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Impact of climatic conditions on a winter wheat (Triticum aestivum Sp.) crop : interannual variability of CO2 fluxes, plant growth and crop yield
Dufranne, Delphine ; Vancutsem, Françoise ; Moureaux, Christine et al
Poster (2008, September)
This study analyses the interannual variability of carbon dioxide fluxes, growth and productivity of a winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) crop. Two growing seasons (2004-2005 and 2006-2007) were compared ... [more ▼]
This study analyses the interannual variability of carbon dioxide fluxes, growth and productivity of a winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) crop. Two growing seasons (2004-2005 and 2006-2007) were compared. Continuous eddy covariance fluxes, leaf scale photosynthesis measurements and crop development monitoring were performed during the two vegetation seasons until harvest at the Lonzée (Belgium) experimental site. The winter wheat was sown and harvested at similar dates (about mid-October and in early August); crop management by the farmer was similar and corresponded at standard. Globally, the two years were characterised by a higher than normal air temperature (9.9 °C and 11.9 °C against 9.4 °C) and lower than normal rainfalls (595.1 mm and 675.1 mm against 772 mm). In addition, 2006-2007 was characterised by exceptionally mild and dry winter and spring. This induced not only earlier growth stages but also a larger Gross Primary Productivity. On the contrary, lower Net Primary Productivity and crop productivity were observed on this year. This could be explained, on one hand by the drought in April 2007 and on the other hand to cloudy and humid conditions from end May to harvest. The first induced a stress in wheat plant which produced an unusually small flag leaf. The second induced an assimilation reduction due to low radiation and favoured disease development. The higher GPP and the lower productivity in 2006-2007 raise the question of carbon allocation. We supposed that, as the excess of carbon assimilated in 2006-2007 was not stored in grain or straw, it should have been stored in the roots. However, our biomass measurements did not allow confirming this hypothesis [less ▲]Detailed reference viewed: 90 (10 ULg)
Adaptation of a soil heterotrophic respiration model to an agricultural soil.
Buysse, Pauline ; ; et al
Poster (2008, September)
This work aimed at adapting a model of soil heterotrophic respiration to an agricultural soil situated in the Hesbaye region (Belgium) and cultivated with a sugar beet / winter wheat / potato/ winter ... [more ▼]
This work aimed at adapting a model of soil heterotrophic respiration to an agricultural soil situated in the Hesbaye region (Belgium) and cultivated with a sugar beet / winter wheat / potato/ winter wheat rotation. This model would be integrated as a sub routine in a larger model describing soil respiration and soil carbon content evolution in crops and that will include autotrophic respiration and CO2 diffusion in soil. The present model is run at a daily time step and at the ecosystem spatial scale and is derived from the CENTURY model. Model parameterisation was performed on the basis of literature survey and of data collected at the Carboeurope agricultural site of Lonzée. Soil characteristics were determined on the basis of analyses performed on loamy soils, typical of the Hesbaye region. Driving variables (meteorological variables and litter input) were obtained during a 4 year measurement campaign performed at the Lonzée experimental site. Biochemical parameters for wheat, potato and sugar beet crops were collected from literature. However, a large parameter variability was noticed as well as a lack of information concerning sugar beet and potato. A sensitivity analysis was performed in order to classify the different parameters in terms of their impact on the respiration rate and carbon contents of each pool. It showed that the most important parameters were those controlling the temperature response, the litter input and its nitrogen and lignin content. The sensitivity analysis also showed differences in parameter impact between short and long term, notably because of pool stabilisation dynamics and crop residue types. This analysis allowed defining the further experiments that need to be developed in order to improve model adjustment on experimental data. [less ▲]Detailed reference viewed: 27 (5 ULg)
Use of the daily differencing approach (DDA) to evaluate the impact of EC computation procedures.
Aubinet, Marc ; Laffineur, Quentin
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Carbon balance assessment of a Belgian winter wheat crop
Moureaux, Christine ; Debacq, Alain ; et al
in Global Change Biology (2008), 14(6), 1353-1366Detailed reference viewed: 54 (16 ULg)
FINAL REPORT PHASE I "Impact of Phenology and Environmental Conditions on BVOC Emissions from Forest Ecosystems" «IMPECVOC»
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Advection mechanism and their impact on CO2 net ecosystem exchange at three Carboeurope forest sites
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Eddy flux measurements in difficult conditions.
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in Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America (2008), 18(6),Detailed reference viewed: 19 (1 ULg)
Comparison of horizontal and vertical advective CO2 fluxes at three forest sites
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in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology (2008), 148(1), 12-24
Extensive field measurements have been performed at three CarboEurope-Integrated Project forest sites with different topography (Renon/Ritten, Italian Alps, Italy; Wetzstein, Thuringia, Germany; Norunda ... [more ▼]
Extensive field measurements have been performed at three CarboEurope-Integrated Project forest sites with different topography (Renon/Ritten, Italian Alps, Italy; Wetzstein, Thuringia, Germany; Norunda, Uppland, Sweden) to evaluate the relevant terms of the carbon balance by measuring CO2 concentrations [CO2] and the wind field in a 3D multi-tower cube setup. The same experimental setup (geometry and instrumentation) and the same methodology were applied to all the three experiments. It is shown that all sites are affected by advection in different ways and strengths. Everywhere, vertical advection (F-VA) occurred only at night. During the day, F-VA disappeared because of turbulent mixing, leading to a uniform vertical profile of [CO2]. Mean F-VA was nearly zero at the hilly site (wetzstein) and at the flat site (Norunda). However, large, momentary positive or negative contributions occurred at the flat site, whereas vertical non-turbulent fluxes were generally very small at the hilly site. At the slope site (Renon), F-VA was always positive at night because of the permanently negative mean vertical wind component resulting from downslope winds. Horizontal advection also occurred mainly at night. It was positive at the slope site and negative at the flat site in the mean diurnal course. The size of the averaged non-turbulent advective fluxes was of the same order of magnitude as the turbulent flux measured by eddy-covariance technique, but the scatter was very high. This implies that it is not advisable to use directly measured quantities of the non-turbulent advective fluxes for the estimation of net ecosystem exchange (NEE) on e.g. an hourly basis. However, situations with and without advection were closely related to local or synoptic meteorological conditions. Thus, it is possible to separate advection affected NEE estimates from fluxes which are representative of the source term. However, the development of a robust correction scheme for advection requires a more detailed site-specific analysis of single events for the identification of the relevant processes. This paper presents mean characteristics of the advective CO2 fluxes in a first site-to-site comparison and evaluates the main problems for future research. (c) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. [less ▲]Detailed reference viewed: 100 (2 ULg)
Dependence of CO2 advection patterns on wind direction on a gentle forested slope
Heinesch, Bernard ; Yernaux, Michel ; Aubinet, Marc
in Biogeosciences (2008), 5(3), 657-668
Gravitational flows generated on a gentle slope in stable conditions were analysed at a forested site at Vielsalm in Belgium. There were two distinct situations at the site, one corresponding to vertical ... [more ▼]
Gravitational flows generated on a gentle slope in stable conditions were analysed at a forested site at Vielsalm in Belgium. There were two distinct situations at the site, one corresponding to vertical convergence, characterised by a negative vertical velocity at the canopy top and horizontal velocity divergence below the canopy, the other corresponding to an equilibrium situation without any vertical movement. The causes of these two distinct flow patterns were analysed. These measurements combined with those of the horizontal CO2 concentration gradient below the canopy supported the dilution hypothesis suggested by Aubinet et al. (2003): the horizontal CO2 concentration gradient is negative in convergence situations but slightly positive in equilibrium conditions. The existence of such patterns allows us to confirm the coherence of advection observations made at the site. However, the sum of turbulent CO2 flux, changes in CO2 storage and advective terms were shown to greatly overestimate the expected net ecosystem exchange in the convergence conditions. The most probable cause was identified as being a poor estimate of the vertical profile of the vertical velocity component. [less ▲]Detailed reference viewed: 25 (7 ULg)
Use of the daily differencing approach to evaluate uncertainties affecting eddy covariance measurements
Laffineur, Quentin ; Aubinet, Marc
Poster (2008)
The eddy covariance technique is recognised to be the most adapted micrometeorological method to study the exchange processes between terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere. Like all other methods, it ... [more ▼]
The eddy covariance technique is recognised to be the most adapted micrometeorological method to study the exchange processes between terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere. Like all other methods, it is submitted to systematic and random measurement errors. A thorough analysis of these errors is necessary in order to set the limits of validity of the method and to quantify the uncertainty that affects net carbon exchange computed with this method. In this presentation, we'll concentrate on the random errors using the dailydifferencing approach (DDA) developed by Hollinger and Richardson (2005). The interest of this approach is that it requests only single tower measurements and is thus applicable to all flux tower sites. In this approach, uncertainties are estimated by comparing flux values taken at two successive days at the same hour and under similar meteorological conditions. The analysis may be applied to sensible heat, latent heat and CO2 flux densities. It was applied here to the eddy-covariance data from the Vielsalm mixed forest site (10 years of data) and from the Lonzée agricultural site (4 years of data). Both sites are situated in Belgium and are part of the Carboeurope IP network. The study is developed in the frame of the European IMECC project. The absolute and relative random error was quantified for both sites. Their daily evolution and their dependencies on different climate conditions (magnitude of the flux, PPFD, Rnet, wind velocity, wind direction, clarity index) were analysed. For both sites, the absolute random error increases linearly with the absolute value of flux. This is the principal factor controlling the random error. More particularly the response of the random error to wind velocity was analysed. For the CO2 flux, the absolute random error decreases with increasing wind speed. This effect is more important for the agricultural site than for the forest site. The behaviour of the relative random error with wind speed is more contrasted: it generally decreases with increasing wind speed at low velocities but, for some directions may increase with wind speed at high velocities. In addition, the random error was found very dependent on wind direction at the forest site probably as a result of site heterogeneity. [less ▲]Detailed reference viewed: 26 (1 ULg)
Quality Control Of Carboeurope Flux Data - Part 1: Coupling Footprint Analyses With Flux Data Quality Assessment To Evaluate Sites In Forest Ecosystems
; ; Aubinet, Marc et al
in Biogeosciences (2008), 5(2),Detailed reference viewed: 21 (2 ULg)
Description of cropland CO2 exchange : a comparison of empirical and physiologically based estimates of Reco, GPP and NEE
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in CarboEurope-IP meeting 2008 (2008)Detailed reference viewed: 28 (2 ULg)
Mesure des flux de CO2 et bilan carboné de grandes cultures : Etat de la question et méthodologie
Moureaux, Christine ; Bodson, Bernard ; Aubinet, Marc
in Biotechnologie, Agronomie, Société et Environnement = Biotechnology, Agronomy, Society and Environment [=BASE] (2008), 12(3), 303-315Detailed reference viewed: 222 (10 ULg)
Extrapolating the gross primary productivity from leaf to canopy scale in a winter wheat crop
; Moureaux, Christine ; et al
in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology (2008), 148(4), 668-679Detailed reference viewed: 49 (11 ULg)
Eddy Covariance Co2 Flux Measurements In Nocturnal Conditions: An Analysis Of The Problem
Aubinet, Marc
in Ecological Applications (2008), 18(6),Detailed reference viewed: 70 (7 ULg)
Use of the daily-differencing approach to evaluate uncertainties in eddy covariance measurements
Laffineur, Quentin ; Heinesch, Bernard ; Aubinet, Marc
Conference (2007, June)Detailed reference viewed: 7 (4 ULg)
Nos grandes cultures captent aussi le CO2
Bodson, Bernard ; Moureaux, Christine ; Aubinet, Marc
in Nouvelles du Printemps (Les) (2007), (2ème trimestre 2007), 30-31Detailed reference viewed: 7 (0 ULg)
Ten years of CO2 flux measurements at the Vielsalm forest site.
Laffineur, Quentin ; Heinesch, Bernard ; Yernaux, Michel et al
Poster (2007)Detailed reference viewed: 67 (9 ULg)
Linking flux network measurements to continental scale simulations: Ecosystem carbon dioxide exchange capacity under non-water-stressed conditions
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in Global Change Biology (2007), 13Detailed reference viewed: 16 (1 ULg)
Determinants of terrestrial ecosystem carbon balance inferred from European eddy covariance flux sites
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in Geophysical Research Letters (2007), 34(1),
Pioneering work in the last century has resulted in a widely accepted paradigm that primary production is strongly positively related to temperature and water availability such that the northern ... [more ▼]
Pioneering work in the last century has resulted in a widely accepted paradigm that primary production is strongly positively related to temperature and water availability such that the northern hemispheric forest carbon sink may increase under conditions of global warming. However, the terrestrial carbon sink at the ecosystem level (i.e. net ecosystem productivity, NEP) depends on the net balance between gross primary productivity (GPP) and ecosystem respiration ( TER). Through an analysis of European eddy covariance flux data sets, we find that the common climate relationships for primary production do not hold for NEP. This is explained by the fact that decreases in GPP are largely compensated by parallel decreases in TER when climatic factors become more limiting. Moreover, we found overall that water availability was a significant modulator of NEP, while the multivariate effect of mean annual temperature is small and not significant. These results indicate that climate- and particularly temperature-based projections of net carbon balance may be misleading. Future research should focus on interactions between the water and carbon cycles and the effects of disturbances on the carbon balance of terrestrial ecosystems. [less ▲]Detailed reference viewed: 33 (1 ULg)


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Quebec Pushes Back Target for Balanced Budget
By Don Curren
The province of Quebec, grappling with fiscal constraints along with many other governments in North America, said Thursday it now expects to achieve a balanced budget in fiscal 2015-16, or two years later than planned, due to a revenue shortfall.
Revenue will be $2.5 billion Canadian dollars ($2.36 billion) lower in the 2013-14 year than forecast in its March budget, the provincial government said in an economic and financial update Thursday.
Actuarial changes related to public-sector employment retirement plans added another C$400 million in spending and C$100 million in debt-service costs to the budgetary shortfall.
Quebec, which is Canada's second-most populous province, now projects deficits of C$2.5 billion in fiscal 2013-14 and C$1.75 billion in 2014-15.
The government said it has met its targets for spending cuts, and attributed the shortfalls entirely to lower-than-anticipated revenue stemming from the unexpectedly slow economic economy recovery in North America and the world as a whole.
"Given the current economic situation, we could only have dogmatically pursued this objective [of budgetary balance] at the cost of measures that would have inhibited economic growth," Finance Minister Nicolas Marceau said in a statement.
Economists at Desjardins Capital Markets said in a report that the revenue shortfall was primarily the result of personal income tax revenue that was C$900 million lower than expected, business taxes that fell short of expectations by C$700 million, and sales taxes that were C$580 million lower.
"Net debt as a percentage of GDP is expected to rise above 50% in the next two calendar years, to stabilize at 50.5% in 2015, before beginning a gradual decline that will lead it to 46.2% in 2019," Desjardins said.
Quebec will have to borrow C$3.8 billion more than it expected to in March, it said.
Desjardins said other jurisdictions have managed to stay the course in spite of the adverse economic conditions, "but one must recognize that compared to some others, Quebec's government has very little leeway."
"Quebec taxpayers are among the most burdened in North America. There can only be the hope that the global economy recovers in order to generate revenue, and this remains our baseline scenario," Desjardins said.


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MPs: laws on GCHQ snooping "completely useless"
Snooper's charter dead in the water following cable tapping revelations, say senior politicians
Revelations of mass snooping programs from GCHQ and the US National Security Agency have shown up the UK's laws governing surveillance as totally ineffective, MPs have said.
Conservative MP David Davis and Labour deputy chair Tom Watson said Prism, and its UK counterpart Tempora, had highlighted that parliamentary supervision over surveillance was "completely useless".
"Our supervision procedures are completely useless, not just weak as we thought," said Davis, speaking at an Open Rights Group meeting chaired by Watson. "Let's say the foreign secretary signs this off. It then comes up in the House of Commons – what does he say? That we never comment on security matters. There's no accountability to Parliament."
Our supervision procedures are completely useless, not just weak as we thought
Although GCHQ is accountable to the Intelligence Security Committee (ISC), Davis pointed out that it reports directly to the prime minister, not Parliament, meaning surveillance operations are never openly debated.
"What Tempora has done in political terms is throw up a really big red flag saying actually we have to rethink completely from scratch about all the oversight arrangements we have," he said.
Tempora is thought to be GCHQ's extensive cable-tapping operation, with the agency allegedly scooping up huge amounts of communications data, including the content of phone calls and emails.
Davis and security experts at the meeting said it was time to rethink the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000, which is supposed to govern the interception of communications such as Tempora.
"There's a provision in the legislation which says the act is essentially voluntary code, and you don't have to follow it anyway. That's its practical effect, I'm afraid," said solicitor advocate Simon McKay.
No snooper's charter
Both MPs also dismissed the return of the "snooper's charter", despite renewed interest in the communications data bill after the recent Woolwich murder.
They said the disclosures around Tempora meant the bill was unlikely to become legislation in the next year.
Theresa May had been using the Woolwich murder to try and revive interest in the bill, arguing that it was "essential" to security services, despite opposition from M15.
But Davis and Watson said more MPs were increasingly sceptical about the bill after the surveillance scandal. Davis also called on the European commission to keep up the pressure on the foreign secretary, after EU commissioner Vivane Reding asked William Hague for details about Tempora.


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On the Menu This Chinese New Year: Crocodile and Marlin
Chinese New Year is a time for tradition in modern Southeast Asia, and that includes buying bak kwa, or barbequed sweet meat.
Traditions, though, can change – especially when it comes to food, one of the region's unofficial pastimes.
Bak kwa is traditionally made from pork. The meat is sliced, marinated and barbequed into a dried product similar to jerky. During the festive season, it is a highly popular gift for family, friends and business contacts.
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Now, however, bak kwa is increasingly made of salmon, marlin, crocodile, and prawn, among others.
This year, a new entrant in the region's dining scene –Osavory in Singapore—has launched a fish bak kwa made without lard, using only vegetable and olive oil. The types of fish used are unusual as well: Founder Derek Ong has chosen to use salmon, tuna, marlin and swordfish for his product.
"Bak kwa is a product of joy, it's very delicious, but it's something that's very restrictive," Mr. Ong says.
Some "people can't try it because of religious and health issues, and I thought fish is a good idea. It's something that can be made halal and it's healthy as well."
A gift-pack of half a kilogram of the fish bak kwa doesn't come cheap, at S$32.90. But Mr. Ong says it's because he uses high-quality fish that costs more.
OSavory isn't the first company to venture into other meats for bak kwa.
Singapore bak kwa-scene stalwart Lim Chee Guan, largely recognized as the most popular in Singapore, launched a fish and a prawn bak kwa about four years ago.
"All along we have been doing the traditional bak kwa, but due to a lot of changes lately, that's why we've started with a bit of different tastes," owner Rod Lim says.
"A lot of people like to try something different—besides the locals, also the foreigners," he says, explaining that he started being creative to cater to a variety of tastebuds.
So, apart from pork, Lim Chee Guan now offers fish, prawn, beef and bacon bak kwa.
Another bak kwa company, Fragrance Foodstuff, has gone a step further with exotic meats. In 2003, it launched crocodile bak kwa and in 2008, it began selling turkey. Both are still in production now.
This year, it has come up with bak kwa using U.S. Berkshire pork, commonly known as kurobuta pork, available during the Chinese New Year season at a hefty S$65 per kilogram compared to the traditional pork for S$50 per kilogram.
"Kurobuta, or Berkshire, is a premium pork which has seen an increased following in recent years in Singapore," director Eddie Teo says.
Yet even with all these bak kwa companies striving to come up with newfangled inventions, it seems that—at least for now—tradition still reigns.
Lim Chee Guan has been around since 1938. Year after year, a snaking queue forms and gets longer as the two-day Chinese New Year public holiday gets closer, with people waiting up to several hours.
Many people are well-prepared to tackle the lines that stretch around the block. They come armed with umbrellas and even folding chairs. Some send their maids to queue, while others take turns in line with their friends, family and employees.
The people in the queues aren't there for the newfangled bak kwa inventions.
"I would rather stick to the more traditional kinds – I'm not the kind to try exotic meats," says 29-year-old marketing executive Linda Tiong, in line at Lim Chee Guan for the usual pork bak kwa two weeks ahead of the holiday Jan. 23.
Ms. Tiong had grabbed orders from her friends and family for five kilograms of bak kwa—enough to set her back S$250.
"The tourists are the bigger customers in trying different flavors," Mr. Lim says. "Locals will still buy the other flavors, but what they like most is our traditional bak kwa."
Indeed, the craze for traditional bak kwa can rise to feverish pitches nearing Chinese New Year, with people starting to queue at midnight a few days before the holiday, according to Mr. Lim.
"We have times when we have to stop the queue right in the morning when we open our shop," he says with a laugh.


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I'm not a big fan of ANY drug, since I don't drink, smoke, smoke weed, or take any psychoactive chemical stronger than caffeine, but our policy on marijuana is simply insane, ridiculously costly to the taxpayer, and cruel to a lot of people thrown in prison for a trivial infraction of an irrational law. Time to change.
Fine make it a Mister Miner but even if you are transporting and selling large quantities keep it a felony.
You might read The Natural Mind, Dr. Andrew Weil's frst book and the philosophical basis for all of his resulting beliefs and tenets if you haven't already. As an ethnobotanist he came up with the idea that some people desire to be removed from a normal state of mind to get other perspectives.
I remember when weed was a felony, they could vacuum your pants pockets or rug and if they found one seed or flake of pot you could get six months in jail.
Now that it's legal to smoke weed its no fun anymore.
I have heard that perspective, which appears to be an updating of the 1960s attitude that drugs can bring enlightenment. I am not willing to write off the possibility for some people, but personally I don't feel the need to alter the normal neurochemical balance of my brain to get other perspectives. Could be because my father destroyed his life with alcohol…
It is well known pot's better for you than booze, prison or cig's, but until these industries stop lobbying congress were in trouble. The new DEA head is a fool or bought and paid for, refuses to look at any facts. Portugal did away with all drug laws years ago, abuse stopped, not filling up the prisons, health better. I'm 78, never smoked pot or used any other illegal drugs, you can smoke pot in my house, but not tobacco.
No, he really meant Mr. Miner. :-|
MM has brought up Portugal's drug policy a few times before but as he has previously pointed out, Portugal just decriminalised drug use and instituted more support programmes for users. Portugal still has drug trafficking laws. I think I recently read that drug abuse has dropped off overall although for some age groups it had increased; but the exact stats escape me at the moment.
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"The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work"
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VOLUNTEERS leading an ambitious restoration project at an abandoned Lochaber railway station have received the backing of Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander.
Invergarry Station Preservation Society members welcomed the Liberal Democrat MP to the station at South Laggan last week where he viewed progress on the scheme to transform the site into a visitor destination.
The society, formed in 2011, has set out to restore the last remaining station of the ill-fated Spean Bridge-Invergarry-Fort Augustus Railway, which operated between 1903 and 1947, that is relatively intact.
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Mr Alexander, who hails from Invergarry, said: "The station project is precisely the type of community-led initiative that makes the Highlands such a wonderful place to live.
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Skip to comments.Bachmann to Endorse Romney
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National Review Online has confirmed that Michele Bachmann will endorse Mitt Romney tomorrow at a campaign event in Virginia.
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Well, if you want to "sit home," that's your right. I won't be.
Good night.
As with all political animals,they have to play the game rigged for them to play by the Ruling Class if they want to have a spot in the party they still cling to in vain as an 'opposition party' to the Democrats.
Neither Bachman, Cain, Santorum, Newt or Perry are "commie-pinkos' because they endorsed the Ruling Class pick. They know they have to play by the Ruling Class rules if they want to even have a chance to play the game.
The rest of us however, do not have to play the Game.
We do not have to allow ourselves to be boxed into a corner and force-fed a Ruling Class nominee chosen by Obama, the GOP-e and the Media to lose to Obama in November.
And to hedge their bets that the fundamental transformation of the country will continue unabated, if by some miracle Romney actually wins.... nothing changes and everything Obama has already done becomes permanent and endorsed with the Ruling Class sitting in the cat bird seat with their paws on our money.
End game. The Ruling Class oligarchy in league with the MarxoFascists have played their game well, and we as citizens do not have to play their game at all.
Political animals, well... they will still play the game.
But we don't have to, and I refuse to knuckle under and vote for the Candidate Obama and the enemy chose to run against.
I NEVER "sit home" on any election day, local, national or otherwise. I've never missed an election since I was of legal voting age.
LOL, I guess you don't recognize sarcasm.
I will be voting AGAINST Obama on November 6th. His only viable opponent - like it or not - looks to be Romney.
If you want to write in Newt or Sarah Palin or whoever, go ahead.
Gosh, for someone who says they don't care what I do, you sure seem to care what I do.
That's who I'll be voting for as well, ohioWfan, the "Not A Communist" candidate! :-)
Actually I'm kind of... in awe. I'm in awe of a lot of strange stuff I see posted on FR these days. I don't even recognize this place anymore.
Actually, I've clearly seen the sarcasm in all of your posts to me this evening. And it's quite ineffective in convincing me to support a socialist out of abject fear of a different socialist.
You're seeing things, pal. My only "sarcastic" post to you was in #200.
It's the inevitable turmoil associated with the death throes of a once-great political party.
Nah. Your posts have dripped with it. And the Romney Republican memes that continually, dishonestly, claim that principled conservatives are going to "sit home," or that they support Obama.
She was a stalking horse. How about Sarah is my friend but allows Ed Rollins to attack her and then only after many days say that Ed was wrong. Plus she hardly hit Mitt except for a few times in the debates when he was clearly the Establishment frontrunner as the non-Romneys rise and fell
Not everyone does what Reagan did! Don't speak ill of your fellow republicans!
OK, "principled conservative"... who will you be voting for for president on Tuesday, November 6th?
Good night.
I don't believe in luck.
Good night.
if Mitt breaks the 1,144 delegate threshold, he will have won the nomination
TRY to remember how he got there. Most here do! So please stop - he WON nothing - It was GIVEN and BOUGHT. His LIES Attacks Attacks LIES - not to Newt's face - the coward that he is - but with paid advertising daily and his media support and with DRUDGE REPORT bloody Thursday on NEWT got him there. He is more of a thief than a winner! "The thief has come to kill/rob/destroy". Fits mitt to a 'T'.
Were you sleeping through all of this? He has nothing to run on - NOTHING, so he needed to tear down a Patriot, conservative Newt like he did with Sarah, also, conservatives that do have credentials and excellent records. His dirty tactics are KNOWN but they have no limit!
Remember, he has NOT been vetted yet! Obama will take care of that since you/others would rather ignore it.
His dirty tactics are KNOWN and they have no limit! Conservatives will never forget the pre-planned Bloody Thursday and he can't do that to Barry. So then what is slick mitt the backstabber going to do then?? oops, I was just counting on everyone just voting for me? DREAM ON!!
Evil knows no bounds and Romney is one EVIL SOB. Remember he's a backstabber, so it would never surprise if he's not a pawn of the left to keep Barry in office.
Oh you're gonna need a lot of it if you actually think you're going to be elected President in November.
"If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair. The event is in the hand of God."
You and others like you are pathetic little turds for your infantile attacks against good people. Stop attacking Jeff Head. This man has served in the military for this great nation(something alot of you armchair general cowards never have), he has been a long time conservative poster here, has written excellent books on the rise of china and the challenge to American dominance, and the man is battling a serious illness. The man knows military hardware and nations strategic force posture, and is the best source for it on FR or pretty much any other forum. People like him dont deserved to be flamed by losers like yourself. This site has gone mad. Zot me if you wish powers that be, but this is over the line.
Is Jeff Romney, you dweb!
You are one who has gone mad! And too thin skinned in your protection over POS mitt. This isn't your audience, mittbot - hang out in a liberal site for a while.
That's where I stand - do what I know is right and the rest is up to Him. And not to be shaken by what I see because HE sees ALL.
Thanks. It's a good message to close with.
Viable? What in the world makes you think Romney is viable?
Do you REALLY think a pro-choice Mormon is gonna get votes from the Christian Right?
When is the last time that a YANKEE Republican got the Southren vote?
Hey,why not vote for George Washington? He can do a better job dead than Obama or Romney can alive.
No. Not of Romney.
And not like those who are clueless and putty in the hands by dishonorable deceitful ones to be lead astray into the hands of liberals - Mitt used them, also, to put him in office. They would NOT listen but instead mocked true conservatives because of their stupidity.
Untrue, don't set your standard up for defining true conservative. Most true conservatives will be voting for Romney.
However the anti Romney cult, of which you are obviously a member, won't.
That does't make you a true conservative.
It makes you a true _______
The blank is left open to your imagination.
So.. you've learned to post pictures? Well bless your little heart.
Neither voting for socialism nor smug nor happy about the s(h)ituation we find ourselves in. Ok. Let's play your metaphor.
The drain (Republic, Economy, etc) is plugged. We had the chance to nominate our best guy, an hnest conservative plumber early on to fix the mess. Instead we kept pushing competitive bidding among them until all the little guys couldn't afford to continue. But the big corporate Mr RINO-Rooter conglomerate in town held out because they have the cash and the discipline and is now the only game in town.
Now there's also a Commie from the City Waste dept who is offering to come out and have "his people" destroy your house and remove all your plumbing and give you free chamber-pots and a wheelbarrow and a shovel.
So you can choose to run off into the woods to get away from the smell. But until we can get some honest plumbers back in the business (the ones this time turned out to be shams didn't they?**) then we merely have the choice of how long we can clear the drains until the next clog (4 years?)....or completely turn our house into a third world cesspool for the next century.
** Which one of these two-faced "conservative" suckups who are now not just caving, but supporting the RINO did we want to be our "principled" leader?
Now THAT'S funny right there.. I don't care WHO ya are!
If American conservatives want real political influence they must drop the habit of endorsing RINOs against the Democrats.
Otherwise will have RINOs only at the helm of power, and the conservative TV show during primaries that does nothing but damage to the conservative movement.
Learn from Marine Le Pen: grow your own party.
What I am saying is pretty clear. I do not respect your opinion on this. I do not respect a decision to vote for Obama, nor can I respect a person who enables him. I also do not respect a person who believes in Islam. I do not respect a single Occupy Wall Street person. I do not respect Bill Ayers, Eric Holder, Elizabeth Warren or Ahmadinejad or Barack Obama.
You are entitiled to your opinion, as I am entitled to mine.
You are NOT entitled to be respected for your decision.
Obama voters will respect you for withholding your vote, they will even admire you and applaud you.
So you needn't worry about my opinion of you. You've got lots of support. Good for you.
I'm with you.
It's Jean-Marie. Not Marine. Yeah, why don't YOU learn something from Le Pen. Formed "his own" party in NINETEEN SEVENTY TWO.
And what did he do? Corral all the far right wing away from politics giving France 40 years of left vs. ultra-left debates.
And we don't have proportional coalition governments....and frankly...if your attitude prevailed in France, they couldn't have coalition governments there either because you would never form common cause with the "not right enough" people to get anything passed.
I only hope this petulance will wane. The intellectual shock of having supported a "principled conservative" as some kind of "we are the resistance" movement...to then have Newt or Bachmann or Palin or whatever dream candidate turn around and support the guy and the establishment you thought was evil incarnate?
That's got to take a while to right your head. I don't trust any of these charlatans. That makes reality easier to take when it hits.
RE: We all knew it didnt we? She was a STALKING HORSE.
Those of us who are not in elected office have more freedom.
Let's face it: Romney beat us. Gingrich, Santorum, Cain, Perry, and Bachmann supporters all have more in common with each other than any of us have with Romney, and now we have virtually the worst possible Republican candidate because we couldn't unify behind a single candidate. We need to stop beating each other up and trying to work to put the conservative movement back together if, as seems likely, Romney loses this fall.
Let's not bash each other when we're going to have to find a way to work together after November.
A word to the people who opposed Rick Santorum: Xzins is correct when he says that "All of the pro-life conservatives EXCEPT Santorum have now endorsed Romney. Rick, the GOP-e wont like you if you dont get with the program and back the Massachusetts $50 babykiller."
I am all but certain that Santorum will eventually endorse Romney and will be both very shocked and very happy if he doesn't, but as of today, the guy some people liked to attack as a stalking horse for Romney is the last one left **NOT** to endorse him.
Think about that.
As I wrote earlier, political animals have to play the game the Ruling Class sets as their rules and kiss the bungholes and lick the palms of those Masters if they want have a seat at their table.
We citizens do not have to play that game, because it is our votes and money they needed to keep themselves in perpetual power.
Soon however, they will have no need for either from us, because they know what the transformation is going to be, and they decided to play along for power's sake and a crack at all our redistributed money.
So they rigged this election to be a win, win for themselves by getting rid of the 'ball and chain of Conservatives'.
I won't play their game by their rules and hold my nose for the trap they set for me. But then, I'm not a political animal either and I am not beholden to them.
Whats going to be hilarious are going to be the posts when Palin endorses Romney, because she knows Obama is the worst possible outcome. I wonder if she will be called whore and RINO etc. I agree with you. I dont trust any politicians either, any of them. However, I know which one is worse for the country and plans to damage it as much as possible for his twisted marxist ideology and that is Obama. Like I said in a previous post that folks overlooked and never commented on. They are a reason that russia and china endorse Obama for four more years. They love the "flexibility" with our national defense. Only a fool would not see that.
I've said all along that they will all endorse Romney at some point. Its just the way things are done.
Duncan Hunter endorsed McCain on a promise then later retracted saying that McCain had broken the promise. However Hunter was leaving politics after that race anyway.
To refresh those memories, let me recount what happened (once again):
After the 2010 TEA Party sweep of the House of Representatives and State legislatures, with Palin leading the charge, the GOP-E panicked and launched a strategy to undermine and ultimately stop her from running for president. They admitted it openly.
And since Bachmann was a pain in Boehner's butt too at the time (particularly with her TEA Party rally on the steps of Capitol Hill), the GOP-E/RNC hatched a plan to try and kill two birds with one stone by convincing Bachmann to run (via her congressional staff) and dilute Palin's TEA Party support. They approached her over the Christmas adjournment (again via her staff) and she agreed in exchange for whatever promise they made to her. Within days, members of her staff appeared in both Iowa and South Carolina and began bad mouthing Palin to state and local Republican chairmen and potential delegates.
Very soon afterward, Bachmann announced her candidacy, but word leaked about what was going on and was documented and discussed ad nauseum both here at FR and elsewhere in the Conservative blogosphere. Bachmann then hired Ed Rollins as her manager and literally within twenty-four hours he attacked, not Romney, but Palin. Bachmann's subsequent silence spoke volumes. Again, this was all discussed and debated on this forum and elsewhere.
In the meantime, Tucson happened, and Palin was crucified by Obama's minions online and in the MSM. The GOP-E saw another big chance to help bury her, and did not lift a finger to either defend or help her, leaving her to dangle in the wind against the vicious Rat onslaught. Palin released her own video statement about Tucson and was again attacked mercilessly for defending herself. She went on to do the Madison rally and then her One Nation bus tour, but something (bad?) happened behind the scenes in late August or early September (when she was primed to announce her candidacy) that compelled her to stay out, and she told mark Levin on October 5 that she was not running.
Bachmann, for her part, ran a fitful campaign and not once attacked Romney during the "debates" (if you can call them that) before suspending it on January 4th of this year, her job done.
It's sad that I have to walk people through this all over again, but apparently I do.
Thanks for the concise recap.
Bookmarked for reference.
I have lived long and expected it..I am a realist..My guys did not make it through the primary..It hurt..
I painfully accept that there's only one way to get Zero out of the White House..and that's to vote for the man left standing. I want Obama OUT!
Yep, we agree.
To bash politicians because they endorse the nominee of their party doesn't make sense.
Those of us who are not elected officials or major national political figures have more options.
I've talked to my congressman extensively about his endorsement of Romney. All he says is "I'm a second time freshman and if I'm reelected I'll have more freedom"
I agree with everything that you are saying and its accurate as well
You and others like you are pathetic little turds for your infantile attacks against good people.
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Oh that IS ironic. Attacking good freepers with infantile attacks.
And where were you when Jeff Head was calling other, conservative Freepers Nazis.
Don't forget the co-religionist factor. It is strong with that group.
And so Aaron, where is Moses and his God? Come let us make ourselves a golden calf and worship at the feet of Ba'al.
And with that request, the Israelites stripped themselves of their gold and ripped the earrings from their daughters ears.
Friend, you are right on target. I actually discount all the blabber, hate, dislike, bad mouthing on this site by Freepers, etc. against Mitt Romney. I always thought this wonderful site was the vioce of conservatism, freedom, liberty and individual effort. To me, there is no difference between the hate and venom of the left or the right, period.
The good news is, these folks that spew hate on this site are in reality, a distinct and tiny minority and mean absolutely nothing in the upcoming election. This real issue in my mind is not Mitt Romney. It is Barack Hussein Obama. Simple, Obama must be defeated for many clearly obvious reasons. End of story. ABO!!!
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Mouse - Skin - skin_023.tif
Image Name: skin_023.tif
Image Annotation: TRP-1 immunoperoxidse staining of melanoma arising in a metallothionine-hepatocyte growth factor (MT-HGF) transgenic mouse that has undergone perinatal UV exposure. Prominent intraepidermal spread of melanocytes is accentuated by immunoperoxidase staining for the melanocyte-specific TRP-1 protein.
Staining Method: Hematoxylin and Eosin Staining Method
Species: Mouse
Strain: FVB
Organ: Skin
Diagnosis: Amelanotic Spindle and Epithelioid Melanoma
Publication: 11565020
Image donated by: Marcus Bosenberg


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Critical is one of our most popular strains. A winner of many awards in Spain and loved by commercial growers around the world for its strong growth and large yields. Our Royal Critical Automatic was bred to be just like Critical.
Most of our autoflowering feminized strains are easy to grow. This one, however, is so easy to grow that we had to call it Easy Bud. Easy Bud is very similar to the autoflowering strain White Dwarf.
Northern Light is one of the best-known strains of cannabis in the world. It's a mostly Indica strain bred in the 1970s in the USA from Afghani genetics. In the 1980s, the plant came to Holland.
Quick One is a fast-growing autoflowering strain. This was one of the first autoflowering strains developed. When it was first released, it was one of the quickest growing strains on the planet.
Originally a hybrid of Columbian, Mexican, Thai and Afghani, AK47 is classic strain of cannabis. This mostly Sativa strain is known and loved by many for its heavy-hitting effects and good yields. The many awards the strain has won over the years goes to show this.
Quick and easy like all of our autoflowering varieties. Royal Kush Automatic adds a little bit of Kush to the autoflowering mix.
This is our feminized autoflowering version of the famous Blueberry, known worldwide for its sweet berry flavour and aroma. We already had a great version of this plant in our Blue Mystic but now we have an autoflowering variety to give you even more choice.
With a similar genetic background to our Easy Bud but crossed with Skunk to create a new autoflowering feminized variety. We call this bonsai-like autoflowering variety Royal Dwarf.
If you've ever visited the coffeeshops of Amsterdam, you'll know that the haze varieties are some of the most popular. They have a fresh taste and an uplifting high which everyone loves. The problem is they take a long time to grow and flower. Royal Haze Automatic offers a solution to this problem.
This is a mixed packet with a selection of our original and new autoflowering strains. All varieties are autoflowering and all are feminized. As all of the varieties are autoflowering, time of year or hours of light are not an issue.