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I have a love/hate relationship with Versace.
I love the history of the house. I hate how overtly sexual most of the pieces are.
I love Gianni. I go back and forth on Donatella.
So I didn't watch the live stream today.
I have to say this collection felt....different.
It was far less about sex appeal than usual which was a good thing.
I'm fairly certain that the floral prints were lifted from the Versace archives.
The minimal baroque theme ran through out and felt like a weak attempt at Prada's spring collection.
There was still some signature Versace here- tight dresses, leather, super high heels, and feathery fringe! Plus, the coats were beautifully constructed. I could have done without some of the color combinations- purple and green remind me of cartoon dragons.
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March 8, 2013
Berkeley County Public Service Water District is requesting a water rate increase of 19 percent. I do not think that the increase is justified....
The first thing that needs to be done is that big $1.5 million dollar office building that is proposed for the water dept. needs to be SCRAPPED! At a time when water rates in Berk. Co. are horrific, the LAST thing that needs to be done is the taxpayers "swindled" for more money to build a building that is NOT necessary. They already have the nice building for the sewer dept. and they take water/sewer payments there and the bills are now combined. Give the taxpayers a break and start realizing that we ALL do not work in DC!!!! You're running all the local folk out of this area because we can't afford to live here any longer!
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Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (WSSC) are $3.55 per 1,000 gallons is not correct. Their website has rates for average daily consumption ranging from zero to 9,000 and greater. The more you use the higher the cost. $3.55 happens to be for 100 to 149 gallons per day which would equate to approximately 3000 to 4500 gal per month.
Berkeley County website is not the same as alleged either. This one is different and charges less when more is used.
Water usage is billed on a declining block schedule, based on monthly meter readings. The same rates apply for residential, commercial, and industrial customers.
First 2,000 gallons is billed at $8.95 per 1,000 gallons Next 88,000 gallons is billed at $5.80 per 1,000 gallons Over 90,000 gallons is billed at $4.10 per 1,000 gallons
I can agree with the billing perhaps quarterly, but why not take it to yearly with monthly/quarterly estimated payments?
Shouldn't someone check facts before printing something like this?
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Two new mayors were elected in Niagara County earlier this week.
A Democratic deputy mayor squeaked by a Republican trustee to lead the heavily Republican Village of Wilson.
And a 34-year-old Barker trustee upset an incumbent mayor with 20 years of government experience.
Bernard "Bernie" Leiker, who has served as Wilson's deputy mayor for nearly three years, edged out trustee Gerard "Jerry" Kadryna by 10 votes in Tuesday's voting to take the helm in this village of 1,300, where registered Republicans outnumber Democrats 4 to 1. The election tally was 224 to 214.
"I think it had to do with the kind of campaign I ran," said Leiker. "I never said anything against my opponent, and I went door-to-door and met with people at their homes.
"I've done a lot of things in the past three years in the village, and I stood by my record."
Meanwhile, Aaron Nellist, who is finishing his first term as a trustee, defeated Herbert "Herb" Meyer, 69 to 43 votes, in the Village of Barker.
Meyer, 78, is finishing his first term as mayor, having served on the Planning Board for 17 years before joining the Village Board as a trustee in 2010. He was elected without competition to the mayor's post two years ago.
"Many older residents in the village are beginning to look to downsize, and the village is steadily filling in with younger families because our schools are a great draw," said Nellist, a 1996 Barker High School graduate.
"I can relate to these younger people, and I think our ability to get them out to vote made the difference."
Nellist campaigned on the Transparency in Government line, while Meyer ran on the Better Barker Party line.
Nellist and Leiker will be sworn in April 1.
Leiker is only the second Democratic mayor in the Village of Wilson's history.
Leiker, 64, was elected a trustee in March 2010 by a 16-vote margin over Republican Keith Douglas, tipping the three-person board to a Democratic majority for the first time in village record books. The tide had begun to change the prior year, when Patrick Kelahan was elected the village's first Democratic mayor in its 151-year history, upsetting incumbent Republican Mayor Thomas Bateman, who served unopposed for eight years.
Kelahan resigned the post last fall when he moved with his family to Newfane.
Leiker, as deputy mayor, and Kadryna, who was elected to a four-year trustee term last March, have been running the village as a two-man board ever since. Leiker is expected to make a trustee appointment for a one-year term at the village's reorganizational meeting April 1 to restore the full three-person board.
"I want to choose the best person for the job, and I don't care about the affiliation, whether they're Democrat or Republican, man or woman," Leiker said. "I want to canvass the whole community and have the best people come forward and see if they want to partner with me and talk about the issues.
"I have a short list of people I'd like, but I want them to approach me," he said. "They need to have a vision for the village and want to see the village grow. And I don't always have to agree with everything they have to say – I'm not afraid of disagreement."
Wilson resident Jim Madan said he would concur.
"Bernie is not afraid of diversity of opinion," Madan said. "I'm a registered Republican – and not that that should mean anything in a small village – but I have seen that he's consistently inclusive of people who don't agree with him."
Leiker, an English teacher and administrator from Williamsville who moved to Wilson with his wife, Colleen, when he retired six years ago, said the village leaders' top priority has to be business.
"We really need to create new businesses and support our old businesses," he said. "Everything here starts with that. If we could get someone to come into the old Pfeiffer's plant (which closed in 2009), our sewer rates would decrease. We do have Dollar General coming in, but we need to keep growing the village. Woodcock Brothers Brewery will soon be distributing the beer they're making here, so they'll be using more water, and then it won't just be 550 households using water."
"I've been talking to Wendel about plans for a regional sewer treatment plant, maybe to bring in Newfane and Ransomville, and then we could go from 550 users to 10,000 users, which makes it much easier to get state grant money," he said. "This is just in the very beginning stages, but it's something that could be shared. "
In Barker, Nellist also will be overseeing a board with a mix of old and new, including political newcomers Mark Wilson, 29, and Gregory Kerth, 65.
Both were unopposed Tuesday in their bids for two vacant trustee seats. They join Scott Matheis and Patricia Fuller, who were each elected to two-year trustee terms last year.
Nellist, who works for the State Canal Corp. as a maintenance assistant, will juggle his full-time job with the part-time mayor's post. In addition, he is a youth baseball coach and vice president of Local 527 for the State Canal Corp.
Nellist is looking forward to working more closely with the Town of Somerset in examining what areas the two governments might share services.
"Supervisor (Daniel) Engert has had an open line with me – he's been there for me if I have had questions," Nellist said.
Potential shared services, the redevelopment of the former Birds Eye processing plant land, and the upcoming village budget – with a hearing set for 7 p.m. April 1 – will be topics under discussion during the new mayor's two-year term.
"I'm ready for the challenge," he said last week.
Matheis, who served on the board with Nellist as a trustee, said, "He'll do very well. He's conscientious and asks the right questions."
"We had a big turnout this year, so maybe people will start coming out (to board meetings), get more interested, and that's a good thing."
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Is Michael Phelps diving into the dating pool?
After collecting a record 22 Olympic medals, the swimming phenom was spotted in London with a beautiful blonde, identified by several media sites as aspiring model Megan Rossee, 25, from Los Angeles.
Rossee, who posted an Instagram photo of them together Sunday evening with the caption "Yay Michael," has been quietly seeing Phelps, 27, since January, Hollyscoop reports, accompanying him to the Olympic Trials as well as the Games.
An avid soccer player, Rossee works as a cocktail waitress at Hollywood's Blok nightclub, says Hollyscoop, and describes herself on her website as a 5'9.5" All-American girl with "experience in High Fashion Print, Runway, Film and Television."
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Phelps wrapped his Olympic career Saturday, taking four gold and two silver medals home from London.
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Regardless of what else goes on in the area, the Buffalo music scene soldiers through it. Great new bands and artists arrive, make their mark, contribute something, and either move on, or become part of the cultural fabric on a more permanent basis.
Often, it can seem that these artists struggle in vain to aid in the transformation of our area from best-kept secret into full-bore cultural Mecca. I can recall the early '90s, when so many of us in town firmly believed that Buffalo could become for Western New York what Seattle had been for the Northwest - a place where homegrown talent was harvested by major record labels and presented to the world-at-large as something truly special, unique and groundbreaking. It never happened. With the benefit of hindsight, we should probably be thankful it didn't.
It says an awful lot about our cultural character that so many talented musicians carried on in a passionate fashion in our town during that time. That's the very definition of character - grace under pressure, dignity posited against oblivion.
There are moments, however, when the zeitgeist becomes palpable. You can feel it, you can hear it, you can see it. Walking around the MiA Festival grounds Saturday, I realized event founder Robby Takac hadn't been merely blowing smoke when he told me a week prior to the event that the goal was "to have something amazing to listen to and to see everywhere you look." Takac scored a 10 out of 10 on that count.
Part of the reason for the festival's success has to do with the location. MiA has had several homes over the past decade, from its initial run in tandem with the Allentown Art Festival, to a brief (and ill-fated) stop at the Hamburg Fairgrounds, through its first peak on the Albright-Knox Art Gallery grounds. Last year, Takac and crew moved the event across Lincoln Parkway to the area surrounding Marcy Casino and Hoyt Lake in Delaware Park. The 2011 edition of MiA was a great success, and it certainly felt like the event had found its natural home. But this year, what felt like a vibrant and fun homegrown arts party exploded into a full-blown Lollapalooza-level celebration of Buffalo music, art and the many convergences between the two.
This year, Lincoln Parkway was closed to traffic. A main stage and two satellite stages sat in the street facing the park, and backed up to the steps leading to the art gallery. More than 100 bands (full disclosure - my son was playing bass in one of them) performed on stages that spread throughout the grounds of the park. There was a DJ stage tucked into the woods behind Shakespeare Hill, a Kids Village adjacent to the Rose Garden that turned into the Big Easy stage for a host of bands later in the evening, and the debut of a "Poetry Slam/Spoken Word" stage.
Local artisans formed a vendors' alleyway leading to the Americana stage.
Artists painted in real time on canvases spread behind stages, while bands performed in front of them. It was more than interesting to observe how the music affected the artist's reactions in terms of brush stroke and color choice.
In fact, in this very act of artistic convergence, one could easily see a metaphor for the commingling of artistic expression that Takac has long posited as MiA's raison d'etre.
These were the physical details, but what made MIA 2012 so magical can't be broken down to the merely physical. You couldn't touch it, and an accurate description is elusive, but there was something in the air that day.
Let's hear from someone else who was there.
"Music is Art 2012 was the single best gathering of culture this city has seen in 20 years," says veteran musician and music educator Eric Crittenden. "From the diversity of the music performances, to the sailboats on the lake - every age group and every soul had reason to celebrate during what was an inspiring congregation of music and art. Doing something this ambitious can be a daunting task at times, but Buffalo stands to gain so much more if the commitment is to bring us all together culturally, not just sell us beer."
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In our exclusive sneak-peek clip from Monday's Carrie Diaries, Carrie (AnnaSophia Robb) bumps into a new, very cute boy at work. But once she introduces herself, George (Richard Kohnke) realizes that they already knew each other. It turns out the two once hung out when they were little kids. As he explains where he's been all this time, Carrie is quick to point out that he's quite pretentious - a bold response that catches this older guy's attention.
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British Gas SwimBritain 'Have a Go' sessions are free taster sessions ready for the team relay events in September.
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September 11, 2014
Our images of the week are taken from the beautiful design of the new maths Gallery
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Enjoy music and support maths education in Africa!
September 5, 2014
Double trouble for our image of the week!
September 4, 2014
The Indian way of adding fractions makes things easier (with musical explanation).
August 29, 2014
Our image of the week shows a friendly vortex!
August 27, 2014
The British Science Festival is kicking off in Birmingham on the 6th of September, and as usual there is some great maths in the programme.
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If there has been one overarching theme at this ICM, it's just how creative a subject mathematics is.
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From the excitement of the announcement of the Fields medallists to meeting mathematicians from around the world (and eating great food), we've had a brilliant time at this year's ICM!


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An early finish to this fall's corn harvest doesn't necessarily mean more time off for local farmers.
Last week's Colorado Crop Progress report showed 97 percent of the state's corn had already been harvested — well ahead of most years, including the last five, when, on average, only 82 percent of the crop was rounded up by this time in November.
But at the same time, an "unprecedented" number of farmers are heading back to the fields to bale leftover corn stalks this year, according to Jim Robb, director of the Livestock Marketing Information Center in Denver, and local farmers.
Along with having extra work time before winter weather arrives, demand for corn stalk is high, due to the widespread drought that has limited the supply of more traditional feed sources.
In most years, corn stalk hasn't been valuable enough to justify the expense of baling it, according to Robb and local farmers. Corn stalk left over in the fields after harvest is typically tilled back into the soil, providing extra nutrients for the next crop that's planted.
But this year's demand for alternative feed sources has many Weld County farmers changing their ways.
Furthermore, the $100-$125 per ton farmers can get for corn stalk could serve as a bit of a financial boost to the many who experienced wide-ranging yields this fall, and overall, ended their harvests with average production or below that of previous years.
LaSalle-area farmer Alan Frank said yields on his corn acres this fall ranged from 70 bushels per acre — well below the state's 2011 average of 161 — all the way up to 225.
For Frank, like many other Weld County farmers, water was the deciding factor.
Fields flourished where irrigation supplies were available, but fields that lacked supplemental water saw crops dry up in record heat.
"With heat and water, grain will certainly grow," said Mark Arnusch, a Keenesburg-area farmer, who, like Frank, saw some of his corn acres finish with yields about 25-30 percent above average this fall, while others "really struggled." "We certainly had the heat this year, but if you didn't have the water to go along with it, you were in trouble."
This summer's heat matured crops early, and was a big part of getting this year's harvests off to early starts and finishes.
Bruce Bosley, a Colorado State University Extension crop systems specialist, said wide-ranging yields have been seen all across northeast Colorado this fall.
Like many other farmers, Frank and Arnusch both said they're both looking to bale their leftover corn stalks, if weather permits. Rain and snow recently has muddied up fields and slowed down farm work.
Frank said he began baling corn stalk about three years ago — around the time demand for feed increased locally as the dairy industry expanded due to the presence of Leprino Foods' cheese plant in Greeley.
This year would be the first for Arnusch to bale corn stalks. He said he recognizes the need to help local livestock feeders who need the extra feed, but he also has concerns with taking away corn stalk that, when left in the soil, provide "essential nutrients" and help store moisture in the ground.
Platteville-area farmer Doug Rademacher, also a Weld County commissioner, estimates that about 80 percent of the farmers in his neck of the woods are baling corn stalk this fall — much more than he's ever seen.
Rademacher said he's considering doing the same, but he lacks a baler of his own. Those in his area who do own balers are so backed up with requests from other farmers that they might not get around to Rademacher's fields before winter arrives.
At this point, Rademacher said he's considering just spending the thousands of dollars it would take to buy his own machine.
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Johnson & Johnson today opens its Innovation Center in Boston, one of four planned centers through which the pharma giant aims to replenish its pipeline by stoking more R&D collaborations with early-stage businesses.
As with similar sites in London and Menlo Park, CA, the Boston center will host a 25- to 30-person team of business, science, and transaction professionals focused on building early-stage collaborations with emerging companies, entrepreneurs, and academic centers across eastern North America. J&J says the team will have full and broad deal-making capabilities, and can adapt deal structures to match early-stage needs and opportunities.
Also based at the center will be representatives from J&J's venture capital subsidiary, Johnson & Johnson Development Corp. (JJDC), who will identify and invest in external startups.
"The fact that we bring all these different people with all these different capabilities together gives us a lot of flexibility on how we can collaborate with companies. It's not 'Do it the J&J way or no way,'" Paul Stoffels, M.D., J&J's CSO and worldwide chairman, pharmaceuticals, told GEN. "The Innovation Center in Boston is a window-on-the-world from Johnson & Johnson into the area of Boston. We hope to be able to make many collaborations and venture capital investments, which will result in very successful product development, ultimately."
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In opening the Boston Innovation Center, J&J also announced four initiatives designed to generate additional early-stage innovation.
J&J will join New York's Mount Sinai Icahn School Of Medicine in a research alliance focused on studying inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), drawing on the teaching hospital's strengths in treating the disease, as well as in bioinformatics and data on large patient populations. While the alliance will primarily carry out basic research on the molecular basis of the disease, researchers may also begin clinical validation of findings as well.
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JJDC invested in startup Rodin Therapeutics, which seeks to develop new therapeutics for Alzheimer's disease and other neurological disorders based on epigenetic modifiers. JJDC has been an early-stage investor in Rodin with Atlas Ventures.
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That twat everyone wanted to murder in school due to his/her massively inflated ego, self-obsessiveness and downright sadism. Generally the bully, and often has repressed issues of their own, they are driven insane by the voices in their head telling them to be a conformist, and so drive everyone around them insane by doing the same thing, and yet ironically promotes himself/herself under the nebulous moniker of a "rebel". Murderer of self-worth, dignity, individualism and everything a modern society professes to stand for, yet promoted in the media and society in general as a great role model. Generally fails in life due to thinking they were too "cool" to get a job, or a house, or a source of income, and more often than not forced by terrible circumstances to work for the very nerds they were bullying. Listens to mediocre and downright bad pop music, and, assuming the pop to stand for popular, not populist, he/she forces his/her (lack of) taste onto other people. An all-round arrogant, sadistic tosser that should never have been let out of the asylum.
I don't need an example; you all know who I'm talking about. Make a stand, people; together, you can destroy pop culture, and be done with the cool kids forever!
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Selome. Wherever Selome is at, that's where the cool kids are at.
Selome is studying at Newman, so that's where all the cool kids are at.
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There are three requirements to become a cool kid:
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Any one of these acts are classified as cool, but to become a certified cool kid you must have taken part in all 3 activities.
True cool kids excel in all 3.
Last night at the party, Rishi got drunk, smoked all our weed and had sex with that really hot blonde girl! He's such a cool kid!
Sarcastic expression for someone who tries to go above and beyond just to be better than everyone else, or stand out from the crowd.
What the heck was he was wearing?! He's always trying to start something new, what a cool kid!
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A kid too 'Cool' to do what everyone else wants to do or do anything at all. This will include ditching his/her friends to do nothing at all or not do homework.
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Kids that are way too cool to hang out with actual friends.
"Are you going to hang out today?" "no im busy hanging out with other people today" "man, hes such a cool kid"
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a kid between the age of 9 and 12. they are usually boys but can be girls sometimes. most of them have blonde tipped hair and they think they are the coolest shit around.
n: hey look at those cool kids over there!
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Modern bodies. Tensions between liberation and suppression of the body in Christopher Isherwood's Goodbye to Berlin and Jean Rhys' Good Morning, Midnight.
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Joel Chandler Harris' and Charles W. Chesnutt's narrative politics in Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings (1880) and The Conjure Woman (1889) is explored in this thesis. Although the authors have been treated comparatively ...
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The availability of quality health care is surely one of the most critical needs facing smaller, rural communities today, including Mifflin County. In chatting with friends, family and people on the street, since the announcement by Lewistown Hospital of its intent to "merge" with Geisinger, I am learning of much concern, anxiety and uncertainty about this development.
Having lived and worked in this community all of my life and serving for several years on the Lewistown Hospital Board of Directors, I take this means for sharing my experience and thoughts on the issues.
I begin by expressing my great appreciation for the members of the Hospital Board of Directors, who devote, without compensation, their talents and countless hours providing guidance, for the very capable administration and staff, who make the facility such a valuable community asset, and and for our fine, caring local physicians and other health care professionals.
Geisinger is currently serving our area and provides a valuable complement to the health care delivery system. I do recall, however, that over the years the relationship of our hospital and local physicians with Geisinger was primarily adversarial, for reasons that may or may not be relevant today.
While not privy to all the factors prompting the recent merger decision, I suspect that finances and the inability to attract sufficient physicians to the community top the list. These have been issues for as many years as I care to remember. However, with the dedication and creativity of so many members of the community, they have been resolved and the hospital preserved.
We must also examine the decision-making process likely to prevail at a huge, distant entity, such as Geisinger. Will decisions be in the best interests of our community or favor the financial goals of the parent? We all know not all health care services are profitable. The proposed merger will leave our health care delivery dominated by a powerhouse, serving as insurer, physician, caregiver and hospital. When consumers have limited choices, the result is typically mediocrity and higher costs.
If, in fact, an affiliation is the only alternative for this community, let's seek a partnership, not a takeover, in which we have input as to what is best for us.
This is a great opportunity for the media to provide a valuable service to the community. Get the facts, report them impartially and provide a forum for all those affected and concerned to contribute to a solution that works best for current and future generations.
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quote: European economic growth is microscopic, compared to nations like China, Russia, Qatar, Dubai
quote: The price Europe pays for oil, coal, natural gas, and electricity generated by nuclear and hydroelectric are on par with the rest of the world.
quote: Furthermore, Europe's standard of living is high today because of centuries of investment in infrastructure, education, and other areas. Comparing a nation like France to one that, 100 years ago had almost no dams, universities, factories, and almost no roads at all is a bit misleading. That historical investment-- made long ago-- is still paying dividends.
quote: I think that was probably my point, that history and the general state of a countries social, political, and economic systems mean far more than the price of energy.
quote: countries social, political, and economic systems mean far more than the price of energy.
quote: Still, that's like saying the economic growth of a company like Microsoft isn't as large as the economic growth of a startup company with 10 employees. It's a lot easier for the new guy to expand.


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California's pricing system is killing its dairies
Some are already gone. More will follow. The big question is, how many can be saved?
by Hoard's Dairyman staff
The greatest milk-producing machine the U.S. dairy industry has ever seen is breaking down.
Doomsday feed prices and apocalyptic milk price volatility in 2009 exposed a fatal flaw in the "California style" business model of growing no feed. They also triggered a landslide of debt that buried many of the state's producers and turned survival into a daily struggle. It transformed their financing world as well.
Today, monthly profitability is more critical than most California producers could have ever imagined. Every penny per hundredweight and per ton matters. And yet, the state's complex milk pricing system that fueled meteoric growth for 40 years not only isn't helping producers, but some say it is killing them.
The gist of their belief is that the Department of Food and Agriculture has historically interpreted the pricing system as a way to encourage processors to make plant capacity available for every pound of milk that is produced. In the wake of the industry's 2009 meltdown, however, producers have become increasingly more vocal that the department is ignoring at least two directives in the state's Food and Agriculture Code that are aimed at promoting their existence:
Section 61805(d) "Enable the dairy industry, with the aid of the state, to develop and maintain satisfactory marketing conditions, bring about and maintain a reasonable amount of stability and prosperity in the production of market milk..."
Section 62062 "...methods or formulas shall be reasonably calculated to result in prices that are in a reasonable and sound economic relationship with the national value of manufactured milk products."
Producer groups have been at odds with processors and the department for years over the "begging with hat in hand" nature of the hearing process to seek price relief, and disgusted with outcomes that have sometimes been small but have more often been nothing. In recent years as economic conditions have reached fatal proportions, unhappiness has escalated into full-blown rebellion.
Multiple meetings have been held to discuss replacing the state pricing system with a Federal Milk Marketing Order (FMMO), and a lawsuit was even filed against the department in 2012 for failing to keep California's Class 4b (cheese) milk prices in "reasonable alignment" with FMMO Class III prices. The difference averaged $2 per hundredweight during 2011 and 2012.
One of the loudest voices for California milk producers belongs to Geoffrey Vanden Heuvel. The operator of a 1,250-cow dairy in Chino, Vanden Heuvel has been active in California dairy policy making for 28 years. He has testified at nearly every California milk price hearing since 1985 and has occasionally participated in USDA and Congressional Farm Bill hearings in Washington, D.C. He is candid, direct and extremely well informed. He is also fiercely passionate about the dairy industry, which means he not only has a lot to say about the current state of California dairying, but he is not shy about doing so.
Questions and answers
Has the relationship between California dairy farmers and the Department of Food and Agriculture changed in recent years?
"I don't think there's been a change in the department; I think there's been a change in the economic realities. In order to understand why, you need to get some historical context.
"If you go back to 1977, California was just over half the size of Wisconsin in milk production and the dairy industry convinced Congress to pass a farm bill that supported milk at 80 percent of parity with semi-annual price adjustments. The practical implications were that over a four-year period the support price went from $8.26 per hundredweight to $13.49. What did California dairies do with the money? We invested in more cows and more processing plants.
"Because we had a state order we could use it to essentially confiscate part of the money that was intended to go to dairy farmers and give it to processors as an incentive to build more plants to accommodate the milk that those additional cows were going to make. The bottom line is that with cheap feed we were able to build our industry and we caught Wisconsin within a decade.
"[In my opinion] it was as a result of that tremendous growth that the department developed the mind-set it still has today which is the problem: that plant capacity is the most important single factor and indicator of what the milk prices it establishes must be.
"Despite the fact that the law that gives the department the responsibility and authority to set milk prices also tells it that it has to consider producer profitability, what milk is selling for in other parts of the country, and the "reasonable relationship" language that is in the law. What you hear time and time again in the questions that department economists ask at hearings is, its concern is the viability of plants. Its equation essentially is that there are 1,700 dairies and 60 plants. If we lose a bunch of dairymen it bothers them, but not near as much as losing one or two plants. The department has a belief that plants must buy milk cheap in order to survive."
In testimony at the state's most recent milk price hearing on December 21 your son Rob, manager of Milk Producers Council in Southern California, said, "It is abundantly clear that the needs of manufacturers have been a priority of the California Department of Food and Agriculture over the years."
"And I don't think the department would argue with that. In all of its findings it is clear that it is most concerned about putting no stress on the processing sector whatsoever. What's strange to me is, the practical impact of the department's decisions is the demise of the productive capacity of milk producers of California.
"I think what the problem comes down to is, the department has become accustomed to doing things the way it has for a long time. It is setting minimum prices only, those prices have to be market clearing prices, and they can not raise those prices if there is any chance they'll end up with inadequate plant capacity. It is taking it as their obligation to see that there is a California home for any gallon of milk that any California dairyman wants to produce. That's the policy it has been implementing for the last 40 years.
"But one of the questions you have to ask is, where in the law is the foundation for that policy? Secondly, and as a practical matter, if California dairymen produce too much milk, who bears the cost of disposal? It's not the plants; they buy what they want. It's the dairy farmers. The department is basically saying, "We have to kill you to save you. We have to keep milk cheap so there will always be a plant to buy your milk."
"The perversion of this is that the department has made it so easy for California plants by discounting milk, we have ended up with very lazy plants. They have no incentive to move up the value chain, and why should they? Almost all of the risk has been taken out for the plants."
Is the California dairy industry at a crossroads today, or is it an intersection where a wreck is occurring?
"Probably both. We're already well on the path to whatever we're going to be. The California dairy industry is absolutely in a transition and there are casualties every day.
"This problem will get fixed. There is no doubt in my mind that there will come a day when California milk processors will be paying a competitive price for milk. The question is, how many casualties will happen and how much damage will be done between now and then? When they write the history of this period in California, the big question that people may not be able to answer is, why did the state, which had all this ability and authority to use the tools of government and all the reasons to use them, behave and make the decisions it made? Why did it ignore the producers?
"Indications are that the department still doesn't believe us. In its defense, I've got to say that I've been raising issues about the viability of our model for years and yet production continued to go up. I think it's a case where the department isn't convinced yet that it is doing damage.
Destroying productive capacity
"But the effect of its policy is to destroy the productive capacity of the dairy industry. There is really no arguing that. I think the game changing difference is the banking industry, which made tons of money on the California dairy industry as it expanded all over the country, has begun to look at the dairy industry much differently. Clearly, without access to capital we never could have built what we built, and that access to capital is pretty much being cut off today.
"As long as producers have breath and energy in their bodies there will be no peace in the California dairy industry until this issue gets resolved. Unfortunately, we are stuck right now where we have the worst of both worlds. We have producers who are not getting adequate income to pay their bills, and processors who are benefitting from that but are unwilling to risk hundreds of millions of dollars on investment [in new plant capacity] because they intuitively know it can't last. We're buying absolutely nothing for our cheap milk right now except misery.
"If I could sum up the department's policies during the last 12 months it would be, it's just stupid. Why would a body whose responsibility is to carry out a law [Section 61805(d) of the Agricultural Code] do what it is doing? If that's what the state Legislature told you to do as an administering body, and you look at the results of its decisions, how can you describe those decisions as anything other than stupid? At some point the department will "get it" or the market will take over.
"Every day that passes as this pressure comes to bear, there is less and less time to fix the problem. We just don't know how much we have left. As dairy farmers our backs are to the wall. This is survival. When your livelihood is on the line and you're fighting for your home, it clarifies the mind and energizes you.
"There are some potential remedies we have by going back to the California State Legislature, and Western United Dairyman has already introduced such a bill. The state Legislature is going to hear a lot about the plight of dairy farmers in the next six months; this will get attention."
Near the end of your testimony in the December 21 hearing you told the department panel, "We need a little hope, and I guess the question for the department is are you going to give us some?" Is hope enough or is it just a Band-Aid?
"It's not enough to solve the problem, but if people have just a little hope they'll fight. They'll fight to hang on and stay alive because of the hope that there might be a rescue. But if there's no hope they'll quit. I said earlier that change is coming for the California dairy industry; that's inevitable. The question is, how much of this industry can we save? Hope is a huge factor in the answer. If there's some hope, producers will put in extra effort to stay alive.
"The other side of the question about how much of the industry can be saved is, how much of the industry that's still here are we going to lose no matter what happens? The reality is there are a lot of people who are milking cows today that won't be here much longer because the financial momentum underway in the industry has taken them past the point of being saved.
"I don't think the department is paying very close attention to that. I think it looks at the supply of milk and sees that we're down a little, but it thinks we might bounce back and go way up. So it thinks, "we need to be very careful about giving dairy farmers too much money because if we do they'll produce too much milk and we won't have a place for it."
"I would ask since when, and where is the authority in the law, that makes that the overriding consideration for every policy decision it makes? The only thing the department can show is some bland language that talks about stability, and it has taken that one little phrase and created a policy that drives everything it does. Its definition of stability has become "a California home for any gallon of milk that a dairyman wants to produce."
"Therein lies the problem. The law doesn't say that, but it has become the department's policy. This doesn't make the department evil; it makes it wrong. It is misunderstanding and misinterpreting what its job is. But you have to walk in the department's shoes; from its perspective it thinks that is its job. And that's been its perspective for 40 years, because that's what its people have inherited from their predecessors."
Pretend that California dairy farmers suddenly got a level milk price playing field with producers in the rest of the country. If that happened, would California processors close up shop and leave?
"Of course not. That's the most ludicrous thing. Do you think a company with a billion-dollar investment is going to pack up? Where would it go? The crazy thing is, department officials continue to buy that line. Processors aren't going to go anywhere; we're all on this ship together.
"In my testimony I told the department, What is the market that your policy decisions created telling me? It's basically telling me I need to get out of business. Intellectually I'm okay with that. But is it really fair to tell California dairy farmers they ought to get out of business when the state is deliberately discounting their milk?"'
Has the current intensity of the disagreement between producers and the department, culminating with the lawsuit against the department claiming it has failed to follow the Agricultural Act, burned any bridges?
"Even though we're all human beings and we all have emotions, I would hope that we are all professionals and we can all put our emotions in check. We ought to be able to speak truth to power; we ought to be able to call it as we see it. And I think that's all we're doing. We think the department is wrong and the court system exists to resolve these types of disputes. We went to the court and we got an answer we didn't like or agree with; we found out there is no remedy there.
Now looking at a federal order
"There are two other ways to get change. One is to go to the legislature and get a more clear, succinct law that will change the way the department applies the law, and we're pursuing that. The other is to change the administrator by looking at a federal marketing order.
"The process of making a change is much more of a marathon than a sprint. There will be some dairies left when it is over; the question is how much damage will be done. The quicker we can turn this thing around and change, the more of this industry we can preserve and the better off it will be in the future. The pain and anguish and loss that have already occurred are enormous. The toll it continues to take financially and emotionally on the producer sector is enormous. The sad part is it doesn't have to be this way. It just doesn't. I've never seen a situation where a state's Department of Agriculture is at war with its own farmers, but ours is.
"This problem will get fixed. There is no doubt in my mind that there will come a day when California milk processors will be paying a competitive price for milk. The question is, how many casualties will happen and how much damage will be done between now and then?" Geoffrey Vanden Huevel
"There's always been a belief that if all producers could get on the same page then we would get what we need. But we demonstrated that is not true. We had 100 percent producer unanimity in the December 21 hearing. We were all together. It wasn't for lack of resources and it wasn't for lack of unity, but we still got nothing.
"California dairy farmers have had a heck of a run. They really have. The California dairy industry has been a phenomenal success story. It was built on cheap feed, but I don't think feed is ever going to be cheap again. Therefore, the model that built it is forever gone. So it has to adjust and adapt, it will adjust and adapt. The question is, how long will it take and who gets to be part of what is left?
"You've always had a certain amount of natural selection go on among producers. That's normal, but the department is going to kill off more of the human and material capital than it needs to because of the stupidity of its policies. But at some point there will be a change in policy. Of that I have no doubt."
This article appears of page 44 and 45 of Hoard's WEST in the April 25 issue.


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ATTICA - Attica council members learned Thursday night engineer Lynn Makeever was unable to sign the contract with the village to proceed with the lagoon and wastewater system construction.
Village Administrator Greg Martin said a phone call to the district office of the Environmental Protection Agency in Bowling Green revealed the paperwork had not moved through the proper channels and approval for the village to include storm water in the wastewater system had not been granted yet.
Deadline for the engineering portion of the project is May 2013.
Martin said the village must have the legal description of the annexed parcels for the water plant on its USDA mortgage and have new deeds drawn up to be recorded with the county. Solicitor Rick Palau was tasked with obtaining the legal description and seeing it is recorded.
Martin told council the deadline for installing a handicap lift in the Myers Park swimming pool is Jan. 31. The project to comply with Americans with Disabilities Act standards is scheduled to be completed by summer. Cost of the lift is several thousand dollars and the village will seek grant funding to assist.
Fiscal officer Pat Krebs and finance committee members reviewed 2013 appropriations. The committee proposed to other council members that all village employees be granted a 3 percent pay increase. Council is to consider the proposal and take action at the next meeting.
Krebs also submitted a proposal from Energy Professionals regarding purchase of electricity. A total of $709,154.89 is in all funds.
Police Chief Keith Turner said a bid was placed on a cruiser in New London, and he may learn if the bid was accepted by late December or early January.
Turner said Safety Pup helped pass out Halloween candy again this year. Mayor Bryan Shock expressed gratitude to the AVR Joint Fire Department for assistance in keeping children safe during the annual trick or treat night.
In other matters, council:
Heard the first reading of a resolution of necessity on a replacement tax levy for providing police protection and requesting certification from the county auditor.
Heard the first reading of a resolution of necessity on a replacement tax levy for providing park operation and requesting certification from the county auditor
Heard the emergency siren has been repaired
Discussed the village's emergency plan. Residents may acquire a copy at either the fire or police departments.
Council is scheduled to meet at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 27.


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An extraordinary line up of artists have added their voices to the campaign by recording brand new versions of great protest songs, because protest leads to progress and bold commitments from world leaders could be life changing.
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While the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has announced Cheap Trick, Chicago, Deep Purple, Steve Miller and N.W.A. as its 2016 inductees, there are still some acts it has overlooked over the years.
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