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Oh geez I'm glad I got here on time(I hope). I started this on monday with some 8month old ada substrate and some new mr aqua. But I could tear it apart and start again if needed.
Will I be able to grow the hc with pps.pro x 4 and lots of co2?
There is to ramshorns and 4-5 juvenile RCS.
A heavily planted shrimp tank is possible!
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Have you done the visualization exercise yet? If you haven't, stop reading and immediately refer to post #1 and do it! If you have, then great! you're ready for me to move on to the next step, which starts with an important question:
"How do I start?"
How do you start out your planted aquarium optimally for success?
Most people understand that it is easier to start right the first time, rather than dealing with the problems that occur when you get off to a rocky start. You need to get the aquarium to stability and growth as quickly as possible. Master this skill and you will enjoy beautiful layouts, look over it, or ignore it, and your planted tank will be an emotional battle from day one.
STEP ONE: Bacteria
The most vulnerable time for your planted tank is when you first set up. We need to cycle the tank with beneficial bacteria, not only for the nitrogen cycle (ammonia), but also for synergistic bacteria which grow and thrive amongst plant roots.
These bacteria form a "micro-filter" in your aquarium that work for you to break down negative elements and create positive ones that help your plants grow with health and vigor and your fish to be healthier.
Action Step: the quicker you can provide this bacteria, the faster your aquarium is stable and the less chance for algae.
STEP TWO: Chemistry
Water balance (pH & kH) is critical. Neutral water has a pH of 7. Alkaline water is above 7, and acidic water is below 7. Too much acid and the plants will fry like an egg on a skillet, too much alkalinity and the plants will bleach out. The healthiest pH ranges for planted tanks is about 6.7-6.8 (slightly acidic).
On a less extreme example, higher kH and pH values (alkaline) makes it harder for plants to grow. Why? Imagine the mineral values in typically really high kH and pH water literally blocking the cells of plants, making it difficult for them to absorb nutrients, anything above 7.6 pH is usually harmful. A pH that is too low leads to plants burning themselves (browning out, etc) on the water. These values are typically between 5.8-6.2 (excepting in certain rarer plant conditions, I'm only talking about averages).
Action Step: the closer you can maintain your standard pH & kH values to a pH of 6.8 and kH of 2, the more effective co2 distribution and nutrient absorption will be!
Pro Secret: ignore pH values taken while co2 is in the aquarium: the lowering of pH from co2 does not have a harmful effect on the "real," pH. Don't worry if your co2 levels push your pH readings down into the "low" acidity ranges.
Health Reference: the human body's healthy pH is 7.35 to 7.45, even tiny variation outside of this requires the body to adjust the pH values (requiring more energy and making you less energetic). Even a minor change outside of this pH would result in death! It's a good thing our body works to regulate that pH just like our body temperature!
Health Tip: Most of the foods we eat are highly acidic. Stress also increases acid levels in the body. Eat more alkaline foods and you'll see a big boon in energy. Which foods are alkaline? Greens! Who knew there was a really good reason behind Mom complaining to make you eat more vegetables?
STEP THREE: Nutrients
It would be silly to think that plant's can't grow without nutrients. Just imagine how long you can live without food. The nutritional aspect for plants is largely covered by nutrient rich substrates such as Aqua Soil, which cover all of the essential macro nutrients required for plants to grow.
Later on, I'll show you what nutrients specifically are being provided, but in the mean time just know that Aqua Soil takes care of this for you without the need for you to worry about it. Of course, if you want to create your own substrate that will require more research.
Action Step: Investing in the best substrate system you can gives you the best advantages for success. Never short-change your substrate, because otherwise you will have long term issues.
Pro Secret: Pro's Cheat. Yes they CHEAT! They never go into a situation with a planted tank without making sure they have rigged the odds in their favor and neither should you.
Substrate system completed in the aquarium.The magic is below the substrate.
Make sure you continue to read every word, and next time I'll go underneath the soil into the setup of the substrate system so you can learn to cheat to win like the pros.
Fun Exercise: Look at an aquarium, now picture yourself shrinking and going deeper and deeper into the aquarium. The fish become larger, the plants become monolithic. You're still getting smaller, so small that you can't be seen without a microscope and visualize what you see: billions and trillions of other organisms the same size as you, working, growing and synergistic-ally processing elements. Imagine them lighting up in concert like electricity and steadily expanding to the exact needs of your planted tank. Watch them as they go through their life cycles: living, multiplying, dying. Recognize that this is the very foundation of your aquarium.
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For soil that age I recommend investing in Iron Bottom and Multi Bottom: inject these into your substrate and you'll super charge growth as if the soil was new.
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Will do, thanks!
-6dKh (after this test I lowered the bps in half, lol!)
A heavily planted shrimp tank is possible!
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Here's a little bonus for today:
For inspiration, I've attached an unexpected photograph. For Nature Aquarium, many people look to pictures like:
While this can of course work for inspiration, it's much better to equate Nature Aquarium to an extremely micro scale, I find my best inspiration in the weeds outside.
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Getting Started with the Substrate
Earlier I mentioned that professional's "cheat," and the first step towards cheating to stack the odds in your favor is having a killer substrate system.
If you refer to my previous major post, I went over a series of three steps towards starting out right with your planted aquarium. Step one: Bacteria & step two: Chemistry is the area where you will want to focus the most on when setting your substrate.
Of course, Step three: nutrients is wildly covered by Aqua Soil Amazonia, and doesn't need much to talk about: it really just is the work horse of growing plants.
Side Story: Awhile back I had a customer come in and ask about Amazonia, saying he wanted to give it a try. He had been using eco-complete and flourite for years and I told him a simple fact: "if you can grow plants in eco-complete and flourite well, you will be a god with aqua soil." Sure enough he showed me a few photographs of his plantings, and he could indeed grow plants quite well with eco-complete and flourite.
Sure enough he got some aqua soil, and for a while I hadn't heard back from him, and to be honest, had completely forgotten about him. Well, the other day he comes back and shares his enthusiastic results with Amazonia saying that the plants grew so fast that he was able to achieve in 3 months what took him 2 years to grow using the other substrates.
Alternatives to Aqua Soil: Hagen has recently released a new product, Fluval Substrate. Third party testimony says that it grows plants fairly well, however I have not had any first hand experience with this product and cannot honestly give a side by side comparison, though I'm sure others can.
Back to Basics: Starting the Substrate
Aqua Soil leaches a lot of acidity. If you refer to the previous post, you know the effects of excessive acidity: the plants are burned at the root. While aqua soil by itself does not provide enough acid to burn plants out, plants -do- wildly benefit by a way to neutralize the acidity at the root level.
Penac P & Penac W: Add three spoons of each
These two additives come in first, and they do precisely two things: neutralize the over-acidification of soil and rapidly oxygenate the water at the substrate level.
This means two things for you: plant roots grow easier and are more healthy and it means that the initial rapid oxygenation helps spurn bacterial growth immensely.
Adding Penac P (spoon comes included with all ADA additives):
Spread Penac P evenly against the bottom pane of glass:
On top of Penac P, add Penac W in the same way, and you'll have something that looks like this:
Tourmaline BC: add ten spoons
Referring back to Step 1, it's important we foster bacterial growth and longevity as quickly as possible to get the aquarium as stable as possible so we do not have to deal with major algae outbreaks.
The best way to think of Tourmaline BC is to think of it as a high purity carbon (which it's not, but it does a similar task) which purifies water and helps in the break down of toxicity, waste, etc.
Adding Tourmaline BC:
Now your Aquarium should look like this after 10 spoons of Tourmaline:
The importance of tourmaline is that it helps to break down the waste that builds up over time in the substrate and makes it harder for plant roots to grow.
Next up: Adding Power Sand
In Nano-aquaria, Power sand is not necessarily needed due to size, however in this case I want some heavy slope, so using power sand helps to stabilize the soil and slope for build up without break down.
However, normally what Power Sand does is serve as a "home" for the bacteria to thrive in: like biological filter media it provides a highly porous surface area which allows these bacteria to thrive. Meaning that when plant roots reach and attach to power sand their roots essentially become super charged!
Power Sand also contains peat, so it has extra nutritional additives to the aquarium, but again, Amazonia does the bulk of the work on this front.
Spread the Power Sand evenly across the bottom, and leave the front open to prevent power sand from being seen in the viewing panel:
Adding Bacter 100: The Bacteria - 3 spoons minimum, I used 10
Next up, Add Bacter 100. This is the dormant bacteria which will do all of the heavy lifting with promoting healthy roots through synergistic bacteria. It is not possible to over dose this additive.
Spread it evenly so that the Bacter will thrive in the Power Sand.
Bacter 100 spread evenly over power sand (you can also put this underneath power sand on the glass, either or works):
Another use for Bacter 100 is to eliminate cyano-bacteria should it appear in the tank, apply directly on top of it and it will eat it away.
Add Clear Super: 3 spoons, food for bacteria.
Clear Super is simply a food source for the bacteria. Until the aquarium becomes established we have to add a food source for them to grow and thrive, otherwise the bacteria will die off.
Add three spoons of Clear Super over Bacter 100:
The Completed Substrate system:
Last Steps: Adding Aqua Soil
For a nano aquarium we use powder type since it allows smaller plants to spread roots easier as well as to keep the perspective in the Nano aquarium properly in place.
Afterwards, use a tool, such as Sand Flattener to smooth out the substrate and keep the substrate line straight in the front.
Do the Additives really do anything?
The key to long term healthy plants is root health. The additives precisely promote this type of growth and health. For comparison sake here are two examples of two aquariums with and without additives and their roots.
These aquariums have been up for the same amount of time, same dosing, same lighting, same core products (aqua soil), while not an exact one for one, it's a broad illustration that you can evaluate for yourself the differences (it's more about the overall picture here) :
With no additives (please forgive the reflection, lots of light in the room!) :
Take note of the root growth and cyano bacteria in substrate:
Blyxa and Rotala Stems:
Now, with additives:
Hair Grass (note, hair grass has pretty insane root growth regardless, pay more attention to the overall substrate 'health') :
Exercise: Read over this post a few times, take notes if you'd like, and share what you're working on or if you're starting an aquarium and would like to follow play-by-play link back here!
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Wow this almost comes off condescending.
Btw your "with additives" "without additives" pictures are a joke, you showed a part of a tank with what looked like hc and a part that may have had no plants and compared it to a tank that obviously has a hair grass carpet...
Those plants behave so differently you can't even compare them.
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i don't know what it is about this lay out, but this REALLY feels like i'm staring at a mountain. something about the slopes, and the flatness of the smaller rocks... perfect
i find it difficult to visualize with the rocks i have.. haha not an easy task
i think this is my 3rd time im going to try to rescape my tank now. looking forward to the rest of the post
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I really like the look of the powder and realize now that I should have gone with the powder in my cube, but don't want to rip it all out again. The powder does fit better with the smaller tanks/scapes.
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A week before Easter, eight people gathered in Susan Sumara's Pomfret home. They'd come together, in a room adorned with a makeshift altar, plastic forsythia blooms and a plate of pastel cupcakes, to observe a major holiday of their religion.
By necessity, the ritual melded the mystical with the practical. The spring equinox had fallen on March 20, a Wednesday. Because that was inconvenient for working people, the group waited until Sunday to celebrate the pagan holiday of Ostara, which some authorities assert, and others deny, originally gave Easter its name.
Once everyone was settled, Sumara, 44, opened the ceremony with a minute of silent meditation. The group then faced each of the cardinal directions in turn, invoking an associated element — Earth, Air, Fire or Water — with a specific prayer, followed by "Hail and welcome!"
Sumara lit the two pillar candles on the altar, representing God and Goddess, and lit a small candle from them. The worshippers, each with a candle of her own, conducted the fire from person to person until the seven women and one man all held a flame.
"The circle is cast," Sumara announced, the sacred space created. "Blessed be."
"Blessed be," the others replied.
The gathering reflected Sumara's preference for informality: She'd eschewed the title high priestess, and the worshippers wore street clothes. Two cats and two dogs wandered in and out of the circle in search of affection.
Sumara passed sunflower seeds around the circle. Shelled ones were to be eaten with the hope of acquiring some spiritual blessing, like tranquility, while those still in their hulls should be taken home and planted. Desires in the physical realm, as for money or fertility, could be fulfilled as the plants grew, she explained. A few dropped seeds were eaten by the dogs.
Those who chose to had a chance to share what they'd wished for. Sumara asked for joy. Katy Evans of Waldorf, a cybersecurity expert, described suddenly appreciating the beauty of new daffodils in her garden, and wondered what would happen, ritually, if the seeds she had pocketed "go through the laundry. I know that's what will happen to mine."
People laughed.
"I need help remembering I can't control everything. There's no use stressing over something I can't control," said Erica Klonkowski, 34, of King George, Va., referring to furloughs looming for government workers.
Religion as a solitary pursuit
Gatherings like that one are the exception, not the rule, for many practitioners of Wicca, a 20th-century revival of polytheism, and other modern forms of paganism. By choice or necessity, neopaganism is often a private affair. Many websites devoted to witchcraft discuss "solitary Wicca," where worshippers pray and perform rituals alone. Even if pagans are so inclined, there may not be like-minded people nearby to pray with.
Evans, a Wiccan for eight years, valued the "fellowship" at Ostara, she said, "because I can do my religion anywhere. There's a lot of solitaries out there. What keeps me in the group is the fellowship and friendship, the religious energy and the sense of rightness."
A Colonial Beach, Va., Wiccan man described driving for hours to a meeting, only to find himself incompatible with the people there. Worse, when he began worshipping Celtic gods in 2005, his father disowned him. They haven't spoken since. But he has no regrets, said Ash, who gave only his spiritual name because he feared for his wife's job if the couple acknowledges their religion.
Even if relatives are tolerant, a pagan is often the only one in her family. Also among Sumara's guests was a La Plata farmer, 38, who was born into one old Southern Maryland family and married into another, she said. Her husband and stepchildren are Catholic, and she had promised her mother she wouldn't embarrass her kin by publicly acknowledging her belief in the Norse pantheon, the deities worshipped in Scandinavia before Christianity triumphed there about 1,000 years ago.
She sometimes wears a pendant of Thor's famous hammer, a replica of an adornment found at a Swedish archaeological site. But if an older person asks about her unusual necklace, she describes it as an "anchor," she said. Her particular form of paganism is called Asatru, Old Norse for "faith in the gods," and seeks to reconstruct Norse beliefs and social mores. The faith enjoins respect for elders, which encourages her to conceal her beliefs to avoid upsetting elderly Christians, she said.
Acknowledging her religion hasn't always gone well. At an office job, she said, Christian coworkers ostracized her as evil, even accusing her of supernaturally causing their computers to crash, she recalled.
Sumara, an accountant, hadn't suffered like that, but she doesn't flaunt her religion either. She keeps a discreet altar at work, which "just looks like a bookshelf with a bunch of knickknacks and a little fountain," she said. She'd heard stories about open pagans being fired or losing custody of children, and didn't want to draw too much attention to herself.
"We call it 'living in the broom closet,'" she said, an allusion to the literal meaning of the word Wicca, the Old English term for a sorcerer or witch. "We all live in the broom closet for a certain amount of time, and then, little by little, you open up as you feel comfortable. But I don't go around wearing a pentagram or crystals. I don't make a big deal about it. While some people do. They say, 'Take me as I am.' And that's awesome. I wish I could be like that, but it's not my path," she said.
At the same time, Wicca's tolerance for self-direction also makes it a "very big tent," allowing a person to worship Greek gods, a Great Goddess or nothing in particular, and still be embraced, Sumara said.
One generally solitary pagan is Debbie Frye, 52, of White Plains, an "eclectic" practitioner of shamanism and Celtic beliefs. Her chief Irish deities are Morrigu, goddess of battle; Cernunnos, a horned god; and Brighid, goddess of fire.
"But Guanyin," a female embodiment of mercy in Buddhism, "speaks to me, too," Frye said, as do Freyr and Freya, brother-and-sister Norse deities. She also seeks the sacred in the prosaic.
"I'm actually pretty much of a lazy witch. I don't perform a lot of rituals. To me, a really easy ritual is taking a shower. You have everything there and it's a very cleansing thing: You can wash off all negativity when you're doing it. You can light a candle [for fire]. You've got your Earth surrounding you, you've got water, you've got air if you turn the fan on. You've got all those things surrounding you. Ritual doesn't have to be something really formal to me, because you're communing with spirit," she said.
Finding fellowship
Paganism can be as formal or informal as practitioners choose to make it. In Leonardtown, members of The Circle of Amber Rose have opted to practice Wicca together, formalizing rituals to mark the eight yearly "sabbats," or major holidays. The circle contains six separate "covens" totaling between 65 and 70 members in Southern Maryland and Baltimore, said Chuck Nameth of Leonardtown, high priest of member coven Fire's Spirit.
The circle has roots in Dianic Wicca, a feminist form invented in the 1960s and '70s, and in Gardnerian Wicca, the religion as outlined in the 1950s and '60s by Englishman Gerald Gardner, who is generally considered to have founded the religion, said Nameth, 52.
Part of Wicca's value is its ability to accommodate the beliefs of people who "don't fit in somewhere else," without forcing anyone to conform, said Nameth, who also uses the spiritual name Lord TimberHart.
Those who believe in a literal Thor or Brighid can also explore Taoist precepts and worship comfortably with people like himself, who believes "there's something I don't understand out there," without assigning it a name or sex.
"It doesn't matter. You're just as right as I am. I think that atmosphere allows people to be more open, more truthful. You don't have to fear what your impressions are," Nameth said.
In the reckoning of The Circle of Amber Rose, anyone who successfully completes a 366-day novitiate is able to perform his own rituals and be his own priest, Nameth said. But as high priest responsible for a coven of 13, Nameth finds himself with the same responsibilities as a cleric of any other religion. He has officiated at eight weddings, 11 funerals and five "quickenings" — a rough equivalent of baptism.
"Now it's about giving back. You're going to have people call you at 2 in the morning because their dog died, their husband yelled at them or they're sick," Nameth said.
As the religion matures and becomes more accepted, The Circle of Amber Rose also is finding ways to adapt to its more mainstream composition.
"When I first joined the coven 15 years ago, there were 38 females and five guys, and two of [the men] were heterosexual," Nameth recalled. Now the sex ratio is about three women per two men, and "about 50 percent of our members are families with kids."
Lady Sionnach, 30, converted her parents to Wicca without even trying. The high priestess of Harvest Dance coven, who is Rachel Emerson of Lusby in secular life, converted to Wicca as a teenager after befriending "the Goth girl in school."
Her parents didn't interfere, except to make sure she was safe.
"My mom was a bit concerned. She supported me in finding my own path, but Wicca, witchcraft, tends to have a bad rap. She'd sit with me, discuss what's going on, make sure I wasn't being asked to do blood sacrifices or get nude in front of a bunch of strangers. I explained, 'No, it's about love and honoring the cycles of nature,'" Emerson recalled.
Eventually, her fears assuaged, her mother started going with her. Her father was "apathetic," she said.
"After I joined the Navy, my mom sent me an email: 'You won't believe it! Your father attended a moon ritual,'" Emerson said. "It's really strange. We started off as Pentecostal and ended up Wiccan."
The sacred feminine
Without a central infrastructure, the size and demographics of the neopagan movements are difficult to assess. But Southern Maryland adherents agreed that paganism is more popular among women than men, something possibly to be attributed to male domination of Western monotheism, starting with a male God.
Of the 32 "elders" listed on the Amber Rose website, eight are "lord" and the rest are "lady."
Emerson theorized that "patriarchal religion … really suppresses the female a lot, so they might feel the need to leave," accounting for the disparity. "Men aren't really suppressed in Christianity or the Muslim religions. I don't know if it might be that women are more in tune spiritually or not — I don't want to make that judgment, but I do have much more experience with females in the path."
The perception of Wicca as a peculiarly female religion can influence the hostility of outsiders, as well. Emerson denounced Tucker Carlson of Fox News, who in February said a Wiccan is "either a compulsive, deep Dungeons and Dragons player, or is a middle-aged, twice-divorced older woman living in a rural area who works as a midwife," according to media accounts. He later apologized in the face of a pagan outcry.
"I don't have any cats. I do love the smell of incense, I have to admit. I don't play Dungeons and Dragons," Emerson said. "I'm a proud former member of the military, practicing [Wicca] with my family. I've been doing this for 15 years, and I've never been divorced."
Return to the native
Many local neopagans focus on ancient European pantheons and practices abandoned after the rise of Christianity. But alternative spirituality can also incorporate New Age and reputedly American Indian beliefs, including alternative healing practices and a general reverence for nature.
At the Joy Lane Healing Center in Hollywood, which promotes nature-based spirituality and alternative medicine, director Carol Marcy performs a tobacco peace pipe ceremony at every full moon. Anyone may attend.
The ceremony, which Marcy, a psychologist, said originated with the Lakota Sioux American Indian tribe, is "basically a ceremony of prayers, a ceremony of gratitude, recognizing what we've been given, giving thanks for what we have," illustrating an old story about the dangers of selfishness and re-enacting the tribe's deliverance from starvation.
The tobacco is mixed with seven sacred herbs, including sweetgrass, sage and cedar. A pinch is offered to each of the four cardinal directions before participants share the pipe, Marcy said. She also performs new moon ceremonies, dedicated to meditation, which are not American Indian in origin, and has recently focused on a Celtic calendar of trees.
Marcy's full moon ceremony inspired Xina Raley, 49, of Mechanicsville, who hosts a similar ceremony for women on a convenient evening near the new moon. The "New Moon Hoop" attracts women of all religions, said Raley, an ordained minister from the Ministry of Light Interfaith Church.
Raley draws from many religious traditions, including paganism, Raley said. Wiccan women attend the hoop.
"I think the inclusivity of it is what attracts" them to the ceremony, she said. "The fact that they can be so completely welcomed in a safe environment in which to express what they are. Unfortunately, even though we're in 2013, it's still very much not known. People are very much afraid of what being Wicca is. People think it's a witch. … Being Wiccan is not like that. I remember when I discovered I was pagan: All that pagan means is that you put your faith, your belief, your spirituality, in nature. Nature does include a supreme being, a god. Wiccans have more beliefs, more gods that they believe in and work with. But their core value is that anything that they say or do, any of their actions, is going to come back to them tenfold. They're not going to say or do anything mean because it's going to come back 10 times more, or worse. To me, there's a great beauty in it," Raley said.
Raley also practices shamanism, which is "in a Native American style or tradition," although most modern people, not raised within a tribe, will have to learn the practice for themselves, she said. That experience was familiar to Ingrid Swann, 66, of Leonardtown, who "sort of fumbled and bumbled with some of the things that I've known and that I've learned," inspired in part by her study of mystical literature.
The core of shamanism is an inner psychic journey garnering spiritual truths, both women said, one where "you're very much in tune with nature, in tune with spiritual healing, in tune with trees and plants, and with how everything is connected. It just popped onto me from one day to the next many years ago: I realized that everything is sentient, not just animals and people, but furniture, but plants, weather. Everything — everything — is influenced by our observation of it as well as our emotions," Swann said.
But there are those among American Indians who want outsiders to leave alone everything associated with Native religion, unless they're specifically invited in.
An American Indian ceremony has no meaning outside a tribal context, said Al Carroll, a member of New Age Frauds and Plastic Shamans, a group organized online that opposes non-Native use of American Indian rituals.
"The whole idea of the ceremony is to bring the community together. It's not about making the individual feel good, which you see a lot of [among] New Age people and in the pagan community as well," said Carroll, who teaches history at Northern Virginia Community College and said he is a Mescalero Apache.
NAFPS supports pagans honoring their own ancestral religions, and Carroll sympathized with "feminist desires to have a more feminist religion. That's understandable; Christianity has a terrible record of its treatment of women. But a lot of times, they end up falling for something that's made up. The best way you know it's made up is if someone is out there peddling it," he said.
Use of Native ceremonies demonstrates a cavalier attitude that wouldn't be tolerated if shown to more popular religions, Carroll said, likening it to a gentile declaring himself a rabbi.
"What harm is there going around, claiming to be Jewish, performing your own circumcisions? Besides the obvious physical danger, how bizarre is it that you would want to engage in this racial role playing? And there can be a racist aspect to it. You want to role play as another ethnic group," he said.
While American Indian religion neither seeks nor accepts converts, there are times when an outsider's participation is appropriate, Carroll said. After the Vietnam War, some American Indian veterans invited war buddies to participate in ceremonies intended to relieve trauma, he said. Likewise, a Shoshone elder used to offer prayers at anti-nuclear demonstrations in Nevada. But non-Indians shouldn't intrude in these practices unless asked, he said.
Marcy had heard these criticisms but said any serious student of Native traditions deserves respect, especially as Native Americans are losing their own heritage.
"I feel like it's a very touchy subject," she said. "One thing I would say is, there are a lot of Native Americans that are so out of touch with their roots. That's a problem, too. I studied for a long time, did [sweat lodges] every weekend for years. I learned from the Good Medicine Society, a Cherokee organization. I spent a lot — a lot — of years learning as best I could. I'm very much someone who honors the Earth, believes in a lot of what they believe in, yet I don't blame them. A lot of people just play around with it, play Indian and don't take the time to learn. I can completely understand where they're coming from. We've stolen everything else from them. I try to be very respectful."
If nothing else, comparing Wicca to American Indian spirituality can help people who have never encountered a religion based on nature to comprehend it, Evans said.
"I'm out of the broom closet. They tease me [at work]. I just joke about it. I tell them I'm going to ride my broom home. It's easiest to explain to people when you use American Indians as a reference. … I take a little bit from everything. I guess [my religion] can't be found in any book," she said.


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To the world it is known simply as Borneo. It's the third biggest island in the world and home to the famous gentle man of the forest—the orangutan. To Indonesians, it is Kalimantan—the Indonesian part which makes up the majority of the island's land area. The rest of the island is diffused into Sabah and Sarawak, the provinces of Malaysian Borneo, as well as the Sultanate of Brunei. Last year I visited these parts of Borneo, but wanted to...
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Recently I visited orangutans at Camp Leakey that runs by Orangutan Foundation International (OFI). The long history and inspirational work of OFI touched all of us. I wanted to share the photos of amazing orangutans. It's hard not to appreciate them while watching how they...
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|Worlds of Archaeology & Indigenous Archaeologies
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Worlds of Archaeology
Series Editors: Alejandro Haber and Heather Burke
The aim of the Worlds of Archaeology Series is to use the global diversity of archaeology to access new, disparate and challenging ways of imagining the past. If there is only one world archaeology, then there is only one canon. This constructs a false homogeneity, which limits the imagination. World archaeology is not well represented when it is translated into this straightjacket. One of the major aims of this series is to communicate the lived experiences of archaeology in different parts of the world. Not only are there many different geographical and political worlds, but there are as many different ways of imagining archaeology as there are cultural experiences of it. The incredible regional diversity inherent in WAC is linked to different conceptual ways of imagining the past and the many social roles that are fulfilled by the practice of archaeology. These social, cultural and political kaleidoscopes are ultimately personal, producing ever-changing patterns of interaction and interpretation. This series will explore the relationships between the multiplicity of archaeological practices and perspectives and the many ways in which the world is experienced. The challenge for this series is to transpose these differences in lived experiences into the written form.
This series is explicitly devoted to foregrounding many different voices, including those from formerly silenced parts of the world, and making them available in a way which has never before been realised. By simultaneously integrating and connecting these voices within and between countries it also reaches across many divides: not only across geographical, cultural and academic boundaries, but also across theoretical and methodological divides. The issues that will be addressed are therefore fundamental to archaeological theory and practice in all parts of the world.
It is sometimes the case that Western representations of world archaeology seem to be a mapping of colonial ties, with the material interpreted through the lens of British or American eyes, rather than through the eyes of the archaeologists who are from the countries being studied and who have to live with the social consequences of their work. A comparable process occurs within countries, as internal colonialism, where archaeologists return to the cities after they have conducted their fieldwork in remote areas. Thus, one focus of this series is the context within which knowledge is produced. The concern is not only with who is speaking but also with how the author's perspectives are constructed through colonialism and the particular cultural experience of being an archaeologist in that place at that time. Moving beyond the straightjacket of hegemonic discourse has the potential to expand the archaeological imagination and the relevance of archaeology to the contemporary world.
Editorial policies, too, are mapped within these post-colonial relationships. A fundamental problem with how archaeology is disseminated globally concerns the manner in which audiences and themes are constructed. Both are part of the framework of those who write, deriving from a relatively narrow band within Western academia, and those who read. This is self-feeding cycle, considering that the pedagogical discourses depend on these same editorial policies. This process masks the many regional strengths that exist in archaeology across the world. This series aims to reverse this process by highlighting and promoting regional theoretical and methodological strengths. The issues that will be addressed are fundamental to archaeological theory and practice worldwide.
The principal innovation of this series is that it is consciously structured to facilitate dialogue and critical exchange both within and between countries. Volume editors and authors will be encouraged to structure their books so that they reflect the global diversity of WAC, not only in content but also in style and format. Papers can be submitted in the first language of the author, but the final versions will be published in English. Where possible co-publication will be arranged in other languages. We encourage people to write in their own intellectual traditions and literary styles, rather than work within the straightjacket of the Western canon.
This series draws upon work conducted in all parts of the world. Royalties from these books are donated to the World Archaeological Congress, to support the travel of people from economically disadvantaged communities or countries to WAC conferences. The pricing structure of this series is designed to enable a substantial quantity of the print run to be distributed free of charge to libraries and other public institutions in low income countries.
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Colonial Contact Zones: The archaeology of an Australian mission
Jane Lydon, PhD, Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies
From their inception Australia's colonial administrations attempted to confine Indigenous people within Christian farming villages. A humanitarian framework determined how the missions were popularly perceived, then and now: as brave 'experiments' during the 1860s, or later as homes for a dying race, and more recently as either refuges that saved Aboriginal people from extinction, or else the instrument of dispossession and child removal.
Through collaborative research with the Indigenous community at the former Ebenezer Mission, north-west Victoria, this study moves away from framing the missions as either 'good' or 'bad', a perspective that marginalizes the agency of Indigenous peoples, and exaggerates the homogeneity of white managers. Instead, conceptualizing former Aboriginal reserves as 'contact zones' shifts our attention to the complex cross-cultural engagement that was played out at these places, often landscapes rich with Indigenous meaning. Archaeological perspectives on these key colonial sites reveals the limits of evangelists' active propagandizing, as well as the actual difficulties they encountered on the ground. Gender organization and the domestic spaces constructed within the reserves emerge as crucial spaces of encounter. Colonial Contact Zones draws on new visual and material sources to explore the process of exchange between Indigenous people and the missionaries that came to Australia during the nineteenth century.
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Surface Collection: Archaeological Travels in Southeast Asia
Denis Byrne, PhD Cultural Heritage Division
Ethnographies of Archaeological PracticeCultural Encounters, Material Transformations
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This book challenges the conventional outward-looking direction of the anthropological and archaeological gaze. In order to fully understand forms of cultural production in the past we also need to investigate - through turning the ethnographic perspective back onto ourselves - how knowledge of the past is produced by archaeologists in the present.
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How does a field that once considered cassette tapes and transcripts "high tech" transition into the 21st century? The collection and preservation of oral history is changing, and it is the goal of a team from Michigan State University (MSU) to define how oral history can not only survive in today's digital, networked, and multimedia-rich world, but thrive.
The idea for the "Oral History in the Digital Age" project was born out of MATRIX, a humanities computing center at MSU devoted to the application of new technologies for teaching, research, and outreach. The concept was a natural outgrowth of the center's activities, which include maintaining online resources and creating forums for knowledge exchange. According to MATRIX Director Dean Rehberger, "We've had a longstanding interest in oral history and the spoken word."
Indeed, MATRIX houses major digital library repositories, such as the African Online Digital Library; Detroit Public Television's American Black Journal video archives; Historical Voices, a searchable online database of spoken word collections spanning the 20th century; and The Quilt Index. MATRIX is home to everything from a major Studs Terkel collection to a collection of oral narratives in African languages that are disappearing.
MATRIX faculty member and research professor Steve Cohen came up with the idea for the project, which was to marshal resources and combine expertise to advance seven core issues for oral history in the digital age: intellectual property, transcriptions, digital video, technology, scholarship, preservation, and access/interfaces. When identifying these core issues, "We realized we had to think along the whole chain, from collecting to curating to disseminating," says Rehberger. "We had to include legal and copyright issues."
A veritable dream team of top experts in fields such as information studies, audio preservation, law, history, and communicative sciences was amassed to oversee collaborative working groups in each of the seven areas. Dr. Doug Boyd, Director of the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky, handled the day-to-day management of the project.
One of the five stated goals of the effort was to develop standards for video-based oral histories. "We had a good grasp on what to do with audio – those standards were set," says Rehberger. "The video standards, however, are really up in the air. We wanted to address this problem from the technical side, and develop the best practices for video."
In the past, continues Rehberger, "The transcript was always king. You did a transcription and then threw away the original video. Digital recording has changed that. Now, video recording has become easier."
While the transition into a digital world has brought new affordability, flexibility, and accessibility to the field, it has also brought fresh challenges. Questions arise about the use of digital video, the need for unified standards of practice, and intellectual property rights. Technical challenges also remain. "How can we get the people who make video histories follow certain standards so that their work can be better used by archives, museums, and other end users?" says Rehberger, articulating a question that drove the project. "Can we make the product better on the front end so it's more useful on the back end?"
The "Oral History in the Digital Age" website (http://ohda.matrix.msu.edu) is part of the answer. This centerpiece of the project is home to more than 70 "micro-essays" by experts in the field that cover topics ranging from selecting video equipment and achieving good audio recording levels to intellectual property issues and oral history podcasts. Rehberger's goal with the micro-essays is to create a repository of information that constantly grows and changes. "The technology just keeps moving on us, so we're encouraging our contributors to edit their essays as needed," he says. "This is a resource that Doug and I are committed to keeping updated. This is not by any means the final product."
A highlight of the website is the "Thinking Big" video series, which features videos of leading voices in digital oral history and digital media. Automatic Speech Recognition, field recording in the digital age, and oral history and emerging technologies are just some of the timely topics discussed.
"We shifted some of our funding to do the videos," explains Rehberger. "It wasn't part of the original grant, but we got permission from IMLS to do it."
The site also features case studies on collecting, curating and disseminating, an interactive "Ask Doug" feature (starring Doug Boyd) that helps visitors find the right equipment for a project, a helpful glossary, and numerous other resources that address nearly every aspect of preserving oral history in the digital age. Website content intentionally covers not just oral history but oral narrative, because "a folklorist and an oral historian think about the whole process in different ways," explains Rehberger.
As for developing a set of best practices for oral histories in video form, that goal is still evolving. "It would have been nice to have come out and said, 'here's the final answer,'" says Rehberger. "But life is more complex than that."
Beyond the website, there will be a special issue of The Oral History Review, the official publication of the Oral History Association. A social media blitz and promotion on H-Net – the international scholarly networking community hosted by MATRIX – will happen during the website's official launch and again in September, when university communities start to hum again.
"We're also thinking about doing an e-book for people who want to teach about oral history in the digital age as part of a curriculum," says Rehberger.
The response to the project has been overwhelmingly positive. "For the Heritage Preservation Association we did a webinar reprise of our WebWise presentation, 'Digital Voices: Preserving Oral History Collections,'" says Rehberger. "A turnout of 40 is great for these webinars, and 60 is a lot. We had 130 people sign on! So far, the feedback's been really positive."
Rehberger applauds the "great people" from the project's partners, whose contributions were invaluable. In addition to MATRIX, partners include the Michigan State University Museum, the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, the American Folklore Society, and the Oral History Association.
"The IMLS support has been fantastic," adds Rehberger. "The nice thing about IMLS is they don't just say, 'here's the money, go do your thing.' They support you along the way."
For Rehberger, however, the best part of the project is working with oral historians and folklorists. "They are the nicest people you'll ever meet," he says.


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Sixty-eight years ago, Kermit Davis was a strapping youth, 5-foot-10 and 145 pounds. Drafted as an 18-year-old high school senior, Uncle Sam deferred his induction until June.
A few days after graduation he reported for duty at the processing center where he encountered three lines — one for the Navy, one for the Army and one for the Marines. Because Kermit wanted to be in the Navy with his older brother, he stepped into the Navy line, but immediately a Marine sergeant sizing up his natural confidence and athleticism redirected him to the Marine line.
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That was the beginning, June 1944. After six weeks of basic training at Paris Island and a few more at Camp Pendleton, Kermit and a thousand other boys shipped to the Pacific, landing on Guam as replacements for the 3rd Division.
By the time he arrived in Guam, the Americans had secured the island. The bloody fighting was over. Obata had committed ritual suicide. Yet on other islands the war continued to rage.
In early February he and his fellow war-weary I Company, 3rd Battalion, 9th Regiment Marines boarded the Leedstown — destination Iwo Jima. Kermit had never heard of it. The generals expected Iwo to fall within three days. Kermit arrived on Day 3 and fought until the end of what became a brutal, 32-day campaign.
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Thinking they were going to the rear for a rest, at daybreak they were horrified to discover during the darkness they had passed through Japanese lines and were now surrounded by a tank regiment — trapped in what became known as Cushman's Pocket.
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He remembers freezing rain, volcanic sands hot enough to warm his buried can of C rations, the stench of sulfur and bodies, the sinister feeling of not knowing whether your enemy was in front of you or below you.
He remembers lying on the ground with his gun, watching and then cheering as the flag was raised on Mount Suribachi, never comprehending the significance of the scene until much later when he saw a copy of Time magazine.
And then it was over. The 20-year-old soldier returned to the shores of liberty with shrapnel wounds, a bottle of black sand and the knowledge that only by the divine Hand of Providence was he spared.
Now he was home. Finally home. The most beautiful word in the English language: home!
Like so many others of the Greatest Generation, without adulation, Kermit Davis resumed his civilian life – completed college, married his sweetheart, raised a family, taught history, coached football.
"Our debt to the heroic men and valiant women in the service of our country can never be repaid. They have earned our undying gratitude. America will never forget their sacrifices." (President Harry Truman)
Beginning with 252 men in I Company, Kermit was one of only 16 who remained almost unharmed after the Iwo campaign.


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The picture of the three men on the winner's podium after the Men's 200m final at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics is still considered one of the most powerful images of modern history. Almost forgotten in the ensuing years is the seemingly quiet and composed man in the left of the picture, the Australian silver medallist Peter Norman.
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|Cheesecakes Around The World
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No, cheesecake was not created in New York even though the New York style cheesecake variety is what usually comes to mind when one thinks of cheesecake. As the old saying goes "all roads lead to Rome", and that is where the Romans took their adaptation of cheesecake when they conquered the ancient Greeks. All of the cheesecake credit goes to the Greeks who knew a good thing and considered it a cake – the earliest attested mention of a cheesecake is by the Greek physician Aegimus, who wrote a book on the art of making cheesecakes.
Of course, the modern version of cheesecake does not resemble what the ancient Greeks and Romans prepared. That credit goes to James Kraft, who in 1912 developed a form of pasteurized cream cheese and trademarked the Philadelphia Cream Cheese brand in 1928, which is now the most commonly used cheese in cheesecake recipes.
Cheesecake knows no language barrier or ethnicity. It is the dessert heard around the world. Each county has its own "signature" ingredient that makes the cheesecake distinctly their own. Here are a few examples of Cheesecakes Around the World:
Brazil & Argentina
United Kingdom
New York, USA
Cheesecake can be served topped with fruit, chocolate ganache, marbled with chocolate, swirled with raspberries or crumbled Oreo cookies; it can be made flavored; it can be smothered with berry sauces, served with whipped cream or it can be left in its natural state and served unadorned. Either way, it is a global dessert favorite and a dessert of choice for the holiday of Shavuot.
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Sergio Perez is delighted to have ended his and Force India's podium drought after finishing third in Bahrain.
In an ironic twist, Perez left Sauber for McLaren for the 2013 season hoping to challenge for race victories, but he didn't finish on the podium once during his 12-month stint at Woking and was then dropped in favour of Kevin Magnussen.
However, it has taken him just three races with Force India to return to the top three as he finished on the podium for the first time since Italy 2012 while it is also Force India's best result since 2009 when Giancarlo Fisichella finished second in Belgium.
"It has been a while since my last podium, it is very special for me. It is only my third race with the team but a very good one," the Mexican said.
Perez performed brilliantly throughout the weekend and qualified fifth fastest, but he started fourth following a penalty to Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo. He was then involved in a tough battle with his team-mate Nico Hulkenberg throughout Sunday's race.
The deployment of the Safety Car late in the race also meant he had to work hard until the chequered flag.
"Nico had newer tyres than I did, but the stops made a massive difference," he said. "I had to jump him back and overtake a Williams. It was a really enjoyable race, just like karting days.
"When I got to the finish line it was a great feeling. To be able to qualify fourth and straightaway be able to fight for the podium was a great feeling and an amazing podium."
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CAPSULE REPORT: A product developed for the poor becomes an American staple becomes a specialty food. Read about peanut butter, or PB as it is affectionately called: history, trends, health benefits, and some brands to look into. This is Page 1 of a three-page article. Click on the black links below to visit other pages.
Ask yourself this question: is it really the case that Americans want innumerable choices for even the most everyday grocery item, or is it merely that there's always someone who thinks he can somehow outdo products already on the shelves? Is it a matter of scenting potential profit, one of exercising creativity, or one of altruism, showing people that there's a better product of this type to be had?
Probably, there are elements of all of those in the correct answer. If you're wondering where peanut butter fits into this equation, perhaps you aren't aware that the staple food item can have so many possibilities.
Peanuts have been around for a long time. They were known as early as circa 950 B.C.E.; it is acknowledged that the ancient Incas consumed peanuts and made a paste-like substance from them. The first commercial crop in the U.S. was grown in the early or mid 1840s.
George Washington Carver is often credited with inventing peanut butter: the scientist developed 105 recipes using peanuts and more 100 nonfood products from cosmetics to dyes, paints and fuel. Carver's intent was to enable poor farmers to grow alternative crops like peanuts, as a source of their own food and as a base for other products that would improve their quality of life.
But it is not clear who made the first commercial peanut butter. Some sources attribute this "invention" to Dr. Ambrose Straub, a St. Louis physician, who created it in 1880, crushing peanuts into a high-protein paste for his patients who couldn't chew. George A. Bayle, a friend of the doctor, owned a food processing plant and soon started making this "nut butter" commercially. The product gained popularity later that year at the Chicago World's Fair.
By the beginning of the First World War, a number of companies were making peanut butter; by World War II the inexpensive and shelf-stable product became part of the soldiers' rations, along with jelly. Guess what: The GIs combined the two with their crackers and created the first PB&Js. Back home, with meat rationed, it was also consumed as a good source of protein.
These days, according to the website of one of the industry giants, American consumption of peanut butter is roughly six pounds per household annually, or 570 million pounds (and a lot of sandwiches!) per year. Over three-quarters of American households buy peanut butter. Americans spend about eight hundred million dollars a year on it; we're the number-one consumers, but peanut butter is also popular in Canada, the Netherlands, parts of the U.K., Germany and Saudi Arabia.
And some consumers are deciding that what's omitted is as important as what might be added. A quick survey of shelves will show peanut butters with honey, with added vitamins and minerals, striped with grape jelly or chocolate, whipped, and reduced in fat, sugar or sodium. And those are just examples found in one better chain grocery store. Natural food stores and the internet offer much greater depth for those who wish to expand their peanut butter horizons.
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- The Atlantic Sun Conference released its 2010 preseason women's basketball polls Wednesday afternoon, and the ETSU women's basketball team were picked second by both the coaches and media. Meanwhile, senior point guard
Tara Davis
(Murfreesboro, Tenn.) was one of five unanimous selections to the preseason All-Atlantic Sun Team.
The Lady Bucs are coming off their best season in program history after posting a 23-win campaign; while winning the A-Sun regular season crown for the second time in the last three seasons, and capturing their third straight tournament title.
ETSU returns nine letterwinners from last season's squad that nearly pulled off the upset at Xavier in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, including senior leaders Davis and fifth-year post player
Latisha Belcher
(Martinsville, Va.). However, despite returning nine players, ETSU lost its top three scorers in co-players of the year
Siarre Evans
(Griffin, Ga.) and
TaRonda Wiles
(Danville, Va.) to graduation and
Tarita Gordon
(Wichita, Kan.) to a preseason injury. To fill the void, the Lady Buccaneer coaching staff put in long hours on the recruiting circuit and reloaded the team with some youthful talent for the 2010-11 season.
In the polls, Florida Gulf Coast was picked first in both, totaling 234 points by the media and 104 by the coaches (seven first-place votes). The Lady Bucs and USC Upstate both landed a pair of first-place nods by the league coaches; however, ETSU edged out the Spartans by one vote - 101 to 100. Meanwhile, in the media poll, both the Lady Bucs and Spartans were tied for second with 221 votes. North Florida, last year's tournament runner-up, received 84 votes to place fourth by the coaches; while both Belmont and Campbell were tied for fifth with 71 votes apiece. Belmont was tabbed fourth (155 votes) by the media and UNF capped off the top five with 137 selections.
"I really don't put too much thought into preseason polls, but we can use this to motivate the players by letting them know they need to work harder in order to be the best," commented head coach
Karen Kemp
. "Personally, I believe we were picked higher than I thought we should be, because there are some teams that should be ranked above us."
Joining Davis with unanimous selections on the all-conference team were Belmont's Hayley Nelson, North Florida's Brittany Kirkland, Florida Gulf Coast's Shannon Murphy and USC Upstate's Chelsea McMillan. McMillan was also named Preseason Player of the Year.
"I am happy to see Tara receive preseason all-conference accolades, because she works hard each time she steps out on the floor," added Kemp. "T.D. has been the spark plug for our team over the last couple years, and we are going to rely on her leadership this season."
The Lady Bucs open the 2010-11 season with an exhibition game against Tusculum on Monday, Nov. 1. Tip is set for 7 p.m. inside the ETSU/MSHA Athletic Center.
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African Violets are stunning tropical plants whose flowers resemble violets in color and shape. Their cheerful flowers perched just above a neat rosette of dark-green, fuzzy leaves may bloom constantly throughout the year.
There are thousands of cultivars, which provide a palette of flower colors that include lavenders, blues, pinks, reds, and white. Some blooms combine two or more colors and may be single or double. The leaves are either smooth or wavy and sometimes are variegated. In addition to standard varieties, there are miniature African violets and trailing forms that can be grown in hanging pots.
Beginning growers sometimes have trouble getting African violets to flower. This is because the plants are really fussy about growing conditions.
- For maximum blooms, they demand ten to 14 hours of bright but indirect light per day and an eight-hour rest period in darkness.
- West- or south-facing windows offer the best light in winter, and windows that look north or east are preferred in summer.
- African violets thrive best with daytime temperatures between 70° and 80° F and nighttime temperatures near 65° F.
- Avoid overwatering; water just enough so that the soil is uniformly moist but not saturated. Use tepid or room temperature water; cold water can damage the root system and will cause spotting if spilled on leaves.
- Too little or too much fertilizer can result in a lack of blossoms. Use an African violet food to ensure the right proportions of nutrients. Experienced growers use a diluted solution of fertilizer with each watering.
African violets need to be repotted about once a year, but they can be persnickety about this, too. They prefer to be a bit potbound, so use a new pot that is only slightly larger than the old one. Remove about one-third of the old soil and replace it with a commercial African violet potting mix. Make sure that the crown of the plant is just above the soil line. Water thoroughly and the job is complete.
African violets really are easy to grow as long as you care for them on their own terms. When rewarded with a windowsill full of beautiful, blooming plants, you'll know that they were certainly worth all of the fuss.


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Last spring, at the annual Met Costume Institute gala in New York City, Justin Timberlake showed up on the red carpet with two standout accessories—his girlfriend, Jessica Biel, and a pair of striking black readers that were as geeky as they were chic.
The pop crooner isn't the first guy to profit from the dark-rimmed spectacles, which, when perched on the right nose, can add bookish good looks like no other item. They're what 007 would use if he had to quickly transform into a professor of French philosophy. But it takes more than a fake degree to make them work.
Study your face. If you have a big nose, a brooding forehead, thick hair, or any other feature that could be described as "rugged," you're in safe territory. Just be sure to stick with square frames—round or rectangular are much more difficult to pull off. If, on the other hand, you have a double chin, a fragile nose, or only a suggestion of cheekbones, go directly home to those tortoiseshell rims you have in your desk drawer. And remember, if someone notices your frames before noticing you, that's tantamount to a sartorial black eye.


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To the Limit (1989)
To The Limit is a film about the human body. Premiering in 1989, the film marked the first collaboration of NOVA and the Museum Film Network, a consortium of 14 international science museums. The film focuses on human performance through the stories of three athletes: rock climber Tony Yaniro, downhill skier Maria Walliser, ballerina Nina Ananiashvili, and track and field athlete Carl Lewis. Innovative microscopic photography shows how their bodies respond to their quest for a personal best.
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Therapy dogs are lending their time to help Bond Mill Elementary students bone up on their reading skills.
Now in its 10th year, Laurel-based nonprofit dog training organization Fidos for Freedom's Dogs Educating and Assisting Readers program has provided struggling third- through fifth-grade students the opportunity to read to therapy dogs.
Officials at the Laurel school said the experience has helped improve reading test scores.
"I really like reading to him," third-grader Tiami Foster said on April 11 of her reading companion, therapy dog Riley, a golden retriever. "He just lays down and listens to me read."
Fourth-grader Kai Dagadu said he finds it easier to read to dogs. His listener for the day was Toby, a "labradoodle" or Labrador retriever/poodle mix.
"It's fun reading to them," Dagadu said.
Reading specialist and program coordinator Annette Mosier said for 2011-12, the first year she began tracking students, reading scores for third-graders participating in the DEAR program improved 28 percent while reading scores for fourth-graders improved 26 percent, based on their test scores on computer-based benchmark tests used to assess students' reading and comprehension skills.
"The children are benefitting and I know we will continue to see growth from these students in reading because of this positive and unique reading program," Mosier said.
Judy Stevens, DEAR volunteer program coordinator for Fidos for Freedom and Toby's owner, said dogs must complete temperament and obedience testing, and must continue training twice a month to retain their certification.
Small and large dogs of any breed can become service dogs, as long as they can complete the training, Stevens said.
The dog handlers, all volunteers, must undergo two hours of training and observation on two therapy visits, and those going to Bond Mill must pass a background check with the county police, Stevens said.
Mosier said students are selected for the program based on previous year reading scores, as well as those needing extra reading support or learning English as a second language.
Students generally read to the same dog each week, but read to other dogs if 'their' dog isn't available, Mosier said.
She said the program is especially helpful for those students who are uncomfortable reading aloud to other people.
"It's a non-threatening environment, reading to the dog, because the dog is not going to correct them or judge them," she said. "The kids really enjoy the interactions with the dogs. It's also nice to see students who are wary of the dogs become more comfortable with them over time."
Justin Fitzgerald, in his ninth year as principal of Bond Mill Elementary School, said the program has been a great benefit to the students.
"The program participants are eager to read to their dogs each Thursday. That same excitement has carried over into reading experiences in the classroom and at home," said Fitzgerald, adding that partnering with community organizations such as Fidos for Freedom helps to strengthen community ties and improve educational outcomes.
Stevens said the program is a great opportunity to give back to the community.
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I was originally going the build a jib crane in my back yard for loading and unloading my welder from my truck but now I am thinking gantry crane instead.
Here's my problem it has to be able to be moved on my lawn and in 2 directions if that makes sense. I don't know exactly how much weight it needs to carry. I was thinking 1 ton would be about right but that might be over kill for what i need. My welder weighs 595lb dry and I am going to be building a skid with tool boxes and the usual stuff so I'm not sure on what the final weight will be.
back to my problem. What to I use for casters that can hold the weight and be able to roll on lawn it doesn't have to roll loaded juts to move it out of the way when not in use and into position to use it.
Does anyone have any ideas or pictures od any gantry crane that aren't rolling on cement? All I have so far is a big S-beam that I picked up at auction years ago so I am open to any and all ideas.
If I didn't give enough info just tell me what you need to know and I am happy to post it.
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Gantry Crane HelpHobart Mega Arc 5040DD (with built in air compressor)
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There are only 2 tools needed in a tool box. 1) Duct tape to fix any thing that moves that isn't supposed to. 2) WD40 to fix anything that doesn't move but should.
Northern got alot of wheels,Also check out grainger or MSC.BB402D
Put 4 spindles on it and some small car or trailer tires. My dad had a few of them when i was a kid rolling around our place. Myself and my buddies used to roll them all over the yard. Think of an A frame swingset with wheels and a connecting bar between the legs at the bottom of the A...BobBob Wright, Grandson of Tee Nee Boat Trailer Founder
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Hello Mega Arc 5040DD,
You have a neighbor (c wagner) right in your town who can probably give you lots of guidance.
I am a yankee from Philadelphia who spent a week up in your country about 25 years ago at Key Lake mines so I have fond memories of Saskatoon.
I worked with our sales rep for 3 weeks back then and visited Lloydminster, Moose Jaw, Kerrobert, Rosetown, Kindersley, Regina and PA among many other towns so I truly got the cook's tour.
I would look into small inflated tires like those on golf carts as a start.
Maybe use several like the double axles on trucks for a bigger footprint.
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There are only 2 tools needed in a tool box. 1) Duct tape to fix any thing that moves that isn't supposed to. 2) WD40 to fix anything that doesn't move but should.
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to turn it, you just push one side
but you will not be able to move from side to side
i didnt put wheels on mine. i made it like a sled from C-channel turning just the tip up on the ends.
slides easy with two people (not so easy by my self tho)
my dad had made a tripod from 3 15' 2x3x.125 that had a flat plate at the top and were pined to it and then about 3' down was chained together he had a chainfall hooked in the center and i have seen him pick up a lot more then your trying to pick up
was hard to carry but didnt take up much room when not in need
hope this helps
My local "U Pull R Parts" junk yard has 2 gantries they made for people to use to pull engines. They each have 4 space saver spares as the wheels (they used car spindle bearing assemblies). I am not sure what they used for the bearing assembly for swiveling the wheels but all 4 wheels swivel just like swivel casters and are kicked back like they do for casters. These work great and roll over all kinds of crap.
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Car front spindles (strut type) with the top of the strut tipped to 10-15 degrees will give you lots of caster. You can eliminate the strut it just needs a bearing top and bottom to rotate on.
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I built a small auto engine puller based on a Cavalier rear axle. My son rolled his car and we had to replace the axle. The axle is a fabrication and the spindles bolt onto an upright strut. The spindles have four bolt holes and could be used elsewhere. I sectioned the axle to narrow it then welded on a piece of three inch pipe about five feet high for the upright. The boom is made out of five and four inch sqauare tube with the smaller inside and a pin that runs through it with various holes to adjust the length. I used 2x4 tube for the legs and the local offshore tool store had a 36 inch long bottle jack for about $70. This has come in very handy for lifting and positioning heavy items. The boom, jack, and legs are removable so that it easy to transport. After a little scrounging the only parts I bought were the pins, jack and legs. I tried to use schedule 80, 1 1/4 pipe for the legs but it was not stiff enough. The 1/4 x 2 x 4 tube is the way to go.
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Welder crane
I have a Western Mule Bumper Crane that i mounted in place of my trucks existing bumper. It works best for me because now I can take the welder in and out of the truck whenever/wherever I need to.
Mine has the optional vise mount, which is convienent.
AND it folds away into the bumper when i dont need it... couldn't ask for more.
I don't have any pics of my own truck, but heres one I pulled from their website... Western Mule truck cranes