Outlook Magazine, Sunday, 9/9/2007
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What does it take to put a presidential debate on TV?
We'll go behind the scenes of the GOP debate at UNH in Durham to find out.
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The Republican presidential candidates debate in Durham.
Why the event was so important for the state GOP.
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What does it take to put a debate on television?
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And later, find out about a day of adventure for children whose lives have been invaded by cancer.
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Hello, I'm Beth Carroll. Welcome to NH Outlook.
Republican Presidential Candidates took center stage at the University of New Hampshire's Durham campus squaring off inside the Whittemore Center Arena.
The post Labor Day debate was the first big event kicking off the traditional fall presidential campaign season.
New Hampshire republicans hoped the debate would not only focus on the national candidates but also highlight the state party.
Outlook's Richard Ager spent much of debate day with Fergus Cullen, the chairman of the state Republican party, to see how the day went and what was accomplished.
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It won't be long before New Hampshire is in the debate spotlight again.
Dartmouth College hosts another debate with the presidential candidates at the end of September.
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Putting a debate on TV.
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We're here at UNH the day after the FOX News debate and it's been busy as crews work to get the Whittemore Center back to normal.
For days leading up to the big event, a small army of workers took over the arena turning it into a place fit for a televised presidential debate.
It's a scene that will play out in other venues in New Hampshire leading up to the 2008 election.
Outlook's Phil Vaughn took a tour with FOX News Washington Bureau Chief Brian Wilson to show us what it takes to put on a debate.
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More than four thousand attended the debate.
A quarter of them were students.
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We turn away from politics and travel a few miles from the UNH campus to the Browne Center -- a teaching, training and research affiliate of the university.
That's where we discovered a program that's helping young people use adventure to cope with cancer.
"On Belay" is a program started in 2004 by Crescentia True.
As Outlook's Phil Vaughn shows us the Durham woman wanted a place for her daughters to go to put aside the stress of her breast cancer.
True wanted a place for her daughters to go to put aside the stress of her disease.
True died in 2006 but as Outlook's Phil Vaughn shows us what she left behind is very much alive.
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That does it for us here at the University of New Hampshire Whittemore Center
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time: 9/9/2007
HOST: Beth Carroll Length: 9:15
Now on New Hampshire Outlook: The Republican presidential candidates debate in Durham. Why the event was so important for the state GOP. What does it take to put a debate on television? We'll go behind the scenes. And later, find out about a day of adventure for children whose lives have been invaded by cancer. Hello, I'm Beth Carroll. Welcome to NH Outlook. Republican Presidential Candidates took center stage at the University of New Hampshire's Durham campus squaring off inside the Whittemore Center Arena. The post Labor Day debate was the first big event kicking off the traditional fall presidential campaign season. New Hampshire republicans hoped the debate would not only focus on the national candidates but also highlight the state party. Outlook's Richard Ager spent much of debate day with Fergus Cullen, the chairman of the state Republican party, to see how the day went and what was accomplished.
PRODUCER/REPORTER: Richard Ager NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Fergus Cullen\Chairman, NH Republican Party, Paul Young\Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease, Mark Riss\Deputy Sheriff, Strafford County, Mark Riss\Has son serving in Iraq, Fox News Channel, Dante Scala\Professor of Political Science, UNH, Andy Smith\UNH Survey Center
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time: 9/9/2007
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Now on New Hampshire Outlook: The Republican presidential candidates debate in Durham. Why the event was so important for the state GOP. What does it take to put a debate on television? We'll go behind the scenes. And later, find out about a day of adventure for children whose lives have been invaded by cancer. Hello, I'm Beth Carroll. Welcome to NH Outlook. Republican Presidential Candidates took center stage at the University of New Hampshire's Durham campus squaring off inside the Whittemore Center Arena. We're here at UNH the day after the FOX News debate and it's been busy as crews work to get the Whittemore Center back to normal. For days leading up to the big event, a small army of workers took over the arena turning it into a place fit for a televised presidential debate. It's a scene that will play out in other venues in New Hampshire leading up to the 2008 election. Outlook's Phil Vaughn took a tour with FOX News Washington Bureau Chief Brian Wilson to show us what it takes to put on a debate.
PRODUCER/REPORTER: Phil Vaughn NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Brian Wilson\Washington Bureau Chief, Fox News, Meghan Trumarch\UNH Student, Meaghan Dunn\UNH Student, Khoa Pao\UNH Student, Mark Huddleston\UNH President
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time: 9/9/2007
HOST: Beth Carroll Length: 7:40
Now on New Hampshire Outlook: The Republican presidential candidates debate in Durham. Why the event was so important for the state GOP. What does it take to put a debate on television? We'll go behind the scenes. And later, find out about a day of adventure for children whose lives have been invaded by cancer. Hello, I'm Beth Carroll. Welcome to NH Outlook. Republican Presidential Candidates took center stage at the University of New Hampshire's Durham campus squaring off inside the Whittemore Center Arena. We turn away from politics and travel a few miles from the UNH campus to the Browne Center -- a teaching, training and research affiliate of the university. That's where we discovered a program that's helping young people use adventure to cope with cancer. "On Belay" is a program started in 2004 by Crescentia True. As Outlook's Phil Vaughn shows us the Durham woman wanted a place for her daughters to go to put aside the stress of her breast cancer.
PRODUCER/REPORTER: Phil Vaughn NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Jacqui Bryan\Breast Cancer Survivor, Kasey MacDonald\Jacqui's Daughter, Jen Ramsey\On Belay, Eryn True\Crescentia's Daughter
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time: 9/9/2007
HOST: Beth Carroll Length: 7:40
Now on New Hampshire Outlook: The Republican presidential candidates debate in Durham. Why the event was so important for the state GOP. What does it take to put a debate on television? We'll go behind the scenes. And later, find out about a day of adventure for children whose lives have been invaded by cancer. Hello, I'm Beth Carroll. Welcome to NH Outlook. Republican Presidential Candidates took center stage at the University of New Hampshire's Durham campus squaring off inside the Whittemore Center Arena. We turn away from politics and travel a few miles from the UNH campus to the Browne Center -- a teaching, training and research affiliate of the university. That's where we discovered a program that's helping young people use adventure to cope with cancer. "On Belay" is a program started in 2004 by Crescentia True. As Outlook's Phil Vaughn shows us the Durham woman wanted a place for her daughters to go to put aside the stress of her breast cancer.
PRODUCER/REPORTER: Phil Vaughn NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Jacqui Bryan\Breast Cancer Survivor, Kasey MacDonald\Jacqui's Daughter, Jen Ramsey\On Belay, Eryn True\Crescentia's Daughter
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Ethanol could fuel price hikes
Posted Saturday, March 31st 2007, 4:00 AM
An ethanol-fueled boom in prices will prompt American farmers to plant the most corn since the year the Allies invaded Normandy, but surging demand could mean consumers still might pay more for everything from chicken to cough syrup.
Corn is a key ingredient in many foods, from corn syrup found in candies to feed used in meat production. With more corn being used for ethanol production, that could raise prices in other areas where corn is used.
Farmers are expected to plant 90.5 million acres of corn, according to the Department of Agriculture's annual prospective plantings report released yesterday. That would be a 15% increase over 2006 and the most corn planted since 1944.
The move to plant corn is in large part due to a rush to produce corn-based ethanol, which is blended with gasoline.
The corn rush was sparked by President Bush's initiative for support of flexible-fuel vehicles and his administration's plan to cut gas consumption by 20% in 10 years.
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‘Ethanol Binge’ Hikes Corn Prices
By Richard Martin, 3-23-07
Last week US BioEnergy had a ground-breaking ceremony at a new ethanol plant in Dyersville, Iowa, bringing to 78 the number of ethanol plants under construction, with 113 already operating. And that’s not good news for the ranchers and poultry farmers of the Rocky Mountain West.
Amid the “ethaphoria” currently gripping agribusiness and certain parts of the nation’s capital, a growing chorus of voices is pointing out an unintended consequence on the reliance on corn and grains as the raw material for ethanol production: prices for feed fo livestock are rising, sending prices at grocery stores up as well.
“This ethanol binge is insane,” Paul Hitch, president-elect of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Assn., told BusinessWeek.
Corn prices have doubled over the last year, reports the Earth Policy Institute, while wheat futures are trading at their highest level in 10 years. The diversion of corn to fuel ethanol uses “is creating unintended consequences throughout the global food chain,” a Bloomberg analysis finds – not to mention increased use of pesticides and fossil fuels to grow all that corn. Meanwhile, the U.S. Congress has slapped a 54-cents-per-gallon tarrif on ethanol from Brazil – which is grown from sugarcane.
Wonder what’s going to happen to rum prices.
In other energy news:
-- In a man-bites-dog story, Xcel Energy has applied to the Colorado Public Utilities Commission for an electricity rate decrease of $13.6 million thanks to lower costs of fuel, such as natural gas, and purchased electricity predicted for upcoming months. If approved by the PUC, the new rates would take effect April 1 and continue through June 30. Meanwhile, the Colo. attorney general has announced his support for HB 1208, which would alter the state’s Unfair Practices Act to allow big chain stores to offer big gas discounts.
-- As Colo. Governor Bill Ritter’s legislative package to boost renewable energy, and increase oversight of the oil and gas industry in the state, moves closer to signing, Big Energy is faced with a dilemma: oppose the measures, and be seen as obstructionists and anti-environmentalists, or swallow hard and go along? So far the Colorado Petroleum Association is against House Bill 1341, which would reform the board of the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, while oil giant BP—the state’s No. 1 natural gas producer—says it will take a wait-and-see approach.
-- Earlier we reported that, despite the Bush Administration’s ambitious goals for technology to produce cellulosic ethanol from organic material other than corn, the research budget for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, which is leading the way on cellulosic science, had flatlined. That’s no longer the case: the Energy Department announced Friday that the NREL will get an additional $99 million in funding this year, a 47-percent jump.
Comment By dukeco1, 3-23-07
Big Energy is not accustomed to going along. They are, in Colorado at least, accustomed to getting their way. They just need to sidle over and make room for all their chickens moving back in to the roost.
Comment By Hal Herring, 3-23-07
Brazilian ethanol tariff shows the world that all our free market talk is just like all that talk about WMD. How much more credibility can we stand to lose? As we pump out the last aquifers to water the chem-corn.bust the last prairie for the GMO variety, importing as much oil as we can to drive those tractors that make the corn ethanol binge.keep those Wahabbis happy, don't you know, keep the money flowing to them as leaders pretend to "get off the product," wreck the land, keep the annuities for the families of the Islamic suicide bombers healthy, line some US pockets, and witness the end of the greatest nation on earth. Dang.
Hal
Boy, it ain't a pretty picture is it?
Comment By Chris, 3-23-07
Not only that, but the plants that make the stuff are awful-smelling blights too. Last week I was working literally in the shadow of an ADM plant in Cedar Rapids, IA, that processes corn syrup from corn, and is in the process of building an ethanol plant. I don't know what was in the exhaust belching into the sky, but it sure smelled raunchy. I wouldn't wish that in anyone's backyard.
Comment By pete geddes, 3-23-07
When we subsidize things that trade in the market, we benefit the well off and well organized at the expense of the most vulnerable members of society. This holds true whether in Bozeman, Boston, or Birmingham. Princeton Ph.D. George Will said it well: “The world is divided between those who do and do not understand that activist, interventionist, regulating, subsidizing government is generally a servant of the strong and entrenched against the weak and aspiring.”
Comment By Francesco DeParis, 3-23-07
I think we should start supporting cellulosic ethanol in the same manner we support corn-based ethanol. There will come a point when corn prices are too high to consider this an economic alternative to petroleum. I comment about cellulosic ethanol onEnergy Spin: Alternative Energy Blog For Investors Served Daily
Cheers,
Francesco DeParis
Comment By bearbait, 3-25-07
One result of NAFTA was that corn from USA was so cheap and available that it drove tens of thousands of small Mexican farmers off the land and to town to find work. Now that corn has doubled in price, tortillas have also doubled in price. The poorest in Mexico now have a harder time eating, and more incentive to move north.
The end result, of course, is how much energy independence do you gain by having your country supporting another million or more illegal aliens in need of medical, financial, housing and education subsidy, all of which come with energy demands?
Corn ethanol comes with costs, many of which are hidden. Again, a hero move supported by liberal midwestern politicians financed by MegaAg companies, comes with unintended consequences. The ones in Mexico have happened, and the ones here are on the conveyor belt to realization. Meat prices will have to rise, and we all will pay that price. Even the vegans will pay a higher price as soy beans are replaced by corn in the farm fields.
Comment By cc, 3-26-07
That Xcel Energy news item relates to the monthly ECA which adjusts, up or down, for the commodity cost of natural gas feedstock, primarily. Thus, it is not that unusual to see a downward ECA result in an overall decrease in electrictiy rates for the following month. Incidentally, the same mechanism is found on the natural gas bills but it is called a GCA. Thus, this is not a "man bites dog" story, but something that occurs when natural gas prices decline.
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