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The Goshen Redevelopment Commission has decided to meld two housing proposals for the east bank of the millrace and we hope this is the right decision.
One proposal would construct Arts & Crafts-style family homes in a communal setting, whereby families would have front porches and share a common outdoor area. The second proposal is for three-story townhouses that would be customized for the buyers.
Feeling both proposals (the only two submitted) have merit, the commission decided to have the two development groups discuss sharing the 7-acre property. Now the idea is for townhouses to be built on the north end of the property and the family homes be built on the south end. The developments would be separated by vegetation.
When looking around the neighborhood adjacent to the millrace, we see modest family homes. It seems logical to continue that pattern of architecture for neighborhood cohesion. Inserting three-story townhouses will be a development gamble because of the single-family tradition and neighborhood atmosphere.
But some people in Goshen feel the city needs to reach out to wealthier people who want to live in an upscale condo atmosphere. The townhouse concept would provide such housing. And as long as a private developer is on the hook for the financial outcome, we can't find much wrong with the commission's Solomonic decision to split the property.
We think the Redevelopment Commission has done a fine job with directing the redevelopment of the rest of the millrace corridor, including the transfer of the historic Hawks factory building to LaCasa Inc., the renovation of the millrace powerhouse, the demolition of the former city garage and the addition of the functional and attractive public parking lot south of Interra Credit Union.
As a community we have entrusted these commissioners with important decisions in the past, and we are again relying on them to guide us on this project. But our advice to the commission members on the housing project is to keep their options open. We think it would be wise to put a time limit on start and finish for development for each concept. That way if one of the projects takes off and has a lot of people willing to invest in that concept and the other project stagnates, the more successful concept can expand quickly onto more of the property.
It is exciting to see two groups interested in this important piece of property in the historic heart of the city. Done properly, both can add vitality to the city's core and fill a void left by manufacturing companies that have long gone out of existence.
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- EDITORIAL: Local Latinos ready to serve To the best of its ability The Goshen News tells the story of its community. That was the case this past Thursday with the publication of "Who We Are," a special section that included articles ranging from essays about what makes small towns such gre
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The support by tech companies is no real surprise, given the growing need for more broadband service as Microsoft competes in the smartphone platform space and companies like Facebook build out app offerings.
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The challenge of keeping pace with consumer demand and continuing to lead globally in wireless broadband services and products requires that we tackle the issue on multiple fronts. Many policy related efforts will not be able to quickly address near term capacity needs.
The FCC must seriously weigh the benefits of this merger and approve it. Such action will help to meet the near term wireless broadband needs of consumers and ensure that we are globally competitive as the world increasingly embraces wireless broadband connectivity.
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Chinese Markets for Catalysts October 2010 Published by Asia Market Information and Development Co. Asia Market Information and Development Co. 15002 225th Ave NE Woodinville, WA 98072 USA Phone (425) 844-8585 Fax: (425) 844-8515 Email: email@example.com Web Site: www.ChineseMarketReport.com © Copyright 2010 Asia Market Information and Development Co. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without permission from Asia Market Information and Development Co. CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION Report Scope and Methodology Executive Summary II. BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT Economic Outlook Key Economic Indicators Industrial Output Population and Labor Foreign Investment Foreign Trade Financial and Tax Regulations Banking System and Regulations Foreign Exchange Taxes, Tariff and Custom Duties III. CATALYSTS INDUSTRY ASSESSMENTS Catalysts Industry Capacity Major Producer Facility Location, Output and Capacity Market Share of Key Producers Potential Entrants Major End-Users Major Foreign Investments Technology Development © Copyright 2010 AMID Co. i Contents IV. CATALYSTS PRODUCTION AND DEMAND Overview Catalyst Raw Material Supply Base Metals Peroxides Molecule Sieves Heavy Metals and Their Compounds Other Catalyst Materials Catalysts Production and Demand Reforming Catalysts Production and Demand Alkylating Catalysts Production and Demand Oxidation Catalysts Production and Demand Ammonia Synthesis Catalysts Production and Demand Polymerization Catalysts Production and Demand Cracking Catalysts Production and Demand Hydrogenation Catalysts Production and Demand Dehydrogenation Catalysts Production and Demand CO Shift Catalysts Production and Demand Other Catalysts Production and Demand Catalysts Net Imports Catalysts Pricing Trends V. 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CATALYSTS END-USE MARKETS Total Catalysts Consumption by Market Petrochemicals Production and Demand Catalysts Consumption in Petrochemical Industries Crude Oil Industry Outlook Crude Oil Refinery Production and Demand Catalysts Consumption in Oil Refining Fields Ammonia Production Fertilizer Production and Demand Catalysts Consumption in Fertilizer Production Catalysts Consumption in Other Fields © Copyright 2010 AMID Co. v Contents LIST OF CHARTS I. INTRODUCTION China's Catalysts Production II. BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT China's GDP and Growth Rate Industrial Output by Ownership China's Imports and Exports IV. CATALYSTS PRODUCTION AND DEMAND Catalysts Production V. CATALYSTS END-USE MARKETS Catalysts Demand by Market in 2009 VI. 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January 10, 2014 (CHICAGO) (WLS) -- A former Chicago alderman who spent two and half years in prison for political corruption in the 1990s is headed for familiar surroundings after being sentenced Friday in federal court.
Ambrosio Medrano will spend the next 10.5 years behind bars for a bribery scandal involving selling bandages to Stroger Hospital. The judge denounced the crime as simple greed, but appeared to offer some leniency in his sentence because he accepted that Medrano was operating in a traditional Chicago fashion, at some level meaning to do good.
Pleading for mercy for a 2010 scheme to pay bribes and get kickbacks over a bandage contract with a supplier the hospital, the 60-year-old Medrano avoided the 14-17.5 year sentence prosecutors wanted in favor of 10.5 years, well below federal sentencing guidelines.
Judge Gary Feinerman lamented that evidence showed Medrano plotted the very day former Governor Rod Blagojevich was sentenced in his corruption trial.
Medrano's crimes, he said, "infect government operations (which) harms citizens who lose faith in the integrity of government even if no money changed hands. It is unacceptable to take or facilitate bribes."
Medrano cried often as family and friends, including his namesake son, and his wife, Mireya, testified to his character as a well-meaning family man and father figure to many in the Little Village neighborhood.
United States Attorney Christopher Stetler countered that as a repeat offender, Medrano sought to enrich himself at public expense. Stetler recounted wiretaps played at trial last year in which the former alderman, who was working for former Cook County Commissioner Joseph Mario Moreno on the deals, commented that the scheme was part of Chicago's political culture where "hogs get slaughtered, but pigs get fat."
Outside court, the man who wanted to use the proceeds from the schemes to build a beach house in Central America repeated what he said to the judge.
"I am so sorry I acted foolishly, without thinking of the consequences," said Medrano. "I wish I could go back in time to correct my wrongs, but that is impossible. I apologize to all my friends that I disappointed, I apologize to my community and I apologize to my wife and children and the rest of my family," said Medrano.
"I would challenge anybody that says 10.5 years in prison is a light sentence to try to serve two days in prison," said defense attorney Gal Pissetsky.
Medrano must report to prison by March 21 and may end up at the Colorado facility where former Governor Rod Blagojevich is serving a 14-year sentence for corruption.
On Monday Medrano will be sentenced on a separate conviction for plotting with a Nebraska businessman to pay off a Los Angeles official for a mail-order pharmaceutical contract with the Cook County Hospital system.
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Originally published on Wed December 11, 2013 10:30 am
From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Melissa Block.
And I'm Audie Cornish.
It's been a big week for General Motors and it's only Tuesday. Yesterday, the Treasury Department sold off its remaining shares in the auto giant. That ends one of the most tumultuous periods in company history. Now, GM turns a page with a new CEO, Mary Barra.
As NPR's Sonari Glinton reports, she will become the first woman CEO of a major automaker.
For more on just how the Volcker rule will work and how it will be enforced, we're joined by Simon Johnson. He's professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and he's a member of the FDIC's systemic resolution advisory committee. Welcome to the program.
SIMON JOHNSON: Thanks for having me.
CORNISH: So let's talk more about proprietary trading. Give us some specific examples of this.
From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Audie Cornish.
And I'm Melissa Block.
Federal regulators today approved a tough new set of restrictions on the kinds of trading that banks can do. The so-called Volcker rule largely prohibits FDIC-protected banks from trading securities for their own financial gain. It's part of the Dodd-Frank overhaul passed three years ago.
This story comes to us from Harvest Public Media, a public radio reporting project that focuses on agriculture and food production issues. You can see more photos and hear more audio from the series here. Wednesday, we'll have a story from a meatpacking plant in Garden City, Kan., which takes a proactive stance toward its newest immigrants.
Originally published on Tue December 10, 2013 2:49 pm
Princeton University has started vaccinating students against type B meningitis in an effort to stop an outbreak that's infected at least eight people.
The vaccine isn't approved for general use in the United States, though it is available in Europe, Australia and Canada. But the meningitis strain that hit the New Jersey campus isn't fazed by the vaccines typically used in the U.S. The Food and Drug Administration is allowing a Novartis vaccine that's usually sold in other countries to be administered on the Princeton campus.
Originally published on Tue December 10, 2013 3:29 pm
She's not the first woman to head a global corporation.
Ginni Rometty runs IBM, and Indra Nooyi heads PepsiCo. Don't forget Ursula Burns at Xerox and Meg Whitman at Hewlett-Packard. There's Marissa Mayer at Yahoo.
Originally published on Tue December 10, 2013 6:33 pm
The Volcker rule, a centerpiece of the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial law aimed at stopping some of the risky banking practices that contributed to the economic meltdown, was approved by five key regulators on Tuesday, clearing the way for its implementation.
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission became the fifth and final body to approve the rule. The Federal Reserve and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. were also among the agencies that gave the green light.
Originally published on Tue December 10, 2013 3:50 pm
Back in 1995, more than half of all people of color rented their homes — almost twice the proportion of white renters. Then the Clinton administration pushed policies to bolster homeownership rates, and those numbers began a gradual, decade-long decline. The number of people of color renting fell below 50 percent. This coincided with an increased willingness by lenders to extend credit including to subprime borrowers.
Originally published on Tue December 10, 2013 11:34 am
Americans spend more on video games than on tickets to the movies. Grand Theft Auto V was the fastest-selling entertainment product of all time, with sales of $1 billion in just three days.
But when you factor in everything — not just movie tickets, but on demand, rentals, etc. — Americans still spend way more on movies than they do on video games.
American bank regulators unveiled the final version of the so-called Volcker Rule, which prohibits banks from trading stocks, bonds and derivatives for their own accounts. For more, Steve Inskeep speaks to NPR's Jim Zarroli.
This is TELL ME MORE from NPR News. I'm Celeste Headlee. If your wallet's already hurting this holiday season, we're going to spend the next part of the program helping you out a little. In a few minutes, we'll find out how to make the most money selling your used car. But first, some financial experts say if you're looking for extra cash, look no further than common things in your own house.
This is TELL ME MORE from NPR News. I'm Celeste Headlee. Michel Martin is away. We're going to spend some time today talking about money. In a few minutes, we'll ask how you can make some extra cash by selling either the junk around your house or the junker in your driveway.
Originally published on Tue December 10, 2013 10:11 am
The biggest player in food distribution is gobbling up a rival.
Sysco, which supplies places, such as restaurants and hospitals, is planning to buy U.S. Foods in a deal worth more than $8 billion. If approved by regulators, this could turn Sysco into a distribution colossus.
NPR's David Schaper has more.
The U.S. Department of Treasury has gotten out of the auto business. The government completed its sales of stock in General Motors on Monday.
NPR's business news begins with signs of a Chinese revival.
MONTAGNE: The latest economic numbers out of China are adding to hope for a global economic upturn. Growth figures for November show China's factory output is up 10 percent from a year ago, and exports are up almost 13 percent. That rebound has been helped by a boost in demand for Chinese goods in the United States and the European Union in the lead-up to the holiday shopping season. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
The government requires large employers to keep records of on-the-job injuries suffered by their employees. Now, the Obama administration wants to make those records easily available on a website. It says that would lead to safer workplaces. Manufacturers and businesses are objecting, arguing the data could be misinterpreted.
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This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News, I'm Renee Montagne.
And I'm Steve Inskeep. Federal regulators have unveiled the final version of what has come to be called the Volcker Rule. It's a big part of the financial reform that went into affect three years ago. It's taken all those years to come up with the language that will set new limits on the kinds of trading that banks can do and cannot do. NPR's Jim Zarolli joins us now to talk about this. Hi Jim.
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You may recall the guy who ran for governor of New York as part of the: Rent Is Too Damned High Party. Turns out, it is. A new study from the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies shows more and more families spending more and more of their monthly budgets on rising rents - leaving less money for everything else, including food.
Chris Herbert is one of the report's authors, and he spoke with our colleague, David Greene.
Women are still not making headway when it comes to getting on corporate boards or into senior leadership roles within big companies.
New research out Tuesday examined Fortune 500 Companies and found that women hold only about 17 percent of the seats on boards of directors, and they have an even smaller share — about 15 percent — of senior executive positions.
Originally published on Tue December 10, 2013 10:56 am
Oil giant BP is challenging hundreds of millions of dollars in claims that were filed by businesses after the company's 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
The total price tag for BP's oil spill is huge — $42.5 billion. At issue here is a fraction of that — but still a lot of money. BP says $540 million has been awarded to businesses for losses that "are either nonexistent, exaggerated or have nothing to do with the Deepwater Horizon accident."
Originally published on Tue December 10, 2013 8:45 am
The track record of commercial products designed with privacy as a top priority has been abysmal — at least until recently. The ephemeral texting app Snapchat is turning assumptions upside down about young people and their desire for digital privacy.
Fred Cate, director of applied cybersecurity research at Indiana University, is an expert on privacy in the digital age. But when it comes to the viability of tech products that promise privacy, Cate has always been skeptical.
Originally published on Mon December 9, 2013 3:59 pm
Critics of the federal auto bailout will no longer be able to refer derisively to GM as "Government Motors" — on Monday, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew announced the U.S. government has sold its remaining shares in the carmaker.
"With the final sale of GM stock, this important chapter in our nation's history is now closed," Lew said, announcing the sale.
The net? Taxpayers lost $10.7 billion on the deal.
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And I'm Melissa Block. We begin today with All Tech Considered and the top tech news of the day. Eight major technology companies are calling on President Obama to reform government surveillance programs. Google, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft are among the authors of an open letter to the president.
Originally published on Wed December 11, 2013 8:36 am
The meat on your dinner table probably didn't come from a happy little cow that lived a wondrous life out on rolling green hills. It probably also wasn't produced by a robot animal killer hired by an evil cabal of monocle-wearing industrialists.
Truth is, the meat industry is complicated, and it's impossible to understand without a whole lot of context. That's where Maureen Ogle comes in. She's a historian and the author of In Meat We Trust: An Unexpected History of Carnivore America.
Originally published on Mon December 9, 2013 1:44 pm
I'm Celeste Headlee. This is TELL ME MORE, from NPR News. Michel Martin is away. Coming up, infants are tested and screened for all kinds of illnesses, but a new report shows some hospitals are waiting too long to process those screening tests. The results could be bad. We're going to talk more about that in a few minutes but first, to happiness and the holidays.
Officials of 159 countries have taken a big step forward in promoting global trade. This happened over the weekend at World Trade Organization talks in Indonesian.
Here's NPR's Jim Zarroli.
JIM ZARROLI, BYLINE: The countries attending the WTO meeting agreed to a treaty that they say will lower trade barriers and speed up the passage of goods across borders. Officials say the deal could increase global trade by nearly a trillion dollars over time and also create millions of jobs.
Originally published on Mon December 9, 2013 8:55 am
New York's health insurance marketplace has been running relatively smoothly, compared with healthcare.gov, the site the federal government is running for 36 states.
But that's a low bar, and even though about 50,000 New Yorkers had signed up in the first two months, almost every day still brings complaints and glitches. Donna Frescatore, the head of the New York State Of Health, says there are no serious patterns of trouble, just individual issues that the state and its contractors address one by one.


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'American Idol' on the Charts: Scotty McCreery Continues to 'See' Upward Climb
Also: Mandisa's "Overcomer" stands strong on Christian Songs.
NEVER ENDING STORY: Scotty McCreery's album See You Tonight is in its fourth month on the charts and you might think there would be a second single by now. But there hasn't been the need for a follow-up to the initial release, as the title track, released long before the album hit the streets, is still moving up the Billboard charts.
"See You Tonight" re-enters Hot Country Songs at a lofty No. 14, a new peak position for the track that is in its 33rd week on this survey. There is upward movement on other country tallies: the song rises 27-25 on Country Digital Songs, 20-18 on Country Streaming Songs and 17-14 on Country Airplay.
On the Radio Songs chart, which measures airplay of songs in all formats, "See You Tonight" makes its debut, at No. 48.
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NOT OVER YET: Another album that hasn't yielded a second single yet is Mandisa's Overcomer. The Grammy-winning set is doing just fine with the title track, which has spent long patches of time at No. 1 on multiple Billboard Christian charts. This week, "Overcomer" holds at No. 2 on Christian Songs, No. 3 on Christian Adult Contemporary and Christian Digital Songs and No. 4 on Christian Airplay.
All of this airplay and sales action help boost the album back up the Top Christian Albums chart, from 17-13.
BITS AND PIECES: Guy Sebastian from Australian Idol is No. 3 on the breakout list of songs poised to debut on the Hot Dance Club Play chart, with his song "Like a Drum"… Candice Glover's "Cried" holds at No. 22 on Adult R&B… Jennifer Hudson's "I Can't Describe (The Way I Feel)" jumps 6-3 on Bubbling Under Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs… Phillip Phillips' The World from the Side of the Moon rebounds 175-162 in its 63rd week on Top Current Albums, while the single "Gone, Gone, Gone" moves back up Rock Digital Songs, 23-20… Daughtry's "Waiting for Superman" is up 23-22 on Adult Contemporary and maintains at No. 12 on Adult Top 40… Fantasia's "Side Effects of You," the third single from the album of the same name, advances 20-19 on Adult R&B.
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Stargate: Universe—Apparently It's Destiny
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My personal interpretation was that Col. Young was on the tail end of a bad time. I think once they got better control of Destiny was about the time he pulled his head out his butt. In the episode "Epilogue" he admits to making mistakes.Maybe not SGC repercussions, but the writers made (Col. Young) the president of the planet or whatever and made it seem like he was Mr. Perfect in the end.
The problem might not have been he was Mr. Perfect in the end, but that he was sold as Mr. Perfect from the start.
Writers couldn't say he was a frakked up dude from the git.
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I believe one of them said something to the effect of, "We wanted a SG show that was more about drama than adventure". Well, they certainly got it. Too bad that I wanted to see a show about adventuring and exploring the galaxy. Instead I was watching a show on an an ancient rustbucket full of people I just didn't wind up caring a lot about.
And they repeated that stuff about the DVD market bottoming out. There may be some truth in that. But it wouldn't surprise me that the failure of SGU also could have been a big reason why we won't get any more Stargate movies.
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And they repeated that stuff about the DVD market bottoming out. There may be some truth in that.
The thing is, both direct-to-video SG-1 movies successfully turned a profit. It may well be true that MGM's market bottomed out for theatrical DVDs or even their broadcast series sets, but there was a proven audience (to the tune of roughly $8 million in sales) for new Stargate adventures. Mind you, that's adventures featuring characters that the audience actually cared about, not the tepid cut-outs on SGU.
Posted Dec 11, 2012 @ 8:03 PM
I think the market did bottom out of the DVD market to a certain extent, but I don't think that realistically there was going to be an SGA movie after it wasn't immediately greenlit in 2008 or early 2009 to much time was passing and the cast were moving on and the brass were all exciting for their new "BSG style" (yes they did use those kinds of phrases) that was supposed to be a huge hit. If SGU hit they'd all be too busy being smug that their gamble paid off to bother with more "bumblegum" and if it failed as it did they'd loose a lot of franchise momentum. The producers wanting to do an SGU movie was probably never going to happen. It's ratings were in the toilet from late S1 and had *franchise lows* in a row in S2 before being cancelled. I think it was just wishful thinking on the writers parts. Wanting to do a "All Star Team up movie project" was just desperation at the end there.
I think SG-1 sort of reached a natural end point with Continuum. Yes they could have gone on, but it works as an end, with Baal being offed. Both AOT and Continuum were more explode-y, slightly less well written (IMHO) versions of "The Reckoning" and "Mobieus" anyway.
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I can imagine them frantically writing an episode where McKay awkwardly makes out with Keller (like Tom Cruise with his wife/girlfriend/contractually-obligated publicity partner du jour whenever there are cameras around) in response to being shown something like that.
We already got the whole Scott banging Lt. James in the closet (and it was the very first scene of SGU). Which proves that A). this wouldn't be your fathers Stargate (:( ) and B). IMO, the TPTB's way of saying "see, our characters are not gay."
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Earth Day, going green….that's what this Saturday will be in the Town of Halifax as Events Coordinator Susi Robbins calls on residents to join in the festivities which begin at 10 a.m. and last until 4 p.m. at the Halifax Farmers Market on South Main Street.Bring the family to enjoy earth-friendly information with local businesses, organizations and school groups that will be offering hands-on activities and fun for all. Enjoy local artists and crafters, great music, great food and door prizes. This year marks the 43rd birthday for Earth Day which was born on April 22, 1970. U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson came up with the idea for the first Earth Day which turned out to be a "teach-in and protest about environmental issues." Some 20 million people participated in that first Earth Day celebration and now as many as 500 million turn out annually to take part in the various activities across the nation. Earth Day celebrations are credited with launching the environmental movement in this country. They helped to convince the US Congress to pass important legislation including the Endangered Species Act and bills that led to the formation of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), protecting air and water quality. They led to the closure of leaky landfills and chemical waste sites, while also encouraging greater recycling efforts. The Earth Day programs also led to the saving of the nation's symbol — the bald eagle — which in the mid 40's had virtually disappeared. But after being placed on the government's Endangered Species List, the eagle has now made an amazing comeback. The cause of its disappearance was connected with the use of DDT which the eagles got from feeding on small animals and plants that had ingested the chemical spray. The eagle population had only 417 breeding pairs in 1963, but with the banning of DDT in 1972, the numbers rebounded quickly. Today eagles are seen more commonly than they were in the early 1900's. How can we help? First by recycling. The Town of Halifax offers free recycling every Wednesday when town employees pick up town furnished containers at street side each week. These may contain paper, cardboard, aluminum, tin cans, glass and plastics which do not have to be sorted. People in the county may take their recyclables to the specially marked green boxes at the local convenience centers. Work to reduce energy consumption by turning off lights when not in use and conserve water by turning off the faucet while brushing your teeth. Plant flowers and trees which provide fresh oxygen and remove pollution from the air. Trees also provide shade and slow wind currents. They also prevent soil erosion and absorb water from the ground and recycle it. When replacing appliances look for the energy saving ones and replace regular light bulbs with fluorescent ones. Laundry should be washed in cold water and turning up the air conditioner in the summer and the heat down in the winter also helps reduce energy consumption. Just make up your mind to go green… Tell-a-Friend | Submit a Comment 415News & Record
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According to the Johnson County Sheriff's Office, the victim reported to the Child Protection Center that she was introduced to Luis A. Contreras, also known as Ovidio J. Duenas, during the summer of 2011 when she was 14 and he was 29. Police said the victim reported she and Contreras began a sexual relationship that lasted until recently. Contreras allegedly took the girl to several motels in the Iowa City and Cedar Rapids area and their own homes for the purpose of having sex.
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Margaret Sanger: Birth control is freedom!
In a response to Gandhi's Liberty magazine essay, she discounts his idea that abstinence is a realistic policy
Topics: Birth Control, Love and Sex, Gandhi, Liberty magazine, Life News
Yes: it is quite true that the rising generations are beginning to discredit and to discount those prejudices voiced by the elders which too often have been accepted as traditional "wisdom."
They are being born into a world of confusion and chaos. They are confronted on all sides by misery, poverty, insecurity, crime. Dictators whip up class hatred, race hatreds, national hatreds among their slaves, most of whom were born of men and women close to the starvation point and themselves were undernourished children. It has been well said that starving men are always angry men. Even more menacing to the established order is a generation of undernourished children. Such a background becomes the soil out of which dictators emerge. Is it any wonder therefore that the younger generations can no longer revere the wisdom of those who have permitted international chaos to become worldwide?
We advocate birth control by means of contraception, not to encourage reckless sex gratification but to place in the hands of young and responsible married couples a scientific instrument by means of which they may fulfill their duties to their children. To their children already born and to those who come.
We advocate intelligent control of the procreative faculties in the very same manner that all intelligent and civilized persons control all the physiological functions of the human body – in the interests of health, hygiene, and the development of higher purposes and uses.
The legitimate use of contraception implies foresight and co-operation. Instead of being in any sense a secret vice, it is the extreme opposition from heedless sex gratification.
Birth control is synonymous with discipline, foresight, the conquest of heedless, selfish impulses, and the channeling of one of the most imperative forces of all nature to the common good – to the best interests of the individual, the community at large, and the ultimate destiny of the human race.
Intelligently utilized, the instrument of contraception has brought freedom to the lives of thousands. It has removed fear from married love; it has and shall continue to reduce the maternal death rate among mothers too ill and feeble to bear the burden of a long series of undesired pregnancies. It is saving the lives of many infants and children, because it is giving them more "vital space" in which to grow and to be properly fed. Remember that the ranks of crime are recruited mainly from the high-birth-rate groups.


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After a year where Republicans—even so-called "moderates," like Mitt Romney—devoted themselves to dividing the public into "makers" and "takers," a new survey from the Pew Research Service shows that most Americans—55 percent, in fact—are "dependent on government" in some form.
Thanks to the tireless efforts of the NRA and the gun manufacturers, 49 states now issue concealed carry permits to people for whom merely owning guns is not enough. As we focus our attention on military-style rifles and high-capacity magazines, we need to remember that the most important change in recent years isn't in the equipment, but in the spread of a new kind of mentality among many gun owners, one that seeks to make fear the organizing principle of American society.
This has been the essential focus of gun advocates' work in recent years: changing laws so that as many people as possible can carry as many guns as possible into as many places as possible. Since the people who want to do so have driven the discussion and the laws on guns, it's important to understand where they're coming from. And frankly, it's an ugly place.
The horrific mass killing of elementary schoolchildren in Newtown, Connecticut has served as another reminded that the United States is an unusually violent country. And the evidence is overwhelming that lax regulations of private firearms plays a major role in this unnecessarily high rate of violent death. And yet, it is very unlikely that any federal legislation will be passed in response to the Newtown killings, let alone regulations comparable to those in other liberal democracies.
In the president's first term, a gauntlet of procedural hurdles stood in the way of progressive change. As Majority Leader Harry Reid promises to reform the filibuster—on the magical day when the new Senate convenes and can make new rules—most progressives are wondering whether it's an end to many of President Barack Obama's problems. After all, without the constant threat of a filibuster, Senate Democrats wouldn't have had to scramble for votes from the centrists who watered down health-care legislation and stalled action on climate change in Obama's first two years, when he had an outright majority in the Senate.
He's back. Larry Summers is running hard to succeed Ben Bernanke as chairman of the Federal Reserve when Bernanke's term expires in early 2014. This is not a great idea, for three main reasons. The first is Summers' famous temperament. The problem is not just that he's less than sensitive to women. It's that he's a bully in general, cocksure of himself, using others as foils and prevailing by controlling the agenda.
There are some serious, perhaps insurmountable obstacles to any new gun-safety measures being passed through Congress. Specifically, the House of Representatives is controlled by Republicans, and nearly all of them have been endorsed by the National Rifle Association. Those endorsements didn't come for nothing; they're an acknowledgement of past service and a warning against future heresy. And as the GOP has grown more Southern and rural in recent years, the NRA's grip has only tightened.
We're about to start the portion of this debate where we actually begin discussing specific actins the government might take to address gun violence. And as we do, particularly when it comes to those measures that concern the guns themselves (as opposed to measures focused on the people who can get them or the conditions of their purchase), it's likely that gun advocates will start complaining that there's a problem with all these effete urban northeastern liberals making laws governing guns they know nothing about. This isn't new; for instance, gun advocates have long hated the term "assault weapon," since it doesn't really mean anything in particular (after all, every gun is a weapon designed for assault).
We should be very wary of the argument that people who have a lot of experience with guns have some kind of greater moral claim to a voice in this debate (and we should also be wary, as Elsbeth Reeve writes, of coastal urbanite conservatives claiming to speak for "real America" about guns). Yes, having everyone get their facts straight is important. But every one of us is potentially affected by guns, whether we ever bother to pick one up or not. That's kind of the whole point. You don't have to know how to disassemble and clean a Glock to want your kid not to be shot by one.
The optics of Susan Rice's withdrawal from consideration for secretary of State are disheartening. Ruth Marcus of The Washington Post and Representative Marcia Fudge of Ohio attributed racism and sexism to the campaign against Rice, with Marcus writing that "the attack had something to do with Rice's gender, and her sharp elbows and sometimes sharper tongue," while Fudge said "[Republican senators] have never called a male 'unqualified,' 'not bright,' 'not trustworthy,' …there is a clear sexism and racism that goes with these comments."
Every mass shooting, there's a brief flare-up of discussion about gun control, followed by an inevitable dropping of the subject as liberals give up hope that anything can be done about guns when conservatives control the discourse so thoroughly. It's become so predictable that even lamenting the process has in itself become a cliché. The notion that owning semi-automatic assault rifles that can shoot off six rounds a second is a "right" has become so embedded that many people, including our president, have calculated that it's fruitless to even try to start drafting legislation that would restrict the sale of such weapons.
Once again, President Obama seems to be on the verge of folding a winning hand. Widely leaked reports indicate that the president and House Speaker John Boehner are making a fiscal deal that includes hiking tax rates back to the pre-Bush levels with a threshold of $400,000 rather than the original $250,000, and cutting present Social Security benefits. Obama, the reports say, will now settle for as little as $1.2 trillion in tax increases on the rich rather than the $1.6 trillion that he had originally sought. The difference, in effect, will come out of the pockets of workers, retirees, the young, and the poor.
It's safe to say that we've had more of a national discussion about guns in the last four days than we've had in the last fifteen years. The particular measures to address gun violence that are now in the offing run from those that are well-intended but likely to be ineffectual (renewing the assault weapons ban, for instance) to some that could have a more meaningful effect even if they're difficult to implement (universal background checks, licensing, and training). But the most useful change that may come out of this moment in our history is a change in the way we look at guns.
By that I don't mean that Americans will suddenly stop fetishizing guns, or that everyone will agree they're nothing but trouble. But if we're lucky, perhaps we could come to an agreement on something simple. Yes, our constitution guarantees that people can own guns, much as many of us wish it didn't. But even in the context of that freedom, we should be able to agree that guns are different. The freedom to own guns is different from other freedoms, and guns are different from other products. A sane society should be able to acknowledge that difference and use it to guide the choices it makes.
Since their across-the-board defeat in November, Republicans have talked a great game about reform and outreach, with presidential hopefuls Paul Ryan, Marco Rubio, and Bobby Jindal leading the charge. But the actual actions of the GOP belie this stated commitment to change. According to National Journal, for example, Republicans are planning a big push to change how states distribute their electoral votes.
Up until now, Barack Obama's record on guns has been one of the biggest disappointments for his liberal supporters. In his first term he signed two laws on guns, one allowing people to take their guns into national parks, and one allowing people to take their guns on Amtrak trains. But now there are some hints that the administration may be open to some modest measures to reduce the easy availability of some of the deadliest means of killing large numbers of people at one time. In particular, we could see a renewal of some version of the assault weapons ban that was in place from 1994 to 2004. That law used a somewhat complicated flow chart of features to define an assault weapon, and also banned magazines that held more than 10 rounds. A ban on high-capacity magazines may be the easiest thing to pass today, because it's not hard to define and they are almost impossible to justify for any purpose other than killing people.
The easy argument against any new law, and one we'll certainly be hearing, is "That wouldn't have stopped Adam Lanza." And that's probably true. If someone is determined enough and takes enough time to plan, they can kill lots and lots of people. But the point of our policy shouldn't be solely to make sure that nobody ever shoots up a school again, it should be to reduce the appalling death toll that guns bring to our society. If the horror of 20 murdered children in Connecticut is the thing that leads us to finally attempt to do something about the 30,000 Americans who are killed with guns every year, then it will be fine if the next set of policies isn't focused on preventing precisely that kind of massacre.
We'll only do something meaningful if we think in the broadest of terms.
If you ever have the chance, you should visit Newtown, Connecticut, a "picture-postcard place in New England, especially in the fall." Or so urges Sperling's Best Places to Raise Your Family, which included the town among its 100 best spots to have kids, ranking it among the top ten where you could "keep your door unlocked." The guide book for families looking for the ideal hometown also notes that Newtown is among its top ten of its 100 picks in terms of having a high percentage of households—44—that have an annual household income above $100,000 per year.
The Michigan legislature's lame duck session is only three weeks long, but the state house didn't need more than 18 hours to move the state sharply to the right. During a marathon session Thursday and Friday, the state house passed a variety of very conservative bills on issues from abortion to gun control to taxes. You can't say they're not efficient. The state, which favored Obama by 9 points and has long been home to a moderate-progressive movement, may now have a set of laws that puts it on America's more conservative end.
Gay Republican group GOProud gets to attend this year's conference—but that's hardly a victory.
The U.S. can keep talking to Iran about nukes even while pressuring them on terrorism.
The problem is that in all likelihood, very few Americans know who they are.


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My thought was exactly the same as Beth's above. Where does it go?...
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by Jason Creviston
March 5th, 2014
Upon my porch I sat one morn, when a stranger caught my eye
Walking from the East to West, they ne'er saw the sky
For upon the ground their gaze did look, their shoulders slumping low
What could it be that troubles them? My mind, it did not know
A better look I sought to get, now from the steps I stand
An older man my eyes behold, with a somber look at hand
I gave a shout to greet him fair, upon deaf ears it lay
For ne'er once did he look at me, but went upon his way
And early the next day I woke, upon the rising sun
With hope to see this man once more, and finish what I'd begun
About mid-morn, upon my look, the elder man appear
A walk again from East to West, with shouts upon deaf ear
Running to the street I knew, this might be my last chance
But when I looked, the man was gone, without a single glance
I set out in pursuit of him, a bit confused I guess
I'll search until I find him, and vow to ne'er rest
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Don't wait to live it, too late you will be
At last all withered away
For all that it is, will never come close
To all that you want it to be
Not for one's self, do you suppose
But for others, to love, shall it be
For what do you wait? what action to take?
Go out and love, I say
To be first, not last; is all it will take
To brighten another's day
For God loves us all, that's how it's to be
Now this poem I write for you
Don't take it in stride, or too late it may be
To make today's wish come true
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