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READ about Piers Morgan's long career in journalism here.
In the wake of Mitt Romney's three state victories this week – and looking ahead to Super Tuesday – this evening "Piers Morgan Tonight" welcomes Ron Paul for a candid interview.
Currently without a win in any of the primaries or caucuses, the Republican from Texas maintains he continues to win delegates, especially those from the younger demographic:
"In almost every state, I think, essentially every state, I always win between the 18 and 30 year olds. I always win that," reminds Paul. "If they're thinking about the future, or the Fall election, I mean young people are very, very important."
With an impressive presence on social media, and views that seem to appeal to the youth vote, Paul tells Piers Morgan he's the only candidate who can truly battle the president:
"I'm the one person that can take young people away from Obama. But nobody in leadership's ever come and said 'Ron, what is it that the young people like about what you're doing?'" reveals Paul. "I think they're afraid of the answer, because it might be, well maybe a little less war, and maybe a little less spending."
Tune in to "Piers Morgan Tonight" at 9 p.m. ET/PT as the Republican race's oldest candidate shares his views on Iran, and contraception.
How is Romney winning? This doesn't make sense with Ron Paul up.
Well TJ, welcome to what is called MAINSTREAM MEDIA BIAS IN AMERICA!!!
Ron Paul is doing great considering he gets WAAAAY less Media Coverage than the MO, Larry. and Curly...or mitt romney, rick santorum, and newt "gangreen" gingrich
right you are pal and thanks for not saying "liberal' or conservative" media bias. They both want bigger goverment,higher taxes and endless wars....goRon Paul!
The Republican party has lost their way. They adopt the neoconservative agenda of continuous, pre-emptive wars and nation building. Polls show that 68% of the American people are oppose to war. The only Republican or Democratic presidential candidate I can support is Ron Paul.
The republicans works for zionist interest, not about the welfare of people of america. They spent 4 trillions in wars to satisfy the zionists and helping Israel indirectly. The simple losers are americans and have to pay trillions to asian for the misadventures
Ron Paul is the only one I will vote for..... Can we pen him in ?
Love our country please. Let's start by be honest first. Iran has No war heads but it sure has oil that we need.
Israil has 3000 nukular war heads and has attacked other countries but is our friend and we support it with our tax dollars and has no oil to give us yet it bullies us. Iran has never attacked any country in the history of iran. Loving our country means educating ourself and our children first and not getting our news from FOX NEWS owned by who ?
Free media for a safer America.
Mitt Romney's campaign reminds me a lot of the WNBA. It shows that you can throw a whole lot of money at something and make it appear popular, but at the end of the day people are just not excited to watch women play basketball. Romney has no exciting ideas to contrast with Obama. Watching Romney attack Obama is honestly like watching women play professional basketball since he is so weak on core conservative principles. Maybe that's why he is speaking to empty buildings and having "fake" homemade signs distributed out to his audiences. Money can buy a lot of things but money cannot buy backbone. The GOP needs backbone to win this election. Ron Paul 2012
lol. awesome.
Romney need to start being honest and stop lying. Let's not forget Bush who took us into war looking for WMD based on lies, lies, lies. We lost our brave young men and women because of liers. Will any of Bush and Romney kids go fight a war? Romney will be worse than Bush.
The truth is that the main reason that younger voters support Paul is because they don't get their news from the dinosaur corporate media. Yes, his message is pure, inspiring and young in essence but it's because of the internet and the opportunities it gives to research information from all sources, enabling a fuller understanding of the situation, which gives Dr. Paul the edge among that demographic. I mean the MSM doesn't talk about Romney's abysmal record of fiscal conservatism as governor or Santorum's hypocritical positions on social issues or the fact that the other 3 are essentially the same as BO with the same nanny/authoritarian approach to government, it's just that they have an "R" before their name.
No wonder the 50+ is so anti-Paul, they get their news through FAUX or the other corporate dinosaurs. As long as 90% of the media is controlled by 6 corporations that are in bed with government, there will be no positive change in this country.
Please google who owns FOX news and you will have the answer. Please demand free and honest media.
Piers! How does Ron Paul know Iran is not near having a nuclear weapon or that we can contain them? Is he going to just roll over when one is heading towards some unlucky country that Khamenei/Ahmadinejad thinks, merits one? He's an idiot if he thinks Iran will talk about their nuclear program or weapon count with him when they won't even talk to most of their own people. And now they're rolling out their own parallel internet called "Clean Internet" so they won't be letting their people get any media out – if they can help it. What about Syria? Would he just let scenes of genocide happen "here, there & everywhere" without as much as lifting an eyelid? The world politico doesn't work like that; it would be great if it did, but it doesn't. Please, tell him that
Lastly, I think he has some kind of deal done with Romney; I can tell that by the way he answered your questions tonight...he just drops hint after hint in the mannerisms he gave his answers. So...I can only pray...he never gets to where he thinks he's going re; a Romney partnership.
Obama, will win re-election come 2012...for that, I'll thank God in advance.
Does anyone really think iran would launch a nuke even if they did have one? It be be suicide. This is all media war propoganda.
Iran has never invaded any country unlike Israil. Iran is afraid of Israil with its 300 nukular war head. We need oil from Iran and we send our tax dollars to Israil to bully our goverment why, why ?
He knows b/c he read the IAEA reports and listened to the men who reported on them HONESTLY. You can read the reports too– they are available for download. He also knows how this is just another hype to suck us into another 10yr unwinnable war which only profits banksters and military industrial profiteers. He knows about BLOWBACK as defined by the CIA, because he's been LISTENING to the ppl involved for 40 yrs, and to the military and CIA men who were in charge of the Bin Laden fiasco, e.g.; and b/c he read the 9/11 commission report, and b/c he's old enough to know better than to swallow rumors of war coming from D.C. warmongers and their shills in MSM. You should know better too by now. The troops aren't buying it, and ppl like me who have lived their whole lives watching this country buckle under "preventive" illegal undeclared wars that are not wars. Dwight Eisenhower: "Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. Frankly, I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing." ..."We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex." These invasions are illegal, immoral, and WE CANNOT AFFORD THIS. HOW ABOUT LET'S GUARD OUR OWN BORDERS FOR A CHANGE.
Even young people know about this how is it that its the older generation are too blind to not figure it out by now? Even with Mainstream media bias all you have to do is think for yourself and ask a couple of asserting questions to figure this out by now. We'll all find out soon one day. It'll either be the hard way or the impossibly, unforgivingly Greek style pandemonium way.
I'm tired of living in the 'Post 911' world that would require everyone to continuously live in fear. It's an open doorway for all the government do-gooders to steal everyone's privacy away from them and toss personal liberty to the curb.
Whether you realize it or not, the Obama administration is no different than the Bush administration when it comes to destroying the freedoms that Americans were led to believe, and some still believe, they had.
Being constantly under surveillance of the government under the premise of 'protecting me' is a farce.
Go ahead and strap them chains to your ankles and bow to your leaders. It's only deserving of those who think government is gonna 'make all things better'.
Why is our President going to attend The jewish AIPAC Convention in washington March4-6?
The only thing Israel wants is a war with iran!! The American people do not want another war for Israel!
Iran is no threat to the U.S. – It is only due to the paranoid nature of the zionists in Israhell – that they want war!!
Israel has nuclear weapons- iran does not!– who should we be worried about?–Israel
Call the whitehouse and tell them we dont want our president being a cheerleader for the jewish lobby AIPAC and their WAR GAMES!!!
one for iran ,and how many did you say Russia had,two or 40 thousand.give me a break war monger
voter fraud is rampant.."In the wake of Mitt Romney's three state victories this week", are they really assuming that Romney is going to win all three states on saturday? RON PAUL 2012
Piers, I was very critical of your last " interview " ( cross exam) of Dr Paul because you did not let him answer your questions.
tonight you did.
Thanks for being fair.
Agree 100%. Dr. Paul's views are controversial enough so that there's no need for the jabbing interruptions and cheap shots like on most shows. Just ask him a question and let him roll. My favorite response from Paul was that Russia had 30,000 nukes and we never went to war with them, Iran has none but the war drums are beating.....! Ron Paul 2012 I love the guy.
This is off the politics sujbect, but just so folks are aware.Symantec has revealed that a portion of its Norton Anti-Virus source code has been stolen by hackers.Symantec is saying that it is old code but considering the corporate CYA that occurs in this sort of situation, I'd be changing my AV solution if I was using Norton.a0 I'm just sayin' .IMHO, I think Norton AV stinks anyhow, just as badly as McAfee. But they're the big boys what do I know.
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Thank you Piers for having Ron Paul on your show tonight. We highly respect Ron Paul and will everything in our power to help him get elected.
Please have him on more often.
It is absurd how the media and the GOP has shunned him. He is the best man for President. No doubt about it. God bless anyone who helps him get elected.
Again, thank you Piers.
I see somebody for piers morgans removed my comments already. This is not fair play,why no good people do not participate or watch CNN. I blog in Aljazeera and many americans and israelis, but never removed any comments there.
Thank you Piers for having Ron Paul as a guest on your show. It's refreshing when the media as a whole pretends he's invisible, as CNN has been guilty of this behavior along with the rest! Thank you for standing up, I send you a salute & will watch your show now!!
Boycott AIPAC President Obama!!
Why is our President going to attend The jewish AIPAC Convention in washington March4-6?
The only thing Israel wants is a war with iran!! The American people do not want another war for Israel!
Iran is no threat to the U.S. – It is only due to the paranoid nature of the zionists in Israhell – that they want war!!
Israel has nuclear weapons- iran does not!– who should we be worried about?–Israel
Call the whitehouse and tell them we dont want our president being a cheerleader for the jewish lobby AIPAC and their WAR GAMES!!!
Piers I do not know what your religious beliefs are and what you think about Jesus being the only Savior of the world but in response to Santorium's comments about Satan running wild in this country he is exactly right and the Bible proves this point when Peter stated that "Satan our adversary is roaming about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour." That atheists news reporter you had on your show recently and the conservative spokesman that just passed away may make fun of Jesus and Satan now but I can assure you that ONE DAY EVER KNEE SHALL BOW TO JESUS AND EVERY TONGUE SHALL CONFESS THAT HE IS LORD OF LORDS AND KING OF KINGS TO THE GLORY OF THE FATHER and they will also truly believe in Satan on the day they die because they will be sent to Hell to suffer for all eternity just like Satan will when Jesus finally binds him and cast him into the lake which burns with fire and brimstone.
You know when they said "Satan" in the bible, they didn't mean a little red guy with a pitchfork and a pointy tale, right? It was more of a personification of the bad that is in certain men's hearts, right? I cannot begrudge someone their faith, but people like you who believe in a literal translation of a book written back in the bronze age, you have a mind that is not flexible, and I believe that you, sir, are what really threatens our country.
And all that Rah-Rah about hell and the burning and the punishment by your "loving lord" it's played out and us atheists would really like you to create a new way for your Compassionate God to punish us for eternity, it that wouldn't be too much trouble.
Good Day, Sir
Well mt dear Bro. Matt I am sorry that you are an atheist my friend and I will be praying for you and your soul. Yes I believe in a literal translation of God's Word for "His word shall last forever" and although you atheist do not be;live in Him you one day will just as all of us will for Hell is a real place for the unrepentant, and Heaven is a real place for the saved/ One is a place of eternal suffering and one is a place of eternal glory it does not matter what you are I believe about it it only matters what God says about it..
Holy smokes another religious extremist.
You sir are a nut job and you have no place in this century.
Dear Bro. Pete,
Well yes I am a nut and a preacher of the word of God but I know one thing for sure God's word is relevant today just as it was in the Bronze age. God's will will endure for ever. I am very confident about two things, nut or not, Jesus' love is available to all, if they will only believe. The other thing is that His wrath is sure and certain on all those who do not believe/
Almost 40 year old here! Voting for Dr Paul tommorrow here in Washington State, March 3rd. I've volunteered at some of the locale rally's and let me tell you there are as many middle age people as there are college kids. The media always has to try to make him look like there's nothing buy scary, teenage, drug addicts that support him. That is a bold face lie!
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Conviction erased for Detroit man serving life sentence
DETROIT (AP) -- A federal appeals court has overturned a first-degree murder conviction and thrown out incriminating statements by a man serving a life sentence for a 2000 Detroit homicide.
In a 2-1 decision Friday, the court focused on an unusual set of facts. Kevin J. Moore had asked police to call a lawyer when he was being interviewed about the fatal shooting of a woman, Hyshanti Johns. After the lawyer couldn't be reached, Moore made statements that were used against him.
Moore says those words should be thrown out because he wanted a lawyer. But police say it was Moore who freely initiated the conversation.
The appeals court sided with Moore, saying he didn't waive his right to an attorney. He'll now go free unless another trial is held within six months.


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No. 15 Cincinnati beats Temple 80-76
PHILADELPHIA (AP) Sean Kilpatrick hadn't scored in over 13 minutes, and No. 15 Cincinnati had just blown every bit of a 19-point second-half lead against Temple.
"I was just trying to get fouled," he said. "The time was running down, they switched the pick and roll and the big man was on me. I just drove at him."
The big man was Anthony Lee, who picked up his fifth foul after catching Kilpatrick on the arm with 7.2 seconds remaining. Kilpatrick went to the line and promptly ended his scoring drought by making the game-winning free throws.
Kilpatrick finished with a season-high 29 points and the Bearcats (19-2, 8-0 AAC) staved off a Temple comeback to remain undefeated in the American Athletic Conference with an 80-76 victory Sunday.
The Bearcats are off to their best start since 2001-02 and their best start in league play since they went 8-0 in Conference USA that same season.
Temple attempted to tie the game again after Kilpatrick's free throws, but Josh Brown's layup was blocked by Jermaine Sanders with a half-second to play. Kevin Johnson added two more free throws for the Bearcats, who had their nation-best streak of holding 27 consecutive opponents under 70 points ended.
"At no point was I confident the game was over," Cincinnati coach Mick Cronin said. "I was concerned the whole time."
Temple's Dalton Pepper is the one who caused that concern. Pepper had a career-high 33 points, including the 3 that tied the game at 76 with 36.9 seconds left, for the Owls (5-13, 0-7), who have lost eight straight.
He scored 27 points in the second half, tied the record for the most 3s by a Temple player at the Liacouras Center with eight, and brought Temple all the way back from the 19-point deficit.
Cincinnati's Justin Jackson played just 6 minutes after appearing to injure his leg. Cronin admitted that Jackson's absence changed what the Bearcats were able to do defensively. For the final 20 minutes, they were unable to stop Pepper.
"He was a superstar in the second half," Temple coach Fran Dunphy said, referring to Pepper. "He obviously propelled us to get back into the game. We were in a little bit of trouble. So he was on fire.
"We probably should have looked for him a couple more times toward the latter part of the game."
On the Owls' final possession, the one that ended in Sanders' block of Brown, Dunphy tried to a draw up a play that featured Pepper as a late trailer, hoping he would be able to work his way to an open shot. Instead, point guard Will Cummings found Brown, who – along with Temple's comeback chances – were rejected.
As a result, Temple (5-13, 0-7) remains winless in the American. The losing streak is its longest since the 1975-76 team lost 11 straight. The four straight home losses are its most since 2001-02.
This was Cincinnati's second win over Temple in two weeks. The Bearcats won the first meeting at home, 69-58, on Jan. 14. They have now won 12 straight games and have won 10 or more consecutive games in three of the last four seasons.
Still, Kilpatrick argued, this win was as tough as any they have earned this season.
"This is one of our top two (wins)," he said. "Memphis was the No. 1. But this is top two because this is a hard place to play at. … Being able to have these type of wins in this environment is big."
The Bearcats will have a chance to add to their resume on Thursday when they visit No. 12 Louisville for their first meeting with the Cardinals this season. In that sense, Sunday could have proven a trap game, and almost did.
But Cronin denied it was anything of the sort. He said his veteran team was plenty focused on a Temple team that has had eight of its 13 losses decided by seven points or less. He pinned the near-upset on someone else.
"You have to give the kid credit," Cronin said of Pepper. "Obviously I'm not happy about (our 3-point defense), but I don't believe in coming and banging on my players and disregarding a performance like Dalton Pepper put up.
"(He) played as good as a guy can possibly play at his position in the second half. They've lost a lot of close games, but they continue to play hard. … They're short-handed, they have guys sitting out for next year, and they're going to be a problem for everybody in our league next season."


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It has been six days now since about 400 Canada Geese that had been living on the lake at Prospect Park, Brooklyn, were rounded up, packed two or three to a crate, trucked away, and gassed to death by the United States Department of Agriculture – all without public notice. This continues the trend in New York City, started last summer, of killing as many resident Canada Geese as possible, ostensibly to make aviation safer in the wake of the "Miracle on the Hudson." Opinions have been running strong on both sides of the great goose killing debate and a post about the killings on the New York Times City Room blog garnered nearly 700 comments.
This blog post, of course, will not decide the issue one way or the other. Personally, I am opposed to the mass killing of Canada Geese, not just because it is callous and cruel, but because it seems pointless. Even if the killings temporarily lower the population of Canada Geese it is only a matter of time before the population builds back up, necessitating another cull. Also, the local geese don't seem to fly great distances or at great heights, so it doesn't seem to me like they endanger planes. Instead, they usually make short flights from favored feeding grounds like Greenwood Cemetery to favored roosting spots like the Prospect Park Lake.
It is migratory geese that were reportedly involved in the downing of flight 1549 that led to the "Miracle on the Hudson" and it is migratory geese that are not around at this time of year, breeding as they do in the arctic. Though I don't know of any studies that have been done, my money is on local, "city-wise" geese knowing better than to get in the path of a jet while birds flying in from the far north might not know how to react when confronted by a giant steel missile moving at hundreds of miles per hour.
No one seems to be advocating killing migratory Canada Geese or, worse, Brant, even though they spend months in the area every year. No one is even advocating rounding up and killing Mute Swans to protect planes, even though swans are much larger than geese and would likely do even more damage to a plane then geese. Canada Geese are an easy target because they frequent grassy areas that people create in abundance. They then poop and people don't like poop on their nice grassy golf courses, playing fields, and cemeteries. In fact, it seems that aviation safety is a cover story for those who want to kill geese on general principle. How can I make such a statement without some evidence? Well, how about this, from Wikipedia?*
Since 1999, The United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services agency has been engaged in lethal culls of Canada Geese primarily in urban or densely populated areas. The agency responds to municipalities or private land owners, such as golf courses, who find the geese obtrusive or object to their waste.
After all, it might be difficult to convince the public of the need to kill geese because of poop but once one says that geese are threatening the lives of anyone who flies into or out of New York City, well, what kind of monster would be opposed to removing the threat?
Birders have been remarkably silent on the issue of Canada Goose gassing. Last year, when about 1,900 geese were rounded up in New York City there was barely a peep from the birding community and this year there has been no outrage expressed on any of the listservs. This might have to do with birders often viewing Canada Geese as a trash bird not worthy of interest. The lack of response might also have to do with the rather unnatural nature (if that isn't an oxymoron) of resident Canada Geese. You see before people started catching, breeding, and releasing Canada Geese they didn't breed around here. Wikipedia says:
By the early 20th century, over-hunting and loss of habitat in the late 1800s and early 1900s had resulted in a serious decline in the numbers of this bird in its native range…With improved game laws and habitat recreation and preservation programs, their populations have recovered in most of their range, although some local populations, especially of the subspecies occidentalis, may still be declining.
In recent years, Canada Geese populations in some areas have grown substantially, so much so that many consider them pests (for their droppings, the bacteria in their droppings, noise and confrontational behavior). This problem is partially due to the removal of natural predators and an abundance of safe, man-made bodies of water (such as on golf courses, public parks and beaches, and in planned communities).
We removed predators, made ideal habitat, and repeatedly introduced captive-raised birds that did not know to migrate and now we have a problem which we want to resolve by killing the geese? This is just not right. Is it keeping us safe? Maybe from goose poop…
*Though, to be fair, a paper that I found on the USDA website indicate that bird-plane collisions are of serious concern to the USDA (link is a PDF).
My only problem with this cull is the gassing of the birds; I'd have thought they could be dealt with in a way which left the meat usable. 1900 canada geese is a lot of meat which could've been used by local charities (or perhaps even sold to fund conservation projects) although I suspect overzealous food health laws make that unworkable (but I think birdchick tweeted the other day that they do this in Minnesota?).
Much as I'd like the sort of animals that take canada goslings wandering our cities, it generally isn't too likely (unfortunately) and they do cause a potential health problem and damage amenity/farm land. Control by egg removal would be a kinder option though I'd have thought.
The fact that it is pointless is what makes it cruel and callous. If one decides to manage through killing (which should always be the last resort as you're mostly fighting the symptoms, not the cause), it ought to be done in a way that has a positive and lasting effect.
And did you notice, Corey, that by sheer and pure coincidence all your goose pics feature cute fluffy goslings?
@tai haku: as a German I wholeheartedly agree – just the word "gassing" makes me sick, and they surely should use the meat if they mean to cull. Otherwise it's a despicable waste of life.
I also agree that there is a need to manage the populations at least locally, and that the re-introduction of predators is unlikely. However, it seems habitat management or the reduction of their food sources would seem more viable solutions than the killing of a certain amount of birds. This small-scale killing without eliminating the cause of their population growth isn't going to change anything.
Egg removal generally doesn't work because the Geese just lay another clutch, but egg addling, where you coat the egg with an oily substance like cooking oil so that the embryo can't breathe and the eggs never hatch, is a popular way of dealing with feral Geese around here. At least that's what we do to the pair of Canada Geese that invariably try to nest at my museum every year.
I tend to agree with Corey here regarding the distinction that needs to be made between feral geese than their migratory counterparts. Birders can help here by learning how to make that distiction in winter so that we gan get a better idea of where migratory versus non-migratory geese congregate.
It seems like this is a project eBird could really help with. There is a category for feral Canada Geese, and if eBird reviewers make that option more widely available so that birders can enter the data we could potentially come up with a map that better monitors the two different groups of birds.
Let me correct my statement, there is NOT currently an option for feral Canada Geese in the eBird filters.
Anyone from eBird reading this? Get on it! 🙂
@Nate: it's not always easy to distinguish between feral and migratory. While birding in Ann Arbor, I never thought that any geese within the city itself would be migratory – until I dicovered a few neck bands/rings in an urban flock on a very small pond of an industrial area that allowed close approach (typical feature of feral??), and learned that these geese had been banded at James Bay. And the fact that the same flock hosted a Cackling made it even more obvious.
Oh, I agree Jochen. But there are certain times when we can be sure, for me I know the nesting flocks on my neighborhood pond are feral and the traditional wintering birds at the eastern Wildlife Refuges are migratory (made a bit easier when the migratory ones are the lesser subspecies too). Lumping them both as "Canada Goose", however, seems oversimplified.
I suppose there could be some problems with people trying to be certain every time, but as long as you made clear that the only birds to note as feral are the individuals you're absolutely certain about, I think you could get some useful data from it,
eBird offers the same option for Mallards, migratory versus domestic type, so it's definitely doable.
I agree that the way this cull was done was abhorrent. I believe in the past, up north of the city, authorities have donated the carcasses to homeless shelters.
Just because I have no clue … do NYC or other cities (save for Venice, Italy) go after pigeon populations in a similar manner? Both birds are viewed as pests by many people.
Nate, how can a novice birder like me tell whether the flocks nesting nearby are migratory or permanent residents?
Culling means thinning out not Wiping out.
The lack of public awareness on what they were intending to do was pure crap. They took advantage of the birds while in their flightless stage, at night, goslings and all and exterminated them. Did they not explore other measures such as removing eggs over time and replacing with dummy eggs, herding with dogs from time to time? altering vegetation perhaps as to not make areas as enticing? appears not. I knew something was going on weeks ago as my house is in the flight path of the geese from PP to Greenwood Cemetery. They would fly like clockwork and for the last month or so the skies have been all but silent. Their actions are appalling.
I tend to agree with you very much and i also think that you make some great pointers. These birds dont have any idea what these things are or why they are killing them for no apparent reason. How about we make the damn plane better so that if something flies into it (like the birds have any idea and are doing suicide killings lol) or how about we make some kind of machine that sees the birds or to capture birds and pput some kind of tracker on them so we can track them and make sure we are not flying where they are??? There are so many more things we can do or because they are from canada we can have them help with taking care of them. I hope that we can find a better way and if we as humans cant eat the meat then maybe donate it to be able to feed the shelters dogs and cats so we dont have to kill so many animals
According to the full article on the subject, these geese were dumped in a landfill, but other culls have resulted in goose breast being donated to food pantries. I think that if they're going to do culls, the meat should be used in some way.
The migratory and non-migratory populations of Canada Geese are definitely distinct. I'm not sure I could tell them apart in the field however, except perhaps for some really small ones like B.c. parvipes. If I remember rightly, forensic tests tied the geese that brought down flight 1549 to the migratory population. If that is the case, it is hard to see the point in culling hundreds or thousands of residential geese.
It is possible that it would be more difficult to get permission to cull migratory geese around New York, so resident geese seem like the next best thing to the USDA.
@Meredeth- If they're nesting anywhere outside Canada and the very northern US, they're probably feral. 🙂
In the summer, it's pretty easy to tell feral from wild Canada Geese. In most of the country only feral ones are around from March to late September/early October.
In winter it's more difficult. In my state of North Carolina there are reliable wintering flocks of Canada Geese, typically the Lesser subspecies, in most of the eastern wildlife refuges. But feral populations elsewhere can include wild birds as Jochen mentioned and it can be hard, if not impossible, to tell the difference, especially between the feral birds, which are mostly the Greater subspecies and legitimately migratory Greater birds.
The habitat, and the misguided people who feed junkfood to wild animals, will ensure that the geese will be back soon enough.
Thank you so much for this very articulate response to the "cleansing" of the geese. I live right on Prospect Park, on the "unfavorable" side, so I know what it is like to feel like you are marginalized because you don't look like a swan (or have rich or famous parents that entitled you to the privilege of living in Park Slope).
I have gone running in the Park for years, and these geese knew me so well, they would not honk or even run away when I ran by. I am sure if they ever encountered an airplane they would not be so stupid as to run into it either.
Where is the outrage? Some people on Facebook are saying they don't "like" geese so it is "good." Can you imagine if we wiped out any kind of species just because we didn't like it? I thought we learned our lesson with humans, but apparently not with animals.
Where's the evidence that these particular birds hung out at one of the local airports? I fail to see what was accomplished by killing these 400 birds. Sounds more like they wanted to clean up the park. They kill innocent birds and insult the public's intelligence by making up excuses.
Here in the UK thousands of Canadian Geese are a problem. But the many Immigrants/Asylum Seekers catch them and cook them for dinner, in some parts of this once great country of ours…
There will be a vigil held in honor of these birds at Prospect Park on Saturday, July 17th at 6:30pm near the Lake (Prospect park Southwest/Vanderbilt Street near the Gazebo) Please join us and pass the word!!!!!
How terrible. If I still lived in NYC, I would be at the vigil. On my way to work everyday, I get excited because I pass this one house that has a flock of Canada Geese. The babies are getting really big. Sadly, they've been getting closer to the road and one did get hit the other day. I wonder if the owners are hapapy about the geese or think that they are a nusiance. I would be so exited if they were in my yard!
I read the story in a local paper and was horrified. The geese are harmless and are definitely feral and not migratory. Anyone that could be responsible for this cowardly and despicable act is capable of murdering other innocent creations. How was this done without any Prospect Park offcial being notified? The lonely goose on the lake this morning was very telling of how any genocide is committed; with stealth – in the silence of the night – absolutely shameful!
The story about gassing the geese and burying the bodies was not true. The New York DEC web site states:
"Wildlife staff and others have been responding to a statewide media flurry and countless calls and e-mails caused by a story about Canada geese published in the New York Times on July 23rd. That story gave readers an incorrect impression that DEC was planning to capture and kill geese on an unprecedented scale. On the contrary, there are absolutely no plans by DEC or others to capture, euthanize and bury 170,000 local-nesting or "resident" geese to achieve the statewide population goal of 85,000 birds."
Please see: http://www.dec.ny.gov/animals/67311.html
It's just another case of someone in the media misrepresenting the facts to garner eyeballs.
Very sad…..I live in Queens and this is the first time I'm hearing about this!!! Can't Mayor Bloomberg do something? And poop is food for the earth!!!!
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Courts have consistently upheld DNA collection from those convicted of a crime. But the federal government and 27 states also have laws that allow the collection of DNA from people arrested but not yet convicted.
Maryland began collecting samples from people arrested for violent crimes in 2009 and authorities took a cheek swab from Alonzo King Jr., who was arrested on assault charges. Police found out the sample matched the DNA of a rapist from a 2003 rape in Salisbury, Md. King was later found guilty in the 2003 attack and sentenced to life in prison.
But King challenged his conviction, saying the pre-conviction collection of his DNA violated his Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable search and seizures. Maryland's highest court agreed, with judges saying "King's expectation of privacy is greater than the state's purported interest in using his DNA to identify him for purposes of his 10 April 2009 arrest on the assault charges."
Chief Justice John Roberts previously blocked the ruling and allowed police to keep collecting DNA samples pending the high court's review.
The federal appeals courts have so far sided with the police on this issue, who say the samples contribute to a database that helps law enforcement.
In February, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled California law enforcement officials can keep collecting DNA samples from people arrested for felonies because law enforcement's interest in solving cold cases, identifying suspects and even exonerating the wrongly accused outweighed privacy concerns. In July, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia overturned a lower court judge who called it an unconstitutional invasion of privacy to routinely collect DNA samples from defendants who had yet to be convicted.
The case will be argued in early 2013.
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- So be it, let it be so.
- Marconi 1898, cited in: Alvin K. Benson (2010) Great Lives from History. p. 759
- Content of the first wireless signals sent across the Bristol Channel.
- This new form of communication could have some utility.
- Marconi, 1899: Cited in: Simon Saunders, Alejandro Aragón-Zavala (2007) Antennas and Propagation for Wireless Communication. p. 361
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- The Nobel Prize in Physics 1909 was awarded jointly to Guglielmo Marconi and Karl Ferdinand Braun "in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy"
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Pauline Phillips, better known to millions of newspaper readers for decades as the Dear Abby advice columnist, has died after a long battle with Alzheimer's Disease, her family said Thursday.
She died Wednesday in Minneapolis, Minnesota, at age 94.
Phillips' columns were published in an era when newspaper readers began to prize straight-talking, pithy advice about marriages, children, jobs — just about anything that troubled people.
Phillips wrote under the pen name of Abigail Van Buren, shortened to "Dear Abby" in newspapers.
The first Dear Abby column appeared in 1956, and Phillips continued writing the advice feature until 2000, when she and daughter Jeanne began sharing the byline.
Jeanne Phillips took the column over full time in August 2002, when the family announced that Pauline Phillips had Alzheimer's.
"I have lost my mother, my mentor and my best friend," Jeanne Phillips said in a statement. "My mother leaves very big high heels to fill with a legacy of compassion, commitment and positive social change. I will honor her memory every day by continuing this legacy."
Phillips strove to say more with less. Her direct style was captured in her favorite Swedish toast, according to a family statement released by the column's syndication service:
"Fear less; hope more. Eat less; chew more. Talk less; say more. Hate less; love more."
Before the digital era of journalism introduced such notions as "crowd sourcing" of the public and computerized metrics on readership, Phillips assembled her Q&A columns from queries mailed in from readers. And she was able to quantify her following by the number of newspapers who bought her columns — and by how many readers spent money on a stamp to mail her a letter.
"Dear Abby" is the world's most widely syndicated column, having appeared in 1,400 newspapers with a daily readership of more than 110 million, the syndication service Universal Uclick said.
In another example of her following, Phillips held a survey in 1987 asking readers to send a postcard or note — anonymously if they wanted — about whether they cheated on their mates.
Almost 250,000 people responded within three months.
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- Luggage missing its owners at the airport... never a happy sight.
Other people's luggage
A thought-provoking visit to the Unclaimed Baggage Center.
Imagine any Mr. and Mrs. Smith and their six-year-old daughter Suzie from Cairo, Illinois. They have just finished touring England on a bus. At Heathrow, they check in for their flight home. They give their bags to the counter agent, take their boarding passes and proceed to their departure gate where they board their on-time flight and return to the comforts of Middle America without incident.
Their bags are not so lucky. In an honest mistake, the counter agent directs their luggage not to the Cornbelt of America, but to the capital of Egypt, where it festers in a storage room for long enough to change its legal status from "Lost" to "Unclaimed."
At this point, Mr. Smith's new sports jacket and slacks, his wife's best pants suit and sensible shoes and little Suzie's favorite stuffed bear and new coloring book, disappear through the unclaimed baggage wormhole and emerge along with the unclaimed baggage of other unfortunates from around the planet at a massive store on the edge of a small agreeable town in the hilly northeast corner of Alabama, USA.
The store is named, appropriately, The Unclaimed Baggage Center. The town is Scottsboro.
The Unclaimed Baggage Center occupies a city block of floor space and has been selling the lost belongings of the world's unhappy air passengers since 1970. During that time, shoppers from every American state and more than 30 other countries have come to comb through the loot.
As you enter the Center from its abundant parking lot, you walk under a gazebo-shaped archway embellished with the names of the world's popular travel destinations, like Cairo. Anyone who has ever entrusted their possessions to an airline, must, upon entering this shopping sanctum, feel a slight twinge of affinity for the former owners of the thousands of pieces of merchandise on sale. With more than a million items passing through the Center annually, it is a fair guess that most frequent flyers have contributed.
So many dispossessed travelers have asked if the Center can help them find their things, the Center's website responds to this FAQ. The short answer is no.
"By the time luggage reaches us, every effort has been made by the airline to find the rightful owners…This takes 3 to 4 months…Further, the volume of products coming through our store on a daily basis – much of it bought by shoppers within hours of reaching the sales floor would make it a virtual impossibility to track any one item."
Rough translation: Once your stuff gets here, it's not your stuff anymore. A couple of exceptions to this hard rule were a misplaced Space Shuttle camera, which was returned to NASA, and an overlooked F16 fighter jet guidance system, which was returned to the U.S. Navy. I know… don't ask!
No matter how the goods arrive, the Center has well-organized them for shoppers' convenience. Among the most popular items are cameras. I don't know what happens to the snaps of the family at the beach, or the tree-lined boulevard leading toward Notre Dame Cathedral, or Uncle Mack chugging that jug of margaritas, but by the time the cameras go into the Center's display cabinets, those recorded memories are forever gone.
Near the cameras, lost eyewear is sold. In fact, so much lost eyewear is sold that the section is divided between designer eyewear and ordinary eyewear. Why so many travelers would put their glasses in their checked luggage is one of the many imponderable questions the Center inspires.
Another important section near the eyewear and the cameras is devoted to sporting goods. Skiing equipment predominates, and one seasoned shopper explained: "You can get some really good deals on skis here. These Alabama folks know everything there is to know about Nikons, but they don't know shit about snow skiing."
Jewelry is also extremely popular. In fact, the Center's website reports finding a 41-carat emerald and a 5.8-carat diamond ring in lost bags. But even the less-illustrious jewelry is pretty stunning. The array of gold bracelets and necklaces, gemstones and watches could be found in top-rate jewelry stores. The shoppers at this counter show a different level of sophistication than the ones sorting through other people's underwear in the next room.
From scouring items like jewelry, cameras and eyeglasses, which had no business being checked in the first place, the bargain hunters can move into the much larger clothing sections.
Every conceivable item of formal, casual, sporty and intimate apparel is arranged by size. Women can browse for cocktail dresses, business suits, blouses, skirts, sportswear or that 34C lacey red brassiere. Men can buy tuxedoes, sport coats, athletic nylon or motorcycle leather jackets, socks, ties or a pair of Jockey briefs the size of a spinnaker at a rock-bottom price.
Between the ladies and men's clothing section is the Center's Art Department. A nearby sign reports that one unrecognized art treasure was sold for $50, but the lucky buyer later discovered it was worth more than $10,000. That picture may not, however, have much resembled the Tijuana black-felt portraits I thumbed through looking for my own personal fortune.
Before the happy but harried shoppers line up at the cash registers, they are encouraged to visit the small alcove which forms the Center's museum of Astounding Unclaimed Baggage. A violin made and signed by a student of Stradivarius, a 3,500-year-old Egyptian artifact, an original Jim Henson life-sized puppet, all found their way here.
The thoughtful shopper who visits this exhibit and who is not still worried about whether to take the red or the black 34C may possibly ask: "How could anyone lose something that valuable?" And then ask: "How is it possible that after at least 90 days of intensive tracking by the airline, that the rightful owners of these extraordinary items could not be found?"
The Center provokes many such thoughts. Even in the midst of the shopping frenzy, it would be the very hardened bargain hunter who was not a little saddened by some of the personal losses on display.
The most obvious are in the children's sections. A favorite doll or stuffed animal dragged lovingly around on a family vacation has vanished into oblivion. A bedtime storybook, ritually reread so often the exhausted Mom recites it in her own sleep, is just gone.
But even if a shopper overlooks the small sorrow of a child's tiny loss, almost everyone who has sufficient consciousness not to buy someone else's Jockey briefs will pause a moment in front of the lost wedding dress display.
Did the bride lose it on her way to the wedding? When the baggage carousel finally stopped turning and the last piece of luggage was trolleyed off, was she standing there alone? Did the luggage agent assure her it would arrive on the next plane? Did he tell her, "Worst case, honey, it'll be here tomorrow, never you mind?"
But it wasn't there on the next plane, and it wasn't there tomorrow.
And as any visitor to The Unclaimed Baggage Center could have told her, the "worst case" is very much worse than that.
jnojr May 13, 2013 @ 9:28 a.m.
"an overlooked F16 fighter jet guidance system, which was returned to the U.S. Navy"
Why would a part for an Air Force fighter be sent to the Navy???
tomjohnston May 13, 2013 @ 9:57 a.m.
The Navy used/used them at TOPGUN as part of the aggressor force.
jnojr May 13, 2013 @ 9:33 a.m.
I always check my bag at the ticketing counter. Don't hand it to someone else and trust that they'll get it to the right place... let the ticket people print out the correct tag, put it on your bag(s), and send everything on. Always remove all old tags and stickers.
Further, always leave a card or something with your name, address, phone number, and email in the bag. When going from home to a destination, include something clearly marked as info about your destination... what hotel(s), the dates you'll be there, etc. Get rid of that when returning home to avoid confusion.
Cameras... take a picture of the piece of paper with your info, then view it and see if the info can be read from the viewfinder.
Airlines really go to lengths to keep bags going where they're supposed to, but stuff happens. And when it does, they work hard to identify owners and get them their bags ASAP. They'll drive stuff out to you, or Fed-Ex it, or whatever. But if they have zero information to go on, it isn't their fault if your stuff disappears forever. Help them to help you!
SDJill May 13, 2013 @ 10:09 a.m.
Be careful with carry-ons too. Since airlines are charging for checked bags, more people are using carry-ons only. This results in the airlines having too many carry-ons to fit on the plane. The airlines then try to force you to give them your carry-on as well. DON'T. Chances are you have items in your carry on that you need. If at all possible place your important items in the additional item (purse, briefcase,etc) that fits under the seat. If flying with a companion, places the most important items in one carry on that you not willing to give up. If you have needed medications, tell the airlines, you won't be placing them under the plane.
Moline Nelson-Schrader May 17, 2013 @ 4:48 p.m.
My luggage has gone on better vacations than me. San Diego to Sioux Falls SD. - Luggage went to Puerto Rico for a week. San Diego to Honolulu - luggage went on a Hawaiian 1 week cruise. San Diego to Guaymas Mexico - I have no idea where my suitcase went but only half of my belongings inside the bag arrived 3 days later. Someone got a nice camera and vacation clothes


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When MTV's pioneering reality series, 'The Real World,' came to San Francisco in 1994, its attractive young cast featured Pedro Zamora, a 22-year-old openly gay man who seized the attention of viewers through his struggle with AIDS and sparked a national conversation about gay issues.
It was one of the first times that reality TV was used for a greater purpose.
Twenty years later, 'The Real World' is back in San Francisco, but like so many shows of its genre, it no longer harbors such lofty ambitions. Now, the big news is a gimmicky ploy to inject new life into an wheezy franchise: a surprise twist that sees the housemates being confronted by their former lovers.
Bring on 'The Real World: Ex-Plosion' - and all the artificially amped-up drama that entails. Shot over a 10-week period last fall, it begins like any other season: Seven diverse strangers are plopped, like lab rats, into a house and forced to live together. Lots of arguments, hookups, bouts of drunkenness and dips in the hot tub ensue. Only this time, after the roommates have had a few weeks to form new bonds, they go for a day trip and return to their swanky crib on Sutter Street to discover - shockingly - that their exes have moved in.
MTV hopes the twist will make 'The Real World' appointment viewing once again. The show that set the stage for TV's reality invasion - its 1992 debut preceded 'Survivor' by eight years - has since been eclipsed in buzz and popularity by raunchy imitators such as 'Jersey Shore.' The youth-centric network has gone from airing two editions of 'Real World' a year to one, and the most recent season averaged only 1.5 million viewers.
For Arielle Scott, a 22-year-old housemate from Oakland, the twist made for some major stress. She had recently broken off a two-year relationship with Ashley Ceaser, 26, and was focused on other things.
'I came to the house thinking I was single,' Scott said during a chat shortly after filming ended. 'I was ready to meet people and have fun. I needed to stop thinking about her, calling her … And then she shows up here. Oh my God. The whole thing was just crazy.'
And more than a little turbulent.
'It was like reality TV on steroids,' Ceaser said. 'No one wants to deal with this stuff on a national television show. It's nerve-wracking enough. But add to that all the roommates in your face and tossing in their opinions about us. … We kind of freaked out.'
Fans just might eat it up, but a recent Salon.com commentary dismissed the contrived twist as the latest iteration in the show's 'journey into fakeness.' No one was throwing around barbs like that when Zamora and his mates participated in Season 3 of 'The Real World.' Zamora was an AIDS activist who, in a landmark TV moment, exchanged vows with his boyfriend on the show and had several emotional confrontations with fellow housemate David 'Puck' Rainey, who was eventually evicted.
Zamora died in November 1994, just hours after the season finale aired. President Clinton praised his efforts to bring awareness and understanding to the HIV/AIDS cause.
'Probably more than anything, Season 3 told us that reality TV could be about something important,' said Jim Johnston, a 'Real World' executive producer. 'That season felt more like a documentary. It had a vision about it. It told real stories. It was about something that felt relevant.'
Of course, unlike their modern-day descendants, Zamora and company hadn't grown up on reality TV. In fact, the term hadn't even become popular yet. Thus there tended to be less playing to the cameras and more of a sense of raw authenticity as they conducted earnest conversations about issues of race, religion and sexuality.
Nowadays, gay and interracial relationships and diverse casts are common sights on reality TV shows. Moreover, cast members of any reality series come in fully aware of the genre's formulas and knowing that more bad behavior pays off in more airtime. During interviews with the current 'Real World' housemates, several spoke about feeling the need to 'up the ante,' while claiming their season would rank as one of the 'most controversial' yet.
'Minds will be blown,' said Houston-born cast member Jamie Larson, 22, sounding like someone straight out of the MTV marketing department. 'If you haven't been watching because you think 'The Real World' has gotten boring, or it's the same old thing, let us prove you wrong.'
Meanwhile, don't expect any shout-outs to Zamora during the current season. As Johnston notes, most of the newbies were only 2 or 3 when reality TV history was being made in San Francisco.
'You've got to remember that it doesn't mean anything to them,' he says.
Still, at one point during the shoot, some of the housemates strolled past the dwelling on Lombard Street that served as the site for Season 3 and were briefly informed what went down there.
'I heard it was a legendary season - the season that 'The Real World' really blew up,' said Bronx, N.Y., native Jay Gotti, 26. 'It kind of put things in perspective.'