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Monday, June 2, 2008
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North Side Croquet Club Game 4
From email from the Northside Croquet Club: "So here's how Berkeley went down. Tim was the big winner, and Game winners were Boyd, Julie, Dave, and Deme. Nate may or may not have gotten a point due to a gap in the rules."
Ill Communication has the recap and top 5.
6:25:58 PM 
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Puerto Rico Primary
Political Wire: "Sen. Hillary Clinton 'claimed a convincing win' over Sen. Barack Obama in [Saturday's] Puerto Rico primary, 'a victory that may well be her last in her fading bid for the Democratic presidential nomination,' according to the Washington Post."
"2008 pres"
6:24:52 PM
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? for President?
Political Wire: "A new American Research Group poll in South Dakota finds Sen. Hillary Clinton leading Sen. Barack Obama, 60% to 34%."
Political Wire: "A new American Research Group poll in Montana shows Sen. Barack Obama edging Sen. Hillary Clinton, 48% to 44%."
Political Wire: "A new Public Policy Polling survey in North Carolina finds Sen. John McCain edging Sen. Barack Obama in a general election match up, 43% to 40%, with Libertarian candidate Bob Barr getting 6% support."
Digby: "I'm hearing and reading a lot today about how the Clinton supporters are going to ruin the party with their obstinate refusal to acknowledge that Obama has won and threats to vote for McCain. I think everyone needs to take a breath. The fact is that this campaign is a photo finish. There has never been a primary where it's come even close to a tie before. Someone had to win and it's going to be Obama and it's going to be seen as legitimate, mostly because the primaries ran their course (for which everyone should actually be grateful.) But to think that a race this close could end with an instantaneous round of kumbaaya among the loser's most passionate supporters is probably a little naive. It's not human nature."
"2008 pres"
6:24:11 PM
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Iraq
SquareState.net: "Why Hillary Lost: Iraq. That's it. There's really nothing more to say. The plain and simple fact is if Hillary Clinton would have voted against the Iraq War and been a vocal opposition to it she would have the Democratic Nomination."
"2008 pres"
6:23:32 PM
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Amendment 47, 'Right to Work'
From Denver Post: "CoorsTek has put up a measure that will be bad for Colorado.
The Golden-based high-tech ceramics maker has brought us Amendment 47, a measure that would dash Colorado's Labor Peace Act. It's not like the Teamsters or the AFL-CIO has run amuck since the Labor Peace Act was enacted in 1943. Only 8 percent of the Colorado's workers are unionized, and by most measures, we remain a business- friendly state. Nevertheless, CoorsTek has initiated a destructive political battle over how the few labor unions that we have here in Colorado should be allowed to organize."
More from the article:
The Colorado Association of Commerce and Industry and the National Association of Independent Businesses, meanwhile, stand right behind Jonathan Coors. It's unclear why CoorsTek cares so much about Colorado's unions. The company has been busy expanding and creating jobs ... in Asia. CoorsTek celebrated the grand opening of its new plant in Gumi City, South Korea, on May 15...
Roughly one-third of CoorsTek's 2,700 employees are in Asia and Europe [~] presumably to be close to customers, including Samsung, LG Phillips LCD, Hynix and Magnachip Semiconductor. Globalization is increasingly what CoorsTek is about. Another backer of Amendment 47 is also winning the globalization game: American Furniture Warehouse. But don't be fooled by the name. It's practically a regional distribution network for Chinese manufacturers. Why the working man drinks Molson, Coors or Miller beer is going to be another one of those unfathomable socioeconomic mysteries next to why the shrinking middle class keeps shopping at Wal-Mart. Jonathan Coors has said his battle has nothing to do with the brewery, though his last name remains a major brand in beer. His uncle Pete Coors, vice chairman of Molson Coors, has indicated that he does not support the right-to-work amendment. But when he was running for U.S. Senate in 2004, he pledged to support right-to-work.
Thanks to Colorado Pols for the link. More Coyote Gulch coverage here.
"denver 2008"
6:23:03 PM
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Runoff
From The Summit Daily News: "Denver Water announced Thursday that it's dropping outflow to the Lower Blue from 800 to 500 cubic feet per second. The main reason for the change is that the runoff from the South Platte drainage has been considerably less than projected. A late snow-melt season is the main factor, said Denver Water resource engineer Bob Steger. "This means we may have to bring more water through the Roberts Tunnel in June than we previously thought in order to fill our South Platte reservoirs," Steger said."
"colorado water"
6:22:30 PM
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Economic policy
grist: "Globalization was built on cheap oil. As that era draws to a close, so will the current phase of global integration, whether Thomas Friedman, Wal-Mart, and all those involved in intercontinental trade like it or not. The current transportation infrastructure is based on cars, trucks, airplanes, and cargo ships, which together consume about 70 percent of the gasoline used in the United States. While the greatest focus has been on cars, trucking and airline companies are facing collapse."
"2008 pres"
6:06:51 PM
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Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act
grist: "The Senate just held a cloture vote on whether to proceed with debate on the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act. It needed 60 votes to proceed. And the Senate says ..."
"Agreed to move forward, 74-14!
"Climate change will now be open for debate on the Senate floor."
"cc"
6:05:22 PM
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2008 Montana Primary
Surfette: "After years of being told 'I've never met anyone from Montana before!' my home state of fewer than one million people will have a high profile Tuesday when voters in Montana and South Dakota (with even fewer inhabitants) go to the polls to decide which Democratic nominee gets their combined 31 delegates."
New West: "Never before has Montana been so important in the Democratic presidential primary. We've observed this electoral process from a distance for years, so finally being on the frontline is cause for excitement."
"2008 pres"
5:55:48 PM
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Lake Pueblo: Sedimentation
Here's a short article about sedimentation in Lake Pueblo, from The Pueblo Chieftain. From the article:
At the time Pueblo Dam was completed, experts expected the reservoir behind it to begin collecting sediment - a lot of it - as it drained an area of more than 4,500 square miles upstream. The initial prediction, based on a 29-year record at John Martin Reservoir at the time, was that 100,000 acre-feet of sediment would collect in Lake Pueblo over the next century. That would have diminished the storage capacity by one-third...
...a follow-up study in the 1990s found the real rate of sedimentation at Lake Pueblo is far less, about 41 percent of the expected loss of space. In 1993, a study by Reclamation found about 8,200 acre-feet of sediment - enough to displace 2.6 billion gallons of water - had accumulated during the first 19 years of operation at Lake Pueblo. That left a revised storage capacity of 349,940 acre-feet, of which 93,000 acre-feet are reserved for flood control. The loss amounted to about 400 acre-feet annually, rather than 1,000, and is not now considered a major problem. At that rate, it would take 250 years for 100,000 acre-feet of sediment to collect in the lake...
There are two reasons why scientists think the sediments aren't piling up in Lake Pueblo. The first is that the Arkansas River flows through rocky canyons above Pueblo, with a few muddy tributaries along the way. Below Pueblo, the tributaries - the Fountain, Huerfano, Apishapa and Purgatoire - are larger and muddier. Second, the sediments in the reservoir appear to follow the same lines as the Arkansas River channel, escaping through any of the five outlets from the dam. After a flood, it's not unusual to see the water change color as the water comes out of the dam after muddy water entered the top of the reservoir 11 miles upstream. "The municipalities see it because turbidity will spike at the treatment plants," Vaughan said. Some of the sediments are staying in the lake, however. The Bessemer Ditch suffered from "clear water" immediately after the dam was built as its ditch through Pueblo began eroding. With federal help, the ditch through town was lined in the 1980s.
"colorado water"
6:33:31 AM
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Runoff
From 9News.com: "Fast-flowing floodwaters are rising quickly along several rivers in Colorado. Flood warnings are in effect for the Yampa River at Deerlodge Park and the Elk River near Milner in northwestern Colorado. As the rivers rise, some homes near the confluence of the Elk and Yampa Rivers will be threatened with flooding. Flood watches are in effect for the East River at Almont in Gunnison County and for the Arkansas River at Canon City...A few miles away, Elk Creek is flowing at more than 5,000 cubic feet per second, an all time high, overloading irrigation drains, flooding low lying ranch land, and some roads."
In addition to the Elk River the USGS Water Watch website, this morning, shows several streams near flood stage including the Williams Fork, the Arkansas River near Leadville, Hunter Creek near Aspen, Cimmaron River and the Uncompahgre River.
More runoff news from The Cañon City Daily Record. From the article: "River waters have slowly continued to rise and are expected to peak at minor flood stages on the Arkansas River by midday Monday. "There is no reason to panic," said Larry Walrod, lead forecaster and hydrology program manager with the National Weather Service in Pueblo. 'This is pretty typical during peak runoff. We should get to bank full levels with the river starting to come out of its banks a little bit.'"
"colorado water"
6:23:28 AM
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