MooPig's Latin Dialogue :: "Cuban Offshore Drilling"

Article Review
Retrieved by Pat Darnell | Dec 15, 2011 | Bryan TX

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The Gulf of Mexico Deep Horizon drilling disaster by BP, British Petroleum, last year brings home the dirty laundry to the Gulf Coast. It isn't only one isolated incidence, but it has caused a great deal of loss. Some sabre rattling from the POTUS, Pres of the United States, put future deep wells in jeopardy by banning offshore drilling, and thereby jobs too are lost.

I think many speculate whether the US can get back on top as number one producer of oil or not. It seems to be the competitive spirit talking when one reads about the various oil exploits today, following the BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill, burning drill rig, disaster.

This article from September 2011 tells of exploration beginning this month around Cuba for deep well drilling sites.

" ... The [China built] rig will not be operated by Cuba, but by foreign partners, led by the Spanish energy company Repsol. Geologists have estimated there may be 5 billion to 20 billion barrels of undersea oil off the island's northwest coast, enough to make Cuba a significant producer. (Miroff, Nick. Sep 12, 2011. HERE )... "

Offshore oil drilling is banned on Florida's coast today, but this Cuban rig will be only 60 miles away from Florida. Any oil spill would imapact Florida's coast and the Atlantic states'.

" ... [ former EPA Administrator William Reilly ] "They know they've never regulated oil and gas in the offshore environment before. They know it's an order of magnitude more sophisticated and more risky. They're going to go very deep. All of those are going to require training, expertise and a culture they've not had. They've got a lot to do."

The point is that jobs have gone away in the shadow of the BP Gulf of Mexico disaster. With offshore drilling banned in parts of the Gulf Coast, " ... Hunt said thousands of jobs could be created if American drilling equipment suppliers and cleanup contractors along the Gulf Coast were licensed to do business with Cuba. If not, he said, cleanup supplies might have to come from as far away as England or Brazil. ... "

Read entire Article here: Cuban Offshore Drilling Plans Raise U.S. Concerns : NPR:

'via Blog this'

Also SEE: " ... But others ... warned that spilled oil knows no political boundaries — or embargoes. And while Congress is most curious about Cuba because of the limited information available about the country's plans, other Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico neighbors also are exploring for oil near U.S. waters. They include Jamaica, the Bahamas and ongoing operations in Mexico. (Bolstad, Erika. Oct 18, 2011. McClatchy Newspapers. HERE)... "

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http://www.npr.org/2011/09/12/140405282/cuban-offshore-drilling-plans-raise-u-s-concerns
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/10/18/127598/us-admits-limits-in-monitoring.html

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Gulf Coast

No Hurricanes to Report
by Pat Darnell  |  August 28, 2011  |  Bryan TX

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MooPig's Wouldn't it be silly if: "The Oil Is Still Gushing In The Gulf. | Crisis By Design"

The Oil Is Still Gushing In The Gulf. | Crisis By Design


Thousands of Gulf Oil Spill clean-up crew are dying! Video of the dying!
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Hedging on a Skimmer :: What's It? -- PART Two

The A Whale, billed as the world's largest oil skimming vessel, is seen anchored on the Mississippi River in Boothville, La., Wednesday, June 30. The ship is the length of 3 1/2 football fields and 10 stories high. (Patrick Semansky / AP)

Come On -- Land it like Sully -- It's only Hurricanes and Earthquakes, ... and Oil Spills ... and Storm Surge ...

Alex, Atlantic's 1st hurricane of season, rumbles toward Mexico, Texas coastlines

Wed, 2010-06-30 19:48.
By: The Associated Press
[SOURCE]
" ... MIAMI - The first Atlantic hurricane of the year has strengthened to a Category 2 storm with sustained winds of near 100 mph as it plows ahead toward a collision with the Mexican Gulf coast and south Texas.

The National Hurricane Center says Hurricane Alex will make landfall in northeastern Mexico sometime Wednesday night.

The storm is far from the Gulf oil spill, but cleanup vessels were sidelined by the hurricane's ripple effects. Six-foot waves churned up by the hurricane splattered beaches in Louisiana, Alabama and Florida with oil and tar balls.

Hurricane Alex flooded roads and forced thousands of people to evacuate fishing villages.

The eye was about 55 miles  northeast of La Pesca, Mexico, and about 105 miles  south of Brownsville, Texas. ..." (ap, 2010.06.30, hurricane alex)

-- MEANWHILE -- ... Back at the Haciendo ...

Why NOT name Earthquakes like we do Hurricanes?
[SOURCE]   |  " ... An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.2 struck southern Mexico early Wednesday, the US seismological authority USGS reported on its website.
A 49-year-old man from San Andres Hauxpaltepec was killed when the ceiling of his house fell onto him, a civil defence official told The German Press Agency dpa.
The quake, which struck the Oaxaca region some 350 kilometres south of Mexico City at about 2:20 am (0720 GMT), had little other effect, local officials said.
Numerous buildings were evacuated in the wake of the 30-second quake. Power was lost in some regions, but communication networks remained intact - in contrast to earlier earthquakes in Mexico.
The epicentre of Wednesday's quake was located at a depth of 20 kilometres, according to the USGS. ... " (Wed, 30 Jun 2010 20:43:51 GMT. By : dpa. Category : Nature Environment) ... "

GULF Oil Disaster gives rise to Niggling Doubts

Retrieved YouTube by Pat Darnell and the Herd

• Is it Real?
• Why are there armed Guards?
• Was there similar spills in Russia?
• Why on earth would they drill this deep, at an ocean depth over 5000 feet?
• Why are there so many different versions of this event?
• Was this drilling engineered this way?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7eWyHAwOmQ

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G O D Aid :: "Please !!! Urgent Recruitment of Bands and Celebrities ..."

Gulf of Mexico, oil spill, disaster, Relief Efforts, GULF OIL DISASTER AID
Retrieved by Pat Darnell [from Jan 2010 article in MooPig Wisdom] and, the Dancing Dogs

Developing New Label Ideas for a New Year of Disasters... Calling all Bands and Celeb's
by Pat Darnell and Wri N Kullroecker

Everyone seeing Haiti Aid stuff all over, with promise of a soon-to-come Galactic level Spectacle performances from Bands and old stand-bys? Like DUBYA, and Willie.

Wondering 'HOW' you and your Band too can hustle all that open TV exposure, when other wise you can't find a stage -- no, ne'er even a street corner -- to play your deluge ocean of emotion music ... ?


Wonder no more; MooPig Enterprises' "Branding Department" has an idea for starving musicians.

Instead of providing Aid after-the-fact, MooPig's talented "Head Hunters Department" suggests a regional dispatch for Bands 'WHEN' the disasters are actually happening. The USA has very precise regional disaster corridors; and incredibly advanced warning systems are every day being heralded.

"There are many empty spaces, and dead air, resulting from concert-type Disaster-Aid lag-times; those need to be filled," say those who measure such things.

Why not provide Disaster Rockers Inc when a disaster is developing. Regional dispatch can round up the next Band will-call and rotate into disaster sites, to set up Stadium Rock Fest's.

This way the responding BAND -- or for really large cataclysms, multiple BANDs-- receive buckets full of much deserved Exposure !!


No doubt with international news wires also on site, your BAND will Rock the Headlines every time. And, don't forget the MUSIC itself, with the disaster as backdrop your Band will provide interludes of tunes for all the anxious queuing families, rubber-neckers, and onlookers.

Rescuers will appreciate your efforts as well: you can play your UNION Musician card with the Fire Dept and EMS groups... eh?

"It takes a village to have a disaster," say proponents of over-population groups.

Some "What to include" suggestions come to mind:

• Candles
• Cookies
• Kettle Korn
• Coffee
• MRE's
• Boots, blankets, Bingo
• Weather Proofing
• Instruction Booklets
• Signage
• Diesel fired Generators
• Traffic Cones
• Hats 

Larger items could be on-hand similar to READY MEN or like a Red Cross 'BAND' Wagon, combining Entertainment with Rescue, E and R:

• Disaster Relief Housing
• Press Station
• Mohawk Grenades
• Junior Opening Band [preferable a local cadre]
• Leaflets and Billings of your activities
• Professional dance starter duo's
• Professional Hippies and Skin Heads Moshing
• NEVE Board

... And of course any up to date Disaster Relief BAND will bring:  WiFi and Hot Spot \ Wireless \ Laptops \ Sound and Filming Crew \ and your $Ten Million BOND information on hand

"Mudslides, Missiles, Alien Abductions, Tornadoes, Rioting after Sporting Events, Pearl Harbor and World Trade-like events, Oil Fires, Disastrous Movie Premiers, and a plethora of National Disasters and not having mentioned Climate related human tossing calamities yet," explain those who have a stake in disasters. "Don't forget all the opportunity around the entire world, also."

That is so right! Glaciers melting, Pyroclastic clouds, Monsoons, Islands sinking into the oceans in Dubai, Neutron Star Matter hitting Earth, Vogons,  ... not shabby stuff for the On-the-Spot READY Instant-it-Happens Disaster BAND ....

CONCLUSION:

Others, like BIONIC BEAUTY, Talking about most recent Disaster, Earthquake in Haiti:

In times of natural disaster, our world seems to forget the boundaries that separate us. It’s truly awe-inspiring for me. These last few days, I have shed many tears while watching the news casts of the earthquake that devastated much of Haiti. Twitter and Facebook are still hotbeds of activity for information and for ways to help. But with anything, it’s best to be informed. When Michael DeVellis, the Executive Director of The Powder Group (which also publishes the my favorite On Makeup Magazine) sent me the information below, I immediately asked if I could share it with all the Bionic Beauties out there. [Read more Parlay HERE ...]

GET on YOUR BAND-AID Wagon or Boat, or what ever you Got !! Thar's DISASTERS Galore !
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Gulf of Mexico; Oil Spill 2010 -- GULF OIL DISASTER

Thursday's QUIZ -- Match the TITLE with the Disaster EVENT DESCRIPTION, en Fuego !`
by Pat Darnell and the PigMarx Bro's. News Teamn

Today's Topic: "DISASTERS" We noticed in the "no-news" News Reports today -- our "Gulf Oil Spill" is now referred to as the "GULF OIL DISASTER" -- or "G.O.D." for short.

MooPig suggests: "Define Disaster ..." by looking at how that word is thrown down around the world. GOD be with us.
HERE is your Quiz, should take you about three hours, if you don't cheat.

	Title of Disaster		Description of Disaster
A	Operation Eagle Claw	1	... Explosion and fire in the graphite core of one of four reactors released radioactive material that spread over part of the Soviet Union, eastern Europe, Scandinavia, and later western Europe. 31 claimed dead. Total casualties are unknown. Worst such accident to date.
B	G O D -- Gulf Oil Disaster, The Deepwater Horizon, April 24, 2010	2	Nearly 700 oil wells were set ablaze ... The resulting fires burned out of control because of the dangers of sending in firefighting crews. Land mines had been placed in areas around the oil wells ... Somewhere around 6 million barrels of oil were lost each day.
C	1995 July 12–17, Chicago	3	More than 225,000 people have died from the disaster, a half a million have been injured, thousands still remain missing, and millions were left homeless. [...] Catastrophic damage included the destruction of entire cities, the contamination of farmland and forests, and the depletion of fishing stocks. Some areas faced starvation and increased susceptibility to disease.
D	KARACHI, PAKISTAN	4	In 2003, additional surveys determined that while the majority of subsurface oil was in the mid-intertidal, a significant amount was also in the lower intertidal. The revised estimate of oil was now more than 21,000 gallons ... This ... oil is decreasing at a rate of 0-4% per year, with only a 5% chance that the rate is as high as 4%. At this rate, the remaining oil will take decades and possibly centuries to disappear entirely.
E	Amoco Cadiz, 16 March 1978	5	This ..., is a viscous mix of liquid hydrocarbons, compounds made of the elements hydrogen and carbon. [This Substance] ... forms underground as plant and animal remains decay over time. ... Refineries separate [raw product] into products such as fuel oil, asphalt, and gasoline.
F	2010 Jan. 23, Port Arthur, Texas: The oil tanker Eagle Otome	6	... witnessed its worst environmental disaster in its 56-year-old checkered history when a 24-year old, obsolete tanker Tasman Spirit carrying 67,535 tons of Iranian light crude oil, ... went aground on July 27, 2003 in the channel of the port ... amid rough weather.
G	PETROLEUM or crude oil	7	... [Oil well] blew out, spilling an estimated 140 million gallons of crude oil into the open sea. Although it is one of the largest known oil spills, it had a low environmental impact. Mexican authorities also drilled two relief wells into the main well to lower the pressure of the blowout, however the oil continued to flow for three months following the completion of the first relief well.
H	Kuwaiti oil fires	8	Nov. 13, Spain ... [Tanker] suffered a damaged hull and was towed to sea and sank. Much of the 20 million gallons of oil remains underwater.
J	1993 Aug. 10, Tampa Bay, Fla.	9	... Wrecked supertanker ... spilled 68 million gallons, causing widespread environmental damage over 100 mi of Brittany coast.
K	Indian Ocean Tsunami	10	This is the first collision of two solar system bodies ever to be observed, and the effects of the comet impacts on Jupiter's atmosphere have been simply spectacular and beyond expectations. July 16 through July 22, 1994
L	Exploratory oil well Ixtoc 1,  3 June 1979	11	[Tanker] and a barge collide in the Sabine-Neches Waterway, causing the release of about 462,000 gallons of crude oil. Environmental damage was minimal as about 46,000 gallons were recovered and 175,000 gallons were dispersed or evaporated, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.
M	Tanker Prestige	12	... [Tanker] lost power and ran aground near Port Sulphur, La., dumping 567,000 gallons of crude oil into lower Mississippi. Spill was largest in U.S. waters since Exxon Valdez disaster in March 1989.
N	Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 collided with Jupiter	13	... On April 24, 1980, which mission resulted in a failed mission, the destruction of two aircraft and the deaths of eight American servicemen and one Iranian civilian.
O	2008 February 7, Port Wentworth, Georgia	14	Due to its disastrous history, the name of this American made product has become synonymous with failure.
P	Exxon Valdez	15	739 people died in record heat wave.
Q	1986 April 26, Chernobyl, near Kiev, Ukraine	16	... At least 84 killed and 147 injured by stampeding soccer fans before a 1998 World Cup qualifying match between the home team and Costa Rica
R	- June 21, 2010 China weather disaster	17	On 27 August four enormous explosions took place at 05:30, 06:44, 10:02, and 10:41 local time. The explosions were so violent that they were heard 3,500 km (2,200 mi) away in Perth, Western Australia and the Indian Ocean island of Rodrigues near Mauritius, 4,800 km (3,000 mi) away, where they were thought to be cannon fire from a nearby ship ... Each was accompanied by very large tsunamis, which are believed to have been over 30 meters (100 ft) high in places. A large area of the Sunda Strait and a number of places on the Sumatran coast were affected by pyroclastic flows from the volcano. The pressure wave generated by the colossal final explosion radiated from the explosions at 1,086 km/h (675 mph). It was so powerful that it shattered the eardrums of sailors on ships in the Sunda Strait and caused a spike of more than two and half inches of mercury in pressure gauges attached to gasometers in the Jakarta gasworks, sending them off the scale. The official death toll recorded by the Dutch authorities was 36,417, although some sources put the estimate at 120,000 or more.
S	Nov. 28, 2000 Mississippi River south of New Orleans: oil tanker Westchester	18	... Three ships collided, the barge Bouchard B155, the freighter Balsa 37, and the barge Ocean 255. The Bouchard spilled an estimated 336,000 gallons of No. 6 fuel oil ...
T	1996 Oct. 16, Guatemala City, Mateo Flores National Stadium.	19	Recently ... an explosion fueled by combustible sugar dust killed 13 people and injured several others at the Imperial Sugar plant in this southern state.
U	Ford Edsel, 1958-59, 60	20	Investigators discovered a leak in the wellhead itself. As much as 60,000 barrels of oil per day were leaking into the water, threatening wildlife -- affected about 125 miles of coast. By early June, oil had also reached Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi. It is the largest oil spill in U.S. history.
V	1883 eruption of Krakatoa	21	Torrential rains battering ...  have left 175 people dead and forced the evacuation of 1.7 million, as washed out roads and railways hampered rescue work Monday. Premier Wen Jiabao called for greater efforts to battle flooding that has also left 107 people missing since June 13, as more rains are forecast in the next few days, the government said. "In the coming days another round of heavy rain will hit areas in the south. We are facing a bigger test, so we need to make better preparations to avoid disaster," Wen said on state television. "We are in a crucial period. We must be fully prepared and step up organisation of disaster response work," he said on a visit to the water-logged region

Answers: A13, B20, C15, D6, E9, F11, G5, H2, J18, K3, L7, M8, N10, O19, P4, Q1, R21, S12, T16, U14, V17

Gulf of Mexico; Oil Spill 2010

Putting a Cap on rhetoric -- a Caddy's Cap that is ...
retrievals by Pat Darnell and the Herd  |   [HERE]   |  Golfing Obama whacks yachting Hayward
by Andrew Bolt Blog  |  Monday, June 21, 2010

"You wouldn’t catch Obama goofing off on a yacht while the US battles the greatest oil spill in history. No, sirree:
"Meanwhile, President Obama and Vice-President Joe Biden enjoyed a round of golf on Saturday..."

MEANWHILE ... back at the Caddy Shack:

Charles Krauthammer:
" ... Pres. Barack Obama doesn’t do the mundane. He was sent to us to do larger things. You could see that plainly in his Oval Office address on the Gulf oil spill. He could barely get himself through the pedestrian first half: a bit of BP-bashing, a bit of faux-Clintonian “I feel your pain,” a bit of recovery and economic-mitigation accounting. It wasn’t until the end of the speech — the let-no-crisis-go-to-waste part that tried to leverage the Gulf Coast devastation to advance his cap-and-trade climate-change agenda — that Obama warmed to his task.

"Pedestrian is beneath Obama. Mr. Fix-It he is not. He is world-historical, the visionary, come to make the oceans recede and the planet heal. (SOURCE , Excerpt) ... "

Call it what you will; leadership is not our strong point in the USA anymore. Besides, who in one's right mind, [left\right minds not excluded] would ever consent to being the target of EVERYONE's angst for the many years it takes to be Prez??

Obama should have won the prize -- the Prez'dency -- then logically hand it over to the runners up, no? That sentiment was voiced back in November '08. I think it was a good one. Above Chls Krauthammer pounds home the deficiency of leaders like Obama. I think Barry looks like Clutch Cargo when he speaks. BHO needs a sidekick or two: Spinner and Paddlefoot.

" ... Mort Zuckerman says Obama is a president who can speak but not lead:

"America right now appears to be unreliable to traditional friends, compliant to rivals, and weak to enemies. One renowned Asian leader stated recently at a private dinner in the United States, “We in Asia are convinced that Obama is not strong enough to confront his opponents, but we fear that he is not strong enough to support his friends.” (SOURCE, Excerpt) ... "

Friendlies aside -- who is the next one in line? Politics is not engineering and it is pretty safe to say not either Geology, Cosmology or Mathematics. Why is Obama constantly preaching from his bully pulpit the transcendence of metaphysics, when he and his audience neither one understands first Physics.

Oil Spill -- about as straight forward as one can get. Animals covered in oil -- even if somehow some entity is keeping pictures of rescued animals out of the mainstream media. Everything else is -- looking for a word .... -- uh, a Hissy Fit ... ? !  Uh, Goofing Off  ... ?!

" ... Noel Sheppard says reacted just as you’d expect to Obama and Hayward goofing off:

"America’s media on Saturday had a collective hissy fit over BP CEO Tony Hayward having the nerve to participate in a yacht race on his day off.

"At the same time, no such outrage was expressed concerning President Obama and Vice President Biden going golfing.

"This double standard continued Sunday as the three broadcast network political talk shows all began with Hayward’s yacht outing while ignoring the President’s R and R on the links. (SOURCE, Excerpt) ... "

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Out of Sight: Out of Mind?

Mockery not Nice
Retrieved by Pat Darnell and the Rage

June 3, 2010 | Caught in the oil | [SOURCE]
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This my not seem relevent but the Day that Obama signed the health care bill he sarcastically said "they said it would be armeggedon if we pass this health care bill. I looked outside it was a pretty nice day. I didn't see any asteriods, I didn't see the earth split open.

"Go to this youtube and at the ten minute mark of his speach you can hear it for yourself. "YouTube - President Obama Speaks about Health Reform in Iowa City"

... But since then we have had a global Volcano and the the earth crack open. Call it coinsidence or maybe he should be careful of who he mocks.
Posted by Bob June 5, 2010 09:29 PM


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Animals didn't commit the original sin. Why must they suffer too? I can hardly bear to look at those pitiful photos. I wish I could get there to help with the rescue and washing of birds and other animals. I feel so helpless, as I'm sure there are many others that do as well.
Embrace these little and not so little ones. Guard them, protect them, and grant them a peace that only we as humans can deny them.
~Vonnie Matheny

DITTO, Vonnie, DITTO.
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Arts & Leisure Preview: Wendy Williams, Wilco, ‘Humpday’ and More - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com

Wendy Williams told us during her TV show this week on BET, that she is donating hair to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill cleanup effort.
How to Help the Gulf -- Daily Beast
She had with her a wheelbarrow of  fifty wigs that she culled from her extensive collection of hair-do's ... So we looked up Wendy Williams from a year ago, when she was 45, and found interesting stuff.

Wendy's Wheelbarrow of Hair
Matter of Trust, which is gathering hair to sop up oil in the Gulf Coast, got a wheelbarrow full of help Monday when Wendy Williams donated some of her many, many wigs to the cause

Retrieved by Pat Darnell
In the following retrievals about Ms Wendy Williams for instance, her management aspires that she has a chance at daytime Talk Show, since she is so unique -- that is, she is not an OWN, Oprah Winfrey Network, Clone.

For now lets all get buzz cuts and send our dread lochs to Matter of Trust oil spill clean up effort...

Arts & Leisure Preview: Wendy Williams, Wilco, ‘Humpday’ and More - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com

Wendy Williams, the radio and television host, in her wig room.
Wisdom, insights and random observations from this weekend’s Arts and Leisure section.

“Ones that might be thinning a bit because they’re older, I wear those if I’m outside washing my car in the driveway. Then you have a gym wig — a gym wig and a Target wig are the same thing — and the ones I wear to the mall on the weekend with my family.”

–Wendy Williams explains which of her wigs goes best with which occasion, as she prepares for her new television talk show
She’s Ready for Millions of Her Closest Friends

By MELENA RYZIK |  Published: July 1, 2009
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Broadcast live in New York and syndicated nationally, “The Wendy Williams Show” is a chance for Ms. Williams, who will turn 45 this month, [July 1, 2009] to expand her reach and her brand — without, she hopes, sacrificing her persona.
“People that I’ve talked to regarding the TV show, they’re asking: Who are your guests going to be? Am I nervous to go out there? What do you think America’s going to say?” Ms. Williams said in a recent interview in the pink-and-purple offices above her pink-and-purple television studio.
“I’m not overconfident. It’s just that I’m not caught up in that. What will be, will be. The die is cast. I can’t be anybody but me.”

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“I like to say that Wendy has a brashness, a sassiness to her, that she’s loud in a very good way, in look and point of view,” said Lonnie Burstein, the executive vice president of programming at Debmar-Mercury, the production company behind the TV show.

(It also counts Ms. Williams and her husband and manager, Kevin Hunter, as executive producers.) “Whether she’s talking or you’re looking at her, you have to notice her.”

Reviewing the show when it was shown during a six-week trial run last summer, Alessandra Stanley wrote in The New York Times, “She has a bawdy and arch side, but she can be startlingly mean-spirited.” Oprah, Ellen, even Tyra Ms. Williams is not, though it’s also no secret that she aspires to one-name status

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“She is willing to let it all hang out,” said Rob Dauber, an executive producer of the show and a veteran of the Martha Stewart, Oprah Winfrey and Rosie O’Donnell shows. On the first of last summer’s episodes Ms. Williams pulled a Post-it note from underneath the lip of her wig. On another, congratulating a cameraman on the birth of a daughter, she said, “Kenny, you don’t mind if I say your sperm was frozen?” (“Uh, no,” Kenny replied.)
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Ms. Williams’s distinctive voice may be her strength, wrote Steve Sternberg, the executive vice president for audience analysis at the media-buying group Magna Global Entertainment, in an e-mail message. Ratings for syndicated talk shows, including Ms. Winfrey’s, have fallen in the last several years, so there is some room in the daytime market, he wrote. “Ordinarily clones do not work, but original, strong personalities can break through (see Ricki Lake, Rosie, Dr. Phil).” And of the 14 syndicated daytime talk shows now on television, 10 have an audience whose median age is 50 or above, he wrote, so someone who skews younger could be appealing.

Special Reports :: Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill

Clean up is just like what's "been done before, but never at such depths. The wellhead is almost a mile underwater, 50 miles south of the mouth of the Mississippi River."
Retrieved by Pat Darnell
[Story SOURCE]

MooPig Site Review :: "Oil Spilling Out 5,000 Barrels a Day into Gulf of Mexico -- YIKES!"

Who's Who on a Biologist's BIO-List?
Retrieved by Pat Darnell and Friends | [SOURCE]

EXCERPT | By Ashley Hayes, CNN April 30, 2010 HERE
" ...More than 400 species are threatened by the spill, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reported Thursday, citing the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.

"When you stop and begin considering everything that this could impact, it really is stunning," Karen Foote, biologist administrator with the department, told the newspaper.

" ...According to a 1998 study by Louisiana State University, more than 500 million birds fly over the Gulf and enter the United States along coastal areas in Louisiana and Texas each spring.

The barrier islands east of Louisiana's Lake Pontchartrain have still not recovered from the blow dealt by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Bossart said, and a spill such as this one could seriously threaten their recovery.

' ..."I think at this point it would be wrong to say it's catastrophic, because it really hasn't hit any area except out in the Gulf proper," he said. But "it's certainly a very serious thing" that could pose a long-term environmental challenge.'

[(Sources Unknown) Pictured here are Gulf Coast animals to be affected by oil spills: from plankton to bobcats, .... Yes, Loggerhead Turtles too ... No joke.]

[Read Entire Article HERE ...]

Fish Futures

Article Review by Pat Darnell
You have heard of unleaded gasoline futures, right? You are probably losing your shirts right now. Well, new thinking has a way of moving into "commodities" just by word of mouth.

Fisheries have a risk factor, and some trolleys make better catches than others. High risk means high rewards. But if your "catch" is slim, and maybe due to dwindling fish available, you might keep your shirt if you had bonded in securities of "a profitable system to protect fisheries from collapsing." (Tierney, John; 09.18.2008) So Tierney reports in the New York Times, Science Section today:

"Under this system, a fisherman owns the right to a certain percentage of the annual allowable catch in a fishery. These shares, sometimes called individual transferable quotas, can be bought and sold on the market, and their price goes down if the fish population declines." [SOURCE]

"The Environmental Defense Fund, which has helped start a catch-share system with red snapper fishermen in the Gulf of Mexico, praised the report in Science. 'This study shows that the next President can fix the overfishing problem by implementing catch shares,' said David Festa, the director of the oceans program at E.D.F. 'We can turn a dire situation into an enormous opportunity to promote better food security, create jobs and revive ecosystems'...” Tierney quotes in the article. (ibid)

Catch-share fisheries have been monitored for over fifty years in New Zealand, Alaska, and Iceland. Empirical results show "catch-share fisheries were only half as likely to collapse, and that the health of the fisheries improved the longer the catch-share system was in effect."

Traditional methods where seasonal periods are given when fishermen go out and struggle with risk to make quotas against time... "had encouraged a “race to fish” as fishermen flung down as many hooks to catch as many fish as fast as they could. But the catch-share system enabled them to work at a slower, more efficient pace until they reached their guaranteed quota."
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[About TierneyLab...] John Tierney always wanted to be a scientist but went into journalism because its peer-review process was a great deal easier to sneak through. Now a columnist for the Science Times section, Tierney previously wrote columns for the Op-Ed page, the Metro section and the Times Magazine. Before that he covered science for magazines like Discover, Hippocrates and Science 86.

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Forecasters made Edouard, packing 50-mph sustained winds, the fifth tropical storm of the 2008 hurricane season. They expected the storm to strengthen and said it could reach near-hurricane strength by the time it made landfall in Texas on Tuesday morning.

A tropical storm warning was in effect from the mouth of the Mississippi River to Intracoastal City, La. That meant tropical storm conditions were expected in the next 24 hours. The warning area did not include New Orleans. A tropical storm watch extended west to Port O'Connor, Texas.

Tropical Storm Forms Off Louisiana Coast
AP 11:15 PM EST August 3, 2008

NEW ORLEANS (Aug. 3) - Tropical Storm Edouard formed in the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday, and forecasters expected it to bring high winds and several inches of rain to the coasts of western Louisiana and eastern Texas.

[Read full article HERE, retrieved tonight for review]