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Mayors press for federal focus on Miss. River
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ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Mayors from along the Mississippi river said Thursday that they would work with federal lawmakers to sharpen the national focus on the waterway after two years in which shipping has been threatened by flooding and then drought.
Looking to wield more clout on river matters, about a dozen mayors from Minnesota to Louisiana gathered in Washington to announce the formation of their Mississippi River Platform, which will focus on water quality, community development and drought and flood preparation.
The Mississippi River's importance is undeniable, supplying millions of people with drinking water and serving as a vital shipping corridor for everything from corn and grain to coal, petroleum and manufactured goods.
As members of the Mississippi River Cities & Towns Initiative, the mayors will collaborate with the new Mississippi River Caucus -- a bi-partisan group of Capitol Hill lawmakers -- on issues related to the river.
"You have mayors with cities along the river who will speak with one voice," A.C. Wharton, the mayor of Memphis, Tenn., told The Associated Press by telephone. "What we're saying is there may be a few differences, but for every difference there are 99 commonalities."
The river attracted attention over the winter as the stubborn drought reduced water levels to near-record lows between St. Louis and Cairo, Ill. Barges cut their loads so they could ride higher in the water, and there were worries that shipping would be halted altogether.
Several local, state and federal lawmakers expressed dismay in November when the Army Corps of Engineers reduced the flow from an upper Missouri River dam. The move helped maintain water levels in the upper Missouri River but worsened the plight of the Mississippi, into which the Missouri feeds at St. Louis.
At that time, the corps said it was required to act in the Missouri River's interest by a congressionally-authorized document known as the Missouri River Master Manual. No similar document exists for the Mississippi.
The mayors' group wants a Water Resources Development Act to safeguard the Mississippi, federal funds to improve water quality and establishment of a National Drought Council. The mayors also are pushing for formation of a federal initiative to help local governments deal with invasive species that have infected the river, such as Asian carp, and passage of a comprehensive farm bill.
Federal lawmakers led by Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, last week introduced two measures deemed critical for the Mississippi.
The Mississippi River Navigation Sustainment Act would allow the corps to operate and dredge in more areas, provide for the installation of automated river-level monitors, and set up a conservation and habitat-restoration project for the river's middle stretch. The other measure would establish a pilot program allowing the corps to work with private interests to carry out as many as 15 high-priority, large-scale navigation projects over five years. That bill is considered important because the corps says its backlog of roughly $60 billion in outstanding projects would otherwise take decades to complete.
Durbin has noted that an American Society of Civil Engineers report card released every four years came out this week and gave a D-plus grade to the condition of inland waterways, levees and ports.
"We all know that there will be a next crisis, probably sooner rather than later," Durbin told the Waterways Council trade group on Wednesday, stressing that the Mississippi has seen both flooding and drought in two years.
"We can't wait decades to make the changes that are going to be needed," he said.
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After emerging as NDA's prime ministerial nominee, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi embarked on a spirited campaign for 2014 Lok Sabha elections creating political enthusiasm in this business-oriented state.
However, the shadow of the 2002 riots did not leave Modi as a protest petition was filed by Zakia Jafri, widow of Congress MP Eshan Jafri killed in that violence, against clean chit given to him by Supreme Court-appointed SIT for the riots and encounter investigations led to arrest of senior police officers.
The Modi government appointed a two-member commission after alleged snooping of a woman by state security agency came to light while the post of Lokayukta was filled after a decade, just ahead of next year's general elections.
Rape cases against controversial self-styled godman Asaram Bapu and his son Narayan Sai by two Surat-based sisters and their subsequent arrests also grabbed the headlines along with an attempt to break the Sabarmati Jail by 2008 Ahmedabad blast accused by digging a 214 feet long tunnel.
After his third consecutive victory in Gujarat in December 2012 state elections, Modi's focus was on the country's biggest job but the path seemed difficult as he had to get acceptances from his party, from the coalition --National Democratic Alliance-- and finally from the people.
Making smart moves and with the backing of RSS and party chief Rajnath Singh, he managed to overcome his opponents within BJP.
Modi was first incorporated as a member of the BJP's parliamentary board in March. He was elevated as campaign committee chief in June which led to resignation by L K Advani from all party posts and breaking away of JD(U) from NDA. Advani later withdrew the resignation.
On September 13, BJP's parliamentary board declared Modi as a prime ministerial candidate of NDA amid opposition by Advani. However, Advani later reconciled to that fact and had even time and again praised Modi.
Modi's elevation has aroused much enthusiasm about politics among the business-oriented Gujarati community who are hoping that this dream would be fulfilled.
Modi, who has been running a spirited campaign for the 2014 polls for his party to get the approval of the people, had on two occasions during the year entered into a direct confrontation with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
A verbal duel broke out at an event when Singh and he shared stage here on October 29 for a function to inaugurate a museum on India's first home minister Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.
Fight over legacy of Patel ensued with Modi saying that "country's destiny would have been different if he (Patel) had become the first Prime Minister" while Singh stressed that the leader was "secular" to core.
Two days later, Modi laid the foundation stone for the tallest statue in the world of Patel at Sadhu Bet in Narmada district, to take the fight of legacy of Patel to new level in the run up to the 2014 elections.
In an another face off on August 15, Modi had launched a no holds barred attack on the prime minister just few minutes after he completed his speech from the Red Fort. Modi was criticised for playing politics on the nation's independence day.
Modi had to face major embarrassment when his lecture via video-conference at Wharton University was cancelled by the university authorities there in March. However, later he addressed Indian diaspora in the US via video-conference.
Meanwhile, in a major development related to the 2002 riots case, Zakia filed her protest petition on April 15 against the apex court appointed SIT report giving clean chit to Modi and 58 others.
Zakia, while demanding the rejection of the closure report, has also sought further investigation in her complaint of 2006, not by Supreme Court appointed SIT but by an independent agency. The hearing of case is over and the court is likely to pronounce judgement on December 26.

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The road to Tuesday's vote wound through some challenges at the June 23rd meeting, when Council members Bob Kellar and Marsha McLean locked horns with Mayor Frank Ferry and Council members Laurie Ender and Laurene Weste.
The disagreement was rooted in the size of the Committee, which McLean and Kellar felt should be nine members. Mayor Ferry led an ultimately successful push to set the member total to five, mirroring the Planning and Parks commissions.
A $133.00 per-meeting stipend was also approved for the new commission members, who will meet the third Thursday of every month with the purpose of expanding the opportunities for art events and education across the city of Santa Clarita. If passed, the ordinance will require the Arts Commission members to be residents of the city.
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VAN: Summon the Thunder by Ward & Dilmore Review Thread (Spoilers!)
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With the kind permission of
, apologies for the rather large image but I don't know how to make it smaller, I'm putting up the third installment in the "retro review thread" and the second novel in the
Star Trek: Vanguard
Summon the Thunder
by Dayton Ward and Kevin Dilmore.
Summon the Thunder
was released in 2006 and continues on the story from
and sees the USS
and its team of Starfleet Corps of Engineers (re)introduced into the series. The
and her crew had previously been introduced in the
, working with "Scotty" on several occasions, as well as
Where Time Stands Still
Distant Early Warning
Here is the official blurb from the Simon and Schuster website:
The Taurus Reach: a remote interstellar expanse that holds a very old and potentially cataclysmic secret, the truth of which is feared by the Tholians, coveted by the Klingons, and dubiously guarded by the Federation. At the center of this intrigue is Vanguard, a Federation starbase populated by an eclectic mix of Starfleet officers and civilians, whose lives are forever altered as they explore the layers of mystery surrounding the Reach and steadily peel them away...one after another.
In the aftermath of
Commodore Diego Reyes commands Vanguard while waging an intensely personal struggle, tasked to uncover the true significance of the Taurus Reach while simultaneously concealing that mission from his fellow officers -- and even his closest friends. As the
U.S.S. Lovell
brings some of Starfleet's keenest technical minds to help, the
U.S.S. Endeavour
makes a find that could shed further light on the enigmatic meta-genome that has captured the Federation's interest --
its crew survives the discovery....
Deep within the Taurus Reach, an ancient and powerful alien mind has awakened prematurely from aeons of hibernation, alerted to the upstart civilizations now daring to encroach upon the worlds in her care. With the stakes for all sides escalating rapidly, the alien lashes out with deadly force against the interlopers, propelling the Vanguard crew on a desperate race to understand the nature of the attacker, and to prevent the Taurus Reach from becoming a war zone.
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Bill Potter's coaching philosophy is a simple but effective one. Success in swimming is all about hard work. Put in a strong effort during practice all season long, and the results will show at the end. That's what the Garces aquatics director has been preaching to his teams for years.
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"You may go against a team that on paper that might have better swimmers," Potter said. "But if we just work hard, work hard day after day, when we get into the meets at the end of the year it pays off. They drop times and are able to compete with pretty much anyone out there."
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'Man, the chicken is so good you drive from New Orleans to Dallas to get it,' regular customer Shady Mack said.
It's so popular, the city spent a million dollars helping the owner build a new restaurant, which opened last week.
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'They are over here fighting and who is going to get in line first,' said one irate customer.
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Elvin Gamble eats at Rudy's Chicken three or four times a week, but on Monday he sat in line for 20 minutes just to order.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Bush ordered the freeing
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Nine-Mile Point is nine miles from where?
CORPUS CHRISTI - QUESTION: In last week's column, you referred to Nine-Mile Mott. It reminded me of Nine-Mile Point. I know it as a reporting point Navy student pilots use when flying home from Rockport Airport. It is close to Rockport Beach Park. What is Nine-Mile Point nine miles from? What's the origin of the name?—Jack Hord, Air Traffic Controller, retired
ANSWER: It's a puzzle. Twelve-Mile Mott (Nuecestown) was 12 miles from Corpus Christi. Three-Mile Point was three miles south of downtown. But it is not so simple for Nine-Mile Point, which is at the south end of Key Allegro. This was once called Frandolig Island. Nine-Mile Point was also once known as Frandolig Point.
There was a fierce fight in the 1960s over developing Key Allegro. The late Connie Hagar, famous birdwoman, and the Welder Wildlife Foundation wanted it preserved as a bird sanctuary, but developers won the fight. I assumed that Nine-Mile Point meant it was nine miles from Live Oak Point, at the north end of the peninsula at Copano Bay, but the atlas shows that distance would be less than nine miles, more like six. I checked the distance going south to Pelican Island, but that is more than nine miles. If someone knows the answer, my e-mail address is at the end of this column.
QUESTION: When we moved to Calallen 40-plus years ago, there was a Lum Hart Road, between Leopard and UpRiver Road west of Violet Road. It is now Hart Road. Who was Lum Hart?—Rita Gunter
ANSWER: As you say, it connects Leopard to UpRiver Road at Annaville, but I do not know about Lum Hart. I understand that the Harts had a large hog farm in the area around Hart Road and Leopard. I searched biographical files, old news clips and obituaries, but no Lum Hart. Maybe someone knows and will e-mail me more details about Lum Hart and the Hart hog farm.
QUESTION: I have a question about the name of the Lincoln-Mercury dealership when it was on Water or Chaparral prior to it being the Pagan-Lewis dealership. I believe the name to be J.E. Rhodes, but I haven't spoken to anyone who remembers it. The year would have been 1960 or 1961.—Roy Irwin
ANSWER: You are right, according to the City Directory. In 1957, the J.E. Rhodes dealership was operated by Jim Ed Rhodes. By 1960, it was sold to Pagan-Lewis. It was at 924 N. Water. Over the years, in the first half of the 20th century, there were many dealerships around there, including Blacknall Dodge; Gillespie Buick; Gulf Chevrolet; Frank Hayden Motors; Heyser-Edwards' Ford trucks; Roy Murray Plymouth-Chrysler; Kinsel Chevrolet; George Jones Ford; Kilgore's Nash dealership; McNabb-Collins' Packard; Newman-West Studebaker; Public Motors, an Oldsmobile dealer; Winerich Motors Company, Studebaker; Jack Creveling's Packard, Studebaker, then Dodge.
QUESTION: Can you give us some history on the development of the petrochemical industry at the Port of Corpus Christi?—R. R. "Rocky" Rouquette
ANSWER: I can give you a thumbnail sketch of industrialization that came as a result of the port. In the 19th century, Corpus Christi was supply headquarters for cattle ranches and it was a market town for wool and hides. In the early years of the 20th century, the economy depended on cabbages and cotton, products of "blackland" farming. When the port opened in 1926, it was a cotton port. The coming of oil in the 1930s, along with the first major industry in 1934, changed the city forever. Southern Alkali was Corpus Christi's first major industrial plant.
But Southern Alkali wasn't the first in the Coastal Bend. The Humble Refinery at Ingleside was built in 1928. The refinery struggled with labor problems; a strike during World War II led Humble to close the refinery. In 1942, the government built a plant on UpRiver Road, one of only five plants in the U.S. that produced zinc and cadmium. After the war, it was sold to become the American Smelting and Refining Company, ASARCO. The Bluebonnet plant of Corn Products Refining Company was built in 1947 on UpRiver Road. It produced starches and dextrose sugar from grain sorghum. Before Celanese opened its huge Bishop plant, it operated a research center on Clarkwood Road.
On the north shore of the bay, on the old Taft Ranch, the largest industrial operation in the area, Reynolds Metals, opened La Quinta alumina plant and the San Patricio reduction plant. The Suntide refinery opened in September 1953. Refineries and chemical plants built around the port and across the bay on the north shore helped create modern Corpus Christi, or at least the economy on which this city has thrived. There is a lot more to this story but, as I said, this is a brief sketch.
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