Now that you have your measurements, it's time to calculate the square footage for each rectangle. Then you can add or subtract the square footages to find your total square footage for your area. Below is the measurement chart we created in Step 2. For each rectangle, multiply the length and width together. Divide the result by 144 and you have the square footage for that rectangle. We've recorded our numbers on the chart below.
After you have all the square footages of your rectangles, add them together. Be sure to skip any rectangles with square footage which is not ready to be added. In our example, rectangles F, H, and J cannot yet be included in the total. H and J must be halved before adding them, and F needs to be subtracted from the total. As shown below, adding up the square footages of the other rectangles gives us a current total of 410.5 square feet.
Rectangle F: The square footage of rectangle F is 8. When we subtract 8 from 410.5 we get a new current total of 402.5 square feet.
Rectangles H and J: Half of H is 4.5 and half of J is 4.5 for a total of 9 feet to be added to our current total. 402.5 + 9 = 411.5 square feet.
Now that we know the actual square footage of our area, 411.5 square feet, our example owner is ready to shop for flooring materials. Depending on the flooring chosen, the owner may or may not need to add extra square footage to the order.


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Dear Frankie (2004)
Shona Auerbach
Emily Mortimer, Gerard Butler, Jack McElhone, Mary Riggans, Sharon Small
Frankie's Mail Role Model
For the most Shona Auerbach's "Dear Frankie" feels like a very middle of the road British film, neither very interesting nor offensive, just very average. It's the sort of movie which you could end up turning off as it honestly doesn't feel like it's going anywhere, especially for the first half of the movie. But come the second half, comes a much more interesting movie which has some wonderful scenes and a twist which for even a hardened movie goer like myself was unexpected. Comparing "Dear Frankie" to something similar such as an adaptation of a Nicholas Sparks novel would be doing Sparks an injustice but it does have similarities.
Having spent the best part of his life on the move 9 year old Frankie (Jack McElhone) only knows his dad through the letters they regularly exchange. Every few weeks a letter arrives for him from his dad containing exotic stamps and tales of the various countries he visits as a sailor on the HMS Accra. But the truth is Frankie's mother, Lizzie (Emily Mortimer - Bright Young Things), has been sending the letters hiding the truth about Frankie's violent dad from him. But when she learns that the HMS Accra is going to be docking at the port they now live by she decides to carry on with the masquerade and finds a stranger (Gerard Butler - One More Kiss) who is willing to pretend to play daddy for a day.
In many ways "Dear Frankie" feels very much like a drama made for British TV. It features the grimness of life just above the poverty line in a port town in Scotland as well as focussing on a series of recognizable characters which could have been picked directly from any town. It is the plainness of the setting and in many ways the characters which are the movie's downfall. In a day where movie goers rarely want to watch the bleakness of reality a movie which actually focuses on it, no matter how interesting, will undoubtedly be over looked. Which in the case of "Dear Frankie" is a shame as its honest approach to telling a story is surprisingly charming and that it focuses on the relationships between a select number of people rather than on some convoluted and obvious romance adds to the movies intrigue.
Despite feeling average, debut director Shona Auerbach has done a good job of reeling in "Dear Frankie", avoiding going down the obvious route, instead using the natural emotional impact of the situation to keep you engrossed. There is plenty of opportunity for Auerbach to overplay elements such as Frankie's deafness or the domestic violence side which causes Frankie and Lizzie to keep moving. But instead she only acknowledges these and doesn't pull the audiences sentimental strings by over capitalizing on them.
In one of the nicest scenes in "Dear Frankie" Lizzie explains to "the stranger", as he is known, that "Frankie wasn't born deaf. It was a gift from his daddy". In that one moment, that one line and the way both Gerard Butler and Emily Mortimer act speaks volumes and pulls you in to the emotional side of the story and why Lizzie is forced to be so protective. But more significantly it is the fact that despite the emotional nature of the moment it feels natural and not contrived purely to get an audience reaction. This is not the only scene in the movie when something small such as just a couple of words, a look or a protracted silence can give so much more meaning in its simplicity than any over the top choreographed scenario. In fact without spoiling the ending the twist is just as simple and in being so is in keeping with the rest of the movie but gives "Dear Frankie" a wonderful feel.
What really does make "Dear Frankie" so special is not so much the performances from the likes of Gerard Butler and Emily Mortimer as well as the young Jack McElhone as Frankie, it is the fact that the characters they play are real. Take Lizzie who not only looks like someone who is living just above the poverty line but exhibits those characteristics of someone who has been on the wrong end of domestic violence, someone who is scared, nervous, slightly timid yet hugely protective of her family willing to go to nearly any lengths to protect her son. It is a wonderful performance by Emily Mortimer to not spoil such a real character but it is the fact you can recognize the character as someone you may have seen makes it all the more real. It is the same with Gerard Butler as "the stranger"; it is the sort of character which you recognize, the strong silent type, the loner but who behind the facade actually has a tender side.
Add to these two strong but restrained performances from Gerard Butler and Emily Mortimer the wonderful innocent performance of Jack McElhone as Frankie as well as fine character performances from Mary Riggans as Nell and Sharon Small as Marie and you have a wonderfully cast movie.
What this all boils down to is that I would be lying if I said "Dear Frankie" was a great movie, but it is one that shows that by focussing on the simple, the meaning of words and the relationship between real characters can make for an interesting as well as heart warming tale. It is the sort of movie which for the first half may seem quite boring but is worth getting through the mediocrity to get to the much more impressive and touching second half which ups its game.
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The 3D Printing Europe exhibition will feature Demonstration Street an area dedicated to showing a full range of 3D printed products and applications. It will include 3D printed plastic recycling systems, 3D printers; and 3D printed objects printed using methods of laser sintering, thermoplastic extrusion, digital light processing technology, plaster and binder method, selective laser sintering of nylon, and castings using 3D printed plaster molds.
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"The Tour de France represents my major goal of the season," said 25 year-old Markus Fothen (Gerolsteiner) after winning stage 1 of the Tour de Romandie. The German escaped late in the race with Francisco P�rez (Caisse d'Epargne), who he out-sprinted for the win.
Fothen was already given the nod by the German team for the Tour but yesterday he showed that he has what it takes to be part of its nine-man team. "Before Romandie, I was already selected for the Gerolsteiner [Tour] team but this win is an important confirmation to the directeur sportifs that their confidence is well placed.
"This is a great team with a lot of good elements and one that allows freedom [in certain races]."
A close second in last year's young rider classification, he reckons the Tour is made for him. "I am not a racer for the spring; I need a certain amount of time to come into form, and I do well to prepare myself for races of two to three weeks."
He will race in Spain and France before July's Grand Boucle. "I am scheduled to participate in the Volta a Catalunya and the Dauphin� Lib�r� before the Tour de France."
Chris Anker S�rensen was a last-minute addition to CSC's line-up for the Tour de Romandie, but the change proved worthwhile for the team in the race's first stage Wednesday.
The 22 year-old was part of an escape group that managed to stay away for over 100 kilometres. He was absorbed back into the peloton on the last climb.
"Chris made a great effort today and it was perfect to have him up front so the rest of the team could take it easy in the peloton. Unfortunately he had to give up at the end, but it was brilliant the way he showed initiative and had the strength to make the attempt," said Directeur Sportif Scott Sunderland on the team's website, team-csc.com.
Rabobank placed five riders, including Denis Menchov, in the large final group, which finished with the same time as winner Markus Fothen. After Astana lost control of the peloton and the sprinters had been dropped on the final climb, "This resulted in a chaotic and disorganized finale," according to rabobank.nl. Directeur Sportif Erik Dekker called the last 50 kilometres "The Wild West".
Dekker also explained why his team had not sent any riders planned to ride the Giro to the Swiss race. "The cyclists need to report their presence for the start in Italy on Wednesday. Such a difficult stage race is not an ideal preparation. Additionally, most of the teams that participate in the classics are done, so one competes against an entirely different set of riders. That does not make it easier to win here, but it does make it easier to move around in the pack."
T-Mobile had three riders in the final group as well, but unfortunately captain Michael Rogers was not one of them. Serhiy Honchar, Giuseppe Guerini and Michael Barry were able to keep up the tempo and finish with the same time as Fothen. Rogers ended up coming in 13'26" down.
According to Directeur Sportif Jan Schaffrath, "We will take a day-to-day approach. Serhiy Honchar is in good shape and he could go for the GC, but we also want to go for stage wins." He added, at t-mobile-team.com, "We have looked at the different stages, and we will adapt our tactics to succeed on those days."
"After only two kilometres the field had to go over a train crossing. As half the filed was through it, suddenly the gates started closed and the field was divided in two. Something like that shouldn't happen so close to the start. Someone should have known that a train would come through at that time."
Kohl praised his winning teammate, saying "he rode a super race. He showed his class, especially in the finale. He had the courage to attack at the right moment and enough patience at the finish to gamble with Francisco P�rez."
The Austrian climber hopes to add to the list of Gerolsteiner stage wins in the race. "The stage win motivated the whole team even more. I am looking forward more than ever to the first real mountain stage on Saturday. When my legs are as good then as they were today, then I can surely ride quite far forward."
The situation is getting critical for two team doctors at T-Mobile Team. Doctors Andreas Schmid and Lothar Heinrich were both named by former soigneur Jef d'Hont in his book as having provided illegal doping products to Team Telekom members during the 1996 Tour de France.
The two are facing an investigation by the Freiburg, Germany, prosecutor's office. German anti-doping crusader Werner Franke filed a complaint against the two, which has led Oberstaatsanwalt Wolfgang Maier to open an investigation. "The information available to us has encouraged us to pursue the investigations," said Maier to the AFP news agency. Franke charged that the two had violated laws concerning prescription medicines and cause bodily injury.
In the S�ddeutsche Zeitung, Maier said, "We will now try to investigate whether these violations actually occurred and whether the statute of limitations has passed. The statute of limitations for such actions is five years," he said. However, the newspaper indicated that investigators thought it possible that they could find further violations which had occurred within the last five years.
The doctors are also being investigated by their employer, the Freiburg University Clinic. Hans-Hermann Dickhuth, head of the clinic's Sports Medicine department, told the S�ddeutsche Zeitung, "I can't deny that the charges against the two doctors has become a big problem. These are relatively specific charges and when even one-tenth of the story is true, then it is a 'worst case' scenario for them both." He told the AFP that "Doctor Schmid gave me the impression that these revelations could be a problem."
The clinic has called for an independent commission to investigate the allegations.
Dickhuth said that he was surprised that Schmid apparently does not plan to sue d'Hont over the allegations, which T-Mobile team manager Bob Stapleton had suggested he do. T-Mobile spokesman Christian Frommert said that the team would "acknowledge and respect" the doctors' decision not to sue, adding, "Possibly they will choose another way to defend themselves."
Frommert added that the two doctors will not be working with the team for the future, and that, in fact, Schmid had not been "directly with the team" for a while.
T-Mobile Team Manager Bob Stapleton announced early Thursday afternoon that Heinrich and Schmid will not provide medical services to T-Mobile Team while doping charges against the two are being investigated. "We look forward to the independent review and resolution of the unproven allegations recently detailed against the University of Freiburg," Stapleton said on the team's website, t-mobile-team.com.
"After discussion with Doctors Heinrich and Schmid, we have mutually agreed to discontinue their personal provision of medical service during the course of these inquiries so that no further distraction or confusion is created for our athletes," he added.
The team will "develop alternatives that will provide our athletes with the best possible medical support. We are fully prepared to take action as needed based on the conclusion of diligent and fact-based evaluation."
Joaqu�m Rodr�guez is a handy domestique and right-hand man for Caisse d'Epargne team captain Alejandro Valverde. In 2006 he helped Valverde to two wins in the Ardennes - the Amstel Gold Race and La Fl�che Wallonne - and he's back at Valverde's side again this year. Cyclingnews' Gregor Brown sat down with the Spaniard on the eve of Li�ge-Bastogne-Li�ge to talk about the Ardennes and the 2007 season.
Rodr�guez and Valverde aren't just teammates, and after 15 years of riding together, their companionship extends beyond the races. "We have known each other for a long time, not just as riders but as friends. I think that last year we really accomplished a good thing the way we worked together for those wins."
"This year is going well," said the friendly Rodr�guez as we sat down by the pool at the Post Hotel in Herstal, Belgium. The 27 year-old had hit his season's first target right on the bull's eye; he had won the one-day Klasika Primavera on April 15, and arrived in the Ardennes one week later to help Valverde to sixth place in Amstel Gold and second in Fl�che Wallonne.
"I have won a race early on and now, in this Ardennes week, I feel very strong," confidently noted Rodr�guez on the day before Li�ge. "I am going really well. I did well in Fl�che but I lacked a little bit of strength in the finish but I think that that I will be able to ride a spectacular Li�ge.
The 51st Vuelta a Asturias starts today in northern Spain and will cover twelve mountains in its five stages (May 3 - 7). Today, the cyclists will face 150.6 kilometres from the capital of Asturias, Oviedo, to Llanes. The difficulties of the day are the Alto de la Torner�a (2nd category) and the Alto Rales � Los Carriles. The wind could also play an important role; half of the stage will direct the peloton along the coast of the Costa Verde.
The second stage between Llanes and Avil�s (168.0 km) is totally flat; only at the very beginning of the stage will the cyclists will have to cover the Alto de La Robellada (3rd category), and, so, this stage should end in a mass sprint.
The third stage will be decisive. From the Instalaciones Caf�s Toscaf the peloton rides the 180.2 kilometres to the Alto de Acebo. Along the way the parcours will reveal three mountains; the Alto del Pozo de las Mujeres Muertas (1st category at 97.9 km), the Puerto del Connio (hors cat�gorie at 139.7 kms) and the mountain top finish on the Alto de Acebo (hors cat�gorie).
Stage 4 should offer some respite. The favourites should have an eye on eventual breakaway groups, as the course has got two difficulties, the Alto del Rodical (2nd category) and the Alto del Pito (3rd category). Also in this stage, from Cangas del Narcea to Gij�n (158.4 km), the wind could be important, as half of the route will be along the coast.
The fifth stage on Monday, May 7, will be another back-breaker, with three mountains of the 2nd category (Alto de la Campa, Alto de La Faya de los lobos, Alto de Colladiella and Alto San Emiliano), from Gij�n to Oviedo (149.8 km).
The Vuelta will consist of 16 teams, amongst them three ProTour teams (Euskaltel�Euskadi, Saunier Duval-Prodir and Unibet.com), and 123 riders. It does not only attract Spanish teams, but also foreign ones; besides Unibet.com, there will be Portuguese teams Benfica and Liberty Seguros, British team Barloworld, and the Italian teams Acqua & Sapone-Caff� Mokambo and Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Selle Italia.
The favourites are Koldo Gil (Saunier Duval-Prodir), especially after his win of the Subida al Naranco on Tuesday, and last year's winner Oscar Sevilla (Relax-GAM), who will be supported by a strong team that includes Francisco Mancebo, Santiago P�rez and �ngel Vicioso. Other important riders are Eladio Jim�nez and Ezequiel Mosquera (Karpin-Galicia), David Bernabeu (Fuerteventura-Canarias) and Pablo Urtasun (Liberty Seguros), as well as the Portuguese Jos� Azevedo (Benfica) and the Colombian F�lix Rafael C�rdenas (Barloworld).
His Gerolsteiner teammates are riding and winning in the Tour de Romandie, but sprinter Paco Wrolich is taking a break. After a busy early part of the season, the Austrian is pausing most of this month, spending most of his time at home with his family.
"I'll get back in to the racing scene the end of May with the Bayern Rundfahrt," he wrote on his website, peterwrolich.at. "Next week I'll start with some intensive endurance training. That is very important, since I couldn't train much the last few weeks because I had so many races."
After the Bayern-Rundfahrt, Wrolich is scheduled to ride the Dauphin� Lib�r�.
Team Volksbank will be stretched to the limit this coming weekend, as it participates in four races. The Austrian Professional Continental team has only 16 riders, one of whom is out sick, so literally all of the other team members will be in action.
On Friday, Mariusz Witecki will lead five teammates at the Szlakiem Grodow Piastowskich in his native Poland. Another six riders, under captain Florian Stalder, will ride the GP Larciano and Giro di Toscana in Italy. The remaining three team members will ride Wien-Lassnitzh�he.
The only rider missing out on the action is Gerhard Trampusch, who is recovering from Lyme disease.
Volksbank for Szlakiem Grod�w Piastowskich: Josef Benetseder (Aut), Gerrit Glomser (Aut), Christian Lener (Aut), Philipp Ludescher (Aut), Ren� Weissinger (Ger) and Mariusz Witecki (Pol).
The men for GP Larciano and Giro di Toscana: Pascal Hungerb�hler (Sui), Andreas Matzbacher (Aut), Harald Morscher (Aut), Christian P�mer (Aut), Patrick Riedesser (Aut) and Florian Stalder (Sui).
The men for Wien-La�nitzh�he: Tyson Apostol (USA), Werner Riebenbauer (Aut) and Mathias Ladner (Aut).
Current World and Olympic Champion Paolo Bettini will lead Belgium-based Quickstep-Innergetic for the 90th Giro d'Italia. The race starts May 12 in Sardegna and ends three weeks later in Milan.
Bettini has two Giro stage wins to his credit. The 33 year-old Italian also spent four days in the Maglia Rosa in 2005.
The complete Quickstep-Innergetic team will consist of Paolo Bettini, Addy Engels, Mauro Facci, Leonardo Scarselli, Hubert Schwab, Andrea Tonti, Mauro Tosatto, Jurgen Van de Walle and Giovanni Visconti.
Led by Chris Baldwin's third-place finish in Wednesday's Dan Potts Memorial Tyrone Time Trial, five Toyota-United riders placed in the top 25 on the opening stage of the 21st Tour of the Gila.
Baldwin finished one minute and 29 seconds behind Nathan O'Neill (Health Net), who won the 16.15-mile (26 km) race against the clock in 33 minutes and 13 seconds. Ben Jacques-Maynes (Priority Health Cycling Team) finished second, 1'15" behind O'Neill. Baldwin is the race's defending champion.
Stefano Barberi was Toyota-United's revelation of the opening day. Starting his second National Race Calendar stage race of the season, the Brazilian finished 10th, 2'14" behind.
The third-year pro, who makes his home in Boulder, Colorado, already has one win to his credit this season. He captured the Stazio Criterium in Boulder on March 25 and rode to a pair of runner-up finishes in challenging mountain road races in Colorado in mid-April.
"It's good to see him come out and have a good ride like that," Toyota-United Team Director Kirk Willett said.
Toyota-United's other riders all finished within four minutes of the winner; Burke Swindlehurst, 13th and 2'29" behind, Ivan Stevic, 17th at 2'48", Justin England, 23rd at 3'03" and Jose Manuel-Garcia, 38th at 3'49". In the team standings, Toyota-United is second behind Health Net.
Willett said the cancellation of the Tour of Utah � originally scheduled for a late June start � has bolstered the quality of competition in the 121-rider field.
"This is probably one of the deepest fields that have ever come here," Willett said. "O'Neill will be very well-supported by his team and he's been on form since the Tour de Georgia. But this race has so much climbing and wind that anything can happen. We're optimistic that our guys can climb well and go after stage wins, which would move them up the general classification."
Two Toyota-United riders who were pencilled in on the team's original eight-man roster for the race did not start Wednesday. New Zealander Heath Blackgrove continues to recover from a leg injury sustained in the Tour of California while American Chris Wherry was bothered by stomach problems earlier this week.
Thursday's stage is the 94.1-mile (152.3 km) Silver City to Mogollon Road Race, a race that finishes with a gruelling 2,100-foot climb.
"The last five kilometres are really steep all the way to the line," Willett said. "The course itself pretty much goes one direction (northwest). What we don't know is which way the wind will be blowing. The forecast is for it to be rather windy, so the race could be really wide open early."
Team CSC is offering a "meet and greet" with team members at the Grand Prix GLS in Herning, Denmark, on May 5. Fan club members will be allowed to meet with the riders and Directeur Sportif that morning before the race at the team camper.
The race will feature at least one team star, sprinter Fabian Cancellara. Also scheduled to appear in the race are Kurt-Asle Arvesen, Matti Breschel, Allan Johansen, Anders Lund, and Luke Roberts.
The team is also offering a special treat to a limited number of fans on the day before the race. Members of the team's fan club wil be allowed "to hang out with the line-up for the GP GLS" at the team's hotel.
More information is available on the team's website, team-csc.com.


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You can turn any glossy lipstick matte by applying transparent powder. Could easily turn Amplified Heaux into Matte.


The Black Widow character was created by George Kapitan, originally for Mystic Comics, and later published through Marvel Comics. In the original storyline, the Black Widow character kills those that do evil things and then delivers their soul to the Devil. There would end up being four different versions of this superhero when Stan Lee did a recreation for Marvel Comics.
In Stan Lee's version, the Black Widow was Natalia "Natasha" Alianovna Ramanova. Her parents abandoned her as a child, which seems to be the common theme for many of our superheroes. The character is of Russian decent, and is found by a Russian soldier.
In later years, Natasha grows up to become part of Russia's KGB and works as a spy due to her excellent physical talents of speed and stamina, and her witty intelligence. She gains the name Black Widow, as coincidentally, her husbands all seem to have accidental deaths.
The Black Widow is featured in The Avengers movie of 2012, and has regained popularity. This superhero is a hot selling item for Halloween costumes.
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QuantumWise develops software for atomic-scale simulations of nanoelectronic devices. The company collaborates with leading universities around the world to further develop the methods used in its flagship product, Atomistix ToolKit (ATK, acquired from the company Atomistix) and the graphical user interface, Virtual NanoLab. ATK is a state-of-the-art first-principles code with a unique ability to compute current-voltage characteristics of nanoscale systems.
This means that it can be used to investigate novel electronics application in carbon nanotubes, graphene, molecular electronics, nanowires, etc, as well as study the properties of complex interfaces, including high-k materials, and also magneto-tunnel junctions that e.g. can form the basis for future memory devices (MRAM). A particular focus of the development of the code is the ability to handle large-scale systems, meaning several thousands of atoms.


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Excellence in STEM Teaching Award
The STEMteachersNYC Excellence in STEM Teaching Award is a scholarship program dedicated to supporting STEM teachers who have demonstrated excellence in their teaching practice and a willingness to continuously learn and grow as educators. The scholarship award covers the cost of professional development programs offered this summer by STEMteachersNYC.
This year, thanks to the Wanninkhof Family and STEMteachersNYC supporters we are able to provide 2 scholarship awards for deserving teachers:
The STEMteachersNYC Scholarship
The STEMteachersNYC Scholarship is an award of $600, established to support STEM educators at under resourced schools who are passionate about science and math education. The award can be used to offset or pay for the cost of a STEMteachersNYC Summer 2018 Workshop!
The Patrick Wanninkhof Scholarship
In memory of Patrick Wanninkhof, the Wanninkhof Family and STEMteachersNYC have established a fund of $1500 for scholarships to the 2018 Summer Workshops.
For a complete list of workshop offerings and choices please visit: https://stemteachersnyc.org/summer2018
To be considered for a scholarship, please complete a brief application by clicking the apply button to the right. The deadline is May 15, 2018.
Remembering Patrick Wanninkhof
Patrick Wanninkhof lived his life to the fullest. At STEMteachersNYC we are lucky to have called him a colleague and fortunate to have had him as a board member who helped drive our organization to be the best that we could be – just as he lived his own life. Patrick was a teacher, like many of us, but he was far from typical. He was a bass player and musician who played in bands. He was an exceptional student who graduated from University of Florida with honors. Following university and Teach for America service, he stayed in the public school system so that he could reach kids from every background with his enthusiasm for science. He was a cyclist who combined his love of riding with his passion for social justice with the group Bike and Build where he worked to actively contribute to solutions for the homeless. Patrick Wanninkhof was an inspiration amongst us, at 25.On his Bike and Build webpage which is still open for donations (http://bikeandbuild.org/rider/7778), Patrick reminded us eloquently that we must do more for our young people today who should be given the very basic rights to safety and security in order to learn,
"To fix systemic inequities which burden our nation, we need a systemic approach to fighting poverty. Education reform will be fruitless if we cannot guarantee that every child can return to a safe home in the evening. The quest for Affordable Housing for each American runs parallel to my dedication for bringing each student an excellent education. Only by simultaneously addressing both these issues can we guarantee the prosperity of each person in our nation."
Patrick had a generosity of spirit and good will that permeated every relationship he had. His love of his family, his commitment to his students, and his dedication to his friends and colleagues was tremendous. He simply approached his time on this planet as a supremely caring member of Team Humanity and affected everyone in his sphere. Those who knew him will never forget his smile and uplifting exuberance.
Joe Kremer, a STEMteachersNYC board member and regular workshop presenter worked closely with Patrick in the organization, "Patrick's ride across the country was another indication of his steadfast commitment to the underprivileged. He stayed at the school where he was placed through TFA and became a respected voice in his community. He was a huge inspiration to me in this way, and we had many conversations about how our group as a whole can remain focused on bringing excellent science teaching to the underserved."
Gideon Levy, a STEMteachersNYC group member wrote, "He did everything with a smile and was the exact type of person students need and teachers strive to be. I knew him through Teach For America as he helped me interview with schools, survive the early phases of teaching, and ultimately push me to discover this amazing group and a love for teaching science. The world and STEM education has lost a true beacon for change."
We lost Patrick senselessly to more than an accident; the world lost Patrick because of the selfishness represented by a driver texting – because an individual's own momentary need was put above the safety of innocent others. We can be better than this – Patrick certainly was. Each and every one of us can honor Patrick by being the best we can be as a human being contributing to a better world – he certainly lived his young life this way and so can we.
~Karen Page


Also, Fanny Mendelssohn: Songs. Anna Lucia Richter, soprano; Barbara Kozelj, alto; Pro Musica women's choir; Ivan Fischer, Budapest Festival Orchestra. Channel Classics CCS SA 37418.
At the risk of making this review more about me than the music, let me start with a comment about myself anyway. I first started listening to recordings of Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream in the mid Sixties with Otto Klemperer's 1960 EMI LP. It was the familiar suite we hear on the present recording, and Klemperer remains my favorite. In the late Seventies Andre Previn recorded more than the suite, adding most of the interludes and connecting music. His album, also for EMI, was just as charming as Klemperer's and equally well recorded. It's still a favorite, too, and between them they have served as touchstones for the dozens of recordings of the piece I've heard since.
Which brings us (rather long-windedly) to Ivan Fischer's Channel Classics recording with his Budapest Festival Orchestra. It's as light and airy, as cheerful and delightful, as any I've heard. But even though it comes to us on a modern digital SACD, the sound doesn't have quite the clarity or balance of the old EMI (now Warner) issues. Still, it's nice to have so refreshing a new release as Fischer's.
As you probably know, German composer Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) began work on his music for William Shakespeare's comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream as a teenager, composing the Overture in 1826 when he was only seventeen. Then he stopped, completing the work some sixteen years later in 1841 while employed by the Prussian court. It was here that King Frederick William IV suggested to Mendelssohn that he compose some complete incidental music for a new production of the Shakespeare play, and Mendelssohn complied since he had already written the opening tune.
Maestro Fischer gives us ten of the most-popular selections from Mendelssohn's incidental music, starting, of course, with that early Overture. Fischer's way with the music is gentle and affectionate, almost consistently keeping it as light and airy as it should be. Indeed, this is, overall, the best recorded performance I've yet heard from Fischer, and he has always seemed to me more than competent. In this case, he's a real contender, and his Budapest players seem to have a genuine feel for the music.
Throughout most of the other numbers, Fischer is quick and lively. This works in most cases, although his approach to the Nocturne tends to diminish some of its lyricism. Nevertheless, the sprightly vigor of the playing is a delight, and, as I say, practically everything dances along with unvarnished joy. Fischer's interpretation brings out all the humor, all the color, and all the fairy-tale qualities of the score. It's really quite charming. Oh, those "spotted snakes." Lovely.
And, no, I didn't forget the "Wedding March." Under Fischer it projects all the exuberance of the occasion. Above all, though, it's regal and elegant, things some conductors forget as they get carried away in the heat of the moment.
Accompanying the Midsummer Night music, we get three songs with orchestra composed by Fanny Mendelssohn (1805-1847), Felix's sister. Soprano Anna Lucia Richter, who sang the first fairy in the preceding Midsummer Night music, handles the solos. Because of the prevailing attitudes toward women in Fanny's day, Felix's music got all the attention. Fanny even had to publish some of her work under her brother's name. Fortunately, more of Fanny's music is coming to light these days, and we're more the better for it. Here, they are quite enchanting.
Producer Hein Dekker and recording engineers Hein Dekker and Jared Sacks recorded the music at the Palace of Arts, Budapest, Hungary in January 2015. They made the disc for hybrid multichannel and two-channel SACD and two-channel CD playback. I listened in the two-channel SACD mode.
The sound is quite nice. It's very dynamic, with a reasonably good depth of image for added realism. The stage width is not quite so wide as many competing recordings, yet it provides a lifelike perspective representing a moderate concert-hall listening distance. Ultimate definition is a tad lacking, but that, too, is not unlike what one might hear at a real concert as opposed to an entirely transparent audiophile studio effect. It's all warm and smooth and reverberant and easily listenable.


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The latest smartphone from this company's stables is the Redmi Note 5, which has gone for sale on Mi.com along with cashback offers from Reliance Jio and Mobikwik. The company will also offer Redmi Note 5 Pro on Flipkart and Mi stores on May 02.
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I roll over in my cot.
The ends of my eyelids tip open as my lungs fill up with smoke. I cough multiple times and stand up from my cot to glare outside a steel-barred window. I yawn and spread my arms as if I was waking on a Saturday morning. All I see is a blend of smoke and chaos.
I turn to my left and see the steel door of my prison cell fly open. "Soldier! We have have to go! Quickly!" A dirt-covered, bloodied, beaten, and heavily armed General looks at me with recognition. I remain still. "Don't you want to leave?!" He pleads aloud. I lean against the prison cell wall and sigh out the words, "I would love to." The General sprints to me, clenches me by the arm, and cries out with a quavering voice, "Do you have any idea?!.. the lengths I went to.. to find you and free you?! I came save you!" I nudge Him away from my ear and crawl back into my prison cot.
The General falls to His knees beside my cot as a tear falls from His eye. His facial expression says everything. "The door.. It's been unlocked and opened.. Please! Follow Me out! I beg of you!" I smile at Him and say, "Thank you very much! I appreciate what You have done to find me and free me. I love You very much for doing so." I then snuggle my head against my pillow and close my eyes in awe of the fact that Someone would actually fight His way to me and free me.
Just then, an enemy soldier dashes into my prison cell and points his gun at me with a confident trigger finger.
My eyelids fly open with anticipation as I hear my receiver begin to pick up a message from my General.
I move the microphone close to my mouth and shout, "Sir, yes Sir!" I quickly move to the steel door of my prison cell with readiness for my escape.
The steel door of my prison cell flies open. "Soldier! We have have to go! Quickly!" A dirt-covered, bloodied, beaten, and heavily armed General looks at me with recognition. I respond by saying, "Sir, yes Sir! Take my weapon and uniform!" A smile glazes His face as He hands me His heavily loaded gun and equips me with His heavily protected uniform, meanwhile throwing my old rags away.
We then quickly leave my prison cell and dash through the maze of steel walls which seems impossible to escape, but my General knows the way out. He maneuvers His way through the maze with perfection as I follow Him in full trust. A door with an exit sign finally shows itself, and my General looks at me to say, "Keep behind Me. Trust Me." I nod as He opens the door. An army of enemy soldiers points their guns at us. Nonetheless, my General runs straight into the mass as I run behind Him. Thousands of bullets pierce His hands, feet, and side. Yet, He keeps running.
I arrive at home base.
He welcomes me with delight at my obedience.
I dash through the maze in search of my comrade's prison cell.
I arrive at the prison cell with enemy soldiers nearby, heaped up, and dead.


Goshen, N.Y. – Orange County Executive Steven M. Neuhaus and the Department of Parks, Recreation and Conservation have announced that the annual Orange County Spring Egg Hunt will be held on Saturday, April 20th at Thomas Bull Memorial Park, located at Route 416 in Campbell Hall.
The hunt will begin at 11:00 a.m. Children ages seven and younger are welcome to attend the free event.
The Easter Bunny will arrive to the event via a motorcycle parade led by the Orange County Harley Owners Group. The hunt area will be divided into separate sections to accommodate different age groups, including a wheelchair-accessible section for children with disabilities. Chocolate prizes will be awarded for special gold eggs found and each child will receive a bag of candy courtesy of long-time event sponsor, ShopRite.
A special prize will be given to children dressed up to look like the Easter Bunny. Other attractions include a bounce house, ice cream truck, children's playground and guest appearance by Macaroni the Clown. The Orange County Sheriff's Office will also be on-site to conduct their free children's ID program, Operation Safe Child.
The Spring Egg Hunt is offered by the Orange County Department of Parks, Recreation and Conservation in conjunction with ShopRite. Volunteer assistance is provided by Boy Scout Troop #386 and Boy Scout Troop #205.
Due to the event's popularity, families are encouraged to arrive early. If weather is inclement, please contact the Parks Department for an update at 457-4949.
For more information on the Egg Hunt, please contact Tom Quinlisk at the Parks Department at 457-4910 or TQuinlisk@orangecountygov.com. You can also visit the Parks and Recreation website at orangecountynyparks.com.


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Small, Indoor Gatherings Are Fueling COVID-19 Spread
Posted on November 13, 2020 by gracesmuggler
Image Description: People clink their glasses together at a dinner party. Also, these people in a stock photo are not spreading COVID-19. Because they're a stock photo. 🙂 Public domain.
I would like to pass along this article from The Washington Post:
At dinner parties and game nights casual American life is fueling the coronavirus surge as daily cases exceed 150,000.
Yesterday, 163,405 people were newly diagnosed with COVID-19 in a single day. That's a 73% increase from the daily cases average two weeks ago.
Yesterday, 1,171 loved ones died from COVID-19 in a single day. That's a 33% increase from the daily loss of life average two weeks ago.*
Hospitals are pushed beyond capacity. This is difficult for COVID-19 patients, of course, but it also ends up impacting people with other health emergencies. And it delays necessary surgeries that people need.
When we meet and gather indoors (a task that is understandably desired) it is dangerous because these kinds of gatherings are fueling this spread. It's difficult to sacrifice this, especially as it stretches on, but we need to keep making wise choices.
This is difficult to grapple with, but it's not overdramatic. It's true:
Sometimes people connected to us end up dying — people who weren't even at the dinner party.Sometimes people connected to us end up experiencing long-term disability (a higher percentage than people who die) — people who weren't even at the game night.
This is tough, but we are in a tough collective situation. It requires tough individual actions.
ur collective mental health is waning too, which is no small thing. How can we support ourselves and each other and making these necessary choices, but also feeling connected?
We'll have to be creative in choosing what is much less risky.
But first we have to believe this:
What we're doing is risky.
–Renee Roederer
*My numbers come from the New York Times daily COVID-19 accounting:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html
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Oscars – 15 Films Announced as the Shortlist for the Documentary Feature Award
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The Academy Of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has made a little bit more progress in it's ever so exhausting task of narrowing down the top contenders for the Documentary Feature Award.
The list, which used to include just over 120 films, has finally been narrowed to a more manageable 15. Many of the films such as Bart Layton's docu-thriller The Imposter and Jeff Orlowski's beautiful climate change doc Chasing Ice were heavily acclaimed by both critics and cinephiles at this past Sundance Film Festival, and their appearance on the Academy's Shortlist come as no surprise.
Personally I am pulling for my own Sundance favorite "Searching For Sugar Man", but in order for the film to win it will have to beat out some seriously tough competition. Check out the full list of films below:
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, Never Sorry LLC
Bully, The Bully Project LLC
Chasing Ice, Exposure
Detropia, Loki Films
Ethel, Moxie Firecracker Films
5 Broken Cameras, Guy DVD Films
The Gatekeepers, Les Films du Poisson, Dror Moreh Productions, Cinephil
The House I Live In, Charlotte Street Films, LLC
How to Survive a Plague, How to Survive a Plague LLC
The Imposter, Imposter Pictures Ltd.
The Invisible War, Chain Camera Pictures
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God, Jigsaw Productions in association with Wider Film Projects and Below the Radar Films
Searching for Sugar Man, Red Box Films
This Is Not a Film, Wide Management
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Bodies of four climbers discovered in a tent on Mount Everest
BY Jessica Marie Ruxton
Four climbers have been found dead inside a tent on Mount Everest. The bodies were discovered by a rescue team sent to retrieve the body of a Slovak climber who died on the mountain on Sunday.
The climbers were found overnight in two tents at Camp Four, at 8,000 metres (26,246 feet), according to Mingma Sherpa of the Seven Summit Treks groups.
All the fatalities have occurred at a location called the ''death zone'', where oxygen levels are extremely low.
This season has also claimed the lives of an Australian, Francesco Marchetti, an Indian man named Ravi Kumar (whose body was found on Monday) and an 85-year-old man named Min Behadur Sherchan, who died attempting to reclaim his title as the world's oldest person to reach the top.
At the end of April, another Swiss climber, Ueli Steck, died during an intense climb up the mountain.
Meanwhile, a 29-year-old Spaniard is being hailed as having reached the top in the fastest-ever time, without any help from rope.
Kilian Jornet reached the top in just 26 hours.
More than 200 people have died on Everest since 1920. The deadliest and most dangerous season in the mountain's history was in 2015 when 24 people died as a result of avalanches.
However, despite the amount of deaths or cause of deaths, the amount of people who have attempted to climb in recent years has absolutely skyrocketed.
According to statistics given to the BBC by the Himalaya Database in 2015, the most number of deaths are caused by avalanches alone.
The bodies that are discovered on the mountain can be retrieved and brought back down. But others are left on the snowy slopes and crevasses.
There are a number of recurring corpses that climbers have seen on their journey. One would be Francys Arsentiev, the woman who became known as the ''Sleeping Beauty''. She lay where she died, wrapped in a purple jacket next to the main route, from 1988 until 2007, when her body was lowered down the side of the mountain and out of sight of journeyers.
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At its meeting on February 15, 1991, the Joint Legislative Committee on Administrative Rules (Committee) voted, pursuant to RSA 541-A:3-e, IV, to enter a preliminary objection to Final Proposal 90-351, of the New Hampshire Board of Dental Examiners (Board) containing its complete set of rules. The Board responded by letter dated March 19, 1991, and received by Committee staff on March 21, 1991.
At its regular meeting on April 19, 1991, the Committee voted, pursuant to RSA 541-A:3-e, V(c), to enter a final objection to Final Proposal 90-351. The final objection has been filed with the Director of the Office of Legislative Services for publication in the New Hampshire Rulemaking Register. The effect of a final objection is stated in RSA 541-A:3-e, VI:
The following summarizes the bases upon which the final objection has been entered:
1. Outstanding Final Objection to Den 102.02(a)(3),
At its meeting on February 16, 1990, the Committee entered a final objection to the text of this rule as it appeared in Final Proposal 89-184. The Board made no changes to text of this rule but included the same text in Final Proposal 90-351. The Committee entered a final objection to this rule in Final Proposal 90-351, using the same bases for objection as it had in its February 16, 1990 objection to Final Proposal 89-184, and published in the February 23, 1990 New Hampshire Rulemaking Register. The Committee objects that the rule is contrary to legislative intent, pursuant to Committee Rule 402.02, by conflicting with RSA 541-A:12, III(c).
2. Outstanding Final Objection to Den 304.02(b)(1), Den 304.02(j)(1)
and Den 304.02(o)
At its meeting on February 16, 1990, the Committee entered a final objection to the text of this rule as it appeared in Final Proposal 89-177. The Board made no changes to text of these rules but included the same text in Final Proposal 90-351. The Committee entered a final objection to these rules in Final Proposal 90-351, using the same bases for objection as it had in its February 16, 1990 objection to Final Proposal 89-177, and published in the February 23, 1990 New Hampshire Rulemaking Register. The Committee objected that the rules are contrary to the public interest, pursuant to Committee Rules 403.01(d) and 403.02(c), by not being clear and understandable and capable of uniform enforcement and contrary to legislative intent, pursuant to Committee Rule 402.02, by conflicting with RSA 541-A:3.
3. Outstanding Final Objection to Den 304.02(k)
At its meeting on February 16, 1990, the Committee entered a final objection to the text of this rule as it appeared in Final Proposal 89-184. The Board made no changes to text of this rule but included the same text in Final Proposal 90-351. The Committee entered a final objection to this rule in Final Proposal 90-351, using the same bases for objection as it had in its February 16, 1990 objection to Final Proposal 89-177, and published in the February 23, 1990 New Hampshire Rulemaking Register. The Committee objects that the rule is contrary to the public interest, pursuant to Committee Rules 403.01(d) and 403.02(c), by not being clear and understandable and capable of uniform enforcement, and is contrary to legislative intent, pursuant to Committee Rule 402.02, by conflicting with RSA 541-A:3 and RSA 541-A:12, III(e).
4. Outstanding Final Objection to Den 304.02(m)(3)c.
5. Rules Contrary to Legislative Intent
The Committee objected, pursuant to RSA 541-A:3-e, IV(b) and Committee Rule 402.02, that the rules listed below are contrary to legislative intent by violating specific statutes. The nature of the violations are outlined in the Committee Attorney's April 10, 1991, objection response memorandum to the Committee as well as his annotations to the text of the rules in the objection response. These annotations were incorporated into the memorandum. The rules include:
Den 102.01(a)
Den 201.01(b)
Den 201.02(e)
Den 202.01(a), (b) and (c)
Den 203.01(a) and (c)
Den 203.05(a), (d), (e) and (f)
Den 203.06(b) and (c)
Den 301.02(a) and (b)
Den 301.02(c)(10)
Den 301.05(a), (b), (c)(10), (c)(11)f., and (f)
Den 304.02(a)(4), (a)(5), (a)(8), (a)(9), (b)(1), (c)(2),
(d) through (i), (m)(4), and (n)(1) through (4)
Den 502.01(a) through (i)
Den 601.02(c), (d) and (e)
6. Rules Contrary to the public Interest
Pursuant to RSA 541-A:3-e, IV(c) and Committee Rules 403.01(d) and 403.02(c), the Committee objects that the following rules are contrary to the public interest by not being clear and understandable and capable of being uniformly enforced. The nature of the violations are outlined in the Committee Attorney's April 10, 1991, objection response memorandum to the Committee as well as his annotations to the text of the rules in the objection response. These annotations were incorporated into the memorandum. The rules include:
Den 301.01(a) and (e)
Den 301.04(a)(4)
Den 304.02(a)(2), (a)(5), (a)(5), (b)(1), (c)(2), (m)(4), and
(n)(1) through (4)
Den 401.01(a) and (b)(7)
Den 402.01(c)(1)
Den 502.01(a) through (i), except (f)
7. Rules Beyond the Authority of the Board
The Committee objected, pursuant to RSA 541-A:3-e, IV(a) and Committee Rules 401.01(c), that the rules are listed below are beyond the authority of the Board. The nature of the violations are outlined in the Committee Attorney's April 10, 1991, objection response memorandum to the Committee as well as his annotations to the text of the rules in the objection response. These annotations were incorporated into the memorandum. The rules include:
Den 102.01(c)
Den 203.05(k)
Den 304.02(l)
Den 502.01(a), (b) and (i)
DUE TO THE COMPLEXITY AND NUMBER OF BASES FOR OBJECTION, THE RULES TO WHICH A FINAL OBJECTION HAS BEEN FILED HAVE BEEN LISTED ONLY BY RULE NUMBER. COPIES OF THE RULES WITH THE ANNOTATIONS UPON WHICH THE COMMITTEE BASED ITS FINAL OBJECTION ARE AVAILABLE FROM THE OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE SERVICES AT THE NORMAL RATE OF $0.20 PER PAGE.


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As you may remember I have been struggling with green tainted water, not thick green pea soup and floating particles (which I do not think is algae).
There you have it. No more Nitrates. What are these floating particles and how do I get rid of them! My pond USED to be crystal clear. I bought some product that promised to clump the particles together but then I read the label that some ingredients cause cancer and its hazardous to animals drinking from the pond and many other warnings so I returned it.
Right now I am cleaning the filter with the quilt batting every day (and it needs it!) twice a day would be better. If I leave it two days, I can see the pond getting worse. My problem is I am heading on for two week vacation pretty soon, so I need to resolve this pretty quick.
Just make sure this time your fish do not get overfed like last time .
I have not used it but others here use it. Think someone here posted this awhile back and I saved it and added other info to it as I got it. Supposed to kill string algae, get rid of tannins, and other yucky stuff.
You can buy it on Ebay either kosher or not. Don't know what the difference is between them.
Sodium Percarbonate Sodium percarbonate can be purchased (without the fancy "use me in your pond" packaging) for 1/10th the price. Just google it. I buy it from a soap making supplier. Same stuff that's sold as waterfall and rock cleaner - and also will clean algae off your patio, roof, etc. And yes, it's perfectly safe - breaks down into hydrogen peroxide and soda ash when it comes in contact with water. I do not expect the percarbonate to have a noticeable effect on a mature biofilter. Reduce the application rate for situations where there is less for the sodium percarbonate to control, probably to a few tablespoons per 1000 gallons per week instead of the 2 pounds per 1000 gallons per week I used to clean up my dirty water garden ponds here at the end of winter and the start of spring. The stringy algae dies and in about a day starts breaking loose. You gotta net out the dead algae at this point or it will plug whatever your mechanical filter system may be. But it has a quite different character than live stringy algae and is much easier to net and remove from the pond. The sodium carbonate will become entangled in the stringy algae then start to hydrolyze making a high concentration of hydrogen peroxide at the strings of algae, and then the algae dies. This takes a few hours, and you will see "bubbling action" from the action of the hydrogen peroxide on the stringy algae. I did not bother using a spoon, I just poured the sodium percarbonate straight from the 2 pound jar onto the stringy algae from above. Worked for me in these two "water garden" ponds, deeper ponds may need a different solids distribution technique. The sodium percarbonate does not immediately dissolve, that is a good thing since you want it to hydrolyze and make the hydrogen peroxide on the stringy algae itself. You will see the pond water start to clear of the "clouds" of stringy algae by the second day as you remove the dead algae. Also, any dead crud on the botton floats to the top to be easily netted out of the pond. A good thing, IMO. The filters were on, and had been on all Winter, and are oversized for the load, in both of the ponds where I have been using sodium percarbonate to clean the pond and kill the algae. Certainly sodium percarbonate should NOT be used in a pond with no circulation or filter system. I don't like the stringy algae. It is ugly, and makes a pond ugly, and the purpose of the pond is to be something lovely and relaxing in my yard. So out will come the sodium percarbonate if I have a serious string algae problem. Sodium percarbonate clears up the brown color in tanins in the water. So, YES, it does that. The LC50 (dose at which 50% of the fish die if the dose remains active for two days and has nothing to react it away) of sodium percarbonate is 0.6 pounds per 1000 gallons. If there is something there like stringy algae or bottom yuck in the pond the hydrogen peroxide will be all gone in a few hours, so I indeed dosed my dirty water garden ponds with an initial dose of a pound per 1000 gallons, then used another pound per 1000 gallons the rest of the week to complete the cleanup. Don't use a pound per 1000 gallons in a relatively clean pond, it would be too much. If the brown color isn't gone, there is still stuff to consume the sodium percarbonate and its reaction product hydrogen peroxide.
First, Great news and congratulations on getting the Nitrate level down.That should resolve the 'green water' side of your problem.
The floating particles that you mention are what is termed Total Suspended Solids (TSS) and may be comprised of both organic and inorganic material. In your case, it is most certainly caused by the Iquana poop. Filtering, as you are doing, is one method of removal. The other is the use of a Flocculant as Dave54 mentioned. The safest and most effective would be agricultural gypsum. It can be found at Garden Centers and Farm Supply stores. It is completely safe and benign. The gypsum causes the suspended particles to clump and sink to the bottom of the pond where it can be removed later. Sadly, this may be an ongoing maintenance issue because of the continued presence of the Iquanas, but the gypsum should be relatively inexpensive. You do NOT need an algaecide.
According to the MSDS for Soda Ash, the level at which it is toxic to algae, it is also toxic to Daphnia and other fresh water invertebrates in a much shorter time span, 1/3 of the exposure time listed for algae.
People here say they use it w/good results is all I know w/no harm to their fish. I have not used it so cannot speak on it other than pass on what we have discussed here in the past. Does it matter that is kills Daphnia? We aren't putting it out into the wild just in our own ponds. It isn't killing the snails in peoples ponds that I know use it. It's not killing their plants or fish either.
It disrupts the aquatic food chain by being toxic to invertebrates. This reduces the diversity in a pond and diversity has been proven to be one of the stabilizing and strengthening factors in any environment. As such, it can not be called pond friendly or even environmentally friendly when used in this manner.
So far I have managed my pond w/o it and perhaps I will continue doing so. Don't want to do anything that could harm my fish.
Hydrogen peroxide produces the same results and is completely safe. Why would anyone use a compound of peroxide and soda ash instead? Sometimes I do not understand peoples' reasoning!
Here is an article I found on using this product. I also read at the bottom it is harmful to bees and other insects if allowed to drift. Might want to be very careful those of you who are using this.
Great informative post, j.w.. What I find really troublesome is that there are many other 'Solution to your pond problem' products on the market where the manufacturers only provide the information that will entice you to purchase said product. Failing to tell the buyer that as much, if not more, harm as good will be the result of the products use. But wait, they have a product that will correct that also!!! What a racket!
Here's the thread on koiphen that I first stumbled on when I was battling string algae in our new pond. We had used a few products that worked (D-Solv, Green-Clean) but they were so expensive for repeat dosing. That's when I learned that those products were nothing more than sodium percarbonate packaged as a pond product and marked up 2000%. Now we buy and use sodium percarbonate to clean our waterfalls and as a "pond lift" product in the spring. Sprinkle a few handfuls over the surface of the pond and debris from the bottom will come floating to the top to be easily skimmed.
I wouldn't doubt that it can be harmful to invertebrates - the smallest members of the ecosystem are generally harmed first. When you get rid of string algae, do you imagine there is no animal life that might be living in that algae? But we don't like it in our ponds so we kill it off. The toxicity of sodium percarbonate depends upon two things - the size of the dosage, obviously, but also the amount of string algae present. If you have string algae to "activate" the oxidation, the product dissipates rapidly. The danger comes with too large a dose or too clean a pond. So as with any chemical compound in your pond use it at your own risk. If the potential risk to other pond life is a concern to you, then I would avoid any chemical products honestly.
So there's a toxicity level for hydrogen peroxide, too. The smaller the organism the smaller the toxic dose.
This is a link to a more detailed toxicity report for Hydrogen peroxide and Sodium percarbonate.
It is because these treatments bring some level of toxicity to an aquatic eco-system is why I have never used them or recommend them. It is so much more non-intrusive and ultimately cheaper to remove the cause of what in many cases is a cosmetic problem than to slowly and incrementally destroy a pond's eco-system. Other treatments such as Koi clay, gypsum and similar minerals are basically non-reactive chemically and as a result do no damage to any trophic level of an aquatic eco-system.
Well the draw back of living where everyone else vacations is all the tourists! LOL! Just kidding. My husband is from Seattle, so we are heading there for a few weeks to see his family. His Grandfather turns 100. So we are having a party.
So will peroxide help these floating bits clump?
I've had to net the pond now (thanks to a cattle egret) and normally makes it worse as I can't scoop the bottom everyday (although with the net you'd think the bottom wouldn't need to everyday). I'm pretty sick of cleaning the filters every day. I really don't understand what has changed so much that I could go from crystal clear to problems for months now.
Peroxide will not clump it it will only help algae die .It turns it white and you can brush it off or turn on pump again and it will go into the filter .It works better if the area is in full sun or it is hot out .I always turn off my pump and allow it to work for 15 or 20 minutes .It is great in a bath with baking soda to adjust your own body ph also and makes your skin feel soft and it can help with sunburn .
Okay, some good news. As I mentioned I cleared the vacant lot so 80% of the iguanas are gone. Only a small few are left hanging around. I am seeing far less iguana mess around.
I think I saw gypsum at the garden store, how do I use this? My pond is about 2200 - but its oddly shaped and various depths, so that is my husbands very rough estimate. I would rather say its 2000gall or less for safety sake.
I am cleaning the filters daily and its a real drag! Some days the pond looks better and the next it looks terrible. Since I put the net on it looks terrible. I plan to take the net off tomorrow. I am beginning to suspect that my naughty fish have dug all the rocks off the top layer of my lily pots and are digging the soil and that's causing some of the issue. So I'm going to take out all the pots tomorrow, top them up with soil, add a new heavier layer of rocks and see how it goes.
Here's what the filter looks like everyday. The black net bag is what holds the lava rock. The other is the quilt batting. EVERY day it looks like this or worse.


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'Hear The World Ambassadors' Photo Exhibit Opens In New York
May 6, 2008 | People |
New York – Bryan Adams, famed musician and official photographer of the Hear the World initiative, introduced his photography collection of "Hear the World Ambassadors" in an interactive exhibit May 1. The opening was timed to celebrate the beginning of Better Hearing and Speech Month.
Hear the World is a global initiative raising awareness about the importance of good hearing and the impact of hearing loss. For the Hear the World exhibit, Adams has photographed several notable musicians including Mick Jagger, Amy Winehouse, Plácido Domingo, Joss Stone, Lindsay Lohan, Annie Lennox, Michael Bublé, and many others. Each image features a celebrity ambassador in a conscious pose of "hearing."
Actor Renee Zellweger looks at celebrity photos at the opening of musician Bryan Adams 'Hear the World Ambassadors' photography exhibit in New York May 1. The photos will be auctioned and the proceeds will benefit the Hear the World Foundation, which was launched by Phonak AG to raise awareness about the issue of hearing loss.
Source: REUTERS/Ray Stubblebine/Phonak AG.
Because music is a universal language that goes beyond geographical, social, and linguistic boundaries, it is the chosen medium to spread the message of Hear the World. The initiative was launched in 2006 by innovative hearing device manufacturer Phonak. As part of the initiative, the Hear the World Foundation was set up to provide support to those with hearing loss around the world.
"I'm excited to lend my support to such an important cause," said Adams. "As a musician, I'm naturally sympathetic to an initiative dedicated to helping people appreciate and preserve an individual's sense of sound. I hope this exhibit helps to remind people of the tremendous value of their hearing."
To make the Hear the World Ambassadors exhibit a "listening experience" the exhibit will also feature interactive sound elements, such as a sound art installation in which visitors can participate. Additionally, visitors will be able to screen their hearing at free testing stations located throughout the venue.
The exhibit will be open free to the public for two weeks in New York's Meatpacking District at 413-415 W. 14th Street. After it closes in New York, the Hear the World Ambassadors exhibit will travel to Berlin and Zurich. The photos will be auctioned off online at www.hear-the-world.com/exhibition, with the net proceeds going to the Hear the World Foundation. Visitors to the website will also be able to test their hearing via an online hearing test.
"Bryan has devoted a tremendous amount of time – and talent – to help Hear the World raise awareness about the issue of hearing loss," said Valentin Chapero, CEO of Phonak. "We're lucky to have him as a partner in our efforts. It's our hope that the public will find the exhibit enjoyable, informative and engaging."
In addition to his work with Hear the World, Adams has photographed individuals from around the globe. Adams's work has been featured in magazines such as Vogue, Vanity Fair, Harper's Bazaar and his own magazine, Zoo.
In recognition of Better Hearing and Speech Month, Hear the World is also sponsoring free hearing screenings in markets around the country throughout the month of May.
Miami – Thursday, May 15 – the Mayor of Miami, Matti Bower, will proclaim Hear the World Day and encourage residents to visit the Hear the World screening site on 16th Street & Lincoln Road
Seattle – Saturday, May 17 – Hear the World will help the Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum celebrate Family Day by hosting free hearing screenings outside the museum on 5th Avenue
Houston – Monday, May 19 – Mayor Bill White will proclaim May 19 Hear the World Day for the city of Houston; the Hear the World screening site will be located in Downtown Houston on Travis Street, between Preston & Congress
San Diego – Wednesday, May 28 – The San Diego Padres will host Hear the World at Petco Park to conduct screenings outside of the ball park prior to that evening's game
Denver – Friday, May 30 – Hear the World will host free screenings on Tremont Street, near the 16th Street outdoor mall
For more information, please visit www.hear-the-world.com.
Source: Phonak AG
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The ears and ears of dogs are one of the most sensitive parts and that most dirt cover so their maintenance and cleaning should be a priority task.
The sense of hearing is one of the most important organs of the dog. By having it much more developed than people, they pick up sounds that for us are often imperceptible. To maintain your hearing acuity in full development for as long as possible, proper hygiene of the dog's ears is essential to prevent infections and inflammations.
The cleaning of ears of the dogs is necessary for your health and helps to avoid contracting diseases. The indicated thing is to make a toilet of ears every 15 or 20 days, although there are breeds that due to their physical characteristics require a more freceunte hygiene of the area.
All dogs have very similar ears, although they can change throughout their lives. We can check how the ear of a dog is in the following image where its anatomy is shown.
There are breeds more predisposed to suffer ear infections such as water dogs or PDAE and animals that have big ears, even so it is equally important that we cleanse this habit in any dog regardless of their physical characteristics or behavior. Otitis is inflammation of the ear and can be caused by many causes such as the presence of microorganisms such as parasites or fungi in the ear canals and dirt in the area. Most often, there is external otitis caused by inflammation of the auricle and external auditory canals.
Sometimes, part of the treatment of otitis is by cleaning the ears.
The products with which the ears of dogs are cleaned are called cerumenolytic cleaners. They are always recommended because they help remove dirt and wax from the ear canals of dogs and can be used for a homemade cleaning for sensitive ears. Some can exert treatment effects, but usually they are products that have components that can adapt perfectly to the pH of the ears of the dogs so as not to irritate them and with a cleansing effect. They also have a calming and decongestant effect.
The procedure to clean the ears of a dog is simple. Before starting to clean, check the general condition of the ears and ears by inspecting the area well for fungi or other foreign bodies.
Use a dog ear cleaner. Before use, it is recommended to shake the canister, which consists of a cannula that does not cause pain to the animal due to its flexibility and its rounded tip, so that the owner can use it without thinking that it could harm his pet.
Apply the drops that come indicated in the package insert of the product introducing the cannula in the external ear canal.
Massage the area for a few seconds. It is important to rub the outer ear with your fingers to help the product reach the inside. While we are doing it, we are likely to hear a "splash" of the liquid.
Finally, we let the animal shake its head, something that it will surely do without us asking it!
Then we can look at the area in case part of the liquid had left. In this case, we recommend drying the duct with a little toilet paper.
This is a basic cleaning of ears. For a deeper cleaning or in case the dog shows symptoms of otitis it is advisable to go to the veterinarian. In cases of more severe infections or allergies, sometimes you have to sedate or anesthetize the animal to make a more in-depth assessment of the damaged ear. However, there are animals that need cleaning more frequently and in certain cases it is recommended to perform them daily.