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Richard Camos has a passion for pizza and beer.
In an effort to combine the two, the owner of Camos Brothers Pizza has opened Lincoln Bottle Shop & Taproom in North Raleigh and has plans to open a brewery and a third pizza shop in Fuquay-Varina in the coming months.
At the bottle shop, which opened about three weeks ago, Camos wants to draw all kinds of beer drinkers, including those who might not be familiar with craft beers. The store offers 12-packs, along with about 900 types of bottled beer such as India Pale Ale, Irish, English and German brews, beers from local breweries and domestics like Pabst Blue Ribbon.
You want PBR, weve got PBR, Camos said. We dont want people to feel intimidated here. We want it to be more mainstream.
Camos also plans to sell beer from his Lincoln Brewing Co. in Fuquay-Varina once its up and running.
The 2,000-square-foot store has a 25-foot-long bar, 12 rotating taps and a nitrogen wine dispenser, which keeps wine from coming in contact with oxygen until its poured. The place seats about 60 people and has an outdoor patio.
Prices range from about $2.25 to about $11 for bottles of beer and from $5 to $8 for pints.
As for the pizza, customers can order food to be delivered from Camos nearby pizza restaurant, a concept he said he will also use at the soon-to-open brewery and eatery.
Lincoln Brewing Co. and the latest Camos Brothers Pizza are expected to open in about 90 days, and will be near each other in the same shopping center.
The brewery will sell kegs and growlers, and will have a bar, taproom and bottle shop thats much like the North Raleigh spot.
It will be very similar but with a full-size brewery, Camos said of Lincoln Brewing. We will sell our beer and everyone elses, too.
Camos, whos been into craft brewing for a while, said hell be making traditional beers with a fun twist and plans to serve the same wings, pasta, sandwiches and New York style pizza as the Camos Brothers locations in North Raleigh and Cary.
North Carolina has a great beer culture, Camos said. I love beer. I love pizza. I love to sell what I love.
Lincoln Bottle Shop & Taproom is at 7451 Six Forks Road, in the Celebration at Six Forks shopping center. The place is having a grand opening today at 5 p.m. The event will feature a tap takeover by Kansas City-based Boulevard Brewing Co., along with pizza from Camos Brothers.
Lincoln Brewing Company and Camos Brothers Pizza will be at 2912 N. Main St., near John Hiester Chevrolet in Fuquay-Varina.
Lorraines Coffee House and Music, a coffee shop that features live music, has opened in Garner.
The restaurant, which is owned by local musician Lorraine Jordan, offers fresh-brewed coffee, mochas, lattes and cappuccinos, along with pre-made sandwiches, ham and sausage biscuits, muffins, cake and smoothies.
Coffee prices range from about $1.70 to about $3.45; all food is $1.50.
The 1,200-square-foot place, which is a franchise of Ohio-based CrimsonCup Coffee & Tea, seats about 90 people and has free Wi-Fi, a coffee bar, high-top tables, a drive-thru window and a stage and seating for live music that Jordan is planning for Friday and Saturday nights.
For those shows, Jordan wants to attract area talent, and already has Raleighs Nixon, Blevins & Gage lined up for July 18.
We are trying to use as many local artists as we can, Jordan said. We had Tom Browne come in and ask to play. Hes a jazz musician from Garner.
Along with other locals, Jordan herself plans to make appearances on the coffee house stage with her bluegrass band Carolina Road and adult contemporary group Jordan River Band.
Its one of my favorite bands, Jordan joked about Carolina Road. We are going to be on the schedule for July.
Lorraines Coffee House and Music is at 101 Timber Pointe Lane, on the corner of Timber Drive and Vandora Springs Road.
Lee Builder Mart, a Sanford building supply store that opened in 1955, is closing Saturday.
The place sells products such as hardware, power tools, paint, lumber, counters and doors, along with contractor services.
According to AlexSandra Lett, whose family owns the business, the store has struggled since 2008 because of a decline in construction and a Lowes Home Improvement moving into the area.
As part of the closing, Lett, who is an author, will be having a book signing at the store today from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday from 8 a.m. until noon.
Lee Builder Mart is at 1000 N. Horner Blvd.
Juice and salad delivery service Happy + Hale is opening a restaurant Friday in downtown Raleigh.
The place, which offers healthy food items such as juices, wraps, salads, quinoa bowls, coffee and parfaits, is having a grand opening Friday at the City Plaza lawn. The event will include sunrise yoga at 6:30 a.m., a dance party at 7:15 a.m., free massages, coffee, juice, smoothies and a ribbon cutting.
Happy + Hale is at 443 Fayetteville St., in front of Bank of America.
A.B. Fit Team, a fitness studio for adults and children, has opened at Northgate Mall in Durham. The place offers boot camp, weight classes, dance classes and classes for kids. The gym is at 1058 W. Club Blvd., Suite 710, near Stadium 10 Theater. ... Dds Discounts, a store that sells discounted name-brand clothes, accessories and shoes, opens Saturday at 3679 New Bern Ave. in Raleigh.
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The U.S. Must Avoid Becoming Entangled in Mali
It is very easy for the United States to become involved in conflicts abroad, but much more difficult to extricate ourselves from them.
Michael P. Noonan is the Director of the Program on National Security at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia, and a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
I've warned about the dangers of a metastasizing al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, known as AQIM, in Mali in this space before—see here and here. Unfortunately this is probably an issue we will hear more about in 2013.
For instance, on Monday Rukmini Callimachi of the Associated Press wrote a long expose about the situation in northern Mali—an area roughly the size of Texas. She quotes Robert Fowler, a Canadian former United Nations diplomat held for 130 days as saying that, "Al-Qaida never owned Afghanistan…. They do own northern Mali." She also notes that there are widespread reports of AQIM and Ansar Dine fighters digging in and making significant defensive preparations in advance of a potential Economic Community Of West African States intervention.
[See a collection of political cartoons on the Middle East.]
Peter Tinti over at the World Politics Review (subscription or registration required) suggests that "the Obama administration is considering asking Congress to approve expanded authority to allow military operations in places such as Mali, Nigeria and Libya, where perceived threats to U.S. security are proliferating." Expanding such authorities should be done with only with exceeding care.
Once again, should the Economic Community Of West African States send in an intervention force to assist the government of Mali to retake the rebellious north and if the United States assists the organization in doing so we need to be very careful. As Afghanistan and Iraq and Libya have shown, it is very easy to get involved in such conflicts, but much more difficult to extricate ourselves from them. AQIM knows this and is counting on a slippery slope to pull as back in to a large and expensive commitment. We must keep our eyes on the prize. The only reason that the United States should get involved militarily in northern Mali is to help eradicate terrorists that wish us harm and that can meddle with us either globally or else cause major problems for us regionally. We mustn't lose sight of this objective. Furthermore, if this objective is too difficult to achieve by intervening within northern Mali then we should be patient enough to deal with threats flowing from there in a more piecemeal fashion.

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TRAVERSE CITY — A behind-the-scenes scuffle has erupted over how Traverse City Light & Power will search for and select its next leader.
On one side is the Michigan Land Use Institute, a local nonprofit agency that advocates for renewable energy as a preferred alternative to fossil fuels use. MLUI consistently lobbies against coal-burning electricity generation plants, and generally favors alternatives such as wind and solar energy, when possible.
Several city officials occupy the other side of the ring. They chafe at what they contend is MLUI's overreaching effort to influence the process to fill the spot atop the city-owned utility vacated in October, when Light & Power officials fired executive director Ed Rice.
Light & Power board members said they've been peppered with email and other similarly worded contacts from citizens whose theme -- do a broad search, start it immediately, and look for someone with experience and knowledge in renewable energy and energy efficiency and conservation -- echoes statements voiced by MLUI leaders.
"They say publicly they want an open process and a national search, but privately they tell you who they want you to pick," said city Commissioner Barbara Budros, a member of the Light & Power board. "I don't mind them expressing their opinion, but the constant lobbying and working behind the scenes to get somebody in with their particular agenda I find a little disconcerting."
"I don't need the MLUI telling us who the next executive director is going to be," she said.
Jim Carruthers, the other city commissioner on the Light & Power board, also said he believes MLUI has its own candidates in line for the job.
Hans Voss, MLUI's executive director, shared his views about the search in a letter to the utility, a Forum in the Record-Eagle, and in an appearance before the utility board on Feb. 19. Voss said MLUI officials encouraged people with concerns about the utility's future to let their opinions be known.


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|Elizabeth A. Pector, M.D.
Madhavi Manubolu, M.D.
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Phone 630-305-3025/ Fax 630-995-3876
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Map to 1999 Springbrook Square Dr: Bing
From the North: Take Route 59 to 83rd Street/Montgomery Road, left onto 83rd Street, take right onto Springbrook Square Drive, turn right into parking lot. We are in the Pain Management Suite (101) of 1999 Springbrook Square Drive, between Oxford Bank and Yum Yum Thai.
From the South: Take Route 59 to Springbrook Square Drive (even with Macom Drive), turn right and go past the one-lane drive that faces Route 59, turn left into parking lot once you are past the buildings. We are north of the Vein Center, in the Pain management Suite (101) in 1999 Springbrook Square Drive between YumYum Thai and Oxford Bank.
Before visit, please complete EMG forms: "For Patients"
|We strive to help you achieve the best possible health and to increase your well-being so you can better enjoy what life offers. As board-certified professionals, we offer comprehensive, compassionate care centered on you as a whole person. We work with you as your partners in care: meeting you where you are, coaching rather than criticizing to help you move toward better health. We welcome patients of all ages, backgrounds, & lifestyles. For science-based medicine with a personal touch, please consider us!
We take a whole-person view of your health, but our practice is based on traditional scientific medicine. We have resources to check for effectiveness of herbs and alternative methods, and herb interactions with traditional medicines. We do not specialize in herbal treatments, bio-identical hormone replacement, or alternative medicine.
We provide comprehensive preventive (wellness) care and care for acute and chronic conditions for people of all ages, including infants, children, and adult men and women. This includes well-woman care (routine female checkups and contraception). We do not deliver babies, although we often consult with obstetricians on illnesses in pregnant women.
Procedures and testing We offer on-site services including EKG,and minor procedures including skin lesion or toenail removals, IUD insertion, and endometrial biopsy.
Online access Please register at ECW's patient portal. (See below under electronic records). Do not use email for urgent, emergency concerns! Please allow 24 to 48 hours for appointment or billing personnel to respond, and up to 5 days for referral processing. If you haven't heard from us in that time, please call the office, 630-305-3025. In your message, please list the reason for your request in the subject line. For portal appointment requests, include a preferred day and time for an appointment (such as Tuesday afternoon, Thursday morning) and give a phone number or email address where we can reach you.
Prescription refills Generally, we give you enough refills at your visit to last until we want to see you. If you are running low on a prescription, please call or email to make an appointment! If you need a few weeks' supply until your appointment, please ask your pharmacy or mail-order prescription service to contact us for refills.
Electronic records We have used E-Clinical Works, a popular electronic record system, since July 2009. In June 2013, after moving to permanent space, we will start using Epic, which interfaces with the hospital and many other specialists to promote exchange of information among many sites.
Professional staff backgrounds
Elizabeth Pector is a board certified family physician, scoring in the top 1% of family doctors who took the recertifying exam in 2005! To see her resume, click here. She has wide-ranging medical and personal interests. Dr. Pector graduated in 3 years from Northwestern University with a B.A. in chemistry and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She received her M.D. degree from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine in 1984, completed a 3-year family practice residency at West Suburban Hospital in 1987, and has practiced in the Naperville area since then.
Dr. Pector sees patients from newborns to nineties, working as the patient's partner to maximize health. Dr. Pector's interests include infant and child health care, adult preventive care, men's and women's health, chronic illness management, uncomplicated depression and anxiety treatment (not bipolar disorder), and care of seniors.She also has interests in adoption, multiple birth, Internet applications in health care and group support, health care reform, advocacy for primary care practitioners, and professional burnout/compassion fatigue.
Dr. Pector is n the editorial board of Medical Economics, a national business magazine for physicians. Dr. Pector counts travel, rockhounding, fluorescent mineral collecting and photography among other interests.
Madhavi Manubolu is a board-certified family physician joining Spectrum's staff in November, 2008. She attended Sri Venkateswara Medical College in India, and completed a three-year residency program, Cook County-Loyola-Provident, in 2006. After completing residency, Dr. Manubolu worked at two busy group practices, serving a diverse, multicultural patient clientele from pediatric to geriatric ages.
Dr. Manubolu has additional experience in volunteer care for the underserved in India and Chicago, and has participated in clinical research in both locations.
While she has experience in care for both children and adults with complex health needs, Dr. Manubolu is also especially interested in well woman and adolescent health care. Colleagues and patients describe her as intelligent, compassionate and hard-working, good-natured, and sympathetic to patient concerns. Dr. Manubolu has joined the medical staff at Edward Hospital, and will help follow Spectrum patients there.
We look forward to working with you toward your health goals!
Elizabeth A. Pector, M.D.
Madhavi Manubolu, M.D.
|Dr. Pector
|Dr. Manubolu
|Doctors Pector and Manubolu joined
Edward Medical Group on January 1, 2013. We will continue to collect payments for Spectrum from 2012 and earlier at the PO Box address at right. Please pay with cash or credit card since we are now unable to accept credit card payments for 5 months. Until June 2013, we will share space with Dr. Narayan Tata, a pain specialist. In June we expect to occupy the suite next door, Suite 103.
|Praise for Dr. Pector:
..."blessed with the ability not only to cure--but to put all the complex pieces of one's health problems into a workable solution. Her compassion and sincerity accentuate her skills."
"You are everything a great doctor should be-- smart, caring, decisive, and personable....You actually take the time to really know and understand your patients. Your selfless motivations are evident and it's clear that you truly love what you do."
Nominee for Illinois 2008 Family Physician of Year.
Praise for Dr. Manubolu:
"You've taken the time and effort to care for me and I've never had a doctor that's been so attentive. It's not too often you find a doctor who truly cares."
From parent of special-needs children: "A big thank you for your kindness and for making us feel welcome. I think they really liked you and I was so impressed on how you were with them."
|Disclaimer: Information derived from this site or any associated links should not be taken as advice specifically for you, and is not a substitute for a visit with your personal physician. We encourage you to make an appointment with us to discuss your health concerns.
|Link to EClinicalWorks
Web Portal
|Dr. Pector's Other Web Pages:
|A Word Edgewise--Medical Writing
|Multiplicity (multiple birth complications)
|Articles incl. Multiple Birth, Prematurity
|Cybersupport--online support group advice
|Physician, Heal Thyself--help for burnout
|Lost & Found--a "virtual chapel"
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Richard Linklater's drama about a young boy growing into manhood is also a film about the fleeting nature of existence.
Richard Linklater's drama about a young boy growing into manhood is also a film about the fleeting nature of existence.
This sequel to the 2011 "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" is thoughtful, brutal, and operatically committed to its premise.
"The Ballad of Narayama" is a Japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. What a space it opens…
Patrice Leconte's "Monsieur Hire" is a tragedy about loneliness and erotomania, told about two solitary people who have nothing else in common. It involves a…
A how-to guide to finding Life Itself on VOD.
Chaz Ebert discusses Steve James' "Life Itself."
A remembrance of actor Dave Legeno, by screenwriter J.D. Zeik.
RogerEbert.com editor Matt Zoller Seitz discusses the impact of Richard Lester's great musical comedy "A Hard Day's Night," which revolutionized the use of pop music…
An FFC shares memories of the Los Angeles Theater scene.
A Far Flung Correspondent reviews Sion Sono's loony "Why Don't You Play in Hell?"
Britney Spears is a feminist role model; The plot of "Hellboy 3"; "Black Hole" appears in "Apes"; Zohra Sehgal dies at 102; The tallest woman…
A set visit to LAIKA's "The Box Trolls."
But let's say you already accept the reality of climate change. Or that you don't. Either way, "Chasing Ice" by Jeff Orlowski is heart-stopping in its coverage of the brave and risky attempt by a scientist named James Balog and his team of researchers on the Extreme Ice Survey, where "extreme" refers to their efforts almost more than to the ice. At a time when warnings of global warming were being dismissed by broadcast blabbermouths as "junk science," the science here is based on actual observation of the results as they happen. When opponents of the theory of evolution say (incorrectly) that no one has ever seen evolution happening, scientists are seeing climate change happening right now — and with alarming speed. Here is a film for skeptics who say "we don't have enough information."
James Balog has photographed many stories and films for National Geographic, often about endangered species. This time he bit off more than most people would be terrified to chew. During repeated expeditions to Greenland, Iceland, Alaska and Montana, his team took stop-motion cameras, anchored them in place, and shielded them from violent winter weather. Some were destroyed, and they returned with improved installations, using ingenious methods to match up camera locations in a constantly evolving ice-scape of blinding white.
The Extreme Ice Survey has been collecting the results since 2007. The images in this film are mostly three years old, but definitive. We see glaciers retreating from ice mountains to expose the rock they rest on. One glacier loses the height in ice of the Empire State Building. We join a team of Balog's scientists as they hunker down inside anchored tents and wait days to film in real time an event they know is about to happen: The "calving" of an iceberg as a large chunk breaks off into the sea. I believe I saw some of this same footage on the news, but this film provides the context, and an idea of the scale I didn't get on TV: The chunk that breaks off is the size of lower Manhattan!
Did some of that melting ice later visit Manhattan in the form of Hurricane Sandy? Does melting ice cause a rise in the global sea level? Does the bathtub fill up when you turn on the tap? As a scientist, how can you be sure the very ice you're standing on won't crumble beneath your feet?
You can't be. At one point Balog and his colleagues want to photograph a glacier that is already rotting, with streams of water pouring down sinkholes that descend out of sight. Using spiked shoes and pitons, they advance down the frozen side of one of these sinkholes, and he decides: "I'm not going down there. It's bottomless."
Balog himself is in the tradition of Arctic explorers who endure great pain to carry out their missions. Born in 1952, the craggy scientist isn't a young man when he conducts his treks across the ice, and eventually undergoes four knee surgeries. He tells his doctor: "I could feel chunks of bone moving around inside my knees. I realize I was masking the pain with steroids and medication." The damage he did was severe, and yet in the next season, we see him returning again to inspect his cameras — on crutches.
The opponents of the theory of global warming often seem to be financed by the fossil fuel industries. The "green" teams looking into such energy sources as solar, wind and nuclear are often ridiculed. Watch "Chasing Ice" and see if you laugh.
Note: Photographer James Balog will host a Q&A session after the 7:20 p.m. screening.
A look at the cinematic and political history that resulted in Bong Joon-Ho's "Snowpiercer."
A review of "Extant" and "Hemlock Grove."
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Local fans of the San Francisco Giants will have a chance to get up close and personal with the team's 2012 World Series trophy next week.
The trophy is making its first stop of a national tour Tuesday at Sacramento City Hall, 915 I Street.
It will be available for a free viewing from 2:30 p.m. to 5 p.m., the team announced. The viewing will include both the 2012 and 2010 trophies, and visitors will be able to pose for photos with them–no touching allowed.
Future stops on the tour include cities in the Bay Area, Central Valley, New York City, Scottsdale, AZ., Medford, OR., and more.
More information is available at sfgiants.com/trophy.


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Janet Novack, Forbes Staff
I write from D.C. about tax and retirement policy and planning.
Newt Gingrich avoided tens of thousands of dollars in Medicare payroll taxes in 2010 by using a technique the Internal Revenue Service has consistently and successfully attacked. Republican Presidential candidate Gingrich and his wife, Callista, treated only $444,327 of what they got from Gingrich Holdings. Inc. and Gingrich Productions as compensation to them, while reporting a whopping $2.4 million of their earnings from these corporations as profits or dividends. Medicare taxes are levied at a rate of 2.9% on an unlimited amount of compensation and self-employment income (say, from a consulting contract, speeches or a book) but not on profits from a business.
"It appears that he is not paying his fair share of Medicare tax,'' Robert E. McKenzie, a partner in the Chicago law firm of Arnstein & Lehr LLP concluded, in an email to Forbes, after reviewing Gingrich's 2010 tax return. McKenzie, a past chairman of the Employment Tax Committee of the American Bar Association Tax Section and a member of the IRS' Advisory Council, added: "There are a multitude of cases where the IRS has successfully challenged the improper tax strategy of this candidate and his accountants. Service businesses are only allowed to distribute a fair return on investment from an S corp. as profits exempt from Medicare taxes. The remainder of profits must be paid as salary subject to a 2.9% Medicare tax levy."
Since Gingrich released his 2010 tax return Thursday night during the Republican debate, news coverage has focused on his hefty income tax rate—he paid tax equal to 31.5% of his adjusted gross income of $3.14 million. By contrast, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who earned a fortune at Bain Capital and gets most of his income from investments, acknowledged last week that he pays closer to 15%. (Romney, still smarting from his South Carolina loss Saturday to former House Speaker Gingrich, said on Fox News this morning that his unreleased returns had become a "distraction" and that he will release his 2010 return on Tuesday.)
The issue of Gingrich's Medicare tax, however, has started to attract notice from tax pros like McKenzie. The IRS says on its web site that distributions to an S corp. owner should be treated as compensation to the extent they are associated with his personal services or services to the firm. Earnings that come from an investment of capital and equipment, or from the work of others, can be treated as profit. On his July 2011 financial disclosure form, Gingrich valued his holdings in Gingrich Productions at between $500,000 and $1 million, suggesting he has far too little capital invested in the firm to justify booking $2.4 million as profit. On Gingrich Productions' web site, there is no suggestion it profits from the work of anyone other than the Gingriches. The site says: "Together, Newt and Callista host and produce historical and public policy documentaries, write books and newsletters, give speeches, record audio books, produce photographic essays, and make television and radio appearances." (From public filings, it appears that Gingrich Holdings Inc. changed its name to Gingrich Productions last year.)
Neither a Gingrich spokesman nor his accountant returned requests for comment.
President Barack Obama reported all of his $1.4 million in 2010 book profits as subject to Medicare taxes. Still, Gingrich's strategy, while frowned upon by the IRS, is hardly unusual. High-earning self-employed individuals have had an incentive to form S corps. and report big profits instead of big wages since 1993, when Congress lifted the cap on the amount of earnings subject to the 2.9% (combined employer and employee) Medicare tax. Back in 1998, when he was a trial lawyer, John Edwards, the former North Carolina Senator and Democratic presidential candidate who is now awaiting trial for alleged campaign violations, reported a salary of $360,000 and profits of $5 million from his S corp. law practice. Congress' Government Accountability Office, in a report released two years ago, estimated that in 2003 and 2004, S corps. underpaid wages to their owners by $24 billion, skirting payroll taxes on that amount.
The S corp. strategy has no impact on income tax liability. S corps. pay no corporate income tax. Instead, they pass on all their income to their owners' individual returns, where it is taxed at the top individual rate of 35%, the same as for salary. (The corporate dividends paid by C corporations, which do pay corporate tax, are currently taxed at a top individual rate of 15%, so as to minimize the impact of double taxation.)
The temptation for S corp. owners to take too little salary will grow even stronger beginning in 2013, when as part of Obama's new health reform law, couples with compensation exceeding $250,000 (and singles with more than $200,000 in compensation) will have to pay an additional 0.9% Medicare surtax on their pay above that amount.
Audits of S corp. compensation issues are time consuming for the IRS. The GAO and some in Congress have looked for easier ways to curb the problem of underreported compensation. In 2010, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) proposed raising $11 billion over 10 years by automatically imposing payroll tax on all the distributions to owners of certain "professional service" S Corps. But small business groups and Maine Republican Senator Olympia Snowe, the ranking member of the Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee, strongly objected and Baucus dropped the proposal.
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David, please reread IRC s.482 closely – especially the 8th, 9th and 11th word of the opening sentence – and enlighten us as to which applies to Newt, the individual taxpayer and shareholder of the S-corp.
He is in the trade or business of being a consultant, individually. His supposed employer, his wholly-owned corporation is also in a trade or business.
Do you really think Newt would have worked for any employer that he didn't own for $252,000 per?
Look, if you want to pretend that this is all on the up and up, that Gingrich is being honest in this, that's okay with me. It's not true, though. It wasn't true for Edwards, and it's not true for Gingrich.
They both gamed the system and whenever anybody does that the rest of us have to pay that much more.
I've been practicing tax law for a long, long time, msovacpa. I may be "blathering" (you have to love internet etiquette, don't you?), but it is not in ignorance.
Your article is very one sided. Bob Micheals many years ago suggested an 80% reporting requirment. The IRS allows regulaly a 50% rule on smaller companies.
The rules refer to reasonable compensation not all, most, much, half or any specific number just that the salary reported is reasonable.
You do make the point the President Obama was to ignorant to set up an S-Corp for his publishing domain not only forthe tax savings but as a main reason so many incorporate is the liability protection afforded. If the President gets sued over lies in his book he is personaly liable instead of having a corporate shield in place.
The cases I have found where the IRS recharacterized distributions were much more egrigous. No salary at all or in one case 24,000. I don't think there is a case where S corp distribtions have been recharacterized when the shareholder took a salary over the social security max or even one not much below it.
If the IRS were to argue that his salary should have been something like 2.5 million they would be going against a lot of what they have done in reasonable comp cases in C corps.
It is a judgment call. I would have told him to take more of a salary but I cannot prove that his advisers and he were wrong saying 250,000 was enough
Are you saying that a third party would have paid him $250,000 or that he would have worked for somebody else for that annual salary?
Because make no mistake, that is what the law requires.
Check out the Watson decision (your $24,000 case), rejecting the taxpayer's motion for summary judgment, which was based on some C corp reasonable compensation decisions:
The decision quotes that noted socialist, left-wing rabble rouser, Judge Richard Posner:
"The distinction between accounting profits, losses, assets, and liabilities, on the one hand and cash flow on the other is especially important when one is dealing with either a firm undergoing reorganization in bankruptcy or a small privately held firm; in the latter case, in order to avoid double taxation (corporate income tax plus personal income tax on dividends), the company might try to make its profits disappear into officers' salaries. See Menard, Inc. v. Commissioner, 560 F.3d 620, 621 (7th Cir. 2009). The owners of a Subchapter S corporation, however, have the oppositive incentive – to alchemize salary into earnings. A corporation has to pay employment taxes, such as state unemployment insurance tax and social security tax, on the salaries it pays. A Subchapter S corporation can avoid paying them by recharacterizing salary as a distribution of corporation income."
The Watson court also cited this from Charles Schneider & Co., Inc. v. Commissioner of Internal
Revenue, 500 F.2d 148, 182 (8th Cir. 1974):
"Several factors to be considered in determining reasonableness of compensation have been mentioned by the courts. Such factors include the employee's qualifications; the nature, extent and scope of the employee's work; the size and complexities of the business; a comparison of salaries paid with the gross income and the net income; the prevailing general economic conditions; comparison of salaries with distributions to stockholders; the prevailing rates of compensation for comparable positions in comparable concerns; the salary policy of the taxpayer as to all employees; and in the case of small corporations with a limited number of officers the amount of compensation paid to the particular employee in previous years."
A first year associate at a top Washington law firm makes $160,000 before bonuses.
Profits per partner at major Washington law firms are well in excess of $1 million per year.
Tom Daschle's (a former solon with his own tax peccadillos) reported compensation from Alston & Bird in 2008 was $2 million as a "special policy advisor."
$250,000 in salary to Speaker Gingrich from his controlled S corporation is, as I said earlier, simply preposterous. Something closer to Daschle's is the going rate for this particular form of influence peddling.
The Speaker's "tax planning" doesn't come close to passing the straight face test.
Peter, you are correct in saying that it's nowhere near as cut and dried as Gingrich's critics put it (and I don't care for Newt). Until they call out Warren Buffett for not paying enough medicare tax, they don't have any room to call out Gingrich. More at the Tax Update.
That is a false comparison. Berkshire Hathaway is a C corporation, so in minimizing Buffett's salary the corporation pays more income taxes. In addition, Buffett does not own all of Berkshire Hathaway. Berkshire Hathaway is not an alter ego of Buffett's, but has real capital and businesses from which it makes it own profits on its own investments and activities.
By vastly understating his compensation from his wholly-owned S corporation, an S corporation essentially all of whose income is attributable to him , the former Speaker costs himself exactly nothing and evades Medicare taxes on his true earning from self-employment.
The two situations aren't comparable at all.
Janet! I'm surprised! You're jealous!
Do you really think Newt deviously goes out to cheat everyone?
Since the upper 1% pay 50% of the taxes, maybe they have paid enough.
Maybe if the tax codes were simpler, there would be less loopholes. Taxpayers are just following the rules, even if the codes are stupid.


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Our series on unique wedding venues continues with a few cool places with history in the Akron area:
The Akron Civic Theater is available for rentals for your entire wedding or just an hour for some dramatic pictures. If you haven't been there since it's been restored, you won't believe the gorgeousness! Click here to see some lovely wedding photos taken by Genevieve Nisly Photography in the Civic Center. The Chocolate Bride Blog also has a great post on a wedding held there. Isn't this a fantastic setting for dramatic pictures!
Love a smaller setting steeped in history? The G.A.R. Hall in Peninsula is a perfect setting for weddings, receptions, bridal and baby showers, anniversaries or graduations. The beautifully restored 1880s Victorian landmark built for the Civil War veterans and village social center has two levels – ballroom/auditorium, stage, bar room, porch, dining room, covered patio, lower patio, and full service liquor and wine. Can seat 140 in the winter & 175 in the summer... For more historical wedding venues, see our post on Two Hearts Inspirations!


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Oakley's On-Site Activation at MLB Spring Training 2010
Oakley definitely made its presence known in the world of Major League Baseball during the 2010 Spring Training campaign in both the Cactus League (Arizona) and the Grapefruit League (Florida). As the official licensed eyewear of MLB the Oakley brand continued to show high visibility in all facets of a baseball fans experience from start to finish as we continued our 4th annual tour of MLB's introduction to its season.
The experience would begin as fans entering each stadium were greeted by the infamous Rolling O Lab as the massive truck with a full Oakley awning, an Oakley branded bird's nest and waving O flags lured both fans and players alike to get educated on the amazing technology behind Oakley eyewear. Several fortunate fans were able to get autographs from their favorite players both past and present as the likes of Hall of Famer Goose Gossage, Joba Chamberlain and Ryan Howard, to name few, signed fans memorabilia in front of the O Lab at some point. Upon entering the stadium the combination of scoreboard signage, video placement, outfield signage and in game public address announcements made Oakley's impact undeniable. To top things off for the spring training goers, one lucky fan at each game was able to win a pair of Oakley MLB Flak Jackets of their favorite team. Those inquiring about the custom team eyewear were directed to the team pro shop where they could purchase not only Flak Jackets but often other custom made styles drawing heavy foot traffic through each stores door and contributing to the stores sales. Key accounts were also entertained as Oakley had sponsored nights at both the Philadelphia Phillies and New Yankees, including use of the teams hospitality suite for the entire game.
Overall we visited six stadiums, participated in 14 games, and marketed eyewear for 15 teams including the San Diego Padres, Seattle Mariners, Chicago White Sox, Los Angeles Dodgers, Chicago Cubs, Oakland A's, Texas Rangers, Philadelphia Phillies, New York Yankees, Baltimore Orioles, Tampa Bay Rays, Detroit Tigers, Washington Nationals, Atlanta Braves and Houston Astros . Total attendance for those games exceeded 125,000. Oakley outfield and scoreboard signage were a mainstay on highlights reels throughout the country and the world during the entire month of March. In fact capping off the month and maximizing the use of marketing on March 23, arguably Oakley's biggest star in baseball, Ichiro Suziki, made ESPN's nightly SportsCenter #1 play by making the top play of spring training while crashing into and falling directly in front of the Oakley outfield sign eventually getting up and putting his Oakley's back on. The replay of that play alone ran continually for 24 hours on ESPN's SportsCenter as well as ESPNEWS.


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Monsanto, a self-proclaimed solver of global agriculture problems, has really just brought more and more chemicals into our food supply. GAP coalition partner, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), gave the company a failing grade yesterday in documenting eight ways Monsanto has taken agriculture in the wrong direction.
In addition to suppressing independent research on its controversial products and spending millions to lobby Congress against measures that threaten the industrial agriculture status quo, Monsanto has brought troubling threats to human and environmental health with the widespread application of its glyphosate (Roundup) herbicide. UCS points out that the genetically engineered (GE) crops Monsanto produced to tolerate glyphosate were supposedly meant to decrease overall herbicide use, but the result has been millions of pounds more instead. Possible links between glyphosate and birth defects, not to mention threats to biodiversity, make this increase unsettling.
But even this higher rate of herbicide use is still not enough for Monsanto. The company has just requested that the European Union raise the acceptable residue levels for glyphosate in lentils by 100-150 times … most likely because that's how much is actually ending up on the crop already.
To fight off weeds that have grown resistant to glyphosate, Monsanto wants to introduce new GE crops that can tolerate even older herbicides, including one that was a major ingredient in Agent Orange.
Instead of acknowledging concerns for its products, Monsanto continues to pump them as solutions. But it's not the only one. Agribusiness company Syngenta continues to tout atrazine, the second most commonly used herbicide in the U.S. – despite an ongoing feud with the biologist Syngenta hired to study atrazine, who then tried to expose the herbicide's harmful effects. PR Watch also published a lengthy piece yesterday on the company's tactics to defend attacks against atrazine, including paying thousands of dollars to the president of the American Council for Science and Health who pushed the notion of "chemophobia," an irrational fear of chemicals.
These chemical companies clearly have a fear of losing profits, given all the concerns that they simply dismiss. Increased use of herbicides, as UCS reported, ultimately means more pesticide use as well. If we didn't have enough to worry about already, whistleblower Renee Dufault has previously explained the negative health impacts of pesticide exposure in food, including Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder prevalence in kids. It's not a pretty picture overall.
Sarah Damian is New Media Associate for the Government Accountability Project, the nation's leading whistleblower protection and advocacy organization.
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I see that in the last few days that a case brought forward by organic farmers against Monsanto was thrown out of court.
It appears that yet again when it comes to fighting against the wrong doings of a major corporation that the 'little man' has far to go. I take comfort in the fact that tobacco companies had the same impact as Monsanto did, look at tobacco companies now and peoples opinions towards them. Things will change, people will realise but its just in the meantime Monsanto can and do cause so much damage to our eco-system and that's the terrifying reality of it. For the time being the chemical giant will continue to win but the more we educate people, the more their name reaches mainstream media the more we can do to change their tactics.
I wrote a similar article as yourself, in connection with a food corporation called Fonterra. As you can see its a sad reality that unless we educate ourselves we have very little control over what we eat.
The very health of all citizen's in the whole world is deeply being affected because of this wickedness and those responsible should be imprisoned for life for there Treasonous Acts. The company Monsanto and the rest should have all asset's frozen and rightfully given to the Farmers to rebuild what has been both taken and destroyed.
So, it's kinda like the no child left behind approach...just raise the bar. Worked well for Bush...right?
Yes Tom, 'Food Inc' is an eye-opening documentary largely focusing on Monsanto, another documentary that is worth digesting (pardon the pun) is 'The Corporation' I would recommend it for further research. All though I agree that Monsanto's name is very blackened, the issue at hand is whether the means of growing food should be controlled by a small group of commercial interests?. Can we except companies to be ethical? , concern themselves with the the health of people over profit making? What The Corporation documentary highlights is that corporations such as Monsanto have major influence over government policy. So can we even expect the government to make the best decisions for consumers when both the government and the corporations are often involved with one another.
Thanks, Tom and William, for sharing! It's definitely disconcerting that Monsanto has faced little accountability for all of its offenses. What makes matters worse is its ability to block transparency, such as preventing independent research of its controversial products. Monsanto has also lobbied in support of anti-whistleblower legislation. We need to be protecting the individuals capable of exposing problems along the supply chain, not criminalizing them.


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The Swim WorkoutWarm-up1,200
NOTE: It is OK to shorten this warm-up to fit the main set within your allotted amount of time to swim
4 x 100 (:20 Swim and drill mix. Do drills for technique practice for one length, then swim for one length, then repeat.
4 x 100 (:10 Kick. First and last 25 of each at a moderate effort, the rest of each is easy.
2 x 200 (:20 Pull. First and last 50 of each at a moderate effort, the rest of each is easy.
Take some extra rest if needed, sip some water or sports drink, and get ready for the main set.Main Set
4 x 50 (:30 Swim. Desc 1-4. That means each one is faster than the one before it. Make sure the first one is easy enough so that you can go faster on each one! The fourth 50 should be a maximum effort.
2 x 200 (:10 Easy Swim. Think of these as long recovery swims. They should be steady and smooth, not fast, but not sloppy, drifting slow either. They should be easy, but not sloppy.
4 x 50 (:60 Swim. Each swim is a maximum effort.
2 x 200 (:10 Easy Swim.
4 x 50 (:60 Swim. Each swim is a maximum effort.
2 x 200 (:10 Easy Swim.
4 x 50 (:60 Swim. Each swim is a maximum effort.
1 x 100 Swim. Loosen a bit more, collect your thoughts, and you are done
Click on the "print" icon on the upper right to get a copy formatted for printing so you can print it and take the workout with you to the pool
About Swimming Workouts
This workout is designed to take between 75-minutes and 90-minutes. If that is too much time or distance, then cut things out, but do not always cut out the same thing every workout. And never skip the loosen at the end of the workout. Use that as one last bit of technique work before you leave the swimming pool at the end of the workout.
After the description of the set there is a number in a half-parentheses, like this - (:30 - that is how much rest you get after each swim. For example, 6 x 100 (:30 means you are to swim a 100 (yards or meters), rest 30-seconds, then repeat five more times.
There is nothing special about these swim practice sessions other than what you bring to them. Lots of freedom here. You control how hard or fast you swim and what swim strokes you want to use while swimming the workouts. Normally the amount of rest per swim will limit your top-end speed on a workout, but that does not mean go as fast as you can all of the time. A few guidelines:
- The more rest you get, the faster the swim.
- The early parts of a workout should always be easy to moderate and very deliberate.
- Use your best swimming technique.
- Stop the workout if you are too tired, go for it again in the future.You get to be a better swimmer by recovering from the workouts you do, not by doing more and more swimming without resting and recovering from that swimming.
- Have fun with the workouts.
- Change the strokes you are doing from time to time, try new things, and don't get caught in a rut.
Each workout has:
- a warm-up
- stroke drills or swimming technique work
- kicking
- pulling
- a main set
- a loosen or cool-down


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Today we begin a regular feature in which members of Parker County Master Gardeners answer questions on topics of interest to North Texas gardeners. Submit a question to email@example.com. For more about PCMG or to become a member, call 817-598-6096 or visit www.pcmg-texas.org.
Question: Can weeds such as henbit and chickweed be composted?
Answer: Yes, but care must be taken to ensure that your compost reaches the temperature necessary to completely decompose the plant as well as the seeds. Otherwise, you will be replanting the weed when you spread your compost. Plants should be very thoroughly dried in the sun before adding them to the compost bin. A thorough composting in a hot system should kill most weed seeds.
Special note: As a general rule, it would be best to not compost plant material that is diseased because of the chance of re-infecting your garden.
Question: Is it all right to mulch newly planted trees?
Answer: Mulching your trees will help retain moisture in the soil, which is desirable in our drought conditions. It will also discourage grass from growing around the base of the tree and competing with the tree for nutrients in the soil. Be sure to use good clean mulch; and make sure there are no insects or rodents in it.
Question: When do I fertilize my established lawn this spring? Are there advantages to applying ammonium sulfate to St. Augustine grass?
Answer: Begin fertilizing in early April. Because of the alkaline soil in Parker County, your choice in fertilizer matters. Most lawn fertilizers contain a fair amount of phosphorous, which will raise the alkalinity of soil. When choosing a fertilizer, pay close attention to the ratio. A ratio of 4-1-2 or 3-1-2 works well for most of our lawns.
If you want more accurate information for your particular lawn, stop by our office and pick up a soil test kit.
Ammonium sulfate is an acid forming fertilizer that contains 21 percent nitrogen, and is particularly good for our soil. As pH rises, other elements and nutrients in the soil become unavailable for plant use. This fertilizer helps maintain, or can help reduce the alkalinity in your soil. The ratio of nitrogen will reduce the chance of foliar burn. Remember to always water your lawn well after applying fertilizer.
– Special thanks to Dr. Jerral Johnson, Professor Emeritus, Dept. Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Texas A&M University.


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This is the third in a multi-part series from Patch about the economic and other impacts of the declining equestrian industry in Fairfax County. It was updated at 9 a.m. on the day of publishing to add clarification to the proposal for and funding of a phase two.
was published Tuesday, Feb. 21.
was published Wednesday, Feb. 22.
was published Friday, Feb. 24.
The long wait is (almost) over.
A multi-purpose outdoor riding arena with all-weather footing will soon compliment the riding trails at in Lorton.
"Phase one of equestrian facilities at Laurel Hill Park will consist of a 200' x 250' outdoor riding arena, a parking area, storm water improvements, trail connections and an entry drive," said Kirk Holley, special projects manager with Fairfax County Park Authority (FCPA).
"The site plan has been approved for construction, and the next steps are to put the project out to bid, select a contractor and start construction," said Judy Pedersen, public information officer with FCPA. We're planning to put the project out for bid in late spring of this year, with hopes that construction might be completed by late 2012," she said. Total cost is estimated at $900,000.
With the continued decline in horse boarding facilities within Fairfax County -- for example, the , the , and T -- many equestrians have been hoping for a boarding barn at Laurel Hill Park.
"While the riding arena is a good start, it's only useful to those who own their own horses and trailers to transport them," said Anna Gibson, a horse owner at The Stables at Meadowood. "If there aren't boarding facilities in the county, there won't be equestrians using a riding arena in a county park."
Footing in the ring will be comprised of the current equine industry standard, a shredded rubber and sand mix on top a base of compacted stone dust. The parking lot will accommodate 30 cars and 10 horse trailers.
"At this time we anticipate the facility will be self-service, similar to The Turner Farm," said Holley. Equestrians will park their trailers and access the ring and trails for free.
"Major funding for phase one is from development proffers," said Holley. "When Lorton prison sold the land to the county it was designated to be parkland as part of the transfer, and equestrian facilities were included in that conceptual planning process."
"The Park Authority elected a few years ago to commit some money to build phase one of the equestrian project at Laurel Hill, in order to provide a specific impetus and a starting point for private development of the rest of the facility for public use," said Holley.
Funding for a phase two is not in hand.
"There is not a projected or estimated cost for phase two," said Pedersen. "Phase two is simply the concept of Fairfax4Horses to have more developed facilities such as stables, additional riding rings and pasture areas. The Park Authority does not have any funding for any of the elements in a proposed phase two, nor is any public funding anticipated at this time," she said. If a phase two is to be developed, it will require a proposal and funding from the private sector."
Fairfax4Horses is a a 501(c)3 organization dedicated to the establishment of public riding facilities on Fairfax County parkland, according to the group's website.
The Fairfax County Park Authority Board adopted a resolution in 2005, supporting a Laurel Hill Equestrian Center Partnership to raise money for an equestrian facility at Laurel Hill Park.
According to a 2006 partnership agreement between Fairfax4Horses (signed by Beverly Dickerson for then-President Kevin O'Connor), the Fairfax County Park Authority (signed by then-Director Michael A. Kane) and the Fairfax County Park Foundation (signed by then-Executive Director Robert J. Brennan), Fairfax4Horses will assist "FCPA as requested with planning, design, construction and operations of the Equestrian Center, consistent with the approved Master Plan and Conceptual Development Plan for Laurel Hill Park." This is to include:
- Coordination with other organizations at Laurel Hill to ensure compatibility with other activities.
- Contributing to the list of potential architects, contractors and operators for the Equestrian Center.
- Contributing to Requests for Information (RFI) and Requests for Proposals (RFP), and assisting in the review of responses.
- Conducting fund raising activities for the design and construction of facilities, and for the development and promotion of educational outreach programs to support the Equestrian Center.
"The agreement essentially says Fairfax4Horses will raise money specifically for a Laurel Hill Equestrian Center," said Pedersen. "It was signed in 2006, and a total of $1,956 has been raised for the facility by Fairfax4Horses," said Pedersen. The group's agreement with the Park Authority and the Park Foundation expires after 10 years -- 2016.
"We don't have a specific fund raising campaign — it's just ongoing," said Dickerson, current president of Fairfax4Horses. "We're submitting grant requests and planning for some fund raising activities as soon as the new ring is available."
"The Laurel Hill equestrian facility isn't currently an official fundraising project of the Park Foundation, so we're grateful for private funding that comes for any businesses, groups or individuals, including Fairfax4Horses," said Roberta Longworth, executive director of the Fairfax County Park Foundation.
The Fairfax County Park Authority has, in the last decade opened equestrian facilities at The Turner Farm in Great Falls, and renovated the equestrian facilities at Frying Pan Farm Park. "FCPA is committed to the equestrian community in Fairfax County," said Pedersen.
Full Disclosure: Burke Patch Editor Susan Larson has worked at boarding, breeding, lesson, trail riding, fox hunting and polo facilities in Illinois and Virginia. In 2005 the United States Capitol Police Horse Mounted Unit honored her for her support as barn manager during their tenure. She is a past member of Clifton Horse Society, former volunteer with Simple Changes Therapeutic Riding Center, and current member of the Mason Neck Horse Coalition. She boards her horse at The Stables at Meadowood.
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NEW ORLEANS — Gunshots erupted in a crowd of bead-wearing, drink-carrying late-night revelers on Bourbon Street during the countdown to Mardi Gras, wounding four people and sending bystanders running and screaming. Hours later on Sunday, though, the same stretch was packed with partiers who said they weren't letting the violence dampen their fun.
In a video taken by a witness Saturday night and released the next day, the shootings are preceded by footage of people standing shoulder to shoulder in New Orleans' famed tourist district, with some holding green plastic cups and wearing gaudy hats or masks. A section of the frame highlighted by police shows people jostling and speaking with angry expressions.
Police said in an email that the video depicts an argument involving one of the shooting victims and the suspects. Two men are seen leaving the argument and returning with a third, then approaching the victim as at least one of the suspects begins shooting, according to police. Four shots are heard in rapid succession, followed by screams as some in the crowd stagger into one another and a nearby wall. A man whom police identified as one of the suspects is shown walking through the crowd with his arm extended as the gunshots are heard, though it's difficult to make out a weapon.
Police said Sunday that they were seeking the three men and that they've identified one suspect but won't release the name.
The shootings wounded two men and two women, three of whom were treated and released Sunday. One man hit in the abdomen, thigh and pelvis was in stable condition Sunday after surgery the previous night, New Orleans Police spokesman Hilal Williams said.
The shooting came on the last weekend of partying before Mardi Gras, the Fat Tuesday celebration that is the signature tourist event of the year in New Orleans.
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By John Nicholson
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LA QUINTA, Calif. — Phil Mickelson glanced at the flag about 25 yards away, and surveyed the tall tree blocking his path. He looked again, craning his head skyward, then flashed a boyish grin and reached for his lob wedge.
Following his worst shot of the day with his best, Lefty saved par on the par-3 12th with a full-swing flop shot that climbed nearly straight up and over the 25-foot tree and stopped 2 feet from the hole. It help him salvage an even-par 72 on Thursday in the Humana Challenge in his season debut.
"That was one of my better wedges," Mickelson said. "But, as I was telling my partner, 'You hit it there as much as I do, eventually you're going to learn how to hit those shots."'
He yelled "Fore left!" a second after impact on the 202-yard hole.
"It was just very bad timing," Mickelson said about the tee shot. "Quick from the top, lower body fast. Just a bad swing. I did the same thing on the next par 3 with the same club. Only it went the other way. I made par both times, though."
Recovering from flu-like symptoms, the 42-year-old Mickelson had three birdies, a bogey and a double bogey at La Quinta Country Club — one of three courses used in the pro-am event that he won in 2002 and 2004 — to drop nine strokes behind the first-round leaders.
"I felt a lot better," Mickelson said. "I took it easy on Monday and Tuesday. It was like Day 10, but I'm fine now. I'm 95 percent better."
Jason Kokrak, Roberto Castro and James Hahn topped the leaderboard at 9-under 63.
Kokrak had two eagles and five birdies at La Quinta.
"I just tried to put it in the right spots, put it in the fairways," Kokrak said. "Out there, that's key. They're tighter fairways and if you can be in the fairway, you'll have a good opportunity for birdie."
Castro had nine birdies at PGA West's Jack Nicklaus Private Course, and Hahn had nine birdies on PGA West's Arnold Palmer Private Course.
"It was a great day," Hahn said. "Chipped two in. Hadn't done that since I was nine."
Russell Henley, the Sony Open winner Sunday in Hawaii in his first start as a PGA Tour member, had a 64 on the Nicklaus course. He's 32 under in his first five rounds this year.
"It was a perfect day," Henley said. "The weather is perfect. The greens were true. So, it's just trying to stay patient and let the birdies come to me."
Mickelson made his first start since tying for second in early November in the HSBC Champions in China, the only event he played after the Ryder Cup.
"My timing and rhythm was off a little bit," Mickelson said. "My putter was atrocious and I've been putting great, too. So, that was disappointing."
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Single-payer would require up to $2.18B in taxesBy Neal P. Goswami
Vermont Press Bureau | February 07,2014MONTPELIER Taxpayers will need to raise between $1.77 billion and $2.18 billion to cover the costs of Gov. Peter Shumlins proposed single-payer health care system, according to a consensus cost estimate revealed Thursday.
The consensus figures fall between the estimates of two earlier reports. An analysis by the University of Massachusetts for the Shumlin administration pegged the cost at about $1.6 billion.
A report by Avalere Health on behalf of a group of stakeholders including hospitals, doctors and business interests estimated the cost to be as high as $2.2 billion.
Administration Secretary Jeb Spaulding, Deputy Director of Health Reform Michael Costa and Stephen Klein, chief fiscal officer with the Joint Fiscal Office, presented the latest estimate for the planned Green Mountain Care system to two House committees Thursday afternoon.
Costa said the consensus numbers are built upon assumptions in the UMass report. A number of issues need further review, however, leading to the wide range, he said.
The UMass report and the consensus cost both include an assumption that providers would be paid 105 percent of Medicare rates. Detractors say that number will have to be significantly higher or the state could lose doctors. The consensus cost will rise if lawmakers choose to pay providers more.
Meanwhile, Klein said it remains unclear whether an existing tax on medical providers will continue under the proposed single-payer system. If not, the state faces a $157 million loss of money currently relied upon. The loss of revenue from the provider tax is considered a low to moderate risk, according to a document distributed to lawmakers Thursday.
Other major factors include a reserve fund for the health care system and the costs for implementation and transitioning to the new system.
Klein told the House Health Care and House Ways and Means committees on Thursday that theres an open question of whether the system would need reserves.
If the state needs a 5 percent reserve of nonfederal costs, an additional $125 million will need to be raised.
The UMass report estimated a need for $50 million in implementation and transition funding. The consensus cost puts that as high as $150 million, however.
Where we have the most uncertainty is the implementation, start-up and transition, Klein said. Does this all just appear in 2017 or is it a multiyear transition?
Klein warned the estimates could also change significantly based on policy decisions that must be made by lawmakers.
As you do so, the costs could go higher or could go lower, Klein said. As you change policy levers the range will change dramatically.
Among the pending decisions are the setting of provider reimbursement rates, determination of the populations to be covered under the plan, benefit changes and whether workers compensation will be merged into the plan.
I would love it as you take testimony on this to start filling in these boxes, Klein said.
The total cost of the single-payer plan under the consensus figures is nearly $5.92 billion. The lions share would be covered by federal funding, however.
About $1.6 billion would come from Medicare and $1.2 billion from Medicaid funds. The state would have to gain a waiver from the federal government to secure those funds. About $267 million currently slated for tax breaks and subsidies under the federal Affordable Care Act would be absorbed into the system along with $209 million in other federal funding.
Spaulding, responding to a request from Rep. Mary Morrissey, R-Bennington, for a multiyear budget plan for the proposed system, said lawmakers can do that when they consider a financing plan next year.
We should not be looking at one year, Spaulding said. When and if, and hopefully when the General Assembly votes on a financing plan, it should be based on a three-to-five-year plan.
He also urged lawmakers to remember the estimated cost will change as legislators make changes to the administrations proposals.
Whats important here is that this range is not static, Spaulding said. We should expect it to go down, go up and change and hopefully get narrower as we go through the process together.
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Barbara Culmer, Joel M. Jones and Curt Slaughter will be inducted into the Fort Lewis College Athletic Hall of Fame at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Henry Strater Theatre.
Culmer was a women's basketball standout for the then-FLC Raiders from 1986 to 1990, earning first team All-Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference and All-NAIA District VII honors as a senior – leading FLC to a share of the league title – and an All-NAIA District VII honorable mention nod as a junior.
She's one of just four players to score 1,000 points and pull in 700 rebounds in her career. Culmer is eighth in program history with 1,040 points and sixth with 700 rebounds.
"Barb was one of the top performers on our team and for our program," former FLC head coach Cathy Simbeck said in a news release.
Jones was president of FLC from 1988 to 1998, overseeing the transition from NAIA to NCAA Division II. During his tenure, FLC added men's soccer in 1990, women's soccer in 1993 and cycling in 1994 while discontinuing wrestling in 1995 and men's and women's tennis in 1989. The school also changed the nickname from Raiders to Skyhawks in 1994.
Under Jones' watch, FLC left the RMAC and NAIA to join the Colorado Athletic Conference and Division II before rejoining the RMAC upon its jump to Division II in 1994.
The men's soccer program has gone on to win three national titles, while cycling has accrued 20. And women's soccer has become a player on the national stage, making consistent appearances in the national rankings.
"He made decisions in regard to gender equity, budget and personnel that were at times difficult but ultimately positioned the athletic department for the tremendous amount of success that we've enjoyed in the past decade," assistant director of athletics for communications Chris Aaland said.
Slaughter was a four-year letterwinner for the FLC men's soccer program from 1998 to 2001, helping the Skyhawks emerge as a national player with their runner-up finish in the NCAA Tournament in 1999. He's sixth in program history with 28 goals and ninth in points with 69.
"He scored in the semifinals and had a bunch of other big-time goals; he became an All-American," former teammate and FLC Hall of Famer Luc Cisna said in the release.
Also on Saturday, FLC will dedicate and rename the weight room after the late Robert A. Deguelle, who died May 5, 2012. DeGuelle was a former football player and assistant coach at FLC, where he also wrestled. Deguelle was inducted into the FLC Hall of Fame in 2006.


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Mainstream Feminism's Demand for Realism: On "Fotoshop by Adobé," aesthetics, and posthuman feminism
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Just following up from Twitter since I couldn't contextualise my 'Hmmm' in 140 characters ...ReplyDelete
At the moment I'm on leave with a beautiful but noctural 7 week old and a 3 year old in the house. Looking at our toddler and his friends, cousins and so forth, I can see that all of them are forming body images and perceptions of ideals and realities at the moment. While I certainly don't suggest that all non-realistic body images are harmful (almost no cartoon/animation bodies are realistic, but this doesn't make them harmful since, as you say, often the difference and the distance from realism is useful reminder that these simply aren't 'real'). However, photoshopped images are much harder to discuss and understand for young people. And while, as parents, we're careful to discuss and help our toddler interpret what he sees, as are other parents we know, something like photoshopped wastelines or blurs to removes body hair or whatever are much harder to discuss.
I take your point that MORE art or, more precisely, MORE AWARENESS might diminish the harmful body image impact somewhat, but I'm not sure at what age that point is easily received, but the consideration of age is an important one.
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Thanks for your comment! I appreciate your nuanced take on this issue, as the "What about the Children?" is most often used very bluntly for very conservative ends (Edelman and Berlant have discussed this at length, just to give two examples).
Ultimately I am suspicious of the idea that "natural" or "real" bodies even exist...if only for the fact that things like sex and gender--or even hygiene--aren't even themselves natural; it takes a lot of work, learning, and artifice just to live in a body. If people want to have hairless bodies, let them, that's great! Body alteration is itself a condition for human embodiment; part of "culture" is molding bodies into "workable" and "legible" forms.
SO, my underlying point is: Images and body modification/discipline are not themselves the problem. Images and body styles are, in themselves, neither good or bad, empowering or disempowering. It's the _context_ in which they're performed and interpreted that make them helpful or hurtful. So it's not the images themselves that are the problem--PATRIARCHY is the problem, patriarchy is what makes an inherently neutral image or practice harmful. Focusing our attention on images or body practices is in fact a red herring--a red herring that only serves patriarchy, by diverting our attention away from the underlying cause.
- AnonymousJanuary 22, 2012 at 12:51 PM
Interesting perspective. A little too art focussed, and not real world focussed for me to give it much credence, though. Most women are just trying to live, not get all high minded about how they can alter images or their physical selves. I don't know that girls with eating disorders should be sent a message that 'discipline' over their bodies is something to strive for.ReplyDelete


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Bin Laden's Death Sparks Rethinking of US Policy in Afghanistan
by Daphne Eviatar Human Rights 1st, Tue May 10, 2011 at 10:08:03 AM EDT
The death of Osama bin Laden last week is prompting the Obama Administration, members of Congress and the American public to re-think the war in Afghanistan, and to wonder how the demise of the world's most famous terrorist might hasten its end.
That's as it should be. But for now, there are still 100,000 troops on the ground in Afghanistan, and some 1700 prisoners that the U.S. is detaining there indefinitely without charge or trial. That's ten times the number of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and almost triple the number imprisoned in Afghanistan when President Obama took office. As I wrote in a new report released today by Human Rights First, based on research in Afghanistan and observation of U.S. military practices there, the United States is not providing its prisoners there even the minimum level of due process required by international law. And that's ultimately undermining the United States' ability to put an end to the war there quickly and responsibly.


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10:20am Wednesday 4th December 2013 in News
THE fallout from Dudley Council's budget busting cuts landed on the authority's doorstep ahead of a full council meeting.
Protestors demanding an end to the axing of services to save cash gathered on the steps of Dudley Council House on December 2.
Dudley Coalition Against Cuts say public services should not be farmed out to the private sector and slashing facilities will begin to have devastating consequences.
Cllr Will Duckworth from the Green Party, said: "Enough is enough, they are now cutting services which are vital – they are going to kill people."
The authority last week announced plans to close seven borough children's centres were to be shelved but during the meeting the ruling Labour group's cabinet member for children's services, Cllr Tim Crumpton, painted a bleak picture of the future if the government continues to cut council funding.
He said: "Ever since children's services was set up it has been under funded, we face massive cuts over the next couple of years that mean there will be nothing left of us."
Cllr Crumpton faced calls from his resignation from Tory leader Cllr Patrick Harley who claimed radical changes were needed in the children's services department.
Cllr Harley said: "It seems increasingly clear that the cabinet member has no control over the direction his department is going. The manner in which children's centres have been handled under his watch has been nothing short of appalling.
"We have no confidence in the cabinet member, does he have the continued support of the leader of the council? If not, will he fall on his own sword or wait until the predicted reshuffle on May?"
Speaking after the meeting Cllr Crumpton said: "The Local Government Association has just inspected my directorate, one of their comments was there is strong political leadership shown.
"I am proud of what we do and I have the support of my leader and regular discussions with him about how things are going.
"I think Patrick Harley should look at himself as he does not appear to keep the confidence of his own party."
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A new low for local politics in Dudley.
UKIP maintain to be the only party with any class in Dudley standing up for the electorate with no national political agenda!
I welcome all support but it must be done with dignity as keeping New Bradley Hall under local authority care is the aim and no matter how or who we must fight for this
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Sorry if there's already a thread for this, but MM is one of my favorite shows on tv. The last episode was the best one yet IMO. The next one should be good, too, but less successful.
Sorry if there's already a thread for this, but MM is one of my favorite shows on tv. The last episode was the best one yet IMO. The next one should be good, too, but less successful.
I like this show too.
But, I've often wondered about her opening intro, where she says she has an "extremely high success rate." Really? How often do we read the updates where the people even see each other again? Let alone actually pursue a real meaningfull relationship.
It seems like every show this season ends with her screaming "Get the hell out of my club!"
"Marge, if you're going to get mad at me every time I do something stupid, then I guess I'm just going to have to stop doing stupid things!" - Homer Simpson in the Mr. Plow episode
I this show, too, for the chain of trainwrecks. And for the eye candy Patti and her kids round up as candidates ... most of them far too young and or for the subject millionnaire.
What a creepy freak. And the other guy for the episode -- showing his weird surgically sculpted abs-on-top-of-fat and taking his date to a clothing optional spa -- was a loser in his own right ... but just sophomoric verus creepy.
The post-creepy-Q-tip-episode previews showed a flaming, pretentious, older queen ... apparently looking for hot young boys. So the usual in gay life. I'm sure that Patti will loooove this guy's entitlement.
Read an interview with Patti; the fame ho's get NO pay from Bravo. Love the show, she is a hoot. The one that brought his "assistant" on the date should be shot! Whatta pig...
"awwww....shades of Janet Lynn" - Dick Button on anyone who makes more than one mistake in their program.
I don't really like Patti, but I watch the show every week despite that. I would love to know what happened with Chelsea that caused her to leave/get fired.
Logic is in the eye of the logician --Gloria Steinem
What a nasty, disgusting, revolting and trashy show. I watch it every week! Can't wait for the next nauseating episode (the one with the older gay guy)!!!
I've not vested any real brain cells in this show (well, not until these posts today, that is ), but I once heard a gay at a party joking that these millionnaires are putting all their trust in finding a "lifetime match" on the skills of a woman who has never been married.
Not sure if this is accurate, and again, I'm not going to put in the effort to Wiki it. But I will defend her skills, using the analogy that some of the greatest coaches in the history of sports never really played at the championship level of their subject sport (ergo Patti is the coach, and dating is her sport) ... but I find her never married status as a nice source for chuckles.
I agree that most of the shows have been messes, though. I still learn a lot from them. It's like a modern take on Cinderella. Some of the dates seem SO awkward.
Well her hubby to be would not come on the show...and she was ticked. She has lost a ton of weight and is taking that Sensa stuff. Some of the best skating coaches don't have kids...just sayin!
"awwww....shades of Janet Lynn" - Dick Button on anyone who makes more than one mistake in their program.
Logic is in the eye of the logician --Gloria Steinem
Oh, thanks sooooo much, Allen. Now, I'll be needing a liquid lunch. Brain bleach being the liquid.
Or maybe I'll just embellish that you meant to write Dennis Quaid ... ahhh, yes, much better vision.
Oy Vey! Watched the latest episode with the Ga(y)geist. He is so charming. I'm sure he's the belle of the ball. Where do these people learn their holier than thou attitude? The way he looked at the young guy was just gross.
Oh vey is right! I felt extremely uncomfortable during that "date". I loved when Patti screamed at him (as she is prone to do).
Logic is in the eye of the logician --Gloria Steinem
I had to turn it off. Cookie prick was getting on my nerves.
AceOn6, the golf loving skating fan
I thought the cookie guy's attitude was annoying, but not that bad. Rhett was the childish one. He was trying WAY too hard, with the continual touching (which seemed forced--not genuine), his sexual humor (which I too found juvenile), and then the throwing of the drink--which is SO dramatic and immature.
Cookie guy's attitude was very chippy - pretty smug about his being "president" of the company (that daddy built).