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TECH: Took Stock Exchange
over 3 hours to resume trading
wake-up call to companies
and engineers to program
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rushing to push technology resume trading. “I think
into business operations everyone needs to assume
and our daily lives before technology is going to go
it is fully ready, experts down sometimes, but you
caution. Lillian Ablon, a should be resilient enough
technology researcher for to quickly recover from the
the Rand Corp. says the outage within a half hour,
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Hydro projects key part of Idaho Power’s plan
By KEITH RIDLER
Associated Press
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to keep air conditioners humming and
computer screens from going dark in
southern Idaho and Eastern Oregon
over the next two decades as energy
demands rise.
The company in its 144-page Inte-
grated Resource Plan submitted last
week to the public utility commissions
in both states predicts an increase from
516,000 customers to 711,000 in 20
years.
The company says its 17 hydroelec-
tric projects on the Snake River and its
tributaries will remain a key ingredient
to meeting greater demand.
In 2014 the company generated
77 percent of its own power, with 36
percent coming from hydropower. But
high demand during low water years
causes the company some concern.
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plants. The company in 2014 got
34 percent of its power from its coal
plants, and 7 percent from its natural
gas plants.
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uled to shut down in 2020, and the
future of another is unclear with poten-
tial tougher federal pollution regula-
tions set to be released in August. That
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The company purchased 23 percent
of its power from outside entities in
2014. Thirteen percent of that came
from energy sources under the Public
Utilities Regulatory Policies Act, or
PURPA, which is intended to promote
alternative resources such as wind and
solar.
Idaho Power in January asked the
Idaho Public Utilities Commission to
shorten the length of contracts for wind
and solar projects under PURPA, which
the company said will make planning
less uncertain. Power companies under
the act are required to buy electricity at
a state commission-approved rate from
qualifying small power production
facilities.
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historically black church in
Charleston, South Carolina.
After photos of the alleged
killer wearing the Confed-
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people across the country
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down from the South Caro-
lina capitol building, calling
it a symbol of racism. The
South Carolina Senate voted
to do so this week.
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customers have ever told
her they were buying the
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people tell her they see the
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of thinking for themselves
or thinking outside the box.
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or had ancestors who fought
for the Confederacy.
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that as more of a problem in
the southern states than in
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think people should just
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correctness but because
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— John Carbage,
president of Hermiston’s
Black International
Awareness Club
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The Confederate battle flag flies from a two-by-four
on a fence outside of the home of Bobby Woods off of
Southwest Marshall Avenue in Pendleton.
contacted either told her they
have stopped carrying the
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sold out. People searching
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to try Wal-Mart, either —
the corporation announced
two weeks ago it was
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merchandise from its shelves
nationwide. Online retailers
including eBay and Amazon
soon followed suit.
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national Awareness Club, can
see why. His experiences as a
black man living in Arkansas
in the 1970s and 1980s have
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racism inescapably entwined
in his mind.
Carbage said segregation
laws may have been off the
books at that point but every
black resident in the region
knew not to enter a business
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out front unless they wanted a
visit from the Klu Klux Klan.
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and it had a Confederate Flag
on it, you were not to look at
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supports the idea that a
taxpayer-funded institution
like the South Carolina
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with the same experiences
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as Carbage, however. For
people who grew up in
Oregon, away from a perva-
sive Klu Klux Klan presence,
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as a symbol of individualism
or pride in Southern roots.
Joy
Castleton,
of
Hermiston, has ancestors
from South Carolina and
Mississippi who fought in the
Civil War on the side of the
Confederacy.
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emblazoned with the words
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When she asked Wal-Mart
to bake one for her, however,
she was told it was against
company policy.
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they would make a rainbow
cake in honor of gay pride
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bowing to political correct-
ness.
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Safeway and served it on the
Fourth of July.
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Contact Jade McDowell
at
jmcdowell@eastorego-
nian.com or 541-564-4536.
WORLD BRIEFLY
Greece asks for
3-year aid, races
to submit suitable
reforms proposal
Boko Haram asks
Nigeria to swap
detainees for
kidnapped girls
ATHENS (AP) — With
a deadline just hours away
to come up with a detailed
economic reform plan,
Greece requested a new three-
year rescue from its European
partners Wednesday as signs
grew its economy was sliding
toward free-fall without an
urgently needed bailout.
As its banking system
teetered near the edge, the
government extended bank
closures into next week,
while international creditors
were in open disagreement
over whether to award the
country debt relief .
Without a deal, Greece
faces an almost inevitable
collapse of the banking
system, which would be the
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fall out of the euro.
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loomed, the government
sought to reassure its
European creditors that it
would enact tax and pension
reforms quickly in exchange
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bailout fund, the European
Stability Mechanism.
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promises but short on details,
the Greek government
pledged to “immediately
implement a set of measures
as early as the beginning of
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specify what these were.
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP)
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extremists are offering to free
more than 200 young women
and girls kidnapped from a
boarding school in the town
of Chibok in exchange for
the release of militant leaders
held by the government, a
human rights activist has told
The Associated Press.
The activist said Boko
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limited to the girls from the
school in northeastern Nigeria
whose mass abduction in
April 2014 ignited worldwide
outrage and a campaign to
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stretched to the White House.
The new initiative reopens
an offer made last year to
the government of former
President Goodluck Jonathan
to release the 219 students in
exchange for 16 Boko Haram
detainees, the activist said.
The man, who was involved
in negotiations with Boko
Haram last year and is close
to current negotiators, spoke
on condition of anonymity
because he was not
authorized to talk to reporters
on this sensitive issue.
Fred Eno, an apolitical
Nigerian who has been
negotiating with Boko Haram
for more than a year, told the
AP that “another window of
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last few days.
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He said the recent slew of
Boko Haram bloodletting —
some 350 people killed in the
past nine days — is consistent
with past ratcheting up of
violence as the militants
seek a stronger negotiating
position.
Bipartisan Senate
aims to overhaul
corporate taxes on
foreign pro¿ts
WASHINGTON (AP) —
Senators unveiled a bipartisan
framework Wednesday
aimed at making business
taxes more competitive while
generating much-needed
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roads and bridges.
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by Sen. Chuck Schumer,
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would require U.S.-based
corporations to pay a
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overseas. The tax rate has not
been determined, but it would
be considerably less than the
35 percent corporate income
tax rate currently in effect,
according to the plan.
The tax would generate
money for infrastructure
improvements — how much
would depend on the tax
rate. Funding for highways
is scheduled to run out at the
end of the month.
San Fran murder
defendant’s in-and-
out immigration
history is common
SAN FRANCISCO
(AP) — Long before he was
arrested in the shooting death
of a woman at one of San
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tourist sites, Juan Francisco
Lopez Sanchez was using the
U.S.-Mexican border like a
revolving door.
He was arrested while
in the U.S. illegally and
deported to his native Mexico
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June 2009, only to slip back
into the country within days,
weeks or months.
Last week, he was arrested
and accused of killing
32-year-old Kathryn Steinle as
she strolled on a popular San
Francisco pier with her father.
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45, was out on the streets
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cooperation with federal
immigration authorities.
The slaying has brought
heavy criticism down on
the city from politicians of
both parties and become the
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over how to deal with illegal
immigration.
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of contracts, and is now considering
cutting that to two years. Solar compa-
nies said shorter contracts could put
them out of business. The commission
is expected to make a decision by early
August.
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completing a 500-kilovolt transmission
line by 2025 from Melba in southwest
Idaho to Boardman.
That will give the company greater
access to the Mid-Columbia market
where Idaho Power can purchase
energy when needed and sell access
energy. The line will also provide reli-
ability, the company said, and create
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energy producers such as solar and
wind.
The company itself is proposing a
pilot project involving solar panels to
boost voltage at the end of long distri-
bution feeder lines.
A second pilot project the company
wants to try is using electricity to
create ice at night when power demand
is low. The ice would be used to cool
buildings at day when energy demand
picks up.
A review process for the Integrated
Resource Plan is now underway and
includes public meetings planned for
this fall.
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speed limit for road conditions
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The safety project would
add electronic signs that
would change the speed
limit when road conditions
are poor, aiming to curtail
accidents in snow zones.
For the redevelopment
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maintenance station, $7.5
million would be allocated
to “provide adequate
sewage management and
additional space for new
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according to the bill.
ODOT also has an inter-
active map on its website
of
proposed,
current
and completed projects,
including a multi-year,
almost $47 million project
around the I-84 Kamela
interchange
near
La
Grande, which was started
in 2013 and was estimated
to cost $43 million,
according to a news release
from ODOT.
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Contact Jonathan Bach
at jbach@eastoregonian.
com or 541-966-0809.
PARKS: Olney Cemetery has
sprinklers running 24 hours a day
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erly built for the contours
The city waters most of of the lawn, creating both
its parks during the evening, water runoff and brown
starting typically around 10 patches across the property.
or 11 p.m.
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longer watering times.
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system is running 24 hours ments, Cook now rates
a day.
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biggest source of headaches. replacing the whole system
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