Many of these people at AIG were hired and promise a bonus for a specific job. They did their job and are entitled to that bonus. They are no longer working at AIG, but because of so many threats to them and their families cannot get work in other places. It is NOT their fault. If your were hired for a one time situation and then found out could not get your bonus and have to take your children out of school, leave the area you too would feel bitter too. We need to look at the whole picture and listen to the other side. How about the oil companies. Mobil Oil made the biggest profit ever and yet the price of gasoline, food, materials and other items are going up. Yes they got their bonus also. We all need to investigate what the real story is, not just what the media and the politicians want us to hear. Look around you and find out why many small and median size businesses are failing. Are they failing because of money, or not knowing how to run the business, charging too much, not enough help, taxes, people stealing items and not being punished, etc We need to stop blaming every one else for our own problems. We must assume responsibility for our own mistakes, and stop expecting the Government to do everything for us.

Since she is getting older, her body may be changing with age. However since she is a hound, I would really watch her when she's outside. Those little hound noses are always looking for something to eat. She may have found grass, dirt, etc. out in the yard that she's been nibbling on. Possibly a cat has been visiting your yard. Or a squirrel burying peanuts. My pooch is a herding dog, so she isn't ruled by her nose. But the little doxie that I babysit, when her daddy is on vacation, spends her first day scoping out my house and yard. I really have to be diligent to make sure she doesn't eat something or do a "head slide" thru something she finds in the yard. She's nine pounds of dog!

Another take on the induction question with a little sprinkle of humor. https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/induction-cooking-emf-magnitude-vs-other-things-missus-is-a-bit-concerned/  Tim says, Ugh... If she's worried about cancer... dump her now? There's no convincing someone like that, to understand statistics and significance. At least that I've heard of. If you're looking for the opinion of an EE, I would gladly give you my opinion on the subject -- if you'd like it in writing, I can even sell your wife a certificate saying as much! Maybe that wouldn't help. I don't know. What are we talking about, anyway? Cooktops aren't always-on. They're either off until turned on, or pulsing infrequently to check if a pot is present. The RMS EMF at the surface is not very large either way, when not actively heating something. When heating, it's only large under the work being heated. EMF drops off rapidly with distance. If your wife is so strange that she finds it enjoyable to read books while laying over the cooktop, I might be concerned, but only for mental health reasons, not for EMF reasons. Or if shoving her head towards a pot that's being heated, I would be more concerned for safety reasons, and then mental health reasons... There are biological effects of EMF, but not at these field strengths. Not by orders of magnitude. The primary effect is simply dumb old heating. Diathermy machines, microwave ovens, and the military's ADS, operate on this mechanism. There is no biological effect beyond heating (obviously, too much heat and you cause burns, but that's not unique to EMF). Strong pulsed fields can induce voltages in neural tissue (transcranial magnetic stimulation), which do have direct neural effects, but these are temporary. Anything that produces fields with too little energy to cause noticeable heating, or pulse peaks strong enough to cause noticeable induction, is completely and utterly inconsequential. Example: ESD can have quite large (peak) EMF, but is over very quickly, and delivers very little energy (on a human scale). (Anyway, sparks are well known to cause people to involuntarily jump or twitch. But again, that's just a neural stimulation thing, nothing more.)

Vapor, yes, the color variations really are that subtle. Moreover, it blooms on very long laterals, and it looks like it has an excellent vase life, so -- were I still an exhibitor -- I would be taking a look at that aspect of it.d On the downside, I don't think the blooms like really harsh afternoon sun on a hot summer day. But then -- neither do I!