tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24460653374361798672024-03-12T21:13:48.021-05:00The frog Pond“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead."
Poor Richard's Almanackfroghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04017475000559241712noreply@blogger.comBlogger181125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2446065337436179867.post-17388600172545790992023-11-25T11:33:00.002-06:002023-11-25T11:33:29.437-06:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">I am thinking about making chicken salad. I have a rotisserie chicken in the fridge, so...<br />
Here is the thing. Should I use a traditional recipe or try something new? Thai, Russian, Cuban, fusion? I have sesame oil, almonds, ginger, horseradish, dried shrimp, fish sauce, cumin... I seem to be going towards the East and away from the Caribbean. Odd, because the Caribbean is east of New Orleans and New Orleans is considered to be the northern most port of the Caribbean.<br />
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froghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04017475000559241712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2446065337436179867.post-70633105428039538762015-03-31T17:46:00.003-05:002023-05-28T11:55:18.155-05:00A Penny Saved, a Pound Wasted<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I noticed my toilet seat was looking a bit worn. I have noticed it for quite a while. Last week I looked at it and thought: It seems very solid and I did buy one with steel hinges for durability, so why not just repaint it? I do hate waste, so I decided to act.<br />
<br />
I had the right can of spray paint (circa 2005) and sand paper, so how hard could it be? And I was doing the right thing, re-using a solid wood toilet seat!<br />
<br />
Several things: The seat and lid are fastened to the hinges by 8 zinc coated screws (who knew?), the 4 on the seat had been corroded by whatever cleaning liquids I had employed since the Federal Flood to try to remove the calcium deposits provided by the NO Sewerage and Water Board to fill the cracks in the water mains that FEMA would not pay to replace. A lot to explain my travail, I know, but it took a long time to get those screws out.<br />
<br />
I managed to fight the screws out of the wood and then sanded the seat and lid, not with the sandpaper I knew I had but could not find, oh, no, but with 000 steel wool. Not the right tool, but it sufficed. I took lid and set to my detached, open garage and set up a paint spraying station. I did a rather poor job. I selected the can of choice, White, Semi-Gloss, a can that I had used 10 years ago with great success and had taken care to clean the nozzle so I might use it again in the far future, and shook it mightily, far longer than the minute recommended. I did not test spray it.<br />
<br />
Let me say to anyone who reads this: always test a can of spray paint before using it.<br />
I pointed the nozzle at the toilet lid, pressed the button, and a tight stream of paint emerged and hit the lid with blobs of paint. I tried to smooth them with a paper towel, then with my fingers, to no avail. I said something like "Argh!", turned and inadvertenly kicked dust onto the wet paint.<br />
<br />
What more could go wrong? <br />
<br />
I called a good friend, Dilly, yesterday to ask to borrow a sander. He came by this morning and we sat on my front porch sanding lid and seat. It was not hard but we laid a good layer of paint dust on my porch and in our lungs. Much to my surprise, the seat and lid are very dense composite board and not the oak I thought they were. <br />
<br />
We drank several rum and ginger beers (only gold Cruzan when mixing with ginger beer), went to buy a can of paint, then he had to go. Cheers, Dilly! I took the seat and lid to the garage and applied one, then two coats. I still must do the bottoms. I am never doing this again.<br />
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froghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04017475000559241712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2446065337436179867.post-4000261674229117502014-07-16T03:10:00.000-05:002014-07-16T03:10:04.147-05:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I am sick of Jindal and of his phony stance. He has done more harm to
our state than any other Gov, and that would be slander if it were not
true. But anyone with intelligence is aware of his falsehoods.<br />
His wacko tea-party is opposed to children escaping horrible conditions in Central America.<br />
<br />
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"Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,</div>
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;<br />
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand<br />
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame<br />
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name<br />
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand<br />
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command<br />
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.<br />
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Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!"</div>
cries she<br />
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your<br />
poor,<br />
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,<br />
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.<br />
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,<br />
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"<br />
<strong>—Emma Lazarus, 1883</strong><br />
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<br />So he says screw the French and screw Ms Lazarus and screw the homeless, tempest-tossed. Screw the Statue of Liberty. </div>
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<br /></div>
<br />
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Can we rid ourselves of this obscene man?</div>
</div>
froghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04017475000559241712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2446065337436179867.post-51652573417941921612014-05-29T18:56:00.000-05:002014-05-29T18:57:46.148-05:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I got this in my email today. Below is my response.<br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: yellow;"><br />May 29, 2014<br />RE: SLFPA-E Lawsuit / SB 469<br />Ladies and Gentlemen,<br />First, I would like to thank you for your e-mail and calls regarding SB 469, which seeks to abolish the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority - East (SLFPA-E) lawsuit against numerous oil and gas companies. I appreciate you taking time out of your day to provide me with your input.<br />Secondly, please allow me to explain why I support SB 469, as it stands in its current form:<br /> The plaintiff in the law suit, SLFPA-E, is a flood protection authority. Its primary function is to operate and maintain levees. It does not construct coastal restoration projects along Louisiana’s entire coast. In fact, most of our costal restoration projects are outside of SLFPA-E’s geographical jurisdiction. As a result, SLFPA-E is not the proper plaintiff for this type of law suit. However, the State of Louisiana, a Parish or the Coastal Protection Restoration Authority (CPRA) would be the proper party to bring this type of law suit.<br /> SLFPA-E is only one of approximately thirty (30) levee authorities across the State. Therefore, if SLFPA-E would win the lawsuit, which could potentially result in a $100 Billion judgment, SLFPA-E would receive all the money. I believe if any judgment is obtained, it should be obtained by the State, the Parishes or the CPRA so any recovery could be used for coastal restoration in accordance with the State's Coastal Master Plan.<br /> As a subdivision of the state, the SLFPA-E Board did not have the authority to hire counsel and file a lawsuit. Specifically, pursuant to the Coastal Zone Management Act, SLFPA-E is not one of the enumerated entities granted the capacity to file such a law suit.<br />2<br /> The questionable arrangement which allows a contingency fee contract by SLFPA-E’s trial lawyers could result in a multi-billion dollar recovery by the lawyers. I believe any lawsuit should by pursued by attorneys on an hourly fee basis to maximize any recover by the State to be used to fund the Coastal Master Plan.<br /> Finally, the Association of Levee Boards of Louisiana (ALBL), comprised of nearly two dozen levee districts in Louisiana, opposes the law suit filed by SLFPA-E. The ALBL stated the SLFPA-E law suit “could adversely affect other on-going efforts related to coastal protection and restoration and community resiliency.” Furthermore, SLFPA-E failed to coordinate its law suit with ALBL members, even though the “lawsuit asserts claims and seeks remedies that affect the majority of ALBL [and] implicates the interests of a majority of ALBL members.”<br />Once again, thank you for sharing your position with me. I hope you can better understand my reasons for supporting SB 469 in its current form. Although we might not always agree, I do value your opinion.<br />Sincerely,<br />Nicholas J. Lorusso</span><br />
<br />
<br />
Dear Representative<br />
<br />
Thank you for your recent letter about SB 469. Allow me to point how you are wrong about it.<br />
<br />
You are right that that the state of Louisiana or the CPRA should have brought suit against the oil and gas companies for the damage they have done to the wetlands and for defaulting on their contract to repair the damage they inflicted. The state and the CPRA abrogated their sworn duty to protect the state and its citizens, so the SLFPA-E is certainly a proper plaintiff for the law suit. The destruction of the wetlands impairs the maintenance of the levees.<br />
<br />
Of the 30 levee authorities in Louisiana, only a very few are impacted by the destruction of the wetlands. The money from any judgement would go to restoring the entire coastline, not just the part that impacts the SLFPA-E.<br />
<br />
The court allowed the SLFPA-E to pursue its lawsuit and so recognized the right of the board to sue. Why else was SB 469 deemed necessary? <br />
<br />
As for the contingency fee contract for the plaintiff’s lawyers, it is really the only way it could be done. Levee Boards do not have a cadre of lawyers to properly conduct such a large and complex suit.<br />
<br />
I do not think this will change your mind, but I wanted to assure you that not everyone is so gullible.<br />
<br />
Sincerely,<br />
<br />
John-Christopher Ward</div>
froghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04017475000559241712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2446065337436179867.post-12039705743607718302014-03-02T18:41:00.000-06:002014-03-02T18:41:11.336-06:00Jindal's Rose Colored Glasses<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Booby J's "news"letter is out today and it has some real whoppers. He crows about his brilliance at the Whitehouse when he "stood up to the President" and said the Prez had waved "the white flag of surrender" on the economy. He doesn't mention the criticism he got from Democratic Govs and even some Republican Govs for breaking with protocol and for misstating the idea of raising the minimum wage.<br />
<br />
He went on Morning Joe and when Panelist Mike Barnicle asked Jindal to defend his own economic
record: "The last time the Census Bureau checked the per capita income
of Louisiana, you were 47th lowest in the United States, not all under
your watch. What have you done, as governor, to bring in all these
better paying jobs and boost your people's per capita income?"<br />
Jindal responded, "Well, the great thing is, we're doing exactly what
the president has not. Cut taxes, reform debt, make some investment in
workforce training, make it easier for businesses to create jobs. And
here's the record. In Louisiana, we now have more people working,
highest incomes in our state's history. Larger population than ever
before. And the president can't say all those things about the country.
Our economy has grown 50 percent faster than the national GDP, even
since the national recession."<br />
He claims that Politiifact.com verified this. Politifact is fast and loose with facts and conclusions, but even they would not <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2014/feb/27/bobby-jindal/bobby-jindal-says-louisianas-growth-has-outpaced-n/?utm_source=WhatCounts+Publicaster+Edition&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Speaking+outside+the+White+House&utm_content=Politifact+Confirmed">completely agree with his claim</a>.<br />
<br />
He went to West Monroe to award the 1st Governor's Award for Entrepreneurial Excellence to the Robertson family of Duck Dynasty fame. Being proud to support a racist group, he went on to say <span style="font-family: Arial;">patriarch Phil Robertson and his wife, Miss Kay, earned barely more than $8,000 during the first year he began manufacturing duck calls in the early 1970s.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span>
Well, the Federal Minimum Wage in 1972 was $1.60 -- Louisiana didn't and doesn't have one -- which paid $3,200 a year at 40 hours a week for 50 weeks. Earning $8,000 the first year in your own business was not bad back then, even for 2 people, one of whom was a woman.<br />
<br />
Yes, Booby J is on his slow march to the Whitehouse.</div>
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Is Jindal the Least Popular Guv?</h1>
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If
home state approval ratings are any indication, likely presidential
candidate Bobby Jindal of Louisiana doesn’t stand a chance. </div>
<section class="article-body-content">Past
performance is supposed to predict future results. In politics, this
should mean that winning over constituents in your home state makes you
an immediate national figure, the kind of person who’s talked about as a
potential president, and whose every appearance outside the borders of
one’s home state sets tongues wagging.<br />
This was supposed to be
Chris Christie’s calling card. The New Jersey governor boasted a 74
percent approval rating in his strongly Democratic state only a year
ago. His supporters said once the rest of the nation came to know
Christie like Jersey did, he would see similar numbers everywhere.<br />
They
could point to past performance for proof: George W. Bush boasted of a
76 percent approval rating two years before he began running for
president. And the previous two governors to win their party’s
nominations—Bill Clinton and Michael Dukakis—similarly boasted high
approvals back home.<br />
And so we can hardly wait for the 2016 presidential contest between Indiana’s Mike Pence and Arkansas’ Mike Beebe.<br />
Why?
Because the Indiana Republican boasts a 63 percent approval rating,
higher than any of his fellow Republican governors, according to a
polling average analysis by The Daily Beast. And the Arkansas Democrat,
despite presiding over a state that is trending Republican, gets the nod
of approval from 66 percent of Arkansas voters, the highest among any
of his fellow Democrats. Meanwhile, Montana Democratic Governor Steve
Bullock sports the lowest disapproval rating of any state executive,
with a mere 14 percent of voters in his state voicing displeasure with
his tenure. The Republican with the lowest disapproval rating is Nathan
Deal of Georgia, with an average of only 24 percent, a figure that is
likely to rise after he botched the clean-up from a recent snowstorm. <br />
None
of the four, however, are mentioned in any conversations about becoming
the next president of the United States, and aren’t even considered
likely to run. If anyone, Pence’s name may get tossed around, but only
if it’s quickly followed by the phrase “dark horse.”<br />
Indeed, one
would have to toggle a third of the way down our list of the 36 most
popular governors (recent polling data didn’t include 14 governors) in
order to find the first governor getting ready for 2016, and that would
be Rick Perry of Texas, who after forgetting about the existence of the
Department of Energy when he ran for president in 2012, is something of a
dark horse himself this time around.<br />
Still, Governor Oops boasts a 55 percent approval average, with just 33 percent disapproval, putting him 22 points in the black.<br />
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That
puts Perry over other supposed ’16 hopefuls like New York Democrat
Andrew Cuomo (58.5% approve/37 percent disapprove), Ohio Republican John
Kasich (51.5/34.5), Maryland Democrat Martin O’Malley (55/39) and
Colorado Democrat John Hickenlooper (50/42.5.)<br />
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That’s
the thing about maintaining a high profile, and keeping yourself in the
national conversation: It has a tendency not to wear well on the home
front.</div>
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Those four, however, are
considered to be on the fence—at best—about a ’16 bid. ‘O’Malley and
Hickenlooper would likely step aside if Hillary Clinton runs, as
expected, and Cuomo certainly would too, rather than challenge a beloved
figure in his home state. Despite his decent overall number, Kasich is
considered too low-wattage to be a serious contender for the crown,
especially when there are other, more high profile contenders vying for
it.<br />
But that’s the thing about maintaining a high profile, and
keeping yourself in the national conversation: It has a tendency not to
wear well on the home front. Take Scott Walker, the Wisconsin Republican
who is considered a top tier presidential contender after besting the
Badger State’s public sector unions in a 2011 showdown. He has just a
six percent net approval rating.<br />
In New Jersey meanwhile, just
four percent more voters approve of the job Chris Christie is doing than
disapprove, a number that could sink further as he tries to slough off
his GW Bridgegate scandal.<br />
But there is no better argument for
tending to your present job than Bobby Jindal. The Republican Governor
of Louisiana was heralded as the new face of the party practically since
he was first elected in 2007. He flirted with running for president in
2012, and is making all the moves for 2016.<br />
All the moves, that
is, except managing his state properly—at least according to Bayou
voters. Jindal has a 35/53 approval/disapproval number, putting him 18
points under water, a figure only better than Illinois’ Pat Quinn and
Rhode Island’s Lincoln Chafee, who are not seeking re-election. <br />
Back
home, Jindal has faced widespread backlash in his own party from
lawmakers who either don’t like his tax plans or his education
initiatives. According to another recent poll, a majority of Louisiana
voters do not want Jindal to seek the presidency in 2016, and he trails
former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee in early polls.<br />
Should Jindal run, and win the nomination, he could be the first nominee for either party to lose his home state in the primary.<br />
Jindal
meanwhile found himself in more hot water on Monday. He was at the
National Governor’s Association annual meeting in Washington, rubbing
shoulders with his fellow chief executives and his fellow ’16 hopefuls,
and he broke from the usual bi-partisan script by accusing President
Barack Obama of waving “the white flag of surrender” on job growth. One
of his fellow governors, Dan Malloy of Connecticut, who, it should be
noted has an even 47/47 record, and is not on anyone’s short list for
president, took to the microphone and called it “the most insane
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I have not posted in a while for many reasons. My wife, a wonderful woman who lived with me for 17 years, died 5 August of this year. She had cervical cancer, which had she had regular Doctor visits, could have been treated and would have been no issue. But she was afraid of doctors. Silly, isn't it.<br />
That fear killed her, and I had to spend 3 years going to hospitals with her for radiation and chemo therapy. She was very valiant through it all, and she always tried to bolster the flagging spirits of her fellow chemo patients.<br />
I miss her.<br />
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froghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04017475000559241712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2446065337436179867.post-31389626736761107832012-10-19T19:00:00.000-05:002012-10-19T19:00:52.788-05:00Bobby Jindal Got the TeaParty Memo<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px;">Our Gov is trying to drum up support for another unnecessary piece of legislation: Amendment 2 (we already have 151 amendments to our 1974 Constitution--our 11th since we joined the Union in 1812). Nobody knows where Bobby Jindal is right now, except that he is hanging with wacko neo-con millionaires. He does have time to send emails supporting more of his stupidity. This from an email that arrived on 18 Octobre:</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px;">It's time we protected freedom. It's time we protected gun rights. It's time we passed Amendment 2 to our Constitution, so that we have an ironclad guarantee of freedom here in Louisiana.</span><br /><br style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px;">It's our own Second Amendment, if you will, a new constitutional provision to repair the damage done by past judicial interpretations. You see, over the years, Louisiana courts have applied a 'rational basis' legal standard to interpreting our right to bear arms. In reality, that means that the state has almost unlimited authority to confiscate, prohibit, or infringe on this fundamental right. Make no mistake, I have no intention of allowing such a bill to leave my desk without a veto, but our liberties should not be held hostage to whims of future legislators and governors. By applying the 'strict scrutiny' test, we elevate the protections in our constitution to the same level we provide our right to free speech.</span><br style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px;">Now I know what you're thinking - the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution already provides for the right to bear arms - so why do we need an amendment to our state constitution?</span><br style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px;">Our Second Amendment rights at the federal level hang in the balance. In 2008, the United States Supreme Court confirmed that the District of Columbia's ban on the possession of handguns was unconstitutional. It was a victory for gun owners across the country, but the decision hinged on a single justice. If just one justice in the majority flipped his vote, it would have dealt a significant blow to our freedoms. With our rights in such near peril at the federal level, it is vital that Louisiana recognizes the right to bear arms as essential to our liberty.</span><br style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px;">In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, when</span><u style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: purple;"> government officials went door-to-door, confiscating firearms, they targeted law-abiding citizens </span>(</u><span style="font-family: Arial;">emphasis mine<u>)</u></span><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial;">, mothers and fathers who wanted nothing more than the ability to defend themselves.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px;">That last paragraph is a whopper that the NRA and Fox "News" repeated often following the Federal Flood </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">disaster. The 'government officials' (sounds ominous, doesn't it) were New Orleans Police Officers. The <a href="http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-10-08-nra-katrina_N.htm">reality</a> is that NOPD confiscated stolen guns--normal police business--and guns that were found in abandoned houses, 552 guns in all. They did not go door to door yanking guns from helpless mothers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Bobby is very good at telling lies with a teensy kernel of truth to support more frivolous laws, and he is counting on getting the attention of the right wing of the RNC.</span></div>
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froghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04017475000559241712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2446065337436179867.post-77310807924276092742012-10-14T11:28:00.000-05:002012-10-14T11:28:38.549-05:00A Literary Mystery in Edinburgh<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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One day in March, staff at the <a class="" href="http://community.thisiscentralstation.com/service/linkOut.kickAction?as=126249&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spl.org.uk&h=c721ccca9356e5391aefa285def7b6de" rel="external nofollow" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; cursor: pointer; line-height: normal; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none !important;" target="_self" title="">Scottish Poetry Library </a>came across a wonderful creation, left anonymously on a table in the library. Carved from paper, mounted on a book and with a tag addressed to @byleaveswelive - the library's Twitter account - reading:</div>
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It started with your name <a class="" href="http://community.thisiscentralstation.com/service/linkOut.kickAction?as=126249&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.twitter.com%2Fbyleaveswelive&h=6bd8b21db3ee79fe43f79b76f282d4f4" rel="external nofollow" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; cursor: pointer; line-height: normal; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none !important;" target="_self" title="">@byleaveswelive</a> and became a tree.… ... We know that a library is so much more than a building full of books… a book is so much more than pages full of words.… This is for you in support of libraries, books, words, ideas….. a gesture (poetic maybe?)</blockquote>
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Next to the 'poetree' sat a paper egg lined with gold and a scatter of words which, when put together, make "A Trace of Wings" by Edwin Morgan.</div>
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Nobody knew where it came from, nor was anyone forthcoming with information in person or online, despite a fair amount of local news coverage.</div>
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It looked like this was a one-off, a beautiful and delicate piece of art created by a fan of the Poetry Library. Until, in late June, the <a class="" href="http://community.thisiscentralstation.com/service/linkOut.kickAction?as=126249&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nls.uk&h=7919f76e7aabb417f40abf7e32e5e0" rel="external nofollow" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; cursor: pointer; line-height: normal; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none !important;" target="_self" title="">National Library of Scotland</a> found themselves the recipient of a similar piece.</div>
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A gramophone and a coffin, sculpted from a copy of Ian Rankin's Exit Music, and again deposited anonymously. The tag in this case read:</div>
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And soon afterwards, the <a href="http://community.thisiscentralstation.com/service/linkOut.kickAction?as=126249&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.filmhousecinema.com&h=3c1c9528ce205a1db377744ba73758f" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; cursor: pointer; line-height: normal; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none !important;" target="_self" title="">Filmhouse </a>had a pleasant surprise!</div>
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This time the sculpture is a complex scene in a paper cinema; punters arrayed on seats watching men and horses coming alive from the screen and charging outwards.</div>
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Amongst the audience is a figure with Ian Rankin's face, clutching a Deuchar's.</div>
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Finally (so far), in early July the <a href="http://community.thisiscentralstation.com/service/linkOut.kickAction?as=126249&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.scottishstorytellingcentre.co.uk%2F&h=c0f1a17fae7b2b7dacb4a110377f60db" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; cursor: pointer; line-height: normal; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none !important;" target="_self" title="">Scottish Storytelling Centre</a> found a dragon nesting in a window.</div>
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Once again carved from a Rankin novel, they don't know how long it might have been sitting there unnoticed as it's quite well hidden. Perhaps the loveliest tag so far:</div>
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For <a class="" href="http://community.thisiscentralstation.com/service/linkOut.kickAction?as=126249&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.twitter.com%2Fscotstorycenter&h=fe6f4fcee5b667938716da585850c5f2" rel="external nofollow" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; cursor: pointer; line-height: normal; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none !important;" target="_self" title="">@scotstorycenter </a>- A gift in support of libraries, books, works, ideas..... Once upon a time there was a book and in the book was a nest and in the nest was an egg and in the egg was a dragon and in the dragon was a story.....</blockquote>
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Nobody knows whether there are more to come and if so, where they might appear. Some say the newly opened National Museum, others suggest the Edinburgh International Book Festival. It's all a bit exciting!</div>
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Having been on display in the Scottish Poetry Library for a few months, the poetree is now kept behind the counter for safety, but if you ask nicely I'm sure they would let you have a look.</div>
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The National Library's gramophone is in a display case near the front door.</div>
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The Filmhouse's cinematic diorama is currently not on display.</div>
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The Scottish Storytelling Centre's dragon is probably going to estivate during the Festivals to avoid any possible manhandling by infant hordes but will surely make a return in the autumn.</div>
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<strong style="line-height: normal;">UPDATE:</strong> The dragon has been moved out of harm's way but is still visible to the public!</div>
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<strong style="line-height: normal;">UPDATE 24/08/11:</strong> Two more appeared today at the Edinburgh International Book Festival!</div>
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One, addressed to @edbookfest (the Book Festival), was left on one of the signing tables in the Bookshop.</div>
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The tag on this reads:</div>
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To <a class="" href="http://community.thisiscentralstation.com/service/linkOut.kickAction?as=126249&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.twitter.com%2Fedbookfest&h=4d37dda78985a91a09dc8a9f1a2af8" rel="external nofollow" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; cursor: pointer; line-height: normal; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none !important;" target="_self" title="">@edbookfest</a> 'A gift' This is for you in support of libraries, books, words, ideas...... & festivals xx</blockquote>
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It includes a teabag filled with cut out letters, on the tag of which are the words "by leaves we live". The cup on the top has a swirl of words which read " Nothing beats a nice cup of tea (or coffee) and a really good BOOK", and on the 'tray' next to the cupcake it says "except maybe a cake as well".</div>
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The other, addressed to @edincityoflit (<a class="" href="http://community.thisiscentralstation.com/service/linkOut.kickAction?as=126249&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cityofliterature.com%2Findex.aspx%3Fsec%3D1%26amp%3Bpid%3D1&h=3342d9aae34d462040aed0ebc3eb95d4" rel="external nofollow" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; cursor: pointer; line-height: normal; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none !important;" target="_blank" title="">UNESCO Edinburgh City of Literature</a>), was secreted about their stand in the entrance tent.</div>
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To <a class="" href="http://community.thisiscentralstation.com/service/linkOut.kickAction?as=126249&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.twitter.com%2Fedincityoflit&h=fd46e13ba7c35a111d84ed42b2ebb8d" rel="external nofollow" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; cursor: pointer; line-height: normal; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none !important;" target="_self" title="">@edincityoflit </a>'A gift' LOST (albeit in a good book) This is for you in support of libraries, books, words, ideas.... "No infant has the power of deciding..... by what circumstances (they) shall be surrounded.. Robert Owen</blockquote>
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Intriguingly, this is crafted from a copy of <em style="line-height: normal;">The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner</em>by James Hogg.</div>
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This book is not only a favourite of the City of Literature team but is also known to have been an influence on Ian Rankin's work. So far quite a few of these sculptures have overt links to Mr Rankin, suggesting this is no coincidence. As Ian was due on site later in the day and had not yet met any of these creations face to face, the @EdinCityofLit team introduced him to their new baby.</div>
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Former local Guardian beatblogger Michael MacLeod and all round top journo was on the scene to file a swift report. The Book Festival's blogger also shared with the world, and @edinCityofLit's Anna has a mention of them...</div>
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Once the latest additions to the family have found offical homes I will update with further images and information...</div>
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<strong style="line-height: normal;">UPDATE 30/08/11</strong></div>
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Another has appeared in the Central Lending Library on George IV Bridge.</div>
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Taking the form of a book with a magnifying glass mounted atop it (made of paper of course!) it was left on a shelf and was unreported for at least a couple of days.</div>
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For Central Library ‘A Gift’ <a class="" href="http://community.thisiscentralstation.com/service/linkOut.kickAction?as=126249&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.twitter.com%2Fedinburgh_cc&h=5c831a92eddcf222baf58e9d77f9d3" rel="external nofollow" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; cursor: pointer; line-height: normal; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none !important;" target="_self" title="">@Edinburgh_CC</a> This is for you in support of libraries, books, words, ideas…. LIBRARIES ARE EXP<strong style="line-height: normal;">A</strong>NSIVE</blockquote>
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The word "expensive" has had the E crossed out and replaced with an A. No question of the creator's views on library cuts... The tag then notes, "Words on book - Edwin Morgan". No talk of Rankin this time!</div>
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In the news:</div>
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A plastic cover has been placed on it and for the time being at least it is on display where it was left.</div>
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<strong style="line-height: normal;">UPDATE 16/09/11</strong>:</div>
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The 'poetree' is now on display in the reception area of the Scottish Poetry Library.</div>
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Which has clearly had the desired effect, as the comments book next to it shows:</div>
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<strong style="line-height: normal;">UPDATE 20/09/11</strong></div>
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The Edinburgh Evening News <a class="" href="http://community.thisiscentralstation.com/service/linkOut.kickAction?as=126249&url=http%3A%2F%2Fedinburghnews.scotsman.com%2Fnews%2FPaper-sculpture-whodunnit-solved.6839425.jp&h=17994dab83e28551a16332c370c1ed58" rel="external nofollow" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; cursor: pointer; line-height: normal; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none !important;" target="_self" title="">claims</a> to have discovered the identity of the sculptor. The general view is that We Don't Want To Know...</div>
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<strong style="line-height: normal;">23/11/11</strong></div>
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There was a flurry of excitement when someone at the Scottish Poetry Library spotted this note in their guest book:</div>
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"Hopefully next time I'll be able to linger longer - I've left a little something for you near Women's Anthologies X. In support of Libraries, Books, Words and Ideas...."</blockquote>
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A quick dash into the library led to the discovery of another gift.</div>
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"To @ByLeavesWeLive....... THE GIFTS "Gloves of bee's ful, cap of the Wren's Wings......." Norman McCaig .... maybe sometimes impossible things... In support of LIbraries, Books, Words Ideas...."</blockquote>
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And with the suspicious addition in the corner reading 10/10.</div>
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So here we have a cap made of a wing.</div>
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A wing, of course, made of exquisitely crafted paper feathers.</div>
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And with it a pair of paper gloves...</div>
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... made in the texture of a bee.</div>
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And an explanation!</div>
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"It's important that a story is not too long ......does not become tedious .......</blockquote>
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'You need to know when to end a story,' she thought.</div>
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Often a good story ends where it begins. This would mean a return to the Poetry Library. The very place where she had left the first of the ten.</div>
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Back to those who had loved that little tree, and so encouraged her to try again .......and again.</div>
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Some had wondered who it was, leaving these small strange objects. Some even thought it was a 'he'! ....... As if!</div>
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Others looked among Book Artists, rather good ones actually.......</div>
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But they would never find her there. For though she does make things, this was the first time she had dissected books and had used them simply be- cause they seemed fitting....</div>
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Most however chose not to know..... which was the point really.</div>
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The gift, the place to sit, to look, to wonder, to dream..... of the impossible maybe.......</div>
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A tiny gesture in support of the special places.....</div>
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So, here, she will end this story, in a special place ... A Poetry Library ..... where they are well used to 'anon.'</div>
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But before exiting ...a few mentions. There could be more, because we have all colluded to make this work....... Just a few though.</div>
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- the twitter community who in some strange way gave rise to the idea in the first place<br />
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- and not least <a class="" href="http://community.thisiscentralstation.com/service/linkOut.kickAction?as=126249&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.twitter.com%2Fbeathhigh&h=27d525ad1cff51a3f2d24654b4caa4" rel="external nofollow" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; cursor: pointer; line-height: normal; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none !important;" target="_self" title="">@Beathhigh</a> whose books and reputation have been shame- lessly utilised in the making of a mystery ........</div>
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...... But hold on. Someone's left behind a pair of gloves and a cap..........?</div>
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A wonderful end to a wonderful story and a lovely mention for a humble photographer! But talk of ten sculptures had everyone a-flutter. There were only eight we knew of, what of the remaining two? Could they have been lost? stolen? or worse, thrown away by someone who didn't realise what they had found?</div>
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Mercifully the answer was forthcoming the next day. The <a class="" href="http://community.thisiscentralstation.com/service/linkOut.kickAction?as=126249&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nms.ac.uk%2Four_museums%2Fnational_museum.aspx&h=845259d42f85a1f05c2288fd1dea8dcb" rel="external nofollow" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; cursor: pointer; line-height: normal; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none !important;" target="_self" title="">National Museum of Scotland</a> had received a gift, found on the plinth under a skeletal stag. A consciencious member of staff had found it and passed it to his supervisor, thinking it might be something more than average lost property. It soon made its way up the chain of command until it came to rest in the Director's office for safety.</div>
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Meanwhile the museum staff were abuzz with the imminent arrival of their millionth visitor since reopening (which was a surprise as that wasn't really expected until about August 2012) so they didn't have time to tell the world about it until that had died down.</div>
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And so another is unveiled!</div>
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A Tyrannosaurus Rex, bursting from the tattered leaves of a book. And what book could it be other than Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World?</div>
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"For @NtlMuseumsScot A Gift Your friends at @edbookfest suggested you might like this. .... In support of libraries, books, words, ideas and those places that house our treasures......"</blockquote>
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And in the corner, 9/10.</div>
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Hidden amidst the tattered leaves of the book are tiny men with weapons that probably wouldn't do much damage to the beast, as its bloodstained jaw seems to prove.</div>
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The museum hope to exhibit this as part of the <a class="" href="http://community.thisiscentralstation.com/service/linkOut.kickAction?as=126249&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nms.ac.uk%2Four_museums%2Fnational_museum%2Fwhats_on%2Fadults%2F26_treasures.aspx&h=1221ad16ee3add6ec2b5e36971f1632" rel="external nofollow" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; cursor: pointer; line-height: normal; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none !important;" target="_self" title="">26 Treasures</a> series.</div>
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Yesterday afternoon staff at the <a class="" href="http://community.thisiscentralstation.com/service/linkOut.kickAction?as=126249&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.edinburghmuseums.org.uk%2FVenues%2FThe-Writers--Museum&h=de2d1d41b0297a445f19dcdcadafda" rel="external nofollow" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; cursor: pointer; line-height: normal; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none !important;" target="_self" title="">Writer's Museum</a> found something atop the donations box in the Robert Louis Stevenson room.</div>
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A wonderfully atmospheric street scene with what appears to be a silvery moon with wisps of cloud hanging from it. This tag reads:</div>
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And the 8/10 in the corner, confirming that we've found them all!</div>
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The cover says, "the stories are in the stones / Ian Rankin" ...</div>
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...which is fitting as it has been sculpted from a copy of Ian Rankin's Hide and Seek.</div>
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Inside the book are an array of people with birds on wires and a streetlight...</div>
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There are even goings-on visible behind some of the windows, as well as a pentagram scrawled on a wall in red with the signs of the zodiac around it.</div>
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Along the front of the scene have been placed the enigmatic words, "comming [sic] led out of Good and evil".</div>
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The curators are looking into ways to display this piece although it's possible that it will have to live in a different venue due to considerations of space - the Writer's Museum is absolutely packed with stuff! They're terribly happy with it though; apparently they had been hoping to receive one and now feel very lucky to have had one of the last three.</div>
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So this seems to be the end of the story. There is talk of organising some sort of exhibition but so far it's just an idea. Some of the 'gifts' are viewable anyway - those in the Scottish Poetry Library, the Scottish Storytelling Centre and Central Library (the gramophone in the National Library seems to have been temporarily displaced). The rest will hopefully find a place in the public eye and I'll keep an eye on them as I have grown rather attached.</div>
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Many thanks to whoever has been crafting and distributing these magical objects, and thanks on behalf of the creator to those who have followed their discovery with such infectious delight.</div>
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This definitely<wbr style="line-height: normal;"></wbr> isn't Sue Blackwell'<wbr style="line-height: normal;"></wbr>s work. I'm pretty certain I know who it is ..... though I wouldn't divulge their name for the world.</div>
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It seems to me that the point of the work is that it is a'gift.' No strings ......</div>
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Could this guy be the artist? http://www<wbr style="line-height: normal;"></wbr>.sublackwe<wbr style="line-height: normal;"></wbr>ll.co.uk/p<wbr style="line-height: normal;"></wbr>ortfolio-b<wbr style="line-height: normal;"></wbr>ook-cut-sc<wbr style="line-height: normal;"></wbr>ulpture/</div>
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These are so astonishin<wbr style="line-height: normal;"></wbr>gly beautiful and heartwarmi<wbr style="line-height: normal;"></wbr>ngly eloquent. Make them better known!</div>
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froghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04017475000559241712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2446065337436179867.post-39704628973807949312012-10-11T00:47:00.002-05:002012-10-11T00:48:06.974-05:00Da Gov is Marching on, Like Sherman Through Georgia<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Da Gov is steamrolling his way through the LA Public Sector. After Katrina, he fired teachers and set up Charter schools to destroy the Public School System. That system was in bad shape (due to lack of state funds, mostly) but was certainly as good as the Charters, often better. His next move was to reject Medicare money from the Feds to cause a lack of funding for Public Health. Naturally he had to cut funding to the LSU Public Health System.<br />
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Last week the <a href="http://www.nola.com/health/index.ssf/2012/10/deep_cuts_to_louisianas_public.html">Legislature started to wake up</a>. Maybe they realize that when the Clinics and Public Hospitals restrict access or close, they will have angry villagers railing at their walled communities, perhaps having their political heads. On metaphorical pikes, I hope.<br />
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Jindal, of course, will weather this storm off in TeaParty Land, basking in the glory of having cut taxes AND Government spending. The little darlin'.<br />
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Jindal tried last year and again this year to make <a href="http://www.bestofneworleans.com/gambit/privatizing-louisiana-prisons/Content?oid=2001212">deals</a> to privatize LA prisons. I have no doubt he would like to sell our toll bridges and maybe the highways. It is a quick fix for a stupid budget that has cut taxes, mostly for the rich, but it will come back to roost in a very few years. Selling the <span style="background-color: white; color: #232323; line-height: 21px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Avoyelles Correctional Center would net the state $35 </span></span><span style="color: #232323; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">million but would cost 300 jobs and there is no assurance that cost per inmate would not quickly rise.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #232323; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">Jan Brewer did this <a href="http://www.brennancenter.org/blog/archives/arizona_privatizes_prisons_despite_evidence_they_dont_save_money/">same thing</a> in Arizona. She went further and <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/01/11/1053886/-Gov-Jan-Brewer-s-Arizona-still-in-competition-for-dumbest-state-government">sold the State Capitol </a> in 2010 and leased it back from the purchaser. neither move saved the state money. Earlier this year, she decided that they should <a href="http://www.yumasun.com/articles/state-75831-brewer-arizona.html#ixzz1jBqAltqd">buy the capitol buildings back</a>, because leasing it didn't make economic sense, and they would only lose $25 million. Nice deal for </span></span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">Management and Training Corp</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">.; they make a $25 million profit on a 2 year investment, and that is over their <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/08/06/641971/private-prisons-cost-arizona-35-million-more-per-year-than-state-run-prisons/">profit </a>from operating the prisons,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #232323; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">Think that won't happen here? Jindal won't buy it back, but his successor (Vitter?) will have to, if LA has the money.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #232323; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">While we wait for that to happen, Healthcare in our glum state has been dealt a serious blow. The sick will get sicker and it will be the children who suffer the most.</span></span></div>
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froghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04017475000559241712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2446065337436179867.post-13661815485800374732012-09-21T17:27:00.000-05:002012-09-21T17:27:29.599-05:00The Part of Romney's Secret Tape That Isn't Being Talked About<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I have never liked Mitt Romney, I have always thought him to be an empty suit--all hat and no cattle-- but this campaign has shown his real colors. He is a selfish, uncaring man who doesn't care for his fellow man (and certainly not women!) Just watch this tape. It is no wonder the story won't die.</div>
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Mother Jones has been doling out Romney outrageous statements one by one before releasing the complete tape. But at mark 4:30 he makes a comment that is so revealing of his character that I am astonished it is getting no coverage. He cannot imagine making a self-sacrifice to help his brother.</div>
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What that follows is baldfaced lies about not inheriting anything from his or his wife's dads. He follows that with clueless comments about working conditions at a Chinese factory purchased by Bain.</div>
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And Ann's dad, my wife's dad, was born in Wales. His dad was a coal miner. This coal miner got injured in a coal mining accident; realizing that there was no future there for him or his four children, he came to Detroit and worked in the auto factories until he could save enough money to bring his kids over, which he did. And then they got together as a family and said, you know, to be successful in America, you've got to get an education. And they couldn't afford an education. And the kids and the parents said you know, if we all work, and we all save, we could afford to send one of us to college. And they, they sent my wife's dad.</div>
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Can you imagine working every day, taking a couple of jobs, saving your money so that your brother could go to—I mean, I would never do that for my brother—that he could go to co…so he went to college, and got a degree at the General Motors Institute of Technology, which is one of these programs where you work a semester, and then you go to school a semester and…and then after it was over he started a little company, he became more successful, and he was able to hire his brothers and his brother-in-law, and provide for them in an extraordinary way. </div>
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By the way, both my dad and Ann's dad did quite well in their life, but when they came to the end of their lives, and, and passed along inheritances to Ann and to me, we both decided to give it all away. So, I had inherited nothing. Everything that Ann and I have we earned the old-fashioned way, and that's by hard work and…[<em>applause</em>] I see that—I say that because there's the percent that's, "Oh, you were born with a silver spoon," you know, "You never had to earn anything," and so forth. And, and frankly, I was born with a silver spoon, which is the greatest gift you could have, which is to get born in America. I'll tell ya, there is—95 percent of life is set up for you if you're born in this country. And I remember going to—sorry just to bore you with stories—but I was, when I was back in my private equity days, we went to China to buy a factory there, employed about 20,000 people, and they were almost all young women between the ages of about 18 and 22 or 23. They were saving for potentially becoming married, and they worked in these huge factories, they made various small appliances, and as we were walking through this facility, seeing them work, the number of hours they worked per day, the pittance they earned, living in dormitories with little bathrooms at the end with maybe ten rooms. And the rooms, they had 12 girls per room, three bunk beds on top of each other. You've seen them.</div>
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And around this factory was a fence, a huge fence with barbed wire, and guard towers. And we said, "Gosh, I can't believe that you, you know, you keep these girls in." They said, "No, no, no—this is to keep other people from coming in. Because people want so badly to come work in this factory that we have to keep them out, or they'll just come in here and start working and try and get compensated. So, we—this is to keep people out." And they said, "Actually, Chinese New Year, is the girls go home, sometimes they decide they've saved enough money and they don't come back to the factory." And he said, "And so on the weekend after Chinese New Year, there'll be a line of people hundreds long outside the factory, hoping that some girls haven't come back and they can come to the factory. And so, as we were experiencing this for the first time, for me to see a factory like this in China some years ago, the Bain partner I was with turned to me and said, "You know, 95 percent of life is settled if you're born in America." This is an amazing land. And what we have is unique, and fortunately it is so special we're sharing it with the world. I'm concerned about the future, but also optimistic as I said, and I look forward to getting America back on track, and having people plan on bringing their ideas and their dreams to this country. We get big dreamers, by the way. Oh, I just, we didn't talk about immigration today. Gosh, I'd love to bring in more legal immigrants that have skill and [unintelligible]. I'd like to staple a green card to every Ph.D. in the world and say, "Come to America, we want you here." Instead, we make it hard for people who get educated here or elsewhere to make this their home. Unless, of course, you have no skill or experience, in which case you're welcome to cross the border and stay here for the rest of your life. [<em>Audience laughs.</em>] It's very strange. It's run by people who don't understand the words "global competition of ideas," and our idea has to win, but only if America reigns strong. But with that introduction, I'm going to turn to you for counsel, advice, or questions. Policy questions. Wanna talk about tax policy? Or political questions? How I win? Please.</div>
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froghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04017475000559241712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2446065337436179867.post-3419702256832286602012-07-07T01:35:00.000-05:002012-07-07T03:51:01.889-05:00The Curious Case of the T-P's reporting of LA School Test Results<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The T-P ran a <a href="http://www.nola.com/education/index.ssf/2012/07/test_scores_rise_for_louisiana.html">story</a> Friday morning with the headline "Test scores rise for New Orleans, Louisiana high school students" by Andrew Vanacore. The first 2 paragraphs sound like good news, but continue on to page A7 to read a qualification: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>"</b><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #444e5c; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><b>But that improvement has not been reflected in the state's average score on the ACT, an exam that colleges and universities use to gauge whether students are ready for college-level work -- and one that Louisiana plans to emphasize in its new grading system for schools. Statewide, the average ACT score has risen less than 1 percent since 2007 and still lags behind the rest of the U.S., although this year's results haven't been released yet." </b></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">If that sounds like the T-P editor is shilling for Jindal and for Charter schools, cast a gander at the chart in the article that shows the test results. It clearly shows that charter schools rank far behind the Orleans Parish School Board schools.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">This crap makes me want to cancel my subscription--but wait, the T-P is doing that for me. </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">The much vaunted nola.com buries the story--it can only be read after persistent digging. This does not bode well for our fair city.</span></span></div>froghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04017475000559241712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2446065337436179867.post-73029554376872911762012-07-05T05:10:00.000-05:002012-07-05T05:14:13.283-05:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
United Labor, Unions: such a bad name now. Yet more than a century ago Labor Unions were the progressive trend in American politics. They fought for things that are taken for granted now: an 8 hour shift, a 40 hour work week, paid vacation, sick pay. Now Bobby J and his nasty Neo-Con cohorts work tirelessly to reverse what our brothers and sisters have achieved.<br />
I remember this song from when I was in high school (a public school, which Jindal is working hard to destroy):<br />
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The Strawbs:<br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Corbel, helvetica, verdana, arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Corbel, helvetica, verdana, arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Now I'm a union man</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Corbel, helvetica, verdana, arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Amazed at what I am</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Corbel, helvetica, verdana, arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">I say what I think, that the company stinks</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Corbel, helvetica, verdana, arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Yes I'm a union man</span><br />
<br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Corbel, helvetica, verdana, arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">When we meet in the local hall</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Corbel, helvetica, verdana, arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">I'll be voting with them all</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Corbel, helvetica, verdana, arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">With a hell of a shout, it's "Out brothers, out!"</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Corbel, helvetica, verdana, arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">And the rise of the factory's fall</span><br />
<br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Corbel, helvetica, verdana, arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Oh, you don't get me, I'm part of the union</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Corbel, helvetica, verdana, arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">You don't get me, I'm part of the union</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Corbel, helvetica, verdana, arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">You don't get me, I'm part of the union</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Corbel, helvetica, verdana, arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Until the day I die</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Corbel, helvetica, verdana, arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Until the day I die</span><br />
<br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Corbel, helvetica, verdana, arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">The union has made me wise</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Corbel, helvetica, verdana, arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">To the lies of the company spies</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Corbel, helvetica, verdana, arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">And I don't get fooled by the factory rules</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Corbel, helvetica, verdana, arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">'cause I always read between the lines</span><br />
<br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Corbel, helvetica, verdana, arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">And I always get my way</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Corbel, helvetica, verdana, arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">If I strike for higher pay</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Corbel, helvetica, verdana, arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">When I show my card to the Scotland Yard</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Corbel, helvetica, verdana, arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">And this is what I say:</span><br />
<br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Corbel, helvetica, verdana, arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Oh, oh, you don't get me, I'm part of the union</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Corbel, helvetica, verdana, arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">You don't get me, I'm part of the union</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Corbel, helvetica, verdana, arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">You don't get me, I'm part of the union</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Corbel, helvetica, verdana, arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Until the day I die</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Corbel, helvetica, verdana, arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Until the day I die</span><br />
<br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Corbel, helvetica, verdana, arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Before the union did appear</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Corbel, helvetica, verdana, arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">My life was half as clear</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Corbel, helvetica, verdana, arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Now I've got the power to the working hour</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Corbel, helvetica, verdana, arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">And every other day of the year</span><br />
<br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Corbel, helvetica, verdana, arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">So though I'm a working man</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Corbel, helvetica, verdana, arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">I can ruin the government's plan</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Corbel, helvetica, verdana, arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">And though I'm not hard, the sight of my card</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Corbel, helvetica, verdana, arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Makes me some kind of superman</span><br />
<br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Corbel, helvetica, verdana, arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Oh, oh, oh, you don't get me, I'm part of the union</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Corbel, helvetica, verdana, arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">You don't get me, I'm part of the union</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Corbel, helvetica, verdana, arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">You don't get me, I'm part of the union</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Corbel, helvetica, verdana, arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Until the day I die</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Corbel, helvetica, verdana, arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Until the day I die</span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Corbel, helvetica, verdana, arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">You don't get me, I'm part of the union</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Corbel, helvetica, verdana, arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">You don't get me, I'm part of the union</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Corbel, helvetica, verdana, arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">You don't get me, I'm part of the union</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Corbel, helvetica, verdana, arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Until the day I die</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Corbel, helvetica, verdana, arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Until the day I die </span></div>froghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04017475000559241712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2446065337436179867.post-35387448699661074402012-06-08T03:36:00.002-05:002012-06-08T03:48:03.553-05:00The Demise of the Times-Picayune, continued<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Ariella Cohen wrote a <a href="http://americancity.org/daily/entry/yesterdays-papers">piece on americancity.org</a> Wednesday about the changes at the T-P and she takes a rather curious view. Please read it. She posits that the Lens will fill the void. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I like the Lens and I like the reporting they have been doing. BUT, the Lens does not publish obits nor does it publish a culinary section, which raises another problem with theLens: it doesn't publish--it posts. This means that New Orleans, with the lowest level of Internet Access of any major city, would not benefit from the Lens. One might access the Web at the library, but with only an hour time slot available, would one really think of checking out the Lens?</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The T-P is about to lose the millions of dollars it gets paid by local governments by being the Paper of Notice, the daily entity that publishes the notices required by law. I am sure Advance, being advanced, figured that loss in their scheme, but I cannot see how.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I shall miss reading the paper in the morning and doing the crossword in the afternoon, but what will I do for seafood boils? What will I cover the table with, if not the T-P? And what will charities do without paper drives? And what of the people who make a living delivering the paper? </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">This is a foul deed done by Advance and the repercussions will be wide and long lasting.</span></div>
</div>froghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04017475000559241712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2446065337436179867.post-5974018978908946482012-05-29T03:40:00.002-05:002012-05-29T03:45:25.837-05:00Chocolate Chip Wonder Cookies<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
<div style="color: #0f0832; font: 13.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">These are rather good.</span></div><div style="color: #0f0832; font: 13.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div style="color: #0f0832; font: 13.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies</b></span></div><div style="color: #0f0832; font: 13.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">2 1/4 cups white whole wheat flour (King Arthur Flour), less 4 tbs</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">4 tbs cornstarch </span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">1 1/2 tsp baking soda</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">1 1/2 tsp baking powder</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">1 1/2 salt</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">2 sticks unsalted butter</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 15px;">1/2 cup sugar<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">1 cup dark brown sugar</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 18.0px;">2 large eggs (room temp)<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 14.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">1 tsp vanilla extract</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 18.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">3 Tbs double-dutch dark cocoa powder (King Arthur Flour)</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">10 ozs coarsely chopped chocolate (3 bars of Lindt 70% cocoa)</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">1 cup pecans, chopped</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">1 cup raisins, chopped, optional</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>1. </b>Preheat oven to 375°. Sift flour, cornstarch, baking soda, baking powder, and salt three times. Reserve.</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>2. </b>In the bowl of a standing mixer, cream the butter and sugars with the paddle attachment until well blended and light. Add the eggs one at a time, mixing until each is fully absorbed into the batter. Add the extracts until incorporated. Add the cocoa and stir until just blended. Add all of the flour and stir on low until it is mostly absorbed. Add all of the chocolate, nuts and raisins and stir on low until just blended.</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>3. </b>Dough can be baked immediately or wrapped in plastic wrap and chilled in the refrigerator for up to 5 days. Put 1 tablespoonful of dough 1-inch apart on a parchment-lined sheet tray and bake for 10-12 minutes until cookies are just set and cooked through. Let cool for at least 5 minutes before eating.</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Yields about 4 dozen</span></div></div>froghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04017475000559241712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2446065337436179867.post-36498673545266869112012-05-29T01:20:00.000-05:002012-05-29T01:20:25.359-05:00David Carr on the demise of The Times-Picayune<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
<h1 style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.083em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><nyt_headline type=" " version="1.0"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">From the 27 May edition of the New York Times:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 2.4em; font-weight: bold;"> </span></nyt_headline></h1><h1 style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 2.4em; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.083em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><br />
</h1><h1 style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 2.4em; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.083em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><nyt_headline type=" " version="1.0">A Doomed Romance With a New Orleans Newspaper</nyt_headline></h1><nyt_byline style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span itemprop="creator" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><h6 class="byline" itemprop="name" style="color: grey; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 2px;">By <a class="meta-per" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/c/david_carr/index.html" rel="author" style="color: #666699; text-decoration: none;" title="More Articles by David Carr">DAVID CARR</a></h6></span></nyt_byline><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><nyt_text style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><div id="articleBody"><nyt_correction_top></nyt_correction_top><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><em>If it keeps on raining, <a class="meta-classifier" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/science/topics/dams_and_dikes/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier" style="color: #666699; text-decoration: none;" title="Recent and archival news about levees and dams.">levee</a>’s going to break </em>— “When the Levee Breaks,” Led Zeppelin</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Newsprint sentimentalists are part of a shrinking club. Plenty of people care about news, but the fetishists who want it to be imprisoned on paper? We are like Shriners, once a proud, powerful bunch who now meet in little rooms and exchange secret handshakes.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Nothing gets print romanticists more dewy-eyed than The Times-Picayune, which we learned last week will no longer be a daily presence on newsprint in New Orleans.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">I was in the city right after <a class="meta-classifier" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/h/hurricane_katrina/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier" style="color: #666699; text-decoration: none;" title="More articles about Hurricane Katrina.">Hurricane Katrina</a> in 2005, and the role the newspaper and its Web site played cannot be overestimated. Many of the women and men who work at the paper stayed and filed articles even as their families dispersed and their homes went underwater. It was the kind of journalism that won <a class="meta-classifier" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/p/pulitzer_prizes/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier" style="color: #666699; text-decoration: none;" title="More articles about the Pulitzer Prizes.">Pulitzers</a>, but more important, reunited families, gave people critical guidance and brought order out of incredible chaos.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Since then, the newspaper has prosecuted coverage that has kicked up federal investigations and helped bring rogue cops to justice. In a city where not much of anything works, the newspaper does.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">I return to New Orleans often — to fish, eat and dance. But it is a particular pleasure to sit in one of the city’s many coffee shops and watch plain old folks jaw over The Times-Picayune, brandishing it like a weapon when they want to make a point.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">After the news broke that The Times-Picayune would no longer publish daily, far-flung fans of the city and its newspaper gathered on Twitter — just consider that irony for a moment — and had a collective sniffle. The Times-Picayune will be subsumed into a new company called NOLA Media Group and will come out three days a week (Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays), with most of the resources — fewer after the layoffs — devoted to the Web.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Many newspapers have gone away, including The Rocky Mountain News in Denver and The Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Others have been diminished to the point where it wouldn’t matter if they did go away. So why the freak-out over the Times-Pic?</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Because it is a story about a town that loved its newspaper — its market penetration is among the highest in the land — but just not enough to keep it. It’s the kind of doomed romance that inspires tear-jerker movies and elegiac columns in, yes, newspapers, so bear with me. It is Memorial Day, after all.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">There is nothing particularly remarkable about The Times-Picayune’s circumstance. Advertisers have consolidated, their choices have multiplied, and their potential clients have many more options for getting their information. Other than a few fat days like Fridays and Sundays aimed at food shoppers or moviegoers, many newspapers arrive at the doorstep looking more like skinny brochures than their stuffed ancestors.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">But New Orleans is not a very wired city and The Times-Picayune has always been an excellent daily with a balky, dated Web site. Orders from headquarters aren’t going to reverse those competencies on a dime.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">I talked to Steven Newhouse, the chief of <a href="http://advance.net/" style="color: #666699; text-decoration: none;" target="_">Advance.net</a>, part of Advance Publications, which owns the paper. Mr. Newhouse is as sweet on newspapers as the next guy; after all, he and his family own 35 of them. But advertising has dropped steadily year over year at The Times-Picayune, just as it has almost everywhere else. In terms of total revenue, the industry is half as big as it was in 2005.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Mr. Newhouse knew that New Orleans, notoriously averse to change, would not be happy about the reduced presence of The Times-Picayune. This city has already lost a lot, after all. But he and his colleagues did it anyway because they felt they had no choice.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">On days like Monday, Tuesday and Saturday, the newspaper is all but ad-free, so all of the industriousness and skill that go into putting together those issues is noneconomic. The Newhouses are plenty rich, but they are not in the business of underwriting, so they are re-engineering their newspaper division for the long haul.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Experiments in Ann Arbor, Mich., and with the Booth newspapers in Michigan demonstrated that smaller staffs and a reduced print schedule could be sustainable, so Katrina and sentiment be damned, The Times-Picayune will become the largest guinea pig so far in an experiment that will end in either death or transformation.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Anybody who has been to New Orleans could have told you that the residents wouldn’t sit still for that. The news broke in the dead of night on Wednesday and by Thursday morning, some wag had stapled a poster of a cartoon fat cat to a wall in the Bywater, imploring locals to “Save the T-P from greedy out-of-town publishers.” People met in parlors uptown, coffee shops in the Marigny, and bars all over the city to plan coups.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">“Asking if this town needs a paper every day is a silly question. We’re on to figuring it out,” said James Carville, the political commentator and a New Orleans resident.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">David Simon, a former newspaperman, has spent the last few years unfurling a post-Katrina narrative for HBO called “Treme.” One story he isn’t interested in telling? The one about the city that ended up so far underwater it emerged without a newspaper.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">“New Orleans is one of the more dystopic cities in America,” said Mr. Simon, who set his series in New Orleans. “Louisiana as a whole has a problem with corruption, the school system has been Balkanized and the prisons, which are run for profit, are jammed. It is one of the worst-run cities in America, but it is also among its most vibrant, and absent an aggressive watchdog in the form of a daily paper, I don’t see things getting better.”</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">This month the paper ran a deeply reported <a href="http://www.nola.com/prisons/" style="color: #666699; text-decoration: none;" title="The paper’s series.">eight-part series</a> on why Louisiana’s incarceration rate is the highest in the country. The people at Advance Publications told me that reducing the print schedule was their way of making sure that kind of accountability reporting continued for many years to come. But the staff may be cut by a third or more and charged with feeding the Web’s full-time appetite for incremental news.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">My worry is not about the loss of the earthy smell of freshly rendered pages. A newspaper, even one short on advertising, is a great ad for at least one thing: the paper itself. The constancy of a daily paper — in the rack at the convenience store on Frenchman Street or on the tables of the coffeehouse on Maple Street — is a reminder to a city that someone is out there watching.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Important journalism will still be done at The Times-Picayune. Jim Amoss, the editor there, and the talented staff will make sure of that. But you have to wonder whether it will still have the same impact when it doesn’t land day after day on doorsteps all over the city.</div><nyt_author_id><div class="authorIdentification" style="margin-bottom: 2.8em;"><div style="color: black; font-size: 15px !important; font-style: italic; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">E-mail: carr@nytimes.com;</div></div></nyt_author_id></div></nyt_text></div>froghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04017475000559241712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2446065337436179867.post-6310778153354900592012-05-26T01:05:00.000-05:002012-05-27T01:55:07.251-05:00TPSI>TP>Flushed<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">If anyone recalls, the Times-Picayune evolved from 4 papers (actually, more than 4, but I don't wish to go back more than 80 years), and by 1950, those 4 had become 2, The States-Item (the liberal afternoon daily paper) and the Times-Picayune (the conservative morning daily and Sunday paper). Newhouse bought the T-P and the States-Item in 1962 but kept them as independent papers. Newhouse merged them in 1980 to become the Times-Picayune/States-Item, the famous "Tipsy". The nickname, I believe, caused them to streamline the name to the Times-Picayune. Farewell States-Item.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I am one of those who hold The T-P (toilet paper, in local parlance) in low esteem (Hell, Baton Rouge has a much better paper, The Advocate, and that is a backwater town if ever there was one) but I subscribe to it, and have for at least 30 years. The online version, <a href="http://nola.com/"><span style="color: #07219e; letter-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">nola.com</span></a>, is dreadful, and I cannot imagine anyone paying for it. So this is a very bad development for the city.<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">The T-P is a rag, but, 4 times a year, a crew of reporters would tackle a story, do an in depth research on the subject then publish a 5 or 7 part story and win a Pulitzer. Will alternative media do that? Yes, the T-P was a monopoly and fully vested in the old-line elites and monied classes, but it published good reporters and great writers--need I mention James Gill?<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I do not think the void will be so easily filled. The main problem with the demise of the T-P is that only 36% of New Orleans's population have home internet access, so alternative media will not reach many people.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">There is also another problem: we need newspaper to eat crawfish! If that statement baffles you, google "crawfish boil".</span></div>
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</div>froghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04017475000559241712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2446065337436179867.post-1092607437211372412012-05-21T23:59:00.000-05:002012-05-21T23:59:35.195-05:00Two Things: Discrimination<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">I read 2 interesting pieces, the <a href="http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2012/05/money_set_aside_to_study_new_o.html">T-P's (AP) piece</a> on the Metro Planning Comms of BR and NO spending 300K of Federal funds on a feasibility study of a train from BR to The Crescent City; and The Gambit's <a href="http://www.bestofneworleans.com/gambit/the-right-side-of-history/Content?oid=2008373">editorial</a> about the South being on the wrong side of history, once again, vis-a-vis gay marriage/rights.<br />
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About the first; In 2009 Jindal rejected the chance to get 300 million in stimulus money from the Fed to build a high speed train for the same route, with options to expand the service to points beyond. The studies had been done and the deal was ready to go, then Lil' Bobby nixed it. So why are we spending so much money on a new study? Boondoggle, perchance? Slopping the hogs?<br />
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As to the second, I have spent so much time watching the pullback of our civil rights by Conservatives: aliens, women, asians, blacks, hispanics, the poor, that I did not connect the dots. Gambit, much to my surprise, did just that. Every state in the South that had laws against interracial marriage now have laws against same sex marriage.<br />
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Time to reread M/F by Anthony Burgess.</div>froghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04017475000559241712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2446065337436179867.post-395883445288625812012-05-20T03:41:00.000-05:002012-05-20T03:41:41.355-05:00George Orwell was a little early.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">1984 took 28 years to arrive. London, already the world's most security-camera filled city, has redoubled its efforts and almost caught up with George Orwell's 1984. The <a href="http://www.thenation.com/blog/167874/drones-missiles-and-gunships-oh-my-welcome-2012-london-olympics">preparations</a> for the Olympics have gone way over the top and must have Conservatives writhing in their wet dreams come true.<br />
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We have nothing to fear from terrorists, or invading aliens either. We have met the enemy and it is us.</div>froghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04017475000559241712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2446065337436179867.post-78971792177375425702012-05-15T18:34:00.000-05:002012-05-15T18:34:37.538-05:00People Die, But Jindal Don't Care<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #f3f4ee; color: #666666; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Palatino, Georgia, Baskerville, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">This is Steve Cropper's post on his <a href="http://playitsteve.wordpress.com/">blog</a>:</span><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #f3f4ee; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Palatino, Georgia, Baskerville, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Today I lost my best friend, the world has lost the best guy and bass player to</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #f3f4ee; font-family: Palatino, Georgia, Baskerville, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #f3f4ee; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Palatino, Georgia, Baskerville, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">ever live. Duck Dunn died in his sleep Sunday morning May 13 in Tokyo Japan</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #f3f4ee; font-family: Palatino, Georgia, Baskerville, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #f3f4ee; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Palatino, Georgia, Baskerville, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">after finishing 2 shows at the Blue Note Night Club.</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #f3f4ee; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Palatino, Georgia, Baskerville, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">I dislike Bobby Jindal and I hate what he is doing to Public Education and Public Health and Public Transportation. Let's not forget the Prisons (read the <a href="http://www.nola.com/prisons/">T-P 8 part piece</a> that started yesterday--their shot for another Pulitzer). That is no excuse for the title of this post.</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #f3f4ee; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Palatino, Georgia, Baskerville, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">But there is no excuse for WVUE - Fox Channel 8 (owned by Tom Benson) to declare Gayle Benson to be be the <a href="http://www.fox8live.com/story/18423562/gayle-benson-first-lady-of-sports">First Lady of Sports</a>. What has she done in sports? Her husband was ready to <a href="http://www.nationalfootballpost.com/Report-Tom-Benson-expected-to-purchase-New-Orleans-Hornets.html">move the Saints to Texas</a> just a couple of years ago if he didn't get a new dome. Perhaps she dissuaded him from the idea, but we don't know. The Citizens of Louisiana paid for the Superdome, and we pay for its upkeep and maintenance; Benson gets all the profits and pays little in taxes.</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #f3f4ee; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Palatino, Georgia, Baskerville, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Sorry, what has Gayle done except hobnob with Pope Ratty?</span></div>froghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04017475000559241712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2446065337436179867.post-56456805482268269102012-04-13T16:29:00.000-05:002012-04-13T16:29:23.954-05:00Louisiana's Folly<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Everyone seems worked up by the <a href="http://gao.gov/assets/590/589192.pdf">repor</a>t from the <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Government Accountability Office (GAO) that New Jersey Governor Christie used trumped up figures when he canceled the rail tunnel project.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Paul Krugman <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/04/13/1083007/-Krugman-NYT-s-Editors-Go-Ballistic-Over-Chris-Christie-s-Cancellation-Of-3rd-Hudson-Tunnel">points out</a> his object was to divert the funds to prevent having to raise taxes (4 cents a gallon on gasoline).</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But no one is saying much about the fact that Bobby Jindal did the same thing with our high speed rail project and used the same bogus claims as did Gov Christie, and for the same reasons. He had the advantage that Louisiana passed the Right to Fire Law 20 years ago and the Labor Movement, never very strong here, was crippled by that. But Jindal's goal was to use the Department of Transportation's <a href="http://www.theind.com/news/6102-jindal-named-4th-worst-governor-in-the-country">grant of $300 million</a> to build more highways. But the Dept denied the grant, saying it could only be used for trains. So we lost the money and it went to Michigan.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He is hellbent on privatizing transportation, education and health services. His push for charter schools and vouchers to pay for them will devastate the poor and the middle class and when people realize that there is no opportunity for good education and good jobs (because companies will relocate to states with well-educated citizens) there will be a mass emigration not seen since the Great Depression.</span><br />
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(Washington, DC) – Today, GAP and the Louisiana Environmental Action Network (LEAN) sent a joint letter to British Petroleum (BP) America’s Ombudsman Program, seeking an explanation for a resource manual provided by an anonymous source that details health risks for Deepwater Horizon spill cleanup workers from both the five million gallons of oil, and the two million gallons of toxic dispersant.</div>
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The manual, “Deepwater Horizon MC252, Vessels of Opportunity Near Shore Oil Recovery Groups, Vessel Captains Hazard Communication” (available at <a href="http://goo.gl/ny9hF" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><b style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">http://goo.gl/ny9hF</b><img alt="http://goo.gl/ny9hF" border="0" src="http://leanweb.org/components/com_sh404sef/images/external-black.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: initial; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></a>) demonstrates apparent contradictions between BP’s official written warnings about the oil dispersant, on the one hand, and its statements to the public on the other. The discrepancies pertain to verbal claims that exposure to COREXIT, the dispersant selected by BP and approved by the EPA to treat the oil, was safe, and the health problems actually associated with COREXIT listed in a BP manual.</div>
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The letter (available at <a href="http://bit.ly/zit8PQ" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><b style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">http://bit.ly/zit8PQ</b><img alt="http://bit.ly/zit8PQ" border="0" src="http://leanweb.org/components/com_sh404sef/images/external-black.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: initial; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></a>) asserts:</div>
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<i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">To illustrate our concerns, BP has aerially sprayed or otherwise released over two million gallons of COREXIT as the primary dispersant in the spill’s cleanup. BP and contractors have reassured cleanup crews that COREXIT is as safe as Dawn dishwasher soap. However, the manufacturer’s Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) included in the manual indicate that the dispersants utilized contain hazardous ingredients such as 2 butoxyethanol, petroleum distillates, and sulfonic acids. The specific petroleum distillates and sulfonic acids within COREXIT EC9257A and EC9500A have never been disclosed to the public</i>.</div>
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The manual lists symptoms of exposure, such as damage to the central nervous system, chemical pneumonia, upper respiratory problems and injury to the kidney, liver or red blood cells (hemolysis). Further, the manual recognizes that crude oil contains benzene and other hazardous chemicals that can cause cancer.</div>
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The BP manual states that COREXIT is a chronic and acute health hazard under EPA standards, and its toxicity is so severe that special protective equipment and clothing are necessities. But LEAN and GAP have received numerous reports that when cleanup workers sought additional safety equipment, such as respirators donated by LEAN, they were threatened with termination.</div>
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GAP Legal Director Tom Devine commented, “BP public statements and private reassurances are schizophrenic. This company needs to come clean with the truth about its cleanup. Did it knowingly abandon public health and occupational safety?”</div>
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“This is about protecting people’s lives. There is no room for unclear communication or restricted information when it comes to protecting human health,” adds Marylee Orr, Executive Director of the Louisiana Environmental Action Network.</div>
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The associated symptoms listed in the BP manual mirror the health problems experienced by cleanup workers from the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill, but legal settlements have obliged the courts to seal those health records, so neither the public nor the BP cleanup workers can access them. In the meantime, the fate of these BP workers could be determined any day. The largest environmental trial in US history, scheduled to begin last Monday, was delayed in the 11th hour due to negotiation developments between BP, plaintiff attorneys and the Department of Justice. The trial has been rescheduled for Monday, March 5.</div>
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The letter concludes “<i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">If statements to the public and work force cannot be reconciled, we seek your explanation for BP’s repeated denials of any intentional action that could have threatened public health and safety</i>.”</div>
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The Louisiana Environmental Action Network (LEAN) has been actively monitoring BP’s cleanup efforts and health problems since the spill, and GAP has been conducting a whistleblower investigation since last August.</div>
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<b style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Contact</b>: Tom Devine, GAP Legal Director</div>
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<b style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Email</b>: <a href="mailto:tomd@whistleblower.org" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">tomd@whistleblower.org</a></div>
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<b style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Contact</b>: Shanna Devine, GAP Investigator</div>
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<b style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Contact</b>: Marylee Orr, LEAN Executive Director</div>
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</div>froghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04017475000559241712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2446065337436179867.post-16154029938843341452012-03-23T19:41:00.000-05:002012-03-23T19:41:50.110-05:00BP's Happy Commercials<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">A lot of people have been writing about the aftermath of the BP disaster last year, but BP keeps running commercials with local people from the Gulf Coast telling us how BP has done its part in cleaning up the spill and how everything is hunky-dory now. Bull Shit. <a href="http://healthygulf.org/201203231826/blog/bps-oil-drilling-disaster-in-the-gulf-of-mexico/gulf-marine-mammals-still-suffering">A new report</a> shows the breadth of the damage inflicted on the Gulf. 28 species of dolphins, porpoises and whales are in serious peril from the oil deluge. The animals not killed by the this toxic spill and the the Corexit are in pitiful health.</div>froghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04017475000559241712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2446065337436179867.post-38033611721388259672012-03-21T17:54:00.000-05:002012-03-21T17:54:38.941-05:00Stupid Commissioner of the NFL<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">I am no fan of football but this nonsense about paying bounty money to players for doing their job is idiotic. The Saints were wrong to do it but the egregious penalty imposed on the them is gross and excessive. It is likely the scheme was merely a racket to get around the salary cap imposed on players. The only good that can come out of this would be a severe examination of the sport, the owners, the money and how the system is rigged.<br />
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