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Coal future a concern to all
Very few Americans really care much what happens to a coal miner's family in West Virginia or Ohio. Hey, the government will take care of them if they lose their jobs, right?
But what about household electric bills skyrocketing in Minnesota and Michigan? What happens when a New Jersey or South Carolina plant closes after its employees are informed management can't pay the power bill?
For the past few years, critics of President Barack Obama's war on coal have been preaching to the choir. That is, they've been whipping up support for the coal industry where it lives, in places like West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky and Wyoming.
Last month, Obama announced a new campaign against coal, as if his previous effort has not been devastating enough. If the president had his way, every single coal-fired power plant in the country would be shut down.
But tens of millions of Americans, unaware of what the president's plan means to them, should be worrying about paying hundreds or thousands of dollars a year more for electricity. Millions should be wondering how their industries, relying as they do on relatively inexpensive power, will keep the doors open.
Most Americans probably have no idea how much they rely on coal miners to generate their electricity. Yet in 20 states, coal-fired power plants supply more than 50 percent of the juice. Nationally, about 42 percent of what it takes to switch on the lights comes from coal.
Look at it this way: Coal-fired power plants – nearly 600 of them throughout the country – generate about 1.6 trillion kilowatt hours of electricity every year. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the average household uses 11,280 kilowatt hours annually.
Do the math. Or I can do it for you: Coal provides enough electricity to power around 140 million households in the U.S. every year.
Aha, you say. There's a flaw in Myer's argument. There aren't that many households in the United States.
Precisely. Much of that electricity goes to industries such as aluminum smelters. If their power bills go up, they go out of business. Ask the folks at Ormet.
And if companies increase the price of their products to pay the electric bill, they suddenly become uncompetitive in the national and international markets. So they are forced to close – and lay off workers.
How many Americans would lose their jobs if Obama's plan goes through? No one can say with certainty. I haven't seen any estimates. Now might be a good time for some university economist to produce one.
One interesting report on Obama's old war on coal was released a few months ago. Under current regulations – not the vastly harsher ones the president envisions – 204 coal-fired electric generating units in 25 states will be shut down. Here's a list of those states, in descending order of how much electric generating capacity they will lose:
Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, Indiana, Texas, South Carolina, Colorado, Kentucky, Alabama, Georgia, New Mexico, Illinois, Oklahoma, Minnesota, Iowa, Massachusetts (yes, believe it or not, the Bay State has some coal-fired power), New Jersey, Wisconsin, Utah, Michigan, Maryland, Wyoming and South Dakota.
Some states get virtually none of their electricity from coal-fired generating stations, of course. And some of them, such as California, have enormous political clout. Their residents' electric bills already are three to four times what utilities with coal-fired capacity charge.
Now you know part of Obama's reasoning. If he gets away with his plan, the economies of states such as California will benefit. That is because industries in the coal-reliant states become less competitive.
Make no mistake about it: Obama's plan will hurt tens of millions of Americans – probably most of us – and the vast majority of the victims don't even know they have a problem.
Their members of Congress do, however. So why aren't they doing anything to stop the White House?
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EDITOR'S NOTE: Mike Myer is executive editor of The Intelligencer and the Wheeling News-Register. He can be reached via e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com


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As far as I know Anthrax will be on a tour with Motorhead. I can't find any info about Slayer and Slipknot to be part of this tour. I hope that the Slayer and Slipknot will be part of this tour too. Finger crossed

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WARREN A broken chair lift at a Vermont ski resort stranded more than 100 skiers who had to be evacuated from the lift.
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Patrick Brown said the Sugarbush ski patrol used a rope system to get rescue chairs up to skiers and lower people down one at a time.
The ordeal took about two hours. Nobody was injured.
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Kirkland landlords and renters invited to discuss proposed Section 8 housing ordinance on Feb. 26/
The City of Kirkland is considering an ordinance that would prohibit a landlord from refusing to rent to a tenant solely based upon the applicant's use of Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers. A second informational meeting will be held on Feb. 26, 7-8:30 p.m., Kirkland City Hall, Peter Kirk Room, 123 5th Avenue to answer questions about the proposed ordinance. The draft ordinance and stakeholder feedback received at the two community meetings and from correspondence will be presented to the City Council on March 19, 2013. To learn more about the proposed ordinance and to read comments received at the January 23 community meeting, please visit www.kirklandwa.gov and search "Section 8 Voucher."
The Section 8 Housing Voucher Program is funded by the federal government and administered by local housing authorities to assist low income families, the elderly and the disabled to afford housing in the private market. For Kirkland, the King County Housing Authority (KCHA) oversees the program. Section 8 participants pay a percentage of their household income for rent and utilities. Through a voucher system, KCHA pays the difference between the portion of the tenant's rent and the amount requested by the landlord.
The ordinance Kirkland is considering would require landlords to use the same criteria for Section 8 renters that they apply to any other prospective tenant. Landlords may use their standard screening process, such as rental and credit history checks and may retain existing rental practices for deposits and rental agreements. Landlords are not required to change how they operate their property. Any property that has rents higher than the rent limits established by KCHA would not be required to lower rents to make units available to Section 8 participants. The program has administrative requirements such as an initial minimum lease period and property inspections. However, landlords who do not normally use the required lease period or who are unable to make any noted repairs, will not be required to participate in the program.
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Virginia, what a great ball. You need to put it in a cube. One of these players will be famous. The ball itself is cute. Good job.
That's an awesome feeling to have a ball signed, you should keep that in mint condition, and like what Cat said up there, keep it in a protective casing.
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Wow! Pretty neat on your part. I echo the above sentiments; keep that thing in a protective case – you never know…..it could be valuable some day!
Sucks that we lost tonight, but with Mitre on the mound you had to expect that as an outcome. I think with Joba and AJ pitching the last two games of this series, we have a better than average chance of winning those games and starting a new winning streak. Can't wait to read your wrap-up!
Sweet ball! YOu know I love those Renegades. Does that mean you are a big Rays fan now since you are a Renegades fan? I think so!!! Thanks for the help with the BoSox. Things just got more interesting here in Tampa Bay.
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"He worked quite a few years for me up until last year," Bellows said.
"Imagine the farmers of yesteryear trying to harvest by hand the thousands and thousands of acres currently in production in Texas," Williams said on Tuesday, April 15.
"It's not hard to remember that since Eli Whitney's invention of the Cotton Gin in 1793, man has continued to develop ways to increase production and productivity and hopefully in doing so reduce cost," Williams said. "Farmers continue to struggle with all the forces of nature, winds blowing our fields into the next county, years with no rain, or rain too late. Pests and other 'acts of nature' seeming designed to cause us to fail."
Williams said farmers are tough and have a lot of faith to continue year after year, always praying for that bumper crop.
"Technology continues to change as well from picking cotton in the fields with tow sacks to the modern equipment we see today," Williams said.
Williams reiterated: "Technology that decreases cost and increases efficiency while being affordable should be the future we support and embrace for our farm families."
Williams and his wife, now are in Winters, where they have started T.I.G. of Texas Inc., a company that has invented an upgrade to existing cotton harvesting equipment.
"I dreamed of it three years ago," Williams said. "It can take a five- to six- man operation to a one-man operation
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The annihilation of localApril 29,2014
Vermonters are facing a move in our Legislature, endorsed by the states education bureaucracy, to consolidate our local schools into expanded districts. Some of us, thinking that consolidation would bring greater efficiency and therefore lower costs, may at first suppose there might be some fiscal merit in the proposal.
There isnt.
Even supporters now concede theres little likelihood of savings and that consolidation will probably increase the cost of public education. For every imagined economy of scale, at least as many inefficiencies arise owing to the new bureaucracys greater distance from the classrooms where education happens.
While the bill does replace existing supervisory union superintendents with fewer uber-superintendents, anyone who thinks those expanded district superintendents wont be hiring assistant superintendents has never met a superintendent. Additionally, the bill and its sponsors dont begin to account for the costs involved in leveling teachers salaries and equalizing tax rates.
Bearing in mind that consolidation wont save money, can we please stop citing the defeat of a fraction of the states school budgets as justification for this bill?
Even more crucially, the bill does more than reshuffle supervisory unions. It eliminates local school boards.
Read that again. It eliminates local school boards. Eliminating those boards eliminates your power to control your local school. This means that you can be outvoted by citizens from other towns regarding the districts school budget and your taxes, and that your towns representative on the expanded board can be outvoted by representatives from the other towns in your new district. In short, the board members from other towns can vote to do anything they want in and with your towns school, including close it if they decide it will save the expanded district money.
The bills advocates assert it somehow protects small local schools. This is an illogical argument at best and a deceit at worst.
With the bill financially all but indefensible, proponents now offer equity as its prime justification. Equity formerly meant the ability to spend money on school programs, which is why we restructured our tax system via Acts 60 and 68. Supporters now assert that equity means the quality and variety of educational opportunities available to students throughout the state. In other words, not only must your schools students have access to the same amount of money, but the teachers, parents and citizens in your town must do the same things with that money as all other schools.
The bills advocates will claim Im overstating their intention. But if thats not what they mean, then their definition of equity and their justification of larger districts make no sense. The logical extension of their species of equity is that Vermont should be redefined as one large statewide school district.
Most proponents will deny thats what they have in mind. But if they mean what they say, thats what they logically should have in mind.
Im sure it will occur to them sooner or later.
Will the Legislature next contrive to eliminate select boards? Will road equity next be required of towns when it comes to asphalt and gravel? Shouldnt police and fire protection be as equitably available as education? At least for our schools, voluntary cooperation is insufficient to satisfy the Legislature. Which town service will fall next?
Proponents maintain we must redefine local. They contend that just as neighborhoods once gave way to towns as our standard of local, so must we now abandon individual towns in favor of combinations of towns, that those expanded districts are the new local. Several flaws invalidate that argument. When we combined our hamlet schools, our towns already existed, and they were composed of our neighbors. Our towns werent artificially formulated and imposed to replace our neighborhoods.
Supporters nebulously claim the bill is about whats good for kids. The State Board of Education, in a meaningless flight of rhetoric, declares the bill will enable all students to thrive and prosper. No one is against children thriving and prospering. The question is who gets to decide what thriving and prospering look like for your children. This bill says its not up to towns, and its not up to parents. In place of towns and parents, the Legislature would insert itself and its new mandated, expanded districts.
That arrogance is unconscionable.
The Legislatures blindness to the decades of follies and failures spawned by the Agency of Education and our states education bureaucrats, from portfolio assessment to the current top-down implementation of the Common Core, and its willingness to again trust the recommendations of those bureaucrats and to place consolidation in the hands of an agency design team, is appalling.
The Legislatures silence in the face of self-serving complaints that local governance of schools is too inconvenient is a dereliction and a disappointment.
A pernicious fault in public education is that too many decisions are already made by authorities too far removed from classrooms and students. This bill only extends that distance.
To garner support, some legislators have proposed permitting limited school choice within the expanded districts. Im not opposed to school choice.
But we need to remember, as we stand on the brink of tearing down our home-based system of schools, that the school choice that matters to most of us is the choice we exercise through our local boards to make our childrens schools what we want them to be.
Thats something none of us should be willing to lose or be compelled to surrender.
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Members of the Hispanic Initiative Committee are charged with shaping the organization's strategies to reach and serve the Hispanic population. Through its strategic planning, the committee can address specific concerns facing Latinos in America, including education, economic growth, and health care.
As each phase of the strategy is implemented, you will witness real results—the emergence of a multigenerational tradition in which young Scouts and their parents strengthen family bonds through participation in the Scouting program.
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The film "Mulberry Child," the story of the persecution and survival of a family during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, will be shown at 6 p.m. Tuesday, April 10, in Smith Hall at Old Main. After the documentary screening, the story's main characters, Jian Ping and her daughter Lisa, will speak and answer questions.
North Central's Cultural Events, Chinese language, and gender and women's studies programs are event sponsors.
Jian Ping was born in China in 1960 during widespread famine caused by the economic disaster of Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward. Tens of millions starved to death in the years preceding the leader's brutal and repressive Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) and his call to crush the "Four Olds." Chaos became rampant as Mao empowered youth to revolution, threatening, humiliating, beating and killing anyone they chose to persecute.
This many-layered documentary saga begins in Chicago with a disconnect between Jian and her thoroughly American daughter Lisa and journeys into the heart of China for a personal history of one family's trauma and eventual triumph over Mao's Cultural Revolution. Through colorful reenactments, historical records and moving interviews, the director follows the trail of "Mulberry Child," Jian's published memoir of growing up amid the hardship and injustice, and traces daughter Lisa's gradual understanding of the power of family love.
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Same shit yo I have no experience with scratchin, even though I practice sometimes, most of the time I just fuck around with it, and if it sounds good with my beat Ill use it
i have fun scratching every once in a while, someday i'd like to be able to scratch in vocals a la Primo or the Madlib. but i don't have a DJ mixer or anything, and i'm still able to make decent sounds. if i can make some pretty ill cuts, then anyone else can/should be able to.
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Start learning on the transform switch and go from there or something. Also try to stay humble, you can have all of the best equipment in the world but without skills you're still gonna sound like shit. Damn...
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1. Baby scratch
2. Forward cut or Phrasing
3. Reverse scratch
4. Tares
5. Transforms
Once you get the hang of those consistently, you can move on to stabs, chirps, crabs and flares.
Q-Bert Scratch Academy is a great place to learn all the scratches online in more detailed fashion, but will cost you a bit to sign up. Another really good site for helping with practicing is:
As for equipment, yeah it's really hard to get quality scratches and or practice in with belt drive tables. You should have a really good concept and established skill with matching beats before really jumping into scratching- even if your not looking to become "Master of the Mix", it really helps. A belt drive table is perfect to learn on though and is where most DJ's used to start. Now a days turntables are becoming more and more obsolete and being replace with controllers-sad but true. I've had the same set of Technics 1210's for 10 years now and have had them repaired a handful of times and even replaced the tonearms myself a few years back. As for a mixer, when you get into the more advanced scratches, your going to want a mixer with a cross fader contour control. This controls the sensitivity as to how the fader cuts in and out on both sides. But at the end of the day, there is no exact way or concrete method for what you need to do, just have fun and if you like the sound that you make- thats the most important thing!
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WTF is going on in here. If this is fake you're brilliant, if this isn't fake stop with the open-fader scratches.
you can have all of the best equipment in the world but without skills you're still gonna sound like shit. Damn...
Amen. I don't remember the exact quote, nor whose it was so allow me to paraphrase - - the only musical instrument is the mind: any tool played to produce sound is but an extension of the mind.
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The Cost of "Free"Everyone loves free stuff. After all, why pay money for something you can get without forfeiting any of your hard earned cash? I am not the first to say this, and certainly will not be the last, but FREE always has a cost - maybe not a direct monetary cost, but a true cost nonetheless.
For example, do you use a "free" internet service to promote your listings? If so, you may be surprised at all the little extras that "free" comes with. Like competing advertisements on your listings, limited features and usability, and unnecessary time consumption. It makes no sense for a business to give away their services without getting anything in return... there is always a return.
How many leads, what amount of sales, and how much money might you be losing from visitors who click away from your listings to visit a competitor's advertisement? It makes no sense for you to let competitors advertise in your area, yet this is what you may be doing by using a "free" site or service.
Oftentimes, businesses or services will provide free features with some sort of purchase or membership. While this isn't purely free either, they are tools that are available to you at no extra cost, whether you use them or not. The monetary cost to you is disclosed up front, so you know exactly what you are paying for - this type of "free" is great and should be taken advantage of!
Be sure to research where you put your time, effort, content, and listings, and evaluate the cost of free. If it is an acceptable cost, you may have found your spot! If not, if you are losing leads, sales, traffic and credibility, then get out of there fast. Run away and place your assets where they will pay you back.
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ACLJ & Jay Sekulow Sue CA School District
The fate of after-school Bible clubs in California may rest on the outcome of a lawsuit filed in United States District Court. The suit filed by the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) argues that Orange County's Buena Park School District unconstitutionally rejected a Christian youth club's request to meet in District facilities on equal grounds with similar, nonprofit, nonreligious youth organizations.
The "Good News Club," a local affiliate of the international, Bible-centered organization Child Evangelism Fellowship, provides school kids with extracurricular educational programming and recreational activities that teach about life from a biblical perspective. Child Evangelism Fellowship's West Orange County chapter was denied a request to use district facilities free of charge, despite California Education Code allowing nonprofit, youth-oriented groups to use public school facilities at no cost. Similar nonprofit groups have historically been permitted to meet after hours without charge at Buena Park schools.
"This selective application of policy speaks ill of the Buena Park School District's respect for and understanding of the Constitution," said David French, ACLJ Senior Counsel. "Freedom doesn't stop at the schoolhouse door. Child Evangelism Fellowship has every right to equal treatment and access to public school facilities for its after-school events."
The ACLJ's lawsuit contends Buena Park School District stands in violation of the First Amendment on free speech, free exercise of religion and establishment of religion grounds. It also asserts that Child Evangelism Fellowship's Fourteenth Amendment right to equal protection under the law has been impacted by the district's selective application of its own facility usage policies.
"Ultimately, this case is about legal equality. Religious speech is entitled to the same access as any other kind of speech, and religious students deserve the same treatment as all other students," said French.
Led by Chief Counsel: Jay Sekulow, the American Center for Law and Justice focuses on constitutional law and is based in Washington.: Follow the ACLJ on Twitter at:https://twitter.com/ACLJ
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TUESDAY, NOV. 19, 2013 -- The winter holidays are coming early to Portland as a major financial services company is joining with the City of Portland and two nonprofit agencies to help 227 moderate-income Portlanders buy homes.
Wells Fargo, NeighborWorks America and Portland Housing Center today joined Portland Mayor Charlie Hales to announce the $5.15 million Portland NeighborhoodLIFT program.
"With the holiday shopping season about to start, this program will help Portlanders make one of the most important purchases of their life: a home of their own," said Mayor Hales. "This public-private partnership has the potential to make a huge difference to Portland residents and neighborhoods."
Portland NeighborhoodLIFT program is a collaboration between Wells Fargo, the City of Portland, NeighborWorks America, and Portland Housing Center. The program is designed to provide down payment assistance and homebuyer education programs in areas most impacted by the financial crisis.
The program will include a free homebuyer event Dec. 13-14 from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. (both days) in Hall C at the Oregon Convention Center, 777 N.E. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Prospective homebuyers can register and learn more about the program at www.neighborhoodlift.com or by calling (866) 858-2151. Pre-registration is encouraged, although walk-ins will be welcome.
The event will include a Wells Fargo Affordable Home Tour viewing center where attendees can preview homes available for sale in local neighborhoods.
Attendees will first need to obtain pre-approval for a mortgage loan from a lender approved by the Portland Housing Center. They will then have up to 60 days to finalize a contract to purchase a home in Portland in order to receive the $15,000.
A recipient will not have to repay the grant if they stay in their home for five years. They also are required to participate in a homebuying education session with Portland Housing Center, which will determine eligibility and distribute the funds to homebuyers.
Homebuyers also will be able to apply the funds to 203k renovation loans, enabling them to make improvements as part of a new mortgage purchase loan. The event will include information sessions about these loans.
"Portland was deeply affected by the housing crisis. While today mortgages are available at historically low interest rates, many families are still unable to purchase a home because they struggle with making the down payment," said Wells Fargo Region President Don Pearson. "NeighborhoodLIFT can help local homebuyers realize their dreams of owning a home."
In addition to providing the grants for homebuyers, Wells Fargo also will donate a total of $500,000 to a group of Portland nonprofit organizations, which will be announced at a later date.
"This innovative partnership between NeighborWorks America, Portland Housing Center and Wells Fargo will help Portland home buyers overcome a significant hurdle to homeownership," said Joe Dabek, NeighborWorks America's Pacific district senior relationship manager. "Eligibility requires completing an eight-hour homebuyer education class that has been proven to help homebuyers achieve successful and sustainable homeownership."
Portland is one of 22 housing markets across the country that will benefit from a total of $180 million Wells Fargo has committed through its LIFTprograms to support sustainable housing in cities affected by the economic downturn. Since February 2012, LIFT programs have so far helped create nearly 4,800 homeowners in the housing markets where the programs have been introduced.
The NeighborhoodLIFTprogram is collaboration between Wells Fargo, the nonprofit NeighborWorks America and local non-profit organizations. The NeighborhoodLIFT program is designed to provide sustainable homeownership initiatives in cities affected by the housing crisis. A video about the NeighborhoodLIFT program is posted at www.youtube.com/wellsfargo.
For more than 22 years, the Portland Housing Center has been a trusted advisor for first-time homebuyers, providing home buying classes, credit counseling, financial fitness, down payment assistance, individual development accounts, and first and second mortgages.
The nonprofit has assisted 6,300 families buy their first homes. Portland Housing Center is a member of NeighborWorks America, a national organization that creates opportunities for people to live in affordable homes, improve their lives and strengthen their communities. NeighborWorks America supports a network of more than 235 nonprofits, located in every state, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Visit www.portlandhousingcenter.org to learn more.
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- Expectations tamped down for 2012 farm bill passage?
- Rice, Cuba, labor
- Will a farm bill pass this year?
- Lawmakers have recently been tamping down chances for passage.
- Chuck Conner, current president of the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives and former Deputy Secretary of Agriculture, lays out co-ops' concerns and priorities for new farm legislation.
- Also: MF Global's impact, crop insurance and why Cuban markets aren't fully open to U.S. farm commodities.
Will a farm bill pass this year?
Despite a series of House Agriculture Committee hearings and an expectation that the Senate Agriculture Committee will begin writing the legislation in mid-April, lawmakers have recently been tamping down chances for passage.
"We will struggle with the farm bill over the next few months," said Texas Rep. Mike Conaway at the recent Plains Cotton Growers annual conference in Lubbock. Congress faces "a lot of struggles with the resources we'll have available to write the farm bill. We also have a political environment that will make it difficult to do a stand-alone bill."
Conaway said if a new farm bill doesn't pass then current law – set to expire in September -- will be extended "probably for a year, which has been done in the past."
For more of Ron Smith's coverage, see here.
Conaway's views on a new farm bill's chances were then echoed by New York Rep. Bill Owens, who largely blamed election year politics.
Chuck Conner, president of the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives,is well aware of the maneuvering and elbow-swinging required to write and pass a farm bill. Conner, who served as Deputy Secretary of Agriculture under President George W. Bush, spoke with Farm Press on Wednesday about policy positions taken by cooperatives, how MF Global has impacted co-ops, crop insurance and why Cuban markets aren't fully open to U.S. farm commodities. Among his comments:
What about the MF Global collapse? A lot of co-ops were hit with that bankruptcy.
"There's no question that a number of farmer-owned cooperatives that have customer funds tied up in the unraveling of all the assets of MF Global.
"Many of the co-ops have come (to Washington, D.C.) and several have appeared before Congressional committees to lay out their plight. This is obviously an issue of strong concern to them and they're hoping that through the (investigations) the source of the customer funds is identified and full restitution of their dollars, of their margin accounts, can be returned to them.
Although, from our conversations, I don't think they're expecting this to happen with great speed."
For more on the MF Global collapse and fallout, see here.
On the regulatory side – do you believe there is a need to tweak or put new regulations out regarding the comingling of funds? Or should the law just be enforced as it is?
"I think it's too early to tell from our standpoint. The (Commodity Futures Trading Commission) is conducting a full investigation.
"Based on that, a couple of questions arise. How was that money transferred? If so, were laws broken as part of that?
"To the extent that laws were broken, it's pretty hard for securities and financial laws in this country to completely prevent those who are simply determined to break the law.
"In this case, there are a lot of investigations and, I assume, there will be a lot of consequences associated with a number of these actions.
"But if it turns out that was not the case – that the customer funds were able to be used legally and certainly not in a way they were intended to be by those who owned those customer funds – Congress will be looking at what they need to do to make sure this doesn't happen again."
In the last few days, there have been (lawmakers) warning farmer constituents it is unlikely that a farm bill will be passed in 2012. Your thoughts since you obviously know the political rigors and what's required behind the scenes? Will we just extend the (2008 farm bill) for another year?
"It's a tough call.
"No farm bill has ever been easy. I've been involved in every farm bill very directly since 1981. In each one, I can tell you that more often than not, people were saying 'there is no way we're going to get this done. There are too many obstacles.' But they always seemed to find a way to get decent farm legislation passed.
"So, I never bet against farm bills.
"However, this one in particular will be really challenging. You can't be optimistic about it even though you can remain hopeful that the process is somehow completed so producers and those in agri-business can have some idea of what the rules of the game will be for an extended period. (Only) knowing the rules for the next six months is pretty hard to plan by, to run a business by.
"So, we remain hopeful but the obstacles are enormous. It is an election year – that in and of itself is a huge obstacle. Congress typically does very little in presidential election years."
Top priorities for the co-ops for the next farm bill?
"First, we've been working hard to ensure there are adequate resources for the farm bill.
"It seems no matter where you go when people start talking about cutting the deficit, farm programs are the first thing mentioned. Our membership favors big deficit reduction but, at the same time, they want some acknowledgement that farm programs and agriculture programs are not the contributing factor to this. As a matter of fact, these programs have come down in cost very substantially. Today, they're less than 8 percent of the entire USDA budget.
"So, our first priority is 'Please, treat us like we should be. (Farm programs) are not the cause but we're willing to contribute our fair share.'"
On a second priority…
"Second, we've got a big interest in the specialty crop portions of the farm bill.
"Many of the risk management programs have been fine-tuned over many years to help Midwest row-crops, in particular. But they haven't necessarily been fine-tuned to the point where they're good for all regions and good for a lot of the specialty crops grown in this country. We've been working with our membership to make sure that those risk management tools are available to you whether you're growing corn, cotton or grapes."
Having seen the various programs since 1981 are you on the crop insurance bandwagon, right now? That seems to be the way things are shaping up…
"There's no question that as I've traveled the country – and I've been all over in the last year meeting with co-ops and co-op farmer/owners – they tell me time and again that crop insurance is their Number One risk management tool.
"The (pro-crop insurance) message that seems to be strong in the farm bill debate is not being generated out of Washington. I think this is Washington clearly hearing a lot of producers.
"We've been hearing that for a while from the corn, soybean and wheat growers. But we're hearing it more broadly now.
"I tell audiences that if crop insurance isn't working for your commodity or region of the country, you need to come see us. You need to work with us to try and make it work for you. I believe, down the road, crop insurance will be the Number One risk management tool that USDA administers and the second will be a distant second."


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Hunt 3558: CWMU Bull elk
Woodruff Creek South
Season dates
9-1-2014 to 10-31-2014
The Wildlife Board establishes timeframes for hunting on CWMUs. Hunters should expect to hunt at least five days within these timeframes
- Nonresident permits: No
- Resident permits: 3
- Total permits: 3
Type: CWMU
Species: Bull elk
Weapon: Any legal weapon
Woodruff Creek South
DescriptionThe Woodruff Creek South Cooperative Wildlife Management Unit (CWMU) is located southwest of Woddruff, Utah. High elevations in the east are 7900 feet and 8400 feet in the west. Woodruff Creek (6800 feet to 7300 feet) forms the north border along with Woodruff Reservoir (6800 feet) and approximates the west Unit border. Meachem Canyon (7000 feet to 7700 feet) forms the south border. One primary drainage, Road Hollow, flowing east to west cuts the Unit, ranging from 7200 feet to 7800 feet. The most common elevation is 7800 feet but ranges from 6900 feet to 8500 feet with an elevation difference of 1600 feet. Fifty-four percent (54%) of the CWMU elevation ranges between 7400 feet and 8000 feet an elevation difference of 600 feet.
Almost seventy-five percent (75%) of the Woodruff Creek South Cooperative Wildlife Management Unit (CWMU) is Inter-Mountain Basins Montane Sagebrush Steppe (62). The only other major land cover types is Rocky Mountain Aspen Forest and Woodland (22). This Aspen Forest and Woodland are in large patches in the middle and towards the west of the Unit. On the westside Rocky Mountain Subalpine Mesic Spruce-Fir Forest and Woodland occur in several large patches.
One of the Woodruff Creek South Cooperative Wildlife Mangement Unit (CWMU) nearest weather stations, WOODRUFF (429595), is about 14.6 km northeast from the northeast edge of the CWMU. WOODRUFF has one hundred eleven (111) years of records, 1897 - 2008. During the FALL (September, October and November) the average precipitation is 2.64 inches, but it can be as high as 5.18 inches or as low as 0.64 inch. During the 91-day FALL period, 15 days will experience greater than or equal to 0.01 inch of precipitation, 8 days of greater than or equal to 0.10 inch, or 1 day of the greater than or equal to 0.50 inch of precipitation. Snowfall during the FALL averages 8.7 inches but can be as high as 29.2 inches. FALL temperature at WOODRUFF averages 40.8 degrees F. but can be as high as 111.0 degrees F. or as low as -26.0 degrees F. During the FALL, 73 days will be below freezing (32 degrees F.) and 6 days above 90 degrees F. This map is provided for general reference only and does not constitute a legal hunt boundary. The Division does not guarantee access to any private or public land. Hunt unit boundaries may include private property or other excluded areas.


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The Coast Guard located the owner of an unmanned kayak found adrift off the coast of Kihei near Menehune Shores.
The kayak owner contacted the Coast Guard Monday after seeing his kayak on television. A Good Samaritan brought the vessel to Station Maui after it was located Saturday afternoon.
The kayak had no identifying markings to assist first responders to attempt to locate the owner.
The Coast Guard highly encourages mariners to label their watercraft with their name, address and phone number.
A convenient way to do this is with a Paddle Smart weather-proof sticker. These stickers are free and can be easily applied by vessel owners.
Labeling of watercraft is intended to help save lives, recover missing property, and reduce the time, effort and resources expended on non-emergency search and rescue.


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- Blouson top and semi-fitted stretch skirt.
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Packet Data Serving Node (PDSN) provides the primary wireless mobile data access to the internet, intranets, and Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) servers for mobile stations utilizing a CDMA2000 Radio Access Network (RAN). The Cisco PDSN provides gateway, Foreign Agent (FA), and packet transport for Virtual Private Networking (VPN) functionality in support of two primary services, Simple IP and Mobile IP. Cisco PDSN supports both 1xRTT transport capability and 1xEVDO. It also acts as an Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) client. A complete Cisco PDSN Solution would also include the Home Agent (HA) and AAA server.
The key benefits of the Cisco solution are as follows:
- Standards compliance: Assuring interoperability and enabling faster time to market. Cisco System's PDSN supports all required standards, allowing Cisco PDSN to interwork with any Radio Vendor providing an open R-P interface. These standards include the 3GPP2 TSG-P standard, which defines the overall structure of a CDMA2000 network, and the 3GPP2 TSG-A standard, which focuses on the radio side and the interfaces between radio components and the PDSN.
- Powerful extensions to the PDSN standards to enhance availability, scalability, and the customer experience: These include proxy mobile IP, intelligent PDSN clustering and selection, shared PPP tunnels (for multiple IP flows from a single mobile station), and Pre-paid billing (quota, volume, and time measurement).
- Full power of the IOS: Cisco Systems PDSN solution can leverage the proven features of the Cisco IOS, including quality of service (QoS), security, VPNs, and integrated voice/data.
- End to end IP solution: This solution includes not only the PDSN, but also the home agent, the AAA server, firewalls, DHCP, DNS, routers and switches.
- Vision: The Cisco PDSN solution is only one phase of a multi-phase plan to provide a best-of-breed 3G solution.


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Utah State Office
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BLM Seeks Public Comment on Proposed Oil and Gas Project in Eastern Utah
VERNAL, Utah—As part of the Obama Administration's ongoing efforts to promote safe and responsible domestic energy production, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Utah Vernal Field Office is seeking public comment on a draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) analyzing a proposal to drill up to 5,750 new oil and gas wells over a period of 16 years in an existing oil and gas producing area in Duchesne and Uintah Counties.
"This important project milestone underscores the BLM's commitment to facilitating oil and gas development using a balanced approach that supports energy production on public lands in Utah where its most appropriate while also safeguarding wildlife, livestock grazing and public health," said BLM-Utah State Director Juan Palma.
The Newfield Exploration Company's proposed Monument Butte Project encompasses nearly 120,000 acres south of Myton, Utah, and would result in approximately 170 miles of new roads accompanied by a similar amount of new pipelines and additional infrastructure. The total new surface disturbance would be approximately 16,129 acres.
The BLM-Utah State Office currently administers approximately 3.9 million acres of public mineral estate that is leased for oil and gas development. The extraction of oil and gas resources and their introduction into the market generated more than $5.5 billion in direct economic benefits and more than $8.3 billion in total economic impacts in Fiscal Year (FY) 2012. In FY 2012, the State of Utah received more than $164 million from royalties, rentals and bonus bid payments for federal minerals and energy development, including oil and gas.
Additional information about the proposed project is included in the EIS and can be found on the Vernal Field Office website at: http://www.blm.gov/ut/st/en/fo/vernal/planning/nepa_.html.
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"Younger people should realize this is long before cellphones, e-mail or texting," Rosenthal said. "The only way to communicate was by a few precious walkie-talkies or by making personal observations and then hoofing it back to the Justice Department."
One of those on the other end of the walkie-talkies was RFK's assistant, William vanden Heuvel. He was part of a team of "rovers" dispatched by the Justice Department.
"I was close up by the memorial itself, walking that area, so I had a pretty good overview of the program as it proceeded," vanden Heuvel recalled.
"You know, (to) make sure things didn't get difficult or things didn't go in a bad direction. And if they did, just try to intervene."
This was far from the only precaution the federal government took that day. Bars were closed, the National Guard was on standby: The government was prepared for the worst.
"They had a draft drawn up declaring martial law," said Roger Mudd, who anchored the event for CBS.
Every little detail was analyzed, including John Lewis' speech, the contents of which had been released to the press the night before.
"I received a note from Bayard Rustin, saying, in effect, that there was some concern about my speech," Lewis recalled. "Archbishop (Patrick) O'Boyle, who's very close to the Kennedy family, said he will refuse to give the invocation if I didn't change the speech."
Lewis' original draft questioned which side the federal government was on, which would have greatly embarrassed the Kennedy administration.
"The Kennedy administration was using the archbishop as a conduit to express its views," march planner Courtland Cox said.
O'Boyle wasn't the only one to apply pressure to Lewis that day to get him to change his speech.
Reuther, the UAW leader who had been working on behalf of the Kennedys to steer the march to their liking, also joined in denouncing Lewis' proposed speech.
"If John Lewis feels strongly that he wants to make this speech, he can go someplace else and make it," Reuther recalled later. "But he has no right to make it here because if he tries to make it, he destroys the integrity of our coalition."
So after more cajoling from A. Philip Randolph, Lewis and Cox made the necessary changes to his speech on a small typewriter underneath the Lincoln Memorial.
Reuther then called O'Boyle to inform him that the changes were made, and government vehicles were sent to get the bishop through the crowds and to the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
"I never saw a bishop look so good in my life," Reuther quipped.
Even if Lewis' speech hadn't been changed, there is reason to believe no one would have heard its more fiery contents anyway. The Kennedy administration had the ultimate trump card, and perhaps its most calculating plan in place that day: control of the sound system's on-off switch.
After the final speech by King, those hunkered down in the Justice Department command center in room 5110 didn't relax, despite the fact that there were no outbreaks of violence.
"When the speaking stopped and people started to disperse, there was still the danger of some spark being lit as people were leaving," Rosenthal said
Simultaneously, in another part of Washington, President Kennedy was congratulating the march leaders on a near-flawless event. He couldn't help but already declare the day a success.
"After the March on Washington was over, President Kennedy had invited us back down to the White House," Lewis said. "He stood in the door of the Oval Office and he greeted each one of us. He was like a beaming, proud father. He was so pleased. So happy that everything had gone so well."
President Kennedy even had a message for King after his historic speech: "(Kennedy said) 'And you had a dream,'" added Lewis.
President Kennedy's assassination three months after the march raised fears that the civil rights movement would stall, but the next year, Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and President Lyndon Johnson signed it into law. In 1968, assassins would claim the lives of King and Robert Kennedy.
As the nation reflects on the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, which paved the way for an end to segregationist laws, Rosenthal reflected on the sometimes contentious and evolving relationship the Kennedy brothers had with the march and concluded, "The civil rights movement would not have been as successful when it was, had it not been for the work of the Kennedy administration."


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Those of us who are baby boomers or older can remember playing with mercury when we were young. The thermometer broke, and you pushed the little globules around. Or you fooled around with the stuff in science class. My husband says he used to get mercury to flow over the surface of a dime and make it look really shiny. Who knew our old playmate would turn out to be such a bugaboo?
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Today, my pregnant girlfriend gave me back the ring I'd used to propose with a week ago. Her reason? She only said yes because she was worried the real father of the baby wasn't going to stick around. FML
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Today, I dutifully attended my husband's local gig at a coffee shop. I thus found out, through song, about my husband's affair, in front of about 100 people. All of whom we both know. FML
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Site slow down at peak hoursposted by Dark0ne Site NewsLast night saw a bit of down-time on the site as the Data Centre the Nexus server is hosted on went through an infastructure upgrade. I apologise for not informing you all sooner about the issue but there were difficulties in ascertaining which server was actually going down! However...
Many folks both here on the Nexus forums and over at the official Bethesda forums have commented recently on the site being slow during American peak hours. Unfortunately I haven't had the time to investigate this issue (i.e. stay up until 3am in the morning GMT/DST and do some investigative work server-side) due to various real-life issues. However in the hopes of actually getting some sleep on the night I am able to investigate the issue I wouldn't mind having some definitive times at which the site is down or very slow.
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The value of property has plummeted so much ŌĆö especially on lots billed for vacation and retirement homes ŌĆö buyers lured by mountain property during the real estate boom have discovered their investment is now worth pennies on the dollar compared to what they paid, with no hope of a rebound anytime soon.
Why not cut losses and walk away, instead of pouring more money into it year after year in the form of property taxes? ThatŌĆÖs a reality thatŌĆÖs causing Macon County to take a second look at its policies for collecting on delinquent property taxes.
Threatening letters just arenŌĆÖt working like they used to, because these days, some people simply have no intention of paying. Mounting unpaid property taxes are draining county coffers.
ŌĆ£We have to move forward on that. We donŌĆÖt have the revenues coming in that we can afford to be Mr. Nice Guy,ŌĆØ Richard Lightner, Macon CountyŌĆÖs tax administrator, told commissioners.
If somebody doesnŌĆÖt pay after a couple of warning letters, he has a few routes to try. He has the power to garnish wages or even tap the personŌĆÖs bank account.
But those measures donŌĆÖt always work. They have various limitations. They canŌĆÖt be used for out-of-state property owners, for example, or if you canŌĆÖt figure out someoneŌĆÖs bank account number, or if their wages are too low.
ŌĆ£You have to use all the tools,ŌĆØ Lightner said.
Until now, that toolbox hasnŌĆÖt included foreclosure, at least not in LightnerŌĆÖs 29 years at the countyŌĆÖs tax office. Foreclosure is the final step: the county can auction off property to the highest bidder to cover the back taxes on it.
In 2004, Macon County commissioners passed a resolution directing the tax office to ramp up tactics for collecting unpaid property taxes. But not much had changed until this year.
ŌĆ£Realistically, thereŌĆÖs no forced collection,ŌĆØ Lightner said of yearŌĆÖs passed.
The turnover of three county attorneys in those years and the time involved in processing a foreclosure kept that from happening, Lightner said. At the beginning of January, the county was missing $4.75 million in delinquent property taxes.
So last month, the county hired Ridenhour & Goss to start collecting that money through property foreclosures. Attorneys fees, to the tune of $200 an hour, are tacked on to the back taxes owed.
The countyŌĆÖs new policy, though, doesnŌĆÖt necessarily mean that there will be mass foreclosures throughout Macon County.
In Jackson County, which just began using foreclosures against delinquent taxpayers in 2011, the threat alone was usually enough to make people pay up.
ŌĆ£Ever since June of 2011, weŌĆÖve collected over $2.5 million,ŌĆØ said Beverly Buchanan, Jackson County tax collector. Often, receiving a demand letter from an attorney is enough to spur the owner into paying whatŌĆÖs required.
But not every time. Of the more than 300 accounts the county has submitted for foreclosure proceedings since 2011, 23 have been sold. When that happens, the county prices the starting bid to equal the amount owed plus attorney fees and administrative costs. If the property auctions for anything more than that, the money goes back to the propertyŌĆÖs former owner ŌĆö or to the bank if thereŌĆÖs an outstanding mortgage, or to pay any other liens on the property.
ŌĆ£The countyŌĆÖs not interested in making money,ŌĆØ Buchanan said. ŌĆ£ItŌĆÖs just interested in getting the taxes and attorney fees.ŌĆØ
In this economic climate, foreclosure is often the only way to do so.
ŌĆ£We have a lot of properties that were purchased by people four or five years ago from out of state, and we canŌĆÖt attach [to their bank accounts] or garnish their wages,ŌĆØ Buchanan said.
Often, these out-of-state buyers simply chose to stiff the county on their tax bill and wash their hands of an investment gone wrong, even if it means losing the property theyŌĆÖd bought.
ŌĆ£We have a big development like that right now that weŌĆÖre working on that people havenŌĆÖt paid in four of five years,ŌĆØ Buchanan said. ŌĆ£They bought it as a second home or investment. We have people say, ŌĆśWe donŌĆÖt want to pay the taxes until we can sell this property.ŌĆÖŌĆØ
So far, Jackson County, which uses the same legal firm as Macon to process its foreclosures, has sent 68 letters to taxpayers with homes at Waterdance and Bear Pen at River Rock ŌĆö part of the controversial mega-development known as Legasus.
JacksonŌĆÖs property tax collection rate has climbed 1.5 percent since it started using foreclosures, but overall, Macon, Swain, Jackson and Haywood counties have seen a drop in property tax collections since 2007.
ŌĆ£I think it happens more, probably, in Western North Carolina, when so many people are tied to the real estate development market and the economies arenŌĆÖt production-based,ŌĆØ Lightner said.
ŌĆóSwain took the biggest hit in its property tax collection rate, falling from 94.7 percent in 2007 to 91.6 percent in 2011.
ŌĆóMaconŌĆÖs collection rate fell from 97.4 percent in 2007 to 96.4 in 2011-12.
ŌĆóJacksonŌĆÖs collection rate plummeted from 96.3 percent in 2007 to 94.6 in 2009, but after hiring a law firm to process foreclosures, the rate has risen back up to 96 percent.
ŌĆóHaywoodŌĆÖs collection rate went from 97 percent in 2007, then dropped to 95.7, but is now back up to 96.2 percent.
ŌĆ£ItŌĆÖs like anything,ŌĆØ Lightner said. ŌĆ£If people know the parameters and know that enforcement is going to take place, theyŌĆÖll maybe pay a little more attention to make sure their obligations are taken care of.ŌĆØ
Haywood County has never been shy about using foreclosures to collect unpaid taxes.
ŌĆ£With a third of our tax bills going out of state, that is usually the only remedy we have,ŌĆØ said David Francis, Haywood County Tax Administrator.
Unpaid taxes dating back more than 10 years must be written off, so the goal is to get it done before that collection window closes.
Haywood County faced an unusual conundrum last year when auctioning off one property in a tax foreclosure.
ŌĆ£Nobody showed up to bid on them,ŌĆØ Francis said.
Foreclosure auctions are conducted on the courthouse steps. Since todayŌĆÖs modern justice centers donŌĆÖt necessarily have ŌĆ£steps,ŌĆØ the auctioneer stands on the entrance sidewalk at a pre-appointed time.
Real estate investors follow foreclosures, looking to snatch up good deals and cheap property they can flip. Sometimes, neighboring property owners will show up to bid. But sometimes, no one wants the property, as Haywood witnessed last year. The county ended up assuming title to a couple of properties with hopes of selling them down the road to recoup those back taxes.
Other times, the county fetches less than whatŌĆÖs actually owed in taxes and interest and attorney fees.
But Haywood doesnŌĆÖt have to foreclose as often as some neighboring counties with upscale retirement homes. Haywood only took seven properties to foreclosure last year.
ŌĆ£In some other counties, you saw whole subdivisions were going down,ŌĆØ Francis said.


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A Brandon woman who police say stole her neighbors state income tax refund and cashed it for her own use in April before allegedly burglarizing her neighbors home in May denied three felony charges this week.
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New York non-profit Better School Food operated for many years to raise awareness about food, children's health and learning. Founding Board member Geri Brewster will be continuing that mission by re-launching this site in 2012.
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