in math and science, with 500 minutes per week in grades seven through ten.
Research suggests that certain character traits are more predictive of college and career success than IQ and SAT scores. The Excel team has selected a handful of these traits to define our Core Values – both for our students and staff members- and to help establish our school culture. These include: Excellence, Community, Compassion, Endurance, Leadership, and Love for Learning. In a wide range of studies, many of these non-cognitive attributes are shown to have a direct positive relationship to students' concurrent school performance as well as future academic outcomes. We believe these traits can be molded, in measurable and predictable ways, by the our school's environment. That's why, in addition to a targeted focus on certain key content areas, Excel requires teachers to integrate character development into daily instruction.
One of the most elemental aspects of Excel's educational philosophy is the belief that teacher quality is the single most important factor in driving student achievement and closing the achievement gap. While Excel's founders believe that recruiting exceptional teachers will lead to dramatic student outcomes, we also believe that exceptional teachers are developed, not born. Accordingly, both time and resources will be leveraged to ensure the development of teachers who change their students' academic and life trajectories so that they become meaningful contributors to society.
Excel's entire year, from our four-week Excel-erate Institute to bi-weekly professional development, is designed to support teacher growth and effectiveness. Excel's leadership tightly aligns coaching with school goals, consults with teachers frequently, provides rapid feedback, and strategically targets their needs.
We believe that our school and all staff must partner with families to strengthen support for learning and encourage parental involvement. Research suggests that when families are involved in the education of their children, the children earn higher grades and receive higher scores on tests, attend school more regularly, complete more homework, demonstrate more positive attitudes and behaviors, graduate from high school at higher rates, and are more likely to enroll in higher education than students with less involved families. Deep family relationships are also a foundation of culturally responsive teaching. Excel's team recognizes, however, that there are many challenges to successfully involving families in their children's academic lives. Families may have competing demands on their time and attention. Some may not have positive feelings about schools or teachers based on their own past school experiences. Some avoid involvement in their children's schoolwork because their own academic skill deficits make them feel unable to help. Moreover, many school-parent relationships suffer because the first time that the parent hears from the school is when there is a problem to discuss. Excel will provide a clear plan to support meaningful involvement of parents and community members in the life of the school and specifically in its governance:
Family Orientation: Family Orientation will take place before the beginning of the school year, during which families of new students learn in more detail about our mission, uniform policy, homework systems, and underlying philosophies. Parents/guardians will receive cell phone numbers of all staff, and are encouraged to communicate whenever there is a concern. Teachers and leaders will make contact with families every week. Excel's staff will make sure that parents understand the rationale behind our actions and school design, so that they connect the rigorous classes, structured culture and demanding expectations with the ultimate goal – 100% of our students graduating from the college of their choice.
Home Visits: The summer family orientation process will conclude with a home visit before the school year begins. This is a chance for each student and family member to learn more about the school, and review our student handbook – Commitment to Excellence. It also provides a chance for Excel staff to learn about each student and their family, so that students' funds of knowledge will be directly brought into Excel's curriculum to support a culturally responsive pedagogy.
Homework: HW will be assigned to students five times per week. Parents of middle schoolers will sign off on homework assignments daily, checking for completion only.
Phone calls: Excel staff will communicate with families daily about assignments, morning, lunch and afterschool tutoring sessions, detention, afterschool Study Hall, and other time-sensitive scheduling matters.
Syllabi: Every Monday, students will receive weekly syllabi, outlining all assignments for the week. Parents will sign weekly syllabi and return to school as part of Monday HW requirement.
Compass Reports: Every Monday, students will receive Compass Reports to share with family, including weekly "on" and "off" points, a snapshot of academics/behavioral and HW completion.
Newsletters: All families will receive bi-monthly newsletters detailing academic highlights with a focus on academic growth, student achievement, and school successes. These newsletters will be created and managed by the Parent Liaison.
Family Literacy and Math Nights: Each semester, the ELA and Math teams will host Family Literacy and Math Nights—families will learn best strategies for holding their children accountable for significant independent reading and math coursework.
Coffee and Tea with the Principal: We understand that many of our parents may work several jobs, some that may prevent them from attending evening school events, such as Family Literacy and Math Nights. To accommodate, we host forums on rotating Friday mornings and afternoons in which families can communicate concerns, ask questions, get to know one another, and receive pertinent information from the school.
Report Card Pick-Up and Conferences: Each semester, Excel will issue formal report cards to all families in person during Report Card Pick Up. During Pick-Up, teachers will meet with all families to discuss students' academic growth. This will increase the amount of in-person time between teacher and families.
Board Representation and Parent Advisory Council: One parent will be asked to serve on Excel's Board of Directors. This parent will then serve as one of two representatives to the school's Parental Advisory Council (PAC). The duties of the PAC will include providing ongoing feedback to management; supporting the distribution and collection of Parent Satisfaction Surveys; planning and assisting the facilitation of Morning Joe; joining canvassing and student recruitment events; organizing an emergency parent phone chain; facilitating child care on late-start days; monitoring and investing parents towards their yearly service hours. While they will have ample opportunities to provide feedback with school management, the PAC will not be responsible for developing or implementing school policies.
Parent Service Hours: Excel will provide parents and families the opportunity to engage with Excel by encouraging them to participate in "Service Hours." The goal for our school will be for parents and families to volunteer for a set amount of hours per year. Volunteering can happen in a variety of ways including, but not limited to, chaperoning field trips, volunteering in a classroom, and school-wide clean-up. Excel will also host 2 Staff and Family Service Days this year during which families will join the Excel team as we volunteer with community organizations.
One of the four key factors in the success of Finland's schools is frequent school-based assessments to inform instructional practices. Driven by data, Excel staff use a wide variety of measurements to assess student achievement and inform curriculum and instruction. Excel staff use criterion-referenced standardized tests like Smarter Balanced assessment for Common Core, which tells us how students are performing from year-to-year, relative to the bar of those assessments, and how we are doing in the aggregate compared to students in other schools in the network, district and nation. Excel also uses norm-referenced tests like the NWEA MAP assessment, which give a detailed level of data on how students are performing in various subject areas against the performance of students across the nation. Finally, Excel uses exit requirements, which help our faculty measure growth and achievement in subject areas the other assessments may not address, and also help to ensure Excel's students have skills that may not be explicitly measured on standardized assessments.
The most effective charter schools nationally employ a culture of high expectations for student behavior. These expectations 1) establish behavior policies and practices to foster a safe and focused learning environment; 2) encourage consistency across classrooms to create clear expectations for students; 3) expect adults to model and enforce norms for student behavior; 4) ask parents to reinforce and support school actions; and 5) emphasize teacher training to support high standards for classroom behavior. To support all Excel students, including at-risk students, Excel will employ a highly structured, positive academic and social environment, modeled after the PBIS system.
In our society, an outstanding, college preparatory education has developed into an exception, not the norm that we believe it must be for every student. College completion for students from the highest income quartile (more than $108,284 per year) is 82%; for students in the lowest income quartile ($36,080 per year or less) it is 8%. Excel will ensure that all graduates, no matter what their family income level, will have the academic knowledge and tools necessary to be fully prepared to enter into and graduate from the four-year college of their choice. Excel's founders recognize that not all students may choose to attend college after high school graduation; however, we believe that all students must have the opportunity to choose college and the opportunity to be ready to make such a choice.
For students to successfully graduate from a four-year college, they need to have (1) a strong mastery of key academic content; (2) contextual college skills and awareness; (3) strong academic behaviors; and (4) the ability to utilize key cognitive strategies. As students move through the upper-level grades at Excel, they will experience a variety of instructional styles that they will encounter in college in order to model and prepare students for the rigors of college. Additionally, all students beginning in their junior year of high school are automatically enrolled in a college preparatory course that meets once a week, preparing students to navigate the college admissions process. The course is designed to elevate personal expectations, produce competitive applications, boost SAT/ACT test scores, and prepare students for academic and personal success in college.
As we think critically about how Excel will provide students with increased educational opportunities, Excel's Team understands the importance of culturally responsive teaching as a powerful tool to help realize our mission. Excel is committed to developing within our students a sociopolitical consciousness, one that allows them to critique the social norms, values, mores and institutions that produce, maintain and perpetuate social inequity. In doing so, we give our students the tools necessary to successfully negotiate the unequal power structures that oftentimes create the un-leveled playing field many of our students of color or students from low-income families experience. By grounding Excel's curriculum in high academic rigor, cultural competence, and critical consciousness, Excel will go far beyond traditional public schools in building a school environment that affirms student identity and funds of knowledge, and helps to set all students on a path to long-term academic success.
Excel Public Charter School
19300 108th Avenue Southeast,
Kent, WA 98031
Phone: (253) 487-7530

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Family Dinner #1
After my kids menus post I received quite a few comments and emails regarding WHAT I actually cook for my family. I received so many inquiries that I have decided to do a weekly family dinner post. Once a week I will post an actual meal that I actually cook that my kids actually eat.
Let's do this yo. This is a quicky, easy, and HEALTHY dinner that shows up on our plates frequently. We love us some lentils. Hope you enjoy our Family Dinner #1:
Carrots & Lentils
1c Lentils
4c Sliced Carrots
3 Tbsp Olive Oil
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1 Tspn Suga'
2 Cloves of Garlic Minced
1 Half of an Onion Chopped
1/2 Tspn Coriander
1 Tbsp Tomato Paste mixed with 1 Tbsp H20
Vinegar (optional)
- Cook lentils. Set aside lentils and 1c of lentil water.
- In a large pan heat olive oil and coriander seeds on medium high heat.
- Add chopped onion and minced garlic. Cook until tender.
- Add sliced carrots. Cook for 5-7 minutes until soft.
- Add tomato paste mixture, sugar, and lentils.
- Add lentil water to cover lentils.
- Bring to a boil, cover, and simmer for about 10 minutes or until all water is gone.
- Add salt to taste.
- If so inclined, add vinegar once served.
- Eat & Enjoy!!
This recipe was adapted for my kids. The original recipe called for 4 cloves of garlic, more coriander, and a large onion. I know what the mini's like so I modify what I cook for them. Hence less garlic and coriander. I encourage all parents to do the same with their own children!


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'I helped myself - so can you'
Last year, Adrian Pearce persuaded Lexus to replace his faulty car with a new one of a higher specification and at a discounted rate.
The What Car? Helpdesk played a part, but Adrian laid much of the groundwork, firstly by keeping on good terms with the dealer.
'It's important to get 'friends' on your side,' says Adrian. 'The dealer is only the middleman. He didn't make the car.'
Adrian also advises: 'When you have a complaint, you get a better response from people if they are aware you have copied in their boss.'
Going public can help, but don't do it too quickly: 'Everyone hates bad press, but use it wisely, as it often offends.'


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Home-grown terrorism
The New York Times broke a story on Sept. 11 of this year that was slightly overshadowed by the tragic events that transpired that morning.
Nearly three months after the worst terrorist attacks in the history of the world, it's time to re-examine that story.
The story was about a home-grown terrorist – one that not only got away with bombings of the U.S. Capitol in 1971, the New York City Police Headquarters the year before and the Pentagon in 1972 but one who is totally, 100 percent unrepentant about those actions.
His name is Bill Ayers. He was a leader of the Weather Underground – a terrorist faction of the Students for a Democratic Society.
"I don't regret setting bombs," Ayers told the New York Times in the story published ironically on Sept. 11. "I feel we didn't do enough."
Ayers spent the 1970s as a fugitive. But today, he lives in a big turn-of-the-19th-century stone house in the Hyde Park district of Chicago.
He is not only proud of his terrorist actions, he prospers from them.
His new book, "Fugitive Days," currently ranked 25,228 by Amazon, is the 56-year-old's memoir. But this incompetent bomber is also a liar. He admits that parts of his story are fictionalized.
A publicity shot for the book shows Ayers with the American flag crumpled in weeds by his feet.
Though he admits his role in the bombings, Ayers, we're told, is probably safe from prosecution. A spokeswoman for the Justice Department told the New York Times there was a five-year statute of limitations on federal crimes except in cases of murder or when a person has been indicted.
In 1970, Ayers was said to have summed up the Weatherman philosophy as: "Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at."
Today Ayers is a "distinguished professor of education" at the University of Illinois at Chicago. And he says he doesn't actually remember suggesting that rich people be killed or that people kill their parents, but "it's been quoted so many times I'm beginning to think I did," he said. "It was a joke about the distribution of wealth."
"He went underground in 1970, after his girlfriend, Diana Oughton, and two other people were killed when bombs they were making exploded in a Greenwich Village town house," the New York Times explains. "With him in the Weather Underground was Bernardine Dohrn, who was put on the FBI's '10 Most Wanted' list. J. Edgar Hoover called her 'the most dangerous woman in America' and 'la Pasionara of the Lunatic Left.'"
Between 1970 and 1974, the Weathermen took responsibility for 12 bombings, Ayers writes, and also helped spring Timothy Leary (sentenced on marijuana charges) from jail.
Today, Ayers and Dohrn, 59, who is director of the Legal Clinic's Children and Family Justice Center of Northwestern University, are married.
In 1969, after the Manson family murders in Beverly Hills, Dohrn told a Students for a Democratic Society audience: "Dig it! Manson killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them, then they shoved a fork into a victim's stomach."
In Chicago recently, Dohrn said of her remarks: "It was a joke. We were mocking violence in America. Even in my most inflamed moment, I never supported a racist mass murderer." A joke? Pretty funny, huh?
Would Ayers do it all again? "I don't want to discount the possibility," he told the Times.
Ayers has something else in common with Osama bin Laden – besides a fascination with terrorism. His father, Thomas, now 86, was chairman and chief executive officer of Commonwealth Edison of Chicago, chairman of Northwestern University and of the Chicago Symphony. In other words, he's another rich-kid terrorist.
Dohrn got a slap on the wrist for her charges. She pleaded guilty to a rioting charge and received three years probation and was fined $1,500. The federal charges against them were dropped before they surrendered to authorities in the 1980s.
Does this make you angry? While the U.S. is at war with terrorism, our universities here in the United States employ people like Ayers. They prey on our children and fill their minds with romantic tales of fighting "inside the belly of the beast" – the United States of America.
But here's the real punch line of this sick joke.
Guess what Ayers teaches? He instructs prospective K-12 teachers in "moral education" and in the "ethical and political dimensions" of education.


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Iron is one of the most used metals in our daily life, but often we see that there is corrosion on the iron surface and this corrosion happens because of rust which is composed on Iron Oxide. The compound, iron oxide, is a result of the reaction between iron and oxygen in the presence of air moisture and water. If sufficient time, oxygen and water is given, any iron mass will convert entirely to rust and disintegrate. The surface of rust is flaky and doesn't provide any protection to the underlying iron.
Once rusting is started, the iron continues to corrode because rust is permeable to air and water. The interior metallic iron beneath the rust layer again gets in touch of air and water, and therefore, rust forms again
We abundantly use iron and steel products, and this is why prevention of rust has become a major economic activities.
• Barrier Protection: a barrier film can be introduced between the iron and atmospheric oxygen and moisture. A barrier protection can be achieved by painting the surface or by coating the surface with a very thin film of grease or oil or by electroplating iron with metal such as copper, nickel and chromium etc.
• Sacrificial Protection: in this method, iron surface is covered with a layer of more active metal such as zinc. Zn loses e in preference to iron and prevents the rusting of iron. The process by which iron is protected by Zinc is called galvanization. Zinc, aluminum and magnesium powder dissolved in paints are also effective to protect iron from rust.
• Use of Anti-rust solutions: The alkaline chromate and alkaline phosphate act as anti-rust solutions. When iron objects are dipped into strongly alkaline solution of sodium phosphate, a protective insoluble iron phosphate film is formed. The film prevent the object to be rusted.


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Congressional Countdown: Some Dems May Miss the Wave
A Key Race Scorecard -- Nov. 4, 2006
House (35 contested races)
Senate (9 contested races)
There seems little debate among political prognosticators that House Democrats are headed for major gains -- and a likely majority -- on Nov. 7.
But, even in the largest of political waves there are a handful of outliers -- seats controlled by the party riding the wave that will be lost.
In a recent article for the Rothenberg Political Report, analyst Nathan Gonzalez provided a historical perspective on wave elections and those they leave behind.
In 1994 Democrats lost 56 seats (34 incumbents and 22 opens) but managed to win four GOP-held open seats for a net loss of 52. In 1980, Democrats lost 37 seats but defeated three Republican incumbents and took an open GOP seat. Fourteen years earlier Democrats sustained a 43-seat loss mitigated slightly by pickups in four GOP seats. And, way back in 1958, 49 Republican-held seats switched parties but the GOP managed to win one back to their side.
So, if history is any guide, Democrats won't enjoy a clean sweep come Tuesday night. In the Countdown we take a look at who might be left at sea when (and if) the wave crashes.
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November 4, 2006; 11:39 AM ET
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|The Dialog Blog
|People say it. I write it.
Sunday, April 30, 2006
Franklin @ Van Ness
"Hey, you just ran a red light asshole! And you're a fat!"
Thursday, April 27, 2006
One Market
"I know this guy from Korea who told me that when they lay someone off over there, they wheel the person's desk into the elevator. That way, when the person comes into work, they know they've been let go, and so does everyone else. No need to beat around the bush."
One Market
"I can gain twenty pounds just thinking about New Orleans."
Tuesday, April 25, 2006
One Market
"How's Pete?"
"Oh, he's been up to general jackassery."
Market @ California
"What?! That bitch said what?! I never called her that. That stupid bitch. You tell her I never said that shit."
Elevator, One Market
"My Dad's retired in Hawaii."
"Wow, that's great. Does he spend all his time at the beach?"
"No, he's got an artificial hip and an oxygen tank, so he doesn't get out much. He likes to sit by a window and watch the ships go in and out of the harbor."
Monday, April 24, 2006
Embarcadero Center
"You ever notice his girlfriend looks like a Martian?"
Thursday, April 20, 2006
1 California, MUNI
"Is he like gay playboy or hip-hop playboy? Oh, that's not good. You're too old for that."
Wednesday, April 19, 2006
One Market
"If you eat, you make the shit. Don't eat if you not want to make the shit."
Embarcadero BART Station
"Sweet man love."
Monday, April 17, 2006
One Market
"His speech was a little too political for me. It had something to do with child molesters in churches, and if God allows that kind of thing to happen, then God must condone child molesting. It didn't make a lot of sense to me, really."
Friday, April 14, 2006
One Market
"Are we drinking tonight?"
"Huh, tonight? No, I haven't seen my wife in days. When I'm not at work, I'm drinking with you guys, and my wife is getting pissed."
UCSF Medical Center
"I don't know where she went."
"I think she left."
"Left? She was supposed to get an MRI and come right back."
"She did get the MRI. I just don't think she came back."
"Where would she go?"
"She mentioned she was late for work."
"Unbelievable. She's done this before, you know."
Wednesday, April 12, 2006
24th @ Mission
"Excuse me, home boy? What makes you think you so hot, huh? Who are you? Who are you? Yeah, nobody, that's who. Standing there all stupid with your white jeans."
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
24th @ Diamond
"I'm done with crazy chicks. My new thing is no crazy chicks in oh six."
Monday, April 10, 2006
One Market
"Hey, did you see that someone named Anus was on the call? Yeah, that was great."
Paradise Valley Retirement Community
"That John, he's a hell of a guy. On D-Day, he flew into Normandy on a glider. He was only eighteen."
"Wow, and he survived?"
"He sure did. Made it all the way to The Battle of the Bulge."
"I can't imagine what he saw. Does he ever talk about it?"
"A little bit."
"Did he kill anyone?"
"Oh, I bet he killed a lot of people over there."
"I wonder if he ever has nightmares or anything like that."
"I don't know. He eats a lot of blintzes, though. That's his favorite thing to eat at brunch. Blintzes with raspberry syrup."
Paradise Valley Retirement Community
"Getting old ain't for sissies."
Paradise Valley Retirement Community
"What was that? My God, you blew up the microwave! What did you do? Mom, you know you can't put aluminum in there."
"I wanted eggs."
"Well you can't put eggs in the microwave, either. What'd you do, wrap eggs in aluminum foil? How are we going to clean this up?"
"Stinks in here."
Paradise Valley Retirement Community
"Boy, it's hot in here. Holy cats."
"Holy cats? Don't you mean holy cow?"
"No, holy cats. I don't know what a holy cow is."
Paradise Valley Retirement Community
"What was that you say?"
"Wear your hearing aid!"
"Your hearing aid!"
"Oh, get off my back about my hearing aid. I've got four daughters and a wife always bugging me to wear the damn thing. I don't need you to get on the bandwagon."
"Yeah, but you can't even hear me."
"What was that you say?"
Paradise Valley Retirement Community
"Hey, what are they teaching you kids in high school these days?"
"I don't know. Stuff."
"They teach you about Mussolini?"
"Wasn't he that painter?"
"Painter? Heavens no. We fought him in World War Two. You know, Hitler, Mussolini, and the Japs. They teach you about that no good Stalin?"
"Oh, forget it. I'm going to get a bowl of ice cream."
Friday, April 07, 2006
MUNI: J Church
"Fifteen year old Michael Jackon's a terrorist. Pumpernickle makes the farts talk. Water is wet. Everybody wants the stink finger. Mel's Diner never served food. Women should've never worn pants. Fuck all of you. I'm not white today."
One Market
"So how's your day going?"
"Oh, it's been shitty. It's been a real shitty week. I was in a call with a customer's IT folks who hate our product. They hate us. They hate me."
Thursday, April 06, 2006
One Market
"Hopefully, smiling is optional."
Wednesday, April 05, 2006
One Market
"You should've just had breakfast with him. It's not like people do anything on Sundays except recover from hangovers and eat."
Specialty's: Mission @ Beale
"Oh, and we saw Joanne. She had kids."
"Well that's not surprising. In college, we called her "Joanne 'babies, babies, babies' Kennedy."
Tuesday, April 04, 2006
Market @ Gough
"So I've got a cigarette in one hand, and my asthma inhaler in the other, and he says to me, 'You're fuckin' crazy.' I say, 'What's the matter with you? It's just a cigarette.'"
Market @ Gough
"I dug out the old red phone in my garage. Ever since I got sober, I thought one day God might call me on it and tell me what my life was supposed to be all about."
24th @ Valencia
"What's that smell?"
"I love that smell. I'd buy it. Wish it was, like, an air freshener. I'd smell it all day."
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When you have two children under five years of age, it is hard to have a conversation.
A simple adult conversation.
One that does not involve Ultraman, or poopy diapers, or screaming/crying tantrums.
Okay, there is always the potential for me to cry or have a tantrum. Unfortunately, last night I did both.
We have been planning this "date" since Wednesday. I was really excited to just sit down and have a quiet, peaceful, uninterrupted meal.
And then, Mr. Smith went to run errands.
Cue dramatic music.
When he was getting out of the car at the bank, he threw his back out. He can no longer stand up straight. He is listing to the right and in a ton of pain.
Listen, I am not mad at the man for getting hurt. That would just be plain old bitchy. I am frustrated that any time we plan something, it gets a big old steaming poop dumped on it.
Okay, that being said, I had a hissy fit and tried over and over again to cancel. Mr. Smith refused and insisted that we go ahead, despite his excruciating back pain.
Luckily, I am married to a man that makes me laugh. In fact, he makes me laugh harder than any other human being has ever made me laugh.
The clouds quickly passed and it was just nice to be out together, like adults.
We chose the Salt Creek Grille in Dana Point for our big night out. If you get a chance and are interested you should check it out.
It is a lovely, Craftsman style restaurant. It has large cozy, private booths and is just so relaxing. It is one of our favorite places to eat.
Mr. Smith is a more recent convert, but I have been smitten with this place since the first time I ate there about a million years ago. The setting is gorgeous and the food, oh the food.
I am going to be super annoying and tell you about the food.
For appetizers (since we basically skipped lunch) we had the homemade potato chips sprinkled with sea salt, thyme and gorgonzola cheese crumbles. Mr. Smith decided to be daring and try the lump crab, avocado and quinoa appetizer. He loved it. They bring it to the table with a bottle of Trappy's Louisiana Hot Sauce. Mr. Smith was waxing poetic about it and the appetizer.
For his entree Mr. Smith had the "Brandt Beef "Bleu Cheese Crusted "Baseball Cut" Top Sirloin 10 oz., Brandt All-Natural Beef, with Caramelized Onions, Classic Demi Glace & Served with Jalapeño Au Gratin Potatoes…A"House" Specialty. The potatoes were amazing. I am not a fan of potatoes au gratin in general, but holy mackerel, these were so good. Just the right amount of zip.
I had Spicy Gulf Shrimp Linguine which is Blackened Cajun Shrimp Tossed in Goat Cheese Béchamel Sauce with Roasted Farmer's Market Vegetables Tossed with Linguine. The linguine was cooked perfectly (a pet peeve of mine is over cooked pasta, ugh) and the vegetables (carrots, broccoli, zucchini, yellow squash) were nice and crisp. The shrimp was spicy, but not overpowering. The sauce, I will be attempting to recreate here. Oh my goodness. Goat cheese béchamel...you had me at hello!
For dessert we had this
Chocolate Ganache Soufflé.
You order it before you start dinner. They bring it hot from the oven, burst through the center at the table and pour warm chocolate ganache into the center and top it with whipped cream.
Mr. Smith felt that our waiter might have skimped a bit on the chocolate ganache, so he added more.
After dinner and a few drinks (for me and my stress level), and a vicodin (for Mr. Smith and his back), we ambled down the coast to catch the sunset.
And so endeth another date night. We all survived, barely.
Mr. Smith is still shaped like a question mark, Famous Baby C woke me up at 3 am and refused to go back to sleep.
So, in other words, things are back to Smith Normal.
P.S. The air conditioning was repaired the same day. If you need someone, look him up. He is the most honest, reliable repairman I have ever done business with in the area. He is a gem!


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By Tammy L. Hensel
Copyright 2010, All Rights Reserved
What would you do if you had a benefactor who paid your bills for you every month so that every statement you received was stamped Paid-In-Full? How amazing that would be!
So much more amazing is the fact that our debt of sin has been Paid-In-Full by Christ's death on the Cross. That is the truth that inspired Elvina Marble Reynolds Hall (Meyers) to pen the words to Jesus Paid It All.
Jesus Paid It All
Words by Elvina Hall
Music by John T. Grape
I hear the Savior say,
"Thy strength indeed is small;
Child of weakness, watch and pray,
Find in Me thine all in all."
Jesus paid it all,
All to Him I owe;
Sin had left a crimson stain,
He washed it white as snow.
For nothing good have I
Whereby Thy grace to claim,
I'll wash my garments white
In the blood of Calv'ry's Lamb.
And now complete in Him
My robe His righteousness,
Close sheltered 'neath His side,
I am divinely blest.
Lord, now indeed I find
Thy power and Thine alone,
Can change the leper's spots
And melt the heart of stone.
When from my dying bed
My ransomed soul shall rise,
"Jesus died my soul to save,"
Shall rend the vaulted skies.
And when before the throne
I stand in Him complete,
I'll lay my trophies down
All down at Jesus' feet.
Elvina Hall was born June 4, 1822 in Alexandria, VA. None of my sources listed her mother's name, but her father was Capt. David Reynolds. She married Richard Hall and they were active members of Monument Street Methodist Church in Baltimore.
One Sunday in the spring of 1865, she was overwhelmed during the sermon with the enormity of Christ's sacrifice in her behalf. The words to a poem of thanksgiving formed in her mind, so she wrote them on the flyleaf of her hymnal. Although a little sheepish for writing in the church hymnbook, she presented it to her pastor, Reverend George Schreck's, following the service. (My sources varied on the spelling of this name. I found it as Schreck, Schnick, Schrick)
We do not know the exact text of Rev. Schreck's sermon that day, but there are many Bible verses that correlate with the message of this hymn. The verses that first came to my mind reading over these lyrics were:
1 John 1:2
And He is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
2 Corinthians 5:21
For He hath made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him
Isaiah 1:18
Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
Some days later Schreck went to visit the church choir director, John T. Grape, a successful coal merchant and amateur musician/composer. Grape played for him a tune he had written and Schreck thought it went perfectly with Hall's poem. Grape wrote about the event:
Rev. George W. Schreck called on me to select anything new that I had to offer. On hearing this piece he expressed his plea sure with it and stated that Mrs. Elvina M. Hall had written some words that would just suit the music. I gave him a copy of it and it was soon sung in several churches here in Baltimore [Maryland] and well received. At the suggestion of friends I sent a copy to Professor Theodore Perkins and it was published in Sabbath Carols. Under the providence of God it has been going ever since. I trust that it has not failed to accomplish some good to my fellowmen for the glory of God. http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/j/p/jpaidall.htm
After her husband Richard's death, Hall married a Methodist minister, Thomas Myers in 1885. She died at Ocean Grove, NJ, on July 18, 1889. Other than the story of her writing of this hymn, I found little else about her life. John T. Grape was born in Baltimore Maryland May 6, 1835 and died there November 2, 1915. Besides being choir director and organist for the church, he was also very involved in the Sunday school.
VIDEO: I was hoping to find a video with all the verses, but couldn't find one. I chose this video because I think these young people did an excellent job.
"Jesus Paid It All" - MS Baptist All-State Youth Choir & Orchestra 2008


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[salt tank information] [fishes] [building new tank] [disease recognition]
[invertebrates] [starfish, snails] [crabs] [anemone]
Let's see now how we can build a tank
Choosing the tank.
As I already said a tank must be more than 200 litter. All hobbyists should know already that it is
very common to do a mistake but the smallest the tank is, the greatest the danger exists for your fish
because in a big tank the parameters of water are more stable and you can eliminate the danger in
case of a mistake. And you should also take into consideration that taking care of a big tank takes less
time and effort. Despite all that, it is possible to build the ideal biological conditions even in a 100 litter
tank. As a general rule, every mistake in the maintenance has serious consequences.
You bring your tank home. The next step is to find a perfect place for it. You must
remember only two rules..
First : never put your tank near the window, because sunlight will increase unwanted
algae growing and it will raise the temperature levels, and we do not want that at all.
Second: keep it away from the doors because doors open very often and your fish can get
Well, when the right place is found it's time to fill your tank with water. You can do it
by using the rubber (bought from the pet store) , or you can use any other way you
prefer. Fill only half tank. Here we need to put salt within it so as to make the water
salty as it is in the ocean and the sea.
Personally I use two different kinds of salt.
If you fill half tank it should about 125 litter. You need about 4 kg of salt for the beginning. Sea's
salinity is 1.022-1.025 and the temperature is around 25 C. Put the salt in and put two power heads to
circulate the water. Turn on the heater in 25 C. and let it function for 24 hours.
The next day, measure the salinity with the hydrometer and the temperature with a thermometer and
if the special gravity is more than 1.025 add some fresh water if it is less then put a little more salt
and leave it for 2 more hours.
After that get the power head out of the tank.
At this point you need sand and crushed corals. The most important role of the aquaria bottom is to
provide additional vital space for bacteria that need oxygen in the upper levels and for the bacteria
that live without oxygen in the lowest levels. For the salt tank you need crushed corals because the
high content of oxide calcium contributes in the stabilization of the PH.
Some kind of fish like gobies need a zone of sand because during the night they use to hide in it. The
depth of the crushed coral and sand must be 6-10 cm. Crushed coral is dead coral from the reef sea's
which you can buy from the pet store, it's totally inexpensive . You need about 15 kg. Do not forget to
rinse it well under warm water before place it because of the rubbish and dust. Put the crushed corals
into the tank and above it put 20 kg aragonite sand or (live sand)( personally, I didn't buy it, but made
it myself).
After your reef bottom is ready put back the power heads. One goes on the left side of the depth and the
other on the right. Make sure that they are not moving the sand. One or two cm above the sand
is a good place for them. At this point you have to buy some rock. Preferably live rock. Live rock is full
of live organisms mixed with sperm of invertible, microscopic crabs and shrimps. Also it is covered by
beautiful red, pink, and purple algae. In the beginning take about 5 kg live rock. The animals that live
on them will immigrate to the sand and make colonies there with the beneficial bacteria, and in a
while your sand will become live. (it worked fine for me and I didn't have to give more money in order
to buy live sand). The fish, the crabs and the other animals in the reef tank need places to hide. You
can easily create caves and places to hide with rocks such as lava, tufa and other. Just use water proof
non toxic silicone. You can decorate your tank by using your imagination. There is no limit in
creation........Under the rock constructions it is advisable to place Plexiglas in order to avoid the
breaking of the glass. Put your structure within and place the live rocks above.
So it's time to install the filter.
Personally I use canister filter made in Italy by Fluval company. Before you buy the filter that you
decided that suits you, tell the pet shop guy about the measurements of your tank and
buy one scale bigger ( for example a 250 litter tank needs 300 litter filter). The bigger
the better, as a general rule. Install your filter by using the instructions. Run the air
pump. Make sure that bubbles are going into the filter, because the beneficial bacteria need oxygen to
live and break down the wastes. Dichloride the water by using "stress coat" product which also consists
Aloe Vera, an ingredient that helps the fish. Then add into your tank at the first, second, seventh and
fourteenth day a product called " stress zyme" that helps in growing the beneficial bacteria .
stress coat stress zyme
In the end turn off the light for a week. Do not be afraid if during the "cycle" your live rocks loose
coralline algae. It will come back quickly.
Now let's discuss about reef tank lighting. Lighting is probably one of
the most important factors for a healthy tank and for the growing of corals . You have to realize that
all the animals on earth need light to grow and live. Corals themselves do not require any special
lighting .It is the one-celled algae, known as zooanthellia, that needs special lighting. The algae and
zooanthellia are obligatory symbiosis of each other. This algae is important to their host animals
because it removes toxic metabolic wastes products from the corals. The same waste products are
required nutrient for the algae. In return the algae produces glucose which is high energy food for
corals. For example , in the presence of bright light , the algae removes carbon dioxide from the water
and produces oxygen.
Corals do not live at the surface of the sea, but underneath, where the light is a little more blue. That's
why the 30% of tank lighting must be Blue. Totally you have to put 4-6 watt per 5 litter. So if the tank is
250 litter you need, 5 watt per 5 litter = 250 watt-260watt. 80 watt must be blue actinic light, and
170-180 watt white. Use neon lamps. They do not warm the water too much . (I do not write about
wavelength. It's not interesting at all. )
Make a 25% water change after a week has passed and add "stress zym".
For the water change you need a kind of a big canister filled with dichloride water where you will add
the salt and you will leave it so for 24 hours. A power head must be functioning within it. 24 hours is
enough time for the salt to melt and aerate. Because when you add salt in the water toxic gas is
produced. After the water change, test the PH, the ammonia and nitrite levels by using ph ,nitrate, and
nitrite tests. If still the ammonia, nitrate levels are high and if the PH level is less than 8.2 to 8.4 (which
is the natural levels) wait one more week and during it add "Reef Buffer" product or "sodium
carbonated". If the PH levels are above these parameters, then add the product "Ph Down " (usually it is
not necessary). And on the fourteenth day, test the water again, make 25% water change and use stress
zyme .Usually 2 weeks are fine if you are using stress zyme, if not ,then you have to wait 5-6 weeks. But
from my personal experience I couldn't wait I was impatient so I used the stress zyme and my filter
was ready in 10 days. Try the same if you want, but please test ammonia level before putting any fish
or invertible in the tank.
Here comes the most interesting part of the whole process. The big time has come. It's time to buy a
fish!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But don't get carried away, only one fish at a time. Before it, do not forget to
install the protein skimmer.
one False Percula, the common name is Ocelarius, and I call it Kuki. It is safe for reef and
invertebrates. Clownfish are not really good swimmers. In Nature they live in Anemones
because they are hosts of Anemones. Try to buy tank bred fishes because they are
harder than natural ocean fishes. I'll give you more information about clownfish in the
section about which fish and invertebrate are safe in a reef tank.
Choosing and acclimation of the fish and invertebrates.
For the first fish (and be careful only for the FIRST FISH) this acclimation method is just fine.
When introducing a fish to a new aquarium for the first time, or adding new fish to an existing system,
it is important to acclimate it to the new conditions. Allowing the new fish to slowly adjust to the new
temperature and water conditions reduces stress and helps avoiding outbreaks of disease. In the pet
shop observe the fish you want to buy.It shouldn't have any white spots or damaged skin, or have a
pale colour. It must be active, healthy , and vivid. Never buy fish unless you've seen it eating. That's
why it is very useful to choose a fish, give a deposit to the shop to keep it there for a week or two.
The steps for the acclimation of the FIRST FISH are the following:
1. Float the bag in the tank for about approximately 20 to 30 minutes (adjusts temperature). 2. Gently empty the bag into a 5 litter bucket. (make sure there is enough water for the fish)
3. Run a piece of air line tubing from the tank to the bucket. 4. Start siphon
5. Tie a knot in the tubing to control flow rate, adjust to 1-3 drops per second.
6. Allow to drip until the bucket has three or four times much water as when you started (should
take a couple of hours).
7. Gently net fish and place it in the tank.
This method is fairly simple and doesn't require a lot of work on your part, but it does require a little
Then observe the fish in the tank for about 10 days and make 10 % water change. Feed it two times per
day in the morning and in the evening as much as they consume in two minutes. Do not overfeed
them!!! Generally clownfish accept all kind of food live or frozen, flake food. Personally I feed my
fishes with frozen worms and twice a week with flakes.
It is advisable to use a quarantine tank for better acclimation, for disease treatment and for protection
of your main tank. Quarantine tank is a smaller tank (approximately 50 litters) with corner (sponge)
filter, heater, air pump. There you place a fish by following the above steps of acclimation except the 7.
Keep the fish in the quarantine tank for about 2 -3 weeks. This is a very wise move because in this way,
you eliminate the parasites and the diseases in the main tank, in case the fish is infected. If something
is wrong with the fish, you must provide the appropriate treatment for it. We will discuss disease
recognition and treatment in the section of Diseases. If everything is ok, put the fish in the main tank
following the above steps.
After 10 days it is time to buy some shrimps. One of the most common shrimp is Cleaner Shrimp.
|Preferable level.
|Your tank levels.
|Actions in case of inappropriate conditions.
|8-10 dKH
|Increase with Reef Builder.
|Increase with Reef Buffer and decrease with "Ph Down".
|400-450 mg/l
|Increase with "Calcium-Plus".
|max. 0,2 mg/l
|Add "Stress Zyme".
|0,0 mg/l
|max. 20mg/l
|max. 0,1 mg/l
|Hairy algae will consume phosphate and also change the activated carbon.
|Increase by adding salt and decrease by adding fresh water.
KH test Ca test
I personally use products from the companies such as ReefChem, Sera.... I trust them because of personal experience.
Let's see now. We have one Ocelarius in the tank, two shrimps and a lot of snails and other creatures. It's time to buy a new fish and maybe the first coral or better an anemone for Ocelarius. If you decide to buy an Anemone you need to find which one is symbiotic with Ocelarius. In nature false percula host anemone is "stichodactyla gigantea" and "heteractis crispa". So you can ask your pet store guy to order for you the host anemone of the ocelarius if he doesn't have it in store, but they usually have. Make acclimation as you did for the fish and put gently the anemone in the tank. Ocelarius will watch it for a while and then go and sit on it. Sometimes it may take 2 or 3 days but at last clownfish will occupy the anemone. Let's see now what other fish are safe for reef and not aggressive against the clown.
|will co-exist
|may co-exist
|will not co-exist
|Angels, Dwarf
|Should be excellent tank mates.
|Angels, Large
|Large Angels may become territorial.
|Should be excellent tank mates.
|Should be excellent tank mates.
|Adults may consume clownfish.
|Should be excellent tank mates.
|Should be excellent tank mates.
|Should be excellent tank mates.
|Should be excellent tank mates.
|Should be excellent tank mates.
|Adults may consume clownfish.
|Should be excellent tank mates.
|Should be excellent tank mates.
|Best avoided except for large aquariums.
|Some Dottybacks are very aggressive and are best housed by themselves.
|Should be excellent tank mates.
|Drums can be aggressive. Clownfish in first.
|Should be excellent tank mates.
|Should be excellent tank mates.
|Should be excellent tank mates.
|Lionfish, Scorpion fish
|Adults may consume clownfish.
|Some trigger fish are incredibly aggressive clownfish at first
|Should be excellent tank mates.
|Adults may consume clownfish.
So there is a time when you must decide by yourself what fish and what invertebrates to buy for your aquaria..
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ADOPTION charity Parents And Children Together (PACT) is searching for a forever family for five-year-old twin girls.
The two girls, Katie and Emma*, are currently living with a foster carer but need a permanent adoptive home.
PACT is family-finding for the twins under the Its All About Me (IAAM) scheme which means the girls may receive specialist therapeutic support tailored to their needs, if it is identified as necessary.
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Mandy Davies, PACT's IAAM Manager said: "At PACT we are dedicated to finding families for children of all ages and backgrounds.
"We welcome couples and single people to come and find out about adoption and how they could change the lives of children like Emma and Katie."
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PACT supports vulnerable families through outstanding adoption services, permanent fostering, award-winning therapeutic support and community projects in London and the south east.
PACT's adoption services were judged as "outstanding" by Ofsted in January 2014 and its therapeutic services FACTS were voted "Voluntary Adoption Service of the Year" in the BAAF National Adoption Week Awards 2013.
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As curators we often work with undergraduates on their class projects, and I recently had the opportunity to work with Professor Kenneth Noll of the Molecular and Cell Biology department in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Prof. Noll devised a project for a INTD class he taught this semester, "Mark Twain and Herbert W. Conn: Science in Literature and Society in Late 19th Century Connecticut." We all know who Mark Twain is but who is Conn? H.W. Conn was a very prominent scientist at Wesleyan University in the late 1800s/early 1900s, and although he was not a faculty member at what then the Connecticut Agricultural College (now known as UConn), he was the driving force in establishing the Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station. Prof. Noll's objective for the class was to have the students create an exhibit that describes Conn's work as the Connecticut state microbiologist, juxtaposing it to Mark Twain's 1905 essay, "3000 Years Among the Microbes," which deflates human beings' inflated sense of importance.
The class, all of them freshmen honors students, was split into three groups to research Conn and Twain, as well as the science behind Conn's work, particularly his 1893 Chicago World's Fair exhibit on dairy microbiology. The students used many materials in Archives & Special Collections, including photographs from the University Archives, Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station catalogs, and maps, and made a field trip to the Connecticut Science Center.
The result is an exhibit now up in the Plaza Alcove in Homer Babbidge Library until December 17.
On December 6, at 11:00a.m., there will be a celebration of the exhibit that will feature a reading from Twain's story by retired Prof. of Dramatic Arts Jerry Krasser and Prof. Noll. The public is invited to the celebration, in the Class of '47 room in Homer Babbidge Library
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Alderton: Violet (Constant), formerly of Newbury, passed away at the Babcock Community Care Centre, Wardsville on Friday, May 18, 2012 at the age of 91. Born in Rodney, daughter of the late William and Nellie (Horton) Constant. Beloved wife of the late Charles Alderton. Loving mother of Donna Sipocz, Shirley Yacks both of Windsor, Verna Blair (Ron) of Blenheim, Charles Alderton of Alberta, Bill Alderton of Chatham, Bob Alderton and Gary Alderton both of Newbury. Sadly missed by 15 grandchildren and numerous great-grandchildren. Dear sister of Dorothy Miller, janet Birch and Sylvia Boyko all of Fergus, Ruth Green of Mt. Brydges. Also survived by many nieces and nephews. Predeceased by her sons Gerald and Edward; sisters Francis, Eva , and Rosetta; and a daughter-in-law Esther Alderton. At Violets request her body had been donated to science. Family and friends are invited to the Newbury Legion Hall on Saturday, June 16, 2012 from 1-4pm. If desired donations to the CNIB or the charity of one's choice would be appreciated by the family. Online condolences and donations may be made at www.badderfuneralhome.com. Arrangements entrusted to Badder Funeral Homes, Bothwell
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January 1st kicks off the Best of 2013 Audiobook Blog Hop hosted by The Book Nympho, Hot Listens, and Geeky Bloggers Book Blog and I'm excited to join in and share my top listens from the past year.
Even as I write this I can imagine all the audiobooks in my TBL queue muttering about how they could have been one of my top three listens of 2013 if only I'd stopped continuously adding to the pile and actually listened to more of them. I feel a little guilty picking favorites when there were so many I never got to. That's one of the things I like about "Best of…" blog hops, though: not only does it point me toward something I might not have tried otherwise, it reminds me of what I might already have but have been ignoring. I look forward to what you might have to share as your favorites but in the meantime and in no particular order, here are my top three listens of 2013.The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud
Narrator: Cassandra Campbell
Published by Random House Audio on 4/30/13
Genres: Literary Fiction
Format: Audiobook
How much success do you have when you venture outside your usual listening tastes? My reading habits this year altered somewhat and this book was partially to blame. I don't read a lot of literary fiction and after I finished The Woman Upstairs, I had to ask myself why. Beautiful use of language, pages and pages of highlight-worthy lines, complex characters, and intricate emotional dynamics can be found in this story of a woman who – like most of us already have or will do at some point – questions what she's done (or more importantly, hasn't done) with her life. The listener knows that the steps she takes to push beyond her quiet and secure life are bound to end in disaster but I could only watch in fascination as it all came together and then fell apart. Cassandra Campbell turned in an excellent performance with her narration of this audio and her delivery let me experience the content of this book very differently than I would have if I'd read it, to my clear benefit.
Thirteenth Child by Patricia C. Wrede
Series: Frontier Magic #1
Read by: Amanda Ronconi
Length: 9 hrs 30 mins
Published by Audible, Inc. on 6/5/13
Although I chose not to review this one on the site, it was one of my favorite 2013 listens. I'd read the book several years ago but was hesitant to try the audio for a re-read because I associate the narrator, Amanda Ronconi, so closely with Molly Harper's books. I consider Harper/Ronconi to be one of the best pairings in audio and I wasn't sure if her voice and delivery style could make the transition from goofy romantic snark to alternate-history frontier America YA. Foolish me – that's a narrator's job, after all.
This coming of age story uses the emotional impact of being unable to work magic and being thought of as an unlucky thirteenth child as stand-ins for the emotional uncertainties of adolescence. There's vivid and creative alternate-world-building where magical creatures occupy the American West – held back from the civilized territories by a magical barrier that follows the Mammoth river – and it's the ever expanding westward march of settlers that gives Francine "Eff" Rothmer a chance to shed her thirteenth child reputation and find out who she really is. Ronconi settles into the personalities, voices, and accents of a large cast of characters with ease and perfectly captures the sibling dynamics of the very large Rothmer family as well as all the emotional nuances of Eff's transition from insecure adolescent to mature adult. This is the first in an immersive audiobook trilogy.
The Sea of Tranquility by Katja Millay
Read by: Candace Thaxton, Kirby Heyborne
Length: 13 hrs 10 mins
Published by Simon & Schuster Audio on 6/4/13
Angst, trauma, drama, romance, high school, family conflict, fitting in… it sounds like a stereotypical YA book, right? This one stands out from the crowd in oh so many ways for me. The tragedy that drives the protagonist happens prior to the opening of the story and the listener witnesses both the slow unfolding of Nastya's past and how she deals with that damage in the present. Nothing happens quickly in this book: no insta-love, no magic boy or healing sex that makes everything better. It's a story with some pretty solid psychology in character motivations and actions and it's a slow process for both Nastya and Josh to work their way back to functional, let alone "normal." Despite that (or perhaps because of it) each scene still manages to contain enough character reveal or emotional tension to drive the story forward and engross the listener.
Kirby Heyborne gives Josh a (character appropriate) almost detached mien for much of the book which left me unprepared for the emotional impact of that mien shattering. Candace Thaxton wowed me with a conversational and intimate delivery that alternated between Nastya's brittle protective facade and glimpses of the fragile house of cards that was her coping mechanisms. The combined power of the story and the narration caught me by surprise and this one rounds out my top three listens of 2013.
If you're not participating in the blog hop, I'd love to hear about your favorite listens of the past year in the comments.
The blog hop hosts are giving away a six month Audible.com membership (entry form just below). In addition, I'll gift an audiobook of your choice to one random commenter on this post. The winner must be able to redeem a gift audiobook at either Audible.com or Audible.co.uk and will be drawn on 1/15/14 and notified via e-mail.
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I know the Academy is constantly struggling to keep their awards relevant but there seems to be a bit of cognitive dissonance between their Best Picture and Best Director categories. There are nine nominees for Best Picture and five for Best Director. Did the other four movies make themselves? Were they assembled by committee?
I have always felt that they shouldn't bother with a Best Director category – they should just give the Best Film Oscar to the director, not the production company that bankrolled him/her. If you bankroll a movie, your reward is that the movie is financially successful and/or connotes prestige. Anyway on to the nominees for Best Picture and Director (Best Director nominees are bolded):
Amour (Michael Haneke): It is always quite surprising when a foreign film gets nominated for Best Picture (and Best Director), especially when it only opened here on February 15th. That said it isn't likely to win since it is foreign. Also also it is quite grueling. This is one of the most honest depictions of love that I have ever seen and yet I have to warn you that it is not enjoyable. I often felt like Michael Haneke was punishing me for coming to his movie.
Argo (Ben Affleck): Here's where the cognitive dissonance really kicks in. Argo is nominated for Best Picture but Ben Affleck is not nominated for Best Director. Affleck has won Best Director for this film from BAFTA, the Broadcast Film Critics Association, Chicago Film Critics Association, Florida Film Critics, the Golden Globes and others and was nominated by the Directors Guild. Yet Affleck can't even score an Oscar nom.
Argo is an excellent motion picture. Affleck does a wonderful job of raising tension and interweaving scenes for a historical event where we already know the outcome. Yes, the climax of the film goes on a bit too long and goes well past reality into creative license but on the whole, this is an excellent suspenseful movie.
Beasts of the Southern Wild (Benh Zeitlin): This is the film I can't comment on since I won't be seeing it until Oscar Sunday. I would still think this a longshot and our pre-eminent local critic, Ken Hanke did not think much of it at all.
Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino): I loved Django Unchained, my wife didn't like it at all. We both felt it was very poorly edited and desperately needed about an hour trimmed off. Tarantino's dialogue, sly humor and visual style are in abundance here but I think it is considered too controversial to win. Note I write 'considered' as neither my wife nor I considered it to be controversial in spite of the overwhelming use of the 'N' word.
Les Miserables (Tom Hooper): My wife and I agree that this was not only a terrible Oscar pick but neither of us liked the movie. Not once did we tear up in spite of the endlessly depressing subject matter. The added song was not any good and appeared to be added for the sake of being nominated. Russell Crowe's performance was all over the map. I will admit that Anne Hathaway's performance was excellent BUT her five-minute character arc where she goes from being unemployed to selling her body, literally and figuratively, was so rapid as to be laughable.
Life of Pi (Ang Lee): I was unfortunate and missed Life of Pi. My loving wife and daughter went to see it and here is my wife's take:
"Life of Pi is one of the most beautiful films I saw last year. The colors are rich, sumptuous. The story follows a boy who is stranded at sea in a life boat with a tiger after the ship his family is on sinks during a voyage from India to America. The film feels longer than it is, but is so pretty to look at that I didn't mind. Great acting (in particular the actor who plays the older version of Pi is awesome), awesome editing, it's a strong film – but it's not the best film of the year (we already established that the best film fo the year is Cloud Atlas). Things to remember: there mostly isn't a real tiger, or other real animals, in this film – mostly they're all created from thin air (or massively powerful computers). To me that's the most awesome thing about Life of Pi – realizing how far movie special effects have come since The Incredible Mr. Limpett (or Them!)."
Lincoln (Steven Spielberg): An excellent examination of politics that really only suffers from being an examination of politics (i.e. lots of speeches and backroom deals but very little action). Acting is wonderful and yes, I think Daniel Day Lewis is a lock for Best Actor.
Silver Linings Playbook (David O. Russell) :This was a delightful view of life with psychological dysfunction covered in a romantic comedy wrapper. Jennifer Lawrence is not one of those zany girls with a lust for life, she is a young woman with real mental issues. Bradley Cooper is not the misunderstood hero, he too has real mental issues that clearly stem from his family. They even (marginally) address the age difference between the two of them.
Zero Dark Thirty (Kathryn Bigelow): I thoroughly enjoyed this balanced portrayal of our hunt for Bin Laden. The movie operates as a procedural – only two of the characters are developed in any significant way. I was very impressed with the opening 911 audio reports over a dark screen. Zero Dark Thirty of course suffers both from trying to tell an authentic story and from compressing a decade of events into a few hours.


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'Resampled' takes Stroboscopic Artefacts' Sampler Series and tangles it with reflexivity. Out of the Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Delta Samplers' original 16 tracks, 8 of the producers have remixed a track from the other 8 artists. The creative process goes inverse and the original cuts get chiseled into, sanded down or polished bright. Part 1 opens with Lucy's 'Twofold Remix' of Xhin's 'Arrival' where what starts out as 4/4 techno resolves into an experimental dew. Jonas Kopp's 'Argatian Remix' attacks the break-beat structure of Lagrange Point to the point where it could be an early Mole People release, this is Kopp as you have never heard him before. Hironori Takahashi's 'Medue' is pushed into deep ephemerality with Obtane's 'Puppetmachine Remix' taking it to a weightless, beat less place. Donor's 'Distress Remix' of Chevel's 'Trevisun' compresses the swung baselines to create a crackling background and with the force that comes to the fore it makes for a very pithy conclusion to Part One.
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She was at the centre of the bustling New York scene in the late 1960s and early 1970s. She was an ardent feminist who counted Germaine Greer among her closest friends. She was a trailblazing rock critic who made a name for herself by being unabashedly frank and forthright with her readers in describing the antics of Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground, the New York Dolls, Iggy Pop, and Andy Warhol. Her eponymous "Rock Encyclopaedia" remains a touchstone, brimming, as it is, with incisive bite-sized biographies. But she was also living an exhausting always-on lifestyle that she knew she couldn't maintain—and just like that, she was gone. Lillian Roxon, who died in 1973 from a severe asthma attack at age 41, was a pioneering music journalist whose charismatic, freewheeling style earned her a reputation to rival the best New Journalists in the business.
When her parents emigrated to Brisbane to escape fascist Italy in 1937, it was Lillian who suggested they anglicise their surname to fit in—their Jewish surname, Ropschitz, would have stuck out like a sore thumb, she figured. At the University of Sydney in the 1950s, she was swept up in the Sydney Push, a counterculture movement composed of a loose affiliation of young left-wing intellectuals. She began her career as a journalist in Australia writing for tabloids, but quickly developed an appetite for the hustle and bustle of New York, where she really made a name for herself writing dispatches for the Sydney Morning Herald and other papers, as well as chaperoning just about every Australian who visited the city. Max's Kansas City became a second (well, almost a first) home for her and her friends, including Greer, Iggy Pop, Alice Cooper, Lisa Robinson, and (Patti Smith's guitarist) Lenny Kaye—all of whom are interviewed in Paul Clarke's new film profile of Roxon and her era.
The documentary combines archival footage with interviews and readings of some of the many hundreds of letters Roxon wrote to friends and family, as well as narration of excerpts from her diaries. Roxon taped almost all her phone calls to friends and family, and selections from these tapes bring her, briefly, back to life.
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84. Owain Lawgoch (Owain of the Red Hand)
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1330 – 1378
Princely medieval adventurer who fought for France in the Hundred Years War.
There were two Princes of Wales fighting on opposite sides in mid 14th century France. One, better known to history as the Black Prince, was the official holder of the title. Some would have regarded the other as the true Prince of Wales.
Owain ap Thomas ap Rhodri was the great nephew of Llywelyn II and as such was directly descended from the Royal House of Gwynedd.
Owain was born on his father's estate in Surrey but, mindful perhaps of his inherited grievances, he went to France for military training and pledged allegiance to the French king . He surfaces in the contemporary writings of Jean Froissart as "Yvain de Galles" –de Galles in French literally meaning "of Wales".
In the opening decades of the Hundred Years War, the French had done most of the losing. The emergence of Owain as an adept and by all accounts flamboyant commander who had notched up successes in both France and Spain raised the exciting possibility of striking the English in their back yard.
During 1369,having been stripped of his lands in England, Owain declared himself Prince of Gwynedd and assembled a fleet at Harfleur with the intention of sailing for Wales. But the ships were split up in bad weather and the invasion was abandoned.
Having raised 300,000 francs from the French for a second attempt he tried again two years later. Again the weather turned against him and the fleet reached no further than the Channel Islands.
Some historians wonder whether Owain's invasion threats – which he continued to make over the following years – were merely designed to distract English attention.
In any event he was taken sufficiently seriously for the English to despatch an assassin – a Scot by the name of Jon Lamb. Having infiltrated Owains band of men, Lamb struck during the siege of Mortagne in 1378.
So ended not just the career of this colourful figure but also the entire line of Wales's most illustrious royal house.