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Square Dimmu Borgir Patches measuring roughly 3.75 inches by 4.5 inches. These are screen printed with the monochromatic album cover from the bands In Sorte Diaboli recording.
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A proposed Levy County ordinance designed to restrict where persons who have been convicted of sex crimes can live, how many can live together or next to each other and their activities in certain places will be up for comment in a public hearing Tuesday at 6 p.m. at the Levy County Courthouse.
Archer Road Daytime lane closures weekdays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Southwest 35th Boulevard for intersection improvements into Butler Plaza.
Hull Road (UF Campus) Possible daytime lane closures and sidewalk closures between Southwest 34th Street and Mowry Road to build concrete sidewalk/trail.
The Chiefland City Commission approved letting a local builder out of a contract to re-roof the city maintenance barn after the company's owner encountered troubles with workers and a relative's health.
The contract had been awarded to Dream Builders USA Inc., a local business, even though it was not the lowest bid received at $10,400.
A synthetic drug is growing in popularity in the state and Attorney General Pam Bondi is warning parents about the dangers involved.
A recent press release said the drug, Flakka, has been linked to several dangerous incidents in the last few months, including a man impaling himself on a fence and another teen jumping through a closed window. It was also linked to the death of a Florida concert goer.
The replacement of the Waccasassa River Bridge on County Road 326 in Levy County, approximately three miles southwest of Gulf Hammock, is now underway by the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT).
The existing bridge is being replaced in phases. While one lane of the new bridge is being constructed, traffic will use the other lane of the existing bridge. Traffic will be controlled by a temporary traffic signal when a flagger is not present. Lane closures may also occur after 7 a.m. weekdays. No work is anticipated to occur on weekends.
Bringing a veterinarian on board at the Levy County Animal Shelter has benefits for county residents: lower adoption fees.
Animal Services Director David Weatherford's request to the County Commission to lower fees for Levy County residents adopting a pet was unanimously approved on June 2.
And the county will benefit as having an in-house vet means every animal will be spayed or neutered, microchipped, up to date on shots and healthy when it leaves for its fur-ever home.
The McElroy Reunion will begin at 10 a.m. Sunday, June 14 at Hart Springs in Gilchrist County. Popcorn and Lemonade will be provided until lunch is served at 1:30 p.m.
Participants are asked to bring items for a silent auction and entries for the pie contest. Also judges are needed.
Hot dogs, hamburgers, buns, tea and water will be provided. Please bring side dishes and desserts to share.
Bingo made its way onto the agenda at a recent Fanning Springs city council meeting.
Pat Orr and Frank Nekola made the presentation, petitioning to be allowed to hold bingo on Sunday afternoons at Suwannee River Lodge 325, or the Moose Lodge as it's called, on 167 Place.
"It was the best day when we were operating," Orr said. "This says no Sundays," she said referring to a city ordinance.
Fanning Springs received a pretty standard audit report for fiscal year 2013-2014, with one exception.
"Financially you had a good year," Richard Powell of Powell and Jones Certified Accountants said and he highlighted what he called the pertinent information in the report.
When he reached page 50, he said there had been a discrepancy in the number of fire and emergency calls reported to the City of Fanning Springs by the fire chief from those reported by the Gilchrist County Sheriff's Office.
The Chiefland City Commission, with two members absent, approved going forward with a $1.5 million Community Development Block Grant to extend water and sewer lines and provide roadways to the proposed Suwannee River Community Hospital.
Commissioners Teresa Barron and Rollin Hudson were absent. Hudson was on vacation and Barron was ill.
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We recorded a net loss of $60.5 million ($0.95 per common share) for the year ended December 31, 2008 compared to a net loss of $85.5 million ($1.36 per common share) for the year ended December 31, 2007. The decrease in net loss in fiscal 2008 compared to fiscal 2007 was largely due to foreign exchange. A decrease in research and development activities also contributed to the decrease in net loss.
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Jason tumbles into a quest to save a magical in this #1 New York Times bestselling start to Brandon Mull's Beyonders fantasy series.
Jason Walker has often wished his life could be a bit less predictable--until a routine day at the zoo ends with Jason suddenly transporting from the hippo tank to a place unlike anything he's ever seen. In the past, the people of Lyrian welcomed visitors from the Beyond, but attitudes have changed since the wizard emperor Maldor rose to power. The brave resistors who opposed the emperor have been bought off or broken, leaving a realm where fear and suspicion prevail.
In his search for a way home, Jason meets Rachel, who was also mysteriously drawn to Lyrian from our world. With the help of a few scattered rebels, Jason and Rachel become entangled in a quest to piece together the word of power that can destroy the emperor, and learn that their best hope to find a way home will be to save this world without heroes.
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Three patients with wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD) are taking legal action against their local primary care trust (PCT) after being refused sight-saving treatment on the NHS.
Wet AMD is the most common cause of sight loss in the UK and can lead to blindness in as little as three months if left untreated.
Anti-VEGF drugs have been shown to halt the condition and even improve eyesight in some patients.
However, three Warwickshire pensioners are locked in battle with their local PCT after it refused to fund their treatment and left them with a choice between paying thousands of pounds for private treatment and losing their sight.
The Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) has described the situation as a "national scandal" and said that health bosses should be "ashamed".
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Man made threats with knife then sat down and cried, Carlisle court told
Last updated at 11:59, Friday, 01 June 2012
A man has avoided an immediate prison sentence for a "strange incident" that began with him brandishing a knife and ended as he sobbed on the sofa.
Patrick Devenney, 44, was given a suspended sentence at Carlisle Crown Court after previously admitting one charge of affray.
He had been staying with Jason Smith in Fell View Avenue, Woodhouse, Whitehaven, when the incident happened on July 27, last year.
Prosecutor Brendan Burke said: "On that evening, Mr Smith returned to his address and had three friends with him.
"The defendant made an appearance at about 6.30pm and struck everyone as being very drunk."
The court heard Devenney had made a "perceived inappropriate remark" about Mr Smith's girlfriend earlier in the day, and Mr Smith wanted to discuss it with him.
"When he did," Mr Burke continued, "the defendant began shouting and screaming. He ran into the kitchen and got a knife.
"He returned, still shouting and making abusive remarks. He was swinging the knife towards Mr Smith's face, initially two or three steps away from him."
Dawn Crawford, one of Mr Smith's friends, tried to grab Devenney from behind and he swung the knife towards her, before turning back to Mr Smith and almost stabbing him in the stomach.
Mr Burke added: "He then moved in closer to Mr Smith, at which point he 'honestly believed' he was going to be killed."
The incident was brought under control when Mr Smith punched Devenney in the neck.
In a bizarre twist, Devenney then took the knife back to the kitchen before returning to the living room where he sat on the sofa and started to cry.
James Kemp, defending, admitted it was truly a "strange incident".
"My client had met a lady via the internet," Mr Kemp explained, "and had no ties at the time to Kent [where he was living] and was free to come to the Whitehaven area.
"That relationship broke down and he was staying at the premises of a friend of the lady he had been seeing."
He appealed to Judge Peter Hughes QC to show some leniency towards Devenney, because no-one had been injured, and his client had immediately returned to Gravesend, in Kent. He is now in a new stable relationship.
Sentencing him yesterday, Judge Hughes said while the case crossed the custody threshold, he felt a nine-month jail sentence, suspended for one year, was still suitable.
Judge Hughes also ordered Devenney to complete a one-year community order, including the reducing reoffending specified activity programme, plus 80 hours unpaid work.
Devenney had also admitted breaching his bail – but because he handed himself in to police and spent two subsequent days in custody, no separate penalty was imposed.
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On Immigration Policy, Wider Partisan Divide Over Border Fence Than Path to Legal Status
60% of Public Opposes Ending Birthright Citizenship
As immigration emerges as a key issue in the presidential campaign, there is little common ground between Republicans and Democrats in views of several immigration policy proposals. But partisan disagreements are much more pronounced on some issues than others, according to a new national survey by Pew Research Center.
Overall, the public continues to be divided over building a fence along the entire U.S.-Mexican border: 46% favor erecting a fence, while 48% are opposed, little changed from 2011 and 2007.
A large majority of Republicans (73%) support a border fence, while 23% are opposed. Democrats oppose building a border fence, 66% to 23%. Among independents, 43% favor a border fence, while 52% oppose this idea.
The survey, conducted September 22-27 among 1,502 adults, finds that most Americans (60%) oppose the idea of changing the U.S. Constitution to prohibit children of those who are not legal residents from becoming citizens; 37% favor changing the Constitution to end birthright citizenship.
Large majorities of those under 30 (71%) and those ages 30-49 (66%) oppose limiting birthright citizenship. Older age groups are more divided: Among those ages 50-64 as many favor (47%) as oppose (48%) this change to the Constitution. Among those 65 and older, 43% favor changing the constitution, while 52% are opposed.
Republicans and Democrats are far apart on this issue: By 75% to 23%, Democrats oppose changing the Constitution to ban birthright citizenship. Republicans are evenly divided: About half (53%) favor amending the Constitution, while 44% are opposed.
By contrast, the survey finds that large majorities in both parties continue to favor a way for allowing undocumented immigrants to stay in the U.S. legally, if certain requirements are met. About two-thirds of Republicans (66%) say people in the U.S. illegally should be allowed to stay if they meet certain requirements, while 32% say they should not be allowed to stay legally. By nearly a factor of five-to-one (80% to 17%), Democrats say undocumented immigrants should be allowed to stay in the U.S. legally, provided certain requirements are met.
The full report is for immediate release and available at: http://www.people-press.org/2015/10/...o-legal-status
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Via Catholic Legal Immigration Network:
Oct 6, 2015
SAN ANTONIO, TX Today, the American Immigration Council (Council), American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC), and Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES), partners in the CARA Family Detention Pro Bono Project, formally lodged the latest in a series of complaints detailing the inhumane conditions to which mothers and children are subjected while detained at the South Texas Family Residential Center (STFRC) in Dilley, Texas.
Tragically, this complaint documents many of the very same medical access problems that were brought to the attention of the Department of Homeland Securitys Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (CRCL) and Office of the Inspector General (OIG) by CARA on July 30, 2015.
The latest examples include:
A mother and two-year-old son suffering from a cough, a cold, and a fever; the mother was told by the nurse that there was no doctor onsite and that nurses were not authorized to prescribe medicine. She and her son returned to the clinic on numerous occasions, still sick and in need of care; on one occasion they waited for four hours, but did not get to see a doctor because he was at lunch. The sixth time the mother sought help, she was given ibuprofen and Vicks Vaporub for her son, who had been vomiting and unable to eat for days.A three-year-old girl, sick with a fever, diarrhea, vomiting, coughing, and ear pain waited more than five hours to see a nurse. The nurse examined her and said she looked dehydrated and it appeared she had a burst ear drum; a doctor said that she had either a virus or an infection that would go away in two to three weeks. The doctor prescribed Vicks Vaporub. Since that appointment, the girl has lost weight and is still sick.A four-year-old boy, who was diagnosed with anemia when he was an infant and required regular medical intervention to treat his condition, but has not received any treatment since he arrived at Dilley, despite his mothers repeated attempts to get him medical attention. He complains of pain in his head, his lips turn purple, and he shakes from being cold, even in the heat of South Texas. He vomits, is constantly fatigued and does not play with other children.
To date, the CARA project has received no meaningful response to any of the complaints submitted to CRCL and OIG on the issue of inadequate medical care and there have been no visible improvements made. The cases documented here represent merely a sampling of the dire state of medical care at Dilley because, in some cases, mothers fear that lodging a formal complaint might negatively impact their immigration cases and therefore do not speak out publicly.
In addition to investigating the specific cases described in the complaint, CARA urges a broader investigation into the adequacy of the medical care provided at all three family detention facilities. These complaints add to the already overwhelming evidence that the detention of children and mothers is inherently inhumane and must end.
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Washington, D.C.Today, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) released its long-awaited, new National Standards on Transport, Escort, Detention and Search (TEDS), which govern the transfer of individuals in CBP custody, procedures for handling such individuals belongings, conditions in CBP detention facilities, and personal searches.
The following is a statement from Beth Werlin, Policy Director at the American Immigration Council:
While we commend CBP for publicly releasing its long-awaited TEDS standards, the Council has significant concerns regarding the broad discretion given to CBP officers and agents. In addition, the standards do not fix the long-standing lack of oversight and independent monitoring mechanisms, which are desperately needed to promote greater accountability on the part of the nations largest law enforcement agency. The Council will pay close attention to CBPs implementation of TEDS.
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Modern Immigration Wave Brings 59 Million to U.S., Driving Population Growth and Change Through 2065
New Survey Shows Views of Immigrations Impact on U.S. Society Mixed
Fifty years after passage of the landmark Immigration and Nationality Act that rewrote U.S. immigration policy, nearly 59 million immigrants have arrived in the United States, pushing the countrys foreign-born share to a near-record 14%, according to a new Pew Research Center report. For the past half-century, these modern-era immigrants and their descendants have accounted for just over half (55%) of the nations population growth and have reshaped its racial and ethnic composition.
Between 1965 and 2015, new immigrants, their children and their grandchildren added 72 million people to the nations population as it grew from 193 million in 1965 to 324 million in 2015. Looking ahead, new Pew Research Center U.S. population projections show that if current demographic trends continue, future immigrants and their descendants will be an even bigger source of population growth. Between 2015 and 2065, they are projected to account for 88% of the U.S. population increase, or 103 million people, as the nation grows to 441 million.
The 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act made significant changes to U.S. immigration policy by sweeping away a long-standing national origins quota system that favored immigrants from Europe and replacing it with one that emphasized family reunification and skilled immigrants. Among immigrants who have arrived since 1965, half (51%) are from Latin America and one-quarter are from Asia.
As a result of its changed makeup and rapid growth, new immigration since 1965 has altered the nations racial and ethnic composition. In 1965, 84% of Americans were non-Hispanic whites. By 2015, that share had declined to 62%. Meanwhile, the Hispanic share of the U.S. population rose from 4% in 1965 to 18% in 2015. Asians also saw their share rise, from less than 1% in 1965 to 6% in 2015. The Pew Research Center analysis shows that without any post-1965 immigration, the nations racial and ethnic composition would be very different today: 75% white, 14% black, 8% Hispanic and less than 1% Asian.
By 2065, the composition of the nations immigrant population will change again. Asians are expected to become the largest immigrant group by 2055, surpassing Hispanics. Asian immigrants are projected to make up 38% of the foreign-born population by 2065, while the Hispanic share is expected to fall to 31%.
The countrys overall population will feel the impact of these future shifts. Non-Hispanic whites are projected to become less than half of the U.S. population by 2055 and 46% by 2065. By then, no racial or ethnic group will constitute a majority of the U.S. population. Meanwhile, Hispanics will see their population share rise to 24% by 2065 from 18% today, while Asians will see their share rise to 14% by 2065 from 6% today.
These are some key findings of a new Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data and new Pew Research Center U.S. population projections through 2065, which provide a 100-year look at immigrations impact on population growth and on racial and ethnic change. In addition, this report uses new data from a survey conducted from March 16 to April 6 using Pew Research Centers American Trends Panel to examine U.S. public attitudes toward immigration. It also employs census data to analyze changes in the characteristics of recently arrived immigrants and paint a statistical portrait of the historical and 2013 foreign-born populations.
Among the findings:
· The U.S. has by far the worlds largest immigrant population, holding about one-in-five global immigrants. Immigration since 1965 has swelled the nations foreign-born population from 9.6 million then to a record 45 million in 2015. By 2065, the U.S. will have 78 million immigrants, according to the new Pew Research Center population projections.
· For the U.S. public, views of immigrants and their impact on U.S. society are mixed. Overall, 45% of Americans say immigrants in the U.S. are making American society better in the long run, while 37% say they are making it worse (16% say immigrants are not having much effect).
· Half of Americans want to see immigration to the U.S. reduced (49%). Eight-in-ten (82%) say the U.S. immigration system either needs major changes or it needs to be completely rebuilt.
· The source region of todays newly arrived immigrants is markedly different than that of new arrivals in previous decades. Asia currently is the largest source region among recently arrived immigrants and has been since 2011. Before then, the largest source region since 1990 had been Central and South America, fueled by record levels of Mexican migration that have since slowed. The share of new arrivals who are Hispanic is now at its lowest level in 50 years.
· The foreign-born population has become more evenly dispersed across the country over time. Nearly half of immigrants (47%) lived in the Northeast in 1960, but only 22% did so in 2013. The share living in the South, meanwhile, increased from 10% in 1960 to 32% in 2013. Even so, the five U.S. counties with the largest foreign-born populations in 2013 (Los Angeles County, Calif.; Miami-Dade County, Fla.; Cook County, Ill.; Queens County, N.Y.; and Harris County, Tex.) accounted for fully 20% of the U.S. immigrant population (down from 30% in 1990).
The report is for immediate release and is available at http://www.pewhispanic.org/2015/09/2...-through-2065/.
Accompanying the report are two embeddable interactives. The first is a legislative timeline highlighting key U.S. immigration policy legislation and executive actions since 1790: http://www.pewhispanic.org/2015/09/2...ons-1790-2014/. The second is an interactive map showing, at the state level, the largest immigrant group in each state from 1850 through 2013:http://www.pewhispanic.org/2015/09/2...-1850-to-2013/.
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on a different note i absolutely love the garrison and how you get approached by NPC's in WoD
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UPDATE: The new Bridge to Canada will be named for Detroit Red Wing great Gordie Howe, the Gordie Howe International Bridge.
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UPDATE: The new Bridge to Canada will be named for Detroit Red Wing great Gordie Howe, the Gordie Howe International Bridge.
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Fiscal Times | Eric Pianin
Amid the gloom over the partisan deadlock in Washington over an infrastructure program and the Keystone XL pipeline, the U.S. and Canadian governments have quietly cut a deal on a new $2.1 billion bridge linking Detroit and Ontario designed to eliminate a massive bottleneck in the flow of goods between the two countries.
With more than $650 billion in goods exchanged each year between Canada and the United States, Canada represents this country's largest trading partner, overshadowing China, Mexico and Japan. Nearly half of all goods that are transported between the two countries by truck each year – or roughly $131 billion worth – currently pass over the Ambassador Bridge or through an adjacent tunnel.
The 85-year-old Ambassador Bridge is swamped by over 8,000 trucks daily. A combination of heightened border security and persistent traffic jams is creating a drag on potential growth in U.S. exports and imports along the Detroit-Windsor border. Some experts say construction of a new bridge would pave the way for a significant increase in trade in coming years.
"Among all the border crossings between Canada and the United States, Detroit is really the most emblematic of the infrastructure problems that need to be addressed," Joseph Kane, a senior policy specialist on U.S. metropolitan areas, said in an interview on Monday. "There's a huge scale of value really going across the border, and it's not just a local issue where it's just benefiting local workers and business establishments in Michigan itself."
The U.S. State Department approved the bridge in 2013, but the project has been dogged for years by financial and legal problems and challenges from community residents.
The new bridge is to be constructed about two miles south of the Ambassador Bridge, a privately owned suspension bridge that currently is the busiest international border crossing in North America in terms of trade volume. The project also will include construction of new highway interchanges in downtown Detroit and Windsor to handle more easily the crush of traffic. Officials have said they hope to open the bridge in 2020, although construction hasn't started yet.
The deal was finally sealed after the Canadian government agreed recently to pick up the $250 million to $300 million cost of a customs plaza for the New International Trade Crossing on the U.S. side. The Department of Homeland Security says that a "public-private partnership" will use tolls to reimburse Canada for the plaza's construction. In return, the U.S. will pay for the workers, operations and maintenance of the plaza in Detroit – with a first year cost of about $100 million.
Much of the $131 billion worth of cargo transported by truck between Detroit and Windsor annually is high-value transportation and electronic equipment that is destined for regions well beyond Detroit and Ontario. By comparison, the next highest volume border crossing, in Buffalo, N.Y., handles about $151 billion of truck traffic a year, or one third of what is trucked across the Ambassador Bridge, according to data prepared by Brookings.
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Over the past decade, the New International Trade Crossing (NITC)—a proposed bridge between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario—has been in the works to improve connectivity at one of the world's busiest border crossings and sites of commerce. Supported by an innovative, binational public-private partnership between the United States and Canada, the $2 billion-plus project will not only relieve pressure on the increasingly congested, 85-year-old Ambassador Bridge, which handles over 8,000 trucks daily, but also reinforce Michigan's role as a global trading hub.
Uncertainties over funding and vocal opposition have long stalled the NITC's progress, but the project just cleared a major hurdle toward completion when Canada agreed to pick up a $250 million tab for the bridge's customs plaza. In addition to the thousands of local workers and industries that stand to benefit from this latest move, metropolitan areas across the United States and Canada will reap economic rewards for years to come.
Protecting the U.S.-Canadian trading relationship is of vital significance to both countries' economies and facilitated by key infrastructure investments. With over $650 billion in goods exchanged each year, Canada represents the largest trading partner for the U.S., outranking China, Mexico, and Japan. At the same time, those goods flow to an impressive amount of places on both sides of the border, from Seattle and Houston to Vancouver and Montreal, helping explain why Canada has taken a lead role investing in the NITC.
Detroit is easily the most important of these trading depots, especially when it comes to truck movement. Last year, more than 1.6 million trucks passed through the metro area, which represented the busiest border crossing between the U.S. and Canada and the second-busiest in North America next to Laredo (1.9 million trucks). An upcoming release in our Metro Freight series will reveal a similar result, showing how Detroit funnels approximately $131 billion, or nearly half, of all goods that move by truck between the U.S. and Canada. By comparison, the next highest border crossing, Buffalo, transports about one-third this value by truck ($51 billion), followed by several rural regions.
Source: Brookings analysis of EDR data.
Note: "Rest of" designations refer to nonmetropolitan portions of each state. For instance, the "Rest of Washington" includes all rural regions outside metropolitan areas such as Seattle and Spokane.
In turn, a variety of markets across the U.S. rely on Detroit to profit from Canadian trade. For example, only 4.7 percent of the $131 billion carried on these trucks ($6.2 billion) is produced or consumed locally in Detroit. Instead, the vast majority of this value travels to and from large markets like New York ($4.7 billion), Chicago ($4.4 billion), and Los Angeles ($2.5 billion), including anything from electronics to metals to agricultural products.
As policymakers look to target more freight investments in the future, the NITC clearly assumes national importance. The U.S. already faces an enormous backlog of infrastructure projects along the border, and it's time for a more coordinated, proactive approach—through a national freight investment program— that can further support trade in particular regions.
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Latest legal setback should end the challenges to new Detroit River crossing
Piece by piece, preparations for the new Detroit River bridge are falling into place. This week, the U.S. Supreme Court cleared a potential major legal hurdle by refusing to hear a lawsuit brought by community activists and the owner of the Ambassador Bridge.
The challenge came from Latin Americans for Social and Economic Development, Citizens with Challenges, Detroit Association of Black Organizations and other community groups, along with the Detroit International Bridge Co., owner of the Ambassador Bridge.
The parties claimed the Federal Highway Administration, in approving the Delray neighborhood of southwest Detroit as the site of the new crossing, violated the social and environmental justice provisions of the National Environmental Protection Act, the Administrative Procedures Act and other federal laws.
Federal District Court Judge Avern Cohn rejected the lawsuit, and his decision was upheld by the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals. Now, the Supreme Court has put the matter to rest.
It is the latest in a string of legal victories for Gov. Rick Snyder and other backers of the new Detroit River International Crossing.
Last summer, the appellate court also rejected the contention that the federal government had bowed to pressure from Canada in denying a permit for Ambassador Bridge owner Matty Moroun to build a second span adjacent to his current bridge.
And earlier this month, the United States and Canada reached agreement for the Canadians to front the money for building out the customs plaza on the Detroit side of the crossing. As with the entire $2 billion cost of the bridge, which Canada is also putting up, the $300 million for the plaza will be repaid with revenue from tolls.
By now, the inevitability of the new bridge should be evident. Continuing court battles and other blocking moves is pointless.
Moroun, as well as the community groups, should stand down and let the process of building the bridge proceed.
Instead of continuing a futile fight, they should work with the state and federal governments to mitigate the community's concerns.
There is no reason the crossing should be a negative for the devastated Delray neighborhood. The international trade expected to be generated by the bridge should create opportunities for warehouses and other logistic industry investments, and with them much needed jobs. The focus now should be on training local workers for those jobs, and making sure development unfolds in a manner that benefits the neighborhood.
As for Moroun, he should accept that he's lost this battle. Further legal maneuvering is pointless. He has a major investment in the Ambassador Bridge, and it is natural that he would want to protect it.
But the government has no compelling interest in damaging Moroun's business. He should be working with the state to assure there's enough traffic to sustain both spans. Increasing trade traffic is the objective, after all.
Once construction begins, it will take five years to complete the crossing. There should be no further needless delays. This is a project vital to the region's economy.
Originally posted by The Detroit News
There is one thing to be said about the Detroit River International Crossing: Canada wants it; it wants it badly.
The new bridge between Detroit and Windsor has been a tough sell on this side of the border. Michigan taxpayers never were enthused about it, so Gov. Rick Snyder worked out a deal with Canadian leaders that funds the bridge's construction with an estimated 2.1 billion Canadian dollars.
When the Obama administration didn't include money for the bridge's U.S. customs plaza, the Canadians again stepped up. The Canadian government has agreed to pay the $250 million cost for the inspection plaza on the span's Detroit side.
If Canada's financing of the U.S.-Canadian bridge appears unusual, it is. But supporters cite the span's importance to U.S.-Canadian trade — and Canada wants that trade enhanced.
"A new Windsor-Detroit crossing remains one of Canada's top infrastructure priorities for Canada," Canadian Transport Minister Lisa Raitt said in a statement on the plaza construction agreement.
Canada will recoup its investment in toll revenue when the bridge opens. So Canadian politicians are assuring their constituents that the project won't require new taxes. Everybody wins.
Still, it is worth noting what can happen when Ottawa is on board even when Washington is not.
Port Huron's Blue Water Bridge plaza was scheduled for substantial expansion some years ago, but the federal dollars dried up. That didn't happen before a large swath of the city lost its homes and business to the expansion's footprint.
Apparently, Canada never was as interested in augmenting trade between Port Huron and Sarnia as it is in the commerce between Detroit and Windsor.
In any case, Port Huron and St. Clair County still are recovering from the scrapped plaza expansion's effects. As remarkable as the effort to build a new Detroit-Windsor bridge and its U.S. plaza might be, there is little appetite here for revisiting the Blue Water Bridge plaza project.
The lesson is when Washington is broke, Ottawa might be willing to take on the financing — but that depends upon the project. The Blue Water Bridge undoubtedly is a vital instrument of U.S.-Canadian trade. Expanding its U.S. Customs Plaza proved to be less vital.
On that point, Washington and Ottawa seem to agree.
Originally posted by The Times Herald
David Shepardson
The Detroit News
Washington — The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday it will not review a June decision by a appeals court that upheld the Federal Highway Administration's decision to select the Delray neighborhood of Detroit as the preferred location for a new international bridge crossing to Canada.
Without comment, the Supreme Court let stand the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals' affirmation of a 2012 ruling by U.S. District Judge Avern Cohn dismissing a lawsuit by the Latin Americans for Social and Economic Development, Citizens With Challenges, Detroit Association of Black Organizations and other community groups — along with the Detroit International Bridge Co., which owns the privately held Ambassador Bridge and wants to build one next to it.
The court's decision comes five days after Canada and the United States reached a deal in which Canada will put up the hundreds of thousands of dollars to build a U.S. Customs plaza at the new Windsor-Detroit bridge and be repaid through tolls. The bridge could open as early as 2020.
Sara Wurfel, press secretary to Gov. Rick Snyder, praised the ruling last year: "The decision affirms the exhaustive work and public transparency that went into the siting decisions. This is the latest round of great news regarding the NITC."
A panel of the appeals court wrote that the federal agency used a "a lengthy, reasoned process based on an objective analysis subject to public scrutiny throughout." The panel also rejected the contention the United States yielded to Canada's opposition to adding a second span to the Ambassador Bridge, writing the United States did not "rubber stamp" the decision.
Mickey Blashfield, director of governmental relations for the Ambassador Bridge, last year criticized the appeals court ruling. He did not have an immediate response to the U.S. Supreme Court's decision.
The highway administration "refused to consider the Ambassador Bridge Twin Span even though it was the highest ranked alternative in most of the environmental tests the (agency) was required to apply. The (agency) supposedly based its decision on the unsupported claim that Canada objected to the environmental impacts the Twin Span would have in Canada, despite no evidence of any such impact," Blashfield said.
Opponents argued the highway agency's review and 2009 approval violated the National Environmental Protection Act, Administrative Procedures Act, principles of environmental justice and other federal laws.
The ruling is the latest setback to foes of a bridge crossing known as the New International Trade Crossing, which is to be two miles from the Ambassador Bridge.
In June, the U.S. Coast Guard issued a required permit for a publicly owned bridge from Detroit to Canada — clearing another key hurdle in the high-profile project. A federal judge in Washington, also in June, rejected a legal motion to force the Coast Guard to issue a permit to Ambassador Bridge owner Manuel "Matty" Moroun for his proposed six-lane span alongside the Ambassador Bridge.
Moroun's bridge company has been fighting efforts by the state of Michigan and the Canadian government to build the bridge it insists will harm the Ambassador's business. In court filings, the company argued it needs to build a second span across the Detroit River to handle traffic while it repairs the Ambassador so it can compete with the publicly financed bridge.
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Canada has agreed to cover all construction costs of the U.S. customs plaza, and with the deal removed the last political hurdle Wednesday for the planned $2.1-billion Detroit River bridge.
The Canadian government has agreed to pay the $250 million cost for the inspection plaza in Detroit under a deal agreed to by both countries.
It had been hoped the Obama administration and Washington would pay for construction of its own customs plaza, but that will not happen under the newly signed agreement.
Canada along with a private sector partner soon to be selected by the Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority — which is overseeing the project's completion — will now be paying the Detroit River International Crossing project's full construction costs.
The public-private partnership is expected to recoup construction costs in the years ahead through tolls and other potential revenue generators such as duty-free goods and gas.
"I am pleased to confirm that following significant discussions with the United States and Michigan, Canada has now signed an arrangement to ensure the new publicly owned bridge between Windsor and Detroit can proceed without further delay," said Lisa Raitt, Canada's transport minister on Wednesday.
The U.S. inspection plaza will be procured as part of the public-private partnership assigned to design, finance, construct, operate and maintain the DRIC bridge project, she said.
Taxpayers will not be on the hook for any of the costs, Raitt said.Under the agreement, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has agreed to cover all U.S. customs staffing costs for the new bridge.
"This arrangement is good for Canada and for Canadians," Raitt said. "It also allows Canada and Michigan to move the project forward immediately to its next steps which include further design work and property acquisition on the U.S. side of the border."
Canada's top political leaders, including Prime Minister Stephen Harper, have listed the DRIC bridge project as the nation's No. 1 infrastructure priority and promised it will open to traffic by 2020.
The new international bridge will link the downriver industrial communities of Brighton Beach and Delray.
A Homeland Security spokeswoman in an email statement Wednesday indicated there is a commitment from Washington to spend about $100 million in the first year of the customs plaza operations for equipment, staffing and setup costs in Detroit, plus up to $50 million for staff in each of the following years.
"This arrangement results from several months of productive discussions among the U.S. Department of State, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. General Services Administration, State of Michigan, Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority and Transport Canada," said Marsha Catron.
She said although the U.S. government is not paying any construction costs, it is very supportive of the DRIC bridge project. Catron cited numerous U.S. federal approvals to date including issuance of a President's permit from the Obama administration.
"The United States will continue to support (DRIC) as it is built and following its completion," Catron said.
"The United States and Canada are vital economic partners and steadfast friends. Canada is the largest trading partner of both the United States and Michigan. Many U.S. and Michigan jobs depend on the vitality of U.S.-Canada trade."
The Windsor-Detroit corridor is the largest commercial crossing in North America.
In 2014, annual Canada-U.S. trade in goods was approximately $658 billion with over one-quarter of that trade travelling through the Windsor-Detroit corridor.
"The arrangement announced today ensures we can continue to build momentum on this much-needed trade and transportation link," Catron said.
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder — a driving force to get the DRIC bridge approved and constructed — applauded the agreement.
"I'm appreciative of the work of our partners in Congress and the Canadian government to ensure the (bridge) — important to both of our countries — continues to move forward," Snyder said.
Finding a resolution on the U.S. customs plaza had been one of the last unresolved hurdles slowing construction of the DRIC bridge, said Sen. Gary Peters (D—Detroit) another leading advocate of the project.
"As a longtime advocate for the (bridge), I am pleased the United States and Canada have reached an agreement on construction of a new customs plaza removing a significant obstacle that has delayed this critical infrastructure project from moving forward," he said.
Peters in his role as a member of the Senate's Homeland Security committee will work with the Obama administration to "ensure the U.S. fulfills our commitment to fully staff and operate this border crossing," he said.
The project's next steps include ramping up property acquisition in Detroit to make room for the new bridge plaza and a feeder road in Delray that will link to I-75 freeway.
Nearly all required property on the Canadian side is already in the hands of the federal government, with land clearing in Brighton Beach just recently completed.
The WDBA is in the midst of hiring blitz to staff its support office in Windsor with about three dozen employees whose first task will be to assemble a request for proposal to find a contractor and project partner to build the bridge.
A new border highway in Windsor to link with the bridge — the $1.4-billion Herb Gray Parkway — is expected to be fully open to traffic by the end of this year.
"The new DRIC bridge is of vital importance to the economic prosperity of communities and businesses on both sides of the border," Raitt said. "It will also bring new jobs, opportunities and continued prosperity to communities in both countries."
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the cotton war looms large
For some time now, a cold war has been rumbling on between India and China – Asia's biggest economic powerhouses, and the predicted future global superpowers.
While tensions between these two nuclear neighbours have yet to reach USA – Soviet levels, there has been a long term antagonism between them as each strives for dominance in a new world of global economics.
One of the principal factors in the war has been commodities, both states are large scale producers of raw materials, as well as having massive amounts of cheap labour. The ability to vertically integrate production of items such as clothing for the export market has been massive for both China and India in terms of development and financial growth.
As I referred to clothing there, the obvious commodity which comes into play is cotton, the world's most successful commodity. It is grown on vast scales in both countries by both small holder cooperative type arrangements, and monocultural agri-business.
But China has always grown much more cotton than India – there are various reasons for this – now the main one now seems to be that Indian cotton is generally hand picked, as opposed to the machine picking which is done in countries like Australia (reportedly the world's most productive cotton country), the USA, Brazil, and indeed China.Even if this were to change, it seems unlikely that Indian soils, water supplies and farming practises would be able to sustain a greater level of production.
Per hectare Chinese cotton farmers may be able to plant more than ten times the amount of cotton plants than their Indian counterparts. This has an obvious affect on output. Production yield per hectare then is about 1,301 kg in China, compared to a 2008 high of around 554kg per hectare in India, which has now dropped to 475kg.
This low level production, along with a dry year, a drop in global cotton prices and a corresponding likely future decline in acreage under cultivation means that for India to maintain or increase its garment production levels, it is likely to move from being an exporter of raw cotton, to needing to import cotton in only a few years.
Added in to the mix is the factor of a growing battle for acreage between cotton producers and food grain producers – the latter being likely to secure better subsidies, thereby luring farmers away from cotton. India's growing demand for meat (as it develops a more western lifestyle) means greater demands on grains to be used as animal feed. That's not even taking the population growth into account.
We may note that some experts have also suggested that India's disasterous introduction of BT cotton into Maharashtra has also spoiled its chances of gaining dominance in the area of organic cotton production, this is my own area of particular interest – but not the subject of this article.
When it comes to textiles, China is the world's largest exporter, with a global market share of 28.3 percent in 2010, approximately 7 times the size of India's share of 4.3 percent.
It's massive export volume requires China to maintain a huge cotton processing industry, and as that grows its reliance on imported cotton, particularly from the USA, will grow. For India to continue to try and compete with China, it will have to go toe to toe in the search for sources of cotton to import. This may be good news for some of the South East Asian countries looking for cash crops, but India is way behind China in terms of its cultural outreach – Chinese influence and financial clout has seen it extend agriculturally into countries as far away as Africa.
As these two antagonistic neighbours both seek new sources of raw cotton, I predict that by 2020 we will see a marked rise in demand for conventional cotton from places like Central and South East Asia, and Northern Africa.
But despite China's dominant market share, India is used to pushing the odds, and to punching hard. Its vast population continues to grow exponentially and its financial muscle grows daily. If there is to be a cotton war, which seems highly likely to me, it could get very nasty, much may yet depend upon the USA's relationship with China, and how it's commitment to massive cotton subsidy holds up in the teeth of ongoin recession and growing demand for both bio fuels and food crops.
sources: Economic times; Tirupur exporters association; South Asian Idea
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2011-12 will mark ten years since the GoI permitted the commercialization of transgenic cotton commonly known as Bt cotton. The issue of transgenic cotton had been and continue to be one that generates heated controversy with claims made by civil society and counter claims made by Bt seed manufacturers. This paper, in 3 parts, tries to analyze whether 10 years of observational data gives us any clues that can dampen the fires of this controversy. Specifically, it tries to answer two questions, both related to the main touted claims of the Bt industry:
a. Is Bt either a necessary or a sufficient explanation for increased cotton productivity?
b. Have Bt succeeded in decreasing pest infestation in cotton to indirectly boost productivity and consequently bring about reduction in pesticide expenses?
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