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Americans' daily lives, as well as the economic productivity of the United States, depend on the availability of energy, the majority of which comes from fossil fuels, such as oil and coal. However, public concern over the nation's reliance on imported oil, volatile energy costs, and fossil fuels' emissions of greenhouse gases linked to global climate change have increased the focus on developing renewable energy resources to meet future energy needs. The Department of Energy's (DOE) Energy Information Administration projects that use of renewable energy to generate electricity and produce liquid fuels for transportation will continue to grow over the coming decades. One renewable energy source—wind energy—has been the fastest-growing source of U.S. electric power generation in recent years, increasing about 33 percent per year since 2001, according to the Energy Information Administration. In 2011, wind energy constituted 32 percent of all new additions to U.S. electricity-generating capacity and contributed 3 percent of the nation's total electricity generation, the largest share of any renewable source other than hydroelectric power.
Congress and some federal agencies have emphasized the importance of renewable energy as a means to address national concerns, including energy security, and have committed substantial federal resources to initiatives in this area. For example, the federal government subsidizes investment in certain types of renewable energy-related projects by providing tax credits or other types of favorable tax treatment (known as tax expenditures), to businesses and individuals for the production or consumption of renewable energy. The federal government is also uniquely positioned to affect the development of renewable energy resources through its land management and regulatory activities and as the single largest U.S. consumer of energy.
Federal support for renewable energy increased significantly in recent years as a result of the provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, as well as other factors, such as the priority placed on renewable energy by agencies' leadership or by the administration. There is no comprehensive database that tracks federal renewable energy spending across agencies for all types of activities. While available third-party estimates vary in the types of activities they include and the time periods they cover, these estimates indicate that the level of federal financial support for renewable energy has averaged several billion dollars per year over the past decade. For example, third-party estimates indicate that federal renewable energy spending over the 7-year period from 2002 through 2008 averaged about $4 billion per year and increased to almost $15 billion in fiscal year 2010, in part because of additional spending through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. For wind energy specifically, the Energy Information Administration estimated that federal agencies provided nearly $5 billion in subsidies in fiscal year 2010 to support efforts to research, develop, and deploy wind energy technologies—more than 75 percent of federal subsidies for all renewable sources of electricity.
GAO reported in February 2012 that 23 agencies and their 130 subagencies implemented 679 renewable energy initiatives in fiscal year 2010.[1] Four agencies—the Departments of Agriculture (USDA), Defense, Energy, and the Interior—implemented almost 60 percent of the initiatives GAO identified, and the other 40 percent of initiatives were implemented by a wide array of agencies (see the figure below for more information on the agencies implementing renewable energy initiatives in fiscal year 2010). Federal support for renewable energy was fragmented across numerous initiatives implemented by a wide array of agencies in fiscal year 2010. While the extent to which this fragmentation is necessary remains unclear, the magnitude of federal renewable energy efforts may increase the likelihood that some of this fragmentation is, in fact, unnecessary.
Number of Federal Renewable Energy-Related Initiatives by Agency, in Fiscal Year 2010
Note: Data for the Department of Defense include data for five components—the Air Force, Army, Marine Corps, Navy, and other components that report to the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
These initiatives supported a range of renewable energy sources—most commonly bioenergy, solar, and wind—and while many initiatives supported multiple sources and types of recipients, many others targeted support to one source or recipient type. Agencies' renewable energy efforts increased in recent years as a result of the provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and other factors. For example, GAO found that 157 initiatives—nearly 25 percent of the renewable energy initiatives identified—were established, received additional funding, or were impacted in some other way by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. While the level of agencies' future renewable energy efforts is less certain with the expiration of these provisions, as well as the expiration of other authorities, in addition to depletion of available appropriations and continued budget constraints, agencies appear poised to continue to provide substantial support for renewable energy through those initiatives that are not scheduled to expire or whose funding has been renewed or is not tied to a specific appropriation. Although GAO examined characteristics, such as energy source and recipient type, for the nearly 700 renewable energy initiatives identified in its February 2012 report, GAO could not comprehensively assess the potential for overlap or duplication among the initiatives because existing agency information was not sufficiently complete to allow for such an assessment.
In a March 2013 report on federal support for wind energy—the largest recipient of federal support for renewable sources of electricity—GAO found that nine agencies implemented 82 wind-related initiatives in fiscal year 2011. Of these 82 initiatives, GAO found that 20 percent supported wind energy alone or primarily, while 62 percent supported other renewable energy sources or other activities either primarily or equally with wind energy.[1] The initiatives supported a range of wind issues, such as energy generation from land-based or offshore wind, or transmission of wind energy, as well as a variety of technology advancement activities from basic and applied research to deployment. Under these initiatives, agencies incurred obligations of about $2.9 billion and provided estimated tax subsidies totaling at least $1.1 billion for activities specifically related to wind in fiscal year 2011.[2]
GAO found that the 82 wind-related initiatives were fragmented across multiple agencies. Additionally, most of the 82 initiatives had overlapping characteristics, and several of them have provided duplicative financial support to deploy wind energy projects. Specifically, regarding fragmentation, nine agencies implemented initiatives that involved the same broad area of national need—promoting or enabling wind energy development. Most initiatives, 68 of the 82 (83 percent), overlapped to some degree with at least 1 other initiative because, for example, they supported the same wind issues and technology advancement activities, and shared other key characteristics. Overlap did not necessarily lead to duplication of efforts because initiatives sometimes differed in meaningful ways—for instance, by targeting support to different types of recipients.
In evaluating wind initiatives that provided financial support to deploy wind energy projects in fiscal year 2011, GAO identified seven initiatives that have provided duplicative support—financial support from multiple initiatives to the same recipient for a single project.[3] These seven initiatives included tax expenditures, as well as grant, loan, and loan guarantee programs implemented by Treasury, DOE, or USDA.[4] In many cases, wind project developers combined the support of more than one Treasury initiative and, in some cases, received additional support from smaller DOE or USDA grant or loan guarantee programs. For example, projects supported by Treasury's Section 1603 program also received support from DOE- or USDA-administered loan guarantees, as well as tax expenditure support.[5] Wind projects may also receive financial support from state tax credits and grant and loan programs, as well as indirect support from state policies, most notably renewable portfolio standards.[6] In addition, duplication of financial support among these initiatives may not be limited to wind projects because the initiatives also provided support to projects involving a range of other renewable energy sources.[7]
Although these initiatives have, in some cases, provided duplicative support, their support may address different needs of wind project developers or the communities their projects serve. For instance, according to DOE officials, in many cases, a DOE loan guarantee program provided financing for innovative projects that were seen as too risky to obtain affordable private financing. Without this support, developers might not have been able to advance these projects to the point, such as being placed in service or beginning to generate electricity, where they would be eligible to receive tax credits. In addition, there can be limits on the extent to which individual projects can receive support from multiple initiatives. For instance, provisions of the tax code prevent project developers from combining Treasury's Section 1603 program grants with Treasury's energy investment or energy production tax credits to support a specific wind project. In addition, for some grant, loan, and loan guarantee programs, USDA and DOE reduce the value of support provided or deny support altogether for applicants who receive funding from other initiatives. Despite these limits, the initiatives GAO identified that have provided duplicative support were combined in many cases to provide cumulative financial support worth about half of project costs for wind projects, according to financial professionals active in the wind energy industry.
GAO also identified three other DOE or USDA initiatives that did not actually fund any wind projects in fiscal year 2011 but that could be combined with one or more other initiatives to provide duplicative support in the future based on the types of projects eligible for their support. For these initiatives, as well as those DOE or USDA initiatives that GAO found, in some cases, did provide duplicative support to wind projects in fiscal year 2011, GAO also found that DOE and USDA have discretion—to the extent allowed by their statutory authority—over the projects they support. This discretion allowed the agencies to allocate this support based on projects' ability to meet initiative goals, along with other criteria, such as financial and technical feasibility.[8] For instance, DOE established initial screening criteria for projects under one of its loan guarantee programs, including that projects employ an innovative technology that is not commercially available and that projects be financially viable. To further evaluate projects that meet these initial screening criteria, DOE examines projects' potential contributions related to two program goals: expected reduction or avoidance of greenhouse gas emissions in relation to project costs, and support for clean energy jobs and manufacturing. Similarly, USDA allocates the support of its initiatives according to projects' ability to contribute to program goals, such as providing benefits for rural and other eligible communities, and other factors, such as technological feasibility and expected performance.
DOE and USDA consider applicant need for their initiatives' support; however, the extent to which the agencies use assessments of applicants' need to determine the amount of support to provide under their initiatives is unclear because the agencies do not document such assessments. Specifically, according to agency officials and program guidance, DOE and USDA consider applicant need for the financial support of some initiatives. For example, the solicitation for applications under one of DOE's loan guarantee programs states that DOE will take an unfavorable view of projects that could be fully financed on a long-term basis by commercial banks or others without a federal loan guarantee. Similarly, USDA considers applicants' need for support from some of its initiatives, according to agency officials. While agency officials reported that they consider applicant need in some cases, the officials did not provide any documentation that indicated how information they collected or examined about applicant need influenced their decisions on whether to provide support, or how much support to provide, under their initiatives for specific projects. As a result, the extent to which applicant need influenced agency decisions is unclear.Moreover, whether initiatives' incremental support was always needed for wind projects to be built is also unclear.[9] In particular, GAO's review of a briefing memorandum from White House staff, DOE documents, and other documentation related to two wind projects suggests that agencies' wind initiatives have, in some cases, supported projects that may have been built without their incremental support. In other cases, however, the incremental support provided by the initiatives may be necessary for wind projects to be built, according to agency officials and financial professionals active in the wind energy industry. Further, federal support in excess of what is needed to induce projects to be built could, instead, be used to induce other projects to be built or could simply be withheld, thereby reducing federal expenditures.
[1]GAO defined a renewable energy-related initiative as a program, tax expenditure, or group of activities serving a similar purpose or function that was related to renewable energy through a specific emphasis or focus, even if renewable energy was part of a broader effort.
[2]The federal obligations and tax subsidies for fiscal year 2011 presented here cannot be compared with the Energy Information Administration's estimate of $5 billion in total federal subsidies for wind in fiscal year 2010 because of differences in the period covered and methods used in calculating these numbers.
[3]All of these initiatives were specifically established by Congress, as opposed to agency-created initiatives. Four of the seven initiatives, including two tax expenditures, a grant program, and a loan guarantee program recently expired or are scheduled to expire for wind projects at the end of 2013. However, policymakers may decide to create similar initiatives as a means for supporting wind energy or other renewable energy sources in the future.
[4]Of the seven initiatives, those implemented by Treasury—tax expenditures and a grant program—accounted for over 95 percent of the federal financial support for wind in fiscal year 2011, based on available estimates.
[5]Approximately 94 percent of the $2.9 billion in fiscal year 2011 wind-related obligations GAO identified—over $2.7 billion—was obligated under Treasury's Section 1603 grant program, which was established by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and provided cash payments of up to 30 percent of the total eligible costs of wind and certain other renewable energy facilities in lieu of tax credits for energy investment or production.
[6]Renewable portfolio standards do not provide direct financial support to particular wind projects; however, by requiring or encouraging that a percentage of the electricity consumed in a state be generated from renewable sources, they are designed to create market demand for electricity from sources such as wind.
[7]The majority of the wind-related initiatives GAO identified supported a range of renewable energy sources in addition to wind, as well as other activities such as energy efficiency projects or rural development projects.
[8]Treasury provides support to projects based on the eligibility criteria in the tax code. In contrast to DOE and USDA, Treasury generally does not have discretion in allocating support to projects and therefore does not assess applicant need for the support of its initiatives.
[9]The term "incremental support" refers to the support an agency provides to an individual project under one of its wind energy initiatives that is in addition to support provided to that project by that agency or other agencies under different wind energy initiatives.
GAO recommended in its March 2013 report that, to support federal agencies' efforts to effectively allocate resources among wind projects, the Secretaries of Energy and Agriculture should take the following action:
GAO could not estimate the potential financial benefits of preventing unnecessarily duplicative support for wind energy projects because the potential for unnecessary duplication is project-specific. Conducting the types of assessments GAO recommended could help identify the potential financial benefits of reducing unnecessarily duplicative support for projects or, at a minimum, provide greater assurance that unnecessarily duplicative support is not provided.
The information contained in this analysis is based on findings from products listed in the related GAO products section. To identify federal renewable energy initiatives that were funded, planned, implemented, or authorized in fiscal year 2010, GAO reviewed budget documents and other information sources for the 24 agencies subject to the Chief Financial Officers Act of 1990.[1] GAO then collected more detailed information on these initiatives using a structured data request and follow-up interviews with agency officials. GAO did not review the level of financial support provided by agencies' renewable energy-related initiatives because financial support for renewable energy is often not tracked separately from other activities. To examine federal wind energy initiatives, GAO focused on nine agencies' initiatives. GAO selected these nine agencies' initiatives because they promoted the research and development, commercialization, or deployment of wind energy technologies. GAO updated the data collected for its February 2012 report to reflect the extent to which initiatives implemented by these nine agencies were still active or new in fiscal year 2011.[2] After determining that the nine agencies implemented 82 wind initiatives in fiscal year 2011, GAO used a questionnaire to collect additional data on these 82 initiatives, and analyzed the data to categorize initiatives' recipients and goals, and to determine the extent of potential fragmentation, overlap, and duplication. To further examine the initiatives that have or could have provided duplicative support, GAO interviewed agency officials, and financial professionals from several of the major financial institutions and legal firms active in wind energy project financing in recent years. For these initiatives, GAO also collected information from other sources, such as a briefing memorandum from White House staff, and DOE or other project documentation to assess the financial support provided for projects.
Tables 3 and 4 in appendix IV list the wind energy initiatives GAO identified that might have similar or overlapping objectives, provide similar services, or be fragmented across government missions. Overlap and fragmentation might not necessarily lead to actual duplication, and some degree of overlap and duplication may be justified.
[1]GAO identified renewable energy initiatives at 18 of these agencies but reported data for 23 agencies in its February 2012 report and e-supplement because GAO reported data separately for each of the military services within the Department of Defense and also for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission—an independent agency listed under DOE in the federal budget.
[2]Among other differences with the scope of the agencies and initiatives examined for GAO's February 2012 and March 2013 reports, GAO excluded certain agencies, such as the Departments of Defense, Homeland Security, and State, whose initiatives generally focused on development of wind energy and other technologies for use in a military, border security, or international aid setting, rather than for use in the domestic commercial energy market.
In commenting on the March 2013 report on which this analysis is based, DOE agreed with GAO's recommendation, while USDA generally concurred with the information in the report related to its initiatives. DOE stated that it will now formally document its evaluation of applicants' assertions regarding their inability to finance their projects without a federal loan guarantee, and will clarify how it considers the financial need of applicants when determining what amount of support to provide. DOE and USDA also provided technical and clarifying comments, which GAO incorporated as appropriate.
GAO also provided a draft of this report section to DOE and USDA for review and comment. USDA provided comments via an e-mail attachment in which it neither agreed nor disagreed with the information in the report section. However, USDA noted that, for certain initiatives, loan guarantee applicants are required to state their need for the guarantee on the loan application form. USDA further noted that, for one initiative, financial need is no longer taken into consideration when making awards because the requirement to do so was not included in the provisions of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 and, therefore, USDA removed the requirement from program regulations. GAO believes that, while USDA may not be legally required to formally assess applicants' need for project support for this initiative, making that assessment could help allocate scarce resources. To the extent possible within its statutory authority, GAO recommends that USDA formally assess and document whether the incremental financial support of its initiatives is needed in order for applicants' projects to be built, and take this information into account in determining whether, or how much, support to provide. Furthermore, in response to this comment, GAO revised this report section to include language from the March 2013 report, where GAO recommended that in the event USDA or DOE lack discretion to consider this information in determining what financial support to provide, they may want to report this limitation to Congress. DOE provided technical comments, which GAO incorporated as appropriate.
For additional information about this area, contact Frank Rusco at (202) 512-3841 or email@example.com.
GAO identified 82 federal wind-related initiatives, with a variety of key characteristics, implemented by nine agencies in fiscal year 2011. Five agencies--the Departments of Energy (DOE), the Interior, Agriculture (USDA), Commerce, and the Treasury--collectively implemented 73 of the initiatives. The 82 initiatives incurred about $2.9 billion in wind-related obligations and provided estimated win...
Governmentwide, 23 agencies and their 130 subagencies GAO reviewed implemented nearly 700 renewable energy initiatives in fiscal year 2010. The Departments of Defense (DOD), Agriculture (USDA), Energy (DOE), and the Interior were collectively responsible for almost 60 percent of all initiatives.The initiatives supported a range of renewable energy sources, and the most commonly supported sources w...
This document is an E-supplement to GAO-12-260. This e-supplement provides a detailed inventory of federal renewable energy initiatives implemented by 23 departments and independent agencies in fiscal year 2010, which we refer to collectively as 'agencies.' For each initiative, this inventory includes the following data that were reported to us by the agencies: (1) the implementing agency, subagen...
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2 Alaska State Troopers killed in shooting, official says
TANANA, Alaska – Two Alaska State Troopers were shot and killed Thursday when they were conducting an investigation in the Interior Alaska village of Tanana, the agency and a local shopkeeper said.
Killed were Sgt. Patrick "Scott" Johnson and trooper Gabriel "Gabe" Rich," agency spokeswoman Megan Peters said in a release. Both worked out of the troopers' Fairbanks rural service unit.
Troopers have released few details about the incident in the isolated community located about 130 miles west of Fairbanks, other than saying one person has been detained. No roads lead to Tanana and travel there is mainly by aircraft. Residents live a largely subsistence lifestyle.
The troopers had gone to Tanana to follow up on a Wednesday night report that someone "had brandished a firearm in the village," Peters said, adding she didn't immediately have any further details of what happened.
Ruby Cruger said the shooting happened at her aunt's home on Front Street just about 3 p.m. Thursday. She said her aunt wasn't home at the time, but a relative of her aunt's shot the troopers inside the home.
Cruger, who spoke to The Associated Press by telephone from the village store, said she didn't have any other details, other than to say her aunt was sitting outside her home Thursday evening waiting for troopers to clear.
"She's not leaving there. It's her house," Cruger said.
"All the troopers and everybody is up there, but you can't get close to the crime scene," she said.
More troopers continued to arrive Thursday evening, she said.
"All I know, we have more SWAT people coming in," she said.
An Alaska Bureau of Investigation crew was headed to Tanana, Peters said earlier in the evening.
Because of the location of the village, about two miles west of the junction of the Tanana and Yukon rivers, the community was a trading post for Koyukon and Tanana Athabascans long before European contact, according to a state website.
About 238 community members continue to live a traditional Athabascan lifestyle, including hunting and fishing for their food.
The deaths came the same day the name of Manokotak village public safety officer Thomas Madole was added to the Indian Country Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Artesia, New Mexico.
Madole was shot and killed March 19, 2013, while responding to a domestic violence call in the Alaska Native village.
Before Thursday, 64 law enforcement officers had been killed in the line of duty since 1897 in Alaska, according to information previously provided by the Alaska State Troopers


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Your wellness plan
Many cancer survivors want to take the best care of their health that they can. Along with follow-up visits with your healthcare team, learning what you can do to live a healthy life after cancer can be a positive step forward. Living well can help you:
- regain or build strength and endurance
- deal with side effects like fatigue, weight loss or gain and sleep problems
- manage stress
- reduce the risk of developing a second cancer or other health problems
Just as your cancer treatment plan and experience were unique to you, your wellness plan will also be yours alone. Your healthcare team can help you develop a wellness plan that is tailored to your needs, preferences and fitness level. What's important is that you understand your wellness plan and are comfortable with following it. It may include plans to:
- Eat well.
- Be physically active.
- Get help to quit smoking. Research has shown that cancer survivors who continue to smoke are at a higher risk of the cancer coming back (recurrence) or developing another cancer, either at the same site or in a different place in the body. This increased risk can last as long as 20 years after the first cancer has been successfully treated.
- Protect yourself from the sun.
A plan can make you feel better and more in control of your health, but it's important to understand that following it doesn't guarantee that cancer won't come back. But you will be doing what you can to reduce your risk.
Going for follow-up visits
Going for follow-up visits is an important part of managing your healthcare after treatment.
Follow-up care allows your doctor to monitor your progress and recovery from treatment. It gives you an opportunity to talk to your healthcare team about any problems or concerns that you have about your health after treatment.
The schedule of visits is different for each person, and tests or procedures during follow-up are tailored to your situation. You may be seen more often in the first few years after your treatment, and then less often after that.
Many people say that they feel anxious before their appointments (especially the first one). You may be worried that even though you feel well, the cancer has returned. Or you may be worried about a new symptom. You might have an upset stomach or not sleep well the night before. To help you through the appointment:
- Take someone with you.
- Plan to do something special for yourself afterward.
- Try to look at the visit as positive. Follow-up care can give you peace of mind and increase the chances of anything unusual being caught early. It can also be a time to talk about your concerns with your doctor.
- Talk to your doctor about any new symptoms. If you notice any new symptoms, don't ignore them. Call the doctor right away – you don't have to wait until your next scheduled appointment.
- Always tell the healthcare team about any medicines, vitamins, herbs or different healing approaches that you may be using.
It is a good idea to keep a personal copy of your cancer treatment history. That way you have a record if you have to change doctors or you have a medical emergency.
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|Jules Holroyd
Blog on delusional beliefs, distorted memories, confabulatory explanations, unrealistically optimistic predictions, and implicit biases.
Thursday, 30 May 2013
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Realism and Creativity as Epistemic Benefits
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Wednesday, 22 May 2013
Delusions as Malfunctioning Beliefs
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with Charles Darwin
The aim of this project is to present and develop a new strategy to defend doxasticism about delusion from the main argument against it. Doxasticism about delusion is the view that delusions are beliefs.
Although this view is widely accepted in psychiatry, there is a simple but powerful philosophical argument against it. I call it "the argument from causal role".
- Playing a belief-like causal role is necessary for a mental state to be a belief.
- Many delusions fail to play belief-like causal roles.
- Therefore, many delusions are not beliefs.
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Obama in Asheville, Part 2: President says he might retire here
Yet another 12 Bones lunch for the leader of the free world.
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|August 2008
|OKLAHOMA'S�eGOV NEWS REPORT
Welcome to Oklahoma's eGovernment News Report providing you with up-to-date information on Oklahoma's eGovernment achievements.
State Encourages Over 23,600 Real Estate Licensees to Renew Online, Avoid the Paper Process
Oklahoma real estate licensees handle paper daily in real estate transactions with buyers, sellers, tenants and landlords. Renewing their license is often viewed as another cumbersome paper process they must manage. Real estate licensees now have an easy way to renew their licenses, thanks to an online renewal service offered by the Oklahoma Real Estate Commission (OREC). The online renewal service provides more than 23,600 individuals with convenience available through their Web site.�
"In this information age, we are pleased to be able to provide business-friendly technology to real estate licensees," said Anne Woody, OREC's executive director. "Eliminating paper and reducing the time it takes to renew a license just makes sense for our customers and state government as a whole."�
In its second year of service, OREC expects adoption to rise as licensees see the benefits of renewing in a secure online environment. Licensees can log in 24/7 and complete the renewal in about 5 minutes, much faster than taking pen to paper, finding an envelope, and mailing the renewal to OREC. Licensees have the option of renewing their license with Electronic Check, Visa, MasterCard, American Express, or Discover Card. A printable license verification and receipt of payment is also available at the end of the renewal process. In addition to renewing online, the system enables real estate licensees to keep track of continuing education hours, and keep their personal contact information current with OREC.
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Out-of-Compliance Gas Stations Featured on the Oklahoma Corporation Commission Web Site
Oklahoma Corporation Commissioner, Jim Roth, recently announced an addition to his Web site that lists gasoline-station violations.
"For the most part, our state gas stations do a great job of staying in compliance with Corporation Commission Rules," Roth said in a statement. "But when they do have violations, it is our job to inform the public. Now citizens can help themselves be better informed about habitual offenders."
Roth said that more than 5,000 stations have been cited since July of last year for various violations. The Commission has been forced to lock down more than 300 violators during that same time frame.
State law places the responsibility of regulating gas pumps in the hands of the Corporation Commission Fuel Inspectors. The corporation commission performs calibration tests on the state's gasoline pumps to ensure:
• A pump must be within minus six cubic inches, or about six tablespoons, of a five-gallon measure in the calibration test. Operators failing the test are given 24 hours to comply before the pump is locked down. Pumps exceeding 19 cubic inches are locked down immediately.
• Fuel inspectors also check octane rating, for water in the gas, ethanol content, and compliance with safety and environmental rules.
U. S. Environmental Protection Agency Launches Online System for Reporting Violations
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently launched a pilot program to allow companies to electronically self-disclose violations of environmental laws. The new voluntary program, called eDisclosure, is designed to speed the processing times and reduce transaction costs for voluntary disclosures of violations under the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA).
The program is part of EPA's Audit Policy, which provides reduced or waived penalties to companies that voluntarily disclose violations of environmental laws. The agency will not waive or reduce penalties for repeat violations or violations that resulted in serious actual harm.
Violators in EPA Region 6, comprising of Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas, may also use the system to report violations of other environmental laws. Eventually, the agency plans to evaluate the program's performance, make revisions, and, if feasible, expand the program so regulated entities nationwide may self-report violations of all environmental laws under the Audit Policy.
The program will use the EPA's Central Data Exchange (CDX) as the point of entry for violators to submit data and complete electronic forms. EPA hopes that use of the electronic submission system will speed processing times and ensure submitted data are comprehensive. The agency also predicts the system will assure consistency in how disclosures are processed and reviewed.
According to the EPA, CDX provides users with the ability to submit data through one centralized point of access, fill out fewer forms and submit them electronically, receive agency confirmation when submissions are received, and submit data in a variety of formats.
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Montgomery, Prince George's Park and Planning Employees to Get Raise
Montgomery and Prince George's County park and planning employees will get a 6 percent raise next fiscal year.
Montgomery's general employee union — which also represents park and planning employees in both counties — reached an agreement with the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission for fiscal 2014, which begins July 1.
The commission is a bi-county agency of Montgomery and Prince George's counties that provides a regional system of parks and land use planning.
Employees will get a 2.5 percent cost-of-living adjustment and those eligible will receive 3.5 percent step increases, said Gino Renne, president of United Food and Commercial Workers/Municipal and County Government Employees Organization Local 1994.
Union members are regaining confidence in their jobs through the raises now on the horizon, Renne said.
"Not only have we gone through three years of economic despair, there was an awful lot of concern about their careers and job security," he said. "But this contract, these new agreements, have instilled hope in our members that things are getting better, their jobs are a little bit more secure this year."
Members still need to ratify the agreement for park and planning employees, Renne said.


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As for any changes in the recipe, just a few. First, I used all semi-sweet chips because I had them in the cupboard . For the cocoa powder I used Hershey's Special Dark Cocoa (ummm, dark chocolate). I also cut the pan into sixteen portions as twenty seemed a bit to skimpy. By the way, they are great with a glass of dry red wine!
3/4 cup all-purpose flour
2/3 cup confectioners' sugar
3 tablespoons unsweetened Hershey's Special Dark cocoa powder
6 ounces semisweet chocolate chips, divided
1 1/2 tablespoons canola oil
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1 1/2 tablespoons light corn syrup blended with 3 tablespoons lukewarm water
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1/8 teaspoon salt
1 large egg
1/3 cup chopped toasted walnuts
Position rack in center of oven; preheat to 350°F. Line an 8-inch-square baking pan with parchment paper, letting it overhang on two opposing sides. Coat with cooking spray. Sift flour, confectioners' sugar and cocoa together into a small bowl.
Combine 3 ounces chocolate and oil in a heavy medium saucepan; place over the lowest heat, stirring, until just melted and smooth, being very careful the chocolate does not overheat. Remove from the heat and stir in granulated sugar, corn syrup mixture, vanilla and salt until the sugar dissolves. Vigorously stir in egg until smoothly incorporated. Gently stir in the dry ingredients. Fold in the walnuts and the remaining chocolate just until well blended. Turn out the batter into the pan, spreading evenly.
Bake the brownies until almost firm in the center and a toothpick inserted comes out with some moist batter clinging to it, 20 to 24 minutes. Let cool completely on a wire rack, about 2 1/2 hours.
Using the overhanging foil as handles, carefully lift the brownie slab from the pan. Peel the foil from the bottom; set the slab right-side up on a cutting board. Using a large, sharp knife, trim off any dry edges (snack for the chef). Mark and then cut the slab into 16 portions. Wipe the blade with a damp cloth between cuts. Arrange on a nice plate and dust with more powdered sugar. Enjoy with friends.
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Former Manchester United midfielder Quinton Fortune says he is not surprised Rio Ferdinand reacted the way he did to John Terry's four-match ban for racially abusing Anton Ferdinand given he was suspended for eight months when he missed a drugs test.
The Ferdinand brothers have released a statement drawing a line under the row, which culminated in them refusing to wear Kick it Out T-shirts at the weekend.
Speaking at a Kick it Out event at Old Trafford to highlight anti-Jewish issues in football, the former South African international said: "I can see their frustrations. We all know the progress that has been made over the last 20 years. But the current players can also see how stuff has been dealt with over the last few months."
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Windy City Skaters is a group open to anyone who likes to move around on wheels. While most of us are on inline skates (rollerblades) we also welcome skateboarders and long boarders.
Chicago has tons of cool places to skate. If you haven't discovered them yet you will with this group. Windy City Skaters is a diverse group of friendly, fun loving people. This group has been going strong since 2008 and keeps getting bigger every season.
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London based AV and technical production services company Presentation Rentals Ltd. (PR) supplied external building projection and sound and lighting equipment for two party areas within the Freemason's Hall in London's Covent Garden for the press launch of the latest Batman game sensation – Arkham City.
PR was working for production company Limited Edition, for whom they are a frequent supplier of technical production design and services.
Outside, across the street from the entrance of Freemason's Hall, the PR crew built a scaffolding tower, and onto this was positioned two Panasonic 10K projectors, double stacked and fitted with .8 lenses.
The venue is an imposing Art Deco building dating back to 1933, now Grade II listed inside and out, and one of the finest examples of this architecture in the UK. The throw distance was 10 metres and the projection area about 45 ft wide, above the main entrance door of the Freemason's Hall.
Four different static slides for the projection were supplied by the production company and replayed via a laptop. The PR team undertook some on-site editing to ensure that these were optimised for the application. Power for the projectors and control was sourced from the nearby Irish bar, O'Neill's, which proved a far more expedient solution than bringing in a generator.
The big challenge was lining up the projectors – a task for which they had only 15 minutes between dusk and the event going live!
A life-size Batman model was positioned on top of the roof of the Freemason's Hall, and this was highlighted with a Clay Paky Alpha Spot 1200, positioned next to the projector on the tower decking.
Inside, PR kitted out two areas on different levels with lighting and sound systems, including a small moving light rig comprising Martin MAC 250s. A d&b PA was used for presentational speeches, background music for the reception and for DJ set up that kicked in when the party started.
Says PR's Ian Coull, "It was a great job to be involved in for several reasons. It was interesting, different and required some lateral thinking. It was also high profile and with the timescale being so tight to get the trickiest element – the projection – spot on there was a bit of pressure! However, everyone worked together very well to produce great results."
Arkham City immediately jumped to number one of the UK Top 10 software sales charts!
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My friend Matthieu Godbout, accomplished photograph/hacker/artist, has been taking some awesome pictures of my LED button pin in action. The extended exposure and the use of reflective surfaces make for some very intersting pictures.
You can actually see how the PWM behaves very clearly. Looking at the pictures reminded me that all patterns are under 50% brightness or so, which I limited to save battery. This explains why there aren't any continuous beams of light. The decomposition of individual pulses shows the 7 possible colors combinations (R-G-B-RG-RB-GB-RGB).


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Tritions Set to Compete at the Rafer Johnson/Jackie Joyner Kersey Invite this Weekend
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UCSD turned in a strong performance at the event last year, with four Tritons winning their respective events. Scott Tsuda had a first place finish in the men's long jump with his mark of 21'2.75". Laiah Blue picked up a victory in the 400 meter hurdles, breaking the tape in a time of 61.93 seconds. Jillian Sola's throw of 154'00" in the women's discus was good enough for the victory. Her winning mark came on the final throw, bettering the second place mark by over nine feet.
12 Tritons have thus far earned either NCAA Provisional or Automatic times this season, as have three of the UCSD relay teams. Laiah Blue will be heading back to nationals this year after notching the top time in the nation in the 100m hurdles at 13.69, an automatic qualifier. Whitney Johnson also has been strong during the year, with the second best mark in the triple jump and the 3rd best mark in the long jump on the season. Diane Dunn, Emily McGregor, Corey Sheredy, Christine Merrill, Linda Rainwater, Madeline Flint, Jillian Sola, Sarah Hendy, and Torrey Trust also have notched NCAA ranked times during the season. On the men's side, Daniel Anderson holds a time of 1:51.60 in the 800m run, an NCAA Provisional mark and the second best time in that event on the year.
The UCLA Rafer Johnson/Jackie Joyner-Kersee Invitational is open to all Division I teams. The Tritons will compete against many Division I powerhouses, including the host Bruins.
Following the meet this weekend, UCSD will play host the Triton Invitational on Friday, April 20 through Saturday, April 21st. Start time for Friday is scheduled for 2 p.m., with Saturday events scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. The CCAA Championships are then scheduled for May 3-5 in


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This is a story about a cop in a small semi urban city. (Toledo, Ohio) He, along with his partner and friend of many years work nights patroling and keeping the streets safe from gang and other criminal violence. Mack and Bank take on the task of locating a young girl, stolen in broad daylight just outside of her inner city home. This starts off emotionally as Bank himself, lost his daughter to a similar abduction years before. He's determined to se...
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Simon & Schuster, Jan 2002, 320 pp. ISBN: 0743212967 In October 1927 in Cincinnati, bootlegger George Remus kills his beloved spouse Imogene, known by all as THE JAZZ BIRD. Immediately following the homicide, George goes back to his specially modified Packard, but his misunderstood rambling leads his driver to take him back to his home in Eden Park. Afterward, a stupefied George grabs a cab and goes to the police station to turn himself in ...


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NAMEmixal - a load-and-go MIX assembler
mixal [file...]
DESCRIPTIONmixal is an implementation of the hypothetical MIX computer and its assembly language called MIXAL. The computer was designed by Donald Knuth for use in his monumental and yet to be finished book series The Art of Computer Programming. All programs and all programming exercises in the book are written in the MIXAL language. This implementation is a load-and-go assembler, meaning that you provide it with a MIXAL program source, which it translates into MIX machine code, which it promptly executes by acting as a MIX emulator. You give mixal zero or more MIXAL program source files in the command line, which the program interprets. If you give it no arguments, it expects to find a program in the standard input stream. After the program has executed, the final state of the machine registers is printed to the standard output stream. The card punch and line printer devices are connected to the standard input and output stream, respectively. Console input and output are connected to standard input and output, and the disk devices are connected to files named diskN in the current directory, where N is the device number. Those files are created on demand. There is one significant difference between the MIXAL input language and MIX as originally described by Knuth: Knuth puts fields at fixed offsets on a line, while this implementation expects them to be separated by whitespace. (Purists may wish to fix this obvious bug.) Since the ALF directive, which defines constant strings, becomes ambiguous when delimited by whitespace, there's a new syntax to achieve the same effect. Instead of
ALF rime
CON " rime"
BUGSThis MIXAL implementation does not do floating-point. The tape devices are not implemented.
AUTHORThis MIXAL implementation was designed and written by Darius Bacon, and then ported to Unixish systems and debugged by Eric S. Raymond. This version includes corrections to multiplication and division by Larry Gately. This manual page was written for Debian by Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho, with changes by Darius Bacon and Eric S. Raymond. The MIXAL language was designed by Donald Knuth. We gratefully acknowledge the general permission granted by Dr. Knuth and Addison-Wesley to redistribute MIX documentation and examples from The Art of Computer Programming in connection with open-source implementations of the language and under the license terms of those implementations.
SEE ALSOThe files /usr/share/doc/mixal/README and /usr/share/doc/mixal/NOTES contain some information about this MIXAL implementation. A description of the MIX system and the MIXAL language can be found in Donald E. Knuth's book The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 1: Fundamental Algorithms; 3rd Edition (Addison-Wesley 1997). (Or see the home page at http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/taocp.html.)
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Da'at Tevunot Section 4, Ch. 10
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US stocks fell today, with the Dow breaking a four-day string of record closing highs, following the World Bank's reduction of its global growth forecast.
The S&P 500's drop of 0.4 percent was its biggest daily percentage loss since May 20. The benchmark index fell for the second day in a row, after four straight record closing highs.
The selloff was broad. Every S&P 500 sector index except energy declined for the day.
Low volume and low volatility have marked recent sessions, leaving indexes to trade in a narrow range.
The World Bank's lower growth forecast provided investors with a reason to unload some stocks. Late Tuesday, the World Bank cut its global economic growth forecast for 2014 to 2.8 percent from 3.2 percent because of a harsh US winter and the impact of the Ukraine crisis.
The biggest drag on the S&P 500 was Bank of America Corp , down 2.1 percent at $15.59. The bank has reached an impasse in negotiating a multibillion-dollar settlement with the US Department of Justice related to the bank's mortgage investments, according to The New York Times.
The Dow Jones industrial average fell 102.04 points or 0.60 percent, to 16,843.88. The S&P 500 slid 6.90 points or 0.35 percent, to 1,943.89. The Nasdaq Composite dropped 6.07 points or 0.14 percent, to 4,331.93.
Even as the Dow and the S&P 500 retreated from recent gains, the PHLX semiconductor index kept up its rally. The SOX rose 0.5 percent, extending its winning streak to 15 days, its longest stretch of gains since the index was created about 20 years ago.
The CBOE Volatility Index rose 5.6 percent to 11.60 but remained well below its historical average of 20. In a sign of the market's low volatility, the 14-day Average True Range on the S&P 500 fell to 9.71, the lowest since February 2013.
European equity markets retreated from multi-year highs on as a profit warning from German airline Lufthansa hit travel stocks.
Lufthansa slumped by 14.2 percent in heavy volume after the company said it would not reach its profit targets for the next two years, and the fall in its share price dragged other airlines down with it.
Air France KLM fell 7 percent, International Consolidated Airlines Group dropped by 3 percent and the regional STOXX Europe 600 Travel & Leisure Index fell 1.5 percent.
Aerospace group Airbus also weakened by 3.1 percent after Dubai's Emirates airline canceled a contract with the company.
Lufthansa's woes weighed on the broader German stock market, with the benchmark DAX index falling 0.8 percent to 9,949.81 points, retreating from a record high of 10,033.74 points reached earlier in the week.
The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 index, which had hit its highest level in more than 6 years earlier this week, fell 0.5 percent to 1,391.59 points.
The euro zone's blue-chip Euro STOXX 50 index, which also touched 6-year highs this week, fell 0.8 percent to 3,289.09 points.
Meanwhile, Japanese shares bounced off a one-week low supported by news that Japan will retain its status as the only developed market in the region in MSCI stock indexes, checking any potential knee-jerk rotation out of Tokyo equities.
The Nikkei gained 0.5 percent to 15,069.48. The broader Topix added 0.8 percent to 1,239.07, while the new JPX-Nikkei Index 400 advanced 0.8 percent to 11,280.65.


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John Harbaugh (born September 23, 1962) is the head coach of the Baltimore Ravens. Before his assignment with the Ravens, Harbaugh coached the defensive backs for the Philadelphia Eagles and served as the Eagles special teams coach for nine years.
Harbaugh graduated from Pioneer High School in Ann Arbor, Michigan, during which time his father, Jack, was an assistant under Bo Schembechler at the nearby University of Michigan. He played collegiate football for Miami University, where he was a defensive back.
Harbaugh was first hired in the NFL in 1998 by Philadelphia Eagles then-head coach Ray Rhodes, and was one of four assistant coaches retained by new head coach Andy Reid in 1999. Prior to that, Harbaugh spent time in the college ranks as an assistant at Indiana University (1997), University of Cincinnati (1989–1996), Morehead State University (1988), and Western Michigan University (1984–1987).


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By now, you Avalanche fans have heard and probably made up your mind about what took place on July 1st, the opening day of NHL free agency. A quick summary of what took place in Colorado:
Semyon Varlamov (G) - 3 years, 8.5 million
Jan Hejda (D) - 4 years, 13 million
Jean-Sebastien Giguere (G) - 2 years, 2.5 million
Chuck Kobasew (RW) - 2 years, 2.5 million
2012 First Round Pick (Washington)
2012 OR 2013 Second Round Pick - Conditional (Washington)
Peter Budaj (Montreal)
Tomas Fleischmann (Florida)
Brian Elliott (St. Louis)
Over the last two days, many Avalanche fans have been highly critical of GM Greg Sherman's decision to give up a first round draft pick (one that might be a lottery pick next June) for a goaltender with injury woes and very little experience.
I have to admit, it's been hard to wrap my head around this deal. Actually, it's been hard for me to wrap my head around many of Sherman's deals.
I'm still not over Sherman's trading of young Colby Cohen (physical defenseman with a booming shot) for Matt Hunwick. And trading JM Liles for a second round pick, followed by re-signings of Kyle Cumiskey and the aforementioned Hunwick? Some of these decisions are beyond perplexing.
Bloggers take a lot of heat for acting like experts when they're really just fans with above-average typing abilities, but if Matt Hunwick outplays John-Michael Liles this season, I'll shut this blog down and become a Leafs fan.
But I think fans are overreacting to the Varlamov deal.
Instead, I'm siding with Jibblescribbits' view of the situation.
But those weren't the moves that made headlines today. The Avs, who were in the middle of the rebuild, traded a 1st & 2nd, round pick for the young, talented, and slightly injury prone, goaltender Semyon Varlomov. And the trade did more than give the Avs the #1 goaltender they craved. The trade ends phase one of the Avalanche rebuild.
The first round pick is a ridiculous price for an RFA that the Avs could have just as easily signed for the modest compensation of a second round pick, but only if the Avs end up in the league's cellar for the second year in a row.
Looking at the roster that Sherman has assembled, does that seem likely?
Some argue that most of the Avs' troubles last year came from the ridiculous amount of injuries that the teams faced. I argue that the epic second half collapse stemmed from putrid goaltending and an undersized group of forwards and defensemen (especially defensemen).
Management has taken steps to correct these problems.
Former Columbus rearguard Jan Hejda (6-3, 229) joins Erik Johnson (6-4, 236), Ryan O'Byrne (6-5, 234), Kyle Quincey (6-2, 207), and probably Ryan Wilson (6-1, 207) -- five defensemen who are big, physical, and can land big hits to forwards entering the zone and in the corners.
Don't forget about Stefan Elliot, Tyson Barrie, Cameron Gaunce, Joel Chouinard, and yes, Cumiskey and Hunwick, as the candidates to fill that sixth spot.
The loss of Liles is tough in terms of the leadership he brought to the team, but this group of defenseman will undoubtedly be tougher to play against in 2011-12.
In goal, Varlamov is a huge risk. That much is obvious. But with high risk comes high reward.
His 30-13 NHL record is impressive, as was his .924 SV% last season. At 23, he may well be the long-term solution for the Avalanche.
Of course, we said as much about Craig Anderson this time last season. Only time will tell.
I'm actually much more excited about the addition of Giguere. He's an experienced veteran (when's the last time you could say that about an Avalanche backup?) who won't make us hold our breath every time a puck is shot. He seems excited about coming to Denver and appears to have embraced his role as a mentor to Varlamov.
Overall, this offseason has yielded a possible future star (Landeskog), bigger defensemen (Hejda, Siemens), and a possible franchise goaltender (Varlamov).
The costs seem high now, but they'll be much lower if this team is able to make some noise in April.
For now, this judge has ruled in favor of optimism and positivity.


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