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Greeley-Evans school board to vote on teacher-student interaction policy
March 27, 2013
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The Greeley-Evans school board will meet at 7 tonight in the board room at 1025 9th Ave.
The policy that restricts interaction between students and staff will be on its second reading, meaning it will be instituted if it is approved by the board.
A policy that would set limits on a staff members' interaction with students will go before the Greeley-Evans School District 6 Board of Education today.
The district had its most glaring example of improper behavior end in February 2012 when Spanish teacher Rhonda Eisenberg, 44 , pled guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child after she had a baby with a student who was in her care. The district fired her in August.
But that case wasn't the only reason, or not even the impetus, for the proposed policy. It was simply time to get a policy in writing that restricts activities such as dating, sending students on personal errands or diagnosing and treating a student's personal problem.
"In the past, we've had some issues, and some violations that have crossed a line," said Doug Lidiak, board president. "This will help our Human Resources department to clearly define those lines."
Other districts across the state are talking about it, if they don't have policies already, Lidiak said, and the Colorado Association of School Boards already has a proposed set of related guidelines.
Even if the Eisenberg case got its fair share of the spotlight, the policy wasn't a reaction to the ways teachers or staff members were interacting with students, said Theresa Myers, spokeswoman for Greeley-Evans School District 6. Staff members already undergo some training in what's expected from their conduct. But it does give the district a tool to use if there's a problem in the future. There is no policy approved by the school board, for example, forbidding staff members to date students, even though it is obviously frowned upon.
Watching 2,300 staff members spend every second with a student is impossible, Myers said, and so, like many policies, the district may rely on other staff members or even students to report a violation. But if someone does report a possible issue, the district would have a tool in place to check if there's been a violation.
The policy does raise an interesting point with social media. Should a teacher be friends with a student on Facebook? One guideline seems to discourage that: "Staff members shall not fraternize (written, verbal, on-line or electronic) with students except on matters that pertain to school-related issues."
"We would expect our staff to be careful using social media to interact with students," Myers said. "Can I say that's not happening now? No. But that's why we would have a policy in place."
Another policy, in part, states, "staff members shall not attempt to counsel, assess, diagnose or treat a student's personal problem relating to sexual behavior, substance abuse, mental or physical health and/or family relationships." But Myers said the district knows teachers, coaches or staff members can help students through tough situations. The counseling, she said, refers to problems that only trained counselors should handle.
"We're not trying to discourage any of those relationships or any help staff can give our students," she said. "But if it becomes obvious that they need some help from a counselor, they need to realize that and let it go. We just want our staff to use common sense."
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Formula E Won't Return To Miami, Where Environmentalists Clashed With Race
Will Formula E return to Miami?
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This past March, tens of thousands of fans watched wide, sexy electric racecars zoom down Biscayne Boulevard as part of the first ever Formula E (for electric) racing series. The race marked the first time in decades — since the old Miami Grand Prix — that professional car racing had come to downtown Miami. Now it looks like it might have been the last: Formula E recently announced its schedule for the upcoming 2015-16 season, and Miami isn't on it.
The season begins in October in Beijing; after China the tour heads to nine other cities, including Buenos Aires, Berlin, and Moscow, all of which also held the event last year. Miami and Monaco were both cut; Paris and a yet-to-be-named city are in.
"For starters, it is a huge deal to be racing in Paris," Alejandro Agag, the series founder, recently told Electric Autosport. "As for the other city, we have agreed to announce this later in the year but I can assure you it's a great venue and we're very excited."
In order to host Miami's race earlier this year, organizers spent weeks — and millions of dollars — converting busy Biscayne Boulevard into a professional race track, complete with high perimeter walls. Downtown traffic was completely rerouted, and access to Bayfront Park and area museums was limited. The race itself was deemed a success, with high attendance and mostly favorable reviews, although the event drew the ire of many local environmentalists, who called organizers hypocrites for promoting a green race while paving over part of Parcel B.
"There's nothing green about it," Peter Ehrlich Jr., with the group Scenic Miami Dade, told New Times in March. "How do you justify calling something green and then applying to destroy a five-acre waterfront site?"
But Miami politicians loved the event. City Mayor Tomas Regalado, a fan of the old Grand Prix, was personally involved in convincing organizers to choose Miami in the first place; even before the race happened, city commissioners unanimously agreed to offer Miami as a host for another five years.
Now it's not clear why Formula E decided not to come back in its second season. In his interview with Electric Autosport, one of the few times Agag appears to have spoken about the new schedule, he didn't mention anything about Miami. With the Magic City out, Long Beach, California becomes the only stop in the U.S.
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- Gregor Johann Mendel was a German-speaking Moravian scientist and Augustinian friar who gained posthumous fame as the founder of the modern science of genetics.
- Born: July 20, 1822, Hynčice, Czech Republic
- Died: January 6, 1884, Brno, Czech Republic
- Full name: Gregor Johann Mendel
- Education: Palacký University, Olomouc (1840–1843), University of Vienna
- Siblings: Veronica Mendel, Theresia Mendel
- Parents: Rosine Mendel, Anton Mendel
- He profound significance of Mendel's work was not recognized until the turn of the 20th century (more than three decades later) with the independent rediscovery of these laws.[3] Erich von Tschermak, Hugo de Vries, Carl Correns, and William Jasper Spillmanindependently verified several of Mendel's experimental findings, ushering in the modern age of genetics.
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- Reginald Crundall Punnett FRS was a British geneticist who co-founded, with William Bateson, the Journal of Genetics in 1910.
- Born: June 20, 1875, Tonbridge, United Kingdom
- Died: January 3, 1967, Old Cleeve, United Kingdom
- Books: Mimicry in Butterflies, Mendelism
- Education: Clifton College, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge,University of Cambridge
- During World War I, Punnett successfully applied his expertise to the problem of the early determination of sex in chickens. Since only females were used for egg-production, early identification of male chicks, which were destroyed or separated for fattening, meant that limited animal-feed and other resources could be used more efficiently. Punnett's work in this area was summarized in Heredity in Poultry (1923). With Michael Pease as his assistant, he created the first auto-sexing chicken breed, the Cambar, by transferring the barring gene of the Barred Rock to the Golden Campine.


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A Closer Look at the Book: 1 THESSALONIANS
Steve N. Wagers
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
November 19. 2006
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1. A Heavenly Truth from which We Learn!
A) A Failure to Appreciate It
B) A Failure to Appropriate It
2. A Heavenly Trump for which We Listen!
A) Glory Personally Revealed
B) Glory Powerfully Resurrected
C) Glory Perfectly Raptured
D) Glory Permanently Reunited
3. A Heavenly Trust by which We Live!
A) The Sadness of Those who Reject It
B) The Gladness to Those who Receive It
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Wanting to talk with an adult, the boss asked, "Is your Mommy there?" "Yes", came the answer. "May I talk with her?" Again the small voice whispered, "No." Knowing that it was not likely that a young child would be left home alone, the boss decided he would just leave a message with the person who should be there watching over the child. "Is there any one there besides you?" the boss asked the child.
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Colbie Caillat Talks Lily B. Skincare, "Christmas in the Sand", The Humane Society, and More
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Colbie Caillat might just be one of the hardest working women in showbiz.
Right now, the Grammy Award-winning songstress is traversing the country on a jaunt with Gavin DeGraw, she's finishing up her first holiday album Christmas in the Sand, and promoting Lily. B Skincare with whom she recently partnered. If that's not enough, the girl also remains a staunch supporter of The Humane Society and animal rights. We could use a whole lot more pop rockers [and people] like Caillat. Not only does she make the world a bit brighter with her music, the singer-songwriter is doing everything she can to help it even when she isn't holding a guitar.
In this exclusive interview with ARTISTdirect.com editor in chief Rick Florino, Colbie Caillat talks Lily. B, Christmas in the Sand, and so much more.
What separates Lily.B from other skincare lines?
Well, it's made with all-natural ingredients, and I love that it's not tested on animals. The bottle is eco-friendly too. Since I'm all about everything being organic, natural, and good for putting in or on your body, I thought it was a really great line to partner up with.
Have you been thinking about partnering up with a brand like this for a while?
There have been lots of offers for me to be a spokesperson for different brands. A friend of mine gave me Lily.B to use, and I loved that it was natural. So I had a meeting with them, and I wanted to see if I could help them get the word out.
How do you maintain a skincare regiment on the road? That can't be easy.
It's not easy, especially living and sleeping on a tour bus every night. The bathroom and sink are really small so washing all of my makeup off and re-applying the skincare line can be difficult. However, it's really important. From the first couple years of touring when I was young and didn't know, I treated my skin awfully. I'd sleep with my makeup on. The next day, I'd scrub it off. That can give you wrinkles under your eyes. I've learned so much since then. Now I'm 27-years-old, I know the precautions, and I use the daily moisturizer, the night cream, and the foaming face wash to get the makeup off. I do the things all women need to start doing.
What's your favorite piece from the Lily.B line?
My favorite is the daily moisturizer. I'm obsessed with moisturizing my skin. I'm always in the sun, and I think it's really good to keep it hydrated. My three favorites are really the foaming face wash because I love how it feels on my skin when I wash it at night, the eye cream because it's really important, and the daily moisturizer. Those are my go-to.
Have you come to them with suggestions for the line? Are you helping them develop new products?
I'm sure that we will. I'm partnered up with them. They want my ideas and suggestions. I give them notes about things. We will definitely get into more stuff. This is just the beginning.
What's it like making a Christmas album in July?
[Laughs] It's funny. I've been making it all spring and summer. I guess it doesn't matter. In California, it's always hot and sunny. It's actually a perfect for it because this record is called Christmas in the Sand. I was listening to all of the Christmas songs I was going to cover. They all talk about snow, being cold, and Santa by the fire. I enjoy that during Christmas. I covered the standards, but I also wrote a few more songs for the album that are about your tropical Christmas for the people who live in California and Hawaii. It's sunny, and they're at the beach with their friends sipping coco with a candy cane and Santa falls off his surfboard. It's a little tongue-in-cheek. It's a mix of wintry songs and Christmas at the beach.
Do you have a favorite from the album?
As far as a favorite standard goes, I did "Auld Lang Syne" for the New Year's song. I love that. I think it's beautiful. Then, I did "Santa Baby", "Baby, It's Cold Outside", "Merry Christmas Baby", and "Silver Bells". There are 14 songs on the record. Then I wrote "Everyday It's Christmas", "Happy Christmas", and "Christmas in the Sand". I'm really excited for people to hear those.
Has Christmas always been special for you?
Yeah, we would always go to Lake Tahoe in Nevada with my grandparents. They have this house right across the street from the lake. It'd be snowing. We'd light a fire, make Christmas dinner, and eat pie and hot chocolate. There were presents overflowing out from under the tree. It was your complete, perfect Christmas. It was good to be locked in a house with my family in a house for a week.
How do you approach each album?
I go with what I'm feeling at the time. I write from what I'm experiencing in my life. I add in the styles of music that influence and affect me. I want my next record to be more stripped-down and raw. I might put out an acoustic EP.
"Make It Rain" really stands out on All Of You. What's the story behind that song?
It was the first song I wrote for All Of You. I was on tour in Germany. My boyfriend was in my band at that time. We were on tour together, and we were falling in love. Every time we tried to go sightseeing or we went on a jog, it would start raining. I thought it was this magic we were creating being in love and all that cheesy stuff [Laughs]. I went to my hotel one day and wrote the song for him.
If you were to compare All Of You to a movie or a combination of movies, what would you compare it to?
Oh wow! That's a good question…I'd have to think about it more. What would you say from your listener's perspective?
Perhaps, You've Got Mail because it's endearing and fun?
[Laughs] I like that.
How's the tour with Gavin DeGraw?
It's going so well. That dude is so talented and really cool. He's one of the most hilarious people I've ever met. Getting to be with him every day and hearing him sing is amazing. Our bands all get along so well. It's really fun. We feel like we're on summer camp.
How did you get involved in the Humane Society?
My parents taught me about adopting animals when I was a kid. I adopted my Golden Retriever from the Southern California Golden Retriever Rescue Foundation. They had gotten her from Taiwan because they have a lot of dogs over there. People buy them as puppies and, once they're big, they don't want them anymore. I love animals. I'm vegetarian. I don't buy clothes with leather. A friend brought it to my attention I should work with the Humane Society. When she said it to me, I felt like my world had opened up to something I'd always dreamed of doing, but I didn't know it yet. Teaching people about the importance of adopting animals and not supporting puppy mills by getting dogs from pet stores is so crucial to me. Factory farming is something I'd like to change as well
Golden retrievers are such incredible dogs.
They're sweet. They're harmless. I've never known a golden retriever to be vicious. They just want to love the whole time.
Do you bring your dog on tour?
Well, not her because she's so big. I did adopt a small dog too. I fell in love with him, and I wanted to bring him with me everywhere. He can fly on the plane, and he fits on a tour bus. He's a little mutt. He's a mix of a bunch of different things. He has a cute furry face.
—Rick Florino
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So I recently upgraded from an iPhone 3Gs to a Samsung Galaxy S3. So far I really like my new phone except there's one caveat I've noticed. When I had my music on the internal SD card it would read my music through the USB connection and I could use the voice controls with it. Voice controls being "Play Artist xxx, Play Track yyy, etc. etc." Though for some reason I would have to reseat the cable a couple of times before it would index properly. Still though, it would eventually work. Now a few days ago I put a microSD in my phone and transferred the music to that Sync won't read it. Is there anyway I can get it to? I've rooted my phone and downloaded several USB Mass Storage apps but none seem to work. Does anyone have a suggestion or a solution?
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We hadn't fully understood how comfortable our life had become in recent times, constricted yes, but also extremely comfortable.
The Ghostbusters are often constricted by their refusal to understand the opposite sex.
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Afew years ago the production duo Chase & Status were credited with reinvigorating the drum'n'bass scene. Now in-demand producers, they had a Top 10 hit with their single, "End Credits", featuring Plan B, and praise has been heaped on them from Rihanna and Jay-Z – to whose Roc Nation label they are signed as producers. Such is their reputation that they had their pick of rappers and singers to guest on their imminent sophomore album, No More Idols, an exciting dance mash-up of hip-hop, dubstep and drum'n'bass .
We meet in the offices of their label, Mercury, who signed them following the success of their debut album, More Than Alot. Will "Status" Kennard is telling of his awkward Larry David-esque internal dialogue when he met Rihanna for the first time, to produce her Rated R album. " When she walked into the room, there was that nervous moment – do I kiss her, do I shake her hand, do I bow? What's the protocol here? Obviously she came in with heels like this," he says, extending his arms widely, "very made up and her hair was incredible. You don't want to accidentally ruffle her hair, so you're a bit wary."
Kennard, 30, is suave and laid-back, with a pressed white shirt tucked into trousers, while his 29-year-old bandmate, Saul "Chase" Milton, is more Mod-ish. It's all part of their stage look. But they didn't always look like this. When the duo met through friends in their late teens, drawn together by a mutual love of DJing from their bedrooms, they favoured tracksuits and trainers.
"I guess we were chavvy before chavs existed, when that dress sense was actually quite fashionable. It's definitely not how I dress now – I think I had a hooped earring in my left ear," Kennard winces. "Saul had a skinhead – we try and forget those days." It's a look they recreate in their latest video, for the single "Blind Faith", as they channel their nostalgia for the warehouse raves which they frequented while studying at university in Manchester. "It was quite grimy back then, lots of attitude," recalls Kennard. "It was really street music, so we were more like public school boys trying to act cool and not get beaten up at these things. But it was really exciting."
While everyone else was starting to feel the pressure at university, Milton and Kennard were "living the dream" as DJs, honing their skills. They spent the next four years holed up in the studio, learning how to produce music, and trying to copy their heroes, such as the Prodigy, and drum'n'bass pioneers Goldie, Andy C, Bad Company and Roni Size. They learned how to write music and were soon hooked. Then they signed to JHO Management.
"We had no idea how to write the simplest beat," says Kennard. "We realised we had to write music to get DJ gigs; you can't just DJ – everyone's a good DJ. So that was the end of our social lives. We were massive geeks, literally bearded men in the studio all the time, and we lost touch with everyone. I had a girlfriend up there and I neglected that relationship quite badly."
There is still no time for girlfriends, although Kennard is partial to playing golf whenever the hectic Chase & Status schedule allows him. "Although my mum always says 'if you wanted to, you could make the time'," says Kennard. "I'm a bit reclusive. But it does take its toll. A lot of my friends are getting married and some are having kids. I've got this fear of being 40 and sitting around at a dinner party with all my old friends, and they've all got 10-year-old kids and wives and I'm wearing a leather jacket with loads of stories, but not really doing it anymore... "
Their hardworking attitude has seen them tour relentlessly in the past year. After More Than Alot they expanded to a full live show with a band, and, against their expectations, it was so successful that they sold out a headline tour and enjoyed a summer full of festival appearances. It was this which went on to shape their new album, which has more of a guitar sound.
"We'd be sitting in the studio and rather than thinking, 'Is this going to do really well in the club', it was 'Is this song going to work when we play it at a festival?' And that definitely changes the sound of the album and the range of songs."
Chase & Status gigs have become known for adrenaline-fuelled crowd moshing – and the title No More Idols seemed to fit the punky vibe and their view of the music industry. "The music industry is so slick now and all acts are very professional. You don't get many stories of bands trashing hotel rooms, just being reckless musical geniuses. It doesn't feel like there are the kind of idols that there used to be." Do they trash hotel rooms? "Not intentionally... There have been some pretty horrendous debauched moments in hotel rooms."
They also wanted to build on the success of their debut album through the use of vocalists, while retaining the dance vibe and club-friendly feel of the first record. They penned a list of singers and rappers they wanted to feature, most of whom ended up on the album. The names Jay-Z and Kanye West were mooted, but their goal was to retain a strong British identity which they could take to America. "There was talk about working with the Rihannas, Jay-Zs and Kanye Wests – it would be hard to turn that stuff down, but I was quite glad that in the end it ended up the way it did. Cee Lo Green is American, obviously, but we love the fact that he's talking about British culture – and they're quite punky-sounding vocals. He's a big fan of London, so it made sense. There's definitely a British vibe." Above all it was the chance to work with rising British artists that most inspired them – so much so that they have launched their own record label, MTA Records, to sign new acts.
As well as Plan B and four-time Brit nominee Tinie Tempah, Clare Maguire, who made it on to the BBC Sound of 2011 shortlist, also features on the album, alongside Mali, who was signed to Warners off the back of his contribution to their album, and rising rapper Tempa T.
"We have the opportunity to work with all the top A-listers, but there'd be something contrived about it at this point in our career," says Milton. "There's nothing more exciting than finding new artists and being a part of their rising success; we've known Plan B for years and to see him rising beats working with any multi-platinum-selling artist.
"We really want to be the best of British music and to push the UK forward. If you look at the charts you've got Jessie J, the UK's equivalent of Lady Gaga. We're going to find this tailor-made music-by-numbers falling off the charts. 2011 is the year of the UK and if we can be a part of that we'll be very proud."
The album 'No More Idols' is out 31 January. Chase & Status play KOKO, London NW1 (www.koko.uk.com) on 26 January and Onyx, Folkstone (www.onyxnightclub.co.uk) on 28 January
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Mr. ENZI. Mr. President, I want to congratulate the Senator from Maine on his speech. It was a tremendous history lesson. I have enjoyed getting to know him a little bit since he got here. I had quite an interesting surprise yesterday. He came to my office and he brought an American flag, all framed. The way he got it, there was a desk his great-aunt had. The desk was probably made in the 1860s. But behind one of the drawers they found this flag. It was a flag with 44 stars. Wyoming was the 44th State. So he presented this framed flag to me. Incidentally, that was only the flag of the United States for a 6-year period. Then some other States came in and we added them. It has an interesting arrangement of stars on it too, because the 44 stars do not fit in a nice even pattern unless you did four rows with 11 in a row. That changes the dimensions of the flag considerably.
I appreciate his consideration on that. I appreciate the consideration he has given to pieces of legislation that I have seen him work on. We do not agree on all of those pieces of legislation, but it is nice to have the concern and the thought and the process for getting things done that he brings to the Senate. That is very nice.
I too want to encourage my colleagues if they have amendments to bring them down. That is what we say this process is about. This is an amendment process on the floor, which everybody has asked for. We are doing it. So we need the amendments. A number of people have talked to me about different parts they had a potential concern about. I hope we solved their concern by actually looking at the wording in the bill. This is not a very difficult bill to read. Sometimes we do ones that are a couple of thousand pages. This one is 11 pages. I do not think there is anybody who will not be capable of reading the bill. Unlike most of the bills, this is in pretty normal language, rather than some of the conforming language that sometimes results around here.
I think most of the problems retailers should have with this have been taken care of. One that the nonsales-tax States talk about, and the Senator from Illinois, Mr. Durbin, also mentioned, the people in those States still will not pay a sales tax. But if you happen to be one of the people selling into other States, and you sell a tremendous volume into other States, then under this bill you will be expected to collect and remit the sales tax, as any retailer in the States that have sales tax.
There is an exemption. The Senator from Oregon, Mr. Wyden, asked us to have a compromise. That is why we have the exemption in there. It is a compromise. We started with it in the Senate as being a $500,000 exemption. The House folks convinced us--as I mentioned, this is a bipartisan, Republican and Democrat, bicameral, House and Senate effort. The House convinced us that $1 million was a more reasonable figure, and they gave some good reasons for it. Now $1 million would give any small businessman quite a few years, perhaps--I hope it is a short period of time, but it should give them quite an amount of time before they had to adjust to this, because they have to sell $1 million on line in a year before they have to start collecting the tax the next year.
In a State where there is a sales tax and the people are selling in the brick-and-mortar store which we are trying to help out with this bill, they collect from every person from the first dime of sales. So we have given a little bit of a break to particularly the nontax States, and to those working on line that are small businesses to continue this effort to grow the Internet.
Of course, we are hoping a lot of our businesses in our States will get to that million-dollar mark. But here is the status on the million-dollar mark. We are told that if we reduced that to $150,000 it would only affect less than one-quarter of 1 percent of the businesses in the United States--not very many. They are starting to be a relatively big business when they are doing $1 million on line. This does not count their in-store sales. This is just their on-line sales. So I hope the other States that have had some difficulty with that will realize that is a pretty liberal mark we have gone to.
Of course, I know a lot of people are getting a lot of correspondence from eBay. eBay, in the 12 years I have been working on this bill, has consistently opposed it, even though they appeared almost up to the time we were ready to do the bill to be in agreement with some of the things that were in the bill.
Incidentally, that is when we had a considerably bigger bill. It was about 80 pages long. This one we changed. The main difference is now there are States rights, which there should have always been. That is the way it is in the Constitution. This is a States rights bill. That reduces the length of it considerably.
The million-dollar proposal is to give people time to adjust and collect. Incidentally, there is kind of a phase-in in this. Some people say, why don't we have kind of a phase-in? Well, we have 90 days. We agreed to do 6 months so people could gear up for it.
Besides that 6 months, the States are going to have to provide free software to be able to do the tax, so that when they put in a ZIP Code for where they are sending the product, they will automatically know the tax. They talk about 9,600 tax jurisdictions. Well, in this there are only
46 different tax jurisdictions. Nevertheless, they put in that ZIP Code and they will know what the tax is and have no liability whatsoever because that falls on the people who provided them with this free software. This makes a huge difference to States, counties, and municipalities.
I used to be a mayor. I was a mayor of a town that tripled in size during the 8 years I was mayor. Had it not been for sales tax, we would have been broke. I checked around to see how much towns and municipalities rely on the sales tax for their source of revenue. I was shocked. About the minimum that I run into is 30 percent. There are quite a few more than I ever thought that rely on sales tax for 70 percent of what they do.
So what does a municipality do with its money? Well, let's see, a lot of them have schools they have to take care of, they have law enforcement they have to take care of, they have firefighters they have to take care of, some of them have ambulances. So it is all of the first responders essentially they have to take care of.
If you are in the northern States, as I was, you have to do it for snow removal. People are really particular about snow removal. Incidentally, Wyoming is still having a little bit of winter. Let's see, today is Wednesday, so that is typically our spring. We have a lot of snow, even in April. That is when most of our moisture comes. We get snow in January too, but that is a real dry snow. In fact, we are such a dry climate that I often tell people that even our rain is only 80 percent moisture. Of course, a lot of it gets sucked up by the air as it falls. A long rainstorm in Wyoming might be 5 minutes. We get a total of 13 inches a year. So we rely on that snow. But if you are a mayor and it snows, you have a major problem, because people expect to be able to get around. I found out that if you plow it to the center, then they cannot make left-hand turns. If it is left on the ground very long and that freezes, then you really have a problem getting it up. If you plow it to the sides, you block in people's driveways and people's cars. That usually upsets them too.
I remember when I was mayor, every once in a while I would get a call from a disgruntled citizen who would complain that I just plowed their driveway back in after they had gotten it open. They wanted to know what I was going to do about it. I would tell them to give me a few minutes. I would get in my car, which always had a snow shovel in the trunk. I would go to their house and start digging it out. Usually when they noticed me, they came running out and said: Oh, no, we did not intend for you to do that. I said: Well, everybody else is doing snow removal. I never got two calls on that. But that is another use for sales tax money. There are many more.
All of the charities in a town usually go to the city council. They say, we have this valuable project. We need some money. Anybody who says they cannot fight city hall probably never tried. A lot of those requests are granted.
But if the sales tax continues to shrink--that is what is happening with it now, State sales tax, county sales tax, local sales tax is all shrinking. If that continues to shrink, they are going to have to start cutting back on things they do. Of course, probably some of the charity things will be some of the first ones to go. It is always hard to tell what the net effect will be. But if they do not have any ability to increase the revenues they have--and most of the towns in Wyoming do not have a chance to increase the taxes they receive. Property taxes are limited by very specific sorts of things, such as how much you can levy for the cemetery, and how much you can levy for a library, and how much you can levy for fire. Those things do not begin to cover the cost of the service that is rendered.
So to the people who are protecting the Internet, I would say it is pretty hard to flush your toilet on the Internet. Sometimes those utilities come into play with these things too. Those taxes are very important to almost all of the communities across the United States, in 46 States. The other four do not have a sales tax.
One of the things people have said is, if they get this extra sales tax, why don't they bring down some of the taxes they currently have? Some of the States and some of the municipalities and counties will do that. I have had several of them tell me that if we could get a little bit more in sales tax, we would do that.
But let me tell you a little problem we have in the Federal Government. We are out of money, so we are cutting back. And one of the ways we cut back was through the sequester.
The way some of that is worded, some of these things are considered tax expenditures. For instance, the Federal Government promised to pay a property tax in lieu of real taxes. In other words, the municipality does not tax them, the county does not tax them. But the Federal Government says: Yes, we own property. If you can sell that property at a private sale, the private entity would have to pay property tax on that. So it is only fair that the Federal Government pays taxes in lieu of taxes. They have been doing that for a number of years.
The value of the properties, of course, has gone up considerably, particularly in cities where there are Federal buildings, but also in the forests. I have people who know the value went up because they are able to lease some cabin land in national forests. Their payments have more than doubled in the last 3 years. That is a 100-percent increase. I guess this year it is even a more dramatic increase. But the Federal Government, while it is charging more for the property, is not paying more in property taxes, which would be the normal thing. This year, they are taking 5.3 percent out of every bit of that tax.
Of course, I say to people: Wouldn't it be nice if when you file your Federal income taxes you could have taken 5.3 percent out of there? It is sort of the same thing. It is what the government said they would pay in taxes.
There are a number of reasons these sales taxes are extremely important and getting more important. If you had Federal mineral royalties, you lost 5.3 percent of that too. That is because the States collect--half the money from the minerals in the State are supposed to be for the State and half are supposed to be for the Federal Government. The half the Federal Government received they considered to be revenue. The half that is supposed to stay with the States or go back to the States is considered a tax expenditure. Again, it was hit by 5.3 percent.
One of the reasons this is 5.3 percent this year in the sequester instead of 2.3 percent--which is what it was across the board for the .3 percent--is we don't have any months left to revise those expenditures, but these are one-time payments. The time for condensing them has not expired, so at the most it should have been 2.3 percent. That is a different problem that I will handle in a different bill. I am hoping people will not try to gum this up with a whole bunch of nongermane or irrelevant motions. If we stick to relevant ones where we are really trying to improve this bill, I am in favor of it. If we are trying to do some other peripheral ones, in light of the tremendous support this bill has, I am hoping people will stick to the bill and try to perfect it. We can have votes on that.
I see my friend from Tennessee is here.
I yield the floor and reserve the remainder of my time.
Mr. ENZI. I thank the Senator from Tennessee for his comments. He is very involved in the Banking Committee. He understands the transaction taxes that they are talking about, and I appreciate his learned opinion on that.
Mine comes from section 3, called ``Limitations,'' and in general it says: Nothing in this act should be construed as subjecting a seller or any other person to franchise, income, occupation, or any other types of taxes other than sales and use taxes.
I hope we stick to that and make sure it just says ``sales and use taxes.'' I have worked on this for 12 years, so it is tough enough to extend it beyond that. I know there are lots of things people would like and to open this up.
I appreciate the one amendment that was presented but was objected to, which was an amendment which would have continued to ensure--we already have a provision that says you cannot tax the Internet. You cannot tax the Internet. They wanted to extend that another 10 years, and it doesn't expire for another couple of years.
I thank the Senator for all of the effort he has gone to on this bill and all the ways he has helped us. I appreciate his plea for people to come forward with their amendments.
I suggest the absence of a quorum.
Mr. ENZI. Mr. President, I thank the Senator from Texas for his comments.
There is definitely a problem. We had people miss votes on Monday night because the supposed furlough that the air traffic controllers had to have in effect delayed some planes for more than 1 1/2 hours. I looked at some of the numbers, and I don't think that had to happen. Even within areas, there is enough flexibility to do better things.
I noticed some of the sequester things in Wyoming that came out and made calls about them, and found out that people actually could change within their own budgets some things they were concerned with and make sure it didn't affect the customer.
That is just good management.
One of the things was closing down some of the visitors centers in Yellowstone and Grand Teton. They are not open yet because at this time we are just getting the snow cleared out. I called and asked about keeping them open and they said we don't have enough personnel.
You have a gift shop there. That is a profit center. You are supposed to be making money on that.
They said the money goes to the general fund.
I said: Where do you think your money comes from?
The gift shop should operate, and if they have a problem with personnel, all they have to do is the person who runs the gift shop opens the door, does their day's sales, and in the evening as they are ready to leave, I hope they would look up and down the street and see if another customer was coming, but if they were not, go ahead and lock the door and leave. That is just good business. That is the way they could operate. It is my understanding those gift shops and visitors centers will now be opened.
There are ways that could be handled. To go back to the bill----
Mr. ENZI. Mr. President, I appreciate that question. One of the reasons there is difficulty, there is the blue-slip problem with the House, but also we have the section on limitations in this bill that appears on page 7. There are only 11 pages in this bill so it ought to be fairly easy for people to look through it and see what is included and what is not included. We have pretty much limited this--not pretty much, we definitely limit this to sales and use taxes. When they put other peripheral things in there, then they are opening the bill to go into a lot of different things. So I hope that would not happen.
Of course, there was some question earlier in one of the speeches by the Senator from Montana about the real difficulties of being able to administer this. Again, there are only 11 pages in the bill. Page 4 covers software, free of charge for remote sellers, that calculates the sales and use tax on that transaction due at the time it is completed. It also has to provide a way to file the sales and use tax returns, and it has to be updated for any rate changes that there happen to be.
The responsibility is all on the State to provide the software. I think the provisions that are in there pretty well specify how carefully that has to be done. If it is not, there is no liability on the remote seller. So I think we have covered that.
Yes, it will be difficult to do that software, but that is part of the provision in here. It can be done. This is a day, as the Senator from Tennessee points out, that we can put in a ZIP Code and find out what our sales tax is going to be. That is what this program is calling for. I think I have that right. I rely on the Senator from Tennessee to answer that question more specifically.
Mr. ENZI. I want to talk about what we have just heard here and an implication that we are not champions of small business.
I was in small business. I had shoestores, retail shoestores, so that is why I know some of these problems. I know about the people coming in, trying on the shoes, getting exactly what fits, having all of the service of looking through all of the styles and that sort of thing, and then leaving and making a purchase on the Internet.
Talking to other retailers now, that is not the biggest irritation. They buy it on the Internet, the product has a problem--and every product has the potential of having some problem--and they bring it back to the store where they got the free service, where they did not buy the shoe, and they ask for it to be replaced. I hope people can see the inequity in that.
But we are not talking about the small business like the shoestore I had. We are talking about small businesses that are selling online and are doing over $1 million a year in sales. I do not think people would consider that to be a really small business--$1 million in sales. If they are doing $1 million in sales, you can pretty much guarantee that they are automated. They are automated in their manufacturing, they are automated in their sales. That means they have a computer. Not many businesses today function without a computer. If they have a computer, you would be amazed at some of the things those computers will do.
I go back to Wyoming almost every weekend, and I visit businesses. I visit businesses so they can tell me what kinds of problems the Federal Government is causing for them. I am amazed at the automation they have. I am amazed at what they are able to do. And most of it is because of computers. Now we are saying--and I think computers kind of started out on that coast--that computers just do not have the capability to do these kinds of things. To be able to figure a sales tax? All you have to have is a ZIP Code, and it eliminates the 9,600 jurisdictions we are talking about here. That computer can figure that sales tax, and at the end of the month, that same computer will have kept track of all of this stuff, and it will do the reports that are necessary electronically. It can probably do that with about five or six key taps, maybe less than that. I am sure they could actually be set to send the report on the last day of the month at a specific hour. That is how computers work.
So an argument that this cannot be done--I do not think anybody will buy that. And the States would not be willing to provide those programs free of charge and then put in the protections from liabilities and errors if they were not sure they could do it. The reason they put in those protections for the retailer is because they are sure it can be done.
I was fascinated by the audits. If they are using that computer program, how could they vary from what they actually take in to actually sell? The program takes it in, the program holds it, and the program sends it out with the report. There is not a lot of room for error.
Then they say they are going to be running around auditing those firms. They are going to audit the firm that looks as if it is shipping everything everywhere and not reporting at all. That is what accountants do. They figure out the high risk. They are not going to go in and look for pennies here and there. They go in and look for enough to at least cover the cost of the audit. If you are not doing probably 10 or 20 times the value of the audit, you are not going to be hired to do many of them.
So those that are complying, using the program, they are not going to have any problem.
But this exempts all the businesses that are doing less than $1 million online in a given year. Until you do $1 million online in a given year, you are exempt from it.
I would imagine that a lot of those nurseries do not hit the million-dollar mark. They would like to hit the million-dollar mark, and I would like them to hit the million-dollar mark, and if they got to that million-dollar mark, I think they would be so overjoyed, they would say: I am automating on the computer. I will be happy to do it because maybe I can sell $2 million worth of sales if that is the case.
Now, comments on the streamlined sales tax. My State was one of the first ones to get into it. So was South Dakota, so were Nebraska and another 20, 21 States besides those. The comment was that you cannot streamline this. What kind of incentive has there been for them to streamline it more? The purpose of the compact is to streamline it more, but at the moment they are having to protect their sales within their State to make sure they are not losing the revenues they were already counting on.
They knew there was this little Supreme Court case that is now 20 years old that challenged us to fix it. That is what we are trying to do here--fix it. If that fix goes in, I am betting that a lot more States will join the streamlined sales tax and it will streamline more than what we envisioned. But even if they do not, there are requirements in here that keep it uniform enough. And with the computers, we can show examples of how people already do this sort of thing on the computer. That should take care of a lot of their problems.
I yield the floor under the previous order for Senator Brown.
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Pipeline concern
School district voices worries over proximity of pipeline to school
MIDDLETOWN >> The Rose Tree Media School Board put its words into action Thursday night, voting 7-1 to approve a resolution of concern regarding the proposed Sunoco Logistics Mariner 2 pipeline. The document will be forwarded to Gov. Tom Wolf, state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Acting Secretary Patrick McDonnell, Public Utility Commission members and Delaware County Council.
"Congressional meetings about the pipeline are beginning on Wednesday," said Superintendent James Wigo. "I would like to hand carry it to them."
The directors' involvement is due to the fact a portion of the pipeline is slated to run beneath a road approximately 625 feet from the Glenwood Elementary School playground and the document expressed the directors' "great concern" regarding the potential effect on its 445 students and 60 staff members. An additional 2,143 students and 290 staff members at three other district schools are located within 3 miles of the proposed pipeline, and "could be subject to emergency evacuation in the event of a leak, breach or explosion," it noted.
The school board is also "prepared to authorize and utilize appropriate resources" to intervene in the DEP permitting process. The document asks for at least a 60-day comment period after the pipeline permit is re-submitted to DEP and a public hearing in the county to address public health and safety issues. In addition, the directors suggested the application be reclassified to include liquid and gaseous hazardous material transport and include an independent risk assessment study and incident-response plan.
Spanning Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio, Mariner 2 is a 350-mile pipeline system that would bring natural gas liquids such as propane, ethane and butane to the Marcus Hook Industrial Complex. Approximately 11.4 miles would be installed in Delaware County across private and public property in Thornbury, Edgmont, the township, Aston and Upper Chichester, ending at the facility.
The resolution was drafted at the urging of the Middletown Coalition for Community Safety (MCCS), composed of Glenwood parents and community residents concerned about the possible risks associated with the proposed pipeline. To date, the group has
group has also appealed to the township, Swarthmore, Thornbury and Westtown, all of which have adopted similar resolutions, and Media Borough Council sent a letter in support of the township proclamation to the governor. Resolutions are under consideration in West Goshen and other townships and presentations have also been made in Nether Providence and Upper Providence, said member Eve Miari.
Rose Tree Media is the only school district to approve the resolution and those who voted in favor of the document noted it stressed issues such as the importance of children's safety, fear felt by many residents and environmental impact.
"It is OK for us to take the initiative and be the leader of the pack," said Harry Postles. "We are not trying to stop this, but rather realize it could affect our kids and want to be part of the process."
Jim Cunningham, who cast the lone vote against the resolution, noted the school district received $50,000 from Sunoco Logistics after the board granted the easement, which will be used for inspections during non-school hours except in an emergency. As a result, he did not feel the directors should take the stance expressed in the resolution.
"I represent the 37,000 people in this school district," he said. "The pipeline is a public utility that will be regulated at the state and federal level and the district should not be seen as part of a 'Stop the Pipeline' movement."
The school board is also "prepared to authorize and utilize appropriate resources" to intervene in the DEP permitting process.
The Mariner East pipeline project routes ethane and propane from Ohio, West Virginia and western Pennsylvania to a processing station in Marcus Hook.
Residents in Middletown are concerned about the proximity of the proposed Mariner East 2 pipeline to Glenwood School off Pennell Road. The Rose Tree Media School Board now has passed a resolution to be given to state officials indicating their concern over the project as well.


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(Scene opens at Flynn-Fletcher house with Phineas, Isabella, Buford, and Baljeet sitting under the tree)
Buford: So then the seamstress walks back into the stateroom and says, " 'Titanium'? I thought she said 'cranium'!" Hahaha, yeah. Pretty good punch line, huh?
Baljeet: Yes. All you need now is the first part, and then you will have a whole joke.
Phineas: Hey, look everyone, Ferb and Perry are back.
Buford: Hey, Ferb!
Isabella: What'cha doin' back from debate camp so soon?
Ferb: We finished earlier than expected.
(Flashback to earlier)
Debater: You're right. Judges, he's right. He's changed my entire world-view. Thank you.
Judge 1: It's so beautiful.
Judge 2: That kid is in it to win it, dawg.
(End flashback)
Phineas: You're just in time for acorn nut muffins made out of the training nuts from yesterday!
Ferb: Training nuts? Okay, what did I miss?
Phineas: It all started simply enough.
(Flashback to yesterday)
Phineas: (Narrating) I'd gotten up early to help Isabella earn her surf patch.
Isabella: Thanks for helping me earn my surf patch!
Phineas: (Narrating) And I told her it was no problem. (In flashback) No problem. (Narrating) It was at that point that I decided to stop narrating. (in flashback) My schedule's wide open. Here, take a look at this. I figured I'd make a few prototypes and once you pick your favorite, we'll design your board to look just like it.
Isabella: Awww, they're so cute and tiny a squirrel could surf on them. Now, if we only had a box of squirrels.
(Buford and Baljeet comes into the yard caring a box with them)
Baljeet: We found a box of squirrels!
Buford: Yeah, right next to a box of scorpions, which is what I wanted to bring over.
Baljeet: Buford, I won Rochambeau fair and square.
Isabella: What's Rochambeau?
Phineas: Rock-paper-scissors!
Isabella: Why didn't he just say that?
Buford: (Angrily) In what universe would a piece of paper ever beat a rock?
(Phineas and Isabella walk towards them)
Phineas: Hey, let's see the little guys.
Baljeet: Okay, but do not expect too much from them.
(Baljeet dumps the squirrels out of the box)
Phineas: What's wrong with them?
Baljeet: They appear to have been domesticated. They have no squirrel skills. Check it out.
(Baljeet holds a nut out)
Baljeet: Here little squirrellies. Here is a nut.
(He drops the nut on the floor, and the squirrels sniff and play with the nut)
Phineas: (to the squirrels) It's a nut, you eat it. (to Baljeet) I see what you mean. No squirrel skills. Ferb, I... Oh, that's right, he went to debate camp today.
Baljeet: Oh, oh! I will be Ferb! I have been practicing!
(Baljeet clears his throat and twists his head to make his eyes look like Ferb's)
Isabella: That's pretty good, Baljeet.
Phineas: Wow! It's as if he's right in front of us.
(Buford lays on the ground in a Perry like position)
Buford: Oh! Oh! Say "Where's Perry?" now. I've been practicing.
Phineas: Okay. Where's Perry?
Buford: I don't know. What are you asking me for?
(End flashback)
Phineas: And so, that's how the day began. Hey, where's Perry now?
(Perry enters into his lair, and Major Monogram sends him a message)
Major Monogram: Welcome back, Agent P. We hope you had a pleasant day off. Anyways, there's a crisis brewing in Danville, (camera pans to Perry, who grips his seat, then switches back to Major Monogram) and it could destroy the very fabric of our existence. There's never been a greater threat. Peaches! (Perry is shown with a confused look on his face, Major Monogram continues) Oh, you probably want me to explain the... (Major Monogram chuckles to himself) There's been a shortage of peaches in Danville lately, and we've traced it to Doofenshmirtz. Go find out what he's up to, and good... (Perry leaves) luck. Wow, guess he's in a hurry.
(Phineas continues his story to Ferb)
Phineas: It was about that time that Candace came up to us and said...
(Candace walks up to them)
Candace: Phineas and Ferb! I demand to know what it is that you've got planned today!
Phineas: Yeah, that.
Baljeet: Exactly like yesterday!
Buford: Except for the Ferb part.
Candace: Yeah, yeah, thanks. What are you guys doing?
Phineas: We're talking about what we did yesterday.
Candace: So, it's, like, a confession?
Phineas: Sure.
Candace Oh, it's perfect. I'll go get Mom and she can hear everything.
Phineas: Good idea, Can...
(Candace interrupts Phineas while he is talking)
Candace: (points at Phineas) Now, don't say another word until we get back. (she points at Ferb) And that goes for you, too.
(Candace walks away)
Phineas: That was ironic, because Ferb doesn't usually talk.
Candace: (off screen) Duh!
(Perry lands at a beach, and is captured by Doofenshmirtz in a pile of sand)
Doofenshmirtz: Hello, Perry the Platypus! I take it for granted sometimes what a professional you are, especially after dealing with that guy they sent instead of you yesterday. So how was debate camp?
(Perry has a flashback to yesterday, when he was giving his speech)
Debater: (to Perry) You're right. (to judges) Judges, he's right. He's changed my entire world-view. And I thought that British kid was persuasive.
(End flashback)
Doofenshmirtz: You know, if you were flashing back just now, I couldn't see it. I'll bet you're wondering what I'm doing here at the beach... At the clam bake. With an oven. And normally, I'd be all about telling you, and it's a really cool plan, too! It involves my latest invention, the Peach Cobbler-inator.
(Vanessa walks up with the Peach Gobbler-inator on a tray. Doofenshmirtz takes it, and she walks away)
Doofenshmirtz: But I'm getting way ahead of myself. I have to tell you about yesterday for any of this to make any sense! It all started with an establishing shot at my building.
(Flashback to yesterday, starts at Doofenshmirtz Evil Inc.)
♪ Doofenshmirtz Evil Inc.! Yesterday. ♪
Doofenshmirtz: (while cleaning an -inator) Huh. Perry the Platypus should be arriving right about... Now!
(The rhino agent crashes through the door)
Doofenshmirtz: How completely unexpected! (climbs down the ladder) And by that I mean, it really was actually enexpected. (walks towards Agent R) Well, you have a hat, so you must be an agent. I guess that means Perry the Platypus is not coming, so... (takes a controller from his lab coat) A-ha!
(Doofenshmitz pushes the button and a tiny trap captures the rhino agent)
Doofenshmirtz: Consider yourself trapped. Allow me to explain my diabolical plan. You see, my brother, Roger, the mayor, is hosting a beauty contest that will...
(Agent R cuts him off)
Doofenshmirtz: Hey! (sighs) For Pete's sake, I'm pontificating here! Sheesh! Okay, okay. Long evil plan short, I wanted to ruin Roger's day. You see, he's officiating at an "Everyone's A Winner" beauty pageant. (scoffs) That's so him. Uh, my scheme involved domesticated squirrels, paper doilies, and those containers that pantyhose used to come in. You know, about this big? (Agent R glares) But, uh, I couldn't figure out a way to make them all work together...
(Camera pans back to Doofenshmirtz)
Doofenshmirtz: ...because I was distracted by a leaky faucet in the kitchen! Turns out that was actually the perfect idea. So I ditched the squirrels... You know, this isn't really making my evil plan short like I promised. Sorry. Anyway, behold! The A-Leaky-Faucet-inator. I will disgrace and humiliate Roger by dropping one big drop of water and...
Doofenshmirtz: Hey, where'd you go? (Camera pans to Agent R, who's eating from the trash) Oh, no! You're getting coffee grounds everywhere! This is so much smoother with Perry the Platypus. I'm just saying.
(Scene shifts to the backyard)
Candace: (while pushing Linda) Right out here, Mom!
Linda: (waves) Hi, kids! (to Candace) All right, what's this all about?
Phineas: We're telling Ferb the story of what we did yesterday.
Linda: Oh, I love stories!
Candace: Oh, oh, it's not just stories, but full disclosure!
Linda: Okay. (to Phineas) Go ahead.
(She and Candace sits on the lawn)
Buford: Well, we finally got to the musical part of the story. We all decided it was high time to teach the squirrels how to be squirrels.
(Flashback to yesterday)
(Song: "Be a Squirrel")
♪ So you've been domesticated, ♪
♪ Lost your identity. ♪
Buford: C'mon. C'mon.
♪ Just listen up and you can learn to be the best that you can be. ♪
♪ Gather nuts and scurry ♪
♪ And dodge a car or three. ♪
♪ If you concentrate you'll graduate ♪
♪ And learn to climb a tree. ♪
♪ But for now we'll show you how to make every chestnut count. ♪
Isabella: Whooouhh...
♪ We'll make you sweat, you won't regret. ♪
♪ Remember, put them in your mouth. ♪
♪ Be a squirrel (Come along, be a rodent trainee), ♪
♪ Be a squirrel (And you will finally be free). ♪
♪ Be a squirrel! (Be at the top of your family tree), ♪
♪ Be a squirrel! (Be a squirrel ♪ ♪ It's your destiny). ♪
(Phineas checks off everything on a list)
(End flashback)
Linda: (after a pause) Buford, you taught the squirrels to dance?
Buford: I'm like an onion.
Baljeet: Because you have layers?
Buford: Yeah, that, too.
(Scene shifts to the beach)
Doofenshmirtz: Anyway, after I cleaned up the coffee grounds, I loaded the A-Leaky-Faucet-inator and Agent R, I guess,...
(Flashback to yesterday; Doofenshmirtz, on his rocket skiff, arrives at City Hall)
Doofenshmirtz: (narrating) ...onto my rocket skiff and headed off to Roger's beauty contest. We arrived just in time for the swimsuit competition.
Roger: Oh, very nice. Twelve meters. We have a new record.
Doofenshmirtz: There he is, the big show-off. With his big smile (leans against Agent R) and his keys in his pocket and his lumberjack-like...
(bird squawking)
Doofenshmirtz: Hey! Hey, no. Shoo! Shoo! Get out of here. Go find another symbiotic relationship! Anyway, now that we've... Hey, hey! What do you... This actually feels great. Oh, I see why you like it. Anyway, and I'm going to power up the inator now. (pushes a button on the inator) Here we go. Powering up.
(A large drop of water starts to come of the A-Leaky-Faucet-inator. Camera pans down to Roger then back to Doofenshmirtz.)
Doofenshmirtz: Yup. You know, uh, this is the time where you escape and try to destroy my inator. Oh, for Pete's sake, I... (releases Agent R) There! Now, attack! Start thwarting! (Agent R walks away) No... No, no, no, no, don't just walk awa... (sighs) I miss Perry the Platypus.
(Agent R accidentally "punches" a hole through the rocket skiff)
Doofenshmirtz: Whoa! Wait, wait, wait. Watch out there.
(The rocket skiff spins out of control)
Doofenshmirtz: Why isn't the water coming off? It's beautiful.
(The drop of water leaves the A-Leaky-Faucet-inator)
(Scene shifts to the backyard)
Buford: Good job, cadets! Now, back down the tree. No, not like that! Head first! Sheesh, it's like I'm talking to myself here.
(In the living room, Candace is taking Linda out to the backyard)
Candace: Let's go, Mom. You got to see this.
(Back in the backyard, the large drop of water lands on the squirrels, who are now standing on the lawn. Surf music then plays while the squirrels surfs out of the backyard. Camera then pans to the kids.)
Phineas: Wow, look at 'em go!
Isabella: They're doing a pyramid! I didn't even teach them that.
Buford: Good luck, little guys. I'll think of you whenever I get a rabies shot! Which is often.
(Scene shifts to Doofenshmirtz, whose rocket skiff is still spinning out of control)
Doofenshmirtz: (screaming)
Roger: Thank you, Katie Bogosian, for the whistling belly button performance. You probably should see a doctor. But that concludes our talent competition, unless there are any last-minute drop-ins?
(Agent R, with Doofenshmirtz holding onto him, lands on the platform. Doofenshmirtz then screams while the rhino agent tries to buck him off.)
Judge 1: It's so beautiful.
Judge 2: That pharmacist is in it to win it, dawg! (Cameras pans left to reveal a dog) See, I'm actually talking to a dog. That's right. Talkin' to a dawg.
(End flashback)
Doofenshmirtz: (now wearing a pink sash with the words "KING PRETTY PRETTY PRINCESS" in red lettering) And I was crowned (places a crown on his head) King Pretty Pretty Princess. Which, now that I think of it, is a contradiction in terms, but it was the first time I ever won anything. So it's gotten me all obsessed about entering contests. But the only thing I'm good at is baking peach cobbler, so I, I invented... Oh, yeah. I told you, "Behold the Peach-Cobbler-inator." What it does is it makes everyone want peach cobbler more than anything else in the world. So whether it's a chili cook-off or a dancing competition or a quiliting bee, or whatever, the, the judges will be compelled to choose peach cobbler as the winner every time.
(Camera pans to a glaring Perry)
Doofenshmirtz: Plus, it's waterproof, it's shockproof, (Camera pans back to him) it's windproof, it's...
Doofenshmirtz: Huh. But it isn't sandproof. Fancy that. I suppose, since I planned to take it to the beach, maybe I should have considered...
(Doofenshmirtz tosses the Peach-Cobbler-inator over his shoulder, which fires a green ray. Camera pans to DEI, where the ray bounces off it, then back to the beach where Perry leaves on his jetpack.)
Doofenshmirtz: Curse you, Perry the Platypus... and my own poor planning skills! (notices smoke coming from an oven) Oh, no! My cobbler! Oh! How can this day get any worse?
(The rocket skiff falls on Doofenshmirtz)
Doofenshmirtz: Ow! Does that mean this thing's been flying around since yesterday?
(An incoming wave washes Doofenshmirtz and the broken rocket skiff into the water)
(Scene shifts to the backyard)
Candace: So, there you have it! Are you gonna bust them, or what? (stands up) Wait. (takes out a camera) Okay, go ahead.
Linda: Actually, I just love that you kids trained poor, abandoned little squirrels and helped them get back to the wild. I am so proud of you!
Candace: No, you can't! I want justice! I want... (the ray from the Peach-Cobbler-inator hits her) Peach cobbler.
Linda: Well, lucky for you, I made peach cobbler.
Candace: Peach cobbler.
Linda: I heard you the first time, honey.
End Credits
(Song: "Be a Squirrel")
♪ Been domesticated, ♪
♪ Lost your identity. ♪
Buford: C'mon. C'mon.
♪ Just listen up and you can learn to be the best that you can be. ♪
♪ Gather nuts and scurry ♪
♪ And dodge a car or three. ♪
♪ If you concentrate you'll graduate ♪
♪ And learn to climb a tree. ♪
Isabella: Whooouhh...
♪ Be a squirrel (Come along, be a rodent trainee), ♪
♪ Be a squirrel (And you will finally be free). ♪
♪ Be a squirrel! (Be at the top of your family tree), ♪
♪ Be a squirrel! (Be a squirrel ♪ ♪ It's your destiny). ♪


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Dublin, Ireland – Parliamentarians are crucial partners for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), for their duty is to ensure that these are reflected in national plans, legislation and budget. The abilities of Sub-Saharan countries to meet food and poverty targets are being threatened by increasing foreign purchases of land and water resources, also known as "land grabs".
On Thursday 27 and Friday 28 June, AWEPA brought together more than 150 parliamentarians, policy makers and experts from across Africa and Europe in the Irish EU Presidency seminar "Africa's Development Future: land, hope and hunger". The seminar promoted dialogue and initiatives on the role, responsibility and efforts of both European and African parliamentarians concerning land ownership, water scarcity and chronic hunger. The focus was on Millennium Development Goal One (MDG 1); to halve the proportion of people who suffer from hunger by 2015.
Amongst African participants, a delegation from the Pan African Parliament, represented by Hon. Henri Gbone, Chair of the Committee on Agriculture, Natural Resources, Rural Economy and Environment, attended the event. There was also representatives from all four African sub-regional parliaments which AWEPA collaborates with in the framework of its programme ¨Strengthening regional parliaments towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals¨.
Hon. Margaret Nantongo Zziwa, Speaker of the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA), Hon. Abdool Razack Mohamed Ameen Peeroo, Chairman of the Parliamentary Forum of the Southern African Development Community (SADC-PF), and the President of the Parliament of the Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CEMAC-P), Hon. Vincent Mavoungou, all joined us.
The EU Presidency seminar provided a unique opportunity to identify best policy practices in relation to land grabs in Africa as well as discuss specific parliamentary actions to support African countries in turning their potential into clear development outcomes. For instance, if well managed, the support of the agricultural sector could potentially trigger sustainable economic growth, food security and employment. These best practices was identified from the perspective of AWEPA's Aid Effectiveness Programme, and discussion focused on identifying parliamentary strategies to help attain MDG 1 and to shape the post-2015 development agenda.
The event was split over two days. The first day opened with an overview of the conference presented by a distinguished panel, including H.E. Michael D. Higgins, President of Ireland, who professed himself to hope that Europe would not allow the "current economic difficulties to undermine its commitment on the great global challenges of our day – hunger, poverty, and human rights". The panel also included Hon. Henri Gbone (Pan-African Parliament), Maureen O'Sullivan TD, Head of AWEPA Irish Section, and Hon. Minister of State of Belgium and President of AWEPA, Miet Smet. The second day offered a greater change for discussion and optimism, with sessions entitled "Are there hopeful signs?" and Africa's Future Reassessed: "Is there cause for optimism?"
This Seminar was part of AWEPA's "Strengthening Regional Parliaments towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals" programme and was made possible by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida).
- AWEPA EU-Presidency Seminar Agenda and Reception
- Press Release
- Action Aid – Ms. Laura Sullivan
- AWEPA Presentation – Ms. O Brien
- Speech Dr Vincent O'Neill, Irish Aid – New modes of Parliamentary Oversight: "Are there hopeful signs?"
- Speech Hon. Zziwa – Africa's Future Reassessed
- Speech Hon. Brendan Howlin TD
- Terms of Reference
- Remarks by President Higgins to the EU Presidency Seminar
- Final AWEPA Recommendations Dublin