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Kelly Sears is one of my favorite filmmakers. Using animation as her primary medium, Sears animates cut up and collage appropriated imagery focused on American politics and culture to create interventions of the history found within each frame. In New York City this week, where Sears was in town to screen a body of her work at Anthology Film Archives, I had a chance to ask her a few questions.
Cathy de la Cruz: How long would you say you've been operating at the vanguard of non-commercial cinema? What lead you to begin making experimental moving image work?
Kelly Sears: I saw my first hand cranked 16mm camera at Hampshire College and just thought this little apparatus could do so much, all powered by me cranking it! Movies can be made by large teams – or movies could be made by one person experimenting and asking a lot of questions. It was the first time that making films seemed like something I could do as an individual. This was at the time where digital video was taking hold and it was all about progress and technology. I was really captured by smaller, individual experimental films I was seeing in my classes. I'd loved the abstract films, animations, essayistic work and strange narratives that were screened and I wanted to make all of the above. I also took a video class as Smith College and got my first introduction to feminist moving image communities.


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Protest beliefs in contingent valuation: Explaining their motivation
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Time-scale comovement between the Indian and world stock markets
We propose a wavelet-based dynamic conditional correlation – GARCH approach to investigate the time-scale comovement between the Indian and world stock markets. Our empirical analysis reveals the existence of time- scale-dependent comovement between Ind
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Semi-truck, tractor collide in Mahnomen County; semi driver injured
A 66-year-old semi-truck driver was taken to a Mahnomen hospital following a collision Monday morning.
According to a report from the Minnesota State Patrol out of Detroit Lakes, Minn.:
Ronald A. Voltz, 66, of Mahnomen, was traveling east on state Highway 200 when he came upon an eastbound John Deere tractor pulling a farm implement. The tractor did not have lights.
Voltz swerved to go around the tractor, but there was an oncoming vehicle in the westbound lane.
The left side of the semi - a 2001 Mack 600 - struck the right side of the tractor and the implement.
The semi entered the ditch and overturned onto its side in a field.
Voltz was taken to Mahnomen Health Center by Mahnomen County Ambulance with a possible broken leg.
The tractor driver, 59-year-old Gene A. Bjerken of Mahnomen was not injured.
The accident was reported at 11:05 a.m. The roadway was wet at the time of the accident.


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Photocatalytic Degradation of Isopropanol Over PbSnO3Nanostructures Under Visible Light Irradiation
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Nanostructured PbSnO3photocatalysts with particulate and tubular morphologies have been synthesized from a simple hydrothermal process. As-prepared samples were characterized by X-ray diffraction, Brunauer–Emmet–Teller surface area, transmission electron microscopy, and diffraction spectroscopy. The photoactivities of the PbSnO3nanostructures for isopropanol (IPA) degradation under visible light irradiation were investigated systematically, and the results revealed that these nanostructures show much higher photocatalytic properties than bulk PbSnO3material. The possible growth mechanism of tubular PbSnO3catalyst was also investigated briefly.
KeywordsNanostructures Photocatalysts
Since the Honda–Fujishima effect was reported in 1972, considerable efforts have been paid to develop semiconductor photocatalysts for water splitting and degradation of organic pollutants in order to solve the urgent energy and environmental issues [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]. However, to date, most of the photocatalysts reported only respond to UV light irradiation (<420 nm). For visible light accounts for about 43% of the solar spectrum, the utilization of visible light is more significant than UV light and thus developing visible light-driven photocatalyst is one of the most important and meaningful subjects in this field. The fundamental steps for photocatalytic reaction of oxide semiconductor mainly include the following processes: (i) the generation of photoexited charges in the semiconductor materials, (ii) the separation and migration of the generated charges without recombination, and (iii) the redox reaction on the surface of the semiconductor. The first and second steps are associated with the electronic structures of the oxide semiconductor, while the third step is strongly relevant to the surface properties of the catalyst [10, 11, 12].
Generally, the improvement of surface area always contributes to more reaction sites, which is beneficial to the photocatalytic reaction. With particular microstructures, nanomaterials have recently gained much attention to be used as high-performance photocatalysts with enhanced photocatalytic activities. For example, in our previous work, we reported the synthesis of perovskite SrSnO3 nanostructures [13] from a facile hydrothermal method. Compared with the catalyst from the traditional solid state route, nanostructured SrSnO3 catalysts with larger surface areas showed higher photocatalytic activities for water splitting under UV light irradiation. Undoubtedly, the enhanced photocatalytic activities are mainly attributed to the increased surface areas, which are believed to be one of the efficient approaches to enhance the activity of catalysts. From a similar hydrothermal process, we reported here the preparation of a new visible light-responded photocatalyst, PbSnO3 nanostructures including particulate and tubular shapes. Experimental results confirmed that these nanostructures show distinguished photocatalytic oxidation activity upon mineralizing isopropanol (IPA) into CO2 in the visible light region.
Experimental Section
Synthesis of PbSnO3Nanostructures
Synthesis of Bulk PbSnO3from SSR
To compare the photocatalytic properties, bulk PbSnO3was also synthesized by selecting optimal experimental parameters including calcinations temperature and time. For the synthesis of PbSnO3bulk material, we first dissolved equivalent amounts of Pb(AC)2and Na2SnO3into distilled water under stirring, and then mixed them to obtain the white precursor. Heating the white precursor at 500 °C for 5 h in a quartz tube under Ar flow resulted in yellow powders. In this process, temperature is very important for the formation of yellow powders due to the instability of PbSnO3at high temperature.
The crystal structure of the as-prepared sample was confirmed by the X-ray diffraction pattern (JEOL JDX-3500 Tokyo, Japan). The morphology and size of the sample were characterized by transmission electron microscope (HRTEM, JEM-3000F) equipped with an X-ray dispersive spectrometer (EDS). UV–Vis diffuse reflectance spectra were recorded on a UV/Vis spectrometer (UV-2500, Shimadzu) and were converted from reflection to absorbance by the standard Kubelka–Munk method. The surface area of the sample was measured by the BET method (Shimadsu Gemini Micromeritics).
Evolution of Photocatalytic Property
The photoactivities of the obtained PbSnO3nanostructures were evaluated by decomposition of gaseous IPA under visible light irradiation. Typically, 0.1 g PbSnO3catalyst was spread uniformly in a quartz-made vessel with an irradiation area of 7.8 cm2. Prior to light irradiation, the vessel was kept in dark for 2 h until an adsorption–desorption equilibrium was finally established. The visible light with light intensity of about 1.8 mW/cm2was obtained by using a 300 W Xe lamp with a set of combined filters (L42 + B390 + HA30) and a water filter. The products in the gas phase were analyzed with a gas chromatograph system (GC-14B, Shimadzu, Japan), using a flame ionization detector (FID) for organic compounds determination.
Results and Discussion
Crystal Structure and Morphology
Physical and photocatalytic properties of PbSnO3samples
Band gap (eV)
BET (m2/g)
Rate of acetone (ppm/h)
Growth Mechanism
One-dimensional micro- or nanosized tubular materials with hollow interior structure have attracted extraordinary attention owing to their unique properties and potential applications [14, 15, 16]. Many kinds of growth mechanisms have been proposed for the formation of nanotubes. For example, the rolling mechanism and template-assisted mechanism have been reported to explain the formation of tubular structure with layered or pseudo-layered structures such as BN [17], NiCl2[18], Nb2O5[19], Se [20], etc. During the growth of PbSnO3 nanotubes, surfactant PVP was used and was found to be the key issue for nanotube growth. Thus, the surfactant-assisted growth process can be used to explain the formation of these nanotubes. The possible formation process of PbSnO3 nanotubes may involve three following distinctive stages: (i) the generation of PbSnO3 particles, (ii) the adsorption of PVP molecules on the surface of particles and subsequently self-assembly into tubular microstructure, and (iii) the formation of uniform PbSnO3 nanotubes. In the initial stage, cubic PbSnO3 tiny nuclei could easily crystallize and serve as the seeds for the growth of nanotubes. Meanwhile, PVP molecules in the solution would strongly and rapidly adsorb on the surfaces of these nascent nuclei, which confined the crystal growth and efficiently controlled the dimension and morphology of the final products. Then, these particles with high free energy aggregated and self-assembled into tubular structures with the help of PVP template molecules. As a result, the growth of PbSnO3 nanotubes would form eventually by a typical oriented attachment process under the hydrothermal conditions. Meanwhile, the existence of PVP in this solution can alter the surface energies of various crystallographic surfaces to promote selective anisotropic growth of nanocrystals [21].
Photocatalytic Degradation of IPA
In this case, the photocatalytic activities for IPA degradation over these catalysts were in the order of nanoparticle > nanotube > bulk material, which was in consistent with that of BET surface areas. As mentioned earlier, BET surface area of catalyst is closely related to its photoactivity. Usually, larger surface area means much more active sites, at which the photocatalytic reaction occurs. Thus, as shown in Table 1, PbSnO3nanostructures with larger surface areas as 68 m2/g for nanoparticles and 50 m2/g for nanotubes, respectively, resulted in enhanced photocatalytic activities than bulk material with 10 m2/g of surface area. Meanwhile, the improved crystallinity of PbSnO3nanostructures (shown in XRD patterns) resulted in the increase of photocatalytic activity since it could reduce electron-hole recombination rate.
In summary, we have successfully synthesized pure phase PbSnO3nanoparticles and nanotubes from the facile hydrothermal process at low temperature. The surfactant PVP used as the capping reagent plays a crucial role in the formation of tubular PbSnO3structure. PbSnO3nanostructures with better crystallinity and larger surface areas show enhanced photocatalytic activity for the decomposition of organic pollutant isopropanol under the visible light irradiation than the catalyst prepared by the solid-sate method.
This work was partially supported by the Global Environment Research Fund from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of the Japanese Government. This work was also supported the World Premier International Research Center Initiative (WPI Initiative) on Materials Nanoarchitectonics, MEXT, Japan and the Strategic International Cooperative Program, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST).
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Among the many markets spooked by some tough-to-decipher Federal Reserve messages yesterday, agency mortgage-backed securities sold off as that market fears the Fed could cut back on its mortgage-bond purchases. Al Yoon reports in today's Wall Street Journal on the plunge in MBS issued by Fannie Mae (FNMA) and Freddie Mac (FMCC):
MBS paying the lowest interest rates fell the most since they are the assets targeted by the Fed's quantitative-easing program. They also are the most vulnerable to rising benchmark rates because the underlying loans aren't likely to be refinanced as often, leaving investors saddled with low-returning assets longer than expected. Fannie Mae MBS with 3% coupons fell nearly 1 point to their lowest levels in a year and about five times the magnitude of a typical trading day, according to analysts.
MBS yields are interest rates at which banks sell their loans into Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac bond programs. Rising yields could mean higher consumer-mortgage rates.
"Right now it seems the only source of demand is the Fed, and the private sector is starting to shun [MBS] because of the uncertainty surrounding the intentions of the Fed," said Brad Scott, co-head of agency MBS trading at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
Shares in mortgage real-estate investment trusts also fell Wednesday on fears of Fed tapering and could struggle Thursday as stocks try to find some footing after an overnight selloff in Asia. American Capital Agency Corp. (AGNC) finished down 0.9% to $28.29, while Annaly Capital Management (NLY) was also down 0.9% to $14.52.
While surging Japanese investor interest might be putting U.S. REITs in a tight spot, it's also helping the U.S. mortgage market. Jody Shenn reports for today Bloomberg on bond traders betting that incoming demand from Japan – where central bank efforts to spark inflation have left bond yields even more pathetic than their U.S. counterparts – will bolster demand for U.S-owned Ginnie Mae's mortgage securities:
Japanese investors venturing into the U.S. home-loan market typically favor debt from Ginnie Mae, which helps finance borrowers with down payments as low as 3.5 percent, because it carries an explicit government guarantee, unlike Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac notes. Bond buyers from the Asian nation that has suffered three recessions in five years may increase their Ginnie Mae holdings by $50 billion annually as a result of the BoJ's easing, Nomura Securities International estimates.
"It's amazing to see the spillover effects of different central bank actions," said Greg Reiter, the Charlotte, North Carolina-based head of residential mortgage research at the securities arm of Wells Fargo & Co., the largest U.S. home lender. "It could be quite stimulative to the U.S. economy by keeping mortgage rates low and assisting the Fed."
Just when you think U.S. bond prices can't get any higher, nor yields lower, this Japan trade is ratcheting things up even further across bond markets, or at least further delaying the advent of anything resembling a great rotation.
It's been a yo-yo first quarter for bond markets, with yields pushing higher periodically only to retreat amid a series of stock pullbacks and Cypriot bank runs. The end result could be the first negative first quarter for a broad bond benchmark, – the Barclays Aggregate Index – since 2006. That index shows a -0.13% return for bonds in the first quarter, and unless bonds pull off a Good Friday rally (particularly improbable given that many markets are closed) they will finish the quarter in the red.
Checking on some sector-specific indices as of Friday morning, Treasuries have returned -0.44% in the quarter, with long-term Treasury total returns at -3.59%. High-grade corporate bonds returned -0.11 and mortgage-backed bonds returned -0.05%.
On the positive side of the ledger, junk bonds returned 2.85%, agency mortgages returned 0.06% and muni bonds returned 0.42%.
Bond investors who look to Pimco's Bill Gross for guidance might want to cut back on their holdings of mortgage securities. That's what Gross's $285 billion PIMCO Total Return Fund (PTTRX) did last month, paring back its MBS holdings to 44%, its lowest percentage in a year, from 47%, although clearly MBS still makes up the bulk of the fund's holdings. PIMCO also cut back on Treasury holdings, to 23% from 24%. It boosted holdings of agency bonds and foreign developed-market bonds.
Chad Stephens is a portfolio manager with StableRiver Capital Management in Atlanta, where his duties include managing the RidgeWorth U.S. Government Securities Ultra-Short Bond Fund (SIGVX), a $2.4 billion five-star Morningstar-rated fund with a particular investment niche.
"We try to fill the space between money markets funds and one-to-three year [bonds]," Stephens said during a recent visit with Barron's.
Stephens recognizes the limitations of an ultra-short high-quality fund in an era when 1-year Treasuries yield 0.17% and rates are almost certain to rise at some point. "In a risk-on rally, we likely will underperform high-yield [funds], since we just can't keep up," he says. "The best case for our fund is for rates to rise slowly, but that's not likely to happen."
Instead, the fund is mainly about capital preservation and generating current income while keeping liquidity high and net asset value volatility low. The fund is up 1.57% year to date and has averaged 1.8% returns over the past three years.
The bulk of the fund's holdings are mortgage securities, including a variety of adjustable-rate mortgages, agency mortgage-backed securities and mortgage pass-through securities, particularly in the 15-year space. Stephens says he doesn't own Treasuries at the moment.
In addition to making agency mortgages expensive, Stephens says the Federal Reserve's massive QE3 bond-buying program has bifurcated the market into things the Fed is buying and everything else. He says 30-year mortgage rates could drop as low as 3.25% or 3.125% (they're currently at 3.32%), but that the only way for the Fed to get rates lower is to target the 7-10 year part of the yield curve.
The main risk to any mortgage security is prepayment risk, a risk that's magnified with mortgage bonds currently bid up above par value and mortgage rates at all-time lows. "We'd like to see an overall cheapening of the market, but that would take improvement in Europe, or maybe going over the fiscal cliff," he says.
Citi strategists look at agency mortgage REIT Annaly Capital Management, Inc.'s (NLY) offer to buy the remaining shares of commercial real estate lender CreXus Investment Corp. (CXS) and see an emerging capital allocation shift out of the agency mortgage market in the face of post-QEs challenges.
Initially, Citi says the commercial real estate assets will only comprise a small portion of the combined portfolio, but over time, as much as 25% of NLY shareholder equity capital could be invested in real estate assets other than agency securities. As of Q3, CXS held $732M of commercial real estate loans, $40M of preferred equity and $79M of equity investments in real estate. NLY's agency MBS portfolio totaled $130B as of last qtr.
Citi also speculates that another bidder for CreXus could emerge. From Citi:
[T]he environment has become more challenging for the pure-play agency REITs, where portfolio spreads have tightened on elevated levels of prepayments and tighter reinvestment yields. We believe [Annaly's] transaction is in response to pressures (and lower ROEs) in the agency business, and is a realization the agency only model may be more challenging moving forward given QE3, higher prepayments, and an eventual Fed rate hike. We would not be surprised to see other agency focused REITs shift more capital into commercial real estate and/or non-agency residential assets. Also, as spreads have tightened in commercial lending, it is possible that another player could bid for CreXus. As a reminder, STWD [Starwood Property Trust] offered $14/share for CreXus in March 2011, before ultimately getting rejected by CXS's Board.
Citi calls the offer somewhat surprising, and says the transaction could cause some shareholder turnover, but says the transaction makes strategic sense given Citi's positive bias towards credit assets at this point in the cycle. More from Citi:
For further diversification, some investors have suggested NLY could pursue Chimera (CIM, $2.4B mkt cap), a non-agency residential mortgage REIT within the Annaly umbrella. Given the modest size of the acquisition, we don't expect much of a lasting impact to the stock as agency and credit sensitive mortgage REITs tend to trade around book value. In the mortgage REIT sector, we prefer STWD in the commercial REIT space and PMT [PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust] on non-agency side.
Citi estimates the deal to be ~4% accretive to 2013 EPS, assuming the transaction is funded with idle cash on the balance sheet and not a transition out of agency assets. Citi also calls the deal "book value neutral," saying NLY's Q3 ROE was 10.78% and that the CreXus business as it stands today is more of a high-single-digit ROE.
Mortgage real-estate investment trust Annaly Capital Management, Inc. (NLY) announced that it's offered to buy the remaining shares of CreXus Investment Corp. (CXS) that Annaly doesn't currently own for $12.50 per share, a 13% markup to CXS's share price at the time of the offer.
While Annaly focuses on the agency mortgage market, a sector that has been hit hard lately since the Fed's QE3 announcement, CreXus focuses on commercial mortgage loans and other commercial real estate debt. CreXus has about 76.6 million shares of common stock outstanding, of which Annaly already holds 9.6 million, or roughly 12.4%.
CreXus shares were recently up $1.26, or 11.35%, to $12.36, while Annaly shares were up 13 cents to $15.11.
Wellington Denahan, Annaly chairman and CEO, said this in a statement:
Since our inception in 1997, Annaly has maintained the capacity to diversify its asset base to include real estate related assets in addition to Agency mortgage-backed securities if we determined that compelling other long-term investment opportunities exist relative to the Agency market. While we remain committed to the Agency market, given the current environment, we believe it is prudent to diversify a portion of our investment portfolio. Therefore, we may allocate up to 25% of our shareholders' equity to real estate assets other than Agency mortgage-backed securities.
A powerful step in this direction is the proposed acquisition of CreXus. We believe that wholly owning the commercial real estate platform we currently manage through FIDAC is complementary to our existing business and return profile and should provide stable and diversified risk-adjusted returns to our shareholders. CreXus' capabilities and growth may be significantly enhanced when coupled with Annaly's broad capital base.
In its latest weekly note Citi says agency mortgage-backed securities look reasonably attractive again after that market has taken a brief breather, couching everything in the beleaguered language of today's fixed-income investor forced to choose among a variety of pricey bond markets:
We think that the recent underperformance has been driven by unfavorable short-term technicals, as we have seen a surge in origination volumes but a reduction in Fed purchases (their purchases went down from $37 billion in the last cycle to $29 billion in this cycle). At the same time, money managers and fast money accounts seem to have taken profits as MBS tightened to all-time tights. However, given the recent underperformance, agency MBS are not looking as rich to other asset classes like investment grade corporates and agency callables. We also think that the long-term supply/demand technicals are favorable for the basis. Thus, we recommend an overweight on agency MBS.
On the non-agency side, Citi says yields are tight in the sector but it sees additional upside "as investors begin assigning higher probabilities to more optimistic housing scenarios" and maintains a slight overweight in the sector, saying it recommends positioning in sectors that are most likely to benefit from a housing recovery.
Shifting to high-grade corporate bonds, Citi says the outcome of the election will have the greatest potential impact on healthcare and defense credits, as the automatic spending cuts disproportionately impact these sectors:
While consensus opinion is that sequestration in its current form isn't likely to be enacted, we believe that if Obama wins, the cuts to defense will still be significant (currently calling for a 10% cut to the budget). With military personnel exempt from the cuts, the companies most at risk include those with large defense service businesses, unfunded backlogs and a domestic-focused business.
And in the high-yield market, Citi remains constructive on lower-rated bonds.
Agency mortgage real-estate investment trusts continued their protracted post-QE3 slide Monday but have recouped a bit early Monday afternoon. Around 1:15 EDT, Annaly Capital Management (NLY) is down 41 cents, or 2.56%, to $15.63, off its $15.33 intraday low, and American Capital Agency Corp. (AGNC) is down 71 cents, or 2.19%, to $31.88, back from its intraday nadir of $29.87.
Barron's explored the recent underperformance of these two big agency mREITs in the Current Yield column of today's issue:
Bill Irving, who heads mortgage investments at Fidelity, says the Fed's actions have so far benefited mortgage bondholders more than homeowners, with the Fed now buying about three-fifths of the gross monthly supply of agency mortgage bonds, which are backed by mortgages guaranteed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Those agency mortgage bonds have been bid up post-QE3 to the point where most fixed-income portfolio managers think they generally look too rich. Irving says the agency market also looks like it's broadly underestimating the potential for accelerated mortgage prepayments, which hurt bondholders as higher-coupon mortgages get called and replaced by lower-coupon ones.
The effect of such prepayments has already been seen in the form of squeezed interest margins for mortgage real-estate investment trusts. Shares in Annaly Capital Management (NLY), a big name in the agency REIT market, were down to $16.04 on Friday from a 2011 high of $17.75 on Sept. 12, the day before the Fed announced QE3. Similarly, shares in American Capital Agency Corp.(AGNC) peaked at $36.68 on Sept. 17 and have fallen to $32.59 as of Friday.
The iShares FTSE NAREIT Mortgage PLUS Capped Index Fund (REM) was recently quoted at $14.24, down 24 cents on the day but off its intraday low of $13.82.
Earlier this month Morgan Stanley flagged some possible problems with agency mREITs, downgrading AGNC and MFA Financial (MFA) to equal-weight and downgrading NLY to underweight, saying it's now more positive on hybrid mortgage REITs in a sustained housing recovery. From MS:
We prefer hybrids to agency mREITs at this point in the cycle on 1) higher yields as non-agency prepayments are likely to increase (non-agency MBS is carried at a discount), and 2) future portfolio growth in higher yield assets as non-agency originations begin to increase from today's very low levels….
Following QE3 and extended low rate guidance from the Fed, we expect earnings and dividends will remain under pressure for agency mREITs on lower asset yields. We forecast a median dividend cut of 4% in 2013 and believe stock appreciation in the agency space will be driven by book value growth (estimate a median of 4.6% for 3Q), but P/B multiples will remain range-bound.
Standard & Poor's on Friday says non-agency origination in the U.S. RMBS market will likely rise, after the number of these private loans has dropped substantially in the past few years due to low investor confidence.
S&P notes that the Federal Housing Finance Agency has taken steps to try to reduce the level of government support in the mortgage market and encourage higher private investment. "The GSE and FHA loans have made up most of the market for the past few years, but this isn't a long-term solution because of the burden of government support on tax payers," says S&P credit analyst Sharif Mahdavian. "We believe non-agency activity in the prime market will slowly pick up in the future once investors gain confidence in today's underwriting standards and credit quality."
Bond fund managers will tell you that the agency MBS market is looking rich lately since the Fed last month introduced QE3 with its $40 billion monthly purchase mandate for agency mortgage-backed securities. The nonagency market has been looking comparatively better from an investor standpoint.
S&P points out that the private market currently consists of "super prime" loans, which exclude most borrowers. "We believe in order for non-agency loans to rise in the market, lenders will have to open up to more average borrowers," S&P says, "We think that future securitization can embrace more prime mortgages once investors get more comfortable with today's underwriting standards."
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Ron Hourscht milks 85 dairy cows on his farm near Little Falls, and he grows 400 acres of corn and alfalfa to feed his herd. The 62-year-old has farmed this land since the late 1960s. With only about two inches of rain so far this growing season, this has been one of the driest summers Hourscht has ever seen.
"It seems like the clouds will come, then they just either dissolve or disintegrate or fall apart or go around us," Hourscht says. "Whatever they choose to do, it'll thunder and lightning and we don't get anything."
This spring, Hourscht was sure he'd be able to cut his alfalfa four times to make hay for his cows. But now he says after a second cutting, he's not likely to get another crop this year.
"It seems like the clouds will come, then they just either dissolve or disintegrate... it'll thunder and lightning and we don't get anything."Farmer Ron Hourscht
His corn crop is in worse shape. On a good year he can get 200 bushels an acre, to feed to his cows and sell on the open market. This year Hourscht isn't sure there will be anything to harvest.
"There isn't much there for corn right now," he says. "There's a few little nubbins, but it just don't amount to anything and it's only about four feet tall."
Hourscht has hay and corn in storage to feed to his cows, and crop loss insurance will help him make up the difference come harvest time.
But after touring the Hourscht farm Tuesday, Gov. Tim Pawlenty said the level of crop damage could be hard for some farmers to take. The governor says he'll ask the federal government to declare the hardest-hit parts of the state as disaster areas.
First, he has to look over the official USDA report on the Minnesota drought he expects will hit his desk on Thursday.
"Our view of it in the early returns are that we most certainly will qualify for disaster declaration in many counties across Minnesota," Pawlenty says. "Then, we will immediately ask the Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johanns for a disaster declaration for those counties that qualify."
A county needs to lose 30 percent of its corn crop to be considered a disaster area. At least a half dozen Minnesota counties fit that criteria already. Gov. Pawlenty says worsening drought conditions could mean more counties will join them in the near future.
If the disaster declaration is approved, help would come as low-interest loans from the federal government. But farmers could also qualify for emergency aid in the form of payments from the state or federal government.
Pawlenty also says he'll lobby Congress to add this summer's drought damage to a recently passed disaster relief package that applies to 2005 and 2006.
But Pawlenty says there's a challenge to getting some of that emergency aid, since Minnesota is the only corn belt state dealing with a drought this year. He says that means the state will have to go it alone when it comes to getting any aid for drought-stricken farmers.
"I certainly wouldn't wish this on anybody, and I wouldn't want to wish drought on any other state. But it is probably true, with few states impacted, less members of Congress might be less directly motivated to get in there and swing the bat for drought relief," Pawlenty says.
But the governor adds that Minnesota has an advantage in U.S. Rep. Collin Peterson of Minnesota, who chairs the House Agriculture Committee.
Some late season rain could help out Minnesota farmers, but most think the dry conditions have already taken their toll on the state's corn crop, which needed rain in July to develop correctly.
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PHS Track: Boys and girls win sub-section titles
By John George
To say the Perham track and field team's had a good day at the 6A Sub-Section 2 Meet in Barnesville last Thursday would be an understatement. Both boys and girls teams came away with championships and a total of 28 individuals and five relay teams will advance.
The Jacket boys dominated, scoring 134 team points on the way to the Sub-Section 2 championship. Frazee was second with 90 points, followed by Barnesville/Rothsay (82).
The Yellowjackets will send 17 boys to compete in 18 events, plus all four relay teams to the 6A Championships
The Section 6A Championships will be today (May 28) at MSU-Moorhead. Field events start at 11 a.m. The prelims for the 100 and 200m dash start at 12 p.m. with finals for all events starting at 1 p.m.
The Perham boys dominated in the distance events as they went 1-2-3 in the 3200 meter run and qualified two runners in the 1600 meter run. In the 3200, Sam Stoll was first (10:22.87), followed by Alex Barney (10:24.91) and Keith Schornack (10:33.96). Brandon Karels took third in the 1600m (4:55.42) with Andrew Reistenberg taking fourth (4:56.52). Tim Herrmann qualified fifth (2:07.24) in the 800m.
Perham also qualified Mike Wisko with a fifth place finish in the 200 meter dash (23.98). In the hurdles, Matt Winkels was runner-up in the 110's (16.62) and Tyler Kuhl qualified fifth (17.67). Kuhl also made it to sections with a fourth place in the 300's (44.11).
Perham won the 4x200 meter relay (1:37.00) and the 4x800 meter relay (8:30.17). The boys 4x100 meter relay team qualified second (46.70), as did the 4x400 relay team (3:41.22).
Charlie Schmitz and Jared Dornbusch both qualified in the pole vault with Schmitz finishing second (11'0") and Dornbusch taking fourth (9'0").
Drew Johnson was runner-up in the long jump (20'02"), Chris Scheidecker took second in the triple jump (40'0"), Alex Bailey was fourth in the discus (122'0"), and two individuals qualified for sections in the shot put with D.J. Altstadt in third place (42'09") and Ben Collette finishing fourth (41'06").
Perham girls win
The Lady Jackets finished with 108 points on Thursday at the sub-section meet, edging out Otter Tail Central by four points. Barnesville/Rothsay was third with 98.
The Perham girls have send 11 girls and one relay team to the Section meet.
Five Lady Jackets will compete in two events, led by Maddie McClellan. The junior was a double winner at the sub-sections, taking first in the 1600m run (5:15.76) and the 3200m run (11:49.78). Classmate Abby Anderson finished second in the 3200m (12:03.20) and finished third in the 1600m (5:34.39).
Anderson won the 6A title in the 1600m last year and finished 2nd at State, setting a school record with a time of 5:07.51. McClellan was the 6A champ in the 3200m last year and finished 3rd at State with a time of 11:09.96.
In the throwing events, junior Elisa Moenkedick was first in the discus with a school record toss of 136'9". She also had a third place finish in the shot put (35'6"). Heather Schultz, a senior, won the shot put with a throw of 41'9". She finished fourth in the discus (105'9").
Schultz finished third at State in the shot put last year (39'9.75") after winning the 6A title. Moenkedick was the 6A champ in the discus and runner-up in the shot put last year. At State, she finished third in discus (130'9").
Jenna Gigstead qualified fourth in the 400 meter dash (1:05.00) and fifth in the 200 meter dash (28.38).
Other distance runners that will compete at the 6A Championships include Cassie Beseman, who qualified fourth in the 3200 (12:35.99) and Shayla Fulford, who was fifth in the 1600 (5:45.06). In the 800 meter run, senior Maddie Covington qualified fifth (2:33.75).
The Jackets have two hurdlers moving on as Tasha Wallace finished fifth (17.90) in the 100 meter hurdles and Kelli Meehl was third (50.90) in the 300's. Mikayla Solberg qualified fourth in the long jump (14-10.50).
Perham also had a third place finish in the 4x800 meter relay (10:25.50).


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43-year-old Margery Voiles was arraigned in 4th Judicial Court Tuesday morning on one count of Felony Child Endangering and one Misdemeanor count of Possession of a Controlled Substance – Methamphetamine.
On January 21st of this year, Voiles was arrested for having in her home the meth and using it while her 8-month-old son was in her care. She made a plea of "Guilty" on both counts before Judge John Fenn. Bond was modified to have her report to Probation & Parole to arrange pre-sentencing appointments, and she was instructed to make weekly contact with her attorney, Shelly Cundiff. Because of a very full court docket, Judge Fenn informed all legal counsel present that sentencing dates for the next several cases will be a few weeks out. Voiles faces a sentence of not more than five years in prison, a $5,000 fine or both.
19-year-old Justin Loughan [pronounced lock-in] was arraigned on April 13th on one count of "Aggravated Burglary," but his attorney, Erin Wardell, made a motion to have the count amended to "Burglary." Judge Fenn granted the motion. Loughan and his accomplice, 18-year-old Chad Gardner of Buffalo, worked together to burgle the home of Sheridan resident Dale Gleason on January 15th of this year.
Loughan told Judge Fenn that while he stood outside the house and spoke to Gardner on the phone, he instructed Gardner where to find a bottle of prescription medicine and a gun from a locked gun case.
Loughan made a plea of "Guilty" in exchange for a plea agreement of a possible 3-5 year sentence in the state penitentiary. The charge typically carries a possible sentence of ten years in prison, a fine of $10,000 or both.
As for Gardner, prosecutor for the State, Darci Arsene, learned a couple weeks ago of his sudden death. Gardner died Thursday, March 25th at his home.
And 51-year-old Steven Campbell was also arraigned Tuesday morning in District Court on a Felony DUI charge dating back to June 7, 2009. This was the third DUI Campbell had been charged with in the last five years. He entered a "No Contest" plea, which the State did not anticipate. Prosecutor for the State, Diana Bennett, told Judge Fenn she thought he was planning to take a plea of Guilty in exchange for 18 – 24 months in the state penitentiary.
Campbell's attorney, Robert Jones, asked the judge if he could be sentenced that same morning because Campbell was scheduled to be transferred to Campbell County for DUI charges he received in January of this year.
Judge Fenn sentenced him to not less than 18 and not more than 24 months in the state penitentiary with credit for time served in the Sheridan Detention Center.


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This Date in Knicks History: April 30
LJ Helps NY Stave Off Elimination Against Miami
(1963) Knicks select Art Heyman with the first overall pick in the 1963 NBA Draft.
(1972) Knicks lose in Los Angeles 106-92, tying the NBA Finals at 1-1.
(1998) Knicks stave off elimination, forcing a decisive Game 5, with a 90-85 win over Miami at the Garden in the Eastern Conference First Round. Allan Houston and Larry Johnson pace the attack with 18 points apiece. The game is marred by a fight between Alonzo Mourning and Johnson with :01.4 left that resulted in both players earning two-game suspensions.
(2000) Allan Houston scores 23 points to lead the Knicks to an 87-80 victory in Toronto and a first round sweep of the Raptors.
(2012) Longtime scout Fuzzy Levane, who served as an assistant coach from 1956-58 and head coach from 1958-59, passes away.
(2013) Jason Kidd wins 2012-13 NBA Sportsmanship Award, becoming first player to win the Joe Dumars Trophy in back-to-back seasons.


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Jack Beverly, Jr., 82, of Salina, Kansas, passed away Tuesday, November 5th, at Holiday Resort.
Jack was born in Luray, Kansas on November 12, 1930, son of the late Maybelle (Middlekauff) and Jack Beverly, Sr.
As well as owning and operating Beverly Wholesale Meat, in Salina, Jacks passion was farming and ranching in Russell, Kansas. He was also an avid Kansas University Basketball fan, loved baseball, and played for the St. Louis Cardinals for 2 years.
Survivors include:
Daughter: Gina Addison and husband David, of Covington, Louisiana Son: Jack Beverly III, of Salina, Kansas
Grandsons: Ryan Beverly, of Fort Collins, Colorado, Grant Addison, of Covington, Louisiana, and Andrew Addison, of Covington, Louisiana.
Jack is preceded in death by his parents, and wife, Joan.
At the familys request there will be no visitation
A funeral service will be held at 1:30 p.m., Friday, November 8, 2013 at First Presbyterian Church, Salina, Kansas, with Pastor Sue Coller officiating.
Burial will take place at Roselawn Memorial Park Salina, Kansas.
Memorial contributions may be made to the United Way of Salina, 128 N Santa Fe Ave, Salina, KS 67401.
For more information or to send an online condolence, visit www.carlsonfh.net or on Facebook.


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SALT LAKE CITY — While Earl Watson was at UCLA during his college days, he forged a friendship with legendary coach John Wooden.
More than a decade later, the point guard continues to refer to wisdom gleaned from the Wizard of Westwood.
Watson believes the slumping Utah Jazz, losers of three straight, would benefit from taking Wooden's advice to heart, too.
"Sometimes it doesn't matter what you do, life is just tough. It's the mindset that changes it. It's all mental with us right now," Watson said. "Coach Wooden used to always say, 'Basketball and life go hand in hand. You learn from both.' Positive energy is the only way we're going to get out of where we are now."
Having a full, healthy squad would be helpful, too.
The Jazz had plenty of elbow room at Thursday's practice. Reasons ranged from maternity wards to an MRI, but the injury-plagued team only had nine fully healthy players for its off-day workout session at Zions Bank Basketball Center.
It's uncertain how many the Jazz will have available for tonight's home game against Charlotte.
Neither Paul Millsap nor Randy Foye were at practice because their significant others were busy adding to the Jazz family by delivering healthy baby girls. Millsap is still dealing with his sprained left ankle, so it wasn't certain if the power forward would've practiced after missing Wednesday's 102-91 loss to Atlanta anyway.
The Jazz were also without starting center Al Jefferson, who is nursing a sprained left ankle injury and is day-to-day like Millsap.
Forward DeMarre Carroll tweaked his knee in Wednesday's loss. Carroll couldn't practice because he was undergoing an MRI.
Point guard Mo Williams was at practice, but he was only able to participate in portions because his surgically repaired right thumb hasn't progressed enough to do contact drills.
The Jazz, of course, remain without Raja Bell, who's exiled in Miami.
"It's a difficult situation, but it's where it is," Jazz coach Tyrone Corbin said. "We've been able to weather the storm when we've had guys out or been counted out. The guys have rallied together and stayed together and was able to work their way through it, and we expect that to continue."
With a rough March looming after what should be a gimme game tonight against the 13-win Bobcats, the Jazz need something positive to happen.
Positive energy. Positive play. Positive results.
"I don't think it's the end of the world, but we obviously have to pick it up," Jazz sixth man Gordon Hayward said. "We can't let this losing streak go any further."
The Jazz have dropped to 31-27 while slumping, but remain a half-game ahead of Houston (31-28) in seventh place and two behind No. 6 Golden State (33-25) in ongoing playoff positioning.
The injury situation certainly adds an element of difficulty in an already tough time.
Their coach is trying to remain, you guessed, positive.
"Guys will give a good effort," Corbin said. "We'll continue to do that, try and move things around. I'll have to ask guys to do a few different things than they're normally doing, but we just have to make our way."
While any win will do the team some good after consecutive losses to the Clippers, Celtics and Hawks, including two straight at home, the Jazz are entering one of their toughest months of the season.
In March, Utah has a four-game road swing in Milwaukee, Cleveland, Chicago and New York next week, an ominous Oklahoma City visit, and a Texas tripleheader trek against Houston, San Antonio and Dallas.
That's daunting for a short-handed squad that has only won 10 of 29 games outside of the 801 area code.
"It's not going to get any easier for us," Corbin said. "Hopefully, we get healthy sooner than later and get beginning to feel better about how we're playing, and everything else will take care of itself."
Watson said the injuries are just another obstacle to be overcome as the Jazz try to "build character." His suggestion is for the Jazz to focus on being "the best team we can be each day," and not worry about negative influences.
"It starts with us taking away positive things. It can make our fans more happy about what we're doing," Watson said. "No one on this team wants to lose. No one wants to go through struggles, moments where guys get injured, rotation lineup changes. No one wants to do that."
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JAZZ NOTES: Jazz players visited 10 schools Thursday along the Wasatch Front and read to elementary students as part of the organization's "Be A Team Player — Read" contest. Along with being read to by a Jazz player, the winning student bodies earned ice cream parties. Nearly 21,500 students read for 17.2 million minutes during the challenge. Randy Foye needs one 3-pointer to set a new record for 3-pointers in a single season by a Jazz player. He currently has a career-high 129 3s, tied with Mehmet Okur (2006-07). It's possible lineup changes could be in order tonight, even if all players are healthy enough to go. "We'll revisit some things," Corbin said, "and see what gives us the best chance."
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The story centers around a poor teenage girl named Shan Chai (Barbie Hsu), who at the insistence of her parents goes to a university for rich people. The university is dominated by Dao Ming Si (Jerry Yan), Hua Ze Lei (Vic Zhou), Mei Zuo (Vanness Wu) and Xi Men (Ken Chu), four rich and handsome but arrogant students collectively known as 'F4', short for 'Flower 4'. They are heirs to four rich and influential families in Taiwan. They terrorize the school by handing out red cards to those they do not like, which allows other students to bully the victims until they leave the school.
After one of Shan Chai's friends receives the wrath of F4's leader, Dao Ming Si, and receives a red card, Shan Chai stands up to Dao Ming Si and slaps him, which in turn results in a red card of her own. However, Shan Chai's persistence in standing up for what is right gradually gains F4's respect and Dao Ming Si falls in love with her.


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THE parents of a boy with cancer have been told by Queensland's largest children's hospital they need to start sourcing and paying for their outpatient son's bandages.
Townsville boy Matthew Lee, 8, has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer that has left him needing chemotherapy at the Royal Children's Hospital in Brisbane every three weeks.
As part of the procedure, Matthew requires regular replacement bandages on his chest, where drugs are administered through a tube surgically placed into his body.
His parents, Tony and Sharron, were disgusted when they received a letter from the hospital two weeks ago asking them to start paying for Matthew's dressings from March 1.
In the letter, Children's Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service general manager Sue McKee said families of all patients cared for and treated at home would have to get their own "clinical consumables" from pharmacies, specialist medical goods distributors and supermarkets, a move that would bring the hospital in line with other paediatric medical centres across Australia.
Mr Lee said it was another cost he and his wife would have to meet to keep their son alive.
"He's eight years old and...he's already got a vast amount of medicine he's got to take," he said.
"This is just another thing and we don't think we should have to pay for it."
The hospital has also advised families they would have to pay for other clinical items, including gloves, syringes, needles, lines and tubes.
"We're very disappointed and shocked...especially with the way everything's going in society nowadays," Mr Lee said.
"My sister works in the medical industry and you know about people who get on the methadone program - the drug addicts - and they get all that stuff on site.
"People who get into a fight or get hit by a car and go to the emergency department, are they supposed to stop by the chemist on the way and get their bandages to take with them?"
A Children's Health Queensland spokesman said the move would allow the hospital to recoup the cost of consumables.
However, he was unable to say how much money the cutbacks would save.
"The Royal Children's Hospital is the last hospital in Australia to provide clinical consumables for free, so we're simply going over to a policy that reflects the standard practice of absolutely everywhere else in the country," he said.
He said financial assistance was available for eligible families.
Australian Medical Association North Queensland representative Dr Carl O'Kane said public health care should remain as free as possible.
"I believe Australia has one of the most amazing health care systems in the world, and it's sad that we're now heading towards a model of American economic viability in our health care system," he said.
"If we're not careful, it will soon become a healthcare system for the rich, and not the poor."
The Townsville Hospital and Health Service has indicated similar plans to cut down on bandages and dressings to recover costs, but the hospital's board chairman John Bearne said yesterday that, as far as he knew, the consumables were still available without charge.
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The Senators should send a strong message to the Sabres tonight.
And they should do it with their fists.
No need to wait until the second or third period to go after the Sabres' elite players.
Do it on the first shift.
With a forward line of Brian McGrattan, Chris Neil ... and at centre, Ray Emery.
Yep, suit Emery up as a forward to start the game.
No need to worry about who wins the faceoff. McGrattan, Neil and Emery will quickly be punching out whatever sacrificial lambs the Sabres send out to start the game -- preferably Tomas Vanek and Daniel Briere, Buffalo's two most gifted players.
And while McGrattan, Neil and Emery are cooling their heels for five minutes ... maybe one of them gets tossed for instigating the massacre ... Emery can be changing into his goalie equipment, ready to spell Martin Gerber when the major penalty is up.
Crazy? Unprecedented? Far-fetched?
Maybe, but Sabres coach Lindy Ruff and the rest of the NHL have to know that the Senators won't be pushed around. At least not like they used to be when fight-fearing Jacques Martin held the reins.
Under Martin, the Senators were the "before" in those 98-lb. weakling ads.
They wouldn't fight, wouldn't stick up for teammates, some wouldn't go into the corners (hamstrung by that old Inge Hammerstrom eggs-in-the-pocket ailment) ... and ultimately they'd get hit and hit some more, then get knocked out of the playoffs, year after year.
Current Senators coach Bryan Murray has no qualms about unleashing his inner beast. With veins popping out of his forehead and his fists clenched, he looked like he was ready to smack the living bejeezus out of Ruff following Thursday night's dustup in Buffalo when Andrew Peters and his henchmen were obviously sent out on a mission to pummel Dany Heatley and Jason Spezza.
It's time for the Senators to stop being the whipping boys of the NHL ... it's time to send a message loud and clear: They won't be intimidated.
The Senators will squirm when they hear the notion that Emery should start at forward. Ridiculous, upper management will harumph: "What if Emery gets suspended? What if he gets injured? Why would we do something so ridiculous?"
Why not?
What was the water-cooler talk yesterday? Were Senators fans talking about nifty stickhandling or pretty goals.
Highly unlikely. They were talking about Sugar Ray Emery's fists of fury. If only every Senator had that much fire in his belly.
Let 'em go. Let 'em rumble.


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Two San Diego County companies say they've unlocked the genetic secrets of a tropical shrub that produces inedible golf-ball sized seeds which can be used to make biodiesel or jet fuel.
SG Biofuels and Life Technologies announced Tuesday that they have completed sequencing the genes of shrub, called jatropha curcas.
Researchers will now begin comparing the traits of more than 6,000 varieties of jatropha, looking for the ones with the most useful traits.
Eventually, they hope to develop breeds that can grow well in marginal agricultural land, use little water and produce a lot of oil.
Sequencing the genome — which took several weeks — is key to that effort, said Eric Mathur, SG's vice president of molecular agronomics.
"We can produce sustainable, low-cost crude jatropha oil in a much more rapid pace that without the genome," he said.
SG Biofuels has been working on ways to commercialize jatropha, and recently announced some of that work will move into a former poinsettia greenhouse in Encinitas, where it is based.
The goal is to produce enough oil to replace a significant amount of fuel now coming from petroleum. That could help fight global warming because any carbon dioxide produced when the fuel is burned was first absorbed by the plants while they were growing.
Carlsbad-based Life Technologies, which did the actual sequencing, has developed the technology to unravel the genetics of all manner of living organisms.
"There is significant opportunity to used advanced molecular techniques in the optimization of plant-based biofuels, especially jatropha, for increased yields and a faster development cycle," Wendy Jozsi, Life's director of synthetic biology said in a statement.
The two companies are working together as part of a strategic alliance announced in January.
Mathur said Life Technologies has invested in SG Biofuels, but didn't spell the terms of the alliance.
"It's a deep relationship," he said.Copyright © 2017, The San Diego Union-Tribune


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Connecticut Honors Community Actions to Fight Climate Change
HARTFORD, Connecticut, May 30, 2008 (ENS) – Governor M. Jodi Rell has recognized seven individuals and organizations with awards from the Governor's Steering Committee on Climate Change.
Governor Rell said, "Connecticut has been a leader in addressing climate change by putting strong programs in place to reduce dangerous greenhouse gas emissions across all sectors of our economy. If we are going to successfully meet the challenge of climate change, however, state government cannot do it alone. It will also take the commitment of businesses, local governments, organizations and individual citizens."
"The accomplishments of those being honored today demonstrate the breadth of strong leadership in Connecticut – from 10 year olds to octogenarians, small towns to large cities, and nonprofit organizations to small businesses and multinational corporations," Rell said.
Gina McCarthy, commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection and chair of the Governor's Steering Committee on Climate Change and other members of the Governor's Steering Committee presented the third annual climate change Leadership Awards at a ceremony Tuesday at ING's new energy efficient headquarters in Windsor.
At the ceremony, McCarthy said, "The challenge of climate change is also an opportunity to rebuild our economy on principles of sustainability, including energy efficiency, clean energy, cleaner transportation, local food systems, and carbon neutrality. Those we are honoring today are demonstrating the common sense, practical and cost effective steps we can all take to achieve those goals."
2008 Climate Change Leadership Award Recipients
CitySeed, New Haven
A vendor at the CitySeed farmers market
in New Haven (Photo courtesy CitySeed)
CitySeed operates four farmers' markets in New Haven, where only products grown or produced in Connecticut are sold, and established the first year round open-air farmers' market in Connecticut.
In 2007, vendor sales at these markets contributed over $1.6 million to job creation and the local economy; farmers redeemed over $64,460 in WIC coupons and Food Stamps from local families in need.
Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Agriculture honored CitySeed with its Golden Grocer Award, earned by only one farmers market in the country.
CitySeed has developed a pre-school curriculum and also a website at: www.BuyCTGrown.com that offers a comprehensive guide to local food, farms and agricultural products in Connecticut.
City of Stamford
The city of Stamford has committed to using 20 percent clean energy by 2010 and to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent by 2018. The city is a member of Cities for Climate Protection and signed on to the U.S. Mayors Climate Protection Agreement.
Stamford has inventoried its greenhouse gas emissions and has a local greenhouse gas action plan. Since 1998, the city has reduced energy use by over 11 million kilowatt-hours annually through energy efficiency projects in city buildings, saving almost $1.3 million a year.
Some of the specific steps the city has taken to reduce energy use and greenhouse gas emissions include solar installations for lighting at Kosciusko Park and at the recycling center; establishing a $6.1 million energy performance contract in more than 20 schools; reducing street lighting and piloting highly efficient Light Emitting Diode, LED, street lights; replacing downtown decorative lighting to achieve a 62 percent energy savings; and replacing all traffic signals with LED lights.
Curtis Packaging, Newtown
In 2007, Curtis Packaging became the first deluxe printing and packaging company in North America to go 100 percent carbon neutral and was the first company in its industry to be certified by the Forest Stewardship Council.
The company also purchases wind energy certificates to offset 100 percent of the electricity used at its facilities. Curtis Packaging structured this purchase to include more than one million kilowatt-hours of CTCleanEnergyOptions, which helped its host community, Newtown, earn a free solar electric system under the Connecticut Clean Energy Fund's Clean Energy Communities program.
The company's remaining carbon dioxide emissions are being neutralized by investing in the Mynydd-Y-Garnedd forestry project in Wales and the Rhine-Ruhr methane capture project in Germany.
ING, Windsor
The global financial services company ING provides banking, investments, life insurance and retirement services to more than 75 million customers in Europe, the United States, Canada, Latin America, Asia and Australia.
ING is a carbon neutral company. It achieves this through the purchase of clean energy as well as other efforts. Globally, it reduced its energy consumption by 19 percent between 2006 and 2007.
In 2007 ING in the United States purchased more than 70 million kilowatt-hours of clean energy, which offsets 100 percent of the electricity used for its facilities nationwide. This represents the largest clean energy purchase by a company headquartered in Connecticut.
In addition, ING's new 475,000 square foot headquarters in Windsor features numerous green attributes including occupancy sensors, daylight harvesting control systems, and highly efficient air conditioning.
Green Council at Whitney Center, Hamden
Composed of seniors from the Whitney Center retirement community, the Green Council has promoted conservation awareness in elderly communities throughout Connecticut. This group of senior citizens created a website at www.grayisgreen.org, which provides information on a wide range of environmental issues including climate change and energy efficiency.
The website also contains a list of films and videos for use by retirement communities and a checklist whereby each community can evaluate its green performance.
The group presents at educational forums and has authored and published the "Handbook on Conservation for Retirement Communities."
The Council recently incorporated a new organization, National Senior Conservation Corps, to extend its work. The group now has links with retirement communities in Florida, North Carolina, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Oregon, and California as well as many locations in Connecticut.
Little People, Big Changes, Wilton
Little People, Big Changes was launched when Jordan Reichgut and Alex Scaperotta were eight years old. They are now 10 and still working to focus attention on climate change.
These two young boys and their moms have signed up more than 120 homes for clean energy under the CTCleanEnergyOptions program and launched a "no idling" campaign to reduce air emissions from cars, trucks and buses.
Little People, Big Changes has conducted presentations to schools, town officials, and local community groups on clean energy and global warming, and publishes a column in the local newspaper and in school newsletters.
Ridgefield Action Committee for the Environment, Ridgefield
Formed in 2007 to promote sustainability in Ridgefield, the Ridgefield Action Committee led the effort to have this town commit to supporting 20 percent clean energy by 2010 for all town operations.
The committee sponsored a "Mayors Challenge" on clean energy sign ups to six surrounding towns, developed an anti-idling campaign that resulted in 10 percent reductions and helped decrease energy use in town schools by 12 percent.
The committee organized a day-long retreat on environmental sustainability attended by 70 Ridgefield town leaders, including town selectmen, planners and commissioners, Board of Education members, school administrators, students, Chamber of Commerce members, people associated with community associations, and business leaders.
The Connecticut climate change Leadership Awards Program was developed by the Governor's Steering Committee on climate change. The awards were first presented in 2006. This year's awardees were chosen from 26 nominations received statewide. To submit a nomination for next year, visit: www.ctclimatechange.com


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While the legal department at Eli Lilly and Co. has successfully implemented its own special project, a Street Law program at a local high school, Lilly's robust service culture extends into all of the company's departments.
The company's global services program, Connecting Hearts Abroad, which launched in March, is an innovative service project that sends groups of eight or nine Lilly employees to developing communities in Central America, South America, Africa and Asia that lack fundamental resources. Lilly ambassadors work together for two weeks to address the communities' needs and assist residents in four categories: health care, caregiving, teaching and community development.
Connecting Hearts Abroad is an ambitious, multiyear program that, when completed, will consist of 23 trips to 10 countries. Two hundred Lilly employees from 38 countries have been chosen to participate. The goal of the program is not only to help needy international communities, but also to inspire Lilly employees to brainstorm new ideas that will improve the company.
David Marbaugh, communications director for Lilly's corporate responsibility group, traveled to New Delhi, India, where he worked at a school for underprivileged children for two weeks. Like other Connecting Hearts Abroad ambassadors, Marbaugh shared his experiences and photos with friends and coworkers back home through a blog on the Lilly corporate site.
Marbaugh says the program was an enriching experience that celebrated Lilly's diversity. "People from different departments and geographies—everyone from senior leaders to associate and administrative assistants—are going on these trips," he says. "We wanted them not only to be exposed to a different culture, but also to different people inside of Lilly that they probably had never had access to before."
Read more about Lilly's Connecting Hearts Abroad ambassadors' experiences.