So in the world of solar there's various different price structures. There's cell prices, there's module prices, and then there's total system prices. The cells are the little bits that go into a solar panel. The module is the solar panel itself. And the system is the complete array of modules that's been racked, packed, and assembled.
In business, the best way to get the lowest prices is to do things en masse. The largest, most efficient solar assembly plants in China and Southeast Asia now produce solar cells for as little as 20 cents per watt. As of June 28th, solar modules from this region were going for as little as 33 cents per watt.
Low to very low solar cell and module prices are helping to enable a mass global construction of clean energy producing solar power stations that are either competitive with other fuels — or that just basically blow them away when it comes to price. And such high volumes of renewable energy construction around the world are providing some hope that humankind will be able to stave off the worst impacts of fossil-fuel spurred climate change. A greenhouse gas based of warming airs and waters that is already threatening keys species, putting Australia's Great Barrier Reef in an existential crisis, and endangering the future of thousands of coastal cities as melting glaciers start to flood the world's oceans.
In the U.S., solar power stations now average about $1.10 cents per watt once all the cost of labor and construction is added in. For most instances, this price is competitive with highly polluting power stations like gas and coal. It's about half the cost of nuclear energy. And solar prices are now also dipping below the price of new wind energy (which is also falling).
In other regions of the world, solar energy is even less expensive. In the UK, Egypt, Mexico, China, and India, the cost of building a solar power plant is now $1.00 or less. A price which is now lower than the cost of a new advanced coal or gas power station. India, which boasts the least expensive construction costs for solar, can now build a renewable energy station for about 60 to 70 percent of the price of a comparable coal or gas plant at 65 cents per watt.
In this global economy, solar is now becoming cheaper than any other traditional source. It is also far cleaner than the other sources with the possible exception of wind. Solar has, by reducing costs so precipitously and by increasing access, become a game-changer both for the global energy market and for humankind's prospects for reducing the considerable damage caused by fossil fuel based greenhouse gas emissions.
Enter Suniva, which is one of the world's less efficient solar manufacturers. Based in the U.S., but majority owned by China, Suniva was unable to compete in a global market that produced solar cells for such low cost and high availability. This year, the firm filed for bankruptcy. The firm was unable to compete despite tariffs that the U.S. had already imposed on some solar panel importers. A set of tariffs that have already helped to make the U.S. solar market more expensive than other comparable markets. Tariffs that have arguably slowed U.S. solar adoption rates while doing little to actually protect less competitive manufacturers that would probably have eventually failed anyway.
The tariffs were, however, set in response to a legitimate gripe. Subsidies by China had probably created an unfair advantage for Chinese solar panel manufacturers. And these subsidies likely continue to generate advantages for such manufacturers in both China and in Southeast Asia. Subsidies that, in part, probably sped along Suniva's bankruptcy and the approximate loss of 1.200 U.S. solar manufacturing jobs.
Suniva's response, however, is pretty overblown. One that threatens much of the solar market as it presently stands in the U.S. The corporation is asking for a $.40 floor on imported solar cell prices — which is basically double that of the lowest cost solar cell presently on the market. The company is also asking for a $.78 cent floor on import module prices — which is 45 cents higher than current lowest module spot prices. Such added costs would ripple through the U.S. solar production chain and would probably result in plant prices that range from $1.34 to $1.89 per watt. The reason is that the U.S. panel market is considerably dependent on imports and presently has few manufacturing plants that can produce cells and modules for prices low enough to prevent a big jump in industry-wide costs if Suniva gets its way.
Such a jump in prices would result in considerable harm to the various solar companies that buy solar modules and build power plants, commercial and non residential systems by destroying a good deal of the present and rising solar demand in the U.S. This particular industry is now quite large and recent research by GTM indicates that as much as 66 percent of new construction could be halted if Suniva is allowed to so considerably distort the U.S. market. Ultimately, this risks the loss of thousands of jobs (not just the few hundred that have been lost in the manufacturing sector)– as much as 88,000 if the recent report by SEIA is correct.
So what's the upshot? If Suniva's suit goes through, it's a big blow to both U.S. competitiveness and to our national responses to climate change. Chinese subsidies may, indeed, be distorting markets. But the solution that Suniva presents is basically to recommend drinking a hemlock that would kill off a big segment of the U.S. market while doing little to actually support U.S. solar manufacturing. Some jobs may trickle back as manufacturers try to meet the demand of a much reduced U.S. market. But the rest of the world will move on as incentives for U.S. manufacturers to improve dry up and as the home market itself contracts.
For the flip side of Chinese subsidies is that they not only subsidize Chinese solar manufacturing capacity, they also serve to advance a global energy transition through the mechanisms of direct investment and scaling. And there are so many larger benefits that the U.S. can take from the reduced pollution, increased secondary markets, increased competition, energy independence, and reduction of climate change based harms that are resulting from this major investment. The correct response is to meet investment and innovation with the same if we wish to reasonably compete. But the present federal administration appears to have completely lost sight of a better American future as it fights to regain the distorted ideal of an imagined past greatness.
Which is why Suniva's ITC suit, in its present form, is at best short-sighted and at worst both selfish and broadly destructive.
Binders and fact checks and smears oh my!
Last night's Presidential debate, round #2 of 3, was nothing like the first. A fiery and compassionate Obama took firm command of the forum from the start and, with few exceptions, dominated the debate with clarity and candor. In direct contrast, Mitt Romney seemed lost in a tangle of the misinformation web he'd spun for himself.
Obama set the tone by immediately calling Romney out for his 47% remarks, illustrating clearly that character is what you are in the dark or, in this case, what you are in a locked room full of millionaires and billionaires. He also returned frequently to the subject of outsourcing, rightly labeling Romney an 'outsourcing pioneer' and alluding to the offshoring activities Romney first innovated at Bain Capital. Activities the company Romney founded is continuing to implement (see Sensata).
Obama also was quick to hold Romney accountable for the tax policy his campaign website says he's running to implement. During the debate, Romney frequently denied the assertion that his tax cut would cut rates for top earners. Almost as frequently, he said that he wants to lower rates on the middle class. These debate 'faux pas' (nice word for lies) directly contradict information put out by his own campaign which still states Romney seeks an across the board 20% tax cut, including a very large and lucrative cut for top earners and very small and piddly cuts for the middle class.
In perhaps the most bizarre exchange of the night, Romney, when asked about how he would help women gain a more equal footing in the workplace, hearkened back to a time when his management team had no women. In his, disproven by facts, anecdote, Romney claimed he produced a 'binder full of women' from which to select female candidates for positions in the management staff which, Romney admitted, was largely composed of men. Reaction to this comment from women has been shrill and this particular Romneyism seemed to especially grate against the sensibilities of most women who rightly felt subtly insulted and objectified.
What is interesting to note about this particular Mitt-tale is the fact that the 'binder' he refers to was produced by a political organization called Mass-GAP which noted the dearth of women holding leadership positions in Massachusetts. So Romney wasn't responsible for the recommendations of these women, it was produced by a political organization concerned about the lack of women in leadership. However, to Romney's credit, he did appoint women from the Mass-GAP list so that fully 42% of the positions held at the start of his administration were women filled. But the story doesn't end here. Romney apparently only filled positions which he thought were unimportant with people from the Mass-GAP program. In addition, the number of women holding positions within Massachusetts government, overall, declined by 3% during the time that Romney served. Hardly a stunning record of someone attempting to appear to care for women's jobs.
What was most glaring, however, was his failure to mention the Fair Pay Act and, instead, rely on a mostly untrue and bumbling anecdote. I would venture a guess that women aren't as concerned about a President picking women from a binder for cabinet positions as they are about equal access to jobs and access to a fair compensation at work. And though representation in the cabinet is important (Obama has appointed many women to these positions including political rival Hillary), what is more important is that those visible values fill out in larger society.
Obama noted he supported The Fair Pay Act and spoke for minutes passionately about the role of women in all aspects of American life. No binders. Just policies to help women. Even more importantly, Obama alluded to women's rights which would likely come under fire during a Romney Administration. Two Supreme Court justices and a VP nominee who has lead a crusade in Congress to overturn Roe could very well spell an end to women's reproductive rights in our country. In addition, Obama pointed out that Romney's past statements about 'ending Planned Parenthood' was another assault on women's freedoms and access to family planning services. To this point Obama rightly noted that it's not just about women, it's about families too, a point that appeared lost on Romney.
Perhaps the most poignant event in the debate occurred when Romney began to assert that Obama had failed to identify the Libya attacks as a terrorist incident. This line of attack follows the presumptuous rhetoric that republicans and Romney have followed ever since the Benghazi Consulate was over-run. The day after the attacks, Romney held a press conference accusing the Obama administration of 'failures.' This political capitalism has also included a number of, rather fake, teary eyed speeches about those lost in the attacks. Romney's overplaying of these speeches has lead family members of deceased security and diplomatic personnel to publicly ask Romney to stop using their family members deaths as political props. And though Romney appears to have toned down the rhetoric on diplomatic service member's deaths, he has continued to presume that the Obama Administration is entirely responsible and at fault for these attacks, making bald and outrageous assertions before any evidence is produced.
And it is, this smarmy politicking over the deaths of Americans, this failure to stand behind American government's effort to get to the bottom of the terrorist attacks, and the blatant betrayal of US forces by a party who only seems to care about political gain. But Romney continued up this dark path of demonization and unsupported claims. In his, not the first, allusion to misinformation produced by Fox News, Romney glommed onto the false claim that the Obama Administration didn't recognize the Benghazi incident as a terrorist attack until two weeks afterward.
In reply to this skewed claim, Obama noted that he held a speech in the Rose Garden about the attacks, claiming that he stated 'no act of terror would go unpunished.' Romney refuted the President directly, saying the President said no such thing. Crowley, who appeared to be well prepared to deal with the issues in this debate, had a transcript of the President's speech on hand and confirmed, to audience applause, that the President had indeed said what he claimed and that Romney was making an incorrect assertion.
But the malarkey reached a new level of ugliness when Romney began to make up stories about diplomatic security forces in Benghazi and official US response to attacks there. His self-serving rhetoric directly harmed the families involved even as it undermined ongoing government efforts to determine the attacks' cause, reduce risk of future attacks, and care for the bereaved families of those who were lost. Further, republican efforts to de-fund diplomatic security were entirely off the radar as Romney and republicans used every trick in their attempt to turn the Benghazi attacks into a political silver bullet aimed at the President.
This 'ugly lie' grew and took a life of its own. Endlessly parroted by right wing outlets, the political right engaged in a war of words to degrade and denigrate US diplomatic forces. And this act and abetment by a politician running for the highest political office in the land is unforgivable.
What we witnessed last night was the unraveling of that extraordinarily damaging lie. This event is likely to send deep fractures through the Romney campaign, through the republican party itself, and to those billionaires, like the Kochs and the Murdochs, who have done so much harm to the American people. It is not the end to their 'Castle in the Sand' empires, but it may well be a sign of the start of their disintegration. (The final blows will come from the rising tide of climate change itself, but that is a subject for another article).
At the end of a debate that, often, seemed to balance on the edge of a knife, Obama reclaimed his oratory eloquence to deliver this impassioned final appeal to the American people.
Barry, I think a lot of this campaign, maybe over the last four years, has been devoted to this nation that I think government creates jobs, that that somehow is the answer.
And — and that is part of what's at stake in this election. There's a fundamentally different vision about how we move our country forward.
During an arguably well-delivered speech at the Republican National Convention, Romney, unfortunately, served up a number of glaring whoppers. The first was his making light of an increasingly real, damaging, and dangerous climate crisis. This bald denial of an event affecting farmers all throughout the heartland was just the first of many statements that don't quite jibe with facts, reality, or even decency.
Unfortunately for both Romney and the rest of us, Romney's climate change denial was only his first fault. His second error had to deal with, not making light of a serious problem that needs addressing, but with attempting to do nothing and take credit for the hard work of others. In his speech, Romney claimed that his administration would create 12 million jobs. On its face, it sounds like an ambitious plan. But let's take a little time to analyze this promise.
The sad, sorry, rough truth is that world economic conditions aren't so hot when it comes to jobs. We have a number of powerful corporations ranging the globe searching for ever-more-productive workers for an ever-decreasing relative wage. The net effect of this endless flight to lower paying jobs is a world-wide pressure on all middle class and, for that matter, living wage jobs. Pervasive corporate worker exploitation on a global scale has made it increasingly difficult for people to find decent-paying jobs since the 1980s.
This growing jobs crisis reached a boiling point during the great recession when states began to adopt austerity programs. These programs drastically cut the number of decent-paying government jobs available. Now workers were faced with the tough reality that even governments weren't likely to provide nearly as much in the way of worthwhile work. Austerity resulted in a geological shift in the employment market that drastically reduced the pool of living wage jobs. And it is, perhaps, ironic to note that the same corporations and political forces pushing lower wage market jobs were the same forces pushing for austerity in many countries, including the US.
The net result is that economic prospects, unless you're the modern version of a robber-baron, aren't so hot globally.
The US has been somewhat insulated to this hard reality through the efforts of President Obama. He pushed a stimulus program that was vital in reducing jobs losses and in restoring the opportunity for job creation. He has recoiled against republican efforts to force austerity on the United States. As such, he has preserved many well-paying jobs that would otherwise have been cut. However, since republicans dominate the House of Representatives and hold most US Governor's seats, they have been successful in cutting public service rolls at the state and federal level. Less firefighters, teachers, researchers, police officers, and scientists means less decent-paying jobs available. A college graduate with a science degree might be forced, instead, to take a minimum wage, bad benefits job at Staples, for example.
But despite these political pressures and the predatory corporate practices resulting in an extremely adverse world jobs climate, Obama has managed to push through a number of policies that stabilized the US jobs situation. His first efforts stopped jobs losses at the rate of 750,000 per month during the last days of Bush. And his next efforts began the hard work of creating new jobs in an extremely adverse political and economic climate. These efforts resulted in a .84% increase in jobs so far throughout his administration. This increase, ironically, is equal to the percent of US jobs lost under Bush's second term. It is more than the jobs created under Bush's first term. It is also more than the number of jobs created under Bush senior or even the number of jobs created during the second term of Eisenhower.
After the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression and in the current terrible world jobs climate, this work amounts to serious heavy lifting. But looking forward, the real benefit of Obama's jobs policies becomes even clearer. According to a recent report by Moody's Analytics, over the next four years 12 million jobs will be created in the US. This is the more positive jobs climate Obama worked so hard to establish. And even if no further policy measures are implemented to create jobs, according to Moody's, those 12 million jobs will be there.
And this, at last, brings us to Romney. It seems that climate change isn't the only thing he and his fellow republicans are in denial of. It appears he's in denial of the plain fact that Obama's job creation policies actually worked. But his denial isn't so deep as to disallow a cynical attempt to steal credit for the Obama Administration's successes. This action is similar to that of a middle level corporate manager who waits for an enterprising employee to make a breakthrough and, essentially, steals his idea. So we can see where Romney's corporate experience is starting to 'shine through' during this election process. But stealing an idea from a standing President isn't so easy as from a victimized employee. The facts, as we have noted, are plainly visible for all should they care enough to look.
As for Romney's so-called jobs 'policy?' According to fact checkers it is nothing short of a vague list of notions that don't amount to any solid position at all. Nothing more than advertising and posturing mascaraing as serious political action. The Romney paper was so lacking in substance that analytic organizations had no means to score it for potential jobs created or lost. In short, it's a puff paper.
So what, in the end, is Romney's jobs policy?
Do nothing. Set America adrift. Take credit for other people's work.
Why Would Congress Cut a $1.6 Billion Dollar Subsidy to Wind and Still Subsidize Oil to the Tune of $40 Billion?
It seems that every year or so a matter of national urgency comes up for debate in Congress: a rather inexpensive incentive for the critical wind industry called the production tax credit. This incentive aids an industry that creates tens of thousands of US jobs even as it helps to mitigate the ongoing climate change crisis currently impacting the United States.
In all, the production tax credit cost the US government $1.6 billion last year. It paid that money back tenfold in new jobs created and in carbon emissions prevented. In short, this small sum is helping to solve the climate change crisis that this year may cost America as much as $100 billion from combined drought and other extreme weather damages even as it helps to solve our economic crisis.
Often, wind opponents argue that if wind must receive subsidies to expand, then it is not economically viable. But considering the fact that all major energy sources receive a degree of subsidies and incentives, this argument is, in itself, nonsensical.
Oil, for example, is a major beneficiary of US subsidies. And, for years, it has operated under the illusion of being an 'economic energy source.' Now, a decade of high prices has made a mockery of this claim. And over the same period, more than $40 billion has been spent in subsidies and incentives for this dirty, dangerous, and depleting oil. But high oil prices have managed to ensure one thing: that oil companies themselves end up making record profits. In this case, shoveling money at already highly profitable oil is like shoveling more fuel onto a climate change fire. Onto a depleting energy source that is bound to cost more and more as the years wear on. In essence, we are spending taxpayer money to damage our economy while simultaneously enriching the companies that do so.
Republicans in Congress, who seem determined to kill this tax credit for the wind industry should think on the job losses, and the further damage to America via the vehicle of climate change, such a repeal would cause. They should think on their often hollow claims of reverence to the spirit of freedom. One they are allowing the oil barons to crush through the force of political and market dominance. These same republicans have often given lip-service to job creation. Now they have a chance to allow an actual job creation measure to pass. Given past performance, one is not too hopeful this will occur. But should they block the production tax credit, they should pay for their failure. For they would harm America's energy security, her ability to create jobs, and the climate security which is vital to maintaining her Agricultural prominence.


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WASHINGTON — On Sept. 29, US Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced $3 billion in investments aimed directly at "urgent challenges facing agriculture today," as part of his work as co-chair of the President's Supply Chain Disruptions Task Force.
Of that total, $500 million was specified to be distributed by the Commodity Credit Corp. in ways relieve near-term obstacles related to the marketing and distribution of commodities from increased transportation challenges, scarcity and the rising costs of materials.
"American agriculture currently faces unprecedented challenges on multiple fronts," Mr. Vilsack said. "The coronavirus pandemic has impacted every stage of our food supply chain, from commodity production through processing and delivery. Farmers, ranchers and forest landowners increasingly experience the impacts of climate change as severe storms, floods, drought and wildfire events damage their operations and impact their livelihoods. We know these challenges will continue into 2022, and others may emerge. Through this comprehensive set of investments, USDA will take action to prevent the spread of African swine fever, assist producers grappling with drought and market disruptions, and help school nutrition professionals obtain nutritious food for students. Tackling these challenges head-on better positions USDA to respond in the future as new challenges emerge."
Rail activity
US railroads originated 2,496,209 carloads and intermodal containers and trailers in September, down 2% from September 2020, the Association of American Railroads said on Oct. 6 in an update to monthly rail volume in the United States.
US carload volume in the ninth months of 2021 totaled 1,167,682, up 4%, or 47,858 carloads, over September 2020. Improvements were recorded for 15 of 20 carload commodity groups. That list included coal, up 40,954 carloads, or 14%; crushed stone, sand and gravel, up 11,107 carloads, or 13%; and primary metal products, up 8,675 carloads, or 22.4%.
Among the groups notching a decline from September 2020 were grain, down 17,312 carloads, or 15%; motor vehicles and parts, down 22,486 carloads, or 28%; and petroleum and petroleum products, down 1,616 carloads, or 3%.
But while carloads overall improved, intermodal volume in September totaled 1,328,527 containers and trailers, down 7%, or 95,317 units, from the same month a year earlier. AAR's president said that's partly a result of logjams at warehouses and severe capacity shortage in trucking that awaits most containers and trailers as they come off the rails.
"Rail intermodal volume is clearly not what it has been and could be," said John T. Gray, senior vice president of the AAR. "Keeping intermodal terminals functioning smoothly and at full capacity depends on consistent freight outflows to make room for new freight inflows. Unfortunately, due to limited availability of downstream truck and warehouse capacity, that's not happening right now with predictable impacts on rail intermodal volume."
Railroads were doing their part to ease pinch points where possible, Mr. Gray said.
"There is no single solution to this problem, but railroads are bringing intermodal yard capacity back online to increase storage availability as well as working with customers and truckers to accelerate container pickup among other efforts," he said.
Cumulative rail volume for the first nine months of 2021 was 9,009,639 carloads, up 8%, or 658,222 carloads, from the same period in 2020; and 10,812,108 intermodal units, up 10%, or 976,362 containers and trailers, from last year, the AAR said. Taken together, US carloads and units in the first 39 weeks of 2021 totaled 19,821,747, up 9% from the like period last year.
The AAR's Oct. 6 release also featured weekly North American carload and intermodal volume figures for the week ended Oct. 2 in 10 carload categories: chemicals, coal, food and farm products excluding grain, forest products, grain, metallic ores and metals, motor vehicles and parts, nonmetallic minerals, petroleum and products, and other.
US rail traffic in the week was 515,849 carloads and intermodal units, down 0.5% compared with the same week in 2020. The total comprised 241,910 carloads, up 4% from the same week in 2020 and 273,939 containers and trailers, down 4% compared to 2020. Grain was one of four carload groups to post a decline compared with the same week last year, the others being motor vehicles, petroleum and other. Grain carloads in the week totaled 26,007, down 2% from the same week last year, bringing the 2021 total to 892,929 carloads for a weekly average of 22,893, up 8% from the same period in 2020.
Canadian railroads, including US operations of Canadian Pacific and CN, reported 81,835 carloads in the week, up 1%, and 70,024 intermodal units, down 9% compared with the same week in 2020, the AAR said. For the first 39 weeks of 2021, Canadian railroads reported cumulative rail traffic volume of 5,782,686 carloads, containers and trailers, up 5%. Canadian grain carloads in the week totaled 9,453, down 7% from the same week in 2020, bringing the total for the year to 343,696 carloads, or 8,813 per week on average, up 0.1% from last year.
Mexican railroads, including US operations of GMXT, reported 16,697 carloads for the week, down 6% compared with the same week last year, and 12,725 intermodal units, down 26%. Cumulative volume on Mexican railroads for the first 39 weeks of 2021 was 1,421,858 carloads and intermodal containers and trailers, up 5% from the same point last year. Mexican grain carloads in the week totaled 1,298, down 19% from a year earlier; the cumulative grain carloads for the year reached 82,137, which equates to a weekly average of 2,106, down 8% from last year.
Rail volume for the week on 12 reporting US, Canadian and Mexican railroads were 340,442 carloads, up 3% compared with the same week last year, and 356,688 intermodal units, down 6% compared with last year. Taken together, weekly rail traffic in North America was 697,130 carloads and intermodal units, down 2%, bringing the continental cumulative for the first 39 weeks of 2021 to 27,026,291 carloads and intermodal units, up 8% compared with 2020. Grain carloads in the three countries during the week totaled 36,758, down 4% from the week a year earlier, bringing the cumulative 2021 total to 1,318,662 for a weekly average of 33,812, a 5% increase from the same period in 2020.
Rail prices
The US Department of Agriculture, in its Oct. 7 Grain Transportation Report, said the average October shuttle railcar bids/offers in the week ended Sept. 30 were $270 per car above tariff in the secondary market. That was $538 lower than the previous week and down $711 from the same week in 2020. There were no non-shuttle bids/offers in the week, the GTR said.
Meanwhile, grain traders and buyers indicated to Milling & Baking News that by Oct. 6, single rail cars for the current quarter were being sold as low as $50 per car over tariff in the secondary market, a drastic decline from as high as $400 a week earlier. Ideas among traders were that shippers in the gut slot of harvest as they took in corn, soybeans, sorghum, millet and other crops found it unfeasible to load supplies simultaneously and needed to sell their freight. Some grain traders took advantage of the discounts, locking in cars for November and December after confirming that customers in the country were keen to restart wheat loading as soon as fall crops were stowed.
Barge activity
US barged grain movements totaled 492,522 tons in the week ended Oct. 2, a 163% increase over the previous week, but 3% lower than the same period last year, the US Army Corps of Engineers said
In the same week, 295 grain barges moved down river, an increase of 183 barges from the previous week. There were 637 grain barges unloaded in the New Orleans Region, 63% more than the previous week.
Ocean freight activity
For the week ended Sept. 30, 26 oceangoing grain vessels were loaded in the Gulf, 40% fewer than the same period last year, the Agricultural Marketing Service said. In the 10 days starting Oct. 1, 53 vessels were expected to be loaded — 4% fewer than the same period last year.
As of Sept. 30, the rate for shipping one tonne of grain from the US Gulf to Japan was $84.25, up 2% from the previous week. The rate from the Pacific Northwest to Japan was $46.50 per tonne, 2% more than the previous week.
Trucking activity
The US Department of Transportation, via the Federal Highway Administration, recently awarded $5 million in "quick release"
emergency relief funds to assist the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development in repairing roads and bridges damaged by Hurricane Ida, the USDA's weekly grain transportation report said.
FHWA's quick-release ER funds program provides funding for highways and bridges damaged by natural disasters or catastrophic events. In the case of Ida, the funds are intended to restore the most essential transportation links disrupted by the hurricane. The repairs will stabilize damaged roadway embankments, replace destroyed signage, and repair and rebuild damaged roads and bridges, including removal of bridge scour, which are large depressions in the sediment around bridge foundations left by fast moving water.
Additional, subsequent funds could come available to continue less urgent road and bridge repairs.
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This week's newsfeed has some changes in patterns that long-term readers will note. The categories remain the same, with special attention to some articles in the section, "Seeking improved support." There are some very disturbing trends by governmental agencies to decrease funding for essential services. As usual, these articles below are listed geographically by state. In the categories below, you can "skip" to those articles of most interest to you. We welcome your comments.


Budgets are always big documents that cover a lot of topics and throw out a lot of dollar figures.
That's why the Ontario government's Budget 2019 financial and workplace literacy commitments are not getting the notice they deserve, at home or across the country. Yet they could very well be the budget's hidden gems.
During the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) expansion debate early in the Trudeau mandate, the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) polled Canadians, not only on their opinions of the expansion, but on their general knowledge of what the CPP is and does. A resounding 39% of respondents aged 18 to 34 believed that the government pays into the CPP (it doesn't).
I come back to this number frequently. It still seems bonkers to me that nearly four in 10 young Canadians don't know how a significant plank of their retirement – and a major payroll deduction on every paycheque – works.
But when you really think about how we could get to a number like that, it's impossible to avoid the question: Where was the opportunity for young people to have ever really learned about it?
Coming out of high school, I couldn't have told you what "CPP" stands for, nor "EI", "RRSP", "RESP", "GIC" or "TFSA," let alone anything about the benefits, drawbacks, or accessibility of any of them.
No high school or university course ever walked me through payroll deductions or how to file my taxes. I didn't know how to establish a credit rating, how to impact my score or what having a good or bad score really means. Compound interest was a section in math class, presented without implication or context.
Budgeting was reduced to an Excel table that never seemed to include a credit card – odd for a country that has $599 billion in consumer debt.
I learned all these things eventually, mostly through trial by fire at the workplace. You pick things up along the way.
Canada's small business owners think so; 53% of them are dissatisfied with the job high schools are doing in preparing young people for the workforce. In Ontario, nearly nine in 10 support the introduction of a mandatory full-credit financial literacy course at the high school level.
If it's done right and focuses on the practical, a greater emphasis on financial literacy will see students come out of high school far better prepared to make financial decisions and understand the fiscal debates that will impact them as they begin their careers.
On the other side of the financial literacy coin is workplace literacy.
We hear consistently from small business owners that their young hires are woefully under-prepared for the workplace. Too often employers are finding themselves in a position where they are teaching their young hires not only how to do the job they were hired for, but how to generally be an employee – skills like how to be punctual, communicate professionally and manage their time effectively.
I admit, as a Millennial it takes a lot to bite my tongue when this comes up.
I know my generation to be as hard-working and ambitious as any other, but when I think back to my education, there really wasn't an avenue to learn the soft skills employers expect workers to have when entering the workplace.
Furthermore, college, and especially the skilled trades, were never really presented to me as options when I was in high school. I'd be willing to bet nothing has changed if you walk into any high school classroom across the country today and ask students about their plans for the future.
Very few – if any – would bring up college or vocational institutions. They're seen as lesser – a fall-back option if university doesn't pan out – and that's not only a shame, but a colossal disservice to both our top-rate institutions and the hard-working men and women in the trades.
What's more, not highlighting these paths has contributed to a skilled tradespeople shortage across Canada. In fact, it has become the number one barrier to small business growth in Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba and British Columbia.
There needs to be a multi-faceted approach to addressing the problem, and young people should play a significant role. But they need to know their options.
The Ontario government's budget commitment last week to promote the skilled trades all the way from kindergarten to Grade 12 is a strong step towards a long-term solution.
The government of Ontario's focus shows that governments are willing to listen.
Their commitments on workplace and financial literacy might be small lines in the budget, but their impact could end up being very big for the future of Canada's workforce.
Ryan Mallough is Director of Provincial Affairs, Ontario, for the Canadian Federation of Independent Business.


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Q: c# - DbContext gets disposed in BackgroundService I have a WebAPI that should also receive messages from RabbitMQ. I used this tutorial, because I know that sometimes IIS likes to kill long-running tasks (didn't test it on server yet though, maybe it won't work). I have a service that handles messages that are received via RabbitMQ. First problem I met - I couldn't inject it into BackgroundService class, so I used IServiceScopeFactory. Now, I have to consume messages from two queues, and as I understood, best practice is to use two channels for this. But the handling is done in one service. BackgroundService:
public class ConsumeRabbitMQHostedService : BackgroundService
{
    private IConnection _connection;
    private IModel _firstChannel;
    private IModel _secondChannel;
    private RabbitConfigSection _rabbitConfig;
    public IServiceScopeFactory _serviceScopeFactory;

    public ConsumeRabbitMQHostedService(IOptions<RabbitConfigSection> rabbitConfig, IServiceScopeFactory serviceScopeFactory)
    {
        _rabbitConfig = rabbitConfig.Value;
        _serviceScopeFactory = serviceScopeFactory;
        InitRabbitMQ();
    }

    private void InitRabbitMQ()
    {
        var factory = new ConnectionFactory { HostName = _rabbitConfig.HostName, UserName = _rabbitConfig.UserName, Password = _rabbitConfig.Password };

        _connection = factory.CreateConnection();

        _firstChannel = _connection.CreateModel();

        _firstChannel.ExchangeDeclare(_rabbitConfig.DefaultExchange, ExchangeType.Topic);
        _firstChannel.QueueDeclare(_rabbitConfig.Queues.ConsumeQueues.FirstItemsConsumeQueue, true, false, false, null);
        _firstChannel.QueueBind(_rabbitConfig.Queues.ConsumeQueues.FirstItemsConsumeQueue, _rabbitConfig.DefaultExchange, "*.test.queue", null);
        _firstChannel.BasicQos(0, 1, false);

        _secondChannel = _connection.CreateModel();

        _secondChannel.ExchangeDeclare(_rabbitConfig.DefaultExchange, ExchangeType.Topic);
        _secondChannel.QueueDeclare(_rabbitConfig.Queues.ConsumeQueues.SecondItemsConsumeQueue, true, false, false, null);
        _secondChannel.QueueBind(_rabbitConfig.Queues.ConsumeQueues.SecondItemsConsumeQueue, _rabbitConfig.DefaultExchange, "*.test.queue", null);
        _secondChannel.BasicQos(0, 1, false);

        _connection.ConnectionShutdown += RabbitMQ_ConnectionShutdown;
    }
    protected override Task ExecuteAsync(CancellationToken stoppingToken)
    {
        stoppingToken.ThrowIfCancellationRequested();

        var firstConsumer = new EventingBasicConsumer(_firstChannel);
        var secondConsumer = new EventingBasicConsumer(_secondChannel);
        using (var scope = _serviceScopeFactory.CreateScope())
        {
            IIntegrationService scoped = scope.ServiceProvider.GetRequiredService<IIntegrationService>();
            firstConsumer.Received += (ch, ea) =>
            {
                // received message
                var content = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetString(ea.Body.ToArray());

                // handle the received message
                HandleFirstMessage(content, scoped);
                _firstChannel.BasicAck(ea.DeliveryTag, false);

            };
            firstConsumer.Shutdown += OnConsumerShutdown;
            firstConsumer.Registered += OnConsumerRegistered;
            firstConsumer.Unregistered += OnConsumerUnregistered;
            firstConsumer.ConsumerCancelled += OnConsumerConsumerCancelled;
            _firstChannel.BasicConsume(_rabbitConfig.Queues.ConsumeQueues.FirstItemsConsumeQueue, false, firstConsumer);
        }
        using (var scope = _serviceScopeFactory.CreateScope())
        {
            IIntegrationService scoped = scope.ServiceProvider.GetRequiredService<IIntegrationService>();
            secondConsumer.Received += (ch, ea) =>
            {
                // received message

                var content = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetString(ea.Body.ToArray());

                // handle the received message
                HandleSecondMessage(content, scoped);
                _secondChannel.BasicAck(ea.DeliveryTag, false);
            };

            secondConsumer.Shutdown += OnConsumerShutdown;
            secondConsumer.Registered += OnConsumerRegistered;
            secondConsumer.Unregistered += OnConsumerUnregistered;
            secondConsumer.ConsumerCancelled += OnConsumerConsumerCancelled;

            _secondChannel.BasicConsume(_rabbitConfig.Queues.ConsumeQueues.SecondItemsConsumeQueue, false, secondConsumer);
        }
        return Task.CompletedTask;
    }

    private void HandleFirstMessage(string content, IIntegrationService integrationService)
    {
        List<StockImportDto> dataToImport = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<List<StockImportDto>>(content);
        integrationService.ImportFirst(dataToImport);
    }

    private void HandleSecondMessage(string content, IIntegrationService integrationService)
    {
        List<Import901Data> importData = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<List<Import901Data>>(content);
        integrationService.ImportSecond(importData);
    }

    private void OnConsumerConsumerCancelled(object sender, ConsumerEventArgs e) { }
    private void OnConsumerUnregistered(object sender, ConsumerEventArgs e) { }
    private void OnConsumerRegistered(object sender, ConsumerEventArgs e) { }
    private void OnConsumerShutdown(object sender, ShutdownEventArgs e) { }
    private void RabbitMQ_ConnectionShutdown(object sender, ShutdownEventArgs e) { }

    public override void Dispose()
    {
        _firstChannel.Close();
        _connection.Close();
        base.Dispose();
    }
}

In service I get

System.ObjectDisposedException: 'Cannot access a disposed context instance. A common cause of this error is disposing a context instance that was resolved from dependency injection and then later trying to use the same context instance elsewhere in your application. This may occur if you are calling 'Dispose' on the context instance, or wrapping it in a using statement. If you are using dependency injection, you should let the dependency injection container take care of disposing context instances.
Object name: 'IntegrationDbContext'.'

DbContext is injected into IIntegrationService. If I understand what's happening, two instances of the service(or even one) share DbContext, and when one of them finishes it disposes DbContext. I tried not to create two instances (all code inside one using), tried making IIntegrationService transient, tried doing everything asynchronously (it was initial version, made it synchronous to test) - still same error. What should I do here? And is this the right approach?
Update 1. ConfigureServices in Startup:
        public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
    {
        var rabbitConfigSection =
            Configuration.GetSection("Rabbit");
        services.Configure<RabbitConfigSection>(rabbitConfigSection);
        services.AddDbContext<SUNDbContext>(options =>
               options.UseSqlServer(Configuration.GetConnectionString("DefaultConnection")));

        services.AddCors();
        services.AddSwaggerGen(c =>
        {
            c.SwaggerDoc("v1", new OpenApiInfo
            {
                Title = "My API",
                Version = "v1"
            });
        });
        services.AddRabbit(Configuration);
        services.AddHostedService<ConsumeRabbitMQHostedService>();
        services.AddControllers();
        services.AddTransient<IIntegrationService, IntegrationService>();// it's transient now, same error with scoped
    }

A: The issue is caused by the fact that the outer scope created by _serviceScopeFactory.CreateScope() is disposed after each using statement, whereas each message is still trying to rely on the now disposed scope and attached context to process the message.
The solution is to create a new scope per message in your message handlers:
private void HandleFirstMessage(string content)
{
    using (var scope = _serviceScopeFactory.CreateScope())
    {
        IIntegrationService integrationService = scope.ServiceProvider.GetRequiredService<IIntegrationService>();
        List<StockImportDto> dataToImport = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<List<StockImportDto>>(content);
        integrationService.ImportFirst(dataToImport);
    }
}

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The ability to access social media at work is more important than annual promotions or bonuses for students, new research by Debut has revealed. In total, 68 percent of respondents believe they should be allowed on social media at work and the only benefit more important to students was annual pay rises.
The Expectations of Work report surveyed 12,000 students from Debut's user base and revealed the ability to access social media at work was more important than nearly all other workplace benefits, including annual promotions, cyclical bonuses, gym memberships, subsidised lunches, company-provided smartphone / laptop / tablet devices, company car and healthcare / dental schemes. Significantly, the research revealed that the workplace benefits students want to receive is markedly different from the benefits they expect to receive from employers, with the exception of annual pay rises that is expected by 85 percent of respondents. Students also expect healthcare / dental schemes (80 percent) and gym memberships (60 percent), suggesting there is a clear disconnect between what students believe they will receive and what is actually most important to this generation. The launch of the Expectations of Work research coincides with the start of the AGR Student Recruitment Conference 2016. Headlined 'The Recruitment Revolution', the event focuses on the changing nature of the student recruitment and development market, as well as the need to adapt in order to recruit and retain the best student talent.
Charlie Taylor, CEO of Debut, is presenting at today's conference, alongside customers EY, Vodafone and Capgemini talking about how mobile is rewriting the rules of ROI for recruitment. The panel discussion will explore how brands can best reach and engage a diverse student talent pool, at a time that 80 percent of students believe it's harder to get a job today than it was for their parents, according to the research. Vodafone is an example of a top UK employer that is embracing mobile to discover and hire top talent. The company recently selected four female students for three month, paid internships via Debut. Keen to increase candidate diversity, Vodafone discovered and hired the students through the app's 'Talent Spotting' feature for I.T. Solution Architect, E2E Architecture Governance Support and two Portfolio Analysts positions, all within four weeks.
In other findings, the Expectations of Work research revealed that 1 in 4 students (26 percent) believe they should finish work and retire between the ages of 51-55, 12 percent between the ages of 56-60 and 27 percent between the ages of 61-65. These age ranges all fall below the projected state pension age of 67 that is expected even as early as 2026 to 2028, well before this generation will reach this period in their lives. When surveyed on salary expectations for their first graduate job, over a third (34 percent) expect to be earning between £27,000 and £30,000. A broad spectrum of expectations were revealed as 5 percent of students expect to be paid between £15,000 and £18,000 and 5 percent expect to earn over £36,000.
"The expectations and priorities of tomorrow's workforce have largely changed from previous generations. It is vital that we are aware of this and adapt accordingly. Even the traditional recruitment process isn't resonating with students, the future of the British workforce, and isn't delivering the results that today's top employers need. Organisations must adapt to reach and retain the best talent," said Charles Taylor, CEO of Debut. Debut is a mobile app that connects students, graduates, and brands for smarter, more convenient career targeting, designed to meet the needs of today's digital natives and modern brands.


Bulldogs halfback Trent Hodkinson readily admits his form this year isn't where he'd like it to be but has guaranteed NSW coach Laurie Daley will see the best of him if he is rewarded with another Blues jersey.
Seven days before Daley announces whether he is sticking solid with his incumbent halfback, the softly-spoken 26-year-old would rather focus on helping his club side bounce back from its two straight losses with a win against the Roosters and talk about anything other than Origin.
He tries not to read the headlines or let the speculation affect him.
In fact you get the feeling Trent Hodkinson would rather be anywhere else than smack-bang in the middle of the bright glare of the State of Origin spotlight.
The problem is that Origin glare is magnified exponentially by the fact he and fellow Blues incumbent, Bulldogs five-eighth Josh Reynolds, are preparing to face off against the two players fighting to displace them from that side: Roosters halves Mitchell Pearce and James Maloney.
Much has been made of the recent form of all four players; more than Hodkinson would like. But come what may, if he gets the chance, Hodkinson is adamant he'll be ready for the game's fiercest cauldron on May 27 if he gets the chance.
He told media on Tuesday the build up to this year's Origin series, as an incumbent, is drastically different to last year and he felt a measure of sympathy for the scrutiny Pearce has found himself under for so long at this time of the season.
"It's a lot different. Obviously being the incumbent, it's funny, there is so much talk going around. There is a lot more pressure. This time last year I wasn't even in the frame so it was a bit easier," Hodkinson said.
"I now know how 'Pearcey' feels. For so many years he has been getting hammered and I've felt it now. It's not the best but you've got to ignore it which I've tried to do. It comes with it, I've just got to cop it.
"I've seen over the years how much he has copped it and I can feel it a bit this year."


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Post-War Rebuilding and the Cold War: Crash Course European History #41
Sometimes, friendship isn't forever. At the conclusion of World War II, the old structures of power were a shambles. The traditional European powers were greatly weakened by years of total war and widespread destruction. The USSR was looking to expand its sphere of influence in Eastern Europe, and at the same time, the United States was assisting with the rebuilding of Western Europe (with some hegemonic strings attached). As two nuclear-armed superpowers emerged, the world entered the Cold War.
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-Anslover, Nicole L. Harry Truman: The Coming of the Cold War. New York: Routledge, 2014.
-Burleigh, Michael. Small Wars, Faraway Places: Global Insurrection and the Making of the Modern World, 1945–1965. New York: Viking, 2013.
-Feinberg, Melissa. Curtain of Lies: The Battle over Truth in Stalinist Eastern Europe. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017
-Smith, Bonnie G. Europe in the Contemporary World, 1900 to the Present. 2nd ed. London: Bloomsbury, 2020.
-Westad, Odd Arne. The Global Cold War : Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
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Cuauhtocho, an archaeological site in Veracruz that received no visitors last year.
Graffiti and garbage mark some of Mexico's forgotten archaeological sites
Four sites saw no visitors last year, 16 received fewer than 1,000
Published on Tuesday, April 2, 2019
Some of Mexico's archaeological sites are littered with garbage, defaced with graffiti and in various states of deterioration, which probably explains in part why they see few visitors.
The National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), which has 171 sites in its care, has reported that four significant sites received no visitors last year and that 16 others saw fewer than 1,000.
For the fourth year in a row, Cuauhtochco in Veracruz, a thriving city 1,400 years ago, received no visitors. Ocoyoacac in México state, an important ceremonial center between the years 450 and 650 AD, was similarly unpopular last year.
Teopanzolco in Morelos, a site with a large pyramid topped with a temple dedicated to Tláloc and Huitzilopochtli, the Mexica gods of rain and war respectively, remained closed to the public in 2018 because of damage sustained to the site during the September 2017 earthquake and the discovery of a new temple.
Chiapa de Corzo in Chiapas, a site with structures from several pre-Columbian cultures dating as far back as 750 BC, including temples, terraces and what archaeologists think might be Mesoamerica's oldest tomb, also went unvisited in 2018.
Lack of personnel may be the reason for many sites being virtually abandoned, suggested a report in the newspaper El Universal.
INAH director Diego Prieto acknowledged last month that the institute, rather than creating new jobs, has terminated 850 positions in the last 15 years.
Source: El Universal (sp)
More research into ancient city of Ichkabal planned prior to its opening to public
Deeper research into the Mayan city will be carried out before it is opened to the public, providing a better experience for visitors when it does open.
Mammoth tusks, camel skull among 10,000-year-old fossils in Puebla
Mammoth tusks, a camel skull and the fang of a giant wolf are among a range of Ice Age fossils recently discovered near the state capital.
Archaeological sites see visitor numbers decline for first time in four years
The number of foreign visitors to sites managed by the National Institute of Anthropology and History dropped 5% in January and February.
Evidence of extensive Mayan farms indicates more complex economy than thought
Researchers have uncovered evidence that the Maya grew crops at a site in Campeche, an indication that their economy was "much more complex" than thought.


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My Brother's Keeper
Now a very different thing was happening. It was a complete shift from what had happened before. It was almost like dropping down into a world of dreams. What I experienced was the turmoil of images to do with animals, animals, human beings, all mixed up. At times there was an inclination in me to turn away and not see what was appearing. This was because some of images were about humans mating with quite gross animals. But as I watched my intuition was unfolding to what I felt to be the meaning of the imagery. This is quite difficult to summarise because I have a clear sense of it but the sense encompasses so much. So I need to try to explain this.
What I understood was that the human body, the human being, emerged out of what had already been developed in nature and particularly in the animal kingdom. The animal kingdom holds within it an immense range of behavioural responses. There is everything from incredible aggression, to great skill, to the drive to procreate. Whenever a new thing emerges in nature it does so from what pre-existed it. The human being was shaped out of physiological, biological, sociological and instinctive drives that already existed in other creatures, and especially in the creatures that immediately preceded it. And what I was sensing was that such changes are not simple things. An incredible amount of background and events in the environment, are part of the possibilities in which the change occurs. I felt it as rather like having a huge box of tools and objects and meeting a situation which stimulates you to test out these tools to see if any can affect what is confronting you. Lots of the tools would be tried but maybe wouldn't make any change. But gradually certain tools connected with what was faced and would produce a change. So I was sensing that certain types of behaviour, certain possibilities, certain physiological processes, were what came into play as this new creature was developing, this human being. So this was the background that I was seeing in these very powerful images. The background of possibilities. The background of sexual behaviour, of social behaviour. And these were the very foundations of what we now know as human identity or the human psyche. Those foundations are still there. They are still within us as the very fundamental levels of our personal awareness. Because it wasn't simply a body that was being formed, it was a particular type of awareness, a particular type of consciousness.
Our present identity has arisen out of a strange mixture between animal behaviours, between the budding physiological and psychological changes occurring in this new creature. The sexual imagery suggested a huge range of possible behaviours were in some way basic to what was developing into human identity. Reflections of some of this we see in the myths, where we have half humans half animals. We have strange mating between creatures to bring forth particular types of awareness or ability. But gradually the whole sequence of experiences led to something that I then lived through.
I lived through an experience in which I had a brother. This brother was a very beautiful being. He was almost angelic, or at least had an awareness of the divine, a full sense of eternity and his place in it. And this brother, who trusted me implicitly, because that was his nature, I got to dress up as an animal, saying that we were going to take part in a carnival. And I sent him out through a door knowing that there were those waiting to kill him with arrows. And when he was out and shot I walked out and shot an arrow through his heart. Some of his blood spotted me on the breast. And this event is still there in humanity's unconscious, because this was a story of humanity's pain.
As this experience came to a close I understood that here again was a story that had been expressed in mythology. The story of Loki and Baldur, Cain and Abel, were about the same event. And understanding came to me slowly of what the story depicted. It was that our original developing identity held in it an awareness of survival drives to deal with the world, but also it still held a direct awareness of the sources of existence, the foundations of our own consciousness. The foundations existed in what we call eternity, and a sense of non-duality, an awareness of the origins of the universe and of life in it. I suppose we would say this is like a divine being, but we were that being. We held within us that divine awareness as well as awareness of the world. But a critical point was reached where the drive to survive killed out that divine awareness. The drive to survive, the motivation to kill or be killed, dominated. And as I understood it, we are the children of that event. We are the results of that change. Our present mind and form of identity is based upon those beginnings.
I also see the Jesus myth as an expression of the same killing of the beautiful being. And the death of that wonderful life saved us, allowed us to exist. We live with that blood on us.
But what I also sensing was that at the point of growth we are now in as a species, allows us to reclaim that part of us. We can bring about the resurrection of that divine being that is at our core. That being that is buried in the foundations of who we are.
I am my brother's keeper!
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Die Naiste Maistriliiga 2011 war die 16. Auflage der höchsten estnischen Frauenfußballliga. Den Titel holte sich der Pärnu JK, die damit ihren 7. Meistertitel feiern konnte. Außerdem sicherte man sich zum ersten Mal den estnischen Frauenfußball-Pokal. Enttäuschend lief die Saison für die Rekordmeisterinnen vom Levadia FC Tallinn, die weit abgeschlagen auf den dritten Platz landeten.

Maistriliiga 2011

Pokal
 9. Oktober 2011 in Viljandi (14:00)
 Pärnu JK - Nõmme JK Kalju  7:0 (6:0)
 (Lilleste 12., Palmaru 13., Paulus 18., Morkovkina 30.-32.-43.-83.)
 Pärnu JK:  Meetua, Palmaru, Saar, Paulus, Morkovkina, Lilleste (56.Ojala), Brant, Tugim (52.Sõrmus), Ivanova, Rocane (68.Ude), Sonnberg
 JK Kalju:  Papunova (46. Alatare), Pappel, Toots, Soosaar, Vilumets (64.Sirkel), Tuse, Hallikas, Päri, Pungas, Rage Hindrimäe, Tülp (68. Ragne Hindrimäe)

Weblinks
 Ausführliche Ergebnisse auf rsssf.com

2011
Fußballsaison 2011

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The 25th January is a date to celebrate the life and works of Scotland's national poet, Robert Burns (1759-1796).
Burns Suppers will be taking place all over the world to celebrate this occasion, which include eating a traditional Scottish meal, the recitation of works by or inspired by the Bard and the drinking of Scotch whisky.
The spirit, popular with Ayrshire bard Robert Burns over 200 years ago, is still a favourite partner for the traditional haggis, neeps and tatties. Conventionally served neat, over ice or with a drop of water, whisky is often overlooked as a versatile cocktail ingredient.
Although a dram of whisky alone is a treat for many people's palates, not everybody enjoys the spirit neat. Whisky's incredible variety of flavour profiles make it perfect for creating exciting cocktails.
This recipe is a twist on the classic Old Fashioned cocktail that uses a combination of bitters to draw out the fruity notes from our Loch Lomond Original Whisky. The oaky finish with a subtle hint of peat and fruity flavours is a beautiful companion for the warmth and spice of haggis.
1. In a mixing glass, soak the sugar cube in a few drops of Angostura bitters.
2. Add a splash of Loch Lomond Original and muddle the ingredients together to create a loose paste.
3. Add ice cubes and stir well to blend the flavours. Fill the metal piece of a cocktail shaker with cold water and place the mixing glass inside to keep it chilled.
4. Add more ice and the rest of the Loch Lomond Original and continue to stir.
5. Strain the cocktail mix from the mixing glass into a chilled glass with ice and add a couple splashes of plum bitters.
6. Garnish the cocktail with a twist of orange peel and serve.


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John Heisler | Notre Dame Athletics | July 12, 2016
Irish surprise Digger Phelps for his 75th birthday
Former University of Notre Dame men's basketball coach Digger Phelps walked into the Joyce Center Saturday night, thinking he was going to address a group of Chicago-area high school students.
He'd been invited some time ago to deliver those remarks by good friend Rev. Austin Collins, C.S.C., religious superior of the Holy Cross priests and brothers at Notre Dame.
Only Collins had fibbed.
Instead of high school students, Phelps found a gathering of family, friends and colleagues on the floor of Purcell Pavilion to surprise him on the occasion of his 75th birthday (he actually turned 75 on July 4).
"You're going to confession for this," Phelps suggested to Collins.
Members of the Notre Dame band ushered Phelps onto the floor by playing the Victory March-and that set the tone for an evening of fun and frivolity, with some serious moments throw in as well.
Former neighbor and longtime WNDU anchor Maureen McFadden and NBC News veteran Anne Thompson shared master-of-ceremonies duties. Describing the opportunity at the microphone as one of "sweet revenge," they led attendees through a program that featured five formal roasters: Diane Phelps Neison (Digger's younger sister), current Irish basketball coach Mike Brey, ABC/ESPN colleague John Saunders, Rick Phelps (Digger's son) and longtime Logan Center director Dan Harshman.
In one segment McFadden and Thompson appeared in gaudy sports coats and wide ties. "This looks good compared to what Digger wore in the '70s," McFadden said. Thompson referred to Phelps' hair as "fifty shades of grey."
In between their remarks came several dozen videos-with comments of all sorts offered by former Irish players and Phelps' coaching and broadcasting contemporaries, among others.
Former Irish assistant coaches Fran McCaffery, Peter Gillen, Jim Baron and Matt Kilcullen came to South Bend for the event-while video tributes came from assistants Frank McLaughlin, Dick Kuchen and Dick DiBiaso. McCaffery's video comments referenced his son Patrick who a few years ago was fighting cancer, "He (Digger) sent two medals blessed by Father (Theodore) Hesburgh, and he lit a candle at the Grotto once a week."
Former Phelps players Pete Crotty, Joseph Price and Steve Nicgorski attended in person-while Tim Kempton, John Shumate, Kelly Tripucka, Bill Hanzlik, Dave Batton, Rich Branning, Monty Williams, David Rivers, Mike Mitchell, Tim Singleton, Scott Paddock, Myron Shuckman, Marc Kelly, student manager Mike Gurdak, Price and Crotty sent along video contributions.
legendary Digger Phelps surprised by hundreds of family & friends on the court he made famous for his 75th birthday! pic.twitter.com/rP7SvEggjh
— Angelo Di Carlo (@angdicarlowndu) July 9, 2016
Thirteen of Phelps' 15 grandchildren-all attired in commemorative T-shirts with the phrase "Power of prayer is the will to win" on the back-joined the party, with baseball players Dillon and Hutton Moyer appearing on video.
Linda Costas, Phelps' fiancé, opened the evening with a welcome: "We all know his bluster and his grumbling, but we all know his heart."
Digger's sister kidded that, with his birthday coming on the fourth of July, he was convinced the fireworks and parades were all for him. Diane laughed in noting that their mother's most common reference to her son came in the form of, "Jesus, Mary and Joseph-Richard, behave yourself!"
While Diane suggested that Digger early on had been pointed toward taking over the family funeral home business, basketball got in the way: "I think he did alright. In fact, he did better than alright."
The list of video contributors also included current Kentucky coach John Calipari, former Dodger manager Tommy LaSorda, current Michigan State coach Tom Izzo, former President George W. Bush, former Indiana coach Bob Knight, singer Darius Rucker, Nick Valvano (Digger's former college roommate at Rider), ESPN's Rece Davis and Dick Vitale, Irish women's coach Muffet McGraw, Phelps' longtime secretary Dottie VanParis, as well as current Notre Dame administrators Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., Jack Swarbrick, John Affleck-Graves, Lou Nanni, Dolly Duffy, Micki Kidder and former media relations staff member Eddie White (he does a great Phelps imitation).
Davis kidded about Phelps' 1974 team ending UCLA's record 88-game winning streak: "Did anyone realize one of Digger's teams ended the all-time win streak in college basketball? Who would have known?"
Thanks to all that were apart of my surprise 75th at ND. Meant so much and very grateful. God Bless. @annenbcnews @NotreDame @kmo50Moyer
— Digger Phelps (@DiggerPhelps) July 10, 2016
Many referred to Phelps' three cardinal rules-don't assume, follow up and always have a backup plan.
Former Irish football coach Ara Parseghian was in attendance and also offered video remarks about the time the Notre Dame football coaches stole all the furniture from Phelps' Joyce Center office.
Here are some of the comments offered, both in fun and in all seriousness:
--Brey: "I've been waiting for this for a long time. . . . I did hear from a number of former players who said they'd be happy to be a pallbearer. . . . When I got the job at Notre Dame the first day I walked into the back of the Joyce Center with my family, the first guy I see is Digger. He's the one guy in town who sat in this chair. You've been there and done that, Digger, and I appreciate that."
--Saunders: "We spent many nights in those studios. He is one of the most sincere and competitive people I know on this planet."
--Rick Phelps: "Ara gave Digger a Notre Dame coaching jacket that I stole-and I've still got it. . . . You took a risk to start coaching basketball for no money. . . .You made 'em (Irish players) all graduate and you wouldn't take transfers."
--Harshman: "When Digger started at Notre Dame in 1971, he and his team came to Logan Center every year to play a basketball game against the Special Olympians as part of our annual Christmas party. That went on for 36 years, and Digger never missed one. He became special friends with a young man with Down syndrome named Butch Waxman. What Digger did was magical. Somehow, for 36 straight years, Butch would steal the ball from Digger at the end of of the game and score the winning basket. . . . Then, in 1982 when Notre Dame played its first night football game at home, Digger had all his former players come back to play a reunion basketball game, and all the proceeds went to Logan."
Harshman noted that Phelps, a two-time cancer survivor himself, lights about 60 candles for people he prays for each Tuesday at the Grotto on campus. In recognition of that and of Digger's 75th, Phelps family members made a financial contribution to help fund those candles.
With that, daughters Karen and Jen led a birthday toast-joined by the leprechaun-as the song "We Are Family" rang out.
The toasters & MC's nailed it. No mercy & many laughs. Tx!! @kmo50Moyer @NDMikeBrey @annenbcnews @MMcFaddenWNDU @johnreporters @NotreDame
Phelps talked about how he became a coach almost by accident, going back to Rider to earn a master's degree so he could coach and teach. He ended up at St. Gabriel's (Pa.) High School after writing to North Carolina's Dean Smith about a job (Smith hired Larry Brown instead). He later wrote Parseghian a letter as well (in 1965), and six years later at age 29 he became the Notre Dame head basketball coach.
Digger spent a year as head coach of a Fordham team that finished 26-3. On one occasion he sat next to Notre Dame sports information director Roger Valdiserri while scouting a Notre Dame-Marquette game. Phelps later employed a two-three zone defense, double-teamed Austin Carr and upset Notre Dame 92-87.
Phelps still recalled what he was told about coaching at Notre Dame: "Graduate your players, be competitive and don't break any NCAA rules."
He remembered 4,000 students turning out for that '74 home win against unbeaten UCLA: "We were Duke before Duke was Duke.
"If you came to Notre Dame, you went to class and if you fell behind, you went to summer school. Notre Dame made the commitment to do both (excel in athletics and academics)."
Phelps offered one final comment: "As we make our life's journey, thanks for being a part of mine. I am deeply grateful for you being here tonight.
"This is what I want my Irish wake to be like."
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