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“There is also a reasonable amount of bird life to distribute seeds from these sources, although comprehensive pest control is desperately needed throughout these areas.
Another felt biodiversity was a much healthier option environmentally than continuing to plant more pine forests.
Another respondent would have preferred 100 percent native.
One of the “no” respondents said plantings must surely be totally in those tree species which, from current perspectives, would produce the greatest income when harvested.
Another person who clicked “no” said it was a decision made without proper analysis of the facts, which would cost ratepayers dearly.
A “no” respondent said returns to ratepayers were more important than “idiots’ dreams”.
One person who clicked “undecided” said they did not know enough to make an informed decision.
This special interest bill is supposed to give candy companies more profits by mandating that the U.S. Department of Agriculture flood the market with imported sugar.
If you’ve been paying attention to the Farm Bill debate in Washington, you might have noticed some lawmakers are pushing an amendment they say is a “modest reform” of the nation’s sugar policy.
It’s titled the Sugar Policy Modernization Act and it’ll likely be offered as an amendment to the Farm Bill currently pending in Congress. I’m a sugar beet farmer so I am laser focused on the amendment.
When farmers showed the Foxx-Davis plan to the bankers who loan us money to grow our crops, and to the accountants who do our taxes, they were shocked. The people who have the deepest insight into farmers’ financials instantly realized that these “modest reforms” would put many farmers out of business.
We’ve since renamed the proposal the “Sugar Farmer Bankruptcy Bill” because it effectively cuts us out of the Farm Bill.
The bill sponsors shouldn’t surprise anyone. U.S. Reps. Virginia Foxx, R-NC, and Danny Davis, D-Ill., in the House and Senators Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., and Pat Toomey, R-Penn., in the Senate.
It’s a group that has opposed past Farm Bills and championed anti-agriculture measures before. And it’s a group that has never stepped foot on a sugar farm or taken the time to meet the families they’re trying to put out of business.
Multinational food manufacturers clearly designed this terrible scheme, even bankrolling a lobbying effort behind it.
This special interest bill is supposed to give candy companies more profits by mandating that the U.S. Department of Agriculture flood the market with imported sugar. That sugar would come from nations such as Mexico, Brazil and Thailand, where industries get government handouts and use appallingly low labor and environmental conditions to push export prices below their own cost of production.
The bill also prohibits the USDA from providing sugar producers the same kinds of nonrecourse loans they extend to more than two dozen other commodities — a move that eliminates any kind of safety net and introduces a huge and unbearable financial risk for farmers.
This bill isn’t good for businesses, consumers, workers, families or taxpayers. It won’t mean cheaper food — sugar today already costs less than it did in 1980. It will only reward foreign cheaters and help a handful of big food companies further boost their profits.
More than 140,000 Americans work in the sugar industry, either as farmers or in factories. If this reform goes through, they’ll lose their jobs, including many people right here in Michigan.
In Washington, D.C., folks who want to put you out of business use terms like “modernization” and “reform.” But here on the farm, we know what that really means. We see through the slick DC talk.
At least we have champions like Sens. Debbie Stabenow and Gary Peters. And U.S. Reps. Dan Kildee, Paul Mitchell and John Moolenaar. I know they won’t let this amendment through. They will fight to keep our no-cost sugar policy intact.
Darrin Siemen is a fourth-generation sugar beet grower who farms with his family in Harbor Beach, Michigan.
GODFREY — Godfrey firefighters were called to the scene of a structure fire around 3:30 p.m. Tuesday afternoon at the Woodbury Manor apartments off of Humbert Road. They requested mutual aid from Fosterburg, Alton and Brighton Fire Departments.
Everyone home at the time was evacuated from the building. Firefighters were able to rescue several cats and a caged dog while working to put out the blaze. No injuries have been reported from the fire and the cause is still under investigation at this time.
Photos by Telegraph photographer John Badman.
KARACHI: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday trimmed Pakistan’s growth forecast to 2.9 percent in 2019 and 2.8 percent in 2020 amid ongoing macroeconomic adjustment challenges, saying twin deficits warrant further structural reforms.
The country’s growth stalled in the current fiscal year as external account sector weakened, while revenue-expenditure gap continues to widen.
The current account and fiscal deficits are expected to bring the growth down from a decade-high of 5.2 percent in the last fiscal year of 2017/18.
“In Pakistan, in the absence of further adjustment policies, growth is projected to remain subdued at about 2.5 percent, with continued external and fiscal imbalances weighing on confidence,” the IMF said in its World Economic Outlook before its spring meetings in Washington this month.
The country is in talks with the Washington-based lender for its 13th economic assistance program since the late 1980s.
The projections came close on the heels of fragile growth forecasts by the Asian Development Bank and the World Bank.
product at 3.4 to 3.9 percent in the current fiscal year as the measures to bring the economy on track are expected to take toll on growth.
The central bank raised its key policy rate by a cumulative 500 basis points to 10.75 percent since January 2017.
Rupee that lost a quarter of its value against the dollar over a year kept consumer inflation on the upward trajectory and in March alone, annual consumer inflation reached more than five years high of 9.41 percent.
The IMF projected consumer inflation at 7.6 percent in 2019 and 7 percent in 2020 compared with 3.9 percent in 2018. The IMF, however, expected current account deficit to narrow at 5.2 percent in 2019 and 4.3 percent in 2020 as opposed to 6.1 percent in 2018.
While Finance Minister Asad Umar said the economy has come back to stabilisation mode with foreign inflows of more than three billion dollar replenishing the country’s foreign exchange reserves, he said the country is still facing challenges, including stalled investment and narrow tax base.
The minister recently said the country is weeks away from securing an IMF bailout and hoped an agreement would be reached with the fund by late April or first half of May for a package of anywhere between $6 billion to $12 billion.
second since it secured a $6.6bn loan from the international body in 2013, as the country wrestles with a severe balance of payments crisis.
The IMF further kept projection for unemployment rate unchanged at 6.1 percent in 2019 compared with the previous year and ratcheted it up to 6.2 percent in 2020.
The IMF too remained pessimistic over Pakistan’s growth forecast in the medium term as the Fund projected growth at 2.5 percent in 2024.
Consumer inflation was projected at five percent and current account deficit at 5.4 percent in 2024.
The IMF foresaw deceleration in growth in the region to 1.5 percent in 2019, before recovering to about 3.2 percent in 2020.
“The medium-term outlook for the Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan, and Pakistan region is largely shaped by the outlook for fuel prices, needed adjustment to correct macroeconomic imbalances in certain economies, and geopolitical tensions,” it said in the report, “World Economic Outlook: Growth Slowdown, Precarious Recovery”.
MOVIES CULVER PLYMOUTH -REES: The Jane Austen Book Club, 7. -SHOWLAND CINEMA: Michael Clayton, 5, 7:30. Saw IV, 5:10, 7:20. The Comebacks, 5:20, 7:40. The Game Plan, 5:10, 7:40. 30 Days of Night, 5:10, 7:30. THREE OAKS WARSAW -NORTH POINTE: Dan In Real Life, 5:15, 7:30. Saw IV, 5:25, 7:45. The Comebacks, 5:25, 7:30. The Game Plan, 5:10, 7:15. 30 Days of Night, 5:15, 7:35. We Own the Night, 5:15, 7:40. Michael Clayton, 5:15, 7:30. The Heartbreak Kid, 5:30, 7:40. 3:10 to Yuma, 5:15, 7:40. Times are subject to change. Please call theaters to confirm showtimes. The daily movie listings are posted each day in the Entertainment section of The Tribune's Web site at www.southbendtribune.com/entertainment.
Campers decorated the canoes that are now missing.
The mystery of the missing canoes remains unsolved, despite the offer of a $1,000 reward.
Six canoes, personally decorated by Incarnation Camp campers, have been missing for about a month and the camp open house happens on Saturday.
Someone stole the trailers that held six canoes that campers usually paddle around in all summer at the oldest co-ed camp in the county.
On April 28, staff members were getting ready for the 124th camping season to begin. They were checking Pioneer Village, the section of the Deep River camp reserved for teens when, to their surprise, they noticed the trailers missing, camp officials said.
Six 17-foot Grumman Canoes that were locked onto a trailer, with the hitch removed, had vanished.
On paper, the canoes and the trailers are worth more than $14,000. However, to the camp, they are irreplaceable.
Another day, another cybersecurity company to have on your radar—especially if you are concerned about things like corporate espionage, financial fraud, and international hackers stealing your intellectual property.
These are huge problems, and Onapsis is trying to do something about it. Now, the Boston startup says it has raised $17 million in Series B funding, led by Evolution Equity Partners. Previous investor .406 Ventures also participated in the round, along with new investor Arsenal Venture Partners. The cash—some of which has been reported previously—brings Onapsis’s total raised to $30 million since its founding in 2009, the company says.
A small company like Onapsis will need every penny. What it does is secure SAP- and Oracle-based applications for big corporations. That means protecting software for enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, supply chain management, and business intelligence—areas that are quite vulnerable to hackers, particularly in the era of cloud-based models, mobile devices, and the Internet of Things.
It sounds like the startup’s security approach includes both threat detection and response, among other things—meaning it handles protection as well as what to do after you’ve been hacked. The company’s customers span fields such as retail, energy, manufacturing, and consulting. They include Bacardi, Levi’s, Nvidia, Sony, Verizon, and Westinghouse.
Onapsis is led by CEO and co-founder Mariano Nunez, a longtime computer and network security expert. The company says its revenue increased 130 percent year-over-year in 2014—granted, it’s a startup—and that it has helped SAP and Oracle solve more than 50 security vulnerability problems. Onapsis plans to grow to 100-plus employees by the end of 2015.
The company joins a full stable of Boston-area cybersecurity companies and organizations, including Bit9, CyberArk, Rapid7, Veracode, Resilient Systems, CounterTack, Cybereason, Digital Guardian, Recorded Future, Sqrrl, Threat Stack, RSA (part of EMC), and IBM Security.
Millennials prefer digital video to traditional television.
Never mind the avocado toast tropes — if you really want to know how Millennials differ from the generations before them, look at their TV viewing habits.
Though Gen X and especially Baby Boomers continue to spend a great deal of time watching traditional TV, the number of Millennials who watch it has declined. At the same time, they’re viewing more and more online video, so much that the number of Millennials who watch digital video now outnumbers those who watch traditional television.
That’s according to a new report from eMarketer, a research company, which found 64.2 million people born between 1981 and 1996 will watch streaming video or video downloaded onto a device at least once a month this year.
By contrast, 59 million will watch traditional TV at least once a month. That means almost 9% more Millennials stream video than watch TV.
While TV viewing is forecast to drop over the next few years, eMarketer says online video consumption numbers will grow from 64.2 million this year to 64.8 million in 2019 and 65.1 million by 2020. Over these three years, about 89% of Millennials will watch online video.
So what is leading to the gains for digital over traditional? So many factors play into it, of course, and the general move from analog anything to digital everything certainly plays a role (the same has been seen for traditional media such as newspaper and magazines losing readers and ad revenue to the web).
But other interesting cultural touchpoints also contribute to the trend among Millennials.
Watching online video doesn’t necessarily mean Millennials are bingeing Netflix.
The eMarketer report notes that Millennials also get exposed to lots of video through social media, which they use heavily. You see a video in someone’s tweet, and you click on it. That means many Millennials may not even seek out this video on their own via YouTube or other sites. They’re just noticing it and reacting.
"Because younger millennials have a high social network usage, they are typically exposed to more frequent video viewing on platforms like Snapchat and Instagram, which are heavy on video content,” notes Monica Peart, senior director of forecasting at eMarketer.
This is a slowly developing trend, but Gen Z already exhibits similar (and even exacerbated) viewing tendencies, and that means the broadcast and cable networks will need to make changes to their business models down the line. Undoubtedly they're already thinking about it, and it will be fascinating to see what unfolds.
The 23-year-old shortstop is fulfilling his immense potential game by game and hit by hit.
Xander Bogaerts has been playing spectacular baseball for a full year now. His brilliance is becoming familiar and expected. Stardom is his. The same goes for Mookie Betts, the Red Sox’ other dynamic 23-year-old. Superstardom beckons for both.
Batting average/On-base percentage/Slugging percentage: .340/.378/.489.
Anyone still prefer Jose Iglesias?
Good thing Ben Cherington held on to his prospects too long, right? If only he’d swapped Bogaerts, Betts (who, since I know you want to know, hit 25 homers, 43 doubles, 10 triples, stole 21 bases, drove in 92 runs, and slashed .303/.347/.470 over the same year span) and/or Jackie Bradley Jr. for veteran help when he had the chance. I wonder how many times Cherington had to tell then-Phillies GM Ruben Amaro that he wasn’t getting Bogaerts or Betts for Cliff Lee or Cole Hamels. I wonder if it was ever tempting when Bogaerts and Bradley in particular struggled and Red Sox fell to the pits of the AL East standings.
This is why you wait, people. This, right here, right now. There is no greater progressive satisfaction as a baseball fan than watching touted young players develop into franchise cornerstones. When those players are well-rounded, charismatic, and easy to root for, it’s even better. This is what it must have been like to watch Rice and Lynn in the summer of ’75.
Bogaerts was the most touted of the three. But this season, he’s been somewhat overshadowed, first by Bradley’s torrid start and then his hitting streak, and lately by Betts’s surge that included a three-homer showcase Tuesday night. That’s changing now, with the help of the hitting streak and the realization nationally that he is one of the premier players in the American League at any age or position.
With that realization, hopefully, comes the acknowledgment of how far he has come – and how hard he must have worked to get to this spectacular here and now. Even for a prospect who was rated among of the best in baseball during his rapid rise through the Red Sox’ system – not to mention one who showed a-decade-beyond-his-years poise in moving to a new position and helping the Red Sox win a World Series within two months of his arrival in the majors — it is remarkable how far Bogaerts has come and how quickly he has achieved genuine excellence.
Two years ago – more recently than that, even – we weren’t sure he would be an adequate defensive shortstop; now he is both steady and occasionally spectacular, a good-field, great-hit, all-around player who merits the position for his defense alone. Even last year, when he raised his batting average 80 points (.320) from the previous season (.240), there lingered a legitimate if impatient question regarding whether he would hit for power. He had seven home runs a year ago; this season he has six already, including five during this 24-game hitting streak in which he’s driven in 17 runs, scored 22, and slashed .393/.430/.607.
Bogaerts is a star among young stars. He has a mirror image of A-Rod’s swing and is en route to surpassing young Derek Jeter’s production. He’s having the season Carlos Correa was supposed to have and leads AL All-Star voting at his position. He has exceptional talent and a determination to get the most out of those gifts. With Mookie Betts and Jackie Bradley Jr., Bogaerts is the Red Sox’ future thriving in the present. This, when the moment comes and stardom arrives, is what all the waiting is for.
Based on complaint from one paper mill, newsprint users are hurt.
President Donald Trump’s zeal to put America first, particularly on trade, instead is dealing a financial blow to the already-struggling newspaper and publishing industries, thanks to his Commerce Department’s move to enact punitive tariffs on imports of Canadian newsprint.
The Commerce Department’s decision, released Tuesday, will impose “countervailing duties,” designed to offset perceived unfair subsidies by Canada, to be collected by U.S. Customs officers at the border. Thankfully, officials opted for a tariff significantly below the 50 percent rate sought by North Pacific Paper’s owners, One Rock Capital Partners.
The new duties will range from 4 to 10 percent — still a substantial bite that will be widely felt, since Canada is the world’s largest exporter of the uncoated groundwood paper used to produce newspapers, books and other paper goods, with U.S. imports of $1.27 billion in 2016. And the bite could get bigger. Commerce has yet to announce the results of an antidumping investigation that could produce more penalties. Many small newspapers could be crippled by such punitive tariffs.
In some instances, taking a strong stand against countries dumping underpriced products on the U.S. market to undercut American companies is warranted. But care must be taken not to go overboard, as is the case with groundwood paper. The Commerce Department is supposed to watch out for American businesses, not kneecap them to create favorable conditions for a single entity.
The trade actions taken in the past year have struck at some of this country’s most venerable trading partners, from every corner of the globe. Steel wire rods from South Africa, polyester fabric from China, tool chests from Vietnam, mechanical tubing from Germany, plywood from China — all have become targets of a Commerce Department that announces investigations sometimes at the rate of two a day, based on single complaints or no complaints at all.
In another break from past practice, this administration is not waiting for U.S. industries to file complaints, but is opening, in its own grandiose term, “historic, self-initiated” trade investigations. Overall, the Commerce Department has initiated 82 investigations cases in the past year — an increase of 58 percent over the previous year.
Canada is this country’s top export market, and U.S.-Canadian trade totaled $627 billion in 2016, supporting an estimated 1.6 million jobs. Yet it has been singled out by the Trump administration for penalties on its softwood lumber, passenger aircraft and now newsprint. Even before this latest decision, Canada had already filed a complaint with the World Trade Organization on how the U.S. is applying countervailing and antidumping duties. All of this comes as Canada, the U.S. and Mexico head to Montreal later this month for a critical round of talks on what seems an increasingly fragile NAFTA agreement.
Before those meetings, the Trump administration should step back from its all-out enforcement spree to consider the collateral damage it’s causing to American businesses, let alone international trade relations.
COLUMBUS, GA (WTVM) – New details are underway following a police chase that ended in a crash on Macon Road.
Columbus police arrested 20-year-old Jaynile Harrison on multiple charges after fleeing from police Monday night.
According to a report, an officer found out that the blue Ford Taurus that Harrison was driving was recently stolen in South Columbus. That’s when police continued to chase the vehicle and the vehicle ran through the red light at Macon Road and Midtown Drive.
Harrison was also speeding at 70 miles per hour in a 40-mile per hour zone, according to officials. The vehicle then ran through the red light without stopping on Macon Road and Auburn Avenue.
As the vehicle failed to maintain its lane on Macon Road and South Dixon Drive, the Ford Taurus struck a 2018 Nissan Versa causing damage to both vehicles.
The driver of the Nissan sustained an injury to her arm and was taken to Piedmont Columbus Regional.
CALGARY—Nearly 50 restaurants in the city are duking it out for the title of best burger.
The second annual YYC Burger Battle starts Friday and runs still June 24. The rules state that burgers must include some kind of protein and must be an original creation that isn’t featured on the restaurant’s regular menu. Guests can vote for their favourite burger up until June 24.
Kai said the event gives chefs a chance to explore their creativity while also raising money for a good cause.
Empire Provisions, a deli and cafe in Calgary’s southwest, has a PB&J burger lined up for the event. Owner Karen Kho said the Burger Battle has been a fun excuse to experiment in the kitchen.
“Everyone has had a burger and is familiar with it, so when you get to tweek it just a little bit and explore a creative take on it, that’s really the great part of it,” said Kho.
Kho said the competition also serves as a great way to showcase Alberta-grown products.