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Cross-border trade in energy—electricity, natural gas, and oil—has been an unanticipated boon to the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, exceeding $140 billion in 2015. The Trump administration's antipathy toward the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) threatens to roil that trilateral trade. Alternatively, a reworked NAFTA could open new energy trade opportunities.
A Canadian electric and gas utility company, which also owns the largest merchant electric transmission company in the U.S., plans a $1 billion infrastructure project to bring power from Canada to the U.S. It's a vivid example of how North American cross-border energy is booming.
Fortis Inc., working through its ITC transmission company, plans a 73-mile, 1,000-MW high-voltage direct current (HVDC), bidirectional transmission line under Lake Erie, connecting the Fortis Nanticoke substation in Ontario, which contains several 500-kV and 230-kV circuits, with the Erie West substation in Pennsylvania, with several 345-kV circuits (Figure 1). The project would move excess Canadian power, much of it generated by hydropower plants, into the PJM Interconnection.
1. An example of cross-border energy trade. A 73-mile bidirectional transmission line under Lake Erie would connect the Fortis Nanticoke substation in Ontario, Canada, with the Erie West substation in Pennsylvania. It would move excess power from Canada, much of it from hydropower plants, into the PJM Interconnection. The $1 billion project has approval from both the U.S. government and Canada's National Energy Board. Courtesy: ITC
The project has approval from the U.S. government and a green light from Canada's National Energy Board. Fortis expects to receive an Army Corps of Engineers permit this year, while it finds financing and customers for the project. ITC began planning the project in 2011; Fortis acquired ITC in 2014. The company wants the transmission line in service by late 2020.
In just a decade, North American energy trade has boomed, and transformed. In 2006, the U.S. was a large net importer of energy, primarily crude oil from Canada and Mexico, with a smaller but significant amount of electricity, primarily generated by hydro, from Canada. The U.S. was largely an exporter of refined petroleum products, both from domestic and imported crude.
That picture has changed significantly. Mexico made constitutional changes enabling it to import U.S.-produced hydrocarbons, competing against the state-owned Pemex oil company. The U.S. developed and perfected shale gas and oil production technology. All three countries embraced policies to encourage renewable energy.
Economics of Energy Trade
The Congressional Research Service (CRS) earlier this year produced a paper—"Cross-Border Energy Trade in North America: Present and Potential"—that noted, "The United States, Canada, and Mexico in many ways comprise one large, integrated market for energy commodities. Canada, for example, is the single largest supplier of crude oil to the United States, and the United States is Canada's sole crude oil customer (Figure 2). Both Mexico and Canada are major buyers of petroleum products refined in the United States.
2. Washington refinery sources Canadian crude oil. The Andeavor Anacortes Refinery near Anacortes, Washington—Andeavor was formerly known as Tesoro—is among the U.S. refineries that receive crude oil from Canada. The U.S. receives virtually all of Canada's oil exports, and most of the crude oil imported to the U.S. comes from Canada, primarily heavy crude from the oil sands in Alberta. Courtesy: Wikipedia
"A growing trade in natural gas produced in the United States is also increasingly important to the energy relationship among the three countries. Trade in other energy commodities—electricity, natural gas liquids, and coal—is comparatively small but regionally important. Altogether, the value of the energy trade between the United States and its North American neighbors exceeded $140 billion in 2015, with $100 billion in U.S. energy imports and over $40 billion in exports."
The CRS report also says, "Over the last decade, the United States has experienced a market trend of growing net electricity imports from both Canada and Mexico, although Canada is, by far, the greater trade partner … U.S. electricity imports have increased overall since 2006, while U.S. exports to Canada and Mexico have decreased over the same period. U.S. exports to Mexico have been relatively low and flat. The value of electricity imports from Canada and the United States rose (overall) from approximately $1.9 billion in 2011 to about $2.95 billion in 2015." U.S. electricity export to Canada totaled about $100 million in 2015.
The vast majority of U.S. electricity imports from Canada, about 60%, flow to the Northeast, primarily New York and New England. While this is a small portion of the electricity consumption in the region, electricity is a bigger item for Canada, representing almost 10% of Canadian generation, and Canada's high-voltage transmission grid is designed to work most efficiently north to south.
The U.S. and Canadian grids are closely integrated (as major blackouts sometimes remind us). The Northeast Power Coordinating Council, the Midwest Reliability Organization, and the Western Electricity Coordinating Council all work to keep the integrated grids stabilized, with Canadian participation. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, there are 30 power linkages between the U.S. and Canada.
The CRS report highlights several examples of new infrastructure to facilitate U.S.-Canada electricity commerce. These projects require a "presidential" permit, technically requiring the White House to sign off on them, although the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) runs the applications through the bureaucracy. Four have gone through the convoluted process for cross-border electricity projects. They are:
■ Montana-Alberta Tie-Line, a 230-kV, 214-mile bidirectional line to move wind generation to markets on both sides of the border. Partly financed by the Western Area Power Administration, the line went into service in 2013.
■ New England Clean Power Link, planned by Transmission Developers Inc. (TDI) and Hydro-Quebec, is a 1,000-MW HVDC line that would run about 154 miles from Canada to Vermont, with 97 miles traveling underwater down Lake Champlain. The DOE awarded the project a presidential permit in late 2016.
■ Champlain Hudson Power Express, also being developed by TDI, would be a $2.2 billion, 336-mile, 1,000-MW HVDC line from Canada under Lake Champlain and the Hudson River, and underneath railroad and highway rights of way to New York City. It has a presidential permit and hopes to be in service in 2021.
■ Great Northern Power Line, being developed by Minnesota Power, would move hydropower from Manitoba to Minnesota over a 220-mile, 500-kV line to a new substation in the state. It has a DOE presidential permit and is scheduled to be in service in 2020.
U.S. natural gas exports to Mexico—driven by low-cost U.S. shale gas and rising demand for electricity south of the border—are an unexpected outcome of the shale revolution. The CRS report says, "The United States has become Mexico's largest foreign supplier of natural gas, and Mexico's demand for imports continues to grow. Mexico imported a total of 1,307 billion cubic feet of natural gas in 2015, of which 85% came from the United States."
NAFTA Under Fire
While most analysts expect North American trilateral trade in energy will continue to grow, there is anxiety that political issues could have a negative impact, primarily U.S. President Donald Trump's threat (Figure 3) to blow up the 1993 North American Free Trade Agreement unless Canada and Mexico agree to major changes that are favorable to the U.S. The CRS report, looking at the continental trade in gas, notes, "Because the United States has free trade agreements with both Canada and Mexico, both countries also have preferential treatment for U.S. gas exports under provisions of the Natural Gas Act. Under these provisions, exports of natural gas to countries with which the United States has a free trade agreement are deemed to be in the public interest; the Department of Energy must permit the export of the commodity without delay."
3. Trump has threatened to dismantle NAFTA. U.S. President Donald Trump has said the terms of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) do not favor the U.S., and that he will scuttle the deal—reached in 1993—if major changes are not made by both Canada and Mexico. Analysts say the end of NAFTA could have negative impacts for the U.S., particularly for the energy industry. Source: The White House
An article in The Economist this summer reported that a panel of experts told a congressional committee "that the United States, Mexico and Canada are on track to achieve North American energy independence by 2020 … Cheap, abundant energy will boost the region's industrial competitiveness; it will also reduce its dependence on less stable producers such as Venezuela and the Persian Gulf States." Some in Congress, Republicans and Democrats, have been pushing for liberalized North American energy trade for several years with little success (see sidebar).
Changing Cross-Border Permitting a Challenge
Congress has been interested in making legal changes to the process of approving North American cross-border permits for energy infrastructure but so far has failed to put anything into law. The action has been in the House, with the Senate showing no particular interest in the issue. The topic became politically important during debate about the Keystone XL pipeline, which would bring Canadian crude oil into the U.S. Former President Barack Obama rejected the pipeline, but President Trump moved quickly to approve it.
The most recent House bill was H.R. 2883. Known as the "Promoting Cross-Border Energy Infrastructure Act," it was co-sponsored by Reps. Markwayne Mullin, an Oklahoma Republican, and Gene Green, a Texas Democrat, in June. Mullin said that his bill "simplifies the construction and operation of energy facilities that cross international borders. It restructures the process so that cross-border pipelines can deliver lower costs to consumers and create additional jobs in the energy field, rather than these energy projects being politicized or hung up in regulatory uncertainty."
The bill made it through the House's convoluted committee structure quickly, and passed 254–75 on July 19. All House Republicans and 17 Democrats supported the measure. Senate Republican leadership has shown no interest in the measure, reportedly waiting to see the outcome of North American Free Trade Agreement renegotiations.
In 2013, the House passed H.R. 3301, the "North American Energy Infrastructure Act," sponsored by Rep. Fred Upton, a Michigan Republican who was chairman of the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee at the time. The bill emerged as a direct result of the Keystone XL controversy. It passed by a 238-173 vote, with 17 Democrats in the majority and one Republican opposed.
President Obama threatened a veto, saying the measure "would impose an unreasonable deadline that would curtail the thorough consideration of the issues involved, which could result in serious security, safety, foreign policy, environmental, economic, and other ramifications." The bill never came up in the Senate, probably because the Republican leadership knew they could not override a veto.
But the attitude of the Trump administration is worrisome, as The Economist article observes: "The process under way to renegotiate NAFTA could jeopardize energy cooperation if Mr. Trump pulls America out of the treaty, as he has threatened to do." In October, a fourth round of talks among the U.S., Canada, and Mexico about changes to NAFTA was taking place in Arlington, Virginia. At the same time, the Trump administration was proposing heavy tariffs on imports of Canadian softwood timber and mid-sized passenger aircraft, angering Canada.
As the latest round of the renegotiations began, The New York Times commented, "The North American Free Trade Agreement, long a punching bag for President Trump, is edging closer to collapse as negotiators gather for more talks."
But the NAFTA talks could also offer an opportunity to strengthen cross-border trade on the continent. Christopher Wilson, an expert on U.S.-Mexican energy trade, recently wrote in Forbes: "To further reduce the 'border costs' associated with trade in the region, officials from the three countries should use the NAFTA update to encourage much-needed investment in border crossings and other transportation infrastructure to better connect our economies. They should recapitalize and expand the mandate for the North American Development Bank so that it has the resources and ability to finance and coordinate cross-border infrastructure projects. Negotiators could also commit to the development of a North American transportation plan to ensure that new highways built in one country do not simply lead to new bottlenecks across the border."
On the other hand, Trump—during the 2016 campaign and again recently—made clear he wants far greater bottlenecks on the long U.S.-Mexico border, including an impenetrable wall (Figure 4).
4. Increased border security could create bottlenecks for U.S.-Mexico trade. Fences line both sides of the U.S. border with Mexico near El Paso, Texas. U.S. President Donald Trump promised to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border to increase security and impede Mexican immigrants from entering the U.S., but some analysts say officials should instead look at ways to improve transportation infrastructure between the two countries, to help reduce the costs of trade. Courtesy: U.S. Congress/Wikipedia
In a presentation last summer, Gary Hufbauer and Euijin Jung of the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington laid out what a revised NAFTA should do for North American energy trade—and what could go wrong. "The new NAFTA should strengthen the legal basis for deeper energy integration in North America." To that end, "The new NAFTA should seek full liberalization of trade and investment in Canada, Mexico and the United States even for sensitive energy issues ([such as] renewables)."
But Hufbauer and Jung noted it could go badly for cross-border trade. If the U.S. were to insist on "buy American" and "hire American" for future pipeline and infrastructure construction, which are currently prevented by NAFTA, that "could provoke retaliation by Canada and Mexico." Negotiators also "could face challenges in liberalizing the renewable energy sector owing to U.S and Canadian government subsidies and differing standards." And if Trump keeps pushing for Mexico to pay for his border wall and increases deportations, "Mexican nationalism could hinder energy reforms."
At a conference organized by the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington last summer, Jack Gerard, head of the American Petroleum Institute, said "NAFTA has played a critical role in North American energy security by facilitating cross-border trade and investment in energy, supporting millions of U.S. jobs in the oil and natural gas industry. We encourage the administration and Congress to keep this in mind as they consider possible changes to the agreement." ■
—Kennedy Maize is a long-time energy journalist and frequent contributor to POWER.
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Western Welsh – AEC Reliance – WKG 284 – 1284
Western Welsh Omnibus
AEC Reliance 2MU3RA
Willowbrook DP41F
Delivered in 1961 to Western Welsh, WKG 284 is a dual purpose AEC Reliance with Willowbrook body. WKG 284 would last with the company until 1972 when it then passed to Gelligaer UDC. It has been restored by the RE-Liance Bus Preservation Group and was photographed from an open top vehicle arriving at the recent rally at the G & W Railway at Toddington.
Photograph and Copy contributed by Ken Jones
A full list of Reliance codes can be seen here.
Yet another beautiful restoration. With the PMT Leopard we also revisited the problems with the AEC wet-liner engines (470 and 590). What needs to be reiterated is that, especially with the 470, the engines pre-dated universal motorway usage and for all their foibles they were sufficient unto the day. AECs virtues always far outnumbered their vices.
David Oldfield
As David O says, another beautiful restoration, captured admirably by Ken. What has always puzzled me about this operator name was that I only ever saw services in south east Wales, not in the west. I see from that encyclopaedia site that there were operations in Tenby and parts of the West Country in the early days. I suppose they were hived off in the interests of "rationalisation".
The "Western" in the company's name refers to the Great Western Railway who were a major shareholder and contributed their existing services to the Combined operation. The same logic applied to the naming of Southern National (part owned by the Southern Railway), Southern Vectis (ditto), and Western National, plus of course Eastern National where LNER were a major owner.
Neville Mercer
In 1929, Great Western Railway bus services in South Wales were merged with those of a company called South Wales Commercial Motors. A new company, Western Welsh Omnibus Co. Ltd, was formed with a GWR share-holding.
This was during the period of large-scale acquisition of bus interests by the railways.
Thank you, Neville & Geoff!
The AEC 470 engine vehicles didn't need a motorway to show up problems, David! On service work, minor cylinder head gasket failures, not enough to affect performance, would instantly cause an air lock in the heating system with the inevitable bookings of 'cold heaters and demisters'. Oh that the cause could be rectified as quickly as the report could be written. The horizontal 470 was the bane of many an operations engineer's life – wonder if the vertical version was any better? I never came across one to find out.
Ian Wild
Does anybody know (or care to suggest a reason) why, when Western Welsh elected to display route numbers, they chose yellow-on-black rather than white-on-black? . . . whilst retaining white-on-black for destination blinds?
Philip, it's an interesting question, especially as most indicator displays are now of the dot matrix or led system, and yellow on black. Why, indeed, would Western Welsh have gone the way they did?
When, roughly, did they go to this formation?
For the latter half of my working life, I was dealing with bus operations in particular but other elements as well, of traffic management in Southampton. Some of that work was dealing with disabled parking bays. One of my colleagues, the signs specialist, observed one day about the need to place a white or silver stripe round some (strangely, not all) sign posts, for the benefit of folk with defective eyesight. According to the manual, for instance, a bus stop pole 'shall' be either black or silver. How many of other colours do you see? Quite a lot, especially if operators provide and maintain their own. Some still do!
It provided a contrast. This is why many steps have an edge of different colour. One "Circular" he received mentioned the fact that, in conjunction with RNIB, it had been found yellow was an even better contrast, especially at night. A lot of people say they are waiting for "the number 62". They don't want any others in the range of bus services that might serve a particular part of their town. They want the "62". Could Western Welsh have been among the first operators to realise that the yellow gives a better contrast when prospective customers are looking for a certain number?
Could they, perhaps but unlikely, have been the guinea pig operator for testing blinds? No, surely not, as this firm and Red & White had by then been merged into National Welsh.
The smaller AH410 revealed the same problems as its larger capacity cousin. The Aldershot and District Reliances repeatedly incurred air locks in the cooling and saloon heating system, due, in no small measure, to the failure of the seals in the wet liners. Driving one of these buses on the very busy Cove services during a wet winter night with ineffective, cold demisters was, almost literally, touch and go insofar as forward vision was concerned. That a firm the size of AEC should prove incapable of producing reliable wet liner engines suggests a significant malaise in the design department. The much smaller Dennis company managed to make trouble free wet liner engines in petrol and diesel forms from the 1930s onwards to the end of its engine production programme. The first AEC wet liner engine was the "bootlace" or A172 motor of 6.754 litres which appeared in 1935, and this design, which had had a reputation for wet liner and gasket failures throughout its life, was the basis for the postwar AEC family of wet liner engines. It now seems incredible that, in decades of development, AEC could never cure the faults.
Roger Cox
One of our Depot Engineers with quite a number of Reliance 470s on his allocation became so desperate that he acquired two of those windscreen heaters with two rubber suckers used on cars in pre-demister days. These were duly fitted one to each screen of an errant Reliance, wired in series (couldn't get 24volt versions) in an attempt to warm the cold air being pumped out by the demister and thus provide some degree of windscreen clearing. Not a success!! (but 10/10 for innovation!) Let's not forget that the Leyland 0.350 fitted to the Tiger Cub etc was not too successful in the head gasket department either, made worse by the use of a single cylinder head.
Classy livery and practical too. NBC had a lot to answer for!
Western Welsh used yellow route numbers to denote one-man operated services.
Nigel Utting
Thanks Nigel! But I'm now going to leaf through "Glory Days: Western Welsh" and "Shades of Red, White and Grey" to see if I can find any Renowns or crew-operated Atlanteans with yellow number blinds . . . which would put paid to your idea! (Although I hope it doesn't.)
You probably will, Philip – although that was the original intention, in time it rolled out across the fleet. Seemed a strange way of doing things, but there we are.
Western Welsh introduced 3 digit Route numbers in 1959. The first digit identified the depot the route was primarily operated by e.g., 2XX worked by Bridgend 8xx Haverfordwest.
The 24 Leyland Tiger Cubs with Park Royal B43F bodies SBO 240 to 263 Fleet Numbers 1240 to 1263 were the first fitted with destination indicators containing number roller blinds. Western Welsh used yellow route numbers from the outset. Services worked by OMO carried a black triangular flap with yellow lettering on the nearside front which could be inverted when working conventionally with a conductor.
Western Welsh's operating territory covered the whole of South Wales and Monmouthshire with the notable exception of Swansea (South Wales transport). At its formation in 1929 the Great Western Railway services were based in Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire, North Pembrokeshire, Neath, Abergavenny and Brecon. Those of South Wales Commercial Motors were based in Cardiff and Bridgend. Expansion into the Eastern and Western Valleys of Monmouthshire was achieved in 1933 and South Pembrokeshire as late as 1956 with the acquisition of Green's of Haverfordwest. The only service into England was the Brecon to Hereford 730 service introduced in 1962 following closure of the Rail service and was an extension of the Brecon Hay on Wye service hitherto.
Stuart Davies
I worked as a turner at Ely garage in the seventies, and since then have wondered what the strange type of red the buses were painted was called. Anybody know? Also most of the buses had a diamond painted on their rear showing which depot they "belonged" to. Yellow was Ely, blue either Barry or Bridgend, Cross Keys black.
The colour the buses were painted in the 1970's was National Bus Company 'Poppy Red'.
This was one of the two standardised NBC liveries (but there were exceptions) introduced from late 1972 under Chairman, Freddy (later Sir Frederick) Wood.
Although these two NBC colours were actually British Standard colours and should have been the same on all vehicles, in practice, due to differing paint suppliers used by different companies there was actually some discernible difference between fleets.
Rob F
The BS Code for Poppy Red is 04 E 53
A belated thanks to Paul Lloyd and Rob F. for their answer to my 'What colour question'. Poppy red it is and shall be so evermore.
Well, Ed, not for evermore, because the Poppy Red usually faded into a strange and slightly odd pinky colour with the effluxion of time!
Chris Hebbron
Until it began to fade, as it very quickly did, and degenerated into "poppy orange".
Regarding the yellow route numbers, the suggestion that they were specifically intended to identify one-man-operated services seems unlikely. You have to remember that, at that time, OMO (or OPO) was being introduced gradually – very gradually, in the case of some Western Welsh depots – so that it was very unlikely that any bus would have been used solely on OMO work.
Even into the mid-1970s, the unions at some depots refused to allow OMO with any vehicle with more than 45 seats; at other depots, such as Cardiff, the larger single deckers could be OMO, but there were several crew workings which also used these vehicles, particular at less busy times. Most of the early Atlanteans were rarely, if ever, used for OMO.
I suspect that the better contrast of yellow against a black background would have been the reason for using yellow numerals – although it would have been more logical to use it for all of the content of the destination blinds. However, it may have been more complicated to produce – as I understand it, the traditional blinds were white linen, with black paint. Thus, at night, the lights shone through the blind – but using yellow linen might have been more complex, or more expensive. Probably the latter!
Nigel Frampton
Yes Roger Cox and Chris Hebron, you are correct, I Forgot the Post Office van syndrome. I live in North Rd. Cardiff, and very occasionally I see a Western Welsh double decker heading Northward. Usually in the evening. Laugh you may, but to see this machine trundling out of the mist, a machine which was an integral part of my young days, and, I thought, gone forever, can be a little bit scary. Is this bus known to any of you bus people? I'd like to have a close look at it. See where we 'fitters' used to sit in the top deck, eating our sandwiches.
Nigel Frampton and others earlier on, mentioned coloured blinds versus white lettering on a black background. Just after the war, London Transport's Green Line services had traditional white on black blinds, with GREEN LINE added. Before long, the blinds changed to black lettering on a yellow background (minus GREEN LINE) and remained so thereafter. Of course, these services also had unique buses/livery/route number ranges/bus stop style, all of which would have helped potential passengers to use them.

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But for marketers, millennials are becoming a thing of the past. It's time to attempt to figure out the subsequent generation, Gen-Z, which will soon be entering the marketplace (and voting booths, yikes). A collaboration between grad students at Clemson University's International Center for Automotive Research (CU-ICAR) and Toyota Motor North America designers and engineers, called Deep Orange, thinks it has the answer to Gen-Z: the Toyota uBox.
The uBox concept is markedly different from what we're used to seeing on the road. I don't want to call it the Youabian Puma of Gen-Z, but I'll let you decide that one for yourself. According to Toyota, the students hoped the "muscular stance that looks like it's sprung forward in motion" would appeal to Generation Z's desire to "stand out." I have a feeling the Toyota uBox would achieve that end.
Other notable features for the uBox include customizable vents, dashboard display bezels, and door trim, personalized and designed via 3D printing tech, as well as "an online community for owners where they can share design ideas." Powering the Toyota uBox is a compact, dual-purpose, all-electric powertrain. What is that dual purpose? Other than powering the uBox without any gasoline, it also acts as a way to power cell phones and "power tools" (though it's hard to imagine any Gen-Z driver actually knowing how to operate a power drill), with 110-volt outlets throughout the interior and exterior.
The students behind the Toyota uBox explained their target customer: "a young entrepreneur who wants a vehicle that can provide utility and recreation on the weekend but that can also offer space or other career-centric or lifestyle uses during the week." Yep, sounds about right.
One really cool thing about the uBox that I'm quite blown away by—and that managed to impress Toyota Executive Program Manager Craig Payne—is the pultrusion technique that the students implemented to utilize composite carbon fiber rails bonded with aluminum so that they could achieve a curved glass roof.
The Toyota uBox was unveiled today at the Society of Automotive Engineers World Congress and Exposition at Detroit's Cobo Center (where the North American International Auto Show is held each January).


With songs, crafts and games, students from Northwest Elementary School in the Amityville Union Free School District made the holidays a little brighter for seniors at Bristal Assisted Living.
More than 40 children made the short trip down County Line Road on Dec. 17. Participants included first-graders from Margaret Brooks' class and second-graders from Kerrin Faulkner and Jenny Smith's class. Ms. Brooks accompanied students on the guitar as they began their set with "If You're Happy and You Know it" before moving on to a slate of popular Christmas tunes.
During their hour stay, children and seniors did other activities together including playing bingo, balloon volleyball and gingerbread house crafts. Ms. Smith explained that the second-grade social studies curriculum focuses on communities, so her class does several community service activities throughout the year. This is the third year they have visited the Bristal.
"The students were so excited to come and spread some Christmas cheer to people right within their own community," Ms. Smith said.


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GLBT formal application on hold
By Amy Lavalley
Post-Tribune |
Visitors look at a map of a proposed rail line through Porter County on Tuesday, April 12, 2016, during a public meeting with the Surface Transportation Board in Valparaiso, IN. (Kyle Telechan, Post-Tribune)
While the federal Surface Transportation Board has extended the comment period for a proposed freight rail line that would slice through southern Lake and Porter counties for another month, those behind the project have yet to file a formal application.
Great Lakes Basin Transportation's founder and managing partner Frank Patton and its president, Jim Wilson, said they would file their application later this year, after getting feedback from the federal agency on the comments and concerns submitted as part of the Environmental Impact Statement process.
That feedback, they said, will allow them to tweak their plans before they submit a formal application. They met with officials from the STB in September to get on a key projects list, the starting point for the federal agency to schedule public meetings for the Environmental Impact Statement.
"The decision was made to figure out what the route was going to be before we filed the application. It's a chicken and egg thing," Patton said, adding the STB will send the freight line's principals alternatives and suggestions culled from the public comments and ask for their response.
GLBT proposes a 278-mile freight line with a proposed route from Milton, Wis., to LaPorte County to provide a bypass for the congested Chicago rail yard. Patton has said the $8 billion project will be privately funded and take trucks off the roads, and have the capacity for up to 110 trains a day.
Critics filled the STB's public meetings on the project in April and have flooded the federal agency with letters since then. An official with the agency's Office of Environmental Analysis has said the response is unprecedented, generating up to 30 letters a day. Concerns focus on loss of valuable farmland, drainage woes, the proposed route's proximity to schools, and public safety worries.
Most recently, the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning, or CMAP, filed a letter June 13 in which Thomas Kotarac, the deputy executive director for policy and programming, writes, "Potential new development induced by a new railroad raises concerns about loss of agricultural and natural resources, lack of appropriate public infrastructure, and local zoning changes required to mitigate land use conflicts, as well as the broader issues of failing to invest in existing communities."
Patton expects the application will be filed three to six months after the public comment period ends on July 15, and will include the formal route and other details, including the freight line's business case.
"They want to make sure that when you start building, you will finish and it will be profitable," Patton said.
The federal agency will bring GLBT's leaders a list of questions to be answered and alternatives to be considered as the application is put together, Wilson said.
"We presented our preferred route and we will take the comments and come up with a really, really preferred route," he said.
GLBT has not informed the federal agency on when they plan to file but officials anticipate it will be later this year, STB spokesman Dennis Watson said in an email.
Based on the freight line's application, the STB will make the final determination on whether the line will proceed on GLBT's preferred route, an alternate route or not at all.
In addition to the Environmental Impact Statement, the process includes a merit review, in which Watson said "the applicant must demonstrate that the project is not inconsistent with the public convenience and necessity."
Two of the Class 1 railroads that were supposed to be served by GLBT have publicly stated they will not participate and the remaining four appear uncommitted to the project.
The STB will consider various factors, he said, including economic, commercial, financial and competitive issues, to assess the project's overall transportation and public benefits.
"The board's final decision on the merits will also incorporate the findings of the EIS and recommendations for environmental mitigation measures," Watson said, adding that includes a public comment period as well. A decision on the project's merit can't be issued until after the EIS is complete.
Amy Lavalley is a freelance reporter for the Post-Tribune.
To comment:
Comments can be submitted electronically on the Surface Transportation Board's website, www.stb.dot.gov, by clicking on the "E-filing" link on the home page and then selecting "Environmental Comments." Comments should refer to Docket No. FD 35952.
The deadline to submit online comments is July 15.
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The biggest stories of 2017
By North Coast Journal Staff
Eureka Women's March.
What a year, Humboldt. In the pages of our 52 issues this year — and our daily online content — we've told a lot of stories, reporting on the tragedies, triumphs, laughter and tears of the North Coast. As we enter a hopefully more peaceful and prosperous 2018, we take this chance to look back on the 10 most impactful stories of 2017 with the hope that a little reflection will help make sure we build on the successes and avoid the mistakes of the past year.
Fighting addiction
The extent and consequences of our local addiction problem have been on display for a long time. This year, citizen groups like Take Back Eureka added some loud voices to the conversations around homelessness and discarded needles in public spaces, with many criticizing the harm reduction efforts of local needle exchange programs that they say have contributed to a large amount of dangerous, prickly litter. The county's overdose rates were three times higher than the state average between 2012 and 2016, according to a report from the Humboldt County Department of Health and Human Services. They remained high this year, according to the coroner's office, with 32 total as the Journal went to press.
Some potentially exciting steps were also taken to address this ongoing problem, including the transformation of the Multiple Assistance Center — which formerly offered transitional living opportunities for the homeless — into a brand new medical detox facility operating under the name Waterfront Recovery Services. As the Journal has noted before, the county previously lacked a one-stop-shop for addicts who need a medical detox from substances and Waterfront, a project of Alcohol Drug Care Services, may go a long way toward helping people get and stay clean. Another project is a yet-to-be-built opioid help center made possible by a $4.8 million federal grant announced by state Sen. Mike McGuire at an opioid town hall in early November. A timeline for the center, which will be operated by Aegis Treatment and most likely offer both counseling and medical treatment, has yet to be established.
Legalization Looms
In some ways, 2017 was a year spent in cannabis legalization limbo. It won't go down in the books as the year California voters freed the weed for recreational adult use (that was 2016). And it won't be remembered as the year that any 21 year old could suddenly walk into a pot shop and buy a bag (that'll come in January). Instead, it will be remembered as the year that Humboldt County's generations-old cannabis industry rushed to grow up amid a flurry of outside forces.
Across Humboldt County, folks hopeful to legitimize existing grows or start new ones, to launch manufacturing business or open dispensaries, worked to get permits from the county — a lengthy and expensive process for most. The county's planning department, meanwhile, struggled to keep up with the influx of applications and had only issued about 100 permits by year's end. Meanwhile, growers complained of facing the increased costs of coming into compliance — with permit fees, expensive remediation work and a litany of consultants — as a saturated market saw per-pound prices plummet.
Then, with just little more than a month left before recreational markets opened, the state dropped hundreds of pages of emergency regulations that set the rules. They included some surprises, most notably the absence of any cap on how much land a single individual or company can cultivate, leaving many Humboldt farmers fearing the welcome mat has been rolled out for the cannabis Monsantos of the world.
Changing of the Public Safety Guard
A number of local public safety agencies look decidedly different leaving 2017 after some changes at the top, beginning with the retirement of Humboldt County Sheriff Mike Downey in May. Downey, who served at the agency for 31 years, oversaw the incorporation of the county coroner into the sheriff's office during his seven years as top cop. He was succeeded by Undersheriff William Honsal, who will finish Downey's term before coming up for election next year.
Scores of people crowded the Wharfinger Building in July to bid farewell to Eureka Police Chief Andrew Mills, who cited transportation concerns as one of his reasons for taking a new position in Santa Cruz after three years working to right the ship at what had been a drama-ridden department. Capt. Steve Watson, chosen as interim chief, was officially named Mills' replacement in October. Watson has pointed to improving officer retention as a priority.
Other notable shifts included the mysterious resignation of Humboldt Bay Fire Chief Bill Gillespie in November after a closed session meeting by the Humboldt Bay Fire Joint Powers Authority. Union leaders pointed to tensions between Gillespie and line-level firefighters as a potential reason for his departure. In Rio Dell, Jeff Conner, who began his law enforcement career in that city and went on to become a county code enforcement officer, took over for Chief Graham Hill, who retired in July after 22 years with the city. Finally, county Probation Chief Bill Damiano announced he will be retiring in April after 30 years in that department. He plans to spend his time volunteering, most likely with the incarcerated.
A century-overdue reparations plan to the Wiyot people may see a legal challenge in 2018, if local businessman Rob Arkley gets his way.
The internet blew up in August when Arkley went on a local talk radio station to muse about the city of Eureka's ongoing negotiation to return Tuluwat to the Wiyot Tribe. Also known as Indian Island, was the site of a shameful massacre in 1860 that saw a group of Eurekans murder about 100 mostly Wiyot women and children.
A subsequent public records request from the Journal turned up a series of emails in which Arkley harangues City Manager Greg Sparks about the estimated market value of the island, which he says should be put up for a public bid ... so he can buy it. Arkley also suggests the city should put the question of whether to auction off the island on the ballot next year.
Because of nondisclosure agreements, we don't know where negotiations stand between the tribe and the city. But whether the city follows through with what's right or there's a ballot measure on the subject, it's a safe bet the story will land back on this list next year.
Long Haul for Last Chance
The first steps in the long road ahead for finding a solution to Last Chance Grade began in 2017, with survey crews putting down stakes along possible alternative routes and making assessments about what preliminary surveys are needed to help fine-tune the options.
Ever since the first wagon road was cut through the soaring cliffs just south of Crescent City, nature has pushed back, threatening to cut off the northern most reaches of California from the rest of the state with jobs, lives and the region's economy on the line.
There are, however, no easy answers. Last Chance may be a mere 3-mile stretch of U.S. Highway 101, but finding a way around comes with just about every obstacle known to road projects — from challenging geography to major environmental impacts. There's also the staggering price tag — which could top $1 billion — and finding funding, which means convincing federal officials to loosen the purse strings on emergency relief monies. Needless to say, the timeline for completion is still two-decades out.
Meanwhile, real-time monitoring continues on the landslide prone roadway that has traveled 50 feet to the west since 1937, including crews keeping a literal eye on the ground for changes in cracks and additional shifting.
"We're continuing to work on projects improving and maintaining the current alignment," Myles Cochrane, a Caltrans public information officer, tells the Journal in an email. "As long as it's open, it's safe for travel."
The David Marcus Debacle
For many of those who spend their days toiling on the second floor of the Humboldt County Courthouse, 2017 will go down as the year of David Marcus. Hired by the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors in February to fill the void left by retired Public Defender Kevin Robinson, Marcus resigned his post in November, after nine months of apparently angering just about everyone in his office, leaving clients questioning his competence and spurring a lawsuit challenging whether he was qualified to hold the job.
Marcus, who had spent the five years prior to his arrival in Humboldt County working primarily as an insurance adjuster in Florida, boasted 20 years of criminal defense experience, first as a deputy public defender in San Bernardino County then heading the Lassen Public Defender's Office. But a Journal investigative report in August didn't turn up many former colleagues ready to say nice things about the man, with most blasting his work ethic and questioning his dedication to his clients.
His tenure in Humboldt County was rocky from the start. Members of the local defense bar questioned the process — which saw an advisory panel set up to interview candidates that didn't include a defense attorney but gave seats to the district attorney, the undersheriff and the county's probation chief — before it was complete. And questions abounded about Marcus from the moment he was hired in February and people started Googling his name to find a scathing grand jury report out of Lassen County alleging Marcus only spent 30 to 40 percent of his days at work there.
In March, local attorney Patrik Griego filed a lawsuit alleging Marcus didn't meet minimum state qualifications for the position. Within a couple of months on the job, Marcus saw almost every single employee of his office sign letters sent to the board of supervisors alleging Marcus was unqualified, incompetent and failing clients.
The county stood by Marcus for months, however. But finally in November, with a key hearing in Griego's case looming and a staffing crunch in the office spurred by the exodus of some senior attorneys, the walls began to close in around Marcus. The board called an emergency closed-session meeting the afternoon before Thanksgiving and within hours Marcus had submitted his resignation, which was apparently negotiated to include $25,000 severance pay and a mutual "non-disparagement" clause.
A Question of Care
Court battles over the treatment of our region's most vulnerable residents made headlines in 2017 with the county of Humboldt in the crosshairs of two cases while skilled nursing magnate Shlomo Rechnitz faces at least three lawsuits for deaths at his local facilities.
Back in August, a federal jury found the county of Humboldt liable for $2.5 million in damages for failing to provide medical care that could have prevented the death of Daren Ethan Borges, a 42-year-old homeless schizophrenic who died in a jail sobering cell three years ago after taking a potentially lethal dose of methamphetamine.
Nancy Delaney — an attorney representing the county — has filed a motion challenging the verdict despite the judge who oversaw the civil trial warning that the evidence presented was "pretty substantial" and she would likely fail in the effort.
Still making its way through the federal courts is a $3.8 million civil rights lawsuit filed against the county this year for forcing medical treatment on Dick Magney at the end of his life, despite his legally-binding written wishes and his doctor's advice.
In determining that the county should pay his widow, Judith Magney, for attorney fees she incurred while battling to wrest back control of his care, a panel of appellate judges described the county's conduct as "profoundly disturbing."
The pending case seeks those fees along with compensatory and punitive damages.
Meanwhile, a local judge and an appellate court have denied Rechnitz's bid to move at least one of the wrongful death and elder abuses cases filed against him and his facilities, citing inadequate staff, after the billionaire claimed he couldn't receive a fair trial in Humboldt County.
Moving forward into 2018, it appears local juries will oversee the outcomes of those cases, should they make it to trial.
The Year of Trump
The swearing in of Donald J. Trump to the presidency of the United States has sent out shockwaves that have seemingly spared no corner of the nation, Humboldt County included. The businessman's stunning ascendance to the White House has energized and enraged liberal critics, fractured GOP circles, given voice to the seething frustrations of some and generally made everyone pay a hell of a lot more attention to national politics.
Locally, we saw the largest march in Eureka's history as more than 7,000 people took to the streets Jan. 21 in solidarity with women's marches held across the nation. We've also seen North Coast Congressman Jared Huffman go scorched earth on social media, trolling and criticizing Trump and his administration at every chance — and there have been plenty. Huffman, who surely has Trump to thank for attendance figures at a handful of overflowing town hall meetings in his district, also recently voted in favor of beginning impeachment proceedings against 45. Most recently, the former lawyer launched a series of "moments of truth" speeches on the House floor in which he's begun to detail his case for impeachment.
The combination of Trump's election and the Democratic National Committee's apparent efforts to stack the deck against Sen. Bernie Sanders in the 2016 primaries has also inspired the North Coast People's Alliance, which seems to be a rising force, pushing forward candidates for local offices and holding regular lunch telethon gatherings to flood electeds' phone lines for various causes.
Finally, the national monument debate — which gained a hefty head of steam after a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, turned violent and left a woman dead — rolled into Arcata, which saw renewed demands for the removal of the McKinley statue that has held court in the Arcata Plaza for more than a century. (This has also led to calls to remove a plaque honoring the Jacoby Storehouse that tone-deafly notes the building provided refuge in "time of Indian troubles."
No matter what you think of Trump, there's simply no arguing that he's been the most prominent figure of 2017, even 3,000 miles away in little Humboldt County.
City vs. Squires
The ongoing legal scuffle between the city of Eureka and prolific landlord Floyd Squires tumbled out of the courtroom and into the gutter in 2017.
Soon after demolishing two of his properties — including the notorious Blue Heron Lodge following a fire there — city officials sent out a press release that included a salacious, unsubstantiated, third-party allegation against Squires regarding the arson, which City Manager Greg Sparks told the Journal at the time was meant to send a message.
Also included was a full police report on the arson investigation, which the city normally fights tooth and nail to keep from the public, prompting Capt. Brian Stephens to quickly disassociate his department from the action, saying the report was released without the department's knowledge or OK.
Meanwhile, the city's now six-year-long effort to take control of more than two dozen other properties away from Squires and his wife Betty in a dispute over conditions at those buildings continues to slog its way through the legal system.
All of that is becoming even more complicated after the Squireses filed for bankruptcy protection in November, apparently in an effort to stave off an auction of those properties due to an outstanding legal award that ties back to the city's lawsuit against the couple.
Long story short, a man named Mark Adams — who briefly was appointed by a judge to oversee repairs at the Squireses' properties — was awarded $158,000 from the couple earlier this year.
When they didn't pay, Adams started foreclosure proceedings to collect the money, which the judge had basically allowed Adams to secure by using the 26 properties as collateral. For his part, Adams remains confident that the bankruptcy court will eventually allow the sale to proceed.
Regardless, judging by the attorneys lined up to represent the couple's creditors at a recent hearing on their bankruptcy, it's going to be crowded in the courtroom as the case moves forward into the next year.
#JusticeforJosiah
The slaying of Josiah Lawson, a 19-year-old Humboldt State University sophomore, at an Arcata house party in the early morning hours of April 15 shook the local community and its impacts continue to reverberate. The still-unsolved killing launched discussions about racism in Humboldt County, a litany of protests and put the university's recruitment and retention efforts under a microscope.
Police responded to a report of a fight in progress shortly after 3 a.m. and arrived to find Lawson lying in the front yard, bleeding from multiple stab wounds and Kyle Zoellner, a 23-year-old McKinleyville man, sitting slumped over in a nearby driveway, his face "mangled," according to one witness. Officers arrested Zoellner, who had been involved in a fight with Lawson and several other men at the party. Witnesses on scene fingered him as Lawson's killer.
The killing immediately took on racial overtones, as Zoellner is white and Lawson was black, and one of Lawson's friends alleged that racial bias contributed to allegedly slow and ineffective responses from police and paramedics. (A Journal breakdown of the response based on dispatch logs and interviews showed an officer arrived about a minute after the initial 911 call was made and EMTs got there about six minutes later. See "What Now?," May 4.)
After prosecutors charged Zoellner with Lawson's murder, his defense team acted boldly, insisting the court hold an evidentiary hearing to determine if there was enough evidence to support the charge within 10 days of Zoellner's arraignment, which left prosecutors scrambling to support their case. After hearing wildly inconsistent testimony from dozens of witnesses over the course of a five-day hearing, Humboldt County Superior Court Judge Dale Reinholtsen ordered Zoellner released, finding there wasn't enough evidence to hold him to stand trial.
While it appears Zoellner is still the prime suspect in the case, Arcata police have since been tight-lipped about their investigation as they compile forensic evidence and seek out additional witnesses. The lack of resolution in the case, meanwhile, has plagued Arcata, which has seen city council meetings repeatedly disrupted by protesters demanding answers and progress in the case. But it has also led to some tangible steps forward: increased dialogues on race, ongoing collaborations between campus and city leaders to make Arcata a safer and more welcoming place, and regular meals put on by volunteers that sit students and community members down together to break bread.
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The Viking League (German: Bund Wiking) was a German political and paramilitary organization in existence from 1923 to 1928. It was founded on May 2, 1923 in Munich by members of the banned Organisation Consul as the successor to this group. Although its stated purpose was to effect "the revival of Germany on a national and ethnic basis through the spiritual education of its members", its actual primary purpose was to contribute to preparations for the overthrow of the Weimar Republic and provide intensive military training for its members. Membership was estimated to be about 10,000 persons, including many former military officers. Juvenile supporters could join the Young Vikings (Jungwiking) youth wing.
Leaders of the group included former Marinebrigade Ehrhardt founder Hermann Ehrhardt and his deputy, Commander Eberhard Kautter. Many leaders of other banned or controversial right-wing organizations used membership in the Viking League as a way of keeping continuity for their causes. For example, this included later Nazi Reich Health Leader Leonardo Conti, who had founded the anti-semitic newspaper Kampfbund in 1918. The young Horst Wessel joined the group in late 1923.
On 9 January 1924 a group of about 20 members of the Viking League lead by Edgar Julius Jung were responsible for the murder of the Pfalz separatist Heinz-Orbis. The stated aim of the League was the establishment of a new German military dictatorship and modification of the Treaty of Versailles by armed means. This included targeted provocation intended to incite workers to take action and provide the pretext for a coup. When these preparations became known to the federal government in 1926, the Viking League was banned in Prussia and other areas.
After the dissolution of the League at the end of April 1928, many Viking League members continued their activities in related organizations such as Der Stahlhelm or the Nazi Sturmabteilung (SA). (Source: Wikipedia)
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(1974) Plan Now to Help Iowa Celebrate the Nation's 200th Anniversary, 1776-1976,1974. Governor's Office
(1976) Iowa and The U.S. Bicentennial, 1776-1976:The Final Report/Iowa American Revolution Bicentennial Commission, December 1976. Governor's Office
(1984) Iowa Commission on the Aging Seventh Annual Older Iowan's Legislature Bills and Resolutions, September 1984. Aging, Department of (Elder Affairs, Department of)
(2000) Iowa Earth Year 2000 : partner packet, 2000. Natural Resources, Department of
(2001) IOWATER Makes a Splash, 2001. Natural Resources, Department of
(2002) IOWATER Sustaining the Wave. Natural Resources, Department of
(2003) Iowa Commission on Volunteer Service Annual Report, 2003. Iowa Economic Development Authority
(2005) Iowa Commission on Volunteer Service, Fiscal Year 2005 Annual Report. Iowa Economic Development Authority
(2005) Tools & Trends March 2005, Vol. 14, No. 2. Iowa Economic Development Authority
(2005) Tools & Trends, June 2005, Vol. 14, No. 3. Iowa Economic Development Authority
(2006) Project AWARE 2005 Little Sioux River. Natural Resources, Department of
(2006) Tools & Trends, March 2006. Iowa Economic Development Authority
(2006) Tools & Trends, September 2006. Iowa Economic Development Authority
(2007) 'The Advocate' Resident Advocate Newsletter, Janary 2007, Vol. 8. Aging, Department of (Elder Affairs, Department of)
(2007) Project AWARE 2006 Iowa River. Natural Resources, Department of
(2007) 'The Advocate' Resident Advocate Newsletter, April 2007, Vol. 9. Aging, Department of (Elder Affairs, Department of)
(2007) 'The Advocate' Resident Advocate Newsletter, July 2007, Vol. 10. Aging, Department of (Elder Affairs, Department of)
(2007) 'The Advocate' Resident Advocate Newsletter, October 2007, Vol. 11. Aging, Department of (Elder Affairs, Department of)
(2008) 'The Advocate' Resident Advocate Newsletter, Janary 2008, Vol. 12. Aging, Department of (Elder Affairs, Department of)
(2008) 'The Advocate' Resident Advocate Newsletter, April 2008, Vol. 13. Aging, Department of (Elder Affairs, Department of)
(2009) 'The Advocate' Resident Advocate Newsletter, January 2009, Vol. 16. Aging, Department of (Elder Affairs, Department of)
(2009) The Advocate Newsletter, October 2009, Vol. 19. Aging, Department of (Elder Affairs, Department of)
(2010) Project AWARE 2009 Cedar River. Natural Resources, Department of
(2010) IOWATER Program: Summary of Recent Reports. Natural Resources, Department of
(2011) Iowa Department on Aging Office of the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman Annual Report 2010 (Federal Fiscal Year October 1, 2009 through September 30, 2010), January 2011. Aging, Department of (Elder Affairs, Department of)
(2011) Project AWARE 2010 Nishnabotna River. Natural Resources, Department of
(2012) Iowa Department on Aging, Office of the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman, Annual Report 2012 (Federal Fiscal Year October 1, 2010 through September 30, 2011), January 2012. Aging, Department of (Elder Affairs, Department of)
(2012) Project AWARE 2011 Turkey River. Natural Resources, Department of
(2013) Project AWARE 2013 Des Moines River. Natural Resources, Department of
(2014) Project AWARE 2014 Big Sioux River. Natural Resources, Department of
(2014) Iowa Office of the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman Annual Report 2013. Aging, Department of (Elder Affairs, Department of)
(2014) The VOP Voice, Vol. 3, 2014. Aging, Department of (Elder Affairs, Department of)
(2014) The Voice Vol. 4, 2014. Aging, Department of (Elder Affairs, Department of)
(2014) The VOP Voice Vol. 5, 2014. Aging, Department of (Elder Affairs, Department of)
(2014) National Service or Urban Service? The Decline of National Service in Non-Urban America White: Iowa Commission on Volunteer Service, July 7, 2014. Governor's Office
(2014) The VOP Voice, Vol. 9,2014. Aging, Department of (Elder Affairs, Department of)
(2014) The VOP Voice Vol. 10, 2014. Aging, Department of (Elder Affairs, Department of)
(2014) LONG-TERM CARE Ombudsman, November 2014. Aging, Department of (Elder Affairs, Department of)
(2014) The VOP Voice, December 2014. Aging, Department of (Elder Affairs, Department of)
(2015) Project AWARE 2015 Wapsipinicon River. Natural Resources, Department of
(2015) Volunteer Ombudsman Program. Aging, Department of (Elder Affairs, Department of)
(2015) The Advocate vol. 2, 2015. Aging, Department of (Elder Affairs, Department of)
(2015) The New Face of Aging: Annual Report, SFY2014. Aging, Department of (Elder Affairs, Department of)
(2015) The VOP Voice, July 1, 2015. Aging, Department of (Elder Affairs, Department of)
(2015) The VOP Voice, August 2015. Aging, Department of (Elder Affairs, Department of)
(2015) The VOP Voice, September 2015. Aging, Department of (Elder Affairs, Department of)
(2015) The Advocate E-Newsletter September 4, 2015. Aging, Department of (Elder Affairs, Department of)
(2015) The Advocate vol. 10.1, 2015. Aging, Department of (Elder Affairs, Department of)
(2015) The VOP Voice, November 2015. Aging, Department of (Elder Affairs, Department of)
(2015) The Advocate vol. 11, 2015. Aging, Department of (Elder Affairs, Department of)
(2015) Iowa Commission on Volunteer Service: Safer Practices, November 9, 2015. Governor's Office
(2015) Iowa Commission on Volunteer Service: Governor's Council on National Service in Iowa FINAL RECOMMENDATIONS, November 28, 2015. Governor's Office
(2016) The VOP Voice, January 2016. Aging, Department of (Elder Affairs, Department of)
(2016) Project AWARE Sets New Records in 2015: 1,000 to Service, Friendships & Community. Natural Resources, Department of
(2016) The VOP Voice, February 1, 2016, Vol. 2. Aging, Department of (Elder Affairs, Department of)
(2016) Educational Opportunity through The Advocate. Aging, Department of (Elder Affairs, Department of)
(2016) The VOP Voice, March 1, 2016., Vol. 3. Aging, Department of (Elder Affairs, Department of)
(2016) The VOP Voice, April 1, Vol. 4. Aging, Department of (Elder Affairs, Department of)
(2016) The VOP Voice, May 1, 2016, Vol. 5. Aging, Department of (Elder Affairs, Department of)
(2016) The VOP Voice, June 1, 2016, Vol. 6. Aging, Department of (Elder Affairs, Department of)
(2016) The VOP Voice, Septmeber 1, 2016, Vol. 9. Aging, Department of (Elder Affairs, Department of)
(2016) The VOP Voice, October 2015, Vol. 10. Aging, Department of (Elder Affairs, Department of)
(2017) Project AWARE 2016 Lower Des Moines River. Natural Resources, Department of
(2017) Iowa Commission on Volunteer Service: Days of Service Project Planning Kit, September 20, 2017. Governor's Office
(2017) Project AWARE 2017 Upper Cedar River. Natural Resources, Department of
(2018) Iowa Commission on Volunteer Service: Resource Guide for Communitites and Nonprofits, December 28,2018. Governor's Office
(2019) Iowa Department for the Blind Volunteer Manual, October 24, 2019. Blind, Department for the
(2019) Iowa Commission on Volunteer Service State Service Plan 2019-2022, December 12, 2019. Governor's Office
(2020) Iowa Commission on Volunteer Service: Future Ready Iowa, February 6, 2020. Governor's Office
(2020) Guidelines for Volunteers and Volunteer Organizations During COVID-19 Outbreak in Iowa, March 24, 2020. Governor's Office
(2021) Iowa Office of the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman Monthly Report, January 2021. Aging, Department of (Elder Affairs, Department of)
(2021) Iowa Office of the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman Monthly Report, February 2021. Aging, Department of (Elder Affairs, Department of)
(2021) Iowa Office of the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman Monthly Report, March 2021. Aging, Department of (Elder Affairs, Department of)
(2021) Iowa Office of the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman Monthly Report, April 2021. Aging, Department of (Elder Affairs, Department of)
(2021) Iowa Commission on Volunteer Service: Gov. Reynolds Announces the 2021 Future Ready Iowa Summit: Transforming Education for the Workforce, July 27, 2021. Governor's Office
(2021) Iowa Commission on Volunteer Service: Iowa Workforce Development Takes to the State Fair to Meet with Iowans, Highlight Tools to Enhance Iowa's Workforce, August 12, 2021. Governor's Office
(2021) Iowa Workforce Development: Iowa's Unemployment Rate Increases to 4.1 Percent in July, Labor Participation Continues to Rise, August 20, 2021. Governor's Office
(2021) Iowa Workforce Development: Iowa's Unemployment Rate Falls to 4.0 percent in September, October 22, 2021. Iowa Workforce Development
(2021) Iowa Workforce Development: Unemployment Insurance Tax Rate Table Remains the Same for 2022, September 1, 2021. Governor's Office
(2021) Iowa Workforce Development: Iowa Workforce Development Announces Workforce Roundtables Roundtables with business and community leaders to be hosted at IowaWORKS offices and local community colleges, September 14, 2021. Governor's Office
(2021) Iowa Workforce Development: Iowa's Unemployment Rate Remains at 4.1 percent in August, September 17, 2021. Governor's Office
(2021) Iowa Office of the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman Monthly Report, October 2021. Aging, Department of (Elder Affairs, Department of)
(2021) Iowa Workforce Development: Iowa Recognizes National Apprenticeship Week, Emphasizes Workforce Solutions After Record Year of Growth with Apprenticeships, November 15, 2021. Iowa Workforce Development
(2021) Iowa Department of Aging: Retired and Senior Volunteer Program, November 18, 2021. Aging, Department of (Elder Affairs, Department of)
(2021) Iowa Workforce Development: Iowa Opens Applications for Employer Innovation Grants, November 19, 2021. Iowa Workforce Development
(2021) Iowa Workforce Development: Iowa's Unemployment Rate Drops to 3.9 percent in October, November 19, 2021. Iowa Workforce Development
(2021) Iowa Workforce Development: Home Base Iowa Businesses Applauded by U.S. Department of Labor for Efforts to Hire Veterans, November 12, 2021. Iowa Workforce Development
(2021) Iowa Office of the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman Monthly Report, December 2021. Aging, Department of (Elder Affairs, Department of)


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Q: Concatening values in Snowflake I'm trying to produce a unique value for a date so I can bucket table rows based on their date values. I tried doing this:
SELECT CONCAT(TO_VARCHAR(YEAR($1)), TO_VARCHAR(DAYOFYEAR($1)))
FROM VALUES ('2022-01-01'), ('1972-10-01')

I would expect this to produce the following results:

Column1

1
20221

2
19721

However, I'm actually receiving an error:

Function EXTRACT does not support VARCHAR(10) argument type

I have no idea what the term, EXTRACT, is, and this appears like it should work. What am I doing wrong here?

A: It requires a slight adjustment. As long as the date strings are YYYY-MM-DD there's no conversion required from the date strings:
SELECT CONCAT(year($1::date), DAYOFYEAR($1::date))
FROM VALUES ('2022-01-01'), ('1972-10-01')

However, the output is different. Since you're using DAYOFYEAR, the second row will have 275 for the day of year.

CONCAT(YEAR($1::DATE), DAYOFYEAR($1::DATE))

20221

1972275

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took two years of preparation.
foundation upon which I build each mini-diorama, using the life forms as elements of composition. While I have hand-carved each tiny organism out of wax and cast it in bronze to serve as a master pattern, every thimble in the series is unique. I place the elements one at a time, by hand, posing and modifying them as needed. The process involves choices and careful hand work. Sometimes one piece can combine more than 100 individual elements into a single finished statement.
My background in Biology is ever-present in my work.
There were already a few tiny marine creatures in my menagerie.
Now I had to add a lot more, and scale them to this new standard.
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The spider crab has eleven parts. There are two choices of claws.
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These are examples of corals, worms, and plant forms.
Here are a variety of thimbles. Each one is unique.
Some compositions with Sea Horses.
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Mitt Romney Made Me Proud This Month & That's Really, Really Weird
By Charlie Beckerman
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It's not easy being Mitt Romney. The former GOP presidential nominee, Massachusetts governor, Staples CEO, and savior of the Salt Lake City Olympics found out this week that he will not be America's next secretary of state, even after some very public groveling at the feet of the president-elect, Donald Trump. It was kind of stunning that Romney was even in the running, after he very publicly called out Trump during the campaign — and apparently, according to a CNN report, that was the ultimate sticking point. Romney's unwillingness to publicly apologize for his anti-Trump speeches despite the desires of people in Trump's inner circle, including Mike Pence, Kellyanne Conway, and Steve Bannon, may have hurt him, according to CNN's report based on talking to sources close to the transition team.
If this report is true, then I have to admit something and it feels strange to say this, but… I've never been more proud of you, Mittens.
Even writing the words feels strange: Just four years ago, the Romney-Ryan ticket was the evil that needed to be warded off, the impending Republican apocalypse that needed defeat. Romney was the ultimate straight white one-percent dude who represented (what we thought) was the worst of Republican politics: stating proudly that corporations are people, or his "binders full of women," or his writing off of 47 percent of Americans who were automatically voting for Obama because "they are dependent on the government" and "believe they are victims."
What an adorable, naïve time it was.
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Once it had became clear that Trump was going to be a force to be reckoned with in 2016, Romney spoke out forcefully against his party's front-runner. Romney did so in March during the Republican Primary, and then again, in June after Trump had clinched the nomination, going after the GOP for not being more critical of Trump's offensive campaign.
"I know that some people are offended that someone who lost and is the former nominee continues to speak," Romney said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal, "but that's how I can sleep at night." Why, Mitt, you're making me lightheaded.
That Romney's inveighing against His Orangeness seemed to have no effect on the outcome of the election can hardly be laid at his feet, and when he was asked to meet with Trump to discuss the secretary of state job, he gamely went, smiled (grimaced?) next to the man he once called a "phony" and a "fraud," and sang Trump's praises to the media.
But the CNN report suggests that this wasn't enough: Trump, or Trump's people, wanted Romney to issue a public apology for his comments during the campaign, and that, appears to have been a bridge too far for Mitt.
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The question of whether or not so-called "responsible Republicans" should serve in a Trump administration have been tricky: On the one hand, how do you help someone like Trump further his agenda? On the other, if you're in the government, you have more of a chance of maintaining some sanity, right? It looks like Mitt was willing to entertain the notion, and even make a strong play for the spot, but wasn't willing to go back on his past statements. Losing the secretary of state job had to have hurt — especially to a man like Rex Tillerson, CEO of ExxonMobil — but at least Romney will be able to sleep at night.


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STRVERSCMP

Section: Linux Programmer's Manual (3)
Updated: 2001-12-19
Index
Return to Main Contents

NAME

strverscmp - compare two version strings

SYNOPSIS

#define _GNU_SOURCE         /* See feature_test_macros(7) */

#include <string.h>

int strverscmp(const char *s1, const char *s2);

DESCRIPTION

Often one has files
jan1, jan2, ..., jan9, jan10, ...

and it feels wrong when
ls(1)

orders them
jan1, jan10, ..., jan2, ..., jan9.

In order to rectify this, GNU introduced the
-v

option to
ls(1),

which is implemented using
versionsort(3),

which again uses
strverscmp().

Thus, the task of
strverscmp()

is to compare two strings and find the "right" order, while
strcmp(3)

finds only the lexicographic order.
This function does not use
the locale category
LC_COLLATE,

so is meant mostly for situations
where the strings are expected to be in ASCII.

What this function does is the following.
If both strings are equal, return 0.
Otherwise, find the position
between two bytes with the property that before it both strings are equal,
while directly after it there is a difference.
Find the largest consecutive digit strings containing (or starting at,
or ending at) this position.
If one or both of these is empty,
then return what
strcmp(3)

would have returned (numerical ordering of byte values).
Otherwise, compare both digit strings numerically, where digit strings with
one or more leading zeros are interpreted as if they have a decimal point
in front (so that in particular digit strings with more leading zeros
come before digit strings with fewer leading zeros).
Thus, the ordering is
000, 00, 01, 010, 09, 0, 1, 9, 10.

RETURN VALUE

The
strverscmp()

function returns an integer
less than, equal to, or greater than zero if
s1

is found, respectively, to be earlier than, equal to,
or later than
s2.

CONFORMING TO

This function is a GNU extension.

SEE ALSO

rename(1),

strcasecmp(3),

strcmp(3),

strcoll(3)

Index

NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

RETURN VALUE

CONFORMING TO

SEE ALSO

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