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It never fails to amaze me how humanity can have the hubris to think its all about them - man "caused" an extinction, "man should stop an extinction", "man should correct an extinction thru cloning." Weather cycles have existed for millions of years before "man" ever wandered into the picture. They create abundances and shortages of foods, as well as climate changes, affecting all life populations. Extinctions occurred long before humans learned to walk on two feet. Have we accelerated the process in some cases? Most definitely. But who is to say it would not or could not have happened anyway? The dinosaurs all died off for a reason and I highly doubt it was because of humans. In spite of all the movies, were they not gone long before man discovered fire? The big argument seems to be that humanity has caused problems by monkying with the environment. So how would continuing to do so by re-introducing extinct species IMPROVE that situation?

You sound stoked! We want all the cool details just as soon as you are settled safely in your new home!

Don't know if you will actually find time to read this at this point, but I will give it a try anyway. I've never traveled or dealt with a cat but with my many dogs over the years I have found that doing things like sleeping with a towel in my bed for a few days just before the travel or leaving him at the kennel and leaving the towel that is then covered in my scent with him in the crate or kennel to be helpful. Apparently having the scent of mommy or daddy around makes them feel more secure.

It's nice to see teens not being afraid to be honest about things like their sexuality. When I was 14 ( in the stone age) most kids were just figuring it out themselves let alone telling people around em.

Sounds like you have a pretty smart boss. I know illegal aliens that are abusing the system - living off of our government. The same system that when a blind lady I know had her disability benifits and food stamps reduced when she attempted to suppliment her income by having a relative sell craft work at a local flea market. When the powers that be got wind of it they reduced her income by the estimated value of the goods, a higher number than the actual income generated. My handicapped riding student has her SSI income reduced by the amount she is paid for working around the barn. Yet I also see people living off of welfare, increasing income by having babies and generally being huge mooches. Its about time things got just a bit more fair. Don't ask don't tell is gone and same sex couples should have every right any other couple has!

LOL some of these comments make me happy to stay an editor! The closest thing I have to a muse is a little voice that occasionally goes bananas in my head when it sees a prompt that catches its attention!

Margarita mostly but a good glass of Gentleman Jack ( a double filtered version of Jack Daniels) on ice is nice too.

You have the right to continue producing great stories. If you so produce, you have the right to bask in the praise of your readers"

. Tinker away! I gave you the original recipe I had gotten. I have cut way back on the sugar contents in the fruit syrups. Messing with the sugar in the batter didn't turn out well at all but using a good sugar substitute did. Careful tho - some of those are sweeter than the sugar is! I may follow a recipe a time or two - and keep the original for reference, but after that almost anything is fair game for experimentation in my kitchen!

I love the idea of collecting all our favorite recipes and putting em in one place. If we've made variations like Daithi for lower sugar/carb counts those should be included too! Lots of us either have diabetic issues or are trying to lose weight.

My apologies - I hadn't intended to offend, just comment on an odd phenomenon.

I'm impressed! It didn't take Will nearly as long as I had expected to convince Brad and Stef to come look at the house. I was fully expecting Brad to try to pull the "I'm the parent" card in spite of the emancipation thing. Will didn't even have to pull out his hole card and tell them that he had researched the area market and once the house was finished the value would at least double. I know a lot of adults that don't look at market values and potential returns before buying a home. Isadore's objections to Will's actions just served to push both Brad and Stef firmly into Wills corner. They may have been aprehensive about the house and displeased with Will's behavior at the previous dinner, but Will is a bright young man and this altercation just showed how smart he really is. I keep waiting for JP to lose his patience with Isadore. Back when Billy was killed she treated Brad like a red headed step child, and granted he was adopted into their household when his mother killed herself, but to JP he has always been as much of his child as Ace, Claire, and Billy. For her to now be treating Brads son just as shabbily as she treated Brad back then must be rubbing JP just as raw as it is Brad. I don't see how he can not think about how actions back then lead to Billy's death, and make him fear harm coming to someone as a repeat of the tensions. An intriguing chapter. I can't wait to see Stef fall in love with the house, and I am dying to see where the rift with Claire and bigger rift forming with Isadore goes! Fantastic reading as always!

As Sherlock Holmes said - eliminate the impossible and what ever remains, no matter how improbable must be the truth. While I agree with all you said about the facility and protecting their reputation, it seems much more probable to be human instigated than Egyptian spirit instigated, especially since it didn't begin when the tomb was disturbed, but just began recently. The differential friction theory hold more merit than both, and we have no knowledge of if the visitors traffic patterns have shifted or structural changes could have begun the vibrations needed. Even a change in the traffic patterns out on the street could contribute. Guess i am not so ready to accept a supernatural explanation till all the natural ones have been conclusively excluded.

the Egyptian statue seems like a publicity stunt to me. With modern technology it would be easy to alter the tape to allow someone turn it.

LOL I'm not sure the only full story I have ever written will fly around here. The girl gets the bi guy at the end of the story.

Of course we have dealers- and suppliers as well - those are spelled A-D-M-I-N-I-S-T-R-A-T-O-R-S and A-U-T-H-O-R-S And I love my suppliers!

OK - now that one i want the recipe for!!! Three of my favorites and i just put 10 pounds of blueberries into the freezer! PM it to me please please please???

Would you like some radish chips my dear? Well actually these are dicon chips ( not entirely sure i spelled that right) the huge white sort of carrot shaped radishes.

The really important thing to remember Z is if someone you know is diagnosed, don't let your own fears get in the way. Its not contagious and this is when we need our friends the most! And let us hope you can stay blissfully out of the loop!

Aubergines? Thats an eggplant or in the eggplant family isnt it? What do you do with the interiors once you have cored it to make room for the stuffing?

Well get to it mister! you only have 1682 days to figure it out!

Thank you Mike. I found when I was going for the treatments that people who haven't actually been thru it just didn't quite get it, no matter how hard they tried to understand. Hopefully I can be there for someone the way Dave has for me! I would like nothing more than for you to join the party my daughter is planning for that day! Even if it is just on skype!

I have met a lot of wonderful people here on GA over the last couple months. Most of you have welcomed me with open arms and hearts. Time for me to open up a bit more for you guys and answer the unasked questions about some of the things i have said. I am pretty open about most things in my life, and I think its pretty important to be very open about this one. If it helps even one person to get through a tough time it is more than worth it! Last summer i went for my annual boob smushing ( what my circle of friends call our annual mammograms). The results were not my usual smile from the doc and a "see you next year". That visit started what has been the most difficult year of my life. The short version? Biopsy, then surgery, then a period of hell called waiting for the pathology results, chemo, radiation, and finally a maintenance program of an estrogen inhibitor medication which will probably be for the rest of my life. I think the worst was the waiting on results at each step. My mother died almost a decade ago from complications of breast cancer, so I was intimately familiar with every set of possibilities having taken her to every appointment from finding the lump thru the day she passed. Believe me, knowing did NOT make it any easier. Chemo .....well thank the powers that be that most of you will never experience it . Basically its pumping the human body full of poison in hopes it kills off the cancer before it gets you. Radiation- not a whole lot better. No sick to your stomach etc but the burning on the surface can get.....difficult to deal with. The most common misconception is that its biggest side effect beyond the fatigue it causes is the equivalent of sun poisioning. I have on one or two occasions been stupid enough to stay out in the sun long enough to blister- it is NOT the same! Not everyone burns as badly as I did but it is a possibility. If these sorts of burns were to have been caused buy getting clumsy with a pot of boiling water most emergency rooms would send the person to a burn unit. A few thoughts for people out there with loved ones facing this and other forms of cancer.......... Women - don't I repeat DON"T get 'too busy' to have your annual! Mine found the problem at stage 1, the best shot at a cure. The tumor was still so small the surgeon could not feel it and a special ultrasound guided biopsy was needed. Yes they are uncomfortable but soooooo worth the head start they can give you in this fight. Men and friends - BE PATIENT with the lady going thru it. Our bodies are being messed with, chemistry being totally thrown out of whack, hormones going wacky, not to mention the twisting in our heads. Hold us - hug us - and don't go telling us we are being ridiculous even if we are! Actually that can pretty much go for any cancer patient. Please note, I said patient, NOT victim. I have no intention of being a victim in all of this. Each step of the way various health care professionals told me once I hit the five year mark with no relapses I can call myself cured. No one seemed to agree on when you start counting tho. The surgeon called the day he removed the tumor day one since theoretically the cancer was gone at that point. Each doctors office along the way had similar viewpoints. So I chose Feb 1 as my "New Years Day" this year. I had my last radiation treatment on Jan 31, and started counting my 5 years the next morning. 143 days down, 1682 to go. Anyone who wants a little extra support through something similar feel free to pm me. I know I'm really just a stranger, typed words on a screen, but sometimes its easier to talk to someone you don't have to face every day and who had been through similar hardships. I wouldn't have made it without losing my mind if it hadn't been for a very good friend I had met in a chat room years ago. The fact that I have never seen him does not change the fact that he was there for me every step and I love him for it!

Where else can we enjoy all these calorie laden foods and still stick to a diet??? I'll just munch on my radish chips now .........

You mean there are actually such things as natural meteorological cycles and the cave men didn't cause global warming when they discovered how to make fire thereby melting the ice age and killing off the dinosaurs???