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liberal N proud's JournalI found where D U meets in Missouri
Saw this on a recent trip through back roads of Northern Missouri
http://binged.it/12nk9Bm
Tried to do street view to show the sign for D and U intersection but Google Earth was not clear and Bing did not have a street view for this area as it is extremely remote.
Mom says 'I am Adam Lanza's mother,' details life with terrifying son
The entire article is republished below with permission from "The Blue Review."
Friday’s horrific national tragedy—the murder of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in New Town, Connecticut—has ignited a new discussion on violence in America. In kitchens and coffee shops across the country, we tearfully debate the many faces of violence in America: gun culture, media violence, lack of mental health services, overt and covert wars abroad, religion, politics and the way we raise our children. Liza Long, a writer based in Boise, says it’s easy to talk about guns. But it’s time to talk about mental illness.
Three days before 20 year-old Adam Lanza killed his mother, then opened fire on a classroom full of Connecticut kindergartners, my 13-year old son Michael (name changed) missed his bus because he was wearing the wrong color pants.
“I can wear these pants,” he said, his tone increasingly belligerent, the black-hole pupils of his eyes swallowing the blue irises.
“They are navy blue,” I told him. “Your school’s dress code says black or khaki pants only.”
“They told me I could wear these,” he insisted. “You’re a stupid bitch. I can wear whatever pants I want to. This is America. I have rights!”
http://now.msn.com/i-am-adam-lanzas-mother-says-mom-of-mentally-ill-son
With state-run treatment centers and hospitals shuttered, prison is now the last resort for the mentally ill... What does that say about US as a country?
When this nation finally bans assault weapons, do not blame any elected official
It will be the fault of all these lone gunmen who have slaughtered innocent people, many of them children. It will be a nation that has finally had enough of this senseless killing, the mass killings and the daily street shootings that will have caused the ban.
It will be a knee-jerk reaction by many to simply blame the administration in power at the time of the eventual ban. Make no mistake about it, it will be the result of the nation reaching a breaking point and demanding that something be done.
It’s Easier For Americans To Access Guns Than Mental Health Services
It’s Easier For Americans To Access Guns Than Mental Health Services
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/12/14/1338021/its-easier-for-americans-to-access-guns-than-mental-health-services/?mobile=nc
Lake Erie wind farm proposal wins $4millionin federal funding
The U.S. Department of Energy announced Wednesday that Northeast Ohio's Project Icebreaker is one of seven proposals nationwide to advance in the high-stakes competition to prove the promise of offshore wind power.
LEEDco, the Lake Erie Energy Development Corp. formed in 2004, created the Northeast Ohio public-private-academic partnership behind Project Icebreaker. The organization's proposal called for the installation of nine 3-megawatt turbines seven miles off the shore. The challenge now is to determine the details of drilling into the lake's floor, transporting the structures out into the water, and finally getting them to stand – and stay – upright.
Ultimately, the goal is to demonstrate how to build a wind farm that provides power at the same cost as traditional electric plants when the cost of construction, maintenance and energy production are averaged over the 20-year life of the wind turbines.
"There are 8,000 parts in a wind turbine and every little thing we can do to reduce the cost or increase the energy produced is in play," said David Matthiesen, a professor of materials science and engineering at Case Western Reserve and the research team leader for Project Icebreaker's research and development group.
http://phys.org/news/2012-12-lake-erie-farm-million-federal.html
CEO takes 46% increase in compensation while cutting more than 10% of it's employees.
Energizer Holdings Inc. CEO Ward Klein earned $9.5 million in total compensation in fiscal 2012, up 47 percent from 2011, according to a regulatory filing.
His 2012 earnings were comprised of a $1.1 million salary, $4 million in stock awards, $1.7 million in non-equity incentive plan compensation, $2.6 million in increased pension value and nonqualifed deferred compensation earnings and $213,426 in other compensation, which includes company matching accruals in savings plans, term life insurance premiums and perquisites such as personal use of company aircraft and personal financial advisory services.
On Nov. 8, Energizer Holdings announced that it planned to reduce its global workforce by more than 10 percent, or approximately 1,500 people, as part of a restructuring it announced in September.
http://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/news/2012/12/10/energizer-ceo-klein-sees-2012-earnings.html
ST. LOUIS, Nov. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Energizer Holdings, Inc. (ENR) today announced that its Board of Directors authorized an enterprise-wide restructuring plan and has delegated authority to the company's management to determine the final plan with respect to these initiatives.
Energizer expects to achieve gross annualized pre-tax cost savings of approximately $200 million as a result of this restructuring project. The Company expects that nearly three quarters of the savings will improve profitability, and the remaining portion of the savings will be invested in the business to drive long-term growth. The Company estimates one-time charges associated with achieving these benefits to be approximately 1.25 times gross annualized savings, of which approximately 25% to 30% are estimated to be non-cash charges.
The Company expects that a substantial portion of the actions necessary to achieve the targeted savings should be completed by the end of fiscal 2014 and the total savings are expected to be fully realized in fiscal 2015. A majority of the one-time charges associated with these initiatives are expected to be recorded within the next 12 to 18 months as restructuring costs will likely be incurred ahead of achieving estimated savings (see exhibit - schedule of savings and costs estimates).
These actions are expected to reduce the global workforce by more than 10%, or approximately 1,500 colleagues.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/energizer-holdings-inc-announces-multi-220200171.html
And these assholes can't afford a tax increase?
"Better days are in store" American Economic future
"Better days are in store": Joe Davis on America's economic future
December 07, 2012
An edited transcript of Mr. Davis's speech is presented here; you can view a video of his full remarks on Vanguard's website for institutional investors.
Good morning, and welcome. I am honored to speak with you today.
If we look over the past 225 years since George Washington's first term in office, our average economic experience as a nation has been a very, very good one.
With this as a backdrop, what is Vanguard's long-term outlook for the U.S. economy? In two words: cautious optimism.
Yes, amid all the talk of doom and gloom, I see flickers of light at the end of the tunnel, but my near-term outlook is a very cautious one, marked by serious downside risks, given the fiscal challenges here and around the world.
As I look out over the horizon, over the next five or 10 years or even longer, I see another economic future that few are talking about—one that could, just could, return our economy back to that white light. It's driven by a force that has been more than a generation in the making; a powerful, underappreciated force that has the potential to raise the standard of living for all of mankind, and that will reshape the world; a force that, like its predecessors, has the U.S. in the front, not in the back; a force that is not local but global; and a force whose positive and powerful impact on productivity and growth has only just begun.
https://personal.vanguard.com/us/insights/article/economic-future-122012
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