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Dr. Peter Rubec wrote: Assertions about the reduction in the use of cyanide and about the reduction in mortality in trade are pure bunk. The MAC has accomplished nothing except to Greenwash a bunch of corrupt exporters (mostly in Indonesia and the Philippines) who routinely distribute cyanide to fish collectors. Nothing has changed. Mark my words, this will not continue. Governments in the Philippines and Indonesia are beginning to react to the problems of destructive/illegal fishing and on the terrestrial side to destructive/illegal logging. The MAC will need to prove that MAC Certified fish are cyanide-free. If they cannot then they will not be welcome anymore. The NGOs to watch are Telepak in Indonesia and the East Asian Seas and Terrestrial Initiatives (EASTI) in the Philippines. They have programs that are involved with community-based aquaculture, and with training collectors of marine aquarium fish to use nets, pack properly, and to better handle the fish to reduce the mortality. I am providing scientific support to both EASTI and to Telapak. So is Dr. Ralph Turingan with the Florida Institute of Technology (FIT). Progress is being made. At least more progress than the MAC. Accomplishments not greenwashed Certification are what count. link

welcome! Thanks for sharing.

better perhaps to address the root cause of your alga bloom, rather than using animals as a band-aid...but certainly a multi-faceted approach is most effective. But be patient. Alga blooms are a result of excess dissolved nutrients in your water column. Minimize nutrient import, maximize nutrient export. I.e water changes, stop feeding, check your water source tds...I'm probably forgetting something too.

seaswirls sold.

FOX? I'm a bit surprised, pleasantly though. "When Rupert Murdoch, the cantankerous and conservative owner of Fox News, enthusiastically joins the fight against climate change, you know we're past the tipping point on the issue. Think landslide. Last week, the media mogul pledged not only to make his News Corp. empire carbon neutral, but to persuade the hundreds of millions of people who watch his TV channels and read his newspapers to join the cause. Messages about climate change will be woven throughout News Corp.'s entertainment content, he said, from movies to books to TV sitcoms, and the issue will have an increasing presence in the company's news coverage, be it in the New York Post or on Hannity & Colmes. Yes, as Murdoch told Grist in an exclusive interview on his climate plan, even Fox News' right-wing firebrand Sean Hannity can be expected to come around on the issue." link

I've been an apple user since 1982. I've been a windows user since 1992. I have fluctuated back and forth over the years. I'm a web designer/developer so I use both now. Frankly operating systems are like the part of the mall that is between stores...all the stores(programs/applications) are the same...same old Brookstones, same old Gap, but the operating system is the experience in between...and frankly the apple mall has Herman Miller furniture, natural light, waterfalls, and an atrium.... I still have both, but my preferred OS is Mac OS X. Frankly now that you can run WIN on Macs there's no choice really. Try two weeks with the ability to choose either OS and you'll probably gravitate to OS X. Don;t hesitate to hit my inbox if you have any additional Q's

looks like just GTA3 I think...and I overlooked Half-Life 2 for PC: $15

in all fairness, the wookie gets the cred.

Vermetid! that's the word i was struggling for...thanks ya big Wook.

I've been an apple user off and on since 1982 I've been a windows user since 1992. I still use both for work reasons(web design), but prefer MAC OSX hands-down if I had a choice. I've been using both for a looong time and have an intimate knowledge of both OS's. I recommend a MAC. If you HAVE TO, you can run windows on your mac as well as has been suggested. Applications are like programs at a mall. The Mall is the operating system. Every mall may have the same Brookstone, the same Nordstroms, etc. The stores are the same, applications are the same across platforms...what changes is the aesthetics and functionality of the OS/mall itself... one mall has Herman Miller furniture, soothing nature sounds and a waterfall with skylights in an atrium....the other mall tries to be like that, but cannot 'get it'. even though they have the same stores and is much bigger...that's my OS metaphore.

indeed that is setting a great example. to bad or not to bad, that is...the question.

sea swirls pending.

just wow... link

I'm about to craigslist some games. PC.... Star Wars: BattleFront - $10 Star Wars: Battlefront 2 - $20 Star Wars X-wing alliance - $5 Star Wars: Republic Commando - $15 Star Wars Galaxies w/expansions - $20 X360... Fight Night Round 3 - $35 Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter - $35 Lost Planet - $40 Also have a first-gen Playstation 2 w/ ethernet add-on, 2 controllers, 2 memory cards, and a few games..thinking $45.

oh, I can't get enough of Super Golden Crisp... anyhaw, I have a teklight too, but 48" 4 bulbs.

"Our President has been (in)famously skeptical about the dangers of climate change: We don’t have all the data, and why waste time putting on a seatbelt until you feel some impact? But after last month’s Supreme Court decision that, under the Clean Air Act, carbon dioxide is indeed a pollutant—one that can be regulated by the EPA—it looks like ..." link I just found the seatbelt analogy funny and appropriate. I'm not citing anything, although I didn't realize that the Supreme Court has designated combustion-based C02 emissions as a pollutant. Obviously we're not talking about respiration C02...so I think we can all continue to breathe. :P

Dude....anyone tried syncing Dark Side of the Moon with An Inconvenient Truth? It'll blow yer mind man! - Colbert seriously though, I get the impression that people are slowly reaching the realization that, regardless of your position across the spectrum of personal motivations - from selfish greed to the greater good - it still makes logical sense to embrace the concept of sustainability. Pollution of any kind is a bad thing too. It goes beyond the simple concept of 'don't crap in your house' I think. Sustainable systems are more efficient and produce less waste, and from a purely economic/profit standpoint that translates to better ROI. It's rare to find a situation where selfish greed also equals greater good, but that connection just may 'save us' in the end, idunno. I can also relate to some of the frustration with how the media presents the isssue of climate change, and I can see how the tendency towards dramatization may turn people off to an idea if they don't already have confidence in the sources or for that matter the scientific method. It's unfortunate, but we all know that the media is interested in eyeballs before anything else, eh? It's one thing to possess a lack of confidence in a source of data, but a lack of confidence in the scientific method itself reflects a lack of understanding.

1) that's not a legitimate report, it's a blog post 2) the author is Marc Merano. google his name before citing him? 3) You're already advocating(in your sig) data from what appears to be an illegitimate source (from the standpoint of qualified scientists). Understandably, I think there's more value in a UN IPCC report. Even our president understands that. but once again....the bigger philosophical picture I think is still being ignored: given uncertainty and risk in ANY situation...the prudent course is the safest option available. Anyone find anything wrong with that? Maybe I'm missing something, but it provides a baseline on top of which we can apply an incremental conflict resolution framework.

brilliant! thanks for the heads-up.

indeed...given uncertainty and potential risk, the safest option would seem to be the most prudent course, regardless of outcome. Logic FTW! Today Bush apparently told the EPA to get going on federal regulations to reduce greenhouse emissions. Head of the Union of Concerned Scientists was on NPR to comment. Said he would cheer Bush if they follow through effectively...but skeptics worry about federal plans subverting local proactive initiatives like California and others' efforts to get a jump on the fed. regardless, good news and a major step in the right direction to declare it a high priority. Bush Orders First Federal Regulation of Greenhouse Gases

IPCC Report #4 released on May 4th. link - responses by real climatologists: link - real climate scientists responding to that mockumentary. link

hrm, not sure. Email me if there's questions. I can't promise I'll check here.

hrm, not sure. Email me if there's questions.

up you go...

first: PAY YOURSELF FIRST (i.e savings), and don't lease cars, buy them As annoying as she is, I do recommend Suze Orman because she's a good source of grounded financial strategies for recent grads who are not familiar with finance. And she speaks to women. link just a few: google query 'recent graduate financial advice' the regulars: http://www.fool.com/ http://www.smartmoney.com/ http://money.cnn.com/pf/ http://www.cnbc.com/ http://money.cnn.com/ http://finance.yahoo.com/