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Pentagon front-runner has strong Obama ties
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By LOLITA C. BALDOR
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Former Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel is a contrarian Republican moderate and decorated Vietnam combat veteran who is likely to support a more rapid withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan.
As President Barack Obama's top candidate for defense secretary, Hagel has another credential important to the president: a personal relationship with Obama, forged when they were in the Senate and strengthened during overseas trips they took together.
Hagel, 66, emerged last week as the front-runner for the Pentagon's top job, four years after leaving behind a Senate career in which he carved out a reputation as an independent thinker and blunt speaker.
Wounded during the Vietnam War, Hagel backed the Iraq war, but later became a fierce and credible critic of the Bush administration's war policies, making routine trips to Iraq and Afghanistan. He opposed President George W. Bush's plan to send an additional 30,000 troops into Iraq — a move that has been credited with stabilizing the chaotic country — as "the most dangerous foreign policy blunder in this country since Vietnam, if it's carried out."
While Hagel supported the Afghanistan war resolution, over time he has become more critical of the decade-plus conflict, with its complex nation-building effort.
Often seeing the Afghan war through the lens of his service in Vietnam, Hagel has declared that militaries are "built to fight and win wars, not bind together failing nations." In a radio interview this year, he spoke broadly of the need for greater diplomacy as the appropriate path in Afghanistan, noting that "the American people want out" of the war.
If nominated — an announcement could come this week — and confirmed by the Senate, Hagel would succeed Defense Secretary Leon Panetta. Panetta has made it clear he intends to leave early next year, but has not publicly discussed the timing of his departure. He took the Pentagon job in July 2011.
At the same time, Obama is considering one of Hagel's former Senate colleagues, Democrat John Kerry of Massachusetts, for the job of secretary of state.
To political and defense insiders, Obama's preference for Hagel makes sense.
The former senator shares many of the same ideals of Obama's first Pentagon leader, Republican Robert Gates. When Obama became president in 2009, he asked Gates to remain as defense secretary. Both Hagel and Gates talk of the need for global answers to regional conflicts and an emphasis on so-called soft power, including economic and political aid, to bolster weak nations.
"A Hagel nomination signals an interest in, and a commitment to continuing a bipartisan approach to national security," said David Berteau, senior vice president at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
He said that Hagel's two terms in the Senate, before he retired in 2009, spanned the latter years of the post-Cold War military drawdown and the post-Sept. 11 buildup. "From a budget point of view he has seen both ends of the spectrum and that gives him a good perspective to start from."
Hagel's possible selection has been met with initial praise from key members of the Senate, including the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., who said Hagel would be "terrific."
The choice could trigger opposition from some Jewish groups and may worry Democrats concerned about Israel-related issues. Hagel has criticized discussion of a military strike by either the U.S. or Israel against Iran. He also has backed efforts to bring Iran to the table for talks on future peace in Afghanistan.
"The appointment of Chuck Hagel would be a slap in the face for every American who is concerned about the safety of Israel," said Matt Brooks, executive director of the Republican Jewish Coalition.
Hagel often straddled party lines and had some high-profile dustups with his Republican colleagues.
In 2008, he criticized GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, saying she lacked foreign policy credentials and that it would be "a stretch" to consider her qualified to become president. His wife, Lilibet Hagel, endorsed Obama in his first run for president. Hagel also was mentioned as a possible candidate for Pentagon chief when Obama was first elected.
As defense secretary, Hagel would preside over the withdrawal of combat troops from Afghanistan and the waning days of the war and would direct some of the steepest cuts in Pentagon spending in years. His task would be to restructure a pared down military that can step away from the grinding wars of the past 11 years and refocus on a swath of regional challenges from Syria, Iran and North Korea to terrorism in Africa and the defense buildup in the Pacific.


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The Director is responsible for the administration, planning, and operation of CCRLD complying with the District's mission, vision, and values. The position is being re-posted with qualifications of MLS preferred but in the absence of an MLS will consider applicants with library management experience. Annual Salary is $43,476 to $47,136 with benefits. Application deadline is 9/30/13. Current employees are encouraged to apply and previous applicants will need to reapply.
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Healthcare System: In many areas of the country, several medical centers and clinics may work together to offer services to area Veterans as a Healthcare System (HCS) in an effort to provide more efficient care. By sharing services between medical centers, Healthcare Systems allow VHA to provide Veterans easier access to advanced medical care closer to their homes.
Examples of Healthcare Systems include the VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System which serves the Pittsburgh area of Pennsylvania, and the VA Puget Sound Healthcare System which serves the Seattle and Tacoma areas of Washington state.
Community-Based Outpatient Clinic: To make access to health care easier, VHA utilizes more than 800 Community-Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOC) across the country. These clinics provide the most common outpatient services, including health and wellness visits, without the hassle of visiting a larger medical center. VHA continues to expand the network of CBOCs to include more rural locations, putting access to care closer to home.
Community Living Center: Community Living Centers (CLC) are skilled nursing facilities, often referred to as nursing homes. Veterans with chronic stable conditions such as dementia, those requiring rehabilitation or those who need comfort and care at the end of life are served within one of our 135 Community Living Centers*.
Domiciliary: Forty-eight VHA Domiciliaries* provide a variety of care to Veterans who suffer from a wide range of medical, psychiatric, vocational, educational, or social problems and illnesses in a safe, secure homelike environment.
Vet Center: Vet Centers provide readjustment counseling and outreach services to all Veterans who served in any combat zone. Services are also available for family members dealing with military related issues. VHA operates 278 community based Vet Centers* in all fifty states, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands.
Veterans Integrated Services Network: The U.S. is divided into 21 Veterans Integrated Service Networks, or VISNs — regional systems of care working together to better meet local health care needs and provides greater access to care.
The Veterans Health Administration is home to the United States' largest integrated health care system consisting of 150 medical centers, nearly 1,400 community-based outpatient clinics, community living centers, Vet Centers and Domiciliaries. Together these health care facilities and the more than 53,000 independent licensed health care practitioners who work within them provide comprehensive care to more than 8.3 million* Veterans each year.
Where is the Nearest Medical Center or other Health Care Facility?
Use the Facility Locator to find the VA medical facility that will best meet your health care needs using a variety of search methods including using your ZIP code.
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Once you find the VA medical facility that can best meet your health care needs, explore that facility's Our Doctors tool. The "Our Doctors" online directory lists all independent health care licensed practitioners at the local medical center and within that health care system. This includes any individual permitted by law and by the organization to provide care and services, within the scope of the individual's license and consistent with individually granted clinical privileges.
While called "Our Doctors" the tool lists more than just physicians, with the directory including nurse practitioners, dentists, radiologists, psychologists and other staff who are directly involved in your care. Anyone can search and sort information for these providers based on your preferences and needs. The directory lists this staff in alphabetic order with their name, education, license, specialty and gender. With regular updates and additions to the directory, the resource is part of VA's ongoing effort to provide the highest quality information and care.
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In addition, most of our medical centers offer additional medical and surgical specialty services including audiology & speech pathology, dermatology, dental, geriatrics, neurology, oncology, podiatry, prosthetics, urology, and vision care. Some medical centers also offer advanced services such as organ transplants and plastic surgery.
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Carolyn M. Clancy, MD
Interim Under Secretary for Health
As Interim Under Secretary for Health, Dr. Clancy oversees the health care needs of millions of Veterans enrolled in VHA, the nation's largest integrated health care system. With a medical care budget of more than $55 billion, VHA employs more than 288,000 staff at over 1,700 sites, including hospitals, clinics, community living centers (formerly called nursing homes), domiciliaries, and Vet Centers. In addition, VHA is the nation's largest provider of graduate medical education and a major contributor to medical research.
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Honor America's Veterans by providing exceptional health care that improves their health and well-being.
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VHA will continue to be the benchmark of excellence and value in health care and benefits by providing exemplary services that are both patient centered and evidence based.
This care will be delivered by engaged, collaborative teams in an integrated environment that supports learning, discovery and continuous improvement.
It will emphasize prevention and population health and contribute to the nation's well-being through education, research and service in National emergencies.
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This policy also provides investigators and university staff with costing guidance and promotes consistency in estimating and charging costs in order to assure responsible stewardship of external funds and regulatory compliance. This policy applies to all university accounts with expenses supported by federal and federal pass through external funding, regardless of whether the primary purpose of the project is research, instruction, curriculum development, clinical, public service or other. Direct charging of normal indirect costs to non-federal and non-federal flow-through projects is permitted so long as this is in accordance with the sponsor's guidelines and the notice of grant/contract award. Individuals involved in applying these practices must understand and comply with this policy. Policy Costs will be allowable and consistently charged as either direct or indirect expenses in accordance with OMB Circular A-21 and the following guidelines. If a Principal Investigator (PI) or staff fails to comply with this policy, the University may suspend or withdraw proposal submissions for the PI and may suspend work on a sponsored project. Non-compliance may also lead to other disciplinary actions in accordance with University policies. Specific Requirements Allowable Costs Allowable costs are those which are (a) reasonable and necessary; (b) allocable to sponsored projects under the principles and methods outlined in A-21; (c) given consistent treatment through the application of those generally accepted accounting principles appropriate to the circumstances; and (d) conform to any limitations or exclusions set forth in A-21 or as specifically cited in the sponsored agreement. Direct Costs Direct costs can be identified specifically with a particular sponsored project or another institutional activity and can be assigned to activities relatively easily with a high degree of accuracy. (A-21, Section D1) In general, an expense may be charged to a project as a direct cost if it meets the following criteria: The expense is budgeted as a direct cost and accepted by the sponsor; and The expense conforms to A-21 definitions for institutional consistency of cost treatment in like circumstances; and The expense meets the A-21 definitions for allowability, reasonableness and allocability to the project. F&A (Indirect) Costs F&A (Indirect) Costs are those expenses incurred for common or joint objectives that cannot be readily and specifically identified with a particular sponsored project. Costs that generally fall into this category include memberships, subscriptions, general-purpose computers and office equipment, routine office supplies, local (basic) telephone charges, postage, etc. Direct Charging Normal Indirect Costs In some cases, expenses normally charged as indirect, may be charged directly to the sponsored project. To meet the consistent treatment requirements, additional documentation is required to show the "unlike circumstances", as defined in A-21. The requirements for "unlike circumstances" are as follows: The project has a special need for the item or service that is beyond the level of services normally provided. The cost can be specifically identified to the work conducted under the project and is appropriately documented. The cost is specified in the proposed budget of the sponsored agreement and the special circumstances requiring direct charging are justified in the grant/contract proposal. The sponsoring agency accepts the cost as part of the project's direct cost budget and does not specifically disapprove the cost in the award or other notification to the University. For programs that do not require submission of a project budget to the sponsoring agency (such as NIH modular grants), the cost must be justified to, and be approved by ORA. If the cost was not included in the approved budget of the sponsored agreement, it may be charged directly to the agreement only where the University has rebudgeting authority under Federal regulations or the terms of the sponsored agreement, and the charge is justified and approved by ORA . The justification must be in writing and provide the same information that would have been provided to the sponsoring agency or ORA in the proposed project budget. The justification must also explain why the costs were not in the original budget. Approval of these requests will be given where ORA is satisfied that the sponsoring agency would have approved the costs had they been in the original budget. These conditions also apply to rebudgeting under NIH modular grants. See Appendix A for specific requirements for directly charging administrative and clerical salaries and fringe benefits to sponsored agreements. Proportional Benefit Rule – Definition and Application Under some circumstances, a direct expense may benefit and may be specifically identifiable with two or more sponsored projects or sponsored projects and other activities in proportions that can be reasonably determined. In those cases, the cost should be allocated based on the proportional benefit to the project. If a cost benefits two or more activities in proportions that cannot be determined because of the interrelationship of the work involved, the costs may be allocated or transferred (add link or reference to COSTING POLICY) to the benefited activities on any reasonable basis that is consistent with these guidelines. When the proportional benefit rule is used, the required close linkage of the cost with a sponsored activity continues to apply. The criteria for allocation of costs to two or more cost objects are as follows: The cost in question should be specifically identifiable with the sponsored projects and other activities with a high degree of accuracy; and Credible documentation of this identification and the methodology used to assign amounts to the cost objects must be maintained by the department and attached as documentation to the University voucher used to charge the cost to the sponsored project in the University accounting system. For personnel costs that directly benefit two or more sponsored projects, the proportional benefit rule is applied when the Principal Investigator (PI) or his/her designee authorizes the distribution of staff salary and associated fringe benefits across two or more sponsored projects. This authorization should reflect the PI's best judgment of the proportional benefit of the salary and fringe benefit to each project. The University's effort reporting system documents that the distribution of actual salary and wages reflects the appropriate proportional distribution of compensation. A-21 Section J.8.b (2) (c) requires "confirmation of activity allocable to each sponsored agreement." For non-personnel costs that directly benefit two or more sponsored projects, the proportional benefit rule can be used for expenses other than personnel that directly benefit two or more sponsored projects as long as: The cost in question qualifies as a direct cost under these guidelines; and The cost pays for something that specifically benefits two or more sponsored projects; and A proportional distribution of the cost can be reasonably devised. Unallowable Costs The charging of certain expenses to sponsored project is expressly prohibited by A-21 Section J. Some of these costs are allowable under certain circumstances. The specific provisions of A-21, Section J. should be consulted for specific guidance. Unallowable costs include, but are not limited to, those incurred for the following: Alcoholic beverages for entertainment purposes (J.3.) Alumni activities (J.4.) Bad debt expense (J.6.) Commencement and convocation costs (J.8.) Contingency provisions (J.11.) Defense and prosecution of criminal/civil proceedings, claims, appeals and patent infringements (J.13.) Donations or contributions (J.15.) Entertainment (J.17.) Fines and penalties (J.19.) Fund raising (J.20.) Goods or services for personal use (J.22.), incl. housing and personal living expenses (J.23.) Insurance against defects (J.2151.f.) and medical liability (malpractice) insurance (J.25.g.) Interest (J.26.) Lobbying (J.28.) Losses on other sponsored agreements or contracts (J.29.) Memberships, subscriptions and professional activity costs (J.33.) Public relations (J.1.) Selling and marketing (J.46.) Student activity costs (J.48.) Unacceptable Direct Costing Practices The following direct costing practices are unacceptable: Assigning costs that are part of normal administrative support to sponsored projects. (For example, charging salaries for normal departmental administration and faculty effort on proposal writing, etc.). Rotation of charges among sponsored projects without establishing the direct benefit to each sponsored project. Assigning charges to the sponsored project with the largest remaining balance. Assigning charges to sponsored projects on the basis of ability to pay (i.e. largest budget). Charging the budgeted amount in contrast to charging an amount based on actual usage. Describing a cost as something other than what it is. (For example, describing office supplies as lab supplies on an invoice to be recorded into the accounting system.) Charging cost exclusively to sponsored projects, when the expense supports other non-sponsored activity. (For example, charging only sponsored projects for department recharge activity when service is provided free of charge to non-sponsored users.) Appendix A Guidance for Selected Cost Items Administrative and Clerical Salaries Administrative and clerical salaries should normally be treated as indirect costs. They may be charged directly only under exceptional circumstances. Circular A-21, Section F.6.b. states: Direct charging of these costs may be appropriate where a major project or activity explicitly budgets for administrative or clerical services and individuals involved can be specifically identified with the project or activity. "Major project" is defined as a project that requires an extensive amount of administrative or clerical support, which is significantly greater than the routine level of such services provided by academic departments." Examples of major projects: Large, complex programs, such as general clinical research centers, primate centers, program projects, environmental research centers, engineering research centers, and other grants and contracts that entail assembling and managing teams of investigators from a number of institutions. Projects that involve extensive data accumulation, analysis and entry, surveying, tabulation, cataloging, searching literature, and reporting (such as epidemiological studies, clinical trials, and retrospective clinical records studies). Projects that require making travel and meeting arrangements for large numbers of participants, such as conferences and seminars. Projects whose principal focus is the preparation and production of manuals and large reports, books and monographs (excluding routine progress and technical reports). Projects that are geographically inaccessible to normal departmental administrative services, such as research vessels, radio astronomy projects, and other research field sites that are remote from campus. Individual projects requiring project-specific database management, individualized graphics or manuscript preparation, human or animal protocols, and multiple project-related investigator coordination and communications. These examples are not intended to imply that direct charging of administrative salaries is always appropriate for the situations illustrated in the examples. Administrative and clerical salaries may be charged directly if they meet all of the following conditions: They fall within the special circumstances described in Circular A-21, F.6.b. The individuals have responsibilities specifically related to the work of the project, the effort is material, and the effort devoted to the project is documented in the University time and effort reporting system. The title(s), percent of effort, and salary amount(s) for the clerical/ administrative position(s) are included in the approved budget of the sponsored agreement, and the special circumstances requiring direct charging of the services are justified in writing in the approved budget of the sponsored agreement. The sponsoring agency accepts the cost as part of the project's direct cost budget and does not specifically disapprove the cost in the award or other notification to the University. For programs that do not require submission of a project budget to the sponsoring agency (such as NIH modular grants), the cost must be justified to, and be approved by ORA. If the cost was not included in the approved budget of the sponsored agreement, it may be charged directly to the agreement only where the University has rebudgeting authority under Federal regulations or the terms of the sponsored agreement, and the charge is justified and approved by ORA . The justification must be in writing and provide the same information that would have been provided to the sponsoring agency or ORA in the proposed project budget. The justification must also explain why the costs were not in the original budget. Approval of these requests will be given where ORA is satisfied that the sponsoring agency would have approved the costs had they been in the original budget. These conditions also apply to rebudgeting under NIH modular grants. For instance, the examples would be appropriate when the costs of such activities are incurred in unlike circumstances; i.e., the actual activities charged direct are not the same as the actual activities normally included in the institution's indirect (F&A) cost pools, or, if the same, the indirect activity costs are immaterial in amount. It would be inappropriate to charge the cost of such activities directly to specific sponsored agreements if, in similar circumstances, the costs of performing the same type of activity for other sponsored agreements were included as allocable costs in the institution's F&A cost pools Advertising Advertising costs that can be charged to federally sponsored projects are those solely for: The recruitment of personnel required for performance of the sponsored agreement, including participant enrollment for clinical trials. The procurement of goods and services for performance of the sponsored agreement. The disposal of scrap or surplus materials acquired in performance of the sponsored agreement. Other specific purposes necessary to meet the requirements of the sponsored agreement. Any other advertising costs are not allowable to federally sponsored projects. Compensation The effort percentages in the project proposal should normally be used for initially charging salary costs to the project. However, adjustments should be made to the effort percentage and salary charge if use of the proposed effort percentage is inappropriate because of changes in an individual's workload since submission of the proposal (i.e., the award of more grants than anticipated). If a reduction of 25 percent or more from the budgeted effort percentage occurs for a PI, co-PI or other key personnel, sponsoring agency notification and approval are required. (Note: this reduction is 25 percent of the budgeted effort percentage, not 25 percent of the individual's total effort. For example, a reduction from 40 percent to 30 percent would be a 25 percent reduction of the budgeted effort percentage.) All direct effort on sponsored agreements must be confirmed by effort reports and adjustments to the salary charges must be made if actual effort as shown on the effort report differs materially from the charged effort. If a salary exceeds the NIH salary cap, the salary amount exceeding the cap is unallowable. For example: A P.I. earns $200,000 in annual salary and spends 20% effort on a project. Assume that the NIH salary cap is $183,500. Only 20% of $183,500 = $36,700 may be charged to the grant, but the project effort is valued at 20% of $200,000 = $40,000. The difference is unallowable ($40,000-$36,700 = $3,300). Consulting External consulting costs are allowable when a consulting agreement exists and a specific invoice documents the charges. Under normal circumstances, University employees may not be considered consultants. In the unusual event that the consultation is across departmental lines and the work performed is in addition to the individual's normal departmental responsibilities, the University may approve these consulting charges to a sponsored project. Each case will be considered on an individual basis. Entertainment Costs incurred for alcohol, social events, entertainment, and any items related thereto, such as meals, lodging, rentals, transportation, and gratuities are unallowable. Equipment Consistent with University policy, equipment means an article of nonexpendable tangible personal property, having a useful life of more than one year and an acquisition cost of $5,000 or more per unit. The cost of the equipment includes the net invoice price of the equipment, including the cost of any modifications, attachments, or auxiliary apparatus necessary to make it usable for the purpose for which it was acquired. In accordance with A-21, special-purpose equipment means equipment that is used only for research, medical, scientific or other technical activities. NIH policy allows such equipment as direct charges, provided that the acquisition of items having a unit cost of $25,000 or more is approved in advance by the NIH. Other sponsoring organizations may also have restrictions. If the sponsored agreement does not specifically address equipment, check with the sponsor regarding restrictions. General-purpose equipment means equipment, the use of which is not limited only to the special purposes outlined previously. Examples include office equipment and furnishings, printing equipment and computer equipment. Depreciation on such general-purpose items are included in the University F & A rate and are unallowable as direct charges, except in the case of unlike circumstances. Direct charging general-purpose equipment must meet the requirements listed under "Direct Charging Normal Indirect Costs" on page 2. Maintenance and Repairs Necessary maintenance, repairs or upkeep of directly charged project-specific equipment that neither adds to the permanent value of the property nor appreciably prolongs its intended life but keeps it in efficient operating condition is allowable within the grant period. If a maintenance agreement cost or a repair cost benefits more than one sponsored agreement or other activity, the cost must be allocated to the various projects and activities based on the benefit directly received by each. See the proportional benefit rule for discussion of appropriate distribution methodology. Meals Working meals and/or recruiting meals are not allowable as a direct charge to federally sponsored projects unless incurred in connection with travel, conferences, or subject meals. Membership Dues Memberships often have broad benefit to multiple activities and are specifically classified as indirect costs in A-21. Direct charges for memberships must meet the requirements listed under "Direct Charging Normal Indirect Costs" on page 2. General-Purpose Computers, Software and Computer Supplies General-purpose computers, computer supplies and office software, such as word processing and spreadsheet programs, are considered indirect costs charged through the F&A rate, unless special purpose and unlike circumstances is clearly documented (See Attachment A). Specific-purpose computers, software and supplies may be directly charged, if direct benefit to the project can be demonstrated. Office Supplies, Telecommunications Charges, Postage and Printing/Duplication Office supplies, postage, and local telephone line charges are normally treated as indirect costs. These costs may be charged directly in unlike circumstances, such as projects that involve large mail or telephone surveys. Direct charges for office supplies, telecommunication charges, postage and duplication must meet the requirements listed under "Direct Charging Normal Indirect Costs" on page 2. Normal telecommunications charges, fax charges, modem costs, cellular phones and other related costs, are indirect costs and included in the F&A rate within the departmental administration component. They may only be charged as direct costs in unlike circumstances, such as field work or project-related travel. Long distance charges that are specifically identifiable to a project may be directly charged. Proposal Preparation Costs Costs of preparing proposals and applications for acquiring sponsor funding, including typing, copying, mailing, long distance telephone charges, etc., are indirect costs included in the department administration component of the F&A rate. Recharge Activities and Service Centers Service centers are department or functional units that perform specific technical services primarily for the benefit of the University. Service Centers include "recharge centers" and "specialized service facilities", defined in Section J of A-21. The Animal Facility is a specialized service facility. Cost of services provided are allowable as direct costs to sponsored projects where such costs are required under the scope of the project. All usage must be accounted for and services must be charged to all users based on actual usage (units of service) using uniform, non-discriminatory rates. The rates must be based on the actual direct cost of providing the service. Rates must be approved by Sponsored Project Finance and be revised on an annual basis upon review of actual direct expenses and charges to users. Remodeling/Leasehold Improvements Special arrangements and alteration costs incurred specifically for the sponsored project are allowable direct costs when the sponsor has approved the work in advance. Travel Travel is an allowable direct cost when directly attributable to specific work under a sponsored project. Costs of meetings and conferences are allowable when the primary purpose is the dissemination of technical information and the cost is budgeted. Meals, transportation, facility rentals, and other items incidental to such meetings and conferences are also allowable direct costs. All travel costs charged to sponsored projects must comply with Drexel travel policy. Costs, including meals, must be itemized and supported by receipts. Tuition and Medical Insurance Tuition and medical insurance remission are allowable as part of a total compensation package for students and post doctoral trainees/fellows working on sponsored projects, and may be charged directly to sponsored projects if approved by the sponsor. Tuition and medical insurance remissions are part of the total compensation package for the student. Reference Links Federal Office of Management and Budget Circular A-21 - Cost Principles for Educational Institutions NIH Grants Policy Statement NSF Grant Policy Manual Cost Sharing, Matching, and In-Kind Contributions on Sponsored Projects Cost TransfersRemoving Uncollectible Costs Charged to Sponsored Projects F&A Cost Rates


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- Don't complain about lack of options. You've got to pick a few when you do multiple choice. Those are the breaks.
- Feel free to suggest poll ideas if you're feeling creative. I'd strongly suggest reading the past polls first.
- This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane.
This Month/This Year? (Score:4, Insightful)by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 21, 2013 @11:46AM (#42647361)
This month and this year are the same thing at this point, since it's January. And the last time I used a phone was in December, so none of the options work for me, since it was last year but not over a year.
Re:This Month/This Year? (Score:5, Insightful)by The Living Fractal (162153) <`banantarr' `at' `hotmail.com'> on Monday January 21, 2013 @12:08PM (#42647625) HomepageYou know.... you could just interpret it outside of relative calendar restrictions as "within a week, a month, a year".
Because, like, that's what everyone else is probably doing
You know.... you could just interpret it outside of relative calendar restrictions as "within a week, a month, a year".
Because, like, that's what everyone else is probably doing
No, some with interpret it as written and others will interpret it as it should have been written so there goes the scientific objectivity of this Slashdot poll.
Re:This Month/This Year? (Score:5, Funny)by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 21, 2013 @03:16PM (#42649757)
Great, there goes the 100% accurate track record of Slashdot polls.
Re:This Month/This Year? (Score:4, Funny)
75% of the time it's half-way accurate. For the remaining third, it's partly rounding errors.
No, some with interpret it as written and others will interpret it as it should have been written so there goes the scientific objectivity of this Slashdot poll.
If that happens, pointless battles over systems of measure, religion and daylight savings time can't be far behind.
First of all, you should have honored your sig...
If you read this poll literally, you would need a checkbox, because today is also this week is also this month is also this year. All while not even knowing what a landline is
by anybody_out_there (2814321) on Monday January 21, 2013 @11:49AM (#42647397)Does home/biz VoIP count as a landline? It's not mobile!
Ask fax techs. They hate VoIP with the fire of a thousand suns.
Re:Landline? (Score:5, Insightful)by Randle_Revar (229304) <email@example.com> on Monday January 21, 2013 @12:09PM (#42647649) Homepage Journal
Fax needs to hurry up and finish dieing.
Re:Landline? (Score:5, Informative)
along with fax techs. "I'm a buggy whip repairman"
What's a fax?
Re:Landline? (Score:5, Insightful)A fax is one of only two communication means by which Realtors, lawyers and various other trades will accept a document as being an official document. Occasionally a fax is only acceptable temporarily until the official dead tree document can be obtained. Under no circumstances can a higher resolution and visibly cleaner scanned and e-mailed or securely uploaded image be substituted for a fax.
I make it a priority not to do business with people that require faxes. I've found it's the fastest way to encourage its demise. There are definitely mortgage brokers, realtors, banks and lawyers that accept signed PDFs via email or provide a secure means of uploading them.
I counted it as a landline, because it looks like a landline and acts like a landline. At least my Cisco 7970 does.
Re:Landline? (Score:4, Insightful)
Except when the power goes out, then it acts like a hammer
I have a landline phone stashed in a drawer somewhere for when the power goes out.
Why ask what a landline phone is when you could just vote 'What's a Landline Phone?'?
by Foolhardy (664051) <csmith32@gm[ ].com ['ail' in gap]> on Monday January 21, 2013 @11:54AM (#42647451)Does being at work count? I haven't had a landline at home since I lived at my parent's house. At work we do have desk phones though, which use a wired VOIP backend.
I still have Plain Old Telephone Service at home, albeit with several fancy wireless handsets scattered around the house. I also have a cherry red corded handset (my wife refers to it as the BatPhone) that I can use when the wireless handsets die, like after a prolonged power outage.
Having this landline, in this configuration, is an intentional decision. It's separate from all my networking stuff, it survives power outages (when I haul out my BatPhone), and it generally works a hell of a lot better than any other technology for voice calls. Calls are clear, don't get dropped, I hear every word, and there is no latency.
I'm keeping my landline, thankyouverymuch
What? You aren't enslaved completely to the latest and greatest tech? How dare you.
Re:Home POTS (Score:4, Interesting)by kannibal_klown (531544) on Monday January 21, 2013 @12:59PM (#42648215)
If I hadn't gone with FIOS I'd probably still have POTS... if only for the ability to make calls during prolonged power outages. Over the past 1.5 years I've had 3 such outages: 8 days, 7 days, and 3 days. Prior to that, only 1 or 2 long outages in 25-30 years.
BUt... I just couldn't help myself. 75Mbit Fiber connection was just too tempting. So they set up what I imagine is a VOIP setup... all calls through the fiber. Which means when the fiber box's battery runs out (X Hours) I'm without a hard line.
Having this landline, in this configuration, is an intentional decision. It's separate from all my networking stuff, it survives power outages
That was one of the reasons (though not the main one) that I've kept the POTS at my house all these years. But lately, AT&T have installed all fiber along the main road (about 600 feet from my house) and the last time we lost power, we lost the landline phone service, but not the cell phone service.
Still maintain a Land Line (Score:4, Insightful)
... because when power is out I can still make a call if I need to and report the power outage. While I do have a working cell, within the home the signal blows and I have too many dropped calls. Finally, I've had such a horrible experience with VOIP, I've walked away from it completely.
I agree. POTS (classic land-line telephone service) is self-powered independently of the local electric utility.
Our electric utility is Southern California Edison (SoCalEd), which has failures at all times of the year unrelated to the weather. The local cell towers are also powered by SoCalEd and thus are likely to fail when we have no electricity. VOIP would be through Time Warner Cable (my broadband service), whose amplifiers are powered by SoCalEd. When the lights go out, I have no Internet and no VO
Rarely for dial-up, fax, etc. Yeah, old school. I rarely use the phones and can't talk and hear well. Internet (IRC, IMs, textings, etc.) is the thing for me. I don't even own a cellphone!
The question should be qualified better (Score:4, Interesting)by DickBreath (207180) on Monday January 21, 2013 @12:24PM (#42647823) HomepageMost people do have a landline at the office. This will probably continue to be true for a long time. It may gradually become blurry whether your desk phone at work is actually a land line or VoIP. But most people will think of it and probably call it a land line.
A much better question would be to ask Slashdot readers about landlines at home, or in personal non-work life. I suspect this would change the poll outcome significantly.
I've had a VOIP at the last two places of work, going back five years. Works great: no dropped calls, great sound, lots of features, and easy to move.
I actually assumed it was the home landline and not the work one. One of the reasons is I seldom actually use the one on my desk. Generally it's just the one on my belt.
"Most people do have a landline at the office."
My workplace has some sort of ethernet connected and powered phone. They thought it was some sort of good idea, until the first power outage and it went dark. Since I work at a chemical plant the safety issue with having the phones out was immediately obvious (after it happened,) so now we have a plant radio at the building's assembly area too.
Oh and in case of emergency, you are not allowed to use cell phones unless they are certified intrinsically safe, like
Wow, that's a crappy implementation.
VoIP should always be paired with PoE and a decent UPS. As long as you net connection was still live it would all have been fine
A must for Construction Companies (Score:5, Interesting)The local County lockup only allows collect calls to land lines. Over the years, some of our employees have preferred this bonding-out benefit over more traditional perks like 401k and retirement.
you don't put miscreants under grade? the business has become soft in the last few decades I see....
You do the best you can with what you can get. Oddly though, in the building trades, some of the most gifted hands come with checkered pasts. Somehow we're no longer attracting the best and brightest of the Ivy league grads.
You know, my English isn't bad, but "bonding-out benefit" has me stumped for the first time in ~10 years of visiting
Re:A must for Construction Companies (Score:4, Informative)by girlinatrainingbra (2738457) on Wednesday January 23, 2013 @03:46AM (#42666745)So in the USA, if you are incarcerated (put in jail when arrested), you are given the opportunity to make a phone call to let your family or mates know that you are in jail and that you need help (whether to notify a lawyer or have your mates come to the police station or jail and bond you out = pay for your bail out of jail with a bail bond, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bail_bondsman [wikipedia.org]
If your friends and family all have cell phone numbers and do not have land lines, it is very possible that the telephone service which is used by the constabulary at the jail will not allow you to call those cell phone numbers.
These limited service telephone systems will only allow you to make a local telephone call or a collect telephone call [wikipedia.org] which can only be accepted or received on a land-line system telephone (POTS = plain old telephone service) and not at all received on a cellular carrier's service. Thus if you get a job where one of the benefits is "bonding out benefit", then you get the perk of your work temporarily loaning you enough money to be bailed out of jail and giving you a telephone number which you can call to carry out the receipt of this job benefit. Thus, no need to bother friends who may not be able to answer anyway on their cell phones. Ahh, the benefits of a cellular-phone society.
One surprising thing I learned from wikipedia is that tihs crazy high bail cost is only prevalent in the USA: the rest of the world has lower affordable bail-out costs, or if you're dangerous they keep you in jail. I guess the prison-system and the jail system really IS a business industry in the US of A!
my ADSL came with a landline. something about the bits needing to follow copper...better for long conference calls than a cell phone too, we don't like to hear the switching and static and jumps in volume level that cellular telephony makes
You can get dry-DSL -- it's a phone line that does DSL only, without voice service. That's what I have on my first phone line; I would have moved my DSL over to my second phone line, but that line isn't capable of the high speed DSL I have on the first line (I dunno why -- ask Bell Canada). Current DSL speed is about 7.5M down, and about 125K up. (Yep, that up speed is puny -- a 5.7G transfer of video to Dropbox yesterday took 11 hours. Painful, and slowed everything else down too.)
sure but the extra cost to my 6MB/728KB was so tiny, $20 / month to the ADSL $19, I just went ahead and have the great convenience of land line. just measued it at speedtest.net and got 5.62 MB down and 690 KB up. close enough
If so, today - I still feel the need for backup (of my cell phone) communications. If that means POTS only, I gave that up a couple of months ago.
I occasionally use the FIOS hard-line. I imagine it's VOIP, because it's not Copper POTS. It runs over fiber and through the FIOS box... if I lose power then I can only use the phone as long as the battery pack is running in the FIOS box.
There was a 3-in-1 (FIOS Internet + TV +Phone) deal when I signed up, that was like $10 less than the 2-in-1 deal (Internet + Phone)
I use it from time to time because the reception in my place isn't full bars... usually between 3 and 4 out of 5. And if I need to make a l
POTS rules (Score:5, Informative)by Christopher Bibbs (14) on Monday January 21, 2013 @01:08PM (#42648285) Homepage Journal
I'll use my land line forever, much the way I do my Slashdot account.
I have POTS at home, VoIP at work. Like others, my ADSL came with POTS phone service. Dunno.
I have no complaints about the Asterisk-based VoIP setup at work. The call quality is about the same as a cellphone, both for audio quality (G.729 codec) and call setup/drops/etc. It also means I can have a local phone number just about anywhere I want, which makes life much easier when head office (i.e. my boss) is a five hour flight away. It also gives me more stuff I can put on my resume.
I have a Cisco IP telephone on my desk, it's got a (CAT5) line that goes into the LAN(d) -- does that count? Or are we only talking old-school twister copper? Or maybe operator exchange [thetribunenews.com]?
Specify your terms people!
At work, where I don't have a choice, all the phones are ISDN land lines. I think it will be a long time before those disappear from corporate settings. As for my own home, I have not maintained a land line since I left my parents at age 18. There was one in my dorm room at college, though.
So I have never paid for my own land line, I use one every day at work, and the last time I used one privately was a couple months ago.
At work, where I don't have a choice, all the phones are ISDN land lines. I think it will be a long time before those disappear from corporate settings
I'm sure there will be some corporations using land lines for a long time but the era where you can always expect to get a phone along with your computer and chair has already passed. My last two contract gigs (in office) never assigned me a an office phone. We used cell phones and skype. In my current contract, there is technically an office phone but it is awkwardly placed and shared with three others. I never use it. Once again, I use skype and my cell phone.
There was one in my dorm room at college, though.
There was one in mine, too, but colleges started removing them about 8 years ago. Everyone had cell phones, and no one checked their student voice mail.
If yes, then today. Several times. With video conferencing as well.
If it has to be POTS, then I'd say...15 years ago. At least. Yeah, 1998 sounds about right.
copper twisted-pair POTS here. With a rotary-dial phone no less. One good reason why: In my 45 years on Earth, the old tech has something like nine 9's of availability. It has only gone out *once* that I can recall, in 45 years. That was fixed within 2 hours because a squirrel had chewed thru the old line going into the house. Back when I was like 15 or so.
I definitely agree that POTS is very reliable.
But we had less luck than you when we had it. Downed tree and random issues plagued our old copper lines way back when we had them.
Not THAT often, but maybe every 1-2 years something would go wrong and it would take a few hours (or the next day) to resolve.
As opposed to FIOS phone service, which during all of these big power outages we've had became useless after the battery on the Fiber box went out in like ?8? hours.
I've had a cell phone for over ten years, and I've been on Skype for about five years -- but it's good to have a land line as a backup, if only for 911 access.
Then again, the last time I called 911 (my mother-in-law fell and broke her shoulder while helping me clean up my driveway) it was from my cell phone, just because that phone was the closest to hand.
And 90% of the calls I get on the land-line are people wanting to clean my air ducts (I keep telling them I have radiators) or clean my carpets (I keep te
by DigitalSorceress (156609) on Monday January 21, 2013 @01:57PM (#42648869)
For me, my answer depends - if you mean "POTS", then oh gosh a year or more? I don't recall. However, I use a VOIP desk phone at work - so it shares the physical attributes of a land line, but not the technological attributes. The whole thing is pure digital as soon as the mic signal is converted in or the final step of digital to analog causes the earpieces to produce sound coming out.
So years or more for POTS, but only this week for a physical phone as opposed to cellular.
to complain again with the customer service of my cellphone company. My SIM card is gone, you insensitive clod!
Bad Timing (Score:4, Insightful)by devnullkac (223246) on Monday January 21, 2013 @02:40PM (#42649331) Homepage
The most common interpretation of "this month" and "this year" would have them meaning the same thing. Perhaps if this was the New Year's Day poll, we could get the first four answers all meaning the same thing!
The last time I used a land line was in December 2012, so none of the options apply to me
...I find myself dealing with land lines a lot.
Furthermore, trying to set people up with Google Voice, and the dedicated phone number that goes with that, can be exceedingly pesty when attempting to verify your legitimacy using a cell phone. For some reason or other, Google doesn't like a surprising fraction of cell-phone numbers, and refuses to verify with them, but it's never failed yet with a good old fashioned land line. Does anybody know why this is?
I used a landline phone just recently. It made an excellent chew-toy, rattle, hammer, button pushing toy and number lesson for my baby daughter. It worked much better than my cell phone for these purposes too!
Trying out MagicJack, pretty hopeful at the moment, could drop Uverse phone and pay $40 a year... my contract just came up and right now it's $40 a month...
We are keeping the home phone just because of the kids. I'm not about to buy a 2 and 3 year olds phones, and with another on the way I want to make sure the phone is there without having to remember where you put your cell or if it is charged up or not... this should do that for us at a much cheaper rate. (we hope)
I would like to get rid of our "land line". We're paying $40/month or so for it, but in my view there's little point anymore. My wife, daughter, and I all have cell phones; and I've explained how a VoIP phone could accomplish the same thing while saving us money... but the wife is resistant.
Part of the reason I find the "safety" argument silly is that we, like many other people, now only have wireless handsets for the home phone - so it's not like that'll work when the power goes out! Last time that happene
I can't stand talking on mobile phones. I'm really sensitive to noise, and mobile codecs are typically in the 9.6 to 14.4 Kbps range. A POTS landline is 56 Kbps and it makes a HUGE difference for me, even if the other side is using a mobile phone (since the signal is garbled/compressed once instead of twice).
Or are we talking about the old fashion copper lines only?
It's something that you get to reduce the price of your Internet access in most of the U.S. (The "bundles" offered by the telcos and cable TV providers here are almost always less expensive that Internet service by itself.)
If you mean "a NANP-numbered phone line that uses a conventional RJ-11-connected telephone to a jack in the wall of a domicile," then yesterday.
But it's connected to a VOIP box that goes through my internet connection...
For a personal POTS/PSTN-connected line, I'd have to go back to 1999. I've only had cellular and VOIP since then. Even when I've had DSL since then, I haven't had a personal POTS line. I did have a POTS business line running to my home until 2010, although the number was forwarded 99% of
I live in an apartment building and only use the landline to buzz someone in. I am currently using Comcast for the landline service. I have explored getting something else but here is the problem.
You lose the package deal with you remove one of the 3 services. Comcast does this to prevent you from leaving of course. But, the advantage to having the phone service is uptime. VoIP providers (at least here) are required to restore service quickly. If my internet connection is down, I generally get my rest
I've been using VoIP (over cable Internet) for about 7 or 8 years. I believe POTS is not even available where I live now. CenturyLink (Ma Bell remnant) sells VoIP over DSL instead.
So I voted "over 1 year".
About 3 years ago, maybe a little more, I decided to cancel my phone line with Cox. The main reason being that I only received calls from debtors asking for the phone number's previous holder. Family and friends all called my cell. I was pretty much paying $20 a month for someone to irritate the piss out of me. So I called up Cox and asked them to cancel my phone services. I know they are supposed to try and get me to keep the service when I call to cancel, but I had pretty much had enough, as I had re
My mom normally calls me on the landline, and vice-versa. I prefer the sound quality, and we normally talk when I'm home anyway.
How else would I know where I left my mobile phone?
Years. As in, at least half or a full decade.
I am honestly considering getting my own landline service with long distance at some point in the future, though. Cell companies tend to fuck you over on minutes far more, plus the added reliability of a traditional phone line is a plus. But as long as Google Voice VoIP remains free for yet another year, I have no reason to rush. The problem is I have no traditional telephones, so I need to decide on a phone (or phones) to get as well as which service provide


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