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Monday, 26 Nov 2012 04:21 PM
By Stephen Feller
A growing number of Democrats say they are willing to let the country go off the fiscal cliff if a deal cannot be reached by Jan. 1 that raises taxes on the top two percent of earners while protecting costly entitlement programs.
Their theory in this game of chicken with Republicans is that it will be easier in January to lower taxes for 98 percent of the country while finding the best possible parts of the federal budget to cut in line with long-held goals of the nation's liberal party. They also think they'll be in a better position to save most, if not all, of massive entitlements like Medicare as well as pet projects.
The fiscal cliff, originally created to force a legislatively-appointed supercommittee to make significant cuts to the federal budget, is roughly $500 billion mix of budget cuts and tax increases.
It includes the expiration of the Bush-era tax cuts and Obama-era payroll tax cut, massive cuts to the military and jobless benefits, and a decrease in Medicare reimbursement rates.
This will send tax on bond interest to 44.6 percent from 35 percent; on capital gains to 25 percent from 15 percent and on dividends to 44.6 percent from 15 percent, Forbes magazine pointed out Monday.
The average family will pay an extra $2,000 to $3,000 in income taxes if Congress fails to reach an agreement before the Bush tax cuts expire on Jan. 1, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
The economy would shrink by 0.5 percent, the CBO has found.
Experts have consistently predicted that the overall economy would take a massive hit if the country goes over the cliff, likely sending it into recession. Still, since July, Democrats increasingly have made the case that it wouldn't be so bad.
Led by Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., Democrats have pushed the idea that the cliff is not as bad as the hype, with it being more of a "slope" than a "cliff."
Pentagon cuts, they say, would be phased in, and the tax hikes, including the payroll hike, could also be slowed. If this happens, according to The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, there would be a few weeks at the beginning of 2013 for a deal to quickly be reached.
Sen. Charles Schumer backs Murray, also saying that Democrats cant cave in. He and other Democrats believe that Obama won a mandate for increased taxes with the presidential election.
"[President Obama] campaigned on it clearly," the veteran New York Democrat said on "Meet the Press." "He didnt back off it."
Also weighing in on Monday in a New York Times Op-Ed was billionaire investor Warren Buffett, who has said he think the country will be just fine going over the fiscal cliff.
While it's not ideal, the founder of Berkshire Hathaway thinks that Obama must be willing to keep pushing for higher taxes on the wealthy, even if it triggers the automatic onset of tax increases and spending cuts on Jan.1.
The U.S. economy, he said, can weather it for a month or two. "We're not going to permanently cripple ourselves," Buffett told CNN last week.
Buffett shrugged off the Congressional Budget Office's warnings that failure to address the fiscal cliff by Dec. 31 could lead to a recession.
"We have a very resilient economy," said Buffett, a long-time Democrat and staunch Obama supporter. "The fact that [lawmakers] can't get along for the month of January is not going to torpedo the economy."
But even as some Republicans waver on taxes, others have renewed the call for no tax hikes.
"A tax increase never created a new job in this country," Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., said on "Fox News Sunday." "It doesnt make any sense to us to raise taxes on job creators in this time of economic challenge."
And House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, has said raising tax rates will stymie job creation. But he also said he is willing to raise revenue through tax reform and by eliminating "loopholes" in the tax code.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., has not said whether he would vote for tax increases.
"A lot has been said about this pledge," Cantor said on MSNBC Monday morning, referring to the popular no-tax pledge pushed by anti-tax activist Grover Norquist.
"I will tell you when I go to the constituents that re-elected me, it is not about that pledge, it really is about trying to solve problems," Cantor said. "And as we know, this election we just went through is very much about, number one, what are we going to do to reclaim a momentum in this economy? How do we get us back to that? And, two, how do you solve a problem?"
Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama, the senior Republican on the Senate Budget Committee, echoed Cantor, saying in an interview that reforming the outdated tax code could stir up new revenues without raising tax rates.
"We need to create growth, which creates jobs, not damaging growth by huge tax increases," Sessions told Fox News.
A CNN/ORC International poll released Monday shows a solid majority of respondents -- two-thirds -- supports the Democratic stance that any agreement should include a mix of spending cuts and tax increases. Of that total, Republicans favor such an approach by 52 to 44 percent.
Even if effects of the cliff felt by Americans could be held off temporarily, the markets may not fare so well.
"Markets are going to go into an absolute tailspin, and I dont think we want to risk that, especially with leadership right now trying to find a deal," said Gabriel Horwitz, director of the economic program for Third Way, a centrist think tank. "I think the market reaction is going to happen immediately."
"Rather than stop the country from going over the fiscal cliff and preventing the expiration of the 2001 and 2003 tax relief, they are prepared to Thelma-and-Louise the American economy right over the cliff," said Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, the top Republican on the Finance Committee. "That is an astonishing admission."
William Galston, a senior fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution, told CNN that Murray's form of brinksmanship is best avoided.
"To be sure, no one believes that non-agreement by December 31 would be the end of the story. After a period of finger-pointing, discussions would resume," Galston wrote last week in a New Republic opinion piece. "But equally, no one knows how the failure to reach agreement before the end of 2012 would affect the dynamics of the negotiations."
In addition, "we can be reasonably sure ... that national and global markets would react adversely and that businesses, which are already retreating from planned investments in new plant and equipment, would become even more uncertain and risk-averse."
Murray said in July, and again after the election in November, that without increasing taxes for some Americans, Democrats would balk at any deal Republicans propose.
By waiting until January to cut taxes for the bottom 98 percent, rather than increasing taxes for the top two percent, it may be easier for Republicans to support the concept - based on timing and semantics, Murray and other Democrats seem to think.
"We cant accept an unfair deal that piles all of this on the middle class and tells them they have to support it," Murray said on ABC in November. "We have to make sure that the wealthiest of Americans pay their fair share. If Republicans, many of whom were elected after campaigning against tax hikes, wont agree, Democrats shouldnt blink... Well start over next year and whatever we do will be a tax cut for whatever package we put together. That may be the way to get past this."
While many Republicans are now saying that theyd be willing to violate Norquists pledge under the right circumstances, removing the spectre of actually voting to raise taxes would make it easier for them, she surmises.
Sen. Lindsey Graham said on ABC this Sunday that the pledge was not his major concern, as long as Democrats offer cuts to entitlements and other drains on the budget alongside the tax hikes.
"I will violate the pledge, long story short, for the good of the country, only if Democrats will do entitlement reform," Graham said.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., told ABC that its not her "role to go to the table with a threat... I think its my role to go to the table with some ideas, to be receptive to what we can come to agreement on."
However not all Democrats agree that the threat of going over the cliff should not exist.
Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., and Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, have circulated a letter demanding that Obama start negotiations at a 1-to-1 ratio of spending cuts to revenue increases, putting them in line with many in the party who want to see a harder line taken by Democrats.
Increasing federal revenue is the most important part of any negotiation, and though a deal before reaching the cliff is ideal, Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., joined many others in his party and said waiting until January may be the best option.
"If the Republicans cant see their way to significant additional revenues targeted toward the people who are best off and targeted toward passive income and other things like that, then were better off going over the cliff and readdressing this with a better Congress in January," said Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore. "And we would have plenty of time to fix it."


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No one is interested in defending the use of that particular word, including this writer.
But for the record, the specific instance in which Ms. Deen admitted to using that specific word was in the privacy of her own home, used to describe a robber who had pointed a gun at her head. The mainstream media also doesn't seem to care that Ms. Deen could easily have lied about that specific incident, yet chose to tell the truth under oath.
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Salesforce.com stock jumped more than 12% this morning after the business software company reported results.
Salesforce.com (CRM) are up $5.51 to $49.16 in mid-morning trading. It reported revenue of $957 million, up 31% year over year, and a similar increase in operating cash flow. Earnings per share for the second quarter were 12 cents, on a diluted GAAP basis, and 9 cents on a non-GAAP basis. The company offered third quarter revenue guidance of $1.05 billion to $1.055 billion, and raised its fiscal 2014 revenue guidance to between $4 and $4.025 billion. The earnings release is here.
Also on the rise this morning: shares of Splunk (SPLK), up 9%, hit a new high after the data-analysis company raised its revenue outlook. But Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) and Microsoft (MSFT) were the worst performers in the Dow Jones Industrial Average; each is down nearly a point.
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Credit Suisse maintained its Outperform rating and raised its price target on Salesforce.com to $60 from $52.50. Analyst Philip Winslow and his team also raised their estimates for fiscal 2014, and now call for revenue of $4.029 billion, up from $4.020 billion and earnings of 34 cents, versus 33 cents previously. they write:
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updated: Dec 01, 2012, 4:30 PM
By Edhat Subscriber
Coronado National Forest, Portal, AZ, is 60 miles from the border with Mexico. Birding is often a
'tropical' surprise, such as seeing Elegant Trogons. This is one of the most spectacular birding sites anywhere. One catch...there
are drug runners (guys with backpacks full of you-know-what) and armed, you might run across. This jaring sign shouts
the warning.
Cardinal (red feathers w/topnotch on head) on a feeder stand in Portal, AZ.
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Bird viewing area with mountains in background. Cave Creek Canyon, Chiricahua Mountains, Portal, Arizona.
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Welcoming sign for birders (in the middle of the parking lot), and nearby benches, and shade trees!
Nearby campgrounds sign, Coronado National Forest, Arizona. Beautiful campsites, privacy and a
reasonable distance
between campsites.
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Video game conference set for March 6
Posted March 3, 2004; 02:36 p.m.
"Form, Culture and Video Game Criticism," a conference examining the nascent field of video game studies, is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. through 6 p.m. Saturday, March 6, in McCosh 28.
Presentation topics will include "Combat in Context," "Electronic Games as a Constrained Medium," "Musical Byproducts of Atari 2600 Games" and "Video Game Vocabulary: A Lexicon of Experiential Anchors." Participants will include faculty members and students from universities around the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.
The conference is sponsored by Princeton's Department of English . It was organized by Roger Bellin, a doctoral candidate in the department, and Dexter Palmer, a lecturer in English who earned his Ph.D. in English literature from Princeton in 2001.
The conference is free and open to the public, but space is limited. For more information, contact Roger Bellin .
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Turkey & Turkey Hunting is presenting the first Online Grand Slam Turkey Call Competition, which is open to any turkey-call makers. The competition begins March 10, 2009 and ends June 15, 2009.
The contest has four categories: working box, working friction, decorative box and decorative friction. Working calls must be sent to our office, where they will be recorded and judged on sound quality. Decorative calls will be judged by photos and descriptions submitted on-line. You can enter work in any category, and there's no limit to the number of calls you can submit.
All entries are $30.
The grand-prize winner in each category will be featured in an article in our Winter 2009 issue, which will provide significant exposure for their work. Also, grand-prize winners will receive a framed, personalized custom Turkey & Turkey Hunting cover and a five-year subscription to the magazine (a $64.95 value).
Second-place winners will receive a three-year subscription ($39.95 value), and third-place contestants will receive a one-year subscription ($16.95 value). We'll also select some honorable-mention winners to be named in the Winter issue. Each mention will include a small photo of the winning call, and all entrants will be listed on-line in our e-mail newsletter.
The competition is open to any call-makers, and only original calls conceived and created by the entrant will be considered. Only box and pot-and-peg calls, please. No diaphragms, trumpets, wingbones or suction
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'Title IX Bout' examines the future of college sports, May 6
Posted April 29, 2003; 11:24 a.m.
A panel discussion on Tuesday, May 6, will examine Title IX, the 1972 federal law that prohibits gender discrimination in college athletics, and its impact on the future of intercollegiate sports. The event will convene at 7:30 p.m. in McCosh 50.
The discussion, which is free and open to the public, was organized as part of a senior thesis project by Princeton senior Maura Bolger, an economics major.
The panelists are:
- Jeff Orleans, executive director of the Council of Ivy Group Presidents since 1984 and the author of the regulations implementing Title IX.
- Donna Lopiano, executive director of the Women's Sports Foundation and a leading advocate of Title IX. Lopiano is a member of the U.S. Olympic Committee's executive board and the former director of women's athletics at the University of Texas.
- Andrew Zimbalist, an economics professor at Smith College and author of "Unpaid Professionals: Commercialism and Conflict in Big-Time College Sports" and "May the Best Team Win."
- Clay McEldowney, secretary-treasurer of the College Sports Council, which joined the National Wrestling Coaches Association in suing the U.S. Department of Education over Title IX. McEldowney is a member of Princeton's class of 1969 and former head of the Friends of Princeton Wrestling.
- Deborah Perry, senior fellow for the Independent Women's Forum, which has criticized "gender quotas" created under Title IX. Perry is the co-author of "Unfinished Business: A Democrat and a Republican Take on the 10 Most Important Issues Women Face."
The event is sponsored by the class of 2003, the Undergraduate Student Government Projects Board, the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students, the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, the Department of Economics, the Organization of Women Leaders, Athletes in Action, the American Whig-Cliosophic Society, the Princeton Tory, the Princeton College Democrats and the Princeton College Republicans.
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ARAMARK selected as UTSA dining vendor
By Jane Wilcox
Director of Business Auxiliary Services
(May 7, 2008)--The UTSA Office of Business Affairs announces ARAMARK as the university's new dining services contractor effective May 12. The new vendor will renovate many UTSA dining facilities, providing service upgrades and new venues including Taco Cabana, Chick-fil-A and Panda Express. Wendy's will be added in the spring.
As part of the new contract with ARAMARK, the John Peace Library Building food court on the 1604 Campus is closed until June 2 for remodeling. The food court will open June 2, the first day of summer classes, with limited service including pasta, pizza, Freshens smoothies and salad bar. The major remodel will continue through December, but full service will return by the end of the summer.
Today's headlines
- La Prensa Foundation is newest member of UTSA Lone Star Society
- UTSA alumna Jordan Kaufmann wins $50K for new stent-graft start-up
- UTSA begins new way-finding sign installation this summer at Main Campus
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ARAMARK service begins May 12 with limited service available through June 2 as the transition is made from Chartwells, the previous vendor. During the May mini-mester, Subway and the Grille will be open at the Downtown Campus. For this short period, UTSA offices should use an approved caterer other than ARAMARK. During the transition, Business Auxiliary Services will waive the 10-percent fee for using one of the approved caterers. Regular service including catering services will commence June 2. View the UTSA approved caterers list.
ARAMARK was selected by a food services evaluation team comprised of students, faculty and staff who analyzed and evaluated submitted proposals from food service providers. The agreement was negotiated and has been submitted for Board of Regents approval this month.
"I commend the food services evaluation team and the contract negotiation team for the outstanding job they did," said Pamela Bacon, UTSA associate vice president for administration. "This is expected to greatly enhance the quality of services provided to students, faculty and staff."
For more information, call (210) 458-4003.
Upcoming dining services changes
Venues not listed will remain unchanged.
University Center, 1604 Campus
- Taco Cabana (first on a university campus, opens August 2008)
- Panda Express (opens August 2008)
- Wendy's (opens January 2009)
- Subway (moves to University Center expansion)
- C3 convenience store (opens in former Subway location)
John Peace Library Building food court, 1604 Campus
- Half of food court will be remodeled Summer 2008, remainder in Fall 2008
- Chick-fil-A
- Sushi bar
- Freshens
- Bene Pasta and Pizza
- Montegue's Subs
- C3 convenience store
Business Building, 1604 Campus
- Regional Mexican cuisine
Roadrunner Café, 1604 Campus
- Expansion project completed in June with additional 7,000 square feet of dining and serving space
- New features: Real Foods on Campus (RFoC) -- off-campus restaurant experience with atmosphere and breads just out of the oven, rotisserie chicken, made-to-order Panini sandwiches, cookies baked on-site and Papa John's pizza
Frio Street Building food court, Downtown Campus
- Grille Works
- Home-style food with daily specials: rotisserie chicken, carved roast beef
- C3 convenience store
- Before more changes, ARAMARK will survey Downtown Campus community to reflect needs


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This is a small barnacle on the shell of a crab found washed up on big river beach in Mendocino, you can see the crab shell around the base of the barnacle. The barnacle is sitting next to a slightly larger barnacle which you can see part of on the right side of the picture. It is magnified 800x using a scanning electron microscope, and the image is composed of 384 pictures.
This Gigapan is part of the NanoGigaPan project. Which is working to take large pictures of very small things.
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Greast work. So many dead lives...
Doing a rough calculation, there are about 8 pixels per micron in this image.
This gigapan is on display in the Gigapixel Imaging for Science Gallery Show, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, November 2010. See it in the gallery space at gigapan.org/gigapans/64744/ .
I saw this image a while back and noticed that the barnacle was about to chow down on its lunch, have a look: omg.wthax.org/barnaclechz_copy.jpg
The organisms lodged in the barnacle are diatoms. These alga have a cell wall of silica and are one of the most common organisms in phytoplankton of the oceans (fresh water, as well). Because the cell walls are so persistent, they readily sink and have formed deposits which are mined (diatomaceous earth) for swimming pool filters and a natural pesticide (the silica damages insect exoskeletons and they die of dehydration) .
Rich pointed me to this SEM gigapan. It is really fantastic. I remember studying some of the smaller creatures in general biology, but of course I cannot remember the names. This really has some cool textures and symmetry. Thanks for working hard at scanning and photographing all of these subjects. I really enjoy looking at them.
Stellar. One of the most fantastic things I've ever seen -- I feel utterly lost in looking at it. I understand that this project is helping Science, of course, but it has totally gone straight over into Art, as far as I am concerned.
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Arkes speaks on 'surprises' of the Constitution, Dec. 10
Posted December 9, 2002; 11:06 a.m.
A lecture titled "The Unsettling Surprises of a Constitution Long Settled" will be presented at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 10, in 008 Friend Center.
Hadley Arkes, the Edward Ney Professor of Jurisprudence and American Institutions at Amherst College, will discuss how the founders understood the principles of law and moral reasoning before they set about the task of framing the Constitution.
Arkes currently is the Ann and Herbert Vaughan Visiting Fellow of the James Madison Program and a visiting professor of public and international affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School. He is the author of many books and other scholarly writings, including "Natural Rights and the Right to Choose" (Cambridge, 2002), "Beyond the Constitution" (Princeton, 1990) and "First Things" (Princeton, 1986).
The lecture is sponsored by the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions in the Department of Politics. For more information, call Reggie Cohen at (609) 258-6333.
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thanks Gerry, I will pass that along about the fish oil.
On GoldenDNA it looks like about 70% of the dogs are either affected or carriers. Just got the test results back from the DNA test we did at National, my boy is an ICT carrier. Luckily he is prcd-PRA clear and PRA-1 clear. Anyway, he will now only be bred to bitches who have been tested and are ICT clear.
I hope a lot of the people who had their dogs tested at National post the results to goldendna. I will as soon as I get the formal paperwork from Optigen (only got the email so far).
In hindsight, my older boy had ICT. It was misdiagnosed as allergies, but he was never itchy. Just lots of flaky skin, and ultimately hyperpigmentation. It tended to flare up under times of extreme stress. We controlled it with medicated shampoo, but again, we didn't know what it was. He also developed late onset demodex, which we fought for about 4 years until he eventually passed on this year. I wonder if there was any relationship between the ICT and the demodex?
The dog had all sorts of problems. He was blind from PU, had IBD, had no spleen, had demodex, had hip dysplasia, but lived 14 happy years. He was my heart dog.