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Seek Second Two-Win Weekend of Season
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The Yale field hockey team looks to bounce back from a tough loss last Saturday as it visits Columbia for an Ivy League game on Friday at 6:00 p.m., then hosts No. 8 UConn on Sunday at 2:00 p.m.
Yale (6-8, 2-3 Ivy League) is coming off a 1-0 defeat at Penn in a game that was decided by a shootout after neither team scored in regulation or the two overtimes. The Bulldogs got one goal in the shootout -- from senior midfielder Emily Schuckert (Wilmington, Del.) -- but Penn got two to claim the victory.
Junior goalkeeper Heather Schlesier (San Diego, Calif.) shut Penn out for 100:00 on Saturday, stopping all six shots she saw in regulation and the two overtimes. That raised her save percentage to .773, third in the Ivy League behind Brown's Shannon McSweeney (.777) and Penn's Carly Sokach (.775). Schlesier's save percentage in Ivy League games is .867, and senior goalkeeper Emily Cain (Laytonsville, Md.)'s is .833, giving the Bulldogs the top two in the league in that category. No other Ivy goalie has a save percentage better than .810 in league games.
Schuckert leads the league in assists with nine, and has career highs in goals, assists and points this year (4-9-17). Yale senior forward/midfielder Erica Borgo (Randolph, N.J.) is tied for second in the league in assists with eight, and has reached the 20-point mark for the third time in her career (6-8-20). She is fifth on Yale's all-time points list and third on Yale's all-time assists list (25-35-85).
Senior midfielder/back Georgia Holland (Stony Brook, N.Y.) continues to be a defensive force for the Bulldogs. With a defensive save Saturday at Penn, she now has seven defensive saves in the last three games. That has catapulted her into third place in the nation in that category with eight defensive saves for the season.
Yale has won five in a row against Columbia, including a 3-2 overtime win last season in which Borgo got the game-winner -- her second goal of the game. Cain made seven saves. The Bulldogs and the Lions have gone to overtime four times in the last five years.
Columbia (6-9, 2-3 Ivy League) has lost three of its last four games, including two where the Lions allowed six goals (a 6-0 loss to Albany, ranked No. 12 in the country, and a 6-2 loss to Dartmouth). The Lions did get a come-from-behind 4-3 overtime victory vs. Penn, handing the Quakers their only loss in league play so far. Midfielder Christina Freibott, who tied a school record with three assists in the Penn game, has 10 points in the last five games. With 16 points (5-6-16) for the season, she is second on the team in scoring behind forward Katie Ruesterholz (10-2-22). Lions goalkeeper Marlee Silverstein has a .618 save percentage and a 3.09 goals-against average.
UConn (13-4, 5-1 Big East) has lost three in a row, but two of those losses were by just one goal and two were against teams ranked in the top 10. The Huskies are currently fifth in the nation in assists per game (2.88), seventh in the nation in points per game (9.59) and seventh in the nation in scoring margin (1.78). Their .765 winning percentage is 11th in the country.
Forward Chloe Hunnable leads the Huskies in scoring (16-4-36). Forward/midfielder Marie Elena Bolles (12-9-33) gives UConn a second 30-point scorer. Both players were third team All-America selections last season. Goalie Sarah Mansfield, who has earned All-America honors three times in her career, has a .723 save percentage and a 1.50 goals-against average.
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Bachelor in International Studies
The International Studies program helps to create and reinforce a cross-cultural lens through which you are able to view and analyze the increasingly global community where we live and work. The major offers a curriculum recognized by employers seeking candidates with the ability to evaluate and understand the impact of globalization on individuals and societies.
Why choose International Studies at UCM?
- This program offers study abroad and internship opportunities in more than 50 countries.
- This program brings in various informative speakers with whom you'll be able to interact.
- There are numerous scholarship opportunities available for students in this program.
What will I study?
International Studies courses provide you with the necessary tools to assess and follow global political, economic and social trends that arise in historical events and cultural dynamics.
Courses include:
- Comparative Cultures
- Comparative World Religions
- Globalization and the Future
- International Relations
What can I do with a degree in International Studies?
- Civil Servant
- Diplomat
- Translator
- Global Consultant
- International Aid Officer
How can I get involved outside the classroom?
At UCM, we value engaging learning experiences that include student involvement and service-learning projects.
In International Studies, there are several involvement opportunities:
- International Studies Association
- Model United Nations
About our Faculty
The student to faculty ratio is 20 to 1, which allows professors to get to know students and provide personalized attention.
In addition to a wide range of academic and professional experience, all of the International Studies faculty members have earned doctorates in their fields. These faculty members stay current with their profession through research, writing, and participation in regional, national and international conferences.
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Judith Lynne Hanna Collection
The Judith Hanna Collection details the academic pursuits, cultural interests and numerous projects of the prolific American anthropological scholar. Her specialized expertise in the fields of anthropology, education, dance, and political science informs her cross-disciplinary interests in such diverse topics as education policy, societal perceptions of dance, gender, sexuality, first-amendment rights, dance as communication, and dance therapy. The collection also includes the numerous books, articles, reviews, critiques, and pedagogical manuals she has written.
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Judith Lynne Hanna Collection, Special Collections, University of Maryland Libraries.Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/19429
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Historical Note
Born in 1936, Judith Hanna made numerous contributions to the arts, humanities and social sciences through her numerous and multidisciplinary pursuits. Due to her broad academic interests, she combined the fields of African studies, art anthropology, black studies, dance, drama, education, gender, leisure and recreation, medicine, music, planning, political science, psychology, religion, semiotics, therapy, and urban studies in her body of work. She is chiefly an academic, as well as a prolific author of books, both academic and trade, scholarly papers, columns, reviews and articles.
Hanna earned her doctorate in anthropology from Columbia University in 1976, which was preceded by two separate masters degrees respectively in anthropology from Columbia University in 1975 and political science from Michigan State in 1962. She holds a teaching credential from the state of California where she also completed her bachelors degree in political science at UCLA.
Aside from writing and researching, Judith Hanna has also served as an expert court witness, consultant, ethnographer, dance critic, committee chair, advisor, and academic fellow.
Scope and Contents of the Collection
The Judith Lynne Hanna Collection covers the period from 1910 to 2012 with the bulk of materials dating from1965-1989. The collection consists of research materials, subject materials, writings, photographs, video and audio recordings, newspaper clippings, correspondence, interview transcripts, and materials from numerous, varied organizations. Related to Hanna's work as an anthropologist, there is an abundance of materials on the subjects of African and American culture as well as more theoretical and scholarly works in the field. Her subject files cover the broad topics of dance education, communication, therapy, criticism, and teaching as well as the arts relation to gender and sexuality. There is also substantial material relating to human psychology, emotion and their relation to artistic expression. Hannas correspondence also ranges from notes to friends and family up to famous dancers and dance scholars as well as other prominent professionals in her other fields of interest.
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Materials transferred to the archives beginning in 2012.
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Series 1: Inventory of the Collection, 1893-2012 (37.5 linear feet)
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The holiday season is almost here, and shopping online is likely to remain a popular alternative to the department store. The analytics company comScore said in a press release that consumers spent $35.3 billion online between November 1 and December 26, 2011, a 15 percent increase over the same period the previous year.
The holiday season is almost here, and shopping online is likely to remain a popular alternative to the department store. The analytics company comScore said in a press release that consumers spent $35.3 billion online between November 1 and December 26, 2011, a 15 percent increase over the same period the previous year.
Online shopping offers a safe and comfortable respite from unruly crowds, but it has its own hazards. Many people who have gifts shipped to them have the packages left at their doorsteps by their carriers, and these unattended parcels prove irresistible to thieves, who need to do nothing more than walk away with them when no one's looking.
The most obvious way to prevent this is not to have packages delivered to your home in the first place, and have them delivered to your workplace or a post office box instead. However, not everyone has these options.
"Companies don't want the mail room logistical issues or potential liability issues that come from handling employees' personal packages,"NCR CorporationPublic Relations Manager Mark Scott said in an e-mail. However, he said that some companies offer options for their customers who can't get packages at work and don't want to rent a post office box, but don't want to risk having them stolen off of their porches either.
"One thing many retailers are now implementing is order-online/pick-up in-store," he said. "Customers can go to the retailer's web site, order a product and select an option of having it available at a nearby store."
One online retailer that helps its customers negotiate this potential theft problem is the e-commerce giant Amazon.com. It has introducedAmazon Locker, a service that allows products ordered through the website to be delivered to secure locations, such as participating 7-11 stores.
Customers choosing this option choose a location by address, zip code or nearby landmark during the checkout process. When the package is delivered, the customer receives a pick-up code by e-mail or text message, which he or she uses to open the locked compartment where the package has been delivered.
There are limitations to what can be delivered via this option. Package dimensions cannot exceed 11.8 x 11.8 x 11.8 inches, and its weight cannot exceed 10 pounds, so that flat-screen TV with 5.1 surround-sound speakers and separate subwoofer is sadly ineligible. However, the service is ideal for the delivery of phones, mp3 players, cameras and other products that represent an expensive loss when stolen.
There are also the tried and true methods of package security that have worked for decades prior to the invention of e-commerce, such as making arrangements with a neighbor to accept packages for you. You can also ask the U.S. Postal Service to hold your mail if you anticipate being away while a package is being delivered.
Finally, if you don't receive a package that you were expecting, it may not be that it was stolen from in front of your house—you may be the victim of mail fraud. The U.S. Postal Inspection Servicerecommendsthat you first contact the shipper to make sure the items were sent correctly. If they were, it is recommended that you immediately file a complaint with the U.S. Postal Inspection Service.


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The snow is piling up on the streets of small-town Utah, and James Franco is talking about sex.
He is talking about sex in the way James Franco talks about sex: as a narrative tool, as a humanizing mechanism, as a way to help us understand academic differences between film and literature.
"We've been using violence as a storytelling device for decades, but we've only just begun to use sex that way instead of as simply something to shock," he says, responding to a straightforward interview question with a disquisition on sexuality and film. Despite Franco's charm and disheveled good looks, there is something clinical, earnest, unsexy about him. Hearing him talk about sex is like hearing one of the world's great chefs talk about fine food and feeling no discernible appetite.
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The previous evening, Franco had shown his documentary "Kink," about a fetish website, to a midnight audience at the Sundance Film Festival. The audience was uncomfortable, in a way that midnight Sundance audiences are seldom uncomfortable. Watching them from the back of the theater, Franco found himself surprised. But as he reflects on it now, he does not primarily see in the audience's reaction a comment on sexuality. He sees a difference between the novelistic and the cinematic.
"Everybody likes to talk about sex, but when you put it on film it's somehow different," he says, professorially. "I was thinking at that moment: All the 'Fifty Shades of Grey' readers? This is what you're reading about."
In the last decade, Franco has created a rich set of personalities on-screen — as the Emerald City wizard, as the "Pineapple Express" pot dealer, as "127 Hours'" quixotic hiker, as "Spider-Man's" Harry Osborn, as Harvey Milk's boyfriend. He has created them so richly that he has joined the elite ranks of actors who have the chance to create a rich personality off-screen. But for James Franco that is not enough. For James Franco, there always must be a Francian twist.
And so in "This Is the End," the Seth Rogen-directed apocalypse comedy hit in theaters, he plays, as one character calls him, a "pretentious … nerd," inclined to windy digressions about art and philosophy. He is named James Franco and looks like James Franco and seems to act like James Franco and lives in a house said to be owned by James Franco, where he hangs his own painterly odes to Rogen and James Franco. But he is not James Franco.
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For perhaps the first time we have an actor who in real life has winkingly created a movie-worthy character, and then in the movies has created a character who winks back to his real life. There are other actors in "This Is the End" playing a distorted version of themselves. But Franco is playing a distorted version of the public character he created, which is itself a distortion of his real self.
Which makes for a lot of distortion and a need for headache medicine.
Other stars have also moved between big and small projects, and some have side gigs in music or writing. But few have done it so prolifically or so aggressively. And none have done it with this degree of meta-flair. Perhaps that's why, though Franco is ubiquitous on movie marquees and Twitter feeds, it is the character of James Franco we mostly see and why we know so comparatively little about his personal life. As his "This Is the End" costar Jay Baruchel said when asked if Franco's on-screen digs reflected his real-life ones, "I can't vouch for the fact that James Franco even lives in a house. He might not. He might live in a tent city somewhere."
The entertainment media have long tried to decipher him. They've noted with some glee when the shtick doesn't work — see under: the mainstream precincts of the 2011 Oscars — and tried to understand when and why it does.
The success of the just-how-real-is-it "This Is the End" (minus the apocalypse, of course) offers a fine moment to stop and try our hand at the genre. Over the last four months, I've interviewed Franco on five occasions. By interacting with him from Utah to Pasadena to the French Riviera, talking with him about a Disney blockbuster, a sex documentary, a William Faulkner adaptation, Franco has become clearer to me. Or at least his murkiness has become clearer.
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Is his need to take on seemingly every third film in Hollywood and half the art projects in Silver Lake and Williamsburg a matter of childish appetite, a kind of artistic lack of impulse control? Or is it savvily born of the realization that his fame won't last forever so he might as well take advantage while he can? Does he put up with the trappings of celebrity so he can indulge his more esoteric instincts, or does he indulge in more esoteric instincts so he can be a more well-rounded or well-regarded celebrity?
Are his postmodern turns — playing a character named "Franco" in a "General Hospital" episode so he can make a faux-documentary about a man named "James Franco" starring in a "General Hospital" episode — meant to sincerely say something about the state of art, or are they the cinematic napkin-doodles of a man with too much clout and not enough self-awareness?
Is he, in other words, in on the joke?
There are questions that can be answered and questions that can be raised and questions that seem to beget only more questions. And if that sounds like something James Franco might say, well, I guess an interview subject rubs off on you after a while.
A wizard's world
James Franco is sitting in a Pasadena hotel ballroom on Presidents Day weekend, giving a small tutorial on the cinematic history of L. Frank Baum's "Wizard of Oz." It's a cavernous space, but at the moment it contains only five people, including two videographers he has hired to chronicle his utterances.
Franco is here to pump his lead part in Disney's "Oz the Great and Powerful," by far his most professionally risk-laden role. At the moment, he is getting slightly defensive, in the way that James Franco gets defensive — with a mix of logic and historical precedent.
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"In England, there's a tradition of reinterpretation. No one says, 'You're doing Hamlet again? But Olivier nailed it!'" he said when I ask him about those who question the need for a new "Oz" movie. He then turns slightly wistful. "It makes me a little sad we don't have that tradition."
Franco is speaking as he often does when questioned — he declaims, and more slowly and at a louder decibel than most humans. There is often a sophisticated thought within his statements, more sophisticated than for many actors. But because it is said with a certain aura of pontification it can sound much like the pronouncements of his peers, less interesting to the listener than to its speaker.
Franco is just a few weeks removed from his Sundance sex spiel, and later that week he will take to YouTube to defend his co-director on another Sundance sex title, "Interior. Leather. Bar," from a restrictive ruling by the Australian ratings board. I note lightheartedly that few would find much common ground between "Kink" and "Wizard of Oz," though perhaps there's subtext of the former in the latter.
Franco appears to find this funny, briefly and cautiously. Though he sometimes takes on roles that mock his public image, joking is not Franco's default mode. Laughter feels less like spontaneous reaction than wary acknowledgment, a kind of notation of a moment he might find funny if he didn't have three new books to read, nine projects to get off the ground and a shift in the popular conception of the modern celebrity to effect. The business of being James Franco leaves little room for anything other than being James Franco.
There is also a hint of nervousness as he takes in a "Kink" joke during a Disney promotional tour. With his short stories and college-teaching gigs and paintings, Franco is a man who likes control, and there is probably no creative effort on the planet that offers less control than acting in a $250-million Disney movie created largely on an editing-room green screen.
PHOTOS: The many faces, and places, of James Franco
It is worth pausing here to note some of the things he has been controlling over the previous 18 to 24 months.
In addition to acting in "Oz" and "This Is the End," he has been directing and starring in an adaptation of Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying"; playing Hugh Hefner in a biopic about Linda Lovelace; incarnating a gold-toothed rapper/drug dealer in Harmony Korine's "Spring Breakers"; taking a stab at another baddie in the hit-man action movie "The Iceman"; directing or producing the two sex documentaries; conceiving and producing one film about Gucci and another about the designer Frida Giannini; playing a murderer opposite Jonah Hill's journalist in a movie called "True Story"; preparing for a London shoot of a thriller called "Good People"; directing a biopic of Charles Bukowski; starring in a drug-lord thriller called "Homefront"; directing and starring in a rural loner story titled "Black Dog, Red Dog"; publishing a book of short stories about his childhood hometown in Palo Alto; starting a crowd-funding campaign to make three movies based on those stories; painting a mural on a Williamsburg wall; staging a multimedia exhibition featuring snippets from "A Streetcar Named Desire"; mounting art shows based on "Rebel Without a Cause" and "Psycho"; teaching courses in filmmaking at USC, UCLA and NYU; taking classes in at least two other graduate programs; and publicizing both many of the above endeavors as well as his work for Gucci, for which his spokesmodel duties take him around the globe.
In the time it took to read that paragraph, he has likely resolved to take on another project and possibly completed it.
Franco tries an explanation for how he is able to achieve so much in so little time. "I have a really good scheduling team," he said to me once, not quite convincingly.
All of this has led to the criticism that Franco is a dilettante — Gawker, which has great sport with the Franco personage, once called him "the least self-aware human" — and has prompted tabloid reports about how he does not actually do all the things he says he does.
PHOTOS: James Franco - Career in pictures
Colleagues, though, say otherwise. Christina Voros, a friend from his days at NYU film school and the director of "Kink," told me that as producer on the film Franco was a persistent presence. "I know what people think: 'James, is he really producing all these movies or just lending his name?' But we couldn't have done our movie without him," she said.
It also helps that Franco has a team around him — primarily production company Rabbit Bandini, run by longtime manager Miles Levy and longtime friend Vince Jolivette. The two prefer to stay behind the scenes — though I'd had a meeting tentatively set with them at Cannes it was scrapped by their publicist, and subsequent attempts to reschedule have been unsuccessful. But according to those who know the pair, they are the same whirling dervishes as Franco, reading, note-giving and greenlighting with the fervor of a pastor at a Bible sale.
In that sense, Franco is like the wizard himself, with a team pulling levers even as the public just sees the visage. It's a twist James Franco himself might appreciate. The person, not the character. Or maybe the character.
The academic actor
Among the many questions James Franco prompts, one that keeps rearing its head is this: Could someone who leads such a charmed but busy life — hopping around the world to sets and promotional appearances — maintain all of that while enrolling in numerous graduate programs and teaching courses like a workaday academic?
Sure, said Dede Gardner, Brad Pitt's producing partner and a producer on "True Story," who witnessed a man who sometimes simply likes throwing himself off-kilter. "Most actors shun discomfort. James embraces it," she said.
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But there's a limit to how hard one person wants to make things on himself. It's why some people think something should give on his academic career — and why others don't buy the academic bit in the first place.
I asked him this as he sat at a sunny seaside restaurant in Cannes. Franco, wearing trendy sunglasses and a fitted suit after completing a photo shoot with a French fashion magazine, answered that there's a philosophy underlying all of this, and those who don't understand it don't understand the dual life he is trying to lead.
"My unique position is I have one foot in the film world and one foot in the academic world," he explained. "And I can bring these places together." All around are signs of the Mediterranean leisure life, strikingly blue water lapping against yachts with names like Lady Joy. But Franco is more excited to talk about poetry and stream-of-consciousness novels.
As he launches into an explanation for why he has attempted to turn works of Faulkner and the life of the poet Hart Crane into movies — a love for both authors that began in childhood — he explained why he seems to compulsively adapt difficult literary work. "When I have such a great source and a source I respect so much it makes me want to do better because I feel so responsible to that source," he said.
After explaining his MO to me, Franco walked a few hundred feet up the coast to a gathering of college-age aspiring filmmakers to offer a pep talk. He seemed at ease under a makeshift tent telling stories from the "Freaks and Geeks" set.
"When I was younger" — he said, at 35 a wizened sage to this group — "I didn't know how to manage my career as an artist. I was too influenced by ideas of careerism… I thought I had to do certain kind of movies." He continued: "What's important to me now is that if you want to be an artist … do something you believe in." The crowd of several dozen was enraptured.
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After the talk, I walked up to some of the students, most of them female, and asked what appealed to them about the star. They like his roles, his intellectual seriousness and — oh, yes — his looks. A few note that he is no Ryan Gosling in that department. But Gosling has chosen to continue shooting his directorial debut instead of coming to Cannes to promote his film.
A point about Franco emerges: There may never have been a star whose head is so in the clouds but who's so willing to hit the promotional pavement. It's an odd mix of braininess and showmanship, and the latter is what makes some distrust the former.
After the talk with students he was whisked away, to the next book reading or college class or art installation. Will it slow down any time soon? There are, finally, signs it might. After planning for months to direct an adaptation of Andre Dubus III's 9/11-themed strip-club novel "The Garden of Last Days" in North Carolina this summer he pulled out of the project in late June, just a few weeks before it was to begin shooting.
I asked him on the phone last week why and he said the insurance company wouldn't let him bring in his own people, and he had quickly moved on to talking about what else he'd do instead in the coming months: play a writer in a Wim Wenders movie, produce at least two films based on "Palo Alto" and direct an adaptation of another Faulkner novel, "The Sound and the Fury." There are no days off when you hold the job of being James Franco.
Staff writer Amy Kaufman contributed to this report.
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Hear from recently returned PSU student, Marcus Kirlin, about his time studying abroad at Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo, Japan. Learn more about studying abroad in Japan, how you can prepare, financial resources for your time abroad, and more!
Information session held in East hall #236 (located at 632 SW Hall Street).
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Siphonophorae or Siphonophora, the siphonophores, are an order of the Hydrozoa, a class of marine invertebrates belonging to the phylum Cnidaria. Although a siphonophore appears to be a single organism, each specimen is actually a colony composed of many individual animals. Most colonies are long, thin, transparent pelagic floaters. Some siphonophores superficially resemble jellyfish. The best known species is the dangerous Portuguese Man o' War (Physalia physalis). With a body length of 40–50 m, another species of siphonophore, Praya dubia, is one of the longest animals in the world (Dunn 2005).


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Admission may be granted for students with less than the minimum grade point average or test scores following a conditional period of 12-15 hours of enrollment in graduate work with no grade below a "B". Students with undergraduate degrees in fields other than biology or environmental science may be required to complete specific leveling courses.
International students desiring to pursue the master of science degree in biology or environmental science must score a minimum of 575 on the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) exam as well as meet above-mentioned admission requirements.
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Areas of Specialization: agriculture, biology, chemistry, geology and engineering technology.
Student must complete 36 credit hours of required and elective specialization courses.
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Welcome to Harvey County Appraisers Office. Information about property ownership, property description and property tax can be accessed through the "parcel search."
- Step 1: Click on this link and choose "Public Access" or "Registered User Access".
- Step 2: If you are a registered user, enter your username, password, and click on "Submit".
- Step 3: Carefully read the disclaimer.
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Registered users can have access to sale information. These users include individuals who have access to sales information according to KSA 79-1437f. Additional information regarding cost may be obtained by contacting the Appraisers Office.
The mission of the County Appraiser's Office is to continually review, appraise and maintain the most fair and equitable property values as possible. This is accomplished through an employee and public education program, courteous and positive rapport with the public and working closely with the State Division of Property Valuation of the Department of Revenue.
The Appraiser's Office places values on Real Property and Personal Property in Harvey County in accordance to Kansas Statutes and directives from the Property Valuation Division of the Department of Revenue of Kansas. The Property Valuation Division places values on Railroad and Utility properties. The Appraiser's Office processes appeals of Real Property and Personal Property values by taxpayers and participates in Kansas Board of Tax Appeals hearings concerning appealed property values in Harvey County.


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Skip to comments.Baby Boy Survives For Nearly Two Days After Abortion
Posted on 04/28/2010 12:55:51 PM PDT by Steelfish
Baby Boy Survives For Nearly Two Days After Abortion A baby boy abandoned by doctors to die after a botched abortion was found alive nearly two days later.
By Simon Caldwell 28 Apr 2010
The 22-week infant later died in intensive care at a hospital in the mother's home town of Rossano in southern Italy. The mother, pregnant for the first time, had opted for an abortion after prenatal scans suggested that her baby was disabled. However the infant survived the procedure, carried out on Saturday in the Rossano Calabria hospital, and was left by doctors to die.
He was discovered alive the following day some 20 hours after the operation by Father Antonio Martello, the hospital chaplain, who had gone to pray beside his body. He found that the baby, wrapped in a sheet with his umbilical cord still attached, was moving and breathing.
The priest raised the alarm and doctors immediately arranged for the infant to be taken to a specialist neonatal unit at a neighbouring hospital where he died on Monday morning.
Italian police are investigating the case for "homicide" because infanticide is illegal in Italy.
The law means that doctors have had an obligation to try to preserve the life of the child once he had survived the abortion.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Don't Let Obamah Find That Baby.
Tragic and horrific.
What happened, Obama was busy golfing and took two days to get on site?
Obama can't be the Messiah. When the Messiah was on earth, people went long distances to get him to bring dead people to life!
Medical Doctors did not leave that baby to die. Satanic agents did. By their actions they indicated that they are not members of H. Sapien, i.e., they are not human.
This was a human being who suffered evil.
Unfortunately Italy doesn't have the death penalty.
Those involved should never be allowed to "practice medicine" again. Disgusting...what a sick world.
The media absolutely despises abortion survivors. If this baby had lived, he'd be savaged by the media for the rest of his life.
"...prenatal scans suggested that her baby was disabled..."
This story is just so wrong in so many ways. But when the article FORGETS to mention that this boy WAS disabled, not just thought to be disabled, I take it to mean that this boy was just perfectly fine, and they LIED to the mom.
Lies and murder, sounds like evil to me.
I am indignant. This shyt makes me seethe with anger. Bastards.
wait three days before allowing the chaplain in next time.
Obama's BAIPA
RIP. May G_d have mercy on us for allowing it.
They did not say if the child was "imperfect" seems he was pretty strong and had a will to live
Well, for murderers anyway. Innocent fetuses...now that's a whole other story...
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In today's New York Times, Elisabeth Bumiller and Larry Rohter report on a tug of war among John McCain's foreign policy advisers, some of whom are "realists," while others are "neocons." You can imagine the Times's perspective on that conflict.
This is what I want to focus on, however: in the course of this narrative, the Times claims that McCain has recently been subject to blunders on the stump:
In a trip to the Middle East last month, Mr. McCain made an embarrassing mistake when he said several times that he was concerned that Iran was training Al Qaeda in Iraq. [Ed.: I don't believe this is true.] (The United States believes that Iran, a Shiite country, has been training Shiite extremists in Iraq, but not Al Qaeda, a Sunni insurgent group.) He repeated the mistake on Tuesday at hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
This last statement, in addition to being ungrammatical, is simply false. In Tuesday's hearing, McCain said nothing about Iran supposedly training al Qaeda. The Times just made it up. To eliminate any doubt, here is every word McCain spoke during the hearing, taken from the transcript. First, his opening statement:
MCCAIN: Well, thank you, Mr. Chairman. And welcome back to our two distinguished witnesses.
We've come a long way since early 2007, and quite a distance even since General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker appeared before our committee last September.
We owe these two patriotic Americans a debt of gratitude for their selfless service to our country.
At the beginning of last year, we were engaged in a great debate about what to do in Iraq. Four years of mismanaged war had brought us almost to the point of no return. Sectarian violence in Iraq was spiraling out of control, life had become a struggle for survival, and a full-scale civil war seemed almost unavoidable. Al Qaida in Iraq was on the offensive and entire Iraqi provinces were under the control of extremists.
And yet, rather than retreat from Iraq and face thereby the terrible consequences that would ensue, we chose to change strategies and try to turn things around.
Instead of abandoning Iraq to civil war, genocide and terror, and the Middle East to the destabilizing effects of these consequences, we changed the strategy and sent additional troops to carry it out. And by the time our two witnesses testified in September, it had become clear that these new efforts were succeeding. Since the middle of last year, sectarian and ethnic violence, civilian deaths and deaths of coalition forces have all fallen dramatically. This improved security environment has led to a new opportunity, one in which average Iraqis can in the future approach a more normal political and economic life.
Reconciliation has moved forward. And over the weekend, Sunni, Shia and Kurdish leaders, backed by the prime minister — backed the prime minister in a statement supporting his operation in Basra and urging the disbandment of all militias.
MCCAIN: Much, much more needs to be done. And Iraq's leaders need to know that we expect them to show the necessary leadership to rebuild their country, for only they can.
But today it is possible to talk with real hope and optimism about the future of Iraq and the outcome of our efforts there. For while the job of bringing security to Iraq is not finished, as the recent fighting in Basra and elsewhere vividly demonstrated, we're no longer staring into the abyss of defeat and we can now look ahead to the genuine prospect of success.
Success, the establishment of a peaceful, stable, prosperous democratic state that poses no threats to its neighbors and contributes to the defeat of terrorists — this success is within reach.
And with success, Iraqi forces can take responsibility for enforcing security in their country's (sic) and American troops can return home with the honor of having secured their country's interest at great personal cost and of helping another people achieve peace and self-determination.
That's what I hope every American desires for our country and our mission in Iraq.
Yet should the United States instead choose to withdraw from Iraq before adequate security is established, we will exchange for this victory a defeat that is terrible and long-lasting. Al Qaida in Iraq would proclaim victory and increase its efforts to provoke sectarian tensions, pushing for a full-scale civil war that could descend into genocide and destabilize the Middle East.
Iraq would become a failed state. It could become a haven for terrorists to train and plan their operations. Iranian influence would increase substantially in Iraq and encourage other countries to seek accommodation with Tehran at the expense of our interest.
An American failure would almost certainly require us to return to Iraq or draw us into a wider and far, far costlier war. If, on the other hand, we and the Iraqis are able to build on the opportunity provided by recent successes, we have the chance to leave in Iraq a force for stability and freedom, not conflict and chaos.
MCCAIN: In doing so, we will ensure…
LEVIN: Do you want to hold up?
We're going to ask you please to sit down, no more demonstrations, or if there is another one, we're going to have to ask our Capital Police to remove any demonstrations.
MCCAIN: I have had this experience previously, Mr. Chairman. (LAUGHTER)
If, on the other hand, when the Iraqis are able to build on the opportunity provided by recent successes, we have the chance to leave in Iraq a force for stability and freedom, not conflict and chaos.
In doing so, we will ensure that the terrible price we have paid in the war, a price that has made all of us sick at heart, has not been paid in vain. Our troops can leave behind a successful mission, and our nation can leave behind a country that contributes to the security of America and the world.
To do this, we must continue to help the Iraqis protect themselves against the terrorists and the insurgents. We must press ahead against Al Qaida, the radical Shiite militias — Shia militias and the Iranian-backed special groups.
We must continue to support the Sunni volunteers, the Iraqi Awakening, as they stand up to Al Qaida in Iraq. And we must continue to build the capacity of the Iraqi security forces so they can play an ever-stronger and more neutral role in suppressing violence.
This means rejecting, as we did in 2007, the calls for a reckless and irresponsible withdraw of our forces at the moment when they are succeeding.
I do not want to keep our troops in Iraq a minute longer than necessary to secure our interests there.
MCCAIN: Our goal — my goal — is an Iraq that no longer needs American troops, and I believe we can achieve that goal perhaps sooner than many imagine. But I also believe that the promise of withdrawal of our forces regardless of the consequences would constitute a failure of political and moral leadership.
Achieving our goals in Iraq will require much more than a military effort. The Arab neighbors should increase their investment and engagement including an overdue dispatch of ambassadors to Baghdad. We should encourage greater United Nations involvement, building on the work its representatives have done on the Kirkuk issue.
The Iraqis must continue the reconciliation that has helped dampen violence over recent months, and they need to move a portion of their growing budget surpluses into job creation programs, move toward an end to their reliance on outside sources of aid, and look for other ways to take on more of the financial burdens currently borne by American taxpayers.
This is especially important as the government of Iraq continues to take in revenues it finds difficult to disburse through its own government channels. One way they might begin to do this is by contributing significantly to the Commander's Emergency Response Program, CERP, which pays for employment and reconstruction projects throughout the country. This is a start. Other programs of this type can and should be funded by the Iraqis themselves.
By giving our men and women in uniform the time and support necessary to succeed in Iraq, we have before us a hard road. It is a privilege beyond measure to live in a country served so well by these individuals. The sacrifices made by these patriots and their families are incredibly great.
Yet the alternative path is, in the end, the far costlier one. As we convene this hearing and as we continue to debate our future in Iraq, Americans continue to risk everything — everything — to accomplish their mission on our behalf. With the untold costs of their failure, and the benefits offered by success, the Congress must not choose to lose in Iraq. We should choose instead to succeed.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Not a word about Iran training al Qaeda. Next, here are the questions McCain asked of Petraeus and Crocker. To save space, I've left out their answers:
MCCAIN: Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
MCCAIN: General Petraeus, again, a news report said that Prime Minister Maliki only informed you shortly before the operation. Is that correct in Basra?
MCCAIN: And it was not…
MCCAIN: And it was not something that you had recommended.
MCCAIN: News reports indicate that over 1,000 Iraqi army and police deserted or under-performed during that operation. This is four months after Basra achieved provincial Iraqi control meaning that all provincial security had been transferred to Iraqi security forces. What's the lesson that we are to draw from that, that a thousand Iraqi police deserted or under-performed?
MCCAIN: Suffice to say it was a disappointment.
MCCAIN: The green zone has been attacked in ways that it has not been for a long time. And most of that is coming from elements out — that leave Sadr City or from Sadr City. Is that correct?
MCCAIN: And what are we going to do about that?
MCCAIN: What do you make of Sadr's declaration of a, quote, "cease-fire"?
MCCAIN: There are numerous threats to security in Iraq and the future of Iraq. Do you still view Al Qaida in Iraq as a major threat?
MCCAIN: Certainly not an obscure sect of the Shiites overall…
PETRAEUS: No.
MCCAIN: … or Sunnis or anybody else. Al Qaida continues to try to assert themselves in Mosul, is that correct?
MCCAIN: They continue to be a significant threat?
MCCAIN: Ambassador Crocker, let's — in your statement, you talked about a long-term relationship with Iraq such as a security arrangement, diplomatic, et cetera, economic, that we have with some 80 countries. You envision this after we succeed in this conflict. Is that correct? Or would you talk a little bit about that, elaborate a little more?
MCCAIN: Thank you.
Finally, General Petraeus, Mosul continues to be a battle. Is that correct?
MCCAIN: And who are the major adversaries in Mosul? It's a mixed population…
MCCAIN: It's once said that Al Qaida cannot succeed without control of Baghdad and they can't survive without control of Mosul. Is that an oversimplification?
MCCAIN: Finally, I hope (inaudible) response, because my time has expired, we could talk a little bit more about the Iranian threat, particularly their stepped-up support of various elements that are Shiite extremists in Iraq, particularly the role they've played in Basra as well as the southern part of the country.
I used up my time. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Once again, nothing about Iran training al Qaeda. The Times just made it up. In so accusing McCain, falsely, the Times said that he made an "embarrassing mistake" which he then "repeated" on Tuesday. We would suggest that the Times's error is an "embarrassing mistake" and that the New York Times, far more than John McCain, is a repeat offender.


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(In fact, nuclear energy starts with Albert Einstein—his classic formula, E = mc^2 actually describes how much energy is released when an atom is split. It's a lot. To put it in perspective, the energy contained in a pound of uranium used for nuclear fuel (i.e., enriched) is equal to roughly one million gallons of gasoline.)
However, when most people think of nuclear energy, they recall the 1979 Three Mile Island accident in Pennsylvania or the 1986 tragedy involving a Soviet era RBMK reactor at Chernobyl which resulted in an uncontrollable runaway reaction causing a steam break/explosion. Chernobyl became the worst nuclear power disaster ever to occur and has dramatically impacted the public's perception of nuclear power safety. In fact, fears of repeats of these accidents, safety concerns, disputes over storage of nuclear waste, and a web of government regulations has limited nuclear power plant developments over the past 25 years. The last new nuclear plant in the U.S. was commissioned in 1996.But nuclear remains a force in electricity generation, accounting for roughly 17% of electricity generation around the world. With over 100 nuclear plants, the U.S. depends heavily on nuclear energy. As of February 2010, there were 440 nuclear reactors operating worldwide and a total of 111 reactors under construction or planned for completion by 2020.[1]
Moreover, nuclear power has witnessed a recent renaissance, due to China's rising demand for energy, fears over greenhouse gas emissions, and rising prices for alternatives natural gas and coal. Nuclear energy is not based on fossil fuels, and therefore emits fewer greenhouse gases than competitors coal and natural gas, even accounting for its lifecycle emissions, which include the costs of constructing the plant, transporting the fuel, etc. Moreover, nuclear energy is not as exposed to price fluctuations in oil and natural gas, since uranium and plutonium are used to fuel nuclear plants.
Since oil prices have gone through the roof, nuclear has caught its second wind; at the middle of 2009, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) had received 17 applications for combined construction and operating licenses (COL) for 26 new nuclear reactors. The U.S. currently has 11 nuclear plants, but plans to double that number by 2020 and triple it by 2025. [2]
The economics of nuclear energy are differentiated from its main competitors in electricity generation, natural gas and coal, by the fact that nuclear energy typically has high construction costs and low variable operating costs. As a result, the cost competitiveness of nuclear energy depends highly on initial construction costs and the cost of capital for nuclear power companies. Drivers of the initial construction costs include investment in new technologies, especially for increased safety, and government regulations and permitting requirements for grid connections, safety, and storage. Cost of capital can be driven by a wide variety of factors including the state of interest rates around the world, but typically, governmental regulation of nuclear energy has heavily influenced the availability and pricing of capital for nuclear energy projects. This includes at one time heavy subsidies for nuclear power and more recently, strong restrictions on nuclear energy development. The first successful deployment of nuclear energy was actually conducted by the U.S. Navy, and nuclear energy still powers a vast number of submarines and navies around the world.
|Fixed Cost (cents/kWh)
|Variable Cost (cents/kWh)
|Total Cost (cents/kWh)
|Natural gas
|Energy return on Energy Invested
|Coal-fired power plant
|Nuclear power
|Hydroelectric power
|Wind power
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As a result of the economics above, input costs (i.e., fuels) constitute a lower share of final cost of energy production than do the input costs for natural gas and coal power plants— the Nuclear Energy Institute estimates this share to be 78-94% of final energy costs for fossil fuel plants, versus only 26% for nuclear power plants.
In the US, while the Coal and Gas Electricity industry is projected to be worth $85 billion by 2013, Nuclear Power generators are forecast to be worth $18 billion. In the longer term, growth is set to continue among nuclear and renewable energies. Change in any industry so infrastructure-heavy is time-consuming, but change is slowly coming. Despite this, Coal and Gas are expected to be viable industries for a long time yet, and are still projected to be the number one means of generating power in 2050. [6]
Regardless, nuclear has always been, and will likely continue to be, cost competitive with its main competitors, coal and natural gas. Exact estimates of costs vary, but the IEA suggests rough cost parity over the next 30 years, not including any potential carbon trading or tax system, which would hit both coal and natural gas harder than nuclear power.
Given that the economics of nuclear are relatively stable and have been clear for a number of years, nuclear power has been driven by a variety of other factors.
Since no new plant has been started since 1977, no one knows exactly how much a new one would cost, or how long it would take to build, so investors don't want to finance a venture that is so risky. Still, in the last few years, utilities have applied to build over 30 new nuclear power plants around the U.S.[7] The cost of building these reactors, however, doubled since 2006, with Moody's estimating the cost at roughly $8 billion - twice the cost of a coal plant and three times the cost of a natural gas plant.[8] While fuel costs for nuclear power are lower than for coal and natural gas, the high initial investment makes a nuclear plant less attractive to potential investors.
Nuclear power is also likely to be key to the ongoing emergence of such economies as China and India,[9] seen in their goals to double their nuclear capacity within the next 5-10 years.[10]
In February 2010 President Obama announced that the U.S. Energy Department had approved a loan guarantee of $8.3 billion to help the Southern Company and two partners build twin reactors in Burke County Georgia. The project may also be eligible for loan guarantees from the Japanese government; the reactors were designed by Westinghouse, a unit of Toshiba. The builders hope to have a license to build and run the plant by the end of next year.
The loan guarantees were authorized by the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and is the first award from $18.5 billion in loan guarantees provided for under the 2005 act. In addition to the award Obama proposed tripling the available loan guarantee amount to $54.5 billion.
Two other potential borrowers may win guarantees soon as well. The Scana Corporation and Santee Cooper want to build a nuclear plant near Jenkinsville, S.C., and UniStar is planning a reactor in southern Maryland, adjacent to the Calvert Cliffs reactors.[11]
In late 2007, the city of San Antonio and NRG Energy announced a partnership to build two new nuclear reactors. The estimated cost was $5.8 billion and looked like it would receive government loans from the Department of Energy. However, in 2008 cost estimates rose to $13 billion and by April 2009 an independent report estimated costs could be as high as $22 billion. Then in December 2009 San Antonio's municipal utility, CPS, backed out of the venture entirely and sued NRG. The lawsuit stated that NRG and Toshiba—which was contracted to construct the reactors—had lied about the price tag of the venture. Currently NRG will not move forward with the plant unless it can obtain a government backed loan, leaving the fate of the San Antonio plant up in the air.[12]
The lawsuit and rapidly growing price tag not only stalls a promising plant, but demonstrates the uncertainty and difficulty of nuclear plant development. Debates over plant designs and safety issues continue to delay other plant estimates and create uncertainty for investors and taxpayers. Government involvement in plant development must be carefully considered as the more involved the government gets in nuclear plant development the more likely taxpayers will have to pay for failed ventures.
On the supply side, uranium production has been growing at a snail's pace, the major players have started locking up long term supply, and Russia and the U.S. have slowed down their refined uranium sales programs.[14][15] Uranium prices fell 40% from October 07 to March 09.[16][17] The global financial crisis is to blame - nuclear power plants represent huge capital investments, and demand for electricity is driven by business activity. With cheap credit a luxury of the past, raising billions of dollars for projects that won't start earning for at least six years has become very difficult.[18]
The world production of uranium in 2008 was approximately 114 million pounds of U3O8 while demand was 172 million pounds, 90% of which came from eight countries, which are, in order of greatest to least production[19] :
Every year since 1985, the world's consumption of uranium has been greater than its production.[20] In 2008, uranium producers met only 66% of worldwide demand. To help meet this shortfall, reprocessed uranium and plutonium from the dismantling of Russian and U.S. nuclear weapons has been used.[19][21] The World Nuclear Association estimates that uranium mining will need to increase by almost 300% in the next two decades.[21] The Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics estimates that uranium prices will rise 22% from $46.4 in 2009 to $56.7 in 2010 due to the widening gap between uranium supply and demand.[22] NYMEX Uranium futures for December 2010 are in the $48.50 range.
The U.S. and Russia are both involved in the Megatons to Megawatts Program which decommissions nuclear warheads and recycles the bomb-grade uranium into fuel-grade uranium. The agreement between the two countries expires in 2013, and the program is not guaranteed to be continued.[23] If the program is discontinued, it would restrict the supply of uranium and drive up uranium prices. If the agreement is renewed, still there is a limited supply of Cold War-era nuclear weapons and eventually this significant source of uranium will disappear.
In 2009 Indian reactor demand for uranium was estimated at about 3 million pounds and is expected to rise to as much as 10 million pounds in 15 years.[24] India has 17 reactors operating and six under construction, and another 23 reactors are expected to come on line in the next eight years. China has 11 reactors operating, 16 under construction and 35 new plants expected to come on line within the next eight years. China's uranium demand is expected to grow 4-6 times by 2020, as the country increases its annual installed nuclear power capacity to 40 million kilowatts from 9 million present.[25] The sharp increase in the demand for uranium from India and China will continue to raise the price of uranium.
Environmentalists have had a love/hate relationship with nuclear power plants, and vice versa. When nuclear energy was first deployed in the U.S., numerous concerns were raised about the environmental ramifications of nuclear power, especially where and how to store used nuclear fuel and the environmental impact of nuclear plants. More recently, some environmentalists have endorsed nuclear power as a clean alternative to coal and natural gas for electricity generation, comparable to other forms of renewable energy. In the U.S., there is a long-running debate over whether to store nuclear waste in the Yucca Mountains. As solutions emerge to the storage problem in particular, and environmental concerns more broadly, this will propel further adoption of nuclear energy. In addition, as the costs of carbon emissions increase, this will drive nuclear energy adoption as an alternative.
While the Three Mile Island accident radiation never breached the containment building, Chernobyl was an unmitigated disaster, killing several and indirectly harming tens of thousands nearby residents. The hangover from these events has been long and painful. The safety debate around nuclear centers around two risks— (1) the risk of a major accident and (2) the risk of long-term exposure to nuclear radiation. In the case of the former, significant advances in plant design offer several alternatives to the faulty Soviet era RBMK design used at Chernobyl, nearly all of which feature "passive fail safe" designs, which means that in the event of system failure for whatever reason, the reactor shuts down automatically, containing the radiation from all nuclear reactions and safely dissipating any excess heat. Debate continues regarding long-term exposure to nuclear radiation, though the weight of scientific evidence seems to suggest that there are no deleterious effects of long-term proximity to nuclear power plants of modern design. To the extent these safety concerns are mitigated and/or resolved via public debate, this would be favorable to the nuclear power industry. In a post 9/11 world, many have also voiced concerns over the ability to protect nuclear power plants from terrorist attacks, hence, the need for passive fail safe designs.
The Not-In-My-Backyard (NIMBY) Effect explains the idea that people generally support the use of nuclear power, as long as the generator isn't near where they live. Public opinion is still split over whether nuclear is a safe and viable option:
Nuclear energy is similar to renewable energy in that its viability is driven largely by the cost of its competitors. The fortunes of nuclear are therefore inverse to the fortunes of coal and natural gas (though the increase in demand for energy around the world will likely lift all boats in the near term). A carbon tax of $25-$50 per ton, however, would make nuclear power competitive with coal.[30]
Because of the concerns outlined above, nuclear energy, even more than its fossil fuel brethren, is subject to a web of government regulations, permits, and policies. As a result, the economic viability of nuclear, and the very feasibility of commissioning new plants, is heavily dependent on government regulations. Witness, for example, the back-and-forth in the UK regarding new nuclear power plants.
Since the 1979 accident at Three Mile Island, there have been ZERO new nuclear power plants built in the U.S. But now that folks have finally figured out there's an energy crisis, are nuclear power plants about to start popping up in our backyards? Not exactly, at least according to a recent ChangeWave survey of 473 energy industry professionals. The survey done in March 2008, showed that political resistance to Nuclear energy is one of the biggest barriers to Nuclear Energy
Exelon is the largest nuclear power plant operator in the U.S., and owns a portion of 17 plants around the country, concentrated in Pennsylvania and Illinois. It has benefited and will continue to benefit from a cost advantage in electricity generation as a result of the low cost of nuclear generation relative to generation from natural gas or coal at today's market prices. The relative attractiveness of Electric utilities is often determined by the degree to which government regulators allow them to charge fair market prices for their electricity— for example, Exelon's recent planned rate increase in Chicago was drastically reduced by the Illinois regulator.
Entergy, based in New Orleans, is the second largest nuclear operator in the country. Entergy benefits from the same trends as Exelon, as well as the development capital flooding into the region as a result of Hurricane Katrina, though it remains exposed to another particularly vicious hurricane season.
Additional publicly listed nuclear power plant operators include Duke Energy Corporation (DUK), Dominion Resources, FPL Group, Constellation Energy Group, NRG Energy, Scana, and Southern Company. Four of these companies - NRG, Scana, Southern, and Constellation - are expected to be the beneficiaries of the Department of Energy's June 2009 announcement that it will offer $18.5 billion in loan guarantees on new nuclear projects.[31]
Cameco, which controls 17% of the world market for uranium, the main fuel for nuclear energy, will benefit tremendously from a boom in nuclear energy. Recently, prices for uranium have taken off as investors have realized that nuclear energy can fill the "renewable energy gap" and that enriched uranium, especially from secure sites Canada and other developed nations, will be required to fuel that nuclear energy.
General Electric, the leading provider of nuclear reactors (currently owns ~20% of market worldwide), will benefit from a boom in nuclear energy, as it continues to supply, maintain, and retool nuclear reactors at newly commissioned or re-commissioned plant. Of course, as a massive conglomerate, the nuclear business comprises a small portion of GE's total revenues and profits.
Toshiba placed a $5.4 billion bet on nuclear energy by purchasing a majority 51% stake in Westinghouse in early 2006. The acquisition allows the company to offer pressurized water nuclear reactors, a more advanced technology it did not previously have, to complement its legacy boiling water reactors. Westinghouse had been the main contractor for 60% of pressurized water reactor plants in North America and signs seem to point to the U.S. building approximately 200 new nuclear plants over the next 20 years.
Areva is a French public multinational industrial conglomerate that deals in energy, especially nuclear power. They are currently building their first EPR-reactor in Finland.
Suzlon - Though it's unlikely in the near term, wind energy companies and suppliers, of which Suzlon is one of the largest, actually compete with nuclear power plants. Wind especially is a direct competitor to nuclear, as a result of the low carbon footprint and relatively high capital costs of both technologies. General Electric has hedged its bets here, offering both large-scale wind turbines and nuclear reactors.
Kinder Morgan - Another company that is at least indirectly competing with nuclear energy is Kinder Morgan, which controls vast natural gas pipeline assets throughout North America. These assets, custom built to transport natural gas cost effectively, would be in less demand, should nuclear energy significantly displace natural gas as a producer of electricity in the U.S.


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Economics, earnings reports, and market events for the week ahead.
US markets continued to bounce around in response to developments in Cyprus. Today the Cyprus banks reopened for business. While long lines did not form to pull cash from the bank, we'll have to wait and see what kind of deposits were withdrawn electronically. Economic data for the week was a bit weaker than was desired with durable goods orders ex-transports, consumer confidence, Chicago manufacturing, and annual pending home sales all ticking down. Bullish data for the week was provided by Case-Shiller home prices, but this data is a bit stale since it is from January.
Looking ahead, next week is jobs week with nonfarm payrolls on Friday and ADP employment change on Wednesday. Though regional surveys' employment subindex and weekly jobless claims have ticked up recently, economists are still expecting a strong month of 190,000 in payrolls gain. Wednesday's ADP report, which is now a better indicator after the company changed its survey methods in October of last year, is expecting to see 198,000 in private payrolls. Lastly, the ISM manufacturing estimates point to an unchanged month at 54.2. This is probably a bit optimistic as regional manufacturing surveys have been weaker lately.
Globally, the focus will be on the central banks. The Bank of Japan will conduct its first policy meeting since Haruhiko Kuroda took over as governor. His commentary since being appointed governor has been incredibly dovish so expectations are very high going into the meeting. He will likely lengthen the maturity of purchases of Japanese government bonds, increase the size, and possibly begin purchasing stocks and corporate bonds. This is ahead of the current plan's schedule, which is projected to begin in late 2013 to early 2014. The Bank of England is unlikely to lower rates and probably won't increase its asset purchase program until next month, but current Governor Mervyn King has certainly tried to sway the other members on the Monetary Policy Committee to do so. Lastly, the fan favorite, the ECB, is set to release its monetary decision on Thursday. Any change is unlikely as last month's comments failed to include any comments on the price of the euro, but some color on the Cyprus situation and the future of Luxembourg and Malta is to be expected.
The earnings calendar is very empty as first-quarter earnings won't begin to trickle out until later in the month. The only notable reports for the week are from Monsanto (NYSE:MON) and ConAgra Foods (NYSE:CAG).
Monday, April 1
US Economics (Time Zone: EDT)
08:58 Markit US PMI Final - consensus 55.2
10:00 Construction Spending - consensus 0.8%, prior -2.1%
10:00 ISM Manufacturing - consensus 54.2, prior 54.2
10:00 ISM Prices Paid - consensus 59.5, prior 61.5
11:00 Fed buying $2.75b-$3.5b notes in 7 to 10-year range
11:30 Treasury selling $35b 3-month bills, $30b 6-month bills
Global Economics (Time Zone: GMT)
JPY Tankan Manufacturing Indexes
01:00 CNY Manufacturing PMI
01:45 CNY HSBC Manufacturing PMI
No major earnings
Tuesday, April 2
US Economics (Time Zone: EDT)
09:45 ISM New York - prior 58.8
10:00 Factory Orders - consensus 2.5%, prior -2.0%
10:00 IBD/TIPP Economic Optimism - prior 42.2
5:00 Vehicle Sales - consensus 15.30M, prior 15.33M
5:00 Domestic Vehicle Sales - consensus 12.04M, prior 11.99M
11:00 Fed to buy $1.25b-$1.75b notes in 23 to 30-year range
11:30 Treasury selling 4-week bills, $25b 52-week bills
1:30 Fed's Lockhart speaking in Alabama
7:30 Fed's Evans and Lacker speaking in Virginia
Global Economics (Time Zone: GMT)
03:30 AUD Reserve Bank of Australia Decision
08:00 EUR Eurozone Manufacturing PMI
08:30 GBP Manufacturing PMI
09:00 EUR Eurozone Unemployment Rate
12:00 EUR German CPI
No major earnings
Wednesday, April 3
US Economics (Time Zone: EDT)
07:00 MBA Mortgage Index
08:15 ADP Employment Change - consensus 198K, prior 198K
10:00 ISM Non-manufacturing Composite - consensus 56, prior 56
11:00 Fed buying $3b-$3.75b notes in 5.5 to 7-year range
3:30 Fed's Williams speaking in Los Angeles
5:00 Fed's Bullard lecturing in St. Louis
Global Economics (Time Zone: GMT)
01:00 CNY Non-manufacturing PMI
01:45 CNY HSBC Services PMI
08:30 GBP Construction PMI
09:00 EUR Eurozone CPI
10:30 Germany selling EU4b 5-year notes
Monsanto (MON)
ConAgra Foods (CAG)
Thursday, April 4
US Economics (Time Zone: EDT)
07:30 Challenger Job Cuts - prior 7.0%
08:30 Initial Claims – consensus 340K, prior 336K
08:30 Continuing Claims – consensus 3042K, prior 3053K
11:00 Fed purchasing $1.25b-$1.75b notes in 23 to 30-year range
12:30 Fed's George speaking in Oklahoma
5:00 Yellen speaking in Washington
Global Economics (Time Zone: GMT)
JPY Bank of Japan Rate Decision
00:30 AUD Retail Sales
08:00 EUR Eurozone PMI (final estimate)
08:30 GBP Services PMI
09:00 EUR Eurozone PPI
11:00 GBP Bank of England Rate Decision
11:45 EUR ECB Rate Decision
8:30 Spain selling 3, 5, 8-year notes
8:50 France selling bonds
No major earnings
Friday, April 5
US Economics (Time Zone: EDT)
08:30 Trade Balance - consensus -$44.6B, prior -$44.4B
08:30 Nonfarm Payrolls - consensus 190K, prior 236K
08:30 Private Payrolls - consensus 203K, prior 246K
08:30 Manufacturing Payrolls - consensus 10K, prior 14K
08:30 Unemployment Rate - consensus 7.7%, prior 7.7%
08:30 Avg Weekly Hourly Earnings - consensus 34.5, prior 34.5
3:00 Consumer Credit - consensus $16B, prior $16.151B
Global Economics (Time Zone: GMT)
05:00 JPY Leading Index
09:00 EUR Eurozone Retail Sales
10:00 EUR German Factory Orders
12:30 CAD Employment Figures
No major earnings
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To the editor:
A few years ago, at a Lions Club fundraiser I overheard someone say, "That's the great thing about Boylston, one person can make a difference." I'd have to say that I agree with that statement and also the recent articles in The Banner encouraging people to run for town office.
Boylston has a wealth of talented people who can have a lasting effect on the town. I am hoping to encourage people to run for office, whether it's an office that has influence on the budget, like the School Committee or Board of Selectmen, or one that has influence over zoning, like the Planning Board; one person can make a huge difference.
As taxpayers and residents, we have the opportunity to steer the direction of our town and influence the decisions being made. I truly hope that people are willing to offer their talents and that we will have decisions to make when we step into the ballot box in May.
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A style of screaming used in metal music - generally comparable to a pig squealing. other similar forms of screaming include Raptor Shrieks and low pitched growls
The singer from Job For A Cowboy uses so many pig squeals!
by PresidentBOB October 28, 2007
Another term for bree. The high pitched scream found in songs by Job For A Cowboy, See You Next Tuesday, etc. Resembles that of a pig squeal.
bree bree bree weet weet rrrrrrr.
Dang, did you see that scene kid just break a pigsqueal? I bet he thinks he's risky.
Dang, did you see that scene kid just break a pigsqueal? I bet he thinks he's risky.
by m4dis0n April 03, 2008
in hardcore bands and music the singer will make a squealing sound with his voice which sounds like a pig.
I love this song because of all the pig squeals.
by JamesLee January 04, 2008
A vocal style originating in late 1980's involved with underground grindcore/Brutal Death Metal bands. The style is usually used by either inhaling or exhaling while coarsing your throat to either sound like a high pitched pig squeal, or a low pitched gurgle. Pig squeals have now become a style that is seen more in the light now due to hardcore/metalcore bands that have been recently becoming increasingly popular.
Job for a cowboy definently didn't invent pig squeals, and they suck.
by Blackdragon5151 August 02, 2008
The sexual act of jamming a metal spring into the tailbone of your partner and fucking them in the ass, causing a unique scream that resembles that of a pig.
On their second anniversary, Nick decided it was a good idea to give his girlfriend Rebecca a pig squeal.
by Rskellington January 31, 2011
a form of vocalism used by metal bands. usually made by inhaleing but sometimes they are exhaled making the users throat vibrate to create the sound of a pig squealing. the most common thing to say while pig squealing is bree.
DUDE! job for a cow boy has crazy pig squeals!!!
by matt duimie August 19, 2008
The sound of a cop cars sirens, or the sound of a cop eating a donut, or the sound of a cop talking, or the sound of a cop radio.
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Destined to be Miley
Destiny Hope Cyrus is born to country singer Billy Ray Cyrus (left) and wife, Leticia (Tish), who call a 500-acre Nashville farm home. Her dad is a "recluse" at this point, pulling back from the aftereffects of his "Achy Breaky Heart" fame. Theirs is a full house, with Miley and five other kids. The smiling darling earns the nickname "Smiley," that with time gets shortened to "Miley."
Baby Steps
As Billy Ray's returns to showbiz with acting roles in the series Doc, Miley wants to follow suit, despite her father's efforts and painful rejections at auditions. "I'd see those little tears come down her face and I'd hold her and say, 'Enjoy being a kid. There is too much heartache to mess up your childhood,'" Billy Ray tells PEOPLE. But there's no keeping her down on the farm. "She kept stepping up to the plate, and danggone, the right opportunity came at the right time." Those steps include a guest spot on Doc, and a part in Tim Burton's Big Fish.
All in the Family
Miley, 13, wins the lead role in the new Disney series, Hannah Montana, after initially being rejected because she was "too small, too young". She plays an average teen with a double life as a famous pop singer, and Billy Ray is cast as her dad. "I feel like I can tell my dad anything," she tells PEOPLE. "When we come home, we forget that we even work together and just hang out."
The Fan Fare
Hannah Montana becomes cable's most-watched show for kids ages 6 to 14. Its success continues in song with the Hannah Montana soundtrack album debuting at No. 1 on the Billboard Top 200, eventually going triple platinum. Miley's appeal is "charisma and a very winning personality that's easily conveyed by both television and live performance," says Billboard touring editor Ray Waddell. "She's totally non-threatening to parents and a must-see for her target audience."
A Touring MileyMiley releases her follow-up album, Hannah Montana 2: Meet Miley Cyrus, which sells 1.1 million copies. In October, Miley embarks on a 54-date concert tour, and tickets are snapped up as fast as Billy Ray's footwork during his run on Dancing With the Stars. Some fans complain that the tickets are sold out before they get a shot, prompting at least four states attorneys general to launch investigations about ticket sales.
Nick Jonas & Miley CyrusPEOPLE reports Miley is dating Nick Jonas (right), 14, youngest member of the Jonas Brothers. With his brothers, Nick guest-stars in a ratings record-setting episode of Hannah Montana in August and tours with Cyrus. "Nick and I loved each other," Cyrus tells Seventeen in 2008 of their romance, which ended in late 2007. "For two years he was basically my 24/7."
Pop and MeBilly Ray and Miley appear on the cover of PEOPLE, where he discusses raising Miley so she doesn't follow the same path as former Disney stars Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan. "Everything is about keeping her grounded," his wife Tish tells PEOPLE. "I still threaten her with a wooden spoon to the butt!" In the Cyrus household, Miley is required to do chores, attend church each week with the family and gets grounded as punishment.
Miley's Alleged Pregnancy
After gracing the cover of CosmoGIRL!, press of a different nature surfaces on the web. "Someone scanned the page, altered it and then posted it on the Internet," Janet Giovanelli, J-14's editor-in-chief, tells the New York Times of the story that started Miley pregnancy rumors. The original story, titled "Miley's Gross Habits," was a fun piece about joking with her Disney co-stars. The magazine issued a statement debunking the doctored report and emphasizes Miley as "an intelligent, respectable role model for young girls."
Miley's Photo ScandalAfter candid photos of Cyrus showing her bra surface online, a semi-clothed Vanity Fair shot of Cyrus makes the media rounds – and causes a big to-do for the child-friendly star. "My goal in my music and my acting is always to make people happy," the singer, 15, tells PEOPLE. "For Vanity Fair, I was so honored and thrilled to work with Annie [Leibovitz]. I took part in a photo shoot that was supposed to be 'artistic' and now, seeing the photographs and reading the story, I feel so embarrassed."
Disney Cash Cow
After signing a seven-figure book deal, Cyrus is named PEOPLE's richest kid in the world. By the numbers, Cyrus earned an estimated $1 million per week while on tour; sold 6.5 million albums; and is projected to sell $1 billion worth of Hannah Montana merchandise.


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OK, Oliver Perez was dreadful in his first spring training appearance, but don't expect the Mets to cut him loose already, despite what most fans might want.
Nobody gets demoted or cut after one appearance, especially somebody who is scheduled to make $12 million this season. Nor should he be.
As much as Perez wants to make the team as a starter, his best chance – slim as it is – will be coming out of the bullpen. The Mets will run Perez out there several more times and won't make a decision until they are absolutely sure he w0n't make the team.
That means they could keep him late until March. The Mets' hope is, as far-fetched as it is, will be for Perez to turn it around to the point where he could attract interest. That's not likely to happen because a team won't give up something if it believes Perez will eventually be waived.
As tight as the Mets' money situation is, they are obligated to pay Perez $12 million this season and are hoping the long shot comes through and he'll be able to contribute something. I know you've heard that before, but nothing has changed, even with that putrid first outing.


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You can't beat a system you can't understand
The lazy crazy days of summer are officially behind us. Labor Day was the grim reminder. Despite the high price of fuel, everyone appears to have survived the perceived inconvenience. Although adjustments had to be made, many were for the better.
Due to budget considerations, many of us had to cancel long drives to the mountains and other far away destinations. However, relaxing vacations at home turned into rewarding experiences. Those who stayed behind rediscovered their neighborhoods, towns, and the attractions in their immediate areas. I believe a sense of "community" and an appreciation for everything that makes "home" meaningful was reestablished.
Now, a faint aroma of winter wafts down from the north, and evenings bring on a little chill reminiscent of the days of our youth. That back to school smell is definitely in the air. You remember the time, when the girl next door or the boy across the street suddenly grew up, and you took notice.
Hmmm . . . "Did that person live there all these years?" you asked yourself. Then you remembered chasing her away when she wanted to play with the boys, or if you're a woman, you remembered you and your girlfriends laughing at "the short little dork." Then she became this year's head cheerleader, and he turned into Mr. Football.
"He/she won't remember those insignificant incidents," you said to yourself. "We were little kids then. I think I'll just go over and get reacquainted." And when you mustered the courage to strike up a neighborly conversation, you discovered they remembered all right. They remembered big time. Then you really regretted that decision to be mean all those years ago.
"I definitely took a wrong fork in that road," you muttered under your breath as you walked away red-faced and embarrassed. "From the ugly duckling to the beautiful swan" suddenly had meaning. It was not just another moral from a boring fairy tale.
As life moved on we found many more forks in the road and the necessity for making good decisions. For instance, after getting married and having children, many of us were faced with the decision of whether we should throw our offspring out of the nest to see what it's like to forage on their own. Since they have such little regard for the hardships that parents must endure, we ask ourselves, "Why not allow them a small taste of independence?" Why? Because they are only five-years old. That's why.
Fortunately, we have experts who can help us deal with those unreasonable moments. I believe my son is going through some of those moments now. Occasionally, he calls and asks, "Dad, how did you ever survive fatherhood?" I gently tell him, "Patience, my son. You must have patience."
I did not tell him that my methodology for attaining patience landed me in a 12-step program that I shall be involved in for the rest of my most lamentable life.
I do not understand my son's impatience with my grandson, who is an exceptionally bright little boy. He is just fulfilling his grandfather's wishes so his daddy will one day have an understanding of what he put his parents through so many years ago. Heh-heh. I just love that kid.
Now we are coming up on a crossroad that confronts most of us every year. As soon as that little fall nip is in the air, and Saturdays and Sundays are spent in front of televisions or in stadium parking lots tailgating until the game begins, we know the season is upon us. Oh no — it's a bit soon for the Holidays. However, it is not too soon for the eating season. It always eases into our lives when we least expect it, somewhere around this time of year. I believe it has something to do with the harvest.
That's when pumpkin pies are found on supermarket shelves and cooling on grandma's windowsill. Hot chocolate with whipped cream piled high on top of the cup becomes an everyday experience. The aroma of baked goods and pastries constantly permeates the crisp fall air, up city streets and down country roads. And we, the poor defenseless mortals that we are, must resist the temptations of the food sirens as we pass through the valley of the food courts and deny the irresistible street vendors as they peddle their wares.
We remember how hard we worked last spring to lose that weight so we would look good on the beach wearing shorts and bikinis. But we did it! We lost those five ugly pounds of gelatinous fat. Unfortunately, we should have lost 40 — or more.
And now, we are again at the crossroads. Do we want to experience the pain of a weight loss program again? Do we want to go through the denial, the sacrifi ce, and the trips to the gym before the sun comes up? Is that how we want to live? Of course it isn't. That's why we are going to do the right thing and make a good decision.
We are going to have just a little taste of that pumpkin pie. We are not going to eat a whole piece. We will have a sip of that hot chocolate. We do not need the whipped cream. And . . . and . . . we know we're going to be back in the gym in the spring because we are weak. Just give up. Give in and eat. How can we be expected to resist the irresistible when we live in a system we can't understand?


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Japan anticipates Olympic boost, but Fukushima shadows linger
Japan savoured its victory of the 2020 Olympic Games, anticipating an economic boost and help it recover from the devastating 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
Japan savored its victory on Monday in the race to host the 2020 Olympic Games, anticipating an economic boost to spur its revival from two decades of stagnation and help it recover from the devastating 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
The decisive win over rivals Madrid and Istanbul is also likely to strengthen the fortunes of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who put his reputation on the line in a bold gamble that victory would boost national confidence, a key ingredient in the success so far of his aggressive pro-growth policies.
The economic impact of the win was estimated by the Tokyo bid committee at more than 3 trillion yen ($30 billion) with the creation of 150,000 jobs. If the Nikkei stock index follows the examples of the London and Athens bourses after those cities won the games, it could see a one- to three-month rally.
But Tokyo, which in 1964 became the first city in Asia to host the Olympic games, won the right to host the world's biggest sporting extravaganza despite concerns over the leaking Fukushima nuclear plant 140 miles from the Japanese capital.
The plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco), has been forced to reverse denials and admit that hundreds of tons of radioactive water are pouring into the Pacific Ocean each day. Radiation levels have spiked.
Abe said in Buenos Aires, where Tokyo's victory was announced by the International Olympic Committee, that the plant is "under control." But he added that Tokyo will have to work to win the world's trust in the wake of the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl 25 years earlier.
"I would like to state clearly that there has not been, is not now and will not be any health problems whatsoever," Abe told a news conference. "Furthermore, the government has already decided a program to make sure there is absolutely no problem, and we have already started."
Despite such assurances, South Korea on Friday extended a ban on Japanese fishery imports to a larger area around the crippled Fukushima plant due to concerns over the radiation. China has banned imports of dairy, vegetable and seafood products from at least five Japanese prefectures since the 2011 disaster.
Tokyo pledged last week to spend nearly half a billion dollars on cleaning up the plant, with critics saying the announcement was aimed at the Olympic vote.
Some of the estimated 2,000 people gathered at a Tokyo park to wait for the Olympics announcement, which came in around dawn on Sunday, said the games might bring enough international attention that the nuclear problem will be properly dealt with.
"Tepco has not been clear about a number of things, and maybe now there will be enough foreign pressure to get this thoroughly taken care of," said Yumiko Okada, 51, who assists her husband, a comic illustrator, with his business.
"Now the eyes of the world will be watching."
Confidence, stocks likely to climb
To be sure, rivals to host the games Madrid and Istanbul were also wrestling with their own demons; the Spanish capital in the form of recession and the Turkish city with the spectre of a military strike on neighbouring Syria and internal unrest.
Many in the Tokyo park were hopeful that Japan's win would boost confidence overall, show that the country is back on the world stage after the economic dark times known as the "two lost decades," during which China overtook it to become the world's largest economy after the United States.
"It is a very good chance for Japan to have a rebirth for further economic development - and at the same time, Japan these days has lost the samurai spirit," said Kazuo Otsuki, 78, who said he was glad to have a third chance to see the Olympics in Tokyo. The 1940 Olympics had been set for Japan but were canceled due to World War Two.
"Japanese people are wondering what to do and they are still astray these days."
Since coming to power in December, Abe has promoted aggressive monetary and fiscal policies that have raised some confidence Japan can emerge from its years of stagnation.
Now the Olympics success could boost confidence further and buying of stocks, with many foreseeing increased consumption across a broad swathe of the economy.
The Nikkei rallied for a month after Japan's Nagano won the right to the 1998 Winter Games and one analyst predicted it could rise by more than 10 percent in the short term.
A Tokyo Olympics stock index of 79 companies that could benefit from the Games, compiled by Okasan Securities, has already risen about a half this year, gaining more than the broader market's increase of about a third.
Realtors, anticipating development of Tokyo's downtown waterfront area - where the Olympic Village will be located - are especially hopeful.
"We in the property sector are expecting this to become a chance for Tokyo to take its development as an international city to a level higher, in the face of the increasingly severe competition from other Asian cities," said Mitsubishi Estate Co Ltd, in a statement lauding the decision.
An economic lift might also give Abe the final impetus he needs to make a decision on a planned increase in the national sales tax, Japan's biggest attempt in years to rein in its runaway public debt. The decision is expected early next month after Abe has weighed up whether the economy is strong enough to absorb the tax hike.
"Think of the overall economic boost they predict, the 3 trillion yen and all those jobs," said Masaharu Ota, a 63-year-old advertising executive. "That will give people motivation even if the sales tax goes up in April."