Dish Loses 10,000 Subscribers | The Online Reporter

- Lost AMC but Expects Programming Costs to Decline
? Looking for Partner with Synergy for Its Mobile TV Service

The US satco Dish Network lost 10,000 pay TV subscribers in
the second quarter.

Dish ended its contract with AMC Networks, maker of hits such
as ?Mad Men? and ?Breaking Bad,? on July 1 because many of
AMC?s original shows are available on OTT services such as
iTunes for rent or purchase the day following their debut. CEO
Charlie Ergen said the loss of AMC would be beneficial to Dish
because the company?s programming costs will drop slightly.

?We could pay for every customer who would watch ?Mad Men.? We
could pay for entire iTunes bills and that would be cheaper
than burdening our customers if you don?t watch those channels
with that cost,? Ergen said. ?Long term, we?re going to be
several dollars less than our competitors because we don?t
carry those channels.?

Dish?s ad campaign to promote its Hopper whole-home DVR caused
the company?s subscriber acquisition costs to increase to $806
per new subscriber, up from $795 a year ago.

Waiting for Mobile Video Spectrum & Looking for a Wireless
Partner
Dish is waiting for the Federal Communications Commission
(FCC) to approve use of some of its wireless spectrum for
mobile TV. The company said it ?expects a favorable resolution
in the next few months.? Ergen said it would likely enter the
wireless TV market with a partner ?where there is synergy? and
that has a wireless network.

The first company that comes to mind for partnering with for a
mobile TV service is AT&T, the US? second largest cellco, but
whose U-Verse pay TV service is constrained to where its
existing telephone network is located. AT&T, which came close
to acquiring satco DirecTV a number of years ago, might want
to keep up with Verizon and spread its pay TV network
nationwide. Verizon has partnered with Redbox owner Coinstar
to cook up a US-wide combination OTT and DVD rental service
that could include live shows being delivered to mobile
devices. After all, Verizon Wireless is the US? largest cellco
in number of mobile devices that connect to its network.

Dish and Qualcomm are working together to add satellite
communications to some versions of Qualcomm?s Snapdragon S4
application processors. Devices such as smartphones and
tablets that have the chips could connect to both satellite
and ground-based mobile networks and receive mobile TV
signals.

Dish has asked the FCC to change the rules so it could use its
satellite spectrum for mobile TV.

Dish to Stream Shows to iOS and Android Devices
Dish is very much in tune with the wireless TV market. It is
rolling out an in-house mobile app that uses its Slingbox-
capable ViP922 DVR. Users of the $30 app can currently control
the DVR and see the program guide from iOS and Android
devices. Dish intends to add free live TV and DVR recordings
this fall that will stream to the devices with the app. The
Associated Press reported that the service will be free,
except for the cost of the DVRs or broadband connected Dish
STBs that are connected to its Slingbox units.

Source: http://onlinereporter.com/2012/09/25/dish-loses-10000-subscribers/

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Your fabulous fall foliage photos

If you're looking to hit the road this autumn to see some beautiful foliage, look no further! Travel expert Arabella Bowen shares the best highways and byways for sighseeing this season.

By Joy Jernigan, TODAY

Fall has arrived, that time of year when summer's heat gradually gives way to an imperceptible chill in the evening air. It's also when trees begin shedding their leaves in brilliant displays of fiery reds, oranges and yellows in an annual event that unfolds from September through November.?We asked for your most glorious fall foliage photos, and here they are:

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BBM for BlackBerry 10 gets a retooled UI, predictive keyboard with language detection

Everyone's favorite messaging service, BBM has broke from cover in its new BlackBerry 10 digs at BlackBerry Jam Americas 2012. The software is sporting a redesigned UI, which places the focus on your contacts' photos instead of the regular ol' list of names. Speech bubbles that we've all become familiar with are still here and emoticons get cozy as well. Another new feature is the predictive keyboard that's capable of detecting the language that you're typing in and offers the appropriate suggestions that you may need -- even if you're switching back and forth.

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3-year, 676-child trial shows effectiveness of low-cost intervention to improve sun protection

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garth.sundem@ucdenver.edu
University of Colorado Denver

Mailed sun protection kits are easy, effective

A blistering sunburn during childhood or adolescence more than doubles the adult risk of skin cancer. The accumulation of long-term sun exposure may be equally dangerous. A study from the Colorado School of Public Health and the University of Colorado Cancer Center recently published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine shows one way to reduce this exposure: a double-blind randomized clinical trial of mailed sun protection packets led to higher frequency of sun protective behaviors including the use of long clothing, hats, shade, sunscreen, and midday sun avoidance.

"This is a low-cost, effective intervention that could be an important component in efforts to reduce sun exposure in children during the years that they acquire much of their risk for skin cancer," says the paper's first author, Lori Crane, PhD, MPH, CU Cancer Center investigator and chair of the Department of Community & Behavioral Health at the Colorado School of Public Health.

The study recruited 676 six-year-olds and their parents into the Colorado Kids Sun Care Program, half of whom completed phone interviews and other data collection, and half of whom also received intervention kits. Kits included newsletters and sun protection resources, such as swim shirts, hats, sunscreen and sun protection educational activities. They were mailed in April and May of the years 2005, 2006 and 2007, with the goal of guiding parents and children to ever-increasing stages of adopting sun-safe behaviors, from the early stage of "unaware" to fully engaged and actively practicing. Phone interviews determined not only the level of sun-protective behaviors, but also parents' knowledge about melanoma, their evaluation of their child's lifetime risk for the disease, and their opinion of skin cancer severity. Skin exams discovered children's level of tanning and number of nevi the UV-influenced moles that can presage melanoma.

Across all measures of sun-protective behavior and awareness, the intervention group showed greater gains than the control group. Interestingly, the greatest increases were in the specific sun-protective behaviors emphasized in each yearly kit.

"After we emphasized long clothing in the spring of 2005, we saw a difference in clothing behavior in the summers of 2005 and 2006 not in 2007. Then after emphasizing hats in 2006, we saw a difference in hat use that year. And then after highlighting shade in 2007, we saw a corresponding increase in parents' awareness and use of shade as a sun-protective behavior," Crane says.

In Crane's opinion, this specific awareness and behavior change shows both the effectiveness of the intervention, but perhaps also the challenge of creating lasting behavior changes. Further study is needed to discover the durability of this intervention, and also how these increases in sun-protective behaviors influence skin cancer risk.

Crane and colleagues point out that although behavior changes in the trial were modest, the intervention was relatively inexpensive and, because it used postal mail, it could be readily delivered to a geographically broad population.

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Contact: Garth Sundem
garth.sundem@ucdenver.edu
University of Colorado Denver

Mailed sun protection kits are easy, effective

A blistering sunburn during childhood or adolescence more than doubles the adult risk of skin cancer. The accumulation of long-term sun exposure may be equally dangerous. A study from the Colorado School of Public Health and the University of Colorado Cancer Center recently published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine shows one way to reduce this exposure: a double-blind randomized clinical trial of mailed sun protection packets led to higher frequency of sun protective behaviors including the use of long clothing, hats, shade, sunscreen, and midday sun avoidance.

"This is a low-cost, effective intervention that could be an important component in efforts to reduce sun exposure in children during the years that they acquire much of their risk for skin cancer," says the paper's first author, Lori Crane, PhD, MPH, CU Cancer Center investigator and chair of the Department of Community & Behavioral Health at the Colorado School of Public Health.

The study recruited 676 six-year-olds and their parents into the Colorado Kids Sun Care Program, half of whom completed phone interviews and other data collection, and half of whom also received intervention kits. Kits included newsletters and sun protection resources, such as swim shirts, hats, sunscreen and sun protection educational activities. They were mailed in April and May of the years 2005, 2006 and 2007, with the goal of guiding parents and children to ever-increasing stages of adopting sun-safe behaviors, from the early stage of "unaware" to fully engaged and actively practicing. Phone interviews determined not only the level of sun-protective behaviors, but also parents' knowledge about melanoma, their evaluation of their child's lifetime risk for the disease, and their opinion of skin cancer severity. Skin exams discovered children's level of tanning and number of nevi the UV-influenced moles that can presage melanoma.

Across all measures of sun-protective behavior and awareness, the intervention group showed greater gains than the control group. Interestingly, the greatest increases were in the specific sun-protective behaviors emphasized in each yearly kit.

"After we emphasized long clothing in the spring of 2005, we saw a difference in clothing behavior in the summers of 2005 and 2006 not in 2007. Then after emphasizing hats in 2006, we saw a difference in hat use that year. And then after highlighting shade in 2007, we saw a corresponding increase in parents' awareness and use of shade as a sun-protective behavior," Crane says.

In Crane's opinion, this specific awareness and behavior change shows both the effectiveness of the intervention, but perhaps also the challenge of creating lasting behavior changes. Further study is needed to discover the durability of this intervention, and also how these increases in sun-protective behaviors influence skin cancer risk.

Crane and colleagues point out that although behavior changes in the trial were modest, the intervention was relatively inexpensive and, because it used postal mail, it could be readily delivered to a geographically broad population.

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Obama: Libya assault 'wasn't just mob action'

President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama appear on the ABC Television show ?The View? in New York, Monday, Sept. 24, 2012, From left are, Barbara Walters, president and first lady, Joy Behar, and Sherri Shepherd. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama appear on the ABC Television show ?The View? in New York, Monday, Sept. 24, 2012, From left are, Barbara Walters, president and first lady, Joy Behar, and Sherri Shepherd. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama appear on the ABC Television show ?The View? in New York, Monday, Sept. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama appear on the ABC Television show ?The View? in New York, Monday, Sept. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama appear on the ABC Television show ?The View? in New York, Monday, Sept. 24, 2012, From left are, Whoopi Goldberg, Barbara Walters, the president, the first lady, Joy Behar, Sherri Shepherd and Elisabeth Hasselbeck. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

NEW YORK (AP) ? President Barack Obama said Monday "there's no doubt" that the assault of the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans including the U.S. ambassador "wasn't just a mob action" but a sign of extremism in nations lacking stability. His words about the Libya killings were his most specific since the White House called it a "terrorist attack" last week.

"What's been interesting, just this past week, there were these massive protests against these extremists militias that are suspected, maybe, of having been involved in this attack," Obama said during the taping of an interview on ABC's talk show program "The View."

The White House initially said the storming of the consulate attack was a spontaneous assault tied to ongoing protests over a video that ridiculed the Prophet Muhammad, but has since broadened its answer to say an investigation will show what ultimately happened.

Obama and first lady Michelle Obama taped the show ? a clear pitch to women voters ? in New York the day before the president addresses the U.N. General Assembly. The interview, a mix of policy, politics and personal tidbits, will air Tuesday. Obama made a solo appearance on "The View" in July 2010, drawing an estimated 6.5 million viewers, according to Nielsen. The first lady appeared on the show in late May, where she discussed family life and the re-election campaign.

Asked if a Mitt Romney presidency would be a disaster, Obama hardly disagreed with the sentiment, replying that the nation can "survive a lot." He added: "The American people don't want to just survive, we want to thrive."

Obama pointed to Romney's assertion that it is fair for a person with a $50,000-a-year income to pay a higher percentage of their earnings in taxes than someone who makes millions from investments. Romney said a low capital gains tax rate encourages economic growth and encourages people to invest.

"I've just got a different vision about how we grow our economy," Obama said, adding that such growth is faster when the middle class is doing well.

Discussing the stresses of the presidency, the first lady described her husband as having an even temperament. "He doesn't have emotional shifts; he's very steady," she said. "I'm one of the few people who can really make him mad."

Asked how, Obama joked: "By being thoroughly unreasonable."

In recalling his hardest day of the last four years, Obama cited the August 2011 downing of a Chinook helicopter by a rocket-propelled grenade in Afghanistan that killed 30 American troops. Obama later flew to Dover, Del., to pay tribute to the troops.

"It's very raw in those moments and it reminds you that freedom's not free and these families are taking enormous strain and ours troops are making enormous sacrifices," Obama said.

Asked what they will be doing in about five years, Michelle Obama said, "go on a long vacation," adding that she wants to retrace the couple's honeymoon route along California's scenic Route 1.

The president at first objected, saying there is still an election ahead, with a whole set of goals he wants to accomplish in a second term. After the presidency, Obama said, he expects to spend time working with kids.

"I love teaching. I miss teaching," he said. Still, the former law school professor said he is not sure he will return to the classroom.

Instead, he may explore the idea of going around to cities, creating mentorships and "giving young people" a sense of opportunity and possibility, Obama said.

An avid basketball player and occasional coach to his two daughters, Obama was asked what was harder, coaching girls or getting Congress to work.

"No contest," he replied. "The girls? They play like a team."

Associated Press

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Are Income Application Circulation Services Or Application Crank ...

The clear answer to the issue is just a resounding YES!! From a headhunter?s standpoint, we get resumes from many good services every day. Lots of the better services circle applicants purely with recruiters and avoid giving to companies directly. This allows the recruiters to complete their work and fit the ?great? prospects with open openings available in the market. There is a warning though?If you are not a qualified sales person with at the least 1-2 years of solid legitimate sales experience; I would not recommend using these services. From the major medical income recruiter?s standpoint, I?ve put lots of candidates who have used these services therefore I know they work. Multiply that by a large number of income recruiting companies and you get the idea. These Services perform because income interviewers have associations with the hiring managers and your skills can be sold by them. Sales Recruiters are your greatest chance at being released to the hiring sales supervisor or decision maker and based on their relationship with the customer, they will find a way to market you differently than if you only used to specifically to the corporate Hr department.Now, do not misunderstand me, there are plenty of other ways to get jobs in medical or pharmaceutical sales and I?m not saying that sales resume distribution services are the remedy to getting your dream job. Different solutions to consider are to network with people in the market on websites like Facebook & Linked In. If you take this route I?d recommend finding networked with an employee at the organization who?s relaxed with your skill set and you. Most employees will suggest people only when they?re qualified and they can be assured that the ?referred? customer will not risk the employee?s business status within the company. Most personnel at Medical and Pharmaceutical Sales Organizations are granted a ?referral bonus? for successfully referring in a qualified candidate who eventually gets hired.This can be an excellent method to get your foot in the doorway with a company. Should you choose not need sales knowledge but actually want to enter the medical or pharmaceutical industry, the simplest way to achieve that is property a position in b2b sales with a king?s ransom 500 company. Some companies which have great formal sales training and really prepare their distributors well for a career in health-related sales are: ADP, Cintas, Ikon, Xerox, Pitney Bowes, Paychex, Lanier, Enterprise, Staples, Ceridian, SBC Worldwide, AT&T, Gallo, US Food Service, and so on. There are several different companies that offer excellent formal sales training however in our knowledge, the distributors that result from well-known Fortune 500 companies have a higher probability of getting to the market and a probability for success.In inclusion, university activities and athletics are a bonus. Having an accredited scientific back ground also does not hurt. In the interest of staying on the right track, Medical Sales Resume Distribution Services or Sales Resume Distribution Services or Resume Blast Services can be still another ?bullet in your gun? related to marketing and discovering that perfect sales chance especially because it relates to medical or pharmaceutical sales.

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Fiona Apple addresses drug arrest in odd speech at concert

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Singer Fiona Apple opened up to fans during a concert in Houston in a bizarre speech about the night she spent in a Texas jail after being arrested for hashish possession last week.

Apple, 35, began by apologizing to her jailer for being "attitude-y," and continued with a cryptic rant about four other individuals at the jail and "encoding" things she had heard there.

"First thing is, the guy who runs the jail ... he's a good guy, and I want to apologize to him ... for being attitude-y and saying that I didn't trust him, because I didn't, but by the end of the day, I did," Apple told her audience on Friday at the Houston concert. Her comments were recorded on video.

The "Criminal" songstress said that "most people were very nice to me," but she had some stern words for a few who she said were less kind.

"There are four of you out there, and I want you to know that I heard everything you did, I wrote it all down with your names and everything you did and said stupidly thinking that I couldn't hear or see you," she continued.

Apple did not name either the jailer or the four individuals, but threatened to make the latter group "famous anytime you ask."

She described the antics of the four people she alluded to as "inappropriate and probably illegal," but did not offer further details.

Apple then announced that she had ripped up the piece of paper, but not before she "encoded" the information she had written down. She said she would "hold that secret forever ... unless you're interested in being a celebrity."

The concert was Apple's first public appearance since she was released from a Hudspeth County, Texas, jail after posting bail on Thursday. The singer was arrested on a felony drug possession charge late Wednesday night when officials at a border patrol checkpoint found four grams of hashish in her possession after stopping her tour bus.

Rusty Fleming, a spokesman for the sheriff in Hudspeth County, said there were seven other people on the bus, but Apple admitted the drugs were hers and everybody else was allowed to drive on.

He said her brief stay in jail passed "without incident."

Apple's representative did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The singer won a Grammy for the single "Criminal" off her 1996 debut album "Tidal."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/fiona-apple-addresses-drug-arrest-odd-speech-concert-221603132.html

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Pop Montreal 2012, Day 4: How Music Works symposium, with ...

Photo courtesy of Pop Montreal

It was promoted as a symposium about David Byrne?s new book, How Music Works, described in a recent Boston Globe piece as ?a buoyant hybrid of social history, anthropological survey, autobiography, personal philosophy and business manual, sometimes on the same page.?

Byrne, the founder of Talking Heads, is among the most influential artists of the past three-plus decades. Also participating was Win Butler, leader of one of the most acclaimed contemporary bands in the world, Arcade Fire. Predictably, there wasn?t a seat to be had at the Ukrainian Federation. It?s safe to say the jubilant ticketholders were expecting such a summit meeting to produce something either profound or at least somewhat fascinating.

It was neither.

Not that the 80-minute exchange, moderated by Sean Michaels of Said the Gramophone, was bad. Byrne and Butler both seemed in an affable mood, swapping thoughts about such matters as the relationship between performer and audience, the connection between religious ritual and rock performance, the way fashion and art intersect, the anonymity of some contemporary hitmakers and the perfect set length. Questions were taken at the end.

But the whole thing lacked a cohesive thread, taking abrupt right turns all over the place and telling us little about either performer. Byrne brought photos that were never particularly connected to the dialogue. Images of Iggy Pop, a Ukrainian wedding and Daft Punk, among others, were shown, supposedly to illustrate points, but to no real apparent purpose.

It was interesting to hear Butler speak of the warring attitude the group had when it first faced audiences and his thoughts about switching the Arcade Fire set list around. Similarly, Byrne?s memories of taking exactly the wrong band to festivals after Talking Heads split up and the reasoning behind his early button-down image were amusing, if not revealing.

But if you wanted to hear about Byrne?s book, let alone listen to some wisdom about its titular topic, you were out of luck.

Bernard Perusse

Twitter: @bernieperusse

Source: http://blogs.montrealgazette.com/2012/09/23/pop-montreal-2012-day-4-how-music-works-symposium-with-david-byrne-and-win-butler-at-the-ukrainian-federation-sept-22-2012/

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YouTube Resources for Online Video Marketers | Business 2 ...

youtube_logoOne of the reasons that the Internet can be so intimidating to newbies is the pure rate of change. Technology is constantly advancing and there is something new to think about every day. It isn?t easy to keep up with it all but there are things that you can do to keep yourself in the loop. If you use online video as a marketing tool, it is important to know what the trends are and what changes are happening. Here we are going to focus on the YouTube resources that we use to keep on top.

Why is it important to keep up with changes on YouTube?

YouTube?s algorithms are changing all of the time. If you don?t know what changes are happening and why, you may find that your videos on YouTube suffer in terms of view count.

If new features are released and you aren?t aware of them, you will miss opportunities to optimise your videos further or to increase your exposure on YouTube.

YouTube Resources to help you keep up with trends and changes

YouTube Creators Blog

This blog is packed full of best practice tips, as well as being a fast source of information about changes to YouTube as they are happening. This is an example of one post informing users about changes to the templates available for video creators to use.

YouTube ? Play Means Business

The Play Means Business channel of YouTube hosts a range of videos explaining the different advertising solutions available. Subscribe to the channel to be alerted when videos are added ? i.e. when something is new happens! The channel is updated regularly with exclusive content relating to YouTube Advertising trends, news and insights.

AdWords Community

This resource functions like a message board and gives businesses the opportunity to ask a question and receive high quality answers from AdWords experts and members of the AdWords ?community?. AdWords is an extremely useful marketing tool, for video as well as written content. On YouTube, AdWords will place your adverts with videos that have been returned in search results for content that is similar to yours.

YouTube Partner Bulletin

Includes ?news you cannot miss? and ?product launches and updates?. This is a great source of recent YouTube news in summary form with links to the original posts. It is possible to subscribe to posts using RSS.

YouTube API Blog

A slightly more technical blog for web developers. It is only from looking at this blog, whilst researching for this article, that I learned of changes to the tag system on YouTube. All useful stuff ? take a look for yourself!

YouTube Trends

This is a great resource, and not only because it has just introduced me to a video of Barack Obama singing Call Me Maybe by Carly Ray Jepson. This blog tracks the latest viral videos gaining popularity on YouTube and also written posts providing context for the trends that are being identified. Obviously, the 2012 US Presidential Election is looming, hence the Obama video. This resource will help you stay on top of what videos are currently successful on YouTube and why.

Bookmark all of these YouTube resources and dip in and out every now and again. You might find that some of them become a part of your staple daily Internet diet.

Source: http://www.business2community.com/marketing/youtube-resources-for-online-video-marketers-0282829

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Green Blog: Wind Sprints to the Cliff

The wind industry?s main trade association is predicting that new installations will fall to zero without a renewal of the production tax credit, which applies only to projects finished by New Year?s Eve. Since renewal is iffy, some wind machine factories are already shutting down, as my colleague Diane Cardwell reported on Friday.

From another perspective, this is the moment for the feast before the famine: the impending deadline means that a surge of projects are approaching completion.

On Saturday, officials will cut the ribbon on what some people say is the largest onshore wind farm in the United States, Shepherds Flat in north-central Oregon. (We will defer to whatever the Guinness Book of World Records decides; the title of biggest depends on whether the Alta Wind Energy Center in the Tehachapi Mountains in California is counted as one project or five.)

The Energy Department puts the capacity of Shepherds Flat at 909 megawatts, although, like most wind farms, it will operate most of the time at a lower output. Its 338 turbines are spread over 32,000 acres just south of the Columbia River, in an area that has already drawn so many wind machines that it often referred to as a ?wind ghetto.?

It is a huge project with huge subsidies. The $1.9 billion project was financed with a $1.3 billion loan partly guaranteed by the Energy Department. Prospects for repayment are considered good; the farm has long-term power sale agreements with Southern California Edison.

Google put $100 million into the project. Other major investors include the Sumitomo Corporation and General Electric, which provided the turbines, each of which makes 2.5 megawatts when the wind is strong enough. Running at full tilt, each turbine could meet the average needs of about 2,500 suburban houses.

A study released last year by the Energy Information Administration about federal subsidies for electricity production per unit of energy found that during the fiscal year studied, 2007, wind was one of the largest recipients, at $23.37 per megawatt-hour, compared with coal at 44 cents per megawatt-hour, natural gas at 25 cents and nuclear at $1.59.

The American Wind Energy Association said the study was flawed because it failed to look at the cumulative effect of decades of subsidies to incumbent technologies like coal.

The direction of future subsidies is uncertain. But Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon, who is likely to be the chairman of the Senate Energy Committee if the Democrats remain in the majority in that chamber in the next session ? or the ranking minority member if they do not ? decided to seize on the occasion to signal his support for wind.

In remarks prepared for the ribbon-cutting (but prevented from being delivered live because the Senate stayed in session into Saturday), he said that officials who favor reducing subsidies ?want to limit America?s energy options.?

?They want to surrender America?s opportunity to compete in a global market for energy technologies,?? he said. ?They want to deny rural America the opportunity to grow and prosper by harnessing the one natural resource that is in unlimited supply ? wind.??

And American turbine manufacturers like G.E. could not prosper without an American market, he said.

Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential nominee, has come out squarely against continuing the production tax credit. But the issue divides the Republicans, with some from America?s windy, rural middle favoring the subsidy.

Congress did not act to extend the subsidy before it adjourned and its members left Washington to campaign for re-election. They will return in a lame-duck session right after election day, but prospects for wind then are uncertain as well.

Source: http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/22/wind-sprints-to-the-cliff/?partner=rss&emc=rss

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