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New conductor will still hande; San Diego AND Cape Cod; Lobster zooms to $14 a pound; O'Leary speaks; Good for you, Gov

QUOTE of the week; WBZ-TV's Jon Keller’s Spin-O-Meter on Senator O'Leary
“We’re privatizing 24 square miles of public ocean.” - State Rep. Robert D. O’Leary (D-Barnstable), decrying a state ruling green-lighting the proposed Nantucket Sound wind farm. 
Keller writes in the Herald;  Oh no, not that! Let’s see, what are the current public uses of the shallow shoals where the windmills would go? An occasional private fisherman, a passing private boat or two, the pristine view from Ted Kennedy’s very private property. And the results of that despicable privatization? Clean, low-cost energy and the equivalent pollution of 175,000 cars removed from the public’s lungs. Thank goodness some public servants are willing to stand up against those evil private interests!
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San Diego conductor adds Cape Cod position
Jung-Ho Pak will handle Cape symphony, state's 2nd largest

Conductor Jung-Ho Pak, in his first season as the San Diego Chamber Orchestra's artistic director, is branching out. He has been appointed artistic director of the Cape Cod Symphony Orchestra – a post he will hold in addition to the one in San Diego.

His three-year contract starts July 1 at Massachusetts' second-largest symphony orchestra (after the Boston Symphony).  “It's a good thing and a good time for me to do this,” said Pak, adding that the orchestra's musicians, staff and board are “willing to look at things from a fresh perspective, and everyone has been very supportive and enthusiastic.”

During his transitional first season, Pak, 45, will split conducting duties with Royston Nash, the Cape Cod Symphony's conductor for 27 years, who is retiring. On Sept. 29, Pak will make his subscription concert debut as artistic director of the 88-member orchestra, whose $1.6 million annual budget is significantly larger than the chamber orchestra's (approximately $825,000).

“Everybody liked him immediately,” said the Cape Cod Symphony's executive director, Jerome Karter, adding that Pak was one of seven finalists for the post. “He was far above everybody else, so it was pretty easy to reach a decision"...  Read the rest of this San Diego UnioniTribune story here.
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Lobster lovers feeling pinched
Price jumps to $14 a pound & scarce at that price

A first-ever, industrywide live lobster supply crisis has not only caught veteran lobster dealers by surprise, but also raised the boat price to a record $10 a pound at most ports and upward of $14 a pound at the retail counter.  The boat price paid to lobstermen had been around $7.50 a pound but a shortage of lobsters from Canada to Cape Cod briefly pushed the Cape Ann boat price to $10 a pound last week, and several local seafood sellers said yesterday the boat price remains at that level.

“We have never seen prices this high before in our 26-year existence. This crisis is about the availability of lobsters and not about the price,” said Mike Tourkistas, president of Lynn-based East Coast Seafoods, the country’s largest lobster wholesaler.  “The inventory (of pounded, live lobsters) has been cleaned out; the boats aren’t catching them"...  Trad the rest of this Gloucester Times story here.
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Gov, step into mayor’s void: Recognize Hub’s peril
Gov, you’re sort of on a roll.