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Brave Nuclear World? – First of Two Parts
by Karen Charman ~ World Watch Magazine, May/June 2006
A few miles down an idyllic New England country road dotted with handsome homesteads and gentleman farms in central Connecticut sits the Connecticut Yankee nuclear power plant-or what's left of it. After shutting down in 1996, the 590-megawatt reactor is nearing the end of its decommissioning, a process spokesperson Kelley Smith describes as "construction in reverse."
Most of the buildings, the reactor itself, and its components have been removed. Adjacent to the Connecticut River, the discharge pond, which received the reactor's second-stage cooling water from the internal heat exchanger, is being dredged. The soil, including hot spots near the reactor that were contaminated with strontium-90 from leaking tanks, has been replaced. Forty concrete casks of highly radioactive spent fuel now sit on a fenced and guarded concrete pad surrounded by woods on the company's property about three-quarters of a mile from the reactor site. Soon the spent fuel pool that housed the irradiated fuel assemblies will be drained and dismantled. A twisted spaghetti-like tangle of metal protruding from a partially demolished building will be carted off to a dump site. Stories-high stacks of steel containers packed with mildly radioactive rubble are also waiting to be taken away. One of the final tasks will be to demolish the containment dome, which consists of 35,000 metric tons of steel-reinforced concrete. When decommissioning is completed by the end of the year, over 136,000 metric tons of soil, concrete, metal, and other materials will have been removed from the site at a cost of more than US$400 million to the area's electricity customers.
But for a fluke in timing, Connecticut Yankee might well have remained in operation today. Ten years ago, when the board of directors of the Connecticut Yankee Atomic Power Company decided to close its reactor at Haddam Neck, nuclear power was widely considered, if not a dying industry, then one that was seriously and chronically ill. In the newly deregulated electricity market, the company found it could buy electricity for less than its nuclear power plant could produce it. Connecticut's deregulation of the electricity sector required the company to divest itself of the plant. Company directors didn't think they could sell a single reactor of relatively low capacity, so they decided to shut it down.
Just a few years later, the economic landscape for nuclear power began changing with the emergence of companies like Exelon Corporation (a merger between Chicago-based Commonwealth Edison and Pennsylvania-based PECO) and the Louisiana-based Entergy Corporation, which began buying up reactors. Entergy purchased Vermont Yankee, a 540-megawatt reactor, for US$180 million in 2002. Less than 80 kilometers south of Connecticut Yankee, Dominion Resources spent US$1.3 billion to acquire three reactors (two operating and one shut) at Millstone-a plant with the dubious distinction of landing on the cover of Time in 1996 for longstanding, egregious breaches of safety regulations. By 2002, just 10 corporations owned all or part of 70 of the nation's 103 operating reactors.
Fast forward to today. The world has begun to wake up to the very real and growing perils of human-induced, catastrophic climate change. The war in Iraq, increasing tension in the oil-rich Middle East, and memories of both the (market-manipulated) energy fiasco in California in 2001 and the blackout that affected one-third of the United States and Canada in August 2003 have raised awareness and anxiety about unstable, unsustainable energy supplies. These factors, along with a very skillful, multi-pronged public relations and lobbying campaign, have put nuclear power, which is touted as carbon-free, back on the table.
According to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), nine new nuclear plants-three in Japan, two in Ukraine, and one each in South Korea, India, China, and Russia-have gone online since 2004. In that time, two plants in Canada were restarted after years of not operating, and there is talk of building a new reactor there. Currently 23 nuclear power plants are under construction around the world, including one in Finland, the first in western Europe since the 1986 explosion at Chornobyl in northern Ukraine. France, whose 58 reactors provide approximately 80 percent of that country's electricity, is also considering building another reactor, and British Prime Minister Tony Blair is calling for new reactors to replace Britain's aging fleet of 31 reactors, most of which are due to retire by 2020. In August 2005, U.S. President George W. Bush signed into law an energy bill that contained US$13 billion in public subsidies to help jumpstart a new generation of nuclear reactors.
Nuclear Power vs. Global Warming
A growing chorus of nuclear advocates, government officials, international bureaucrats, academics, economists, and journalists is calling for nuclear power to save us from devastating climate change. Nuclear reactors do not emit carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases when they split atoms to create electricity. But it's inaccurate to say that nuclear power is "carbon-free"-on a cradle-to-grave basis, no currently available energy source is. (Even wind turbines are guilty by association: the aluminum from which they are built is often smelted using coal-fired electricity.) In the case of nuclear power, fossil fuel energy is used in the rest of the nuclear fuel chain-the mining, milling, and enriching of uranium for use as fuel in reactors, the building of nuclear plants (especially the cement), the decommissioning of the plants, the construction of storage facilities, and the transportation and storage of the waste. In fact, the gaseous diffusion uranium enrichment plant at Paducah, Kentucky, is one of the single biggest consumers of dirty coal-fired electricity in the country.
Still, it seems impossible to pin down exactly how carbon-intensive the nuclear fuel chain is, and there is disagreement within the environmental community about nuclear energy's potential contribution to global warming. Tom Cochrane, a nuclear physicist with the Natural Resources Defense Council, says nuclear power is not a large greenhouse gas emitter compared to other conventional sources of energy. But in order for nuclear energy to make a significant dent in greenhouse gas emissions, we would need a huge increase in the number of nuclear power plants now operating worldwide, which he does not support.
Just how huge? A widely quoted 2003 report by Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers, "The Future of Nuclear Power," calls for the construction worldwide of 1,000-1,500 new 1,000-megawatt reactors by 2050, an expansion that would potentially displace 15-25 percent of the anticipated growth in carbon emissions from electricity generation projected over that time. A 2004 analysis in Science by Stephen Pacala and Robert Socolow, co-directors of Princeton University's Carbon Mitigation Initiative, says 700 gigawatts of new nuclear generation-roughly double the number and output of the world's 443 operating reactors-would be needed to achieve just one-seventh of the greenhouse gas emission reductions (at current emission rates) required to stabilize atmospheric carbon concentrations at 500 parts per million (ppm).
The MIT report acknowledges such an expansion would create an enormous nuclear waste challenge requiring a permanent disposal site with the capacity of the proposed repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada "to be created somewhere in the world every three to four years." If the spent fuel were reprocessed instead, as many nuclear proponents advocate, it would dramatically increase opportunities to spread nuclear material that could be used in making atomic bombs. The MIT report rejects reprocessing as uneconomic and, because of the weapons proliferation dangers, unnecessarily risky. To deal with the waste, it calls for the U.S. Department of Energy to develop "a balanced long-term waste management R&D program" and investigate the possibility of placing the waste in deep geologic boreholes. It also recommends the establishment of a network of centralized facilities in the United States and internationally that can store spent fuel for several decades until better solutions are worked out. Of course, the policy landscape is strewn with technically plausible recommendations that were dead on arrival because they glibly ignored the difficult politics of nuclear energy.
Pacala and Socolow maintain that a range of options is needed to address climate change. They identify 15 technologies or practices now in commercial operation somewhere in the world and say that scaling up any seven of them could stabilize carbon emissions over the next 50 years. These alternatives will be more fully explored in Part II of this series.
"Nuclear Follies," a February 11, 1985 cover story in Forbes, declared the United States' experience with nuclear power "the largest managerial disaster in business history." With US$125 billion invested, the magazine wrote, "only the blind, or the biased, can now think that most of that money has been well spent. It is a defeat for the U.S. consumer and for the competitiveness of U.S. industry, for the utilities that undertook the program and for the private enterprise system that made it possible."
Yet nuclear power is now widely promoted as one of the most economical sources of electricity, with a production cost of 1.68 cents per kilowatthour (kWh), compared to 1.9 cents/kWh for coal, 5.87 cents/kWh for natural gas, 2.48 cents/kWh for solar, 0.2 cents/kWh for wind, and 0.5 cents/kWh for hydroelectric, according to the Electric Utility Cost Group, a data group within the nuclear industry that draws its information from plant surveys, and Global Energy Decisions, a private energy data consulting firm. Those figures measure the operating cost of fuel, labor, materials, and services to produce one kWh of electricity. But like most sources of energy, nuclear power benefits from substantial government subsidies. Including nuclear's subsidies, collateral costs, and externalities leads to a different economic assessment.*
Although a full nuclear revival with a new generation of reactors to replace the existing fleet could not take place-at least in the United States-without the participation of the private sector, commercial nuclear power has never had to compete in a true free market. From the beginning, nuclear power worldwide has always required government patronage. In the United States, the industry was launched in 1946 with the passage of legislation creating the Atomic Energy Commission (the predecessor to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, or the NRC), which was charged with developing both civilian nuclear power and nuclear weapons. In 1954 the government brought the private sector in, and under President Dwight D. Eisenhower's "Atoms for Peace" initiative continued to encourage the development and commercialization of nuclear power.
Although nuclear power currently provides about 20 percent of U.S. electricity (and about 16 percent of the world's), between 1950 and 1993 the U.S. nuclear power industry received nearly 50 percent of the total federal spending on energy research and development-some US$51 billion-according to energy economist Doug Koplow. Substantial government assistance appears to be the status quo for the nuclear industry around the world, he adds, though specific data from many countries is unavailable. Nuclear power continues to get favored treatment, with government assistance covering virtually all segments of the nuclear fuel chain to one degree or another.
Uranium mining companies operating in the United States, for example, get a "percentage depletion allowance" of 22 percent (the highest rate of all depletion allowances for minerals), which gives them a tax write-off for the market value of what they have extracted-a significant subsidy since the write-off is typically much greater than their actual investment. The manufacture of the reactor fuel has also been heavily subsidized. Until 1998, the government owned the country's two uranium enrichment plants. When they were privatized into the U.S. Enrichment Corporation, the government retained liability for the waste clean-up associated with the operation of the facilities, an ongoing endeavor with a price tag in the billions.
During construction of the reactors, utilities were able to pass on the interest costs of the loans to their electricity customers, utilizing the "Allowance for Funds Used During Construction." While this was available to all types of power plants, Koplow says it mainly benefited owners of nuclear plants, because costs on the already expensive plants ran out of control with construction delays. Nuclear plant owners also took advantage of highly accelerated depreciation and investment tax credits in the early 1980s. Koplow says these three accounting mechanisms significantly reduced the capital costs of the reactors. Even so, after states began deregulating electricity markets in the 1990s, utilities with nuclear plants found they needed to charge much more than the going rate for electricity to pay off their remaining debt, or "stranded costs," and stay competitive with other electricity sources. State after state changed the rules to allow utilities to pass on these stranded costs to ratepayers as a surcharge on their electric bills, a gift to the nuclear industry that by 1997 was worth some US$98 billion.
The ratepaying public also bears the cost of dealing with the spent fuel-estimated at US$60-100 billion for the existing fleet of reactors-as well as for decommissioning the plants. And if there is another serious accident, the 1957 Price-Anderson Act shields nuclear plant owners from the lion's share of the cost by capping their liability. According to Koplow, the utility responsible for the accident would pay US$300 million in primary liability plus US$95.8 million that it and the nation's other nuclear utilities would contribute per reactor (paid in US$15-million annual installments over six years) to an insurance pool. With 103 operating U.S. reactors, the size of the insurance pool is approximately US$10 billion. By comparison, some estimates put the cost of the Chornobyl accident at over US$350 billion, and the Union of Concerned Scientists estimates that a serious accident at New York's Indian Point plant 56 kilometers north of New York City would be in the trillions-costs mainly left to individuals because of the standard nuclear exclusion clause in home insurance policies. Without this particular liability mitigator in the United States and similar instruments in other countries, commercial nuclear power probably would not exist.
Moreover, it seems that Price-Anderson is not the only mechanism available to nuclear utilities to protect themselves from full liability if something goes wrong. According to a 2002 report by Synapse Energy Economics, Inc., since the restructuring of the U.S. nuclear industry began as states started deregulating their electric utility industries in the mid-1990s, a few large corporations such as Exelon Corp., Entergy Corp., Duke Energy, and Dominion Resources, Inc. increasingly own and operate nuclear power plants through multi-tiered holding companies. The individual plants are often set up as limited liability companies (LLCs), a legal invention that restricts liability to the assets directly owned by the LLC. "The limited liability structures being utilized are effective mechanisms for transferring profits to the parent/owner while avoiding tax payments," the report notes. "They also provide a financial shield for the parent/owner if an accident, equipment failure, safety upgrade, or unusual maintenance need at one particular plant creates a large, unanticipated cost. The parent/owner can walk away by declaring bankruptcy for that separate entity without jeopardizing its other nuclear and non-nuclear investments."
This arrangement is especially valuable under deregulation. Before deregulation, nuclear reactors typically were built by investor-owned utilities and operated under the shelter of a "cost-of-service regulation." This enabled the utilities to enjoy stable rates based on their actual costs rather than on electricity sales at market prices, which can fluctuate. With those stable rates stripped away, the usual risks of operating nuclear plants-unexpected shutdowns for nonscheduled maintenance, for instance, or even accidents-became more severe. The use of LLCs allowed much of that risk to be avoided. Yet, according to former NRC commissioner Peter Bradford, the agency failed to develop a comprehensive policy to ensure that the transfer of reactor ownership into these new corporate structures would not endanger the public. "In the absence of any such requirement, public protection has depended on the acumen of a Nuclear Regulatory Commission unversed in financial matters and of economic regulators unversed in health and safety issues. As has happened in financial and in utility restructuring circles, fundamental safeguards have been circumvented," he writes in the forward to the Synapse report. The consequences, he adds, remain to play out.
The NRC rejects both Synapse's and Bradford's allegations. In a written statement, the agency said it believes its regulations "provide reasonable assurance that a licensee will have sufficient resources to operate, maintain, and decommission nuclear power reactors. The NRC fully considered the issues raised in the 2002 Synapse report and believed then-and continues to believe-that our regulations adequately address LLCs or other corporate arrangements." The agency maintains that regardless of the new business arrangements, it continues to ensure that reactor owners meet their obligations, adding that most reactors also operate under regulation by state public utility commissions, which provide significant financial oversight.
"Their general platitudes don't convince me that we were wrong on any issue," says David Schlissel, lead author on the Synapse report. In addition, he says NRC is incorrect that state public utility commissions continue to oversee reactors in states where electricity markets have been deregulated. "The 19 plants owned by Exelon, they are all deregulated," he says, "as are many nuclear plants in the Northeast and Midwest."
Try, Try Again
On Valentine's Day in 2002, the U.S. Department of Energy unveiled its Nuclear Power 2010 program for sharing costs with industry to "identify sites for new nuclear power plants, develop and bring to market advanced nuclear plant technologies, evaluate the business case for building new nuclear power plants, and demonstrate untested regulatory processes leading to an industry decision in the next few years to seek NRC approval to build and operate at least one new advanced nuclear power plant in the United States." Currently three consortia, an 11-company group called NuStart Energy Development and smaller ones led by the Tennessee Valley Authority and Dominion Resources, have been formed to investigate building new reactors. Despite consortia members' combined revenues of US$447 billion during 2003-which, Koplow points out, rivals the Russian Federation and exceeds the combined GDP of 104 countries-the U.S. government is now offering the nuclear industry additional incentives worth more than US$13 billion as seed money for new nuclear plant construction. According to an analysis released last year by the non-profit group Public Citizen, the Energy Policy Act of 2005 includes US$2.9 billion for R&D, at least US$3.5 billion worth of construction subsidies, more than US$5.7 billion for operating subsidies, and US$1.3 billion for shutdown subsidies.
Some of the package's more notable elements include US$2 billion for risk insurance, which allows builders of the first six reactors to collect for any delays in construction or licensing, including challenges by the public on safety grounds (e.g., if a whistleblower reported faulty construction and a citizen group sued). It includes production tax credits of 1.8 cents per kilowatthour for eight years, an estimated US$5.7-7.0 billion that would otherwise go to the U.S. Treasury. There are also provisions for taxpayer-backed loan guarantees for up to 80 percent of the cost of a reactor. These loan guarantees are particularly handy, considering that billions of dollars were lost during the first round of nuclear plant construction when more reactors were cancelled than were built, many after hundreds of millions of dollars had already been spent.
That's a big handout, but it remains to be seen whether it's enough to kick-start a new generation of reactors in the United States, which industry observers say is necessary for a viable economic future for nuclear power. Thomas Capps, the recently retired CEO of Dominion Resources, head of one of the consortia seeking a license for a new reactor, told the New York Times last April that if his company announced it was actually going to build a nuclear plant, debt-rating agencies Standard & Poor's and Moody's "would have a heart attack, and my chief financial officer would, too." Peter Wells, general manager of marketing for General Electric's nuclear energy division, is cautiously optimistic but not yet convinced a new generation of reactors will be built. He says it will depend on friendly government policy and positive experience with the first of the new reactors coming in within budget and on schedule.
Bush Administration policy is increasingly agreeable to the nuclear industry, but whether reactors can be built for their advertised costs is another question. At US$1,500 per kilowatt, the new "advanced" Generation III+ reactors are said to be much cheaper than those in the existing fleet. According to a 2001 Congressional Research Service (CRS) report on the prospects for new commercial nuclear reactors, total construction costs exceeded US$3,000/kw for reactors that were started after 1974, and those completed since the mid-1980s averaged US$3,600/kw. Anyone familiar with Pentagon procurement gaffes knows that chronic overruns and miscalculation of costs has been a longtime problem with large engineering projects, and the nuclear power industry is no exception. According to an analysis by the Energy Information Administration, plants that began construction between 1966 and 1977 underestimated their actual costs by roughly 14 percent, even when plants were 90 percent complete.
So far, only two reactors of new design, both of them GE Advanced Boiling Water Reactors, have been built (in Japan, for the Tokyo Electric Power Company). However, despite GE's estimate that the cost would be US$1,528/kw, CRS reports the first came in at US$3,236/kw and the second at around US$2,800/kw. Wells says the price of those plants was inflated because they were "gold-plate plants with marble floors and the like" that otherwise would have cost much less.
Peter Bradford says that despite the passage of the Energy Policy Act, nothing has fundamentally changed that would improve the economics enough to see a new generation of nuclear reactors. "With US$13 billion in new subsidies, if the government wants to prove that if it spends enough it can build nuclear plants, it can do that. The Chinese prove that for us a couple times a year," he said. "But that's not the same as saying it makes economic sense to do it." Still, Bradford acknowledges, "the stars have not been so favorably aligned for the industry since Atoms for Peace."
In a dramatic turnaround from nuclear's dog days in the 1980s and '90s, excitement is building on Wall Street. Steven Taub, director of emerging technologies at Cambridge Energy Research Associates, is confident new plants will be built, though he says the exact number will depend on how the various government incentives are distributed. Unlike the current fleet of nuclear reactors-nearly all of which were custom built-the next generation will be much more standardized to take advantage of economies of scale.
The government subsidies for new reactors are intended to offset the higher "first-of-a-kind" costs for the first few plants. If all goes without a hitch, the thinking is that lenders and utility shareholders will regain confidence that new nuclear plants can be competitive enough to finance without these subsidies. External factors will also determine the competitiveness and economic viability of nuclear power, Taub says. These variables include the price of natural gas, whether a carbon tax or other price-raising measures will be imposed on coal and other fossil fuels, and whether carbon sequestration technology for coal-fired power plants can be proven and widely adopted. "These are questions that nobody knows the answer to," he says.
Part Two of this series looks at the waste problem, at the proliferation and other security risks stemming from nuclear power, and at the strength of arguments for nuclear power in the context of other options.
Karen Charman is an independent journalist specializing in environmental issues and the managing editor of the journal Capitalism Nature Socialism.


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"Felbat Pup Tails and Big Fat Flails"
Wild grin clamped around chain-smoked bloodthistle cigarettes, Cymbidia threw her own demons at the Burning Legion, their hooves kicking Tanaris dust into the fel-laced sky. In between barks of "Snuff out that overgrown candle" or "To my side before it's melted" she lobbed green fire at the invaders.
An arrow tore into her shoulder. She snarled, teeth bifurcating the coffin nail, and spotted the archer, a troll charging at her as he knocked another arrow into his bow. She had no problems with the Horde, and she wanted to uphold the neutrality of her new associates, but a hostile shaft marinated in her blood.
Reaching out across the Twisting Nether, she yanked some lifeforce from her doomguard. It roared a bit, but otherwise kept flinging skull-faced shadows at a Sargerei warrioress while its stolen essence coalesced around her, the next arrow wilting as soon as the head pierced the pulsing shield.
She lit the Nether around him on fire and filled his mind with troll infants being cannibalized and other images that sent him screaming and flailing past her. The red-orange barrier starting to fade, she yanked out the arrow, and then jogged to the other side of the warrioress, torching her scalp as she moved.
The assault lasted several hours. Bloodthistle and healthstone shards she kept in her lip like chewing tobacco fueled her unleashed chaos. Still young, she also didn't fatigue easily, especially around demons. A constant in her life, they kept her motivated, even empowering her to run, which she hated. Though a healthy weight, Cymbidia's body didn't scream athletic, unless the sport involved being horizontal on a bed. She smiled at the thought as she glided over the Shimmering Deep on a drake she had chiseled out of the Nether.
Back at the Slaughtered Lamb in Stormwind City, she sulked at the corner of a large table. She would normally have Nazaith with her, the succubus concealed by invisibility, but the new demon hunters in town stared daggers at her everywhere the warlock strut. If she wanted to watch Nazaith die, she would just ask her prudish sister for company.
She drowned the image of Drucinda's face with a healthy pull of Darkmoon Special Reserve. Intoxication hit her head faster than it took her to kick her imp back into the Nether. The loss of control relaxed half her mouth into a smile.
A felbat pup darted into the tavern, fixated on her aura, and landed on her shoulder. She giggled and scratched its chin. "Aren't you cute! How did you get into the city?" It cooed, twitched its ears, wagged its tail.
Two demon hunters charged to her table, tattoos blazing, pecs rippling. She liked the aesthetic but not the demeanor, so she pictured lewd happenings to prevent her nose from wrinkling. "Hi, gentlemen. What a surprise."
The slightly bulkier one jabbed a finger at the pup. "Give us the runt, warlock."
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The other one crossed his arms over his chest, covering up one of the few things that made their presence tolerable. "And use the blood to bring demons into the city to slaughter everyone."
She rubbed the pup between its ears. "Just what are you doing with these things anyway? Biting off their heads to prove your devotion to dear sweet Illidan?"
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She laughed the dry wheeze of desert wind extinguishing until she let out a wet belch. "Oh, sorry, excuse me. I guess I can only eat so much crap."
The first one slammed his fists against the table. "Just shut your foul mouth and give us the felbat!"
The bartender and the few patrons in the tavern, most of them dressed in dark cloaks, turned their heads towards the scene.
"Let her buy the filthy mongrel." The second gripped the first's shoulder. "We have more important chores."
"You're selling these in Stormwind?" She cackled for a few moments. "Now that's rich."
"We've stripped them of harmful abilities and stunted their growth."
The first hunter gawked at the second. "Are you serious? She knows how to reverse our magic on the vile whelp."
"If she does that, we will kill her."
She leaned forward and waved her hand between them. "I'm still here, you know."
"Fine," the first hunter said. "Give us one hundred fifty nethershards, and the mutt is yours."
She kissed the pup on its cheek and conjured a purse from which she withdrew the necessary shards. The second hunter opened a leather pouch from his belt, and Cymbidia poured the payment into it. Their unpleasant visit concluded, the hunters stormed outside.
"I'm glad that's done, little one." She smiled as it licked her hand.
She ordered roast boar with honey glaze and cloves. The demon invasions energized her spirit, but dashing all over Azeroth drained her body. She devoured her meat and washed it down with some more Darkmoon Reserve. When she finished eating, the pup landed on the plate and nibbled the crumbs.
She looked up to see a dandy escorted by a hulking man carrying the fattest flail she had ever seen and sporting armor that put even a city guard captain's to shame approaching her table.
"I notice you have taken to eating your mammals raw, Miss Ebonthorn."
She scooped the wriggling pup into her cleavage. "Lord Cumberdale! How dare you suggest I do such a thing to cute little Emerald."
He took a long look at the display before bringing his eyes to her face. "I already ate dinner at my estate. I am here for dessert."
She raised her eyebrows at him. "I was just about to order some." She gestured to the seat across from her. "Please, join me."
He rested his hands on the back of the chair but didn't sit. "Oh, I would rather have you for dessert."
She let out a long, drawn out sigh. "I'm sorry, but I don't do that anymore."
"What do you mean? You're the most talented harlot I have ever met, and trust me, that is quite the compliment coming from me."
She flashed a subdued smile. "I appreciate your praise, but after watching Lord Wellington, Lady Azikiwe, and Lord Zhao be killed, I realized all my time spent on my back made me soft."
"That was a fluke. The dirty blood elves are too busy with the Legion to send anymore assassins. Plus, you taught them a lesson they will not soon forget."
"Yeah, after three clients died." She winced. "No, not just clients--human beings."
He shrugged. "Such is life. It ends. That is why I want to live. Right now. With you."
She narrowed her eyes. "You don't even care that your business partners died?"
"It's a pity, truly, but now I own the fishing boats and the dockyard, not just the storefront." He brushed imaginary lint from his shoulder pad. "Oh, and I own the oil supply, too." He examined his manicured nails. "All this means I can buy more of you."
"I'm flattered by your lust, but, as I said, I'm no longer a lady of the night." She screwed on a sympathetic face even though her blood started boiling. The pup squeaked at her agitation. "In fact, my bedtime has become rather early--for me, anyway."
"Then the rumors are true." He shook his head. "The invasions have changed you."
She steepled her hands on the table, and the felbat pup crawled into her lap. "If the return of the Legion made wonder if there's more important things than entertaining privileged nobles, then, yes, the invasions are affecting me."
"What can be more important than people like me?" His smirk suggested a joke. His eyes did not.
She reached into the Nether and pulled out a hexweave bag. From that, she withdrew blue fabric that she unfolded into a tabard embroidered with twin golden lions.
Horror contorted his face. "How could you join those Horde lovers, you traitorous bitch? Do you not care about the Alliance slaughtered right before your eyes?"
"I do." Her lips dropped into a scowl. "You don't."
"I care that now you're going to be selling your body to blood elf girly men!"
"I said I don't do that anymore." She snorted through flared nostrils. "And you're wearing a silk blouse."
He looked on the verge of exploding, and his words leaked out like steam: "I am extremely appalled by your behavior, Angelica Sampson."
"Don't call me that!" Nether crackled at her fingertips.
"You insult me and threaten me. You are lucky I do not fetch the city guard or have Hamfist bash your pretty face in with his flail."
The bodyguard grunted into his helmet.
"Now you are threatening me."
"Yes, I suppose you are right." His posture relaxed. "While you would not find prison to be any better the second time, death is permanent, and that is what you will face serving this treacherous Empire of yours."
"It's not my Empire. It's Azeroth's, Outland's, or that of anyone that wants some stability on the planets for once."
"Whatever." He turned on his heels and left the tavern, his bodyguard lumbering after him.
She lifted the felbat from her lap and cradled it near her face. "That idiot should be called Hamfoot."
The demon licked her nose. She grinned, and then finished another drink.
Soon, she was yawning. She paid her tab, leaving some extra gold for the noise. From her robe she fetched the guildstone used by the Twilight Empire. "My new associates, I'm going to bed soon, but I can stay awake long enough to poke at any fel-inflicted wounds. Just give a shout to Doctor Ebonthorn."


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Parishioners and priests of the Diocese of Kansas City – St. Joseph took part in a hastily called protest Sunday against Arizona's new immigration law and in favor of federal immigration reform. The protest was sponsored in part by the Diocese' Human Rights Office.
Earlier this month, KCSJ Bishop Robert Finn joined in an interfaith gathering outside Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill's Kansas City office urging the senator to support fair and comprehensive immigration reform at the federal level.
The Diocese of Kansas City – St. Joseph issued the following statement at Sunday's protest:
Diocese of Kansas City – St. Joseph Statement on Arizona Immigration Law
On Friday April 23rd, Gov. Jan Brewer of Arizona signed one of the harshest laws in the nation regarding immigration. Many civil rights groups, immigrants' rights groups, and religious groups have condemned this legislation as a violation of basic civil and human rights. The Catholic community has grave concerns regarding this legislation as well, but before listing our concerns it is best to review the contents of the law:
Details of immigration measure
•For the first time makes it a crime under state law to be in the country illegally and specifically requires immigrants to have proof of their immigration status.
•Requires police officers to "make a reasonable attempt" to determine the immigration status of a person if there is a "reasonable suspicion" that he or she is an illegal immigrant. Race, color or national origin may not be the only things considered in implementation.
•Allows lawsuits against local or state government agencies that have policies that hinder enforcement of immigration laws.
•Focuses on hiring of illegal immigrants as day laborers by prohibiting people from stopping a vehicle on a road to offer employment and by prohibiting a person from getting into a stopped vehicle on a street to be hired for work if it impedes traffic.
Statement of the Arizona Catholic Bishops to the Legislation
The Catholic bishops of Arizona issued a statement on April 21st regarding the concerns of the Catholic community over this legislation. These concerns are enumerated as follows:
· The present language of this legislation does not clearly state that undocumented persons who become victims of crime can come forward without fear of deportation.
· Arizona becomes the first state in the nation to codify its own 'illegal immigration' law by requiring persons who are here unlawfully in terms of federal law to be charged with trespassing under Arizona law. The charge for breaking the federal law is a high misdemeanor; the charge for breaking Arizona's new law is a felony.
· The legislation does not limit enforcement to persons suspected of criminal activity, thus leaving the possibility of criminalizing the presence of even children and young persons brought into our country by their parents. This legislation could lead to separation of family members that would not take place even under current federal law.
Other Considerations:
The present state of unrest in Mexico is forcing many people to flee for their safety and to find work in the midst of a society filled with poverty and drug violence. Since January 2006 more than 16,000 people have been killed throughout Mexico due to drug violence. Within this context the people fleeing such a situation have a right to migrate to the United States and receive asylum status; currently our country does not allow for this possibility. What is more, our diocese has not been able to conduct mission trips to Mexico for the past two years due to the fact that we cannot ensure the safety of our clergy and young people in this violent climate. The state of Arizona and the United States in general has a right to protect its borders from criminals who would try to enter our nation and expand the drug violence in our country. However, this legislation does not address this issue, nor does the state of Arizona have the power or the competence to do so.
We therefore echo the words of the Arizona Catholic bishops in their statement: "The problems with our immigration system are complex, and it is our prayer and hope that Congress will ultimately address this broken system with comprehensive immigration reform. In the meantime, we are concerned that local legislation not create new problems for families or have a negative impact on public safety." Local legislation in Arizona, Oklahoma, Missouri, and elsewhere has contributed new problems to the immigrants living in our midst. Racial profiling and random searches without warrants or reasonable cause are common experiences, leading to the erosion of civil rights for all of us. As Archbishop Jose Gomez, archbishop designate for Los Angeles has stated, "Immigration is the great civil rights test of our time."


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Gleaming and shiny, stainless steel brings a bright and polished air to any kitchen. Keeping that brilliant sheen, however, takes a little bit of work… and some very specific cleaning products.
The first thing to consider when you set out to clean stainless steel appliances, sinks, and countertops is what not to do. Some popular cleaning products will damage the finish on stainless steel, and even plain water can leave unsightly marks and spots if not used properly. Despite its name, stainless steel can and does stain. So first and foremost, for clean stainless steel surfaces, these are products and techniques to avoid:
- DON'T use chlorine bleach or any product containing chloride.
- DON'T use oven cleaners.
- DON'T use steel wool, steel brushes, or highly abrasive scrubbing pads—these can cause scratches or leave a residue of small particles that may rust.
- DON'T use abrasive cleansers on brushed stainless steel.
- DON'T clean a stainless steel surface unless it is cool to the touch.
- DON'T use gritty, dirty, or excessively hard water, as it can leave spots or brownish stains.
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Although the list of what not to do may seem daunting, there are some very simple things that you can do to clean stainless steel appliances without going any farther than your kitchen sink. Keep in mind the following:
• Bob Vila says pay attention to your owner's manual, following the cleaning and care instructions to the letter. Some new stainless steel appliances are treated with a clear-coat finish at the factory, and some cleaning products can strip or mar that finish.
• One of the best habits to adopt is to wipe down your appliances with a damp, soapy washcloth every time you do the dishes; rinse the washcloth with clean water and wipe again to remove any soap; then finish with a wipe of a dry terry towel.
• Always wipe in the direction of the stainless steel "grain," starting at the top of the appliance and working your way down towards the floor.
• For heavier grease or baked-on foods, use a nylon scrubbie, a mild detergent, and hot water. Be sure to rinse the surface and towel dry to prevent water spots or staining.
• To remove really tough dirt and stains, make a paste of baking soda mixed with liquid dish soap and gently scrub with a nylon scrubbie or an old toothbrush. If some stains remain, use undiluted vinegar, again scrubbing gently with a soft brush. Be sure to rinse and towel dry.
• You may want to buff your appliances periodically with a stainless steel polish, lemon oil, or a silicone-based spray to maintain a lustrous finish. Apply the polish in the direction of the grain with a lint-free cloth; buff and dry with another lint-free cloth.
There are numerous non-abrasive cleaners and polishes that are designed specifically for use on stainless steel. My personal favorite to use when I clean stainless steel is 3M professional grade, but there are several other highly recommended brands, including Bar Keeper's Friend, Cerama Bryte, Sprayway and Weiman. When in doubt, always test your cleaner on someplace hidden, like the back or sides, before moving on to the front or top.


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Citing the "chilling effect" the act has on free speech, a federal judge on Wednesday permanently blocked the military from enforcing the National Defense Authorization Act.
The NDAA allows the federal government to indefinitely detain anyone, including American citizens, accused of aiding or participating in terrorism.
The act sparked an avalanche of criticism from journalists and professors alike who claimed it hampered their professions and left them in fear of prosecution.
And on Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest — who issued a preliminary injunction against the act in May — sided with NDAA opponents, saying the act was too vague and violates the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment, Courthouse News Service reported yesterday.
Testimony from those already affected by the act, as well as the government's inability to define the controversial and vague terms, led Forrest to rule the NDAA has a "chilling effect" on free speech.
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WASHINGTON, July 18 (UPI) -- U.S. Senate Democrats say a new bill would allow NASA to go ahead with its plan to lasso an asteroid as part of a future mission to send astronauts to Mars.
The bill, introduced by Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., a former astronaut, contains authorizing language that would grant NASA more flexibility to consider various approaches to the Mars effort and the proposed asteroid mission, The Hill reported Thursday.
NASA's proposed asteroid "snatch" involves capturing an asteroid and dragging it into the moon's orbit where astronauts could explore it.
Nelson's $18.1 billion blueprint, which has the backing of Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., chairman of the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, is in line with spending levels proposed for NASA in an appropriations bill currently being debated in the Senate.
"While our spending plan this year is not as much we'd like NASA to have, it should provide the agency with the resources it needs to continue its mission to deep space and eventually Mars," Nelson said.
NASA has said it considers a successful asteroid mission as a major step toward President Obama's goal of putting men on Mars by the mid-2030s.
"This mission to identify, capture, redirect and sample a small asteroid would mark an unprecedented technological feat that will raise the bar of what humans can do in space," NASA said in its 2014 budget request.


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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A teenager charged in the killing of an 8-year-old boy and the assault of the boy's sister carried the bloodied girl home and blamed someone else for the attack, the siblings' mother said Monday.
The teenager has been charged with the murder and strangulation of the little boy, who is being hailed by the community for apparently trying to protect his sister when he was killed.
"As soon as he could talk, I told (him) he's the man of the house," his mother told The Associated Press, noting that the boy had grown up without a father. "That's what he did. He's a hero."
She said she was sitting outside her Richmond home Thursday when a 16-year-old neighbor walked into the front yard carrying her daughter, weeping and wearing only a T-shirt, on his back. The teenager, who is black, told her a white man had attacked the girl. The girl also initially blamed a white man and said he had raped her.
The Associated Press does not identify alleged victims of sexual assault and is not naming the girl, the mother or her brother.
Police said the teen intimidated the girl into backing his concocted story. He had a brief court appearance Monday and a juvenile court judge ordered him to remain in custody and set another hearing for May 20.
He has not been charged with sexual assault. His name was withheld by police because of his age.
Police have released few details of the attack, saying only that the boy suffered severe head trauma.
His mother, sitting on the front steps of her home, said her son was a second-grader and "a mama's boy" who didn't talk much to other people. He was small for his age, but his tiny stature masked a fighting spirit, she said.
A few feet away in the front yard, a memorial carried that message, saying in part: "A Real Hero Lived, Fought and Died Here." The wooden sign was draped with the boy's parka, surrounded by stuffed animals and toys.
His mother said her son had open-heart surgery when he was 3 months old and doctors said he wasn't going to make it.
Neighbor Andrew Patillo, said the boy looked more like he was 4 or 5 years old.
"He had a big heart to be that small," Patillo said.
The mother said she did not know the teenager accused of attacking her children. His family was relatively new to the neighborhood, she said.
She then rose from the concrete steps to get ready to go view her son's body and shared a final thought: "He's right here in my heart and super strong."
Associated Press Writer John Raby in Charleston, W.Va., contributed to this report.


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WU MAN'S Tour with THE KNIGHTS Performs at Asia Society in NYC Tonight
A new date has been added to Wu Man's United States tour with New York City's The Knights. She will perform with the ensemble at the Asia Society in New York City tonight, February 7, 2013 at 8pm. The Asia Society is located at 725 Park Avenue and tickets are $22 for members; $26 for students/seniors; and $30 for nonmembers. For more information, visit: http://theknightsnyc.com/
Wu Man will perform her own composition Blue and Green (arranged for pipa and string orchestra), and Lou Harrison's Concerto for Pipa & String Orchestra. The program will also include works by Debussy, Milhaud, and Stravinsky.
From February 9 - 25 pipa virtuoso Wu Man, Musical America's 2013 Musician of the Year, will participate as a featured soloist in a nine-city United States tour with New York City's The Knights. This will be Wu Man's debut performance with the ensemble and she will perform two works: Lou Harrison's Concerto for Pipa & String Orchestra, and her own composition Blue and Green arranged for pipa and string orchestra. The program will also include works by Debussy, Milhaud, and Stravinsky. Full tour information is listed below.
Close to ten years ago Wu Man composed a suite for pipa and small ensemble called 'Red, Blue, Green.' Wu Man recorded the movement Green, which is based on a tune sung by her then four-year-old son Vincent, on her 2003 album "Pipa: from a distance." She paired this movement with Blue, a piece based on a folk tune by the Li tribe of South East China, to create the concerto she will be performing with The Knights. She will also perform Lou Harrison's pipa concerto, which was commissioned in 1997 by Lincoln Center for Wu Man and conductor Dennis Russell Davies and the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra.
Through numerous trips to her native China, Wu Man has premiered hundreds of new works for the pipa, while spearheading multimedia projects to both preserve and create awareness of China's ancient musical traditions. Her adventurous spirit and virtuosity have led to collaborations across artistic disciplines allowing Wu Man to reach wider audiences as she works to break through cultural and musical borders. She has spearheaded numerous projects under the umbrella concept, "Return to the East," including her acclaimed CD/DVD 'Borderlands' released in early 2012 as the final installment of the ten-volume "Music of Central Asia" ethnographic series produced by the Aga Khan Trust for Culture and the Smithsonian Institution Center for Folklife and Culture Heritage. Her most recent project was her ethnographic documentary DVD "Discovering a Musical Heartland: Wu Man's Return to China," which was released in September 2012.
Wu Man continues the 2012-13 season with a solo recital and performance of 'A Chinese Home' with the Kronos Quartet at the Auckland Arts Festival in March and will continue to tour with the Silk Road Ensemble throughout the season.
The Knights is a group of New York City musicians co-founded by brothers Colin Jacobsen and Eric Jacobsen, the violin and cello duo that also founded Brooklyn Rider. Retaining the intimacy and spontaneity of chamber music, The Knights continue to expand the classical repertoire with innovative projects while performing in a variety of venues around the world.
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SANTA CLARA – This is the transcript of Vic Fangio's Thursday press conference, courtesy of the 49ers.
Just the matchup, the two wide receivers, how do those guys rate or compare or how difficult it is to prepare for those two guys as opposed to a lot of receiver combinations you guys have faced?
"Well, they're certainly up there as one of the best tandems in the league, if not the best. But, the whole crux of their offense is not just those two guys, it's all 11. You talk about defending the receivers and you have to, well how does that affect [TE Tony] Gonzalez? How does that affect the running game? So, you've got to have a good plan and a good mix to stop this offense. It's not just the receiver-driven offense, although they are two of the best receivers in the league. They have good weapons all over the place and obviously a really good quarterback in [QB Matt] Ryan running the show."
How is LB Patrick Willis evolved since you've been here as far as covering tight ends and just that facet of his game?
"I think he's improved. He's proven that he can do it on a consistent basis. Some weeks are tougher than others. Obviously this week is a very tough week with Gonzalez."
Do they tend to go, we saw the throw that pass to Gonzalez at the end of that crucial drive. Does Ryan tend to go to him in those types of situations, critical situations?
"Well, he certainly has developed a good karma with him in his years there with him. And he feels very comfortable throwing the ball to him. He's got confidence in where Gonzalez is going to be and he likes throwing to him. So, I'm sure he does like looking to him in critical situations. But, the more tape you watch you see him throwing it to other guys, too."
CB Chris Culliver yesterday said that he thought that WR Julio Jones was more difficult to cover because he gets in and out of his breaks better than WR Roddy White. Do you share that sentiment?
"They're both really good. They've got size. They've got speed. They can run good routes. They catch it well and they're both good threats running after the catch. To quibble over which one of those two is better, you're cutting hairs one way or the other."
As big as they are, does it change your approach in trying to hit them at the line and prevent them from getting off the line?
"Sometimes. It's always a good idea to do that. But, again it goes back to the original question. We've got to stop their whole offense, not just the receivers. So, sometimes when you're leaning towards Gonzalez, or running game, that lightens you up outside. So, you just have to mix it up and pick your spots."
How do you evaluate how DT Justin Smith and LB Aldon Smith played together again last Saturday night?
"They played well. They did a good job for us."
Did it seem like the Packers were playing Justin the way any team normally would have during the regular season?
"I think so."
It's easy to look at the numbers and see that Aldon hasn't has a sack in four games. Why do you think that is? Why do you think that he's had this so called drought?
"I don't look at it as a drought. You guys were at the game last week. And the guy was throwing the ball extremely fast. How many plays in the game were there where you were saying, where's the pass rush? It's just they were throwing it fast. He came loose a few times and the ball's gone. I think he's rushing good. I think teams have respect for our rush. They throw it quick sometimes. And those guys are playing fine. It's not always stats. Don't look at that play-by-play after the game and make your conclusions. Watch the game."
What have you seen from their running game?
"Well, right off the bat what jumps out at you is these running backs are running extremely hard. They're two guys that are on the short side, they're built low to the ground. They've got low center of gravity. They run hard. They use their height to their advantage. They create leverage. And they've been running through tackles and running people over. Their line's doing a good job of bodying up and getting on people and these guys are making people miss. You can't get either one of these guys down with an arm tackle."
You mentioned those two backs that are pretty well respected. Statistically I realize what you just said about stats, but they didn't rank very well during the regular season. Why was that?
"I don't know. I've kind of focused most of my attention on their last couple of months' body of work and I don't see it in those games. Maybe they had a bunch of games early in the season where they didn't run it well. But, anytime you throw the ball as much as they have and accumulate the yards that they've had, something's going to suffer along the way. And I guess the running attempts suffered early in the year. But, they're running it very well. They ran it good on a good Seattle defense last week."
RB Michael Turner obviously is an older back. Did it seem like he had fresher legs with that week off last week?
"Yeah, maybe. You'd have to ask him for verification. But, they had the week off. They've been giving the ball more to [RB Jacquizz] Rodgers. So, he hadn't had the amount of carries that he's had in week to week. So, I'm sure he's a little fresher."
The fact that Ryan doesn't run that much, I mean not at all really.
"That much is better than not at all. He does scramble."
He does scramble a little bit. But, I think the fact that he's mainly a pocket passer, does that help you more in your preparation?
"Well, you still have to prepare to stop the offense they're running. The guys that scramble and create, you always have to be prepared to defend two plays. The one they called in the huddle and they're running. And then the one that the scrambling quarterback may create on his own by getting out. So, the work's still the same. Maybe he's not going to scramble as much as [Seattle QB] Russell Wilson or [Packers QB] Aaron Rodgers might. But, you still have to defend their passing game."
You talked about avoiding arm tackling. Your team does tackle well. How much of that is drafted and how much of that is coached?
"How much of that is what?"
How much of it is just drafted? That you draft guys that can, or how much can you coach?
OK. So, when you're coaching it what are the points of emphasis?
"Well, we can't create big seams. You give backs big seams and then a good back becomes a great back. A great back becomes unstoppable. So, it all starts before the tackle is even attempted. You've got to establish a line of scrimmage and not give them big alleys and holes to run through."
Which is, that's the linemen then?
"That's everybody up front taking on their blocks correctly. Not giving these backs room to run and get into your secondary and work on the DB's."
Before they abandoned the run in the second half, Green Bay had some success on the ground. Were you pleased with your run defense?
"Yeah. Some of the success they had was they put [WR Randall Cobb] 18 in backfield and made him a back. And we were in some calls that were better against the pass. And we were a little light and they popped two runs on us there. But, overall the run defense was fine."


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text: Peace scholar to keynote this annual lecture series at Hamline University of Rochester professor and peace scholar Robert Holmes will be at Hamline this week to deliver two presentations for the 27th annual Hanna Lectures. His topics are "Gandhian Nonviolence and its Relevance Today" and "Affirmative Action or Reparations? How to Deal with Social Inequality.""We're excited to have Professor Holmes come to campus to speak on such important issues, said Hamline philosophy professor Stephen Kellert. "We are especially glad that these events complement the recent address by Arun Gandhi during Hamline's Commitment to Community celebration." Both events are free and open to the public and will be in Sundin Music Hall, located at 1531 Hewitt Avenue in Saint Paul. The lecture "Gandhian Nonviolence and its Relevance Today" is at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, October 13. The second event "Affirmative Action or Reparations? How to Deal with Social Inequality" is Thursday, October 14 at 11:30 a.m.For more information on the lectures, click here. Holmes earned his undergraduate degree at Harvard University and his doctorate at the University of Michigan. He has written two books: On War and Morality and Basic Moral Philosophy, and he was the co-editor of Nonviolence in Theory and Practice. Holmes was also a Fulbright lecturer at Moscow State University and the Rajiv Gandhi Professor of Peace and Disarmament at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi.The Paul Robert and Jean Shuman Hanna Lectureship in Philosophy was created in 1982 to bring a distinguished teacher and scholar in philosophy, of national or international reputation, to Hamline University. The donors desired that the Hanna Lectures serve as a memorial to their experience with Professor Gregory Dexter Walcott, their philosophy teacher during their days at Hamline University.


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Great idea for a thread. I love dead cars! I have lots of photos, but not uploadable right now.
It seems that other than buildings, one of the primary relics found at ghost towns are the vehicles left behind by the residents. Of course, it doesn't require finding an abandoned community to find derelict vehicles.
As a result, I've taken up the hobby of finding and taking pictures of there old relics, and I thought I'd go ahead and share a few of what I've come across.
1971 Ford LTD near Issaquah, Washington:
1954 DeSoto at an abandoned farm in Renton, Washington:
1956 Buick and 1959 Ford in Satsop, Washington:
GMC truck in Garibaldi, Oregon:
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Great idea for a thread. I love dead cars! I have lots of photos, but not uploadable right now.
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Great post, Great topic, and Great pics!!! Thanks for sharing!
Steve: Great picture. I swear at least half of that generation of Chevy trucks made are now sitting in fields in various locations around the country.
Here are a few more I've got:
Unknown early thirties car near Rosburg, Washington:
1957 Chevrolet near the ghost town of Altoona, Washington:
1949 Chrysler near Marblemount, Washington:
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October is National Car Care Month.
"The good things a person needs-stubbornness, thinking for himself-don't make him a useful member of society. What makes him useful is to be half dead." Sylvan Hart
I agree, vehicles are usually always left near old ghost towns.
Some I've found over the years:
Old truck front end found north central NV:
Old water tank truck central NV:
Remains of a truck frame, central NV:
Old car, central NV:
And, of course, Old Car Central, near the town of Sulphur, NV:
And last, but not least, the Scene of the Crime: here's where my son got his Felony Jack Rabbit summer 2008.
If you know where to look, this vehicle is visible from Google Earth, so it's been there a couple years. Since this location is miles from anywhere, whoever stole it and left it must have either had another vehicle to ride or walked a lot to get back to civilization.
Not really a ghost town vehicle, but interesting nontheless.
That BMW has seen happier days, eh?
It would be cool to be able to salvage some of those wrecks, but without the ability to get legal title to them it wouldn't be a good idea.
The good thing is that those wrecks are a glimpse into the past, just like the old ore cars we find at old mines. Let future generations see what once was.
Albin: Great pictures. Nevada seems to be a treasure trove of half-dismembered old cars.
As proof, here are a few more from Silver City, Nevada.
1949 Buick Super:
Pile of various cars:
1950 Cadillac:
1962 Ford Country Squire:
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Nationally, most Republican election analysts called it wrong. Moments following the election, Dick Morris repented in sackcloth and ashes. He had missed something that one might call the New Democratic Majority, which is on the order of missing Gibraltar while sailing the southern end of the Iberian Peninsula:
"By the time you finish with the various demographic groups the Democrats win, you almost have a majority in their corner. Count them: Blacks cast 13% of the vote and Obama won them 12-1. Latinos cast 10% and Obama carried them by 7-3. Under 30 voters cast 19% of the vote and Obama swept them by 12-7. Single white women cast 18% of the total vote and Obama won them by 12-6. There is some overlap among these groups, of course, but without allowing for any, Obama won 43-17 before the first married white woman or man over 30 cast their vote. (Lets guess that if we eliminate duplication, the Obama margin would be 35-13) Having conceded these votes, Romney would have had to win over two-thirds of the rest of the vote to win. He almost did. But not quite."
Behold the New Democratic Majority – Blacks, Latinos, voters under 30 and single white women allured by Obama's promise of a Planned Parenthood abortion center in every pot.
Sean Trende's analysis in Real Clear Politics is much different than Morse's. Trende does not deny the importance of capturing neglected minorities but, he points out, Romney's challenge suffered most from a lack of white voters.
The imminent arrival of what Republicans used to call, a note of disapproval in their tone, the Nanny State -- a federal government octopus that wipes every tear with dollars taken from the idle rich while directing the flow of business in what has been quaintly called the private economy -- is supposed to hold this alliance together.
Parts of the alliance will fall away as the country limps along on crutches that date from the election of 1912, the high tide of the Progressive assault on common sense and the entrepreneurial spirit of the country. One likes to think that the powers of resistance of the average American to warmed over socialist schemes floating in the brain of Eugene Debs will survive the next four years in good repair; we are not Venezuela yet, even though Hugo Chavez, along with the progressive President of Russia Vladimir Putin, has given the thumbs up to Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, all promoters of the New Democratic Majority. The New Democratic Majority has been forged in the crucible of Chicago politics. Whether all or some of its component parts will survive after Mr. Obama and Mr. Axelrod leave the scene is very much an open question.
On the home front, Connecticut, far more than the national government, has become a one-party state. The template for the one party state may be found both in Venezuela and Connecticut's major cities, Bridgeport serving as the state's Ohio. As Connecticut's major cities go, so goes the state.
Polls show that Dannel Malloy, the first Democratic governor in Connecticut since the administration of former Governor William O'Neill and the architect of the largest tax increase in state history, remains unpopular. However, voters who prefer an "Anyone but Malloy" candidate in 2014 may be looking at a "No Exit" sign. The governor has put together his own "New Connecticut Democratic Majority." And the way in which his last budget was passed leaves little room for doubt that Mr. Malloy can cobble together a tax and spending plan without including the state's Republican minority in the General Assembly. The architects of Connecticut's last budget were Malloy and his Malloyalists, a Democratic majority in the General Assembly that pre-approved Mr. Malloy's first budget and then invested the governor with plenipotentiary powers to readjust it, and state unions, dubbed by this writer at the time as Connecticut's "third political party."
Connecticut Democrats need surpluses to keep tax consumers well fed and to convince those unfamiliar with the way economies actually perform in the real world that the governor can easily create jobs by giving away millions in tax dollars to large profitable companies adept at crony capitalist bribery.
The jobs Mr. Malloy has claimed to produce in Connecticut do not grow on a jobs tree in the governor's mansion adjacent to the money tree from which the governor, the Malloyalists and Democratic progressives in the state legislature pluck their millions to support grateful crony capitalists. Every dollar consumed in Connecticut taxes is a bucket of water taken from the deep end of the pool and poured into the shallow end by political shysters who hope to convince a majority of voters that the operation will increase the net amount of water in the pool, thus opening the door to unparalleled prosperity.
The surpluses Democrats will need to perpetuate this political fraud must come from somewhere, and taxpayers in Connecticut, already saddled with the largest tax increase in state history, cannot afford further increases – which means Mr. Malloy and the Democrats will do one of two things come budget time: either slash spending deeply, not likely, or pass on the tax burden to municipalities by cutting state support.
The loyal opposition in the General Assembly should begin soon to confront the imposture. They have only their chains to lose, and a world to win.


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Cisco Expands Citrix Alliance, Outlines Cloud Network Services Strategy
Today, on October 17th, at the Citrix Synergy conference in Barcelona, Cisco announced an extension of its successful partnership with Citrix Systems, covering areas of collaboration, mobility, cloud and data center. As a follow-up, I'd like to share information on elements of the announcement that touch upon the network and our L4-7 services strategy for the data center and cloud.
Cisco believes the data center is undergoing a fundamental transformation, with virtualization, cloud, mobility, and new service delivery models. Cisco's systems based approach for network and compute as well as the rich portfolio of L4-7 services and a strong ecosystems approach have contributed to the successful adoption of a unified architecture. Building on Cisco strength and market leadership in Unified Fabric and Unified Compute we are continuing to evolve our L4-L7 "Cloud Network Services" strategy as a key element of our Unified Data Center and Cloud architectures.
Cisco's strategy for Cloud Network Services integrates WAN Optimization, Security, Application Delivery, and Network Monitoring into a seamless converged infrastructure, while bringing consistency across physical and virtual environments. The Cloud Network Services approach provides multi-service consolidation while delivering scale out, elastic instantiation, and multi-tenant operation, all with a common approach to service provisioning and management. This ecosystem friendly architecture incorporates both Cisco plus partner best-in-class application and networking services to provide maximum customer value, while providing a consistent framework across physical and virtual services, including those running on the Nexus virtual services platform."
As part of the announcement, Cisco and Citrix intend to integrate the Citrix NetScaler application delivery controller (ADC) into Cisco "Cloud Network Services" where Cisco market leading services, such as our Virtual Security Gateway (VSG), Cisco ASA, virtual Prime Network Analysis Module (NAM), the Nexus 1000V's own Virtual Supervisor Module (VSM), and Cisco WAAS, will seamlessly coexist with the Citrix ADC.
The Cisco-Citrix partnership delivers a best of breed approach to designing next generation, cloud-ready networks, and couples Cisco's leadership in data center and cloud infrastructure with Citrix's strength in application delivery controllers. Bringing these key technologies together into an integrated solution will help enterprise and service provider customers deliver true cloud service automation with deep network and application level intelligence, speeding service deployment, and simplifying networking services.
In the initial phase of the partnership, Cisco intends to immediately begin incorporating Citrix NetScaler ADC into our solution portfolio and validated designs. This will include high-performance NetScaler MPX appliances, multi-tenant NetScaler SDX platforms, and software-based NetScaler VPX virtual appliances. Cisco will also continue to support and provide feature releases on our existing ACE product line to provide customers maximum flexibility based on their unique needs in application delivery, and deployment lifecycles
Together, Cisco and Citrix will enable Cisco customers to accelerate the transformation to mobile, cloud, virtualization and new network service delivery models. The two companies also plan to collaborate on go-to-market initiatives, including joint account engagement and the publication of Cisco Validated Design (CVD) reference documents, to assist customers to fully leverage Cisco's Cloud Network Services.
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"The main impediment to an economic turnaround for the design and construction industry remains frozen credit markets," says AIA Chief Economist Kermit Baker, PhD, Hon. AIA. "We continue to hear that there are numerous viable projects out there awaiting financing. The longer this situation persists, the more dire the news for the architecture profession which is struggling at unprecedented proportions."


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Baucus locked in feuds with party
He has long been one of the most influential members of Congress, sitting atop the powerful Senate Finance Committee and occupying a seat critical for the Democratic Senate majority.
But for Sen. Max Baucus, power has its limits.
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The 34-year veteran Montana Democrat — who announced suddenly on Tuesday that he wouldn't seek reelection in 2014 — has been locked in a series of tense feuds with the Senate Democratic Caucus and Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.).
In an interview Tuesday afternoon, the 71-year-old Baucus downplayed his feuds with fellow Democrats, and he said it had "nothing to do" with his decision to retire, calling the fights a "curious combination of events." Free of reelection pressures, Baucus said he wants to focus on overhauling the Tax Code before embarking on a new career in 2015.
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"I'm now 71," Baucus said. "You don't need to be a rocket scientist [to know] that if I run and win and finish my next term, I will be close to 80. That kind of limits my opportunity to be able to do things outside of the Senate."
The intraparty battles demonstrate the tight box the Democrat found himself in on Capitol Hill. Baucus wants to achieve a lasting legacy by presiding over the first Tax Code overhaul in nearly 30 years. But as a Democrat from a red state that Mitt Romney won by nearly 14 points in 2012, he has repeatedly clashed with his Senate colleagues and President Barack Obama on such priorities as gun control and budget measures.
The latest series of conflicts were particularly bitter.
( Also on POLITICO: Retiring Baucus could be boon for tax reform)
This week, Baucus failed to persuade not only his caucus — but most Democrats on his own Finance Committee — to block an Internet sales tax bill until his panel could review it.
In March, he strenuously objected to Democratic efforts to include fast-track rules to raise new revenue and potentially overhaul the Tax Code, but Senate Budget Chairwoman Patty Murray did so anyway with the support of Reid.
Moreover, Baucus argued that the nearly $1 trillion in tax increases in the Murray budget resolution were too high — and he was one of just four Democrats to vote against it. Last week, he drew the ire of Democrats across the spectrum with his vote against expanding background checks for gun purchasers as well as for his comments criticizing the Obama administration's handling of the health care law.
( Also on POLITICO: 2014 retirements: Dems heading for the hills)
On top of that, a senior Baucus aide warned Senate GOP and Democratic leadership staffers that there could be repercussions if they crossed his boss during the Internet tax debate, sources said. Baucus, the aide said, would consider making it harder to extend a popular state and local sales tax deduction if senators supported the online tax bill. A Baucus spokesman later said that was all just a joke.
Still, Reid was none too pleased.
"We have 50 Democrats who support this," Reid told POLITICO right before the Senate voted to advance the plan on Monday. "He better take a look at who he's trying to hurt. Fifty Democrats support it."
Still, the Montanan's colleagues were stunned by his decision, given that he had maintained an aggressive fundraising schedule and was a long-standing fixture in the halls of the Senate and his home state. Democrats gave him two standing ovations during a closed-door lunch Tuesday.
"It was a shock," said Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.), who learned of Baucus's decision last night.


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