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Current version is 3.0.0, released January 17th 2002
Version 4.0 is pending completion, anticipated beta-release October 2004
Server Scribe is a system built over time as a method for managing a large group of servers, along with monitoring their health and utilization. It includes more than just monitoring often found with other SNMP tools. There is also an activity logger, for recording issues with each server, and a calendar for managing and announcing on-call lists, maintenance and other events.
There are other tools which are similar to Server Scribe. The strengths of Server Scribe are:
- Complete Management
- Rather than just being a monitoring system, it is oriented to being the source for managing a group of servers. Maintenance logs, Configuration and Audit Management, Downtime Planning and more can be handled through Server Scribe, in addition to Monitoring.
- Open Source
- You have the sourcecode available to change to suite your environment.
- Object Oriented Modular Design
- Lending itself to easy expansion or changes
- Scalable
- Using a SQL Server back-end provides for open-ended scalability.
- Lightweight
- The elements which reside on each server are designed to be as lightweight as possible. To this means the client simply generates reports using standard OS programs and forwards them unaltered to the server for processing. Furthermore the client is an autonomous combination of a bourne shell script and a socket interface program--so you can run it in a hardened environment.
- Secure
- The protocol spoken is a push oriented protocol, instead of a pull oriented protocol commonly found with other systems. The reason for this is entirely based on security, simplicity and making the client as lightweight as possible. In the future there may be additional SNMP support, but it would be supplemental.
Server Scribe is Copyright by Brandon Gillespie, and is free to use following the terms of the GNU Public License. All code in Server Scribe falls under the GPL, with the exception of the socket utility, which has its own copyright.
As with any open-source package, support is fairly limited and left up to the individual user. However, depending upon availability you can contract from Protos, LLC for support and services.
What does it look like? Here are some snaps... (these are out of date! They are for 2.5.0, I need to get them updated...)
- Monitor Summary view [54kb GIF]
- Health Report view [107kb GIF]
- Configuration/Profile view [73kb GIF]
- Activity Log [42kb GIF]
- Calendar [67kb GIF]
DOWNLOADYou can get the source by providing your name and email address. This is not for any marketing purpose, but is purely for tracking the size of the user base and being able to send notifications if there are problems. Your information will be kept privately, and will NOT be sold or distributed in any way shape or form. If you are returning for a new or additional download, please try to provide the same name and information as the original download.
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Note the installation instructions, as there are additional libraries and packages needed for Server Scribe to function.
In the communal spirit of open-source and free software Server Scribe uses many assorted and varied existing tools and programs. Unfortunately, this means that a few other software packages and libraries must be installed before the Server Scribe server will function.
Supported Platforms
Currently only Solaris is supported. I have support for HP-UX, but it is not yet released.
Because of the matrix of inter-dependancies, I have first listed out each external software component required, then listed which proeton components require them.
System Applications:
- S01 ANSI-C-Compiler on central server (currently gcc is known to work)
- S02 Perl 5.6.1 or better -- Core Implementation Language http://www.perl.org/
- S03 Apache 1.2 or better -- Web Server
- S04 MySQL 3.23 or better -- Database used http://www.mysql.com/
- S05 GD -- Graphics Library for web interface http://www.boutell.com/gd/
- S06 Expat -- XML Parser http://sourceforge.net/projects/expat/
- S07 Bourne Shell
- S08 sar
Perl Modules:
- P01 GD.pm http://stein.cshl.org/WWW/software/GD/
- P02 DBI (DataBase Interface) http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/DBI/
- P03 DBD Module for your DB http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/DBD/ Or: http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Mysql/
- P04 Time::HiRes (High resolution timing) http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Time/
- P05 XML::Parser and XML::Parser-EasyTree http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/XML/
Server Scribe Component Dependancies:
A01,A02 and A03 are commonly on the same server.
- A01 Database Server: S04
- A02 Server Scribe Report Server (webapi): S01,S02,P02,P03
- A03 Server Scribe Web Admin/View (web): S02,S03,S05,P01,P02,P03
- A04 Server Scribe Health Client: S07,S08
- A05 Server Scribe PMonitor: S02,S06,P04,P05
The Server Scribe Source base should look similar to:-rw-r--r-- 1 brandon brandon 399 May 1 10:56 README drwxr-xr-x 2 brandon brandon 512 May 1 10:17 api/ drwxr-xr-x 2 brandon brandon 512 May 1 10:27 bin/ drwxr-xr-x 2 brandon brandon 512 May 1 10:17 cgi/ drwxr-xr-x 3 brandon brandon 512 May 1 10:35 doc/ drwxr-xr-x 3 brandon brandon 512 May 1 10:18 lib/ drwxr-xr-x 3 brandon brandon 512 May 1 10:19 src/ drwxr-xr-x 2 brandon brandon 512 May 1 10:19 tmp/
Building Component Bundles
Each component is setup to be rolled into a portable bundle, from the server source. This is done using the bin/build script. Running the script without arguments will list available component options. Commonly, you will run -pserver (which includes both the webapi and web admin interfaces), -pclient (which includes the client bits, such as health and profile posting) and -pmonitor (which includes the PMonitor program).
The Server Components
- Install Server Scribe Code
- Roll the server code using ./bin/build -pserver. This will place a tarball in your /tmp/ directory. Unroll this tarball into your desired location for Server Scribe. Preferred location is /usr/local.
- Link the Server Scribe library into the perl include path by typing {proeton-base}/bin/install -perl.
- Configure the Apache Webserver
- Compile Apache with mod_cgi, mod_expires and mod_headers:./configure --enable-module=cgi\ --enable-module=expires\ --enable-module=headers
- Define a server instance and document base for proeton web admin, such as the virtual host 'proeton'. You can copy the HTML files from $PROETON_BASE/doc to this directory. Inside of it create a directory named 'graphs'. Apache configuration:<Directory FULL_PATH_TO_PROETON_BASE/graphs/> ExpiresActive On ExpiresByType image/png "modification" Header set Pragma no-cache Header set Cache-Control no-cache </Directory>
- Install the cgi code into the Apache cgi directory. A convenient way of doing this is to simply symlink to the proeton server's base/cgi directory:cd APACHE_BASE/cgi-bin ln -s /usr/local/proeton/cgi proetonIf you do this, your web path will be: http://yoursite/cgi-bin/proeton/
- Define a server instance and document base for the proeton web API. Traditionally this is on the same host as the web admin, but on port 10080.
For reference, a sample Apache HTTP configuration is available. This is not a complete configuration, and should be appended to an existing apache configuration file.
- Configure the SQL Server
- In MySQL create a new database named proeton.
- Load the table definitions from doc/TABLES.MySQL into the proeton database.
- Create an interface user and password (remember what they are!)
- Configure Server Scribe
- Update lib/proeton.conf (default is proeton.conf.sample) with all of the appropriate paths for its base directory, the webserver directories, the cgi directories, the database usernames and passwords.
The Client Components
To install a client go to the Server Scribe Source Base and run the bin/build script, selecting the various client modules you wish to roll. This will create a tarball in your /tmp/ directory, which you can copy to the remote/client host and unroll (usually into /usr/local). For some of these clients you must edit lib/proeton.sh with the proper Server Scribe Server name (verify it is resolvable or in /etc/hosts!).
pmonitor is a Web and Process monitor, which sends events back to the Server Scribe system. These events can be configured to send pages and notification. You must configure pmonitor with lib/pmonitorHTTP.conf and lib/pmonitorProc.conf. pmonitor is written in perl, and you must have perl installed on the client host it is being run on. You also must run bin/install -perl after installing perl.
This will install a simple script which you can put into your system init directories. It will send events when the init level is engaged (such as during a system boot). You must run bin/install -pboot to fully install this, after it is unrolled.
This will send a health report back to the central server every five minutes. You must run bin/install -phealth for this to work.
This will send a configuration update to the server, with your system's latest profile. It is used for configuration management.


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A Monster Calls
by Patrick Ness
A Monster Calls Chapter 15 Summary
The Second Tale
- It's time for story number two, which takes place during the industrial revolution. There wasn't not much greenery left, but it was there if you knew where to look.
- Bam: the monster conjures a field of green in the living room, and the story plays out in real time.
- The field overlooks a valley of brick, and from that valley comes a Johnny Cash-looking dude. He's dressed all in black, and he's frowning.
- According to our monster, he's the town Apothecary (a.k.a. pharmacist.) That means he makes medicine from herbs, bark, leaves, and berries.
- But those things are getting harder to find now that the land is being covered with factories, and the Apothecary's a greedy dude anyway. He's been charging people a lot for medicine, which seems pretty tacky to Shmoop.
- When the people start seeking more modern remedies from more modern doctors, the Apothecary gets super bitter.
- In this village, the monster says, there also lives a parson with two beloved daughters.
- On the grounds of the parsonage is, yup, a yew tree, and the Apothecary really wants its bark. Apparently it's a cure-all for just about every ailment you can think of.
- But in order to use the tree, the Apothecary has to cut it down, and the parson says no dice.
- That is, until his daughters get sick, and modern doctors can do nothing for them.
- Suddenly the parson finds himself begging the Apothecary for help. But the Apothecary says no dice right back at the parson. See, the guy had stood in his way, refusing him the tree and telling his parishioners not to patronize bogus healers when there are real doctors to be had. So he's not really in the mood to grant any favors.
- Please, says the parson, I'll give up whatever you want.
- Including your beliefs? asks the Apothecary.
- Yes, says the parson, anything.
- The Apothecary's response: then I really can't help you.
- That night, the parson's daughters die, and the tree comes walking.
- But instead of punishing the Apothecary, the monster tears the parson's house down.


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The Belle Chasse High School varsity cheerleaders claimed a national championship this weekend in Dallas.
The Belle Chasse squad defeated 41 other schools from across the country to win their division at the National Cheerleading Association's National Championship, school officials said.
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With Elizabeth Esty now headed to Washington as the state's newest member of Congress, it's somewhat logical to wonder whether her husband Dan -- the commissioner of the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection -- might also head there where here served for a number of years in the Environmental Protection Agency.
Apparently this occurred to Mr. Esty as well, since according to DEEP spokesman Dennis Schain, he actually brought it up at a staff meeting Wednesday morning.
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CALGARY - The family of a boy and his grandparents who have disappeared in Calgary wiped away tears as they appealed for the trio's release.
Nathan O'Brien, who is five, was reported missing Monday when his mother went to pick him up after a sleep-over at her parents' home.
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Chapter 16 – Level 1-200 Workers Union Headquarters.
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Davan and the work crews had been working damned hard over the last two days. Bay G was now clean and clear. The burned out crap that wasn't salvageable was gone, only two chairs and part of a desk were still present, and by now the floors weren't covered in burn scars and ash. They were the same dull grey as the rest of the station. Some of the walls might never be clean again, the burns too deep to be removed. On top of these, Davan planned to place units and workbenches. He didn't want the dead haunting him.
"I've got a delivery for a Tenzanin?" A voice disturbed his admiring of his handiwork. Turning, Davan noticed that it was the same deliveryman that had come last time. The one who had said something about the 'Workers Union', whoever the hell they were meant to be. Davan sighed, then walked up to stand in front of the deliveryman. He wasn't carrying an order.
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Grissom was feeling better now. His injuries had faded almost completely, some minor discolouration of skin over his forearm and stomach, but Doc Chloe's treatments had been working just the trick. He could wear his armour again, he had been unable to on the first day, and even begun to train again in the fighting pits gym, albeit lightly. He was running short of food, having spent the last two days mostly at home watching the fight videos. Thus, he was at the marketplace, collecting groceries and fresh, red meat. His diet was strictly balanced.
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Davan was looking down at the contact card the deliveryman had left, hoping that staring at it long enough would reveal the secrets to a dozen questions he had buzzing in his mind. There had been no answer to his ringing of the buzzer. He pressed it again, feeling a slight annoyance. Where was a muscle bound heap of testosterone when you needed him?
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Intel's next-gen Atom platform, Pine Trail, may have been reasonably well known before now, but the CPU manufacturer has just released [PDF link] the first official details about the new netbook and nettop chips. Expected to reach the market later this year, Pine Trail's biggest change is in integrating the graphics core into the processor, slimming down both the overall size and the platform's power requirements.
This Pineview processor and GPU combination is then paired with the new Tiger Point I/O chipset, which replaces the existing ICH7/ICH7M chipset. Tiger Point will support SATA, USB 2.0, PCI Express and Intel HD Audio.
The improvements over Atom can be viewed in two ways: firstly, Pine Trail can run faster, both in terms of processor performance and graphics performance, for the same or reduced price. Secondly, the lower power requirements - said to be around 7W TDP - mean that battery life is improved and, albeit with a performance impact, fanless setups can now be entertained. Pine Trail is expected to reach the market in Q4 2009.


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Greensboro, N.C. - Georgia Tech will host Illinois on Wednesday, Dec. 3 in the 15th annual Big Ten/ACC Challenge Presented by DICK'S Sporting Goods, the two conferences and ESPN announced Wednesday. The game will be a rematch of the Illini's 75-62 victory last November in Champaign.
Illinois becomes part of the strongest home slate in recent Georgia Tech history, which already includes Duke, defending ACC Champion Miami and North Carolina as well as conference newcomers Notre Dame and Pittsburgh. The game also enhances a tough non-conference lineup for Tech in Brian Gregory's third season as head coach, a lineup that features a road game at Georgia as well as a trip to the Barclays Classic on Thanksgiving weekend, which includes Mississippi, Penn State and St. John's.
The Challenge is highlighted by eight teams in an ESPN.com early preseason top 25, including six of the top 11 teams: No. 3 Michigan State, No. 5 Duke, No. 6 Ohio State, No. 8 Syracuse, No. 9 Michigan, No. 11 North Carolina, No. 20 Indiana and No. 25 Iowa. Three of the games will pit ranked teams against each other: No. 9 Michigan at No. 5 Duke, No. 11 North Carolina at No. 3 Michigan State and No. 20 Indiana at No. 8 Syracuse.
Following last year's 6-6 tie, the ACC now holds a 10-3-1 advantage in Challenge play. In the event of a tie, the Commissioner's Cup remains with the conference that won the previous year, which was the Big Ten in 2011. The ACC won the first 10 Challenges (1999-2008) while the Big Ten won the next three (2009-2011).
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Now you can gain knowledge and insight about a drug treatment with Patient Discussions.
Here is a collection of user reviews for the medication Synvisc-One sorted by most helpful.
Reading some of the other reviews it seems that I am taking a different drug. I have now begun my 3rd year with Synvisc. I agree that the injections are a little uncomfortable but they have never been painful and I've now had 8 of them. My doctor uses a topical anesthetic but one does feel an uncomfortable pressure as the gel is injected but it has never hurt. My knees feel puffy each time but I've never had a problem walking away from the doctor's office. I've experienced a little benefit at the beginning but synvisc doesn't really start working at it best for three to four weeks. I would suggest that if your experience differs then you either have problems other than OA or the person who injected your knees didn't do it correctly. With Synvisc, I am able to walk and ride without discomfort which makes my life an awful lot better and it postpones knee replacement.
Medial meniscus removed in '78. Spiral fracture involving knee in '98. Knee replacement is inevitable. Had never heard of Synvisc. Went to ortho to discuss knee replacement and he suggested it. Other than insurance company runaround, it is a complete success. Dr. shot some Xylocaine or something in there before the Synvisc. NO PAIN. Knee swelled up for a couple of days and maybe throbbed a little but the recduction in pain from the arthritis was immediate and amazing. My only advice would be to have a sports medicine or joint replacement specialist do it. My take on reading reviews about it is that some doctors just do not know how to properly inject it.
I have OA and bursitis in both knees, repair of meniscus in L knee, excruciating pain in R knee, walking with cane for over 3 yrs. Got this injection from a Joint Specialist @ Hershey Medical Center, PA. Injection in R knee hurt like HELL. I cried out with the pain. Even trigger point injections in my spine hurt less than this. L knee was not as bad. Had this done on 5/13/10, it's now 5/15/10. I have some brusing and some soreness at injection site, BUT: NO POPPING, NO GRINDING, NO STICKING in either knee, and it is already easier to climb stairs. I hope this will continue, and even as bad as it hurt I would have the injection again. Just be prepared for the pain at the time of injection.
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I am 45 had a traumatic injury 15 years ago I had this shot for the first three days I had real bad muscle spasms' in lower legs, so far knee is still hurting.
I have had knee pain for many years but lived with it because I didn't want to have knee replacement. My doctor suggested Synvisc one and after only 24 hours I am completely pain free. I have tried to stay off my feet since the injections yesterday morning. I am a huge fan.
Took a few weeks but no pain and lasted at least 4 - 5 months before I required another shot.
Today, I had the Synvisc-One injection in my right knee, I have had my left knee replaced. I like this treatment much better than with the 3 injections given with regular Synvisc. Today's treatment was not painful, and I experienced relief before I even left the doctors office. I was told, however, that the treatment may only last 4 - 6 months because of the severity of my knee damage. My doctor said my insurance company would approve the treatment every 4 months. I was also told that the only treatment that will actually help, is total knee replacement, which because of the pain from the surgery, I don't want. I hope this works for at least 4 months.
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LAKELAND | A Georgia man in charge of a roving band of about 100 door-to-door salespeople has been charged with home solicitation without a license, the Polk County Sheriff's Office said.
Detectives on Monday arrested Timothy Lamont Burgess, 48, from Riverdale, Ga., on the misdemeanor charge. Burgess was booked into the Polk County Jail, paid $500 bail and was released.
Sheriff's detectives began receiving complaints in late December that people were observed soliciting in neighborhoods in and around Lakeland. The solicitors were going door-to-door selling a cleaning product.
People complained that the door-to-door salesmen were overly aggressive, rude, walked into open garages, looked into homes while at the front door, and walked around houses when there was no answer at the door," sheriff's spokeswoman Donna Wood said.
The door-to-door sales company has received a number of complaints.
"The Better Business Bureau has given an F rating to the Georgia-based company because of numerous complaints about sales practices, billing, customer service, products and refunds," Wood said.
"Some have complained that the product is worthless, many complain about the aggressive sales tactics, and some who said they were employees complained that the company ripped them off."
About 110 solicitors were staying at a North Lakeland motel at Interstate 4 and U.S. 98 North and were expected to remain in the area for several weeks.
On Saturday, Burgess told detectives he was the owner of T&B Sales and managed "70-plus" employees who were soliciting around Polk County, the Sheriff's Office said.
Burgess did not have a valid Polk County home solicitation permit, the Sheriff's Office said.
Before detectives led him to jail, Burgess told his sales force to pack up and leave Polk County and meet him at a rest area along the interstate in Orlando, Wood said.
She said the sales team had plans to travel to Jacksonville.
The Polk Sheriff's Office notified authorities in Jacksonville of the possible arrival of Burgess and his solicitors.
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• Surprise fall in Irish GDP and GNP
• Portugal's largest union calls general strike
• Transport disrupted
• Weak data shows eurozone in recession
• Today's agenda
6.07pm: And with that it's time to close up for another day.
We'll be back again tomorrow to look at – among other things – the latest developments with the Greek bond swap and the protests across the eurozone.
Meanwhile goodnight, and thanks again for all the comments.
6.06pm: News from Athens where Helena Smith says local media are reporting on the outcome of talks in Berlin between the head of GSEE, the country's biggest private sector trade union, and German chancellor Angela Merkel. And it seems that, predictably, both sides did not see eye to eye.
Ioannis Panagopoulos, who heads the General confederation of Greek Workers, used the occasion to speak of the "disastrous effects" relentless tax increases, pay cuts and job losses were having on Greece. During the course of their meeting he presented the chancellor with 'facts and figures' explaining why such policies were failing to either boost the country's competitiveness or improve its debt load. "Instead these dangerous policies have failed and are leading the Greek economy to a slow death," he was reported as saying.
Merkel listened intently – this being the first audience she has ever had with a Greek trade unionist. But she stuck to her ground saying it was "clear" both sides had "different views."
However, the German leader (perhaps mindful of the country's 2013 autumn election and Germany's own Greek community) said she would be willing to meet Greek trade unionists again, adding this might even happen during "a visit to Athens."
5.49pm: A General Confederation of the Portuguese workers union worker shows a banner with the pictures of Portuguese prime minister, Pedro Passos Coelho, and German chancellor Angela Merkel, during a march to Portuguese parliament in Lisbon.
Note the representation of a worker being crushed by the Troika et al…..
5.40pm: European Council President Herman Van Rompuy has said it is too early to call it a post-crisis period, but Greece, Portugal and Ireland have made impressive efforts.
No arguments that the crisis is far from over. You only have to look at the economic data, not to mention the demonstrations in Greece, Portugal and Italy. And his comments come as Ireland goes back into recession….
He also says bond spreads are a sign of confidence, but given they continue to widen in Italy and Spain, this is an odd sort of confidence.
5.21pm: Many in Europe have been uneasy with the major credit ratings agencies during the course of the financial crisis.
Now the EU'S markets watchdog – the grandly named European Securities and Markets Authority – has said in a new report it had found several shortcomings at the Big Three. These included a lack of adequate transparency, and it said it had not determined whether any of them constituted a breach of credit rating agency regulation.
It said it would follow up on its observations with each of the agencies in the first half of 2012.
4.54pm: Economist Nouriel Roubini is in gloomy mood, and not surprisingly given the day's economic data:
Eurozone deep in recession given PMIs, China slowing sharply as PMI shows, UK & Canada retail sales down, US' ISM new orders/inv ratio down
— Nouriel Roubini (@Nouriel) March 22, 2012
4.44pm: Fears of a global economic slowdown after poor manufacturing figures from Europe – notably Germany – and China have sent stock markets sharply lower.
The FTSE 100 – which lest we forget was testing the 6000 barrier a matter of days ago – has ended 46.30 points lower at 5845.65.
China's manufacturing sector contracted for the fifth month – meaning mining shares were among the main fallers – while manufacturing activity declined in both France and Germany, while Ireland fell back into recession.
On the European markets, Germany's Dax has lost 1.27%, France's Cac is down 1.56% and Spain's Ibex is 1.62% lower. In America the Dow Jones Industrial Average is off 0.54% at the moment, the downbeat mood tempered by better than expected weekly jobless claims. They dipped to 348,000 from a slightly upward revised 353,000 the prior week, compared to expectations of 350,000.
Angus Campbell, head of market analysis at Capital Spreads, said:
The markets have been due a correction for some time now since the prolonged failure for the index to push on beyond the 6000 level. The only question is whether this retracement has further to go and judging by the nervousness creeping in things could get cheaper before they test the year's highs again.
4.28pm: Union-led marches are taking place in Portugal this afternoon, as part of today's general strike.
This photo, taken in Lisbon, shows protestors are linking their actions to other demonstrations around the globe, including the Occupy movement's ongoing activies in Oakland, California.
And with that I'm handing over to my colleague Nick Fletcher.
4.08pm: Michael Saunders of investment bank Citi is concerned by the news that Ireland is back in recession.
Saunders warned that Ireland's commitment to fiscal consolidation will be blown away if the country cannot return to economic growth. And that would put its return to the financial markets in peril.
Here's what Saunders wrote to clients:
Ireland's economy faces a range of major headwinds, with heavy fiscal tightening, large deleveraging by banks and households, and high trade exposure to Europe. The government's commitment to fiscal consolidation cannot be doubted, but their fiscal consolidation plans will only succeed in returning Ireland to fiscal sustainability if the economy picks up as well. Indeed, the end-2011 budget assumes that real GDP will rise by 1.3% this year. By contrast, we believe the economy will markedly undershoot official forecasts, with GDP probably shrinking this year.
As a result, tax revenues will probably undershoot official forecasts, and the fiscal deficit will probably overshoot. Ireland is often held up as a success story among high deficit euro area countries, but in practice current policies probably will not succeed in returning the economy to fiscal sustainability.
3.51pm: The head of the Portuguese union that called today's general strike has vowed to press on with more industrial action in future, and admitted that today's turnout wasn't great.
Armenio Carlos, leader of the General Confederation of Portuguese Workers, said it was hard to persuade workers to down tools when they are already struggling to earn enough to survive.
He warned, though, that if Portugal risks disaster if it continues to impose tough austerity, saying:
This is the same path that was taken by Greece, which resulted in a huge failure.
A government spokesman criticised the strike, which has caused widespread disruption to transport links. Luis Marques Guedes said the walkout will "just worsen" Portugal's economuis position, adding:
We have the feeling that the great majority of Portuguese agrees with the government on this.
Certainly, none of the pictures I've seen today from Portugal compare to the scenes we've regularly seen Athens. But the protests in Greece have escalated in recent years — once austerity really began to bite…..
3.21pm: From Bologna, my colleague Andrea Vogt has the full story about the industrial unrest in Italy:
As Prime Minister Mario Monti's labor minister made a last-ditch effort to get various parties at the negotiating table to agree on labor reforms, Italian factory workers began walking out in protest on Thursday.
In La Spezia and Genoa, workers from Fincantieri declared a strike and occupied one factory. In Turin, 800 employees from the aerospace company Alenia blocked traffic, while in Pisa, striking workers at the Piaggio factory blocked traffic on the Florence-Pisa-Livorno motorway in both directions.
Monti's labor market reforms are a key part of a larger effort to revitalize Italy's flagging economy. He passed austerity measures and reformed the pension system, but Thursday's factory walk-outs are the first concrete signal that this round of reform may be in political trouble. The centre-left Democratic Party was split, with at least one prominent leader strongly warning Monti against trying to force through reforms without the support of Italy's largest union, the CGIL. Opposition appeared to be mounting against attempts to amend Article 18, the Worker's Statute offering wide protections against firing workers. But the industry association Confindustria also held firm Thursday, saying any further concessions from the government would be unacceptable.
Business leaders say the reforms are needed to spark growth, attract investment and modernize the workforce, but unions warn they would lead to major lay-offs by making it easier to fire workers. The reforms also include a number of safety-net protections, as well as incentives for hiring and retaining more women and young people, significantly underemployed in Italy's workforce.
Monti had hoped a reform could be fine-tuned by the end of this week and sent to parliament, but it now appears there's little hope for a package everyone can agree on.
2.05pm: Helena Smith, our correspondent in Athens, says a crucial cabinet meeting has just got underway to discuss the all-important issue of expediting structural reforms and liberalizing "closed shop" professions – starting with taxi drivers.
Faced with a backlog of draft laws that still need to be passed before the current parliament is dissolved, Greece's technocrat prime minister Lucas Papademos has called the meeting to urge his cabinet to press ahead at breakneck speed with reforms.
Filippos Sachinidis, making his maiden appearance as finance minister at the meeting, will address the issue of opening up some 150 closed shop professions seen as a major impediment to energizing the Greek economy. The new minister is also expected to discuss a new tax collection law in light of Athens' urgent need to increase state revenues and meet budget deficit targets.
With general elections expected to be held as early as April 29 (the centre right New Democracy party is keen that the poll takes place before anti-austerity protestors mark May Day) the interim coalition government has barely a month to complete its mission of ratifying all the reforms demanded of Greece in return for its latest €130 loan package.
Meanwhile, a report by the country's court of audit is causing waves with the revelation that Athens overborrowed to the tune of €64.5bn euro in 2009, the year the conservative New Democracy party lost power to the socialist Pasok.
The 1000-page report said Greece overstepped budget targets because it was unable to keep "budgetary expenses" under control.
Readers will recall that the Euro debt crisis exploded onto the scene when the newly installed Pasok government, discovering the overruns in December 2009, was forced to upwardly revise the country's public deficit from around 5% of GDP to 15.4% of national output.
1.45pm: My colleague Phillip Inman has written a news story about Ireland's slide back into recession – here.
1.18pm: In Italy, Mario Monti also faces the prospect of a general strike soon after negotiations over labour reform broke down last night.
Italians are already getting a taste of what could be in store — around 800 aerospace workers held protests in central Turin today to protest about Monti's plan to ditch some of the protections enjoyed by workers. Associated Press reports that the demo blocked traffic in the city.
The reforms centre on part of Italy's labour law which means a company can be forced to re-employ employees who are fired for disciplinary or economic motives, if the decision cannot be defended in court. Critics say these rules prevent firms taking on full-time workers. Monti's government aso wants to make it more atractive to employ young people, and implement a new unemployment compensation scheme.
But last night, Italy's biggest union CGIL announced it would hold an 8-hour general strike to protest the changes.
That news has hit Italian government debt today, pushing up the yield on its 10-year bonds to 5.07% (matching the rise in Spanish debt reported at 10.58am)
The biggest fear for Monti is that his coalition might fracture over the labour reforms.
12.54pm: The Portuguese general strike appears to be proceeding peacefully.
This picture shows police officers standing guard at Caes do Sodre station in Lisbon.
For some Portuguese residents, the strike (the eighth called by the CGTP union since the crisis began) is just an unwelcome hassle.
While waiting for a bus Ana Maria Verissimo, a cleaning lady, told Reuters:
They go on strike and hurt us. This won't resolve anything. They'll have to find another way. If I go on strike, my pay cheque will be lower at the end of the month.
But Luis Antonio, a plumber, said he was taking part (with his manager's blessing), and blamed Portugal's political class for the country's position:
My boss wants us to strike, so I will go for that…The fault of this is those who govern us, not Germany.
12.46pm: Over in Portugal, it appears that transport links have been badly hit by the general strike.
The union which called the action, CGTP, has not said how many workers have taken part. But the Portuguese railway system appears to be badly disupted, while Lisbon's underground has been closed since midnight.
CGTP also said that rubbish collectors, ports and some schools had shut down across the country.
This picture show a picket at Sao Bento station in Porto (the bib reads "General Strike").
12.26pm: Missed this last night (was probably recovering from the Budget). Greece has denied a report that it paid €72m in fees to the advisers who handled its debt swap.
However, the Private Sector Involvement was still lucrative for some investment bankers. Lazard Freres is in line to receive up to €25m for its role in the PIS, while legal firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton has already been paid €6.52m.
The 'closing agents' of the bond swap (named previously as Deutsche Bank and HSBC, according to Reuters) will be paid €4m.
Speaking of the Budget, my colleague Andrew Sparrow is covering all today's developments in his Politics Live blog, here (no need for my help today 🙂 ).
12.15pm: Speaking of Germany……. a stream of high level Greek officials are holding talks in Berlin.
Anna Diamantopoulou, the powerful minister development minister now overseeing the disbursement of crucial EU structural funds for the debt-stricken country, has flown Berlin for a two-day visit.
Helena Smith our correspondent in Athens, explains:
Greece's most senior woman politician, Diamantopoulou, who is also a former European commissioner, will address the German parliament, hold talks with finance minister Wolfgang Schauble and be a keynote speaker at a leading German think tank.
Aides said her central goal was to convey the sacrifices made by Greeks over the last two years, the significant fiscal adjustment that Greece has achieved as a result of austerity and the institutional changes achieved "at all levels."
"It is important that progress be acknowledged," said one official.
The politician is not the only Greek official in the German capital.
Ioannis Panagopoulos, who heads the General confederation of Greek Workers or Gsee (the country's biggest private sector labour force), has been invited by German trade unionists to visit Berlin where he, too, is expected to explicate on "the consequences of austerity" in a meeting with Angela Merkel the chancellor herself.
The talks take place at 2 PM German time.
But Panagopoulos will not be singing from the same hymn sheet as Diamantopoulou. He is a vehement opponent of the fiscal remedies that EU member states, lead by Germany, say are vital for Greece's economic recovery.
Gsee's spokesman, Stathis Anestis, explained: "His message will be stop the austerity and self-defeating policies and focus instead on policies that will promote development, employment and social cohesion."
Nevertheless, the talks are seen as proof of the thawing of relations between the two countries following resolution of the second EU-IMF sponsored bailout agreement for Greece.
On the eve of the visit, Wolfgang Schauble – in a departure from his often stern approach to Athens – had words of encouragement for a country that he said should be "left in peace" to pursue reforms.
"Greece will have to first of all follow the path of sustainable economic growth," he said. "We will support the efforts for economic growth through the provision of European and bi-lateral assistance."
Berlin, it should be remembered, has spearheaded financial assistance for Greece, providing the vast majority of funds for the two financial support programs propping up its near bankrupt economy. The two bailouts amount to a whopping €240bn
11.48am: Mario Draghi, head of the European Central Bank, has sparked interest amongst economic thinkers this morning by predicting that the worst of the Euro crisis is over.
As our Berlin correspondent, Kate Connolly, reports, Draghi used an interview in the tabloid Bild to seek to allay German fears over the threat of inflation following recent price rises, particularly in the energy sector.
Draghi told the paper:
The worst is over, but there are still risks. The situation is becoming more stable (and) the most important Euro zone figures, like inflation, the current account balance and above all budget deficits are better than for example in the USA. Investor confidence is returning and the ECB has not had to buy any government bonds as a support for weeks.
The ball is now in the governments' court. It's up to them to make the Eurozone crisis-proof for the long term.
Kate reports that the paper presented Draghi with a so-called 'pickelhaube' or Prussian spiked helmet, a play on German concerns a year ago that an Italian was to be head of the ECB. Its front page then showed Draghi in a photomontage wearing a spiked helmet, under the headline: "Of all people, an Italian is supposed to take care of the Euro".
He laughed off the depiction, saying: "Prussianism is a good symbol for the ECB's most important task: to ensure price stability and to protect European savers".
Draghi sought to dampen German fears over inflation, saying: "Should the inflation outlook deteriorate we will take preventative action". But he stressed that taking into account the oil price rise and recent tax increases by several governments "we have been stable at 1.5 per cent for months."
11.32am: Here are some more details on Ireland's recession (see 11.04am for more details).
Interestingly, it was caused by a 1.1% drop in exports, suggesting Ireland is suffering from the slowdown in the global economy. That's particularly worrying following this morning's PMI data, showing German and French factory output fell this month.
Here's some early economist reaction (via Reuters):
Dan McLoughlin of Bank of Ireland:
The big risk to all the forecasts now is that they're all predicated on exports continuing to be the main drivers of growth.
Consequently the data we got today from the euro zone in terms of the PMIs, particularly on the manufacturing side, would tend to suggest that the risks to that export forecast are certainly on the downside.
David Duffy, of the Economic and Social Research Institute:
Really it's as you'd expect. More or less on track. Much of the domestic
economy is weak.
Conall Mac Coille of Davy Stockbrokers:
Consumer spending and investment bounced back as we expected, but
exports contracted on the quarter, highlighting the danger that a key
platform for growth is being eroded by the euro area slowdown.
11.04am: Just in – Ireland has fallen back into recession.
Economic data released at 11am GMT showed that GDP in the last three months shrank by 0.2%. That followed a 1.1% contraction in the third quarter of 2011 (revised up from a previous estimate of a 1.9% fall).
Ireland thus joins Greece, Belgium, Portugal, Italy, the Netherlands and Slovenia in recession.
Because Ireland is home to many international companies, it is also worth looking at its Gross National Product (GNP), which discounts output from these firms.
But on GNP terms, Ireland is shrinking even faster. GNP fell by 2.2% in the fourth quarter of last year, following a 1.9% decline in Q3 2011.
As economist Shaun Richards reminds me, GNP is particularly important for the Irish government as it represents taxable revenue:
Irish Gross National Product (more important than GDP as she can tax GNP) fell by 2.2% in 4th quarter of 2011 and 2.5% in 2011. #gfc2 #euro
— Shaun Richards (@notayesmansecon) March 22, 2012
10.58am: In the bond markets this morning, Spanish debt has weakened – pushing the yield on its 10-year bonds above 5.5% for the first time since January.
Portuguese debt actually strengthened slightly, but with a 10-year yield of 12.6% the country is still being priced as a major risk.
10.28am: Today's general strike comes as some economists and investors speculate that Portugal will need a second bailout.
Dutch finance minister Jan Kees de Jager touched on this issus this morning as he addressed the Netherlands' parliament
De Jager, who is one of the eurozone's more hardline finance ministers, told MPs that Portugal was "a different story" than Greece. True enough — Portugal's problem, really, is that it has only managed very weak growth over the last few years.
Does that mean Portugal will not need fresh aid? De Jager was unclear on this point. He said that Portugal's fiscal programme agreed with the IMF was on track, but also cautioned that he could not rule out further debt restructuring within Europe (but wouldn't be drawn on Portugal specifically).
10.14am: Earlier this week, my colleague Giles Tremlett reported that Portugal's health services has been hit by the austerity measures introduced since the country accepted a €78bn aid package.
Patients now face higher charges for services, and there is concern that this may have contributed to a rise in the mortality rate in February (although the government blames cold and flu outbreaks).
10.07am: Word from Lisbon is that transport services have been badly hit by the general strike
From AP:
The Lisbon subway, which carries more than a half-million passengers every weekday, stayed closed. Train, bus and ferry companies in the capital and the second-largest city Porto provided only occasional services. Long traffic queues built up on roads into both cities as commuters resorted to their cars.
Flights are still operating at Lisbon's airport, though.
There are also reports that some schoolchildren were sent home, because teachers and auxiliary staff did not show up for work, and that some medical appointments have been cancelled.
GCPW, which called the strike (more details at 8.16am). has more than 600,000 members, mainly public sector and manual workers.
9.58am: Just to add to the economic gloom, UK retail sales have suffered their biggest fall since last May. Sales volumes fell by 0.8% in February, compared with January.
January's figures, which were surprisingly good, have also been revised down sharply, to show growth of just 0.3%, not the 0.9% initially thought.
9.28am: City analysts say this morning's poor PMI data (see 9.08am) is very disappointing. Here's a quick round-up:
Silvio Peruzzo of RBS:
It's a disappointing reading. It suggest that some of the optimism that was built in the last couple of months was overdone as far as the manufacturing sector is concerned for the big countries.
Howard Archer of IHS Global Insight
The Eurozone is far from out of the economic woods and is finding it hard to return to growth after GDP contracted by 0.3% quarter-on-quarter in the fourth quarter of 2011.
Indeed, the surveys reinforce our belief that it is more likely than not that the Eurozone will suffer further modest contraction in the first quarter of 2012 which will put it back into recession.
9.25am: You can see the full PMI data online here, in several European languages.
9.08am: The eurozone economy is weaker than thought, and heading into a full-blown recession.
That's the message from this morning's purchasing managers' indexes (PMIs), covering the manufacturing and services sectors in March. They show that activity in both sectors fell sharply this month
The flash manufacturing PMI for the full eurozone came in at 47.7, below the forecast of 49.5. Any number below 50 would indicate that the sector contracted. The flash services PMI fell to 48.7, from 48.8 in February.
This meant the 'composite PMI', a combined measure of the euro economy, fell to 48.7 from 49.3 in February, showing activity fell more sharply.
As reported at 8.39am, the fall was driven by surprisingly poor performances in both France and Germany.
Chris Williamson of Markit, which compiles the data, said the data showed that 2012 could be a very poor year for the eurozone. Having contracted in the last three months of 2011, it now looks very likely that GDP shrank in the current quarter too. Williamson said:
The Eurozone economy contracted at a faster rate in March, suggesting that the region has fallen back into recession.
As this graph shows, there is a clear correlation between the PMI data and GDP.
8.50am: The weak economic data from France and Germany (see 8.39am) has sent stock markets falling across Europe. Here's the details:
FTSE 100: down 48 points, or 0.8%, at 5843.
French CAC: down 34 points, or 0.95%, at 3494
German DAX: down 60 points, or 0.86%, at 7010.
8.39am: Disappointingly data from France and Germany has raised fears that the eurozone's two largest economies are struggling.
Both countries reported that their manufacturing output dropped this month, while their services data was also a concern.
The French manufacturing PMI came in at 48.1, below the 50 point mark that seperates expansion from contraction (data via Markit), Economists had expected a repeat of February's 50.0 (which showed that output was flat).
Germany posted a manufacturing PMI of 48.1, much worse than the 51.0 that was forecast. That's its first contraction in 2012.
Chris Williamson, Markit economist, said the data raised fears that the debt crisis had been more damaging than thought, adding:
While Germany may avoid a recession, it's growth is by no means robust. It's just scraping through.
Seperate data showed that France's service sector was flat this month, with a PMI of 50.0, while Germany's came in at 51.8, down from 52.8 in February.
We get the full eurozone PMI data for both services and manufacturing at 9am GMT.
8.34am: There are reports from Portugal that the metro systems in Lisbon and Oporto, Portugal's second-largest city, have shut down because of the strike, and that the ferry service linking the two sides of the Tagus river in Lisbon is also suspended.
8.16am: Today's general strike has been called by Portugal's largest union, the General Confederation of Portuguese Workers (CGTP). It is opposed to labour law reforms, which remove restrictions on hiring and firing staff, and lowers the compensation payments due to workers.
CGTP, which has strong communist links, hopes that all major public transport services would join the stoppage, including trains, the Lisbon underground and the ferry boats that take workers across the Tagus River to the capital. That would mean that people could be unable to reach their workplace, even if they don't support the action.
Portugal's second largest union, UGT, does not support the action. It has called for restraint, warning that otherwise Portugal could see the regular demonstrations, and violence, seen in Greece.
Jose Adelino Maltez, a political scientist at Lisbon Technical University, told Reuters that Portugal is unlikely to grint to a halt:
I don't expect the country to stop, but we can expect a strong showing, maybe with some export-oriented companies halting output to give a signal that there is a strong unionized force in Portugal to be reckoned with.
8.11am: Here's today's agenda:
• General strike in Portugal: all day, with protest marches expected in Lisbon this afternoon
• Dutch finance minister Jan Kees De Jager adddresses parliament: 9am GMT / 10am CET
• Eurozone flash manufacturing+services data: 9am GMT / 10am CET
• UK retail sales for February: 9.30am GMT / 10.30am CET
• Eurozone industrial new orders: 10am GMT / 11am CET
8.00am: Good morning, and welcome to our rolling coverage of the eurozone debt crisis.
Today we're looking at Portugal, where a general strike has been called in protest at the tax rises and spending cuts being imposed by the Lisbon government. Unions have vowed to bring the country to a standstill, but it's not clear whether the public will respond.
Elsewhere, the Netherlands' finance minister, Jan Kees de Jager, is due to address parliament in the Hague this morning on the debt crisis.
On the economic front, we get manufacturing, services and consumer confidence data from across the eurozone, plus the latest UK retail sales.
There's also some disappointing economic data from China to digest – factory output fell in March to a four-month low. Not a good sign for the global economy.


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An extraordinary first week for Boris Johnson
- 23 July 2016
- From the section UK Politics
Boris Johnson has had an extraordinary first week in office.
The UK's new foreign secretary had hardly finished a tour of his King Charles Street office before he was forced to deal with the attempted coup in Turkey.
He has hosted two conferences in London on the conflicts in Syria and Yemen.
He has toured the diplomatic capitals of Brussels, Washington and New York, shaking hands with a flurry of fellow foreign ministers whose names he will now struggle to recall.
He has spoken and voted in the United Nations Security Council. He has been savaged by US journalists before the world's cameras, accused of being a liar who had insulted a woman who might just be the next president.
Read full article An extraordinary first week for Boris Johnson
Boris Johnson: Super ambassador?
- 15 July 2016
- From the section UK Politics
Boris Johnson is not the first foreign secretary to be booed.
Lord Castlereagh, architect of the post-Napoleonic European order, was jeered in 1822 as he lay dead in his coffin, the crowd outside his Westminster Abbey funeral showing their anger at his domestic repression, not his diplomatic renown.
Brexit: Foreign secretary says UK must 'pedal faster'
- 8 July 2016
- From the section UK Politics
Gathered this week in the august grandeur of the Locarno rooms at the Foreign Office were more than 200 of Britain's most senior diplomats.
They had come together from all corners of the world not for a post-Brexit panic, but for their annual knees-up - otherwise known as "the leadership conference".
Read full article Brexit: Foreign secretary says UK must 'pedal faster'
Tory leadership choice will define UK-EU relationship
- 1 July 2016
- From the section UK Politics
Put aside for a moment the Shakespearian psychodrama of the Tory leadership contest.
For a key difference has opened up between the contenders that could have a huge impact on Britain's future relationship with the EU after Brexit.
Read full article Tory leadership choice will define UK-EU relationship
Could UK be forced into quick EU exit?
- 25 June 2016
- From the section EU Referendum
We have voted to leave the EU but when will we actually start negotiating our exit?
There is lots to discuss with our EU colleagues: what to do with half-used EU budgets and EU citizens living in the UK and British citizens living in the EU. There is also, of course, the thorny issue of Britain's future trading relationship with the EU once we leave.
Jo Cox killing is an assault on democracy
- 16 June 2016
- From the section UK Politics
There are moments at Westminster when time stands still, when the noise of the latest campaign or election is hushed, when this vast political village stops and catches its breath.
So it was this afternoon as news came through that Jo Cox had been attacked.
Little Englander? Not in Thatcher's world
- 8 June 2016
- From the section World
David Cameron's riff about wanting to see "a strong Britain in Europe" rather than "Nigel Farage's little England" reminds me of a Conservative Party conference in the late 1990s.
We were in Blackpool and conference-goers would cluster in a small handful of restaurants.
G7 summit could be rocky for Cameron
- 25 May 2016
- From the section World
There is an old joke about summits being places where politicians gather to agree that "summat" ought to be done.
And it is true that many international meetings produce more words than actions. But at this week's meeting of G7 industrialised nations in Japan, words will probably be enough for David Cameron, so long as they support Britain staying in the EU.
Why Cameron went public over Blairmore shares
- 8 April 2016
- From the section UK Politics
When a politician is under pressure, facing questions about their family and their finances, their natural instinct is to protect their privacy and say as little as possible.
But when that pressure gets too great, there comes a moment when they have to go public and for David Cameron that moment came last night.
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Conservatives, Europe and the risks of a disunited party
- 24 March 2016
- From the section UK Politics
I have come full circle. In the early 1990s, I arrived at Westminster as a young reporter, there to help chronicle the decline of the Conservative Party for The Times.
The then prime minister, John Major, had a small parliamentary majority and large parliamentary problem: a party divided to the core over Britain's membership of the European Union, divisions that were under laid by deep-set personal feuds, all the while potential successors for the leadership circled and plotted and agitated against Downing Street.
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Columbus, OH – The State of Ohio Hazard Mitigation Plan has received is official approval from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The Mitigation Plan contains information on natural hazards that could impact the state and the state's blueprint for reducing risk posed by those hazards. The highest priority hazards in Ohio include: riverine flooding, tornadoes, winter storms, landslides, dam/ levee failure, wildfire, seiche/coastal flooding, earthquakes, coastal erosion, drought, severe summer storms, invasive species, and land subsidence.
The plan identifies actions that the State of Ohio can undertake to help protect people and property from natural hazards and their effects. One of the priority actions identified in the plan is the acquisition and demolition of repetitively flooded structures and the permanent deed restriction of the land as open space. It is estimated that the acquisition and demolition of repetitively flooded properties in Ohio have resulted in millions of dollars in flood damages avoided.
According to the Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000, all states must have a natural hazard mitigation plan approved by FEMA in order to maintain eligibility for federal disaster assistance and mitigation funds.
The State of Ohio Hazard Mitigation Plan was first approved by FEMA in 2005, and has been updated at least every three years. The 2014 plan update meets the "enhanced" plan criteria, which enables the state to qualify for additional funds following future disaster declarations. Ohio is one of only seven states that currently meet enhanced plan criteria. The enhanced plan status designation is a testament to Ohio's comprehensive hazard mitigation program.
FEMA approved the State of Ohio Hazard Mitigation Plan on May 13, 2014 the approval letter can be read on the Ohio EMA website.
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LAKE PLACID – It's easy to take the tourist attractions around us for granted. When I still lived in the Washington, D.C., area, I rarely visited the Smithsonian museums, despite their fabulous exhibits and free admission.
I imagine it's the same for some of you who live near Lake Placid. I only recently discovered the town's murals, and they're a unique way to learn more about local history as well as agricultural heritage in the area.
I reached Lake Placid's Chamber of Commerce office on a recent sunny Saturday not long after it had closed. As luck would have it, Lake Placid Mural Society co-founders Bob and Harriet Porter had to return to the office. They let me come in, and Porter told me how more than 20 years ago, during a motorcycle trip through British Columbia, she and her husband were inspired by some murals there and believed their town could benefit from the same idea.
The town now has 46 murals, with the most recent one completed in August of last year. All of the murals were painted by professional artists, and each depicts history or culture from Lake Placid and surrounding areas, said Porter. The murals adorn the sides of various local businesses. "Lake Placid is a town with history all around. The murals beautify the town and tell its history," said Porter.
The chamber of commerce gets 13,000 visitors who are interested in the murals, but the actual number of mural visitors is likely larger, she said.
If you want to use some of the murals to learn about the area's ag history, start with the Cracker Trail Cattle Drive mural on the side of the Winn Dixie Supermarket at U.S. 27 and CR 621 East. The mural depicts cattle that were herded through Lake Placid during a challenging journey on the Cracker Trail. Watch out — there's a cow coming right toward you! Hear him? Some of the cows depicted on the 175-foot-wide by 30-foot-high mural seem to jump off the wall. And the mural actually has sound, so you'll hear cattle mooing and thunder if you visit.
The Cracker Trail Cattle Drive is the largest mural among those in town, and it was funded in part by a radio broadcast held at one point atop the mural and by the Highlands County Cattlemen's Association, said Porter. All of the cows in the mural were "sold" to different ranchers in the organization.
Get another larger-than-life ag view at the mural Our Citrus Heritage, which was completed in 1997 and is located at the corner of North Main Ave. and East Park St. The mural begins by showing a boat used by Spanish explorers, who originally brought citrus to the Sunshine State in the early 1500s. The mural shows the face of an explorer side by side with modern-day ranchers, in a Mt. Rushmore like style. Then, the mural shows citrus trees and grove workers picking fruit. If you want an extra challenge while looking at the mural, see if you can spot the four hidden oranges with smiley faces. (Each mural has something hidden for visitors to find.)
Another ag-centered mural is Caladium Fields, which reflects Lake Placid's nickname of "Caladium Capital of the World," as more than 95 percent of the world's caladiums grow in the town. The mural shows fields of green, pink, white, and red caladiums. You'll find that one at the Lockhart Service Center on East Interlake Blvd.
Other murals depict the numerous flora, fauna and wildlife in Lake Placid as well as the stories behind the town's famous places and people.
If you decide to visit the murals, the $3 guide "The Murals of Lake Placid" will provide the story behind each mural. You can buy the guide at the chamber of commerce office and at some local stores. Wear your walking shoes, too.


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Eastern member states criticise EU's climate targets
Warsaw – While industrial biotechnology companies such as Royal DSM or Novozymes have welcomed new EU climate goals, believing they will provide a kickstart for a bio-based economy, eastern European countries like Bulgaria, the Czech Republic and Poland are criticising them as "too ambitous".
Eastern stakeholders complain that the new climate goals adopted by the EU Council at the end of June in the "Europe 2020" strategy could hamper Europe's competiveness. Polish Environment Minister Andrzej Kraszewski said that his country would need more time to implement the targets: a 20% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, an increase in the use of renewable energies by 20%, and a 20% cut in energy consumption. Experts say that
Poland could achieve a 14/10/10 % target if it would exploit all of the currently available reduction potentials, but stressed that 10/7/7 % would be more realistic. According to Kraszewski, the option to go beyond the 20% CO2 target proposed by the EU Council would only make sense if similar reduction plans were adopted by the
biggest emitters of greenhouse gas – China and the US. Otherwise, he said, "Europe's economy will become less competitive." He proposed adopting climate protection measures suitable to the specifics of EU member states.
General criticism is also coming from Polish and Bulgarian industry stakeholders. They believe that a 10-year perspective is too short, as investments in new technologies for CO2-reduction will not produce measurable effects in that time-scale. Biotechnologies that fix the greenhouse gas from power plants are still being developed. B


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Unionizing College Football Highlights Nexus of Quarterback, McDonald's Worker and Unpaid Intern
What do a college quarterback, fast-food worker and magazine intern have in common? More than you might think.
The National Labor Relations Board decided on Wednesday that football players at Northwestern University were essentially employees of the university and thus eligible to unionize. The decision is by no means the final word — Northwestern has already said it would appeal. But it opens the way for players to negotiate collectively the terms of their "employment" including perhaps pay.
College football's "Norma Rae" moment joins other recent pay-related episodes. First was the proposal to raise the federal minimum wage. Next came the White House's directive to expand the number of workers eligible for overtime pay. Employees who currently work extra hours for free will soon get paid for their time.
Add in interns and citizen journalists that perform duties for free and a trend is evident: The U.S. economy may be the richest in the world, but sections of it depend on cheap or free labor.
To be clear, there are benefits to many of these positions. A select few college players get a shot to go pro and earn millions. Interns spruce up their resumes. And in many cases, a minimum-wage job is better than no job.
Even so, these low-pay/no-pay jobs contribute heavily to lucrative bottom lines. College sports generate billions in revenues. So does the fast-food industry. The respective coaches and executives make millions.
It is too early to tell how this will shake out, especially in the case of college sports. Still, the attention to free and low-paid work is part of the ongoing discussion about income inequality. A recent survey showed 63% of Americans think the gap has become too wide. A Gallup poll done last year found three out of four Americans are in favor of raising the minimum wage.
Even in a labor market best by an excessive amount of slack, a conversation is starting about how the income created by work should be more equally distributed.


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DescriptionAct/Ensemble Bio: Biological Necessities, or BN, as we are known by our loved ones, is an improv comedy troupe based in Raleigh, North Carolina. On second thought, calling ourselves an improv troupe is pretty formal, we actually like to think of ourselves more as five guys in a pretty dedicated relationship. We express the love that we share with one another physically by engaging in passionate improvisational comedy, in the same way that a married couple might express their love through sexual intercourse. BN believes that "mutual improvisation" is crucial to maintaining any healthy five way man-on-man relationship. To us, a cleverly turned phrase is just as intimate as a gently nibbled ear, a called back joke is analogous to a softly whispered, "I love you". We are Biological Necessities. Watch and enjoy as we make sweet…sweet…improv.
Show Description: The boys of BN take one suggestion from the audience, and use that idea to spark the creation of made-up universe before your very eyes, a universe with characters so relatable, and trials and tribulations so engaging, that you will not be able to help but to really FEEL every laugh, every shout, and every tear. Ok, honestly, I'm going to level with you, we are probably just going to cuss a lot, and make some poop jokes (Hobert sure loves his caca humor. Just the word 'caca' gets him going). I am not proud of this, but it is what it is. If this makes you think less of us, that is fine, just leave Hobert out of it. He just doesn't know any better.
Biological Necessities is: Chuck Givens, John Fowler, Kevin Bragg, Mike Davidoff, and Hobert Thompson.
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THE JOURDANTON STATE BANK was established in February, 1942 with $25,000 in capital, $370,000 in assets and 250 shares of stock to satisfy the need of a home owned independent bank dedicated to serving the local community.
Commitment to standards of integrity, capital strength, technological advancement and most importantly customer satisfaction has enabled the bank to enjoy prosperity and progress for over 72 years. Located in a small rural community, this steady growth has required the bank to upgrade and double in size three times. In May, 1979 the current JOURDANTON STATE BANK building of 11,763 sq. ft. was completed with accommodations for future growth and expansion. The present site has seen the addition of three new offices, two more drive-in lanes and an ATM.
The opportunity to expand into a market beyond the confines of its rural environment was realized with the acquisition of the First American Bank in San Antonio. On June 9, 1989 JOURDANTON STATE BANK's First American Branch was formed with assets of $14,000,000. A three story glass office building was purchased on November 23, 1989. Thirty-five days later the First American Branch moved into 4,500 sq. ft. of ground floor space and the new JSB building opened its doors for business on January 2, 1990. Situated high on a hill overlooking San Antonio to the south and the Texas hill country to the north, the JSB Building with 32,000 sq. ft. of prime quality office space has been continuously 100% occupied.
The JOURDANTON STATE BANK opened its second branch November, 1997 next to San Antonio's Quarry Market Mall. The Lincoln Heights Branch occupies half of the 6,000 sq. ft. building and offers 3,000 sq. ft. of rental space. The building and the bank interior feature an inviting Texas hill country decor.
JOURDANTON STATE BANK's third branch opened May 3, 1999 in Pearsall, Texas. The 4,400 sq. ft. building is conveniently located near IH 35. The interior is decorated in a casual western design. It also provides a unique 'cowboy' drive through lane to accommodate trucks and trailers.
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