text: ISIS Buries 500 Yazidis Alive, Orders Others to Convert to Islam or Die Print article Send a Tip by Mary Chastain 10 Aug 2014 post a comment Not every Yazidi resident in northern Iraq escaped before the Islamic State, formerly known as ISIS, captured towns in the region. The terrorist group told the people to convert to Islam or die, killed 500 of them, buried some alive, and took hundreds of girls as slaves. "We have striking evidence obtained from Yazidis fleeing Sinjar and some who escaped death, and also crime scene images that show indisputably that the gangs of the Islamic State have executed at least 500 Yazidis after seizing Sinjar," said human rights minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani. "Some of the victims, including women and children were buried alive in scattered mass graves in and around Sinjar." "In some of the images we have obtained there are lines of dead Yazidis who have been shot in the head while the Islamic State fighters cheer and wave their weapons over the corpses," he said. "This is a vicious atrocity." The people who did escape received phone calls on Sunday morning with frightening updates. Matthew Barber, a graduate student from the University of Chicago currently in northern Iraq, said people in Hatimiya, Tel Kucho, and Tel Qasab received the threat. Hearing multiple accounts of a convert-or-die ultimatum given by #IS to 3 #Sinjar villages: Hatimiya, Tel Kucho, Tel Qasab — Matthew Barber (@Matthew__Barber) August 9, 2014 Can't confirm, but multiple sources allege deadline for converting to Islam is tomorrow. #Yazidis may die in morning if resisting conversion — Matthew Barber (@Matthew__Barber) August 9, 2014 Spoke to Yazidi man who received call from daughter in Hatimiya 1 hour ago. She says IS has given them until morning to convert or be killed — Matthew Barber (@Matthew__Barber) August 9, 2014 Without commander's approval, #IS guard let man use his phone to bid farewell to family as an "act of mercy." He is being held w/500 others. — Matthew Barber (@Matthew__Barber) August 9, 2014 But it is not that easy to convert for ISIS. But there will be no mercy if he chooses not to convert. And for IS, sincere conversion requires more than saying the shahada. — Matthew Barber (@Matthew__Barber) August 9, 2014 #IS' test for proving sincerity of conversion is "participation in jihad." To save his life #Yazidi man must convert & then fight his family — Matthew Barber (@Matthew__Barber) August 9, 2014 In other towns, ISIS slaughtered Yazidis who did not properly convert to Islam. WARNING: Graphic images below. "We are being slaughtered, our entire religion is being wiped off the face of the earth." http://t.co/buW1wHO6NN pic.twitter.com/RZsidl7o9y — VICE News (@vicenews) August 7, 2014 Islamic State Executes 67 Yazidis In Iraq For Refusing To Convert To Islam pic.twitter.com/QmhHLdIm1Q — I'm ur huckleberry (@jeanniemcbride) August 6, 2014 pic.twitter.com/BEajDbCWZu shocking images of Iraqi Yazidis being massacred by ISIS. No international outcry & for them. #TwitterKurds — Daniel J. Levy (@danielhalevy) August 6, 2014 Those who did escape are suffering in the mountains without food and water. The United Nations said 56 children died from dehydration. Yazidis told Barber what they endured on their flight from IS. Families described eating leaves to survive, or killing a few animals & eating the meat raw. By now, those still stuck on #Sinjar are dying. — Matthew Barber (@Matthew__Barber) August 9, 2014 Man relayed to me how an #IS sniper shot his daughter when she ventured out to reach a water source. His eyes were red but tears had run dry — Matthew Barber (@Matthew__Barber) August 9, 2014 An #IS jihadi drew his gun in the street to kill a father of many children, but his kids gathered around him & the fighter changed his mind — Matthew Barber (@Matthew__Barber) August 9, 2014 #Yazidi refugee from #Sinjar described to me seeing—with his own eyes—#IS jihadis gun down 2 men & a woman in his street, in broad daylight — Matthew Barber (@Matthew__Barber) August 10, 2014 On August 7, President Barack Obama announced aid for the refugees and airstrikes against ISIS. Barber and others witnessed people die after an attempt to jump in helicopters. A man watched two #Yazidi men fall to their deaths after desperately clinging to the landing skids of a helicopter delivering aid in #Sinjar — Matthew Barber (@Matthew__Barber) August 9, 2014 The helicopter teams are under orders not to do rescues—how do you select 10 passengers from thousands? Yet they haven't been able to say no — Matthew Barber (@Matthew__Barber) August 9, 2014 One chopper maxed its carrying capacity with refugees before taking off, but two more men hung onto the underside—both fell to their deaths — Matthew Barber (@Matthew__Barber) August 9, 2014 #Yazidis who've been able to escape #Sinjar tell me that when helicopters dropped food supplies, much of it was destroyed on impact. #Iraq — Matthew Barber (@Matthew__Barber) August 10, 2014 Islamic State has killed 500 Yazidis, buried some alive http://t.co/cuj4SVthpc pic.twitter.com/9pQcmgZtXG — Chicago Tribune (@chicagotribune) August 10, 2014 Minority Yazidis in Iraq have been 'buried alive' by IS militants as US continues airstrikes http://t.co/OYi9Y5Js7s pic.twitter.com/zxrFviGs86 #Iraq ' Yazidis fleeing Sinjar after the Islamic State fighters captured the city and its periphery pic.twitter.com/bML6A4dFTp — Zaid Benjamin (@zaidbenjamin) August 5, 2014 — Channel 4 News (@Channel4News) August 10, 2014 In July, IS told Christians to convert to Islam, pay a protection tax, or die. 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MOVIE REVIEW:What Do You Say to a Naked Lady?
Just watched a rare showing of this obscure Allen Funt hidden camera
movie on fancast.com. It lives up to the title when-in the beginning-a
woman casually walks stark naked to an elevator asking for directions
from various men walking by. From there, it goes on to frank
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don't really. In fact, one of my favorite exchanges was when after Funt
asked what a premature baby was, this boy said, "It's one who knows a
lot for his age." LOL! I also loved seeing that scene with that
red-haired woman when she faked an orgasm after getting spray-painted!
And some of the reactions of the preview audience was priceless. So on
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Thank goodness Obama has stopped all those credit card abuses. Now we can enjoy the highest credit card rates in history. What a great President. It's not like everyone in business saw this coming (oh wait, they did).
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Credit card rates should be high. It will discourage people from buying what they can't afford, which is what got us into this mess in the first place. Even 20 years ago, the credit card divisions of banks were their biggest losers, because people are more likely to walk away from unsecured debt. The object lesson here, don't buy what you can't afford.
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If there is anything in the article that you posted to something Obama made a specific decision on, I missed it.
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UFC on FUEL TV 10 takes place June 8 at Ginasio Paulo Sarasate in Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil. The event's main card airs on FUEL TV following prelims on Facebook.
It's not clear where Brunson vs. Markes will be placed on the lineup.
Brunson recently made his UFC debut and ended a two-fight skid with a unanimous-decision victory over Chris Leben at UFC 155. The former Strikeforce fighter and three-time NCAA Division II All-American wrestler opened his career with a 9-0 mark before losses to Kendall Grove and Ronaldo "Jacare" Souza.
Markes, who fights in his home country, looks to extend his current win streak to seven fights, which has included UFC wins over Karlos Vemola, Aaron Simpson and Andrew Craig. All of the Nova Uniao fighter's UFC wins have come via decision, though nine of his 11 other victories have come via stoppage.
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Thomas Sowell: The left's twisted agenda to help the poor
Leaders of the left in many countries have promoted policies that enable the poor to be more comfortable in their poverty. But that raises a fundamental question: Just who are "the poor"?
Even when they have the potential to become productive members of society, the loss of welfare state benefits if they try to do so is an implicit "tax" on what they would earn that often exceeds the explicit tax on a millionaire.
In short, the political left's welfare state makes poverty more comfortable, while penalizing attempts to rise out of poverty. Unless we believe that some people are predestined to be poor, the left's agenda is a disservice to them, as well as to society. The vast amounts of money wasted are by no means the worst of it.
Millions of "overseas Chinese" emigrated from China destitute and often illiterate in centuries past. Whether they settled in Southeast Asian countries or in the United States, they began at the bottom, taking hard, dirty and sometimes dangerous jobs.
Variations on this social pattern can be found in the histories of Jewish, Armenian, Lebanese and other emigrants who settled in many countries around the world — initially poor, but rising over the generations to prosperity. Seldom did they rely on government, and they usually avoided politics on their way up.
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Voiced by: Roberto Draghetti (Italian) Al Goulem (English)Magnacat is the main villain in season 1. He is the president of Pyramid Inc., but in reality, he is a shape-shifting Gorka. His main plans are attempting to take over Bibbur-Si.
Moog MagisterYou're brave to take on the Moog Magister?!Moog Magister is the main villain in season 2. He is the lord of the Anguanes.
Hector SinestroI will have my revenge, or my name isn't Sinistro!Hector Sinestro is the main villain in season 2. He is a Dark Tamer who tries to get revenge on Zick's father, Zob.
Omnised and OmniquadThe two Gorka brothers and Magnacat's minions.
ViziosedOmnised and Omniquad's replacement after the two are captured.
Emily VermeerZick's aunt and an Anguane.
Zick's family
Greta Barrymore
As a Keeper, I have the gift of Sight. I can pass this into few chosen people, and you, Elena, are one of them.
Voiced by: Alessandra Korompay (Italian), Pauline Little (English)Zick's mother.
Zobedja "Zob" Zick
Kids. They never listen.
Voiced by: Andrea Ward (Italian), Mark Camacho (English)Zick's father.
Theo Barrymore and Tessa GrangeZick's maternal grandparents and white ghosts.
Ezeria Zick and Maria BertoldZick's paternal grandparents.
Elena's Family
Harvey PotatoHarvey is Elena's father.
Julie PotatoElena's mother. Later in the series, she gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl (in the comic book series, their names are Charlie and Violet).
Lonzo PotatoElena's 8-year-old cousin.
PurrcyElena's pet cat.
PuffyElena's pet rabbit.
The Monsters
Voiced by: Pietro Ubaldi (Italian), Rick Jones (English)One of the monsters in Zick's house under the supervision of Timothy, and later by Jeremy. He likes eating Zick's shoes, and cries when taking a diet. His crime is ignoring his diet and stealing some cakes.
Snyakutz Bu
Voiced by: Riccardo Peroni (Italian), Gordon Masten (English)Snyakutz Bu is another monster in Zick's house under the supervision of Timothy and later by Jeremy. His crime is littering (leaving pieces of himself everywhere).
Clak-RitakA Bobak, yet another monster in the Barrymore's Detention Oasis. His crime is playing violin horribly out of tune.
Ben-TalakAlso a Bobak, and another monster in the Barrymore's Detention Oasis. His crime is telling make-up stories and lying.
TrengingiganThe legendary Gorka-hunter in Bibbur-Si. He is a Gingi with an eye patch on his right eye.
Chumba BagingiOne the monsters under Lardine's Detention Oasis. He is an exhibitionist, a monster who makes himself visible to humans. He escaped when Lardine was resting in Elena's House. He was saved by Zick and Elena from two Dark Phantoms, and later was captured by Zick.
The Tutors
Timothy-MothZick's cat and Tutor.
Jeremy-JothTimothy's replacement, but is dropped in that position.
LardineThe only female cat and Tutor. She is in charge of the Detention Oasis at Port Reef.
The Tamers
Tadduja "Teddy" ThaurA 14 year-old Tamer, and one of Zick's friends. He is a show-off, arrogant and boastful to anyone. He sometimes respects Zick, but not Elena that he always call her Potato.
Terrentuja "Terrence" ThaurTeddy's father.
Johanna TulasechTeddy's mother.
Lay MameryA 14 year-old female Tamer, one of Zick's new friends. She is admired by the young male Tamers, including Teddy and Zick, a reason that Elena is a bit jealous of her.
Bobby ClashA new young Tamer in the Ancient Armory, and a new character in the second season of the animated series. He is very handsome and popular among the girls in the Armory especially Elena and Lay, which made Zick a bit jealous of him.
Other characters
Patty Smirnov and Mattie O'HarePatty and Mattie are the two school journalists who tease Elena for hanging out with Zick.
David McMackamackDavid is a bully who picks on Zick, but stops bullying him once he becomes Annie's friend.
Comic-only characters
Deputy-DethAn ex-tutor out of the job because of abusing power.


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There are big changes afoot at America's Next Top Model. Show creator and host Tyra Banks fired Nigel Barker and the Jays, staple personalities of the long-running reality modeling competion, and hired two ANTM newbies, male model Rob Evans and celebrity stylist Johnny Wujek, for Cycle 19. And there's yet another twist: viewers get to […]Read more
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K. Sparks - Jazz (We Got) [Freestyle]
Artist: K. Sparks
Featuring: J.D. of Duality
Producer: A Tribe Called Quest
Album: Luck of the Draw
Avg Rating: 4.4 ( 27 votes )
It's no exaggeration to say that A Tribe Called Quest's classic album Low End Theory is one of the biggest reasons I've devoted my professional life to hip-hop, so I'm instantly suspicious of anyone who dares touch their music…except consummate DJBooth-approved emcee K. Sparks. As I would have guessed, Sparks' freestyle over the Tribe's Jazz (We Got) is a more than worthy tribute. Jazz's original ATCQ production remains thankfully unchanged - it's hard to improve upon perfection - and impressively Sparks not only lyrically quotes the original, "the job of resurrectors is to wake up the dead," but true Tribe fans will hear subtle references to Tip's flow and cadence. (Plus it doesn't hurt that he shouts out DJBooth.) Add in a mic contribution from Sparks' Double-Up labelmate JD, playing the Phife Dawg role with a spitfire verse, and you've got a track guaranteed to send real hip-hop heads scrambling for their Low End Theory vinyl. Jazz (We Got) is the latest release off Sparks and Jeff Chery's collaborative album Luck of the Draw, coming soon.
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Monday, November 24, 2014
Design Wall Monday
I've been working hard to get my 2nd Scrappy Sister's Choice blocks sewn into a top. I did that and now I'm stalling on choosing border fabrics. I'll do that today.
In the mean time..... I'm working on Cascadia. A mystery quilt along with Lori at Humble Quilts. Scroll through her blog to find Parts 1, 2 and 3. I have a plastic pencil box that was stuffed full of 1 1 /2" squares. I'd started making 4 patches with them then discovered Bonnie's Tumalo Trail design and switched the 4 patches to 9 patches. Then Cascadia comes along so I used some of the 4 patches to get started.
It's fun doing Lori's little quilts. I have the perfect spot already picked out for this one. I'm excited for the next step.
I'm excited to see what's going on in Blogland today. Check out great design walls at Patchwork Times today.
Posted by Judy D in WA at 6:44 AM 4 comments
Labels: design wall Monday, mini quilt, scraps
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
Bonnie UFO Challenge Success!
My version of Bonnie's Sister's Choice #1 is a finished top. It's hard to tell but the border is brown with green leafy vines and itty bitty yellow and blue flowers. I'm going to find some blue for the binding. You can see it here if you want. Another of my life's simple pleasures.....Miss Polly always posing for the camera. We'll work on the lighting another day.
Sister's Choice #2 has one of the 6 rows sewn together with part of row 2 under the needle. I didn't stack these blocks the right way to be able to web the top like I normally like to do. I don't know what I was thinking or even if I was. This is giving me lots of leader/ender action which is a good thing. I am in get it done mode and I'm running out of time before the mystery kick off.
See how others are doing with their Bonnie UFO Challenge at Jo's Country Junction.
Posted by Judy D in WA at 7:44 AM 4 comments
Labels: Bonnie UFO Challenge, finishes, kitties, leader/ender, Scrappy Sister's Choice, simple pleasures, UFO
Monday, November 17, 2014
Design Wall Monday
Good progress was made this week on my version of Bonnie's Sister's Choice Quilt. (Free pattern found here.) A few days ago, I did some math and decided to make 12 more blocks and make 2 quilts instead of one. Crazy? Nah, I have a plan!!
Quilt #1 is getting the rest of it's borders today. Quilt #2 will be layed out and blocks stacked, ready to sew together.
Funny story........most of the blocks have the same outer neutral per block with lots of neutrals being used. A few are scrappy. The last 12 blocks....the centers are sewn spinning in the opposite direction from all the others. I didn't even think about it until I was pressing them. Does that bother me? No, it's a scrappy, fun quilt. One day someone will look at it and wonder what was she thinking. The answer will be "She wasn't! She was doing mindless sewing, having a wonderful time with her fabrics."
The border fabrics are nowhere in the quilt. Again, does this bother me.....NO. I love this quilt and I'm so happy I chose it/them to work on before Grand Illusion starts. I need to hurry, I want both tops finished before the 29th.
See what others have on their design wall at Patchwork Times.
My plans for this week:
- Finish Quilt #1
- Finish Quilt #2
- Rearrange sewing table
Posted by Judy D in WA at 6:15 AM 3 comments
Monday, November 10, 2014
Design Wall Monday and...
...November Retreat Roundup
And what a retreat it was.
I got so much done while having so much fun.
I have nothing on my design wall but I have great completed projects.
First thing I did was make the block for Wishes Quilt Along.
Then I did the borders for Tell It To The Stars.
Next up I made my final block (the one I just knew I had already made!
and will probably find someday in a different project box!!)
and made the connector blocks for Friends and Companions.
Then put them all together, added the setting triangles and borders.
I love a good retreat TahDah!!!
And how fitting that my Friends were with me when I finished this top.
I added a few more Pineapple Crazy blocks.
(Not these particular ones,
I'm too lazy to get the bin out and take a picture.)
And added quite a few new to me scraps from friends.
It was fun to see when they found their fabrics.
We do strip swaps.
Usually 2 1/2" black/whites, neutrals and batiks
but this retreat we added a new category.
1 1/2" neutrals!
Look at that selection.
35 different fabrics.
I am the swapper so I get the up close and personal look at all the great fabrics.
I am trilled to have added 60 strips to my stash!!
I had to stop Friday morning on my way in to Royal Ridges to take pictures.
The fall colors with the sunshine streaming in was just gorgeous!
I looked out my window to see these beauties up on the hill.
I will miss retreat season but
I am ready to hunker down at home for the winter.
Of course it hasn't officially arrived yet but it sure feels like it has.
Check fabulous design walls at Patchwork Times.
Posted by Judy D in WA at 6:27 AM 5 comments
Labels: design wall Monday, friends, Friends & Companions Sew Along, kitties, retreat, strip swap, Tell It To The Stars, Wishes Quilt Along
Thursday, November 06, 2014
Bonnie Challenge Update
I'm a day late with my Bonnie UFO Challenge Update.
That's the way things have been going lately.
I only have 8 blocks left to sew back together.
Then I did some counting and some math.
Bad idea???
Maybe not.
If I make 12 more blocks,
I can make 2 cuddle on the couch quilts.
Will I?
I don't know.
I'm still thinking about it.
I also have these 8 sewn blocks to press.
That's not all I've done this week,
I worked on another project instead.
Can't tell you what it is though.
You know,
tis the season.
How did others do with their Bonnie UFOs?
Posted by Judy D in WA at 6:58 AM 6 comments
Monday, November 03, 2014
Design Wall Monday
This is not really a design wall but my living room curtain with Circle of Jewels pinned to it. I've been a bit obsessed with it this week. After I finish the half jewels, I'll fill the sides in with half flowers and then add borders. This post shows where I was last Monday. What a difference a week makes. I'm sooooo close!!!
Right now it measures 54" x 56 1/2". After I add the borders, this will make a be a nice cuddle on the couch or in the recliner quilt.
Last week's plan:
- Sew back for Pieced Hexies. No.
- Work on Scrappy Sister's Choice Yes! I have just a few blocks left to sew together.
- Baste Pieced Hexies. No. Like I said, I was obsessed with CoJ.
- Get ready for retreat!
- Go to retreat!
- Have fun at retreat!
- Circle of Jewels-maybe I can get the black and white part finished and start the half flowers.
Posted by Judy D in WA at 6:19 AM 11 comments
Labels: Circle of Jewels, design wall Monday, hexagons, plans
Sunday, November 02, 2014
Slow Stitching Sunday
Today I plan to work on Circle of Jewels. I need to make some half flower rosettes and some half jewels. This means I am almost finished with the hand stitching part of this quilt. I love my zebra lap desk. It has a nice padded underside so stays almost level on my lap. That is if a cute little dog or a couple of kittens stay out of the way.
Last Monday I took this photo. I have since finished the bottom row, See there on the right side, 2nd row? I was unsure what to fill that with so I sent this picture off in an email off to Mickey DePre for her opinion. (After all, it is all her fault that I started this. All she did was post one little picture of her future project and I fell in love and went crazy! Crazy in a good way!!) She said she planned to fill her sides in with half flowers so I will too. Then I will machine applique it to a narrow border and add a wider black and white print border like I did with Mae's GFG. I will probably quilt it pretty much the same as her's too.
This isn't a big quilt, it's just the right size to cuddle on the couch with.
What are you stitching today? See great projects at Kathy's Quilt: Slow Sunday Stitching.
Posted by Judy D in WA at 8:34 AM 11 comments
Labels: Circle of Jewels, hexagons, plans, Slow Stitching On Sunday
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Bonnie Challenge Update
Jo has challenged us to work on a Bonnie UFO before the mystery begins. I've been working on my version of Bonnie's Scrappy Sister's Choice. I've found new energy with this project. I had pinned the parts together for a bunch of blocks. Now each block is placed on the design board and so it's easy for me not to mess it up. LOL Under the needle is a 9 patch unit for my leader/ender. These are destine for Tumalo Trail which is in Scraps and Shirttails II. Pretty fun working 2 Bonnie quilts at the same time.
Here is my pile of blocks. I cannot wait to lay them all out and get busy on more rows.
Check out how others are doing with their Bonnie Projects at Jo's Country Junction.
Posted by Judy D in WA at 5:29 AM 7 comments
Labels: Bonnie UFO Challenge, Quiltville, Scrappy Sister's Choice, UFO
Monday, October 27, 2014
Design Wall Monday
Do you ever pull out a UFO and wonder what the heck was I thinking? That was me Sunday when I started working on this UFO. I had partial blocks pinned together with their parts. Blocks that were unsewn and pinned together. No notes other that what I found on the blog right here in 2008. Good thing I only made 4 totally scrappy blocks before I found this.
I will be spending some serious sewing time before the Quiltville mystery starts with this UFO. I have hopes of having a completed quilt top. Why am I working on this UFO? I blame Jo for having a Bonnie UFO Challenge. My post about that is here. The fun has begun.
Plans from 2 weeks ago:
- Retreat starts Thursday.....Can't wait. How many Pineapple Crazy blocks can I get made in 4 days without going crazy! 12 Pineapple Blocks and 5 border blocks
- Finish Patches and Posies DONE!!
- Mail 9 patches for swap I decided to add more blocks, they are done and everything will be mailed today.
- Make back for Pieced Hexies. Pieces are cut and ready to sew.
Plans for this week:
- Sew back for Pieced Hexies.
- Work on Scrappy Sister's Choice
- Baste Pieced Hexies.
See what others have on their design wall at Patchwork Times.
Posted by Judy D in WA at 4:56 AM 5 comments
Sunday, October 26, 2014
Slow Stitching Sunday
I can't believe it's been a month since I've posted about my Circle Of Jewels quilt. I work on it almost every evening and am making nice progress despite my helpers, Shirley and Polly. They were doing very good on my lap last night--maybe because they were spayed Friday and still not quite themselves. For the most part, they settle right in to nap but then there are those other times when they have to be off my lap!!
I am almost ready to add the last row of flowers, then the last row of jewels. I had a bit of a panic moment when I thought I was out of one of my jewel fabrics. I did a strong search online for more but didn't find any anywhere. The other day I was digging in my knitting bag and there was a sandwich bag with a nice pile of jewels fabrics cut and ready to baste to papers. Talk about a sigh of relief! I totally forgot about doing that......so now you know how long it's been since I've really spent time knitting more that just a row or 2. All because I am obsessed with this quilt.
It's now time to figure out what to do for borders. I think I have a plan but I need to sit down with graph paper and colored pencils to see if it will work. Since it's going to be a rainy, dark and gloomy day, I see more lap time for the kittens.
See how others are spending their Slow Stitching Sunday at Kathy's Quilts.
Posted by Judy D in WA at 6:13 AM 8 comments
Labels: Circle of Jewels, hexagons, kitties, Slow Stitching On Sunday
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At the start of 2014, Pacific Sun introduced a powerful and surprisingly affordable five-channel computerized dosing system, the Kore 5th Doser (read more about the Kore 5th Doser here). At the end of this year, Pacific Sun is launching the first accessory to make an already robust doser even more so.
Many additives require stirring/shaking before dosing, making dosing systems less than optimal because no dosing system to date is able to mix sedimentation back into solution. Pacific Sun's Kore 5th Magnetic Stirrer addresses this problem by adding magnetic stirrers for up to five bottles/containers. The stirrers are integrated with the doser so they only activate a few seconds before dosing. The Kore 5th Magnetic Stirrer also serves as an elegant base for the Kore 5th Doser.
The Kore 5th Doser impressed us upon its debut, and the Magnetic Stirrer really elevates this dosing system above any other on the market right now.
MSRP: 99 euro (USA pricing should be similar)
Release date: January 2015
This week's West Hawaii Today article is truly depressing. Why? We witness an appalling barefaced rejection of science by the council in charge of determining the fate of the aquarium trade in West Hawaii.
North Kona Councilwoman Karen Eoff:
"The science is one thing, but the fact that these are our public trust resources … I would support a ban too or a moratorium. Until the state is ready to take some serious measures, all we can do is one little step."
Hamakua Councilwoman Valerie Poindexter:
"I don't want to hear about the scientific stuff, because I don't believe we should be shipping our fish out. These are our resources that people are taking for free. … What are we doing to our island?"
Kohala Councilwoman Margaret Wille:
"I know it's not just the aquarium trade (causing fish decline), but you've got to start somewhere."
If data shows Hawaiian fish decline, how about you start with coastal development? Industrial and agricultural pollution? Tourism operators? Commercial and recreational fishing? We have plenty of data to support the negative impacts on coral reefs by any of the aforementioned. Alas, many on the council openly admit to not wanting to hear about the data. Somehow building a new resort or golf course and virtually unregulated recreational fishing are above reproach, yet a handful of aquarium net collectors is public enemy number one.
Robert Whitner, founder of of the "Snorkel Bob" dive shops, adds:
"Who owns the reef wildlife on the Big Island. Does the economic benefit of a few trump reef health and the benefit of the community?"
Dear Bob, no one owns the reef wildlife on the Big Island. Not aquarists. Not tourism operators. Not West Hawaiians. We are all stewards of our shared planet. The real issue is whether collecting fish for the aquarium trade is sustainable ... whether we are being good stewards. And that's why the data matters. That's why the data is the ONLY thing that matters.
The anti-aquarium supporters' modus operandi is clear:
How are we suppose to have a reasonable and constructive debate with so much logical fallacy brazenly parading out in the open? When policy-makers approach issues in this manner, there are no real winners.
Ret Tablot writes an excellent article about the data on Hawaii's fishery, which Advanced Aquarist strongly encourages everyone to read ... especially the West Hawaii County Council members.
SAN DIEGO, Nov 19, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Petco today announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Drs. Foster and Smith, a leading veterinary-owned online pet supply company. This combination will unite one of the largest pet specialty retailers with one of the largest online pet retailers in the country.
Based in Rhinelander, Wisconsin, Drs. Foster and Smith are among the nation's foremost authorities on pet care and education, with a strong reputation for their scope of veterinary expertise on prescription medications and quality products for dogs, cats, fish, birds, reptiles, horses, pond life and small animals.
"This move underscores our commitment to nurturing the complete health and well-being of animals and further allows Petco to meet the diverse and expansive needs of pet parents," said Jim Myers, Petco CEO. "As pet lovers first and foremost, our values are perfectly aligned with Drs. Foster and Smith, and we're confident this new addition to our business will help us continue to offer the very best in products and services to pets and pet parents."
Petco provides customers with high-quality pet food, supplies and services, driven by the understanding that pet health goes beyond basic needs to include support of the physical, mental, social and emotional needs of pets. The acquisition will complement Petco's existing capabilities in pet health to include prescription services, including prescription diets, preventive care and a broad base of products created by licensed veterinarians.
Drs. Foster and Smith was founded in 1983 as a group of four veterinary clinics with the goal of helping pets live healthier, happier lives by providing the highest quality veterinary care available. Dr. Race Foster, Dr. Rory Foster and Dr. Marty Smith's Animal hospitals in Northern Wisconsin were the first in the nation to offer free rabies vaccinations and free spay/neutering services.
Since its beginnings, Drs. Foster and Smith has developed a sterling reputation on the strengths of its top-level customer service, consumer education and competitive pricing, evidenced by tremendous customer loyalty and satisfaction. In 2003, the company began offering a full-service pharmacy that enables customers to fill prescriptions online and by mail-order. The acquisition includes both Drs. Foster & Smith's prescription services as well as its popular branded products, including joint care supplements, dog and cat foods, dog beds, cat furniture, horse supplies, equine equipment and other pet care essentials.
"At our founding, our intent with Drs. Foster and Smith was to provide pet owners with veterinary advice and quality pet supplies at affordable prices," said Race Foster, DVM, and Co-Founder of Drs. Foster and Smith. "We believe Petco shares those same values, and we look forward to building on our original mission."
The acquisition, in which Drs. Foster and Smith are exclusively represented by Falls River Group, is expected to be completed by early 2015 and is subject to customary closing conditions, including receipt of regulatory approvals. The terms of the deal are not being disclosed.
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Petco is a leading pet specialty retailer that focuses on nurturing powerful relationships between people and pets. We do this by providing the products, services, advice and experiences that keep pets physically fit, mentally alert, socially engaged and emotionally happy. Everything we do is guided by our vision for Healthier Pets. Happier People. Better World. We operate more than 1,300 Petco locations across the U.S., Mexico and Puerto Rico, including more than 100 Unleashed by Petco locations, a smaller format neighborhood shop; 10 Pooch Hotel destinations for pet daycare, boarding and spa services; and petco.com. The Petco Foundation, an independent nonprofit organization, has raised more than $125 million since it was created in 1999 to help promote and improve the welfare of companion animals. In conjunction with the Foundation, we work with and support thousands of local animal welfare groups across the country and, through in-store adoption events, help find homes for more than 400,000 animals every year.
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Drs. Foster and Smith is the nation's largest catalog and online seller of pet supplies. They are also the leading veterinary-owned pet product supplier, providing pet owners with veterinary advice and quality pet supplies at affordable prices for over 31 years. For more information visit: http://www.drsfostersmith.com, http://www.liveaquaria.com or http://www.peteducation.com.
The "trunk" of the tree is a 20cm (8 inch) diameter cork bark with driftwood projecting out from its base in order to create the effect of a root flare (AKA "nebari") over rock. The aquarium is only one month old (started Oct 18, 2014) so it has a lot of maturing to do. As it stands right now, it already makes quite the impression. We can't wait to see this aquascape develop.
Follow the Roca De Plata build on Eddy's (German) blog or Vimeo page. Here is his first intoxicating 6-minute video of this living art in progress.
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There are myriad reasons why fishes originating in places like Fiji, Solomon Islands, French Polynesia, Cooks Island, New Caledonia, Maldives, and Kiribati are more likely to be sustainable choices over fishes from the larger source countries like Philippines and Indonesia. While there are sustainable aquarium fishers in Philippines and Indonesia (and also questionable ones in some of the smaller nations), there remains a high level of unsustainable and even illegal activity in the larger countries that the sustainably minded aquarist will want to avoid. The challenge is to support the sustainable fisheries or, at the very least, not support the unsustainable ones.
To support a sustainable fishery half a world away, aquarists need point of origin information. Breeders and some advanced aquarists talk about the concept of knowing where a fish originates as knowing its provenance. To know a fish's provenance—the exact region or even reef from which it was harvested—is to be able to trace the supply chain from retail store back to the fishery. This is why tractability is so important to the sustainably minded aquarist.
The trouble with the largest source countries is that fishes may travel many miles and through many hands before they reach an export facility. Because the exporters often buy from middlemen, who operate as intermediaries between the fishers and the exporters, provenance is quickly lost. Without traceability, even the exporters often don't know which of their fishes were harvested sustainably, which were harvested unsustainably (e.g., overfishing) and which were harvested illegally (e.g., cyanide). That means the aquarist at the local fish store doesn't know either.
In many of the smaller developing island nations data-based fisheries management and formal traceability remain rare, but there are systems in place that help insure sustainability and aid in traceability. For example, in some countries the amount of available freight leaving the country each week is the limiting factor to how many aquarium fishes can be exported. In addition to limited freight, many smaller island nations have strong customary resource use or ownership rights in place. In these situations, coastal fishing villages fish their own reefs or establish agreements that benefit the village for others to fish their reef. Because it is their reef, they tend to know it better and fish it more sustainably over time.
In larger source countries, so-called roving fishers are common. These roving fishers may go out on a collecting expedition for a couple of weeks, moving from one reef to the next. Because they don't have a direct stake in many of the reefs they are fishing, they may be less attuned to fishing that reef sustainably. In the worst cases, they overfish—or "fish out"—a reef before moving on to the next one.
In addition to how sustainably a local fisher versus a roving fisher may fish a reef, traceability is generally a lot better in the case of local fishers harvesting fishes from their own reef and selling those animals directly to the exporter without a middleman.
A fisher from a remote village in the Florida Islands, Solomon Islands harvesting an aquarium fish on the reef adjacent to his village.
Fishes originating from developed nations like Australia or Hawaii are often the most sustainable choices. While certainly not without their challenges, these aquarium fisheries have both national and regional oversight. There also tend to be more fishery data available owing to more marine scientists working over a longer duration in these places.
The aquarium fishery in Hawaii, for example, has arguably more data than any other aquarium fishery in the world. While not without its problems, it is under constant scrutiny, and fisheries management is far more adaptive (able to respond) to issues than many of the aquarium fisheries in developing island nations. Australia is frequently considered to have the best-managed aquarium fishery.
One seemingly obvious solution for the sustainably minded aquarist not wanting to support unsustainable fisheries and illegal activity is to buy cultured fishes. After all, captive bred fishes do not have anywhere near the same effect on reefs as wild harvested fishes do, right? That is true, but the sustainably minded aquarist realizes this is a two way street.
While cultured fishes do not require more than broodstock to be taken from the wild, they also often lack the ability to actively help protect reefs and support fishing communities. A sustainable aquarium fishery can be one of the best extractive industries in many developing island nations. It can provide real economic incentive to conserve reefs and to fish sustainably, and it can drive much needed socio-economic development, allowing remote fishing communities to remain connected to the resource. After the closure on an aquarium fishery, too often unsustainable activity fills the void.
In separating the aquarium hobby from wild reefs, aquarists miss an opportunity to promote environmental and socio-economic sustainability in a part of the world where it is most needed. Still, in many situations, cultured fishes are a great choice. They provide an alternative to unsustainably harvested or untraceable animals, and they tend to be hardier and easier to keep for the novice aquarist. Nonetheless, most sustainably minded aquarists will want to keep wild harvested fishes at some point. Maybe keeping wild fishes is about how few captive bred marine fishes are currently available, or maybe it's about a connection to wild reefs and supporting local fishing communities and economically driven conservation initiatives. In short, a truly sustainable and robust marine aquarium trade relies on both cultured fishes and traceable, sustainably harvested wild fishes.
The sustainable marine aquarist thinks we need more of both.
Up until this point in the series, we have only looked at aquarium fishes. What about corals? In Part III, we will look at how the sustainably minded aquarist approaches the trade in corals and other invertebrates.
Editor's Note: We encourage all aquarists to stay up to date with important aquarium fishery information by following Ret's blog, www.GoodCatchBlog.com.
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The South Pier at Gdynia (photo right) already has a public aquarium, which was built in 1971. The Gdynia Aquarium is a modest facility by modern standards housing only about 200 species of animals (for comparison's sake, Steinhart Aquarium [California] houses more than 900 species). A great portion of the facility serves as a "sea museum" rather than live exhibits, while recent renovations added educational activities (e.g. laboratories and touch-tanks). The aquarium is popular destination for school children.
The real estate at the end of the pier is undeveloped (and reportedly under-visited) park space. Architect Milolai Adamus hopes to convert this "misused" space into the location of a new, contemporary public aquarium.
His concept features four stories of exhibits with only one story visible at ground level. The top story serves as an observation deck while three stories of live exhibits are located underground, some of which is below sea level.
The minimalistic square architecture may look simple, but a lot of careful thought went into its design. Adamus used the Golden Ratio and Fibonacci Sequence as inspiration for the floor plan as is shown in the top-down blueprint below. A lot of asymmetrical open space is shared between the four stories to add a dynamic experience for foot traffic and visual impact. Glass is used extensively throughout the design to open up the sight-lines - a great idea in architecture dominated by long straight lines.
This public aquarium is only a proposal at the time of this article. We really hope to see this concept become reality some day. Move over, churches, museums, and music halls!; public aquariums are quickly becoming the favored building type for grand architecture.
For more information, visit Mikolai Adamus' website.
The new aquarium is the square "donut" building located at the end of the pier (e.g. rightmost building in the first photo). The existing Gdynia Aquarium is also seen in the models; it is the long, narrow, rectangular building with a rounded seaward-facing side located next to the proposed new aquarium.
Citation: Rosenfield, Karissa. "Mikolai Adamus' Proposal for a New Aquarium in Gdynia" 15 Nov 2014. ArchDaily. Accessed 16 Nov 2014.
The name of this aquarium is the AquaVista Dinosaur Gold Edition. We aren't kidding. Why "Gold?" The aquarium's frame is made of 68 kilograms (2400 ounces) of 24ct gold! We really aren't kidding. Based on today's market rate (~$1500/ounce), we're talking approximately $3.6 million dollars worth of gold. Why "Dinosaur?" Real Tyrannosaurus rex bone were inlaid into two veneers on the top left and bottom right corners of the aquarium! Seriously, we are not kidding. And what were these veneers made of? Prehistoric wooly mammoth tusk, of course.
The price was just as unreal: $4,800,000! Perhaps the only thing more shocking than the aquarium or its price is the fact is that not one, not two, but three AquaVista Dinosaur Gold Edition were made ... during the height of the global recession no less. Some people have way way WAY too much money.
We could share the details about the aquarium's equipment, but does anyone really care about the heater and air pump for this thing?
For aquarists with caviar taste on a tuna fish budget, you'll be happy to know AquaVista sells a similar "Panoramic Wall Aquariums" starting at only $1,195. That's a $4,798,805 discount if you can manage to slum it without the gold and dinosaur bone.
One of the top things reef aquascapers may envy about planted aquascapers is the creative freedom afforded to freshwater aquascaping. Reef aquascaping is fundamentally limited to recreating a "natural" reef ... in other words: duplicating a slice of living coral reef within a glass box. While there are a lot of reef scenes for aquarists to emulate, these aquascapes are ultimately constrained by imitation instead of pure artistic expression. It's why you never see Avatar or Lord of the Rings-inspired reef tanks (and pretty please, no one try this).
Planted tanks, on the other hand, are unbounded by the shackles of imitation. An aquascaper has creative license to flex his or her imagination to design tanks ranging from naturalistic (like Amano's nature aquariums such as the exhibits displayed at Sumida Aquarium, Tokyo) to purely artistic. The aquascape below tilts towards the artistic end of the spectrum. The results may not be to everyone's liking, but such is the nature of art.
Suffice it to say, don't try this at home (or at your LFS). It's much safer to just subscribe to Smarter Every Day and let the professionals demonstrate the magic of science.
And here is a bonus SED video, who once again visits James Cook University to investigate - in slow motion - the powerful punch of mantis shrimp. Science is so damn neato.
Mars, Incorporated is announcing the completion of an extensive coral reef rehabilitation – the latest example of how it supports the communities in which it operates. The privately-owned company has also announced a new marine protected area in the same site, off the island of Pulau Badi in Southern Indonesia, which is 20 kilometers from Makassar, South Sulawesi, where Mars has a cocoa processing factory.
The project was developed by Mars Sustainable Solutions (part of Mars Symbioscience) and built in collaboration with the island community and divers from Mars, Incorporated businesses around the world. This included Associates selected through the Mars Ambassador Program, which gives Associates the chance to impact change through global assignments using their professional expertise and passion.
The reef covers an area of approximately 7000 square meters (over 500 meters long), with over 3000 specially-constructed, innovative structures on which coral fragments grow to rehabilitate the reef and re-establish native fish populations.
The reef and marine protected area will help meet the long-term food security needs of the people of Pulau Badi and provide income opportunities, allowing them to catch fish for lucrative local and international markets.
"I have watched this Mars project over the years and am not aware of anything of this scale. The beauty is that the technology is more easily transferable than other reef projects I've seen. The corals expand very quickly, possibly because the technology is based on a simple structure that does not shade the corals very much or impede water flow around them, enabling them to thrive," said Dr. Susan Williams, professor at the University of California-Davis and its Bodega Marine Laboratory. "Rebuilding the coral reef ecosystem is needed by the local people, but also offers promise to improve the ecological and economic sustainability for the future of the region."
The original coral reef at Pulau Badi, located at the heart of the Coral Triangle, was largely destroyed by previous destructive fishing practices causing a severe shortage of fish as well as erosion of the island itself. As the coral reef habitat is being repaired, many native fish and other marine species are returning. The coral reef is essential to the entire marine ecosystem and a breeding ground for many marine species, becoming the center for natural production of fish.
"It is so gratifying to see the progress we've made together – already the coral reef has significantly increased food resources for the people of Pulau Badi and I can see a much brighter future now if the people can protect and manage their new reef sustainably for generations to come," said Noel Janetski, a 33-year Mars, Incorporated Associate, leading the Mars Symbioscience marine sustainability team in Indonesia.
The reef rehabilitation project focuses on rebuilding the ecological foundation of food security for the island. It also trains the people to take care of the reef and the sustainable ecosystem. The system is designed to be built largely by the island people themselves with help from expert divers and provides additional income as Mars pays them to continue the development and maintenance of the project*.
"This work has literally brought back life to the island community and the Badi people, which can serve as a role model for other islands. It is critical to keep the all-important coral reef sustainable and the fish that inhabit it, for food and the livelihoods of our people," said Muhammad Natsir Sulaiman, Head of Fish and Marine Affair Department of Pangkep. "We thank the Mars team who has been an invaluable partner to the people of Sulawesi and we will work hard to ensure the future of the reef not only survives but flourishes."
The Mars Symbioscience team has been working since 2007 to develop alternate livelihood systems that will help island people restore their coral reef infrastructure and establish new businesses to produce ornamental fish, including captive bred seahorses for the international market. The Mars team has developed independent, family-owned, small-scale captive breeding systems to significantly increase the income of local fishermen and their families. There are now three operational ornamental fish captive breeding businesses on Pulau Badi funded by Mars, and more units are planned.
Mars will continue to be involved with the people of Pulau Badi and local government to ensure this work is successful and believes in the potential to transfer the technology to neighboring islands and other areas of the world.
* People from the local Pulau Badi community will receive income from Mars for producing and coating the "spiders" (the structures used to rehabilitate the reef), attaching the coral fragments and protecting the DPL and new reef system using a "penjaga terumbu karang" boat provided by Mars Symbioscience.
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Researchers have determined it's a certain gene that keeps pigment cells dispersed and gives the pearl danio its uniform orange color. By expressing this gene the same way in zebrafish, the zebrafish pigment cells also remained intermingled and the fish were essentially stripped of their stripes. Credit: D Parichy Lab/U of Washington
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Within weeks of publishing surprising new insights about how zebrafish get their stripes, the same University of Washington group is now able to explain how to "erase" them.
The findings – the first published Aug. 28 in Science and the latest in the Nov. 6 issue of Nature Communications – give new understanding about genes and cell behaviors that underlie pigment patterns in zebrafish that, in turn, could help unravel the workings of pigment cells in humans and other animals, skin disorders such as melanoma and cell regeneration.
"Using zebrafish as a model, we're at the point where we have a lot of the basic mechanisms, the basic phenomenology of what's going on, so we can start to look at some of these other species that have really different patterns and start to understand them," said David Parichy, a UW professor of biology and corresponding author on both papers.
Zebrafish, a tropical freshwater fish about 1.5 inches long, belongs to the minnow family and is a popular addition to home aquariums. Adults have long horizontal blue stripes on their sides, hence the reference to "zebra." These patterns have roles in schooling, mate selection and avoiding predators. Given their importance, scientists have long wanted to know where these pigment cells come from and how they make stripes and other arrangements.
Unlike humans with a single pigment cell type – the amount of melanin that produces color being determined by everyone's individual genetics – there are three pigment cells that make the zebrafish pattern.
Researchers at UW and elsewhere have previously shown that all three types of pigment cells communicate with one another to organize zebrafish stripes and that two of the pigment cells – one that creates black and another silver – come from stem cells.
In the Aug. 28 issue of Science, two papers report that the cells called xanthophores that produce the color orange don't come from stem cells as had long been assumed. Instead, they come from pre-existing cells in the embryo. The UW researchers also determined the surprising process by which this occurs: cells in the embryo first mature into xanthophores and then, when it's time to make stripes, these same cells lose their color, increase in number and then turn back into xanthophores with color.
"This is remarkable because cells do not normally lose their mature properties, let alone regain them later," Parichy said. "Knowing how xanthophores achieve this feat could provide clues to regeneration of tissues and organs without the need for stem cells."
Even more remarkably, the UW authors found that the re-development of orange-producing xanthophores requires thyroid hormone, the same hormone that turns tadpoles into frogs, suggesting that xanthophores undergo their own metamorphosis. At the same time thyroid hormone blocks development of the black cells, setting the proper shade overall.
"In the last 10 to 15 years people trying to understand these patterns have concentrated on how the three pigment cell types interact with each other. We showed the tremendous dependence on thyroid hormone for the pattern that develops," Parichy said.
Lead author is Sarah McMenamin, a postdoctoral fellow in Parichy's lab. Funding for the work was provided by the National Institutes of Health, which just awarded Parichy a new $1.25 million grant to study thyroid hormone signaling in pigmentation and melanoma.
Next in the Nature Communications paper, Parichy's group reports on a gene that drives the unusually early appearance of xanthophores – independent of thyroid hormone – in another species, the pearl danio. Unlike zebrafish this species lacks stripes: its pigment cells are intermingled and arranged uniformly on the body, giving it a pearly orange color.
By expressing this gene the same way in zebrafish, the researchers caused the fish to make extra-early xanthophores and the fish produced a uniform pattern like the pearl danio instead of their usual stripes.
"Really simple changes in timing make totally different patterns," Parichy said.
This unexpected result shows that a core network of interacting cells can generate very different patterns in response to changes in timing, a discovery that could explain color pattern evolution across a variety of species. Lead author on the Nature Communications paper is postdoctoral scholar Larissa Patterson and the work was funded by the NIH.
"If you'd asked me five years ago if we're in a position to have some useful hypotheses about where patterns come from in other species, I'd have said, 'No,'" Parichy said. "But I think now we're really at the point where we understand a lot of the basics and we can start to frame testable hypotheses. We can see how much of this is just a simple difference in timing, a difference in thyroid hormone responsiveness or a difference in cellular communication itself."
Patterson and UW's Emily Bain are co-authors on both papers. Other co-authors on the Science paper are UW's Anna McCann, Dae Seok Eom, and undergraduates Zachary Waller and James Hamill, as well as Julie Kuhlman from Iowa State University and Judith Eisen of the University of Oregon.
If you only entered the hobby this decade, you don't know how good you have it. No less than ten years ago, reefkeepers had to choose between a handful of bulbs whose controlability amounted to how many on/off timers you could cram onto a power strip. The lighting choices were few and "dumb." The struggle was real.
Today, we have an ever increasing, ever improving selection of high powered, highly controllable lighting systems thanks to the veritable arms race between manufacturers worldwide.
Pacific Sun launched the original version of the Pandora Hyperion S hybrid LED+T5 lighting system last April, and they are now set to evolve this hybrid light into its most powerful iteration yet. Using more T5s and their latest SMT LED technology, Pacific Sun is attempting to recreate the classic "point source + fluorescent" lighting combination that first began with metal halides and VHOs.
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There are many similarities between the marine aquarium trade and the seafood trade, but perhaps one of the most important is that both are dependent on wild animals. While aquaculture exists for both aquarium fishes and food fishes, large numbers of wild fishes are regularly taken from the ocean to meet demand. This makes these two industries fairly unique in terms of their reliance on wildlife. When it comes to aquarium fishes, the number of species bred in captivity is on the rise, but more than 90% of the fishes commonly kept in aquaria still come from wild reefs. Whether you chose to keep fishes harvested from the wild or not, understanding how dependent the marine aquarium trade is on wildlife is essential to becoming a sustainably minded aquarist.
Many new marine aquarists are surprised to learn most of the fishes available at the local fish store originate on wild reefs half a world away. Many aquarists are also surprised to learn that, in the majority of cases, traceability is, at best, poor. In other words, it is often difficult (if not impossible) to know where the fishes in the aquarium store originated. While the seafood industry has a variety of third-party certification schemes and ecolabels that help sustainably minded consumers make informed decisions, the marine aquarium trade currently has no such industry-wide program. A few businesses have attempted various ways to provide more information about a fish's origin at the point of sale, but this is the exception rather than the norm.
Because of the lack of traceability in the marine aquarium trade, it's difficult to know whether or not a given fish was harvested from a sustainable, well-managed aquarium fishery. For sustainably minded aquarists—just as it is for sustainably minded seafood consumers—this is one of the most challenging aspects of the aquarium hobby.
Sustainability is defined in a variety of ways, but at its most basic, sustainability is about insuring a future. Sustainable fishing is about insuring there will be fishes in the sea tomorrow, next year and one hundred years from now. It is about not taking so many fishes that wild populations fall below the levels at which they can produce enough offspring to replace those harvested. Sustainability is also about not removing too many animals that provide critical ecosystem functions like grazing algae or cleaning parasites off other fishes. Determining what a so-called sustainable yield is for a given fishery takes data.
In addition to environmental sustainability, there is also socio-economic sustainability to consider. Fisheries require fishers, and fishers frequently live in communities near the ecosystems in which they fish. The aquarium trade has the potential to provide one of the best economic incentives for conservation. If fishers make a decent, steady income from fishing the reefs adjacent to their villages, they are more likely to fish those reefs sustainably and protect them from other fishers who may seek to overfish them. Earning a fair price for the fishes they harvest can also have a dramatic sociological effect on a remote fishing village. Encouraging fishers to remain connected to the resource can bring beneficial socio-economic development to a village in the form of sanitation services, communication capabilities and medical amenities.
The sustainably minded aquarist is interested in supporting the trifecta of sustainability—environmental, sociological and economic. Unfortunately, in too many parts of the world, this socio-economic sustainability is not the norm for aquarium fisheries. The two largest source countries for aquarium animals—Philippines and Indonesia—are the countries about which the most concerns exist. They are the countries with the least traceability, the most illegal activity and often the poorest, exploited fishers.
Until such a time as comprehensive reform is instituted and real traceability is implemented, the sustainably minded aquarists may wish to restrict his or her purchases of aquarium fishes to the smaller developing island nations and places like Australia and Hawaii, where there is a great deal of fishery data. Often these fishes are more expensive, but the sustainably minded aquarist has a much better chance of acquiring a sustainably and legally harvested fish by avoiding inexpensive animals coming from the larger source countries.
In Part II of this series, we will look at why the smaller developing island nations and places like Australia and Hawaii, in addition to aquaculture facilities, are more often than not the best sources for aquarium fishes for the sustainably minded aquarist. We will also tackle the question of whether or not the sustainably minded aquarist should purchase only aquacultured fishes.


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Interesting article in Fast Company regarding the current mess that Design Within Reach has created for itself.
It's truly a shame what has happened behind the scenes and we hope they return to their roots. It's one thing to spend thousands for great design but when it comes to light that those designs were plagiarized and knock-offs then we say goodbye.
If it's the pressures of going public or growing to fast, DWR needs to right the ship and get back to what made it such an iconic brand that the home furnishing industry needs.
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Timothy's background includes stints at This Old House, ELLE DECOR, Metropolitan Home and Woman's Day. His work has been published on Wired Design, Bob Vila, DIY Network, The Family Handyman and Popular Mechanics and he has been featured on the Martha Stewart radio show and as a speaker at the ALT Design Summit, K/BIS and the National Hardware Show.
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