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Low-Carbon Business Innovation: A Call for U.S. Leadership
Will U.S. companies be ready to compete in the world markets of the future? Global clean energy markets pose a $2.3 trillion opportunity over the next 10 years, providing enormous potential for innovation in new technologies, products and business models. These opportunities will help us achieve the greenhouse gas emission reductions that scientists say are needed to mitigate the worst effects of climate change.
Yet the United States' commitment to developing these markets for innovation is lagging. While the Pentagon is calling for improved energy security, the U.S. House of Representatives is proposing funding cuts for energy innovation that would reduce our reliance on fossil fuels. After surviving the FY 2011 federal budget battle by receiving $180 million out of the $300 million requested by the President, on June 15 the U.S. House Appropriations Committee voted to cut FY 2012 funding to $100 million for the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). The President had requested $550 million for the agency, which funds transformational energy technology research.
Time to Face the Facts on EPA Regulation
A witty observer of the human condition Mark Twain wrote, "Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example." He likely would have had a few choice quips about opponents of greenhouse gas (GHG) regulation who have a lot to put up with these days. They continue claiming that new regulations are a de facto construction moratorium, a burden on the economy, the illegal act of unelected bureaucrats, and doomed to be overturned by Congress. Yet the facts themselves provide overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
Before the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) began regulating GHGs this January, there were claims that these regulations would shut down entire industries and create a construction moratorium on new projects. In reality, the New Source Review program requires new sources of pollution and major modifications to existing sources of pollution, like power plants, refineries, and factories, to install the best available control technology to reduce GHG emissions. EPA's guidelines for implementing these requirements focused mainly at increasing energy efficiency of facilities without requiring expensive add-on controls or fuel switching.
Despite these dire warnings, there are plenty of examples of how this scenario did not occur. Even before the regulations were in place, Calpine voluntarily and successfully underwent a determination of the best available control technology for its new natural gas power plant in the Bay Area. In a more recent example, one of the most vociferous industrial opponents of the regulations, Nucor Steel, came to Congress to testify at a hearing about the impossibility of compliance with the regulations, but the company had by that point already received a permit under that program for a facility in Louisiana. More permits have also been issued, and others are on the way.
Other attacks have fixated on the legality of the new regulations. Yet, in the 2007 case Massachusetts v. EPA, the Supreme Court ruled explicitly that EPA had the authority to regulate GHGs under the Clean Air Act if the Agency determined that they posed a significant threat to public health and welfare. This threat was overwhelmingly demonstrated in the 2009 endangerment finding, which documented the risks of climate change posed by GHGs. This endangerment finding was issued by the Obama Administration, but the Bush Administration had come to exactly the same conclusions. A Supreme Court ruling in favor of regulation is a hard example to be confronted with, but that hasn't stopped opponents.
Although there has been little problem with implementation of these new requirements, it has taken the political rhetoric some time to catch up with the facts. Some on Capitol Hill have remained fixated on these regulations. This debate came to a head, as votes were taken to repeal or delay the EPA regulations. In the Senate, votes on four different permutations failed to meet the required 60-vote majority. The Baucus Amendment would have codified EPA's tailoring rule and exempted agricultural sources from EPA GHG regulations. It failed 7-93. The Stabenow Amendment would have allowed EPA to continue work on drafting regulations, but it would have delayed implementation of existing GHG rules (except for the existing transportation standards) for two years, excluded the agriculture sector, and expanded some manufacturing tax credits. It also failed 7-93. The Rockefeller Amendment would have delayed the implementation of all EPA GHG regulations (except for car rules) by two years. It failed 12-88. The McConnell Amendment was a version of the Whitfield-Upton-Inhofe proposal that would have explicitly prohibited any GHG regulation using Clean Air Act authorities and repealed the EPA's scientific finding about the dangers of climate change. The preferred bill of the Minority, it failed 50-50. In the House, a standalone bill (The Energy Tax Prevention Act) mirroring the McConnell amendment passed by a substantial, largely partisan majority, but with the failure of all four proposals in the Senate, it was clear that there was no hook to conduct a House-Senate conference on the legislation. For those who wanted a Congressional rebuke for action on climate, these votes should have served as an example of political opposition to repeal of regulatory authority.
In the face of those votes, opponents tried one more political maneuver: holding the federal budget hostage to the inclusion of the failed McConnell Amendment. After threatening a shutdown of the federal government to oppose regulations that have been shown not to prevent new facilities from being permitted, not to lead to economic destruction, and which were upheld by the Senate just days earlier, opponents eventually relented and withdrew their demands.
It has been tough to put up with these examples, but some opponents of the regulations are finally accepting the results. "I think this is probably the end of our EPA little session here," said Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV). "I'm not going to be pushing for another vote," echoed Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI). After everything that has occurred on this matter, and regardless of other attempts that might be made, it's clear that the existing regulations are here to stay and the path forward for future reasonable regulations has strong economic, legal, and political foundations. In the coming months, EPA will turn to the next step in its legally-required regulatory process, proposing New Source Performance Standards for the utility and refining sectors.
Our leaders should use their energies to ensure that these regulations result in low-cost emissions reductions rather than continuing to fight battles for which the outcomes are already known. There is a real possibility for positive engagement in this process but only if one is willing to take a rational look at the challenges and potential policy tools available. For those that want to continue to fight past battles in the face of all that has happened, another Twain quote comes to mind: "Denial ain't just a river in Egypt."
Michael Tubman is the Congressional Affairs Fellow
Lessons from Extreme Weather: A Minnesota Farmer Gets the Point
Throughout this year I have posted a number of blogs on the record-breaking extreme weather events of recent years, particularly 2010. Events ranged from unprecedented blizzards on the U.S. East Coast to the cataclysmic Russian heat wave and flooding in Pakistan. The key message I've tried to communicate is that, rather than debating whether these particular events are being caused by climate change – an interesting academic question that is unanswerable on a practical level – we should learn from these events about our individual and societal vulnerabilities and the real costs of climate change.
In an op-ed in The New York Times, Jack Hedin, a Minnesota farmer, offers an excellent example of the type of practical learning I'm talking about:
"The past four years of heavy rains and flash flooding here in southern Minnesota have left me worried about the future of agriculture in America's grain belt. For some time computer models of climate change have been predicting just these kinds of weather patterns, but seeing them unfold on our farm has been harrowing nonetheless."
Mr. Hedin's family has farmed the soils of southern Minnesota since the late 19th century. Today he runs a small farm in Rushville, where an onslaught of extreme weather events over several years forced him to retreat to higher ground. This is an example of forced adaptation where abandonment was the best choice. But even in the new location, his farm lost $100,000 worth of crops to excessive soil moisture this summer.
Notice that Hedin doesn't waste time worrying about whether particular weather events were caused by human-induced climate change:
"The weather in our area has become demonstrably more hostile to agriculture, and all signs are that this trend will continue. Minnesota's state climatologist, Jim Zandlo, has concluded that no fewer than three "thousand-year rains" have occurred in the past seven years in our part of the state. And a University of Minnesota meteorologist, Mark Seeley, has found that summer storms in the region over the past two decades have been more intense and more geographically focused than at any time on record."
Climate scientists know the climate is changing, that many mid-latitude locations are becoming wetter as a result (see figure below), and that we can expect that trend to continue. What does it matter whether a particular storm on a particular day in a particular year was caused by human intervention with the climate system? After all, it isn't one particular event that has Mr. Hedin worried about the future of farming in America's grain belt; it's the preponderance of evidence that the climate is already shifting and the common sense realization that farming is getting harder because of that shift.
Please read Jack Hedin's op-ed in The New York Times. He has the right idea about learning from extreme weather events.
Jay Gulledge is Senior Scientist and Director of the Science and Impacts Program
The Days After
For many of us in the climate world, these days feel a bit like being in the movie The Day After, where nuclear winter had descended and John Lithgow was on the HAM radio calling out, "…Is there anybody out there? Anybody at all…?"
OK. So it's not quite that bad. But as we all know, Congress has been reshaped, and some long-time supporters of climate action (and coal) such as Rick Boucher (D-VA) are out, while others who ran ads literally shooting a rifle at a cap-and-trade bill, are in. And the number of actual climate deniers walking the halls of Congress has also increased.
So with the picture seemingly so bleak, and the chances of comprehensive climate legislation highly unlikely in at least the next couple of years, it would be natural for many in the corporate community to relax and think that they no longer have to think about climate change.
I think this would be dead wrong. And lest you wonder about my grasp on reality, let me explain why.
First, let's look to California. Voters forcefully rejected Proposition 23, a measure that was a full-frontal assault on the nation's most aggressive climate bill. They also rejected a gubernatorial candidate who had promised to postpone AB32 for at least a year, and instead elected a governor who campaigned on aggressively implementing the same law.
California is the world's 8th largest economy and typically leads the nation in environmental protection. The fact that it will soon be implementing a cap-and-trade system and other aggressive measures to reduce GHGs should be an indication that the issue is not going to quietly disappear into the night. It is also remarkable that much of the financial support for the "No on Prop 23" campaign came from the venture capital and tech industries, which understand the market opportunities that clean energy and energy efficiency provide.
And while the political landscape may have changed this week, the businesses' case for taking climate action has not. Leading companies should continue to keep climate and sustainability as an element of their core corporate strategies, and in my conversations over the past few weeks, they are. Regardless of whether federal climate legislation is adopted, "climate change" is a proxy for a number of critical operational issues such as energy, water, waste, and supply chain efficiency. Companies that have a comprehensive plan to reduce their impacts in these areas realize not only bottom-line benefits, but reputational benefits as well.
And finally, let's not forget the climate science. The reality is that regardless of the state of policy, the climate continues to change, impacts are already being felt in our own backyards, and by not acting we continue to load the dice in favor of deeper floods, longer droughts, and bigger wildfires. While politicians move at one pace, nature does not react to polls or get voted out of office. And as one of my favorite cartoons of the last year points out, even if this were all just an elaborate hoax, the biggest risk of investing in clean energy, energy efficiency, water and waste management is that we would have created a healthier, safer world all for "nothing."
Tim Juliani is Director of Corporate Engagement
Ambitious GHG Targets for California Drivers
On September 23, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) announced the adoption of ambitious, though aspirational, greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets associated with the total miles traveled by California drivers. This is the latest step in the process of implementing Senate Bill 375, signed by Governor Schwarzenegger in 2008. The significant increase in stringency of the CARB target levels over recommendations made by Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) last May was surprising and although praised by some, has received significant criticism.
The law provides incentives, not mandates, for MPOs to use regional transportation strategies that encourage smart growth. Incentives for MPOs, which meet the GHG targets, can include easier access to federal funding and exemption from certain environmental review requirements. Although called 'precedent setting' by the media, it establishes growth policies considered similar to others that have already been implemented in California, and this law would not have a strong impact without stringent GHG reduction targets. SB 375 required CARB to set the targets, giving it the power to determine how seriously MPOs would have to invest in new development plans if they wish to take advantage of the incentives. Using 2005 as a baseline, the GHG emissions per capita reduction targets set by CARB for 2020 and 2035 were, respectively:
|2020 Target
|2035 Target
|San Diego Area
|Sacramento Region
|Bay Area Region
|Southern California
|San Joaquin Valley (to be revisited in 2012)
|Targets for the remaining six MPOs making up 5 percent of the population match or improve upon their current plans for 2020 and 2035
The targets CARB defined were more ambitious than what the largest MPOs recommended in May. For example, recommendations for the Bay Area were 5 percent per capita for 2020 and 5 percent for 2035 (the same to account for projected population growth, which would make higher targets more difficult to achieve in 2035). Critics complained that these targets were "hijacked" by environmentalists, as CARB did not provide an explanation for the increase.
While more stringent targets are a victory for champions of climate change policy, some Californians have claimed CARB's numbers as irresponsible because MPOs cannot afford to implement the plans needed to meet the targets. Given the state's budget deficit and lingering impacts from the global economic recession in 2008 and 2009, budget crises for transit agencies have resulted in decreased service and increased fares. To combat expected costs, CARB has promised to help seek out more state and federal funding, although CARB member and San Diego County Supervisor Ron Roberts is pessimistic about their chances. Business groups angrily predict that such funding will have to come from increased transportation taxes such as vehicle miles traveled fees, parking fees, and congestion pricing. Critics (Example 1, Example 2) also cite the prediction by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) of San Francisco that gas would reach a cost of $9.07 per gallon if there were a carbon or 'vehicle miles traveled' (VMT) tax.
CARB could address these concerns by clarifying the rationale for its decision and exposing half-truths propagated by some of its critics. For example, whether or not targets are too ambitious, SB 375 requires CARB to review them regularly and consider revisions based on economic and demographic conditions, as well as actual results achieved. The critics' references to the MTC's $9.07 per gallon gas are disingenuous warnings. The MTC's gas price forecast is actually for 2035, not the immediate future, and the MTC considers a carbon or VMT tax as just one of multiple policy options. Only when this tax is added to the MTC's unlikely forecast of gas prices (a linear extrapolation based on gas prices in 2008, the highest price ever, hitting $7.47 per gallon by 2035) does the cost of one gallon reach $9.07 in 2035. This forecast is significantly different from that of the U.S. Energy Information Administration, which, as of 2010, expects a national average of $3.91 per gallon gas in 2035. In addition, sustainable development experts Calthorpe Associates' 'Vision California' study highlights attainable smart growth savings for Californians that would provide a significant boost to the economy. It quantifies savings, potentially achievable through SB 375, at $6,400 per year per household by 2050, among other significant opportunities.
While it is natural to be wary of the ambitious goals, California has previously defied naysayers and achieved ambitious policy goals at lower costs than initially predicted, as happened with Title 24 building energy efficiency standards in 1978. Furthermore, it is worth noting that SB 375 will remain intact no matter the fate of Proposition 23, which seeks to suspend the Global Warming Solutions Act, Assembly Bill 32, in the upcoming elections. By providing incentive-based aggressive targets, MPOs now have greater reason to invest significantly in future transportation and land use plans. With such an investment, Californians can look forward to a more comfortable life with shorter commutes, reduced air pollution, and long-term economic growth.
Sam Wurzelmann is the Innovative Solutions intern
The long-term impacts of "one-year" riders
Most Americans can recall from social studies class and Schoolhouse Rock that a bill becomes a law through a process of introduction, committee work, and votes in both chambers of Congress before being signed by the President. Yet in reality, Congress influences policy decisions and administrative actions in ways that are more complex and potentially less transparent.
The Constitution gives Congress the power of the purse over government. Congress passes annual appropriations bills that fund the various programs of the federal government, and the necessity for Congress to pass these bills every year makes them an attractive target to attach riders – legislative provisions not directly related to the bill at hand. Appropriations riders are added to a bill by a small number of Congressmen to avoid an open debate on the merits of a particular policy, relying instead on the political and practical necessity to pass the larger funding bill.
Several rider efforts have succeeded in prohibiting funding or delaying environmental programs, much as some are talking about doing to prevent EPA from implementing greenhouse gas regulation under the Clean Air Act. Unlike policy decisions set in authorizing legislation, funding restrictions only apply for the year of appropriations covered and must be renewed on an annual basis. Unfortunately, once the precedent is set, it is common for riders to reappear for multiple years, usually without an up-or-down vote on that specific policy decision.
When it comes to climate change, Rep. Joe Knollenberg (R-MI) took a bill that failed to gain any traction in the committee process and turned it into a barrier to productive climate work through the appropriations process. Reacting to the Kyoto Protocol, drafted in December 1997, Rep. Knollenberg introduced HR 3807, in May 1998, which would have prohibited the use of funds for "for rules, regulations, or programs designed to implement, or in contemplation of implementing, the Kyoto Protocol." A broad reading of the phrase "in contemplation of" would have stopped federal funds from being used for any work on climate change, even educational workshops. When the bill failed even to move out of the Republican controlled committee to which it was referred, Rep. Knollenberg turned to the appropriations process, where he attached the bill as a rider to the appropriations bill that included FY1999 funding for EPA. The same language was included in several appropriations bills. In addition to the EPA bill, it was also included the next year for FY2000 funding. As a result, Rep. Knollenberg was able to inhibit the Clinton Administration's climate change work without going through the regular process of enacting legislation.
Other environmental priorities have been the targets of appropriations riders and defunding efforts. These riders became popular shortly after the political upheaval of 1994, but the effects were often much longer lasting. Beginning in Fiscal Year 1996, a rider was attached annually to the transportation appropriations bill preventing increases in the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standard known as the "CAFE freeze rider." Like the proposed riders on greenhouse gas regulation, this rider was in reaction to an action by the Clinton Administration, in this case an advanced notice of proposed rulemaking by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The recurrence of this rider continued until Fiscal Year 2001 when the rider was dropped in favor of a study on raising CAFE standards, ultimately yielding to bipartisan support for new standards much later than initially anticipated.
Environmental advocates have also used riders to avoid open policy discussion and votes. One of the longest running annual appropriations riders was a prohibition on offshore oil and gas leasing off the East and West coasts and certain parts of Alaska. That rider was included in appropriations bills for 27 years, from 1981 to 2008, without ever being a stand-alone piece of legislation passed by Congress.
The lesson of these and the plethora of other riders included on appropriations bill every year is clear: these provisions have staying power. The inclusion of a one-year delay on greenhouse gas reductions could easily continue for two years – or even twenty. According to the scientific information available, we don't have the luxury of waiting that long to reduce our emissions. Instead, the United States should proceed with the prudent and reasonable series of regulations that have been outlined and are being implemented under existing law following the 2007 Supreme Court ruling in Massachusetts v. EPA.
Michael Tubman is the Congressional Affairs Fellow
In Defense of Markets
This blog post originally appeared on Belfer Center's An Economic View of the Environment
Cap-and-trade has been demonized by conservatives as part of an effective strategy to stop climate legislation from moving forward in the U.S. Congress. As I wrote in my previous blog post ("Beware of Scorched-Earth Strategies in Climate Debates," July 27, 2010), this unfortunate tarnishing of market-based instruments for environmental protection will come back to haunt conservatives and liberals alike when it becomes politically difficult to use the power of the marketplace to reduce business costs in the pursuit of a wide variety of environmental objectives.
FutureGen 2.0
The first two weeks of August saw two big news items from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) related to carbon capture and storage (or CCS, for an overview of CCS see the our Climate TechBook CCS brief). First, on August 5, DOE announced its plans for FutureGen 2.0. One week later, President Obama's Interagency Task Force on CCS delivered its final report and recommendations regarding overcoming "the barriers to the widespread, cost-effective deployment of CCS within 10 years, with a goal of bringing five to ten commercial demonstration projects online by 2016" (see the separate post regarding the task force's report).
Why is this FutureGen announcement from DOE important? CCS is anticipated to be a key technology for achieving large reductions in U.S. and global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (for example, see the recent projection from the International Energy Agency that CCS could provide nearly one fifth of all global GHG emission reductions by mid-century). Initial commercial-scale CCS demonstration projects are a critical step in advancing CCS technology; these projects provide valuable experience and confidence in "scaling-up" CCS technologies and technology improvements and cost reductions from "learning by doing." The aforementioned report from the Interagency Task Force on CCS notes that FutureGen is one of ten planned CCS demonstration projects supported by DOE (see Table V-2 of the task force's report for the list of seven power-sector and three industrial CCS projects).
The FutureGen project has had a somewhat tumultuous history. In 2003, DOE announced its plan to work with an industry consortium on the FutureGen plant to demonstrate commercial-scale integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) technology coupled with (pre-combustion) CCS at a single new coal-fueled power plant (with DOE covering most of the project's costs). In 2007, the industrial consortium selected a site in Mattoon, IL, for the FutureGen power plant. In 2008, though, DOE abandoned the idea citing the escalating cost estimates for the FutureGen project and decided instead to pursue cost-sharing agreements with project developers to support multiple CCS demonstration projects (this time with DOE covering a smaller fraction of project costs). DOE received only a small number of applications for this restructured FutureGen approach, and this change of plans came in for some criticism from the Government Accountability Office (the GAO report also provides a helpful overview and history of what might now be referred to as "FutureGen 1.0").
In 2009, the Obama Administration revived plans for a single FutureGen plant and restarted work with the industrial consortium on preliminary design and other activities, promising a decision in 2010 on whether to move forward with the project. That decision came on August 5 and included another shift in DOE's plans for the FutureGen project (now dubbed "FutureGen 2.0"). Energy Secretary Chu announced the awarding of $1 billion in Recovery Act funding for the repowering of an existing power plant in Meredosia, IL, as a coal-fueled power plant using oxy-combustion and CCS. With "FutureGen 2.0," DOE decided to change from building a new plant to repowering an existing one and chose a different technology (oxy-combustion with CCS rather than IGCC with CCS).
When subsidizing initial CCS demonstration projects, policymakers should support a variety of relevant technologies and configurations. With respect to applying CCS technology to coal-fueled electricity generation, there are factors that are expected to make certain variants of CCS technology more appropriate for certain circumstances. These factors include the application of CCS with: new plants vs. retrofitting/repowering existing plants; different coal types; and various geologic formations for CO2 storage. Importantly, there are three types of CO2 capture technology—pre-combustion, post-combustion, and oxy-combustion—with the latter two appropriate for use at existing coal-fueled power plants (see our Climate TechBook CCS brief for details).
With its new approach for "FutureGen 2.0" DOE has focused on large-scale demonstration of oxy-combustion. Of the ten CCS demonstration projects supported by DOE, FutureGen will be the only one to use the oxy-combustion technology. Of the 34 large-scale power plant CCS projects worldwide tracked by MIT, only four (counting FutureGen) use or plan to use oxy-combustion, and FutureGen will be the only such oxy-combustion project in the United States. Given the greater focus so far given to the two other alternative CCS approaches, oxy-combustion is likely the CCS technology that can most benefit from the FutureGen large-scale demonstration project.
With its new approach for "FutureGen 2.0," DOE is taking an important step in demonstrating a portfolio of different CCS technologies. Such demonstrations, along with other supportive government RD&D policies, provide a critical "push" for low-carbon technologies. Long-term policy certainty (such as from a GHG cap-and-trade program) for the private sector regarding future GHG emission reduction requirements can provide the necessary technology "pull" to guide private investments in widespread deployment of CCS and other low-carbon technologies.
Steve Caldwell is a Technology and Policy Fellow
CCS Recommendations Hit President's Desk
Last week, the Obama Administration's Interagency Task Force on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) released its final report and recommendations. President Obama created the task force, co-chaired by the Department of Energy (DOE) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and involving 14 executive departments and federal agencies, in February. The President's directive charged the task force with delivering "a proposed plan to overcome the barriers to the widespread, cost-effective deployment of CCS within 10 years, with a goal of bringing 5 to 10 commercial demonstration projects online by 2016."
Go West, Emissions Cap
Less than a week after Senate Democrats decided that including cap and trade in an energy bill was too ambitious for this year, the Western Climate Initiative (WCI) forged ahead with a blueprint for its own such program. Seven U.S. states and four Canadian provinces, which together represent 13 percent of U.S. and 50 percent of Canadian greenhouse gas emissions, have compiled a detailed plan for implementing a market-based system to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in their region to 15 percent below 2005 levels by 2020. The plan is an elaboration on the design recommendations released by the same states and provinces in 2008.


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Valdez has a variety of restaurants to satisfy your hunger. From seafood to burgers, diners to restaurants, and seaside view to secluded corner booth, you're sure to find something delicious. For more information, stop in the Visitor Center.
Eat in Valdez
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Mandarin, Szechwan, Thai and Chinese cuisine. Food to go. Featuring fresh sushi and local seafood Chinese style.
Best authentic Thai cuisine in Valdez. Offering tempting hot and spicy dishes made with locally caught Salmon Halibut and Shrimp from Prince William Sound. Open for lunch and dinner.
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Selling fresh, frozen, smoked & canned locally produced seafood. Also enjoy our Alaskan gift shop with shirts, coats and other apparel.
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I had five, but I swopped two of them with Frank Wilson for a redstart's.'
It was a redstart nest without doubt, but who owned the baby?
And of birds Enicurus, the redstart of torrents, and Myophonus were observed.
There was no doubt about his being a redstart baby, as I had been convinced from the first.
Two species of redstart visit England, and these also are characterised by reddish tails.
By this means Mrs. Pearson last summer found a redstart's nest.
Had, then, an owl paid a twilight visit, and could a redstart be surprised?
The same authority compares the bird's song to that of the redstart and the yellow warbler.
In fact, I never saw a redstart who seemed to know that we humans ought to be dreaded.
The redstart begins to sing, its note is short and imperfect, but is continued till about the middle of June.
type of bird, 1560s, from red (adj.1) + start "tail," from Old English steort. Cf. German Rotsterz.


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Taking loved ones on dinner dates makes them feel special, much like hiring a loud person to shout their names on the sidewalk. Make your sweetheart swoon with this Groupon.
Choose Between Two Options
- $25 for $50 worth of comfort food and drinks for dinner, valid Sunday–Friday
- $25 for $50 worth of comfort food and drinks for dinner, valid Saturday
Appetizers of fried oysters with spicy rémoulade ($15) preempt entrees of port-braised beef short ribs ($26), pan-seared, honey-mustard-glazed scottish salmon ($24), and naked chicken pot pie with vegetables and a puff-pastry top ($14). See the menu.
Morgan's Restaurant
The chefs at Morgan's Restaurant transform locally sourced ingredients into made-from-scratch dishes that pull influences from all over the world. Entrees include international dishes such as pan-seared Scottish salmon, Moroccan-style stew, and moules frites with French fries. Though the restaurant's wraparound porch may exude an old-fashioned charm, the interior's chic ambiance, replete with mirrored walls and hanging light fixtures, creates a modern dining atmosphere for brunch, lunch, and dinner.


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Woman arrested for throwing lit flares
Friday morning, Beaverton Police Department officers located three lit road flares in the northwest parking lot of the police department.
Witnesses say they saw 28-year-old Brenda Adams, of Tigard, throw the flares and then drive away. Police caught up with her and stopped her. They found evidence she was the person responsible. Adams was charged with Disorderly Conduct and Offensive Littering.
Evidence and statements collected also supports Adams being the suspect in two similar incidents which occurred at the Beaverton Police Station and at Hwy 26 near Camelot court during the early morning hours of April 4th, 2014. For the April 4th incident Adams was charged with two additional counts of Disorderly Conduct and Offensive Littering.
Adams was transported to Washington County Jail. No one was injured during the incidents. The motive is still under investigation.


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Stuart Varney Tries To Downplay Wall Street Protest Numbers
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During a Fox & Friends segment in which he mocked the Occupy Wall Street protests, Fox Business host Stuart Varney stated: "there's not thousands of people," and "the numbers are not there" so they "lack much influence."
From Fox & Friends:
VARNEY: It's hard to ignore. There are more people protesting but it's still numbered in the hundreds. This is not a mass movement. There's not thousands of people out there. I don't think it's been numbered in the thousands. And it's been very well received by the establishment media which kind of likes it, you know, but not well received by the conservative media but look, those people protesting, I think, are Obama's base. And they are rallying for Obama's base. The issues are precisely the same. They're railing against the fat cat bankers, that's the expression that president Obama used. They want to spread the wealth, exactly the same as President Obama. They want to tax the rich. Same as Obama. They hate Wall Street. I think President Obama does not have a soft spot for Wall Street. They hate big oil. They hate -- they want to do something about global warming. The issues are the same. That is President Obama's base. I would not be surprised if he didn't in some way embrace them.
GRETCHEN CARLSON (co-host): Actually, you've just spelled out what they're down there protesting for better than any one of them has done in the interviews that I've seen but besides that point, let me just say this. Do you think this is the left version of the tea party?
VARNEY: Looks kind of like it. The numbers are not there. But they may have some influence on the Democrats. They may keep President Obama way out there on the left. In that sense, maybe they'll have some influence. But in terms of numbers and real power, organization across the country, not even a pale shadow of the tea party.
But Varney's estimate of the crowd attendance at the protest is disputed by reporting from local media.
Over the weekend, the New York Daily News reported that prior to the arrest of 700 attendees,"[t]housands of Occupy Wall Street protesters swarmed the Brooklyn Bridge Saturday, shutting down car lanes and setting up yet another tense showdown with the NYPD."
Furthermore, ABC news reported:
The Occupy Wall Street movement, growing to more than 1,500 people in New York two weeks after it began, had called for a march in lower Manhattan today at 3 p.m. to "show that it is time that the 99% are heard."
The New York Times pointed out that similar protests outside of New York City are growing:
This week, new rallies and in some cases urban encampments are planned for cities as disparate as Memphis, Tenn.; Hilo, Hawaii; Minneapolis; Baltimore; and McAllen, Tex., according to Occupy Together, an unofficial hub for the protests that lists dozens of coming demonstrations, including some in Europe and Japan.
In the nation's capital, an Occupy D.C. movement began on Saturday.
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The protests have spread across the country, with events popping up in Boston, Chicago and dozens of other cities across the country in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street.
In Albuquerque, N.M., there were more than 500 protestors, and demonstrators in Spokane, Wash., set up a tent city before police enforced a no-camping rule.
A march and rally was held in Boston Friday called "Take Back Boston" run by the Right to the City alliance, a national organization that "seeks to create regional and national impacts in the fields of housing, human rights, urban land, community development, civic engagement, criminal justice, environmental justice, and more," according to its website.
Police estimated about 3,000 people attended the events Friday.
Varney's misleading claim falls in line with Fox's repeated attacks on the Wall Street protests.
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The White Sox were due to wear throwback jerseys on Saturday, and Chris Sale didn't want to wear them. The White Sox refused to relent, so Sale took it upon himself to do something. Cut to, ahem, ten minutes later and Sale was sent home for throwing a temper tantrum and cutting up all the throwback uniforms. The most surprising thing in this story: the White Sox clubhouse had a pair of lefty scissors. After Sale cut up the White Sox 1976 uniforms, Chet Lemon weighed in, saying, "It was a tough uniform to rock. The guys on the 1983 team thought they had a reviled uniform. At least in 1983, you could strut around like a peacock, which they called Paciorek'ing, due to the grace of teammate Tom Paciorek. In 1976, they dressed me up like a lawn jockey. That shizz was offensive!" For his antics, Chris Sale was suspended for five games by the White Sox. That's the last time he tries to introduce a cutter without talking to the pitching coach. Now, if the Red Sox trade for Sale, their top two starters could help win back the casual Jewish Red Sox fan who checked out after Youk and Theo left. Anyway, here's what else I saw this weekend in fantasy baseball:Please, blog, may I have some more?
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In a time long ago, when men were men and athletes freely used performance enhancing drugs to little or no consequences, there was a gameshow. A show that celebrated such athletes both male and female, athletes that invested their time, money, and focus into becoming the most gargantuan human beings they could become. On this show they matched average everyday sclubbs against these well built steroid fueled warriors in feats of strength and agility. What is this show pray-tell? Well of course it's a little show called American Gladiators. Ever heard of it? No young-ins, I'm not talking about that gross bastardization of a program that was on 7-8 years ago, I'm talking the genuine article. The flag waving, patriotic leotard rocking, testosterone train ride, where the women had high hair and the type of muscles that would have you asking them to open the olive jar. The early 90's were a simpler time friends.Please, blog, may I have some more?
Apparently, it was never the elevation in Coors. It was because it was cold in Colorado. Or at least that's what the Yanks/Tigers game looked like last night while it was played in Arctic temps (granted, a hot day in the Arctic) and snow. Other teams may get some ideas that it's all about the cold. "Let's get Howard, Utley, Galvis and Asche on that side of the air conditioner, and the outfield on the other side. Now go straight from the AC to the batter's box. No, don't stop at the on-deck circle! You're dropping to room temp!" Yesterday, David Price gave up 8 ER on 13 baserunners in 2 1/3 IP. That reminded Yankee fans of their teams from the 1950s, or when most of the current roster was teenagers. Obviously, this is just a blip, but if you can buy Price from a panicked owner, I'd consider it, even if it did seem yesterday like Price was Rocky screaming at Mickey to cut him. Anyway, here's what else I saw yesterday in fantasy baseball:Please, blog, may I have some more?
Yesterday was the first day of autumn; this demands a poem. I call this, "Naked Prince Fielder Has The Definition Of Melted Tootsie Rolls." The passing of summer; it's a total bummer. Word, word, word; man, I've gotten dumber. Michael Brantley was da bomb; Napoli's mom has got it going on. Jose Abreu would've been a sweet draft pick; Frank Thomas sued him for copyright infringement. Kershaw's FIP is 1.87 on all hitters; Sonny Gray's got selective dyslexia, using my teams for his personal shitter. Everything will be okay in this final week; Avisail Garcia is on a streak! Garcia went deep twice yesterday for his 6th and 7th homers. If he's out there, of course you grab him. I'd prefer to talk about Avisail Garcia for 2015 fantasy baseball. He was a preseason sleeper this year, and he will be again in fifteen-after-twenty because he missed five months this year with an injury. Yes, he looks like Miggy, but he doesn't act like Miggy. He's a 20/20 type guy without killing you on average. In this injury-plagued year, his stats don't look exactly as he has in the past, but that's probably due to shutting it down in April and starting it up in August. I wouldn't be surprised if in a few years we look back at this year and see how it didn't portend anything. Unless he really did learn how to take a walk, as he's shown this year. Though, I kinda doubt it. I expect he's a line drive machine, 17-20 homer and 15-steal guy with a solid-enough average. Think what you were expecting from Brantley, rather than what you ended up with. Now smoke a spliff! Oh, wait, I stopped rhyming about ten lines ago. Anyway, here's what else I saw this weekend in fantasy baseball:Please, blog, may I have some more?
Does anyone else feel like the baseball season ended two weeks ago? Then again I'm in Boston, baseball season ended around the 4th of July this year. So maybe I'm not the best judge of these things. I am a pretty awesome wet t-shirt contest judge, though, just in case you know anyone looking. It doesn't have to be a large contest either. I'm more than happy to work with single participant contests. I also own a hose and have a sprinkler head with several settings. It might even be 6 or 7 settings! Just an FYI, and now you know, and as G.I. Joe said in their PSA's back in my childhood, knowing is half the battle. Those little men were indeed American heroes. It's good to have heroes and everyday on DraftKings I pick a new one amongst the fray of pitching options. Sometimes my heroes let me down, much like 90% of the Minnesota Vikings fans under the age of 70. Other times they step up and fight for whats right, and by whats right I mean making me money. (Enter Collin McHugh on a bad ass Harley kicking up dust) Damn, Collin McHugh ($9,700) is baseball's Anti-Hero, just riding Harley's and going over jumps while he smokes Lucky Strike non-filters. BTW kids, if you're ever wondering what the most bad ass Cigarettes are, it's forever Lucky Strike non-filters. Your Grandfather smoked them in his foxhole at the Battle of the Bulge and so should you! In all seriousness, though, McHugh has been awesome this season and it's not smoke and mirrors either. He's supported his 2.66 ERA with a 3.07 FIP and a xFIP 3.13. Pair those numbers up with a 9.14 K/9 and an ERA of 1.50 in August and September and you got a Turnip! Yeah that's not what I meant to say. I think my calculator is a bigot and obviously doesn't like Irish people. What I really meant to say is that he's an Ace….maybe even a Masta Ace? With a matchup against the Seattle Mariners at home I think he's a great buy in all DraftKings formats. So pour yourself a shot of Jameson and give this Mick some run.
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First off, congratulations fellow nerd, if you're reading this it means one of two things. 1. You're just as painfully boring as I am and you read everything Razzball posts. Or 2., You've made it to the second or third round of your head-to-head league playoffs. Pretty impressive if you ask me! Now go tell everyone about it and be sure to let them know how you couldn't have done it with out the good folks at Razzball! Best fantasy sports coverage in the industry, and all that happy horse shizz as my Vavo would say. What's a Vavo you ask? It's a Portuguese grandfather. See, you learn something new everyday. Well, I don't because I know everything there is to know. It's okay marvel at my excellence.
As for this week in double dipping, we have a couple of rude party guests in the Red Sux, Diamondbacks, Cubs, White Sox, Astros, and Padres, who have decided to move to 6-man rotations. Who would have guessed that the rudest guests at this two start party would come from Massachusetts, California, Texas, Arizona, and Chicago? Regardless of those skipping the cake and ice cream that is this week's TwoStartapalooza we still have a whole bunch of good options to discuss. I've decided to add another element to these posts going forward. I'm now going to add in each pitchers home or road ERA, as well as the opponents wOBA against that pitcher's handiness, and their home/road wOBA. I feel this provides you the reader with better statistical data, as well as better transparency into the reasoning behind each ranking. This week I'm just going with each opponents home/road wOBA because I'm on vacation, and if I spend any more time writing, my wife will kill me. So starting next week I'll have all these numbers for you. The greater point is this data paired with Rudy's new handy dandy two start matrix makes these posts that much more helpful. Knowledge is power boys, and raw Imma give it to ya with no trivia raw like cocaine straight from Bolivia. Ohhh U-God you had one good line in 25 years….Please, blog, may I have some more?
When you get a little cumin, coriander, curry, power and speed in the same dish, you got a Marte party! Whatever happened to that Next Food Network Star? She disappear with every other one, except Guy Fieri? As Anthony Bourdain aptly said, Fieri is the Poochie of the Food Network. Due to Fieri's success, they keep trying to sandwich (pardon the word) new personalities onto their network. This past season they awarded a Hee Haw Fieri. Instead of the frosted hair, he had a cowboy hat. We call this show, Diners, Drive-Ins and Farting By The Fire! Any the hoo! Going into yesterday's game, Starling Marte was tied with George Springer and behind Michael Morse on our Player Rater. To that, The Count would say blah blah blah. Crazy enough, Drew Stubbs was above all of them, and in the top 40 outfielders. By the power of Coors, I pronounce you fantasy worthy. Of course, Marte went 3-for- 4 with his 7th and 8th homers yesterday, so he'll probably shoot above those aforementioned outfielders. Marte's a little behind his pace from last year, but I'm going to like him next year for one simple reason: a guy that can hit 12 homers and steal 40 bases is very valuable as long as he doesn't hit .220. That's like a manhole in Fantasy Town! Anyway, here's what else I saw yesterday in fantasy baseball:Please, blog, may I have some more?
Well that's a new one. No player. Nope. Not giving you a pitcher. Ok, I kinda am. Sale is da bomb dot gov. But you don't need me to tell you that. Unless, of course, you haven't paid attention to this sport we call baseball for the last three years, then maybe you need my insight on the guy that coulda been AL Cy Young if it weren't for a DL stint. And heck, I'm not even giving you a specific hitter. I'm talking fat stacks…or phat stacks if I were Chris Tucker and it was 1997. Remember when he was funny? Yeah, I don't either…anywho, this was a theory discussed with a good friend who's into the DFS game and who had a great take on the psychology of a baseball game. So when you're the pitcher opposing a certified ace and aren't really 'on your game', you're gonna get like your GF's panties get during that certain time of the month: spotty. And when you get spotty, you get dicey. And when you get you know what, I just can't do the Direct TV commercial. It's been done to death. The key thing here is recognizing that the other team and their opposing pitcher can get a bit intimidated going up against an arm like Sale. These types of feelings are hard to get around. An error here, a booted double play there…the big thing is, Baltimore and Bud Norris are in a bad spot for today and I plan on taking advantage. And speaking of Bud…gross. That's both about the beer and the pitcher splits. Norris isn't great at all at this point but away from Baltimore, he has a 4.55 ERA and a near doubled HR/9 rate at 1.28 away from the 'friendly confines' of Camden Yards. In particular, lefties have given him the most trouble with 6 HRs in 33.1 IP and a .354 wOBA. So if you're against a huge stack, keep in mind Adam Dunn, Alejandro De Aza, and Conor Gillaspie when you're building your rosters for the day.
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What a week to be a Nationals pitcher, you're six games up in the division and you have the D-backs and the Giants rolling into town. So much of my focus this year has been on Daily Fantasy that I tend to see things through DraftKings colored glasses. If you're unfamiliar with the format and scoring, pitchers have much higher floors than hitters and the scoring is laser focused on K's and innings. Low strikeout/ good ratio guys need not apply. Both Jordan Zimmermann and Stephen Strasburg have been good but I always seem to be a little underwhelmed by what I get from them. I'm hoping for a big week from both of them. The Diamondbacks and Giants are both in the bottom 1/3 of the league in wOBA over the past fortnight and both have a k% over 20%. Don't be surprised if owners of the Nats frontline starters run the table in ratios this week.
Other than the aforementioned Nationals aces, Max Scherzer's week sets up to potentially be a monster one. The Tigers and the Scherz-nit travel to both Tampa and Minnesota, as he faces crappy offenses in pitchers parks. Reverse HodgePadre Ian Kennedy gets two road starts this week. I wonder if he's the first Friars pitcher to be better away from Petco? It's so confusing I devoted a chapter to it in my forthcoming book "Things That Don't Make Sense". Should be a best seller, Gary Busey did the foreword. Most of the content covers the last 5 years and a two week period in 1639. Diamondbacks Ace(?) Chase Anderson looks to continue his hot streak against Washington and San Diego. I don't see any reason why he couldn't come away with another two quality starts. Overall this week's two start pitchers remind me of the stock at a Marshall's, a couple of finds, a whole bunch of mediocre crap, and a few things so ugly they can't be unseen.Please, blog, may I have some more?
Wait, what, it's f'n August already? I had no idea, because every day is Opening Day in the world of DFS. Sure, it can be a Baby Bitch, but I always come back for more; even if last night's roster sported a LD% of 42.6 with a .189 BABIP (ouch). Nerd alert! I made those numbers up, but you know what I mean. Speaking of numbers, check out the Stream-o-Nator, Hitter-Tron, DFSBot, and of course, the Ombatsman. Rudy created them to help you win DraftKings contests like the Razzball 20-Teamer brought to you on the reg by THE Ralph Lifshitz. Dude is the host with the most. Today is the dawn of a brand new season, so bring it!
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Tue Jan 1, 2013, 02:00 PM
ProSense (116,464 posts)
If the House fails to pass the deal, what happens?
The best things about going over the cliff are the defense cuts and the expiration of the full tax cuts on the rich. The worst things are the spending cuts to social programs.
This deal allows the majority of the tax cuts on the rich to expire, preserves the safety net, delivers more relief to low-income and unemployed Americans and doesn't cut spending.
Over the cliff, I think unemployment benefits would be extended, though I doubt it would be for a full year at 73 weeks. The President would definitely introduce the tax cuts below $250,000, but there is no guarantee he would get them. Sure Republicans would look like assholes for blocking them, but has that ever mattered to them?
The other programs in the current deal would not pass. Republicans, especially those in the House, would balk at extending the 2009 similus tax credits for college tuition, doc fix, permanent AMT and renewable energy tax credits.
Trying to included them as part of the tax cuts would give Republicans an opportunity to demand tax concessions.
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Response to ProSense (Original post)
Tue Jan 1, 2013, 02:16 PM
liberal N proud (56,799 posts)
1. This...
Response to liberal N proud (Reply #1)
Tue Jan 1, 2013, 11:34 PM
Recursion (50,978 posts)
17. Andrew Sullivan said it best
*meep meep*
Response to ProSense (Original post)
Tue Jan 1, 2013, 02:17 PM
ProSense (116,464 posts)
2. Krugman:
As background, its important to understand what Obama clearly could have gotten just by going over the cliff. Basically, he could have gotten the whole of the Bush high-end tax cuts reversed, which would mean close to $800 billion in revenue over the next decade. What he couldnt get, or at least couldnt count on getting, were various spending items. This included the extension of unemployment benefits and various refundables on things like the Earned Income Tax Credit, that is, pieces of tax legislation that end up having the government cut checks to families instead of the other way around.
Response to ProSense (Original post)
Tue Jan 1, 2013, 07:05 PM
Cha (199,813 posts)
3. We should find out soon..
Thank you, ProSense.
Response to ProSense (Original post)
Tue Jan 1, 2013, 07:14 PM
KharmaTrain (31,706 posts)
4. And What About The Deficit?
...fine, we've gone over the cliff and I'm all for partying like it's 1999. The next mess still looms...raising the debt ceiling or this country will default on its debts forcing a near total government shutdown. This is a serious deal that I'm not hearing much discussion about as it got jumbled into all the other financial balls in the air.
So...to get the ceiling raised (and yes, I know and could rant all day about what hypocrites the rushpublicans are for creating this defecit and then voting without question to raise the ceiling anytime dubya ran out of money for his wars for profit) will mean some real tough negotiations since you will need the House to approve a deal and we're seeing that they'll let the country go to hell before they do any time of deal. Be assured that things that have been put on the table in the past...CPI, raising of eligibility ages, means testing, etc. will be on their list.
I'll be watching, as usual, as we head for yet another "cliff"...but this one WILL have teeth. Sadly we're dealing with an opposition that prefers to campaign than govern...
Response to KharmaTrain (Reply #4)
Tue Jan 1, 2013, 07:23 PM
Jon Ace (243 posts)
5. It'll be another last minute thing.
Ending in us "kicking the can" another few years.
Response to KharmaTrain (Reply #4)
Tue Jan 1, 2013, 07:33 PM
Egalitarian Thug (12,448 posts)
7. Like the so-called fiscal cliff, the deficit is a manufactured crisis to draw your attention away
from what really matters. The mythical ceiling will be raised at the last minute, just as it is every two years, the lost tax credits for the middle class will be argued over for a few weeks, and the Democrats will probably give up a cut to the poorest senior citizens in exchange for an extension of UI benefits.
And the military spending will be restored and go unremarked, as will the other corporate welfare programs.
Response to Egalitarian Thug (Reply #7)
Tue Jan 1, 2013, 08:00 PM
KharmaTrain (31,706 posts)
8. It's "Manufactured" When It Doesn't Affect You...
...I'm looking at a letter from a home for disabled people who rely heavily on federal government funding (state funding has all but dried up) that are barely staying above water due to rising costs of virtually everything and no assurances that their funding next year will come close to meeting expenses. And that doesn't take into account the strong possibility their checks could stop if the "so-called manufactured" defecit ceiling isn't raised and the government shuts down. And yes...I think the rushpublicans are stupid enough to do what they did in '95 and let everything atrophy. For these people that isn't a cliff they're looking at, it's a big wall...and with little to no political clout.
If wishes were horses, I'd say we cut back on the large corporate welfare system that the rushpublicans protect for their rich benefactors. You are right that spending to social services will be cut before a single dime of defense spending is touched...there are too many hands in that pie (including some Democrats).
I also expect the ceiling will be raised...but at what cost? Or do we keep kicking cans? Seems like that works the best as no matter what kind of a deal is offered no one is satisfied...
Response to KharmaTrain (Reply #8)
Tue Jan 1, 2013, 08:34 PM
Egalitarian Thug (12,448 posts)
9. Do you really think this doesn't effect me? Do you want to trade sob stories? Would it matter
if we did? This is one of the most frustrating things about any of these discussions. People that hold your apparent position seem to be determined to allow the whole of everything to continue to decline in exchange for a little temporary relief. You talk about the reality of political process while pretending that it's going to change this time, and are more than willing to walk away from everybody that has already gone through what you fear is coming for you.
We're either all in this together or we are all on our own and chaos is the rule. How much worse does it have to get before you are willing to take that stand?
Response to Egalitarian Thug (Reply #9)
Tue Jan 1, 2013, 09:16 PM
KharmaTrain (31,706 posts)
10. That "Little Temporary Relief"...
...you refer to are trivial things as food, heat and basic needs for mentally and physically disabled people. Yep, I'm real short-sighted here. Sheesh! But then count on DU to demonstrate how callous and selfish people can be!!
Response to KharmaTrain (Reply #10)
Tue Jan 1, 2013, 09:53 PM
Egalitarian Thug (12,448 posts)
11. So you choose everybody for himself and fuck those below me. OK, got it.
Fuck those disabled people, they should be happy with whatever scraps I decide to drop in my pursuit of more.
For someone that uses Kharma in their name, you seem to have little understanding of how it works.
Response to Egalitarian Thug (Reply #11)
Tue Jan 1, 2013, 10:24 PM
KharmaTrain (31,706 posts)
13. I Sure As Hell Know How It Works...
...your lack of any compassion says volumes. Fortunately a majority of Democrats who voted for this compromise didn't agree with you either...
Response to ProSense (Original post)
Tue Jan 1, 2013, 07:25 PM
Motown_Johnny (22,308 posts)
6. We craft a bill that cuts taxes on those below $250 K a year but increases
spending for social programs.
That way the (R)s can vote for tax cuts while we get the social programs restored.
Response to ProSense (Original post)
Tue Jan 1, 2013, 09:56 PM
high density (13,397 posts)
12. Even if it does pass...
The GOP is going to keep creating crises until they get what they want, which is cuts to Social Security and Medicare. They are blaming the fiscal problems that they created in the Bush years on those programs.
Response to ProSense (Original post)
Tue Jan 1, 2013, 11:18 PM
bluestate10 (10,942 posts)
14. The bill will pass. Pelosi has her camp in line, Boner just has to bring over 50 republicans. nt
Response to ProSense (Original post)
Tue Jan 1, 2013, 11:21 PM
1-Old-Man (2,667 posts)
15. If it doesn't pass? Am awful lot of people lose their unemployment as of yesterday, layoffs aplenty
Many many defense contractor employees get laid off all around the nation too.
Response to ProSense (Original post)
Tue Jan 1, 2013, 11:33 PM
Lady Freedom Returns (8,754 posts)
16. What I do know, if they do not come up with something when Apartment complexes open...
and hit the codes to get the section 8 payment that some will be like the people in this story may if themselves in.


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A family home of 25 years was devastated when a suspected electrical fault caused its roof to catch fire this afternoon.
Margaret Bolt was about to go to bed when she realised the roof of her home in Romany Gardens, North Cheam, was alight shortly after 3pm.
More than 20 firefighters were called to the blaze which took over an hour to bring under control.
Grandmother-of-six Mrs Bolt, who lives in the semi-detached house with her husband Arthur, was feeling unwell and was about to go to bed when the electricity went off. She said: "I looked outside to see if anyone else's lights were out and saw kids looking up and pointing. I came out and saw smoke."
Neighbours saw the smoke and dialled 999. More than 20 firefighters from Sutton, New Malden and Mitcham fire stations were called to the fire.
Station manager Nick Myatt said; "It was important that neighbours reported the smoke as soon as they did so we were able to get fire engines down really quickly. Only the roof was damaged.
"It was quite a sight when it first started - the flames were very high. The roof was 80 per cent alight."
Mr Bolt added: "I'm just pleased it wasn't in the night when the grandchildren are here."
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The cost of renting an apartment in Grand Forks is growing faster than the average median income according to a housing study presented to members of the city council last night. Heidi Aggeler of BBC consultants says the city's vacancy rate is currently around three-percent. Aggeler says between 2000 and 2010 the average cost of rent jumped from 477 dollars per month to 632 dollars per month. At the same time median income climbed a just over one-thousand dollars per year – to 23-thousand-106 dollars. The analysis suggests the city consider making zoning changes…expand the community land trust program…and work with developers to make rent more affordable. The study was initiated by the Grand Forks Housing Authority and funded through the community development block grant program. Grand Forks Mayor Mike Brown has appointed a blue ribbon commission designed to look at city's housing situation and develop strategies for future growth.
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text: Following earlier news that Apple has reached an agreement with Sony Music for its upcoming streaming music service dubbed "iRadio," Billboard reports (via AllThingsD) that Apple has also inked a deal with Sony/ATV Music Publishing. In addition to signing with labels, Apple also needs to reach deals with publishers. The company has now completed agreements with both the label and publishing branches of Sony and Warner, in addition to signing a deal with Universal Music. Apple has yet to reach an agreement with Universal Music Publishing Group, however. According to Billboard, Apple has agreed to pay publishers a 10% cut of advertising revenue. Apple's iRadio service is expected to be announced at WWDC next week, with a launch later this year. Recent rumors have suggested that Apple is planning to offer the service for free, using revenue generated by ads to support the program. Article Link: Apple Continues to Prep for iRadio Launch Next Week, Signs Sony Publishing


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The Tira City Council will hold their regular quarterly meeting at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 2, at the Tira Community Center. The public is always welcome and encouraged to attend.
Kim and Lee Beck's daughter just returned from vacation in Orange Beach, Ala. Word is that she is "all tanned and waterlogged, after enjoying the surf and a Hobie Cat ride." She is ready to begin classes at Tarrant County Junior College next week.
Regina Payton of Victoria arrived on Aug. 21 to spend a few days visiting her parents, Floyd and Martha Payton, and she celebrated her birthday early with lunch out on Friday. On Saturday afternoon, they took a long drive through several county roads and places of interest. Regina will be attending a Court Reporting Seminar in San Antonio after the Labor Day weekend.
Martha adds, "Jim and Linda Garner came by for a visit on Sunday afternoon, we enjoyed having them. They were out on a Sunday drive in the Corvette."
Students are back in school at North Hopkins and the volleyball season is in full swing. Upcoming events are posted on the school website.
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Monroe reveals that the acting bug was always with her, that "as a small child" her "intact first desire was to be an actress."
But the system described above is powerful and intact; it was true before the events of 2008 and it became even more true after.
But the essential instinct to genuflect to the ultra-rich is intact.
His "implicit" memory system was intact, meaning he could acquire subconscious knowledge and ability.
Investigation showed the hull to be intact but two of the hatches had been torn off their hinges and were nowhere in sight.
Everything was intact, except the conservatory window and his daughter's shoulder.
Adam looked carefully at the mongoose box as the African went by, and was glad to see that it was intact.
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The mission of St. Patrick Roman Catholic Parish is to establish Christian discipleship through worship, ministry, and evangelism, and to serve a people who seek to grow in faith and love of God.
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Founded in 1894 by the Sisters of Mercy, Saint Patrick School offers a Catholic education from preschool through eighth grade. While we are traditional in our emphasis on basic skills, we strive to provide students with a solid spiritual and academic foundation on which to build by adapting our curriculum to meet new academic and spiritual challenges.
Sensitive to the uniqueness of each child, we dedicate ourselves to meeting our students' needs while encouraging each student to be the best he or she can be while sharing his or her gifts and talents. Our commitment is to prepare our students to exhibit skills in evangelization, worship, education, and socialization. Students come from various communities and religious beliefs come together as family.
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Several rocket-propelled grenades hit a checkpoint in Bannu town in North-West Frontier Province on the Afghan border.
An exchange of gunfire also took place between security forces and the militants, police said.
The US says the tribal areas near the Afghan border are a safe haven for the Taleban and al-Qaeda militants.
Pakistan denies the claim.
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Troops battled the militants for more than an hour after the latest attack but there were no reports of any more casualties, the agency said.
A month ago, eight people were killed and 40 others were injured in Bannu after a rocket attack by suspected Islamic militants.
Bombings and attacks have soared in Pakistan since security forces ousted pro-Taleban militants from a radical mosque in Islamabad earlier in July.
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Despite being robbed at gunpoint after his last album release party, Soulja Boy says that he's placed his financial future in gold jewelry. "It's in a safe deposit bank in Soulja Bank over in Japan that you never heard of," he said of his $3 million worth of jewels. "Gold is the best thing going, all the people that's watching, honestly…all of my jewelry together…gold is where it's at." Gold got it goin' on. [MTV]
Lil B revealed that he sometimes cries while rapping. "Yeah, it brings tears to my eyes," he said "I'm just so happy to be here. There's so much behind my music. This isn't just rapping, this is deeper. I'm doing this for the love and for life, so people can grow. I want things to change and for progression in music. I produced, composed, and rapped on the first ambient rap album in hip-hop and that was last year. I got 1,200 songs. I released 900 freestyles last year, all for free. It's like I have reasons to feel this way." OK, man. [RapFix]
New Power 105.1 morning co-host Charlamagne Tha God was not a fan of Diddy's SNL performance on Saturday. "I'm convinced that Diddy's 'Last Train To Paris' should be his Last Trip anywhere, musically period," Charlamagne tweeted, before dissing Kalenna. "The chick in Dirty Money who's not Dawn looks like she can chew her way out of any situation…The chick from Dirty Money who's not Dawn looks like a chick you would see on the "Last A Train To Brooklyn." Eh. [CThaGod]


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2AM Club, 'Not Your Boyfriend' – Song Review
2AM Club want to make one thing abundantly clear — they're not your boyfriend.
But they make that often heartbreaking message sound so freakin' good, encasing it in a crazy, catchy pop package that'll have you dancing around the living room, singing along in unison.
The song is equal parts pop, dance music (but not EDM) and synths. The driving, dominant chorus, "I'm not your boyfriend / You're not my girlfriend / But maybe we could be friends," pretty much begs you to sing along with it. So go ahead, we won't stop you.
2AM Club syphon the very best elements of pop music kingpins like LMFAO, Hot Chelle Rae, will.i.am and Justin Bieber and ultimately come up with their own unique blend of super fun pop music. 'Not Your Boyfriend' doesn't "sound like" the aforementioned acts, but it has the same spirit and goal, and that's to inspire your body to move.
Even with its schoolyard lyrics — come one, can't you just picture boys hurling words like this to the girls they like? — there's just the right amount of synths and vocal processing factored into the mix. We realize that the song message may not be pretty — knowing the relationship may never get serious even if things get physical — but it still goes down easy.
The ending is abrupt, sorta like how it feels when someone you might have had relations with or are crushing on breaks it down and lets you know the deal. Art imitates life right there.
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I stopped at a garage sale this morning and bought a Kenwood KA-7300 integrated amp. It was made around 1980 so it has the classic aluminum front. It has independent power supplies for each channel, Darlington Power Block, high capacity electrolytic caps and giant heat sinks, and attenuator volume control instead of potentiometer. It is rated at 65 watts per channel with no more than 0.1% total harmonic distortion. I haven't had a chance to hook it up yet but it looks like a winner. It weighs 31 pounds and came with original box, instruction manual and sales literature. I got it for $30. Does anybody have any experience with a unit like this?
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it new back in 1977.
only problem ever was the power-up speaker-protection relay going out.
great score for $30 !
I think the date on that is more
like 1977.I have the KA-8100 I bought
new in 77 with the matching tuner.
Its still in use in the family room.
It was very expensive stuff.
Some say, and I tend to agree that
it was the finest line Kenwood ever put out.
For $30 its a steal if it works fine.
Let us know.
I have hooked it up and it works perfect! I am very pleased. It has great definition, with nice crisp highs. Even though it is rated at 70 watts per channel, it sounds effortless. I have heard that amps that have independent power supplies for each channel are superior to the ones that don't. After listening to this amp, I would tend to agree. Did other Kenwood amps also have an attenuator volume control like the 7300? I know these are quite expensive. This amp has a dynamic power output of 250 watts. Is this why it sounds like it has power in reserve? By the way, the amp is hooked up to my ads 710 speakers. I also have a Pioneer TX-9500 tuner hooked up. It has the same look as the Kenwood so they look nice next to each other. I think this sounds better than my Pioneer SX-950 receiver.
Did other Kenwood amps also have an attenuator volume control like the 7300?
Yes, the whole KA line except the very bottom model
if my memory is right.
I had tons of info on the subject up to this year
but my wife sent it out to re-cycleing.Lost it all
Im still sick about it. I have seen many good pictures
of the line on e-bay if you want to search around.
Actually, the finest Kenwood SS components are thought to be the "L" series. I don't know how long the Kensuko brothers were involved with Kenwood in the 70's, but these KA series integrates (along with the tuners) are definitly part of the heritage that they inspired!
By the way, does anyone know if any of these KA series integrate's came close to their Accuphase offerings of this period?
Great stuff, from 1978.
Replace binding posts
add IEC 320 and use Volex 17005 14 ga power cable
increase bias current
use home depot paving stone as an insulation base
I use use homebrew silver i/c and cat 5 homebraid cables.
Warm, mosfet-like sound, well defined bass, surprisinly fast for 25 year old amp.
you'll enjoy it a lot
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VimpelCom has announced that Mikhail Slobodin will become chief executive of its Russia business unit, with Anton Kudryashov promoted to the role of chief business development and portfolio officer for the entire company.
Slobodin joins VimpelCom (Amsterdam, Netherlands) from energy company TNK-BP (Moscow, Russia), where he was executive vice president of strategy and new business development, and takes up his new position in the telecoms industry immediately.
"Mikhail is an accomplished and recognized leader with many significant achievements in his career," said Jo Lunder, VimpelCom's chief executive. "We welcome him to VimpelCom and I look forward to successful implementation of the already launched strategic initiatives to the further growth of our Russian business under his guidance."
The operator recently blamed a mixture of competition and regulation – as well as adverse foreign exchange movements – for a slight dip in second-quarter earnings, but managed to grow net profit by 17% thanks to cost controls.
Although it has lagged its rivals on the deployment of mobile broadband networks, it also said it expected to be "on par in quality with its competitors in key strategic regions by the end of the year".
On an annualized basis, the operator has recently invested about 17% of its revenues in capital expenditure but said it would increase that figure to about 20% over the course of 2013 as it continues to make network improvements in Russia.
Meanwhile, Kudryashov will move into his new role on October 14, taking responsibility for the Group's overall business development, including its strategy regarding mergers and acquisitions.
"I am very pleased that Anton has accepted our offer to join the Group executive board," said Jo Lunder, VimpelCom's chief executive. "Under his strong leadership our business in Russia has reversed the negative trends of the previous years and has significantly strengthened its market position, through closing the gaps in products and services as well as successfully launching and executing key strategic projects aimed at improving the efficiency of the operations and achieving a superior customer experience."
News of the appointments comes shortly after VimpelCom revealed that Andrew Davies has joined as chief financial officer from Verizon Wireless (New York City, NY, USA), where he held the same position.