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Missouri teachers inch forward in pay, according to NEA's Rankings and Estimates
Even with the slight increase, teachers in the Show-Me state lag behind the national average by more than $10,000.
May 18, 2017
NEA's annual publication, Rankings and Estimates, which details the financial expenditures, revenue, enrollment numbers, and average teacher salaries for public schools in each state was released this week. You can download the full report from the NEA website at
Enrollment and Attendance
The report shows that U.S. public school student enrollment and attendance continues to gradually rise (0.3 percent from 2015 to 2016), while the number of classroom teachers is running slightly behind (0.2 percent).
Missouri ranks 19th in the nation for student fall enrollment numbers (2015, 886,480 students). Decreasing slightly in 2016 to 885,142 students. Missouri also ranks high on average daily attendance numbers, 18th in the nation (2016 849,740 ADA). Missouri's number of high school graduates rose 1.3 percent in 2016, which pushed the Show-Me state from 18th to 16th in the nation. Graduate numbers are expected to fall 3.1 percent from 61,401 to 59,513 in 2017, which may be correlated to the decrease in student enrollment, which is expected to decrease again (-0.2 %) to 883,757.
Classroom Teachers
There were 3.1 million teachers working in public schools in the United States during 2015‒16. Missouri employs 72,727 of those teachers, ranking 13th in the nation. Missouri will see a rise (2.8%) in the number of teachers in 2017, up to 74,788.
Missouri is also doing a good job of keeping the students per teacher at acceptable levels 12.2 students per classroom teacher, which falls under the national average of 15.9.
Teacher Salary
The national average public school teacher salary for 2015–16 was $58,353. State average teacher salaries ranged from those in New York ($79,152), California ($77,179), and Massachusetts ($76,981) at the high end to South Dakota ($42,025) and Mississippi ($42,744) at the lower end. The average U.S. classroom teacher salary is estimated to increase by 1.0 percent from $58,353 in 2015-16 to $58,950 in 2016-17.
In a year where salary increases were flat in many states, Missouri showed a small 1.1 percent increase from 2015 ($47,423) to 2016 ($47,957), moving from 43rd to 40th in the nation, but still lagging behind the national average by more than $10,000. In 2017, Missouri teachers are expecting to inch up again 0.7 percent to wages averaging $48,293.
Over the decade, the national average classroom teacher salary has increased 15.2 percent. But after inflation adjustment, the average salary actually has decreased by $1,823 or 3.0 percent
School Revenue
Nationally, school funding continues to be state oriented. In both 2014-15 and 2015‒16, 45.8 percent of public school revenue came from state funds, closely followed by local receipts (45.1% then 45.3%). Federal funds constituted 9.0 percent and 8.9 percent, respectively, of K-12 education revenue, totaling $12,596 per student in 2015 and $12,682 in 2016.
In comparison, Missouri ranks 4th in the nation on revenue received from local sources (2015, 58.7% and 2016, 58.2%); ranks 47th in the nation on state revenue for public schools (2015, 32.3% and 2016, 32.7%); and right at the national average for revenue received from the federal government (2015, 9.0% and 2016, 9.1%). Missouri's overall revenue per student decreased from $12,284 in 2015 to $11,955 in 2016, dropping to 30th in the U.S. for public school revenue per student.
In 2017, Missouri will see a seven percent drop in federal funds, and with education budget cuts announced in the nation's budget this week, 2018 is sure to see a reduction as well.
Expenditures per Student
The national average per student expenditure in 2015–16 fall enrollment was $11,787. States with the highest per student expenditures: Vermont ($23,557), New York ($21,606), the District of Columbia ($21,297). Idaho ($6,538), Utah ($6,843), Indiana ($7,538), and Arizona ($7,566) had the lowest per student expenditures. Expenditures per student in fall enrollment should increase nationally by 1.7 percent to $11,984 in 2016‒17.
Missouri falls a little below center, ranking 27th with 2016 expenditures per student at $10,689.
Over the last decade, the average per student expenditure has risen by $2,244, or 23 percent from $9,740 to $11,984. After inflation adjustment, the expenditure per student in enrollment has increased by $414, or 3.6 percent.
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Rishanda Richardson, MNEA Electronic Communications and Research Coordinator
Excerpts from NEA Research 2016-2017 rankings & Estimates Highlights, May 2017
Posted Date: 5/18/2017


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Science and the Safety of GMOs – Dr. V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai, Neil Young and Gov. Shumlin (VT)
YouTube | July 22, 2015
Dr. V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai, the Inventor of Email, spoke at a joint press conference that was held with the legendary rock star, Neil Young and Peter Shumlin, Governor of VT. The press conference addressed the dangers of GMO foods and the importance of the need to make GM labeling mandatory. Dr. V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai was invited to the press conference to explain how a new study, led by him and published in the peer-reviewed journal AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES applies modern computational systems biology methods to reveal that GMOs create significant disruption to the levels of formaldehyde, a known carcinogen, and glutathione, an important anti-oxidant necessary for cellular detoxification. We bring to you a video clip of the press conference.
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After selecting a tool, don't resize partitions immediately, I suggest you open SBS 2008 Disk Management and find out the disk partition layout. Note, no partitioning utility is able to extend system c drive by taking free space from another single disk.
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Digital Marketing Manager, Waltham Abbey -
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As Alex Jones said once, "The answer to 1984 is 1776."
His reference was to the George Orwell book, 1984 and the ever present Big Brother and the 1776 reference was to the American Constitution written in 1776.
His reference has weight and relevance in the American context, but in the wider global content the quote should be "The answer to 1984 is 1215." With 1215 being the signing of the Magna Carta, a far more ground breaking document that was a framework for the American Constitution written more than 500 years later. It should not come as a surprise that David Rubinstein, a lawyer and founder of equity firm the Carlyle Group, just bought a copy of the Magna Carta for $21 million dollars. He is a key player in the Bilderberg Group. Its a slap in the face of freedom.
Which will it be, Liberty or Freedom? How many will give up their Liberty for Freedom? Make your choice.
As Edmund Burke said, "The people never give up their liberties, but under some delusion."
How much longer will you be deluded?


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The Spitfire AA810 project has announced a new partnership with Kennet Aviation to provide CAA A8-23/25 oversight for the restoration to flight of a Spitfire PR.IV (example shown above).
As previously reported, Spitfire AA810, flown by Alastair "Sandy" Gunn of 1 PRU RAF, departed RAF Wick in Scotland for a photo reconnaissance mission to Trondheim, Norway on March 5, 1942. During the flight, Gunn was forced to bail out after being shot down by two Messerschmitts of Jagdgruppe Losigkeit near Surnadal. Gunn became a POW and took part in The Great Escape in 1944, but sadly was recaptured and executed.
The remains of the Spitfire were recovered in July, with "some 70% of the aircraft" remaining intact. It is now receiving a full restoration to airworthy status and will reportedly incorporate a significant amount of original material. Plans also call for a few unsuitable elements of the aircraft to be used in various memorials.
According to the recent announcement, some outsourced work will be carried out by third parties, however the project will be completed and flown from Kennet's Old Warden facility. AA810 is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2022 with a first flight for early in 2023. Ongoing maintenance support post first flight will also be carried out by Kennet Aviation.
Check out the full announcement below.
The AA810 project is pleased to announce that it has partnered with Kennet Aviation to provide CAA A8-23/25 oversight…
Posted by Spitfire AA810 – Restoring Sandy's Spitfire on Saturday, December 1, 2018
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Academic Medicine
Affiliated organization: Association of American Medical Colleges
Peer-Reviewed: Yes
Summary: Policy and conceptual work fit well here as well as large research studies (multi-institutional). Innovations with strong evaluations. The RIME supplement is a great venue for all other theory driven, high quality, discovery research or reviews.
Description from Journal Website: The journal serves as an international forum for the exchange of ideas, information, and strategies to address the major challenges facing the academic medicine community as it strives to carry out its missions in the public interest. The journal's areas of focus include: education and training issues; health and science policy; institutional policy, management, and values; research practice; and clinical practice in academic settings. It also accepts case studies of education initiatives (see April 2010 for guidelines) and published an editorial of how to get your innovations published (August 2008).
Advances in Health Sciences Education
Instructions for authors (to the right of the main screen)
Affiliated Organization: n/a
Peer-Reviewed: Yes
Summary: Audience is mostly scientists and professional researchers - theory driven, theory testing work. Big R research. Highly competitive.
Description from Journal Website: AHSE is a forum for scholarly and state-of-the art research into all aspects of health sciences education. It will publish empirical studies as well as discussions of theoretical issues and practical implications. The primary focus of the Journal is linking theory to practice, thus priority will be given to papers that have a sound theoretical basis and strong methodology. The Journal will accept articles on topics such as admissions, problem-based and self-directed learning, faculty development, achievement testing, motivation, curriculum development, curricular comparisons, program evaluation, expertise development, clinical reasoning, continuing education, community-based education, and communication skills. All rigorous methodologies, both quantitative and qualitative, are encouraged. It is aimed at all those committed to the improvement of health professions education: researchers and educators in the fields of medicine, nursing, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, nutrition and related disciplines.
AMEE MedEdPublish
Affiliated organization: The Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE)
Peer-Reviewed: Yes
Open Access Publication Fee: £90 per paper charged to non-members of AMEE
Description from Journal Website: An open-access e-journal designed to help members of the medical and health professions education community to publish their work and receive reviews and comments from experts and peers. Papers are published rapidly after a "light touch" screening to ensure they meet minimum standards. The peer review process starts following publication, with reviews from the panel of reviewers and the health professions education community more widely.
AMEE MedEdPublish invites the submission of papers addressing any theme of relevance to healthcare professionals' education. These can include: Original articles, New Research, Replication of previous studies, Study with negative findings, Pilot Study, Case study, New education methods, Practical tips and guidelines, Personal view and opinion pieces, Systematic review, Review of books, papers, reports and resources, Commentary, Letter.
BMC Medical Education
Affiliated Organization: n/a
Open Access Publication Fee: A fee to non-members of $2145 for each article accepted for publication.
Description from Journal Website: BMC Medical Education is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles in relation to the training of healthcare professionals, including undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing education. The journal has a special focus on curriculum development, evaluations of performance, assessment of training needs and evidence-based medicine.
The BMJ
Affiliated organization: Association for the Study of Medical Education (ASME)
Peer-Reviewed: Yes
Open Access Publication Fee: Charges £3000 upon acceptance.
Summary: Prioritizes large random control trials. Highly competitive. Audience is clinicians and researchers with a mandate to improve outcomes for patients. Stories sometimes take up by the UK popular press. Accepts only 7% of submissions.
Description from Journal Website: The BMJ (formerly the British Medical Journal) is an international peer reviewed medical journal and a fully online first publication. The website is updated daily with original articles, podcasts, videos, and blogs and organised into four main content streams—research, education, news and views, and campaigns. In addition, the site is fully searchable, with an archive back to 1840 and numerous topic collections on clinical and non-clinical subjects. Articles of relevance to specific countries and regions are grouped together on country portals. Original research is published in full on thebmj.com, with open access and no limits on word counts. Our mission is to lead the debate on health and to engage, inform, and stimulate doctors, researchers, and other health professionals in ways that will improve outcomes for patients. We aim to help doctors make better decisions. To achieve these aims we publish original research articles, review and educational articles, news, letters, investigative journalism, and articles commenting on the clinical, scientific, social, political, and economic factors affecting health. We are delighted to consider articles for publication from doctors and others, and from anywhere in the world.
Canadian Medical Education Journal
Affiliated Organization: n/a
Peer-Reviewed: Yes
Summary: Small studies resident projects fit well here. It is a growing journal that accepts many formats in both research and innovation. Moderately competitive.
Description from Journal Website: The Canadian Medical Education Journal is an online, open-access peer-reviewed journal exploring new developments and perspectives in the field of medical education from premedical to postgraduate and continuing medical education. It examines the quantitative and qualitative aspects of prominent issues relating to the education, training and maintenance of health care professionals. Furthermore, it provides a forum for discussion specific to the challenges faced by medical educators, especially in Canada but also internationally. The target audience includes medical education researchers, practitioners and professionals, universities and their trainees. Only manuscripts that have not been published in, or submitted to, other journals will be considered.
Canadian Family Physician
Affiliated organization: The College of Family Physicians of Canada
Peer-Reviewed: Yes
Description from Journal Website: Our mission is to ensure that practitioners, researchers, educators and policy makers are informed on current issues and in touch with the latest thinking in the discipline of family medicine; to serve family physicians in all types of practice in every part of Canada in both official languages; to advance the continuing development of family medicine as a discipline; and to contribute to the ongoing improvement of patient care. CFP includes clinical practice articles that are a practical, hands-on, how-to, what's-new of FM, a commentary section and a research section featuring original Canadian research that advances our understanding of the practice of family medicine. There is also a specific section dedicated to Teaching Moments.
Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ)
Affiliated organization: Canadian Medical Association
Peer-Reviewed: Yes
Description from Journal Website: CMAJ is an international general medical journal that seeks to publish, in print and electronic form, "medical knowledge that matters." We publish original research, reviews, analyses, practice articles, guidelines, commentaries, medical news, letters and editorials. Our authors may come from any discipline, but our main audience comprises medical professionals. Accepted articles are published at cmaj.ca, which is the journal of record as used by PubMed and other indexers. We curate some articles for our print editions, received by subscribers and members of the Canadian Medical Association, which owns CMAJ.
The Clinical Teacher
Affiliated organization: Association for the Study of Medical Education (ASME)
Peer-Reviewed: Yes
Summary: Shorter pieces focused on innovation or small evaluations. This is not a journal for theory driven work. Moderately competitive.
Description from Journal Website: The Clinical Teacher is an online journal for clinicians who teach and people who are involved in education in a health care setting. It provides easy access to the latest research, practice and thinking in clinical education across the health professions, presented in a readable, stimulating and practical style. There are sections on specific teaching approaches, reports and evaluation of innovative learning activities, a digest of the latest research published in Medical Education and other relevant journals, reports of innovative thinking and advances in clinical teaching from around the world, and expert commentary and discussion on challenging and controversial issues in today's clinical education. The international editorial team behind The Clinical Teacher is acutely aware of the demands on clinicians' time. All papers are concise, and focus on the topics that matter. They are reviewed and edited to high standards by a strong technical and clinically orientated international editorial board to ensure that clinical teachers are provided with easily assimilated and up-to-date information. Clinical teachers are renowned for the passion they bring to their work. The Clinical Teacher aims to support that work, and to help share the passion with colleagues internationally.
Evaluation of the Health Science Professions
Affiliated Organization: n/a
Peer-Reviewed: Yes
Summary: Assessment work across the spectrum of education would fit well. Well validated questionnaire or survey work may be a good fit.
Description from Journal Website: Provides health-related professionals with state-of-the-art methodological, measurement, and statistical tools for conceptualizing the etiology of health promotion and problems, and developing, implementing, and evaluating health programs, teaching and training services, and products that pertain to a myriad of health dimensions. It is designed to provide a forum for keeping health professionals abreast of the latest technological advances in evaluation research methods through practitioner friendly articles, as well as provide the results of important evaluations. Further, the Journal is designed to provide a forum for debate of timely evaluation issues in health research and evaluation. Most recently Evaluation & the Health Professions has dedicated itself to issues related to translation research.
Family Medicine
Affiliated organization: Society of Teachers of Family Medicine
Peer-Reviewed: Yes
Description from Journal Website: The journal publishes original research, systematic reviews, narrative essays, and policy analyses relevant to the discipline of family medicine, particularly focusing on primary care medical education, health workforce policy, and health services research. We seek to be a forum for peer-reviewed scholarship regarding how to create a workforce to provide cost effective care to populations of people. Manuscripts published in Family Medicine fall into five general categories: (1) Original Articles, (2) Brief Reports, (3) Narrative Essays (4) Letters to the Editor, and (5) Book and Media Reviews. Family Medicine does not publish clinical review articles.
International Journal of Medical Education
Open Access Publication Fee: No
Peer-Reviewed: Yes
Description from Journal Website: IJME is an international, peer reviewed, open-access journal aimed at promoting the nature and scope of the knowledge that is directly relevant to all domains of medical education and practice. The aims of IJME are very flexible and cover the whole range of education and training in medical and clinical education and allied health education and medical sciences, including dentistry, nursing, midwifery and physiotherapy. This includes but is not limited to: Curriculum Planning and Development (Basic Medical Education, Graduate Medical Education), Curriculum Themes, Continuing Professional Development, Pedagogic Practice, Learning Situations, Simulation-Based Medical Education, Communication Skills, Assessment, Student Selection, Development of Medical Education Research, Clinical Decision-Making, Internationalization of Medical Education, Medical Education and Leadership, and Evaluation Research.
Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions
Affiliated organizations: The Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Professions, the Association for Hospital Medical Education, and the Society for Academic Continuing Medical Education
Peer-Reviewed: Yes
Description from Journal Website: The Journal of Continuing Education is a quarterly journal publishing articles relevant to theory, practice, and policy development for continuing education in the health sciences. The journal presents original research and essays on subjects involving the lifelong learning of professionals, with a focus on continuous quality improvement, competency assessment, and knowledge translation. It provides thoughtful advice to those who develop, conduct, and evaluate continuing education programs. Issues contain: Original Research,
Journal of Graduate Medical Education
Affiliated organization: Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education
Peer-Reviewed: Yes
Description from Journal Website: JGME disseminates scholarship and promotes critical inquiry to inform and engage the graduate medical education community to improve the quality of graduate medical education. The journal is devoted to original research, educational innovations, review articles, and commentaries about graduate medical education and related matters relevant to the education of residents and fellows and to the settings in which such education occurs. The Journal also publishes perspectives, brief reports, letters to the editor, personal essays on teaching, and invited guest editorials.
Medical Education
Affiliated Organization: Association for the Study of Medical Education (ASME)
Peer-Reviewed: Yes
Summary: The premier education research journal for medical education. Theory driven work would fit well as well as more applied work that has very strong methods and evaluation. Innovation reports are rare through the "Really Good Stuff" is a possible venue for short pieces. Highly competitive.
Description from Journal Website: Medical Education is an international peer-reviewed, journal with distribution to readers in more than 80 countries. The journal seeks to enhance its position as the pre-eminent journal in the field of education for health care professionals and aims to publish material of the highest quality reflecting worldwide or provocative issues and perspectives. The contents will be of interest to learners, teachers and researchers. It aims to have a significant impact on scholarship in medical education and, ultimately, on the quality of health care by prioritising papers that offer a fundamental advance in understanding of educationally relevant issues. The journal welcomes papers on any aspect of health professional education. Sections include: original research, review articles, cross-cutting edge, "really good stuff", commentaries, "when I say", and letters.
Medical Education Online
Affiliated organization: n/a
Open Access Publication fee: USD $1500 for up to 8 pages
Peer-Reviewed: Yes
Description from Journal Website: Medical Education Online is a peer-reviewed international Open Access journal for disseminating information on the education and training of physicians and other health care professionals. It was launched in 1996 as the first ever freely available online journal in the field of medical education and has since then grown to become a highly regarded source of information in this area. MEO publishes Editorials, Original articles, Review articles, Letters to the Editor, and Book reviews.
Medical Science Educator
Affiliated organization: International Association of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE)
Peer-Reviewed: Yes
Description from Journal Website: A peer-reviewed source for current information on scholarly activities, opinion, research and resources in medical science education. Presents the latest scholarly activities, opinions and resources in modern medical science education. Covers basic science education, clinical teaching and incorporation of new educational technologies. This journal publishes articles which focus on teaching the sciences that are fundamental to modern medicine and health. Coverage includes basic science education, clinical teaching and the incorporation of modern educational technologies.
Medical Teacher
Affiliated organization: Association for Medical Education in Europe
Peer-Reviewed: Yes
Summary: A journal with an applied focus: innovations, applied research and evaluation. This is a highly competitive journal with some specialty sections already over-subscribed.
Description from Journal Website: Medical Teacher addresses the needs of teachers and administrators throughout the world involved in training for the health professions. This includes courses at basic and post-basic levels as well as the increasingly important area of continuing education. Medical Teacher provides accounts of new teaching methods, guidance on structuring courses and assessing achievement, and serves as a forum for communication between medical teachers and those involved in general education. In particular, the journal recognises the problems teachers have in keeping up-to-date with the developments in educational methods that lead to more effective teaching and learning at a time when the content of the curriculum, from medical procedures to policy changes in health care provision, is also changing. The journal features reports of innovation and research in medical education, case studies, survey articles, practical guidelines, reviews of current literature and book reviews.
Perspectives on Medical Education
Affiliated organization: Netherlands Association for Medical Education
Open Access Publication Fee: No
Summary: This is a growing journal that is moderately competitive. Research is a better fit than innovation or intervention reports. It hosts both theory and applied work (similar to Medical Education) but has a wider range of publishing venues. International work is valued.
Description from Journal Website: Perspectives on Medical Education aims to provide an international platform for innovation and research in health professions education. The readers of the Journal are clinical and preclinical health care professionals, educationalists, policy makers, students and other professionals with an interest in health professions education. It invites the following types of submissions: Original Articles, Review Articles, Eye Openers, Replication Studies, Show and Tell, PhD Report, Health Care and the Arts, Debate in Medical Education, Letters.
PRIMER (Peer-Reviewed Reports in Medical Education Research)
Affiliated organization: Society of Teachers of Family Medicine
Open Access Publication Fee: No
Description from Journal Website: PRiMER is an open access scholarly journal that publishes original research briefs relevant to education in family medicine and closely related areas. As a companion to other STFM journals, PRiMER is focused on medical education and health workforce policy. PRiMER fills a gap between the presentation of research results at conferences and the development of full-length articles that would be suitable for submission to traditional print journals, such as Family Medicine.
Teaching and Learning in Medicine
Affiliated organization: Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
Peer-Reviewed: Yes
Description from Journal Website: An international, forum for scholarship on teaching and learning in the health professions. Its international scope reflects the common challenge faced by all medical educators: fostering the development of capable, well-rounded, and continuous learners prepared to practice in a complex, high-stakes, and ever-changing clinical environment. TLM's contributors and readership comprise behavioral scientists and health care practitioners, signaling the value of integrating diverse perspectives into a comprehensive understanding of learning and performance. The journal seeks to provide the theoretical foundations and practical analysis needed for effective educational decision making in such areas as admissions, instructional design and delivery, performance assessment, remediation, technology-assisted instruction, diversity management, and faculty development, among others. TLM's scope includes all levels of medical education, from premedical to postgraduate and continuing medical education, with articles published in the following categories: groundwork, validation, investigations, educational case reports, observations.


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Senior High is a preparation to every students for their college life. Last 2014, K-12 program was implemented here in the Philippines. And now, I am also a product of the K-12 program. It is my first year of being a Senior High School Student. As day goes by, the life of being a senior high students is getting harder. It is also a big challenge for us as a students to work really hard. And life must go on.
"Challenges in life may not be that easy, but in the end it is worth it for our future,"
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Discussions: Discuss this species with fellow hobbyists
DescriptionCongo Tetra (Phenacogrammus interruptus)
Quick Care Facts
Care Level: Moderate
Temperament: Peaceful
Maximum Size: 3"
Minimum Tank Size: 30 gallons
Water Conditions: 74-84° F, KH 4-10, pH 6.0-7.5
Diet: Omnivore
Origin: Congo, Zaire
Family: Alestidae
Species: Tetras
Aquarium Type: Community
Species Information
Congo Tetra (Phenacogrammus interruptus) originate from the Congo River basin are of the Republic of Congo and Zaire. However, most Congo Tetra found within the aquarium hobby today are commercially bred on fish farms in Asia and parts of Europe. This is a testament to the ease at which this species has adapted to captivity and aquarium life in general. Today Congo Tetra have become a very popular aquarium fish species due to their beautiful coloration, active swimming style and ease of care.
Aquarium Care
Congo Tetra are peaceful in nature and do well in most tropical community aquarium and planted aquarium setups; however, they are more boisterous than many other Tetra species. Their active swimming style is similar to that of a Tiger Barb, but without the fin nipping associated with many Barb species. At an adult size of about 3 inches in length, the Congo Tetra is also a little bit larger than many of the other Tetra species commonly found within the freshwater aquarium hobby.
As with most smaller tropical fish species, the Congo Tetra lives in schools of individuals both for protection and for social reasons. Hobbyists will want to keep a group of at least 6 to 8 Congo Tetra (more being better if there is sufficient tank space), with a mix of 2 or 3 females to 1 male or keep all males. This will help eliminate any aggression between specimens that occurs from breeding and social group dominance.
The ideal tank for keeping Congo Tetra will have plenty of live or ornamental plants, driftwood and areas of diffused lighting. Either floating plants or large pieces of driftwood can be used to create areas in the tank that have diffused lighting, which will allow the Congo Tetra to retreat from the bright aquarium lights when necessary.
Young Congo Tetra or a mated pair will do fine in an aquarium of 30 gallons or more, with a group of adult specimens needing at least 55 to 75 gallons or more to thrive. In addition to areas of plants and submerged wood, Congo Tetra need plenty of open swimming room and plenty of water movement in order to replicate their native river habitat.
Feeding & Nutrition
Wild Congo Tetra feed on a wide variety of foods including: small crustaceans, small worms, algae, zooplankton, small insects and insect larvae. They are very hardy feeders and will quickly adjust to commercial aquarium foods.
Hobbyists should feed a variety of foods comprised of flake, mini-pellet, frozen and freeze-dried foods designed for freshwater tropical omnivores. A mix of foods will help ensure that the Congo Tetra receives all the vitamins and minerals that they need to maintain a healthy immune system.
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Dear Family and Friends,
The time has flown by. Here I am, facing my last week in the Philippines as a missionary... so weird. Last week was busy and we got a surprise phone call from the office last Tuesday informing us that we needed to come in the next morning to go to immigration again for fingerprinting. Surprise! So, we had to change are plans for going on exchanges last Wednesday and moved those exchanges to this week. It was fun to see all the exiting missionaries again, especially my buddies Sisters Sanders, Strebel, and Rupp, and it was fun to see how everyone is handling leaving in different ways. :)
I thoroughly enjoyed MLC last Friday except for the part where I bore my testimony, haha! I guess I just got too nervous about not wanting to cry in front of everyone and so my testimony turned into just a bunch of random ramblings about my decision to serve a mission and other stuff. Oh well.... I get to share my actual testimony in Zone Conference this week to make up for it.
Just want to mention how incredibly blessed I've been to serve as an STL for these last two transfers. I've loved attending MLC and being part of the council. My faith and trust in my leaders has grown so much from the experience and I love all of the new and exciting plans for our mission. Especially, I'm grateful to have served the sisters and to go on exchanges with them. Almost every time I've gone on exchanges, I can really see why we needed to go on exchanges that particular day with those particular sisters. They've strengthened my testimony and I hope I've been strengthening theirs.
As for us here in Cogeo, we have zone conference on Wednesday followed by two days of exchanges. Thus we won't have much time to work in our area. Not exactly the way I had planned to finish my mission, but I'm grateful for this calling I've had to serve as an STL and serve the sisters even if it means our time in our own area is limited. Sister Suminguit and I found two wonderful new investigators over the last two weeks. One of them, Bernadette was a referral from a family member. She's so great! We had a wonderful lesson with her yesterday, taught her all about the Restoration and inviting her to be baptized on December 25th to which she said yes. She also committed to come to church next week. The other investigator is Twinkle, who is the "Nanny" for a very active member and has already come to church for the last 5 weeks or so. We had a great lesson with her about the Restoration yesterday and invited her to pray about Joseph Smith and to begin reading the Book of Mormon. One of our progressing investigators, Mary Ann, came to church yesterday with the person who referred her. Hurray!! It was so wonderful for her to come and we're looking forward to her baptism on December 6th. Well... I guess we're excited for her to be baptized, but obviously I won't be there which is weird... man... this whole going home thing is so weird. In about half an hour we will be leaving this internet shop to go visit my old areas and say good-bye to people for the last time. I'm so excited to see them all again... I just hope I don't cry, haha!
Love you all and God bless you!Love, Sister Dickison


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Editor's note: Star-Ledger columnists reflect on the decade, one in series
Why does it feel as if we're standing on the porch, waving goodbye to a guest we're relieved to see depart?
He showed up at the party. He looked vaguely familiar. Yet no one could remember his name, so we spent the whole evening faking it as best we could, hoping we wouldn't be called upon for introductions.
We never did figure out what to call this decade, did we?
The Aughts? That's what earlier generations called the first decade of the 1900s -- "Aught-five," for 1905, or "aughty-eight" for 1908. Or perhaps this variation: the Noughts. Both terms are long gone to the point of quaintness, even obscurity.
The Zeros? Never took.
We'd barely wrapped up the contest for naming the 1990s -- the "dot.com decade" took top honors, if memory serves -- before this one was upon us. We had Y2K -- such a snazzy little nickname -- and once we made it through New Year's Eve and all the computers didn't turn into big dark doorstops, we were smack into the years that had no collective name.
It turned out to be an insignificant oversight, for it was a busy decade. Too much to do. Too much to worry about.
So we tripped over our tongues for nine years, saying "two thousand and one," and "two thousand and two." For nearly a decade, it sounded like a big game of hide-and-seek and we were "it," in charge of counting. It was as cumbersome as calling the years, "One, Mississippi. Two, Mississippi."
There were more efficient names, but they were confusing: "Twenty Nine" -- shorthand for 2009 -- sounded like "Twenty-nine." We won't have that problem soon: "Twenty Ten" sounds just fine.
After September 11th -- or its shorthand, 9/11 -- no other numbers rose to comparable importance. As we stumbled through those days, it didn't matter what we called them, just that we get through them.
Our indifference to nomenclature continued at the decade's close, but this time the crisis wasn't one of fire and twisted metal, but of dollar signs and plunging balance sheets. And the years in-between? Apparently a fair number of us spent them splurging on $1,500 "window treatments" and flat-screen TVs, mostly bought on credit.
• Monday - Bob Braun
• Tuesday - Barry Carter
• Wednesday - Tom Moran
• Friday - Mark Di Ionno
That indifference was probably just as well. It can be dangerous to judge an era when you're smack in the middle of it. When they came up with the term "The Roaring Twenties," did anyone know how abruptly the roaring would cease?
But eventually we will have to settle on a name, just as we would for that departing party guest who caused such a stir. We wouldn't keep calling him, "that guy who showed up whose name we couldn't remember." We'd come up with a nickname: "Lampshade Boy," or "Plaid Pants Guy."
Lacking an easy numerical solution, like "The Fifties" or "The Sixties," we'll have to devise some form of shorthand as we try to make some sense out of what happened.
And so we leave it to the historians, who will soon begin picking over the carcass of these past 10 years. They'll no doubt find a connection between the trauma and the excess, the pain and the forgetting, the decade's bookends of being blindsided. One of them will invent the perfect catchy name for an era that will soon be safely in our rear-view mirror:
The Under Water Decade.
The Too Big To Fail Decade.
The Roaring Noughts.


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It was our first day at school after Christmas break and we all looked a bit numb. There was a mixture of sadness that holidays had ended and happiness to see familiar faces again. We were also a bit tired and sleepy after a two-week period of waking up late. I felt it was important not to overwhelm students right from the get-go at 8:00 am on a Monday morning, but opt for a more open-ended, student-led activity.
This post reflects on how we worked with two groups of sixth graders, mixed-ability A2- English learners, on the concept of "change" by using the thinking routine Making Meaning. The aim of the routine is to build collective meaning of words, ideas, concepts or events; a collective concept mapping. It is a new routine I had come across some time ago, but had not given it a try so far. I was a bit cautious not knowing how it was going to work with students. Yet, after having tried routines in my classes for a long time, I trusted in the results they can yield with students and the richness and originality of ideas they can trigger. In any case one can never find out until one tries and cautiousness was outweighed by curiosity and anticipation.
In our case the concept was "change" and it emerged after looking at a visual stimulus. It was a street art piece which read: Happy New Year. The change starts here.
We first discussed a bit what it showed and where it could be found. We identified that it was a street art piece, probably on a wall, and that the focus was the concept of change. Change was written in the centre of the board. The first step then was to ask students
1.Think of one word that you associate/connect with change. Which word is this?
This was done as a whole class brainstorming activity and yielded some first tentative responses. Students came up with the words: New Year, school, safety, technology, economy.
As a second step I asked:
2. Now, can you think and add one more word or phrase under any of these four so as to tell me something more about it?
Students began to warm up and were able to contribute more ideas, there was greater participation and more words and phrases were added under the initial ones.
In the third step I asked them to:
3. Look at all the words and phrases we shared on the board. Can you see any connections? Think and tell me about them.
The third step found me coping with the practical issue of how to draw joining lines between the connections the children found and talked about, and how to write on those lines. It was quite an enjoyable stage as we were all taking notes, trying to accommodate on our concept maps the new information that came up from sharing ideas. It was also a moment that reveals so eloquently that thinking expands in multiple directions, it "does not happen in a linear manner" (Ritchhart et al., 2011).
In the fourth step I asked students to look at the collective concept mapping our board was displaying and think and ask any questions about the topics that had emerged:
4. Look at all our ideas shared on the board. Do you have any questions to ask about what we discussed?
We ended by adding some interesting questions:
I tried the routine with another class on that same first day at school after Christmas. I did not have the time though to take proper snapshots of our board so here are the few hasty ones I captured:
What kind of map is this?
It was funny how on finishing with the four steps, students in both groups began making jokes about this kind of map they had in their notebooks, different for each one since their notes were personalized. Some of them had opted for a full diagram while a few others had opted for a mixture of diagram and listing ideas and questions as I noticed by a quick look at their notebooks. One student said that it was "a map not to find your way, but to get lost", another added "yes, to get lost in ideas and thoughts", a third remarked that "it's a map of all the different, nice ideas we had in our minds" while some others were explaining to their classmates how they were able to navigate themselves in their maps through lines, arrows, colours, boxes and clouds. I told them this was a concept map and the term seemed to stick in their minds.
The new language that emerged out of the students' need to express their ideas while working on this routine was: connect with, associate with, concept map, economy, sustainable, equipment, space, hybrid, citizens, develop, thefts, special needs (first group) and connect with, associate with, concept map, radical, gap, reduce, increase, tax, racism, origin, argument (for the second group).
The proper wrapping up of the Making Meaning routine is that students come up with their own definition of the word, concept, topic being explored. We did not have much time to do this individually as the session was coming to an end so I asked children to hierarchize the most important elements for them and came up with a joint very short piece of writing.
I found it interesting how in both groups the routine facilitated the expression of a diversity of ideas that captured aspects of the issue ranging from the personal/school/local one to the wider "big global picture". They associated the concept of change not only with themselves, their school, their relationships with classmates, but also with the current state of unemployment in the country, feeling of insecurity, loss of homes and the more global issues related to sustainable environment, gap between rich and poor, racism, injustice, war/peace. Each one of the questions the students asked at the final step lends itself to a new circle of inquiry.
The Making Meaning routine helped smooth our way back into "school mode" and gain some energy after the Christmas-hynernation phase. It reminded me a lot of Chalk Talk, another routine that helps students build understanding collectively. For some pictures of classroom practice with the Chalk Talk routine you can have a look here and here.
Hope you have a Happy New Year.
Ritchhart, R. Church, M. and Morrison, K. (2011) Making Thinking Visible: How to Promote Engagement, Understanding, and Independence for All Learners. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.


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On Friday "Ice Age 3D: Dawn of the Dinosaurs" came oh-so close to kneecapping Michael Bay's "Transformers" sequel at the box office. Less than one million dollars separated Fox's 3D toon and Paramount's robot flick that wouldn't die. It all evened out over the weekend, however, with both films bringing in an estimated $43.5 million dollars over three days. Talk of "Tf2" becoming this year's "The Dark Knight" was a hot topic one week ago when the film came within 3 million of tying Batman's 5 day record, but those of us still immune to the dubious charms of Bay knew that those similarities would prove groundless once "Transformers" made it to its second weekend. So here we are and, surprise! The momentum of the big, shiny metal ones appears greatly slowed. "Transformers 2" was not embarrassed in any way, of course, but if we still want to talk "Dark Knight" records a tie is not very convincing evidence. More box office talk after the jump…
|Ice Age 3D
|Transformers 2
|Public Enemies
|The Proposal
|The Hangover
|My Sister's Keeper
|Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
|Year One
|Night at the Museum 2
I'm gonna begin today with a movie that has been largely overlooked over the past week – "Ice Age 3D". For a franchise that has already made about a billion dollars worldwide, the third installment of "Ice Age" sort of crept up out of nowhere – lost in a sea of news about Megan Fox and those Giant F*cking Robots. The advance buzz on "Ice Age 3D" was so nonexistent that Fox felt compelled to hold sneak peaks of the movie on Father's Day… you know, just to remind folks that Scrat was coming back and that everyone still loved Ray Romano. I'm not sure if the sneak peaks had any effect, but while Fox could have hoped for more in terms of a first week take – they did choose to open on the only recent holiday frame that included a Saturday dead zone. They'll have to be content with topping their five day projected take of $60 million – and of course tying "Transformers" has to feel pretty good too.
Estimates have "Transformers 2" all even with "Ice Age 3" as of Sunday but remember – those are estimates. At this time tomorrow we may find that number two is actually where "Tf2" belongs. The film is still out in 4,234 theaters – more than the 4,099 venues "Ice Age" is holding down – but 1,606 of the "Ice Age" locations are screening in 3D (a record) so the higher ticket prices the format commands may still be a factor when the actual figures roll in. "Transformers" did have another great week, however. It officially passed Pixar's "Up" to become 2009's highest grossing film with $295 domestic. Worldwide it is also way out ahead of "Angels & Demons" with a haul of about $300 million in just ten days.
Whether tied for #1 or coming in a close #2, the momentum of "Transformers 2" does seem to be slowing dramatically. Let's go back to that old "Dark Knight" equation for some evidence: in its second weekend in release "The Dark Knight" brought in $75 million – $45 more than the number two film, "Step Brothers". This is not a fair comparison, of course (had "DK" gone up against a popular animated franchise that gap may have been smaller) but it is still illustrative for those who are counting on "Tf2" showing strong legs throughout the month of July. Actually, July is about to give "Transformers" shin splints. "Bruno is due out on July 10th and the following week a little wizard named Potter will make his much-delayed re-entry into American cinemas. "Bruno" will immediately siphon away some of the "Transformers" young male audience (if those young males have not yet met their quota for mind-numbing stupidity, that is) but the real danger for the bots (and for "Ice Age 3" as well) comes from the cross-demographic magic of "Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Prince".
A film that actually does have potential to find its legs in this new age of one-week Number One films is Michael Mann's "Public Enemies". The stylish and well-reviewed film has valiantly stood in the path of the flood of summer fluff-films and action blockbusters and has actually managed to stay upright in the process. Universal was concerned enough about its expensive period flick ($100 million was the reported budget but it was likely over $125) to lower its five-day projections from $40 million to $30 million on Tuesday. They needn't have bothered. Even with the sagging popularity of Christian Bale, the charisma of Johnny Depp was more than enough to push "Public Enemies" past $41 million in its first five days. "Enemies" will suffer the curse of "Bruno" next week, but good word of mouth and a dearth of analogous adult fare in the coming weeks should allow "Public Enemies" to find its niche – Universal is just praying that niche is located in the neighborhood of $100 million.
Finally, I'd like to say a big "Hell Yeah" to the film "The Hangover". Warner Brothers' comedy passed $200 million on Saturday to become the fourth highest grossing film of 2009. With another $10 million collected this weekend (the Fourth of July no less) "The Hangover" is the definition of a long-distance box office runner. And it only cost $35 million to make – Michael Bay, please take note…
I'll be covering the "Bruno" box office when the film opens on July 10th, so until then let me know how much "Ice Age 3" sucks compared with "Transformers 2" below!


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Sunday, 28 August 2011
Time to unFirle
15 comments:
- Anonymous28 August, 2011
Lovely picture postcard, enjoy your holiday.ReplyDelete
so lovely! oh, you make me jealous ;) we are having a hurricane, here on the east coast of the US...definitely blowing hard enough to take your eyebrows off! ha! LOVE that saying :)ReplyDelete
enjoy your weekend!
What an amazing spot and the perfect way to spend the bank holiday I agree. It wouldn't be the end of August bank holiday without being blowy though would it!ReplyDelete
That's just what I need today.ReplyDelete
Beautiful, amazing pictures Sarah - I love the compilations.
Happy bank holiday weekend too.
Nina xxxx
Lovely photos!ReplyDelete
looks beautiful! CxReplyDelete
Know it well.Nothing like a good hike to blow the cobwebs away! :0)ReplyDelete
We are fine....the hurricane was kind of a dud, in the end :) Thank goodness for that!
xo Jennifer
it looks like a beautiful place, I love the photos in this post.ReplyDelete
How fabulous I love the pictures and that early Autumn feel to them xxxReplyDelete
Lynn xx
So pretty, bet you had a great day blowing the cobwebs away.ReplyDelete
Even with the blowing, everything looks so beautiful!ReplyDelete
My heart swells with joy when I am up there! Beautiful place! (in all weathers!)ReplyDelete
Hey Lorna, are you there? I tried to leave a comment for you on your blog but was too dumb to! How do I contact you?ReplyDelete
What a lovely day...I would say it was perfect! Thank you for sharing my friend....hugs for an amazing September. xoxReplyDelete


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