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Spokane House Rental Photos and Description
House, 3 Bedrooms + Convertible bed(s), 2.5 Baths, (Sleeps 10)
The ridge top location on Mt. Spokane offers 360 degree views, with Mt. Spokane rising in pristine beauty behind and the lights of the City of Spokane below. Stupendous sunrises and sunsets are part of the rural setting along with an unpolluted night sky of seemingly touchable bright stars. This amazing 14' log home offers 2400+ sq feet of space able to sleep 8 adults comfortably, and up to 10 with children. Feel welcomed by the double doors and curved staircase in the entry and wall of windows overlooking the valley in the great room. Hand-crafted rustic logs juxtapost with cream colored stucco walls giving the home an airy feel. The bar for your VRBO home will be appreciatively raised by: radient heating; wood burning fireplace; mission style dining room table with comfortable seating for 10; dining room window seat; spacious bedrooms including a romantic master suite; 2-1/2 baths; master bath containing a large jetted bathtub, double sinks and double headed shower; loft hideaway for the kids; spacious kitchen w/breakfast bar; balcony office with reading area; laundry room; and 2000 square feet of deck/covered porch. To round out this ranch's amenities, access is only a little over a mile to Mt. Spokane Parkway, a drive-under portico for weather free access, and log seating around a campfire.
This easy atmosphere, super clean hideaway is without question the place to stay for a family or a couple's get away.
Keywords: log home, mountain home
- Suitability:
- Minimum Age Limit for Renters
- children welcome
- non smoking only
- pets considered
- wheelchair inaccessible
About Holly Easterwood
We are a Christian couple who built this 4200 sq ft log home in 1999 when we still had children at home. Now we are grandparents and, like many of our generation, have a number of interests, including horseback riding, motorcycling, and golfing, among others. Jay was in a motorcycle accident a number of years ago and has an above-the knee amputation. We now reside in the fully handicap accessible basement unit of our log home. We enjoy people and feel our home can give others the beauty we have appreciated for many years.
Holly Easterwood purchased this house in 1999
Why Holly Easterwood chose Spokane
We love log homes and chose to build on this ridge top with a view of snow-peaked Mt. Spokane behind us and the north end of Spokane spread below. Our goal was to view sunsets and sunrises in a peaceful setting.
What makes this house unique
Our outdoor campfire, covered porch and deck eating and lounging areas accommodate a fairly large amount of people comfortably, and the beauty of the surroundings, with no neighbors in sight, make for a completely unique homesite. Watching the horses in their pastures and the many deer and other wild animals as they pass through the 35 acres makes for a very peaceful and contented circumstance.
Guestbook comments from the owner
Upon arrival Claudia evinced surprise, and said she never thought that they would be able to stay in such a beautiful place. Raul made the comment that he enjoyed a good night's sleep, and that their bed was very comfortable. While speaking with us the morning they were leaving, we were standing on the deck looking out over the valley and both of them enthused about "the amazing views." When their local family member came to visit them, she stated that the home and setting is beautiful. She went on to say that we would have no problem staying full as it was "everything anybody would want in a vacation rental."


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Heaven Can Wait
They danced in it, rolled in it, and bathed in it.
The honey bees just couldn't get enough of the rock purslane (Calandrinia grandiflora).
Last week when we visited
Nearby, two other bees, sisters in honeyhood, shared the same flower as another honey bee tumbled happily out of her flower and made a beeline for the next one.
Ernesto Sandoval, curator of the College of Biological Sciences Greenhouses at UC Davis and Robbin Thorp, emeritus professor of entomology at UC Davis, say that bees love Calandrinia grandiflora. The plant, native to Chile, blooms here in late summer and early fall.
"It has has bright red-orange pollen that honey bees love," Thorp said.
They do, indeed.
What do you mean, I'm too big?
Flight of the honey bee
Getting the Red In
If you love pomegranates, you can thank a honey bee.
If you love capturing images of pomegranates, you can thank a honey bee.
And, if you love juicing them and making pomegranate jelly—as I do—you can thank a honey bee.
The honey bee makes it all possible.
In mid-May, our 81-year old pomegranate tree blossomed. The silky red blossoms drew dozens of bees. On May 26, armed with a macro lens, I photographed them gathering nectar and pollen.
The blossoms, like the bees, quickly vanished. Worker bees live only four to six weeks during the busy season. The blossoms dropped and fruit formed. Today, four months later, the harvest-ready fruit glistens with red jewels. More photo ops!
The tree is truly amazing. It's 81 years old and yields six to seven orchard boxes of fruit each year. How can we be certain of its age? It was planted in 1927, the same year our Spanish stucco home was built. The owners planted a pomegranate tree because "our daughter loved them."
So do the bees./o:p>/o:p>/o:p>/o:p>/o:p>/o:p>
Bee pollinating a pomegranate
Split personality
From Beetles to Skeeters
So, you want to become an entomologist...
Entomologists, future entomologists and others interested in science are looking forward to the fall seminars sponsored Oct. 1 through Dec. 3 by the Department of Entomology, University of California, Davis.
All seminars are held on Wednesdays from 12:10 to 1 p.m. in 122 Briggs Hall. Individual faculty members will host the seminars.
You'll learn about fungus-farming ambrosia beetles, the invasive brown marmorated sting bug, argentine ants, thrips, and Culex mosquitoes, to name a few.
The UC Davis entomology faculty do a fantastic job lining up speakers. The key word here is "passion." (The best advice I ever received in a fortune cookie involved passion: "Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.")
Bring on the bugs!
The schedule:
Oct. 1: Jiri Hulcr of Department of Entomology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, "Evolution and Ecology of Fungus-Farming Ambrosia Beetles. Host: entomology professor Phil Ward
Oct. 8: Anne Nielsen, Department of Nematology, UC Davis, "Population Ecology and Damage Estimates of the Invasive Brown Marmorated Stink Bug, Halyomorpha halys." Host: nematology and entomology professor Ed Lewis
Oct. 15: Urs Wyss, Institute of Phytopathology, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany, "Biological Control of Greenhouse Pests with Natural Arthropod Enemies." Host: entomology and nematology professor Harry Kaya
Oct. 22: Greg Crutsinger, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, "Linking Plant Genetic Variation to Foliage- and Litter-Based Arthropod Communities." Host: entomology professor Rick Karban
Oct. 29: Kris Godfrey, California Department of Food and Agriculture, Sacramento "Pest Management of Invasive Insect Pests in California." Host: nematology and entomology professor Ed Lewis
Nov. 5: Neil Tsutsui, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, UC Berkeley, "Exploring the Genetic and Chemical Basis of Argentine Ant Behavior." Host: entomology professor Phil Ward
Nov. 12: Le Kang, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China Chemical Communications Between Plants, Leafminers and Parasites." Host: Michael Parrella, associate dean of the Division of Agricultural Sciences, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, and entomology professor
Nov. 26: Chris Barker, Department of Entomology, UC Davis, "Environmental Drivers of Large-Scale Spatial and Temporal Patterns in Mosquito Abundance and Virus Transmission in California." Host: Bruce Eldridge, emeritus professor of entomology
Dec. 3: Lisa Chanbusarakum, Department of Entomology, UC Davis, "Exploring the Microbial World of Frankliniella occidentalis, the Western Flower Thrips." Host: Diane Ullman, associate dean for undergraduate academic programs at the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences and entomology professor
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It's All About the Bees
It's all about the bees.
When A. G. Kawamura, secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture, and the newly selected State Apiary Board meet from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 3 at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility, UC Davis, they'll talk about the troubled bee business, tour the facility, elect new officers, and listen to research presentations.
Members of the apiary board are all beekeepers. The five members represent the state's major geographical regions. They are Jackie Park-Burris of Palo Cedro, president of the California State Beekeepers' Association; Leroy Brant of Oakdale; Lyle Johnston of Madera; Steve Godlin of Visalia; and Richard Ashurst of Westmorland. They will each serve a four-year term. The UC Davis liaison is apiculturist Eric Mussen, member of the UC Davis Department of Entomology faculty and a Cooperative Extension bee specialist since 1976.
If there's ever been an industry under attack, it's the apiary industry. The bees are subjected to stress, parasites, diseases, pesticides, malnutrition, climate change, and that mysterious phenomonen known as colony collapse disorder (CCD), in which bees abandon their hives..
Meanwhile, the United States is facing its worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. The new "buzz words" include mortgage meltdowns, skyrocketing fuel prices, diving stocks, and crumbling financial institutions.
But there's another "buzz" that should grab our attention: the bees.
Honey bees pollinate about one-third of the food we eat. They pollinate more than 90 fruit, vegetable and nut crops, including apples, strawberries, cherries, peaches, cantaloupe, tomatoes, cucumbers, and almonds.
As state legislators agreed when they formed the apiary board: "A healthy and vibrant apiary industry is important to the economy and welfare of the state" and the industry's "promotion and protection is in the interest of the people of the state of Califonria."
It is indeed.
Newborn bee
Examining bees
Holy Moly!
Quick! How long have insects inhabited this earth?
If you're taking a biology or an entomology course, you'll be asked that question on an exam. If you're attending the Entomological Society of America conference Nov. 16-20 in Reno, you probably already know that.
A good answer: 400 million years.
The world's oldest known insect fossil is 400 million years old. according to findings published Feb. 12, 2004 in the journal Nature.
The evidence: jaw fragments measuring less than one two-hundred-fiftieth of an inch across discovered in 1919 in chert (a partly translucent crystalline rock) in Rhynie, Scotland. Shortly after that, scientists moved the fragments to a drawer in the Natural History Museum in London.
Under high magnification, the miniscule fragments show sockets that form part of a "hingelike mechanism that clearly identifies them as mouth parts of a true insect," the New York Times wrote.
To think that insects existed at least 400 million years ago! Scientists earlier thought 300 million years ago. What's a few million years? Well, the fossil record suggests that insects were among the first animals to live on land. The first ancient animals to fly were undoubtedly insects (even before flying dinosaurs).
Scientists David Grimaldi, a curator of entomology at the American Museum of Natural History, New York, and Michael S. Engel, a paleoentomologist at the University of Kansas, said that when they first discovered the age of the fossil fragment they looked at each other and said "Holy moly!
It's been a long time since I've heard "Holy moly!" but then it's been a long time since insects have inhabited the earth.
Holy moly! 400 million years!
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As state plans appeal on federal aid, region faces old and new fires
The federal government has denied an emergency-aid request to help people who had lost homes and property in the Carlton Complex fire.
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Whenever Okanogan County Sheriff Frank Rogers drives the smoke-hazed roads in and around the Methow Valley, he passes the skeletons of foundations where houses stood before this summer's wildfires left their mark.
The Carlton complex fire, the largest in recorded state history, destroyed at least 340 houses. More than two-thirds of those were considered primary residences, not vacation homes. And so the federal government's decision to deny emergency disaster assistance for people who have lost their homes surprised Rogers.
"There's a lot of devastation out there, and we're not a rich county," Rogers said. "Where are these people going to stay for the long term?"
Among other things, the aid would have provided rental assistance to those who had lost homes, along with unemployment insurance, crisis counseling and grants to help them replace possessions.
Earlier in the week, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) approved part of the state's request that would provide money to rebuild roads, utility poles and other infrastructure.
FEMA didn't say why it rejected the individual-assistance request, according to Jaime Smith, spokeswoman for the governor.
The governor's office plans to appeal the denial, according to Smith.
State officials are planning to send crews to the sites of homes destroyed in the fire that they couldn't get to earlier to gather information for the appeal, according to Karina Shagren, spokeswoman for the state Military Department.
FEMA did not immediately respond to calls or emails seeking comment.
Meanwhile, fires continue to burn across the state.
Much of Washington remains under a red-flag warning until at least Wednesday night, according to the National Weather Service. The warning means weather conditions, including scattered lightning throughout the area, could lead to additional fires.
Lightning storms Monday night led to 17 new fires across the state, according to the Northwest Interagency Coordination Center.
Information Officer Jean Nelson-Dean said those fires burned about 1,370 acres. By Tuesday evening, 15 of them were contained, with firefighters still working for containment of two.
The Haven Lake fire northwest of Olympia had burned about 260 acres by Tuesday night and was zero percent contained. Fire officials said it was burning on steep, forested terrain and was threatening three commercial properties.
The Tenino complex southwest of Olympia involves three fires that by Tuesday evening had burned about 30 acres with zero percent containment.
Firefighters are starting to get a handle on other wildfires burning across the state, although some are still growing.
Several lightning-caused fires in Central Washington continue to be active. Among them is the Devil's Elbow complex, which has grown to nearly 32 square miles since it started Aug. 3.
The North Central Washington complex is 7 percent contained. Thirty-two residents have been evacuated. Two minor structures have been destroyed.
The Snag Canyon fire burning 10 miles north of Ellensburg in Central Washington also is growing. It was last measured at more than 16 square miles and is 30 percent contained. The fire has destroyed nine residences and 12 minor structures.
Officials estimate the Carlton complex will be fully contained by the end of the week as a low-pressure weather system moves through the region, bringing cooler temperatures and thunderstorms.
Smoke from the many fires resulted in some of the worst air quality in several weeks over the state, according to the state Department of Ecology.
Smoke dispersion should improve by Wednesday, but overall air-quality improvement is expected to be gradual in most locations. The air quality in at least nine Eastern and Central Washington counties will be classified as unhealthy or very unhealthy throughout the week, the Department of Ecology said.
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Should Wichita school buses be allowed to park in a north Wichita neighborhood facility for more than 72 hours?
That was the topic of discussion between residents, First Student, and the zoning appeals board as they decided whether or not the company's new facility at 37th and Seneca is for storage or parking.
Last January, First Student signed a 7-year deal with USD 259 replacing Durham School services as the bus provider for the district.
With the deal came a need for a bus facility, one that continues to cause controversy.
Storage or parking?
"Stop and think. If this was your home, would you want an option to change things if this was going to affect your family, your property, the safety of your family, the safety of your neighbors?" Jack Deatherage, who lives near the facility asked.
Nearly 300 buses drive in and out of the lot numerous times a day leaving through one entrance, and returning at the end of the day.
The buses are then parked there overnight. They are parked for even longer periods during spring, summer and winter breaks and for long weekends.
"When they take it there every night, they store it. They don't store their buses any place else. This is their storage facility," said another neighbor.
"If First Student were not going to be running school bus routes from this place, there would be no reason, and no desire to have buses on the property," said a First Student representative.
According to the zoning appeals board, a city recommendation allowing the buses to stay parked for longer than 72 hours makes it a storage facility.
That decision makes residents happy, and puts a burden on First Student, since a 10-year deal has been signed for the property on North Seneca.
"Definitely based off what are our facts and findings today, we found it's for storage and not for parking," said Joshua Blick, a zoning appeals board member.
To stay at the current site, First Student would have to move every bus at least every 72 hours.
First Student is also looking at expanding into a grassy area to the south side of the lot.
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FP's Situation Report: Dunford, Austin kept in dark on Bergdahl; Mosul falls and Sunni extremists push toward Baghdad; Robert Ford: Arm Syria now; and a bit more.
By Gordon Lubold with Nathaniel Sobel
Even the U.S.'s Afghanistan war commander didn't know about the Bergdahl deal. FP's Gordon Lubold and Shane Harris: "Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl's release by the Taliban in the border region of eastern Afghanistan was so rushed that not even the Afghanistan war commander or the top commander in the region knew a deal had been struck until just before or after it had been finalized, according to multiple administration officials. The fact that Gen. Joseph Dunford, the commander of all American and international forces in Afghanistan, and Gen. Lloyd Austin, the head of U.S. Central Command, knew about the ongoing negotiations about Bergdahl but weren't fully read into the specifics of the actual deal hasn't been previously reported. It is certain to fuel the growing controversy over whether the Obama administration rushed into a potentially ill-advised deal without fully consulting Congress or even some of the most important members of its national security team.
"...Some high-level officials were privy to the details of the prisoner swap. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey and the Vice Chairman, Adm. Sandy Winnefeld, were "completely read into the deal," one official said. But the Special Operations forces that flew Bergdahl out of Afghanistan didn't fall under Dunford or Austin's chain of command and therefore operated independently. Although both Dunford and Austin were aware of the ongoing efforts to secure Bergdahl's release -- as were approximately 100 administration officials -- it was not clear exactly when either commander was informed of Bergdahl's rescue from his Taliban captors. On Tuesday, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Il.), said the Obama administration only finalized the particulars of the exchange a day before it occurred, and that the military only knew the location where Bergdahl was to be picked up an hour earlier.
"... Hagel will appear before a House panel this morning to try to quell the criticism and further explain why the White House acted when it did. It will be an uphill climb for the defense secretary, whose relationship with Capitol Hill has been rocky since his confirmation hearings."
Pentagon Press Secretary Rear Adm. John Kirby told reporters on Tuesday: "It was a very small, fleeting window of opportunity in order to secure -- safely secure Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl and it's safe to say that the entire interagency, the entire national security team agreed that we needed to take advantage of this fleeting opportunity, and that operational security was critical to securing it safely and efficiently." More here.
Chuck Hagel made the call to do the deal. ABC's John Parkinson and Jake Lefferman: "Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel - not President Obama - executed the administration's final call to proceed with the prisoner exchange of five ranking Taliban detainees for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, administration officials told Congress today in a classified briefing today."
House Armed Services Chairman Buck McKeon, Republican from California: "They indicated [it was] Secretary Hagel [who made the final call]... It was the president of the United States that came out [in the Rose Garden] with the Bergdahls and took all the credit and now that there's been a little pushback he's moving away from it and it's Secretary Hagel?"
"Officials also told Congress that 80 to 90 people within the administration knew of its plans to go forward with the controversial swap, exacerbating tensions between the White House and members of Congress." More on the ABC report here.
Here's the best defense of Obama's prisoner swap that you've never heard. The rationale for doing the swap has shifted, or at least unfolded over days, each adding to a richer view of what the White House confronted, but also adding fuel to critics who think the administration has shifted its public stance. But behind closed-door briefings, the administration has discussed another reason why it did what it did. FP's John Hudson: "...It goes like this: Under the laws of war, the legal authority to detain unarmed forces ends when the conflict ends. Last month, President Obama announced that the United States will cease all combat operations in Afghanistan by the end of 2014. At that time, Washington will theoretically lose the legal standing to continue to detain Taliban officials who have not been convicted of a crime. Therefore, the administration argues, it makes sense to give up five Taliban prisoners now in exchange for an American POW rather than releasing those same militants in December without getting anything in return." More here.
Meantime, after another
Bergdahl briefing, senators remain unconvinced that the trade was worth the
costs. The NYT's Jonathan Weisman: "Senators emerged from
a classified, closed-door briefing on the release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl on
Tuesday seemingly less convinced than ever about the wisdom of swapping five
high-level Taliban prisoners for the Army soldier after he spent years in
"At the session, senior Defense Department and military officials briefed members of the Senate Armed Services Committee, again presenting a united front in their support of the prisoner exchange, said Senator Carl Levin of Michigan, the committee's chairman.
"But they appeared to make little headway in defusing the festering political controversy that has again pitted the administration against Republicans - and some Democrats - who question President Obama's judgment on national security.
"...Mr. Levin offered perhaps the strongest defense yet of the prisoner exchange before congressional testimony on Wednesday by Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel. 'When the chairman of the Joint Chiefs and the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs tell me as chairman of the Armed Services Committee - and try to tell the public - that they very much supported this deal despite the fact that they knew Bergdahl had left his unit and despite the fact that they knew these five Taliban were bad guys, that has a big impact on me,' he said." More here.
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Who's Where When today - Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel and General Counsel of the Department of Defense Stephen W. Preston testify before the House Armed Services Committee on the Bergdahl swap and the transfer of the "Gitmo Five" at 10 a.m. in Rayburn room 2118... Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno continues his trip in Europe... Commandant Gen. Jim Amos returns to DC today... Navy Secretary Ray Mabus continues his multi-nation trip and is in Bucharest, Romania for meetings with Romanian Naval Forces Staff at the Navy Headquarters and other military and defense leaders...Acting Department of Defense Chief Information Officer Terry A. Halvorsen delivers the opening keynote address for the 13th Annual Naval Information Technology Day at 8:15 a.m.
Also today, National Security Advisor Susan Rice, in the hot seat for Bergdahl, delivers the keynote at the Center for a New American Security's 8th Annual Conference at the Willard Hotel at 2:15 PM. From the WH Yesterday: "As we said at the time of the President's remarks at West Point, the senior members of his national security team will follow up with speeches and engagements of their own, in a coordinated effort to lay out the Administration's foreign policy priorities and broader approach. This is the first of those engagements, but we can expect throughout the summer to also see Secretary Hagel, Secretary Kerry, Ambassador Power, and Assistant to the President Monaco take on pieces of the agenda and engage the debate over foreign policy with an affirmative U.S. case." Watch it here.
Sunni militants drive Iraqi army from Mosul and this morning are pushing toward Baghdad. Despite it receiving the most military support the U.S. provides to any country - at $14 billion - Iraq still can't fight extremists who are today driving an exhausted Iraqi army out and expanding their reach as the region runs the higher risk of all-out war. The NYT's Suadad Al-Salhy and Alan Cowell: "In a lightning advance, Sunni militants who overran the northern Iraqi city of Mosul to deal a stunning strategic blow against the government have pressed south toward Baghdad and occupied facilities in the key oil refining town of Baiji, spreading alarm in the Iraqi capital itself, according to security officials and residents on Wednesday. Citizens in the refining center of Baiji, 110 miles south of Mosul, awoke Wednesday to find government checkpoints abandoned after insurgents, in a column of 60 vehicles, took control of the city of 200,000 people without firing a shot, the security officials said.
"Peter Bouckaert, the emergency services director for Human Rights Watch, said in a post on Twitter that the militants had seized the Baiji power station, which supplies electricity to Baghdad, Kirkuk and Salahuddin Province. Baghdad itself, 130 miles further south, seemed calm, but residents said they were shocked by the militant advance and feared the insurgents from the jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and Syria could push toward the capital." More here.
What Mosul's fall says about America's legacy in Iraq. CS Monitor's Dan Murphy: "... Events in the city today are a stark reminder of how ephemeral US efforts in Iraq have proven to be. In early 2004, Gen. David Petraeus was commander of the 101st Airborne Division in the province, and his efforts there, focusing on hearts and minds, were marketed as the 'Mosul model.' Early in the war, Mosul was Iraq's most peaceful large city, new businesses were opening, and fuel shortages that bedeviled most of the country then weren't apparent." More here.
On FP, the unraveling of Iraq in eight fascinating charts, here.
The brazen attacks in Mosul and Karachi are just the latest signs that the bad guys are gaining momentum. FP's David Rothkopf: "The ground truth about the spread of terrorism will be a hard one for many Americans to swallow after 13 costly years of war. Terrorism is spreading worldwide. Our enemies have sustained our blows, adapted, and grown. Two questions loom large as a consequence: Where did we go wrong and what do we do now?" More here.
How to pull Iraq back from the abyss. Brookings' Ken Pollack on the WSJ's op-Ed page: "...Americans seem to think that the vast increase in domestic oil production from shale deposits has immunized the U.S. economy from Middle East instability. Not by a long shot. The International Energy Agency has warned as clearly as it can that projected low prices of oil in the future depend more on increased Iraqi oil production than on North American shale. And every postwar American recession has been preceded by an increase in oil prices, often the result of Middle East instability.
"Then there is the intelligence community's warning that Sunni terrorists waging the Syrian-Iraqi civil war have begun to contemplate striking American targets from the groups' secure base areas in eastern Syria and western Iraq.
"Unfortunately, since the height of Iraq's political-military fortunes in 2009-10, the U.S. has squandered and surrendered most of its influence. But we have to hope that there is still time to deal with the mess of Iraq, because the alternative is almost certain disaster.
"The key fact to keep in mind is that Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is getting desperate for American military aid to regain control of the country. That could give the U.S. the leverage it needs to put Iraqi politics on a firmer footing." More here.
Former Blackwater guards are going on trial for the 2007 shooting in Iraq. The WSJ's Andrew Grossman: "After nearly seven years of legal wrangling, prosecutor missteps and false starts, a federal court is finally set to begin sorting out whether four American security contractors are criminally responsible for the deaths of 14 Iraqis killed in a 2007 Baghdad shooting incident. The trial of the four former employees of Blackwater Worldwide, slated to begin here Wednesday with jury selection, will revisit a painful episode that sparked international outrage and contributed to the Iraqi government's decision to force the company out of the country." More here.
An American bomber reportedly killed five U.S. troops in Afghanistan. TIME's Mark Thompson: "The war in Afghanistan began with friendly fire. Now it seems to be ending the same way. On Dec. 5, 2001, two months after the U.S. invasion, a massive 2,000-pound bomb killed three U.S. Special Forces north of Kandahar. The GPS-guided weapon struck the Americans because the controller on the ground who called in the airstrike changed the battery on his GPS device in the middle of the bombing run. But he didn't realize that once the unit rebooted, the aim point it began transmitting to the B-52 bomber far above wasn't the enemy's location. It was his.
"On Monday, at about 9 p.m. local time, it happened again, this time in restive Zabul province in the southern part of the country. 'Five American troops were killed yesterday in an incident in southern Afghanistan,' Rear Admiral John Kirby, the Pentagon's chief spokesman, told reporters Tuesday. 'We do have reason to suspect that friendly fire was the cause here, specifically friendly fire from the air.' Reports from Afghanistan indicated a B-1 bomber mistakenly dropped its weapon on the commandos for unknown reasons. The blast also killed an Afghan soldier." More here.
For FP, Harvard's Malik Siraj Akbar reviews 'The Taliban Revival' by NDU professor Dr. Hassan Abbas, here.
And also for FP, Dr. Patrick W. Quirk on the June 14 run-off election in Afghanistan, here.
The House Approps Committee votes to scrap the A-10 Warthog. Stripes' Travis Tritten: "The House Appropriations Committee voted Tuesday to retire the popular A-10 Warthog, defying earlier votes in the House and Senate and pleas from infantry troops to save the close-support aircraft. The committee, which holds the federal purse strings, overwhelmingly rejected a measure in the House's proposed defense budget for 2015 that would have preserved the A-10 from Air Force spending cuts. The Air Force is under pressure to cut spending due to mandatory budget cuts and had proposed to save about $7 billion by retiring 283 Warthogs. But the aircraft has supporters in the Army and Marines, where it has saved lives during combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Armed services committees in both chambers of Congress voted to keep the Warthog last month." More here.
IBM and Epic Systems Corp. will team up to compete for an $11 billion project to manage U.S. troops' electronic health records by Bloomberg's Jonathan Salant, here.


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Dolph Springer wakes up one morning to find out that his beloved dog Paul is missing. In the quest of finding Paul, Dolph comes across many people who leave a mark in his life with experiences one can never forget. This comedy drama was an official selection at the Sundance Film Festival 2012. Here's the trailer.
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Nat Wolff and Selena Gomez play the young couple in trouble in the comic flick 'Behaving Badly'. The movie also stars Mary-Louise Parker, Elisabeth Shue, Jason Lee and Heather Graham among other cast. Check out the trailer right here.


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Hydrogen Storage Issues Could Be Solved By Layered Graphene Sheets
Graphenecarbon formed into sheets a single atom thicknow appears to be a promising base material for capturing hydrogen, according to recent research* at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Pennsylvania. The findings suggest stacks of graphene layers could potentially store hydrogen safely for use in fuel cells and other applications.
Graphene has become something of a celebrity material in recent years due to its conductive, thermal and optical properties, which could make it useful in a range of sensors and semiconductor devices. The material does not store hydrogen well in its original form, according to a team of scientists studying it at the NIST Center for Neutron Research. But if oxidized graphene sheets are stacked atop one another like the decks of a multilevel parking lot, connected by molecules that both link the layers to one another and maintain space between them, the resulting graphene-oxide framework (GOF) can accumulate hydrogen in greater quantities.
Inspired to create GOFs by the metal-organic frameworks that are also under scrutiny for hydrogen storage, the team is just beginning to uncover the new structures properties. No one else has ever made GOFs, to the best of our knowledge, says NIST theorist Taner Yildirim. What we have found so far, though, indicates GOFs can hold at least a hundred times more hydrogen molecules than ordinary graphene oxide does. The easy synthesis, low cost and non-toxicity of graphene make this material a promising candidate for gas storage applications.
The GOFs can retain 1 percent of their weight in hydrogen at a temperature of 77 degrees Kelvin and ordinary atmospheric pressureroughly comparable to the 1.2 percent that some well-studied metal-organic frameworks can hold, Yildirim says.
Another of the teams potentially useful discoveries is the unusual relationship that GOFs exhibit between temperature and hydrogen absorption. In most storage materials, the lower the temperature, the more hydrogen uptake normally occurs. However, the team discovered that GOFs behave quite differently. Although a GOF can absorb hydrogen, it does not take in significant amounts at below 50 Kelvin (-223 degrees Celsius). Moreover, it does not release any hydrogen below this blocking temperaturesuggesting that, with further research, GOFs might be used both to store hydrogen and to release it when it is needed, a fundamental requirement in fuel cell applications.
Some of the GOFs capabilities are due to the linking molecules themselves. The molecules the team used are all benzene-boronic acids that interact strongly with hydrogen in their own right. But by keeping several angstroms of space between the graphene layersakin to the way pillars hold up a ceilingthey also increase the available surface area of each layer, giving it more spots for the hydrogen to latch on.
According to the team, GOFs will likely perform even better once the team explores their parameters in more detail. We are going to try to optimize the performance of the GOFs and explore other linking molecules as well, says Jacob Burress, also of NIST. We want to explore the unusual temperature dependence of absorption kinetics, as well as whether they might be useful for capturing greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and toxins like ammonia.
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APM Terminals will design, build and operate a large terminal in Costa Rica under a $992 million contract with the country's government that APM said would launch the largest infrastructure project in Costa Rican history.
The contract includes a 33-year concession to run the Moin Container Terminal on the Caribbean coast in the Puerto Limon/Moin port complex which currently handles 80 percent of Costa Rica' international trade.
"Our investment in Costa Rica reflects our … strategy to partner with government and business leaders and apply our financial and operational strength to upgrade Latin American ports," said Henrik L. Pedersen, vice president of business development for the Americas for APM Terminals.
The first phase, to be completed by 2015, will feature nearly 2,000 feet of container berth, six post-Panamax ship-to-shore cranes and 100 acres of yard space.
In the final phase, the terminal will have an area of nearly 200 acres and a 52-foot deep access channel.
APM didn't give details of the terminal's handling capacity.
The ambitious project marks the latest step by APM to shift its strategic focus toward emerging markets. Shipping business in many markets outside the main east-west trade lanes has been growing at a faster rate than trade between developed nations, and generally held up better during the global trade recession.
In July, APM Terminals, a unit of Denmark's A.P. Moller-Maersk, signed a 30-year operating concession for the container terminal in Callao, Peru's largest port.
APM will also invest $749 million to upgrade the terminal into a multi-purpose facility handling containers, break-bulk and conventional general cargo.


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La Monja (also known as The Nun), is a 2005 Spanish horror film directed by Luis De La Madrid.
An insane nun terrorizes her students. One of the girls named Mary is discovered to have been impregnated by an important official at the school after having had an affair with him in her young teenage years. The girl had bought a pregnancy test. Just as she discovered that she was indeed pregnant, the malicious Nun Sister Ursula walks in on her in the bathroom to see what she is doing and discovers her secret.
Disgusted, the Nun tries to force an abortion on the girl with a bathroom appliance. But her friends, having snuck out earlier that same night to have a Night-time snack the girls hear Mary screaming in pain as the Nun brutalises her. They attack the Nun and force her to release Mary, causing her to bump her head then fall into a bathtub filled with water. But that doesn't kill her, she opens her eyes moments later scaring the others girls which prompts them to hold the Nun down and drown her.
Fernando Vallejo Rendón (born 1942 in Medellín, Colombia) is a novelist, filmmaker and essayist, born in Colombia. He obtained Mexican nationality in 2007.
Vallejo was born and raised in Medellín, though he left his hometown early in life. He started studies in Philosophy at the National University of Colombia in Bogotá, but after one year he abandoned the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters. Soon after he began new studies on biology at the Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, which he finished. Then he spent one year in Italy at the film academy Cinecittá, where he obtained basic notions on cinema.
Vallejo then returned to Colombia with the project of filmmaking. Yet after difficulties with the Colombian Government in producing and, after he produced it, in presenting his first film (it was censored), he decided to leave his country.[citation needed]
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Beautiful photo -- unfortunately it will soon be an historic one, because the town approved a development for most of the hill to the right of town.
great pic!this is a gorgeous trail. hey i was just curious, i always knew this as the agua caliente trail? where'd you get the name pinnacles peak trail from? is that an older name? it does seem familiar somehow?
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The Paris-based humanitarian aid group said Saturday that three hospitals it supports in the Damascus region reported receiving roughly 3,600 patients who showed such symptoms over less than three hours on Wednesday morning.
A debate has ensued about who was behind the alleged gas attack on rebel-held Damascus suburbs that activists previously said killed more than 130 people. The attack has spurred demands for an independent investigation and renewed talk of potential international military action, if chemical weapons were indeed used.
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InsightALT: JFK – An Evening Exploring the Creation of a New American Opera
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This November, American Lyric Theater, in partnership with Fort Worth Opera, will hold a developmental workshop for David T. Little and Royce Vavrek's newest collaboration, JFK, in New York City. This workshop of the opera-in-progress will bring together the world-premiere cast to be featured in Fort Worth in 2016, along with members of The Collegiate Chorale, who will serve as the ensemble during this pivotal stage in the opera's development. At the conclusion of this workshop, on Tuesday, November 25 at 7:00 PM, American Lyric Theater will present InsightALT: JFK at Merkin Concert Hall in New York City.
The InsightALT series provides the public with the opportunity to look inside the process of creating new operas at all stages of their development through a combination of performance and discussion with the creative artists behind these new works. InsightALT: JFK is the first event in the series for the 2014-15 season. The event will feature excerpts from the opera sung by the world-premiere cast and members of the Collegiate Chorale, interwoven with a discussion between composer David T. Little, librettist Royce Vavrek, FWOpera's General Director Darren K. Woods, and cast members Matthew Worth, Daniela Mack, Daniel Okulitch, Talise Trevigne, Sean Panikkar, Cree Caricco, and Peter Tantsits. The discussion, moderated by ALT's Producing Artistic Director Lawrence Edelson, will explore the genesis of the opera, the challenges of dramatizing history and re-imagining iconic figures for the opera stage, the collaborative relationship between Little and Vavrek, and the unique way that the creative team is approaching this exhilarating new American opera.
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I know headquarters wants us to add that new product line, said Fred Halloway, manager of Kirsi Products East Division. But I want to see the numbers before I make a move. Our divisions return on investment (ROI) has led the company for three years, and I dont want any letdown.
Kirsi Products is a decentralized wholesaler with four autonomous divisions. The divisions are evaluated on the basis of ROI, with year-end bonuses given to divisional managers who have the highest ROI. Operating results for the companys East Division for last year are given below:
Sales $23,200,000
Variable expenses13,000,000
Contribution margin10,200,000
Fixed expenses8,274,400
Net operating income $ 1,925,600
Divisional operating assets $ 5,800,000
The company had an overall ROI of 18% last year (considering all divisions). The companys East Division has an opportunity to add a new product line that would require an investment of $3,460,000. The cost and revenue characteristics of the new product line per year would be as follows:
Sales$ 11,072,000
Variable expenses 65% of sales
Fixed expenses $ 3,089,088
Compute the East Divisions ROI for last year; also compute the ROI as it would appear if the new product line is added. (Round your intermediate calculations and final answers to 2 decimal places. Omit the "%" sign in your response.)
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2. If you were in Fred Halloways position, would you accept or reject the new product line?
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a. Compute the East Divisions residual income for last year; also compute the residual income as it would appear if the new product line is added. (Omit the "$" sign in your response.)
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GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) -- A jury has found a former Sturgeon Bay math teacher not guilty of having sexual contact with a student.
Darren Berg, of Brussels, had been charged with two felony counts of sexual assault by a school staff member. The girl was 16-years-old at the time.
The 40-year-old was a high school math teacher, track coach and student council adviser at Sturgeon Bay High School.
A criminal complaint said the accuser told police she and Berg had sex in the summer of 2009 at her home after she baby-sat his children.
Berg resigned from the school this past summer.
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Wedding Suggestions
So we're trying to get married in August and we're thinking about doing it at a resturant. We have the following criteria:
1) About $125-150/person including alcohol.
2) Able to accomodate 90-100 people or so; and
3) A separate room or alcove where we could hold the ceremony if possible.
Any thoughts or suggestions?
It probably won't help you, but if you are thinking of a smaller guest list - 75/80 tops, you can rent out Il Buco. We did this a few months ago and the space and food were amazing!
re: downtownstefanie
I am getting married at Battery Gardens in May. ANy tips or hints i should know? How many people did you have? Can I pick your brain on layout and event flow?
re: slesin
How was your wedding at Battery Gardens in May? I am thinking of getting married there this May and would love to know about your experience.
re: dogooder
I am getting married there in Sept 09. Anyone have any hints and tips for me?
Check these 3 places. All are very good for a wedding.
re: cheesypoof
I went to a party at Trattoria Dopo Teatro and found both the food and service very unimpressive.
re: Pan
I agree with your assessment of Dopo Teatro.
I'd suggest you check out NISH, on East 58th (just east of First Ave). It used to be March. Nish and Scalise have reorganized, reduced the price, and made the space more casual, but it's still the same romantic space and the same great food by Wayne Nish.... I think a wedding there would be divine!
I went through this same research a couple months ago (getting married March 31!). We got really stressed out working with traditional wedding venues and so we decided that we would just have it at a restaurant. Well, we ended up coming full circle, since restaurant prices are incredibly inflated when 1) you have to rent out the whole place and 2) they hear it's a wedding.
We ended up choosing Alger House, a charming little carriage house in the west village that does their own catering. I think we're paying around $150 pp total (tax & gratuity included) for 5 hours: open bar, passed hors d'oeuvres, hot food stations along with set up for the ceremony. After working out prices with restaurants, asking them to set up for a ceremony was kind of a big deal... along with the fact that they just don't do that kind of thing every day. Alger House fits around 90 for a seated dinner, and 125 for a cockail reception with ~2/3 seating (which is what we chose in order to fit more ppl). Alger House has wedding coordinators that work with you to plan your day, and will be there for your event. And their food is really great, too. The total cost is less than all the other "wedding" venues, restaurants, and lofts + caterers that we considered.
As for restaurants, I also read good things about Candela and Moran's. We also considered Alta... they give you the entire restaurant, open bar, and help coordinating everything for $20,000 plus tax and gratuities. I think they fit 150+ and the space is very cozy.
Since you're having it in August, maybe you'll be able to find a place with a couryard for your ceremony.
Best of luck, and congrats!!!
re: erin07nyc
I am trying to plan a wedding for Jan/Feb 2008 and am completely STRESSED out with trying to find a venue that will accomodate our tight budget ($15-20K). From everything you've said, I think I'll check out Alger House. But, does Alger House provide for the tables, chairs, lighting, ceremony set-up? Did it cost extra? Or is that all included in the $150pp. Would it have cost more for a sit down dinner?
I just got married a couple of weeks ago. So I went through this agonizing procedure as well. We ended up having our wedding at Astra (Charlie Palmer's event space) on a Friday night. Astra is probably more pricey than what you are looking for, especially considering your wedding is in Augut. We paid $165 pp, not including tax and gratuity. We also paid a surcharge for an upgraded wine list. But the price included the room rental (which can be anywhere from $1000 to $8000). It was simple -- we didn't have to coordinate this person with that person, etc. The service was great. Guests raved about the food (with the exception of the overcooked halibut). They have a huge range of food to choose from. There was a separate alcove/room for the ceremony and a bridal changing room as well. And the place would be perfect for the number of people you have.
While we tried to rent a restaurant before, close-out fees were astronimical. These prices do not include tax and gratuities and reflect January prices (when things are more reasonable). For example, Wallse was $200/person, Town was $200+. The worst was Lupa -- $500/person! And Lupa is not a very expensive restaurant to begin with.
An alternative is to rent a private room in a restaurant. The fees are not as bad as the restaurant does not have to close down. But most private rooms can hold up to 70 people max. So it may be hard for it to work.
The Beacon (Waldy Malouf's joint) is in your price range, but it may be a tight squeeze. Still worth checking out. I wasn't crazy about their food, though.
I do agree with Erin in that it may be easier renting a place such as Alger House. In addition to Candela's and Moran's, there is Manhattan Penthouse (which I believe is affiliated with Alger House). I think Manhattan Penthouse may be a bit pricier than alger, though.
Best of luck with your search and the wedding!
Talk to Courtney at B R GUEST RESTAURANTS (BRGUESTRESTAURANTS.com)
We're doing our wedding at one of their restaurants and are getting 5 hrs, full open bar, cocktail hour and everything included with tax, service charges and tip - still within your price range. Originally we looked at Candela but they will be renovating from April 07 until i think June/July. They're about 12,000-13,000 for 125 guests - who knows if they'll be more after renovations? Anyway, Courtney at BR guests is a great person to work with and will definitely be able to work within your bugdet. Tell her Barbara & David sent you.
re: saknight
When you get into booking out a restaurant in order to accomodate 100 people you get hit will minimums and elevated prices per person. You need to set your budget, per person, and keep in mind sales tax and the required 20% gratuity (it makes a big difference). You say you don't want to spend $10,000... so what do you want to spend? $8000? $80 per person with drinks might be tough, although I do think $75 pp for food and wine is possible.
If you post here the cuisine, neighborhood, and total price per person you're looking for, you'll probably get some good recommendations. Think creatively, consider ethnic food in the east village, and you should be able to find something :)
re: saknight
Maybe it's just me, but the word intimate is not how I would describe a wedding with a 100 person guest list. I'd venture to say that most cozy restaurants are not likely to be able to accommodate that number. For example, Gascogne is probably the kind of place you have in mind, and since you are getting married in August, their charming, romantic back garden would be the perfect place for a reception. Unfortunately, it can only accommodate 50 people. I know I'm not being of much help with a positive suggestion, but this problem is something you might think about when you're looking for a place.
I got married at the Bryant Park Grill, with 100 guests. It was at about the top of your price range, but I'd really recommend it. We did the ceremony on the roof, the reception in the restaurant. I'm usually the type that gets nosebleeds above 23rd street, but there was something really magical about getting married right in the middle of Manhattan, with the skyscrapers peeking up all around the green park. Here's a couple of pictures too.
I'd recommend Tempo in Park Slope if you're willing to go to the outer-boroughs. They have amazing food, a separate room or the option to use the entire restaurant for lunch at no extra rental cost, and will most likely fit your budget given no one on the guest list will be drinking all night. You can check out my post in a previous thread: http://www.chowhound.com/topics/365419
re: bac528
that's where we were married! sigh! what an amazing experience! we got hitched at the snuff mill, their smaller venue, which can seat up to 110 people. it's an old stone house right on the bronx river, cozy and intimate, but still able to accomodate all the guests. it was really a wonderful experience. my husband and i were very anti- all the traditional wedding venues as well, and we contemplated a restaurant, but found that buying out places was cost-prohibitive. it's in your price range and is less expensive for fridays and sundays. i can't even kvell enough about the food and the staff! oy!
re: funkymonkey
Abigail Kirsch is definitely one of the top caterers in New York. I think their prices are pretty high, though. When I called them about catering my wedding, they quoted me a price of minimum of $200/person excluding the booze.
re: Miss Needle
they are high, but for some reason the prices were less expensive at the botanical garden. i think they charged us $150/pp, which included tax, and alcohol, and a GORGEOUS wedding cake, for a saturday night. granted, this was in 2004, but it's definitely worth giving them a ring. and we didn't have to pay for a space.
Several years ago, I went to a great wedding at Village on 9th Street. You should check it out - there is a front bar and a lovely double height dining room in the back.
I went to a wedding last year at the upstairs room in Tribeca Grill. Definitely not the most scenic and I have no idea what it cost, but it's big enough and private.
Thanks for all the suggestions! We are going to have our reception at Planet Thailand's Manhattan location. The price is rigth and the space can accomodate everyone.


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However, Faber is still hungry and is looking to claw back towards the top. Set to face off with the widely unknown but ridiculously dangerous Brazilian Yuri Alcantara at this Saturday's UFC Fight Night 26 from the TD Garden in Boston, MA., Faber knows that perhaps his last chance at a title is at hand.
His critics will point out the fact that he's lost five consecutive title fights in the WEC and UFC, a statistic that would have most fighters far from another shot if they ever got one. But Faber always seems to be in the mix at 135 lbs., and he's destroyed both Scott Jorgensen and Ivan Menjivar via submission since dropping a decision to Renan Barao for the interim strap at UFC 149.
In a pre-fight interview from the UFC, Faber points out that his goal is to still be the best in the world. With a growing bantamweight roster, that task is becoming increasingly difficult in the UFC. Faber is in the unenviably task of facing a good opponent without much name recognition, but that's okay with him. Can he silence his critics and find a spot in yet another title bout?


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Barack Obama has been whining incessantly about the Buffett Rule. He wants millionaires and billionaires, who have already been repeatedly taxed and who are risking their wealth with investments that help this nation, play more in taxes. In fact, he wants everyone to pay more in taxes.
We have a poster boy for Obama's call for more taxes.
Who is it?
It is Jeffrey Neely.
You have probably never heard of Jeffrey Neely but he was the head of the San Francisco office of the General Services Administration. He thought the government was his personal piggy bank and he had the constitutional right to take all kind of lavish trips, paid for by we the people.
He took his wife on a trip to Hawaii, Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands as a birthday present. Gee, I'd like to give my wife birthday presents I don't have to pay for.
In an email, his wife said, "It's yo birfday … We gonna pawty like iz yo birfday!"
Wow. There is nothing like partying on the taxpayers' dime. I'm sure some of the 88 million Americans who are out of the work force and are wondering how they are going to make it appreciate that. I'm sure some of the million or so people that have lost their homes in the Great Obama Depression are thrilled he could party with his wife, on his birthday, with the taxpayers paying.
Neely did not just travel to Hawaii. He travelled all over the place. Even when he was being investigated, he received a bonus for his work. You cannot make this stuff up. Only in Obama's government is this the norm.
Neely was arrogant in his abuse of the American taxpayer. At one point he wrote to a friend, "I know. I am bad but Deb [presumably this is his wife] and I say often, why not enjoy it while we have it and while we can. Aint going to last forever."
Really? Enjoy it while you can?
How many Americans are out on the streets because of the Great Obama Depression? Hey Jeff, you think they are enjoying it?
And why should any American be asked to pay any more in taxes? This is where our tax dollars are going. We have waste, fraud and abuse as the norm now in government spending.
Neely is not alone. Last year, the General Accounting Office reported on hundreds of billions on dollars in waste and fraud in government spending. None of that has been dealt with. None of it has been cut.
In the last year, John Boehner hauled up his freshly laundered white flag of surrender and spending went up 3% over what it had been when Nancy Pelosi was the Speaker.
Meanwhile, as Obama demands the rich, which is anyone with a job and a bank account, to pay more in taxes, we need to fire back at the Party of Treason.
This is your tax dollars at work.
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Cry baby Boehner should be tried for treason along with 90% of Congress, 99.99% of the administration, and almost half of SCOTUS. I'm fed up!
Thomas Jefferson once said, "I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious."
Wouldn't you just love to hear what he would have to say NOW?
IF JEFFERSON SAW THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AS HAVING "MORE MACHINERY THAN NECESSARY" FROM THE VERY BEGINNING, THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT WHAT WE HAVE NOW NEEDS TO BE 2/3rd Smaller. This means that 50 States of this Union needs to be doing the "Heavy lifting with management of their own states.....TIME TO MAN UP BOYS"!!
The Buffett Rule is based on flawed logic.
Buffett and the top 400 taxpayers don't pay less than "EVERYONE" else. They just pay less than most of the people in the "TOP 5%" of taxpayers and maybe a few of the top 10% of taxpayers. I devoted a whole chapter to this top 400, in my book, "The Rich Don't Pay Tax! …Or Do They?" But in short, based on their tax rate, Buffett's secretary and her husband are clearly in that top 5% of taxpayers, so they are in that very select group that really does pay more than Buffett and the top 400. But if you aren't in the top 10% of taxpayers and you pay at a higher rate than Buffett, then you seriously need some better tax software or a new accountant.
Few people understand the tax code and how it works. What we need in not a Buffett Rule, we need to scrap the current code, rules, and regulations from other bills that impact the code, and rewrite it completely. Every time congress tries to "fix" the code, they only suceed in making it more complex.
Wrong, my wife and I are NOT in the top 10% and our tax rate after all standard deductions (we don't have enough to itemize) was 16.1%. I don't need software or an accountant to do a 1040A.
You are correct about the Buffet Rule and how the dems are focusing on a few instead of the whole flawed tax system here in the U.S.
Michael, FYI, at 16.1% tax rate, you were paying less than Buffett and as you pointed out, yours is the worst case scenario. Buffett stated that he paid 17.4%. On average, the top-earning 400 taxpayers paid 18.11% in taxes. At 16.1%, you are NOT paying more than Buffett.
The top 1% (income over $344K) pay more than Buffett. They average paying about a 24% tax rate. The top 5% (income over $155K) pay more than Buffett. Their tax rate averages about 20.5%. Even the top 10% (income over $112K) pay an average of 18% tax rate.
So you pay a tax rate higher than, most of the people in the top 25% (income over $66K), who pay an average of 14.7% tax rate. But remember that these are all averages. There are some in every income group who pay more or less than the average. But if you pay way more, than the average for your group, then you may have an accounting problem.
All of those numbers are from the IRS Collections data. It's not what the IRS "thinks" is owed. It's what they actually collected, after all exclusions, deductions, under-reporting and scams. It's numbers that the politicians and the media can't spin. That's why I chose to use that particular data set in my book. It's money in the US Treasury.
Yeah no kidding. :) I feel that way all the time, actually over the past four years I have felt that way. :D
What's even funnier, is that this man heads the Government Agency tasked with rooting out fraud, theft, and waste. No better picture of, "our tax dollars at work," exists. I just wish that somehow we could have found a way to put one of those green paid for by the stimulus signs in view.
If the Oracle of Omaha would pay his corporate tax we'd have an extra Billion Dollars, or so, for obama to incinerate!
obama is incinerating approximately $10 Billion dollars a day, so the proposed $5 Billion (annually) is about 1/2 days of our cash going into obama's incinerator.
Buffet's idea of Taxing the Rich will raise about $5 Billion annually, will neuter new employment and economic expansion and could easily be offset by sending Tax Bills to the 50+ million folks who pay no income tax.
If these folks paid $100 a year ($8 a month) in Income Taxes it would cover the $5 Billion his proposed Tax the Rich fiasco would raise.
$100 a year is like 2 packages of cigarettes or a bottle of wine . . . EACH MONTH. Most everyone is suffering this economy, why not . . . . REALLY EVERYONE!
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What makes a PhD?
Of the common guidelines, the most obvious is the publication of, at least one, peer reviewed publication. I am not considering review articles here, although they are nice. By publishing a paper the student has demonstrated that they could generate a significant body of data related to some biological question. However, as the primary guideline this aspect ultimately fails in my opinion. First, publishing a paper with your name in the first author position does not truly demonstrate your involvement in the work. Maybe you did 50% of the experiments and the other authors contributed less so you got first and your mentor wrote the paper. This is not the same as someone who did 100% of the experiments and actually wrote the paper. Maybe a technician did most of the work and you came in and finished it up and your mentor knows, at least subconsciously, that you need the authorship more to help your career. In fact, lots of people publish rigorous papers that do not have PhDs. So, this can not be a criteria in and of itself. For the record, I am not suggesting that mentors actually think publishing a paper is sufficient, but this is an easy criteria to quantify and seems to be the standard fall-back position. My point is that a publication is necessary but it is not sufficient.
The esoteric guidelines are the ones that are difficult to quantify and will vary from mentor to mentor. This is where I ask myself if the student is a mature scientist.
"Well, how in the hell do you assess that?"
Good question *puts away magic eight ball*. There are several ways in which this can be determined. First, you can see how a student matures over time. Nothing demonstrates progress better than looking back and seeing where you started. Here, are some of my personal criteria in assessing whether a student is about ready to earn the PhD.
Ownership: when the student takes ownership of their project is a good indication they are in the final throws of earning the PhD. The student is no longer dependent on the mentor for direct guidance. This is when the student truly starts to be more of a colleague and less of a trainee.
Expertise: when the student knows more about their research project than the mentor (not so much knowing more factual information but having a deeper understanding of the research that they can more effectively use their knowledge).
Breadth: this goes hand-in-hand with expertise, but when a student can step back and relate their work to someone else's who works in a different area, well, that's just impressive.
I find these, admittedly, more subjective criteria are actually much better indicators of a PhD scientist than many others. Mastering a plethora of different techniques, even difficult techniques, is not a good indicator. Knowing lots of facts is not sufficient nor is publishing research papers. Many people can conduct difficult experiments, know a lot of things, and publish papers without the PhD and we do not spontaneously confer PhDs upon them. In most labs we call people who fit the latter three categories technicians or something similar. The difference between a technician and a PhD scientist, in my opinion, rest on the more intangible points I raised above. Now it is difficult to see how a student who has taken ownership and developed expertise and breadth would not be publishing papers and mastering a variety of techniques. You really can not do the former if you can not do the latter. In fact, I would say it is the mentor's job to train the student to learn the techniques and generate the data so that and while the student develops the more esoteric abilities.
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Trying to determine when your two 4th years will be finished, huh?
- March 21, 2008 at 8:15 PM
- The Lorax said...
Not really. But as a mentor, I think it is important to think about these issues ahead of time. I want to have a real idea of the aspects I think a student needs to be ready for the next level nd to have earned the PhD. I do not consider the more common definitions, # papers, # experiments, time in program to be adequate. These definitions are almost always correlated with completion but do not define completion for the reasons I posted.
- March 24, 2008 at 8:46 PM
Agreed. Although what the heck is a "Doctor of Philosophy" anyway... (Which is only a slightly different question than the original...) Why is the degree called that?
- March 25, 2008 at 3:46 PM