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- Spectral Guise
- Body and Soul
- Surge of Darkness
- Dominate Mind
- Twist of Fate
- Cascade
- Clarity of Power
Spectral Guise
30 sec cooldown Instant
Your shadow blurs into the darkness, leaving your true form behind. As a shadow you are stealthed, but remain in combat. Lasts 6 sec or until your true form is hit by 3 direct attacks.
Body and Soul
Your Power Word: Shield and Leap of Faith also increase your target's movement speed by 60% for 4 sec.
Surge of Darkness
Your Vampiric Touch and Devouring Plague damage has a 12% chance to cause your next Mind Spike not to consume your damage over time effects, be instant, and deal 50% additional damage. Can accumulate up to 3 charges.
Dominate Mind
30 yd range 0.5% of base mana
1.8 sec cast
Controls a mind up to level 103 for 30 sec. Does not work versus Mechanical beings. This spell shares diminishing returns with other incapacitating effects.
Twist of Fate
After healing a target below 35% health, you deal 15% increased damage and healing for 10 sec.
40 yd range 0.75% of base mana
25 sec cooldown Instant
Launch a Shadowy bolt that grows in power with distance, damaging an enemy for up to 6,325, and then bouncing to additional enemies 4 times. Each time it bounces, it splits into 2 bolts.
Clarity of Power
Your Mind Spike, Mind Sear, and Shadow Word: Death deal 40% additional damage to targets not affected by your Shadow Word: Pain or Vampiric Touch. Also reduces the cooldown on Mind Blast by 3 sec and makes it instant cast.
Major Glyphs
Glyph of Vampiric Embrace
ShadowPassiveYour Vampiric Embrace converts an additional 10% of the damage you deal into healing, but the duration is reduced by 5 sec.
Glyph of Reflective ShieldPassiveCauses 70% of the damage you absorb with your own Power Word: Shield to reflect back at the attacker. This damage causes no threat.
Glyph of Focused MendingPassiveCauses your Prayer of Mending to only bounce between the target and the caster.
Minor Glyphs
Glyph of Dark Archangel
ShadowPassiveWhen you apply Devouring Plague to a target, you take on the form of a Dark Archangel for 8 sec.
Glyph of Shadow
ShadowPassiveAlters the appearance of your Shadowform to be less transparent.
Glyph of Shadow Ravens
ShadowPassiveYour Shadow Orbs now appear as Shadow Ravens.
- Angelic Bulwark
- Body and Soul
- Mindbender
- Dominate Mind
- Spirit Shell
- Cascade
- Clarity of Will
Angelic Bulwark
When an attack brings you below 30% health, you gain an absorption shield equal to 15% of your maximum health for 20 sec. Cannot occur more than once every 90 sec.
Body and Soul
Your Power Word: Shield and Leap of Faith also increase your target's movement speed by 60% for 4 sec.
40 yd range
1 min cooldown Instant
Creates a Mindbender to attack the target. Caster receives 0.75% mana when the Mindbender attacks. Lasts 20 sec.
Replaces Shadowfiend.
Replaces Shadowfiend.
Dominate Mind
30 yd range 0.5% of base mana
1.8 sec cast
Controls a mind up to level 103 for 30 sec. Does not work versus Mechanical beings. This spell shares diminishing returns with other incapacitating effects.
Spirit Shell
1 min cooldown Instant
For the next 10 sec, your Heal, Flash Heal, and Prayer of Healing no longer heal but instead create absorption shields that last 15 sec.
40 yd range 2.4% of base mana
25 sec cooldown 1.5 sec cast
Launch a Holy bolt that grows in power with distance, healing an ally for up to 1,488, and then bouncing to additional allies 4 times. Each time it bounces, it splits into 2 bolts.
Clarity of Will
40 yd range 3.15% of base mana
2.5 sec cast
Shields the target with a protective ward, absorbing 22,738 damage within 20 sec.
Major Glyphs
Glyph of Penance
DisciplinePassiveIncreases the mana cost of Penance by 20% but allows Penance to be cast while moving.
Glyph of Power Word: ShieldPassive20% of the absorb from your Power Word: Shield spell is converted into healing.
Glyph of Holy Fire
Discipline, HolyPassiveIncreases the range of your Holy Fire, Smite, and Power Word: Solace spells by 10 yards.
Minor Glyphs
Glyph of Borrowed Time
DisciplinePassiveYour Borrowed Time is now displayed visually.
- Health308460
- Mana160000
- Intellect 4408
- Spell Power 6003
- Haste 25.56%
- Crit 10.84%
- Mastery 59.03%
- Multistrike 18.17%
- Versatility 1.38%
- Intellect 4408
- Spell Power 6003
- Crit 10.84%
- Spirit 784
- Haste 25.56%
- Mastery 59.03%
- Multistrike 18.17%
- Versatility 1.38%
- Strength 843
- Agility 1065
- Intellect 4408
- Stamina 5141
- Damage 317–591
- Attack Power 0
- Speed 1.83
- Spell Power 6003
- Mana Regen 6431
- Armour 828
- Dodge 3.00%
- Parry 0.00%
- Block 0.00%
- Crit 10.84%
- Haste 25.56%
- Mastery 59.03%
- Spirit 784
- Bonus Armor 0
- Multistrike 18.17%
- Leech 0.00%
- Versatility 1.38%
- Avoidance 6.36%
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- 25/12/2015
- Earned the feat of strength Crashin' Thrashin' Flamer.
- 25/12/2015
- Obtained Eye-Catching Gilded Robe.
- 21/12/2015
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Animal Updates | Mammals | Conservation | Whale Watching
Thursday, March 08, 2012
The First Blue Whales are Right on Time! | Kera
And that't not the only exciting news
Since I've been out on the water and working with the Aquarium of the Pacific, one thing that I've noticed about blue whales is that the first time we seem them is right around the end of winter/early spring. This year it seems they're right on time!
Animal Updates | Mammals | Conservation | Whale Watching
Thursday, February 09, 2012
One Heck of a Gray Whale Migration! | Kera
It's been a few weeks since I've posted a blog, but it's not because there was a lack of stuff going on! I just happened to be on vacation. Now that I'm back I can't wait to share all the news from the last few weeks. Read on to hear about a Western Pacific gray whale that decided to join our gray whales, as well as even more orcas!
Animal Updates | Mammals | Conservation | Whale Watching
Friday, January 13, 2012
Orcas…AGAIN! | Kera
This has truly been an amazing whale watch season, and there are still so many months to go! Our interns for the spring arrived this week and on Tuesday we went out on the boats for a training. When I was walking down to the boat, Captain Chris asked me if I had my camera (which of course I always do), and he said "Good! It's your lucky day!" Read on to find out what made this day extra special!
Animal Updates | Mammals | Volunteering | Whale Watching
Thursday, January 05, 2012
Watching Breaching Whales From The Cliffs | Hugh
Breaching Gray Whales and Aggressive Looking Orcas Make for Exciting Whale Watching from Point Vicente
There are few places in the world where you can stand in one spot and have the potential of spotting two dozen species of marine mammals. One of those places is in the Aquarium of the Pacific own backyard. The cliffs of the Palos Verdes Peninsula just a few miles up the coast offers a unique vantage point for sighting marine mammals without having the threat of sea sickness.
Whale Watching
Friday, December 30, 2011
A Record Breaking Gray Whale Season | Kera
And we've only just started!
The American Cetacean Society (ACS) is a non-profit organization that advocates for marine mammal conservation. ACS has been counting gray whales during their annual migration and tallying the number of animals spotted each day, month, and season for twenty eight years. The 2011/2012 gray whale season has just started and we're already breaking records!
Conservation | Whale Watching
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Orcas Already?! | Kera
Our boats say YES!
We've just kicked off gray whale season and we're already having some great sightings out there! I was shocked when we started seeing gray whales so early, but after this last weekend, we can officially say orcas are debuting for the season as well. Read on to find out more on the orcas spotted this last weekend.
Whale Watching
Thursday, December 01, 2011
Talk About a Perfect Whale Overlap! | Kera
From blue whale season to gray whale season
Around this time when we first move into gray whale season, it can be slow at time when we're anxiously waiting for the first gray whales to pass by. So far this year we've had no slow times at all! Read on to find out what we've been seeing that's kept this year's whale watching off the charts!
Animal Updates | Mammals | Whale Watching
Friday, November 04, 2011
Blue Whale Season Wrapping Up | Kera
The whales are giving one heck of a finale!
We're now into the first week of November and we're still seeing blue and fin whales, and even a few humpbacks that have been in the area. Although the sightings are starting to get a little spotty, they're still giving us a great show. Just this week we had some incredible lunge feeding and breaching whales!
Animal Updates | Mammals | Whale Watching
Thursday, October 20, 2011
When Being Late is Fine With Me! | Kera
This has been another exceptional year for blue whale watching. We've had hundreds of sightings, seen some incredible behaviors, and had very consistent sightings. Around this time the blue whales are normally leaving the area, and the sightings become a little spotty, but the sightings have never been better. It would seem they're a little late in making their way to the winter grounds, but you won't hear me complaining!
Animal Updates | Mammals | Video | Whale Watching
Thursday, October 06, 2011
Researchers from Cascadia Make a Special Visit to Our Boats! | Kera
Earlier this week the Aquarium had the unique opportunity to spend some time with Cascadia researchers as they went out on the Christopher (our main whale watching boat) to talk about some of the research they're conducting right now. Read on to find out what we helped them do!


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Snake eyes
International | CAMBODIA: Is the religious fascination with serpents in this jungle nation merely a matter of aesthetic custom, or is it something much deeper?
Snakes: Indiana Jones in three memorable movies hated them. The middle film of the trilogy is set in India, and that's as close as the Harrison Ford character came to this country where serpentine symbols wave from countless roofs and staircases. Wat Phnom ("Wat" means temple, and Phnom is pronounced "nom") is the most famous temple in Phnom Penh, Cambodia's capital. Seated on an 88-foot-high hill, the only hill in town, its main entrance is via a grand eastern staircase that features serpent balustrades, long snakes heading up the steps. Cobras guard another entrance. In the temple sanctuary at the top stand dozens of Buddha statues where the faithful have shoved 100-real notes (worth 25 cents) into the statues' hands and armpits. Wat Ounalom, the headquarters of Cambodian Buddhism, is two blocks from the Tonle Sap River that connects Phnom Penh with villages to the northwest and the Mekong River just to the east. Serpent balustrades also border the stairway to Ounalom's sanctuary, and stylized snakes flare at the corners of each temple structure, as they do at the Royal Palace complex a few blocks away. When the victorious communist guerrillas known as the Khmer Rouge drove everyone out of Phnom Penh in 1975, the snakes remained. Statues of seven-headed cobras peer around the Phnom Penh street corners where Khmer Rouge soldiers shot Cambodians slow to move, or those who wore glasses (indicating affluence or studiousness). The five-level Independence Monument has five snakes on each corner. "Tela" gas stations have serpent symbols. Some observers call such decorations merely a matter of aesthetic custom. But members of the evangelical group Kampuchea for Christ interpret them theologically: "People make offerings to snakes. They fear them and want their power." Cambodian Christians point to the importance of serpents both in Hinduism, which dominated early Cambodia, and Buddhism, the leading religion over the past eight centuries. For example, the Hindu god Vishnu often sits or reclines upon a serpent, and a snake was Gautama Buddha's best friend, shielding him from both thunderstorms and scorching sun by turning his multiple heads into a protective hood. Some Christians connect these snakes to the Satanic serpent of chapter three of Genesis and say that Satan has been active in Cambodia. They observe that even Cambodian monarch Norodom Sihanouk (quoted in the March 15 Cambodia Daily) called the Khmer Rouge crimes "Satanic" and demanded that Khmer Rouge torturers confess their "abominable, super-Satanic, unspeaking and innumerable crimes." A visit to the Khmer Rouge torture center now known as the Tuol Sleng museum certainly brings to mind abominable activity. These days, roosters crow as hushed visitors from many countries shuffle through rooms with chains and leg irons still bolted to the floor. Then, cries of agony bent the sky as Khmer Rouge interrogators kept careful records of pain inflicted. Here's one entry from 1977, as recorded in David Chandler's Voices from S-21: "I watched [the prisoner's] morale fall when I administered torture.... In the afternoon and evening of 21.7.77 I pressured him again, using electric cord and s-.... He was given 2-3 spoonfuls of s- to eat, and after that he was able to answer questions.... That night I beat him with the electric cord again." A trip just outside Phnom Penh to one of the killing fields, where skulls of some of the 2 million Cambodians killed by their own countrymen are piled high, certainly suggests something super-Satanic. Even the classifying signs there are sobering: "Mass grave of 166 victims without heads" or "Skulls of juvenile female Kampucheans, 15 to 20 yrs. old." A Buddhist temple nearby also has snake symbols everywhere-but talk of serpents as Satan's symbol of domination can sound like spiritualized Indiana Jones, turning the superstitious desire to placate poisonous creatures into something far deeper. Do snake idols represent almost a curse on a land whose inhabitants for centuries have bowed to evil instead of fighting it? Is this only mysticism, or does the worldview that sees serpents as man's best friend also depict God as man's enemy? In an attempt to learn more about the underlying concepts, my wife and I journeyed to one of the wonders of the world, the Angkor Wat temples 200 miles northwest of Phnom Penh. How to get there? Some tourists fly into the nearby town of Siem Reap, but from Phnom Penh it's fun to head up the Tonle Sap River 200 miles on a small boat. Many Cambodians live and work on the river: Families live on the banks in houses built on stilts, with women weaving beneath the houses on spots where the more affluent corral pigs and water buffalo at night. Many Cambodian boats have depictions of water serpents at their sides or at their bows. The 12th-century Angkor Wat is the most famous of the several dozen temples north and east of Siem Reap, but there's a mystery about them similar to the mystery of the pyramids-except the trees and vines surrounding many of the temples add a level of romance. How many people did kings and pharaohs employ or enslave to haul and hoist huge blocks of stone? How many lives were lost and families destroyed to satisfy royal ambition? And yet, ironically, those who built humble temples of wood are forgotten, while the legacies of Cambodian rulers (probably tyrants) like Yasovarman and Suryavarman remain. Part of the mystery is that neither amateurs like me nor people who have devoted their whole lives to studying Khmer art are sure about who or what some of the statues represent; the artists' and patrons' notes, if any ever existed, are long gone. At the gate into Angkor Thom, and at the Bayon Temple (late 12th to early 13th century) you can contemplate more than 200 large faces carved on towers-the big heads face in all four directions, showing that the eyes of someone are upon you all the livelong day. But who is that someone? Some say King Jayavarman VII, some say Vishnu, but no one knows for sure what is the truth in this instance. So let's look at what is clear. One widely known basic, to quote from the Claude Jacques/Rene Dumont book Angkor (Konemann; English edition 1999) is that Khmer temples were (and are) "cosmological. Each temple is an image of the universe, a magical representation.... The temples were not conceived as places of assembly in the way that Christian cathedrals and churches were.... Khmer temple sanctuaries, which are in the form of towers, are very small [and are] reached by precipitous flights of huge steps that climb the apparently endless succession of levels." That word "endless" is poetic license-the temples are generally seven-leveled replicas of Mount Meru, the Himalayan home of the Hindu gods, which functions like Mount Olympus in ancient Greek mythology. What that means practically is verticality: Visitors should expect to do a lot of climbing up very steep and very narrow steps that amount to a 70-degree angle. And visitors should expect to see hundreds, probably thousands of statues and carvings of snakes: serpents with Vishnu, serpents as masters, serpents amid trees and flowers. The central sanctuaries commonly have four doors but three of them are fake entrances, and only the one to the east is open-with that one typically guarded by serpent carvings over and next to the doors. As cherubim guarded the entrance to the Garden of Eden and then the Most Holy Place of Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem (Genesis 3, 2 Chronicles 3), so serpents had the place of prominence in these temples east of Eden. (The Garden of Eden was also elevated, since four rivers ran down from it.) The cosmology is evident in the three earliest temples of the Angkor area: Preah Ko (a.d. 879), Bakong (881), and Lolei (893). Bakong, for example, has Mount Meru verticality, seven-headed serpents on the east causeway, and long rows of giant stone gods and demons holding a serpent that extends the length of the causeway. Preah Ko similarly has serpents over sanctuary doors and sculptures of men riding serpents. The serpent motif was prominent at the leading building of the following century, the king's palace known as Phimeanakas (a.d. 968). Khmer kings claimed descent from a sixth-century union of an Indian Brahman and a south Cambodian serpent-king, and within Phimeanakas the king purportedly had to sleep every night with a nine-headed serpent spirit-if he missed even one night, he would die. Cambodian kings were always supposed to have new snake blood to bolster their own, and some sculptures show a symbolic result of snake/human conception: a person with three snakeheads instead of his own. Some of the snake depictions are scary, with mouths open and fangs flashing, but more often the serpents appear to be benevolent, protecting and enveloping a person or god. My notes from visiting two dozen temples in the Angkor area show the pattern: seven-headed snake surrounding the leader at Thommanon temple; snakes with crowns at Neak Pean; Srah Srang's serpent balustrades, three-headed serpents supported by monsters; at Banteay Samre, sculptures of men and gods riding snakes with teeth and reclining on snakes; seven-headed snake statues; balustrades or railings looking like a snake body; Vishnu reclining on a serpent at the Banteay Samre temple. We know that millions of people in India and China had been exposed to biblical teaching by the time these Cambodian temples were built. Is it outlandish to think that the story of the Garden of Eden had spread into the jungles of Cambodia and to suspect that a counter-gospel was being taught here: that the serpent who had contributed to the eviction of man was now the admissions officer to the Eden-like sanctuaries at the top of the many replicas of Mount Meru? Probably the story most often portrayed in the temples is a popular Hindu one called the "churning of the ocean of milk." It comes from the ancient Bagavata-Pourana and tells of how small gods (not the top ones like Vishnu and Shiva) and demons spend 1,000 years churning an ocean of milk with the goal of producing amrita, a marvelous liquid that would make them both immortal and incorruptible. The effort is failing because the gods and demons do not get along, so they ask Vishnu for advice. He tells them to work together and keep churning, using his favorite serpent, Vasuki, as a churning rope. The "churning of the ocean of milk" story is told most skillfully on the walls of Angkor Wat, the most famous temple in the area. Some 88 gods (conical headdresses and almond-shaped eyes) and 92 demons in crested helmets do work together, using Vasuki the serpent as the churner. When Mount Mandara (pivot for the snake rope) is sinking, Vishnu pitches in by becoming a tortoise and propping up the mountain. Gods and devils then pull rhythmically, and Vishnu takes on human form to oversee the churning for the next thousand years and to encourage the churners. Finally, success comes and the wonderful elixer, amrita, comes into being. Moral of the story: When Vishnu, small gods, demons, and a serpent work together, we gain the substance that gives both eternal life and marvelous wisdom. Many temple causeways-the long bridges over their moats-show small gods on one side holding Vasuki, and a demon line on the other side also holding Vasuki. Look at the great south gate of the Angkor Thom complex: 54 gods on the left side of the causeway (facing the gate) and 54 bug-eyed demons on the right guard it. Significantly, many of the gods are frowning; they don't look much different from the grimacing demons on the other. The divide between good and evil found in Western religions is not present here. And the equal number of gods and demons almost makes it seem as if Cambodians, much like lobbyists in Washington, wanted to place their bets on both political parties. When Buddhism became dominant in 12th-century Cambodia, the Hindu temples with slight changes were able to go with the flow. Some (like Preah Khan) became ecumenical, with sections devoted to Vishnu worship, Shiva worship, Buddha worship, and ancestor worship. Others emphasized the stories of how a serpent helped the Buddha to transcend human restrictions. At the Bayon temple, one sculpture shows a serpent coiling his body to make a seat that lifts the Buddha off the ground during torrential rains. The Buddha is too deep in meditation to notice the downpour or the scorching sun that follows, so the serpent becomes a hood that protects the Buddha. The Satanic serpent in Genesis 3 was asking, in essence, can't we all just get along? He portrayed himself as a benevolent help to man, helping Adam and Eve to gain knowledge of good and evil. That's certainly how he appeared within 12th-century Cambodian Buddhism. Related story: Compassion in Cambodia Cambodia is not all snakes and superstition. The Khmer Rouge, driven out of Phnom Penh in 1979 after four years of terrorism and the deaths of 2 million Cambodians, tried to wipe out all Western cultural influence except that of Marxism, but 25 years later schools have names like Hello America Kindergarten, The New York City Institute, and Christian Academy. Shortly after dawn, along the pleasantly breezy riverfront, hundreds of Cambodians exercise aerobically to songs like "Wooly Bully" and the Beatles' "Love Me Do." The traditional Russian Market with its small and often sweltering stalls is the place to go to purchase handcrafts or bootleg DVDs of films like The Passion or The Return of the King, but at Phnom Penh's new Western-style shopping mall escalators transport six floors of shoppers to stores selling faddish urban Western clothes like cropped pants and "New York Style" shoes (that store displays a little Statue of Liberty). A supermarket on the bottom floor sells Hormel chili, French's mustard, Wesson oil, and dog shampoo, and the top floor has a display of treadmills. Poverty is not far away from these pockets of affluence. Next to a big Nen Monie pagoda with snake statues is a long dusty (except during the rainy season) road that leads to an enormous trash heap on which families live in houses slapped together of corrugated metal and wood. Adults and children squat, picking through piles of rags and junk, looking for anything of value as the sun bears down on them. Kandal Province south of Phnom Penh is a region of gorgeous temples surrounded largely by miserable huts, with traffic ranging from ox carts to the Range Rovers enjoyed by benevolent inspectors from UNESCO and a variety of NGOs. And at the UNESCO-funded Save the Children Center, 10 teenage girls learn to weave and 20 teenage boys learn to repair small machines. One of the girls, Srey Pov, praised the center because she was learning and because "I have enough to eat." But since neither Cambodians nor the rest of us live by bread alone, the greatest hope in Cambodia is emerging from the work of people like Steve and Jill Fisk, two Americans in their 30s who moved to Phnom Penh from Colorado in 1998. Six years ago Steve Fisk, owner of a successful landscape and maintenance business, took a two-week mission trip to this poor and oppressed nation. He met children who lived on the streets and came back saying incessantly, "I can't believe I left them behind. I can't believe I left them behind." The Fisks had reasons beyond business not to leave behind a life in America. Jill Fisk was pregnant with their third child. Steve's dad was dying. Jill kept thinking that her husband's monomania would pass, but he kept saying, "I feel we're outside the will of God." That dangerous frame of mind can underlie foolish adventures, but the Fisks, seeing Steve's agony as coming from God, were not illogical: Since our natural bent is toward selfishness, convictions to altruistic action frequently are inspired. Steve Fisk soon returned to Cambodia with two fellow church members whose job was to eyeball his plan to provide homes for Cambodian kids and tell him to slow down or at least get real: What can one family do in a land plagued by such evil? But the two men came back with a sense of conviction as well. In November 1998, just eight months after the initial trip, the Fisks moved to Phnom Penh under the auspices of Asian Hope Cambodia. Even then their commitment wasn't total, because they were planning to supervise adoption of homeless children by Cambodians. They had trouble finding mature Christian house parents, though, and without responsible adults the future they wanted for Cambodian children they had come to love seemed impossible-unless they were willing to go all the way, become guardians of Cambodian children, and take them into their own home. They were willing. One commitment led to more as they united brothers and sisters. For example, the Fisks became guardians of fatherless Rena Chheang, born on Jan. 23, 1989. When Steve took Rena out for lunch on her 12th birthday and asked her what birthday present she would like, she replied, "I'd like my brother and sister to live with us." The search for the brother and sister began, and soon the Fisks became guardians of older brother Borah Chheang, who is now in the eighth grade, and younger sister Pahnette, a third-grader. Three years ago the Fisks saw that children they were physically guarding were not getting a solid Christian education, so they started Logos International School, which now has 200 students. The tuition paid by children of foreign businessmen, missionaries, and upwardly mobile Cambodians makes it possible for 40 percent of the Logos students to receive scholarships. The school rents an airy compound with classrooms, dining hall, basketball court, and swimming pool, with bedrooms for the teachers-most are Americans fresh out of college on one-year, low-paid tours of duty and compassion. Until 3 p.m. the classrooms are filled with students in their light blue shirts; boys wear khaki or dark blue pants, and many girls wear skirts that must be below the knees. One afternoon the third-graders were chanting their spelling words-M-I-L-L-I-O-N, T-H-O-U-S-A-N-D-and older children were studying world history. The horizons of the students certainly have expanded. One history-loving 12-year-old, Srey Nang, asked where she'd like to live if she could be any place at any time, responded "London in 1837. . . . That's when Victoria became queen. . . . I like it that she married Albert because he was handsome and because he could help her with the country." Fifteen-year-old Borah Chheang would like to go to West Point, or secondarily Colorado University, and then become a leader in Cambodian government, with the goal of reducing corruption. Ancient history is alive for Borah: He would like to model his law-giving on Justinian's. After school 36 members of the Fisk family-Steve and Jill, four children born to them, and now 30 Cambodians-return to their eight-bedroom home two blocks away, which the Fisks rent for $600 per month from a Cambodian Christian who was delighted to have her home used for benevolence. Four long tables on a covered veranda are for eating, with children assigned places; older children sit next to younger ones. Four to six children are in bunk beds in each bedroom, with mixed ages also typical. The children born to Steve and Jill are sprinkled into the same rooms as the other kids. The children refer to Jill and Steve as Mom and Dad, and after dinner they gather in the living room to sing hymns ("Be Thou My Vision" one night) and read the Bible, with each child reading one verse, going around the room twice. They pray in an orderly way, and among their prayers is one that Cambodia be an orderly country. That's not a rote request, given Cambodia's jagged past. The Fisks are a prime example of the literal meaning of compassion: suffering with those in need, becoming caught up in their lives. Since the Fisks are guardians rather than adoptive parents-after some recent baby-selling episodes, Cambodian law now does not allow foreigners to adopt children-they would have difficulty getting their whole family out should the situation deteriorate, even if they could rent half an airplane. This means that the Fisks are stuck if Cambodian life deteriorates once again. Christ could have chosen evacuation when the heat came down on Him-a relief force of 10 thousand angels was at His disposal-but did not. Nor do His followers like the Fisks.


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2 Parks near Divide, Colorado
Woodland Park, Colorado 6.88 miles NE
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Would have been nice to have had sewer hookup, but they do have a dump station. Must go to the lodge for WiFi, but nice walk. Fishing is available there. Other outdoor activities are there as well. We will be going back. The views of Pikes Peak were just gorgeous. Friendly staff too. Worth looking at. - banjomama
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We camped in site #45 (30A electric only) at Mueller State Park. Water tank fill stations on road to campsite. Beautiful park. Great hiking. Abundant wildlife. Would definitely stay here again. - drfife
Sep 2015 - $19.00
the nicest CO state park we have ever visited. all blacktop, mostly level sites. Great comfort station. Bring your bike, lots of places to ride. Also some good geocaches here. It's big but the sites are well spaced. We camped after the summer crowds, no problem getting a site without a reservation. - katinfoco
Sep 2015 - $22.00
Really lovely campground. Huge trees, paved sites, no bad spots at all. Amazing hiking trails, so clean and well maintained. We will be back over and over! - Leigh C


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Aramis Ramirez was 2-for-4 with two dingers and four runs batted in to lead the Chicago Cubs past the Arizona Diamondbacks 6-4 on Tuesday night.
Chicago won as -120 road favorites, while the teams played OVER the 9.5-run total listed by oddsmakers.
Ryan Theriot went 2-for-5 with an RBI for the Cubs, as winning pitcher Carlos Silva allowed two runs over six innings for Chicago.
Kelly Johnson was 2-for-4 with a solo shot and two RBIs for Arizona, while Barry Enright gave up three runs over 5 2-3 innings to take the defeat for the Diamondbacks.


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• Toss bits of turkey in gravy, heat, and serve wrapped in heated whole wheat flour tortillas. If you have time, put the filled tortillas in a baking pan, pour enchilada sauce over them, add a sprinkling of shredded cheese, and bake till hot and bubbly.
• Dice and serve bits of turkey over mixed greens for a light main-dish salad, or toss them into your favorite pasta salad for a more substantial entrée.
• Use leftover gravy in casseroles instead of canned soup.
• Add it to soup for extra flavor and body.
Mashed potatoes
• If you're looking for a variation on the standard turkey potpie, fill a glass baking dish about an inch deep with layers of chopped turkey, cooked veggies, and gravy. Spread the leftover mashed potatoes over the top, dot with butter, and bake at 350 degrees F until hot, and—ta-da—you have shepherd's pie.
• For easy potato pancakes, beat one egg and combine it with 2 cups of leftover mashed potatoes. Heat a skillet on medium with a little butter in it, and drop tablespoonfuls of the mixture into it, cooking until brown and crisp on both sides. Serve with syrup for breakfast or with sour cream for a dinner side.
• Plain rice is perfect for rice pudding. Beat one egg in a medium-size saucepan and stir in 1 cup of milk, 3 tablespoons of sugar, 1 teaspoon of vanilla, and 1/8 teaspoon of salt. Stir in 1 cup cooked leftover rice (a little butter won't hurt) and ½ cup of raisins or other chopped dried fruit (I like golden raisins best). Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until the mixture comes to a boil. Reduce heat to low and cook, stirring constantly, until thick and creamy, about 5 minutes. Serve warm or chilled.
• Seasoned rice works well in turkey fried rice, which is a good way to get rid of a lot of Thanksgiving leftovers. Cook 1 cup of chopped celery and onion in oil in a large skillet until translucent; toss in about a cup of leftover cooked veggies, such as green beans, peas, or carrots, and ½ cup of chopped turkey; and stir and cook for a minute more. Then add 3 cups of leftover rice—white, brown, and wild rice all work well—and stir until heated through. Serve with soy sauce.
Make soup!
Soups are the best Thanksgiving leftover recipes; they use nearly everything from your Turkey Day table. Start with your homemade turkey stock, and just about any soup you concoct will be delicious! My family's favorite is turkey-rice soup, made with a brown rice/wild rice blend. Bring about 8 cups of turkey stock to a boil, add a cup of raw rice, and cook for 45 minutes (if you have leftover rice, toss it in and skip the 45 minutes of cooking). Add a generous amount of diced or sliced fresh veggies (we like winter squash), and cook until the veggies are almost done. Add any leftover veggies, cooked grains, gravy, and small bits of meat and cook for a few more minutes, season to taste, and serve.
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Don't think you have to eat turkey and fixings for eight days straight—and you really shouldn't anyway. The Food and Drug Administration recommends that leftovers be eaten within three to four days of cooking, and if you think you or your family may be turkey-ed out by then, freeze anything you haven't eaten, which is much better than letting all those leftovers go to waste. After all, the average American family throws out 122 pounds of food per month, which doesn't seem like a good way to be thankful for all we have. I freeze everything in single-meal or single-portion bags or freezer jars so they will thaw and heat fast when I need them, and I can pull out as much or as little as I need based on who is around for dinner. Every time I'm in a rush and can open the freezer to find the makings of a great, heat-and-eat meal, I am eternally thankful.
• Freeze gravy and cranberry sauce in ice-cube trays and store the cubes in bags or jars.
• Freeze dressing, mashed potatoes, rice, and veggies in single-serving scoops (I use a ½-cup measure) on an oiled cookie sheet, and then store the frozen blobs in bags.
• Single servings of desserts are also great in the freezer. (I've been known to hide the ones I especially like.)
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A Vancouver man appeared Friday in Clark County Superior Court on suspicion of striking his brother with an ax.
Cody J. Johnson, 27, faces a charge of second-degree assault domestic violence at his July 26 arraignment.
Johnson and his girlfriend, Marissa Brown, had been staying with his mother, Debra Corrin, on Thursday. Around 10:30 p.m., he allegedly pushed his mother after she reportedly insulted Brown.
When his brothers, Luke Royer and Seth Johnson, intervened to protect their mother, Cody Johnson picked up an ax and swung it at them, striking Seth Johnson's left forearm, according to a probable cause affidavit filed in court.
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Load the DMAP website and type your UTM meters into the "Easting" and "Northing" boxes at the bottom of the table. Click the "Convert" button. The calculator converts the UTM meters into latitude and longitude degrees, minutes and seconds.
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The hotel is located 27 km from Boumalene on the road to Dades Gorge and in the heart of Dades Valley, which is well known for its beautiful landscapes. The gorge is around 2 km away. Public transport, the bus station, tourist facilities, shopping and restaurants can be found in Boumalene. Tinghir is around 75 km away and the Todra Gorge is some 90 km away. Ouarzazate is some 140 km away, as is Ouarzazate Airport. The hotel features 29 accommodation units. Guests of the hotel are welcomed in the lobby, which has a 24-hour reception and a 24-hour check-out service. Services and facilities at the hotel include a cloakroom, a safe, currency exchange facilities, a restaurant and medical assistance. A garden is among the features contributing to a pleasant stay. Guests travelling in their own vehicles can make use of the available parking spaces. A bicycle hire service (for a fee) gives guests the opportunity to explore the surrounding area independently. All rooms feature air conditioning and central heating. A balcony or terrace is also included as standard. Each accommodation unit features a double bed or a king-size bed. A safe is among the amenities in all accommodation units. The accommodation units include a bathroom with a shower. Parasols are available. Cycling/mountain biking is among the leisure options available to guests (for a fee). Copyright GIATA 2004 - 2016. Various meals and board options are bookable. Guests can choose from breakfast, lunch, dinner, B & B, half board and full board. Special meals, including special dietary cuisine, are available.


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Jerron Granberry scored 19 points and North Florida pulled away in the second half to beat Wright State 69-52 on Wednesday night.
The game was tied 28-28 at halftime, then the Ospreys (2-4) went on a 20-6 run during a 7-minute span in the second half to put the game out of reach. Granberry's layup with 2:18 to play gave North Florida its biggest lead at 67-50.
Travis Wallace added 11 points for the Ospreys, who shot 57.1 percent from the field (28 of 49) and snapped a three-game losing streak.
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The Global in the Local: Contested Resource-Use Systems of the Karen and Hmong in Northern Thailand
Tomforde, Maren, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
Through globalisation, rapid mass communication systems and experiences of pollution crossing national boundaries, people have become sensitised to the global scale of locally produced environmental problems. It is an important assumption of global environmentalist discourse that, in accordance with the United Nations, environmental problems must necessarily be viewed on a global scale, even though major disagreements exist over appropriate policies to tackle ecological problems and over the role of economic development in specific local contexts. In this article--keeping in mind that environmentalism as an analytical concept covers a large range of meanings--it is understood not only as a collective response to environmental degradation but also, given the wide range of socio-political interests and value systems involved, as a multifaceted social and political phenomenon. Environmentalism is a discourse which involves a struggle over crucial natural resources as well as over the symbolic power to define how environmental problems should be solved. As a discourse, it both reflects and influences social, economic and political processes. (1)
In Thailand, environmentalist debate and policy are clearly influenced--though not necessarily determined--by the rhetoric and interests of the global discourse led by governments, international organisations and movements which are still mostly dominated by, when they are not actually located in, European or North American countries. Environmentalism in its existing varieties is centred around conflicting perceptions of ecological problems as well as their causes and solutions and the parties responsible. (2) The global debate influences Thai environmentalism in many ways, such as ideas, information, political demands and, last but not least, financial resources. However, the global discourse is also affected by 'regional discourses' such as Thai environmentalism, and there is little doubt that Thai scholars have contributed to a 'global' social scientific understanding of the relationship between environmental policies and social or ethnic identification processes. Due to the geographically and socially unequal distribution of costs relating to ecological problems, environmentalism in Thailand has become highly politicised and inscribed within the broader political debate over ethnic minority rights. (3)
Ethnic minority groups inhabit many parts of Thailand which have been turned into protected areas by the state over the last three decades and are thus particularly affected by local environmentalist discourse. However, minorities such as the Karen and Hmong have only limited access to political power and thus to ways of actively influencing Thai environmental policies according to their own ideas of a viable future. Instead, their local farming practices involving the use of forests and forest products have been marginalised as a result of state control over forest areas. As a consequence, local groups have been attempting to regain control over their natural resources through a people-oriented Community Forest Bill. (4)
It is important to consider environmental politics in their global context, but much of a country's everyday environmental politics are shaped and played out in regional and local arenas. The objective of this article is to examine the concrete impact of global and Thai environmentalist discourse at the local level, namely on the living conditions of mountain minorities such as the Karen and Hmong. This impact is explored by focusing on their resource-use systems and the diverse ways adopted by each group in response to externally-induced requirements for sustainable development. As will be shown, environmental protection measures are not uniformly applicable around the world. Rather, they need to be adjusted to local conditions on a case-by-case basis in order to build on the potential found in local cultures and to avoid creating unwanted disincentives for sustainable resource use. …


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THE Bellevue City Council is overdue for updating its code of ethics, which provides transparency and guidance for the conduct of public officials.
Bellevue's current ethics rules apply to city staff, not to elected officials. The absence of clear guidelines for the city's lawmakers has exacerbated the allegations of conflicts of interest plaguing the council for several years.
Even the appearance of a conflict can be damaging to the public's trust.
Councilman Kevin Wallace erred two years ago when he urged the city to use an abandoned rail corridor for a Sound Transit line, while failing to disclose that his development company was negotiating a $30 million private investment deal along the same corridor. An outside investigator later concluded Wallace had not violated any laws.
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Councilwoman Claudia Balducci also has faced questions about her role on the Sound Transit board and as a King County employee.
The solution is a strong ethics policy for the part-time council and members of city commissions and boards. Council members need guidance on the extent to which they can have financial or property connections to the city and when they should recuse themselves from voting.
In recent weeks, the Bellevue council has debated at length a proposed ordinance modeled after one adopted by the Kirkland City Council last year.
Clear guidelines should be in place before the council takes upcoming votes on land uses in Bellevue's downtown corridor.
The ethics policy is scheduled to come back before the council on May 28. It is not perfect but it should be approved.


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Cobra might be on the rise, but there are at least two things the terrorist organization needs to watch out for: Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, and a whole host of ninjas.
Director Jon Chu's "G.I. Joe: Cobra Strikes" is currently in the works, and it promises to hold a whole lot of fun for fans of The Rock and the ninja contingent of the Joe squad. MTV News caught up with producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura at the New York City premiere of "Transformers: Dark of the Moon" earlier this week, and he revealed that the upcoming "Joe" sequel is very much centered on the returning Snake-Eyes and newcomer Roadblock, played by Johnson.
"It's a full-on lead role," he said of Roadblock's presence in the film. "In a way, he and Snake-Eyes, their stories are really dynamic and very important."
It's not surprising to hear that Snake-Eyes has a larger role to play, considering the recent casting of Elodie Yung as Jinx and RZA as Blind Master, two of the most popular martial arts-centric characters in the entire "Joe" universe. Add to that the rumors of Byung-hun Lee's return as Storm Shadow and one might make the logical conclusion that the "G.I. Joe" sequel is essentially all about the ninjas… and if you put that very question to di Bonaventura, he'd be hard pressed to shut you down.
"The ninja fans are going to love it," he said of the sequel. "There's a tremendous amount of it. What's interesting is, we both have that going on in the Snake-Eyes story, but we've found a way to bring that element into the Joes' story. I think anybody who's a fan of dark, in the middle of the night [action with] a dangerous foe arriving, this is a movie for you."
As for Roadblock, di Bonaventura added: "Rock is such a great character to have in 'G.I. Joe.' It's an amazing combination. We would not be very good if we didn't fully utilize him, so he's going to have a lot of things to do. It is an ensemble movie, so you have other characters certainly playing it out."
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I'm a big fan of the barter system. In fact, I've been saying for years that we should go back to a partial barter system. Obviously, we all have bills to pay and most bill collectors won't accept your unwanted clothing or furniture. That's okay though because other people will, and I'm not just talking about the ones that shop at Goodwill and Salvation Army Stores.
Like most things today, you can trade your unwanted items or even your professional services online through swapping sites. The best part is all the sites are freebs! That means free, by the way.
This is one of my favorite sites to find and swap items. It almost reminds me of the freebie ads that you see in the newspaper.
From baby clothes to furniture or even appliances, you can find and swap almost anything. It's a simple, easy to use site. Start by searching for your city, and a list pops up of items people need and have to offer. You can limit your listing to what's being offered or donated by using the advanced search feature.
I've used this site a few times. Last year, I picked up a super nice kitchen table on Freecycle after we moved into our house. I was also able to get rid of a dog cage that was left at our house super fast.
While Freecycle is great, it doesn't have a huge user base. Depending on where you live, you might have a pretty active Freecycle community with tons to pick from or a barren board with limited options.
Craigslist Free Stuff
We all at some point have probably used Craigslist to buy something, but did you know there's a pretty awesome freebies section? Because it's much larger community, you might be able to pick up some more stuff and get a better variety than Freecycle.
I've never picked up anything on the free section, but my boyfriend has a couple of times and hasn't really had an issue. Sometimes, he's even been able to pick up stuff for free and then turn around and sell it later.
I've read a little bit about this place, and I definitely think I'm going to try it now. Think of ChanceXchange as a large online library. They have books, movies, games and music from contributors all over the world.
After a quick sign up form, you can post books or movies that you want to offer up. Then you can make a list of items you'd like to receive and the site will alert you when an item you want gets entered in. As you trade more goods, you build up credits allowing you to trade and exchange more.
Swap Right
Maybe you don't have a whole lot to offer in terms of merchandise, and that's okay. Swap Right allows you to trade services for items, return services and even room and board. Here's just a few examples of posts I came across:
- Someone offering website building in exchange for writing.
- Someone offering childcare services for hair styling services.
- Someone offering a fruit or nut orchard for a truck.
- Someone offering guitar lessons for Spanish lessons.
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Brown wary of efforts to limit power to reduce sentences
But Brown says he'll look at another proposal stemming from Núñez case.
Gov. Jerry Brown signaled Wednesday that he will resist any constitutional amendment imposing a check on blanket pardon powers or limits on a governor's authority to commute sentences.
At least two constitutional amendments and one bill have been introduced in response to former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's surprise decision to more than halve the original 16-year prison term imposed on the son of a political ally involved in a fatal stabbing at San Diego State University.
While the new governor said he would "look with some suspicion" at measures aimed at limiting a governor's authority, he said he was open to efforts to notify victims, families and prosecutors before making a decision.
"I would look at anything that would be sensible from the point of victims," Brown said at a news conference.
Proposal restricting sentence reductions
• Require prisoners or people working on their behalf to notify victims, families and prosecutors 30 days before filing an appeal for a pardon or clemency. Legislation by Assemblyman Marty Block, D-San Diego.
• Require governor to notice victims, families and prosecutors 30 days before issuing a pardon or commutation. Constitutional amendment by Assemblyman Allan Mansoor, R-Costa Mesa.
• Prohibit governor from granting pardon or commuting sentence within 30 days before the end of his or her term. Constitutional amendment by Assemblyman Jim Silva, R-Huntington Beach.
Schwarzenegger's order to reduce Esteban Núñez's original sentence to just seven years shocked the family of his victim, Mesa College student Luis Santos, and San Diego County District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis, among others. It prompted charges of political favoritism given Núñez's father, Fabian, is the former Assembly speaker who worked closely with Schwarzenegger on key policies from budget to global warming.
Each of the measures takes a slightly different approach. One constitutional amendment would put the onus on the governor to inform victims, families and prosecutors. The second constitutional amendment would impose a strict timeline by prohibiting any sentence reduction within 30 days of a governor leaving office. The third measure, a proposed statute carried by Assemblyman Marty Block, D-San Diego, would require those asking the governor for sentence reductions to issue notifications 30 days before filing the request to provide an opportunity for protests.
And while it was Schwarzenegger's commutation that ignited outrage, the proposed laws also cover pleas for pardons.
Brown's responses suggest the notification bill may be acceptable to him.
"Our legislation doesn't tinker with the constitutional prerogatives of the governor," said Assemblyman Marty Block, D-San Diego, who plans to formally unveil his bill next week. "Checks and balances in the criminal justice system are very important."
His measure is sponsored by San Diego County District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis.
"We have always been very sensitive to the powers of the governor," Dumanis said, adding the measure allows "all parties to have information and transparency about the process."
Even if legislation fails, change may be imposed — this time by a court. Fred and Kathy Santos, whose son was killed in the confrontation involving Esteban Núñez and others, have filed a lawsuit in Sacramento County Superior Court arguing Schwarzenegger violated the "Victim's Bill of Rights" passed by voters in 2008 when he failed to tell them ahead of time. No court date has been set.
In an interview Wednesday, Fred Santos said he supports legislation providing notice.
"We're saying it is supposed to be a process so everybody gets a chance to participate," Santos said. "The district attorney has something to say. The victims and families have something to say."
Santos said the commutation was an "insult" to the families as well as the district attorney and detectives "seeking justice" for his son.


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Power Play: The Biggest Game in Town
"All the lobbyists in town are lining up to take a whack at the electricity deregulation bill. It's a piñata filled with billable hours."
--Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.)
It's a scandal the size of the savings and loan debacle of the late 1980s, which forced a bailout costing taxpayers $300 billion. We have unfolding before us now one of the most amazing pieces of corporate brigandage in the history of the Republic: the deregulation of the energy industry, notably the utilities that provide electricity to every business and household in the country. There is seldom much public interest in utilities coverage, because middle-class people don't regard utility bills as a big problem in their lives; as it happens, however, deregulation stands to cost the public upwards of $500 billion in the next decade.
For most people, the first intimation of the upheaval came on Super Bowl Sunday, Jan. 26. In the numerous intermissions in Fox's five-hour coverage, Whoopi Goldberg, Liz Taylor, and Sylvester Stallone look-alikes sang the praises of the largest natural gas company in the world: Enron. The Houston-based giant used this most costly of publicity venues to lobby the largest TV audience of the year in favor of federal deregulation of the electric utilities, which Enron ads claim could bring a 50 percent drop in electric bills. These Super Bowl spots were followed by a blitz of full-page ads touting the virtues of Enron in the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, New York Times, and the Portland Oregonian.
And why is Enron, a natural gas company, devoting millions to the topic of electricity deregulation? Because Enron is in the process of buying up electrical utilities across the country. The most recent one it engulfed--the largest power merger to date--was Portland General Electric, a $3.2 billion deal announced in July 1996.
To get an idea of how easy life is for Enron today, consider what would have happened 25 years ago if such a takeover had been attempted. It was Richard Nixon, after all, who rallied to the cause of energy independence and began funding alternative-energy projects at the same moment he launched American environmentalism on its glory years. The Nixon White House would have deplored this unwelcome integration of separate energy enterprises, and the Democratic Congress would have shouted its agreement, with men like Wright Patman and Jim Abourezk holding savage hearings in which they pilloried Enron executives for their unwholesome eagerness to monopolize the energy industry and hike prices.
But today Enron has its bases nicely covered. There will be no uproar in Congress from liberal Democrats because there is no longer an appetite--or even the necessary knowledge--among Congressional staffers to organize vigorous hearings, and also because Enron has taken the precaution of hiring Robert Crandall, senior fellow at the Brookings Institute, to produce a study promoting the benefits of deregulation of the electric utilities. Crandall dutifully concludes that the past century's efforts to control the big utilities and provide universal service and affordable rates have been destructive. To promote the Enron line, Crandall will teach a seminar on the subject in February at a Baltimore retreat for congressional staffers from the Energy, Environment and Commerce committees.
Enron is not the only big player in the field. The big industrial power consumers--corporations such as Boeing, Raytheon, and Intel--and independent power producers have been pushing for utility deregulation for a decade. The reason is that the price of natural gas has sunk by as much as 75 percent since the mid-1980s due to new sources coming on stream. Also, new combustion-turbine technologies have enabled natural gas to be used in electricity-generating plants, with electric power produced at rates two to three times lower than was possible with old plants fired by coal or nuclear power.
The big utilities, such as Southern California Edison and New York's Con Ed, are stuck with these old plants. They were thus in a poor position when their major industrial users came to them demanding lower rates reflective of the cheaper new natural-gas technology. Having sunk billions into the big nuclear plants, these utilities couldn't shift over; nor could they afford to give the big industrial consumers basement rates. So the industrial users threatened to take their business to independent power producers such as Enron, or simply to build their own low-cost generating plants. But in order for this to happen both the industrial users and the independent power producers had to break the utilities' legal monopoly over the production, transmission, and sale of electricity.
Their hopes are now vested in deregulation bills promoted by Rep. Daniel Schaefer of Colorado and that friend of the rich and powerful, Sen. Al D'Amato of New York. Schaefer paints a glowing vista of virtually unlimited choice for the consumer, wherein selecting an electricity provider will be as simple as picking a long-distance carrier. He also promises an era of bargain-basement rates. To lend sinew to such rhetoric, armies of lobbyists have been unleashed on the Hill. Leading the battle for Enron is former Arkansas congressman Ed Bethune (now Newt Gingrich's legal adviser), handsomely backed by the lobbying might of Akin, Gump and Skadden, Arp. Independent power producers have enlisted the services of the lobbying and PR firm Powell and Tate--run by former Carter staffer Jody Powell and Sheila Tate, former press secretary for Nancy Reagan.
Most formidable of all elements in the deregulation coalition is the Electricity Consumer's Resource Council, otherwise known as Elcon. No assemblage of humble citizens this, but a slice of the Fortune 500 in the form of the 30 top corporate energy consumers in the country, including General Motors, Ford, and DuPont. The electric utilities, battling to save their monopoly and protected profits, have assembled their own coalitions, including the brazenly named Alliance for Competitive Electricity and the Edison Electric Institute, which jointly plan to spend more than $5 million in lobbying expenses this year. Their cause is being advanced by former Minnesota Rep. Vin Weber, who has close ties to the Republican leadership of the House, and former Reagan press secretary Michael Deaver at Edelman Public Relations Worldwide.
Eugene Coyle, an economist who studies the utility industry, puts it this way: "What we are looking at is the shift from a situation where there are more than a thousand utilities nationwide, over which rate-payers have some control, to a future where there will be perhaps 10 big power companies operating free of regulation and acting like the oil cartels of old. The benefits of deregulation will go to the big industrial buyers, who will sign 10-year contracts with companies like Enron and pay perhaps three cents per kilowatt hour, while residential customers and small businesses end up paying eight to nine cents."
There are troubling environmental problems associated with the kind of utility deregulation advocated by the likes of Schaefer and D'Amato. In New England, for example, many environmentalists fear that a deregulated power market will entice big industrial consumers to purchase more power from the high-sulfur coal-powered plants in the Midwest, which the 1990 Clean Air Act exempted from new air pollution standards, thus yielding more urban smog and acid rain.
We now come to the topic of "stranded costs," described by John Bryson, CEO of Southern California Edison, as the "make-or-break issue." The word "stranded" here is used in the sense of "beached," as in a beached or stranded whale--the whale in this case being nuclear power plants. Utility men usually call them "stranded assets," a decorous way of invoking a mountain of debt and potential liability with a half-life of several million years. Indeed, the electric utilities would like nothing more than to rid themselves of their costly, aging, unsafe nuclear plants. Their dream is to unload the $500 billion in debts on these nuclear plants and other mature facilities onto rate-payers and taxpayers instead of their shareholders.
The utilities insist that if deregulation is to take place and they surrender their monopoly, the albatross of the nukes should be handed amid furtive rites to the taxpayer in a bailout bigger than the S&L scandal. Martha Hewitt at the Center for Energy and the Environment makes the salient point: "Allowing the utilities to recover stranded costs would give the greatest reward to those utilities that made the worst business decisions. What other industry can tap widows and orphans to undo $500 billion in past mistakes?"
But this scenario is exactly what happened in California in the fall of 1996. At the midnight hour on September 15, the state assembly unanimously passed a bill deregulating the state's utilities and soaking the rate-payers for $28 billion. The money covered the utilities' disastrous investments in the Diablo Canyon and San Onofre nuclear plants. The cost will be paid by a hidden tax on the utility bills of unsuspecting residential rate-payers. In addition, the utilities convinced the Legislature to underwrite another $5 billion in subsidies through taxpayer-financed bond issues.
Southern California Edison and Pacific Gas and Electric, the state's two largest utilities, doled out more than $3 million in 1996 alone in political contributions and lobbying expenses to ease the way for the bill, which was drafted by a Southern California Edison lobbyist who temporarily joined the staff of the state senator leading the deregulation effort. Wendy Wendlandt of Californians Against Political Corruption calls it "one of the greatest consumer robberies in California history."
The California approach has been lauded as a national model by a rather surprising organization: the Natural Resources Defense Council. NRDC's energy guru is Ralph Cavanagh, who recently received an eco-genius award of $250,000 from Teresa Heinz's environmental foundation for his work on utility issues. Since the early 1990s Cavanagh has been working in what he demurely terms a "collaborative process" with utility companies, though he noted accurately enough in an interview with In Context magazine that "the term collaboration still has overtones of Vichy, France." And so it should. Cavanagh has been negotiating with the two major utilities in California, PG&E and Southern California Edison, on what's known as demand-side management, meaning conservation strategies such as better insulation, planting of shade trees, efficient light bulbs and so forth.
No bad thing in and of itself, but as Daniel Berman, co-author of the excellent Who Owns the Sun?, says, "Cavanagh and NRDC refuse to confront the utilities over existing nuclear power plants and lack of investment in renewable energy resources, and they look the other way when the subsidiaries of the large utilities build fossil fuel plants elsewhere in the United States and overseas."
This reference to "overseas" plants is highly pertinent. As Cavanagh palavers amiably with Southern California Edison about storm windows, the company is taking its cut of the $28 billion and investing a portion of it in filthy coal-fired plants in Indonesia, China, and Australia. PG&E, through its subsidiary U.S. Generating Company, has made similar investments in the Far East.
NRDC regularly issues a yearly rating of the "best" utilities in the country, based solely on an analysis of their carbon emissions in the state where they are headquartered. Southern California Edison and PG&E have consistently ranked in NRDC's top five despite their hostility toward renewable, their dependence on nuclear power, and their filthy overseas plants. In a full-page ad taken out in the San Francisco Chronicle by PG&E, Ralph Cavanagh effused: "PG&E programs benefit every sector of the economy. The farmer, the factory owner, or the family of four can save money and improve the environment through PG&E's various energy efficiency efforts."
There are not only ideological but also personal ties involved here. John Bryson, CEO of Southern California Edison, is one of the founders of the Natural Resources Defense Council. NRDC is not the only environmental group with such connections. AES Corporation is one of the nation's largest independent power producers. Its CEO, Roger Sant, serves as the chairman of the board of the World Wildlife Fund, a group that also touts the virtues of deregulation.
This confluence of interests is expressed politically in the Energy Foundation, a group based in San Francisco. The foundation was created in the late 1980s by three of the largest foundations in the country: Rockefeller, MacArthur, and Pew. Its goal is to promote green capitalism on energy issues by doling out $17 million a year to a variety of environmental groups and consumer alliances pushing for low energy costs for poor and moderate-income folk. These alliances are well aware that as deregulation rolls forward there will be no guaranteed service, and no regulatory structure to advocate and protect it.
In the words of Pam Marshall of the EnergyCENTS coalition in Minneapolis, "Industries that provide energy for basic human survival, such as heating and cooling, ought to be overseen by a body whose duty it is to maintain those services for everyone and to ensure against the public harm that energy tragedies can cause." Marshall says that over 100,000 Minnesota households may be at risk of losing their heating if the deregulation forces triumph.
But many groups that might have been expected to make such arguments have fallen strangely silent. The reason seems simple: They have been blessed with dispensations from the Energy Foundation. According to Eugene Coyle, who once worked for a Bay Area group called TURN (Toward Utility Rate Normalization), "The Energy Foundation has threatened to strip funding from groups that have opposed its deal-making with the utilities."
Indeed, Daniel Berman brusquely terms the Energy Foundation "a money-laundering operation," a charge that seems well-deserved. Rockefeller and Pew--both with endowments deriving from oil--fund another foundation that duly remits large sums to groups such as Cavanagh's NRDC, which then advocates exactly the policies desired by the big energy companies. Since 1990, NRDC has received more than $2 million from the Energy Foundation, and has been able to direct the flow of millions more to groups that will parrot the NRDC energy line.
In the final episode of our story, the trail now heads back to Enron. Back in July, Enron announced its planned takeover of Portland General Electric, as part of its plan to bolster its holdings in preparation for federal deregulation of the electric utilities. Rather than challenging the takeover with the Federal Trade Commission on anti-trust grounds, a coalition of "public interest" groups came out in favor of the merger, citing Enron's sensitivity toward environmental and rate-payer issues. This came as something of a shock to many environmentalists in the Northwest, who note that Enron has lavishly funded attacks on the Endangered Species Act and that its CEO, Kenneth Lay, served as chair of the abortive Phil Gramm presidential campaign.
We have a copy of the Memorandum of Understanding signed by Enron and 13 conservation and community organizations, headlined by the NRDC. It was proudly faxed to us by Enron. In exchange for testifying before the Public Utility Commission and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in favor of the merger (their travel expenses generously picked up by Enron), the groups will receive a variety of pecuniary rewards. For example, the Northwest Environmental Advocates will receive $30,000 from Enron for its Riverwatch program. The Native Fish Society will receive $20,000 for its hatchery-reform campaign. Oregon Trout's Salmon Watch program will rake in $15,000. The 13 groups as a whole receive $75,000 to hire someone to testify at the Public Utility Commission hearings on the economics of the merger. Larger slices of the pie are going to big enviro-corporate players such as the Nature Conservancy. Ralph Cavanagh showed up at the press conference announcing the deal, and exulted that the Enron merger with Portland General Electric "is a national model for the industry."
A $500 billion bailout and an alliance stretching from Enron in Houston to NRDC in New York City to the Energy Foundation in San Francisco: It's one of the biggest stories of the 1990s, but those Super Bowl commercials are about the most you'll ever hear about it.
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MANILA, Philippines - Malacañang on Tuesday said the actions of the Philippines have always been geared towards the diplomatic resolution of the standoff with China over Scarborough shoal.
"From our viewpoint, the Philippine government has always acted within our commitment to pursue the resolution of the issue through diplomatic means and all the actions have always been towards that goal," deputy residential spokesperson Abigail Valte said.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hong Lei has previously said that China hopes that "the Philippine side can restrain their words and behaviors, and do more things conducive to the development of the bilateral relations."
China on Monday welcomed President Aquino's order pulling out two ships from Scarborough shoal.
Aquino ordered a coast guard patrol vessel and a fisheries bureau survey ship out of Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea on Friday night.
Philippine officials added, however, that the order was only meant to protect the vessels and their crew during the cyclone season, and did not mean the country was giving up on the shoal.
A statement on the Chinese embassy's website Monday said Beijing had deployed a vessel to help its fishermen pull out of the shoal as well due to bad weather and a strong tide.


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La Grande Travel Guide: 13 reviews and 15 photos
A nice little city nestled in the foothills of the blue mountain range. The locals are all very friendly, and there's no crime to speak of. (except the first armed robbery of the year that we narrowly avoided) It's the kind of town where the locals still pull together to build things for the community. Such as the huge playground recently built at Riverside park. It's still what small town America used to be. Depending on how things develop, I would even consider it as a place for retirement. I'd definitely consider it as a good place to raise a family.
La Grande's roots go back to the Oregon Trail. It sits in the foothills of the cascade mountain range just south of the Columbia river. Founded as a logging community What is now La Grande is technically still two towns, La Grande and "Island City". Until 1900's the two towns were separated by runnoffs and floods.
La Grande is the county seat for northeastern Washington. In the early 1900's La Grande and Union city were competing for the railroad which runs (rather loudly) through La Grande. At one point some residents of La Grande snuck in and "stole" Union's plans to get the railroad. As a result there is stilll some resentment by members of Union.
La Grande is also home to Eastern Oregon University Rated as the #2 University for value of expense to quality of education in the USA It graduated 800 folks this year, and has a nice campus to take a stroll through.
- Pros:A great place to raise a family
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Very nice page on a beautiful corner of Oregon. My Grandfather loves to go horseback riding in this area. Well done!
You do get used to trains. Eventually. (Looking forward to your page on Genoa.)
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