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Well here it is Christmas day and I am in Michigan visiting my family. Had just enough time to find my first two Munzees and three geocaches. Now it's time to get ready before everyone arrives. Hope your holiday season brings you adventures and some fun surprises.
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Sunday, December 25, 2011
Three Christmas Geocaches and Two Munzees - Awesome
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I hope youy enjoyed the Munzees. Merry Christmas and Happy Caching to all
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Munzees may be a good topic for Geocaching World.
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The overall maximum contributions into ISA's from April will be £20,000 per annum, so paying £4,000 into a Lifetime ISA will mean that a maximum of £16,000 can be paid into other ISA's. The Lifetime ISA can be invested in many different asset classes such as shares and fixed interest investments, as well as cash. It is likely that cash will be more suitable for short term needs such as buying property, whereas shares will be more suitable for those saving for retirement.
Lifetime ISA's are potentially very good value for young savers, but few providers have committed to them. Hargreaves Lansdown have said that they will offer them from April and Fidelity and Zurich are expected to follow suit during the tax year.
The more providers that offer these schemes, the more competitive the set-up costs will become, so advisers are recommending that savers wait for a few months before setting them up, to benefit from greater choice.
These ISA's look great for first time buyers but not necessarily as good as traditional pension schemes, if saving for retirement. With pensions, higher rate tax payers get £100 invested at a cost of £60 whereas with the lifetime ISA they only get £75 invested at a cost of £60. Advisers are also concerned that future governments may decide to tax the proceeds of lifetime ISA's, making them even less attractive for higher-rate tax payers.
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The Zone Supervisor is responsible for driving business results and store culture on the sales floor zone. This includes effective leadership and coaching in the key areas of expense management, merchandising, process execution, member experience, and customer service; sales volume, key driver, and profitability analyses, and performance; identification and solution of business problems.
Responsible for providing a "WOW" member experience, managing the performance of the sales floor zone, and supporting other sales zone(s) as needed. Spends more than 70% of time driving results on the sales floor through effective merchandising, process execution, and selling behaviors. May act as Manager on Duty (MOD) as needed.
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Responsible for day-to-day execution on the sales floor, ensuring associates understand member experience, member interaction expectations, selling and merchandising responsibilities. Teaches and models expected behaviors that lead to the right member experience and selling performance. Analyzes team and associate-level metrics (including leads and recaps) to drive continuous improvement opportunities with associates and other teams. Facilitates execution of the business plan for the sales floor zone, and provides the Store Manager and others on the store leadership team with fact-based, real time feedback on the product life cycle including assortment, pricing, inventory flow, marketing support, and transition and exit strategies in order to highlight opportunities for members.
Ensures that the sales floor is visually appealing, effectively merchandised and easy to shop. Ensures the signing is correct on the sales floor and facilitates correction as needed. Ensures the zone adheres to applicable National Presentation Standards and current monthly sales plan.
Works with associates and Operations team to: - facilitates appropriate setup of store-wide and event signing and take down, - ensures appropriate stocking, pricing, rotation and condition of merchandise, - ensures seasonal resets, basic plan-o-grams, unit integrity, seasonal markdowns, and ad recaps are completed on time, - ensures all inventory is on the floor within expected timeframe. - ensures the accuracy of on-hand inventory counts, monitors out-of-stock opportunities and replenishment process execution.
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David Martinez was interested in the Alexander Dawson girls soccer coaching post the last time it came open, a little over a year ago. But the timing wasn't right then for him or the Mustangs program.
For one thing, Dawson had former Colorado Buffaloes coach Bill Hempen, who eventually got the job, on its list of candidates.
But when the job came around again a few weeks ago, Martinez didn't hesitate to give it another shot. And Dawson is thrilled he did.
The private school between Longmont and Lafayette hired Martinez officially last week to replace Hempen, who was hired to start the new Division-I women's program at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. Dawson also hired former assistant Josh Shemroske in recent days to take over Hempen's duties as boys head coach.
"I was real excited," Martinez, who is a science teacher at Justice High School in Lafayette, said Wednesday. "I'm very happy to be here now and be able to work with the girls.
"The team seems to be happy. They seem to be transitioning well from (Hempen)."
Both new Dawson hires are young but experienced nonetheless.
Martinez, 26, who played at the University of the Southwest in Hobbs, N.M., served as an assistant for his alma mater's women's team after graduation. Since coming to Colorado, he's worked for the FC Boulder club program and spent last season as head JV coach and assistant varsity coach for Ryan Henkel at Monarch before Henkel was hired away by Boulder.
Shemroske, meanwhile, played at Warren Wilson College in North Carolina in the early 2000s, serving his own stint as an assistant after graduation. After serving as head girls coach at a high school in North Carolina, he moved to Colorado where he's now technical director of Trebol Soccer Club and has served as an assistant boys coach at Dawson the past two years.
While Shemroske has a few months to prepare for his new gig, Martinez has been under the gun since he accepted Dawson's offer as girls soccer season kicked off official practices on Monday.
"I'm excited about David because what really struck me in his interview was how eager he was to coach at the high school level," Dawson athletic director David Hansburg said. "He's a guy who really wants it and is very enthusiastic."
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U-M's savings resulted from five years of participation in the Medicare Physician Group Practice Demonstration Project. It is Medicare's first Pay-for-Performance Demonstration Project to work directly with physician groups like the U-M Faculty Group Practice.
The project, which has now concluded, demonstrates potential benefits of Accountable Care Organizations, an initiative now written into the nation's health care reform law. Ten different groups participated in the project. Of those only two – the University of Michigan and the Marshfield Clinic in Wisconsin – earned savings during all five years of the demonstration project.
Numbers for the fifth and final year were released today. In the fifth year, U-M saved more than $5.4 million by reducing costs to Medicare through quality improvement strategies and redesigning care. U-M also scored a 98 percent grade on quality measures that were part of the project.
"By virtue of our success, U-M already has set up an ACO," says Caroline Blaum, M.D. Professor of Internal Medicine and Geriatrics; Associate Director, UM Faculty Group Practice; and Research Scientist at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System. "Over the course of this Demonstration, we have saved money and improved quality every year.
U-M, along with the other nine groups in this demonstration, began participating in another similar project in January. Known as the PGP Transitions Demonstration, this project will continue to inform Medicare leadership about important components of ACO policy.
"Here at U-M, we will continue to focus on increasing the quality we provide for patients with chronic diseases, and we will add additional quality measures for patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, and for older adults with falls, osteoporosis and anticoagulation medication," Blaum says.
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For those who have become ensnared with our kind, it is a frequent question to wonder what you are to the narcissist. Of course, the short answer is that you are an appliance that is there to provide fuel first and foremost and there may also be the acquisition of traits from you and residual benefits. However, those that have begun to understand the narcissistic dynamic to some extent want to know how they have been regarded by the narcissist in terms of that dynamic. Of those questions, these are the ones which appear most often:-
Was I a primary source?
I don't think I was devalued, why was that?
Have I been discarded?
Why did he not commit to me?
How has he moved on to somebody else so quickly?
Why did I have such a short golden period?
I feel like I am always hanging on for him, why is that?
It is typically the case that those questions are usually asked by someone who is an Intimate Partner Secondary Source ("IPSS") although that person may not actually realise that this is the case. This article will discuss the IPSS and some of the peculiarities which arise with being an appliance placed in this role.
By way of brief re-cap, someone who is a primary source may be an intimate partner or a non-intimate partner. In the vast majority of cases the primary source is an intimate partner, thus a spouse, partner, boyfriend/girlfriend. You spend most of your time together and this arrangement occurs so that we are able to draw fuel from you each and every day, that fuel is of a high calibre (because of the greater emotional connection you have to us by reason of being a primary source and also because of your empathic traits). Occasionally the primary source is not an intimate partner and is usually then a family member.
A secondary source is a colleague, a friend or a family member. The secondary source will be seduced so that their loyalty and fuel is secured. Of course this is not done in a romantic fashion but through charm, pleasantry, doing favours and handing out benefits so that the appliance is drawn to the narcissist and is then installed in the position of secondary source.
A secondary source has an elongated golden period. This is because of the following factors:-
- The narcissist only draws on the secondary source's fuel intermittently (compared to drawing on the fuel of the primary source);
- The secondary source is usually more compliant and does what the narcissist wants because the demands made of him or her are not as extensive as those made on the primary source;
- The fuel provided by the secondary source stays fresher and more potent for longer because it is only drawn on intermittently;
- The secondary source is less likely to challenge,wound or defy the narcissist
Accordingly, a secondary source will enjoy a lengthy golden period. They may not be ever be devalued. If they fail to provide fuel, become disloyal and fail to do what the narcissist wants, they may be devalued but usually they will be immediately discarded. This is because it serves the narcissist better to remove the 'rotten apple' from hanging around and polluting the minds of other members of the coterie. It is also easy enough to seduce a new secondary source or turn to other existing ones. Thus, where a secondary source becomes unreliable they are usually discarded. Devaluation may only occur where an example needs to be made of the secondary source (this is usually more of the case for colleagues and family members as there is a connection beyond friendship) or the narcissist feels a need for the negative fuel and does not regard the devaluation as likely to damage the façade.
All secondary sources commence their relationship with the narcissist from a non-intimate position and there they may stay for a very long time. Some however are promoted to the position of IPSS.
This happens when the narcissist is devaluing their primary source and is looking to replace them. The promotion of a secondary source to that of IPSS means that we are considering whether you are worthy of then being promoted to a IP primary source and the existing one is discarded.
When this happens there is also the likelihood of somebody else occupying the role of IPSS. We often have more than one as in effect we are holding auditions for those who may be promoted to the position of primary source. This results in several scenarios arising.
- The existing primary source, let us say this is a wife, is being devalued. The narcissist embarks on affair with another woman who is the IPSS. She may have been someone he has known as secondary source friend for some time and has recently promoted, or he may have approached her and become a secondary source friend who is very quickly promoted to IPSS. In this dynamic you, as the IPSS, may know about the wife and she is smeared to you, she is abusive, unloving and so on. You are seduced and your responses convince the narcissist that you will make an effective primary source so the existing primary source is discarded and you are then installed as the replacement primary source.
- The scenario is the same as above however there are periods during your seduction as IPSS when the narcissist goes quiet. You may think that you are being devalued. You are not. As explained above, the narcissist regards a secondary source as an intermittent provider of fuel and therefore when this happens it is likely that a Respite Period has been granted to the existing primary source, thus the narcissist allows a golden period again, he is preoccupied with the existing primary source and you are kept on ice until the Respite Period ends. The devaluation of the existing primary source continues and your seduction continues once again. Eventually, the narcissist deems you worth of promotion, you are embedded and the existing primary source is discarded and you are installed as her replacement. This may take months or even years. During this period, if you accept the periods of quiet without complaint, there will be no comeback from the narcissist. If however you question what is going on, you will most likely be subjected to future-faking from the narcissist in order to maintain your interest. He will talk about needing to sort divorce arrangements out, or how the house is taking too long to sell, the children need to be sorted out, he hasn't told his parents yet, it is not a good time for the soon to be ex-spouse as her father has died, it is her birthday next month, it is nearly Christmas and so on. This future faking is done because the narcissist regards you as too valuable to drop and wants to keep you in place as you are earmarked for promotion, but he has not yet decided that you are worthy of such promotion and thus has allowed the existing primary source Respite Periods until he is convinced you are a worthwhile replacement.
- The same scenario as two above but there is another IPSS. In order to better our chances of securing an excellent replacement primary source, we are devaluing the existing primary source and we are cultivating leads with at least two IPSS. Thus, we spend the occasional wonderful weekend with you but make various excuses as to how we can only see you once a month. This is being done for two reasons. The first is because we must make time for the ongoing devaluation of the primary source and also to spend time with the other IPSS who is being cultivated. The second reason is to test your resolve. If you reject such an arrangement then we will conclude that you lack certain traits that would make you a good primary source, such as you challenge us too readily, you lack 'stickability' and you are not responding to our charm and seduction as deeply as we had hoped or planned. In such an instance our attention will switch to the other IPSS but you are unlikely to be discarded. This is because you have shown potential, provided fuel and therefore we may as well keep you on ice to call on for fuel or to triangulate with the existing primary source and/or the other IPSS in order to satisfy our fuel needs.
If you do not challenge this arrangement then it is a straight fight between you and the other IPSS as to who will eventually be crowned as primary source. You may know about the devalued primary source but you probably will not know about the other IPSS. You will both be tested, so you can expect cancelled arrangements, occasional bouts of odd acts and distant behaviours. These are not acts of devaluation but are rather tests during your seduction to ensure that you are made of the right stuff to be promoted to primary source and also that you are better than your competing IPSS. The nature of this competition is such that you may be in front one month and thus things will seem to be going well with us and then you will be behind your competitor the next month so things will be less pleasant. You are jockeying for position and all the while we are obtaining fuel as we ascertain who will be the best person to be promoted. This could go on for years as you are strung along.
If you then learn that the primary source has finally been discarded but somebody else is being paraded around as our girlfriend and you cannot understand how that has happened, because there is still (albeit minimal) contact with you, then you have lost the race to become primary source. This other person seems to have come out of nowhere but they have not. They have been cultivated behind the scenes and we have decided that they would make the best primary source. The existing one has been discarded, the competitor IPSS who you knew nothing about (or might just have been referred to as a 'friend') is installed as primary source.
Even when this happens, you are still unlikely to be discarded because we still see value as keeping you as a secondary source. There has been some investment in you and if you do not cause a problem for us, you will be retained and at some future point there will be a resumption of the relationship to draw fuel, to use you to triangulate with the now being discarded primary source and even to consider installing you as primary source. This latter consideration arises where you would be a good primary source, but the competitor was deemed even better. However, once that competitor is devalued, your status as a good potential primary source is revisited. Unless of course another competitor IPSS is sought and this one is deemed better than you.
If you rail against this treatment as you find yourself side-lined when you expected to become the primary source, but some usurper has appeared instead, this may be tolerated for the negative fuel and the purposes of triangulation. If however you become problematic whereby you may expose us, causes problems with the façade and interfere with the newly installed primary source, you can expect to be devalued, smeared and discarded.
4. You may find that there is no primary source. You are referred to as partner or girlfriend but your engagement with us is intermittent, excuses are made as to why we cannot see more of you, there are occasional periods of silence and you are strung along in this position for some time, unsure of what you actually are. Are you our girlfriend or just a friend with benefits? When this happens it is the case that we will have several IPSS on our books. The combination of all these interests and the attendant fuel means that there is no pressing need for a primary source and we are content to alternate between the various IPSS until we establish one which is installed as primary source.
The IPSS does not experience the standard template of seduction-devaluation-discard and this is why many commentators fail to explain our behaviours effectively to someone who is an IPSS. The narcissistic dynamic is different. The reason for this is that you are effectively placed in limbo. You may not be good enough to be promoted to the position of primary source but you are too valuable to be cast to one side and thus the dance continues for as long as you will allow it without wounding or challenging us.
Those who do not understand our kind tend to fall into the trap of thinking that we are some kind of commitment-phobe and will dole out erroneous advice to you in terms of making you try to bring about that commitment. All this will do is cause you further consternation as the decision is ours, not yours.
If you find yourself in the position of engaging with somebody who treats you well, but only does so intermittently, who occasionally seems to test you (and it is often difficult to spot this) and issues lots of promises about what will happen in the future but there is never any delivery, there is every chance that you are an IPSS entangled with one of our kind.


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I'm traveling and now in cape town and looking for climbing partners. Lead trad UK HVS/E1 (19/20?).
Anyone up for climbing over the next couple of weeks or mind me tagging along - would love to do some routes on table mountain - jacob's ladder has been recomended to me by a couple of people back in the UK.
Otherwise is there anywhere good that you know of to pick up climbing parners - have a couple of months in South Africa so looking to travel round a bit too - anyone up for a road trip?
Have rack and rope with me.
Many thanks,
ps. where's a good gear shop in cape town to buy a guide book for South Africa? And what guide book?
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Once upon a time, before she was lobotomised, Katie Holmes was engaged to Chris Klein. Then they broke up and before we could process the split, she was riding on the back of Tom Cruise's manly man motorcycle and getting jiggy with Xenu.
We have struggled to understand why Katie gave so much away. And how the GMD succeeded in capturing her. Thanks to this new video, which is supposedly legit, it's become clearer why Katie fled from a loser to a freak. In her position, having tolerated Chris Klein for so long, perhaps a life with the Midge would have been appealing too.
This is Chris Klein auditioning for Mamma Mia. If you haven't seen this video, you need to make sure your colleagues or classmates can't hear you laughing. You should also steel yourself for the fontrum. Monumental fontrum.
The easy sh-ts and giggles come from his singing. Of course. This singing, obviously, is horrifying. But so was Pierce Brosnan's. Darren and I could not control ourselves over Pierce Brosnan. Not everyone can kick it 7 octaves like Lea Michele. As it relates to Chris though, what's most embarrassing is the behaviour. Right off the top of the clip, the way Klein is getting collegial with the room, namechecking Mandy Moore, it's a MAJOR cringe. And then it's the IN BETWEEN singing, when he's trying to ACT, these are the moments that are the worst for me. Because, as you will come to realise by the end of the four minutes, as you've known for a while now from photographs – click here to see – Chris Klein is a loser. And he could still walk into a random club and talk a trick into sucking his dick by the end of the night. I saw this happen at TIFF a few years ago. Girls, we need to do better.
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Here's Chris at a TCM event in April.
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Paul George has come full circle _ and he wants more.
The Indiana Pacers All-Star was wearing the blue USA uniform in August 2014 when he suffered a gruesome injury on national television, snapping his right leg during an exhibition scrimmage. Now two years later, once again wearing all blue with USA across his chest, George planted that same leg on the floor and stepped on to the Olympic podium, arms interlocked with his American teammates, to receive a gold medal.
Team USA rolled past Serbia 96-66 Sunday in the Olympic final to bring closure to one of the worst chapters of George's life.
"Me and Coach (Mike Krzyzewski) actually had a moment before this game," George said. "He was one of the first people to visit me in the hospital. He just told me, this is what I've been texting you about all season. This is what I've been telling you when you were in the hospital bed. This day is going to come. And here it is. Gold medalists."
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The injury was so horrific there were concerns that the 6-foot-9, 220-pound forward would never be the same, he would lose some of his quickness, agility, explosiveness and athleticism.
George worked to get back, and the work paid off _ in gold.
"This is where the incident happened," George said. "With this group and with Team USA. It meant everything. Again, to just finalize this whole story. Put it to rest. I know I'm officially back."
George, arguably, was the best all-around player for the Americans and certainly the best defender. He took it upon himself to take Serbia's best player, Milos Teodosic, out of the game.
Looks of relief and satisfaction were all over his face following the medal ceremony.
"It's closing this chapter," George said. "This is the ending piece to the whole rehab story."
But maybe not to his Olympic story.
The construction of Team USA will look different in four years at the Tokyo Games. Krzyzewski will be gone. Carmelo Anthony said he's done. LeBron James has expressed interest in returning and George will only be 30 years old.
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Genocide recognition
The term Genocide was coined by Polish-Jewish lawyer Raphael Lemkin in 1944, whose family was one of the victims of the Jewish Holocaust. By defining this term, Prof. Lemkin sought to describe Nazi politics of systematic murder, violence and cruelty and atrocities committed against the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in 1915 as well.
On December 9, 1948, the United Nations approved the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. The Convention defines Genocide as an international crime, which signatory nations undertake to prevent and punish.
What is the Armenian Genocide?
The atrocities committed against the Armenian people of the Ottoman Empire during WWI is defined as the Armenian Genocide.
Those massacres were perpetrated throughout different regions of the Ottoman Empire by the Young Turks Government which was in power at the time.
The first international reaction to the violence resulted in a joint statement by France, Russia and Great Britain, in May 1915, where the Turkish atrocities directed against the Armenian people was defined as "new crime against humanity and civilization" agreeing that the Turkish government must be punished for committing such crimes.
Why was the Armenian Genocide perpetrated?
When WWI erupted, the Young Turks government, hoping to save the remains of the weakened Ottoman Empire, adopted a policy of Pan Turkism – the establishment of a mega Turkish empire comprising of all Turkic-speaking peoples of the Caucasus and Central Asia extending to China, intending also to Turkify all ethnic minorities of the empire. The Armenian population became the main obstacle standing in the way of the realization of this policy.
Although the decision for the deportation of all Armenians from the Western Armenia (Eastern Anatolya) was adopted in late 1911, the Young Turks used WWI as a suitable opportunity for its implementation.
How many people died in the Armenian Genocide?
There were an estimated two million Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire on the eve of WWI. Approximately one and a half million Armenians perished between 1915 and 1923. Another million found shelter abroad or Islamized.
The mechanism of implementation
Genocide is the organized killing of a people for the express purpose of putting an end to their collective existence. Because of its scope, genocide requires central planning and an internal machinery to implement. This makes genocide the quintessential state crime, as only a government has the resources to carry out such a scheme of destruction.
On 24th of April in 1915, the first phase of the Armenian massacres began with the arrest and murder of nearly hundreds intellectuals, mainly from Constantinople, the capital of Ottoman Empire (now Istanbul in present Turkey's capital). Subsequently, Armenians worldwide commemorate the April 24th as a day that memorializes all the victims of the Armenian Genocide.
The second phase of the 'final solution' appeared with the conscription of some 60.000 Armenian men into the general Turkish army, who were later disarmed and killed by their Turkish fellowmen.
The third phase of the genocide comprised of massacres, deportations and death marches made up of women, children and the elderly into the Syrian deserts. During those marches hundreds of thousand were killed by Turkish soldiers, gendarmes and Kurdish or Circassian mobs. Others died because of famine, epidemic diseases and exposure to the elements. Thousands of women and children were raped. Tens of thousands were forcibly converted to Islam.
Finally, the last phase of the Armenian genocide appeared with the total and utter denial by Turkish government of the mass killings and elimination of the Armenian nation on its homeland. Despite the ongoing international recognition of the Armenian Genocide, Turkey has consistently fought the acceptance of the Armenian Genocide by any means, including falsification of historical facts, propaganda campaigns, lobbying, etc.
The fact of the Armenian Genocide by the Ottoman government has been documented, recognized, and affirmed in the form of media and eyewitness reports, laws, resolutions, and statements by many states and international organizations. The complete catalogue of all documents categorizing the 1915-23 widespread massacre of the Armenian population in Ottoman Empire as a premeditated and thoroughly executed act of Genocide, is extensive.
Below is a brief list of those states and organizations, provincial governments and town councils which have acknowledged the Armenian Genocide
Parliamentary Resolutions, Laws and Declarations
- Resolution of the Federal Senate of the National Congress of the Federative Republic of Brazil - June 2, 2015
- The Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic - April 25, 2017
- Grand Duchy of Luxembourg: Resolution of the Parliament - May 6, 2015
- Russian Federation: Statement of State Duma on the Armenian Genocide Centennial - April 24, 2015
- Federal Republic of Germany: Statement by the President Joachim Gauck - April 23, 2015
- Statement of the Austrian Parliament on the Centennial of the Armenian Genocide perpetrated in the Ottoman Empire - 22 April, 2015
- European Parliament Resolution dedicated to the Centenary of the Armenian Genocide - 15 April, 2015
- Czech Republic, Resolution of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Chamber of Deputies of Parliament on the occasion of the Armenian Genocide Centenary - April 14 2015
- Chile: Resolution of the Chamber of Deputies - April 14, 2015
Bolivia's Senate and the Chamber of Deputies Resolution - November 27, 2014
- Sweden Riksdag Resolution - March 11, 2010
- MERCOSUR, Joint Parliamentary Committee Resolution, Nov 19, 2007
- U.S. House Committee Resolution - October 10, 2007
- Chile, Senate, Resolution - Jule 07, 2007
- Argentina, Law, January 11, 2007
- Argentina, Senate, Special Statement - April 19, 2006
- Lithuania, Assembly, Resolution - December 15, 2005
- European Parliament, Resolution - September 28, 2005
- Venezuela, National Assembly, Resolution - July 14, 2005
- Germany, Parliament, Resolution - June 15, 2005
- Argentina, Senate, Resolution - April 20, 2005
- Poland, Parliament, Resolution - April 19, 2005
- Netherlands, Parliament, Resolution - December 21, 2004
- Slovakia, National Assembly, Resolution - November 30, 2004
- Canada, House of Commons, Resolution - April 21, 2004
- Argentina, Senate, Declaration - March 31, 2004
- Uruguay, Law - March 26, 2004
- Argentina, Draft Law - March 18, 2004
- Switzerland (Helvetic Confederation), National Council, Resolution - December 16, 2003
- Argentina, Senate, Resolution - August 20, 2003
- Canada, Senate, Resolution - June 13, 2002
- European, Parliament, Resolution - February 28, 2002
- Common Declaration of His Holiness John Paul II and His Holiness Karekin II at Holy Etchmiadzin, Republic of Armenia - September 27, 2001
- Prayer of John Paul II, Memorial of Tzitzernagaberd - September 26, 2001
- France, Law - January 29, 2001
- Italy, Chamber of Deputies, Resolution - November 16, 2000
- European Parliament, Resolution - November 15, 2000
- France, Senate, Draft Law - November 7, 2000
- Lebanon, Parliament, Resolution - May 11, 2000
- Sweden, Parliament, Report - March 29, 2000
- France, National Assembly, Draft Law - May 28, 1998
- Belgium, Senate, Resolution - March 26, 1998
- Lebanon, Chamber of Deputies, Resolution - April 3, 1997
- U.S., House of Representatives, Resolution 3540 - June 11, 1996
- Greece (Hellenic Republic), Parliament, Resolution - April 25, 1996
- Canada, House of Commons, Resolution - April 23, 1996
- Russia, Duma, Resolution - April 14, 1995
- Argentina, Senate, Resolution - May 5, 1993
- European Parliament, Resolution - June 18, 1987
- U.S., House of Representatives, Joint Resolution 247 - September 12, 1984
- Cyprus, House of Representatives, Resolution - April 29, 1982
- U.S., House of Representatives, Joint Resolution 148 - April 9, 1975
- Uruguay, Senate and House of Representatives, Resolution - April 20, 1965
- U.S., Senate, Resolution 359 - May 11, 1920
- U.S., Congress, An Act to Incorporate Near East Relief - August 6, 1919
- U.S., Senate, Concurrent Resolution 12 - February 9, 1916
- France, Great Britain, and Russia, Joint Declaration - May 24, 1915
International Organizations
- The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity - April 9, 2007
- Human Rights Association of Turkey, Istanbul Branch - April 24, 2006
- International Center for Transitional Justice Report Prepared for TARC - February 10, 2003
- European Alliance of YMCAs - July 20, 2002
- Council of Europe, Parliamentary Assembly, Declaration - April 24, 2001
- Le Ligue des Droits de l'Homme - May 16, 1998
- Council of Europe, Parliamentary Assembly, Declaration - April 24, 1998
- The Association of Genocide Scholars - June 13, 1997
- Parlamenta Kurdistane Li Derveyi Welat - April 24, 1996
- Union of American Hebrew Congregations - November 7, 1989
- Permanent Peoples' Tribunal, Verdict of the Tribunal - April 16, 1984
- World Council of Churches - August 10, 1983
- UN Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities - July 2, 1985
- UN War Crimes Commission Report - May 28, 1948
- UN General Assembly Resolution - December 9, 1948
Provincial governments, town councils
US states
- Alaska
- Arizona
- Arkansas
- California
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- Florida
- Georgia
- Idaho
- Illinois
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Maine
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Missouri
- Nebraska
- Nevada
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- New York
- North Carolina North Dakota
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Utah
- Vermont
- Virginia
- Washington
- Wisconsin
- Province of New South Wales
- Province of Cordoba
- Province of Buenos Aires
- British Columbia
- Ontario (including the City of Toronto)
- Quebec (including the City of Montreal)
- Geneva Canton
- Vaud Canton
Great Britain
- Wales
- Comune Di Bertiolol
- Comune Di Udine
- Commune di Sesto San Giovanni
- Il Consigilo Comunale di Salgareda
- Comune di Belluno
- Comunale di Roma
- Comune di Massa Lombarda
- Comunita' Montana Feltrina
- Comune di Genova
- Comune di Thiene
- Comune di Castelsilano
- Comune di Firenze
- Comune di Ravenna
- Comune di Feltre
- Comunale di Venezia
- Comune di Imola
- Comune di Faenza
- Comune di Parma
- Comune di Solarolo
- Comune di Villafranca Padovana
- Comune di Milano
- Comune di Ponte di Piave
- Comune di Conselice
- Comune di Lugo
- Comune di S. Stino Livenza
- Comune di Cotignola
- Citta di Asiago
- Comune di S. Agata Sul Santerno
- Comune di Monterforte D'Alpone
- Comune Di Padova
- Comune di Montorso Vicentino
- Comune di Fusignano
- Comune di Bagnacavallo
- Comune di Russi
- Comune di Sanguinetto
- Comune di Camponogara
Source: www.genocide-museum.am
Cultural Genocide
Acts and measures undertaken to destroy any nation's or ethnic group's culture are called 'cultural genocide'. The word 'Genocide', coined by Raphael Lemkin, does not only refer to the physical extermination of a national or religious group, but also to its national, spiritual and cultural destruction. The concept of cultural genocide was not included in the 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
Many facts prove that along with the massacres and deportation, the Young Turk government was also implemented a premeditated and planed destruction of the material testimonies of the Armenian culture. Realizing the role of the church and Christian faith for the Armenian nation, they intentionally massacred Armenian clergymen, destroyed churches, monasteries, thousands of medieval manuscripts and other church property.
An Arab witness of the Armenian Genocide, Fayez el Hussein, writes in his memoirs "... After the massacres of the Armenians, the government established commissions that were engaged in selling the leftover property. Armenian cultural values were sold at the cheapest prices... Once I went to a church to see how the sale of these things is organized. The doors of the Armenian schools were closed. Turks used the textbooks and scientific books in the market for wrapping cheese, dates, sunflowers... "
In 1912-1913 the Armenian Patriarchy of Istanbul presented an account of the churches and monasteries in Western Armenia (Eastern Anatolia) and in the Ottoman Empire. More than 2300 were accounted for including the early unique Christian monuments of IV-V centuries. But most of them were looted, burned and destroyed during the genocide.
The policy of destruction adopted by the Young Turks with regard to Armenian historical and cultural heritage has been continued in Republican Turkey, where these relics have been viewed as the undesirable witnesses of the Armenian presence.
At the end of 1920s, Turkey began changing the names and titles (toponymy) of certain locations in Western Armenia. Nowadays 90% of the Armenian cities, towns and buildings in Western Armenia have been Turkified. The names of Armenian geographical sites have also been replaced with Turkish names. Devising a systematic method of destruction, hundreds of architectural monuments have been destroyed and all Armenian inscriptions erased.
In 1974 UNESCO stated that after 1923, out of 913 Armenian historical monuments left in Eastern Turkey, 464 have vanished completely, 252 are in ruins, and 197 are in need of complete repair.
Armenian architectural buildings are consistently being demolished with dynamite explosions and used as targets during Turkish military training exercises; the undamaged stones are also used as construction materials. In some rural places, Armenian monasteries and churches serve as stables, stores, clubs and in once case, even a jail. On many occasions the Turkish government converted Armenian churches into mosques.
On June 18, 1987 the Council of Europe adopted a Decree demanding from the Turkish government to pay attention to and take care of the Armenian language, culture and educational system of the Armenian Diaspora living in Turkey, also demanding an appropriate regard to the Armenian historical monuments that are in modern Turkey's territory.
Cultural genocide against the Armenian heritage on the territory of Turkey continues ...
Following slides present numerous Armenian medieval monuments destroyed during and after the Armenian Genocide.
Horomos Monastery, 10th-11th centuries
• The view of the Horomos Monastery before 1965 and in 1998 (photo S. Karapetian)
Sourb Prkich (Holy Saviour) Church of Ani, 11th century
• The view of the monument in 1910s and in 2000 (photo S. Karapetian)
Bagnayr Monastery, Bagnayr (Ghozluja) Village, 11th-13th centuries
• The view of the Bagnayr Monastery monument before the 1960s and in 2000 (photo S. Karapetian)
Khtzkonk Monastery, 7th-13th centuries
• The view of Monastery complex, early 20th century photo
• The view of Monastery complex after explosion in 1966
• The view of Monastery complex, early 20th century photo
• The part of Monastery complex nowadays (photo S. Karapetian)
• The view of Monastery complex, early 20th century photo
• The view of Monastery complex, in 2000 after explosion in 1966 (photo S. Karapetian)
Tekor Temple, 5th century
• The view of the monument before 1912 and in 2000 (photo S. Karapetian)
St. Hovhannes Church of Bagrevand, 613-619
• The view of the monument before 1966 and in 2000 (photo S. Karapetian)
• Ani, mediaeval Armenian capital, coat of arms of the city in 1910s and 2000, after the Turkish restoration
• Van, region of Aghbak, St. Bartholomew the Apostle Monastery, 1913 and 1980 (photo A. Hakhnazarian)
• Van, Hermitage of Lim Island, North Eastern view, early 1900s and 2004 (photo S. Karapetian)
• Moosh, Sb. Arakelots (of the Holy Apostles) Monastery, 4th-15th centuries, early 1900s and 2000 (photo S. Karapetian)
• Moosh, Sb. Karapet Monastery, 4th-18th centuries, South Western view, early 1900s
• Moosh, village Cankly, on the site of Sb. Karapet Monastery in 2000 (photo S. Karapetian)
• Van, region of Rshtoonik (Gevascd), the Village-Monastery of Narek, South Western view, early 1900s
• Van, region of Rshtoonik (Gevascd), Mosque built on the site of destroyed Narek Monastery in 2004 (photo S. Karapetian)
• Van, village of Koghbantz, ruins of the Monastery of Salnapat, 10th-13th centuries South Western view, early 1900s and 2004 (photo S. Karaperian)
• Van village of Shoushants, site of the Monastery of Karmravor Sb. Asdvadsadsin, early 1900s and 2004 (photo S. Karapetian)
• Van, Varaga Monastery, 10 -11th centuries. Early 1900s and 2004 (photo S. Karapetian)
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Ken Cuccinelli, Republicans' candidate for governor in Virginia, unveiled a major new tax plan on Tuesday, and it very much resembles proposals by GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney and congressional Republicans from over the past year.
Cuccinelli debuted a new plan that would cut about $1.4 billion in taxes, namely by making major reductions to the state's personal income and corporate tax rates. The Virginia attorney general's plan would cut the personal income tax rate to 5 percent (down from 5.75 percent) and reduce the corporate tax rate to 4 percent (from 6 percent).
Cuccinelli sold his "Economic Growth and Virginia Jobs Plan" as a way to not only cap government spending in Virginia, but to also ease the burden on Virginia taxpayers and encourage new business investment.
Of course, it's hardly unusual to hear a high-profile Republican candidate for office call for a regimen of tax cuts during the height of campaigns. But Cuccinelli's similarities to many contemporary Republicans extends to the way in which he would finance the cost of the tax cuts, as well.
Per the website for Cuccinelli's plan, the attorney general would help offset the $1.4 billion price tag for his tax cuts by indentifying and eliminating "outdated exemptions and loopholes that promote crony capitalism."
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That's an approach remarkably similar to the kind preferred by Romney during his presidential campaign last year, and subsequently by congressional Republicans during their negotiations with President Barack Obama over the automatic tax hikes that almost took effect this year as part of the "fiscal cliff."
Romney and the GOP lawmakers each largely declined to specify the exact loopholes and deductions they would target as part of their reforms. Because of the few details about the specifics of their plans, it made it difficult for analysts to account for the exact price tag of their tax proposals. Moreover, in the case of Romney, he was left vulnerable to charges that his plan would actually result in higher taxes for many middle class Americans, since if some of the costliest tax deductions – for instance, the home mortgage interest deduction – were eliminated, it would disproportionately affect middle class households.
A spokeswoman for Cuccinelli said that a task force called for by the plan would be put in charge of adding greater detail about which exemptions the gubernatorial candidate would eliminate to meet his target.
But in a campaign against Democrat Terry McAuliffe that has already become a murky battle of volleying characterizations about the other candidate and his proposals, it's not hard to imagine the Cuccinelli plan becoming a ripe target for McAuliffe, unless more meat is added to the plan's bones.
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How a Social Network Helps Families Coping With Autism
Autism Awareness Month may be coming to a close, but by using the social network MyAutismTeam, parents of children with autism spectrum disorder can spread awareness and find support throughout the year.
MyAutismTeam is a part of the MyHealthTeams network, online communities for people living with or caring for those with chronic health conditions. On the network, users share information about the members of their support teams — parents, specialists, businesses — with other users looking for the same.
"One in two Americans suffers from a chronic condition or disease," says Eric Peacock, co-founder and CEO of MyHealthTeams. "That includes everything from autism and ADHD to diabetes, Parkinson's and breast cancer. What's more, that number is expected to grow 42% in the next 10 years."
MyHealthTeams decided to focus on autism for its first network because one in 88 children in America is diagnosed with symptoms of autism. "Parents of children diagnosed with autism face enormous challenges and have to become autism and special needs experts practically overnight," Peacock says. "Naturally, they want to connect with other parents and learn from them."
MyAutismTeam officially launched in December 2011, after several months of testing, growing the user base and improving the site. It opened in beta to users last June, beginning with just 30 parents in the San Francisco Bay Area. But when word got out, the site grew quickly. According to Peacock, MyAutismTeam hit 10,000 registered parents from all 50 states within four months. Today, it has more than 22,000 registered parents.
MyAutismTeam believes it should be easy to find the best people around to help a parent when his or her child is diagnosed with autism. With MyAutismTeam, parents can get in touch with other parents, search a directory of more than 30,000 autism specialists and access a searchable Q&A section of 600-plus questions (If a user wants to ask a new question, the answer rate is 97.5%, according to Peacock).
The network has also partnered with Autism Speaks and Easter Seals, two organizations at the forefront of autism awareness and research. As a result, MyAutismTeam has been able to incorporate quite a large database of autism resources.
"We're becoming the Yelp for autism," says Peacock. "If you want to find autism specialists recommended by other parents who have been in your shoes, this is the place to do it."
"Parents of children diagnosed with autism...have to become autism and special needs experts practically overnight. Naturally, they want to connect with other parents and learn from them."
James Vaughan, the father of an 11-year-old boy with autism in West Haven, Utah, says the help he has received from MyAutismTeam has been tremendous. "The life of an autism parent is often one that is a frustrating and long road," Vaughan says. "MyAutismTeam provides a network where everyone is in the same boat...There is no other place in social media that can give a parent that complete, non-judgmental support, the helpful tips that keep us going, and the stories that give us hope during the most trying times."
Lara Marek's fiancé has three children: a 14-year-old boy diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome and two 7-year-old twin girls, one of whom has autism spectrum disorder, and one who is neurotypical (that is, not on the autism spectrum). MyAutismTeam has allowed Marek to share with other parents her experiences and questions, and it gives her an outlet without fear of judgment.
"The best thing anyone can do is learn about the things that impact his or her life," says Marek, "and in my case I have to admit I had some misconceptions about autism. Acceptance is crucial no matter who we are. The more we can embrace what makes us different, the better off we are with self-appreciation."
MyHealthTeams is planning dozens of additional networks that will focus on other chronic conditions. MyBreastCancerTeam, for example, is scheduled to launch within the next few weeks.
"It's our mission to make sure it's easy for those folks to find the best people around to help them," says Peacock. "We love what we do and won't stop until we help as many of them as we can."
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Preschoolers Behaving Badly: Expulsions Rise
A recent Yale study shows that the preschool expulsion rate is on the rise.
Jan. 24, 2008 -- Janine Butler, a 28-year-old New Jersey teacher, knows something about out-of-control students.
One girl threw objects, threatened Butler with knives and tried to bite her. Another boy was "just rude, rude, rude," pulling down his pants and swearing at her. The final straw came when another student scratched and hit her.
Butler's students were barely out of diapers — 3- and 4-year-olds — and their public preschool in Trenton was not allowed to expel them.
"No one would do anything," said Butler, who eventually quit. "I felt alone."
Tantrums, aggression, biting and kicking are becoming increasingly common in preschool, according to child development specialists.
With bad behavior on the rise, so are preschool expulsions, according to a Yale University study published earlier this month.
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Author Walter Gilliam, director of the Zigler Center in Child Development and Social Policy, told ABCNEWS.com that he didn't set out to study preschool expulsions. But when he was analyzing publicly funded prekindergarten policies at 3,898 schools in 40 states, he found expulsion rates three times higher than for older grades.
"Many teachers have anecdotally reported a perception of an increase in the rates over the past several years, but there are currently no scientifically collected data to confirm or deny this perception," he said.
Gilliam reported 6.7 expulsions per 1,000 preschoolers in the United States, compared with 2.09 per 1,000 for students in kindergarten through grade 12. In data collected from 2002-2004, rates ranged from zero per 1,000 students in Kentucky to more than 21 in New Mexico.
Private school expulsion rates were higher than for public school, and boys were four times as likely to be kicked out than girls.
Researchers identified a wide range of anti-social behavior — from cutting computer cords as a way to "liberate the mice" to hair-pulling. Biting was the most common offense.
"Nobody knows why," Gilliam said. "A lot of people blame parents. A lot of people blame the schools or an education system that pushed programs to preschool that are not developmentally appropriate. Now the stakes are higher in preschool."
Most public preschools must now submit accountability reports, according to Gilliam. "If behavior is a problem, in the past it was a nuisance, now it stands in the way of progress."
He concludes that expulsions set children up for educational failure and recommends better teacher training, smaller classes and greater classroom support from psychologists and social workers.
"We agree with the findings," said Don Owens, spokesman for the National Association for the Education of Young Children, who said many parents were afraid to talk openly with the media about their children's expulsions for fear of branding them.
"Expulsion should be the last resort, but unfortunately, it has become the first resort," he said.
Some studies show that aggression in preschool may be an indicator of delinquency and crime later on, according to a policy report by the National Institute for Early Education Research, which helped fund the Yale study.
NIEER's review of national research suggests bad behavior may be up for a variety of reasons: poor prenatal care, including drug use; family poverty and "negative parenting practices, such as harsh discipline and maternal insensitivity."
The school environment for these early learners may be to blame.
But NIEER cautions that some of these behaviors are normal at this age.
"Hitting your sister is not aggression," said NIEER co-director Ellen C. Frede. "It's the 'super nanny' stuff that you see. Kids doing things over and over like eating dog food and biting mom and destroying things and being incredibly defiant and outside the pale."
Many teachers, like Butler, worry that some children lack the social skills required to learn.
"The teacher needs support — not always a mental health consultant but good old-fashioned behavior management," said Frede. Some children need a "well-organized curriculum" and others just lack parents who are engaged in their lives.
"Just as parents come in different flavors, so do teachers," said Frede. "Sometimes there is too much structure and the child cannot handle it. Other times, the teacher doesn't have enough organization and loses the confidence and trust of her children, who then act out. Three years old is a challenging period."
Poverty and overcrowded classes exacerbate the behavior problems. "My parents cared more about buying their kids new Nikes than giving them a Kleenex when they had a cold," said Butler, who is now teaching in a another preschool.
Colorado mother Amy Gates, who blogs about parenting on crunchydomesticgoddess.com, said preschool expulsions are "kind of shocking." Her 3-year-old attends a private preschool and has had brushes with bad behavior.
When her daughter pushed another child to grab a toy, the teacher used "gentle discipline" to curb any budding aggression.
"There is going to be some acting out in the classroom, especially with preschoolers because they are just learning their boundaries and learning what's acceptable or not," she said.
Andi Silverman, author of "Mama Knows Breast" and contributor to the New York City Moms Blog, said she worries more about accidents in her 3-year-old son's classroom than aggression.
"Expelling a child from preschool is a very harsh measure," she said. "Hopefully, parents and teacher work together."
'Warning Signs'
In New York City, where getting into exclusive preschools is as hard as getting a fat acceptance letter from Harvard, parents and children are screened carefully before they are admitted, according to Silverman.
Most of the nation's preschools are run privately and are not obligated to serve a difficult child, said Karen Hill Scott, a Los Angeles development psychologist and researcher.
"If the child is a problem, they don't have to support them," said Scott. "Public schools have to figure out a way to manage them."
The rise in socially aggressive children is a "warning sign" that reflects directly on parenting, according to Scott.
"There is an inadequate emphasis on self-regulation and self-control," according to Scott, who said adults with low impulse control are less successful in work and in human relations.
Parents confuse "indulgence with love," said Scott. "The helicopter parent hovers, and kids don't learn to fend on their own. The indulged kids never delay any gratification. When everything goes your way, you have a hard time working in groups."
With more children in preschool, the behaviors that once played out in first grade now emerge "in the toddler room," she said.
Aviva Pflock, a former preschool teacher and child development specialist, said, "The fact is, 3, 4, 5, 6, even 7, and older age children simply are not ready to make choices in regards to how their behavior affects others. They get angry [or tired or hungry], and they may lash out. Rather than getting in trouble for the poor behavior, they need to be taught about appropriate ways to behave."
But, argues NIEER's Frede, most children only need a good quality program and a teacher who is well-trained and well-compensated. And maybe some old-fashioned discipline.
When Frede's mother was a preschool teacher in the late 1950s and had a biter in her class, she whisked the child away into a closet and asked him to "bite himself," to see how it felt.
Not that Frede recommends that unorthodox method today, but she said with a laugh, "Joel never bit another kid."


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951 10th St., Brandon, MB, R7A 4H2. (204) 728-4515. Minister Ken Quiring served in 2005 as a congregational leader. In 1965 there were 40 members; in 1975, 88; in 1985, 107; in 1995, 72; in 2000, 72. The congregation has been affiliated with Mennonite Church Manitoba (1957-), Conference of Mennonites in Canada / Mennonite Church Canada (1961-), and General Conference Mennonite Church (1962-1999). The language of worship is English; the language transition from German occurred in the 1950s.
The congregation began services in 1954, and formally organized in 1961. The first building was occupied in 1959. G.G. Neufeld is considered the founding leader of the group. The congregation originated through division from the Rivers Mennonite Church over the language issue. The congregation was called Brandon Mennonite Mission until 1961.
Canadian Mennonite (9 October 1959): 12; (3 March 1961): 10.
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Most years when farmers are coming off three straight seasons of bin-busting crops, economists would say, prices more than likely are going into the tank. (Well, economists probably wouldn't say it that way, but you know what I mean.)
Until USDA's latest crop production report, U.S. corn farmers appeared to be on track to harvest their third straight 11-billion-bushel-plus crop, starting with the record 11.8-billion-bushel harvest in 2004. (The October report lowered the previous month's 11.1-billion-bushel forecast to 10.9 billion due to dry conditions in the central Corn Belt.)
Even with 200 million fewer bushels in 2006, three years of 11-billion-bushel harvests would normally have sent corn futures tumbling. Instead, Chicago Board of Trade December futures were trading at a historically high level of $3.44 per bushel at press time.
Corn futures prices could continue to improve in late fall and winter, according to Kurt Guidry, agricultural economist with the LSU AgCenter. Guidry spoke on the outlook for wheat and feed grains at the Southern Region Agricultural Outlook Conference in Atlanta.
Why are corn prices moving higher when supplies are growing by leaps and bounds? Because the demand for corn could actually soak up most of those added bushels of corn, he says.
"I do believe that the domestic demand will be relatively strong and that export demand will be strong," Guidry said. "I think we will see seasonal improvement in the remainder of 2006 and into 2007.
"I think we can see considerable upside potential in the next few months and thus the need for some upside protection to be able to capture some of that potential," he said, referring to the need for hedging the 2007 crop.
Those higher prices are expected to attract more acres into corn in 2007, he said. A few days before he spoke in Atlanta, Informa Economics, the Memphis-based agricultural and commodity market research, analysis and consulting firm, said it expected 2007 corn plantings to be up 4 million acres.
But with the nearly 600-million-bushel increase in demand for corn for ethanol that USDA is projecting for the 2006-07 marketing year (June-May), "we could use most of that up in ethanol," says Guidry.
You have to go back to the mid-1980s to find corn supplies approaching the levels they are now, he notes. In 1986 and 1987, beginning stocks and production combined to push the available supply to 12 billion bushels each year. Current supplies are expected to hit 13.14 billion bushels in 2006, down slightly from 2005's 13.24 billion.
The difference between then and now is that demand in 1986 and 1987 only accounted for 7 billion to 8 billion bushels, pushing carryover stocks to a record 5 billion bushels in 1986. Corn demand is expected to reach nearly 12 billion bushels or 1.2 billion bushels below the expected supply of 13.14 billion bushels for 2006.
As a result of the phenomenal expected offtake, corn ending stocks could drop to 1.2 billion bushels or 9 percent of total supply for the 2006-07 marketing year.
Ethanol demand is playing a big part in the dramatic increase in usage. USDA expects the amount of corn going into ethanol production to rise from 1.6 billion bushels in 2005-06 to 2.15 billion in 2006-07. The latter would be up 1 billion bushels from 2004-05.
But exports are also on the rise with USDA forecasting an increase of 100 million bushels from 2.15 billion in 2005-06 to 2.25 billion in 2006-07. "It appears that exports from other countries will be off," says Guidry, "so U.S. corn exports could be relatively strong, reaching the highest levels since the early 1990s."
Little of the increased demand for ethanol will filter down to the Southern states since most of the boom in biorefinery construction is taking place in the Midwest. The Renewable Fuels Association estimates that 44 such plants are currently under construction and will soon join the 101 plants now producing ethanol and biodiesel.
Only two such plants are located in the Southeast — one in Georgia and one in east Tennessee, he said. The majority are concentrated in Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota and Nebraska.
One ethanol plant opened in Louisiana but has since closed due, in part, to the economics of growing corn and transforming it into ethanol in the state. "We're talking about five more plants in the state now," he noted.
As long as input costs remain high, expanding Louisiana's corn acreage will be a difficult proposition. Farmers in Louisiana and elsewhere are expected to pay 32 percent more for diesel and 12 percent more for fertilizer in 2006 than they did in 2005. The price of natural gas for industrial use — and for nitrogen fertilizer — is expected to turn up again in 2007 after declining in late winter.
When Guidry spoke in Atlanta in late September, December 2006 corn futures were trading at $2.55 per bushel. At press time, December '06 futures had risen to $3.44 per bushel. The jump was not that surprising when you look at historical price relationships.
"There have been four times when the stocks-to-use ratio has been less than 11.11 percent in the last 35 years," says Guidry. "When that has happened, corn prices have averaged $2.81 per bushel and corn exports have averaged 1.66 billion bushels for that year.
"When you think about it, the current December futures prices of $2.55 per bushel is a little low given the market expectations for increases in ethanol use and corn exports."
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Somewhat off-topic, but LAX just announced there are discontinuing free EV parking (darn!), but still offering free EV charging while parked there.
Apparently there was simply too much demand for those spots.
Yeah, Chargepoint and Blink both use J1772. Free charging and parking at the Oceanside, CA Train station. Plenty of chargin spaces. (8 i think). O-side is on Blink.
Same with the parking garage at Petco Park. (only one space).
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(different payment options) to activate the charger/then again to start charging > most are free - seems to charge at a low rate, though. Can download a mobile app to find locations.
Anyone know what ChargePoint means on their vehicle profile where next to make and model and battery size, they ask "Charging Speed" ?
10 kW with a single charger; 20 kW with twin chargers.
Someone mentioned that the pocket on the front of the driver seat in the leather-optioned cars is a convenient location to store the Chargepoint card. It also keeps the wallet a little thinner.


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- Matthew 12:3-4
But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was an hungred, and they that were with him;
How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the shewbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them which were with him, but only for the priests?
- Luke 6:3-4
And Jesus answering them said, Have ye not read so much as this, what David did, when himself was an hungred, and they which were with him;
How he went into the house of God, and did take and eat the shewbread, and gave also to them that were with him; which it is not lawful to eat but for the priests alone?
- Mark 2:25-26
And [Jesus] said unto them, Have ye never read what David did, when he had need, and was an hungred, he, and they that were with him?
How he went into the house of God in the days of Abiathar the high priest, and did eat the shewbread, which is not lawful to eat but for the priests, and gave also to them which were with him?
The problem lies not in Mark's variance from Matthew and Luke (since this presents no difficulty) but in the fact that Abiathar is not presented as the high priest in the Old Testament account:I Samuel 21:1-3
Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest: and Ahimelech was afraid at the meeting of David, and said unto him, Why art thou alone, and no man with thee?
And David said unto Ahimelech the priest, The king hath commanded me a business, and hath said unto me, Let no man know any thing of the business whereabout I send thee, and what I have commanded thee: and I have appointed my servants to such and such a place.
Now therefore what is under thine hand? give me five loaves of bread in mine hand, or what there is present.
Since Mark is believed to be the earliest gospel, it is often argued that this reference to Abiathar was a mistake (either on the part of Mark or Jesus himself) which the later gospels took care to correct in their respective versions.