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Salt in Saltwater Aquariums - How Do You Make Saltwater For A Marine Aquarium?

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In the early days of keeping a marine or saltwater aquarium you had to go to the ocean to get water. Now, years later, questions arise; where do you get the salt to make saltwater for the fish? Do you just add a salt mix to water? If so how do I know if I mixed the salt correctly? Then you hear rumors that keeping the saltwater level in your aquarium is difficult. Let us look into the world of salt for creating a healthy environment where fish will thrive. Rest assured that you no longer have to drive to the ocean to get saltwater. You can go to most pet and aquarium stores and purchase salt for your aquarium in either a dry salt mix form or premixed ready to use water. There are four different ways to purchase saltwater for your aquarium. The most popular is to purchase dry, premixed salt in a box, plastic bag or bucket. Just follow the directions on the label and add the recommended amount of salt to tap, RO, DI or distilled water. Another popular way to purchase salt for your aquari...

Achieving Peace of Mind

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Reading classic literature always calms me down. This is especially true when I read the diaries of famous writers of the nineteenth century. It seems like you have conversed with an intelligent person, who doesn’t need to make himself look better than he really is. Such reading is very comforting to me, because the pace of life in the nineteenth century was much slower than it is today. Interests and passions were less competitive then, and the slower passage of time allowed for individuals to expand their thoughts into questions, a practice we seldom have time for anymore. Diaries and other accounts from this period take me far away from the reality of everyday life today, and the only thing I regret is that you cannot find new works by novelists such as Swift, Defoe, and Dickens, or new poetry from such poets as Byron. I like this sort of detailed work, and you would probably be surprised at the content of the books I pursue, because I tend to read completely useless books on topics...

Guitar Lesson Videos - What Is The Attraction?

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Once upon a time, long, long ago men and women learnt to play guitar from books or, if they were lucky, a guitar teacher. Books could supply them with the information they needed like what the note symbols meant and what a major key is, and a teacher could guide their wide-eyed students, explaining things they did not understand, and showing them the right way to hold the guitar and how to change chords. If a fledgling guitarist could not find a teacher, and books were not available, then they learnt what music they could from the radio or records, piecing together how to make the music come out of the instrument. Guitar lesson videos may not be as inspiring, uplifting and bloodthirsty as your average chick flick but to their devoted fans they represent entry to the real world of action - the realm of realizing dreams and acquiring new skills. Guitar playing used to be a hard-won achievement bought with sweat filled hours cringing under the gaze of a grey-pony tailed train wreck who on...

Tips for Successful home schooling

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Are you interested in creating a great home schooling program? Home schooling has many benefits and is no longer a matter of debate. Here are some tips to make learning at home an even more beneficial for you and your child. Inspire your Child to learn how to write. Writing assignments elicit more sighs and yawns more than other types of leaning assignments for a child, but it’s possible to allow children to like writing assignments by giving them practical assignments. For instance, you can get a child to write what he likes most about his/her toy; or to write a letter to a favorite relative as a way of keeping touch. You can also introduce the child to blogging online. If your child sees posts by other children, it is likely he will want to try writing his own topic. Pen pal letters also stimulate the child to learn how to write. Inculcate a reading culture It’s always god to teach your child how to read (appropriate materials please). But, you also need to take steps to ensure that ...

7 Fat & 7 Fiber Food Changes to Drop Cholesterol and Weight

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If you have high cholesterol or blood pressure, cutting back on fat and increasing fiber can help lower both. You may also lose weight in the process! Try these food changes to reduce your fat and saturated fat intake. Saturated fat is the hard, artery clogging fat and you want to stay under 20 grams daily whenever possible. Total fat should be less than 50 grams for women and 60 grams for men. 1. Eat only 1oz cheese instead of 2oz and save 5 grams saturated fat. One ounce is the portion of presliced cheese. 2. Buy 95% lean ground beef instead of regular ground beef and save 3.5 grams saturated fat for every 3oz portion. Three ounces is the size of a deck of cards. 3. Instead of whole milk choose 1% and save 3 grams saturated fat per 8oz serving. 4. Choose tub margarine instead of butter and for every tablespoon you will save another 5 grams saturated fat. Here are a few more ideas to trim your overall fat intake: 5. Use low fat cream soups instead of regular for your casserole dish an...

Communication Skills for Managers

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Performance appraisal is probably the most misused and abused management tool in history. When asked, the majority of human resource managers will swear blind that it is their most important device for reviewing members of the team. The reality is that, on the whole, managers, supervisors, and employees hate the thoughts of them and they rarely get done. Human resource professionals spend a lot of time whipping people into doing them, while managers look for a variety of reasons to delay the process. The reason for this is that it's often an uncomfortable practice to carry out, people undertake performance appraisal for the wrong reasons and from the wrong perspective. This can end up putting the manager and the employee on different "sides". Appraisals are used for determining pay increases, who gets let go, who gets promoted. Most commonly, they are used to focus on what people have done wrong. So what is the real point of performance appraisals? Generally, the aim of t...

Can You Get Pregnant On Your Period?

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The debate on whether you can get pregnant on your period has been on for decades. People have varied opinions about the issue. But the ground reality is that the situation can not be generalized. Every woman's body has a different metabolism despite a generalized process of menstruation. Therefore, yes you can surely get pregnant if you have unprotected sex during your period. The chances of a woman getting pregnant during her period are low. However they increase manifold soon after the period is over. As such, there is no particular time period during the complete menstrual cycle that can be said to be safe to have unprotected sex. To understand it all better, you first need to go through the whole ovulation process. During every menstrual cycle an egg is released form the woman's ovary. If this egg gets fertilized by a sperm a pregnancy is established otherwise it is ejected from the uterine during the period. When a woman has her period, the egg is in the process of wastin...

Lose Weight with Hibernation Diet

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The recent revolutionary Hibernation Diet created by a British pharmacist and a nutrition expert caught my attention by making a powerful connection between poor sleep and obesity. It advocates incorporating mild resistance exercise and a healthy, balanced, and wholesome diet void of highly refined, processed foods such as white bread, pizza, burgers, chocolates, beer and sugar, and suggests taking a generous spoonful or two of honey at night, either as a warm drink, a smoothie or straight from the jar. This fascinating honey hibernation diet promises to help us sleep and lose weight at the same time by using our biology and working with our bodies, rather than against them ' "recovery biology". A new approach to fat metabolism, it requires no straining from aerobics exercise, no wearing out on a treadmill and no pounding it out in the gym. Sounds too easy, too miraculous or too far-fetched to be believable? Natural honey when taken prior to bed is believed to be able to ...

Lord of the rings audio books

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Lord of the rings audio books The Lord of the rings is a three-part trilogy now made into a major film trilogy. The first part "the fellowship of the ring" has now been narrated into an audio book. The narrator for this book is Mr Rob Inglis, the length of this book is 19 hours (unabridged) so you get the full story and not the cut down version. The basis of the story is that for friends set off on an epic journey, set in a fantastic world of Hobbits Dwarfs and Demons, Orcs are the enemy of Frodo the Main Character, his best friend is sam Gamgee, with Pippin and Merryweather. Frodo is the protector of the ring. with His friends helping to keep it safe, the black riders, known as the ring wraiths try to steal it from him. The Lord of the rings audio books second part of the trilogy is called "the two Towers" this audio book is 16 hours and 45 minutes (unabridged) again this book is narrated by Mr Rob Inglis, The quest of Frodo and his companions has become clearer, H...

Acoustic Guitar Tab

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If you enjoy the idea of learning the guitar and you visualize yourself sitting down and playing your favorite songs for your own enjoyment, acoustic guitar tabs give you the possibility of realizing your dream. You can pick up an acoustic guitar any time of the day or night and play without disturbing your family or neighbors. Some people even play the acoustic guitar while the family is watching TV in the same room! Tablature, or tab, is the ideal way for any beginner guitar player to learn or for a more seasoned guitarist to learn new material quickly. A basic definition of guitar tab is a diagram showing the guitar strings with the frets where the guitarist is to play the notes indicated by numbers. Quite often a guitarist approaching a new piece of music will struggle with conventional music notation whereas tab is a quick and easy way of getting the feel of a new piece. Also a pianist or other musician can look at a piece of guitar sheet music and play it right away but would hav...