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University of St. Thomas President Dr. Robert Ivany announced the appointment of alumna Cynthia Colbert Riley, MLA '95, as the University's new vice president for institutional advancement, effective July 16.
As head of institutional advancement, Riley will lead the University's fundraising efforts focusing on the "Faith in Our Future" Capital Campaign.
Riley has more than 24 years of experience in institutional leadership in healthcare, higher education and public broadcasting institutions.
"We are very happy to welcome Cynthia back to St. Thomas," Ivany said. "Her broad experience in fundraising in the Houston community and her appreciation of St. Thomas' unique mission make her a valuable addition to our campus."
Most recently, Riley served as the interim executive director and vice president for development at The Methodist Hospital Foundation in Houston. There, she led fundraising efforts for The Methodist Hospital System, including organizing the hospital's first strategic fundraising campaign and supporting the planning and development of its ongoing $200 million campaign. Riley also worked as the senior director of development at University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and Baylor College of Medicine.
Additionally, Riley has experience in fundraising at St. Thomas. She served for five years as the capital campaign coordinator during the University's first capital campaign in the 1990s.
"I am humbled and excited about the opportunity to return to the University and lead the Advancement team," Riley said. "The University is on track to become one of America's great Catholic Universities and I look forward to working with alumni and the community at large to expand the base of philanthropic support for our University."
Riley is a member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals and has previously served on the Greater Houston Chapter Board of Directors. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Communication from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, and earned a Master of Liberal Arts degree from UST in 1995.
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Both sides refuse to budge on $85 billion spending reduction
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Gridlocked once more, President Barack Obama and Republican congressional leaders refused to budge in their budget standoff Friday as $85 billion in across-the-board spending cuts......
Wraith, shame on you, besmirching the fine upstanding Neanderthalers by comparing them with Armen!
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Most surprising line in this article: "Obama formally enacted the reductions a few hours before the midnight deadline required by law."
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Sequestration is NOW ON!
uhhhh Did the WORLD come to an this morning??
I don't notice anything different.
Is it POSSIBLE that the government can lose one PENNY from EACH DOLLAR of spending and not notice it???
"The Mack Penny Plan would balance the federal budget in eight years by cutting one penny out of every federal dollar spent for six years and capping spending at 18% of GDP beginning in the seventh year. If Congress fails to make the necessary cuts, the plan triggers automatic, across-the-board cuts to meet the yearly caps.
All told, The Mack Penny Plan would save taxpayers $7.5 trillion over the next decade, and ensure our children inherit America's promise of freedom, security and prosperity."
So simple, even a CAVEMAN could understand it!!!!!
(Guess that leaves out Are_men_tazerianed.)
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cut from the americans and give to the egyptians.stupid government.
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Barry's man in Egypt,John Kerry, just gave them a 250million Us dollar check from the "rich taxpayers" while barry trys to scare the US people about his polices that he blames on others....the best US president the Muslim Brotherhood ever had. Sequester spending?
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Dfence cuts are great - no more killin all the black people in the worlds. N coal isn't gonna kill my baby's lungs nemore, so screw all you dirty coalminers. Soon we can put all the republicans in jail wher they beelong.
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Charmin'Armen, I HOPE you are joking, otherwise if you REALLY believe that s*** we have finally found a living Neanderthal!
Is it possible somebody in the OV has a LOWER IQ than ClueA&& and Geeseyman?? Are Negative numbers POSSIBLE on IQ'S????
Call WTRF!! FILM AT 11!!!
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Another shining light of Liberal intelligence!
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Way 2 show those smelly republicans woose the boss! They r dum gun toting jerks who cheat on taxes. Mitt Romney beats his dogs. they make me sooo mad and their going to get what they deserve. stupid jerks.
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Cluela&&: "There is no deficit problem. The deficit is down about 50 percent as a share of gross domestic product just since President Bush's fiscal year 2009 deficit -"
High school dropouts like Cluela&& fall for this liberal Excrement like flies for ****! The trick is: Obama signed the $800 BILLION Stimulus bill in 2009 but they lay that on the BUSH Fiscal Year 2009! So I guess George W. was the victim of IDENTITY THEFT by Obama! All of Obama's spending is on W's Credit Card!!!! In Liberal World, Obama became President in 2010!!!
Now daFACTS:
In early 2008 the CBO Projected a Budget SURPLUS of $70 BILLION in 2012 based on the booming Bush economy.
Let's go back in time a year: In 2007 the deficit was $162 billion. The 2012 budget deficit is $1327 BILLION!!! Increase = 719%!!!!!!!!
GDP in 2007 $14,208 Billion GDP 2012 $15,094 BILLION
Deficit as a % of GDP 2007: 1.1%; in 2012: 8.8%!!!!!
Cluel*** Math Grade: FAIL
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POLITICO By KATE NOCERA | 3/1/13 7:45 PM EST
The Superintendent of Capitol tried to assure staff on Friday that employees will not receive a cut in pay as a result of sequestration, despite President Barack Obama's claims to the contrary.
In a news conference earlier in the day, Obama warned that starting on Saturday "the folks who are cleaning the floors at the Capitol" and "the janitors, the security guards" would face a pay cut. But in a letter to supervisors and building staff, obtained by POLITICO, superintendent Carlos Elias said "the current sequestration plan does NOT include 'Reductions in Force' or Furloughs.
The pay and benefits of employees WILL NOT be impacted as per out current plan."
Referring to the president as a "high ranking official," Elias was adamant that staff wouldn't see smaller paychecks and to not listen to media reports."
a "HIGH RANKING OFFICIAL" whose PANTS are on FIRE!!!!!
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"There is no deficit problem."
From The CBO Report February 2013;
Table 1-6. Federal Debt Projected in CBO's Baseline - 2023 $26.052 TRILLION
Projected deficit spending for the year 2023 - $978 Billion
Net interest payment on the debt - 2023 - $857 Billion
Nothing to see here, move along! Paying almost a TRILLION $ in interest payments alone is perfectly natural!!
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the really rich like rats can abandon ship and swim to another den . They have already if you can see through illusion. They are not subject to the negative impact of anything financial the regular man on the street are. They may worry about losing a slice of bread from the loaf, but know they can sruff their belley come what may may.
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This isn't as gloom and doom as the crisis masters wish it to seem. The people have a hidden card up the sleeve. The trump card. We ain't in this together. That is the epitome of " Individual Freedom "
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Medicare Cost Growth Way Down, You probably hear again and again that Medicare is the driver of future deficit trouble. Here is something you probably didn't know because of the drumbeat of deficit propaganda: Medicare cost growth is way down. From 2000 through 2009, Medicare spending climbed by an average of 9.7 percent a year. Now those increases are down to 1.9 percent and are still falling.
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There is no deficit problem. The deficit is down about 50 percent as a share of gross domestic product just since President Bush's fiscal year 2009 deficit and is falling at the fastest rate since the end of World War II. Yet the Washington debate is about how and where to cut us back into recession. We have 10 years to fix the long-term deficit situation. We should not be stampeded by deficit-scare propaganda and instead take the time to carefully consider the right approach. That way we won't make the mistakes that Europe is making.
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Sorry but if you voted for Soetero, you are a ridiculous moron whose IQ level is somewhere south of that Corky kid from "Life Goes On."
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Now lets see... In January my taxes went up 2%. All of the libs said that's nothing it really doesn't matter because the increase is so small. Now the government is getting cut by 2% of it's GROWTH not 2% of the governmnet but only the growth of govenment and they are howling mad and claiming that the sky will fall. WOW!
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the Govt. bubble will burst during Barry's second term...it's going to get very ugly...as debts for our govt. grows and real production of products decline in the country, while tax rates increase, the printing presses may run out of ink....our fearful one is the guy at the top...of course he will get the blame...this is just how people think and have done so for thousands of years...correctly so.
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Ir will be interesting how obie allocates the cuts. One point the Campaigner in Chief doesn't want to acknowledge is HE is in charge of what gets cut. You can bet hothing will be taken from the Boundary Water study committees or the Corn Popper Museum, but a bunch from visible places.
BTW, kickstand, what happens when the interest rate starts going up? All it has to do is go back to 7%, the average for the last 40 years, and the interest in the budget is a Trillion bucks. Nothing left for anything. Then what?
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I say again, the military draft would slash would allow us to man the forces with diverse pot of men and women starting at minimum wage.
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the green suit military is off the table. defense comtractos and civillians are the target.
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nobody can buy 47% of the votes. you lost..now grow up.
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blah, blah, blah. you whine if he does..you whine if he don't. please do us all a favor and move to another country. this one had no room for crybabies. that is what is wrong anyway. people don't want to pull their fair share and blame it no the poor.
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Last night, I heard Mike Adams tell this story (the gist of it anyway): A tribe has to cut it's budget for it's defensive spear, to 70% of it's previous funding. Okay, cut 30% off the back end of the spear. Nope, Obama does like he's told and cuts off the point first. To*****with our national security, our economy, our children's and grandchildren's future. YOU own this sequester Mr. President. Everyone knows it. Even your media lap dogs are caving. Your lies are unsustainable.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. government fines General Motors maximum $35 million for ignition switch recall delays.
The announcement came as part of the investigation into General Motors' handling of recalled vehicles because of defective ignition switches, the Department of Transportation said in a statement.
The department, along with other U.S. agencies is investigating the timing of the automaker's recall over the faulty switches, which have been linked to at least 13 deaths.
GM engineers first discovered the defect in 2001, and the company has been criticized for failing to detect the faulty part and for not recalling the vehicles earlier.
Congress, the Department of Justice, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and several states are conducting their own investigations, and GM has an internal probe that is expected to be completed within the next two weeks.
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DENVER (Reuters) – Colorado authorities unsealed documents on Friday confirming that a grand jury voted to indict the parents of slain child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey in 1999, although a prosecutor decided against bringing the case against them.
In 2008 another prosecutor cleared the couple in their daughter's 1996 murder, which captivated the American public in the 1990s and remains unsolved to this day.
A Colorado judge on Wednesday had ordered the release of the 1999 Boulder County Grand Jury indictments against John Bennett Ramsey and Patricia Paugh Ramsey.
Authorities only released the one-page "true bill" against each parent accusing them of child abuse and accessory to a crime.
Although the office of then-District Attorney Alex Hunter impaneled a grand jury to investigate the Ramseys, Hunter declined to sign the true bill or prosecute the couple at the time.
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The solution to our Boeing crisis was just unveiled in the unlikeliest of places: a cradle of dysfunction where solutions usually go to die.
I'm talking about the other Washington, the capital of perpetual bickering, Washington, D.C.
There, two sides locked in more intractable loathing than even Boeing and our Machinists — congressional Republicans and Democrats — suddenly recalled the archaic skill of compromise.
And they did it over the exact issue that's fueling the standoff at Boeing: pensions.
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"The pension deal was key to keeping this budget agreement together," says Matt McAlvanah, spokesman for the Democrats' budget negotiator, Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash.
This week the U.S. Senate is expected to approve a federal budget agreement instead of engaging in holy war through the New Year, as had been sacred congressional tradition.
At the deal's core is a pension trade-off. To simplify, Republicans wanted to cut worker pensions by huge amounts to save money. Democrats didn't. In the end the two sides compromised with a plan that preserves pensions as is for current workers, while imposing higher contribution levels only on new hires.
Substitute "Boeing" for Republicans and "Machinists" for Democrats in that previous paragraph, and I bet we could have a 777X deal here, too.
"Senator Murray didn't push for or support any of these pension or retirement cuts," McAlvanah said. "But that's the nature of compromise."
Make no mistake: Eroding pensions for future hires makes it all but inevitable that pensions will go extinct eventually. As older workers retire and are replaced by new hires operating under the new rules, defending the pension becomes less urgent. That's why federal union leaders labeled Murray's deal "outrageous and totally unacceptable." Not because it really is that bad, but it does hint at leaner times down the road.
Still, if we accept that pensions are dinosaurs — and most people seem to — then this is a way to phase them out gracefully.
That's why Machinists have been hissing like cornered cats. They aren't even getting the graceful exit.
Both Boeing's first and second final offers would freeze the pension outright and install a less generous 401(k) for everyone. That's a much more severe cut than what Boeing gave its 23,000 engineers and technical workers last spring.
In February, the engineers grudgingly voted to undo pensions only for new hires — a move Boeing's CEO of commercial airplanes, Ray Conner, hailed precisely for its fairness.
"I can't stress enough how important this move for new hires is to our company's future," Conner said then. It keeps valued current workers whole, Conner stressed, while, "Every potential employee has a choice to either join or not join the Boeing team."
So why not that same deal for the Machinists? They wouldn't like it, just as the engineers didn't. But I bet they'd take it.
Sticking it to them sure isn't working — not with company profits soaring and billions being handed out to investors. It isn't working, that is, unless your goal is for them to say no.
Recently a sort of guerrilla counterproposal went viral in the factories. Proposed by an electrician on the 787 line in Everett, it suggested just such a pension give-and-take.
"Most members realize some concessions will be required going forward," it reads. "The Boeing offer way overreached and was an insult, but there is still a huge middle ground from which an agreement can be found."
You could hardly find two people farther apart ideologically than Patty Murray and Paul Ryan. But even they found this same spot in the middle ground. Of course they had to want to find it — to avoid the calamity of another government shutdown.
Boeing? Machinists? C'mon. Don't give us the new crown as most dysfunctional Washington in the land.
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Peter King for president. No kidding.
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Given that I'm a registered Democrat, it takes a lot of nerve for me to tell a politician in the Republican Party what he or she should do. But, having the luxury of this column, I'm free to express my thoughts on any subject. That's why I'm urging U.S. Rep. Peter King to run for president.
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Mr. Kremer, I would like to know what you think are "ridiculous statements". Standing up for Liberty, Freedom and our Constitution is what we expect in any candidate. That means defending our country. You are so quick to ridicule our conservatives as not being qualified to be president but I b et you voted for the current president who is least qualified of all. Care to explain that?
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Nuclear Horizon: An atomic economy is booming in New Mexico Santa Fe Reporter
On April 27, Greg Mello--a tall, intense man whose natural state is vague dishevelment--was in court, watching his witness annihilate (at least in Mello's view) the US Department of Energy's case.
Mello is the Harvard-educated co-founder and executive director of the Los Alamos Study Group, a nuclear disarmament advocacy organization based in Albuquerque, but with a concerted focus on the activities of Los Alamos National Laboratory. Last year, LASG sued to stop the construction of the Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Replacement (CMRR) project, a new facility at LANL designed to process--and possibly produce--plutonium-based nuclear warheads.
On this particular Wednesday, Mello's lawyer had called Frank von Hippel, a nuclear physicist and Princeton professor, to testify against the facility--essentially a costly, heavily fortified nuclear warhead processing facility situated over a geologic fault zone (see sidebar: "Price Point").
In his prepared testimony, Von Hippel argued the need for new warheads "has vanished"; the earthquake hazard is now "much larger" than previously thought; the last full environmental assessment of the project--completed eight years ago--is insufficient for a project whose cost has swollen from $350 million to more than $3 billion.
All of this, Von Hippel says, amounts to a more fundamental question: Does New Mexico really need to be researching and building new nuclear weapons?
Mello doesn't think so--but says the political momentum isn't on his side.
"New Mexico is viewed as a place with a compliant government, where nuclear contractors can get federal money," Mello explains. "There's no private sector demand for most of this stuff, and a great deal of it could never be licensed or permitted."
Even so, the CMRR facility--along with its budget--has expanded virtually unheeded since it was first proposed in 1999.
"It's terrifying," Mello says. "It's frightening for New Mexico, both in itself and because of what it's not: renewable energy; investment in our housing and building stock, our infrastructure, our schools. A very tiny group of people have captured an outsize amount of attention from a political elite and are setting far too much of our agenda."
Within Santa Fe, Mello's view is relatively common. At the LASG meetings and study sessions he hosts in the basement of a local church, attendees are routinely knowledgeable to the point of expertise. And in addition to various environmental protection and renewable energy groups, Santa Fe also hosts two other nuclear disarmament organizations, Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety and Nuclear Watch of New Mexico.
Southern New Mexico, though, is a different story. There, lawmakers and academics extol the virtues not only of nuclear research and development, but they also court uranium processing plants and waste disposal facilities with gusto--and, in some cases, financial incentives.
In fact, the morning of Von Hippel's testimony, a collection of public officials, scientists and executives had gathered in a conference room in Hobbs, some 350 miles south of Santa Fe. They were discussing New Mexico's future as a focal point for the new nuclear age, in which economies rely increasingly on nuclear power and entire processing industries spring up around the "uranium fuel cycle," which begins with mining and ends with waste disposal. Every stage of that process can be monetized--and nearly every stage has commercial operations in New Mexico.
"The state currently has a stake in a lot of aspects of this cycle--the mining, the enrichment, the storage," Mat Lueras, vice president for corporate development at Uranium Resources Inc., a mining outfit that owns 183,000 acres of uranium mineral rights in New Mexico, tells SFR. Because of that, Lueras says, URI has "seen widespread local and state support from New Mexico politicians" for its efforts to restart uranium mining.
To Daniel Fine, a research associate at New Mexico Tech and at the Center for Energy Policy in Hobbs,
such enthusiasm is simply an acknowledgment of the inevitable.
"Nuclear energy, worldwide and in the United States, has a very strong future," Fine says. "Twenty percent of our electricity is nuclear. There's potential planning for 50 percent more."
In Fine's view, New Mexico's role in that future remains to be determined. But given what's already here, and the gradual buildup of a nuclear fuel cycle complex in the state's southeastern counties, a nuclear future may indeed be unavoidable. Take the beginning of the fuel cycle, for instance.
"New Mexico," Fine says, "is the Saudi Arabia of uranium."
New Mexico had its first exposure to the nuclear industry in 1943, with the founding of Los Alamos National Laboratory. Two years later, near Alamogordo, LANL scientists conducted the Trinity test with a prototype of the atomic bombs that, less than a month later, would raze Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Sandia National Laboratories, the Albuquerque lab charged with turning LANL's nuclear weapons concepts into deployable missiles, was founded in 1949.
While the labs were located near northern New Mexico's population centers, less populous areas of the state became nuclear hubs in their own right. In southern New Mexico, a huge swath of desert scrubland became the White Sands Proving Groundsnow the White Sands Missile Rangefor nuclear weapons testing. In far western New Mexico, on the outskirts of the Navajo Nation, uranium mines sprang up in the 1950s.
Since the US government promised to buy all mined uranium, it was good business, and northwest New Mexico's mining industry boomed for close to two decades with relatively little oversight. But in the 1970s, reports of elevated levels of radon, a radioactive element that can cause cancer, began to surfaceand so began what Fine calls "the sad chapter" of widespread radioactive contamination from New Mexico's uranium mines.
"[Uranium] mining, from the 1950s to the early 1970s, was very high risk, and the methods then did expose uranium miners to radioactivity," Fine says.
In 1979, conditions worsened considerably: A dam belonging to United Nuclear Corp. broke, spilling more than 1,000 tons of contaminated tailings into the Rio Puerco, a tributary of the Rio Grande. By 1990, the last of New Mexico's uranium mines had closed.
Enter URI, which since 1977 had been buying up old uranium mines. With a lengthy permitting process and a court challenge behind it, Lueras says URI plans to restart mining activity in New Mexico as soon as 2013.
According to Lueras, the nation--if not the world--demands it.
Even if the US doesn't expand its nuclear power profile--which consists of 104 operational reactors--only approximately 10 percent of US uranium needs are supplied domestically. A treaty that provides for additional enriched uranium from Russia is set to expire in 2013--meaning many companies, like URI, are banking on expanding domestic demand for both raw and enriched uranium.
"We can be a US producer, producing US uranium for use in US commercial reactors," Lueras says. "We see a strong market out there."
Demand is also growing as other nations--China, India, South Africa--build up their nuclear power portfolios.
"We have the largest supply of uranium in the country," Lueras says: more than 101 million pounds of proven uranium reserves, with potential for up to 600 million pounds in the Grants mineral belt alone.
At uranium's current price, approximately $56 per pound, that's $5.7 billion in potential income for URI--not to mention, Fine notes, royalties for the state.
"Very ironic that New Mexico is sitting on probably the ninth-largest deposit of uranium in the world--and the United States imports its uranium," Fine says. "If we are dependent on foreign oil, we are even more dependent on foreign uranium."
Still, to local residents, the market potential isn't worth the risk.
"They talk about jobs--BS!" former uranium miner Larry King says. King serves on the board of Eastern Navajo Diné Against Uranium Mining, an organization dedicated to stopping URI in its tracks (see sidebar, "Miner Issue").
After uranium is mined, it must be transported to a conversion facility, where it is transformed into a purified, liquid form. (The US has only one such facility, run by defense contractor Honeywell International in Metropolis, Ill.)
The converted uranium is then ship-ped to an enrichment facility--which is where URENCO, a multinational enrichment company, comes in.
URENCO's new enrichment plant in southern New Mexico, which began operations in June 2010, is the first such facility to be licensed in the US in 30 years.
URENCO Communications Manager Don Johnson says the delay in certifying new enrichment plants was likely due to the partial meltdown of a nuclear power plant at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania in 1979.
"After Three Mile Island, I think there was a sense of concern that slowed things down," Johnson tells SFR. "A combination of things, including the cost of capital and some other issues, combined to present an environment that maybe wasn't as conducive to nuclear power as we feel like we have gotten to in the last few years."
Despite such risks, southeastern New Mexico is the poster child for the nuclear industry's new acceptance--a fact URENCO learned when, in 2002, it was searching for a place to build an enrichment facility in the US.
"URENCO was trying to locate first in Louisiana, and then in Tennessee, [and] they were meeting resistance in Tennessee," New Mexico state Sen. Carroll Leavell, R-Eddy, says. So Leavell contacted the company and suggested southeastern New Mexico--specifically, Eunice, a tiny town just 5 1/2 miles from the Texas border.
Compared to the push back the company experienced elsewhere, southern New Mexico was a breeze.
"It was amazing, the lack of resistance in New Mexico," Leavell says. "I'll never forget: Whenever we had the groundbreaking, URENCO had anticipated an organized protest at the scene," he says. "They had considerable security. I was with the [president of the company] the night before, and he was very concerned about security, and I said, 'I don't think what you're expecting is going to
When they arrived the next day at the site--"nothing but mesquite and sand" back then, Leavell says--they found some 200 people. Every single one of them was there to support the project.
"If there was any protesters that day," Leavell says, "they certainly did not make themselves known."
Johnson says URENCO makes a concerted effort to be a "good corporate citizen" by sending its employees out to volunteer in surrounding areas and by making "significant donations" in local communities.
For other companies, however, the reverse is true.
International Isotopes, a company currently building a plant near Hobbs to provide the fourth phase of the uranium fuel cycle, received incentives from southeast New Mexico governments to locate there.
"There [were] quite a few incentives put together in a financial package--tax incentives and the opportunity to participate in the local economic development act, where the state can transfer properties," International Isotopes (INIS) CEO Steve Laflin tells SFR.
"The last thing in the world I wanted to do was build a project where we were not going to be strongly welcomed," Laflin says.
The INIS plant, located just 20 miles from URENCO's enrichment facility, uses the by-products of enrichment to create gases that can be used in solar cells, lubricants and pharmaceutical products.
"We are the solution," Laflin tells SFR. "We are taking material that otherwise would be a waste and dealing with that--and we're doing it in a way that's safe and highly sensitive to the environment."
Laflin says INIS submitted an application to process uranium to the NRC in 2009 and anticipates approval later this year. By 2012, Laflin says, INIS should be in the construction phase of a $125 million processing plant.
Any risks, Laflin says, lie mostly in the chemical processes INIS uses, not in the uranium.
"This is much more of a chemical manufacturing facility than anything else," Laflin says. "There's no question fluoride products are toxic and reactive, but there's very well-established safety processes."
The only phase of the uranium fuel cycle that's missing in New Mexico is nuclear power generation--but The Babcock & Wilcox Co., another multinational corporation that builds small, modular nuclear reactors, is scoping out possibilities. (B&W is also one of the contractors in charge of running LANL.)
B&W Public Relations Manager Jud Simmons writes, in an email to SFR, that although the company has not received any offers of incentives from New Mexico public officials, it "continues to seek opportunities in the state and in other parts of the world where the reactor would be a good fit."
Small modular reactors, Fine says, are cheaper--they cost about $500 million, rather than the $10 billion required for a conventional reactor--safer and use less water than the large, water-cooled reactors used in places like Japan.
"We had a recent phenomenally cold three-day period in New Mexico, [and] we lost gas service," Fine says. "The whole system that failed was based on natural gas, pipelines, so forth. But the reliance on an additional, low-risk source of energy would've been a small nuclear modular reactor, contained underground, and it would be impervious to a temperature like that."
The final stage of the nuclear fuel cycle is the one that perhaps generates the most resistance: storing radioactive waste.
In New Mexico, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, a DOE project to store radioactive waste underground in natural geologic salt dome formations near Carlsbad, went online in 1999--but only after several years of permitting negotiations and public hearings.
Because of federal budget cuts, however, WIPP is currently shedding some of the vaunted jobs it has provided to the Carlsbad area. The City of Carlsbad, which normally receives WIPP-related infrastructure funding from DOE, voted in May to return $3.5 million with the hope of preventing further job cuts at the facility.
Donavan Mager, the manager of strategic communications for Washington TRU Solutions, which contracts with the DOE to manage operations at WIPP, says the plant is seeking to preserve jobs by expanding its mandate to accept other types of hazardous waste material. Achieving the DOE's goal of processing 90 percent of all US transuranic waste by 2015, Mager says, will mean a need for fewer employees.
Despite a solid safety record, though, WIPP still generates questions and concerns even from observers living hundreds of miles away.
"Just because you buried it in a hole in the ground doesn't mean it's gone away," Nuclear Watch of New Mexico Operations Director Scott Kovac tells SFR. "It still exists. It can't hurt anybody for 100 years or 1,000 years--but eventually it's going to get out."
Not far from WIPP, a privately owned Texas waste facility has engendered sharp criticism from nearby residents. Waste Control Services' storage site accepts low-level radioactive waste--but its location close to the New Mexico border and overlying the vital Ogallala Aquifer has environmental groups incensed. (Lately, a war of information has broken out between a public relations firm hired by WCS and Public Citizen, a nonprofit consumer advocacy organization; read their opposing briefs at SFReporter.com.)
But activists aren't the only ones with doubts about nuclear energy. Particularly in the face of catastrophes, such as the recent earthquake, tsunami and nuclear reactor crisis in Japan, Fine says the general public can quickly grow wary of nuclear energy.
To Fine, though, such fears are based on emotion, not reason.
"The public understandably fears radioactivity--not nuclear energy," Fine says, "not the science and technology of manufacturing energy that's atomic-based. The fear is the radioactivity."
Jonathan Block, a staff attorney at the New Mexico Environmental Law Center who once worked for the Union of Concerned Scientists and has spent decades litigating nuclear issues, counters that most stages of the uranium fuel cycle are plagued with complicationsnot least because the NRC is reputedly cozy with industry representatives.
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Summary:It is the fall of 1957. The Whitakers, the very picture of a suburban family, make their home in Hartford, Connecticut. Their daily existences are characterized by carefully observed family etiquette, social events, and an overall desire to keep up with the Joneses. Cathy Whitaker is the homemaker, wife and mother. Frank Whitaker is the breadwinner, husband and father. Together they have the perfect '50s life: healthy kids and social prominence. Then one night, Cathy discovers her husband's secret life and her tidy, insular world starts spinning out of control. Fearing the consequences of revealing her pain and confusion to anyone in her own social circle, she finds unexpected comfort and fr... Full Summary >>


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One of two suspects accused in the abduction of a former assistant secretary of state has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
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Wismettac Asian Foods, Inc. (formerly Nishimoto Trading Co., Ltd.) is a vital part of Nishimoto Wismettac Group which has over 1,200 employees at 40 branches and offices globally and now generates over $1.2 billion dollar sales in 2015.
Wismettac Asian Foods, Inc. was established in Kobe, Japan in 1912 and is one of the oldest and most experienced importer, wholesaler and distributor of Asian food products in North America.
We celebrated the 100th year anniversary in 2012 and we are extremely proud of the success and the growth of the Company which now holds eighteen (18) branches and five (5) satellite offices with over 800 employees throughout the United States and Canada.
We have achieved this success through the hard work of our employees, who have superior knowledge and experience in this industry. Our growth and success can also be attributed to the continued support and cooperation of our customers and suppliers. For this we would like to express our sincere appreciation.
We are known for producing the Shirakiku brand® products. The Shirakiku name brand became popular in many Japanese households from the very start in the United States and is now recognized as a brand of choice all over the world.
Today, Wismettac Asian Foods, Inc. has expanded beyond just food products. We provide various customers with a comprehensive range of items, which includes wholesale items, kitchenware, household products and hair products to name a few. With over 6,500 items, we believe that we carry just about every imaginable product in this industry.
Our goal is to satisfy the evolving needs of our customers by providing unparalleled service and superior products to them.
We wish to continue enjoying the close relationships with our customers and suppliers that we have in the past and to work together to further develop high quality and innovative products as well as to assure a stable supply of such products to our customers.
We will always preserve the competitive and entrepreneurial energy that has enabled our company to grow and succeed, and we will carry it with us into the future!
At Wismettac Asian Foods, Inc. we strive to assure our customers that every aspect of our business from production area to our valued customers to maintaining a controlled warehousing facility for your food service and consumer needs is constantly being monitored by our quality control and safety engineers. With growing public concerns on health and safety issues in the food industry, we cannot leave any rock unturned to risk any possibility of unsafe products being distributed into the food chain.
Food safety is our utmost concern and we continually maintain a safe Seafood HACCP Program including our own stringent Health and Safety Procedures when handling any perishable or non-perishable product.
So what do we do to ensure the safety of our products?
We routinely monitor product quality and food safety systems by sending our Food Safety Team to production regions and manufacturing facilities, foreign and domestic, for inspection and to make sure they're operating under well-structured food safety programs at the highest standards to comply with government regulations.
We only supply products manufactured in facilities that meets these standards; meaning products are harvested, packed, processed and handled in manner that compatible with destination country's regulatory requirements.
In addition, we educate our staff member by in conjunction with regulatory agencies (such as FDA and USDA in America) to obtain the most up-dated regulatory information.
We also have developed and established internal food safety programs such as Facility management program, Employee hygiene and sanitation practices, Internal HACCP Plan, Recall plan, and Monitoring and documentation of all of the above to ensure that all products are handled and stored in appropriate conditions and methods.
As result of these efforts, we pride ourselves in our Quality Assurance and Food Safety programs to insure that our customers receive the highest quality and safest products in the industry today!
Wismettac Asian Foods has developed a reputation for our "commitment to our customers." As our society has become increasingly service-oriented, Wismettac Asian Foods has remained dedicated in providing the best selection of Asian Food Products to our customers.
With a large number of employees dispersed throughout the nation and parts of Canada, it is necessary for all of us to work together to achieve our purposes and objectives. Although there is room for individual accomplishments and creativity, all of our efforts are channeled towards a common goal, which is to provide our customers with Asian Food Products.
|We will be changing our legal name to Wismettac Asian Foods, Inc. (previously known as Nishimoto Trading Co., Ltd. doing-business-as Wismettac Asian Foods). Continue reading →
|Nishimoto Trading Co., Ltd. (North America) will change our trade name to "Wismettac Asian Foods" in the US and spin off its Canadian operations and establish a new Canadian corporation as of January 1, 2015. Continue reading →
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|In June of 2013, Nishimoto Trading Co., Ltd. held their annual B-to-B Sake/Shochu tasting and food paring events in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles with over 1,000 buyers. Continue reading →
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Our delivery coverage areas in the US and Canada vary depending on location of the relevant branch. Please contact to the nearest branch for further details. See branch map>>
Unfortunately, we are not open to the public. We sell to retailers or wholesalers only.
We as a company pride ourselves in taking care of our consumers not only by providing the best products available but safe to eat too. After this crisis occurred in Japan we knew proper measures needed to be taken in order to protect not only ourselves but our consumers from potentially contaminated food.
We work closely with the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) and they are taking every measure necessary to assure we can offer our customers safe and whole products which have passed all applicable tests and regulations.
For newly arriving products originating from Japan, only products that are deemed acceptable by both the Quality Assurance program implemented by the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare and the policies and directives of the FDA shall be allowed to be distributed by our company.
There are no concerns for imported products that are already in the United States or are in distribution.
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For new customers, you need to fill out the account setup form and the credit application form. We also request you to submit a copy of your resale certificate. Those forms are not available on our website. Please contact one of our local sales representatives to set up your new account. It usually takes a few days to establish a new account once necessary forms are submitted.
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83-81 and this was between two of the best NBA teams ? give me a break.The NBA has become unwatchable. This is the norm in NBA basketball. Both teams deserved to lose,both teams shot as well as my 5th grade girls team. What has happened to the NBA?? Players are so unskilled it hurts to watch them play. Players are all jacked up on steroids and HGH they are muscle bound hacks. Find me a John Havilchek or Jo Jo White in todays NBA,forget it they don't exsist.
The game has become a slow down one on one slug fest. Star ball rules the NBA, milk the clock and then give the ball to your star and watch him go one on one.
Give me the old fast break Lakers or Celtics anyday, I can't stand watching this crap. Did anyone notice the Indiana arena was half full, and half were C's fans. Indiana basketball fans would rather watch college ball anyday.
The NBA is nothing but bling, bright lights, showbiz and the game itself suffers. Watching the new NBA is like watching World Wrestling or Roller Derby.
I am done watching and most real basketball fans feal the same way.
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|Seaboard to construct new feed mill
|Written by Chris Lee
Seaboard Foods was scheduled to begin the mobilization portion of construction on a new feed mill west of Holyoke Monday, April 30.
Chris Conrad, manager of milling operations, and Kelly Drees, cell production manager, were guest speakers at the Holyoke Chamber of Commerce meeting Tuesday, April 24 to explain exactly what is in the plans and to answer questions.
Roughly 23 people were in attendance to listen to the presentation.
With the hopes of offering a more centralized mill to their live operations, Seaboard has chosen an area of land two miles west of Holyoke just north of Highway 6 at County Road 35.
The 33-acre site will be home to the new mill. There will also be a small office building constructed on the site.
Work on a new road and entryway for the new Seaboard mill has been progressing west of Holyoke along Highway 6. County Road 35 has been extended north past the highway to allow entry into the new mill location.
Conrad said administrative staff from the area will be moved into the new office building at the site.
Work has been done to extend County Road 35 north past the railroad tracks to allow for an entry way and drive access to the mill location. Conrad said they also have storm water initiatives put into place.
Construction on the $13 million project is expected to take about 13 1/2 months and be finished near June 2013.
Currently, Seaboard has two smaller feed mills locally that produce mash. Mash feed is ground corn mixed with other ingredients. The company has found that pellet feed is more beneficial and they see a better feed conversion.
To produce the pellet feed, the mash is mixed with steam in a conditioning chamber. The product is then run through a pellet mill, cooled and dried. This is the biggest driving factor into the new mill construction, according to Conrad.
The plant will produce about 200,000 tons of swine feed for the Colorado-based live operations of the Seaboard Foods integrated system and will purchase about five million bushels of locally produced grain annually to support the plant's operations.
Seaboard Foods will employ about 25 people at the new facility, and it will replace two feed mills located in Yuma and Sedgwick counties. Conrad said a lot of those employees already exist today.
The state-of-the-art feed manufacturing plant will feature the latest energy-saving and dust-collection technology for feed mills to complement Seaboard Foods' long-standing commitment to sustainability and stewardship.
Todd & Sargent of Ames, Iowa will serve as the general contractor and will employ up to 60 people during the construction process.
Conrad said the contractor specializes in feed mills, flower mills and grain handling facilities. He said most of their work is done in the United States and Canada. Todd & Sargent has been contracted in the past by Seaboard to construct mills.
It is estimated $700,000 in supplies will be purchased locally throughout the build.
The general contractor will bring in many sub-contractors—some of which will be local, according to Conrad.
Dirt work has been performed west of Holyoke to ready
There will be roughly 10-12 workers with the general contractor who will spend around a year in the area working on the mill. Conrad said they will most likely be looking for some rental housing and utilizing what Holyoke has to offer, including restaurants and stores.
Conrad said there will be another 30-50 workers needed full time for a year that will most likely be hired locally.
The finished product will run 18 hours a day, producing 3,800 tons of product a week. There will be about 35 trucks in and out of the facility each day, according to Seaboard.
With animal nutrition as one of the 11 points of the Seaboard Foods Quality Circle, the new manufacturing plant will produce proprietary rations designed to maximize nutrition at every stage of animal growth. These highly tailored swine rations optimize pork color, texture and flavor, while specially formulated vitamin packs improve health, creating nutrient-rich pork for consumers and improving pork shelf life, moisture-holding capacity, texture and color.
Seaboard Foods, with headquarters in Shawnee Mission, Kan., is a leading integrated food company and a top exporter of U.S. pork to more than 30 countries. Pork products sold internationally bear the Seaboard Farms® and St. Joe Pork™ brands.
In the United States, Seaboard Foods markets fresh products under the PrairieFresh® Premium Pork brand and processed meats under the Daily's® Premium Meats brand.
Conrad said roughly four million hogs are produced each year through live production and around five million are processed each year.
As part of the company's sustainability commitment, Seaboard Foods formed High Plains Bioenergy, a subsidiary committed to creating sustainable energy solutions from the Seaboard Foods integrated system. For more information, visit www.SeaboardFoods.com.
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WASHINGTON, DC (WUSA) -- It seems to be a ritual of spring, people showing up at your door offering to go repair storm damage to your roof.
How Roofing Scams Work
A person appears on your door step and says he or she is working int he neighborhood, and will give you a free estimate to repair your roof.
The person goes onto the roof and comes back down and says the roof needs significant work and supports the claim by pictures of damaged and loose shingles.
But, how do you know if those pictures are of your roof? You don't.
Then you are told that a signed contract is necessary before the insurance company will give the authorization to do the work.
Alarmed at the possibility of rain damage to the interior of your home, you sign a contract that has a clause in it specifying a penalty of 20 to 30 percent of the job cost if you cancel. Of course, the clause is buried in the fine print so you don't even realize what you have just signed.
Another variation, the crook gives you a low-ball bid in order to get the job, and then raises the price before he will finish the work. Or, gets a down payment and then skips out on you.
Most scam operators try to convince you to do the job right away so you don't have time to get other estimates or check out the company.
Others will claim they have to go into your house to check for leaks and help themselves to your valuables. Do not let strangers into your home.
How Homeowners Can Protect Themselves
Make sure the company has insurance. Otherwise, you could be stuck with damages if an accident occurs when work is being done on your home.
Call the insurance company to verify that the insurance really exists.
When someone claims there is damage to your roof, check it out yourself by using binoculars to view the roof from several angles.
Payment to a company shouldn't be made until you have checked it out. Ask for references and follow up.
In addition, check to see if the company is licensed to do business in your area.
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A Weekend In Mopar Heaven - 2007 Mopar NationalsWritten by on January 1, 2008 The 27th Annual Mopar Nationals
For one weekend a year, the roads through central Ohio are shaken by Mopars numbering in the thousands on their way to the Mopar Nationals at National trail raceway near Columbus.
This year's 27th annual Mopar Nats had perfect weather each day, plus big turnouts in the show field and swap meet. Show-goers and participants alike got a big eyeful of restored, preserved, and work-in-progress cars, as well as a special "Belvedere/GTX/Road runner Tribute" display, highlighting Plymouth's best B-Bodies. It's likely some of the show cars you'll see next year were in the swap meet or car corral, just waiting for that inspired Mopar devotee to take them home.
On the strip there was action aplenty, as Quick 16, Super Pro, Pro, Street, Stick Shift, Nostalgic, FWD, Young Guns, and Viper classes competed under cloudless skies.
The only damper was the heavy police presence on Brice Road each night, thanks to that unfortunate crash in Tennessee earlier this summer. Lighting 'em up was out of the question this year.
For detailed information on trophy winners from the drags and the showfield, go online to the Nats home page, moparnats.org.
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What a grocery getter-Jim Kelly's Max Wedge-powered '63 Plymouth Savoy wagon from Danville, Indiana. How many cases of Nitro Cola do you think will fit in back?They're already rodding the New Challenger (like this one in the Mopar Performance display)-and it's not even in production!He's been to every Mopar Nats with it since he got it-and Young Gun Gregg Orr from Hamlet, Indiana, hopes to bring his 340-powered '68 barracuda Formula S coupe to many more.
Early B-Bodys have been facing off on the strip for over four decades. do you think they're going any slower? Don't count on it.Walter P. Chrysler would've loved this car. Not just for the original body and brightwork, but also for the 426 Max Wedge under the butterfly hood.Did you say "Yoot?" Here's a '71 Chrysler Valiant Utility from Down under, with its Hemi Six inside the engine bay.Young Guns brought a little of everything to the Nats, from a tuned Neon R/T to a ram 2500 pickup, plus lots of '60s to '70s vintage iron.Why let a rare A12-equipped Road runner sit around? At the Mopar Nationals, this one was driven hard.Spotted in the staging lanes: an altered-wheelbase '65 Coronet, ready for another quarter-mile blast. The name on the door says Dan Householder, and he hails from Maryland.


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A list of student-submitted discussion questions for Virus Structures.
To describe images using words using the Visual Literacy strategy.
To emphasize students' understanding of key words and practice applying the definitions of the vocabulary words to examples and drawings using the Frayer Model.
Covers 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic as a vehicle to look at viruses and disease , as well as the use of modern biological tools to improve human health.
This study guide looks at some of the characteristics of viruses and the role of viruses in the world.
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Syracuse, NY (Sports Network) - C.J. Fair led five Syracuse players in double
figures with 16 points and grabbed a career-high 13 rebounds, as the fourth-
ranked Orange beat Long Beach State, 84-53.
Michael Carter-Williams had a 15-point, 10-assist double-double for the Orange
(7-0), who have won their last 27 games at the Carrier Dome, the longest home
winning streak in Division I.
Rakeem Christmas, Trevor Cooney and Brandon Triche each scored 11 points in
the 897th win of coach Jim Boeheim's career.
Dan Jennings paced the 49ers (3-5) with a career-high 20 points.
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A resource for reliable information about significant people, places, events, and things in Minnesota history.
The Honeywell round thermostat design is one of the most user-friendly and underappreciated appliance designs of all time. MN90 Producer Andi McDaniel explains what has made the "T86 Round" so popular and so enduring.
MN90 producer Marisa Helms describes the life of Charles Albert Bender, born on the White Earth Reservation in northern Minnesota and later inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Includes an interview with Tom Swift, author of Chief Bender's Burden, published by the University of Nebraska Press, 2010.
MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
Minneapolis-based Munsingwear cornered the union suit market in the early 1900s and went on to become the largest underwear company in the world. MN90 producer Marisa Helms tells us that Munsingwear's rise to under garment dominance all started with the invention of "itchless wool," a revolution in its time.
Archbishop John Ireland helped numerous Irish prosper in America and Minnesota. MN90 Producer Allison Herrera talks about the man behind the boulevard in St. Paul. Includes an interview with Ann Regan, author of Irish in Minnesota, published by the Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2002.
Minnesota has one of the more robust black newspaper scenes in the country. At one time, there were nearly one hundred. The oldest such newspaper is The Minnesota Spokesman Recorder, based in Minneapolis. As Allison Herrera points out, these newspapers not only informed African Americans about news and culture of the day, they did it with literary flair.
While Martin Luther King Jr. may be the name most people think of when they think of civil rights, there's another seminal character in the story of equality in the U.S. MN90 Producer Andi McDaniel learns about Roy Wilkins, who grew up in St. Paul and attended the University of Minnesota.
MN90 producer Marisa Helms describes the creation of the First Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment in 1861 and highlights its actions at the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863. Includes an interview with Matthew Cassady of Historic Fort Snelling.
To say that Frederick McGhee had a remarkable life would be an understatement. Born into slavery, he became the first African American attorney to practice in MN. He was among the founders of the NAACP. He argued against separate but equal laws in 1910, nearly forty years before Plessy vs. Ferguson. MN90 producer Allison Herrera tells us about his legacy.
The one million acres of land and water bordering Minnesota and Canada called the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, or BWCA, began to be set aside for preservation purposes in 1902. MN90 producer Marisa Helms recounts some of its history.
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May 30, 2016
You wouldn't think a law would be necessary to govern dairy shows. But Mississippi already had one and it was updated this week.
A new Mississippi law specifies that an annual dairy show will be held in Lamar County rather than Marion County.
Gov. Phil Bryant signed House Bill 64 this week and it became law immediately.
The Mississippi Code already specified that dairy shows will be held each fall in Lee County, Newton County and Walthall County. The law also says a dairy show will be held each summer in Neshoba County.
The law specifies that "any person in the state is entitled to participate in any of the dairy shows."
Someone should warn the cows.
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Cyclones Fall To No. 15 Minnesota, 196.525-194.750
AMES, Iowa – The Iowa State gymnastics team (3-7 overall, 1-1 Big 12) fell to No. 15 Minnesota, 196.525-194.750. Despite the loss, the Cyclones had a number of standout performers, earning event wins twice Friday evening at Hilton Coliseum.
Uneven Parallel Bars
Senior Camille Santerre continued her spectacular run on bars in the second rotation of the night for Iowa State. Santerre won the bars competition with a 9.925 on Friday night, her third bars routine in as many weeks scoring at least a 9.900. She now has the Cyclones' three highest individual scores of the season, regardless of event. The Cyclones put together a team score of 48.850 on bars.
The Cyclones put together their best performance of the year on vault, with a team score of 48.800. Senior Henrietta Green set a new career-high in the Cyclones' first rotation with a score of 9.800. Another senior, Milan Ivory, put up Iowa State's best vault of the season with a 9.825.
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Senior All-American Michelle Shealy showed that she is working her way back into form with a season-high 9.850 in just her fourth competition of the season. Following Shealy, the Cyclones had two other gymnasts score 9.800 in Ivory and junior Caitlin Brown. The Cyclones put together a team score of 48.925 in their third rotation.
Floor Exercise
Henrietta Green was the story for Iowa State on floor, with the Cyclones best score of the night, a 9.850. Green was in a five-way tie for first in the floor exercise competition. However, two falls and a one-tenth deduction meant the Cyclones team score on floor was a 48.175.
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The Cyclones will make the return trip to face No. 15 Minnesota on Saturday, March 1 at 4 p.m. CT.


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Man, 19, accused of sexual contact with 15-year-old boy in park
Published: Monday, September 23, 2013 at 6:00 p.m.
Last Modified: Monday, September 23, 2013 at 6:00 p.m.
A 19-year-old man was arrested on Monday, accused of having sexual contact with a 15-year-old boy while dressed as a woman.
Lavarte Robinson reportedly used the name "Taliyha" on a social media website where he and the 15-year-old began to chat. On Sept. 3, the pair agreed to meet at Toms Park, 2301 N. Magnolia Ave., where Robinson reportedly performed oral sex on the teen, according to Ocala Police Department reports.
When the boy's mother discovered the encounter, she called police. Detectives were able to discover "Taliyha's" real identity and interviewed Robinson. He told detectives that he thought the boy was 19 and admitted to kissing and brief sexual contact, reports state.
Robinson was booked into the Marion County Jail on one count of lewd and lascivious battery on a child between the ages of 12 and 16. He was being held Monday evening in lieu of a $15,000 bond.
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|Diabetes seminar broadcast Nov. 14
|Written by Holyoke Enterprise
The third annual Northeast Colorado Diabetes Seminar will be Thursday, Nov. 14. This year's topic is Stress Reduction for Diabetes and Other Chronic Diseases.
The seminar will be broadcast live via Internet to several locations in northeast Colorado from noon-1 pm. In Phillips County, the seminar will be broadcast in the Ortner Room at Phillips County Event Center.
Plans are to have it broadcast in at least one location in each of the seven northeast Colorado counties. Participants can select the best location to attend.
Lorrie Boyer will present this seminar, which is part of the Healthier Living Colorado curriculum. Attendees at all locations will be able to see the speaker as well as participate in a live question and answer session.
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Sharp decline in California's exports
October 19, 2010
After nine months of steady recovery, California's merchandise export trade showed signs of faltering in August.
Although the $11.89 billion in goods shipped abroad this August exceeded the $10.03 billion the state's exporters sent to foreign markets in August 2009 by 18.5 percent, August's trade was just 0.2 percent ahead of July's, according to an analysis by Beacon Economics of international trade data released late last week by the U.S. Commerce Department.
"August 2009 was a lousy month in an exceptionally dismal year for trade," said Jock O'Connell, Beacon Economics' International Trade Adviser. "So a nominally healthy year-over-year improvement isn't all that comforting."
In an interview with LM, O'Connell noted that the state's electronics industry may have been one of brighter spots in an otherwise dismal forecast.
"There is some evidence that this sector will remain strong, given the demand for industry-wide reinvestment in IT," he said.
What troubled O'Connell most was that August's export trade was barely larger than July's.
"Over the past decade, California's export trade each August has exceeded July by an average of 7.0 percent," he said. "In that context, the 0.2 percent rise from July to August this year is disconcertingly anemic."
"You have to go back to 2006 to find August exports at this year's level," he added.
O'Connell warned that the rate of growth in California exports would continue to decelerate through the remainder of this year.
"I'm cautiously pessimistic about the next few months. Worldwide, a combination of tepid consumer spending coupled with government deficit-reduction measures is dampening demand for goods. These forces are acting as a powerful brake on what should be the more salutary impact of moves that have been weakening the dollar and thus making California goods more attractive on the world market."
California accounted for 11.1 percent of all U.S. merchandise exports in August.
The state's exports of manufactured products in August 2010 were up by 15.6 percent from last August, while shipments of agricultural goods and other non-manufactured products increased by 8.2 percent. Re-exports of items previously imported into the state jumped by 34.6 percent.
On the import side of the ledger, the U.S. Commerce Department reports that California's merchandise import trade totaled $30.35 billion in August, an increase of 26.6 percent over last August. California accounted for 17.8 percent of all U.S. merchandise imports in August. California's nominal international trade deficit in August amounted to $18.47 billion.
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How to Invest in the Facebook Craze Before It Goes Public
Facebook will go public someday, but not anytime soon: The IPO market has all but dried up, and flush Facebook doesn't need the cash. Thankfully, there are plenty of other means of investing in social networking. Let's go over five ways to play this phenomenon right now.


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Have a strange issue with my zimbra mail server. When ever some sends an email from exchange to a user on zimbra with a delivery confirmation request, the confirmation of delivery is sent back to the exchange user and is also sent to any one the exchange user CC'd in the original emaill.
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Ikeepitcold...congrats to your wife! That is a gnarly looking buck with those exrtras! Very cool!
Every hunting season you miss is one you can not make up.
BobT, congrats on a awesome season it looks like....
IKIC, congrats to the wifey on a good looking buck....
Hardstalk, and congrats to you as well on a good looking season!
A bonafide city boy...that calls the Backcountry his "hood!"
"I had a Great Uncle from West Plains. My Dad & his 1st cousins hunt Mark Twain during rifle every year. They have killed some good bucks over the years. That is some tough hunting, I would love the so called pro whitetail hunters to go in there & see what they could kill. I bet the majority of them couldn"t even kill a doe!"
I'll bet you are right.
Congratulations to all the successful hunters, some fine trophies hit the ground last year!
I didn't have that great a year here in michigan deer hunting spent as lot of time out in the field just wasn't my year. How ever my Best buddy pulled off two does and a his first buck in three mornings to fill up his freezer and my dad shot his first deer in 4 years which was exciting. Now hoping to get my brother his first deer next season.


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Women of Constitution.
by Leslie Morgan Steiner
Okay, it always HAS bugged me that our founding fathers failed to mention women explicitly in the Constitution or The Declaration of Independence. Not once. I've tried to explain away the omission, in my own typically empathetic female fashion. These brilliant men, who seemed to have thought about nearly every component necessary for a lasting democracy when it came to men's rights, obviously MEANT "men AND women" in two of the most famous and powerful sentences in history "We the People of the United States" and "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights…Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
Didn't they?
Come on. They just had to add two words: AND WOMEN. Eight letters! Make a few tweaks to the language during their endless debating and rewriting. Didn't our founding fathers have daughters and wives – not to mention a conscience -- way back then? Do you think the subject of women's rights ever came up?