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Samsung Q310 13.3in laptop
If you're left confused by the extraordinary popularity of netbooks, but still want a decent laptop without spending a fortune, Samsung's Q310 has you squarely in its sights. At under £700, it's fast, packed with features and the prettiest thing you've ever seen – at least that's what Samsung would have you believe. Samsung …
Samsung laptops
By all means and purposes, Samsung should be able to make amazingly cool laptops. I seriously wonder when they find "it", the design/functionality/material combo that lives up to the expectations. I haven't seen a single desirable portable from them, but I hope it's just the question of time. It would be good to have some competition to the Vaio. Their TVs are feature-packed, top notch things. Come on, guys a bit more effort here, please.
that is one ugly lump of plastic
DVD bricks^Wdrives
After that fiasco I do not see why anyone would wish to take a risk buying samsung "windows only" technology.
Also having just goine through hell with Samsung drives killing a 500UKP raid controller and almost ruining a business, I give anything with "samsung" on the cover a "fail".
I'd be quite interested one of these if it did not come with windows.
Dell XPS 1330
Why no comparison with Dell XPS 1330 ? That is in the same price bracket, yet is faster, lighter, and more stylish.
I've had this notebook for 2 months now. It excels beyond my dad's Vaio sz (bought one month previous) on boot time, game fps and program speed enormously.
Some corrections:
The plastic is certainly not 'cheap'. Perhaps with the influx of shiny plastics in recent months in new laptops, it could be considered on the lower end of the scale, but even then it is of considerable quality at this price point.
The port layout i've found is quite efficient. Considering the size of flash drives nowadays, the card reader on the front and the length of optical mouse cables, it makes sense to have just one usb on the side with additional ports on the back. Who uses a tv tuner with a 13.3" screen anyway?
This article reads like Jeremy Clarkson when he's scrutinizing a car. 'Nothing is right about this laptop, everything is lacking. But despite our "grumbles" its "great value" '. These grumbles seem to include a lack of built in "HSDPA 3G" (which is laughable at this price range), and the distinct lack of the only real criticism you can level at this laptop, one that you would find almost immediately if you'd actually got an example of the notebook for review (which I sincerely doubt at this point), fingerprints. The super shiny polish on the plastic makes them more visible after a day's work than the super super shiny Samsung logo on the front.
While I agree with the slight lack of viewing angles (which for anyone who wants to work privately will agree isn't necessarily a bad thing), the subsequent statement is a complete stereotype, which certainly isn't based on this laptop, having used it on the deck of a boat in the bright sunshine of the Solent when I first bought it: "as with all glossy displays, it's a magnet for reflections". Bollocks.
"Unlike the three-antenna Wi-Fi Link 5300, this card only has two antennae". Oh dear. I've had no issues with the wifi whatosever, running off of my girlfriend's ancient 802.11b router from 30 metre's distance, running off my 802.11n router from my garden (the router is located some 40 metres away, inside a study which is separated from the garden by 2 brick walls and another room), or at uni, where the 802.11g wireless no better on my friend's £1100 Vaio, with the Intel 5300, than on my merely 2 antennae equipped 5100, at all distances).
The gaming laptop. At 700 pounds, what do you expect? I certainly didn't buy this laptop on the grounds that I could run high-end games. It will happily run Counter-Strike Source on native res at 50fps. COD4 will also run in native res at 25fps, naturally without any added texture settings and with AA off, but again, what could you expect at this price point with the new cpu?
Given the price point I would say this is a brilliant laptop, one that is quite portable (I walk to and from university with it (2 miles each way), 4 days a week, and carry it in addition to a suitcase with me on the train every month or so home). Graphics are to an extent limited, but I didn't buy it with a view to play tf2 let alone COD4. Next el reg will be criticising the Eee 701 because it won't play Crysis.
This article does make me wonder if el reg had the laptop at all, not for the lack of finger print grumbles, but for the distinct inaccuracies and the contradicting verdict.
RE: Incorrect?
You have a laptop at university? Back in my day we had bread and water and quills and parchment! Grrr.. get orf my lawn...
PS. Your dad should've waited! The shiny new Z and SR series came out to replace that model a week or two afterwards! They'd compare more favourably to your machine being from the same era, but they do cost an arm and a leg... Sony must use the same tax calculator as Apple!
Batter Life
Not sure if this graph always has this title in your reviews, but my initial thought on seeing it was that it was going to display the results of a ruggedness test. How dissappointed I was.
Flames because you also ommitted to test its flammability and potential as a blunt instrument.
RE: Incorrect?
Quills and parchment ? How easy you had it ! We had to skin our calves ourselves, with bare hands, before we would have had parchment.
Mine's the handmade one.
re: Dell XPS M1330
'Tis indeed a cracking machine, keenly priced, and comes thoroughly reccomended. I have come across zero flaws in the past 18 months or so of using mine.
Using other folks' laptops always shows up the compromises that have been made on only marginally cheaper machines.
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Congressional Progressive Caucus PAC Endorses TUDOR!
Washington, D.C. – August 23, 2010 – Doug Tudor has won the endorsement of the Congressional Progressive Caucus PAC for his election to Congress as Representative of Florida's 12th Congressional District.
"I am extremely honored to accept the Congressional Progressive Caucus PAC's endorsement and support," said Tudor. "The Congressional Progressive Caucus has been at the forefront of the fight to ensure that the United States Congress represents all of the people of our country, building a more just and humane society. I will work hard in Congress to promote economic justice for all Americans, protect the Constitutional rights of all, promote peace and security, and ensure that our children and grandchildren inherit a world as beautiful as the one we now share."
"The Congressional Progressive Caucus will be proud to have you as a member," said Congressman Raul Grijalva, AZ, Congressional Progressive Caucus Co-chair.
For more information on the Congressional Progressive Caucus, please visit their website.
Rosalind Moffett
(813) 385-8605
Ignorance Doesn't Matter?
In response to this editorial recommendation, http://www.newschief.com/article/20100820/NEWS/8205021/1011, I submitted the following rebuttal letter.
I commend The News Chief for its honesty in its recent Democratic primary recommendation. Basically, the headline could have read, "She's Ignorant, But She's Our Ignorant."
When speaking of me, the recommendation stated: "He also is confident, forceful, opinionated and knowledgeable about the key issues of the day."
When speaking of my opponent, the article stated: "She wasn't as well prepared as Tutor (sic) or particularly up to date on several of the issues, particularly immigration and national security."
All in all, the article concludes the voters should cast their ballot on a candidate's residency in Polk County, even though the district itself covers 2,000 square miles and parts of three counties.
I will keep this residency recommendation in mind as I attend Saturday's services for District 12 resident, PFC Paul Cuzzupe, who was killed in action in Afghanistan. While my opponent may be ignorant on national security, and while the News Chief may feel that only Polk County matters, I beg to differ. PFC Cuzzupe was from Seffner in Hillsborough County which is about 16 miles west of County Line Road. He died some 7,000 miles away from Polk County.
The citizens of this district need a representative who is "confident, forceful, opinionated and knowledgeable about the key issues of the day." In the News Chief's own words, I am that candidate.
Very respectfully,
Doug Tudor
Democratic Candidate, FL-12
Progressive Democrats of America Support Doug Tudor!
August 5, 2010
Last Thursday night, Progressive Democrats of America held their Inside the Party Conference Call. I am excited to tell you that Progressive Democrats from across the country unanimously endorsed my campaign for congress!
In 2008, I received their national endorsement as well. When I learned I had again been selected, I offered this:
"I am humbled and honored to once again be endorsed by the Progressive Democrats of America. PDA's national endorsement means Team Tudor can add over 70,000 activists to the hundreds of grassroots supporters already on the ground in Central Florida. It is a clear marker for every primary voter in FL-12 that I am representing the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party."
Founded in 2004, Progressive Democrats of America has sought to build a party and government that is controlled by citizens, not corporate elites. By working within and outside the Democratic party for peace and justice, PDA helped to bring about stunning victories in 2006 and 2008. By electing Progressive Democrats and working with the Congressional Progressive Caucus already in Washington, PDA has already made worked on major issues such as the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, voter rights, accountability and economic and environmental justice. Visit pdamerica.org to learn more and become involved in your local chapter.
Our campaign is working on the ground every day to bring our winning message to voters. Please pledge today – right now – to contribute to our campaign with your time, talent, and treasure. We need each of the three "T's." Please go to www.teamtudor.org to pledge your support and to let us know how you can help.
Your brother, Doug
Florida Prospers Supports Doug Tudor for Congress!
Doug Tudor for Congress is proud to have the endorsement of Florida Prospers. Please read the email they sent out to their members, below:
"Doug Tudor is a retired Navy Master Chief and a successful businessman. In the Navy, Doug achieved the highest enlisted rank and served us overseas in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now Floridians can help him serve us here at home.
Doug is pragmatic. When we spoke about the election he commented, "I realize not everyone is in a position, personally or financially, to run for Congress. I'm no millionaire but I'm blessed and I have the opportunity to run again and I'd be remiss if I did not act when America has so many problems and is paralyzed by partisan politics." In 2008, he ran for U.S. Congress in Florida's District 12 against one of the most partisan politicians in Florida, Congressman Adam Putnam. Despite campaigning against an incumbent with 18 times more money, Doug received a stunning 42.5% of the vote. Doug Tudor's performance seems to have caused Congressman Putnam to re-evaluate his re-election; Putnam chose not run again for Congress.
This year, Doug Tudor is running for an open Congressional seat, one he nearly won two years ago. Unfortunately, partisan politics is stronger than ever. The Florida Democratic Party has chosen favoritism over leadership and has advanced a primary challenger against Doug. FloridaProspers and Doug Tudor are here to stand against party favoritism and promote sound leadership for our state.
Seizing the open seat opportunity that Doug created, career politician Lori Edwards jumped in the race to challenge Doug in the Democratic primary. It is important to note, Doug received more votes in his first campaign than Lori has received cumulatively in 7 election cycles over almost 20 years as a politician. That is an impressive statistic!
In the November election the winner will need fewer votes than Doug earned in the District in 2008. This is one of the many and practical reasons FloridaProspers supports Doug Tudor for Congress in Florida's District 12.
If you live in District 12, then you are fortunate to have an excellent candidate and Floridians need you to vote for Doug. If you live outside of Polk, Hillsborough, and Osceola counties and do not have a contested race for Congress in your area, then we ask you to help Doug win his primary on August 24th with a contribution. http://www.teamtudor.org
FloridaProspers when we chose the best representatives for our state. Together we can replace the influence of partisanship and special interests by contributing $10, $25 or $50 a month from now until November so that all of Florida can celebrate victory on Nov. 2nd. Join our cause and we won't stop until FloridaProspers. Thank you, The Board"
Coalition of Doug Tudor, RFK Jr., Gulf Coast groups, and 60,000 Americans Asks President Obama to Stop bp From Blocking Clean-Up Workers From Wearing Respirators Around Toxic Fumes
Washington Post, MSNBC, Louisiana media, and others
Riverview, Florida – July 12, 2010 – Since last Thursday, 60,000 Americans have joined Doug Tudor, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Gulf Coast groups, and others on a new coalition asking President Obama to stop bp from blocking clean-up workers from wearing respirators around toxic fumes.
MaryLee Orr, executive director of the Louisiana Environmental Action Network, says clean-up workers are being "fired for using safety equipment. bp is afraid they will admit some sort of liability, that there's a problem in the air, if they allow workers to use the respirators."
The coalition was organized by the Progressive Change Campaign Committee and also includes 10 members of Congress, 4 Senate candidates, 27 House candidates, and groups like the United Commercial Fisherman and Louisiana Shrimpers Association. MSNBC's Keith Olbermann described it on his show Friday: "A new coalition of environmental and fishing groups has launched a site called BPMakesMeSick.com, petitioning President Obama to make bp give the workers respirators."
Thousands of Americans will call the White House this week, asking for President Obama's intervention.
Doug Tudor, a Democratic candidate for the U.S. House in Florida's 12th Congressional District, was among the first partners to join this coalition, which is gaining momentum by the day.
"Florida's residents are sick of this catastrophe of greed. The workers trying to clean up the mess shouldn't be sickened also," said Doug Tudor.
The full coalition statement says, "We cannot let the denial of protective gear that hurt so many 9/11 clean-up workers happen again with the Gulf clean-up workers. President Obama and the federal government must demand that BP allow every clean-up worker who wants to wear respiratory protective equipment to do so — and ensure that workers get the equipment and training they need to do their jobs safely."
Media reports below.
Media Reports
NEW YORK TIMES: Petition Urges Obama Admin to Protect Gulf Spill Cleanup Workers
MSNBC'S COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMAN: Highlights BPMakesMeSick.com
HUFF POST: Louisiana Watermen Demand Proper Safety Equipment In Gulf Oil Cleanup
WASHINGTON POST: Mentions coalition here and here.
BATON ROUGE ADVOCATE: Group wants BP to OK respirator use
TECH PRESIDENT: Gulf Fishermen, Bloggers, RFK Jr. Say "BP Makes Me Sick"
NY DAILY NEWS: Group Demands BP Provide Cleanup Workers With Respirators
Round TUIT
Today is the last day of the financial reporting period for the second quarter of 2010. As you are actively involved in politics and political campaigns, you will receive dozens of emails today from candidates requesting money. Each of these campaigns will ask for your support in a dramatic tone, as if their fundraising bottom line is the bottom line for their campaign.
You and I know that fundraising is only one indicator of a campaign's support. A more reliable indicator to me is how many people are supporting a campaign. In other words, I would prefer to receive $20.00 from 120 people, than to receive $2,400.00 from 1 person. The total is the same, but the breadth of support is dramatically different. From day one our campaign has relied on you, not the big money interest. I have run to be Your Choice, Not Washington's.
As of this writing, we are 54 contributions away from having 500 contributions this quarter. Paradoxically, there are 54 days remaining until our primary against a Conservative Blue Dog.
I would be honored to report that we received over 500 contributions this quarter. Please consider contributing before midnight tonight. If you have already contributed this quarter, thank you. Please consider helping us again. If you have not contributed this quarter, because you have been waiting to get around to it – here is your "Round TUIT."
I appreciate all you have done for our grassroots campaign. Let's keep pressing the fight and together we will win this election and continue to move our country forward.
Your Brother,
Doug Tudor
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Hands Across the Sands
On Saturday, TeamTudor had a great activist day. Throughout the past two-and-a-half years of our campaign to bring true representation to Florida's 12th Congressional District, we have always known it is the grassroots supporters and activists, not the big money interests, which eventually bring about the change our nation needs. Saturday was no exception; indeed, it was a shining example.
I was extremely proud on Saturday to stand on St Pete Beach with hundreds of Tampa Bay residents to highlight "Hands Across The Sand." During our time on the beach to make this symbolic stand, one thing was very evident; the enthusiasm of activism was matched only by the outrage against the destruction of our beaches by corporate profiteers. I have no doubt; our vision of an oil-free future will prevail. It won't happen tomorrow, but we will prevail.
As so many of you know, I made a career in the military. Accordingly, I view most issues through a lens of national security. Today I have included a Letter-to-the-Editor penned and shared with me by Colonel Dan Nolan, U.S. Army (Retired). In 2002, Colonel Noland and I served together on the personal staff of General Tommy Franks; Commander, U.S. Central Command.
After you read this note, please consider contributing to our grassroots campaign to bring "Proven, Principled Leadership" to Washington.
Here's the Colonel's LTE:
Shortly after Sept. 11, 2001, pundits and political leaders raised the alarm that dependence on oil had brought this tragedy to our shores. The editorials and speeches against foreign oil filled every newsstand and podium. Despite all the heat, no light was shed on breaking that dependence.
The fact is, even if we Americans had the discipline and willingness to make the sacrifices required to break ourselves of our billion-dollar-a-day habit, other nations would quickly fill the gap and money would continue to flow to countries and regimes that did not have a great deal of love for America.
This debate is not about foreign oil; it is about all oil. For transportation, we have no option but oil. We have talked about it for decades, but invested little in it. We do provide about $35 billion annually to oil companies in the form of subsidies and tax breaks. Oil remains the only strategic commodity for which we will fight wars. Having spent 26 years in uniform with the attendant education and experience, I feel qualified to speak to the national security implications of our energy insecurity.
Today, almost a decade after the horrendous events of that Tuesday morning, another tragedy is coming to our shores. The disaster brought about by our unquenchable thirst and BP's ineptness are bringing waves of oil to our shores. The impact of the heartbreaking sight of sea life and beautiful beaches being destroyed should spur in all of us desire to change. In military parlance, the purpose of tactics is to make the other guy run out of options first. We are the other guy and we have run out of options.
If we are serious about reducing our national security risk and the loss of the lives of our sons and daughters, we must be willing to sacrifice. If we want to keep at home the billion dollars a day we send overseas for oil we must pay the price for alternatives. If we want to prevent the next Deepwater Horizon we must eliminate the unquenchable thirst that forces us to suck our SUV life blood out of an ocean floor a mile down. We must hold our political leadership and ourselves accountable. We all know the litany of what must be done. The question is, do Americans still have what it takes to win this Gulf War?
Dan Nolan, Valrico
Today's firing of General Stanley McChrystal was bittersweet for me.
Today's firing of General Stanley McChrystal was bittersweet for me. I was proud to see President Obama assert a basic tenet of our republic – civilian control of the military. I was saddened to see him recommit our country to the same failed strategy of counter-insurgency in Afghanistan. In the President's words, "This is a change in personnel, but it is not a change in policy."
As most of you know, I am a retired Navy Master Chief. In the final six years of my career I served on the personal staff of three Commanders, U.S. Central Command – General Tommy Franks, USA; General John Abizaid, USA; and Admiral William Fallon, USN. With these four-star officers, I deployed to Afghanistan 33 times.
Though I have travelled throughout the world, Afghanistan is without a doubt the most desolate, undeveloped country I have ever seen. As a member of our travelling team used to say as we flew from Islamabad, Pakistan to Bagram, Afghanistan, "This is the only time you can fly for two hours and go back nine centuries."
The policy President Obama affirmed today is called counter-insurgency. Counter-insurgency is a very complicated strategy where we try to win "hearts and minds" via military action and overall nation-building. In other words, if we kill bad guys and build roads, the overall population will decide to support us.
Counter-insurgency won't work in Afghanistan. Anyone who believes it will does not understand the lives, time, and money that must be committed. I also contend supporters of counter-insurgency do not actually support the vast investment America must make. Counter-insurgency will cost America trillions of dollars, thousands of lives, and an untold amount of international goodwill.
When elected to Congress, I will vote against any and all funding that continues the war in Afghanistan. Plain, simple, and period!
If you agree with me, please consider contributing to our grassroots campaign at "Your Choice, Not Washington's." Your Choice, Not Washington's.
Your Brother, Doug
Your Choice, Not Washington's!
Today I received a mass email from Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz asking me to support my Blue Dog Conservative primary opponent. Clearly, my Blue Dog Conservative primary opponent is Washington's choice, but she shouldn't be yours!
You have often heard me describe our campaign for the U.S. House, as a "People-Powered" one. Today, I want to give you an actual feel for that term. During our 2010 campaign, we have received 1,170 individual contributions. Our average contribution has been around $30.00.
That's a People-Powered Campaign!
Over the past three weekends, our volunteers have given their time to brave the Florida heat to knock on over 3,000 doors.
That's a People-Powered Campaign!
While phone-banking, those 3,000 doors have been followed by over 500 calls.
That's a People-Powered Campaign!
In her email, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz asked the recipients to give $72, $144, or $216. I don't know why she chose those numbers. In the past you have received requests from me to give $12 (for Florida's 12th District), $20.10 (for the election year), and $47 (my age).
Today, I am asking you to contribute $20.00, as FL-20 is Wasserman-Schultz' district. If everyone receiving this request contributes $20.00, we will raise over $22,000.00 in one day.
That's a People-Powered Campaign!
This will be the clearest way for us to make it known that the voters of Florida's 12th District will pick our representative, not Debbie Wasserman-Schultz and other Washington insiders.
Over the next several days, I am going to send you a few more notes outlining why Debbie, who is in a safe D+13 district, is supporting a Conservative. Trust me, it is not her first time she has backed candidates that are opposed to the hope and change for which we worked so hard in 2008. With your $20.00 contribution, we can send a clear message that it should be her last.
Please contribute $20.00 today at "Your Choice, Not Washington's!"
I appreciate all you have done, are doing, and will do.
Your Brother, Doug
Hurricane Season Begins
I am sure you are aware, but I want to emphasize the 2010 Hurricane Season begins today and lasts until November 30. The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicts this year's season will be "active to extremely active." For the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, NOAA projects a 70 percent probability of 14 to 23 Named Storms (top winds of 39 mph or higher). These storms could include 8 to 14 Hurricanes (top winds of 74 mph or higher), of which 3 to 7 could be Major Hurricanes (Category 3, 4 or 5; winds of at least 111 mph).
For those of us who resided in Central Florida during the 2004 and 2005 seasons, we know there is only one thing better than luck and it is preparation. Please take a few minutes in the next few days to get you and your family organized for this season. As you know, if you wait until a storm is upon us, you will invariably not be able to get the items and make the preparations you need.
Below are a few links, which will help you prepare for any storm as well as keeping you informed about approaching weather systems.
- National Hurricane Center – NOAA http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/
- Florida Division of Emergency Management http://www.floridadisaster.org/
- Your Hurricane Supply List http://www.ultimatepearland.com/2010/05/hurricane-season-2010-are-you-ready
- Publix OneStar Personalized Plan http://publix.onestorm.org/Default.aspx?ReturnUrl=/OnePlan/
Lastly, as you prepare your own family, please consider those in our community who may need special assistance – the elderly, the poor, and the disabled. Publix and other retail outlets have programs allowing you to contribute to the greater community as you buy your personal supplies.
Be prepared, be aware, and be ready. As the military taught me time and again, "Hope is not a course of action."
Your Brother, Doug

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British honeymoon couple May 2013 St Louis
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- Thebirniewedding Nov 28, 2012 04:20 PM
We are spending two nights in St Louis as part of our Route 66 tour. We would like to catch a ball game and have a few authentic meals, maybe a philli cheese steak for lunch.. Any recommendations for 3rd & 4th May 2013
I've never had a good philly cheese steak outside of philly (for the record, don't spell it like you did around any of the philly hounds). I would recommend you stick to ted drews in the lou, and also go for some bbq ribs.
If you're really interested in Philly cheesesteak, you can get a good one during your time in Chicago at Monti's, 4757 N. Talman, Chicago.
As for St. Louis, here are some ideas:
DeMun Oyster Bar near Washington University
Gus's Pretzels
Soulard Market
John's Donuts on S. Broadway
Unfortunately, you will not be able to catch a baseball game on those dates because the team will be in Milwaukee, which is definitely not on Route 66. (http://stlouis.cardinals.mlb.com) Many on this board would say that Imo's Pizza is "authentic." Many of the rest of us would say it is "authentic cardboard" but it's all a matter of taste. Philly cheese steaks are, as stated previously, best left to those living in Philadelphia. Here you'll want to try a few things that you won't generally find elsewhere, such as toasted ravioli (Trattoria Marcella or Charlie Gittos'), gooey butter cake (Gooey Looie); thin crust pizza (Cafe Manhattan). You would also do well to get some barbecue either at Bogart's or at Pappy's (same owners). Hope that helps.
You absolutely must - MUST - go to Bogart's Smokehouse. Barbecue is an American specialty which varies by region, and St. Louis is well known for it. Bogart's is very popular and at most times it's very busy, but it's worth waiting for. Bogart's is amazing, the best barbecue I've ever eaten.
For an upscale meal in St. Louis, I recommend Tony's or Niche. Both have outstanding food and service; the atmosphere at Tony's is more traditional, at Niche more contemporary.
Congratulations. My wife and I are Brits living in Tulsa. (I know seems like just 24 hours). Since Route 66 passes through Tulsa and also Las Vegas, perhaps you should post similar threads in Great Plains and Las Vegas for some useful input. I could just give you my recommendations here - but that would be off topic. But since you most likely will drive along 44 from St Louis to Tulsa, you might want to stop off in Lebanon, Mo at Dowd's Catfish House. Their catfish is excellent - in fact, it's the only place where I've actually liked catfish.
re: kagemusha49
Sounds like fun. I would definitely consider Bogart's for lunch...order a bit of everything. If you are there on a Saturday you can cross the street and have a wander around Soulard Market...the oldest continuously operating farmer's market west of the Mississippi. Not all that old by Brit standards, but old for here. The market is actually open of Fridays as well, but not so many vendors will be there. You must try both gooey butter cake and Ted Drewes' frozen custard. Although the South Grand location of Ted Drewes is probably closer to everything else you might be doing, the Watson Road location is livelier, and you will enjoy standing in line on a spring evening. The 'concretes', which are ice-cream type shakes so thick you can turn them upside down, are the speciality of the house. As for gooey butter cake, there is a place on Park Avenue not to far from the Soulard Market area, Park Avenue Coffee, that does good ones, and Gooey Louie is one Watson, thought Gooey Louie is, I think, a place to buy whole cakes, and not a place to sit down and have a piece (and they have limited weekend hours, you might need to check). Myself, I would plan Bogart's for lunch, and stop by Park Avenue Coffee around tea time and have a slab o' gooey butter cake and a nice cuppa. ANY of our Italian restaurants would have Toasted Ravioli, a so-common-that-it-has-become-quite-humdrum appetizer, though I sometimes forget that they are damn good when done right, and any visitor HAS to try them. I LIKE St. Louis pizza (okay, LOVE), but I grew up here. Our pizza is made on a cracker-thin crust with a relatively sweet tomato sauce and a unique-to-St.-Louis cheese called provel that sticks to your teeth and which you pretty much either love or hate. It is a (very) processed cheese blend that melts into a vaguely molten plastic cheese that I unabashedly adore. My English expat husband hates it. If you try it, you might want to get a small, just in case you hate it...(bacon pizza, extra provel...yum). Where are you staying, and will you be in town for Sunday as well? Any additional info might help you with more advice.
re: tonifi
Just FYI, Bogart's opens at 10:30 a.m. and they get very busy at lunchtime, with the seating full and a line of folks waiting to order. It's definitely worth the wait. When I went in July, I got there when they opened and it was nicely empty, but by the time I left at 11:15, they were already filling up. And I have the photos to prove it! See below.
re: nsxtasy
Would it be better to go for dinner if we are there for more than one day, will it be quieter? thanks
re: Thebirniewedding
I really don't know how busy they get for dinner, which they only serve on Fridays and Saturdays, the two days of the week you'll be in town. Hopefully one of the locals here can help.
And I assume when you ask about it being "quieter" you're asking about how busy they get, i.e. how long you would have to wait in line. And not noise levels. It's a small place, so it's not horribly noisy, and besides, it's not really the kind of place where you expect a leisurely/romantic meal, if you know what I mean.
Also, although they get busy, they also seem to turn the food around pretty quickly, so I don't think you need to avoid going there just because of having to wait in line. If that's a big concern, the wait isn't too bad if you go on the early side (as shown in the 11:15 photo) or late (after the lunch rush - say maybe 1:30).
re: kagemusha49
Just so there is no confusion, Route 66 didn't come close to Las Vegas.
re: IowaBoy
I can tell you that at Hoover Dam, which isn't very far from LV, I ran into a couple of Brits who'd rented a '56 Ford to make the 66 trek. And living in St. Louis, I can tell you that 66 was moved around some over the years, so there may have been some variation there, too.
re: kagemusha49
thank you Kagemusha49! we've put that one on our schedule!.. will be a good lunch stop and I've never had catfish so will be a great experience!!
re: Thebirniewedding
You'll like it. It's about 3 or 4 miles off the interstate but easy to find.
well since it's a Route 66 theme after Ted Drewe's you have to hit http://transportmuseumassociation.org... especially for the Bobby Darin "Dream Car"
re: hill food
oh wow, while I was looking for something else, found this: http://missouri66.wordpress.com/
tons of restaurants and diners and motels along that path across the state
re: hill food
This was in the paper yesterday, some of these motels might be fun to check out: http://www.stltoday.com/travel/update...
re: tonifi
Ah, good for you. You beat me to it. Saw the story and thought about them.
re: lemons
nice article, makes the loss of Coral Court that much more poignant. I didn't know Springfield claims the first Steak 'n' Shake (to the OP: for a chain they have great burgers and chili, I think their fries (chips in Brit-speak) are too thin. I'd get my fix at the Maid-Rite in Rolla, as they still use tallow in the fryer.
re: hill food
Two years in Rolla, and I don't think I went to Maid-Rite even once. In my defence, I was astonishingly poor. I may have to remedy that next time I pass through on my way to Springfield...the honeymoon couple should take the first Highway 63 exit at Rolla and drive past Missouri's version of Stonehenge. The intention (School of Engineering, and all) is admirable, the reality is more, well, funny. Zooming by a model of Stonehenge on Highway 63 (a block or two past Panera and just before Dairy Queen) has always seemed wonderfully absurd to me...kind of like driving past Bevo Mill.
re: tonifi
I also chuckle at that, AND the modern observatory right by it plunked in the middle of town under some of the brightest streetlights no less... nice thought.
hey on the Rolla food front, Lucky Chinese down K'Hwy near the circle by 44 advertises Korean Bulgogi 'n' stuff. I have yet to try the gyros at the International Market (mostly Indian/Pakistani) sort of across from Maid-Rite but they do have good fresh naan/lavosh flatbread.
re: tonifi
Thank you for the suggestion on that one, probably worth the detour off the I44! sounds veru surreal.
Any other suggestions off the I44 between St Louis and Springfield.. thats destination 3!
re: steveb
Thanks Steveb, would this be a good lunch spot.. we are in St Louis 2 days, a Friday and Saturday.. arriving Pm Friday and leaving first thing Sunday, though we might try and get to town earlier Friday if its worth it. We're coming from Chicago so unless there is lots to do enroute maybe we should just drive straight through to SL and fit in a great sandwish inseatd!
re: Doug
A wonderful, authentic place. Known, besides, their ice cream (but they won't know what a Knickerbocker is - still, lots of things similar), for their gigantic bacon-lettuce-tomato sandwiches, but I'm sure the founders wouldn't believe the generous amount of bacon (crispy American style) they now put on each sandwich. Still in the family, too.
re: lemons
CCK is an institution and I love it, but it is possible to put too much B in a BLT. but if you're in town, may as well.
IIRC, 66 went from the Alton or Chain 'O' Rocks bridge somehow to Dunn road to Lindbergh down to Gravois and then WxSW (If anyone wants to gets hardcore, I may very well be wrong)
re: hill food
There are several signs on Manchester in far west SL County which confused me plenty until I found out. And Watson Road was definitely part of it for some time, in living memory, which mine is to varying degrees. But we - gasp - digress.
re: lemons
hey it's a national icon. documented, yet elusive.
re: hill food
Stepdaughter teaches in Norway. We had a family graduation in Flagstaff, AZ, which is for sure on 66. She talked about her plans to go there and mentioned that it was on 66, whereupon one of her students assured her that it wasn't, that 66 no longer existed at all. She was careful to bring him back copious evidence to the contrary.


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This is a prospective double-blinded placebo-controlled block randomized study in intensive care patients comparing intravenous glutamine supplementation to placebo. The hypothesis is an improvement of clinical outcome. The primary endpoint is a reduction in the Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score on day 7 of treatment.
ICU Patients
Drug: Glutamine
Drug: saline (placebo)
Phase 4
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: Double-Blind
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Glutamine to Intensive Care Patients - a Prospective, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Multicenter Study in the Scandinavian Countries
- A reduction in SOFA-score [ Time Frame: Day 7 of treatment ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Mortality [ Time Frame: ICU stay and 6 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Length of ICU stay [ Time Frame: ICU stay ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Organ failure free days [ Time Frame: ICU stay ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Reduction in SOFA-score [ Time Frame: Day 10 of treatment ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|October 2003
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|August 2009
|Primary Completion Date:
|May 2007 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Glutamine
Intravenous glutamine supplementation (0.285 g/kg body weight/24 h)
Drug: Glutamine
Intravenous glutamine supplementation (0.285 g/kg body weight/24 h)
Other Name: L-alanyl-L-glutamine, Dipeptiven
Placebo Comparator: Control
Drug: saline (placebo)
NaCl 0.9 g/L
Detailed Description:
This is a prospective double-blinded placebo-controlled block randomised study in intensive care patients comparing intravenous glutamine supplementation (0.285 g/kg body weight/24 h) to placebo. Inclusion criteria are patients treated for more than 3 days. Primary endpoint is a reduction in SOFA-score on day 7 of treatments. Secondary endpoints are: ICU-mortality, 6-months mortality, length of ICU stay, organ failure free days as well as reduction in SOFA-score on day 10 of treatment. Nutrition will be standardised so that not less than 80% of the target which is basal energy expenditure according to Harris & Benedict is given daily. Enteral nutrition is preferred, but a combination of enteral and parenteral nutrition is recommended to achieve the nutritional target. For statistical comparison non-parametric rank order statistics will be used. To detect a 0.75-point difference in the reduction of SOFA-score on day 7 of treatment, a total of 1,000 patients will be needed.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 85 Years
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- admission to the ICU
- decision to give the patient full nutrition
- APACHE II score > 10 at admission
- age 18-85 years
Exclusion Criteria:
- readmission to the ICU after a previous ICU-stay in which the patient has been included into the study
- subjects with any condition which in the opinion of the attending physician makes the subject unsuitable for inclusion
- no informed consent
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00922714
|Intensive Care Unit, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge
|Stockholm, Sweden, 14186
|Principal Investigator:
|Jan Wernerman, MD, PhD
|Dept Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, KArolinska University Hospital Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden
No publications provided
|Responsible Party:
|Jan Wernerman, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00922714 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Scandinavian Glutamin Study
|Study First Received:
|June 15, 2009
|Last Updated:
|June 15, 2009
|Health Authority:
|Sweden: Medical Products Agency
Keywords provided by Scandinavian Critical Care Trials Group:
ICU patients
Critically ill
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"This is going to be a very serious storm," Mayor Menino said in a press conference on Thursday. "Safety is our number one priority, I want to stress that the best thing everyone can do Friday and Saturday is to stay home. Stay off the roads, stay safe and let our Public Works crews work."
The city of Boston issued the following information:
· Schools will be closed Friday
· A Snow Emergency and Parking Ban will go into effect at noon on Friday.
· The City's non-essential staff members are asked to stay home on Friday.
· Employers are asked to allow employees to work from home where possible.
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While a snow emergency is in effect, parking is prohibited on all major arteries in Boston [1]. Mayor Menino urges everyone to use public transportation when traveling. Residents are reminded to remain at home throughout the duration of this snow event and businesses tomorrow should consider asking employees to work from home.
Mayor Menino also reminds residents of the following:
· On streets other than major arteries, do not park within 20 feet of an intersection or further than one foot from the curb, as this impedes access for both emergency vehicles and snow plows.
· Parking space savers must be removed no more than 48 hours after a snow emergency is lifted. The City's Department of Public Works will remove space savers left out beyond this period.
· Do not throw snow back into the street. "Throwbacks" force the city to remove snow from the same street twice.
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Items mentioned in the above screencast:
Barry Ritholtz, "Microsoft remains hugely profitable today, but increasingly irrelevant." (Big Picture)
Malinvestment and Microsoft. (Barron's)
Microsoft just pulled a "Microsoft" in its purchase of Skype. (Contrarian Edge)
Mars needs dividends. The case of Microsoft. (Credit Writedowns)
Why Microsoft should just be broken up. (Herb Greenberg)
The transformation of Microsoft from growth stock to value trap. (YCharts)
Daily price chart of Microsoft (MSFT). (Finviz)
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Economic Malaise Risks Telecom Sector Recovery Although a number of fixed-line operators offer services the market is dominated by the three incumbent operators, which hold a combined market share of 99%. All three incumbents are subject to specific obligations designed to improve competition.
Internet services are available through the incumbents and alternative operators. Internet usage in Bosnia-Herzegovina is showing signs of significant growth on the back of competition and the improved availability of services.
The three mobile network operators (MNOs), each affiliated with one of the incumbent fixed-line operators, provide near-national coverage. Their networks, being upgraded to support services based on HSPA technology; will in coming years support broadband in rural areas where fixed-line infrastructure is insufficient. In addition, mobile data and mobile broadband offers will provide future revenue growth given the limited potential of mobile voice services.
Market highlights: - The mobile market makes up more than half of all revenue, with the fixed-line sector declining as customers adopt mobile-centric telecoms solutions.
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- In late 2012 the regulator held a public consultation on draft rules to rebalance voice telephony services in Bosnia and Herzegovina to 2015. The rules are intended to establish price caps for providers of voice services with SMP.
- Connections speeds remain low, with the majority of lines offering data at up to 2Mb/s, and about 100,000 offering data at up to 4Mb/s. The number of 8Mb/s lines was only about 8,000 in early 2012.
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Someone is missing their baby doll.
It sits now in the bowels of the downtown Allen County Public Library, sad and forgotten, in a gray plastic tub strewn atop a plethora of other items that don't belong there.
Like a pair of battered sunglasses. Or an empty and perfectly fine denim purse. Or the Death by Stereo album somebody burned onto a blank CD.
This tub plus a filing cabinet below Wayne Street is part of the main library's lost and found, an eclectic world of people's absentmindedness that pile up on a monthly basis and goes largely unseen to the rest of the universe.
And if you stick around long enough, you'll see some of the truly bizarre and weird end up at the bottom of the library's book drops that makes the current crop of items seem positively benign.
Once, says Cheryl Ferverda, the community relations manager at the library, we had a dehydrated deer leg.
Wait. What?
Yep. One dehydrated deer leg.
And that's not all.
Library staff have found an artificial human leg before.
They've fished out a false eye from the book drop, a bank deposit bag with money, numerous cellphones, fine jewelry, family photos and various clothing.
They even once found a partial bridge for someone's teeth.
The dehydrated deer leg, it was large enough that our security manager thought someone was probably using it as a cane, Ferverda says. It wasn't ever claimed.
So, how does this stuff get into those book drops?
Ferverda doesn't think these strange items are ever left at the library as a practical joke.
Sure, some people are mean and nasty and may leave a used condom or a dirty diaper in a book drop – it does happen – but most people are just forgetful.
Usually, they will accidentally drop off books belonging to churches or school libraries, which library staff can return relatively easily.
Sometimes, cellphones, cellphone chargers or calculators find their way to the bottom of the bins.
Every once in a while, someone will return a book with a credit card being used to mark a page, or a license, or even a birth certificate or Social Security card.
In one instance, someone left tickets for an event that had yet to take place.
In another, someone left documents pertaining to a court case.
About 15 years ago, someone used two strips of cooked bacon as a book mark, according to Ferverda. A decade ago, a library staffer found $600 in cash stuffed inside a tome.
And then there's the artificial leg.
How did someone drop that in there?
Some of the drop boxes are pretty large, Ferverda says. Even the one off Wayne Street, you can stick something in it and it drops two whole floors below the library.
Why would it be dropped there?
A question that can probably never be answered, especially since no one ever came by to claim the leg – a fate shared with many of the objects in lost and found.
When someone leaves something important like a credit card or something else with identifying information, library staff will do their best to contact that person.
Other items present a challenge.
Once a book is checked in after being returned, the staff does not have access to who had checked it out.
Ferverda said the library takes patrons' privacy seriously and a record of someone's account history cannot be accessed short of a court order.
So if someone leaves cash stuck in between some pages of War and Peace, the library cannot just punch some buttons and find out who had just returned that particular book.
Lost and found items are kept for 45 days. After that, if the item is of good quality and salable – such as a shirt or doll – it will be donated to the Salvation Army.
Anything that might carry a pathogen or bacteria – like a child's sippy cup – will be destroyed.
Credit cards will be shredded.
Cash, though, will go into the library's gift fund, which is where money from people who want to donate to the library typically goes.
Fine jewelry will usually be appraised and turned into cash for the gift fund, as well.
And the library staff is honest, insists Ferverda. Workers report what they find, as did the person who found $600 in cash inside a book years ago.
That's the mindset of this library, she says. We do not try to rip people off. We're really good about it.
The library has also been the recipient of many bicycles left on the premises.
Typically, the staff will call police, have the serial numbers to the bikes checked to make sure they're not stolen, and if no one reclaims them they periodically are auctioned off.
Wednesday, someone's pink Razor scooter was sitting in the lost and found area, having been left in the children's section of the library on June 1.
So if it's yours, it's there.
Alongside a filing cabinet full of clothes, baby toys, sunglasses, bracelets, various books and one baby doll that does not belong to the library – all waiting for their owners to return.


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Dear Neighbors:
Air quality conditions continue to change daily. Please keep checking radio announcements (repeated hourly), and the above websites for current conditions. A particularly useful link is the following:
Sulfur Dioxide (S02) Conditions at Kilauea Summit and Pu'u O'o:
This site visually shows you the direction and magnitude of the sulfur dioxide plumes from both Pu'u O'o and Halema'uma'u summit crater. It is in real time, such that you can "see" the plumes (on a map) and which way they are headed. Our subdivisions are marked if you look carefully. Warning levels are color-coded and easy to understand.
Please also refer to the County's 4-panel brochure: "Emissions from Kilauea Volcano," for it has specific recommendations of what you can do. To access the brochure, first go to the County of Hawaii Kilauea Eruption Update Website:
and THEN SELECT the link called: "Click Here for Emissions from Kilauea Volcano brochure."
Keep in mind that future episodes of vog and sulfur dioxide are expected to be significantly stronger than those of recent years, because we are physically much closer to the source: in this case, Halema'uma'u at the summit of Kilauea, just a few miles from the Volcano community residential areas (in comparison to the previous vog episodes from the more-distant Pu'u O'o vent).
If recent weeks have showed anything, it was how localized and how changing the natural conditions can be here on Kilauea Volcano. What was true SO2 and weather-wise for one sub-division was totally the opposite for another. One hour the SO2 is one way; the next hour it was blowing in a completely different direction.
So please take care of yourselves and your neighbors by remaining prepared and informed. If evacuating Volcano is ever required, secure your homes before leaving.
DRIVE SLOWLY and CAREFULLY if an evacuation announcement happens (and keep your radio on.)
Jeffrey Mermel,
VCA President
Summary of Eruption-Related Websites:
- USGS Kilauea Update page
- National Park Service - Real-time Sulfur Dioxide (S02) Conditions at Kilauea Summit and Pu'u O'o:
This site visually shows you the direction and magnitude of the sulfur dioxide plumes both from Pu'u O'o and Halema'uma'u summit crater. It is in real time, such that you can "see" the plumes (on a map) and which way they are headed. Our subdivisions are marked if you look carefully. Warning levels are color-coded and easy to understand.
- USGS Webcam of Halema'uma'u (real-time photos):
- County of Hawai'i's Volcano Information Updates:
On this site please also refer to the Emissions from Kilauea Volcano Brochure, for it does have specific recommendations of what you can do first click the link above and then the link: "Click Here for Emissions from Kilauea Volcano brochure".
- Hawaii Short Term SO2 Alert Index
- Civil Defense Updates on Halema'uma'u and Nearby Risk Conditions
Current Civil Defense Update (click here)
- Hawaii Center for Volcanology
During an Evacuation Event in Volcano, "Punaweb" will be carrying and receiving messages of need or help regarding places to stay in Puna Makai:
The VCA has been contacted by Rob Tucker of Friends of Puna's Future (FoPF)...If you choose to evacuate and prefer not to go to the shelter in Hilo, there are neighborly people in Lower Puna offering bed space in their homes, some with animal space and/or spaces for tenting !
To get assistance from our "new friends" in lower Puna, contact "Friends of Puna Forum."
- open the link: www.punaweb.org/Forum/default.asp
- register yourself (follow directions on page)
- log in and go to the main page
- choose "Volcano Evacuation Forum"
- Review the "offerings" in the Topic: "Can you help a Volcano resident?" - You can review any listings and reply to any one, even to several
- To reply to an individual offer: click on the topic (offer), read the details, and then click the upper right corner next to the user name. A window will appear with a "Click to send an E-Mail" message.
- To make a special request (special needs/ pets, etc), select the "Volcano evacuees post here" Topic and then click on the "New Topic" choice (meaning "new message") at the top middle or top right of the page. Enter the information about what you need, and then click the "Post new Reply" button at the bottom.
A message from Jane Testa, Director, Department of Research and Development On behalf of Hawai'i County Civil Defense dated March 31st states:
"Recent changes in activity at the Halema'uma'u Crater have created a potential increase in hazards for Hawai'i Island. These hazards include higher levels of sulfur dioxide, ash fall, and vog, the effects of which some of us have already been experiencing. The level of risk to your health varies depending on current emissions, locations, and wind direction. You may share the following link to the County of Hawai'i's Volcano Information Updates site:"
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Memorial Day weekend is coming, and Elliott Morgan reveals his productive weekend plans which include checking out X-Men: Days of Future Past and catching up on Silicon Valley.
YouTube was founded in February 2005 and has become the go-to site for video on the web. One hour of video is uploaded to YouTube every second. Google bought YouTube in 2006 and underwent a significant redesign in 2011. The revamped YouTube emphasized "channels" for content and rolled out a bevy of new features.
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Memorial Day weekend is coming, and Elliott Morgan reveals his productive weekend plans which include checking out X-Men: Days of Future Past and catching up on Silicon Valley.
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You see a camera in the park. A sign tells you to "Tell the world anything." What would you say? Parkgoers in New York City confronted that exact situation when a man set up a camera and left it alone in Washington Square Park. Some were silly, some danced, some revealed secrets, some warned against the dangers of global warming and some decided to just ... grunt.
Disney chief Bob Iger says the company bought Maker Studios primarily as a distribution platform -- perfect for promoting Star Wars and Marvel characters.
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William Demarest as Sgt. Gass
Alan Reed as Charboneau
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Larry Pennell as Wild Eagle
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Occidental Petroleum Corp.'s plan to separate its $16 billion oil and natural gas business in California as part of a restructuring effort may have hit a snag: some shareholders aren't that interested.
Exxon Mobil Corp. is trailing its rivals ever since Russell Investments labeled it a growth stock.
Plains Exploration & Production Co. shareholders are anticipating positive results from an oil well discovery, stoking bets that Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. will be forced to boost its takeover bid.
Occidental Petroleum Corp., the largest onshore crude producer in the continental U.S., said second-quarter profit was unchanged as surging output in Texas and California helped offset falling oil prices abroad.
Occidental Petroleum Corp.'s proposal to split its U.S. and foreign businesses is pressuring more oil companies to follow suit, as the allure of breakups to create more than $100 billion of market value entices investors.
Hess Corp.'s shareholder revolt is taking aim at long-time directors with close ties to the company's founding family, including two executors of the estate of Leon Hess, who led the oil producer for six decades.
Ethanol's discount to gasoline narrowed to the lowest in more than a week as the motor fuel plunged and as the value of renewable identification numbers, or RINs, for biofuel blending was near a record.
Occidental Petroleum Corp. , the oil explorer that pumps enough crude to fill a supertanker every four days, is leading a rush to find crude on land as BP Plc's Gulf of Mexico disaster spurs tougher offshore-drilling rules.
Occidental Petroleum Corp., the fourth-largest U.S. oil company, fell after reporting it isn't increasing the number of drilling rigs in California, where analysts said production was "a disappointment."
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Same-Day Analysis
Deadline looms for US "fiscal cliff"
Published: 12/31/2012
With a day left to negotiate, US Democrats and Republicans appear unlikely to reach a comprehensive deal before automatic tax increases and spending cuts come into force tomorrow (1 January 2013).
IHS Global Insight perspective
A shift to new negotiators suggests that the US will not seal a congressional compromise to avert tomorrow's "fiscal cliff".
However, a compromise is nevertheless likely to be reached.
It is possible that the parties may succeed in agreeing a short-term measure today to reassure financial markets while a permanent solution is discussed.
Slow talks
Financial markets are bracing for trouble, as US legislators continue to note significant divisions over how they would prefer to close down the government's over-USD1-trillion fiscal deficit. Today (31 December) London's FTSE100 index looked set to fall below 5,900 as traders fled the risks presented by the "fiscal cliff", which IHS Global Insight forecasts will see US growth decline at an annual rate of -2.4% in the first quarter of 2013 (instead of growing 2.2%). The latest figures for US consumer confidence suggest it dived dramatically in December, falling 6.4 points on fears of sharply higher taxes in 2013 as a result of the "cliff", with US consumers delaying planned purchases as a result.
One feature of US politics is that the two major parties do not have unified leaderships, but rather various prominent personalities who can take the initiative and attempt to rally their congressional caucus behind a particular set of compromises. Since his embarrassing failure to pass one such package through the Republican-dominated House of Representatives, the House Speaker John Boehner's role in the talks has faded (see United States: 21 December 2012: US Republicans face internal rift over "fiscal cliff"). Leadership of the Republican position has instead been taken up by Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell, who has approached Vice-President Joe Biden, a former senator, to negotiate on the Democrat side.
Yesterday McConnell released a statement in which he accused the Democrats of a "lack of urgency" in tackling the problem, citing what he said were slow responses to Republican offers. McConnell said he had contacted Biden, as opposed to Democrat majority leader Harry Reid, because he and Biden had worked successfully to forge compromise in the past. Reid appeared to accept the move, saying that he was not yet in a position to offer a counter-proposal to the plan submitted by McConnell's Senate Republicans on 29 December.
The Republicans are seeking to limit the extent of inevitable tax increases implied by the cliff, whereas the Democrats seek to protect these while preventing cuts to state benefits. Yesterday it emerged that the Democrats had successfully dissuaded Republicans from insisting on the recalibration of inflation indexes, on a "chained" basis, which would have the effect of cutting social security benefits. Senator John McCain, another high-profile Republican who has weighed into the discussions, said it was not politically feasible for Republicans to cut benefits for the poor while trying to protect tax cuts for the wealthy.
Outlook and implications
Last-minute deals are a feature of life in Washington. The fiscal cliff is itself the result of the Budget Control Act (BCA), a last-minute deal to avert sovereign default enacted in August 2011, and the December 2010 agreement to prevent the expiration of the Bush-era tax cuts (see United States: 16 December 2010: Tax Bill Passes U.S. Senate Despite Opposition from Left and Right). It remains highly likely that a deal will be forged to prevent the recession that will be created by the cliff if it is allowed to come fully into force.
However, the cliff is not a hard deadline, in the manner of the statutory debt-ceiling that prompted the BCA, and this has drained the talks of some of their urgency. The cliff could potentially be unpicked by the incoming 113th congress due to convene on 3 January 2013 with a fresh mandate, before the economic damage is realised. This now appears to be the most likely scenario, given that Biden and McConnell will need additional time to discuss the matter further. Nevertheless, a stop-gap measure could potentially be passed today to reassure financial markets.
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Farm workers should be included in immigration bill
By Larry Dreiling
Congress has been out of session the last two weeks. Some members have been back home conducting what goes for town halls these days while others have taken "fact finding" missions. The most interesting one I saw in the papers was a delegation going on a 10-day trip to India, paid for an Indian-American lobby group.
The delegation (spouses may have gone along, I don't know), including Rep. Cynthia Lummis, R-WY, apparently enjoyed a stay at the Lake Palace in Udaipur, a visit to the Taj Mahal, sightseeing at the tiger reserve at Ranthambore, a night at the Rambagh Palace in Jaipur and a visit to the Golden Temple in Amritsar.
Nice fact-finding if you can get it.
So while many of our Washington solons were out on the road and in the air (or on elephant, for all we know), there were a few hard workers and their staffs trying to do the good, old-fashioned dirty work of crafting legislation.
Take the Senate (please), where a few members, according to the AP's labor writer Erica Werner, are aiming to overhaul the nation's agriculture worker program to create a steady supply of labor for farmers and growers, who rely more than any other industry on workers who have come to the country illegally.
Under the new plan, farm workers already here would get a speedier path to legal status than other immigrants in the country illegally, and a likely new visa program would make it easier for foreign workers to come to the U.S.
Policymakers aim to install such workers in place of the half or more of the nation's farm labor workforce estimated to be in the country illegally.
Negotiators have been working to finalize an agreement in time for the measure to be included in bipartisan legislation expected shortly, but disagreements on wages and numbers of visas are proving tough to solve.
"It comes down to either we're importing our labor or we're importing our food, and if we don't have access to a legal supply of labor we will start going offshore," said Kristi Boswell, director of congressional relations for the American Farm Bureau Federation.
In all the gnashing of teeth by certain senators over securing the border and creating a path to citizenship for the 11 million immigrants living in the country illegally, the need for a good guest farm worker program has been forgotten—again—by the nation's big city media.
At least 50 percent and as much as 70 or 80 percent of the nation's farm workers arrived illegally, according to labor and industry estimates. Growers say they need a better way to hire labor legally, and advocates say workers can be exploited and need better protections and a way to earn permanent residence.
There's so much illegal labor not only because of the need for workers, but also the inadequacy of current immigration programs. There is a 10-month visa program for farm workers, the H2A visa, but growers argue it's so hard to use that once they've completed the paperwork whatever crop they needed picked may well have withered.
There were about 55,000 H2A visas issued in 2011, representing a small percentage of the nation's approximately 2 million farm workers.
The H2A visa has also been a mainstay of the custom harvester industry, as many young agriculturalists from Southern Hemisphere nations return to the U.S. legally each year to harvest wheat and feed grains in the U.S. while crops in their own countries are still growing.
Many harvest firms, usually small, family-owned operations, deal with mountains of paperwork to bring these young people—usually from crop production areas of South Africa, Australia and New Zealand—to work for a few months, get a taste of America and return home with new experiences to share. These operators, no doubt, would welcome some reduction in that paperwork.
Part of the solution, growers and unions say, is to create a more permanent agricultural workforce. Senators would likely accomplish this by giving a new "blue card" visa granting legal status to farm workers who've worked in the industry for at least two years and intend to remain in it for at least five years more.
At that point, potentially, these workers could become eligible for green cards, which allow permanent residency and eventual citizenship—faster than the 10-year path to a green card that other immigrants in the country illegally are expected to face under the Senate immigration bill.
It's being negotiated by four senators—Dianne Feinstein, D-CA; Orrin Hatch, R-UT; Marco Rubio, R-FL; and Michael Bennet, D-CO—only two of whom, Rubio and Bennet, are part of the so-called "Gang of Eight" senators writing the overall bill.
All involved hope for a resolution of an issue that has been in need of one for years, ever since the last major immigration overhaul, in 1986, failed to establish a workable visa program for farmworkers and others.
Let's cross our fingers for Congress to come back to D.C. all refreshed and ready to help the immigrant labor pool, and American agriculture.
Now, about that farm bill…
Larry Dreiling can be reached by phone at 785-628-1117, or by email at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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