Grant to library in Millvale will build facilities for disabled patrons

A donation of $5,000 from the John E. and Sue M. Jackson Charitable Trust has raised the total amount of grants, donations and revenues from fundraising events for the Millvale Community Library project to more than $196,000. The grant from the Jackson Charitable Trust, which is administered by the PNC Charitable Trust, will be used …

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Moses Lake dredging halted for a year – Columbia Basin Herald: News

MOSES LAKE – A revised budget cutting $69,000 for Moses Lake’sdredging was approved by the Moses Lake Irrigation andRehabilitation District’s Board of Directors. There is now $14,000 left in the 2012 budget for dredging. The new budget reduced the district’s $1.4 million budget to$830,250. It was proposed by new district board Chairman Mick Hansen andseconded …

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Winnetka Council meetings should return to Village Hall by February

By Kimberly Fornek January 10, 2012 3:38PM Construction worker Mark Pasquesi works on the ceiling of a new larger conference room in Winnetka Village Hall, which is undergoing a $4.2 million renovation. | Buzz Orr~Sun-Times Media storyidforme: 23943598 tmspicid: 8818969 fileheaderid: 3938900 Article Extras Updated: January 12, 2012 4:51AM The Winnetka Village Council hopes to …

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Auditor reports on LEST numbers

Jasper County Auditor Richard Webster’s office provided more precise numbers for the controversial Law Enforcement Sales Tax grant fund at Tuesday’s Jasper County Commission meeting. Assistant Auditor Doris Boyd, who keeps the books for the LEST grant board, told commissioners that $174,415 is available for grants to the smaller police departments in Jasper County in …

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Ingrid Callot and her Tips on Weeding Out the Garden

After decomposing the organic waste in the kitchen, Ingrid Callot has also prepared some tips in managing the weeds out of the garden. Ingrid Callot has three main suggestions when it comes to backyard gardening. The first suggestion is that a gardener should weed early and often. This is because most kinds of crops need …

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Grant to library in Millvale will build facilities for disabled patrons

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1327711329 58 Grant to library in Millvale will build facilities for disabled patrons

A donation of $5,000 from the John E. and Sue M. Jackson Charitable Trust has raised the total amount of grants, donations and revenues from fundraising events for the Millvale Community Library project to more than $196,000.

The grant from the Jackson Charitable Trust, which is administered by the PNC Charitable Trust, will be used to complete handicapped-accessible bathrooms and the related plumbing.

Library board president Brian Wolovich recognized the grant writer — Lisa Seel of Shaler, a member of the finance and fundraising committee — who said PNC steered library officials to apply to Jackson for the grant.

She was recognized at a Jan. 5 meeting in the library site at 213 Grant Ave.

The library project has received $101,200 in grants and $95,525 in donations and fundraising revenues since it started in 2007.

Library officials also estimated that they have received nearly $95,000 worth of labor from volunteers.

“It will keep construction moving forward as we make our final push to finish the library,” Mr. Wolovich said of the latest grant.

Among the recent donations and fundraisers were the Pittsburgh Foundation’s Day of Giving, which generated $8,000; an anonymous donation of drywall for the ceilings valued at $1,100; and $1,500 in installation labor donated by Absolute WIN construction company and contractor Jan Carlos.

Several other volunteer undertakings are being planned.

Alex Knochel, 16, of Ross proposes to build a storage shed in the spring to house library lawn and garden tools and supplies for his Eagle Scout project.

Tom Walker, an artist for Mullen advertising agency in Pittsburgh, created a shed drawing from which architect Richard Schmitz made construction drawings, and John Kelly, owner of Millvale-based Kelly Art Glass, provided $250 seed money to get fundraising for the project started.

Alex needs approval from leadership of his Troop 161 based at Berkeley Hills Lutheran Church in Ross and the district advancement chairman before he can proceed, according to his father, Lawrence Knochel, who said he grew up in Millvale and considers the library “a worthy endeavor for the community to help residents.”

Also, Pittsburgh Cares recruited more than 40 volunteers from UPMC, North Way Christian Community and individuals to work at the library in groups for two weeks as part of its Martin Luther King Jr. Day program, “A Day On, Not Off.”

Library opening is dependent on funding, Mr. Wolovich said, adding that the major work left to be done is completion of the heating, air-conditioning and sprinkler system and the facade.

To that end, grant requests have been submitted to the Grable and Portiuncula foundations and are being prepared for the Pittsburgh and McCune foundations, as well as the Heinz Endowment. In a collaboration with Carlow University, students in a fall grant-writing class helped research and draft the latter four applications.

“Collectively, they could help finish the project,” Mr. Wolovich said of the grants, if approved.

Also announced were plans for the future library to host GED classes, which allow students who pass their high school diploma equivalency test to receive high school diplomas.

Participants must be at least 17.

A location is being sought for the classes until the library opens, he said.

For information, contact Mr. Wolovich at or 412-822-7081.

The Millvale Community Library project is entering its fifth year.

The Grant Avenue property was purchased in 2008.

Workdays continue every Saturday from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., and volunteers are welcome.

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Moses Lake dredging halted for a year – Columbia Basin Herald: News

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1327710128 53 Moses Lake dredging halted for a year Columbia Basin Herald: News

MOSES LAKE – A revised budget cutting $69,000 for Moses Lake’sdredging was approved by the Moses Lake Irrigation andRehabilitation District’s Board of Directors.

There is now $14,000 left in the 2012 budget for dredging.

The new budget reduced the district’s $1.4 million budget to$830,250.

It was proposed by new district board Chairman Mick Hansen andseconded by board director Rich Archer Tuesday night.

Board director Ron Covey voted against the revised budget.

Hansen announced plans to put the project on hold for at least oneyear after overhauling it.

“We will still have several years of work for the dredge, workingin areas where it is too wet to work in the dry, also opening upany bowls we may create while working in the dry, trapping fishduring the next draw-down of the lake,” he said.

The district will immediately start seeking a revision to thepresent dredging permit.

“The City of Moses Lake has asked for a backup plan, maybe thiswill qualify,” he commented.

To complete the job, he plans to surplus smaller pieces ofequipment for larger equipment.

He announced the plans as part of a mission statement for thedistrict, which Covey called “Mick’s mission statement.”

Hansen presented the document at the district’s board meeting andtold Covey it would catch him cold.

He later told the Columbia Basin Herald he typed Covey’s name onthe statement, rather than leave it off, and that Archer agreedwith it.

A woman in the audience asked Hansen what just happened, pointingout he came up with a mission statement his board hadn’t seen. Shedidn’t identify herself to the audience.

Another female audience member said it “slayed her” that Hansen hadthe audacity to put Covey’s name on the mission statement.

Curt Carpenter, the district’s general manager, said his bigconcern involved the amended budget meeting the district’sassessment formula as approved by the state Attorney General.

He said the budget needed to be looked at more in depth, as itwouldn’t meet an audit

The district’s attorney, Chris Ries, clarified that a certainamount per assessed authority has to be used for certainitems.

“I think what Curt is saying, is we have to avoid dipping intorestricted funds,” Ries said.

Audience member Laurie Odegaard said she didn’t vote, but wasinvolved with the irrigation district’s Water Quality Institute forschool-aged children. She asked the board to reconsider its plansto cut the entire $8,000 in funding for the institute. The boardlater decided the program would keep $4,000 of itsfunding.             

Odegaard pointed out the institute served more than 90 kidsannually, including students in public and private school. Theinstitute isn’t a school district issue, she contended.

Through the institute, kids learn about plants, wildlife andfish.

“Kids are doing real science on our lake,” she commented.

Community donors contributed toward student scholarship money, shesaid.

Archer said he would like to see Odegaard, as an educator, to askthe Moses Lake School District to join the irrigation district topay assessments and help fund the program.

He said it costs the irrigation district a lot of money to put onthe institute.

The new budget included substituting a water main and well approvalplans at Connelly Park with $90,000 for a new mobile home for apark ranger.

The park ranger would be allowed to live at the park rent free, inexchange for possible maintenance or security duties and keepingthe park open for longer hours.

The meeting was continued to 7 p.m., Tuesday, at 932 E Wheeler Rd.,Moses Lake, to hear reports. It is estimated to be about two hours,Hansen said.

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Winnetka Council meetings should return to Village Hall by February

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By Kimberly Fornek January 10, 2012 3:38PM

Winnetka Council meetings should return to Village Hall by February

Construction worker Mark Pasquesi works on the ceiling of a new larger conference room in Winnetka Village Hall, which is undergoing a $4.2 million renovation. | Buzz Orr~Sun-Times Media

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Updated: January 12, 2012 4:51AM

The Winnetka Village Council hopes to be meeting in its new Council Chamber by early February. That will signal the completion of the first phase of the renovation of the 85-year-old Village Hall, at 510 Green Bay Road.

The first phase has been the most extensive, lasting seven months so far. It included all the exterior work: a new roof, renovating the clock tower, tuck-pointing and replacing limestone on the walls. The changes, however, may not be very apparent.

“When you rehab an older building, it is not supposed to look brand new,” said Michael D’Onofrio, Winnetka’s director of community development. “You are restoring it to what it looked like originally.”

The guts of the building, however, will be new and improved: a new heating and air conditioning system, fire-suppression sprinklers throughout the entire building, and updated technology in offices, conference rooms and the Council Chamber.

The first phase started in June and covered the basement and second floor. The men’s and women’s washrooms were remodeled in the basement and a new computer room was built.

The staff in the village manager’s office only recently returned to their updated space on the second floor, from the trailers outside the hall where they worked for the second half of 2011.

Other improvements on the second floor include “a little larger” conference room for staff meetings, and a new video studio, D’Onofrio said. “There’ll be four new permanent cameras” in the Council Chamber. The cameraman will control them remotely from a small studio on the same floor.

Technology improvements in the Council Chamber include new screens positioned so PowerPoint presentations will be more visible to the public. The village trustees will have new computer screens on the dais, so they will be able to watch presentations without having to turn around or change seats.

The benches for the public are being refinished to match the chamber walls, and then reupholstered. The woodwork on the walls will be cleaned and polished. All of this work is scheduled to be finished by the end of January or early February, D’Onofrio said. “But it’s construction, there can always be snafus.”

Currently, all employees who worked in Village Hall have returned. But in early February, the second phase, a complete renovation of the finance department on the first floor, will start. The finance department holds four offices and 10 workstations. While walls are being demolished and work continues below, the Council Chamber will be open for public meetings. Renovating the finance department is expected to take eight to 10 weeks.

The project’s final phase in the spring will require D’Onofrio and his co-workers in the community development department to vacate their offices on the ground floor, so the new sprinkler and heating and ventilation systems can be installed.

In December, the Village Council approved spending $132,700 for new furniture in the finance department, Council Chambers, employee lunchroom and other areas, which was about $8,500 more than budgeted. Overall, the project is within its $4,190,000 budget, D’Onofrio reported.

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27

Auditor reports on LEST numbers

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1327707730 42 Auditor reports on LEST numbers

Jasper County Auditor Richard Webster’s office provided more precise numbers for the controversial Law Enforcement Sales Tax grant fund at Tuesday’s Jasper County Commission meeting.

Assistant Auditor Doris Boyd, who keeps the books for the LEST grant board, told commissioners that $174,415 is available for grants to the smaller police departments in Jasper County in 2012, down from $283,133.91 that was available in 2011.

Boyd said the 2011 number included a large amount of money, $126,455.06, left over from the years 2006-2010, and an allocation of $156,678.85 by the commissioners in the 2011 budget.

The 2012 number includes $156,133,00 allocated by the commissioners, $17,330.86 in unexpected sales tax revenue, possibly a result of people making purchases to replace cars and other items destroyed in the May 22 Joplin tornado, and $991.82 in carryover from 2011.

Boyd said looking deeper into the numbers of the grant fund can be complicated because of how the auditor’s office lists line items in the fund.

She said the fund is collecting additional revenue each month as sales tax receipts, but the amount actually available for grants is set at the beginning of each year when the commissioners set the county’s budget.

Boyd said balance in the LEST grant fund on Dec. 31, 2011 was $242,084.80, including $67,669.11 in unspent grants awarded in 2011.

Boyd said the county’s entire budget was audited in 2011 by Mense, Churchwell and Mense, Certified Public Accountants.

“The results of that audit were presented to this commission in September by the firm,” Boyd said. “A separate audit was conducted in June, 2011 of the Law Enforcement Sales Tax Grant Fund by the same firm at the request of the newly-formed grant board. The results of that audit confirmed and agreed with the records of the Auditor’s office. I have both of these audit reports here for public viewing.”

RFPs The Jasper County Detention Center on West Sixth Street in Carthage is getting some much needed attention as officials review three requests for proposals from three companies to make needed repairs at the jail.

Jasper County Presiding Commissioner John Bartosh said Sheriff Archie Dunn, Capt. Becky Stevens and Jail Maintenance Supervisor Craig Lund are reviewing three sets of plans to repair the jail’s electronic security and fire alarm system and sprinkler system and repair doors and locks throughout the building.

Bartosh said he hopes the commissioners and sheriff can agree to a plan and issue a request for bids to companies next week.

Bartosh said the current proposals only address security and mechanical issues. The county will look at adding beds to the jail in a separate project sometime in the future.

Jasper County Auditor Richard Webster’s office provided more precise numbers for the controversial Law Enforcement Sales Tax grant fund at Tuesday’s Jasper County Commission meeting. Assistant Auditor Doris Boyd, who keeps the books for the LEST grant board, told commissioners that $174,415 is available for grants to the smaller police departments in Jasper County in 2012, down from $283,133.91 that was available in 2011. Boyd said the 2011 number included a large amount of money, $126,455.06, left over from the years 2006-2010, and an allocation of $156,678.85 by the commissioners in the 2011 budget. The 2012 number includes $156,133,00 allocated by the commissioners, $17,330.86 in unexpected sales tax revenue, possibly a result of people making purchases to replace cars and other items destroyed in the May 22 Joplin tornado, and $991.82 in carryover from 2011. Boyd said looking deeper into the numbers of the grant fund can be complicated because of how the auditor’s office lists line items in the fund. She said the fund is collecting additional revenue each month as sales tax receipts, but the amount actually available for grants is set at the beginning of each year when the commissioners set the county’s budget. Boyd said balance in the LEST grant fund on Dec. 31, 2011 was $242,084.80, including $67,669.11 in unspent grants awarded in 2011. Boyd said the county’s entire budget was audited in 2011 by Mense, Churchwell and Mense, Certified Public Accountants. “The results of that audit were presented to this commission in September by the firm,” Boyd said. “A separate audit was conducted in June, 2011 of the Law Enforcement Sales Tax Grant Fund by the same firm at the request of the newly-formed grant board. The results of that audit confirmed and agreed with the records of the Auditor’s office. I have both of these audit reports here for public viewing.” RFPs The Jasper County Detention Center on West Sixth Street in Carthage is getting some much needed attention as officials review three requests for proposals from three companies to make needed repairs at the jail. Jasper County Presiding Commissioner John Bartosh said Sheriff Archie Dunn, Capt. Becky Stevens and Jail Maintenance Supervisor Craig Lund are reviewing three sets of plans to repair the jail’s electronic security and fire alarm system and sprinkler system and repair doors and locks throughout the building. Bartosh said he hopes the commissioners and sheriff can agree to a plan and issue a request for bids to companies next week. Bartosh said the current proposals only address security and mechanical issues. The county will look at adding beds to the jail in a separate project sometime in the future.

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Ingrid Callot and her Tips on Weeding Out the Garden

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1327705331 85 Ingrid Callot and her Tips on Weeding Out the Garden

After decomposing the organic waste in the kitchen, Ingrid Callot has also prepared some tips in managing the weeds out of the garden.

Ingrid Callot has three main suggestions when it comes to backyard gardening. The first suggestion is that a gardener should weed early and often. This is because most kinds of crops need weeding at least three times a week. Such frequency is needed to enhance the growth and quality of crops. According to her, weeding should be done every five or seven days after the sowing date.

Weeding is a very significant gardening activity since it provides more space, water, and nutrients for the vegetable crops. In agriculture, the process of eliminating the unnecessary weeds in a garden plot falls under the methods of weeding control. Several methods of weeding control are ploughing, use of herbicides, stale seed bed technique, use of several organic methods, and thermal methods.

Ploughing is the basic method of weeding. It is done by cutting the roots of the annual weeds. Herbicides are classified as contact, systemic, soil borne, and pre-emergent. These methods differ in terms of their ability to target a particular plant tissue for chemical spray. Stale seed bed technique is done by cultivating the soil and leaving the area unplanted for a week or more while the organic methods are use in several organic situations. Such organic methods include drip irrigation, manual pulling of weeds, mechanical tilling around the plants, ploughing, crop rotation, and weed mat. On the other hand, thermal methods are done by heating up the soil to prevent the growth of several weeds.

Ingrid Callot’s second suggestion is that is practical to plant crops that are perennial. Perennial plants are plants that live for more than two years through vegetative production rather than seeding. Perennial plants have special forms of stems and crowns that allow them to survive during cold and dry seasons. Though these plants have longer harvesting time compared to others, she pointed out that perennial crops are more practical to plant than the other types of crops. This is because perennial crops only require a minimal frequency of weeding and fertilizing every year. Since weeding and fertilizing will only be done once a year, a gardener will save more time and money. Some examples of perennial plants are Jerusalem artichokes, asparagus rhubarb, horseradish, chives, eggplant, okra, potato, sea kale, and taro. Some of her lists also include Shallot, Sorrel, Rakkyo, spinach, sweet potatoes, ground nut, hog nut, konjac, and milkweed.

Planting a variety of perennial plants is also beneficial not only for the gardener but also for the ecological system. Because of the deep and extensive roots, perennial plants are very helpful in preventing erosion and weed control. Likewise, these plants are also useful in capturing excessive amount of dissolved nitrogen in the ground. Excessive nitrogen is known to be poisonous for crops since it mainly contributes in the contamination of ground and surface.

Early and often harvesting of crops is Ingrid Callot’s third gardening suggestion. Accordingly, harvesting the crops before its full maturity will keep the vegetable production longer. Aside from that, she also pointed out that harvesting often will provide the gardener increased profits from the harvested crops.

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Montana’s Renewable Energy Storage

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1327704126 98 Montanas Renewable Energy Storage

January 2, 2012 – Vol.16 No.42

MONTANA’S RENEWABLE ENERGY STORAGE. by Bruce Mulliken, Green Energy News

This may sound like a skipping record. (For those of you who remember what a record is anyway.) I’ve said it over and over. Intermittent renewable energies need energy storage. Badly. To compete with 24/7 fossil fuel and nuclear power, wind, solar, tidal or wave energies need to be linked energy storage devices or facilities so they can provide power nonstop.

Right now there is no one technology that stands out in the pack as being a universal energy storage solution. That’s OK. Like the renewable resources themselves, energy storage technology probably has to match the location and type of renewable generation employed.

The more energy storage projects get built, the closer it becomes mainstream. Where energy storage is high-technology oriented, such as state-of-the-art batteries, more installations will eventually translate into lower costs.

Thanks to the “Montana Means Energy” e-newsletter from the Montana Energy Promotion and Development Division of that state’s Department of Commerce, here’s news of three energy storage projects in that state, and one with Montana-based technology.

Utility company NorthWestern Energy has signed a lease agreement with Beacon Power Corporation for a one-megawatt Beacon Smart Energy Matrix flywheel system to be installed at NorthWestern’s Dave Gates Generating Station at Mill Creek. The 150 MW natural gas fired facility, near the town of Anaconda, was designed to function as a regulating resource capable of precise load following. That is, Dave Gates will provide a smooth flow of electricity, including that from intermittent renewables, to the grid. The flywheel system will help smooth that flow.

Montana Means Energy describes the technology:

“Flywheel energy storage works by accelerating a cylindrical assembly called a rotor (flywheel) to a very high speed and maintaining the energy in the system as rotational energy. The energy is converted back by slowing down the flywheel. The flywheel system itself is a kinetic or mechanical battery, spinning at very high speeds to store energy that is instantly available when needed.”

“Instantly available” are the key words here. When the grid needs power there is no waiting with flywheels. Flywheels also have the ability to power up or “recharge” themselves very rapidly, unlike electrochemical batteries that can take hours.

Beacon Power, you may have heard, is under bankruptcy reorganization, but not liquidation. It can still do business.

Next up are two pumped energy storage facilities to be built as part of the massive Wind Spirit project being developed by Grasslands Renewable Energy.

Wind Spirit is a 3000 MW integrated energy transmission, energy storage and marketing solution under development for the Northern Plains states. The plan is to utilized renewable energies, mostly wind from in geographically diverse areas, and send power from them through a innovative transmission collector system would manage the intermittent wind resource through several energy storage applications. Wind Spirit will deliver 1,000 megawatts of consistent 24/7 power to areas across North America. Energy storage at those pumped storage facilities will play a big role in the project.

Let’s let Montana Means Energy describe the pumped storage projects:

“Both projects are closed loop pumped-storage hydroelectric projects that utilize the natural topography of landscapes near existing transmission lines to create pumped hydroelectric storage systems. These storage facilities will firm variable electric generation from renewable energy resources. Each project will consist of two lined reservoirs, a buried pipeline with reversible turbines, and connector transmission lines in order to use low-cost energy during off-peak hours to pump water from the reservoir lower in elevation to a reservoir at a higher elevation. During peak hours, when the price of electricity is higher, water is then released from the upper reservoir and pushed through turbines to generate power to be sold on the grid. Coffin Butte is a 250 MW capacity project while Gordon Butte is a 400 MW project. Environmental and engineering studies have been conducted for the Gordon Butte project; the Coffin Butte project is currently conducting environmental and engineering studies.”

The final energy storage project as actually in Minnesota, but it utilizes technology provided by a Montana company. There Juhl Wind Inc. recently signed a Letter of Intent with Zinc Air Inc. (ZAI) for the installation of a 1 megawatt advanced energy storage system. Juhl Wind plans to install the system at its recently acquired Woodstock Hills wind farm located near the its headquarters in Woodstock, Minnesota.

Zinc air technology (a favorite of this editor) is a battery or fuel cell technology the includes atmospheric air (or really the oxygen in the air) in its electrochemistry. The big advantage of zinc air is the potential for very low cost. Unlike lithium, zinc is plentiful on the planet and is easy to obtain and work with. Current, the most common use for zinc air batteries is on the small scale: It makes a great hearing aid battery. In the past, though, there have been zinc air powered experimental cars, trucks and buses as well as zinc air portable generators.

In battery form, zinc air cells can be disposable (as in those hearing aid batteries) or be recharged electrically. Zinc air batteries can also be flow batteries. ZAI will be providing this zinc air variety to Juhl Wind. Wikipedia describes flow batteries as “a form of rechargeable battery in which electrolyte containing one or more dissolved electroactive species flows through an electrochemical cell that converts chemical energy directly to electricity.”

In fuel cell form, the zinc is a fuel that is consumed (actually oxidized) and the devices are refueled mechanically by removing and replacing the zinc metal within the device with fresh zinc. The oxidized zinc fuel can be deoxidized, also known as reduced, and used again.

Zinc is not the only metal that has been used in mechanically refueled clean energy devices, by the way. Magnesium air fuel cells are currently available. In the past aluminum air fuel cells were developed but never fully commercialized.

Montana Means Energy is happy about Juhl Wind’s upcoming zinc air installation saying, “This is good news for Montana wind developers. Montana has the wind generating potential for over 20,000 megawatts, or enough to power 120% of the nation’s cars, light trucks, and SUVs. Having a field tested storage technology like the Zinc Redox battery by Zinc Air in our back yard could prove to be an incredibly valuable asset to Montana energy development.”

“Montana Means Energy” e-newsletter from the Montana Energy Promotion and Development Divisioncommerce.mt.gov/Energy/newsletter.mcpx

Grasslands Renewable Energy.gre-llc.com

Juhl Wind Inc.juhlwind.com

Zinc Air Inc.zincairinc.com

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27

The Associated Press: Horrific murder no surprise in meth capital of US

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1327702944 91 The Associated Press: Horrific murder no surprise in meth capital of USHorrific murder no surprise in meth capital of US

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — When a 23-year-old Fresno woman fatally shot her two toddlers and a cousin, critically wounded her husband then turned the gun on herself last Sunday, investigators immediately suspected methamphetamine abuse in what otherwise was inexplicable carnage. It turned out the mother had videotaped herself smoking meth hours before the shooting.

In family photos, the children are adorable, the mother pretty. They lived in a large apartment complex near a freeway with neatly clipped lawns and mature trees. The father was recently laid off from a packing house job.

“When you get this type of tragedy, it’s not a surprise that drugs were involved,” said Lt. Mark Salazar, the Fresno Police Department’s homicide commander. “Meth has been a factor in other violent crimes.”

A Bakersfield mother was sentenced Tuesday for stabbing her newborn while in a meth rage. An Oklahoma woman drowned her baby in a washing machine in November. A New Mexico woman claiming to be God stabbed her son with a screwdriver last month, saying, “God wants him dead.”

“Once people who are on meth become psychotic, they are very dangerous,” said Dr. Alex Stalcup, who treated Haight Ashbury heroin users in the 1960s, but now researches meth and works with addicts in the San Francisco Bay Area suburbs. “They’re completely bonkers; they’re nuts. We’re talking about very extreme alterations of normal brain function. Once someone becomes triggered to violence, there aren’t any limits or boundaries.”

The Central Valley of California is a hub of the nation’s methamphetamine distribution network, making extremely pure forms of the drug easily available locally. And law enforcement officials say widespread meth abuse is believed to be driving much of the crime in the vast farming region.

Chronic use of the harsh chemical compound known as speed or crank can lead to psychosis, which includes hearing voices and experiencing hallucinations. The stimulant effect of meth is up to 50 times longer than cocaine, experts say, so users stay awake for days on end, impairing cognitive function and contributing to extreme paranoia.

“Your children and your spouse become your worst enemy, and you truly believe they are after you,” said Bob Pennal, a recently retired meth investigator from the California Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement.

Methamphetamine originally took root in California’s agricultural heartland in the late 1980s and early 1990s as a poor man’s cocaine. Its use initially creates feelings of euphoria and invincibility, but experts say repeated abuse can alter brain chemistry and sometimes cause schizophrenia-like behavior.

Meth’s availability and its potential for abuse combine to create the biggest drug threat in the Central Valley, according to a new report from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Drug Intelligence Center. From 2009 to 2010 methamphetamine busts in the Central Valley more than tripled to 1,094 kilograms, or more than 2,400 pounds, the report says.

Large tracts of farmland with isolated outbuildings are an ideal place to avoid detection, which is why the region is home to nearly all of the nation’s “super labs,” controlled by Mexican drug trafficking organizations, said John Donnelly, resident agent in charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration office in Fresno.

“They have the potential to make 150 pounds per (each) cook,” he said. “There are more super labs in California than anywhere else. Every week another office calls us — St. Paul, Dayton, Kansas, Texas — and says, ‘We’ve got a meth case here’ and they say the suspects are from Turlock or Visalia. We’re slinging it all over the country from here.”

Last month, a drug task force working in four central California counties busted 24 alleged members of the Mexican drug cartel La Familia Michoacana with 14 pounds of powdered meth, 30 gallons of meth solution, 17 guns, $110,000 in cash and a fleet of vehicles with sophisticated hidden compartments for smuggling.

Most law enforcement agencies don’t keep statistics on how many homicides, burglaries and thefts are meth-related, but those responding to the National Drug Intelligence Center’s 2011 survey said the drug is the top contributor to violent crimes and thefts.

“It drives more crime than other drugs do. Meth is in its own category, because it’s so much more addictive than other drugs,” said Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims.

Across the valley, meth addicts steal any metal they can resell — agricultural plumbing, copper wiring, lawn sprinklers.

“We lose five to 10 manhole covers a week,” said Ceres Police Chief Art de Werk, who said a woman was injured recently when she fell into an unprotected drain in a shopping center. “Meth is the poor man’s drug and frankly the Central Valley is an impoverished geographic area.”

Authorities say the science involved in creating the chemical compound continues to evolve, including an easier recipe called “Shake and Bake” that is available on the Internet. Last month, an Oklahoma woman was arrested as she walked around a WalMart store — for six hours before she was noticed — mixing ingredients for Shake and Bake.

In one of the recent attacks by meth users, Danielle Mailloux received a nine- month sentence in Bakersfield Tuesday for stabbing her 6-week-old infant in the back and cutting her along her abdomen, jaw and neck during a binge. The baby survived.

“It’s not illegal because we don’t want people to feel better. It’s illegal because it makes good people do crazy things,” said Mailloux’s defense attorney, Mark Anthony Raimondo.

In Oklahoma, authorities charged Lyndsey Fiddler with second-degree manslaughter after an aunt found her infant daughter in a washing machine thudding off balance in the spin cycle. The aunt told authorities that Fiddler had been up for three days using meth.

In Albuquerque, N.M., last month Liehsa Henderson, high on meth, claimed to be God and told police God wanted her son to die after allegedly stabbing him in the neck with a screwdriver. The boy survived.

Last Sunday, Fresno police found Aide Mendez dead on the bathroom floor of her home. Her children — 17-month-old Aliyah Echevarria and Isaiah Echevarria, 3 — were in the bathtub. Mendez’s cousin was dead in the kitchen. She had shot each in the head. The children’s father remains hospitalized with stabbing and gunshot wounds.

Police recovered 10 grams of meth, $8,000 and scales — and the iPad the young mother used to videotape herself smoking meth.

“If she had been on it for any length of time, well it deteriorates your brain and central nervous system,” said Sue Webber-Brown, a former DA investigator in Butte County who now advocates nationally for children in drug cases. “If you are already depressed or feel like a loser mom and you don’t have a support system and there is no hope, the meth just fuels that.”

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27

Big chill: SW Floridians, visitors brace for coldest temps in months

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1327700569 33 Big chill: SW Floridians, visitors brace for coldest temps in months

Growers are bracing for freezing temperatures early Wednesday morning as the coldest weather in months sweeps through Southwest Florida.

The National Weather Service has issued a freeze watch for Collier and Lee counties and a hard freeze watch for Glades and Hendry counties for Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning.

Thermometers could dip to 32 degrees or less in some inland spots, and Glades and Hendry counties could see temperatures in the mid- to upper-20s, forecasts say.

That is cold enough to have citrus growers preparing their irrigation systems for a workout to keep the soil wet and warm to ward off crop damage, Barron Collier Cos. agricultural manager Bob Newsome said.

“All we can do is run the water,” he said. “The weather is the weather.”

Citrus growers say their groves generally can handle freezing temperatures as long as it doesn’t stay at 28 degrees or lower for more than four hours. Vegetable crops are more sensitive to cold, Newsome said.

“If you’re a vegetable farmer, it’s worrisome,” he said.

Temperatures will be warmer in urban areas closer to the coast, but the cool-down still will be noticeable Tuesday, NBC-2 meteorologist Robert Van Winkle said.

A cold front pushing through the area this afternoon is expected to bring colder temperatures and brisk winds that will make it feel even colder starting tonight, he said.

“(Tuesday) is going to be pretty raw and miserable,” Van Winkle said.

Temperatures are expected to stay in the 50s on Tuesday, but winds out of the north will make it feel like the 40s all day, he said.

The cold snap is throwing a curve ball at visitors who would rather be worrying about their sunscreen factor instead of the wind chill factor.

“We’re disappointed,” said Kate Polgar, 28, of Chicago. “It’s not like you come down here looking forward to cool weather.”

Suzie Graven, 54, of Louisville, Ky., was taking it in stride as she sat on a windy North Naples beach Monday, wrapping herself and her grandson in a beach towel.

“It’s snowing in Kentucky so we really don’t care,” Graven said. “We can deal with it for a couple days.”

Warm-weather seekers, don’t despair, Van Winkle said. A warm-up is expected through the end of the week and an 80-degree day this weekend is possible, he said.

“In typical Florida fashion, the cold weather won’t last long,” he said.

Fighting the freeze

■ Watering before a freeze will help soil absorb solar radiation during the day and release heat at night.

■ Potted plants should be moved indoors. Containers that must be left outside can be pushed together and mulched for protection.

■ Coverings should extend to the ground and not touch the plant to prevent heat loss and damage.

■ Use sheets or quilts or buy special frost blankets from a garden center.

■ If plastic covers are used, be sure to remove them or ventilate them during sunny days.

Source: University of Florida

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27

Buying Used Machines – Is It the Right Choice? – 倾

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In any engineering area and factories, hammer mill, rippers, quick hitch, chain block , rotary cutter, soil conditioner, grease guns, irrigation pumps, and etc are the most important machines which needs to be there…if you want to go with a flawless production. Getting used machines is never a bad idea since its cost-effective solution.

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27

Water supply threat

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1327696953 85 Water supply threat

TWEED Shire Council is ready to activate an emergency plan in case it runs out of water for residents.

With urgent work under way last night to restore its weather-stricken water pumping station at Bray Park, the council could be forced to fly in diesel generators from Mackay to ensure water gets to its 75,000 residents.

The generators were used to restore the water supply to North Queensland in the wake of Cyclone Yasi.

Tweed mayor Barry Longland said bringing in diesel generators was a last resort option to keep water flowing into Tweed homes.

"Should the system fail again the only option we have got is to truck in water and with consumption at 23 to 24 megalitres a day that's a lot of trucks," Mr Longland said.

The council has sourced parts from Sydney to repair the damaged water pump.

The parts arrived late yesterday afternoon with about 24 hours of supply left.

"We have about five days of supply in our reservoirs in an emergency," Cr Longland said.

"It just so happens in this case we are reaching the end of that supply."

The emergency was caused when a power surge damaged the water pumping station.

Cr Longland was touring the Tweed's flood-ravaged areas with Federal Minister for Emergency Management Robert McClelland, Richmond MP Justine Elliot and Tweed MP Geoff Provest yesterday to assess the flood damage from Wednesday's rain system.

Mr McClelland said he was in the region to assess the area for disaster relief.

"We flew over Murwillumbah and there were still a few properties that have been inundated," Mr McClelland said.

"There is crop loss but we don't know the full extent of the damage yet."

Mr McClelland said the region was likely to get disaster relief funding because the threshold was low.

"We have a triggered threshold of $250,000 for in individual cases to help with funding for clean-ups and evacuation centres."

Cr Longland said Tweed's infrastructure loss would have already passed the threshold.

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