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When it comes to the U.S. biofuel market, ethanol receives all the attention. To be sure, ethanol production and consumption dwarf the size of the biodiesel market.
Nevertheless, biodiesel was thrust into the limelight recently. The Jan. 1 deal passed by Congress to avoid the fiscal cliff included a provision to extend the $1-per gallon tax credit for companies that blend biodiesel with petroleum-based fuel through the end of 2013. In addition, the new legislation makes the extension retroactive to its December 2011 expiration.
Since biodiesel broke onto the scene in a meaningful way in the mid-2000s, approximately 10%-15% of U.S. soybean oil output has been used for biodiesel. Despite its relative low-profile status, soyoil-based biodiesel usage almost doubled in the 2011-12 marketing year from the previous year, to 4.87 billion pounds, from 2.73 billion pounds. The estimate for 2012-13 usage is slightly higher at 4.9 billion pounds. With smaller soybean crops over the past two seasons, the combination of lower bean oil supplies and the jump in consumption have caused a sharp drop in ending stocks.
From the 2005-06 marketing year through 2011-12, the advent of biodiesel did not affect the availability of soybean oil. U.S. ending stocks during that period averaged 14% of consumption. This year the estimate has fallen to 7.7% of usage. If the government's tax breaks are successful in stimulating production and ultimately usage, we can see inventory levels strained further.
Our original bullish foray into this market was based on a surge in U.S. exports and was independent of any developments on the biodiesel front. At the time, the USDA was underestimating 2012-13 exports by a wide margin. That situation has been rectified, with upwards revisions in both the December and January crop reports. The estimate now stands at 980,000 tonnes, up from the 540,000-tonne November estimate. That is still well above last year's final sales tally of 660,000 tonnes, but far below 2011-12 sales, which reached 1.47 million tonnes. Exports of soybean oil have been steady, but nothing like the volumes we saw in mid-November.
Is the tightness in the U.S. indicative of tightness among the other major producing nations, or will South American producers, for example, pick up the slack? Global ending stocks averaged 9.3% of consumption over the past 10 years, but the estimate for 2012-13 has fallen to a modern-day historical low of 7.5%.
Argentina is expected to recover from last year's disastrous 40.1-million-tonne crop, which was down 18% from a year earlier. Early forecasts called for a 55-million-tonne crop, but growing regions have once again suffered from hot and dry weather, which has left the crops with insufficient moisture. Some analysts have lowered their estimates to 52 million tonnes.
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St. John's Annual Christmas Concert Proceeds to Go to the Storm Victims
The Italian Cultural Center of St. John's University has joined forces with the Garibaldi-Meucci Museum, and the Italian Foundation of the casa Belvedere to present the Staten Island Sandy Relief Benefit on Sunday, December 09. The benefit will combine two holiday traditions—St. John's annual holiday concert and the exhibition of the Presepio. The event begins with the opening of the magnificent - 18th Century Style Neapolitan Solidarity Crèche - Il Presepio Della Solidarietà. The exhibit, a special 9-11 Tribute, was a gift of friendship and solidarity from the Naples, Italy Chamber of Commerce to The New York City Fire Department in honor of the victims of 9-11 and the brave First Responders. The unveiling will be followed by a cabaret-style Christmas Concert and reception with the New American Youth Ballet and the Richmond County Orchestra conducted by Maestro Alan Aurelia, followed by a performance by TWO TENORS & A LADY - with VETRO Tenors Christopher Macchio & Elio Scaccio and Soprano Marissa Famiglietti.What: "A Unique Solidarity Event to Benefit the Staten Island Victims of Hurricane Sandy" When: Unveiling Reception, Flynn Hall 1:30 Christmas Concert & Reception,Campus Center 3:00
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In Michigan, Granholm says no to Senate bid
Seat being vacated by Democrat Car Levin
For those hoping to see the fiery Jennifer Granholm launch a Senate campaign in Michigan, they may be disappointed.
The former Michigan governor announced Friday on Facebook that she won't be seeking the Senate seat to be vacated by her fellow Democrat, longtime Sen. Carl Levin.
"Friends, thanks for all of the encouragement on the Michigan Senate seat, but I'm not going to run. I appreciate all of the outreach I've received; for several reasons it's just not right for us (it's a family decision)," she wrote on Facebook. "My best to all the contenders - Levin's US Senate seat will stay blue!"
Granholm was widely considered a potential contender in the race. As a former two-term governor of the state with a recent stint as a television host on Current TV and a rousing speech at the 2012 Democratic National Convention, Granholm would have entered the race with no shortage of name recognition.
But serving her second term amid the Great Recession, which especially struck Detroit's auto industry, Granholm struggled to maintain popularity and finished out her time with low approval ratings.
She also made headlines in 2011 when she withdrew her name from consideration to head the Democratic National Committee, as then-chairman Tim Kaine considered leaving to run for the U.S. Senate.
Granholm, who was born in Canada, is viewed as someone with desirable political attributes ranging from a strong television presence, an ability to raise money and knowledge of how to manage a large scale operation--skills honed as governor of Michigan.
Other Democrats considering a bid include Debbie Dingell, longtime Democratic activist and wife of veteran Rep. John Dingell, as well as Rep. Gary Peters.
Levin announced earlier this month he would not seek re-election to a seventh term in 2014.
The Washington Post first reported the story.
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If voters want major change in Washington, they won't find it in the next Senate's leadership. There will be little turnover in the chamber's top ranks in January, according to Democratic and GOP caucus election results announced Wednesday.
Nevada's Harry Reid is returning for another term as leader of the majority Democrats, who defied expectations by expanding their caucus from 53 to 55 members. Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin will once again serve as assistant majority leader, while New York Sen. Chuck Schumer returns as Democratic conference vice chairman -- the party's number three slot.
Washington Sen. Patty Murray is back as the Democratic conference secretary - the majority leadership's number four slot.
Democrats have not settled on a replacement for Murray to head up their campaign committee, which will spearhead the party's Senate efforts in 2014.
On the Republican side of the aisle, Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell was re-elected minority leader on Wednesday. McConnell was nominated by Florida's Marco Rubio and Pennsylvania's Pat Toomey, two tea party favorites who may help bolster the minority leader's standing among conservatives deeply disappointed with last week's election results.
McConnell also has to guard his conservative flank back home in Kentucky, where he will face voters in two years.
Texas Sen. John Cornyn will replace retiring Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl in the GOP's number two slot -- an outcome never seriously considered in doubt despite Cornyn's leadership of the GOP's Senate campaign effort this year. Republicans started the year with high hopes of gaining the majority.
"We have a lot of very difficult work to do, but we are committed to working with our colleagues across the aisle to solving the nation's urgent problems," Cornyn told reporters.
South Dakota's John Thune, Wyoming's John Barrasso, Missouri's Roy Blunt, and Kansas's Jerry Moran will round out the ranks of the GOP leadership next year. Moran will succeed Cornyn as head of the GOP's senatorial campaign committee - a position the Kansan has aggressively sought.
"The success of politics follows governing well, and so I'm looking forward to working with Leader McConnell and others in our conference to make sure that we make the right decisions on behalf of America," Moran said.


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Prominent Republicans who support marriage rights for same-sex couples are the focus of a new million-dollar ad campaign that's set to roll out Wednesday.
The spot, from the Respect for Marriage Coalition, features clips of former Vice President Dick Cheney, former first lady Laura Bush, and former Secretary of State Colin Powell all voicing their support for same-sex marriage rights. The ads also use a clip from President Barack Obama's second inaugural address in January.
The group said they would spend $1 million to air the ad, as well as run print ads in major newspapers utilizing the same quotes from the Republicans who back equal marriage rights.
"None of us would want to be told we can't marry the person we love," a narrator says introducing the clips. "That's why a growing majority of Americans believe it's time to allow marriage for gay and lesbian couples."
Bush is shown in a 2010 CNN interview with Larry King saying, "When couples are committed to each other and love each other then they ought to have the same sort of rights that everyone has."
Those remarks came as a surprise at the time, since she appeared to be breaking ranks on the issue with her husband, former President George W. Bush. In 2011, her daughter Barbara appeared in a television spot for another pro-gay marriage group, the Human Rights Campaign.
Wednesday's ad from the Respect for Marriage Coalition also shows Colin Powell, the former Secretary of State under George W. Bush, supporting same-sex marriage in an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer from May.
"Allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country," Powell said on CNN's "The Situation Room."
That interview reflected a shift for Powell, who was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff when the military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy was implemented.
A third Republican, former Vice President Dick Cheney, is shown in the spot saying "Freedom means freedom for everyone." Cheney's younger daughter Mary wed her longtime partner Heather Poe in June. They were married in Washington, D.C., which legalized same-sex marriage in 2009.
And a Democrat, President Barack Obama, is shown during his January inauguration address declaring "Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law."
The new ad campaign comes as the Supreme Court prepares to tackle the issue of same-sex marriage this spring. Last year the high court agreed to hear two constitutional challenges to state and federal laws dealing with the recognition of gay and lesbian couples to legally wed.
Oral arguments will be held on March 26 and 27, with a ruling by late June.


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The United States is closely watching how rebel forces operate inside Syria, and what their end objectives might be as the Obama administration weighs whether or not to provide arms to the Syrian opposition.
"Will providing arms to the opposition convince the people who support [Syrian President] Bashar al-Assad, in many cases because they are afraid of their own existence, or will it simply lead to more fighting -- that is the question that we are considering," Robert Ford, the U.S. ambassador to Syria, said during a panel discussion in Washington on Thursday on the crisis in Syria.
"Arms are not a strategy, arms are a tactic," Ford said about the deliberation the administration is undertaking on the question, and that a "military solution" is not the best path forward for Syria.
"The president has never taken the provision of arms off the table," he said. "And so, as we think about our policy of sending arms or not, and today we do not, we want to make sure that tactic plays into and helps us achieve a strategy of enabling the Syrian people to reach a political solution."
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Thursday the United States is not providing surface-to-air missiles, which have been seen used by the rebels.
The United States has not provided any support to the armed opposition, said National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor.
"Our position on assistance to the Syrian opposition has not changed. The United States remains committed to providing humanitarian assistance to the Syrian people and providing non-lethal equipment and training to unarmed, civilian-led opposition groups," Vietor said in an e-mail.
In remarks at a forum on future foreign policy trends in Washington on Thursday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that "no other decisions have been made yet, but we consider them on a daily basis."
The question comes as the international community studies a new umbrella group comprised of Syrian opposition elements fighting for political change inside Syria. The United States has not yet endorsed the group as the legitimate representative of the Syrian opposition. Both the Britain and France have made that recognition already.
"We would like to see them continue to develop as an organization, as a coalition that are making real progress and I expect that our position with them will evolve as they themselves develop," Ford, who was present at the group's unveiling in Qatar earlier this month said Thursday. "I want to be very clear that we welcome the establishment of the coalition and that we will work with them."
Obama administration officials told CNN a decision has yet to be made on whether to formally recognize the opposition group. Officials say an upcoming meeting later this month of the so-called "Friends of Syria" group in Marrakesh, Morocco, would be a logical date for an announcement.
But that recognition would be contingent on the group strengthening its organizational structure, and forming technical committees on issues such as health and agriculture that could go about the process of establishing government structures in parts of the country that are liberated and putting in place a template of governance that would represent the broad cross-section of religious and ethnic groups inside Syria.
"That is an opportunity for them," an administration official told CNN about the upcoming meeting. "They know that the world is going to be seeing them at the Friends of the Syrian people meeting, so we'll just have to see how much progress they make between now and then."
In her remarks on Thursday, Clinton said that while it "appears as though the opposition in Syria is now capable of holding ground," the entire country was still not close to a "tipping point" away from Assad.
Clinton said that while she would have more to say on the U.S. view of the opposition when she travels to the meeting in Marrakesh, the United States was still reviewing its posture toward the opposition.
"We're constantly evaluating, we're constantly taking action, and I am sure we will do more in the weeks ahead," she said.
And while efforts to strengthen the Syrian opposition continue, the continued presence of extremists exploiting the situation is still a major concern for the United States.
Extremists "are absolutely there, and I think frankly their presence is growing stronger," Ford said, adding that included a front operating for al Qaeda. "We have certainly raised in our discussions with other countries the importance of isolating extremists and not helping them. Those are the conversations that continue."
Those discussions are also likely to include conversations with countries like Qatar and Saudi Arabia, who are supplying weapons to rebels on the ground inside Syria. The Washington Post reported Thursday that Qatar was in the process of providing a small number of shoulder-fired missiles to rebels to target aerial resources of the Assad regime.
Such a development could be seen as something of an equalizer Ford said in terms of complicating Assad's prosecution of a civil war that has claimed more than 40,000 lives.
But the use of such weapons would be unlikely to usher in the sort of game-changer that would bring about the downfall of the regime, and a new political order for Syria.
"I don't think the mere presence of shoulder fired missiles is going to lead the people who are fighting for Bashar al-Assad to stop fighting for Bashar al-Assad," Ford said.
But a U.S. official told CNN the "armed opposition is maturing" and having an impact on the regime.
"It's making important tactical gains that could eventually trigger a strategic shift in the conflict," the official said. "They haven't reached that point yet, but the span of regime control is narrowing, and Assad's forces are having greater difficulty beating back the insurgents' progress."
Ford is still operating as the U.S. envoy to Syria from his office in Washington. He left his post in Damascus last February when the United States closed its embassy due to the deteriorating security situation.


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If Michigan played Ohio State in a divisional rivalry at the end of each season, there would be no chance of a rematch in the title game. (John T. Greilick/Detroit News)
Uh-oh. The Big Ten is thinking hard again, always a scary proposition.
The last time it happened? Rutgers and Maryland showed up on the doorstep. The time before that, an all-night scotch binge (that's my guess) led to the Legends and Leaders monikers.
Now the conference has another batch of tricky issues, and it begins with realignment. Thankfully, I have the ideal plan to handle it without too much rancor and bloodshed.
With the impending expansion to 14 teams — and possibly 16 — division shuffling will happen. And yes, this is a top priority: Michigan and Ohio State must be in the same division. Give me a moment and I'll explain why that would send Michigan State to the other division.
Am I overly obsessed with Michigan-Ohio State? Not really. As the Big Ten's football cachet dwindles, the rivalry remains its biggest national selling point. The conference already said divisions will follow loose geographical lines, and that makes sense, with no need to slap happy names on them.
By 2014, the divisions should be East and West, and should look like this:
East: Michigan, Ohio State, Penn State, Indiana, Purdue, Rutgers, Maryland
West: Michigan State, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois, Northwestern
Michigan and Ohio State still would play on the final weekend, so a spot in the Big Ten championship game could be at stake without fear of a rematch. If you put them in opposite divisions, The Game could be one Saturday, and THE Game could be the next.
That would be very dumb. Also, officials would face a health crisis with all those bloated Buckeye livers after a two-week bender. One argument against this alignment is that the East would be a tad thin — at least until Penn State bounces back. Fair point, and if you flipped Northwestern and Purdue (or Indiana), I could live with it.
In my scenario, the Spartans would continue to play the Wolverines in a protected rivalry game early, and could meet again later in a championship showdown. And does Michigan State, Wisconsin or Nebraska really want to be in the East with Ohio State? The way the Spartans and Badgers have battled lately, that could become the West version of The Game.
Besides, with the Big Ten reportedly instituting a nine- or 10-game conference schedule by 2016, each team would face three or four opponents from the other division every year. That should mitigate any competitive balance concerns, which brings me to the next issue facing Jim Delany: Nine or 10 conference games?
Perfect 10
I'm sure Urban Meyer has the absolute perfect plan for the Big Ten to compete with the Southeastern Conference, and he'll enlighten us at his leisure. In the meantime, it's fairly obvious the conference schedule should be 10 games, again because of competitive balance. If you go with nine, half the teams would play only four conference games at home, creating a squabble abut unfair races. As much as I like squabbling, that would be too noisy for me.
With the four-team national playoff launching after the 2014 regular season, strength of schedule will be important. So if you force the big boys to play another Big Ten opponent instead of, say, Massachusetts, that's a good thing.
The downside to 10 conference games? It would push Michigan, Ohio State and others with humongous stadiums to host both nonconference games, to ensure seven big-money gates. Michigan athletic director Dave Brandon and Ohio State's Gene Smith have said the financial hit of only six home games would be too large to ignore.
Unfortunately, if you play both nonconference games at home, you're not going to line up prime opponents on a regular basis.
The Big Ten is expected to stop scheduling smaller FCS teams, which is good, but it reduces options. Notre Dame and others require home-and-home agreements, theoretically putting nonconference showdowns in jeopardy.
Michigan State already has long-term plans to face Oregon, Alabama and Miami. Michigan has Arkansas, Oregon State and BYU on its docket, although Notre Dame opted out after 2014, for now. In college football's ever-shifting environment, you'd hate to lose intersectional clashes, but wouldn't you also hate to determine a conference champion with an unbalanced schedule?
I can hear the shrieking already, and it will ratchet up when the Big Ten starts poking around for two more teams. North Carolina? Georgia Tech? Iowa State? Appalachian State?
This will get messier before it gets clearer. But with the big-boy table for the national championship about to grow to four teams, it'll be harder for the SEC to hog all the spots. To have any shot, the Big Ten needs to produce a worthy champion, or at least as worthy as possible.
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- Pain from latest Lions' debacle will linger
- Michigan still missing go-to player, as crushing loss to Arizona demonstates
- Jim Schwartz's job on the line as Lions' playoff hopes teeter
- Michigan State's victory over Ohio State redefines program
- Chris McCosky's Four Downs: Joique Bell takes blame for Lions' loss
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