HOLY COW!

I am looking forward to it (and have already registered) (4.00 / 2)

I hope everyone goes!

I get to introduce Gov. Jeanne Shaheen! :D

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by: sdoyle @ Wed May 14, 2008 at 17:05:24 PM CDT

I'm registered (4.00 / 1)

And I get to talk about Unity '08! See you all there! I'm going to the new media workshop so I can finally see Dean and Laura in person.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.


Benjamin Franklin


 

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by: Kathy Sullivan @ Wed May 14, 2008 at 18:40:10 PM CDT

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I'll miss you again, Kathy... (0.00 / 0)

Ugh! We have t-ball and team pictures and soccer sign-ups.  Not to mention I've been gone from home the last 2 Saturdays.

I can't wait to hear all about it.  I know it will be a-mazing!

Feeling hopeful since 2004...now "Secretary" of the New Boston Democratic Caucus

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by: Kelly Nordstrom @ Wed May 14, 2008 at 19:40:23 PM CDT

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Next time! (4.00 / 1)

Energy and persistence conquer all things.


Benjamin Franklin


 

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by: Kathy Sullivan @ Wed May 14, 2008 at 19:58:44 PM CDT

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Yes, finally! n/t (0.00 / 0)

birch, finch, beech

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by: Dean Barker @ Wed May 14, 2008 at 19:58:57 PM CDT

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unity 08 (0.00 / 0)

nice Kathy! I look forward to listening to that one, you come right after Gov. Shaheen, and before Gov. Dean, that is quite the speaking time slot!

9:30 am Call to order - Raymond Buckley, NHDP Chair

   Pledge of Allegiance - Meg Hassan, Brady Manning
   National Anthem - Reni Taylor
   Invocation - Fr. Demetrios Tonias
   Welcome and Introductions - Dr. Jay Buckey and the Honorable Jackie Weatherspoon
   Remarks by Governor John Lynch
   Report of the Credentials Committee- Sen. Martha Fuller Clark, 1st Vice Chair, NHDP
   Remarks by Senate President Sylvia Larsen
   Report of the Rules Committee- Finis Williams, NHDP Legal Counsel
   Remarks by House Speaker Terie Norelli
   Award Presentation
   Platform Committee Presentation - Jay Surdukowski and Rep. Bette Lasky, Co-Chairs

11:25 am 1st Lunch / Breakout Sessions

12:15 pm 2nd Lunch / Breakout Sessions

1:10 pm   Neighborhood Leader Presentation - Parag Mehta, DNC

   Remarks by former Governor Jeanne Shaheen
   Unity '08 Presentation
   Remarks by Governor Howard Dean
   Remarks by Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter, 1st Congressional District
   Remarks by Congressman Paul Hodes, 2nd Congressional District
   Resolutions Committee Presentation - Rep. Jane Clemons, 2nd Vice Chair, NHDP

3:30 pm Conclusion

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by: sdoyle @ Wed May 14, 2008 at 22:49:23 PM CDT

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Thanks to our GREAT sponsors... (0.00 / 0)

Breakfast will be available starting at 8:30 AM (due to the generosity of the Professional Firefighters of NH) - I STRONGLY encourage people to arrive early - remember we will be be processing over 1,0000 people!

And you can thank the Shaheen Team for lunch!

2012 starts today.

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by: Ray Buckley @ Thu May 15, 2008 at 05:53:46 AM CDT

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Out of state this weekend (0.00 / 0)

but looking forward to reading about it on BlueHampshire. A great event for some citizen journalism.  

Hope > Fear




Create a free Blue Hampshire account and join the conversation.

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by: Mike Hoefer @ Wed May 14, 2008 at 18:28:53 PM CDT

Come visit me (4.00 / 1)

in the Labor Caucus Booth! I will be there between 11:00 and 1:00 singing the Internationale.

Why do you say socialism like it's a bad thing?

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by: Beth Campbell @ Wed May 14, 2008 at 18:50:51 PM CDT

okay! (0.00 / 0)

Will you be giving out convention momentos?

Energy and persistence conquer all things.


Benjamin Franklin


 

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by: Kathy Sullivan @ Wed May 14, 2008 at 19:14:46 PM CDT

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Beth (0.00 / 0)

do I get your award this year, too?  

sanctimonious purist/professional lefty

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by: susanthe @ Wed May 14, 2008 at 21:11:47 PM CDT

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darn (0.00 / 0)

I thought you would be selling kisses

for transparency sake ~I represent Union print shops

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by: JonnyBBad @ Wed May 14, 2008 at 21:29:46 PM CDT

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Kathy, susan and Jonny (4.00 / 4)

Kathy, The Labor Caucus will be recycling mementos from the past.  Everybody gets an eight hour day and a weekend!

susan,  I have my award from last year.  You did not get your grubby hands on it.  Nor will said hands grab any future awards I may receive.  Got that chicka?

Jonny,  If you insist.  I will sell kisses to you, but NO TONGUE!  And I'm charging $50 bux apiece.

Why do you say socialism like it's a bad thing?

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by: Beth Campbell @ Thu May 15, 2008 at 20:01:36 PM CDT

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eeeeuuuuwwwwwww n/t (0.00 / 0)

for transparency sake ~I represent Union print shops

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by: JonnyBBad @ Thu May 15, 2008 at 21:42:03 PM CDT

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50 bux (0.00 / 0)

is that 50 buck teeth ?

for transparency sake ~I represent Union print shops

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by: JonnyBBad @ Thu May 15, 2008 at 22:50:37 PM CDT

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What good cause will you donate the $50 to? (0.00 / 0)

I bet you could sell a lot of kisses Beth if you donated the money to a good cause!


Feeling hopeful since 2004...now "Secretary" of the New Boston Democratic Caucus

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by: Kelly Nordstrom @ Sat May 17, 2008 at 07:18:48 AM CDT

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Can't Count That High (0.00 / 0)

I can't count that high.  I believe I attended every Convention from 1966 to 1990 or 1992, then I've missed a few -- work obligations on weekends mostly, including this Saturday otherwise I'd be there -- looks good.

I think most of those older ones had 400 or 500, perhaps slightly more.  Nice job if you're pulling 1,000 and more.  It shows great things for New Hampshire this November and beyond, and it's fascinating to see what's happening nationwide.  

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by: Rep. Jim Splaine @ Wed May 14, 2008 at 18:56:13 PM CDT

A thousand? (0.00 / 0)

Umm.... I'm going to need to make some more photocopies of my workshop handout :-)

birch, finch, beech

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by: Dean Barker @ Wed May 14, 2008 at 19:58:32 PM CDT

I just did my favorite part... (0.00 / 0)

making notes of about all the great people we are giving awards to! Six at this convention! I am sure to pass Kathy's eight year record of aout 160 awards within four years! I love giving awards!

Especially when the receipient cries (Beth, Kathy etc...)!!

2012 starts today.

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by: Ray Buckley @ Wed May 14, 2008 at 20:12:22 PM CDT

When I got my silver plate (4.00 / 2)

at the 2002 JJ for Volunteering it said "Made In Indoneisa" on the back! I hope we are more aware of Procurement Issues, and can pass some kind of resolution about buying U.S./Union made goods, with a  non-Slave, non-child piece in the language, in the future.

for transparency sake ~I represent Union print shops

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by: JonnyBBad @ Wed May 14, 2008 at 21:35:05 PM CDT

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I am sure (0.00 / 0)

Kathy personally put that sticker on your award as an inside joke for you! Didn't she ever tell you?


2012 starts today.

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by: Ray Buckley @ Thu May 15, 2008 at 04:25:28 AM CDT

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I'm gonna stick like glue (0.00 / 0)

for transparency sake ~I represent Union print shops

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by: JonnyBBad @ Thu May 15, 2008 at 09:41:48 AM CDT

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Blue Hampshire jewelry (0.00 / 0)

Check out these earrings

A colleague makes this jewelry, I wish I had known earlier... she could have made these donkey earrings for everyone with blue beads!  How cool would that have been for the convention???

Feeling hopeful since 2004...now "Secretary" of the New Boston Democratic Caucus

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by: Kelly Nordstrom @ Wed May 14, 2008 at 20:33:50 PM CDT

It'll be my first convention! (0.00 / 0)

I look forward to seeing all of you!

And my little Sean is going to introduce Gov. Shaheen!!

"He who loves correction, loves knowledge.  He who hates reproof is stupid." - Proverbs 12:1

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by: jdblanch @ Thu May 15, 2008 at 01:02:15 AM CDT

I think i am (0.00 / 0)

taller than you josh lol

see you saturday

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by: sdoyle @ Thu May 15, 2008 at 10:28:44 AM CDT

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He lives (0.00 / 0)

and he's notso bad

Next time, there may be no next time.

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by: Jon Bresler @ Sat May 17, 2008 at 05:31:07 AM CDT

Thanks Susan (4.00 / 1)

Z

for transparency sake ~I represent Union print shops

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by: JonnyBBad @ Sat May 17, 2008 at 15:53:12 PM CDT

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JBB - I've never seen the movie~ (0.00 / 0)

sanctimonious purist/professional lefty

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by: susanthe @ Sat May 17, 2008 at 19:24:45 PM CDT

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Yves Montand (0.00 / 0)

nee Ivo Livi btw

http://www.prairienet.org/ejah...
Z (France-Algeria, 1969) ****

   Directed by Costa-Gavras (Constantine Gavras). Written by Gavras & Jorge Semprun from the eponymous novel by Vassilis Vassilikos. Photography: Raoul Coutard. Music: Mikis Theodorakis. Cast: Yves Montand, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jacques Perrin, Irene Papas, Charles Denner, Francois Perier, Marcel Bozzufi, Georges Geret et al. 127 minutes. Available without cuts on a superior Criterion laser-disc

   In 1963, Grigorios Lambrakis, MD, a popular leftist Member of the Greek Parliament, was assassinated in Thesssaloniki by goons employed by the extreme Right. Eventually the right-wing establishment fell and a precarious democracy was established, only to lead to a coup on 21 April 1967, by a military junta. The colonels' dictatorship lasted for 7 years.

   A Greek writer, Vassilis Vassilikos, recounted the events around the Lambrakis murder in a thick novel, Z, in 1966. The title comes from a combination of the sound of the Greek letter Z, which is pronounced approximately like "Long Live", and the English sound of Z, which means in Greek, " he lives, he is alive" . Such shouts were uttered by the record crowd which attended Lambrakis' funeral in Athens. (Some people think that Z symbolizes the end, but the last letter of the Greek alphabet is Omega. )

   When the movie came out, the Junta was already in place. The film was made with French money. It could not, of course, be shot in Greece, so Algeria was used as a substitute. Sharp-eyed viewers will detect Algerian faces and places, but overall the stand-in country works nicely.

   The movie never mentions Greece by name, but its anonymous country is patently and transparently Greece. The uniforms are Greek, the references are Greek, the names are Greek Among others, note the scene of Yves Montand, (The Deputy and victim-to-be) in a police office : he looks up and sees on the wall the portraits of King Paul and Queen Frederica, but with faces hidden by the reflection of lights on the glass frames.

   Z was a sensation in its time and, even today, when shown to students who don't even know the first thing about the American Civil War and the two World Wars--not to mention modern Greece!--the film works very well as a high-pitched, easy- to -grasp, technically excellent thriller.

linky
http://www.prairienet.org/ejah...

for transparency sake ~I represent Union print shops

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by: JonnyBBad @ Sat May 17, 2008 at 20:12:55 PM CDT

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