Posted: 07 June 2004 at 8:18pm | IP Logged

The Fish Registry is going to have its first Tank of the Month Contest! 

Here are the rules:

1.  5 tanks will be listed in a poll on this forum.  All registered users will be able to vote for the tank of the month.

2.  The poll will run from July 1st until July 31st.

3.  All Fish Registry registered tanks are eligible.  Tanks with detailed registries and good pictures will be given preference.

4.  The tank that receives the most votes by July 31th wins.  The winning tank will be featured on The Fish Registry homepage for the month of August.  By submitting your tank to this contest you agree to have your tank featured on the homepage.

5.  You can submit your tank by replying to this thread stating that you wish for your tank to be included.  If you have more than one tank, please indicate which tank you wish to enter into the contest.  The Fish Registry Admin's will select 5 tanks for the first poll.  Moderators are eligible for this contest (don't worry, we'll make sure those mischievous moderators can't effect the outcome)

Lets get it on!

- The Fish Registry

Posted: 09 June 2004 at 7:09pm | IP Logged

We have our first contestant!

I'd like to get at least 5 tanks for this first run. 

Posted: 11 June 2004 at 10:07pm | IP Logged

Ill submit either one or both of mine..what the heck  

Bring it on Buggy 

Posted: 12 June 2004 at 3:56am | IP Logged

http://www.fishregistry.net/registryitem.asp?ID= 294&Ref=0

http://www.fishregistry.net/registryitem.asp?ID=291&Ref= 0 

http://www.fishregistry.net/registryitem.asp?ID= 288&Ref=0

http://www.fishregistry.net/registryitem.asp?ID= 287&Ref=0

http://www.fishregistry.net/registryitem.asp?ID= 286&Ref=0

http://www.fishregistry.net/registryitem.asp?ID= 285&Ref=0

Posted: 12 June 2004 at 9:35am | IP Logged

OK, I know this is a tough decision to ask you guys to make, but you have to choose one tank each to submit to the contest.  So, if you have more than one tank registered please either paste the link to the tank you would like to submit, or just include a brief description of the tank that would allow us to distinguish it from the rest of your tanks (Ex: "my 55 gallon reef tank")

You can feel free to enlist the help of the members of the forum to help you decide if you are having difficulty choosing. 

Posted: 12 June 2004 at 12:11pm | IP Logged

I'll Submit my 55 Gallon Planted Tank

http://www.fishregistry.net/registryitem.asp?ID=273

Posted: 12 June 2004 at 4:10pm | IP Logged

this'll do

  http://www.fishregistry.net/registryitem.asp?ID=287&Ref= 0

Posted: 14 June 2004 at 8:50pm | IP Logged

Note: We have changed the date of the competition to run from July 1st to July 31st.  We did this to allow time for more people to submit their tanks.

- The Fish Registry

Posted: 24 July 2004 at 2:05pm | IP Logged

go ahead and submit mine

Posted: 23 July 2009 at 8:15pm | IP Logged

A federal jury Thursday found a 32-year-old Minnesota woman guilty of illegally downloading music from the Internet and fined her $80,000 each -- a total of $1.9 million -- for 24 songs.

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Attorney Joe Sibley said that his client was shocked at the fine, noting that the price tag on the songs she downloaded was 99 cents.

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She plans to appeal, he said.

Cara Duckworth, a spokeswoman for the Recording Industry Association of America, said the association was "pleased that the jury agreed with the evidence and found the defendant liable."

"We appreciate the jury's service and that they take this as seriously as we do," she said.
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Thomas-Rasset downloaded work by artists such as No Doubt, Linkin Park, Gloria Estefan and Sheryl Crow.
 
This was the second trial for Thomas-Rasset. The judge ordered a retrial in 2007 after there was an error in the wording of jury instructions.
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The fines jumped considerably from the first trial, which granted just $220,000 to the recording companies.

Thomas-Rasset is married with four children and works for an Indian tribe in Minnesota.

Posted: 26 July 2009 at 10:33pm | IP Logged

I¡¯ve been thinking a lot about education lately. It all started when I watched this TED talk by Sir Ken Robinson, ¡°Do Schools Kill Creativity?¡± Robinson asserts that creativity in education is as important as literacy, and the current school system does not treat it as such. In fact, he says, the current school system stifles creativity.
    What these things have in common you see is that kids will take a chance. If they don¡¯t know, they¡®ll have a go. Am I right? They¡¯re not frightened of being wrong. Now I don¡¯t mean to say that being wrong is the same thing as being creative. But what we do know is, if you¡¯re not prepared to be wrong, you¡¯ll never come up with anything original. If you¡¯re not prepared to be wrong.
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    And by the time they get to be adults, most kids have lost that capacity. They have become frightened of being wrong. And we run our companies like this, by the way ¡ª we stigmatize mistakes. And we are now running national education systems where mistakes are the worst thing you can make. And the result is that we are educating people out of their creative capacities. Picasso once said this. He said, that all children are born artists, the problem is to remain an artist as we grow up. I believe this passionately; that we don¡¯t grow into creativity, we grow out of it, or rather that we get educated out of it. So why is this?
Do Schools Kill Creativity?
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When I heard this, I of course started thinking about my own schooling. I was fortunate enough to go to some pretty unconventional schools throughout my childhood. My elementary school, for example, encouraged ¡°inventive spelling.¡± If you didn¡¯t know how to spell a word for the story you were writing, you made it up ¡ª you wrote it the way you thought it should be. Now, I can¡¯t prove any cause and effect here, but I now happen to be a top-notch speller. I¡¯m sure that¡¯s more due to my childhood consumption of every book I laid my hands on, but inventive spelling was great nonetheless. We actually had a class called ¡°Rhythm¡± that, as far as I remember, entailed a lot of jumping and dancing around a big empty room. I also didn¡¯t have grades until I was 10 years old, and the school I went to resided inside half the public library building.
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So my schooling experience wasn¡¯t exactly conventional, but it began to fit into certain molds as I grew older. After all, I had to get into college, didn¡¯t I?
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Robinson suggests that our schooling system would look to aliens like an entire process devoted to creating university professors. If you look at the path from high school to university and beyond, schooling and academia have become insulated, self-perpetuating ecosystems that are often irrelevant to the world outside. Luckily, there are many teachers who reach beyond that ¡ª but it is a hard system to crack.
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Let me pause to say that I have always loved being a student. I actually was one of those people who really liked going to school. And in university, after completing a thesis my senior year, I considered going on to do a PhD in literature. But after a year and a half of giving myself space from academia, I realized that if I do go back to school, it needs to be for something relevant to the social discussions and issues I confront every day. I still adore literature, but I cannot spend six years diving ever further into the insulated academic world of literary analysis. Today I am writing my stories, exploring new territory, and diving into projects that I figure out as I go. Most importantly, I have realized how much I am learning by going at it myself.
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- becoming fluent in Spanish
- taking a community activism training course
- learning to start my own business and build an online community
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What do all these experiences have in common? I was thrown into the thick of it, and spurred to make my way.
I became fluent in Spanish by living, studying, eating and breathing in Spanish for a full year in Valencia, Spain. The community activism training course was based around actually planning and creating our own nonprofit organizations ¡ª press conference introduction and all. My business and blogging? Well, I was just trying to figure out a way to support my mobile and independent lifestyle. And the thesis, though unquestionably within academia, required me to create something huge on my own.
In all of these examples, I made tons of mistakes. None of them were irreparable, and most of them were formative in my learning experience. Being in the thick of things is one of the best ways to get rid of that fear of failure, which is how we thrive and nurture our development.
Does this mean that our education systems need to become more experiential in order to become more creative? How can classrooms embrace the fruits of failure, and redefine them as discovery? I think this should be an inspiring topic to discuss, because there is so much potential.
I encourage you all to watch Robinson¡¯s TED talk below ¡ª aside from being brilliant, he¡¯s also relentlessly hilarious. [If you are viewing this post in an RSS reader or e-mail, you may need to click the link to watch on YouTube].