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What Happened To Jenny Jones?
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By Angela Andaloro/Dec. 2, 2021 10:36 am EST
In the 1990s, talk shows ruled daytime television. Their grip on society, from kids coming home after a long day at school to housewives getting things done around the house, cannot be understated. One of the big shows of the time was "The Jenny Jones Show," hosted by Canadian-American Jenny Jones (per IMDb).
If you plotted talk shows on a scale of tame to scandalous, "The Jenny Jones Show" definitely fell on the scandalous side of the spectrum. There were episodes covering extreme makeovers, giving misbehaving teens a reality check, and delving into all kinds of family and relationship drama.
The latter gave the show an infamous reputation when two guests on a 1994 episode ended up the victim and assailant in a murder. During the taping of an episode, Scott Amedure revealed that he was attracted to a straight acquaintance of his, Jonathan Schmitz. Schmitz laughed it off at the time, but confronted Amedure about it three days later. The confrontation led Schmitz to shoot Amedure twice in the chest, killing him (per People).
A scandal of such magnitude might shut a show down today, but "The Jenny Jones" show pressed on. It aired from 1991 to 2003 (per IMDb). Many have wondered what Jones has been up to in the nearly two decades since.
Following talk show fame, Jenny stepped out of the spotlight
Jenny Jones spent a lot of time on television, so no one could blame her for wanting to take a break from public life. After the show's end in 2003, Jones laid low for a few years before emerging with her 2006 cookbook, "Look Good, Feel Great Cookbook: How Eating Superfoods Can Help You Turn Back the Clock with Over 80 Comfort Food Recipes."
Cooking has been a major part of the most recent stage of Jones' life. Her YouTube channel and blog, Jenny Can Cook, became a new platform for her to connect with fans, sharing easy recipes that would delight any cooking enthusiast. From 2010 to today, Jenny continues sharing recipes and musings on life. In June 2020, she celebrated hitting 100 million views and 1 million subscribers.
"When I made my cooking videos, it was just a hobby. I love to cook and just wanted to share my recipes in case some of my fans might be interested," she wrote in a post thanking fans. "I knew a lot of people didn't even cook but it was still fun. I watched as the number of views continued to grow and my videos were soon discovered by the entire world ... It makes me so happy because it means that my little home videos are helping people eat healthy home cooked meals and knowing I'm making a difference is the best gift I could have received."
Jenny also continues to do extensive work in philanthropy
Throughout all of her years in the public eye, Jenny Jones has made it known that giving back is incredibly important to her. Jones began advocating for women's health in the early 1990s after opening up about health complications she experienced as a result of silicone breast implants (per Jenny Jones). She became an as honorary chairperson for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation's Chicago Race for the Cure. She donated all the proceeds from her autobiography to breast cancer research. She even donated a mobile mammography motor coach to Chicago's Cook County Hospital in 2000.
In 2008, Jones started her own philanthropic program, "Jenny's Heroes," through her organization, The Jenny Jones Foundation. The program offers grants of up to $25,000 to people throughout the United States and Canada who are finding ways to make a difference in their community. In 2019, the organization came together to help California State Firefighters Association as firefighters battled wildfires throughout the state. Through Jenny's Heroes California, she was able to donate $25,000 grants to ensure smaller volunteer firehouses throughout the state had the necessary safety equipment.


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Concentric Rhythm is an interactive tool for generating, developing, and exploring musical patterns. It uses geometric transformations and many other simple processes to create, develop, and evolve music.
The looping musical timeline is visualized as a circle, which allows you to treat musical patterns as concentric shapes. This makes performing geometric transformations such as rotations, reflections and folding very natural and intuitive.
It also provides tools for melodic lines such as random-walk generation and scale-based inversion and transposition.
You can generate rhythmic lines using cross-rhythms or the Euclidean algorithm, and allows for great visualisations of complex polyrhythms.
Concentric Rhythm now allows you to assign each pattern to a different MIDI channel and send your results to other MIDI compatible apps or devices.
Concentric Rhythm was originally developed as a new way to improvise electronic music, but it is also a great tool experimenting with and developing musical material, or just for casually playing with music in a unique, hands-on, way.
Many of the ideas here were inspired by the book 'The Geometry of Musical Rhythm' and this app is a powerful tool for anyone who is interested in exploring these ideas. But at the same time is easy enough to use that anyone (even with no musical or mathematical background) can make interesting musical patterns and think about the musical world a little differently.
Note: There are known compatibility issues when used with AUM, especially on iOS 14
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Caused my other apps to crash
This app didn't work, with some of my other recording and routing apps.
It wouldn't launch in AUM, and had to be launched separately. Once it was running in AUM, I tried to route the audio to a track in Cubasis version 3.2, and it caused Cubasis to crash. Cubasis 3 wouldn't re-launch until I shut down this app.
I didn't pay for the midi out upgrade, so I don't know how midi out would affect these other app problems.
On it's own, it produced some interesting patterns, but unless it's updated to address these issues, I won't be able to use it in my recording setup.
The developer, Jeff Holtzkener, indicated that the app's privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer's privacy policy.
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After defining the Chinese super consumer—and coming to understand the fact that there is both a China market and a China Global Demographic Market—it is important that we further define Chinese consumers by way of segmentation. How can you possibly know which of the more than 1 billion consumers are potentially yours?
When it comes to studying and analyzing the demographic tapestry that is the China super consumer, the global consulting firm McKinsey & Company sets the standard. It has been conducting annual consumer surveys in China since 2005, with more than 60,000 people in over 60 Chinese cities interviewed so far. Surveying in China is not an easy task, due to its vast geography, but McKinsey has gained tremendous insights on Chinese consumers' income growth, shifting spending patterns, and rising expectations, and they are different from their American counterparts. These surveys provide a better understanding of the different consumer segments and how they've grown.


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SNL Keeps It Queer with LGBTQ Forum
Veronica Holyfield October 14, 2019 CultureFeaturedNews
It hasn't take long for the folks at Saturday Night Live (SNL) to latch onto the sparkling gem that is the 2020 presidential race. From policies to personalities, and now queer issues, the SNL cast embodies the most eccentric quirks and bends them in a way that is endearingly alarming and sometimes downright eye-rolling.
Not inconsequentially, the team of Season 45 are also addressing queer issues in addition to their general political satire. The best medicine from the damage that was done from the 2016 election truly is laughter, and as LGBTQ folks, we have learned to laugh it off, a lot.
Cast members Chris Redd (Cory Booker), Colin Jost (Pete Buttigieg), Kate McKinnon (Elizabeth Warren), Lin-Manuel Miranda (Julian Castro), and Woody Harrelson (Joe Biden) put on their best impressions as they reenacted moments from the LGBTQ Town Hall.
Here are some of our favorite lines from the episode:
"He may live in the projects, but ladies, he ain't no project!" said the real-deal, queer icon Billy Porter introducing the first candidate, Cory Booker.
"There's no wrong way to be gay," said Jost as Buttigieg, "unless you're Ellen this week." He was referencing some recent flack that the mid-day talk show host received after a jovial interaction with President George W. Bush at a sporting event was caught by photographers. Jost presented a Ken-doll like, stiff Buttigieg, poking at the uptight Mayor Pete from Indiana.
Similar article: Bowen Yang's Rainbow Rise Through SNL
"Y'all know I'm not a lesbian, but all the ingredients are there," the queer McKinnon said in her husky impression of Warren.
"Oh snap, the library is open and Miss. Thang is about to get reeaaad," Porter said in preparation of Warren tackling a question about same-gender marriage.
"When people say gay and trans people shouldn't be included in Civil Rights Act protections, why, I wish their parents used protection," said McKinnon as she broke in dance.
"As a democrat, I want to apologize for not being gay," said Miranda as Castro, "but I promise to do better in the future."
"Let me answer by telling you a false memory," said Harrelson as Biden, concocting a tale in defense of his vote against banning the military policy of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell."
As host Anderson Cooper and Biden close their interaction with a kiss, all jokes aside, it's nothing less than a spotlight of the progress that queer folks continue to see their stories more commonly reflected in mainstream media.
Through LGBTQ forums and Town Halls presenting questions and challenging candidates in their blatant support for or disregard of this community, and via means of cultural satire like what played out on the October 12 episode of SNL, LGBTQ issues are being discussed and faced head on.
While it may be mind-bending how each of the presidential candidates plan to get to the end-goal of the White House, we can celebrate that they are all after one common goal: getting that seat of United States president away from the Trump administration.
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Q: Does "grim" share an etymology with the surname "Grimm"? People have often punned about Grimm's fairy tales being very grim. For example, TV Tropes has the trope Grimmification about tales being made more grim. (The Brothers Grimm didn't engage in Grimmification - they didn't need to. In fact, they Disneyfied.)
Are the two words "grim" and "Grimm" etymologically related?
The English edition of Wiktionary does not have an entry for "Grimm", nor does the Online Etymology Dictionary.
Wiktionary states that grim came from Old English, which came from Germanic. And Grimm is used as a surname in Germany.
Grimm has an entry in the German Wiktionary, but even with Google translate I can't tell if it's talking about a name, a noun, or both.
One person I talked to about this said that "Grimm" meant "hooded", which would explain "The Grim Reaper" (apart from it only have one "m"). Is that true?

A: It is clear that Old English grimm is cognate with Ger grimm(ig); Koebler Althochdeutscheswörterbuch) refers this to Pokorny (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary) 458, where it is derived from PIE root *ghrem-2, "heavy sound, thunder, grumble".
However, Koebler also notes a similar word, grimo, "helmet, mask", which I imagine is what your informant who suggested "hooded" was referring to; it's cognate with OE and Icelandic grima, from which Tolkien took the name of the evil counsellor Grima Wormtongue. Pokorny 457 derives these from PIE root *ghrēi-, *ghrəi-, *ghrī-, *ghrei-, "smear", from which he also derives Middle Low German grimet, "black-streaked", and grēme "smut", which appear to be cognate with English grime.
Both roots were used in mediaeval personal names. Genealogical sites derive the modern surname variously from both; but they do not cite authorities and may safely be ignored.
Unless an authority can be found which definitively traces the Brothers' surname, I think the verdict must be Not Proven.

A: Well, we once spelled grim with two m's in English, as grimm. The OED gives the etymology of grim as:

OE.  grim(m) = OFris.  grim, OS.  grim (Dutch grim), OHG. and MHG.  grim
  (G.  grimm), ONor.  grimmr (Sw.  grym harsh, Da.  grim ugly).  Ormin
  employs a disyllabic form grimme, corresponding to OHG.  grimmi, MHG.
  grimme.  The OTeut. root *grem- is an ablaut-variant of *gram-; see grame a.

So it would seem the same word.
What I find fascinating is the hidden gem that grim is ultimately an ablaut variant of a gram- word, which makes me think of grammar and linguistics, which makes me think of Grimm's Law.

A: The noun "Grimm" in German means "fury," which suggests a connection though there's been a drift in meaning in one language or both. If "grimm" means hooded in any language, it isn't German.

A: They both come from the same PIE root, according to the AHD of PIE Roots.

*gʰrem- Angry.
    1a. grim, from OE grimm 'fierce, severe'
    1b. grimace, from OF
     (Both a and b from Gmc *grimma)
    2. grumble, from Gmc *grum
    3. pogrom, from Russian grom 'thunder'

As gmcgath has pointed out, Grimm means 'fury' in German, so -- insofar as proper names can have meanings, it pretty much has to come from this root too.

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Federal Government Presents $449 Million Grant for Sites Reservoir Project
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Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue continued their tour through Northern California on Tuesday with a big announcement regarding water storage in California. Following a visit to the burned area of Paradise, the federal government representatives traveled to Colusa County to announce a $449 million grant for the Sites Reservoir Project.
The secretaries were joined by Rep. Jeff Denham, Rep. David Valadao, Rep. Jim Costa and Rep. John Garamendi to tour the area proposed for the new reservoir before holding a roundtable discussion on the project.
.@SecretaryZinke & @SecretarySonny join other CA leaders & #SitesProject representatives in Colusa County today to announce $449M in federal funding that will help #BuildSites. Important investment in CA water infrastructure! pic.twitter.com/SqhVXT3C0o
— Sites Project (@SitesProject) November 27, 2018
The $449 million grant will fund a pipeline that will connect the Glenn-Colusa Irrigation District Main Canal with the Tehama-Colusa Canal, called the Maxwell Water Intertie. Eventually, the waterway will be used to pipe runoff from the Sacramento River into the proposed 1.8-million acre-foot Sites Reservoir.
The Sites Reservoir is a proposed 13-mile lake about 10 miles west of Maxwell in Colusa County that would hold nearly 200 billion gallons of water diverted from the Sacramento River. The project has bipartisan support among California politicians and will help manage the large number of water that travels down to the San Francisco Bay from Far NorCal.
The water would be held in a large, desolate area and controlled by a brand new Golden Gate Dam, roughly two times the size of Folsom Dam. Here is a look at the proposed site for the reservoir:
The benefits of Sites Reservoir reach well-beyond water storage and flood management (although those benefits cannot be understated) with significant ramifications for Northern California wildlife. The reservoir's water will allow colder water to be stored higher north, like Lake Oroville and Shasta Lake, which should help future salmon runs. The area would also double as a wildlife habitat for migratory birds and other native wildlife. The project would help create another renewable energy source and provide regional and statewide jobs for Northern Californians.
The project was recently allocated nearly a billion dollars through Proposition 1, but will need roughly $5.2 billion to complete. The Sites reservoir could begin construction in 2022, with the reservoir projected to be operational in 2029.
Not everyone supports the Sites Reservoir. Conservation groups like the Sierra Club oppose the project, preferring conservation over water storage. Either way, these water storage projects might deter lawmakers from attempting to increase the size of the Shasta Dam, which we've publicly opposed.
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Former Wilton man pleads guilty, sentenced in robbery, escape case
By Donna M. Perry, Staff Writer
FARMINGTON — A former Wilton man pleaded guilty Friday to escaping from a jail van last year, stealing a woman's Jeep and assaulting a corrections officer.
Derek Cook, 32, pleaded guilty to a robbery charge, an escape charge, two charges of eluding an officer and a charge of assault on an officer in a Franklin County court.
His pleas stipulated that he is not guilty but thinks that if a jury believed the state's evidence, he would be found guilty.
Cook also pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of criminal mischief for damage done at the Franklin County jail.
Judge Nancy Carlson sentenced Cook to serve seven-and-a-half years of a 15-year sentence for robbery, followed by four years of probation. He was sentenced to serve seven-and-a-half years for escape, and five years each for eluding an officer and assault on an officer.
A conviction for robbery is punishable by up to 30 years in prison and a $50,000 fine.
The state dismissed seven charges in the negotiated plea agreement, including felony charges of burglary and theft.
Since his arrest, Cook has been serving time at a state prison in Warren on a probation violation related to a drug conviction.
Franklin County jail transport officer Cpl. Phillip Richards picked up Cook at the Androscoggin County Jail in Auburn on March 1, 2016, and was driving him and two other inmates to the Franklin County Detention Center in Farmington.
Assistant District Attorney Joshua Robbins said if the case had gone to trial, he would have presented testimony that when Cook swapped seats with a fellow inmate, Richards asked what was going on. Cook asked him to stop the van so he could relieve himself. Richards said no, but a short time later Richards noticed the sliding van door was open 6 to 8 inches.
Cook told Richards if he didn't stop the van he would jump. Richards stopped to shut the door near A-Tec Auto Service on Route 133 in Wilton. Cook jumped out and went to the edge of the woods and Richards ordered him back to the van several times. Cook had gotten one handcuff off and Richards used it to haul Cook back to the van, Robbins said.
According to a police affidavit, Cook took a handcuff key off Richards' duty belt as the two struggled near the van. Once in the vehicle Cook refused to give it back. With Cook trying to get out of the van, Richards sprayed him with an entire can of pepper spray but Cook used his free hand to cover his face.
Cook, who was wearing leg irons, pushed Richards down and slammed him into the side of the van and ran to a nearby residence. He broke down doors at the home to get to the woman who had been alerted by her daughter what was going on. Cook demanded keys to her Jeep and grabbed her and she told him where they were.
Cook drove off and led police from several agencies on a high-speed chase until he crashed the Jeep into a tree in Chesterville.
Richards was taken to a hospital for his injuries.
Carlson ordered Cook to pay $1,500 to the victims first, then $2,133.79 to Maine Municipal Association Worker's Compensation Fund and $335 to the Sheriff's Office.
Robbins said the victims were not necessarily supportive of the agreement but were understanding of it. They hope Cook gets the help he needs, he said. It was terribly terrorizing for the victim, he said.
Derek Cook
Derek Cook, 32, formerly of Wilton, pleaded guilty to escaping from a Franklin County jail van, robbing a woman of her Jeep and assaulting a corrections officer on March 1, 2016. Cook crashed the Jeep in Chesterville after leading police on a high-speed chase.
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Rupert Murdoch's newspaper The Australian misrepresented top scientist on climate change
Top physicist accuses The Australian newspaper of misrepresenting his climate change views Graham Readfearn 24 Sept 13 IN a column this week in The Australian, writer Gary Johns tried to argue that the science of human-caused climate change was "contentious", that climate change might not be that bad and that we shouldn't bother to cut down on emissions.
The Australian newspaper has a record for favouring climate science denialism and contrarianism above genuine expertise.
Columns and coverage like this come along in the pages of the Rupert Murdoch-owned press with such regularity that you might think [blush] that they've got some kind of an agenda. Honestly, you could really think that.
In the latest column – "Let's get realistic about reducing carbon emissions" – Johns writes approvingly of a project called the Nongovernmental Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) while finding disparaging remarks about the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Johns doesn't mention that the NIPCC is run by the fossil-fuel funded Heartland Institute in the United States, which advocates free market ideology within which businesses should be allowed to do pretty much whatever they like, such as using the atmosphere as a free waste dump.
But in one section of Johns' column, he quotes and paraphrases Professor Richard Muller, a respected American physicist who was once sceptical of human-caused climate change. As reported in The Guardian and elsewhere, a couple of years ago Muller led a team based at the University of California which analysed more than 14 million temperature readings from 44,455 measuring sites from around the world going back to the mid 18th century.
Professor Muller found the world had warmed by 1.5C in the last 50 years and that burning fossil fuels and other human industrial processes were "almost entirely" the cause. Continue reading →
September 25, 2013 Posted by Christina Macpherson | AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, media | Leave a comment
Only one Liberal Member of Parliament is clearly in favour of wind energy
Pollie Watch: Where do Coalition MPs stand on wind farms? Crikey September 24, 2013 by Leigh Ewbank Crikey has conducted a survey of sitting Coalition MPs on the issue of wind energy. The news service has found just one pro-wind energy MP in the government's ranks, Leichhardt's Warren Entsch. Reporter Andrew Crook notes: "It seems like Entsch is to wind as Julie Bishop is to women among senior Coalition ranks."
So what else did Crikey find? There are a few Coalition MPs 'on the fence', some who 'show promise', and several retired pro-wind energy Liberals:
In favour …
Warren Entsch
Entsch has gone in to bat for a wind farm proposed in his electorate. According to The Tablelander last month, he said the following on the Mt Emerald development: "The bottom line is Mt Emerald would bring a lot to this region in terms of attracting investment, stabilising escalating power prices and raising our profile as a leader in sustainable energy solutions … It is time to start dealing in facts and the fact is that wind generated power is a hugely viable, largely untapped resource in this area that would provide us with a stable, viable energy solution."
The Tablelander noted the area has the second highest wind resource in Australia: "Our electricity prices have doubled in the past five years and this figure will only continue to rise unless we look at reliable, practical and sensible power sources like wind, water and solar. It's not rocket science — locally generated power will stabilise costs, if not drive them down." Mr Entsch said claims noise from wind farms caused health problems were ''unsubstantiated".
On the fence …
Greg Hunt…….
Ian Macfarlane…….
If the Abbott government fails to adopt a pro-wind energy stance, it risks being out-of-step with mainstream community views.
All of the available public polling shows that three quarters of the community support more wind farms. The clean energy source is even highly popular among Coalition voters.
Warren Entsch and Malcolm Turnbull have shown political leadership on wind energy. Friends of the Earth hopes the Abbott government follow the lead of these sitting members.
http://yes2renewables.org/2013/09/24/pollie-watch-where-do-coalition-mps-stand-on-wind-farms/
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Safer to cover Fukushima nuclear plant with concrete than to remove melted fuel
Japan Expert: Cancel plans for trying to remove Fukushima melted fuel — Cover buildings with concrete instead (VIDEO) http://enenews.com/japan-expert-cancel-plans-trying-remove-fukushima-melted-fuel-cover-buildings-concrete-instead-video
Title: Jaczko, Johnson & Tsutsui, The Ongoing Fukushima Daiichi Crisis
Source: Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan
Tetsuro Tsutsui, Member of Nuclear Regulation Subcommittee, Citizens' Commission on Nuclear Energy (CCNE) Nuclear Power Plant Technical Experts' Group:
Plans for removal of debris should be cancelled. The current METI and Tepco road map says that the removal of the [melted fuel] debris will begin 8.5 years after the accident and be completed 20 to 25 years after the accident.
We propose the following alternative: The contaminated water problem should be resolved. Spent fuel in the spent fuel pools should be removed as planned. Then we propose that the water cooling of the damaged reactor cores should be continued until the decay heat is reduced sufficiently for natural air circulation. Subsequently, the equipment and building areas [slated?] for isolation should be covered with concrete.
Gregory Jaczko: The Ongoing Fukushima Daiichi Crisis 9/24/2013
This proposed method could avoid many uncertain difficulties which would arise in the METI/Tepco plan, including: Plugging an uncertain number of cracks in the pressure and containment vessels; The need to develop missiles to break up the blocks of debris and remove the pieces of debris; The extensive radioactive dose to workers; The huge financial expenses.
Watch the FCCJ event here
See also: Bloomberg: Tepco now in talks to cover Fukushima reactors with concrete for next 75 years — Officials reviewing plan in U.S.
Unprecedented international crisis at Fukushima requires international help
Japan Professors: "Problem of such unprecedented magnitude" at Fukushima — International consequences — Fuel rods melted through reactor floors? http://enenews.com/japan-professors-problem-of-such-unprecedented-magnitude-at-fukushima-international-consequences-fuel-rods-melted-through-reactor-floors
Thomas Snitch, Senior Professor of Science at Institute for Advanced Studies (United Nations University, Tokyo), ), Japan Times, Sept. 23, 2013: Let the world help at Fukushima No. 1 […] It would be useful if the government of Japan would avail themselves of the assistance and technology that could be provided by foreign corporations with experience in the decommissioning of nuclear plants. […] The consequences of the continued delay in addressing the real challenges at Fukushima have international consequences. So, why not allow the international nuclear community the opportunity to help?
Colin P. A. Jones is a professor at Doshisha Law School in Kyoto Japan Times, Sept. 17, 2013: : […] If anything called for a nation's government to quickly intervene actively on a massive scale and assume direct responsibility for a situation, it would be the crisis that continues to unfold 200 km from Tokyo. […] here we are 2½ years later, learning highly radioactive water has been leaking into the groundwater and the ocean and that storage tanks full of even more radioactive water are starting to fail. Surely it is a basic fact of life in nuclear power that fuel rods need to be kept cool whether sitting in a containment pool or melted through the reactor floor? The accumulation of radioactive water at the Fukushima plant was an utterly predictable problem almost from the day things first started to explode. Tepco gets a failing grade here for sure, but what about the people expecting a single company to deal with a problem of such unprecedented magnitude in the first place? […]
See also: BBC: Fukushima plant in "unprecedented crisis" and it's getting worse, says Japan nuclear official
USA medical association rejects uranium in situ leaching
The acceptance by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission that "the restoration of an ISL-mined aquifer to pre-mining water quality is … an impossibility."
"the loss of large volumes of water in such mining operations is not in the public interest" when "considering the projected future scarcity of uncontaminated fresh water in our semi-arid region."
SD medical association unanimously against uranium mining in Hills http://www.bhpioneer.com/local_news/article_833ccd96-2536-11e3-b6be-0019bb2963f4.html 24 Sept 13,
Group hopes to work with Colorado Medical Society, bring petition to AMA By Adam Hurlburt Black Hills Pioneer
CHAMBERLAIN — The South Dakota State Medical Association has come out in opposition of uranium mining in the Black Hills in direct response to Powertech USA's proposed in situ leach (ISL) uranium mining project in Fall River County, making it the second statewide medical association to publicly oppose uranium mining in response to a Powertech ISL uranium mining proposal in the past six years.
At a recent meeting held in Chamberlain, the SDSMA's 78-member Council of Physicians unanimously voted to support a petition opposing not only Powertech's proposed Dewey-Burdock ISL uranium mining project in the Southern Hills, but uranium mining of any type in the Black Hills Area.
"The vote was held after a careful and thoughtful discussion," SDSMA President Dr. Daniel Heinemann said in a prepared statement Monday afternoon. "The health and safety of the public is of paramount concern to the SDSMA when considering issues such as this." Continue reading →
At least Queensland government is now TALKING about renewable energy
Renewable Energy Options Discussed http://www.mysunshinecoast.com.au/articles/article-display/renewable-energy-options-discussed,31608#.UkN-kNJwonE
Energy Minister Mark McArdle is encouraging the development of new energy generating technologies that offer cost savings to electricity users.
Speaking today at the first annual OnSite Energy conference in Brisbane, Mr McArdle said an increasing number of solutions combining multiple technologies were entering the market.
"Emerging technologies have the potential, if implemented and managed correctly, to save electricity users money, address peak demand issues and defer the need to build network infrastructure," he said.
"Positive outcomes can be achieved through the grouping of multiple technologies and the Newman Government supports these technologies where they are commercially viable."
Mr McArdle said the three-day OnSite Energy conference would raise awareness of developing renewable energy sources. Continue reading →
September 25, 2013 Posted by Christina Macpherson | energy, Queensland | Leave a comment
Call for Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) to focus on renewable energy
Greenpeace Report Calls for Renewed Vigor in Asean's Renewable Energy Drive Jakarta Globe, By Ethan Harfenist September 24, 2013. Greenpeace Southeast Asia laid out an argument on Tuesday for a concerted push for renewable energy in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean), focusing on both the economic and environmental benefits of a greener power policy.
"The deteriorating climate should be Asean's top concern, given that the region is experiencing frequent and more intense extreme weather events due to climate change caused by carbon emissions," said Amalie H. Obusan, regional climate and energy campaigner for Greenpeace Southeast Asia.
Launched at the 31st Asean Ministers of Energy meeting in Bali, "Energy [R]evolution: A Sustainable Asean Energy Outlook" emphasizes the socio-economic advantages of pursuing renewables in a roadmap detailing how the regional group could safeguard its energy security.
"The Asean region, with its rapid pace of economic and population growth should play an important role in this global solution as the E[R] report clearly shows that a low carbon development path is possible," Obusan said.
The report said sustainable energy sources — such as wind, photovoltaics and geothermal energy — could comprise 70 percent of the region's total electricity generation by 2050. This is due in part to a "democratization of energy production," according to Greenpeace — access to solar panels could bring electricity to remote or deprived Southeast Asian communities currently unconnected to electricity grids.
The exploitation of green-energy sources across Asean could, the report said, result in $2.8 trillion worth of investment, $2.7 trillion in fuel-cost savings and 1.1 million jobs by 2030…….http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/news/greenpeace-report-calls-for-renewed-vigor-in-aseans-renewable-energy-drive/
Media trolls and spambots can powerfully deny science
(Ed Note: "trolls" – comments, put out in large numbers by a political lobby – can be by people paid to send them "Spambots" are computer generated messages – can be put out in thousands to swamp articles with supposedly genuine opinion comments by individual people)
Even a fractious minority wields enough power to skew a reader's perception of a story.
A politically motivated, decades-long war on expertise has eroded the popular consensus on a wide variety of scientifically validated topics. Everything, from evolution to the origins of climate change, is mistakenly up for grabs again.
Why We're Shutting Off Our Comments http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-09/why-were-shutting-our-comment
Starting today, PopularScience.com will no longer accept comments on new articles. Here's why.
Suzanne LaBarre
09.24.2013 Comments can be bad for science. That's why, here at PopularScience.com, we're shutting them off.
It wasn't a decision we made lightly. As the news arm of a 141-year-old science and technology magazine, we are as committed to fostering lively, intellectual debate as we are to spreading the word of science far and wide. The problem is when trolls and spambots overwhelm the former,diminishing our ability to do the latter.
That is not to suggest that we are the only website in the world that attracts vexing commenters.Far from it. Nor is it to suggest that all, or even close to all, of our commenters are shrill, boorish specimens of the lower internet phyla. We have many delightful, thought-provoking commenters.
But even a fractious minority wields enough power to skew a reader's perception of a story, recent research suggests. Continue reading →


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La classe Balao ha rappresentato una delle più grandi ed importanti tra le classi di sommergibili statunitensi della Seconda guerra mondiale, molto simili a quelli della precedente classe Gato. I battelli, il cui primo varo risale al giugno del 1942, differivano nelle sistemazioni interne, ma la differenza più significativa fu l'uso dell'acciaio ad alta resistenza che permetteva una maggiore profondità operativa che raggiunse 122 m nelle prove. Il capoclasse  è stato utilizzato nel noto film Operazione sottoveste, del 1959, diretto da Blake Edwards, dove, nella parte finale delle riprese, viene tinto di rosa. Il grande pubblico ha così potuto ammirare gli interni e l'elegante profilo di un sommergibile che resta tra più longevi della storia.

Costruzione

Furono centotrentadue i sommergibili di questa classe ordinati, ma per dieci di loro la costruzione venne cancellata a causa della fine della guerra. Nel dopoguerra tali vascelli sono rimasti in servizio per lungo tempo, aggiornati a vari standard chiamati GUPPY e basati sulle invenzioni tedesche della parte finale del conflitto. La propulsione era del tipo diesel elettrica con i motori diesel collegati ai motori elettrici a loro volta direttamente collegati agli assi delle eliche.

Nel dopoguerra i sommergibili classe Balao  e  vennero affondati nel corso degli esperimenti atomici dell'atollo di Bikini.

Cessione all'estero

Tantissime furono le unità cedute a marine di nazioni amiche, ben 18 delle quali nel corso degli anni alla Turchia.

Altre unità cedute hanno servito per l'Argentina, la Spagna, il Venezuela, il Cile, il Perù e l'Italia, nell'ambito del Mutual Defense Assistance Program.

  - Santa Fe (S-11) ex-USS MacabiSanta Fe (S-21) ex-USS CatfishSantiago del Estero (S-12) ex-USS LampreySantiago del Estero (S-22) ex-USS Chivo
  - Amazonas (S-16) ex-USS Greenfish Bahia (S-12) ex-USS PlaiceGoias (S-15) ex-USS TrumpetfishGuanabara (S-10) ex-USS DogfishRio Grande do Sul (S-11) ex-USS Sand Lance
  - HMCS Grilse ex-USS Burrfish
  - Thomson (SS-22) ex-USS SpringerSimpson (SS-21) ex-USS Spot
  - Hai Pao (parte della classe Hai Shih) ex-USS Tusk
  - Papanikolis (S-114) ex-USS HardheadTriaina (S-86) ex-USS Scabbardfish
  - Alfredo Cappellini  Evangelista Torricelli  Francesco Morosini
  - Walrus (S802)  ex-USS IcefishZeeleeuw (S803) ex-USS Hawkbill
  - BAP La Pedrera (SS-49) ex-USS Sea PoacherBAP Pacocha (SS-48) ex-USS Atule
  - Almirante García de los Reyes (S-31) ex-USS KrakenCosme García (S-34) ex-USS BangIsaac Peral (S-32) ex-USS RonquilNarcíso Monturiol (S-33) ex-USS PicudaNarcíso Monturiol (S-35) ex-USS Jallao
  - 1. İnönü (S-330) ex-USS Brill1. İnönü (S-346) ex-USS Threadfin2. İnönü (S-331) ex-USS Blueback2. İnönü (S-333) ex-USS CorporalBurakreis (S-335) EX-USS Sea FoxÇanakkale (S-333) ex-USS BumperÇanakkale (S-341) ex-USS CobblerDumlupınar (D-6) ex-USS BlowerDumlupınar (S-339) ex-USS CaimanGür (S-334) ex-USS ChubHızırreis (S-343) ex-USS MeroMuratreis (S-336) ex-USS RazorbackOruçreis (S-337) ex-USS PomfretPirireis (S-343) ex-USS MapiroPreveze (S-345) ex-USS EntemedorSakarya (S-332) ex-USS BoarfishTurgutreis (S-342) ex-USS Bergall
  - ARV Carite (S-11) ex-USS Tilefish ARV Tiburón (S-12) ex-USS Cubera

Le unità cedute agli argentini furono quattro. Le prime due unità entrarono in servizio nel 1960 e vennero ribattezzate ARA Santa Fe (S-11) e ARA Santiago del Estero (S-12). Nel 1971 furono sostituite con altre due unità Balao che furono ribattezzate anche queste ARA Santiago del Estero (S-22) e ARA Santa Fe (S-21). La prima di queste due unità andò in disarmo nel 1981, mentre la seconda andò perduta nel 1982 durante la guerra delle Malvinas.

Navi museo
Alcune unità sono state utilizzate dopo la loro radiazione come navi museo. Il sommergibile  è attraccato a San Francisco; il sommergibile  è attraccato a Pearl Harbor, nelle Hawaii con questa funzione dal 1979. Tra le unità cedute ai turchi il sommergibile USS Razorback (SS-394) che ceduto alla turca Türk Deniz Kuvvetleri nel 1971 e ribattezzato TGC Muratreìs, andato in disarmo nel 2002 è tornato negli Stati Uniti come nave museo a Little Rock, nell'Arkansas, ormeggiato lungo il fiume che attraversa la città.

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Voci correlate
 GUPPY
 Classe Gato
 Classe Tench
 Classe Tang

Altri progetti

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Chevy Racing–Ryan Newman–Phoenix
November 11, 2013 ARP Trish
RYAN NEWMAN, NO. 39 QUICKEN LOANS/SALUTE TO VETERANS DAY CHEVROLET SS, met with members of the media at Phoenix International Raceway and discussed memories at Phoenix, the 2014 season and other topics. FULL TRANSCRIPT:
WHAT IS YOUR FONDEST MEMORY OF RACING AT PHOENIX?
"I've been fortunate to be able to experience it and the old style or old shape of the race track and the way it is now. Some of my fondest memories include the Copper World Classics out here and the midgets and Silver Crown cars. That was our Daytona was to come out here the first of February and race and prepare in the off-season for our big race. That was literally our Daytona 500 in the open wheel series. Then to come back here 10 or 15 years later, whatever it was, to race in the Cup Series and have as many poles as I did here in a row and my win here would probably be the peak of it all because going back to the Copper World and having those poles, obviously you want to put the bookend on one side of it or at least a potential bookend and that was that victory in the Cup Series here. And to do it in the style that we did it was pretty cool too."
CAN YOU REFLECT YOUR STATE OF MIND LEAVING STEWART-HAAS RACING AND HEADING TO RICHARD CHILDRESS RACING NEXT SEASON?
"About four or five weeks ago somebody had asked me a similar question and to me, it was like a series of books where you're not finished with one book so you can't start the next and in that series of books you have to get the last couple chapters over and done in order to get started and understand the next one. There's part of me that's excited about the future, no doubt and getting to that next book, but there's part of me that wants to finish out these last couple chapters and do it strong and do it in the right way and we have two opportunities here being Phoenix and Homestead. Those are tracks I've run good at. I can't even say that it's bittersweet because I don't look at it as bittersweet as it is just a matter of doing my job and having fun. That's what the whole goal is."
HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT JEFF BURTON, MARK MARTIN AND BOBBY LABONTE POSSIBLY RETIRING AFTER THIS SEASON?
"I think with Mark (Martin), I don't know how to say that because Mark's retired like 16 times now. I guess if you look back at it, it was destined to come. If you look back to when Jimmie (Johnson) and I came in, eventually we're going to have that time too. Same thing with maybe (Matt) Kenseth and (Tony) Stewart and a few other guys. I think there's going to be some waves of that happening and I think that those guys are definitely proud of their careers and the things that they've accomplished. Someday I'll probably be making that same announcement. I think at this point in the season is where it all becomes kind of vocal."
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New Matilda policy portal archive
By CPD
Talkin' bout a revolution: the future of education
As has been widely reported Kevin Rudd and Stephen Smith have set out Labor's education policy priorities in their new directions paper, 'The Australian economy needs an education revolution'. Their title captures the report's key assumption: Investment in public education is primarily an economic imperative to make the Australian labour force more innovative and more productive. Kevin Rudd's recent speech to the Business Council of Australia was closed to media and the public, so all we know about it is that it was 'carefully non-confrontational', and may have 'softened' Beazley's line on AWAs. But if you want to get sense for how the ALP plans to cosy up to the business community this year, look no further than this paper, which seems to have been written with the same audience in mind.
The 'social dividends' that flow from educating the peeps are noted, but Rudd and Smith don't take their eye off the ball: an investment in education from early childhood to post-schooling is needed now, in order to ensure prosperity beyond the mineral boom. In a quick nod to that old humanist ideal that education policies might be about more than how best to increase GDP, Rudd and Smith argue that 'employees that become more productive enjoy higher rates of pay, and by working smarter, can enjoy a better work/life balance.'
There is of course a strong case for a renewed level of investment in public education after a decade of well-documented decline: more than half the costs of tertiary education are now met privately; and Australia is bucking OECD trends in reducing public educational expenditure per student. Education Minister Julie Bishop has gained a lot of political mileage by outflanking the ALP on its home turf (education) by talking about a decline in 'values'. Now the ALP is trying to outflank the Coalition on its home turf (the economy), on an issue that is perceived as one of its strengths (education). The question in all of linguistic manoeuvring is not whether investment in education is good for the economy (which it obviously is) but rather what is lost when we cease to argue for the value of education as a common good?
The ALP paper does not draw distinctions between different groups in Australian society and their relative educational and training needs. In this helpful overview of higher education equity research, Fran Ferrier summarises 12 reports released between 2000-2005. Ferrier's introduction brings the reader up to speed with higher education policies since the Dawkins reforms. Ferrier then provides a snapshot of each report's undertaking and findings. The studies that involved focus groups and interviews with participants promise the most insight into complex equity issues. A 2004 DEST study, for example, found that in rural areas girls were more likely to see their future lying in tertiary studies outside their communities, whereas boys saw a future in local trades and apprenticeships. And a small-scale 2002 Australian Association for Research in Education (AARA) study examined how academically ambitious secondary students from low socio-economic backgrounds negotiate relationships with their own peer group, teachers, and middle-class students. Links to the original reports are included.
The Brotherhood of St Laurence is currently engaged in a longitudinal study of the 'life chances' of children born in 1990 in inner-Melbourne. Think '7 Up' set in Fitzroy. This report examines research participants' level of engagement with school at 15. Case studies and interviews with parents fill out the finding that students from low-income families are less engaged than those from higher-income families. The importance of having teachers to talk to who are good at listening is emphasised. The report's authors make policy recommendations on how to intervene in vicious cycles of disengagement.
Where there's smoke there's….
While Victorian Premier Steve Bracks has warned that 'it's not over yet', debate about the devastation wrought by this season's bushfires so far is running hot. As at January 20, the Victorian fires had destroyed 1.08 million hectares. Earlier in the month Catherine Murphy of the National Association of Forest Industries decried this 'environmental catastrophe', which she attributes to the 'locking up' of forests. There are no less than four references to 'locked up' national parks in Murphy's short piece, published in response to Gavan McFadzean's opinion piece, which pointed out that '[national] parks are not "locked up" — they are managed as part of fire protection plans'. Murphy's contribution stresses the massive water needs associated with regenerating forests, as the drought deepens. McFadzean, who is a Wilderness Society Campaigner, is accused of soft science by Athol Hodgson from Forest Fire Victoria Inc, whose refutations draw, as do McFadzean's assertions, on the findings of the Esplin inquiry into the 2002-2003 Victorian fires. Hodgson describes DSE as 'dysfunctional', even though Esplin found ' no evidence of major systemic failure'. Victorians are often told to get used to bushfire season; we're all well used to seeing the same set of 'facts' mobilised to advance divergent causes. Meanwhile, other scientists insist it's not all bad: some forests like fire.
In December, the Australian Institute released this report into climate change and increasing fire risks, as summers get ever hotter and drier.
Wanted: Indigenous perspectives on Indigenous health
Public health researchers have concluded a review of more than 200 studies conducted into Indigenous health. Researchers Naomi Priest and Tamara Mackean make important findings on the shortcomings of an ostensibly extensive body of knowledge about the ill-health of Indigenous Australians.
Firstly, research is overwhelmingly concentrated in remote areas, while Indigenous people mostly live in urban and regional centres. Secondly, three quarters of the research focuses on physical health, with very little research into mental health and child health, for example. Furthermore, the researchers question the Western paradigms underpinning much of this health research, pointing out that most of the studies fail to 'disclose whether Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders were involved in the research process, other than as subjects'. Talking to AAP, Dr Mackean 'said it was vital Aboriginal perspectives were placed at the centre of all policy initiatives'.
The stupor-market's open late, and the main street's in decline, according to a researcher at the University of New England.
We look forward to: The Labor party debating a proposal to extend the right to maternity leave to two years, at its April national conference.
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package gedi.riboseq.javapipeline;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.function.Predicate;
import java.util.logging.Level;

import gedi.core.data.reads.AlignedReadsData;
import gedi.core.region.GenomicRegionStorage;
import gedi.core.region.ReferenceGenomicRegion;
import gedi.riboseq.cleavage.CleavageModelEstimator;
import gedi.riboseq.cleavage.RiboModel;
import gedi.util.ArrayUtils;
import gedi.util.datastructure.dataframe.DataFrame;
import gedi.util.io.randomaccess.PageFileWriter;
import gedi.util.io.text.LineOrientedFile;
import gedi.util.io.text.LineWriter;
import gedi.util.io.text.tsv.formats.Csv;
import gedi.util.program.GediProgram;
import gedi.util.program.GediProgramContext;
import gedi.util.r.RRunner;

public class PriceEstimateModel extends GediProgram {

	public PriceEstimateModel(PriceParameterSet params) {
		addInput(params.prefix);
		addInput(params.nthreads);
		addInput(params.maxPos);
		addInput(params.estimateData);
		addInput(params.repeats);
		addInput(params.seed);
		addInput(params.maxiter);
		addInput(params.plot);
		addInput(params.percond);
		addInput(params.reads);

		addOutput(params.model);
	}

	public String execute(GediProgramContext context) throws IOException {

		String prefix = getParameter(0);
		int nthreads = getIntParameter(1);
		File maxPos = getParameter(2);
		File estimateData = getParameter(3);
		int repeats = getIntParameter(4);
		long seed = getLongParameter(5);
		int maxiter = getIntParameter(6);
		boolean plot = getBooleanParameter(7);
		boolean percond = getBooleanParameter(8);
		GenomicRegionStorage<AlignedReadsData> reads = getParameter(9);

		DataFrame df = Csv.toDataFrame(maxPos.getPath(), true, 0, null);

		int[] pos = df.getIntegerColumn(0).getRaw().toIntArray();
		double[] sum = null;
		double[][] mat = new double[df.columns()-1][];
		for (int c=1; c<df.columns(); c++) {
			mat[c-1] = ArrayUtils.restrict(df.getDoubleColumn(c).getRaw().toDoubleArray(),ind->pos[ind]<=-10 && pos[ind]>=-17);
			sum = ArrayUtils.add(sum, mat[c-1]);
		}
		int[] posr = ArrayUtils.restrict(pos,ind->pos[ind]<=-10 && pos[ind]>=-17);

		int[] maxpos = new int[mat.length+1];
		for (int c=0; c<mat.length; c++) {
			maxpos[c] = -posr[ArrayUtils.argmax(mat[c])];
		}
		maxpos[maxpos.length-1] = -posr[ArrayUtils.argmax(sum)];

		String[] condNames = reads.getMetaDataConditions();

		CleavageModelEstimator em = new CleavageModelEstimator(null,reads,(Predicate<ReferenceGenomicRegion<AlignedReadsData>>)null);
		em.setProgress(context.getProgress());
		em.setSeed(seed);
		em.setMaxiter(maxiter);
		em.setRepeats(repeats);
		em.setMerge(!percond);
		em.readEstimateData(new LineOrientedFile(estimateData.getPath()));

		PageFileWriter model = new PageFileWriter(prefix+".model");

		if (percond)
			for (int cond=0; cond<mat.length; cond++)
				estimate(context,model,em,cond,condNames[cond],maxpos[cond],nthreads,plot,prefix);
		else
			estimate(context,model,em,-1,"Merged",maxpos[maxpos.length-1],nthreads,plot,prefix);

		model.close();

		return null;
	}

	private void estimate(GediProgramContext context, PageFileWriter model, CleavageModelEstimator em, int cond, String condName, int maxPos,int nthreads, boolean plot, String prefix) throws IOException {
		em.setMaxPos(maxPos);
		context.getLog().info("Using maxpos="+maxPos+" ("+condName+")");

		context.getLog().info("Estimate parameters");
		double ll = em.estimateBoth(Math.max(0, cond),nthreads);
		context.getLog().info(String.format("LL=%.6g",ll));
//		if (plot)
//			em.plotProbabilities(prefix,prefix+".png");

		RiboModel m = em.getModel();

		m.serialize(model);

		if (plot) {

			double[] pl = em.getModel().getPl();
			double[] pr = em.getModel().getPr();
			double u = em.getModel().getU();

			prefix = prefix+"."+condName;
			LineWriter out = new LineOrientedFile(prefix+".model.tsv").write();
			out.writeLine("Parameter\tPosition\tValue");
			for (int i=0; i<pl.length; i++)
				out.writef("Upstream\t%d\t%.7f\n", i, pl[i]);
			for (int i=0; i<pr.length; i++)
				out.writef("Downstream\t%d\t%.7f\n", i, pr[i]);
			out.writef("Untemplated addition\t0\t%.7f\n", u);
			out.close();

			try {
				context.getLog().info("Running R scripts for plotting");
				RRunner r = new RRunner(prefix+".ribomodel.R");
				r.set("prefix",prefix);
				r.addSource(getClass().getResourceAsStream("/resources/R/ribomodel.R"));
				r.run(true);
			} catch (Throwable e) {
				context.getLog().log(Level.SEVERE, "Could not plot!", e);
			}
		}

	}

}


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I Learn Something New Every Day
September 22, 2011 September 22, 2011 by Dan from Madison
I say "I learn something new every day" all the time. Because I do.
With skyrocketing fuel costs, I have begun to do research on more fuel efficient ways to deliver product to my customers. I live in a rural area, so we are forced to reach out and get the business. I work about a sixty mile radius.
I came upon the Ford Transit Connect. This is an interesting vehicle because of the relatively low initial cost and the 27 mpg on the highway. I did a bit of cocktail napkin math and this vehicle would pay for itself in fuel savings alone in about two years when comparing it against some of my gas guzzling diesel trucks.
While doing research on this vehicle, I discovered what the Chicken Tax was. I read about it on wiki.
To circumvent the 25% tariff on imported light trucks, Ford imports all Transit Connects as passenger vehicles with rear windows, rear seats and rear seatbelts.[9] The vehicles are exported from Turkey on cargo ships owned by Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics, arrive in Baltimore, and are converted into commercial vehicles at WWL Vehicle Services Americas Inc. facility: rear windows are replaced with metal panels and rear seats removed (except on wagons).[9] The removed parts are then recycled.[9] The process exploits a loophole in the customs definition of a commercial vehicle. As cargo does not need seats with seat belts or rear windows, presence of those items exempts the vehicle from commercial vehicle status. The conversion process costs Ford hundreds of dollars per van, but saves thousands over having to pay the chicken tax.[9] Partly because of this, only the long-wheelbase, high roof configuration is exported to North America. In most places, the high-roof Transit Connect, like most Ford Econoline vans, is unable to access multi-story parking because of its height (6′-6″).
I understand what was written, but was baffled as to why on earth a tariff on light trucks would be called a Chicken Tax.
I got curious, so I ran the wiki on the Chicken Tax.
The Chicken tax was a 25% tariff on potato starch, dextrin, brandy, and light trucks imposed in 1963 by the United States under President Lyndon B. Johnson as a response to tariffs placed by France and West Germany on importation of U.S. chicken.[1] The period from 1961–1964[2] of tensions and negotiations surrounding the issue, which took place at the height of Cold War politics, was known as the "Chicken War".[3]
Eventually, the tariffs on potato starch, dextrin, and brandy were lifted,[4] but over the next 48 years the light truck tax ossified, remaining in place to protect U.S. domestic automakers from foreign light truck production (e.g., from Japan and Thailand).[5] Though concern remains about its repeal,[6][7] a 2003 Cato Institute study called the tariff "a policy in search of a rationale."[4]
As an unintended consequence, several importers of light trucks have circumvented the tariff via loopholes—including Ford (ostensibly a company the tax was designed to protect), which currently imports the Transit Connect light trucks as "passenger vehicles" to the U.S. from Turkey and immediately shreds portions of their interiors in a warehouse outside Baltimore.[1]
I guess there is no real point of this post, other than to point out that yesterday's thing that I learned was an interesting one. I now know what the Chicken War is, and also know what the Chicken Tax is.
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Toyota was doing a similar thing with thier light pickups (until they started making them here) – they would come over without the rear bed and it was installed here – don't know how that circumvented the tax but it did. You see those transit vans out here (CA) a lot – I thought it looked European – so many really interesting Fords we never see….
Lots of Mercedes-Benz Sprinter vans out here too – have a friend – a plumber – who has one and loved it – he hauls 1000s of lbs of work tools and supplies – still gets 20+ mpg Old truck – an old U Haul van – got 8
Bi;;
Dan from Madison
I am looking at the Benz as well.
Brandoch Daha
What's remarkable to me is that it's apparently more cost-effective to van parts in an industrial shredder in Baltimore than it is to ship them back to Turkey to be bolted into another van.
I wonder if Turkish tariffs have anything to do with that.
Or perhaps installing "used parts" would run afoul of something in our own tariff laws.
Brandoch – I thought about that too. It can't be more than the cost of freight to send the seats back a container or two at a time, it must be a violation of the loophole. Silly.
Dan – they come in various wheelbases and rear end gear ratios – study a bit what you might want and don't let the salesmen steer you to what they have at the moment – my friend had to wait a bit to get the rear end ratio he felt he needed (given the amt he hauls) but it was well worth it – that diesel is amazing.
Also don't forget Freightliner dealers – owned by Daimler – they are sold under the Freightliner badge as well.
Used to be sold under the Dodge badge too.
Paul Milenkovic
Disclosure: My father retired from Ford, and I purchased Ford stock back when it was $2.50/share and everyone thought that all the U.S. auto companies were going into receivership.
We talk about the U.S. auto companies and the burden of UAW wage rates and pensions or of union wages and pensions in general. As an Engineeering Mechanics PhD research engineer who had developed the pioneering Versatran robot at AMF in the early '60's and worked on robotic linkages and robotic motion control at Ford in the 70's and 80's, Poppa too was part of the "auto industry legacy cost problem" in receiving a defined-benefit pension and retirement health benefits. He was non-union, but his benefits were related to the deal negotiated by the union — as my Momma told me, you had better believe your salaried-employee compensation and benefits are tied to the union — how can you get a person to sweat through umpteen years of Engineering graduate school if a dude on the assembly line with a high school credential has better benefits?
I told my sibs to "keep their eyes on that Alan Mulally fellow" to which they replied, "Alan, who?" But Mr. Mulally has done a lot of things.
One thing he did was uncermoniously dump Poppa off the generous Medicare Supplement insurance he was on and hint very strongly that Ford retirees should advantage of Medicare Advantage. Let me tell you, smart move President Mulally because Medicare Advantage was a sweet deal for Poppa, and a sweet deal for Ford shareholders, or at least it was a sweet deal until Mr. Obama pretty much ended it by raiding Medicare for Health Care Reform.
The other thing Mr. Mulally does (an a whole cast of people helping him — the auto industry has a tradition of the guy-in-charge-getting-all-the-credit) is that Transit Connect. Toyota and Honda build cars with non-UAW labor here in the good-old U.S.A.. Ford builds cars with non-UAW labor in Mexico and Turkey, and to the credit of whatever management boojum this requires — keeping peace with the UAW stateside, getting good quality cars out of the foreign plants, which was not the case with the 1970's and early '80's Ford imports. Think of it, a Honda is a Japanese care built in Ohio, a Ford Fusion is a U.S. car build in Mexico, a Transit Connect is a U.S. truck built in Turkey. If it weren't for legacy costs like my Poppa, Ford would be swimming in money right now.
The other thing, though, is that over at Hot Air they are calling attention to one of those Ford, Drive One ads with the surprise press conference, where the Ford F-150 truck owner is saying how he would not purchase the Brand-X pickup tied to the "government bail-out." You know, I share the sentiment — I think that GM has some neat high gas mileage vehicles (the Cruze people, the Cruze — don't think I am stupid enough to buy a Volt), but I don't have good vibes about buying a GM product in the current state of affairs.
But Ford being a non-bailout auto company? I remember that Mr. Mulally, besides relying on Medicare Advantage to save the company, was part of the Gang of Four (three auto execs plus Ron Gettlefinger) petitioning Congress for the bailout. Ford only got by without the bailout by the skin of their teeth — the stock was priced below $2 at one point for a reason. Alan Mulally was there hat in hand, expressing the view that whereas he thought Ford could get by without a bailout, Ford was toast if their suppliers melted down on account of what happened to GM and Chrysler.
Again, I can say "Oh, I am buying a Ford because they didn't get a bailout", but this may not be a properly political and diplomatic move for Ford to say this.
As to the Chicken Tax, do you suppose it is still in place, not because of bureaucratic inertia, but because that was part of an implicit social bargain with the UAW, both at the automaker level and at the Michigan Congressional Delegation level? Maybe the Chicken Tax and the hoops Ford has to go through to get you your Transit Connect panel truck is something that maintains the peace with the UAW?
Yeah, yeah, unions and especially the UAW are Evil and are getting everything they deserve, blah, blah, and so on. But what I am saying is that "everything is an interconnected system of social trust" — someone on a Right Blogosphere used the example of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier flight deck, something that other cultures on this planet don't quite have the wherewithal to pull off. The network of social trust — that everyone will stay at their post and honor their promises is what keeps sailors from being blown off the carrier deck into the sea, and this was used as a criticism of Mr. Obama for blowing off bondholders in the Chrysler bailout deal (wasn't it a teacher's pension fund in Indiana who took it on the chin to satisfy Mr. Obama's vanity)?
No, unions aren't some kind of inalienable human right, but unions and union contracts and the Chicken Tax are part of the network of social trust and social trading of "you can have this if I can keep that." Just as Mr. Obama's stiffing the Chrysler bondholders cut into that social trust, the union busting of some mid-state Governors, however right-minded and necessary it may be, has a similar effect. It doesn't affect just union people, it affects a senior research librarian at a public university whose efforts supports more serious scholarship than I have space to describe here, it affects a Pakistani immigrant who publishes 10 research a year in the area of wireless communication so vital to U.S. competitiveness and pulls in millions of dollars in research funding to support an army of STEM graduate students, it affects a whole bunch of things.
I heard good things about the Transit Connect, but whatever truck you select, I wish your business prosperity.
Anon – thanks very much for that tip.
Paul Milenkovic – I will leave your comment this time, but in the future, boil it down. Alternately, get off the keyboard and get some exercise. I sincerely believe you have a lot to offer here, but focus, please.
I think the Sprinter is being marketed in the US as a Freightliner. Fed Ex has bought a lot of them.
TMLutas
I get a vision of some DC bureaucrat emerging from his office like an Imperial Japanese Marine coming out of a cave in 1954 except the DC bureaucrat still hasn't surrendered in the Chicken War. We are not as rich as we could be because we destroy value. In this case, we make car parts, assemble them in Turkey, and dispose of them once they've gotten the vehicle past the customs man, recovering only scrap value. And we wonder why we can't afford certain things without going into debt.
Robert – they are also marketed under Freightliner. When Daimler owned Chrysler, they were marketed under the Dodge name – and Freightliner (also owned by Daimler). When they sold Chrysler, no more Sprinters marketed under the Dodge badge.
Funny thing – on a related subject – Mercedes dealers will now offer the Smart Car – I think Penske divested himself of this brand – but the Smart was designed by Daimler as well.
"I get a vision of some DC bureaucrat emerging from his office like an Imperial Japanese Marine coming out of a cave in 1954 except the DC bureaucrat still hasn't surrendered in the Chicken War." – very funny!
tomw
I had forgotten this. While traveling to CA for grandparent stuff in December 2010, we stopped in AZ early in the evening to water the dog and so on. When we went back to the car, parked alongside was a van & trailer, both painted to match{dark blue}, with all emblems, badges, and markings either blacked out or taped over.
I looked and determined it was a FoMoCo vehicle based upon the oval blackout on the grill and interior 'style'.
If you can imagine a Transit fed growth hormone while in gestation, complete with tapering body panels, a smaller cross-section at the cab expanding to a larger cargo-van body, you will have a picture of what I think is the next Econoline. Maybe.
The vehicle seemed to be designed to carry the loads of the E350 series, with a much smaller and lower to the ground design.
Maybe even on the market already… I haven't been keeping close track of models of late.


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Detainee Allies is a grassroots organization created by neighbors who felt the need to take action on the injustices they were seeing being done to people trying to immigrate to the U.S. They began locally, realizing that they were only twenty miles away from one of the most controversial borders, the San Diego and Tijuana border. Near the border was the Otay Mesa Detention Center. They chose to write letters to people being detained in Otay Mesa and received responses from people who were grateful to hear that someone outside the detention center was thinking about them. The letters quickly started flooding in and expanded to other detention centers. The content in these letters encouraged them to take a stance against the inhuman treatment of people in detention centers. They denounce the criminalization of asylum seekers and refugees that are put behind bars once they arrived in the United States and the disrespect of basic human rights. This non-profit uses letters to reach out to people in detention centers. They communicate directly with them and allow them to share their story in order to create accurate narratives available for the public. They are putting the human at the center of their mission.
We have been working with them for ten weeks now. We decided to help them to communicate their message through our project to raise awareness and bring more people onboard. We wanted to highlight the refugee voices but before doing that we needed to present the organization for our audience to understand their actions and values. Thus, for our project, we created two videos. The first one is presenting this grassroot organization through images of monday meetings, letters and an interview with Joanna. The second video is aimed to be the first one of a series. It is a poetic reading of one letter. We picked a letter written by a Mexican mother detained. These videos are made for Detainee Allies' social media. We really wanted to promote their actions through a video as it is the medium we found the more compelling.
For more information visit: http://www.detaineeallies.org/
Video 1: Introduction to Detainee Allies
After speaking with Joanna, Jennifer and Kate, the three leads and co-founders of Detainee Allies, they pretty much gave us free rein for our video projects. We did research on their website and found that it lacked a section that explicitly explained who is Detainee Allies and what exactly they are trying to achieve. We decided this was a great direction to head in for one of our videos. We created a video that depicted how Detainee Allies was formed, what their purpose is, what they do and who is involved. We did this by interviewing one of the Co-founders of the organization about the mission of Detainee Allies. We filmed a short interview with Jennifer and captured her voice describing the desire in wanting to help and how they eventually got to writing letters. We took images of the border to represent how the organization got started in the first place. We also took images from the Monday meetings to show the behind the scenes of this work. During these meetings, letters are opened, read, sent, and detainees are sent money from funds that are raised by the organization. All of this is done at the dinner table of a Detainee Allies' home. We felt it was important to show all these aspects in order to show that this organization is a grassroots startup by ordinary people who just wanted to do something to help those who have been put in detention centers.
Video 2: Letter From a Detained Mexican Mother
The second video is the first of a series of videos that we hope will follow this one. In this video, a letter from a mother who is being detained is read aloud. This is only one of the many letters that Detainee Allies receives. The reading of the letter is paired with images from the San Diego and Tijuana border. We used portions of the letter that would encapsulate the tone and message of the original letter. In this letter we learn a lot about a mother who fled her country as a means of survival, to escape an abusive relationship. She raised her daughter in San Diego and lived here for years. This letter shows clear desperation from a mother, who has been separated from her daughter because she is being detained. Unfortunately, family separation is a common theme that is seen in many of the letters Detainee Allies receives, as well as the desperation and plea for help that is seen in this letter.
We chose a letter that was written in Spanish because a large portion of these letters is written in languages other than English. Spanish is one of the more commonly seen languages that people in the detention centers write. We translated the letter into English and provided English subtitles in order to make the video more accessible to a broader audience. The intention behind this video and this series all together is to amplify the voices of these people who are being detained. We hope to make them visible as human beings and give them the complex personhood that is not offered to them in the common immigrant narrative.
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