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It seems like just yesterday Mitt Romney released his 59-page "plan for jobs and economic growth." That's because it practically was just yesterday. Romney released "Believe in America: Mitt Romney's Plan for Jobs and Economic Growth," around the beginning of September 2011. It was even available as a free e-book on Amazon.Com. It was, as Richard Eskow put it, "the same old job-killing madness." Implementing it, Bill Scher noted, would require "slashing the social safety net."
That was before Romney retroactively lost the Iowa caucuses to Rick Santorum. That was before Newt Gingrich turned Romney into "The Man From Bain," and surged to victory in South Carolina. That was before Romney found himself running neck-and-neck with a guy he had been leading by 38 points.
That's gotta be enough to drive a guy who's gone from "inevitable" to "in-question" more than a little crazy. In Romney's latest economic agenda, it's starting to show.
Romney's economic agenda circa September 2011 consisted of a refusal to cut corporate taxes or raise taxes on individuals, an increase in defense spending, and a balanced budget amendment that would all but guarantee slashing spending on just about everything but defeat. Faced with a real possibility of losing both his home state and his "inevitability," Republican columnist David Frum writes that Romney "threw his economic plan overboard" in a Detroit speech that "seems to have been written on the back of an envelope."
No wonder Ezra Klein was able to sum it up in less than 150 words.
Mitt Romney is promising that taxes will go down, defense spending will go up, and old-people programs won't change for this generation of retirees. So three of his four options for deficit reduction "taxes, old-people programs, and defense" are now either contributing to the deficit or are off-limits for the next decade.
Romney is also promising that he will pay for his tax cuts, pay for his defense spending, and reduce total federal spending by more than $6 trillion over the next 10 years. But the only big pot of money left to him is poor-people programs. So, by simple process of elimination, poor-people programs will have to be cut dramatically. There's no other way to make those numbers work.
The devil is usually in the details, but Romney's new four-page economic agenda is short on details and heavy on assumptions — short on details about where and how deep Romney would cut, and heavy on assumptions about how much economic growth tax cuts will yield. Is it "voodoo economics" or a wave of the "confidence fairy" dust? Probably a little from column A and a little from column B.
So, there's a lot we don't know. (A lot maybe the Romney campaign doesn't even know.) What we do know is disturbing.
For starter's, Romney's new plan would not only extend the Bush tax cuts, which are set to expire at the end of this year, but would also cut individual income tax rates across-the-board another 20%, reducing the top rate to 28% and the bottom rate to 8%, from 35% and 10%. In addition, Romeny's new proposal would retain the 15% top rate for capital gains and dividends, eliminate taxes on investment income for households making less than $200,000, repeal the estate tax, and drop the corporate tax rate to 25% from 35%.
The tax cuts in the new Romney plan would cost the Treasury $4 to $6.2 trillion in "foregone revenue" over the next decade. That's a stark contrast to President Obama's budget, which would raise around $750 billion in revenue over the next decade, by reducing tax breaks for families making more than $250,000 a year, and individuals making more than $200,000 per year. Romney's campaign says that the new plan would broaden the individual tax base by limiting deductions, exemptions and credits, but offers details.
For all the noise that Romney and the remaining GOP field make about the national debt, Romney's new budget would increase the debt. Last week, the Committee For a Responsible Budget released an analysis of the budget proposals of the four remaining GOP candidates, which concluded that all of them would increase the national debt "by massive amounts." Each would transform the GOP into "The Party of Higher Debts," as James Kwak says.
The CFPB issued its analysis just one day after Romney rolled out his new economic agenda. So, its conclusions applied to the plan Romney introduced in September, which CFPB determined would have little impact. But after Romney rolled out his latest economic agenda, CFPB went back to drawing board, and released an addendum which determined that Romney's plan would increase the debt by $2.6 trillion. The cost of the 20% across-the-board tax cut alone would be about $150 billion by in 2015. Other policies, CFPB estimates, would cost about $50 billion more.
The CFPB does note that the Romney campaign says that there would be "sufficient base broadening to make their plan as a whole … deficit-neutral." But accomplishing that would require "would require making substantial changes to many tax expenditures, among the largest of which are for mortgage interest, charitable giving, employer provided health care, and state and local taxes."
In other words, Romney achieves "deficit neutrality" through cuts to tax expenditures that hit middle- and working-class Americans hardest. Any benefit these Americans might get from his "across-the-board" tax cut will evaporate the moment tax breaks and expenditures that support these families are sacrificed for the sake of holding the capital gains tax at 15%, eliminating the estate tax, and cutting corporate tax rates.
Even with those offsets, Romney's latest economic agenda would have "no measurable effect on the debt by 2021." Best case scenario: Romney's plan does nothing to reduce the deficit before 2021. Worst case scenario: Romney's plan explodes the debt.
Mitt Romney's latest economic agenda calls for $500 billion in spending cuts by 2012, and caps non-defense spending at 20% of GDP. Keep in mind that this is in addition to reducing revenue by at least $4 trillion or as much as $6.2 trillion. Just days before Romney's Detroit speech, the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities took a look at his earlier budget proposals. Even before Romney threw in the 20% across-the-board tax cut, CBPP determined that Romney's proposals would require massive cuts to non-defense programs. Even without balancing the budget, Romney's agenda would require cutting non-defense programs by $637 billion in 2016 alone, by $6.5 trillion between 2014 and 2021.
There's your "revenue neutral" budget proposal! So what if your 20% across-the-board tax cut reduces revenues by $6.2 trillion? Slash everything but the defense budget by $6.5 trillion and you've achieved something we haven't seen since the Clinton era: a budget surplus, to the tune of $300 billion. By the way, this works even if it turns out those tax cuts don't broaden your tax base. And we haven't even talked about a balanced budget amendment. Throw that in and we're looking at $10 trillion in cuts to non-defense spending by 2021, and a $3.8 trillion surplus. Bonus!
Great. So, how do we get there? And what's "non-defense spending"?
Obliterating the Safety Net
Actually, it's "non-defense discretionary spending" that we're talking about here. It's the "old-people programs" and "poor-people programs" that Ezra mentioned. We're talking about spending on education, transportation, low-income programs, food stamps, disaster relief, veterans, etc. We're talking about programs like Head Start and WIC, the food aid program for women and children. It adds up to about $145 billion for 2012, but that's only about 4% of total federal spending.
It's what we call the "safety net" — a combination of programs designed to keep the poor and "near-poor" from falling into economic oblivion. It's what conservatives like Mitt Romney call an "entitlement society," that's "systematically destroying the work ethic, because they imagine most of it's going to poor people who would rather depend on government than go to work, and to "government bureaucrats" who for some nefarious reason want to keep them "dependent." In fact, 90% of it goes to beneficiaries who are elderly, disabled
True to form, Romney flip flops even here. One minute he's fulminating against and "entitlement society," and the next he's praising the safety net, and using to explain why he's "not concerned about the very poor," because "We have a safety net there." "If it needs repair," he says, "I'll fix it."
Perhaps Romney thinks the safety net is "strong": that it's in pretty good shape. Of course, it's not. It's full of holes and straining under the weight of more 46 million Americans living in poverty, and the millions more rely on the safety net to keep them just this side of poverty. Millions of people are already falling through the safety net, and the recession is pushing millions more into free-fall.
Yes, we have a safety net, but it's starting to unravel and it is in desperate need of repair. Mitt Romney says he'll do that. But even his previous economic agenda would have ripped massive holes in the safety net.
Romney's budget proposals would shred safety nets even more. According to an analysis by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, his plan would throw 10 million low-income people off the benefit rolls for food stamps or cut benefits by thousands of dollars a year, or some combination. "These cuts would primarily affect very low-income families with children, seniors and people with disabilities," the Center concludes.
At the same time, Romney's tax plan would boost the incomes of America's most wealthy citizens, who are already taking home an almost unprecedented share of that nation's total income. Romney wants to permanently extend George W. Bush's tax cuts, reduce corporate income tax rates, and eliminate the estate tax. These tax cuts would increase the incomes of people earning more than a million dollars a year by an average of $295,874 annually, according to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center.
By reducing government revenues, Romney's tax cuts would squeeze programs for the poor even further. Extending the Bush tax cuts will add $1.2 trillion to the nation's budget deficit in just two years. That's the same as the amount that's supposed to be saved by automatic spending cuts scheduled to start next year – which, by the way, will hit the poor especially hard.
Oh, I almost forgot. Romney and other Republicans also want to repeal of Obama's health care law, thereby leaving 30 million Americans without health insurance.
A Narrative of Life in Mitt Romney's America
Mitt Romney's newest economic agenda wouldn't just shred the safety net. It would obliterated the safety net. Matt Hubbard, and economic adviser to the Romney campaign, called Mitt Romney's newest economic agenda "a narrative of the policy agenda and life under a Romney presidency." When it comes to middle- and working-class Americans, the poor and the near-poor, Hubbard's words are particularly prescient.
We're back to numbers there. So let's try to return to narrative. If Romney cut Medicaid entirely — took it from the $407 billion its projected to cost in 2016 and moved it to zero — his numbers wouldn't work. If he then excised out all spending on food stamps — taking them from a projected $80 billion in 2016 to nothing — he still wouldn't be there.
Romney won't do that, of course. His cuts presumably will be distributed among many, many more programs. But that thought experiment gives you a sense of the size of the cuts he will need to make. And the reality is that he's not got many painless places to make them. The largest spending program left to him is Medicaid, which provides health care to low-income Americans, children, and the disabled. Retirement costs for federal employees are a large pot of money, but we can't break all those promises. Transportation infrastructure is expensive, but we will continue to need to repair our roads. And so on.
Yesterday, Bob Borosage wove an alternate narrative of life under a Romney presidency out of nine things Mitt Romney believes, reflected in his new economic agenda. It's a narrative of life in an America where rich no longer have "too little money."
It's a narrative of life in an America where:
- the wealthy no longer have "too little money"
- "those blessed by being born to the wealthy few should inherit the earth"
- the world is "the oyster of corporations seeking tax havens"
- Wall Street is "free to gamble with other people's money, and you rubes are on your own"
- the military no longer has "too little money," where elderly workers no longer have "too much security and leisure"
- "our schools, water systems, roads and bridges, subways and trains, nutrition programs for children, Coast Guard and FBI" no longer get "too much money" and "do with much less"
- and "children must play the hand that fate dealt them. If they are the heirs to the rich, they live charmed lives. If they are born to the poor, they must rise above it "
But perhaps the best summary I've heard of Romney's budget comes from Republican columnist Frum.
Compassionate conservatism has been dead for a long time. Romney's Detroit speech cremated the remains. As a man, Romney remains far and away the most capable of the presidential candidates seeking the Republican nomination. But he has now finally eliminated the policy differences separating him from the radical congressional wing.
This summer, during the debate over raising the debt ceiling, Republicans used a clip from The Town, a movie staring Ben Affleck, to rally their caucus to support John Boehner's debt plan … and "hurt some people." In September, New Jersey governor promised wealthy attendees at a Koch-sponsored seminar that "pain will be inflicted" if or when conservatives implement their economic agenda.
So far, the right has been disappointed in their desire to "hurt some people." But if it gets him the votes he needs to win his party's nomination, Mitt Romney is willing to promise them that they will finally get to "hurt some people," if they just get him elected. Mitt Romney is willing to promise conservatives not only that "pain will be inflicted," but how much and upon whom. That pain will be the real narrative of a Romney presidency, at least for 99 percent of us.
This post was corrected to exclude Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid from a list of discretionary spending programs.


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Steger's curricula focus on thought-provoking interactions and practical solutions for students of all ages (grades K-university). Lessons were developed in collaboration with the Narioanl Education Association (NEA), Union of Concerned Scientists, and National Geographic. Check out the following curricula that deliver a strong knowledge base on climate change, accompanied by a framework that encourages and supports older students to articulate their positions on climate policy.
Global Warming 101 (grades 3-6): The subject of climate change may be overwhelming, but if young children are hearing about it in the news and from people they know, they need to understand it in a thoughtful, appropriate way. Five lessons are devoted to basic background information on climate change.
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An 18-month-old girl is dead after she was run over by a school bus that had just offloaded children in the Chapel Hill area.
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The story of our lives is ours to create. We can design our own roles and ideals, compose the scripts, and author the sagas of our own futures and that of the environment around us. While we cannot necessarily control the circumstances and influences that present themselves to us in the course of living, we can choose how we will respond to them when they do arise. Our power of choice is our sole control in the world.
With each new paragraph, each turn of the page, each new dawn, each new season, each moment in time, each blink of the eye, each beat of the heart, we are gifted with another opportunity to exercise our right to choose.
Coffee or tea? Lemon or milk? Right or left? Stairs or elevator? Vacuum? Vote? Cheat? Trust? Care? Dare? Change?
What paths we take, what decisions we make influence how the story will proceed and who we will be from this day forth. As George Eliot reminds us, "The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice."
The difficult times that we encounter in our lives might tempt us to dull our senses and opt out of any upsetting experiences, choosing not to let things "get to us." We often try to ignore the hard parts — pain, fear, guilt, grief, confusion, anger, and disappointment — dilute their impact, drown them out in an endless list of pleasurable addictions: soporifics, anesthetics, mood enhancers, caffeine, food, hormones. We can even turn ourselves off altogether.
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The thermometer has finally signaled that spring is here, and judging from history, summer-like temperatures aren�t that far off.
The thermometer has finally signaled that spring is here, and judging from history, summer-like temperatures aren�t that far off.
With milder temperatures still prevalent, it is common to see parked cars with windows cracked and a barking dog inside.
But make no mistake � it is a very bad idea to leave a pet locked in a car. Even outdoor temperatures in the 70s can be a threat to animals. As the weather gets warmer, even short-term exposure to intense heat can be fatal to the animal.
A group of state lawmakers wants to make sure people understand that danger and have introduced a bill making it a misdemeanor to leave a pet in a car on hot or perilously cold days, or to leave the pet without food and water for a period of time.
The bill, whose primary sponsor is a Democrat but which has co-sponsors from both parties, also would authorize law enforcement officials to break into a locked car if necessary to rescue an animal in distress.
The bill has been hailed by animal lovers, some of whom have no doubt seen panting dogs sitting in a car with the windows cracked on a hot summer day.
Most people who take their dogs everywhere truly love their pets but may not realize that after even a few minutes a car can heat up beyond what an animal can tolerate.
It should go without saying � how does it feel to you when you get into a car on a summer day? � but unfortunately many people either are not aware of or choose to ignore the dangers.
House Bill 612, which is now assigned to a judiciary committee, would give law enforcement officers the power to take action if necessary to save the life of a helpless animal.
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Katie Holmes and daughter Suri Cruise spent a fun Thursday at the Happiest Place on Earth as they rode roller coasters and walked around Disneyland.
It's moments like these that a parent treasures forever.
Not every parent, mind you, but some.
Katie Holmes and daughter Suri Cruise spent a fun Thursday at the Happiest Place on Earth as they rode roller coasters and walked around Disneyland.
It's moments like these that a parent treasures forever.
Not every parent, mind you, but some.
Tom Cruise said he wasn't able to see his daughter for months because he was shooting "Mission Impossible 5" in London, and he was counting the hours before he came home to little Suri. But we're told he was off work for 2 weeks after shooting wrapped, yet never saw her.
Sources connected to Katie Holmes tell TMZ ... it's worse than that. They say Tom has not seen the 8-year-old in almost a year. Tom's rep previously denied that and said the actor has seen his daughter plenty, but on the down low to shield her from cameras.
But our Katie sources say that's not true ... that he's just not been a part of her life.
There's been speculation Tom is distancing himself from Katie and Suri because they've been declared SPs in Scientology, but we've checked with the Church and we're told that is simply not true.
Tom is now back to business ... he just began a 90 day shoot in Atlanta.
He did take time Sunday to take his son Connor to the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament in Tampa.
We reached out to Tom's rep .... so far no word back.
Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are not at war over the Church of Scientology ... they don't communicate because they have an intense dislike for one another.
When we broke the story -- that Katie and Tom are so estranged they don't even talk about raising their 8-year-old daughter Suri -- we started getting tips that Tom has shut her out because she's an SP ... a Suppressive Person.
An SP stands for several things, including people who disavow the Church. The Church has a procedure for declaring people SPs. Once they're declared an SP, people in the Church are told not to associate with them.
Well-placed sources close to the Church tell TMZ, Katie was NOT declared a Suppressive Person. What's interesting, we're told Katie actually thinks she's been declared one ... but she hasn't.
Sources connected with Tom and Katie tell us there are hard feelings on both sides, which is why they don't communicate. For Tom's part, he feels betrayed because he claims Katie never gave him any warning she was leaving him. For Katie's part, we're told she felt Tom sucked the life out of her.
In the end, Suri is living with her mom and sees her dad from time to time, but the family unit is completely shattered.
Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes want nothing to do with each other ... to the point they don't speak to one another, even about Suri.
Sources close to both Tom and Katie tell us they do not communicate at all. There are no direct co-parenting discussions. Everything regarding Suri -- visitation, child-rearing, etc. -- is handled through intermediaries.
Our sources say there are bad feelings on both sides, and no desire on either Tom or Katie's part to mend fences.
As for Suri ... sources close to Tom say he's still involved in his daughter's life, although he hasn't seen her in months because he's been in London shooting "Mission Impossible 5." Production wrapped last Thursday and our Tom sources say he's coming back to L.A. and will see Suri when he returns.
On the Katie side we're told she's dissatisfied with Tom's involvement in their daughter's life ... that it hasn't been enough.
And there's this ... we've been told there is some sort of relationship between Katie and Jamie Foxx. Our Tom sources wouldn't comment on the relationship, but say Tom has been concerned in the past with other boyfriends because of a possible negative influence on Suri.


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Minnesota Coin Dealer Gets Five Years in Fraud Scheme
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - A Twin Cities coin dealer has been sentenced to five years in prison for his role in a scheme that bilked clients out of nearly $3.4 million.
David Marion was sentenced Thursday. He could have been sentenced to more than seven years under federal sentencing guidelines.
U.S. District Judge Patrick Schiltz called the investor losses "huge" but acknowledged that Marion "resisted the temptation to blame others" for his crime.
But Assistant U.S. Attorney Karen Schommer says her office disagreed with the lesser sentence. She noted that many of the 57 mostly elderly victims lost their life savings.
Marion pleaded guilty last February to money laundering and conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud.
Reports say Marion also must pay restitution of $3.37 million.


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Xiao Named Office of Naval Research Young Scientist, July 14, 2006by George Zamora
SOCORRO, N.M., July 14, 2006 – Hai Xiao, an assistant professor of electrical engineering at New Mexico Tech, recently was selected as an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator.
Xiao was one of seven university researchers selected earlier this year from a nationwide group of 238 applicants who submitted supporting materials and research proposals for funding awards of up to $100,000 per year from the Office of Naval Research in Arlington, Va.
"Dr. Xiao emerged successfully from a very competitive pool because of his academic achievements, his ability to contribute to the strength of the nation's research and development, and the commitment to him expressed by New Mexico Tech administrators," said Rear Admiral William E. Landay III, Chief of Naval Research.
"We believe that ONR Young Investigators, including Dr. Xiao, are among the best and brightest young academic researchers this country has to offer," Landay added.
Through the research grant provided by the ONR Young Investigators Program, Xiao's research project, titled "Understanding the Optical Behaviors of Zeolite Thin Films and Nanoparticles to Develop Micro Chemical Sensors: Bridging the Nanoscale and the Microscale," will be eligible for three years of financial and additional support.


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The Little Rock Zoo is the proud home of the Arkansas Carousel, a one-of-a-kind Over-the-Jumps antique carousel that is the only fully operational carousel of its kind in the world.
The Over-the-Jumps Carousel was constructed as a traveling carousel by the Spillman Engineering Company of North Tonawanda, New York, during the heyday of carousels in the United States (1887-1935). It first appeared in Arkansas at the 1924 Arkansas State Fair held at State Fair Park, now known as War Memorial Park.
It is the last known "over-the-jumps" carousel known to exist with an undulating track, one of only four built in the world. The undulating track moves up and down with the horses attached to the track. Standard carousels feature horses attached to poles that move up and down to create motion.
Little Rock resident Tom Fuzzell purchased it in 1942, saving it from destruction and allowing several more generations of Arkansans to enjoy it at War Memorial Amusement Park.
The carousel was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. Owners Mokey Choate and Doc O'Kelley decided to sell the carousel in 1991, putting its future in Arkansas in peril. Under the leadership of then State Senator Mike Kinard and other visionary leaders, Friends of the Carousel was formed to raise the funds necessary to purchase and fully restore the beloved carousel.
After more than $500,000 and 16 years of hard work, the Friends of the Carousel donated the Over-the-Jumps carousel to the Little Rock Zoo in October of 2007 making the Zoo the permanent home of the carousel.
During the restoration process, more than 30 layers of paint were removed from each pony and chariot, layer-by-layer, to reveal the original color coat of paint on each piece. Mechanical parts were pieced back together and identical copies of old, worn-out parts were custom made to make the old carousel run again. After one year of operation at the Zoo the carousel horses were in disrepair and were in need of further restoration. A grant from the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program along with funding from the City of Little Rock allowed the horses to be completely restored again with a full protective coating placed on the horses to make them more durable.
Thanks to the hard work of the Friends of the Carousel, the continued generosity of the community and dozens of contributors, the carousel spins again!
Fundraising efforts for the carousel continue, as the carousel requires regular upkeep and maintenance to maintain its beautiful splendor. You can help preserve this historic treasure by making a donation to the Arkansas Zoological Foundation toward the Over-the-Jumps Carousel.
If you'd like to contribute to the restoration and continued preservation of the Over-the-Jumps Carousel, then consider purchasing a brick in the carousel plaza at the Little Rock Zoo. Bricks are only $250 and a special inscription of your choice can be engraved on the brick at no additional cost.
For more information, or to purchase a brick, call (501)661-7208.
The Arkansas Carousel is available to ride when visiting the Zoo. Cost is $3 per person.
PLEASE NOTE: During fall & winter months, the carousel may not be in operation for seasonal repairs and maintenance. Please inquire at the ticket counter for information about hours of operation or call (501)661-7218 for information.
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden's Rebtel launched a calling feature which can be embedded in apps from games to dating services, a move which could help strengthen its user base and make it a more formidable rival to Microsoft Corp's Skype.
Rebtel's new free voice platform, which can be used on both Apple Inc's iPhone operating system and by developers for Android phones, is intended to make apps more social and expand their reach.
Rebtel has 17 million users and is the world's second-biggest internet calling service after Skype.
Rebtel Chief Executive Andreas Bernstrom estimated that at least 10 percent of the 1.2 million apps in use would benefit from the call feature.
"If we can get a tiny, tiny percentage to actually start using it, then there's going to be a lot of traffic going through our network," Bernstrom told Reuters.
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Having "SPOT rules" written and ready for everyone to read sounds like a great idea!!!!
I think before setting up a mandatory license for kitters we should start with mandatory license for teachers, most of the people that I know barely know how to set up their lines and they are allready showing their girlfriendo or brother of friend!!!


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Geology Students Tour World's Largest Copper Mines in Chile
By Thomas Guengerich
SOCORRO, N.M., April 2, 2009 – Six New Mexico Tech geology students enjoyed all-access field trips to some of the world's largest copper mines in Chile in early March.
Professor Dr. Bill Chávez led the students to six mines to learn firsthand about the mining methods, engineering, research, mineralogy and deposits.
"For students, it is a practical, educational experience," Chávez said. "They get to see how things are done in other parts of the world and it really opens their eyes."
All six students – five of them graduate students – raved about the trip. Sara Drueckhammer said the week in Chile was an amazing experience.
"We actually got to see and understand everything that we've been learning in class," she said. "It was all right in front of our faces. As a geologist, it's all so pertinent to see it in the field because that's what we will be working with."
Master's student Shari Houston said the Chile trip was the most educationally meaningful experience in her five years at Tech.
"This trip was the most phenomenal thing a Tech student could do," Houston said. "It was extremely impressive. Words can't describe it. It was just a very valuable learning tool."
The group spent a day traveling to the capital city, Santiago, then took a 20-hour, 700-mile bus ride north to the regional capital of Antofagasta. Chávez led the group on tours of five mines, two of which were near Antofagasta, with the other three tours near the inland city of Calama, which is three hours by bus northeast of Antofagasta, and is nestled in the Andean foothills.
"The biggest benefit is that the students see the stuff they are supposed to see – rocks," Chávez said. "Importantly, they also get to see and understand new cultures. I've had some students go on trips to Chile and Perú, thinking that everyone south of the border eats enchiladas and that the miners use shovels, picks and burros."
That isn't the case in Chile, where the mining industry is mature and established.
"They have enormous trucks, huge mines and really smart geologists," Chávez said. "It's a cultural eye-opener for a lot of our students - they're seeing some of the largest, most important mines in the world."
All the students emphasized the experiential aspect – the hands-on activities and personalized tours.
"Most of the time, students only have the opportunity to learn about these things by looking at pictures or reading it in textbooks or scientific journals," doctoral student Jesús Velador said. "Actually going into a pit and seeing the occurrence of minerals is something really great. It's something we will always remember."
Houston said Chávez' experiences in geology, in mining, and in Chile were extremely helpful.
"Bill Chávez was phenomenal," Houston said. "He took the time to explain things and he made sure we understood what we were looking at and what was going on. He translated for those of us who didn't speak Spanish. He pushed us and questioned us and made us think for answers."
Copper mining is a mature industry in Chile; it was among Chile's largest industries as early as 1809, when the country gained independence. Chile became the world's largest producer of copper in the 1860s. The country slowly began nationalizing the copper mines in the 1950s. In 1971, the Chilean government took over the entire copper industry. Many private companies are now active in Chile's copper mining industry, but they pay heavy taxes. Today, Chile's mines produce more than 40 percent of the world's copper, with much of the mining activity centered in the extremely arid Atacama Desert in the northern part of that country.
In preparation for the field course, Chávez organizes and implements the itinerary for the weeklong stay, with the New México Tech Student Chapter of the Society of Economic Geologists sponsoring much of the students' travel expenses. The Graduate Student Association and the Student Association also provided significant funding.
Each day's excursion began with a classroom exercise. Drueckhammer said a company geologist would explain the mineralogy, operations and geologic setting of the mine. All but one company lead the group on an afternoon tour of the mine.
"We got to go to the bottom of the pits and we could see all the different alteration zones," Drueckhammer said. "We got to collect samples, which I love, and we got to see it all – all the geology. It was pretty cool."
The one company that didn't offer a tour had the students examine a 100-foot core sample taken from one of their exploration projects.
"We spent a couple hours logging [geologically mapping] a core, which was really good," Drueckhammer said. "That's a realistic thing we would do if we were hired as a geologist at a mine."
Houston also said the core logging experience was among her highlights because the exercise is something that a working economic geologist will be expected to master.
"The opportunity to go through an entire system and log the core from start to finish was astounding," she said. "We got to describe what we saw – the minerals, the texture. We learned how to recognize minerals by eye and from handling it. That's the experience I appreciate the most."
Jesús Velador, a doctoral student, had quite a bit of experience with core logging. Before enrolling in the geology program, he had worked for more than two years at a mine in his native México. Even with his work experience, he gushed about the importance of the Chilean experience.
"I will never forget the type of minerals and the occurrence of rocks in the deposits," he said. "The best part of the visit was seeing how they mine the minerals and how they extract the ore from the pit."
Matt Earthman said the field trip helped with perspective. Many mineral deposits are hosted by igneous rocks formed from volcanic eruptions. Over time, natural forces alter the mineral composition of those deposits and geologists must be able to recognize these changes.
"One of the biggest things, as an economic geologist, is seeing alteration minerals," Earthman said. "These are the things we need to be able to see to know there's a deposit and how can we track down the big deposits. This experience put exploration into perspective. The things we saw in Chile can be applied here [in the American Southwest] too."
Carlos Vargas, a native of Costa Rica, said the variety of mining operations was especially illuminating.
"We saw three different kinds of copper deposits," he said. "We also learned about the paragenesis of copper and the structural geology controls. We also learned about mining methods and different mining techniques."
Several of the mines visited are among the biggest copper mines in the world, including some deposits that comprise more than a billion tons of mineralized rock, called porphyry copper deposits, and smaller deposits that are hosted by volcanic flows [like those found in The Valley of Fire State Park]. All the students mentioned the importance of being able to see and identify large-scale deposits of various styles and types.
"We saw some text-book deposits," Vargas said. "It's important to read about it, but it's more important to see it. They gave us really good talks about the deposits, then we learned about how they do it by going into the mine. That's important because our jobs will be like that."
"The best part of the trip for me was the visit to El Tesoro mine," Velador said. "It wasn't the biggest mine we visited, but the origin of the copper was very interesting – very exotic."
Much of northern Chile is dissected by very long and active tectonic features – two of which are the West Fissure and the Atacama Fault – which bring copper from deep within the Earth's crust to shallow levels, where it can be discovered and eventually mined. Notably, in the Atacama Desert just outside of Antofagasta, the students could see huge outcroppings of copper deposits.
"That's not unheard of," Drueckhammer said. "But given my experience, that's crazy to see. At some places, we could see people prospecting for copper."
Chávez leads at least one field trip to Chile each year. In 2008, he took two groups of students to that country, visiting different ore deposits. He's been visiting and working in Chile every year since 1980, when he completed his doctoral dissertation on the ore deposits at Mantos Blancos, Chile.
"The company that sponsored my Ph.D. field work was very kind to me," Chávez said. "They said, 'Hey, kid, we have exploration programs. Tag along while you work on your thesis.' I was introduced to many important people and many ore deposits in Chile and I've been going to that part of the world ever since to lead field courses and to perform consulting. The mines receive our student groups very well – always. On this last visit, two Chilean geologists came up to me and told me they missed our perennial visits … and, after almost 30 years of working in Chile, people in the mines still call me 'Billy'."


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Karen - Sorry to hear DH is being an a--! Although the cooking story made me laugh. MEN!!! I have a weird situation right now in that my husband is still looking for a job, so while it has its benefits (he is taking care of Noah part time), it is also hard at times. I don't know. Some days I am so thankful he is not working right now so that he can take care of Noah (those are the days I typically work from home, so I also kind of help), but then other days I am resentful because I have to work. It is weird. My husband has been enormously helpful with Noah...so much so that sometimes I feel like I am not doing enough. I know that may sound silly, but that is how I feel...like I suck as a mom...maybe because our roles are somewhat reversed, you know? I guess being sick for the last few days has not helped anything. Anyway, my husband just needs to find a job as I know it is hard on him not being able to contribute.
Well, we are worried about Noah not being able to hold up his head yet...and one side is flat from how he sleeps. This worries us, too. Anyone else have that? Noah is cooing and giggling..though not sure he has had an all out laugh yet. He is just such a happy baby.
Seltzer - I told my husband about Keira's sleeping and he told me to tell you about the humidifier we use. We really think it helps Noah to breathe easier and it also serves to block out some of those little noises he makes (I also think he likes the "white" noise). We used a warm mist humidifier last night and it was terrible because it was too quiet and didn't seem to generate much of anything. We usually use the cool mist one and it is great. We are going back to that one tonight! Anyway, just a thought....
As far as your DP...I just don't know. Babies are tough. Sometimes I feel like Noah takes up ALL of our time and since we have no one here to help us, it seems like all we do is care for him. But you know - that will change. They get older, more independent, everything. It is so hard for me to balance work and everything else. There are just not any hours in the day for "me". Oh well - I know that is not forever. I can't imagine how a single, working mom does it!!!!
Ok, I have to run. Noah is napping, my husband ran to the grocery store, and I need to finish working.
Take care....Tina


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Research & Analysis by John Jankowski
Caregiver Credits in France, Germany, and Sweden: Lessons for the United States
from Social Security Bulletin, Vol. 71, No. 4 (released November 2011)
Analysts have long considered caregiver credits, or pension credits, provided to individuals for time spent out of the workforce caring for dependent children and sick or elderly relatives, as a way to improve the adequacy of retirement benefits for women in the United States. This article examines the experiences of France, Germany, and Sweden with caregiver credits, focusing particularly on the design, administration, and cost of these programs.


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Missing you!
You can't imagine how very much I miss all of you! And, the fun, creativity, and camaraderie of blogging.
Where have I been? Well, the answer is quite simple. I've been working. A lot.
I have many passions in life. Some of you know I love to create in the kitchen, eat, and share those recipes with you. I'm passionate about my family and friends and the little dogs. And, I'm pretty passionate about work.
For a few years I worked part time and during that period I learned about my food sensitivities and started The Sensitive Pantry.
It was a good time for me. My son was in high school and for the first time I was around when he got home from school. I started to decompress from corporate life and found that the old me—the one who was still creative, and funny, and could be calm and thoughtful about so many things—still existed.
I still worked but not as much. Fortunately for me I was able to connect with a company that was growing in a depressed economy. We started working together and one thing lead to another. I am now working within that company and I'm excited to be part of the organization that will help lead them through their continued growth.
It's a lot of work. A lot. (Oh, yeah, I said that already.)
So, not as much time as I'd like to let the creative juices flow in the kitchen and then onto the blog. I've tried but my cooking mojo is just not up to par. And, I promised myself I would not stress about it.
The plan is this. If I can I will cook up a storm and share it. If not, then I won't. That simple. No pressure.
So, expect a new recipe from me now and again.
My love to all of you. I have had so much fun playing in the kitchen and online with you for these past few years. I will come and play with you again when I can!


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June 9, 2010
EUGENE, Ore. -- Jane Doolittle and Danielle Domenichelli turned in All-American performances at the NCAA Track & Field Championships, held on a windy, rainy day at the University of Oregon's Hayward Field. Ryan Martin and Julian deRubira also advanced to the 800m and 3000m steeplechase finals, respectively, in one of UCSB's most memorable days at the NCAA Championships.
Doolittle finished fourth in the women's high jump, adding All-American honors to her dream season which included a Big West Conference title and a UCSB school record.
After the opening height knocked off about half the field in the women's high jump, 12 athletes cleared 5'9.25" (1.76m) to set up a showdown for the eight All-American positions. Only four athletes cleared the next height of 5'10.75" (1.80m), including Doolittle, who cleared it on her final attempt. Her fourth-place, All-American finish is the best ever by a UCSB high jumper.
Domenichelli finished seventh in the 10,000m to earn All-American honors to top off her season, which included Big West Championships in the 10,000m and 5000m, and a UCSB record in the 5000m.
At one point late in the race, Domenichelli was leading the field and pushing the pace to drop stragglers. But with six to go, Lisa Koll from Iowa State made an aggressive attack that left the rest of the field behind. Domenichelli stayed with a chase group and was able to hold on to an All-American position with a time of 33:32.81.
Domenichelli is only the second Gaucho to earn All-American honors twice (Stephanie Rothstein - 10,000m in 2006 and 2007), and is the first to win All-American honors in two different events. In 2008 Domenichelli was an All-American in the 5000m.
In preliminary round action, Ryan Martin broke the UCSB record in the 800m to become the first Gaucho to clock an official sub-1:47 time. Martin finished second in Heat 2 with a time of 1:46.71, advancing to the final round to be held Friday evening. His time eclipsed the previous UCSB record of 1:47.60, set by Tetlo Emmen in 2007.
Likewise, Julian deRubira qualified for the 3000m steeplechase final with his own UCSB record-breaking performance. deRubira finished third in Heat 1 and fifth overall to advance to the final, which will also be held Friday evening. His time of 8:43.62 broke his own school record of 8:46.48, which he set two weeks ago at the NCAA West Preliminary.
The final UCSB result from Wednesday was Barbara Nwaba's Day One score in the heptathlon. She is currently in fifth place with 3361 points, with three events remaining. Her highlight from today's events was a 900-point score in the 100m hurdles, where she clocked a time of 14.49. The heptathlon will conclude tomorrow.
The remaining NCAA Championship itinerary for the Gauchos includes Nwaba finishing the heptathlon tomorrow, Martin competing in the 800m final on Friday, deRubira competing in the steeplechase final on Friday, and Kayla Smith competing in the women's shot put on Friday.
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Retired Col. Bud Garrett shows a new flag in commemoration of the Vietnam conflict at the Combat Center Commissary during a ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam conflict; Nov. 6, 2013.
TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. - The Combat Center's commissary honored Vietnam veterans during a flag unveiling ceremony for the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam war Wednesday.
Col. Bud Garrett. (ret.), the event's guest speaker, unveiled the new flag. This flag commemorated the war and the sacrifices made by those who served.
The Headquarters Defense Commissary Agency ensured that commissaries on military bases across the DoD participated in the anniversary event.
"The event is happening in commissaries worldwide to commemorate the Vietnam conflict for veterans who served during that time," said Jeane Halterman, commissary officer.
The event's guest speaker, Garrett, served in the Vietnam conflict and explained the hardships of fighting in Vietnam. He also thanked the commissary for their gracious gesture.
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Jeremy Samuelson, an environmental advocate from the Group for the East End, visited the Montauk Citizens Advisory Committee meeting on Monday to discuss the health of Lake Montauk, but the conversation swiftly turned to this week's hot topic: Peter Kalikow's application to extend a dock — that some believe is already illegal — an additional 15 feet into the lake.
Mr. Kalikow, the former chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, is seeking a natural resources permit and a variance to extend the dock and legalize an existing boatlift.
The committee agreed by resolution to write to the East Hampton Town Board and the zoning board urging them to not just deny the application for the dock extension but recommending that Mr. Kalikow be made to remove it altogether. They also agreed to ask that the boards deny Mr. Kalikow's request that the boatlift (which he had installed without a permit for his motorboat, a speedboat of the so-called cigarette type) be made legal.
Jay Fruin, a committee member who lives on East Lake Drive and who has been appointed to the Lake Montauk Watershed Committee, told the citizens group that the engines in Mr. Kalikow's boat are enormous. "When he fires them up you can hear it. That alone is probably killing all of the eelgrass seedlings," he said. "There is no way extending that dock makes any sense to anyone in this room except to him."
The dock, which has caused controversy since it was built in 1990, was approved by the East Hampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals in 1988 after the Concerned Citizens of Montauk and others strongly opposed it. One argument used against it was that if one resident were allowed to build a dock, others around the lake would want them, too, potentially jamming up the waterway and leaving little room for other uses.
Mr. Kalikow has a vacation house on Star Island and recently battled with neighbors when he fenced off a portion of beach that had been used by the public for many years.
Mr. Samuelson said the dock, at an estimated 1,600 square feet, is already about four times the size allowed by law. "That's a huge red flag for me." He said that when biologists studied the area before the dock was built they had been concerned about the impact of a structure that size on the eelgrass bed, upon which many species (including flounder) rely.
"It's not enough that they've already killed an acre of eelgrass, but now we're going to expand it? I didn't believe it 10 years ago, and I don't believe it now. There is no benefit to the eelgrass. There is no benefit to shellfish. There is no benefit to the neighbors, and there is no benefit to the community," he said.
Richard Kahn, a retired attorney and a member of both the lake advisory committee and the Concerned Citizens of Montauk, said that giving Mr. Kalikow a variance to expand the dock and legalize the boatlift would set a bad precedent. "How can the Z.B.A. possibly say no to the other 157 residents?" he asked rhetorically, referring to the number of houses around the lake. "It's a very serious risk. The permit said you should not build the dock. He gave them the finger and expanded the dock."
Mr. Kalikow's lawyer, Eric Bregman, a former East Hampton Town attorney, has said that the longer dock is needed because the boat sits in shallow water and its propeller scrapes the bottom at low tide, disturbing native plant life. He contends that extending the dock would relieve that.
In a follow-up phone call, Mr. Samuelson pointed out that on March 15, the East Hampton Town Board revitalized the Lake Montauk Watershed Committee and appointed 15 members to study the lake's current state.
In addition to Mr. Fruin, those committee members include experts in the fields of ecology and natural resources; town officials, including East Hampton Town Supervisor Bill Wilkinson and Town Trustee Joe Bloecker; and several other Montauk residents, including Rav Freidel, Keith Grimes, James Hewitt, Julia Evans Brunn, Perry B. Duryea III, Bill Grimm, and Henry Uihlein.
"The lake is dying," Mr. Samuelson said. "It's really crying out for a study to move forward and reach a scientifically valid conclusion. We have to quantify and understand the negative impacts so we can sit down to the serious work of saving Lake Montauk."
The destruction to the lake is being caused, he said, by pathogens and nitrogen loading, sediment, road and storm-water runoff, habitat loss, leakage from septic systems, and a lack of adequate tidal flushing. "If people think that dredging the channel and inlet will solve the problem, I caution them that that is not all that needs to be done," he said.
"Mr. Kalikow's lawyer, Eric Bregman, a former East Hampton Town attorney, has said that the longer dock is needed because the boat sits in shallow water and its propeller scrapes the bottom at low tide, disturbing native plant life. He contends that extending the dock would relieve that."
You know what else would relieve that? A smaller boat. Nothing says he's entitled to dock a 40-foot boat at his house.
The town should hold him hostage. Give him his dock extension if he grants a permanent public access easement to the beach.


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Former Raiders defensive tackle Chester McGlockton passed away Wednesday, the team confirmed. He was 42.
"The thoughts and prayers of the Raider Nation are with the McGlockton family during this difficult time," Raiders chief executive Amy Trask said in a statement released by the team
McGlockton was selected in the first round of the 1992 NFL draft and spent his first six NFL seasons with the Raiders. He also played with the Denver Broncos, Kansas City Chiefs and New York Jets during a career that spanned 12 seasons.
McGlockton returned to the Bay Area once his football career ended. He spent the past two seasons on Stanford's coaching staff, working under former Raiders coaches Jim Harbaugh and David Shaw.
"It is with great sorrow I acknowledge the death of one of my best friends in the world, Chester Mcglockton," long-time Raiders wide receiver Tim Brown said via Twitter.
McGlockton was a four-time Pro Bowl player during his Raiders career.
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