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Cushing 50 Million, Boom & Bust Cycles, US Debt & Recession
By EconMatters
Cushing Magic 50 Club
The final EIA Inventory report for 2012 is coming out on Friday, and according to the API report, Cushing inventories increased another 2.23 million barrels to a record 49.2 million. All this build in Cushing happened even as the Seaway pipeline began pumping crude from Cushing, Oklahoma to a major U.S. refining hub in Houston, Texas in May of 2012.
The problem here is that U.S. and Canadian oil production is increasing faster and producing more oil than Cushing can build extra storage or increase pipeline capacity, and or bring new pipeline projects online from Cushing to Houston. Oil stored at Cushing basically jumped from 30 million barrels to 50 million barrels in 2012, an increase of 20 million barrels which is just an incredible feat, just imagine if there were no pipelines pumping oil to Houston in 2012. In fact, full capacity including shell capacity would have been completely filled to the gills, and Cushing would have to stop accepting oil into its facilities.
Goldman Sachs Forecasting Prowess
Goldman Sachs forecast that the spread between Brent and WTI would reduce to $4 at the beginning of 2013, they forecast this early in 2012, and have since backtracked from this forecast, but even their backtracking seems way off at this pace.
But you cannot take anything Goldman Sachs says about oil forecasting with any seriousness, given their past record on price predictions, remember the $200 oil price forecast, what Day Dreamers… the global economy would collapse long before it got to $200 as the entire global supply chain from China Manufacturing, to Country specific subsidies for its citizens rely on a certain price input to make their numbers work. Blow out that input cost by even 30%, and the proverbial recession starts hitting the fan, and something the Saudi`s have known for a while, you won`t be able to give oil away at $35 a barrel!
We have had paper recessions thanks to the actions of the Central Banks for the most part, but a true organic recession started by out of control input costs cannot be alleviated by any central bank planning, and that is what Goldman Sachs failed to realize. Once Oil gets too high, it effectively slits its own throat!
Holiday Pump Job & Speculators
The speculators are pushing oil up again over the past two weeks during thinly traded holiday market on low volume with the diehards trying to make their yearly numbers look better, but the fundamentals for WTI and Brent don`t bode well for 2013 with the North American production output putting downward pressure on WTI prices, and the expected increase in Oil production from Iraq, Kazakhstan, Sudan and others putting downward pressure on Brent prices.
Speculators have all but left the Gold and Silver markets towards the end of 2012, are the oil markets the next frontier where the easy bullish speculation dries up? Right now everyone and their uncle is in the weak Yen trade, but that speculation has already come along way, it is very crowded, and it wouldn`t be the first time that Japan fails to weaken their currency. How many times has this trade failed over the past 3 years?
US Austerity Only a Matter of Time
With the global economy basically being artificially supported by central bank policies, the real issue is of a global debt problem that is not getting any better, only worse, and is unsustainable. The global economy appears headed for another decade of deleveraging in a massive deflationary loop cycle that has only just begun for the most powerful consumer of Oil products in the world, namely the U.S. economy, as the United States has yet to take their austerity medicine, and that is the real elephant in the room.
When this finally happens expect WTI and Brent to be priced in the $45 a barrel range. As when the U.S. gets a cold, the entire global supply chain gets the flu! And with a 16 trillion dollar debt issue and climbing, that`s going to be one major austerity project, then the real deflationary loop kicks in.
The government cuts back spending, the economy goes into recession, china manufacturing recedes, oil and commodities contract, those resource laden economies go into recession, and the whole loop feeds back into itself, and you have a global recession of epic proportions. It`s just a question of when the United States can no longer kick the can down the road before the entire world is held hostage just like Europe over the U.S. version of an austerity mandated project.
Supply versus Demand
So in the short term they can build more storage facilities and more pipelines out of Cushing, but the North American production increases are always going to be more than the measures applied to alleviate this glut because the fundamentals of high oil prices in a 2% at best economic growth engine that is borrowing the future through artificial means of stimulation at the present just reinforces that the real issue is one of demand versus supply. At current prices there is going to continue to be more production coming online versus the demand to eat up that supply. Simple economic theory, and the solution is probably two-fold: a reduction in prices to increase demand, and ultimately, a cutback in production around the world.
Bear Cycle in Oil
There will be a major pullback in oil prices, we are presently already in the deflationary stage, but you haven`t seen anything yet, because we are increasing production (we currently produce more than we consume each day) around the world as prices are real high relative to demand. What happens when the central bank stimulus stops being effective, and it stops altogether, and the debt issues are finally addressed? That is when the real recession takes hold, and the only solution then to massive oversupply is stopping production. The real question is who stops production: is it North America, Russia or OPEC? The real answer in the boom and bust cycles that play out in oil industry is all of the above, in the end everyone is going to have to cut back production as prices are going to drop like a rock in the next bear cycle in the oil industry.
OPEC Losing Relevance & Power
You see the diamond industry has an effective cartel to keep supply off the market, but since we do not have a global cartel, and because of the boom price in crude oil over the last decade, we now have a global production market once again in oil with all kinds of new participants all over the world who are not members of OPEC, so with robust growth in global production around the world, and no global cartel, you get an oversaturation of the market, and that is what we are starting to experience right now, and its effects will really start to show up in 2013 and 2014.
2015 Outlook
Then in 2015 companies are going to start losing money in their production projects, and some tough decisions are going to have to be made. And this all assumes a decent global economy, I figure the U.S. will be able to kick the majority of the can down the road for the next 2 to 3 years, but after that the austerity project in the U.S. will become front and center. And you think politics are nasty now, just wait till 2015/2016 that`s when the fun really starts.
In fact we may have to create an entirely new independent political party to clean up the budget deficit and spending mess that Washington has morphed into today. But make no mistake it will be cleaned up one way or another, either through austerity or outright default!
So enjoy your job in North Dakota while you can, be sure to put extra income into savings, because my guess is that in four years, after oil pulls back, those projects are no longer sustainable, and the world goes back to the default supplier of OPEC until the next Boom investing cycle starts all over again.
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A very revealing article: http://energybulletin.net/stories/2012-12-21/the-great-oil-swindle-why-t...
Especially read after this "What happens when the shale boom... goes boom?"
An interesting coincidence about projecting a focal 2015 year.
Looking forward for the fun part, will be epic time.
Plan wisely!
They grow crude oil tanks and pipelines like weeds in Cushing. I started an assignment with a major storage and transport company in 2008. Shell capacity for all tanks in crude service there grew from 33 to 66 million barrels in 3 short years. The shippers have been eagerly parking volume there in 2012 simply because of the massive pipeline capacity starting up to gulf coast markets in 2013. How many days to move 20 million bbl south at 400,000 bpd? The 20 million bbl is what the author calls " an incredible feat" for 2012. The real feat has been the rapid and safe construction of so many new tanks and pipelines. Cheers to all the welders and crews out in the cold 7 days a week to keep our energy supplies domestic and reliable!
I wonder if all this spare crude can be used to compliment the US Strategic Reserve in case of a war with an OPEC member....cough cough.
Shale - and Tar Sands - need oil at minimum $80 a barrel.
Shale has been known about for years - but nobody resorted to this extraction method because it is expensive and an environmental nightmare.
Why do you think other parts of the world are - so far- refusing to inject toxic chemicals into the ground to get at shale oil/gas?
The fact that we are now resorting to such expensive and polluting extraction techniques iindicates we are scraping the bottom of the barrel
A few numbers and links should help put the "problem" at Cushing in perspective...
Seaway pipeline was reversed and started moving around 100,000 bbl per day southward out of Cushing in June 2012.
Next phase of Seaway expansion will allow 400,000 BPD to move out of Cushing starting in January 2013. Additional capacity will come on line in 2013 to the tune of 700,000 BPD when southern leg of Keystone project is in service. That is over 1 million BPD of new capacity out of Cushing that will gradually close the spread between WTI and Brent back to single digits in 2013. Another important detail to consider is that right now very little of the Bakken production makes it to Cushing because of so many railway destinations soaking up the light sweet product at higher prices than WTI at Cushing. My calculations show the potential challenge/opportunity to be at Texas gulf coast marine terminals going forward. Check out OILT and GEL if looking for investment ideas. EPD and EEP are worth a look as well.
what am I missing? " Additional capacity will come on line in 2013 to the tune of 700,000 BPD when southern leg of Keystone project is in service."
The new pipeline, which is designed to parallel the existing right-of-way from Cushing to the Gulf Coast, is expected to more than double Seaway's capacity to 850,000 BPD by mid-2014.
Seaway project has phased start-up capacity as follows: 150,000 bpd in June 2012, 400,000 bpd in January 2013, and 850,000 bpd in 2014. The Keystone ( gulf coast project ) will carry 700,000 bpd by late 2013.
Seaway is a joint venture of Enterprise and Enbridge. The gulf coast project is owned by Transcanada. Total new capacity from Cushing to gulf coast will be 1.55 million bbl per day in 2014 with part of that capacity operating in 2013.
Deflation is only relevant when the present fiat regime is still in place. If it collapses the only thing that will matter is the relative value of one good or service against another good or service until another paper or metal system comes into being.
Bingo. When fraud is the status quo, possession becomes the law. Hell, moonshine will be a median of exchange simply because it can be used as a fuel or a painkiller.
There is enough rail capacity now in the Bakken to move the production. It is being shifted away from Cushing. that is filling the supply needs away from the Gulf coast and leads to the Cushing buildup.
"Robust growth in global production" Hahahaha
Since 2005, crude and condensate production has increased by just 0.3% per year. If that's "robust", I'd like to see what you'd call "weak".
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No doubt the production increases in the U.S. and Canadian Bakken plus the increase in overall horizonal has pumped up production. However reading the Investor decks of the Canadians I hear NO MAS. They are losing their asses and are releasing rigs by the massive amounts. Production will show major declines within 12 months. Getting hosed by the big discounts to the WTI and the U.S. refiners/pipelines. Realization is they are beating their brains in and selling a valuable commodity for dimes on the dollar. Money is not going to continue to die in this arena. IMO
Peak Oil still happening....
I hear that KansasCrude... WCS at $40 discount to WTI, which is priced over $20 below Brent or LLS makes the oil sands a waiting game for a new outlet to non-US markets. Read a lot more and feel free to contribute at www.gasandoilinvestment.com
I hope the author sees this and further quantifies the number of days required to move 50 million bbl of stored crude out of Cushing. The system should balance by mid 2013 with new pipeline outlets that can be studied at this link: http://gasandoilinvestment.com/cushing-oklahoma-snap-shot-of-major-pipel...
The author (econmatters) fails to point out two essential details that make the Cushing storage situation a non-issue in 2013. The oil storage glut is far from "problematic" if one considers that within 6 months there will be roughly 1 million bbl per day of new pipeline capacity starting to move volume from Cushing to gulf coast markets. Seaway pipeline expansion will carry 400,000 bbl and southern leg of Keystone will carry 700,000 bbl when completed. Both projects are under construction now. The second detail overlooked by the author is that nearly all of the 700,000 bbl of Bakken daily production is delivered to railway destinations that do not include Cushing because of the roughly $20 discount of WTI to LLS. More of the Bakken production could go to Cushing by pipeline in the future
"The US has yet to take their austerity medicine." Whoops--here the author makes a blunder that calls his judgment into question. If there is anything we can take away from the last four years of our government operating without a budget, it is that the US HAS NO INTENTION of taking any austerity medicine.
It's only a matter of time, he assures us. No doubt, but not for the reasons he supposes. The U.S. will take its austerity pills when the bond markets force them down its collective throat. I can hear the jeering already: "Heh! The Fed has been monetizing the deficit for years. Where's the collapse?" We've had ZIRP for four years, and four years is very different from "forever". Foreign markets have already lost confidence in the Treasury debt; that's why the Fed has to pick up most of current run-rate. How long before the foreign markets lose confidence in the US Dollar itself? That is the $64 trillion question.
Yeah, denying the need for austerity is like denying gravity. You can say you don't believe but that doesn't change the the fact the law exists.
There IS austerity in this land right now. Echecks from .gov cover up the soup lines and there are no haggard thin faces now but it's the .gov itself that is most destitute. The recipients of echecks don't care about the debt or deficit. Just send my check.
You are so right about the 64 Trillion $$ question. That will be a day that will live in infamy.
Gawd, people need to study economics.
Oil is a basic input of our economy. A human can produce 100 watts. A barrel of oil has 2000 times that energy.
Cheaper oil would be a stimulus for our economy, because oil is food, oil is clothing, oil is warmth. The cheaper it is the more we can SAVE. SAVINGs create CAPITAL. Guess what you need to fund research into new drugs for diseases or new robots or new energy sources to explore space? You guessed it...CAPITAL.
Not according to modern eCONomic theory and modern banking. Capital has no cost (ZIRP) and can be created out of thin air at will. - FAIL
Wow, so many peeps chasing the dream, so few red arrows.
No one, including the author but possibly excepting Jumbotron and Mike in GA, appears to have a clue about the real trajectory we're going to see. We are NOT going to see $45/bbl oil (nor the ridiculous suggestion of $25/bbl oil), because the producers can no longer pull it out of the ground for that. Everyone on the supply side would love to see $200/bbl oil, but even the author realizes that when you get to that price, normal people aren't driving and everyone starts to understand the "buy local" meme.
Also, those bozos calling for increased fracking especially don't know shit from shinola, as exemplified by Tombstone's redneck rant. They are laying down the wells in the Dakotas and elsewhere because the life of viable production for those wells runs on average between 18 months and 2 years. And, of course, the costs in terms of groundwater and environmental dergadation are not even recognized, let alone priced in. (Those costs get socialized, Tombstone. That is your real socialism.)
Guess what, kiddies? Listen closely ... Those who believe that oil will continue to sustain our economy, or ever could, and those who act (or fail to act) upon that belief, are fucked. You will be better off learning to churn butter by hand.
Funny, I live smack in the middle of a huge natural gas field that's seen extensive fracking and haven't even heard of, much less seen evidence of, a single instance of anyone's water becoming undrinkable. The only dergadation I've witnessed is in the minds of blowhards on the internet.
There were also no huge oil spills in the Gulf for 31 years until Deepwater Horizon. We're human. We fuck things up. It's our perogative.
My mother-in-law's wells went to shit after they started fracking on her property in Texas. Like anything else humans do, I suppose sometimes they do things right and sometimes they fuck things up. My point is, when the corporations fuck it up, they should pay and NOT THE TAXPAYER. Really getting sick of the "I fucked up so where my BAILOUT" meme. You fuck up, YOU pay, bitchez.
+2 we are living in an Ocean of distorted economic incentives. The good news is that we are closer to the peak than to bottom of Government and its distorted economic incentives..
No offense but was it proven that the fracking activity was actually the cause? Where in Texas are we talking about?
I'm serious, thousands of wells drilled around here. Not one instance of water problems. In fact many of these small municipalities have BETTER water quality than they did before fracking, because they actually have some money to update and maintain their systems.
There is one point which is missed, which is that US consumption of oil per inhabitant is very very high compared to many nations on earth, yet US is only about 4-5% of population. If takes only a few barrels of additional oil per inhabitant outside of US to make the consumption go up.
Long story short, the oil finds in US do not mean so much a plunge in oil price but a second leg boom in some emerging markets in need of oil. Very bullish for Chinese equities those oil finds in the US.
In other words, the US demand for oil is becoming rapidly less and less the dominant factor in total demand.
TO WIT The US has 19,150,000 barrels per day consumption, vs 9,400,000 for CHINA in 2011 and yet China has 4 times more inhabitants. I do not discuss the possibility that US consumption goes down, but I think if you have the oil price go down significantly I think there is a lot of benefits for many emerging countries. I guess CHina would send twice teh number of workers they are currently sending in Africa to get busy building more infrastructure and so on. I think that this article as a US centric view of teh demand of oil which is outdated by at least 30 years.
US oil finds bullish for emerging economies long term.
A drop in oil imports during the December 21 week pulled down oil inventories which fell 0.6 million barrels to 371.1 million. This is the fifth draw in the last six weeks but most of the draws, like the latest, have been small. Oil inventories remain extremely heavy, classified as well above their upper limit.
Refineries sharply increased their output of gasoline where inventories show a fifth straight major build, up 3.8 million barrels in the latest week. Inventories of gasoline are extremely heavy, moving up in classification one notch in the week to, like oil, well above their upper limit. In contrast, distillate inventories are below their lower limit though they did rise 2.4 million barrels in the week.
Product supplies in the wholesale sector, which offer a secondary indication on final demand, point to softness with gasoline down 2.8 percent year-on-year and distillates down 6.9 percent. The price of oil is down following today's report, about 50 cents lower to the $91.50 area.
Inventory Summary: http://www.nasdaq.com/markets/us-economic-calendar.aspx
Very bearish EIA inventory data today! builds in all the products, going down, down, down.
Hormuz don't give a shit!
$200 oil....what Day Dreamers (Goldman)
Or bull shitters and con men who are talking their book, which I tend to believe even more. The biggest mistake you can make is taking these scumbags for fools and idiots. They will bury any company for a short term profit and bonus. We've all seen it happen, time and time again.
"Con men" is the correct term. Goldman Sachs and Vitol, the Enron of Switzerland, orchestrated the 2008 price spike using dark pool money in unreportable transactions. While they screamed "Oil going to $200!" GS and Vitol were selling and building short positions as oil approached $140. Needless to say, the other Usual Suspects were among the supporting cast of characters.
What happens when the central bank stimulus stops being effective, and it stops altogether, and the debt issues are finally addressed?
Silly EconMatters. Just because central bank stimulus stops being effective doesn't mean Zimbabwe Ben stops monetizing our deficits, or that Congress finally addresses debt issues.
Or calling bailing out insolvent banks 'stimulus' to fool the wee folk...
I agree. Devaluation is the only, and inevitable, way to correct the criminal malfeasence committed on our currency.
The question is can this be done agonizingly slowly or will a collapse cause the reset? Either way, the pain will take years to recover from and many will be eaten alive.
But it's coming.
Clear the bad debt and prosecute the fucking fraud. Things will continue to deteriorate so long as the moral hazard reamins and there are no real consequences for bad behavior. until then nothing changes.
Devaluation by half will double government spending due to price inflation in terms of the currency devalued. If ever there is an outright dollar devaluation, get your wheelbawrrows out. Washington DC will keep on informally devaluing by printing until the currency hits the critical mass and goes into the dirt.
We can still trade these green pieces of paper for stuff domestically and internationally. Devaluation will only put a quick end to that. The current policy of slow death inflation by printing allows the worthless paper to still be exchanged for stuff.
Silly indeed!
We have had paper recessions thanks to the actions of the Central Banks for the most part, but a true organic recession started by out of control input costs cannot be alleviated by any central bank planning, and that is what Goldman Sachs failed to realize.
Anybody who fails to understand the nature of GS's "failures" is living fully within the Matrix. That they could so easily debunk the $200/bbl yet not expect GS to do the same analysis???
It is at times like these when I question whether one of us from a distant planet, as we are not of the same kind.
Devaluation is a costly way out. But gov't will never cut spending in a meaningful way and there isn't enough tax revenue to pay for any of it.
The article assumes a rational response by The Bernank and TPTB to the diminishing marginal utility of debt monetization. I expect no such rationality.
The rationality of stealing everything not tied down though...
The Dictator may have gotten an A+ in Propaganda 101, but he gets an F- in Budgeting 102. About the only thing that might save America and the economy is a boom in energy, provided the government doesn't demand more green energy waste and fraud instead. However, the main point is well taken as infrastructure to get us there is woefully lacking. You can blame the global warmers and their monkey-wrenching of the fossil-fuel expansion, simlpy because they hate Big Oil with an unbridled passion. So, it wouldn't stun me to see us regress to the dark ages as fracking is banned and solar panels and windmills become the dictate of the day. That is where socialism is taking us, pronto.
I never thought of myself as a socialist for using solar panels! Face it, the best energy is photosynthesis followed by solar. The former is the most efficient possible and produces no heat. Solar is abundant and is quickly be comic economically viable as costs drop and efficiency skyrockets.
I was raised in a gas station so I have nothing against oil except that it's hard to get, transport and refine, it pollutes and its cost is the opposite of stable.
Three points:
1. Number of rigs seems to be declining yet storage going through the roof
2. usage is declining in the US significantly - why
3. Oil headed to $45 bbl finally gives the economy the ability to fend off depression if we wanted to allow Israel to hit Iran.
2. usage is declining in the US significantly - why
Global warming. No one needs to heat their homes.
Problem; Israel can't hit Iran more than a slight bitch-slap, but Iran can hit them back hard from several directions at once. So the Israelis way is to get the USN to do it. Doubt that, the Iranians can hit it hard too.
The 45bbl can't fend off depression, it can only soften a recession, but slow in = slow out.
(I tell my girlfriend this ... she says yes!!)
Cheap oil is the only way out. Start drilling.
How will drilling make oil cheap? Especially if the energetic and capital costs of drilling are increasing exponentially? Try talking to someone who actually drills those wells.
Drill cheap oil.
Where dipshit? Wake up and go talk to one of these engineers, there is no more "low hanging fruit" or "easy to drill" oil. That is the point.


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The TriZetto Group provides its employees with a benefits estimator at the enrollment stage to help them decide if the company's consumer-driven plan is a good choice, and the vendor supplies a treatment cost estimator, pharmacy cost estimators and access to wellness and prevention tools. Still missing, however, are the price data and detailed quality comparisons that employees need to become fully informed. "For the real tools that employees need, we're two years out," says Alan Heikkala, vice president of human capital management.
For now, most consumer-driven health plans cut costs only through reduced utilization.
"This is a struggle. It may take
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"Utilization is about half the total health care cost increase; price inflation is the other half," says Blaine Bos, a Mercer partner. "The network approach, which has been in place for decades, is supposed to address the price inflation portion in contracts. The next frontier for this is transparency so we can identify the most cost-efficient and highest-quality providers."
The missing element is a combined government and private-sector effort to create a database that identifies the most efficient and highest-quality policies and practices.
"We can expect to see public domain databases with this information by about 2012," Bos predicts. "At that time, we should be able to measure most practitioners in most metropolitan areas."
President Bush issued an executive order on August 22, 2006, that directs federal agencies to increase pricing and quality transparency, and 30 states have passed or proposed legislation requiring steps toward transparency. Some insurers are providing pricing for common procedures in specific locations, but the data are uneven and incomplete.
In the meantime, some employers and experts now refer to consumer-driven health plans as high-deductible health plans because the high deductible is really the defining characteristic of these plans, and the driving force in reducing utilization. Towers Perrin refers to them as account-based plans.
The nomenclature remains unstable, but dropping the "consumer-driven" element may help lower expectations that cannot yet be met.
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Villa v Fulham team news: Defender Clark back in training
Ciaran Clark is hoping to be available for Villa's clash against Fulham after returning to training following a shoulder injury.
Clark has been out of action since coming off injured in the Republic of Ireland's 2-2 draw against Austria a fortnight ago.
The defender was forced to sit out the defeat to Liverpool and the victory over Stoke City.
But he returned to training at Bodymoor Heath on Thursday.
Manager Paul Lambert and the Villa medical staff will assess the 23-year-old's fitness ahead of the Villa Park encounter with Fulham.
"He trained on Thursday morning, his first day back since the national game," said the Villa boss.
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When news commentators start gabbing about commodities like soybeans and pork bellies, do you feel like they might as well be speaking ancient Sumerian? Just for once, wouldn't you like to hear in plain English how all this commodity stuff applies to you?
Believe it or not, it does - especially nowadays.
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Raw Materials
"Commodities" is a catchall term for the raw materials that manufacturers and investors buy and sell on futures exchanges. In addition to soybeans and cotton, commodities include items like oil, wheat, coffee, beef, industrial and precious metals and oranges. Even bandwidth and carbon emissions credits have been considered commodities.
Since so many commodities go into the everyday products we buy, commodity prices factor greatly into how much we pay for things. For instance, if wheat prices spike, you can bet the prices of cereal, bread and other wheat-containing products will soon follow suit.
Rising Demand
Commodities are especially critical now because demand for them has never been greater. Gone are the days of the U.S., Japan and Western Europe gobbling up the lion's share. Now China, India and other fast-growing economies crave commodities just as much. Since supplies are limited, price hikes are the most likely outcome. That's just basic economics. (To learn more, see our tutorial Economics Basics: Introduction.)
The price of wheat, for example, has jumped by almost two-thirds on futures exchanges since June. Many other commodities have also risen substantially in price over the past year including coffee, tea, oranges, beef and sugar.
Effect on Retail
In the face of rising commodity costs, manufacturers often have only one choice if they want to keep making money - pass on the higher costs to you by charging more at the register. And they're planning to do so.
Food makers like Nestle (OTC: NSRGY) and Kraft (NYSE: KFT), for example, recently forewarned of possible higher prices at the supermarket. You may have noticed that Starbucks (Nasdaq: SBUX) and Dunkin' Donuts are already charging more for your favorite cup of Joe, and that Sara Lee (NYSE: SLE) has upped its bread prices. Meanwhile coupons, discounts and other types of price concessions on food are starting to disappear.
There's a similar situation in the clothing industry. Because of rising cotton prices, which have just about doubled this year, retailers such as Walmart (NYSE: WMT) and J.C. Penney (NYSE: JCP) are expected to substantially raise clothing prices by next year.
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If you're thinking that all this sounds like good old-fashioned inflation, you're right. Inflation is especially common after a financial crisis like the one we had a couple years ago, and many economists have been predicting a long period of major inflation for some time.
That's partly because the government has been printing hoards of money to help fund economic remedies for the crisis. Along with rising commodity prices, excessive money printing contributes to inflation by expanding the money supply so much that dollars lose value.
How to Cope
There's not much anyone can do to stop rising commodity prices or inflation; they're part of the economic cycle. There are things you can do to cope, though, such as realizing your paycheck won't go as far and taking extra steps to economize.
You can also re-evaluate your investment strategy. Does your portfolio contain a reasonably healthy portion of stocks, either individually or in mutual funds? If not, consider beefing up on stocks, because they've consistently outpaced inflation over time - and there's no indication they won't continue to do so. (To learn more, check out our Inflation Tutorial.)


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Possessed with exceptional musical talent, a real passion for opera and an incredible stage presence, Àngel Òdena has been performing for nearly two decades in the most important opera houses of Europe and he is recognized as one of the most emblematic baritones of his generation. Born in Tarragona, he has a degree in Geography and History, which he has not used due to his passion for singing. He started studying singing and piano in his native town with Mercè Obiol and DolorsAldea, and continued his studies in L'Accademia Lirica di Mantova with Katia Ricciarelli and later with Eduardo Gimenez.
His great versatility as a singer has led him to a wide spectrum of musical styles, including a considerable amount of oratorio and vocal symphony, but he is at his very best in opera. His debut was in 1994 in La Bohème in the Teatro Petruzelli in Bari; the beginning of a career which now includes more than fifty operas. Bel canto operas by Rossini include: Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Lisbon, Hamburg, Peralada, Valencia), La Cenerentola (Hamburg, Palma de Mallorca) Il Viaggio a Reims (Barcelona, recorded on DVD) and L'Italiana in Algeri (Limoges). By Donizetti he has sung l'Elisir d'Amore (Jerez, Hamburg and Barcelona), Anna Bolena (Hamburg, with Edita Gruberova), Maria Stuarda (Barcelona, again with Gruberova), Don Pasquale (Palma de Mallorca), La Favorita (Elda) and Lucia di Lammermoor (Barcelona and Amsterdam-Concertgebouw). Classical operas include: Haydn´s L'isola disabitata, (Lisbon) and Mozart´s, Magic Flute (Barcelona), Don Giovanni (La Coruña) and Così fan tutte (Barcelona). French opera includes: Roméo et Juliette (Sabadell), Faust (Seville), Samson et Dalila (Bologna), Werther (Teatro Real de Madrid), Thaïs (Oviedo and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) and one of his favorite personalities: Escamillo, from the ever popular Carmen, in Jerez, Palermo, Toulouse, Cap Roig, San Sebastian, Orange, l'Arena di Verona, this one conducted by P. Domingo, Málaga and Barcelona.
Àngel Òdena´s vocal and acting skills are particularly suited to Giacomo Puccini´s operas, having sung Turandot in Hamburg and in the reinauguration of the Gran Teatre del Liceu de Barcelona, Madama Butterfly (Hamburg, Seville, Madrid, Lausanne, Florence and Barcelona -Liceu), La Bohème (Bari, Barcelona and Naples, conducted by Nello Santi, Córdoba), Le Villi (Oviedo) and Manon Lescaut (Las Palmas, Berlin). He has also sung other Verismo classics, Cavalleria Rusticana (Malaga and Lerida) and Pagliacci (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Madrid, which was edited on DVD in the Teatro Real).
Opera is nothing without Verdi, one of his favorite composers, and he has sung: Falstaff
(Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Bilbao and Barcelona), La Traviata (Madrid, Teatro de La Zarzuela conducted by Alberto Zedda), Un Ballo in Maschera (Oviedo), Simon Boccanegra at the Teatro Real de Madrid with P. Domingo, Don Carlo (T. Maestranza, Sevilla) Il Trovatore (Metropolitan Opera House of New York) and Aida (Liceu). German repertoire includes Elektra (Toulouse and Seville), Lohengrin (Turin, Barcelona, Bilbao, La Coruña and Salamanca), Rhinegold (Madrid), Tannhäuser (Oviedo) and Tristan und Isolde (Las Palmas). He has also performed Il Segreto di Susanna by Wolf Ferrari (recorded on CD) and Oedipus Rex by Stravinsky (Valencia, Bilbao and Peralada). Also he has participated in a CD recording of La Integral de Canciones para canto y piano de A. Garcia Abril.
In the Teatro Real in Madrid he has participated in a series of lyrical compositions by Spanish
composers, for example: Margarita la Tornera (by Chapí, recorded on CD), Merlin (by Albéniz, on DVD), La Dolores (by Bretón, on DVD), La conquista di Granata (by Arrieta, on CD), Luisa Fernanda (by Moreno Torroba) also interpreted in Miami (Florida Grand Opera) and Alfano's El Cyrano with P.Domingo. In the same line he has also performed El Gato Montés de Penella (Teatro de la Zarzuela de Madrid), Atlántida (by Falla, in Granada and Valencia with Teresa Berganza), Pepita Jiménez (by Albéniz, in Peralada and Montpellier), Katiuska (by Sorozábal, in Bilbao and Madrid, on DVD), El Hijo Finjido (by Rodrigo, in Madrid), Una voce in off and El Gato con Botas (both by Monsalvatge, in Barcelona, recorded on CD), Pan y Toros (Barbieri, Oviedo), the opera Goyescas (by Granados, in Venice and Savonlinna) and El Caserío (Teatro Arriaga, Bilbao). He has sung Indovina (Palau de la Música de Valencia), Marina (Teatro de la Zarzuela de Madrid) and El Gato Montés (Sevilla and Oviedo). Òdena have to burn a CD of La Vida Breve de Falla by Deutsche Grammophon, with the subsequent concert in Granada.
Àngel Òdena has worked, among others, with conductors such as Nello Santi, Alain Lombard, Michel Plasson, Carlo Rizzi, Danielle Callegari, Antonello Allemandi, Paolo Arrivabeni, Frederic Hayder, Peter Schnaider, Pinchas Steinberg, Jesús Lopez Cobos and Miguel Angel Gómez Martínez.
His following engagements include: Atlántida (Liceu de Barcelona), La Traviata (San Sebastián, El Escorial and Tarragona), La Forza del Destino (Washington National Opera), Simon Boccanegra (Berlin), La Vida Breve de Falla (Toulouse).
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- Illinois officials say the number of deer that have died from a viral disease spread by biting gnats has fallen dramatically this year.
In a news release, the Illinois Department of Natural Resources reports that through the end of September, 403 deer died as a result of what is called Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease or EHD. That compares to more than 2,000 probable EHD deaths for the same period last year.
Also, the number of counties where EHD has been reported has dropped from 76 counties during the first nine months of last year to 51 counties for the period this year. Officials say they believe the exposure to EHD last year has made deer populations more resistant to the disease this year.


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If this don't beat all.
On Tuesday, President Obama met with liberals including MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O'Donnell, and Al Sharpton to "discuss importance of extending the Bush middle-class tax cut."
So tweeted the Huffington Post's Jennifer Bendery moments ago:
WH spox says Obama mtg with Maddow, other progressives to discuss importance of extending the Bush middle-class tax cut.— jennifer bendery (@jbendery) December 4, 2012
This was preceded by:
WH spox: "This afternoon at the White House, the President met with influential progressives...."— jennifer bendery (@jbendery) December 4, 2012
So... in the last hour, I watched Rachel Maddow, Al Sharpton and Lawrence O'Donnell all walk into the West Wing. MSNBC love fest?— jennifer bendery (@jbendery) December 4, 2012
So now the shills at the most left-leaning, corrupt, so-called "news network" in the land get the President's ear on tax policy.
Exactly how can these folks be trusted to be impartial when reporting on such things?
Oh. That's right. They never were.
Please ignore the previous question.
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Poland Attacked by U.S.S.R. Again?
Last Saturday morning, Poland lost its President, major government leaders, and major military leaders in a plane crash in Russia. I ask that God would comfort the living family members and allow them to become His. It has been confirmed that the Russian Military tried to persuade the pilot of the plane to change his course due to low visibility. The plane was taking Poland's leaders | Read More »


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Martha Kathryn Utterback
Martha Kathryn (Hohenberger) Utterback, 93, passed away Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, at her residence in Franklin.
She was born July 24, 1919, the daughter of George and Helen (Lammert) Hohenberger.
Martha married Noble W. Utterback on Sept. 22, 1940. They enjoyed nearly 65 years of marriage. Noble passed away Jan. 5, 2005.
She is survived by their children, Elaine (Bill) Bloomquist and William Noble "Bill" (Patty Umbarger) Utterback, both of Bargersville; a brother, George (Wanda) Hohenberger of Thorntown; five grandchildren, Michelle (Brian) Walker, Shari (Dave) Gerrard, Becky (Chris) Johnson, William "Tyler" (Anne) Utterback and Laura (Phillip) Swango; and great-grandchildren, Kaitlynn and Garrett Walker, Miranda, Samuel, Claire Ann and Lexie Gerrard, Callie and Clayton Johnson, Drew, Payton and Addie Utterback, and Cara and Westin Swango; brother-in-law, George Utterback.
She was preceded in passing by her parents; a sister, Dorothy Dilley; and her husband, Noble.
She was a graduate of Shelbyville High School and Indiana Business College.
Martha was the school secretary for Center Grove High School for 17 years from 1952 to 1969. She later worked for many years with her husband at their family business, Utterback Builders in Bargersville.
Noble and Martha were very community minded. They were proud of the fact that the residence where they lived since 1952 was originally the Bargersville Airport.
She was an active member of Bargersville Christian Church. Martha was a past worthy matron of Bargersville Chapter of Order of the Eastern Star. She was a member of Psi Iota Xi Sorority.
She and her husband were avid pinochle players. Her hobbies included scrapbooking, photography and crocheting.
The Rev. Ken Rickett will conduct a service at 2 p.m. Friday at Flinn & Maguire Funeral Home, 2898 N. Morton St. (U.S. 31 North) in Franklin. Friends may visit from 11 a.m. until service time Friday at the funeral home. Burial will be at Forest Lawn Memory Gardens in Greenwood.
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In my quest to not only utilize social media to promote our freezer beef sales, but also to become a seasoned blogger and make money in the social media world. In order to do that I heard "brand yourself" constantly. It took me a while originally to figure out what my "brand" would be and realized I was right in the thick of it . . . City Chic on a Farm. Once the name was loud and clear it was time to start writing a blog, find and icon that fit my brand, and do everything possible to promote that brand.
First became writing. Even though I was CCOAF I still wasn't clear about what I was going to write about so I just started writing. My writing slowly transformed into sharing what I've learned from My Farmer about the world of agriculture, which falls in the Farming 101 category. Sharing the humor that comes with farming under the Farm Funnies. Raising the boys by utilizing the farm, which falls under Parenting on the Farm. There are other categories as well, but those are the ones I gravitate to the most.
After writing for 2 years the backdrop of my blog needed to be personalized and not just a basic theme so I hired Experience Farm to help me do that. Along with the redesign of my blog also brought upon finding an icon that I would utilize to promote my brand all over social media. After much time spent we came up with what you see here around this post. Yep they did a great job!
In my opinion another phase of "branding" is ensuring you have business cards that includes all the social media outlets that your followers can find you on. So that would be my blog URL, Twitter handle, Facebook fan page, and email. Some bloggers include their address, phone number, etc., but in my opinion they should be able to contact me through what I've given them.
Last but not least is how to stand out in a crowd if you're at a conference, Tweet-up, or even just out in public (sports events, concerts, etc). I chose to purchase a Cindy Tote from Thirty-One Gifts and had City Chic on a Farm monogrammed on the side of it (as shown above). Now I can choose to promote my brand no matter where we are or I can take a break. I've gotten many compliments on not only the bag, but the idea alone.
So in this digital world if you don't choose to brand yourself I do suggest that you purchase the URL in your name. For instance my URL is not only citychiconafarm.com, but also sherrymartz.com as well as all of the names of my sons. You never now when you might need it sometime.
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Question of the Day: Concealed Carry Competency Test?
Americans shouldn't have to take a test to "qualify" for a concealed carry license. In fact, there shouldn't be such a thing as a concealed carry license. That said, people who carry a firearm should train up to the highest possible standard, including Simunitions training. Again, no legal requirement. Just a damn good idea. Illinois—the last state to license concealed carry—has its own ideas about minimum mandatory training for concealed carry license holders. Sixteen hours of instruction including "a live fire exercise with a concealable firearm consisting of: 1. A minimum of 30 rounds; 2. 10 rounds from a distance of 5 yards, 10 rounds from a distance of 7 yards, and 10 rounds from a distance of 10 yards at a B-27 silhouette target approved by the ISP [Illinois State Police]. If you HAD to devise a test for CC, what would it be? What defensive gun use skills would be the baseline?84


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HUNTERSVILLE – Maegan Ports' senior season as a golfer for Lake Norman Charter ended much differently than her junior year.
"Last year, I did good in the regular season, but not so good in the post-season," Ports said. "This year, I tried to make sure I did better in the post-season."
Ports' play stood out in both phases of the season, and she is the Herald Weekly's Girls Golfer of the Year.
She played consistently all season, finishing a close second to East Lincoln High's Brittany Smith for player of the year honors in the Southern Piedmont 1A/2A conference. Ports surged during the post-season, finishing eighth in the regional tournament and ninth at the state meet (among 78 golfers), easily the best post-season performance by any lake-area golfer.
"It was just working on being consistent," she said. "I knew that if I could keep my swing consistent, I would be fine."
Ports had an average score of 40 in nine-hole competitions.
"Maegan has always been the paradigm of consistency," Lake Norman Charter coach Greg Murphy said. "She finished in the top 1-to-3 positions in virtually every conference match in her high school career. Over time, she developed a very sharp short game, which permitted her to get the ball into the hole. She worked especially hard during the off-season to improve her distance off the tee.
"Maegan has always been one of the most accurate ball-strikers and now, combined with her new-found distance, she was able to compete with any golfer in the state."
Working hard during the summer helped Ports improve her game, especially working with new coaches and participating in several tournaments. She said the distances of the tees were farther than what she'd normally played, which forced her to improve driving the ball.
Her efforts helped lead Lake Norman Charter to the conference championship and a third-place finish at the regional tournament.
"No one moment of the season stood out," Ports said. "I really enjoyed the whole thing. It was a good season to have my senior year, playing with the same people I've been playing with for awhile."
Herald Weekly 2012 GIRLS GOLF Coach of the Year
Greg Murphy has turned Lake Norman Charter into a golf power.
Murphy's girls' squad didn't lose a match in Southern Piedmont 1A/2A competition this fall, finished third at the regional and advanced to the N.C. 1A/2A championship tournament for the second straight year. He is the Herald Weekly's Girls Golf Coach of the Year.
Murphy's team landed Meagan Ports, Kaelyn Pack, Brittany Buckstad and Kayla Thomas on the all-conference team. Ports, Pack and Thomas qualified in the regional tournament to represent Lake Norman Charter in the state tournament for the second straight year.
Ports' post-season surge made her season a success
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If you thought Isla Fisher was a jaw-dropping riot as Rachel McAdams' virginal and completely deranged sister in the hit comedy "Wedding Crashers," then prepare to fall in love with her all over again in "Bachelorette," playwright Leslye Headland's crass, dark and hilarious feature-film writing-directing debut.
In the comedy (out today and currently available on VOD), Fisher plays Katie, a depressed retail slave with a penchant for coke, pills and booze. On the eve of her good friend's wedding, Katie and her two best gal pals (played by Kirsten Dunst and Lizzy Caplan) manage to rip the bride's dress, forcing the three to embark on a late-night quest to solve their dilemma.
In a movie full of great turns (Dunst is a deadpan delight and Caplan is a total uninhibited force on-screen), Fisher's stands out as unequivocally the funniest of the bunch. The actress (and wife of Sacha Baron Cohen, with whom she shares two children) called in to Indiewire to discuss the challenges of playing a coke fiend, her love for "dum-dums" and that time Dunst mistook her husband for a server at the Oscars.
Back when "Bachelorette" played at Sundance, it was met with a pretty divisive response. Folks either go with it or are turned off by how vile the characters act. Were you surprised by the varying reactions?
Yeah, you always expect that, you know. And you want a movie to open a conversation, so it's awesome when it does. But all my experience through interviewers has been that it's straight men who love the movie the most, which is very surprising to me.
READ MORE: 'Bachelorette' Funny Lady Rebel Wilson: "I pick up the roles other actresses don't want"
With that said, what did your husband think of the script? Did he read it prior to you taking the part?
He didn't read the script, but he really laughs whenever he sees the movie.
Given that this marks Leslye's film debut, what made you take that leap? The script's killer, but there was no way of knowing how she'd fare as a first-time director.
Um, you know, just to be perfectly honest, it made sense logistically. I was in New York while Sacha shot "The Dictator." This was shooting in New York. It was nights, so I wouldn't be away from my kids. And it was 20 days or something, so as unexciting as it sounds, once you have a family, they're your priorities. And it was also a written-by-a-woman, directed-by-a-woman project. And I can't help it. I'm just wanting to do those kind of ventures, because I really want to encourage female student filmmakers with a voice to get out there. I think there's always an audience that wants to see that. I think it's very rare. And I think that's what's great about a movie like "Bridesmaids." Even though this obviously was based on "The Seven Deadly Sins," a play by Leslye Headland and it's been around a very long time before "Bridesmaids" was even conceived, the fact that "Bridesmaids" was such a huge commercial success and was such a great movie, I think it's definitely opened people's minds to this movie, which we really appreciate.
Did Leslye have you, Kirsten and Lizzy hang out prior to shooting or was it just a meet, greet and shoot type of thing?
It was a meet, greet and shoot. I'd met Kirsten Dunst at a premiere, actually — or, no, at the Oscars. I was there with my husband. He was nominated for "Borat." And I went to the bathroom and when I returned he was carrying a tray of drinks. It turned out that Kirsten had thought that my husband was a waiter. She had asked him to get the drinks, because I guess at that point no one knew what Borat looked like without the mustache. But anyway, it was a very funny story that really got us giggling.
Did you give her a hard time when you met her?
No, no. It was hilarious.


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Fans of the Portmore Empire, this song is one of the latest release from dance hall artist Shawn Storm, portraited above with his fellow Gaza member Popcaan. Shawn Storm is a member of the Pormore Empire, Vybz Kartel's Camp – and this is one of the new singles out for September 2010.
Listen to Shawn Storm Nah Give Up – Produced by Adidjahiem/Notnice Records.
More Dancehall news from Jamaica for December 2010
Big ups to Danehall artist Sheba for winning - Best Female Deejay & to Vybz Kartel for winning - Best Male Deejay last weekend in Portmore at the 38th anniversary of the Stone Love Fam event that celebrated also others finest entertainers.
Watch the official video for Vybz Kartel – Sheba – Like Christmas


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July 17, 2012
Vancouver production of Mary Poppins has a chance to be supercali…well, you know.
Hack headline writers agree: It's a musical that goes down like a spoonful of sugar. Yes, the musical version of Mary Poppins makes its Vancouver debut tonight, as the show that premiered in London in 2005 comes to Queen Elizabeth … Continue reading
London Sidelines: Rain Concerns for Summer Olympics
LONDON – Winter and summer are clearly separate entities, one would think. Not exactly at these edition of the Summer Olympics. With ten days until the London Olympics open its rendition of a summer Games, the wet weather suggests a … Continue reading
Goodbye drive-thru coffee
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Cinema for Spanish Conversation covers eighteen Spanish language films that are used as the basis for discussion and language acquisition, teaching vocabulary, strengthening oral and written skills, and as well as an introduction to Spanish and Latin American culture. The films are selected to provide interesting viewing, key cultural information, and accessible language levels. Each chapter of the book is devoted to a single movie and includes aids for students watching the film, discussing and writing about the film, and understanding the film in a broader cultural context. Also included: vocabulary helpful to understanding and discussing the film; structured exercises in understanding the film once it has been viewed, especially for discussion in class; an accompanying reading for each film designed to provide perspective on the film itself.
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Mary McVey Gill has co-authored Mary McVey Gill is the co-author of íDe pelfcula! with Focus Publishing in addition to Cinema for Spanish Conversation. She has co-authored about a dozen books in Spanish. She lives in Stanford, California.Deana Smalley has taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Santa Clara University and Stanford University. In addition to Cinema for Spanish Conversation, she has co-authored íDe pelfcula! with Focus Publishing. She has also translated a number of history and social sciences titles for Teachers' Curriculum Institute. She lives in Redwood City, California.Maria-Paz Haro ( Valencia, Spain) is Professor of Spanish (Emerita) at Stanford University where she has taught courses on Spanish and Spanish American Cinema including "Spanish Society Through the Eye of the Camera," "The Films of Pedro Almodovar," "Women in Film and Film by Women," and "Cinema of the Southern Cone." She participates in Film Conferences and publishes on Spanish Cinema.


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Buck Lake Road is eastbound traffic only with phase III of the construction project underway, which is from Davis Drive to Pedric Road.
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The Demerara Cricket Board (DCB) Under-15 Inter-Zone Competition will bowl off today at the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) and the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) grounds. Enmore, Everest and Wales will also host matches.
The Georgetown team was named at a meeting Monday evening. The teams are as follows:
East Coast Demerara: Bhaskar Yadram (Captain), Rovin Ramsaroop (Vice-captain), Gopaul Applesamm, Vishal Roopchand, Ramdeo Basdeo, Mohamed Hussain, Compton James, Shaquelle King, Marc Mahase, Akash Narine, Travet Sheopersaud, Sewnarine Sukhai, Manager: Gavin Moriah, Coach: Latchman Yadram
East Bank Demerara: Sagar Hiathiramani, Bhojnarine Singh, Mark Ramsammy, Nazim Esau, Paul Thomas, Ricky Dass, Ronaldo Jaisingh, Anthony Ontonio, Christopher Hamilton, Devon Allen, Daniel Scott, Akeem Bahoney, Raule Douglas, Joshua Singh, Takudyal Boodhoo, Manager: D. Debidial, Coach: Mr. Barker
West Demerara: Chukiram Outar (Captain), Ganesh Jailall (Vice-captain), Troy Persaud, Kumar Ramlakan, Parmanand Rambarak, Navindra Persaud, Ahamad Sattaur, Rajesh Bhoodram, Sayrendra Pooran, Retesh Samaroo, Joshua Rahaman, Lakram Haimkarran, Daneshwar Kowlessar, Aftab Basdeo, Shem Khan, Manager, Sudesh Persaud, Coach: Dhanpaul
Georgetown: Joshua Persaud, Christopher Campbelle, Alphius Bookie, Kurt Lovell, Kishan Bhola, Ashmead Nedd, Mark Baptiste, Raaz Ally, Joel Spooner, Colin Barlow, Junior Phillips, Darian Dickson, Omar Harry, and Mark Ramsammy. The Manager is Leroy Massiah and the Coach is Gavin Nedd.
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I booed Bush. I stood on the Mall on Inauguration Day in a crowd of two million people and, without a moment's hesitation, booed the forty third president of the United States. That was a first for me.
I was taught that booing was rude, or as Chris Matthews said, "bad form." And I thought:
Bad form is sending young men and women to die in a war built on a lie;
Bad form is torturing people in secret camps;
Bad form is abandoning the people of New Orleans;
Bad form is holding yourself above the law, trashing our freedoms, our environment, our reputation...
Miss Manners says you cannot permit a bravo for an operatic performance without also permitting a boo. Can we extrapolate to politicians on state occasions? Chris Matthews, a man whose tongue has never known restraint, thinks not. Others hope that their booing will be followed by an indictment. I can only tell you that booing felt good and absolutely correct. I felt that we were telling the soon to be ex president exactly what we thought of his actions and policies that have wreaked havoc on our country.
Like probably everybody else standing there on the Mall, I was taught to have respect for the office of the presidency, but I felt no conflict. President Bush himself was our model: he disrespected the office, he disrespected his constituency.
Other than in a voting booth, citizens rarely have any opportunity to tell our leaders directly what we really think. For once, two million of us had an opportunity to tell George W. Bush exactly what we felt about his abuse of power. We the people were telling him. We the people were saying, We censure you. We repudiate you. I never felt more American.
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What was a fairly minor fuel shortage sparked when gas tanker drivers in the UK threatened to go on strike has developed into what UK officials are now calling all out chaos, as drivers across the country scramble to fill their tanks amid uncertainty about when transportation services will be up and running at full capacity again.
In what may be a glimpse into the future of other industrialized Western nations that are experiencing rising gas prices and labor problems, residents of the UK were queued in hours-long lines reminiscent of the 1970?s oil crisis in the United States. The lines of drivers waiting to get their daily allotment of gas are so long that they have led police to shut down gas stations in an effort to ease traffic and avoid delays.
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The proposed income tax on the rich
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Representing the pro side of the argument were I-1098 proponents, Bill Gates Sr. and Nick Hanauer,
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Jeff Lutz, the Eaton County Sheriff's Deputy who is accused of shooting himself and blaming it on a black man, was in court Friday.
At a hearing, the defense requested a change of venue due to all the media coverage and the judge says he will consider it.
The defense also motioned to disqualify prosecutor Jeff Sauter from this case as Lutz often worked under his supervision. The Attorney Generals office will make that decision.
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The merger between Perdigão and Sadia was announced in early 2009 after several months of discussions. Antitrust authorities, however, need to review the plans, so at this moment, definite approval for the merger is not expected until the first half of 2010. The main obstacle in this process is new Brasil Foods' dominance in certain domestic markets, mainly regarding frozen foods. The market situation is currently under review in order to define the real size of each market and the share of Brasil Foods. Until final approval is given, both original companies will keep functioning separately, although the shareholders' base of Brasil Foods constitutes members from both previous companies.
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"Right now we are following up on three confirmed cases and one probable case connected to a large, current multistate outbreak of salmonella linked to baby chicks," said Kelly Weidenbach, foodborne disease epidemiologist with the Wyoming Department of Health. Many families order chicks directly from large hatchery businesses online or on a mail order basis; the same large hatcheries also often supply local feed stores.
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A nice book, but no original recipes given, some redactions and translations are questionable, Bibliographie is very compleat, german version has a section on additional literature
An excellent introduction to food from classical Greece and Rome. The book includes original recipes and modern recipes developed from them, as well as detailed information about food and dining over the centuries and in different classes. It is also illustrated with drawings and photos that help bring this tasty ancient cuisine alive.
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Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0892363940, Hardcover)The Classical Cookbook combines carefully researched history with recipes that are interpretations of ancient Greece and Rome. Two Britons, historian Andrew Dalby and chef Sally Grainger, collaborated on this book, which discusses the banquets and feasts of Athens and Rome, but focuses mostly on how average people ate every day. Many of the seasonings favored from around 700 B.C. up to the fall of Rome in the 5th century, it turns out, are not that foreign to what we use today: leeks, nuts, vinegar, wine. The authors provide easy equivalents for the more exotic ingredients. Imagine how Socrates, in the 1st century, may have enjoyed honey-glazed shrimp or cheesecake. Such dishes make it tempting to try the culinary adaptations of classical cookery. Here's a rare example of history brought to life.
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This book is the first to explore the food of the Mediterranean world in ancient times, from 750 BC to AD 450. All types of food are represented here, allowing the modern cook to recreate the varied diet of the classical world.
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