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Managing Money
Learn the best practices to avoid debt and keep a healthy cash flow.
It's important to create a separate bank account that will be used to manage the income and expenses of an owner-operator business. All your trucking income should be deposited into this operating account. In addition, trucking expenses should be paid for out of this account.
In the event of an Internal Revenue Service audit, having personal finances mingled with your business could cost you thousands of dollars. In addition, it will be impossible for you and your accountant to accurately analyze your business if your personal finances are mixed in with your business.
Every month you should write a "distribution check" out of your operating account to your personal checking account to cover your personal living expenses. The target amount can be determined by looking at your monthly personal and family cash requirements shown in your personal budget.
The best owner-operators have at least $5,000 in reserve before they ever go into business. That amount should be maintained and, if possible, increased, especially with a truck that ages beyond three years. The purpose of the reserve account is to set aside money for large or unforeseen items that could put a substantial drain on your operating cash – major maintenance items, tires, quarterly estimated taxes and insurance deductibles, for example. This money can also be used for a down payment on your next truck purchase or improvements to your existing truck.
The amount to maintain in reserve, as well as the rate at which you pay into it, should be discussed with your business consultant and is based on your budget, your truck's age and your operation.
A few sure ways to get into financial trouble as an owner-operator:
CASH ADVANCES. Most company drivers get in the habit of taking a weekly cash advance for their expenses on the road. With no cash management tools in place, this often means that come payday, their paycheck is drastically reduced. Many drivers carry this habit forward as owner-operators and, unfortunately, waste the cash on unnecessary things that aren't in their budget. In addition, transaction fees can add as much as 10 percent to the advance.
Owner-operators who manage their cash this way are never satisfied with their settlement and usually can't figure out where their money is going. The best owner-operators use their business operating account to manage cash flow instead of taking cash advances.
CREDIT CARDS. It is useful to have a business credit card. However, many owner-operators spend more money than they should simply because a credit card makes it possible. If a credit card balance is not paid off at the end of each month, the interest charges typically exceed 18 percent. At such rates, interest charges quickly compound on unpaid balances, creating a financial trap that's difficult to get out of.
You'll get the best rate on credit cards, as well as other forms of lending, by keeping a high credit rating. Federal law now requires each of the three major credit reporting companies to send you a free copy of your credit report, on request, once a year. Visit www.annualcreditreport.com.
OVERDRAFTS. There's nothing like coming off the road to find one – or more – bounced check notices in the mailbox. Many banks use a tiered structure for overdraft fees, meaning that fees go up as more checks bounce. Add a merchant's penalty for a bounced check, and the total cost for one overdraft can exceed $50. Some tips to avoid this:
Monitor your account. Record every check as soon as it's written. Don't forget debit card purchases. Develop a system for logging automatic monthly drafts, such as for utilities, whether it's a note on a calendar or a future entry in your checkbook.
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In a portfolio requiring a certain political robustness, Kate Wilkinson always looked out of her depth as Minister of Labour.
Today's resignation, which has been hung on the Pike River inquiry, is probably not a bad thing overall for the John Key-led government, depending on who picks up the role now.
Ms Wilkinson stays in the cabinet, holds her 16th ranked position and hangs on to the conservation and food safety portfolios.
So she is not really giving up anything by resigning – the main thing she is sacrificing is a tough job.
Chris Finlayson is acting Minister of Labour and could certainly do the job, but the government might do well to keep it away from the legal profession.
For that has been seen as Ms Wilkinson's problem in the role. There have been some behind-the-scenes mutterings about her decision-making ability in the job and what is seen as a certain lack of political drive.
While the Minister of Labour is not the high-profile portfolio it was in the days when wages awards and strike settlements were hammered out over late-night meetings in the Beehive, labour market rules are still one of the largest points of difference in politics.
Ms Wilkinson has tended to bring a lawyer's approach the role, something which initially was seen as a plus but as time wore on has turned more into a minus.
That is not to say her time has not been without achievement. Getting the three-month trial period law through, her technocratic rather than political approach helped defuse some of the political sting.
More recently, though, the legalistic approach has drawn fire as it has caused issues to stagnate when they needed speedily resolution.
Business has also been frustrated at the pace of promised labour reform.
That was heightened last week when Ms Wilkinson's long-awaited tweaks to Part 6A of the Employment Relations Act, concerning "vulnerable worker" provisions, were seen as a gutless move by the government and having taken far to long to emerge from the minister's office.
Although small businesses with less than 20 staff were unshackled from the messy Part 6A provisions, business groups felt large businesses should have also been made exempt from legal obligations to take on any existing staff or meet their entitlements if they are taking over a business or service contract.
Better still, the complex provisions should have been repealed in their entirety, Employers and Manufacturers Association boss Kim Campbell said.

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Powersaving with DragonFly laptop
Here are some hints to make DragonFly laptop suck less power and therefore run longer and cooler.
At first general note - just blow dust out of your laptop. Due to nature of cooling used in laptops this might make huge difference in temperature. I've seen laptops where temperature dropped ~20°C after 5 seconds blowing session.
CPU C states
Let CPU(s) switch to lower C-states than default C1. In DragonFly this can be controlled by hw.acpi.cpu.cx_lowest or hw.cpu[NUM].cx_lowest sysctl(8). CPU(s) have to support lower states. With hw.acpi.cpu.cx_lowest you can control all CPUs (cores) at once, with hw.cpu[NUM].cx_lowest every CPU individually. hw.cpu[NUM].cx_supported gives to you the list of supported C-states and latencies of each supported state (how long it takes to switch from Cx to C0). hw.cpu[NUM].cx_usage gives to you some statistics.
In my Lenovo Thinkpad X61s relevant sysctl's look like this:
$ sysctl hw.acpi.cpu.cx_lowest
hw.acpi.cpu.cx_lowest: C3
$ sysctl -a | grep ^hw.cpu
hw.cpu0.cx_supported: C1/1 C2/1 C3/17
hw.cpu0.cx_lowest: C3
hw.cpu0.cx_usage: 0.00% 0.80% 99.19%
hw.cpu1.cx_supported: C1/1 C2/1 C3/17
hw.cpu1.cx_lowest: C3
hw.cpu1.cx_usage: 0.00% 0.48% 99.51%
On my idle laptop switching lowest to C3 from C1 makes ~2.5W difference in power consumption and 10°C difference in temperature.
ACPI supports only states up to C3, but modern mobile CPU's support C-states up to C6. CPU's can be forced to enter these lower states, but it's not really recommended. If you really want to experiment with this, you have to consult the manual of chipset you are using.
My brief experience shows that there is no difference in power consumption whether you are using C4 or lowering a voltage with est(4). C5 and C6 can make sense in tickless system only (DragonFly isn't such).
You can find more general info about processor C-states here.
Use est(4) if possible. The one currently in the DragonFly kernel doesn't support modern multicore CPU's. I'm using the one written by Michal Belczyk you can get from here.
In my Lenovo Thinkpad X61s relevant sysctl's look like this:
$ sysctl machdep.est
machdep.est.frequency.available: 1200 1400 1600
machdep.est.frequency.current: 1200
machdep.est.frequency.target: 1200
machdep.est.voltage.available: 940 956 972 988 1004 1020 1036 1052 1068 1084 1100 1116
machdep.est.voltage.current: 940
machdep.est.voltage.target: 940
Switching to minimums (frequency really doesn't matter in idle machine though) makes ~1.7W difference in power consumption in my idle laptop.
CPU P states
Alternatively to EST one can use CPU P states which make the frequency scaling features of the CPU accessible through a standardized interface. CPU P states work on multicore CPUs and the frequencies can be scaled individually depending on the hardware capabilities.
The relevant sysctl's look like this on leaf.dragonflybsd.org:
$ sysctl hw.acpi.cpu | grep px
hw.acpi.cpu.px_dom3.available: 2600 1300
hw.acpi.cpu.px_dom3.members: cpu3(2600)
hw.acpi.cpu.px_dom3.select: 2600
hw.acpi.cpu.px_dom2.available: 2600 1300
hw.acpi.cpu.px_dom2.members: cpu2(2600)
hw.acpi.cpu.px_dom2.select: 2600
hw.acpi.cpu.px_dom1.available: 2600 1300
hw.acpi.cpu.px_dom1.members: cpu1(2600)
hw.acpi.cpu.px_dom1.select: 2600
hw.acpi.cpu.px_dom0.available: 2600 1300
hw.acpi.cpu.px_dom0.members: cpu0(2600)
hw.acpi.cpu.px_dom0.select: 2600
hw.acpi.cpu.px_global: 2600
Both, EST and CPU P states sysctl's can be adjusted automatically depending on the system load with sysutils/estd from pkgsrc.
Switch backlight to (usable) minimum. There might be several ways to do it, you have to find the one which works for you.
Things you can look at:
- acpi_video(4) - ACPI Video Extensions. Should work on every modern laptop, but the interface is ... messy ...
- acpi_thinkpad(4) - the ACPI driver for various features in IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad laptops. The brightness control doesn't work well with newest laptops, fixing this is in my TODO.
- acpi_toshiba(4) - the ACPI driver for HCI (Hardware Control Interface) used by Toshiba laptops. Haven't tested this as I don't own any.
- xbacklight(1) - userspace application to adjust backlight brightness using RandR extension. Should work with all Intel graphics chips and newer ATI/AMD ones.
Switching backlight brightness from 100% to 20% (still completely usable) with acpi_video(4) makes ~2.6W difference in power consumption in my X61s.
Network interfaces down
Put network interfaces not in use to down (ifconfig if[NUM] down). This can make huge difference in both power consumption and temperature especially with wireless devices.
It makes ~2.5W difference in power consumption and 10°C difference (according to acpi_thinkpad(4) sensors) in my X61s with ath(4) card.
Unused devices
DragonFly lets you put devices not in use (no driver attached to it) to the D3 (power off) state. By default no device is put into D3, but you can control it with hw.pci.do_power_nodriver tunable (set it to 3 if you don't have good reason not to do it). You can switch devices into D3 at runtime via unloading module (ie. making a device "not in use"). Please note that unloading/loading modules is not well tested and it's common that unloading module (or loading it after unloading) makes device unusable or even panics a system.
Savings highly depend on hardware. There are some numbers from my X61s:
- em(4) - no difference
- ath(4) - ~0.2W
- snd_hda(4) - ~0.3W
Here you can find more general info about devices' D-states.
Some AHCI host bus adapters have link power management support. This feature can be controlled with a per-port sysctl.
$ sysctl hw.ahci0
hw.ahci0.0.link_pwr_mgmt: 2
Enabling AHCI link power management can save ~0.8W.
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RetPallyJil said...
Meme aside, Silvermoon being in the most debt makes sense, as they have been involved in a tremendous rebuilding project ever since joining the Horde. By the same token, low-maintenance Thunder Bluff having the least is also reasonable.
... and it was pretty sweet showing the progress on the map itself. That was cute as hell. LITTLE BOATS! (hearts)
Magic is free? Doubtful, and besides the point. Magicians are skilled professionals with years of schooling and training (ie, their time is valuable), and spells have to be maintained or replaced. And as we all know, working magic degrades the equipment you use; that's a cost, too. None of which even touches on the reagents required...
Thing is though, Jil, how does the fact that the blood elves have been rebuilding their city necessarily follow to them being in debt to Orgrimmar? I mean, it's not like we see orc labor being used to restore Silvermoon, or orcish brigades reinforcing Quel'thalas.
As far as we know, the blood elves have been paying for the restoration effort out of their own pocket, entirely self-contained, with their own people doing the work, which means the money never leaves Quel'thalas. And there's certainly no word of them taking out a loan from the Bank of Orgrimmar to pay for it.
More likely, Garrosh knows that Silvermoon (a city gilded in gold and precious metals) is a far richer place than Thunder Bluff, and so demands more cash out of the elves than he does the tauren.
RetPallyJil said...
You don't think the orcs are GIVING away all those trees they clear-cut out of Ashenvale, do ya?


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Actually, it DOES matter. I have occasionally actually have run dungeons for...(*gasp*) drops. If I don't win a roll, by the time I offer to buy what dropped its already been de'd. I don't stress over it and I understand it's easier to carry a stack of shards then fill a bag with blues/greens. To be more efficient and not have to waste time de'ing on your own or ah'ing your drops is the new standard.
Randoms have changed the texture of the game. Randoms are run round-robin, the new face of grinding for those who are no longer leveling. Runs for emblems for gear for runs for more emblems for more gear....for more runs


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October 1-3, 2010 — Friday night to Sunday afternoon
Meeting new friends and old, singing and song circles, playing music and jamming, dancing, drumming, informal gatherings and concerts organized by the participants, laughter, beautiful trees and water falls, great food. Meals include Friday night dinner; Saturday breakfast, lunch and dinner; and Sunday brunch. A playful gathering of friends and family, celebrating traditional and emerging folk music and dance!
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This project is mapping the regional coastal sedimentary system of northern North Carolina in order to understand the Quaternary evolution of the coastal system, especially coastal erosion. The study area includes the Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Cape Lookout National Seashore, the Wright Brothers National Memorial, and Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge. Coastal erosion along the Outer Banks of North Carolina has received much engineering, scientific, and political attention during the past 30 years. This interest is because the study area attracts significant tourism to its parks and beaches, contains a number of coastal communities, and the coastal ocean supports a local fishing industry; all of which are impacted by coastal change. Among the most important issues to be addressed by the products and knowledge developed from this project are: coastal and estuarine shoreline erosion (controls on erosion rates, sediment transport, response of beaches and wetlands to sea level rise); sand resources (location, quality, and quantity of offshore, estuarine, or onshore sand); storm impacts (barrier island/inlet migration, estuarine water movement, relative stability of barrier island segments); sea-level change (history and potential impacts); water resources (surface and groundwater); habitat (ability to sustain uses, trends, identify threats). The project is providing a strong science foundation for management of the North Carolina coastal zone.
This multidisciplinary project seeks to understand the regional geologic framework and the physical processes driving the evolution of the northeastern North Carolina coastal system. The long-term project goal is to acquire comprehensive knowledge of this coastal system, including the estuaries, barrier islands, and inner continental shelf. This knowledge will be used to understand the linkage of geologic framework and physical processes to coastal evolution and possibly predict the coastal response to oceanographic and climatic forcing at time scales from storm events to centuries. Many of the research tasks are focused on, or can be used to identify and quantify, coastal hazards. Shoreline change (SWASH) monitoring provides information on the spatial and temporal response of the ocean shoreline to storm events, and provides insight into erosion hazard areas along the immediate shoreline. Nearshore geophysical surveys have linked erosion hotspots to specific surf zone morphologies that may recur over time due to interactions between physical processes and the shallow geologic framework. Ground-penetrating radar studies can identify pre-historic and historic inlet locations that may be reoccupied in future storms. Geomorphic mapping using historical air photos and recent LIDAR data shows the evolution of landform types, the impact of humans on the landscape, and resulting changes in coastal vulnerability to storms and long-term shoreline change. Geophysical surveys of the inner continental shelf provide an understanding of the geologic history of the coastal system, furnish insight into coastal sediment flux, and identify sand resources for mitigating erosion hazards through beach nourishment. Regional geologic mapping shows that the underlying geologic framework of Quaternary sediments determines the availability and distribution of sediment in this coastal system and controls the overall barrier island geomorphology. For example, sediment-rich coastal segments have high, wide, accretionary barrier islands dominated by beach ridges, while sediment-starved coastal segments have narrow, washover-dominated barrier islands. Recognizing coastal hazards as a function of geologic setting and physical processes allows sound planning of hazard mitigation strategies.
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Coastal Erosion Assessements and Loss Reduction Products, Secondary Earth Surface Dynamics, Monitoring, Modeling and Forecasting
This project is using a systematic, phased approach to studying this coastal system involving three basic components that follow in sequence: 1) a geophysical/geologic mapping phase, 2) a process-based, field measurement or observation phase, and 3) a model development or predictive phase. The latter includes the development of conceptual as well as analytical or numerical models. The northeastern North Carolina coastal system contains an exceptionally thick and well preserved Quaternary stratigraphic record. The major goal is to map this Quaternary section on the inner continental shelf, Outer Banks barrier islands, AlbemarlePamlico estuarine system, and adjacent land areas to define the geologic framework, develop a detailed evolutionary history, and understand the ongoing process dynamics driving this large, complex, and rapidly changing, high-energy coastal system. Preliminary synthesis of data from the geologic mapping phase of the project demonstrates that the major controls dictating the present health and future evolution of this coastal system includes the following factors. 1) The regional morphology of late Pleistocene stratigraphic units constitutes the underlying geologic framework that the Holocene (modern)coastal system has inherited. 2) The controlling paleotopography is a series of lowstand drainage basins consisting of trunk and tributary streams and associated interstream divides that are being drowned. 3) Three major sediment sources dictate the highly variable sand resources available to specific barrier segments and include riverine channel and deltaic deposits associated with lowstand trunk streams, the large cross-shelf cape shoal sand deposits, and sand-rich units occurring within the adjacent shoreface and inner shelf strata. 4) Wherever large sand supplies have historically been available, the barrier segments occur as complex islands with large sand volumes producing high and wide barriers, whereas barrier segments without adequate sand supplies are sediment starved and occur as simple overwash barriers. 5) Human modification of the barrier islands over the past seven decades represents a major force that has significantly changed barrier island dynamics and evolution. 6) The Albemarle Embayment (i.e., northeastern North Carolina) appears to have a slightly higher rate of sea-level rise than adjacent regions due to regional subsidence. Consequently, if the ongoing pattern of storm activity and sea-level rise either continues or increases during the next few decades to centuries, specific simple overwash barrier segments on the Outer Banks that are currently disintegrating, will ultimately collapse into Pamlico Sound. These barrier segments will back-step across the open marine Pamlico Embayment and reform on the mainland side. A few sand-rich complex barrier segments will persist as isolated, but perched and eroding islands for some longer period of time. In contrast, simple overwash barrier segments that have received minimal human modification and are associated with narrow and shallow back-barrier sounds, appear to be maintaining themselves in their upward and landward migration in response to ongoing storms and sea-level rise.
This work addresses a variety of issues, including coastal erosion hazards and refining our understanding of a coastal sediment budget. Although a sediment budget is an important design element in the development of erosion mitigation strategies, such budgets are rarely accurate because necessary temporal and spatial data are sparse. Adding to the difficulty of formulating an accurate sediment budget is the realization that coasts with limited sand supplies, such as much of the Atlantic margin of the U.S., are significantly influenced by the geologic framework of older stratigraphic units that occur beneath and seaward of the littoral zone. Working within this difficult context, a better understanding of sediment dynamics in coastal areas can be attained by mapping the surface sediment distribution and subsurface stratigraphy of the estuaries, beach, shoreface, inner shelf, and subaerial components of the coastal system. Presently, our findings are being used by the Corps of Engineers (USACE) to refine sand resource exploration strategy, by the National Park Service (NPS) to reassess the impact of proposed coastal mitigation strategy, and by the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to evaluate the environmental consequences of inlet abandonment. We are having a similar impact with state agencies, county and local managers, and other stakeholders as well. Endorsements, support, and cooperation have come from the North Carolina Coastal Resources Commission (CRC), several state and federal resource agencies, and local governments, who all have an interest in the information the project is producing. Supplemental Congressional appropriations have resulted in part from such support. The National Park Service has also provided partnership funding. Additional partnership opportunities exist and are being pursued with the USACE (two large-scale nourishment project feasibility studies are active in the project area), the North Carolina Outer Banks Task Force and Department of Transportation, and U.S. Minerals Management Service. The Project Chief (Thieler) and primary collaborators (Bill Hoffman - NCGS and Stan Riggs - ECU) meet regularly with state and local officials. We have appeared individually and as a group before the state Coastal Resources Commission to deliver progress reports and answer questions. The CRC is composed of governor-appointed representatives that reflect the spectrum of coastal interests in the state. Following a joint presentation of our project progress in April 2003, the first question from the CRC Chairman was "When can you get started on the rest of the state?" Federal and state agencies have also identified to us a number of their critical issues that we hope to address in the final stages of the project: Inlets and Overwash: Define the probable location of future inlets and the vulnerability of each barrier segment to inlet versus overwash dynamics. What are the positive and negative values of new inlets and overwash? How should both processes be managed in the future? Transportation Corridors: Develop an understanding of geologic processes for each barrier segment that is essential for determining the design and location of transportation corridors (e.g., Oregon Inlet bridge, Highway 12, etc.). Shoreline Erosion: Define the short- and long-term controls and rates of erosion on ocean and estuarine shorelines. How should management respond to the loss of uplands and wetlands? Erosion Hotspots: Determine the location of offshore sand resources suitable for beach nourishment. Can nourishment sands be stored on the barrier island adjacent to hotspots? Sea-Level Rise: Establish the ancient and modern record of sea-level rise in NC and project future impacts upon the NC coastal system. Habitats: Characterize the loss of critical coastal habitats such as coastal marshes, submarine shoals and aquatic vegetation, and upland maritime forests.
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A controversial resolution is making its way through the South Dakota state legislature.
The South Dakota House endorsed a measure encouraging the academic study of the Bible in the state's public schools.
Like any legislation that concerns the separation of church and state, it's getting mixed reactions.
Tom Siebert lives in Aberdeen. He believes schools should revert back to the traditional values that America was founded on, like Judeo Christian beliefs.
"It would be good to start bringing some of that stuff back, and it starts in the classroom, starts at home, starts with parents, starts with your church groups, I think it's a really good thing," Siebert said.
Several people we spoke with disagree with the measure, fearing that it could infringe on First Amendment rights, meaning the government will not establish a state religion.
Stephanie Gubbins says the legislature is trying to encourage religion by teaching content of the Bible in public schools.
"The Bible kind of sways people to one side and I think it would confuse kids, Gubbins says. " I think that kids should grow up and decide on their own and not have it shoved down their throat in school."
The resolution would encourage schools to familiarize students with the content, characters and narratives of the Bible as well as show the role the Bible had in art, literature, culture and public discourse.
Aberdeen School District Superintendent Gary Harms says he thinks the resolution is a good idea but the potential for teachers to use the teachings of the Bible as a platform for their own beliefs.
"I think the potential is there for that to happen, but then it's up to the administration to see that the curriculum is followed," Harms said.
As of right now the Senate still has to approve the resolution.
The Aberdeen School District says it has no plans in the works to add a class regarding Bible lessons unless students express interest.
Even if approved, public schools will be encouraged, but not be required to take part in the teaching Bible classes.


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Analysis: Europe's separatists gain ground in crisis
PARIS/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - From the Pyrennean pastures of Catalonia to the heathery highlands of Scotland, separatists are gaining ground as Europe's economic crisis deepens, but this does not necessarily mean there will be more national flags on the map.
Flemish nationalists scored sweeping gains in Belgian local elections on Sunday, Scotland agreed terms on Monday for a 2014 referendum on independence from Britain, and Catalan separatists expect a regional election next month to advance their cause.
Just as nation states are ceding more power over budgets and economic policy to the European Union, regional grievances and conflicts that have simmered for centuries have taken on new intensity in fights over a shrinking pie of public money.
Richer regions such as Catalan-speaking Catalonia and Dutch-speaking Flanders, which already have wide-ranging autonomy, resent paying for poorer areas such as Spanish-speaking Andalucia and French-speaking Wallonia.
In Germany, there is no separatist movement but prosperous Bavaria is challenging in court a fiscal balancing system that makes it hand over some revenue to poorer federal states.
Scotland, though poorer than England and subsidized by London, thinks it could manage better on its own by harnessing offshore oil and gas reserves.
There are as many differences as similarities between the separatist movements, and opinion polls suggest none has yet secured clear-cut majority support for breaking away.
Backing for Scottish independence hovers between 30 and 40 percent, a range that has changed little as negotiations have intensified. The latest survey by Spanish pollster Metroscopia in late September found 43 percent of Catalans wanted full statehood while 41 percent were opposed.
Catalonia, one of the wealthier regions of Spain per capita but with overstretched public finances, is in the paradoxical position of seeking a debt bailout from Madrid even as it presses demands for independence.
"Without a state, Catalonia will not survive," regional premier Arturo Mas of the center-right sovereignist Convergence and Union party said in a weekend speech.
He argues that the region, home to hi-tech industries and productive farming, pays more to Madrid than it gets back and could use the cash to provide better social and health services.
After a demonstration by at least 500,000 separatists on Catalonia's national day last month, Mas pledged that if he wins the regional election he will hold a referendum on independence, which Madrid says would be illegal.
Many Catalan and Spanish officials say they expect no referendum, but instead a negotiation that would grant Catalonia more power to raise taxes and spend the revenue. The Basque Country, where nationalist groups look set to win a majority in regional polls this month, already has such an arrangement.
Elsewhere, charismatic politicians such as Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond and Flemish N-VA leader Bart De Wever have transformed what were once fringe nationalist groups into respectable mainstream forces.
They have played on the growing unpopularity of traditional parties of the center-right and center-left that have shared responsibility for implementing harsh austerity measures in the economic crisis since 2008.
Salmond has used Britain's decade-old devolution system to spare Scotland some of the most unpopular austerity measures imposed by Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron, such as raising university tuition fees and some healthcare charges.
De Wever, by contrast, has advocated cutting spending instead of the unpopular tax increases imposed by the federal Belgian coalition led by Socialist Prime Minister Elio di Rupo.
The Flemish firebrand was cautious in an interview with Reuters a day after topping the poll in the port city of Antwerp, a Socialist bastion since the 1930s. He stressed conciliation and gradualism rather than a dash for sovereignty.
Asked if he felt he had a majority for independence, De Wever said: "That's not on the agenda now."
He urged Di Rupo to start negotiations before the 2014 general election to revise the federal constitution to establish a looser confederation. Flanders is home to 6.3 million of Belgium's 11 million people.
"Let's prepare this together, it is in our common interest to make this country work. Confederalism is the key and everybody understands that," De Wever told Reuters.
Asked about parallels with the Catalans or Scots, he said: "People make that comparison a lot but I especially see the differences. We are not a minority in our country, we are also not just one piece in a game with many players. We are quite a unique country."
Despite such distinctions, Europe's separatists are increasingly working together, sharing tactics and drawing inspiration from each other. They are also keeping a watchful eye on Quebec, where the separatist Parti Quebecois won a provincial election last month, but without the majority support needed to press again for independence.
The rise of European separatist movements is also part of a generation change, with political parties rooted in the class struggles of the 19th century losing ground to newer forces that have emerged in the lifetime of today's voters.
These include ecologist Greens, libertarian Pirates, and far-right Eurosceptical and anti-immigration groups as well as nationalists who have gained experience in devolved regional assemblies and local government.
Far from vaccinating nation states against break-up, the decentralization of many European countries since the 1970s and 1980s has anchored separatists in the landscape.
While the main Catalan, Scottish and Flemish nationalist parties are all pro-European, there is a parallel between the separatist trend in some EU countries and the large protest vote for Eurosceptical, anti-immigration populists in others.
Italy's Northern League, in decline after a spate of scandals, combines demands for far-reaching autonomy for a region it calls "Padania" with fierce hostility to immigrants.
De Wever's N-VA, founded in 2001, has given Flemish voters a respectable alternative to the far-right Vlaams Belang (Flemish Cause) party which wants to ban mosque-building and send home Muslim immigrants.
Belgian political scientist Cas Mudde drew a link between the identity politics of separatists and far-right populists.
"Nativism feeds upon the feeling of endangered or threatened ethnic or national identity, linked most notably to the process of European integration, mass immigration, and the mechanics of 'multiculturalism'," he wrote in a 2007 study of Populist Radical Right Parties.
The increased role of the European Union, combined with devolution of power in many countries, has reduced the powers of nation states in Europe and hence eased the trauma of secession.
But in trying to dissuade voters from choosing independence, some governments are playing a European scare card.
Conservative Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy is warning that any region opting for independence will find itself shut out of the EU, since the admission of new member states requires unanimous agreement.
"If you are outside Spain and outside the European Union you are nowhere, you are condemned to nothingness," Rajoy said in a speech on Sunday.
British officials say Scotland would not automatically join the EU if it voted to quit the United Kingdom. That would depend on a complex negotiation on sharing the national debt and other administrative issues, and London would have a veto.
While the Scots are more pro-European than the traditionally Eurosceptical English, Salmond has sought to minimize the economic dislocation of any vote to secede by saying Scotland would keep the pound and not switch to using the euro.
(Additional reporting by Philip Blenkinsop in Brussels, Fiona Ortiz and Tracy Rucinski in Madrid and Jon Boyle in London; Writing by Paul Taylor; Editing by Peter Graff)
Now you know why Chancellor Angela Merkel (her code name within the East German Stasi secret police was ANITA) is doing all she can do to destroy the EU by continuing the economic suffering in Europe by offering bailouts and austerity measures that all know won't revive Europe's stalled economies.
The only remedy is to raise interest rates otherwise, naturally, people won't invest more (and consume less), since the return on investment would be so low, assuming there was a return.
So why does Merkel want to to destroy the EU? Simple, the "collapse" of the USSR and East Bloc were strategic ruses, and naturally Moscow knows that if the EU goes down so goes NATO.
For more on this neglected subject, read KGB defector Major Anatoliy Golitsyn's 1984 book, "New Lies for Old" (available at Internet Archive), the only Soviet era defector to still be under protective custody in the West (what does that tell you about the "collapse" of the USSR/East Bloc?).
Golitsyn's book will inform you of the "Long-Range Policy", which all Communist nations signed onto in 1960 as their "new" and more workable strategy to defeat the West. After Stalin died Communists naturally knew that they needed a new strategy to defeat the West, since Stalin's strategy was provoking the West into creating defense organizations, such as NATO, SEATO, ANZUS and CENTO.
I bet you never heard of the "Long-Range Policy", have you? Now why would that be, considering:
(1) the Russian electorate these 21 years have inexplicably only been electing for President and Prime Minister Soviet era Communist Party Quislings;
(2) there was no de-Communization program initiated after the "collapse" of the USSR to ferret out Soviet era Communist agents still in power;
(3) not one "crime against humanity" indictment of the thousands of Soviet era criminals still alive;
(4) the refusal of the Russian Navy to remove the hated Communist Red Star from the bows of vessels, and the refusal of the Russian Air Force to remove the Communist Red Star from the wings of Russian military aircraft, not to mention placing the hated Communist Red Star on all new Naval vessels and military aircraft; and
(5) Lenin's tomb still exists in Red Square!
How obvious can it be that Communism didn't "collapse" in the USSR?
Take a look at all the other 14 republics that made up the USSR. Take a look at who the Ukrainian "electorate" have been "electing" for President since the "collapse" of Communism there:
Leonid Makarovych Kravchuk, December 5, 1991 – July 19, 1994, joined Ukraine Communist Party in 1958.
Leonid Danylovych Kuchma, July 19, 1994 – January 23, 2005, Communist, 1960.
Viktor Andriyovych Yushchenko, January 23, 2005 – February 25, 2010, Communist, 1980.
Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych, February 25, 2010 – Present, Communist, 1980.
Every single President of the Ukraine these last 21 years has inexplicably been a Soviet era Communist Party Quisling!
Here's another "former" USSR republic:
Levon Ter-Petrossian – October 16, 1991 – February 3, 1998, Communist.
Robert Kocharyan – February 4, 1998 – April 9, 2008, Communist.
Serzh Azati Sargsyan – April 9, 2008 – Present, Communist.
Now do you comprehend that the "collapse" of the USSR was a strategic ruse?
"Lenin advised the Communists that they must be prepared to "resort to all sorts of stratagems, maneuvers, illegal methods, evasions and subterfuge" to achieve their objectives. This advice was given on the eve of his reintroduction of limited capitalism in Russia, in his work Left Wing Communism, an Infantile Disorder.
… Another speech of Lenin's … in July 1921 is again highly relevant to understanding "perestroika." "Our only strategy at present," wrote Lenin, "is to become stronger and, therefore, wiser, more reasonable, more opportunistic. The more opportunistic, the sooner will you again assemble the masses round you. When we have won over the masses by our reasonable approach, we shall then apply offensive tactics in the strictest sense of the word." |Emphasis in original.]
If you examine the backgrounds of prominent Russian figures, you will find that they have long Communist Party/ KGB or Komsomol pedigrees. Yet for some inexplicable reason, the Western media have accepted their sudden, orchestrated, mass "conversion" to Western-style norms of behavior, their endless talk of "democracy," and their acceptance of "capitalism," as genuine. "Scratch these new, instant Soviet "democrats," "anti-Communists," and "nationalists" who have sprouted out of nowhere, and underneath will be found secret Party members or KGB agents," Golitsyn writes on page 123 of his new book [The Perestroika Deception]. In accepting at face value the "transformation" of these Leninist revolutionary Communists into "instant democrats," the West automatically accepts as genuine the false "Break with the Past" — the single lie upon which the entire deception is based.
In short, the "former" Soviet Union — and the East European countries as well — are all run by people who are steeped in the dialectical modus operandi of Lenin. Without exception, they are all active Leninist revolutionaries, working collectively towards the establishment of a world Communist government, which, by definition, will be a world dictatorship.
It is difficult for the West to understand the Leninist Hegelian dialectical method — the creation of competing or successive opposites in order to achieve an intended outcome. Equally difficult for us to comprehend is the fact that these Leninist revolutionaries plan their strategies over decades and generations. This extraordinary behavior is naturally alien to Western politicians, who can see no further than the next election. Western politicians usually react to events. Leninist revolutionaries create events, in order to control reactions to them and manipulate their outcomes."


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As long as certain wording is changed, Harford County's volunteer fire and emergency medical services companies are mostly in favor of an executive order that will place the companies under the jurisdiction of the county government, several longtime fire service leaders say.
Harford County Executive David Craig has signed an executive order creating a department of public safety which, if approved by the county council, will give the county executive more control over the fire service than it has now.
Although all the fire companies receive annual allotments of money from the county to help defray their operating and equipment expenses, they retain considerable independence from the government.
There is one major sticking point to what Craig is proposing, and it concerns how much control the county department and its director can exercise over individual fire companies, especially at the scene of a fire or accident. Both sides, however, say they believe an accommodation will be reached on that issue.
Harford has an all-volunteer fire service. A dozen private companies are responsible for answering fire calls in geographic areas established by the companies themselves through an umbrella group known as the Harford County Fire and EMS Association.
Meeting in Jarrettsville Wednesday night, the association's board of trustees voted not to support the executive order "as written," according to Bill Dousa Jr., the association president.
Dousa said he informed Craig of the vote via e-mail Thursday and is hopeful of arranging a meeting between the trustees and the county executive.
Meanwhile, the executive order will be discussed by the Harford County Council at its Dec. 4 legislative session.
A press conference will be held earlier the same day at 11 a.m. in county council chambers at 212 S. Bond St. in Bel Air.
"The topic is the 'Craig Administration Priorities – Final Two-Year Program,'" county spokesman Bob Thomas wrote in an e-mail Wednesday. "The topic of the Department of Public Safety will be part of that presentation from the county executive."
The event will be formally announced Friday morning.
Commission endorsement
Earlier this year, Craig appointed a public safety commission to study all emergency services in the county with a eye toward recommending how best to administer them in the future. With a population approaching 250,000 residents, Harford is the largest jurisdiction in the state that doesn't have at least a partially paid fire service.
The commission, whose membership includes several fire service veterans, has endorsed the proposed department.
Tony Bennett, the public safety commission chairman, explained last week that when the earlier study was commissioned by the county executive and fire and EMS association two years ago, it recommended establishing a department to encompass all of the county's emergency services.
The fire service already "sort of reports to the county through various entities," Bennett continued, and the department would ultimately place that responsibility under its designated director. The recommendation was passed on to Craig's office in January.
"A recommendation was made to give the fire service a seat at the executive's table at the county level," Bennett said. "Because we weren't represented at the executive's table, even Craig felt it was important that we be there." Bennett said the county executive was "fully supportive" of the recommendation.
Another reason to create the department, Bennett said, is to ideally help the fire service become at least a partially paid service sometime in the future.
"We're trying to look down the road and [ask] what is the county going to need some time down the road," he said.
Bennett has been a member of the Harford volunteer the fire service for 46 years and has witnessed the county growing and changing over the decades.


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It's cheap as chips but is this tiny joystick head tripod a good investment?
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Manfrotto is a name synonymous with professional quality tripods, with all that this implies - ie, big, heavy and, for the more casual user, a bit expensive. The Modo range is about as far from this description as its possible to get, and the 785B is a case in point. Weighing only 980 grams and just 43.5cm high when folded away, its hardly taxing to carry, yet it extends to 150cm when fully opened up.
It comes with a joystick-controlled ball head, with a quick-release plate, that can be switched from stills to video mode at the turn of a dial. It's fast and easy to use - which is just as well as it can't be removed. The tripod's leg sections are lever locking, with a dividable centre column so the tripod can be used for low-angle work as low as 17.5cm from the ground if required. Rubber feet mean you're protected against slippage.
The Modo looks good, and for outdoor photographers there is even an optional bag available to keep it that way. For £50 it seems like the answer to a lot of people's needs.
But of course there has to be a downside and here it is. The Modo 785B is (surprise surprise) a bit flimsy. If you avoid extending the legs too far, and keep the centre column down, it does the job its built for pretty well. But at full extension, or outside on a windy day, I wouldn't recommend using overly long exposures, or pushing it beyond its comfort zone by using it with a mid-size DSLR or a long zoom lens.
Part of the problem is that, by giving it five leg sections to keep the folded size down, the lower legs are pretty thin, and the number of joints doesn't help stablity either. The head doesn't lock very tightly either, so add any substantial weight and it will soon start to droop. Hence the 1kg load limit.
Neither will the Modo withstand the rigours of frequent use - the plastic leg release mechanisms aren't the most robust and we managed to break one on our review sample.
Aimed at occasional users who don't want anything heavy or more expensive. Its fine for a consumer camcorder or a bridge camera, for example, as long as it isn't use at maximum extension. But the weak plastic head doesn't lock tightly enough to support anything heavier than an entry level DSLR, and the leg locks have broken on two samples we have tried. Demanding users should look elsewhere.


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A modern-day Romeo and Juliet were discovered Sunday alive and well in an SUV on the North Side of Chicago after the teenagers ran away from homes in Michigan about two weeks ago, police said.
Braxton Wood, 14, and his girlfriend Jayden Thomas, 13, were found at about 9 a.m. in a broken-down Ford Explorer in a parking lot next to a Mobil station in Wrigleyville in the 3900 block of North Broadway, Chicago Police said.
The SUV, which is owned by Wood's father, had run out of gas, said Chicago Police Officer Veejay Zala, a spokesman for the department.
An anonymous tipster called police about the teens, Zala said. The couple was reported missing Aug. 26. They reportedly ran away because their parents didn't approve of their six-month relationship.
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The Wild was able to squeeze a practice in at Xcel Energy Center Friday. It came right after the Gophers' morning skate and just before the first of two WCHA Final Five games.
Mikko Koivu practiced again, as did Niklas Backstrom. Josh Harding, Devin Setoguchi and Matt Cullen -- who didn't skate Thursday -- returned to the ice.
Greetings. Kent Youngblood here. With Russo away, I had practice today and will cover tomorrow's game with Carolina.
But, as for who will play in that game tomorrow? "You guys will be disappointed," coach Mike Yeo said after practice. "I don't have a lot of answers for you."
Indeed, Yeo wouldn't even call Koivu (shoulder), Backstrom (lower body) or Cullen (knee) game-time decisions. Because each of those players would have to come up to the coaching staff tomorrow and say they were ready to go before a decision would even come into play.
"I want to be careful to say that Mikko is game-time," Yeo said. "Same thing with Back. We want to make sure. It's a game-time decision if Mikko came to us and said 'I'm ready to go.' And, if he's real confident in that, we'd decide.''
Same goes for Cullen and Backstrom. The gut feeling here is that Backstrom needs more practice time. I believe thre is a good chance both Koivu and Cullen play.
In practice today Yeo had Koivu skating with Dany Heatley and Setoguchi while Cullen was centering a line with Erik Christensen and Cal Clutterbuck.
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Few teams have the potential to have as much overhaul as the Minnesota Wild this summer.
Off-Season Game Plan looks at a team in need of a new General Manager, Head Coach and, potentially, star player.
It may have come as some surprise when Jacques Lemaire stepped down as coach, but the Wild's off-season plan became much more daunting when they fired GM Doug Risebrough as well.
While a new front office may help the Wild in negotations with Marian Gaborik, who had been at a stalemate with Risebrough in contract negotations, there is no guarantee that new management would appeal to, or even want Gaborik.
One of the names that has made the rounds in the rumour mill for the GM position is that of TSN analyst Pierre McGuire.
Late in the season, McGuire told the St. Paul Pioneer Press about Gaborik: "He's one of the best one-on-one players in the NHL. That hasn't changed one iota. What everyone is questioning is his durability. If you're going to make that kind of investment, you can't have a guy go 25-30 games a season. It just won't work in this salary-cap world."
Of course, McGuire is right. When Gaborik played this year, the Wild were easily a playoff-calibre team, but hip surgery meant that Gaborik only graced the Wild with his presence in the lineup for 17 games, not nearly enough, and it's tough to commit more than $7-million-plus to any player who isn't going to be in the lineup for the majority of the games.
There is the natural concern in Minnesota that the hip surgery could be just what cures Gaborik's ever problematic groin injuries and he could be ready to embark on a series of 40 or 50-goal seasons. Or he could play 65 games or fewer like he has in four of the past five seasons.
How long and for how much does he get signed?
More importantly for the Wild, who will be the one making that decision?
Once a new GM comes in, there should be a better indication of what kind of team the Wild might have next season. With Lemaire gone, they would figure to play a more open, attacking style, if only because it would be hard to be more buttoned-down.
So, the Wild could look dramatically different next season, which will make their off-season one of the more fascinating ones to watch in the NHL.
Top Prospects: Benoit Pouliot (9-15-24, minus-2 in 30 GP; Houston-AHL), Cody Almond (33-33-66, plus-15 in 70 GP; Kelowna-WHL), Peter Olvecky (6-17-23, minus-1 in 41 GP; Houston-AHL)
Mikko Koivu has progressively improved in every season and last year he emerged as one of the better two-way centres in the game, taking on an offensive leadership role in the absence of Marian Gaborik. However, to bring out the best in Koivu, the Wild ought to ensure that he has a true finisher on his wing, as he's much more of playmaker.
One of the most underrated 2008-2009 seasons in the entire league was turned in by Owen Nolan. The 37 year-old missed 23 games with injuries and still managed to score 25 goals, a total he'd surpassed just twice in the previous nine seasons. I questioned the wisdom of signing Nolan to a two-year deal last summer, but it appears to have worked out nicely for the Wild.
The league's leading hitter as a rookie, Cal Clutterbuck made a name for himself with his agitating style, but also chipped in 11 goals. He showed some offensive ability in his final two years of junior, so if Clutterbuck could build on his rookie season, perhaps a 15-20 goal season could be in his future.
Though he put up a career-high 44 points, Antti Miettinen was fortunate to have some chemistry with Koivu. Miettinen isn't skilled enough to warrant first-line duty, but his speed and sound game figure to be a better fit on the third line.
Pierre-Marc Bouchard's game tailed off as he finished with fewer than 57 points for the first time since the lockout. Bouchard plays a soft game, but has vision, creativity and soft hands that should result in big point totals if he's matched with better scorers.
Iron man Andrew Brunette missed a couple of games to end his streak, but he's still played better than 80 games in eight of the last nine seasons. That durability, coupled with rare skills down low in the opposing zone, makes him a valuable veteran.
While there are times that it looks like Eric Belanger might be capable of producing more offensively, he's scored between 33 and 37 points in six straight seasons. He's a solid checking line centre, but the Wild need to have better options for the power play (where Belanger has scored 27 points over the last two seasons).
First in line to take on a bigger offensive role should be James Sheppard, the 21-year-old who played all 82 games last season, yet was underwhelming with just 24 points and a minus-14 rating. Sheppard has the size and skill to take on a bigger role, but he wasn't ready for the responsibility in his second season.
Colton Gillies saw limited ice time in his rookie season, but the 20-year-old has potential to be a good checking winger. Presumably, he'll get more of an opportunity next year.
He's a high-effort player, but Craig Weller is going to be on the fringe of the lineup, fitting in when the Wild feel a need for more size on the fourth line.
There may not be anyone in the league more intimidating than Wild enforcer Derek Boogaard, but he plays so little and hasn't scored a goal in three seasons, so there's only so much impact he's going to have with his fists.
Picked up from the Rangers, Dan Fritsche played better with more ice time after arriving in Minnesota. His career appeared to be on the upswing a couple of years ago, but has slipped over the last two seasons. Given a regular role right off the start, he could be a reliable checker.
The potential loss of Marian Gaborik to free agency has to put the Wild on alert entering the summer. If Gaborik can't be convinced to stay, then the Wild can turn their attention to other highly-skilled wingers who could help fill the void, including Marian Hossa, Martin Havlat, Alex Tanguay, Mike Cammalleri or perhaps Steve Sullivan.
Furthermore, if the Wild aren't prepared to see James Sheppard in the second-line centre role, they could check in with free agent Saku Koivu, Mikko's older brother.
Top Prospects: Tyler Cuma (1-8-9, minus-7 in 21 GP; Ottawa-OHL), Maxim Noreau (14-25-39, minus-5 in 77 GP; Houston-AHL), Marco Scandella (10-27-37, minus-19 in 58 GP; Val d'Or-QMJHL)
A concussion ended Brent Burns' season early, but it wasn't going all that well before he shut things down, either. Burns looked to be on the cusp of stardom after the 2007-2008 season, but took a step back last year, so he'll be counted on to rebound and play like a number one defenceman -- a status befitting a player of his size, skill and skating ability.
Power play quarterback Marek Zidlicky put up more than 40 points for the fourth time in his five NHL seasons, yet his minus-12 rating was the second-worst of his career. Perhaps he'd fare better in that regard with a steadier defensive partner, who could better cover when Zidlicky attacks in the offensive zone.
Though it doesn't appear he's ever going to be the kind of point producer he was in his years with the Philadelphia Flyers and he generally plays small for his size, Kim Johnsson is a solid top-four defenceman.
Coming off the first minus season of his career, Nick Schultz is nevertheless the closest thing the Wild have to a shutdown defenceman. His durability (at least 79 games for five straight seasons) and ability to log significant minutes has earned the 26-year-old respect as he enters his prime.
Monstrous (6-foot-8, 247 pounds) John Scott got his first taste of NHL action and while his game isn't yet ready for regular duty, Scott is an intimidator who could fill a role as a tough guy/depth defenceman.
There are several holes that need to be filled on the blueline, but the Wild effectively have their top four covered, so they can seek free agent help a little further down the depth chart.
Minnesota native Jordan Leopold, Ville Koistinen, Alexei Semenov, Karlis Skrastins and Matt Walker are but a handful of free agents that might have the skills to help upgrade the unit.
Top Prospect: Anton Khudobin (3-6-1, 3.04 GAA, .892 SVPCT in 10 GP; Houston-AHL)
Niklas Backstrom earned a contract extension after putting up his third straight impressive season after coming to the NHL as a 28-year-old. While there is something to the argument that Backstrom's success has been tied to the buttoned-down defensive style favoured by Jacques Lemaire, the Wild were in the lower half of the league in shots allowed last season.
Currently one of the better backup goaltenders in the league, 24-year-old Josh Harding could develop into a starter as well, though he doesn't figure to see a heavy workload as long as Backstrom is healthy.
While there aren't any prospects knocking on the door, it's probably for the best since this tandem ensures that the Wild are set nicely between the pipes for the forseeable future.
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Released shortly after Dead Man Walking, this Death Row drama was justly overshadowed by Tim Robbins' Oscar winner. Braving the camera without her face on, Sharon Stone plays a redneck double murderer who's been awaiting execution for over a decade. Rob Morrow is the lawyer who discovers the woman inside the killer and fights to save Shazza from her date with the lethal syringes.
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He was in Rochester on Monday afternoon talking job creation at the AFL-CIO Constitutional Convention.
But Republican leaders remain at odds with the governor on how more employment can be created in Minnesota.
In hockey terms, the Gov. Dayton says for the past two years he's had to play defense and veto Republican legislation.
He voiced again the need to raise taxes on the wealthiest 2% of Minnesotans.
"It doesn't fit that lower taxes mean higher employment... it means the opposite," he said.
But Senate Majority Leader Dave Senjem, R-Rochester, believes higher taxes keep businesses out of the state.
"We cannot continue down this road of taxation in Minnesota, and expect people to keep their corporations in Minnesota or jobs in Minnesota," Sen. Senjem said.
In a bizarre twist of fate, the governor was visiting the same place he denied economic development grant money just last week.
Gov. Dayton explains he followed a state agency's recommendations but had strongly supported the Mayo Civic Center expansion in both his bonding bills, before Republicans cut them.
"Rochester and Olmsted County send about $90 million more a year to the state of Minnesota than they get back in local government aid and property tax relief and school aid. So why wouldn't we do everything we possibly could to build up this area?" Gov. Dayton said.
Sen. Senjem says he tried helping the project in the Senate version of the bonding bill but couldn't get it through the House.
"The local projects aren't certainly as high as the University of Minnesota, or projects that relate to the more specific needs we have. But local projects are certainly part of that and as local projects go, this will certainly be a high one," Sen. Senjem explained.
Union members were for the expansion, believing it'd bring business and jobs to Rochester.
As the upcoming election approaches, both Republicans and the DFL are trying to prove they have the answers when it comes to creating jobs in Minnesota.
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