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International News, August 2004
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Contaminated Chilean salmon sold in Estonia
Last year´s scandal involving 180 tonnes of malachite green contaminated Chilean salmon has taken an unexpected twist. Regular readers of the Salmon Farm Monitor will know that shipments of contaminated Chilean farmed salmon were detained in July 2003 by health officials from the Netherlands in the port of Rotterdam (see International News for August-October 2003).
Malachite green is a suspected carcinogen and a threat to both environmental and public health (for further information see the SFPG consultation response to the US National Toxicology Program). The European Commission´s Health and Consumer Protection Directorate issued four "Rapid Food Alerts" in relation to malachite green contamination of Chilean farmed salmon in July 2003 – thus effectively blocking the contaminated shipment from access to the European Union market.
When the contaminated consignment was released to its owners by the Dutch Authorities in January 2004, a number of Chilean organisations applied for a Court Protection Order to prevent it being shipped back to Chile and sold to unprotected Chilean consumers. Chile's Supreme Court ruled against them on the basis of documents submitted by the shipping and processing organisation "Alize Chile Limitada". Legal documents obtained by Ecoceanos in Chile and seen by the SFPG indicate that part of the shipment (some 16 tonnes) of contaminated Chilean salmon, seized by Dutch health officials in July 2003, was sold in Estonia in April 2004 (only weeks before Estonia joined the European Union on 1st May 2004).
An email dated 7th April 2004 from importer Gillian Torry to Carlos Munoz Balmaceda, manager of Export Crown Latin America, says that the shipment is no longer in Rotterdam but has "already been delivered and sold into Estonia". The documents also show that the sale of this salmon involved a complex web of companies, including Bloomsbury International in England and Crown Latin America.
Quite apart from the fact that the farmed salmon in question was way past its best (it left Chile destined for Germany via the Dutch port of Rotterdam on 10th April 2003) and was contaminated with a suspected carcinogen, this issue raises serious food safety questions concerning international trade and the effectiveness (or not as the case may be) of the European Commission´s "Rapid Food Alert" system.
How can a year-old farmed salmon product, classified as contaminated and unsafe for human consumption by European Commission and Dutch food safety officials in July 2003, end up sold in Estonia a matter of weeks before they joined the EU? Such a situation would not have been permitted under EU law after 1st May 2004 so why was it allowed prior to Estonia joining the EU? Were Estonian health and consumer protection officials notified of the "Rapid Food Alerts" issued for this contaminated product? Did the Estonian government warn consumers that this product was contaminated with a suspected carcinogen and had been classified as unfit for human consumption by Dutch health and food safety official's way back in July 2003?
And if 16 tonnes were sold in Estonia what happened to the other 162 tonnes of contaminated Chilean salmon? Why was the contaminated product not destroyed? Did the Chilean government put pressure on EU member states to allow the salmon to be sold in a non-EU country? These and other questions need to be put to the EC, Dutch food safety officials and the Estonian government. In the meantime, for the sake of their health and that of Chilean salmon farm workers, consumers are urged to give Chilean farmed salmon a very wide berth indeed.
Greenpeace make waves in British Columbia
In early July (10th), Greenpeace activists aboard the Arctic Sunrise joined by First Nations from Canada and Alaska led a flotilla of over forty boats through the Broughton Archipelago demanding an end to open net-cage fish farm expansion along the west coast of North America.
A 20-metre floating banner with the message "Keep It Wild - No Fish Farms" was unveiled next to fish farm pens in the Broughton Archipelago, one of the most besieged and concentrated areas of fish farms in the world.
The salmon farms, owned by Stolt Sea Farms and Heritage Salmon, are implicated in disastrous outbreaks of sea lice on juvenile wild salmon. This year the impact on juvenile salmon is worse than ever causing scientists to caution against local extinctions. It is believed that in the past four years, the salmon runs in this region have declined up to 99% as a result of the fish farms and sea lice.
"We are calling for the closure of all fish farms in our traditional territories including the fish farm at Burdwood group of islands, an area of great significance that is home to a burial site, an old village, important clam beds, important rearing area for all fish species including salmon fry, and nine archeological sites", said Chief Bill Cranmer, speaking for the Musgamagw Tsawataineuk Tribal Council. "Alaska stands resolutely opposed to fish farm operations, while British Columbia is expanding aquaculture toward Alaksa, a reckless move that heedlessly threatens wild salmon stocks in both countries," said Jeremy Paster of Greenpeace U.S.
Alaskans are watching events unfold in British Columbia with horror – official applications have already been made for three sites on B.C.'s north coast. One near the Alaskan border at Anger Anchorage has been approved, and the others, at Petrel Point and Azimuth Island, are pending review by the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act.
"What's happening in the Broughton – the eradication of a major wild salmon run - is bound to happen on the north coast toward Alaska where the BC and federal governments are now expanding fish farms," said Catherine Stewart, Greenpeace Canada's westcoast campaigner. "Canada's agenda of fish farm expansion is completely disregarding the lifeblood of the entire west coast: the wild salmon".
Among those joining the flotilla were members of the Klawock Fisheries Co-operative, a native group from Alaska. Webster Demmert, a spokesman for the Klawock tribe, said: "My worst fear is that they would get to expand fish farms in Canada so that they are close to our borders. The closer and closer they get, the more problems we'll see. We are watching a storm move closer, a Canadian-made storm that threatens to wipe out our traditional way of life and our livelihoods in Alaska. We are here to ask all Canadians to put a stop to this insanely risky endeavour".
Sea lice and salmon farms
An independent report released in July (20th) by the David Suzuki Foundation adds to and strengthens the growing body of scientific evidence linking open-netcage salmon farms, sea lice, and lethal impacts to wild pink salmon in the Broughton Archipelago, Canada. The report – ""Possible Factors Contributing to the Low Productivity of the 2000 Broad Year Pink Salmon" - is authored by Ian Williams, a professional biologist with over 35 years of experience in fisheries research in British Columbia. It reviews, and discounts, other possible factors leading to the extremely low levels of pink salmon returning in 2002 and strongly suggests that sea lice from fish farms in the area are the only remaining explanation for the severity of the observed crash.
The Broughton Archipelago is currently the subject of heated debate as concerned residents, scientists, local and international environmental groups, First Nations, and fishermen are again sounding the alarm about the deadly infestations of sea lice that appear to be decimating pink salmon stocks in the area. The archipelago's ecologically rich and extensive shoreline has traditionally provided millions of pink salmon with a high-quality nursery area.
However, local residents have been observing abnormally high numbers of dead and dying juvenile pink salmon as well as extreme sea lice infestation in the area since 2001. Sea lice from the 27 commercial open-netcage salmon farms in the archipelago – the largest concentration of farms on the BC coast – are being singled out as the most likely explanation for a striking collapse in wild stocks.
Williams' report addresses many of the "research gaps" and counter-arguments put forward by governments and industry proponents. The report highlights what is known about sea lice including their potential to kill salmon, research done by biologist Alexandra Morton, and the tendency for the lice to be found in high densities on Atlantic salmon. "Although we have not seen any direct evidence to date linking transmission of sea lice from sea farms in the study area," Williams concludes, "these data strongly suggest that sea lice from farms had a serious impact".
"Governments have a responsibility to take precautionary action and, at a minimum, shut down open net pens in the Broughton Archipelago," says Jay Ritchlin, marine campaigner for the Suzuki Foundation. "The scientific evidence is compelling – the report speaks for itself." A summary and a full report are available online at: www.davidsuzuki.org/oceans
1 million salmon escape in Chile
Ecoceanos News reported yet more bad news from the world´s most incontinent salmon farming nation, Chile. A staggering 1 million salmon leaked from their cages during a heavy storm on 1st July. So many farmed salmon escape in Chile (ca. 1 million per year according to the Chilean government) that fishermen have urged the Government to allow a "wild" fishery for Atlantic salmon – an alien species not native to Chilean waters.
As in British Columbia (and Alaska) it seems that Atlantic salmon are taking a hold in the Pacific. This single escape is believed to be the biggest ever (600,000 salmon escaped from a farm in the Faroes in February 2002). Globally, escapes from salmon farms in 2002 are estimated at 2 million. With 1 million salmon escaping in a single incident, 2004 looks set to be another bad year for escapes (and wild salmon).
According to coastal fishermen the million salmon escaped from just 22 floating cages in Acantilado Bay area in Puerto Aysén. Gabriel Aqueveque, the regional director of the Directorate of Fisheries (Sernapesca), subsequently admitted: "Salmon escaped in the area of Acantilado Bay, not on purpose but due to the bad weather we had. During the storm there were strong gusts and there was also a lot of rain that caused the Aysén river level to rise. This loosened the anchoring systems of the floating cages in the sea production sites authorized in such place".
The offending salmon farm is the Japanese-owned company Salmones Antártica. Juan Carl Cardenas of Ecoceanos said: "This new case of the mass escape of farmed fish could have a serious impact on the wild species in the region. Whilst the companies are protected against the losses incurred by the escape of salmon, as yet no responsible mechanism exists for this industry to investigate, mitigate and eliminate the negative impacts being caused by the escape of millions of these carnivorous fish on the marine biodiversity, on the interests of the coastal communities and on the artisanal and recreational fishermen in the South of Chile".
The President of the artisanal fishermen's Federation Aysen Cofradia, Nelson Matisini, told Ecoceanos News that "This escape of 1 million fish is gravely irresponsible. These (escapes) occur quite frequently and cause a great deal of harm as it is an exotic species, a predator on native species, causes an imbalance in the food chain, and it devours the fish that we catch". The President of the Puerto Aguirre Artisanal Fishermen's Cooperative, Honorino Angulo, noted that they were now asking for compensation. "Ever since the salmon farms started up at Aysen we have seen reduced levels of sardine and robolo which are the species we use as bait," said Angulo.
"We now have to go in search of these species a very long way from our usual areas and with this new escape we will have to go and fish (for them) even further away". It is not just fishery and environmental groups who have expressed concerns - according to Ecoceanos News, the Aysen Regional Health Service recommended that people do not eat the escapee salmon which may contain residues of oxolinic acid, which could provoke a hypersensitive reaction in people allergic to antibiotics. Escaped farmed salmon should surely carry an environmental and public health warning.
Atlantic salmon caught in Alaska (again)
Compared to one million escapees you would be forgiven for thinking that one escapee would not be a problem. Yet in Alaska, where salmon farming is banned and where wild Pacific salmon are the mainstay of the local economy, even a single escaped Atlantic salmon is cause for alarm. The 8.3 pounds escapee in question was caught on 20th July in a commercial gillnet fishery near Ketchikan.
It is not known where the fish originated from but over 2,500 Atlantic salmon escaped from a Stolt Sea Farm operation in neighbouring British Columbia in mid-July. Speaking to the Vancouver Sun a after the Stolt escape at their Sargeaunt Pass site in the Broughton Archipelago, Jennifer Lash of the Living Oceans Society said: "It's ecologically crazy for us to think that the environment can keep handling those pressures. We have to stop salmon farming. When it comes to wild salmon, we really can't afford a high level of risk. This (incident) is another sign that the open-cage system doesn't work. You can't regulate against human error. All the regulation in the world won't stop fish from escaping".
"Regardless of the origin of this fish, it is important to understand the potential danger that Atlantic salmon present to Alaska's wild salmon stocks," said Alaska Department of Fish and Game´s Invasive Species Program Coordinator Bob Piorkowski. "Introduction of non-native species, including Atlantic salmon, into Alaska's fresh and salt waters could result in unexpected and potentially catastrophic consequences ranging from serious reduction of native species and habitat destruction to economic damage."
This is not the first time Atlantic salmon have been caught in the Pacific waters of Alaska. Since 1994, 577 Atlantic salmon have been found in Alaska's waters, including freshwater systems such as the Copper and Situk rivers and as far north as the Bering Sea. And last year an Atlantic salmon was caught near Point Baker south of Petersburg. "The invasive threat of escaped farmed fish is an escalating problem," said Kevin C. Duffy, Commissioner, ADF&G. "More fish farms in British Columbia are proposed and the lack of safe containment continues to plague the industry and threaten Alaska's salmon industry".
The ADF&G has urged the public to be vigilant and to actively watch for Atlantic salmon in Alaska's fresh and salt waters. Over 50,000 wallet sized Atlantic salmon identification cards have been distributed to fishermen and interested citizens throughout the state.
Fish farming takes off in Ireland
"Farming the Deep Blue" is, according to the Irish Government, "a unique event, conceived and developed by commercial fish farmers and backed by Ireland's marine development and research agencies". And the PR blurb goes on: "(Farming the Deep Blue) is the first conference to be devoted exclusively to a realistic assessment of offshore fish farming. It will take place in Ireland in October 2004. Recognising the role that offshore farming will undoubtedly be required to assume in the future supply of seafood, the two day event will lay down challenges for the industry and will create a powerful new voice for the international offshore farming community.
This timely conference will explore in depth the key issues: species and technology choice, markets, finance and economics, risk management, policy and regulation. It will be addressed by leading international practitioners and experts who will assess the current status, feasibility and potential profitability of offshore marine finfish farming".
The Irish Government, despite being hauled before the European Commission at least half a dozen times for flouting EU law on aquaculture, are busily promoting fish farming. In July they announced an investment of some €10 million to be invested under the National Development Plan (2000-2006). "We in Government are aware of the vital importance of the industry in our coastal and peripheral communities and this massive level of investment will ensure that aquaculture continues to develop into a vibrant and sustainable industry", said Ireland's Minister of State at the Department of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources John Browne.
"The impact of this funding will have a huge positive effect in these areas both economically and socially". This latest €10 million funding will underpin total funding of €26 million in the aquaculture industry during the period of the program and is part of a total package of €31.74 million which has been allocated to support the development of the aquaculture industry in Ireland.
Israel´s "ecological time-bomb"
According to Divernet News researchers in Israel are blaming the deterioration of the once-pristine coral reefs around the Red Sea resort of Eilat on intense fish farming, and not, as previously thought, on pollution or divers. Professor Yossi Loya, Chair for Environmental Research in the Department of Zoology at Tel Aviv University has been studying the coral reef at Eilat for the past three decades, and believes that the reef is likely to be completely wiped out unless measures are taken to stop nitrates, excreted by over 5 million farmed fish, killing the coral. "It was one of the most beautiful reefs in the world and believe me I've seen them all. It was a pearl and it's really very painful to see it dying. We are in the 11th hour, the very last moment to save them," said Professor Loya.
Environmentalists have long voiced concern over damage to the coral reefs close to Eilat. Positive measures such as introducing efficient sewage treatment and restricting the areas that divers could visit should have resulted in a regeneration of the reef but in 1993 intensive fish farms began to appear in the Gulf of Eilat.
"What happened between 1993 and 2000 is there was an exponential increase in the yield of fish cages from 300 tons per year to something like 2,000 tons per year," Professor Loya explained. "The key point is that the Gulf of Eilat is an oligotrophic sea, a sea that does not have nitrogen at all. Coral reefs thrive in seas that are poor in nitrogen. If you increase nitrogen you are changing the environment and in such a sensitive environment like coral reefs it is mainly affecting the reproductive system of corals".
Fish farmers and scientists from state-owned Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research Institute (which collects royalties from fish farmers) have predictably denied that there is a link between the declining coral and the fish farms. However, a comparison between the reef close to Eilat and those around Sharm and Hurghada - which have mass tourism, poorer sewage treatment and far larger numbers of visiting divers - illustrate that the Eilat reef has deteriorated to a much greater extent.
Experts say the nitrates excreted by the fish numbers amounts to 250 tons annually. A government report by international scientists found the fish cages contributed around 90 percent of nitrates entering the sea around Eilat. "If you calculate how many nitrates are going into the water, it is equivalent to a town of 30,000 people," said oceanographer Dr Amatzia Genin. "It is an ecological time bomb".
Canadians COOL on farmed salmon labelling
The battle to label farmed salmon is heating up in Canada. Labelling laws already exist in the European Union and Alaska and Country of Origin Labelling (COOL) will make the labelling of farmed salmon mandatory in the United States from 30th September. Canadian salmon farmers are decidedly luke-warm to the idea though. "We've been trying very hard to get our federal government to ensure restaurants and retailers label their salmon," said Jennifer Lash of the Living Oceans Society. "It's necessary [so that] consumers can make their own decisions". Vicky Husband of the Sierra Club added: "It's necessary because not all consumers know what's going on with farmed salmon".
Over the border in Alaksa restaurants already label whether the salmon they serve is wild or farmed. Kim Elton, the state senator who sponsored the labelling bill, says consumers want to know where their salmon comes from and have serious health concerns about high rates of toxins, including PCBs and mercury that scientists have found in farmed salmon. "This (labelling law) allows the consumer in an Alaskan restaurant to go in and make an informed decision on whether or not they want wild or farmed fish," says Elton.
Canadian salmon farmers are reluctant for the general public to have too much information about the contaminants, artificial colourings or environmental impacts of farmed salmon. Mary Ellen Walling of the B.C. Salmon Farmers Association says she would prefer Alaskan restaurants not label their salmon as wild or farmed. Giving a nice plug for CAAR´s "Farmed and Dangerous" campaign she told CBC News (12th July): "I think it's unfortunate. Part of the challenge we have is that people are trying to equate farmed with dangerous".
"The labelling of farmed salmon has become a public relations and political battle," says Jenny Kingsley of the Raincoast Conservation Society in a letter to the Times Colonist (19th July): "The fact is that food labelling is about transparency and the consumer's right to make informed choices. The BC salmon farming industry has stated that it is proud of its product and as such would not oppose Alaskan-style mandatory labelling legislation. Conservation groups, non-government scientists and the public are concerned about the impacts of their product. These impacts are not only measured as PCBs, but as disease outbreaks, sea lice epidemics, escaped farmed fish and chemical pollutants. The solution is clear: Label salmon farmed or wild and let consumers make an informed choice". And so say all of us.
Playing the wild card
An article – "Where salmon is sold, playing the wild card" – in the New York Times reveals how wild salmon is trumping its farmed cousin. "After rising for a decade, sales of farmed salmon have fallen, and the wild salmon industry, which had taken a beating in competition with lower-priced farmed fish, is experiencing a small rebound," reports Marian Burros.
"In the first three months of 2004, imports of farmed salmon were down 10 million pounds, and total sales of farmed fresh fillets were down to $140 million from $158.1 million for the same period last year". At the same time, sales of wild salmon have exploded. "Last year, five million to six million pounds of fillets were sold, about 2 percent of total Alaskan salmon production; this year, the expectation is sales of more than 20 million pounds".
According to the New York Times: "Supermarkets as well as restaurants are eyeing wild salmon with new interest. Costco, which sells whole wild salmon from time to time, is exploring stocking wild fillets on a regular basis". Costo´s senior vice president for food and fresh foods says: "There's a lot of resistance to farm raised. Sales of farm raised were growing about 10 percent; now they are flat. So we are looking to test the waters on wild salmon in the next 90 days". Dave Alameda, national director of seafood for A&P agrees: "We have seen an increase in demand for wild salmon but we can't say specifically whether it was the study (published in Science in January) or just a demand for more natural food".
Two "celebrity" chefs in New York have also been hooked by wild salmon. According to the Vancouver Sun (7th July), "When Canadian culinary whiz Jamie Kennedy, and Rick Moonen, a New York celebrity seafood chef, stepped off a seaplane in Vancouver harbour recently they were rumpled and tussle-haired, and determined to change the way the rest of the world feels about farmed salmon. They'd just returned from Broughton Archipelago off the northeast coast of Vancouver Island, home to 28 salmon farms. Kennedy and Moonen are the culinary equivalent of rock stars. When they speak, the restaurant world listens.
And their words are heating up the salmon-farming spin wars". Both chefs are now boycotting farmed salmon. "I needed to see things with my own eyes," Kennedy said. "There are more and more sad tales associated with fish farming, and from a taste point of view, it's not the same". Kennedy hasn't served farmed salmon for six years even though it hurts him in the pocket (wild salmon costs much more). "It's a pristine fish that everyone loves and the prices have come down in the last decade. It's difficult to find replacements on the menu. In my case, I just bit the bullet. Prices are higher, but I absorb the cost".
Moonen, too, has gone totally wild and taken farmed salmon off his New York menu even though it made him bucket loads of money. "I'm never using farm-raised salmon again!" he said. "I went with an open mind. I was armed with information from both sides. But I'd never had a second thought about the amount of danger sea-lice presented to wild species in the area. I was there. I went up there and I saw it. Every single fish I pulled out was dying. Guess what ... if you take the same trip I took and look me in the face and tell me I need more proof, then I give up! It's conclusive! It's like being cut in half by a speeding car and barely having a brain wave and doctor's saying you're not dead yet. At the end of the day, I run a restaurant and I have to be cautious about being alarmist, but to me, this is a reality a scary one. If something isn't done, it'll be horrifically irresponsible".
Kennedy sounds almost evangelical about spreading the gospel of wild salmon. "I realize being in the position I'm in, I have the power to influence diners and colleagues," he says. "Building a career, one's more concerned with self-aggrandizement, professionally. With me, that's already in place. What becomes important is using that celebrity to decimate information". And it seems that the bad news about farmed salmon is spreading throughout the kitchens of New York - only days after returning from Canada, another five New York chefs signed up their no-farmed-salmon campaign.
Other high-profile chefs in the U.S., including celebrity chefs like Mark Peel of Campanile in L.A.; Eric Ripert, of Le Benardin in New York; Susan Feniger and Mary Sue Miliken, of Border Grill in L.A. and Las Vegas; Charlie Palmer of Aureole in New York and Las Vegas; Sara Moulton of Food Network's Sara's Secrets, and Tom Douglas, a Seattle restaurant mogul, have now been urged to follow their lead. For more information see the "Farmed and Dangerous" campaign.
EPA effluent guidelines
On 30th June the Environmental Protection Agency in the United States finalized a new rule establishing regulations for concentrated aquatic animal production (CAAP), in other words fish farms! The regulation will apply to approximately 245 fish farm facilities that generate wastewater from their operations and discharge that wastewater directly into waters of the United States. This rule will help reduce discharges of conventional pollutants, primarily total suspended solids and will also help reduce non-conventional pollutants such as nutrients. According to the EPA, "To a lesser extent, the rule will reduce drugs that are used to manage diseased fish, chemicals used to clean net pens, and toxic pollutants (metals and PCBs)".
The final rule applies to direct discharges of wastewater from existing and new facilities that produce at least 100,000 pounds of fish a year and discharge at least 30 days a year and facilities that produce at least 100,000 pounds of fish a year in net pens or submerged cages. When the rule is fully implemented, discharges of total suspended solids will be reduced by more than 500,000 pounds a year and biochemical oxygen demand and nutrients will be reduced by about 300,000 pounds per year. Information about this program and the final regulation is available from the EPA.
Embarrassingly, the EPA also find themselves the subject of a 60 day notice warning of impending legal action by three conservation and fishing groups. ENS (27th July) reports that the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations, the Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides, and the Washington Toxics Coalition, are challenging EPA's determinations of the effects of certain pesticides on salmon. "Pesticides are deadly by design and they'll kill baby salmon after the poisons wash off fields, orchards, and lawns into salmon streams," said attorney Patti Goldman of Earthjustice, the nonprofit, public interest law firm representing the groups.
"EPA's job is to regulate their use so they don't violate the Endangered Species Act, but their own sister agency in the federal government has found them failing miserably at this obligation," Goldman said. "EPA is trying to get away with decades old science instead of doing right by the salmon," said Erika Schreder of Washington Toxics Coalition. "We're holding EPA accountable for truly complying with the Endangered Species Act because giving it lip service doesn't help salmon".
Even more embarrassing for the EPA is the fact that conservation and fishery groups are supported by the Government´s own National Marine Fisheries Service. In a draft letter, dated April 2004, fisheries service officials said the EPA's analysis of pesticides did not include hundreds of relevant scientific articles, raising concern that the result "may be biased toward concluding that a pesticide does not pose an ecological risk to listed resources, when in fact, it does". This is not the first time the EPA have been caught out - in January, a judge barred the EPA from permitting the use of 38 commonly used pesticides along all rivers and streams inhabited by threatened or endangered salmon on the West Coast.


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The Santa Fe Tea Party was a resounding success. There were more people than I had dared hope would come, and far fewer protesters. I heard there were a few, but the only one I saw was a grim-faced man who glowered at us as he walked around holding above his head a sign that read, "Pay your taxes, be grateful, and shut up, you morons."
Democrat John Grubesic got resoundingly booed for telling us that we really don't pay too much in taxes after all, because in Sweden they pay 51%. Gosh, if it's good enough for the Swedes, I guess it ought to be good enough for us. I saw that train wreck coming when I read this story in Heath Haussamen's blog the other day. Steve Terrell has the whole text of Grubesic's speech.
The other speakers were great. Former Gov. Gary Johnson was wonderful — he almost makes me want to get rid of term limits so we could elect him again. SFRWF President Sheryl Bohlander, who worked incredibly hard putting this event together, made an inspiring call-to-arms speech. General Greg Zanetti, commander of the New Mexico National Guard, made a sincere, heartfelt speech that was very well received, and boded well for his 2010 gubernatorial campaign.
I saw a number of friends there. One of them called me earlier in the day saying her husband didn't want to go because he thought there'd only be about six people there, Santa Fe being Santa Fe, and it would be just too painful to watch. I assured her that would not be the case (and hoped like anything I wasn't being a cockeyed optimist) and they did come. Truly, considering what an overwhelmingly liberal Democrat city this is, the turnout was nothing short of amazing.
This may be the beginning of a beautiful realignment.
Update: Cordelia is on the front page of the New Mexican!
Steve Terrell's story accompanying the picture already has 59 comments (and it's only 8:00 a.m.). I only read the first page, but many are spouting the Democratic talking point that the Tea Parties were all orchestrated from the top by the GOP and Fox News, and are not grass roots events. I know the people who organized the Santa Fe Tea Party, and it was a grass roots operation. I was at one of the sign making parties along with other ordinary citizens, and donated money (not to the GOP, but to the organizers personally) to make it happen, as did a lot of other people. This party was strictly a home grown affair.
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I would appreciate it if the Republicans would cease and desist with their incessant anger, hatred and bigotry. Please do not make April 15 a national racist day.
How protesting higher taxes and excessive government spending makes you a racist I'm not sure, but then again, it's become standard operating procedure on the left to call anyone you disagree with a racist, and consider the argument won.


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Glen-Troy was far from being a smart person, this we have already established. However, there's something almost awe inspiring about the way an insane man can manage to accomplish his goals in spite of whatever enormous personal stumbling blocks there might be in his way.
In addition to his insanity and inherent stupidity, the odds were against him in every possible capacity when he entered Gotham City, searching for the Scarecrow and his three brand-new minions, and yet somehow, he defied those very odds and managed to track them all down.
They had settled (if you could call it that) in an abandoned warehouse that was so large it was nearing the 'immense' spectrum with only two windows, both in very strategically inconvenient locations for someone who wanted to spy on the warehouse's inhabitants. They were set very high into either side of the building and were simple square cutouts with sharp, but somewhat rusted, metal shutters covering them. It took a great deal of effort for Glen-Troy to shimmy up the side of the warehouse--utilizing several stacked cartons and boxes to accomplish it--but he managed just the same.
The sight that greeted him caused him to fly into more of a rage than the one he'd already been in. There, within the warehouse, sitting on a threadbare sofa (which was the only piece of furniture in view) was the bitch that took his beloved axe and two of her little friends. Furthermore, she was grinning and cuddling with his Spartacus Bob!
Well, okay…she was shining him up with silver polish and a clean rag. That was close enough to cuddling for Glen-Troy! To the crazy man, that was the equivalent of professing undying love to the weapon!
With all the strength any furious, adrenaline driven madman should've had, Glen-Troy grabbed the metal shutter and gave a sharp tug, rattling it back and forth on its hinges until it left its frame and plummeted to the floor inside the warehouse.
The racket caused the three women on the sofa to stand abruptly and glance at each other.
"What in the hell was that?" the bushy haired one asked, grabbing an aluminum pipe off the floor, tensing her shoulders as she did so, and resting it on her shoulder like a baseball bat ready to be swung.
"No idea," the brunette dropped into a crouch and reached under the sofa for a Louisville Slugger, whose weight she tested as she stood up once more. "Think it's the Bat?"
"I hope not," the bitch with Spartacus Bob in hand said, eyes narrowed and scanning the area for any movement. She held the axe with a kind of reverence that, had Glen-Troy not already decided she had to die, he might have admired and even considered to be an indicator that they were destined to be soul mates. "Squishykins would never let it slide if we led Batman to him on our first day."
"But we already led Batman to him on our first day. Remember? Flamey death? Captive Robin? Batman flattened by the Bat Blazer?"
"Stuff it, Ops."
Glen-Troy ignored this exchange and dropped from the now opened window to the ground with a spectacular 'crash!'. He twisted his ankle on impact, but it wasn't enough pain to deter him as he emerged from the shadows, eyes bright and grin that of a completely unhinged mental ward reject.
The woman with the axe looked at him when he came into view with confusion. "You?"
"Oh, you have got to be kidding me!" the bushy haired one exclaimed in disbelief. "Didn't I hit you with a car already? Shouldn't you be dead, Evil Ernie?"
The one with a baseball bat eyed him strangely. "You followed us all the way to Gotham?"
"I come fer what's mine," he said, jerking his head at Spartacus Bob. "I want my Axe."
The bushy haired one eyed the little one askance. "A territorial redneck with a sharp weapon fixation. You couldn't have possibly pissed off someone a little more stable, Captain? Norman Bates, maybe?"
"Don't y'all worry none, I just want my Spartacus Bob. I won't even skin ya if you give him to me," Glen-Troy flashed them a smile which was missing a few too many teeth to be anywhere near as charming as he intended it to be.
The three women looked at each other before they burst into hysterical laughter. "Spartacus Bob? You named your axe Spartacus Bob?"
Glen-Troy glared at them. "Gimme my Spartacus Bob and I'll kill ya nice and quick."
"Oh yes, a quick death. That's incentive if ever I heard it."
Glen-Troy lost his temper and ran headlong at the three well-armed women.
It was not the brightest move he had ever made.
The aluminum pipe swept out and slammed into his knees as the baseball bat swung out and collided with his shoulder blades. Worst of all, though, was the fact that Spartacus Bob--oh, his beloved Spartacus Bob!--slammed into his skull, splitting it in twain and dropping Glen-Troy like a sack of potatoes. It was ironic, sure, but it was not what was supposed to happen.
The Captain stared at the body at her feet, his rapidly draining blood soaking into the canvas of her sneakers. "Oops."
Techie stared at her in incredulity. "Oops? You killed him!"
"I didn't mean to!" she defended, stepping away from Glen-Troy's corpse. "I just wanted to incapacitate him!"
"Looks pretty incapacitated to me," Al remarked, tilting her head and studying the stiff with a kind of detached interest.
The sound of the door to the Scarecrow's lab rattling open caused all three Hench girl's heads to jerk up towards the source of the sound.
"Squishums!" Techie hissed. "He'll kick us out for sure if he sees this!"
"What? Why?"
"Our first real day on the job and we've let our security get breeched!"
"Oh. Good point. We should hide his body."
Captain glanced around, eyes lighting on the sofa and the small wire cartons that were serving as makeshift end tables. "We need more corpse sized furniture."
"Isn't the sofa a fold out?" Al asked, dashing for the item in question and ripping the cushions off it.
"Al! You're many kinds of brilliant!" the Captain exclaimed, joining her comrade as she unfolded the couch and Techie started dragging the body towards her frantic friends.
"Stuff him in good!"
"This is harder than putting together that turducken."
"I'm hurrying, I'm hurrying!"
"His foot is sticking out, Ops! Fix it!!"
"Give me a break! It's not like I have practice at this!"
When Jonathan Crane came into view, the Captain, Al and Techie were sitting on the suspiciously overstuffed sofa as though nothing were amiss. Captain was hanging over one of the sofa arms, Al sat in the middle, drumming her fingers on her knee and Techie was reading a magazine…upside down.
He took them in, growing more suspicious by the second. "What nefarious deeds are you three plotting?"
"Nothing," they chirped in perfect unison.
He narrowed his eyes at them. "Why didn't you come when I called."
"You called?" Al asked, blinking innocently.
"Repeatedly." He folded his arms across his chest. "I require you to go fetch some chemicals for me from Star Labs."
They glanced at each other and then back at him, nodding their assent . "Okay, boss."
He turned to stalk away from them. They breathed a collective sigh of relief when he turned away from him, but then nearly choked on their tongues when he glanced back at them over his shoulder.
"Oh…and girls? When you get back…"
He turned back and started walking away once more. "Mop up those brains."


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I needed a cream scarf last weekend...and didn't have a cream scarf!Had to change my outfit at the last minute to keep my neck warm. Darn.
Anyway, this week I knit a cream scarf. This yarn jumped on me at Seattle Yarn Shop! It's Ella Rae "Latte". Softer than Malabrigo, and according to the LYS shopkeeper, it doesn't pill like Malabrigo!
The pattern is in the One Skein book.The designer is Leigh Radford. "Double Cable Scarf"I used 3 balls of yarn to create a 3 5/8" x 65" scarf. I likes 'em long. Two balls would have been sufficient to turn out an acceptable length. Basically, I used one ball for End#1, next ball for middle ribbing, last ball for End#2.
I didn't buy the book. I eyeballed the model scarf (knit up in Rowan LIMA) at my LYS, and the shop girl told me the design is in One Skein. I went home and wrote down the concept for the scarf. It's a very easy design. But on the Rav pattern database, I found the pattern, and that's how I came to be able to refer to it.
I like the ribbing for fringe, and ribbing around the neck, with double cables for the showy parts.
Ella Rae Latte, color 07-cream. Sinfully soft. I almost fainted. S-O-F-T.
So pretty! I love it and I typically am not a scarf person. Great job!
THAT is gorgeous!!! You sure do whip out the projects! I'll have to keep my eye open for that yarn. It looks soooo soft!
Ooo, I really love that pattern!
Beautiful scarf. I wear them from late September until mid to late April, so may just need to knit one in cream.
Basically did one of Silver's scarves like that, with a warmer center than the cable would have been, as I doubled the yarns in the center.
Super pretty, Dollyce!
I knit a Palindrome scarf, too, in red. (Silver's pattern) I still love it!
Yours sounds divine!
Beautiful scarf! I love soft, soft yarn next to my neck -- I'll have to try the Ella Rae.
OMG, Artlady, you are amazing! I have the One Skein book checked out from the library, and seeing the way you made it up, I really want to make it. (3 skeins of Merino Style DK waiting to be made into a scarf... :happydance: ) Looove all your FOs!
PS- Also looove your yarn! Milk, alpaca, and microfiber?? Heavenly!
Softer than malabrigo and it doesn't pill and you made such a gorgeous scarf out of it? I think I might be in love...
That is beautiful! Thanks for the info on the yarn - must keep an eye out for it!!
Did you knit this from one end to the other or graft it somewhere in the middle section? Also, is this a reversible pattern? I can just imagine the feel of squeezing it through my fingers. A sweater would be lovely made with continuous side by side cables like that.
You do GREAT work.
Thanks, Lighting!
I knit it from one end to the other, no grafting (ack).
It isn't reversible. The cabled sections a RS/WS thing.The ribbing sections are, of course, reversible.
Would this yarn be considered a #5 bulky weight?
Very Very Nice! Your cables are always so perfect!
Hmmm.:think: I dunno!
It knits at 4st=1". Or, 16st=4".
Is that #5?
It's bulky, but not too bulky. Definitely heavier than aran.I wouldn't use it for a pattern that called for a stitch gauge that's finer than 16st=4".
The size US9 needle produced a very nice stitch, however, I think I could have gone up to 10 or 10.5 and still turned out a reasonably nice fabric.
Artlady..as soon as I saw this I got online and ordered this yarn! You are right...sooooo soft and wonderful..I just started the scarf, I have a question...one the RS the pattern says to slip the first and last stitch Kwise and the WS you P, the first and last stitch. When you slip the stitches, when you go to P the next row the yarn is on the wrong side, know what I mean? Do you just P anyway? Does my question make sense?Ginny
Hi Ginny! :waving: I looked at the pattern again. When you "slip 1" at the beginning of the row...your next stitches will be "in pattern". But the "slip 1" is always just that, a slip 1.
When I 'slip 1' at the beginning of the row for scarves, I always slip 1 purlwise. Before slipping her, I make sure that my working yarn is in position to knit or purl what comes next on the needle without messing up the slip 1.
It's confusing at first. But just watch the way the slipped stitch looks from the side.Make sure she isnt' turned around or twisted at her waist.
Now when I get to the end of said row, the last stitch is the slipped stitch from the beginning of the previous row. Anyhoo, I always just "knit it". The turn the work and slip the 1st stitch purlwise, and continue down the road!
So to clarify: here's how the row goes: [FONT=Arial][SIZE=3][COLOR=Blue]Slip 1 purlwise…K2P2 across…ending with K3. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]
Gorgeous color and beautiful work. Not too certain on how to use the ravelry site yet what is....But on the Rav pattern database...I looked for database but didn't see it....back to view site,
That simply means that the pattern is in the Ravelry pattern section! Hereit is!
And, here is my scarf!


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Tolkein's way with words is astounding. The way he describes the magnificient world of Middle Earth is better than the scenery in most movies I've seen. The story itself moves slowly, out of necessity - a lot goes on in a very short period of time, and in fact there are multiple stories woven together, with some background information that must be communicated thrown in here and there. This is a wonderful book, an excellent way to escape from reality for a couple of minutes or a couple of hours. Just don't set it aside for a couple of weeks, because it is difficult to pick it back up where you left off, simply because of the sheer amount of detail that in included in the story.
Savoring these on during my Year of Nostalgic Rereads (first time in more than 16 years), on my way to The Silmarillion (only read once...back in 1978.)
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In this book frodo is trying to destroy ring, but it is really hard way. Saruman tried to stop him and take from him the ring to became the most powerful person in the world. Frodo beat him and his soldiers with his friends and destroyed the ring. It is appealing and the cover of the book will make you to read it. This book is most likely for guys who like fictional kind of books.
For a long time this was my favourite of the three books, I think because I was so interested in the Old Forest and the elves and all that stuff I've since learned everyone else finds annoying and dreary. It's been ages since I read the trilogy on--I was probably thirteen or fourteen--so it was quite a bit neat to see how I'd aged and learned. Knowing what I do now of Anglo-Saxon poetry and culture made me realise that all these things I considered entirely 'original' as a child were actually far more clever than that.
That 'The Lord of the Rings' should appeal to readers of the most austere tastes suggests that they too now long for the old, forthright, virile kind of narrative... the author has had intimate access to an epic tradition stretching back and back and disappearing in the mists of Germanic history, so that his story has a kind of echoing depth behind it...
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The print room of the Rijksmuseum mounted magnificent exhibitions on two very different Dutch landscape artists, the portrayer of Brazil Frans Post and the traveler in his own imagination Hercules Segers. The juxtaposition brings Schwartz to compare them; he finds out that they both came to the same sorry end. Continue reading "349 The difference between Frans Post and Hercules Seghers"
Dutch and Flemish art
348 Today in Delft 340 years ago
On the 30th of September 1676 the Delft courts appointed Anthoni van Leeuwenhoek as curator to the insolvent estate of Catharina Bolnes, the widow of Johannes Vermeer. So great is the power of those two names that generations of art historians have interpreted the document as a sign of profound bonding between art and science. Schwartz, in the footsteps of Michael Montias, reveals the disenchanting truth.
347 How a patrician made good for slighting a prince, maybe
In the splendid Antwerp specialty of kunstkamer painting, one painting and one alone migrated from one environment to another, from the patrician collection of Cornelis van der Geest to the fabled one of the archdukes of the southern Netherlands. Schwartz has an idea why. Continue reading "347 How a patrician made good for slighting a prince, maybe"
Between court and Company: Dutch artists in Persia
During the first half of the seventeenth century, successive shahs of Persia took Dutch artists into their service. Other Dutch artists are recorded in Isfahan in other capacities. All but one – the most remarkable of them, Jan Lucasz. van Hasselt – came east with the Dutch East India Company, which had a distinctly uncomfortable feeling about having artists in its employ. All that we have left are documents and stories.
From exhib. cat. The fascination of Persia: The Persian-European dialogue in seventeenth-century art & contemporary art of Teheran, ed. Axel Langer, Zürich (Museum Rietberg) and Verlag Scheiddeger & Spiess 2013, pp. 153-167
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"Zwischen Hof und Handelsgesellschaft: Niederländische Künstler in Persien," in Ausstellungskatalog Sehnsuch Persien: Austausch und Rezeption in der Kunst Persiens und Europas im 17. Jahrhundert * Gegenwartskunst aus Teheran, herausgegeben von Axel Langer, Zürich (Museum Rietberg) und Verlag Scheiddeger & Spiess 2013, S. 153-167
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Saenredam, Huygens and the Utrecht bull
Relates a poem by Constantijn Huygens on the Mariakerk in Utrecht, to an interior of the church by Pieter Saenredam showing the relief of a bull dancing on waves referred to in the poem, a painting that comes from Huygens's house in The Hague. Religious, historical and architectural issues are heavily involved in the poem and the painting. As far as the author is aware, this is the first publication dealing with Dutch church painting in other than formal and antiquarian terms.
Gary Schwartz, "Saenredam, Huygens and the Utrecht bull," Simiolus: Kunsthistorisch Tijdschrift 1 (1966-67), pp. 69-93
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332 Vermeer's blood-sopping saint
Christie's is about to auction as a Vermeer a painting of the early Christian St. Praxedis, who distinguished herself by conserving the body parts of martyrs. In doing so, the auction house braves the dismissal of the Vermeer attribution by nearly all experts in the field. Schwartz is convinced that Christie's is right and they're wrong. Continue reading "332 Vermeer's blood-sopping saint"
How Vermeer and his generation stole the thunder of the Golden Age
From the perspective of the year 1650, the past and future of Dutch seventeenth-century painting look radically different from each other. The first half of the century was dominated by participants in the greater European school, with narrative histories and allegories as the most highly prized creations. After 1650 the field is taken over by landscape and townscape, still life and genre. These were less valuable in the marketplace and helped depress the incomes of artists who were already suffering from a shrinking market for their wares. Our picture of the Dutch Golden Age is unduly determined by niche products of the latter half of the century, especially the paintings of Johannes Vermeer, who was virtually unknown until the latter nineteenth century. By forefronting Vermeer and his generation, we adopt a distorted view of the Dutch seventeenth century and its place in Europe, a view that plays into present-day political misunderstandings of where the Netherlands stands in the world.
This phenomenon was demonstrated and discussed by Gary Schwartz in the 32nd Uhlenbeck Lecture, held for the NIAS Fellows Association on 23 June 2014. NIAS is the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
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A corpus of Rembrandt paintings as a test case for connoisseurship
From the proceedings of a congress held at the Ecole du Louvre on 21-23 October 2011
Connoisseurship: l'oeil, la raison et l'instrument, ed. Patrick Michel, Paris (Ecole du Louvre) 2014, pp. 229-37.
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The Rembrandt Research Project had everything going for it when it set out in 1968 to examine the authorship of all the paintings seriously attributed to the master. However, by 1991, after publishing three massive volumes covering half of Rembrandt's career, it ran out of steam and four of the five members quit the project. The remaining member, Ernst van de Wetering, took it over, admitting that vols. 1-3 were a failure. Schwartz asks why and suggests that the fault lay less with the members of the project than with the impossible pretensions of connoisseurship itself.
329 King Willem's wall
The Palace of the Academy in Brussels has a secret that was revealed in a magical moment to Schwartz in June 2006. It concerns the greatest princely collection of paintings ever assembled in the Netherlands. In anticipation of an exhibition devoted to that collection, Schwartz now discloses all. Below the line he appeals for a celebration of the centenary of Kazimir Malevich's abolition of reason. Continue reading "329 King Willem's wall"
"J. van Beecq, Amsterdam marine painter, 'the only one here [in France] who excels in this genre'"
From the proceedings of a symposium held at the university of Lille in 2008.
"J. van Beecq, Amsterdam marine painter, 'the only one here [in France] who excels in this genre,'" in Les échanges artistiques entre les anciens Pay-Bas et la France, 1482-1814, ed. Gaëtane Maës and Jan Blanc, Turnhout (Brepols) 2010, pp. 15-32
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A reconstruction of the career of a Dutch painter who is known only for work in England and France. An accomplished follower of Willem van de Velde the Younger, van Beecq started off on a highly promising career in France, but failed to establish there anything like the position of van de Velde in England and the Netherlands. The problem seems to have lain in deficient patronage, even though van Beecq had good connections and much to offer as an artistic adjunct to the French import of Dutch shipbuilders for its naval fleet.


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Owen Coyle, the Bolton manager, has responded in defiant fashion to his team's precarious position at the foot of the Premier League table and to the increasing speculation that defeat at Blackburn tonight would edge him closer to dismissal.
While the public pressure on Coyle is far less severe than that currently mounting upon his opposite number at Rovers, Steve Kean, there is no doubt that Bolton supporters, previously super-loyal to their former playing hero, are beginning to lose patience. However, Coyle appears to still have the full backing of chairman Phil Gartside and club owner Eddie Davies.
The Scotsman reacted testily yesterday when asked if he had done any soul-searching during this dire run. Coyle pointed to the pre-season loss to injury of influential midfielders Stuart Holden and Chung-Yong Lee and insisted he believes himself to be a better manager than ever.
"Yeah, well, I look back and ask myself how I could have stopped two players suffering broken legs and everything else," said Coyle sarcastically. "What is it that you want to know – am I as good a manager as I have always been before? The answer is 'probably better'."
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Ukip is embroiled in an almighty row about money. It suddenly has too much of it, apparently. Guido reports that Douglas Carswell is refusing to take the full £650,000 of Short money that his party is entitled to for running a parliamentary operation that represents the four million votes the party won in the election. Ukip HQ are insisting he should have it, while Carswell is insisting they only take £350,000.
HQ sources have been handing out some pretty heavy briefings about Carswell refusing to represent the party's four million voters. Given the Clacton MP has always operated in a rather detached manner within the party and could easily hold his seat as an independent, it could be that this is the row that sees him leave the party, either of his own accord or because he is pushed.
This would mean we'd have another Clacton by-election, possibly with a Ukip candidate — Farage, maybe? — standing against Carswell.
Of course, the party may be able to de-escalate the row, but it currently doesn't seem all that keen to.
UPDATE, 5.30: A Ukip source says 'we are not minded to say anything. There will be further meetings'.
Nigel Farage says he will make an eighth attempt to gain a seat in Parliament when the "right by-election seat" comes up.
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One coach, and the tale of two cities
Published: Friday, June 1, 2007 at 8:28 p.m.
Last Modified: Friday, June 1, 2007 at 8:28 p.m.
The news conferences in two cities just 115 miles apart were as different as Orlando and Gainesville are different, as different as the NBA and the SEC are different.
The Magic introduced Billy Donovan as their coach with fans cheering from bleachers in the RDC Sportsplex, the team's practice facility. Christine Donovan was presented a bouquet of flowers by the team's president Bob Vander Weide. Everyone was happy. He's their Billy now.
About four hours after that news conference concluded, Donovan and UF athletic director Jeremy Foley held their own news conference here, a bye-bye to Billy. Emotions dripped on the podium. Fans waited outside the Women's Center, where Donovan has held a hundred news conferences waiting for a glimpse and maybe an autograph.
It was a great day in Orlando. It was a sad day in Gainesville.
In Orlando, Donovan wore a suit and a smile. He talked about his new friend Otis Smith, the former Magic player turned general manager. He talked about the future.
In Gainesville, Donovan went casual and melancholy. He talked of his old friend, Foley. He talked about the past.
Make no mistake about it, this wasn't one of those situations where a coach gets tired of coaching at a place or gets fed up with the administration or gets bored.
This was the perfect storm.
Donovan made it clear that the fact that his contract situation at Florida had nothing to do with his leaving. There were other things that conspired to rob Florida of its most successful basketball coach and one of the icons of the Gator Nation.
There was the intrigue with the NBA. Even when Donovan and Foley sat down to discuss the new contract in April, Donovan made it clear to Foley he would listen if an NBA team called. When the right one called, the one with a young and talented playoff bubble team only two hours away, and when they said the right things and when nobody whom Donovan respected screamed, Don't do it! ...
Well, Florida was looking for a new coach.
Among those Donovan talked to were Rick Pitino and Steve Spurrier. Both of them had been through the college-to-NBA ordeal. They both told him to check it out.
Not one of them told me, 'Billy, don't do it,' Donovan said.
He asked Spurrier, a longtime friend, if he regretted his move. Spurrier told him he didn't regret jumping, just where he jumped.
Put it all together and the Magic tugged at Donovan's ambition. And there was also this Donovan has always had great vision. And when he looked into the future, he wasn't sure if he saw a happy Billy Donovan at 47, 48, 50 years old coaching in college.
It wasn't that the recruiting trail was getting weary, but he could see how it could happen.
And then Orlando came along just when it looked like there was no way Donovan would leave. He had just completed his signing class, just completed his staff. That he hired assistant Rob Lanier last week gives you an idea where my intentions were.
But timing is everything. And in this case, the timing was bad for
We don't control timing of how things come our way, Donovan said.
He didn't know if this perfect storm would regenerate in four years, five years. It was here right now with his star burning white hot.
So he surprised his athletic director, his president and a lot of us by jumping.
What followed was a difficult afternoon and evening for Donovan because he had to tell so many people he was leaving. The emotion Donovan showed Friday afternoon made it obvious that the most difficult call was to Foley, who not only gave him a chance to coach at a major program but stuck by him when Donovan was getting hammered for all of those early exits from the NCAA Tournament.
The last 24 hours have not been fun, Donovan said, pausing as the emotion overtook him from the neck up, because of this guy to my left and the people here.
This wasn't easy for Donovan. The easy thing would have been not to go to Orlando.
But in the end, the perfect storm means that Billy Donovan wakes up today a hero in two cities.
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Rose Gentle bitterly criticised the Deputy Prime Minister after an apparent attempt to smooth-talk her backfired.
Her son Gordon, 19, died when his convoy was hit by a roadside bomb in Basra on 28 June. She later went public in her criticisms of the war and called for troops to be bought home.
Mrs Gentle and her daughter Maxine, 14, were at Downing Street to hand in a letter to the Prime Minister condemning the Iraq war. She was also angry that a letter of condolence from Mr Blair only arrived this week, just after it was made public she was planning to protest.
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