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The Spring Meeting of The Washington Area Marine Aquarist Society (WAMAS) will be on Saturday April 5, 2008 from 2:30-6:00 p.m. George Mason University, (immediately outside Washington, DC) Our featured special guest speaker Dr. Sanjay Joshi. Along with a great talk, lots of frag swapping, and a great raffle, this is sure to be a meeting NOT to miss! For further information on WAMAS and the Spring Meeting, visit our web site http://www.wamas.org/ Who: W.A.M.A.S. (Washington Area Marine Aquarium Society) When: April 5, 2008 (Saturday) Time: 2:30 P.M. - 6:00 P.M. (EST) Where: George Mason University Lecture Hall Fairfax Campus 4400 University Dr. Fairfax, VA Cost: Members - Free / Non-members - $5.00 [Annual Membership = $20 - Individual; $35 - Family] Agenda 2:30 - 3:00 Sign in and Socializing 3:00 - 3:20 Club News 3:20 - 3:30 Break 3:30 - 5:00 Dr. Sanjay Joshi 5:00 - 5:15 More socialization! 5:15 - Raffle 5:45 - Adjourn Special guests - Dr. Sanjay Joshi Miscellaneous - Light refreshments and snacks will be provided. - Raffle prizes: - Sunlight Supply: Blue Wave 7 dual 250 watt HQI MH ballast - Air Water & Ice: Extreme Typhoon III 150 GPD RODI with Gauge & TDS Alarm & Dual TDS Meter - HelloLights gave 2 $50 gift certificates - Mr. Coral has donated 3 x $25 gift certificates - Reef Escapes - full tank evaluation - Fins & Feathers 4 x $50 gift certificates - Blue Ribbon Koi & Marine - misc donations - AquaCo - CPR Pico C Nano Setup (25 Watt Heater, Araga-live Sand, 5 pounds of Tonga Fusion Rock) Much more prizes to be listed later Dr. Sanjay Joshi's Bio: Sanjay Joshi is a professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at Penn State University. He has been a reef keeping addict since 1992, and currently keeps 3 reefs at home 55G, 60G and a 500G SPS dominated reef. He is also co-manager of the 500G aquarium at Penn State. He has published several articles in magazines such as Marine Fish and Reef Annual, Aquarium Frontiers, Aquarium Fish, and Advanced Aquarist. He has been an popular speaker at many of the national marine conferences. George Mason University Fairfax Campus 4400 University Dr. Fairfax, VA Parking deck is paid hourly. Lots A, C, J, K, L, M, O, and P are free after 2PM. Do not park in student and staff lots as you will be ticketed without a GMU sticker. Click on the Map for directions: Parking: Parking deck is paid hourly. Lots A, C, J, K, L, M, O, and P are free after 2PM. Do not park in student and staff lots as you will be ticketed without a GMU sticker.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/03/1...s.ap/index.html

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See here for more details NCPARS club is flying Kevin Kohen in for the swap.here is a description on what he will be speaking on. Fish and Coral Husbandry Techniques Kevin Kohen Drawing on Kevin

I get 100 full-sheet pack of green roasted (non-flavored) nori at the international / asian market next to Marine Scene. It's like 10.95 a pack give or take a buck, can't remember exact # at moment. my tangs, angels, and idol love it.

60k size is limited to all, paid member or BB member. Got to limit size - we can't pay for unlimited storage for everyone on the web. You can also store photos on external server and then link the image to your post [save to external server, right click on photo on external server and get url address, then paste image url link into post with tags (little tree icon adds tags when making post). HTH

U.S. Coral Reef Task Force Business Meeting Wednesday, February 27, 2008 8:00 AM - 5:30 PM

More details available here: International Year of the Reef

Have a great day.

Invision Power Services has purchased their own servers and will be beginning to move existing hosting customers to our new servers. Due to the recent issue that we experienced with our servers, we are migrating servers more quickly than originally anticipated. Your hosting account will be moved to the new server today January 6, 2008 between 11PM and 6AM EST. You can expect to have down time anywhere between the hours of 11PM and 6AM EST Monday morning. There may be some DNS issues until 8AM EST.

Thought this line from this article was interesting. Would like to see more on whether the therory has not undergone the checks as noted by this author. Full article below w/ link to original.

care to point out where these 12,000 ALL sign in support of IPCC? The way I read your link is that 12,000 sign on to support the scientiststs statement http://go.ucsusa.org/RSI_list/index.php as for statement all 12,000 signed on to ipcc - 1) don't have time to dig for answer so point it out to us 2) me thinks the board leaders of that group of scientists may have signed on in the name of the group, but I don't think all 12,000 individually signed on to ipcc. ... and big money to be made doing the research.

Ken Rockwell $150 vs $5000 camera Well, sure you can get some good photos with a point-n-shoot, but if you want great shots - slr's move and react a lot faster and can do more than point cameras. See Ken Rockwell's site on why you need a SLR. see Ken's articles here: http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech.htm So in the end, it depends on what you want to do with camera and how willing you are to adjust settings to take photos. If all you plan to do ever is point-n-shoot, then forget the SLR. But if you have interest in adjusting settings, SLR is way to go. Perhaps starting out in photography - just get a good cannon compact for $300 or less and see what your level of interest is. A good compact is always good to have even if you end up getting a SLR down the road - easy to take compact almost any place you go ... SLR a bit more to tote around. I had a old nikon 995 semi-compact point-n-shoot and it had a 1/2 second or more delay b/w pressing button and taking shot. With my nikon DLSR (D70s), it's instant snap of shot and a .3 second wake from sleep mode. The color, depth and detail is really great to me and I love it - way better than any compact I have ever used. * - Chris (aka 143gadgets turned me on to Ken's website).

groovy - 250 outlets, like to see anyone who has that many things to control. does it control tunze streams?

U.S. Senate Report: Over 400 Prominent Scientists Disputed Man-Made Global Warming Claims in 2007

it will fire ........... most likely your house in addition to firing the 250 bulb.

http://library.thinkquest.org/J001418/chiton.html Neat find. Google got hit to above page and info.

The club can cover some costs for the move and I'll chip in some frags from my tank

News from Dr. Mac on what he plans to bring: If you don't see something your looking for in above description - order it and he will bring it to meeting!!!!

There are two 250 MH ballasts and one 150 x 2 HQI ballast in the raffle. If you can spare a few dollars for raffle, maybe you will one one of them.

looking forward to seeing it

Bump - see you tomorrow. Here is post on how the Dr Mac free shipping & his attendance works: http://www.wamas.org/forums/index.php?show...c=17957&hl=

Little history for newer members. In the years past, Mac came to almost every WAMAS meeting & is and has been a great supporter of the club! Then he opened the retail site and much time was dedicated to running the shop on weekends. He now is in a position to once again come to our meetings and support us with coral frags & small rare colonies for sale. Based on the past, he will probably bring 3-5 boxes or so of corals to sell & most of them have a photo from his website attached so you can see coral under tank lighting. IF you want something rare - or you want to make sure you get it (don't depend on it being in one of his boxes of stuff) you can pre-order and he will deliver for FREE to you at the meeting. So call Dr. Mac's shop and order your must have corals, liverock, inverts ... - [i just ordered my uber rare birdnest frag & clam special], then give them a call and order today to get it tomorrow. Link below to Dr. Mac's website. Support all the shops that support the club! I posted this to give a little history. Hope it helps! Craig