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U.S. Joins Afghan Leaders for Grand Opening of Counternarcotics Police Compound

Posted by Jennifer Vitela
June 18, 2010
Ambassador Wayne Joins Afghan Leaders for Opening of Counternarcotics Center in Kabul

About the Author: Jennifer Vitela serves as Assistant Information Officer at U.S. Embassy Kabul.

In support of Afghanistan's fight against illegal drugs, Deputy Ambassador E. Anthony Wayne participated in the Grand Opening Ceremony for the new Counternarcotics Police of Afghanistan Headquarters Compound in Kabul on June 17, 2010.

“The international community, together with the citizens of Afghanistan, applaud the Counternarcotics Police of Afghanistan. We appreciate the fact that CNPA officers put themselves at great risk to fight the scourge of illegal drugs,” said Ambassador Wayne.

During the ceremony, Ambassador Wayne announced that the U.S. government's support of $12.9 million to build the compound in Kabul will be augmented with $3.9 million annually for operations and maintenance at the facility. The CNPA's new headquarters will improve coordination efforts to combat the illegal drug trade because now the organization's leadership will be located in a single facility.

“The narcotics trade and its resulting negative effects are among the greatest challenges facing Afghanistan today. The illicit drug trade funds those who stand against Afghanistan and harms many innocent Afghans,” said Ambassador Wayne.

Ambassador Wayne announced that the Embassy has asked the U.S. government for $250 million this year to support counternarcotics efforts in Afghanistan. This figure is in addition to the hundreds of millions of dollars spent by the international community and the United States Agency for International Development to support licit economic opportunities in recent years.

Mohammed Fahim, the First Vice President of Afghanistan, thanked the United States for its support and said he hoped in the future that Afghanistan would be able to stand on its own feet and be an equal partner in fighting illegal drugs. He added, “The trade and cultivation of narcotics is banned under Islam and we should do everything in our power to stop it.”

The CNPA is mandated as the lead agency charged with enforcing the counternarcotics laws of Afghanistan. The new five hectare CNPA Headquarters facility will bring together in one location major counternarcotics and rule of law-related institutions, including the Counternarcotics Justice Center, the National Interdiction Unit Compound, the Sensitive Investigations Unit Compound, and the Afghan Marshal Service Compound.

The CNPA is currently allocated 3725 positions and is expected to grow in the coming year. In addition to the uniformed force, the CNPA features three specialized units: the National Interdiction Unit (NIU) and the Sensitive Investigations Unit (SIU), mentored by the Drug Enforcement Administration, as well as the Aviation Interdiction Unit (AIU), mentored by the Department of Defense.

Haji K.
June 21, 2010

Haji J.K. writes:

A step in the right direction!

CNPA is finally getting the attention it deserves. CNPA has been neglected since its creation in 2004. The USG was heavily focused on eradication and failed to realize the potential of the regular CNPA.

According to a recent GAO report, the USG has spent U.S. 1 billion dollars on interdiction and another U.S. 1 billion dollars on eradication. Where are the strategic effects?

Roughly 90% of the Counter-narcotics Judicial Center (CNJC) cases are from regular CNPA. The specialized units are too small to create strategic effects. Development and sustainment of regular CNPA is the answer to long term strategic and sustainable strategic effects.

The relationship between insrugency and the drug trade is becoming stronger, according to news reports. How is the USG and and GIRoA going to turn the tide against narcotics-insrugency-corruption nexus? Time is running out!

United States
June 28, 2010

O.C. in the U.S.A. writes:

This is an interesting concept but how does it work if Karzai and his brother are the region's biggest heroin dealers?

United States
June 28, 2010

O.C. in the U.S.A. writes:

I was wondering too if America set up a sort of tool loaning library as big as Home Depot and only loaned tools to legitimate (non heroin producing farmers) if this in some way might entice some farmers to crossover to the other side. They could have fun little lamb, chicken raffle events to entice farmers to join the produce coalition instead of the heroin coalition. They can have workshops on building big chicken coops that maximize a farmer's profit or a lesson on grafting cherry trees. Constantly engaging and helping farmer's improve their farms keeps them busy so their not building bombs. If every week there is something new to learn, the farmer's will come, wondering what cool new, giveaway they might get. After a time, a farmer will have so many farm animals to take care of that he won't be able to leave his farm which increases overall security.

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July 1, 2010

Eric in New Mexico writes:

@ Jennifer,

I was wondering how folks @ Embassy Kabul were going to cope with a 4 billion dollar cut in developmental funding, since Congress is all about doing a backflip on supporting the mission while questions of accountability exist.

Do you have the funds to sustain the programs in place through a period of congressional audit?

In my opinion, if this results in half-built hospitals and schools left standing idle as mute testiment to people's greed, then those who claim our efforts pointless will have the monuments to failure erected in their honor they so dearly crave to see become reality.

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Are British children sleep-walking into Sodom and Gomorrah?

Society needs a wake-up call

Lads' mags. Arguments can be made, and in recent days have been made, both for them and against them. It seems to me, however, that the underlying issue is impossible to deny: children these days are exposed to too much sex.

The sexual revolution, of course, was important and necessary. Few people want to turn back the clock and re-enter a world of 1950s repression. But quite self-evidently, our haste to abandon prudishness in all its forms, which has coincided with the collapse of religion, has allowed the pendulum to swing too far in the opposite direction. Any Friday night in a British city centre should provide evidence enough.

But here we are mainly talking about children. My daughter's school (like almost every other public institution, it seems) has embraced the Gangnam Style phenomenon. Kids of all ages can do the dance, and they all know the lyrics by heart. There is a problem, however: the line "wooooooo, sexy ladies". To hear a five-year-old sing these words is disconcerting, to say the least.

To their credit, the school have either evolved or devised a quite ingenious solution. My daughter comes home belting "wooooooo, Saxon ladies". (Which, as we live in Winchester, is particularly appropriate.)

But many schools are not as sensitive. I know of a little boy of Reception age who came back singing "I'm sexy and I know it", a tune he had learnt in dance class. Another little girl came home singing the playground ditty, "My boyfriend gives me apples, / My boyfriend gives me pears, / My boyfriend gives me a kiss on the lips, / And throws me down the stairs". Given the context of women being threatened with rape on Twitter, the scourge of child porn and the worrying "sexting" trend, one would have expected a school to take a zero tolerance approach to such rhymes.

This is the first movement. The second, higher up the age range, has children sending each other pictures of their genitals, having casual sex at an alarmingly young age, taking internet porn as a template for sexual activity, binge drinking, and generally degrading themselves without any notion of the value of what they are throwing away. The final movement, as we have seen, involves plump orange women urinating in the street outside bars in Cardiff town centre.

The question, of course, is what to do about it. Admittedly, lads' mags may not be the most important front on which to fight this war; then again, one has to start somewhere.

This is, after all, a wholly new problem. Never in the history of the world has a society had to formulate a set of moral standards without recourse to religious guidance, and implement them in a way that contradicts neither liberalism nor the beneficial legacy of a sexual revolution.

So there will be false starts, and mistakes, and moments of dirigiste idiocy. And it must be acknowledged that although this trend is alarming, it is not ubiquitous. Nevertheless, we must stop patting ourselves on the back for being so right-on and open-minded, and take some action to prevent our children from sleepwalking into Sodom and Gomorrah.

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Thar She Blows: DONG’s Wind Woes

Leila Abboud reports:

When a hard wind blows across Denmark’s green plains, Anders Eldrup, chief executive of the power company DONG, shudders. Not because of the bone-chilling cold, but because his company’s power grid is under enormous strain.

On windy days, some 30-50% of the electricity flowing into the grid comes from wind turbines that dot the countryside. At less windy times, turbines spin more slowly and send much less electricity through the grid. The grid infrastructure wasn’t designed for such fluctuations. What’s more, windy days bring in more electricity than DONG can profitably sell.

It’s a problem of success. A decade of Denmark’s generous subsidies to wind power producers has produced striking results: Some 16% of the country’s total electricity needs come from wind. Denmark’s government wants to be getting 30% of its electricity from renewable sources by 2025. “It’s an increasingly difficult challenge for us,” said Mr. Eldrup in an interview on the sidelines of an ongoing Carbon Market Insights conference taking place this week in Copenhagen.

As more countries try to boost their use of wind energy, other utilities could face similar issues. In the U.S., states like Texas, where wind energy has boomed, have struggled with technical issues on the grid and might be able to learn from watching Mr. Eldrup’s firm, the CEO said.

DONG is improving its electrical grids connections to neighboring countries like Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, and Norway so they can absorb excess capacity. And it’s trying to revamp its coal and natural gas-fired power plants to work more smoothly with wind power. “We have to make our traditional fossil fuel plants more flexible,” he said. “That way we can turn power plants down, or even off, when the wind is blowing.”

“In the old times, wind power was just something we layered on top of our regular production. In the future, wind will provide a big chunk of our baseload production.”

Despite the difficulties, Mr. Eldrup’s commitment isn’t wavering. “We need to change the traditional way we produce energy because of the threat posed by global warming. And somehow we have to find a way to make money while we are doing this. After all, I run a business.”

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    • Go to Denmark to see the windmills with brakes on because the fossil plants are combined heat and power district heating.

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    • A lone blogger in Taiwan is using the Internet in a novel
      way to help raise awareness about global warming.

      Green media activist Danny Bloom doesn’t believe humans will ever have
      to live in so-called “polar cities” (a term he coined in 2006), but he
      is using a series of computer-generated blueprints of a polar city as
      an educational tool to help raise help public awareness about the
      climate crisis.

      Created by Taiwanese artist Cheng-hong Deng, the polar city images
      have appeared on hundreds of websites and blogs around the world — in
      English, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, French and Chinese, Bloom, a 1971
      gradute of Tufts University in Boston, says.

      The 58-year-old green activist says he is using the Internet in a
      novel way to get his message across.

      The message? “If we don’t actively tackle the very serious problems
      that confront the world now, in terms of global warming, then there is
      a possibility that future generations might have to take refuge in
      such polar cities. I never want to see these polar cities become
      reality. So the images Deng has created for my project are meant to be
      a warning about global warming.”

      Bloom says he has shown the images to internationally-acclaimed
      climate scientist James Lovelock in Britain, who is known for his
      pessimism and doomsaying about global warming. Lovelock told Bloom by
      email: “It may very well happen and soon.”

      “I hope polar cities are never needed for survivors of global warming
      in the far distant future,” Bloom says. “These images are meant to be
      a wake-up call for those who are still sleepwalking through the
      climate crisis.”

      Bloom emphasizes that he has no agenda, political or scientific, in
      terms of solutions to global warming, and says that he just wants to
      participate in the global discussion about climate change in his own
      personal way. “I am just using Deng’s images to sound the alarm, a
      visual alarm.”

      He says that his Internet campaign, which began a year ago with a
      letter to the editor of several newspapers in North America and
      Europe, has had the result he is looking for.

      A young blogger in Tahiti saw the images, blogged about them in
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Good News, Bad News: Bean-Counters Parse Climate Bill

What will the Lieberman-Warner bill do to the economy and for the environment? The government’s verdict is in–and it provides fodder for people on both sides of the bill.

The bill, currently the Senate’s favorite among a handful of climate-change bills on the Hill, aims to cut emissions of greenhouse gases 72% by 2050 through a cap-and-trade scheme. The Energy Information Administration, the statistical arm of the Department of Energy, concluded Tuesday that the bill will “significantly” cut emissions without huge cost — though reaching the bill’s targets will be a stretch.

You can keep your cap on. (Associated Press)

The EIA toyed with several different options: a best-case scenario, where nuclear power makes a comeback, clean coal is a reality, and renewable energy gets big; a high-cost scenario, where the same happens, but costs 50% more; and a few more dismal scenarios which make for tougher going.

According to the EIA, implementing the bill will cut emissions between 45% and 55% by 2030 (compared to doing nothing). And the cost is relatively slight—between 0.2 and 0.6% of GDP by 2030. So far, so good.

But, as we have noted before, the pain won’t be shared equally. The electricity sector will bear most of the burden for cutting emissions—82% to 92% of the cuts by 2030. That means higher electricity prices, which will jack up between 11% and 64%, though not enough to change consumer habits, the EIA says. Industry, in particular, will feel the pain—as the EIA says, the bill will affect industry “to a greater extent than it affects the overall economy.” Industrial activity, including manufacturing, will be 3% to 7% lower in 2030 than in the business-as-usual case.

Some tidbits: The realistic rollout of more nuclear power, clean coal, and renewables will be a “major determinant of the energy and economic impacts” of the bill. Without nukes and clean coal, natural gas will have to pick up the slack, with gas prices doubling or even quadrupling

The EIA report did not examine what it acknowledges is one of the biggest issues with the bill: how emissions permits are doled out. The economic and environmental impacts of the bill will be very different if power companies get their permits based on how much they pollute, or how much electricity they generate.

Finally, the EIA study stops at 2030, though Lieberman-Warner outlines cuts through 2050. There’s a good reason for that—that’s when the law of diminishing returns kicks in. As the report notes, “The emissions targets for the 2030 to 2050 period are likely to be very challenging because opportunities for further reductions in the power sector are limited.”

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    • Any bill that causes more manufacturing to move to factories in developing countries will cause more harm than good. Our factories are cleaner and more energy efficient than any in China, India, Pakistan, etc.

      This is an unfortunate, yet foreseeable consequence of the flawed Kyoto treaty. Relatively clean factories in Europe and North America closed and were replaced by very dirty factories built elsewhere. (The jobs also went with the factories, of course.) The net effect was more pollution.

    • Trading credits has been a worthless exercise in the past. Why should it work now? We need to force change away from coal and petroleum without playing games with credits.

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Rise of the Machines: Check out these HFT Charts

High-frequency trading factoids. We’re always on the look out for ‘em, since so much of the world of equities seems to exist in the shadow world of superfast computers and the quants that love them. Here’s a big new report from Boston Consulting Group on the SEC that has a couple key factoids on the world of High Frequency Trading. There are a couple cool charts too. This one shows the growth of HFT:

And this one shows some of the other changes in the markets, including growth in volume and trades and shrinkage of order size, due in part to HFT …

Just judging from some of the passive language used to cite numbers on HFT — “It is estimated that high-frequency trading now accounts for ~56 percent of U.S. equity trade volume, up from 35 percent in 2005″ — even these numbers are probably somewhat squishy. It seems pretty ridiculous that almost a year after the Flash Crash, we still don’t even have an ironclad, data-driven sense of how much of the markets is high-frequency. The numbers cited by the report come from the Tabb Group, a financial markets research firm. I’m sure they do as good a job as any one. But it should be worrying that the SEC itself doesn’t seem to be capable of producing a number on its own.

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    • This and other topics that are relevant for speed traders and institutional investors will be discussed at High-Frequency Trading Leaders Forum 2013 London, next Thursday March 21.

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    • HFT has advantages…to some.

      HFT also offers advantages to others.

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      HFT Order Flow is the key

      Hope this helps.

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Peter Chan, assistant regional director in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s division of enforcement, had some advice Thursday for municipal-bond underwriters when dealing with regulators: “Don’t get cute.”

“Stuff like, ‘Oh, we don’t keep due diligence files,’ stuff like, ‘It’s privileged,’ and so forth, it doesn’t stop us,” said Mr. Chan, at a conference in Chicago put on by Bond Dealers of America. “It actually gets us more curious.”

Mr. Chan also said that if underwriting firms see their competitors winning business by unscrupulous methods, broker-dealers should not seek to emulate the potentially illegal behavior. Instead, he said, they should contact the SEC.

“Don’t get mad,” he said. “Call the SEC.”

“Don’t even get close the line,” he added. “Criminal authorities get very, very interested in this area.”

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How Would You Sum Up Buffett’s Kraft Message?

Berkshire Hathaway’s highly unusual public statement out today threw a wrench into the already complicated Kraft-Cadbury takeover talks.

Berkshire, run by Warren Buffett, issued a statement saying it is voting against Kraft’s proposal to issue shares to finance its offer for the British chocolate maker. Berkshire, not very subtly, said the proposal would give Kraft a “blank check” to change its offer to Cadbury — “authorizing a huge transaction without knowing its cost or the means of payment.” Berkshire also questioned whether Kraft stock was too expensive a currency to use for the purchase.

This very public warning from the world’s most closely watched investor — the same guy who backed Goldman Sachs and General Electric amid the depths of the downturn — is a red-faced, four-alarm red flag for Kraft and its CEO, Irene Rosenfeld. If Buffett’s name weren’t enough, Berkshire is also Kraft’s biggest shareholder, with 9.4% of its shares. What’s more, Berkshire has generally been a low-key operator when it comes to public announcements. For years, the company continued to fax out its earnings announcements, and only began running them on financial wires (as all other large U.S. companies do) when it bought Business Wire in 2006.

So readers, we ask you, what best sums up Berkshire’s message to Kraft? What are you thinking? Watch the Gap? Curb Your Enthusiasm?

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    • Isnt it refreshing to see that a large shareholder can do: it must come as a surprise to managment and its bankers that not everything that is rubber stamped by a compliant board sails through a sharehodler vote. Hopefully this tendency grows and shareholders become much more activist. CALPERS, FIDO, Berkshire, etc. are welcome voices in my humble opinion.

    • Warren Buffet didn’t get to where he is at in life by being stupid.He’s a man who can keep people working and keep company’s going . If it wasn’t for people like him where would this world be .Kraft management they don’t care about the shareholders or even the workers they just worry how much they can get for them self’s. They sold their stock years ago to the workers for 32 dollars years ago with a promise that it will grow. Guess what and look back it never hit 32 and never will with the current management . They cut jobs closed plants so they can pad their pockets . Warren stand tall take over kraft and fire the worms who run the company start with irene

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    • JayC wrote:
      “.I think Buffet is a hypocrite. He didn’t think Berkshires stock was too expensive of a currency when Berkshire bought out BNSF with an all stock offer. He has a double standard, one when he is the pursuer and one when he is the pursuee.”

      How does that make him a hypocrite? Would he be a hypocrite just because he thought one comapny is worth buying and another isn’t? Can you value a company better than him?

    • Why fight it? Better things will be available in the future. Thank you, Warren Buffett for not letting them de-vaule our Kraft shares.

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In just the last four years, the British film producer won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature (2009′s “Man on Wire”) and has watched his three follow-up documentaries (“Project Nim,” “Searching for Sugar Man,” and “The Imposter”) scoop up festival prizes and solid distribution deals the world over. (“The Imposter” just opened in the U.S. last weekend, where it garnered the best per-theater-average of any film in release, grossing $20,643 in one theater. “Searching for Sugar Man” opens today.)

After working in television documentaries from the late-1990s to the mid-2000s, Chinn now specializes in slickly produced documentaries that are intended to play, initially at least, in movie theaters.

“My primary goal with all the films I do is to make them work as theatrical films,” he says. “And making a documentary work for a cinema audience is, in my view, about approaching it with the same ambition as any fiction filmmaker would. The bar is just as high, if not higher with docs.” Read More »


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Seeking obit of Virgil W. (Wallace) Brooks. He was born in Iowa in 1918 and died in Fort Worth TX on 6 Jan 1992 (may have been his last address). Wife: Betty (no maiden name). He lived in Fort Worth in 1959 at 2251 Bird Lane; in 1960 at 3505 Tourist Drive; and in 1986 at the same address. Found the 1959 and 1960 addresses in U. S. City Directories (Beta) and the 1986 address through Ancestry (U. S. Public Records Vol 2).
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Isreal Winfrey, Virginia

Isreal Winfrey, Virginia

Posted: 16 Aug 2003 6:37AM GMT
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Surnames: Winfrey, Slaughter, Bryant
I am a descendant of Isreal Winfrey & Elizabeth Slaughter. I am specifically looking for any documentation on any of the following, births, deaths, marriages or obits..

Isreal Winfrey m. Elizabeth Slaughter
=John Winfrey m. Mary Turpin
=Judy Elizabeth Winfrey m. John Bryant
=Sarah Ann Bryant m. Shelton Luttrell
=Nancy B. Luttrell m. Joseph Mace
=Martha Jane MAce m. Martin V. Wright
=Carrie Almeda Belle Wright m. Samuel Rogers

Carrie & Samuel are my great-grandparents but I need source materials for the previous generations...any help would be greatly appreciated!

Jen Gibbons

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Posted: 16 Nov 2003 3:41PM GMT
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I am also a descendant of that line. Their son, John, married to Mary Turpin, was my ancestor. Write me at

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Posted: 18 Jul 2004 5:18PM GMT
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I have lots of info on the Israel Winfrey line - contact me and i will email it to you. Lydia Hays

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Posted: 24 Jun 2005 9:37PM GMT
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Edited: 26 Nov 2006 12:34AM GMT
Surnames: winfrey, grider, Wilborn
Hello! Beginning my search for the family of my great,great grandmother Docia Winfrey Wilborn. She was the wife of Robert H. Wilborn. Their children were Erastus, Lurah, Robert E. Maggie, Montie, Ernest and Duhla. They settled in Clay County, Tennessee (Lillydale). I have research the Wilborns for some time now and am ready to find out more about the Winfrey's. I know that there are TWO Docias......could they be mother and daughter perhaps. I have not found any documentation that my gr.grgrandmother had married twice. Would love any information you might be willing to share. Thanks. Susie

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Posted: 18 Aug 2007 8:22PM GMT
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Surnames: Winfrey
I am searching for information on Isreal and Elizabeth (Slaughter) Winfrey family. Would appreciate any help you can give me. Please e-mail me at: or Thank you Lynda
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Hi folks:

Ordinarily, 4%-5% a year in option grants would send me to the exits, but there seems to be fairly good corporate governance, and the new program in the most recent DEF14 appears to be top quality: all grants at 100% of current market price, and 110% for large holders.

I've reviewed the posts here. Anyone willing to opine on management quality such that it would counter the option grants?

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Hi Paul!

Rather than give you specific investment advice, let me give you some "lifestyle" advice that comes from the "scar tissue" of my own 58 years of life experience.

The most important "currency" is the smile on your face and those that you love......not the number of dollars in the bank. Find out what things make you and them smile....and pursue them with a passion ( travel, charity work, sailing, fishing,skydiving whatever ). Without someone to share life with....people to love...your life has much less meaning.

If you are not practicing the " Three L's"....."learning, loving and laughing".... you may be walking around, but IMHO, you are essentially "dead".

There is so very much to see/learn/do in this great wide world of ours and the informational resources so great that one should never cease learning new things...it keeps your spirits up, and you are continually suprised/delighted by finding out more about yourself as you learn more about new things. Learning keeps you "young"!

The "loving" L is pretty much covered in the paragraph above about smiling as a currency to be cherished. Isn't a great sunset much better for having shared it with a loved one? And the smile on the face of someone ( maybe even a stranger ) that you have helped along the way is an awesome payback/life validation.Also, don't forget to love yourself by not demanding that you be "perfect".....don't be your own worst critic/enemy....allow yourself to be human, to make a mistake now and then

The importance of laughter in all its forms is often overlooked. This includes the total freedom that comes from sharing something hilarious with others and letting yourself really enjoy the moment...let yourself howl a bit. Also, it involves not being afraid to laugh at yourself....not taking yourself too seriously all the time. As a good friend of mine reminds me when I'm taking a given issue or problem too seriously..."Hey! Murph! It doesn't mean s**t to a tree!"

Another philosophy I eventually came around to was "living small"
As I climbed the ladder of "success" in the corporate world, I thought I had to have the big house, new cars, etc, etc, ad nausem. What utter bull...and a tremendous waste of resources! "Things" mean nothing....people and relationships mean almost everything. So now, despite the fact that I am semi-retired and could afford better things, I live in a small condo, drive a 10 year old car.....and use the money I save for pursuing the things that make me and those I love smile.

Well, that's enough of a philisophical ramble for now. I don't mean this as a lecture to you or anyone....it's just one man's conclusions about what's important. Suffice it to say that a lot of the "platitudes and old sayings" which I laughed/scoffed at when I was younger (and bulletproof)....such as "life is a journey, not a destination".....turn out to be true.

Good luck on your journey through life. I hope you and yours always find the things that make you smile!

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Hello, All.

I hope this is a good board to which I can pose this question; if there's a better board, please let me know. The following's a long story, but the question is at the last paragraph if you'd like to skip ahead...

We've had a mortgage through ING for about 7 years. ING was recently purchased by Capital One, and they have been switching over servers and doing whatever other behind the scenes work occurs when a bank switches hands.

We were unable to make our mortgage payment online during January for the month of February due to said server switching. We called for fear of being late on our payment, and were assured that we had until the 15th of February to make the payment that was due on February 1st without penalty, but that things would be taken care of within a couple of days. After have made a payment that was "unallocated" and then returned by Capital One, we received a call from the collections department, which led to several calls to different areas, and our February payment was finally posted and, we thought, the problem was fixed.

We're now approaching the end of February, again unable to make payments (for March), and now receiving calls and letters about our "past due" payment that was due February 1st. It turns out, they've removed the payment from our mortgage, put it back in "unallocated funds" along with payments that were made toward our March payment, and tacked on the total of these payment to our principle amount.

Can anyone point me towards options available to us when the banks is not crediting our mortgage payments, charging us interest, and adding payments back onto our principle? We're about talked out, the problems aren't getting resolved regardless who we speak to, and we're now getting harassed by their collections department. We're considering legal action if it's not cleared up soon, but don't really have any idea where to start, given we've never had problems before. We've always made payments on time.

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Hi, I'm new to the board but have loved reading it as a guest. Now I'm getting serious and I joined because I need the help support that seems really great here.

My Confession... I think it helps to admit your debt, so here goes.

In 1997, I moved to my current city newly divorced, with some money and a brand new job. From 1997 - 2001 I was flying high. I bought a house, I switched jobs about every 9 months or so (not by choice, most were layoffs, completely closings, etc. - I'm in IT) but upped my salary so it was doubled in only 3 years.

Fast forward to 2001. I had a great job as a contractor making a TON of money (per hour, I was not working all year). I had a 401K, savings, mutual fund and was starting to do a little stock investing. BOOM, 9/11 happened, the IT world started to come down, salaries started slipping, jobs went away. Between 2001 and 2004, I was employed on and off, each year working from 6-9 months on a contract basis (all I could find). I wasn't disciplined with money, I didn't expect this to last so long and the next thing I know:

-I had depleted my 401K, mutual fund, stocks and savings
-Racked up 30K on credit cards (I was in TOTAL denial)
-refinanced so many times that my original mortgage of 130K was now 200K (still should have about 50K equity)

Last August I got a permanent job and went to town on my finances. I put together a budget. I looked at my credit card statements (YIKES), wrote down each balance, the APR, etc. I spent hours on the phone re-negotiating balances and started snowballing. Eventually I was able to move about 8 cards down to 2, one with FF rewards and 6.9% and the other with 0% interest for 6 months. I also got married but my husband is starting over in a new country so cannot make much money yet, but does make enough to help.

I was on a track to pay off the debt in one year. We were going great guns, I felt SO good. Then in May this year, lost my job.

I'm back where I started 8 months ago. Fortunately we can keep afloat without incurring more debt until I find a new job (close to getting one I think) but here is my issue:

My husband doesn't like debt (again, he's new to the U.S. and it's debt-happy population) and most new jobs look like they will pay less than I was making before so it might take 2 or more years to get that 30K down. He wants it gone today and wants us to sell the house to pay off the debt. The house has about 50K at most in equity. 20K would not be enough for downpayment on a smaller house or condo, right? Is this ever advisable? To sell your house to pay off consumer debt?

Also, currently this is the only consumer debt we have. No school loans, no car payments, just credit cards. My husband won't even use a credit card, only a debit, he's SO afraid of falling into the debt trap.

Sorry this is kind of long and rambling but I wanted to introduce myself and hopefully use this board for advice and support. I loved reading some of the stories of people who were able to pay off triple what I have in debt! It's inspiring to me.
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<<Website in the internet: www.xroads.com/~funerals>>

Last month I had to help a family friend by searching for discount caskets on the Internet. After a lot of searching, I stumbled onto the site above and found it very useful. Much of it was too powerful, I felt, to share with our grieving friend, but it was eye-opening. It's the kind of information you should gather and learn BEFORE you need to put it to use.

That said, there *are* a (growing, I presume) number of retailers that offer caskets at discount prices. In New Jersey it seems that by law, funeral homes have to accept delivery of these coffins, if you buy them through discounters rather than at high prices through the funeral home. I suspect the rules vary by state. I've heard that some funeral homes have been known to scratch or dent the caskets upon arrival, to suggest to the family that they bought sub-par stuff.

Anyone looking for a casket should definitely check out discounted ones. They're often priced at half the price a funeral home is charging, and they appear to be the exact same product. Some will deliver from far away, some may be local. We found a local supplier, so we could go and choose one in person. But even if there's no local one, I bet you could shop around locally and then buy the same one from a discounter.

Here are some sites of interest. I can't vouch for most of them, but I applaud the idea of offering consumers fairer prices. These will just give you an idea of what's out there -- and some of these sites offer some great advice.

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"Kuroshio," meaning "black current," is the name given to the Pacific Ocean current that Japanese immigrants believe brought them safely to a new life in North America. In this vividly imagined novel based on a true story that spans decades and continents, Terry Watada explores the dark reaches of Issei, or Japanese immigrant, life in Vancouver prior to World War II.

An Issei woman arrives on the west coast from Japan as a picture bride―marrying a fellow Japanese immigrant whom she has never met before―but soon her dreams and expectations of a lavish life in a new land are crushed by the grim reality of a loveless marriage and an impoverished existence. Before long, she becomes desperate to escape the clutches of the law after committing a heinous crime, which leads her to become inextricably involved with ruthless Issei crime boss Etsuji Morii and his underground gang. Full of unexpected twists and flashes of narrative colour, "Kuroshio: The Blood of Foxes" explores the fascinating history of Japanese-Canadian immigrant life in the first half of the twentieth century with all the intrigue and style of a modern-day murder mystery.

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American Naive Paintings

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This volume is devoted to the American naive paintings in the National Gallery of Art, which has one of the most important collections of this kind in the world. Created outside the academic mainstream, these paintings show an extraordinary diversity of individual expression and serve as vivid documents of American culture. Most of the works formerly belonged to the collection of Colonel Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, who donated more than 300 paintings and about 100 drawings to the Gallery over nearly thirty years. Most date from the nineteenth century and a substantial number are by well-known folk artists, including Erastus Salisbury Field, Ammi Phillips, and William Matthew Prior. The breadth and depth of the collection is such that it is possible, in several cases, to trace the progress of an individual artist's style. Although the majority of works came to the Gallery without identification, through painstaking research it has been possible to make attributions, which are published here for the first time. Many of the works in the Gallery's collection of American naive paintings are reproduced here in color. The extensive catalogue provides a full history of the objects and artists, with technical notes as well as biographical and bibliographical information.

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An introduction to forensic DNA analysis

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DNA analysis has its roots in classical genetics, biochemistry, and molecular biology; however, it has recently found itself in an unlikely arena: a court of law. How can judges, juries, and others with little or no scientific training hope to comprehend the specifics of the highly technical fields of molecular biology and genetics? Introduction to Forensic DNA Analysis translates these concepts into plain English so that laypeople can gain insight into how DNA analysis works, from sample collection to interpretation of results. This book emphasizes the advantages and limitations of various DNA techniques used in the analysis of forensic evidence. The authors discuss forensic DNA issues from both a scientific and a legal perspective, and they present the material in a manner understandable by professionals in the legal system, forensic science, and law enforcement. Coverage includes: Key terminology used in the field The scientific basis of DNA typing Statistical interpretations of DNA typing A summary of court decisions and admissibility standards

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Clinical anesthesia procedures of the Massachusetts General Hospital

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Robert L. Barbieri, M.D., is the chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and a professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive biology at Harvard Medical School.

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America's International Relations Since World War I

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Oxford University Press, 1999 - History - 438 pages
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Based on the latest scholarship and newly discovered foreign documents, America's International Relations Since World War I offers a thorough account of American diplomatic history in the 20th century, including coverage of important subjects usually omitted from other texts, such as economic issues and internal development in Russia, the Soviet Union, and China. Organized chronologically, the book avoids taking an interpretive stand on the merits of particular policies, instead offering a political realist interpretation of events. The focus throughout is on the personalities and economic, cultural, and military factors which influence the politics of U.S. foreign policy.
Within the chronological framework, each chapter presents key foreign relations problems addressed by a particular presidential administration, examining them in historical perspective and context, and concludes with a short assessment of the accomplishments, events and problems of that administration. The chapters are cross-referenced topically so students can easily follow a particular subject, such as the Vietnam War, through several administrations. The text also includes a helpful list of recommended readings.
Comprehensive and clearly-written, America's International Relations Since World War I is an ideal companion to history and political science courses alike on contemporary American foreign policy.

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Wesley M. Bagby is at West Virginia University.

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Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management XXII:, Volume 22

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Safe and effective management of nuclear waste provides a broad range of challenges for materials science. Waste processing, waste form and engineered barrier properties, interactions between engineered and geological systems, radiation effects, chemistry and transport of waste species, and long-term predictions of repository performance are just some of the scientific problems facing modern society. This book, the 22nd in a very successful series from MRS, offers an international and inter-disciplinary perspective on the issues, and features developments in both fundamental and applied areas. Topics include: development and characterization of ceramic waste forms; ceramic waste form corrosion; glass waste form processing; glass formulation, properties and structure; glass waste form corrosion; spent nuclear fuel; performance assessment; repository backfill; flow and transport; natural analogues; container corrosion; metal waste form corrosion; radionuclide speciation and solubility; radionuclide sorption; microbial effects; radiation effects; cement waste forms and waste treatment.

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The Learning Revolution: A Life-long Learning Program for the World's Finest Computer : Your Amazing Brain!

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"A detailed report on how to achieve the learning revolution that is urgently required to match the revolution in formation and technology. A working guide for everyone, with special interest to teachers at all grade and college levels."--p. 10.

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Introduction to econometrics

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Addison Wesley, 2003 - Business & Economics - 696 pages
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The intuitive approach of Introduction to Econometrics uses interesting applications to motivate theory and theory to match the applications. Students come away with a thorough understanding of econometrics and of the relationships on which people, businesses, and governments base their decisions. Theory is closely matched to the applications--illuminating the vitality and relevance of econometrics, and the choice of topics--including an introduction to program evaluation; panel data methods; instrumental variables regression; and regression with time series data--reflects the best of contemporary applied econometrics. This text is designed for the Introductory Econometrics course. The goal of Introduction to Econometrics is to provide the most modern treatment of econometrics available, using theory and applications that match real-world theory and data.

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This is a decent undergraduate econometrics textbook, but I think that "Introductory Econometrics: A Modern Approach" by Jeffrey Wooldridge is a much better choice for learning econometrics. For this book, the Introduction to Econometrics website provides some useful links and resources. Read full review

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James H. Stock is Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at Harvard University. Previously he was the Roy E. Larson Professor of Political Economy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard, and Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He has written more than 90 professional publications, including a popular undergraduate econometrics textbook (co-authored by Mark Watson). He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, the former chair of the Board of Editors of The Review of Economics and Statistics, and is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Stock did his graduate work at the University of California, Berkeley, where he obtained an MA in Statistics and a PhD from the Economics Department under the supervision of Thomas J. Rothenberg.

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Mister Strong and the Ogre

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A brand new addition to the Mr Men and Little Miss 'with added sparkle' series.

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Roger Hargreaves was born in 1935 in Cleckheaton, Yorkshire, England. He is the British cartoonist who created the likes of Mr. Nosey and Mr. Grumpy, the simple little cartoon Mr. Men and Little Miss characters and books. He was the creative director for an advertising agency in London when he got the idea for his books. He first began to market the idea in the early '70's, starting with Mr. Men, which appeared in books, BBC cartoons and as a comic strip in the Daily Mirror. The characters spawned over 700 related products and brought along the introduction of the Little Miss books introduced in the early '80s. The two series reached worldwide sales of 85 million volumes and were printed in over 20 different languages. Hargreaves died on September 12, 1988 in Kent, England.

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Nine of 41 identifiable females of dark chub, Zacco temmincki, in a river cannibalized eggs of other females. There was no significant difference in body size, condition factor or the location of home range between cannibals and noncannibals. In laboratory experiments, one male and two females were introduced into an aquarium to observe the behaviour of individual females while a pair spawned. The response of 16 females to spawning was observed and 15 of 16 females exhibited egg cannibalism. The percentages of egg-eating behaviour for individual females varied from 11.1 to 81.8%, and did not change significantly over the course of the experiment. Dark chub were multiple spawners. In a river the number of spawning sequences for cannibals was significantly higher than that for noncannibals. The number of eggs laid by cannibals was estimated to be 1.55 times as many as that by noncannibals.

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Developers are hoping a $25 million restoration will finally salvage an oddly shaped historic rope factory at the Charlestown Navy Yard that’s been warped by fire and decades of neglect.

“The community will be ecstatic if this building can be saved,” said developer Joseph Timilty, whose team from Frontier Enterprises was designated by the Boston Redevelopment Authority to try to revitalize the Ropewalk Building in Charlestown near the Tobin Bridge. “I think people will want to live in a building that’s rich in history and tradition.”

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Branford’s top readers will be awarded this Saturday on the as the and the celebrate reading.

For the second year, in a unique way and yes, schools’ Assistant Superintendent Mary Peraro said, e-readers will again be given to randomly selected top readers from each school, elementary to middle school.

Summer reading, said Peraro, “eliminates the summer lag and helps students maintain their skill level in reading.”

The community is invited to attend this day-long celebration of reading Saturday, Sept. 15 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on the Town Green. Summer Reading Awards will be presented by local authors and there will be several contests and games for students as well as a silent auction to raise money for the BEF.

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Adventures in Homeownership: The dialogue

A humorous dialog between a homeowner and a contract estimator. It is funny and annoyingly frightening all at the same time.

Normally I am an optimist, always looking for the good in people. But, can I just vent for a moment? I know that most of my blogs have been a very positive approach to home repairs, but let’s be honest – sometimes contracting a repair can make you want to scream! Recently, I feel like I know more than some of the estimators I’ve been talking to. For example, this is just a small morsel of what I went through during the very long, drawn-out process of finding a contractor to replace my gutters.

I have two downspouts on the driveway side of my house. I recently had one fixed, so it now drains into a crock; the other dumps onto the driveway. Here’s how the conversation went:

Estimator: “Well, this downspout is not up to code. It is not dumping the water two feet away from the house.”

I start thinking…great, this guy really seems to know what he is talking about.  Maybe he can be creative to help fix this problem

Me: “Okay, since it’s right next to the house, how should we fix the problem?”

Estimator: “Well, we can extend the downspout and have it curve two feet into the driveway.”

My immediate reaction: Now, REALLY…. do you think this is a solution???

Me (being polite): “Well, it is a driveway. Wouldn’t the downspout get run over and make my new (EXPENSIVE) gutter into a speed bump?  I think that would defeat the purpose.”

Estimator: “I guess you’re right.”

Me:  “Is there any way that we could re-route the downspout?”

Estimator: “Well, it is code that the water must be dumped at least 2 feet away from the house. I guess there a few things that we can do.”

Me: “I would prefer not to dump it in the driveway, if at all possible, since there’s no crock there.”

Estimator: “Maybe we could run the downspout across your house and have it dump into your front garden bed, but that may be ugly.”

My reaction to this suggestion: Um…hello…A gutter across the side of my house, it was almost 8 feet long?!?

Me (restraining myself): “That doesn’t really seem to be very visually pleasing.”

Estimator: “Well, we could bring the downspout down right next to your front door and have it dump the water into your front yard.

Me: “I’m not sure that will work either. What if we expanded the downspout on the other side and use a larger capacity downspout that can handle more water?  Since there’s already a downspout there, we wouldn’t have to worry about the aesthetics.”

Estimator: “That’s a great idea…”

I couldn’t make this up. I hope it’s as amusing for you as it was for me. I feel like I need a vacation after all this effort, and unfortunately this is just the start of the repair season!

I guess the whole point of this rant is to remind homeowners to do your homework. I have finally settled on a contractor, but I had to ask a lot of important questions throughout the process. That’s not to say that there aren’t contractors or estimators who give good estimates, but it’s important to make sure you’re getting what you want done and your wishes are being understood. If you know a little about the repair going in, you’ll know what questions to ask when the conversation isn’t getting very far.

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GP April 28, 2012 at 11:57 AM
There is a device that attaches to the end of your downspout and unrolls when it rains; you can also drive across it. Seems like it's designed exactly for your application.
Allison Urbanek April 30, 2012 at 04:01 PM
Thank you for letting me know. I will definitely look into that option.
Brandon Scullion May 01, 2012 at 05:58 PM
Allison, I might suggest talking to our building department. They are awesome and will help you find the best way. Let us know how it all works out either way.

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Marlboro Files Motion to Intervene in Proposed JCP&L Rate Hike Hearings

JCP&L is seeking a $31 million rate hike in relation to Hurricane Irene damages.

JCP&L is still looking to pay for Hurricane Irene damages and clean-up, to the tune of $31 million.

Since Irene, New Jersey has suffered a larger hurricane and a nor'easter. At one point during Hurricane Sandy this year, the entirety of Marlboro was without power.

But rate hikes due to this year's disasters will have to wait, according to the utility company.

Marlboro Township filed a motion to in intervene the rate hike on Nov. 7, a legal step that allows the township to throw its hat into the ring as the Board of Public Utilities decides whether the rate hike is justified.

"I feel like we have to have a seat at the table," Mayor Jon Hornik said.

A motion to intervene allows Marlboro Township a voice in the debates, and the township looks to prove why the proposed rate hikes are not justified.

Marlboro is the first township on record to file a motion to intervene this rate hike in New Jersey.

"I encourage other municipalities to do the same," Hornik said. "JCP&L's performance is not acceptable, and we are going to see what we can do about it."

cynicinmarlboro December 08, 2012 at 12:50 AM
Great idea. I just hope other towns follow suit so that we can pool legal fees. I would hate for us to be the only ones in the suit that might benefit everyone. We don't need the additional legal fees to be on our heads alone.
Christina Fern December 08, 2012 at 03:15 PM
Howell should jump in too. My 85 year old dad continues to lose power on a regular basis. How can they get a raise when the level of service is so poor? Certainly wouldn't happen in the private sector. Fight the good fight Mayor Hornik!!!
P. Gupta December 10, 2012 at 04:04 PM
My understanding is that the Governor is already handling this and Marlbor is included in this effort. Can someone verify this? If this is true, then are we wasting more money for having to the decotis lawyers to handle this or is the mayor's law firm doing this at no cost the taxpayers? Seems like this may be an act of grandstanding unless Christie isn't doing anything to help us. Thanks for any information that you can provide.

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What a sweet reunion!

Brooklyn was reacquainted with Ralph Kramden, Alice and the gang as the U.S. Postal Service unveiled a new Honeymooners stamp.

Borough President Marty Markowitz was one of the first Brooklynites to get his hands on the new stamps during a special ceremony at the Plaza at 130 Livingston Street.

The Honeymooners was one of a 20-stamp set entitled Early TV Memories.

Other favorites immortalized on stamps include the Dinah Shore Show; Dragnet; The Ed Sullivan Show; George Burns and Gracie Allen Show; Hopalong Cassidy; The Lone Ranger; Howdy Doody; The Red Skelton Show and The Twilight Zone.

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Moran and Connolly Welcome BRAC Funds, But Say More Needed

$150 million earmarked for Route 1 widening near Fort Belvoir

At a press conference earlier today Congressmen Jim Moran (8th – D) and Gerry Connolly (11th – D) expressed gratitude for the much-needed federal funds that were released in the past week for construction projects related to Base Realignment and Closing (BRAC). Both Moran and Connolly pointed out how much more needs to be done to accommodate the thousands of extra cars that will be on area roads as a result of BRAC.

Connolly and representatives from several interested parties, including the Mount Vernon-Lee Chamber of Commerce, thanked Moran for his efforts to secure the funding. Moran has repeatedly called for the opening of the Mark Center to be delayed until the necessary improvements can be made to the surrounding area. He has also been highly critical of the BRAC Commission that recommended the changes in the first place and was so again on Wednesday: “They were useless. They should be ashamed of themselves.”

$20 million has been dedicated to the Mark Center in Alexandria, while $150 million has been dedicated to road construction, specifically along Route 1, relative to the building of the new Fort Belvoir Community Hospital. It was the latter of the two projects that was the focus of the session today.

$145.5 of the 150 million will be used for widening Route 1 between Telegraph Road in Lorton and Route 235 in Mount Vernon (see attached graph). The remaining money will be used to fund a study of transportation options in the Route 1 corridor. Connolly said that the investment in the area is just a “drop in the bucket” compared to what is needed.

“The long range future of the corridor is light rail from Belvoir to Woodbridge. We can’t continue to use the automobile in the long term. That won’t work. But in the interim we are going to have to manage with the resources that we have,” Connolly said.

Planning for improvements to Route 1 at Fort Belvoir had been in the works prior to the funds being granted. Information sessions will be held with the public throughout 2011. A final decision on the Environmental Assessment from the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) is anticipated in early 2012 with ground being broken in 2013 and a completion date of 2015 according to transportation officials.

“There is a huge economic surge coming to the area, but the people who already live in this area will be impacted,” Moran said.

The plan calls for Route 1 to be widened from four lanes to six lanes with turn lanes as well as a center median, which could be used for either buses or light rail, according to Jack Van Dop of the FHWA.

But the improvements to Route 1 will come with a set of challenges, particularly when it comes to Right of Way laws. “Right of way issues will need to be adjudicated in many cases and they will be the biggest cost in time and money,” Connolly said.

The stretch of Route 1 being expanded also has safety issues to contend with, which some fear will be exacerbated by the arrival of thousands of new vehicles. In the first three months of 2011 caused several serious injuries and claimed two lives. Speaking shortly after the last of the crashes, Mount Vernon Supervisor Gerry Hyland—who attended this morning’s meeting—told Lorton Patch that had Route 1 being widened sooner the stretch of road would have been safer.

Time and again during today’s meeting talk returned to the topic of alternative transportation plans that would extend from the southern portion of Fairfax County and into Prince William County. It is estimated that by the time relocations from BRAC are complete, 60% of Fort Belvoir’s personnel will be coming to work from south of the base.

But, changing the car culture will be a challenge. Col. Mark Moffatt, Deputy Garrison Commander for Transformation and BRAC, admitted as much. Moffat said a number of personnel at Fort Belvoir could conceivably use the Springfield-Franconia Metro Station. But the bus line that comes to the base from the station makes 14 stops and takes 42 minutes to complete so many simply opt out and drive to work.

“We are very concerned that people are driving instead of using mass transit,” Moffat said.

Moffatt also noted that one of the reasons many people drive to Fort Belvoir is to navigate their way around the post to run errands before and after work. He believes that a post-wide shuttle service could alleviate traffic from that group of commuters.

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