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Watch AFTER THE JUMP as Talking Points Memo does the year in 100 seconds.
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"People say, well, when are you gonna get your surge?" says Santorum. (Some of the "people" are the reporters in the back of the room; some are the Iowa conservatives who keep doubting him.) "Everybody in this race has had their surge, and their bump. Why haven't you had it? I say, I'm gonna get mine the old fashioned way. Actual people who know the candidates coming on board and helping us. Not some media creation. Not some clever line. But actually folks who are taking their time to look at the records, to look at the vision, to look at the character, to look at the courage."
Santorum has been saying this all year. It stopped sounding ridiculous on Wednesday.
Rasmussen: If the election was tomorrow, Romney would beat Obama like a gong.
More speculation on Hillary as veep.
CNN.com's running a series of coming out stories from LGBT youth.
Jim Burroway explains why so many racists and homophobes can dig a libertarian.
On harness-training a kitty.
Entrepreneur to rebrand brothel as "Area 51 Travel Center," Nevada's one-stop shop for sci-fi sex:
Hof describes the current state of the bordello as a "disgusting, terrible place" without a single window. The partners are hoping to finish a complete conversion inside of a couple of months, before beaming in customers.
The important details regarding the working women are still being hashed out, such as whether or not to paint the women green to resemble Orion Slave Girl characters from Star Trek.
However Hof tells CBS Las Vegas that for the clients he is reaching out "to everyone, all the Star Wars fans and Trekkies," and cater to all flavors of geek fantasy.
Hof also hopes to collaborate with science fiction icons such as William Shatner – known better to his prospective clients as "Captain Kirk."
China to land astronaut on the moon:
While Chinese scientists have previously discussed the possibility of a manned lunar mission, a government white paper published on Thursday is the first public government document to enshrine it as a policy goal.
China will "conduct studies on the preliminary plan for a human lunar landing", the white paper said.
Although a manned moon mission is still some time off – Chinese experts say after 2020 – the statement highlights Beijing's soaring ambitions just five months after the US retired its space shuttle programme . "Chinese people are the same as people around the world," Zhang Wei, an official with China's National Space Administration, said at a briefing. "When looking up at the starry sky, we are full of longing and yearning for the vast universe."
Salon wonders: "Does gay sex cause incontinence?"
Reddit wonders: Did North Korea Photoshop a giant into pics of Kim Jong-il's funeral?
The Teens from Teens React wonder: What the hell is Rick Perry's "Strong" ad all about? Watch them discuss it AFTER THE JUMP ...
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Just a moment ago, the world learned that Kim Jong-il, supreme regent of his dead father's necrocracy, creator of famines, and would-be owner of a nation's souls, is dead, dead, dead. The Times had its obituary up in minutes. They've been waiting for this a long time. Lots of people have.
From the Times:
SEOUL, South Korea — Kim Jong-il, the reclusive North Korean leader who has been battling ill health following a reported stroke in 2008, has died, the North's official news media reported on Monday.
"Our great leader Comrade Kim Jong-il passed away at 8:30 a.m. on Dec. 17," Korean Central TV reported.
... Called the "Dear Leader" by his people, Mr. Kim, the son of North Korea's founder, remained an unknowable figure. Everything about him was guesswork, from the exact date and place of his birth, to the mythologized events of his rise in a country formed by the hasty division of the Korean Peninsula at the end of World War II.
North Koreans heard about him only as their "peerless leader" and "the great successor to the revolutionary cause." Yet he fostered what was perhaps the last personality cult in the Communist world. His portrait hangs beside that of his father, Kim Il-sung, in every North Korean household and building. Towers, banners and even rock faces across the country bear slogans praising him.
That business will probably go on a while. CNN just announced that there will be a state funeral in Pyongyang on December 28th. It will undoubtedly be one of the greatest pageants of all time, though many North Koreans will be celebrating for more reasons than their state TV will let on.
Behind the scenes, old veteran generals of Kim Jong-il's administration will likely spar with the deceased despot's son and heir apparent, the 20-something-year-old Kim Jong-un, for control of the country's decrepit infrastructure, hungry masses, defective rockets, nuclear warheads, and outsized military. There's no telling what kind of North Korea will eventuate. Whatever comes, though, almost anything will be better than what's come before.
Tensions are high on the Korean peninsula following shelling of areas of South Korea earlier today by North Korea:
"Two South Korean soldiers were killed, 15 were wounded and three civilians were injured, said Kiyheon Kwon, an official at the Defense Ministry. The South Korean military went to 'crisis status,' and fighter planes were put on alert but did not take off. South Korean artillery units returned fire after the North's shells struck South Korea's Yeonpyeong Island at 2:34 p.m., said Mr. Kwon, adding that the North also fired numerous rounds into the Yellow Sea. Television footage showed large plumes of black smoke spiraling from the island, and news reports said dozens of houses were on fire."
White House statement from Robert Gibbs:
"Earlier today North Korea conducted an artillery attack against the South Korean island of Yeonpyeong. We are in close and continuing contact with our Korean allies. The United States strongly condemns this attack and calls on North Korea to halt its belligerent action and to fully abide by the terms of the Armistice Agreement. The United States is firmly committed to the defense of our ally, the Republic of Korea, and to the maintenance of regional peace and stability."
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Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart step out to do a Q&A for John Cameron Mitchell's Rabbit Hole.
The owner of The Abbey in West Hollywood on what makes his bar a success: "Anyone who walks through my gate is a VIP. Everyone is gonna be treated the same."
New Nielsen polls shows strong support for marriage equality in Australia: "The poll, published on Monday in Fairfax newspapers, found nearly 60 per cent of people support same-sex marriage, with 37 per cent against. The same poll also shows the federal coalition leads Labor by 51 points to 49 on a two-party preferred basis."
Disney decides it's done with movies based on classic fairy tales.
Gay and lesbians rally in the Bronx: "For so long the Bronx has been very quiet about LGBT issues. This particular event sparked the feeling to doing something and how do you do it—you do it in unity."
Desperate Housewives will go on with one less housewife.
North Korea shows American scientist new secret nuclear facility: "He had been "stunned" by the sophistication of the new plant, where he saw "hundreds and hundreds" of centrifuges that had just been installed, and that were operated from what he called "an ultra-modern control room."
Cher knows her limits: "Look, I have a very narrow range. I've never tried anything more than playing who I am. If you look at my characters, they're all me."
Steve Jobs and Rupert Murdoch to team up on an iPad-only newspaper: "There will be no "print edition" or "web edition"; the central innovation, developed with assistance from Apple engineers, will be to dispatch the publication automatically to an iPad or any of the growing number of similar devices."
If you think adult pandas are cute, wait until you see a picture of a newborn panda.
One-time correspondent professor Pontifical Academy of St Thomas Aquinas in the Vatican tells German magazine: "It must be acknowledged that a large number of Catholic clerics and trainee priests in Europe and the United States are homosexually-inclined,"
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part I has a big box office weekend.
Paris Hilton fulfills part of her 200 hour community service.
Arrests made at a sit-in on Ottawa in to mark Transgendered Day of Remembrance.
LOL: Hillary Clinton on John Bolton.
SANCTITY: Florida woman puts hit out on her fiance, gets nabbed.
THE DIVA LEAGUE: Drag queens do "Disturbia" on America's Got Talent.
ROBOT: The latest from the Japanese.
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U.S. Supreme Court maneuvering in a case involving corporate money in political campaigns suggests that the right wing majority on the court is practicing judicial activism. The case involves a corporate documentary last year that was critical of Hilliary Clinton. According to an article today in the New York Times entitled "High Court Poised to Rewrite Spending Rules" the US Supreme Court appears to be setting up to overturn major provisions of the McCain Feingold law that it upheld just 2 years ago.
What has changed in those 2 years is that two more conservative justices have been appointed to the Court – Justices Roberts and Alito. As the New York Times notes "The Roberts court has struck down every campaign finance regulation to reach it, and it seems to have a majority prepared to do more. "
The issue involves "corporate money" in campaigns. The conservatives say that limiting the spending of corporate money is equal to limiting free speech. They argue limiting corporate money in elections violates the first amendment.
Of course there are several assumptions here that are questionable. One is that corporations should be accorded the same rights as citizens under the first amendment and second the assumption that equating the ability to spend money is somehow equivalent to a free speech right. The reality is that money buys access and exposure and corporations in general have more access to money that individuals.
The problem here is how you reconcile fairness in elections with lavish spending of money by special interests. Obviously the more money a corporation has, the more ability they have to get their message out to the voters. Thus the more money they have, the more "free" speech they have. At what point does corporate free spending of money overwhelm the ability of those with limited ability to raise money to have their voice heard?
The issue as the NY Times states is that "The court is poised to reverse longstanding precedents concerning the rights of corporations to participate in politics," said Nathaniel Persily, a law professor at Columbia. "The only reason to ask for reargument on this is if they're going to overturn Austin and McConnell."
The issue is another that denotes the hypocrisy of conservatives. They argue against judicial activism, unless it is their own activism. Its just like conservative Republicans arguing for the sanctity of marriage except when its their marriage. Look not at what they say, but what they do. In this case it appears they are actively working to overturn a law they don't agree with now, that two years ago a court without Roberts and Alito supported.
The current case as stated by the NY Times
"involves "Hillary: The Movie," a slashing political documentary released last year while Mrs. Clinton, now the secretary of state, was seeking the democratic presidential nomination. The film was produced by Citizens United, a conservative advocacy group that is a nonprofit corporation.
The McCain-Feingold law bans the broadcast, cable or satellite transmission of "electioneering communications" paid for by corporations in the 30 days before a presidential primary and in the 60 days before a general election.
The law, as narrowed by a 2007 Supreme Court decision, applies to communications "susceptible to no reasonable interpretation other than as an appeal to vote for or against a specific candidate." It also requires spoken and written disclaimers in the film and ads for it, along with the disclosure of contributors' names."
A Supreme Court with several Obama appointees could very well reverse the negative climate against campaign finance restrictions. See related article e.g. on Sonja Sotomayor in NY Times entitled, "A Long Record on Campaign Finance, Often in Support of Regulations" which notes that "In 1996, Judge Sonia Sotomayor delivered a speech comparing campaign contributions to "bribes" and asking whether elected officials could credibly say they were "representing only the general public good, when private money plays such a large role" in helping them win office."
This threat of new appointees to the US Supreme Court by Obama obviously seems behind this manoeuvring by the present court to reverse McCain Feingold and their two year old decision. This is the type of judicial activism we need to fear – a conservative US Supreme Court hell bent on attacking laws they don't support. They are trying to act before the Court changes to a more mainstream philosophy that the American people support. This distorted right wing philosophy of judicial activists like Roberts and Alito intent on changing US laws they don't like will remain a threat until the makeup of the US Supreme Court changes.
Give Barack Obama credit for the straight talk, not John McCain or Hillary Clinton. Obama has refused to climb aboard the crazy train of his opponents in both parties suggesting that cutting the Federal tax on gasoline this summer makes sense. It doesn't.
Gasoline usage is price sensitive. Cutting the cost for the summer by suspending the Federal tax of 18.4 cents will not lower the price because the same fixed amount will be available and oil companies will merely raise the price to take advantage of customer demand. Any decrease in prices will be very short term.
The oil companies have no qualms about raising prices. They continue to rake in record profits at the expense of American car and truck users. Republicans in Congress, and President Bush with his threatened veto power, continue to support the oil companies making record profits at the expense of the American economy and American consumers.
And the bulk of the profits raked in don't even go for producing more oil or alternative energy. For example, as Yahoo.news reports:
"Exxon posted record earnings of $40.6 billion in 2007, with revenue higher than the gross domestic profit of Turkey, the world's 17th-largest economy….
The company has been criticized by some analysts and investors for laying back on capital spending while going full bore on share buybacks.
Exxon spent $31.8 billion to buy back shares in 2007 while shelling out $20.9 billion for capital expenditures."
Exxon Mobil reported today that they raked in another $10.89 billion in first quarter profits this year.
So American consumers are shelling out their cash so that companies like Exxon can but back their stock. It's absurd. At least Hillary Clinton proposes that the oil companies be hit with an excess profits tax to pay for her proposed summer tax cut. John McCain does not even support that and says he would cut elsewhere.
Democrats tried to pass legislation to end special subsidies to oil companies but Republicans held fast and stopped legislation passing. Democrats wanted the subsidies to go for funding alternative energy programs like wind and solar, which would help to reduce global warming impacts from carbon fuels. Instead we are left with no approval of existing incentives for solar and wind energy which expire at the end of this year.
And where was John McCain when votes were taking place to pass an energy policy to reduce dependence on carbon fuels and reduce global warming. AWOL – see excellent article by Grist on McCain's missed votes in Congress, rightly pointing out McCain's professed concern about climate change action is more hot air than anything else.
see also
Dumb as we Wanna Be – New York Times
The Gas-Guzzler Gambit – New York Times editorial
Summer Fuel-ishness – Seattle Times editorial
Clinton Gas Tax Proposal Criticized – Washington Post
John McCain continues to get the soft touch by the media. As Frank Rich points out his Sunday New York Times piece entitled "The Republican Resurrection"
… As if to emulate Dick Cheney, who arrived in Baghdad a day behind him, he (McCain) embraced the vice president's habit of manufacturing false links in the war on terror: Mr. McCain told reporters that Iran is training Al Qaeda operatives and sending them into Iraq.
His Sancho Panza, Joe Lieberman, whispered in his ear that a correction was in order. But this wasn't a one-time slip, like Gerald Ford's debate gaffe about Poland in 1976. Mr. McCain has said this repeatedly. Troubling as it is that he conflates Shiite Iran with Sunni terrorists, it's even more bizarre that he doesn't acknowledge the identity of Iran's actual ally in Iraq — the American-sponsored Shiite government led by Nuri al-Maliki. Only two weeks before the Iraqi prime minister welcomed Mr. McCain to Baghdad, he played host to a bubbly state visit by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Whatever Mrs. Clinton's or Mr. Obama's inconsistencies about how to wind down the war, they are both models of coherence next to Mr. McCain. He keeps saying the surge is a "success," but he can't explain why that success keeps us trapped in Iraq indefinitely. He never says precisely what constitutes that "victory" he keeps seeing around the corner. His repeated declaration that he will only bring home the troops "with honor" is a Vietnam acid flashback recycled as a non sequitur. Our troops have already piled up more than enough honor in their five years of service under horrific circumstances. Meanwhile, as Al Qaeda proliferates in Afghanistan and Pakistan, a survey by Foreign Policy magazine of 3,400 active and retired American officers finds that 88 percent believe that the Iraq war has "stretched the U.S. military dangerously thin."
So what's the deal with the rest of the media? Not much was said critically of McCain. McCain doesn't deserve special treatment – either he knows what he's talking about or he doesn't. And it appears he doesn't. McCain is a recipe for disaster. We can't afford a Bush clone in the White House after 8 years of Bush/Cheney.
Obama gained 2 more national delegates over Clinton as a result of the Wyoming caucuses. A total of 12 delegates were at stake.
Several places report the results as votes. The Green Papers reports that Obama received 5378 votes (61.43%) to Clinton's 1313 (37.84%) to 64 (.73%) for others. If these are actual votes and not delegates as other states have reported at the precinct caucus level this would only represent a turnout of 13% of the 2006 registered Democratic voters.
Wyoming is not a state Democrats are likely to win. A look at the last 2 Presidential elections in Wyoming show that by more than 2 to 1, the state voted Republican.
2000 Bush 147,947 Gore 64,481 other 5298
2004 Bush 167,629 Kerry 70,778 other 4543
In 1992 Bill Clinton received 68,160 votes to 131,724 votes cast for the Republican and independent candidates. In 1996 Bill Clinton got 77,934 votes to 163,637 for his opponents.
In 2004 only 60,385 Wyoming voters were registered as Democrats, 162,952 were registered as Republicans and 32,885 were independent or other. In 2006 67,246 voters were registered as Democrats and 152,952 were Republicans. Wyoming does allow same day registration for voters. Current registration figures were not available on the Secretary of State's website.
Caucuses are a reflection of enthusiasm for a candidate by hard core supporters more than any reflection of actual general election voter support. If you can not physically be present at the caucus site at the appointed time you have no vote in the process. Many potential voters wind up being excluded, weather for example was a factor in Wyoming.
If you are an active duty military person, or have to work, or are sick or are out of state, you have no vote in the caucus process. Primary voting with absentee ballots are the most democratic and inclusive. That is why the majority of states have primaries rather than caucuses. More people participate.
Hillary Clinton Wins Both Texas and Ohio to Surprise of Many
Senator Hillary Clinton decisively won Ohio's primary 55% to 43% and has been declared the winner in Texas but by a smaller margin of 51% to 47% with 90% of the vote counted. As the Washington Post reports on Clinton's comeback:
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) roared back into contention for the Democratic presidential primary race Tuesday night after claiming primary victories in Ohio, Texas and Rhode Island. These win ensure that her challenge to Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) will continue through Pennsylvania's primary on April 22.
Clinton's popular vote margin in Ohio was larger than expected, while she appeared to eke out a very narrow win in Texas. Earlier in the night, Obama won an easy victory in Vermont while Clinton cruised to a triumph in Rhode Island.
As the New York Times notes, voters are not yet ready to write Senator Clinton off:
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's victories in Ohio and Texas on Tuesday night not only shook off the vapors of impending defeat, but also showed that — in spite of his delegate lead — Senator Barack Obama was still losing to her in the big states.
Those two states were the battlegrounds where Mr. Obama was going to bury the last opponent to his history-making nomination, finally delivering on his message of hope while dashing the hopes of a Clinton presidential dynasty.
Yet then the excited, divided American electorate weighed in once more, throwing Mrs. Clinton the sort of political lifeline that New Hampshire did in early January after her third-place finish in the Iowa caucuses.
Barrack Obama still leads in delegate counts – some 1466 to 1376 by one estimate Votes in Mississippi and Wyoming are coming up in the next week which favor Obama. Even with the large number of delegates at stake in Pennyslvania, and Clinton being currently favored there, Clinton is in a difficult position trying to overtake Obama.
The battle now is going to shift to the undemocratic process of superdelegates committing and the question of what to do about Michigan and Florida whose delegates are not currently being counted because they broke party rules and moved their primaries to January.
The irony here is that Clinton won both of these states when the candidates agreed not to campaign there. With all their names on the ballot in Florida, Clinton won Florida. In Michigan Clinton's name was on the ballot but Obama's was not. People had to vote uncommitted if they didn't want Clinton and wanted Obama. Clinton still won. Both Michigan and Florida are states the Democrats want and need to win in November.
While Clinton has not won as many states as Obama has, the delegate and vote count is close. Unlike the electoral college which is winner take all, the Democratic primaries and caucuses assign delegates to the Democratic National Convention based on the proportion of the vote each candidate won.
As the New York Times notes:
The nomination is not determined by the number of states won, but Mr. Obama's inability to win major battleground states beyond Missouri, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and his home state, Illinois, is a concern of some Democrats — especially since Ohio and Florida have become must-wins in presidential elections.
Quoting Clinton according to the NY Times:
"If we want a Democratic president, we need a Democratic nominee who can win the battleground states, just like Ohio," she said. "We've won Florida, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, Michigan, New Hampshire, Arkansas, California, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Oklahoma and Tennessee"
There is plenty for Democrats to think about. The hope is that a resolution can be reached and a nominee selected without splitting and losing the combined passions of the Clinton and Obama camps. The last thing the Democrats need is to enter the fall campaign split and angry at each other rather than united in working to defeat the Republicans and John McCain.
One thing for sure – the Democrats need to come up with a better plan and timing and spacing of primaries for the next party contested Presidential election. Reform of the process should include making the elections fairer by going to an all primary system where voters can see how their votes count and maximum voter participation is ensured – something the caucus system doesn't do.
Clinton Wins Rhode Island, Obama Wins Vermont, McCain to Win Republican Nomination
The Associated Press according to the Washington Post has projected Hillary Clinton as the winner in Rhode Island. Barack Obama has been declared the winner in Vermont where the Iraq War was listed in exit polls as the major issue.
Meanwhile polls in Ohio have closed. Clinton has a small lead in early results. Weather has been terrible in Ohio with snow in northern Ohio and rains and flooding in southern Ohio. Some polls in Cleveland were kept open later as they ran out of Democratic ballots. Ohio recently changed to all paper ballots that are then optically scanned after problems were assessed with their touch screen machines.
Ohio's election results in 2004 were rife with problems. Robert Kennedy Jr, among others called into question the election results in Ohio in 2004.
Meanwhile Texas is also currently having some problems. Sixty-five percent of Texas 193 delegates are determined by a primary vote and 35% are determined by a separate caucus vote this evening. The Clinton campaign is reporting problems with being excluded from some of their supporters being excluded from the caucuses.
Because of the nature and complexity of the Texas voting process a final tally of delegate allocation may actually take several days.
Overall some 370 Democratic delegates are being determined today. Unfortunately for Hillary Clinton the results will probably not significantly change the delegate lead that Obama has. Unfortunately for Obama if the results are mixed it is likely that Hillary Clinton will continue her campaign which will make John McCain happy.
While some Democrats may lament the lack of a knockout punch, the Democrats continuing to battle will get the two candidates before more voters and allow a further Democratic organizational effort in more states including a key battle in the Pennsylvania primary.
Meanwhile John McCain is the projected winner of all four states – Texas, Ohio, Rhode Island, and Vermont and has gained enough delegates to win the Republican nomination. Mike Huckabee has announced he is withdrawing from the race.
John McCain Gets Zero Rating from League of Conservation Voters
John McCain missed so many votes last year in Congress that he scored a zero on the League of Conservation Voters 2007 ratings. He was the only Senator to miss all of the key environmental votes used in the scoring.
As LCV noted in their recent press release:
"The presidential candidates' scores all suffered from the occupational hazard of absenteeism. Sens. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) and Barack Obama (D-Ill.) missed four votes each in 2007, although both made a point of being on hand for the key vote that would have allowed a version of the energy bill to move forward that included a provision to repeal billions of dollars in tax breaks for big oil and put that money toward clean energy programs.
Clinton's score in 2007 was 73 percent (87 percent lifetime); Obama's was 67 percent (86 percent lifetime). * Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) scored 0 percent in 2007 (24 percent lifetime) due to missing all 15 votes scored, including the key vote on repealing tax giveaways to big oil – a measure that failed by only one vote."
McCain's LCV ratings:
0 (2007), 41 (2005-2006), 56 (2003-2004), 36 (2001-2002), 6 (1999-2000)
Obama's LCV ratings:
67 (2007), 96 (2005-2006)
Clinton's LCV ratings
73 (2007), 89 (2005-2006), 92 (2003-2004), 88 (2001-2002)
Of the other Presidential candidates who have dropped out of the race Joe Biden missed 4 of the environmental votes used in the rating in 2007 and received a score of 67. Christopher Dodd missed 6 of the environmental votes in 2007 and received a score of 60. Dennis Kucinich missed 3 of the environmental votes in the House and received a score of 80.
Hillary Clinton Receives a Standing Ovation at Texas Debate
It's worth taking a look. I stumbled across the U-Tube posting at the democraticunderground site.
You can view the clip by clicking on "Clinton Heartfelt Answer at TX Debate – only standing ovation of the night"
You can catch other segments of the debate by going to CNN which has 20 different clips of
the debate between Hillary and Barack.
Whether or not Hillary Clinton ultimately wins the nomination, Democrats are lucky to have both her and Barack Obama as our frontrunners. There is really not a lot of difference between the two candidates as far as the issues go.
When I listened to both of them when they were in Seattle just before the Washington state caucuses, their positions on the issues they talked about were almost identical.
Senator Clinton was not able to turn around Wisconsin and stop voters going to Obama. It seems that mistakes made by the Clinton campaign are getting harder to turn around as Obama's organizing effort is paying off. He has now won contests in 9 states in a row.
As reported by the NY Times, "With 83 percent of the electoral precincts in Wisconsin reporting, Mr. Obama had 58 percent of the vote to Mrs. Clinton's 41 percent."
Obama is using skills drawn from community organizing to win. He has invested in working the grassroots which can be effective particularly in caucus states.
When Clinton came to Seattle to speak, her campaign had a few people in the back trying half heartedly to get people to sign up. They did not work the crowd which waited for over an hour for Hillary to come to speak.
Obama's people worked the crowd and someone told me that they got an email from the campaign the next day. Now that's turn around and obviously builds the mailing and contributor base aggressively.
A number of years ago when Senator Bill Bradley came to the Pike Place Market to speak I noticed the same half hearted effort by his supporters to get people signed up. It was a tell tale sign that he did not know how to build a campaign at the grassroots level and his campaign did not build momentum.
The word is that the Clinton campaign took too much for granted and besides ignoring grassroots efforts to build a campaign in caucus and other states, they thought it would all be over on Feb 5, 2008 and did not put into place aggressive campaigns for states after Feb 5, 2008.
It's kind of funny, people are criticizing Hillary for her attempts to confront Obama head on. Actually she is still throwing him softballs. McCain and the Republicans are not going to be so nice and it remains to be seen if Senator Obama, if he emerges victorious from Ohio and Texas, will be up for hardball with McCain.
It would be a tactical mistake for either him or Clinton to not be emotionally prepared for a vigorous onslaught from the Republicans. The Republicans are not going to quietly leave the stage. Republican have a knack even when they disagree of eventually seeing the value of closing ranks and working as one voice.
The Republicans in Congress, when they were in power did that. And even in the minority now, they have closed ranks, particularly in the US Senate, to limit the legislation Democrats have been able to pass so far.
You can expect McCain to accuse the Democrats of abandoning our soldiers and American honor with the Democrat's plans to pull out of Iraq if they take over the Presidency.
We need to remember that the real battle is not between Hillary and Barack, but between McCain and the Democratic nominee. Whoever wins the Democratic nomination is going to have to bring the Democratic Party together and remind them that the difference between Hillary and Barack is minuscule compared to that with McCain.
Supporters of both candidates are passionate and will be tempted to be bitter if their candidate loses. The first task of the eventual nominee will be to bring Democrats together reminding them of their common goals.
Democrats are making history in their choosing a nominee, but the real prize is the Presidency, not the Democratic nomination. There's still a long ways to go before we can change America for the better.
Obama Wins Washington, Louisiana, Nebraska and Virgin Islands
Obama gained 67.5% of the delegate vote in the Washington State caucuses on Saturday to Clinton's 31.2% and 1.2% uncommitted. Individual delegate counts by county can be seen on the Washington State Democratic website. The caucus system will ultimately select 78 delegates to the national convention with an additional 19 Super Delegates of party officials and elected Democrats.
Obama also won 67.5% of the delegates in Nebraska's caucuses to Clinton's 32.2%. Nebraska will select 24 pledged delegates from the caucus system plus 7 Super Delegates will also go to the National Convention.
Obama won the Louisiana Presidential Primary with 57% of the vote to Clinton's 36%. Louisiana has 56 pledged delegates and 10 Super Delegates.
Obama received 90% of the vote in the Virgin Islands. The Virgin Islands have 3 pledged delegates and 6 Super Delegates.
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Traditional Quilting with Lessa Siegele 24 – 31 Aug 2013
Flying in Circles and New York Beauty
24 – 31 August 2013
Lessa has been entranced by the symmetry and balance of traditional quilts since she began making them. She plays with different blends of colours and experiments with background space within the boundaries of the New York Beauty design, and her Flying in Circles are a fabulous mixture of whirling colours.
Her workshops are lively mixtures of technique, creative discussion and of course the sheer joy of sharing stories over a quilt. She will help you grasp the intricacies of each design with ease. Her many years of experience as a teacher has led her to develop a multitude of tips to achieve accuracy when piecing leading to easier assembly of pieced blocks in the final quilt. Students are invariably encouraged to achieve higher than their expectations through her patient and trusting approach. Her aim is for a stress free workshop which is fun while learning something new – and she certainly achieved that in her first visit to Fiji.
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Lessa will teach you how to make the Flying in Circles quilt, or the New York Beauty quilt.
Flying in Circles: Create the illusion of circles with all straight piecing. Flying in Circles is traditional in style, rotary cut and machine pieced. You could use scraps, or just two colours, it is great either way. Requirements will include some pre-cutting so that there will be plenty of sewing time in class. The class project comprises just four blocks but more blocks could be added later to make a bed size quilt. (quilt photo is 9 blocks)
Suitable for all levels
New York Beauty: Foundation piecing is used to accurately achieve the fine points on the traditional New York Beauty Block. . It can be sewn using just two fabrics such as blue and white, red and white etc. as many of the old quilts were done or you can give a more contemporary look by using a variety of fabrics. The blocks can be placed in many different ways to create different patterns. Patterns will be provided for 5, 7 and 9 point blocks, and also patterns for an inner circle, small blocks and border points.
Students have a choice of one of these classes. Notes will be provided to both help during the course and when home to complete anything not finished. You will need to bring basic sewing supplies, fabric and a sewing machine (a very basic one is all that is needed – maybe even consider finding a second hand one). You will receive a list of materials to bring along with you.
AUD $1800 twin share
Single supplement: $350
Non-quilting partners: $850
Program Includes
Return airport transfers from Savusavu to Daku Resort.
7 nights accommodation at Daku Resort in traditional bures with private facilities.
Breakfasts, lunches and dinners are provided.
Course fees
Lectures and excursions as indicated.
Program Excludes
Flights to Savusavu. We are happy to quote on these and book them for you if requested. Flight prices fluctuate according to demand.
Comprehensive Travel Insurance.
Optional activities not listed on the program.
Costs of a personal nature such as laundry, massages, private trips.
Meals taken in transit at the airport.
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Lessa Siegele is from Adelaide SA and has been actively involved in the Quilters Guild of South Australia since its inception in 1984 and is a Life Member. Her desire to spread the joy of quilting as widely as possible led her to establish Quilt Encounter an annual 6 day live in conference, which has been fully booked each year. In a voluntary capacity she has successfully managed this conference which features up to14 tutors from differing quilting disciplines for the past 19 years since its inception. As a well known quilt maker, teacher and judge she regularly travels throughout Australia teaching machine-piecing and traditional quilting. She has also taught in the USA and New Zealand.
Lessa was awarded an OAM in the Queen's Birthday Honours in 2002 for services to the art of quilt making as a teacher and to the community through fund-raising. This award recognizes her enthusiasm to organize and involve as many people as possible in furthering the art and craft of quiltmaking and her long involvement in coordinating highly successful fundraising activities for various charitable institutions in South Australia. Lessa was also presented with the Rajah Award at the Australian Quilt Convention in Melbourne in February 2007 for her Outstanding Contribution to Australian Quilting.
The programme is structured around morning workshops with afternoon excursions or free time to relax, swim have a spa massage or simply continue quilting. We may alter the programme in response to the weather or the interest of the group.
Saturday 24 Aug
Arrive Savusavu.
You will be greeted with a traditional Fijian welcoming ceremony.
Sunday 25 Aug
Morning workshop: an introduction to the week.
Afternoon: free to relax.
7.30pm: Dinner
Monday 26 Aug
Morning workshop.
12.30pm: Lunch
After lunch you will have some free time for snorkelling, swimming and relaxing. Or there's an optional visit to town, visiting the geothermal hot springs, local market and shops.
7.30pm: Dinner
Tuesday 27 Aug
Morning workshop.
12.30pm: Lunch
2.00pm: Tapa (decorate bark cloth) making demonstration.
7.30pm: Dinner
Wednesday 28 Aug
Morning workshop.
12.30pm: Lunch
In the afternoon we will have a beach outing.
6.30pm: Drinks at Savusavu Yacht Club. Informal dinner at Daku.
Thursday 29 Aug
Morning workshop.
12.30pm: Lunch
Afternoon free
7.30pm: Dinner
Friday 30 Aug
Morning workshop.
12.30pm: Lunch
7.30pm: Dinner
Finish individual projects; end with show and tell. Afternoon visit to Vivili village for traditional meke (dance).
Final lovo dinner.
Saturday 31 Aug
Leave Savusavu and on to international flights.


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Will Call is available at the box on the day of the performance. The customer must present the credit card used to purchase tickets, confirmation number and photo I.D.
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{ Breakfast month :: round up }
Posted by Julia Tuomainen under Baking, Bread, Hot Desserts, Monthly themes
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Juggling the demands of life is a daily challenge for most people.
As Mr Mélanger continues to survive full time work obligations with writing a thesis (brave man!), and I the art of juggling full time work and the inevitable "always feeling like you are falling short" role of mum to baby Mélanger, our spare time is spread incredible thin.
The volume of collective commitments and responsibilities in our lives seems to create a massive deficit in the family time bucket. So snatching a precious minute here and there together is a priority. But the reality is, a weekend breakfast may be the only genuine time we get to spend together all week.
This month's theme has reinforced my goal to create a new food tradition for my family. But more importantly, it has become the catalyst to earmark what little time we have, and steal a few moments enjoying breakfast together on the weekend as a family. I cannot think of a more delicious way to spend that time.
Here is a roundup of this month's recipes. For versatility, ease and speed, our favourite pick is the Pannukakku, the Finnish baked pancake.
{ Wholemeal English Muffins } Topped with homemade marmalade or jam this dish is the epitome of simple. With a boost of wholemeal flour for added nutrition, this little recipe is a keeper. Prepare the dough the night before, for freshly baked English Muffins in the morning. Left overs are great to freeze for breakfast on the run. { Read more here … }
{ Clementine curd crêpes with seasonal fruits } Citrus curd makes a perfect complement to a stack of crispy, wafer thin crêpes. Prepare a stack in advance, or freeze leftovers for a quick crêpe snack any time. Enjoy with any endless combination of fruit. Whatever you have on hand. Ditch the fruit if you prefer! { Read more here … }
{ Marinated mushrooms on bacon bread toast } The hearty bacon bread marries well with the light, fragrant flavour of the marinated mushrooms. This dish is a bit of a twist on a childhood of 'mushrooms on toast'. { Read more here … }
{ Baked Apple Pancake } This baked pancake is popular for dessert or as an accompaniment for coffee, or, as here, makes a nice main dish for breakfast or a brunch served with juice, smoked sausage and coffee (always coffee, of course!). { Read more here … }
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Great round up Julia!!! My favourite is the clementine curd. It looks and sounds so amazing.
I think one of the wonderful things about food is how it brings families together. I hope you and your family enjoy your new weekend breakfast tradition amongst all the things you have going on. You certainly sound like a busy family.
Your breakfast treats have been great Julia. Keep up the good work. Looking forward to next month.
I made an apple pannukakku after reading your post on it, and it was my favorite breakfast of the month, too:)
With 2 kids (and one on the way), I can totally relate to what your saying regarding having a deficit in family time. I, too, have a full time job, I blog on the side, and weekend breakfasts are really the only time we can "slow it down" and have a fun meal. Who doesn't like all these sweet-savoury breakfast treats??…And then we're on our way to swim class, dance class, soccer practice…life goes on…! LOL! Thanks for this lovely post!


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This article is about the results of our Y-DNA project. It was published in the Chilton's Children "The Chilton Chat" in April, 2006.
DNA Clarifies Chilton-Winslow Relationship
In February of this year the Winslow Family Y-DNA Project proved that the descendants of Timothy Winslow, born about 1654, are not direct descendants of John Winslow and Mary Chilton. The project used the relatively new concept of Y-DNA genetics to verify that there is no genealogy connection between the Timothy descendants of today and John Winslow and Mary Chilton of almost 400 years ago.
For more than five decades, the descendants of Timothy Winslow, sometimes referred to as the Southern Winslows, have been searching for definitive proof of Timothys father. A great number of reports have speculated that Timothys father was Joseph Winslow, the son of John Winslow and Mary Chilton. Most of the speculation was based on subjective evidence that places Joseph in North Carolina at a time that was consistent with Timothys appearance there and the entries in John Winslows will that leaves monies to Josephs children at a time before the birth of Josephs recorded children. This led to the speculation that Joseph probably had an earlier, unrecorded marriage that produced Timothy.
Y-DNA analysis depends on the genetic markers found in the Y-chromosomes of males. These genetic markers are only passed from father to son, to son, to son, etc. Each time the father passes on his genetic material to a son, there is a possibility of a change (or mutation) that might occur in one of the genetic markers. However, these mutations occur very infrequently. This allows us to use these genetic markers as a fingerprint for a specific branch of a family.
Many people have asked me if we had to dig up John Winslow or Mary Chilton to obtain their genetic material for testing. Fortunately, modern DNA analysis does not require nor did we use any genetic material of our ancestors. The process used is called triangulation. With this method, we use a combination of genealogy records and DNA results of living descendants as a way to prove relationships while cross checking our results to ensure its accuracy.
Very simply, we use genealogy records to determine potential candidates for Y-DNA testing. Those candidates are living male descendants of the various branches of the ancestors we wanted to prove. In our case the branches that we needed for the proof were descendants of John Winslow, Kenelm Winslow (brother of John Winslow), and a descendant of Timothy Winslow. Actually, we try to obtain at least two participants from each branch to ensure that genealogy records and the DNA results correlates for each branch.
If the project could show that John, Kenelm and Timothy descendants all had similar DNA results, we could be sure they were all related. It is a little bit like a three-legged stool: If all the legs are the same then the stool is solid if all three branches of DNA are the same, then our relationship proof is solid.
The Kenelm descendants were some of the first to respond to our request for participants in April 2005. They had good genealogy documentation and their DNA results confirmed their records.
By the end of 2005 we had also recruited a number of Timothy descendants and produced an early win. It had always been believed that Timothy had two sons, Thomas and John. Even though they were recorded to be about the same age and lived in the same area, there had never been documented proof that they were brothers. The DNA results from the descendants of both of Timothys sons match 100 percent. We now had confirmation that they were indeed brothers and the sons of Timothy.
However, the match between the Timothy descendants and the Kenelm descendants was not conclusive. If Timothy was the grandson of John Winslow and Mary Chilton then Kenelm would be Timothys granduncle. It could be the distance of the relationship that was causing the DNA not to match closely. We knew we would have to locate a documented descendant of John Winslow to have definitive proof.
In mid-January 2006, a documented descendant of John Winslow agreed to participate in our project. His DNA results showed that he matched very closely with the Kenelm descendants, confirming that John and Kenelm were brothers. However, the John descendant did not match closely enough for John to be Timothys grandfather.
An interesting result was that even though the DNA analysis indicated that Timothy was not Johns grandson, they did have a common ancestor that lived about 1000 years ago. This would have been at a time before surnames were common and therefore no way of confirming the relationship with any records.
In less than a year, Y-DNA analysis was able to disprove the connection between the Southern Winslows and John Winslow and Mary Chilton, putting an end to the five decades of uncertainty.
There is significant research currently underway focused at identifying who Timothys father might really be. Just knowing that descendants of John Winslow and Kenelm Winslow are not possibilities reduces the scope of our investigation significantly. Im sure DNA analysis will be integral in confirming any potential father candidates in the future, and the Winslow Family Y-DNA Project will continue to help Winslow family members connect with their ancestors by bridging gaps in their recorded genealogy.
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Beyond The Sun
Scotland's Favourite Paintings
Edwin Morgan
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For years Scotland has nurtured the relationship between literature and art. Indeed, many of Scotland's finest writers began their careers at art school - Alasdair Gray, John Byrne and Liz Lochhead, amongst others. It is a connection to cherish. Beyond the Sun adds a further dimension to this flowering relationship between poetry and painting. In September 2005, readers of The Herald newspaper voted for their ten favourite paintings in Scotland. Topping the list was the stunning Salvador Dali's Christ of St John of the Cross, but also included were poignant classics such as Avril Paton's Windows in the West and Sir Henry Raeburn's Reverend Robert Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch.
Edwin Morgan, Scotland's most popular poet, was so fascinated and inspired by these paintings that he immediately penned a poem to honour each one, and sent the handwritten originals to Lesley Duncan, poetry editor at The Herald. These poems perfectly complement the paintings and the result is a moving collection which comes at a time when Scotland is yet again defining its cultural status in the world with the re-opening of Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. The book begins with introductory essays by Lesley Duncan and Alan Riach, Professor of Scottish Literature at Glasgow University, and ends with a touching afterword by Glasgow's Poet Laureate, Liz Lochhead.
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Oceana Fires Back at Flawed Federal Decision not to list Great Whites as Endangered
In the ongoing fight to protect the distinct population of great white sharks off the coast of California and Mexico, Oceana submitted a critical analysis of the federal Biological Review Team's (BRT) status report used by the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) as the basis for their decision not to list this West Coast population of apex predators under the federal Endangered Species Act (ESA).
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Oceana Convenes New International Partnership to Save Endangered Pacific Leatherback Sea Turtle
When Oceana first began its work to protect critically endangered Pacific leatherbacks off the U.S. West Coast, we had no idea that these prehistoric turtles would eventually provide a global link to connect us to conservationists half way across the planet.
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Saving West Coast Corals
Though you might not know it, California, Oregon, and Washington waters are home to deep-sea cold water corals that are every bit as brilliant and fascinating as their tropical counterparts. These corals explode with color and texture while playing an important role in our ocean ecosystems. Corals provide shelter, protection from strong currents and predators, and important areas for feeding, spawning, resting, and breeding.
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Future of Great Whites in the Hands of California Leaders
We are alarmed by the recent decision by the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) not to provide needed protections for U.S. West Coast great white sharks under the federal Endangered Species Act. NMFS declined protections despite current science estimates of only a few hundred sub-adult and adult white sharks at their primary aggregation sites. The Endangered Species Act (ESA) petition submitted by Oceana and its partners to NMFS met all the legal criteria and demonstrated through the best available science that this special population of great white sharks clearly warrants protections under the ESA.
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Drift Gillnets Kept at Bay . . . For Now
We can breathe a momentary sigh of relief. This Monday, the Pacific Fishery Management Council voted unanimously to maintain protections off California and Oregon for the critically endangered population of Pacific leatherback sea turtles. However, in 2014 these federal fishery managers will consider another proposal for allowing driftnets into sea turtle habitat southwest of Monterey, California.
At the meeting a few days ago in Tacoma, Washington, the Council considered a full array of proposals to expand the use of drift gillnets off California and Oregon and into an area currently designated to protect Pacific leatherback sea turtles. But Oceana—with the help of our partners, and support of our avid Wavemakers—successfully thwarted those efforts by presenting new science on the decline of leatherback sea turtles; by revealing scientific data showing massive wasteful bycatch of large whales, dolphins, sharks, and other fish by the drift gillnet fishery; and by bringing forward the public uproar over the proposed expansion of the driftnet fishery into a currently protected area.
Mile-long drift nets hang like invisible curtains in the water column to catch swordfish, but they unselectively entangle other marine life traversing through the open ocean. To numerically paint the portrait of this wasteful fishery, for every five swordfish caught in 2011, one marine mammal was killed and six fish were tossed back dead. When it comes to whales, this fishery takes many species, but one of particular concern is the sperm whale. The largest of the toothed whales, sperm whales have the largest brain of any animal and it is estimated that 16 of these amazing endangered whales were taken in the drift gillnet fishery in 2010 alone.
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Removing Walls of Death: Saving Sea Turtles from Drift Nets
An endangered Pacific leatherback sea turtle swims through the cold, nutrient-rich waters off California where it has made an impressive journey from its nesting beaches in Indonesia to feed on jellyfish. But, it encounters an unwelcome surprise, a mile long drift net in which its flipper becomes entangled.
Because this net sits overnight in the water column to catch its targeted commercial species, swordfish and thresher sharks, this net will not be pulled up until the following morning. In the meantime, the sea turtle is unable to surface for air and drowns. The drift gillnet fishery takes, on average, 138 marine mammals per year including sperm whales, humpback whales, pilot whales, minke whales, dolphins, seals and sea lions—not to mention thousands of sharks and other fish. The vast majority of those animals are dumped back into the ocean, dead or injured.
Due to concerns over bycatch resulting from the use of drift gillnets, Washington and Oregon have prohibited fishermen in their state from using these destructive nets off their coast. This leaves California as the only west coast state still allowing this deadly gear.
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Great Whites Now Have Endangered Species Protections
It's official; as of today, California's great white sharks are now fully protected under the California Endangered Species Act! As new candidates for protection under this law, while the state of California considers permanent actions, the ocean's most iconic sharks will now receive the exact same legal protections afforded to other listed endangered species, placing them in the company of the furry sea otter and the majestic blue whale. As of today, it is now a criminal offense to pursue, catch, or kill a white shark in California. With recent population estimates of fewer than 350 adult white sharks, this action may be just in time to keep them from extinction.
The main threat to great whites is incidental capture in drift and set gillnets which together target swordfish, thresher sharks, halibut, and white seabass. Since the 1980s there has been an average of over 10 reported interactions of great white sharks in these gillnets annually, and up to 30 reports in a single year. The number of observers who go out to sea on these fishing vessels and document bycatch is currently very low, so we don't know the full extent of this bycatch. Also of concern is what scientists call post-release mortality. While some great whites are released from gillnet capture alive, others die shortly after from severe damage inflicted to their organs and internal bleeding. Bycatch in fisheries, under-reporting, and post-release mortality, in culmination with a low population size, slow growth, and a low reproductive rate could be enough to jeopardize the recovery of the unique population of great white sharks off California.
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Greater Protections for Great Whites
The unique population of great white sharks off California has been awarded 'candidacy' status under the California Endangered Species Act. The Fish and Game Commission unanimously voted to advance white sharks to candidacy at their February 6 meeting in the Golden State's capital city, Sacramento.
We are thrilled that the Commission carefully considered comments from fishermen, scientists, environmental groups, and the public to arrive at the decision that this iconic species of shark merits additional protections and that we need to know more about these amazing apex predators.
Being a candidate for protection under the California Endangered Species Act means the state will consider an array of possible management measures that can be put into place to reduce bycatch of white sharks. Possible measures include time and area closures of the fisheries where white sharks are caught, modifications to fishing gear, and strict limits on how many of the sharks may be captured incidentally as bycatch.
The Department of Fish and Wildlife will now embark on a one-year in-depth status review of the population. Once the review is complete, the Commission will vote on whether or not to officially list white sharks as threatened or endangered.
Oceana extends a special thank you to the 44,000 Wavemakers who signed the letter of support to better protect our ocean's iconic apex predator. Your support is making a difference.
Why are California great whites unique?
New scientific studies show that great white sharks off the U.S. West Coast are genetically distinct and isolated from all other great white shark populations worldwide, and that there are estimated to be fewer than 350 adult sharks in this West Coast population. This low population alone puts these great whites at great risk of extinction from natural and human-caused impacts. Beyond that, their continued existence off our coast is further threatened by inherent vulnerability to capture, slow growth rate, and low reproductive output.
The number one threat to this unique population is bycatch in the set and drift gillnet fisheries, which together target swordfish, thresher sharks, California halibut and white seabass. The new candidacy status for these white sharks will allow state managers to begin to control this bycatch.
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Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council Takes Stand on Forage Species
Precautionary approaches to fishery management for the ocean's tiny fish are picking up steam across the US West Coast.
California state wildlife advisors recently adopted the state's first forage fish policy by a unanimous vote and federal fisheries managers recently committed to prohibit new fisheries from developing on unmanaged forage species. Now, the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary has become part of the broad, diverse coalition in defense of forage fish for a healthy ocean food web.
Late yesterday afternoon, the Monterey Bay Sanctuary Advisory Council adopted a resolution recognizing the important role of forage species, lending support for state and federal fishery managers' commitments to afford additional protections to the ocean's small, but critically important marine species. By protecting the forage base, our priceless underwater backyard will continue to be a highly sought destination for eco-tourism, recreational opportunities, and vibrant fisheries, ultimately benefiting our entire coastal community.
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Great White Sharks Caught off of Los Angeles
In the video above, people are shocked that a fisherman accidentally caught two great whites off of the pier at Manhattan Beach in Los Angeles in the same day (both sharks were released). But, in fact, this isn't too surprising given that the waters off of Southern California are the main nursery grounds for our west coast population of great white sharks.
Researchers believe young great white shark "pups" spend their first couple years in the warm ocean waters off Southern California and Northern Mexico, where they feed on several species of forage fish like squid, mackerel, anchovies, sardines and hake. Researchers also believe Southern California waters may serve as birthing sites for great white pups as well. After reaching about 6 years of age, great whites get big enough to join the other adult sharks that feed on seals and sea lions, playing an important ecological role as some of the ocean's few natural predators. Ultimately, this helps keep our ocean food web in balance, ensuring healthy marine wildlife populations and vibrant fishing opportunities.
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We are committed to preserving and rebuilding the wetlands of South Louisiana…
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In 2012 we were proud to be part o' the first Bayou Terrebonne Cleanup…
"Armed with our small army of volunteers, on March 31, 2012, the Barataria-Terrebonne National Estuary Program held the first annual BTNEP Cleanup Bayou Lafourche event. The event was designed to remove trash from 106 miles of Bayou Lafourche in a three-hour time span. We held a series of workshops where Alma Robichaux, BTNEP Education Coordinator, discussed with the site captains plans for the half-day cleanup.After the cleanup, the Nicholls State University Geomatics Class calculated the results of the trash removal from tally sheets used by our Site Captains. A public presentation was given on May 10 revealing the results. Over 1200 volunteers collected 17.97 tons of trash, averaging about 350 pounds of trash per linear mile along the bayou."
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The cost of rebuilding a house in the Lower Ninth Ward using only volunteer labor runs in the $12,000 – $17,000 range.
If 10 people to donate their time for just one day…that equates to 80 man hours worth of time and talent IN A DAY going toward restoration and rebuilding. If we can get that same 10 people to donate three days work, that equates to 240 hours! It takes the average person more than 6 WEEKS to accomplish that – imagine the good this can do! Everyone is welcome to participate in this endeavour; please consider donating YOUR time during this event. If ye can't volunteer, please join us anyway and support the city & people of New Orleans (there will be fund raising events) and consider contributing to the organizations we're supporting below.
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LowerNine.org: A non-profit organization dedicated to training residents and volunteers in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the numerous skills necessary to bring this century-old historic neighbourhood back to life in the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. These skills run the gamut from basic to advanced house construction and rebuilding, but also include community gardening projects, emotional and social support services, social outreach and community development. We offer our services to all people, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, physical abilities, religious beliefs or economic status. The Lower Ninth Ward, due to its proximity to the Industrial Canal levee breach, was one of the hardest-hit neighbourhoods in the New Orleans area. Rebuilding in the Lower Nine has lagged behind that of other neighbourhoods as a result of poverty, the scale of the devastation and local, state and federal government inaction.
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Which is the point I have been trying to get across, what was the support company asked to do.....
I am not saying what is the correct thing to do, but if the company has done what was asked.
as others have said it comes down to what the school actually were told was going to happen. Nothing wrong with using legacy servers in the virtual world. I mean I have a client still using a SCO unix 5.0 system which was installed circa 1995/6. I have seeb very large orgs still using Windows 3.0 machines.
Whether as you state it was the best idea to just virtualise vs rebuild. It probably sounds better to rebuild but 1 days install to virtualise a Server vs 3/4 days to migrate correctly could of been a few k depending on the installers.
Which is the point I have been trying to get across, what was the support company asked to do.....
I am not saying what is the correct thing to do, but if the company has done what was asked.
is this a single server school?
If it is a single server school and they had an old server that was on its last legs they should have set up the new server with a new OS and set that box up as a nice new DC. You now have limited options on the new box.
I have now found out that the school paid approx £5k to have their domain migrated to a "2008/2012" domain. The school also requested that the server be futureproofed as much as possible.
The school believe this server is the finished article so would not have questioned the people who installed it had it not have been pointed out to the head that it isn't what they have asked for.
For that price too, I would expect a brand new server, brand new domain and to have the clients set up.
I take it the 5K was also for hardware along with OS + install costs.
Out of interest what server did they get?
5K sounds about right for a migration (not a new domain but migration from 2003 to 2008R2 or 2012 as a minimum).
But to be honest depending on the spec of the box that could be 90% of the money.
EDIT: as well as what the school have asked for, you will also have to check what the company have put in the quote/spec.
It may well be a sales guy has turned up said you want a new server, how much you want to spend? 5K ok here you go this is what we will do A B C (although they actually want X Y Z etc).
So technically the company could have done what it quoted to do, but the school doesn't actually want what they have quoted on - which actually leaves the blame at the school/person who signed it off.
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Last edited by phill79; 18th September 2013 at 07:03 PM.
By "commissioning" they mean VM'ing the old 2003 DC onto a 2012 box? Two thousand pounds?
It's maximum a days work - and I've done similar many times.
At most two days, and only if you're happy paying the guys top dollar at £125/h to sit around watching things copy.
Sorry but this is overpriced work.
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