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From: <benzx2_at_verizon.net>
subject: Re: [Paddlewise] Re: Cutting National Weather Service Info?
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 15:12:28 -0500 (CDT)
I would not hold your breath for a reply from the owner. My wife used to work there among many unhappy people. You have probably given the staff a much needed laugh. She nearly went crazy there. She quit not having anyplace else lined up because she just could not take it anymore.


>From: Dan Harrison <DHARRISN_at_hfcc.edu>
>
>I have just sent an email to sales_at_accuwx.com :
>Subject:  How to increase your sales
>Message as follows:  Dear Accuweather folks:
>Just a friendly note to let you know that I will next use Accuweather
>when I have received a reliable report that the Santorum bill to limit
>public access to NOAA data has died a deserved death.
>If the bill passes into law, I will next use Accuweather when NOAA
>broadcasts an ice storm warning for Hades.
>Very Sincerely,
>Daniel Harrison, Outraged Taxpayer
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From: Michael Daly <mikedaly_at_magma.ca>
subject: Re: [Paddlewise] Re: Cutting National Weather Service Info?
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 16:51:26 -0400
On 28 Apr 2005 at 15:12, benzx2_at_verizon.net wrote:

> My wife used to work
> there among many unhappy people.

The inevitable consequence of private enterprise doing it cheaper.

I've worked for private companies, Crown corporations (i.e. in 
Canada, government-owned companies) and government agencies and there 
is no discernable difference between them if they all do a good job.  
However, when they put cost cutting and profit above everything else, 
the result is a bad place to work - short term gain and long term 
failure.  A good work environment is a good work environment 
regardless of who signs the cheque.  Good work is good work 
regardless of who manages the process.  Good management is good 
management regardless of who owns the business.  Saying that private 
enterprise is good and government is bad is a ludicrous assertion 
that ignores reality.

Mike
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From: Margot Pantalone <mpantalo_at_tennessee.edu>
subject: [Paddlewise] Kayaker found the ivory-billed woodpecker
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 19:03:50 -0400
Today's great news, if you've missed it, is that a living 
Ivory-Billed Woodpecker has been found in the wilds of Eastern 
Arkansas, and it was a kayaker who initially spotted it! One story is 
at http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0429/p01s03-ussc.html, and if you 
search on 'kayaker' at Google News, and then click 'sort by date, 
it'll pull up other stories.

NPR's All Things Considered today had a very good segment, too, that 
cuts to the dilemma now: celebrating the existence of a mythic bird 
while desperately hoping that the find does not lead to more harm to 
the bird. Already some crazy birder has posted directions to the 
general area, but it's remote and requires a boat.

The bird is also to be featured Friday a.m. on Morning Edition. A 
previous NPR segment was haunting in its tribute. I think that may be 
the story from March 2002 story linked to the following page, but my 
too-slow home connection can't verify it. 
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4622633
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From: Wayne Smith <wsmith16_at_charter.net>
subject: Re: [Paddlewise] Re: Cutting National Weather Service Info?
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 06:46:14 -0400
>Good management is good 
>management regardless of who owns the business.  Saying that private 
>enterprise is good and government is bad is a ludicrous assertion 
>that ignores reality.


Agreed. However, subsidizing corporate profits with tax dollars, and data which is taxpayer property is *ALWAYS* bad, regardless of outcome. The senator who is proposing this bill is one of the same people who scream "free enterprise" the loudest when it benefits him to do so.

Can't have it both ways!

Wayne

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From: Dave Kruger <kdruger_at_pacifier.com>
subject: Re: [Paddlewise] Re: Cutting National Weather Service Info?
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 06:03:13 -0700
Can we retire this thread?  The "paddling content" of the last five or six 
posts has been nil.  Yet, I keep opening them, hoping ...

Thanks.

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Astoria, OR 
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From: Jeff Bingham <kayakjef_at_bellsouth.net>
subject: Re: [Paddlewise] Re: Cutting National Weather Service Info?
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 22:42:13 -0400
on 4/29/05 9:03 AM, Dave Kruger at kdruger_at_pacifier.com wrote:

> Can we retire this thread?  The "paddling content" of the last five or six
> posts has been nil.  Yet, I keep opening them, hoping ...


Yes Dave I think we can. I work for a discount airline based out of FL. I
made inquiries with our General Counsel who made inquiries in Washington.
The Honorable Mr. Santorum has no co-sponsor of this bill and this bill was
considered something of a wild card play on his part. It was given a less
than 2% chance of passing.


Brgds,


Jeffrey T. Bingham


PS: Interesting spell check results on Santorum
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