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- Sat, Feb 4, 2012, 10:36 A
Coyote attacks
I did not realize that bridge was out. I have not been down there for years. Coyotes are at their bravest after dark, which most people would not be out and about walking out there regardless of a bridge. I would be wiling to bet they have dens in there that and red and grey fox all of which will go after cats
- Sat, Feb 4, 2012, 7:32 A
Coyote attacks
I wonder if the refusal of the state bureaucracy to support the rebuilding of the bridge at the end of North St. has reduced human traffic in that area and made it a more appealing habitat for the coyotes.
- Fri, Feb 3, 2012, 10:08 P
2012 Town Election
Papers have been available for about a week, but I haven't seen anyone out getting signatures yet.
Still a bit too early to get into it?
- Fri, Feb 3, 2012, 1:49 P
Coyote attacks
The hardest part with hunting that spot is all the people and pet traffic. Sure as hell you will call in someones dog. If you could get a coordinate effort from people to stay out of there on Saturday until mid to late am , I would be glad to set up my calls etc and hunt.
- Fri, Feb 3, 2012, 12:00 P
Coyote attacks
Actually the land is very huntable, as it is a wildlife management area. If you would like to go down there this weekend perhaps, I have the appropriate coyote solution. Wiggling rabbit, electronic call, license and weapon. I think first, I may set up the Trail Cam and see if I can better idea of whats going on down there. Yes, feeding the animals is not so smart, although to each their own.
- Thu, Feb 2, 2012, 8:53 A
Coyote attacks
In a different section of the land we've found empty pet food cans under bushes by the river. Someone is feeding the wildlife down there. Not a good idea.
Mark1
- Thu, Feb 2, 2012, 7:04 A
Coyote attacks
I don't think that land is hunt able, if so I would be more than happy to thin the pack of the coyotes, season ends march 8. I will check into it.
- Thu, Feb 2, 2012, 2:14 A
Coyote attacks
Please be careful in the wildlife management area also known as 'the fields' , east of the cemetery next to Raus, west of 63, north of the sawmill river at the end of North st.There is a coyote population that hunts here, probably where the deer run between Greenfield road and Turners Falls Rd south of Swamp road. These predators are viscous creatures, and in the depths of winter particularly more so. If you have cats or small dogs keep them close to or in the house at night. Many an adventuresome hunt or hike I have found just the collars and tags of pet cats and dogs that were not so lucky. This post is not meant as a scare tactic, I only seek to raise awareness of the possibility of a realistic danger. If you walk the fields at night, carry a flashlight and perhaps a whistle. More often than not, the coyote will flee from human presence, although they are predators and should be appreciated as such. Thank you for your time and consideration. Be safe.
- Thu, Feb 2, 2012, 1:35 A
Missing my Baby (kitty)
Hello kind neighbors. My Kitty Cat, a silver and white tiger striped tabby answers to HUNTER has been missing for two days now. I live at 26 main three houses west of the Grange. My phone is 413-658-7579, or you may reach Jacqueline at 413-658-4855. Hunter is about two years old, a male, grey/silver and white with a little notch out of one ear. He comes from a loving home where he is well cared for; HE IS NOT ABANDONED. Cats roam, and I usually see him within the triangle of Main st, Newton lane, and School st. there is a snapshot of the area here
https://www.facebook...83.1788950517&type=1
Please help bring Hunter home.
- Wed, Feb 1, 2012, 11:19 P
montague center school
Not looking to start a fire.. I had folks visiting and they asked about the closed school. I said they shot down the last offer. To me a good move. Any updates at all??
- Sun, Jan 29, 2012, 7:21 P
Powertowne-distro
Thanx. I've left it until IE says no go..
- Sun, Jan 29, 2012, 5:26 P
Powertowne-distro
I noticed that emails to the admin from this website have been bouncing for some time now, so I turned off those emails for now. When I went to the PT website a few days ago it took about a minute for the website to load, but it did eventually load.
- Fri, Jan 27, 2012, 9:21 A
Yahoo website members on vacation
Leaving the emails in a spam filter does not create this problem. You have to actively report something as spam for this to happen.
- Fri, Jan 27, 2012, 9:10 A
Yahoo website members on vacation
It's an education for those of us who don't know about those things. Sometimes I give a site permission to send emails. Then the spam filter takes them out. Maybe I am not that interested in the emails anymore so I leave them in the spam filter. I didn't realize that puts them on a black list.
- Fri, Jan 27, 2012, 8:28 A
Yahoo website members on vacation
"Apparently someone who uses Yahoo complained about getting these emails and marked it as spam, rather than go to the website and change their email subscriptions."
That shows an amazing combination of stupidity and selfishness! Sorry, Mik. It's happened to us too, from people who subscribed to our email list and then decided they didn't want the emails, but it's not as drastic for us.
- Fri, Jan 27, 2012, 7:20 A
Yahoo website members on vacation
Hey there folks.
I've been noticing an increase in the number of bounces I get from Yahoo's email servers the past few days. Apparently someone who uses Yahoo complained about getting these emails and marked it as spam, rather than go to the website and change their email subscriptions. Arg!
This is very bad for me. I have a lot of customers using my server (there are about 125 websites on this same web server, 95% of which are paying customers) and they depend in being able to reach their customers or constituents. Having bad "bone fides" with any major email carrier, like Yahoo, AOL, Hotmail, Gmail, etc., because someone marked email from this website as spam is very bad for my business.
So, I made the executive decision to change everyone's account with a Yahoo email address to be in "vacation" mode.
If you are reading this message on the website and are a Yahoo email subscriber, please wait until February 1st, and then go to your Settings page and uncheck the Vacation box to start receiving emails again.
Thanks,
Mik
- Tue, Jan 24, 2012, 8:18 P
Why High Tech Manufacturing Jobs Aren’t Coming Back to the U.S.
Good points, Mik. Gas is cheaper than bottled water, yet you never hear people complain about the price of water. Most of those bottled waters are filtered tap water, anyway!
"I don't think the problem is so much about wanting the latest technical gadget. It's more that we want it for $50 instead of the cost it should be" is exactly right. The reason that we've had no inflation in spite of low interest rates is because the price of most technology plummets like a stone. At some point, that trend will slow down and we'll see rising prices and subsequent higher interest rates. I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for market demand to decrease, though.
- Tue, Jan 24, 2012, 8:02 P
Why High Tech Manufacturing Jobs Aren’t Coming Back to the U.S.
Two additional things to think about:
1. Look at what the most highly rated shows on TV are nowadays and what the commercials all tout American life to be. Does it look like we're trying to crank out any new engineers?
2. Look at our own history when we used to have sweat shops and child labor factories. 100 years? What did it take? Suicides and massive fires? Strikes? China will have its day, and then the corporations will have to look for the next place for cheap labor.
I don't think the problem is so much about wanting the latest technical gadget. It's more that we want it for $50 instead of the cost it should be.
BTW, gas is unbelievably cheap over here, despite what you may think. This is from back in April:
"While American drivers are spooked by $4-per-gallon gasoline prices in the U.S., they may be shell-shocked on other continents like Europe. In London, gas was $8.17 per gallon in March, and in Istanbul, Turkey the price was $9.63, according to DailyFinance."
http://abcnews.go.co...3349235#.Tx9VeIHNmSc
More prices... 12 cents in Venezuela!
http://money.cnn.com...ts/global_gasprices/
- Mon, Jan 23, 2012, 4:53 P
Why High Tech Manufacturing Jobs Aren’t Coming Back to the U.S.
Good points all, and appreciated.
Note that, having given up on national politics, I still read the Corkboards with interest. One (if not the main) reason I relocated to Montague, of all places, is the high density of people with whom I can have a serious conversation. Higher perhaps than Cambridge, where I used to live between Harvard and MIT campus.
- Mon, Jan 23, 2012, 11:09 A
Why High Tech Manufacturing Jobs Aren’t Coming Back to the U.S.
I agree, but let's look a little more introspectively. Do we encourage this kind of thing by always coveting the latest, greatest electronic device? If there were less demand for these things, maybe companies wouldn't need to use slave labor in China to produce them.
- Mon, Jan 23, 2012, 10:22 A
Why High Tech Manufacturing Jobs Aren’t Coming Back to the U.S.
Interesting discussion...
*There are still plenty of high tech manufacturing jobs in the U.S. and there will continue to be. Not all corporate leaders require the kind of extreme, draconian policies described in the NY Times article and quite frankly there are plenty of businessmen with some moral and ethical values, not to mention real patriotism.
*At the same time there have always been plenty of business people who have tolerated the kinds of horror stories PaulK describes. Read some 19th C U.S. labor history (or check out some of these Lewis Hine photos of child labor in the U.S. circa 1910)...
http://www.historypl...edstates/childlabor/
*I have mixed feelings about Laura's populist anger at Connecticut venture capitalists. I share it - particularly when driving down I-91 to teach in Holyoke. But on the other hand I'm not sure where it gets you as far as solving the problem is concerned?
*It is interesting that the focus of this conversation is on U.S. capitalists when in fact perhaps the biggest problem here is that China is a quasi-fascist country - an undemocratic one-party system with a highly regimented capitalism. Thus workers live in barracks and can be roused in the middle of the night to improve the look and feel of iphone. But the fact is - I guarantee it!- the Chinese people will not put up with this forever and the top of the powder keg will blow up. That is, unless China moves to western-style political democracy and a faction of the Chinese communist party transforms themselves into Euro-style moderate socialist-capitalist. Either way the current system will not last.
*Which is partly my answer to John Tobey... the system you are seeing in China may seem "natural" right now but history suggests it will not last forever. Let's see where we are in 2040, if we are still here.
*It is too bad that John Tobey has "given up" posting on the U.S. and World politics corkboard. Many of my friends who used to follow this corkboard regularly no longer do. Very unfortunate.
- Mon, Jan 23, 2012, 1:10 A
Why High Tech Manufacturing Jobs Aren’t Coming Back to the U.S.
"Over the last two years, at least 16 Foxconn employees have committed suicide in the company's Shenzhen, China factory. Three other workers attempted to kill themselves at the factory. Those deaths have prompted the company to say that it will install "suicide nets" around the factory to discourage employees from jumping from buildings. Foxconn has also offered some workers a 20 percent wage increase to improve morale."
This is why manufacturing jobs aren't coming back to the U.S. Because too many businesspeople today have no problem doing business with overseas factories staffed by virtual slaves, as long as the price is cheap.
- Sun, Jan 22, 2012, 9:57 P
Why High Tech Manufacturing Jobs Aren’t Coming Back to the U.S.
This article seems to ignore that all this supposed ingenuity/efficiency is aided or hampered in large part by the decisions of live human beings quite removed from the projects: hedge fund managers in Connecticut enclaves who get to decide what part of the world prospers or starves in a given quarter, decade, century.
There is indeed a fairly quick "fix" of sorts, and it's to wrest control of our earnings back from these coldhearted thieves. I strongly suspect they're some of the same people who tried to bully me off 91S today with their CT-plated behemoth suv's.
