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Horse Creek Ranch holds endurance competition
With an early rise and a long hot journey ahead of them, 40 riders headed out for an endurance competition at Horse Creek Ranch Saturday, July 7.
Endurance riding takes horseback riding to whole different level, with distances in this particular competition of 25, 50, 75, and 100 miles. It was an early rise for every rider and horse, as the 75 and 100-mile riders began their journey at 5 a.m. The next group of riders started an hour later, and as 7 a.m. rolled around the 25-mile riders entered the trails too.
Participants have seven hours to complete the 25, 12 hours to complete the 50, 18 hours to complete the 75 and 24 hours to complete the 100 miles. Within these times there are mandatory holds, in which riders are required to rest their horses. During these rests they water down their horses, feed them, and prepare them for the next loop.
The sand on the trails makes the ride a very technical one, said ride manager and past president of Endurance Riders of Alberta Brenda Henrikson. The deep sand is quite hard on the ligaments of the horses, so riders need to be very careful.
�It�s not the easy ride that some people think it is,� she said. �But the trails are beautiful.�
�To finish is to win� is the motto of endurance riding. Although it doesn�t matter whether it takes eight hours or two, the race is one you want to make sure your horse is able to complete, said Henrikson. This is why the competition is so controlled with vets and stops.
At every stop vet Deanna Spiker, who has 18 years of vet experience under her belt, was in charge of judging each horse by checking their pulse, trotting them to see if they�re still bright and perky, checking their skin, gut sounds, and muscles for cramping or weariness.
The vet�s job is to make sure the horses are safe and healthy after each loop, and if they aren�t to stop them from going any further. Although Spiker said sometimes it�s hard for the rider to know the state of their horse while they�re riding, most riders in this sport are great with their horse and stop before injury occurs.
�If they�re lame or they�re starting to get too tired or dehydrated, we stop them and that�s it,� she said. �[Riders] are just as willing to stop their horse as you are to stop it.�
Spiker said a lot of the horses were more tired than they would have been normally because of the heat, and there were a few horses that wound up being lame because of muscle cramping. However other than that she said the horses did pretty well.
Awards were given for first to fourth place in each speed division, but perhaps the most cherished award is Best Condition. During the competition, each rider carries a vet card with them on which they are scored by the vet during their rest stops. The weight their horse was carrying, how the horse finished the race, how long their ride was, among other factors are all taken into consideration.
�That�s a really coveted award, to be given best condition,� said Henrikson.
Henrikson said the rider turnout for the competition this year was a good one, considering the hot weather and bugs.
�It was hot and tiring. We all got a little roasted, and the bugs drove the horses crazy,� said Henrikson. �But we didn�t have any injuries, we didn�t have any accidents, no horses ended up with any health issues. That�s a good day.�
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Presumed Guilty
... Thanks, Rev. Steven, for illuminating that (unbearable) side of reality for us! This despicable state of affairs reminded me of these excellent verses:
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I never in my life expected that I'd be reading an article like this. Petros ___________ Religions asking if test-tube burgers allow them to keep the faith
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While I try real hard not to talk about my beliefs because I know that not every grower & consumer of the cannabis plant is a believer in Christianity, it is
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Mayors Tell Feds To Butt Out!!
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Religious Leaders To Develop an Action Plan to Decriminalize Drugs
This is great news Petros...thank you!! Rev.Steven B.Thompson,Chapter Director Benzie County NORML 6215 Smeltzer Rd. Benzonia,MI 49616 (231) 882-4496
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Summary of the recent ACLU marijuana arrest report w/ charts
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Tommy Chong's Cancer Cure,And It's STILL ILLEGAL!!
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I currently own a 3T-GTEU powered TA-22 Celica & have it set up quite well in the handling & braking departments, but I am evaluating different options to improve the power output.
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I would be looking at doing the labour myself & have built many successful naturally aspirated race engines, from 4A-GEs to 13B bridgeports, but I don't have a lot of experience with Turbo engines.
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The Cedar River Watershed Education Center depends on volunteers like you to make its award-winning programs a success. A variety of positions are open for all different levels of interest and experience. Browse the volunteer descriptions to see how you can contribute your time to sharing the wonder and beauty of the Cedar River Watershed. Contact Chris Holland at (206) 615-0831 for more information or to sign up.
Center Hosts - Volunteers needed now - Tuesday to Sunday
Inspire and inform visitors about the numerous opportunities at the Center and assist staff in the successful completion of projects. Meet and greet visitors, answer questions, assist in the sales area and other reception duties
Heritage Library
Be instrumental in helping to preserve the history of the municipal Cedar River Watershed. Archive photos, greet visitors and partake in Watershed research. Volunteers needed Saturday and Sunday to open the library for visitors on the weekends.
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Attend high quality Cedar River programs for free! Volunteer hosts greet visitors, assist the instructor and may drive vans into the closed Cedar River Watershed. Examples of programs topics include: Historic towns, Old Growth Forests, Wetlands, Railroads, Geology and Wild Mushrooms
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If you like to dig in the dirt you can help maintain the beauty of the grounds around the Center. Landscape volunteers help manage weeds and native plants, inventory gardens and maintain the rain drums as needed.
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Marian Margaret Whaley, 88, Kansas City North, passed away April 2, 2013 at North Kansas City Hospital. Funeral services will be 4:00 PM Saturday, April 6th at the McGilley Antioch Chapel where a visitation will begin at 2:30 PM.
Graveside services will be 11 AM Monday at the Oak Hill Cemetery, Maryville, MO. Contributions are suggested to the Shepherd's Center of the Northland.
Marian was born May 14, 1924 to Oliver and Alice Hawks in Topeka, KS. She graduated from Hiawatha, KS High School. In 1953 she married Gerald D. Whaley, Jr. Marian lived most of her adult life in Kansas City and was very active in the Shepherd's Center. She was preceded in death by her parents and in 1998 husband, Gerald.
Survivors include 3 children, James Whaley, Independence, MO, Steven Whaley and wife, Vicki, Kansas City, MO, and Joyce Garretson, Kansas City, MO; 5 grandchildren and 1 great grandchild.


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UCSF celebrates the opening of an architecturally unique stem cell building, a milestone in the history of UCSF's pioneering stem cell research program, one of the largest and most comprehensive of its kind in the United States.
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Ray and Dagmar Dolby this week donated $20 million to the University of California, San Francisco to provide funding for a stem cell building on the Parnassus campus.
January 18, 2011
UCSF researchers have tackled a decade-long scientific conundrum, and their discovery is expected to lead to significant advances in using stem cells to treat genetic diseases before birth.
December 16, 2010
UCSF researchers have shown for the first time that the human fetal immune system arises from an entirely different source than the adult immune system, and is more likely to tolerate than fight foreign substances in its environment.
December 14, 2010
For patients with glioma, the most common primary brain tumor, new findings may explain why current therapies fail to eradicate the cancer. A UCSF-led team of scientists has identified for the first time that progenitor rather than neural stem cells underly a type of glioma called oligodendroglioma.
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Seven of UCSF's health care experts will share their wisdom on Wednesday during the cloud computing conference known as Dreamforce 2010 at San Francisco's Moscone Center.
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A lawsuit and inaction by Congress threaten federally funded embryonic stem cell research at UCSF and across the country.
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Scientists are reporting the first direct evidence that a subtle change in the physical properties of a tissue can affect its function.
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Ophir Klein wants to use stem cells to grow teeth. Because teeth are simple in comparison to large, vital organs, they may serve as a proving ground for regenerative medicine.


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'Stand Up and Take Action!' with Skype, Ustream and the UN Millennium Campaign
Change often starts with having a conversation. At Skype, we're proud to enable global conversations that can help end poverty. We are partnering with the United Nations Millennium Campaign to foster conversations about the most important issues facing our generation during "Stand Up and Take Action!," the annual mobilization where citizens gather at events around the world to demand that world leaders eradicate extreme poverty by 2015.
As part of the program, for the first time, Skype is collaborating with Ustream to enable video calls about global poverty between world leaders, celebrities, and citizens globally to be broadcast on the internet live via Ustream's interactive video broadcasting platform. The Skype calls will be broadcast on both the Stand Up Take Action! page on Facebook and Ustream's web site.
Those participating in the Skype video calls include former Irish President Mary Robinson, as well as African entertainers Femi Kuti and Angelique Kidjo. The calls will take place throughout this week, leading up to the "Stand Up and Take Action!" weekend on October 16-18 when millions of citizens will take part in activities demanding that world leaders keep their promises to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.
We hope you will join us to stand up to poverty by engaging in your own dialogues about this global crisis and what can be done to eradicate it. To find out how to get involved in "Stand Up and Take Action" events happening across the globe, please visit www.standagainstpoverty.org.
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Dear Mr. Silverman
I wanted to post this blog and tell you about my personal experience with your customer service department. I spoke with Rita. On April 17, of this year my skype credit was almost $10 USD. I have had an unlimited account with your company for 1 year and have been satisfied with my service. I purchased that credit on February 9, 2010 and at that time I also went under my payment options and changed my credit card information.
On Feb 14 of this year skype tried to run an automatic renewal charge and it failed. I found out today (by my own research Rita was no help at all) that skype tried to renew my acct with my old credit card information which had since been closed.
Today I went online and renewed my unlimited plan manually because my phone quit working and i could not make a call.
The reason I IM'ed customer service was to find out why my renewal didnt go thru and also to get a credit for the $10 that your company had been using up in my acct thru per minute charges. Rita kindly told me that she was not authorized to fix the incorrect charges on my acct even though Skype tried to authorize the charges on the wrong card. She was more than happy to cancel my account all together though and refund the brand new unlimited plan i just paid for.
Mr. Silverman here is my question. Why would you lose a paying customer over a $10 charge that was your companies error, Instead of just fixing it and apologizing? I was so frustrated by your customer service that i agreed with her and let her close my account. She happily refunded the $35 yearly subscription but refused to fix the $10 billing error.
Mr. Silverman I was satisfied with your technical service so much so that I cancelled my unlimited long distance on my home phone and was using your service exclusively on my I-phone. Mr. Silverman you need to give your customer support agents more authority to fix your companies billing issues and keep the good paying customer you have. This was my first call to your customer support and unfortunately it will probably be my last. I want to give my money to a company who actually treats its customers who have issues with as much respect and ease as the ones it just signed up.
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SQUARE MARKS THE SPOT: New neurons visualized via NMR spectroscopy. The methodology may allow researchers to see how young neurons behave in neurological disorders.
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For the first time, researchers have developed a way to view stem cells in the brains of living animals, including humans—a finding that allows scientists to follow the process neurogenesis (the birth of neurons). The discovery comes just months after scientists confirmed that such cells are generated in adult as well as developing brains.
"I was looking for a method that would enable us to study these cells through[out a] life span," says Mirjana Maletic-Savatic, an assistant professor of neurology at Stony Brook University in New York State, who specializes in neurological disorders such as cerebral palsy that premature and low-weight babies are at greater risk of developing. She says the new technique will enable her to track children at risk by monitoring the quantity and behavior of these so-called progenitor cells in their brains.
The key ingredient in this process is a substance unique to immature cells that is neither found in mature neurons nor in glia, the brain's nonneuronal support cells. Maletic-Savatic and her colleagues collected samples of each of the three cell types from rat brains (stem cells from embryonic animals, the others from adults) and cultured the varieties separately in the lab. They were able to determine the chemical makeup of each variety—and isolate the compound unique to stem cells—with nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. (NMR helps to determine a molecule's structure by measuring the magnetic properties of its subatomic particles.) Although the NMR could identify the biomarker, but not its makeup, Maletic-Savatic speculates it is a blend of fatty acids in a lipid (fat) or lipid protein.
After pinpointing their marker, the team ran two tests to determine the method's sensitivity and accuracy: First, they injected a bevy of stem cells into a rat's cerebral cortex, an outer brain layer where neurogenesis does not normally occur. They then passed an electric current through the animals' brains; electric currents induce neurogenesis in the hippocampus, a forebrain structure that is one of two sites (the other being the subventricular zone) where new neurons are believed to arise.
After performing each procedure, the team used NMR spectroscopy to capture images of the living rats' brains. There was, however, too much visual interference on the scans to find their biomarker. The researchers called upon Stony Brook electrical engineering professor Petar Djurić to help them come up with an algorithm to cut through the clutter and glean a clear picture of their target compound.
With the analytical method helping to decode their scans, they could clearly see increased biomarker levels in the cortex after a neural stem cell injection. Similarly, after the animals were given electric shocks, levels of the compound clearly went up in the hippocampus.
The team next turned its attention to humans, enlisting 11 healthy volunteers, ranging in age from eight to 35, who each spent 45 minutes in an NMR scanner. Hippocampal scans turned up more of the marker than the cortical images. In addition, the older subjects showed lower levels of the biomarker than younger ones (a finding consistent with earlier studies). "This is the first technique that allows detection of these cells in the living human brain," says Maletic-Savatic.
Fred Gage, a genetics professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, Calif., and co-author a 1998 report in Nature Medicine that announced the discovery of neurogenesis in the adult human brain, praises the new approach. "It seems that they are measuring proliferation rather then maturation based on their results," he says. "It will be important for them to knock down neurogenesis in a mouse and show that [this] signal disappears to confirm the causal link with neurogenesis."


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The longest insect in the world
Friday 13 August 2004
London Zoo is proud to show off Phoebe, a Malaysian giant stick insect; the longest insect in the world, measuring in at a whopping 45cm long
Phoebe is a pale brown, long limbed female who uses her hook-like feet to cling to her keeper or anything else around. Back in April, we celebrated the hatch of this record-breaking species which amazingly, emerged from a tiny egg, just 4mm in diameter.
Sixty eggs were laid in Rotterdam Zoo in October 2003 and were sent to London Zoo to start a breeding group earlier this year. Like all insects, the Malaysian giant stick insect, Phoebaeticus serratipes moults throughout its life. It can take up to six months for babies to reach their full adult length. Phoebe is the first of these babies to reach adult size here at London Zoo.
The longest adult female specimen ever recorded, who was spotted in the forests of Malaysia, measured an incredible 55cm from tip to toe, with a body of 28cm - nearly a foot!
Malaysian giant stick insect
This giant stick insect is just one of the many amazing species in B.U.G.S, London Zoo's biodiversity and conservation centre. There are well over 100 species of invertebrates kept here, including other record breakers and some of the rarest animals on the planet.
The natural habitat of the Malaysian giant stick insect is the forests of South East Asia, where they feed on tropical foliage, but in captivity they happily eat a mixture of bramble and oak leaves. Although not currently endangered, the high rate of deforestation is a concern for the future populations of these insects and of course many other animals in the wild.


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ACP, FSMB Issue Stern Guidance on Social Media
The briefing was called to publicize publication Thursday of the jointly authored ACP-FSMB paper, Online Medical Professionalism: Patient and Public Relationships: Policy Statement, which makes the following five points:
- Use of online media can bring significant educational benefits to patients and physicians, but may also pose ethical challenges. Maintaining trust in the profession and in patient-physician relationships requires that physicians consistently apply ethical principles for preserving the relationship, confidentiality, privacy, and respect for persons to online settings and communications.
- Boundaries between professional and social spheres can blur online, and physicians should keep them separate and comport themselves professionally in both.
- E-mail or other electronic communication should only be used by physicians in an established patient-physician relationship and with patient consent, with documentation about patient care communications included in the patient's medical record.
- Physicians should consider periodically "self-auditing" to assess accuracy of information available about them on physician-ranking Web sites and other sources online.
- Because what's online and on the Internet is often permanent, physicians, trainees, and medical students should be aware that online postings may have future implications for their professional lives.
Fleming characterized electronic communication with patients as "a new domain of ethical concern," but in many ways, he said, "the horse has left the barn.
"I would argue virtually every physician in some fashion has had an opportunity to, or has in fact communicated with a patient by this means, perhaps even without thinking in terms of the consequences."
Fleming emphasized that e-mail, and other electronic communication regarding a person's medical issues, "should only be used by physicians within an established physician-patient relationship."
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John Paulson, the billionaire hedge fund manager who foresaw the collapse of the US housing market, is shorting German government bonds in a wager that the eurozone debt crisis will significantly deepen in the coming months.
For investors, the words credit default swap can bring back painful memories of 2008. But in the case of Greece, the dreaded derivatives may not be the ticking time bomb some have feared.
Remember the bitter debt ceiling debate in Washington last summer? The one that resulted in the first-ever downgrade of the U.S. credit rating?
A dispute over pension cuts stalled talks last night between leaders of Greece's fractious national unity government on tough new austerity measures, one of the last hurdles to be cleared before eurozone officials can sign off on a ?130B ($172B) bailout and save Athens from a messy default. However, officials said they were still confident of reaching a deal by the morning.
Greece and its creditors in the private sector are grappling over a key detail of a deal aimed at reducing the nation's overwhelming debt load, according to a top eurozone official.
Greek debt talks are said to be progressing but officials have yet to announce a deal to scale back the nation's overwhelming debt load.
In a political gesture Wednesday, the U.S. House voted to "disapprove" the Obama administration's recent request to raise the nation's debt ceiling by $1.2 trillion.
The financial fate of Greece hangs in the balance this week, as officials reconvene over the contentious topic of Greek bonds, or more specifically, how big a writedown private investors are willing to take.
Talks over a deal to write down Greek government bonds have been put on "pause," according to the industry group representing private sector investors and banks.
The year couldn't end without a final word about the nation's debt ceiling.
Nomura has reduced its exposure to countries in the eurozone periphery by 75 per cent in the past two months in a move that highlights concerns about the growing risk of holding eurozone periphery government debt amid the region's crisis.
European bond yields rose Wednesday after a German bond auction flopped, undermining trust in eurozone government debt.
Stocks took a nosedive in the final hour of trading Wednesday, when investors got spooked by a Fitch report that outlined U.S. banks' exposure to contagion from European sovereign debt.
At long last, European leaders took a significant step forward on the long road toward resolving the eurozone's debt crisis.
European Union leaders announced an agreement early Thursday on debt crisis measures, including a hard-fought deal with private sector investors to take a 50% loss on Greek bonds.
CNN's Emily Reuben discusses withering hopes for a solution to the debt crisis in Europe.
France warned on Tuesday that European unity would be at risk if eurozone leaders failed to take bold action to tackle its sovereign debt crisis at a crucial summit this weekend.
France's finance minister speaks to Maggie Lake about the situation in Greece, and the growing European debt crisis.
CNN's Becky Anderson talks to IHS' Jan Randolph about the ongoing European debt crisis.
Fitch Ratings on Tuesday reaffirmed the United States' AAA credit rating.
Credit rating agency Standard and Poor's made good on its saber-rattling on Friday, and downgraded U.S. debt.
A day after Standard & Poor's rating agency downgraded the U.S. credit rating to AA+ from its top rank of AAA, there were more questions than answers Saturday about what effects the move will have on the economy and American consumers.
Credit rating agency Standard & Poor's on Friday downgraded the credit rating of the United States, stripping the world's largest economy of its prized AAA status.
A day after Standard & Poor's rating agency downgraded the U.S. credit rating to AA+ from its top rank of AAA, there were more questions than answers Saturday about what effects the move will have on the economy and American consumers.
Investors lose their nerve as EU and U.S. debt crisis weakness drags on. CNN talks to Mark Konyn, CEO of Asia Pacific.
The Standard & Poor's rating agency announced Friday that it has downgraded the U.S. credit rating to AA+ from its top rank of AAA.
Credit rating agency Moody's said Tuesday the United States will keep its sterling AAA credit rating for the time being, but lowered its outlook on U.S. debt to "negative."
China's only independent credit agency set to downgrade U.S. credit rating again. CNN's Stan Grant reports.
Although the United States narrowly avoided an unprecedented default following congressional approval of a last-minute compromise plan to raise the debt ceiling, China's leading credit rating agency Wednesday downgraded U.S. sovereign debt after putting it on negative watch last month.
President Barack Obama on Tuesday signed a compromise plan raising the nation's $14.3 trillion debt ceiling, averting what could have been an unprecedented national default.
As the deadline looms for the United States to raise its debt ceiling or risk default, China's leading credit rating agency on Tuesday told CNN it is prepared to downgrade U.S. sovereign debt after putting it on negative watch last month.
The House approved a last-minute deal to raise the debt ceiling on Monday that will impose sweeping spending cuts, while narrowly averting an unprecedented national default.
Agreement was finally reached between the White House and Congress in negotiations to raise the debt ceiling. As politicians, markets, and citizens around the world breathe a sigh of relief, it is perhaps time to reflect on what we have learned from this crisis about the state of the U.S. and global economies. What was the commotion all about?
After weeks of bipartisan negotiations, President Barack Obama said congressional leaders agreed to a plan that would lift the nation's $14.3 trillion debt ceiling and avoid an unprecedented default on the nation's debt -- if, that is, members of Congress vote to approve the agreement.
CNN's Wolf Blitzer talks to Ali Velshi about what Sunday's deal means.
Sen. Mitch McConnell says a national default "is not going to happen," and that he's fully engaged in talks with the president.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, temporarily stopped legislative consideration of his debt ceiling proposal late Saturday night, reversing an earlier decision to hold a key procedural vote on the measure by 1 a.m. ET Sunday.
House Speaker John Boehner's plan to raise the nation's debt ceiling and slash government spending narrowly passed his chamber on Friday and then was blocked by Senate Democrats, setting up a weekend of negotiations to seek a deal that would avoid a potential federal default next week.
As U.S. debt ceiling negotiations get down to the wire, fund managers are shifting out of money market funds in case a debt default creates a pressing demand for cash.
The nation is just days away from the debt ceiling deadline, and no one knows exactly what will happen when the borrowing limit is reached. But even in the worst case scenarios, many experts think investors will flock to U.S. Treasuries.
Can the government afford to send out Social Security checks next week if the debt ceiling isn't raised?
Even if lawmakers manage to avoid a self-inflicted calamity by raising the debt ceiling, another economic scourge is lurking just around the corner.
Congress is at a stalemate over raising the federal debt ceiling, and Americans need to pressure their elected representatives to work out a compromise that will avoid a potentially devastating default, President Barack Obama told the nation Monday night.
The president addresses the nation on Washington's efforts to agree on a debt relief plan.
The following is the prepared transcript of House Speaker John Boehner's speech Monday night on debt reduction talks:
House Speaker John Boehner says he made a sincere effort to reach a bipartisan deal with the president.
Congress is at a stalemate over raising the federal debt ceiling, and Americans need to pressure their elected representatives to work out a compromise that will avoid a potentially devastating default, President Obama told the nation Monday night.
Democratic and Republican congressional leaders unveiled separate deficit reduction plans Monday as top officials scrambled to bridge a cavernous partisan divide and raise the federal government's debt ceiling before an unprecedented -- and potentially devastating -- national default.
As policymakers in Washington continue to butt heads over the debt ceiling, the response in the bond market Monday was relatively subdued.
The International Monetary Fund said Monday that a downgrade of the U.S. government's credit rating would be "extremely damaging" for the global economy.
Moody's Investors Service downgraded Greece again Monday, to one class above default, following a new bailout package from its European neighbors.
Lawmakers rushed Sunday to find a solution to the debt ceiling debate that would provide some measure of certainty for financial markets, even as both sides continued to spar in public.
Congress must reach a deal now to raise the federal debt ceiling through 2012 because "you don't want politics messing around with America's faith and credit," Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner told CNN on Sunday.
It's very hard to see how this ends well.
House Speaker John Boehner walked away from debt talks with President Barack Obama's administration Friday, raising the stakes in the country's ongoing effort to stave off national default.
Prospects for a debt-ceiling deal dimmed late Friday afternoon when talks broke down between President Obama and House speaker John Boehner.
CNN's Richard Quest breaks down how the Greek debt crisis could spread to other markets and economies.
Fourteen out of 27 countries in the European Union had public debt exceeding 60% of their gross domestic product at the end of 2010, according to official statistics.
Obama said "some progress was made" on a deficit reduction plan put together by a bipartisan group of senators.
For the last week and a half, the yield on the 10-year bond has held below 3%, an indication of strong demand for US debt and a market that's confident the debt ceiling impasse will be resolved.
The U.S. House on Tuesday night passed the "cut, cap and balance" deficit reduction plan backed by tea party conservatives but dismissed by President Barack Obama, who offered strong praise for another proposal put together by a bipartisan group of senators.
Top administration and congressional officials are expected to continue working this week on a measure to raise the federal debt ceiling by up to $2.5 trillion, embracing a version of a fallback plan designed by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to avoid a potentially catastrophic default.
Americans are angry and frustrated at the impasse in Washington. CNN's Felicia Taylor reports
Credit rating agency Moody's dinged a key backup plan to raise the debt ceiling Monday, and said the United States would be better off if the ceiling was eliminated entirely.
Amid talk of financial doom should the U.S. default, a glimmer of optimism is surfacing. CNN's Kate Bolduan reports.
Right now, some Republican lawmakers in Washington may be wondering how to wiggle out from between a rock and a hard place.
U.S. lawmakers got another stern warning from a leading credit rating agency on Thursday evening that there is now a very real possibility that the country's top-notch credit rating could be downgraded in the next three months.
Gideon Rachman of the Financial Times discusses how the U.S. and Britain are dealing with their debt issues.
House members react to Friday's dismal unemployment numbers.
Top congressional Republicans on Friday used a new dismal jobs report to blast Democrats' push for more tax revenue in the ongoing debt ceiling negotiations, arguing that such a move would derail an already shaky economic recovery.
You've heard the warnings by now.
Yonghao Pu, Chief Investment Strategist at UBS, discusses how the Greek debt crisis affects the Asian markets.
Newly-anointed chief White House correspondent Jessica Yellin questions Pres. Obama on a debt ceiling deal and deadline.
Ben Bernanke renewed his calls to Congress to stop holding the debt ceiling hostage.
Congress should tie any increase in the debt ceiling to "significant" spending cuts.
President Barack Obama told congressional Republicans on Wednesday that entitlement reforms were under discussion as part of a deficit reduction deal.
In a symbolic vote to send a message to budget negotiators, the House on Tuesday defeated a measure to raise the national debt ceiling without any accompanying deficit or spending reduction provisions.
Gather 'round! The House is going to vote on the debt ceiling!
Treasury prices were little changed Friday, as investors sat on their hands ahead of a barrage of economic data coming next week.
It's official: The U.S. government hit the debt ceiling on May 16.
It's official: The U.S. government hit the debt ceiling on May 16.
The recent debate to prevent a government shutdown reminds us that partisan politics have always been, and will likely always be, part of Washington. While it is certainly good a shutdown was averted, the $38 billion in cuts that were part of the deal barely dent our nation's growing debt.
U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky, a Democrat, says Republicans want to balance the budget on the backs of the middle class.
The fallout from lawmakers' delay on the debt ceiling is getting real.
A leading Senate conservative said Sunday he can accept tax reform that increases overall tax revenue as part of a comprehensive deficit reduction plan.
Over and over Thursday, President Barack Obama told workers at a renewable energy company that he is like them.
Facing a possible future downgrade of America's credit rating, President Barack Obama on Tuesday told the first of three town hall-style meetings this week that a "big philosophical divide" exists between his approach to deficit reduction and how Republicans think.
President Barack Obama takes his deficit reduction proposal on the road this week with town hall-style events in three states that are important to his re-election bid in 2012.
Media watchdog Brent Bozell says coverage of the budget battle, including CNN's "In The Arena," is biased.
New York Rep. Anthony Weiner says the federal debt ceiling should be raised without any strings attached.
Sarah Palin delivered a harsh critique of President Obama's budget proposal during a rare Q-and-A session Thursday, and urged lawmakers to resist raising the nation's debt ceiling.
More investors appear to be betting that the United States' ever-rising debt load is going to get worse and are working to protect themselves against it.
The European contagion is back, as virulent as ever, posing a new risk to the health of the global financial system and economic recovery.
Fitch downgraded Spain's sovereign debt to a lower investment grade Friday, adding to continued concerns about European contagion.
CNN's Richard Quest interviews Former Greek economics minister Yiannos Papantoniou about Greece's debt crisis.
Standard and Poor's downgraded the sovereign debt ratings of Greece to junk status Tuesday, and lowered the investment grade status of Portugal, citing weak "macroeconomic structures" for the debt-troubled European nations.
Treasury prices slipped and shed their safe-haven appeal Friday after Greece said it will seek a bailout from the European Union to abet its debt crisis.
The term PIIGS has been coined to refer collectively to Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece, and Spain. Aside from being a cute acronym, the term describes the actions of these countries very aptly as they have acted "piggish" in issuing debt to support overzealous government budgets. While the American media has at times made light of these countries and their PIIGS moniker, the same mistakes are at play in creating domestic pigs.
The United States isn't in jeopardy of losing its gold-plated credit rating, though by one measure America is closer to the ratings-downgrade danger zone than Spain.
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Eric Alexander Rode-Olsen, 30, decided to agree with whatever sentence Judge Franklin Stephenson deemed fair on Monday in Superior Court in Stockton. Stephenson gave Rode-Olsen a year in jail followed by five years of probation, according to defense attorney Albert Ellis.
"I thought it was a fair disposition to a tragic event," Ellis said.
Rode-Olsen, a Swedish citizen working at SkyView on a work visa for more than four years, was accused of killing 23-year-old Swedish pilot Mikael Strid when Rode-Olsen crashed his BMW into the Delta-Mendota Canal on Feb. 23.
Investigators said Rode-Olsen was driving his BMW west down a Tracy Municipal Airport runway at more than 100 mph with Swedish pilots Strid, Andreas Johansson and Andreas Olsen.
Around 11:30 p.m. he reportedly lost control of his car, crashed through a chain-link fence, launched 115 feet into the air and landed in the canal adjacent to the airport. Strid died in the accident, and his body was found in the canal March 10.
During the judge's deliberation, Ellis said Stephenson's ruling was based on a number of things, including Rode-Olsen's lack of a prior criminal record and the fact that the victim's family wrote a letter on the defendant's behalf asking for leniency.
Deputy District Attorney Steve Hahn said Rode-Olsen pleaded guilty to vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence. Although the victim's family did not feel the incident was a criminal act, Hahn said he saw it as a public safety issue.
"What the judge did is within his realm of discretion — whether I agree or disagree is irrelevant," Hahn said. "I felt the case should be prison."
Ellis said Rode-Olsen was remorseful and relieved to have his case closed. But Ellis said it didn't take away the sting Rode-Olsen felt over his friend's death.
The three pilots were part of a group of five Swedish men about to conclude training at the Tracy airport and return to Sweden.
Rode-Olsen is scheduled to report to county jail in September to begin his jail sentence. At the completion of his jail term, he faces the possibility of deportation to Sweden.


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BLM to Offer Nearly 90,000 Acres at February Colorado Oil and Gas Lease Sale BLM Defers North Fork Valley Parcels from Sale (02-06-13) |
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) today announced that it will offer 151 parcels totaling 88,578 acres for oil and gas development at its February 14, 2013, lease sale. In response to extensive public comments, the agency will defer all 20 parcels totaling 20,555 acres in the North Fork Valley from the sale. "We've listened to concerns raised in numerous comments and public meetings and we are responding by deferring the North Fork Valley parcels at this time," said Colorado State Director Helen Hankins. "We are addressing the deferred parcels through continued dialogue with the local community and with ongoing planning efforts in the Uncompahgre Field Office." Federal oil and gas parcels offered for lease are nominated by oil and gas companies and then reviewed by the BLM to determine the appropriateness of potential development. Approved parcels are offered at one of the BLM's quarterly sales, which are required by law. "This decision is consistent with our reform efforts that emphasize a comprehensive approach to oil and gas leasing so as to ensure that energy development occurs in the appropriate places," said Acting BLM Director Mike Pool. "I want to thank Helen Hankins for her leadership and efforts to work closely with local communities as this moves forward." The BLM's quarterly oil and gas lease sale will be held at 9:00 am on February 14 at the BLM Colorado State Office, which is located at 2850 Youngfield Street, Lakewood, Colo 80215 (www.blm.gov/co).
The BLM manages more than 245 million acres of public land, the most of any Federal agency. This land, known as the National System of Public Lands, is primarily located in 12 Western states, including Alaska. The BLM also administers 700 million acres of sub-surface mineral estate throughout the nation. The BLM's multiple-use mission is to sustain the health, diversity, and productivity of the public lands for the use and enjoyment of present and future generations. In Fiscal Year 2012, activities on public lands generated $4.6 billion in revenue, much of which was shared with the States where the activities occurred. In addition, public lands contributed more than $112 billion to the U.S. economy and helped support more than 500,000 jobs. |
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