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Apocalypse Denial
We remain as a nation in denial of our own future and, far more important, that of our children and grandchildren.
Introduction by Tom Engelhardt
In a Mother Jones magazine essay, Over a Barrel, energy expert Paul Roberts, considering the near-impossibility of creating a sustainable-energy world in any reasonable span of time based only on market forces, speaks of an American "wall of energy denial" and of American consumers who "still share the [Bush] administration's energy obliviousness." He adds that "U.S. gasoline consumption continues to rise, despite high oil prices." Well, exactly. And we're talking about something closer to the Great Wall of China than a picket fence. Those fortifications of denial start with oil and wend their way across a rather impressive terrain of future troubles, well patrolled by an army of Hummers and SUVs. But even those Americans who don't care to -- and still don't have to -- peer over the wall already essentially know what's on the other side. That's the nature of denial. After all, you can't deny what you don't, at heart, know to be so.
Even those who decry global warming as a "politically correct scientific fable," for instance, sense that something is rotten in the state of… well, Earthmark. And increasingly, as oil grows more costly, as weapons of mass destruction proliferate, as Bush fiddles and in coming summers Rome threatens to burn, as species of animals attempt to migrate north looking for essential air conditioning, and mini-cascades of extinction begin, as glaciers inland and coastal evaporate, as polar sea ice melts at increasingly fantastic speeds, as tribal peoples in the north and on low-lying islands elsewhere lose their ways of life -- as all those distant "canaries" in the planetary mines are forced to respond -- we remain as a nation in almost full-scale, oil-gulping denial of our own future and, far more important, that of our children and grandchildren.
Imagine if we had been in whatever the opposite of denial might be; if, even a decade ago, we had put Moon-reaching, Iraq war-making levels of money and a little good old American quick-fix know-how into a program to develop sustainable energy resources and another way of life on this planet. But if you spend too much time imagining that sort of thing, especially given the recent election, you'll just end up behind another kind of wall in another kind of denial of what we know to be so.
I took a different tack and asked Mike Davis to write us all a piece on apocalypse denial. A man who always surprises, Davis, author of among many other books the aptly named Ecology of Fear, sent in the following, which you can now enjoy at your peril.
The White House RodeoBy Mike Davis
Earlier this year, four gaunt horsemen in black shrouds cantered down Pennsylvania Avenue. Since no one complained or even noticed, they grazed their hungry steeds on the White House lawn. They've been there ever since and threaten never to leave.
This interview with them is a Tomdispatch exclusive:
"First Horseman, please state your name for our readers."
"My name is Oil and my price is $50 per barrel and higher yet to come."
"Fine, and you're from…?"
"Hubbert's Peak."
"Is that in Colorado?"
No response.
"Are you in Washington for business or pleasure?"
"Both, actually. While wrecking the American economy, I'm also hoping to bring immense happiness to a handful of giant energy corporations."
"Well, that's a popular cause in this town, so please enjoy your stay. Now, Second Horseman, can I have your name for the record."
"My name is Proliferation, son of Wot and destroyer of worlds."
"The War on Terrorism. Only the strong and nuclear-armed shall survive, so sayeth Bush."
"I see, you're a traveling salesman. Visited any exotic locales lately?"
"Mainly Tehran and Pyongyang with some overnights in Karachi, Delhi, and Brasilia. But I have a heavy travel schedule over the next year."
"Enjoy your frequent-flyer points. And now, number three, if I could interrupt for a minute?"
"No problem. My name is Global Chaos. I was just sorting through some vacation photos. Take a look."
"Thanks. Hmm, very National Geographic."
"Yes, I love the great outdoors. This is a melting glacier in Alaska. Here's a flood in Bangladesh. Oh, one of my favorites, the epic drought in the American Southwest."
"Eh, what are those white objects?"
"You mean the bones?"
"Bones? Maybe I'd better move on and meet Horseman Four."
"I am the pale rider and my name is Plague."
"I bet your first name is Bubonic?"
"No, that's my cousin. I'm the avian influenza pandemic."
"I'm sorry, but have I heard of you?"
"The World Health Organization says I am an unprecedented threat to humanity. The world is utterly unprepared to deal with my arrival."
"Well, that's one helluva blurb."
"Yes, and my grandfather killed 100 million people in 1918-19."
"No kidding? Well, thanks for sharing. Now, I wonder if I can ask a few questions of the entire group. First, does your posse, band, whatever, have an agent or publicist?"
'Yes, Saint John."
"OK, and has he arranged your DC publicity? Have you had much election-year media exposure? You know, O'Reilly, the Washington Post, Meet the Press, the Lehrer News Hour….?"
"Oh, no," laughed Chaos, "no one has interviewed us."
"Come on, four big guys in black on horses, here in front of the White House during an election season."
"No, honest," Proliferation chipped in, "they don't want to acknowledge our presence."
"Well, how about the other side, the opposition party? Surely, they've looked to you for a juicy angle. I mean the horse doo-doos all over the White House lawn, not to mention….. Hey are you guys even citizens? Do you have passports?"
"I can assure you," Proliferation insisted, "none of that matters. No one wants to admit we're here."
"But why?"
Plague spoke. "Apocalypse denial. Your whole society is suffering from acute apocalypse denial."
"That's preposterous, we're afraid of all kinds of things these days. We tremble at the very thought of anthrax in the mail, plutonium on the subways, or botulism in our Big Macs. We have regular orange alerts…."
Plague interrupted. "No, that's the whole point. You're so terrified of the shadows your rulers project on the wall that you can't see us standing here, right outside your door."
"Hmm, so I guess you guys are the real deal?"
"Believe it."
"So what's your business plan?"
Chaos cleared his throat. "For generations, the wealthier 40 percent of your population has lived inside an extraordinary bubble of privilege."
"In addition to enormous security of wealth and status," Proliferation took over, "your affluent classes have been sheltered from the bitter winds of history."
"We're the bitter winds," added Plague.
"And we'll burst your bubble," Oil promised.
A pale horse neighed.
"Unfortunately my recorder has run out of tape. I'm afraid we'll have to end the interview with that."
'No problem," Oil smiled. "Y'all come back and visit. We're not going anywhere."
Mike Davis is the author of Dead Cities: And Other Tales, Ecology of Fear, and co-author of Under the Perfect Sun: the San Diego Tourists Never See, among other books. This piece first appeared at Tomdispatch.com.
Copyright C2004 Mike Davis

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To kick it off, we visited The National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial, which has been building its collection for 93 years. From over approximately 70,000 items, Senior Curator Doran Cart chose to share a recent acquisition. It's a piece of canvas from the tail section of a French bomber that its American pilot ripped off after he crash landed.
The decal on the canvas representing the 131st Bomb Escadrille Squadron is a chimera, a mythological creature, holding a British bomb.
"The chimera, or the mythological beast, that's used in the insignia was done to show the elan or the spirit of the group." Cart said. "The design for this mythological creature was inspired by a section of the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, France."
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STARKVILLE – The dinosaur laid her eggs in well-ordered rows on the high ground adjacent to the river while volcanoes exploded in the distance and ash wafted in the breeze.
The herbivorous hadrosaur could not know the river would flood and her clutch would be buried in river sand and volcanic ash for the next 65 to 70 million years.
The eggs that weren't crushed or swept away hardened into fossils. In 2002, John Paul Jones found a clutch with four dinosaur eggs fused to a stone that was once soil.
During the next 10 years, Jones' desire to answer questions about the eggs took him to Mississippi State University, where the geosciences doctoral degree candidate continues his quest.
The eggs, part of Jones' personal collection, are on display each Tuesday from 9 until 11 a.m. at the Dunn-Seiler Geology Museum, located at the main entrance of Hilbun Hall. Jones, also a graduate assistant lecturer, said he wants to answer visitors' questions and show them the museum's collections.
Jones noted the study of the dinosaur eggs fossil ties directly to the mission and purpose of the museum, which is open Tuesdays-Thursdays, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. and Fridays, 9 a.m.-noon. In fact, he hopes to include the dinosaur eggs in his dissertation research, which is focused on how increased public understanding of fossils contributes to geoscience education.
"My fossils tie in with our museum," he explained. "Here we have a lot of fossils – minerals, rocks, meteorites, volcanic rock and fossils that date back from about 10,000 years ago. We have some fossils that people can touch and handle and a whole wall on Mississippi."
Because of the eggs' location, size and shape, as well as their position in the nest and other artifacts in the vicinity, Jones decided they are most likely some type of hadrosaur – duck-billed, social, herbivorous dinosaurs that were among the most common and widespread dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous period.
However, which species of hadrosaur is inside the eggs remains Jones' biggest question. The only way to identify it will be to examine a skull, if one remains inside the eggs, he said. But cutting into the fossil is not an option.
"If you cut into them, as so many people have wanted to do, then you've damaged the egg beyond repair. You do get direct access, but you've destroyed the bones," he explained.
Modern 21st century technology, though, is allowing Jones to move closer to seeing what exactly is inside the eggs without damaging the specimens.
MSU geoscientist and professor Brenda Kirkland recently advised Jones to scan the fossil with the LightSpeed VCT 64-Slice CT Scanner, a research tool accessible through a partnership between MSU's Institute for Imaging and Analytical Technologies and Premier Imaging of Starkville. The high-resolution CT scanner took thousands of 2D X-rays around a single axis of the dinosaur eggs to generate a 3D image of them.
"This way, you've preserved the egg and as the technology continues to improve, the eggs will still be there without destroying the sample. Plus I get to look at the specimens whole. They are beautiful," Jones said.
In mid-August, a few days before the fall 2012 semester began, Robin Luke, technologist and Premier Health Complex facilities director, scanned the eggs and generated more than 10,000 images. The image data sets are being filtered according to density and may offer Jones the answers he's been waiting for.
"We already confirmed that there was an embryo and parts of an embryo inside. In one of the eggs, it appears that there is a skull, and the shape of that skull may be a great help in identifying the species," Jones said.
While he acknowledged that interpreting the data sets will take time, Jones went on to hypothesize the eggs might be the species parasaurolophus, hadrosaurs with huge hollow crests used to make warning sounds or mating calls. If Jones is correct, the skulls inside the eggs would have crests.
"We've got to look at the higher intensity scans to get through the dense rock," he explained.
Jones' quest to unearth more knowledge about the dinosaur eggs and other fossils is giving him the tools he needs to help others get excited about learning science and history, he said.


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Posted February 14, 2008; 11:12 a.m.
Political economist Fei-ling Wang will present a talk titled "The Rise of China and Its Implications" at 4:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 18, in 16 Robertson Hall. It is the first lecture in a series hosted by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program.
Wang is a professor at the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research interests include comparative and international political economy, U.S.-East Asian relations, and East Asia and China studies. He has published six books in English and Chinese, the most recent of which is "Organization Through Division and Exclusion: China's Hukou System."
Wang previously taught at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, was an adjunct/honorary professor of the Renmin University of China and Anhui Normal University in China, and was a Fulbright Professor at Yonsei University in Korea.
The Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program, founded in 2005, provides fellowships to young scholars who study both China and foreign affairs. The program encourages research on neglected or inadequately studied problems in Chinese foreign relations.


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In an attempt to bolster the number of drones in their botnet the Storm Gang has started sending out more spam email.
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RE:spring reports
Great report... it does indeed sound like a good summer season to me! I remember some unbelievable summer returns... 1986(?) I'll look back thru my records but some years, the SW columbia tribs were packed with steel from May thru the winter run. High teens fish all over the place.
I know if I were still living the blissfull life of a guy with steelhead in his homewaters, this would be a summer I'd be very focused on based on the news so far.
Nothing will stand between me and my autumn trip this year!
RE:spring reports
Well, with the typical Rose festival weather I thought I'd sneek out and spend some time on a couple local streams, namely the Cow and the EFL. I only could manage a couple hours each; the Cow was flowing at 11.6 with the Salmon season closed to extremely low escapement this river was as peaceful as I've seen. Juro I only saw 3 sleds in about two hours! I tied on a Thunder and Lighting with a loop knot, waded ankle deep and flicked about 20' of line and leader on the water immediately as thought my fly had been track through the air a fresh hatchery trout grab my fly, strip and release. Wiggle and waggle the long (7136) rod just enough to get line out of the tip top to attempt a cast. Quarter my cast slightly down stream again BAM! Another trout, again and again these trout came to my fly. I came to the conclusion the hatchery trunk must have dumped just prior to my arrival. I packed up and left after catching close to 30 trout. Wish I had the 3wt.
EFL, Friday evening I was going to Oregon City to see if I could find Eric scoping the Shad thing. I actually got to OC only to discover I had to pick up some stuff at our Vancouver office. I trudged though traffic picked up the stuff and bee lined it to Daybreak Park. I walked up stream to the long sweeping bend that feels like it should stacked with bright finning steelhead.
The water was low and clear, I skated a muddler through runs, tailouts, and riffles with no results other than a few smolt smacking the skating fly around. I better get some results soon and get Juro's Wheatly seeing as I have lost a tackle bag with much of my summer gear and flies. With the resent rain the rivers have risen dramatically and will drop nearly as quickly. I plan to get out again soon even if only for a couple hours. One of the locals I know who fishes the rivers of SW WA and PDX often got a 36" chromer a couple weeks ago and has reported multiple other fish coming to the fly. Signs of good things to come?
RE:spring reports
Juro and Andre have pretty much got it covered - the SW Washington streams (and Andre's Oregon rivers) are the hot ones right now. I've also heard a few reports of early summers coming from the Peninsula, but not many.
The rivers up here around Seattle are mostly closed - the only open one is the NF Stilly. There are supposedly a few pods of native Spring fish still around, but I haven't gotten a chance to fish for them yet. The water has been high, too, so if you want to go check the levels with the USGS site as the lower/middle Stilly is our version of BC's Kispiox - the River Out~
Tight Lines!
RE:spring reports
Guess not too many folks are out for steel in the lull period between spring nates and summer missiles. The Sky/Snoq/Green gets nice early shots of summer fish which couldn't give us more trouble than the spring fish did this year... early mornings, muddler heads, leeches and prawns.
A three-banger on the Cow, Kalama, and East Fork Lewis was a typical Columbia trib run for me in the ol' days. Each are less than an hour apart on I-5 and a good rendezvous for Portland / Seattle clavers. Sometimes I would start on the Cow and never get beyond it for the fish that I was getting into, other times the Kalama would be the ticket. The one I fished least was the East Fork despite the fact that I rarely got skunked there. I think it was the fact that I could hardly get past the other two rivers on an outing without taking the whole weekend.
I once landed a huge May summer run buck fishing from the gravel pit to the cut bank just below the riffle downstream from Daybreak. Talk about shoulders. The last time I fished it I was staying at my brother's place in Portland and shot up there for the morning. I fished the stretch for a while, then it started to downpour. I ran up to get my jacket and came back. Landed a 31 inch hen on my second cast after the rain. I think the fly was a purple magic (marabou wing wet fly w/ crystal ribbing).
If it were me out there right now, I'd be swinging a fly from the far bank on the bend below Barrier Dam on the Cow for hellacious action. There would be plenty of fish hanging around the boat launch riffle and in the island channel if the river height is less than 10.3 gauge feet. If you gave it a few weeks and floated it the place would be full of summer runs, I usually landed my first chromer on or before fathers' day. This ain't the Sauk or Skagit by any means but it great entertainment.
spring reports
I'm wondering if anyone has any reports, not that I'll be able to get out. I'm hoping to live vicariously through someone else's print. I will say down in Oregon the early numbers over the dams appear to be good and many of the rivers are kicking out fish. I know of a guide friend that got three on one trip and two the next day. Let's all keep our fingers crossed for steller returns of nates and look to something like a D'schutes 'clave or a Cow 'clave?
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Former U.S. poet laureate Robert Hass will read from his work, including his National Book Award-winning collection "Time and Materials," at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 21, in 101 McCormick Hall.
During his 1995-97 tenure as poet laureate, Hass drew concerted attention to the relations between American writing and local ecologies. Ranging from encouraging local literary societies to "adopt" their native waterways to fostering new scholarship on American literary landscapes, Hass' efforts changed awareness of the interplay between culture and nature.
Hass' books of poetry include "Sun Under Wood," "Human Wishes," "Praise" and "Field Guide." His work also includes "Twentieth-Century Pleasures," a study of contemporary poetry that won the 1984 National Book Critics Circle Award. He is a professor of English at the University of California-Berkeley, where he teaches courses in English and American literature and environmental studies.
Hass is a noted translator whose long collaboration with Czeslaw Milosz brought the Polish Nobel laureate's work into English. He also has published several anthologies of his Washington Post columns on the life of poetry.
The event, designated as a Spencer Trask Lecture, is sponsored by the Department of English, the Princeton Environmental Institute and the University Public Lectures Series. It is cosponsored by the University Center for Human Values and the Program in Creative Writing.


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Thailand is emerging as a medical tourism hub, thanks to the many initiatives of the country's public sector
Singapore: Thailand Board of Investment (BOI) is extending its complete support to transform Thailand into a medical hub in Asia. In this regard it is providing medical services, latest medical technology, medicine, and is further strengthening modern medicine, alternative medicine and biotechnology.
The Thai government is also extending its help and is confident that Thailand has outstanding fundamental structure in the medical field and the human resources are recognized to be of international standard. Thai medical services are renowned worldwide, resulting in a rapid growth in related industries such as spa, Thai massage, Thai herbs, serviced apartments.
The promotion of Thailand as a hotspot for health tourism was reflected in the Thailand Medical Hub Export 2012. The event depicted the reaffirmation of Thailand and the Ministry of Public Health to show readiness and potential of the country to becoming an international medical hub that is also affordable to both Thais and foreigners.
According to Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, the government has clearly set a policy, which will to be implemented from 2012-to-2016, to turn Thailand into a medical hub in four major areas, including medical treatment, health promotion, traditional Thai medicine and alternative medicine, and health products, especially Thai herbs. Also, Public Health Minister Wittaya Buranasiri expects that this policy will bring in $26.12 billion (800 billion baht) in earnings in the next five years.
Since the beginning of 2012, about 2.5 million foreign tourists have visited Thailand for medical services, thus bringing in about $3.97 billion (121.6 billion baht). Another objective is to encourage health establishments in Thailand to improve their services to higher standards. At present, Thailand is home to 256 private hospitals all over the country and most of them have been internationally accredited as No 1 in Asia, while 33 spas are classified as world class.
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It's great to see Thailand taking advantage of the great economical opportunity offered by medical tourism. It's a great way to improve their economy and provide a services to people who wish to kill two bird with one stone, so to speak.
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A few splashes of rain hit the windshield. As I look out the window, the tip of Cotopaxi, the highest active volcano in the world, is obscured by clouds as we travel to Patutan to meet with the families of Camino a la Esperanza Association, ChildFund's local partner.
I am here in Ecuador with members of our board of directors who are reviewing programs and hearing directly from children, youth and family members about the benefits they have received through ChildFund sponsorship.
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ChildFund worked with the community, organizing members to partner with the local municipality to bring a water tank to Patutan. The result — high on a hill with the beautiful Andes in the background — is a water tank and treatment facility run by a volunteer water council.
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We stop to visit one — a hothouse where carnations are grown for sale and export. Workers show us how they are grown, clipped and packaged for market. We meet a family whose prospects have greatly improved through their small flower business. They tell us of their plans and hopes to expand.
As we listen, we are drawn to the many colors and varieties of carnations they have grown. We buy 10 bunches to boost today's sales.
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It was an honor to donate my time and music to benefit the children of Japan with the music video 'If the Earth Could Speak' along with Billboard Award Winning Music Producer Andrew Lane, ChildFund Spokesperson Evelyn Vaccaro, Executive Producer Dallas Tanner, Grammy Award Winning Director Tommy Trbovich, my fellow Nickelodeon, Disney music and television child stars, and many more! I wish Many blessings to the children, and many blessings to Japan.
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The USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in Cullman County, Alabama, will hold a sign-up for the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) for the 2014 Fiscal Year. This sign-up will be held on a continuous basis. Any eligible landuser who has a resource concern or problem on pastureland, cropland, hayland, or forest land may apply for assistance through this program.
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The highest ranking application in each resource concern will be funded first. The remaining applications will be funded in ranking order until all funds have been obligated.
Cullman County will use the Alabama NRCS state approved EQIP Practice and Payment Schedule for eligible conservation practices with the exception of ponds. Ponds will be ineligible for funding.
The first batching period for ranking and prioritizing applications will be October 18, 2013. Applications filed after this date will be considered in the next batching period if additional funds become available.
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Description Steel-gray back with throat hairs white to base. Bicolored tail is relatively short and sparsely haired. Fur soft, dense, darker than in the Eastern Woodrat, and less colorful than the Mexican Woodrat. Belly is pale gray; throat and chest are white. Feet are white.
Dimensions 335-410mm, 130-175mm, 210-315g; / 310-380mm, 130-165mm, 180-275g
Breeding Breeding occurs in spring and fall and a litter of 2 or 3 is born after a gestation period of 30-39 days. Young are weaned at 30 days, disperse in 6 months, attain adult size at 9 months, and live up to 27 months.
Habitat Deserts, Scrub, shrub & brushlands, Grasslands & prairies
Range Plains, Southwest, Texas
Discussion Dens are built from sticks, manure, and cactus joints around desert vegetation. Found on rocky hillsides and grassy lowlands with desert scrub vegetation.


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Tuesday Freebie Challenge 18th Dec
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I used both freebies in my layout.
More of my Santa hat photos, and Lozzy's purple pot (cast) made it into this one.
Supplies used
So This Is Christmas Collection Biggie, designed by Angie Briggs,
Value Pack: Everyday Glitters, designed by Amanda Fraijo-Tobin,
ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Basic Shadows 6501, designed by Sarah Batdorf,
Dynamic Brush Set: Background Blenders, designed by Brandy Murry,
Old Fashioned Christmas Embellishment Special, designed by Cindy Rohrbough,
Silent Night Paper Special, designed by Elisha Barnett,
Oh, I really like that purple cast, but really hope Lauren is feeling better. Gorgeous embellishment clsuter and use of two freebies, too.
Oh, poor Lauren. I guess this will be a Christmas to remember. Good for you, combining two freebies, and so beautifully! I love the vertical composition, your cluster is gorgeous, and the whole page is delightful. By the way, I think this also qualifies for Saturday's red, white, gold, and purple challenge as well.
Very pretty layering. And her pot looks very stylish. Hope her arm heals quickly it's a bummer of a time for it to happen.
Great use of both freebies. Of course, I love the purple cast. Love the papers you used, the red glittered bracket, the ribbon, flowers frames, and the cute little Santa Claus stamp. Your photos are wonderful and I love Lauren's Santa hat. Does that say 'Text Santa'? Hmmm! I should have known that Santa was up on texting. Good for him.
LOVE the purple cast! I'm so glad Lauren finally let you take pics of it! I ditto what Diane said - this will be a Christmas to remember for her for sure! Your layout is wonderful - love the use of the two freebies!
You are so good at embellishment clusters! Really nice paper blending too! Like the purple cast. Too bad she still has it on at Christmas (but actually probably good for her - she probably isn't supposed to get it wet, so can't help with the dishes!). Hope she gets it off soon.
Great mix of patterned paper. Stunning!
Gorgeous! Your use of so many interesting elements on your LO holds the viewers attention (at least mine!) Love the balance of patterned papers with glittery, flowers, holly, postage stamp....awesome!
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There are some legal requirements you will have to comply with as a landlord. This section introduces some of these responsibilities.
The law states you must maintain the property and undertake any major repairs that are required. This includes anything that affects the structure and exterior as well as the electrical, heating, hot water and sanitary conditions.
In addition, there are special rules that apply to soft furnishings, gas and electrical safety, tenants with disabilities and shared houses. These rules can be found below.
All soft furnishings must comply with the Furniture and Furnishings (Fire) Safety Regulations 1988 and be fire safety compliant. Look for the fire safety label on all furnishings. For further information visit: http://www.firesafe.org.uk/html/Legislation/furnregs.htm
A good general guide to all the regulations can be found here:
If you are in any doubt what your responsibilities are, your local Rightmove member letting agent will be able to help and advise - however, as the landlord it's your legal responsibility to ensure the regulations are complied with and that safety checks have actually been carried out - failure to do so is a criminal offence so seek advice and guidance.
Also, if you own a flat, some leases require you to tell the freeholder of your plans to let or may prohibit certain types of lettings - check your lease agreement carefully for any possible restrictions.
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To hopefully put an end to this, I should have added that I'm not against people doing 50% or larger water changes. I just didn't agree with this:
Brhino, have you tested the water today for ammonia?
This is really a matter of dilution science.
It is also a matter of realizing exactly what is in the water. There is no absolute right nor absolute wrong way to accomplish water changing. The true task is to dilute nitrogen decomposition chemicals at the final stage.
One may do a 10% water change twice per day and arrive at the correct dilution dynamic as one whom does a 50% once per week water change. The person doing the 10% schedule is working more as compared to the person doing the 50% change. True. The person doing the 10% schedule is less likely by the laws of dilution dynamics to ever damage their fish from chlorine poisoning. True as well.
To be certain there is no cut and dry method to water changing that fits all fish. Each fish has a different required method per how sensitive they may be to incidental contact with sterilants.
I personally do 35% three times per week on all of my tanks minimum. Some tanks I do a daily 40% change. I keep some sensitive species that do not tolerate any form of incidental sterilant.
The proper way to address the situation is to agree that our aquariums require a dilution of 50% of the total nitrate per week. How we arrive there is up to us. This also is fluid, if we notice that our nitrate levels are still not stable at a low level, we would need to dilute accordingly.
So long as we understand that the goal is to dilute the nitrate levels we accept that there is no truly wrong way of doing so as long as we do not shock or burn the fish.
If you notice that your fish have any form of mucous on them during the refilling process stop filling. Be certain that you added your dechlorinator. If you did be certain that your tank has it's aeration in place. Wait maybe 30 minutes, add a bit more dechlor and carefully begin adding more water. Sometimes the dechlor takes some time to come into contact with the waters and react upon it. Perhaps next time you may do a slightly smaller change to avoid this situation and perhaps do multiple 35% changes in lieu of a 50% change. Remember, this is about the health of the fish, not being right or wrong. A dead fish cares not if I was right.
Good explanation Indian Woods Angels
I think we can all now get back to the topic at handIf you take your time to do the research FIRST, you can successfully set-up and keep ANY type of aquarium with ease.
"Not using a quarantine tank is like playing Russian roulette. Nobody wins the game, some people just get to play longer than others." - Anthony Calfo
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I figured the water change question would stir some debate. I do 50% water changes every 7 or 8 days in all my tanks. For some of them (such as my 10 gallon tank with a single betta) that is probably substantially more than is needed but I have read the opinions of many people I trust that a water change that size will not HURT the fish, assuming the change is done correctly. Obviously this time it was not. With that said when I get my 300 gallon up and running and these fish are moved to that, I may have to do smaller, more frequent water changes just because I am not sure if my water heater will be able to generate 150 gallons of 78 degree water at once.
I just checked the ammonia again, still zero. Are we, as a group, convinced that if the tank had run with non-treated water for 45 minutes then the filters would have been nuked for sure? Because apart from that evidence I feel like forgetting to add prime is most likely what went wrong.300 gallon mega tank: sailfin pleco, clown loaches, silver dollars, roseline sharks, congo tetras, new world cichlids
125 gallon office tank: Africian cichlids, synodontis catfih
75 gallon community tank: bolivian rams, black skirt tetras, dwarf neon rainbowfish, corys, harlequin rasboras, otos, bristlenose and bulldog plecos, assassin snails, various shrimp
60 gallon goldfish tank: fancy goldfish
Usually the bio is tougher over all than the actual fish. There are a lot more of them and living within the organic mulm that they exist in tends to offer them some form of a shield. You could nick the population but so long as you did not damage all of the other inhabitants it is most likely that you would not have seriously damaged your nitrifying bacteria. If you did a large water change and lost all of the fish to gill burning you would most likely lose enough of the bacteria to damage the cycle badly.
My two-cents worth:
It sounds very likely that the dechlorinator (Prime) accidentally got omitted this time. Sometimes, the most conscientious aquarist can become distracted or simply forget. That's why I'm glad to have private well water that isn't chlorined or chloramined.
Another possibility: Maybe those two loaches had some invisible internal disease that didn't manifest symptoms. They could have been sick and there was no way to know it. This can happen with fish -- they can look healthy and fine and still drop dead. Maybe the water change was just enough to send them over.
One way to determine if your filter's BB has been affected is to continue testing the water for the next several days. If the ammonia and nitrite don't rise, then I would guess your BB population is fine.
Sorry about your loss. I know you take excellent care of your fish and tanks.20 gal. high: planted; 7 white cloud minnows, several RCS, 2 blue shrimp, 5 Amano shrimp, several snails; Azoo air. 65 gal: planted; 6 rosy barbs, 6 yellow glofish, 3 red glofish, 3 zebra danios, 5 white cloud minnows, 3 dojo loaches, 6 crimson spot rainbow fish, 12 large Amano Shrimp, several snails; AC110.


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Muay Thai in America Announces Extended Plans
- Written by Dave Walsh
Press Release
Press Release by Dorian Wright CEO StarBilling and European Ambassador of 'Muay Thai In America' announcement
On Dec the 1st 2012 one of the biggest Muay Thai shows of the year takes place in Los Angeles, California. It will be the first Muay Thai show that will be filmed in 3D. It features many of the most exciting stand up fighters in the sport, including many from the UK. Filming will also start for a reality TV series which will be broadcasted in Jan 2013This show will be the first of many MTiA shows in the USA, with the next installment being in 16/2/2012 and then 13/04/2012. The long term plan will be to take the brand on tour around the world. . K-1's very own Vinny Shoreman and Kieran Keddle will be commentators for this show and shows going forward.
Don McDaniel CEO/President of 'Muay Thai in America quote:"On December 1st. 2012, Muay Thai In America will begin it's search for the best Muay Thai fighters in the world. MTIA will demonstrate before an international audience, the most devastating striking art on the planet. The world will witness the global traditions, cultural balance, integrity and honor seemingly lost in many of today's competitive sports. Muay Thai is a stand-up striking art that has survived seemingly in the shadows of it's better known competitors MMA and K-1. Although many popular martial systems barrow from the disciplines and traditions of Muay Thai, it is time to show the world on the highest level, the beauty and devastation of the most efficient combative sport on the planet. The world has embraced Thailand's national sport, Muay Thai "The Art Of Eight Limbs. On December 1st. 2012, In Honor Of the King of Thailand's 85th Birthday, MTIA will promote for the first time on American soil, the largest Muay Thai pay-per-view event in American history."
Dorian quotes:"The concept of Muay Thai in America is fantastic. It will give talented fighters worldwide a chance to showcase their Muay Thai skills in the tradition form. It will give the mass public the opportunity to experience the tradition and real meaning behind the sport. The plan will be to push brand awareness Worldwide adopting a specific Marketing Strategy, whilst producing exciting shows with high quality production whilst maintain authenticity.The long term goal will be to increase the popularity and commercial success of the sport".
Show Details:Live pay-per-view international broadcast via INDEMAND and DIRECTV in SD/HD/3D
*** Check your local listings ***
Tickets go on sale via Ticketmaster:
http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=3180474 Venue: Raleigh Studios/Playa Vista http://www.raleighstudios.com/playa-vista
Home to the largest sound stage (the size of 4 football fields) in North America. Originally constructed to house Howard Hughes' Hercules H-4 or commonly named the Spruce Goose.
~ Doors open 3pm/arrive early and participate in prizes and giveaways
~ 1st bout is 4pm/ 9 professional bouts
~ Event will be filmed for pay-per-view
~ No video taping/photography will be allowed
~ Food trucks as well as other food venders will be on hand to serve the general public
**With purchase of a ticket you are consenting to be filmed during the live broadcast so dress to impress.
$200/VIP (early entry; event poster; photo op with fighters; food and drink; prime seating)
Simon Marcus (Can) v. Sadibou Sy (Swe)
Paowarit Sasiprapa (Tha) v. Matthew Tieu (Eng)
Amanda Kelly (Eng) v. Julie Kitchen (Eng)
Andy Howson (Eng) v. Boom Watthanaya (Thai)
Coke Chunawat (Thai) v. Paul Karpowicz (Pol)
Christophe Pruvost (Swis) v. Chike Lindsay (USA)
Medhi Baghdad (Fra/USA) v. Joe Valtellini (Can)
Greg Wootton (Eng) v. TBC (Can)
Salah Abdelsalam (Libya) v. Justin Greskiewicz (USA)
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Princeton Atelier features music and poetry, May 1
Posted April 30, 2002; 02:41 p.m.
A night of diverse music and poetry will be presented by Princeton Atelier 2002 at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 1, in Richardson Auditorium.
The atelier concept was initiated by Princeton Professor Toni Morrison. The program brings acclaimed artists together with students to create projects in a workshop environment. This year's project integrated poetry and composition to create short operettas.
The evening's production will feature Brazilian-style music, as well as modern-classical, folk and rock. Participants include Yusef Komunyakaa, Aleta Hayes, William Banfield, Thurston Drake '02, Khalil Sullivan '04, Dan Iglesia '03, Phillip Blodget '02, David Turner '02, Annie Lee '03 and Phillip Isles '03.
The program is sponsored by the Council of the Humanities . For more information, contact Ellen Goellner at 258-3697.
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After two days of drilling, assembling, hanging and placing…
It was finally time for some admiring. The 2012 National Stationery Show kicked off today, and New York City's Javits Center was abuzz with all things paper.
If you've ever been to the NSS, you know that the Crane & Co. booth is the Central Park Penthouse of NSS booths. It's big. It's exquisitely decorated. And everyone wants a peek.
This year, the outside windows as well as a collection of curio cabinets inside give visitors a preview of our 3 newest collections:
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The Upstate Eight Conference is looking for a new member to take the place of Lake Park, which decided earlier this week to depart for the DuPage Valley Conference.
The moves will be effective the 2013-14 school year. In a news release, Lisa Hichens, Batavia principal and acting president of the UEC, indicated "the first preference" is to find a school to replace Lake Park in the larger enrollment Valley side of the UEC, alongside Neuqua Valley, Waubonsie Valley, Metea Valley, East Aurora, Bartlett and South Elgin.
"Obviously if we don't find a school that fits that description we'll open up the entire conversation," Batavia AD Dave Andrews said Friday.
The four Tri-Cities schools – Batavia, Geneva, St. Charles East and St. Charles North – are in the UEC's River Division with Elgin, Larkin and Streamwood. The UEC expanded to two, seven-team divisions when Batavia and Geneva joined the conference for the 2010-11 school year.
The UEC will accept applications until Nov. 1, with Hichens serving as the contact person. Along with geography, finding a school that offers a compatible number of levels in its programs to other UEC members is a high priority.
Lake Park considered itself a better geographic fit in the DVC, according to Andrews. Lake Park will replace West Chicago, which recently decided to leave the DVC for the Metro Suburban Conference.


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By Tiernan Ray
Hosting provider Rackspace Hosting (RAX) this afternoon reported Q4 revenue that topped analysts' expectations, and earnings in line with consensus, and said its CEO would retire.
Revenue in the three months ended in December rose to $408 million, yielding EPS of 14 cents.
Analysts, on average, had been modeling $405 million and 14 cents.
Separately, the company said CEO Lanham Napier would retire to spend his time investing in young companies. He will also step down from the board. The company said Graham Weston, co-founder and chair, will take over for Napier.
Said Napier,
It has been a privilege to be part of Rackspace for the past fourteen years. I have enjoyed working with Rackers and our customers to bring Fanatical Support to the fast-growing market of cloud computing. My decision to step down as CEO was a difficult one, but it's the right choice for me and for the company. With the board and management team aligned around our 2014 strategy and financial plan, I believe now is a natural transition point to select a new leader for the next exciting phase of Rackspace's growth. I look forward to following Rackspace's success as I return to my entrepreneurial roots – to build new things and invest in disruptive ideas.
Rackspace shares are down $4.78, or 12%, at $35.58.
Correction: A prior version of this post incorrectly cited this quarter's EPS as beating expectations. In fact, EPS of 14 cents was in line with consensus. My apologies for any confusion caused by the error.
Update: On the conference call, management projected revenue to rise 2% to 3.5% this quarter, which would be about $416 million to $422 million, above the consensus for $417 million. For the full year, the company sees revenue rising 15% to 18%, or $1.76 billion to $1.81 billion, again, above the consensus for $1.78 billion.


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Description Pagurus longicarpus, the long-clawed hermit crab, is a small (up to 1/2 in or 1.27 cm) common subtidal decapod ranging out to 150 ft (46 m) deep found living in shells from periwinkles, oyster drills, and eastern mud snails. It is found from Nova Scotia to Florida and Texas.
Habitat Rocks, Mud flats, Salt marshes & estuaries.
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MINUETTO SPRINT has been designed according to the rules of the Mini Transat Class as a fast, but not extreme, boat.
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Holiday home open
to visitors again
Once again, Gladys Fleming will open her home in Olive Branch to visitors who want to come see the elaborately decorated holiday home.
Open house will be Saturday and Sunday from 5 to 8 p.m. and Dec. 16 from 1 to 5 p.m.
Every room, every shelf, every wall, every door, every floor, every inch of the 6,400-square-foot house is decorated from top to bottom with everything Christmas.
Fleming's husband, Dave, died recently, but she still decided to go all out this year.
"Even though I lost Dave, I didn't want to sit around doing nothing," she said. "I wanted to share at least one more year."
The home is located at 8384 Dunleith Cove in Olive Branch. A $5 donation is requested and all proceeds go to First Baptist Church in Olive Branch.
For more information, call (662) 895-9595.
Corinth home tour
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The annual Corinth Home and Garden Tour will be a holiday event this year with home tours and other seasonal activities from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Friday, Nov. 30, and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 1, in downtown Corinth.
This year's tour features the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bailey Williams, 1302 Taylor St., which was built in 1885 on the Civil War site of Battery Powell. Also included in the ticket prices are performances of Christmas music and demonstrations on creating Christmas centerpieces and gift wrapping. In addition, tour organizers are hosting a sale of baked goods and holiday items in the Holiday Shoppe and the annual silent art auction. The tour raises money to preserve the Verandah Curlee House on Jackson Street.
Tour tickets, $10 each, can be purchased at the Corinth Area Convention and Visitor's Bureau or at the Williams' home during the tour.
For more information, visit www.corinth.net.
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"Christmas in Holly Springs" will be from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. Dec. 1 and 1 until 5 p.m. Dec. 2, featuring five home tours and much more. Tickets are $15 if ordered today and $20 after. Call (662) 252-3669 for more information.
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Roland Saturn 09
The Saturn 09 is an analog organ synthesizer (similar to the RS-09 which added a string sound). Probably not the best Organ synth, but with imagination, the Saturn is capable of creating some cool sounds for techno/ambient music, ie: low drone organ bass tones or blips. There is very little demand for this instrument so they can be found for under $100, and they will add a nice flavor to any modern analog-electronic keyboard studio. It has been used by Newcleus and is probably hidden among the rigs of a few other electro-artists!
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Spicy, sweet cardamom flavors the rich cream tucked inside of these light, tender crepes. This breakfast or dessert treat has an international flavor you'll love.
Cardamom (KAR-duh-muhm), a member of the ginger family, has a pungent, warm, spicy and slight lemony-sweet flavor. It's often used in Scandinavian and East Indian cooking.
Practice makes perfect! It may take making a few crepes to get the hang of quickly swirling the skillet right after the batter is added to evenly cover the bottom.
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By Bill Minor
JACKSON – When you hear Mike Chaney talk, he sounds like a character sent from central casting for a Confederate general's role in "Gone With the Wind." His rich Southern accent though is clear.
Old South or not, Chaney as the state's Republican Insurance Commissioner stands out from the GOP crowd who despise anything connected to President Obama, especially the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare.
Last week, Chaney, whom I have known and liked since he was a state senator from Vicksburg, the Civil War "Gibraltar of the South," courageously (and apparently unilaterally) on Nov. 14 submitted to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services a detailed plan on how Mississippi will craft its health insurance exchange to comply with so-called Obamacare.
Chaney met the deadline for states to furnish HHS Secretary Kathleen Sibelius a compliance letter and a detailed plan if they intended to operate their own exchange. The exchanges are more or less an online market list of health insurance plans, showing price and benefits each company offers.
Long a believer in high-risk insurance pools, Chaney had gotten out-front early on to assemble elements of how the state would structure its own health care insurance exchange, quietly utilizing a $20 million federal grant to organize a health care advisory board for guidance. Chaney was wise enough to have the state's health exchange plan ready to implement contingent on the U.S. Supreme Court upholding constitutionality of the individual mandate, a key element in ACA. It requires everyone without coverage to purchase private health insurance that would be federally subsidized for low-income consumers.
What Chaney has done is huge when contrasted with refusal by at least 15 other Republican-controlled states to comply with the health insurance exchange deadline, making it mandatory under ACA for the federal government to run their exchange. Chaney has taken the position that the exchange is not a political idea but a "universal idea." In this state the insurance exchange will make coverage available to 275,000 Mississippians.
Chaney's gutsy move in filing the state's health insurance exchange plan with Secretary Sibelius is not entirely out of the woods yet: Will Chaney's signature on the plan, rather than Gov. Phil Bryant's, be enough to pass muster with Sibelius? A spokesman for Chaney's office (he was traveling outside the state) told me they had "every reason to believe" that the HHS secretary will okay it.
Chaney deserves a merit badge for opening the way to cover thousands of Mississippians who either could not afford health care insurance or lost it when their employer dropped it during the Great Recession.
Chaney's experience as a legislator may have helped, but the commissioner skillfully got the Legislature in 2009 (even before ACA passed) to give him discretionary power to create a state insurance exchange.
Although you won't get GOPers around the Capitol to talk about it, there was an election on Nov. 6 and one thing it settled is that Obamacare isn't going away.
Clarification: Sen. Roger Wicker's staff has complained that in my Nov. 14 column I got wrong how much Wicker spent in defeating Democrat Albert Gore, and the vote Gore received. Wicker's FEC Report shows he spent approximately $1 million (not $7 million that I reported – a figure I picked up from New York Times) and that of the entire 43 percent of the vote cast against Wicker in the General Election, Gore received 40 percent, and two other candidates split three percent.
Columnist Bill Minor has covered Mississippi politics since 1947. Contact him through Ed Inman at firstname.lastname@example.com.