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Over the last five years, Enterprise Products Partners (NYSE:EPD) has been a retail investor's best friend. This midstream partnership has broad exposure to several commodities and themes: increasing domestic crude oil production, steady growth in dry-gas demand, and a huge position in the increasingly complex industry of natural gas liquids.
As most pipeline operators do, Enterprise secures long-lasting contracts with upstream companies, thereby providing highly visible cash flow, which the partnership then generously distributes to shareholders. Enterprise's business structure is also very simple: There are no general partners that have distribution priority. Finally, Enterprise is one of the least levered of the midstream partnerships and often has the highest coverage ratio for its distributions.
Sounds great, doesn't it? Well, unfortunately shares of Enterprise have been loved a little too much (although one can't blame risk-averse investors for doing so). Enterprise now trades at a significant premium to several of its pipeline peers. While risk aversion is an important aspect of investing, and Enterprise probably is the 'least risky' midstream partnership there is, the safety premium Enterprise carries is overdone at this point in time. Therefore, it would be wise for retail investors to look at other pipeline partnerships instead.
Depressed yield
This chart illustrates the inversely correlated relationship between dividend yield and unit price. Generally speaking, the higher the price, the lower the distribution yield. A high distribution yield has often provided a floor for Enterprise's unit price; a low yield often provides a ceiling. With a yield only in the 3.9% range, I believe we are getting close to that ceiling. Enterprise now yields less than most utilities do, where pipelines have traditionally yielded more.
Alternative options
While Enterprise may be the 'safest bet' of all pipelines out there, it really isn't the best deal anymore. Thankfully, there are some alternatives which I think are better buys at this time. The first of these is MarkWest Energy Partners (NYSE:MWE). MarkWest is the largest midstream operator in the Marcellus and Utica shales. These are shale plays which span both Ohio and Pennsylvania. Unlike Enterprise, MarkWest is in a rapid growth phase because these two shale plays are in areas which previously had no midstream infrastructure.
With all this growth comes growing pains, however. MarkWest finished 2013 with just about 1 times distribution coverage on the year, meaning its distributable cash flow fell just short of distributions. Put it into perspective: Distributable cash flow in 2013 jumped by nearly 16% compared to last year, and distributable cash flow is expected to increase another 34% in 2014. Best of all, MarkWest yields 5.3%, considerably higher than Enterprise's yield.
Another option to consider would be the partnership shares of Kinder Morgan Energy Partners (NYSE:KMP). While Kinder units do have a general partnership obligation, which means that distributions must first go to the general partner, management expects per-unit distributions to grow a solid 5% in 2014.
Kinder Morgan generally pays all of its cash flow in distributions, and so cash flow coverage for its distributions is a tight 1.01 times. However, management has a long history of delivering on its distribution promises, and this year should be no exception. Best of all? Kinder yields a very nice 7.1%. While Kinder units may be a bit riskier than Enterprise's are, that risk is more than compensated for in the valuation.
Bottom line
Enterprise has had a good run. In looking at the pipeline industry as a whole, Enterprise may very well be the best choice for income-minded retail investors who like to keep things simple. However, the premium at which Enterprise now trades is far too high in my opinion. For those who want to invest in energy infrastructure, there are a few better choices out there right now.
Casey Hoerth owns shares of Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP. The Motley Fool recommends Enterprise Products Partners L.P.. Try any of our Foolish newsletter services free for 30 days. We Fools may not all hold the same opinions, but we all believe that considering a diverse range of insights makes us better investors. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.


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On April 17, onshore-focused SandRidge Energy Inc. completed two transactions that further transform the Oklahoma City E&P company. First, it closed its somewhat surprising, $1.275-billion acquisition of privately held Dynamic Offshore Resources LLC, gaining its first assets on the Gulf of Mexico shelf. And, it took public its third yield instrument, SandRidge Mississippian Trust II (NYSE: SDR), for net proceeds of $638 million.
When asked how he juggles two significant closes on top of one another, chairman and chief executive officer Tom L. Ward says matter-of-factly, "It's just what I do. I work quite a bit; the company is like my hobby."
These deals allow SandRidge to kick into even higher gear its burgeoning Mississippi Lime play in the Midcontinent, where SD was one of the first movers. For this, and deftly transitioning to an oilier portfolio, then backstopping the heavy spend with two newly public royalty trusts—and two joint ventures with international companies, Ward is Oil and Gas Investor's Executive of the Year for 2011.
Ward graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 1981 with a bachelor's in petroleum land management, and after running his own concern for a while, he co-founded Chesapeake Energy Corp. with friend Aubrey McClendon in 1989.
SandRidge's growth comes at a cost. Critics cite the company's high debt-to-capital ratio of about 53%. SandRidge's budget for this year is $1.85 billion; the company already spent $570 million in the first quarter. Its joint venture in the Mississippi Lime, signed late last year with Spanish firm Repsol, is funding drilling carries on part of this. Repsol paid $250 million upfront and will pay $750 million over the course of three years in the form of a drilling carry for roughly 365,000 acres. A September 2011 deal with Korean investor Atinum Partners Co. Ltd. also funds some drilling.
At press time the company had 22 rigs working in the Midcontinent after accumulating 2 million acres there in the past two years, and 12 rigs operating in the Permian's Central Basin Platform. SandRidge claims a deep inventory of 7,000 net drilling locations in each region. Production is nearly 57% liquids.
Oil and Gas Investor talked with Ward about his plans to increase production 38% this year, with a goal of doubling the company by 2014, going from 24 rigs in the Mississippian to 45.
The company unveiled two barnburners recently in Alfalfa County, Oklahoma, that flowed 2,200 and 4,000 barrels a day.
Investor You've always been an onshore guy, so the market was caught off guard when you picked up Dynamic. Why are you straying far afield, strategy-wise ?
Ward I look at us as a very focused company. We have two good areas to work in (the Permian Basin and Mississippi Lime).We bought the Gulf of Mexico, but we are not looking to grow it. We'll spend enough there each year, about $200 million, to keep production flat. Cash flow from the Permian and the Gulf are for drilling the Mississippian, which is our big growth engine, and the one generating the best returns—70% to 100%.
Investor Weren't you surprised by the market's reaction?
Ward No. The market was surprised about our earlier acquisitions in the Permian and Mississippian too, and they turned out to be positive. I look at my job like this: today's investors have a three-month time frame, but my time is three years out. If I do what I say I am going to do, the stock will take care of itself. My time frame is good.
I get branded a maverick, but I see myself differently. I see us taking low-risk, conventional bets, founded in science, in old oil plays that can be expanded with horizontal drilling and fracing. We're drilling vertical and horizontal wells in the Mississippian and Permian, and buying producing oil in the shallow-water Gulf. In my opinion that's not very risky. If that makes me a maverick, I'll wear that hat.
Investor What about costs offshore?
Ward If you can buy oil for under $50,000 per flowing barrel, you can make money. Offshore operating costs are just another factor you need to put into your bid costs. If we can make an inexpensive acquisition on a dislocation in the market, we'll do it.
Investor You were a first-mover on switching to an oil focus.
Ward We did a U-turn in the middle of 2009. When I bought the company in June 2006 we were over 95% natural gas and in 2008, we were still a gas company with just one asset, Pinion Field in the West Texas Overthrust. We had to start over from scratch.
Through 2007 most big companies were moving abroad to look for oil and gas, but starting in 2007, there was an influx coming back. That's when we decided it'd be difficult for a young company like ours to compete for capital, and we saw low gas prices coming.
By the time we went to the board in February 2009, oil had deteriorated to $39 and gas was $2, but we got approval to start making oily acquisitions.
Today, we are in two oil plays that have a rate of return of 70% to 100%. There's no way those gas plays would have made that kind of return. If what we believed would happen with gas happened, the company would have struggled to survive—yet today, three years later, we are thriving. So we made that call.
Investor What's your plan for the Overthrust?
Ward We still have Pinion Field, but we are not drilling it, and we have a lot of leases there we'll let expire. We are open to selling it down the road when gas prices go higher…
Investor When do you think that will be?
Ward Basically the main reason we have sub-$4 gas is the warm winter, and then we put another 1 Tcf of gas into what was already an over-supplied situation. But I believe that by spring of next year, we could see gas prices double, getting back to $4. The gas rig count is going in the right direction and utilities are switching from coal. Supply and demand will react. When gas goes back to $4, then you'll have Powder River Basin coal coming back.
Investor While keeping your West Texas gas assets, your first new oil acquisition was also in the Permian Basin.
Ward We looked there because that was the largest area of oil production onshore the U.S. I have always loved sandstones and limestones, but we chose to go into shallow, low-risk conventional carbonates there. Wea invested about $2 billion in the Permian to buy assets from Forest Oil and Arena Resources. We've grown our net production out there from essentially zero to over 35,000 BOE a day, with 12 rigs running now. We'll drill over 750 wells there this year. In the past two years our reserve growth (proved and PUDs) is 150 million barrels with a PV-10 of $2.7 billion.
Investor But ironically, last year you sold your Wolfberry and Bone Spring/Avalon assets. That was $465 million, but now, any regrets?
Ward Oh no. We kept the highest rate-of-return reserves and got a good price for those other assets. We had to come up with funds to bridge the deficit between cash flow and capex. Everything we do here is on a three-year plan, to double oil production from 2011 to 2014, based on growth in the Mississippian and the other two staying flat. It's all about the Mississippian.
Investor How did you come to focus on that?
Ward Where others saw a lot of water production, we saw oil. It's a very large stratigraphic trap that I'd worked on my whole career with Chesapeake, so I knew it pretty well. The Mississippi Lime sits below the Chester and the geology is similar to the Sahara area where Chesapeake was the most active driller and making very good wells. We are just north of that. We got in early—I think the average price we paid is $200 an acre for our 2 million acres.
Since then we've sold 550,000 and bought another 50,000…we ended up selling interest for $2.3 billion in JVs and the two royalty trusts, so net net, we've averaged $4,300 per acre in sales for something we paid $200 for, from 2009 to 2011.
The challenge is to stay within inventory and not buy so much we can't handle it. Leasing there was like running around finding manna or gold nuggets—you could spend too much capital before the play developed, so we cut ourselves back, actually.
Investor How big can this get?
Ward Our actual return has been around 135%—we think this is the highest-return oil play in the U.S. It is difficult for a shale play to compete with a carbonate, and this covers more acreage than the Bakken or Marcellus. And we have 7,000 locations. This is the most exciting time in our short history. The play grows daily.
Investor How does it look on the Kansas side?
Ward We've drilled 23 wells and our results there were even better than in Oklahoma, and better than our type curves. But there are only nine wells producing there so far, in Harper County, compared to 119 in Alfalfa County on the Oklahoma side.
Investor How did the Atinum JV come about?
Ward We met them through Tudor, Pickering. Then we met with Repsol too. Both deals came through and we enjoy working with both of them. Atinum is more a silent, financial partner, while we deal more closely with the people at Repsol. We'd like to sell about 250,000 more acres in Kansas, but we're in no hurry. We'd like to keep our inventory at 15 years.
Investor It's a big call on money.
Ward We are fully funded this year. As our EBITDA (earnings before income tax, depreciation and amortization) increases, we will be fully funded now and could be for next year. Our debt-to-EBITDA is improving. I don't look at the debt-to-equity ratio, I look at debt-to-EBITDA. We are at over three times and we'll be over two times next year. We were up to five times in 2009. If you rely on natural gas for your revenue, it's a problem. We're not alone, but as our ratio improves we'll move back to normal.
We've hedged over 80% of our oil volumes this year. The only hurdle to our three-year goal is if oil prices go down, which is why we hedge so aggressively.

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Round one: Cutts throws lazy jab and gets taken down in the blink of an eye. Penn on top but Cutts doesn't stay down long. On his way up, Cutts gets underhooks and pushes Penn against the fence. Cutts throws high knee from the clinch. Penn answers. Penn throws hard right hand to Cutts' ribs. Penn circles off the fence but is pushed right back into the same spot. Cutts lands knee to outside thigh then gets double leg takedown. Cutts is on top now in side control. Penn very active from the bottom and able to get up quickly. Penn now has Cutts against the cage and gets a very nice double leg takedown of his own. Penn inside Cutts' full guard. Penn postures up to throw a punch and Cutts' very quickly escapes to his feet. Penn has big goose-egg on his forehead. Cutts has Penn on the fence again and lands a knee. Penn backs away and lands several huge left hooks going backwards. Cutts looks staggered. Penn Comes forward and gets the takedown. Cutts reverses and is on top looking for a d'arce choke. Penn escapes. Back to standing position. Dirty boxing against the cage. Cutts working for another double leg takedown and he gets it. Penn controlling Cutts' neck. Cutts slips out and lands a few good punches on his way out. 10-9 round for Cutts.
Round two: Cutts comes out jabbing. Cutts comes forward and throws a good combo of hands and feet. Penn answers with another good left hook. Cutts pushes forward and lands another takedown. Cutts has Penn in a bad spot, controlling his head in a leglock, while punching him in the ribs and looking for a submission. Penn is able to roll out and is on his back in full guard. Cutts passes to side control. Cutts is controlling Penn and starting to land some good ground and pound. Penn is not threatening at all from the bottom. Cutts is really starting to land some damaging punches from the top. Two minutes left. Full mount for Cutts. Penn gives up his back. Cutts has the hooks in and is going for the choke. Penn doing everything he can to survive. One minute left. Very bad position. Cutts continues to plant punches on the side of Penn's head. This could get stopped soon. Cutts goes for the choke once again. Very deep. Penn barely makes it out of the round. It won't be, but it should be a 10-8 round for Cutts.
Round three: Penn comes out and looks half unconscious on his feet. Very weird. Hands down as Cutts hits him in the head multiple times. Penn appears to have totally given up. Cutts lands a right hand that sends Penn plummeting to the mat. Cutts on top. Reagan's brother B.J. is now screaming in the corner for Reagan to get back up and work out of this spot. Cutts working for arm triangle. Very close. Penn rolls over. Three minutes to go, lots of time. Penn is not even fighting back anymore. Cutts lands a few hammerfists. Cutts trying to get full mount. Penn somehow gets back up but is met with a hard knee to the body by Cutts. Two minutes to go. The fight is up against the cage. Cutts using knees to wear Penn down. Penn leaning over but hand isn't down so he is able to get kneed in the head twice. Penn looks like a kid on the playground being bullied, waiting for someone to step in and help him. Hard to watch. Cutts takes him down again and is pounding on his head. Cutts goes for another choke with 30 seconds to go. It looks like Penn will escape without being finished. 10-8 for Cutts in my book.
Final Results: Evan Cutts via unanimous decision
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Date of Stay: September, 2016
Stayed in spot 002. Nice location but definitely not level. used two leveling boards for 3" rise on right side but bubble only just touching target. Otherwise was nice place and would stay again but would select one of the other sites.
Date of Stay: August, 2016
Just needed place for overnight stop. Park appears to be still under construction with many areas with rough road and partially completed grading. Grass area was OK but sites were not level. Luckily we were mid week so many sites to choose from so we could move around to get to a level site. Rough gravel roads. Buildings still under construction. OK but rough unfinished look. Overpriced for condition of facilities.
Date of Stay: June, 2016
Quick stop. Very convenient as you don't have to get off-on Tpk. Can save $$$ by not driving long way to regular RV park. Basic services are covered in the downloadable flyer. I note the mention of showers being available but didn't look for them in the service center building.
Date of Stay: March, 2016
Just needed place to park for night while on road. In Class-C. Nice concrete level pads, spacious and open, with a fire ring. Clean grounds. Saw workers pouring concrete for more pads. Would definitely stay again.
Date of Stay: March, 2016
Arrived late and left early so did not get to check out store. Registration was closed. Ended up calling after I got home to give them my cc number. OK for overnight stay but had some difficulty finding level spot. Maybe in daylight it would not have been such a problem. Might stay again if I just needed place with electric to spend the night. Roadway in campground was tight in dark. OK with Class-C not sure about large Class-A or large 5th wheel.
Date of Stay: October, 2015
Last camping of the season. Received Thousand Trail membership with purchase of our new motorhome so thought to give them a try. Was after the "season" so pool and other amenities were already shut down. But the campground looked very nice with lots of open space. This is primarily a membership resort with a few spots available for non-members. Many sites were occupied with "permanent" guests. Club house looked like it could be enjoyable in season. Noted that pool and facilities were quite a distance (300 - 500 yards) away from the sites. Clean and well cared for.
Date of Stay: August, 2015
Simple overnight stay. Arrived late but evening superintendent waited for us and took us directly to a reasonable site. Offered to help with hook-ups etc. They only have 50A service and he offered to get an adapter but I said I could just use the 110 as I didn't want to dig out my adapter. Just wanted to get to bed. Site was level on concrete pad. Would not be my first choice in the area but my normal "Quick Nite stay" in La Porte was full. Would stay again if just needed place to stay. Would suggest that large trailers or Class=A motorhomes not stay as streets were narrow. It was OK for out 25' Class-C. Might be reasonable if you were going to Chicago and could take Metro from Gary station 7 mi away.
Date of Stay: July, 2015
Update from our last review. WiFi is now available on deck of the sales office. Grounds continue to get better with well cared for lawn and good shade in many sites. New power pedestals and water connections at some sites. Pool nice and clean. Rating would be 9 if WiFi was indoor at the activity building or 10 if WiFi available at sites.
Date of Stay: July, 2015
Quick overnight on trip from Ohio to Wisconsin. Nice looking campground and lake. Paved site nice but was so sloped I needed my leveling blocks to get anywhere close to comfortable. If it wasn't late when we arrived we would have moved to look for better site. Restrooms looked clean.
Date of Stay: May, 2015
Another nice Maryland State park. Fully wooded lots in trees with paved road. Reasonably close to Balt airport (wife was flying out). Only two negatives. You Must enter when headed East on US 40 as the entrance from Westbound US 40 has 11' max height restriction. No problems if entering from the west on eastbound 40. Others mentioned North or South US 40 but 40 is East West. Would definitely stay again. Only other problem is that the attendant closes up at 4 PM and you need code to enter the camping area. Be sure to call ahead. Walk to the "Host" campsite is well over a mile from gate with steep hills. Level gravel campsites are nice.
Date of Stay: May, 2015
Yes this is not a campground but it is a great deal if you travel by RV and want to visit Philadelphia. Restrooms and shower are just OK. Been in worse and been in better. Bring flip flops. Free transport to Hospital area where you can catch the #42 bus ( $2.25 each way exact as no change provided) and you are dropped off right at Independence Hall. Phila streets are very narrow and I can't imagine driving an RV downtown. Even a car will be tight and parking would be $$$$ We stayed 2 nites and would definitely stay again. Note not all sites have sewer hookup so be sure to ask for an appropriate site. Really only one site that appears to be lower than my RV dump pipe but we didn't need it so don't know how well it would have worked. Train noise wasn't a bother for us.
Date of Stay: September, 2014
Nice park with normal KOA features. Level gravel parking space, friendly desk staff, nice landscaping. Would stay again if in the area. Looks like they are building a new clubhouse or office. Just overnight on our way to Yellowstone.
Date of Stay: September, 2014
Basic parking space with hook-up for overnight. No frills but nice low price. This is 2nd stay here and would stay again.
Date of Stay: September, 2014
Friendly hosts. Level grass area to park. Lots of space between spaces. Would stay again. WiFi OK if you have external antenna. Walk to center building where their antenna is, connect, then you can walk back to your space.
Date of Stay: September, 2014
Older campground so not used a lot but nice low price. Level gravel pull thru sites. Walking distance to Wall Drug and other stores. Would definitely stay again.


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Sakleshpur is a cozy hill station, snuggled into the Karnataka corridor of the Western Ghats. The pleasant weather and green covers make it a refreshing getaway, which is why it is often called poor man's Ooty. The fresh air, aroma of coffee plantations, misty hills and chirping of birds will bring you close to nature. The beautiful trails in Sakleshpur make it popular for trekking – the Bisle Reserve Forest and Kumara Parvatha treks being the ones most frequented. A trek along the railway tracks will also bring you face to face with beautiful sceneries. If you trek up to the Jenukal Gudda on a clear day, you might get to witness the beautiful Arabian coastline beyond the thick forest covers and coffee estates. To see the historic side of the town as well as the aerial view of the emerald ghats, make a visit to the Manjarabad Fort. Every chamber and every tunnel has a story to tell, hailing since the reign of Tipu Sultan. One of the tunnels even runs as far as Srirangapatna. Nyritvilla Homestay and Kadumakki resorts are great places to enjoy nature at a close proximity alongside a comfortable stay. Mangalore buns, akki rotis, neer dosa, palya – almost all the local delicacies are bound to leave you wanting for more. A relaxing outing to Sakleshpur, with a bunch of friends, can be a nice break from the monotonous work, eat and sleep routine.
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Hey all,
Some here may recall my recent DIY turntable and even more recent addition of a DIY tone arm. Link to images attached for reference.
Well I am going to embark on another DIY turnable for winter. I recently picked up for $5.00 Cdn. a 1980's Akai Direct Drive APD2 turntable. I figured why not try a DIY direct drive project. This table is in proper working oder and has a pretty decent factory low mass tone arm. The stylus for the supplied cartridge is broken but who cares?
My concept will be to build a high mass plinth for the motor to be rigidly mounted to and its switch gear routed through. The tone arm will be mounted to a separate high mass base. The idea is to keep noise and vibration of the DD motor to a min. I figure mounting the motor rigidly to a high mass plinth will help "soak" up some vibrations. The tone arm being separate and also high mass mounting will do more of this.
The plan for the platter will be one of two. I may go with the stock aluminum platter as typical of many Japanese tables of that vintage. If I do this I will add damping to the underside of the platter to help filter out noise and vibration. Or I may use the stock spindle as a mount for a DIY high mass platter either made from Corian or MDF. The platter will be lightly press fit on top the existing spindle. I will make a separate spindle to poke out top for the LP's to mount over top. This will be a higher mass and thusly more able to "soak" up noise and vibration from the DD motor. It will be more work but hey th ar is what DIY's are for.
I think my concept is a good one. Will it work as hoped? I don't know. I am trying to keep the DD motor noise and vibration from getting too much into the playback of the records. Rigid mount in a high mass plinth should help this I figure. I will stick with the stock arm as I said it's really not too bad. I wonder how well it may work out.
Anyways feedback and ideas to this concept will be appreciated.
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What's the motor control like? I imagine this will be an important part of the TT and something which could probably be improved upon in an old DDTT
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It has a servo lock for speed and does not offer any user adjustable via any pots anyways speed control. I guess it has some sort of feedback servo to control rotation. It looks beefy has a large power supply.
I took the botom of the turntable off to see its guts. Lots of crap is going to have to be gutted such as the cutoff and auto-return stuff. Though it would be easier to just plunk this stuff into a newer chassis all these things are noise makers and resonators. It will require some careful surgury but I took a few dozen close up photos of things so that I can study and devise a game plan for project construction.
I had a closer look at the platter and it's more beefy than I thought easily 3+ lbs of solid aluminum. If I keep it I will probably Dyna-mat the underside to help cancel ringing and deaden sounds from the motor and stuff.
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Will be interested in how it sounds when all is done.
I've got a marantz 6300 that i've given to my old man on permanent loan. I quite like the shutoff mech - it has a little card connected to the bottom of the tonearm which breaks a beam of light when the tonearm swings in. The TT then disconnects the signal and raises the arm. No autoreturn but I like the fact that it doesn't keep playing all night if you fall asleep on the couch.
I'm currently modding a big old philips belt-drive - a 31d or something, but one day I might give the marantz a look over as it looks great and is real nice to use.
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Mr Secretary for those of us who are not American it's hard to understand what September the 11th actually did to the American psyche, how has it changed the world to you?
Well I think it's clearly united us more as a nation but it's really brought into sharp focus those things, which are important, and those, which are not. For instance this Christmas was a much less materialistic one than ones past where family gatherings and things of that nature were much more prized than was the case in the past. I think it's had a significant solitary fact on the nation.
Have the flags flown more? How has that changed?
Well in certain parts of the country it certainly appears to be the case. There are parts of our country which are inherently patriotic and I don't think you could see much difference in a city like San Diego but I think in the nation at large yes, there's a great desire to show that we're Americans, we're proud of it. Hence the flying of flags.
Can I take you back to President Bush's speech to Congress how did you feel when you heard that speech?
Well of course along with my colleagues here we'd been involved in putting it together but I think the stirring lines where the President was very clear about Bin Laden and the terrorists being brought to justice or justice will be brought to them, the fact that the President was so clearly in charge and so clearly at the top of his game gave a great deal of confidence to the entire nation. We realised at the time it was giving confidence to the nation that we would win this conflict.
Do you think the speech was received as strongly diplomatically, internationally?
I must depend on our Australian friends and others to make that decision. Certainly in the wake of it the President received congratulatory calls from most of our good friends and allies and I think as a general matter there was a great deal of satisfaction and the President seemed to be taking a very deliberate course of action and not a hurried course of action and I think it gave most of our friends the feeling that this would be done right.
There's now a series being done in the Wall Street Journal on the days straight after September 11, just how important and how much a watershed was that speech?
Well I think the speech was the combination of several days of activities which the newspapers reported. Probably the most important element which was to bring on board Pakistan and President Musharaf and to be fully involved winning over support of our strategy because without them we couldn't have prosecuted this war in Afghanistan in the same way and of course by the time we got around to the President's speech, what nine days after the original event we were in pretty good shape as regards who was with us and who was against us.
Do you think Mr Secretary that, or was there concern within the Department that a policy, which involves military intervention in Islamic countries could destabilise the Middle East?
Why not?
This was clearly not a war against Islam. It was clearly a war against those who had hijacked a great religion. We felt very much we were giving religion back to the people true religion and I think our subsequent activities and subsequent events have proved us to be right.
How successful do you believe that that the intervention was in Afghanistan? Bin Laden is still at large.
He certainly is at large if not dead. We're not quite sure which is one of the mysteries. It's been fairly successful and the Government of Afghanistan has been given back to the people. We're enjoying even now the visit of Mohammed Karzai the Chairman of the Interim Authority here in Washington. We've had a magnificent reconstruction conference in Tokyo, which I think for the first time in twenty years gives the people of Afghanistan that there is a future absent the kalashnikovs. Of course the proof of the pudding will be known over time and we'll see but I think thus far it's been pretty successful but our President warns and I would warn that this is far from over and we are going to carry this on as long as there are people who will try to kill innocents for a political purpose.
So what is the next step?
Well the first step, the next step right now is to continue the activity in Afghanistan and bring those pockets of al Qaeda and Taliban who are still resisting to heel. Yesterday we had the activities at the hospital in Kandahar where six more dissidents or terrorists were killed and we'll continue those activities. Following that there are many other areas of the world that have been discussed that have been discussed almost ad naseum. The President has made no decision other than the fact that we will take care of the business of terrorism in a time and place of our choosing. We'll do it in such a way, hopefully that we bring along the international community to continue to support our activities and that's what the Department of State will be working on.
Does that include the likelihood of military intervention in countries where terrorists are being harboured?
I don't think one can say it will be necessarily militarian intervention. We've got many tools. Some political, some are legal some are law enforcement, some are covert and ultimately there's always the military tool which is hard as a rather blunt instrument but make no mistake about it we'll use all those, any and all of those tools as we go forward.
Do you worry about the possibility that military intervention in some of the countries that are harbouring some of these terrorists could actually escalate violence?
Well I think if we were to go forward willy-nilly then that might be the case but I think the President has shown he's very deliberate. He's not going to do something in haste and repent at leisure and I think that gives us a check or a break against escalation. We'll be very clear that countries have a choice. You can give up the harbouring of terrorists or suffer the consequences. The consequences will be something the President determines at a time and place of his choosing.
To give you an example specifically what seems to be happening in Israel at the moment is that Israel's military response to terrorism seems to be increasing the terrorism.
Well I don't know how you determine which chicken and which egg came first. I would note that Israel's military response is generally against military targets while the terrorism you speak about is conducted against women, children, elderly anyone - innocents in the struggle, people who just want to get on with their lives. There's not quite a moral equivalency in that. The problem is at present both sides seem to feel the level of violence that is the status quo of the level of violence is to serve their political purposes. You've got to break that cycle. Chairman Arafat recently raised the stakes rather dramatically by having the Palestinian Authority involved in this unbelievable arm smuggling aboard this ship. Had these arms gotten into the hands of terrorists they would have, or Israel would have faced a very strategic choice because the ability to escalate so dramatically in the hands of terrorists would have been very destabilising indeed.
What is the administration hearing from the Islamic world generally about its support for a Palestine?
Well our President has spoken that he supports a Palestinian State he said so at the United Nations Secretary Powell reiterated this in a rather dramatic speech several weeks ago. Most if not all of our Arab friends feel the same way. How that Palestinian State is brought into being and how that Palestinian State will live side by side peacefully with the State of Israel is what the discussion is all about. We know that most of our Arab friends were very very distraught by the revelations surrounding the ship, arms smuggling of the Palestinian Authority and found this a very very destabilising event.
Is there pressure though on the administration to withdraw the strong historical support for Israel?
Well I don't think in a democracy like ours there's any question that our support for Israel will maintain itself undiminished and there's no question.
Moving on to Secretary Powell and your coalition strategy with some of these, particularly Islamic nations, can you explain to me how you hope that will work?
In the war on terrorism?
Well it work I think very much the way it has worked and I think it's aided immeasurably by the recent speech of President Musharaf of Palestine who had the courage to speak out and speak out against those who misuse a great religion for their own political purposes or for secular aims. I think most of our friends in the East wish they had the courage to give such a speech I think that in the wake of it we've seen countries step up a little bit more and make it very clear that the old ways of doing business is not appropriate, that a religion Islam and an area of the Middle East which at one time led the world and everything from science to medicine should again do that and the way to do this is to become modern and to modernise themselves in harmony with the tenants of the Islamic religion and I think you'll see that change coming more and more to the fore.
Do you think that some of these countries though have an inherent conflict in that their own people have a deep suspicion of America?
Such as what country?
I think Egypt doesn't have an inherent distrust of the United States. If you take polls of the Egyptian people a most magnificent, by the way cultured people in the world you'll find a great reservoir good feeling for the United States. I will grant you there has been economic stagnation for well over a decade in Egypt and this leads to a lack of hope, for many young primarily males and if this is not addressed, if this is not remedied in some fashion then you'll certainly have continued outburst against government and against the signs of the countries which are relatively more affluent.
Mr Secretary do you think America should take some responsibility for the anti-Americanism there is in the Middle East?
In terms of American support for instance of some governments like Saudi Arabia.
No I would note that the terrorism emanating from Osama Bin Laden was as much directed against the government of Saudi Arabia as our own but we make no apologies. I think as a general matter the United States has stood as a beacon of hope and as an example of multi-ethnic, multi-religious tolerant society much the same as Australia by the way. I think we've nothing to apologise for and we shan't.
How important is oil to the US foreign policy particularly in Central Asia?
Well Central Asia now is a repository for a lot of oil. We have the Caspian Sea, Kazakhstan, places of that nature. It seems to me that this is going to give us many more choices and certainly lessen somewhat our dependency on the Persian Gulf for oil but oil is a valuable commodity and any shortage anywhere affects all of us whether you live in Brisbane or whether you live in Adelaide or whether you live in Washington DC and it's going to be a factor for some time to come.
But a country like Uzbek for instance, presumably that's a very important country for America to have a stable relationship with.
Well certainly it is as long as we're prosecuting terrorists in their neighbour Afghanistan and we certainly want the Uzbek government and the Uzbek people to share a a good relationship with the United States but it's not a relationship that will continue at any cost. There are questions of religious freedom. There are questions of human rights in Uzbekistan and we'll continue to raise these and hope others who are like-minded will continue to raise these with the Uzbek Government.
Mr Secretary, the media makes much of a battle between Hawks and Doves within the administration and with Colin Powell being seen as a Dove or a diplomat, is there any truth to this albeit crude analysis?
Well it's rather ironic that the only two people who have actually been in combat, Secretary Powell and myself are the ones that are referred to as Doves by not-thinking media. I would say there's less truth to a Hawk and Dove argument and more truth to the fact that the President welcomes the views of all his advisors and he wants to have them all before he makes a decision. If he doesn't get full-unfettered advice then he's liable to make a misstep and he's not keen to do this. I think the argument about Hawks and Doves is is wrong headed. If there's an argument it's about timing and about method. It's not about the ultimate objective which I think the so-called Hawks and Doves all share on many issues but how you get to that point is what the discussion is about and if some people care to call it an argument, good for them.
One of the people who's often left out in these sorts of articles is the President himself. How involved and how influential is his input?
He makes the ultimate decision. He knows where the buck stops and he prides himself on being the one who will make a decision, I've been involved with him intimately for the last year of this administration. Prior to that on his campaign and there is no hesitance to make a decision and you don't find him like some previous Presidents trying to find a scapegoat if things don't come out exactly right. He'll make the decision. He'll either take the credit or take the hit. That's the type of leader he is.
Mr Secretary, is the toppling of Saddam Hussein on the agenda and why is Iraq of such a concern to America?
Well I think that the question of Iraq is certainly a question of unfinished business, we've made it no secret that we want a regime change in Iraq. A country, which has used the weapons of mass destruction, chemical weapons against her own citizens, her own people so primarily the Kurds in Northern Iraq. Who has committed deprivations against neighbours, rapes, murders, pillaging of Kuwait. Was engaged in a very long and bloody conflict with Iran. I think this is a very volatile risk which leads us to believe that sooner or later we're going to have to deal with Iraq but I'll say again that we'll deal with Iraq and Suddam Hussein in a time, place and manner of our choosing.
Do you think President George Bush is winning the PR war against Osama Bin Laden worldwide?
Well I think given the rather dramatic speech of President Musharaf one would have to conclude that in the war of public relations that we are coming ahead. I will grant you that in the beginning I think there was a feeling in the Middle East that we weren't perhaps doing well but over time things started to come our way. The manner in which we proceeded in Afghanistan. The very dramatic way in which President Bush shown by visits to Mosques and by meeting with Islamic leaders that this was not a war on Islam but rather a war on terrorism and terrorists did a lot to change the calculation and to change the equation and I think the equation comes out very good for the United States and for the coalition right now.
What do you make of those who talk about a clash of civilisations between the west and Islam?
Well Sam Huntington clearly needed something to write about several years ago and he chose to write about this. I note we fought a Catholic in World War II in Europe by the name of Adolph Hitler and we fought Buddhists in Japan and no one spoke about wars of civilisation. There's nothing inherent, inherently clashing with Islam, Christianity and Judaism. We're all people of the book. I think what we're having a clash is not of civilisation but a clash of certain elements of society who are intent upon oppression, depression to make their points and it's not the way Islam looks at the world. It's not the way Christianity or Judaism looks at the world. We're a much more optimistic and hopeful people and we depend on optimism, hope and good hard work to get us over hard parts and don't just blame others for our problems.
Do you think the war on terrorism will outlive this President?
Well I haven't any idea but he certainly has prepared our nation for a long conflict. He's prepared for it and I think the nation is prepared for it. You'd be a better judge. You're a visitor here, but I think the nation's pretty keen to see this one through.
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We're guilty of Tiger Fever, just like the rest of them! Now you can buy a used Gatorade bottle from Tiger, for $25k.
... Scientists have used the apple core and added a unique female DNA structure and now, with Tiger's DNA on from this Gatorade bottle they can create a male cloned specimen. Adding a genetic modifier that makes the clones feel "unrelated" they can now grow and breed the TW clones without the threat of incestual retardation. In the next 20 years a Super Tiger should be a reality.
[wakes up]
Seriously, This Again?
[ comments ]
Josh says:
That picture shows a water bottle not a gatorade bottle.... just sayin'
svj says:
i mean that is cool and everything, but spending 25k on used bottle of whatever tiger is drinking. isn't going to make you play like tiger and if you think it does. you might want to spend the 25k on something like counciling or something
twood says:
or 20k on counseling and 5k on lessons
bmkrois says:
I have half of a sandwich tiger couldn't finish the bids begin at 1k
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Betty (Oleson) Eddie, age 61, of Gilbert, Ariz., formerly of Storm Lake, passed away on Nov. 6 at Banner Desert Medical Center in Mesa, Ariz., after a lengthy battle with valley fever and pneumonia. Funeral services were held Nov. 10 at the Gilbert Presbyterian Church.
Betty graduated from Storm Lake High School in 1966, and later that year married Darrell Eddie. Betty worked for the Buena Vista County Hospital, Security Trust & Savings Bank, Otto & Culver Engineering, and Glen Huntington, Architect, until the family moved to the Phoenix, Ariz. area in the summer of 1985. While there, she worked for the Sun Angel Foundation and later Paramount Leisure.
Survivors include her husband, Darrell Eddie, daughter Trudy Whitsel, both of Gilbert, Ariz.; son Travis Eddie and wife Machelle of Harlan; grandchildren Ridge, Courtney, Logan and Ian Whitsel, her mother Stella Oleson of Hawarden (formerly of Storm Lake); sisters June Oleson of Sioux City, Deloris Born of Mapleton, Minn.; brothers Eugene Oleson of New York City, and Rodney Oleson of Hawarden; brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law Dean and Mary Eddie, Roger and Marlene Eddie, Russell and Gladys Eddie, all of Storm Lake and numerous nephews and nieces.
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