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Welcome to DowNNOutz.net owned and operated by Bludgeon-Riffola Inc. / Def Leppard Touring, Inc. / Why Bother Ltd. ("we," "us"). The following terms of use ("Terms") govern your use of the Site.
Eligibility and Approval
We, in our sole absolute discretion, will have the right to refuse to allow you to become a member.
DownNOutz.net will accept only one membership per person. If we determine that a single person has joined (or attempted to join) more than once, or if we receive multiple membership applications from a single and/or cluster of e-mail addresses verified to single user, we reserve the right to cancel all applicable memberships.
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IP Address Ownership
We shall maintain and control ownership of all IP numbers and addresses that may be assigned to you by us and we reserve, in our sole discretion, the right to change or remove any and all such IP numbers and addresses.
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You agree that all of your User Content, whether publicly posted or privately transmitted, is your sole responsibility. User Content does not necessarily reflect our views or opinions. We shall not be liable to you or any third party in any way for any User Content, including, but not limited to, for any errors or omissions in any User Content, or for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any User Content posted, emailed, transmitted or otherwise made available via the Site.
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You will be considered in violation if you (or others using your account) do any of the following: Post, transmit, promote, or distribute content that is illegal. Thou shall not disrupt the flow of chat in chat rooms, or discussions threads with vulgar language, abusiveness, hitting the return key repeatedly or inputting large images so the screen goes by too fast to read, etc. User may not impersonate another DownNOutz.net member (including celebrities), attempt to get a password, other account information, or other private information from a DownNOutz.net member, dominate this website with their views, or those who use it for harassment or with malice towards anyone, posts that overtake other users posts, Making repetitive posts in the Message Forum or News Comments, Posting advertising on the website, and trying to solicit money for charity, After being banned return under another username, You register and then delete your email address.
You also acknowledge that DownNOutz.net may establish general practices and limits concerning use of the Site, including without limitation, limiting the maximum number of days that email messages, message board postings or other uploaded content will be retained by the Site, the maximum number of email messages that may be sent from or received by an account on the Site, the maximum size of any email message that may be sent from or received by an account on the Site, the maximum disk space that will be allotted on DownNOutz.net servers on your behalf, the maximum length of time that an IP address will be assigned for your use, the maximum throughput of traffic from the Internet or associated service (e.g., Usenet, email, web hosting), and the maximum number of times (and the maximum duration for which) you may access the Site in a given period of time. You agree that DownNOutz.net has no responsibility or liability for the deletion, for failure to store or to deliver any messages and other communications, for the modification or malformation of data communications over the Site, or for other content maintained or transmitted by the Site. You acknowledge that DownNOutz.net reserves the right to log off accounts that are, or disconnect a session that is, inactive for an extended period of time. You further acknowledge that DownNOutz.net reserves the right to change these general practices and limits at any time without advanced notice.
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You agree that you shall not use excessive amounts of CPU processing on any of our servers. Any violation of this policy may result in corrective action by us, in our sole discretion, including assessment of additional charges, disconnection or discontinuance of any and all Services, or termination of this Agreement. In the event that we elect to take any corrective action, you shall not be entitled to a refund of any fees paid in advance prior to such corrective action.
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Intellectual Property Rights Policy
We respect the intellectual property rights of others, and we ask our users to do the same. We will, in our sole and absolute discretion, terminate the account or use privileges of any user who repeatedly violates the rights of others.
We reserve the right at any time to suspend, modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, any portion of the Site or the Club with or without prior notice. You agree that we will not be liable to you or to any third party for any suspension, modification or discontinuance.
DownNOutz.net expressly reserves the right to immediately modify, suspend or terminate your account and refuse current or future use of any DownNOutz.net service, including Artist Clubs in the following situations: (a) if DownNOutz.net in its sole discretion believes you have violated or tried to violate the rights of others; or (b) if we become aware of information indicating a safety concern for you, other DownNOutz.net users, or the general public, or (c) if DownNOutz.net in its sole discretion, believes that you have acted inconsistently with the spirit or letter of the TOS or these Additional Terms. Artist Clubs and their benefits are offered at the discretion of DownNOutz.net and DownNOutz.net has the right to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, the Artist Club service, in whole or in part for any reason, at its sole discretion, with or without notice to you. You agree that DownNOutz.net will not be liable to you or any third party for any modifications or discontinuance of the Artist Club service.
We, in our sole and absolute discretion, may terminate your access to the Site or your account for any reason, including, without limitation, your breach of these Terms, with or without notice to you and without liability to you or any third party. Upon such termination, we: (i) may immediately deactivate or delete your account and all related information and files in such accounts and/or bar any further access to such account or files, without liability to you or any third party for doing so or (ii) will not refund your membership or any other fees you have paid to the Club.
Your use of the site is at your sole risk. The site is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis. The club expressly disclaims all warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including, but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement.
The club makes no warranty that (i) the site will meet your requirements, (ii) the site will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free, (iii) the results that may be obtained from the use of the site will be accurate or reliable, (iv) the quality of any products, services, information, or other material purchased or obtained by you through the site will meet your expectations, or that (v) any errors in any data or software will be corrected.
All messages posted to the website are solely the opinion and responsibility of the poster, and not (Artist site) or Bludgeon-Riffola Inc. / Def Leppard Touring, Inc. / Why Bother Ltd. Bludgeon-Riffola Inc. / Def Leppard Touring, Inc. / Why Bother Ltd. has the right and ability to log into any users account for the purpose of troubleshooting, investigating complaints, or any other purpose for the daily operation of the website. This website and the servers and other equipment used to host and maintain it are private property. These Terms of Use have been instituted both to protect the integrity of this property, and to create and maintain a respectful environment conducive to the enjoyment of DownNOutz.net fans. Therefore, in the event of a violation of these Terms of Use, we reserve the right to fully investigate such violation(s) and take all such actions as we deem prudent or necessary based upon our evaluation of the violation(s). Without limiting the foregoing, we reserve the right to contact law enforcement, track the IP address from which any violation is made, contact the owner of such IP address in order to identify any violator, prevent any violator from further access to this site, and to take any or all such actions (including legal action) as we deem appropriate to the circumstances. If you disagree or cannot comply with these Terms of Use, please do not use the site. All reports of suspicious actions should be e-mailed to (artist site) directly, to avoid accidental harm to innocent parties.
You expressly understand and agree that we shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential or exemplary damages, including but not limited to, damages for loss of profits, goodwill, use, data or other intangible losses (even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages), resulting from: (i) the use or the inability to use the site; (ii) the cost of procurement of substitute goods or services resulting from any goods, data, information or services purchased or obtained or messages received or transactions entered into through or from the site; (iii) unauthorized access to or alteration of your transmissions or data; (iv) statements or conduct of any third party on the site; or (v) any other matter relating to the site.
Links and Third-Party Services
Any third-party links, services, resources or information provided on or made available through the site are not controlled by us. Accordingly, we make no warranties regarding such third-party links, services, resources or information, including without limitation, warranties of fitness for a particular purpose, merchantability or non-infringement and will not be liable for your use of or reliance on such third-party services, resources or information.
English And Other Languages
The Club has members around the world. As an accommodation for those members whose preferred language is other than English, we have occasionally and in our sole discretion provided versions of these Terms in other languages (each, a "Translation"). We have attempted to make the Translations accurate, but we cannot be responsible in the event of any errors, inaccuracies or discrepancies in the Translations. Accordingly, if there is any conflict in meaning between a Translation and these Terms, these Terms shall govern and be given precedence. Furthermore, we do not provide any customer service in any language other than English, and cannot take responsibility for any problems or issues that may arise as a result of this fact.
Force Majeure
We will not be liable to you or any third party for failure or delay in performing our obligations hereunder if such failure or delay is due to circumstances beyond our reasonable control, including, without limitation, acts of any governmental body, war, insurrection, sabotage, terrorism, embargo, fire, flood, strike or other labor disturbance, interruption of or delay in transportation, unavailability of interruption or delay in telecommunications or third party services (including DNS propagation), failure of third party software or hardware or inability to obtain raw materials, supplies, or power used in or equipment needed for provision of the Site.
You agree to indemnify and hold the Club, Bludgeon-Riffola Inc. / Def Leppard Touring, Inc. / Why Bother Ltd. as well as their subsidiaries, affiliates, owners, associates, licensees, licensors, officers, agents and other partners and employees (the "Indemnified Parties") harmless from any claim, demand, action, damage, loss, cost or expense, including without limitation, reasonable attorneys' fees, incurred in connection with any suit or proceeding brought against any of the Indemnified Parties arising out of your use of the Site or alleging facts or circumstances that could constitute a breach of any provision of these Terms by you. If you are obligated to indemnify any of the Indemnified Parties, such party will have the right, in its sole and exclusive discretion, to control any action or proceeding and determine whether they wish to settle it, and if so, on what terms.
The Site is based in and operated from the United States of America. Information which you send to us by email or which we gather from you when you visit our website is held and processed in the United States of America. These Terms shall be binding upon and inure to our benefit, and the our successors, and assigns. You may not assign these Terms without our prior written consent. These Terms contain the entire understanding of the parties regarding their subject matter, and supersede all prior and contemporaneous agreements and understandings between the parties regarding their subject matter. The Terms and the relationship between you and us shall be governed by the laws of the State of California and the United States of America without regard to any conflict of law provisions. No failure or delay by a party in exercising any right, power or privilege under these Terms shall operate as a waiver thereof. The invalidity or unenforceability of any of these Terms shall not affect the validity or enforceability of any other of these Terms, all of which shall remain in full force and effect. You agree that regardless of any statute or law to the contrary, any claim or cause of action arising out of or related to use of the Site or the Terms must be filed within one (1) year after such claim or cause of action arose or be forever barred. The section titles in the Terms are for convenience only and have no legal or contractual effect.
You agree that any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or your use of the Site will be submitted to confidential binding arbitration in Los Angeles, CA. Arbitration under these Terms will be conducted under the prevailing rules of the American Arbitration Association. The arbitrator's award will be binding and may be entered as a judgment in any court of competent jurisdiction. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, no arbitration under these Terms will be joined to an arbitration involving any other party subject to these Terms, whether through class arbitration proceedings or otherwise. Notwithstanding the foregoing, to the extent you have in any manner violated or threatened to violate the intellectual property rights of the Club, Bludgeon-Riffola Inc. / Def Leppard Touring, Inc. / Why Bother Ltd., these persons or entities may seek injunctive or other appropriate relief in any state or federal court in the state of California, and you consent to exclusive jurisdiction and venue in such courts.
We will have the right to collect, share and use your information in accordance with our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated by reference in these Terms. In addition, the artist or band may have access to and use of information you provide in connection with your membership to the Fan Club. Use includes, but is not limited to, sending email newsletters, updates or content related to the artist or band. These messages may be required as part of membership to the Fan Club, at the discretion of the artist or band.
DownNOutz.net understands the concerns that its members and other users of its web site (the "Site") have about the collection, use, and disclosure of their Personal Information while online. Accordingly, we have established this Privacy Policy to make you aware of the information collection and sharing practices of the Site. This Privacy Policy only applies to transactions made and data gathered on the Site and does not apply to any other web site or offline point of contact between us and you. By visiting the Site, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy. Please review this Privacy Policy periodically as we may update it from time to time.
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Like most e-commerce websites, each time you visit the Site, we automatically collect your IP address and the web page from which you came. We use this information to administer and optimize the Site for you and to diagnose problems with our Site. We use your IP address to help identify you and to gather broad demographic information about you.
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In some cases, we will collect information from you that can be used to personally identify you, such as your name, address, phone number, email address, purchase history, and credit card number ("Personal Information").
We collect Personal Information when you sign up to receive newsletters, request information regarding an event we sponsor, enter contests, open an account, purchase products, and otherwise as needed to fulfill your requests for information, products, and services. When we collect this information, you will know it because you will need to submit this information to us in order to open your account or receive the information, product, or service you requested. We use your Personal Information for our internal purposes, such as maintaining the Site and fulfilling your requests for products, services, and information. We also use your Personal Information to send you information, offers and other promotional materials from us and selected third parties. We carefully select the information we send to you and attempt to send you offers that are of value to you, such as discounts, exclusive offers or special event information. We provide you with the option of declining to receive offers from us by "opting-out" of receipt of this type of communication. Generally, we will not send you communications on behalf of third parties unless we add our DownNOutz.net brand to those communications.
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Whenever we obtain your Personal Information, we use commercially reasonable efforts to protect it from unauthorized access or disclosure. While we will use such efforts, we cannot and will not act as insurers of the security of your Personal Information transmitted over the Internet. Accordingly, we assume no liability for any disclosure of data due to errors in transmission, unauthorized third party access or other acts of third parties, or acts or omissions beyond our reasonable control. If you are a member of DownNOutz.net.


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Since early 2009, Citrix and VMLogix have partnered to include the VMLogix products with Citrix Essentials for the virtual lab component. This acquisition by Citrix will apply virtualization technology throughout the IT organization in a hypervisor neutral environment.
Subscribe Now to read voke's full analysis of this acquisition.
The publication of the Open Cloud Manifesto is positive. The Cloud, driven by virtualization, is surfacing at the right time in the market and can advance computing in this generation.
The concept of �openness� is necessary for innovation to thrive. Publishing an open view with multiple and varied participants is an example of global lifecycle transformation where organizations work together across boundaries.
IBM, one of the key supporters of the Open Cloud Manifesto, has a long history of advancing collaboration around new technologies. In the 90�s, IBM attempted collaboration by creating consortium style companies such as Taligent and Kaleida. In the early part of this century, IBM was the leader of what has transformed in to Eclipse.org. This appears to be IBM�s attempt to get agreement on the Cloud at various levels.
It is clear that each organization in support of the Open Cloud Manifesto has an agenda based upon the Cloud. Agreement and discussion among a critical mass is a positive step to advancing Cloud technology.
We started the year with the New England Patriots posting an undefeated regular season record of 16 � 0. It appeared to be conclusive; the Patriots would win the Super Bowl � not so fast � the wild card New York Giants made an unpredictable and disruptive move by narrowly defeating the favored Patriots. It was inevitable that the Patriots lose at some point in the season, it just happened to be the last and most important game.
In July, the greatest sporting event, the Tour de France departed with no defending champion for the second consecutive year! Team Astana, with two of the three podium finishers of the 2007 race appeared to have very good odds of gaining one of the top three spots again. Surprise! Team Astana was banned and Team CSC with Carlos Sastre and company rode to an unpredictable and disruptive victory. It was inevitable that the Tour de France could not escape controversy.
Disruption and unpredictability seem to be the prevailing themes for 2008. In a year when radical and unexpected occurrences were commonplace, should technology be any different? Let�s take a look at the big issues that may have shocked us, but in reality, were inevitable...
Significant threats from hackers are a 24x7x365 reality and the costs of security breaches can be exponential. And, with the adoption of more distributed environments and cloud platforms, these risks are exacerbated. It is critical now more than ever to move from a defensive approach to security to a well-coordinated offensive plan.
This Market Snapshot report provides real-world data to help organizations justify the investment in operationalizing security through secure operations automation practices and solutions. Operationalizing security through the use of secure operations practices and solutions will help your organization:
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Virtual lab management technology delivers immediate, measurable benefits and ROI. The ability to rapidly provision and deliver an environment for testing, development, sales, marketing, training, technical publications, support and other constituents in an organization enhances business alignment as it removes barriers and lowers costs, particularly capital expenditures (CAPEX).
Read this report to learn more about virtual lab technology and to help create a business case to justify the purchase.
Presentation slides from the joint Borland/VMware webcast with Theresa Lanowitz from voke talking about what it takes to test and deliver applications that hit their mark using virtualization. And why getting the most out of virtualization depends on how seamlessly it can be integrated with your software testing processes.
In this joint Borland/VMware webcast, Theresa Lanowitz from voke will talk about what it takes to test and deliver applications that hit their mark using virtualization. And why getting the most out of virtualization depends on how seamlessly it can be integrated with your software testing processes.
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StoryBox 2 Released!
StoryBox 2
The best and easiest way to write a novel and prepare it for Indie publishing via Amazon, Barnes & Noble and others!
The ultimate software for your ebook sales tracking and charting needs. Works with all the major sites (and some minor ones, too).
Do you spend hours of time each month copying your sales report data from your book sales into spreadsheets? Worse, do you spend a pile of money each month to pay someone to do it for you? Have you ever found a mistake in your copied data?
I'd like to intruduce you to TrackerBox, the time saving, headache reducing software that will help you keep track of all of your book sales, no matter where they are sold. Instead of having to download the report, open it in your spreadsheet of choice, and copy the data by hand into a spreadsheet that you had to spend hours designing, you could just download the report and click Import on TrackerBox, and see your sales data in as little as a few seconds. Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple, Kobo, they're all supported.
It saves even more time if you have multiple pen names, or authors. Do you need to produce a sales report for a co-author? You can do that quickly with exports of the reports to xls, csv, pdf and html.
Self publisher or small publisher, TrackerBox will save you time and money.
Try the 45 day FREE TRIAL!
The Highlights
- Avoid messing with spreadsheets and save yourself hours of time each month by importing sales reports from these retailers and distributors:
- Amazon KDP (from 2009 forward)
- Barnes & Noble Press
- PubIt
- NOOK Press
- Kobo Writing Life
- Apple iBookStore
- Smashwords
- CreateSpace
- Lightning Source
- All Romance eBooks
- DriveThruFiction.com
- Overdrive
- Amazon Vendor Central
- Draft2Digital
- Google eBooks
- BundleRabbit
- Lulu
- XinXii
- Pronoun
- Streetlib
- Support multiple Authors and Pen Names
- Easily combines sales for books that have title variations from vendor to vendor
- Track sales for every title and chart your sales and income progress
- Import publisher royalties and other sales, either through a easy to use dialog or a specially designed spreadsheet that is simple to fill out.
- Group and sort reports by any column
- Apply parameters to the reports, including selecting multiple titles, authors, and/or vendors
- Export reports to XLS, PDF, CSV and HTML
- Run multiple reports and see them side by side
- Seven distinct themes
"A godsend when it comes to tracking sales from Pubit, Amazon, Smashwords, Apple, CreateSpace, etc, all in one place without formatting or messing with spreadsheets."
- David Dalglish
You can use our support site to enter any bugs or issues or feature requests you find. You'll be able to track the progress of your issues there, too. There are menu items under "Help" in TrackerBox that will take you there, too.
StoryBox 2
The Story of StoryBox
Back when I first started work on StoryBox, I had a need for a simple to use piece of writing software. It would do just what I needed without a lot of extra bells and whistles. I didn't want bells and whistles getting in the way of my writing. I also desired a flexible interface. If I wanted to move my synopsis to the left side of the screen instead of the right, or the top instead of the bottom, I thought I should be able to do that.
Now, after two years of using StoryBox nearly every day in my writing, I'm proud to introduce StoryBox 2.
Greater Flexibilty, Less Confusion
With a more flexible full screen mode and a new bottom MenuBar that keeps extraneous text out of your view, StoryBox 2 will help you improve your productivity while still allowing you to organize your book and your notes in any fashion you desire.
Among the improvements are a new Export dialog that lets you save time when creating eBooks for multiple vendors by giving you profiles that you can use to quickly recall your export settings, a full screen mode that allows you to view any of the tool windows that you choose or even view more than one document at a time, a Countdown Timer and a related progress bar for concentrated writing sessions, and a reorganized set of properties and menus that combine things more logically so that they are easier to find. There are new wizards for creating projects and importing existing documents, and the ePub export is now standards compliant. Two new themes and a host of other minor changes round out StoryBox 2.
"But wait!," you say. "What will it do for me?"
StoryBox 2 will make your writing life easier. It will make publishing eBooks as easy as it can be. You do not have to do any complicated formatting or crazy gyrations to get great looking eBooks that work well with every major eBook retailer (including Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Kobo).
If you like to track your word progress, StoryBox 2 has six different wordcount measurements, including measurements for the day, the current writing session, and the current timed writing burst.
You can use the full screen mode to block out your desktop so that you can concentrate on your writing (if you use multiple monitors, it will even block out the other monitor). Do you need to see your synopsis in full screen? You can do that. Do you need to watch your progress or use the Countdown timer? You can do those, too. You can even use the Outline mode and the Storyboard mode in full screen. And now, with StoryBox 2, you can even have multiple documents open in full screen at the same time, side by side.
Automatic Safety
StoryBox 2 saves your typing automatically, so you don't have to. It now has an automatic backup feature that will back up your project to another folder, even another drive, when you close it. Used with a cloud based automatic storage application like DropBox, this can save your bacon in the event that your cat runs across your keyboard while you're out getting coffee (yes, this happened to me).
The best part about StoryBox is that I use it every day. I'm not just making this software to sell it. I'm making StoryBox 2 so that I can write in it. Is it as full featured as some of the other competitors? Possibly not. Is it easier to understand and use? I certainly think so.
This Trial Won't Result in Jail Time
At the very least, give StoryBox 2 a try. The trial runs 45 non-consecutive days. It's not 45 uses. It's 45 actual days of at least one use per day. You can spread them out as long as you like. If you use it for NaNoWriMo, it'll get you through that month with a few days on either side to spare.
I think you'll like StoryBox 2. If there was a better piece of software for the job, I'd be using it, instead.
Mark Fassett
Try the 45 (non-consecutive) day FREE TRIAL!
The Big Changes!
- Consolidated MenuBar at the bottom of the screen keeps extraneous text out of your view
- New Export window
- New Import window
- New Project wizard
- Remade full screen mode
- View any window that you need
- Open more than one document at once - even side by side
- Use different themes
- Use Outline and Storyboard modes
- Automatic project backup
- Export to mobi using Calibre
- Export profiles allow you to save different export settings for easy retrieval
- Performance improvements
- Two New Themes
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StoryBox 1 and StoryBox 2 can be used side by side. However, any projects that you open in StoryBox 2 will no longer open in StoryBox 1.
If you are a "free" user of StoryBox 1, you will get a 45 day trial just like everyone else. After that, you will be required to purchase StoryBox 2 if you wish to continue using it. Your installation of StoryBox 1 will continue to work as it has, but will not receive further updates, nor will it be available for download.
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AS A PARENT, maybe you spend a lot of your time worrying about whether your child's teeth will develop cavities. Obviously, it's critical to teach them how to brush and floss and encourage them to do so daily, but there's something else that can help prevent childhood tooth decay: dental sealants.
The Battle Between Your Child's Teeth and Bacteria
40% of children develop cavities by the time they begin school. This is a result of poor oral hygiene and frequent consumption of sugary drinks and snacks, and it's why it's so important to help them build strong oral health habits at an early age. The human mouth contains many species of bacteria, some of which consume the leftover sugar on our teeth and then excrete acid onto them. As tough as tooth enamel is, it's very vulnerable to acid, so this causes tooth decay.
The ways we keep oral bacteria in check are brushing, flossing, and limiting our sugar intake. Even then, there are still crevices in our teeth where bacteria can hide, particularly for a child who doesn't have the dexterity yet to brush as effectively. That's where dental sealants come in.
What Exactly Are Dental Sealants?
Dental sealants are simply a layer of clear plastic that can be brushed onto the chewing surfaces of teeth in order to "seal them off" from cavity-causing plaque and bacteria. Dentists have been using sealants since the 1960s. They've been popular for so long due to how effective they are, as they reduce the risk of childhood tooth decay in the back teeth by up to 80%!
Sealants are typically applied to the molars because they do the most chewing and have deep crevices where bacteria can hide. Sealants fill in and cover these crevices and act as a shield against bacteria. Even better, the application process is so quick and painless that we can do it in the course of a normal appointment!
When Is the Right Time for Sealants?
As soon as your child's adult molars erupt, they can be protected by sealants. That will usually be around age six. The earlier the sealants are in place, the less chance oral bacteria has to build up on the chewing surfaces of their molars. But the window doesn't close if your child is older than six and doesn't have sealants left; they're still beneficial if they get them later. Even adults can get sealants!
Schedule Your Child's Next Checkup Today!
Whether your child needs a normal twice-yearly cleaning and checkup or you'd like them to get sealants, go ahead and schedule the next appointment. If you have any concerns about their brushing or flossing or questions about how what they're eating could be affecting their dental health, just let us know and we can help.


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Genesis Bay Arm Chair (2/CN)
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Pull up a chair on the back deck or poolside and gather around for good times. These outdoor dining arm chairs have sturdy legs in crisp white, with the arms, seat and back in a soft shade of brown. The slatted seat and back allow drainage to prevent rainwater buildup. Designed to withstand harsh weather elements, this comfortably casual outdoor duo features stainless steel hardware and is made of durable MEGA TUFF™ HDPE material that won't chip, rust or peel.
Height | 41.13in | |
Width | 25.13in | |
Depth | 26.5in | |
Details | Set of 2 chairs, MEGA TUFF™ HDPE surface is made of high-density polyethylene which gives the wood look you love and the weather resistance you crave, Two-tone color (brown and white), Stainless steel hardware, Assembly required | |
Lifestyle | Contemporary | |
Dimensions | 25''W x 27''D x 41''H |
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The price tag on the latest National Defense Authorization Act is $700 billion, which will cost American taxpayers nearly $2 billion every day in 2018.
While the United States Congress has struggled to pass legislation governing taxes and healthcare, it had no problem uniting on the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act—a bill that will ensure the U.S. continues to wage wars around the world, and that promises taxpayers will cover its costly expenses.
The price tag on the latest NDAA is a massive $700 billion, which means that for every day in 2018, American taxpayers will spend nearly $2 billion on war.
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, a Republican from California, claimed that by signing the NDAA into law, Trump "signed a bill that will make America safer." He also noted one important fact—both Democrats and Republicans showed overwhelming support.
"This defense bill authorizes money for our troops, for our national defense and homeland security, and to make sure America has the best technology in the world to protect ourselves," McCarthy said. "This bill passed the House 356 to 70, including more than half of the Democratic caucus. It passed the Senate by voice vote—not a single Democrat opposed it.
Before signing the legislation, Trump referenced an attempted attack in New York City, where a man detonated a crudely-made pipe bomb in a subway station the day before. While the man who made the device was the only one injured, Trump used it as another example of why Americans should funnel billions of tax dollars into "keeping America safe."
"I want to address the terrorist attack that took place yesterday in New York City," Trump said, claiming that "there have now been two terrorist attacks in New York City in recent weeks carried out by foreign nationals, here on green cards."
Trump also specifically thanked Sen. John McCain for his contributions to the bill. The Republican from Arizona has been in office for 30 years, and has a reputation as a staunch supporter of war.
"Brand-new, beautiful equipment is on its way—the best you've ever had by far. We make the best in the world, and you're going to have it," Trump bragged in true Trump-fashion. He then concluded by saying, "I won't be showing all of this to everybody, believe it or not. That's a lot of pages. That is a lot of pages."
The 2018 NDAA approves $634 billion for the Pentagon. This was done despite the fact that a recent report on the budgets of the Department of Defense and the Department of Housing and Urban Development, found that between the two departments, they have lost over $21 trillion in the last 17 years—enough money to pay back the U.S. National Debt.
Nearly $66 billion will be allocated for the Overseas Contingency Operations fund, which ensures that the U.S. will continue to fuel proxy wars in foreign nations such as Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria.
In addition to $705 million for missile defense programs the U.S. is developing with Israel, the legislation includes more than $12 billion for the Missile Defense Agency. Trump mentioned U.S. missile defense capabilities in his statement, claiming the massive budget will help the U.S. "continue our campaign to create maximum pressure on the vile dictatorship in North Korea."
While advocates for the $700-billion NDAA claim that it will help to keep Americans safe, former Texas Rep. Ron Paul has noted that the more time the U.S. spends overthrowing governments and creating proxy wars in foreign countries, the more it should be worried about "blowback" from its reckless foreign poly.
"If we think that we can do what we want around the world and not incite hatred, then we have a problem," Paul said. "They don't come here to attack us because we're rich and we're free. They come and they attack us because we're over there. I mean, what would we think if we were—if other foreign countries were doing that to us?"
It should be noted that even when U.S. defense spending was under $600 billion in 2014, it was still more than the amount spent by the next seven countries—China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, France, United Kingdom, India and Germany—combined.
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A bright and well presented first floor studio apartment situated within a well maintained 1930's purpose built block. Located within a short walk from Belsize Park Tube and Shops, the property comprises a good size reception room with views over the communal gardens, separate fully fitted kitchen and a three piece bathroom suite with shower. Available from the end of April 2024 offered part furnished. Rent includes hot water and heating.
Rent: | Dependent on property |
Deposit: | Up to the equivalent of 5 weeks annual rental income below £50,000 per annum Up to the equivalent of 6 weeks annual rental income above £50,000 per annum |
Holding deposit: | Capped at 1 weeks rent |
Utilities: | Gas, Electric, Council Tax, Communication services and water are all the responsibility of the tenant to pay |
Nominal Interest on late rent set at 3% above the Bank of England base rate, daily from day 15 of rent being late. | |
A lost key or security devices (per item), maximum charge being £50 including VAT | |
Early Termination: | £50 including VAT, a higher payment can be charged (agent will demonstrate why in writing) |
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Reference fee: | £250 including VAT |
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How do you link global policy with local incentives for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation?
How can national-level rewards overcome the many local-level pressures that lead to deforestation, including the need to produce food and fuelwood, and develop economies?
REDD-ALERT is an FP7 EU project lead by the Macaulay Institute, Aberdeen and involving 12 partner institutions from EU and tropical countries, linking with the ASB Partnership for the Tropical Forest Margins.
An estimated 13 million hectares of tropical forest are destroyed each year, resulting in the emission of 5.8 Gt (gigatonnes) of CO2 annually, about 20% of total human-caused emissions of greenhouse gasses (GHGs). The drivers of this destruction are many and varied, but generally include a combination of commercial wood extraction, permanent cultivation, livestock development, and the extension of overland transport infrastructure. Currently, this 20% of emissions is not addressed by an international instrument for governing climate change.
In December 2009, parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change will discuss a mechanism for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation in Developing Countries, which would reward countries that reduce their rate of deforestation and enhance carbon stocks in forest areas. This proposed mechanism is referred to as REDD-plus.
Although the international community has mostly embraced the concept of REDD-plus, the specifics of the mechanism are still being negotiated. Once a REDD-plus deal is in place, national policy makers will need to be able to design policies and incentives to influence patterns of land use change on the ground. This will require a clear understanding of the drivers of land use change, carbon stocks and changes, policy options, and local stakeholder perspectives and preferences. The REDD-ALERT project aims to generate this data in four countries and work with national stakeholders to link this knowledge to practical action.
Active 'negotiation support' will be needed to achieve the 'free and prior informed consent' that is seen as a moral imperative to agreements potentially affecting the livelihoods of people outside of the centres of political power. This project aims to make a significant contribution to the evaluation of mechanisms that translate international-level agreements into instruments that will help change the behaviour of the people on the 'front-line' while minimising adverse repercussions on their livelihoods.
Objectives of the REDD-ALERT project
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Sao Paulo (Brazil)
15-18 July 2013
REDMOND participated in the international exhibition ELECTROLAR SHOW.
The company presented a new generation Multi Cooker in the 2013 ELECTROLAR SHOW – the RMC-250 with the MASTERCHIEF function.
The innovative MASTERCHIEF function, designed by REDMOND engineers, gives you the opportunity to cook meals as you like: no need to adapt to the automatic programs, now you can change the automatic programs; set the programs to your taste or create your own program.
The Multi Cooker 250 is also equipped with 48 programs, the MULTICOOK program, a convenient touch panel and a multi-layered ceramic bowl. REDMOND also presented the ever popular models – M150, M90, M70.
At the exhibition, the company presented trends in the field of home technology – the vacuum cleaner RV-S314 with an enhanced cleaning system 'Multicyclone 5+1', the coffee maker RCM-1503 with an innovative brewing system which brews under pressure without oxygen.
ELECTROLAR SHOW – Brazil's largest annual international B2B-exhibition of domestic technology, mobile and IT devices. People of different industries come together to meet manufacturers, dealers, and partners. More than 25,000 Brazilian companies participated at the exhibition in Brazil as well as companies from different countries. REDMOND representatives had meetings with partners from Latin America to discuss further cooperation.


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Wazifa To Bring Back Wife Husband Lover
Wazifa To Bring Back Wife Husband Lover",In case someone from your family left home caused by a fight therefore you want them an extra chance. Or your husband left you from fight or your spouse left you from fight.
Please do your follwoing:
Within the first Friday (night before friday) nights an islamic month read
Darood/Salavat 11 situations
Ayat Karima 900 times " la ilaha illa anta subhaneka inni kuntu minz zalimin"
Darood/Salavat 11 situations
While reading your wazifa visualize the folks face. You may put his/her photo facing you to assist you imagine.
While studying the wazifa you need to face that persons residence where he or she is staying.
Any time of your wazifa is actually 2 AM at night. You have to start your wazifa currently every evening.
Use Ittar or even non alcoholic perfume.
Please do this until he comes home. Inshallah he'll come back before 21 years of age days.


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There are unicorns that hide amongst the shadows of our world, fragrance unicorns that are spoken about in hushed, reverential tones, fragrances of such great rarity that they rise from the eBay mists only a bit more frequently than King Arthur's Avalon. These myths of legend belong to an elite club in the vintage world, and one of them is Nombre Noir.
Nombre Noir is so famous for so many reasons that it's hard to know where to begin. It was the very first fragrance ever made by the visionary Serge Lutens, his introductory footsteps into the perfume world, albeit under the umbrella of Shiseido rather than his own name. That would come later, but so many of the famous Lutens olfactory signatures make their debut in Nombre Noir that it's like following a map into the future. But the reasons why the fragrance is so mythical have little to do with Lutens himself and everything to do with an aggregation of olfactory, technical, and market-oriented factors. The fact that there is a whiff of Greek tragedy to the tale just adds to the mystique.


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Original Trinity Hymnal, #438
Jesus, I live to thee,
The loveliest and best;
My life in thee, thy life in me,
In thy blest love I rest.
Jesus, I die to thee,
Whenever death shall come;
To die in thee is life to me
In my eternal home.
Whether to live or die,
I know not which is best;
To live in thee is bliss to me,
To die is endless rest.
Living or dying, Lord,
I ask but to be thine;
My life in thee, thy life in me,
Makes heav'n for ever mine.


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International Vegetarian Union (IVU) | |
History of Vegetarianism - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
From the archives of The Vegetarian Society UK: The Summer of 1946 seems to have been a season of anniversaries and memorials. The Vegetarian Society itself was looking forward to its 100th anniversary and giving its members advance warnings of celebratory plans. But the big story of the July issue of The Vegetarian Messenger was the tribute to George Bernard Shaw, celebrating his 90th birthday on the 26th of that month. He had, at that time, been a vegetarian for 66 years and was commended as one of the great thinkers and dramatists of his era. "No writer since Shakespearean times has produced such a wealth of dramatic literature, so superb in expression, so deep in thought and with such dramatic possibilities as Shaw." The writer was a staunch vegetarian, anti-vivisectionist and opponent of cruel sports.
The Vegetarian (London), February 13, 1897: A DRAMATISTS DIET . . . Slowly, but surely, the roll-call of well-known men and women who have adopted Vegetarianism increases in length. . . . It would be interesting to ascertain how many members of the dramatic profession find that they can perform their arduous duties better under a vegetarian diet and as abstainers than under the scheme of "high living" which they are popularly supposed to indulge in. We know that one of the most brilliant of modern dramatists and critics - Mr. George Bernard Shaw - is a Vegetarian. In the pursuit of his duties he has to work frequently under most unhealthy conditions and to face all weathers, yet any observant stranger would turn and take a second look at Shaw's virile figure in the street. He is a standing answer to critics who aver that Vegetarians cannot compete with brain workers who are flesh-eaters. A glance at the dramatic article in the Saturday Review will convince any intelligent reade that in G. B. Shaw we have one of our keenest critics, capable of producing a succession of critiques which positively scintillate with epigrams. |


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More Project X Zone Brilliance Get link Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email Other Apps By Richie - July 02, 2014 The above video shows all that is glorious about Project X Zone. Firstly you have Xenosagas KOS-MOS and T-ELOS (the scantily clad curvaceous androids) teaming up with Tekken's suicidal Pink-haired android Alisa which already is a crazy mind-blowing cross universe groin explosion. Just skip to 40 seconds in. Love and Jiggles, Richie X Get link Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email Other Apps Comments
Devil May Cry 4: Best. Cosplay. Ever. By Richie - February 26, 2008 Seth over at the Capcom blog has found some real gems! Front Magazine has done some rather original photo shoots involving the DMC characters but with (semi-naked) girls instead! The magazine will be published on 1st March with all the pics, including some nudey ones!!! Thatguys.co.uk will be all over this, expect some NSFW post in the near future. Kudos Front, Kudos... laters, Richie X Read more
An Omastar Is For Life By Cunzy11 - April 16, 2013 Meet Omastar, the (Oma) star of Omastar Comics and of twitter fame . You could say Omastar is my favourite Pokémon but you'd be wrong. My favourite Pokémon is Dactylocer, MY Omastar. let me explain. One of the wonderful and often overlooked features of the Pokémon series of games, including the main series of games and some of the spin offs, has been the ability to transfer Pokémon not just from one game to the next but most importantly from one generation to the next. This feature goes as far back as Pokémon Ruby and Pokémon Sapphire . Pokémon were transferable from one game to the other in the Green, Blue, Red and Yellow games and these games were compatible with the Nintendo 64 Pokémon Stadium , and Pokémon Stadium 2 but sadly the Pokémon caught in these games couldn't be transferred beyond that. Since 2002's Ruby and Sapphire games it's been possible to transfer pocket monsters from one game to another up until the latest generation Pokémon Black Version 2 Read more


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Cancer concerns
I enjoy your magazine, but I was upset by Helen Olsson's article in the August 2008 issue ("Beat the Odds"). She stated that lung cancer is a "no-brainer" caused by smoking. I am a nonsmoker with lung cancer and would like to believe that my cancer was bad luck. No one deserves this disease no matter what lifestyle she chooses — all we can do is encourage a healthier way of living.
— Susie Youngwerth, Boise, Idaho
Thank you for sharing your story with us, Susie. We couldn't agree more with you and the other readers who wrote with the same concerns: No one deserves cancer. Although our intention was to suggest healthy lifestyle choices that may reduce cancer risk, disease is rarely caused by any one thing or action. Please join our discussion at deliciouslivingmag.com. Type beat the odds into the search box, then scroll to the bottom of the page to add your comments.
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Rosacea tip
Thank you for your article "Help for Rosacea" (June 2008). I got rid of my rosacea by switching to a dust-mite-free pillow.
— Sally Messing, via email
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- Trick or Treat!
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Sunday 30 November 2008
Soup: The final frontier
Saturday 29 November 2008
Artic outdoor market
Today I was hawking my wares at an outdoor market. It was below freezing and I was standing from 9AM to 4:30PM. It took about five hours from when I got home for my hands to unfurl from their purple lobster claws. My skin is prickly and hot but my skeleton is cold. I am hobbling around in a less than upright position. Inexplicably, my fingernails hurt.
It was a good day though, I sold quite a few things, including a coat that I hadn't even had a chance to photograph yet. You'll just have to trust me, it existed. The Christmas CD playing nearby made me feel festive, although it's appeal diminished as the hours rolled by. I got a reprieve from internecine toddler warfare.
My stall was between two lovely, talented women. Bryony Knox makes exquisite metalwork with moving parts, from little brooches and animals to larger automated sculpture. A lot of her inspiration is from the circus, mythology and heraldry, and Punch and Judy. That's my kinda inspiration!! We both recently finished the final series of the Sopranos, and ruminated over the final episode over coffee and soup. She has a son Maia's age who is now sporting a cowboy hoodie!
On my other side was Jessica Walter selling very pretty and unique contemporary jewellery and knitwear. There probably isn't a nicer person in the world, as evidenced by the 400 or so friends who visited her throughout the day!
Here is a picture of Maia drinking her bottle from a bucket. It just made sense.
Friday 28 November 2008
Folksy finds: birds
I think this tiny owlet from DaisyLily is adorable. The hanging ribbon really sets it off well and those eyes are irresistable.
Thursday 27 November 2008
Greetings from puppyland
I'm not entirely sure how it happened but this post and the one below it are out of order (think it was something to do with saving the The Nightmare Coat in draft and returning to it later). So look below if you want to see the latest coat-rauma.
The nightmare coat
The goretex fleece is really quite strange. I saw it on ebay and thought it would be the perfect lining for coats as it is waterproof and wind resistant (the two most important features of a coat when living in Scotland), and it would be an easier way of making a coat warm than a super thick batting. It was advertised as being red fleece one side, navy fleece the other, with an inner layer of goretex. So I was naturally expecting something fleece-like, maybe even super double-y fleece-like on account of both sides being fleece. What arrived wasn't very fleecey, it's more like neoprene with brushed surfaces, and very stiff. The listing was for 5 extra wide meters of it, so I now have heaps...
I had thought that the problems I had with the other bird coat would be eliminated as I was going to sew every piece of the goretex fleece to the corresponding piece of shell before assembling the coat. Good idea, yes? Well... yes and no.
- Good: stretch problem eliminated so no need to mess about with seam allowances
- Bad: assembling a coat that is already two layers thick (creating four layer seams) and then attaching it to a lining (making seams three layers thick) and then hemming (making it six layers thick)
My machine and I cried in equal measures by the time we finished hemming the bottom edge. Next up, sleeve edges. Again, six layers. And I just couldn't do it. I could barely get it under the presser foot even at its highest position. And despite being a (much too) pricey machine, it doesn't have a stupid free arm. Which is just about the most useful thing when making baby clothes. Left hand tried to keep the massive sleeve sandwich under the foot and straight, right hand tried to keep the bottom side of the sleeve out of the way. It was too much, we had reached an impasse. I was faced with a coat that was 90% done, using semi-precious hoarded materials, and four hours of my life I'd never get back. So I made double fold cuffs and abutted them to the sleeve edges rather than turn them under, and then slip stitched by hand to both sides.
Only the buttonholes to go, my least favourite part of any creation on account of my machine's loose interpretation of 'automatic buttonholing'. Automatically chew your fabric apart?.... Sure.... Automatically make a buttonhole that bears to no relation to the one you asked for?.... No problem.... Automatically destroy your dreams and break your spirit at the end of a project?.... Yep, done....
I couldn't risk it, so I did the buttonholes manually with a tight zigzag, very small increments and an overcautious use of a seam ripper. Just to make this coat as time-consuming as possible, I also made covered buttons from fabric with white polkadots on black.
I think I am going to charge $5000 for it.I tried it on Jamie for size (and also because he is more co-operative about doing things like lifting his arms if a breadstick is involved) and it fits perfectly. I actually thought he looked awesome in it. Steven doesn't share this opinion (the word 'garish' was mentioned). What do you think? Is it too girly a coat? To modify it for a boy, I was wondering if I should make it less a-line and have a normal pointy collar instead of peter pan collar. Maybe if it was less a-line it would need one of those slit thingys in the back too... Ugh, sounds like a lot of work... I'm not so sure why he looks glum in this picture, maybe he's worrying about looking garish.
The jacket is also fully reversible, but I can't decide what color buttons to use. Orange is the natural assumption but I worried there is just too much orange going on. I tried black but I thought it made the fabric look washed out. Any suggestions?Tuesday 25 November 2008
My tunic giveaway starts today!
These tunics are my own design, cut in a generous a-line shape and double elasticated at the neck so there is no fussing with zips or buttons. Fits as a dress at one, mid-thigh tunic at two and a hip length tunic at three. So get your comment on for a really good chance for a free tunic!
Jamie devises a new sort of Rorschach test
Sunday 23 November 2008
Another day, another coat
Saturday 22 November 2008
Maia and the amazing technicolour elf coat
Friday 21 November 2008
Folksy finds wallets
After last Friday's Etsy treasury, I'm doing Folksy this week. I'm still not sure about blog etiquette as far as using people's pictures, so it's worth saying that all items are available to purchase on Folksy and images are the property of the maker.
This wallet is by Plump Pudding and I love the fact it's so bright and cheerful. The ribbon and badge are a nice touch.
This caterpillar purse by Kitty eden is so adorable, I love the whimsical look of the applique against the black and white polkat dot fabric.
Thursday 20 November 2008
Eco dances
To watch Steven do the Eco dance, click here. For Maia's, click here.
On a completely different note, here are the giveaways that opened on Etsybaby blog today. Alphabulous is offering two free iron-on fabric numbers, Goldtonedesigns is giving away a Travelling Friends Sensory Key Toy, and Littlebirdcreations's prize is an iron-on Cardinal patch. Entries are still pretty low for some of the prizes, so get your comments on there for a really good chance of winning something for free!
Swing tops
Tuesday 18 November 2008
Heaps of giveaways from Etsybaby
Tues 18th Nov
Thurs 20th Nov
Tues 25th Nov
Thurs 27th Nov
Tues 2 Dec
Thurs 4 Dec
Sat 6 Dec
All you have to do is go onto the blog, follow the link to the giveaway you'd like to enter and then post a comment back on the blog saying something you you like from the shop. Each competition is open for 7 days and a winner will be chosen at random. You can enter as many as you would like but each one only once. Some are open to US or North Americans only :(
The giveaways start today with a personalised birthday playmat from Tutucuteandmore, a Bella wetbag from Thepatacakebaby and a $20 gift certificate from Radcover. I'll be posting the details of each giveaway on the day they open and you can enter to win the tunic of your choice from my shop starting on 25 November.
Remember to enter as many as you can and pass on the details to friends and family!


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You remember. It was supposed to be twenty-first-century war, American-style: precise beyond imagining; smart bombs; drones capable of taking out a carefully identified and tracked human being just about anywhere on Earth; special operations raids so pinpoint-accurate that they would represent a triumph of modern military science. Everything "networked." It was to be a glorious dream of limited destruction combined with unlimited power and success. In reality, it would prove to be a nightmare of the first order.
If you want a single word to summarize American war-making in this last decade and a half, I would suggest rubble. It's been a painfully apt term since September 11, 2001. In addition, to catch the essence of such war in this century, two new words might be useful: rubblize and rubblization. Let me explain what I mean.
In recent weeks, another major city in Iraq has officially been "liberated" (almost) from the militants of the Islamic State. However, the results of the U.S.-backed Iraqi military campaign to retake Mosul, that country's second largest city, don't fit any ordinary definition of triumph or victory. It began in October 2016 and, at nine months and counting, has been longer than the World War II battle of Stalingrad. Week after week, in street to street fighting, with U.S. airstrikes repeatedly called in on neighborhoods still filled with terrified Mosulites, unknown but potentially staggering numbers of civilians have died. More than a million people — yes, you read that figure correctly — were uprooted from their homes and major portions of the Western half of the city they fled, including its ancient historic sections, have been turned into rubble.
This should be the definition of victory as defeat, success as disaster. It's also a pattern. It's been the essential story of the American war on terror since, in the month after the 9/11 attacks, President George W. Bush loosed American air power on Afghanistan. That first air campaign began what has increasingly come to look like the full-scale rubblization of significant parts of the Greater Middle East.
By not simply going after the crew who committed those attacks but deciding to take down the Taliban, occupy Afghanistan, and in 2003, invade Iraq, Bush's administration opened the proverbial can of worms in that vast region. An imperial urge to overthrow Iraqi ruler Saddam Hussein, who had once been Washington's guy in the Middle East only to become its mortal enemy (and who had nothing whatsoever to do with 9/11), proved one of the fatal miscalculations of the imperial era.
So, too, did the deeply engrained fantasy of Bush administration officials that they controlled a high-tech, precision military that could project power in ways no other nation on the planet or in history ever had; a military that would be, in the president's words, "the greatest force for human liberation the world has ever known." With Iraq occupied and garrisoned (Korea-style) for generations to come, his top officials assumed that they would take down fundamentalist Iran (sound familiar?) and other hostile regimes in the region, creating a Pax Americana there. (Hence, the particular irony of the present Iranian ascendancy in Iraq.) In the pursuit of such fantasies of global power, the Bush administration, in effect, punched a devastating hole in the oil heartlands of the Middle East. In the pungent imagery of Abu Mussa, head of the Arab League at the time, the U.S. chose to drive straight through "the gates of hell."
Rubblizing the greater middle east
In the 15-plus years since 9/11, parts of an expanding swathe of the planet — from Pakistan's borderlands in South Asia to Libya in North Africa — were catastrophically unsettled. Tiny groups of Islamic terrorists multiplied exponentially into both local and transnational organizations, spreading across the region with the help of American "precision" warfare and the anger it stirred among helpless civilian populations. States began to totter or fail. Countries essentially collapsed, loosing a tide of refugees on the world, as year after year, the U.S. military, its Special Operations forces, and the CIA were increasingly deployed in one fashion or another in one country after another.
Though in case after case the results were visibly disastrous, like so many addicts, the three post-9/11 administrations in Washington seemed incapable of drawing the obvious conclusions and instead continued to do more of the same (with modest adjustments of one sort of another). The results, unsurprisingly enough, were similarly disappointing or disastrous.
Despite the doubts about such a form of global warfare that candidate Trump raised during the 2016 election campaign, the process has only escalated in the first months of his presidency. Washington, it seems, just can't help itself in its drive to pursue this version of war in all its grim imprecision to its increasingly imprecise but predictably destructive conclusions. Worse yet, if the leading military and political figures in Washington have their way, none of this may end in our lifetime. (In recent years, for example, the Pentagon and those who channel its thoughts have begun speaking of a "generational approach" or a "generational struggle" in Afghanistan.)
If anything, so many years after it was launched, the war on terror shows every sign of continuing to expand and rubble is increasingly the name of the game. Here's a very partial tally sheet on the subject:
In addition to Mosul, a number of Iraq's other major cities and towns — including Ramadi and Fallujah — have also been reduced to rubble. Across the border in Syria, where a brutal civil war has been raging for six years, numerous cities and towns from Homs to parts of Aleppo have essentially been destroyed. Raqqa, the "capital" of the self-proclaimed Islamic State, is now under siege. (American Special Operations forces are already reportedly active inside its breached walls, working with allied Kurdish and Syrian rebel forces.) It, too, will be "liberated" sooner or later — that is to say, destroyed.
As in Mosul, Fallujah, and Ramadi, American planes have been striking ISIS positions in the urban heart of Raqqa and killing civilians, evidently in sizeable numbers, while rubblizing parts of the city. And such activities have in recent years only been spreading. In distant Libya, for instance, the city of Sirte is in ruins after a similar struggle involving local forces, American air power, and ISIS militants. In Yemen, for the last two years the Saudis have been conducting a never-ending air campaign (with American support), significantly aimed at the civilian population; they have, that is, been rubblizing that country, while paving the way for a devastating famine and a horrific cholera epidemic that can't be checked, given the condition of that impoverished, embattled land.
Only recently, this sort of destruction has spread for the first time beyond the Greater Middle East and parts of Africa. In late May, on the island of Mindanao in the southern Philippines, local Muslim rebels identified with ISIS took Marawi City. Since they moved in, much of its population of 200,000 has been displaced and almost two months later they still hold parts of the city, while engaged in Mosul-style urban warfare with the Filipino military (backed by U.S. Special Operations advisers). In the process, the area has reportedly suffered Mosul-style rubblization.
In most of these rubblized cities and the regions around them, even when "victory" is declared, worse yet is in sight. In Iraq, for instance, with the "caliphate" of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi now being dismantled, ISIS remains a genuinely threatening guerilla force, the Sunni and Shiite communities (including armed Shiite militias) show little sign of coming together, and in the north of the country the Kurds are threatening to declare an independent state. So fighting of various sorts is essentially guaranteed and the possibility of Iraq turning into a full-scale failed state or several devastated mini-states remains all too real, even as the Trump administration is reportedly pushing Congress for permission to construct and occupy new "temporary" military bases and other facilities in the country (and in neighboring Syria).
Worse yet, across the Greater Middle East, "reconstruction" is basically not even a concept. There's simply no money for it. Oil prices remain deeply depressed and, from Libya and Yemen to Iraq and Syria, countries are either too poor or too divided to begin the reconstruction of much of anything. Nor — and this is a given — will Donald Trump's America be launching the war-on-terror equivalent of a Marshall Plan for the region. And even if it did, the record of the post-9/11 years already shows that the highly militarized American version of "reconstruction" or "nation building" via crony warrior corporations in both Iraq and Afghanistan has been one of the great scams of our time. (More American taxpayer dollars have been poured into reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan alone than went into the whole of the Marshall Plan and it's painfully obvious how effective that proved to be.)
Of course, as in Syria's civil war, Washington is hardly responsible for all the destruction in the region. ISIS itself has been a remarkably destructive and brutal killing machine with its own impressive record of urban rubblization. And yet most of the destruction in the region was triggered, at least, by the militarized dreams and plans of the Bush administration, by its response to 9/11 (which ended up being something like Osama bin Laden's dream scenario). Don't forget that ISIS's predecessor, al-Qaeda in Iraq, was a creature of the American invasion and occupation of that country and that ISIS itself was essentially formed in an American military prison camp in that country where its future caliph was confined.
And in case you think any lessons have been learned from all of this, think again. In the first months of the Trump administration, the U.S. has essentially decided on a new mini-surge of troops and air power in Afghanistan; deployed for the first time the largest non-nuclear weapon in its arsenal there; promised the Saudis more support in their war in Yemen; has increased its air strikes and special operations activities in Somalia; is preparing for a new U.S. military presence in Libya; increased U.S. forces and eased the rules for air strikes in civilian areas of Iraq and elsewhere; and sent U.S. special operators and other personnel in rising numbers into both Iraq and Syria.
No matter the president, the ante only seems to go up when it comes to the "war on terror," a war of imprecision that has helped uproot record numbers of people on this planet, with the usual predictable results: the further spread of terror groups, the further destabilization of state structures, rising numbers of displaced and dead civilians, and the rubblization of expanding parts of the planet.
While no one would deny the destructive potential of great imperial powers historically, the American empire of destruction may be unique. At the height of its military strength in these years, it has been utterly incapable of translating that power advantage into anything but rubblization.
Living in the rubble, a short history of the twenty-first century
Let me speak personally here, since I live in the remarkably protected and peaceful heart of that empire of destruction and in the very city where it all began. What eternally puzzles me is the inability of those who run that imperial machinery to absorb what's actually happened since 9/11 and draw any reasonable conclusions from it. After all, so much of what I've been describing seems, at this point, dismally predictable.
If anything, the "generational" nature of the war on terror and the way it became a permanent war of terror should by now seem too obvious for discussion. And yet, whatever he said on the campaign trail, President Trump promptly appointed to key positions the very generals who have long been immersed in fighting America's wars across the Greater Middle East and are clearly ready to do more of the same. Why in the world anyone, even those generals, should imagine that such an approach could result in anything more "successful" is beyond me.
In many ways, rubblization has been at the heart of this whole process, starting with the 9/11 moment. After all, the very point of those attacks was to turn the symbols of American power — the Pentagon (military power); the World Trade Center (financial power); and the Capitol or some other Washington edifice (political power, as the hijacked plane that crashed in a field in Pennsylvania was undoubtedly heading there) — into so much rubble. In the process, thousands of innocent civilians were slaughtered.
In some ways, much of the rubblization of the Greater Middle East in recent years could be thought of as, however unconsciously, a campaign of vengeance for the horror and insult of the air assaults on that September morning in 2001, which pulverized the tallest towers of my hometown. Ever since, American war has, in a sense, involved paying Osama bin Laden back in kind, but on a staggering scale. In Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere, a shocking but passing moment for Americans has become everyday life for whole populations and innocents have died in numbers that would add up to so many World Trade Centers piled atop each other.
The origins of TomDispatch, the website I run, also lie in the rubble. I was in New York City on that day. I experienced the shock of the attacks and the smell of those burning buildings. A friend of mine saw a hijacked plane hitting one of the towers and another biked into the smoke-filled area looking for his daughter. I went down to the site of the attacks with my own daughter within days and wandered the nearby streets, catching glimpses of those giant shards of destroyed buildings.
In the phrase of that moment, in the wake of 9/11, everything "changed" and, in a sense, indeed it did. I felt it. Who didn't? I noted the sense of fear rising nationally and the repetitious ceremonies across the country in which Americans hailed themselves as the planet's most exceptional victims, survivors, and (in the future) victors. In those post-9/11 weeks, I became increasingly aware of how a growing sense of shock and a desire for vengeance among the populace was freeing Bush administration officials (who had for years been dreaming about making the "lone superpower" omnipotent in a historically unprecedented way) to act more or less as they wished.
As for myself, I was overcome by a sense that the period to follow would be the worst of my life, far worse than the Vietnam era (the last time I had been truly mobilized politically). And of one thing I was certain: things would not go well. I had an urge to do something, though no idea what.
In early October 2011, the Bush administration unleashed its air power on Afghanistan, a campaign that, in a sense, would never end but simply spread across the Greater Middle East. (By now, the U.S. has launched repeated air strikes in at least seven countries in the region.) At that moment, someone emailed me an article by Tamim Ansary, an Afghan who had been in the U.S. for years but had continued to follow events in his country of birth.
His piece, which appeared at the website Counterpunch, would prove prescient indeed, especially since it had been written in mid-September, just days after 9/11. At that moment, as Ansary noted, Americans were already threatening — in a phrase adopted from the Vietnam War era — to bomb Afghanistan "back to the Stone Age." What purpose, he wondered, could possibly be served by such a bombing campaign since, as he put it, "new bombs would only stir the rubble of earlier bombs"? As he pointed out, Afghanistan, then largely ruled by the grim Taliban, had essentially been turned into rubble years before in the proxy war the Soviets and Americans fought there until the Red Army limped home in defeat in 1989. The rubble that was already Afghanistan would only increase in the brutal civil war that followed. And in the years before 2001, little had been rebuilt. So, as Ansary made clear, the U.S. was about to launch its air power for the first time in the twenty-first century against a country with nothing, a country of ruins and in ruins.
From such an act he predicted disaster. And so it would be. At the time, something about that image of air strikes on rubble stunned me, in part because it felt both horrifying and true, in part because it seemed such an ominous signal of what might lie in our future, and in part because nothing like it could then be found in the mainstream news or in any kind of debate about how to respond to 9/11 (of which there was essentially none). Impulsively, I emailed his piece out with a note of my own to friends and relatives, something I had never done before. That, as it turned out, would be the start of what became an ever-expanding no-name listserv and, a little more than a year later, TomDispatch.
A plutocracy of the rubble?
So the first word to fully catch my attention and set me in motion in the post-9/11 era was "rubble." It's sad that, almost 16 years later, Americans are still obsessively afraid for themselves, a fear that has helped fund and build a national security state of staggering dimensions. On the other hand, remarkably few of us have any sense of the endless 9/11-style experiences our military has so imprecisely delivered to the world. The bombs may be smart, but the acts couldn't be dumber.
In this country, there is essentially no sense of responsibility for the spread of terrorism, the crumbling of states, the destruction of lives and livelihoods, the tidal flow of refugees, and the rubblization of some of the planet's great cities. There's no reasonable assessment of the true nature and effects of American warfare abroad: its imprecision, its idiocy, its destructiveness. In this peaceful land, it's hard to imagine the true impact of the imprecision of war, American-style. Given the way things are going, it's easy enough, however, to imagine the scenario of Tamim Ansari writ large in the Trump years and those to follow: Americans continuing to bomb the rubble they had such a hand in creating across the Greater Middle East.
And yet distant imperial wars do have a way of coming home, and not just in the form of new surveillance techniques, or drones flying over "the homeland," or the full-scale militarization of police forces. Without those disastrous, never-ending wars, I suspect that the election of Donald Trump would have been unlikely. And while he will not loose such "precision" warfare on the homeland itself, his project (and that of the congressional Republicans) — from health care to the environment — is visibly aimed at rubblizing American society. If he were capable, he would certainly create a plutocracy of the rubble in a world where ruins are increasingly the norm.


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Stalagmites like these from northern Borneo are the ice cores of the tropics. Credit: Adkins/Caltech |
is an old trick for remembering the difference between stalactites and
stalagmites in a cave: Stalactites hold tight to the ceiling while
stalagmites might one day grow to reach the ceiling. Now, it seems,
stalagmites might also fill a hole in our understanding of Earth's
climate system and how that system is likely to respond to the rapid
increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide since preindustrial times.
existing historical climate records are biased to the high
latitudes—coming from polar ice cores and North Atlantic deep ocean
sediments. Yet a main driver of climate variability today is El Niño,
which is a completely tropical phenomenon. All of this begs the
question: How do we study such tropical climate influences? The answer:
are the ice cores of the tropics," says Jess Adkins, professor of
geochemistry and global environmental science at the California
Institute of Technology (Caltech). He and geochemist Kim Cobb of the
Georgia Institute of Technology led a team that collected samples from
stalagmites in caves in northern Borneo and measured their levels of
oxygen isotopes to reconstruct a history of the tropical West Pacific's
climate over four glacial cycles during the late Pleistocene era (from
570,000 to 210,000 years ago).
The results appear in the May 3 issue of Science
Express. The lead author of the paper, Nele Meckler, completed most of
the work as a postdoctoral scholar at Caltech and is now at the
Geological Institute of ETH Zürich.
Earth's history, global climate has shifted between periods of glacial
cooling that led to ice ages, and interglacial periods of relative
warmth, such as the present. Past studies from high latitudes have
indicated that about 430,000 years ago—at a point known as the
Mid-Brunhes Event (MBE)—peak temperatures and levels of atmospheric
carbon dioxide in interglacial cycles were suddenly bumped up by about a
third. But no one has known whether this was also the case closer to
the equator.
studying the records from tropical stalagmites, Adkins and his team
found no evidence of such a bump. Instead, precipitation levels remained
the same across the glacial cycles, indicating that the tropics did not
experience a major shift in peak interglacial conditions following the
MBE. "The stalagmite records have glacial cycles in them, but the warm
times—the interglacials—don't change in the same way as they do at high
latitudes," Adkins says. "We don't know what that tells us yet, but this
is the first time the difference has been recorded."
the same time, some changes did appear in the climate records from both
the high latitudes and the tropics. The researchers found that extreme
drying in the tropics coincided with abrupt climate changes in the North
Atlantic, at the tail end of glacial periods. It is thought that these
rapid climate changes, known as Heinrich events, are triggered by large
ice sheets suddenly plunging into the ocean.
the tropics, we see these events as very sharp periods of drying in the
stalagmite record," Adkins says. "We think that these droughts indicate
that the tropics experienced a more El Niño–like climate at those
times, causing them to dry out." During El Niño events, warm waters from
the tropics, near Borneo, shift toward the center of the Pacific Ocean,
often delivering heavier rainfall than usual to the western United
States while leaving Indonesia and its neighbors extremely dry and prone
to forest fires.
fact that the tropics responded to Heinrich events, but not to the
shift that affected the high latitudes following the MBE, suggests that
the climate system has two modes of responding to significant changes.
"It makes you wonder if maybe the climate system cares about what sort
of hammer you hit it with," Adkins says. "If you nudge the system
consistently over long timescales, the tropics seem to be able to
continue independently of the high latitudes. But if you suddenly whack
the climate system with a big hammer, the impact spreads out and shows
up in the tropics."
work raises questions about the future in light of recent increases in
atmospheric carbon dioxide: Is this increase more like a constant push?
Or is it a whack with a big hammer? A case could be made for either one
of these scenarios, says Adkins, but he adds that it would be easiest to
argue that the forcing is more like a sudden whack, since the amount of
carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has increased at such an unprecedented
addition to Adkins, Cobb, and Meckler, other coauthors on the paper,
"Interglacial hydroclimate in the tropical West Pacific through the late
Pleistocene," are Matthew Clarkson of the University of Edinburgh and
Harald Sodemann of ETH Zürich. Cobb is also a former postdoctoral
scholar in Adkins's group and has been collaborating on this project
since her time at Caltech. The work was supported by the National
Science Foundation, the Swiss National Science Foundation, the German
Research Foundation, and by an Edinburgh University Principal's Career
Development PhD Scholarship.
Interglacial Hydroclimate in the Tropical West Pacific Through the Late Pleistocene
Source: Caltech
A slice through a stalagmite from a cave in northern Borneo reveals the gradual growth of the calcite structure. By measuring the ratio of oxygen isotopes in such samples, Adkins and his colleagues were able to reconstruct a history of the climate in the tropics throughout the late Pleistocene era. Credit: Adkins/Caltech |


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