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Higher Milk Prices, Lower Hedge Level? Spare Yourself the Second-guessing
Sep 27, 2010
Milk prices are climbing and, if you hedged your milk at lower prices, it's easy to feel frustrated that you sold it too cheap. But it's important to remember why you made the decision to hedge your milk when you did.
By Jon Spainhour, Rice Dairy
Over the course of the last few months, we have discussed how dairy producers can use tools like futures and options to help manage their bottom line. By using these tools, producers can lock in their output price of milk and, at the same time, lock in a good portion of their variable input prices like corn and soymeal.
We have also discussed the idea of making sure that you hedge both of these variables of a profitable hedging equation at the same time so that you are not locking in the price of your milk while leaving your input price open ended, or vice versa.
One aspect of hedging that we haven't discussed so far is the idea of consistency, or making sure that after you have developed a successful hedging strategy, that you stick to it and not try and out-guess the market or pick and choose what months or contracts you are going to hedge.
It seems especially important to discuss this issue during times like these
, when the milk price has made such drastic moves higher. It is easy for a dairy producer who hedged their milk at lower prices to feel as if his sold his milk too cheap and feel frustrated. "Why did I sell my milk so cheap?" is the question they are likely to ask themselves.
While it is certainly an understandable concern, as no one likes to leave money on the table, it is important to remember why you made the decision to hedge your milk when you did. More than likely, you were hedging a milk price that made sense to your bottom line in terms of it helping you establish a profitable operating margin.
After you calculated your cost of doing business in terms of your variable input prices and measuring those prices against your potential milk future price, you contracted both sets of variables either with futures or options. That decision was based on your desire to lock in a profit margin, not to try and outguess the market.
While it is true that milk prices are likely higher at this point
than they were when you established your milk hedges earlier in the year, that does not mean that you have made a mistake or been an unsuccessful hedger. The fact of the matter is that prices could have gone the other way and moved to lower levels.
The point is that it is easy to feel that you have sold your milk too low. You may feel that the next time it comes around to hedging, you may only hedge your inputs only or do no hedging at all. I believe that this would be the wrong decision and that time after time, in commodity after commodity, the perils of this decision have been experienced. Almost as soon as someone alters his or her successfully developed hedging plan, the market turns the other way and over corrects, causing drastic results.
The key to successful hedging is to develop a hedging plan that fits your appropriate risk parameters as it relates to your overall profitability, implement that plan, and then stick with it. While there may be some times that money gets left on the table, having the knowledge that you will be in business in the future should compensate for that tax.
Jon Spainhour is a broker/trader with Chicago-based Rice Dairy, a boutique brokerage firm offering guidance, analysis, and execution services on futures, options, spot and forward markets. You can reach Spainhour at
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"Why Did I Do That?" and Other Natural Emotions in Milk Marketing
Sep 13, 2010
When the markets get aggressively moving one way or the other, don't let emotion prevent you from remembering your short-term and long-term goals.
By Steven Schalla, Stewart-Peterson Inc.
As we look at August, September and into October, we've seen our milk prices make an impressive run higher. The August Class III settlement price of $15.18 is the highest price we've seen since December 2008, which a lot of people are really excited about, and should be.
September has also offered an impressive rally, a dollar per cwt. over the past five weeks and two dollars above the low in June. That's a relatively short time for prices to rally this significantly.
Over the past weeks, our conversations with producers have changed course right along with the markets. There are two main themes in our conversations when the market is going up:
First, for people who are active marketers, there's often the question of, "Why did I do that? We're so behind now, what was I thinking?"
Oftentimes, these producers are beating themselves up when they shouldn't. The bigger problem is that this emotional response usually leads to, "We're at high prices now, therefore I'm not going to do anything more" (or start marketing at all, for those who have not been doing so). This line of thinking typically triggers a cycle that gets producers into marketing trouble.
When rallies come this fast, you are likely to be behind in your marketing positions, leading to the feeling of regret: "The price went up and I missed it because I contracted too early." I understand the emotion. Yet, as advisors, it's our job to point out that producers who are using a strategic marketing process made the best, pre-planned decision they could at that point in time, with the information they had, in order to achieve the goals they have set out to accomplish.
For example, in late July when the September futures contract was challenging the May high prices at $15.48 but looked unable to break that major level of selling resistance, based on what we knew at that point in time, it was a logical point to be selling some of your milk. For a lot of people, a $15-plus base price was a break-even or profitable level where the balance sheet started to make up for the lost ground of 2009. Remember, if you made your decision with your marketing goals in mind, then the fact that prices rallied higher should be icing on the cake. Namely, if you've been making your sales incrementally or utilizing a call option strategy, you still have opportunity ahead.
Second, in upward trending markets, we spend a lot of time helping producers keep their eyes on their goals for marketing.
The emotions described above can easily distract from a producer's big picture goals. Instead of dwelling on one specific month or sale you'd love to have back, it is much more useful to look at your
weighted average price
for the particular month, and then look at it from a big perspective, say
for the quarter or year
. From this perspective, you can often see that you've given up very little opportunity in relation to what the market has given you, and you managed risk in the process.
When you slow it down and step back from your emotions, you can also look for the other opportunities a rally in prices offers. For example, this current rally offers us improved prices for the fourth quarter months. Instead of spending energy on the "woulda coulda shoulda" for one or two months, ask yourself, "How will I take advantage of the other opportunities this milk price rally is giving me?"
Whether the market trend is higher or lower, a strategic marketer is now addressing several questions to keep natural emotions in check:
What signals is the market giving us that something is changing?
Using technical or fundamental signals can be useful and objective action points.
Do I know what my available marketing tools are and how to use them?
By using different tools to complement one another, it is easy to add flexibility to your strategies.
Is my strategy prepared in advance?
Maintaining discipline and executing a prepared strategy is much easier and productive than scrambling after it's too late.
What were my goals going into this marketing year?
For example,one of the most popular goals among our clients is price stability for cash flow. However by actively minimizing downside risk, the consequence can be starting to limit you upside potential in an aggressive rally. Even if we are behind a little at this time, are we meeting our big picture goals?
When the markets get aggressively moving one way or the other, don't let emotion prevent you from remembering your short-term and long-term goals. Remember that
the market always presents opportunity and risk; therefore, keeping perspective and maintaining discipline will allow you to have long-run success.
--Steven Schalla is a Market Advisor for Stewart-Peterson Inc. He can be reached at 800.334.9779 or
The data contained herein is believed to be drawn from reliable sources but cannot be guaranteed. Neither the information presented, nor any opinions expressed constitute a solicitation of the purchase or sale of any commodity. Those individuals acting on this information are responsible for their own actions. Commodity trading may not be suitable for all recipients of this report. Futures trading involves risk of loss and should be carefully considered before investing. Past performance may not be indicative of future results.
Any reproduction, republication or other use of the information and thoughts expressed herein, without the express written permission of Stewart-Peterson Inc., is strictly prohibited. Copyright 2010 Stewart-Peterson Inc. All rights reserved.
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Yes, so i thoght i should start a sketchbook to get my sketcin-inspiration going.
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Last edited by Neys; May 26th, 2006 at 03:11 PM.
Hey - I like that - it needs some refining though. Have a good look at facial muscles and try some more expressions.
As for one pic a day - posting one a day is cool. But drawing only one a day isn't - at least 5 - 6 sketches or doodles beside bigger projects like this one.
mentler said, "draw everyday in everyway."
thnx for sharing!
Post more soon!
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Yeah, ur right. Thats why i post this one aswell.
Last edited by Neys; April 21st, 2006 at 01:43 PM.
Thank you. I like the ones in the second aswell. Just started using painter so im trying out all the different brushes. Any tips?
know is a bit out of perspective but i like it like this. otherwise... anything else?
oh, your the guy from GF right ?
nice stuff!
trevlig still, antar att du inte satsat på photorealism, så jag
säger bara tummen upp!
hehe jajamensan! ja alltså... just nu är jag väll det
pose ispired by Klimts "Portrait of Mäda Primavesi"
Study your anatomy and drop a line and leave it, you are using too many lines to define one. This makes for messy work. Your proportions are getting really funky.
will do
So... I dont know if this is of any use for anyone, but still... Maybe you can help me by giving som tips ore advice about it?
pict not fully done yet
nice looking sketchbook you have there. One crit for your last pic: her head seems very small. but apart that, good job, I like the coloring
post away
maybe like this?
Great updates!, nice to see how ppl works, by looking at their wips
great man!
dont ask me about the title, ok?
well. i wanted to try out ps. ive been working with ps for many years, but never used it as a paint-program. so here we go. gonna post some more sketches tomorrow.
another ps-speedpaint
ah nice Digital stuff!, I would like to see some variation thought, like
pencil work! or sculptures or whatever!
But your imagination seems to gone loose now, great!!
why thank you hm... maybe i will
yet another one... but its good practise though
I hate these moments. When all you do just end up being so dar bad that you just want to spit the screen and go kill yourself. Someone tell me what to do. What to practise and learn!
Found this. Its pretty old.
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trying out my line-skills
Last edited by Neys; May 8th, 2006 at 08:04 PM.
Yeah. I was thinking, maybe I should make it a finally finished. But perhaps some tips and critics can help me improve it? ^^
you got some decent speedpaints in here
and i like this pose
of that last one i like the colour palette. the linework has a bit of that digital hesitant look to it though..
keep it up man
check the Tensai Tokyo Sketch Thread (Sketchbook)
check the Tensai Cityscapes Thread (Finally Finished)
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Thank you ^^
nice stuff you got going here! keep it comin!
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The newspaper collection currently consists of over 4,400 titles on approximately 33,000 reels of microfilm (of which 28,000 reels were produced in-house.) OHS has the oldest, largest, and most complete collection of newspapers available within the State. All microfilm is available for viewing, free of charge, at the OHS Research Center located in the Oklahoma History Center. OHS materials are non-circulating; we do not participate in the interlibrary loan program.
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The OHS Research Division is pleased to announce the Gateway to Oklahoma History is now online. Visitors can search historic Oklahoma newspapers by keyword, browse, and read issues online for free. We are continually adding to the online collection, so check back often for new issues. gateway.okhistory.org
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Date of News Release: 08/03/2011
(Madisonville, Ky.) -- With school starting in the Post 2 District, the Kentucky State Police are urging motorists to be alert for loading and unloading school buses. Kentucky law requires that if any school or church bus used in the transportation of children is stopped upon a highway for the purpose of receiving or discharging passengers, with the stop arm and signal lights activated, the operator of a vehicle approaching from any direction shall bring his vehicle to a stop and shall not proceed until the bus has completed receiving or discharging passengers and has been put in motion. The stop requirement provided for in this section shall not apply to vehicles approaching a stopped bus from the opposite direction upon a highway of four (4) or more lanes. Passing a loading/unloading school/church bus is a B misdemeanor for the first offense and an A misdemeanor for the second offense. Any person who violates this law will be subject to being cited or arrested.
Another concern is speeding in school zones. Be aware of the school zones in your area and remember to adjust your speed. Effective July 13, 2004, the fines have been doubled for speeding in a school zone where the speed limit has been lowered and flashing lights have been both installed and are flashing at the time.
The Kentucky State Police in Madisonville would like to remind parents/caregivers of a few safety tips to make this school year safe for all.
Riding the Bus
School bus transportation is safe. In fact, buses are safer than cars! Each year though, many children are injured or killed in an incident involving a school bus. More often than not, these deaths and injuries didn't occur in a crash, but as the pupils were entering and exiting the bus. Remember these safety tips:
- Have a safe place to wait for your bus, away from traffic and the street.
- Stay away from the bus until it comes to a complete stop and the driver signals you to enter.
- When being dropped off, exit the bus and walk 10 giant steps away from the bus. Keep a safe distance between you and the bus. Also, remember that the bus driver can see you best when you are back away from the bus.
- Use the handrail to enter and exit the bus.
- Stay away from the bus until the driver gives his/her signal that it's okay to approach.
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- Walk your bike through intersections.
- Walk with a buddy.
- Wear reflective material...it makes you more visible to street traffic.
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- Safety belts are the best form of protection passengers have in the event of a crash. They can lower your risk of injury by 45 percent.
- You are four times more likely to be seriously injured or killed if ejected from the vehicle in a crash.
- Everyone needs to be buckled up properly. That means older children in seat belts, younger children in booster seats and little children in child safety seats.
The Kentucky State Police wants everyone to have a safe school year. Citizens can contribute to highway safety by reporting unsafe drivers to the Kentucky State Police toll-free at 1-800-222-5555. Callers may remain anonymous and should give a description of the vehicle, location, direction of travel, and license number if possible.
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So………. the other night my boyfriend said he wanted a "guy's night," and he was going to meet up with some friends at a bar. Totally fine with me!
But lately, a girl he's friends with has been posting all over his Facebook wall, and sending him DMS on Twitter.
I looked at her profile when my boyfriend was out, and she updated on Foursquare that she was at a bar…. with HIM.
Just because this girl was at the same bar, it doesn't mean they planned to meet up. But obviously this girl is into him. Is my boyfriend cheating on me?
I haven't seen statistics on this or anything, but I'm willing to bet social media is the number one cause of breakups and/or divorces today.
OF COURSE there's a huge possibility that this guy just happened to run into her at a bar. Maybe she's a crazy stalker who just knows where he's most likely to be.. but then.. it does look kind of fishy. I would like to give this doofus the benefit of the doubt, as in, surely, he can't be THAT dumb that he would go about cheating on his girlfriend whilst the OTHER WOMAN documents it on the web.
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MOODY, Ala. (AP) - Students and teachers at an Alabama school had to work together to get students to school after the tires were flattened on a fleet of school buses.
Moody Junior High School Principal Cassandra Taylor says drivers discovered that the tires had been flattened on all school buses before school Thursday morning. WBRC-TV reports (http://bit.ly/11mrBco) that around 25 buses were involved.
The school sent out messages to parents, who worked with the school to get the students to school.
Moody is about 20 miles northeast of Birmingham.
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BAGNAIA, Florence (Reuters) - The head of Italy's Monte Paschi
"The European Commission determines the maximum feasibility limits, the effective timing is decided by the markets," Monte Paschi Chief Executive Fabrizio Viola told reporters.
"I think the Commission will indicate a limit of 12 months but I don't think it will be binding," he said.
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In " 22 Jump Street," after making their way through high school (twice), big changes are in store for officers Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Jenko (Channing Tatum) when they go deep undercover at a local college. But when Jenko meets a kindred spirit on the football team, and Schmidt infiltrates the bohemian art major scene, they begin to question their partnership. Now they don't have to just crack the case - they have to figure out if they can have a mature relationship. If these two overgrown adolescents can grow from freshmen into real men, college might be the best thing that ever happened to them. Directed by Phil Lord & Christopher Miller. Screenplay by Michael Bacall and Oren Uziel and Rodney Rothman, from a story by Michael Bacall & Jonah Hill, based on the television series "21 Jump Street" created by Patrick Hasburgh & Stephen J. Cannell. The film is produced by Neal H. Moritz, Jonah Hill, and Channing Tatum.
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In this still frame made from security camera footage from Snapchat, Inc. headquarters, pedestrians scatter as a car drives through a packed afternoon crowd along the Venice Beach boardwalk in Los Angeles, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2013. A driver plowed into crowds at the Venice Beach boardwalk in a seemingly intentional hit-and-run that killed a woman and injured 11 others. (AP Photo/Snapchat Inc.)
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What seemed like a relatively cushy homestand disentigrated into a four-game losing streak after the Washington Capitals fell to the Florida Panthers Thursday night at Verizon Center, 3-0.
It seems like anytime the Capitals lose to a "lesser" opponent the story is the same: they dominate zone time, run into a hot goaltender and fail to convert on power plays. Tonight, Tomas Vokoun joined the parade of recent goaltenders who have seemingly carried their team to victory over the Caps.
This streak has seen Andrew Raycroft, Ondrej Pavelec and now Vokoun carry their respective teams to wins. We've seen this movie before and it gets old really quickly. Then again, going 0-for-8 on the power play at home isn't exactly a sustainable formula for winning.
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– At least we didn't have to hear the "ref you suck!" chant tonight. Instead we just heard boos.
– It's usually a bad sign when a team goes 0-5 on power play opportunities in the first period, which saw the Caps' log 7:07 of time on the power play and fail to score. There was far too much standing around on the 5-on-3 which lasted almost a full two minutes and resulted in no goals.
– At one point in the second the Caps outshot the Panthers, 21-6. But thanks in large part to Vokoun, the Capitals were unable to punch through. At another point in the second, the Panthers had eight total shots on goal and eight penalties.
– One thing that might improve the power play is to move Alex Ovechkin off the point and have him play down along the half wall. He's not having any success hitting the net from the point and moving him to a spot similar to where Steven Stamkos scores just about every one of his goals could give opponents a new wrinkle. By the eighth power play of the night Bruce Boudreau at least experimented with Ovechkin down low in front of the crease.
– Semyon Varlamov actually played reasonably well. After the Capitals failed to convert on their eighth power play in the third they basically punted the game and left him hanging out to dry.
After the game, Boudreau called out his stars for not producing.
"If your best players aren't your best players – and we've been shutout three times in the last eleven games…we've had one goal in five of our last 11 games – you have to get production out of your best players and it's not happening right now," said Boudreau.
"Ovechkin has two goals in his last 11 games, Semin hasn't scored in seven or eight games (it's actually four but we won't nitpick), same thing with Nick Backstrom, he scored against St. Louis five games ago but that was it…if they're not going to score and our power play is not going to work then you better win 1-0. They're not playing good enough right now to score goals"
Boudreau is spot on as analyst, but how he handles this as a coach will be perhaps the biggest test of his NHL career to date.
Hopefully for the Capitals, this is the low point in their season. They just matched their longest losing streak since October 2009.
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Andrew Stevenson When Wendell Sailor first went to Brisbane he was cocky winger with everything to prove. Tonight, 17 years later, he returns to the city where he found fame.
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Andrew Stevenson JARRYD HAYNE wears the No.1 jumper tonight, and not just because he's fullback. Hayne enters the Sydney Football Stadium as the anointed one: the player with the best form in the game.
Sailor completes full circle
Andrew Stevenson When Wendell Sailor first went to Brisbane, he was a cocky winger with everything to prove to the world.
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Andrew Stevenson THE Wests Tigers wore black to their own funeral last night. The only question now is when to hold the official wake, after they slumped to defeat at the hands of the table-topping St George...
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Andrew Stevenson SMELL that? Gardeners are reporting the first buds of jasmine to signal springs imminence. Keep your flowers, say footy fans.
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Andrew Stevenson THE St George-Illawarra Dragons might not be looking but they have the minor premiership within their sights after an entertaining 48-18 victory over Manly at WIN Stadium yesterday - a win that kept...
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Oilers to Recall Teubert?
Neil Livingston at C&B has the news: ColtenTeubert is on the way to the Oilers. Teubert is an interesting player for Edmonton, his old AHL coach said this about him:
- Mark Morris: "He is an old school defenceman in my books; the type of guy that everybody will appreciate over the course of time. He's not going to wow you in the beginning, but I think over time he will prove that he is a force to be reckoned with and he can be a reliable, dependable defender."
In a very real way, Teubert is "opposite George" in the organization to Linus Omark. Whereas Omark has no pedigree and his scouting director is down the line, Teubert is the product of a trade made at the deadline by the current GM and endorsed by the scouting department.
That said, he might be a player. The things we need to know about Teubert (TOI, PK TOI) are not available to us, and his boxcars (9, 2-2-4 +3) look fine but don't really tell us how he's doing defensively. From what I can tell, he's played much of the OKC season with veteran Kevin Montgomery–an AHL veteran who no doubt has contributed mightily to Teubert's early season success. The Oilers apparently wanted to recall Teubert earlier this week but were forced to recall Alex Plante due to a "papers" issue that we've discussed in a previous thread.
Teubert is a stay-at-home type, which means he is blocked by:
- Ladislav Smid, human cannonball
- Theo Peckham, rugged and dirt mean
- Andy Sutton, UFA next summer.
Plante can't be considered a more promising prospect at this time, so Teubert's path to the NHL would seem to be via Sutton's free agency or injury. Teubert's RE is here.


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MozCon 2014 Recap: What I Learned
A holistic industry transformation was the tone at MozCon this year and Erica McGillivray and team did a fantastic job getting speakers that supported this theme. Those chosen for the conference are experts in their fields, pushing conventional wisdom and challenging us with new ways to tackle old problems. Each spoke on different topics, but to the same point.
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CrimeCraft Receives Unlimited Trial, Lower FeeThough Vogster's shooter MMO CrimeCraft launched only in August, the developer has already announced a revamp of its subscription model as well as an unlimited free trial.
Arriving later this month, the free trial will offer players "The major features of the game for free for as long as they want," with unspecified 'minor' features disabled. The original $9.99 monthly sub will remain intact, while a new $4.99 subsription band is differentiated by less customisation, skill slots and inventory, and slower XP gain.
Vogster went through "significant staffing changes" following CrimeCraft's launch, whose retail release was exclusive to Best Buy and FutureShop. The smaller "live" team will this month deliver a "major" update including a dynamic in-game newspaper and new PvE mode for the PWNS--Persistent World Network Shooter, acronym addicts.


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A special mass will be held Tuesday in downtown Raleigh to honor the late Bishop F. Joseph Gossman who passed away Monday.
Gossman died at the age of 83 following a long illness, according to a release from the Raleigh Diocese. He served as Bishop of Raleigh from May 19, 1975 until June 8, 2006, when he retired due to his advancing age.
He was appointed Bishop of Raleigh at the age of 45 by Pope Paul VI on April 8, 1975.
"I ask the faithful in the Diocese to join me in praying for the eternal happiness of Bishop Gossman and to thank God for the gifts of his priestly example and faithful ministry," said the Bishop of Raleigh Michael F. Burbidge in a release.
A mass for Gossman will be held Tuesday at Sacred Heart Cathedral at 12:10 p.m.
A viewing will be held throughout the day on Aug. 19 at Sacred Heart Cathedral. Gossman's funeral Mass will be held Aug. 20 at 11 a.m. at St. Michael the Archangel Parish, followed by his funeral at 2 p.m. at Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish Cemetery.
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Import prices drop in April
May 15, 2003
The U.S. Import Price Index decreased 2.7 percent in April. The decline, the first since last November, was driven by a substantial drop in prices for imported fuels.
The 2.7-percent decline is the largest one-month drop for the index since monthly publication began in 1989. The decrease was led by a 16.2-percent decline in import petroleum prices, the largest monthly decrease since February 1991. Despite the decline, petroleum prices still were up 15.9 percent over the 12 months ending in April.
Also contributing to the April drop in import prices, the price index for nonpetroleum imports decreased 0.9 percent, the largest one-month decline for nonpetroleum import prices since July 2001. During the past year, however, import prices overall rose 2.3 percent.
Export prices edged down 0.1 percent in April, after having risen in each of the previous three months.
These data are from the BLS International Price program. Import and export price data are subject to revision. Learn more in "U.S. Import and Export Price Indexes - April 2003" (PDF) (TXT), news release USDL 03-240.
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COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - In Branch County high school sports, All-State honors in boy's soccer for a trio of brothers from Coldwater as well as for a player from Quincy. Leading the way in the announcement made yesterday by the Michigan High School Soccer Coach's Association was Coldwater junior Mohamed Aljabaly, named to the Division Two All-State second team. It's the highest All-State honor ever in boy's soccer for Coldwater. Previously, Cam Holicki in 2009 and Kaliel Alisaid in 2011 were third team All State. Named yesterday to the 2012 All-State third team from Coldwater was senior Yousif Aljabaly while sophomore Nooh Aljabaly was honorable mention. And Quincy senior Ashton Diotte was selected Division 4 All-State honorable mention
The third round of the MHSAA football playoffs kicks off tonight with more regional championship games on tap for tomorrow with the winners staying on the road to Ford Field and the eight state title games coming up Thanksgiving weekend.
Area teams playing tonight include in Division Two, Mattawan at home against Caledonia; In Division Three, Harper Creek hosts Tecumseh; In Division Four, Three Rivers is at Grand Rapids South Christian; And in Division Six, it's Constantine at Hillsdale; And then on Saturday afternoon, in Division Seven, Decatur hosts Pewamo-Westphalia while in Division Eight, Mendon plays at home against Muskegon Catholic Central.
In volleyball, last night's state tournament regional championship action included third-ranked Concord winning the Jonesville Class C regional. Concord, which eliminated Bronson in Tuesday's semi-finals, advanced to next Tuesday's quarterfinals by sweeping past Grass Lake last night 3-to-0.
And the top-two ranked teams in Class-D captured regional titles last night. Number-one Battle Creek St. Philip was the winner of the Climax-Scotts Regional while at the Mendon Regional, the host second-ranked Hornets celebrated a championship victory.
Today on the Coach's Corner, it's our final look at Coldwater cross country with Coach Jim Billsborrow.


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Bihar is a state in eastern part of India with its capital Patna. Bihar was the hub of ancient Indian education during the Magda period. Recently Bihar Government has started initiatives to provide more jobs for the graduates and Post graduates in various Departmental officer across the state.This section provides information on latest government Jobs in Bihar in 2014.
It has many institutions and Universities that provide Career oppurtunities for becomming Professors, Faculty members. The Railway Recruitment Board (RRB), Patna is actively involved in offering Sarkari Naukri in Bihar in large numbers.The Education department ie; State Board of Technical Education (SBTE) of Bihar recruits teachers and clerks in schools.
Patna houses many central Govt Offices also that gives employment avenues for the young. Bihar Staff Selection Commission manages recruitment and exams for many posts each year in departments like Engineering, High Court, Water resources,Energy, State Tourism Development Corporation, Finance, Commercial Taxes,Science & Technology, Industries, Food & Supply, Information & Public Relations, Minority Welfare, Public Health and Vidhan Sabha. This section provide Job recruitment alerts and updates for the latest vacancies in Bihar.


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Thank you for your interest in Allina Health. Below is an overview of the credentialing, provider enrollment and onboarding process at Allina Health prior to being able to provide care and services to patients.
Clinical credentialing and privileging
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By completing this process, it ensures the practitioner is enrolled with Medicare, Medicaid and applicable third-party payers to that Allina Health can bill and be reimbursed for care, treatment or services provided at an Allina Health facility.
Please note that the rules and systems used to complete provider enrollment varies across health plans.
If applicable, you would receive from the Allina Health Provider Enrollment Team information that would begin the process that sets you up as a billing provider with Medicare, Medicaid and third-party payers.
Requirements for clinical credentialing, privileging and provider enrollment processes are driven by The Joint Commission (TJC), the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), Medical Staff Bylaws and, Allina Health policies and procedures.
In all cases, the length of time required to complete the credentialing processes are influenced by how timely Allina Health receives completed information and its verification.
In the event you would be an employee of Allina Health we make every effort to use the information collected during your hiring process. However, we may ask for updated or additional information.
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I'm just going to quote Faith on this one: "Janel and I had dinner with Maxwell a couple weeks ago, and at the end of the meal he broke out a bottle of startlingly good chocolate sauce. Until that moment, I thought chocolate sauce came in two varieties - milk, and dark. Silly me. These sauces are wickedly good, with notes of spice and alcohol, and just as good whisked into a boozy drink as drizzled over ice cream."
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Dr. Jonathan Wenzel elected to national leadership role in Alpha Chi Sigma Chemistry Fraternity
Dr. Jonathan Wenzel, an assistant professor of Chemical Engineering at Kettering University, was recently elected the Grand Master of Ceremonies, Second National Vice President, of the Alpha Chi Sigma Fraternity at the 51st biennial conclave in Iowa City, Iowa.
Alpha Chi Sigma elects its national officers biennially through a representative body which in 2012 consisted of 82 voting delegates. Alpha Chi Sigma is more than a century old and is the only professional chemistry fraternity in the nation. The fraternity has more than 64,500 members involved in 47 collegiate and seven professional chapters who are pursuing a wide variety of chemistry-related careers, which includes chemical engineers. As a non-profit educational organization, Alpha Chi Sigma is strongly committed to science education of our nation's youth and its members organize and participate in several science outreach activities.
"I am excited to hold the position and over the next two years I will have the opportunity to visit several other institutions. This is also a fantastic opportunity for other universities to learn more about our chemistry, biochemistry, and chemical engineering programs at Kettering University. I'm very excited and honored to have been elected to this position and will strive to ensure the continued success of the fraternity," Dr. Wenzel added.
Dr. Wenzel is pictured with Dr. John Adams, professor of Chemistry at the University of Missouri. Dr. Adams is a long-time friend, chapter advisor of his initiating chapter, and a past President (Grand Master Alchemist) of Alpha Chi Sigma. Dr. Wenzel is wearing the jewel of office of the Grand Master of Ceremonies. The photo was taken in Iowa City.


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WASHINGTON — Undocumented immigrants would be able to seek legal status without first going home under a compromise framework floated Monday by a bipartisan group of senators, according to a source familiar with the plan.
The outline for a possible immigration reform bill reflects a mainstream Republican willingness to compromise on what President Barack Obama calls a top priority of his second term.
However, conservatives immediately voiced their opposition to providing undocumented immigrants a path to legal status, especially in the Republican-led House.
One House Republican labeled the senators' plan as "amnesty" -- a politically loaded word that seeks to ensure conservative rejection.
Obama won re-election in November with strong support from Latinos, the fastest-growing demographic.
That has caused GOP leaders to seek a deal with Democrats that would provide a path to legal status for many of the nation's 11 million undocumented immigrants --- an outcome long opposed by conservatives as amnesty.
"There is a new, I think, appreciation on both sides of the aisle -- including maybe more importantly on the Republican side of the aisle -- that we have to enact a comprehensive immigration reform bill," Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, said Sunday.
"We are losing dramatically the Hispanic vote, which we think should be ours, for a variety of reasons, and we've got to understand that," McCain told ABC's "This Week."
McCain is one of the eight senators proposing the compromise. Four are influential Democrats, while Republicans joining McCain in the effort include tea party backed newcomers Marco Rubio of Florida and Jeff Flake of Arizona -- two states where immigration is a major issue.
House Speaker John Boehner's office was non-commital, saying he looked forward to learning more about the senators' plan, while conservative Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, rejected it.
"When you legalize those who are in the country illegally, it costs taxpayers millions of dollars, costs American workers thousands of jobs and encourages more illegal immigration," said Smith, who serves on the immigration subcommittee in the House. "By granting amnesty, the Senate proposal actually compounds the problem by encouraging more illegal immigration."
NumbersUSA, a group seeking to reduce U.S. immigration, called the Senate plan an attempt to "out-amnesty Obama" and said it was activating its 1.3 million members to push for congressional opposition.
The senators will announce their plan a day before Obama speaks in Las Vegas on immigration reform, signaling a major push by both sides to focus on the contentious issue in the new Congress.
Aides say the president's remarks on Tuesday will touch on the blueprint he's detailed in the past: improving border security, cracking down on employers who hire undocumented workers, and creating a pathway to "earned" citizenship for undocumented immigrants.
Those provisions align closely with what the eight senators laid out in a framework of their legislation, which was obtained by CNN on Sunday.
The legislators based the proposal on four "pillars." These include:
-- A "tough but fair" path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants already living in the United States, after bolstering the nation's border security;
--Overhauling the country's legal immigration system, including attaching green cards to advanced degrees in science, technology, engineering, or math from U.S. universities;
--Establishing an employment verification system that holds employers accountable for hiring undocumented workers;
--Creating a guest worker program for positions that Americans are either unable or unwilling to fill.
Democratic senators backing the plan include Chuck Schumer of New York, Dick Durbin of Illinois, Robert Menendez of New Jersey, and Michael Bennet of Colorado. Republican Lindsey Graham of South Carolina rounds out the overall group.
Menendez said the time was right for pushing major immigration reform through the Senate.
"First of all, Americans support it in poll after poll," he said. "Secondly, Latino voters expect it. Thirdly, Democrats want it. And fourth, Republicans need it."
A source familiar with how the eight senators came up with the plan told CNN that Graham called Schumer after the November vote to restart work on an immigration bill that broke down in 2010.
Soon, a core group of six senators formed and met five times in the following weeks in the offices of Schumer and McCain, the source said, adding that Flake and Bennet also took part in some of the meetings and were the last to agree to the proposal.
An initial timetable by the senators called for a framework by the end of January, the text of a bill to to the Senate Judiciary Committee by March, and Senate passage by the end of July, according to the source.
The group last met on Wednesday, then worked through some details before Schumer called Obama on Sunday to tell him of Monday's planned announcement, the source said.
While specifics on border security and legal status for undocumented immigrants need to be worked out, the framework lacks any requirement for people in the United States illegally to return to their home countries before getting a shot at legal status, according to the source.
Obama came under criticism from Latino activists for failing to deliver on 2008 campaign promise to make immigration reform a priority of his first term.
Last year, as his re-election campaign heated up, the Obama administration announced a halt to deportations of some young undocumented immigrants in a move that delighted the Latino community.
Exit polls in November indicated Latino voters gave overwhelming support to Obama over GOP challenger Mitt Romney, who had advocated a policy that amounted to forcing undocumented immigrants to deport themselves.
Since the election, mainstream Republican leaders and some conservatives such as Rubio, a child of Cuban immigrants and considered a rising star in the party, have called for addressing the immigration issue instead of ceding the Latino vote to Democrats.
McCain, a veteran of failed attempts to address the issue during the George W. Bush administration, said the senators' proposal wasn't "that much different from what we tried to do in 2007."
Obama met behind closed doors Friday with members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and vowed to "move the debate forward," the White House said in a statement. Rep. Xavier Becerra , D-California, who was at the meeting, said that Obama had indicated that immigration reform "is his top legislative priority."
CNN's Kevin Liptak, Catherine Shoichet and Matt Smith contributed to this report.


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Overdrive for Vintage Camaros
Installing a Gear Vendors Overdrive in a First-Gen F-Body
Story Larry Weiner - June 19, 2011 09:00 AM
We live in a day and age of rapidly escalating fuel costs, to say nothing of the constant outcry from environmentalists about the carbon footprint, global warming and air pollution caused by vehicles powered by internal combustion engines.
It's no secret that the vintage and muscle cars are often held up as examples of what is damaging the environment. The ever-tightening emissions standards and mandatory smog testing of older vehicles clearly illustrates the direction where this is headed.
Most of the data used by government bureaucrats and environmentalists to blame our collector cars for harming the environment is flawed for a wide variety of reasons. Unlike regular daily drivers, the annual mileage of most classics is nominal, often no more than 500 to 1,000 miles per year. In addition, these vehicles receive a high degree of maintenance and are generally driven very carefully. Regardless of the efforts of influential organizations such as SEMA and Goodguys, it's safe to say that the pressure on the collector car hobby is not going to ease up.
With that thought in mind, there is something we can do that will dramatically improve the performance of our vehicles while simultaneously further discrediting many of the arguments against them. A proven driveline component is readily available to significantly enhance fuel economy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent while increasing vehicle performance. It's called an overdrive.
We take it for granted today in new vehicles, as most manufactured since the early 1980s have been equipped with transmissions that include an overdrive. The majority of classic cars and virtually none of the mighty muscle cars from the golden era were equipped with an overdrive. The result is that these vehicles, especially those equipped with high numerical final drive ratios, deliver marginal fuel economy because they operate at elevated engine rpm, especially when driven at highway speeds. Installing an overdrive is the practical solution to this problem and the good news is that it's easy to do.
This story will illustrate how simple it is to make your vintage Chevy a modern highway cruiser thanks to a Gear Vendors overdrive. This is the most popular overdrive conversion for factory transmissions, with over 100 applications. The Gear Vendors unit is manufactured right here in the United States, just like your classic Chevy.
Our 1967 Camaro SS350 is equipped with its original Muncie M20 four-speed manual transmission and 12-bolt differential with a 3.73 gear set. Since fourth gear in the transmission is a 1:1 ratio, with the 3.73 gear, every time we reached 55 miles per hour, the Camaro felt like it was ready to be shifted to the next higher gear. The problem was that we were already in fourth, and there weren't any more gears left.
Although the vehicle only weighs 2,940 pounds, which is light by today's standards, the high gearing resulted in a busy engine and mediocre fuel economy. Here in Southern California, the 18 wheelers run faster than the double nickel in the slow lane. Because we like life in the fast lane, and certainly wanted better fuel economy, to say nothing of doing our part to help save the environment, we decided to install a Gear Vendors overdrive in the Camaro. Gear Vendors offers a 22 percent overdrive, turning our 3.73 gear into a 2.91 final drive. This lowered the rpm at 70 mph from 3,700 to 2,886, making our Camaro SS far more freeway friendly. Goodbye semi trailer trucks, hello fast lane.
Living life in the fast lane will not be limited to the freeway. While the Muncie M20 is a robust design and was a state-of-the-art transmission in the 1960s, today a four-speed is something of an anachronism. The Gear Vendors overdrive brings this legendary muscle car transmission into the 21st century. It not only provides the Camaro with an overdrive, but it also enables you to split the gears in the Muncie, and take full advantage of the benefits of both the transmission and the overdrive.
If you really want to maximize the versatility of the combination, get ready to shock your friends and competitors by starting in first gear like a conventional manual. Upshift using the overdrive to first over, a lightning shift that will make your vehicle act and sound just like an automatic. Then, leaving it in overdrive, shift normally to second and third. During the shift to fourth, press the button on the Gear Vendor shift knob and you'll get the regular fourth gear ratio and then follow that up with fourth over by pressing the button again. The result is a fully functional six-speed transmission that retains the tactile feel and precision you expect from a Muncie, complemented by the advantages of the Gear Vendors overdrive.
Follow along with us as the master technicians at Gear Vendors install one of their under/overdrive units on the 1967 Camaro and turn it into a muscle car with a newfound ability to compress time and space while achieving fuel economy that will rival that of many small import cars.


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Rated 2.5 / 5 stars April 8, 2011
I don't understand why you are making 6 bad games with terrible, boxy graphics (some games are boxy for the artistic style, but this one isn't). The controls are god-awful and adding some fancy voice acting won't even cover up the fact that the game is boring.
This pretty much feels like taking a huge shit: It's only good when it's finally over.
Then metaphorically speaking I have to clean myself playing something decent afterwards.
Rated 3.5 / 5 stars April 8, 2011
did you sell out or what
like the other reviewers said you could of made one great game but what your doing I don't know why, I really only play this game for the bosses, which are well done but the levels suck man comon
Rated 3.5 / 5 stars April 8, 2011
Great part of this series but one part that I really couldnt stand was the claw boss where you had to shoot his eye to make him go back and fall. Not very fun for me. Other than that great game
Rated 1.5 / 5 stars April 8, 2011
I don't see the purpose
Instead of making 6 games, why not make a single extremely good one? The voice acting is weak and generic, the music dull, the gameplay uninspiring and the controls are ridiculous; anyone who knows PC games uses left ctrl to fire. Z makes no sense as a default.
The art style is run-of-the-mill and there's no point in losing marks for that, but as a 3D artist I don't see the point of several games following the same theme. You overextend a mediocre script, and fail to work on the gameplay. It's just a series of cliched scenes and gametypes that I could play in other games on this very site at a much more polished level.
It feels like a semi-rushed mish-mash rather than a true expression of artistic ability. The issue is that it feels much worse than what it COULD be, and that's where it falls down. Clearly there's talent here, but I would never be satisfied with something of this standard. Even the introductory movie for example needs sharpening up, and the actors told to ditch the American sci-fi cliche accents. Arguments are more rapid than your portrayal, and the scene is unskippable. That's not just frustrating, it's also unfitting with the game itself, which is designed to be quick and brutal. Where's the scene setting?
Overall, the programming is fine and the art standard. It doesn't have to be beautiful to be functional. But that's the problem; it's merely functional. Why create six? I don't get it, and it seems like a real waste of time when you could have invested in making something not only original, but also stunningly good.
Uninspiring and I expected better.
Rated 5 / 5 stars April 8, 2011
Nealy done
Only one more to go and I still love this series. Sure it's graphics aren't the best but it's great fun with fun bosses. I don't see why there are so many complaints, graphics aren't everything and the story to the series is good enough that I want to know how it ends. I hope the last pat is as good as this one.


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Firefighters and ambulance crews were called about 10:30 a.m. to ABC Tire Recycling, located at 4401 Gardner Ave., near downtown Kansas City.
When crews arrived they had to rescue an employee who had fallen into a tire shredder feet first.
"It came in as a traumatic rescue, when they arrived on the scene we got information that an individual fell into a tire shredder and was separated from two of his limbs," said Battalion Chief James Garrett, a spokesman for the Kansas City Fire Department. "We have investigators here on the scene investigating."
Authorities are not releasing the complete details of the accident.
The man, whose age was not released, was rushed to an area hospital. Officials say he is in critical condition.
U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration officials are on the scene investigating exactly what happened.
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Julius Baer, which is integrating Merrill Lynch's overseas wealth arm, which it bought in August 2012, said it cut roughly 100 staff in the first four months. ($1 = 0.8898 Swiss Francs)
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HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- News the U.S. Postal Service plans to cut Saturday delivery of first class mail isn't sitting well with some customers.
"They're the one person I'm guaranteed to see on a regular basis," said Carol Shannon, a senior citizen who has come to rely on the routine. "They're always nice to hear me because I don't have company that much. That way, I can see them."
Patrick Donahoe, the postmaster general and CEO, says the agency will continue to deliver packages, mail-order medicine and express mail on Saturdays.
However, letters, bills, cards and catalogs will be delivered only Mondays through Fridays.
"The Postal Service is advancing an important new approach," Donahoe said. "It reflects the strong growth of our package business and responds to the financial realities resulting from America's changing mail habits.
The cost-cutting move is slated to save the cash-strapped agency more than $2 billion a year.
Reaction to the news in the Tri-State was mixed.
"Every thing's electronic," said Daniel Pemberton of Ona, W.Va. "For me and my wife, we don't really use it much. Every thing's paperless."
Helen Casey lives at a senior high-rise apartment and knows how many of her neighbors rely on that daily activity.
"I watch people down at the building sit and wait everyday for the mail," Casey said. "They look forward to it This would be a big loss."
The postmaster general says it's just a sign of the times.
"The finances dictate it," Donahoe said. "If we had the same volume mail we had many years ago before people paid bills online, we wouldn't even be worried about this. We wouldn't even worry about the retired health benefits, but things change."
Fredric Rolando is reacting to the announcement that Saturday mail delivery will come to an end in August.
Under the plan -- aimed at saving up to $2 billion a year -- mail would go to homes and businesses from Monday through Friday. Packages would still be delivered on Saturday.
Rolando says the move will hurt "millions of customers" -- particularly businesses, rural communities, the elderly, the disabled and others who depend on Saturday delivery.
He also says it goes against the will of Congress as expressed over the past 30 years.
But the postmaster general, Patrick Donahoe, says research indicates that nearly 7 in 10 Americans support the switch to five-day delivery as a way for the Postal Service to reduce costs.
It's not clear how the service will be able to eliminate Saturday mail without congressional approval.
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June 7, 2007 -- Kids with leukemia may need a bone marrow transplant from a matched donor. But they do just as well with mismatched cord blood, doctors find.
About 30% of patients needing a transplant are lucky -- they have a brother or sister whose bone marrow is a perfect match for their own. But the other 70% of patients have to endure a desperate search for a matched stranger willing to undergo the painful donation process.
Now a new finding is revolutionizing the field of bone marrow transplant. University of Minnesota researcher John E. Wagner, MD, and colleagues show that unmatched infusions of umbilical cord blood work as well as matched bone marrow transplants.
"Seeing the lack of impact of matching was a surprise," Wagner tells WebMD. "No one would have thought this would have occurred. This is going to change the face of transplant medicine."
The change already is under way. About half of children and 30% to 40% of adults who would previously have received bone-marrow transplants -- if they could find a donor -- are now getting cord blood infusions, says Gary Kleiner, MD, PhD, co-director of pediatric stem cell transplants at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.
"Potentially, with cord blood, most patients who didn't have a donor before will now have someone," Kleiner, who was not involved in the Wagner study, tells WebMD. "After doing 1,000 cord blood transplants, I have never found a patient without a suitable cord-blood donor -- and it saves time, which often is of the essence."
Moreover, when cord blood is a perfect match with the patient's tissues, it appears that cord blood transplants offer even better results than matched bone marrow transplants.
"I think this is one of the most important pieces of medical information to come out of transplant medicine in a long time," Wagner says. "It has profound implications not only for individual patients but also for public policy."
Why public policy? What's holding back more widespread use of cord blood is not lack of donors. Wagner and Kleiner say that donations -- taken from the umbilical cord and placenta after a healthy baby already is delivered -- are not hard to obtain.
The problem is the expense of properly banking cord blood. Wagner says that Congress has already allocated $100 million for cord blood banking and that more public funds likely will become available as cord blood transplants become ever more common.
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Wagner and colleagues studied children treated for leukemia before their 16th birthday. Treatment means using chemotherapy to kill off their white blood cells. To replenish these crucial immune system cells, 282 of the kids got bone marrow transplants and 503 got cord blood transplants.
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The Mayor's Alternative Energy Task Force met six times last year to review the latest developments in wind power, natural gas, algae for biodiesel fuel, wave and tidal current energy, offshore drilling for oil and gas, solar power and climate change.
The task force has listened to presentations from Dominion Power, Virginia Natural Gas and the Virginia Coastal Energy Research Consortium, among others.
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