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DENVER — Colorado regulators approved groundbreaking controls on emissions from oil and natural gas operations after an unusual coalition of energy companies and environmentalists agreed on measures to counter worsening smog.
Anadarko Petroleum, Noble Energy and Encana, among the state's largest oil and gas producers, worked with the Environmental Defense Fund to craft regulations approved Sunday by the Colorado Air Quality Control Commission that would fix persistent leaks from tanks and pipes.
Emissions from oil and gas operations contribute to thickening smog that exceeds federal ozone guidelines along Denver's picturesque backdrop of the Rocky Mountains. Such pollution includes methane, a source of climate-changing greenhouse gas. The haze prompted Governor John Hickenlooper, D, to ask energy companies and environmentalists to come together to write the first-of-their-kind rules.
"This is a model for the country," said Dan Grossman, the defense fund's Rocky Mountain regional director. "We've got this simmering battle between the oil and gas industry and neighborhoods throughout the state that are being faced with development. That degree of acrimony is pushing the industry and policy makers to look for ways to get some wins."
Drilling in Colorado, North Dakota, Montana, Pennsylvania and Ohio that is fueling the nation's energy boom is also moving closer to communities, forcing state regulators to address complaints of noise and traffic and concerns about potential contamination risks to air and water. Citing these worries, five Colorado communities voted to restrict a drilling technique known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.
Fracking uses a mixture of water, chemicals and sand, injected below ground under pressure, to break rock formations so oil and gas can flow to the surface. It requires companies to use a series of pipes and tanks around the well to move and store hydrocarbons.
To appease residents, state lawmakers are looking for measures that allow them to monitor and control drilling activities while still reaping millions in taxes from increased energy production. Over the course of a year, the new regulations will remove enough volatile organic compounds from the air to equal those emitted by every car and truck in the state, backers said.
The Air Quality Control Commission approved the rules 8 to 1 on Sunday after five days of hearings, rejecting revisions that would have exempted smaller wells and applied the regulations only to operators in areas that routinely violate federal air quality standards.
"It's not so often a fairly obscure agency gets so much attention — it's a tribute to the concerns that people have about these issues," said John Loewy, the commission chair, following the vote. "We've had hundreds and hundreds of comments over these last months."
Air quality rules in other states are often driven by regulatory agencies, which highlights the unusual collaboration between environmentalists and energy companies on Colorado's measures governing methane emissions, Curtis Rueter, a Denver- based development manager at Noble Energy, said in a telephone interview.
"This is the right thing to do for our business," he said. "We want to find the leaks and fix them because that will reduce our emissions and the rules provide guidance and technology for us to do that."
The air pollution mandate divided powerful energy interests, environmental groups and lawmakers as some energy companies resisted the new rules.
"These rules punish rural Colorado for smog created by Boulder and Denver," said state Senator Greg Brophy, a Republican from Wray seeking his party's nomination to run against Hickenlooper for governor in November.
"We might be the first state in the nation to cloud our skies with marijuana smoke," Brophy said in testimony on the rules last week. "Let's not be the first state in the nation to regulate methane."
Increased drilling in Colorado is likely to be an issue in the gubernatorial campaign this year. Fracking opponents say Hickenlooper, a former oil company geologist, is too cozy with the industry. His Republican challengers say regulations such as those requiring companies to test groundwater and disclose chemicals used in fracking — which the governor hails as among the toughest in the nation — restrict production.
Emissions during oil and gas operations represent the state's largest source of volatile organic compounds that contribute to the formation of ozone, a ground-level pollutant linked to respiratory problems and decreased crop yields. Parts of Colorado violate national air quality standards for ozone.
The mandates are also the first attempt by a state to regulate methane emissions from fracking. The main component of natural gas, methane is 20 times more potent at trapping heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Infrared cameras show that methane and other gases escape during operations that pushed Colorado's 2012 oil production to the highest in 55 years. The state is the U.S.'s sixth-largest producer of natural gas and ninth-biggest oil producer.
"This is a national issue that a lot of states that have significant oil and gas emissions are struggling with," said Garry Kaufman, deputy director of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment's Air Pollution Control Division, in testimony during the hearings.
"When I talk with my counterparts about air pollution issues, the first thing that comes up is tanks," he told the air quality board. "We're proposing a first-in-the-nation set of rules that would address this very important problem."
The regulations require companies to install equipment to minimize leakage of toxic gases and to control or capture 95 percent of emissions.
Energy producers would be required to routinely inspect well sites for leaks, as often as once a month, depending on how much oil or gas a well produces. When leaks are discovered, they must be fixed within 15 days.
Oil and gas trade associations opposed parts of the emissions mandates, saying the rules weren't factually supported and were negotiated by a select group of companies.
In comments filed with state regulators, Chevron said there is the "possibility of political taint in this rulemaking."
There is "industry concern that the proposed rules may be a foregone political conclusion," wrote lawyers representing the company, which operates 800 wells in the state that produce $120 million in royalties and property and severance taxes, "the 10 month stakeholder process appears to have been subverted at the final hour."
Chevron and members of the Colorado Oil and Gas Association and the Colorado Petroleum Association calculated that costs to comply with the rules would be almost double what state regulators projected. The Air Pollution Control Division estimated costs at $40 million, while industry economists said they would be $100 million.
"These rules cost more than all prior oil and gas measures combined," testified John Jacus, an attorney with Davis, Graham & Stubbs who represents trade groups and other energy companies, during the hearings. "The rules have not been property evaluated by the division for their cost, both indirect and direct, and their cost to implement."
Companies supporting the rules said while they need time to invest in expensive equipment and to hire and train personnel on new systems, they are willing to shoulder the costs.
"We estimate it's going to cost Noble Energy $3 million dollars a year to comply with this rule," testified Brian Lockard, the company's director of environmental, health, safety and regulatory, at the hearing.
"That's a heavy lift," he added, saying cost estimates are based on a voluntary monitoring program the company's been using. "We project we're going to have to hire 16 additional people."
Noble runs about 8,000 wells in the Denver-Julesburg Basin, where it plans to invest $12 billion over the next five years. Noble and Anadarko undertake 80 percent of all operations in the basin. Anadarko operates about 5,000 wells there and expects to invest $2 billion in the region this year.
Anadarko said the emissions mandates are necessary to ensure the companies' investments pay off.
"We all live here, we all have families here and work here and we want to have clean air," Korby Bracken, Anadarko's Rockies' environmental health and safety director, said in a telephone interview. "This provides us an additional piece to talk with community members about what oil and gas companies are doing to make sure we're protecting the environment."


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In 2003, Sacramento|Yolo Mutual Housing Association acquired a 3.5-acre parcel in the McClellan Redevelopment Area of a former air force base. Part of a Special Planning Area, Mutual Housing at the Highlands was planned as the nonprofit's first development for the homeless as well as its usual target—working families of modest means.
Of the 90 units, 66 were planned for the homeless. Although these residents would have subsidized housing and some government assistance, in general, they would have extremely low income.
Keeping the cost of utilities in their 500-square foot efficiency units to a minimum was very important. This was true even in Sacramento, Calif., a region that usually gets over 100 degree days in the summer and freezing nights in the winter.
Even though the complex has a very narrow North-South axis, we were able to site most of the units on a north and south orientation to conserve energy.
We also used R-21 insulation in the wall, the highest rated insulation that would fit in the cavity.
High-performing dual-pane windows were installed throughout the complex. Since south, east and west facing windows often let in a lot of heat in summer, Mutual Housing was able to install windows with advanced glass that blocks summer heat while still providing natural light to the interior.
One of the goals was to have the most efficient heating and air conditioning system available within the project budget.
We looked at three types of systems: A traditional split system, a ground-source heat pump and a ductless system called a mini-split heat pump.
Traditional split systems with ducts, furnaces, and outdoor condensing unit would have required a lot of space, and space was at a premium on this project. While the ground-source system would have been very efficient, the cost of drilling wells and installing piping in the ground was too high.
The mini-split system has an outdoor heat pump and an indoor fan coil. The heat pump is small enough to mount on an external wall, while the fan coil is installed high on an internal wall. A blower in the fan coil draws in apartment air to cool it or heat it, as necessary, then blows the air high across the apartment space. Hidden refrigerant lines connect the fan coil to the heat pump, which provides heating or cooling as needed.
Even though this system is relatively new to the U.S., one of our architects recently had worked with it. The mechanical engineer, Marcus Romani of Sacramento, CA-based Meline Engineering Corporation, also was familiar with the ductless system as was the project manager of the general contractor, Chico, CA-based Sunseri Construction, Inc. Because it was less expensive to install yet highly efficient, it made perfect sense for these small apartments.
Before the decision could be finalized, however, we had to convince the developer, Mutual Housing. Even though the Highlands would be its 15th community in the region, they had never used it before. They wanted to make sure it was the best, long-term choice, especially since someone in a wheelchair had to be to operate equipment mounted high on the wall.
Because the heating and air system was so new to this country, there were concerns about the mounting and other details. The problem was solved when Bernard Keck, Sunseri's senior project manager originally from France, said he had installed one himself.
Eventually we settled on a thermostatically controlled model from Fujitsu with an average Seasonal Energy Efficiency Rating (SEER) of 25, a high efficiency rating without too much additional cost.
We also planned to obtain a green certification from Build It Green. While going through their multifamily checklist, we discovered that if we went to a higher-efficiency system, it would give us a significant boost in points. Naturally, we decided to go for the higher rating.
We thought we were ready to roll, but then, we found out that the model we ordered was no longer available. We had to switch to a model by Mitsubishi. While the efficiency was slightly lower, "…we still were in the high-to-middle range," said Marcus Romani, P.E., senior mechanical engineer at Meline Engineering.
As Mitsubishi was getting ready to ship the units, the March 11th earthquake hit. We were relieved to hear that the manufacturer of the mechanical unit was fine, but we soon found out that the computer chip manufacturer had been hit by the tsunami—and was no longer in operation.
We were not only convinced that the ductless system was the best solution, but the apartments had been designed with this system's specifications in mind.
We waited for one or two days while the supplier tried to find a chip or a model with the same electrical and space requirements. Once systems from Mitsubishi became available, contractors around the globe were vying for them. We ordered immediately.
The Sacramento City and County Housing Authorities Utility Allowance for a similar apartment is $73.00. Our energy consultant, Sean Armstrong of Arcata, CA-based Redwood Energy, calculated the utilities would be $51.00, a savings of more than 30 percent. Keck thinks the system could cost half to run compared to another.
Construction recently was completed at Mutual Housing at the Highlands and residents began moving in.
The formerly homeless residents also will have on-site social services to help them get back on their feet. Help includes getting food, clothing and basic household goods as well as medical attention, treatment for mental illness and substance abuse. Job training to integrate them back into society also will be available.
The village community has 66 efficiency units, plus12 studio apartments above a garage and 12 3-bedroom apartments for other residents.
Mutual Housing staff expect the multifamily development to be certified green by the end of the year. Cynthia Easton, AIA, LEED, AP, is the principal architect and owner of Cynthia Easton Architects, which specializes in commercial, including publicly funded developments such as affordable housing and public utilities as well as residential.
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In the Swirling Dust of Change, Life Still Goes On for an ED
Organizational problems can bring out the best in people. Through it all, life goes on. It's your choice how to embrace everchanging moods.
How organizational problems can bring out the creativity and best in people.
It just makes sense that the founder of the Center for Digital Storytelling would tell his own story in a remarkably compelling way. Here's Joe Lambert with a thoughtful First Person Nonprofit account of how organizational problems can bring out the creativity and best in people and how, through it all, life goes on, though it's your choice how to embrace its ever-changing moods:
My friend Daniel recently shared this Margaret Atwood quote:
"When you are in the middle of a story it isn't a story at all, but only a confusion; a dark roaring, a blindness, a wreckage of shattered glass and splintered wood; like a house in a whirlwind, or else a boat crushed by the icebergs or swept over the rapids, and all aboard powerless to stop it. It's only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When you are telling it, to yourself or to someone else."
And maybe this is it: there's a dust storm in my head, and the shapes of the objects in my world are vague and uncertain. What this noise represents is not yet clear. Are they omens of change? Omens of letting go, to become something, or someone, else?
This year I lost my keys, my wallet, my computer, my office, and a small amount of the income my organization and I need to get by. Whoo.
The last four years, we've been keeping seven full-time and three part-time people in place. Most of our income is earned income and historically if we could see X number of projects happening or not happening we could reduce or add to our staff.
As an executive director and someone who cares enormously about this ensemble of quality people with deep passion for the work, I didn't want to lose anybody. But we just didn't have the earned income projects in place. And my fear was that if I proposed a six-week layoff some people would leave.
Everybody makes the same salary
We're a completely horizontal organization; everybody makes the same salary as I make. I ended up telling staff they could take a six-week furlough and go on unemployment for those six weeks. Or they could go down to 70% time for five months, which would be 1.5 days per week.
What was really beautiful is that everybody picked up the banner and said this is what we have to do. We were able to use the California Work Sharing Program so that the EDD (Employment Development Department) paid 30% of the salary difference for people whose time was reduced.
We also did our very first donor campaign in 20 years, a project we put on IndieGoGo with a goal of $7,500. The campaign came in at over $13,000 and the board matched donations to get us to over $50,000 raised. This was a huge learning for us.
The good news is that we have been energized by the challenge and we're coming out the other side stronger.
The good news is also that I've found many wonderful new things. I found a fantastic new collaborator in Arlene Goldbard, who has led our StoryLab effort at CDS. I found a source of inspiration in the efforts of all of my staff, who discovered their own strengths, as people facing difficulties personal and professional, and as leaders in this work. I found that the new edition of my book was published which means a few more people might find my book.
My son Massimo reached his senior year in high school. My daughter Amalina became a chicken farmer and her productivity as a ceramicist was astounding. My wife Nina had one of her gardens chosen for a tour of the Association of Professional Landscape Designers national conference. And because Obama won re-election, and the Giants won the World Series, I consider all of the rest of the mishegoss a wash.
Fiscal, personal, and political cliffs
We will continue to have personal and political fiscal and emotional cliffs to fall from, or to climb down from, and certainly to ascend. Only present mindedness makes this possible: just by making ourselves at home in our heads, in our hearts, in our lives. That requires little technology. Instead: an ample meal, each other's company, words, songs, images, and play.
What I want is a different sort of exchange with living, a fullness that in my heart comes from a passing through the darkness and into light again and again. I will accept what this current passage will bring, but I know it will be a shedding of many more layers of the me I have been wearing for a long, long time.
I hope that means I can shed a few pounds as well.
About the Author
Joe Lambert is the founder and executive director of the Center for Digital Storytelling, an outgrowth of his San Francisco theater company, Life On The Water. CDS develops curricula for gathering and using stories, and has taken the idea of participatory media around the world and to hundreds of nonprofits. Joe's background includes working as a community organizer and producing more than 500 theatrical shows. You can keep track of Joe on Facebook, at firstname.lastname@example.com, or just email joe at storycenter dot org and share your story.
Articles on Blue Avocado do not provide legal representation or legal advice and should not be used as a substitute for advice or legal counsel. Blue Avocado provides space for the nonprofit sector to express new ideas. Views represented in Blue Avocado do not necessarily express the opinion of the publication or its publisher.
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Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal Publication Acceptance Date: 1/23/2013 Publication Date: 3/5/2013 Citation: Kim, S., Evans, K.O., Biswas, A. 2013. Production of BSA-poly(ethyl cyanoacrylate) nanoparticles as a coating material that improves wetting property. Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces. 107(1):68-75. Interpretive Summary: In this research, we present a new method for the production of nanoparticles that is composed of a protein and a biodegradable synthetic polymer. Nanoparticles are small particles the size of which is in the nanometer (1,000,000 nanometers = 1 millimeter) scale. The produced nanoparticles have such a strong adsorption characteristic that they can be used as a coating material on the surface of non-wetting objects. If transparent window materials such as glass or Plexiglas are coated with these nanoparticles, the visibility will improve on rainy days without deteriorating its transparency. The presented product can be commercialized in the form of window-cleaning products. This research has provided detailed information on the development of surface-coating solutions. Scientists in industry and academia developing surface-modifying products would benefit. Technical Abstract: Alkyl cyanoacrylates have long been used for the synthesis of colloidal nanoparticles. In the involved polymerization reaction, OH- ions derived from dissociation of water have been used as an initiator. In the current research, an animal protein, bovine serum albumin (BSA) molecules were utilized as initiator for the polymerization. Following this reaction scheme, hydrophobic poly(ethyl cyanoacrylate) was covalently bound to BSA, which is hydrophilic. Therefore, the resultant diblock copolymer was amphiphilic in nature, and formed nanoparticles in the reaction medium. The solution containing these nanoparticles showed an excellent coating capability on the surface of hydrophobic materials. A simple spray coating changed the wetting property of the material instantly and dramatically. |


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UIA Statement
Coinciding with the first anniversary of the shooting down of Flight PS 752, several documentaries and stories have been released which review and comment on the tragedy that befell our flight. The documentaries and stories contain interviews with family members of the victims. We understand the pain and sense of loss felt by all families involved in the tragedy and mourn with them for the loss of their loved ones and the loss of our cherished colleagues.
While certain documentaries and stories also contain interviews with members of Ukraine International Airlines in a personal capacity, the documentaries and stories do not nor should they be treated as being UIA's stated position concerning Flight PS 752. The airline is determined to seek fair and just compensation for all those affected by the tragedy.


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Office of Merit Systems Oversight and Effectiveness
Date: January 7, 2002
File Number: [01-0045]
Matter of: [Claimant]
OPM Contact: Deborah Y. McKissick
The claimant is a Supervisory Auditor, GM-0511-14, employed with the [agency]. The claimant is requesting back pay because the agency failed to convert his position from the GM to the GS pay schedule. The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) received the compensation claim on July 10, 2001, and was notified on October 23, 2001, that the agency chose not to submit an agency administrative report. For the reasons discussed herein, the claim is denied.
The claimant asserts that the agency has improperly implemented the Performance Management and Recognition System (PMRS) Termination Act of 1993, Public Law 103-89, when it failed to convert his position on December 6, 1998 from GM-14 to GS-14. He identifies the claim period as December 6, 1998 to the present, when the claimant was reassigned from one Supervisory Auditor (0072) position to another Supervisory Auditor (0059) position in the [agency]. He states that "[a] conversion to the GS Pay Schedule would require an upward pay adjustment to bring me on schedule increasing my annual salary over $2000." He does not believe his duties meet the definition of supervisor or management official as provided at 5 U.S.C. §7103. However, the claimant acknowledges that he serves as the Deputy Region Chief and exercises limited supervisory authority as the Acting Region Chief.
The agency denied the claimant's request for back pay because the claimant serves as Deputy Region Chief with authority to act for the Region Chief in designated areas. The agency acknowledges that the claimant's position description has not been reviewed in some time and may contain inaccuracies, but charges that the claimant's duties meet the definition of a management official as provided at 5 U.S.C. § 7103. The agency explained that, as an auditor, the claimant "[is] responsible for conducting comprehensive analyses of [the agency] operations to detect fraud, waste, abuse and mismanagement. Our audit findings and recommendations can have a significant impact on [the agency] polices. Therefore, you [the claimant] indirectly formulate and determine, and directly influence Agency policy."
We interviewed the claimant's past supervisor from December 6, 1998 to December 3, 2000. He confirmed the claimant's assertions that he did not have supervisory responsibilities during that time, but indirectly determined policy at times. We also interviewed the claimant's current supervisor. He stated that he became the claimant's supervisor on December 3, 2000, and the claimant did not have supervisory responsibilities at that time. The supervisor added that, after review of the claimant's position description and his actual duties, the claimant was given supervisory responsibilities for two GS-13 staff auditors and one clerical employee in his office. According to the supervision, the claimant performs supervisory duties at least 40 to 45 percent of his time. He explained that the claimant exercises limited supervisory authority for auditors in the region as Acting Region Chief. He acknowledges that the claimant's position description is inaccurate as a result of the position changing over the last ten years. He stated that the claimant's position description would be included in the agency's plans to update in the future.
The Performance Management and Recognition System Termination Act of 1993 (P.L. 103-89) was enacted on September 30, 1993 and was effective on November 1, 1993. The employee, not the position, is covered by P.L. 103-89 as long as he or she continues to occupy any grade 13, 14, 15 supervisory or management official position. An employee is no longer covered when he or she is:
- reassigned to a non-supervisor or non-management official position at the same grade at the same agency
- has a break in service of more than 3 days
- transferred to another agency
- get promoted or is changed to a higher grade, or
- get demoted or changed to a lower grade.
After October 31, 1993, P.L. 103-89 mandated that, all vacant 13, 14, and 15 graded positions should be converted to GS positions. However, each agency may use its discretion to list a position as a GM position if the position is filled by a PMRS covered employee. There are no regulations requiring the agency to change position descriptions of PMRS covered employees.
The Civilian Personnel Law Manual states that:
The Supreme Court in United States v. Testan, 424 U.S. 372 (1976), specifically held that neither the Classification Act, 5 U.S.C. § 5101 - 5115, nor the Back Pay Act, U U.S.C. § 5596, creates a substantive right to back pay for periods of wrongful classification. B-190695, July 7, 1978 and B-191360, May 10, 1978.
Agencies have authority to determine coverage under the merit pay system, and we will not require retroactive correction of designations where there were no administrative error which would warrant correction of the personnel action. Benedict C. Salamandra, B-212990, July 23, 1984.
OPM does not conduct investigations or adversary hearings in adjudicating claims, but relies on the written record presented by the parties. See Frank A. Barone, B-229439, May 25, 1988.* Where the record presents an irreconcilable factual dispute, the burden of proof is on the claimant to establish the liability of the United States. Jones and Short, B-205282, June 15, 1982. Where the agency's determination is reasonable, we will not substitute our judgment for that of the agency. See, e.g. Jimmie D. Brewer, B-205452, Mar. 15, 1982. Although the claimant did not perform supervisory duties for the entire claim period, there were aspects where his work influenced policy. For the remainder of the claim period, he exercised supervisory responsibilities. Furthermore, the agency exercised its discretion on how to implement the PMRS Act. Therefore, the claim is denied.
We note that even though 5 U.S.C. § 5112 and 5346 (c) authorize OPM to decide position classification and job grading appeals, respectively, OPM's authority to adjudicate compensation and leave claims flows from a different law - 31 U.S.C. § 3702. The authority in section 3702 is narrow and limited to adjudications of compensation and leave claims. Section 3702 does not include any authority to decide position classification or job grading appeals. Therefore, OPM may not rely on 31 U.S.C. § 3702 as a jurisdictional basis for deciding position classification or job grading appeals, and does not consider such appeals within the context of the claims adjudication function that it performs under section 3702. Cf. Eldon D. Praiswater, B-198758, December 1, 1980 (Comptroller General, formerly authorized to adjudicate compensation and leave claims under section 3702, did not have jurisdiction to consider alleged improper job grading); Connon R. Odom, B-196824, May 12, 1980 (Comptroller General did not have jurisdiction to consider alleged improper position classification).
This settlement is final. No further administrative review is available within OPM. Nothing in this settlement limits the employee's right to bring an action in an appropriate United States Court.


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With Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner planning to step down, President Obama is faced with an important appointment. Much of Official Washington wants a "deficit hawk," but Obama and the country would be better served by someone who cares more about recovery than austerity, says Beverly Bandler.
By Beverly Bandler
We Americans need to face hard reality: The U.S. economy was once in a free-fall toward a new depression. It has begun to recover, but we should not delude ourselves: our economy remains in perilous condition and a new austerity-induced recession remains a threat.
Economics journalist William Greider points out: "At least nine of the economies in Western Europe are already contracting." He warns: "The International Monetary Fund, not usually known for dire forecasts, predicts increased risk of worldwide stagnation, and has warned specifically against the "excessive fiscal consolidation" of austerity measures." Even China's growth is now slowing at an alarming rate.
"The economy still sucks — three years into the recovery, we have an official unemployment rate of just under 8 percent and an underemployment rate of almost 15 percent," writes economist Jeff Faux. "Incomes are declining and at least 12 million homeowners have mortgages that exceed the value of their houses.
"Consumers aren't spending and therefore business is not investing. And we are still running a huge trade deficit with a sluggish global economy. This leaves government as the only possible source of substantial new spending to create jobs. Yet there is no jobs program."
Of concern is that President Barack Obama, like the GOP and too many conservative Democrats, seems primarily, if not solely, focused on large-scale deficit reduction.
"Obama has tacked back and forth, sometimes emphasizing the need for jobs and recovery now and deficit reduction when strong growth returns; and other times he has veered in the direction of the Bowles-Simpson austerity crusade, a demon partly of Obama's own making," writes journalist Robert Kuttner.
Kuttner concluded this November that: "On the question of whether the economy needs a big budget cut, Obama is with the deficit hawks, the only fight is over the details."
Former Wall Street executive Richard Eskow further notes: "During a time of economic agony brought on by joblessness and wage stagnation, the President followed the Wall Street agenda by creating a 'deficit commission' instead of a Jobs and Middle-Class Growth Commission. And he appointed two anti-Social Security and anti-government activists, Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles, to lead it."
Obama's latest major speech indicates that his overriding national priority had to be jobs. So, just where is Barack Obama? The White House should be reminded that the 2012 election results cannot be assumed to be a vindication of his policies in light of the threat of radical right-wing extremists.
The President would do well to heed the wisdom of Benjamin Franklin, who said: "For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise."
The real question seems to be, in the short term can we do both large-scale deficit reduction and create jobs? No, is the common sense answer.
"President Obama says his top priority is a deal with House Republicans to reduce the deficit by $4 trillion over the next 10 years," writes Faux. "His 'liberal' position starts with a ratio of spending cuts to tax increases of 2.5-to-1. The only real dispute between the president and Republicans is whether the rich will have to give back the tax breaks George W. Bush gave them.
"So when the eventual deal is struck, the federal government will be taking more out of the economy over the next decade than it is putting in. This virtually guarantees that, even if we escape another recession or financial meltdown, we will not reach anywhere near full employment in the next four years."
"If stagnation drags on for years, tearing up society and destabilizing politics, demands for more radical action will swell and eventually overwhelm the old restraints," warns Greider.
We voters, so ardently sought in the hotly contested pre-election period, are cast aside after the election like young brides won but now of diminished value to victorious bridegrooms.
Since most of us are not members of the rather small circle of influential policy experts and financial interests, nor part of a circle of "fiercely one-sided politics dominated by [but not limited to] conservative Republicans and their patrons in banking," and since most citizens are generally clueless on a whole range of issues and don't "do lunch" with the members of the "false consensus" Inside the Beltway (a.k.a. Byzantium on the Potomac), we are "easily ignored by unaccountable decision-makers" (as are most elected politicians, interestingly enough).
We need to be mindful that progressives and other rational Americans dodged a bullet in the 2012 election, but the anti-democratic reactionaries that we fought are still around and in powerful places. They have been humiliated, and it is crucial to remember that humiliation is a prime motivator. Many of the regressive Powers That Be (and they are not only in the GOP) want us to go back to sleep.
Let's say: "Not this time." Let's join in the conversation as we have the right to do about our government and our money, pay attention, become well informed and take appropriate action.
Americans need to be informed as to what got the country into this mess, and it is a mess, are too many of the same "policy experts and financial interests," too many of whom economist Paul Krugman mocks are the so-called "Serious People" who base much of what they believe on prejudices [and myths] rather than analysis, and too many of the same well paid politicians who are dependent on finance campaign money and enthralled with austerity snake oil.
These "experts" (the bloodletters and body scourgers) now want the rest of us to passively "eat our broccoli" while they, the rich, elite cronies who believe they are entitled to govern, patronize us and dine on steak — with one another, of course.
The "overwhelming conclusion is that fiscal stimulus raises employment and output in the near term," states economist Christina Romer, a real expert.
There is no evidence that the Wall Street types are smarter than we are, and there is plenty evidence that suggests to the contrary that they are indeed not, starting with the Great Depression not to mention the Great Recession that began in late 2007.
The public needs to remember who gave us the deficit and the alarming debt, who is responsible for the dangerous "fiscal cliff" that could have, should have been avoided.
We don't have to become economic experts who understand the intricacies of multipliers, but we do have to pay attention, need to understand that there are no silver bullets, and do our homework about complex issues thoughtfully. We can discern who is peddling "snake oil," and who is worthy of trust and take appropriate action.
Citizens can play an important role in promoting jobs as the priority and preventing a Grand Bargain from turning into a Great Betrayal and the shredding of what's left of the safety nets.
Americans need the Treasury Secretary (and all the members of the President's Cabinet) to represent us, not bankers, not special interests. The latter two groups have no trouble looking out for themselves.
A Treasury secretary concerned more about recovery than austerity is not only what President Obama needs, it is what you and I need, what the country needs, indeed what the globe needs.
Appointing an effective Secretary of the Treasury is a real opportunity for the United States not only to recover, but to demonstrate that it has not completely lost its mind nor its capacity for global leadership.
What does the Treasury Secretary do? The Secretary of the Treasury is the country's chief Financial Officer or CFO.
According to the Treasury Department: "The Secretary of the Treasury is the principal economic advisor to the President and plays a critical role in policy-making by bringing and economic and government financial policy perspective to issues facing the the government … and is responsible for formulating and recommending domestic and international financial, economic, and tax policy … the formulation of broad fiscal policies that have general significance for the economy and managing the public debt."
The CFO "serves as Chairman Pro Tempore of the President's Economic Policy Council, chairman of the Boards and Managing Trustee of the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds" and "U.S. Governor of the International Monetary Fund" as well as other multilateral institutions. … The Treasury Secretary also controls the Emergency Economic Stabilization Fund, better known as 'TARP.' If a national tragedy occurs, the Treasury Secretary of the United States if fifth in the line of Presidential succession."
The following, "Case for Ben Bernanke," is an attempt to synthesize the key points made by William Greider, Richard Eskow, Robert Kuttner, and Roger Lowenstein.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has been seen as both "hero" and "villain," but Bernanke was named Man of the Year by Time magazine in 2009, a year of a weak economy that could have been "much, much weaker" because "the mild-mannered man who runs the Federal Reserve prevented an economic catastrophe."
He has presided over the most sustained period of crisis of any civilian official in recent history, with the fate of millions of unemployed and underemployed Americans hanging in the balance. Bernanke is considered the most "activist Fed chief in history," and is credited with keeping the recession from turning into a depression and for navigating "masterfully through the most trying of times."
Since August 2007, Bernanke has deployed the Fed as the lender of last resort to the banking system and worked overtime to furnish an "elastic currency", that is, to keep enough money in circulation for the economy to function. These were the very tasks that the founders of the Fed envisioned. "He wishes Americans understood that he helped save the irresponsible giants of Wall Street only to protect the ordinary folks on Main Street."
Bernanke is a former Princeton economics professor and an authority on the Great Depression. He understands how the passive Fed of the 1930s helped create the calamity through its stubborn refusal to expand the money supply and its "tragic lack of imagination and experimentation."
Bernanke "was determined not to be the Fed chairman who presided over Depression 2.0. so when turbulence in U.S. housing markets metastasized into the worst global financial crisis in more than 75 years, he conjured up trillions of new dollars and blasted them into the economy; engineered massive public rescues of failing private companies; ratcheted down interest rates to zero; lent to mutual funds, hedge funds, foreign banks, investment banks, manufacturers, insurers and other borrowers who had never dreamed of receiving Fed cash; jump-started stalled credit markets in everything from car loans to corporate paper; revolutionized housing finance with a breathtaking shopping spree for mortgage bonds; blew up the Fed's balance sheet to three times its previous size; and generally transformed the staid arena of central banking into a stage for desperate improvisation. He didn't just reshape U.S. monetary policy; he led an effort to save the world economy."
Ben Bernanke has "pointedly refused to join the austerity posse." He has been almost alone among influential officials, sounding the alarm about austerity measures and speaking out against the risks of fiscal contraction in his understated, scholarly manner. He has "all but asked Congress to use fiscal policy to stimulate the economy in the short run."
He has been surprisingly good at using aggressive monetary policy in a prolonged slump. He emphasizes that "we are stuck in a doozy of a debt deflation" is especially aware of the danger of cutting back government stimulus prematurely before a vigorous recovery is established.
Bernanke is the first Fed chairman since FDR's chairman, Marriner Eccles, to talk about the risks of protracted unemployment as well as the risks of inflation. It seems out of character for a central banker to make a special plea for the unemployed, but that's what Bernanke has been doing.
Last August, he warned a Fed symposium that "the stagnation of the labor market in particular is a grave concern not only because of the enormous suffering and waste of human talent it entails, but also because persistently high levels of unemployment will wreak structural damage on our economy that could last for many years."
He has been characterized as surprisingly good on more aggressive measures to deal with the housing and mortgage mess. Bernanke recognizes that: "Restoring the health of the housing market is a necessary part of a broader strategy for economic recovery."
Bernanke as Treasury secretary would be very hard for Senate Republicans to oppose. Except for a few hard-core monetarists, most Republicans recognize that he kept a recession from turning into a depression. He's even a Republican, first appointed to the Fed by George W. Bush.
Bernanke is not a Wall Street guy but is respected in financial markets. The appointment would be hailed around the world. A smooth, timely appointment that reflects knowledgeable calm is highly desirable during this turbulent period.
Researchers at the International Monetary Fund have identified no fewer than 173 cases of fiscal austerity in advanced countries over the period between 1978 and 2009. What they found was that austerity policies were followed by economic contraction and higher unemployment.
"Austerity is a political ideology masquerading as an economic policy. It rests on a myth, impervious to facts, that portrays all government spending as wasteful and harmful, and unnecessary to the recovery. The real world is a lot more complicated," a New York Times editorial said.
Beverly Bandler's public affairs career spans some 40 years. Her credentials include serving as president of the state-level League of Women Voters of the Virgin Islands and extensive public education efforts in the Washington, D.C. area for 16 years. Bandler attended Sarah Lawrence College ('59) and has a master's degree in Public Administration from George Washington University ('82). She writes from Mexico.
Website Campaign for America's Future. http://www.ourfuture.org/ http://www.ourfuture.org/features/smart-talk
Baker, Kevin. "Barack Hoover Obama: The Best and the brightest blow it again." Harper's, 2009-July. http://harpers.org/archive/2009/07/0082562
Bernanke, Ben S. Speech. "Monetary Policy since the Onset of the Crisis." 2012-08-31. http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/bernanke20120831a.htm
_______(Federal Reserve)"The U.S. Housing Market: Current. Conditions and Policy Considerations." "Restoring the health of the housing market is a necessary part of a broader strategy for economic recovery…In this report, we do not attempt to address every problem faced by the housing market; rather, it is our intention to provide a framework for thinking about certain issues and tradeoffs that policymakers might consider." 2011-01-04. Housing-white-paper-20120104.pdf
_______Essays on the Great Depression. Princeton University Press (2004).
Bivens, Josh. "Abandoning What Works (And Most Other Things Too). Expansionary fiscal policy is still the best tool for boosting jobs. Briefing Paper 304. Economic Policy institute, 2011-04-06. http://www.epi.org/publication/abandoning_what_works_and_most_other_things_too/
Black, William K. "Why Jobs Should be Obama's To Priority-Not Suicidal Austerity." The "Grand Bargain" talk around D.C. is chock full of lies and incoherence. AlterNet, 2012-11-14. http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/why-jobs-should-be-obamas-top-priority-not-suicidal-austerity
Chait, Jonathan. "Erskine Bowles Bids to Spoil Obama Second Term." New York Magazine, 2012-11-08. http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/11/erskine-bowles-bids-to-spoil-obama-second-term.html
_______"When Conservatives Loved Keynes." The New Republic, 2011-07-06. http://www.tnr.com/blog/jonathan-chait/91384/when-conservatives-loved-keynes
Cohn, Jonathan. "How the Election Reset the Fiscal Cliff Debate." The New Republic, 2012-11-07. http://www.tnr.com/blog/plank/109904/boehner-statement-fiscal-cliff-revenue-election-obama-leverage
Eskow, Richard (RJ). "The Banker Who'd Cut Social Security and Medicare – and May Become Treasury Secretary." The Huffington Post, 2012-09-17. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rj-eskow/this-wall-street-banker-w_b_1892253.html
_______ "Will the Democrats Speak for the People?" the Huffington Post, 2012-09-04. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rj-eskow/will-the-democrats-speak_b_1853255.html
Faux, Jeff. "Election Over: 5 Hard Realities Progressive Have to Face About Obama." Alternet, 2012-11-18.
Greider, William. "Can the Federal Reserve Help Prevent a Second Recession?" The Nation, 2012-11-07.
_______ "The Federal Reserve Turns Left." The Nation, 2012-04-11. http://www.thenation.com/article/167355/federal-reserve-turns-left#
Grunwald, Michael. "Person of the Year." Time Magazine, 2009-12-16. http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1946375_1947251_1947520,00.html
Institute for America's for Future. "Jobs and Growth, Not Austerity." 350 Economists Warn President and Congress: Bad "Grand Bargain" on Deficits Could Kill Recovery. 2012-11-14. http://jobsnotausterity.org/
International Monetary Fund. "Macroeconomic Effects of Fiscal Consolidation." Chapter 3. "Fiscal Consolidation Typically Reduces Output And Raises Unemployment In The Short Term." From the IMF's 2010 World Economic Outlook: Based on a historical analysis of fiscal consolidation in advanced economies, and on simulations of the IMF's Global Integrated Monetary and Fiscal Model (GIMF). World Economic Outlook, 10/10 http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2010/02/pdf/c3.pdf
Klein, Naomi. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Picador; 1st edition (June 24, 2008).
Krugman, Paul. "How to End This Depression." The New York Review of Books," 2012-05-24. http://tinyurl.com/a2hlfjp
_______End This Depression Now! W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition (April 30, 2012)
_______"Myths of Austerity." The New York Times, 2010-07-01. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/02/opinion/02krugman.html
Kuttner, Robert. "Ben Bernanke for Treasury Secretary." The Huffington Post, 2012-11-18. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-kuttner/ben-bernanke-treasury_b_2156038.html "Filling Geithner's (Small) Shoes." Kuttner considers possible candidates: Ben Bernanke, Erskine Bowles, Peter Orszag, Jack Lew, Bill Daley, Larry Fink, Lael Brainard, Gene Sperling, Michael Barr, Laura Tyson, Daniel Tarullo, Gary Gensler, Janet Yellen, Sheila Blair, Martin Gruenberg, Sarah Bloom Raskin. The HuffingtonPost, 2012-09-23. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-kuttner/filling-geithners-small-s_b_1908111.html
_______ "Filling Geithner's (Small) Shoes." The HuffingtonPost, 2012-09-23. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-kuttner/filling-geithners-small-s_b_1908111.html
Krugman, Paul. "How to End This Depression." The New York Review of Books," 2012-05-24. http://tinyurl.com/a2hlfjp
_______ End This Depression Now! W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition (April 30, 2012)
_______"Myths of Austerity." The New York Times, 2010-07-01. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/02/opinion/02krugman.html
Lowenstein, Roger. "The Hero; The Villain." The left hates him. The right hates him even more. But Ben Bernanke saved the economy,and has navigated masterfully through the most trying of times. The Atlantic, 2012-April. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/04/the-villain/8901/#1_undefined,0_
Naked Capitalism. "Marriner Eccles on the Need to Save the Rich from Themselves." 2011-09-25. http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/09/marriner-eccles-on-the-need-to-save-the-rich-from-themselves.html
New York Times. "Britain's Self-Inflicted Misery." Editorial, 2011-10-15. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/15/opinion/britains-self-inflicted-misery.html
Obama, Barack President. "Transcript of President Obama's Remarks on the Deficit." The New York Times, 2012-11-09. http://tinyurl.com/appwuxj
_______ "Obama 60 Minutes Interview: Economic Fix Could Take Years." The Huffington Post, 2011-12-20. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/10/obama-60-minutes-interview-economic-fix_n_1140521.html
Priceman. "Our Treasury Secretary Was Chosen to Represent Bankers. Not You." Daily Kos, 2012-0726. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/26/1113748/-Our-Treasury-Secretary-Was-Chosen-to-Represent-Bankers-Not-You.
Romer, Christina D. "What do we know about the effects of fiscal policy? Separating evidence from ideology." pdf Speech, Hamilton College, 2011-11-07. http://elsa.berkeley.edu/~cromer/index.shtml
Rugaber, Christopher S. "Bernanke warns Congress to avoid "fiscal cliff." Bernanke urged Congress and the Obama administration to strike a budget deal to avert tax increases and spending cuts that could trigger a recession next year. Yahoo Finance,2012-11-20. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/bernanke-warns-congress-avoid-fiscal-171626081.html


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Coming in 4.13: Improvements in the project plugin
Since version 4.10 Kate comes with a simple project plugin, as introduced here .
The project plugin works by automatically reading a simple json file and providing the information found there to various parts and plugins in Kate.
"Opening" a project
Projects are opened automatically by Kate. Whenever a file is opened, Kate goes the directories from that file upwards until it finds a file named .kateproject , which defines the project. This is a simple json file, which is intended to be written manually by the user.
The .kateproject file defines the name of the project, the set of files which belong to the project, and optionally commands for the build plugin .
In 4.13, "out-of-source" project files are now also supported (actually already in 4.12). What does that mean ? You can create a .kateproject file in some directory, but it will refer to a different directory as root of the project. This is useful if you have multiple build trees for one source tree, and then need different build commands for each build tree.
Creating such a .kateproject file is easy, simply add a top-level "directory" entry:
{ "name": "MyProject", "directory": "/home/alex/src/myproject", "files": [ { "filters": [ "*.cpp", "*.h"] } ] }
So if you create this file e.g. in /home/alex/src/myproject-build/.kateproject, once the project is opened, the files below /home/alex/src/myproject/ will belong to the project "MyProject". Again, to "open" this project, open any file in the same directory as the .kateproject file or any of its subdirectories in Kate. Kate will again automatically find the .kateproject file and load it.
Support for the improved build plugin
In 4.13 the build plugin has seen several improvements, the main one being that it is now possible to define an arbitrary number of targets, instead of being limited to 3. This is fully supported by the project plugin. Also the "old" format is still fully supported, and the .kateproject files can even contain both the old and the new format, so it works with the build plugin in version before 4.13 and also after.
Below there is a simple example for a hello-world project, which defines 4 targets for the build plugin: build all, clean, install and building just "hello":
{ "name": "Hello", "files": [ { "filters": [ "*.cpp", "*.h"] } ], "build": { "directory": "/home/alex/src/tests/hello/build", "targets":[ {"name":"all", "build_cmd":"make -j4 all"} ,{"name":"clean", "build_cmd":"make -j4 clean"} ,{"name":"hello", "build_cmd":"make -j4 hello"} ,{"name":"install", "build_cmd":"make install"} ], "default_target": "all", "clean_target": "clean" } }
So, for each target, a "name" and a "build_cmd" is defined, and that's it. One of the targets can be chosen to be the default target (which can be assigned a dedicated shortcut in the build plugin), and one can be chosen to be the "clean" target (again, which can be assigned a dedicated shortcut in the build plugin).
The screenshot below shows what you get when opening this project in Kate:
I mentioned above that both the "old" and the new build plugin can be supported within one .kateproject file. To do that, simply put both target definitions in the file, they don't interfer:
{ "name": "Hello", "files": [ { "filters": [ "*.cpp", "*.h"] } ], "build": { "directory": "/home/alex/src/tests/hello/build", "targets":[ {"name":"all", "build_cmd":"make -j4 all"} ,{"name":"clean", "build_cmd":"make -j4 clean"} ,{"name":"hello", "build_cmd":"make -j4 hello"} ,{"name":"install", "build_cmd":"make install"} ], "default_target": "all", "clean_target": "clean", "build": "make -j4 all", "clean": "make -j4 clean", "quick": "make -j4 install", } }
Here, additionally to the 4 custom build targets, the three hardcoded targets "build", "clean" and "quick" for the "old" build plugin are defined. When this project is opened in Kate 4.13 or newer, these three old entries are ignored, and only the four new entries are used. When this project is opened in Kat 4.12 or earlier, the four new targets are ignored and only the old ones are used.
In the case that an "old" .kateproject file is opened, which contains only the old entries, these are used, and the three entries are used to create three targets, as shown in the screenshot below:
Using the project plugin with CMake-based projects
Until now, the only way to create .kateproject files was to write them manually. If you are using Kate with C/C++ projects which are built using CMake, there are more news for you. CMake 3.0.0 will be released soon, and among others, it will contain a generator for, guess what: project files for the Kate project plugin! With that, run CMake, select "Kate – Unix Makefiles" as generator, and there you go, everything set up ready to use for you, including all targets of the project available in the build plugin.
Below is a screenshot showing running cmake-gui on CMake itself:
As you can see, ninja is also supported.
Personally I still prefer Makefiles, especially for use with Kate projects. When using the Makefile generator, you get build targets for compiling every individual source file into an object file. This can save a lot of time when working on some source file and trying to get it to compile. Instead of starting to build everything, which involves dependency checking, and linking afterwards, you can simply just compile that one file (via the quick target select dialog of the updated build plugin), and if it failed, simply build the previous target again (there's a shortcut for that) until it compiles, and then switch back to building everything (by building the default target).
In the screenshot below you can see Kate having loaded the project for CMake itself, listing the whole bunch of source files on the left, a long list of available build targets in the lower part, and the select-target-dialog on top, filtered already and the target for compiling cmMakefile.cxx is selected.
After trying to compile the file, Kate shows you which errors occurred, and using a dedicated shortcut (I set it to F9) it jumps to the line in the code:
As can be seen, there is the parsed error, the status tells you that there were errors when building the target "cmMakefile.cxx.o", and if you want to try again, there's a "Build again" button right there.
Now, how do you actually open CMake-generated projects in Kate? The .kateproject file is generated in the build tree, and usually you never have to open any files from the build tree in Kate. But to open the project in Kate, you have to open any, at least one, file from the build tree (this will trigger searching the .kateproject file, which will point the project plugin to the source tree). To help with this, CMake additionally generates a file "email@example.com" in the top level build dir, right next to the generated .kateproject file. Open this file, and Kate loads the project.
This has been done in the screenshot above, and already you're ready to go !
Last but not least, starting with 4.13, you can find documentation for the project json file in
So that's it for now, I hope you find the new stuff useful. :-)


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Either St. Anthony is sleeping on the job or he's trying to teach me a lesson about taking care of my things. I have cleaned out more than one closet with no luck. So now I'm here enlisting your help (and hoping that at least one person who reads my blog is psychic).
Where would you be if you were...
- one black El Naturalista clog with cute swirly white stitching
- one silver Dr. Scholl flat
- my favorite pair of Vera Wang jammies (from Kohl's) that my husband bought me for Christmas last year
- the security card that lets me into my office building (don't worry boss, it's been gone a while)
- a cute little vintage-looking Santa pin that I swear was on the counter next to the refrigerator
- 3 green mini bungee cords that are used to hang stockings with care
- a red cardigan sweater that will go perfectly with my "Believe" bling holiday shirt
- the "bit" part of my Fitbit Flex that somehow got separated from the charge
I'm serious, give me some ideas where these things might be. What is the strangest place you've ever found something you've lost?


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Migraine Sufferers Scramble for Relief After Excedrin Recall
Some turning to eBay after recall leaves stores without Excedrin Migraine.
July 10, 2012— -- It was about six months ago when Erin Terjesen opened up her medicine cabinet and realized, to her horror, that she was out of the medication she relied on to keep her headaches from turning into full-blown migraines.
A few minutes later, she stumbled into her pharmacy to search for the medication -- Excedrin Migraine -- but learned there was none in stock.
Her pharmacist told her that the manufacturer, Novartis, had announced a massive recall of its Excedrin, No-Doz, Bufferin and Gas-X products on Jan. 8.
Six months later, store shelves are still Excedrin-free. Novartis attributed the recall to problems at its Nebraska plant that could have led to contamination by other medications produced there.
In a statement, Novartis said it was "working very hard to return products to store shelves." The company plans to restart production on a "line-by-line, product-by-product basis" to assure quality, and hopes to start restocking some products in the second half of the year.
There is no word yet on which of the recalled products will be manufactured first.
"The pharmacist recommended the store brand, but it made me super sick," Terjesen said. "I wasn't sure if I got sick because the migraine was so advanced and the nausea was part of it, but I took it a few other times after that and it just doesn't work for me."
She's tried prescription medications that also don't work. She does still take the generic brand, keeps caffeinated soda on hand and also tries nonmedical remedies such as keeping her feet elevated and using a wet towel over her eyes and head, but nothing works as well as Excedrin Migraine did.
"I haven't found another medication that works, and I just kind of try to treat the symptoms," she said. "I'm not sure what to do now when my headaches come back."
And others feel the same. Many migraine sufferers swear by their Excedrin Migraine. Some openly pine for it on Twitter and Facebook. Others are turning to eBay to scoop up whatever stock is available at hugely inflated prices. One recent auction of 50 tablets had a high bid of $60. Another seller is offering a dispenser of 100 tablets for $150.
Susan Scranton is one of the buyers who turned to eBay after learning of the recall in January. When the product first hit the auction site, she purchased about $500 worth of it.
"I went into panic mode after I found out about the recall," she said. "It's the only thing that ever helps any of my headaches."
Doctors warn about purchasing medication from eBay, since there are no guarantees about its safety.
"These medications are being passed on by private individuals, and there's no control over where that particular medication has been or if there's been tampering," said Dr. Charles Flippen, a professor of medicine at UCLA's Geffen School of Medicine.
Scranton was aware of of the risks, but said she did what was necessary to get relief.
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Experts who specialize in headache treatment say there are few nonprescription medication choices available, but there are some alternatives that may work for some people.
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"If it has the same amount of aspirin, acetaminophen, and caffeine, the ingredients in Excedrin, it should work just as well," said Dr. Richard Besser, ABC News' Chief Health and Medical Editor.
The generic store-brand alternatives work for some people, but not for others.
Dr. Joel Saper, founder and director of the Michigan Headache and Neurological Institute, said it may also help to simultaneously take each of separate ingredients in approximately the same doses as what's contained an Excedrin Migraine pill -- 250 milligrams of aspirin, 250 milligrams of acetaminophen (Tylenol) and 65 milligrams of coffee (the equivalent of about one cup of coffee).
But taking the ingredients separately doesn't work for everyone, either.
"Excedrin has been studied and found to be very effective, and there's something about that combination that for certain people is very specific for them as far as pain relief," said Flippen.


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The high-tech munitions also come with a sizable price tag. Todd Harrison, director of defense budget analysis at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, estimated the replacement cost of the Tomahawks used against Syria will total about $89 million.
Defense contractor Raytheon is the sole supplier of the missiles, but Navy officials have announced plans to stop production of the Tomahawk this year, to be eventually replaced by more modern munitions.
But in recent years, lawmakers have pushed against those Navy plans and added funding to the annual defense budget for the missiles.
On Thursday night, Rep. Martha McSally, R-Ariz. — whose district includes Raytheon's headquarters — said she was proud those efforts ensured "that this weapon was ready and available when our armed forces needed it."
In testimony earlier this week before the House Armed Services Committee, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson said that if Congress approves a White House request for $30 billion of supplemental funds in the fiscal 2017 defense budget, a portion of that money will go to purchasing more Tomahawks.
Without the extra money, officials will stick with the current inventory.
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Ed had helped me to the truck with the packages — three in all — and smacked the back of the vehicle as it moved away. I couldn't wait to get home. I couldn't wait to share with my family all the things I had learned while at the shop. I couldn't remember being so excited about a purchase.
Then it hit me.
The purpose of the trip to Ed's shop was to buy a replacement belt for the vacuum cleaner. $1.50. I walked out with three machines — and had never been happier about a purchase.
Just a year earlier, a random vacuum sales rep had knocked on our front door, was let in, demonstrated his amazing machine and was escorted out. One visit to Ed's and a vacuum, floor steamer and a hand vac left with me.
Knowing my uncanny ability not to be beguiled by any casual sale, the bewildered look on my family's faces begged the obvious question:
"How did this happen?"
Having conducted sales training all around the country and for some of the biggest and best organizations in the world, I was forced to analyze this transaction.
The conclusion: Ed was one of the best salespeople I had met to that point.
His greeting? Terrific. His probing of the problem? Exceptional. His customizing facts and benefits? A model.
His use of evidence to support his case(s)? Remarkable.
It wasn't what Ed did that made him better than others; it was more of what Ed was.
Ed's enthusiasm for what he did could not be contained. To date and ever since, I have never found anyone with the enthusiasm for a product or service that matched Ed's zeal for vacuums. It was infectious.
Crazy, right? Vacuums?!
As he probed the problem of my broken belt, he asked me about the floors in my home — shag, hardwood, pile? He asked about the makeup of the family, the kinds of messes we made, how frequently we were able to clean up after them.
He asked about our current equipment, how we came to buy it, and what we thought we were getting. In short, he knew just about everything one could know about the dirt in our home.
Then came the education.
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How did he know all this? He had sold vacuums his entire career. He had represented every major manufacturer. He had designed his own models. He read about them at every reasonable opportunity. He COLLECTED vintage vacuums.
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Enthusiasm is not bouncing off the walls. It's not speaking loudly or jumping up and down. It's not about singing out how much you "believe" in a product, service or company. It's an intense and eager enjoyment of a subject. It's the joy we experience and communicate when we are truly inspired by something.
All great leaders have it. All great salespeople have it.
Distilling down what selling really is: Selling is the transfer of our enthusiasm to another person — giving our passion about a subject to someone else.
For Ed, it was vacuums.
Oh yeah, I bought the replacement belt, too.
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Google Music release date, Android store, sync and more
Earlier in the year, Google announced the first phase of its Google Music service. The cloud-based offering enabled beta users to upload their own music collections, which could then be streamed to any device.
But now Google has taken this further, "evolving the service into a broader platform" - Google Music. Essentially this means that Google has launched a music store to go alongside its cloud storage offering - and you'll be able to sync tracks between your desktop PC and Android devices.
"Google Music is about discovering, purchasing, sharing and enjoying digital music in new, innovative and personalized ways," says Google's head of mobile Andy Rubin. Google is certainly intending this as a service for use primarily on Android-toting phones and tablets.
Google is intent on competing with Apple's iTunes Store, Amazon, which launched a cloud service in the US in March as well as streaming services such as Spotify, Deezer (both now launched in the UK and US) and Rdio (not UK).
Read on for full details on the new Google Music service:
Google Music UK release date
Presently, the service is only available in the US. There is, as yet, no information about when – or indeed if – Google Music will be available in the UK.
Google Music US release date
Google has today added a new music store in Android Market, fully integrated with Google Music.
The store offers more than 13 million tracks from artists on Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, EMI, and the global independent rights agency Merlin as well as over 1,000 prominent independent labels including Merge Records, Warp Records, Matador Records, XL Recordings and Naxos.
Google has also partnered with the world's largest digital distributors of independent music including IODA, INgrooves, The Orchard and Believe Digital.
Google Music pricing
Songs are encoded as 320Kbps MP3s, with tracks costing 69c, 99c and $1.29.
Google Music cloud storage
In addition to purchased music, you can store 20,000 songs on Google Music, with the limit being that number and not a definitive Gigabyte limit. That's quite a bunch of storage Google is passing on there. We guess that, in due course, you will be able to pay for more storage, just as you can with Picasa.
Check out our first look of the original cloud-based Music Beta from Google service.
The cloud-based element of Google Music is like the recently launched Amazon Cloud Drive. It essentially enables you to store your entire music library online and then stream the music on any of your devices. So it's like Spotify, but without subscription – as you already own your own music. The advantage is that you don't have to sync devices and/or playlists.
Google Music store
We also want to make it easy and seamless for you to grow your music collection. Today, we added a new music store in Android Market, fully integrated with Google Music.
Google Music playlists and offline sync
As with Spotify, playlists are automatically kept in sync, so if you create a new playlist on your phone, it's instantly available on your computer or tablet. You can also import your existing playlists from iTunes. "Google Music helps you spend more time listening to your collection and less time managing it," says Rubin.
Google has cleverly woven in offline capabilities - Google Music stores the songs you've recently played in your cache; meaning they're still available if you lose your 3G or Wi-Fi connection. You can also choose songs, albums or artists you want to make available offline, just like Spotify.
Google Music on Google+
Google wants to integrate music with Google+, so you can share a free full play of a purchased song with your friends on Google+. Google has also added a bunch of exclusive tracks and albums including Rolling Stones live concerts and a five-track live EP from Coldplay.
Google Music Artist Hub
Any artist can distribute their own music on Google Music (providing they own the right to do so, of course). An artist hub interface enables them to build an artist page, upload original tracks, set prices and even sell content directly to fans. Is this the end for MySpace?
Google Music devices
Google says you can stream from the cloud service to a web browser (on, presumably, virtually any device) or via the Music app available from the Android Market - it works on Android 2.2 or up. However, it seems clear to us that Google is targeting Android 3.0 Honeycomb devices in particular here.
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ENJALRAN, JEAN, Jesuit priest, missionary; b. 10 Oct. 1639 at Rodez, France; d. 18 Feb. 1718 in the same city.
Jean Enjalran entered the Society of Jesus at Toulouse on 18 Sept. 1656. After completing the novitiate he taught at Cahors, Pamiers, and Aurillac. He did his ecclesiastical studies at Toulouse and Tournon. After his ordination he taught philosophy at Toulouse (1673–75) and was prefect of studies there during the academic year 1675–76.
Enjalran reached Quebec on 22 July 1676. Shortly after his arrival, on 13 October, he wrote a lengthy letter describing conditions in New France. After a year at Sillery studying the Algonkian tongue, the new recruit was assigned to the Ottawa mission with his headquarters at Saint-Ignace. Enjalran is said to have become an expert in the Ottawa language, thereby gaining great influence over those tribesmen, as well as the Hurons dwelling at the mission. With only four years of mission experience, Enjalran was appointed, in 1681, superior of the Ottawa mission, a position which he held until 1688.
In 1683 the French erected Fort Buade at Saint-Ignace and gave the command of the garrison to the very able Olivier Morel de La Durantaye who continued in the office until 1690. Enjalran was most helpful to the commandant during Governor Le Febvre* de La Barre's unsuccessful campaign against the Iroquois, encouraging the Hurons and Ottawas to join the conflict under the command of La Durantaye. Three years later, in 1687, Enjalran played a major role in convincing the Ottawas and Hurons to join the French again, when Governor Brisay de Denonville launched another attack against the Iroquois. In that campaign Enjalran was chaplain of the forces from the west and was himself wounded in battle, though not seriously.
The following year, 1688, Enjalran went to France. After 1688 Enjalran's name does not appear in the annual list of Jesuits attached to the mission of New France. He clearly did return, however, and was active in the controversy between Cadillac [Laumet] and the Jesuits regarding the removal of the Ottawas and Hurons from Saint-Ignace to Fort Pontchartrain at Detroit.
After La Durantaye was replaced by La Porte de Louvigny as commandant of Fort Buade in 1690, the Jesuit missionaries constantly complained of the bad influence which the soldiers at the fort exercised on the Indians. Most of the missionaries contended that the Indians should not be put in contact with Europeans until they had had sufficient experience with Europeans to enter their sophisticated world. Further, the Jesuits contended that since they alone had been commissioned by the bishop of Quebec to effect the conversion of the Indians no other group of priests should be allowed to begin a mission field, or at least not start one near an already existing mission. When Cadillac obtained authority to open his post at Detroit, he proposed inviting the Recollets to act as post chaplains and to serve the French population which he hoped would grow up around the fort [see Delhalle]. As for the Indians, Cadillac planned to invite the Jesuit missionaries from Saint-Ignace to transfer their mission effort, along with their neophytes, to the new post.
Father Enjalran did not share the opinion of his fellow Jesuits regarding mission policy. He believed that isolating the Indians was not feasible. In his view, the Indians should be taught to speak French, adopt French customs, and enter into the society of their French neighbours as quickly as possible. Further, Enjalran felt that Cadillac's establishment at Detroit was strategically important and should be encouraged by the presence of Jesuit missionaries. Since the difference of opinion between Enjalran and his fellow Jesuits was on a question of policy, the. matter was referred to Father Claude Dablon*, superior of all the Jesuits in New France, who ruled in favour of Father Enjalran's opponents. Dablon withdrew Enjalran from missionary work.
Before his departure from Canada, Father Enjalran performed one final important service. In 1700 Governor Callière despatched him with Le Gardeur de Courtemanche to induce the Ottawas to attend the great peace parley held at Montreal during the summer of 1701. Enjalran was not only helpful in persuading the Indians to attend the meeting, but he was also able to convince the Ottawas to surrender two Iroquois prisoners, whom he brought back to Montreal. When the western tribes met with Callière Enjalran acted as the official interpreter for them.
Enjalran left Canada shortly after 27 Aug. 1702. He died 16 years later in his native town of Rodez.
Charlevoix, History (Shea), V, 150, 153. Découvertes et établissements des Français (Margry), V, 207, 211–12. JR (Thwaites), LX, 104–47; LXI, 103–47; LXIII, 175. NYCD (O'Callaghan and Fernow), IX. Rochemonteix, Les Jésuites et la N.-F. au XVIIe siecle, III, 511–12.
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