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More Than $4.4 Billion to Be Available for Environmental Clean-up and Claims Largest Payment for the Cleanup of Environmental Contamination in History
Washington – The United States has entered into a settlement agreement with the Kerr-McGee Corporation and certain of its affiliates ("New Kerr-McGee"), and their parent Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, in a fraudulent conveyance case brought by the United States and co-plaintiff Anadarko Litigation Trust (the "Trust") in the bankruptcy of Tronox Inc. and its subsidiaries (Tronox), announced Deputy Attorney General James Cole, Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department's Environment and Natural Resource Division Robert G. Dreher, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara, and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Assistant Administrator Cynthia Giles.
The bankruptcy court had previously found, in December 2013, that the historic Kerr-McGee Corporation ("Old Kerr-McGee") fraudulently conveyed assets to New Kerr-McGee to evade its debts, including its liability for environmental clean-up at contaminated sites around the country. Pursuant to the settlement agreement, the defendants agree to pay $5.15 billion to settle the case, of which approximately $4.4 billion will be paid to fund environmental clean-up and for environmental claims. This is the largest environmental enforcement recovery ever by the Department of Justice.
"Kerr-McGee's businesses all over this country left significant, lasting environmental damage in their wake," said Deputy Attorney General Cole. "It tried to shed its responsibility for this environmental damage and stick the United States taxpayers with the huge cleanup bill. Through a lot of hard work, we uncovered this fraud and recovered over $5 billion dollars for the American people. This settlement demonstrates the Justice Department's firm commitment to preventing and combating all forms of fraud and to securing environmental justice."
"If you are responsible for 85 years of poisoning the earth, then you are responsible for cleaning it up," said U.S. Attorney Bharara. "That's why this case was brought. And that's why the defendants are paying a record $5.15 billion -- to fund that colossal cleanup and to make things right. The company tried to keep its rewards and shed its responsibilities by playing a corporate shell game, putting its profitable oil-and-gas business in a new entity and leaving behind a bankrupt shell holding the environmental liabilities of the defunct, polluting lines of business. The company tried to cleanse its valuable business from its toxic legacy liabilities. Now the defendants will pay to cleanse the land and water."
"Today's settlement is a just resolution of an historic injustice to the American people and our environment," said Acting Assistant Attorney General Dreher. "The money recovered will result in clean-ups of a toxic history the Old Kerr-McGee unsuccessfully tried to walk away from."
"EPA's vigorous pursuit of this case will have a big return for communities across the country," said Cynthia Giles, Assistant Administrator for EPA's Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance. "Companies that pollute can't escape their responsibility to pay for the cleanup. EPA will continue to fight for those affected by pollution."
The Fraudulent Conveyance
According to the complaints of the government and the litigation trust created to pursue Tronox's fraudulent conveyance claims on behalf its environmental and torts creditors and the Dec. 12, 2013, written opinion of U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Allan L. Gropper:
Old Kerr-McGee operated numerous businesses, which included uranium mining, the processing of radioactive thorium, creosote wood treating, and manufacture of perchlorate, a component of rocket fuel. These operations left contamination across the nation, including radioactive uranium waste across the Navajo Nation; radioactive thorium in Chicago and West Chicago, Illinois; creosote waste in the Northeast, the Midwest, and the South; and perchlorate waste in Nevada.
In the years prior to 2005, Old Kerr-McGee concluded that the liabilities associated with this environmental contamination were a drag on its business, the exploration and production of oil and gas. With the intent of evading these and other liabilities, Old Kerr-McGee created a new corporate entity – defendant New Kerr-McGee – and, through a scheme executed in 2002 and 2005, transferred its valuable oil and gas exploration assets to the new company. The legacy environmental liabilities were left behind in the old company, which was re-named Tronox, and spun off as a separate company in 2006. As a result of these transactions, Tronox was rendered insolvent and unable to pay its environmental and other liabilities. In 2009, Tronox went into bankruptcy.
The United States and the bankruptcy estate (now represented by the Trust) brought this lawsuit to hold the defendants accountable and require them to repay the value of the assets fraudulently conveyed from Old Kerr-McGee.
In its decision, the court found that Old Kerr-McGee transferred assets with the intent to hinder or delay creditors, in particular environmental creditors, and also transferred those assets for less than their fair value, which left Tronox insolvent, unable to pay its debts when they came due, and undercapitalized. Among other things, the court concluded that:
"[T]here can be no dispute that Kerr-McGee acted to free substantially all its assets – certainly its most valuable assets – from 85 years of environmental and tort liabilities."
The Settlement
Under today's settlement agreement, the defendants will pay $5.15 billion to the trust to settle the fraudulent conveyance case. Pursuant to a 2011 agreement between the United States, certain state, local, and tribal governments, and the bankruptcy estate, approximately 88 percent of the net proceeds of this litigation will be distributed by the trust to the United States, certain state governments, the Navajo Nation, and environmental trusts created to clean up the contaminated sites. The 2011 settlement agreement provides specific percentages of this funding that will be made available to each site.
As a result of these agreements, some of the key recoveries for environmental claims and for clean-up of environmental sites are estimated to be the following:
Additional amounts will be paid to the United States, states, Navajo Nation, and environmental trusts for other environmental claims and contaminated sites.
The settlement agreement will be lodged with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York for a period of at least 30 days before it is submitted for the court's approval, in order to provide public notice and to afford members of the public the opportunity to comment on the settlement agreement.
SOURCE: United States Department of Justice


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He'd Better Pull A Good Lawyer Out Of His Hat
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Further details are emerging about those rape allegations against sorcerer David Copperfield. The word is that the 2 million dollars the Feds seized from his magic storehouse might have been payoff money. Yikes. Sources are saying that Copperfield was offering the alleged victim, an unidentified woman from Seattle, the money to quiet down and not press any charges. Hush money! It doesn't paint a pleasant picture. The victim reported that Copperfield invited her to a party at his compound in the Bahamas. When she got there, she discovered it was a party of two. *shiver*
"She got nervous and wanted to go home right away, but David convinced her to stay, saying she could leave the next day if she really wanted to," the friend claims.
That night, Copperfield forced himself on the woman, holding her arms "down on the bed, leaving her with terrible bruises," the friend charges.
"She told me she fought back," the friend says. "But she said that just seemed to turn him on more."
"After Copperfield had finished with her and left to clean off, the young woman had the presence of mind to use her cell phone to take photos of the crime scene," according to the tab. "In order to preserve physical evidence, she says she didn't shower. The next day, she went back home to Seattle, where her mother met her at the airport."
The victim reportedly also went straight to a medical center, where a rape kit was taken. The FBI reportedly used the woman in a sting operation on Copperfield, and had her e-mail him and arrange to meet in Vegas. If this is true, magic is no longer magical to me. I expect to see Harry Potter punching babies next.

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Newcastle soar to third in Premier League as Demba Ba haunts Stoke
Hat-trick hero
Demba Ba fired Newcastle into third place in the Premier League against the club who rejected him last January.
The Senegal striker took his tally for the campaign to eight goals at the Britannia Stadium with his second treble of the season.
Ba had looked destined to sign for the Potters in the January window but failed a medical, subsequently joining West Ham and then the Magpies.
His performance at Stoke underlined what a fine signing he has been for Alan Pardew , whose men remain unbeaten, now just a point behind second-placed Manchester United.
Newcastle had not won a league match at Stoke since 1985 but took just 12 minutes to go in front this time. Tim Krulâs goal-kick was headed on by Leon Best to Gabriel Obertan, whose inviting cross picked out Ba to nod home.
The Potters lost defenders Ryan Shawcross and Marc Wilson to injury and could have been further behind but keeper Asmir Begovic denied Ba.
Three minutes before the break he did get his second, though, as Stoke failed to clear their lines, Best crossing for his strike partner to tap in.
The Potters won a lifeline 15 minutes from time when Ba fouled Peter Crouch and Jonathan Walters slammed home the penalty.
But just five minutes later Newcastle got a penalty of their own for Robert Huthâs push on Best, allowing Ba to complete his hat-trick from the spot.
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Questions for the ABA Task Force on the Future of Legal Education
The ABA Task Force working paper has many interesting ideas in it.* But it also has several points of weakness, glossing over critical perspectives and insufficiently supporting important factual claims. We can hope that a footnoted final draft will take care of the latter issue. But the lack of acknowledgment of critical perspectives is a deeper problem, and one I hope participants at this Saturday's meeting will raise. Questions could include:
1) When clients refuse to pay for the work of recent law school graduates, do they say, "We're not paying for first or second year attorneys," or "We're not paying for attorneys without the following 'practice ready' skill set"?
If it's the former, isn't the problem more one of bargaining power than one of inadequate education? If it's the latter, shouldn't the ABA solicit some critical mass of major clients to articulate the skills that need to be trained, and to pledge to pay those who possess them?
2) Why are (certain types of) law jobs in decline?
The Task Force strongly believes that there are "structural changes" in legal employment. The "structural vs. cyclical" dispute over the causes of unemployment is deeply ideological. A conservative economist may characterize the great recession as a "great vacation" of people unwilling to work (or learn new skills). Paul Krugman and Mike Konczal challenge the structural story generally, and Mike Simkovic & Frank McIntyre give us some reason to doubt it in the case of attorneys. They believe that the "data does not support" the view that "law continues to be depressed while the rest of the labor market has recovered." Many other types of professionals are also faring worse than they have in the past. For every "death of biglaw" story, there's a skeptic who's heard it all before.
I have no doubt that certain types of law jobs are in decline. But this raises a deeper question: why is this happening? Let's think outside the BigLaw box, and consider, say, elder abuse attorneys. Stipulate, for purposes of this discussion, that there has been some decline in the number of attorneys specialized in the regulation of assisted living and nursing home facilities (and tort lawsuits for neglect and abuse). Why might that occur?
A) Attorneys simply aren't needed here. Technology and market forces have brought a golden age of quality care to the nation's elderly. Like buggy whip manufacturers, law schools have been rendered obsolete by the invisible hand of consumer choice.
B) There is still a great deal of elder abuse and neglect, but it's not worth much to expose or deter it. States have cut back regulation of nursing homes and similar facilities. They also impose trivially low fines for avoidable resident deaths (like $150 in California and $601 in Georgia). Elaborate networks of companies shield beneficial owners from tort lawsuits. In this new environment, the technically brilliant (if morally dubious) lobbying and lawyering of the dominant firms has left a much larger group of attorneys without any real legal basis to gain reasonable recoveries for sizeable harms.
Among a certain technocratic policy elite, answer "B" is merely the cri de coeur of trial lawyers and bureaucrats. But that's the same technocratic policy elite that cheered on the deregulation of the finance sector—both eliminating many "wasteful" lawyer jobs and plunging the world into years-long recession. A purely economistic, technocratic perspective hides an array of value judgments about the role of attorneys in society.
3) What if there is a tension between assuring law students are "practice ready" and preparing them for "JD-required" jobs?
One fundamental value proposition of a law degree is training in a variety of tactics for distributing risk and reward when two entities conflict or cooperate. As the Supreme Court uses arbitration and preemption to sweep more contract and tort disputes out of the courts, there may well be less work in litigation-intensive fields. But conflicts remain, and are increasingly absorbed into positions in fields like compliance, supply chain management, revenue cycle management, and the like.
For many critics of law schools, the only good job is one that requires a JD. But the nature of the new positions is being able to connect, coordinate, and mediate between systems in novel and unique situations. Sometimes the best person for those jobs will be an attorney; sometimes someone with superior strengths in allied fields will be needed. (Think, for instance, of PR Director for a union or Chief Privacy Officer at a corporation—you probably want someone with a law degree in the position, but a person with particular press contacts or technical expertise may get the job, and try to learn the job's legal aspects on the side. Similarly, a hired lawyer might try to learn the technical aspects "on the job.").
What's odd to me is that so much of the anti-law-school literature (which seems to be a foundation of the ABA's Task Force Report) says, simultaneously, that a) JD-required jobs are the only good jobs and b) that there are fewer and fewer JD jobs to go around. On that logic, all that's left for law schools to do is to compete on status to grab a shrinking pool of JD-required jobs for graduates. But that's a prescription for failure, particularly if you believe that most standard tasks within any field are increasingly automated. Many of the jobs of the future exist at the "seams" of law and other areas, in non-standardizable interactions.
4) Does scholarship have any value in training students?
For the ABA Task Force, "scholarship" seems almost entirely instrumental to a destructive economy of prestige among law professors. The Task Force does not adopt the full-on John Roberts characterization of legal scholarship as ruminations on 18th Century Kantian Bulgarian evidence law, but it clearly sympathizes with the Chief Justice's frustrations.
I hope the Task Force will consider Mike Madison's argument that "a well-trained lawyer . . . should have experience as a scholar." It should also acknowledge the role of scholarship in helping both students and professors keep up with changing fields.
These questions have a common theme: a critique of the "solutionism" that tends to "reach for the answer before the questions have been fully asked." The draft report of the ABA Task Force is too quick to reach for managerialist prescriptions that may well be self-defeating in the long run. Before simply endorsing "diverse" models of legal education, it should fully consider how the growth of "for-profit" options among colleges has panned out. Before faulting law schools for failing to fully adapt to structural change, it should consider the broader macroeconomic debate on the great recession. And before lamenting an excess of scholarship in the academy, it should demonstrate its own willingness to properly document and cite the authorities it relies on.
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Health insurance reform must include an enhanced focus on preventing and managing chronic illnesses in order to transform our current "sick care" system into a true health care system. The United States spends more than $2 trillion on health care each year, but just four cents out of every dollar is invested in prevention and public health, despite studies showing that disease prevention can effectively reduce health care spending. [Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, accessed 11/1/2009; The Brookings Institution, 4/2007; Trust for America's Health, 3/2008] This limited investment results in low utilization of prevention services, with American adults receiving just half of all recommended clinical preventive services. [New England Journal of Medicine, 2003]
Without a focus on prevention and chronic disease management, Americans are suffering and dying from uncontrolled chronic conditions, which are exacerbated by our nation's obesity epidemic and high smoking rates. Senate health insurance reform will make critical investments in policies that promote prevention of chronic disease and better management for those already living with chronic conditions to reduce health care costs for all Americans.
The Need for Chronic Disease Reduction and Management
Chronic diseases contribute to 70 percent of deaths and increase health care costs. More than half of all Americans live with one or more chronic conditions, and chronic diseases are responsible for seven out of ten deaths in the United States. [Milken Institute, 10/2007; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 2004] The cost of caring for individuals with chronic diseases accounts for approximately 75 percent of the more than $2 trillion Americans spend on health care each year. [CDC, 10/7/2009]
Enhanced prevention and disease management efforts could substantially reduce the incidence of chronic disease, contribute to healthier lives, and save money now spent on treatment. Just a one percent reduction in the adult smoking rate could result in 30,000 fewer heart attacks, 16,000 fewer strokes, and save more than $1.5 billion over five years. [Circulation, 1997] The cost of heart disease treatment could be reduced by $5.6 billion if just 10 percent of Americans began walking regularly. [Critical Pathways in Cardiology, 12/2004]
Obesity contributes to chronic disease and increases health care costs. Increasing rates of obesity represent a challenge to our nation's health, with more than two-thirds of American adults now classified as obese or overweight. [CDC, 10/2008; U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 4/3/2008] In addition, approximately 17 percent of children and adolescents ages 2-19 are overweight. [CDC, 4/2006] Obesity and physical inactivity are identified as risk factors for more than 20 different chronic diseases, such as type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and some cancers. [CDC, 9/15/2008] This association with chronic diseases drives up the cost of caring for obese and overweight individuals, with health care costs for obese workers as much as 21 percent higher than for workers of a healthy weight. [Archives of Internal Medicine, 2004] Obesity among Medicare beneficiaries doubled between 1987 and 2002, but the share of spending dedicated to treating obese beneficiaries tripled, jumping from 9.4 percent to 25 percent of total Medicare spending. [Health Affairs, 2006]
Tobacco use contributes to chronic disease, kills Americans, and increases health care costs. Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States. [Trust for America's Health, 10/2008] Nearly 20 percent of American adults, or more than 43 million people, are addicted to cigarettes. [National Center for Health Statistics, National Health Interview Survey, 2007] Tobacco use kills more than 400,000 Americans each year, and an additional 50,000 nonsmokers die prematurely each year due to exposure to secondhand smoke. [CDC, 11/18/2008] Smoking harms almost every organ in the body and is a contributing factor to many chronic diseases. For example, tobacco causes nearly 90 percent of all lung cancer deaths and at least 30 percent of deaths due to all types of cancer. [American Cancer Society, accessed 11/1/2009] Smoking also causes heart disease, the leading cause of death in the United States, and is responsible for 80-90 percent of all deaths from chronic obstructive lung disease. [Trust for America's Health, 10/2008]
Health care costs for these individuals are staggering, with $96 billion in total annual public and private health care expenditures attributable to smoking. [CDC, 11/18/2008] Estimates indicate that American taxpayers shoulder $70.7 billion of those costs due to expenditures made by Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal health programs. [Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, 9/22/2009]
Senate Health Insurance Reform Will Focus on Chronic Disease and Cost Reduction
Remove financial barriers to preventive care. To help more Americans access critical preventive services, Senate health insurance reform will eliminate co-pays or deductibles for recommended preventive care and screening and will ensure health insurance companies reward the provision of high quality health care. To improve immunization coverage and reduce health care costs, Senate health insurance reform will help states save money on the purchase of adult vaccines. And Senate health insurance reform will promote oral health care, focusing on key populations, including children and pregnant women.
Promote chronic disease prevention for seniors and older Americans. Recognizing the importance of preventive care for seniors, Senate health insurance reform will ensure that Medicare covers, with no co-payment or deductible, an annual checkup and personalized prevention plan services, and waives beneficiary coinsurance requirements for most other preventive services. In addition, Senate health insurance reform will create pilot programs to reduce the incidence of chronic disease among Americans in the years before they are eligible for Medicare, to reduce Medicare costs.
Improve prevention and public health coordination and funding. By better coordinating the work of many federal agencies, and by establishing a national prevention and health promotion strategy, Senate health insurance reform will promote chronic disease prevention policies at the federal level. An expanded and sustained investment in prevention and public health will improve health and help restrain the rate of growth in private and public sector health care costs.
Promote individual and community prevention activities. Promoting health and reducing the incidence of chronic disease at the community level will help prevent the onset of chronic disease and better manage any chronic conditions individuals may have. Supporting community programs to reduce chronic disease associated with things like obesity, tobacco use or mental illness will help create stronger, healthier communities. In addition, Senate health insurance reform will fund efforts to develop a comprehensive and systematic model for reducing childhood obesity.
Promote workplace wellness. Senate health insurance reform allows health insurance plans and employers to offer premium discounts and other awards to individuals who participate in workplace wellness programs, and directs the CDC to study and evaluate best practices in employer-based wellness programs.
Help prevent chronic disease among Medicaid participants. Senate health insurance reform will improve Medicaid funding for states that cover additional preventive services and vaccines for adults, will require coverage of tobacco cessation services for pregnant women enrolled in Medicaid, and will eliminate Medicaid cost-sharing for services and immunizations with a strong recommendation from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. Senate health insurance reform will offer incentives to Medicaid beneficiaries who participate in programs for avoiding or managing chronic disease, such as lowering or controlling cholesterol and blood pressure.
Focusing on Prevention and Wellness in Health Insurance Reform
Health insurance reform must truly transform health care in America from a focus on treating and curing disease to a focus on preventing disease and managing chronic conditions in a responsible manner. Through policies and investments designed to promote prevention and disease management at all ages, Senate health insurance reform will help keep health care costs under control.
Transforming our current "sick care" system into a real health care system is no small task, but a new focus on and investments in prevention and public health policies will reduce the number of Americans suffering from chronic disease and reduce health care costs.


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Sydney Leroux and Alex Morgan are posting bikini pics on Twitter
U.S. soccer stars Sydney Leroux and Alex Morgan both cracked our list of top 50 athletes on social media. This is why. Here are they are in Hawaii posting bikini pics on Instagram and Twitter. God bless them and God bless the USA.


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Karma is a funny thing. I have always believed that if you are a good person inside and out; you will receive good things and be surrounded by amazing people. I am a confident woman who always looks at the glass half full. I love to be active and and try new ventures. My most recent challenge has been learning the game of tennis, you can probably catch me working endlessly on my serve. My love is my 5 year old daughter who is my little personal shopper and probably the next CEO in the Bay Area. Overall, I'm ready to meet new people and see where life takes me!
Camping , Coffee and conversation , Dining out , Gardening/Landscaping , Movies/Videos , Museums and art , Music and concerts , Exploring new areas , Playing sports , Religion/Spiritual , Shopping/Antiques , Travel/Sightseeing , Volunteering , Wine tasting
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Last week of school. Day after Independence Day. Kiddos insane and ready to close it up, despite still having tests and final assignments, I am SO ready for summer vacation and lots of Jalopnik work.
About the author
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Correspondent, Asia at Jalopnik. Lover of the Oxford Comma, despite AP Style, and the Commonwealth "S."


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I had noticed that the theads on Nutrition/Diet can be just as heated as Religion and Politics.
Why are we so sure in our beliefs and why do we think that our way is right?
I noticed that my Vegan friends look down on me who is a big meat eater, and yet they feel as they are constantly judged.
There is so much research outthere: on soy, dairy, meat, good fats, bad fats, you name it...
Can't we all just get along???
I don't know. I personally could care less how other people eat. I just want a place to talk to like-minded folks without being harrassed for subscribing to unconventional beliefs. :
Oh man, way more. Way more.
Yeah, it is totally bizarre how some folks can be so militant about what other people eat.
I used to be militant but, increasingly, I don't care what other people eat. And I don't mean that in a mean way (like "I don't care about you"). I just mean that most of us have the gray matter to make our own decisions. Those of us who don't usually have care providers to help us and don't post on the internet.
If someone asks my opinion, I will tell them. I sometimes post in the Veg Forum even though I've been run out a number of times. Many posts go by in which I would have something substantive to contribute because I know a lot of food research, but I guess if people really want my opinion, they will ask me.
I do need to post a thread in the vegetarian forum, so this is just a warning that it's not hostile.
I have seen the running out of folks - sometimes I think it looks a little bit like the running of the bulls in Pamplona (sp?). Part of it I think is reactionary to extremist groups on either side. And then the other part of it I think goes to the same roots as those of religion. We're talking here about something that is so very personal and so utterly important to one's survival and livelyhood.
It also, quite frankly, has to do with the fact that sometimes it's easier to focus on the things that we disagree on than the things we agree on.
LOL it is very heated over here, huh? I think that's just part of MDC...the gals here could have a discussion on which are the best socks to wear and it would get pulled by a mod for UA violations. "*&%#$^ green socks are better! *$&$&% you!"
It's all relative.
I'm pretty conflict-shy myself and wince a great deal when people get into heated discussions, let alone drive out other people. That said, I think I understand why people are so passionate about this. A) Like it or not, there is an ethical component to a lot of these discussions; it's not purely about nutrition but also about environmentalism, consumerism, how you feel about using animal products or animal flesh (and I say this as a confirmed meat-eater), etc. And B) Many, if not most of us, are in positions IRL in which we are the ones researching and determining what our families eat and defending it to people who are skeptical or worse. There's a lot at stake in such cases, and I could easily see how the tension and defensiveness from those instances bleeds into our discussions here.
It is very heated even outside of the boards from what I've seen. Vegetarians I know tend to be very neutral. Most have been vegetarian for years and just ignore the arguments. The vegans I know IRL are either old school and very laid back about others' choices or very militant. All of the meat eaters I know that know I'm a veg tend to belittle me and make fun of it. Especially dh's family.
And then there's the nutrition stuff. There's always new research out. Just about everything can be good/bad for you. There's really no need to argue. That's one of the reasons I have stopped coming to this board. It is all a debate about meat eaters are evil or vegetarians are stupid.
What I liked about Catholicism growing up is the ritual. Holidays in my home growing up were also all about ritual, especially when it came to food. I'm an agnostic at best when it comes to religion. So now all I have is food and it's rituals. Don't say can't we all just get along, what will I have left?
I'm just kidding. I do agree that nutrition and food choices are about so much more than just that. It includes ethics, environmentalism, economic, etc., etc. Not suprising, in Arabic in some areas the word for bread comes from the word for life, in other areas it's rice. It's our fuel it's what keeps us going and keeps us healthy or not healthy. It's how we come together as a community. When something runs that deep of course people are going to be passionate about it.
I think it's great that people are so passionate about their beliefs. I wish that we could all be less judgmental and preachy and defensive, but hey, we're (mostly) all hormonal, sleep-deprived mamas! We get a little bitchy.
At 27, I've come to a place in my own life where I've realized how little I know about everything. The only thing I'm sure enough to take somebody down over is circumcision. In all other aspects of life, I know there is a possibility that I could be wrong. You won't catch me arguing over food or religion any more.
Nutrition & religion are very similar issues, at least to me. I really don't have an opinion on what other people eat or worship, and I REALLY don't like it when people preach to me. If they tell me that their diet or their God is better than mine, I get extremly annoyed. If I want a change or some advice, and I want to know about someone's diet or religion, I will ASK, TYVM.
I am actually a lot more tolerant about religion. I figure most religious beliefs don't harm anyone. But advocating some nutrition ideas might harm someone.
On the other hand, I can't really evaluate nutritional claims. It seems like they are all based on different kinds of science. This one analyzes the chemicals in food. This one does a massive population study, and says "the people who ate this way were healthiest." This one evaluates longevity, and this one other health indicators. Blah blah blah! They even look at the same studies and walk away with different conclusions! ARgh!
So I throw my hat into the ring on these discussions, sometimes. I've read a lot of books and websites on the recommendation of people here, but I never come away feeling like "well, now I KNOW THE TRUTH and it will be much easier to make lunch."
I think one of the things that can make veg*ns militant/passionate is not that they "care what other people eat" but that they care about what happens to animals.
Not that that is a license to be rude, but understanding that for some, it is a social justice issue, a matter of ethics, may help explain the strong feelings and the outspoken attitudes. Activists fighting abuses are often characterized as militant--sometimes deservedly, sometimes not.
Whenever there's a subject that's associated closely with guilt, things seem to get the most heated.
We once went out to dinner with a vegetarian, and ordered a meat dish. She felt the need to leave a menu up in between us so she couldn't see what we were eating. Makes conversation kind of hard.
I think we can ALL agree that we need to eat less sugar and more vegetables?
One post I saw a while back, that I thought was a great recommendation, and one we might all agree on, is "Don't eat square food."
: to everything that has been said. i think we all have a lot to learn from each other. i try not to be judgemental about my beliefs because i don't want to be faced with the same judgement. i do try to share some of my knowledge with people that i know, etc, because they really do not know about these issues and are eating a lot of stuff that is bad for them like all the processed foods that comes in boxes, and as a result, have a lot of health problems. i care about them, so i want them to be informed so they can make better choices, but all i do is share the info i know and *hope* that they make better choices. i'm not gunna be a PITA to them about it, though. well, except with my dad. lol. because he knows better.
I can't. Not if it involves taking another's life. sorry.:
My family (husband and 2 year old son) is vegan and have been for 2 years and veggie before that. For us, this issue impacts us so deeply because it is our lifestyle not just a diet. We try each day to live a life that is peaceful and compassionate. We have done years of nutritional research as well as animal welfare research. We are mindful to act as humanely as possible when it comes to buying food, clothing, cleaning products as well as how we treat each other and our community. It trickles down into how we parent, act with our friends, and treat our marriage.
I am new to the boards here and I have to say that I am appalled at the lack of respect and civility towards each other. When I see posts that refer to vegans or veggies as "militant" I cringe. What exactly does that mean to the people that say that or feel that way? it all reminds me of how our society disenfranchises so many different groups of people by calling them names, creating laws against them, hurting them physically just to keep them silent.
Diet lifestyles are important to people. food is how we stay alive it is how we interact with each other it is how we nourish our soul. So when it is being attacked by name calling or false information it hurts. But what I find interesting about the whole thing is that it is usually the people in the majority that are the ones that feel as though they have been wronged or attacked and it is the people in the minority that feel like they just want to be able to talk about thier lives like everyone else and not be called names or attacked for thier beliefs.
Ooh, vgnmama, so true!
But I think it's something you cannot understand if you are not a veg*n. Know what I mean? That's where the militant comment comes in.
There are such strong feelings on both sides of the meat/non-meat issue. I think comparing it to religion is somewhat accurate. And I also think that we can learn so much from each other, that to stand and beat each other up verbally is a waste of both sides' knowlege. There are places where veg*ns will never compromise, just as there are for those who eat meat. The discussion would be helped, on every level, if everyone brought less drama/over-sensitiveness and more respect. We each have our own reasons for why we choose what we choose; if we are not willing to respect each other's choices (however we feel about those decisions), why bother posting on a combined board? Just find a group of people who never challenge your view!
This board is a wealth of knowledge; it's unfortunate that we forget how to share that knowledge peaceably sometimes.
I'm guilty of adding fuel to the fire at times. And I don't even know what I'm talking about half the time. There's a lot of knowledgable people on this board, and I try to learn from them and reuse what they say. They often have insights that is not talked about elsewhere.
I'm an omni, and I understand how veg*ns may feel about meat-eaters because to them, it is an ethical issue. If I felt that 'meat is murder', I'd be disgusted by meat too. But I want to point out that nonetheless, the omnis on mothering are mindful about their eating. I think that's the important thing. We all have come to our place based on thoughtful consideration. We are choosy where we get our meat and meat products. We are grateful to the animal for giving of their lives. At bottom, we still eat what you abhor, but we are definitely not the enemy. Not by far.
I agree with the OP about the comparison between diet and religion. People can get recalcitrant in their positions. But if I've learned anything, it's that the right thing does not go hand in hand with fanaticism. If something is so inherently right, it will eventually come to light. Or maybe there is just no absolutes when it comes to what is the right religion or diet.
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TPWD News Release — Sept. 19, 2005
DEL RIO, Texas — Working to keep plenty of clean water flowing in Southwest Texas rivers, streams and springs will benefit people as well as a rare fish. This is according to a scientist who worked on the recovery plan for the Devils River minnow (Dionda diaboli), a plan recently approved by the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.
The species was listed as threatened in 1999 under the federal Endangered Species Act and is also listed as threatened by the State of Texas.
This small fish is currently known to occur in three streams in Val Verde and Kinney counties, all tributaries to the Rio Grande: Devils River, San Felipe Creek and Pinto Creek. The current status of the species in Sycamore Creek, and in the Rio Salado drainage in Chihuahua, Mexico is not known. The species was once found in the lower portions of the Devils River (now Amistad Reservoir in Val Verde County), Las Moras Creek (Brackettville in Kinney County), and from the Rio San Carlos (Mexico) but is no longer believed to be there.
"This is one of the premier examples of an indicator species," said Gary Garrett, Ph.D., a Texas Parks and Wildlife Department inland fisheries scientist who has been researching and implementing fish conservation efforts in West Texas for decades. "As we've shown in our studies in artificial steams, as well as what we've found in nature, this minnow does well and it's a hardy survivor when stream habitat quality is good, but it really suffers when the habitat declines. This fish needs clean flowing water, and that's good for the people of Kinney and Val Verde counties as well."
The Devils River minnow depends on the constant clean flow of spring waters and is at extreme risk from habitat loss and degradation caused by spring flow declines, water pollution and impacts from introduced, non-native species.
The recovery plan identifies specific, voluntary actions that will help recover the fish so it may eventually be removed from the list of threatened and endangered species.
Proposed recovery actions include: (1) maintain and enhance Devils River minnow populations and habitats range-wide; (2) control the invasion of non-native species; (3) establish additional Devils River minnow populations within the historic range and (4) maintain genetic reserves of Devils River minnow through captive propagation until no longer needed.
Work on several of these steps has already begun.
"We have just completed a five-year, detailed study on Devils River minnow populations in the river, with the support and coordination of private landowners and the Nature Conservancy of Texas," Garrett said. "Two landowners allowed us access and let us stay on their property to study the fish. And there is an ongoing study of the minnow in Pinto Creek in Kinney County north of Brackettville."
Regarding enhancing minnow populations and habitat and controlling invasive exotic species, Garrett said management plans developed by the City of Del Rio and the San Felipe Country Club with TPWD help are aiding that cause.
"There are a series of things they're doing along San Felipe Creek in Del Rio," Garrett said, "including reducing pollution and enhancing streamside habitat. In some areas they have just stopped mowing along the creek and the native plants that are better for native species then come back. Sylvestre Sorola, TPWD wildlife biologist in Del Rio, is helping to coordinate removal of some non-native exotic plants along the creek, including giant river cane, and that's an ongoing project.
"We do have introduced armored catfish in San Felipe Creek that eat the same food as the minnow — we're still considering how to approach that problem," Garrett said. He also said the federal fish hatchery in San Marcos is maintaining a captive breeding population of several hundred minnows, providing a repository to restock the fish if needed, although right now "if we wanted to restock we would just go to nature because the wild populations are doing pretty well."
TPWD has also just concluded a multi-year study at Heart of the Hills Fisheries Science Center on competition and interaction between this fish and other fish it lives with.
The recovery plan underwent a public review period earlier in 2005 and was peer-reviewed by five outside experts to ensure the plan was based on the best available scientific information.
Regarding the recovery plan, one private landowner commented that recent improvement in the status of the fish in the Devils River is "proof that cooperation between U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Texas Parks and Wildlife and landowners can work to accomplish goals."
The USFWS uses a priority system for recovery of listed species with a range of one to 18, with one ranking as the highest. The Devils River minnow has a recovery priority of two, which indicates that Devils River minnow is a species with a high degree of threat yet has high recovery potential.
Copies of the recovery plan can be downloaded from online or requested from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Austin Ecological Services Field Office, 10711 Burnet Road, Suite 200, Austin, Texas, 78758.
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The Bethel High School baseball team led host Benicia by two runs at one point.
But the Panthers exploded for four in the third and then nine in the fourth for a 13-2 win on Tuesday in the Solano County Athletic Conference matchup.
Max Schmeling, hitting from the No. 9 slot, was 3-for-3 with two RBIs and a run scored to lead the Panthers, who are 16-2 overall, 6-0 in league play. All of his hits came with two outs.
Fred Williams had a homer and two RBIs to spark the first rally.
Panthers coach Jim Bowles said Williams addressed the team about picking it up just before the bottom of the third began.
"He is one of the leaders on the team even though he is only a junior," Bowles said. "He's had a phenomenal year."
Hudson Bishop was 2-for-4 with a double and an RBI. Tyler Hall had two hits and two RBIs. Andrew Wheat had two runs scored and an RBI.
Ryan Bohnet earned the win, going four innings and allowing six hits, striking out five.
Daniel Johnson started on the mound for Bethel. He allowed just one hit through the first two innings. At the plate, Johnson was 3-for-3 with an RBI. Eduardo Banuelos had a sacrifice fly for Bethel, which dropped to 6-9 overall, 3-3 in league play.
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It's very hot here in Buffalo. Despite our two natural " air conditioners", Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. But we've got it good compared to the Midwest.
In Oklahoma City, forecasters expected another day of 100-degree heat Sunday, which would be the 27th day this year the city has reached 100 or above. The city is on pace to break its record for such days – 50 set in 1980 – with triple-digit heat possible through September.
It's even worse in western Oklahoma, where temperatures at 110 or above have been common in recent weeks. In Enid, asphalt at a major intersection along U.S. Highway 412 buckled Saturday night from the intense heat.
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A recent study published in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology found that taking antidepressants during pregnancy may increase a mother's chance of developing hypertension. Hypertension is a rise in blood pressure which may pose serious dangers to the mother and the developing fetus.
"Women who use antidepressants during pregnancy are at increased risk of pregnancy induced hypertension with or without pre-eclampsia above and beyond the risk that could be attributed to their depression or anxiety disorders," study authors.
Antidepressant Usage Increases Risk by 53%
- Study researchers looked at medical records for 13,000 pregnant women and identified 1,200 women as suffering from pregnancy-induced hypertension.
- Researchers found that women who took antidepressants during pregnancy had a 53% higher risk of suffering from hypertension.
- Certain antidepressants, such as Paxil, had an increased risk rate of 81%.
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CZ Rami..
Anybody out there have one of these? Your thoughts & comments, good or bad, are welcomed. Looking at a sub-compact or pocket pistol for hot weather carry. Thanks.
I had the poly version. A bit heavy and bulky in my opinion. Sold it because of the DA/SA. I wanted a DA only because all my others are DA.
All in all a good gun, I don't think you can go wrong if that is your preference.
I had a steel version in 9mm and I liked it a lot. Recoil was minimal and it was a nice size, if a touch wide.
Good luck finding one (did you? :) ) I've had my name on a couple lists for a while. Heard and seen nothing but great things about the alloy version. Stay away from poly as I've read. Drawbacks to the rami - trying to find mags and a heavier than other sub-compacts, but it is alloy.
Looking forward to the Sig P227 SAS Carry when it comes out in a couple months too.
If it had an ambi safety I would own one. Every single CZ I have owned has been amazing. I do wish that they would make a single stack subcompact something around the size of a SIG P938
I thought about getting the decocker but I carry my other pistols cock and locked. I would like them all to be the same in that aspect. Thats one of the reasons I got rid of my Ruger LC9.
I loved my P-01. The Rami is my idea of the near perfect carry gun. What's a Rami anyway?...sounds nine-eleven-ish.
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Why do cold animals make bigger babies?
Reproduction involves a critical decision: Should an organism invest energy in a few large offspring or many small ones? In a new study from The American Naturalist, Michael Angilletta (Indiana State University), Chris Oufiero (University of California, Riverside), and Adam Leach� (University of California, Berkeley) used a new statistical approach that can test multiple theories at the same time, an approach they hope will shed light on many evolutionary problems. They used data from many populations of Eastern Fence Lizards (Sceloporus undulatus), which revealed that the lizards in colder environments produce larger offspring than lizards in warmer environments.
So why do animals in colder climates produce larger offspring? One theory suggests the larger size of offspring counteracts their slow growth in the cold. Yet another theory suggests large offspring are not directly linked to temperature at all. Instead, large offspring just happen to be produced by large mothers, who grow large because they require more energy to reproduce in the cold.
When they tested the theories simultaneously with their new approach, the team concluded that temperature's effect on reproduction is a byproduct of its effect on adult size. "This result could have widespread significance," says Angilletta. "Temperature determines the adult size of virtually all organisms. For many of these organisms, we expect temperature to also leave an imprint on reproduction."
Founded in 1867, The American Naturalist is one of the world's most renowned, peer-reviewed publications in ecology, evolution, and population and integrative biology research. AN emphasizes sophisticated methodologies and innovative theoretical syntheses--all in an effort to advance the knowledge of organic evolution and other broad biological principles.
Michael J. Angilletta Jr., Christopher E. Oufiero, and Adam D. Leach�, "Direct and indirect effects of environmental temperature on the evolution of reproductive strategies: an information-theoretic approach." The American Naturalist 167:10.
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Making music: Last year's Summerfest was first planned as a concert celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Hilltown Ramblers; other bands, vendors, and community groups joined in Here, Jim Selkirk, at right, guitarist with the Hilltown ramblers, played with other acoustic musicians at last year's event. This year, on Aug. 23, live music will be heard all afternoon at Berne's town park into the evening. The line-up, after an open mic, starts at 1 p.m. and proceeds in this order: A Bunch of Guys; The Bluestones at 2:30 p.m., Shine Hill Road at 4 p.m., Red-Haired Strangers at 5:30 p.m., and The Hilltown Ramblers at 7 p.m.


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The Cut Throat replaceable blade Shavette Razor from Bluebeard's Revenge is ideal for those who like to hark back to the traditional style of shaving. The Shavette features the distinctive Bluebeards logo on the blue handle and the metal blade holder is laser etched with the Bluebeard's skull.
The shavette is a close relative to the straight razor with the difference being that the blades can be changed, just like a safety razor. This means you don't have to worry about stropping and sharpening yet enjoy the closeness of a straight razor shave! Comes delivered in a plastic slip case for protection. Length is 22cm when fully open.
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Should Chargers have traded Tomlinson?
Published: November 27th, 2008 | Tags: LaDainian Tomlinson, Michael Turner, San Diego Chargers
It's hard to question any moves the Chargers they make; they have some of the best personnel in the league.
But there was one move, one blockbuster move, the team could have made last off-season that might have left San Diego in a better position than it is in today.
And it's a controversial doozy.
But last off-season, before free agency began, the Chargers should have considered trading running back LaDainian Tomlinson. Not only should they have considered it, they should have entertained offers.
Think about how much further along the franchise would be for this season and future ones.
Had San Diego traded Tomlinson, it could have gotten back multiple draft picks. And had Tomlinson been traded, then San Diego could have used the money it pays him to re-sign free-agent running back Michael Turner.
So instead of an aging Tomlinson, who turns 30 this June, the Chargers would have had multiple picks to go along with Turner, who turns 27 in February and has far fewer NFL carries than his former teammate. Which is better for the team?
Just take a look at how Tomlinson and Turner compare this season before the two square off in Sunday's clash.
Turner vs. Tomlinson
This Season
Turner Tomlinson
251 Rushes 203
1,088 Rush Yds 770
4.9 Rush Avg 3.8
13 Rush TD 5
56 Rush 1st Downs 35
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Olympics - Rowing
Southland's Nathan Cohen has won his heat in the men's double sculls rowing event to progress to the semi-final stage of the London Olympics.
The Invercargill Rowing Club member teamed with Joseph Sullivan from Picton to win their heat in traditional style.
The New Zealand combination are known for their fast finish which has seen them win the past two world championship titles and tonight that fast finish was showcased at the Olympic Games.
They sat in third place right through the 500m, 1000m and 1500m marks but powered home to win the heat by a quarter of a boat length.
They will now eye the semi-final stage of the regatta.
Olympics - Swimming
Southland swimmer Natalie Wiegersma finished fifth in her heat in the 400m individual medley at the London Olympics and failed to qualify for the final.
The time of 4min 44.78sec was below what the Waverly Swimming Club swimmer is capable of.
Wiegersma's focus will now switch to the 200m individual medley event.
Galbraith Shield Final
Woodlands have claimed their second Galbraith Shield in three years with a comprehensive 37-17 win over Blues at Rugby Park this afternoon.
While most were predicting Woodlands would claim the Southland premier club rugby title with a team containing a number of Southland and Highlanders representatives, few expected them to be as dominant as they were against a strangely lethargic Blues outfit at headquarters.
After both teams had blown strong attacking chances during the first 20mins of the final, it looked as though Blues were starting to gain some sort of ascendancy.
The reality couldn't have been more different, however, with Woodlands rattling in three tries in the space of 16 minutes with Dan Cavanagh, Willie Umu and Jamie Mackintosh all getting over.
Although Marty McKenzie was having a mixed day with the boot, it hardly mattered and Woodlands had virtually decided the outcome by halftime when they lead 22-nil.
A second try to Mackintosh just after the break settled the matter and allowed Woodlands to use some of the players of the bench who had gotten them through to the final.
When Umu grabbed his second try Woodlands lead 34-nil and finally Blues were spurred into action.
Veteran loose forward Mike Wilkins found a way over the tryline to get his team onto the scoreboard and Blues would end up scoring the last three tries of the game with Filimoni Tagicakibau and Daniel Townson both scoring to add some respectability to the scoreline.
Woodlands were full of running throughout the game, making easy ground up the middle of the park and on the outsides, but their assignment was made easier than it should have been by a Blues outfit which looked disorganised on defence from the opening skirmishes.
Woodlands 37 (Dan Cavanagh, Willie Umu 2, Jamie Mackintosh 2 tries; Marty McKenzie 3 con, 2 pen)
Blues 17 (Mike Wilkins, Filimoni Tagicakibau, Daniel Townson tries; Josh Hall con)
HT: 22-nil
Division One Club Rugby
Drummond-Limehills-Star beat Waiau Star 23-15 in one division one semi-final today while Edendale beat Riversdale 19-13 in the other.
Waiau played most of the rugby in their match but DLS had enough strikepower to get them over the line.
DLS led 10-5 at halftimeand started the second half the best. First five-eighths Dan McIlwrick for DLS and Jimmy Ferris for Waiau Star were the star players along with Waiau openside flanker Tama Toomata who was into everything.
Edendale finished strongly to beat Riversdale 19-13 at Edendale. Riversdale led 13-7 at halftime and held that advantage until the 70th minute. Aaron Kimura dominated the first half with his long range punting for Riversdale but Edendale had the better of the second half.
Club Football
Old Boys staged a come from behind 3-2 victory over Waihopai this afternoon to clinch their fourth consecutive Donald Gray Cup title.
The win means Old Boys join a select list of teams, who have won the Donald Gray Cup four times or more in succession. The other sides to do it are, Thistle 1960-1966 and 1969-73, and Brigadiers, 1950-1954.
Old Boys started the final round of play two points clear on the ladder, but were in major trouble early in the second half, when Brendon Lloyd scored to put Waihopai up 2-nil.
Old Boys regained their composure and hauled themselves back into the game when Bara'a Toubat scored a great individual goal to make it 2-1.
Old Boys' confidence grew after that strike and they were on level terms in the 65th minute when central defender and skipper Gordon Lamont scored off a corner, after Waihopai failed to clear the ball effectively.
They then scored the go-ahead goal when golden boot winner Brandon de Garnham netted from the penalty spot after Waihopai's Todd Anderson hand-balled in the box.
There were no shortage of goals in the later game at the ILT Football Turf, with Queens Park prevailing over the Youth Academy 5-4 in an absolute thriller.
Irish striker Joey O'Neill continued his outstanding recent form with another hat-trick for Park, while captain Mark Pearson and Mitch Watt getting on the scoresheet.
Jack Boland shone for the Academy with two goals, with Callum Smith and Joel Fletcher also finding the back of the net.
Todd Findlater bagged a double for Thistle as they consigned Southend United to the wooden spoon with a 2-1 win.
First XV School Rugby
Otago Boys' High School enhanced their reputation as favourites for this year's Highlanders-wide First XV competition with a 45-nil win over Southland Boys' High in Dunedin this afternoon.
Southland Boys' produced a spirited first half showing and only trailed 12-nil at halftime. Otago Boys' class shone through in the second 35 minutes of play as they held onto the ball and exploited holes in the Southland Boys' defence.
In the other top four game, Waitaki Boys' saw off the challenge of King's High in Dunedin in Oamaru, winning 29-22.
In middle four section games, Gore High survived a late really from South Otago High to win 26-22, while Dunstan High overcame St Kevin's 13-10 in a low-scoring spectacle.
James Hargest College had their moments in a 40-17 loss to Kavanagh College in bottom four play in Dunedin. John McGlashan College were too good at home for Menzies College, winning 22-10.
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"An underground storage tank system (UST) is a tank and any underground piping connected to the tank that has at least 10 percent of its combined volume underground. The federal UST regulations apply only to UST systems storing either petroleum or certain hazardous substances."
(Learn About Underground Storage Tanks, (U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, Mar. 8, 2016).
Until the mid-1980s most underground storage tanks (USTs) were made of bare steel, which is likely to corrode over time and allow UST contents to leak into the environment. The greatest potential hazard from a leaking UST is that its contents (petroleum or other hazardous substances) can seep into the soil and contaminate groundwater, the source of drinking water for nearly half of all Americans.
(Frequent Questions about Underground Storage Tanks, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Dec. 15, 2015)
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Facts About USTs
• The EPA's recorded 532,420 UST releases since the UST program's start
• Of the 532,420 reported USTS, the EPA has cleaned up 461,441
• The EPA's UST program has 70,979 UST sites left to clean up
Source: EPA's Semiannual Report of UST Performance Measures End of Fiscal Year 2016
The Basics of Underground Storage Tanks
Preventing releases in underground storage tanks, (Materials Performance, June 30, 2016).
Leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund, (Treasury Bulletin, Mar. 2015). E
UST Program Facts (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Dec. 2015).
The Guide to Underground Storage Tanks for Homeowners, Buyers & Sellers, (Coldwell Banker, Aug. 2014).
Upkeep for USTs, (National Petroleum News, May 2002). E
Insuring your underground storage tanks, (Realty Times, Nov. 24, 2004).
Re-lining underground fuel tanks to protect drinking water, (Realty Times, June 10, 2004).
Soil testing a common step in early stages of a project, (Triangle Business Journal, Apr. 28, 2003).
Information for REALTORS®
What do property values really tell us? A hedonic study of underground storage tanks, (Land Economics, May 2013). E
A Meta-Analysis of the Effect of Environmental Contamination and Positive Amenities on Residential Real Estate Values, (The Journal of Real Estate Research, Jan.-Mar. 2006). E
Surveys, market interviews, and environmental stigma, (The Appraisal Journal, Fall 2004). E
Effect of previous environmental contamination on industrial real estate prices, (The Appraisal Journal, Apr. 2001). E
Is there a revival of strict environmental liability for landowners?, (Grand Rapids Business Journal, Oct. 29, 2014).
Insurance & Liability Issues
Preventing releases in underground storage tanks, (Materials Performance, June 30, 2016).
Can Environmental Insurance Succeed Where Other Strategies Fail? The Case of Underground Storage Tanks, (Risk Analysis: An International Journal, Jan. 2011). E
Florida Regulation Presses Underground Storage Tank Issue: Insurance in Jeopardy, (National Underwriter, P & C, May 18, 2009). E
NAR State Issues Tracker. See topic "Sellers Required Disclosures" for information on state disclosure requirements (Realtor.org login is required).
List of Known Insurance Providers for Underground Storage Tanks, (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, June 2009).
Research Finds Homeowners Plagued by Thousands of Leaking Underground Storage Tanks, (RISMedia, Apr. 26, 2007).
Government & Non-Profit Organizations
State Government Resources
Many U.S. states have environmental departments or commissions. These departments can be a great source of information on state specific compliance and disclosure requirements.
To identify a state-run department in your state, check out the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's State Environmental Agencies web page.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Underground Storage Tanks
Phone: 703-603-9900
Email OUST
1220 Pennsylvania Ave, NW, Mail Code 5401P
Washington, DC 20460
Environmental Council of the States (a non-profit association of state and territorial environmental agency leaders)
Phone: 202-624-3666
Email Environmental Council of the States
444 North Capital Street NW, Ste. 445
Washington, DC 20001
The Groundwater Foundation (a non-profit, non-government affiliated organization)
Phone: 800-858-4844
email: Email Groundwater Foundation
P.O. Box 22558
Lincoln, NE 68542-2558
eBooks & Other Resources
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Complete Book of Insurance (Adobe eReader)
How to Insure Your Home (Adobe eReader)
Land Use Law for Sustainable Development (Adobe eReader)
Pollution & Property (Adobe eReader)
Books, Videos, Research Reports & More
The resources below are available for loan through Information Services. Up to three books, tapes, CDs and/or DVDs can be borrowed for 30 days from the Library for a nominal fee of $10. Call Information Services at 800-874-6500 for assistance.
Powerlines, docks, underground storage tanks... ignore at your own risk, (Florida REALTOR®, Apr. 2003, p. 26-31).
Fixtures—oil storage tanks are personal property of tenant rather than fixtures entitling tenant to relocation payments, (National Property Law Digests, Jan. 2000, p. 7-8).
Powerlines, docks, underground storage tanks... ignore at your own risk, (Florida REALTOR®, Apr. 2003, p. 26-31).
Fixtures—oil storage tanks are personal property of tenant rather than fixtures entitling tenant to relocation payments, (National Property Law Digests, Jan. 2000, p. 7-8).
Green Building and Sustainable Development: The Practical Legal Guide
Field Guides & More
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Field Guide to Dealing With Stigmatized Properties
Field Guide to Effects of Hazardous Waste on Property Values
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In these 14 tales from last season, Amy (a still wooden Shailene Woodley) swings between the affections of Ben (Ken Baumann) and baby-daddy Ricky (Daren Kagasoff) -- and pals around with Bristol Palin at music school! Teen Mom provides more juice. (Buena Vista, $40)


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P.W. Singer says he hears the Terminator references a lot.
Singer, author of a book about robots being used in wars in real life, on battlefields in Iraq and Afghanistan, says he's often asked whether the robots will rise up to exterminate us.
His response: Maybe. At some point in the future. But between now and then, there's a whole forest of moral, legal, and political issues that we'll need to navigate, and many of those are problems, not in some distant future, but today and in the here and now.
Singer tackles those problems in his new book, Wired For War: The Robotics Revolution And Conflict In The 21st Century. Singer, a senior fellow and director of the 21st Century Defense Initiative at the Brookings Institution, previously wrote the book Corporate Warriors: The Rise Of The Privatized Military Industry, which looked at private companies providing military services for hire. That book was published in 2003, before the use of those companies becoming an issue in Iraq. Following that book, he wrote Children At War, about children's armies. Singer served as coordinator of the Obama 2008 campaign's defense policy task force.
Robots are proliferating on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, Singer said in a phone interview with InformationWeek.
"I think the extent of it would catch people by surprise," he said.
Unmanned drone air systems went from just a handful when he turned in his manuscript in mid-2008 to 5,300 six months later, to 7,000 today. On the ground, the military now has 12,000 robots deployed tactically.
The robots are currently in use primarily for reconnaissance and defensive purposes -- for example, to disable explosive devices or to fly above a battlefield and relay information to ground-based observers. However, they're also starting to be used to fight back against enemies, and scientists are working on robots capable of delivering greater and greater lethal force.
"These are just the first generation, the Model T Fords," he said. "The sort of things we only talked about in science fiction conventions really need to be talked about in the real world."


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MORE GENEVA AUTO SHOW @ INSIDELINE.COM: www.edmunds.com Aston Martin has dusted off its ancient Lagonda brand on a tallish, quaint-looking four-door concept that departs radically from the company's current portfolio of sleek ultra-sports cars. The Lagonda Concept, created by Aston Martin Design Director Marek Reichman, aims to establish a new benchmark for "performance luxury" cars, while extending the company's global brand reach to new customers. At least that's what the 2009 Geneva Auto Show press material says. But this is one odd duck. Reichman says his four-door, four-seat, four-wheel-drive concept was inspired by classic Lagondas of the '30s, notably WO Bentley's prewar V12, which arrived about 10 years before David Brown acquired Lagonda in 1947. Everything about the new Lagonda Concept is big, from its V12 engine to its 22-inch wheels. With the Lagonda Concept, Aston's current CEO, Ulrich Bez, wants to revive the brand, which has lain virtually dormant for the past 20 years. Bez sees the neo-Lagonda as a platform for new materials and such alternative powertrain technologies as hybrids and low-emissions diesels. More importantly, Bez envisions Lagonda as "a unique performance avant-garde luxury product" that can broaden the firm's base of affluent customers in such global markets as Russia, China and the Middle East.
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Senator Simcha Felder Invites Nominees for "Women of Distinction" Award
Annual Program Honors Women's Contributions to Our Community
Senator Simcha Felder is inviting local residents to nominate friends, coworkers and neighborhood leaders whose outstanding work on behalf of their communities makes them deserving of special recognition by the State Senate as a New York "Woman of Distinction."
The Senate will honor a distinguished woman from our area and throughout the state at a May 7th Albany ceremony, where each honoree's photograph and biography will become part of a special exhibit proclaiming the contributions of these exemplary New York women.
"There are remarkable women in our midst whose lives, work or special accomplishments contribute to making our communities better, making our families stronger and serve as special examples to others," said Senator Felder. "The Senate's 'Women of Distinction' program provides a special opportunity to honor these women for their achievements and to thank them for the pride they bring to our communities."
Previous winners in the annual event have included leading women from the world of business, academics and civic life, as well as those who have performed heroic or selfless acts, made significant discoveries or provided examples of personal excellence against difficult odds.
The Women of Distinction program was created as part of the Senate's celebration of Women's History Month. In addition to recognizing present-day women, each March, the Senate hosts a display that honors other distinguished women from New York's past, from leaders of the 19th Century suffragist movement to pioneers in education, science and the arts.
To submit a nomination, please visit www.felder.nysenate.gov and click on the "Women of Distinction" button. Entries must be received no later than Friday, March 29, 2013.


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Jason Williams could have had a pretty crummy last day at the Solano County Fair on Sunday.
The night before, the pig he was planning to sell at the Junior Livestock Auction took ill.
"She didn't eat at all," the 10-year-old Dixon boy said of the pig he had raised since February.
He had been hoping to use the proceeds from the sale to pay for a computer camp next summer.
After developing a fever, the pig died -- just five hours before the auction.
But that wasn't to be the end of Jason's story. The aspiring computer programmer got a pleasant surprise when, after auction officials decided to give him a consolation prize of $100, people from the crowd offered to match the gift.
By the end of the "bidding," 20 people each had pledged $100 to Jason.
"I think they're really nice, and they didn't have to do that. I wasn't expecting them to do that at all," said Jason, whose mouth dropped as more and more people raised their numbers.
Jason had estimated it would take raising and selling two more pigs to make up for his lost investment.
"I guess I don't have to (now)," Jason said.
In all, the auction sold 154 lots -- 51 more than last year -- with several local politicians bidding on some bacon, including U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, and Solano Supervisor Erin Hannigan.
Jason's sudden windfall was perhaps a fitting way to end his first auction at the Solano County Fair.
"Hey, for an unfortunate circumstance, that's all right," auctioneer Joe Gates said.
Sunday marked the last day of the fair, which had cut back its hours and raised its admission and parking fees this year.
Still, fair spokesperson Debbie Egidio said she has heard some pretty positive feedback from both patrons and vendors about the shorter hours. And rather than trickle in on opening day as people did when the fair started at 11 a.m. last year, there was more of a crowd this year because of the later 3 p.m. start time, she added.
"Our crowd seemed just as good as it was in past years," Egidio said.
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Vonda Tankersley
Vonda graduated from Cullman High School in 1983. She graduated summa cum laude from Auburn University in 1987. Vonda manages the Body Balance division of Tankersley Chiropractic. She is committed to helping her clients live the highest quality of life through a fundamental wellness approach. Many of her clients have benefited from integrating whole food nutrition, herbal supplementation, and homeopathy into their daily lives. Vonda has two children and enjoys photography, videography, and costuming in her spare time.
Juanita Adams
Juanita graduated from Winston County High School in 1999 and graduated from Wallace State Community College in 2008. She is currently the Office Manager at Tankersley Chiropractic where she has been employed since 2007. Juanita is very knowledgeable in all aspects of insurance and billing. She strives to meet the financial needs of patients so that they can receive the proper care needed. Juanita has one daughter and enjoys scrapbooking, gardening, and outdoor activities.
Ashley Mosley
Ashley graduated form Hanceville High School in 2004 and graduated from Wallace State Community College with an Associate's degree in Occupational Therapy in 2007. She has been employed with Tankersley Chiropractic Clinic since 2008 and is very knowledgeable with medical records, completing new patient exams, and re-exams. Ashley serves as a Patient Care Advocate and Therapist. She resides in Cullman with her husband and two children, Bayleigh and Carson. Ashley enjoys gardening, crafting with her daughter, and spending time with her family.
Christie Simmons
Christie graduated from Bethany High School in Bethany, OK in 1987. She has worked in the medical field for the last twenty years and has been employed as a Patient Care Therapist with Tankersley Chiropractic Clinic since 2010. She resides in Vinemont with her daughter, while her husband works at the U.S. Embassy in Iraq, and her son with the United States Marines. Christie enjoys shopping and spending time with her family.


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Goatwhore's Ben Falgoust on New Album, Vocal Influences + Memories of GWAR's Dave Brockie
Goatwhore constantly keep the machine turning. As true workhorses and road dogs in the metal world, the band always have something to offer. Such is the case with Goatwhore's new album 'Constricting Rage of the Merciless.'
In this exclusive interview with vocalist Ben Falgoust, the frontman goes deep into 'Constricting Rage of the Merciless,' harnessing the influence of two of the greatest singers of all time and describing the unique genius of late GWAR mastermind Dave Brockie.
Check out our full interview with Ben Falgoust below!
For 'Constricting Rage of the Merciless,' did you go back into the studio with Erik Rutan once again?
Yeah, this is basically our fourth time with him. We pretty much started with him with 'A Haunting Curse,' our first actual release with Metal Blade. Now we're at our sixth release and we've done the last four with him, so everything's been really good. He's a great person to work with and we just kind of created a really good relationship together. He and Sammy [Duet] get along really good because they're both guitar players. They're both playing extreme music, and so they hit it off really well with things.
It's kind of like that idea that if it isn't broke, don't fix it. At the same time, we want to be happy, too. Sometimes you can deepen that situation and things will get stagnant and then things kind of teeter off, but I think every record is kind of improving.
The album cover for this record really captured my attention. I really love to look at it; crazy serpents, opening up the stomach of a heavenly woman. How does that art represent the music and the themes in the record?
Well, I think on each record, we try to capture the whole idea of it, in general. We had a good friend of ours, Jordan Barlow; he did all the art for 'Blood for the Master,' and he did all the art for the new record as well. I can't really draw that well. [Laughs] I go to him and I draw these little stick figures, and he's laughing at me, and he's like, "No no no, I understand." We sit down, we talk and I explain things, and we kind of throw ideas back and forth, you know? Me, him, and Sammy will sit down and draw these things together and they're just kind of like pencil sketch stuff.
The art for this record, especially with the title, 'Constricting Rage of the Merciless,' we wanted something more ruthless and brutal to represent all the music that was going on with it as well. So, intertwined with the lyrics and the layout of visions behind the record and stuff like that, sometimes you want to capture an idea and have it portrayed not in a simplistic, old, traditional, cliche' satanic thing.
I think that there's so much more knowledge and things behind elements in metal nowadays. I mean, look at all the bands and all the things that they're doing and the concepts that are going behind and everything like that. It's so much more thought provoking, it's deeper, and there's some simplistic elements to it, but there are also deeper elements to it, and I think that's a big thing. Especially nowadays, where digital is a big thing.
I'm really digging the lyrical approach to 'Baring Teeth for Revolt.' From whose perspective are those words coming from?
It's pretty cut and dry in a sense, but overall too, it could have different meanings for every person. For me, writing it, it was kind of like, no laws, no rules, no following some kind of grid to things, and just anybody that's trying to push you into some kind of oppressive format, whether it be religious, or social, or anything like that. It's just a fight against that. It's almost kind of like an anthem in a way. I was never really into writing lyrics as far as like an anthem-style thing, but I started writing and it all just started to tumble out and flow, and I was like, "Wow, this is neat." Within our writing, I never do chorus / verse / chorus, you know, things like that. Everything's kind of really goes through, and they don't really repeat much at all, or pretty much never, most of the time. So it was kind of a unique experience to kind of do it.
It's not really a chorus / verse / chorus, but it's got the "We are, We are." It also ties into the title 'Constricting Rage of the Merciless.' At one point you're pushed into this corner too far, and there's only two things I'm going to do. You're either going to curl up and give up, or you're going to lash out, you know? It's like an animal force in that, and with 'Baring Teeth for Revolt,' it's that same kind of essence too.
I really love that you guys have put an old-school heavy metal riff to it. Did any older influences come into play for a song like that?
Oh yeah, I mean, we're influenced by a lot of traditional metal. Things like Judas Priest, AC/DC, Venom, Celtic Frost, Motorhead, Accept. So those elements always come back into our writing style. I know for a while we got painted into a black metal corner. I mean, that was a big influence. When we first started, Celtic Frost and Venom were the basis of the band, you know? And we were more in that traditional aspect, but as we evolved all of our other influences started to rear their heads as well.
We have thrash metal influences, we have death metal influences, we have very traditionally heavy metal influences, we even have some crust punk, grind influence on our stuff, as well. So, we have all those elements, and each time we write a song all those elements twist and further that in a different fashion. And they all fit certain ways. And sometimes you'll see more of one influence than the other, and that's just how we write. It's just kind of how it unfolds and how it flows out with us.
Did you guys compose the orchestral part on 'Cold Earth Consumed in Dying Flesh'?
Yeah, Sammy put together all of that. We had the whole song structure, and then he was like, "I'm working on this like really dismal, kind of creepy, intro thing. I'm thinking of connecting it to the beginning of that." And then so we started laying that out, and then he got into the studio with it and he got to be able to add more atmospheric stuff to it and open it up even more. It all sits really well. The song from beginning to end just like, it just drags you in, drags you in, and then finally at that point where the whole shift changes, it's just like a pummeling bulldozer. I just like the whole aggression of it. It's definitely a different aspect than we've done in the past, but it is still Goatwhore, you can still tell it's Goatwhore.
There's a lot of growth in this album. You've been exploring your vocals from super low gutturals to really high shrills. Can you tell me a little about those dynamics and the evolution of your voice?
Yeah, I have a lot of different vocal influences, but not necessarily an influence I can duplicate or sing like. Rob Halford is an influence, but I'll never be able to sing like Rob Halford, you know what I'm saying? Or like Freddy Mercury from Queen and his uniqueness and how he did stuff vocally, but I will never be able to sing like Freddie Mercury. But I can be influenced by aspects of how Rob Halford really lays out lyrics, his patterns to his songs, the same thing with Freddie Mercury.
When I was growing up I was in a band called Paralysis. It was like a death metal, kind of 'cookie monster' death metal band. Sammy would always bring it up. He was like, "Remember when you were in Paralysis, remember you did those lows and stuff? And I always tell him it's kind of hard to do them. I blew my throat out at one time, but then I started working on it. You learn it, you adapt. I mean, I'm definitely not schooled in the art, but over time I've learned to not blow out your throat. Even if a place doesn't have monitors, you know your level of when you're pushing in it, because you know it's coming out alright. So you kind of teach yourself that, you teach yourself the elements. A big mistake vocalists do is drink cold beverages on stage and before they play, because the cold tightens it all.
You guys will be playing this year's GWAR-B-Q. Do you have a mental picture of what the festival will be like and do you have any fond memories of Dave Brockie?
Oh, definitely. I've toured with GWAR numerous times. I've toured with GWAR with Goatwhore, I've toured with GWAR with Soilent Green. At the end of last year, we did that Housecore Horror Festival and GWAR played the same evening we played. It's always good to see those guys. It's always been real unique. I think a lot of times people kind of overlook that band because of the whole theatrical thing, which I thought was f—ing unique in itself, the s–t they've done over the years with it and the idea behind it and everything. And I think a lot of people overlooked them as musical talent as well, because I thought they were really talented with their characters. What Dave Brockie did on vocals, with Oderus, it is all so f—ing unique.
They used to come here [New Orleans], before they put out 'Scumdogs,' they used to come here and play Mardi Gras night and basically after Mardi Gras was at the ending point, they played at some little place. The first time I ever saw them was at this little bitty place, and man you see these costumes on this little stage all jammed in and the place was all jam packed and it was unique. And I saw it evolve, and then you know, 'Scumdogs' came out, they started getting a little bigger, a little bigger, and I saw them at a tattoo convention. It was at hotel in the city of New Orleans, and I remember all the people that worked at the hotel were like, "Holy s–t! This band spraying blood and s–t everywhere!"
It was really unique, the way they worked together too as a unit, behind the scenes, when they're not in costume and they're breaking down all the stuff and all the guys they call slaves or whatever, in the slave pit, and they're all hanging out, and they all worked as a big family. Every single person, from David Brockie, to all these other people in the band and the people on the road crew all worked together, they get everything packed up, put away, and the next day they get to the show and they all work together, they get everything out and everything set up. One time I think Dave went off and he was going to have some fun and he wasn't there to load out or whatever, and I remember him sitting there the next day, he was apologizing to everyone in the crew, and I was like, "You know what? This band is amazing."
Now it's like, what do you do at this point? It's devastating. To play it [GWAR-B-Q] is awesome, when they asked us to do it, I was like. "Yes, yes!" It was awesome and at the same time it sucks, because Dave's not going to be there, but everybody is doing it for the honor and the memory of Dave, which is awesome. So I think the whole thing is going to be a serious, immense moment definitely memorializing him, for sure. It's bittersweet, because at the same time, you're like, "F—, I wish he could be here." I wish he was up there as Oderus doing this tricks, but at the same time, all these bands came together. Some of those guys had such great things to say about him from all the times they toured and things they learned from GWAR.
Goatwhore's sixth album, 'Constricting Rage of the Merciless,' is available now! To grab a copy of the album, click here.


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Celebrating its 10th anniversary during the 2016–2017 season, Ensemble Connect—formerly known as Ensemble ACJW—is a two-year fellowship program for the finest young professional classical musicians in the United States that prepares them for careers that combine musical excellence with teaching, community engagement, advocacy, entrepreneurship, and leadership. It offers top-quality performance opportunities, intensive professional development, and the opportunity to partner with a New York City public school throughout the fellowship.
"The new face of classical music for New York ... these performers have the musical goods," said The New York Times.
Ensemble Connect's in-school residencies represent one of the largest in-depth collaborations between a cultural institution and the New York City Department of Education.
Fellows serve as musical resources to schools in all five boroughs of New York City and bring mastery of their instruments as well as a professional performer's perspective to music classrooms.
Throughout the season, they participate in community-based performances at multiple non-traditional venues across New York City through Musical Connections, a program of Carnegie Hall's Weill Music Institute. Fellows also perform each year as part of WMI's exceptional Neighborhood Concert series.
Every two years, up to 20 of the world's finest young professional musicians are chosen by application and audition as Ensemble Connect fellows.
A program of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, and the Weill Music Institute in partnership with the New York City Department of Education.
Major funding has been provided by The Diller–von Furstenberg Family Foundation, Susan and Edward C. Forst and Goldman Sachs Gives, the Max H. Gluck Foundation, the Irving Harris Foundation, The Kovner Foundation, Mr. and Mrs. Lester S. Morse Jr., Phyllis and Charles Rosenthal, The Edmond de Rothschild Foundations, The Morris and Alma Schapiro Fund, and Ernst & Young LLP.
Additional support has been provided by Mr. and Mrs. Nicola Bulgari, Leslie and Tom Maheras, Susan and Elihu Rose Foundation, Sarah Billinghurst Solomon and Howard Solomon, and Trust for Mutual Understanding.
Public support is provided by the New York City Department of Education, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
Ensemble Connect is also supported, in part, by an endowment grant from The Kovner Foundation.