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By Kevin Tate/Outdoors Writer
Good times, now and in the future, is the goal of one group of area hunters.
The Hill Country Strutters will hold their second annual banquet Thursday, March 28 at 6 p.m. in Building 5 of the Tupelo Furniture Market.
Tickets are $60 for singles, $80 for couples and $20 for youngsters 15 and under. The raffles and after-dinner auction will include 12 firearms, guided hunts, prints, sculptures, knives, furniture and more.
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The Daisy/NWTF BB shooting trailer as well as other attractions for young and old alike will be on hand for the event. As enjoyed last year, dinner will be catered by Rob Lesley of Romie's Grocery and will follow a wild game theme, a feature of the first year's event that proved quite a hit.
"The first year's event was a tremendous success, which was what we expected here in the Tupelo region," said Tim Weston, of Fulton, president of the local chapter and member of the NWTF's state board. The chapter draws participation from much of the northeastern corner of the state. Last year's event raised $36,000, and the group's goal this year is $45,000.
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"More importantly for me and the members of the committee who are putting this together is to have lots of folks come and have a great time," Weston said. "The rest will take care of itself."
Last year's banquet attendance was 240, and this year's goal is a crowd topping 300.
The NWTF is the nation's largest hunting conservation group.
Programs galore
Its programs include efforts geared toward introducing youngsters to the outdoors, conservation plans that pair an NWTF biologist with a land-owner to improve habitat, a Women in the Out- doors effort that provides a forum for ladies who hunt, and the Wheelin' Sportsman program that helps hunters with physical challenges better enjoy their time afield.
Weston said the group's youth-oriented program in particular is of interest here. Geared toward hunters younger than 16, the JAKES program, Juniors Acquiring Knowledge Ethics and Sports- manship, would create opportunities for area youngsters to get outdoors, shoot BB guns, discover archery and learn about nature, opening key doors for tomorrow.
For more information about this event or the NWTFfield programs, call Weston at 662-891-0126.


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Family: Laridae, Gulls and Terns view all from this family
Description ADULT SUMMER Has pale gray back and upper wings, white underparts and neck, and blackish hood. Bill is dark and legs are red. ADULT WINTER Similar, but dark hood is lost and dark ear coverts contrast with otherwise white head. JUVENILE Mainly mottled brown, but acquires first-winter plumage in early fall: similar to winter adult, but with dark trailing edge to entire wing, less striking pale leading edge (some dark feathering), and dark bar on inner upper wing; legs are pale pink.
Dimensions Length: 12-14" (30-36 cm)
Habitat Common breeding species, in colonies in marshes and around lakes in boreal forests; nests in trees. Outside breeding season, found on Atlantic and Gulf coasts, on wetlands across southern U.S. states and on Great Lakes.
Observation Tips Easy to see during breeding season in Arctic. Outside breeding season, locally common.
Range Rocky Mountains, Eastern Canada, New England, Florida, Mid-Atlantic, Texas, Northwest, Southwest, California, Southeast, Plains, Western Canada, Alaska, Great Lakes
Voice Call is tern like, nasal, and higher pitched than other gulls.
Similar Species Little Gull L. minutus (L 11-12 in) is a rare breeder and scarce in winter on Atlantic coast and Great Lakes. Adult has dark hood in summer, dark smudges and cap in winter; note pale gray upper wing with white tip and trailing edge, and blackish underwing with white tip and trailing edge. Juvenile has dark back, dark cap and ear spot; first-winter has dark bars on gray upper wing and dark-tipped tail; underwing pale in both.
Discussion Our commonest small gull. Flight is buoyant and, at times, tern like. In flight, all adults show white leading edge and dark trailing margin to primaries. Forms loose flocks outside breeding season. Sexes are similar.


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Being popular means nothing in the grand scheme of marketing. Piplup as popular as he was in Japan, still left and was replaced by Oshawott. Even if contest return that doesn't mean May or Dawn will be back to do them. It just means if the writers ever decide to treat their fans they have a valid reason to appear instead of just showing up to a battle tournament that doesn't advance their dreams at all. Which writer thought bringing Dawn back for a battle tournament that had nothing to do with Contest was a good idea? I want to know.
RIP anime version of Glovehead. Pokemon Adventures will save you.
Popular means nothing in marketing? Are we watching the same show here? Really marketable Pokemon never evolve because their popular. Piplup still is hugely popular in Japan probably more so than Oshawott. Dawn returning is plausible that's all I really have left to say on this subject.
As long as no-one gets that ghastly eeveelution, then I'll be fine with most things in the X/Y anime..
Currently Training
I don't really have the time or patience to focus on nature's and IV'S, I just play with what I'm handed..
Dawn isn't returning, at most a new character will get a Piplup if he's that popular.
RIP anime version of Glovehead. Pokemon Adventures will save you.
Are you a younger fan of the anime who grew up with DP or something? Because if you're an older fan you should know good and well how this show works.
Yah, wish they'd pull a Brock with one of the girls and bring her back for one more series but alas.
Really wondering whats going to happen with Dento though, will he stay? Next series would be perfect for him, will see if they start replacing sidekick male characters now every series.
A close family member of mine died today, I put this in my sign as respect for him
Ash fan. Luffy fan. Gintoki fan-Gintama. Endou fan-Inazuma Eleven.
Multi Luffy {One Piece} and Ash {Pokemon} Shippers.
Guys quit hating on terror. It's not a crime to like piplup, besides constantly talking about misty being so much better or cilan being in gen 6 is the same deal.
That being said we need the new girl to be either heavily involved in the plot or as unobtrusive as possible. iris was a failure in the happy medium department.
I'd be okay with any of the new companions to be honest, I wouldn't care how they'd turn out. I'll like em in all due time.That being said we need the new girl to be either heavily involved in the plot or as unobtrusive as possible. iris was a failure in the happy medium department.
As long as TR are not in the next series, that's all that matters to me.
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Can ash please do contests with gym battles! Honestly if he's rotating pokemon again in gen 6, contests would be a good way to show off his pokemon lacking the time... Also this could bring back good old "creative ash" who actually used his Brain...
Spoiler:- Game Teams:
Black 2(8/8 badges): emboar, Vaporeon, roserade, Lucario,fraxure, Magnezone
Leafgreen team: Charizard, Pidgeot, Vaporeon, Zapdos, Mewtwo, Dragonite
Soulsilver team: Feraligatr, Togekiss, Lugia, Mewtwo, Espeon, Dragonite.
Black team: Serperior, Excadrill, Chandelure, Volcarona, Heracross, Tyranitar
Emerald team: blaziken, azumarill, cacturne, delcatty, altaria, salemence, rayquaza
In progress: Diamond (8/8 badges)
I have to agree with Terror of Master. Constantly replacing characters in this show serves no purpose other than to discourage people from investing in characters when its already known from start how they will end up forever abandoned and unfinished after departure anyway, being deprived of stable continuity based cast.
It promotes uncreative writing too since writers don't have to think of new innovative ideas to keep things fresh and give more depth to someone story, with anime falling in slump which basically follows same old cliche formula at start of every new generation;"Ash leaves all pokemon beside Pikachu, he meets 2 new people, becomes friends and after few years they leave like they never mattered"rinse and repeat.
There is no progression, there is no build up on already existing friendship and development with pokemon suffering from poor and relatively simple plot since it changes cast way too often to allow for more structured storyline.
In my opinion instead of getting another set of new companions why not invest more in already established and successful characters , capitalizing on their popularity? That way we could have more continuity based cast, familiar faces we grew up would be taken forward in hew directions doing sequels to story, and it would bring boost to ratings too.
Such as continuation of Dawn contest journey, Misty advancing her goal of becoming water master building up on water team which left lot more to be desired, Max starting out journey getting starter etc?
I see people constantly saying how that's impossible, but when you think for second it really isn't. Writers constantly break patterns established in past to maintain people interest and add something new and fresh into anime.
Brock leaving cast, contests being gone, TR being involved in some big role reviving Giovanni, main character catching fully evolved pseudo legendary right of the bat are few out of many break patterns.
So its not so farfetched to expect previous traveling companions at some point being reused as well with purpose of reaching beyond target audience to help restore staggered popularity, to fill series with more continuity and stable cast. Give anime sense of stability, identity and create foundation for plot driven story along with bringing something new and unexpected to break monotony and set groundwork for everlasting popularity in long run.
Its enough to take look at hype return of Ash Charizard created, not being hard to figure how much of benefit above mentioned idea could bring if it ever sees light of the day.
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Also proud claimer of Assassin's Creed 2 the game!!
Just became the proud claimer of the Marvel's Agent's of S.H.I.E.L.D. TV show ^_^!!!
I think Ash will probably catch all of the starters like he usually does. Obviously Game Freak tries to make the anime market the Pokemon as much as possible.
My Pokemon teams!
FireRed: (My first shiny!)
And my best Pokemon team (Black & White Version) :
All obtained by trading, training, and events.
Spoiler:- Game Teams:
Black 2(8/8 badges): emboar, Vaporeon, roserade, Lucario,fraxure, Magnezone
Leafgreen team: Charizard, Pidgeot, Vaporeon, Zapdos, Mewtwo, Dragonite
Soulsilver team: Feraligatr, Togekiss, Lugia, Mewtwo, Espeon, Dragonite.
Black team: Serperior, Excadrill, Chandelure, Volcarona, Heracross, Tyranitar
Emerald team: blaziken, azumarill, cacturne, delcatty, altaria, salemence, rayquaza
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By Michael Aneiro
It's pricing day for Verizon's record-shattering corporate bond sale, expected to weigh in at $49 billion, nearly triple the size of Apple Inc.'s (AAPL) $17 billion bond sale back in April, which until today was the largest-ever bond sale by a U.S. company. Market participants say the Verizon offering launched today in 8 parts, including 3- and 5- year floating-rate notes and 3-, 5-, 7-, 10-, 20- and 30-year fixed-rate bonds. The largest blocks are $11 billion of 10-year bonds, expected to yield 225 basis points more than comparable Treasuries, and $15 billion of 30-year bonds seen yielding 265 bps over Treasuries.
A fund manager who plans to buy the bonds said Verizon marketed them at enough of a discount to similar existing debt that it effectively repriced the entire market and made the new bonds attractive enough that the company could sell them in such great quantities, and could do so before next week's Federal Reserve policy committee meeting, lest that cause any further market gyrations. The same manager said the deal offers a rare combination of a well-known, highly rated company with expected yields of roughly 5.25% for 10-year debt and 6.5% for 30-year debt, which would have been unheard-of even a few months ago. By comparison Apple's ten-year bonds yielded just 2.45% and its 30-year bonds 3.883%, yields that are less than rates on comparable Treasuries today following this summer's sharp rise in rates.
The deal helps Verizon fund its $130 billion buyout of Vodafone Group's (VOD) stake in Verizon Wireless. The bonds are expected to price around midday today.


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Thread: Discus: a couple of questions
11-15-2013, 04:18 PM #1Member Platy
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Discus: a couple of questions
Sorry I ask too many dumb questions. Normally, I would read a few books, but I have noticed most books out there are outdated.
Anyhow, I am thinking about setting up a Discus tank sometime in the next few months and I'm doing some research. Right now, a couple of items I am not particularly clear on, and would appreciate some input, are:
- I read from a few different sources that, while discus prefer softer, more acidic water, they tend to do fine in harder water, and that some breeders have been having success at a PH of 8.2 or so. While I do not intend to breed in the foreseeable future, I would like to keep the fish healthy. Can you tell me anything about this?
- I am going to have gravel in my tank, and I am going to have some rocks, I just don't want a bare tank. Now, while plants are great for water quality I read your water changes in a discus tank should be more frequent and larger than other tanks (bi-weekly, up to 50%) - Additionally, keeping the gravel clean is easier without very many plants. So, my question is, considering the frequent and large water changes, am I better off without plants?
- With proper filtration, say, two filters rated for an 80 gallon tank in a 65 gallon, are the frequent and large changes still necessary? To clarify, when I say frequent, I mean more frequent than with other fish.
Thanks in advance for your help.
I've kept Discus in the past so I'll wade in a bit here. Keep in mind I'm absolutely, positively NOT an expert.
As for the PH...I wouldn't take any chances with the health of your fish. Just because you "can" keep a fish, at a different PH than is optimal, doesn't mean you should. I'm speaking in terms of general health and longevity. It is my experience that, more so than most other fish, a discus will color up according to its health. You want to keep this fish in the water it prefers -- in fact I'd say it is critical. They'll look better and be healthier for it. I've no experience breeding them intentionally though. None-the-less...I feel that these guys are sensitive enough that you really want to make sure the PH is spot on. That's not always the case...but in this I think it is.
I've never done a 100% real plant tank simply because it can be a hassle when trying to clean around them. HOWEVER I've noticed the tanks with larger populations of plants seem to be more stable and healthy. I don't think going 100% real plant is necessary but it does help to have some greenery in the tank that is live. If you can settle for the tedious cleaning around a few plants than I'd say they are definitely worth it.
As for the water changes...I'm a pretty firm believer that there is no substitute for water changes. The filtration system like your talking about should be fine. In fact your water quality is probably gonna be pretty spectacular as long as you maintain them. But a water change should still be done at least 25% twice a month. And that's a pretty low amount of changes but I don't think that is excessive...and in fact I'd call that the bare minimum.
Others may be able to be much more specific or might disagree. But this is just from my perspective.
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This is from the discus subforum
and so is this: http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/aqua...ad.php?t=25386
Looks like a bare bottom is preferred - frequent water changes even with good filtration.
Not a good choice if you aren't prepared to do the work or don't have the appropriate pH, etc.
Last edited by Imma24; 11-15-2013 at 06:12 PM.
Stable ph is the most important aspect in regard to ph unless you're planning on stocking wild discus. Clean water, very clean water is extremely important so I would not use gravel, too many openings for excess food and poop will cause an excess in nitrates and with discus you want your nitrates to be below 10ppm. The more filtration the better but you will still need to do water changes to keep the nitrates as low as possible. I have a 135 gallon tank with 40 gallon sump (6 discus in the main tank right now) and I do a minimum of three 50%+ water changes a week. You can go bare bottom or with a low sand bed. Also important is the size of discus, juvenile discus require as many as 6 feedings a day (daily water changes) while adult can be fed 2-3 times per day.
Plants are fine but must be able to tolerate the minimum 82 to 86 temperature that is required for discus so amazon swords, crypts, anubias, java ferns, bolbitus are a few that can be used and also other than the swords & crypts be attached to rocks or driftwod.
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Discus will thrive in any pH ranging from under 6.0 to over 8.0, so long as it's maintained fairly stable, with no large and rapid swings.
So go with whatever comes out of the tap, assuming it's within those ranges. And whatever strength of filtration you have, don't neglect regular, frequent changes of fresh clean water, as Judi points out.


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But, I also dont like the **** you talked to Cedar, Wildbill, and some of the other cool people here at FH. Even if you dont like their political views, you dont have to be an ass about it. Stop drinking if thats your problem man. Or at least dont come on here when you drink. Do what most other West Virginians do and beat your wife if you have too much aggression.
Also, who the hell is Ohall?
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I have never understood the meaning of the term, "strut zone". I didn't understand it many years ago when some magazine writer coined the term, and I don't understand what they are talking about today.
A gobbler will strut for a hen, real or imagined. A gobbler may strut in the middle of a field where he is likely to be seen. I don't believe a gobbler goes to a certain location and decides that he is in his "strut zone". Is the gobbler in his "strut zone" when he struts on the limb?
I guess the hunter may mean by the term "strut zone" the location where the hunter has seen a gobbler strut. Who knows? I just don't find the term "strut zone" to be a useful term.


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OXFORD — A feasibility study will determine whether the Oxford School District can raise enough private money to build a Fine Arts facility at the new high school.
The Oxford Eagle reports (http://bit.ly/16jQCcF ) that the school board will pay for the study. Once the capital campaign begins, funds must be privately raised.
The proposed facility would provide space for drama, visual arts, chorus, marching band and orchestra, culinary arts and a 650-seat auditorium.
Officials say they don't want to move forward with a capital campaign project without some good data that it has some success.
Upon suggestion from board attorney Mary Ann Connell, the school board decided to seek bids on what is expected to be a $15,000 study.


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Thank you for your article in the May 14 Portland Phoenix, "Warning Buzz," by Deirdre Fulton. My dad kept bees when I was young — 40 years ago. I always enjoyed being around them. They were none too easy to keep healthy, even back then. In the past few years I have been keenly interested in bee kills, which have frequently been reported. Sadly this seems to be more collateral damage of a society that seldom considers the real consequences — and costs — of its actions.
We traveled to Sicily in April and while there visited an apiary on the slopes of Mount Etna. The apiarist suggested that the real reason for the bee kills in North America was not being acknowledged — high-frequency cellular traffic so pervasive in our region. He believed the cellular frequencies were disorienting the bees and causing them to be unable to make a return to the hive. It's my understanding that bees navigate by the sun. Who knows . . .
Nate Bemis
Amesbury, Massachusetts
Newton's laws of gravity and motion are universally understood laws, not subject to anyone's opinion. Drop a bowling ball from the top of a building and the acceleration due to gravity will accelerate that ball at 32 feet per second squared: the speed of a free-falling object after one second is 32 feet/second. After two seconds, 64 ft/s, and so on. This is a fact, not subject to opinion.
Al Diamon recently insulted Dr. David Ray Griffin who gave a talk on the justification for the war in Afghanistan. Dr. Griffin is very much Al Diamon's intellectual superior, but that didn't stop Al from calling him an illogical kook (see "High Ideals, Crazy Dreams," April 30). I burden you with the physics lesson because that is a certainty that convinces me Al Diamon is the illogical kook and his opinion unencumbered by Newton's laws. I'll explain.
The National Institutes of Standards and Technology (NIST) released a report in November 2008 describing the collapse of World Trade Center Building 7. It claims the building collapsed due to the failure of one critical column from fire, setting off a chain reaction involving all 82 supporting columns in the building. A high-school physics teacher, David Chandler, challenged that conclusion proving the free-fall collapse of that building. NIST had to change its report because of high-school physics.
Watching the roofline of WTC 7 in videos it is easy to measure that instead of a progressive failure of one column after another, the roofline drops all together at the same rate of speed as if you dropped a bowling ball off one corner of the roof. This means that in an instant there was nothing supporting the roofline across the entire building. The entire building fell straight down at free fall into its own footprint. NIST acknowledges free-fall but doesn't explain it. The only plausible explanation for free-fall is controlled demolition.
Dr. Griffin supports the physics teacher and an investigation as to why the building collapsed in free fall. Al Diamon is entitled to his own opinion of the 9/11 truth movement, but not his own facts.
Steve Demetriou
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Asherman syndrome is the formation of intrauterine adhesions (scar tissue), which typically develop after uterine surgery.
Uterine synechiae
Asherman syndrome is a rare condition. In most cases, it occurs in women who have had several dilatation and curettage (D&C) procedures.
A severe pelvic infection unrelated to surgery may also lead to Asherman syndrome.
Intrauterine adhesions can also form after infection with tuberculosis or schistosomiasis. These infections are rare in the United States, and uterine complications such as Asherman syndrome related to these infections are even less common.
The adhesions may cause amenorrhea (lack of menstrual periods), repeated miscarriages, and infertility.
However, such symptoms could be related to several conditions. They are more likely to indicate Asherman syndrome if they occur suddenly after a D&C or other uterine surgery.
A pelvic exam is usually normal.
Tests may include:
Treatment involves surgery to cut and remove the adhesions or scar tissue. This can usually be done with hysteroscopy, which uses small instruments and a camera placed into the uterus through the cervix.
After scar tissue is removed, the uterine cavity must be kept open while it heals to prevent adhesions from returning. Your health care provider may place a small balloon inside the uterus for several days and prescribe estrogen therapy while the uterine lining heals.
Antibiotic treatment may be necessary if there is an infection.
The stress of illness can often be helped by joining a support group where members share common experiences and problems.
Asherman syndrome can be cured in most women with surgery, although sometimes more than one procedure will be necessary.
Women who are infertile because of Asherman syndrome may have a successful pregnancy after treatment. Successful pregnancy depends on the severity of Asherman syndrome and the difficulty of the treatment, as well as other factors that affect fertility and pregnancy.
Complications of hysteroscopic surgery are uncommon and include bleeding, perforation of the uterus, and pelvic infection.
In some cases, treatment of Asherman syndrome will not cure infertility.
Call your doctor or nurse if your menstrual periods do not return after a gynecologic or obstetrical procedure. See a specialist for an infertility evaluation if you cannot get pregnant after 6 to 12 months of trying.
Most cases of Asherman syndrome cannot be predicted or prevented.
Simpson JL, Jauniaux ERM. Pregnancy loss. In: Gabbe SG, Niebyl JR, Simpson JL, eds. Obstetrics: Normal and Problem Pregnancies. 5th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Elsevier Churchill Livingstone; 2007:chap 24.
Katz VL. Benign Gynecologic Lesions: Vulva, Vagina, Cervix, Uterus, Oviduct, Ovary, Ultrasound Imaging ofPelvic Structures. In: Katz VL, Lentz GM, Lobo RA, Gershenson DM, eds.Comprehensive Gynecology. 6th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Mosby Elsevier; 2012:chap 18.
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The economy 238 votes41.18%
Oil and gas development 142 votes24.57%
Winter snowfall 152 votes26.30%
None of the above 46 votes7.96%
578 total votes
(Scott Ford) scottford says...
Economy is such an all encompassing term. I would be curious hearing from others what specific areas of the local economy they would like to see improve in 2012.
Posted 2 January 2012, 1:54 p.m. Suggest removal
(jerry carlton) jlc says...
How about reducing taxes so I can spend more money with local merchants?
Posted 2 January 2012, 7:08 p.m. Suggest removal
(1984) canyonwind says...
I hope the the oil and gas industry is careful with our valley's ecosystem and hires local because this valley needs every job that we can get. Ron Paul 2012 Ron Paul 2012
Posted 2 January 2012, 7:25 p.m. Suggest removal
(Anonymous) sledneck says...
So 20 % think it's snow... Hmmmm.
Posted 2 January 2012, 7:39 p.m. Suggest removal
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Posted 2 January 2012, 9:15 p.m. Suggest removal
(Kevin Nerney) Kevin_Nerney says...
Scott, my own personal economy, and I'm not talking about the 300 grand I lost on the value of my house, but rather the bottom line of a paycheck. This is 2012 and 11 dollars an hour doesn't cut it. heck I was making 15 an hour back in the early 90's.
Posted 3 January 2012, 8:34 a.m. Suggest removal
(Scott Ford) scottford says...
Hi Kevin –
Without question we have seen some big changes over the past 4 years. Routt County has seen boom and bust before. This current recession ranks as a really big one. In reviewing the economic data the peak of the Boom – occurred in the 2nd & 3rd quarters of 2007. The depth of the "Bust" bottomed in Routt County occurred in 1st and 2nd quarters of 2011. (We are currently bouncing along this bottom.)
Here is the damage report:
Loss of about 13% of our business establishments
Loss of about 18% of our jobs
Decline of 15% in total wages and salary
There are segments in the economy (construction) that on an individual basis have much worse numbers. (The numbers above represent all of Routt County / across all industry sectors.) Health Care and Professional/Technical/Scientific industry sectors grew during this period.
One of the interesting things we can tease out of the data is that the average weekly wage has increased. At the "Boom" it was $699 and the "Bust" it is $713. Since the data we look at does not make a distinction between full and part-time jobs, what this increase likely represents is many of the part-time jobs that existed have been squeezed out of the system.
There are so many factors the influence Real Estate – it makes my head hurt when I think about them. In reviewing the median listing price of homes in Routt County we have experienced a 30%+ decline. (Some locations more / some locations less). The pace of the decline has slowed but there may still be some decline ahead of us.
A statistic in the 2010 census data that concerns me is that in Routt County the percentage of homeowners age 60+ that have a mortgage (primary and/or second) is almost 70%. Nationally this number is in the 45% range. There are a lot of reasons for this I know - however, it appears that there are many households in Routt County that likely looked at their home as "retirement" investment and not shelter. For this group there is not going to be a sufficient recovery in home values to make much a difference to them when they will most need it. They are going to be entering their 70's and 80's with mortgage payments. That is an ugly challenge.
Posted 3 January 2012, 10:04 a.m. Suggest removal
(Anonymous) JusWondering says...
Scott... your Census stat is not surprising and probably more alarming than you can possibly know! If you couple this with the income side of the equation things are more than just a little depressing. Think about this lovely nugget. The median retirement savings from all sources for someone in their 50's is around $55 k. The median pension payout (for those lucky enough to have a vested benefit) is around $18 k. Even worse than that is the %tage of retirees taking on credit card debt. The last study I saw was in '07 so I hate to even reference it; but it wasn't pretty even then. How on Earth will the "median" person in their 50's even be able to retire? Even if they draw Social Security it won't be enough, nor will their 401k AND pension. The short answer... retirement (as the silent generation knows it) is dead!
Personally this scares the begesus out of me. I have gone so far as to hypothesize that for the first time in our nation's history we will see life expectancy tables reverse (it is proven that you die younger if you work longer), the value of a college degree decline (20 somethings with graduate degrees are already working as waiters and waitresses... and not in resort towns like Steamboat), and taxes soar through the roof within the next 10 - 15 years.
Real unemployment is at near record highs (not just those applying for and receiving benefits) and inflation, IMHO is being under reported. Think about how much more you are personally paying for things like food, energy, and clothing as a % of your pay than you did 10 years ago.
Couple all of this with huge governmental debt and we are in for a very intresting time. Think about it... what two primary sources does public sector use to determine their "income" stream? Revenues from property tax and revenues from sales tax. Of course there are use taxes, but look at any CAFR and you will see the true picture.
If we are quickly heading to a post-consumer society where is the $$ going to come from to fund even "non-discretionary" spending? Seems to me that this is the real elephant in the room that no one wants to even dare mention. We cannot afford to continue to spend like we have over the past 30 years!
So, yeah, I would say the economy is the #1 concern facing not only Routt County, but our Nation. You think there are lots of foreclosures now... just wait until mom loses her home after she loses her job to poor health.
Posted 3 January 2012, 1:42 p.m. Suggest removal
(Anonymous) JusWondering says...
Oh yeah another little nugget to chew on when you think about the big picture... the median wage in the US (according to Census data) is around $50k.
Posted 3 January 2012, 1:44 p.m. Suggest removal
(Scott Wedel) Scott_Wedel says...
Well, I think this is enough of a active lifestyle community that it includes far more people than average that intend upon being active as they get older and that includes continuing to work as a tradeoff for enjoying the active lifestyle now.
I note that the developers of Casey's Pond retirement assisted living must see a lot of well off retirees willing to stay here even as their health weakens for them to proceed with that development. I doubt that they are hoping to convince people that need assisted living to move to the high mountains with long winters of snow and ice (in normal years). I think they must be counting on people staying here as they age.
So I think the number of people near retirement age with mortgages is not as ominous as it might appear
The local economy is continuing to show a split between wealthy SB area and many of the local employees. SB's and nearby real estate is part of a much larger resort lifestyle market where potential buyers are choosing between here and other resort areas. This market is minimally dependent upon local jobs as enough of the buyers get their income from outside the area.
The local employees were doing well during the boom with rising wages and able to work multiple jobs. Now the hours are way down and the pay is the same or lower. They are the ones walking away from Stagecoach and Soutt Routt, areas dependent upon local income, where housing prices have dropped more than 50%. $250K townhomes during the boom are now routinely selling for less than $100K and have sold for less than $80K.
Posted 3 January 2012, 7:12 p.m. Suggest removal
(Scott Ford) scottford says...
Hi Just Wondering -
I find the national debt a difficult problem to put into perspective primarily because the numbers are so large. Dave Ramsey - a no nonsense person about personal debt used an illustration about the national deficit/debt that made it real for me. Using the same ratios he what would it look like from a Routt County household view point.
The federal government from all sources will collect about $2.173 trillion this year. It will pay out about $3.818 trillion. In 2011, the outgo (deficit) exceeds income by an estimated $1.645 trillion. The 2011 deficit will be added to the existing debt, which make it $15.2 trillion..
To put this in perspective the Jon Q public household in Routt County has a median income from all sources of $64,892. If Jon's household spent like the federal government does it would be spending $114,015 annually. In addition, it would have total outstanding debt of $454,244.
This family is in real trouble. However, Jon's father-in law owns the local bank and keeps loaning them money because Jon tells him he is good for it. The father-in law does not want his daughter and grandkids sleeping in the street so he continues to loan Jon more money even when it silly to do so. Hoping against hope that Jon will finally become organized and start paying down the principle on the loan not just the interest.
The father-in law knows that he is enabling this bad behavior, however, the downside is too frightening. The two are locked in a dysfunctional co-dependent relationship. It is so unhealthy they both choose deny the magnitude of the problem.
What can Jon do? Not much unless he wants really wants to change his behaviors and thus his lifestyle. Jon says he wants to but he has said this many times. Is he mad enough at the current situation to make the change? To go from a $114,015 lifestyle to a $64,892 lifestyle he has to stop spending on a lot of things he and his wife both think are important. It is going to get ugly and be one heck of a money fight in this household.
The spending cuts necessary are seriously going to hurt, but it's the only way out. His wife and kids are all going to have to work hard as well to stay focused and disciplined to make all this happen. Jon is going to have to get used to saying NO far more than Yes to things his kids want to do and have.
Jon and his wife must also get second jobs because cutting the households spending to no more than he earns simply balances the household budget. Balancing the budget is not going to solve the existing debt of $454K.
The big question out there for all of us is do we think Jon can pull this off. Is he and his wife mad enough about their current situation to save their household?
Posted 3 January 2012, 7:53 p.m. Suggest removal
(Scott Ford) scottford says...
Hi Scott W -
Happy New Year my friend. I am confident you and I will have some informed exchanges in the coming year.
I agree with your insights about the sources of Routt County's income. This is one that is challenge to tease out of the data but it is doable. The IRS Master file is organized by zip code and it breaks down sources of reported income - I just have not done this level of income source analysis in several years. Sounds like a good project during a rainy day in April.
I think the target market for Casey's Pond is targeted to the parents of the affluent boomers that live here. Here is a typical scenario. Parents currently live in Ohio. Daughter 1 lives in Steamboat Springs - married with 2 kids, Son 1 lives in the San Francisco condominium with his girl friend. Daughter 2 is living in east Texas with her third husband in a mobile home and between the two of them; they have 6 kids, 3 big dogs, a turtle and a unidentified critter under the porch.
Dad passes away. After a few years mom is increasingly lonely and wants see her grandkids more often. Moving in with Daughter 2 is out of the question. The only space for her is the tool shed. Daughter 1 loves her mother dearly and knows she needs some extra care but is not moving back to Ohio to take care of her. Nor does she want Mom to move in with her family. Solution, mom is has the financial resources to easily afford one of the senior apartments at Casey's Pond and there is a lot going on socially. In addition, she knows that as she needs more care in the future having the assisted living facility and skilled nursing facilities on the same campus is a bonus.
The target customer for Casey's Pond is likely 20% us and 80% affluent parents of boomers that live here.
Posted 3 January 2012, 8:28 p.m. Suggest removal
(Scott Wedel) Scott_Wedel says...
Scott F,
The missing part of the federal budget analogy is that the federal government is a significant part of the economy and when it cuts spending then it can also, to a lesser extent, be cutting its income. And governments can see massive increased revenues when the economy improves while then costs of unemployment benefits and such also decrease sharply.
It;d be like that family owning a restaurant that employs and feeds the family from the restaurant. It cuts more expenses than the alternatives for the family to eat at their restaurant, but only if they don't eat steak. And it can help the family if they employ family members even if they are a little overstaffed because that is better that being unemployed.
The trouble is that they've lost financial control and cut prices just as they started two expensive lawsuits (wars) and then cosigned loans with everyone without caring about the amount being borrowed or monitoring what the money was be used for.
The restaurant has significant fixed costs and so 5% growth improves cashflow by 10% so a few years of growth with good management could leave them in good shape which is why they find people still willing to lend them money with low rates.
But now all they can agree upon is that is was not their fault and that others in the family, not them, need to change.
As for Casey's Pond, seems to me it is more for those that started moving here in the 60s and want to stay here. It just seems so tough to move a parent to the high mountains with long winters. And also have the resources to pay for a place like Casey's Pond while not simply having room for them at home or a condo of their own with arranged help.
Like it seems to me that there are more residents of the Doak Walker that are local residents and only a few that were moved here as their health declined to be near a family member.
So for your analogy, I think it is divorced Daughter 1, now 62, kids grown and elsewhere, with numerous injuries from living the active lifestyle facing knee and hip replacement surgeries that is thinking she could live at Casey's Pond instead of moving in with her sisters or children. That Casey's Pond offers her a range of assistance and she can see herself needing it at times.
There is no great demographic bulge signalling a growing market for retirement/assisted living for parents of baby boomers. It is the baby boomers themselves that signals an increasing need for such facilities. And, I think, it is likely the leading edge of that will be those whom are less lucky to have health issues earlier than others.
Posted 4 January 2012, 11:06 a.m. Suggest removal
(Anonymous) JusWondering says...
Scott W. Your analogy of the Federal government is just a wee bit off. It is not a creator of an economy but reacts to an economy that already exists. Being a small business owner I would have assumed you had at least a view into ECON 101. Businesses create $$ when they produce a good/service from nothing that is demanded by someone else. GVT simply takes what is already there and re-disributes it. It does not create an economy. There is no doubt that an increase/decrease in spending has a temporary effect, but it does not change the economy... we should have learned this with the pork spending of the last decade. We tried to spend our way out of it... to no avail.
"There is no great demographic bulge signalling a growing market for retirement/assisted living for parents of baby boomers." Under what rock do you live under? What I absolutely agree with you is that Casey's Pond ownership saw an opportunity. They saw Doak with few too many beds to service a community of the size of ours and decided it would be great to capitilize on it versus having them go off to Junction or the Front Range. And to your analogy of Daughter 1, now 62. You are absolutely right! Why would this self-serving baby boomer want to actually help her chlidren like her own "greatest generation" mom and dad did when she got a divorce. She has always made very self-centered decisions, why stop now. I just hope she doesn't expect her gen x or gen y kids to come an see her in the assisted living facility... 'cause they won't.
As far as your view of how well off the boomer generation is... you better take another look at real stats. The picture is not as pretty as you would want to paint it. It seems that you hold some pretty naive views of how well off this upcoming generation of senior citizens is. I'm not going to bury you with studies and stats... it is what I do so am exposed to hundreds of them, but would suggest you do your research... without trying to make it fit an agenda.
Posted 4 January 2012, 1:59 p.m. Suggest removal
(Steve Lewis) lewi says...
The government does create a significant portion of the economy. Consider the districts wherein defense contractors and their manufacturing jobs exist. That would be the pork. Consider the social safety net of jobless benefits and food stamps. Economists say these are programs that most directly put government $$ into the market. These would be the entitlements.
Both are economic creators because they have no peer, or similar, functions in the private sector. Government is producing a good/service that is demanded, and that no one else can or will provide.
Yes, government spending has been too high, but these are not the years to cure that. The positive effects of government spending during a recession is also Economics 101. Scott F's family analogy misses that point.
I disagree that re-distribution is meaningless to the economy. A dollar in a poor man's hand goes into the market more directly than the dollar in a rich man's hand, because the poor man spends so much more of his income on essentials, while the rich man will put some into savings. Also important here is which one creates demand. Lack of demand is by far a bigger problem now than lack of supply. The poor and middle class are more responsible for market demand, the rich are more about creating market supply.
I am not arguing that the re-distribution is morally right or wrong. Just that it can have powerful economic benefit. It can also be wasted.
Posted 4 January 2012, 3:35 p.m. Suggest removal
(Anonymous) ybul says...
These are exactly the years to cure the debt. Curtailing defense spending by withdrawing our troops worldwide is needed and would eliminate the deficit.
Then as the federal reserve is chartered by the government, simply reduce interest rates to zero and pay down the principle.
Eliminate departments of the federal government (education as many teachers do not support it, agriculture as it is causing many problems through crop subsidies, energy as it has not moved an inch towards what it was created to do and on and on).
Those states that produce wealth - Iowa, Wyoming, Texas are doing okay and those that do not are failing economically California with 1/4 of all welfare recipients, etc..
The economy in Routt county will be fine it is blessed with natural resources, managing them so that we do not look like rifle is the key. We can work to turn more sunlight into hydrocarbons to eat via potatoes, milk, etc. that fit the environment.
Posted 4 January 2012, 5:06 p.m. Suggest removal
(Anonymous) JusWondering says...
Government should never be a MAJOR contributor to the economy. Its contribution should be limited only to those powers granted by the constitution and only in limited situations. There is now doubt that there is some incremental benefit to the economy, but again, GVT only re-distributes dollars that have been created elsewhere in the market. It does not create. As to your point around social programs... I believe in ECON 101 we called that the leaky bucket... a "necessary evil". Now, my personal belief system is those of us that have been blessed have an obligation that we will be accountable for in the after life (oh wait, that means you have to assume that there is one by which our moral code is based) to take care of those that are truly indigent and cannot help themselves.
In a truly efficient market, social programs would be taken care of by those not for profits whose sole mission is to provide these services efficiently and effectively.
Posted 4 January 2012, 5:48 p.m. Suggest removal
(Scott Wedel) Scott_Wedel says...
California is actually seeing a split similar to what I described in Routt County.
Silicon Valley up along the Peninsula to San Francisco is doing quite well. San Francisco currently has a number of major office buildings under construction with more being proposed. Silicon Valley is also doing well with Apple and Google both preparing to construction massive new headquarters. And those are merely the largest of many other growing successful companies located there. Both areas have seen their real estate markets stabilize and recover. The froth of the boom is over, but things are at like a normal pace with pricing comparable to 2005 or so.
Meanwhile, the Central Valley is in bad shape as they had booming construction activity during the boom that went to zero and there are precious few other jobs for residents and so there is almost no one looking to buy or rent what had been recently built.
In terms of producing wealth, Wyoming is a tiny blip compared to Silicon Valley.
Posted 4 January 2012, 8:09 p.m. Suggest removal
(Anonymous) JusWondering says...
ybul writes: "Then as the Federal Reserve is chartered by the government, simply reduce interest rates to zero and pay down the principle."
While a simplistic idea in theory moving the rate to zero would not have an immediate impact, especially if like you suggest we cut spending dramatically. The Federal government issues debt with the promise to pay a stated amount of interest for the stated period of time. So, moving a rate on newly issued debt to 0% would not have an immediate impact (less new issues being created). If you are suggesting taking existing issues credit rate to 0% I would say this would be disasterous! What value would any issue of US debt be in the future if the can arbitrarily change the interest they are going to pay to you. This is something that would clearly be unprecedented in the marketplace.
Secondly, in order to issue debt you need a buyer of the debt. If you are issuing new instruments (bills, notes, and bonds) and paying a rate of 0%, the market for your instruments will be much less than other alternatives. Do I buy a US bond paying 0% or something else that is relatively stable paying 1%.
Besides, the Fed funds rate (the rate the Fed can effectively control) is already near 0 (7 bps). You would have to buy a 30 year bond today to get a yield that comes close to keeping up with inflation.
I can tell you that institutional investors (pension systems, insurance companies, corporations) are already modeling "Japan scenarios" for US debt instruments. Scenarios where the Fed funds rate stays at or near 0% for an extended period of time.
Posted 5 January 2012, 7:50 a.m. Suggest removal
(Steve Lewis) lewi says...
A good discussion.
Perhaps, for much of the U.S., "post consumer" is a fair label for several years to come. The key to the national economy, in my opinion, lies with the well being of the middle class. Can they afford consumption beyond bare essentials? The key to a local economy likely lies in the realm where ybul and Scott W have put it - the basic economics of natural resources or products offered. Just with a lowered demand to compete for.
Routt has its wealthy influences. That may set us apart. On the other hand, with our subsidized airline flights, it seems we add uncertainty.
Posted 5 January 2012, 11:47 a.m. Suggest removal
(Anonymous) ybul says...
If the government had no interest payment to make and could pay down debt instead (that is if they cut spending so that new deficits were not created) then a zero percent interest rate is not absurd. Given that prior to the federal reserves creation deflation was the major player in the marketplace, if we enter into a deflationary environment then resetting interest rates to zero would be a positive - cutting government spending, controlling the crazed printing of money and easy credit creation would start causing prices to decline and even retirees would prosper in a deflationary environment.
The Japanese need to borrow almost as much, if not more than us in the short term. Promoting a government that lives within its means is needed and it will take pain to get to that point. Yes it is outside the box thinking, but that is what we need right now as the box is headed to the dump.
Posted 5 January 2012, 12:53 p.m. Suggest removal
(Anonymous) ybul says...
Wyoming is a tiny blip - however, they actually produce base wealth that silicon valley does not. Silicon Valley is based upon the pension funds of others buying up stocks so that their system works.
The foundation of an economy is energy - wether it is food or energy. Silicon Valley is secondary and requires wealth being created elsewhere for it to survive. Yep the dollars are larger, however, they are the beneficiaries of a convoluted stock, banking pension system that has been based upon debt (borrowing today for more and realizing in the future that you are going to take less).
Our economy has been based upon debt - a mort gage or death grip from its latin derivation. Not a bible thumper - but it speaks of being in debt to another as being their slaves.
The federal reserve being a private company chartered by the federal government - which under tarp lent money to bankers wives with no collateral which then probably bought debt and made them a tidy income.
Unfortunately Silicon Valley creates products that cause us to work more to pay for them. IF one slowed down they might realize they could live on less, but that is not the desired system as it does not create more for the money changers, whom caused the only instance with which Jesus is noted as being upset in the Bible.
Lincoln stated to the brits (more so those living in tiny center of london's financial district that is not governed by British law.) that he did not feel obligated to pay their debts after learning that they were financing both sides of the war, which might have been the reason for his murder. Kennedy warned of the bankers and made an executive order to return to a sound monetary system. Maybe the battles we should be fighting today are the ones we should have been fighting and others have forever.
Posted 5 January 2012, 1:13 p.m. Suggest removal
(Anonymous) JusWondering says...
Lewi writes: "Perhaps, for much of the U.S., 'post consumer' is a fair label for several years to come."
To get very local; our problem is that we have built our infrastructure and economy to rely on much of the US being a consumber based economy. If people quit consuming (i.e. taking vacations) our current economy is hosed. However, to others' point Routt County has vast natural resources and a very strong agricultural heritage, competencies and infrastructure. Given the current environment it seems we do not have an apetite to take advantage of the natural resources (coal, natural gas, timber and ther minerals). Additionally we, as a State and to a lesser extent County, have recently been enacting legislation do discourage agriculture. There is something very wrong when it is cheaper to let raw lande return to sagebrush and willows rather than use the land for agriculture.
A SMART economic plan would seem to me to embrace a variety of sectors including manufacturing, raw materials, agribusiness and consumer sectors (tourism); textiles would be nice too, but it simply is not cost efficent (with the exception of higher end products like Smartwool, $18 for a pair of socks does not appeal to the masses) to produce them in Routt County due to transportation costs.
I can remember many years back (early 80's if I remember right) when we had another bad snow year and the economy tanked. Fortunately, at the time there was enough of a mining and agriculture influence in the County to keep us afloat. I can also remember buying homes all over Routt County... nice homes... for less than most people pay for a car! The ones that were able to capitalize on this laughed their way to the bank in the late 90s to 06. To this point, I still wonder if we have reached the bottom of the real estate market here yet. There are still a lot of properties where foreclosure is delayed waiting for values to increase. At some point that banker in Charlotte, NC is going to want to cut losses and move on.
ybul writes - "If the government had no interest payment to make and could pay down debt instead." Theoretically this is a great idea... unfortunately the current World economy is very much based on the U.S. ability to pay its debt with interest rates higher than 0%. To get us to the point of "debt free" without returning the world economy to the dark ages it would mean (in theory anyway) a period of 30 years where we issued no new debt.
ybul writes -"The foundation of an economy is energy - w(h)ether it is food or energy". I would re-state that the most basic foundation of an economy is food, shelter and clothing. Energy comes from the need to produce one of the other three.
Posted 5 January 2012, 2:33 p.m. Suggest removal
(Anonymous) ybul says...
Energy is food.
At some point the excess' of the past need to be paid back. It is time to quit playing kick the can down the road.
The world economy, invests money in the US as a safe haven or to manipulate their currency so they can export their products to the US. The rest of the world needs to return to a system with sound money, which yes will be painful - because many have consumed many years worth of production on credit essentially enslaving themselves or their grandchildren if they kick the can that far down the road - which our elected officials seem to do as everyone wants a promise of roses - when the best course of action might just be messy (as is today in looking into growing potatoes in the valley on large scale again as that is energy for us to produce more wealth).
Those $18 pairs of socks might just become the norm if the current paradigm is not changed soon. It might just be that it is cheaper to burn dollars than firewood as we go the Mugabe route and print up Quadrillion bank notes prior to getting our act together as did Brazil, which has modeled its economy on how ours was founded not how it exists today.
Posted 5 January 2012, 4:55 p.m. Suggest removal
(Anonymous) sledneck says...
Energy does not "come from the need to produce [food shelter or clothing]".
Energy comes from the Earth.
Wealth is created by the application of that energy to other natural resources.
The basic foundation of an economy is its degree of efficiency in allocation of land, labor, capital and other resources (among them are food, shelter, clothing and energy) which produce output that determines a societys standard of living.
In general, the more energy a society uses per capita, the higher its living standard.
Economy suggests scarcity. Absent scarcity, there is no need to "economize".
In a Garden of Eden there would be no economy because all things would be abundant. Food shelter and clothing would exist in abundance, even in the absence of an economy.
Therefore, the classic definition of economics, as given by British economist Lionel Robbins 1898-1984, is:
"Economics is the study of the use of scarce resources which have alternate uses."
Posted 5 January 2012, 7:10 p.m. Suggest removal
(Anonymous) JusWondering says...
Sled... Should have been Energy consumption comes... Not Energy comes from...
Other than that I basically agree with the rest of your statements.
Posted 5 January 2012, 9:38 p.m. Suggest removal
(Anonymous) ybul says...
Energy is not from the earth, oil comes from extra-teresterial activity. Without agriculture and its trade all other activities do not exist. Throw in the need for raw materials such as those produced to build all the wonders of silicon valley and silicon valley does not exist. It probably would not exist in its current fashion without the corporate banking system that exists today.
I can throw a quote at you also, fro T Jefferson. "If you give the bankers control of your money supply then the corporations that grow up around them will take back all your forefathers have fought for".
The increased productivity of the economy comes from creativity and the ability to be more efficient in production.
In general the more energy a culture has used, the higher the value of their paper money on the world exchange - facilitating their perceived higher standard of living or better put consumption.
We use the most and send our troops worldwide to protect "our resources" - essentially most wars are about resources and their control. As the resources have become more scarce the wars to protect them, to put in power puppets to sell them for next to nothing, have been more frequent.
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(1984) canyonwind says...
As for Routt County it is in good shape we have a world class ski resort, we produce coal by the mega ton and Electricity by the maga watt, and BEFF its whats for dinner and now we are becoming a OIL and GAS producer on a much larger scale regardless of what the east coast Johney come latleys say so Routt County is much more like Wyoming and very different than California in every way. California has a true unemployment rate of 30%, many of the jobs in that state have left for TEXAS and COLORADO with Austin and Colorado Springs the big winners. The main reason is Sky High Taxes and a law that was passed that would require 25% of all Electricity to be GREEN and Hydroelectric and Nucular don't count even though no hydrocarbons are burned. So as long as Colorado stay bussines friendly we should do better than most. Apple and Goggle do well because they have made deals with the Military Industrial Complex,DARPA and the IRS so they pay little income taxes.
Posted 7 January 2012, 12:39 a.m. Suggest removal
(Anonymous) JusWondering says...
Canyonwind writes"So as long as Colorado stay bussines friendly..." Colorado is business friendly??? Are you kidding me?
We continue to lose large employers on a monthly basis because of our business environment.
One of the ONLY things that has kept Colorado even remotely fiscally strong (relatively speaking) is TABOR.
Having hundreds of world class ski resorts does you no good when real discretionary income has dropped year after year since the current Administration has taken office (people take vacations based on discretionary income). Not only do we have less real jobs (don't let the inflation rate being reported fool you; it is not counting the number of able bodied adults out of work) but those of us that are employed are working for less real (not just inflation adjusted) dollars than we were three years ago.
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How the new standards affect utility balance sheets.
Over the next year (or years), companies in Canada and the United States will make the transition toward adopting International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). These standards will have a significant impact on the reporting requirements and financial disclosures of regulated companies, largely because a regulated company's financial information is used not only for financial reporting purposes, but also for ratemaking purposes. In particular, most electric, gas, water and pipeline utilities in North America are regulated on a cost-of-service basis, which allows them to recover costs they incur in providing service, including their cost of capital. 1 Because cost-of service regulation creates a strong link between the utility's cost and assets, the measurement of these costs and assets and how they're reported on the financial statements becomes important. 2, 3
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Examples of these include the North Road-Thompson Street junction and the North Road-John Street junction, when travelling towards the town centre. There are lots of other examples around the town also, plus several roundabout approaches.
In order to go straight ahead at these junctions, a cyclist must cross the left-hand lane and take up position in the right-hand lane. This is scary, even for a confident experienced cyclist, when there are several tonnes of car travelling 15 to 20 mph faster than you are right behind you. In theory, a cyclist could take a central position in the left-hand lane, but in practise cars going left will attempt to overtake and then turn left.
These features seem to be designed with the sole intention of increasing a car's average speed within the town, with no consideration given to cyclists when designing the junction.
What do readers think of these junctions? What other junctions in the town are arranged like this?
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- richardgrassick said...
Traffic measures for cyclists in Darlington fall into 2 categories:
1.Try to take into account the fact that cyclists exist, and design routes for them, BUT don't disrupt the speedy flow of motor traffic.
2. Forget the fact that cyclists exist.
This type of junction falls firmly into the second category. Another glaring example is the ongoing Building of the pedestrian Heart, and the diversions designed for pedestrians and motor vehicles, but not cyclists.
- 1:06 pm, February 02, 2007
- Beatrix said...
Well actually, it could work for cyclists if car drivers were more careful about other members of traffic. But in Darlo they regard the roads as their own (private) territory, pedestrians, cyclists and disabled people are looked at as intruders and disturbing.
As long as the police, the council and the politicians do not do anything about antisocial behaviour of car drivers instead of constantly (verbally) attacking esp. young cyclists on mountain bikes (who dont have much space to enjoy themselves) things won't change.
Car drivers have to learn, that there are vulnerable members of traffic, that want to use the roads, want to cross minor roads joining major roads without being hit by a car, that comes out of this minor road, and don't want cars parking on cycle paths and pavements. Cyclist don't want to dismount at every junction and they want to cycle through a round-about without being hit by a car leaving the round-about overtaking them just in front of his/her exit.
These are every-day-experiences in Darlo, and I have never seen any constable stopping car drivers behaving like that.
All the talk about safety is always geared to stop pedestrians, wheelchair-users and cyclists, but I have not heard anything or a thought about educating the car drivers about their rights and duties towards vulnerable traffic members.
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