Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that rural electric cooperatives and utilities in 12 states will receive loan guarantees to improve generation and facilities and implement technologies. The announcement was made on Vilsack’s behalf by USDA Rural Utilities Acting Administrator John Padalino during the annual meeting of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association in New Orleans. “In his address last week, President Obama said that in America we have ‘an aging infrastructure badly in need of repair’ and these investments help to address our country’s infrastructure challenges,” Padalino said.
A BESTA QUE CAMINHA COMO HOMEM (MASSACRE EM MOCANE VALLEY) - (Stuart Whitman, cor/leg - 1967) A BORDA DA MORTE. A RAINHA DO GATILHO (OS PISTOLEIROS DO OESTE) - (Gordon Mitchell, Kirk Morris, cor/dub/leg - 1967) A RAINHA DOS.
“Upgrading rural infrastructure sets the stage for economic development, because access to reliable, affordable electricity is essential to rural job creation.” The announcement includes support for more than $8 million in smart grid technologies, which help utilities make improvements to the electric grid and help consumers lower their electric bills by reducing energy use in homes and businesses. One of the utilities selected for funding is North Dakota’s Central Power Electric Cooperative. It plans to use a $33.7 million loan guarantee to build 141 miles of transmission line and make other system improvements. Kansas’ Flint Hills Rural Electric Cooperative Association will receive an $11 million loan guarantee to build 108 miles of distribution line.
The loan includes $220,000 in smart grid projects. In Oklahoma, the Cotton Electric Cooperative won a $24.8 million loan guarantee to build 229 miles of distribution line and make other system improvements. The loan includes $1.3 million in smart grid projects. The following is a complete list of rural utilities that will receive USDA funding, which is contingent upon the recipient meeting the terms of the loan agreement. Alabama Wiregrass Electric Cooperative Inc. — $13,900,000.
Funds will be used to build 135 miles of distribution line and make other system improvements. The loan includes $100,452 in smart grid projects. Pea River Electric Cooperative Inc. — $21,500,000.
Funds will be used to build 137 miles of distribution line and make other system improvements. Alaska Kotzebue Electric Association Inc.
— $2,900,000. Funds will be used to build 10 miles of distribution line and make other system improvements. Colorado Southeast Colorado Power Association — $8,202,000.
Funds will be used to build 133 miles of distribution line and make other system improvements. The loan includes $600,000 in smart grid projects. Florida Withlacoochee River Electric Cooperative, Inc. — $80,000,000.
Funds will be used to build 104 miles of distribution line, 4 miles of transmission line, and make other system improvements. The loan amount includes $1,340,000 for smart grid projects. Georgia Sumter Electric Membership Corporation — $12,500,000. Funds will be used to build 437 miles of distribution line and make other system improvements. The loan amount includes $500,000 for smart grid projects.
Kansas Flint Hills Rural Electric Cooperative Association, Inc. — $11,000,000. Funds will be used to build 108 miles of distribution line and make other system improvements. The loan includes $22,000 in smart grid projects. The Brown Atchison Electric Cooperative Association — $5,100,000. Funds will be used to build 53 miles of distribution line and 5 miles of transmission line, and make other system improvements. Kentucky Farmers Rural Electric Cooperative Corp.
— $17,582,000. Funds will be used to build 327 miles of distribution line and make other system improvements. The loan amount includes $412,541 for smart grid projects. Minnesota Runestone Electric Association – $22,000,000. Funds will be used to build 82 miles of distribution line and make other system improvements. The loan amount includes $379,100 for smart grid projects.
North Dakota Burke-Divide Electric Cooperative, Inc. — $7,700,000. Funds will be used to build 106 miles of distribution line, 20 miles of transmission line and make other system improvements. The loan includes $549,994 in smart grid projects. Central Power Electric Cooperative, Inc. — $33,733,000. Funds will be used to build 141 miles of transmission line and make other system improvements.
Oklahoma Cotton Electric Cooperative, Inc. — $24,850,000.
Funds will be used to build 229 miles of distribution line and make other system improvements. The loan includes $1,300,000 in smart grid projects.
South Dakota and North Dakota West Central Electric Cooperative, Inc. — $10,125,000. Funds will be used to build 46 miles of distribution line, 14 miles of transmission line and make other system improvements. The loan includes $314,487 in smart grid projects. Northern Electric Cooperative – $20,388,000. Funds will be used to build 303 miles of distribution line and make other system improvements.
The loan includes $902,512 in smart grid projects. Texas Bowie-Cass Electric Cooperative, Inc. — $38,532,000. Funds will be used to build 562 miles of distribution line and make other system improvements.
The loan amount includes $672,875 for smart grid projects. The $330 million in loan guarantees are provided by USDA’s Rural Utilities Service. The funding helps electric utilities upgrade, expand, maintain and replace rural America’s electric infrastructure. USDA also funds energy conservation and renewable energy projects. The Obama Administration has set goals of modernizing infrastructure by providing broadband access to 10 million Americans, expanding educational opportunities for students in rural areas and providing affordable health care. In the long term, these unparalleled rural investments will help ensure that America’s rural communities are repopulating, self-sustaining and thriving economically.
USDA, through its Rural Development mission area, administers and manages housing, business and community infrastructure programs through a national network of state and local offices. Rural Development has an active portfolio of more than $176 billion in loans and loan guarantees. These programs are designed to improve the economic stability of rural communities, businesses, residents, farmers and ranchers and improve the quality of life in rural areas.
Yet, with all those great ingredients, there is something missing – or rather something in excess – in “The Mad Miss Manton”. The comedic timing is problematic, and I could tell I was missing some jokes that were being told while I was till laughing from the last joke. The mix of comedy and mystery is good, though, and cinematographer Nicholas Musuraca already shows the talents for contrast he would later explore in film noir. It’s just a pity that director Leigh Jason didn’t have the same Midas touch and Preston Sturges!
The “dead end kids” were a group of young boys who starred in a play called “Dead End” and in the film adaptation of the same name in 1937. Those young boys were really from the New York tough neighborhoods – just like Cagney – and often caused trouble on the set – but not with Cagney, who proved to be tougher than them. The original sextet did three movies together, and with time and with several formations, the group went on with film series such as Little Tough Guys, the East Side Kids and the Bowery Boys. In this time, some boys went solo and others retired from the screen. In his autobiography “Cagney by Cagney”, James Cagney calls his friend and co-star Pat O’Brien “remarkable in more than one way”, describing how Pat was always cheerful, optimistic and full of energy to work. In the book Cagney also says that the script was kind of bad, which led to him and O’Brien improvising as the Jewish writers knew nothing about the rituals of the Catholic Church. Furthermore, Cagney says that he modeled Rocky over a fellow he used to know in his youth in New York, a pimp who greeted people the way Cagney does in the picture.
“ Angels with Dirty Faces” ends with a doubt that is still – I particularly believe Rocky only pretended to be scared to satisfy his friend. Moreover, the movie brought one of the most iconic and mimicked Cagney performances. According to Wikipedia, it was the 9 th highest grossing film of 1938. According to the website Ultimate Movie Ranings, it was the fifth. No matter the position in the ranking, “Angel with Dirty Faces” was a popular film that remained in the public's memory for decades and is still interesting when watched today. It was hard to choose one word to define 2018. Oxford Dictionaries chose “toxic”.
Dictionary.com chose “misinformation”, and Merriam-Webster chose “justice”. Some think pieces on Medium pointed other options, such as “trauma” and “grief”. In a way, all these words are correct. 2018 wasn’t easy for as a society, in special for those of us who watch with horror the rise of fascism all over again – for a historian like me, it’s like a little horror movie being shown in front of my eyes, but not in the movie slot, but at the TV news. March: Have you ever heard about the Czechoslovakian film “Tomorrow I’ll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea”, from 1977? I also hadn’t heard about it until Ruth from. Since it was available online, I decided to give it a chance and, boy, I laughed more than I had in a long time.
The film is about pilot Charles (Petr Kostka), who is part of a plan to travel in time and make German win World War Second. Charles dies suddenly and his twin brother, John (also Petr Kostka) assumes his mission. It needs to be seen to be believed.