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Eric Bruno is a contributing editor to Dr. Dobb's and can be contacted at [email protected].
The promises of JavaFX include the ability to quickly and easily create Java GUI applications; run on desktops and mobile devices without changing source code; and the integration of Java code. With it, you can build media-rich applications with far less code than you would with Swing, yet you can still call into your existing Java codebase. This includes databases via JDBC as well, but there are some tricks you'll need to know, which we'll explore here.
Assume you've been asked to build a library front-end system to allow patrons to borrow and return books. The requirements include support for multiple operating systems (i.e. Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux). Java helps to solve that easily, and the addition of JavaFX solves the multimedia requirements as well (such as support for book cover photos, 30-second music samples, and video clips from movies). For our solution's UI, we'll choose JavaFX. The sample code I examine won't include the multimedia features; instead I focus on JDBC integration.
Next, to track library patrons and the books they borrow and return (hopefully), you need a database. For this sample application, I use Java DB since it's open-source, readily available with the Java Development Kit (JDK), and easy to use. Since JavaFX integrates with Java, we should be able to integrate the UI code with the JDBC code with little effort. First, let's discuss how to get started with JavaFX and Java DB development. The complete source code and related files for the Library Application is available here
JavaFX Primer
To begin, you must have JavaFX installed on your development machine. You can find the appropriate download bundle at javafx.com/downloads. If you don't have NetBeans 6.8, it's recommended you download the NetBeans 6.8 and JavaFX bundle; otherwise you can download and install the JavaFX SDK only. If you're committed to Eclipse, you can download the JavaFX plug-in for Eclipse from this page as well. The latest version of JavaFX as of this writing is version 1.2.3.
If you own a Windows Mobile device, you can download JavaFX Mobile to install and run JavaFX applications there as well. For this article, I focus on running JavaFX on the desktop.
If you already have the latest Java and NetBeans installed, you can install the JavaFX plug-in for NetBeans via the Plugins window from the Tools menu (see Figure 1). You'll still need to install the JavaFX SDK separately.
With the JavaFX Kit plug-in, NetBeans allows you to create new JavaFX projects, and the editor will support JavaFX Script development (see Figure 2). This includes syntax highlighting, code completion, in-line error detection, and source code debugging. Project properties allow you to specify how the application is run, such as with Java WebStart, standalone, within a browser, or on a mobile device. You can also specify, if you choose to deploy as a browser-based JavaFX applet, where the applet can be dragged off the browser and onto the desktop -- a convenient feature for JavaFX application installation.
You mainly develop JavaFX applications with JavaFX Script, which is an expressive dynamic language that simplifies the GUI development process. It's also meant to be a straightforward way for non-programmers (i.e. graphic artists) to design user interfaces and content to be shared with programmers. More involved logic can still be built with Java, and easily integrated with the JavaFX Script UI code. Example 1 shows a default, very simple, JavaFX application.
Stage { title: "Application title" scene: Scene { width: 250 height: 80 content: [ Text { font : Font { size : 16 } x: 10 y: 30 content: "Application content" } ] } }
You include more content in the Scene by adding more GUI components to the content property between the opening and closing square brackets, which represent an array of items in JavaFX Script. You control the layout of these items through a combination of horizontal, vertical, and grid layout containers, as well as explicitly setting the x and y placement of each component.
When compiled and run, the script in Example 1 results in an application that resembles Figure 3.
The JavaFX Stage results in the window frame and title bar with the text Application title. The Scene results in the content within the window (outlined in black), such as the text Application content in this example. Although the layout of components in JavaFX Script is straightforward, a graphical layout manager makes the task even easier; this is where the JavaFX Composer tool comes in.


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The VMware vFabric Data Director Installation Guide provides information about installing VMware® vFabric Data Director, including configuring networks, deploying Data Director in vSphere Client as a virtual appliance (vApp) running on a vCenter Server, and performing setup and configuration using the Data Director administration UI.
The Data Director software solution enables you to manage an environment with large numbers of databases, and offers application developers self-service database creation and resource allocation. Data Director supports flexible, policy-based resource management, and provides resource isolation at the organization and database levels. Data Director enables you to implement security policies through role-based access control. You can delegate and grant customizable roles and privileges to specify users' allowed actions.
Self-service database lifecycle management enables application developers to create new databases, manage schemas, set up backups, perform restores, clone databases for testing and development, scale database sizes up, and decommission databases. Customizable database configuration and backup templates enable administrators to control database parameters and enforce resource allocation policies, while simplifying database creation and resource allocation for application developers.
This document is for administrators and application developers.
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Tracing Your Lancashire Ancestors
If you want to find out about Lancashire's history, and particularly if you have family links to the area and your ancestors lived or worked in the county, then this is the ideal book for you. As well as helping you to trace when and where your ancestors were born, married and died, it gives you an insight into the world they knew and a chance to explore their lives at work and at home.
Sue Wilkes's accessible and informative handbook outlines Lancashire's history and describes the origins of its major industries - cotton, coal, transport, engineering, shipbuilding and others. She looks at the stories of important Lancashire families such as the Stanleys, Peels and Egertons, and famous entrepreneurs such as Richard Arkwright, in order to illustrate aspects of Lancashire life and to show how the many sources available for family and local history research can be used.
Relevant documents, specialist archives and libraries, background reading and other sources are recommended throughout this practical book. Also included is a directory of Lancashire archives, libraries and academic repositories, as well as databases of family history societies, useful genealogy websites, and places to visit which bring Lancashire's past to life.
Sue Wilkes's book is the essential companion for anyone who wants to discover their Lancashire roots.


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1.The Lowery Family—1967 Camaro coupe, 1967 Camaro convertible, 2002 Camaro SS
Quick Shot: Some families love a brand, while the Lowery family loves a particular model. Lisa Lowery and husband Allen both have '67 Camaros, Lisa's got a 32,000-mile ragtop with a 350 and stinger hood, Allen's is a restomod that took him 10 years to restore by himself. Their son Stephen keeps the tradition going with an '02 SS. Allen also has a '67 Camaro drag car, while Stephen also has a '01 SS.
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Quick Shot: Eighteen-year-old Jonathon works at Wall 2 Wall performance in Livingston, Louisiana. With the help of his dad, he rebuilt a well-worn '84 Elky that his grandfather passed on to him. The motor is a 383 Jonathon built through work, backed by a 700-R4 and 3.73 gears. With some assistance on the paint and engine assembly, it took him three years to finish.
3. Tom Metzler—1955 150 Sedan
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As longtime readers will know, I advocate looking at changes to earnings-per-share estimates as a way to sniff out what are probably the best-performing stocks. So did this strategy work in 2012? Let's look at the evidence.
First, we take a look at the 20 top-performing and the 20 bottom-performing stocks in the S&P 500. (We'll limit this analysis to the S&P 500 for simplicity, but the analysis applies to broader universes, as well.) The top 20 stocks had an average return of 93.55%, ranging from 188% at Pulte (PHM) to 66% at Trip Advisor (TRIP). Over the course of the year, the average change in the EPS estimate for 2012 was a 38.56% increase. Of the 20 names, only five had estimates lowered during the year.
Among the bottom 20, the average return was minus 32%, ranging from a negative 18% to down 61%. The average change in 2012 EPS estimate was down 61.4%, and every name but one had a negative revision over the course of the year. So it's clear that, for the top and bottom rungs, the estimate changes are highly indicative of likely stock performance.
Is the trend applicable to the full list? For the full S&P 500, I divided the group into quintile groups based on stock performance. In other words, the top 100 names are quintile 1, the next 100 names are quintile 2 and so on. The table below summarizes the results.
Looking at the groups, better stock performance saw similar trajectories in EPS estimates. Stock performance and estimate revisions are highly correlated.
Now, of course they are not perfectly correlated. Some names performed well even with a downtrend in earnings, and vice versa. But, as I often say, if you want to catch fish, go where they are biting. Names with upward-EPS estimate trends are more likely than not to deliver better stock performance. The challenge for you as an investor is to find the names that will see the best upward revisions going forward. It's easier said than done -- but you will earn your returns if you sniff them out correctly.


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Some local food advocates are applauding the new Food Insecurity Nutrition Incentive program in the finally-passed farm bill. The idea is to provide cash incentives to participants in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (aka food stamps) for healthy eating. But a closer look reveals the celebration may be premature at best.
The SNAP incentive concept was pioneered at farmers markets in Maryland, New York City, and California. Up until now, incentive programs have given SNAP shoppers bonus funds when they purchase fresh fruits, vegetables, food-producing plants, and other farmers' market items. This way, SNAP participants would increase their fresh produce consumption while providing more support to local family farmers. Incentive programs have proliferated in farmers markets nationwide over the past decade, funded by private philanthropies and local governments who can determine the rules of their programs to their own liking.
Congress' version will provide $100 million of grants, spread over five years, to provide incentives to encourage produce purchases. But before any money gets doled out, the law must go through the rulemaking process. Rulemaking determines the specifics of how the incentive program will be implemented. If you think the sausage-making in Congress is bad, the regulatory process can be even worse, as corporate interests jockey to get in on the action.
The politics of rulemaking can also cause years of delay. The Obama Administration has delayed regulations in such important food issues as food safety, menu labeling, and school food. Speaking of school food, remember the "pizza is a vegetable" debacle? That was thanks to the politics of rulemaking.
In the meantime, here are some reasons, based on the language in the farm bill, to be skeptical that this federally-funded incentive program will look anything like the grassroots farmers market SNAP incentive programs. (See full text of the farm bill or relevant pages in PDF.)
1) The program does not favor local or even American-grown produce. Note that Congress named its version the "Food Insecurity Nutrition Incentive," not the "Farmers Market Nutrition Incentive" or the "Local Food Incentive Program." The following language lays out the specific criteria the USDA can choose from to determine grantees. Note the important placement of the word OR as opposed to AND at the end of the list. Local food is simply one of several criteria, and "local" is not even defined:
"In awarding grants under this section, the Secretary shall give priority to projects that:
- maximize the share of funds used for direct incentives to participants;
- use direct-to-consumer sales marketing;
- demonstrate a track record of designing and implementing successful nutrition incentive programs that connect low-income consumers and agricultural producers;
- provide locally or regionally produced fruits and vegetables;
- are located in under-served communities;
- address other criteria as established by the Secretary."
Such selective and open-ended criteria could mean prioritizing almost anything containing fruit and vegetables, such as sugary canned peaches, apples imported from China, or Naked Juice (owned by PepsiCo). Clearly, local or even U.S. farmers are not guaranteed to benefit from this program. Indeed, a 2008 report to Congress by the Government Accountability Office warned that in federally-funded incentive programs "selection of foods to promote could be controversial and challenging," because:
"Various interests—such as food manufacturers, nutritionists, participant advocacy groups, and states—may have differing opinions about which foods should be targeted for promotion and which should be excluded. Food manufacturers may want the targeted foods to include a wide variety of products because they could see financial gain, nutritionists may not agree on which foods are the healthiest, and advocacy groups may not want FSP [Food Stamp Program] participants to be restricted in their food choices. States may also advocate for locally grown or produced foods to be targeted for promotion… State officials we interviewed commented that if fruits and vegetables were the targeted foods, they should be eligible in any form—canned, frozen, and fresh—because fresh produce may not be equally available throughout the year or throughout the country."
2) The program is not just for farmers markets. Listed as "eligible entity:"
- nonprofit organization
- agricultural cooperative
- producer network or association
- community health organization
- public benefit corporation
- economic development corporation
- farmers' market
- community-supported agriculture program
- buying club
- retail food store participating in the supplemental nutrition assistance program
- State, local, or tribal agency; and
- any other entity the Secretary designates.
Because any SNAP retailer can apply for and receive incentive grant funding, some of these incentive program dollars may end up at gas stations, convenience stores, and Walmart. These retailers are far less likely to focus their inventory on local produce and healthy eating. And a much smaller portion, if any, of the incentive dollars will end up supporting family farmers.
3) Despite some media reports and Senate Agriculture Committee chair Debbie Stabenow referring to the program as "doubling" produce purchases, the actual language is silent on the incentive amount. The previous USDA Healthy Incentive Pilot program provided just 30 cents for every dollar spent on supermarket produce, for example. Here is the actual language:
"…would increase the purchase of fruits and vegetables by low-income consumers participating in the supplemental nutrition assistance program by providing incentives at the point of purchase."
4) The program is competitive and applicants must contribute 50 percent of the funding, either cash or in-kind. This may create a serious financial barrier for local governments, nonprofits, and farmers markets to even apply. Moreover, grant-writers do not usually work for free. Getting any grant money from USDA will require spending money.
So before celebrating, there are still a lot of details to be ironed out through the administrative process and the grants that get awarded. Some people are already under the wrong impression that all SNAP purchases made at farmers markets will be incentivized. Finally, under the program, the funding averages $20 million a year (for five years) in an $80 billion annual program with more than 47 million participants. If every SNAP participant were included, that would amount to less than 50 cents of incentives per person – for the entire year – barely enough to buy an apple.


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Great Websites you may want to visit
|Fluid Power Society
|This is an excellent site for all things hydraulic, marine, vehicular or industrial.
|American Boat and Yacht Council
|This is the organization that originates a set of "best practices" for all non-commercial marine. They have guidelines for just about all aspects of marine; electrical, mechanical, hydraulic just to name a few.
|Marine site (Boat Diesel.Com)
|This is a comprehensive site dedicated to marine mechanical systems. They have a very good question and answer section that is interesting and informative. You can actually join the site by paying a yearly fee.
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Making no pretense of setting the comedic bar particularly high, "Brothers" is more notable for its cast than anything coming out of their mouths. The starting lineup includes former NFL star Michael Strahan and wheelchair-bound comic Daryl Chill Mitchell as the program's squabbling siblings, CCH Pounder as their imperious mother and the inspired choice of Carl Weathers as their slightly daft dad. There's actually a modicum of chemistry among that quartet. If only the laugh lines in the show's playbook yielded an actual laugh.
Bringing only sportscasting experience from Fox's NFL pregame show to the party, Strahan stars capably enough as Mike Trainor, who is summoned home to Houston after a pro football career to again take up residence with his folks. They own a local bar, and Mike's celebrity will theoretically help generate traffic as the venture faces tough times.
The prodigal son's return, however, doesn't sit well with brother Chill (Mitchell), who resents Mike — a hostility he expresses, repeatedly, via a series of tired one-liners. Mitchell delivers them reasonably well, but other than the gag about his mom testing his paralysis by jabbing his thigh with a fork, most viewers will be able to intercept the jokes well before he delivers him. (The character was injured in a car accident; Mitchell — whose sitcom credits include "Veronica's Closet" — was paralyzed in a 2001 motorcycle crash.)
Pounder keeps the peace as their mother Adele, and given her association with various dramas (most recently "The Shield"), dives right into this comedic part, putting that trademark glower to as much use as she can.
Everything about "Brothers" speaks to its modest ambitions, including a second episode (the two will air back to back to create a one-hour launch) in which Mike's one-night stand yields a predictable tirade about violating "house rules" — even though he purchased said house for the family with his football-gotten gains.
It's been awhile since a comedy has made any headway on Friday night — or for that matter, a live-action sitcom has gained any Nielsen yardage on Fox. From that perspective, this qualifies as a recession-era choice, driven as much by marketing as creative concerns: Fox clearly hopes that a modest urban audience might be available and looking for something undemanding heading into the weekend, while the football component offers obvious tie-ins and the potential for guest shots by other Fox Sports personalities.
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Jeter ties Ripken for 13th all-time with hit No. 3,184
Jeter ties Ripken for 13th all-time with hit No. 3,184
Ripken was 41 years old and three games away from retirement when he recorded hit No. 3,184 of his career -- a single off Frank Castillo of the Red Sox. Jeter turned 38 on Tuesday, and only Hank Aaron (3,272) and Ty Cobb (3,666) had more hits than the Yankees captain before that age.
"Right now, it's kind of hard to sit around and think about," Jeter said after flying out to the warning track to end a 4-3 loss to the White Sox. "Obviously, what [Ripken] represents to the game, being a shortstop, he's someone I've always admired. But at this moment right now, it's not something I'm thinking about."
Nap Lajoie is next on the all-time hits list for Jeter at 3,242.
Jeter entered Thursday's game at Yankee Stadium leading the American League in hits with 95, and was well on his way to his 13th All-Star Game appearance -- which will be played July 10 at 8 p.m. ET on FOX at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City -- and seventh consecutive bid. Ripken played in 18 All-Star Games during his 21-year career in Baltimore.
Ripken moved to third base for his final five seasons after playing his first 16 years at shortstop, giving him an even better perspective of what Jeter is still accomplishing, with no thought of retirement.
"Sometimes it's unfair when we compare a guy like Jeter to his younger self," Ripken said Wednesday. "There was so much talk last year about losing range and maybe declining at his position. I'm sure he internalized last year, worked harder in the offseason.
"You don't hear any talk about that now, and just based on what he is doing, you don't think about his age. He's a fantastic player and has been fantastic for a long time."


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provide entertainment, enlightenment, laughter and education. We're
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"Boys, I gotta
tell you. This cold transmits me reversely to the winter of '47.
Cold? It thicklicated your blood so much you could hardly walk. You
remember it, Doc? Ol' Miller at the dairy had to ignitiolize a fire
under the milk separator to liquinate it. Why, even the dickie birds
got refrigelated up and crashed!
"You boys know about them engine heatilations, right? Well, it
was so cold we were obligatored to pre-heat the blamed firewood
before we could burn it. Diesel trucks were immobilating up at 60
miles an hour and it still took them a mile and a half to stop.
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"Some of the women were knitling up sweaters that would fit two
people, just to take advantage of the body heat. Dang near caused
epilemic divorce, 'cause the husband wanted to go one way and the
wife another. I tell you, it was parsimonium! It was blame near four
days and nights erstwhile an ol' he-coon down 'long Lewis Creek
recomnized he'd been treed by the hounds, 'cuz the dogs' bawling
frosticated up concretely afore he could hear it."
Windy paused for a sip or two. No one wanted to interrupt.
"Some winters," Windy said, "just take the former limitarions to
Yeah. We'd always figured it that way, too.
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Hi my friends.
In this topic i learn a one way that anyone can find speed and jump value in any of games.this way for those who that can not find speed and jump value in Dissect Data Structures.
1.First find the variable value of player for example X position.
2.Your address is "xxxxxxxx" so your player speed and jump is in this area of address.
3.Usually in more games the speed and jump value are between "0"-"50"and this values are float or double.
4.Change value type to float or double(depends to game) then change scan type to value between... ,put "0" in first box and put "50" in other box.
5.Scan for value, you find many values go to game and move the player back to ce and choose Unchanged Value do this work until amount of results decrease.
6.you only want find speed and jump so change the values of addresses that is in your player coordinates address to Desired value (example : 100).
Do not doubt yourself a success.
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U.S. wins first ever medal in mix doubles sculls
ETON DORNEY — The U.S. trunk and arms mixed double sculls crew of Rob Jones (Lovettsville, Va.) and Oksana Masters (Louisville, Ky.) won bronze Sunday at the London 2012 Paralympic Games in Eton Dorney, outside London. It is the first Paralympic medal in the trunk and arms mixed double sculls event for Team USA.
"I promised not to cry," Masters said. "I feel pretty amazing. Oh my God I thought we came fourth, I had no idea. I am speechless, this is unreal. We have been together less than a year."
China won gold in 3:57.63, with France taking silver in 4:03.06. The U.S. crew was in sixth place at the start, but worked it's way through the field, crossing the line in 4:05.56 to edge out Great Britain by 0.21 seconds.
"My body hurts," Jones said. "I couldn't really tell where we were at the end. We just sprinted and pulled out everything we had. We just couldn't quite catch France. I knew we were pretty close in the last 600 meters. I knew that was the time to empty the bank account of all the work we have been doing over the last year to get the bronze. Thankfully that was enough."
Jones is a U.S. Marine Sergeant who became a bilateral above knee amputee in July of 2010 while serving in Afghanistan. Masters, also a bilateral above-knee amputee, was adopted from the Ukraine at the age of seven.


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TheAncientGoat {l Wrote}:I agree, the media folder, especially the textures folder, could use cleaning up. Personally, I'd like to see folders for each creature, which would make it slightly more sane. Also, what's up with those material preview images? Surely they aren't used for anything?
TheAncientGoat {l Wrote}:There are ways to work in separate folders from a central location too, and while having everything in one folder is kind of convenient, it is rather... messy
Skorpio {l Wrote}: I don't care if it's messy, as long as it's faster.
svenskmand {l Wrote}:Skorpio {l Wrote}: I don't care if it's messy, as long as it's faster.
I agree, nobody will look at this. And the few people who will (Skorpio) should have it their way to be able to work efficient. When we make a new release it is automatically compiled and packaged anyways. And players of the game could not careless about file structure in the game folder, they will never look at it.
The clean up should benefit us the developers, not be a hassle.
blablub {l Wrote}:The content grouping is one aspect (the graphic guys can sort their stuff as they like it). But another aspect is the folder "deepness". The folder structure should not be unnecessary deep. That's why I suggested removing the Media folder. It's an unneeded level of deepness (because there are no other folders on the same level). That's like putting a multi-panel bookshelf in a one-panel cupboard.
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This article originally appeared in the May/June 2011 edition of The Environmental Forum (www.eli.org), and is reposted with permission.
Given the dim prospects for climate change legislation in the 112th Congress, all eyes have turned to federal agencies and the states as the primary drivers of climate and energy policy in the United States. In a July 2010 report for the World Resources Institute titled "Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the United States Using Existing Federal Authorities and State Action," we examined the emissions reduction potential of federal authorities on the books and announced state actions to determine whether the United States could reduce its emissions of heat-trapping gases that cause global warming, even as Congress refuses to tackle the problem. We concluded that federal agencies and states could indeed put the United States far along on a path to meet its international commitment to reduce emissions by 17 percent from 2005 levels by 2020 if the Obama administration pursues a go-getter approach.
Since issuance of the report, we have been tracking actions by federal agencies to reduce global warming pollution. While it is too early to know whether the administration's actions will be enough to substantially reduce U.S. emissions of heat-trapping gases, it has made significant steps in the right direction. Additional steps can and should be taken, using a variety of laws and regulations under the aegis of several agencies. This article identifies additional steps to drive significant short-term abatement.
As the administration takes action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, some in Congress have mounted efforts to stop them. A number of bills and amendments have been advanced that, if enacted, would delay or stop EPA and other agencies from driving reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. At the time this article was finalized for publication, no significant anti-regulatory measure had made it to the president's desk. Should such a measure be passed, the administration has signaled that President Obama would veto the bill. To overcome that veto, anti-regulatory legislators would need to muster a two-thirds vote in both the Senate and House of Representatives — a feat that appears unlikely. Congressional pressure on the administration can nevertheless have a dampening effect on its policy decisions even if Congress fails to strip federal agencies of their authority to regulate greenhouse gases. Political pressure could result in less ambitious regulations and fewer reductions.
As we watch the administration, hope for meaningful reductions also comes from the states. In the past, states have demonstrated capacity to effect change when the federal government has not acted. While the outlook has shifted with last fall's elections, recent actions by EPA, which require state participation under the federal Clean Air Act, will provide impetus for states to resume some work in this space. Federal agencies currently possess regulatory authority over a wide range of greenhouse gas emitters in the United States. The most significant of these authorities are contained in the Clean Air Act. In 2007, the Supreme Court decided that greenhouse gases fit within the expansive definition of a pollutant under the act. That decision made a range of regulatory tools to reduce emissions available to EPA. The CAA does prescribe limits on EPA action, however, as the major statutory authorities likely to be employed under the act — Title II vehicle emissions standards, Section 111 performance standards for power plants and industry, and Title VI regulation of hydrofluorocarbons, require that EPA base emissions standards not solely on scientific determinations of what is required to stave off the worst effects of global warming, but also on careful considerations of cost and other impacts.
Fortunately, EPA is not alone in its endeavor to reduce emissions of the heat-trapping gases that cause global warming. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration shares with EPA the authority to establish Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards for light, medium, and heavy-duty vehicles, which together account for nearly one-quarter of all U.S. GHG emissions. The Department of Energy has the ability to drive reductions in emissions through efficiency standards for appliances and equipment, and the Federal Aviation Administration is empowered to regulate the aviation industry. Meanwhile, the Department of the Interior, through its Bureau of Land Management, and the Department of Agriculture, through its Forest Service and farm programs, have the ability to improve the way that public and private lands are managed.
Predicting what EPA and other federal agencies will be able to accomplish when they use the regulatory tools afforded them under current federal law is not an exact science. Because we cannot forecast what each federal agency will do, we developed three scenarios meant to capture the range of reductions we might see. The scenarios are based on a careful reading of the statutory language and published technical studies. The range of reductions projected under these scenarios is depicted in Figure 1. Our analysis finds the United States falling short of the its international commitment to reduce emissions to 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020 even if federal agencies are aggressive about achieving reductions. If federal agencies fully take advantage of the regulatory authorities and pursue reductions like go-getters, they could reduce U.S. emissions to 12 percent below 2005 levels by 2020, five percentage points shy of realizing the U.S. commitment. If federal agencies fail to capitalize on available reduction opportunities, however, middle-of-the-road or lackluster reductions will result, and the U.S. will fall far short of the 2020 goal. Emissions reductions continue past 2020 as standards are made more stringent and as old, inefficient sources are replaced. Thus, a go-getter approach would net 22 percent reduction from 2005 levels in 2030 due to federal action alone. We depict the president's international commitment, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020, and by 83 percent in 2050, with the straight line labeled 17% and 83% reduction pathway. For comparison purposes we have indicated the reductions necessary to prevent greenhouse gases from rising above 450 parts per million of carbon dioxide equivalent, to prevent global average temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius.
Figure 1: Projected U.S. Emissions under Different Federal Regulatory Scenarios
Figure 2: Projected U.S. Emissions under Different Federal Regulatory Scenarios and State Scenarios
It might be possible to close all or part of the gap through discrete legislative enactments that fill holes in federal agency authorities. For example, the Department of Energy could be granted the authority to establish national energy efficiency codes for buildings. Congress could improve the way that transportation funding is allocated to encourage smart planning that leads to reductions in the growth of vehicle miles traveled. In the long-term, our study suggests that we will need more significant legislative measures as the gap between the go-getter line and the reduction targets grows, and certainly if we are to achieve the much deeper reductions warranted by the science.
States can also help close the emissions gap. Traditionally states have exercised broad authority to regulate energy production and delivery within their borders. States have also been first movers when it comes to enacting environmental laws to reduce pollution. States are demonstrated innovators in the energy space, with over half adopting renewable portfolio standards, which require a stated percentage of renewable generation, and another half adopting energy efficiency promoting policies such as systems benefits charges and energy efficiency portfolio standards.
States have more recently begun to take advantage of their authority to regulate GHG emissions. New Hampshire was the first to pass a law to cap greenhouse gas emissions from power plants in January 2002, and Massachusetts sought to reduce GHGs from its dirtiest power plants through regulations shortly thereafter. In 2009, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative began to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from large power plants in 10 northeastern and mid-Atlantic states. California and New Mexico subsequently passed regulations that would lead to the implementation of multi-sector cap-and-trade programs for GHGs. In addition, a number of states have begun developing low carbon fuel standards. Given this history, it is not a question of whether states will take action, but instead how many will act and how. In an effort to help understand their contribution, we developed state scenarios based on previously expressed ambition. The cumulative reductions that could result from various levels of combined state and federal ambition are depicted in Figure 2. Reductions in the 2020 time frame for a go-getter approach amount to 14 percent reductions from 2005 levels by 2020 if state action is factored in as well, still short of the 17 percent commitment.
Having briefly examined the available federal authorities and assessed the potential emissions reductions from federal and state action, and suggesting ways that additional reductions could be accomplished to close the emissions reduction gap, we turn first to the status of federal action. Federal agencies are at various stages of setting regulations that would affect approximately two-thirds of U.S. GHG emissions. In the space that follows we lay out the progress made to date across each major sector of the U.S. economy and identify the areas where significant potential remains. Just over one quarter of U.S. emissions come from the transportation sector. The bulk of these emissions (16 percent of total U.S. emissions) come from lightduty vehicles, a category that includes cars and small trucks. The next largest sources of transportation emissions are medium- and heavy-duty vehicles, categories that account for eight percent of total U.S. emissions and include tractor-trailers, refuse haulers, urban delivery trucks, and very large pickup trucks. Congress has vested authority in both the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and EPA to drive improvements in these sources. The Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1975, as amended by the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, provides NHTSA with the authority to establish Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards for light, medium, and heavy-duty vehicles. Meanwhile, Title II of the Clean Air Act provides EPA with the authority to establish GHG emissions standards for these sources. NHTSA and EPA have already finalized standards for lightduty vehicles of model years 2012 through 2016, and are currently working to develop standards for model years 2017 through 2025. That proposal is due to be released on September 1, 2011. In addition, NHTSA and EPA proposed the first ever standards for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles in October 2010. These rules will affect medium- and heavy-duty vehicles sold from 2014 through 2018.
The electric power sector represents approximately one-third of U.S. emissions of heat-trapping gases. Industry, chiefly manufacturing plants and refineries and the like, make up another 15 percent of U.S. GHG emissions. When EPA's regulations for lightduty vehicles went into effect on January 2, 2011, CAA requirements for pre-construction permitting of certain large power plants and industrial facilities were triggered. Under the act, new and modified major stationary sources that emit more than 250 tons of GHGs must apply for pre-construction permits under the Prevention of Significant Deterioration/Best Achievable Control Technology permitting program. Because the statutory threshold would have required EPA to go through permitting processes for hundreds of thousands of sources, EPA issued the so-called "Tailoring Rule" in May 2010 citing "administrative necessity." This limited what facilities will be covered to only very large greenhouse gas emitters such as new and modified power plants and industrial facilities and prevented regulation of small businesses, like the proverbial mom and pop grocery, under the pre-construction permitting program. The pre-construction permitting program only applies to new and modified units. In addition, it is carried out in a case-specific manner that provides little certainty about the environmental outcomes.
A much more appealing program for the regulation of large sources such as power plants and industry is performance standards under CAA Section 111. Section 111 provides for the establishment of performance standards for new and modified sources under Section 111(b) and mandatory emissions guidelines that require states to regulate existing sources under Section 111(d). In December 2010, EPA announced that it will propose the first GHG performance standards and mandatory emissions guidelines under Section 111 for power plants by July 26, 2011, and finalize those standards and guidelines by May 26, 2012. The agency also announced that it will propose corresponding standards and mandatory guidelines for refineries by December 15, 2011, and finalize those by November 15, 2012. States must follow the guidelines and propose performance standards to cover existing power plants and refineries. Together these sources account for nearly 40 percent of the U.S. emissions inventory.
While EPA is working to reduce emissions by making power generation less carbon intensive, the Department of Energy is doing its part to reduce emissions by driving down energy demand. According to the Appliance Standards Awareness Project, DOE updated 10 different efficiency standards between January 2009 and February 2011 and is scheduled to update another 13 standards by the end of 2011. While the transportation, electric power, and industrial sectors tend to get the most attention when considering policies to reduce emissions, our study finds that some relatively small sectors such as landfills, coal mines, natural gas systems, and hydrofluorocarbons can contribute in major ways at relatively low cost. These sectors only account for 7 percent of U.S. emissions, but can account for 37 to 60 percent of the reductions in 2020.
HFCs are a rapidly growing source of emissions. They are primarily used in refrigeration and air conditioning. Congress granted EPA the authority to regulate these emissions through CAA Title VI. The first indication that the administration intended to regulate these sources was provided by its 2009 joint U.S., Canadian, and Mexican proposal to amend the Montreal Protocol submitted to the United Nations Environment Program Ozone Secretariat. Those amendments were resubmitted in 2010, but have not yet passed. EPA and the State Department have indicated that they intend to continue working with signatories over the coming year in effort to pass those amendments. Once those amendments are adopted, the CAA automatically vests EPA with the authority to meet its commitments under the Montreal Protocol. Independent of this pathway, EPA could also begin to pursue delisting of approved substitutes under its Significant New Alternatives Policy program, which implements CAA Section 612. Though the substitutes currently only account for only two percent of the GHG emissions inventory, significant growth in emissions is expected if action is not taken. If the ramp-down schedule put forth in the joint proposal is followed, then considerable reductions from business-as-usual projections are possible.
The case for reducing GHG emissions from large non-agricultural methane sources such as landfills, coal mines, and natural gas systems is just as strong, though EPA has not yet indicated it intends to regulate these sources. Even though such sources only represent a combined 5 percent of the U.S. GHG inventory, reductions from these sources are available at a relatively low cost. For example, EPA estimates that landfills can reduce their emissions by about 60 percent at $8 per ton of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions (CO2e) and 74 percent at $20 per ton of CO2e, and that coal mines can reduce emissions by 86 percent at only $5 per ton of CO2e.
The contribution of these sources becomes even more significant when one considers the 20-year global warming potential. Global warming is a long-term problem due to the inertia behind our existing energy infrastructure and the fact that the leading greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, resides in the atmosphere for hundreds of years. Therefore, the most commonly accepted measure of a greenhouse gas's impact is the 100-year global warming potential. However, recent data suggest that we are starting to see impacts of climate change now, and so some have suggested that we look at short-duration gases as a way to buy ourselves time to make the steep reductions necessary. If we do that, and instead consider the impact that the gases will have over the next 20 years, we find that in 2020 reductions from non-agricultural methane sources could mitigate climate change impacts as much as emissions reductions from power plants and several times the reductions possible from manufacturing. EPA, however, has not yet signaled its intent to begin regulating these sources.
Additional reductions may be possible through improved management of public and private lands. For example, the Forest Service could increase sequestration on federal forest lands while the Bureau of Land Management could increase sequestration on some of the 264 million acres of public lands that it administers. The Department of Agriculture could also encourage practices that would reduce greenhouse gas emissions or increase sequestration on farmland. In the first iteration of the report we could not identify any literature that would allow us to accurately quantify the magnitude of sequestration possible using existing regulatory policies without expanding program budgets. As a result, we did not include such policies in our analysis. We hope to close this gap in subsequent updates to the report. Following our approach in other sectors, once we can associate meaningful greenhouse gas abatement with specific policies, we will track progress towards their implementation. Just as the outlook in Congress has changed, so too has the outlook at the state level. The northeastern and mid-Atlantic Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, which covers CO2 emissions from large power plants, was launched in January 2009. RGGI was followed by the Western Climate Initiative and the Midwestern Accord, both of which are designed for implementation in the 2012 timeframe. If fully implemented by all participants, these initiatives would have covered 23 U.S. states. However, of the 13 states engaged in the WCI and Midwestern Accord, only New Mexico and California have taken steps to promulgate regulations to implement the cap-and-trade program, suggesting that these two initiatives will fall considerably short of their goals.
Beginning in 2011, however, states will have new impetus to regulate emissions from existing large stationary sources, such as power plants and industry. EPA sets performance standards for new and modified units under CAA Section 111(b). EPA then establishes guidelines that require states to regulate existing units under CAA Section 111(d). States have considerable flexibility in how they meet those guidelines so long as they can demonstrate that their program is no less stringent than the guidelines established by EPA. States already moving forward with cap-and-trade programs are expected to ask EPA to allow those programs to be used for compliance with emissions guidelines established by EPA via New Source Performance Standards. In our joint WRI and Columbia Law School Center for Climate Change Law working paper "What's Ahead for Power Plants and Industry, Using the Clean Air Act to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Building on Existing Regional Programs," we find that there is room for EPA to honor such a request. In short the argument is that while Section 111 does not expressively provide for the states' establishment of a cap-and-trade program for greenhouse gases, it requires states to develop a plan that establishes a "standard of performance" for the air pollutant. EPA has previously interpreted "standard of performance" to allow for cap-and-trade. This was done in both the mercury and greenhouse gas context. While this interpretation was contested in a legal challenge to the Clean Air Mercury Rule, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals never decided the legal challenge to the CAMR cap-and-trade program, and instead vacated CAMR on other grounds. The Bush EPA's Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on greenhouse gas regulations issued in July 2008 recapitulated this interpretation of the CAA, concluding that cap and trade is a permissible option for regulation under Section 111(d).
The Obama EPA, however, has neither endorsed nor disavowed the previous administration's interpretation of the act to allow cap and trade. Although the Supreme Court in 1978 held in ASARCO v. EPA that trading is not permitted for new plant standards under Section 111(b), EPA has argued that this decision was later overturned by the Court in Chevron v. NRDC and furthermore to the extent that ASARCO is still good law, it applies only to standards of performance for new units under 111(b), and not the more flexible process for existing units under 111(d). Though we find that there is likely to be considerable flexibility afforded to states as they propose plans to comply with EPA's emissions guidelines, there are likely to be some limitations around certain provisions, such as scope, offsets, and cost-containment. These issues are explored in more detail in the working paper.
Moving forward it is likely that states will continue to develop and implement new programs that drive reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. For example, states may adopt programs that encourage investment in renewable energy and energy efficiency, drive improvements in building efficiency, improve land use management, or reduce the greenhouse gas footprint of transportation fuels. Such policies could drive greenhouse gas emissions reductions beyond what can be achieved through federal action alone, helping us to reach the Obama administration's 17 percent reduction target.
In the absence of comprehensive climate and energy legislation, federal agencies and states can be major drivers of greenhouse gas emissions reductions. As our WRI report reveals, Congress has provided federal agencies with valuable tools that can help the nation achieve significant reductions in the near term. EPA and other federal agencies have begun the significant task of regulating emissions across a number of economic sectors, including transportation, electricity and some industry. Additional sectors, such as coal mines, natural gas distribution systems, and landfills, present promising areas for low-cost regulation that EPA should address in the near term. While some members of the 112th Congress have expressed an interest in eliminating these authorities, no such legislation has passed, and the Obama administration retains the power of the veto. So, the possibility for significant action remains, and the 17 percent reduction target is still within sight. Readers can track the administration's progress towards this goal using WRI's web-based regulations tracker at www.wri.org/federalclimateaction.
Finally, it is worth keeping an eye on the states to see what role they will assume moving forward in crafting creative solutions to the climate problem as they comply with new EPA regulations, and also to see to what extent they will help drive deeper reductions than federal agencies can achieve alone.


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Various Claremont parks are the sites for a family friendly, and free, film series this summer, sponsored by those cineastes over at the Claremont Police Department, who sponsor the movies and serve hot dogs, chips and sodas. No wonder police officers are our friends.
The events start at 6:30 p.m. with food and games for the kids; the movies start at dusk. The remaining movies:
Thursday, Blaisdell Park: "Firehouse Dog."
Tuesday, July 28, Larkin Park: "Sandlot."
(Which is a great movie, btw.)
Thursday, July 30, June Vail Park: "Open Season 2."
Tuesday, Aug. 4, Memorial Park: "Night at the Museum 2."
That night is the last in the series and coincides with National Night Out. The first 750 guests get free In-N-Out burgers. Oh, yes, police officers ARE our friends.


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Chickens circle Brockley
760 outlets already, 300 more in the next 3-5 years.
It seems a mathematical certainty that KFC will come to SE4.
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760 outlets already, 300 more in the next 3-5 years.
It seems a mathematical certainty that KFC will come to SE4.
Posted by Brockley Nick on 16.2.09
Is KFC a premium brand or do our own outlets count as boutique, indepentand outlets?
Tis the age of the fried chicken eater
The only issue I have with fried chicken is when, the kids on the bus going home from school, throw the bones on the seats or if we're 'lucky' the floor.
Our own outlets are hardly independent - they are franchises, just like KFC, but not as successful. I'd rather have KFC, as there is some attempt at corporate responsibilty and I think they would keep the premises and the outside cleaner. I'd also enjoy it when we tackle them about a conservation area compliant sign if they opened on Brockley Road.
And their Chicken is better
KFC beats the others hands down.
Have to admit I am partial to a zinger.
The mini fillet, can be very good; a small chicken sandwich with seasoned mayo and lettuce for £1.09, the 'popcorn' chicken is mad though.
The Colonel's Meal for me - simple and straightforward.
Looks like we've found neutral ground where the Brockley Meedja ruling class and the proletariat can resolve their differences.
A peace summit over a family bucket value deal (hold the coleslaw though, it's rank)
I agree about the bones, they get everywhere. Science needs to intervene to create exoskeletal chickens specifically for the this industry.
And for that exoskeleton to be seasoned with a secret blend of 11 different herbs and spices.
Then the organic crowd would get all in a flap... (as it were)
One of the many problems with people posting anonymously is that it looks as though anon is laughing at his or her own joke...
Mind you the idea of a family meal served in a bucket tell you all you need to know.
(have been known to scoff a crafty Burker King Angus burger when stumbling along drunk for the last train back to Brockley)
Sorry Monkeyboy, what do you mean it tells "you all you need to know" ?
Hugh Fearnley-Wearnley and Jamie Wamie wno't be happy unless the chicken is organic, outdoor, free range, corn fed and molli-coddled which I doubt is the case even for KFC.
On a parallel tack for those of you interested in running a local business the New Cross Inn is for sale today, in the Christies advert in the Metro.
Only £1.8 million.... that's about the same as the Red House isn't it Hugh?
The bucket helps with the after effects – you can put it next to your bed.
I have had a zinger and they are not bad but the buckets of battered hen taste awful. They use pepper and I think pepper with a little pepper for seasoning.
Hugh and James might condone the exoskeletal chicken idea as it gives them added protection against foxes and other predators whilst they sunbathe by the farmers free range pool.
DD - Forget the exo-skeletal chicken. The first to develop a boneless cuboid hybrid will be set up for life.
Of course, easier to store in the freezer.
Anyone see Richard Hammonds programme on the Airbus last night? The aviation industry has their own chicken gun which fires chicken carcases at around 180 MPH onto fuselage to test its resilience to bird strike.
The left overs make nice chicken nuggets apparently.
what would a chicken be doing that high up in the air anyway?
(didn't that plane that landed in the hudson the other week end up like that because it hit a bird)
maybe they should fire birds at them instead
Hope you are not eating the chicken that crossed Brockley road, because these people will tell you why it crossed over.
Hemingway: To die in the rain.
Wordsworth: To wander lonely as a cloud.
Constable: For a better view.
Hamlet: That is not the question.
Donne; It crosseth for thee.
Aristotle: To actualise it's potential:
Buddha: If you ask this question you deny your own chicken nature.
Christ. You can tell it's half term...
was hamlet a real person?
Not to encourage Zeus, but the Donne one made me chortle.
I went to a comprehensive so I don't understand any of it.
Sorry but I have been encouraged. Listen to what these people said.
Mark Twain: The news of it's crossing has been greatly exaggerated.
Emerson: It didn't cross the road it transcended it.
Pyrrho the Skeptic: What road?
Thoreau: to live deliberately.......and suck all the marrow out of life.
Blake: To see heaven in a wild fowl.
Othello: Jealousy.
The Godfather: I didn't want it's mother to see to see it like that.
Goethe: It's internal hen principle made it do it.
Another from Britain's comprehensives here. Not a member of the mung bean crowd.
you should try making them up yourself zeus and not just nicking them from the internet (http://philosophy.eserver.org/chicken.txt)
if you asked JPM why the chicken crossed the road?
so as to not snipe and sarc from the sidelines and have a full and frank, face to face discussion about the relative merits of the topic under hand - do you want to come to my house, i said do you want to come to my house, i'll give you my address i'll give you my address, i'm right i'm right i used to be a.....zzzz
I thought the chicken riddles were odd given the introduction....
There is a lot of serious shit happening on this planet, when will you carpetbaggers who weaseled your way into Brockley learn. It's always the same old crap from you white politically correct middle classes. Waffling on about your own self importance and nothing else.
Zeus is back.
Half term indeed.
Anon - not sure that a comprehensive school background is antithetic to liking mung beans, or indeed knowing stuff.
This is the problem with the mung-bean stereotype, the people using it don't even know what they're supposed to be mocking. It seems to embrace anyone who's vaguely interested in walking or eating nice food.
i agree
it devalues the whole project
Totally Nick. I 'get' the chicken/philosopher gags, but wouldn't have understood them whilst still at (non-comprehensive) school. Have come to appreciate other ways of seeing things as I've become older.
To the person who called me a cyber terrorist be warned I had a peep on your computer yesterday.
Hey Fred Vest sure I can make them up, my flight to Peru is in 2 hours so have to be quick.
Charles Bronson: It had a death wish.
Bob Dylan.: It didn' want to work on Maggie's farm no more
Just home from work, and what do I find here, nothing but a load of chickenshit.
ooohhhh Peru! Strangley we found ourselves in a large DIY superstore in Lima. We we're waiting for a coach and were sick of getting shafted by dodgy cabs so we decided to kill three hours there. The DIY store had a KFC so we spent three hours looking at Peruvian wallpaper and eating food we recognised. Had the cleanest toilets in the city too.
These things are important whilst backpacking.
(I know realise that 40 is TOO old for such antics, nice hotels for me from now on)
Too many anons on here.
I am the real anon.
NO you are not I AM the real ANON!!!!
Ah Monkeyboy is 40 - now I know where to place him on a popculture scale.
Zeus off to Peru and only comes on at half term - hmm frustrated teacher perhaps?
After reading this thread, we went out and got a bucket of the Colonel's finest last night. I must be an ad exec's dream.
Too embarassed to write my moniker (not about the KFC, but about the malable mind), so this is going anon.
What about the chicken?! Won't somebody please think of the chicken!?
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Dear Representative Montgomery and Senator Pale:
I write to express the views of the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice(1) regarding A.B. 207 and S.B. 107.(2) We applaud the State of Wisconsin's efforts to ensure that the local cable-television franchising system benefits consumers by allowing additional video-service providers to enter the market. Recent efforts in other states to improve the efficiency of the cable franchise process have already yielded significant consumer benefits.
Consumers typically are best served when market forces determine where and when competitors enter. Regulatory restrictions that make it difficult for companies to enter markets tend to shield incumbents from competition and lead to higher costs, reduced innovation, and diminished choices for consumers. We believe that such restrictions should be avoided except where necessary to protect other compelling public policy goals, and even then should be tailored as narrowly as possible to limit the impact on competition.
Cable television consumers would be better served if franchising restrictions did not prevent the market from creating a wider selection of providers. Additional competition from wireline video providers, including the telephone companies, has the potential to provide lower prices, better quality services, and more innovation to consumers.(3) See Figure 1.
Figure 1: Average Cable Rates in Areas With and Without Wireline Competition, 2001
Graph based upon data from GAO report titled, Issues Related to Competition and Subscriber Rates in the Cable Television Industry, Rep. No. GAO-04-8 (2003) (change derived from GAO model parameters evaluated at reported mean observation of average cable price).
For example, a survey conducted last year in Texas suggests that Verizon, which had begun offering its FiOS service in some parts of the state, was able to achieve significant market share within a few months of entry.(4) The customers who reported switching providers did so primarily in order to obtain better quality, better packaging, better pricing, and better programming.(5) Overall, the survey found that increased competition was generating more than $2 million in annual consumer benefits in the few areas where video competition had taken hold.(6)
Delays in the cable-television franchising process can also negatively impact the roll-out of higher-speed broadband Internet services to consumers. Some new video providers, such as the telephone companies, are providing video services over upgraded networks that support voice, video, and higher-speed broadband services. Because the revenues from offering video factor into the profitability these upgrades, a delay in receiving a cable television franchise can cause new entrants to postpone modernizing their networks.
Consumer gains in both video and broadband services are more likely to be realized if franchising authorities do not impose restrictions on entry beyond those necessary to protect the public interest. Evidence suggests this has not always been the case.(7) For example, some local franchising authorities have taken a long time to process applications for franchises, made demands for goods and services (such as landscaping) that are unrelated to the provision of video services, or imposed build-out requirements that have unnecessarily discouraged competitive entry. The Federal Communications Commission recently said this conduct can create unreasonable barriers to entry into the provision of video services.(8)
Municipalities have legitimate interests in preserving the integrity of public rights of way. However, this interest generally does not justify regulations that impede competition in the provision of video programming or broadband services. Consequently, the Department believes that consumers will benefit from legislation that:
(A) establishes standard, enforceable time frames as well as a statewide process for acting on franchise applications;
The current bills, A.B. 207 and S.B. 107, address these issues by providing a state-wide franchising process with a requirement that the Department of Financial Institutions act on a completed application within 10 business days. These provisions appear likely to benefit Wisconsin consumers.
A number of states have passed similar legislation. For example, in 2005, Texas passed a statewide franchising bill.(10) The Texas law moves cable television franchising authority from the municipalities to the Texas Public Utilities Commission (TPUC) and requires the TPUC to act on a completed franchise application within 17 business days of receipt.(11) Texas has no build-out requirements, although franchisees are prohibited from denying service based on the income level of an area.(12)
The current local cable-television franchising process can block the entry of new video competitors and slow the introduction of higher-speed broadband services. The Department applauds the State of Wisconsin's efforts to improve this process and enhance competition. As in most industries, limiting barriers to entry for video-service providers will benefit consumers by reducing costs, encouraging innovation, and broadening consumer choice.
1. The Department is one of the federal agencies responsible for enforcing the antitrust laws and protecting competition.
2. A.B. 207, 98th Leg., Reg. Sess. (Wis. 2007); S.B. 107, 98th Leg., Reg. Sess. (Wis. 2007).
3. See Gen. Accounting Office, Issues Related to Competition and Subscriber Rates in Cable Television Industry, Rep. No. GAO-04-8, at 9 (2003); see also Jerry Ellig & Jerry Brito, Video Killed the Franchise Star: The Consumer Cost of Cable Franchising and Proposed Policy Alternatives 12 (2006) (stating "[e]conomic research demonstrates conclusively that wireline competition leads to lower prices and improved quality"), available at http://www.mercatus.org/repository/docLib/20060818_Brito_Ellig_Video_Franchising_Final_WP_PDF_Aug_2006.pdf.
4. See American Consumer Institute, Does Cable Competition Really Work? A Survey of Cable TV Subscribers in Texas 10 (2006), available at http://www.theamericanconsumer.org/Consumers%20Saving%20from%20Competition.pdf.
5. Id. at 12, Fig. 2.
6. Id. at 3. According to the survey, 48% of the consumers who switched providers reported savings that averaged more than $20 per month. Id. at 11.
7. See Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, In re: Implementation of Section 621(a)(1) of the Cable Communications Policy Act of 1984 as amended by the Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act of 1992, 20 F.C.C.R. 18581, 18584-85 (2005) (citations omitted).
8. See Report and Order and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, In re: Implementation of Section 621(a)(1) of the Cable Communications Policy Act of 1984 as amended by the Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act of 1992, MB Docket No. 05-311, FCC 06-180 (rel. Mar. 5, 2007).
9. In considering any mandated build-out requirements imposed by local cable franchising authorities, the legislature should take into account their potential entry-deterring effects. As a result, the legislature should consider whether such requirements should be imposed at all or, if so, only where necessary to prevent income discrimination.
10. Tex. Util. Code Ann. §§ 66.001 et seq. (2005).
11. Id. § 66.003.
12. Id. § 66.007.


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A cut or savings? The $716 billion question
One of the biggest battlefields in the 2012 elections involves $716 billion in Medicare savings projected over the decade under the federal Affordable Care Act, now known on both sides of the aisle as "Obamacare."
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney first charged that the ACA "robbed" the $716 billion from Medicare, the insurance program for the nation's elderly. By last week's presidential debate, Romney changed his verb to "cutting" Medicare by $716 billion.
Then, during last Sunday's U.S. Senate debate, Republican Linda McMahon declared that Democratic 5th District Congressman Chris Murphy voted to "take out" $716 billion from Medicare when he approved the legislation.
Murphy said the money would come from insurance companies and drug companies.
1. What does this $716 billion truly represent?
PolitiFact, the Pulitzer Prize-winning fact-checking service of The Tampa Bay Times, rated Romney's comment "mostly" false. "The only element of truth here is that the health care law seeks to reduce future Medicare spending, and the tally of those cost reductions over the next 10 years is $716 billion," says PolitiFact's online research. "The money wasn't `robbed,' however, and other presidents have made similar reductions to the Medicare program."
Coincidentally, the $716 billion savings was included in the partisan House budget engineered by Rep. Paul Ryan, now the GOP vice presidential nominee. It met a dead end in the Democratic-controlled Senate.
2. Who arrived at the $716 billion figure?
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office originally targeted the 10-year savings under the ACA at $500 billion, but it rose to $716 since the bill was signed into law by the president in March of 2010.
3. So where will these Medicare savings come from?
Hospitals, doctors and insurers will be getting less, mostly through efficiencies and transitioning away from a pay-for-services business model.
According to nonpartisan fact checkers and the Congressional Budget Office, the ACA does not cut funding to Medicare overall, but reduces future budgetary increases while expanding some benefits.
A significant portion of the money comes from the Medicare Advantage program, where increased competition among private insurance companies is expected to create savings for seniors.
Also, hospitals would see lower Medicare reimbursements if they fell short in meeting patient needs or if they report excessive readmissions of patients. The savings would be an estimated $415 billion, the lion's share of the $716 billion that has become such a political football.
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Miguel Flores, 22, was cremated Monday afternoon in Hillside with his best friend, Erick Lagunas, 21, after they were killed the night before Thanksgiving in a crash where an off-duty Chicago police officer was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol.
Miguel Flores, 22, was cremated Monday afternoon in Hillside with his best friend, Erick Lagunas, 21, after they were killed the night before Thanksgiving in a crash where an off-duty Chicago police officer was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol.
The families of the Cicero men, including a third friend, Reynaldo Barajas, 21, also of Cicero, have hired attorney Daniel O'Connor to look into filing a civil lawsuit and investigate the incident that occurred on the North Side of Chicago.
Flores didn't make it to Thanksgiving dinner with his family, one of his favorite celebrations, and his family said they have been waiting to hear answers from the Chicago Police Department.
In memory
Miguel Flores, 22
Hometown: Lifelong Cicero resident
High school: Graduate of Morton East
Profession: Carpentry, member of Carpenters Local 54
Favorite things: Fixing things, eating, playing with nephews, basketball
"We didn't get to see him come home for Thanksgiving, but the cop got to walk away and go home," said Blanca Flores, 20, his sister. "It's not fair."
Attempts to reach the families of Lagunas and Barajas were unsuccessful.
The police officer, John Ardelean, 33, has been reassigned to desk duty pending an investigation, Chicago police spokesman Pat Camden said.
Ardelean, a five-year veteran of the Chicago department, had been working in the 19th District, the same district where he was accused of driving drunk, when his Dodge Durango sport utility vehicle hit the Pontiac Grand Am sedan in which the three Cicero men were riding on the 2900 block of North Damen Avenue about 2:50 a.m. Thursday.
Ardelean was charged with misdemeanor DUI and failure to reduce speed, Camden said.
Blanca Flores and family friend Armando Casas, 21, of Cicero, said they didn't know an off-duty police officer was charged in the accident until they saw TV reports.
"We were angry," Casas said. "We put our trust in police officers, and if this is what he does in the city where he works ... it has to be addressed. ... He's a person who knows how the justice system works."
Miguel Flores lived in Cicero all his life. He graduated from Morton East High School in 2004.
"He liked basketball," Blanca Flores said. "And he liked playing with his nephews. He'd drive the 7-year-old nephew to basketball practices, and he never missed any of his (Clyde Park District) games at the Cicero Stadium."
Flores practiced carpentry as his profession and belonged to Carpenters Local 54.
Casas said Flores talked about starting a carpentry business.
"He would fix anything ... holes in the wall, pipes," Casas said.
Blanca Flores said her brother worked on refurbishing the basement and finishing the kitchen ceiling of their house where he lived with his mother, two sisters, his sister's boyfriend and nephews.
Friday a memorial beneath a framed floral painting in their dining room had three lit candles in front of Flores' eighth-grade photo, another where he was sitting on the couch after a day of work, a few of him and his family, and one of him and his girlfriend.


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As I say, I read the Pali Canon because it's useful and well written. Period. Ok, ok, I make my fair share of the mistakes explained above, I like the idea of sitting zazen in Japanese Water Gardens and part of me probably thinks that's enlightenment, but I'm learning, like at Christmas when you learn it's not about the presents, but you still give them.
As to luminous minds:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminous_mind" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;Luminous mind (also, "brightly shining mind," "brightly shining citta") (Pali, pabhassara citta) is a term attributed to the Buddha in the Nikayas. The mind (citta) is said to be "luminous" whether or not it is tainted by mental defilements.[1]
The statement is given no direct doctrinal explanation in the Pali discourses, but later Buddhist schools explained it using various concepts developed by them.[2]
I don't explain it by developing concepts - I recognise it as true. I have no real faith in the logic or systems developed by any Buddhist School whatsoever. I regard logical systems ultimately as a category mistake, though useful at times e.g. if you're doing calculus. I regard Buddha's teachings as teachings, meant to be realised and not extrapolated and made to jump through ludicrous hoop arrangements just to reassure the mind which is afraid that the world doesn't make sense on its terms. Apologies for including another poem, but they do explain things better than prose sometimes.
A soldier is lost in a library. Between page and eye
birds are forming from coloured honey.
The soldier thinks there are so many answers, but mine must be
the prettiest. The birds are fountains that swallow themselves.
They are all liars, but they sing well and pretend
they exist and are sane. The soldier juggles with them,
clings to them, entreats them,
wrings them till they spill
ink over continents, thinks
that if they are mad then the world is mad.
The birds shed themselves empty.
The answers are not colours and sweetness, the soldier
is pleading, is pleading, is pleading.
So there is support for my statement.Luminous consciousness
Although an enlightened individual's consciousness is a karmic result, it is not limited by usual samsaric constraints.[4] The Buddha discusses in the context of nirvana a kind of consciousness described as:
Consciousness without feature, without end, luminous all around.[14][15]
This "consciousness without surface" differs from the kinds of consciousness associated to the six sense media, which have a "surface" that they fall upon and arise in response to.[14] In a liberated individual it is directly known, without intermediary, free from any dependence on conditions at all.[14][16] According to Peter Harvey, the early texts are ambivalent as to whether or not the term "consciousness" is accurate.[17] In one interpretation, the "luminous consciousness" is identical with nirvana.[18][19]
Maybe what I say doesn't accord with the view of a monolothic 'Theravada' as you refer to it, though I think I've shown that my view is one accepted interpretation, but I read the passage in the sutra and I know what's being referred to, because that's the experience I've had of my mind. Also in the other, negative, quotes about mind you provided, Buddha was talking about mental processes, thoughts, which can indeed be all the negative things detailed. In the luminous quote Buddha is talking about unconditioned mind, which is not just a mental process but everything experienced (is mind).


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Jon Gosselin is reportedly responding to TLC's lawsuit against him with a countersuit for $5 million.
According to Radar Online, the reality dad is fighting back after TLC filed a suit against him claiming breach of contract.
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The 32-year-old dad "is likely to argue that TLC is preventing him from earning a living with a contract that is too restrictive," Radar reported.
As previously reported on AccessHollywood.com, TLC announced it was filing suit against Jon last month over breach of contract.
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The lawsuit, filed in Maryland, alleges that the dad of eight hasn't met the obligations of his contract as an exclusive employee, has appeared on other programs for pay and made unauthorized disclosures about the show.
In a statement to Access Hollywood, Gosselin's lawyer, Mark Jay Heller, previously responded to the allegations, calling the suit a "baseless action."
A judge granted motions for TLC's lawyers to depose Gosselin's former friend, Michael Lohan, along with girlfriend Hailey Glassman and members of Gosselin's staff in the suit that begins in a Maryland court on December 14.
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According to Radar, Gosselin currently does not have formal representation in Maryland. His current lawyer, Heller, is not licensed to practice in the state.
When contacted Access Hollywood has TLC had no comment.
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Wilkinsburg School District running out of money
District files petition to borrow $3 million
In the past two years, the Wilkinsburg School District has closed an elementary school and laid off nearly one-third of its employees, but the district is still on the brink of running out of money.
As a result, the district recently filed a court petition seeking to borrow $3 million.
"Nobody knows where the money's going. Where's the money? We pay taxes, where's the money?" said resident Shirley Caldwell.
Last year, Caldwell gathered 300 signatures to save Johnston Elementary School, but the district still closed it to save money.
Wilkinsburg officials said the money – more than $3 million a year – is going to charter schools, and during the past few years, they've seen cuts in state aid.
The school's business manager told Channel 4 Action News' Paul Van Osdol that changes in state funding have been "fiscally disastrous to school districts."
Butch Santicola, spokesman for the Pennsylvania State Education Association, agrees.
"You go to any school district and superintendents will tell you the same thing: charter schools are costing tons of money in this state,"' he said.
But a state Department of Education representative said Wilkinsburg actually got an increase in state aid this year.
Wilkinsburg has already raised taxes the maximum amount, leaving it no option but to borrow money.
Students told Channel 4 Action News that the money problems are having an impact.
Next month, a judge will rule on the petition and decide whether Wilkinsburg can borrow the money it needs to make payroll. The district is also hoping to make extra money by selling the old Johnston school.


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World largest or biggest dog is Hercules. Currently Hercules holds the Guinness record of world biggest living dog. Hercules is an English Mastiff dog and has 38 inch neck and weight 282 pounds. Hercules owner is Mr. Flynn and he said that the Hercules weight is natural. From his words "" I fed him normal food and he just grew".
If you have a dog with 283 pound just call up to break the Guinness world record. English Mastiff is a large dog and it gives very excellent reputation from who know them.
However the world biggest dog is Zobra. Still Zobra hold the record that world biggest and largest dog Guinness record. Zobra weight 343 pounds and measured 8 feet and 3 inches long to his nose to tail.
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Sam Shepard's A Lie of the Mind is the first production to be presented this academic year by Hofstra University's Department of Drama and Dance. Performance dates are October 4-13, 2013, at the Black Box Theater, located in the New Academic Building on Hofstra's South Campus. In 2010 Ben Brantley of The New York Times wrote A Lie of the Mind is "Mr. Shepard's richest and most penetrating play, a 20th-century masterwork of a family portrait to be compared with Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night and Harold Pinter's Homecoming.
Show times are:
Friday, October 4 and 11, at 8 p.m.
Saturday, October 5 and 12, at 8 p.m.
Sunday, October 6 and 13, at 2 p.m.
Thursday, October 10, at 8 p.m.
Tickets are $10, $8 for senior citizens (over 65) or matriculated non-Hofstra students with ID. Members of the Hofstra community may receive up to two free tickets upon presentation of a current HofstraCard. Tickets may be purchased online at www.Tickets.com. Tickets are also available at the John Cranford Adams Box Office at (516) 463-6644, Monday through Friday, 11:15 a.m.-3:45 p.m. Available tickets will also be sold at the Black Box Theater, starting 90 minutes before each performance.
Professor Jean Dobie Giebel, director of this production, has written in her director's notes of the play, "The deeper I travelled into A Lie of the Mind, the more I fell in love with the characters in the play, and the more I loved them, the harder I laughed at their foibles, and cried at their catastrophes. They are my family. I find their relationships as familiar as old songs I know too well, but played somehow out of tune. My heart aches for them, and hopes for them. In a terrifying way, they are America."
For more information on the Department of Drama and Dance's 2013-2014 season, visit www.hofstra.edu/drama-dance.