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Charles Lawton's column on April 14 ("Employers' costs, not technology, threaten jobs") had a very important and provocative message.
We need to reduce the cost of each employee in order for our products to be competitive in the global economy.
That does not mean that employers need to reduce fair pay for a given job and job skill set.
It means that we need to reduce the other costs of employment such as adopting a single-payer health insurance program to reduce the overall cost of health care by negotiating lower prescription drug costs and making the cost of medical procedures more visible to comparison- shop with higher co-pays.
Encourage retirement saving not through pensions but 401(k)-type programs with required participation by employees, along with a reduction in payroll taxes for unemployment insurance.
We should not raise the minimum wage but let the market determine wages. We also need to demand more of our education system to prepare our children for a career.
Gordon Hamlin
High cost of keeping inmates supports capital punishment
Two pieces in the April 14 Telegram proved an interesting combination: the commentary "Death penalty's demise in Maine" and the article "A lifetime behind bars."
Both were disturbingly clear on the cost of both men's actions to society, including the families of victims, fear to the general populace, and the cost of keeping them alive.
I thought the argument for the death penalty spoke loudly.
In a time when budget and lack of funding is such an issue, remind me why it is necessary to care for, feed and nurture these people.
Better suited to the times would be better funding to address homeless shelters, care for mentally unstable individuals, insurance reform, food pantries for struggling families, education . . . the list goes on.
Still, we want to keep these criminals alive. Really?
Kharris Brill
Don't legalize bycatch – make it illegal everywhere
Our federal government allows lobsters to be destructively harvested by groundfishing gear dragged across the sea floor.
The principal reason the Canadians and our state governments do not allow dragging for American lobsters is resource conservation.
Dragging is destructive.
Dragging destroys habitat.
The current bill in front of the Maine state Legislature (L.D. 1097) should not pass because it would be detrimental to the lobster industry and the overall health of the Gulf of Maine ecosystem.
I understand and sympathize with the problems facing the Portland Fish Exchange and the fishermen who insist they would land their catch in Portland if only they could bring in lobsters as well as fish.
These Maine fishermen argue that they travel to Gloucester, Mass., to sell fish because they can sell lobsters there as well.
I say, fix the law that is broken.
Don't break the conservation laws that work. The solution to the problem is to change the federal law so that no dragger-caught lobsters can be bought or sold anywhere.
It seems to me that would fix the problem for the Portland Fish Exchange and the Maine groundfishing fleet.
If no groundfish vessel anywhere were allowed to harvest or land lobsters caught by dragging gear, then there should be no incentive for Maine fishermen to sell their fish elsewhere.
Diane F. Cowan, Ph.D.
senior scientist, The Lobster Conservancy
That an Irish pub serves pub-style food isn't a fault
My husband and I eat at Byrnes' Irish Pub several times a month — the service is always great and so is the food.
Perhaps Nancy Heiser should only review the gourmet restaurants ("Byrnes' Irish Pub suffers from nondescript food, so-so service," March 31). She obviously doesn't have an appreciation for pub food.
Susan White
LePage's 'lack of character' obscures any achievements
In the March 17 Telegram, Michael Cuzzi wrote an incisive commentary headlined "Governor's character reflects on Maine's."
He goes on to critique Paul LePage's performance as governor to date, highlighting many of his thoughtless statements that were either not truthful or proved to be offensive to the majority of his constituents.
Cuzzi aptly describes the governor as a "good and decent man motivated by a sincere passion to move in a better direction. But somehow that passion too often devolves into public spectacle, undermining the governor's effectiveness and impugning Maine's character."
It has become increasingly clear that LePage intends to run for re-election. In recent days, he has softened his rigid position on a few key issues. The line he drew in the sand has shifted, driven by the prevailing political winds.
He has a solid core of followers who not only condone his penchant for distorting the truth and disparaging all who do not agree with him, but also encourage his style of leadership.
I have clipped Cuzzi's commentary from the newspaper and posted it in a prominent place on my refrigerator. If and when LePage campaigns on his record of great "achievements," it will serve to remind me of the lack of character that eclipses whatever he may actually accomplish.
If there are once again more than two candidates for the office of governor in 2014, his minority supporters may very well succeed in electing him to a second term.
It is my fervent hope he will change his mind and not seek another term. If he does run, it is crucial that the majority of the electorate does everything possible to avoid this undesirable prospect. As Cuzzi observed, "Maine's character hangs in the balance."
Phyllis Kamin
East-west highway backers looking to pave the planet
I grow weary from being labeled an environmental extremist/radical by the east-west corridor proponents, though the label diminishes daily as truth surfaces and reality prevails as to the actual intentions of CEO Peter Vigue of Cianbro Corp. and the potential global investors who understand nothing but rape and plunder of the planet.
Destroying even one part is akin to removing part of one's own body. The globalists want the entire body. Now, that's extreme.
I would not mind being labeled this way if such PR attacks were actual reality and not the false assumptions promoted from the fabricated reality of which the indoctrinated cannot comprehend escaping from. For I am not an environmentalist; I am the environment, and, ironically, so are they … as are all humans, as is all life and matter.
Earth is primary, our only livable habitat. The agenda of Cianbro is, as is all global corporations and their paid political allies, to completely destroy that habitat in the insane guise of "progress." Ignorance gone mad. The true extreme few deciding the fate of this wondrous planet.
Every moment of our precious existences will never pass through our breathing hearts again. Every moment of denial that avoids this, our earthly environment with which we are one, is a fundamental confession that one's soul has been a waste of having been born on what I've long referred to as "The Most Beautiful Planet In the Universe."
Sadly, such lost souls are the major accomplices to Earth's suffocating demise.
Robert Schick
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Global Range: (200,000-2,500,000 square km (about 80,000-1,000,000 square miles)) Breeding range includes southern Florida from Biscayne Bay south through the Marquesas Keys (Bancroft 1992), Bahama Islands, Greater Antilles, Lesser Antilles south to Antigua, Cayman Islands, and islands and coasts of the western Caribbean, from the Yucatan Peninsula southward through Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama (AOU 1998). Most of the population occurs in the Greater Antilles and Bahama Islands (Bancroft and Bowman 2001). In the upper Florida Keys, Florida Bay is the primary nesting area (Strong et al. 1991). During the nonbreeding season this pigeon occurs throughout most of the breeding range but occurs more widely (and somewhat unpredictably) in Florida and along the mainland Caribbean coast of Middle America, where some breeding islands are evacuated during winter (Howell and Webb 1995, AOU 1998). Wintering individuals appear to move nomadically in response to fruit availability (Bancroft and Bowman 2001).
In Puerto Rico, the largest present breeding concentration is along the eastern coast and northern coast (all in mangroves except at Dorado Beach), with a small nesting congregation in hardwood forest of magotes east of San Sebastian; the largest breeding concentration is on Isla Mona (Wiley 1979).
Extent of occurrence (EOO), excluding areas of water, appears to somewhat exceed 200,000 square kilometers. BirdLife International (2008) estimated EOO at 236,000 square kilometers.

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The chemical ecology of these butterflies is fairly well known. Larvae of basal Tithoreina feed on host plants in the family Apocynaceae, a host plant group shared with the related danaine butterflies. Most species, however feed on the Solanaceae, which is a very speciose and chemically diverse plant family. Most ithomiines are thought to be distasteful to predators, but interestingly some species do not sequester chemicals from their larval host plants (Brown 1984a & b). Instead the males collect pyrrolizidine alkaloids from flowers (especially Asteraceae) and rotting leaves (mainly of Boraginaceae). This may be an adaptation to reduce dependence on larval host plant chemicals (Brown, 1987).


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Hillsborough commissioners repeal ban on gay promotion
TAMPA - An 8-year-old policy that barred Hillsborough County from promoting gay pride events or displays was unanimously repealed by county commissioners Wednesday, signaling a fundamental shift in community attitudes toward gays and lesbians. The board, with a 5-2 Republican majority, took the vote after vigorous debate and more than an hour of public comment. Twenty-eight speakers took the podium, evenly split between supporters and opponents of the ban. The repeal, though largely symbolic, set off a raucous celebration in commission chambers. Men and women, many wearing patches of the Equality Florida human rights group, whooped, embraced and shook hands. For many, the victory shed a stigma of bigotry and intolerance from their home county."We're not sending a message now to the rest of the world that we are a whole district of bigots," said JoEllen Carlson, a Tampa resident and professor at the University of South Florida. "We're saying the Tampa Bay area is big tent for all of us with open sides." The repeal also showcased the political skills of Kevin Beckner, the openly gay commissioner who pushed the board to reconsider a policy it passed in 2005 by a 5-1 vote. Beckner refused to water down a repeal of the ban with suggested amendments by Republican commissioners Ken Hagan and Victor Crist. Crist wanted to prohibit county support for events that feature obscene, pornographic or prurient behavior. He cited nudity and revealing costumes worn at gay pride events in St. Petersburg. Beckner responded that there are no rules governing the often-explicit public displays at the Gasparilla Parade. "Does it turn you on if you're at Gasparilla and a woman flashes her breasts?" Beckner asked. "Is that a rhetorical question?" Crist shot back. Hagan, the commission chairman, said he wanted an amendment that required commission approval for county promotions or acclimations of gay pride events. But Beckner refused to support the amendment, saying Hagan was trying to "muddy the waters." "You support it or you don't support it," Beckner said. "You want government to continue to discriminate, keep the ban in place. You think that everybody deserves to be treated fairly and equally with human dignity and respect, repeal the ban." Crist's amendment never got a second. Hagan's motion failed on a 3-4 vote. "I have to say Commissioner Beckner was amazing in his leadership, especially when others were trying to muddy the waters," said Nadine Smith, executive director of Equality Florida. "The bottom line is this was indefensible; it was discrimination plain and simple," Former Commissioner Ronda Storms pushed the ban in 2005 after several parents complained about a display celebrating Gay Pride Month at West Gate Regional Library. The commission passed Storms' motion by a 5-1 vote, with Democrat Kathy Castor the only dissenter. The deliberation and vote in 2005 took just one minute and 44 seconds. Storms was a religious conservative and many of the speakers who opposed repealing the ban Wednesday did so on religious grounds. Several were pastors or assistant pastors at area churches. George Thomasson, an assistant pastor at Bell Shoals Baptist Church, read a statement from Steven Rummage, the church's senior pastor. Rummage said the majority of his congregation would take offense at spending their tax dollars to promote a lifestyle choice so contrary to their values in faith. Then Thomasson added his own comment: "I think the real cost to our county if we do this is we lose the favor of God," Thomasson said. Holding a Bible in his hand, Beckner responded that he was raised a Christian and used the Bible to guide his spiritual life. "Is that why our savior, Jesus Christ, hung on that cross, so that we could divide our community?" Beckner asked, looking at the audience. "He didn't die for some of us; he died for all who believe." Beckner's fellow Democrat, Commissioner Les Miller, also rejected the biblical argument against lifting the ban. Miller, an African-American who serves as a deacon in a Baptist Church, recalled different instances of discrimination and prejudice he encountered as a young man. The Bible, he said, was used by groups like the Ku Klux Klan to justify discrimination against blacks. "And as they bombed churches and hung people, they also quoted the Bible," Miller said. "So you can turn it any way you want to turn it, but I turn it the way I want to turn it and say love thy neighbor as thyself." The crowd exploded in applause. Commissioner Mark Sharpe, who along with Hagan voted for the ban in 2005, said at the time he didn't think the county should be promoting one group over another. But Sharpe said he also teaches his kids to own up to mistakes and correct them. "I'm just glad I'm here to correct that mistake," Sharpe said. Beckner was able to get the ban overturned even though Storms had been able to pass a motion requiring a super majority of five votes for a repeal. As a final order of business Wednesday, Beckner asked the county attorney's office to report back on Aug. 7 with recommendations to curtail use of super majority votes unless they are required by the county charter, ordinances or state laws. His motion passed 7-0. [email protected] (813) 259-8303
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Is this a fusion of "bollocks" and "mux", meaning "a whole shitload of different bollocks in one place"?
If so, I like it. A useful neologism at last and one that I shall use.
Here's a refreshingly frank marketing email to start the week, courtesy of PacketTrap Network Management Solutions: The Failures: Sluggish network...*#$!%!....Is it the server? The application? How about a bolluxed router configuration? An overtaxed port on a switch? Or it could be...just about a few hundred other things... …
Is this a fusion of "bollocks" and "mux", meaning "a whole shitload of different bollocks in one place"?
If so, I like it. A useful neologism at last and one that I shall use.
Buttons? I want the kit to provide three commandline tools: bolluxfind, unbollux and bolluxmon. GUIs just get in the way of efficiently debolluxing what needs to be debolluxed, and furthermore, the leaner and meaner the tools themselves are, the less chance of a programmer bolluxing the unbolluxer.
If only we could say that to our real customers face to face when they dump this on our desks...
Instead of your basic vasectomy? Sounds a bit messy,
Router(config)# no bollux
Brilliant. Full marks to them. Hope it results in more orders rather than less and we'll see more companies trying that style :-D
Shouldn't everything in life have a debollux button? Put it right next to undo...
You've got to have bollux to send out stuff like that. Brilliant.
DROP TABLE "Users";
I'm guessing they used the word "bollux" instead of the more anglo-saxon "bollocks" to try and squeeze through any profanity filters on the way..?
I spell it like that. It's kinda like writing "BS" instead of bull shit - somehow, it's just that extra bit politer.. ;)
Would it work for Apple, Microsoft, Sun or other?
Now that's the kind of spam I might look into.
I know, I know, it promotes further spamming... but still...
Bollux was the name used for a robot in an early Han Solo story (something about entertainers and circuses, I think). In the next book in the series the name was mysteriously change to Zollux - I think someone noticed ....
(maybe I should have posted this anonymously, rather than admitting in public that I used to read Star Wars spinoff novels)
here in the U. S. of A. we sometimes use the expression "all bolluxed up" to mean "all messed up" or (heavens!) "all f****d up" without having a clue as to what "bollocks" means. Only the handful of Shakespeare readers are aware of the anatomical implications of the word. Ignorant lot, we Yanks!
Can you imagine if M$ used that? or Apple.
Get the new upgrade for Vista, "Because our coders dropped a clanger, someone smarter than our guys are could remotely bollux your machine"
"because Vista has bolluxed up and died, we are having to reboot, sorry for making an arse of your system, if you want to see what the benaal report contains and listen to us talk cr*p at you because we don't know which bit of the sh*te software is to blame, then click here."
That would be nice and refreshing.
I do like that email though...
flashback table "Users" to before drop;
or if you are using a cheapo version of Oracle,
create table "Users" as select * from "Users" as of timestamp (systimestamp-1/24);
who is waiting in the wings with the patent for 'a method or apparatus for reverting software or related equipment from a bolluxed state?' to troll this one?
No !! That's French for the same thing (see Asterix the Gaul) !!


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1942 was a year of great change for the Mission Campus as the country ramped up for war.
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An interview with One Bullet Away author and former marine Nathaniel C. Fick.
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The language of faith
A global gathering of youth. A Mass with the Pope and 2 million pilgrims.
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Like a lot of people who have worked in the business, I find myself in conversations about computer security with people who are having problems or know people who have problems. I wrote this to save me from explaining the same thing over and over again to different people, and to save them the trouble of having to make notes as we talked. It was meant to be something you could give to a 'naive user' and have them be able to read and follow it more or less unaided, and while not being a complete guide, at least be something that made them more secure than before they got it.
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Another excellent non-theological book that you NEED to read is Father Arseny. It's the recountings of men and women and Fr. Arseny of events that occured around and because of him while he was imprisoned in the Russian Gulag. It's maybe the most amazing testimony around a living saint Ive ever heard.
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For Guar Gum, a Bubble Goes Pop
MATHANIA, India—Pukhraj Parihar, a 50-year-old farmer from India's northwestern Rajasthan state, fears losing everything due to a bet he made on guar, the bean used by drilling companies to extract gas from shale rock.
Mr. Parihar, like many farmers in this arid land, gave up planting crops such as millet, lentils and carrots after the price of guar on the Indian market shot up sixfold in the eight months to May, primarily on demand from companies involved in the U.S. shale-gas production boom.
The run-up has brought a patina of prosperity to hardscrabble farming villages across India, which produces 85% of the world's supply of guar. Some villagers began constructing brick houses after years of living in mud huts. Mr. Parihar, who makes $7 a day, took his first bank loan to benefit from the modest rise in prosperity.
But a recent sharp decline in the export price for guar gum to $7,000 a ton, from a peak of $27,000 a ton in May, has caused trouble for the likes of Mr. Parihar. "I just hope that prices rise again. Otherwise, I am ruined," he said.
The bust also hurt oil-services companies like Halliburton Corp. that depend on guar gum, a product made from the bean in India and exported to the U.S. and other markets. The gum is used to thicken water that is mixed with sand and pumped horizontally into the cracks in shale rock to free the gas, a process called hydraulic fracturing.
Guar gum also is used in the food industry to thicken products like ice cream. Indian processors of the gum estimate global production at around 900,000 tons, generating $7 billion in export earnings.
What happened earlier this year was a classic bubble.
U.S. oil-services companies, worried that a drought in India would hurt guar output, began to stockpile the gum, which they buy from Indian processors or through commodity-trading companies like Connell Bros. Co., a division of Wilbur-Ellis Co.
At the same time, Indian-based commodity speculators began to ramp up the price of the bean and gum on local futures markets. In March, India's commodity-markets regulator suspended futures trade in guar after forward-contract prices skyrocketed, causing suspicions of market manipulation.
The ban, coupled with the later arrival of India's monsoon rains, caused prices to fall. The current crop, which farmers have just started to harvest, is set to double last year's haul.
Halliburton Corp.'s chief executive, David Lesser, has acknowledged buying too much of the bean at high prices in the second quarter, a move that hurt the company's profit margins.
A drop in global oil prices also has taken the shine off guar. U.S. production of gas has jumped by a third over the past five years. But as oil prices come down, pinching demand for natural gas, companies are less willing to pay higher prices for shale-gas drilling.
The future for guar—which means "cow's food" in Hindi—is uncertain. Rajasthan's semiarid climate makes it one of India's poorest states but also a perfect place to cultivate guar beans, which grow in pods on a low-lying plant. Pakistan, African nations and the U.S. produce small amounts of the bean.
Normally, India sells 60% of its guar-gum exports to the oil industry and 40% to the global food industry, which uses it to thicken products like ice cream and toothpaste. This year, though, the food services industry was deterred by the cost and bought only 20% of India's 625,000 tons of exports.
U.S.-based DuPont Co. looked instead for cheaper alternatives like the locust bean, which comes from the carob tree grown largely in the Mediterranean region. A spokeswoman for DuPont said the market for guar remains volatile and customers are yet to switch back despite lower prices.
Also shaken by the price run-up, drilling companies Halliburton and Schlumberger Ltd. this year have launched polymer-based fluids which could eventually replace guar gum.
Michael Mbogoro, an analyst at Frost & Sullivan, said U.S. oil companies will turn more to these alternative products if guar prices again soar. As stockpiles decline, the price should recover, he said. A spokeswoman for Halliburton said the company is likely to draw down its inventory of guar gum by year-end.
But in Rajasthan, one of India's poorest states, farmers don't have time to wait for higher prices. Most farmers sell the beans to middlemen, who then trade it to wholesale markets where it is picked up by guar-gum processors.
Some farmers switched to the bean after India's largest processor of guar into gum, Vikas WSP, handed out free seeds and promised to buy directly from them.
B.D. Aggarwal, chairman of the company, said that he was advising farmers to sell only a portion of their crop now and wait, as he expects demand will revive shortly. Vikas WSP has been pushing the government to lift its futures-trading ban, which it says is necessary to help farmers to know what prices to expect.
Desperate for cash to repay loans at high interest rates, many farmers in Mathania say they will have to sell soon.
Ramsarup Daga, a 60-year-old farmer from a nearby village, said he should have planted more millet, a crop used to make Indian bread. "I only wish that I had planted millet instead of guar this season. But I fell for the trap, just like everybody else," he said.
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Sox: No structural damage to Floyd's elbow
The White Sox will take any type of good health news they can get these days, so the update on Gavin Floyd's elbow injury Sunday was welcome.
Floyd had to come out of Saturday's start against Tampa Bay with a flexor muscle strain in his right elbow.
The 30-year-old right-hander was placed on the 15-day disabled list, but an MRI revealed no structural damage.
"It is a strain, so he didn't tear anything," Sox manager Robin Ventura said. "No ligaments. It's more muscular. You try to treat it and get him back as soon as you can. It looks at least like two weeks."
Considering Floyd was twice placed on the DL last season with elbow injuries, Saturday could have been Strike 3.
Instead, Floyd should be back in the White Sox' rotation some time in May.
"Last year, it was more on breaking balls I'd feel it," Floyd said. "This one was more on the fastball. Hopefully I'll recover and get back to healthy and it'll be twice as strong."
In 2012, Floyd was sidelined two weeks in July with elbow tendinitis. Later in the season, he was on the DL for another two weeks with a flexor muscle strain.
"Last year, it was a different spot," Floyd said. "It was kind of the same thing (Saturday). It was one pitch and I felt it and I was like, 'I'm going to pitch through it.' I threw a couple more and it was just getting worse and stiffening up.
"It's very disappointing. Any time you have something like this, it's out of your control. You try to prevent these as much as possible with work and stretching and when it happens there's always that processing of things. It happens. Now you just have to put in the work to get back to healthy and get back out there."
Comeback trail:
John Danks is heading to Class AA Birmingham to begin his minor-league rehab assignment, and he'll start for the Barons on Thursday.
Needless to say, Danks is looking forward to leaving Arizona and extended spring training.
"To graduate from Arizona and get to move on, that's a good thing," Danks said. "There's going to be a couple people there (Birmingham) and it's actually run as a game. That's the big thing. In extended, it's like a high school scrimmage. It'll be fun to get out there and pitch in an atmosphere."
Danks' return to the White Sox' rotation remains a mystery, but the Sox are well aware he had shoulder surgery roughly nine months ago and they're going to be patient.
"I'm sure they're going to want a couple or a few (minor-league starts)," Danks said. "I think once I tell them I'm ready and they're getting the positive reports back from different coaches, we'll go from there."
Keppinger update:
Jeff Keppinger missed his third straight game with back spasms Sunday, but manager Robin Ventura is hoping to get his No. 2 hitter back in the lineup Tuesday at Texas.
"It looks like he'll be good by Tuesday for sure," Ventura said.


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On the hot seat is Howard Johnson, who said at the end of the season he believed the club had the right pieces.
Maybe they do, but something is missing, and it's not all Johnson's fault.
These are major leaguers and they shouldn't have to "buy into'' anything. They should know how to work a count and advance a runner.
It's an organizational thing, and on the major league level, that's the manager. We see guys swinging at garbage all the time, and in the case of Jose Reyes, where's the encouragement to take the walk?
All I hear was they don't want to take away his aggressiveness. Well, if Reyes walked 100 times and bunted for hits more, he'd be devastating offensively.
There's more.
Carlos Beltran should steal more. … It wouldn't kill Carlos Delgado to go to left against the shift. … Perhaps the batting order is flawed. Maybe Reyes shouldn't be leading off. … David Wright was way too impatient this year.
There are a lot of ways to improve the offense having nothing to do with firing Johnson, but, that's not how the game is played.


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A couple of years ago I did a blog series on my original blog about how to plan for a substitute teacher. More importantly, it focused on how to set up plans so that you were prepared in an emergency.
I have been meaning to update it and create a video tutorial to go with it for some time now.
This week I spent three days at home nursing my own sinus/ear/throat/migrain fiasco while tending to 3 little ones who were home sick with hacking coughs, ear infections, and just for fun we threw in a case of conjunctivitis as well.
I'm reprinting my original series below in an easy to read format and am hoping to have the video tutorial up next week.
My emergency sub plans can be purchased by clicking here: PRINTABLE EMERGENCY SUB PLANS FOR ANY DAY. I've also updated my SUB PLAN FREEBIES which are great from grades K-5. You can get them by clicking on the "my products" button on the right and scrolling down to the freebie section.
There are days when you have conferences, workshops or scheduled doctor appointments planned and you know you will be out of the classroom. There are days when you are feeling under the weather and suspect you will be out the next day. Then there are days when you are unable to attend school with little or no warning at all.
Once upon a time I was sitting in my living room feeling fine. Within minutes I was in the worst pain of my life thinking I was in labor and wanting to die. (In my defense, I was 8.5 months pregnant so labor was a possibility). Turns out it was a kidney stone and I was completely useless for about 7 hours.
In case you were wondering, they do not give epidurals for kidney stones...though I think the should.
Food poisoning, car accidents, family emergencies and toddlers who decide to projectile vomit their breakfast as you are set to drop them off at daycare are just a few other examples of times when you have every intention of being in class and have no notice or ability to prepare for your sudden absence.
This week we are going to put together a sub binder and resource center that will make it easy for you to be out of the classroom without the added stress of worrying about what will happen to your class for that day.
We will be able to put the majority of this project together right now. It will be a work in progress because some of the items that need to be included will come into play once school starts.
We are going to start today by "gathering" activities that can be used on any day of the year for each subject area. Today you need to gather at least 5 activities for reading, writing, word study/spelling and math. I have spent the past few days creating some activities for each of those subjects using the guidelines below. You can purchase the ones I made through my store, gather them from other resources or create your own.
Create a folder on your computer titled SUB PLANS. Be sure to save all of the files to this folder and back it up.
If you purchase my emergency sub plans then save them to this folder once you print them.
After you gather them, you'll need to slide them into plastic sheet protectors (back to back) and create a tab for your binder labeled Master Copies. Put them into the binder and you're all set until tomorrow.
Here are the guidelines:
- You do not want these activities to be a complete waste of time or busy work, but in my experiences it has been best to not have a sub introduce a new concept. Review is important and this is a great chance to review key concepts.
- The activities should be open-ended whenever possible. By this I mean that the students could continue to work on them for a substantial length of time without a specific completion point. You want to avoid having the students rush through an assignment that is designed to take 30 minutes in 5 and tell the sub, "I'm done." Open-ended assignments will allow the sub to instruct them to "add to the list" or "find more __."
- Try to minimize the need for additional materials. You want both the children and the sub to have an enjoyable, stress-free day. Asking a sub to have children cut and glue could hinder this objective.
- Find activities that can be repeated so that you may use them on multiple days. This is especially beneficial because the students become accustomed to the "sub routine" which makes future absences even easier.
If you are going to do a reading extension activity, be sure that each child has a copy of the text. Having a sub read aloud a book and then asking the class to complete a story map is setting the sub up for chaos. EVERYONE (rather they need it or not) will be asking to get out of their seat to see the book. It is also setting children up for failure and frustration if they are not able to recall details from the read aloud and do not have access to the book.
We use Treasures {which is a lot like Reading Street}. I typically have my students use a fiction story that we have already read to complete the activities. That way each student has a copy of the book. If I am absent later in the year and the students are very familiar with the routines and expectations, I let them use a picture book from my library.
If you do not have a reading series or a class set of books, my suggestion is to access reading A to Z and print a copy of the book for each student or use a story that you have already covered from your reading basal that each child will have a copy of. By selecting activities that go with EVERY book as opposed to a specific title, you can also differentiate instruction for the class but providing varied levels of text for each student. If you do not have a basal or class set of books then today would also be a good day to access the free trial membership to reading A to Z and print a copy of a few good fiction books to use.
Today we are going to work on the "SCHOOL INFO" section of your substitute teacher binder. You want your binder to be thorough and complete, yet simple to use so that a busy sub can find things easily.
Check with your school to see if there are any specific requirements.
Some schools actually put together this information for you so that it can be passed out to any sub that comes in. If that's the case, your job today is quite simple.
If not, then here is what I suggest you include:
- a map of the school (mark: your classroom, the office, the bathroom that they may use, and the teacher's room). The kids can show the sub where music, gym, etc is. You just want to mark off anything that she may need to find on her own. I also mark where the sub will need to meet the class in the morning.
- a directory of the staff members that she may need to contact (nurse, principal, secretary, social worker) along with where they are located and their phone extensions
- a copy of any school-wide rules
- instructions for emergency lock downs, fire and tornado emergencies and crisis evacuation plans
Create the SCHOOL INFO TAB for your binder and add the above info into that section.
If you are working on this in the summer, you should be able to complete this section before school starts. If at any time you find there is information that you are unable to include until school starts, simply write down what is missing on a post-it note and place it in the spot the info will eventually go in the binder.
Today we are going to add the CLASSROOM INFO section to the binder. This part may be a bit trickier because a good portion of the information needed won't come into play until school starts.
But, it's a catch 22 because when school initially starts you'll be so crazy busy that it'll be hard to find the time to do this. So we are going to get as much as we can into it. And for those items you don't have access to right now, simply add a page protector and include a Post-it Note marked with a reminder of what you need to add.
Here's what I include:
- a photo directory: head shots with their names
- a seating chart
- class schedule
- pull-out / in-class support schedule
- classroom rules and behavior management plan
- signals you use to get their attention
- procedures for: attendance, lunch, recess, lining up, bathroom, dismissal and what to do when they finish their work
- a list of 2-3 reliable students
- a list of any medical issues that they would need to know about
- any additional student info that would be helpful (who will require extra help, who may try to act silly and how to deal with it, etc)
I also a include a brief list of things that I know kids will try to get away with (using the electric pencil sharpener, asking to go to the nurse 80 million times).
Create a tab that reads, "CLASS INFO," add it to the binder, put these items in that section and call it a day.
Is there anything else you include?
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In the lesson section I include specific instructions as well as a "script" for the sub to say to the students. This is not to micromanage the sub, but rather to make sure the little cherubs know that I have communicated the expectations to the sub and that he/she knows the drill.
Come on now all of your hands should be waving high in the air. Because I love you all so very very much, I've made you a few gifts.
Included in your "from me to you with hugs and kisses package" is:
- an adorable cover for your sub binder
- an even cuter template for your sub to fill out at the end of the day
- an "at a glance" page for your sub that highlights the key things they need to know and serves as a directory
Plus, they match the 24 pages of EMERGENCY SUB PLANS that I designed.
You're going to purchase the emergency sub plans kit, aren't you?
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Today you need to:
- make a cover (or use my free one)
- make a template for the sub to fill out (or use my free one)
- gather a bunch of generic sub plans for science and social studies
My advice on the last part of your assignment would be:
- Access the free trial at reading a to z dot com and print off some age appropriate non-fiction texts for both science and social studies. Either use their extension activities or create your own to go with them
- Leave Time for Kids or Scholastic News for the sub to use during Social Studies
- Find a few educational videos with science and social studies content...Magic School Bus is great for this.
- Have the children write a list of questions they may have on a science or social studies topic.
When it comes to writing sub plans my advice is to prepare for a sub as if he/she has never subbed before...or been around children...or lacks ALL common sense. Chances are your sub will be a professional who will do a stellar job, but preparing for the opposite end of the spectrum will help to ensure that things will run well in your absence.
The bad news is that we are going to write very detailed plans for each day of the week.
The good news is that it isn't nearly as hard as it seems.
Start with your longest day. Yes, school starts and ends at the same time each day, but you know those days without prep certainly feel longer than others. By writing out the plans for this day first, you can make some quick changes on the computer and have your other days banged out pretty quickly.
It is very effective.
I try to think of the typical things a 3rd grader would do in my absence and include it in the "script." For example: "As a reminder, if your pencil breaks you will need to raise your hand. No student should be using the electric pencil sharpener."
The fourth column is for notes. I include page numbers that the sub could find more info on as well as notes about students who leave for services and teachers who come in for services. I also include any other info that pertains specifically to that time of day.
After you have created a very detailed plan for your longest day, save it to your hard drive with the name of that day of the week.
Next, edit the document to make the changes needed to reflect every other day of the week.
Print each set.
After you have planned out an entire week, make any copies that are needed for each day.
I like to use Post-its as tabs to divide the piles of work.
Place each day's worth of materials into one of the plastic drawers with the lesson plans on top. Let the sub know that she can write on this copy.
Label the drawers with the days of the week.
If you bought the kind like I have you will have a total of 6 drawers. I fill the top one with general activities that can be used in a pinch (word searches, crossword puzzles, math drills) and a couple of picture books the sub could read.
- Include a copy of each day's plans in the binder.
- I print out a couple of sheets of large labels with the students' names that the sub can use as name tags.
- Include a note so that the sub knows where to find the materials for the day.
- Show everything to several colleagues. They will be great resources in the event of your absence. They should know where to locate the binder and the materials.
By following all of these steps, you could miss an entire week without worry. A sub would simply need to start with the first day's plans and work through the days in the drawers. By keeping the masters in your binder, anyone could make additional copies as needed.
You know...in case you decide to take of to Hawaii for a month or 2. Just saying.
Be sure to replenish the drawer as soon as you return. By doing so you will always be ready.
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The protest occurred as the government scrambled to meet its austerity targets and avoid any new delays in rescue loan payouts, while negotiations with the "troika" — the European Union, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund — headed into the weekend.
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CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan authorities began trying the country's most famous judge in absentia Wednesday while she refused to enter the courtroom alleging violations of her rights.
Coming nearly three years after her arrest, the trial of Judge Maria Lourdes Afiuni started amid a scandal generated by her report in a new book that she was raped while imprisoned in 2010.
Afiuni is charged with corruption, abuse of authority and aiding an inmate's escape. The judge maintains she is innocent.
Her prosecution has drawn condemnation from international human rights groups due to President Hugo Chavez's intervention in the case.
She infuriated Chavez in 2009 when she freed a banker from prison while he was awaiting trial on charges of flouting Venezuela's currency exchange controls. A day after Afiuni's arrest, Chavez said on television that she should face a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison.
Afiuni refused to enter the courtroom Wednesday as she had many other times before, arguing that her rights have been violated and that judges have mishandled the case. She stayed outside guarded by National Guard soldiers, wearing a violet shirt and jeans and sitting with a calm expression.
Afiuni revealed in a book released last week by Venezuelan journalist Francisco Olivares that she was raped in the infirmary of a women's prison where she was being held in 2010. She said that she was 47 at the time and that she became pregnant. A couple of months after the attack, she said, "I didn't stop bleeding."
"After that episode was when I got sick and they removed my uterus," Afiuni is quoted as saying in the book. In February 2011, she was granted house arrest due to health problems.
The government's minister of prisons, Iris Varela, rejected the judge's account Wednesday, calling it a "vile lie."
"I'm the one who's most interested in having this situation investigated and cleared up," Varela said. "All of this comes from a strategy to sell a book."
Afiuni had previously reported abuse during her time at the prison, but the account in the book was the first time she publicly reported being raped. She did not identify her attacker.
Her brother, Nelson Afiuni, said he felt "great impotence, great pain" when he learned of the assault.
In the book, Olivares describes how other women at the prison attacked Afiuni at night, covering her face, kicking her and cutting her with razor blades. He said the beatings left the judge with bruises and cuts as well as other injuries that later required medical treatment.
Afiuni regularly airs comments on Twitter to her more than 135,000 followers. On her profile, she calls herself a "judge kidnapped by order of Chavez." On Wednesday she replied to one message saying the trial in absentia was "unconstitutional."
It was possible for the trial to begin without Afiuni due to a recent change in the penal code, which Chavez approved by decree, allowing trials to be held without the accused present.
"Today is a sad chapter in Venezuela's legal history," said Jose Amalio Graterol, one of her defense lawyers.
Graterol told The Associated Press after the hearing that Afiuni refused to enter the courtroom because "she doesn't want to be tried by a judge who violates her human rights."
He also said prosecutors have acknowledged that no money changed hands nor was promised in the judge's decision to release the banker. She freed him on condition he stay in Venezuela and regularly report to a court while awaiting trial. The banker, Eligio Cedeno, fled to the U.S. within days and was eventually granted asylum.
"They're trying to convict somebody in absentia for a crime that doesn't exist," Afiuni's brother said.
During Wednesday's hearing, Afiuni's three lawyers presented their arguments and a request for her to be freed from house arrest during the trial.
Human rights groups including Amnesty International have previously called for her release as has American activist Noam Chomsky.
Afiuni's next court hearing was scheduled for Dec. 19.


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QCIBT Roundup: Pioneers putting things togetherBy JIM FENNELL
New Hampshire Union Leader
December 29. 2012 10:55PM
MANCHESTER - While Trinity High coach Dave Keefe thinks it still might take some time before he knows exactly what he has from a team that includes four transfers, it was a couple of returning players that allowed the Pioneers to end the Queen City Invitational Basketball Tournament on a positive note Saturday.
Senior center Mabor Gabriel turned in another double-double with 13 points and 10 rebounds, while junior guard Pat Keefe scored nine of his 11 points in the fourth quarter as Trinity held off Bedford, 51-43, in the tournament's fifth-place game.
"We've got some great pieces to the puzzle. Now it's up to the coaching staff to put those pieces together," said Keefe, whose team went 2-1 in the QCIBT after starting 3-0 in the regular season. "They're getting used to me and getting used to a new system."
So, while transfers like Ryan Otis and Brad Rhoades, a pair of starters, adjust to a new system, the Pioneers will have to rely on Gabriel, Keefe and junior Carmen Giampetruzzi. All three showed their veteran mettle against the Bulldogs.
When Bedford made a run, closing to within 41-39 with 3:19 left in the game on back-to-back 3-pointers by Jake Capistran and Cam Meservey (10 points), it was Pat Keefe who had the answer, coming up with a big steal and layup.
"We might have had a shot if not for that," Bedford coach Mike Fitzpatrick said.
Sam Thomas led Bedford with 12 points, including a 3-point heave at the end of the third quarter that cut Trinity's lead to 36-31. The Bulldogs struggled to find their offense at the start of each quarter, forcing them to play behind the entire game.
"We're adjusting to the level of physicality in Division I," Fitzpatrick said. "It's a process."
Central 40, Merrimack 33: Two of the more defensive-minded teams in Division I played up to their reputation in this rematch of last year's state championship game.
The Tomahawks led 30-27 after three quarters, but were held to one field goal in the fourth quarter as the Little Green shook off Friday's overtime loss to Memorial.
A 3-pointer by Troy Pelletier (13) with 3:13 left put Central ahead for good, 34-32.
Goffstown 73, West 71: In a game highlighted by 23 3-pointers, it took a defensive play to lift the Grizzlies past the Blue Knights in the seventh-place game.
Goffstown's Tim Riehl made his only points of the game count, as he stole the ball and scored with 6.8 seconds left to break a 71-all tie. Nolan Flynn's 3-point attempt at the buzzer bounced off the rim.
Flynn had three of West's 12 3-pointers and finished with 16 points. Zack Theriault (21 points) had five 3s and Carl Jacques (16) had two.
Goffstown knocked down 11 from long distance, getting four from sophomore Marcus Haynes (13) and three each from Jake Mount (18) and Rob White (13).


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DENVER – Wes Welker isn't looking back at his unhappy homecoming in Foxborough in November or his six seasons with Tom Brady in New England as he prepares for the Patriots' visit to Denver next Sunday.
"It's the AFC championship game, there's going to be plenty of juice," Welker said after catching a touchdown pass from Peyton Manning in Denver's 24-17 win over the San Diego Chargers on Sunday.
Welker had six receptions in his return from a concussion that had sidelined him for a month, and he wore an oversized safety helmet that drew comparisons to Dark Helmet from "Spaceballs" and The Great Gazoo from the Flintstones.
"I've been practicing with it the last few weeks, so I got used to it," Welker said. "It does kind of look like the Jetsons out there."
Welker's return helped the Broncos flip their time-of-possession deficit against the Chargers, who had held the ball for more than 38 minutes in both of their regular season meetings, including a 27-20 win in Denver in December.
The Broncos (14-3) will host the Patriots (13-4), who beat them 34-31 in overtime on Nov. 24 in New England.
Welker was trying to make a fair catch of a punt in the wind but didn't call off his blockers in time and the ball hit teammate Tony Carter. The Patriots recovered and kicked the game-winning field goal.
The Patriots beat Indianapolis 43-22 to advance to their third straight conference championship. The Broncos are back for the first time in eight years.
Five things that helped the Broncos avoid another Mile High meltdown like their crushing loss to Baltimore in last year's playoffs:
THIRD-DOWN THEATRICS: The last time these teams played, the Chargers converted 6 of 12 third downs and controlled the clock for 38 minutes while the Broncos sorely missed Welker and were just 2 for 9 on third downs.
This time, Denver was 9 for 13 — the 69 percent the highest of any team in this year's postseason — and the Chargers were just 4 of 12.
The Broncos' biggest conversions were the three they had on their final drive, including a 21-yard catch by Julius Thomas on third-and-17 from their own 20, which allowed them to salt away the win. That's something they weren't able to do in their crushing 38-35 loss in double-overtime to the Ravens exactly a year earlier.
"I felt like that game last year forced us to address those types of situations all season long," Manning said. "We've worked on it in training camp, we've worked on it in the season. ... It was nice that all that hard work paid off for us."
MANNING'S MAGIC: Manning drew five different defenders into committing neutral zone infractions with a cadence that had the Chargers flustered.
"They were doing a hard count, but that's not an excuse for us jumping offside," San Diego linebacker Melvin Ingram said. "We need to be more disciplined than that."
"Yeah, that's giving a very good quarterback a lot of freebies," Chargers coach Mike McCoy said.
The penalties helped Manning give the Broncos a 17-0 lead on his way to snapping a personal three-game losing streak in the postseason, where he improved to 10-11 with his first win since leading Indianapolis over the Jets 30-17 in the AFC championship game on Jan. 24, 2010.
GRIND IT OUT: All four teams that are still alive in the playoffs can thank their ground games. Knowshon Moreno gained 82 yards on 23 carries and Montee Ball added 52 yards on 10 runs. This, after the Broncos managed just 18 yards on 11 carries against the Chargers in their loss to San Diego last month.
"It was just working out so well for us today that we wanted to stick with it," Thomas said. "Our running backs did a great job of running the ball and earning tough yards."
SLOW-STARTING CHARGERS: The Broncos shut down Philip Rivers until cornerback Chris Harris Jr., who played more snaps than any of Denver's defenders during the regular season, went out with knee and ankle injuries early in the second half.
Rivers finally found the end zone with a 16-yard toss to Keenan Allen early in the fourth quarter, then found him again for a 49-yard gain on fourth-and-5 from his own 25-yard line with seven minutes left and the Chargers trailing 24-7.
The Broncos held on, but mostly because Manning & Co. kept Rivers on the sideline after the Chargers cut the lead to 24-17.
"I know one thing: we can't be complacent where we are," Champ Bailey said. "We have to be a much better team because we have a much better quarterback and team coming in here next week."
SPECIAL TEAMS: The Broncos overcame some big blunders on special teams. Eric Decker, who also flubbed a fourth-quarter onside kick that San Diego recovered, tripped at the 30-yard line on what would have been a 77-yard punt return touchdown.
"I guess it was just that invisible fence again that got me," said Decker, who tripped over the 45-yard line on his way to an 85-yard score against San Diego last season. "Got a little excited, tripped myself and wish I could have that play back."
Trindon Holliday's 105-yard kickoff return for a touchdown was negated by Omar Bolden's block in the back on a defender that wasn't going to make the play.
Holliday, however, secured the pooch kick with 3:51 left that led to Denver's game-sealing drive.
AP Sports Writer Pat Graham contributed.
AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org
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Are Democrats nervous about the elections coming later this year? Will the prospect of those elections dim their ardor to ram Obamacare through?
Andrew McCarthy thinks "our side is analyzing this all wrong." He writes: "Today's Democrats are controlled by the radical Left, and it is more important to them to execute the permanent transformation of American society than it is to win the upcoming election cycles. They have already factored in losing in November — even losing big. For them, winning big now outweighs that. I think they're right." He has more here, all of it worth worrying over as Democrats make their renewed push to nationalize the health care system in the name of reform.
UPDATE: A reader comments: "While I completely agree with McCarthy's analysis, I believe there is an additional twist to the situation. From their point of view, the Democrats have the problem of the 'discouragement' of their Left voters; i.e., the green line in Rasmussen's chart."
Are Democratic leaders calculating that they can "remoralize" their voters with a final push? Our reader speculates that "If [Democratic] people remain disaffected, they won't be enthusiastic in November and will make a bad situation for the Democrats even worse. So ramming the health care bill through not only achieves Rasmussen's thesis, but might also help to limit their losses in November. The question will be if conservatives can concomitantly drive up the red line in Rasmussen's chart." I'm not sure that Rasmussen has a "thesis" beyond the data, but the point of these comments remains.
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CHICAGO, Dec. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today announced it has completed its acquisition of the Kansas City Board of Trade (KCBT), the leading futures market for hard red winter (HRW) wheat. The completion of the acquisition will provide both CME Group and KCBT customers with greater capital efficiencies, new trading opportunities and additional products to manage their global wheat price risk.
"We're pleased to complete this transaction, combining KCBT Hard Red Winter Wheat products with our deep and liquid CBOT Soft Red Winter Wheat futures and options markets," said CME Group Executive Chairman and President Terry Duffy. "The integration of these two global wheat benchmarks will provide new trading opportunities to commercial grain market participants, wheat traders and customers who continue to rely on these tools to manage their price risk."
"The addition of KCBT to CME Group will provide significant value to the customers, shareholders and members, beginning on day one," said CME Group CEO Phupinder Gill. "Starting today, we're integrating hard red winter wheat futures and options into our suite of already deep and liquid grain and oilseed products. Moving forward, we'll work with customers to grow existing KCBT and CBOT Wheat futures and options, while developing new and innovative products that will benefit customers of both varieties of wheat."
Beginning today, CME and CBOT members and KCBT permit holders will immediately benefit from the ability to trade each other's wheat futures and options products in a more cost-effective manner on the CME Globex electronic trading platform. Following the integration of clearing services, customers will benefit from cross-margining and other capital efficiencies.
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In quick summary, here is the plan:
Produce a high-quality video on the the importance of marine parks
- Why we should declare more marine parks
- Why marine parks should be larger
- Why neighbouring marine parks should be joined up
- Why marine parks need policing
Short, less-than 10 minute, key-messages version with proposed action items
Longer, 24 minute, documentary style version
Combine underwater / abovewater footage with interviews, animated graphs and bullet-point overlays
Target audiences:
Targeted to politicians, including opposition, and government officials
Broadcast to voting public
Direct courier delivery of DVD to the offices of politicians and government officials in Southeast Asian countries
Broadcast through regional TV programming
Support from selected conservation organisations for further distribution
Languages: English, Mandarin, Bahasa Indonesian/Malaysian, Thai, Philippine, Papuan, Japanese
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Marine parks make economic sense
Attract tourist dollar
Improve fishing in surrounding seas
Legacy for our children and future generations
Marine parks to include in the video
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Indonesia: Komodo, Raja Ampat, Bunaken
I'm just working on the script and the background video footage now. I have a potential sponsor lined up.
I need some help with "evidencing" these 4 points:
Why we should declare more marine parks
Why marine parks should be larger
Why neighbouring marine parks should be joined up
Why marine parks need policing
Of course I can write a script on these points and show some video and animation that demonstrates the idea. But, I'd really like some solid evidence.
Do you know of any research that has been done on:
- What is the optimal size of marine parks, showing why bigger is better?
- How marine parks affect the local economies through tourism?
- How larger marine parks have an overall positive balance on marine stocks
- (more fish minus lost fishing grounds)?
- The impact of proactive or local policing of marine parks?
Do you know of any marine biologists who have done or are doing such research?
Or do you know a research assistant interested in helping get some data that supports the story?


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Opponents of a proposed landfill expansion in Oregon's Willamette Valley have gained a powerful ally: the Oregon Department of Agriculture.
The agency has argued against a zoning change that is key to the proposed 37-acre expansion of Waste Management's Riverbend Landfill in Yamhill County.
"It's a game changer," said Ramsey McPhillips, a neighboring landowner and critic of the expansion proposal.
While Yamhill County isn't bound by the ODA's opinion, the agency's view is an important political victory and useful legal weapon in the dispute, he said.
An attorney for the county said the ODA's opinion will be given "due weight" in the deliberations of its planning commission and board of commissioners.
A spokesperson for Waste Management said the company disagrees with ODA's analysis, which was laid out in a recent letter to Yamhill County's planning commission.
"The focus of the letter seems to be misplaced," said Jackie Lange, Pacific Northwest spokesperson for Waste Management.
To expand the landfill, Yamhill County must first reclassify property owned by Waste Management as farmland, since the "exclusive farm use" zone allows landfills under Oregon law.
Jim Johnson, a land use specialist with ODA, said the property doesn't qualify for a farmland designation because it's considered a "dump" under the USDA's soil classification system — an area with effectively no soil and that doesn't support vegetation.
The area was also excepted from the statewide land use "goal" of preserving farmland in 1980, and thus would no longer qualify as agricultural land, he said.
"You can't turn around and say it's ag land when you said it wasn't ag land years ago," Johnson said.
Landfill opponent Ramsey McPhillips said that while landfills are allowed on farmland, it's not permissible to "game" the system by declaring that non-agricultural land belongs in an "exclusive farm use" zone.
Jackie Lang of Waste Management said that interpretation is incorrect.
"There's no ambiguity in the statute. Landfills are allowed in the farm zone," she said. "There are many non-farm uses allowed in the farm zone."
She also noted that Waste Management has scaled back the expansion to 37 acres, down from the 98-acre increase proposed in an earlier plan that was ultimately scrapped due to an unfavorable Oregon Court of Appeals ruling.
"We've been actively engaging the community to get their feedback and develop a plan that is workable for Yamhill County," Lang said.
McPhillips said he doesn't expect ODA's opinion to sway Yamhill County's board of commissioners, who have previously been highly supportive of the expansion.
However, the ODA's interpretation will provide legal ammunition during the appeals process that would likely follow the zone change, he said.


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