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Quarterly Report
This report contains forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements include, without limitation, statements containing the words "believes","anticipates","expects","intends","projects","will" and other words of similar import or the negative of those terms or expressions. Forward-looking statements in this report include, but are not limited to, expectations of future levels of research and development spending, general and administrative spending, levels of capital expenditures and operating results, sufficiency of our capital resources, our intention to pursue and consummate strategic opportunities available to us.. Forward-looking statements subject to certain known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to those described in "Risk Factors" of the reports we file with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
We are a biopharmaceutical company specializing in discovering, developing and commercializing molecular imaging pharmaceuticals with initial applications in the area of cardiology. Molecular imaging pharmaceuticals are radiopharmaceuticals that enable early detection of disease through the visualization of subtle changes in biochemical and biological processes. We currently have two clinical-stage molecular imaging pharmaceutical product candidates: CardioPET and BFPET. Additionally we have identified potential candidates that may be useful in the detection and/or treatment of vulnerable plaque.
Our Product Candidates
Our BFPET ([18F]-labeled cationic lipophilic tetraphosphonium) is an imaging agent used in stress-testing for patients with presumptive or proven Cardiac Artery Disease (CAD). BFPET measures the cardiovascular blood flow through the detection of ischemic (reversibly damaged) and infarcted (irreversibly damaged) myocardium (heart) tissue. Its mechanism of action is to enter the myocardial cells of the heart muscle in direct proportion to blood flow and membrane potential (the most important indicators of adequate cardiac blood supply). Since ischemic and infarcted myocardial cells take up significantly less BFPET than normal healthy myocardial cells do, BFPET can distinguish ischemic and infarcted cells from those that are healthy. Therefore, as a result of BFPET's use, we believe ischemic heart tissue can be more reliably detected using BFPET. We anticipate that BFPET will primarily be used in conjunction with stress-testing for patients with suspected or proven chronic CAD. If approved, BFPET will represent one of the first molecular imaging blood flow agent commercialized for use in the cardiovascular segment of the PET imaging market.
Currently, cardiac perfusion imaging is performed with SPECT tracers such Cardiolite®, Thallium-201 or the PET tracer Rubidium-82. However, SPECT imaging only has approximately 75% diagnostic accuracy with research showing that 10% of patients cleared as "normal" were subsequently found to be "abnormal" using PET imaging. The current PET tracer Rubidium-82 has experienced FDA recall and high cost issues.
BFPET successfully completed the Phase Ia clinical trial in 12 healthy volunteers with no adverse events and no clinically significant changes noted in follow-up clinical and laboratory testing (trial ID# NCT00733460). The results of the trial demonstrated the required dosimetry, safety profile and high resolution myocardial imaging pharmacokinetics to justify a controlled Phase II clinical trial. In January 2013, we announced that we will begin Phase II trials at Massachusetts General Hospital to assess its efficacy in CAD subjects.
Our CardioPET (Trans-9-[18F]-Fluoro-3, 4-Methyleneheptadecanoic Acid) is a
molecular imaging agent to assess myocardial metabolism for patients with
Coronary Artery Disease (CAD), especially for patients who are unable to perform
exercise cardiac stress-testing. CardioPET allows for the detection of ischemic
(reversibly damaged) and infarcted (irreversibly damaged) myocardium (heart)
tissue in patients with presumptive or proven acute and chronic CAD.
In addition, CardioPET could be used for Cardiac Viability Assessment (CVA) for the prediction of improvement prior to and/or following revascularization in patients with acute CAD including myocardial infarction (heart attack). Because CardioPET allows for the identification of damaged but viable heart tissue, is important since revascularization in those patients with substantial viable myocardium results in improved left ventricular function and survival. Importantly, CardioPET, if approved, may have several significant advantages for assessing cardiac viability using PET, and would likely represent the first imaging agent available in the U.S. for use in patients with acute and chronic CAD that cannot undergo stress-testing. CardioPET is designed to provide the metabolic component for CVA. Accordingly, it may be used with either BFPET or other blood flow agents in performing CVA.
CardioPET has completed Phase I trials and is enrolling patients in its Phase II trials to assess its safety and efficacy in CAD subjects. Phase II clinical trial plan for CardioPET will be an open label trial designed to assess the safety and diagnostic performance of CardioPET as compared to stress echocardiography, myocardial perfusion imaging and angiography as a gold standard of background disease. Specifically, the Phase II trial will consist of between 30-100 individuals with known stable chronic CAD who cannot undergo stress-testing for the evaluation of suspected or proven CAD. We could close out a phase IIa trial and switch the remaining enrolled patients into a Phase IIb trial in patients with acute CAD that are undergoing CVA for the prediction of functional improvement either prior to, or following, revascularization. Two trial sites are currently planned in Belgium and results are expected in the second half of 2013.
On June 20, 2013, the Company announced its internal review of imaging data received from our ongoing Phase II clinical trial for CardioPET™ (FCPHA) to assess myocardial perfusion and fatty acid uptake in coronary artery disease patients.
We are developing VasoPET, Diadenosine-5'5'''-P1, P4-tetraphosphate (Ap4A) analogs, such as P2, P3-monochloromethylene diadenosine 5', 5'''-P1, P4-tetraphosphate (Ap2CHClp2A), as novel molecular imaging agent for the detection of "vulnerable" coronary artery plaque in patients with CAD. VasoPET, if approved, would represent the first PET cardiac product to reliably image inflamed plaque and therefore may differentiate between vulnerable and stable coronary artery plaque.
The rupture of atherosclerotic plaques and the subsequent formation of thrombi are currently recognized as the primary mechanisms of myocardial and cerebral infarctions. Therefore, the detection of vulnerable plaque in atherosclerotic lesions is a desirable goal-and to date remains both a significant unmet clinical objective and a large unaddressed market opportunity.
Coronary artery plaques grow over time and progressively narrow the lumen of the coronary artery until blood flow to the heart diminishes to a critical level. The decrease in blood flow causes symptoms of chest pain (angina), at first during exercise and then progressively during rest. Rupture of the plaque and/or clot formation overlying the plaque may then result in myocardial ischemia and/or myocardial infarction. Coronary artery plaque that is "vulnerable" is differentiated from its "stable" form by a large lipid-rich atheromatous core, a thin fibrous cap, and infiltration by inflammatory cells such as macrophages. The risk factor for rupture (and subsequent heart attack) is currently thought to be independent of plaque size and arterial narrowing, but rather is thought to correlate more with the presence of inflammation.
Recent Accounting Pronouncements
Management does not expect any recently issued, but not yet effective, accounting standards to have a material effect on its results of operations or financial condition.
Critical Accounting Policies
This summary of significant accounting policies is presented to assist in understanding our consolidated financial statements. The consolidated financial statements and notes are representations of our management, which is responsible for their integrity and objectivity. These accounting policies conform to accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America ("GAAP") and have been consistently applied in the preparation of the financial statements.
Accounting for Share-Based Payments
We follow the provisions of ASC Topic 718, which establishes the accounting for transactions in which an entity exchanges equity securities for services and requires companies to expense the estimated fair value of these awards over the requisite service period. We use the Black-Scholes option pricing model in determining fair value. Accordingly, compensation is recognized using the fair value method and expected term accrual requirements as prescribed.
We account for share-based payments granted to non-employees in accordance with ASC Topic 505, "Equity Based Payments to Non-Employees." The Company determines the fair value of the stock-based payment as either the fair value of the consideration received or the fair value of the equity instruments issued, whichever is more reliably measurable. If the fair value of the equity instruments issued is used, it is measured using the stock price and other measurement assumptions as of the earlier of either (1) the date at which a commitment for performance by the counterparty to earn the equity instruments is reached, or (2) the date at which the counterparty's performance is complete.
The fair value of each share based payment is estimated on the measurement date using the Black-Scholes model with the following assumptions, which are determined at the beginning of each year and utilized in all calculations for that year:
Risk-Free Interest Rate. We utilized the U.S. Treasury yield curve in effect at the time of grant with a term consistent with the expected term of our awards.
Expected Volatility. We calculate the expected volatility based on a volatility index of peer companies as we did not have sufficient historical market information to estimate the volatility of our own stock.
Dividend Yield. We have not declared a dividend on its common stock since its inception and have no intentions of declaring a dividend in the foreseeable future and therefore used a dividend yield of zero.
Expected Term. The expected term of options granted represents the period of time that options are expected to be outstanding. We estimated the expected term of stock options by using the simplified method. For warrants, the expected term represents the actual term of the warrant.
Forfeitures. Estimates of option forfeitures are based on our experience. We will adjust our estimate of forfeitures over the requisite service period based on the extent to which actual forfeitures differ, or are expected to differ, from such estimates. Changes in estimated forfeitures will be recognized through a cumulative catch-up adjustment in the period of change and will also impact the amount of compensation expense to be recognized in future periods.
We assess the impairment of long-lived assets, including other intangible assets, whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that their carrying value may not be recoverable in accordance with ASC Topic 360-10-35, "Impairment or Disposal of Long-Lived Assets." The determination of related estimated useful lives and whether or not these assets are impaired involves significant judgments, related primarily to the future profitability and/or future value of the assets. We hold investments in companies having operations or technologies in areas that are within or adjacent to our strategic focus when acquired, all of which are privately held and whose values are difficult to determine. We record an investment impairment charge if it believes an investment has experienced a decline in value that is other than temporary.
Management has determined that no impairments had occurred as of June 30, 2013 or December 31, 2012.
Intangible Assets
Our intangible assets consist of technology licenses and are carried at the legal cost to obtain them. Intangible assets are amortized using the straight-line method over the estimated useful life. Useful lives are as follows: technology licenses 5 to 15 years.
Research and Development Costs
Research and development costs are expensed as incurred. The cost of intellectual property purchased from others that is immediately marketable or that has an alternative future use is capitalized and amortized as intangible assets. Capitalized costs are amortized using the straight-line method over the estimated economic life of the related asset.
Use of Estimates
The accompanying consolidated financial statements are prepared in conformity with GAAP in the United States of America, and include certain estimates and assumptions which affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements, and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Accordingly, actual results may differ from those estimates.
Three and Six Months Ended June 30, 2013 compared to the Three and Six Months Ended June 30, 2012.
There were no operating revenues for the three and six months ended June 30, 2013 and 2012.
General and Administrative Expenses
General and administrative expenses were $718,722 and $586,167 for the three months ended June 30, 2013 and 2012, respectively. General and administrative expenses were $1,486,321 and $1,228,086 for the six months ended June 30, 2013 and 2012, respectively. The increase was due primarily to increases in investor relations activities as well as a general increase in operating expenses, which we expect to increase going forward, in the long term, as we proceed to move our technologies forward toward commercialization.
Research and Development Expenses
Research and development expenses were $365,534 and $264,976 for the three months ended June 30, 2013 and 2012, respectively. Research and development expenses were $656,733 and $560,271 for the six months ended June 30, 2013 and 2012, respectively. In the six months ended June 30, 2013, the Company incurred approximately $220,000 in clinical trial expenses. We expect research and development expenses to continue to increase in future periods as we continue our clinical studies of our lead candidates in cardiology and pursue our strategic opportunities.
Interest and Other Income and Expenses, net
Other income (expense), net was $(16,604) and $187 for the three months ended June 30, 2013 and 2012, respectively. Other income, net was $54,088 and $124,374 for the six months ended June 30, 2013 and 2012, respectively. For the six months ended June 30, 2013, the Company received other income of approximately $70,000 from the sale of an insurance company of which we were a policyholder, offset by approximately $17,000 of expenses related to the closing of the notes payable. For the six months ended June 30, 2012, the Company recorded a gain on settlements of accounts payable of approximately $124,000.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
We have experienced net losses and negative cash flows from operations since our inception. We have sustained cumulative losses of $19,069,227 as of June 30, 2013. We have historically financed our operations through issuances of equity and the proceeds of debt instruments. In the past, we have also provided for our cash needs by issuing common stock, options and warrants for certain operating costs, including consulting and professional fees. During the year ended December 31, 2012, we raised gross proceeds of $1,546,250 through a private placement of our common stock and warrants.
In June 2013, we entered into Note Purchase Agreements (the "Notes") with investors for the sale and issuance of 10% promissory notes in the aggregate principal amount of $200,000.
We continue to actively pursue various funding options, including equity offerings, to obtain additional funds to continue the development of its products and bring them to commercial markets. Management continues to assess fund raising opportunities to ensure minimal dilution to its existing shareholder base and to obtain the best price for its securities. Management is optimistic based upon its ability to raise funds in prior years, through private placement offerings, that it will be able to raise additional funds in the future. There can be no assurance that we will be able to consummate any fund raising transactions on terms acceptable to us or at all or in the time frames we anticipate. If we are unable to raise additional capital as may be needed to meet our projections for operating expenses, it could have a material adverse effect on liquidity or require us to cease or significantly delay some of its clinical trials.
Net cash used in operating activities for the six months ended June 30, 2013 was $1,437,124, which primarily reflected our net loss of $2,088,966 offset by non-cash expenses of $466,789 and a decrease in working capital of $185,033. Net cash used in operating activities for the six months ended June 30, 2012 was $1,541,585 which primarily reflected our net loss of $1,663,983, changes in working capital and gain on settlement of accounts payable of $124,000.
Net cash used by investing activities was $1,029 for the six months ended June 30, 2013, which primarily reflected purchases of office equipment. For the six months ended June 30, 2012, net cash used by investing activities was approximately $33,035, which primarily reflected a purchase of office furniture and leasehold improvements.
For the six months ended June 30, 2013, net cash provided by financing activities was $200,000, which reflects net cash received from the issuance of the Notes. There were no financing activities in the six months ended June 30, 2012.


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America is wasting billions of tax dollars keeping troops in the Middle East to protect our access to oil. Compressed natural gas is being used in trucks and buses and needs to be developed for farm equipment. The cost to use enewable fuels is less than petroleum oils and less polluting to the environment, which needs to be seriously considered.
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For those whose riding teeters on the edge of goal-oriented devotion, measuring power is your scripture. And when the weather and open roads calls, you're making the most of your training through intervals and constant metric upkeep. However, until recently, efficient training came to a halt when the weather became formidable. Instead, you simply found yourself watching your favorite DVDs while slugging away on the boring basement trainer. Thankfully, the CycleOps PowerBeam Pro with Joule removes the drudgery of winter training by granting you the same level of training quality as your outdoor rig. With a realistic ride quality, sophisticated real-time and historical data, and CycleOps' Virtual Training software, you'll finally be stronger, trimmer, and sane come spring.
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The North American International Auto Show opens in Detroit on Friday,
it's open to the press and dignitaries this morning.
GM is showing off over a dozen new models but topping the list is the reveal this morning of the brand new Corvette, which hasn't been restyled in nearly a decade. GM CEO Dan Akerson really wants you to buy one.
He is really happy with the way it turned out, so happy that they have revived the "Stingray" name for the new version.
Pictures leaked onto the internet yesterday of the new version, which has exchanged its traditional smooth and sleek styling for a more angular look. With all the bells and whistles in the cockpit and 450 horsepower under the hood, they hope it will revive the sports car. GM only sold 16-thousand of them last year.
A new study conducted at Michigan State University has found concentration is critical in performing many jobs, and interruptions sharply lower a person's ability to perform.
Psychology Professor Eric Altman had 300 college students perform a task that required concentration on a computer, periodically interrupting some for as briefly as a couple of seconds and leaving the others alone. He found that their mistakes doubled.
It may not be critical if you are working a crossword, but if you are performing surgery, repairing an airliner or a teenager driving a car, and your smart phone rings, it could prove deadly.
Altman concludes that to some extent our health and safety is dependent on how often those who are tasked with those missions are interrupted.


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In January 2008 I receive a telephone call from Dan Cooper, a stock trader in Chicago. Cooper, one of the central supporters of Project Rwanda, is devoted to financing it and getting others to finance it. He has heard about the time Boyer and I spent together, and he is worried. "This is going to have a direct impact on my ability to keep the team sustainable," he tells me. "Project Rwanda has become the good-news story of cycling. bicycling magazine comes out with a story about Jonathan Boyer being a child molester, that good-news story could very easily evaporate."
The next day, Cooper would fly in a private jet with the president of Rwanda to meet the president of Starbucks, who was hosting a dinner at the behest of the president of Costco. Cooper was hoping to raise a lot of money. "We got to know Jonathan before we invited him to be part of the Rwanda team," Cooper says. "We know the background and the drama that unfolded there. . . .Externally, it's a little bit of a wild card when it comes to public perception."
Cooper and I talk for almost 30 minutes. He says Boyer would resign from the program "in a heartbeat" if he thought his presence would hurt the project. He says that only two people know exactly what happened between Boyer and the child. He says Boyer "is as close to a walking angel as I've met. I've never seen a guy who's been more self-sacrificing of himself than Jonathan. . . .being around Jonathan makes me better. There are very few people I can say that about."
Cooper is more reflective than insistent, as interested in talking about pain and redemption as he is about corporate sponsorship. It's easy to understand his success at fund-raising.
"This guy is wearing this huge, horrible scarlet letter," he says. "And at the end of the day, a guy can't keep paying for his crimes over and over and over again, especially someone doing so much good and spreading so much love, as Jonathan."
Getting arrested and serving time for child molesting--no matter the circumstances or mitigating factors--tends to winnow the number of a man's friends. Tonight, Boyer is having dinner with three who stuck by him. There is Ricky Gonzalez, chief mechanic for the past 26 years at the nearby Bay Park Hotel, a regular customer at Boyer's shop and the crew chief on the latest RAAM victory, who Boyer says "is like an older brother to me." Winston Boyer, Jock's real older brother, who is as impish and bawdy as Jock is pious and tightly wound, is there, too. The host for the evening is Peterson Conway, owner of Peterson Conway Imports in Carmel, speaker of six languages, ex-husband of five wives, world traveler since he joined the Peace Corps 38 years ago at age 17 and landed in Afghanistan, where James Michener hired him as his translator; he is also the owner of the Porsche and the mountain lion rug and Lorenzo the macaw, as well as the 8,500-square-foot house on the 17 acres sprawled near the top of Jack's Peak, the highest spot on the Monterey Peninsula, where we are all gathered. "What Sean Connery is to cinema, he is in my life," Boyer had told me earlier. Maybe it's because I had already been overloaded with sentiments about men sharpening men, and Nazi criminals seeking forgiveness and the dangers of fluoride, but at the time, the statement didn't seem as weird to me as it does now.
We sit at a counter made of Italian marble, beneath ceilings that once covered a maharaja's harem quarters, behind a door built in the 18th century, shipped here from India. Winston Boyer and Conway drink wine and Jock and I and Garcia have water as we talk about cycling and love and Lorenzo's dead cousin, Harpo, whose sad fate had led Conway to climb the tree outside his house with a shotgun and spend a night waiting for the animal that is now a rug. We swap stories. Conway remembers a moonlit night in Katmandu, and bowls of hash, and the strange sensation of cold cobblestones and hot liquid on his bare feet, and the stoned realization that it was the blood of oxen whose throats had just been slit, in an adolescent rite of passage, by teenaged Ghurka soldiers. Winston Boyer recounts the time he was scheduled to show a collection of masks he had photographed at a famous New York City art gallery, until, he says, the gallery owner ran into some financial and legal difficulty and got caught up in a murder investigation that involved sadomasochism. The man with the most notorious stories of all doesn't mention them. Conway flambes a flan with a miniature blowtorch and we all sample the best cheese I have ever tasted and then Winston's phone rings and he looks at it while we all look at him.
He smiles a tight smile. "Mom," he says, and he and Jock look at each other and we all chuckle.
Jock leads us in prayer before dinner, thanking God for the food, and his wonderful friends and the blessed day. I hear Conway mutter something I think is Farsi before he serves chicken in herbs that taste better than any herbs I have ever tasted, and the best tea I have ever tasted. "Don't bother asking him for the recipe," Jock says.
Over dinner we discuss Boyer's latest RAAM victory. There was a bad crash in Kansas, a potentially lethal hot-rodder in Arkansas and dead-of-the-night-searches for fresh fruit in East St. Louis, Illinois. There were terrible digestive problems and a racing heart rate and chafing so severe it required massive applications of lidocaine, which made it necessary for Boyer to drop to all fours in order to urinate. There were sleep-deprivation-induced hallucinations from coast to coast.
"I relate to pain," Boyer says. "Even now, for some odd reason, I'm at home in pain. It seems to be some old friend of mine.
"One of the things that draws me are natural disasters. . . adverse atmospheric conditions really draw me and I have no idea why. I'm attracted to natural upheavals. . . if there's this huge thundershower, lighting, huge windows, blizzards, I just want to be part of it."
"I attribute all this," Winston Boyer says, "to Jock not taking drugs."
Boyer and his wife separated in 2000, divorced in 2003. He hasn't dated since he was released from prison, he says, but now he's ready. He would like to meet someone, fall in love, settle down and start a family. His friends talk about fixing him up, joke that he wants a younger woman, and I make sure I don't obviously cringe. (A few minutes later, one says that 32 would be the ideal age.) Does Boyer know how what under most circumstances is merely manly joshing takes on a sinister, sickly cast, because of his history? If so, he doesn't show it. There is something reserved about him, guarded, which makes sense, because he's a smart man, he learned French in a summer, taught himself about nutrition and fitness, trained himself to be one of the best cyclists in the world. He forged a magnificent athletic career from--among other things--being cagey and hiding weakness.
Dinner is over, and the flan is delicious, and there is some more talk of past races, adventures and misadventures. Soon, Boyer will drive down the mountain and to his mother's house, where he will sleep on his electromagnetic pulsing pad, then wake in the morning, to his tea, and his walk on the beach with Cody, and his professions of gratitude to God, and to his best efforts to get on with his life.
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In February, Two on Your Side investigated what equipment the City of Spokane lost to see how your taxpayer dollars were being protected. Now, we've checked with the Spokane Police Department to see what they lost.
KREM 2 filed a public records request for any reports of lost, stolen or misplaced equipment dating back five years.
Spokane Police Department's Major Craig Meidl oversaw the inquiry. "We are funded by the public and I think it is reasonable for people to want to know how our assets are being taken care of," said Meidl.
What came back was a short and rather mundane list of items. Missing from the shooting range are 20 safety goggles, old training magazines, one wheelbarrow and a dustpan. One generic uniform was lost. The most expensive item was an in car camera, valued around 7,000 dollars. It succumbed to wear and tear. A GPS tracking unit was found by a suspect and destroyed. It also cost around 7,000.
That's what the department could find from memory because the biggest thing we found missing, is a police system for tracking missing equipment.
Meidl explained when something goes missing it's not categorized as such. "We don't have a central repository where we store that kind of data. In the two decades I've been here we've never had anyone ask," he said.
According to Meidl when particular officers start losing or neglecting equipment it gets noticed and they're disciplined. "It has not been an issue to where it occurs to the point where we say we need to track this. It happens very seldom and when it does it's dealt with immediately, right then and there."
KREM 2 contacted the Tacoma Police Department, which is similar in size to Spokane. They also do not have a tracking system for lost, stolen or missing equipment.


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The voters of Connecticut appear to be more willing to rally around strict gun control measures than their elected representatives, at least up to now.
If the latest Quinnipiac University Poll is correct - or even if it's signficantly off the mark - Connecticut voters, including many gun owners, overwhelmingly favor stricter gun control measures. And we'd like to think these gun owners are more representative of the gun owning community than the noisy extremists wrapping themselves in an incorrect interpretation of the Second Amendment.
Even if the numbers are wrong by 10 percentage points or more, something well-done polls like Quinnipiac never are, the results would still show formidable support for strict gun legislation. The poll surveyed 1,009 registered voters earlier this month and has a margin of error of 3.1 percentage points.
The two most controversial of the gun measures awaiting legislative consideration, expanding the ban on assault weapons like the AR-15 used in Newtown and banning magazines with more than a 10 round capacity, each received the support of an impressive 68 percent of those polled.
Expansion of the assault weapons ban was the only legislation not supported by gun owners, but the vote was close, 49 to 44 percent. They split evenly on the magazine ban, with 49 percent for it and 48 percent opposed.
On one gun issue, the public appears to be nearly unanimous. A remarkable 93 percent said they favor universal background checks for gun purchasers and that's the highest the poll has seen in favor of any issue in 20 years of taking surveys in Connecticut, according to Douglas Schwartz, the poll's director. The numbers in gun owning households were nearly as high, with 89 percent favoring background checks to just 9 percent against.
Almost as many of those polled - 86 percent - support the establishment of a gun registry for those convicted of gun crimes. Even more significant and welcome was the poll's revelation that nearly as many of the gun owners polled - 85 percent - support the gun registry.
Eighty-five percent of those polled also want to see a permit requirement to purchase and carry all guns. A smaller number of gun owners, but still an impressive 71 percent, agree.
It should be of special interest to Republican legislators that while Republican voters divided 45 to 48 percent on the general question, "Do you support or oppose stricter gun control laws in Connecticut," they supported nearly all of the specific measures.
The poll results were released the day after the legislative task force on gun violence couldn't reach a bipartisan consensus on how to keep guns out of the hands of those who would misuse them.
It was encouraging to see that the panel was able to agree on most proposals, including universal background checks, the gun offender registry, safer gun storage and restricting ammunition sales to gun permit holders.
The Republican legislators couldn't bring themselves to support an expanded ban on assault-type weapons like the AR-15 used to kill the 26 children and educators in Newtown or the high capacity magazines used in the massacre. But Democrats have a strong legislative majority and that points to passage of the assault weapon and magazine bans and we believe these bills will receive some Republican support.
It would send a strong signal to other states and to the nation if both parties in the state that suffered the unimaginable losses at Newtown could send a unified message on the need to restrict these weapons of mass murder. As Gov. Dannel P. Malloy put it in his recent meeting with The Day editorial board, "Not every state has had 20 babies shot."
Given the strong voter support for gun control, it shouldn't be that difficult for the Connecticut House and Senate to take decisive action.
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PUCs are concerned that a rapid shutdown of coal-fired plants will start a full-tilt dash to gas—similar to the one that caused bankruptcies among independent power producers in the late 1990s and...
The High Cost of Restructuring
RTO markets aren't living up to the promise of cheaper power.
administered markets to raise prices above current levels, thus providing an incentive for capacity investments. 1 Advocates for free markets believe targeted intervention is only likely to create more distortions that will require more interventions, ad infinitum .2 Ironically, the existing regulated solution may well provide such investment incentives at a lower delivered price to consumers than the administrated markets favored by Professor Hogan — even before a "missing money" upward intervention in administered markets.
However, benchmarks for measuring the performance of restructured markets are hard to find. FERC approved AB-1890 (California's restructuring law) without providing the means to check later how well it worked. While today it would be fascinating to compare FERC Form 714 system lambdas with the results of the California ISO's Ex-Post markets, FERC allowed the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) to stop reporting system lambdas on its commencement.
A literature survey reveals hundreds of papers about electricity restructuring; most authors have tried to tell the story with modeling and counterfactuals, but their conclusions suffer from the breadth of their assumptions and the complexity of their analyses. The small amount of impartial evidence available indicates administered markets are expensive. There are a few useful comparisons between real-time prices at RTOs and neighboring system lambdas as reported in the FERC Form 714 data. For example, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) still reports system lambdas, and a cursory visual inspection shows they are lower than CAISO's real-time prices.
This should be surprising. LADWP is surrounded by CAISO, is active in CAISO markets, and CAISO administers LADWP's major interregional transmission lines. However, if the CAISO "market" was truly competitive and LADWP faced the disadvantages often associated with governments attempting to be competitive, then LADWP system lambdas might be higher than the corresponding CAISO real-time prices.
Price Proof
The real test of success is delivery of the product in the market — no more and no less. The Energy Information Administration's "Electric Power Monthly" assembles electric price and quantity data and includes fossil-fuel costs and quantities for each state, facilitating state-by state comparisons. For example, in the ongoing debate concerning the administered market structure in Texas, Mark Jacobs, CEO of Reliant Energy, said in October that "other markets are still on an uphill climb." 3 Yet Figure 2 shows Louisiana, with generation far more susceptible to natural gas prices increases than Texas, is now experiencing a lower rate of growth in electric prices.
While many analysts blame the differential on the use of natural gas in RTO markets, little effort has been expended to validate this conjecture. Because fuel costs are such an important component, a better measure is electric rates net of fossil fuel costs. The differential between administered markets and open markets shows a divergence. Higher fuel costs do not explain the discrepancy between Louisiana and Texas. Even with fossil fuel costs removed, Texas average prices have significantly diverged from Louisiana (see Figure 2) .
The two states' experiences are mirrored in a comparison between Entergy's system lambda and real-time prices in Texas. The same


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Here is the interesting thing, I added the post after trying this at home off my work network, then on my network via VPN, and it failed both times. Tried it while hard wired to my network at work this morning and there was no problem exporting to PDF within the Autocad system as it comes without external programs. The reason I like this export method is the layering that is created within the PDF so the user of the PDF can turn off and trun on layers created in the export. So now I am a little unsure why it is having an issue one place and not the other. I suspect it is looking for a file or some driver that is referenced on our server but which is hard to access over a VPN connection. Anyway, I will leave it for the IT folks to figure out. Thanks for your responses
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Earth's longest-running science fiction series is turning 50 Saturday with a huge "Day of the Doctor" special on TV and in movie theaters, and it's a great time to celebrate the continuing adventures of the Doctor and his companions through time and space.
The Doctor Who universe is full of great culinary inspiration, from the Jelly Babies candies favored by the fourth Doctor (the regenerating Time Lord alien has been played by 11 different actors, soon to be 12) to the fish fingers and custard the 11th Doctor ate while bonding with erstwhile companion Amy Pond.
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In honor of the occasion, we rounded up a few of our favorites ideas for a party worthy of a Time Lord. Have great Whovian ideas of your own? Tweet us pictures at @lwhitehurst and @sheena5427!
Leaf cookies » For his first official adventure with new companion Clara, the Doctor takes her to see the Rings of Akhaten on a planetary system where all currency is based on the emotional worth of an object. A fall leaf Clara has saved for years becomes a big part of the story. As a bonus, these maple-leaf sugar cookies are a great way to celebrate the (rapidly fading) fall season.
Dinosaur cookies » Because the Doctor rode a triceratops on a spaceship. If that doesn't call for a cookie, what does? Note: We picked up our cookie cutters for both from Sur la Table and used a basic sugar cookie and icing recipe from allrecipes.com.
Adipose marshallows » Make these strangely adorable creatures by staking a large marshmallow on a bamboo skewer and attaching four small white marshmallows as limbs using shortened toothpicks. (This may make for tricky eating, so be careful.) Using gel frosting, draw two dots for eyes and a smile, and voila. One person's fat becomes your adorable treat.
Angel tears » What makes a Weeping Angel cry, anyway? These terrifying creatures never seem to actually shed a tear, but if they did, their tears might would look like this sparkly drink. Mix two bottles of white grape juice with a 2-liter bottle of Sprite. Try some whiskey stones — which are not alcoholic, but rather a soapstone ice cube substitute marketed to whiskey drinkers but good for anyone who doesn't like watery drinks — in your pitcher just to add a touch of the heartless marble these energy-zapping, time-shifting creatures are made of. And, of course, don't blink while pouring.
TARDIS gingerbread house » While it may never be bigger on the inside, nothing sets the mood (and amps up holiday excitement) like a centerpiece TARDIS gingerbread house. It's likely easiest to make out of graham crackers cemented together with thick icing. Don't forget the correct blue frosting color. Use white fondant for the windows, and black gel icing for the cross-hatching and words.
Doctor Who molds » Think Geek and Amazon both sell Doctor Who-themed molds that can be used to make ice cubes, chocolates or small Jell-O shots shaped like our favorite spaceship, the TARDIS, or the ever-destructive Daleks. They can be frozen or baked, so let your imagination run wild.
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With perennial All-Star Martin Brodeur out for the long haul, the time is right for a changing of the gardien.
But Montreal's sophomore goaltender Carey Price needn't worry about enough support, as Canadiens fans are sure to stuff the ballot box in anticipation of their city hosting the NHL All-Star Game in January.
"I'll probably vote for myself a few times," Price joked with reporters on Wednesday. "I don't know how many times I can vote for myself, but I'll probably have a lot of support for myself back home."
If anything, it's Price's strong play through the first month of the regular season that's building his case for the starting spot. His 2.17 goals-against average is seventh in the league and he's fifth in save percentage at .928.
His hot start is a stark contrast from six months ago, when he looked sluggish in a five-game knockout at the hands of the Philadelphia Flyers. While Price said he was was burnt out playing high-tempo hockey for well over a year, he was also out of shape. Like most single 21-year-old hockey players, his idea of making haute cuisine is opening a bottle of pasta sauce and splashing it on noodles.
"Don't come over for dinner," warned Price. "I will poison you. But I could make a pretty good egg salad sandwich and canned soup."
That being said, the Anahim Lake, B.C. native got back to basics in his much-needed offseason. After a summer of hunting, fishing and eating better, he came to camp looking fit after shedding 28 pounds.
"His work ethic and his workout regimen to his eating habits have been great," said defenceman Mike Komisarek. "The kid was eating candy bars and burgers late at night. Now you go to dinner with him, he's eating rice and chicken or rice and fish."
Price's well documented weight loss has also helped his on-ice quickness. And it hasn't been lost on other teammates who have noticed improvement in his physical and mental game.
"He just seems more comfortable and more focused right now," said Canadiens captain Saku Koivu. "Not just in the games but in the practice time."
"The biggest adjustment that Carey's done by far is following other guy's examples like Komisarek, Higgins and Saku," added Canadiens goaltending coach Roland Melanson. "He's taking care of himself off the ice and in the gym and he's quickly becoming a better pro."


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6 medium potatoes, cubed
1/2 onion chopped
4 cups diced ham (approx 4 cups)
1 can (10 3/4 ounces) cream of chicken soup
8 ounces sour cream
1 cup shredded mozzarella
1 cup shredded cheddar
Salt & pepper to taste
In a large saucepan, cover onion and potatoes with water and bring to a boil. Cook until potatoes are tender. Drain and place in a slow cooker along with remaining ingredients. Stir to combine. Cook on high for 4 hours or on low for 6-8 hours.
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Let's Go Farming – the Twins' weekly minor league reportPosted on April 22nd, 2009 – 2:31 PM
By La Velle
Righthanders Rob Delaney and Anthony Slama shared closing duties at Class A Fort Myers last season – and it was quite a one-two punch.
Delaney was promoted to New Britain in June. Slama took over as closer at Fort Myers and finished 4-1 with a 1.01 ERA and 110 strikeouts in 71 innings. He also was named Twins minor league pitcher of the year.
The two have been reunited at New Britain – but it's Slama who has opened the season as the Rock Cats' closer while Delaney sets him up.
I don't know if it is going to stay that way or they might go the other way the next time,'' said Jim Rantz, the Twins director of minor leagues. "Both of them have done well. I think it's the fact that Slama finished so strong last year that they are going to continue with him as that guy.''
Slama on Wednesday earned his second save for New Britain and has pitched 6/23 scoreless innings so far. Delaney has a 1.69 ERA in seven games.
Both are similar pitchers who throw around 90 miles an hour, although Rantz said Slama throws a little harder than Delaney.
Both throw good sliders. Delaney is a battler and excellent competitor. Slama is working on changing speeds against left-handed hitters. Both could get promoted to Class AAA Rochester during the season – which makes a major league debut sometime this year a possibility.
Beloit broke camp in Fort Myers, Fla, without outfielder Aaron Hicks, the 14th overall pick in last year's draft who has the club buzzing about his five-tool ability.
The Twins did the same thing last year with 2007 first-rounder Ben Revere, who needed to work on arm strength and accuracy. Revere was sent to Beloit to replace an injured player, batted .379 with 10 triples and 44 steals and ended up the Twins minor league player of the year.
Hicks, who hit .318 with four homers and 27 RBI for the Gulf Coast League rookie team appears to be more polished than Revere, so what gives?
"He had to work on some things, some fundamentals and defensive things,'' Rantz said. "Yes, he has a strong arm and can run but he's getting regular at-bats and can work on fundamentals.''
The Twins' outfields at Beloit and Fort Myers have players the club needs to evaluate before they move Hicks in front of them. Angel Morales, Evan Bigley and Michael Harrington hit 15, 14 and nine home runs, respectively at short-season Elizabethton, Tenn. and need to play. Ozzie Lewis is back after missing a chunk of the season with a wrist injury.
Fort Myers' outfield has top prospects Revere and Joe Benson, plus Christopher Parmelee splitting time in the outfield and first base. It appears that it will take promotions, demotions or injuries for Hicks to get to Beloit – or he might have to wait until June and start the year Elizabethton.
Revere, by the way, is batting .333 with a homer 10 RBI and five steals through 11 games at Fort Myers.
Jim Shellenback, the pitching coach at Elizabethton who filled in as bullpen coach while Rick Stelmaszek recovered from fatigue, confirmed that the organization is really high on righthander Carlos Gutierrez, the Twins' other first-round pick last year.
And Gutierrez, who throws an excellent sinker, has given up just one earned run over his first 11 innings at Fort Myers.
Shellenback was asked about righthander Shooter Hunt, who was taken with the 31st pick of the draft – four picks after Gutierrez.
"He won't throw it over,'' Shellenback said.
Hunt's struggles continued on Tuesday at Beloit, as he gave up five earned runs on three hits and six walks over 22/3 innings. Hunt is 0-1. 9.31 through three games. Of the 55 batters he's faced, 28 have reached base.
"There is something to that,'' Rantz said of Shellenback's statement. "I don't know if it's insecurity but, eventually, he has to throw it over.''
Australian outfielder Justin Huber has worked out his visa problems – he had to go to Toronto to get things straightened out – and will join Class AAA Rochester on Friday. "He's got some sock and that's what we need on that club,'' Rantz said.
First baseman Henry Sanchez, who was drafted in 2005 and is 23 years old but is just getting to Fort Myers because of injuries, is now slowed by a left quadriceps strain at Fort Myers.
Righthander Loek Van Mil, who is at extended spring training working his way back from a sore elbow, has been slowed by a biceps strain.


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In 1989, as part of the Henry Art Gallery's ongoing Studio series, artist Richard C. Elliott was asked to transform the outside of the Henry Art Gallery with his reflector paintings. The result was Cycle of the Sun, a series of paintings that fit into the sculpture alcoves on the exterior walls of the museum. Using over 21,500 bicycle and truck reflectors of different colors and sizes, Elliott created a work that reacts to daily and seasonal changes in natural light.


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They were right about Lancelot du Lac
Lady and Laird Candermine: Never .... never knew about this.... ... the poster looks like Don Quixote on acid.
I never knew about it either till I heard about it on the Holy Grail commentary. But yes, it's a stripped down version of the grail myth; there's no fantastic element whatever-well, excepting a rather prescient old lady...though she probably was just smart enough to predict what would happen when a bunch of despondent knights come straggling back.
No one finds the Grail, several of the Knights of the Round table are dead and missing, and the ones left are fighting amongst themselves. In short things are falling apart in Camelot.
Okay, it's not the feel good movie of 1974, but still it's very, very good. Think of Greek tragedy: depressing things going on, but still compelling. (Okay, when you read it or watched it, it might have seemed a snooze fest, but that's stuffy people who suck the life out of the Classics. :) I saw a short clip of a modern Greek film version of Iphigenia at Aulis that was electric.)
Thank you.. Romanes... excellent discribtion...
I'm sure it isn't Titus ... now that's a really... really dark version of a Greek myth........... .. eeeeeeee... RUN!!!
Lvndr HppE: When you said "they were right about lancelot", I thought you were talking about a new find that said he really was gay, like in Spamalot. That song came up on my ipod while I was walking the dog. I was kind of dancing while I walked. :-D
And ever since I said that, I've had the song stuck in my head! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD-8pZyiJHU


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Hillgrove 57, Allatoona 47: Hillgrove outscored host Allatoona 22-14 in the third quarter after leading just 24-21 at the half. Junior guard Kyle Castlin had 17 points for Hillgrove while junior wing Daniel Fowler led Allatoona with 14 points.
McEachern 68, Harrison 63: McEachern took a 17-8 edge after one period and maintained the lead throughout the game. Junior point guard Logan McIntosh and senior wingman Deonta Patterson each scored 17 points. Freddie Brown made 8-of-10 free throws in the fourth quarter and, as a team, the Indians shot 25 times from the charity stripe and made 16 in the final period. A 3-pointer by Patterson with two minute left, however, gave McEachern a 7-point lead and effectively closed out the contest. Junior point guard Jay Bowyer led Harrison with 23, while sophomore guard Brandon Powell had 18.
North Cobb 44, Marietta 39: Visiting Marietta led after a defense-heavy first half 15-10, but North Cobb responded by outscoring the Blue Devils 34-14 in the second, including 19-9 in the fourth quarter. Senior power forward Jordan Neff scored 10 points, had nine rebounds and four blocks while senior guard Saxon Steele scored 12 and senior shooting guard Lee Moore had seven.
Sprayberry 64, Lassiter 40: Junior guard Armel Potter led the visiting Yellow Jackets with 29 points as Sprayberry rolled. The Jackets led 37-25 after three, but a full game of pressure defense wore down their hosts as Sprayberry tallied 28 fourth-quarter points. Senior point guard Khrishna Khatri led Lassiter with 16 points.
December 18th, 2012
9:09 am
Why doesn't the AJC provide its readers with a piece detailing the various out-of-state tournaments that Georgia teams will be playing in over the holidays? Several Georgia teams are travelling to these hoilday showcases and playing top teams from other states and, in some cases, top teams nationally. I am certain that fans will find these details interesting and informative.
At a minimum, I am sure that the AJC will keep us up-to-date with scores from these games, so that we'll know how well our Georgia teams are doing against elite competition from all over the country.
December 18th, 2012
9:15 am
Tony, that's because football exists ! Feel lucky that you get the occassional score fours days after the game was played, much less any real information concerning high school basketball !
December 18th, 2012
10:49 am
Im not accusing them of anything, just a little curious about Greenforest Christian and wanted to get you guys take on it. They have like less than 100 kids in the entire school, and here is their roster listed on gaprep…. 6′6, 6′2, 6′7, 6′3, 6′3, 6′7, 6′9, 6′4, 6′1…..if that is truly their actual heights, then how in the WORLD does one of the smallest schools in ALL of class A get a lineup like that…hmmmmmmm
December 18th, 2012
12:51 pm
@Tony, @All Football: I run the @ajcprepsports twitter account and was wondering if there were specific out-of-state tourneys I could help track. Can't promise game-to-game coverage on all of them, but would be glad to keep an eye out for the ones you're interested in. I'm at email@example.com. Thanks and happy holidays.
December 18th, 2012
2:47 pm
look at lineup for Excel Christian also, how do those guys show up all of a sudden. hmmmmmmmm
December 18th, 2012
10:19 pm
Sounds like Athensbball is a hater. Is it because his team has no chance at a successfully season or is it that he is scared of a future game against them. Hmmmmmmmm. Hater do sumn wit ya life
December 18th, 2012
10:21 pm
No matter how you word it, You are accusing them. You're just doing it indirectly. Leave the program and most importantly the kids alone and let them play. That's my take mr athensbball
December 18th, 2012
10:23 pm
Mt.Zion fan…. You're a hater too. Hmmmmm all you want.
December 18th, 2012
10:28 pm
How about those golden eagles of eagles landing high school tho. They are ballen and going all the way this year. Have a great coach as well. Clay Crump is doing big things at that program… When a Coach is doing all of the right things, he or she does not have to look for talent because it will find its way their and won't go unnoticed.. That's why Coach Crump has so much division 1 talent on his squad. Now y'all haters can hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm about that
December 19th, 2012
10:11 am
first off jayare….the word "haters" retired from the english language in about 1995 along with MC Hammer. second of all, my team was in the state champ game last year with kids that we had since middle school. Greenforest has 85 kids in their school, the University of GA has 50,000 (and can give scholarships) and they dont even have a lineup as big as Greenforest. dont be so nieve. half the kids on their team lived in another country last year.
December 20th, 2012
9:19 am
William Jackson was not in Middle School at Athens last year.. Let's be honest because he went to middle school with my little brother. He is a great kid but speak what you know not what you think. You can cause problems by saying things that you don't know the truth. Why try to cause problems when it is not needed. Be professional and be happy for kids who are trying to make something out of themselve (student/athletes) – stay away from the negative and be positive. Life is too short. No further comment bc you know what I'm saying……


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We received nearly 2000 of your questions for Stephenie at TheTwilightSaga.com. Stephenie has graciously answered a lot of your most asked questions below. Enjoy!
Will u be making any more twilight books?
Btw, I'm sooo psyched for Breaking Dawn! It's my fave book in the series and I can't wait to see how the movie plays out!
In the last interview Stephenie gave in May, she said that she was working on a new book series, but no clue as to how far along she is. She's been very busy with the Breaking Dawn movies and now The Host movie is in pre-production and she's always involved in every step of the process of her movies. Add that to her family duties of daily taking care of her three small boys, her husband and her house and you have one busy lady! I guess what I'm trying to say is, don't expect a new book from her anytime soon. Sorry = (
Stephanie, i hope you'r writing something, anything!!! I love ALL your books!
Mrs. Stephenie meyer,
i would like to ask which of the 4 books of the twilight saga do you like the most?...and why..
why does breaking dawn have yo be in two parts? thats too much waiting!!!
Jaymie, your friend has two options. The first is what most aspiring authors do, which is send a copy of the first three chapters of their book to a number of publishers with a cover letter (a synopsis of the book), then sit back and wait. If you're not sure which publishers would be interested in the kind of book your friend wrote, then I would suggest trying SearchforPublishers.com. This web-site is a good resource for first time writers who want to get their foot into the literary world.
But if your friend is independantly wealthy she could publish her book herself. There are publishing houses that will deal directly with authors which means that the author has total control over the outcome. They are also responsible for the total cost and most publisher has set numbers for first printings usually starting at 500 and going upwards of 10,000 books. The expense will all depend on the materials you choose, the graphics, the type-set, etc. Then if your friend doesn't have a publicist, she would have to do her own marketing of the book to get it into bookstore, book clubs, in the media. Publishing your own book can cost upwards of $70,000 to $200,000 or more depending on the criteria I listed above.
I hope this helps your friend and she's able to see her dreams of becoming a published author come true. = )
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|Thu, 01-12-2012 - 10:49am
Seems the Republicans
|Thu, 01-12-2012 - 11:37am
The price of gas going up will cause the price of food and everything else to skyrocket even more.
|Fri, 01-13-2012 - 12:54am
And how in the world would republicans increase gas prices? I didn't know they could manipulate the price of a world wide commodity so easily.
Besides, blame Obama. He has done nothing to bring the price down. He tried to shut down drilling at sea, he won't go for any new drilling just about anywhere, and he wants to raise taxes. No, he obviously wants us paying high prices for gas.
|Fri, 01-13-2012 - 4:07pm
I am unable to find evidence to support your claim. I am finding accusations by opinion columnists, but no information to back that up. I was thinking that the pipeline would make the trade less expensive... Lower cost to transport the goods means a lower cost of the product. I am also under the impression that a company that wants to construct a project must pay for it themselves. They would also pay property taxes on the land they are using. As well as the taxes being taken from the paychecks of those employed by the pipeline.
|Fri, 01-13-2012 - 6:55pm
These are opinion sites... One to organize protests against keystone and the other is a progressive Host. But I looked over the sites and haven't found information on who will be paying for the construction of the pipeline, or indicating that no tax revenue will be gained (property or income taxes that would normally be gained)