Bad news from the Philippines: “Super typhoon Yolanda (international name: Haiyan) destroyed about 70 to 80 percent of the area in its path as it tore through Leyte province on Friday…” [1]
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James C. mentioned that an important piece to print out for your reference binder was recently re-posted over at Preparedness Advice Blog: Chemical Names, A List Showing the Older Names vs the Modern Names [2]. [JWR’s Comment: Credit for compiling most of this list (nearly verbatim) should be given to Kurt Saxon [3]. He was the first one I know of to have published an earlier edition of this list, back in the late 1970s.]
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Safecastle is continuing their last Mountain House cans sale of the year [4], with maximum allowable discounts, free shipping, and some special loyalty reward bonuses for buyer’s club members. The sale ends on November 20, 2013.
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Some good news for Ayn Rand fans: Atlas Shrugged Part III [5] is now in pre-production and is scheduled for release on July 4, 2014 [6].
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H.L. sent this headline from Colorado: “We have established a beachhead for secession” [7] [JWR’s Comment: A point of clarification: I often see journalists and a few patriots tossing around the word secession when they are really talking about partition of counties into a new state under the existing Union. There is an important distinction!]