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The seller has accepted your offer, the inspector didn't find any underground streams or shaky foundations, and the closing date is set. You're in the homestretch! While you can breathe a little easier, remember, the deal's not done until everyone signs all the (zillion) documents at the closing table. … Continue reading
5 Closing Mistakes to Avoidby Chad Burris, December 12, 2016
Virtual Reality in Real Estateby Chad Burris, December 7, 2016
The day many tech lovers have been waiting for is here: Google Daydream View is now available in stores. The new virtual reality headset connects with a smartphone (specifically, Google Pixel) to immerse users in their favorite games, movies or even the latest news story. And at just $79, … Continue reading →
65 Actionable Tasks A Realtor Takes On When Selling A Homeby Chad Burris, November 12, 2016
We can all agree that a lot goes into the process of selling a home. From start to finish it could easily take four to six months! In order for homeowners to truly maximize their profits there is a lot of time and energy that is also required from the … Continue reading →
4 Things Agents Consider When Setting Listing Pricesby Chad Burris, November 8, 2016
There's no online calculator for setting the perfect listing price for your home. It takes experience, market savvy, and even a bit of psychology. A strong listing agent can help you set the right, most competitive price for your home. Here are a few things they might look at: 1. … Continue reading →
Featured Agent Steve Hayesby Chad Burris, November 7, 2016
Steve Hayes Managing Broker, Stanwood RE/MAX I'm having a blast doing what I enjoy and am very grateful for each and every transaction that comes my way. I'm a longtime resident of Camano Island and Stanwood. I try my best to take the stress out of buying and selling and … Continue reading →
6 Ways to Prep Your Yard for Winterby Chad Burris, November 1, 2016
You may still be picking your final tomatoes and enjoying the last flower blooms but it's time to take care for those pre-winter tasks that will help make next year's yard and garden even more lovely. Here's a list to hit before the snow starts falling. 1. Take care of … Continue reading →
So You Want To Sell Your Camano Island Homeby Evan Rabinowitz, August 31, 2016
So You Want To Sell Your Camano Island Home. The first step to selling a home is to fix any problems that stand out when you look at your home. Each home has sustained some wear and tear over the years. Here are some ways to assess hе damage and determine which renovations … Continue reading →
Want To Buy A Foreclosure Home on Camano Islandby Evan Rabinowitz, August 23, 2016
Want To Buy A Foreclosure Home on Camano Island. Thоѕе words carried ѕоmе real sting, tоо. Millions оf homes nationwide went into foreclosure after the Great Recession. Millions оf other homes lost value bесаuѕе foreclosures undercut neighboring values ѕо badly. Thе tіmеѕ thеу аrе a-changin', thоugh. And fоr оnсе, they're changing noticeably fоr thе better. Learn … Continue reading →
Best Advice For Selling Camano Island Real Estateby Evan Rabinowitz, August 13, 2016
Best Advice For Selling Camano Island Real Estate. You want to understand what is going on in every step along the way so that you know what you're getting yourself into and you can smoothly accomplish your goals. Thіѕ article has helpful tips fоr ensuring a smooth sale. If уоu … Continue reading →
Proven Ways To Sell A Camano Island Homeby Evan Rabinowitz, August 7, 2016
Proven Ways To Sell A Camano Island Home. You need to hire a real estate agent that is experienced if you want your home to sell quickly. There are many real estate agents who have been selling homes for years and will be able to quickly and efficiently sell your home. … Continue reading →
Advice For Selling Your Camano Island Homeby Evan Rabinowitz, August 4, 2016
Advice For Selling Your Camano Island Home. If you own any property, you are іn the rеаl estate selling business. Thе mоrе уоu learn before you sell your home the mоrе money you саn mаkе and the more enjoyable the home selling experience can be. Make ѕurе thаt уоu іnfоrm … Continue reading →
Great Landscaping Tips for Camano Island Homesby Evan Rabinowitz, July 7, 2016
Great Landscaping Tips for Camano Island Homes. Landscaping is like painting a picture. Your art teacher doubtless told уоu a good picture should hаvе a point оf primary interest, and the rest of the points simply gо tо make the central idea mоrе beautiful, оr tо fоrm a fine setting fоr іt. … Continue reading →
Tips On Renting Camano Island Beach Homesby Evan Rabinowitz, July 3, 2016
Tips On Renting Camano Island Beach Homes. When уоu аrе considering renting a beach house, here are a few things to consider. One of the first things is the weather, if it will be too hot in the summer or too cold in the winter. Yоu ѕhоuld аlѕо fіnd оut іf thе … Continue reading →
Hоw tо Sell Your Camano Island House Fastby Evan Rabinowitz, July 2, 2016
Hоw tо Sell Your Camano Island House Fast. If you've ever has a sell a house fast, уоu know hоw frustrating іt саn bе. Day аftеr day, уоu hope the right buyer wіll соmе along and buy your home. Fortunately, thеrе аrе wауѕ tо speed uр thе sale оf уоur home, wіthоut sacrificing profit. … Continue reading →
Buying Camano Island WA Homes Made Easyby Evan Rabinowitz, June 30, 2016
Buying Camano Island WA Homes Made Easy. A lot of new real estate buyers get confused by the market. There's more to purchasing the home than simply the price. Make sure you read this article before you buy your next home. If уоu аrе planning оn making improvements tо a property … Continue reading →
How To Profit Buying Camano Island WA Homesby Evan Rabinowitz, June 23, 2016
How To Profit Buying Camano Island WA Homes. Buying real estate has many benefits. For those wishing to find a residential area to live in, they are many opportunities. For those wishing to find property to sell, they can make money. The tips in this article will show you how … Continue reading →
Secrets To Investing In Camano Island WA Propertiesby Evan Rabinowitz, June 2, 2016
Secrets To Investing In Camano Island WA Properties. There are many ways in which a person can make a living when it comes to real estate investing. Flipping houses іѕ in the news a lot because so many fortunes have been made doing this. There are some secrets to flipping houses that … Continue reading →
Buy A Camano Island Home With This Adviceby Evan Rabinowitz, May 24, 2016
Buy A Camano Island Home With This Advice. Purchasing properties can be complicated and time consuming, but if you learn what to do, you can reap great rewards. If you have or plan to have a big family, your home should have plenty of space for everyone. You should have a safer … Continue reading →
Advice For Investing In Camano Island Real Estateby Evan Rabinowitz, May 24, 2016
Advice For Investing In Camano Island Real Estate. Real estate investments are not exactly like other investment markets. You should understand the particulars of this venture. This article will provide a few of the basics involved. You'll feel more confident in your investment decisions once you've given this article. Yоu … Continue reading →
Best Ways To Buy Camano Island WA Real Estateby Evan Rabinowitz, May 10, 2016
Best Ways To Buy Camano Island WA Real Estate. If you want to buy a home, but aren't sure if your budget can handle soaring real estate prices, we've got good news. There are things that you can do to stretch your buying power. With the help оf your REMAX Associate Broker … Continue reading →
Does Staging Sell Homes On Camano Island WAby Evan Rabinowitz, April 2, 2016
Does Staging Sell Homes On Camano Island WA. There is something to be said about a neat and tidy house when you are sorting through house after house looking for the perfect home for you and your family. This is something that should be kept in mind when selling either … Continue reading →
10 Tips to Investing In Camano Island WA Homes For Saleby Evan Rabinowitz, April 1, 2016
10 Tips to Investing In Camano Island WA Homes For Sale. There are many questions that should be asked before embarking on a career in real estate investment. The first and for most question should be whether or not you are truly committed to making real estate work for you? … Continue reading →
Fаntаѕtіс Tірѕ Tо Trу Fоr Your Camano Island WA Real Eѕtаtе Sеllіng Needsby Evan Rabinowitz, February 19, 2016
Fаntаѕtіс Tірѕ Tо Trу Fоr Your Camano Island WA Real Eѕtаtе Sеllіng Needs, Uѕе thе ѕеrvісеѕ of a truѕtеd rеаl estate аgеnt to alleviate your ѕtrеѕѕ whеn selling уоur home. Yоu wіll be аblе tо sell уоur property with ease if you follow the information іn thіѕ аrtісlе. Tаkе thе … Continue reading →
The Game of the Camano Island Real Estate Marketby Evan Rabinowitz, February 19, 2016
The Game of the Camano Island Real Estate Market, Just like playing the game of Monopoly, there are specific rules to follow in order to get the right property at the right time. The rules of the game will be dependent on who you are, what your individual tastes are … Continue reading →
The Flipside of Flipping Houses On Camano Island WAby Evan Rabinowitz, February 18, 2016
The Flipside of Flipping Houses On Camano Island WA. Tеlеvіѕіоn programming аnd infomercials оf аll ѕtуlеѕ wіll hаvе уоu bеlіеvе thаt flipping hоuѕеѕ is a fun аnd fаѕсіnаtіng wау to turn a ѕеrіоuѕ рrоfіt іn rеаl estate. It іѕ just that, though it іѕ аlѕо ѕо muсh mоrе. Thеrе is … Continue reading →
Be Suссеѕѕful At Selling Camano Island Rеаl Estate Wіth These Pоіntеrѕby Evan Rabinowitz, February 15, 2016
Be Suссеѕѕful At Selling Camano Island Rеаl Estate Wіth These Pоіntеrѕ . Perhaps уоu want tо bе mоrе іnvоlvеd іn the ѕаlе of your hоmе. Or mауbе you are lооkіng to mаkе ѕоmе mоnеу from buуіng and ѕеllіng rеаl estate. Yоu can lеаrn how to buу homes fоr a reasonable рrісе … Continue reading →
Advantages of Investing in Camano Island Rеаl Eѕtаtеby Evan Rabinowitz, January 23, 2016
Advantages of Investing in Camano Island Rеаl Eѕtаtе Invеѕtіng in real еѕtаtе is аѕ аdvаntаgеоuѕ and as аttrасtіvе аѕ іnvеѕtіng іn thе ѕtосk market. I would ѕау іt hаѕ thrее times mоrе рrоѕресtѕ of mаkіng money thаn any оthеr buѕіnеѕѕ. But, But, But… ѕіnсе, іt is equally guided by thе … Continue reading →
Do You Want To Buy A Camano Island WA Homeby Evan Rabinowitz, January 16, 2016
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Today, I want to share with you my absolute FAVOURITE story to read to students. I love it, and my students always love it too.
Meet Mr Pusskins. He is owned by Emily, and she ADORES him! She brushes his fur, reads him stories and plays nicely with him. He does not like any of it, to say the very least.
He runs away and joins the 'pesky cat gang' and had 'such naughty fun'.
Mr Pusskins is written by Sam Lloyd.
I adore reading this book, because it flows beautifully. I don't know about you, but some books I read to my students just feel 'off'. The pace, vocabulary, story structure or something else, is just not quite right.
Well, let me tell you, this one is the exact opposite. It all just clicks together.
It is not too complicated, yet has enough detail to add a good amount of drama to your story telling. I LOVE the cat sounds - especially the drawn out scratchy wail Mr Pusskins does when he realises he may have lost Emily for good.
The story finished with Mr Pusskins having a major change of heart. He realises how wonderful it was to live with something that looks after you and is a genuine friend. Emily has put 'lost' posters up all over town and they track one another down.
The story finished with Mr Pusskins admitting that he ADORES Emily.
There is so much room to work with this book in the classroom. For such a seemingly simple story, there is a rich offering of discussion platforms. Talk about the structure, how the beginning almost mirrors the end, with the main character doing a backflip. The obvious 'beginning', 'middle' and 'end'.
When first introducing the narrative structure to little ones, I like using this book as an example, as it has a very clear 'complication' that needs to be resolved.
Discuss how the images have been drawn and how they represent the feelings and ideas discussed in the story - the sharp hard lines of Mr Pusskins and his bad attitude, and then in the end, his happy demeanour and the softened lines that illustrate him.
Talk to your students about the lesson in the story, that sometimes what we find most annoying about a person or situation, may not be that bad after all. We may just have to look at them in a different light. What we desire, may not be all that we think it is!
That sometimes, it is very nice to be looked after and loved.
The story also provides an opportunity for you to teach a 'description' text type to your students. Ask your students to describe Mr Pusskins. They can draw a picture of him and create a 'Lost Poster' just like Emily, but adding a few sentences to describe what he looks like. You can download a writing prompt from Google Drive by clicking on the image below.
Mr Pusskins also makes for an adorable directed drawing for an art lesson!
Thanks so much for stopping by!

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Ext Touch is free. ThatÇs cool. I spend hours of building a App using Ext Touch. ItÇs nearly ready for public, but since january I canÇt sell it, because itÇs not really usable with out those titles.
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Would You Rather Be Graydon Carter or Kurt Andersen?
Sara Nelson recently got laid off as the editor of Publishers Weekly, so she's blogging about her "Reinvention." So far she's decided she does not want to be reinvented as Graydon Carter.
For now, I take my cues from two guys I know (yes, they're guys, but I think their experience is relevant). In the 1980s, they founded a magazine and were the toast of the town. Since then, one has gone on to a succession of high-profile editing jobs and the other, dismissed from his one big-deal magazine job, has created a brand for himself. One, let's call him G., is on paper the more successful, in that he collects corporate paychecks and gets a lot of press. The other, K., whom I adore, has had what my late father would call a spotty career and others would call an entrepreneurial one: He has started and sold an Internet venture, written two novels and countless magazine columns, edited books, originated a popular radio show and traveled the world. He also gets a lot of press.
Ha, kind of funny that she won't just go ahead and use their real names, when they are so clearly Graydon Carter and Kurt Andersen. Respectively.
Which one do I more admire: the highly-paid miner in someone else's gold mine, or the guy who makes his own rules? Dear reader, I think you know me well enough to know the answer.
It's K., of course...and this is useful information for me to have.
So Sara Nelson would rather be the guy who's jumped around to a series of high-profile elite media jobs while remaining always, primarily a writer, rather than the guy who is now primarily a restaurateur who dabbles in anti-Bush pamphleteering. Shit, so would we! Unfortunately these days you have to be satisfied if you can reinvent yourself as a "gainfully employed person in any field," so being picky does not tend to pay off.
We hope that Graydon Carter's hair in no way influenced this decision.


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2008 was the year of…Twitter
As the news of Twitter's widespread appeal to technophiles and global online communities trickles down to the mainstream (recent articles in the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Times show some journalists are slow to cotton on), those already familiar with the web-based microblogging tool will firmly agree that this year was the year of Twitter.
Only born two years ago, this year the number of people using Twitter rocketed to six million, showing a 340 per cent increase in 12 months – a scale of increase which cannot go unnoticed.
Twitter surpassed what the creators (just a 26-person team) thought it would do. They had not predicted the significance of a real-time webtool in the case of large-scale disastors and the US election.
Twitter really came into the limelight this year when twitterers used the service in the aftermath the Sichuan Earthquake and the Mumbai terrorists attacks. This proved to the world (and Twitter sceptics) that Twitter was being used globally to connect people and provide a means of communication in the midst of a disaster – when other means of contact were blocked or failed.
The way the service is being used to break news and alert journalists of breaking stories has also captured the online community and the media, who marvel at its ability to transcend standard methods of journalism.
On Saturday at midnight, Mike Wilson, 37, from Houston used Twitter to alert friends and family of the fact his Boeing 737 had slid off the runway and was now in flames – leaving himself and other passengers stranded. As Continental tried to shield witnesses from the media Mike was calmly standing to the side of the action, twittering more than 30 text messages to an increasing online audience, giving them a minute-by-minute picture of the scene. His messages soon gained national attention and once again, the power of Twitter was in the US and the the UK news.
Another part of Twitter's success was the fact that other tools can be built on top of Twitter which relate to the site – what Jack Schofield calls 'tweecosystems'. So you get, Twitterly, Twitpic, Twitterfeed, Twitpay and so forth – all directing 20 times more traffic to Twitter (and creating a rather addictive way of moulding the noun 'Twitter' into new innovative sounding web tools – see my top ten amalgamations).
Another turning point for Twitter fame this year was when it turned down the offer to be bought by Facebook for $500,000. This caused a lot of talk – but it seems Twitter is still looking at ways to integrate with Facebook – a pure sell-out wasn't the key.
Here Twitter CEO Evan Williams talks to Conde Nast about the future of Twitter – features such as putting people you follow into manageable groups, the fact that those new to twitter don't know who to follow, and the possibility of integration with Facebook.Vodpod videos no longer available.
It is clear people are using Twitter for different things in different ways. The emergence of Twitter groups and hashtags has been a key development in the program – and one which looks set to make the service better in the future. One usage which has been particularly profound is the use of Twitter as a professional aid – to build contacts, share useful information and link to key sites and articles.
To separate personal and professional tweets, two accounts can be monitored on a tweet-deck on your desktop – Twirl and Twitterific being the most popular.
It remains to be seen how Twitter will adapt in 2009 and whether my vision of 3D SecondLife/Twitter integration will take place. Jemima Kiss, who has 4, 6128 followers conducted a survey on Twitter for technological predictions for 2009 – the response was varied and illuminating.
Towards the end of this year users of Twitter have been putting nominations for the Shorty awards – which award the best producers of short (140 characters or less on Twitter) content – i.e. the top Twitterers for the year. Nominations will close on December 31 and the winners revealed. Stephen Fry, who currently has 35, 806 followers gained popularity for his personal daily messages and has been nominated for the 'entertainment' category.
Although there may still be sceptics out there, usually those who have not yet found a use for Twitter which suits them, it cannot be denied that Twitter has paved the way for new uses in online journalism and social networking for the future – and will undoubtably continue to play a big part for developments of how we use the internet.


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Student Union Recruiting Table
A Student Union Recruiting Table is available for an employer to present information about employment opportunities posted through Handshake. To reserve a table, please contact the Career Center Recruiting Coordinator at 972-883-6934; a one-week advance notice is required to reserve the table. Limited to one employer table per day.
A Student Union Recruiting Table is for the sole purpose of presenting employment information about an organization. Listed below are statements which each representative of an organization must adhere to during their visit to the UT Dallas campus.
All statements are governed by the Handbook of Operating Procedures Title V
In addition, an organization may be asked to leave the premises if found to be in violation after set up has occurred.
Statements of proper Student Union Recruiting Table procedures
- Organization name will be identified on all materials
- Material will not promote an off-campus business, organization, agency, national association, or charitable group
- Material is not obscene, libelous, or directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is not likely to invite or produce such action
- The sponsoring organization sign (Career Center) must be prominently displayed on top of the table at all time
- Due to a contractual agreement the University of Texas at Dallas has with Wells Fargo, no other financial/banking organization is permitted to reserve a Recruiting Table
- Pedestrian traffic will not be obstructed
- Disruption or disturbance of regular academic and institutional programs or other approved activities is prohibited
- Individuals may not be accosted, shouted at, forced to purchase items or required to complete an organization's survey
- The Recruiting Table will be for the express purpose of recruiting employees for employment opportunities posted through Handshake
- Agreement to maintain the cleanliness of the area
- Agreement to assume financial responsibility for loss or damage to property
If, after reviewing and agreeing to uphold these procedures, you remain interested in securing a reservation for a Student Union Recruiting Table, please contact the Career Center Recruiting Coordinator at (972) 883-6934 at least one week prior to your intended campus date.
* Handbook of Operating Procedures Title V: Subchapter B. Prohibited Expression: Sections 46.07 - Solicitation; Subchapter C. General Rules or Mean of Expression: 46.10 - Coercing Attention; Subchapter D. Distribution of Literature: 46.15 - Limits of Advertising, 46.16 - Identification; Subchapter F. Tables: 46.22 - General Rules on Tables, 46.24 - Indemnification, 46.25 - Clean up Around Tables.


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Review: 'There Are Too Many of Us' by Blur
After 12 long years, Blur hit the waves again by releasing their second single from their upcoming comeback album, The Magic Whip.
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Entitled There Are Too Many of Us, this new track speaks of the ills of today's society: overpopulation, religious fanaticism, conformity, sheeple, and general co-dependence. "There are too many of us / In tiny houses, here and there / Just passing out somewhere / But you don't care / There are too many of us / It's plain to see / We all believe in praying / For our immortality."
It may be rather dark, but it speaks the truth. Listen to the track below.
The Magic Whip launches on April 27, but you can pre-order it now on iTunes to get the singles There Are Too Many of Us and Go Out instantly.
For the meantime, tell us what you think of the band's newest single in the comments below — did they reinvent themselves or are they just singing another old tune?
Review: Fall Out Boy's 'Irresistible'
This track opens with an unexpected yet welcome trumpet section, before Pete Wentz's forceful vocals enter the scene. Aside from that, there are other elements both in the track and video that will keep you riveted.
Review: Sam Smith's Lay Me Down
In a word, FEELS.
At first, the video appears as if Smith is either the priest or the groom in church, but the moment the candles and wreath appear you know it's going to tear you up, especially if you're deeply in love with someone or badly missing someone dear to you. Or both.
Valentine's Day Playlist for 2015
Again, it's Valentine's season, and again, we've got a number of tracks for you to sink your teeth into, whether you're in love or simply disgruntled at the whole business of feelings and can't wait to get to Halloween. Or April Fool's Day.
Sia, Lupe Fiasco, Kid Rock, & More: New Tracks for This Week
For this week, we're featuring five of the latest music tracks and videos to come out. Let us know what you think of this lineup, and if you wish to see new tracks of your favorite artists and newcomers featured on our pages!
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Backstreet Boy A.J. McLean has returned to rehab for the third time.
"For personal reasons, I've checked myself into a rehab clinic," the 33-year-old boy band singer confirmed Thursday in a statement to People. "With 2011 being a busy year for Backstreet, I want to be healthy and perform and sing for people at my very best and happiest."
Last weekend, McLean reportedly alluded to the planned shake-up, writing on his Twitter page that he planned to kick off a "sober journey" this week.
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"See u on the other side!" he tweeted on Monday.
McLean previously entered rehab in 2001 and 2002 to seek treatment for depression and alcohol abuse, according to People.
In his statement, Thursday, McLean did not say why he was again seeking treatment and appealed for privacy.
But he added the treatment would not affect his participation in the Backstreet Boys' planned summer tour with New Kids on the Block.


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Note: Serving size: 3oz. (85 grams) Before Cooked, Edible Portion.
Nutritional value for salmon will vary 1-2% in protein and fat content from these average values, depending upon the maturity of the fish.
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Donations CPPSH REPORT, Dec. 2009 President's Message CISA Mailing
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Mission: Preserving and Protecting Pristine Case Inlet and Puget Sound for Future Generations,
Focusing on Community Stewardship, Education and Scientific Research.
Member of The Coalition to Preserve Puget Sound Habitat. In association with: Protect our Shoreline, Henderson Bay Shoreline Association, APHETI, Mayo Cove Shoreline Association, Case Inlet Beach Association and Citizens of Harstine Island, Stretch Island, Anderson Island, Vashon Island and Jefferson County/Shine Beach. Canadian Partners: Association for Responsible Shellfish Farming.
Emerald Water Anglers
Dendraster Excentricus (Sand Dollars)
The Bio-geography of the Western Sand Dollar
Sand Dollars as Suspension Feeders
Geoduck lease specifing sand dollar removal
"The SMA is intended to protect shoreline natural resources, including '...the land and its vegetation and wildlife, and the water of the state and their aquatic life...' against adverse effects."
"The overarching policy is that 'the public's opportunity to enjoy the physical and aesthetic qualities of natural shorelines of the state shall be preserved to the greatest extenst feasible consistent with the overall best interest of the state and the people generally.' Alterations of the natural conditions of the shorelines of the state, in those limited instances when authorized, shall be given priority for...development that will provide an opportunity for substantial numbers of people to enjoy the shorelines of the state."
Introduction to the Shoreline Management Act
Totten Inlet
"Eelgrass density was depressed in summer by space competition with geoducks." "When geoducks were harvested at the end of the experiment, eelgrass shoot density dropped by more than 70 percent."
Geoduck aquaculture as perturbations to eelgrass, Ruesink & Rowell
Sea Grant presentation
Totten Inlet
"The artificial propagation of native and non-native fish and shellfish species in or adjacent to salmon EFH has the potential to adversely affect that habitat by altering water quality, modifying physical habitat, and creating impediments to passage." " Various methods of shellfish culture and harvest also have the potential to adversely impact salmon EFH, such as dredging in eel grass beds, off-bottom culture, raft and line culture, and the use of chemicals to control burrowing organisms detrimental to oyster culture."
Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission
Fresh geoduck planting, North Bay, 2000. Once an area of expansive eelgrass, none exists there today.
"One of the greatest long-term threats to the viability of commercial and recreational fisheries is the continuing loss of marine, estuarine, and other aquatic habitats." "A National program...to insure conservation, to facilitate long-term protection of essential fish habitats."
Magnuson-Stevens Act
Infrared photo of aquaculture in eelgrass beds in Samish Bay
Harstine & Stretch Island, North Bay
Numerous geoduck farm sites under private leases to Taylor Shellfish Farms and Seattle Shellfish have already been established on Harstine (Spencer Cove) and Stretch Island and many other areas of upper Case Inlet in Mason County. In East Case Inlet, Pierce County, a large (one mile of shoreline) Taylor Shellfish Farms intertidal geoduck site exists near Joemma State Park, known as the Foss Farm. Several leases have already been approved by Pierce County for Taylor Shellfish: near Vaughn and near Herron Island. Click on links below for permits.
Stratford site--SSD 538699
Meyer site--SSD 538306
Rogers site--SSD 538323
Above, Taylor Shellfish Farms' new PVC geoduck tube installation at Stratford/Meyer site, Pierce County, July 20, 2009.
Notice of eelgrass boundary
Sound science on impacts to eelgrass
Above, Taylor Shellfish Farms new PVC geoduck farm at Stratford/Meyer site, Pierce County, July 20, 2009.
Taylor provided nothing more than 'sketches' of a test plot to prove this was an existing commercial site to qualify for the NWP 48 permit. Residents will testify that there was no commercial operation here before March, 2007. Never-the-less, the Army Corp of Engineers accepted this as evidence. This farm was not registered with WDFW until July 30, 2009.
Stratford WDFW registration
Case Inlet North Bay, Taylor Shellfish, Mason County
Mason County continues to turn over sensitive nearshore habitat to the shellfish industry without a shoreline development permit process, without environmental impact statements, without independent or public review, without scientific assessments on impacts to salmon and fish habitat and impacts to sport fishermen and recreational boaters. The North Bay Taylor shellfish lessors include a 27 acre tidelands parcel owned by Reginald Engman. This parcel purportedly generates over $70,000. per year for Mr. Engman, not counting the percentage of harvest. In spite of this windfall, Mr. Engman pays just $135. per year in taxes on the parcel.
Oyster bags, Taylor Shellfish, North Bay, Mason County
"Cultivating shellfish in the South Sound results in the loss of shallow nearshore habitat and habitat diversity that is important to salmon."
The Puget Sound Salmon Recovery Plan,
South Sound Watershed Profile, 2007, Ch. 5, pg. 299.
Above, Taylor Shellfish, North Bay, spreading anti wildlife predator netting, barge with PVC tubes, July 4, 2008
"The legislature further finds that much of the shorelines of the state and the uplands adjacent thereto are in private ownership; that unrestricted construction on the privately owned or publicly owned shorelines of the state is not in the best public interest." " This policy contemplates protecting against adverse effects to the public health, the land and its vegetation and wildlife, and the waters of the state and their aquatic life."
Shoreline Management Act of 1971
Above, Taylor Shellfish, North Bay, inserting juvenile geoduck in plastic PVC tubes, July 4, 2008
"The legislature declares that the interest of all of the people shall be paramount in the management of shorelines of statewide significance". "(1) Recognize and protect the statewide interest over local interest; (2) Preserve the natural character of the shoreline; (3) Result in long term over short term benefit; (4) Protect the resources and ecology of the shoreline; (5) Increase public access to publicly owned areas of the shorelines; (6) Increase recreational opportunities for the public in the shoreline."
Shoreline Management Act of 1971
Above, Taylor Shellfish North Bay, harvest by HVLP stinger, July 4, 2008
"Habitat modification and the covering of the substrate with predator exclusion nets may thus adversely impact the production of harpacticoid copepods and other epibenthic organisms, and hence adversely impact the successful feeding of salmon rearing in the area."
The CSAS, (Canadian Science Advisory)
review of the environmental impacts of intertidal shellfish aquaculture in Baynes Sound, 2001, page 44.
"It is generally acknowledged that the culture of bivalve molluscs may have a wide range of impacts on the habitat and community structure of coastal marine ecosystems."
CSAS, Indicators and Thresholds for Use in Assessing Shellfish Aquaculture Impacts on Fish Habitat, 2006, page 2.
"Our results suggest a net decrease in total shorebird use in areas developed for aquaculture."
California Fish and Game, Effects of Aquaculture on Habitat Use
Case Inlet Harstine Island, Spencer Cove, Stretch Island, Seattle Shellfish, Mason County
This Seattle Shellfish operation is about 33 acres consisting primarily of geoduck . Several parcels totalling 26.5 acres are registered to Toebbe's Clam Farm. If the geoduck densities here are similar to Taylor Shellfish's Foss site, the value of these 2 parcels could be in excess of $40 million.
Yet the combined parcel taxes are less than $45. per year.
parcel 1 parcel 2
Seattle Shellfish also has geoduck and shellfish aquaculture operations in Pierce County, just south of Joemma Beach State Park. This 40 acre tidelands parcel is owned by the YMCA (parcel number 0020164001). None of the required permits were obtained for this commercial operation.
Click here for aerial photos of North Bay (Taylor Shellfish) and
Harstine Island Spencer Cove (Seattle Shellfish)
Above, Seattle Shellfish, Harstine Island, Spenser Cove, tractor contouring beach in WDFW potential forage fish habitat area, July 4, 2008
From WDFW Salmonscape (above)
"Seeding of young geoducks in netted PVC tubes on the beach is likely to alter local physical and biological conditions, both those on the surface of the sediment and those in the sediment."
Marine Surveys and Assessments, Dethier, Leitman and Mathews
Above, Seattle Shellfish, Harstine Island, Spenser Cove, kiddy pool geoduck incubators, loose PVC tubes, July 4, 2008.
The shellfish industry was asked to remove the pools from all beaches by Mason County. The pools require permit
review by Mason County through the Shoreline Master Program if they are to be used.
"...the impact of this change (geoduck farming) on the natural environment, and the subsequent impact on the fishing industry as a whole in Puget Sound, may result in damages
that will far exceed the immediate benefits."
G.B. Willner
Above, Seattle Shellfish, Harstine Island, Spenser Cove, geoduck pump barge with kiddy pools, July 4, 2008
"Nearly every just cause is a struggle between the good of the many and the greed of a few."
Carl Safina, VP for Marine Conservation at the National Audubon Society and founder of Audubon's "Living Oceans" program.
Above, Taylor Shellfish, Stretch Island Somers parcel, spreading anti predator netting over geoduck PVC, July 4, 2008 _____________________________________________________________________________________
"Shellfish aquaculture in South Sound alters plant and animal assemblages and results in the loss of shallow nearshore habitat and habitat diversity important to salmon resources". "We hypothesize that shellfish aquaculture reduces productivity, abundance, spatial structure, and diversity of salmon populations."
see chart
The South Puget Sound Salmon Recovery Group,
review for Shared Strategy for Puget Sound, 2004, pg. 48(45).
Totten Inlet
"In the implementation of this policy the public's opportunity to enjoy the physical and aesthetic
qualities of natural shorelines of the state shall be preserved to the greatest extent feasible consistent with the overall best interest of the state and the people generally."
Shoreline Management Act of 1971
Signs illegally posted on private and county property.
Protect our Shoreline Slideshow
Key Peninsula News Article on Dutcher Cove
Geoduck Industry Targets East Shore of Key Peninsula
Coverage of the Geoduck Controversy on the Key Peninsula
This slide show documents how intensive shellfish aquaculture
will dramatically and negatively alter Dutcher Cove.
Washington State's DNR website states: "State commercial wild stock geoduck harvest takes place in a clearly defined area between 18 feet (corrected to Mean Lower Low water) and 70 feet in depth (corrected to Mean Lower Low water). The inner harvest boundary protects sensitive nearshore habitats like eelgrass beds." Therefore, by leasing the nearshore to geoduck farmers, DNR is violating it's own rule by not protecting nearshore habitat. DNR's 'best available science' does not include adequate study of intertidal aquaculture and it's interaction with forage fish and salmon habitat.
Mussel rafts in Totten Inlet.
"…Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific
certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation." "…in the face of uncertainty, the best course of action is to assume that a potential problem is real and should be addressed ('better safe than sorry')."
Precautionary Principle, Section 15, Rio Declaration, United Nations.
Off bottom oyster culture (longlines)
"Shellfish farming is assumed by many to be an environmentally benign industry. However, some practices will result in negative impacts as farming intensifies and expands." "Unfortunately, many of the basic scientific studies that are required to understand the impacts of shellfish farming have not been completed, and few studies of long-term impacts are being undertaken."
Sustainable Shellfish, Recommendations for responsible aquaculture, page 11-12.
"This method of culturing oysters appears to cause far more environmental damage than the current trestle based method. We must resist an introduction of such a method to Ireland, particularly the practice of spraying carbaryl in the intertidal zone."
Ecological Implications of Mariculture in Ireland, page 80, on methods used in Willapa Bay, Washington State.
The British Columbia, Canada, Ministry of Agriculture and Lands states on it's website: Note: "Applications for new intertidal geoduck aquaculture are currently NOT being accepted while the policy for intertidal geoduck culture is under review."
If expansion of intertidal geoduck farming is banned due to lack of knowledge in British Columbia, then it should also be banned in Washington State.
Shellfish Industry Propaganda: "geoduck clean the water". Geoducks consume phytoplankton, but they also produce feces and pseudofeces. Furthermore, geoduck comprise the largest single species biomass in Puget Sound. According to an article in the Seattle Times, 'The Geoduck Chronicles', the Washington State Department of Natural Resources estimates there are between 300 and 400 million individual geoducks, nearly 1 billion pounds total in Washington State! Jonathan Davis, a shellfish biologist for Taylor Shellfish Farms has stated, at the 2007 Sea Grant symposium, that there are areas of Puget Sound that have not even been surveyed for geoduck that may contain huge amounts of geoduck biomass, thus, the intertidal amount that the shellfish industry is referring to is inconsequential in terms of "cleaning the water" and is therefore essentially irrelevant. The shellfish industry statement: "geoducks clean the water" is nothing more than public relations fraud. If the shellfish industry was actually interested in clean water, they wouldn't spray Carbaryl, a chemical pesticide, on the tidelands of Willapa Bay to kill native burrowing shrimp. This immoral practice has been going on for decades to enhance commercial shellfish production.
Washington State's own DNR considers the filtering of the wild subtidal geoduck harvest irrelevant:
See pages 98-99
More shellfish industry propaganda: farmed shellfish mitigate against nitrification from septic systems and other human induced activities. This false assertion is best illustrated by this article written by Jim Gibbons of Seattle Shellfish. Gibbons' assertions are false and unfounded. In fact, marine circulation accounts for 98% of the N in Hood Canal. Septics account for less than 0.5%.
Nitrogen: Steinberg/Brett
Nitrogen: Herrera
Farmed bivalves also ingest fish and invertebrate eggs and larvae from the intertidal water column. Researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey found that large quantities of farmed bivalves in the Drakes Estero deplete nutrients and larvae from nearby ocean areas.
"Such plastic poses one of the grave threats to the health of Puget Sound. The particulate plastic from such PVC tubes enters the food web and does untold harm to all the creatures in Puget Sound, including us. It is not healthy to eat geoducks raised in such a fashion."
The Use of PVC Plastics for Aquaculture in Puget Sound
The CSAS (Canadian Science Advisory), in a review of the effects of shellfish aquaculture on fish habitat, in 2006 on pages 33-34 (25-26) states: "Field studies reported in the same study found that mussels consumed (based on stomach content analysis) copepods (<1.5 mm), crab zoeas (2mm), fish eggs (1-2mm), and even amphipods (5-6mm). Subsequent to this, Lehane and Davenport (Lehane and Davenport 2002) showed that mussels consumed organisms up to 3mm in length and that cockles (Cerastoderma edule) and scallops (Aequipecten opercularis) are also capable of consuming considerable quantities of zooplankton, both when suspended in the water column and when on the bottom. The size classes of organisms consumed in these studies suggest that the larvae of most commercial species may be at risk from this type of predation." The logical inference is that intertidal geoduck could consume the larvae of forage fish (surf smelt and sand lance) which are critical food for salmon. The geoduck could also compete with forage fish for phytoplankton.
Larviphagy in Bivalves - Troost, Kamermans
Zooplankton predation by Bivalves - Wong, Levinton
Ingestion of zooplankton by Cultered Bivalves - Lehane, Davenport
Influence of Intertidal Aquaculture on Benthic Communities in Pacific Northwest Estuaries: Scales of Disturbance, Simenstad/Fresh 1995, page 23 (65). "Management strategies that fail to consider the tolerance of estuaries to anthropogenic disturbance, such as that posed by intensive aquaculture, may well threaten the sustainability of estuarine resources and ecosystem processes upon which coastal economies depend. Estuaries have a critical role in the life histories of many economically and ecologically important animals. Salmon, herring, smelt, crab and flatfish feed in Pacific Northwest estuaries…and several species of migratory waterfowl and shorebirds feed on the large invertebrate production that occurs on the mudflats…". "Growth and survival of animals in estuaries not only depends on specific habitats but on linkages between habitats and areas with the estuary."
Dead herring trapped by anti-predator netting in Baynes Sound, B.C., March, 2009. Thousands of herring were killed by Manila clam aquaculture netting
on Denman Island during herring spawning season. (Photos courtesy of Denman Island Marine Stewardship Committee)
"The herring were caught and died under the netting whether the nets were properly secured or not."
"Not all the fish were under the netting - some were caught on top". "The herring did spawn on the netting".
Member, DIMSC
Herring spawn visible on anti-predator netting.
The CSAS, in a report titled: ASSESSING HABITAT RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH BIVALVE AQUACULTURE IN THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT, in 2006 on page 5 states:
"Effects on fish habitat can extend beyond site-specific footprints and lease monitoring does not allow broad-scale, ecosystem-level effects to be understood or measured. Measurements of variables in far-field benthic and pelagic habitats are needed because deductions from existing ecological knowledge indicate possibilities for altered system states."
Page 7: "The literature on the effects of bivalve aquaculture on sensitive habitats is currently fragmented and not conclusive."
Page 8: "Shellfish aquaculture often occurs in sheltered bays and estuaries because they offer suitable substrate. Such areas are often highly productive environments and key habitats for many migratory species. Work is required to study how potential impacts of bivalve culture (human activity, presence of structures on the seabed and in the water etc.) influence species in these ecosystems." "Given the almost complete lack of knowledge on the types of habitat that may be negatively affected by shellfish aquaculture, more research on sensitive habitat is needed."
Page 9: "Work is needed to identify thresholds values that represent significant changes in fish habitat as indicators of shellfish aquaculture effects on pelagic communities."
In Technical Report 2007-03, Marine Forage Fishes in Puget Sound by Dan Penttila of the WS Dept. of Fish and Wildlife: "These agencies (WA Dept. of Agriculture, WA Dept. of Natural Resources) together with WA Dept. of Fish & Wildlife should seek a coordinated approach to the management of the growing aquaculture industry, with an eye toward modification of habitat-damaging culture practices and the mitigation of existing habitat degradation for which the industry has been responsible." "The bulk of the Puget Sound Basin's shoreline is now in private ownership. The likelihood of continued financial and political pressure for shoreline modification by a landownership population largely ignorant of nearshore resource values and conservation risks is high."
"In some instances, mollusk farming has harmed the marine environment by depriving wild filter feeders of food (FAO, 1991) and generating anoxic sediments through feces deposition (Grant et al., 1995; Kaspar et al., 1985).
Pew Oceans Commission, 2001, Marine Aquaculture in the United States, Goldburg
"Anti predator netting should not be permitted unless ongoing studies show little to no negative impacts." "This practice of proceeding until there is proof of damage is in direct opposition to the 'precautionary approach' required under The Oceans Act."
"Studies on the impacts of phytoplankton depletion on marine ecosystems must be undertaken before this industry is allowed to expand."
"The 'precautionary principle' must be applied to alien species...the risks are unacceptably high."
"Expansion should not proceed until all studies, including cumulative effect studies, have been completed."
David Suzuki Foundation, Sustainable Shellfish Executive Summary
Protect and Restore the Marine Nearshore Habitat Complex
"Therefore, it is the complex of habitats, composed of varying substrate types, vegetation types, tidal stages, and other physical, chemical, and biological factors that support salmon in the nearshore." "Protecting and restoring the natural processes that form and maintain habitats is the key to success. The natural processes that form and maintain habitat in the nearshore serve as the foundation of the structure and functions that support salmon. Disruption of sediment and prey inputs, changes in hydrology and other processes results in a chain reaction, ultimately leading to lost or dysfunctional habitat for salmon. Impediments to natural processes need to be prevented or removed to allow for conditions conducive to salmon production."
"For juvenile Chinook salmon in the smallest size classes examined (less than 90mm), diets were made up mostly of benthic/epibenthic prey."
"The types of habitat responsible for prey production, the life history requirement of prey, and the seasonal and spatial patterns of prey abundance and distribution are important considerations in salmon conservation."
Juvenile Salmonid Composition, King County
"The intertidal regions that had been used for (shellfish) farming for 3 and 5 years had lower species richness...as compared to the intertidal region where no active farming occurred." "...studies are needed to determine the scale to which intensive use of the foreshore for shellfish purposes alone is feasible without undue harm to the environment."
Bendel-Young, L.I. 2006
"When large numbers of filter feeders are introduced into a limited source environment, the effect on the already existing population could be drastic."
Hasbrouck, E.G. 1998
"The development of shellfish farming activities causes great changes in ecosystems functioning."
Mazouni, N., J.C. Gaertner, and J.M. Deslous-Paoli. 1998
"Shellfish aquaculture could have a large impact on small cetaceans."
Watson-Capps, J.J., and J. Mann. 2005
"Hatchery raised smolts of Chinook salmon were released into a large intertidal pen containing eelgrass, oyster clusters, unstructured sediment, and Spartina cordgrass. They were implanted with acoustic tags that allowed their movements to be tracked in 2 dimensions at sub meter accuracy. After effects of tidal elevation and enclosure were accounted for, smolts responded only to native eelgrass..."
Semmens, B.X. 2006. PhD Department of Biology, University of Washington
"It is an impossibly high standard to expect that bivalve aquaculture will not have any discernable effects on the ecosystem." "Effects on the ecosystem is a subjective assessment, and what level of change is permissible needs to be defined by discussion and consensus among all stakeholders."
Dr. Roger Newell, Horn Point Labratory
"Juvenile salmonids have the greatest potential to be impacted by geoduck culture."
Entrix, 2004
"Many pink and chum salmon populations spawn very close to the ocean or even in the intertidal zone."
"In intertidal habitats, diet overlap for ocean type Chinook salmon was greatest with Starry flounder."
"Several studies have pointed out the especially large contribution of harpacticoid copepods in the diets of juvenile salmon in estuaries."
"...the survival of ocean type Chinook released from hatcheries was positively correlated with the percentage of the estuary in natural condition."
The Behavior and Ecology of Pacific Salmon and Trout, Thomas Quinn, 2005
"The salmon's dilemma goes back to the arrival of the first Euro-Americans in the Northwest. Unfortunately for the salmon, the settlers also brought their worldview and their industrial economy. They saw a fearful wilderness that had to be tamed, simplified and controlled. They saw the vast resources they needed to feed their voracious industrial economy. Their vision naturally directed them to reconstruct the Northwest to make it more like the places they came from than the place it was."
"...it has been shown very clearly that the salmon restoration efforts to date, even though they have been well funded, have failed. They have failed because they are largely derived from the same worldview and assumptions that created the problem in the first place."
"This dominant worldview defines ecosystems as warehouses for the storage and production of commodities, insists that humans stand apart from those ecosystems, and demands that they control, manipulate, and "improve" them."
"The earth itself was seen as a giant factory "furnished by the great engineer." People had the mission of subduing the wild elements, of ridding the land of animals and plants that were useless to humans, and of bringing the whole system under efficient control. The fundamental goals of dominating, controlling, and manipulating nature for human use were deeply embedded in western culture."
"If we are to have any hope of restoring the salmon to sustainable levels of abundance, we will have to begin by paying more attention to the salmon's world - not as it exists today, but as it existed before we simplified, controlled, and "improved" it. And in our restoration efforts, we must address entire watersheds - the whole chain of salmon habitat, from headwaters to estuaries - and then beyond, to the ocean."
Salmon Without Rivers, A History of the Pacific Salmon Crisis, Jim Lichatowich, 1999
"…loss of open estuarine foraging habitat to aquaculture is likely to have a negative impact on shorebird populations."
"Large scale bivalve farms filter phytoplankton and zooplankton out of the sea, substantially altering local food webs."
"A recent review of the ecosystem-level effects of shellfish aquaculture determined that while more study was needed, the available literature indicates that intensive shellfish aquaculture may divert materials to benthic food webs, alter coastal nutrient dynamics, and have cascading effects on estuarine and coastal food webs. In particular, the effects of geoduck aquaculture on the benthic environment and fauna, the food webs, water quality, and aesthetics are a current concern but very few studies have been conducted to examine them." "In addition, many species grown for aquaculture in Puget Sound are invasive species, such as Manila clams, Mediterranean mussels, Pacific oysters and Atlantic salmon". "Intertidal invertebrate communities can suffer from the effects of clam harvesting and trampling."
Threats to Species, Biodiversity, and Food Web Status in Puget Sound
Documented Threats to Abundance, Productivity, Spatial Distribution of Key Species
Puget Sound Partnership, July, 2008
"Work in this session clearly reveals that salmon use the Puget Sound basin widely, and migrate back and forth within it, heavily." "The early life history stages (of salmon) are the most important in determining ultimate survival."
Fish Distribution, Abundance, and Behavior at Nearshore Habitat Types in Puget Sound,
with an Emphasis on Juvenile Salmonids
Toft, Simenstad, Cordell, Stamatiou, Wet Ecosystem Team, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, UW, 2004
"Legislative findings set out in RCW 90.58.020, that the shorelines of our State are the most valuable and fragile of its natural resources and that it is of great concern to all throughout our State relating to its utilization, protection, restoration and preservation."
Pierce County Hearing Examiner Terrance McCarthy*
*The hearing examiner's decision, based on expert testimony, states that geoduck farms are indeed a 'structure', that they 'obstruct public use' of the water, and that they cause 'habitat disruption'.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it."
Upton Sinclair
"The path society is on, according to fisheries experts, is that Chinook stocks will be driven to extinction before the end of this century." "California is being much more proactive in their salmon recovery and setting aside marine reserves (no-fishing zones) and looking forward to recovering salmon, whereas up here (Washington State) fishing interests and commercial interests get first dibs."
Ken Balcomb
Center for Whale Research
"But almost always the essence of the lives--the finding of food, the hiding from enemies, the capturing of prey, the producing of young, all that makes up the living and dying and perpetuating of the sand--beach fauna is concealed from the eyes of those who merely glance at the surface of the sands and declare them barren."
Rachel Carson
"Science does not ask: do we want to have geoduck aquaculture in the intertidal area -- that is a policy question. What we can do with science is ask what are the impacts of geoduck farming on species diversity or how does the turbidity associated with substrate liquifaction impact the health of fish in the region."
Joseph Gaydos
South Sound Science Symposium
Restore America's Estuaries statements:
"There are 28 million jobs in the fishing, tourism and recreational boating industries -- all of which depend on healthy estuaries for their products and customers. Indeed, estuaries and coastal waters provide essential habitat for 75% of America's commercial fish catch and 80 to 90% of the recreational fish catch."
"180 million Americans -- approximately 70% of the entire population -- visited estuaries in 1993 for vacations, recreation, sport, or sightseeing. They enjoyed swimming, fishing, boating, diving, wildlife viewing, hunting, hiking, and learning."
"Help our children learn. Estuaries are a matchless educational resource that must be maintained as living laboratories of life."
"For the most part, the loss in each estuary is an accumulation of small development and other projects. The destruction of estuary habitat is surprising in its extent and severity, amounting to tens of millions of acres destroyed. Estuaries will suffer 'death from a thousand cuts' if this loss of habitat is not stopped and reversed now."
" While I believe that people should be able to do what they want with their property, the trouble with it (geoduck farming) is it's a commercial operation in a residential environment." "It becomes very disruptive." "It (geoduck farming) is dangerous, destructive and obtrusive to the people who want to exercise freedoms on the water to try and allow this type of commercial activity to occur when you most likely would be using that water frontage..."
Pierce County Councilman Terry Lee
" If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them more than the miracles of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it."
Lyndon B. Johnson
We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.
Native American Proverb
When you defile the pleasant streams
And the wild bird's abiding place,
You massacre a million dreams
And cast your spittle in God's face.
John Drinkwater
"There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed."
Mohandas K. Gandhi
"We are in danger of destroying ourselves due to greed and stupidity."
Stephen Hawking
"Man did not weave the web of life - he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself."
Chief Seattle, 1854
"A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise." "Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient." "Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left."
Aldo Leopold
"It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment."
Ansel Adams
"The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived, and dishonest - but the myth - persistent, persuasive, and realistic."
John F. Kennedy
Eat Wild Salmon
coho salmon
It makes economic sense to restore wild salmon runs in Puget Sound. Currently, chinook salmon runs are less then ten percent from what they were 100 years ago! CISA supports efforts to restore salmon runs in Case Inlet and all of Puget Sound to historic levels of sustainable harvest.
Compare nutritional values of salmon and geoduck.
Nutrition Information for Salmon
|Protein Grams
|Fat Grams
|Carbohydrate Grams
|Sodium Milligrams
|Potassium Grams
|Cholesterol Milligrams
Note: Serving size: 3oz. (85 grams) Before Cooked, Edible Portion.
Nutritional value for salmon will vary 1-2% in protein and fat content from these average values, depending upon the maturity of the fish.
Nutrition Information for Geoduck
|Per 3.5 oz/100 grams of raw edible portion
|Total fat
|2.0 g
|15.5 g
|0.0 mg
|Source: Sidwell, Virginia D., Chemical and Nutritional Composition of Finfishes, Whales, Crustaceans, Mollusks, and their Products; NOAA Technical Memorandum, 1981.
Salmon has three times the calories of geoduck per gram, twice the protein, and five times the omega 3 fats at one third the price!
This slide show demonstrates the value of wild salmon over farmed.
Because of population and economic growth in Asia, the demand for geoduck has grown exponentially. In just over twenty years the price has increased by a hundred fold. A plate of geoduck in Hong Kong or Tokyo sells for around one hundred dollars. In the 1970's geoduck sold for about twenty cents per pound. Because of the geoduck's profound phallic appearance it is considered to be an aphrodisiac in Asia. Far from being a staple item, geoduck is a Super Luxury Food primarily served to Asia's upper classes and bourgeois rich.
Live geoduck for sale in Hong Kong.
According to the Washington State Department of Ecology geoduck do not naturally occur in any quantitative abundance of the intertidal nearshore zones where they are currently being farmed. Geoduck habitat ranges from the sub tidal zones to the lower inter tidal zone. Jonathan Davis, shellfish biologist from Taylor Shellfish Farms, also stated at the recent Sea Grant Symposium that the main habitat of geoduck in Puget Sound is subtidal, at a density of about 2.1 geoduck per square meter. Thus, the intensive intertidal nearshore geoduck farming can displace or harm the natural benthic life and forage fish habitat of the intertidal nearshore zone, which is critical habitat for salmon.
New intensive methods of aquaculture are converting natural beaches into single use agricultural zones. To the average person, it is common sense that this is a disturbance to both people and wildlife. In fact, shellfish aquaculture is well known as a human induced stressor to salmon habitat. In addition to aquaculture itself, boat traffic, wetland modification and invasive species are also known stressors to critical salmon habitat that can be attributable to shellfish farming.


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little pharo: $50 gift certificate for purchase of your favorite Little Pharo products.
We always say we want the best for our babies and Little Pharo (just launched this month) has materialized this hope. They provide the ultimate in luxury layette with 100% Extra-Long Staple Egyptian Cotton. It's known to be unmatched- the best in the world with extraordinary softness and durability. The designs are simple, as layette should be, with an ancient Egyptian logo symbolizing eternal life, said to bestow immortality to anyone who posses it, sewn onto each garment. Like we said- giving your little Pharo the most hopeful of starts. Better yet, a portion of the proceeds from each garment sold goes to benefit underprivileged and orphaned children in Africa.
klt works: kiki the kitty onesie and (new) kiki the kitty plush pillow set; $58.
KLT Works embodies all that a true family run company is- reinstating the values that now prove hard to come by. Kristin, artist and new mother, makes wearable (and play-able) art inspired by her love for humor, curiosity and son Sayer. She awakens any child's creative spirit through the colors, textures, modern design and likable characters that make up the mobiles, plush, onesies and pillows of KLT Works. New organic and eco-friendly designs available!
nix baby: 3 sets of socks (6 pair); $48.
Praise Nix Baby owner who saw a void and filled it: one size fits all infant and toddler socks that stay on. These "all star socks" strut old school style in both boy and girl colored sets. So simple. So genius. Make your baby's outfit a "smash hit."
"Eco-Smart cards with a conscience" is exactly what Bsimple Designs has created in their collection of baby, children, holiday and wedding invitations, announcements and stationary. Printed on the nicest, 100% recycled archival papers with the lowest impact by companies with sustainable business practices, you're not only getting modern cool and custom, but clearly and thoughtfully green. They're so good in fact that with every order, a tree will be planted in the Atlantic Rainforest.
md moms: one baby silk to-go travel set and one packet of (all-new!) gentle all over clean cleansing towelettes; $40.
Gentle, pure, effective, hypoallergenic, clinically tested, and developed by board-certified pediatricians and moms "who were inspired by the needs of [their] patients and [their] own children to create Baby Silk," we're confident in bringing you a trusted product formulated just for them- the babes. From the carefully chosen ingredients to the thoughtful packaging and their ongoing charitable efforts, MD Moms have a fan in us. Wanting to start your own collection? The "to-go travel set" pairs a sampling of their four diaper bag "must haves."
chittypulga: under the nile organic cotton baby gift basket; $46.
Chittypulga knows how to find tasteful, safe and quality for your little flea- proof in this Under the Nile baby basket: hand-made out organic palm tree leaves and filled with a beautiful newborn sized natural color 2-piece pant-set, hat, swaddle blanket and a teething bear. Not familiar with Chittypulga boutique (and magazine)? Be sure to search their "casual elegance for extraordinary kids".. for the best of brands and frequent sales.
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Jeremy Bailey is a Toronto-based new media artist whose work explores custom software in a performative context. Powered by humor and computer vision, his work wryly critiques the uneasy relationship between technology and the body while playfully engaging the protocols of digital media. Over the last decade Bailey has exhibited and performed at a range of international festivals and venues including the 2010 01SJ Biennial, HTTP Gallery, Subtle Technologies and in 2001 he co-founded the (now defunct) 640 480 Video Collective. I conducted the following interview with Bailey over email and we used our conversation to delve into a number of his projects from the last five years.
Between Human And Machine: Feedback, Control and Computing Before Cybernetics by David A. Mindell on MIT World
In this clip, MIT Professor David A. Mindell gives a talk on his book Between Human and Machine: Feedback, Control and Computing Before Cybernetics (John Hopkins University Press, 2002). Despite the C-SPAN quality of the video, there are some interesting insights here.
Today, the relationship between feedback, control and computing is associated with Norbert Wiener's 1948 formulation of cybernetics. But the theoretical and practical foundations for cybernetics, control engineering, and digital computing were laid earlier, between the two world wars. In his book, David A. Mindell shows how the modern sciences of systems emerged from disparate engineering cultures and their convergence during World War II.
The Factory of Dreams (2005) - Stefan Ruiz
Backdrops and sets used in the Televisa studios in Mexico City for use in telenovelas. From the photo series "The Factory of Dreams" which documents the production of telenovelas.
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What do you mean by 'crisis of the unit of measure'?
It is as if the metre, the standard set to measure cognitive and affective experience, no longer works. We see the same crisis in the fields of politics and history: social prosperity is no longer produced by labour time, but by knowledge, by a general knowing, by 'general intellect', and as a result social prosperity and labour time are no longer directly connected. The new standard to measure prosperity is within the domain of intelligence, language and collaboration. The problem is that social prosperity is still measured by the old standard of labour time, while realities have changed and it is actually determined by 'general intellect'. We can see the same thing happening in 20th-century art. It demonstrates the inadequacy of the old standards and suggests, in the formal sphere and through the formal work of poetry, new standards for the appraisal of our cognitive and affective experience. This is a point that brought the artistic avant-garde close to the radical social movement and in this sense there is a kind of brotherhood between the two: they would like to explain that the old standards are no longer valid and to look for what might be new standards. Another way to put the problem is: how can you locate a new public sphere, which has nothing to do with the state? Avant-garde art proved the impotence, the inadequacy, the disproportion of the old standards through a formal investigation. The common ground of art and social movements is never about content. Art that relates to social resistance is beside the point, or rather art expressing views on social resistance is not relevant. The radical movement and avant-garde poetry touch on the formal investigation that yields an index of new forms ...
Interactive Mandala (2010) - Don Miller
Like traditional Buddhist sand mandalas, each interactive mandala created is unique and impermanent. The design is created using random noise rotated around a center point to create ordered intricate patterns and changing colors. The user can interact with this mandala for meditative purposes, zooming to any level, applying rotation or a preset movements. The user can also choose to destroy and create a new mandala at any moment, but will never receive the same one again.
Controls: use scroll wheel on mouse to zoom, click and drag to rotate and spin. "Q" resets view and creates new mandala. "W" resets view. "A" dissolves mandala. "Z" stops the dissolve. "1" and "2" slow down and speed up the rotation.
Shimmer (1985) - Ed Tannenbaum
Sound composition by Maggie Payne.
Call for Proposals
Online magazine Triple Canopy announced their annual call for proposals. Short description below, deadline is February 14, 2011.
Triple Canopy is pleased to announce its second annual call for proposals. We will be commissioning projects spanning the six areas outlined above—original research, new-media journalism, public programming, Internet-specific artwork, and critical dialogues—to be published in the magazine and presented before live audiences between July 1, 2011, and June 30, 2012. Proposals are due by February 14, 2011.
Triple Canopy staff will work closely and collaboratively with contributors as they develop their projects, a process that usually takes between three and six months. Recipients of commissions will be offered a modest honorarium of up to $500, depending on the scope of the project and the cost of its development, in addition to between twenty and thirty hours of work by editors, designers, and developers.


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Boulder, CO, USA The Geological Society of America will recognize outstanding scientific achievements and distinguished service to the profession at its 2013 Annual Meeting & Exposition in Denver, Colorado, USA. GSA's highest honors, the Penrose Medal, the Arthur L. Day Medal, and the Young Scientist Award (Donath Medal) will be received by Steven M. Stanley of the University of Hawaii, Richard W. Carlson of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, and Naomi E. Levin of Johns Hopkins University, respectively.
These awards and other honors will be celebrated at the GSA Annual Meeting; members of the media are cordially invited to attend:
Steven M. Stanley of the University of Hawaii at Mānoa, has been named GSA's 2013 Penrose Medalist in recognition of his eminent research in pure geology and for outstanding original contributions that mark a major advance in the science of geology; namely, paleobiology. Nominator Noel James writes that Stanley is "one of the world's pre-eminent paleobiologists who has fundamentally changed the way we think about and interpret the rock record." Nominator Bruce Runnegar says, "Steven Stanley is a leader, a renowned scientist, and a highly creative individual. His trademark is providing a clear explanation for phenomena that have puzzled whole communities for decades."
Richard W. Carlson of the Carnegie Institution of Washington has been awarded the Arthur L. Day Medal for outstanding distinction in contributing to geologic knowledge through the application of physics and chemistry to the solution of geologic problems. Nominator Stan R. Hart writes, "There is hardly any field of Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry that Rick has not strongly impacted and this impact has extended to the whole Earth and Planetary Sciences." Nominator Thomas H. Jordan adds, "Rick Carlson is the most scientifically accomplished geochemist of his generation."
Naomi E. Levin of Johns Hopkins University has earned the Young Scientist Award (Donath Medal) and a cash prize of US$10,000 for outstanding achievement in contributing to geologic knowledge through original research that marks a major advance in the earth sciences. Nominator Thure Cerling writes, "Levin has made outstanding contributions to the understanding of the environments of human origins in Africa." Nominator Jonathan G. Wynn notes that Levin's work ethic and "ability to establish constructive working relationships" have "allowed her to make major contributions, and move forward scientific progress in the field of human evolution, in ways that would have otherwise not been thought possible."
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Medieval Santorini comes to life in this village. Pyrgos is 7.5 km east of Fira. Built at the foot of Profitis Elias stands out from a distance along many of the routes that visitors follow around the island.
In 1995 Pyrgos was declared a "preserved monument". Thanks to its 600 residents it remains vibrant and full of life throughout the year.


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I very rarely republish items on EMR and HIPAA. However, every once in a while something is so good that I think it's worth sharing so that more people can read. The following is one such case. I loved reading Dr. Rowley's perspective on the Japan disaster and potential radiation health risks. The article was originally published on the EHR Bloggers site. As Dr. Rowley, our thoughts are with those in Japan who are suffering amidst this terrible disaster. Hopefully the following thoughts will clarify a confusing situation.
The horrific events we have seen unfold in Japan as the result of the recent earthquake and tsunami, and subsequent instability of a large nuclear facility in the disaster zone with (at least) partial melt-down of the uranium fuel, raises questions of health risks from radiation exposure.
Granted that the West Coast of the U.S. is some 7000 miles away, and disbursement of any radiation leaked into the air in Japan, carried by the jet stream eastward, would expose people here only trivially. Even close to the reactor, as nicely illustrated by a New York Times graphichere, the amount of ambient radioactivity is less than the average annual dosage experienced from all sources by Americans in a year, though spikes in exposure can be higher. The potential for a full meltdown with much larger escape of radiation still exists, with differences of opinion as to the probability of this.
The more likely health issues related to radiation exposure from this catastrophe is from people who were nearby, and leaving the highest-risk areas (see BBC article here). Because of crippled infrastructure and shortages of food in many grocery stores in a widespread area, people have been not only leaving the area, but also leaving the country. And those exiting the country may end up in the U.S., seeking medical attention.
What should practitioners do? Are there any precedents to a situation like this?
Historical experience from 35 years ago
I am reminded of an experience in the mid 1970s, when I was a medical student at UCSF. I was part of an organizing effort that included UCSF and several local community organizations, which helped with outreach to local hibakusha – survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs, now living in the U.S. The atomic explosions (one was uranium-based, like what is now used in nuclear power plants at much lower levels; and one was plutonium-based) killed over 200,000 people and injured 150,000 more. Many of these survivors remained in Japan, but some 30,000 of them were American-born and many returned to the U.S. (see an in-depth article that appeared in People in 1990 here). They were often Japanese-Americans visiting Japan when the war broke out, were trapped there unable to return during the war, survived the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs, and afterwards came home. During the 1970 outreach campaign I was involved with, there were about 400 hibakusha living in the Bay Area.
Nuclear survivors were often afraid to make their history known, partly due to social stigma, and partly dueto fear of losing health insurance coverage for radiation-related illnesses – an increased risk of thyroid disease and thyroid cancer was seen in this population (long-term effect), with increased risks of multiple other cancers seen (medium-term effects), and blood and immune system suppression (acute effect).
Besides the actual health risks, there was also fear and discrimination – a stigma of being "exposed" – with the unfounded belief that those exposed to radiation were themselves radioactive, and would expose others to ill effects of this imagined "radioactivity." It took education to overcome these mistaken beliefs.
Post-war, Japan had enacted specific government-funded programs for hibakusha, and periodically assessed their health and treated their illnesses. This included sending teams from Hiroshima that would travel to the U.S. to reach out to survivors here – this was the program I was involved in. UCSF hosted the Hiroshima team, and a variety of community groups helped reach out to hibakusha, and bring them to "Hiroshima clinic day" in San Francisco.
Modern-day lessons
In the context of history, the scale of radiation exposure, and how to take care of people significantly exposed, is nowhere near what has been seen in the past. However, the issues of exposure to radioactivity from a compromised nuclear power plant should not be minimized – the risks are real, particularly for those living nearby.
Hawaii and the West Coast of the U.S. may experience some measurable increase in background radiation levels, not unlike a solar flare, or flying in an airplane at 30,000 feet. Our instruments for detecting such radiation are very sensitive. This is not likely to be the source of impact on the health care system.
More likely, practitioners may face the issue of taking care of someone who was near the disaster zone in Japan, who has now left and is in the U.S., and is concerned about radiation exposure. There is (unfortunately) much experience in dealing with such issues at orders-of-magnitude higher levels of exposure.
Based on the hibakusha experience, monitoring of blood counts (CBCs), thyroid functions and a comprehensive metabolic panel (which includes liver function tests) are about all that is indicated. For practitioners looking to code for such encounters, the ICD9-CM codes E926.8 (exposure to other specified radiation) or E926.9 (exposure to unspecified radiation) can be used.
The larger issue is reassurance and adding the calming effect of reason on a situation of fear and rumor. Unless one ingests a radioactive substance that remains in the body, being exposed to external radiation does not render one "radioactive" and there is no risk of "contaminating" others. The levels of radiation seen, even right at the nuclear power plant during times of reactor explosions, have remained less than that experienced by someone undergoing a full-body CT scan (compare the levels in the New York Times graph here).
The impact of modern health IT
Another difference in the world since the 1970s (now-vs.-then) has been the emergence of health information technology (HIT), including web-based Electronic Health Records (EHR) systems. This kind of technology is capable of capturing clinical encounter data from practices in all settings, and identifying issues among those with radiation exposure. Reporting these findings – whether to the CDC or to Japanese health authorities – can be done more systematically, and much more quickly than was ever dreamed possible in the 1970s.
In addition, the source of the health information can be much more grass-roots. Modern web-based EHR systems are used by local ambulatory clinicians in their private practices, and not necessarily affiliated with an institution. The need for travelling teams, university-to-university, is not as much of a requirement as it was in the 1970s, given modern HIT.
Our hearts go out to those who have suffered tremendous loss and upheaval in Japan. Assisting with the rebuilding of a devastated infrastructure is something everyone who can should do. The health effects seen outside the immediate area, however, should be put into their proper perspective – those leaving the disaster area will need our help. But the risk to U.S. populations – even those on the West Coast (7000 miles downwind) – is not where our attention should be.
Robert Rowley MD
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I love a client with a big budget, but often it takes all of the fun out of it. Don't get me wrong, it's fun to splurge, but the hunt for the steal is one of the best parts of my job.
It's actually the clients with the SMALL budgets that are REALLY FUN!
I have been shopping for seating, coffee tables and all kinds of accessories for a STEAL in order to stay within budget -- I may even come under. I wanted to share some of my very favorite steals that we can all afford.
The Heddery Chair on Overstock.com is $400. Don't you love the lines?Hickory Chair makes a beautiful splurge -- the "Halden" is gorgeous, but may break the bank.
This Zentique Sofa is beautiful, but retails for over $2000. The craftsmanship of their products is amazing, but this client just couldn't afford this baby.
This World Market banquette It's even prettier in person and the velvet in color "concrete" is lush. For $449 it's a steal and add some killer pillows, and you've got a splurge "looking" sofa. I bought one during a World Market sale for $349. That's a deal.
I'm loving this Serena and Lilly Chair, but for $1095 when I need two of them, I can't even show this as an option to my client for her bedroom. But...
I could show her this Robin Egg Linen chair from Overstock. Yes, ma'am. This one is $270.99 with free shipping
OK, this is one of my faves. I have been stalking this chair (just released at Pier 1) for the perfect client. I knew I could find her the most loving home. She needed a home where she could be appreciated for her beauty and lines and the fact that for $379.99 she could be mistaken for...
Any chair upholstered in the iconic "Imperial Trellis" by KW. at hundreds of dollars a yard, that adds up when you need a whole chair.
This mirrored console would be my inspiration for the entire room. Hoping my client reads it and must have it for her house in CT, she wouldn't go for the $1800 price tag.
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me her, I found one today for $1000 LESS. Can't tell you where, because I don't want you to beat me to it.
This cubist table from Overstock is a go-to for me. It's $178 and gorgeous in person.
Beats the Mandarin nesting tables from World's Away for $960. Yep, you heard me. $960. They are beautiful and there ARE two of them, but still...
Found any good deals lately? Send me your steals! I simply adore a good deal.
Bye bye birdie,
credit to: Pinterest, Worlds Away, Hickory Chair, Decor Pad, KWID, Overstock, Zentique


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If the thought of preparing Thanksgiving dinner overwhelms you, consider the efforts that go into the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. The annual event, kicking off at 9 a.m. Eastern time Thursday and airing on NBC, lasts just three hours, but takes 18 months to prepare.
City agencies, parade organizers, NBC broadcasters, artists and volunteers have been working together to make sure the 50 million expected viewers are thoroughly entertained. Here, a parade primer, by the numbers:
59 balloons: In 1927 parade organizers made the wise call to swap live animals, like lions and tigers, for more kid-friendly balloons. This year a couple new helium-filled characters—Sonic the Hedgehog and Paul Frank's Julius—will join the pack following a long journey that started on a sketch pad. Each of the parade's 59 balloons has made the transition from drawing to clay figure to flying object, through collaborations between artists, engineers and an army of volunteer string holders, charged with steering the balloons as they bob down Broadway.
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800 clowns: Clowns are the only members of the parade who directly interact with spectators. The job is taken so seriously that all clown volunteers are required to take classes from Big Apple Circus pros, who teach them the ins and outs of clowning around. Graduates arrive at the parade at 6 a.m. to keep the crowd cheerful as they await the start of the show. Expect to see roller skating clowns, sleepy clowns, the "turkey tech football gobblers" and "nutty crackers" mixed in with the masses.
11 marching bands: Bands from Hawaii to Homewood, Ala., have been preparing for the parade for months. One-hundred-fifty high school and university bands submitted their applications to a selection committee, who whittled the pool down to 11.
3.5 million spectators: A crowd as populous as the state of Connecticut will line the 2.65 mile parade route from 77th Street and Central Park West to Macy's in Herald Square. To accommodate such a huge crowd, the New York Police Department will deploy "an adequate amount of personnel," and sanitation workers will be on site to clean up the mess.
42 tons of trash: Last year the New York City Department of Sanitation swept up 42 tons of trash. That's 84,000 pounds, roughly the weight 20 SUVs. Preparing for a similar cleanup this year, the department says it will deploy 95 sanitation workers and 14 officers equipped with 17 street sweepers, 24 hand brooms, 12 backpack blowers and 10 collection trucks.
35 miles per hour: Sustained winds of 23 mph or gusts of 35 mph could ground the 15 largest balloons in the parade. The forecast calls for wind speeds hovering around 20, but a Macy's spokesperson told the Daily News that it should all be okay. "Every year at this point there's a prediction of high winds and every year the balloons fly," he said.
1 Santa Claus: The 85th annual parade will end the way it always has: With the one-and-only Santa Claus riding into Herald Square and kicking off the holiday season, and all the eating and shopping that comes with it.


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Let your little one dream about the glories of sport when you put your child to bed in the Brisbane Lions Toddler Pyjama Set. A great choice for the youngest super fans, the Toddler Pyjama set features soft and comfortable Cotton Marle top and bottom for a cosy night's sleep. The team themed plastisol shirt graphic and vibrant all-over print pants pattern shows your intent to raise them right as a life-long fan. Give your youngster something to cheer about from and early age send them to bed on game night in the Brisbane Lions Toddler Pyjama Set.