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I had to miss cooking club this month because we were traveling. I was really disappointed, this was the month I was most looking forward to. Each month has a different color as the theme. November was orange, and I couldn't want to see what everyone came up with. October was purple, and that is where this recipe was from. Purple is hard to come up with!! I could come up with lots of blueberry desserts, but this was lunch.
Purple potatoes were the one thing that kept coming to mind. But I wasn't sure what to do with them. Then I remembered this gorgeous pizza that Liren had made awhile ago. I was intrigued by the idea when she posted about it, so I thought why not try it out now.
This pizza was amazing. I don't really know what else to say. It is not your traditional pizza, but it all works so well together. It makes a perfect lighter dinner when served with a salad. I was really surprised given how much food is at cooking club, that I went home with no leftovers. I added a little bit of bacon to this, for some extra flavor. I mean, potatoes and bacon are perfect together. I did make the crust from scratch, but you could use store bought. This crust is my go to recipe, super easy, and very quick. I really hope you make this. It would be great as an appetizer for a party too!

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Fentanyl is available as a skin patch, lozenge, pills, shots, a film that dissolves in your mouth, nasal spray, or by IV (intravenous).
Use fentanyl exactly as prescribed by your doctor. This is very important so that you do not get too much of the drug. If you get too much fentanyl in your system, you could have serious problems that can lead to death.
How It Works
Fentanyl acts upon specific receptors in your brain and spinal cord to decrease the feeling of pain and to reduce your emotional response to pain. The action of fentanyl is similar to other drugs in the morphine category (opioids).
Why It Is Used
Fentanyl is used to manage moderate to severe pain, usually in people who have chronic pain. It may also be used for breakthrough pain. Fentanyl is often used when your other pain medicines no longer work.
How Well It Works
For people with cancer who are already on opioid pain medicine such as morphine or oxycodone, fentanyl works well for treatment of cancer pain.1
Side Effects
Fentanyl has many side effects, including:
- Drowsiness.
- Lightheadedness.
- Weakness and fatigue.
- Feelings of elation (euphoria).
- Dry mouth.
- Difficulty urinating.
- Difficulty breathing.
- Constipation, which may be severe.
- Talk with your doctor about using laxatives to prevent constipation.
- You can prevent constipation at home. Make sure you drink enough fluids. Most adults should drink between 8 and 10 glasses of water or noncaffeinated beverages each day. Include fruits, vegetables, and fiber in your diet each day.
- Skin reactions, such as irritation, itching, or hives.
Fentanyl should be used with caution by older adults and by people who have lung disease, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or asthma.
Fentanyl can cause your body to expect this medicine daily (drug dependency). Dependency is not the same as addiction, which is a behavioral disorder marked by craving a drug.
Reasons not to use fentanyl
Fentanyl can cause serious or life-threatening respiratory problems (hypoventilation). For that reason it should not be used in:
- Cancer patients who have not been taking continuous opioid pain medicines.
- The management of pain that responds to other pain medicine.
- Doses greater than 25 mcg per hour at the beginning of opioid therapy.
See Drug Reference for a full list of side effects. (Drug Reference is not available in all systems.)
What To Think About
In some people, fentanyl impairs balance, coordination, or the ability to think. Do not drive or operate any type of equipment if you are taking fentanyl. If you have severe side effects, call your doctor, and stop taking this medicine.
Do not drink alcohol or use other drugs while you are taking fentanyl.
Fentanyl can interact with many other drugs. Make sure that your doctor is aware of all the medicines you are taking.
Fentanyl should be used during pregnancy only if the benefits to the mother outweigh the risks to the fetus. If you are or may be pregnant, talk with your doctor before using fentanyl. This drug can pass through your body in breast milk and should not be used if you are breast-feeding.
When you remove your fentanyl patch, dispose of it as your doctor tells you to.
Avoid the use of heat, such as a heating pad, electric blanket, hot tub, or sauna, while you are using a fentanyl patch. Heat can increase the amount of fentanyl released from the patch, which causes more risk of serious side effects.
Complete the new medication information form (PDF)(What is a PDF document?) to help you understand this medication.
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So today was a great day in the gym....I crushed my workout.....
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Malcom Gladwell, in his book Outliers, believes that it takes roughly 10,000 hours of practice to achieve Mastery in any field.
That's about 4 hours every single day for almost 7 years.
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Admit it Spark friends, when we were kids, more always meant better.....hell even today how many of us secretly believe that more is better than less....
.....come on raise your hand and admit it!
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Here's my 395 lb deadift...my last lift of the day at the 25 Jun Powerlifting Competition where I totalled 1005 lbs.
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How do you communicate the sweet taste of victory in a blog?
Well, there's always a good meme out there;
Maybe a kitschy ad sporting a storm trooper;
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Well Spark friends I am proud to say that for 2 weeks, from 27 Feb to 13 Mar, I did....nothing....absolutely nothing....Nada....Zip....Zero.
Workouts that is.
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So I've come to realize that blogging on SP is cathartic and is best done whether I'm feeling up or down, whether I have good news or bad news, yadda-yadda-yadda.
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OK, so I have this thing about whining...I am philosophically opposed to it. I also have a real hard time with whiners. This has led me to have certain personality conflicts with various people at different times in my life.
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I've got to admit, it's not often that I get a snow day off, but today, with some hellacious "wintery mix" expected in the Northeast with "Winter Storm Janus" (have I been asleep the last few years....when did we start naming snowstorms?), the V... Read more


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ALEXANDRIA, Va. (WUSA9) - Worse than the KKK.
That's how a Republican candidate currently running for state office in Virginia referred to Planned Parenthood on YouTube.
He also calls gay people perverted and sick and says he doesn't believe President Obama is a Christian. The candidate is a Minister, yet many say the Reverend E.W. Jackson is full of hate.
"The KKK did not do nearly as much to destroy black life as Planned Parenthood," said Jackson in a past video posted on YouTube. Jackson is the newly nominated GOP candidate for Lieutenant Governor.
The video was compiled with other radical comments made by Jackson, and strung together by the organization American Bridge.
Jackson is a minister from Chesapeake, and the Virginia Republican party's newly nominated candidate for Lieutenant Governor. But videos on YouTube, combined and posted by the organization American Bridge, are shedding new light on Reverend Jackson's beliefs.
"Homosexuality is a horrible sin, is poisons culture, it destroys families, it destroys societies," said Jackson. He also said that gay people are "perverted" and "very sick."
State Senator Adam Ebbin, the only openly gay member of Virginia's legislature, is appalled at the statements.
"It's frightening," said Ebbin, saying that he knows gay people who fled Virginia because of similar anti-gay rhetoric.
Ebbin is one of several Democrats blasting Virginia's GOP ticket, and especially Reverend Jackson, as too extreme.
Here's what Reverend Jackson said about the President on the Victoria Jackson Show:
"The idea that Barack Obama is a Christian is laughable...I really believe that."
"It's shocking and ridiculous for a reverend to question others religious beliefs and judge others," said Ebbin.
Jackson's campaign did not respond to WUSA9's requests for an interview, but according to the Washington Post, he told reporters that he had nothing to apologize for and says what he says because he's a Christian.


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Start a Career After Just a Few Weeks of Phlebotomy Training.
As a Phlebotomist, you'll collect, transport, handle and process blood and other specimens for medical analysis. You'll work with both patients and other healthcare professionals.
Phlebotomists work in settings as varied as physician offices and medical clinics, hospitals and commercial laboratories.
In the Omaha area, your phlebotomy training certification starts at NMC.
Program Information
- We offer an accelerated curriculum (5 or 6 weeks) and a non-accelerated curriculum (9 weeks) that include classroom instruction and hands-on clinical practice at our campus laboratories as well as in actual clinical laboratories at affiliated hospitals.
- The Phlebotomy certificate includes 180 clock hours.
Phlebotomist Salary & Job Outlook
According to O*Net Online, phlebotomists in the United States had a median salary of $30,670 per year ($14.74 per hour) in 2014, while the Bureau of Labor Statistics projects a much faster than average job growth of 27% between 2012 and 2022.
Phlebotomy Professional Organizations
- American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP)
- American Medical Technologists (AMT)
- American Society of Phlebotomy Technicians (ASPT)
- National Healthcareer Association (NHA)
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Upon successful completion of this course, students will be eligible to take the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) certification examination enabling them to be certified Phlebotomy Technician, PBT (ASCP).


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A Fairfax County woman has drowned in the Potomac River, according to police.
Prince William County police say 66-year-old Cheryl Alston of Fairfax was found by divers in Belmont Bay Wednesday. Police searched the area after she was reported missing Nov. 5. She had last gone to a marina in Occoquan where she had a boat.
Investigators believe she fell into the water from the dock at the marina. Police say her death was accidental and that no foul play is suspected.
Fairfax County police provided a dive team and U.S. Customs and Border Patrol provided a helicopter to assist in the search for Alston at the bay, police said.
Belmont Bay lies between Mason Neck State Park and Occoquan Bay National Wildlife Refuge near Woodbridge.
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A computed tomography (CT) scan of the knee is a test that uses x-rays to take detailed images of the knee.
CAT scan - knee; Computed axial tomography scan - knee; Computed tomography scan - knee
You will lie on a narrow table that slides into the center of the CT scanner.
When you are inside the scanner, the machine's x-ray beam rotates around you. (Modern "spiral" scanners can perform the exam without stopping.)
A computer makes several images of the body area. These are called slices. These images can be stored, viewed on a monitor, or printed on film. Models of the body area in 3-D can be created by adding the slices together.
You must stay still during the exam, because movement blurs the pictures. You may have to hold your breath for short periods of time.
The scan should take less than 20 minutes.
Some exams require a special dye, called contrast, to be injected into your body before the test. Contrast helps certain areas show up better on the x-rays.
Too much weight can cause damage to the scanner's working parts. Ask about the weight limit before the test if you weigh more than 300 pounds.
You will need to remove jewelry and wear a hospital gown during the CT exam.
Some people may be uncomfortable lying on the hard table.
Contrast given through an IV may cause:
These feelings are normal and usually go away within a few seconds.
A CT scan can quickly create more detailed pictures of the knee than standard x-rays. The test may be used to detect:
A CT scan may also be used to guide a surgeon to the right area during a biopsy.
Results are considered normal if no problems are seen.
Abnormal results may be due to:
Risks of CT scans include:
CT scans give off more radiation than regular x-rays. Many x-rays or CT scans over time may increase your risk for cancer. However, the risk from any one scan is small. You and your provider should discuss this risk compared with the value of an accurate diagnosis for the problem.
Let your provider know if you have ever had an allergic reaction to injected contrast dye.
Rarely, the dye may cause a serious allergic response called anaphylaxis. This can be life-threatening. Notify the scanner operator right away if you have any trouble breathing during the test. Scanners have an intercom and speakers so the operator can hear you at all times.
Sanders T. Imaging of the knee. In: Miller MD, Thompson SR, eds. DeLee and Drez's Orthopaedic Sports Medicine. 4th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Saunders; 2015:chap 93.
Shaw AS, Prokop M. Computed tomography. In: Adam A, Dixon AK, Gillard JH, Schaefer-Prokop CM, eds. Grainger & Allison's Diagnostic Radiology: A Textbook of Medical Imaging. 6th ed. New York, NY: Churchill Livingstone; 2014:chap 4.
Thomsen HS, Reimer P. Intravascular contrast media for radiology, CT, and MRI In: Adam A, Dixon AK, Gillard JH, Schaefer-Prokop CM, eds. Grainger & Allison's Diagnostic Radiology: A Textbook of Medical Imaging. 6th ed. New York, NY: Churchill Livingstone; 2014:chap 2.


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(b) Foreign currencies
Foreign currencies owned by the United States and determined by the Secretary of the Treasury to be excess to the needs of the United States shall be used to the maximum extent possible in lieu of dollars in carrying out the provisions of this subpart.
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Assistance authorized under this subpart shall be in addition to any allotments or grants that may be made under other authorizations.
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Universities may accept and expend funds from other sources, public and private, in order to carry out the purposes of this subpart. All such funds, both prospective and inhand, shall be periodically disclosed to the Administrator as he shall by regulation require, but no less often than in an annual report.
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Yeah I'm talking about you guys and the game.
Just wanted to tell you guys that I won't be around playing the game the hardcore way. Maybe a game or two. But most likely like when I'm not really busy. Just popping out randomly peek a boo.
I got my new job as a Game Master but not here (Sadly). This is in Wings of Destiny.
Well I know that I have accomplished much in this game so I'd let the game go now and move on.
Thanks guys for all the people who trusted and cared for me till now. You guys take care always and always do good ok.


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Jacquie loves wearing flowers in her hair like Billie Holiday. She also loves her white petticoat, which once worn as a layer of a dance costume, now appears as an everyday spring "peasant style" skirt.
She insists that this look is not complete without her Kangol hat to match the coral suit.
"It's what all the younger women are wearing these days, I see them out in the Village with this kind of hat." Jacquie loves to thrift shop, (where she got this designer ensemble), but admits she likes very expensive things too... "though price has nothing to do with it!"
We love how Jacquie has all of her inspirations around her, like an artist who creates a mood around them.
Jacquie's smile shone brightest when we sat out on her new balcony and talked about how dressing up makes her feel. We were especially excited to hear how she shares the same ideas some of us at Advanced Style like to address... that dressing up and playing with clothes and color and accessories can be healing as you age. Jacquie emphasizes education, it being a big part of staying true to yourself and your style as you mature. We applaud her, and look forward to learning more!


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|TW@ Internet Café
|The interior of TW@'s Broker branch in GTA IV, where Alejandra works. All three TW@ branches in the game use the same exact interior.
|Featured in
| Torrington (III, LCS)
Outlook (IV)
North Holland (IV)
Berchem (IV)
Little Seoul (V)
|Price range
|$1 per session (IV)
TW@ (pronounced twat) is an internet café that appears in Grand Theft Auto III, Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories and Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, and is interactive in Grand Theft Auto IV and its episodes. The "TW", in "TW@", stands for "Totally Wireless", as can be seen outside some TW@ Internet Cafés. This phrase is a take on "Totally where it's at."
"TW@" is a reference to twat, which is a British slang term for "vagina", often also used in offensive manner to imply someone is an "idiot".
In GTA III, the TW@ café (in Torrington/Newport) is accessible, but not interactive. Two monitors inside the café show screenshots from Grand Theft Auto 1 and Grand Theft Auto 2. A stunt jump can be completed inside the café through the staircase.
In GTA Liberty City Stories, due to the earlier setting than GTA III, the TW@ café is only just being constructed. Its posters state - "Come and see the grand opening of TW@", yet another obscene reference to the British meaning of the word twat.
In the GTA IV Era, the TW@ Internet Cafés have gained notable popularity and at least one can be found on every major island. TW@ cafés can be used to browse the in-game websites and are accessible from the start of the game. The internet is introduced to the player in the mission Logging On where the player has to set up an Eyefind e-mail account. It costs $1 to use the computer. The stores can be robbed by simply opening the cash register and taking from $9 to $199, but doing so will usually result in a one star wanted level. But this can be avoided, if the player crouches behind the counter of the Snack Shop, out of sight and then opens the cash register, no one will notice and will act as if nothing has happened.
In GTA Chinatown Wars, a TW@ PDA theme is available to use. TW@ Internet Cafe's are also present in North Holland, East Hook and a new one is located in Easton, but all of them are inaccessible.
Grand Theft Auto III
South-east from the City Hall in South Belleville Park, Staunton Island.
Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories
South Belleville Park, Staunton Island (the same place as in GTA III). The store is under construction.
Grand Theft Auto IV
There is an internet café on each of the three main islands
Grand Theft Auto V
In GTA V, there are no enter-able TW@s as internet can be accessed from a phone or at one of the main character's houses, but does still appear as random establishments on the streets of Los Santos.
Easter eggs
- At all TW@ internet cafes in GTA IV, the photocopier behind the cashier's desk is a Kakagawa Power Ultra 3000 Pro. The screen of the photocopier also has an easter egg as the screen reads: ERROR Unleash ninja guru lol.
- In Saints Row, there is a broadcasting company called "TW@", also spelled with the "@" symbol.
- The stairway in the TW@ in GTA III serves as a Unique Stunt Jump.
- TW@ in the GTA III rendition is filled with random pedestrians that will walk around aimlessly, bumping into the windows trying to get out.
- In Episodes From Liberty City, the computers have new wallpapers: in The Ballad of Gay Tony, a dark background with a silhouette of the Liberty City skyline and the phrase "I ♥ LC," which is a reference to the first mission in the game. In The Lost and the Damned, the Lost MC safehouse computer has a wallpaper resembling one of the default Windows backgrounds.
- TW@ internet cafes do not appear in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories or Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, reflecting the fact that Internet cafes did not exist in the 1980s/early 1990s time frames of those games. Although, in San Andreas, a pedestrian can be heard saying; "This internet is crap, it'll never take off." He can heard saying this when bumped into; "Go to TW@." Pronouncing it like 'T.W.A.'
- All cafes have a cash register that can be opened for $10-$200.
- TW@ computers and all of the other computers in the game, have the same cursor used in Microsoft Windows, from Windows 3.1 to Windows XP, which may indicate that the operating system used in the game is a Windows operating system. There is more proof of this, as the Lost MC clubhouse has a computer with a wallpaper resembling a default windows background.
- Originally, Tw@ was able to sell food and had a larger selection of staff, as seen in this video.
- In GTA III there are 2 computers that have different images on them. One is a still of GTA I and the other is a still of GTA II. The computers' difference is only visual.
- In GTA III, the TW@ has no doors and is only accessible by shooting any of the windows.


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Education centers on the objective aspect of reality but misses knowledge of the subjective "Knower."
A compact collection of wisdom cut from Jim Carrey's 2014 Commencement Address for MUM
Jerry, Bob, and George discuss TM's effect on the average person and its part in helping veterans overcome PTSD.
Students speak on the theme of "Why We Came to MUM."
Houses the dining hall, student lounge, mailroom, lecture halls, and cafe
Former elite sniper googled "Enlightenment", and found his way to MUM
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Rustboro City is a city in Hoenn. Roxanne's Gym is here and it is also the city that contains the Devon Corporation, which makes items for people inside the game (for example) the PokéNavigator, or the Pokénav for short. In addition, the Devon Corporation is also the area for Hoenn where fossils are reverted into living Pokémon. Also, the house beside the PC (Pokémon Center) is where you can get the HM Cut. You need to defeat the gym leader Roxanne before you can use the HM Cut.
It is connected to Petalburg through the Petalburg Woods followed by a sea-side route from the south, connected to Fallarbor Town through Meteor Falls followed by a one-way trail from the north, and connected almost directly to Verdanturf Town through the Rusturf Tunnel from the east. It appears to be surrounded by a cave or forest on all three sides.
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Canada PM won't accept US rejection of Keystone pipeline
September 26, 2013 at 3:35 pm by Associated Press
By Rob Gillies
Associated Press
TORONTO (AP) — Canada's prime minister said Thursday he "won't take no for an answer" if the Obama administration rejects the controversial Keystone XL pipeline to the U.S. Gulf Coast.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper addressed the Keystone XL project, a flashpoint in the debate over climate change, during a visit to New York City. The long-delayed project carrying oil from Canada's oil sands needs approval from the U.S. State Department, and Harper's remarks are some of his strongest to date.
"My view is that you don't take no for an answer," Harper said. "We haven't had that but if we were to get that it won't be final. This won't be final until it's approved and we will keep pushing forward."
Capitol Hill: Republicans could force Keystone XL approval with must-pass debt bill
Harper, who made the remarks at a Canadian American Business Council event, said he's been in regular contact with President Barack Obama. Harper said it will create 40,000 jobs in the U.S.
"The logic behind this project is simply overwhelming," the prime minister said.
Harper said politics has cast doubt on whether the pipeline will be approved but said he's optimistic it will be approved.
"Ultimately, over time, bad politics make bad policy," he said. "The president has always assured me that he will a make decision that's in what he believes is in the best interests of the United States based on the facts. I think the facts are clear."
The Obama administration is considering whether to approve the pipeline, which would carry 800,000 barrels of oil a day from Alberta across six U.S. states to the Texas Gulf Coast. A decision late this year or early next year.
Pew: Americans support Keystone, oppose hydraulic fracturing
Republicans, and business and labor groups, have urged the Obama administration to approve the pipeline as a source of much-nee
Texas-based biofuels company plans expansion
September 26, 2013 at 5:07 pm by Associated Press
By Jeff Amy
Associated Press
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Texas-based company has announced that it plans to double the production capacity at its biofuels production facility in Columbus, Miss.
KiOR Inc., based in Pasadena, announced Wednesday in a news release that it will build a second plant in Columbus that converts wood products to diesel and gasoline.
The company has to raise $225 million to pay for it though, which would mean selling more stock or borrowing more money. KiOR said it has raised another $50 million from investor Vinod Khosla, who has been a major financier for the company.
The company missed its estimates of how much fuel it would make in the second quarter, although it said output rose in July and August. Because it was running out of cash, it had a compelling need to raise money.
Cellulosic fuel: KiOR ships first production of wood chip-based diesel
In moving ahead in Columbus, KiOR will put off the start of construction of a larger facility in Natchez, Miss., until late 2014. The company said in August it would cost $560 million to $600 million to build the Natchez plant.
When the state of Mississippi made a $75 million low-interest loan in 2010, KiOR pledged to develop three plants in the state by the end of 2015, including one in the southwest. The company also agreed to invest $500 million in land and buildings and spend $85 million on wages and contract by the deadline. The company is also supposed to create 1,000 direct and indirect jobs.
Spokeswoman Kate Perez said the company is still on track to meet the deadline. "Our plans will allow us to meet our contractual obligations with the state," she said.
Perez declined to say whether the company would count the two Columbus phases as separate plants to meet the three-plant requirement.
"I think it's a fair question to ask," said Joe Max Higgins, CEO of the Golden Triangle Development Li
Natural gas loses steam for power generation
September 26, 2013 at 3:40 pm by Emily Pickrell
The rising price of natural gas relative to coal is putting a drag on its attractiveness for power generation.
Natural gas used for electricity in the United States fell by 14 percent during the first seven months of 2013, compared with the same time period in 2012, according to a report this week from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
The slowdown has come as U.S. natural gas prices have rebounded from a 2012 low of $2.39 per million British thermal units. Natural gas currently trades at about $3.50 per million British thermal units.
Even with the price increase, natural gas generation remains higher than before 2012, indicating a longer term, gradual shift away from coal. Coal now accounts for 39 percent of the fuel used to generate the nation's power needs, down from 42 percent in 2011.
In Texas, the reduction of coal use has not been as dramatic as nationwide, because Texas power plants use a greater proportion of lignite coal, which is cheaper than the Powder River Basin coal used in many East Coast plants. Texas also has lower transportation costs for coal, making its use relatively more attractive than in other parts of the country.
The proposed tightening of emissions regulations also has encouraged power companies to invest in natural gas. The Obama administration recently proposed carbon emission limits on coal plants, which is expected to further raise the cost of investing in coal plants.
Nuclear power has remained stable in the last three years, making up about 10 percent of total power generation. Since 2012, five nuclear reactors at four nuclear power plants have been shut down. However, despite these closures, which have consisted of aging facilities, power generation companies are continuing to invest in diversified power sources, and build additional nuclear facilities, such as the Vogtle plant in Georgia. As a result, nuclear power is ex
House Republicans shift Obamacare demands to next fiscal fight VIDEO
Updated at 12 p.m. ET
Now that Congress has inched closer to passing a government spending bill without defunding Obamacare, House Republicans are shifting their campaign against the health care law to the next looming fiscal fight -- the debt limit.
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, told reporters Thursday that House Republicans are introducing legislation "that ties important spending cuts and pro growth reforms to a debt limit increase."
Those reforms include delaying parts of Obamacare for a year, tax reforms and provisions to reduce energy costs, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., said. More specifically, the plan reportedly includes provisions that address the development of the Keystone XL pipeline, EPA carbon regulations, coal ash regulations, parts of the Dodd Frank Act and more.
Senate votes unanimously to move forward on spending bill
Constant deadlines create crisis mode in Congress
Treasury Secretary Jack Lew has warned Congress that if the U.S. doesn't raise the debt limit -- its legal borrowing authority -- by Oct. 17, the U.S. will no longer be able to borrow enough money to pay its bills.
President Obama has repeatedly said he refuses to negotiate over the debt limit given the potentially dire consequences of failing to raise it. In the worst case scenario, the U.S. could default on its loans. In 2011, the stock market fell 2,000 points and the United States' credit rating was lowered because of the mere threat of a default.
"This is the United States of America, we're not a deadbeat nation, we don't run out on our tab," Mr. Obama said at an event in Maryland Thursday. "We are the world's bedrock economy, the world's currency of choice. The entire world looks to us to make sure the world economy is stable. You don't mess with that. That's why I will not negotiate on anything when it comes to the full faith and credit of the United States of America."
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Ethanol Tumbles Versus Gasoline as Producers See Cheaper Corn
September 25, 2013
By: Bloomberg
The spread, or price difference, widened 9.42 cents to 83.12 cents a gallon as ethanol dropped with corn, the primary feedstock for the fuel in the U.S.
Mario Parker
Ethanol tumbled versus gasoline this week on speculation that producers of the biofuel are seeing lower corn costs as the harvest begins.
The spread, or price difference, widened 9.42 cents to 83.12 cents a gallon as ethanol dropped with corn, the primary feedstock for the fuel in the U.S. The harvest is usually from September to November.
"We see producers out here really pushing it down, they're selling," said Jim Damask, a manager at StarFuels Inc., in Jupiter, Florida. "Corn must be showing up. They must be getting their hands on some cheap corn."
Denatured ethanol for October delivery sank 5.8 cents, or 3.1 percent, to $1.828 a gallon on the Chicago Board of Trade. Futures have declined 17 percent this year.
Gasoline for October delivery gained 3.62 cents, or 1.4 percent, to $2.6592 a gallon on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract covers reformulated gasoline, made to be blended with ethanol before delivery to filling stations.
One bushel of corn makes at least 2.75 gallons of ethanol. Farmers responded to last summer's drought that devastated yields by planting record acres of the grain.
Corn for December delivery slumped 4.5 cents, or 1 percent, to $4.4875 a bushel in Chicago. The December crush spread of corn to ethanol was minus 3 cents, down from break-even yesterday. All crush spreads through July 2016 were negative.
In cash market trading, ethanol dropped 60 cents to $2.375 a gallon in Chicago, 25 cents to $2.20 in New York, 5 cents to $2.275 on the West Coast and 0.5 cent to $2.325 on the West Coast, data compiled by Bloomberg show.
Chicago's premium to New York Harbor contracted 35 cents to 17.5 cents, while the West Coast's discount to the Gulf wid
Staying the course: Our obligation to renewable fuels
By former Gov. Mark Schweiker (R-Pa.) - 09/26/13 01:00 PM ET
Imagine if Thomas Edison had given up on the light bulb after only trying 533 out of 1600 materials for the bulb's filamentor or if Sergey Brin and Larry Page had abandoned their search algorithm only one-third of the way towards creating Google. Now consider this: what if these pioneers had never achieved their goals due, not to lack of vision or innovation ability, but because they were told in no uncertain terms—you'll never succeed.
We find ourselves in a similar situation over America's Renewable Fuel Standard, or RFS. As an industry and a nation, we are a third of the way to achieving an incredible goal: replacing 36 billion gallons of petroleum-based fuel with American-made biofuels by 2022. Remarkable progress has been made in the few years since the RFS was introduced by Republican President George W. Bush, and implemented with support of Democratic President Barack Obama. The RFS has driven a 19 percent reduction in American dependence on oil from unstable regions of the globe; while also providing alternatives at the pump that reduce GHG emissions by 20 percent.
Still, those who fear progress have spent hundreds of millions of dollars hectoring renewable fuel investors and supporters in Congress every step of the way.
The RFS needs to be able to run its course in order to prove out, but the (self) interests who oppose the RFS and its impact on their bottom lines are hoping to thwart this vision in order to maintain the status quo – they might prefer a world in which the light bulb remained dim and the world was absent of search engines.
Congress must stay true to the original leadership and vision exhibited and recognize the opportunity the RFS presents and to protect it, in this, high-growth stage with more tangible impact. Otherwise we risk destabilizing the renewable fuel industry and the hundreds of companies that have st
State: Obama plan hits climate target
Ben Geman - 09/26/13 11:52 AM ET
President Obama's climate plan would enable the U.S. to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020, according to a new State Department report released Thursday.
The report arrives amid a big White House PR push to promote carbon standards for power plants, new appliance and equipment efficiency standards, interagency work to cut methane emissions and many other executive steps.
The report says Obama's second-term plan rolled out in June, combined with first-term actions, like auto mileage rules and work to boost green power generation, would help meet the emissions pledges that the U.S. has made in international climate talks.
U.S. emissions are already trending downward. Average U.S. greenhouse gas pollution in 2009-2011 fell to the lowest level for any three-year period since 1994-1996, the State Department said, but the report says more actions are needed.
"[S]ignificant new measures will be required to stay on track to reach the U.S. goal of achieving reductions in the range of 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020. By building on the success of the first term, the United States can achieve substantial further emission reductions consistent with this ambitious goal," said the report, which is slated for delivery to the United Nations states.
Increased use of natural gas for electricity, which releases much less carbon dioxide than coal, has also driven down U.S. carbon emissions in recent years.
But environmentalists warn that stronger measures to control emissions of the potent greenhouse gas methane from well sites are needed.
The State Department actually released two reports Thursday.
One is an every-four-years emissions report to the United Nations on emissions, which is based on existing policies. The second is a first-time, biennial report on planned climate actions to help meet U.S. pledges at recent U.N. climate negotiations.
U.N.-hosted clima
John Boehner Refuses To Pass 'Clean' Bill To Avert Shutdown
Posted: 09/26/2013 1:04 pm EDT | Updated: 09/26/2013 1:11 pm EDT
WASHINGTON -- House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) insisted Thursday that the government would not shut down, but he also flatly refused to pass a "clean" spending bill to keep Uncle Sam in business next week when the bank account runs dry.
"I do not see that happening," Boehner told reporters on Capitol Hill after meeting with Republican legislators.
The House passed a measure last week to fund the government after Sept. 30 only if Democrats agree to strip spending from Obamacare. The Senate is in the process of removing the health care defunding and plans to send a simple spending bill back to the House by this weekend. That bill would keep the government running until Nov. 15.
Boehner declared, "I don't expect" the government to close. But he did not explain how he and his Republican caucus could amend the Senate bill, debate it, vote on it and send it back to the Senate for more action there before Oct. 1.
"There will be options available to us," Boehner said. "There's not going to be any speculation about what we're going to do or not do until the Senate passes their bill."
Many observers expect that the House will at least try again to delay Obamacare's implementation. Senate Democrats have repeatedly said they will not accept such a move, setting up another stalemate for Monday, the last day that the federal government can keep the doors open without a new bill.
Weekly Coal Production Data for week ended: September 21, 2013
Release date: September 26, 2013 | Next release date: October 03, 2013
For the week ended September 21, 2013:
•U.S. coal production totaled approximately 19.3 million short tons (mmst)
•This production estimate is 5.2 percent lower than last week's estimate and 0.7 percent lower than the production estimate in the comparable week in 2012
•Coal production east of the Mississippi River totaled 8.2 mmst
•Coal production west of the Mississippi River totaled 11.1 mmst
•U.S. year-to-date coal production totaled 727.7 mmst, 2.3 percent lower than the comparable year-to-date coal production in 2012
weekly estimates
comparable week in previous year
19,407 thousand short tonsWeekly U.S. coal production overview
Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report for week ending September 20, 2013
Released: September 26, 2013 at 10:30 a.m. | Next Release: October 3, 2013
Working gas in storage was 3,386 Bcf as of Friday, September 20, 2013, according to EIA estimates. This represents a net increase of 87 Bcf from the previous week. Stocks were 179 Bcf less than last year at this time and 30 Bcf above the 5-year average of 3,356 Bcf. In the East Region, stocks were 115 Bcf below the 5-year average following net injections of 54 Bcf. Stocks in the Producing Region were 95 Bcf above the 5-year average of 1,030 Bcf after a net injection of 25 Bcf. Stocks in the West Region were 50 Bcf above the 5-year average after a net addition of 8 Bcf. At 3,386 Bcf, total working gas is within the 5-year historical range.
EPA Selects Dominion Virginia Power As a 2013 Green Power Supplier of the Year
RICHMOND, Va., Sept. 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Dominion Virginia Power has been named a 2013 Green Power Supplier of the Year by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The award recognizes green power suppliers that are leaders in offering voluntary renewable energy to their customers.
"This award speaks volumes about the 19,000 customers in Virginia who have chosen to support renewable energy development in Virginia," said Ken Barker, vice president – Customer Solutions and Energy Conservation. "We are proud to be able to provide our Dominion Green Power® program as an innovative way for our customers to have a positive impact on the planet and support renewable energy to meet some or all of their home's energy needs."
"EPA is pleased to recognize Dominion Virginia Power's Green Power® program with a Green Power Supplier of the Year award for its innovative leadership in expanding the nation's renewable energy industry," said EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy. "Through its support and development of new renewable energy capacity, Dominion Green Power is taking action against climate change and putting our country on a path to a clean energy future."
Since the program's inception in 2009, participants have supported more than 593,000 megawatt-hours of renewable energy. The generation of this green power has prevented the same amount of carbon dioxide from entering the air as removing 80,400 average cars from the road for one year, or the equivalent environmental impact of planting 10.7 million trees that grow to maturity.
The Dominion Green Power Program® offers customers the option to match their home electricity use with renewable energy by either usage or in fixed monthly amounts. The fixed option starts at $2 and can be increased in $2 increments up to the customers' total energy usage. Each $2 block supports 154 kilowatt-hours of green power. The option based on usage adds 1.
More Wind & Solar Can Reduce Utility Costs and Emissions
By Andrew Burger · Comments (0) · Tuesday, September 24th, 2013
Those opposed to spurring development and adoption of renewable solar and wind energy resources continually assert that their intermittent nature not only reduces grid reliability and raises the cost of electricity, but negates the carbon and greenhouse gas emissions reductions that contribute so greatly to their rapid adoption in the first place.
While it's true that bringing greater amounts of solar and wind-generated electricity on grids means utilities have to cycle more frequently – ramp down and ramp up or stop and start – fossil fuel generators to ensure a smooth, reliable flow of electricity, a study by the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) shows that the carbon emissions that result from cycling are negligible – less than 0.2% – of the carbon reductions realized by generating electricity from the sun and winds.
Not only that, but the research revealed that bringing "high levels of wind and solar power [on to the grid] would reduce fossil fuel costs by approximately $7 billion per year across the West, while incurring cycling costs of $35 million to $157 million per year." That amounts to an increase in operations and maintenance costs of only $0.47-$1.28 per megawatt-hour (MWh) of electricity generation for the average fossil fuel power plant, according to a September 24 NREL press release.
How can this be? The explanation lies in the fossil fuel costs utilities avoid by making greater use of solar and wind energy generation.
Avoiding fossil fuel costs, and pollution
According to Debra Law, the project manager for NREL's study,
"Grid operators have always cycled power plants to accommodate fluctuations in electricity demand as well as abrupt outages at conventional power plants, and grid operators use the same tool to accommodate high levels of wind and solar generation.
"Increased cycling to accommodate high leve
Just in the last week 24 new stations have started offering E85. This brings the total number of stations offering this ethanol blend up to 139 this year. The expansion comes on the...
Grassley asks EPA if ethanol credit market is being controlled by Wall Street
4:26 PM, Sep 25, 2013 | by Christopher Doering
As controversy swells over the cost of special credits tied to ethanol, Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley asked the agency charged with overseeing the country's renewable policy for details on what is being done to prevent manipulation and abuse.
Grassley, in a letter sent Wednesday to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy, expressed concern that not enough is known about the role speculators play in the market for credits known as Renewable Identification Numbers, or RINs.
The RIN credit is a special serial number given to batches of biofuels before they are sold to refiners and gasoline importers looking to comply with a federal mandate to use a certain amount of ethanol. The credit was created by Congress. Instead of blending ethanol, the refiner can choose to purchase RINs to comply with the mandate.
But there has been concern that the credits, originally seen as a way for refiners and others tied to ethanol to comply with the mandate, have been used as an investment tool for big banks on Wall Street, helping to inflate the cost of the RINs. The fear is that the higher RIN prices have made it more expensive to produce motor fuel with ethanol, costs the oil industry says have then been passed on to consumers at the pump. Most fuel today contains 10 percent ethanol.
"The EPA needs to provide assurances that this market is functioning for its intended purpose, rather than acting as a profit mechanism for Wall Street banks and other financial institutions," Grassley said in the letter sent Wednesday.
Grassley asked the EPA head nine questions, including what safeguards the agency has in place to protect against RIN market manipulation and abuse by those not directly involved in renewable energy. He also asked McCarthy whether the EPA is working to modify the RIN credit market to eliminate manipulation and abusive tradin
U.S. senator presses EPA on biofuel market volatility
WASHINGTON | Wed Sep 25, 2013 7:39pm EDT
(Reuters) - A U.S. senator is pressing the Environmental Protection Agency to release more information on the market used to trade biofuel credits, known as RINs, after suggestions of manipulation by Wall Street banks.
"I'm concerned about recent reports of manipulation or exploitation of the RIN market," Charles Grassley, an Iowa Republican, said in a letter to U.S. EPA administrator Gina McCarthy.
"Allegations that the opaqueness of this market is leading to abuse and exploitation by individuals or firms simply to generate profits at the expense of refiners, other obligated parties, and perhaps consumers is troubling," Grassley said.
Grassley is the second senator this week to raise alarm about the biofuel credits trading system.
RIN trading was created as a way to help refiners comply with their obligation under U.S. law to blend a certain amount of renewable fuels, such as corn-based ethanol, into their gasoline and diesel supplies.
Grassley, who represents the largest U.S. corn producing state, is a long-time supporter of that law, the Renewable Fuels Standard.
On Monday Debbie Stabenow, head of the Senate Agriculture Committee, asked U.S. futures regulators to investigate whether there was manipulation of the price of the credits, the formal name of which is Renewable Identification Numbers.
The EPA oversees the biofuels standard.
Grassley asked the agency to respond to questions about the RIN market in eight broad areas, including whether it is working to modify the trading system and whether the EPA has a strong enough oversight network to prevent abuses.
"The EPA needs to provide assurances that this market is functioning for its intended purpose, rather than acting as a profit mechanism for Wall Street banks and other financial institutions," he said.
Prices of RINs have been high and volatile this year, soaring from a few cents each in January to al
BIO Tells EPA to Just Say No to Big Oil's RFS Waiver
Posted on September 25, 2013 by John Davis
Big Oil is trying to get out of its obligations under the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS), but an organization with close ties to the biofuels industry is calling on the government to stand its ground. The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) is asking Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy to reject the recent petition from American Petroleum Institute and American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers for a waiver of the 2014 volume obligations under the RFS. In an 11-page letter to the EPA, Brent Erickson, executive vice president of BIO's Industrial & Environmental Section said that Big Oil already enjoys great flexibility in planning and choosing how it will comply with the RFS, shooting holes in the petroleum industry's argument that compliance would hurt the U.S. economy.
"BIO urges the EPA to deny the joint petition for several reasons. First, the petitioners do not meet the requirements to file the joint petition. The joint petition is also premature. The petitioners cannot demonstrate harm when the 2014 renewable volume obligations (RVOs) have not even been formally proposed."
Erickson continues the 11-page letter, writing:
"The reality is that because they have blocked investment in infrastructure and created marketing challenges for higher blends of biofuels, the petitioners are now requesting the Administrator waive the 2014 RVOs to 9.7 percent of the domestic fuel supply. They created the very situation from which they are requesting relief."
Erickson outlined the options Big Oil has, including accumulating Renewable Identification Numbers (RINs) to meet its 2014 RFS RVOs. And he says "while some individual refiners may choose to restrict U.S. fuel supply as a compliance strategy, market competition and the increasing production of biofuels will work in tandem so such a restriction will not harm the U.S. economy or con
EPA publishes RIN data for August
By Erin Voegele | September 25, 2013
The U.S. EPA has published renewable fuels standard (RFS) compliance data for August, reporting that more than nearly 2.89 billion renewable identification numbers (RINs) were generated during the month.
No D3 cellulosic biofuel or D7 cellulosic diesel RINs were generated in August. However, on a year-to-date basis, 129,731 D3 RINs were generated, along with 85,313 D7 RINs. All cellulosic RINs have been generated by domestic producers.
According to EPA data, 97.34 million D5 advanced biofuel RINs were generated in August, accounting for 92.91 gallons of biofuel. During the first eight months of 2013, a total of 407.96 million D5 RINs have been generated. More than 12.29 million were generated for biogas, nearly 361.2 million generated for ethanol. In addition, 191,847 D5 RINs have been generated for renewable naptha, along with nearly 34.58 million RINs for renewable diesel. Approximately 61.93 million D5 RINs were generated by domestic producers. More than 346.35 million were generated by importers. No D5 RINs were generated by foreign producers.
Nearly 1.13 billion D6 renewable fuel RINs were generated in August, representing 1.12 billion gallons of fuel. During the eight month period spanning from January through August, approximately 8.64 billion D6 RINs have been generated. The vast majority, about 8.55 billion, have been generated by domestic producers, with 4.15 million generated by importers and 93 million generated by foreign producers. More than 8.55 billion D6 RINs were generated for ethanol, with approximately 4.79 million generated for biodiesel and 93.04 million generated for renewable diesel.
EPA data also indicates 271.32 million D4 biomass-based diesel RINs were generated in August, with 1.6 billion D4 RINs generated during the first eight months of the year. Most D4 RINs, 1.37 billion, were generated for biodiesel production. Renewable diesel accounted for approximately 2
EPA Inspector General recommends improvements to RFS monitoring
By Erin Voegele | September 25, 2013
The U.S. EPA Office of Inspector General has released a report recommending ways the agency should improve monitoring activities for the renewable fuel standard (RFS) program. According to the report, the audit was conducted in response to the generation of millions of dollars of fraudulent renewable identification numbers (RINs), and aimed to determine if EPA has assessed program risk and designed necessary controls in the RFS program.
According to the report, the EPA did not track submission of third-party engineering reviews or annual attest engagements because it does not have an electronic monitoring system for those reports. Until these materials are tracked, the Office of the Inspector General said the agency can't be sure that program participants are complying with regulations. However the EPA recently implemented electronic reporting requirements for attest engagements and said it intends to do the same for engineering reviews by the end of the year.
The report also notes the investigation was unable to determine if there is overlap in parties completing the third-party engineering reviews and attest engagements. In addition, it specifies that regulations currently do not preclude the same third party from completing multiple requirements and other reporting responsibilities, allowing for potential overlap. This could result in a conflict of interest if the same third party reviews its own work.
The Office of Inspector General recommends that the EPA Office of Air and Radiation modify existing systems to track the submission of reporting requirements, and recommends requiring electrical submittal of all reporting requirements for the RFS, including third-party engineering reviews and attest engagements. It also suggests the EPA revise regulations to include specificity on independence requirements.
The EPA's Office of Air and Radiation has agreed with
House GOP Debt Ceiling Offer To Include Pro-Wall Street Provisions, Health Care Cuts
Posted: 09/25/2013 11:21 am EDT
WASHINGTON -- House Republicans plan to demand major perks for coal companies and Wall Street banks, alongside healthcare and social service cuts and a one-year delay in the implementation of Obamacare, in exchange for raising the debt ceiling until the end of 2014, according to a source close to the House GOP leadership.
President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats have repeatedly stated that they will not negotiate over raising the debt limit, saying they will not make a political football of the U.S. government's creditworthiness.
The Republican plan, which would also constitute a significant overhaul of the environmental and financial regulatory system, would cut pensions for Federal employees and raise taxes on immigrant families with parents who do not have a Social Security number. The document claims $7 billion in savings from restricting the child tax credit to immigrants who do have a number, and up to $84 billion from "reform" to the Federal Employee Retirement System.
The plan would increase Medicare means testing, and would eliminate social service block grants and a fund for preventative healthcare in the Affordable Care Act that conservatives have characterized as a "slush fund." Block grants are a capped entitlement program given to states to help fund services like daycare, transportation and home-delivered meals. The Prevention and Public Health Fund has included funds for training primary care doctors and supporting healthy corner stores.
Coal and oil companies would benefit from provisions to expand offshore drilling and drilling on federal lands. The proposal blocks the federal government from regulating greenhouse gas emissions and coal ash, and would give Congress the power to veto any "major" regulation issued by a federal agency (because an affirmative vote would be required, Congress could
Senate votes to proceed with funding bill VIDEO
By Paul Kane and Ed O'Keefe, Updated: Wednesday, September 25, 11:26 AM
The Senate moved Wednesday to take up a House-passed temporary spending bill that defunds President Obama's health-care law, despite Sen. Ted Cruz's more than 21-hour attempt to delay the legislation.
Shortly after 1 p.m., the funding bill passed its first procedural hurdle in the Senate, which voted unanimously to invoke cloture on a motion to proceed on the House's continuing resolution. The Senate now is scheduled to hold up to 30 hours of debate on the funding bill.
The development came after Cruz (R-Tex.) ended his marathon talking attack on the Affordable Care Act, which was signed into law more than three years ago, at noon Wednesday when he ran into a deadline imposed by Senate rules, allowing the body to take up the funding bill aimed at averting a looming government shutdown.
The Senate then essentially choked off the first filibuster hurdle on its own version of the funding bill, marking the first step toward allowing Democrats to include funding for the health-care law that had previously been stripped out by the House.
But Cruz's feat of stamina, which lasted 21 hours and 19 minutes, threatened to complicate House GOP efforts to pass the funding bill after the Senate modifies the House version.
Speaking on the Senate floor after Cruz ended his talkathon, Sen. John McCain blasted the freshman senator from Texas for suggesting during his speech that Republican lawmakers had not fought hard enough to stop the health-care law before Congress passed it in March 2010. McCain also vigorously objected to Cruz's comparison of "pundits" who say that Obamacare cannot be defunded to politicians who appeased #$%$ Germany before World War II.
"I resoundingly reject that allegation," McCain said. He said Cruz had told him that he was not comparing U.S. legislators to #$%$ appeasers, but McCain called that "a difference without


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- Grocery shopping channels: lessons from an emerging market
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- Greenland, Steven J.
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- Emerging markets present strong growth prospects for international retailers, but ill-founded assumptions about the nature of these markets can prove costly. This paper reveals how emerging market consumers' grocery shopping channel choice and shopping behaviour is more complex than developed markets. The paper examines grocery shopping behaviour in a significant African emerging market and reveals some of the challenges facing international retailers. The research is based upon more than 3000 interviews that investigate the retail channel habits of Kenyan grocery shoppers. Findings highlight the significant economic divide between different types of Kenyan consumers who nevertheless use several common grocery shopping channels. The study also reveals the diversity of channels patronised, as well as significant variation in the frequency of households' grocery shopping. By enhancing understanding of the complexities characterising Kenyan grocery shopping behaviour the paper assists retailers and academics considering business in emerging regions.
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- 2012
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- Africa; Emerging markets; Grocery shopping; Retailing; Shopping channels
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Valdosta, GA - An argument between two brothers in Valdosta ended with a bullet.
One brother, 24 year old Justin Arnold is charged with shooting his younger brother in the leg.
21-year old Dijon Arnold was taken to the South Georgia Medical Center for treatment.
The shooting happened Saturday morning in the seven hundred block of Holiday street.
Bobbi McGraw, Valdosta Police Department, stated, " [It] had to do with some money. One brother believed another brother took some money from his account or one of his credit cards I believe. And it led to an argument which led to a shooting unfortunately."
Justin Arnold was charged with felony aggravated assault and taken to the Lowndes County Jail.
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Edgefield, SC--For the past five or six years, Strom Thurmond has gotten this far in the state playoffs, but haven't gotten over the hump and back to the title game. They've had plenty of great players during the stretch, but now its time for the next step.
That step would be beating top ranked hartsville friday night. Led by Havueer Hammond, Darius Hammond and the blue steel defense, the Rebels do have a cause. First five or six minutes of each half could be key. Pretty much all year Thurmond has gotten out of the gates quickly and it could set the stage for a big game.
"We need to start off faster" said Ty Brooks "We start off fast, and the defense start off fast, then we'll be good. And they have a weak special teams so we'll be good there."
"I believe that a great deal" said Aaron Cook "we need to start off good to just keep running and you know, keep going from there."
Rebels will face a Hartsville team that runs, runs and runs some more, something they haven't really haven't faced since Silver Bluff. Then again the foxes probably haven't faced a team quite like this one.
"Like you said we've been knocking on the door for five or six years now" said Lee Sawyer "I think, and coach (Al) Lown mentioned it back a couple of months ago, maybe just a little more solid from top to bottom."
Strom Thurmond is the smallest team in class 3-A but are now one of four teams left. Winner heads to Columbia and Williams Brice Stadium next Saturday night with a chance at a state title.
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Southern Dry Pacific Coast mangroves
Tivives, Costa Rica. Photograph by Linda Farley
The Southern dry Pacific Coast mangroves ecoregion, found along the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, is unique to external and internal areas, and vegetation is characterized by the geneses Rhizopora and Avicennia. The ecoregion serves as an important nesting site for a number of bird species as well as providing habitat for such fauna species as Mantled Howler Monkey, Spectacled Caiman, and the largest bat species in the New World, the False Vampire Bat. The chief threat to this region is the conversion of habitat for agricultural development.
Location and General Description
This ecoregion extends along the Pacific coast of Central America beginning just south of the Golfo de Fonseca in Nicaragua then continuing south to the Gulf of Nicoya in Costa Rica. This southern dry pacific coast ecoregion encompasses the Gulfo de Nicoya that marks the transition zone from dry to moist on the pacific coast. The mangroves in this ecoregion is structurally less developed than that further south as a result of its orientation within the dry tropical climate zone. Also there is lower annual rainfall, than further south of the transition line, ranging from 1300 millimetres (mm) in Nicaragua to 2000 mm in Costa Rica, but mostly falling during an abbreviated wet season resulting in a longer dry season from December to April. Annual temperature fluctuates between 25°C and 27°C with lean high or low depending on northern or southern portions of the ecoregion.
Because of high evapotranspiration rates and severity of the dry seasons, there is high salinity and a water deficit most of the year. Two kinds of zones can be distinguished in this ecoregion external and internal. The external areas are directly exposed to estuarine waters. The internal areas are isolated from the estuaries' waters mostly however, seasonally the tides inundate these areas. There is a high salinity gradient between the mouth and the inland areas where salt pans may form. Evapotranspiration, marine water, and a supply of freshwater from rainfall, river discharge, and surface runoff regulate these salinity variations in the soil. In areas of seasonal climate fluctuation, salinity concentrations increase towards the internal side of the forest. With greater distance from the tidal channels, and diminishing intensity of tidal inundation, salt accumulates in the soil as freshwater evaporates, leaving salt pans in the driest areas. The dry internal zone receives freshwater input during the dry season through runoff, which may come from small wetlands that function as reserves. Throughout the ecoregion fine sediment dominates most sites soil types but sandy areas are also found.
Vegetation in this ecoregion is mainly represented by mangrove ecosystems including species, which are found in association with mangroves and some aquatic plants. Dominant mangrove species such as Rhizopora mangle, R. harrisonii, R. racemosa, Avicennia germinans, A. bicolor, A. tonduzii, Laguncularia racemosa, Pelliciera rhizophorae, and Conocarpus erecta in less flooded areas. The dryness of the region is associated with a clear zonation pattern among the mangrove species Rhizopora species are found at the seaward edge, and Avicennia along the inland fringe.
Vegetation that grows in moist areas in association with mangrove species include ferns Acrostichum aureum, Tabebuia palustris while Canavalia maritima, Ipomoea pescaprae, Caesalpinia bonduc, Prosopis juliflora, Sesuvium portulacastrum, Plutapapron vermiculare, Jouvea straminea, Fimbristylis spadicea, Capparis odoratissima, Randia, sp. and Tamarindus indica grow in dry zones.
Biodiversity Features
Forests in the dry internal zone are composed of Avicennia bicolor, which also provide nesting areas for the Yellow-naped Parrot (Amazona auropalliata). A faunal inventory at the Juan Venado Natural Reserve counted 95 species of birds, 24 reptiles, 23 mammals, 14 fishes and 6 amphibian species. This ecoregion is said to be extremely important for nesting, staging, and wintering birds. Birds most specific to mangroves include the Panama flycatcher (Myiarchus panamensis), whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus), yellow-crowned night-heron (Nyctanassa violacea), black-crowned night-heron (Nycticorax nycticorax), scaly-breasted hummingbird (Phaeochroa cuvierii), black-bellied plover (Pluvialis squatarola), prothonotary warbler (Protonotaria citrea), northern waterthrush (Seiurus noveboracensis), northern scrub-flycatcher (Sublegatus arenarum), mangrove swallow (Tachycineta albilinea), and greater yellowlegs (Tringa melanoleuca) just to name a few.
Mammals, although not as numerous as birds, also utilize the resources available in this mangrove ecoregion including the paca (Agouti paca), mantled howler monkey (Allouatta palliata), white-faced capuchin (Cebus capucinus), pygmy anteater (Cyclopes didactylus), nine banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus), Central American otter (Lutra annectens), white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), northern raccoon (Procyoon lotor), crab-eating raccoon (P. cancrivorus), which can be found both on the ground and in the canopy consuming crabs and mollusks and the Mexican anteater (Tamandua mexicana). The great false vampire bat (Vampyrum spectrum) is also found in this ecoregion and is considered the largest bat in the new world.
Reptiles such as the Basilisk lizard (Basiliscus basiliscus), snakes (Boa constrictor) American crocodile (Crocodilus acutus), spectacled caiman (Caiman crocodilus), Ctenosaur (Ctenosaura similis), iguana (Iguana iguana), and a few species of sea turtle such as the Pacific Ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea).
Current Status
Areas with the highest remaining concentrations of mangroves in this ecoregion, in Costa Rica are Puerto Soley (near NI border; Tamarindo (400 hectares (ha)), Golfo de Nicoya (15,173 ha), and Puntarenas. In Nicaragua: Estero Padre Ramos (4590 ha), Aserradores-Poneloya (10,700 ha), Las Peñitas to Salinas Grandes (2420 ha), and Estero Ciego to Puerto Sandino (1990 ha).
Types and Severity of Threats
In general, the river basins that drain into this ecoregion are of exaggerated topographic relief, therefore seasonally intense rainfall and highly erodable soils make them prone to erosion caused the removal of vegetation for agricultural practices, timber, fuelwood, and livestock overgrazing. The direct result is high sedimentation of nutrients that are naturally delivered to the mangrove areas but in much lower concentrations, during the rainy season.
Major threats include the pressure to convert mangroves to agricultural uses even though mangrove soils are too poor for agricultural purposes and have problems of drainage, salinity, and acidity. Converted lands are often then abandoned because of high maintenance costs. In this ecoregion in particular vast areas of mangrove have been destroyed to construct salt ponds, which also requires cutting of mangroves for fuelwood to crystallize the salt. Also, urban encroachment, runoff of pesticide residues, and eutrophication. In the Gulf of Nicoya, between 1964 and 1989, 633 ha of mangroves were lost to shrimp culture and 115 ha to salt production.
Justification of Ecoregion Delineation
Classification and linework for all mangrove ecoregions in Latin America and the Caribbean follow the results of a mangrove ecoregion workshop and subsequent report.
Further Reading
- Chapman, V. J., editor. 1992. Ecosystems of the World; Wet coastal ecosystems. Netherlands, Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishers B. V. ISBN: 0444415602
- Ecoregional Workshop: A Conservation Assessment of Mangrove Ecoregions of Latin America and the Caribbean. 1994. Washington D.C., World Wildlife Fund.
- Jimenez, Jorge A. 1999. Ambiente, distribucíon y características estructurales en los manglares del Pacífico de Centro América: contrastes climáticos. Pages 380 in Yáñez-Arancibia, Alejandro and Ana Laura Lara-Domínguez, editors, Ecosistemas de Manglar en América Tropical. Spring, MD USA: Instituto de Ecologia, A.C. Xalapa, México; UICN/ORMA Costa Rica; NOAA/NMFS Silver.
- Olson, David M., Eric Dinerstein, Gilberto Cintrón and Pia Iolster. 1996. A Conservation Assessment of Latin America and the Caribbean: Report from WWF's Conservation Assessment of Mangrove Ecosystems of Latin America and the Caribbean Workshop. WWF, Washington D.C.
- Polanía J. 1993. Mangroves of Costa Rica. In: Lacerda, L. D., editor. Conservation and sustainable utilization of Mangrove Forests in Latin America and Africa Regions. Part 1; Volume 2:
- Polanía J., and V. Mainardi V. 1993. Mangrove Forests of Nicaragua. Lacerda, L. D., editor. Conservation and sustainable utilization of Mangrove Forests in Latin America and Africa Regions. Part 1; Volume 2.
- Ramsar, 1993. A Directory of Wetlands of International Importance, 4th ed. Volume IV: Neotropics and North America. Compiled by Tim Jones. ISBN: 2831700140
- Ramsar, 1999. A Directory of Wetlands of International Importance designated under the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance Especially as Waterfowl Habitat. Ramsar, 1971. Scott Frazier, editor. Compiled by Wetlands International for the Seventh Meeting of the Conference of Contracting Parties to the Ramsar Convention San José, Costa Rica, May 1999 ISBN: 2940073171
- Strattersfield, A.J., M.J. Crosby, A.J.Long, and D.C. Wege, 1998. Endemic bird areas of the World, priorities for biodiversity conservation. Birdlife Conservation Series, No. 7. BirdLife International, Cambridge, UK. ISBN: 1560985747
- Spalding, Mark, Francois Blasco, and Colin Field., editors. 1997. World mangrove atlas. Chapter 7: The Americas: Costa Rica and Panama. Okinawa, Japan: The International Society for Mangrove Ecosystems.
- Tosi Jr., J.A. 1969. Republica de Costa Rica: mapa ecológico. Map 1:750,000. Tropical Science Center,San Jose, Costa Rica.
This article was reviewed and approved by Topic Editor Mark McGinley
Disclaimer: This article contains certain information that was originally published by the World Wildlife Fund. Topic editors and authors for the Encyclopedia of Earth have edited its content and added new information. The use of information from the World Wildlife Fund should not be construed as support for or endorsement by that organization for any new information added by EoE personnel, or for any editing of the original content.


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The requests were simple: a teddy bear, a baby doll, books, CDs, puzzles, pajamas, and slippers.
And for the 46 residents of Penn Yan Manor Nursing Home, these requests—and more—were fulfilled by 23 members and advisers of Keuka College's Student Senate and Sigma Alpha Pi Honor Society.
"Heather Reed, activities director at the nursing home, contacted me and asked if we had any student groups interested in pairing up with Manor residents," said Eva Moberg-Sarver, director of student activities. "Britani Pruner, a junior English major from Penneville and president of Student Senate, jumped at the chance to help. She then worked with members of Sigma Alpha Pi, who volunteered to co-sponsor the event."
Erica Piedmonte, a senior management major from Auburn and secretary of Sigma Alpha Phi, assisted in the delivery of the gifts.
"My mother made two of the residents two hand-knitted scarves each, and I gave them everything they requested," she said. "I think this was a great opportunity to give people some Christmas spirit."
Madeline McColgin, a junior unified childhood/special education major from Penn Yan, liked adopting a resident "because I work in a group home, and I know how the residents feel when they do not get Christmas and do not get to see their families. Each resident said 'thank you' to me and you could tell they were filled with joy from having us there."
After speaking with each of the residents, Reed sent over paper angels with gift ideas, according to Moberg-Sarver.
"The residents' wish lists were heartwarming," said Moberg-Sarver. "Some of them offered to share gifts with their spouse who was also at the Manor, or asked for donations to local places in need for the holidays. Each student was able to take an angel and choose gifts according to these wishes."
Piedmonte bought things like holiday pins, blankets, books, and calendars, while McColgin gave her resident a blouse, earrings, and a CD. Stephen Funk, a junior psychology major from Homer, donated money to Milly's Pantry in honor of his resident.
"She was so pleased with this kind gesture she had a thank you card written for Stephen before we left the building," said Moberg-Sarver. "One student purchased a baby doll for a resident who never had one growing up."
Carlie Ellison, a senior occupational science major from Belfast, "felt great after leaving Penn Yan Manor. I felt like I had made someone's day, and it made me feel a little better about myself. It was great spending time with residents, hearing some of their stories, and seeing pictures of themselves and their families in their rooms."
Another highlight of the gift delivery for Piedmonte was being able to "sit down with one of the residents I bought for and having a long talk with her."
Ellison "would like to do it for holidays throughout the year."
Other students who participated in the delivery included Meghan Marks, a senior childhood education major from Horseheads; Jeff Miller, a sophomore occupational science major from Bloomfield; Becky Allen, a sophomore childhood/special education major from Oxford; Taylor Smith, a junior occupational science major from Webster; and Bridgette Fletcher, a junior psychology major from Walton.


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In American Environmental History, we emphasize the idea that everybody makes history every day, and that ideas and institutions have long-term environmental impacts that are often unobserved in history or in life. This final exam allows students to integrate their learning, and personalize it, seeing how their own lives are historically constructed, and how they can make history by constructing their lives differently. The exam also allows me to read papers that are academic and practical and personal, and a lot more interesting than conventional test questions.