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Got hit on by the cable guy. Solid 9. Think Orlando Bloom with a glorious curly mullet.
He has an accent when he types. I can *hear* the schnitzel. Especially when he's drunk.
well i don't NEED my liver but it's nice to have one when you're trying to have a good time
I have a rash on my arm from the cat litter. Think the cat will be mad that I peed in its box?
Probably for the best. My morning wood is pretty horrible. I wouldn't want to tip the earth's axis/ create a new magnetic pole
Sex obviously provides more sustenance than oatmeal.
speaking of festive, i made out with a guy in a leaf pile last night. happy fall?
Who'd have thought a guy with a lisp would be so good with his tongue?
The guy at the rodeo just told me "if ya don't say none, ya don't get none". What the hell does that mean?
Im pretty sure you just got hit on by a gay cowboy.....
I just got my evaluation. My manager told me he hated my guts and pretty much wanted to stab me in the face. Then he gave me an "exceeds expectations" on pretty much everything and a raise.
The guys are trying to figure out my orientation....think theyve settled on "drunksexual"
Just followed a blind kid around for 20 minutes to see how awesome his guide dog was. And he was pretty fucking awesome
Should I tell this TSA agent his fly is down while he is trying to hit on this chick?
She complimented my boobs and then told me I smelled like teddy bears before falling asleep on the floor.


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Despite a cracked beam in the Bowmer and temporary relocation of several shows to a large tent in Lithia Park this summer, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival was chosen as the best place in the Rogue Valley to see live theater for the third year in a row.
"It's particularly great to hear that, given this season," says Amy Richard, OSF media and communications manager. "We're grateful to the community supporting us through this difficult season."
Twelve professionally produced plays in three venues over nine months aren't the only reasons OSF remains a favorite among Mail Tribune readers and a major tourism draw to Ashland. Its backstage tours, park talks and free Green Show performances also are popular.
"We do things in repertoire," Richard says. "There's a lot of different offerings that people can participate in."
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Climaquiddick Expands – New Zealand Data Questioned
Anthony Watts has the story.
The New Zealand Government's chief climate advisory unit NIWA is under fire for allegedly massaging raw climate data to show a global warming trend that wasn't there.
The scandal breaks as fears grow worldwide that corruption of climate science is not confined to just Britain's CRU climate research centre.
The charts explain it quite well. Here's the NIWA chart:
Notice the relentless rise in temperature depicted on the chart.
Now, here's the raw data from the temperature stations:
As Watts points out:
Gone is the relentless rising temperature trend, and instead there appears to have been a much smaller growth in warming, consistent with the warming up of the planet after the end of the Little Ice Age in 1850.
The revelations are published today in a news alert from The Climate Science Coalition of NZ:
Straight away you can see there's no slope—either up or down. The temperatures are remarkably constant way back to the 1850s. Of course, the temperature still varies from year to year, but the trend stays level—statistically insignificant at 0.06°C per century since 1850.
Got that? 0.06°C per century since 1850?! Absolutely statistically insignificant (especially given that 1850 signaled the end of the Little Ice Age) and certainly nothing which supports the dire prediction of the Chicken Little crowd.
Read the entire Watts article. And for some additional reading, try this piece at American Thinker about the programing problems at the University of East Anglica's CRU. I understood about half (not being a programmer) but it certainly made me understand that there were serious problems with their calculations.
As an aside, I'm going with the "quiddick" suffix vs. the "-gate". As CR mentioned, "-gate" refers to a story the media will relentlessly pursue while "quiddick" refers to a story the media will do its level best to ignore. I think, given the current "coverage" that it is obvious "quiddick" is more applicable – although I do like another suggestion about a name for the whole AGW movement – "Global Whoring". Fits.
Libertarian and Liberal Thanksgivings
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.
Usually I try to keep this day as a non-partisan, non-political day in which I wish everyone of every ideological persuasion the blessings of the day (and I still do!). But as it happens, the day provided me with one of the best examples of the differences between libertarians and liberals I've seen in a while. Two separate postings concerning Thanksgiving. One from a liberal blogger, Ezra Klein, and one from a blogger who is a visitor at the American Enterprise Institute (Mark Perry).
Klein reprints a food section column (one assumes he does so approvingly) all about controlling behavior:
I asked Ariely how he would set up his Thanksgiving feast to limit overeating without having to exercise self-control. His answer was to construct the "architecture" of the meal beforehand. Create conditions that guide people toward good choices, or even use their irrationality to your benefit.
"Move to chopsticks!" he exclaimed, making bites smaller and harder to take. If the chopsticks are a bit extreme, smaller plates and utensils might work the same way. Study after study shows that people eat more when they have more in front of them. It's one of our predictable irrationalities: We judge portions by how much is left rather than how full we feel. Smaller portions lead us to eat less, even if we can refill the plate.
There it is in a nutshell – the liberal propensity toward trying to control the behavior of others. The writer decides it is his or her job to make it more difficult for you to "overeat". Instead of just deciding to put on a great feast in keeping with the day and butt out of the affairs of others, the writer approvingly decides it is incumbent upon the server to construct an "architecture" to control the eating of others. Really – "move to chopsticks"! Or put the mashed potatoes in the kitchen!
Speaking of which, Ariely suggests placing the food "far away." In this case, serve from the kitchen rather than the table. If people have to get up to add another scoop of mashed potatoes, they're less likely to take their fifth serving than if they simply have to reach in front of them.
Some people can just suck the joy out of an occasion, I swear. But this seems perfectly in keeping with my observations of the more liberal among us.
On the other hand, Mark Perry decided on focusing on a completely different thing for the day – a celebration of a miracle that occurs daily all over the world that is rarely acknowledged. Thanksgiving provides the perfect day to note it:
Like in previous years, you probably didn't call your local supermarket ahead of time and order your Thanksgiving turkey this year. Why not? Because you automatically assumed that a turkey would be there when you showed up, and it probably was there when you showed up "unannounced" at the grocery store to select your bird.
The reason your Thanksgiving turkey was waiting for you without an advance order? Because of "spontaneous order," "self-interest," and the "invisible hand" of the free market – "the mysterious power that leads innumerable people, each working for his own gain, to promote ends that benefit many." And even if your turkey appeared in your local grocery stores only because of the "selfishness" or "corporate greed" of thousands of turkey farmers, truckers, and supermarket owners who are complete strangers to you and your family, it's still part of the miracle of the marketplace where "individually selfish decisions lead to collectively efficient outcomes."
Thanksgiving is epitomized by the process Perry describes. Our holiday is indeed as much a miracle of the market as anything. It enables everyone who wants too to have what they need or desire for that day – and every day. It is truly something to celebrate.
Free markets. Free people.
Happy Thanksgiving.
The Significance Of The Growing Climate Scandal
Whether you prefer "Climategate" or "Warmaquiddick" or "Climaquiddick" (most seem to prefer something with "quiddick" v. "gate" for some reason) as a name for the developing scientific scandal, the fact is that the emails revealed this week from the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit are significant and damning.
The leaked documents (see our previous coverage) come from the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia in eastern England. In global warming circles, the CRU wields outsize influence: it claims the world's largest temperature data set, and its work and mathematical models were incorporated into the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 2007 report. That report, in turn, is what the Environmental Protection Agency acknowledged it "relies on most heavily" when concluding that carbon dioxide emissions endanger public health and should be regulated.
To me that's more than enough reason to step back, call a halt to all this talk about global treaties and take a good hard look at the science involved in all of this. What should be obvious to everyone is that more than enough questions have emerged over the past year to seriously question the conclusions reached by the CRU.
This data is the source of the EPA's decision to regulate CO2. The fact that the data may be false or fudged then throws into question not only the conclusions of the IPCC's report, but the EPA's decision. If, in fact, they indicate scientific fraud as they seem too, then it also calls into question any other science or decisions made based on their conclusions. We're literally talking about trillions of dollars hanging in the balance and a massive shift in government power (through regulation and taxation) and intrusion in our lives.
Yet, despite the fact that this story has been circulating for at least a week, some media outlets have declined to pursue it and have done the journalistic equivalent of yelling "damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead" by publishing editorials and articles which talk about the threat of global warming. Thankfully their readers, in some cases unmercifully, clue them in. The Washington Post, one of the few media outlets to even acknowledge the scandal, essentially blows it off in an editorial ironically entitled "Climate of Denial", preferring to pretend that there's really nothing of significance to the emails except perhaps, the CRU should have been a little more transparant than they were. It also refers to the emails as "stolen".
In fact, it appears that the revelation of the emails may have been the work of a whistleblower, who, unlike WaPo, saw the real significance of what was being concealed:
It's not clear how the files were leaked. One theory says that a malicious hacker slipped into East Anglia's network and snatched thousands of documents. Another says that the files had already been assembled in response to a Freedom of Information request and, immediately after it was denied, a whistleblower decided to disclose them. (Lending credence to that theory is the fact that no personal e-mail messages unrelated to climate change appear to have been leaked.)
Interestingly the media exception to that is Declan McCullagh at CBS's blog "Taking Liberties". He does a pretty good and indepth job of looking at it all. I've linked ot his piece above (about the significance of the scandal). Make sure you read the emails concerning the programing and the data base. If that alone doesn't set off alarm bells and tell you that what CRU produced might have some very serious problems, I'm not sure what will. Also read Phil Jones attempt to explain away the "hiding the decline" comment in one of his emails as meaning something colloquial which, of course, he claims doesn't mean what in means otherwise. Very poor.
With all of that said, and ending with citing the Jones quote, I present for your entertainment, "Hiding The Decline":
So Where Are We On Health Care Reform?
That depends on who you talk too. Sen. Chuck Schumer says it will pass in the Senate. But then Schumer always says things will pass whether they do or not. Joe Lieberman says he's going to be "stubborn" about his vote. If the bill has a public option, he won't vote for it. Harry Reid has said it will have some form of a public option, in the case of the pending bill a public option which states can opt out of. With Liberman saying no, is there any doubt the focus will shift to a certain Republican Senator from Maine? And, of course, Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-LA, is in the middle of being " bought" with hundreds of millions of your tax dollars promised in the "health care reform" bill if she'll just sign on and help it pass. They call that "payola" in the broadcasting business and it is illegal.
In the United States Senate, it's business as usual.
Probably the most interesting take on the Senate right now comes from Howard Dean who says he sees trouble for Democrats regardless of the outcome:
"I think if you passed the Senate bill tomorrow it would be OK. But then the problem is they don't have any defense for their members in 2010," Dean said, noting that the public option would not become operational until 2014. "On the other hand, if they drop the public option [to placate moderate members], I think they lose seats."
"So this is really tough. I didn't anticipate being in this position. I thought it would pass. Maybe Harry has some magic up his sleeve. But I don't see how he gets those four votes [Sens. Joseph Lieberman (Conn.), Mary Landrieu (La.), Blanche Lincoln (Ark.) and Ben Nelson (Neb.)] without compromising the bill," Dean concluded.
The former Vermont governor warned that if the party allowed the four moderates to further water down the bill (or defeat it altogether) it could lead to primary challenges or a drop in fundraising from the party's base.
"If you have members refusing to vote for Reid on procedural issues you will have a revolt in the party," Dean said. "What is the point of having a 60-vote margin? This is going to be death for the [Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee] and the [Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee]. Why would anyone donate to them if they're supporting candidates who defeat the Democratic agenda?"
And, of course, he has a "solution":
There was, he insisted, an out clause. Reconciliation — the budgetary maneuver that would allow portions of reform to be considered by an up or down vote — "looks better every time," Dean said. "Someone has to say, at some point, we need to pass a bill." Reid has hinted that reconciliation is an increasingly unlikely proposition.
Nothing but lousy options. Damned if they do, double damned if they don't. This is precisely the position I enjoy seeing Democrats in, especially as it concerns the monstrosity they're trying to birth and call "health care reform". I have to say, this is the one time in my life that I'm actively hoping for a still-birth. It will take all of the Senatorial GOP sticking to their guns, and one of four of the Democrats in question actually living up to their promises. The question is, are any or all of them willing to be known as the Senator(s) who killed health care reform. I know, given this mess, I'd wear that as a badge of honor. I'm still not sure these four would view it that way.
The "Fiscal Conservatives Are Hypocrites" Canard
The blog Dissenting Justice entitles a post: "Why Aren't Self-Proclaimed Fiscal Conservatives Questioning Afghanistan Troop Surge?"
The author then questions why "fiscal conservatives" are fighting tooth and nail to defeat this monstrosity of a health care bill but seem fine with spending billions if not trillions on the war in Afghanistan. He apparently finds that to be a hypocritical and contradictory position.
Really? Well since he lists himself as a professor of Constitutional Law, Critical Race Theory, Law and Social Change, and Equal Protection Theory at the American University, Washington College of Law, I'll ask him where in the Constitution he finds the authorization for entitlement programs such as health care? As for defense appropriations and war fighting, even I can find authorization for them in the Constitution.
A second point – wars end. Entitlements don't. Which do you suppose will cost more in the next 20, 30 or 40 years? Afghanistan or health care "reform"? I think everyone knows that answer.
Those alone seem to me to be two very good reasons fiscal hawks are neither hypocritical or contradictory in their stance.
AGW Science Controvery Heats Up
At least in Europe. And it is the only thing about this controversy that's warming. One of the main warmist propagandists has been forced to concede that the revelation of the emails from within the CRU is a damning bit of evidence that things are not right (or ethical) with the results produced there:
It's no use pretending this isn't a major blow. The emails extracted by a hacker from the climatic research unit at the University of East Anglia could scarcely be more damaging. I am now convinced that they are genuine, and I'm dismayed and deeply shaken by them. Yes, the messages were obtained illegally. Yes, all of us say things in emails that would be excruciating if made public. Yes, some of the comments have been taken out of context. But there are some messages that require no spin to make them look bad.
There appears to be evidence here of attempts to prevent scientific data from being released, and even to destroy material that was subject to a freedom of information request. Worse still, some of the emails suggest efforts to prevent the publication of work by climate sceptics, or to keep it out of a report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. I believe that the head of the unit, Phil Jones, should now resign. Some of the data discussed in the emails should be re-analysed.
George Monboit then goes on to try to salvage the theory by downplaying the significance of the find. According to him, it's only about three or four scientists and one or two lines of evidence out of hundreds. Of course "one line" of incorrect or fudged evidence is more than sufficient to crash a theory. In an article that can only be characterized as goal post shifting, Monboit claims skeptics would have to produce evidence of a much wider conspiracy to fudge or hide evidence before he's willing to concede AGW is a scam. He writes a rather sarcastic faux email to demonstrate the level of evidence necessary as far as he's concerned.
However, one has to recall that the CRU's data was part of the basis for the UN's IPCC report that is being used to move these absurd and costly climate change treaties, such as Copenhagen, forward. When even alarmists like Monboit are forced to concede the CRU emails are damaging, that provides more than a reason to stop this mad rush to do stupid and unnecessary things and, as he says, "re-analyse" the data. This time by real scientists, in the open and with all the data. One other thing Monboit and I agree on – Phil Jones should resign. Too bad he can't take Al Gore with him.
Christopher Monckton, a leading warming skeptic, is mad:
The tiny, close-knit clique of climate scientists who invented and now drive the "global warming" fraud — for fraud is what we now know it to be — tampered with temperature data so assiduously that, on the recent admission of one of them, land temperatures since 1980 have risen twice as fast as ocean temperatures. One of the thousands of emails recently circulated by a whistleblower at the University of East Anglia, where one of the world's four global-temperature datasets is compiled, reveals that data were altered so as to prevent a recent decline in temperature from showing in the record. In fact, there has been no statistically significant "global warming" for 15 years — and there has been rapid and significant cooling for nine years.
Worse, these arrogant fraudsters — for fraudsters are what we now know them to be — have refused, for years and years and years, to reveal their data and their computer program listings. Now we know why: As a revealing 15,000-line document from the computer division at the Climate Research Unit shows, the programs and data are a hopeless, tangled mess. In effect, the global temperature trends have simply been made up. Unfortunately, the British researchers have been acting closely in league with their U.S. counterparts who compile the other terrestrial temperature dataset — the GISS/NCDC dataset. That dataset too contains numerous biases intended artificially to inflate the natural warming of the 20th century.
Finally, these huckstering snake-oil salesmen and "global warming" profiteers — for that is what they are — have written to each other encouraging the destruction of data that had been lawfully requested under the Freedom of Information Act in the UK by scientists who wanted to check whether their global temperature record had been properly compiled. And that procurement of data destruction, as they are about to find out to their cost, is a criminal offense. They are not merely bad scientists — they are crooks. And crooks who have perpetrated their crimes at the expense of British and U.S. taxpayers.
There you have a representation of the two sides at the moment – the AGW side forced to admit the significance of the scientific misbehavior of some of the primary scientists behind the warming theory and the skeptical side, feeling vindicated but angry. Stay tuned for more developments, but don't look for them in the US media. They seem to be preoccupied with much more important things – like the Obama's first state dinner (in a tent, no less).
Obama's Asian Tour: Manufactured Failure Or Real Failure?
James Fallows, at the Atlantic, is pretty sure President Obama's Asian tour was much more successful than the media gives him credit for, and, in fact, entitles his piece "Manufactured Failure". His premise? That the media covered the trip much more like a campaign swing and thus missed its real and more subtle significance – and success. His proof? A couple of reader comments.
That's not to say he may not have a bit of a point as it concerns the media coverage, but on the substantive side he needs to explain this if everything went so swimmingly but, apparently, unnoticed by the press:
Barack Obama looked tired on Thursday, as he stood in the Blue House in Seoul, the official residence of the South Korean president. He also seemed irritable and even slightly forlorn. The CNN cameras had already been set up. But then Obama decided not to play along, and not to answer the question he had already been asked several times on his trip: what did he plan to take home with him? Instead, he simply said "thank you, guys," and disappeared. David Axelrod, senior advisor to the president, fielded the journalists' questions in the hallway of the Blue House instead, telling them that the public's expectations had been "too high."
The master of spin's spin is the public's expectation's had been "too high"? Wow – I guess Axelrod missed all that subtlety, nuance and success as well.
Der Speigel, however, did seem to have a pretty good bead on the actual results. You remember how I said we should monitor the progress this "new" method of conduction foreign policy does in the world of realpolitik? Here's how:
Interests, not emotions, dominate the world of realpolitik. The Asia trip revealed the limits of Washington's new foreign policy: Although Obama did not lose face in China and Japan, he did appear to have lost some of his initial stature.
In Tokyo, the new center-left government even pulled out of its participation in a mission which saw the Japanese navy refueling US warships in the Indian Ocean as part of the Afghanistan campaign. In Beijing, Obama failed to achieve any important concessions whatsoever. There will be no binding commitments from China to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. A revaluation of the Chinese currency, which is kept artificially weak, has been postponed. Sanctions against Iran? Not a chance. Nuclear disarmament? Not an issue for the Chinese.
The White House did not even stand up for itself when it came to the question of human rights in China. The president, who had said only a few days earlier that freedom of expression is a universal right, was coerced into attending a joint press conference with Chinese President Hu Jintao, at which questions were forbidden. Former US President George W. Bush had always managed to avoid such press conferences.
How bad is the growing lack of respect? You have a German magazine which was an Obama booster criticizing his foreign policy and comparing Obama to George Bush and finding Obama wanting.
Somewhere pigs are flying. What isn't flying, however, is this "new" era in US foreign policy.
When Do "Show Trials" Become A Circus?
I don't think there's any real doubt that Eric Holder's decision to try the 9/11 defendants in New York's federal court was as much about politics as justice. President Obama's remarks about KSM's guilt and the outcome of the trial left little doubt this is to be a show trial. And while I'm certainly no fan of Sen. Lindsey Graham, I thought he made Holder look foolish during the Senate hearings into the matter. It was clear, at least to me, that this decision was not well thought out. It was also clear that Holder had no idea of the possible ramifications of his decision. He continually, but ineffectually, avoided Graham's points – once these terrorists are brought into the federal court system there are a completely different set of rules at work. And while they may indeed get convictions with these particular defendants, it most likely won't be pretty and it sets a precedent (criminalizing this war) that we may regret in the future.
It is now emerging that even if the administration adamantly denies that these are show trials, the terrorists in question know exactly what they are and plan on using them to propagandize what they did and why:
Scott Fenstermaker, the lawyer for accused terrorist Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, said the men would not deny their role in the 2001 attacks but "would explain what happened and why they did it."
Mohammed, Ali and the others will explain "their assessment of American foreign policy," Fenstermaker said.
"Their assessment is negative," he said.
Fenstermaker met with Ali last week at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. He has not spoken with the others but said the men have discussed the trial among themselves.
But don't worry – the feds have it all under control. This will be a fair but orderly trial:
Dean Boyd, a spokesman for the Department of Justice, said Sunday that while the men may attempt to use the trial to express their views, "we have full confidence in the ability of the courts and in particular the federal judge who may preside over the trial to ensure that the proceeding is conducted appropriately and with minimal disrupton, as federal courts have done in the past."
Really? So how does Mr. Boyd and the Department of Justice plan on stopping a terrorist, to whom they just gave this right, from confronting his accusers in court and taking the stand to defend himself?
I mean if this is all about justice and not about, you know, a show?
Obama To Offer Target Cuts In Greenhouse Gases At Copenhagen
World in recession?
Wheels coming off the science of AGW?
High unemployment continuing to rise?
2010 an election year?
Senate historically opposed to international treaties that hurt the economy?
Great – why not go to the UN's Copenhagen treaty summit and offer some totally unrealistic and probably unachievable cuts in greenhouse gas emissions so we can feel like one of the cool kids?
President Barack Obama is considering setting a provisional target for cutting America's huge greenhouse gas emissions, removing the greatest single obstacle to a landmark global agreement to fight climate change.
This is absolutely perfect for the talker-in-chief. Go. Promise. Bask. This is how you turn a useless conference which will most likely never accomplish a thing in reference to its primary goal into one all about the president.
Nigel Lawson points out the obvious:
But the meeting will still be declared a great success. Politicians do not like being associated with failure, so they will make sure that whatever emerges from Copenhagen is declared a success, and promise to meet again next year. This will at least give our political leaders the time to get themselves off the hook.
"Off the hook" in Obama's case will be bringing a provisional treaty back with cuts he's promised included and trying to get the Senate to ratify it. Kyoto went 98-0 against and is widely recognized – given the utter failure of other countries to even get close to their promised targets – as the smart move of the time.
Copenhagen is to go one step further. As PM Gordon Brown declared last week:
Copenhagen must "forge a new international agreement … [which] must contain the full range of commitments required: on emissions reductions by both developed and developing countries, on finance and on verification".
Meaning? Meaning the idea is to stop developed countries from "outsourcing" their carbon emissions to "developing" countries. And to put those developing countries – in the middle of a global recession – on a restricted carbon diet.
It. Is. Not. Going. To. Happen.
Developing countries may agree the industrialized countries need to go on that diet, but they're not going to hobble themselves unless massive transfer payments are involved. Massive. They are going to have to be satisfied that this sort of agreement causes them no harm economically. Good luck with that.
And, of course, with the lion's share of the transfer payment bill and his promised cuts in hand, President Obama has to come back and convince the Senate, in a re-election year, that giving away even more money we don't have and further crippling our economy for, at best, a marginal effect on the climate, is a good idea.
Cap-and-trade is on hold until at least the spring of '10 in the Senate. Depending on what Obama does in Copenhagen (being loved means giving away the farm if necessary) it could be DOA when it is taken up again in the Senate. Senators, at the time, are going to be sticking their political fingers into the wind and assessing the popularity of an economy killing bill in the midst of a full bore scientific scandal about AGW's science, continuing high unemployment and negative economic numbers. Most are not going to like what they see or hear – especially with November 2010 approaching for a third of them.
Animated Unemployment
A very cool animated Graphic showing the change in unemployment over the last two years.
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Budget cuts could eliminate local refuge manager's job
Published: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 at 11:29 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 at 11:36 a.m.
HOUMA -- Paul Yakupzack has been overseeing the Mandalay and Bayou Teche National Wildlife Refuges since 1996, but if proposed federal budget cuts go into effect, he may be out of a job in three years.
The local wildlife refuges are two of 128 refuges in the southeast region that could face a financial shortfall if President Bushs proposed 2007 budget cuts are approved.
Locally, if proposed cuts become a reality the two refuges will be whittled down to a single employee, Yakupzack said. Currently two people are employed at the refuge, a manager and a wildlife biologist assistant.
Bayou Teche National Wildlife Refuge in St. Mary Parish had a wildlife biologist, but that position was eliminated in February -- a victim of earlier budget cuts, Yakupzack said.
Now Yakupzacks job is on the line.
"What it is, they have three years before these cuts go into effect," he said. "If I were to retire, vacate position or transfer, (my position) will not filled."
Yakupzack said hes eligible to retire, but had not planned on doing so just yet.
Though Yakupzack has been working for the two local refuges for decades, he said hes been stationed in Houma since 2000. If his position as refuge manager is cut, "thats basically closing the refuge," he said. "It may not be closed to the public, but we might have to cut our programs."
The local refuges are run by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The entire National Wildlife Refuge System covers nearly 96 million acres in 545 refuges throughout the country.
Among other things, the system organizes hunting and fishing programs, maintains trails and boating facilities, tracks animal populations and protects unique and sensitive habitats.
The system grew at a fast pace after Congress passed the Refuge Improvement Act of 1997. With new acquisitions and a cleared mandate, the federal money it gets more than doubled over the years, jumping from $178 million in 1997 to $391 million in 2004.
But the past two years have seen money decline as Congress and President Bush have sought to cut spending.
The presidents 2007 budget would keep the services spending budget relatively the same as last year.
"You have to look at it relative to what it was," said Chris Tollefson, a spokesman for the Fish and Wildlife Service, responding on behalf of the administration. "Its tough to expect that those kind of increases would continue."
As the federal money remains stagnate, refuge officials anticipate needing $16 million in annual increases to keep up with fixed costs such as payroll and inflation. Advocacy groups have argued that the budget should be doubled if the system is to live up to its mission.
Michael Woodbridge, director of government relations at the National Wildlife Refuge Association, said the refuge system was "on life support" in the mid-1990s when Congress and the Clinton administration began ramping up its funding to accommodate expansions and address massive maintenance backlogs. The Bush administration continued those efforts initially, leading up to the systems centennial celebration in 2003.
"But then after fiscal 2004 weve just seen a steady decline," said Woodbridge, whose organization partners with groups like Ducks Unlimited and the National Rifle Association to advocate for more money. "Were losing anything we gained ... We truly are in a crisis. These (staffing) plans really illustrate that."
The southeast region is the systems largest division, with 128 refuges and some 750 employees. As such, it has a bigger budget hole to fill.
The regions restructuring plan would eliminate 87.5 positions, including 21 in Florida, 18 in Louisiana, 11 in Georgia and almost nine in the Atlanta regional headquarters.
"With the cuts weve had already, were looking at about a 20 percent reduction in our work force, so that has ramifications across the board," said Jon Andrew, chief of the southeast region.
Yakupzack said programs like the public hunting program could be affected if only one employee remains at Mandalay and Bayou Teche.
"That is the only thing we have that we offer the public," he said noting the annual program brings approximately 600 people to the Mandalay site and 300 to 400 to the Bayou Teche refuge.
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Last one was on March 5.
KBW presentation also tomorrow.
tomorrow is june 6th....just happen chance....perhaps.....roger is always making wild assertions, ask him, he'll give you all you want!
the only thing misplaced as you refer, is your expectation....wrong again! but what's new?
Oh. and then he goes back and gives you one "star" - as if that is supposed to make any difference.
It's called "rationalist delusion."
I can see that. Thanx.
Good point. Expectation duly changed.
There is no "delay". The March announcement was early so they could get the SPO done between XD and the start of Q2. No need to announce early this time since SPO is already out of the way.
The previous announcements were 12/12 and 9/13. Change your expectations.
How dare you say anything against Jack?
Once you are on the wrong side of his wrath, you have no recourse. Be prepared for an attack, no matter how misplaced it may be.
Div announcement would hardly be made on a slide my friend. Never heard of such a thing.
And if no announcement made today then the question is why the delay?
Slides are available from the web site, and contain no divi announcxement
No div announcement so far but KBW presentation begins 5 pm.
OTH did not announce agnc div either and their KBW presentation was in am but notice agnc has a June 12 Morgan Stanley presentation too. Thats too late imo.
Wonder what the delay is all about? Hopefully benign.


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I guess all of her sh*t stirring is finally catching up with her. She has back stabbed, bad mouthed and vcheated just about everyone she has ever come in contact with and that is why she has a huge pit full of "EX BUSINESS PARTNERS" that loathe her .......
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Ok. I just needed to vent somewhere. In my area there had been one confirmed case of the measles in a child. The public health department has contacted roughly 500 people so far that may have been exposed before the illness was caught. in that group there has been one more confirmed case and several probable. So the city is bracing for an outbreak that may hit the end of september, begiining of October! My LO is technically due 10/24 but has been showing consistent signs that he will arrive early. Apparenlty our area only has a 50% vax rate for kids 1-3 and 79% for school-age kids. So pretty low. This is making me very nervous. My S/O was never vaxxed as his parents didn't believe in it-- and we all know that measles has a knack for finding those unvaxxed people. (we are seeing about getting him vaxxed asap.) I am happy his sister decided to vax her newborn (he's 3 months and had his first set of shots). I'm trying not to worry too much- but it is really making me nervous!!
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Some may have seen the preview for "Immortals" and been excited to see the next "300" since the previews boasted that it was from the producer of that stylized, violent Greek action film. Viewers going in for a movie like "300" will likely be pleased by elements of this film, but "Immortals" is trying for something a bit different. "Immortals" may be produced by someone involved with "300," but, more importantly, it is directed by Tarsem Singh.
There is an individual in the St. Marks area who has total disregard for the property of others.
He is running his four-wheel-drive truck through yards and fields doing considerable damage.
If you have any information concerning this individual, please contact the Perry County Sheriff's Department. I am offering a $200 reward leading to the arrest and conviction of this individual.
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United Way of Perry County would like to take this opportunity to thank the youth, youth group leaders and various businesses and agencies of the community for taking part in this year's successful "Day of Caring" Nov. 6.
Youth groups joined forces to paint, stain, exercise animals, wash windows, clean, weed and clear trails at designated locations across the county. The free labor provided by our volunteers saved our local nonprofits many maintenance dollars and numerous hours of valuable time.
During the week of Nov. 12-18, the Perry County Community Foundation will join more than 700 community foundations across America for Community Foundation Week. For more than 20 years, the effort has raised awareness about the increasingly important role of these philanthropic organizations in fostering local collaboration and innovation to address persistent civic and economic challenges.
During the week, Perry County Community Foundation encourages everyone to celebrate National Philanthropy day, Nov. 15, by giving thanks and paying it forward.
By CHERI TAYLOR, Guest Columnist
Perry County is participating in the Indiana HomeTown Competitiveness program based on a successful application submitted by the Perry County Chamber of Commerce. The Indiana HomeTown Competitiveness is a program to empower our "hometowns" to enhance their prosperity and quality of life. IHTC is operated out of the Office of Community and Rural Affairs and is based on a similar program that began in Nebraska to help their communities that had been shrinking for over 100 years.
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A lot of ink has been spilled by The News lately about the ACLU. I thought I would weigh in and tell why so many people, including myself, find this organization so loathsome.
Let me first say that the use of the term "civil liberties" in the name of the ACLU is one of the most profound uses of doublespeak in the English language. It is anti-God, anti-American and anti-family and civil liberties be damned if they get in the way of the ACLU's schemes.
By VINCE LUECKE, Editor
Tuesday is "Do Something Good for Someone in Perry County Day." We hope all of us regularly find time to help someone, whether it's a gesture in deeds or words. Being helpful, after all, should be part of everyday life.
The Perry County Community Foundation is behind the designation for tomorrow and it's also National Philanthropy Week. Foundation Director Sally Houzanme has penned a letter about the week on this page and the important work community foundations carry out.
During a speech given Sept. 23, President Barack Obama stated his opinion on the No Child Left Behind program, an educational reform enacted by former President George W. Bush in 2002.
"I want to say the goals behind No Child Left Behind were admirable, and President Bush deserves credit for that," Obama said. "But experience has taught us that in its implementation, No Child Left Behind had some serious flaws that are hurting our children instead of helping them."
Indiana readily agrees with him.
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Nadunisi Naigal will have a running length of just 100 mins and will be released with limited prints. Gautham Menon has openly said that it"s well-tailored film for multiplex audiences and he has experimented with a new-dimensional thriller.
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Haggis Heed Haggis Heed Mar 30, 2009 18:07 Flag
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What a hypocrite you are Linda!
You've made a pleb out of yourself more times than enough on here with your sudden impulses to threaten people and pick fights.
You'll end up getting yourself barred from there in no time.
Hahahaha There will be links to watch the games free...hahahaha I knew you were an armchair fan, and that's just proved it! You're yet another perfect example of a plastic manUre fan who NEVER goes to the matches! hahahahaha
You get people with multiple id's on Facebook too you plank, you can't escape spammers and micky takers on there!!!Sort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
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fyi i am not, repeat not, greatestday. get your facts right bill.
and jiggy baby, i dont go to every game but im not a total armchair fan. we have a newcastle fan in our town who only gets to 3 or 4 games a season, dont make him an armchair fan. like me, he lives a long way away and has commitments, so stop talking out of your stupid fat double chin face and shut the fk up.
your just a sad stupid geordie who has a big mouth......................and absolutely nowt else.
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ps, i notice you and bill are on here a lot, no work then folks. dont worry, my taxes will put food on your table. lazy bastards


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REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Nov. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Badgeville, the #1 gamification and behavior management platform, today announced the addition of three key hires, rounding out the company's world-class executive team. Industry veterans joining the company's executive team include Ted Farrell, VP of Development & Operations; Chandar Pattabhiram, VP of Worldwide Marketing; and Shane Anastasi, VP of Enablement.
According to Gartner, 70 percent of Global 2000 organizations will use at least one gamified application by 2014. Badgeville is well-situated to capture the majority of this market with its unparalleled momentum and market-leading platform. One of the fastest-growing SaaS businesses in Silicon Valley, Badgeville recently announced that in just two years of business, the company has surpassed 200 customers, including Deloitte, Autodesk, Computer Associates, Universal Music, NBC, Samsung, Citrix, VMware, Symantec, and EMC.
"We have consciously assembled a set of proven industry leaders that help us bring psychology and technology together to support enterprise gamification needs," said Kris Duggan, CEO, Badgeville. "Ted, Chandar, and Shane are truly accomplished individuals with deep experience in scaling SaaS companies into global enterprises, as well as supporting thousands of delighted customers with world-class services and technology."
Ted Farrell, VP of Development & Operations, comes to Badgeville from Oracle Corporation, where he served as Chief Architect & SVP for Tools & Middleware. At Oracle, he was responsible for technical and strategic direction of the company's runtime frameworks and tooling, as well as for leading the architecture for Oracle's Fusion Applications, the next-generation of on-premise and SaaS-based packaged applications built from the ground up. Prior to Oracle, Ted was a founder and CTO at several startups including WebGain, Novasoft Systems, and Tendril Software.
Chandar Pattabhiram, VP of Worldwide Marketing, was recently VP of Product and Channel Marketing for IBM Cast Iron, where he was responsible for go-to-market strategy, product marketing, brand marketing, and field marketing. With his marketing leadership, Cast Iron transformed from a startup to the #1 brand in a new category called Cloud & SaaS integration and was acquired by IBM. Prior to IBM Cast Iron, Chandar ran product marketing at Jamcracker, one of the pioneering ASP platforms. He also spent many years at Anderson Consulting where he led strategy, ecommerce, and ERP projects for F500 firms including AT&T, Texas Instruments, Exxon-Mobile, CompUSA, and many others.
Shane Anastasi, VP of Enablement, joins Badgeville to scale services implementation and enablement to support global demand. Shane has a long career in building enterprise professional services teams in companies around the world, such as IBM, SingTel Optus, Vignette Corporation, and BigMachines. He will join Steve Sims, VP of Production, from Electronic Arts, to scale the company's unique blend of behavior design services and best practices to support exponential client growth.
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The following is a rundown of action taken by the Terrebonne Parish Council during its regular meeting Wednesday. All council members were in attendance. All decisions were unanimous unless otherwise noted.
Action: Passed an ordinance for a pipeline rights-of-way agreement for parish-owned property near the Hanson Canal.
Notes: LLOG Exploration Co. wants to obtain pipeline rights of way for two existing pipelines and construction of up to four more pipelines on parish property. They will pay the parish $6,480. This is marsh area away from the highway.
Action: Approved an ordinance creating a drug-free zone around the Gray Knights of Columbus building at 5522 W. Main St.
Notes: State law allows the parish to make this designation. Its up to the Knights of Columbus to install the drug-free-zone signs.
Action: Passed an ordinance executing a cash-sale deed and other documents to buy the George Arceneaux Federal Courthouse.
Notes: The building will cost $2.3 million, though the appraised value is $3.33 million. The courthouse, 8046 Main St., will be used by Houma City Court, which has long sought the building for its home. City Court staff and local residents operate in cramped conditions in the current building at 7887 Main St.
Action: Passed an ordinance amending the parade chapter of the parish code.
Notes: These rule changes were proposed by law-enforcement agencies and Carnival krewes to make parades safer. Modifications include the creation of a public-safety committee, float weight limits, banning smoking and the ability to fine people or kick them off the floats for breaking the rules. It also sets up a Mardi Gras Parade Safety Committee with the authority to set rules and impose sanctions on organizations, floats or individuals.
Action: Appointed Councilman Harold Lapeyre to the Mardi Gras Parade Safety Committee.
Notes: The other members will be the sheriff, Houma police chief, Houma fire chief, a designee of the parish president and one person representing each local parading krewe organization. There will be 14 people in all on the committee.
Action: Approved an ordinance establishing a three-way stop at Linda Street and Everett Drive.
Action: Passed an ordinance authorizing council staff to receive the same $1-an-hour raise as the rest of the parish-government employees.
Notes: Parish President Don Schwab gave all employees a $1-per-hour raise beginning with the first paycheck in May. The council did not have to approve the raise, but it did have to give the OK for council staff to get the salary increase.
Action: Appointed Daniel Simmons Jr. to the Recreation District No. 1 board.
Notes: He received nine votes, while Reece Ponson Sr. had zero votes. Simmons replaced Doug Ponson, who moved to Lafourche Parish.
Action: Re-appointed Billy Hebert and Robert Samanie to the Terrebonne Consolidated Waterworks District No. 1 board and held over for two weeks deciding whether to appoint Arlen Guidry.
Notes: Councilman Clayton Voisin said both Samanie and Guidry told him they wanted to serve again, but neither had notified Council Clerk Paul Labat of that intention. Some council members were concerned about not getting proper notification. On Samanies appointment vote, Councilmen Alvin Tillman, Peter Rhodes and Councilwoman Teri Cavalier abstained. On the vote to hold over Guidrys appointment, Voisin abstained.
Action: Appointed Lillie C. Brunet to the Terrebonne Parish Tree Board.
Held: For two weeks, making an appointment to the Recreation District No. 9 board.
Action: Agreed to install a street light on Lillian Marie Drive, four lights on Hattie Virginia Street and three lights on Mathilda Marie Street in Road-Lighting District No. 1.
Action: Honored the Vandebilt Catholic High School softball team for winning the Class 4A state championship.
Notes: The Lady Terriers defeated Belle Chasse April 30 to win the schools 12th state softball championship, its first since 1999.
Action: The Terrebonne Parish Tree Board presented a certificate to Jackie and Sherry Marie for their extensive tree-planting endeavors.
Action: Declared the week of May 7-13 as National Nurses Week in Houma-Terrebonne.
Notes: Councilwoman Christa Duplantis, a nurse, talked about the valuable services nurses provide. Phyllis Peoples, CEO and president of Terrebonne General Medical Center, thanked the council for recognizing an important profession.
Discussion: Tillman talked about problems with vehicle gas tanks left in parish rights of way and parks. He asked the parish administration to see what can be done to remove the tanks and discourage their dumping.
Discussion: Reggie Bourg, Dulac resident, addressed the council about the parishs lack of federal permits.
Discussion: Jimmy Dagate, assistant district attorney, invited the council, other parish boards and the public to an open-meetings seminar from 1 to 4:30 p.m. May 23 at the Houma-Terrebonne Civic Center.
Discussion: Sybil Guidry, Terrebonne Parish Tree Board president, asked the parish to consider more Vegetative Department staff. She said with more trees being planted, more vegetative maintenance will be needed.
Discussion: Ron Zeringue, Lansdown Drive resident, asked that a stop sign that recently was taken down at the corner of Lansdown and Fair Oaks Street be put back up. A different Lansdown Drive resident asked the council last month to take it down. Lapeyre said he plans to hold a meeting with neighborhood residents next week to see if an amicable solution can be reached.
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