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One Year Ago: Catching Up with 'Tron Legacy,' 'Yogi Bear,' and More
Attention holiday shoppers! This is the last weekend before Christmas and Hanukkah! It's your last chance to purchase gifts for loved ones and for people you don't love but have to give presents to! (We're looking at you, brothers-in-law.) You probably won't even have time to see Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows or Mission: Impossible -- Ghost Proctologist (which opens on IMAX today, regular screens on Wednesday). Worst of all, you'll probably have to skip Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked! (Don't worry, you can catch it when the Criterion Collection DVD comes out.)
Since you're consumed with holiday consumption and will have to forgo moviegoing for a few days, you might as well take a moment and reflect on the movies you failed to see at this time last year. What opened the weekend before Christmas 2010? Let's hop in our metaphorical time machine and take a figurative look back on the literal past.
The weekend of Dec. 17-19, 2010
Tron Legacy
Starring Jeff Bridges and computers and "Garrett Hedlund," whatever that is.
2010 was crammed with '80s remakes, sequels, and homages, but it wasn't until the end of the year that we got the one that made the most sense. What '80s film was more ripe for an update than Tron? The living-in-a-digital-world stuff that seemed like fantasy in 1982 is almost a reality now, and our ability to produce convincing special effects to portray that world is vastly improved.
So there was plenty of anticipation for Tron Legacy, which Disney heightened by pulling the original Tron DVD out of print and launching a massive marketing campaign that can only be described as Disney-esque. The new film opened to reviews split right down the middle -- 50% positive, 50% negative, according to Rotten Tomatoes. The consensus was that the visuals were amazing, and the Daft Punk soundtrack was wicked cool, but the story was kinda lame. Also, Garrett Hedlund went to the Paul Walker school of acting, where you stomp around looking Very Serious about whatever your Serious Business is, and you're no fun.
Tron Legacy opened to a sturdy $44 million, selling about 2 1/2 times as many tickets as the original Tron did when it opened. (Of course, the sequel was also on three times as many screens.) It eventually made $172 million in the United States, matching what it cost to make the film. The additional $228 million it made overseas brought its total to just over $400 million, which was enough to cover marketing costs and such. And you know what that means: sequel! One is tentatively in the works, and in the meantime an animated series called Tron Uprising will air on Disney XD in 2012. (Fun fact that I did not know before: Disney XD is a thing that exists!)
Garrett Hedlund will next appear as Dean Moriarty in Walter Salles' adaptation of Jack Kerouac's On the Road, scheduled to be released sometime next year. Jeff Bridges doesn't have anything on the agenda until 2013, and in the meantime simply abides.
Yogi Bear
Starring Dan Aykroyd and Justin Timberlake's voices, but none of their dignity.
Remember the animated hijinks of Yogi Bear? No? Well, your grandparents do. And they were probably thrilled and confused when a big-screen adaptation was finally released! Yogi Bear continued the current trend of making the humans live-action, the animals CGI, and everybody stupid.
Unsurprisingly, the film opened to miserable reviews -- just 14% positive at Rotten Tomatoes -- but a healthy box office. Its $16.4 million opening weekend was chump change compared to certain Chipmunk-themed movies we could name, but it eventually grossed $100.2 million in the U.S. and the same overseas -- a nice return on the $80 million production budget. A sequel is in the works. There's no word yet on whether Justin Timberlake and Dan Aykroyd will reprise their roles as the bears' voices, but let's be honest, of course they will.
How Do You Know
Starring Reese Witherspoon, Paul Rudd, Owen Wilson, and a favor that Jack Nicholson owed someone.
Hollywood's latest assault against the noble question mark was this romantic comedy that sounded like a sure-fire hit. How Do You Know starred Reese Witherspoon, who hadn't been in a movie in two years, and Paul Rudd, who'd been in lots of movies but is beloved by all mankind. Directed by James L. Brooks, of Broadcast News and As Good As It Gets fame! How can you go wrong? (Sorry: How can you go wrong)
Well, the reviews sure didn't help: only 31% positive at Rotten Tomatoes. It opened to a measly $7.5 million, on its way to $30.2 million in America and just $18.5 million overseas. That worldwide total of $48.7 million would be pretty bad under any circumstances, but get this: How Do You Know cost $120 million to make. That's right, the movie with no special effects other than propping up Jack Nicholson's corpse so it would seem alive cost MORE to make than the one with the talking bears. According to The Hollywood Reporter, about $40 million of that went to the stars' salaries: $15 million for Witherspoon, $12 million for Nicholson, $10 million for Wilson, and $3 million for Rudd. I don't know about you, but I don't want to live in a world where Reese Witherspoon is worth five times as much as Paul Rudd. I hope everybody learned their lesson here.
Hey, look what else opened a year ago!
Rabbit Hole, a devastating drama starring Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart as a couple mourning the death of their son, opened on nine screens. The reviews were great (86% at Rotten Tomatoes), and had been ever since the film premiered at Toronto three months earlier. (Our own Scott Weinberg was one of its most vocal supporters, as you no doubt recall if you followed him on Twitter at the time.) But its opening per-screen average was modest, and it ultimately made about $3.4 million worldwide. Kidman got an Oscar nomination, though, so don't cry too much for her.
And what about FIVE years ago??
Dec. 15, 2006: The Pursuit of Happyness, in which Will Smith is poor and learns how to spell; Eragon, in which a home-schooled teenager who wrote a popular fantasy novel lives to see that novel turned into a hilariously bad movie; and Charlotte's Web, in which a spider saves a pig and then dies, which is what you get for preventing people from enjoying bacon.
(All box office figures are from Box Office Mojo.)
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A false alarm was responsible for setting off the emission of deadly fire-extinguishing gases on a new Russian nuclear-powered submarine in the Sea of Japan, killing 20 people and injuring 21 late Saturday, Russian navy officials said.
All but three of the dead were civilian specialists and experts on board the Shark-class submarine Nerpa for the performance test trial, according to the federal prosecutors office.
The ship's nuclear reactor was not affected in the accident, and the submarine returned safely to port on its own, said Russian navy spokesman Igor Dygalo. The reactor was operating properly, and the radiation levels were normal, Dygalo told the Russian news agency Interfax on Sunday.
Dygalo said that, of 208 people on board, 91 were crew members and the rest were civilian specialists and experts overseeing the testing of the submarine.


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French translation of 'trustee'
Word Frequency
1. (Law) fidéicommissaire mf
2. [of school] administrateur/trice m/f
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As its name suggests, a discretionary will trust gives the trustees complete control over when the beneficiaries inherit.Times, Sunday Times (2008)
I've spoken to thousands of company chairmen and chief executives over the course of a career, but barely a single trustee chairman.Times, Sunday Times (2016)
It therefore makes sense to appoint an independent trustee.Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Parents can appoint themselves as trustees for extra peace of mind.Times, Sunday Times (2008)
People become charity trustees for myriad reasons, often wanting to give something back to society.Times, Sunday Times (2015)
The donor appoints trustees who can decide when the assets are distributed to the beneficiaries.Times, Sunday Times (2013)
To ensure that the bank's loan book is removed from the national balance sheet, the golden share will be controlled by independent trustees.Times, Sunday Times (2016)
While this takes place, trustees remain in control of the scheme and payments.Times, Sunday Times (2008)
After retirement he was chairman of the trustees supervising the definitive edition of the music of Berlioz.Times, Sunday Times (2013)
She was an appeal trustee and member of the art and architecture committee of Westminster Cathedral.Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The land is conveyed to trustees who will hold the property for the minor until a certain age.Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Trustees need to hold their managers accountable for poorly performing investments.Times, Sunday Times (2009)
You have to be absolutely certain that not only the head of the organisation but the board of trustees are unimpeachable.Times, Sunday Times (2016)
After a meeting with trustees, the company said that it was not expecting any increase in fund contributions in the coming years..Times, Sunday Times (2008)
He is on a board of trustees that hires the palace out to help with running and repair costs.The Sun (2016)
He said: 'We would recommend that charity boards and trustees are transparent.Times, Sunday Times (2015)
The board of trustees approached him and asked where it had gone.The Sun (2016)
The chairman of trustees was supportive of the proposal.Times, Sunday Times (2016)
This was a very generous offer but when offered such a gift, our board of trustees considers it against strict acquisition criteria.Times, Sunday Times (2014)
In other cases, the request comes from a bankruptcy trustee.Christianity Today (2000)
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British English: trustee NOUN
A trustee is someone with legal control of money or property that is kept or invested for another person, company, or organization.
The trustees of your pension fund decide which fund manager will invest some or all of your future income.
- American English: trustee
- Brazilian Portuguese: fideicomissário
- Chinese: 受托人
- European Spanish: fideicomisario
- French: fidéicommissaire
- German: Treuhänder
- Italian: amministratore fiduciario
- Japanese: 受託者
- Korean: 신탁 관리자
- European Portuguese: fideicomissário
- Spanish: fideicomisario
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December 19, 2003
Jonathan G. Katz
Re: File No. S7-19-03
Dear Mr. Katz:
I am the General Counsel of CIGNA Corporation, a Delaware corporation with $19B in annual revenues, $82B in assets under management and more than 30,000 employees worldwide. I appreciate this opportunity to comment on the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") proposal requiring companies to include shareholder nominees for directors in company proxy materials.
We support and appreciate the SEC's efforts to implement the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. We also support the recent governance reforms initiated by the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ, which we believe will make boards more independent and establish proper accountability. However, adequate time should be allowed for these governance reforms to work before additional requirements are imposed on issuers.
Moreover, in our opinion the proposed thresholds for triggering a shareholder nomination are not appropriate. Frequent contested elections would occur even for companies that are responsive to shareholder concerns and performing well. Annual election contests are distracting and costly to organizations and would inevitably discourage qualified individuals from serving as corporate directors.
Additionally, a contested election is not the best way to select qualified board members who can represent all shareholders. An independent nominating committee is the best forum to select qualified directors with the unique mix of skills and experience needed to oversee the corporation and represent all shareholders.
Thank you for considering these concerns about the proposed rules.


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H.R.1776 - American Homeownership and Economic Opportunity Act of 2000106th Congress (1999-2000)
BillHide Overview
|Rep. Lazio, Rick [R-NY-2] (Introduced 05/12/1999)
|House - Banking and Financial Services | Senate - Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
|Committee Reports:
|H. Rept. 106-553,Part 1; H. Rept. 106-553,Part 2
|Latest Action:
|Senate - 06/20/2000 Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Subcommittee on Housing and Transportation. Hearings held. (All Actions)
|Roll Call Votes:
|There have been 5 roll call votes
This bill has the status Passed House
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- Housing and Community Development
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Summary: H.R.1776 — 106th Congress (1999-2000)All Information (Except Text)
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American Homeownership and Economic Opportunity Act of 2000 - Title I: Removal of Barriers to Housing Affordability - Housing Affordability Barrier Removal Act of 2000 - Requires proposed and final agency rules (with exceptions for certain banking rules) to analyze their impact upon affordable housing availability, including provision for interested parties to offer alternatives, which shall be incorporated into the final rule if found to accomplish required objectives with a less deleterious effect upon housing.
Passed House amended (04/06/2000)
Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to develop model housing impact analyses.
(Sec. 103) Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 to authorize FY 2001 through 2005 appropriations for (consolidated) State and local grants for regulatory barrier removal. Makes consortia of local governments eligible grantees. Requires grant use in coordination with the local comprehensive affordability strategy under the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act.
(Sec. 104) Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to require jurisdictions to make good faith efforts at affordable housing barrier removal in order to qualify for community development block grants (CDBG) (without creating a private right of action).
(Sec. 105) Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 to state that the regulatory barriers clearinghouse shall be established within the Office of Policy Development of HUD under the direction of the Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research.
Title II: Homeownership Through Mortgage Insurance and Loan Guarantees - Amends the National Housing Act to extend the loan term for manufactured home lot purchases.
(Sec. 202) Modifies Federal Housing Administration (FHA) mortgage insurance downpayment requirements.
(Sec. 203) Provides for one percent downpayments for FHA mortgage loans for qualified elementary (including pre-kindergarten) and secondary school teachers and administrators and non-Federal public safety officers to purchase homes within the jurisdictions of their employing agencies.
(Sec. 204) Directs the Secretary, in order to prevent fraud in the rehabilitation loan program, to: (1) prohibit indemnity of interest between specified loan parties; (2) establish standards for participating nonprofit organizations; (3) prohibit final loan disbursement until rehabilitation completion; (4) establish consultant standards; and (5) require contractor qualification. Directs the Secretary to report on participating nonprofit organizations.
(Sec. 205) Community Partners Next Door Act - Establishes a discounted (50 percent) home purchase and downpayment assistance program for qualified elementary (including pre-kindergarten) and secondary teachers, law enforcement officers, fire fighters, and rescue personnel for FY 2000 through 2004. Authorizes the Secretary to sell properties directly to a teacher or public safety officer or indirectly to a unit of local government or nonprofit organization for resale to such individual. Requires a minimum three-year residence.
(Sec. 206) Revises the current demonstration mortgage reinsurance program to: (1) make such program a risk-sharing program served by private mortgage insurers and insured community development financial institutions (as defined by this Act); (2) enlarge the program to four administrative areas; and (3) require such entities to assume the first loss of an insured mortgage.
(Sec. 207) Includes within the insured loan program a hybrid adjustable rate mortgage (ARM) that is fixed for at least the first three years. Requires disclosure of ARM features to prospective mortgagors.
(Sec. 208) Authorizes the Secretary to insure refinancing of home equity conversions for elderly home owners. Provides for: (1) specified transaction disclosures; (2) waiver of counseling under specified conditions; (3) fee limitations; (4) single premium reduction; and (5) an actuarial study to determine insurance premium adequacy.
Includes housing cooperatives in the demonstration program of insurance of home equity conversion mortgages for elderly home owners. Directs the Secretary to waive up-front premiums for mortgages used for costs of long-term care insurance or health care.
(Sec. 209) Directs the Secretary to carry out a pilot program to assist qualifying law enforcement officers (including correctional officers) purchase homes in locally designated high crime areas. Provides for: (1) no downpayment; and (2) inclusion of closing costs and a single required insurance payment in the loan amount. Sunsets the program three years after assistance is made available.
(Sec. 210) Directs the Comptroller General to conduct a study of mandatory inspection requirements under the single family housing mortgage insurance program.
(Sec. 211) Directs the Secretary to report on the property improvement loan insurance program.
(Sec. 212) Expresses the sense of Congress that the Secretary should consult with other Federal agencies that hold housing-appropriate property to determine the possibility of including such properties in programs that make housing available for law enforcement officers, teachers, and fire fighters.
(Sec. 213) Amends the National Housing Act to increase the property improvement loan limit for single-family homes.
Title III: Section 8 Homeownership Option - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to provide a single grant home ownership downpayment option (in lieu of monthly payments) under the section 8 housing assistance program.
(Sec. 302) Authorizes a public housing agency providing tenant-based section 8 housing assistance to provide assistance for a qualifying disabled family that purchases a home which will be owned and occupied by one or more members of such family. Sets forth program provisions.
(Sec. 303) Authorizes FY 2001 appropriations (with a 50 percent matching requirement) for homeownership programs under the section 8 homeownership demonstration program.
Title IV: Community Development Block Grants - Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to authorize FY 2001 through 2005 appropriations for the CDBG program. Modifies the definition of "city" with respect to certain towns or townships, and the definition of "urban county."
(Sec. 402) Prohibits set-asides, with specified exceptions.
(Sec. 403) Extends through FY 2006 the 25 percent public services cap for the City and County of Los Angeles, California.
(Sec. 404) Authorizes block grant use for: (1) qualifying teacher and municipal employee (including police officers, fire fighters, and sanitation and other maintenance workers) first-time homeownership assistance; and (2) brownfields projects environmental cleanup and economic development in conjunction with the appropriate environmental regulatory agencies. States that such homeownership assistance shall be intended for low- and moderate-income individuals.
(Sec. 406) Directs the Secretary to grant (in addition to specified other exemptions) at least ten jurisdictions income eligibility exemptions for purposes of the CDBG and HOME investment partnership programs.
(Sec. 407) Amends the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act to authorize FY 2001 through 2005 appropriations for the housing opportunities for persons with AIDS program.
(Sec. 408) Amends the Housing and Community Development Act to prohibit the use of CDBG funds to acquire real property owned by a tax exempt church without the prior consent of the church's governing body.
(Sec. 409) Increases the CDBG aggregate special purpose grant set-aside. Obligates specified FY 2001 amounts for Youngstown, Ohio, for site acquisition, planning, design, and construction of a convocation and community center.
Title V: Home Investment Partnerships Program - Amends the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act to authorize FY 2001 through 2005 appropriations for affordable housing programs, including the HOME investment partnership program. Prohibits set-asides, with specified exceptions.
Authorizes the Secretary to make up to three grants for each of FY 2001 and 2002 to eligible consortia of local government (at least one of which shall be a multi-State consortia) in order to develop comprehensive regional housing affordability strategies.
(Sec. 502) Makes limited equity cooperatives and mutual housing associations eligible for home investment partnerships.
(Sec. 503) Permits the extended use of administrative and planning funds.
(Sec. 504) Permits loan pool investment of partnership funds. Treats such mixed income loan pools as affordable housing under specified conditions.
(Sec. 505) Makes qualifying municipal employees (including teachers) eligible for home ownership assistance.
(Sec. 506) Permits the use of section 8 rental assistance for families with grandparent-grandchildren residents, but without any parent of such children.
(Sec. 507) Authorizes the Secretary to make home investment partnership loan guarantees. Sets forth an aggregate loan guarantee limitation.
(Sec. 508) Directs the Secretary to carry out a pilot program under which jurisdictions participating in the HOME program and cities or urban counties participating in the CDBG program may use such amounts for downpayment assistance to eligible homebuyers for purchases of 2- and 3-family residences.
Title VI: Local Homeownership Initiatives - Amends the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation Act to authorize FY 2001 through 2005 appropriations for the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation. Obligates specified FY 2001 funds for certain duplex homeownership programs.
(Sec. 602) Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 to revise the home ownership zone grant program, including providing: (1) grant eligibility for units of general local government (currently nonprofit organizations); and (2) assistance targeting for specified low-income home buyers. Authorizes FY 2001 and 2002 appropriations. Prohibits adverse treatment of an application solely because the homeownership zone is located within unincorporated areas.
(Sec. 603) Expresses the sense of Congress in favor of lease-to-own tenancies as home ownership tools.
(Sec. 604) Amends the HUD Demonstration Act of 1993 to make the National Association of Housing Partnerships eligible for local capacity grants. Removes the specified amount of authorized appropriations.
(Sec. 605) Amends the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act to provide for a consolidated application and planning submission under the following programs: (1) HOME investment partnerships; (2) CDBG; (3) the economic development initiative; (4) emergency shelter grants; and (5) housing opportunities for persons with AIDS.
(Sec. 606) Amends the Housing Opportunity Program Extension Act of 1996 to authorize FY 2001 through 2003 appropriations for self-help housing providers. Permits fund advancement for land acquisition prior to approval of any required environmental review. Permits projects with five or more units to use their funds over a 36-month period.
(Sec. 607) Amends the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968 to make cooperative housing eligible for housing counseling funds.
Extends the emergency home ownership counseling and the prepurchase and foreclosure prevention counseling programs through FY 2005.
(Sec. 608) Amends the Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Act of 1992 to include among eligible grant activities: (1) leasing of lead-free temporary housing; and (2) access to residential lead-based paint poisoning prevention services at centralized locations.
(Sec. 609) Makes religious organizations eligible for HUD financial assistance on the same basis as other nongovernmental organizations as long as the program is implemented in a manner consistent with the Establishment Clause of the Free Exercise Clause of the first amendment to the Constitution. States that such a recipient organization shall: (1) retain its religious character; (2) maintain its employment practices exemption; and (3) not use such funds for sectarian worship, instruction, or proselytization.
Title VII: Native American Homeownership - Subtitle A: Native American Housing - Establishes the Lands Title Report Commission to facilitate home loan mortgages on Indian trust lands. Terminates the Commission one year after its initial meeting. Authorizes appropriations.
(Sec. 702) Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 to make permanent the Indian housing loan guarantee authority.
(Sec. 703) Amends the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 to: (1) restrict the Secretary's authority to waive housing plan requirements to not more than 90 days; (2) permit the Secretary to waive local cooperation requirements upon a good faith showing and agreement to make certain payments in lieu of taxes; (3) permit assistance to Indian families that are not low-income upon a showing of need; (4) eliminate separate housing plan requirements for small tribes; (5) permit the Secretary to waive certain environmental review requirements under specified conditions; (6) permit reservation housing assistance for specified full-time Federal, State, county, or tribal law enforcement officers; (7) revise audit, review, and hearing provisions; (8) prescribe a funding formula for housing authorities operating fewer than 250 units based on an average of FY 1992 through 1997 allocations; and (9) repeal the requirement regarding the certification of compliance with subsidy layering requirements.
Subtitle B: Native Hawaiian Housing - Hawaiian Homelands Homeownership Act of 2000 - Amends the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 to add a new Title VIII, Housing Assistance for Native Hawaiians. Directs the Secretary to make block grants to carry out affordable housing activities for Native Hawaiian families on or near Hawaiian Home Lands. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands (defined as the agency or department of Hawaii responsible for administration of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920) only if the Director of the Department has submitted a housing plan that meets requirements under this Act, unless otherwise waived by the Secretary. Sets forth plan terms, conditions, and requirements, including a condition that, to the extent practicable, the Department use private nonprofit organizations in the planning and development of such housing. Provides for plan review by the Secretary.
Sets forth provisions regarding the treatment of program income, project labor standards, and environmental review under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969.
Limits assistance for affordable housing activities under the program to low-income Native Hawaiian families, with specified exceptions for: (1) certain home ownership activities; and (2) assistance to non-Native Hawaiians if the presence of the family in the housing involved is essential to the well-being of Native Hawaiian families and the housing need cannot be met without assistance.
Describes eligible affordable housing activities. Sets forth program requirements, including the development of policies governing rents, home buyer payments, eligibility, management, leases, and tenant selection. Sets the maximum monthly rent or home buyer payment at 30 percent of the monthly adjusted family income.
Directs the Secretary, in instances of substantial Department noncompliance, to terminate, reduce, or limit payments. Authorizes the Secretary, in addition to such actions, to refer the matter to the Attorney General for civil action.
Sets forth review, auditing, and reporting requirements for the Secretary and the Director. Provides for discretionary audits by the Comptroller General. Authorizes appropriations through FY 2005.
(Sec. 724) Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 to authorize the Secretary to guarantee up to $100 million in loans from approved lenders in each of FY 2001 through 2005 to provide access to sources of private financing to Native Hawaiian families who could otherwise not acquire housing financing because of the unique legal status of the Hawaiian Home Lands or as a result of a lack of access to private financial markets. Authorizes loan guarantees of up to 100 percent of unpaid interest and principal. Provides that a loan will be used to construct, acquire, or rehabilitate not more than four-family dwellings that are standard housing and located on Hawaiian Home Lands for which an approved housing plan to provide affordable home ownership housing applies.
Sets forth eligible lender categories.
Limits loans to 30-year terms. Permits the Secretary to guarantee a loan only upon determining that there is a reasonable prospect of repayment. Establishes a loan guarantee fee. Authorizes loan transfer and assumption, subject to governmental supervision.
Provides for lender disqualification for specified violations, and civil monetary penalties for intentional violations. Establishes a Hawaiian Housing Guarantee Fund for the purpose of providing loan guarantees under this Act. Authorizes appropriations through FY 2005.
Directs the Secretary to establish safety and quality standards for housing financed under these provisions.
Title VIII: Transfer of Unoccupied and Substandard HUD-Held Housing to Local Governments and Nonprofit Organizations - Amends the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1997 to direct the Secretary to transfer ownership of qualified HUD-held properties (substandard or unoccupied multifamily or unoccupied single family properties) to local governments and community development corporations under specified conditions. Requires such properties to be held by HUD for at least six months.
(Sec 802) Directs the Secretary, upon request of the appropriate jurisdiction, to designate as a revitalization area all portions of such jurisdiction meeting the necessary criteria.
Title IX: Private Mortgage Insurance Cancellation and Termination - Private Mortgage Insurance Technical Corrections and Clarification Act - Amends the Homeowners Protection Act of 1998 with respect to the definition of "cancellation date" to replace "amortization schedules" with, and define, "amortization schedule the in effect" for purposes of adjustable rate mortgages.
Includes balloon mortgages within the definition of "adjustable rate mortgages."
States that if a residential mortgage loan is modified (with mortgagor-mortgagee agreement) the cancellation date, termination date, or final agreement shall be recalculated to reflect such modifications.
(Sec. 904) Extends mortgage insurance cancellation rights beyond the cancellation date for a qualifying borrower who is current on required payments.
(Sec. 905) Revises the automatic termination date with respect to a mortgagor who is not current on payments as of the mortgage termination date.
States that the cancellation or termination of private mortgage insurance shall not affect the rights of any mortgagee, servicer, or insurer to enforce any accrued obligation for premium payments.
(Sec. 906) Revises and defines specified terms.
Title X: Rural Housing Ownership - Amends the Housing Act of 1949 to increase from $2,500 to $7,500 the amount of a rural housing repair loan that needs to be evidenced only by a promissory note.
(Sec. 1002) Makes limited partnerships eligible for farm labor housing loans.
(Sec. 1003) Sets forth project accounting and recordkeeping requirements.
(Sec. 1004) Extends the rural designation of certain areas until the 2010 census.
(Sec. 1006) Makes Indian organizations (as defined by this Act) eligible for the multifamily rental housing loan guarantee program.
(Sec. 1007) Establishes civil and criminal penalties for rural housing program equity skimming. Authorizes the Secretary to impose civil monetary penalties and prohibit renewal or extension of loan or assistance agreements for program violations.
(Sec. 1008) Amends Federal criminal law to include such equity skimming under money laundering provisions.
Title XI: Manufactured Housing Improvement - Manufactured Housing Improvement Act - Amends the National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974 to define specified terms.
(Sec. 1104) Directs the Secretary to establish manufactured home construction and safety standards in accordance with the consensus standards development process (provided for by this Act).
Directs the Secretary to contract with: (1) a temporary administering organization to appoint the initial members of the consensus committee and administer the consensus standards development and related procedural and enforcement processes; and (2) a subsequent administering organization for the development of Federal standards and related procedural and enforcement regulations.
Establishes the consensus committee which shall provide the Secretary with periodic recommendations respecting Federal manufactured housing construction and safety standards and related procedural and enforcement regulations. States that committee members shall represent producer, consumer, and general interest and public official interests. Sets forth related administrative provisions.
(Sec. 1105) Eliminates the National Manufactured Home Advisory Council.
Requires manufacturers to provide approved design and installation instructions with each manufactured home.
Requires, within specified deadlines: (1) the consensus committee to develop and submit to the Secretary proposed model manufactured home installation standards; and (2) the Secretary to develop model standards. Requires an opportunity for public comment prior to such standards' issuance. Prohibits a State or manufacturer, during the five-year period beginning with the enactment of this Act, from establishing manufactured home installation standards that provide less protection than existing standards. Directs the Secretary, not later than the expiration of such five-year period, to implement in a State that has not adopted a similar program a program which provides for: (1) installation standards and designs and instructions that meet or exceed model standards; (2) installer training and licensing; and (3) installation inspection.
(Sec. 1106) Directs the Secretary to submit cost information to the consensus committee.
(Sec. 1107) Includes among research and testing activities: (1) encouraging government-sponsored housing entities to implement secondary market securitization programs for manufactured home loans; and (2) reviewing the programs for Federal Housing Administration manufactured home loans.
(Sec. 1108) Makes it a prohibited act to fail to comply with the Secretary's installation standards in any State that has not adopted a State installation program.
(Sec. 1109) Authorizes the Secretary to collect manufacturer fees, and sets forth their permitted and prohibited uses. Establishes in the Treasury a Manufactured Housing Fees Trust Fund.
Sets forth contractor requirements.
Requires the Secretary to continue funding States with approved plans at levels not less than those existing immediately prior to enactment of this Act.
(Sec. 1110) Directs the Secretary to establish a dispute resolution program within five years of the enactment of this Act.
(Sec. 1111) Eliminates the manufactured housing annual reporting requirement.
(Sec. 1112) Sets forth effective date provisions.
(Sec. 1113) Sets forth savings provisions, including certain contract duration provisions.
Title XII: Public and Assisted Housing Drug Elimination Program - Amends the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 to make drug elimination grants available to public housing authorities that have largely eliminated drug and crime problems but need to maintain or expand police services in order to sustain such conditions.


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The coalition opposed to slots at Arundel Mills Mall filed its referendum committee, "No Slots at the Mall." No Slots at the Mall named David Jones of Hanover its Chairman and Brion Umidi of Arnold its Treasurer.
Rob Annicelli, Chair of Stop Slots at the Mall, said the committee would allow opponents to join forces against placing slot machines in a family-friendly mall. "The referendum committee will help us spread the word that the mall is not the appropriate location for nearly five thousand slot machines." Citizens Against Slots at the Mall spokesperson Heather Ford said, "No Slots at the Mall will help direct our county wide efforts to let voters know that we can find a more appropriate location for a casino in Anne Arundel County."


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HARARE - The underlying cause of the Zimbabwean crisis lies in the State's failure to initiate and sustain a growth process that is robust and inclusive.
The ruling party Zanu PF, under the leadership of Robert Mugabe therefore lost support as it failed to develop a credible economic strategy, which then resulted in deteriorating governance and, ultimately paralysis.
Like in man African countries in the new millennium, the leadership has become so used to administering a country where a rich resource base co-exists with endemic poverty.
Some of its elements globe trot with amazing frequency using scarce public resources to international meetings that highlight the dangers of presiding over polities where hunger and poverty is a daily experience for most people.
They deliberate extensively on why governments should not implement policies that exacerbate existing inequalities.
They read reports of how bad things are in their countries which emphasise how difficult it is to sustain this amazing world of contrasts, but continue with the business as usual syndrome leaving you to wonder where they are heading us to.
Surprisingly, the dosages of the messages warning them to consider pro-poor, broad-based and inclusive approach to development is so high to the extent that if it was tinkered with alcohol, they will all be dangerously tipsy by now.
In many African countries, for those who stay at home and do not fraternise these meetings, they have become so fox-holed by their fear of what will happen next, and when coxed to come out, you will invariably see them touring using their SUVs on roads that are badly potholed and you wonder where they were when the tarmac was being eroded.
Some of them shamelessly drive on the wrong side of the road if the condition of the road for their side is deemed life threatening to them and terrify motorists and pedestrians alike by their noisy sirens and bikers or outriders who behave like outlaws disregarding the fact that they are displacing the rightful users of the facility.
This leadership style triggers complex governance problems which inevitably lead to serious deficiencies in democratic credentials to the extent that the public opinion both at home and abroad sees departure from office as the only solution in the short term.
The leadership has indeed turned into the proverbial rulers who do not either listen or serve the people.
A cursory glance at the leadership's life style will reveal an insatiable penchant for luxury and accumulation that is well beyond its means which can only be sustained by allowing institutions they run and control to collapse and rot to such an extent that transparency and accountability will be severely compromised.
We must appreciate that within these spaces, there are people who want to do the right things, but are overwhelmed by the sheer weight of trying to keep things together especially when they realise that most of their colleagues have been compromised.
Far from defending the existence of a developmental state, they work in cahoots with the IMF and World Bank to instil values of profit making and cost recovery from their citizens at the expense of providing decent public service.
As they unbundle the public sector, it is ironic that the politicians and their relatives emerge as the winners through engaging in primitive accumulation and rent seeking activities that are tantamount to mugging the state and the rest of the country's population.
No wonder why they can live with a clean conscience when they walk out of their offices having approved budgets to buy themselves expensive luxurious cars and perpetually shelve into the pending trays proposals and budget requests that will address citizens quest for clean water for example, let alone the new battle with primitive and mediaeval diseases like typhoid and cholera that are creeping back into our civilisation with devastating consequences.
For a country like Zimbabwe, this state of affairs has its roots in different processes.
We have already acknowledged that the existence of governance challenges that led to the institution of a Government of National Unity should be cited as one cause of the crisis.
We however, want to zero in on for example, the impact of colonialism instead of wishing it away as some pro-democracy activists have been insisting.
Colonialism was predicated on an ideology of white supremacy. It created an enclave of privileges that were backed by a formal economy which employed not more than one fifth of the country's labour force and largely benefited a white minority grouping and officially discriminating versus the rest of the country's population.
From 1980-1990, the government retained the system of controls and inward-oriented policies that were used before independence.
In all fairness, it should be acknowledged that it emphasised social welfare, which saw health care and education in particular receiving much attention but could not be sustained without robust growth, was disrupted the 1991 IMF/World Bank-triggered structural adjustment programme.
The Economic Structural Adjustment Programme (Esap) period (1991-1996) set the economy on a market-oriented path thus entrenching the dual and enclave structure of the economy.
We classify 1997-2008 as the crisis period which started in earnest when in November 1997 following the depreciation of the Zimbabwe dollar after an unbudgeted gratuity and pension payout to pacify an increasingly vociferous section of liberation war fighters.
A series of knee-jerk, fire-fighting reaction policies were marked by policy inconsistencies, contradictions and reversals.
Not surprisingly, such policy incoherence saw the economy descend into hyperinflation in August 2007, and paralysis in 2007-2008, leading to the signing of the Global Political Agreement (GPA) by the three main political parties in September 2009 following the contested elections of 2008.
Decades later, the non formal segment where the majority of the people were restricted to, seems to have been more entrenched, hence the crisis of the post colonial state and the confusion that surrounds the ruling elite within the African populations.
We also have to appreciate the fact that macro-economic policies based on growth and development of the formal sector over the years have done little to improve the livelihoods of the majority of the people who work in the informal and communal sectors.
This argument runs through the recently unveiled book Beyond the Enclave whose popular version is titled Pro-poor and Inclusive development in Zimbabwe all available on http://www.ledriz.co.zw/publications.html.
It builds on the experience gathered during the ground breaking analysis of th e Esap, and captured in the publication Beyond ESAP produced in 1996.
The book marked a new epoch for the labour movement, where we saw some movement beyond just criticising government policies to offering detailed policy alternatives.
It also marked an attempt by the labour movement to put together its positions into a cogent policy framework covering the macro and sectoral levels.
The Beyond ESAP book therefore provided a reference point for the policies of the ZCTU, and was extensively utilised by policy makers, academics, students, and other interested parties.
The government team working on the Zimbabwe Programme for Economic and Social Transformation (Zimprest), 1996-2000 also utilised the report extensively.
Furthermore, the far-reaching recommendations of the Beyond Esap study, notably the proposal to establish a national institutional framework for stakeholder participation in national decision-making processes, the Zimbabwe Economic Development Council (ZEDC), culminated in the formation of the National Economic Consultative Forum (NECF) in July 1997 and the Tripartite Negotiating Forum (TNF) in September 1998.
Most African economies are characterised by the existence of two radically different sectors of the economy; a modern or formal segment employing a small proportion of the labour force, and a traditional or non-formal segment employing the bulk of the labour force.
This feature is a product of colonial capitalism that captured a small segment of the economy, the formal sector, leaving the bulk of the economy (non-formal segment) under pre-capitalist modes of production.
The post-independence policies have dismally failed to deal with this structural deformity.
As such, this disarticulate structure of the economy implies that the formal sector has a growth momentum of its own, and relates to the non-formal segment in a manner that marginalises and impoverishes the latter, resulting in uneven development — indeed an enclave economy.
This structural distortion implies that even in the presence of growth, the economy is unable to absorb the vast numbers of the un- and under-employed into the mainstream economy.
We do find that in this scenario, the post-independence leadership propped up policies that failed to address the inherited enclave structure of the economy, resulting in the continued marginalisation of the majority of the population, and the entrenchment of poverty.
In Zimbabwe for example, by 2004, instead of the formalisation of the economy, four out of every five jobs were informalised, with the decent work deficits that this implies.
This is the underlying factor behind the current crisis. The solution should therefore be steeped in the adoption of people-driven policies that redress this enclave and dual structure to achieve inclusive growth and human development.
Beyond the Enclave has very interesting observations.
The Zimbabwean economy of 1996 was barely recognisable, having gone through 11 years of crisis (1997-2008), and far-reaching changes.
The economy analysed in the Beyond ESAP study and the one existing now are structurally different.
For instance, a year before the onset of the crisis (1996) Zimbabwe's GDP of $8,6 billion was the second largest of the 15-country Sadc, behind that of South Africa at $143,7 billion.
At the height of the economic paralysis in 2008, Zimbabwe's GDP reached only $4,8 billion, falling to the rank of 11th in Sadc, a position that was maintained in 2009. Instructively, while South Africa's GDP was almost 17 times that of Zimbabwe in 1996, it was almost 58 times larger by 2008.
Looking at the periods 1980-89 and 1990-99, Zimbabwe's real GDP growth at 5,2 percent and 2,6 percent in these periods was higher than the average for Sub-Saharan Africa at 2,2 percent and two percent.
In the new millennium (2000-2006), the average GDP of Sub-Saharan Africa increased by 4,6 percent while Zimbabwe's decreased by 5,8 percent.
Zimbabwe's persistent decline since the late 1990s does not, therefore, follow the general trend.
Most African countries took advantage of the commodity price boom of 2002-2007 to improve their performances.
Such has been Zimbabwe's fall in status that a country that used to be in the medium human development category is now at the bottom of the 169 countries reported on in the 2010 Global Human Development Report.
As the economy collapsed, Zimbabwe's human resources went into the Diaspora.
Today almost a third of the population is living abroad.
Given the previous failures of the Zimbabwean state, there is a strong case for rebuilding and strengthening its role to transform it into an ethical, accountable developmental state that upholds good governance and promotes sustainable human development.
This is turn calls for the strengthening of the national institutional framework for broad-based stakeholder participation in decision making, implementation, monitoring and evaluation.
As noted in Beyond the Enclave and Pro-poor and Inclusive development in Zimbabwe, we must all realise that the developmental states proposed in the books will not emerge on their own.
This will require nothing short of mass movements galvanised by mobilisation, consultations, debate, engagement, action and reflection. - Thomas Deve
*Thomas Deve is a Pan Africanist and currently based in the Southern and Eastern African Trade Information Negotiations Institute (SEATINI-Zimbabwe) Contact email is email@example.com
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CHESHIRE Constabulary is to get extra firepower to combat crime and disorder in communities across Mid Cheshire.
The Home Office has announced £130,000 worth of funding towards the scheme which should see 18 new community support officers - three in each of the county's six divisions, including Vale Royal and Congleton.
Officers will wear their own uniform, but unlike police constables, will not carry handcuffs and CS gas, and in Cheshire they will not have powers of detention.
But the move has received a lukewarm welcome from the county's Police Federation, which says its members need all the help they can get - but claims the public would rather see fully trained professional police officers on the streets.
Police spokeswoman Brenda Cowling said: 'They will probably be distributed so that there are three per division and they will join the Community Action Teams.
'Community support officers are civilians who can patrol and if the Chief Constable so wishes, they can be given more general powers to detain.
'In Cheshire we have not yet decided what powers they will have. One potential power is of confiscating alcohol when people are drinking in the streets and they also have the power to issue tickets for littering.
'The power to hold people for 20 minutes is not under discussion in Cheshire. There are a couple of force areas piloting that, nobody else is considering that until the pilot results come back.'
The Metropolitan Police in London has taken on hundreds of CSOs, but in Cheshire there are just six, at Risley, at the moment.
Mrs Cowling added: 'According to the Met, they found some people who may want to be involved in community safety and community patrols but don't want to be doing all the other things police officers need to do.
'We are looking for ways of increasing our impact at a community level through CATs teams, so we welcome the ability to provide extra resources to them. The experience of Risley is they are working together very effectively.'
Mrs Cowling said anyone interested in applying for the role needed to have personal qualities, such as being a good communicator, having plenty of patience and being a good problem solver.
Special Constables, who are volunteers, are also available to the force. They have similar powers to a police officer. Mrs Cowling said it was now possible to pay retainers to specials.
Originally a bid was placed to find half the money for an extra 25 CSOs, but funding was only forthcoming for 15. The police authority agreed to match the Government money and add to it so that a total of 18 officers could be employed.
But Sam Johnson, secretary of Cheshire Police Federation, said: 'It's a shame they don't spend the money on police officers.
'We welcome any support given to help police the streets of the community. However, I am sure the public of Cheshire would sooner have the finances spent on fully trained, fully accountable, professional police officers and I believe the wage difference is minimal.'
He added: 'The thin blue line is extremely thin and in places it's very faded. But is it right that the county is attempting to get policing on the cheap?'
* WEAVER Vale MP Mike Hall has backed the introduction of three community support officers in Vale Royal and Congleton.
He said: 'I am delighted by this news. Community support officers provide highly visible patrols and they support our police officers.
'They have an impact on crime, anti social behaviour and the fear of crime.
'The extra £130,673 for the Cheshire police force is much welcomed.
'One of our top priorities is to tackle the hotspots of anti-social behaviour in our communities.
'Partnership working between police and Vale Royal Borough Council has had some success.'


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Time taken: 20 hours
Materials: 35mm dowelling rod (2m long), 12 gauge mild steel wire, masking tape, newsprint, wallpaper glue, polystyrene ball, glass beads (for eyes), acrylic resin and paint (titanium oxide optional), Sculptamold, acrylic paints, finishing varnish.
Tools: drill, pliers, stick (for holding polystyrene ball while coating), knife for whittling, various modelling tools (including fingers), paintbrushes.
Techniques: Whittling, fabrication, modelling, painting.
Difficulty level: I'd say medium. Fiddly but straightforward.
These screenshots are the ones I used for reference. Don't laugh at my mage's silly hat, mmk?
First I bought a 35mm dowelling rod and spent about the time it takes for Hot Tub Time Machine to play whittling the end down so that it tapers.
I added some 12 gauge mild steel wire to holes drilled in the top and sides, to form the basis of a frame for the heads, then loosely shaped the wire to the desired shape and used masking tape to hold it in place.
I got this technique from Jessica over at Craft:g33k by the way. She used it to make her Staff of Violation. See, tutorials are helpful!
So anyway, then I remembered that the dragons are holding a ball in their mouths. I needed to come up with a method for making a ball without buying a crystal one because a) heavy and b) too expensive for a toy. Turns out a polystyrene ball painted orange would be perfect!
While the paint on that was drying, I finalised the shape of the dragon necks with masking tape to hold all the wire in place, then added the ball The wire ends were formed into 'teeth' that go into the polystyrene to hold the ball in place. It would have been much easier to do the heads and the ball separately and then put the ball in, but I couldn't work out how to do that seamlessly. Then the next step was adding a bit of string for where the tails would go, mostly for a guide as to where to put the paper mache.
The next bit took a week, as I painstakingly built up layers of acrylic resin on the ball to make it look more like a crystal. Starting with a layer of orange, then using gradually less pigment and a tiny amount of titanium oxide to refract the light and make the layers appear deeper than they are. I'm relatively happy with how it came out but OMG SLOW. It takes 24 hours to dry between coats, in which I couldn't move the staff because setting resin has the constistency of treacle and I had to prop it so the drips would accumulate in non-obvious places. And there are 9 coats. Nuff said. Luckily I was able to do a bit of paper mache-ing on the staff itself while I waited.
Then it was full on paper mache time. First the inside of the mouths. I knew I wasn't going to be able to paint in there once it was finished so I bought some red paper and used that.
Next step – loads of paper strips and glue in that technique most of us, including me, haven't used since primary school. Also, eyes. The original doesn't have eyes as such but since I'd already used some artistic license to add more detail to the heads, I figure in for a penny, in for a pound, right? And I'd found these beads that had the perfect horizontal 'pupils', like horses' ones.
And then with the plaster mache (Sculptamold). This stuff comes in bags of about 2kg, and it's a mix of powderised paper, glue and plaster. You add water then quickly sculpt stuff with it, because after 30 minutes it's starting to set and gets really hard to work with. But it sets rock hard and lightweight, it doesn't crack and it solved the problem where the wire/paper setup was quite wobbly, which is not what you want when you're waving your staff around trying to impress people.
As you can see, the plaster mache is kind of lumpy. There was a lot of sanding. This process took about a week as well – add a layer, sand it back, add some more, etc etc till I was happy with the shape. The thing got a whole lot heavier too. Finally, it was good enough but there needed to be some extra smoothing, so I used air-dry modelling clay to fill in the larger holes. It needed to have a bit of texture because it's supposed to be bone, right? And bone is not smooth. But there's texture, then there's craters. So I used the clay.
Next, gesso, to fill in more rough spots and to create a good even base for application of paint.
And then.. ERHMAGERD ERHANGE!
WTF Tats? I thought you said dragonbone was dark red? Well yes, it is. The orange is a trick I learned from a painter years ago. If you cover your canvas in orange before you start, it gives the whole painting more warmth and depth, even after you cover that layer up with other paint. But I also had a particular technique in mind for colouring this.
Next layer is burnt sienna mixed with vermilion. It's applied, allowed to dry a little, and then dabbed/wiped with a paper towel to let the orange underneath show through a bit. It's definitely red, but not really dark enough, eh? So the next layer is burnt umber mixed with vermilion:
Now we're talking. This is pretty close to the colour I was after. Now to just fill in the tricky corners and add some metallic copper highlights and Voila!
Full length shot. Sorry about the crap picture.
More head detail…
And finally, for authenticity, here's a shot of me 'wearing' it with a silly hat and trying to look like a disgruntled mage.
It's 6'6" long and weighs about 4kg. It doesn't shoot lightning but if you swing it hard enough I reckon that head end would hurt your average hurlock…


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Fueling a Revolution
The theme and tenor of the American Coalition for Ethanol's 21st Ethanol Conference & Trade Show clearly signaled that the industry is determined to overcome challenging economic conditions, negative press and misinformation that has plagued the industry.
The 21st Ethanol Conference & Trade Show attracted nearly 1,200 attendees. The event was held Aug. 12-14 at the Qwest Center in Omaha, Neb. Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman's enthusiastic welcome address at the conference's general session in which he expressed his support for the ethanol industry set the tone for the event. "The No. 1 issue is energy," Heineman said. "It is on the mind of every Nebraskan. It's on the mind of every American."
For more than 25 years, the federal government has talked about reducing our dependence on foreign oil without taking any real action, Heineman said. "It's time we did something," he said. "America needs leadership when it comes to energy, and ethanol is part of that future. We've got to quit talking, and start doing something to reduce our dependence on foreign oil."
Following Heineman's address three ACE representatives provided updates on the industry and their organization's initiatives. ACE President Bob Scott encouraged attendees to fight back against the proliferation of negative press. "Ethanol is the fuel of a revolution," Scott said. "We are the fuel for the revolution. We must continue to fight. We must fight hard."
Brian Jennings, ACE executive vice president, acknowledged that some people thought the event's theme, "Fueling Revolution," was too forceful. But the phrase accurately describes the current state of the industry, he said. "Let's face it," Jennings said. "We are underdogs. We are a grassroots coalition of farmers and ranchers, of entrepreneurs and investors, of ethanol producers and industry vendors who time and time again are out-spent, overlooked—recently relentlessly attacked—but, my friends, you keep going and you keep winning."
Jennings summarized some of the industry's accomplishments and encouraged attendees to support the industry by writing their governors, commenting on online articles, and contributing money to and voting for political candidates who support ethanol.
Midlevel blends was a popular topic at the event. Ron Lamberty, ACE vice president of market development, said ethanol blender pumps and midlevel blends are crucial to overcoming the blend wall and increasing the nation's ethanol consumption. He also addressed the need for U.S. EPA approval that would allow the use of midlevel blends in standard vehicles. "We think all cars can be more flexible," Lamberty said.
The conference also featured a panel discussion on innovations in corn-based ethanol production. National Corn Growers Association Chief Executive Officer Rick Tolman believes that corn growers can double current yields by 2030 without increasing planted acreage. He also pointed out that a significant amount of corn used for ethanol production re-enters the market as livestock feed. Rob Nelson, director of technology development for VeraSun Energy Corp., and Andy Zurn, engineering manager for Chippewa Valley Ethanol Co., participated in that panel discussion.
Revamping the RFS
The U.S. EPA's Paul Machiele received a warm welcome, a response likely generated from the agency's Aug. 7 denial of Texas Gov. Rick Perry's request for a 50 percent waiver of the renewable fuels standard (RFS).
Machiele, who has been with the EPA for more than 20 years and is currently director for fuel programs for the EPA's Assessment & Standards Division, touched briefly on the decision. After careful consideration of the 15,000-plus comments received—the EPA didn't take the situation lightly, he said. The decision was delayed because of the large number of staff members needed to sift through the comments, and because it was the first waiver requested since the original mandate was enforced.
Before getting into RFS 2, Machiele went through the details of the original RFS under the 2005 Energy Policy Act. "For RFS 2 we are planning to build on the foundation of RFS 1, continuing the RIN (renewable identification numbers) system, and other various design elements that we struggled to put into place with RFS 1," he said. He admitted that while there have been growing pains in implementing the new program so quickly, they are already beginning to lessen.
"There is now an extensive registration, record keeping and reporting system—if you are an ethanol producer then you know what I'm talking about," Machiele said. He added that along with the new standard, many other major modifications have been implemented. Despite the modifications, which have been challenging, Machiele said the value of the RINs have been positive. "The market is up and running, the RIN value has really escalated in the past few months and there is a really viable market." RINs are the serial numbers assigned by producers to each gallon or batch of renewable fuel produced. The EPA created the system to ensure RFS compliance. RINS can be acquired by blending renewable fuel or they can be purchased to meet blending requirements. Since the December signing of the Energy Independence & Security Act, RIN market values have risen from 0.25 cents per gallon to 5 cents per gallon, Machiele said.
While developing the RFS 2 rules has been quite similar to the construction of the RFS 1 policy, slightly different measures will be taken as it is further developed, Machiele said. "We plan to engage early and often with stakeholders throughout the process," he said. "The main change was the volume, but there are many new obligations and definitions." The new RFS raised the mandate to 9 billion gallons in 2008; the original policy required 7.5 billion gallons by 2012. "The world changed for us in December when Congress passed the new RFS 2 requirements," Machiele said. The EPA is currently evaluating implementation methods and will make the final RFS 2 rule by Dec. 19, which will be effective Jan. 1.
"What everyone mainly looks at is the volume requirement—36 billion gallons by 2022," Machiele said. "This is the main change. Also, there is not one standard, or two standards, but rather four. Within the 36 billion gallons, 1 billion has to be advanced biofuels, and also within that, 17 billion gallons of it has to be biomass-based diesel or cellulosic ethanol. So, they all count toward that total."
Machiele said that in addition to the larger mandate, there are a number of new obligations and definition changes. "Now, there aren't just gasoline requirements, but requirements for diesel fuel and refiners," he said. "There are new obligated parties and new customers for the new system. The most unique thing about the new rule is the renewable fuels must now be produced from biomass."
Machiele continued, "There is life-cycle GHG (greenhouse gas) thresholds, grandfathering provisions associated with that, and the new renewable biomass definitions." He pointed out that conventional biofuels, advanced biofuels, biomass-based diesel and cellulosic biofuel categories are now all required to meet the new GHG reduction thresholds. Under EISA, fuel life-cycle GHG assessments will be done, which are also called fuel cycle or wheel-to-wheel analyses. The impacts of each fuel throughout its life cycle will be assessed, including indirect emissions such as those generated from land-use change. Production and extraction of feedstocks, feedstock transportation, fuel production and distribution, and tailpipe emissions will also be considered.
The EPA will continue discussions with stakeholders and worldwide industry groups, and work on a number of drafts prior to the submission of the final proposal. Some of those discussions will focus on modeling framework that captures both domestic and international agricultural sector changes and their GHG emission impacts. The agency will collaborate with experts to improve understanding of agricultural nitrous oxide emissions, develop country specific GHG emissions factors associated with land-use change and agricultural practices, and update petroleum baselines and renewable fuel production process data.
Every three years the EPA will report to Congress on the RFS impacts. "We will also be doing studies on how these biofuels affect our air quality as a result of these different blend-level requirements," Machiele said.
Midlevel Blends
Minnesota Department of Agriculture senior market specialist Ralph Groschen, National Renewable Energy Laboratory project leader Steve Przesmitzki, and Lamberty launched the midlevel ethanol blends panel on the final day of the conference.
According to Groschen, Minnesota currently produces three times more ethanol than the state can use. To increase ethanol consumption in his state and in the country the E10 blend wall must be overcome, he said. Before that can happen the EPA has to sign off on midlevel blends. Groschen presented information on the process that is required to gain EPA approval for E20 and outlined the five kinds of data that must be generated, including information on material compatibility, vehicle drivability, vehicle exhaust emission, health effects and durability or mileage. Groschen said Minnesota's push for E20 approval could benefit the ethanol industry on a national level because EPA approval of a new fuel will not be state specific.
The EPA is the biggest hurdle that must be overcome to get a new fuel approved for use," Przesmitzki said. "Their responsibility is to protect the air quality in the United States, and any program for any fuel has to go through EPA to prove that it is substantially similar to a certification fuel," he said. Przesmitzki explained that approval of E10 was different because it was done under old rules, while E20 approval falls under a new standard. Before the fuel is approved, it has to be proven that air quality will not be impacted by increased ethanol blends.
According to Przesmitzki, the U.S. DOE predicts the E10 market will be saturated by 2013. Two paths can be taken to meet the RFS: quickly expanding the market for E85 or certifying a midlevel ethanol blend. Although the DOE supports expanding the use of flexible-fuel vehicles (FFVs), it is unlikely that the market could grow quickly enough to keep pace with current RFS targets. Only about 6 million of the estimated 220 million vehicles on U.S. roads today are FFVs. Even if automakers push to make 50 percent of their sales FFVs, that would only account for 7 million more on the road each year. These statistics make it unlikely the RFS could be met with increased E85 usage.
That being said, midlevel ethanol blends are the likely path to increased ethanol consumption. Przesmitzki summarized various studies currently being conducted on midlevel ethanol blends. He explained that priority has been given to the study of small engines for two reasons. First, it is much easier to detect a change in emissions when working with a small engine when compared with automobile engines. Second, small engines are more affordable to purchase and test than automobiles. However, he assured attendees that testing is also being done on vehicles.
According to Przesmitzki, the DOE should soon be issuing an interim report on small, nonroad engines. He also shared some of the preliminary results of a study the national labs have been undertaking using 16 vehicles. He said that they have experienced some decrease in fuel economy, some higher exhaust temperatures and higher catalyst temperatures. So far, the effects have been seen in seven of the 16 vehicles tested. Przesmitzki also addressed the suggestion that FFVs are equipped with the same parts as regular vehicle engines, by assuring attendees that that many engine parts are significantly different.
The 22nd ACE Ethanol Conference & Trade Show will be held Aug. 11-13 in Milwaukee, Wis.
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The colorful lights of Kralendijk's nightlife reflect on the Caribbean Sea on a windless night. This picture was taken from the north pier not so long ago, yet so much has changed since then. The little market on the right has been restored in its former glory and is in full use again for fresh fruits and vegetables from Venezuela. But behind that, the City Café has closed and has been demolished. On the left, Karel's, glows in the dark. Little divides the islanders as much as what should happen to this waterfront. Some want more excitement, others want it to remain unchanged. At We Share Bonaire, we do not take sides. We just want to share the beauty that is our capital on this wonderful night. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do and share it with us.
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The Mississippi coast contains some of the most diverse flora and fauna in the United States. The coastal region contains many different types of habitats such as pine forest savannas, barrier islands, coastal marshes, coastal flatwoods, and floodplains and terraces. These habitats provide essential ecological services for the plants and animals that live within them. Some of the ecological services are storm buffering capacity, nutrient cycling, and habitat for aquatic and terrestrial organisms. Many species live in these habitats like grasses, sedges, pitcher plants, orchids, bald cypress, live oaks, raccoons, deer, otters, alligators, fish, turtles, and birds.
As the coastal zone population continues to grow we need to make sure to protect the health of these valuable natural resources. One way to accomplish this goal is to educate the public about watershed protection. Watersheds receive water from upstream sources such as tributaries, ditches, parking lots, and all other water sources that drain down gradient after rain events. More than half of America's population lives within coastal counties. The increasing urbanization of our coastal communities leads to the loss of habitats. Therefore, as a society, we need to make sure that future housing and industrial development is performed in such a way that minimizes environmental impacts to our watersheds.
The Mississippi State University Coastal Research and Extension Center conducts many education and outreach projects to address coastal environmental issues. These programs and projects are listed below. For more information please contact Dr. Eric Sparks at firstname.lastname@example.com or 228-546-1025.
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Monday, June 27, 2011
Super Monaco GP on Genesis
Last weekend, I found a copy of Super Monaco GP for a whopping $3, which is a colossal steal. My Sega Genesis is very happy indeed. Super Monaco is easily the best series of racing games for the Genesis. The first game was released in 1990 and quickly became a beloved favorite. A sequel appeared in 1992 and featured the endorsement (and design assistance) by Ayrton Senna, and it's more refined and fine-tuned. However...it didn't have the swimsuit model. Teenage males pay attention to things like this.
Most racing video games from the 8/16-bit era age terribly, so I'm quite happy to see how Super Monaco GP retains all the skill and charm. It was a watershed title for home consoles, far closer to the simulations on the PC, while still retaining the immediacy of the arcades. In the world championship mode, you weren't really expected to win any races, but rank high enough to win the respect of rivals and teams. Only after joining the right teams would you have a car powerful enough to compete for the checkered flag.
The 16 racetracks are all based on the 1989 formula-1 season, another landmark for home video games.. Each course has its own feel, and at least one really difficult turn. Competing drivers are always breathing down your neck, and it's a constant fight just to hold your place. Graphics are actually quite sensational by 1990 Genesis standards. There's a lot of information on the screen, including that giant speedometer (very stylish). Your rear-view mirror is essential for heading off rival cars, and the main driver-seat view is terrific. I'm very impressed with the sense of speed in this game, and the smooth scrolling of road and objects. This was a game that proudly boasted it's "16-bit Power!"
This really is a perfect video game. I can't find a single credible fault with it. Yes, the passwords are hideous, but we somehow learned to cope back in the day. If you can find this game for five bucks or less, grab it immediately. You'll be amazed.
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More than once, I have made the mistake of installing Windows 2008 R2 with a full GUI, when I really just needed the Windows Core flavor. Now the only supported way to fix that was a complete rebuild. Argh
Worry not anymore! With Windows Server 2012 there is an option to seamlessly switch back and forth between the GUI and Core modes. Gilson Banin, our fearless PFE from Brazil has described the process in his blog post. Yet another quality tidbit from Microsoft Premier Field Engineering!
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Photo Finish Friday: Cousins
Leah sent me this photo a few weeks ago and I have been wracking my brain ever since as to where the heck those rainbow flip flops came from. I am not a flip flop person and as I suspect that this was in the early '80's, I don't think I even owned a pair of flats back then. That is cousin Wayne in between Leah and myself. You can tell my legs hadn't seen the light of day in a long time too. Actually I look pretty pale all over next to Wayne.
Have a good weekend all.
PFF is ...well, this week it is all Leah's fault (I didn't even take the photo).
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Photo Finish Friday: Canis Lupus
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This is from our trip to Jasper last summer and I am not really happy with how it turned out. It was too busy on the sidewalk to get a better shot. This was the weekend I walked too much and hurt myself. Of the four, if I remember correctly, two are full wolves and one is a cross with a dog and the other is just a dog. Why he has the wolves I also can't remember, it was after all a year ago almost ;)
Have a good weekend all.
PFF is the creation of Leah over at The Goat's Lunch Pail.
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Photo Finish Friday: What a day!
This is what I awoke to yesterday. Alberta in the springtime! And damned if it isn't still here today! It will be gone by tomorrow though, I am pretty sure :)
Have a Happy Easter Weekend all.
PFF is brought to us by Leah over at The Goat's Lunch Pail.
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The Marcus King Band is a six-headed musical monster led by Mr. Marcus King, a young guitarist and singer-songwriter from Greenville, South Carolina. King also happens to be a protégé of another son of the South, the ubiquitous Warren Haynes. An early MKB supporter, Haynes has now produced the band's eponymous second album, due out October 7th.
Haynes has praised King with some of the highest accolades an up-and-comer could want to hear. "Marcus is the first player I've heard since Derek Trucks to play with the maturity of a musician well beyond his age," Haynes has said. "He's very much influenced by the blues, but also by jazz, rock, soul music and any timeless genre. You can hear the influences, but it all comes through him in his own unique way. And he has one of those voices that instantly draws you in."
King and his band most definitely drew in the audience during their electric two-hour set at Rockwood Music Hall. With King out front on vocals and guitar, the rest of the septet is Jack Ryan on drums, Stephen Campbell on bass, Matt Jennings on Hammond B3 organ, Dean Mitchell on tenor and baritone saxophones and Justin Johnson on trumpet, trombone, percussion and backing and occasional lead vocals. As challenging as it would have been for a lesser ensemble to pull off, this talented crew easily – nay, joyfully – covered the enormous territory of their leader's musical tastes.
In person, the similarities between King and Haynes are impossible to overlook. The two could be "fam," to borrow King's phrase. They're both big-boned, with long, shaggy hair that falls mid-back. Next is their singing – rich, bluesy, from-the-gut voices. And both men's musical tastes are as broad as Haynes described: anchored in the blues but venturing everywhere music can go.
And that's precisely where the Marcus King Band's Rockwood set ventured – moving effortlessly from guitar jams to Stax-style soul to Tower of Power horn work spiced with New Orleans funk, veering into Hendrixian psychedelic wah-wah and tastes of jazz-rock fusion. Sprinkled among the jammed-out selections off the new album were chestnuts from the Temptations ("Papa Was A Rollin' Stone"), the Beatles ("Dear Prudence") and jazzman Les McCann ("Trying To Make It Real Compared To What"). Amidst the funky opening chords of Allen Toussaint's "On Your Way Down," Brooklyn-based guitar slinger Eric Krasno strapped on his axe and got down to trading licks with King before the two locked into a harmonic groove.
Given the huge impression the Marcus King Band made at this Rockwood performance – and given that the new album features guests like Derek Trucks and Haynes himself – it seems a safe bet we're going to hear a lot more from these cats in the months and years ahead. Catch this crew while you can still say you saw them when they were almost famous.
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The holidays can be a great time of excitement and joy, but they can also be hectic and stressful! To help you enjoy this special time of year, we're bringing back our Best of Holiday Shopping reader's poll. If you live in an apartment in Roanoke, VA you can make holiday shopping easier on yourself and your neighbors.
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Commentary from Jeff Pontius - Thu 11 Jan, 2018
By Big Al
Corvus Gold continues on the track to further enlarging the asset base.
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Corvus Gold Drills 96 metres @ 1.35 g/t Gold, Extends Mother Lode Deposit to the West, Northwest and at Depth, Commences Phase 2, 10,000 Metre Drill Program
January 10, 2018
Assay Highlights of Western Extension Include:
Highlighted Mineralized intervals are calculated using a 0.3 g/t cutoff
ML-17-020: 38.1 metres @ 2.12 g/t gold and 19.8 metres @ 1.82 g/t gold
ML-17-021: 30.5 metres @ 2.54 g/t gold and 35.1 metres @ 1.95 g/t gold
ML-17-018: 82.3 metres @ 1.11 g/t gold and 9.1 metres @ 1.09 g/t gold
Vancouver, B.C…Corvus Gold Inc. ("Corvus" or the "Company") – (TSX: KOR, OTCQX: CORVF) announces it has received further assay results from ten new drill holes from its 2017 Phase I drill program at the Mother Lode project in southern Nevada (Table 1). The latest results include northwest and deep in-pit drilling, as well as step-out drilling to the west highlighted by hole ML17-020, which returned 96.0 m @ 1.35 g/t gold and 1.24 g/t silver. Results continue to expand high-grade zones both laterally and at depth, which is potentially increasing the overall size and grade of the Mother Lode deposit (Figure 1).
The Phase I drill program, which ended December 16, 2017, completed 12,829 metres of drilling, representing 42 holes, 25 of which have now been reported. Phase II of the exploration drill program has commenced and is scheduled to drill 10,000 metres, focused on further expanding the deposit to the west, north and at depth.
Western Extension
Holes ML17-018 through ML17-022 successfully demonstrate the continued grade and thickness of the shallow dipping sediment hosted deposit to the west.The new holes have drilled deeper in the system and appear to have intersected a new zone of mineralization below the currently targeted deposit. This is illustrated by hole ML17-020, which ended in 7.62 m @ 3.46 g/t gold and 9.98 g/t silver within 27.4 m at 1.31 g/t gold and 3.9 g/t silver.Most of the new deeper holes ended in mineralization that is currently believed to be related at depth.Deeper drilling will be required to evaluate the potential of this new zone and will be conducted in the 2018 exploration program.
Northwestern Expansion
Drill hole ML17-017 (35.1 m @ 1.97 g/t gold) from the northwestern extension of the deposit, extends mineralization intercepted in hole ML17-003 and historic hole ML-338 (56.6 m @ 1.35 g/t gold & 73.2 m @ 2.05 g/t gold) to the west.Hole ML17-017, similar to ML-17-003 and historic hole ML-338 was not completed to its intended target depth, as they were lost due to poor rock conditions. The Company completed two additional holes to the north of hole ML-338 during the Phase I drill program with assays pending.These two new northern step-out holes were completed to the intended target depth and should provide insight into the expansion potential of this zone of mineralization.
In-Pit Depth Expansion
Drill holes ML17-016 and ML17-023 through ML17-025 were drilled under the historic Mother Lode pit and are designed to verify and …read more
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