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February 18th

We See

Cascading basketballs

Taxpayer 3.2M$ subsidy to Civic Cntr

All Native Tournament means filled parking lots and crowds downtown in stores, restaurants and motels. City chose not to rent Civic Center complex at reduced price claiming hard times though allows own employees free access year round.—See ANBT request

All Native fund raiser: emptying 89 numbered basket balls which go down a chute where the first to enter ‘wins’ --- and $$ paid to whomever had that number

 

 

Is Rupert Racist??

 

 

Above excerpt taken from City Prince Rupert Info package 02-10-10

Meanwhile Friendship House did a survey

Found most age groups did not use Gym etc because of $$$ -- as I said previously the high entrance fees act like a ‘gated community’ keeping ‘others’ out

And this is a facility Taxpayers subsidize to tune of 3.2M$/ year

 

 

Cars parked in Lot 2 are trespassing

City should be talking to DQ absentee owner who owns not only the old Dairy Queen building, but all those empty lots on either side of his McBride building. Note those cars in lot 2 left (Credit Union’s ?) are trespassing (nothing paid to owner I hear)

Easy solution would for City to partner for public parking lots downtown etc

 

 

El Nino year

Lots of flowers blooming – birds even thinking about nesting etc

 

El Nino and ‘changed’ NC climate?

I would suggest most the poor salmon runs since about 2005 have been because of a string of El Ninos which may be signalling a change in climate due to global warming --- here I give the January SST graphs for comparison

 

2010 El Nino year – compare with 2005

Using the 5 isobar line (blue arrow) gives clearest picture of warming – Coolong off our coast

Using 5 – looks like a gradual warming cooling 2005 to 2007 but using the light blue arrow argues cooling till 2009

 

Left is from previous where using just PR Airport ‘reported’ temperatures

Just as the SST monthly graphics are a high level abstraction which – so the automatic airport data is patchy and unreliable – but hopefully general trends --- thus 2007-2009 are coldest etc at airport and 5 degree isobar  SST

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Created by LG on 17/2/2010

Last updated on Thursday, February 18, 2010