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She and other oil industry lobbyists and executives are modern day John Muirs and Rachel Carsons who must be worshipped for their dedication to fish, water, the environment and the public trust! Not only that, but Reheis Boyd and the WSPA staff should receive First Amendment awards for their outstanding efforts in defe...
I hope you are as moved as I was by this stellar opinion piece. Go Big Oil! Go WSPA!
The following opinion editorial was authored by WSPA President Catherine Reheis-Boyd and was originally published in the San Francisco Chronicle on December 5, 2014.
One of the underlying tenets of our cherished right to free speech is that everyone is entitled to it — even people with whom we disagree.
It seems fitting — indeed essential — to remember this important principle as the city of Berkeley and the city and county of San Francisco debate whether to compel service station owners in those Bay Area cities to display so-called “climate change labels” on their gas pumps.
Numerous organizations and notable individuals seem to believe that global climate change can be “fixed” simply by adopting punitive policies and confiscatory taxes on the American oil industry.
They are, of course, wrong on the politics and wrong on the facts. Service station operators and oil companies in the United States are not “causing” global climate to change. Seven billion people who have, or aspire to have, energy-intensive comforts, conveniences and mobility over a century of unprecedented global in...
Let me be clear: Our opposition to pump warning labels is not about denying climate change. Frankly, there isn’t much debate about whether the climate is changing. But there is enormous controversy and debate about how best to address the threat of global warming and how we as a global community are going to share in t...
And that is why forcing businesses to display signs promoting government’s opinions on climate change cannot be justified as “warnings.” They are, in reality, unabashed political advertisements of these cities’ opposition to petroleum-based fuels. They touch on issues that are controversial and fundamentally political ...
Put simply, government cannot force people to promote its policies or ideologies no matter how strongly those views are held or how many people share them.
Every business — from the largest corporation to the smallest individual service station owner — is protected from laws that require them to espouse the government’s point of view on policy issues. They have a right to disagree with the government, they have a right to make their own statements about policy issues, and...
I also want to address the often-repeated comparison to warning labels on cigarettes. It is a false comparison and one that is an insult to the working families who rely on their vehicles to get to work, take their kids to school or deliver the products we depend on.
Cigarette warnings have been upheld by the courts as conveying clearly documented, uncontroversial individual health risks. There is little doubt about the direct and immediate health risk to the individual. In contrast, the relative causes and effects of global climate change, and what should be done about it, are mat...
What the politicians in Berkeley and San Francisco seem to miss is that many families and individuals — especially those who live in poorer communities — have limited transportation options, do not always have mass transit options to every destination, and cannot afford hybrid or electric cars.
As we approach 2015, the reality is simple: Gasoline-powered vehicles are still essential to the work, safety and well-being of ordinary, hard-working families and individuals.
Climate change is a complex problem and addressing it requires far more scientific understanding of the complex contributions of different sources and countries, necessary political debate at all levels of government, shared sacrifice, huge costs, and ultimately, global collaboration. Symbolic gestures that trample on ...
There comes a moment in every professional’s life when they are asked to a business lunch. Whether it’s with colleagues, your boss or subordinates, or a whole group of people you don’t know that well, the fact remains that this situation is fraught with potential social gaffes. Luckily, we created a PSA to show everyon...
HYDERABAD: Denizens in the twin cities have been asked to protect themselves against mosquito-borne diseases after official figures showed Hyderabad as the worst affected when it comes to malaria, and second worst affected district in terms of the dengue cases.
Apart from the dreaded swine flu virus affecting many in the city, dengue and malaria cases continue to tumble in large numbers, making it a deadly concoction of viruses. In the last two weeks, Hyderabad recorded 40 cases of malaria, while 70 dengue cases were recorded in the same period.
Mahbubnagar recorded the highest number of dengue cases with nearly 150 in the last two weeks alone, authorities said. “Mahabunagar is also having a spurt in swine flu cases currently-.Dengue is also expected to increase in the district as well as Hyderabad city due to the recent rainfall and fluctuation in temperature...
Dengue and malaria cases are expected to go up further due to the recent rounds of rainfall and subsequent waterlogging in various parts of the city. The viruses thrive in lower temperatures and authorities expect the numbers to go up in the next two weeks.
About 1436 cases of malaria, 2644 cases of dengue and 244 cases of chikungunya were recorded across the state, since the beginning of the year up to the second week of October.
It doesn’t feel like fall, but apples have started showing up at farmers markets. Pat Tallman of Gillespie, Ill., shares her recipe for German apple cake, and Joyce Rushing of Illinois sent in her recipe for apple bread. Thanks to both.
It doesn’t feel like fall, but apples have started showing up at farmers markets.
Pat Tallman of Gillespie, Ill., shares her recipe for German apple cake, and Joyce Rushing of Illinois sent in her recipe for apple bread. Thanks to both.
Beat the eggs and oil until frothy. Add sugar and vanilla; blend well. Sift together flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon; add to egg mixture and mix well. Fold in nuts and apples. Bake 1 hour in greased 13-by-9-inch pan at 350 F. As soon as cake is done, spread on the icing. To make icing, blend all icing ingredients...
Sift flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon; beat in eggs. Add sugar, oil and vanilla. Fold in apple slices. Spoon into two greased and floured loaf pans. Bake at 350 degrees for one hour.
The Trading Post is a recipe-exchange column that runs every other week and is compiled by Kathryn Rem. Send recipes and recipe requests to the Trading Post, The State Journal-Register, P.O. Box 219, Springfield, IL 62705, fax to 788-1551 or email food@sj-r.com. Please include your name, city and daytime phone number.
Gold prices will surge to $1,800 an ounce by the end of this year, and silver will soar to $70 an ounce by March as physical demand climbs in Asia and investors seek a haven asset, Newedge USA LLC said.
“Gold is an excellent hedge in troubled times” as European and the U.S. leaders struggle to resolve debt woes, Mike Frawley, the global head of metals, said yesterday in an interview in New York. Demand for gold and silver will be “very strong long-term from Asia, and the economic trend in the West is improving,” he sa...
The gold forecast indicates a 13 percent rally from current levels. The metal climbed to a record $1,610.70 on July 19. The silver estimate means prices will jump 77 percent from yesterday’s closing price. Newedge, based in New York, was the biggest futures-commission merchant by a measure of customer assets on deposit...
Record investment demand for gold in India will keep climbing as higher incomes spur buying, Reliance Capital Asset Management, the operator of the country’s second-biggest fund backed by the metal, said last week. Chinese demand, which increased 32 percent in 2010, may double in the next 10 years, according to the Wor...
Industrial metals such as aluminum and copper will also benefit from robust demand in emerging markets, Frawley said. Aluminum may climb to $3,000 a metric ton in the first quarter, and copper will rise above $10,000 a ton, he said.
Yesterday, gold futures for August delivery fell $4.20, or 0.3 percent, to $1,596.90 on the Comex in New York. This month, the price rose for 10 straight sessions, the longest rally in 31 years, as debt concerns in the U.S. and Europe escalated.
Gold will climb to $1,900 by October, John Taylor, the founder of FX Concepts LLC in New York, the world’s largest currency hedge fund, said yesterday in an interview in London. His firm manages $8 billion.
Silver futures for September delivery dropped 66.3 cents, or 1.6 percent, to $39.558 yesterday. In January 1980, the metal climbed to a record $50.35. The price reached $49.845 on April 25.
On the London Metal Exchange, copper for delivery in three months declined $85, or 0.9 percent, to $9,755 a ton yesterday. On Feb. 15, the metal reached a record $10,190. Aluminum dropped $14, or 0.5 percent, to $2,536 a ton.
The Academy is seeking to appoint an innovative, well-qualified and experienced Network Manager who is committed to maintaining a consistently high standard of IT services across the Academy. The successful candidate will be responsible for managing all IT services as well as the IT team. They will have a proven track ...
Chelsea Academy has cutting edge IT facilities. Our network combines being powered by Google in the cloud with on site virtualized servers powered by Windows Server 2016 (Hyper-V) using a CISCO network infrastructure. The Academy has recently purchased brand new classroom and admin PC’s for the entire site and is curre...
The Network Manager will be expected to ensure that users experience a seamless secure experience 24 / 7 both on and offsite and holds all responsibility for the network.. Chelsea Academy is a rewarding place to work and we look forward to seeking a suitable candidate.
We hope that the application pack, along with the Academy’s website, gives you all of the information that you need to help you apply for a post here. Chelsea Academy is a great place to work and visitors often comment on the excellent behaviour of our students, the friendliness of our staff and the fantastic Academy b...
Chelsea Academy is a great place to work (we are one of the few schools in the country with Investors in People Gold, reaccredited in April 2017), our staff are friendly and supportive and we offer a whole range of professional development opportunities no matter what stage you are at in your career. We offer internal ...
Please visit our website for an application form that needs to be completed and returned to the Academy. Sorry but we do not accept CV’s. The deadline for applications is Monday 11th February 2019 at 12:00pm. Interviews will be held on Friday 15th February 2019.
It will assist the shortlisting process if applicants can address directly the criteria in the job description in their supporting statements.
If you have any further questions about this post, then please feel free to contact Anisha Yatally (HR Adviser) who will put you in contact with the relevant staff member. Visits to the Academy and / or requests for informal discussions with the Principal are welcome and can be arranged by Anisha.
US President Barack Obama's top administration officials has told a delegation of Indian business leaders that the growing economic ties of the world's largest economy with China would not be at the cost of India.
"America is very clear that they have to keep their engagement with China very strong, but the message (to us) is do not worry, it is not at the cost of India," Bharti Enterprises chairman Sunil Mittal, who is leading a visiting CII delegation of Indian CEOs, told PTI after meeting with top officials of the Obama admin...
"The relationship with India on a bilateral basis would be strengthened as we go forward," he said. "Overall we are very happy with the meetings," Mittal said.
The delegation held meetings with the state department and the White House, besides meeting the US corporate leadership, policy makers and think tanks.
"China and India are seen as two engines of growth, and should continue to grow," Mittal said referring to his meetings.
The CII delegation includes Hindustan Motors Ltd chairman C K Birla, CII mentor and Haldia Petrochemicals Chairman Tarun Das and Hero Honda Motors CEO and managing director Pawan Munjal among others.
Prominent among those the delegation met included Jim Steinberg, deputy secretary of state at the Foggy Bottom headquarters of state department.
At the White House, the delegation met National Economic Council director Lawrence Summers; the deputy assistant to Obama, Michael Froman, and deputy national security adviser.
The delegation attended a meeting with US corporate leadership organised by the CII and US India Business Council. It also had meeting with the former US ambassador to India, Robert Blackwill, and the former assistant secretary of state, Karl Inderfurth.
Snow and poor weather conditions have caused the postponement of football fixtures across the country.
Football League matches at Tranmere and Bradford and six games in Scotland have been called off so far.
Macclesfield Town's FA Cup tie with Wigan Athletic is set to go ahead after the club asked for volunteers to clear the snow at the Moss Rose ground.
All of the 12 FA Cup fourth round fixtures scheduled for Saturday go ahead as planned.
Dundee United's Scottish Premier League meeting with Ross County will go ahead after the Tannadice pitch passed a Saturday morning pitch inspection.
The Met Office forecast for Saturday is for the snow to gradually clear eastwards, with some sunshine later.
POORER school pupils living in Monmouthshire are being left behind by their peers with the county’s attainment gap the highest in Wales.
Only 18 per cent of pupils receiving free school meals (FSM) got A*-C grades in at least five GCSEs in 2017/18, making Monmouthshire the worst performing authority in Wales.
Meanwhile almost two thirds of non-FSM pupils reached the Level 2 inclusive threshold, which requires top marks in English, or Welsh first language, and Mathematics.
This means FSM pupils are less than half as likely to succeed as those who are better off, according to Welsh Government figures.
Labour councillor Dimitri Batrouni said this was “undeniable evidence” that children from poorer backgrounds are further disadvantaged under Conservative-controlled local authorities like Monmouthshire.
“These results are nothing short of a disgrace,” said the leader of the Labour opposition group.
“Monmouthshire also have had the worst attainment gap in Wales for the past four years.
Councillor Richard John, cabinet member for children and young people, said too few FSM pupils were securing at least five good GCSES “despite the best efforts of teachers, parents and learners”.
But he criticised Cllr Batrouni for “failing to recognise” that being FSM eligible hides a range of complex challenges that affect the progress of vulnerable learners.
“This Conservative-run Council is continuing to increase funding for schools because education remains our top priority,” said Cllr John.
“This year, we have made money available specifically to assist vulnerable learners in Year 11 with additional revision sessions and personalised support.
“This is despite Monmouthshire receiving the lowest per head funding of any council in Wales as well as the deepest budget cuts from the Welsh Government.
A Welsh Government spokesman that a child’s ability to fulfil their academic potential should not be determined by social or economic circumstances, such as where they live or parental income.
“Tackling the attainment gap and raising standards for all pupils is at the heart of our National Mission for education,” he added.
The visiting room at the federal penitentiary in Forrest City, Ark. is plain as a church basement — tile floor, cinder block walls. A mural in one corner depicting the New York skyline offers the only color. Inmates and their visitors stand in front of it and have their photographs taken for $1.50.
Most of the visitors are wives or girlfriends. They sit a few feet from the prisoner they came to visit in plastic chairs. There's no touching except for the hug hello and the hug goodbye. You have never seen men more focused on women than in a prison visiting room. Eye contact is intense and non-stop. Everyone looks e...
Into all this shuffles Morris Lynn Johnson, who was once more intense, more non-stop, more excited and energized than anyone in here. Except now he's closing in on 80.
Johnson robbed banks. He was real good at it. John Dillinger robbed two dozen banks. Morris Johnson, like Dillinger an Indiana man, robbed at least three dozen. Dillinger escaped from prison twice. Morris Johnson did it three times.
Twice Johnson threw together make-shift ladders and went over the 40-foot wall that surrounds the exercise yard at the maximum-security United States Penitentiary in Atlanta. The prison, built in the 19th century, had been broached just once before, in 1926. Johnson first took his chances with the guards in the gun tow...
A long line of criminals has sauntered and strutted through American history and been judged not simply jerks who take things that don't belong to them but instead daring risk-takers, rakish folk heroes with charm and good jaw lines: Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid, Jesse James, Billy the Kid, Bonnie and Clyde, Slick W...
Morris Johnson may be the end of that line.
He never saw himself that way. "I never tried to get in the papers or get famous," he said in a recent interview. "The more people knew what you looked like, the worse it was. You'd escape and then some old hotel clerk would recognize you? Nope." (Case in point: Johnson's photo was widely circulated for the first time ...
"Publicity was never your friend," Johnson said.
Yet he made good copy, great copy. Like during his arraignment in Indianapolis for a 1967 bank robbery he committed shortly after his first prison escape. He recognized Carolyn Pickering, who was the first woman to cover the crime beat for the Indianapolis Star, and brought her up to date on his exploits with enthusias...
He figured out a way again and again and became the city's most colorful criminal, and in some quarters its most likeable.
Johnson grew up one of seven children in a two-bedroom house at 4802 Beecher Street in the Drexel Gardens neighborhood on Indianapolis' westside. "Morris was a natural leader, almost like a businessman," said Bill Warren. A childhood friend of Morris' brother Leon and also a product of that hardscrabble neighborhood, W...
By 1960 police had identified Johnson, and Leon, as trouble, and they made frequent trips to the Johnson house, sirens blaring. But despite such disruptions to the peace, the Johnsons remained on good terms with their neighbors. "Morris Johnson was the leader and a good looking boy, and he was always a polite boy," sai...
In 1964, while imprisoned, Johnson confessed to police he'd committed hundreds of crimes including – and there's no proof of this – the looting of an appliance store of 10 televisions. These, he said, he gave to "poor people who didn't have TV sets to watch – I didn't need them."
But banks were the thing. In robbing them, Johnson almost always had a partner. Typically, the two men would arrive at a bank in a stolen car, leave the engine running and enter the bank wearing bandannas and sunglasses or ski masks. Johnson would have studied the bank's interior and its employees. He'd have a gun, and...
Even the police officers who chased Johnson seemed to get along with him.
"The investigators had great respect for him, and he did for them," said retired Indianapolis cop Lou Christ in an interview several years ago. "It's totally different than today. The motivation now is different; mostly it's a quick fix — they've got to have a little money. Morris Johnson's motivation was: He was a car...
But in Indianapolis' halls of power, Johnson was reviled.
Charles Boswell, the mayor from 1959-62, had clear and awful memories of Johnson even after 40 years. "Morris Johnson!" fumed Boswell in a phone interview in 2003, four years before he died. "Of course I remember Morris Johnson! He was running wild. He was a menace. When I was mayor we were so proud that the crime rate...
Boswell and the Marion County prosecutor, Phillip Bayt, complained loudly in the media that Johnson and his people over and over freed themselves by posting bonds – at one point Johnson was free on five bonds totaling $120,000 — then immediately committed more crimes to pay their lawyers. It was galling that Johnson, a...
And on top of all that rebelliousness and reknown, Johnson was handsome and self-confident. He was 6-feet tall, 170 pounds. He wore his hair slicked into a pompadour. His "10-Most-Wanted" poster described his eyes as "blue (unusually vivid blue)." He dressed snappily, in suits and sport coats he bought from Jack & Mack...
On Feb. 11, 1963, Sen. John C. Ruckelshaus grabbed at more than a swatch of cloth. That day the Republican representing Indianapolis introduced a bill in the Indiana General Assembly, clearly aimed at Johnson, that would make posting bond harder for people charged with committing crimes while free on bond. And the FBI ...
Johnson attempted to fight the power through the courts by seeking a restraining order against the police, the FBI, the mayor, even the governor of Indiana. The weird request was of course denied.
And two months later Johnson and a childhood friend and sometime "wheelman" named Frank Rance were convicted of robbing the Merchants National Bank & Trust Co. branch at 3115 English Ave. The government had lined up more than two dozen witnesses.
Johnson admits to robbing many, many banks, but even now, 50 years later, he insists he did not rob that bank. He still claims an associate named William Kindler was Rance's partner that day, and Kindler admitted it at the trial. Nevertheless Johnson was convicted and sentenced to 18 years.
It might have been the end. But it was only intermission.

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