vilsack

vilsack

Agriculture Minister Tom Vilsack today the following statement released in response to his conversation with Shirley Sherrod: "Today I made was to apologize to Shirley Sherrod. I told her I'm sorry was for the pain that is causing this she and her family and friends. " I reacted too quickly. I would have taken the time to listen and learn. "While I can not change what happened, I can try to make something out of this difficult incident.

were "As we know, Shirley to tell a unique and exciting history. She and her family discrimination endured and overcame adversity. Fighting for justice and equality ahead of them, the farmers who are fighting for their land to keep, fought for women in Not helped, confronted the social and economic justice and African-American men and women, discrimination. As USDA Georgia State Rural Development Director, she worked for the economic opportunity for all people by promoting job creation and business growth. And Shirley has shown tremendous character through the events of recent days.

"Shirley and I talked about a unique opportunity at USDA. With all that she has seen, endured and accomplished, it would be invaluable to have her experience, commitment and record of service at USDA. I hope she considers staying with the department.

whale yacht

whale yacht

The photos and stories are quite dramatic: an excess whale about the crash on a sailing boat from South Africa. The results survive: whale, boat people and all.

"It was pretty scary," said Paloma Werner, the sailing-Sunday Capt. free city was shelled with her boyfriend / business partner, Ralph Mothes, in its 32-foot, steel yacht. "We thought the whale was going to go under the boat and get to the other side. We thought that it would see us."

The estimated 30 meters long, 40-endangered Southern Right Whale tonnes tipped the boat steel mast, the cabin and then slipped back into the ocean off Cape Town. The two sailors were not violated. The young mammal fat and skin left behind and was "in any case very badly bruised, but probably do not break", a marine researcher said.

Today, however, investigating officers reported that Wermer Mothes can and too close to the whale and harassment they have come to break it so, the Cape Times reported. The law requires sailors to 1,000 feet away to keep from whales.

china oil spill

A Greenpeace activist surveys the damage to the oil spill at the port of China Dalian in Lionizing province 21st July. From Tuesday, 40 special "oil-skimming vessels, 800 vessels and oil-eating bacteria had joined the fight in cleanup.

The estimated size of an oil slick off the north-east coast of China doubled Wednesday, as workers raced against the clock to contain a growing environmental disaster. Oil is now spread over some 165 square miles of water, according to Chinese officials. For comparison, but this is far from the extent of BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, at 2,700 square miles of the visible surface smooth estimated according to the Associated Press at the 16th July. Square miles above the surface (see interactive map of BOP spill from the New York Times here).